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__label__cc	0.654705	0.345295	Why Berkshire Grey The BG Blog Smart Store Replenishment Dynamic Parcel Sortation AI Software BERKSHIRE GREY APPOINTS SRI SOLUR SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER ← Back to Overview Page Solur’s business experience and technical leadership will be instrumental in driving customer adoption of the company’s intelligent robotic solutions. Boston, Mass. – May 12, 2020 – Berkshire Grey (www.berkshiregrey.com), a developer of AI and robotic solutions announced today that it has named Sri Solur as the SVP and GM of a new Business Unit. In this role, Sri will lead the strategy, product development, systems integration, and sales. He will directly report to the President and COO of Berkshire Grey, Steve Johnson. Sri is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and a business leader with extensive experience in Robotics, AI, and IOT. He has a track record of incubating, building, growing, and managing new ventures and portfolios of business in a worldwide capacity. Sri’s significant international experience comes from having lived and worked in Asia, Europe, and the US. He has deep understanding of growth hacking having scaled businesses to deliver products and services to Fortune 50 companies in a B2B capacity and to millions of customers in B2C consumer products companies. Before joining Berkshire Grey, Sri was the EVP/GM of Shark Robotics and Chief Product Officer at SharkNinja. Prior to that he was the SVP of Product and Engineering at Comcast for their Internet and IOT businesses leading security and automation. Before Comcast, he held various leadership roles in HP building and scaling multiple businesses from the ground up including their Mobile Printing and wearables business. Sri has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from NIT in India and an MBA from Boston University. In 2017, Inc Magazine recognized him as one of the Top 20 IOT influencers. “The applications for intelligent robotics within supply chain are limitless,” said Sri. “As a company at the forefront of this transformative technology, Berkshire Gray’s AI and robotic solutions are well-positioned to help customers solve their supply chain problems in a meaningful way. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to build and deliver solutions that help a global customer base better engage and win the hearts and loyalty of their customers.” Berkshire Grey customers are using intelligent robotic solutions to automate fulfillment tasks never before performed by machines and are doing so at scale. Berkshire Grey solutions enable the robotic picking, packing, and sorting of individual items, inner packs, cases, parcels, and orders at the speed and accuracy needed for modern omni-channel fulfillment and logistics operations. By inventing and integrating multiple technologies in artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, sensing, gripping, and robotics, Berkshire Grey’s solutions efficiently process the broadest assortment of products, packages, and parcels. All while continuously improving speed and quality through autonomous learning. Berkshire Grey’s customers have optimized picking labor costs, have overcome worker shortage constraints, and seen improvements in throughput ranging from 25% to 35%. “Sri is an accomplished business veteran who has a strong track record of empowering teams to deliver the innovation that positively impacts our customers and partners,” said Steve Johnson President and COO of Berkshire Grey. “I’m confident Sri’s experience, talent, and network will help us execute our vision and grow our position as the leading AI and robotics partner of choice.” ABOUT BERKSHIRE GREY RADICALLY ESSENTIAL. FUNDAMENTALLY FORWARD. Berkshire Grey helps customers radically change the essential way they do business by combining AI and robotics to automate omni-channel fulfillment. Berkshire Grey solutions are a fundamental engine of change that transform pick, pack, and sort operations to deliver competitive advantage for enterprises serving today’s connected consumers. Berkshire Grey customers include Global 100 retailers and logistics service providers. More information is available at www.berkshiregrey.com. I want to improve my operations by deploying robotic solutions. I want to partner with BG to deliver robotic solutions for my clients. I have a general question for you. Move Your Career Forward JOIN US. We are a focused team. We bring a diverse set of experience and expertise in the fields of engineering, robotics, and artificial intelligence to building innovative yet practical and scalable solutions. Ultimately, we work at Berkshire Grey because we thrive on solving hard challenges that deliver value for our customers. Radically essential. Fundamentally forward.™ ©2021 Berkshire Grey	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1518
__label__wiki	0.63544	0.63544	Our news section keeps you updated with the latest information on all aspects of Berlin air transport. Registration for Berlin Airport News You’d like to fly on holiday somewhere soon but have no idea where? Then why not subscribe to Berlin Airport News! The aviation history of the metropolitan region goes back a long way – from the former airfield in Johannisthal to the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport. Looking for a new job? On our jobs board you will find the latest job advertisements. The airport as an employer Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH takes pride in its position as one of the region’s leading employers. Want to learn more? You’ll find all the key facts here. The band of parks and green spaces around the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport form an attractive landscape park. All processes at the airport are to be structured and managed to ensure full compliance with environmental legislation and regulations.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1519
__label__cc	0.720823	0.279177	The Law of Burnt Offerings 1The Lord #Before this God had spoken to Moses from the mountain, but now God dwelt among His people in fellowship with them and talked with His servant Moses “from the Tent of Meeting.” The people were entering into a new relationship with God.called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying, 2“Speak to the #In general, sons (children) of Israel or Israel or Israelites refers to all the people (males and females) of the various tribes descended from the twelve sons (Gen 35:23-26) of Jacob (later renamed Israel by God). In verses concerning things such as warfare or circumcision sons of Israel or Israel or Israelites usually refers only to the males. Tribes of ancient people were identified by the name of their founding ancestor. Therefore, this same general rule applies when referring to individual tribal groups, e.g. sons of Reuben, Reuben, Reubenites and so throughout.children of Israel and say to them, ‘When any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of [domestic] animals from the herd (cattle, oxen) or from the flock (sheep, goats). 3If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting so that he may be accepted before the Lord. 4He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the sacrifice], that it may be #By laying his hands on the head of the sacrifice the offerer identified himself with it and through its death it became an atonement or covering for his sin. Because the unblemished sacrifice “covered” his sin it placed the offerer in a right relationship with God, just as later under the new covenant the perfection and sacrifice of the Christ would cover the imperfection and sin of those who identified with Him and accepted Him as Savior.accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf. 5He shall kill the young bull before the Lord; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting. 6Then he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. 7The sons of Aaron the [high] priest shall put fire on the altar [of burnt offering] and arrange wood on the fire. 8Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head and the fat, on the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar. 9But he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water. The priest shall offer all of it up in smoke on the altar as a burnt offering. It is an offering by fire, a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord. 10‘But if his offering is from the flock, of the sheep or of the goats, as a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without blemish. 11He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar. 12He shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar. 13But he shall wash the entrails and legs with water. The priest shall offer all of it, and offer it up in smoke on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord. 14‘But if his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring turtledoves or young pigeons as his offering. 15The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and offer it up in smoke on the altar; and its blood is to be drained out on the side of the altar. 16He shall remove its #An enlargement of the gullet that serves as a receptacle for food.crop with its feathers and throw it next to the east side of the altar, in the place for ashes. 17Then he shall tear it open by its wings, but shall not sever it. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord. The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631 All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org Learn More About Amplified Bible Explore Leviticus 1 by Verse Leviticus 1:1	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1522
__label__wiki	0.606204	0.606204	Search Results: 115 books from 12 publishers. Learn more › Where Have All the Bees Gone? Rebecca E. Hirsch (author) Publisher: Lerner Books ISBN: 9781541583856 Apples, blueberries, peppers, cucumbers, coffee, and vanilla. Do you like to eat and drink? Then you might want to thank a bee. Bees pollinate 75 percent of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the United States. Around the world, bees pollinate $24 billion worth of crops each year. Without bees, humans would face a drastically reduced diet. We need bees to grow the foods that keep us healthy. But numbers of bees are falling, and that has scientists alarmed. What's causing the decline? Diseases, pesticides, climate change, and loss of habitat are all threatening bee populations. Some bee species teeter on the brink of extinction. Learn about the many bee species on Earth—their nests, their colonies, their life cycles, and their vital connection to flowering plants. Most importantly, find out how you can help these important pollinators. K-9 Units Madison Capitano (author) Publisher: Rourke Publishing ISBN: 9781731639653 Dogs can use their keen sense of smell to help law enforcement as part of teams called K-9 units. A mysterious bag in an airport? A car full of hidden drugs? A missing body in the woods? Don’t worry, K-9 Units are on the case! Bats and Other Mammals Tracie Santos (author) Mammals run, leap, and climb all over. Around some of them, you need to use caution. Others are harmless or even helpful. Do you know which is which? In Bats and Other Mammals, you'll explore the animal kingdom and find out which of these mammals are dangerous…or not! The facts may surprise you! Snakes and Other Reptiles Reptiles crawl, jump, and slither all over. Around some of them, you need to use caution. Others are harmless or even helpful. Do you know which is which? In Snakes and Other Reptiles, you'll explore the animal kingdom and find out which of these reptiles are dangerous…or not! The facts may surprise you! Toads and Other Amphibians Amphibians swim, leap, and splash all over. Around some of them, you need to use caution. Others are harmless or even helpful. Do you know which is which? In Toads and Other Amphibians, you'll explore the animal kingdom and find out which of these amphibians are dangerous…or not! The facts may surprise you! Vultures and Other Birds Birds soar, hop, and swoop all over. Around some of them, you need to use caution. Others are harmless or even helpful. Do you know which is which? In Vultures and Other Birds, you'll explore the animal kingdom and find out which of these birds are dangerous…or not! The facts may surprise you! Melissa Gish (author) Publisher: The Creative Company ISBN: 9781640004870 A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of swans, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these long-necked water birds. A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of polar bears, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these clear-haired marine mammals. A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of monkeys, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these primates. A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of lions, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these roaring big cats. A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of koalas, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these arboreal marsupials. A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of gorillas, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these powerful apes. A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of giraffes, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these towering land animals. A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of bats, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these flying mammals. A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of alligators, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these semiaquatic reptiles. Deadly Bites M.G. Higgins (author) Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781630784775 Bears hunt and kill people. Sharks seek out human blood. Are these facts or false claims? While it's true that wild animals can kill, harming people may not be their true nature. The fact is, we all must live together. Learn just what makes these animals deadly and the part people play in their behaviors. It could save your life. A look at chameleons, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their color-changing skin, behaviors, relationships with humans, and fragile status in the world today. Lori Barker (author) Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433399381 Practice solving equations and inequalities while learning about land animals from all over the world! Readers will learn interesting facts about earth's land animals, discovering how zoologists use variables to solve equations and inequalities and answer questions about these animals. Fun examples allow children to become familiar with functional equations, equivalent equations, inequalities, and algebraic expression. Featuring eye-catching images, exciting practice problems, easy-to-read text, STEM themes, clear mathematical charts and diagrams, and an accessible glossary and index, this title will engage students and simplify advanced mathematical concepts! A look at bison, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their shaggy coats, behaviors, relationships with humans, and threatened status in the world today. Michelle Mulder (author) Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781459812888 Going wild. We don't see it as a good thing. And why would we? For most of our time on earth, humanity has been running from lions and other wilderness dangers. We've worked hard to make our local landscapes as safe and convenient as possible. Sometimes that's meant paving over areas that might burst into weeds. Other times, we've dammed rivers for electricity or irrigation. But now pollution, climate change and disruptions to the water cycle are affecting the world in ways we never anticipated. What if the new key to making our lives safer (and even healthier) is to allow the wilderness back into our cities? David Orme (author) Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613845691 Which bug has the most legs? Which bug is the fastest runner? Which spider is the most poisonous? And what's the deadliest bug of all? This is the world of bugs and spiders. Find out all about it. Get the facts. Then read 'What's Bugging You?', a story about alien explorers who get a big welcome from the local insect life. This fantastic book features an exciting combination of both fiction and non-fiction. The non-fiction section enables readers to engage with the subject matter, using dramatic illustrations and bite-sized texts. The beautifully illustrated fiction story appears in two formats - short, simple texts for more able readers and an illustrated 'speech bubble' version of the same story, for those who are really struggling. Part of the Trailblazers series, this book is brilliant for keeping reluctant readers engaged. A look at snow leopards, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their retractable claws, behaviors, relationships with humans, and their ability to survive changing climates in the world today. An Arctic Tundra Food Chain A.D. Tarbox (author) A look at a common food chain in the Arctic tundra, introducing the Arctic willow that starts the chain, the wolf that sits atop the chain, and various animals in between. A Mountain Food Chain A look at a common food chain in the Rocky Mountains, introducing the ponderosa pine tree that starts the chain, the mountain lion that sits atop the chain, and various animals in between. A look at bighorn sheep, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their horns, behaviors, relationships with humans, and their endangered status in the world today.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1524
__label__cc	0.605101	0.394899	Bipartisan Alliance Bipartisan Alliance, a Society for the Study of the US Constitution, and of Human Nature, where Republicans and Democrats meet. Childhood violence exposure, but not social deprivation, was associated with reduced adolescent resting-state neural network density Association of Childhood Violence Exposure With Adolescent Neural Network Density. Leigh G. Goetschius et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(9):e2017850, September 23, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.17850 Question Are violence exposure and social deprivation associated with person-specific patterns (heterogeneity) of adolescent resting-state functional connectivity? Findings In this cohort study of 175 adolescents, childhood violence exposure, but not social deprivation, was associated with reduced adolescent resting-state density of the salience and default mode networks. A data-driven algorithm, blinded to childhood adversity, identified youth with heightened violence exposure based on resting-state connectivity patterns. Meaning Childhood violence exposure appears to be associated with adolescent functional connectivity heterogeneity, which may reflect person-specific neural plasticity and should be considered in neuroscience-based interventions. Importance Adverse childhood experiences are a public health issue with negative sequelae that persist throughout life. Current theories suggest that adverse childhood experiences reflect underlying dimensions (eg, violence exposure and social deprivation) with distinct neural mechanisms; however, research findings have been inconsistent, likely owing to variability in how the environment interacts with the brain. Objective To examine whether dimensional exposure to childhood adversity is associated with person-specific patterns in adolescent resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), defined as synchronized activity across brain regions when not engaged in a task. Design, Setting, and Participants A sparse network approach in a large sample with substantial representation of understudied, underserved African American youth was used to conduct an observational, population-based longitudinal cohort study. A total of 183 adolescents aged 15 to 17 years from Detroit, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and Chicago, Illinois, who participated in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study were eligible for inclusion. Environmental data from birth to adolescence were collected via telephone and in-person interviews, and neuroimaging data collected at a university lab. The study was conducted from February 1, 1998, to April 26, 2017, and data analysis was performed from January 3, 2019, to May 22, 2020. Exposures Composite variables representing violence exposure and social deprivation created from primary caregiver reports on children at ages 3, 5, and 9 years. Main Outcomes and Measures Resting-state functional connectivity person-specific network metrics (data-driven subgroup membership, density, and node degree) focused on connectivity among a priori regions of interest in 2 resting-state networks (salience network and default mode) assessed with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Results Of the 183 eligible adolescents, 175 individuals (98 girls [56%]) were included in the analysis; mean (SD) age was 15.88 (0.53) years and 127 participants (73%) were African American. Adolescents with high violence exposure were 3.06 times more likely (95% CI, 1.17-8.92) to be in a subgroup characterized by high heterogeneity (few shared connections) and low network density (sparsity). Childhood violence exposure, but not social deprivation, was associated with reduced rsFC density (β = −0.25; 95% CI, −0.41 to −0.05; P = .005), with fewer salience network connections (β = −0.26; 95% CI, −0.43 to −0.08; P = .005) and salience network-default mode connections (β = −0.20; 95% CI, −0.38 to −0.03; P = .02). Violence exposure was associated with node degree of right anterior insula (β = −0.29; 95% CI, −0.47 to −0.12; P = .001) and left inferior parietal lobule (β = −0.26; 95% CI, −0.44 to −0.09; P = .003). Conclusions and Relevance The findings of this study suggest that childhood violence exposure is associated with adolescent neural network sparsity. A community-detection algorithm, blinded to child adversity, grouped youth exposed to heightened violence based only on patterns of rsFC. The findings may have implications for understanding how dimensions of adverse childhood experiences impact individualized neural development. Results from a predominantly understudied and underserved sample with high rates of poverty suggest that childhood violence exposure, but not social deprivation, is associated with adolescent neural circuitry. Data-driven analyses identified a subset of adolescents with heterogeneous patterns of connectivity (ie, few shared and many individual connections) in 2 key neural networks associated with salience detection, attention, and social-cognitive processes (ie, the SN and DMN).7,8 This subgroup of adolescents was exposed to more violence in childhood than the other subgroup, whose patterns of neural connectivity were relatively more homogeneous (ie, had many connections in common), suggesting that violence exposure may lead to more person-specific alterations in neural circuitry. Beyond subgroups, network density within the SN and between the SN and DMN was sparse for adolescents with high violence exposure, likely due to few connections involving the right insula and the left IPL. These factors could not be accounted for by social deprivation, in-scanner motion, race, sex, pubertal development, current life stress, or maternal marital status or educational level at the time of the participant’s birth. Findings regarding the neural network subgroups are noteworthy because the community detection algorithm within GIMME detected rsFC patterns in the brain from exposures that occurred at least 6 years earlier. Moreover, high childhood violence exposure in the subgroup characterized by neural heterogeneity likely reflects the person-specific outcomes of early adversity on the brain and suggests that research on the developmental sequelae of adverse childhood experiences should consider individual differences in neural compensatory responses to stress.17 Although it is important to replicate these findings in other samples, S-GIMME has reliably classified subgroups in empirical data,40,45 and there is evidence from simulations that modeling connections at the subgroup level, in addition to the group level, improves the validity and reliability of results.40 Considering the sample as a whole, results also suggest that violence exposure is associated with blunted connectivity within the SN and between the SN and DMN. As expected, the observed reduced SN density in adolescents with heightened childhood violence exposure differs from typical developmental patterns that show stronger rsFC within SN nodes and increased density of connections with hub regions, such as the anterior insula, as the brain matures.8,16 It is difficult, however, to align the present findings with previous work that reported increased SN rsFC in trauma-exposed youth9,10 because those samples were small, used different metrics of connectivity, and had different sample compositions. Moreover, the present sample was likely experiencing chronic adversity, and research from animal models of chronic stress proposes that, over time, the body’s stress response (eg, hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis reactivity) becomes blunted or habituated to typical stressors.47 Previous research on hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis reactivity in this sample revealed a blunted cortisol response in adolescents with heightened childhood violence exposure,28 and work in other high-risk samples showed blunted activation of the amygdala, an SN node, to threatening stimuli.48,49 The present study expands this notion to the function of threat detection neural circuits, and future research should examine whether this is compensatory or even adaptive. Beyond density, childhood violence exposure was associated with reduced node degree of the right anterior insula and left IPL. These results are consistent with the extant literature because the right anterior insula in the SN facilitates shifting between the DMN and central executive network,50 which contributes to higher-level executive function.8 Moreover, early life stress has been linked to insular connectivity within the SN,9 DMN (specifically, the left IPL, which plays a role in working memory51), and other neural ROIs.52 These results also show differences in the way that the anterior insula is integrated within and between neural networks in youth exposed to violence in their homes and neighborhoods using longitudinal data from a population-based sample. This study represents a person-specific approach to the neuroscientific investigation of the sequelae of early adversity. Past research on early adversity and rsFC assumed that the same connectivity patterns characterize all, or a majority of participants, but if this assumption is violated (as is likely the case in studies of diverse populations and biopsychosocial phenomena), then results may not accurately describe any individual.18,53 The presence of group- and subgroup-level connections in the present study suggests that there is some consistency in the connections within and between the SN and DMN, aligning with an assumption of homogeneity that is prevalent in rsFC research, but the large number of individual-level connections, especially in adolescents with high levels of early violence exposure, show that there was also notable heterogeneity that required person-specific analyses to accurately reflect rsFC, encouraging future research using person-specific modeling approaches. All significant findings concerned violence exposure, and there were no detected associations between social deprivation and rsFC. This set of results could indicate that social deprivation has a less salient influence on patterns of spontaneous neural fluctuations. Some studies have identified links between social deprivation and functional connectivity, but they concerned extreme, nonnormative deprivation (eg, previous institutionalization).21,54 This deprivation may be qualitatively different from deprivation operationalized in the present study, and may operate through different mechanisms. In addition, because a hypothesis-driven approach to node selection was taken in this study, it is possible that deprivation is associated with rsFC of SN or DMN nodes not measured here, with other networks (eg, central executive), or in different populations (eg, with extreme or heightened variability of deprivation). It is also tenable that there are other dimensions of adversity that would have differential associations with rsFC (eg, those linked to emotionality), which future research should explore. Nonetheless, these findings present evidence for dimensional frameworks of adversity5,55 because there were distinct neural correlates for violence exposure. This study had limitations. Based on the demographic characteristics of the sample (eg, 73% African American, born in Midwestern cities), it is not clear whether findings will generalize beyond low-income, urban, African American youth; nonetheless, the present work is important because these populations are often underrepresented in neuroimaging research and underserved by the medical community.12 Resting-state functional MRI was collected on only a single occasion in adolescence; thus, it is unclear whether connectivity patterns reflect stable or changing neural features. In addition, it is not possible to know the direction of association (eg, whether neural differences predate exposure to adversity). Violence exposure and social deprivation composites were derived from parent reports. Exposures between the FFCWS collection waves at ages 9 and 15 years could not be accounted for in this study. Owing to changes in the FFCWS questionnaire at year 15, current adversity could not be controlled using the composite scores created for earlier ages.5 To compensate, a life stress scale was used as a covariate; however, that confounding variable did not impact associations. The ecologic pattern of poverty-related adversity is complex; thus, there are unmeasured variables that may explain these associations or contribute to cascades of risk (eg, parental psychopathologic factors). Posted by BipartisanAlliance2 at 11:47 PM 0 comments Genetic differences in religiousness and extra-familial environmental influences increased with age, whereas shared environmental influences within families declined – in particular in the first half of life A meta-analytic review of nature and nurture in religiousness across the lifespan. Christian Kandler. Current Opinion in Psychology, September 23 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.09.011 Rolf Degen's take: https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1308988159901003786 Abstract: Behavior genetic research yielded that affiliation to a specific religion is primarily environmental, whereas religious beliefs and practices irrespective of a specific religion have been found to be heritable to some degree. This review synthesizes the literature and provides a meta-analytic overview on all identified behavior genetic studies on religiousness since 1999. This analysis allows new insight on the nature–nurture interplay in the development of religiousness: Genetic differences in religiousness and extra-familial environmental influences increased with age, whereas shared environmental influences within families declined – in particular in the first half of life. This age trend is in line with the interpretation of an increasing importance of active gene–environment transactions and accumulating extra-familial environmental factors across the lifespan. Prevalent emotion‐theories of psychopathy appear to operate with the assumption that psychopaths have no emotions, leading to the hypothesis that psychopaths are (almost) completely unable to make moral judgments Are psychopaths moral‐psychologically impaired? Reassessing emotion‐theoretical explanations. Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen. Mind & Language, September 22 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12317 Abstract: Psychopathy has been theorized as a disorder of emotion, which impairs moral judgments. However, these theories are increasingly being abandoned as empirical studies show that psychopaths seem to make proper moral judgments. In this contribution, these findings are reassessed, and it is argued that prevalent emotion‐theories of psychopathy appear to operate with the unjustified assumption that psychopaths have no emotions, which leads to the hypothesis that psychopaths are completely unable to make moral judgments. An alternative and novel explanation is proposed, theorizing psychopathy as a degree‐specific emotional deficiency, which causes degree‐specific differences in moral judgments. No evidence that modern types of wheat have lower quality for human nutrition and health, with the exception of decreased levels of some minerals (including iron, zinc and magnesium) Do modern types of wheat have lower quality for human health? P. R. Shewry K. L. Hassall H. Grausgruber A. A. M Andersson A.‐M. Lampi V. Piironen M. Rakszegi J. L. Ward A. Lovegrove. Nutrition Bulletin, September 22 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbu.12461 Abstract: Wheat is the major staple food in Western Europe and an important source of energy, protein, dietary fibre, minerals, B vitamins and phytochemicals. Plant breeders have been immensely successful in increasing yields to feed the growing global population. However, concerns have been expressed that the focus on increasing yield and processing quality has resulted in reduced contents of components that contribute to human health and increases in adverse reactions. We review the evidence for this, based largely on studies in our own laboratories of sets of wheats bred and grown between the 18th century and modern times. With the exception of decreased contents of mineral micronutrients, there is no clear evidence that intensive breeding has resulted in decreases in beneficial components or increases in proteins which trigger adverse responses. In fact, a recent study of historic and modern wheats from the UK showed increases in the contents of dietary fibre components and a decreased content of asparagine in white flour, indicating increased benefits for health. It is clear from the studies discussed above that intensive wheat breeding has resulted in increased accumulation of starch, which is generally associated with a decrease in the concentration of protein. Analysis of the Austrian Heritage lines also indicates that there have not been increases in proteins known to trigger adverse reactions. Other effects of breeding on grain composition are less clear, and the studies discussed in detail here demonstrate the challenges. One major challenge is that grain composition is strongly affected by the environment (Shewry et al. 2010). Hence, it is essential to compare material grown in replicated multi‐environment field trials. Furthermore, the varieties compared should be adapted to the area of growth, to avoid the effects of environmental stress. The HEALTHGRAIN study clearly did not fulfil these criteria, and it is not surprising that few correlations were observed, and, with the exception of starch and protein, these were marginal in significance (accounting for between 2% and 5% of the variation observed in the analyses). Nevertheless, the analyses are of interest in that they show no major changes in composition. By contrast, the UK Heritage Wheat samples were from replicated multi‐site trials with an emphasis on flour composition. Statistical analyses of these samples showed positive correlations of release date with the contents of arabinoxylan fibre (accounting for 21% of the total variation), total sugars (41%) and betaine (19%), and negative correlations with total amino acids (15%) and individual amino acids including asparagine (Lovegrove et al. 2020). These changes have clear implications for human health. Wheat is the most important single source of dietary fibre in many diets, including the UK and Western Europe, and the increased content of arabinoxylan (the major fibre component) in white flour is certainly desirable. The decreased concentration of asparagine in modern wheats is also desirable as it reduces the potential for the formation of acrylamide during processing. By contrast, the increases in fermentable monosaccharides, disaccharides and oligosaccharides (sucrose, mannitol, fructans) may be of concern to consumers suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), as these form part of the FODMAP fraction (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols) that exacerbate IBS symptoms (Gibson & Shepherd 2010). However, wheat is already recognised as a major source of FODMAPs in the diet (Biesiekierski et al. 2011; Whelan et al. 2011) and excluded by many IBS patients. To conclude, the analyses discussed provide no evidence that modern types of wheat have lower quality for human nutrition and health, with the exception of decreased levels of some minerals (including iron, zinc and magnesium) which are discussed elsewhere. In fact, there is evidence that they may be superior in some respects, particularly in fibre content of white flour. However, the analyses also show the challenges facing researchers and the need for more datasets from well‐designed field trials. Posted by BipartisanAlliance2 at 8:29 AM 0 comments Does Sex Really Sell? Paradoxical Effects of Sexualization in Advertising on Product Attractiveness and Purchase Intentions Does Sex Really Sell? Paradoxical Effects of Sexualization in Advertising on Product Attractiveness and Purchase Intentions. Sarah Gramazio, Mara Cadinu, Francesca Guizzo & Andrea Carnaghi. Sex Roles (2020), September 23 2020. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-020-01190-6 Abstract: To test the “sex sells” assumption, we examined how Italian men and women react to sexualized advertising. Women showed lower product attractiveness and purchase intentions toward products presented with sexualized female models than with neutral ads, whereas men were unaffected by ads’ sexualization (Study 1, n = 251). Study 2 (n = 197) replicated the overall results. Study 3 (n = 198) tested hostile sexism as a moderator as well as negative emotions as a mediator of consumers’ responses. Especially men with higher hostile sexism showed more purchase intentions after viewing female sexualized ads than neutral ads. Moreover, women’s lower consumer responses toward sexualized female ads were due to higher negative emotions. Study 4 (n = 207) included ads with both female and male models, replicating responses to female sexualization and showing that both women and men had lower product attractiveness and purchase intentions toward male sexualized ads than neutral ads. Replicating and extending Study 3’s results, women’s negative emotions was the mediator. The present study has practical implications for marketers because it suggests that “sex does not sell.” In addition, considering both the psychological damage and practical inefficacy of sexualized ads, our findings have important implications for public policy. The present research showed a series of important results. First, across the four studies we have confirmed Hypothesis 1b, namely that women were less attracted toward products and had lower purchase intentions when they were presented with sexualized female models than with neutral ads. Second, and disconfirming Hypothesis 1a, men, contrary to women, were largely unaffected by the level of female sexualization of the ads. These results are further supported by the meta-analysis, which provides a reliable and trustworthy pattern of cumulative evidence. In addition, contrary to Hypothesis 2, in Study 2 participants’ attitudes that view women as sexual objects and men as sex-driven were not related to their reactions toward the female model ads. Moreover, both in Study 3 and Study 4 and in line with Hypothesis 3a, women reported higher negative emotions after exposure to female sexualized than neutral ads. However, partially disconfirming Prediction 3b, women’s positive emotions varied across conditions in Study 4 but not in Study 3. In addition, in line with the lack of effects on product attractiveness and purchase intentions, men’s emotions were never affected by condition. Most importantly, consistent with Hypothesis 4, in Study 3 women’s negative emotions toward sexualized female (vs. neutral) ads were found to be one mechanism underlying their decrement on product attractiveness and purchase intentions. In addition, in line with Hypothesis 5b, Study 3 also demonstrated hostile sexism as one individual difference that moderated purchase intentions: Higher hostile sexism in men was associated with higher purchase intentions after viewing sexualized female ads than neutral ads. Moreover, hostile sexism predicted higher purchase intentions among women in the control condition. Moreover, in line with Hypothesis 6, in Study 4 both men and women expressed lower product attractiveness and purchase intentions toward sexualized male model ads than neutral ads. In addition, partially confirming Hypothesis 7b, women showed higher negative emotions toward male sexualized ads compared to neutral ads, whereas men’s emotions did not vary. Importantly, in Study 4 we extended the mediation analysis to male model ads by showing that women’s negative emotions were responsible for the decrement on product attractiveness and purchase intentions toward both female and male models sexualized (vs. neutral) ads. Overall, our findings on product attractiveness and purchase intentions substantially advance Wirtz et al.’s (2018) results by showing that female sexualization in advertising has a negative effect on women’s responses and has a null effect on men’s responses and that the use of male sexualization is counterproductive both for women and men. Concerning male model ads, this pattern of results contributes to Wirtz et al.’s analyses because it clearly demonstrates that not only men, but also women, dislike male sexualization in advertisement, in contrast with Jones et al.’s (1998) claims. Concerning female model ads, our pattern of results is in contrast with Wirtz et al.’s conclusions regarding men’s higher attractiveness toward sexualized female ads and women’s lack of effect on purchase intentions. One possibility to explain this discrepancy is the fact that Wirtz et al.’s meta-analysis includes studies starting from the early 1970s and the advertising context nowadays might be different. Indeed, in the last decade, the femvertising movement for body-positive advertising has emerged and new ad campaigns using empowerment messages to women were created (Castillo 2014; Teng et al. 2020). Therefore, in the last decade people may have developed an appreciation for a variety of female and male model ads that goes beyond sexualization, a possibility that would help explain our participants’ mostly negative reactions toward sexualized ads. Another important finding of the present study is that exposure to sexualized ads significantly impacts women’s emotions. These findings enrich an under-investigated area of research. Indeed, although some studies indicated that consumers who purchase new products are more likely to form preferences (favorable or unfavorable) based on affective evaluations (Muehling and McCann 1993; Reichert 2002), research that analyzes advertisement-related emotions within the context of sexualization is scarce. Therefore, a significant theoretical contribution of the present study is our moderated mediation analyses, which suggest that negative emotions can work as one mechanism that regulates women’s reactions. Overall, sexualized images work against women’s product attractiveness and purchase intentions because they elicit negative emotions. Moreover, the present study deepens our understanding of the moderating role of individual differences in gender attitudes on the relation between female ad sexualization and purchase intentions: Especially men with higher hostile sexism showed more purchase intentions after viewing sexualized than neutral ads. This finding nicely parallels results by Zawisza et al. (2018) who showed a positive association between hostile sexism and purchase intentions toward stereotypically feminine ads. In addition, our results suggest that the endorsement of hostile sexism by men may favor the validation of sexualized female models proposed by media. Given that the exposure to female sexualized images increases hostile sexism (Fox and Potocki 2016; Rollero 2013), our results complement this evidence and suggest a vicious circle between female sexualization and hostile sexism. Future research should further investigate this possibility and test whether it is specific to hostile sexism or it may also extend to benevolent sexism, a construct that was not measured in the present study. An additional unexpected result was that the higher women’s hostile sexism, the higher their purchase intentions in the control condition. This result suggests a general relation between women’s level of hostile sexism and consumerism, a possibility that should be further investigated in future research. Limitations and Future Research Directions The present research presents some limitations. In line with previous literature we have tested the role of the gender-relevance of the products on product attractiveness and purchase intentions and found no significant effects. However, the products chosen were not varied in a systematic way with respect to other characteristics. For example, some products were gendered in a way that may make them less appealing to female consumers (e.g., men’s shoes), thus creating a potential confound leading to the decrease in women’s preferences. However, the gender of our participants did not affect the results in the control condition, which helps exclude the possibility of such a confound. Nevertheless, it would still be important for future studies to systematically vary the products’ gender target. Also related to this point, future research may assess participants’ relationship status, a variable that we did not assess and that may further modulate participants’ responses because some products may be interesting to buy for one’s partner. In addition, the economic value of the products (luxury vs. inexpensive) was not systematically varied; future research may be conducted to ascertain whether this feature may also modulate consumers’ responses toward sexualized versus neutral ads. In all four studies, we compared sexualized ads including (fe)male models in revealing clothing to neutral ads including the same product as in the sexualized condition, but devoid of the model. To have a further control condition, we suggest future studies also have the same (fe)male models but portrayed in non-sexualized ways. More generally, we think that Study 4’s results on the effects of male sexualized models are promising especially because they demonstrate that the mediating role of women’s negative emotions nicely parallel results obtained toward female sexualized models. However, our study did not provide any information on the reasons why men responded unfavorably to sexualized male model ads. One speculation is that male ad sexualization confronts men with their explicit or implicit homophobia. To explore this possibility, future research may further investigate men’s reactions toward male sexualized ads by also assessing homophobia and masculinity norms. Finally, another future direction of the present study is to diversify the type of models included in the ads. The present study was conducted in Italy and all models were White and reflected the sexualized thin ideal for women and the muscular ideal for men. Therefore, we suggest more diversity in future studies. Practice Implications The present study presents several practical implications. Concerning marketing, our results are at odds with current sexualizing marketing strategies, which are based on the assumption that “sex sells.” Indeed, our findings suggest that, at the marketing level, the use of female sexualization in advertising is counterproductive for women and useless for men as consumers and that the use of male sexualization is counterproductive both for women and men. Put differently, our findings show that “sex does not sell,” a result that questions sexualization as a useful marketing strategy. Concerning ethical implications, the present findings complement a large amount of research based on objectification theory that has shown detrimental effects of exposure to media sexualization on women’s and men’s well-being (Agliata and Tantleff-Dunn 2004; Leit et al. 2002; Lorenzen et al. 2004; Ward 2016). Therefore, considering the psychological damage and the practical inefficacy of sexualized ads, we argue that sexualization in advertising should be addressed in public policy discourse. This issue is particularly relevant with respect to sexualized advertisement aimed at children (Pacilli et al. 2016), which would require even stricter regulations. Also relevant to public policy, media literacy programs may be employed to buffer the negative effects of media sexualization (see Guizzo and Cadinu 2020; Tylka and Augustus-Horvath 2011). US Government Info US Defense Department The Federal Judiciary Tweets by @jorgemata Childhood violence exposure, but not social depriv... Genetic differences in religiousness and extra-fam... Prevalent emotion‐theories of psychopathy appear t... No evidence that modern types of wheat have lower ... Does Sex Really Sell? Paradoxical Effects of Sexua... gov't intervention judicial restraint political instability	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1526
__label__wiki	0.719661	0.719661	In Time. Film Review Starring Justin Timberlake, Cillian Murphy and Amanda Seyfried. Written & Directed by Andrew Niccol 20th Century Fox / 109 mins runtime Reviewed by Catherine Mann In a future where humans stop aging at 25, and time is used as currency, your life is literally shortened or lengthened according to your wealth. The rich can have thousands or even millions of years stored up, making them effectively immortal (as long as they donâ€™t die accidentally), whereas the poor must survive day to day and regularly run out of time. Will Salas saves a rich man who is slumming it in theDaytonghetto, and is rewarded with a century and a disturbing look at the true nature of his world. With his new found wealth Will heads to New Greenwich, home of the super rich and nearly immortal. There he meets dissatisfied, suffocated rich girl Sylvia Weis and together they take on the injustices of the system. One of the most successful parts of In Time was the world-building. The contrast between the rich and the poor are pronounced and wonderfully convey the central concept. Itâ€™s clear that the visuals were very carefully thought through, and the nuances in costume and set design are excellent. The poor are quick and colourful, theirs is a world full of danger, but also excitement and pleasure and visual interest. TheDayton ghetto is run down and shabby, but thereâ€™s always something to look at. By contrast the luxury of New Greenwich is very staid and reserved and sombre. Everything is slow and careful and luxurious, the people here have (almost) all the time in the world. Their surroundings are finely crafted, built to last, but lack embellishment. On Willâ€™s first visit there he sticks out like a sore thumb, as a waitress points out he does everything too quickly to be a local. The ultra-modern, efficient precinct of the timekeepers provides yet another, briefly-glimpsed contrast. It is there, almost behind-the-scenes, that order reigns and the system is kept working for both the demure rich and the vibrant poor. The film has plenty of good performances, but the characters work with varying levels of success. There are only young actors in this film – which must have been very attractive to studio bosses – and you can tell a particularly good performance by the ability of the actor to convey great age despite their physical youth. Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried play the leads and donâ€™t have to worry about conveying age as their characters are as young as they look. We are meant to like Will Salas, and see things from his viewpoint, but heâ€™s so similar to other action film leads that I didnâ€™t feel much affection for him. Will is straightforward, brave and noble, but not very smart. His motivations are incredibly generic; he loves his mum (and given what kind of film this is, thatâ€™s bad news for her), and has a dead father he never really knew but looks up to all the same. He is told a secret – albeit a blindingly obvious one – about how the world works and he sets out to take on the rich, without any kind of plan. Then again given the world he lives in it makes sense that Will isnâ€™t the sharpest knife in the drawer. Heâ€™s literally not had the time to stop and think about the world and his place in it, and heâ€™s never had to think long-term. Will is a character who perfectly fits the film; heâ€™s well-intentioned and dynamic, but not as intelligent as he should be. Sylvia Weis is a great example of the kind of role female characters should have in films, though sadly sheâ€™s not particularly engaging as a person. Itâ€™s nice to see a leading lady whose actions and motivations drive the plot along as much as those of her male counterpart. Will never has to rescue Sylvia, she makes decisions for herself, and quickly learns to live a completely new life. Though I think it would make a little more sense if sheâ€™d learned that five inch heels are not the best footwear for running. Niggles aside, Sylvia quickly becomes Willâ€™s equal in both their relationship and the film, and itâ€™s easy to understand why she does what she does. In many ways sheâ€™s much braver than him, because she gives up so much more than he does. Itâ€™s a shame I didnâ€™t feel more fondness for her, but then again I felt roughly the same about Will, so I suppose thatâ€™s fair too. The supporting cast turned in some fine performances. Cillian Murphy, as committed as ever, plays Raymond Leon a very determined and incorruptible cop. Initially portrayed as a villain, he is one of the few characters whoâ€™s shown in a morally ambiguous light. He represents the forces of order, upholding and protecting the system flawed though it may be. The other standout performance was fresh-faced actor Vincent Kartheiser who plays the super rich Phillipe Weis. He managed to perform with all the gravitas, pomp and arrogance of a very old, very rich businessman. I enjoyed his performance, even though he was lumbered with some of the most awkward lines of exposition in the entire film. Phillipe Weis is a fat cat who lives off the suffering of others. He is the embodiment of the system, but he is also a human being and the actor did what he could to express this, despite the limitations of the part he was given. Iâ€™ve mentioned the setting and character, but what I havenâ€™t mentioned is the most important part of this film, the plot. You can tell fairly early on that the plot is the main consideration because it railroads everything else. Characters regularly do very stupid things, because the plot demands it. The premise, which is carefully introduced using a voiceover then beautifully expressed through the visuals, is warped and stretched so that the next event in the story can happen. In Time advertises itself as a high-concept film, and it probably would be if it werenâ€™t much more concerned with being an exciting action film. It just about works whilst you are watching, but when you think about it for a moment itâ€™s nonsensical and various plot points are indicative of lazy plotting. When Will travels from the ghetto he must stop and pay tolls of weeks, months, and years at a series of carefully controlled checkpoints that provide access to zones with greater wealth. Yet when driving out of New Greenwich with a hostage he is back in the ghetto without single problem. The crime spree that is the focus of the second half of the film just seems to happen without planning or difficulty, leaving you wondering why everyone doesnâ€™t take up bank robbing. Writer and Director Andrew Niccol also wrote and directed the excellent high-concept film Gattaca. There are a variety of superficial similarities between the two films; both set in a strict class-based future world, a man born into disadvantage gets the opportunity to enter the world of his social superiors and challenge the injustice of the system. However thatâ€™s really where the similarities end. Gattaca stuck firmly to its premise and the suspense and action flowed from the central characterâ€™s motivation. Whereas In Time is a high-concept idea that has been warped to fit a Hollywood action plotline. One of the biggest disappointments is that so much could have been done with a premise that ties currency directly to mortality. Itâ€™s an idea thatâ€™s ripe for exploration in the current climate of financial crises. In Time does little to explore the complex moral and social issues raised by the premise and instead gives us a fast paced, action film. The action and suspense work very well, but it really feels like a missed opportunity that the film didnâ€™t aspire to anything meaningful. Bite Sized Horror – Edited by Johnny Mains. Book review The Woman Who Died a Lot. Book Review The Prophet. Book Review The Fields. Film Review Rebellion. Book Review	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1536
__label__wiki	0.976778	0.976778	Kite Party Tiny Engines co-founders Will & Chuck, Cayetana, Frontier(s) and Runaway Brother list thei… There were a lot of great labels in 2014, but one label I think had an exceptionally good year is Tiny Engines. Between the second Beach Slang EP of the year, the Places to Hide EP, Cayetana's debut album, the latest EP from Frontier(s) (ex-Elliott, Mouthpiece), Somos' debut album, Th… Tigers Jaw told us their favorite LPs of 2014, playing Scranton holiday show w/ The Menzin… As discussed, The Menzingers have an upcoming tour with Taking Back Sunday that includes night 1 of TBS' holiday shows at NJ's Starland Ballroom (12/27), NYC's Best Buy Theater on 3/18 and Long Island's Paramount on 3/24... Queen Jesus (ex-Tigers Jaw) releasing debut LP, touring with Spirit of the Beehive (dates … Philly's Queen Jesus is the band led by former Tigers Jaw drummer Pat Brier. He also currently drums in Three Man Cannon, and in Queen Jesus he's backed by other members of that band and Kite Party... lovechild releasing ‘Migraine Music,’ touring (dates, stream) Boston hardcore band lovechild (ex-Cerce) have an awesomely titled new record, Migraine Music, coming out September 1 via Mayfly Records, produced by American Nightmare/Give Up the Ghost drummer Alex Garcia Rivera... Fall Line Fest 2014 lineup (Real Estate, The Hold Steady, Death, Fairweather, Tombs, Proto… Richmond's Fall Line Fest is returning for its second year on September 5 & 6 across various Richmond, Virginia venues. Like last year, there's a solid, diverse lineup of artists playing including Real Estate, The Hold Steady, Death, Matthew E... Three Man Cannon (ex-Tigers Jaw) releasing an LP on Lame-O (stream a track); tour w/ Kite … Scranton/Philly band Three Man Cannon's history dates back to when members Dennis Mishko and Pat Brier were still playing in Tigers Jaw, but now that they've left that band, they can focus fully on Three Man Cannon who will release their new album, Pretty Many People, on May 27 via Lame-O … Kite Party releasing an LP, touring w/ Three Man Cannon (dates & new song stream) If you've read about Philly's Kite Party on the internet, you may have seen something about their punk connection. Noisey basically called them ex-skate punk kids, and they're one of the only bands of their kind to be featured on AltPress... an interview with The Menzingers, who are streaming their new ‘Rented World’ LP (listen) The Menzingers will release their fourth album, Rented World, next week (4/22) via Epitaph (pre-order), and after revealing singles "In Remission" and "I Don't Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore," they've now made the whole album available to stream... Gainesville’s The Fest expands lineup (ALL, Circle Takes The Square, United Nations, Titus… As discussed, Gainesville's The Fest is returning this year from October 31 to November 3, and they've just expanded their lineup to include more artists... Laura Stevenson & the Cans played the Knit, playing NYU Strawberry Fest (pics & video) Laura Stevenson & the Cans, who along with Bomb The Music Industry will play the annual NYU Strawberry Fest on 5/4, played a show at Knitting Factory two Fridays ago with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and Dangerous Ponies...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1539
__label__cc	0.512162	0.487838	Travel innovators we love: Adam Wells 10/3/2012 — By Sean O'Neill Courtesy adpowers/Flickr A few years ago, Adam Wells signed on as Virgin America's fourth employee with a revolutionary concept: Treat every passenger stylishly as a sophisticated contemporary traveler, starting from the moment he or she arrives at the airport gate. In doing so, Wells helped Virgin raised the bar for the industry. Wells invented, refined, and executed several improvements: • The typically bland, cold check-in counter with generic kiosks is a failure. Why not hide the mechanics and machinery, and make the counter as simple and human a space as possible? Wells put minimalist touch screens on tables in an open area where passengers and agents can mingle. At some airports, fresh flowers are on display. • The standard paper boarding pass has machine barcodes with lots of numbers and is almost unreadable. It's also too large to fit in a standard-size pants pocket. "We decided to have our kiosks print paper boarding passes that are half the size of usual ones and that clearly spell out the info you need quickly," he says. Some airports haven't enabled Virgin America to do this, but wherever possible, the airline now offers the innovation. • The gate area, with its dull, bus-station feel, ought to be look more like a boutique hotel lounge. Wells added plasma screen monitors, high-gloss white painted, Corian surfaces, purple backscreens, and glass dividers to the seating area. • The most memorable and discussed innovation has been mood lighting on-board the plane. "It's in a "theatrical mood" prior to departure," says Wells. "When you walk down the jet bridge, you see the purple glow of the mood lighting, and it hopefully excites you. It was born out of the observation that typical airlines are so badly lit. There's a greenish hue that comes from fluorescent lighting. That gives a distressed, nauseous skin tone. It doesn't do anything to help your frame of mind to see everyone looking sickly around you. People have an emotional and physiological response to lighting. So we decided to shift the color of our cabin lights during the course of flight. They're associated with time of day outside, or ambient light outside. If you're flying by day and heading into dusk, it will reflect the light level outside. It's less jarring." In a bonus, each plane's windows are tinted to filter out certain light wavelengths, reducing glare. • Cabin dividers are usually ugly. They tend to be either gray laminated panels or they may have been carpeted and don't seem to ever get any cleaning. You wouldn't want to touch them. They tend to be full height, which creates a claustrophobic space. "To avoid that, we created dividers where the top half has custom-made material that's tinted purple but is mostly transparent. Because you can see through it to the front of the plane, you no longer feel claustrophobic as you look forward to first class from coach. We also don't use curtains, which are a pain for flight attendants to pass through and communicate false elitism. Our divider has an L shape, which traps some of the sounds coming from either direction and blocks noise from echoing throughout the cabin." Virgin America features many other innovations. For example, Charles Ogilvie designed a high-tech entertainment system placed in the back of the passenger seat in front of you, which includes instant-messaging capabilities with fellow passengers. The seatback touch screens can also be used to order food, which you pay by swiping your credit card. (A flight attendant delivers purchased items.) Other perks: There's a USB jack at each coach seat and two 110-volt plugs for every set of three seats, so your gizmos won't run out of juice while you're in the air. Wells approaches problems with the eye of an industrial designer who has helped tweak various products and services, such as Dyson's vacuum cleaners. He has since left his job as design director for Virgin America. These days, he "conceptualizes, designs, and actualizes" startups, spaces, and projects in North America for Virgin brands. Yet he still travels a few times a month. So we asked him for some travel tips: What tech devices do you fly with? The lightest devices I can get away with— usually a macbook, phone & a small camera; I use all 3 all the time. The day Apple launch a netbook is something I look forward to with some zeal. Have you had any travel snafu with digital devices? Leaving power cables in hotel rooms seems to be my specialty. Any tips about carrying laptops and cameras? Laptops in a separate pocket of a backpack if possible, allowing quick, one handed removal at security. Ditto for the toiletry bag. I typically wrap cameras & lenses in a protective sleeve surrounded by clothes, ideally in a manner that they're accessible at security too. Favorite websites for traveling? Most of my trips are for work and usually on Virgin America or Virgin Atlantic. On occasions that I have to fly other airlines, I compare the airline's seat map to those available on seatguru.com to avoid the windowless, zero-recline seat-by-the-restrooms that they like to offer! What's the next innovation you hope airports and airlines adopt? Pre-printing your boarding pass from home or office is the best route for now, although the better kiosks out there are quick, too. I'm really looking forward to greater availability of phone-based boarding passes, though; removing potential stress-points and queuing in the travel experience is exactly how travel technology should be… Practical guys, who think themselves to be free from any care about design and lighting, are usually the mental slave of some industrial designer they've never heard of. In other words: You don't have to care about design to appreciate how much nicer it is to fly some airlines than others—and difference is due to folks like Wells. Tell us about innovations you love— or things you wish that airlines would fix. Virgin America adds Wi-Fi fleetwide Australia may never be cheaper in our lifetimes Fresher cabin air is on the way 10 Most Family-Friendly Cities in Europe 5 Perfect Fall Trips for Families How to Explore Your Family Roots Through Travel 10 Best Aquariums in the World Family Reunion: How to Plan the Perfect Trip	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1543
__label__cc	0.51056	0.48944	ruaridh.cole@burnesspaull.com Contact +44 (0)131 473 6119 Ruaridh Cole Ruaridh is a partner in our Banking & Funds team. He has extensive experience of fund structuring, establishment and closing. In addition to his work supporting City and overseas law firms on the Scottish aspects of fund formation, he plays a key role in Burness Paull’s growing fund investor practice, advising on fund investments in the UK and globally. He has also been a leading lawyer in the Burness Paull team advising on asset-backed pension scheme deficit financings. On the banking side, he has developed an in-depth knowledge of Scots security law and has a flair for finding simple solutions to complex problems. He has been at the forefront of recent developments in the Scottish market with respect to taking security over novel asset classes. International funds specialist promoted to partner Ruaridh has a reputation for handling complex international funds. The New Third-Party Rights Law In Scotland The Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Act 2017 (the “2017 Act”) has come into force. PSC Register: New Statutory Obligations For Scottish Limited Partnerships 50 Lothian Road EH3 9WJ e: ruaridh.cole@burnesspaull.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1545
__label__wiki	0.963832	0.963832	Suffolk Storeopen_in_new Bury Mercury > News > Crime 'Greedy' burglars who targeted community facilities in £122,000 crime spree are jailed Michael Steward Published: 6:00 AM January 14, 2021 Updated: 10:27 AM January 14, 2021 Shane Phillips (left) and Tim Moyle were jailed at Ipswich Crown Court for a string of burglaries across Suffolk and Norfolk - Credit: Suffolk police A pair of burglars who targeted community facilities and village sports clubs in a £122,000 crime spree across Suffolk, Norfolk and other parts of the country have been jailed. Shane Phillips and Tim Moyle committed dozens of burglaries throughout 2020, often breaking into community clubs and facilities during the coronavirus lockdown to steal thousands of pounds worth of equipment. The total loss to victims of the burglaries was calculated to be around £122,000, Ipswich Crown Court heard. On May 4, 2020, during the first Covid-19 lockdown, the pair targeted Bungay Sports Club, and equipment valued around £16,000 was stolen. Between June 18 and June 19, the pair struck at Mower Fix in Worcestershire, stealing equipment worth £9,700, including lawn mowers which were being repaired by the company. Walsham-le-Willows Sports Club was targeted - Credit: Gregg Brown Walsham-le-Willows Sports Club, which is home to the village's football, cricket and bowls clubs, was the next target sometime between June 30 and July 1, with £5,500 of equipment taken. Mowers, strimmers, leaf blowers, fuel and distinctive blue and white striped roof panels were stolen. The burglars broke into containers at the Walsham Sports Club - Credit: Mike Powles 1 Families at 'breaking point' over lack of support for children with additional needs 2 Meet Oscar - the Tesco supermarket cat who is a local celebrity 3 'It's a real shame' - Bury Festival cancelled for 2021 5 New police operation will target night-time crime in west Suffolk 6 Infection rates continue to tumble across Suffolk and Essex 7 Controversial cut to free parking could be revised 8 Latest figures show Covid-19 cases continue to fall 9 Covid vaccines cancelled at four Suffolk centres today – this is why 10 How I became Ralph Fiennes' assistant on Netflix's The Dig A yard in Chapel Road, Beccles was also targeted between July 4 and July 5, and a JCB mini digger and trailer, worth £8,500, was stolen. Phillips was also solely responsible for a break-in at St John the Baptist Church in Snape between August 19 and August 20 when seven petrol lawn mowers were stolen from an outbuilding. The court heard that some of the equipment was recovered from the thefts but many items were sold through an intermediary. Both Phillips, 25, of New Street, Stradbroke, and Moyle, 26, of Anchor Street, Lowestoft, asked that a string of other offences be taken into consideration. Phillips asked that a further 58 offences be taken into consideration while Moyle asked for 38 - all committed with Phillips - to be considered. The amount of loss to victims in Phillips' TIC offences was more than £95,000 while Moyle's totalled £50,157. Other offences took place at Caister Cemetery, when garden tools and machinery were stolen from sheds, and as far away as Cornwall, the court heard. David Stewart, for Phillips, said his client had "owned up to a large number of other offences" which showed an "expression of remorse". Mr Stewart said Phillips committed the burglaries "simply for money" after his own landscaping business had got into difficulty. Jude Durr, for Moyle, said his client was a "bright young man" who had an unhappy childhood. The court heard the pair had four previous convictions each. Sentencing Phillips and Moyle on Wednesday, Judge Emma Peters called the offending "large-scale and greedy". "These were all places that served members of the community," Judge Peters said. "The impact of the criminality would have been felt by hundreds of people." Phillips was jailed for two years and two months, while Moyle received a two-year sentence. The pair will serve half in custody before being released on licence. West Suffolk News Six Debenhams stores shut for good, but Suffolk branches plan to reopen Angus Williams More than 1,500 homes left without power Katy Sandalls Mapped: The neighbourhoods with the highest Covid infection rates Matthew Earth Suffolk Weather Suffolk braced for up to 10cm of snow as warnings upgraded	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1546
__label__wiki	0.64288	0.64288	Tech› As of Huawei's Mate 30 announcement, the Huawei app store has 3 popular apps worth downloading Antonio Villas-Boas Sep 20, 2019, 15:30 IST Christof Stache / AFP / Getty Huawei's Mate 30 smartphones won't have access to Google's Play Store for the usual choice of apps that Android users outside of China are used to. Huawei's own app store only has three recognizable apps with mass appeal, including Amazon, TikTok, and Fortnite. Huawei didn't announce a release date for the Mate 30, and it called for developers to make apps for its app store with a $1 billion incentive program. There's a chance that a few big and popular apps could be made for Huawei's app store when the Mate 30 is released, but there's no guarantee. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Huawei's Mate 30 smartphones, which the company revealed on Thursday, won't have access to Google's Play Store, where Android users can find and download the apps they like to use. The limitation comes as a result of the US government blacklisting Huawei, meaning US companies are banned from doing business with Huawei. So, I had a look at Huawei's mobile AppGallery app store, the app store that Mate 30 buyers will have access to when the phone is released. Specifically, I saw the Huawei app store as if I was a user from the UK. The choice of apps isn't looking too good. I saw a few recognizable apps, but those with mass appeal only tallied a total of three, including Amazon, TikTok, and Fortnite. Recognizable apps included Booking.com and Aliexpress. Of those apps I saw in Huawei's app store, I only have Amazon installed on my Android phone right now. So if I were to buy the Huawei Mate 30 smartphone in the UK, the only app I'd want from Huawei's app store is Amazon. It's no wonder that Huawei hasn't set a release date for the Mate 30. Perhaps Huawei will manage to add a few more big and popular apps by the time it announces a release date. Huawei did not reply to Business Insider's request for comment. The company did, however, list the price tags for the Mate 30 phones: Huawei Mate 30: 700 Euros Huawei Mate 30 Pro: 1,100 Euros Huawei also called for developers to make apps for its app store during its Mate 30 launch event with a $1 billion incentive program. The Mate 30 smartphones have all the makings of great Android smartphones. They have powerful specs, multiple camera lenses, and a variety of great features. But without apps, none of that matters very much. NOW WATCH: Watch Apple unveil the new iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max {{}} Next StoryTrump confirmed he met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a weirdly lukewarm tweet Mi 10I vs Oneplus Nord Best Mobile Under 20000 New Smartphones in 2021 Whatsapp Privacy Policies Trump confirmed he met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a weirdly lukewarm tweet The iPhone 11 officially goes on sale today and diehard Apple fans are lining up to be first to get their hands on it 10 things in tech you need to know today	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1548
__label__cc	0.738672	0.261328	11 Books That Actually Inspire You To Go Get 'Em By E. Ce Miller Sometimes we all need a little help. A spiritual tune-up, if you will. Our own little wellness retreat, a 5-minute meditation on the subway, a purse-sized personal guru... you're coming along with me here, right? I'm talking about inspirational self-help books! Now, trust me, I know what you're thinking: "I already figured out what color my parachute is, I know how to Zen out when my cheese is relocated, yada, yada, yada." But hear me out, because these are not your mom's self-help books. These titles will have you celebrating your own awesomeness and badassery in 300 pages or fewer. They’ve got your back on everything from new job-woes to romantic highs and lows, and won’t leave you feeling like you have to hide that embarrassing book cover from onlookers while riding the bus. (Because, yes, some of us still have residual scars from that time Lorelai Gilmore reminded us how mockable self-help books can be.) In fact, after reading these books, you won’t even care if he’s just not that into you — because you’ll be so into you that he (who?) will relegated to the territory of afterthought. Sound good? Then check out these 11 inspirational self-help books that will actually, you know, inspire you: Rising Strong by Brené Brown Raise your hand if someone has recommended a Brené Brown book to you before. If not, use the hand you're not raising to text all your friends and ask them what rock they've been living under, because this self-help guru is literally everywhere right now: the New York Times bestseller list, the Nobel Women's Initiative, giving TED Talks, being interviewed by Oprah. The lady who taught you that vulnerability can be your greatest strength in Daring Greatly is about to rock your world again, in this guide to conducting your own revolution of personal transformation. In Rising Strong , Brené Brown writes that failure can be our loudest call to courage, and champions the idea of owning our stories of struggle. You'll have to preorder this one, but it's worth the wait. The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar Ever had a hard time making a decision? How about finally making up your mind, only to change it again... and then again. If you've ever found yourself standing at the MAC eyeshadow counter for hours, or wondering why you dated that one guy in college, when his best friend was clearly your soulmate, this book is for you. Choice researcher Sheena Iyengar explores how we make decisions, about everything from favorite beverage to lifelong profession, and how those decisions are shaped by much more than just our own wants and needs. By understanding how your friends and family, society, and marketing play significant roles in your decision making, you'll be inspired to pay closer attention to why you choose what you choose — and maybe even to choose more wisely. The Places That Scare You by Pema Chödrön We're not talking about that dark closet under your basement stairs here. Remember that Gilmore Girls episode when Rory and Dean broke up because she was afraid to say "I love you?" That's the kind of scary place Pema Chödrön explores in this book about conquering your insecurities, living fearlessly in the present moment, and discovering the delightful person you are beneath all that fear. Because you really are delightful. I promise. You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero If touchy-feely self-help tomes make you feel, shall we say, less than inspired, this no-nonsense manifesto to awesomeness might be just what you're looking for. Filled with blunt and sassy advice, do-it-yourself exercises in personal transformation, and a whole lot of hilarity, You Are a Badass will silence your inner critic, and help you build a life worthy of the kind of Facebook news feed that others envy. Take a day off from looking for your inner goddess, and spending some time cultivating your outer badass instead. If the talking your way through a 50 minute session with your therapist routine is getting a little stale, it might be time to give EMDR therapy (that is, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) a try. Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., the creator of EMDR therapy, has put together a totally user-friendly guide to how EMDR can help you access and reinterpret those dormant and misunderstood memories you've kept in the back of your mind since forever. Shapiro offers simple exercises that will inspire you to push past places where you've become emotionally stuck, helping transform your life from one that's all about the past, to one that's focused on the fabulous future you're about to have. Tiny, Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed This collection of new and previously published advice columns will leave you feeling ready to conquer literally anything: that new job, those overdue bills you've been hiding under your bookshelf, that less-than-faithful gentleman caller (be honest, you weren't that into him anyway.) And if you still haven't gotten enough of the wonderfully wild Cheryl Strayed after all this (and really, who has?) now there's a Dear Sugar podcast for you to listen to, when you're done reading this book. V is For Vulnerable by Seth Godin Since Carrie Bradshaw's infamously rejected Crazy Kathy and Her Magic Cigarettes, children's books for adults have kind of been the greatest concept ever. This one is for anyone suffering from career burnout: it will help you fall in love with your job all over again, and remind you that your life's work — whatever that may be — is a critically important endeavor to be nurtured, not dreaded or minimized. This ABC-guide to living outside your comfort zone is like that third shot of tequila you took at the bar last weekend: totally necessary, a great idea always, and leaves you feeling prepared to take on the impossible. Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin The lady behind the joyful memoir The Happiness Project (read that one, too) zeroes in on those elusive little things known as "good habits" — and specifically, exactly how to foster them in your own life. Gretchen Rubin breaks down that age-old adage that says it takes 21 days to form a habit (and yeah, that does seem like a really, really long time to me, also) sharing tips and tricks on everything from unplugging from the grid, and getting more sleep, to maintaining a healthy mind, body, and spirit. Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness is having a moment (see what I did there?) and this book is a great guide for adding some mindful meditation into your hectic life. Wherever You Go There You Are breaks down mindfulness into practical tips, like how to declutter both your mind and your material environment, and which breathing exercises can focus your attention to the present moment. So the next time you stay in bed until noon on a Wednesday — because seriously, your sheets do feel just that good — instead of faking the flu to your boss, tell her you're practicing the ancient art of non-doing. If You Have to Cry, Go Outside by Kelly Cutrone Whether you loved her or hated her (or loved to hate her) on MTV's The Hills, the PR powerhouse Kelly Cutrone tells you everything your mama didn't about putting your big girl pants on. Take the bad with the good in this tough-as-nails collection of advice about kicking your professional life into high gear, while keeping it together in your personal life, as well. The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven OK, so maybe this isn't quite a "self help" book in a warm-fuzzy, transformative, zen-y sense, but this book does basically cover everything else you'd ever want to know about anything. From delivering a baby in the back of a taxi (you never know), and making awkward elevator silences more bearable, to determining whether or not your blind date is an axe murderer, this book has you covered. Plus, there's some bit about surviving surprise mountain lions and quicksand — and what's life without a little whimsy, right? Image: Bustle Stock Photo	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1549
__label__cc	0.58357	0.41643	HOORAY FOR TODAY! A CANADIAN CHILD'S YEAR. By: Newman, Fran and Boulanger, Claudette. (Leslie McFarlane, Kerry Wood, Robert Thomas Allen, Bruce Hutchinson, Horst Schmid, Jean Little, Mona Gould, Andy O'Brien, Bess Kaplan, Bobby Hull, Carlo Italiano, Pitseolak, Miyuki Tanobe, John Diefenbaker, et al. Unpaginated, oblong (8 1/4" H x 9 7/8" D) - pictorial boards. Profusely illustrated in colour with 24 full page drawings facing 24 pages of text, describing various cultural, religious and ethnic celebrations held during the year, starting with Canada Day on July 1st. From the Calgary Stampede, Highland Games, Caribana, and Oktoberfest, to Hallowe'en, the Grey Cup, Hanukkah, Christmas and Chinese New Year through Carnaval, the Arctic Winter Games a Ukranian Easter, the Stanley Cup, Victoria Day, St. Antony's and St. Jean Baptiste Day, the varied authors cross the country and the years to show how Canadian children have, and still do, celebrate the passing of the year. Areas of light browning on boards, small ghost sticker mark on rear board, minor rubbing. Title: HOORAY FOR TODAY! A CANADIAN CHILD'S YEAR. Author Name: Newman, Fran and Boulanger, Claudette. (Leslie McFarlane, Kerry Wood, Robert Thomas Allen, Bruce Hutchinson, Horst Schmid, Jean Little, Mona Gould, Andy O'Brien, Bess Kaplan, Bobby Hull, Carlo Italiano, Pitseolak, Miyuki Tanobe, John Diefenbaker, et al. Categories: Childrens, Holidays & Celebrations, Canada - General, Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ontario, North Winds Press: 1979 ISBN Number: 059007623X Keywords: Festivals, Celebrations, Canada Day, Juvenile literature, Calgary Stampede, Highland Games, Christmas, Chinese New Year, Hockey, NHL, National Hockey League, St Antony, Hanukkah, Pioneers, Grey Cup, Football, Inuit, Eskimos, Oktoberfest, Quebec, Caribana, Caribbean, Victoria, Canadian Holidays, Canadian Celebrations, Halloween, Arctic Winter Games, Ukranians, Ukrainian, Easter, Victoria Day, May 24th, St. Antony's Day, St. Jean Baptiste., Also available. BOYS AND GIRLS COME OUT TO PLAY: A COLLECTION OF IRISH SINGING GAMES. By: Leyden, Maurice. DAE YE MIN' LANGSYNE? A POT-POURRI OF GAMES, RHYMES AND PLOYS OF SCOTTISH CHILDHOOD. By: Fraser, Amy Stewart, collected and edited by. RIDER'S GUIDE TO MOUNTED GAMES. By: Webber, Toni. MEROVINGEN NIGHTS SERIES - NOVEL plus ANTHOLOGIES 1-4 & 6. ANGEL WITH A SWORD / FESTIVAL MOON / FEVER SEASON / TROUBLED WATERS / SMUGGLER'S GOLD / FLOOD TIDE. 6 BOOKS IN TOTAL. By: Cherryh, C.J., editor. (Leslie Fish, Robert Lynn Asprin, Nancy Asire, Mercedes Lackey, Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Lynn Abbey, Roberta Rogow, Brad Sinor, C.J. Cherryh.) SQUIRREL GOES SKATING. (THE LITTLE GREY RABBIT SERIES.) By: Uttley, Alison. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest. MR SCARBOROUGH'S FAMILY. By: Trollope, Anthony. Introduction by Richard Mullen. CHRONICLE OF CELTIC FOLK CUSTOMS: A DAY-TO-DAY GUIDE TO FOLK CUSTOMS. By: Day, Brian.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1553
__label__cc	0.645153	0.354847	Skoda Kodiaq SUV could steal best-seller crown from Octavia Alborz Fallah The upcoming 2017 Skoda Kodiaq SUV has the potential to be the brand’s best-selling model, according to the European brand’s boss in Australia. Speaking to CarAdvice at the launch of the new Octavia RS230 in Sydney yesterday (review), the head of Skoda Australia, Michael Irmer, confirmed his high sales expectations for the new seven-seater SUV. “We think Kodiaq will be one of our best sellers. It has got the potential to one day overtake Octavia," he said. So far this year, Skoda has sold 1550 Octavias, with that number likely to hit around 1900-2000 for the total of 2016. On its own, the Octavia range makes up nearly half of Skoda sales. That would see the Kodiaq’s equivalent sales figures increase the brand’s current tally, of around 4500, to 7500 or more by the end of 2018. Initially, Australia-bound Kodiaq models will be powered by a 132kW petrol engine only, with the 140kW turbo diesel to follow a few months later. As for pricing, expect similar equipment levels and variant positioning as the popular Hyundai Santa Fe and Kia Sorento seven seaters. “The Santa Fe is probably a good comparison for space, and, in a lot of [other] ways," Irmer said. "I think the Koreans are in the heart of our competitor set and for this product with the Santa Fe and also Kia Sorento, you can probably be able to say from a product content perspective it’s probably a good comparison.” Skoda is also likely to follow the Koreans' premium equipment strategy, which has worked rather well despite the initial hesitation of buyers on the idea of paying $60,000 for a Korean vehicle. “Also, the Koreans have done a premium strategy on those products similar to what we plan to do as well. [We will offer] very highly-equipped vehicles, always 4WD, always DSG [the Volkswagen term for a dual-clutch transmission], only the biggest engines we can have from factory, seven seater standard and high equipment levels.” The brand will also launch with higher-specification variants of the Kodiaq to keep the price gap to the next-generation Yeti clear. The smaller Yeti, which will grow in size compared to the current-generation, and also undergo a full restyling strategy for wider appeal, will fill the popular small SUV segment for Skoda. MORE: 2017 Skoda Octavia RS230 DRIVEN MORE: all Skoda news and reviews The Top Seven Things about the Skoda Kodiaq RS 2020 Skoda Kodiaq RS review: Australian first drive 2019 Skoda Octavia Sport v Honda Civic RS: small sedan comparison	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1554
__label__cc	0.542799	0.457201	5 Channel Partner Updates: Thursday 28 September 2017 Updates involving Arkadin, CenturyLink, CloudRanger, Host.net, IndependenceIT, M-Files Corp., Rackspace, SADA Systems, Scale Computing & the Top 100 MSSPs. by Joe Panettieri • Sep 28, 2017 Good morning, channel partners. Here are five technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, September 28, 2017. Actually, there are 13 timely updates designed for VARs, managed services providers (MSPs), cloud services providers (CSPs), independent software vendors (ISVs), telco master agents and telco agents to sip on. Take a look. 13. IBM Watson Concerns: IBM CEO Ginny Rometty describes the company’s cognitive computing strategy and addresses questions about Watson in this interview with BusinessWeek. 12. Alleged Theft From Ingram Micro: Police have arrested a man who allegedly stole $38,000 worth of smartphones from his employer, Ingram Micro, according to WDRB, a media site in Louisville, Ky. The man allegedly sold the stolen goods on OfferUp.com, a modern day Craigslist site. 11. SAP Managed Services: Rackspace has launched managed cloud services for SAP software solutions. Rackspace will offer the SAP-focused services in its private hosted cloud. It’s an intriguing move… but crowded market. Most of the major public cloud providers now have managed services for hosted SAP services. 10. Managed SMB WiFi Services: CenturyLink plans to promote managed WiFi services to SMB customers. It’s a safe bet the company will also promote managed security services to those SMBs. Heads Up: CenturyLink is a Top 100 MSSP for 2017, according to MSSP Alert research that will surface later today. 9. GDPR Compliance: M-Files Corp. and IT Governance, have partnered to deliver a framework that helps organizations comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Roughly 75 percent of cloud services are not ready for the GDPR deadline, which kicks in May 25, 2018, according to Netskope. 8. Office 365 Managed Services: Arkadin, an NTT Communications company, has rolled out managed services for Microsoft’s cloud-based unified communications suite. Arkadin Managed Services (AMS) for O365 provides real time support for Microsoft cloud voice, online meetings, Meeting Broadcast and advanced voice requirements (in both Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams), the company claims. 7. Google Cloud and MSPs: Scale Computing and Google have developed a hybrid cloud solution that makes it easy for MSPS to move application workloads freely in the cloud or on-premises, the two companies assert. We’ll share more details soon. 6. Google Cloud Distribution: AppDirect is now a two-tier distribution partner with Google Cloud. In other words, AppDirect channel partners now have the ability to resell Google’s suite of cloud service products without having to sign a direct contract with Google. 5. Running Windows on Google Cloud: IndependenceIT has announced AppServices for Google Cloud Platform. The platform claims to be the first and only Microsoft Windows App Service for Google’s cloud platform. IndependenceIT, by the way, is a pure channel company that works closely with MSPs. 4. Funding – AWS Backup: CloudRanger, which develops a simple backup solution for Amazon Web Services (AWS), has completed a $1.1 million seed round, with investments from Enterprise Ireland and several private investors in both the United States and Ireland. 3. Beyond Office 365 & G-Suite Consulting: SADA Systems, a major Google G-Suite and Microsoft Office 365 partner, has introduced training and services packages for Facebook Workplace, the enterprise collaboration platform. 2. M&A: 365 Data Centers has acquired Broadband One (aka Host.net), a data center services provider in two southeast Florida markets. The seller was Novacap, a private equity firm in Canada. We’ll share more details soon. 1. Top 100 MSSPs: Today’s the day. We’ll unveil the Top 100 Managed Security Services Providers list and research report today (Thursday) during our webcast at 2:00 p.m. ET. Register now and join us. Subscribe to our daily newsletter, delivered Monday-Friday. Attend our next webcast. Read all of our daily 5 Channel Partner Updates.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1555
__label__cc	0.601123	0.398877	ONLINE CLASSES & ACTIVITIES ABOUT OUR MUSIC PROGRAM Brass Instruction Percussion Instruction Guitar Instruction Piano Instruction Strings Instruction Voice Instruction Woodwinds Instruction Adaptive Music Lessons MUSICAL THEATRE TRAINING MUSICAL THEATRE SPECIALISTS AT CHSMA ABOUT CHSMA 2020/21 Student Handbook Music Lessons with Panos Messis Piano lessons. We offer 30 min, 45 min and 60 min weekly lesson packages. Monthly tuition ranges from $130 - $220. Name: Piano/Messis Course Number: Piano/Messis Course Time: Variable Course Days: Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat Location: Map Panos Messis Teacher: Piano Panos Messis, a dual citizen in the US and Cyprus/Greece, Mr. Messis is an experienced educator and teacher with a unique background in piano, conducting, accompaniment and composition as well as improvisation. He has served on the faculty at both Johnston Community College and Piedmont Community College where he did private piano teaching and also taught various music courses and ensembles. Mr. Messis served as Director of the Municipal Music School of Limassol Cyprus EU, and also was appointed High School teacher of Music for the Ministry of Education of Cyprus EU. He received his BM, in Piano Performance at the Manhattan School of Music (NY). He is a fellow of music and music education of Teachers College, Columbia University where he received his MA (NY). He also received an MA in Orchestral Conducting from Queens College (NY). Prior to his studies in NY, he also studied piano and conducting at the Vienna Conservatory in Austria, and studied piano and music theory at the Greek Academy of Music in Cyprus, Greece. He was on the faculty of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, has worked as director of music at several churches, and has also served as guest instructor and clinician for various university music camps and professional music teaching organizations as well as performing as an accompanist at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. A passionate teacher, Panos loves to work with students of all ages and interests. He has a wonderful ability to meet the student where he or she is, and find out how best to interest and motivate them to learn and grow as musicians, always keeping the process joyful. Panos is also fluent in Greek and conversant in German. Chapel Hill School of Musical Arts (919) 960-6898 © Chapel Hill School of Musical Arts \| Designed by adrialdesigns.com \| WP Website Development & SEO by Look to the Right	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1556
__label__cc	0.618329	0.381671	The Crooked Branch: A Novel byJeanine Cummins March 5, 2013\| From the national bestselling author of American Dirt and A Rip in Heaven comes the deeply moving story of two mothers from two very different times. After the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home in Queens, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal ancestor Ginny—and is shocked to read a story of murder in her family history. With the famine upon her, Ginny Doyle fled from Ireland to America, but not all of her family made it. What happened during those harrowing years, and why does Ginny call herself a killer? Is Majella genetically fated to be a bad mother, despite the fierce tenderness she feels for her baby? Determined to uncover the truth of her heritage and her own identity, Majella sets out to explore Ginny’s past—and discovers surprising truths about her family and ultimately, herself. Jeanine Cummins is the bestselling, award-winning author of the groundbreaking memoir A Rip in Heaven and the novels The Outside Boy, The Crooked Branch, and American Dirt. She lives in New York with her husband and two children. Title:The Crooked Branch: A Novel Published:March 5, 2013	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1557
__label__cc	0.595584	0.404416	EMC COMPUTER SYSTEMS HAS NEW DISK CONTROLLER SUN TEAMS WITH CRAY; EMULATES IBM 5080 GRAPHICS SCREEN ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES WILL MAJOR ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS WITH AM29000 RISC Advanced Micro Devices Inc is gearing up for another crack at the CPU market with three new additions to its Am29000 Series of RISC processors, and the European launch of Fusion29K – a group of Am29000 supporters committed to developing embedded systems applications for the thing (CI No 1,138). Sampling now, with volume shortly, is […] Advanced Micro Devices Inc is gearing up for another crack at the CPU market with three new additions to its Am29000 Series of RISC processors, and the European launch of Fusion29K – a group of Am29000 supporters committed to developing embedded systems applications for the thing (CI No 1,138). Sampling now, with volume shortly, is a 30MHz, 21 MIPS version of the chip in 1.2 micron CMOS technology, to be followed by an 0.8 micron CMOS, 55MHz version that the Sunnyvale, California-based company rates at 40 MIPS. The addition of cache memory and floating point features to the Am29000 is already under way in a third chip, to go into production next year, and rated at 48 MIPS according to Steve Dines, AMD’s European strategic marketing manager. Source and binary code software compatibility is to be incorporated in each new addition. AMD declined to put a figure on how many Am29000s it has sold, except to say the number is in the tens of thousands – the 25MHz version is now selling for $100 in batches of 100 or more. Back in December 1987 Advanced Micro Devices was gung ho about the prospects for its Am29000 RISC processor, hoping to take on the likes of the Sparc and 88000 chips, but it has not succeeded as the company hoped, and the new additions to mark AMD’s attempt to claw back some of the ground lost to other RISC designs. A Unix implementation for the Am29000 was promised at that time – it is only now becoming available with a UniSoft implementation of Sunnyvale, California based Ready Systems’ VRTX32 multitasking real-time kernel. AMD’s pragmatic intention – even if coming rather late in the day seems to be one of cutting losses and concentrating on the potentially more lucrative embedded systems marketplace. To this end, the company’s Fusion29K initiative – which smacks of Motorola’s style with 88open consortium – was launched in London lasy week. Partners with AMD are Microtech Research Ltd, Basingstoke, Hampshire; UniSoft Ltd, London; STEP Engineering’s European distributor, Societe YREL in Paris; Logic Automation, Bracknell, Berkshire; Ready Systems Europe, Maidenhead, Berkshire and Yarc Systems’ European representative Dr Bernhard Pil-ler in Morgis, Switzerland. Olivetti, which joined Fusion29K in the US, is expected to say something on its European intentions in the near future. Fusion29K’s intention is to supply Am29000 customers with development tools they need to bring their products to market. Advanced Micro now claims over 150 Fusion29K customers in Europe. In other product news, Adage Inc is using the Am29000 in its Adage 200 RISC graphics terminal. Previous ArticleEMC COMPUTER SYSTEMS HAS NEW DISK CONTROLLER Next ArticleSUN TEAMS WITH CRAY; EMULATES IBM 5080 GRAPHICS SCREEN	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1561
__label__wiki	0.71289	0.71289	COMMUNIST DEBIT CARDS CARLTON TELEVISION AND LWT JOIN FORCES ON CABLE TV Terrestrial broadcasters Carlton Television Ltd and LWT Holdings Plc have joined forces with cable television operator Videotron Holdings Plc to launch an interactive news service for London cable subscribers, which will start later this week: it’s not very interactive but viewers will be able to choose from four strands of programming during LWT and Carlton’s […] Terrestrial broadcasters Carlton Television Ltd and LWT Holdings Plc have joined forces with cable television operator Videotron Holdings Plc to launch an interactive news service for London cable subscribers, which will start later this week: it’s not very interactive but viewers will be able to choose from four strands of programming during LWT and Carlton’s two local news programmes, to concentrate on weather, traffic, community and social action reports or the main news programme; the service will operate for six to 12 months and Videotron’s 65,000 London cable subscribers will be the target of constant market research to gauge their responses; later, viewers will be able to communicate with the studio, voting on programmes or the performance of the participants such as politicians interviewed on the news, or enter a competition. Previous ArticleCOMMUNIST DEBIT CARDS Next ArticleCOMPANY RESULTS	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1562
__label__wiki	0.547918	0.547918	About Claire House Who do we help How do we help Hospice to Home Take a look at Claire House Fundraising for Claire House Fundraising Materials Events in your Community Claire House Speakers Claire Bear Colouring Pages Donation Envelopes Precious Presents Give to our shops Visit our eBay shop Volunteering at Claire House Roles available Working for Claire House Work at Claire House Many families who come to Claire House have wanted to get involved with helping to raise funds and the Claire House profile so that we can reach and support more families. There is absolutely no need to feel that you have to, or that you should. But if you want to help us by getting involved there are a few ways in which you can. You might want to take part in one of our fundraising activities, or fancy organising one of your own. You may feel that you want to share your story with the wider world through our in-house magazine or the local press. Perhaps you don’t know what you want to do, but know you want to do something. If there is an area you would like to become involved in, then do get in touch with our Fundraising team on 0151 343 0883 or have a chat with a member of the care team who knows you and your family. Contact Fundraising Join our community on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram for updates and news about events at Claire House. Claire House Children’s Hospice Clatterbridge Road Wirral, CH63 4JD © 2021 Claire House - All rights reserved. Registered charity number 1004058 * Download our volunteer app! If you are looking to find a volunteer opportunity to suit you, then you can download our new Claire House volunteer app. You'll be able to find all the latest volunteer opportunities, as well as information about how you will be helping to support seriously ill children and their families. To download on iTunes App Store, please visit https://appsto.re/gb/eXdBib.i To download on Google Play Store, please visit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1569
__label__wiki	0.975338	0.975338	Fantasy in E major for String Orchestra Opus 39 Harold Darke Download 'Fantasy in E major for String Orchestra Opus 39' on iTunes Nicola Benedetti is named Best Classical Artist at The Global Awards 2019 7 March 2019, 20:53 \| Updated: 7 March 2019, 22:39 By Elizabeth Davis The brilliant violinist came top of the classical category at this year’s star-studded Global Awards The great Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti won the Best Classical Award at The Global Awards 2019, a category that was voted for by the public. The other musicians shortlisted were saxophonist Jess Gillam, bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Lang Lang – who also performed at the ceremony. Watch Lang Lang perform some incredibly virtuosic Chopin at The Global Awards > It was a big day for Nicola – the award came on the same day that she collected her CBE from Buckingham Palace. Accepting the award, Nicola said: "Thank you so much for this honour. Classical music is a very intimate form of music and it's often a longer form of music and can take more concentration, but it's so so worth it." Watch the full ceremony here.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1571
__label__wiki	0.507416	0.507416	Healthful Mushroom Cuisine Cooking Class: Healthful Mushroom Cuisine Explore the delicious and healthful possibilities of mushrooms in this hands-on cooking class with Chef Landi. In this class with Chef Landi, you’ll learn how to create savory dishes using mushrooms for optimal health in a surprising variety of recipes, from beverages to dessert! Your lesson starts with a warm team made with chaga and shiitake mushrooms and seasoned with ginger. Then, you'll create a savory porcini and oyster mushroom soup and seared salmon and parsnip purée using truffle oil, sautéed lion’s mane and king oyster mushrooms. And for dessert, craft a tantalizing bourbon bread pudding made using reishi mushrooms and chocolate. Chaga and Shiitake Tea With ginger and sugar Porcini and Oyster Mushroom Soup With onion, garlic, butter and extra virgin olive oil Seared Salmon and Parsnip Purée With truffle oil, and sautéed lion's mane and king oyster mushrooms Reishi Bourbon Bread Pudding With vanilla, eggs, French bread and chocolate LabelsCouples, Healthy, Fun, Pescatarian, New American Guest reviews for Chef Landi Mike G. I truly loved the experience. Chief Landi was prepared, professional, passionate, and accommodating. He welcomed all questions and took his time answering questions. He was entertaining and a good storyteller. He demonstrated many cooking techniques and allowed the opportunity to perform the techniques during meal preparation. I can’t wait to schedule another date and time again. Thu, Jan 21st at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Thu, Jan 21st at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Fri, Jan 22nd at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Fri, Jan 22nd at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sun, Jan 24th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sun, Jan 24th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Mon, Jan 25th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Mon, Jan 25th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Tue, Jan 26th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Tue, Jan 26th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Wed, Jan 27th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Wed, Jan 27th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Thu, Jan 28th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Thu, Jan 28th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Fri, Jan 29th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Fri, Jan 29th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sat, Jan 30th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sun, Jan 31st at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sun, Jan 31st at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Mon, Feb 1st at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Mon, Feb 1st at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Tue, Feb 2nd at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Tue, Feb 2nd at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Wed, Feb 3rd at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Wed, Feb 3rd at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Thu, Feb 4th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Thu, Feb 4th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Fri, Feb 5th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Fri, Feb 5th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sat, Feb 6th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sat, Feb 6th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sun, Feb 7th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sun, Feb 7th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Mon, Feb 8th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Mon, Feb 8th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Tue, Feb 9th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Tue, Feb 9th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Wed, Feb 10th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Wed, Feb 10th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Thu, Feb 11th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Thu, Feb 11th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Fri, Feb 12th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Fri, Feb 12th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sun, Feb 14th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Mon, Feb 15th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Mon, Feb 15th at 5:00PM 4 Seats Left Tue, Feb 16th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Tue, Feb 16th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Wed, Feb 17th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Wed, Feb 17th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Thu, Feb 18th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Thu, Feb 18th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Fri, Feb 19th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sat, Feb 20th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sat, Feb 20th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sun, Feb 21st at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sun, Feb 21st at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Mon, Feb 22nd at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Mon, Feb 22nd at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Tue, Feb 23rd at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Tue, Feb 23rd at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Wed, Feb 24th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Wed, Feb 24th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Thu, Feb 25th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Thu, Feb 25th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Fri, Feb 26th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Fri, Feb 26th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sat, Feb 27th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sat, Feb 27th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sun, Feb 28th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sun, Feb 28th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Mon, Mar 1st at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Mon, Mar 1st at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Tue, Mar 2nd at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Tue, Mar 2nd at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Wed, Mar 3rd at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Wed, Mar 3rd at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Thu, Mar 4th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Thu, Mar 4th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Fri, Mar 5th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Fri, Mar 5th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sat, Mar 6th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sat, Mar 6th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sun, Mar 7th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sun, Mar 7th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Mon, Mar 8th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Mon, Mar 8th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Tue, Mar 9th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Tue, Mar 9th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Wed, Mar 10th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Wed, Mar 10th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Thu, Mar 11th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Thu, Mar 11th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Fri, Mar 12th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Fri, Mar 12th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sat, Mar 13th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sat, Mar 13th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Sun, Mar 14th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Sun, Mar 14th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Mon, Mar 15th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Mon, Mar 15th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Tue, Mar 16th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Tue, Mar 16th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Wed, Mar 17th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Wed, Mar 17th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Thu, Mar 18th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Thu, Mar 18th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left Fri, Mar 19th at 11:00AM 6 Seats Left Fri, Mar 19th at 5:00PM 6 Seats Left 1 Guest 2 Guests 3 Guests 4 Guests 5 Guests 6 Guests Chef Landi Verified chef Chef Landi's career began over 20 years ago in Italy, where he started as a server before quickly advancing to the kitchen. The skills he learned there were fundamental to his success as a chef. He discovered a passion for teaching after relocating to the U.S. in 2001 where he continues his dual career as a chef at an Argentinian steakhouse and an acclaimed culinary instructor. Event location: Philadelphia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1572
__label__wiki	0.858481	0.858481	SGA introduces resolutions for sustainable silverware, civic engagement faculty By Justin Cooper \| Published 02/18/20 10:40pm An SGA representative raises her hand to comment on a resolution in favor of sustainable silverware in the Down Under Food Court at their Feb. 17 meeting in the Bovee University Center auditorium. Resolutions for sustainable silverware in the Down Under Food Court and a faculty position to lead civic engagement on campus were discussed the Feb. 17 meeting of Central Michigan University’s Student Government Association. The first resolution, written by Sustainability Committee chair Kalli Walz, proposes replacing the Down Under Food Court’s plastic silverware with both compostable and metal silverware. Bins would also be placed in the food court to collect the compostable utensils. According to the resolution, the Down Under Food Court’s current plastic silverware can take up to 1,000 years to decompose. David Ford named next dean for College of Science and Engineering By Courtney Pedersen \| 12 hours ago Mount Pleasant Vice Mayor apologizes for controversial Facebook post By Michael Livingston \| 01/19/21 12:51am Compostable silverware is already available in the Down Under Food Court, Walz said, so passage of her resolution would only add bins to collect them and metal silverware. Walz suggests adding metal silverware on top of the available compostable utensils because the compostable can be used on-the-go, while metal silverware could be used to dine in. A portion of the debate in SGA’s House, where members represent registered student organizations, centered on an increase in the price of food associated with the new silverware. President Jake Hendricks clarified after the meeting that no such price increase has occurred. Since SGA cannot vote on resolutions during the same week they are introduced, further discussion on the resolution was tabled until its next meeting on Monday, Feb. 24. A representative from Campus Dining will be visiting SGA during the March 16 meeting, House Leader Anna Whitwam said. Some SGA representatives suggested waiting to vote on the resolution until after that meeting. The second resolution, written by press secretary Kaitlyn Prebelich and sponsored by membership director Brett Houle, Central Votes and Campus Election Engagement Project, proposes a staff position in the Mary Ellen Brandell Volunteer Center to “oversee all civic engagement efforts as well as (expand) democratic dialogue.” Prebelich’s resolution cites a similar staff position implemented at New York’s Stony Brook University – comparable to CMU in terms of enrollment, tuition, and acceptance rate – that contributed to a 308% increase in registered voters among its student body. According to a study cited in the resolution, in 2018 CMU's voter turnout rate was 10.7 percent less than the national average of 39.1 percent. A vote on this resolution was also tabled until next week’s meeting. \| 01/18/21 5:05pm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1577
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Now live: ESG solutions Manage the risk associated with renewable energies, environmental change and sustainable investments. Create a CMEGroup.com Account: More features, more insights Get quick access to premium educational content, including expert-led webinars, a real-time trading simulator, and more. AU: RBA Announcement July 4, 2016 11:30 CDT Consensus Actual Previous Change 0bp 0bp 0bp Level 1.75% 1.75% 1.75% As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia left its key interest rate at 1.75 percent where it has been since May. With the impact of Brexit on the Australian economy highly uncertain and an update on inflation due later this month, the RBA kept its policy unchanged. In its statement, the RBA said that more information should allow to refine growth and inflation assessment. The Bank said that inflation was quite low and is expected to remain low for some time. It noted that low interest rates were helping to rebalance the economy but the rising Australian dollar could complicate things. Regarding Brexit, the RBA said that financial markets were volatile after the vote but functioned effectively. Funding costs for high-quality borrowers remain low and, globally, monetary policy remains remarkably accommodative. Any effects of the referendum outcome on global economic activity remain to be seen and, outside the effects on the UK economy itself, may be hard to discern. Low interest rates have been supporting domestic demand and the lower exchange rate since 2013 is helping the traded sector. Financial institutions are in a position to lend and credit growth has been moderate. These factors are all assisting the economy to make the necessary economic adjustments, though an appreciating exchange rate could complicate this. It concluded by saying "Taking account of the available information, the Board judged that holding monetary policy steady would be prudent at this meeting. Over the period ahead, further information should allow the Board to refine its assessment of the outlook for growth and inflation and to make any adjustment to the stance of policy that may be appropriate." The central bank of Australia announces its monetary policy with regard to interest rates on the first Tuesday of each month with the exception of January. The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA's) main responsibility is monetary policy. Policy decisions are made by the Reserve Bank Board with the objective of achieving low and stable inflation over the medium term. Other responsibilities include maintaining financial system stability, while at the same time promoting the safety and efficiency of the payments system. The RBA regards appropriate monetary policy as a major factor contributing to the Australian dollar's stability, which in turn leads to full employment and the economic prosperity for Australia. The RBA is unique among the central banks - it has two boards with complementary responsibilities. The Reserve Bank Board is responsible for monetary policy and overall financial system stability. The Payments System Board has specific responsibility for the safety and efficiency of the payments system. The RBA sets an interest rate at which it lends to financial institutions. This interest rate then affects the whole range of interest rates set by commercial banks and other institutions for their own savers and borrowers. It also tends to affect the price of financial assets, such as bonds and shares, and the exchange rate, which affect consumer and business demand in a variety of ways. Lowering or raising interest rates affects spending in the economy. 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__label__wiki	0.678643	0.678643	Why I'm still frustrated with Google Voice Google should be aggressively developing Google Voice for Android and iPhone. Despite its frequent issues, I can't quit it. March 27, 2012 3:36 p.m. PT Google Voice on Ice Cream Sandwich. Google Remember those fateful words that no kid ever wanted to hear from their teacher: You've got so much po-tential? "Potential" is a compliment when you're just starting out in your field, and veiled disappointment after you've been in it for years. The sentiment describes exactly how I feel about Google Voice. Let me just say that I've been using Google Voice on mobile since the apps first premiered for Android and iPhone -- and I continue to use it every day on both platforms. In fact, I depend on it for my job. As a cell phone reviewer, I'm constantly testing new phones. Google Voice gives me a centralized place to access my family and friends' calls and texts. Since they only see the message or incoming call, it doesn't matter which device I use to reach out. Google Voice has a ton of features, many of them exceedingly useful, like call forwarding, free texts to the U.S. and Canada, visual voice-mail transcription, and international texting. Yet messaging delays, lack of MMS support, the iPhone app's instability, and the Android app's incomplete integration into most devices weigh it down (Sprint's Android phones are a partial exception for the last point.) As for those tragicomic garbled voice-mail transcriptions I've spoken about before, I've simply come to accept them. Hurry up, Google To make my disappointments more specific, the iPhone version tends to delay text delivery, and has been known to freeze (Google says a bug fix solved the issue). A recurring bug has me retyping text replies more often that I should after dropping the cursor. Android is where Google Voice should really shine, but it's frustrating that visual voice mail and texts don't appear in every Android phone's native messaging app or call log. (Note: Google is wetting a toe by adding voice-mail playback to Ice Cream Sandwich phones.) The Android version also lacks the iPhone app's terrific interface in the Quick Dial screen, which lets you program favorite people, and which pulls together a list of your most recent connections for faster redialing. It really is heads and shoulders above the bland Android inbox. Google Voice eyeing carrier tie-ups beyond Sprint Google Voice puts voice mail in your ICS call log Google Voice newbies, start here Mostly, it's the slow pace of development that irks me. The majority of changes to the Android and iPhone changelogs are bug fixes, which suggests that Google isn't putting as many resources into the mobile apps as I feel it should. This isn't to suggest that the Google Voice team has remained idle. As I said, they did just integrate voice mail into the phone's native call log for Android 4.0. They also recently turned on offline text queuing for Android, and slipped the Google Voice platform into Google+ Hangouts for the desktop. I admit that I have an atypical use case (e.g., for testing purposes, I never make my Google Voice the default calling-out number on Android phones), so I read the Google Voice forums and further, I asked my Twitter and Google+ followers what they love and hate about Google Voice on their given platforms. Below are some of the most representative responses. Quick Dial and Recents fields on Google Voice for iOS are terrifically useful. Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Love: voice transcriptions. Hate: Can't text with other apps. Also I wish somehow Google Voice could indicate whether a call is coming in through your Google Voice # instead of mobile #. Google Voice still acts like a third-party app; texts and voice mails are kept separate and not integrated with the phone at all. The transcription is usually accurate enough that I get what I need to know. In rare cases when I want to listen to the voice mail, the time slider at the bottom allows me to jump to the part I need, unlike typical voice-mail systems that only allow you to reply the entire message from the start. I've been able to send emergency texts to people when I forget my phone by borrowing someone's Web browser. Love being able to set up custom voice-mail greetings for certain contacts. Making calls from my number from any phone by calling my number and putting in my personal code. Frequently, when someone calls my Google Voice number, my phone doesn't even ring (yes it's set up right, it works sometimes). But I do love the ability to listen to my messages from anywhere. Love free SMS, device independence (desktop, iPhone, iPad), landline option (where iPhone has no signal), contact mgmt. Don't like software options, minor troubles with SMS/dialing in low data env, lack of integration with native apps. The Google GV app can be buggy and lacks management features. It doesn't load texts reliably, but has the best 'flow'. I use to save on texting to non-iOS ppl. Clunky, no MMS, bad threading. But worth it cuz I save ~$25/mo. Basic but effective. I love calling Canada for free. I just use my minutes. I hate that I can't have multiple GV numbers come to my one phone. Not all Google's fault The Google Voice inbox on Android Ice Cream Sandwich phones. Google Not every complaint is Google's fault. Last week I addressed some of my own Google Voice issues with Vincent Paquet, Group Product Manager for Google Voice. He explained that because of Apple's restrictions, Google Voice on iPhone must send text messages through IP (Internet protocol, the IP in VoIP), rather than through the carrier's network, which uses the voice channel. As a result, iPhone messages could legitimately come in slower. If you choose to also receive SMS messages through your iPhone message inbox, you could get texts faster, but you'll also receive duplicate messages. "The Android app allows you to actually integrate with the native calling experience," said Paquet. "That's something that's unfortunately not available to us from iOS." When I asked why the Android app lagged behind the iPhone app when it comes to quick contacts, Paquet said that the Google Voice team designed the iOS app as a destination app. Since on Android you can make outgoing calls through Google Voice by default, the team chose to make it more "transparent." Besides, Paquet told me, the feedback that his team receives most has to do with features integration, not visual improvement. Paquet wouldn't share Google's road map for Voice. "If I tell you the road map, I tell you our plans." That's enough to know that Google Voice development is marching along, and that the team is tackling the most clamored-for features. At the end of the day, although Google Voice becomes more useful with every release, it nevertheless needs to pick up the pace. But oh, does Google Voice ever have potential. Software Google Voice Google Sprint Discuss: Why I'm still frustrated with Google Voice	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1580
__label__wiki	0.793427	0.793427	The Intel The Bests Women Who Travel Review: Ad Astra This gorgeous private apartment on the first floor of an aristocratic urban villa—in the middle of Florence—feels like a little-known Florentine secret. Courtesy AdAstra Powered By: Expedia Reviewed by Erica Firpo What's your initial impression of Ad Astra? Ad Astra Hôtel Particulier feels like a little-known Florentine secret: a gorgeous private apartment on the first floor of an aristocratic urban villa just 10 minutes from the Ponte Vecchio. Expect lavish flourishes and 21st-century design. Nice. Who's here? Wannabe aristocrats, star-crossed lovers, and newlyweds. How's the whole arrival process? Check-in is easy and thorough. Staff isn't on hand 24 hours, but you're given an emergency phone number for when they're not there. Helpful. But we're really here for the bed—how are the rooms? Individually decorated rooms feature classic elements with contemporary touches: original molding with rich accent colors, Italian furniture (midcentury to the '70s), artisanal lighting and woodwork, and framed art hand-picked by the owners (from Pucci scarves to original prints). Any other details that make your stay that much more comfortable? Rooms are stocked with an espresso machine, DVD player, HD TV, and C.O. Bigelow bath products; some rooms have freestanding tubs; and one of the suites has a wraparound terrace. There's excellent wifi. What about the food options—anything good on-site? A delightful breakfast buffet includes local products; enjoy it in the luminous salon or out on the terrace, which offers a view of Villa Torrigiani. Salon has complimentary coffee and tea throughout the day; there's also an honesty bar with wines and spirits. What else should we know before booking a stay here? There's parking, and the hotel also offers a great view of the Villa Torrigiani. Sounds lovely. So why would you recommend the Ad Astra? This oasis in the middle of Florence is a worthy stay, especially in the hotter months when hordes of tourists clutter the streets. More from Condé Nast Traveler 20 Best Hotels in Florence By Erica Firpo Condé Nast Traveler does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Any information published by Condé Nast Traveler is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, and you should not take any action before consulting with a healthcare professional. About Condé Nast Traveler © 2021 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. Condé Nast Traveler may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1581
__label__wiki	0.7043	0.7043	Opinion: Daily Journal Taking partisanship out of the state redistricting battle From left, Superior Court Judges Alma Hinton, Paul Ridgeway, and Joseph Crosswhite, hear arguments in Common Cause v. Lewis. (CJ file photo) CJ Editors in Daily Journal Whatever the three-judge Superior Court panel decides about  Common Cause v. Lewis, a challenge to the constitutionality of North Carolina’s legislative districts, is relevant only if the plaintiffs win. That’s because we would get new legislative maps for 2020 elections — drawn to the liking of the state Democratic Party and left-leaning groups who sued the Republican-led General Assembly. The results of last November’s election, and the replacement earlier this year of a Republican on the state Supreme Court with a Democrat, sealed the deal. Common Cause’s Bob Phillips essentially admitted it as he testified July 15, the first day of the trial. Phillips said Common Cause thinks all maps drawn under the current system violate the state constitution. They deny fairness because the party that controls the General Assembly draws maps to ensure it wins more seats than justified by its percentage of the statewide vote. Phillips and other plaintiffs say they object to the map-drawing process. That may well be, but they also clearly don’t like the electoral results. Phillips almost gave that away on the 15th. Opposing attorney Phil Strach asked Phillips why, if the system was irreparably flawed, and a lawsuit addressing gerrymandering was on the docket before the U.S. Supreme Court, plaintiffs waited until after November’s election to file this lawsuit. Phillips didn’t offer much of an answer, other than to say timing wasn’t the issue. In November, Democrat Anita Earls defeated incumbent Justice Barbara Jackson in a state Supreme Court race. Democrats increased their court majority from 4-3 to 5-2. A few weeks later, Republican Chief Justice Mark Martin resigned from the court. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper elevated a Democrat to chief justice and appointed another Democrat to fill her vacant seat. Though Democrats had a court majority before the election, justices hadn’t routinely voted along partisan lines.  But when Earls reached the court, hopes for continued nonpartisanship — especially in redistricting cases — took a major hit. Earls spent her legal career as a litigator and advocate. She had no judicial experience. There’s nothing wrong with that if, once you don judicial robes, you end your advocacy and rule on the law and the constitution. That’s asking a lot from Earls. Since 2000, she led the voting rights project for the left-leaning Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, directed advocacy for the controversial UNC Center for Civil Rights, and founded the activist Southern Coalition for Social Justice. The latter group sued the GOP-led General Assembly in earlier redistricting lawsuits. Maybe Earls could consider any decision by the three-judge panel in Common Cause v. Lewis and rule in a way that sets aside her lifelong advocacy. That’s not a good bet. At a minimum, she should recuse herself from this case, should it reach the court. The three-judge panel’s ruling was harder to predict. We have every reason to believe the judges took their jobs seriously and performed with professionalism and decorum. Indeed, the court may side with the General Assembly. The panel might say the legislature’s maps, regardless of partisan skew, were legal because the N.C. Constitution fails to say how much partisan sleight-of-hand is too much. Such a ruling would align the three-judge panel with the legal reasoning behind a U.S. Supreme Court decision on North Carolina districts. It ruled in June that federal courts have no business interfering in redistricting plans so long as the maps stick to principles and guidelines stated in the U.S. Constitution. Redistricting is a political concern. The political branches of government — not the courts — should settle political disputes. The federal justices got it right. State courts can throw out election maps. Sometimes they should, as in the 2002 Stephenson case which said legislative districts should keep counties intact whenever possible, as the state constitution orders. In the current case, the Common Cause plaintiffs want state courts to devise and apply a new set of rules not currently spelled out in the state constitution. For a couple of decades Common Cause has joined the John Locke Foundation, Carolina Journal’s publisher, in a coalition of groups trying to reform redistricting. We haven’t agreed on the details, but we’ve all emphasized taking politicians out of the process of drawing the maps. In our view, the voters should decide on a constitutional amendment which sets clear criteria for drawing legislative districts. Voters should choose who represents them, not the other way around. (A similar version of this editorial appears in the August 2019 print edition of Carolina Journal.) series: Redistricting categories: Government Reform, Law & Regulation, Opinion, Politics & Elections, State Government tags: anita earls, Common Cause v. Lewis, gerrymandering, N.C. Supreme Court, redistricting, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, UNC Center for Civil Rights Broadband funding will capture lawmakers’ attention this session Lee County school board member stands tall against protest backlash	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1587
__label__cc	0.696185	0.303815	Andy's Dinosaur Adventures Get ready to go on a Dinosaur Adventure with Andy and Hatty. Watch clips, sing songs and travel back in time to meet dinosaurs. Andy's Dinosaur Adventures Episodes Muttaburrasaurus And Berries Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 106 million years to the time of muttaburrasaurus. Placerias And Red Clay Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 220 million years to the time of placerias, a giant hippo-like reptile. Allosaurus And Dragonfly Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 145 million years to the time of allosaurus, one of the planet's deadliest hunters of all time. Ornithocheirus And Sand Dollar Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 127 million years to the time of ornithocheirus - one of the largest flying pterosaurs. Coelophysis And Fish Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 220 million years to the time of coelophysis - one of the earliest dinosaurs that hunted in packs. Iguanadon Footprint Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back in time 127 million years, to the time of iguanodon - a plant-eating dinosaur that moved in herds. Cynodont And Lichen Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back in time 220 million years, to the time of cynodont - a dog-like furry creature with excellent eyesight. Triceratops And Horn Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 65 million years to the time of triceratops, a plant-eating dinosaur which roamed North America. Iberomesornis And Feather Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back to the time of iberomesornis - a bird that lived in the forests of Spain 127 million years ago. Eustreptospondylus And Ammonite Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back in time 149 million years, to the time of the ammonites - a kind of mollusc. Leaellynasaura And Egg Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back in time 106 million years, to the time of leaellynasaura - a dinosaur that lived in Australia. Diplodocus And Fern Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back in time 152 million years, to the time of diplodocus. T-rex And Pumice Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back to the time of Tyrannosaurus rex - one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs of its day. Allosaurus And Salt Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 145 million years to the time of allosaurus - a massive meat-eating dinosaur. 19. T-rex And Roar Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 65 million years to the time of tyrannosaurus rex - his favourite dinosaur of all time. 18. Postosuchus And Teeth Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 220 million years to the time of postosuchus - a giant crocodile-like creature. 17. Diplodocus And Dung Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 152 million years, to the time of diplodocus - a massive 25-metre-long plant-eating dinosaur. Stegosaurus And Painting Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 150 million years and all the way to North America, the home of stegosaurus. T-rex And Imprint Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 65 million years to North America in the time of Tyrannosaurus rex. Brachiosaurus And Monkey Puzzle Children's dinosaur history series. Andy travels back 150 million years to the time of brachiosaurus.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1591
__label__wiki	0.967254	0.967254	Ban killer weapons, tragedy mum begs A mum whose daughter was stabbed to death by a friend during a fight wants a ban on the sale of knives and swords. Denise Toward, 41, was devastated when her daughter Kerrie, 20, was knifed by Alison Kelly, in September 2001. After an inquest into Kerrie's death she launched a campaign to outlaw the sale of knives and wrote a letter to Home Secretary, David Blunkett. Despite having no success she is renewing her call after being horrified by similar recent incidents. Denise, of High Heaton, Newcastle, said: "I read in the Chronicle about the lad who was killed by a Samurai sword and saw a story this week about a teenager with an ornamental knife. "People don't need to be carrying knives and swords. They should be banned or people should have to have a licence for them." On Friday the Chronicle reported how a 19-year-old had brandished an ornamental knife in a busy Tyneside shopping centre. Just weeks earlier we revealed how decorative Samurai swords like the one used to hack teenager Jonathan Thompson to death were on sale at pocket money prices. Newcastle Police commander, Chief Supt Chris Machell, called for the sale of the swords to be banned. He said: "It is outrageous that people can go on the streets and buy things like that. "How are we meant to police a safe and decent society when people can buy what are clearly offensive weapons." Kerrie Toward was killed using a hunting knife in the flat of former friend Alison Kelly, in Hazelrigg, in 2001. No charges were brought after Miss Kelly claimed she acted in self-defence. Miss Kelly was attacked by Miss Toward and her boyfriend Jai Milligan who forced their way into her home brandishing a machete and knife. Milligan, 19, was jailed for aggravated burglary. Denise, who now cares for Kerrie's two children at her home, said: "After my daughter was killed I wrote to David Blunkett and said that knives like the one used to kill her should only be sold to people with licences. "But I never heard anything back from it, which I think is a disgrace."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1593
__label__wiki	0.725569	0.725569	Council tax rise warning Residents in a Tyneside borough face council tax rises of around 20% over the next two years to make up for financial deficits, say Labour councillors. North Tyneside Labour leader John Harrison warned taxpayers face huge rises or widespread cuts to services under budget proposals from Conservative Mayor Linda Arkley. This year residents will see the lowest council tax rises ever at 2.59% but the Labour Party has accused the Tories of bribing voters in the run-up to the mayoral elections. Mr Harrison said: "This rise will lead to double digit rises next year and the year after." But Mayor Arkley said she was committed to ensuring financial stability, value for money and quality public services. She said: "It's time the hard-working council taxpayers of North Tyneside had a break. For years under Labour we suffered from inflation-busting rises and deteriorating services."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1594
__label__wiki	0.940779	0.940779	Watch Bedlington 'danger to road users' ram police car in Longbenton chase David Morrison, of Bedlington, stole fuel in South Gosforth then rammed two police cars in Longbenton as they tried to pull him over Rob Kennedy Repeated road menace David Morrison has been jailed after ramming police cars in a desperate bid to evade justice. The 32-year-old already had four previous convictions for driving while disqualified and five for drink driving and was banned from the roads. But after stealing petrol from a garage in South Gosforth, Newcastle, he sparked a police chase in the Longbenton area after refusing to pull over in a Saab 93. Newcastle Crown Court heard he had been banned at the end of July and a previous disqualification period had just ended. But on September 30, he spent almost £70 on petrol at the Shell garage before making off without payment. A member of the public followed him and flagged down police to alert them. When officers indicated for him to stop, he initially appeared to comply before accelerating away, driving at more than 70mph in a 30mph zone. He almost collided with a cyclist and police pulled back due to the danger he was creating. He was slowed by congestion but when the police car moved alongside him, he rammed it, puncturing one of its tyres and leaving it unable to continue in the pursuit. Three further police cars then took up the chase. David Morrison (Image: Newcastle Chronicle) John Hobley, prosecuting, said: "A decision was taken to box his car with the police vehicles at the front, back and side, such that those vehicles would slow down, forcing him to slow down. "However, when the police vehicles were in position, he rammed the rear of the police vehicle in front of him, pushing it some distance and forcing it to spin 180 degrees and pushing it onto a grass verge between the carriageways. "Officers had serious concerns it was going to move further across, into oncoming traffic in the other direction. Even after that, the defendant didn't stop." Another police driver decided the only way to stop him was to crash into him, as a last resort. He still failed to stop but after a second impact, he was forced to. The court heard Morrison, of Stokers Buildings, Bedlington, Northumberland, has a long list of driving offences, among 31 previous convictions, beginning in 2006. For the latest offences, he admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, having no insurance and making off without payment. Jailing him for 12 months and banning him from the roads for three years, Recorder Toby Hedworth QC said: "You have a deplorable record in respect of driving. "The courts have given you opportunities in the past and you have chosen to throw them back at the court. "You have got to understand, when the court tells you this sort of behaviour is unacceptable, they mean what they say. You really are a danger to other road users." Blakelaw child rapist who went on the run for four years finally brought to justice Blyth man who killed his mum in 'truly very sad' case to be held in secure psychiatric hospital Richard Bloomfield, mitigating, said: "He needs to realise if he wants to drive he is going to have to get himself a licence and pass the test and get himself insured. "He says it was a spur of the moment decision to take the chase. He panicked because he knew he should not be driving." Newcastle Crown Court	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1595
__label__wiki	0.795894	0.795894	Paramedics' victory in meal pay row Paramedics are celebrating today after winning a long-running pay dispute. Management had wanted to make staff meal breaks unpaid, although they would remain on-call. But yesterday conciliatory service ACAS ruled ambulance workers should be paid for meal breaks - ending months of industrial action and overtime bans which had seen many ambulance stations unmanned at nights and weekends. Delighted by the outcome, Unison branch secretary, Ray McDermott, said: "We're over the moon for our staff and for the people of the North East who will have a better service after this agreement. "We're awaiting clarification from London about some of the details, because we're not sure if the meal breaks will fit into our 37? hour weeks or if they will be overtime. "But it is great news this has been resolved as we have been in talks over this for more than a year." Proposals to make paramedics' meals unpaid were part of the new national NHS pay scheme, Agenda for Change. The North East Ambulance Service was chosen to start the scheme early and yesterday's ruling could have repercussions around the country. An Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "The Trust and Unison have received the outcome of the arbitration process and the arbitrator decided that given the local circumstances the Trust's present position on meal breaks amounts to a requirement for staff to work meal breaks. "We are now seeking clarification on if the meal break period is part of the standard working week or is it outside of the standard working week which will determine the payment staff would receive. "It was agreed with Unison that this clarification would be sought so we can be clear about how we can proceed."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1596
__label__wiki	0.970773	0.970773	Joey Barton Ex-Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton favourite for Championship job after leaving Fleetwood Town Barton is the bookies favourite to land his second role in management, just days after departing Fleetwood Town Sean McCormick Joey Barton watches on (Image: Sunderland AFC via Getty Images) Get the latest NUFC updates, transfer and takeover news straight to your inbox for FREE by signing up to our newsletter Joey Barton is now the clear favourite to take over as Sheffield Wednesday manager, at a best price of 9/4. The former Newcastle United midfielder left his position as head coach at Fleetwood Town on Monday and has since had his odds cut from 33/1 to as short as 11/10 for the vacant Wednesday job. Sheffield Wednesday are on the hunt for a new manager after sacking Tony Pulis just 45 days into his reign at Hillsborough. The Owls now sit 21 st in the Championship table but are equal on points with Derby County in the relegation zone. Ex-Wigan Athletic manager Paul Cook had been the favourite in the market just a couple of days ago, but he has since drifted to 4/1 since the Barton movement. Rolando Aarons drops exit hint as he edges closer to Huddersfield move Former Newcastle United midfielder Joey Barton leaves role as Fleetwood Town manager Caretaker manager Neil Thompson is next in the market at 6/1, while Swiss coach Rene Wieler has been cut from 25/1 into as short as 4/1. Elsewhere, former Sunderland boss Mick McCarthy is another market mover. The veteran manager was sacked yesterday by Cypriot champions APOEL Nicosia after just two months in charge. Having been priced at 16/1, he’s been cut to as short as 8/1 for the Sheffield Wednesday job since that news. Oddschecker spokesperson Callum Wilson said: “There’s a new favourite every few days in this market, and given the disastrous appointment of Tony Pulis, who knows where Sheffield Wednesday are planning to go next. “There’s been all sorts of speculation about Barton’s exit from Fleetwood, but having guided the club to the League One play-offs last season, it’s no surprise to see him linked with another job.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1597
__label__wiki	0.799089	0.799089	Ryder Cup race goes into the last lap Four automatic places in Europe's Ryder Cup team have still to be decided entering the final event, the BMW International Open in Munich, later this week. Paul Casey, David Howell, Ian Poulter and Paul McGinley occupy the spots at the moment and Casey is virtually certain to earn himself a debut. Still with hopes of forcing their way in are Jean-Francois Remesy, Joakim Haeggman, Fredrik Jacobson, Brian Davis, Raphael Jacquelin and Graeme McDowell. But even if 10th-placed McGinley misses the halfway cut, this is where one of them has to finish to catch him: Remesy seventh, Haeggman and Jacobson fifth, Davis fourth, Jacquelin second and McDowell first. If ninth-placed Poulter misses the cut two of the following has to happen for him to miss out: McGinley 29th, Remesy sixth, Haeggman and Jacobson fourth, Davis third, Jacquelin second, McDowell first. If eighth-placed Howell misses the cut three of the following has to happen: Poulter 30th, McGinley 11th, Remesy fourth, Haeggman and Jacobson third, Davis second, Jacquelin or McDowell first. For Casey to fail to qualify he must miss the cut and all the following has to happen: Howell top seven, Poulter third, McGinley second and Remesy, Haeggman, Jacobson, Davis or Jacquelin win. * THREE weeks away from the Ryder Cup, American Stewart Cink hopes he has silenced at least some of his critics - if indeed they exist. Last Monday Cink, with only one victory in the last four years, was named by Hal Sutton as one of his two wild cards. On Sunday night he became 1.2m dollars (£660,000) richer. The balding 31-year-old led from start-to-finish in the NEC world championship in Akron and ended up winning by four shots from teammate Tiger Woods and South African Rory Sabbatini. It was the first time in seven attempts that Cink had turned a 54-hole lead into a victory. "My confidence is at an all-time high right now," he said. "It means so much to me to win in style. "I hope there weren't too many questions about being picked, but if there were, maybe this will answer a few of them. But I think the true answer will come at the Ryder Cup."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1598
__label__cc	0.708622	0.291378	Alba Wellness Valley by Fusion: "A Century in The Making..." By: Simon Stanley • Alba Wellness Resort by Fusion. • Thanh Tan Hot Springs by Fusion. Nestled in the tropical forests of Central Vietnam, this unique wellness destination harnesses the healing power of the natural world, featuring open-air geothermal baths, a five-star spa resort, and the country’s first authentic onsen. It’s as if the earth is alive. “That’s incredible,” I say with my hand to the ground. “The rocks, the mud, everywhere. It’s all hot.” In the crisp air of a December morning, I’m getting a behind-the-scenes tour of the legendary Thanh Tan geothermal spring — the birthplace of Alba’s luxury drinking water brand and the keystone for the company’s entire wellness philosophy. We’re among the rolling foothills of the Truong Son mountains, 30 kilometres from the imperial capital city of Hue, looking down at the 50-hectare Alba Wellness Valley by Fusion. First opened in 2008, the project is now home to the Thanh Tan Hot Springs by Fusion—a family-friendly thermal bath and leisure complex with onsite accommodation—and the five-star Alba Wellness Resort by Fusion. The valley and its various components have been under the management of wellness-led hospitality brand Fusion since December 2018. On a small mound of earth topped with a simple shrine, magma-heated water spouts miraculously from the bedrock. It’s the end of a century-long journey, from rainwater on the slopes of the nearby mountains, through the earth’s crust and down to the intense heat of the upper mantle, then into steam and back up to the cooler climes of the surface. Officially “discovered” by French scientists in the 1920s, studies carried out in the 1950s revealed Thanh Tan’s waters to boast an optimal (and constant) pH balance as well as being loaded with health-laden minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and bicarbonates. “Of course, the local villagers knew about the spring long before the French arrived in Vietnam,” says my guide, Mai. “They named it Thanh Tan - an old-fashioned phrases which means ‘fresh life’ or ‘new day’.” In Italian, she adds, the name translates to alba. With the morning sun still hidden behind the hilltops, the grassy knoll we’re standing on swirls with steam. All around us, 50 to 60-degree water oozes from the ground, twisting and turning down the slope in delicate streams, marbling the soil with earthy rainbows of colour. Alba Wellness Resort by Fusion Combining Vietnamese charm with Japanese elegance, the accommodation options in the valley’s five-star resort begin with a rustic collection of one and two-bed thatched bungalows. Echoing a traditional Vietnamese village (albeit with an outdoor pool and cocktail bar at its heart) this tranquil crescent of mud-brick abodes offers spacious, open-plan layouts with private terraces and vegetable gardens, free-to-use bicycles, and a superior level of comfort woven into a back-to-nature, eco-friendly vibe. Next are the resort’s Deluxe and Premium Deluxe rooms. Based on the minimalist interior of a Japanese ryokan guest house, each exudes style, comfort, and contemporary design along with the forest-fresh aromas of pine — a material used extensively throughout the resort. Many offer views of the nearby ponds, with some ground-floor units opening onto waterside verandas. The Japanese influence stems from one of the resort’s most distinguishing features: the onsen. Unique to Vietnam, this separate male and female facility recreates an authentic Japanese thermal bathhouse, with spring-water pools both indoors and out and no swimwear permitted. The onsen journey involves several steps including a micro-bubble silk bath, a refreshing cold bath, and, finally, an open-air soak in a walled Japanese garden. The feeling at the end of the 90-minute journey is almost that of being reborn - clean, fresh, and fully energised, and with incredibly soft skin. The health benefits of a soak in Thanh Tan’s spring waters are reported to include improved blood circulation, reduced stress, reduced joint and muscle pain, and better sleep. The property’s tagline of “A journey back to your true self” certainly rings true here. Dressed in traditional Japanese yukata gowns, guests can then shuffle from the onsen to the spa. Here, a menu of massages, facials and beauty treatments draws on the natural healing powers of the plants and trees native to the tropical forests nearby. From eucalyptus, ginger, and lemongrass to warm bamboo and mulberry extract, all infused by yet more natural pine scent, the spa smells as good as it feels and feels as good as it looks. Following the recent collaboration between Alba and wellness-inspired hospitality brand Fusion, daily spa treatments, onsen journeys, yoga, and water meditation are now included for all guests at no extra cost. The resort also provides a Vietnamese-style hot bath experience where bathing suits are permitted. Sociable, rejuvenating, and indulgent, guests can slip into these outdoor pools at any time. Lined with local stones, connected by quaint Japanese bridges, and surrounded by swaying bamboo gardens, each pool offers a chance to sit quietly among nature - a rare pastime in today’s frantic world. Thanh Tan Hot Springs by Fusion For those seeking a taste of adrenalin, a spot of culture, or simply more time in the great outdoors, look no further than the resort’s neighbour, a public hot springs and leisure facility. Home to several dining and retail outlets, a state-of-the-art treetop “highwire” adventure course and zip line, a mini water park, a craft village and organic farm, several trekking paths, and, of course, more steaming thermal baths, it’s the perfect choice for active couples, groups, and families. With picturesque views of the nearby lake and forests, the Thanh Tan Hot Springs Hotel by Fusion provides three-star accommodation for overnight visitors to the springs. These well-appointed rooms feature contemporary design, modern amenities, ensuite bathrooms, and twists of traditional Vietnamese handicrafts. As Alba’s V.I.P. guests, those staying at the five-star wellness resort are treated to a free daily pass to the Hot Springs. The package also includes complimentary activities including a white-knuckle ride over the treetops on Alba’s 560-metre-long zip line. Whether staying in the resort or the hotel or just spending the day, visitors to the Alba Wellness Valley shouldn’t leave without hearing the story of Madame Chau — the now legendary pharmacist who acquired the site in the 1990s and founded the company that would eventually become Alba. Back at the spring, the morning chill is fading as the sun begins its ascent over the valley. “Sadly," says Mai, “Madame Chau passed away in 2012, but she is the reason you are standing here today. She is the reason for all of this.” Before her passing, explains Mai, the war veteran made sure that the natural beauty of the valley would be preserved to maintain the quality of Thanh Tan’s water forever. While many of the forests nearby were being destroyed for timber, Alba’s founder was responsible for the planting of hundreds of trees and plants on the land surrounding the spring. An eight-kilometre underground pipeline was also installed to allow the commercial bottling of Alba’s drinking water to take place off-site. The day pass option for the Thanh Tan Hot Springs facility is perhaps the most telling reminder of Madame Chau’s love for her country. “She insisted that the hot springs must always be open to the local people,” adds Mai. “She believed that everyone should benefit from this natural wonder.” And with that, I retreat to my bungalow to prepare for a quick dip before enjoying a winter warmer breakfast in the elegant Madame Chau restaurant. Or maybe I’ll revisit the spa… again. The Alba Wellness Valley by Fusion is located approximately 40 minutes from Hue’s international airport, with transfers available on request. Visit albawellnessvalley.com for more information. 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__label__cc	0.532157	0.467843	Home Ethics LRN305 – A Conversation with David Greenberg, Former Head of Ethics & Compliance at Altria by Michael Bramnick in Ethics The role of an Ethics & Compliance leader has grown over the past few decades and continues to evolve as these leaders face the challenge of instilling values in increasingly global workforces. David Greenberg, one of our leaders at LRN, was head of ethics and compliance at Altria, which included the tobacco company formerly known as Philip Morris, before coming to work with us. David has fascinating stories from his time as the moral conscience of the tobacco giant, and LRN colleague Julia Taylor Kennedy sat down to talk to him about them. Tags: anti-corruption FCPA Compliance for SMEs: How Smaller Companies Meet Enforcement Agency Expectations Esquenazi, Part 2: the Test for Determining an Instrumentality Under the FCPA Michael Bramnick Michael Bramnick joined LRN in June 2012 from NRG Energy, a multi-faceted $9B Fortune 300 energy company, where he was Executive Vice President & General Counsel. Michael previously served as NRG’s Chief Compliance Officer, having built both the Corporate and the Regulatory Compliance Groups. Prior to joining NRG in late 2004, Michael held in-house positions at three other publicly traded companies in the steel, telecommunications, and chemical industries. Before moving in-house, Michael spent 6 years in private practice at a large Philadelphia-based law firm where he also was a registered lobbyist. Michael has substantive expertise in matters relating to energy, litigation, corporate governance, public company boards of directors, the environment, safety, and internal and external investigations. Trump, the Coup, and Corporate Ethics Book Review: Grappling With The Gray The 7 Principles of Ethical Leadership Critical Lessons from the Volkswagen Scandal	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1602
__label__wiki	0.822381	0.822381	Counterfire log in The devil and the deep blue sea: Labour and Johnson’s deal Written by Kevin Ovenden Published in Opinion Boris Johnson. Graphic: Pixabay/Succo Final stage Brexit fatigue cannot be allowed to override fundamental class imperatives, argues Kevin Ovenden Boris Johnson’s exit deal is worse for working people than Theresa May’s. She had to make some concessions on workers rights and environmental standards in her plan, three times rejected in parliament. Johnson’s deal drops those commitments, though the government was today looking to make vague, but not binding, references to them in order to attract support. It’s on that basis, working people’s rights, that the labour movement should judge this big business deal. It is the reason why every Labour MP ought to vote against it in parliament tomorrow. There is no guarantee that all will. The vote could come down to single figures either way. Whatever happens, we have to face an uncomfortable fact. Johnson’s position is far less precarious than it was six weeks ago when his anti-democratic suspension of parliament backfired. Labour’s is more difficult. It is by no means impossible. Labour can still make big strides in a general election. But ground has slipped. It is due growing influence of the Remain at all costs wing of Labour. One thing the last few days have done is to expose its wrong arguments that have sown debilitating confusion. We were told throughout the summer and into this week that not only would Johnson not get a revised deal from the EU, but that he didn’t even want one. He was just going through the motions. The claim that the EU “would never reopen the Withdrawal Agreement” had already been deployed against Labour earlier this year to argue that electing a Corbyn-led government to negotiate a left or people’s Brexit was irrelevant as the EU’s position was set in stone. Then many Labour people made the same claim about Johnson’s efforts. Well, the EU has shifted. The so-called Northern Ireland backstop, supposedly inviolable, has gone. That is because Johnson shifted to what is in reality separate arrangements for Northern Ireland, which the Loyalist DUP was holding out against as of this morning. Put aside what has been agreed with the EU. The big point is that something new has been agreed, when the continuity-Remain operation run by friends of Tony Blair and many Labour MPs said it could not happen. They were wrong and the public can see that they were wrong. That includes the majority middle ground trying to switch off from the Brexit drama on account of more immediate concerns such as low pay, housing, deteriorating public services and murderous working conditions. Second, and related, was the false argument that gained traction also on the left that Johnson did not want a deal. It became a kind of dogma defying evidence and reality. So Tory ex-chancellor Philip Hammond took up the conspiratorial conjecture that Johnson was driving to an over the cliff Brexit on 31 October because hedge-fund friends of his had bet on the massive economic turbulence that would cause. The respected financial commentator Frances Coppola debunked that “theory” in Forbes magazine simply by examining the actual bets the funds had made and finding that they did not fit with such a conspiracy. That did not prevent the mantra of “stop Johnson’s no-deal Brexit” coming to drown out all else throughout the month of September. It was right to head off a damaging crash out. But this was done on a false premise and those of the continuity-Remain operation pushed the line that it required constantly pushing back a general election, holding a second referendum instead to overturn the first one, and stopping not just “no deal” but any Brexit at all. Labour’s conference compromise made further concessions on the position that gained votes from Remainers and Leavers in 2017, though it managed to keep a priority on a general election. But in practice the continuity-Remain operation, which includes shadow cabinet members Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry, ploughed on and in parliament Labour moved away from pressing for a general election. Thus we ended up with John McDonnell of the left entertaining a referendum before any election and, disastrously, Labour losing one and that Corbyn would have to stand down. Now the excessive focus on stopping a supposedly deliberate no-deal Brexit comes back to haunt those who made it on a false basis. Johnson can say: you said stop no-deal at all costs. You played parliamentary games and went to the courts. Well, my deal does stop that – the deal you said I’d never get and didn’t even want. It is not the impact in parliament that matters, but outside as everything Johnson says is geared to a coming election. Moreover, this is not just Johnson’s deal. It is the EU’s deal. It and all the component governments are enthusiastic about it and are lending Johnson all the political support they can muster. The Dutch PM Mark Rutte said this is a “beautiful compromise... We really made a square into a circle. I would say to the British House of Commons: what more do you want?” EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said there was “no need for a prolongation”. The British parliament should approve the deal now. Lots of pro-Remain commentators pointed out that it is not in his gift to grant or not another extension to the process. It is down to the other 27 EU heads of government agreeing unanimously. And if Johnson fails tomorrow they may well reconvene and approve an extension – though only for a defined purpose, such as for an election or another try in parliament. But that isn’t the point. The significance is that at all levels the EU is with the British government in its efforts. Johnson can claim, credibly, to be speaking for the EU as well as his own administration. This ought to shatter once and for all some childlike illusions in the EU and its governments whereby they are some idealistic historical force for all that is good. It is a bureaucratic hierarchy of capitalist states operating according to ruthless realpolitik. Further, the vast majority of its governments are of the centre-right and have much more in common with any Tory government in Britain than with a Corbyn one, which they fear, or with those who mistakenly project their socialist beliefs onto EU capitalist institutions. They have given Johnson a big political boost. Either it’s enough for him to swing sufficient MPs in parliament, or it strengthens his position going into a general election. He can run the fake populist line that is well trailed: that he represents the “popular will against the elites”. But he can add to that: I get things done. Far from being extreme, I have such good relations in Europe that I got an agreement that my opponents and cynics said was impossible. The real dogmatists here are extreme Remainers in a dysfunctional parliament. Give me a majority and I can settle this in a sensible way. Dishonest as it is (this is Johnson), it can seem to many plausibly to represent a “national consensus”, bounded by two “extremes” – Farage’s Brexit party on the one hand, and undemocratic, out of touch MPs on the other who are being more pro-EU than the EU itself. This is the great danger. It will not be met by rebel Labour MPs giving support to Johnson’s deal. Nor will it be met by more concessions to the continuity-Remain operation and collapsing fully into another referendum on Johnson’s – or even May’s – deal, thus deferring well into next year a general election. The so-called “People’s Vote” operation holding a demonstration tomorrow is not in fact proposing in parliament to have a “people’s vote”, on account of it not having a majority. The contradictions in this might be brushed off by continuity-Remain enthusiasts. They will not be lost on many ordinary people. It has become blindingly obvious that the thrust of the operation is stopping a Corbyn government and getting Labour to destroy all its political capital in overturning the 2016 referendum by avoiding the big democratic vote that matters – a general election. And whatever the further twists and turns in Labour’s position following tomorrow, as Jeremy Corbyn does his best to prevent yet more slippage, it is already the case that talk of a general election is more and more missing from Labour’s vocabulary. We were told that this would not happen, that not voting a month ago for a general election merely meant a delay of a couple of weeks and was all about stopping a supposed deliberate plan by Johnson to crash out on 31 October. What in fact has happened, as many of us said, is that referendum talk has eclipsed election talk from Labour. This only plays into Johnson’s hands. For there may well be an election before the end of the year if he cannot get his deal through parliament. But it will be with him forcing it and Labour perceived not to want it. There are already stories trailed of “backbench Labour MPs” opposed to having an election at all. The kinds of arguments put last month against voting for one will grow from that quarter. This is a problem principally of the continuity-Remain operation that has damaged Labour. It is also a result of mistaken concessions in that direction that risk a vicious spiral. The way out is to move back to a simple position that working people can also understand. Aim to topple Johnson and vote out the Tories. Defeat his deal in parliament tomorrow and press to no confidence the government. Whether that carries or not, it shifts the debate towards the ground where Labour can advance – against Tory privileged rule and for a radical, left transformative government. None of that is easy. But the alternative path has already led to a far worse situation: Johnson making plausible (though in reality mendacious) claims to represent the national consensus, but blocked by entitled MPs. Labour chained down like Gulliver by the likes of nitwit Jo Swinson and its own ultra-Remain MPs. This is the situation to get out of - not dig deeper into. If you enjoyed this article please donate to Counterfire May's Brexit deal is dead: we need a general election now Sir Keir Starmer’s deadly crusade: supporting big business and undermining unions - CounterBlast 15 April Johnson's Cabinet: a turn right and no resolution in sight Swinson’s choice: better a no deal Brexit than Corbyn Corbyn can't win if Labour won't bring down the government Tagged under: Crisis Labour Euro Boris Johnson Brexit Crisis Kevin Ovenden Kevin Ovenden is a progressive journalist who has followed politics and social movements for 25 years. He is a leading activist in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, led five successful aid convoys to break the siege on Gaza, and was aboard the Mavi Marmara aid ship when Israeli commandoes boarded it killing 10 people in May 2010. He is author of Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth. 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__label__wiki	0.889102	0.889102	Big plans—but no cash—unveiled for Penn Station Joe Anuta Courtesy of SHoP Architects A SHoP Architects rendering of a possible interior for a remade Penn Station. A report released Thursday by The Municipal Art Society of New York and The Regional Plan Association outlines in broad strokes how the city might bring the cramped and outmoded Pennsylvania Station into the 21st century and, at the same time, revitalize the surrounding west midtown area. The report, Penn 2023, follows the city's decision in June to limit the station's upstairs neighbor, Madison Square Garden, to a 10-year special permit on its space. MSG had lobbied in favor of a permit granted in perpetuity. Still wide open are such questions as where the Garden might move and who would pay for an expansion of the station. "We need to insist that our elected officials, primarily the mayor and the governor, working with the congressional delegation, deliver the political will, the financing, and whatever new entity we need to deliver the project," said Robert Yaro, president of the plan association. He noted that current frontrunner in the city's mayoral race, Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio supports both a 10-year permit for MSG and the redevelopment of the station. The planning honcho also called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to kick in more support for the project. While the joint report lacked specifics on how to secure funding for the reconstruction of a new transit hub and what sort of entity would lead the massive undertaking of transforming the district, it did offer a number of suggestions. The Municipal Art Society and Regional Plan Association suggested that Madison Square Garden be shifted to one of a number of possible sites in the area, including the back of the post office across Eighth Avenue. Other possibilities named were the postal annex at the corner of Ninth Avenue and West 30th Street, and a property near the Jacob Javits Convention Center at 11th Avenue and West 34th Street. Only when MSG goes can the station, the busiest in the western hemisphere and currently running at over two times its intended capacity, get some room to expand. Earlier this year, the Municipal Art Society hosted a design contest that drew proposals from four top architecture firms on what a new station could become. But the report also stressed that current projects by Amtrak to create a new station inside Farley Post Office across Eighth Avenue and separately to increase capacity at a new southern extension of Penn Station will go a long way toward freeing up space inside the aging depot. They would also allow less severe disruptions in a broader rebuild of the station. Most broadly, the report cited the need to reimagine the entire west midtown district, especially with work on the huge, mixed-use Hudson Yards project getting underway and with the planned extension of the No. 7 train scheduled to open in mid-2014. William Vale Hotel lays off workers amid industry's ongoing struggle PETA protests SeaWorld float in Macy's parade What if Sandy happened today? Zeckendorf, Suffolk Construction in talks to take over HFZ's troubled XI project Naftali files plans for highly anticipated Williamsburg waterfront project Sponsored Content: Finding the positive in the pandemic Our Real Estate Daily newsletter provides the top industry headlines and deals daily. Sign up today	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1606
__label__cc	0.746204	0.253796	»3rd Sept 2020 Reminder to submit the daily online educational settings status form to the Department for Education We understand that this is a busy time for schools and colleges as you welcome children and young people back into education safely whilst ensuring they get the best possible start to this academic year. We would like to thank those schools and colleges that have completed the daily return to date and ask you to please continue to provide information on your educational setting’s status. Please complete the educational setting status form by 12 noon daily. Your data helps us build a national picture of educational provision so that we can focus support more effectively, monitor the impact of the virus, help inform the government’s response and ensure children are safe. Further guidance on completing the educational setting status form can be found in the guidance on recording attendance during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Letter to school and college leaders on coronavirus (COVID-19) testing The Department of Health and Social Care, NHS Test and Trace, and Public Health England issued a letter to school and college leaders today providing clarity on when students and staff should be tested for coronavirus (COVID-19). It is vital that only if children or staff develop symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) – a high temperature, a new, continuous cough, or a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – do educational settings ask them to self-isolate and recommend they get a test. The NHS Test and Trace system is fully up and running, but capacity must be protected for those with symptoms of the virus. Updated guidance on initial teacher training (ITT) We have updated our guidance for initial teacher training (ITT) providers to include information on degree entry requirements and the temporary relaxation of criteria for early years ITT. We have also provided information on encouraging overseas nationals to pursue becoming a teacher in England. Ofsted plans for a phased return to inspection from September 2020 Ofsted will be carrying out a phased return to inspection, starting with an interim period of visits during the autumn term, as set out in their education plans from September 2020. These will look at how schools and colleges are getting pupils back up to speed after so long at home, and will not be graded. Guidance is available on how Ofsted will carry out interim visits for: maintained schools and academies non-association independent schools further education and skills providers Ofsted intend to resume full inspections in January 2021, but we are keeping the exact timing under review. Guidance for residential education settings with international students We have published new guidance for residential education settings that have international students who are under the age of 18. This guidance contains advice on the collection and transfer of students who are travelling to a residential education setting in England. The guidance includes advice on what to do when the student arrives and what to do if students arriving at a residential setting develop symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19). Exam Results Helpline now available until 18 September The Exam Results Helpline, delivered by the National Careers Service, has been extended and will now be available until 18 September to provide additional support to students and their parents as they consider their next steps. Callers to the helpline will have direct access to experienced careers advisers who can advise on the different options available to them including T levels, A levels, GCSEs, BTECs, apprenticeships and other vocational options. Support will also be available on topics such as clearing, university, gap years and the autumn exam series. Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 8am to 10pm Department for Education coronavirus (COVID-19) helpline The Department for Education coronavirus (COVID-19) helpline is available to answer questions about COVID-19 relating to education and children’s social care. Staff, parents and young people can contact this helpline by calling:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1607
__label__wiki	0.628409	0.628409	Blades of Time Blades of Time Slices into Co-Op Action Screens 8/23/2011 at 8:38 AM by Nick Puleo 1 Hey Konami's Blades of Time was revealed back at E3, but we somehow missed the two player cooperative title while at the show. Perhaps it was all the shiny madness that surrounded us. The game is being developed by Gaijin, who's other co-op title was Apache: Air Assault. I know - odd combo. Giant metal helicopters and tiny metal clad bikini girls. Where do we sign up? Not much is known about the game's cooperative mode, due to some translation issues, the co-op is either it's own story or through a separate story - but it is online for two players. Blades of Time stars Ayumi, a dual sword wielding heroine capable of learning various magical abilities to rid the world of Dragonland of nasty looking creatures. The game promises to be a thinking man's action game, where button mashing your way to the 40 or so attacks won't necessarily be the best choice of combat. Blades of Time is out next year on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. New Trailer, Screens, and Release Date for Blades of Time Sony Offering Uncharted and Journey - Totally Free Buy This Game! (Playstation 3) Amazon.com - $16.97 Amazon.co.uk - £36.52 Amazon.ca - $34.94 (Xbox 360)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1608
__label__wiki	0.594634	0.594634	Nick Carroll: The WSL Is Still Planning a Pipe/Maui Kickoff this Hawaiian Winter, but How? Soli Bailey, comp jersey on, at a little wave called Pipeline. Photo: WSL/Keoki COASTALWATCH \| NICK CARROLL Hawaii's On! Maybe! Back at the start of 2020, when it already seemed as if the World Surf League’s plans for the year might be shafted by Covid-19, CW’s very own Mikey Jennings had a simple yet brilliant idea. WSL Island! This scary concept involved shuttling the CT seeds off to some isolated yet crazy location for months, safe from the Covid, and unleashing them Survivor-style, in the finest surf imaginable. It hasn’t happened, though fuck knows, all that footage from Kandui makes you wonder what might have been. Imagine that shit with the current CT roster loose on it. Honest, it could have been the best tour year in history. But some version of Mikey’s mad dream may still be on the cards. The World Surf League is still in boots and all on its plans for a Hawaii kickoff this winter, at Pipe and Honolua Bay. That’s the upshot of conversations CW has been having with a range of sources behind the scenes in recent days. Said one: “We’re going to have world champions next year. Even if the world literally catches on fire.” It’s also despite what seems like a phenomenally daunting range of challenges. Pro sports are happening during COVID, sure. The PGA is running a successful US-only golf series. The NBA has pretty much taken over Disney World in Florida. Le Tour De France is scooting around the French Alps as we speak. The WSL has been talking with at least the first two about how they’re getting shit done. But all these sports are occurring at enormous expense, in carefully constructed “bubbles”, designed to keep the athletes and staff totally separated from every other human on the planet. How do you make a bubble that includes the Banzai Pipeline? The simple answer is, you can’t. It’s a public place, and there’s 60-100 people out any day it’s even breaking, much less good. The Bubble Boys wouldn’t even be allowed to paddle out. No warm-ups for you, Gabriel! “OTHER SPORTS ARE FORGING FORWARD. WE HAVE TO FORGE FORWARD TOO." – PAT O'CONNELL The bubble would have to be somewhere else — maybe the old Kuilima condos at Turtle Bay. The pros could practice for Pipe out on the reefs in the middle of the bay, waves so suss nobody else will be bothering with ‘em. It’d be like some horrible flashback to PT and Ian Cairns and the other Aussies in 1976. Then there’s the surfers. It’s not 1976 any more; they’re used to doing what they want. Will they put up with being sequestered off the North Shore’s key zones, only showing up when the “bubble” moves in for a day of competition? Said our source: “I’m pretty sure if it was a choice between doing that and just saying ‘let’s call it all off for another year’, they’d do it.” And while our sources tell us the WSL has encountered only goodwill from the authorities in Hawaii and in other CT locations, the pandemic’s unpredictability makes any kind of planning similarly unpredictable. Specially when you’re bringing people in from all over the world. Asked to comment, WSL commissioner Pat O’Connell would only say that his team was doing all they can to make it happen — not just in Hawaii, but across their whole CT plan. “Other sports are forging forward. We have to forge forward too. “We’ve looked across the whole spectrum of ways to do this.” And the WSL Island concept? Taking the tour to the Moon? Have you thought about that as well? “100%.” Tags: (create Alert from these tags) 1 9 Jan 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1610
__label__wiki	0.814614	0.814614	China’s ominous warning to Australia 1st Dec 2020 12:58 PM China's state-controlled media has bluntly warned Australia's warships to stay out of the South China Sea or risk the "bitter pill" of confrontation. In an ominous threat to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, China is doubling down after the furore over a shocking doctored image depicting a grinning Australian soldier slitting the throat of an Afghan child. In an editorial published overnight inThe Global Times, Australia is described as "the war hound" of the United States. "As a warhound of the US, Australia should restrain its arrogance. Particularly, its warships must not come to China's coastal areas to flex muscles, or else it will swallow the bitter pills,'' the editorial states. "Australian special forces murdered 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners. Killing innocent people is trampling on human rights no matter what. But Canberra has the nerve to put itself on the moral high ground of human rights. How arrogant and shameless the Morrison government is!" China maintains a maritime militia in the South China Sea - officially called the People's Armed Forces Maritime Militia (PAFMM) that plays a key role in Beijing's strategy to enforce its disputed sovereignty claims. Asia Institute fellow Rowan Callick told news.com.au that the Global Times editorial was a clear reference to the South China Sea. "Australia has refused to do these freedom of navigation protocols. It's a warning that if we change our strategy and participate in these freedom of navigation cruises something may or may not happen,'' he said. Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a falsified image of an Australian soldier slitting the throat of a child and said China condemned the murder of Afghan civilians. HMAS Parramatta conducts manoeuvres with amphibious assault ship USS America, guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill and guided-missile destroyer USS Barry in the South China Sea. Picture: Department of Defence "I don't think the Global Times is the vehicle to place highly strategic messages. It's one to place general sentiment. If People's Daily was to editorialise on this, that Australia's ships should watch out, that would be more disturbing. This is disturbing enough." Former Labor MP Michael Danby said the editorial represented a clear warning and follows recent activity involving HMAS Ballarat. "That's a threat. HMAS Ballarat was in the South China Sea recently with the US taskforce,'' Mr Danby said. "That's very ominous. It's suggesting there might be an incident." According to the US Navy, the HMAS Ballarat conducted drills, integrated tactical training, and warfighting scenarios and a combined transit to the Andaman Sea through the Strait of Malacca in late October. "We find tremendous value in sailing alongside our close allies of Australia, as well as our other allies and partners, in support of a free, open, secure, and prosperous Indo-Pacific Region," Commander Ryan T. Easterday said. Commanding Officer of Ballarat, Commander Antony Pisani was also quoted as praising the chance to "hone our warfare and mariner skills and develop our ability to operate and communicate together". HMAS Ballarat conducted drills in the South China Sea recently. In July, Australian warships sailing near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea were confronted by the Chinese navy. It was reported at the time the HMAS Canberra, HMAS Hobart, HMAS Stuart, HMAS Arunta and HMAS Sirius all remained outside 12 nautical miles of the contested islands, unlike recent so-called "freedom of navigation" exercises conducted by the US navy to challenge Beijing. The previous year, Australian navy helicopter pilots were hit by lasers during exercises, forcing them to land as a precaution. Firing a fresh broadside at Australia, the Global Times editorial also threatens trade ties, noting Australia is considering taking complaints toward China's trade imposition to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). "Australia treats China's goodwill with evil. It is not worthy to argue with it. If it does not want to do business with China, so be it. Its politics, military and culture should stay far away from China - let's assume the two countries are not on the same planet,'' the editorial states. "Beijing does not fear going to the WTO with Canberra. China will acknowledge it if it loses, but the result will certainly be that all Australia's accusations will fall flat." But as tensions mount, Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong warned a careful response is required. "I think it was a deliberately provocative image. It was an offensive, inflammatory image and it was rightly condemned by all parties and by the Australian community,'' she said. "What we need to do, and what we should do is to respond calmly and strategically and not be emotional. "The photograph or the doctored photograph, the offensive doctored photograph is not the behaviour of a responsible, mature international power. Clearly it is sending a message and we have to choose how we respond to it and I think we have to respond with unity as we have and we have to recognise it for what it is - deliberate provocation and that it is inflammatory. 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__label__wiki	0.922755	0.922755	Home Entertainment Cartoons TEEN TITANS complete series Blu-ray collection announced TEEN TITANS complete series Blu-ray collection announced Arrives just in time for the holidays! Taimur Dar Get your holiday wish list ready because is coming to Teen Titans: The Complete Series Blu-ray! Sure to go perfectly the recently released Batman Beyond complete collection. As the cast/crew hinted at during The Beat‘s SDCC coverage of the Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans animated film, there’s the distinct possibility we may be seeing the original 2003 Teen Titans. Details below. Continuing its dedication to mining and remastering the best of Warner Bros. Animation’s deep library of super hero productions, Warner Archive Collection proudly presents Teen Titans: The Complete Series on Blu-rayTM starting December 3, 2019. Single Season volumes are also available. Pre-orders are now available via wb.com/warnerarchive and your favorite online retailer. It’s a full plate of crime-fighting and chaos as Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy go up against killer villains such as Brother Blood, Mad Mod and their archenemy Slade. Get ready for all the big battles and unbreakable bonds that make these friends the unstoppable Teen Titans! Teen Titans: The Complete Series ran for five seasons (2003-2006), and all 65 episodes are contained in this 6-disc collection. The Special Features include: “Finding Their Voices” (featurette) “Comic Creations: From Comic Book to Cartoon” (featurette) Puffy AmiYumi (featurette) “Catching Up With … Teen Titans” (featurette) “Teen Titans: Know Your Foes” (featurette) Teen Titans: Friends and Foes” (featurette) Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (feature film) The Lost Episode (bonus episode) Developed by producer Glen Murakami and executive producer Sam Register, and based on DC Comics’ young super hero team, Teen Titans: The Complete Series stars Greg Cipes (The Middle, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) as Beast Boy, Scott Menville (LEGO DC: Batman – Family Matters) as Robin, Khary Payton (The Walking Dead) as Cyborg, Tara Strong (Batman: The Animated Series, My Little Pony, Unikitty!) as Raven, Hynden Walch (Adventure Time, Groundhog Day) as Starfire, and Kevin Michael Richardson (The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad!) as Trigon/Hexagon. Cast also includes Golden Globe Award winner Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy) as Slade, Ashley Johnson (Blindspot) as Terra, Lauren Tom (Batman Beyond) as Gizmo, Wil Wheaton (Stand By Me, Star Trek: The Next Generation) as Aqualad, Dee Bradley Baker (American Dad, Star Wars: The Clone Wars) as Cinderblock, T’Keyeh Crystal Keymah (In Living Color, That’s So Raven) as Bumblebee, three-time Emmy Award winner Keith David (The Thing, The Live) as Atlas, John DiMaggio (Futurama, Adventure Time) as Brother Blood, Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville) as Kid Flash, Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) as Mad Mod, actor/author/spoken word artist Henry Rollins as Johnny Rancid, Clancy Brown (Emergence, The Shawshank Redemption) as Trident, Judge Reinhold (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) as Negative Man, Dave Coulier (Full House) as Captain, Billie Hayes (H.R. Pufnstuf) as Mother Mae-Eye, and Academy Award nominees Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Thomas Haden Church (Wings, Sideways) and Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile) as Arella, Killer Moth and Krall, respectively. Glen Murakami Khary Payton Scott Menville Previous articleREVIEW: FROZEN II is deeply weird (in a good way) Next articleSTRANGER THINGS’ Billy Hargrove is most definitely a queer coded character Taimur Dar is the Digital Media Producer and Marketing Expert for the Beat. He has earned a master’s degree in marketing intelligence from Fordham University and has provided branding strategies for various companies and organizations. His name is pronounced like the first two syllables of "tomorrow" in case you were wondering. DC reveals details, character art for upcoming RWBY/JUSTICE LEAGUE crossover George St. Louis 11/14/2019 8:05 pm At 8:05 pm Teen Titans Go! is the superior cartoon John Ridley’s Tim Fox Batman continues in Digital First series RECAP: THE EXPANSE S5E7 — “Oyedeng” Recap: THE STAND S1E5 – “Fear and Loathing in New Vegas” King & Walta’s VISION is the comic you need to read... Say “I love you” with these STAR WARS Valentine’s Day figures...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1615
__label__cc	0.710685	0.289315	Home Featured A world on the edge: When all news is bad news FeaturedLife A world on the edge: When all news is bad news by Charles Vandegriff, Sr. Oct 10, 2017 written by Charles Vandegriff, Sr. Oct 10, 2017 MISSOURI, October 10, 2017 – It seems to me that every day I wake up there is more bad news. I hate waking up to bad news. Most recently, there was first the disaster of Hurricane Harvey in Texas with lives and property being destroyed. This storm carried over into Louisiana. The response of the first responders and the people were amazing. Now without taking another breath, Irma hit Florida, tearing up the sunshine state. Again, responders and the people rise to the occasion. Then it was Puerto Rico, an island already in a state of bankruptcy. Due to its status as an island, it made it difficult for the responders to respond. The President and FEMA sent ships and helicopters to try to save lives. All reports are that those efforts were widely successful. These disasters and the aftermath will be felt for decades. From rebuilding the economic structures and business communities to the effect of the illnesses caused by the flood waters. Thinking about the psychological problems resulting from the loss of loved one, the loss of one’s history and possessions, the devastation people have seen and we can’t know how long the healing from these natural disasters will take. Now on the other side of the bad news ledger is North Korea and the threat of war, of the devastation of nuclear war. And Afghanistan where our soldiers are still being killed. And then there is Iran with its power and threat to wipe out Israel. And Syria, where war continues with tensions between Russia and the United States seemingly escalating. Most recently, the Las Vegas shooting – the worst killing spree in our countries history. As of this writing, the question is still why? This disaster showed the American spirit in that there were many heroes. The investigations will take time due to lack of evidence. On a far less deadly playing field, we have spoiled football players that won’t stand for the flag insulting those that died defending that flag and those that cherish that flag. As a former Navy man, when I hear the Navy anthem, Anchors Aweigh, I still get goosebumps, which is a physical manifestation of my emotional feelings of patriotism. Adding to the bigger bad news stories is the increasing hate spewing out of our media, social media, late night talk show hosts, Hollywood glitterati and politicians. The hate, not just disagreement with policy, toward the president, is seeping into the very fabric of our lives and affecting our national mental health. I hate to wake up to bad news but it seems that only thing to be done is pray – pray for America, pray for Americans, pray for our politicians, pray for those whose hearts and mouths are filled with hate, and pray for our President. If we all seek God’s intervention, it may be that we can truly make America the great country that I, with my decades of life, remembers. However, that’s a place and time I am from- FloridaHateLas VegasLouisiananewsNorth KoreaPrayertexas Charles Vandegriff, Sr. Charles spent a fifty-four-year career in technology, retiring at the director level from three major corporations. Followed by three-plus years as a freelance columnist, he has published three books, made over three hundred speeches to senior organizations, and been involved in numerous radio interviews and one television commercial. He has been married for sixty-five years, and has four children, seven grandchildren and thirteen great-grand children. Charles is also a Navy veteran. The Las Vegas shooting conspiracy: Questions that need answers Facebook, Instagram offline in North America, Europe The Car Coach: How much can you afford... The Car Coach: The 2020 Lincoln Navigator luxury... Dems’ plan to make MAGA into lawbreakers, declare Martial Law	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1618
__label__wiki	0.959692	0.959692	Qualicum Beach Coun. Robert Filmer. (PQB News file photo) Qualicum Beach councillor takes medical leave, citing ‘toxic’ town hall environment Filmer to step away for two months to reflect and get ‘re-energized’ Michael Briones A Qualicum Beach town councillor is taking a two-month medical leave, stepping away temporarily from what he calls a “very, very toxic environment.” In a public release issued Thursday, Robert Filmer claimed bullying and harassment is “very common in council” and he is disappointed the issues are not being addressed. “Everyone deserves the chance to work in a safe, respectful and supportive environment,” Filmer said. “It pains me to say that the Town of Qualicum Beach council currently exists in direct opposition to those values. At a moment in time when we should be finding ways to treat each other with kindness, care, and support – I am devastated to find myself in an ongoing situation where an extreme lack of vision and any meaningful leadership, has left me in an untenable position, where I fear for my health and well-being.” Following the advice of his physician, Filmer, 22, said he will take the two-month medical leave, effective Dec. 10. READ MORE: Qualicum Beach politician calls for more inclusiveness “It’s not so much about the political environment,” said Filmer. “I love debating. I love disagreements. Unfortunately, this council, and it happened since day one, council has had some issues. Some members of council have gone on personal attacks. And things no longer become political but personal. Our Town Hall is currently a very, very toxic environment.” Filmer criticized Mayor Brian Wiese for failing to establish a harmonius and safe environment. “When council brings issues to the mayor, he uses the line ‘I am not your keeper,’” said Filmer. “In a sense that is true. The mayor is not the keeper or the boss of councillors. However, the mayor is the leader. If there is an issue, especially if that issue is bullying or harassment it is the mayor’s job to resolve that.” Filmer said that behaviours change when council goes in-camera. “As soon as the door is closed and we go into an in-camera meeting, the tables changed drastically,” said Filmer, who added that all residents “expect their elected representatives to behave with dignity decorum, and due diligence to the diversity of opinions and voices that exist within our community.” Wiese, in a press release, said he respects Filmer’s participation as a member of council and his difficult decision to take care of his health first. “It is unfortunate that Coun. Filmer has characterized the conduct of council in a negative way in his publicly issued statement released earlier today,” said Wiese. “I disagree with the allegations he has made and I’m disappointed that he has chosen to raise them in the manner he did. I want to assure the public that councillors (Scott) Harrison, (Teunis) Westbroek, and myself will continue to work towards the objectives set out in council’s strategic plan, and continue to progress towards the longterm goals in the Official Community Plan for the remainder of the council term. We look forward to welcoming Coun. Filmer back.” Filmer said he will use the time away from council to reflect and get re-energized. Council’s next scheduled meeting is Jan. 13, 2021. A byelection must also be held in short order to replace Coun. Adam Walker, who resigned his position after being elected as the NDP MLA for Parksville-Qualicum. Michael.Briones@pqbnews.com municipal politicsqualicum beach MPs urge support for small-scale Island distilleries after feds give sanitizer contracts to big firms Health workers report burnout amid second wave, ask public to obey health rules	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1620
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__label__cc	0.64017	0.35983	Grant Thornton adds Andrée Bourgon as head of insurance growth strategy practice 17 December 2019 Consulting.us Accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton has added insurance industry expert Andrée Bourgon as the leader of its growth strategy practice for the insurance sector. Bourgon brings more than 20 years of industry experience to the role. Based in New York, Bourgon will lead the firm’s consulting efforts in shaping strategy and implementing innovation-based transformation for insurance clients. During her more than two decades in the insurance sector, Bourgon has primarily focused on operational strategy, business transformations, and mergers and acquisitions. “Andrée brings a wealth of experience from previous leadership roles, at both startups and large organizations – uniquely positioning her to help advance strategy and transformation efforts for our clients and expand the capabilities of our Insurance practice,” Matt Tierney, global insurance practice leader for Grant Thornton, said. Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Bourgon was VP of global strategy at insurance startup Ascot Group, where she was responsible for designing and scaling the firm’s operating model. Before that, she spent nearly seven years at insurance company AIG, holding several leadership positions. This included formulating global M&A strategy, launching an internal consulting organization at the company, and serving as chief of staff for AIG Property Casualty Finance. Before AIG, Bourgon spent over 10 years at AXA, joining as a systems application manager and rising to the position of head of finance, planning and analysis and head of treasury. Earlier in her career, Bourgon was a consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation, advising on financials systems for numerous AXA divisions. Bourgon has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Western Ontario and a post-graduate diploma in business administration and accounting from Sir Wilfrid Laurier University. “Grant Thornton has really started to ramp up investment in our national Growth Strategy practice, and Andrée has the industry and consulting experience necessary to accelerate impact for our clients and our firm,” said Chris Smith, national managing principal for Grant Thornton’s growth and transformation service line. Grant Thornton’s consulting offering for the insurance sector spans performance improvement, M&A, tax strategies, regulatory, privacy and security, data analytics, and digital transformation. The US member firm of Grant Thornton International recorded revenues of $1.9 billion for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2019, representing a year-over-year increase of 5.4%. Manatt adds Jennifer Millard, Kalon Gutierrez, and Farnaz Alemi to digital practice Manatt, an LA-headquartered law and consulting firm, has added Jennifer Millard and Kalon Gutierrez as managing directors and Farnaz Alemi as a partner in the firm’s digital and technology group. Capco names Dee McDougal as US head of diversity, equity & inclusion Capco, a financial services-focused management and technology consultancy, has hired Dee McDougal to lead diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) in the US. Pamela Parizek joins Kroll as leader of financial investigations in North America Pamela Parizek has joined Kroll, the risk management subsidiary of consulting firm Duff & Phelps, as a managing director and head of the financial investigations practice in North America. Grant Thornton news More Grant Thornton Grant Thornton adds Jamie Sybert as head of government contractor practice Mid-market accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton US has welcomed Jamie Sybert as leader of the firm’s government contracting advisory practice. She is based in Denver. Grant Thornton partners with Anaplan on business performance offering Grant Thornton LLP (US) has joined the partner program of Anaplan, a cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider focusing on enterprise performance management. Grant Thornton names Janet Malzone as incoming head of audit services Grant Thornton LLP, the US member firm of Grant Thornton International, has named Janet Malzone as the incoming leader of its audit services business.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1627
__label__wiki	0.861601	0.861601	IPL 2021: Virat Kohli, Yuzvendra Chahal to AB De Villiers, Washington Sundar, Players Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) May Retain Ahead of Mega Auction IPL 2021: Virat Kohli, Yuzvendra Chahal to AB De Villiers, Washington Sundar, Players Royal Challengers Ba With star players - skipper Virat Kohli and Mr 360 AB De Villiers - certainties to retained - here are the other three players who could possibly be retained. \| Updated : November 15, 2020 1:02 PM IST Royal Challengers Bangalore had a good IPL 2020 in UAE but faded off in the business end. During the season, there were many positives for the franchise to take forward. While a few players may get released by the franchise, the RCB scouts will be looking at new talent to bolster the combination ahead of the 14th season. With changes on the cards, RCB will have the liberty to retain five players ahead of the mega auction. With star players – skipper Virat Kohli and Mr 360 AB De Villiers – certainties to retained – who could be the other three players. Here are the other three players who could possibly be retained by the franchise in order to keep the core intact. Devdutt Padikkal: The stylish left-handed opener was the biggest plus for the franchise from its 2020 campaign. With the more experienced Aaron Finch misfiring, Padikkal took the responsibility on his shoulders and got the runs. He got the side off to the start they wanted. The young left-hander showed his range throughout the season as he amassed 473 runs in 15 matches which comprised of five fifties. Yuzvendra Chahal: For years now, Chahal has been a part of Kohli’s scheme of things at the RCB and while playing for the national side. On occasions, he has been the go-to bowler for the skipper of RCB. This season as well Chahal was among the wickets and played a crucial role in helping the franchise make the playoffs. In 15 matches, the leg-spinner picked up 21 wickets. Washington Sundar: Young Sundar gave fans a glimpse once again as to why he is highly-rated. While he combined with Chahal well to choke oppositions in the middle-phase, the left-handed batsman also came up with the goods with the bat when needed. In 15 matches, he has eight wickets to his name. But what makes him an asset is his economy per over which is 5.87. Last updated on November 15, 2020 1:02 PM IST AB de Villiers IPL 2020 IPL 2021 IPL Mega Auction RCB Royal Challengers Bangalore Virat Kohli Nasser Hussain Praises 'Calm And Cool' Rohit Sharma's Captaincy Skills Beginning and End of an Era: On This Day Sachin Tendulkar Arrived at Big Stage to Serve Team India For 25 Glorious Years India's Predicted Squad For England Tests: Kohli, Ishant Set to Return; Shami, Jadeja Unavailable BCCI Planning to Keep IPL to Just Nine Teams For Now: Report India Likely to Pull Out of Asia Cup 2021: Report 'Rest in Peace my King': Hardik Pandya Pens Emotional Letter For His Late Father Manjrekar Explains Kohli's 'Tula Parat Manla' Tweet For Shardul, Narrates Interesting Story	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1632
__label__wiki	0.828363	0.828363	Colin Munro misses out on a rare T20I record Colin Munro remained on 49 missing out on his 4th consecutive fifty-plus score in the format by one run. Sampath Sr. Statistician Colin Munro of New Zealand bats. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images) Colin Munro’s success in the International Twenty20 cricket has risen gradually ever since New Zealand promoted him as an opener. Munro amassed three centuries in the T20I format in the past one year with all of them coming in space of ten innings. Thus, the devastating batsman became the first player in the T20I history to score three hundreds. Beginning from the start of 2017, Munro aggregated a total of 496 runs in only 11 innings that includes two fifties alongside three tons. In the first T20I game against Pakistan on Monday, Munro batted cautiously to take his team home in a low scoring game. Playing against his natural game, Munro scored unbeaten 49 off 43 balls with three fours and two sixes in chase of Pakistan’s total of 105. The opening batsman took a single on the first ball of 16th over when the Kiwis needed 14 more runs to win. Ross Taylor hit boundaries on 3rd and 4th deliveries of the over towards the deep midwicket region. He later drove the 5th delivery towards covers for a boundary to level the scores. Only two players in the rare list Hasan Ali delivered a bouncer over Taylor’s head which was called a wide to bring an end to the game. This meant Colin Munro remained on 49 missing out on his 4th consecutive fifty-plus score in the format by one run. He scored 58, 104 and 66 in his last three T20Is during the series against West Indies at home. Had Munro completed his fifty in this innings, he would have joined Brendon McCullum and Chris Gayle as the only players with fifty-plus scores in four consecutive T20I innings. McCullum achieved this feat in 2008/09 season while Gayle scored four in a row in 2012. Earlier, Pakistan crossed 100-run mark thanks to Munro as he conceded 12 runs in the 20th over, his only over in the innings. Babar Azam struck Munro for a four and six before getting out for 41. New Zealand were 8/2 into their 4th over chasing 106 before Munro’s 49-run partnerships with Tom Bruce and Ross Taylor handed 1-0 lead in the 3-match series to the home team. For more updates on Pakistan tour of New Zealand and other important news in cricket world, keep following CricTracker.com Colin MunroNew ZealandNZvsPAKPakistanStats Mania Australia vs Pakistan, 2019: 2nd Test – Pakistan’s embarrassing streak, Warner’s record triple, Smith’s rare failure and more stats Sri Lanka vs West Indies, 2020: 3-match ODI series – Statistical Preview I could not have played for Pakistan this early, if it was not for you, Shaheen Afridi thanks Inzamam-ul-Haq ‘You are considered as a madman if you speak truth’ – Younis Khan on losing Pakistan’s captaincy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1633
__label__wiki	0.976529	0.976529	Tag » muv-luv Friday January 1, 2021 Muv-Luv: Project Mikhail Action Game Shows More Footage, Plans Early Access Launch PC, iOS, and Android Early Access lined up for April 2021 Joseph Luster January 01, 2021 5:03pm EST (18 days ago) Muv-Luv fans can soon look forward to battling the BETA threat in an upcoming action game. Muv-Luv: Project Mikhail is officially set to make its Early Access debut on PC, iOS, and Android this April, and there's some new gameplay footage to go along with it after the jump. Thursday November 5, 2020 Muv-Luv Alternative The Animation Hits Fuji TV in October of 2021 Latest TV anime adaptation continues the story-line of popular science fiction visual novel series November 05, 2020 9:31am EST (11/5/20) Some quick news for all you mecha and science fiction drama fans out there: additional details have been revealed for the Japanese broadcast of Muv-Luv Alternative The Animation, the upcoming TV anime which adapts the concluding part of the Muv-Luv visual novel series. Hit the jump to learn more. Muv-Luv Alternative TV Anime Hits Japanese Airwaves in 2021 Teaser visual and preview video released for continuation of popular mecha visual novel adaptation October 24, 2020 9:37am EDT (10/24/20) The long wait will soon be over for fan so the Muv-Luv mecha / visual novel franchise, because the concluding chapter in the storyline, Muv-Luv Alternative, is being adapted into a TV anime that will broadcast in Japan in 2021. Hit the jump to learn more. Saturday July 4, 2020 Muv-Luv photonmelodies Brings a Lighthearted Take on the Universe to PC on July 30 Muv-Luv Expo streamed live on July 1 and offered up some fresh info July 04, 2020 11:22am EDT (7/4/20) Muv-Luv Expo presented us with "The Summer of (Muv) Luv" earlier this week, and fans were treated to a handful of interesting announcements along the way. Read on for the latest news! Friday June 12, 2020 Muv-Luv Expo Online Event Locked in for July 1 Look forward to info on upcoming games and more June 12, 2020 12:48pm EDT (6/12/20) The company behind Muv-Luv announced plans to throw their own party since they won't be able to make it to Anime Expo. The event is appropriately called Muv-Luv Expo, and the festivities are set to kick off on July 1. Read on for more.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1634
__label__cc	0.678035	0.321965	Binance carries out 10th Binance Coin Burn – Already priced in? By Jake Simmons January 18, 2020 No Comments The crypto exchange Binance conducted its quarterly Binance Coin Burn, destroying approximately 2.2 million BNB in the process. This makes the 10th BNB Coin Burn the second largest Coin Burn in USD and the third largest in terms of BNB. As Binance announced today, the exchange has successfully completed its 10th BNB Coin Burn. This time, Binance burned a total of 2,216,888 Binance Coins (BNB) and further reduced the total amount of BNB. Measured in US dollars, Binance thus permanently destroyed USD 38.8 million, the second highest amount in the history of Binance. In BNB it was the third highest amount after April and July 2018. Source: https://www.binance.vision/blockchain/what-is-a-coin-burn As of today, Binance has thus burned a total of 16,742,041 BNB, which represents 8.37% of the total supply (now at 183,257,937). Is the Binance Coin Burn already priced in? The Binance Coin Burn is held quarterly and is a mechanism to programmatically reduce the number of BNB tokens based on the total profit (20%) in the quarter. In its whitepaper, Binance already committed to destroy exactly half of the 200 million available BNB tokens, exactly half, 100 million BNB. The Binance Coin was issued in 2017 as part of an Initial Coin Offering to finance the exchange launch. In return for investor support, Binance is burning BNB on a quarterly basis to increase the value of the BNB token. At least in theory, the BNB price is expected to rise due to the shortage of supply. However, such an effect has hardly been visible in the history of Binance Coin, at least apparently. Perhaps for this reason, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao recently stated in a tweet that he does not believe that the majority of investors understand the background of the BNB coin burn. In response to a supporter’s question about whether the coin burns are priced in, Zhao wrote that he does not believe that most people even know that the exchange regularly burns BNB. No, sadly, most people don’t know what a burn is. — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) January 17, 2020 Although not explicitly stated, Zhao is likely to expect a price squeeze from the quarterly action. Assuming that there are no serious external influences, the decline in total circulating supply is expected to increase BNB’s value. However, this could be exactly the problem. The tokens currently allocated for burning do not come from the circulating supply (which has remained constant at around 155 millionBNB), but from the exchange’s reserves. According to Binance’s whitepaper, 40% of the total NBB supply (80 million) has been awarded to the team as a reward for the work put into building the ecosystem. These are currently being used for the coin burn. Regardless of this, Binance is doing a lot to increase the demand for BNB. In addition to numerous new fiat gateways, new futures contracts and Launchpad, Binance has recently announced that it is in talks with the licensed Japanese crypto exchange TaoTao and Z Corporation, which was founded by Yahoo Japan in 2018. The prospective partnership will enable Binance to offer trading services to users in Japan. Regardless of the efforts made, however, Binance Coin Burn could only affect the price of BNB when the circulating volume is reduced. At the time of writing, BNB is trading at USD 17.80 and has seen a slight drop of 1.05% in the last 24 hours. Binance Binance Coin BNB Previous ArticleEthereum 2.0 test network starts with more than 22,000 validators Next Article Milestone for Ripple: FinNexus will use XRP ledger Jake Simmons Jake Simmons has been a crypto enthusiast since 2016, and since hearing about Bitcoin and blockchain technology, he's been involved with the subject every day. Beyond cryptocurrencies, Jake studied computer science and worked for 2 years for a startup in the blockchain sector. At CNF he is responsible for technical issues. His goal is to make the world aware of cryptocurrencies in a simple and understandable way.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1635
__label__wiki	0.921946	0.921946	25 July 2017 Venue Weston Homes Community Stadium Attendance Loft Back For Town Clash Colchester United will welcome Doug Loft back into the squad for Tuesday's friendly against Ipswich, as they look to continue their positive pre-season record. Doug has sat out the last two games with a tight calf as a precautionary measure, but will be in contention for a place in Tuesday's side. Ryan Jackson also came through his return to action unscathed on Saturday and is in the squad for the midweek fixture. And it will be the first chance for U's fans to see Mikael Mandron on home turf after his arrival at the back end of last week. Head Coach John McGreal has two friendlies remaining to decide on his starting eleven for the season opener against Accrington Stanley and the games against Town and Gillingham will be a further measure of the team's readiness for the new campaign. Tickets are available to both sets of supporters online at our www.colutickets.com website, and fans are advised to buy in advance to avoid any queues at the Ticket Office. Town Edge Latest Friendly One goal enough for second year running Sam Wright Colchester United’s 100% pre-season record was ended by a 1-0 home defeat to Ipswich on Tuesday evening. After an even stevens first half, the visitors stepped it up after the interval and Joe Garner's powerful header was enough to separate the two sides in the latest friendly between the two teams. His 57th minute effort was the first - and only - goal that the U's have conceded in pre-season, as Town added this win to their 3-1 victory over Peterborough United. The best chances of the first half switched between the two sides as Sean Murray’s free kick was punched away by returning keeper Gerken in the sixth minute. Ipswich’s best opportunity of the first 45 minutes came when Sam Walker came rushing off his line to clear a through ball out of the box. It immediately fell to Ipswich’s Danny Rowe, whose long range effort was headed onto the crossbar by Cameron James and then the following rebound was comfortably saved by Walker. The U’s had a good chance later in the half when Eastman’s header at the back post from a corner was cleared off the line by defender Kenlock. The away side’s Conor McKendry saw two strikes go wide of the post as his first one was hit from distance but failed to test Walker, while the second one was shot just outside the area and rolled to the right-hand side of the goal after cutting inside from the right wing. Clear cut chances were hard to come by and both defences will have been pleased with their first half efforts. Town made three changes at the break and they had an impact on their performance after the restart. Manchester City loanee Celina picked up the ball on the left wing and curled an effort towards the far corner, which was pushed away for a corner by Sam Walker. The U’s had the next opportunity of the second half as on 53 minutes new signing Ryan Jackson cleverly dribbled the ball through the legs of the Ipswich defender and sent in a cross which no home player could connect with to score the first goal. However just four minutes later, the first goal of the game did come and it was scored by Ipswich. It began with Miles Kenlock who picked the ball up near the touchline of the left wing, he ran past Jackson and then crossed the ball into a crowded penalty area. The first player to get to it was Joe Garner, who powerfully headed past the helpless Walker from six yards. The U's, who had to work hard for any possession after the break, did have a few chances to equalise but failed to do so as Kinsella’s cross was taken away from the run of the incoming Szmodics. A corner 15 minutes later found Johnstone, and his header unfortunately went across the goal and wide past the post. The final opportunity of the match came to former Colchester player Freddie Sears, whose powerful effort couldn’t get past Walker who saved it at his near post in order to prevent it from going in and forcing a corner. It was another useful exercise for the U's and more valuable minutes in the bank, but it was Town who won the Alderton Trusler Trophy for the second year in a row. Book In Advance For Town Clash The U's take on Ipswich Town in their latest pre-season friendly on Tuesday night in a 7.30pm kick-off. John McGreal's men have won five out of five so far, but will face their sternest test when they take on their Suffolk neighbours. It is expected to be busy at the Ticket Office before the match, and we would strongly advise purchasing in advance, making use of our Print At Home service. Tickets can be bought HERE and we look forward to seeing you at Tuesday's game! Don't forget, too, that with the match kicking off earlier, there is an amended shuttle bus timetable for the latest friendly game. Ipswich Tickets Latest Friday will be the last day for posting out tickets and parking permits for the U's upcoming friendly against Ipswich Town.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1637
__label__wiki	0.647593	0.647593	Gig Reminder: Sleepy Sun and True Widow at City Tavern Pete Freedman Pete Freedman \| August 31, 2009 \| 4:48pm At 9 p.m. tonight, downtown Dallas will get a much-needed kick in the ass, as the San Francisco-based drone rockers in Sleepy Sun perform on a bill with True Widow at the City Tavern. In this week's paper, contributor Paige Richmond offered up her take on the headliners: Everything you want to know about Sleepy Sun is revealed in the band's name. The music is slow and lazy, with a tired--but not bored--quality. It's also bright and buoyant with warm vocals: Singers Bret Constantino and Rachel Williams complement each other on "Sleepy Son," a particularly melodic song that features a harmonica solo. For all the stirring instrumentals--Matt Holliman and Evan Reiss often break from their mellow guitars into heavy riffs--Sleepy Sun is better defined as a jam band than a psych-rock outfit. True, the members sometimes hit a perfect harmony: On songs like "Lord," Constantino drags on the end of his words, slurring his lyrics over hazy music. Other times, it sounds as if every band member is pushing for a solo. Even a beautiful song like "Sleepy Son" attempts to fit together harmonic sounds and over-the-top ones, making it less a singular piece of music than a conceptual musical experiment. This means Sleepy Sun will appeal most to those listeners with plenty of patience: It may take a few spins of the self-released Embrace to really understand that this album is more than just an accidentally recorded band practice. The likeminded locals in True Widow open. Beyond that, though? This is probably the biggest test yet on the City Tavern's PA. Should be a loud, loud night. Dallas Music News: AV The Great Responds to Domestic... Garth Brooks Fans Say He's 'Lost His Base' After Announcing... It's Not Just a Saying – Music Does Save Lives Let's Stop Sugarcoating It: The Late Phil Spector Was a...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1642
__label__wiki	0.951609	0.951609	Dirk Nowitzki a Top 10 NBA Player of All-Time? Yes, But Only Among Players Without a Ring Richie Whitt \| Dallas Mavericks \| Richie Whitt \| May 11, 2011 \| 9:45am You know me, the biggest Dirk Nowitzki homer in town. But Rick Carlisle even made me cringe earlier this week by tabbing the Mavs' star as a top 10 NBA player "of all time." Carlisle has been great in these NBA Playoffs. Keeping his Mavericks mentally together after the Game 4 Portland Pratfall. Playing enough zone and enough Jason Kidd to keep Kobe Bryant in check against the Lakers. But, sorry, that opinion is crazier than a Kentucky Derby hat. Said Carlisle on ESPN's First Take: "In my opinion, he's a top 10 player in NBA history because of the uniqueness of his game and how he's carried this franchise on his back for over a decade." Dirk has been an MVP and a 10-time All-Star. He's been to The Finals, won the All-Star 3-point shooting contest and is one of only four players to average 25/10 in the playoffs. If he continues his scoring pace the rest of his contract, he'll finish his career as the NBA's sixth all-time leading scorer. He's a first-ballot, no-brainer Hall of Famer. But Top 10? All-time? Nope. Not even close. Not without a ring. How about Jordan, Jabbar, Russell, Wilt, Magic, Bird, Duncan, Kobe, Oscar and Shaq for a Top 10? And that's without any head-scratchin' research. A better debate is this: Is Dirk among the NBA's Top 10 all-time best players to never win a championship? My list goes something like this: 10. Reggie Miller -- More clutch 3-pointers than any player in NBA history 9. Steve Nash -- Two MVPs but never made it to NBA Finals 8. Patrick Ewing -- 16th all-time leading scorer changed NBA with his initimidating defense 7. Dirk Nowitzki -- '07 MVP has led Mavs to 11 consecutive 50+ win/playoff seasons 6. Charles Barkley -- '93 MVP led NBA in rebounding three times and was original Dream Teamer 5. Elgin Baylor -- 11-time All-Star and Hall of Famer somehow 0-8 in NBA Finals 4. LeBron James -- 2-time MVP and transcendent athlete destined for more awards 3. John Stockton -- NBA's all-time assist and steals leader lost to Jordan's Bulls in two Finals 2. Allen Iverson -- '01 MVP one of only four players to lead NBA in scoring four times 1. Karl Malone -- 2-time MVP is 2nd all-time leading scorer behind only Kareem	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1643
__label__wiki	0.875213	0.875213	Chief constable condemns slavery and sex trade and says men who use pop-up brothels commit 'rape' Shaun Sawyer says force lacks resources to tackle human trafficking and says sex workers are not consenting Mike SmallcombeReporter Phil GoodwinContributor Devon and Cornwall Police are struggling to get to grips with modern slavery and human trafficking because they lack resources and the cases are too difficult, the chief constable has admitted. Sex trafficking, forced labour and young boys being trafficked to sell drugs is a major issue, Shaun Sawyer said. Officers are currently involved in dozens of operations to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking across the south west. The revelation comes after a report into the police response to the issue found that forces up and down the country are failing to tackle the problem, because the cases are too difficult and senior officers believe the public lack sympathy for the victims. National Lottery Results Live: Winning Lotto numbers for Wednesday October 25 Shaun Sawyer Senior officers in forces across the country openly expressed a reluctance to “turn over the stone” and proactively look for modern slavery and human trafficking offences, the report said. Chief Cons Sawyer, who is also the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for modern slavery, has admitted that police simply do not have the resources to deal with the issue of modern slavery and human trafficking in a more proactive way. “In the south west we now have dozens of highly complex active investigations, and many hundreds of lines of intelligence cases,” he told BBC Radio Cornwall. “Sadly we are lifting the lid on something that will soon run into many hundreds, and ultimately could lead into many thousands of intelligence reports. Police launch search for missing man not seen since night in pub “The reality is we don’t [have the resources], but you go onto the pitch with the resources you have and play with what you’ve got. “The perpetrators and those exploited take many hundreds of hours of police work so it’s not just the numbers, it's the complexity of these investigations. It's a real, real challenge to officers in Cornwall.” Chief Constable Sawyer identified sex trafficking, forced labour and young boys being trafficked to sell drugs as the biggest issues. Women in brothels are not consenting, the chief has said He added: “Organised immigration crime will try and infiltrate legitimate businesses by using migrant workers, and often then taxing them and taking their pay. “So we have to be vigilant working with businesses to ensure that legitimate businesses are really not infiltrated by organised crime through labour exploitation. “Drug gangs infiltrating Cornwall through young boys is also a major challenge for us, and there’s been some excellent work by police in Cornwall combating that. “Then the other thing in Cornwall is of course sexual exploitation. We live in a digital age and sadly we do see women trafficked into Cornwall for sexual exploitation.” RD&E bosses are “surprised and disappointed” by three-day porters strike The senior officer didn't mince his words on the new trend for pop-up brothels, which have been found in holiday lets and other properties in Devon and Cornwall, calling men who use them rapists. MPs are currently probing the sex den epidemic, which first came to light in July 2016 and is still considered to be an issue. An inquiry has been launched into organised crime gangs who use temporary addresses to traffic and sexually exploit women. The majority of the sex workers are from Poland and Romania and are being trafficked by international gangs, while the customers using the brothels are mainly local people. While prostitution is legal in England and Wales, the sex workers in these situations are under duress and are not technically consenting, Chief Constable Sawyer has warned. He added: “Pop-up brothels; it all sounds quite cosy, but if we think what goes into that, the men who use them... these aren’t women who are sexually consenting, these are women who are under duress and you are committing rape - let's say it as it is.” Chief Cons Sawyer has called on the community to help police to get to grips with modern slavery and human trafficking. “If you don’t want to call local police and speak to specialists, you can report concerns to the modern slavery national helpline, on 08000 121 700,” he said. “Those concerns might be; you see a lot of men in one location or building coming in and off on shift, people who are dishevelled, people who have someone controlling them, let’s say you’re at the shops and there always seems to be someone controlling their money, they are very quietly spoken. “Or you’re an employer and always paying cash and the money is not going to the worker. We work off that community intelligence to identify potentially vulnerable victims.” This article first appeared on Cornwall Live	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1650
__label__cc	0.724773	0.275227	Read Editorial With D2G Banker’s Zone Banking Awareness Articles Marketing Quiz Agriculture Officer Home » Current Affairs Quiz » Current Affairs Quiz – June 23 2017 Current Affairs Quiz – June 23 2017 1. India’s first underwater metro tunnel completed for Rs 9,000 crore in ____________ 2. Free electricity connection for BPL families announced in _____________ 3. Which state government has announced that a mobile app named ‘My Plant’, which would help in recording data on tree plantations in the state? 4. Which country has recently introduced a 'family tax' of 100 riyals (₹1,700 approx) on immigrants living there? 5. Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has opened a technologically advanced product application & research centre (PARC) for polymers in ___________ 6. Which country has launched Research Project to compile data on disputed region? 7. World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a loan assistance of ____ million dollars for the Assam State Public Finance Institutional Reforms (ASPIRe) Project 8. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its Cartosat- 2 series satellite for earth observation along with ____ co-passenger satellites 9. Who will become the first Indian woman to compete in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)? Priya Mishra Kalpana Devi 10. __________and __________were confirmed as ‘Full Member’ of ICC thereby granting them Test status Afghanistan and Ireland Afghanistan and Namibia Kenya and Ireland USA and Ireland Current Affairs Quiz - June 23 2017 I got %%score%% of %%total%% right Share your results This quiz has been created with WordPress Viral Quiz ♥. Also Check Out – Current Affairs Daily Digest – June 23′ 2017 Also Check Out – Current Affairs Quiz – June 22 2017 Current Affairs Quiz June 2017 Quiz Current Affairs Quiz – January 19 2021 Current Affairs Quiz – January 16 & 17 & 18 2021 Read Editorial with D2G – Ep 501 Current Affairs Daily Digest – January 19 2021 Current Affairs Daily Digest – January 17 & 18 2021 Current Affairs Quiz – January 14 & 15 2021 Day Today GK – We Give Wings To Your Dreams CHANNEL FOR ASPIRANTS Join Our Official Channel Now Copyright © 2020. Created by Day Today GK Current Affairs Online Test	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1652
__label__cc	0.674676	0.325324	Deira International School (DIS) - Dubai Festival City Deira International School Toggle search barToggle Navigation Highest Quality Learning DIS Board Leaders, Teachers and Staff Facilities and Technology Inspection Outcomes Associations and Accreditations Al Futtaim Education Foundation Would you like to speak to a member of our admissions team to learn more about DIS? Please click here to complete the short form and we will get back to you within 24 hours. Grade(s) applying for FS1 FS2 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Year 13 Our vision within the inclusion department is to create an inspiring, inclusive and aspirational learning culture in a supportive and stimulating environment that engages, enhances and promotes achievement. Our aim as teachers is to know every student well, support them according to their individual needs and build quality relationships which enables all of our students to achieve or exceed their potential. Our purpose is to provide a distinctive educational experience and take every student on a journey of self-discovery, helping them to realise the qualities they possess and prepare them for the challenges of the fast-changing modern world. The Head of Inclusion in Primary is Ms Aisling O’Connor and in Secondary is Ms Aoife Killane. If you have any concerns or queries, please do get in touch and we will be happy to help. Please click on the following links for details of the Inclusion provision at Deira International School: School Inclusion Policy School Inclusion Policy (Arabic) Law No. (2) of 2014 concerning Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Emirates of Dubai UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol, Federal Law No. (29) of 2006 concerning the Rights of People of Determination Federal Law No. (3) of 2016 on child rights (Wadeema’s Law) Dubai Inclusive Education Policy Framework Leaders Teachers and Staff © 2020 Deira International School. All rights reserved uasdubai	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1662
__label__cc	0.579412	0.420588	Tag Archives: poverty November 25, 2020 by Jeremy Foodbank is an ongoing photographic project by Glasgow-based photographers Saskia Coulson and Colin Tennant which began in the summer of 2020. A volunteer in the doorway of one of the many storerooms of the food bank. In 2009, the Trussel Trust (the UK’s largest food bank charity) opened its first branch in Scotland. Ten years later The Scotsman reported that there were a staggering 52 food banks operating in Glasgow alone. It is clear that in Scotland, and across the UK, we are seeing an increase in food insecurity with serious consequences for the health and wellbeing of children and adults alike. This is not a new issue, but concerns have been brought into sharp focus as a result of the global pandemic, food supply issues in light of Brexit and threats posed by the economic downturn. A volunteer preparing food parcels. Due to Covid restrictions food bank users are only allowed to come into the building one at a time to select their weekly shop. It has been projected that six food parcels will be given out every minute in the UK from October to December this year. This work-in-progress project documents a food bank in the East End of Glasgow. It captures everyday people who volunteer their time and resources to provide sustenance to those in need. A volunteer chef prepares the takeaway soup to be given out to those waiting in line for groceries. A volunteer stands outside the food bank with a collection of open cereal boxes, the food bank often receives strange donations. A volunteer stands in a newly built storeroom which is due to store all the donations. Recent changes in the building operations mean the original storerooms are needing to be cleared for church activities. “We live less than 100 yards from our local food bank in the East End of Glasgow. We first got to know the volunteers who run the food bank when we started helping deliver food parcels during the first UK lockdown when COVID-19 hit. Although it had been operating for many years prior to pandemic. Both the food bank and the (pay what you can) cafe are run out of the same church and share many of the same passionate volunteers that are the heart and soul of all operations. Through this work we seek to highlight the invaluable service food banks provide to local communities. The work aims to illustrate the power and importance of grassroots community organisations that support and help society’s most vulnerable but also question why more and more people are reliant on the resources provided by food banks. Throughout the project, we have spoken to volunteers about the uncertainty that this charity, and many like it, face. In the wake of government support for COVID-19, many existing funding programmes have been slashed or seriously cut back, which has left charities with an uncertain future. Not only is there anxiety around what lies ahead but the charity is also having to change their operations to abide by strict safety measures, which are changing on a weekly basis. What was once a busy social hub for those less fortunate to receive a hot meal, weekly basic shop and often some well needed company has now become a regimented process of allowing people in on a one-by-one basis.” – Colin and Saskia. A user waits to be allowed into the food bank, which now operates on a one in, one out basis. Stacks of donations are stored in every available space. A new volunteer stands outside the food bank, she has recently decided to help out as she studies for her degree online. In light of these restrictions and setbacks, this project seeks to represent the hard-working individuals who keep this food bank running and how they strive to make sure that this organisation can not only provide food for the community, but can also provide a place for comfort, companionship and compassion. A volunteer stands in a storeroom of the foodbank. A Volunteer and user embrace. As well as providing food for those in need, the food bank is a safe, social space for those seeking comfort and company. All photographs and text, © Colin Tennant and Saskia Coulson, 2020. Find your closest foodbank here. Please consider donating to your local foodbank if you don’t already do so. Thanks – Document Scotland. We hope you have enjoyed the above article and images. Since forming in 2012 all the work featured on this site, and the work undertaken to enable it, has been free of charge. Now, times are changing. To continue we feel we need to ask for your support, to help us manage our time and energies, and to continue sharing photography we care about. Please visit our Patreon page and consider being a supporter. Thank you – Jeremy, Sophie, Colin. \| charity, Colin Tennant, foodbank, Glasgow, poverty, Saskia Coulson, Trussel Trust \| 0 Nick Hedges – A Life Worth Living October 20, 2015 by Sophie Nick Hedges’ photographs for Shelter 1969-72 In 1968, Shelter employed Nick Hedges to document the oppressive and abject living conditions being experienced in poor quality housing in the UK. We commissioned the work in an effort to raise consciousness about the extent of unfit living conditions and to illustrate, in human terms, what the real cost of bad housing was. A number of Nick Hedges’ images are on display on large billboards in St Andrews Square in Edinburgh this month, if anyone recognises the people photographed or know what happened to them they are encouraged to contact Shelter – you can do by emailing [email protected] Couple in a Leith tenement flat Edinburgh © Nick Hedges/Shelter 1972 Family living in an overcrowded tenement flat Glasgow © Nick Hedges/Shelter 1971 Mother living with her children in an overcrowded single end tenement flat Glasgow © Nick Hedges/Shelter 1971 The thing about people living in slum housing is that there is no drama…it’s about the absolute wearing down of people’s morale in a quiet and undemonstrative way. View of Glasgow tenements © Nick Hedges/Shelter 1971 Unemployed colliery worker Glasgow tenement © Nick Hedges/Shelter 1971 Teenage girls waiting in backyard of tenement block Maryhill © Nick Hedges/Shelter 1971 See a link here on the Shelter website for Nick Hedges’ honest and striking account of his time photographing in Scotland for Shelter. \| black and white, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gorbals, housing, living conditions, Nick Hedges, poverty, Scotland, Shelter, slums, social documentary, tenements \| 0 Why I Took This PIcture……Giulietta Verdon-Roe July 1, 2013 by Stephen It had been a long day. I had started early, going straight to Home-Start Levenmouth offices and interviewing all who worked there. It was just before Christmas and everyone was running around trying to organise the bags of presents which had been donated. Never ending lists filled with children’s names were being checked off and discussed… “who would like the fire-engine over the small truck?” “is she too old for this book?” “her sister might steal that” “ooo this is perfect for…” “she’s a Tom boy she won’t like that!” I was told that these were likely to be the only presents that these children received this year, so it was very important to find the right thing for the right child. After the morning of sorting out toys and interviewing, I had arranged to meet with a volunteer and her young charge. We went to an arts and craft centre in a park where we painted magnets. It was incredibly windy and it was difficult to even open the car doors without them closing in your face as we climbed back into the car. It was freezing cold and the last of the trees clinging leaves flew from their branches. The magnets were going to be presents that the young girl could give to her Mum for christmas. I took pictures through-out the day and found myself learning a great deal about the community I was documenting, the role of a volunteer and the children and parents they then helped. On our way back we stopped off at the local super-market. The little girl I was with charged around pointing at everything and hoping she could persuade her volunteer to buy it. I was so aware of her wanting these things and equally aware of her mums inability to afford them and there it was, aisles and aisles of toys that all the parents had to walk down and say no to. That’s why I took this picture. Giulietta’s photograph, and others from her series, “Home-Start Levenouth”, can be seen at Fotospace Gallery, Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, as part of the “Seeing Ourselves” exhibition, which is curated by Document Scotland. The exhibition continues until August 1st 2013. Document Scotland’s latest newspaper, which accompanies the exhibition can be bought online. Treat yourself. http://www.documentscotland.com/seeing-ourselves-newspaper/ \| b/w, exhibitions, family, Fife, Giulietta Verdon Roe, levenmouth, poverty, Scotland, Seeing Ourselves, society, Why I Took This Picture \| 0	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1666
__label__cc	0.553989	0.446011	Death of a Fisherman, Alicante, by Abigail Ardelle Zammit Fishermen Carrying a Drowned Man, by Jozef Israëls (Netherlands). 1861. Death of a Fisherman, Alicante after Heliodoro Guillén Pedemonti There was the sea, impenitent, ruffling its muddy plumage across Raval Rouge, the altar boys scuffling by the doorstep weighed down by candelabra, men holding a stray oar, sword-like, curious neighbours in feisty veils, fishing nets splayed on walls like rambling roses and dawn, having tinged a rusty vine, bearing a crucifix of light. Abigail Ardelle Zammit Editor's note: The wonderful image above is a placeholder and not the painting that inspired the poem. Zammit's poetry was prompted by a painting she viewed at MUBAG, The Museum of Fine Arts Gravina in Spain. The artwork was by Alicante artist Heliodoro Guillen Pedemonti, possibly also titled Death of a Fisherman. We regret we are unable to find an image to show or link. You can learn more about the artist here: http://www.mubag.com/guillen-pedemonti-heliodoro/. Abigail Ardelle Zammit is from the island of Malta. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing (Lancaster) and has had poems published in various British and Canadian journals. Her first collection, Voices from the Land of Trees (Smokestack 2007), takes its inspiration from Guatemala’s violent past. Abigail’s second collection Portrait of a Woman with Sea Urchin won second prize in the Sentinel Poetry Book Competition (London) and was published in 2015. Abigail is a lecturer in English at the G.F. Abela Junior College. She has had workshops with many established poets and in 2016 she was a guest poet at the Inizjamed Mediterranean literature festival, thanks to which she started translating poems from Maltese into English. Her poetry spans various themes but there is a sustained interest in the relationship between text, body, landscape, coastal geographies and the female experience. https://abigailardellezammit.net/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1679
__label__wiki	0.79691	0.79691	Jul 9, 2020 - 08:09 pm Nissan Leaf trials with V2G technology in Australia Owners of Nissan Leaf should be able to charge appliances from their cars later this year. ACTAustraliaAustralian governmentJetChargeNissanNissan LeafV2GWallbox Quasar Nissan’s vehicle-to-grid technology has arrived in Australia. With a government trial, called Realising Electric Vehicle Services (REVS), Nissan is preparing to launch V2G technology to the Australian market later this year. The REVS project will see 51 Nissan Leaf EVs deployed across the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) ahead of the commercial roll-out planned by Nissan. The ACT government will operate 50 Nissan Leaf electric cars in a trial capacity, using their batteries to stabilise energy supply to the power grid. The government trial will function as a public showcase of Nissan’s Leaf to deliver bi-directional charging. With this technology, drivers will be able to use their cars to supply energy to homes, for example in blackouts or to power appliances, as well as eventually balancing grids. Nissan Australia managing director Stephen Lester says “With more people working from home currently, with a Nissan LEAF in the driveway, a household could significantly reduce their power bills by using their vehicle as a battery,” he says. “And if they have solar panels, they can maximise their use of renewable energy, and still have an exciting zero-emissions car to drive.” The necessary volume of the Wallbox units will be available in Australia by the end of the year. This Wallbox Quasar unit has just gone through certification in Germany, and the UK, and Australia will become the third country to have the wall box made available. JetCharge is importing the Wallbox Quasar and is also playing a role in the REVS trials, focussing on, for example, the ability of multiple electric vehicles to provide grid services such as frequency control. JetCharge maintains that the wall box will transform the way people perceive vehicles, transport and energy. Chief executive at Jet Charge, Tim Washington, says the bi-directional charger will be capable of 7kW output. Nissan says customers will be able to activate the vehicle-to-grid feature later this year. Other such trials are being conducted in Europe, for example with Nissan in Germany in a test for piloting grid balancing with intermittent renewables. Moreover, the carmaker has been issued the technology on its home market in Japan for some time already. Just this week the EU Commission underlined the importance of V2G technology in its strategy for energy systems. news.com.au, thedriven.io, nissan.com.au Delta launches 200-kW charging station for EMEA region European hydrogen corridor for 1000 fuel cell trucks 2 Kommentare zu “Nissan Leaf trials with V2G technology in Australia” Yeah, no. Nissan Leaf for sale with 9 bars, 12000 km. Good idea but we need better batteries. And certainly better cars. Jim Knock Our home has 2 BEVs, one a new Leaf, the other a 6 year old Smart EV. We also have about 15KW potential solar panels on out roof. The issue clearly is to manage our energy flows to suit our needs and minimize our costs. We also live in an earthquake zone so our vehicles could also supply our emergency needs for electricity after the ‘big one’ hits us. https://www.electrive.com/2020/07/09/nissan-leaf-trials-with-v2g-technology-to-start-in-australia/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1681
__label__cc	0.732448	0.267552	Everything You Need to Know About Dual Passports Dual citizenship is very common and many of us dream of holding two passports. In fact, as per The Second Citizenship Survey 2017 from CS Global Partners, there are 89% people in U.S who want to have a second passport. A second passport basically gives you security. You know you can go to another country without any trouble in case things get troublesome for you in your country. There was a time when people from third world countries looked at getting a second passport, but now even people living in first world countries are learning about eligibility for a passport as they also have understood the importance of a dual nationality. This was evident from the high number of British citizens applying for a second season after Brexit. If you also want to have a second passport, you need to be aware of requirements and other such factors. While possessing two passports of the same country is illegal (applicable in specific circumstances), having passports for multiple countries isn’t. However, getting a passport to another country isn’t a walk in the park as there are several eligibility criteria that determine whether you are eligible or not. Let’s find out more: Spending A Good Amount Of Time In Another Country When you spend a considerate amount of time on foreign grounds and prove to be an asset for the country’s economy then you are eligible to apply for immigration. Many countries abide by this rule and offer citizenship. While some countries may require only 3-4 years to be eligible and apply for citizenship, some countries require as much as 20 years to be eligible. Here are two of the most famous countries in this regard: Canada: Canada is one of the fastest evolving countries. Unlike before, now you have to work a job in the country to be eligible for its citizenship. Moreover, you need to have an official residence and then it’s just a matter of 3-4 years until you can apply for permanent residency. Panama: Getting a residency in Panama costs around $5000. Once you are a legal resident, you can get permanent citizenship in just 5 years. Economic Citizenship This is by far the most quickest and easiest way to get a citizenship to most countries. It is often referred to as citizenship by investment. A country will most likely offer a citizenship to you if you invest a specific amount in the country. This is because all countries require FDI to grow, and investment results in economic growth and other such advantages, including more jobs etc. However, not all countries are willing to offer economic citizenship programs to foreigners. Here are some that do: Cyprus: Getting a Cyprus passport is possible for businesspersons who can afford to invest 2,000,000 euros. The other option is to donate at least 5,00,000 euros to aid the Cyprus government in research. Grenada: To be eligible for a Grenada citizenship you have to invest at least $5,00,000 in real estate. Unlike Cyprus, Grenada requires a newly citizenship awarded person to live there for a year. For more details, get in touch with a professional. Related Topics:Dual PassportsInformationMusic NewsPassport This list is essential for those who want to celebrate New Year’s Eve accompanied by good music. The best songs of 2020 according to Electro Wow include independent and mainstream artists. Within the selection parameters, the combination of melody and lyrics were considered. Furthermore, all of these tracks have one thing in common, their instant catchiness quality! Obviously, it wasn’t an easy task as there are many great tunes that deserved to be on this list. It’s time to forget the horrible Coronavirus year. Find out the best songs of 2020 right here. ✦ BEST ELECTRO-POP (SYNTH-POP) SONGS The Weeknd – In Your Eyes If Michael Jackson ruled in the 80s, Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd seems to take the lead in the 2020s. “In Your Eyes” has irresistible synthesizers and a delicious saxophone solo that makes it easily an unforgettable radio-friendly hit. He explores feelings of regret and pain in his personal lyrics. Sam Sparro – Eye 2 Eye I’m really obsessed with this beautiful Electro-Pop ballad! The Australian singer reaches the high notes with his splendid soulful vocals like nobody else. “Eye 2 Eye” gives you goosebumps as he puts intense emotions and so much passion into it. It’s a song about coming together and getting more intimate with the one you love despite being separated by a screen. Jessy Lanza – Lick In Heaven Enjoy gorgeous synths from start to end. Incredibly, Jessy’s singing voice feels as sweet as candy. For some reason, this is the type of music that makes you feel happy in no time. In actual fact, this amazing jam was born with a simple 101 bass line. Kiesza – Love Me With Your Lie Probably, inspired by Madonna’s “Erotica,” Kiesza rises like a phoenix from the ashes after a brain injury. This absolute banger from the Canadian singer is as catchy as hell. If you start dancing on your own once you hit the play button, then, that means you have a good musical ear. ORION – Higher Synth duo Orion Dommisse and John-Paul Sullivan will make you realize that the 80s never died. Their infectious music features a touch of drama and unfolds a nostalgic atmosphere. In other words, they sound like ABBA of the twentieth-first century. “Higher” is so dope! Munatix – You Just Keep Hanging On Hailing from Belgium, these emerging artists showcase their great expertise in vintage and analog synthesizers. Certainly, thanks to its singalong chorus, “You Just Keep Hanging On” can become a karaoke classic. Overall, a fun tune with strong hooks. ✦ BEST DANCE-POP (EDM) SONGS Dejhare – Don’t Let Us Lose (Dance Deluxe) Dejhare is a singer and songwriter best known for her romantic ballads. Nevertheless, this year she tried something different with a dance makeover of her ‘Unbreakable’ album. Well, the epic results speak for themselves. Listeners from around the world were left open-mouthed, especially with the dance deluxe version of “Don’t Let Us Lose.” Baby Girl Oksana – Messed Up Produced by Mr Mav and reaching the #3 position on Reverbnation, “Messed Up” by Baby Girl Oksana will surely get stuck in your head. Oddly enough, the sad lyrics of a broken friendship combine so well with the dancey beats. It’s like a hidden gem that deserves way more recognition. COY Swede, Matthew Titmouse – You Are The anthemic nature of “You Are” surpasses all expectations. COY Swede joins forces with Matthew Titmouse whose stable vocals give so much life to a special song that is dedicated to everyone that has experienced a great loss. Inspired by the one and only Avicii, you’re about to hear an underrated masterpiece. Danny Spade, Tara Louise – Hooked Needless to say, the feel-good vibes are part of the signature style of the rising American producer. On the other hand, Tara Louise has a beautiful tone that goes hand-in-hand with the uplifting melodies while taking this song to the next level. Evidently, Danny Spade is a name to watch within the Dance-Pop category. N2BLÜ – Unicorn Tribe The duo composed of Jonathan Arceneaux and Konstantin Smorodnikov wants you to embrace your authentic self via “Unicorn Tribe.” In this new decade, we need more artists like them whose music outstands due to excellent lyrics charged with positivity. Not to mention, there’s so much euphoria in the breakdown and at the drop. John Lynx, Sergi Yaro – Dreams “Dreams” is probably, the most satisfying composition produced by John Lynx. If you close your eyes, you can imagine big crowds jumping and dancing at a big festival to its massive drops. The Tiesto and Armin van Buuren’s influence is also notable on this cut. Sergi Yaro’s emotion-laden vocals confirm you this is one of the best songs of the year. ✦ BEST TRANCE SONGS Dennis Sheperd, Katty Heath – Losing My Mind Dennis Sheperd masterfully builds tension throughout the entire track, sparking off a fresh Trance classic. The chorus captures the emotions of someone who is dealing with a challenging situation. Add to this, the powerful vocals from Katty Heath who makes the beats roar. RAM & Susana – You Are Enough Here you have a good example of an emotionally-driven hymn. RAM & Susana will put shivers down your spine due to the uplifting melody and the message of this great tune. When they work together, this pair never disappoint. Somna, Noire Lee – Beside You “Beside You” perfectly displays the magic Somna is capable of doing at the studio. A highly emotive tune featuring the talent of singer and songwriter Noire Lee. The effects on it are brilliantly designed as well as the chord progressions. Headstrong, Alexandra Badoi – Fear Alexandra Badoi offers the heavenly quality needed in Trance music while Headstrong provides the proper sonic treatment with delicate beats and piano solos that will elevate listeners to a cosmic level. Aly & Fila, Plumb – Somebody Loves You Designed to send a wonderful message that revolves around self-esteem and confidence, Aly & Fila literally make a brand new hit. Indeed, it’s a response to depression and best of all, with the lovely vocals of Plumb. Marcus Santoro, Lauren L’aimant – Blackout “Blackout” evokes the feeling of flying or floating, much like the Trance tunes from the early 2000s. The undulating melodies hook listeners and the ethereal atmosphere derived from the singing voice of Lauren L’aimant is exactly what you can expect from their outstanding collaboration. ✦ BEST HOUSE SONGS Muzik Box, Rinaldo Montezz – Karma If clubs and bars weren’t closed due to the pandemic, “Karma” would be a hit within the underground scene. I think Muzik Box know what it takes to sweep listeners off their feet. This fantastic radio-edit version is a joint effort with Rinaldo Montezz who maximized the euphoria of this monster track. Carnage, The Martinez Brothers, Elderbrook – Together American producers Carnage and The Martinez Brothers deliver a totally different vibe on this song. It sounds like the future of the genre. Simple and infectious, “Together” is chilled-out House music at its finest! Colt The House DJ – Summer Without a doubt, one of the best summer anthems of 2020. Creatively, the intro features a chorus of seagulls and the sound of crashing waves. Colt The House DJ is an emerging producer that has a bright future ahead. Duck Sauce – Mesmerize A-Trak and Armand Van Helden aka Duck Sauce return with “Mesmerize,” their first single in six years. An uptempo offering charged with a particular 90s retro style. Needless to say, it’s a true gem of House music. Electric Polar Bears – Break The Ice Everyone will love the perfect blend of Future and Tech House on “Break The Ice.” The delightful summer-ready jam slithers through captivating clubbin’ rhythms. It’s impossible to listen to this groovy hit and not to move your body. C-ntroversy, Michael M – Block, Report, Unfriend, Unfollow I’m sure this funny track will spark a laugh, and its title says it all. With minimal beats, the message here is clear, “Block, Report, Unfriend, Unfollow” in order to protect your peace of mind is a great idea! BEST DISCO SONGS Kylie Minogue – Magic In these dark times, Kylie goes disco for the first time, consequently, the song is pure “Magic.” A sweaty dancefloor filler inspired by the late 70s. With ethereal piano keys melting into brass, what else could you ask for?… Purple Disco Machine, Sophie And The Giants – Hypnotized Well, who hasn’t heard this funky track yet? “Hypnotized” became a massive hit across Europe, plus, it got the Platinum certification in Italy. Fans are already eager to hear his forthcoming Disco album in 2021. The Shapeshifters, Billy Porter – Finally Ready “Finally Ready” by The Shapeshifters and Billy Porter forms part of a new golden era of the Disco renaissance. With a fresh sound for the dancefloors, this is absolutely uplifting. I’m loving the cinematic strings and horns, but especially the magnificent vocals. Sophie Ellis Bextor – Crying At The Discotheque The “Murder On The Dancefloor” singer makes an impressive comeback with this flawlessly executed cover. This is pretty much an essential Disco jam for any DJ out there. With the modern arrangements and her sexy singing voice, she’s giving it a new life. As you probably know, TikTok makes songs go viral nowadays, and that’s the case of Doja Cat’s “Say So.” Probably, it’s the most popular Disco track of the year. The way she sings and raps at the same time proves her versatility, and that’s admirable. Dimitri From Paris, Aeroplane, Leela D – Can’t Get Enough This 6-minute slice of DISCO warms the soul. Dimitri From Paris and Aeroplane along with singer Leela D deserve praise from the clubbing world. Trust me, you’ll want to listen to “Can’t Get Enough” on repeat. ✦ BEST REGGAETON SONGS Bad Bunny – Yo Perreo Sola Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny is currently the king of Reggaeton. The purpose of this song is to support women wanting to dance alone and feel safe doing it. Giving that sense of freedom back to them. Black Eyed Peas, Ozuna, J. Rey Soul – MAMACITA Positively, this year Black Eyed Peas innovate and explore Reggaeton rhythms by collaborating with different Latin singers. “MAMACITA” is a bilingual heater that incorporates all the catchy elements to make you wanna dance. DJ Blass, Japanese – Larry Caboa Fill your tank with adrenaline when listening to “Larry Caboa.” This is a highly danceable track that will help you get the party pumping. Don’t get surprised if it triggers Perreo pandemonium at your own house. The ambiguity of the lyrics is pretty hilarious! El Alfa – Guaremate De Por Vida Few artists can captivate all your senses like El Alfa and his strangely enjoyable song titled “Guaremate De Por Vida.” Clearly, the tropical-esque beats and its Dembow influence welcome party animals to go wild at clubs. Gigolo Y La Exce – Cuidao There is no question “Cuidao” is one of those eargasmic slowed-down tracks with emotive lyrics to sing out loud. Gigolo Y La Exce showcase all their skills, plus verses with good flow and wordplay put the icing on the cake. Babylizz, Tomasa Del Real – Down Romantic Reggaeton at its finest! Babylizz and Neoperreo Queen Tomasa Del Real join forces to rework this classic urban hit originally written by R.K.M & Ken-Y. Powered by nostalgia, the song melds the dynamism of the two singers who do their best in rapping with passion. ✦ BEST TECHNO SONGS Ramon Tapia, Kai Tracid – 303 State What do you get of play this acid monster from Ramon Tapia and Kai Tracid? Probably, your healthy dose of energetic music. This type of Techno sound is making a huge comeback in recent years, and I think it’s here to stay for a long time. Will Clarke – Let’s Rave Lose yourself in the music, “Let’s Rave” is an invitation to throw up your arms in the air. Sonically, its heavy direction can be interpreted as a fresh makeover of the acidic Techno from the 90s. Massive synths and stabs all around. Josh Wink – Higher State Of Consciousness (Adana Twins Remix) Old-school ravers will get blessed memories with this striking remix. Get ready to enter higher states of consciousness thanks to Adana Twins’ new twist on this classic number as they are bringing back the eardrum killer! HURTR – Nu Acid It’s particularly interesting to hear a Techno track with vocals. Hurtr has been working their way up in the underground scene since 2010. The seductive vocals from Heidi Hull merge with acid synths and pulsating beats in a hypnotic way. Toma Hawk, Dr.Acid – Velvet The world needs to hear this futuristic release from the one and only Toma Hawk. “Velvet” is a punch of straight Techno, a great mixture of Acid sounds, and a blast of kicks and basslines! Paolo Virdis – Survive Dark synths, excellent synths, and sequences. The mysterious sounding and its driving energy is compelling from start to finish. The Italian producer is one to watch out for in 2021. ✦ BEST NEW INDIE ARTISTS Mark Henes – Arm Full Of Roses Mark Henes is truly unique in the world of independent singer/songwriters. The amazing ballad “Arm Full Of Roses” sounds like a timeless classic track you’d probably hear in a movie. Today he’s making a name for himself in the industry by reimagining the Americana style. Matilde Girasole – Cup Of Tea From the very start, Matilde proves to be a talented singer. “Cup of Tea” is an energetic Pop tune fueled by her vibrant/vigorous voice. She’s one of the best new indie artists I discovered this year, and I can assure you she will go far with her music career. Nathan Daniels – I Choose There is more satisfaction in giving than receiving, that’s the positive message behind Nathan Daniel’s hit “I Choose.” The independent talent’s soulful tone will make your heart warm. In addition, RnB and contemporary electronic beats fade into one another for a good reason. Jace Heyman – Drunk Text Jace Heyman blends Caribean music with radio-friendly Pop melodies on “Drunk Text.” It contains relatable lyrics, and they create a common scenario some of you will feel identified with. On a side note, the up-and-coming artist finds inspiration in mainstream entertainers like Chris Brown and Daddy Yankee. The Migraine Aura – Your House The Migraine Aura is a collective of artists and vocalists. As a matter of fact, the tune that amassed thousands of streams in Spotify is titled “Your House.” Buzzing with dreamy vintage vibes and nice acoustics, they create pleasing music that guarantees to brighten your days. RYNO – Powerlines Recorded during lockdown at his home studio, you can tell the indie artist pours all his emotions into it. As a result, lyrics are similar to a heartfelt letter. An interesting piece of songwriting and vocal performance as well. ✦ BEST ALBUMS Bad Bunny – YHLQMDLG Black Eyed Peas – Translation Kylie Minogue – Disco Sam Sparro – Boombox Eternal It can be a struggle to get the pro sound you’re looking for when recording inside your home. Your surrounding space is noisy and full of distractions. Somehow your roommates shouting in the living room about losing a video game breaks through the honeycomb insulation lining your bedroom. Someone keeps busting in, unable to get the hint that you’re trying to craft something nasty. It sucks, but there’s a way to make things easier for you and your music. It’s time to renovate that dilapidated shed behind your home into your sound palace. Here are some tips to transform your backyard shed into a vibrant studio. 1 – Seal Up The Walls You’ll want to seal any existing cracks in the shed walls. Caulk, insulation spray, or even sealing gum can get this job done easily. This won’t just help with keeping the sound in but also keeps the elements and bugs out. When you’re done sealing, then you can get to putting up soundproofing material. If you want to go all out, you can’t go wrong with full-wall insulation paneling, but fiberglass foam squares also get the job done. There are insulation types specifically designed for sound studios, so be on the look-out for those specifically. There’s some serious science behind this stuff. 2 – Check Out The Roof Both the material and overall condition of your roof will matter. If it’s metallic, the roof will generate less-than-ideal vibrations that can interfere with your sound. Even if the roof is decent for sound, it might still have breaks or damage that can leave your studio (and all your expensive equipment) vulnerable. Having new, professional roofing installed will keep the sound in. Don’t be shy with adding sound-deadening substances on the interior like absorption blankets or insulated foam to complete the soundproofing. 3 – To The Windows, To The…Doors? Some sheds are built with windows, and it should definitely have a door. These are two parts of the studio that can be left behind or forgotten when it comes to soundproofing. Windows are tricky because having a bit of airflow and sunlight is nice, but having too much of either messes with your work. Take the time to caulk up any space between the window and wall. Rather than covering windows entirely, hang up sound resistant curtains, so you can close and open them as you please. Doors are similar, so you’ll want to seal cracks up with caulk or weathering strips. And unless you want to live the rest of your days locked inside the studio (honestly, it’s tempting), you don’t want to seal it shut completely. There are ultra industrial soundproof doors, but a budget-friendly way involves fastening an acoustic blanket above the door already there. Or, you can use the same curtains from your windows! 4 – Down On The Floor Your flooring needs some love too. If you’re standing on wood or concrete, neither are great at keeping sound in or out. Sound travels through wood particularly well and concrete isn’t much better. Adding thick carpeting isn’t expensive and will help insulate the space for all your recording needs. Soundproofing an unused shed is an easy way to give yourself a professional quality sound studio. It’s entirely separate from the distractions inside your home, letting you focus completely on the project at hand. It’s a viable option for any aspiring artist, so what are you waiting for? Get started on yours today! You’ll be amazed by the final result and ready to move in! The internet is rife with claims concerning the effect of music on your mental performance. The most popular myth is the claim that listening to various genres of music boosts your cognitive ability. Although music promotes quality study sessions, it does not directly influence the development of memory. This article comprises the effects of jazz music on your mental health and how you can harness them to your benefit. For professional assistance with various concepts, Music homework help is a resource that should come in handy. Here, you get in-depth coverage of various concepts within your field while saving time to attend to other activities. 1 – Helps student to focus better Like classical music in the Mozart effect, jazz comprises of a consistent low-tempo tune without lyrics. Unlike high-tempo music with lyrics, jazz does not divert your attention to the lyrics, thus boosts your concentration. The background music also helps you create an ambient environment for study. By blocking out the screeching of seats, mumbling of other people in your vicinity, and other noises, it allows you to focus and interact better with the material at hand. As shown in various studies, jazz activates both hemispheres of the brain, promoting better creativity and memorization. 2 – Creates a pattern that is easier to recall Ever wondered why committing lyrics to memory is an easier task than storing biology concepts? While interest plays a role in the faster memorization of lyrics, music creates a pattern that promotes information processing and storage. However, the tempo of music dramatically influences your ability to study. When listening to fast-paced music, you handle activity faster than when listening to slower-paced compositions. The low tempo of jazz allows you to study at an ideal pace, ensures maximum interaction of the studied material with the brain, and boosts memorization. 3 – Stress reduction College lifestyle is a never-ending battle of competing needs and interests. Stress arises from assignments due in a few days, ever-increasing amounts of content, and financial scales to balance. Owing to the effect of stress on your productivity, you can barely study and commit the material to memory. Jazz induces endorphins production, which controls anxiety, enabling you to focus on the study material. Even more, background music blocks noise from the environment, which allows you to focus on study material. This aids in endurance over long study sessions, which is essential for mastery of various concepts. 4 – Relax after tedious study sessions When you are threatened, the body produces adrenaline and cortisol, which increase anxiety and affect your sleep cycle. Owing to the pressure from various academic responsibilities, you may suffer from increased anxiety and low sleep cycles. Music influences the nervous system to regulate the production of these hormones to the necessary amounts. As a result, you get better sleep quality, thus giving your brain the necessary amount of rest. This ensures mental health and promotes better cognitive activity in the study sessions scheduled for the next day. As a result, you can gain the most from each study session and avoid long-term mood disorders. Jazz is among the sedative music that has been proven by various MRI studies to influence mental performance. However, it is vital to note that jazz does not improve your cognitive ability; instead, it helps you focus your attention and manage stress. As a result, you can make the most of each study session and influence the studied material’s storage and retrieval. Volume regulation is of crucial importance when studying with background music. 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__label__wiki	0.820189	0.820189	Home / The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature New Americanists More about this series Book Pages: 248 Illustrations: Published: May 2005 Author: Stacey Margolis American Studies, Literature and Literary Studies > Literary Criticism Stacey Margolis rethinks a key chapter in American literary history, challenging the idea that nineteenth-century American culture was dominated by an ideology of privacy that defined subjects in terms of their intentions and desires. She reveals how writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Henry James depicted a world in which characters could only be understood—and, more importantly, could only understand themselves—through their public actions. She argues that the social issues that nineteenth-century novelists analyzed—including race, sexuality, the market, and the law—formed integral parts of a broader cultural shift toward understanding individuals not according to their feelings, desires, or intentions, but rather in light of the various inevitable traces they left on the world. Margolis provides readings of fiction by Hawthorne and James as well as Susan Warner, Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, and Pauline Hopkins. In these writers’ works, she traces a distinctive novelistic tradition that viewed social developments—such as changes in political partisanship and childhood education and the rise of new politico-legal forms like negligence law—as means for understanding how individuals were shaped by their interactions with society. The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature adds a new level of complexity to understandings of nineteenth-century American culture by illuminating a literary tradition full of accidents, mistakes, and unintended consequences—one in which feelings and desires were often overshadowed by all that was external to the self. “Margolis outlines the impact of social interaction on the development of individual and collective national identity as reflected by select writers. Her book allows us to recognize the nineteenth century as a period in which American society shaped individuals, an insight that counters the Emersonian concept of the reflective, rugged individualist. The book provides an original interdisciplinary approach that would interest any nineteenth-century scholar or Americanist.” — Corinne Kopcik, Legacy “One of the most compelling aspects of The Public Life of Privacy is its often daring synthesis between seemingly disparate discourses, issues, and texts. . . . [The book] challenge[s] us to question some of our deepest critical assumptions, asking us to rethink the formations and fault-lines of the privatized individual that we have come to take as a nearly transparent given in literature of the American nineteenth century.” — Ellen Weinauer, Nineteenth-Century Contexts "With this book Margolis establishes a paradigm for a much wider study of US literature and its culture. Essential." — T. Bonner Jr., Choice “This book places Stacey Margolis at the forefront of a generation of scholars intent on challenging the old divisions that continue to shape the study of American literature. Her unique contribution is to problematize a number of these divisions by showing how consistently post–Civil War fiction crossed the line distinguishing private interiority from social life and reversed the causal relationship between private intentions and public effects. Rather than rush to the Foucauldian conclusion that surveillance can only mean social regulation of personal desire, Margolis pieces together from American writing a model of self-regulation that insists how we appear in the eyes of our social cohort can and should shape how we feel and act. Formulating a liberal subject whose innermost thoughts thus come from outside itself, she not only works across historical and discursive boundaries that would stall most readers but with remarkable precision she also accounts for the formal differences among genres and authors. I believe Margolis’s book will change the way we read nineteenth-century American literature.” — Nancy Armstrong, Brown University Buy the e-book: Author/Editor Bios Author/Editor Bios Back to Top Stacey Margolis is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah. Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Limits of Privacy 1 Part 1: Discipline and Punish 1. The Blithedale Romance and Other Tales of Association 17 2. The Rules of the Game: Punishment in The Wide Wide World 51 Part 2: Race and the Law 3. Huckleberry Finn; or, Consequences 81 4. The Veil of Cedars: Charles Chesnutt and Conversion 107 Part 3: The Public Life 5. Addiction and the Ends of Desire 141 6. Homo-Formalism: Analogy in The Sacred Fount 169 Notes 197 RightsBack to Top Sales/Territorial Rights: World Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-3549-8 / Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3536-8 Bk Cover Image Full Black Feminism Reimagined Black and Blur Putting the Humanities PhD to Work The Intimacies of Four Continents Mohawk Interruptus Environmental Humanities Archives of Labor In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth... Fictions of Land and Flesh In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to connect Black and Indigenous movements, turning to speculative... Home Fronts Unlike studies of nineteenth-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, Lora Romero’s... 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__label__cc	0.6102	0.3898	Eastern Shore Magazine ™ - Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, East Coast Beaches Eastern Shore - filled with history, waterfront towns, and beaches. Eastern Shore Magazine ™ connects you to Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Delmarva, Ocean City area deals, hotels, restaurants, businesses, events, real estate, attractions and more. Did you know Oxford, MD was voted best waterfront town in the world and is just 90 minutes from Washington DC? Use our Eastern Shore search to find what your looking for in Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. Eastern Shore Events Hotels B&Bs Shoregle Search Biotech Sugar Beets - US Lets Farmers Plant With Conditions US Lets Farmers Plant Biotech Sugar Beets, With Conditions 14 February 2011 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States Department of Agriculture has given farmers permission to plant genetically engineered sugar beets with some conditions. A USDA agency ruled on the most popular variety of Roundup Ready sugar beets. The agency said the genetically engineered sugar beets do not harm the environment or increase threats by pests. The Monsanto Company makes Roundup Ready crops. The genetic change in the sugar beets makes them resist the herbicide or weed killer known as Roundup. The action lets growers plant the genetically changed sugar beets if they obey certain rules. The USDA agency expects to finish its full environmental study of the sugar beets by May of next year. Then it will decide if it will permitunlimited planting of the crops. Sugar beets provide about half of America’s sugar supply. The government agency had unconditionally approved the genetically engineered sugar beets in two thousand five. But after legal action, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California cancelled the agency’s approval last year. The court said the Agriculture Department needed to perform a complete study of the environmental effects of the sugar beets. Biotechnology Industry Organization. The group represents more than one thousand biotechnology companies and other organizations. Mr. Greenwood says the current decision is a reasonable step. He says it lets farmers make planting choices while the environmental statement is being completed. But activist groups for the environment and food safety question the product’s safety. They will take legal action in the same federal court that issued the ruling last year. Lawyer Paul Achitoff of the organization Earthjustice said: PAUL ACHITOFF: “We do expect to be able to challenge that decision before the district court.” The Roundup Ready opponents say genetically engineered crops can cross-pollinate and damage other crops. And they say the crops can cause the growth of weeds that resist Roundup. 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__label__wiki	0.588922	0.588922	Thank you for choosing to order from EncounterBooks.com. Due to increased demand, please allow extra time for your order to ship. Currently Viewing The Administrative Threat $5.99 Back to Browse The Administrative Threat By Philip Hamburger Also Purchase as e-Book Paperback / 72 pages Media: Request a Review Copy Academia: Request an Exam Copy Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal lives. As a result, administrative power is a pervasive feature of American life. But is this power constitutional? A similar sort of power was once used by English kings, and this book shows that the similarity is not a coincidence. In fact, administrative power revives absolutism, and on this foundation, the book explains how administrative power is profoundly unconstitutional. In one way after another, it denies Americans the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, including procedural rights such as juries and due process. No other feature of American government violates more constitutional provisions or is more profoundly threatening. As a result, administrative power is the key civil liberties issue of our era. Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He writes on constitutional law, including religious liberty, freedom of speech and the press, administrative power, and unconstitutional conditions. Imperium in Imperio Philip Hamburger on how government regulations have ushered in a new deep state. Administrative Power or Absolute Power? RealClearInvestigations excerpts Philip Hamburger's The Administrative Threat. Saving the Republic The Fate of Freedom in the Age of the Administrative State America is embroiled in ideological conflict, with the opposing partisan bulwarks of the Left and the Right widening a chasm that threatens the unity of our Republic. The tumult in Washington has radiated into our universities, homes, and relationships — from constitutional threats; to the imposition on free speech; to a sprawling, unelected administrative state, America is at a tipping point. Who Rules? Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the 21st Century The populist phenomenon is often identified with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. But the political, moral, and social realities for which Trump was a symbol both predated his candidacy and achieved independent fulfillment in countries as disparate as the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Brazil. Unmasking the Administrative State The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century John Marini The election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency shocked the political establishment, triggering a wave of hysteria among the bicoastal elite that may yet never subside. The biggest shockwaves of all however were felt not in the progressive parishes of Manhattan or San Francisco, but in the halls of the political elite’s cherished and oft-overlooked center of power: Washington, D.C.’s sprawling “administrative state.” The Unelected How an Unaccountable Elite is Governing America James R. Copland America is increasingly polarized around elections, but as James R. Copland explains, the unelected control much of the government apparatus that affects our lives. Congress has largely abdicated its authority. “Independent” administrative agencies churn out thousands of new regulations a year. Courts have enabled these agencies to expand their powers beyond those authorized by law—and limited executive efforts to rein in the bureaucratic behemoth. No ordinary citizen today can know what is legal and what is not. Support smart conservative publishing— and save an extra 15% on your first order. No thanks, maybe later. Which correspondents do you prefer to receive? Encounter Newsletter Marketing Offers Sign up to receive the latest news, including new releases, special offers and more. 900 Broadway, Ste. 601 © 2021 Encounter Books Order Toll-Free	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1690
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__label__wiki	0.781397	0.781397	CODY WEBB TOPS THE PODIUM IN BRAZIL 1 maart 2015 - 08:17 KTM´s Cody WEBB claims his debut Maxxis FIM SuperEnduro World Championship win at the penultimate round of the 2015 series in Belo Horizonte, Brazil In a night of non-stop action it was USA´s Cody Webb who finally put an end to Taddy BLAZUSIAK´s winning ways by claiming the top step of the podium from David KNIGHT (GB-KTM) and BLAZUSIAK in third. `After getting so close numerous times for the overall victory it feels great to have finally got my first win in SuperEnduro,` told WEBB. `Coming into the final race I was tied on points with Walker for the overall but then we crashed in the first corner. I got going again but crashed a second time. Somehow I managed to claw my way back to the third and it was enough for the overall.` Entering the fifth round of the series it was BLAZUSIAK who had been in dominant form by topping the podium in Poland, Germany, Finland and Mexico. But in Brazil his luck finally ran out. Following on from his strong showing last weekend in Mexico, WEBB was hungry to win. Second to Jonny WALKER (GB-KTM) in the SuperPole, the KTM rider quickly fought his way to the front of the pack in race one. Riding fast and smooth on the tight and technical track, WEBB hung on to win from WALKER,KNIGHT and BLAZUSIAK. With the start order reversed for race two it was Spain´s Dani GIBERT (Gas Gas) who emerged with the race lead. WALKER was close behind and piled on the pressure before finding a way past the Spaniard to take the lead. Avoiding trouble, WALKER rode home for the win. WEBB pushed on in the closing stages of the race to take second while BLAZUSIAK again took third. Entering the final race of the night it was WALKER who was pushing for his first SuperEnduro win withWEBB close behind. But with neither rider giving way in the first corner they both hit the deck hard.WALKER was quick to remount but then caught a trackside banner in his rear wheel. Needing outside assistance he was forced out of the race. Meanwhile up front it was KNIGHT in control. Leading the entire race, he survived a final lap crash to win from BLAZUSIAK. Clawing his way back from that first corner crash, WEBB placed third and secured his debut SuperEnduro victory. With his final race win, Knight claimed the runner-up result while BLAZUSIAK completed the top three. In the Juniors, the battle for overall honours was played out once again by Andreas LINUSSON (SWE-KTM) and USA´s Ty TREMAINE (KTM). Sharing a win apiece in the first two races, it wasLINUSSON who won race three to bag the overall victory. The 2015 Maxxis FIM SuperEnduro World Championship concludes with the final round of the series in Cahors, France, Saturday, March 14th.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1692
__label__cc	0.559388	0.440612	Careers Websites HireCast Interactive Video Paid Advertising (PPC) Recruitment Social Media Workday ATS Integration Recruitment Insight Why LinkedIn is More Important Than Ever in Recruitment It’s no secret that LinkedIn has been leading the way in the social media recruitment market for some News, Ongoing Candidate Attraction Aleesha Sharma Join mailing list It’s no secret that LinkedIn has been leading the way in the social media recruitment market for some time now. Facebook and Instagram may be leading in the social networking realm, but LinkedIn has been making equally powerful strides in the recruitment world. With a massive audience of professionals that are actively engaged with the platform, it’s crucial that we don’t underestimate the influence LinkedIn holds within the industry. The growing success of LinkedIn Staggeringly, LinkedIn has over 645+ million members in over 200 countries and territories. To put that into perspective, it means: LinkedIn is the world’s largest online professional network In Europe alone, there’s over 200 million members The sign-up rate is more than two new members per second There are more than 20 million open jobs on LinkedIn Jobs According to LinkedIn Talent Solutions, social professional networks are the number one source of quality hires. In addition, 75% of people who recently changed jobs used LinkedIn to inform their career decision. LinkedIn understand that the primary reason people change jobs is for a better opportunity and that 87% of active and passive candidates are open to new opportunities. The platform capitalises on the needs and wants of people who are looking for better career prospects, whether they’re aware of it or not. How LinkedIn is disrupting the recruitment market Getting your jobs listed on LinkedIn stretches further than just exposure on the platform. The two biggest search engine giants in the world, Google and Bing, are also listing jobs from LinkedIn directly in their search engines. So, if LinkedIn is a huge player in the recruitment space in its own right, imagine the power it wields by getting its listings in front of those audiences as well. For instance, if you were to carry out a job search on Google, you may be presented with some job listings from LinkedIn: If you carry out the same search on Bing, it also displays job results from LinkedIn: With job listings potentially appearing across LinkedIn, Google and Bing, it not only increases the visibility of jobs added to LinkedIn but also results in greater overall brand exposure. If candidates are more likely to see certain jobs over others, then it’s also more likely that they’ll convert. What should recruiters do? It’s no wonder that both Bing and LinkedIn, which are owned by Microsoft, are the innovative front runners for job related queries (learn more about how Bing is innovating more than Google in our article here). Facebook and Google have been making bold moves in the recruitment market over the past few years, but it seems that Microsoft is joining the on-going recruitment battle and counting itself as a real contender. Although Google shows jobs from a wide variety of sources, some of these jobs are still noticeably coming from LinkedIn. This coupled with the fact that Bing is also providing dedicated job listings from LinkedIn means it’s a no brainer for recruiters and employers – you should be posting your job openings on LinkedIn if you aren’t already. LinkedIn’s priority within Bing search results, as well as its visibility within Google’s job results and sheer dominance as a recruitment platform, make it a force to be reckoned with. Perhaps even more so than Indeed. Therefore, it’s more important than ever to utilise the professional networking site to its fullest to stay ahead of the game. To stay informed about the latest developments in recruitment marketing, sign up to our mailing list today. “Enhance Media have partnered with Reed Exhibitions globally to help us to improve our candidate attraction practices. They created a social media strategy including a review of leading platforms resulting in a more consolidated approach which improved coordination and saved costs. Enhance Media designed and build a new careers page for Reed Exhibitions and project manage our social media posting. Our teams enjoy working with the Enhance project group, we respect their professional approach, customer focus and flexibility” Global Human Resources Director, Reed Exhibitions Interactive Video Ongoing Candidate Attraction Is Bing Innovating More than Google for Job Search Results? 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__label__wiki	0.619497	0.619497	Why Apple's iPhone Might Be the Most Hacked Mobile Device Geoffry Ingersoll This story originally appeared on Business Insider The same platforms which helped give Apple its rise have also contributed to its rising vulnerability. This month, web security company SourceFire issued a report called "25 Years of Vulnerabilities" that charted the Critical Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) of various software and mobile devices. A CVE is "the international standard for vulnerability numbering or identification" security companies use to chart exploits. In the report, the company previously known for its near-impenetrability looks like its debut platform, the iPhone, is also its most hackable. Sourcefire detected 210 CVE's, compared to Android's 24. But it could also just be the popularity. Image credit: SourceFire While one may argue that the increase in CVEs is due to the increased popularity of the phone over the years, Android, the current market leader for mobile phone operating systems, has actually received fewer CVEs in 2012 than it did in 2011, even though it had explosive growth in market share. ZDNet's Ellyne Phneah talked to Yves Younan, senior research engineer at SourceFire's Vulnerabilities Research Team and author of the report, who said that the combination of popularity and invulnerability of Apples iTunes with the sheer consumer share of iPhone mobile devices led hackers to focus on penetrating the device. From ZDNet: With Android devices, cybercriminals see less reason to look for vulnerabilities to penetrate smartphones, he added. Android's open platform already easily opens up for third party and malicious apps to be easily created for users to download, he explained. Discover a better way to hire freelancers. From business to marketing, sales, finance, design, technology, and more, we have the freelancers you need to tackle your most important work and projects, on-demand.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1696
__label__cc	0.549293	0.450707	Panasonic GH6 rumours By kye, February 7, 2019 In: Cameras sanveer 838 sanveer 3 minutes ago, Video Hummus said: But the original picture looked like a boxy zcam type prototype camera taken with a 2009 cellphone camera. Last Reply Oct 3 Video Hummus 72 posts sanveer 61 posts kye 60 posts IronFilm 50 posts Shirozina More DR, internal ProRes and external RAW would be preferably to more pixels. hoodlum At 8:50 of this video posted today the GH5 successor is specifically mentioned to be in development. Towd It is interesting that the top three spots on Andrew's list of the most popular cameras on EOSHD are all M43 cameras. Yet every day we have new posts bemoaning the impending death of the format. And Wronzoff 26 Wronzoff ntblowz and Adept IronFilm 4,146 IronFilm Nah, that is a Z Cam 7 hours ago, sanveer said: Some user posted a comment with "looks like" "looks like" The M43rumors guy was specifically asked to remove the leaked photo, which means there is something to the rumour. And now this https://photorumors.com/2020/09/25/new-panasonic-dc-bgh1-camera-registered-in-russia/ The next GH camera may gave a larger body and perform some great cinematic tricks, it appears? I hope the larger battery is used for Dual Gain processing. IronFilm and Kisaha Kisaha 1,743 Kisaha This is very interesting. Hope this is the answer to the C70. The official price of the Canon here is 5.999€, add the adapters and an extra battery or two, and you are reaching easily the 7.000€ mark. If one can get similar performance, except AF of course, for half the price, then why not? For most people a convinient m43 "camcorder/cine camera" will be a dream come true, that can be even more significant than the new GH and something we are waiting for since that m43 cine camera that I even forget it's name!! Most of us even have the adapters and the lenses to go straight to it. Michael S 0 On 9/25/2020 at 12:37 PM, IronFilm said: The battery looks remarkably similar to the Panasonic AG-VBR89GC Video Hummus 1,086 Video Hummus 8 hours ago, Kisaha said: If it doesn’t have AF it’s dead in the water in my view. I can already see the reviews... ac6000cw 49 ac6000cw The important (management) question for Panasonic - who don't have a market-dominant position in cameras like Canon do - is 'can we make a sensible return on investment' with a GH5 successor? Making development prototypes isn't necessarily a big investment (I'm sure they've got all sorts of prototypes in the labs) but putting it into production and marketing it is. Obviously there is less investment required if they just 'warm over' the GH5 and make it even more video-centric e.g. update the electronics, IBIS and DFD to G9 standard, switch to the GH5s sensor for better low-light, maybe replace the mechanical shutter with some sort of internal ND filter. Much beyond that it's probably a rather bigger development effort and is going to be a harder sell to the higher management in the current economic climate. This wouldn't be a direct GH5 replacement, but personally I'd like them to put as much as possible of the GH5/G9 tech into the smallest possible camera body - a GX9 size body with 4k60p (even if it had to be cropped a bit) and a mic input would almost be my perfect camera. Combine lens IS with just EIS if IBIS is too space hungry. They could probably get away with dropping the mechanical shutter as well to save space - phones don't have them after all. Small size with good performance is the original ethos of m43, isn't it? I just don't understand the form factor. It looks like a Zcam, will compete directly with ZCam, and the Zcam E2 is now defunct. GH5 owners will surely want something closer to a GH5 or even something S1H sized if it meant they got internal NDs, RAW or ProRes internal, autofocus, IBIS. This is either entirely a prototype housing for ease of testing or, maybe a long shot, the bigger boxy body with a MFT organic sensor in there. I would much rather see something more integrated like a C70 design than a cube. But all of that just doesn’t make sense to me unless they want to get organic sensor out in the wild. I think its fair to say most people that want a low-tier cinema camera are wanting S35 or bigger sensor and most want FF now full stop. It may be a special GH video camera, not a hybrid. mini XLR, ND and the goods... Towd 78 It is interesting that the top three spots on Andrew's list of the most popular cameras on EOSHD are all M43 cameras. Yet every day we have new posts bemoaning the impending death of the format. And here we are posting on a GH6 "rumors" thread that is 27 pages long and has been active for over a year. It really feels like the death of M43 if it comes, will be due to a self fulfilling prophecy in the minds of its users and not based in any rational assessment of its adoption or the interest of its userbase. If Panasonic does decide to abandon a market that they lead and tries to cram the L-mount down our throat it will be one of the silliest decisions a corporation could make. But I wont try to predict the future as it wouldn't be the first time corporate heads made a bad call. For the last year or so now Panasonic has been pushing adoption of their new full frame camera line and they probably want to give it as much room to breath and grow as possible. I think with the new release of the S5, they'll also want to give it some time for new adopters to buy in before they release any news about a GH5 replacement. At least that is what makes the most sense to me, but I do agree the lack of guidance from them and full support of the format a bit worrisome. For example, the EVA1 really should have been M43 with maybe a bundled EF adapter or an interchangeable mount-- that alone may have given their user base more confidence in its future. It is also too bad that the L-mount and M43 have such similar flange distances that an adapter between the two is probably not in the cards. That said M43 is still my favorite ecosystem and format and none of the full frame cameras have really pulled me away due to some combination of rolling shutter, cropped video, heat issues, or just the size of the bodies and lenses. The A7S III looks the most promising to me, but I'm still not entirely sold on the need to move to full frame due to weight/size of the lenses and the shallow depth of field that I mostly consider a negative for video. Anyway, It would be sad to see Panasonic walk away from a mount that arguably has one of the most diverse ecosystems of lenses and adapters on the market. Hopefully, we'll get some good news soon from Panasonic after they have given the S5 some time to sell through. Kisaha, ac6000cw, sanveer and 4 others Towd - I think that's a perfect summary of how a lot of us feel about m43 versus the alternatives. A much more interesting post than people constantly ranting about AF performance..... dgvro 20 dgvro 11 hours ago, ac6000cw said: If these are your criteria and you're a bit flexible on IBIS, surely the XT4 is already perfect? I felt the same way as you, I was (and am) really hung up on wanting the small rangefinder form factor, plus really strong video codecs, plus I.S. and so I switched directly from GH5+GX9 to just an XT4 24 minutes ago, ac6000cw said: Thanks! I came to M43 due to the GH5, and have grown to love the format due to its versatility and lens options. It is just so tiresome to see doom and gloom day in and day out mostly due to some groupthink consensus that full frame is the future, or necessary to achieve a professional look. Anecdotally, I worked on a long form project that was shot mostly in full frame and it was a nightmare in post. So many good shots had to be scrapped because the subjects were not all in focus or drifted in and out of focus. This wasn't just a missed focus problem that could be corrected by perfect focus tracking. Even when the subject was bang on in focus, a shot could be annoying or distracting because in a 2 person shot or group shot with multiple talking heads another person might be a couple feet off the focus point and look soft. Micro racking focus back and forth was even more distracting. Its also worth noting that Hollywood has toyed with large formats in the past like VIstavision, Showscan, and now I-Max. They are beautiful formats if you have the time and resources to deal with them, but for every day bread and butter work, I find large formats unnecessarily cumbersome. 28 minutes ago, Towd said: I have seen projects that are 80% out of focus, when I tell the - usually - young lads about it, they do not know what I am talking about! I thought that was, 2-3 years away, but still people believe just being out of focus is artistic, or alright, they do not understand the medium and cinematic language completely. A month ago I did sound on a low budgeted feature (still will be at the cinemas and already was bought from a big TV network here) with the FX9 - not raw, by the way - and the DoP used mostly 8 even 11f (Canon Cine primes) and only went to 5.6 and 4 very sporadically. Still we had a lot of issues with focus and the director wasn't very happy. 3 hours ago, Towd said: For example, the EVA1 really should have been M43 with maybe a bundled EF adapter or an interchangeable mount-- that alone may have given their user base more confidence in its future. It is also too bad that the L-mount and M43 have such similar flange distances that an adapter between the two is probably not in the cards. 110% Yes! That the Panasonic EVA1 MFT should have been a thing, I've said it a million times: an EVA1 MFT was needed! But in late 2020, it is too late now. Fingers crossed for a Panasonic EVA2 MFT??? kye 2,918 Micro racking focus back and forth was even more distracting. There's a solution to that - it's called Manual Focus. ....and if you upgrade to Manual Focus, then basically Panasonic cameras are best-in-class! Seriously though, probably the biggest challenge with the AF crowd is that they think that PDAF / DPAF are near perfect and that DFD is unworkable. The real situation is that neither are fit-for-purpose yet. AF will be great, once it reliably focuses on where the director wants it to be focusing, and does so with the right transition speed and doesn't pulse when it's there. 6 minutes ago, kye said: Yeah, AF pulsing is terrible. I've never worked on a project that used autofocus... EVER! Maybe some day AF will be there, but I'm talking about doing a small racking manual focus pulls between people in a group shot because one person is positioned a foot or two off the focus point. To me that is as annoying as having one person in a group shot out of focus. Unless you are really trying to draw attention to a rack focus, I feel you want your focusing to be invisible to the audience because nobody cares how blurry your backgrounds are! They just want to see the subject in focus. 1 minute ago, Towd said: Agreed. Like everything in film-making, it's great if you can make it look nice, but if it gets in the way of the story or content, then it's wrong. I remember a wedding photographer talking about taking group photos once, and how it is critical to get everyone on focus in a group shot, which if it's a large group of people can be tricky as the people at the edges are a different distance away. They also mentioned that the most important people at a wedding are the bride/groom, but the second most important people are the oldies as its a very common situation where "the last nice photo of grandma" was taken at a wedding, so making sure to get them in focus should be a huge priority. It's easy to forget, and make the film equivalent of a cake made entirely of icing.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1698
__label__cc	0.598557	0.401443	Build Soil Soil Inputs Soil Life Grow Crops Grow Corn Grow Fruits and Vegetables Grow Grasses and Forage Grow Soybeans Raise Livestock Eco-Farming Index Tractor Time Podcast Home » Build Soil » Soil Inputs » Fertilizers » Homemade Fertilizers Homemade Fertilizers By Hugh Lovel With the economy and farm finance more and more problematic, interest is growing in running farms with fewer, more accurate, and less expensive inputs and homemade fertilizers can help cut costs and keep fertility on the farm. Formerly we’ve overdosed with a plethora of harsh fertilizers — especially nitrogen. As a result we’ve burned up the better part of our soil carbon, and this has reduced our rainfall. By burning off carbon, we have created droughts even as ocean warming has sent more evaporation into the atmosphere. We have ignored that few things have more affinity for hydrogen than carbon, and if we want rain to adhere to and permeate our soils we need to build soil carbon. We thought salt fertilizers were cheap, and the stunning results encouraged us to wish away any hidden costs, no matter that earthworms disappeared simultaneously with the food chain that supported them. Our soils got hard and sticky as magnesium stayed behind while nitrates leached, carrying away silicon, calcium and trace minerals. The soil fused when wet, shed water when it rained, and we continued to get less for more. As if this wasn’t enough, the mind-set we were sold was get big or get out. As our net margins dried up and our future prospects evaporated, our water dried up and our land became exhausted. Vermiwash made with loving attention in a small biodynamic apple orchard in the Himalayan foothills of Uttaranchal in sight of Nanda Devi, India’s second highest mountain. Around the world agriculture is and will be limited to its available water. Along with carbon dioxide and nitrogen, water is a gift from above — but we don’t seem to know how to use what could be ours for free. Between hardening our soils and deepening our creeks we’ve managed to speed most of our rainfall away, making flash flooding a norm in many areas. We use salt fertilizers on cropland and scald soil microbes, burn up soil carbon and make crops thirsty, watery and weak, which invites pests and diseases and further seduces us into a dangerous dance with poisons. At one time the cheap availability and industrial scale of inputs made this sort of agriculture seem efficient. However, the inevitable result can no longer be ignored — progressive degradation of our land and an attendant rise in degenerative diseases with cancer and heart disease leading the cue. Our only sensible choice — the only choice left — is to learn to work with what nature gives us for free. As far back as 1924, Rudolf Steiner, foreseeing the current conundrum, emphasized in his lecture cycle, “Agriculture,” that the primary requirement for healthy farms and gardens is self-sufficiency. In his words, “Properly speaking, any manures or the like which you bring into the farm from outside should be regarded rather as a remedy for a sick farm.” While this is an ideal and not something we can fully achieve, it should be obvious that best practice requires slashing inputs, rebuilding soil carbon and making the most of homemade fertilizers. This starts with rediscovering how to use the current atmospheric surplus of CO2 and water along with the abundance of nitrogen we’ve always known was there. Even though a few off-farm inputs like sea minerals will always be beneficial, self-sufficiency would make most farming enterprises winners in building life and complexity back into the soils and crops we as a society depend on. The first step is conservation of carbon and water, as well as improving our nitrogen fixation. We should keep in mind that what we export from our farms or gardens, including hay, manures, packing house wastes, wood waste, etc., should not exceed 8 or 10 percent of our total biomass production. The other 90-92 percent of what we take from the atmosphere must be built into the soil to sustain and enhance life. Based on economic analyses, farms get into trouble when they export more than 8 percent of their annual biomass production. The internal farm economy is of primary importance and export has to be secondary for the farm to generate its own fertility. Many modern farms — especially those exporting hay, silage and sugar cane — would not fulfill this requirement. Life as we know it is carbon-based, which means building carbon in the soil is the key to agricultural self-sufficiency. Relying on artificial nitrogen inputs shows no signs of getting us there, as studies have shown that for every unit of artificial nitrogen applied, somewhere between 15 and 30 units of soil carbon are consumed — though in the days of cheap nitrogen fertilizer this fact went ignored. In those days scientists tended to think of nitrogen fixation as something to do with legumes, suggesting that legumes fixed a bit of nitrogen, while ignoring the fact that it wasn’t the legumes that fixed the nitrogen. Rather it was symbiotic microbes living in nodules on legume roots that accounted for this nitrogen fixation, and no one seemed to care what the legumes did to make themselves such beloved hosts for these microbes. It was assumed that legume nitrogen fixation could be measured by assaying the nodules, and if no nodulation occurred, no nitrogen was fixed. Even though grasses supplied much more carbon to the soil, since they did not nodulate they must not feed nitrogen fixation, so forget nitrogen fixation with sugar cane, maize, sorghum, wheat and so forth — the “wisdom” was to supply artificial nitrogen to these crops. This was science wearing blinders in the service of industrial profits at its worst. Even as microbiologists identified and cataloged nitrogen-fixing species by the thousands, most of which had nothing to do with nodulation, our agricultural schools and researchers continued to teach that it made no difference where the nitrogen in agriculture came from, and no effort was made to investigate the carbon requirements of nitrogen fixation and how natural nitrogen fixation compared to the energy required for chemical substitutes. The fact that many grasses host nitrogen-fixing microbes that live as endophytes within the tissues of their leaves and stems was a topic to be avoided at all cost. Now we have to learn nature’s delicate mechanisms for giving various crops the few mild boosts they need — more during early conversion — to maximize photosynthesis, carbon sequestration and nitrogen fixation. We have to learn how to increase our biomass production while slashing inputs and send higher quality products to markets, and the ins and outs of building fertility by balancing lime and silica, photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation and biomass recycling while we export our surplus. Nature has always done this without inputs, which should give us many hints. Our problem is we are in a hurry and most farmable land today is in a bit of a coma. This poses the question of how can we generate the necessary inputs at home and on the farm while buying in as little as possible? Think about the internal logic of setting up our farms to generate robust fertility at minimum cost while becoming more and more regenerative into the future. In countries like Australia and the United States, this may mean downsizing so we can handle the delicate adjustment of it all, but surely this is the future of agriculture. Homemade Fertilizers: Vermiwash Also known as earthworm leachate, vermiwash is most valuable as a food source for beneficial microbes that activate our soil reserves and whatever inputs we use. To make vermiwash, set up covered earthworm tanks with a good mix of brown/tough and green/soft wastes along with soil and any available manures. The worm composting is a great fertilizer For the home gardener this may be lawn clippings mixed with shredded fallen leaves and kitchen waste, along with mineral additives such as rock powders, bone meal or ash. Be sure to mix in at least 10 percent good soil containing clay and earthworms. For small market gardens this may mean collecting old bathtubs, placing caulking screens in the drains and plumbing them at a slight slant on blocks or on the edge of a low wall so that light watering produces a rich, brown leachate that drips out into buckets under the drains. Keep in mind the importance of a small percentage of clay-rich soil, preferably living clay/humus rather than something refined like bentonite, but use whatever clay is convenient. Water lightly daily and collect the vermiwash from the drains as a liquid fulvic/humic concentrate that easily combines with other inputs such as potassium silicate. Because various plants strongly accumulate trace elements, the end product can be engineered for sulfur, zinc, phosphorus, iron, etc. by feeding the earthworms specific local weeds, an art form to experiment with. Lucerne accumulates gold, and tobacco accumulates uranium. Tall woody weeds tend to accumulate potassium, while flowering plants like tobacco weed and salvation Jane accumulate phosphorus along with the necessary copper and zinc to unlock it from otherwise inaccessible reserves. Humic and fulvic acids are formed when organic materials like cellulose are broken down into simple sugars and built back up into complex organic clay/humus complexes. Where cellulose is glucose, a very simple sugar, beneficial soil microbes rebuild this into complex molecules that contain all sorts of organic compounds including amino acids and chelated minerals. The molecular weights only go up to a couple thousand atomic weight units in the simpler fulvic compounds, but for the more stable humates they go up to 10,000 or more. Particularly the humus compounds lock up nutrients so they don’t show up on soluble soil tests, and only the fungi and actinomycetes that build and store these compounds in the soil have access. This is nature’s wisdom at work, as these crop-beneficial organisms are storing up tucker for themselves. While mycorrhizae and actinomycetes can access the humates, bacteria for the most part cannot. This makes the nutrients minimally soluble but nevertheless available, which tends to reverse leaching. For a bacterial/protozoal-dominated earthworm operation with an emphasis on readily available nutrients, use more manure and straw and less clay or rock powder. This favors the small, red earthworms found in most manure piles. The leachate then tends to be rich in the lower molecular weight fulvic acids. However, raising larger earthworms requires a more actinomycete/fungally silica-dominated mix with more woody materials, as well as more clay or rock powders. Moderate doses of rock phosphate and other rock powders can be very helpful, especially crushed basalt or granite, as these are rich in boron, silica, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other trace minerals. Be sure to include enough grit for earthworm appetites, as earthworms have no teeth. Instead, like chickens, they have gizzards to grind their food. It also helps to include mineral-rich wood waste like milled tree bark. This tends to yield more fungal dominance and more of the high molecular weight, stable, clay/humus complexes. Cover the earthworm tank(s), with something such as plywood, which will attract life force but sheds rain. Water each tank, perhaps with a liter or two of water each day, so the vermiwash drains out and can be collected in a bucket. Older material and earthworms can be removed for other uses such as starting new tanks. A mix of new raw materials should be added regularly to keep the process going. The resulting vermiwash can be used by itself or in combination with other inputs. For best results, biodynamic preparations should be included in one form or another, perhaps as versatile, easily applied pre-mix. Homemade Fertilizers: Potassium Silicate Watering Solution The most common deficiency seen in both agriculture and human nutrition is silica. This recipe makes cell walls strong and plants disease- and insect-immune. An industrial version, marketed for large commercial growers, was researched by the USDA and found to be the most effective preventative for fungal problems in both wheat and tomatoes. One may purchase high purity potassium silicate used commercially as a pottery wash or glaze. It is made by burning potassium carbonate at 2300°F with finely ground sand or glass. The resulting slag is ground upon cooling and dissolved in water with a generous release of carbon dioxide. The classic Aussie recipe uses the dried foliage of our Australian she oaks or bull oaks. In North America and Europe the classic recipe uses horsetail herb, which grows abundantly in silica-rich places. In either case one burns a large quantity to ash and collects the ash. The ash of any silica-rich plant material will do. For example, rice hulls (not the bran but the hulls) are brilliant and even bamboo will do. Mill ash from sugarcane bagasse is available at some sugar mills in vast bulk at industrial prices. These ashes are rich in potassium and silica. Growers may multiply this recipe accordingly, but on a small scale, simmer at least 30 minutes while stirring 2 to 3 kilos of high silica ash in 16 liters of water in a 20-liter pot, possibly adding a kilo of diatomaceous earth if high-quality ash is hard to obtain. Unless you know your land is rich in boron, add half a cup of Solubor or boric acid. After stirring and simmering for 30 minutes, allow to cool to a pleasantly warm temperature. Strain and filter to make a lye-like solution rich in soluble potassium silicate, which will be rich in available fluid silica. Add a heaping tablespoon of biodynamic horn clay and stir homoeopathically (this refers to rhythmic shaking, aka succussion, or stirring (potentization) where the creation of a series of alternating left and right vortexes are involved) for three minutes. Keep in mind that adding boron will activate silica in the soil and bolster sap pressure in plants. When applying, combine the potassium silicate solution with vermiwash at a rate of 250 milliliters of potassium silicate per liter of concentrated earthworm juice. Dilute this concentrate at least half and half with water (more is good) and apply to the soil in the market garden, orchard or vineyard as needed. Like everything, this can be overdone, so it is suggested to limit applications to a liter of this combination per fortnight per plant with such produce crops as pumpkins, squash, sweet corn, cucumbers, zucchini, capsicums, okra or anything else with a tendency to get too lush, weak, bug bitten or diseased. (Note: Do not overuse this formula. Even on high organic matter soils, which greatly buffer the effects, no more than eight times in a growing season should be plenty. A rule of thumb in agriculture is that if a little bit is good a little bit less more frequently is better.) The rate of potassium silicate can be doubled for tomatoes, which easily get too lush, and the vermiwash can be cut back to one-half or one-quarter the former rate. If organic certification is an issue, these ingredients are all naturally occurring materials except Solubor, which is permissible in most organic certification programs due to widespread boron deficiencies in most cultivated soils. There will be considerable residual ash left after straining and filtering which will need to be turned into a resource. These strainings can be blended back into compost/vermiwash production or incorporated into solid fertilizer blends such as humified compost and scattered on grain, pasture or hay paddocks. For larger growers a commercially available buffer — usually allowed in organic programs — is soluble humate, which is a fungal food that directs the potassium silicate to the mycorrhizal fungi and into the plant in much the same fashion as vermiwash. The Biochemical Sequence Keep in mind that boron activates silica to make it more fluid, and best practice is buffering boron with carbon, preferably a fungal food source rich in high molecular weight humic acids. The idea is to feed the soil food web so the plant can exchange energy in the form of living carbon for a steady feed of amino acids and mineral chelates from the soil. For this to work properly it helps to observe the natural biochemical sequence in living organisms — what elements must work first before other elements can become useful. Boron and silicon have long ranked as the least understood essentials in modern agriculture. Silicon has been ignored for almost a century and a half, and boron, though known to be essential, is poorly understood. Since the biochemical sequence shows how much everything else depends on boron and silicon, the combination of potassium silicate and vermiwash is likely to be a mainstay in the fertility program of market gardens, orchards, vineyards and flower and herb production. In general this formula works well for fertigation (where liquid products are put out in irrigation water). It may not be so much used as a foliar unless it is used as a base for homeopathic applications of biodynamic preparation patterns, color or other quantum energy applications. If it is used as a foliar, keep in mind that boron provides sap pressure, which works from the soil up in order to get silica and all the other nutrients into the plant. If boron is applied as a foliar it must get to the roots before it becomes effective. Ordinarily boron and silica enter plants via actinomycetes and mycorrhizal fungi. These organisms are delicate and are easily impaired by salts such as NPK fertilizers. Damaging them will greatly reduce nutrient uptake, especially for boron, silicon, calcium, amino acid nitrogen and zinc. When using this formula in foliar applications, dilute the boron tenfold. Used sparingly in foliar and fertigation programs this combination considerably strengthens the silica containment and transport features of everything in the market garden, orchard, vineyard or nursery. Homemade Fertilizers: Bone Ash & Sulfur Phosphorus can be particularly elusive, and calcium is not far behind. But the element we really must watch — because it is the catalyst for all life chemistry — is sulfur. Depending on time and place, sulfur falls freely with the rain. Among other elements it will be present in humates and vermiwash. Sulfur works on the edges and boundaries of things along with silicon, potassium and zinc. Life arises at these boundaries. The richer and more interactive these boundaries are the more abundantly they give rise to life, which is where syntropy and entropy meet. Syntropy is where available energy accumulates instead of dispersing as occurs with entropy. For more than a century it was fashionable to assert that all heat-driven systems invariably ran down, and entropy was enshrined as universal in what was called “The Second Law of Thermodynamics.” However, living organisms quite obviously both accumulate and disperse available energy. Thus they can concentrate a stream of order on themselves and grow, as well as running down as may be the case. Depending on the location and condition of the soil, sulfur applications (usually as gypsum, aka plaster, where available) deserve careful consideration. Manures and certain vegetative plants, such as most legumes, may supply the sulfur needed to enliven the silica/phosphorus/sulfur/calcium spectrum in the soil. When all its components are working harmoniously this spectrum is like a bridge that sets the stage for natural nitrogen fixation to build to levels sufficient for high-production agriculture. Particularly on pastures, the soluble phosphorus on a soil test may be only a few parts per million (ppm), while a total soil digest with aqua regia may reveal 1,000 to 3,000 ppm of P. The occurrence of a red wine color in petioles and leaf tips is an indication of insufficient available phosphorus, but this does not tell us how much P is actually there or what needs to happen to make it available — hence the need for a total test. Because we ultimately depend on life to release bound phosphates, plants may need small amounts of soluble phosphorus to utilize the energy bound up in carbon compounds so they can release more of the phosphorus reserves in the soil. Of the elements needed in steady supply, phosphorus best shows us the need for both soluble and total tests to see what is actually there. If phosphorus is plentiful in soil reserves we only need to prime the pump with a bit of soluble phosphorus and a microbial food source — such as vermiwash and/or molasses — in order to start unlocking the reserves. Here is where homemade bone ash can provide enough soluble phosphorus to prime the pump that opens up phosphorus reserves. Only when phosphorus is missing should it be added in bulk quantities. Gather bones and burn them completely so that they can be crushed into powder. In the case of fresh bones, it may be necessary to compost or cook the meat off them prior to burning to avoid waste and objectionable odors. In some cases waste bones, including heads, may be available from abattoirs or processing facilities in large quantities, and it may be more economical to grind them up with a stump grinder and incorporate them into compost windrows. At least they should never be wasted, and provided the necessary machinery is available this may be a preferred solution. In general, however, burned bones may come from almost any source, and some will burn more easily than others. This bone ash powder can be applied loosely and sparingly to the soil. To kick-start the phosphorus processes may require a little more readily available phosphorus, however. Thus the freshly crushed powder can also be cooked in water as with the potassium silicate and used at similar rates. If sulfur is needed to get things going, this is where elemental sulfur or gypsum should be added. Cooking bone ash in water will access readily available phosphorus, which is useful in the short term even though it is only a fraction of the total phosphorus in the bone ash. The addition of elemental sulfur can significantly assist in solubilizing more of the phosphorus, while the residues can be added to compost piles or vermiwash tanks. As the bridge between lime and silica (the oxides of calcium and silicon), phosphorus is key for both storage of energy in photosynthesis and for the use of energy by the soil food web. Even though phosphorus is No. 6 in the biochemical sequence, it nevertheless must be working in order for soil microbes to have the energy to make potassium reserves available. Quite commonly soluble levels of potassium in soils are rather marginal, and before the crop cycle is finished more potassium will be needed than shows up on soluble tests. Only rarely is this not present in the soil reserve, but until phosphorus is functioning properly it is not likely to become available in desired amounts. Of course, most agronomists are in the business of selling potassium so they advise just whacking extra potassium on in soluble form. However, too much soluble potassium suppresses microbial release of potassium reserves and is not advisable if one wants to get off the input treadmill. Besides we have already attended to soluble potassium in a small way by making our own potassium silicate solution. This will be sufficient that we can usually attend to the rest of our potassium needs by maintaining a modest but steady phosphorus availability. Homemade Fertilizers: Humified Compost & Compost Extract Misunderstandings about compost abound. Many imagine that composts are simply digested, broken down organic matter that is ready to be taken up by plants. With this in mind many composters seek to simply digest such organic complexes as wood wastes, plant matter, manures and protein-rich wastes with little or no thought of the stability or final use of the product. From this point of view composts often are evaluated by how much soluble N, P and K they provide, with the assumption that the higher the levels of solubles the better. Unfortunately such composts feed rampant bacterial flushes that grow better weeds than crops and pollute streams and groundwater with runoff and leaching. In making its own composts, nature is far wiser as its most beneficial soil organisms gather up nutrients in the soil like bees gather nectar in the fields, and they store these nutrients so they become insoluble but available. Actinomycetes and mycorrhizal fungi store and have access to these humified nutrients, making them available as plants grow as soon as root emergence and root exudation occurs. Often what we think of as weeds are nature’s back-up team to sop up loose nutrients when humification has not occurred. We would see this in the first few weeks of plowing down a green manure crop. For the first three weeks or so bacterial breakdown of vegetation runs rampant, nutrients are released, and if we plant before the humus-builders take over we get a field of weeds that overwhelms whatever crops we planted. In composting, the breakdown phase runs rampant at first, producing simple sugars, amino acids and soluble salts. However, this sets the stage for organisms, which clean up this heady brew — toning down the nutrients to non-toxic levels and quelling bacterial activity while storing large organic clay/humus complexes that sequester amino acids and mineral chelates so they are insoluble but available. It is in these large, stable compounds — available to crop beneficial microbes — that the most beneficial forms of boron, silicon, calcium, nitrogen, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, etc. are held. Most soils, abused though they may be, have remnants of these beneficial soil microbes that can be awakened if they have a proper food source — humified compost — to nurse them back to the point they can resume their roles. Awakening these beneficial microbes primes the pump for further humus formation as plant root exudates feed these microbes in garden, orchard, pasture and broadacre operations. At some point such re-enlivened soils can reach a level of biological activity and become self-fertile and self-sustaining with diversified cropping and carbon farming. This also means that in the near term liquid extracts of humified composts can be of especial benefit to boost this recovery when used as liquid injects on top of seed at planting. Often in broadacre and pasture renovation, liquid inject formulas based on compost extracts or liquid humic and fulvic concentrates can be the most economical way of feeding this all-important microbial population where it can do the most good — on new roots as they emerge. In garden and small farm applications this is essentially what is accomplished with vermiwash, and such liquid formulas can be sprayed as with vermiwash on stunted areas in pasture and broadacre paddocks. Homemade Fertilizers: Large-Scale Humic & Fulvic Extracts Sometimes when we are dealing with grazing or broadacre acreages where the scale is too large to address needs with on-farm composting it can be useful in the short term to bring in humates in the form of activated brown coal solids or humic and fulvic extracts. In general these inputs are excellent in rebuilding soil microbial life so the soils become self-sustaining. While these are a compromise with self-sufficiency they can be especially helpful when they incorporate necessary nutrient deficiencies, which are best determined by testing both soluble and total soil nutrients. In this fashion progress toward self-sufficiency can be made. After all, inputs that get us off the treadmill of future inputs are what we are looking for, no matter the scale of our operations. Homemade Fertilizers: Sea Minerals & ORMEs Unless one lives near the ocean, sea minerals may have to be brought in rather than being produced within the farm itself. This may be easier than one thinks, as sea minerals are a by-product of salt evaporation. Since supermarket buyers overwhelmingly prefer free running salt, most evaporators remove the sodium chloride out of the sea water leaving a pot liquor that is dense and almost oily — so much so that unless these salt works are marketing fully evaporated (aka macrobiotic) sea salt to the more knowledgeable chefs and health enthusiasts, these sea minerals are a waste product that can be obtained in bulk at reasonable prices. Used at rates from 1 to 5 liters per hectare per year, this bounty of the sea should never be wasted as it contains a well-balanced blend of almost every element in the periodic table. Moreover, it will contain ORMEs. Orbitally Rearranged Mono-atomic Elements (ORMEs) occur when large numbers of atoms of various elements align their electron orbitals so they resonate as though they were single atoms, thus becoming superconductors and virtually weightless. Atomic physics has only begun to shed light on this ancient mystery in the last couple of decades even though allusions to these substances and their properties can be traced back into ancient civilizations. It is now evident that many of the puzzling features of plants and animals clearly mimic the quantum behaviors of single atoms even though they are thought to involve astronomically huge collections of molecules. How can photons impact a concentration of a billion or more chlorophyll molecules in a leaf and simultaneously go down all the pathways available to transfer their energy into making sugar, achieving virtual 100 percent efficiency? How can a solution of zinc sulfate be detected at the tip of a very tall tree almost the instant it is poured on the soil at the tree’s roots? Living organisms exhibit behavior, on a gross level, once thought to exist only at the level of atomic particles. If large collections of atoms can re-arrange their electrons so they all resonate in perfect alignment — and evidence suggests they can — then theoretically they will behave as single atoms no matter how many atoms they once may have been individually. We see this sort of behavior with helium when we chill it close enough to absolute zero that all the electrons simultaneously share the same base state, but recent research indicates this can occur with elements as complex as gold, platinum and iridium. Furthermore there are indications that seawater is rich in these substances, and ORME-rich extracts can be obtained by raising the pH of seawater to 10.78 using sodium or potassium hydroxide. This will result in a dense, white precipitate that can be separated from the original solution and used in agriculture with results that may be startling, especially with leguminous crops such as lucerne and soybeans. Small quantities of ORMEs, on the order of about 200 grams per acre, are recommended per application with the understanding that this is experimental. Homemade Fertilizers: Calcium Nitrate & Molasses Lastly, here is another formula that is likely to require bringing in the ingredients in the short term to achieve long-term goals. This is useful when planting in areas where tall, woody annual weeds, such as thistles or amaranths, are prone to sprout prolifically. These weeds indicate imbalances of too much soluble potassium as compared to the available calcium in the soil. Shifting this balance over to favor calcium would encourage clovers and other calcium/protein-rich weeds such as daisies or nettles to take the place of the thistles and amaranths. This can be done when sowing, or even after weed emergence if conditions are dry, by boom spraying 2-5 kilograms of calcium nitrate along with 2.6-4 gallons of molasses dissolved in 43 gallons or more of water per acre. This amounts to a low potency homeopathic dosage as there is hardly enough calcium nitrate to shake a stick at, and yet the balance tends to shift beautifully and shut down the weeds. Many organic certification programs prohibit the use of calcium nitrate, and at rates of 75 to 250 kilograms per hectare this extremely salty fertilizer undeniably is badly overused. However, most organic programs allow a wide variety of trace minerals to be added at low levels in their soluble salt forms as long as soil and leaf tests indicate they are deficient. Such light applications of major nutrients as calcium nitrate are far too dilute to harm the soil biology and are only intended to give a slight adjustment to the calcium/potassium balance so favorable species are encouraged. Editor’s Note: This article appeared in the April 2014 issue of Acres U.S.A. Hugh Lovel is an agricultural consultant serving clients in both the United States and Australia. 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__label__cc	0.693272	0.306728	Powerful Learning: Studies Show Deep Understanding Derives from Collaborative Methods Cooperative learning and inquiry-based teaching yield big dividends in the classroom. And now we have the research to prove it. By Brigid Barron, Linda Darling-Hammond Image credit: Thomas Reis Today's students will enter a job market that values skills and abilities far different from the traditional workplace talents that so ably served their parents and grandparents. They must be able to crisply collect, synthesize, and analyze information, then conduct targeted research and work with others to employ that newfound knowledge. In essence, students must learn how to learn, while responding to endlessly changing technologies and social, economic, and global conditions. But what types of teaching and learning will develop these skills? And, just as important, do studies exist that support their use? A growing body of research demonstrates that students learn more deeply if they have engaged in activities that require applying classroom-gathered knowledge to real-world problems. Like the old adage states, "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand." Research shows that such inquiry-based teaching is not so much about seeking the right answer but about developing inquiring minds, and it can yield significant benefits. For example, in the 1995 School Restructuring Study, conducted at the Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools by Fred Newmann and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, 2,128 students in twenty-three schools were found to have significantly higher achievement on challenging tasks when they were taught with inquiry-based teaching, showing that involvement leads to understanding. These practices were found to have a more significant impact on student performance than any other variable, including student background and prior achievement. Similarly, studies also show the widespread benefits of cooperative learning, in which small teams of students use a variety of activities to more deeply understand a subject. Each member is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping his or her teammates learn, so the group become a supportive learning environment. What follows is a summary of the key research findings for both inquiry-based and cooperative learning. First, let's look at three inquiry-based approaches: project learning (also called project-based learning), problem-based learning, and design-based instruction. Project-Based Pathways Project learning involves completing complex tasks that result in a realistic product or presentation to an audience. "A Review of Research on Project-Based Learning," prepared by researcher John Thomas for the Autodesk Foundation, identified five key components of effective project learning: Centrality to the curriculum Driving questions that lead students to encounter central concepts Investigations that involve inquiry and knowledge building Processes that are student driven, rather than teacher driven Authentic problems that people care about in the real world Research on project learning found that student gains in factual learning are equivalent or superior to those of students in more traditional forms of classroom instruction. The goals of project learning, however, aim to take learning one step further by enabling students to transfer their learning to new kinds of situations, illustrated in three studies: In a 1998 study by H.G. Shepherd, fourth and fifth graders completed a nine-week project to define and find solutions related to housing shortages in several countries. In comparison to the control group, the project-learning students scored significantly higher on a critical-thinking test and demonstrated increased confidence in their learning. A more ambitious, longitudinal comparative study by Jo Boaler and colleagues in England in 1997 and 1998 followed students over three years in two schools similar in student achievement and income levels. The traditional school featured teacher-directed whole-class instruction organized around texts, workbooks, and frequent tests in tracked classrooms. Instruction in the other school used open-ended projects in heterogeneous classrooms. The study found that although students had comparable learning gains on basic mathematics procedures, significantly more project-learning students passed the National Exam in year three than those in the traditional school. Although students in the traditional school "thought that mathematical success rested on being able to remember and use rules," according to the study, the project-learning students developed more flexible and useful mathematical knowledge. A third study, in 2000, on the impact of multimedia projects on student learning, showed similar gains. Students in the Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project, in California's Silicon Valley, developed a brochure informing school officials about problems homeless students face. The students in the multimedia program earned higher scores than a comparison group on content mastery, sensitivity to audience, and coherent design. They performed equally well on standardized test scores of basic skills. Other short-term, comparative studies demonstrated benefits from project learning, such as increases in the ability to define problems, reason with clear arguments, and plan projects. Additional research has documented improvements in motivation, attitude toward learning, and work habits. Students who struggle in traditional instructional settings have often excelled when working on a project, which better matches their learning style or preference for collaboration. Students as Problem Solvers Problem-based-learning approaches are a close cousin of project learning, in which students use complex problems and cases to actively build their knowledge. Much of the research for this approach comes from medical education. Medical students are given a patient profile, history, and symptoms; groups of students generate a diagnosis, conduct research, and perform diagnostic tests to identify causes of the pain or illness. Meta-analyses of multiple studies have found that medical students in problem-based curricula score higher on clinical problem solving and performance. Use of problem-based cases in teacher education has helped student teachers apply theory and practical knowledge to school contexts and classroom dilemmas; these cases, for example, have enabled teachers to take alternative perspectives to better appreciate cultural diversity. Studies of problem-based learning suggest that it is comparable, though not always superior, to more traditional instruction in teaching facts and information. However, this approach has been found to be better in supporting flexible problem solving, reasoning skills, and generating accurate hypotheses and coherent explanations. Learning Through Design Design-based instruction is based on the premise that children learn deeply when they create products that require understanding and application of knowledge. Design activity involves stages of revisions as students create, assess, and redesign their products. The work often requires collaboration and specific roles for individual students, enabling them to become experts in a particular area. Credit: Thomas Reis Design-based approaches can be found across many disciplines, including science, technology, art, engineering, and architecture. Design competitions for students include the FIRST robotics competitions and Thinkquest, for which student teams design and build Web sites on topics including art, astronomy, computer programming, foster care, and mental health. Thinkquest teams are mentored by a teacher who gives general guidance throughout the design process, leaving the specific creative and technical work to the students. Teams offer and receive feedback during a peer review of the initial submissions and use this information to revise their work. To date, more than 30,000 students have created more than 7,000 Web sites through this competition. Few studies have used a control group to evaluate the impact of the learning-by-design model, but in a 2000 study by researchers C.E. Hmelo, D.L Holton, and J.L. Kolodner, sixth-grade students designed a set of artificial lungs and built a partially working model of the respiratory system. The learning-by-design students viewed the respiratory system more systemically and understood more about the structures and functions of the system than the control group. Hmelo and colleagues argued that design challenges need to be carefully planned, and they emphasized the importance of dynamic feedback. They also determined that teachers working on design projects must pay particular attention to finding a balance between students' work on design activities and reflection on what they are learning; that balance allows teachers to guide students' progress, especially in recognizing irrelevant aspects of their research that may take them on unproductive tangents, and in remaining focused on the whole project rather than simply on its completion. Shifting Ideas, Shifting Roles A significant challenge to implementing inquiry approaches is the capacity and skill of teachers to undertake this more complex form of teaching. Teachers may think of project learning or problem-based teaching as unstructured and may fail to provide students with proper support and assessment as projects unfold. When students have no prior experience with inquiry learning, they can have difficulty generating meaningful driving questions and logical arguments and may lack background knowledge to make sense of the inquiry. Students can neglect to use informational resources unless explicitly prompted. They can find it hard to work together, manage their time, and sustain motivation in the face of setbacks or confusion. One of the principal challenges for teachers, then, is to learn how to juggle a host of new responsibilities -- from carving out the time needed for extended inquiry to developing new classroom-management techniques. They must also be able to illuminate key concepts, balance direct instruction with inquiry teaching, facilitate learning among groups, and develop assessments to guide the learning process. That's a tall order for even the most experienced teacher. To address these problems, Alice D. Gertzman and Janet L. Kolodner, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, introduced the concept of a design diary in 1996 to support eighth-grade science students in creating a solution for coastal erosion on a specific island off the coast of Georgia. Students had access to stream tables, as well as resources on videotape and the Internet. In a first study conducted by Gertzman and Kolodner, learning outcomes were disappointing but instructive: The researchers noted that the teacher missed many opportunities to advance learning because she could not listen to all small-group discussions and decided not to have whole-group discussions. They also noted that the students needed more specific prompts for justifying design decisions. In a second study, the same researchers designed a broader system of tools that greatly improved the learning outcomes. These tools included more structured diary prompts asking for design explanations and the use of whole-class discussions at strategic moments. They also required students to publicly defend their designs earlier in the process. Requiring students to track and defend their thinking focused them on learning and connecting concepts in their design work. Talented Teams Inquiry-based learning often involves students working in pairs or groups. Cooperative small-group learning -- that is, students working together in a group small enough that everyone can participate on a collective task -- has been the subject of hundreds of studies. All the research arrives at the same conclusion: There are significant benefits for students who work together on learning activities. In one comparison by Zhining Qin, David Johnson, and Roger Johnson, of four types of categories for problems presented to individuals and cooperative teams, researchers found that teams outperformed individuals on all types and across all ages. Results varied by how well defined the problems were (a single right answer versus open-ended solutions, such as writing a story) and how much they relied on language. Several experimental studies have shown that groups outperform individuals on learning tasks and that individuals who work in groups do better on later individual assessments. Cooperative group work benefits students in social and behavioral areas as well, including improvement in student self-concept, social interaction, time on task, and positive feelings toward peers. Researchers say these social and self-concept measures were related to academic outcomes and that low-income students, urban students, and minority students benefited even more from cooperative group work, a finding repeated over several decades. But effective cooperative learning can be difficult to implement. Researchers identify at least three major challenges: developing group structures to help individuals work together, creating tasks that support useful cooperative work, and introducing discussion strategies that support rich learning. Productive Collaboration A great deal of work has been done to specify the kinds of tasks, accountability, and roles that help students collaborate well. In a summary of forty years of research on cooperative learning, Roger and David Johnson, at the University of Minnesota, identified five important elements of cooperation across multiple classroom models: Positive interdependence Individual accountability Structures that promote face-to-face interaction Group processing Cooperative-learning approaches range from simply asking students to help one another complete individually assigned problem sets to having students collectively define projects and generate a product that reflects the work of the entire group. Many approaches fall between these two extremes. In successful group learning, teachers pay careful attention to the work process and interaction among students. As Johns Hopkins University's Robert Slavin argues, "It is not enough to simply tell students to work together. They must have a reason to take one another's achievement seriously." Slavin developed a model that focuses on external motivators, such as rewards and individual accountability established by the teacher. He found that group tasks with individual accountability produce stronger learning outcomes. Stanford University's Elizabeth Cohen reviewed research on productive small groups, focusing on internal group interaction around tasks. She and her colleagues developed Complex Instruction, one of the best-known approaches, which uses carefully designed activities requiring diverse talents and interdependence among group members. Teachers pay attention to unequal participation, a frequent result of status differences among peers, and are given strategies to bolster the status of infrequent contributors. Roles are assigned to encourage equal participation, such as recorder, reporter, materials manager, resource manager, communication facilitator, and harmonizer. Studies identified social processes that explain how group work supports individual learning, such as resolving differing perspectives through argument, explaining one's thinking, observing the strategies of others, and listening to explanations. Good Signs Evidence shows that inquiry-based, collaborative approaches benefit students in learning important twenty-first-century skills, such as the ability to work in teams, solve complex problems, and apply knowledge from one lesson to others. The research suggests that inquiry-based lessons and meaningful group work can be challenging to implement. They require changes in curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices -- changes that are often new for teachers and students. Teachers need time and a community to organize sustained project work. Inquiry-based instruction can help teachers deepen their repertoire for connecting with their peers and students in new and meaningful ways. That's powerful teaching and learning -- for students and teachers alike. The Takeaway: Research Findings A growing body of research has shown the following: Students learn more deeply when they can apply classroom-gathered knowledge to real-world problems, and when they take part in projects that require sustained engagement and collaboration. Active-learning practices have a more significant impact on student performance than any other variable, including student background and prior achievement. Students are most successful when they are taught how to learn as well as what to learn. Adapted from Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding, a new book reviewing research on innovative classroom practices, by Linda Darling-Hammond, Brigid Barron, P. David Pearson, Alan H. Schoenfeld, Elizabeth K. Stage, Timothy D. Zimmerman, Gina N. Cervetti, and Jennifer L. Tilson, published in 2008 by Jossey-Bass. Published with support from The George Lucas Educational Foundation. Available at amazon.com. The Collaborative Classroom: Social and Emotional Learning Traditional academic approaches -- those that employ narrow tasks to emphasize rote memorization or the application of simple procedures -- won't develop learners who are critical thinkers or effective writers and speakers. Rather, students need to take part in complex, meaningful projects that require sustained engagement and collaboration. Listen to education expert Linda Darling-Hammond's insights on cooperative teaching in the Edutopia video The Collaborative Classroom: An Interview with Linda Darling-Hammond. Darling-Hammond, a professor of education at Stanford University and former director of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, was chosen in 2006 by Education Week as one of the nation's ten most influential people affecting education policy over the last decade. She and article coauthor Brigid Barron are two of the coauthors of Powerful Learning: What We Know About Teaching for Understanding, a review of research on the most effective K-12 teaching practices. In the book, copublished by Jossey-Bass and The George Lucas Educational Foundation, the authors explore the ways in which project learning, cooperative learning, and performance-based assessment generate meaningful student understanding in the classroom. Available for puchase at amazon.com. 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__label__wiki	0.859884	0.859884	Difference between revisions of "Moldova - General Information" Paul Steane (talk \| contribs) (→‎Electrification: added note about masts on Kuchurhan - Tiraspol - Bender route) (→‎Special Notes: advice added ref westbound arrivals obtaining a Moldovan entry stamp at Chişinău.) Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniestr or Transdniestria is a breakaway territory located mostly in a strip between the Dniester River and the eastern border with Ukraine. It is generally recognised internationally as being the de jure government of Eastern Moldova as the Stînga Nistrului ("Left Dnestr bank") autonomous region. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, it has been governed de facto by the unrecognized Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublica (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic - PMR, also known as "Pridnestrovie"), which claims the east bank of the river Dniester and the town of Bender and its locality on the right bank of the Dnestr. The Republic of Moldova does not recognize this secession and considers it to be part of Moldova. Travellers entering Moldova from Transnistria do not receive an entry stamp because the Republic of Moldova considers Transnistria to be part of Moldova. Until recently, this caused problems on leaving Moldova as it could be construed as having entered the country illegally. To avoid problems on leaving Moldova, it was recommended to cross Transnistria only from west to east, or to cross the whole of Moldova in the same train from Kučurhan to Iaşi, using the Saratov – Varna summer-only train. However, Moldovan police appear to accept a Ukrainian exit stamp at the Kuchurhan border crossing as a semi-official entry stamp for Moldova. Travellers entering Moldova from Transnistria do not receive an entry stamp because the Republic of Moldova considers Transnistria to be part of Moldova. Until recently, this caused problems on leaving Moldova as it could be construed as having entered the country illegally. To avoid problems on leaving Moldova, it was recommended to cross Transnistria only from west to east, or to cross the whole of Moldova in the same train from Kuchurhan to Iaşi, using the Saratov – Varna summer-only train. Recent advice to westbound passengers has been to request a Moldovan entry stamp on arrival at Chişinău. However, see the [[Border_Crossings:_Moldova_-_Ukraine#NOV_KUC\|Novosavickaia CFM - Kuchurhan UZ border crossing]] for the situation with local services to and from Bender. 1 Country Name 2 National railway system 2.1 National Railway Operator 4 Currency 5 UIC code 6 Timetable 6.1 Journey Planner 6.2 Downloadable Timetable 6.3 Printed Timetable 6.4 Engineering Information 7 Maps 7.1 Printed Maps 7.2 Web-based Maps 8 Ticketing 9.1 Infrastructure Authority 9.2 Network Statement 9.3 Gauge 9.4 Electrification 9.5 Rule of the road 9.6 Distances 10 Other railways 11 Tourist lines 12 Metro 13 Trams 14 Recent and future changes 15 Special Notes Moldova (Republica Moldova) National railway system National Railway Operator CFM - Caile Ferată Moldova. The Constitution of 1994 states that "the national language of the Republic of Moldova is Moldovan, and its writing is based on the Latin alphabet," while the 1991 Declaration of Independence names the official language Romanian. The 1989 State Language Law speaks of a Moldo-Romanian linguistic identity. Russian is provided with the status of a "language of interethnic communication" (alongside the official language), and in practice remains widely used. Gagauz and Ukrainian have significant regional speaker populations and are granted official status together with Russian in Gagauzia and Transnistria respectively. Moldova Leu (MDL; plural Lei), 1 Leu = 100 Bani (singular Ban). In Transnistria, a partially recognized state claimed in whole by Moldova, the Transnistrian rouble is used instead. UIC code numeric 23; alpha CFM. None. However a station to station timetable facility is available at [1]. On the menu bar select Transportul de Pasageri then select Mersul Trenilor. Downloadable Timetable However, a good privately compiled timetable is available. Printed Timetable Probably no public timetable as such. European Railway Atlas by M.G. Ball (2008 onwards) An excellent 1:200.000 Moldova map, produced by the Kiev map publishers, can be found in book shops in Chişinău or in larger Ukrainian towns. It is very like the popular Ukraine Oblast maps. Web-based Maps Thorsten Büker's Map of Ukraine and Moldova. Opportunities to use credit or debit cards at ticket offices may be limited, particularly in Transnistria. Normally, payment is possible only in local currency. Purchase of tickets from Transnistria to Chisinau may be possible only at limited times. Infrastructure Authority None known. "Russian" gauge (1520mm). There is a gauge changer at Ungheni, where bogies are changed. None. Electrification had been planned into Moldova from the Ukraine border at Kuchurhan, and electrification masts were installed from the end of the UZ electrification at Kuchurhan through Tiraspol to Bender, but no further work has been done for many years. There is a section of effectively double track between Chişinău and Revaca (see Obscure Services), and between Cornești and Pîrlița on the line between Chișinău to Ungheni with right-hand running, but otherwise all lines are single track. No source known Other railways Tourist lines Recent and future changes Services via Bender and Tiraspol, which are in Transnistria, continue to be affected. See Special Notes below. Local trains between Chişinău and Bender-2 in practice only run as far as Bender-3; passengers for Bender-2 must cross the border into and out of Transnistria on foot. In 2019 there are services through Transnistria: Chişinău <=> Moskva (daily) and Chişinău <=> Odessa (from mid September 2019 operates Fridays Saturdays and Sundays). The Chişinău <=> Basarabeasca service via Revaca and Căinari is show on the timetable displays as "suspended", it is not known when the service ceased. However in September 2019 two daily train pairs were running between Basarabeasca and Zloți. The Basarabeasca <=> Reni (Ukraine) passenger service ceased in 2015/2016, but in September 2019 Etulia <=> Reni saw two daily train pairs running, operated by Ukrainian Railways as the majority of the route in is Ukraine. Services east of Bălți-Slobozia now only run as far as Rogojeni, the service beyond there to Șoldănești having ceased at an unknown date, probably in 2015/2016. Substantial investments have been made in building new railway lines since 2003, with the goal of connecting Chişinău to southern Moldova and the Giurgiuleşti oil terminal. The first such segment was the 40 km Revaca - Căinari line, opened in 2006. The 53 km Cahul - Giurgiuleşti line, opened only in 2008, closed in summer 2012 for a period because 20 km of track near the river Prut need rebuilding owing to poor construction. A passenger service over this section ran for a period in 2013/2014, reportedly only as far as the port gates at Giurgiuleşti. The daily Basarabeasca <=> Cahul train was reported to have been withdrawn by August 2013. The cross-border service between Prut-2 and Fălciu CFR, re-introduced in 2010, was missing from the 2011-2012 and subsequent timetables, and by September 2019 the line had been cut at the former junction west of Prut-1. The route between Ocnita and Chernivitsi (Ukraine) crosses the border a total of five times: most through services were withdrawn by August 2013 though overnight service 117/118 'Bukovina' (Chernivtsi-Kyiv) ran this way during summer 2014. See Border Crossings: Moldova - Ukraine for more details. An agreement was signed in October 2015 to reopen the Basarabeasca - Berezyne (Ukraine) line, closed to all traffic in 1997 and lifted in 1999. This would have enabled traffic between the two countries to avoid passing through the breakaway territory of Transnistria. Work was supposed to start in summer 2016, but it appears that a lack of funds has meant that the project has been postponed. Moldova is to receive €100 M in loans and grants from the EIB and EBRD. Most of this will be used to modernize the Chişinău - Ungheni line. It is said that the line will also be converted to 1435 mm gauge. This seems most unlikely as it would cut off northern Moldova from Chişinău and it is more likely that dual 1435/1520 mm is meant. However, see the Novosavickaia CFM - Kuchurhan UZ border crossing for the situation with local services to and from Bender. Photographers must ask permission from railway staff and police before taking pictures. Often they give permission, but do not attempt to take pictures if they refuse it. Obscure passenger services Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services Transit train trough Moldova: http://chv.tv/iz-zavtrashn-ogo-dnja-poizd-chernivci-kiiv-kursuvatime-cherez-moldovu.html Retrieved from "https://www.egtre.info/w/index.php?title=Moldova_-_General_Information&oldid=27906"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1707
__label__cc	0.728933	0.271067	You are at:Home»Thematic Investing Channel»An Adventurous Way to Reengage With Energy ETFs Thematic Investing Channel An Adventurous Way to Reengage With Energy ETFs Todd Shriber September 27, 2019 The energy sector has endured some pain this year and that is reflected in the group’s small-cap constituents. Just look at the Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF (NasdaqGM: PSCE), which is lower by nearly 16% year-to-date. While may seem counter-intuitive, PSCE could actually be worth a look at a time when so many investors are throwing in the towel on energy stocks. The fund tracks the S&P SmallCap 600 Capped Energy Index. “The Index is designed to measure the overall performance of common stocks of US energy companies. These companies are principally engaged in the business of producing, distributing or servicing energy-related products, including oil and gas exploration and production, refining, oil services, and pipelines,” according to Invesco. One issue to consider is the dwindling weight of energy stocks in the S&P 500. “The sector makes up its smallest percentage of the S&P 500 index in at least 40 years, at less than 5%,” reports Avi Salzman for Barron’s. “J.P. Morgan analyst Dubravko Lakos-Bujas calls the situation “extreme,” noting that ‘small-cap E&Ps [are]trading below book value and at price levels seen almost 25 years ago,’ as ‘institutional investors have abandoned the sector.’” The Great and Powerful PSCE PSCE holds 43 stocks and trades at a price-to-book ratio of just 0.66x, which is well below the comparable ratio on standard small-cap benchmarks. The fund reflects the value proposition in the energy sector as 52% of its holdings are classified as value stocks. Insider buying is another trait that may be currently under-appreciated in the energy patch. “In contrast, corporate sentiment is bullish with insider purchases rising to cycle highs and shareholder return at about 6% with stronger buyback announcements and higher dividends,” Lakos-Bujas wrote, according to Barron’s. “We believe favorable technicals, improving fundamentals with stabilizing business cycle, and ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East could help redirect flows into this universally hated and cheap sector.” Related: How to Play an Energy Rebound Without a Full Commitment Analysts expect the volume of U.S. crude oil in storage should diminish in the weeks ahead before reversing course at the end of peak driving season, along with the start of the seasonal refinery maintenance period. However, global demand could be essential to PSCE’s near-term fortunes. “Oil investors have been particularly concerned about global demand, which is expected to stagnate next year as economies around the world slump. But J.P. Morgan is more bullish on the global economy, given low-interest rates and other factors,” according to Barron’s. For more information on the energy sector, visit our energy category. Energy ETFsPSCEthematic investing channel THEMATIC INVESTING RESOURCES Introducing the Global X Telemedicine & Digital Health ETF (EDOC) » Introducing the Global X Education ETF (EDUT) » Genomics: How a Cutting-Edge Field is Fighting COVID-19 » Mapping The Cloud: A Look at the Segments Driving Growth » How Cybersecurity Will Accelerate IoT’s Growth » Video Game Industry Hits Reset in 2020 »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1712
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__label__cc	0.691606	0.308394	CONSULTING SERVICES TAILORED INSIGHTS SYNDICATED MARKET RESEARCH COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CUSTOMER RESEARCH MARKET INTELLIGENCE INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT PRESS RELEASE THOUGHT LEADERSHIP BLOGS CASE STUDIES Medical Swabs Market "Designing Growth Strategies is in our DNA" Medical Swabs Market Size, Share & COVID-19 Impact Analysis, By Type (Cotton Tipped Swab, Foam Tipped Swab, Non-woven, and Others), By Application (Specimen Collection, Disinfection, and Others), By End User (Hospitals & Clinics, Laboratories & Diagnostic Centers, and Research Institutes), and Regional Forecast, 2020-2027 Region : Global \| Format: PDF \| Report ID: FBI103318 Summary Table of Content Industry Methodology Infographics Request Sample PDF KEY MARKET INSIGHTS Listen to Audio Version The global medical swabs market size was valued at USD 2.34 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach USD 4.00 billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 6.9% during the forecast period. This report covers COVID-19 impact analysis on Medical Swabs Market Since decades, swabs have been used by the healthcare industry for sample collection during any research activities or during a diagnostic procedure. Application of cotton plugged stick has become user-friendly for the healthcare personnel while withdrawing samples from the patients by having minimum contact with the infected person. This helped gain traction to the market value and is witnessing a steady growth over the years. However, pandemics have exceptionally leveraged the market potential owing to demand for sterile and wide variety of swabs for conducting point-of-care testing procedures. For instance, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), public health emergency all over the world was announced in January 2020 due to the spread of coronavirus. The pandemic crisis eventually led to higher demand of medical supplies such as sterile swabs, surgical masks, and diagnostic products likewise. Therefore, higher sales of products, increasing prevalence of infectious disease, and advancements in the quality of swabs are likely to pose a positive impact on the medical swab market during the forecast period. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Medical Swabs Medical swab sale during the COVID-19 pandemic marked a positive increase, owing to its higher demand for rapid diagnostic testing. The increasing prevalence of coronavirus infections on a daily basis caused a pressure on hospitals as well as diagnostic centers for conducting test using sterile medical supplies. This accelerated the production rate of the swabs products. For example, the market leader Puritan Medical Products in March 2020 announced the increase of swab production up to 1 million per week to maintain the supply balance. Additionally, an Indian company named Suparshva Swabs multiplied the production of polyester swabs under the Tulips brand up to 5 million units per week in May 2020. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic has created multiple growth opportunities for the manufacturers to increase their revenue during the forecast period. Request a Free sample to learn more about this report. Technological Advancements in Swabs Production to Increase Market Potentiality Advancements in any market are a positive approach in leveraging the market potentiality and market value. Though the medical swab market has a lower value attributed to its lesser sales and lower price value, however, sudden occurrence of pandemics such as Influenza, COVID-19, and others have led to tremendous demand for sterile swabs to collect samples. Similarly, to meet the shortage faced in such crisis, researchers are developing strategies to multiply the manufacturing of swabs. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a team of researchers from USF Health 3D Clinical Applications Division created a 3D printed nasal swab. This nasal swab has received manufacturing permission from the regulatory bodies. In collaboration with Formlabs, the nasal swabs are being produced in Ohio and is likely to accelerate the production up to 100,000 per day. Therefore, innovations in the market is likely to surge the market value in the forecast period 2020-2027. DRIVING FACTORS Rise in Rapid Testing Procedures to Fuel Demand Emergence of rapid testing procedures in the market has led to an increased demand for sterile swabs for specimen collection, disinfection and other applications. For example, the occurrence of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, witnessed a surge in the rapid testing owing to rise in the coronavirus infections. Moreover, in June 2020 research has been initiated to launch self-swabbing test for COVID-19 diagnosis by the Stanford University of Medical. Additionally, in June 2020 the U.S. FDA approved Cue’s Health POC COVID-19 test kit that extracts nasal sample by swab technique. Therefore, the growing adoption of rapid testing by end users, is anticipated to promote the global medical swabs market growth during the forecast period. Increasing Prevalence of Infectious Diseases is Augmenting Growth A sudden rise in communicable diseases leading to global pandemic (COVID-19) has resulted in high demand for diagnostic procedures and products. According to the Worldometer statistics, there has been a continuous rise in the daily new cases in each country across the globe. On June 21st 2020, the U.S recorded a total of 16, 142 coronavirus positive cases in 24 hours. Thus, the daily record of higher cases has led to surge in the diagnostic tests so as to provide early treatment to the patients. Moreover, the rise in the coronavirus infections have also been recorded in the growing economies. For example, Brazil has recorded a total case of more than 12 lakh cases as of June 2020. This is likely to increase the sales of the swabs required for specimen collection of the samples. RESTRAINING FACTORS Demand-Supply Shortage to Limit Market Growth Currently, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, most manufacturers are witnessing a rise in demand for sterile swabs for testing procedures. As, the manufacturers are struggling to meet the demand-supply balance, the shortage of medical supplies may lead to temporary closure of drive-thru clinics in developed countries. For instance, according to a CNN news article, a sudden closure of the drive-thru clinic was observed in Minnesota. In addition to this, the Department of Health in Ohio, announced to test only vulnerable patients due to global shortage of medical supplies such as swabs, sample collection tubes etc. Therefore, the sudden occurrence of the coronavirus pandemic led to a shortage of medical supplies, subsequently limiting the growth rate of the market. By Type Analysis Cost Effectiveness to Drive Cotton Tipped Swabs Growth On the basis of type, the market is categorized into cotton tipped swab, foam tipped swab, non-woven swab, and others. Among these, the cotton tipped swab dominated the market in 2019 owing to its use-friendly approach during specimen collection. As these swabs are disposable, the demand for its continuous supply is higher especially during pandemics. The sale for this product has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak as swabs are used for sample collection from the infected patients. Foam tipped swabs also showcased a considerable market share owing to its advantage during disinfection procedure. Non-woven swabs are used for cleaning and healing wounds, are cost-effective, and a better alternative to traditional gauze. The sale of these products are likely to accelerate during the forecast period because of the rise in infectious diseases, coupled with increasing demand for high standard sterile swabs. By Application Analysis To know how our report can help streamline your business, Speak to Analyst Growing Infectious Disease to Lead Specimen Collection Dominance Based on application, the market is segmented into specimen collection, disinfection, and others. Higher prevalence of COVID-19 globally and increasing incidence of other infectious diseases among people are some of the major factors responsible for the dominance of the specimen collection in 2019. According to the worldometer statistics as of June 2020, more than 3 million samples were tested to diagnose coronavirus. The disinfection segment is anticipated to project a significant CAGR during the forecast period owing to the increase in the number of surgical procedures in hospitals. Cotton-tipped sterile swab are largely preferred for disinfecting an area and as they are disposable, their continuous supply is demanded from manufacturers. By End User Analysis Laboratories & Diagnostic Centers to Register Higher CAGR Owing to Demand in Diagnostic Procedures In terms of end-user, the market is segmented into hospitals & clinics, laboratories & diagnostic centers, and research institutes. The hospitals & clinics segment is expected to hold the dominant medical swabs market share during the forecast period due to an increase in hospital stay of patients suffering from COVID infections. For instance, according to the Worldometer statistics as of June 2020, there were more than 39 lakh coronavirus active cases in the world. The laboratories & diagnostic centers are expected to grow at a higher CAGR due to the increase in the diagnostic procedures, coupled with the rise in sale of sterile swabs required for sample collection in both developed and emerging countries. Moreover, research institutes will also register a comparatively higher CAGR owing to the extensive research activities carried out for the development of COVID vaccine. North America Medical Swabs Market Size, 2016-2027 (USD Billion) To get more information on the regional analysis of this market, Request a Free sample The market size in North America stood at USD 0.97 billion in 2019. The dominance of this region is attributable to the increasing prevalence of infectious diseases that demand continuous diagnostic procedures. For instance, according to worldometer statistics as of June 2020, 25 lakh coronavirus cases were recorded in the U.S itself. This led to increase in diagnostic procedure around the country and higher demand for medical swabs. The market in Europe is expected to grow at a significant CAGR owing to the rising awareness about the need for diagnosing infectious disease amid the pandemic as well as a surge in research activities for the development of vaccines against the virus. The market in Asia Pacific is expected to exhibit healthy growth owing to the rise in medical swabs sales, coupled with the increasing number of coronavirus testing facilities. In addition to this, market players in this region are making heavy investments, which in turn, will fuel the demand for sterile products such as sterile swabs. Latin America & the Middle East & Africa markets accounted for a comparatively lower share in the market owing to the lesser conductance of research activities that require specimen collection using a swab as well as lower conductance of diagnostic procedures. KEY INDUSTRY PLAYERS Robust Portfolio and Supply Chain Strategy of Puritan Medical Products to Help Lead Market The global market is highly fragmented owing to the presence of both large and small scale industry players. Among them, Puritan Medical Products leads the market with a higher share owing to its robust product portfolio including cotton tipped swabs, polyester swabs, non-woven swabs, and more products. The company is focusing on the delivery of high quality standard products as stated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Additionally, the company has a strong distribution channel boosting its sales all over the world. Other Key players such as BD, Copan Diagnostics Inc., 3M, and many more were successful in marking their presence in the global market. Delivering improvised products and maintaining a demand-supply balance is the key strategy adopted by the key industry players in the global market. LIST OF KEY COMPANIES PROFILED: Puritan Medical Products (Maine, U.S) BD (New Jersey, U.S) 3M (Minnesota, U.S) Copan Diagnostics Inc. (Italy, Europe) FL MEDICAL srl (Italy, Europe) DLS Medical (U.K, Europe) Dynarex (New York, U.S) Advacare Pharma (Maharashtra, India) KEY INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS: April 2020 – The U.S FDA approved a Q-tip type polyester swab produced by Cleveland company U.S Cotton. The approval was granted to maximize the production of swabs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. April 2020 – Stratasys and Origin signed a partnership agreement for swabs distribution and promotion manufactured by Origin. The swabs manufactured are 3D printed nasopharyngeal swabs. May 2020 - Puritan Medical Products announced the decision to double its swab production in response to the COVID-19 situation. It is likely to product 20 to 40 million swabs per month. An Infographic Representation of Medical Swabs Market View Full Infographic To get information on various segments, share your queries with us The report provides a detailed swot analysis of the market and focuses on key aspects such as leading companies, product types, and leading applications of the product. Besides this, the report offers insights into the market, current trends and forecast, and highlights key industry developments. In addition to the aforementioned factors, the report encompasses several factors that have contributed to the growth of the market over the recent years. Report Scope & Segmentation Study Period Value (USD Billion) Type; Application; End User; and Geography Cotton Tipped Swabs Foam Tipped Swabs Non-woven Swabs By End User Laboratories & Diagnostics Centers North America (the U.S. and Canada) Europe (U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, and the Rest of Europe) Asia-Pacific (Japan, China, India, Australia, Southeast Asia, and the Rest of Asia- Pacific) Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, and the Rest of Latin America) The Middle East & Africa (South Africa, GCC, and the Rest of Middle East & Africa) How much is the medical swabs market worth? Fortune Business Insights says that the global medical swabs market size was USD 2.34 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach USD 4.00 billion by 2027. What was the value of the market in North America in 2019? In 2019, the North America market vale stood at USD 0.97 billion. At what CAGR is the market projected to grow in the forecast period (2020-2027)? Growing at a CAGR of 6.9%, the market will exhibit a steady growth in the forecast period 2020-2027. What is the leading segment in the market? The cotton tipped swab is expected to be the leading segment in this market during the forecast period. What is the key factor driving the market? Increasing prevalence of infectious disease leading to growing need of diagnostic procedures is the factor driving the market. Who are the key players in this market? Puritan Medical Products, BD, Copan Diagnostics Inc,are major players of the global market. Which region held the highest share in the market? North America dominated the market share in 2019. Which factors are expected to drive the adoption of medical swabs products? Launch of higher standard quality and varied types of swabs are expected to drive the adoption in the global market. Seeking Comprehensive Intelligence on Different Markets? 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__label__cc	0.62317	0.37683	M. Scott Gordon Dayna L. Perlut Chicago Divorce Information – Your Overview of the Legal Process Divorce – Contested vs. Non-Contested Legal Separation Vs Divorce Steps for Filing Divorce Divorce Lawyers for Women Divorce Lawyers for Men Changes to Illinois Divorce Laws in 2016 Child Custody (Allocation of Parental Responsibilities) Parenting Time (Visitation) Fathers Don’t Push Them Away Unmarried Parents Maintenance (aka Alimony) Failure to Pay Child Support Child Support Collections Dependent Exemptions (n/k/a Child Tax Credit) MEDIATION AND COLLABORATIVE LAW Civil Unions and Same-Sex Marriages Courtroom Advocacy Pre-marital Agreement Divorce Advice – Your First Meeting with a Divorce Attorney The Effect of Divorce on Children How Does a Divorce Impact Your Credit? Divorce Tips for Introverts Tips on Making it Through a Difficult Divorce The Most Common Reasons For Divorce Chicago AREA Divorce & Family Law Attorney Videos Free Phone Consultations: Chicago Office - 312.360.0250 Skokie Office - 847.329.0101 Unemployment and Child Support By: M. Scott Gordon As you may know, Illinois recently shifted to an “income shares” model for child support. This means that both parents in the Chicago area, regardless of whether one has more parenting time than the other, will contribute to the total child support obligation. Under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act (IMDMA), the total support obligation is calculated by combining both parents’ incomes and referencing that amount on the guidelines table. This does not mean that both parents contribute the same amount toward that total obligation, however. The court determines each parent’s percentage of support based on parenting time and other factors. While the “income shares” model is designed to provide the child with the kind of financial support she or he would have received if the parents were still together, it can become complicated when one of the parents is unemployed or underemployed or, worse, when one of the parents becomes disabled or incarcerated. How does the “income shares” child support model work when one parent does not have a substantial income to contribute to the obligation? Unemployment, Underemployment, and the Child Support Obligation What if one of the parents is unemployed or underemployed (the latter referring to a situation in which a parent could be working more hours or earning more money but is not)? The way the court handles this situation depends in part upon the reason for the parent’s unemployment or underemployment. If the parent is unemployed or underemployed by choice, then the IMDMA says that support for the child can be calculated based on a determination of potential earnings. How does the court determine a parent’s potential income? It looks at the following for the parent who is voluntarily unemployed or underemployed: Work history; Occupational qualifications; Prevailing job opportunities; Ownership of non-income producing asset; and Earning levels in the area. When there is not enough information about the parent’s work history to make these other determinations, then the statute says that the parent’s potential income is 75 percent of the most recent federal poverty guidelines for an individual. For 2018, that number is $12,140. This method for determining the parent’s ability to pay child support when unemployment or underemployment is voluntary is designed to prevent a parent from quitting his or her job simply to avoid paying child support. Minimum Child Support Contributions and the Inability to Work Generally speaking, there is a minimum child support obligation of $40 per month per child under the IMDA. However, this minimum child support obligation does not apply when parents are unable to work and to earn money with which to contribute to a child support obligation. Indeed, if unemployment is not voluntary, then the court can issue what is called a “zero dollar child support order.” Learn More from a Chicago Child Support Lawyer If you have questions about child support obligations for unemployed or underemployed parties, an experienced Chicago child support lawyer can help. Contact Gordon & Perlut, LLC to learn more. Gordon & Perlut, LLC is a Divorce Lawyer and Family Law Firm located in Chicago, IL. Our Chicago office has convenient parking with discounted parking rates with Chicago office visit. Additionally, we offer a suburban office located in Skokie, IL. We Serve clients in Cook, Lake and DuPage County including, Chicago, Evanston, Des Plaines, Mount Prospect, Park Ridge, Elk Grove Village, Glenview, Niles, Prospect Heights, Glencoe, Winnetka, Morton Grove, Westchester, Northbrook, Wheeling, Arlington Heights, Schiller Park, Palatine, Riverside, Rosemont, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette. © 2021 by Gordon & Perlut, LLC, Divorce and Family Law Attorneys. All Rights reserved. Gordon & Perlut, LLC, Divorce and Family Law Attorneys 22 W. Washington St., Suite 1500 Chicago, Illinois 60602 \| Phone: 312.360.0250 5250 Old Orchard Road, Suite 300 Skokie, Illinois 60077	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1730
__label__cc	0.722565	0.277435	CelebritiesFashionMeredith Mickelson: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About Model Meredith Mickelson: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About Model Meredith Mickelson (Model) was born on the 1st of July, 1999. She was born in 1990s, in Millennials Generation. Her birth sign is Cancer and her life path number is 9. Meredith’s birth flower is Larkspur and birthstone is Ruby. What does this all mean? Let’s find out! Discover all the facts that no one tells you about Meredith Mickelson below ↓ NAME: Meredith Mickelson REAL NAME: Meredith Mickelson NICKNAME: Meredith PROFESSION: Model Meredith Mickelson, best known for being a Model, was born in United States on Thursday, July 1, 1999. Popular on Instagram, she is a model who earned representation with New York Model Mgmt, Salt Models Atlanta, Next Model Management Miami, and Freedom Los Angeles. Family: She has an older brother named Daniel. She began dating Kian Lawley in 2016. Meredith Mickelson father’s name is under review and mother unknown at this time. We will continue to update details on Meredith Mickelson’s family. Dating: According to CelebsCouples, Meredith Mickelson is dating Kian Lawley. Net Worth: Online estimates of Meredith Mickelson’s net worth vary. It’s easy to predict her income, but it’s much harder to know how much she has spent over the years. CelebsMoney and NetWorthStatus does a good job of breaking most of it down. 2. Meredith Mickelson’s zodiac sign is Cancer Meredith Mickelson zodiac sign is a Cancer. Dates of Cancer are June 21 - July 22. Those born under the zodiac sign Cancer need to be needed. They have an great desire to feel loved and appreciated in every part of their lives. This is needed so that they can develop a sense of security and identity. They are nurturing, supportive, healing, compassionate, and unconditionally loving. Although, they can be dependent, indirect, moody, passive, aggressive, and unable to let go. BORN IN THE YEAR OF THE: Rabbit 3. She is currently 21 years old The American model has been alive for 7,874 days or 188,978 hours. There were precisely 267 full moons after her birth to this day. BORN: July 1, 1999 BORN ON: Thursday Meredith Mickelson was born on a Thursday. The 'thur' in Thursday is actually derived from the Norse god Thor. People born on Thursdays are generally a fun to be around, which means Thursday's babies get to be the life of the party. Countdown to Meredith Mickelson’s next birthday. Meredith Mickelson will be turning 22. 4. On Meredith Mickelson’s birthday The world’s population was 6,066,867,391 and there were an estimated 130,704,749 babies born throughout the world in 1999, Bill Clinton (Democratic) was the president of the United States, and the number one song on Billboard 100 was "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez. 1689 – Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu, Japan. 1858 – The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society. 1863 – Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee's northward advance halted. 5. Meredith Mickelson’s height and weight We’re currently in process of confirming all details such as Meredith Mickelson’s height, weight, and other stats. If there is any information missing, we will be updating this page soon. If you any have tips or corrections, please send them our way. 6. The Year of the Rabbit Meredith Mickelson was born in the Year of the Rabbit. People with Chinese zodiac Rabbit sign usually impress others with an image of tenderness, grace and sensitive. They are romantic in relationship, having a high demand in life quality. They avoid arguing with others, and have a capability of converting an enemy into a friend. Their strengths are gentle, sensitive, compassionate, amiable, modest, and merciful. But they can also be amorous, hesitant, stubborn, timid, conservative. Their lucky numbers are 3, 4, 9, and lucky colors are red, blue, pink, purple. 7. Meredith Mickelson’s life path number is 9 Life Path Number 9 represent 'The Humanitarian'. Those who walk a Life Path with Number 9 gift the world with the sage wisdom and incredible kindness. 9 reminds us that by allowing our own divine light to shine, we can change the world. Its energy is that of The Greater Good. The values are compassion, understanding, acceptance. The challenges are to come away from every new experience a little bit wiser. Meredith Mickelson was born in the middle of Millennials Generation. 9. Meredith Mickelson’s birthstone is Ruby Red rubies are tokens of harmony and peace. Their beauty speaks of strength and nobility of character. It was believed to protect its wearer from evil. Traditionally, the ruby has been regarded by ancient Hindus as the "king of gems" 10. Meredith Mickelson’s birth flower is Larkspur Larkspurs symbolize positivity and love. They come in a wide range of vibrant colors including indigo, purple and pink.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1731
__label__wiki	0.522753	0.522753	Home News Ohio man works to build Kenya dairy industry Ohio man works to build Kenya dairy industry By Rebecca Miller - Dwight Roseler, of Wooster, Ohio, visited Kenya for the first time in August 2018. He will spend the next few years traveling there to develop dairy feed rations, and help provide training on improving cow health. SALEM, Ohio — When Dwight Roseler travels back to Kenya this year, he hopes to help dairies with hundreds of cows, large staffs and automation — but also small farmers, like Mr. Mugo. Mugo has a handful of milking cows and generates enough income to live on a small subsistence farm near Nakuru, a city of roughly 2 million, located northwest of the capital city of Nairobi. Mugo purchases fodder and buys grain. Every day, he milks by hand and hauls the milk into town to a creamery. Over the next few years, it will be Roseler’s job to create dairy feed rations in Kenya for Land O’Lakes, Inc., — ideally, a role that will benefit not only large dairies, but small farmers like Mugo, Roseler said. It has the potential to improve production in a country that has more cows than the U.S., according to Roseler, in an area only slightly smaller than Texas. Estimates compiled by various organizations, including the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization, are broad, but the consensus is that there are more cattle there than in the U.S. According to a U.N. report on Kenya, “grade cattle breeds account for less than 30 percent of the total cattle population, but contribute about 70 percent of estimated annual milk production and almost all the formally marketed milk.” To Africa Kenya dairy at a glance Location: Eastern Africa, bordered by the Indian Ocean, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan and Somalia. Size: 224,000 square miles (slightly smaller than Texas) Population: 49.7 million people (double the population of Texas) Milk production: 898 million gallons Milk price: $14-20 per cwt. (equivalent to) Number of dairy cattle: 9+ million; estimated to be more than U.S. (includes exotic breeds) Breeds of dairy cattle: Friesian, Ayrshire, Guernsey and Jersey. Exotic breeds are part of some estimated dairy cattle numbers, and include East African Zebu and Sahiwal. Global position: Sub-Saharan dairy production is 18% of global industry; Kenya accounts for 3% of that production. Sources: Dwight Roseler; Kenya Ministry of Livestock Development; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Kenya’s National Farmers Information Service. Roseler, based in Wooster, Ohio, is the dairy technical manager for part of the Great Lakes region of the Purina Animal Nutrition arm of Land O’Lakes. He works with 200,000 cows across the Midwest. Starting in August 2018, he began a three-year commitment that will take him to Kenya a couple of times a year. Several years ago, Land O’Lakes partnered with Bidco, a Kenyan grain processor. Roseler’s task will be to formulate dairy feed rations from the byproducts of Bidco’s grain processing at its mill in Nakuru. He will also do forage testing, and run training sessions on how to improve cow health. (Teaching is not new for him. He is also an adjunct professor for The Ohio State University.) “The farms are very much interested in learning how to improve,” Roseler said. Chance to improve According to Land O’Lakes, the demand for meat and dairy products is increasing in Kenya, but only about 5 percent of farms are commercialized enough to meet even a portion of the demand. The production model in Kenya is different, Roseler said. It relies on less machinery and automation; conversely, hourly wages are cheap. One 200-cow dairy he visited had dozens of employees. In visits to 25 dairies, Roseler said he saw a wide variety of management styles, sizes and levels of automation. While farmers might harvest silage, Roseler said it’s often made of elephant grass, a high dry-matter yielding grass that grows well in tropical climates and is drought resistant, but produces only a moderate quality forage, according to a 2016 article in Livestock Research for Rural Development. Even at large dairies, heifers don’t start milking until about 3 years old, Roseler said. “The infrastructure there is not anything like what we have in the U.S.,” Roseler said, adding, “It’s very much in the infancy, in terms of the industry.“ “It reminds me of back when I first started in the early ’80s,” Roseler said. “There were a lot of small farms then. There has been a lot of consolidation (in the U.S.).” He added that Land O’Lakes sees an opportunity to help improve calf nutrition and, in turn, help growth rates. There is also opportunity on the processing side of the dairy business, Roseler said. Small farmers will load their milk into large, metal jars and haul it to their town or village creamery for payment. It is not uncommon to see bicycles whiz down roads, jars strapped to the back. Kenya by the numbers Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 18 percent of global milk production. Kenya makes up 3 percent of that amount, with roughly the equivalent of 898 million gallons of milk produced, according to a 2017 report from the Kenya Ministry of Livestock Development. “The milk price (in Kenya), surprisingly, wasn’t that different than ours per hundredweight,” Roseler said. August was the first time Roseler traveled to Kenya, but he enjoyed it. He first tasted “chai na maziwa” (tea with milk, which is a Kenyan staple) at Mr. Mugo’s . “It’s wonderful,” he said. To learn more about the project, contact Dwight Roseler at dkroseler@gmail.com. Previous articleExtensive spread of corn toxin could affect 2019 crop too Next articleHomeowners should test for radon during winter Farm and Dairy Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Miller was tapped to lead the newsroom in 2019. A veteran journalist, dog wrangler and traveler, she lives on a 220-acre, 325-ewe commercial sheep farm in Lisbon, Ohio, which she runs in partnership with her mother. She can be reached at 330-817-6179 or editor@farmanddairy.com. Seasoned_Citizen January 28, 2019 at 11:09 am Best of luck to Mr. Roseler/Purina Corp. Latest in Kenya is the big, fat, “easy terms” loan that Kenya accepted from China. The Kenyan lawyers didn’t read the fine print in the loan papers. If China was not paid, Kenya pledged its sovereign assets, like infrastructure, to secure payment. Kenya defaulted and now–TA DA!–China owns/took over its main port, Mombassa! Who needs wars when paperwork does the same thing: Kenneth Wameyo January 29, 2019 at 4:02 am Milk production in Kenya is now estimated at 5.6bn litres per year(including camels and goats). Cattle milk value chain stands at 4.1billion litres per year with 650 million litres processed per year. ~ Harry Kimtai, PS @kilimoKE #MaziwaSafi Leave a Reply to Kenneth Wameyo Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1732
__label__wiki	0.505644	0.505644	The Potential of Flavonoids and Tannins from Medicinal Plants as Anticancer Agents Author(s): Eugenia D. Teodor* , Centre of Bioanalysis, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Romania Oana Ungureanu, Centre of Bioanalysis, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Romania Florentina Gatea, Centre of Bioanalysis, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Romania Gabriel L. Radu Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica, Bucharest, Romania Journal Name: Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (Formerly Current Medicinal Chemistry - Anti-Cancer Agents) Graphical Abstract: The tendency of using herbs extracts or natural compounds extracted from herbs for preventing or treating different illnesses, including cancer, continues to be an alternative to drug use. Many studies of plant compounds aimed at finding substances with selective cytotoxicity on abnormal cells. Phenolic compounds, as important secondary metabolites from plants, are one of them. In this review, the recent literature data from the past five years about anticancer/antitumor effect of flavonoids and tannins extracted from medicinal plants are surveyed. The cytostatic/antitumor effects of the individual compounds extracted from plants and/or of the plants' polyphenolic extracts are considered, in order to point out the most significant constituents or plants with anticancer potential. The most important results concerning these compounds and their derivatives in cancer prevention and treatment, the importance of their chemical structure, their mechanism of action in vitro and in vivo, and some bioavailability aspects are discussed. Keywords: Flavonoids, tannins, medicinal plants, cytotoxicity, antitumor activity, bioavailability. Title:The Potential of Flavonoids and Tannins from Medicinal Plants as Anticancer Agents Author(s):Eugenia D. Teodor, Oana Ungureanu, Florentina Gatea and Gabriel L. Radu Affiliation:Centre of Bioanalysis, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Centre of Bioanalysis, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Centre of Bioanalysis, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica, Bucharest Keywords:Flavonoids, tannins, medicinal plants, cytotoxicity, antitumor activity, bioavailability. Abstract:The tendency of using herbs extracts or natural compounds extracted from herbs for preventing or treating different illnesses, including cancer, continues to be an alternative to drug use. Many studies of plant compounds aimed at finding substances with selective cytotoxicity on abnormal cells. Phenolic compounds, as important secondary metabolites from plants, are one of them. In this review, the recent literature data from the past five years about anticancer/antitumor effect of flavonoids and tannins extracted from medicinal plants are surveyed. The cytostatic/antitumor effects of the individual compounds extracted from plants and/or of the plants' polyphenolic extracts are considered, in order to point out the most significant constituents or plants with anticancer potential. The most important results concerning these compounds and their derivatives in cancer prevention and treatment, the importance of their chemical structure, their mechanism of action in vitro and in vivo, and some bioavailability aspects are discussed. Eugenia D. Teodor, Oana Ungureanu, Florentina Gatea and Gabriel L. Radu, “The Potential of Flavonoids and Tannins from Medicinal Plants as Anticancer Agents”, Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (2020) 20: 2216. https://doi.org/10.2174/1871520620666200516150829 Page: [2216 - 2227] Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Radiolabeled Somatostatin Analogs: Current Status in an Oncology Center Iodine-Refractory Thyroid Carcinoma Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials Editorial [Hot Topic:Part-II Imaging and Treatment of Oncological Diseases (Guest Editor: J.F.W. 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__label__wiki	0.623667	0.623667	2013-14Regular SeasonRound 10 Telenet Ostend 79 Le Mans Sarthe Basket 70 December 18, 2013 CET: 20:30 Local time: 20:30 SLEUYTER ARENA Telenet Ostend used a 19-2 fourth quarter run to rally past, and eliminate, the visiting Le Mans Sarthe Basket 79-70 on Wednesday. Belgian champs finished Group A action with 8-2 record, the same record as the first place FoxTown Cantu, but Ostend finished in the second place due to Cantu’s edge in head-to-head games. Le Mans needed a win to advance, but dropped to 5-5, ending its Eurocup campaign in the fourth place. Jean Salumu paced Ostend with 13 points, Mateusz Ponitka scored 12, while Brent Wright, Ryan Thompson and Quentin Serron had 11 points apiece. For Le Mans, Vaughn Duggins and J.P. Batista each finished with 14 points, while Charles Kahudi and Reyshawn Terry had 11 apiece in defeat. Thompson and Serron combined to score 12 points for Ostend's 17-7 lead. Alain Koffi scored twice from close range, and Pape Sy hit one from long cutting it to 19-14, before Ponitka nailed a three-pointer to end the first half 23-17. Wright scored twice inside for Ostend, but Terry nailed a pair of triples for Le Mans and 29-27. Salumu hit twice from downtown for the hosts, but Batista and Kahudi scored inside for 40-39, before a basket-plus-foul by Veselin Petrovic helped make it 43-41 at halftime. Batista scored 6 points early in the third, helping the hosts take 50-52 lead. A triple from Kahudi late in the third and a triple from Sy at the start of the fourth made it 56-61. But Salumu scored a pair of layups before Ponitka had a dunk and a three-pointer for 68-63. A layup from Wright and free throws from Salumu helped extend it to 75-63 with less than 3 minutes to go. Kahudi and Dounia Issa scored on fastbreaks for Le Mans, and Terry hit a three-pointer, but it was too little too late for Le Mans. Eurocupbasketball.com Referees: LOPES, LUIS; CMIKIEWICZ, MAREK; LAURINAVICIUS, JURGIS Attendance: 1835 (Tentative) Telenet Ostend 23 20 13 23 Le Mans Sarthe Basket 17 24 17 12 Telenet Ostend 4 BERGGREN, JARED 22:03 7 2/5 3/4 1 1 2 1 2 6 5 SERRON, QUENTIN 17:31 11 1/3 3/3 2 2 2 1 2 14 7 THOMPSON, RYAN 20:33 11 3/4 0/2 5/5 1 1 1 3 2 9 9 MARNEGRAVE, NIELS 21:36 2 1/2 0/1 8 1 2 3 10 10 PETROVIC, VESELIN 8:52 5 1/1 0/2 3/3 1 1 1 1 2 2 4 11 WILKINSON, WES 4:42 1 1 1 3 -1 12 GILLET, PIERRE ANTOINE 26:55 5 1/3 0/4 3/4 2 7 9 1 4 2 3 3 6 13 SALUMU, JEAN 21:30 13 2/2 2/4 3/3 5 5 1 1 1 1 2 18 14 PONITKA, MATEUSZ 20:26 12 3/5 2/2 3 3 1 2 2 10 15 BOUKICHOU, KHALID 1:24 20 DJORDJEVIC, DUSAN 18:24 2 0/1 2/2 3 3 4 2 2 5 1 4 21 WRIGHT, BRENT 16:04 11 4/5 3/4 2 1 3 2 1 2 1 3 5 14 Totals 200:00 79 18/30 7/19 22/25 5 25 30 15 11 15 3 1 23 22 94 Head coach: GJERGJA, DARIO 4 THOMAS, TOREY 18:35 0/1 0/3 2 2 4 2 1 5 5 KAHUDI, CHARLES 31:06 11 2/5 2/6 1/1 1 1 2 3 1 1 10 6 TERRY, REYSHAWN 28:51 11 0/5 3/5 2/2 3 3 6 3 1 4 3 5 7 KOFFI, ALAIN 6:24 6 3/5 2 1 3 1 1 4 2 5 8 EITO, ANTOINE 21:25 3 0/1 1/3 1 3 4 2 1 1 2 2 6 10 SY, PAPE 20:37 8 0/1 2/4 2/2 1 1 3 1 4 1 7 13 BATISTA, J.P. 22:16 14 6/9 2/2 1 4 5 4 3 1 10 18 MENDY, KEVIN 2:03 24 ISSA, DOUNIA 20:07 3 1/5 0/1 1/5 5 1 6 1 1 1 2 3 7 3 44 DUGGINS, VAUGHN 28:36 14 4/8 0/2 6/8 1 3 4 3 1 3 2 4 13 Totals 200:00 70 16/40 8/24 14/20 13 19 32 14 10 13 1 3 23 22 64 Head coach: JACKSON, JD GJERGJA, DARIO "Big performance from my team getting 8 victories in 10 matches. Congratulations to my players for their attitude. Even though the last two games did not matter anymore for qualification, they showed great attitude winning the last two games. Tonight we won against a great team, especially if you look at their last results. I am most happy about how my players share these moments with each other on the bench." JACKSON, JD "I am very disappointed that we lost this game in money time, at a time we had a 4 point lead in the last quarter. The tempo of the game was in our favor at that time, but a lot of poor mistakes led to a number of turnovers, and with transition basket Ostend came back into the game. At that point we lost confidence and we crashed under the pressure." 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__label__wiki	0.876915	0.876915	Deutsche Bank sees 55% chance Brexit deal will get rejected on Saturday FILE PHOTO: The logo of Deutsche Bank is pictured on a company's office in London, England, July 8, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson - Copyright Simon Dawson(Reuters) LONDON (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank said on Thursday it sees a 55% chance that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal will be rejected by Parliament on Saturday, although it may ultimately get ratified after a general election. It pegged the chances of the agreement getting through at the weekend at 45%. Britain clinched an eleventh-hour Brexit deal with the EU, but European markets were nervous ahead of the key test on Saturday when Johnson faces a knife-edge vote in parliament to get it approved. “In our view, it seems slightly more likely than not the deal will fail to pass parliament,” Deutsche Bank Macro Strategist Oliver Harvey said. “But the most likely outcome in these circumstances is a Conservative majority in a general election, after which Prime Minister Johnson’s deal is then ratified.” (Reporting by Thyagaraju Adinarayan; editing by Josephine Mason)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1735
__label__wiki	0.914533	0.914533	Big Power in a Small Package By: eWeek Editors \| January 15, 2001 As west coast utilities struggle to keep up with fast-growing demand for electricity, a Milpitas, Calif., start-up claims that a transceiver chip technology breakthrough may cut the power needed to run high-speed network equipment by two-thirds. The leaner chips manufactured by BitBlitz Communications could slash the amount of energy consumed by Internet traffic and save carriers a chunk of money in the process. A controversial study by the Green Earth Society claims that the Internet consumes as much as 8 percent of all electric power today, and that the entire digital economy will gobble up 50 percent by 2020. But Amory Lovins, who as president of the Rocky Mountain Institute wages war on wasteful energy consumption, says the Internet has saved more energy and electricity than it has ever consumed — and will continue to do so. Biden Will Need to Scrutinize U.S.-China Relations... "Ninety-nine percent of power failures come from problems in the grid, not from inadequate generation, and 95 percent of grid failures are in distribution," says Lovins, who blames rolling brownouts reported in December 2000 in California on several Canadian provinces and Western states "doing almost nothing to use electricity more efficiently." Making chips smaller and speedier so that they provide more power while using less electricity is the goal of company engineers and the scientists from labs, start-ups, fabrication plants and universities that team with them. For example, IBM expects to begin delivering this summer 0.13-micron chips that it says will dramatically reduce the wattage needed to perform a task. "In the race to make faster chips for the Internet, every small gain in speed has been accompanied by huge increases in power consumption," BitBlitz Chief Executive Bin Wu says. "We have developed an important low-power semiconductor technology that will help the Internet run faster." Leo Wong, BitBlitzs director of strategic marketing, says his companys "technology breakthrough is in our clock and data recovery unit." All data that flows over the Internet is moved by transceiver chips that power switches and routers. One of the most important functions of transceiver chips is to decipher timing and data information embedded in high-speed serial links. This circuit, known as the clock and data recovery unit, performs the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack billions of times per second. As network processors receive the timing and data information from the transceiver, they route packets to appropriate destinations. Traditionally, chipmakers have used an analog approach to accelerate the reading of the ones and zeroes. That approach is power-hungry, expensive and incapable of integrating logic or of putting multiple channels on the same chip. Another approach is digital, which can integrate logic and multiple channels on the same chip and makes it possible to divide traffic onto multiple wavelengths. But that approach cant increase in speed. BitBlitz takes a hybrid approach, known as large amplitude differential logic, which combines the speed advantages of analog and the integration advantages of digital. Most importantly, the chip is manufactured using the ordinary complementary metal oxide semiconductor process. By making CMOS chips run as fast as the more exotic gallium arsenide and bipolar chips, BitBlitz ignites systems that consume less power, achieve more aggregate bandwidth and take up less rack space. "It allows us to grow in both speed and channel and integrate logic — and do it at extremely low power," Wong says. The resulting transceiver uses one-third to one-fifth of the typical wattage. And that means several chips can operate in parallel without needing to consume even more power to cool the electronics. That can make Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing — an ingenious but power-gobbling method of boosting carrying capacity — much more viable. Twenty of BitBlitzs eight-channel BBT3800 chips could be used in parallel to power a terabit-per-second serial backplane. That terabit capacity is needed to break bottlenecks in the metro areas as well as in cross-country and global optical networks. The BBT3800, which runs at 3.1 gigabits per second and consumes 1.6 watts, begins trials this month. A chip that consumes 4.5 watts needs a heat sink or a fan to cool it. That requires even more electric power, and more room in the equipment rack. But most of the older circuit-switching offices were built before the advent of the Internet and were not designed for high-power, high-heat systems. Many of these central offices have reached their equipment capacity, which is threatening Internet growth. BitBlitzs four-channel BBT3400, which is in trials now, is powering Internet switches and routers that move data at 3.1 Gbps. The BBT3400 consumes 800 milliwatts — about a fifth the power of most chips deployed today, Wong says. Previous Heres What Your Allies Want Next Getting Any Foot in the Door CES 2021: The Way Forward for Tech Conferences, Trade... By: Charles King \| January 19, 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1740
__label__cc	0.656393	0.343607	Slugs and snails are the number one enemy of organic growers. Here’s a five point plan to get rid of these hungry molluscs. 1. Protect your plants. Create barriers with slug collars, grit, wool pellets, cloches made from plastic bottles. Or traps, using beer in a pot. Keep checking daily – especially after wet or damp weather. See below. 2. Collect slugs and snails. Put down a flat slate on the soil near your plants and check underneath it every day to remove the slugs and snails which have congregated in the dark and damp. 3. Hunt them. Go out after dark and pick up every slug and snail (use tongs or gloves if squeamish). Dispose of them as you wish – ideally putting them in a suitable natural habitat away from any cultivated land. 4. Bio-controls ie nematodes. These are expensive to buy, so make sure you follow the instructions re soil temperature, watering etc carefully. See below. 5. As a last resort – slug pellets. Only use pellets certified as suitable for organic growing (check the logo) and use sparingly. The chemicals in slug pellets can cause problems for earthworms. See below. Here are some other ways to confound them: Choose trouble free plants. Slugs and snails love hostas and delphiniums. See below for a list of flowers not so high on their menu. Slugs also love young green growth. So wait to plant out seedlings until they are mature and resistant. Potato varieties such as Ambo, Cara, Desiree, Romano, Sante and Valor have shown resistance to slugs. Ground beetles, frogs, toads, hedgehogs and birds all feed on slugs. Make your garden a friendly place for these beneficial creatures by avoiding harmful sprays and creating a variety of wildlife habitats and nesting boxes. Tidy up or remove any piles of rubble or stones close to cultivated areas, as well as stacks of flowerpots, and piles of plant debris. These are all hiding places for slugs and snails. Barriers and traps to catch slugs and snails Barriers can be either home-made or commercial products. Bottle cloches - cut the bottom off a clear plastic bottle and firm it into the soil around a vulnerable seedling/plant. Slug collars - plastic rings with a lip to make crossing it difficult, placed around individual plants such as lettuce. Grit or Granules - natural mineral products that either form a sharp, gritty repellent barrier or that suck the moisture from the slime that slugs and snails exude as they move. Bran or oats. Put a thick layer round the plant, slugs will eat it, swell up and become easy picking for birds. But you need to renew daily, especially in damp weather. Spray repellent - made from yucca plant extract, spray on to surfaces and around vulnerable plants. Especially useful in hard-to-protect-places like greenhouse window frames. Needs renewing after heavy rain. Copper tape/rings - copper gives a natural electric charge that repels both slugs and snails. Tape is useful around pots and legs of greenhouse staging Slug traps require some form of bait – beer is popular! To make your own, use a shallow container (plastic coleslaw or yoghurt pot) and insert it into the soil. Leave a rim 2cm above soil level to prevent beetles and other creatures from falling in. Biological control: Nematodes There is a microscopic nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita which kills slugs - particularly small, soil-dwelling ones - but not snails. It is a native species and can be found naturally in the soil throughout the UK. For it to be effective, however, you need large numbers and regular application. You can buy nematodes on line. They are often supplied in a pack of moist clay; this is mixed with water and applied to the soil with a watering can. Slugs will be controlled for up to 6 weeks, after which re-application is often necessary. Important points for success with nematode controls: The soil should be moist for 2 to 3 weeks after application to enable the nematodes to live. During dry spells watering may be necessary. The soil temperature should be above 5°C. If you live in the south, this probably between March and October. Further north, your window is more limited. In a greenhouse, use whenever slugs are active. Once opened, the contents must be used immediately. Unopened, the sachet may be stored in a fridge for 4 weeks or in a cool dark area for 2 days. Slug pellets Use only Ferric phosphate based pellets. They contain ferric phosphate or iron III phosphate, which affects the calcium metabolism in the gut system of snails and slugs causing them to stop feeding and die within three to six days. Although the ferric phosphate is less toxic than metaldehyde, there remains the problem of the other ingredients in the tablets - known as chelators. These chemicals help bond the iron molecules and make them more toxic to the molluscs. Unfortunately they also affect earthworms, and, if consumed in large quantities, can poison pets. Our advice is to use these pellets only as a last resort. To use them sparingly, and store them safely. Other slug pellets: those based on metaldehyde or methiocarb should NEVER be used in an organic garden. Flowering plants resistant to slugs and snails Acanthus, Achillea, Agapanthus, Alchemilla mollis, Antirrhinum, Aquilegia, Astrantia, Bergenia, Corydalis, Cynara, Dicentra, Digitalis (Foxglove) ,Eryngium, Euphorbia, Fennel, Forget me not, Fuchsia, Gallardia, Hardy Geranium, Geum, Hemerocallis, Japanese anemone, Lysimachia, Nasturtium, Nepeta, Pelargonium, Phlox, Polygonum, Potentilla, Pulmonaria, Oriental poppy, Rudbeckia, Sedum, Sempervivum, Thalictrum, Verbascum. Want to know more about slugs and snails? The Garden Snail, Cornu aspersum, is usually dark or golden brown, or chestnut with yellow stripes. The body is soft, slimy and brownish-grey. As it moves, it secretes a mucus which helps it glide across a surface by rhythmic waves of contraction. The snail moves at a top speed of .012 metres per second (compare this with Usain Bolt who runs a thousand times faster, at 12 mts per second.) However, unlike Bolt, the snail is helped by its mucus to go up a slope at any angle, including upside down; it can resist being pulled off a firm surface with an adhesive strength several times its own weight; rest on a surface at any angle without any expenditure of energy; and it can pass over the edge of razor blade without harm. Snails are herbivores, eating vegetables, fruit, flowers and cereals, as well as rotting plant material. When injured the animal produces a defensive froth of mucus to repel enemies such as aggressive small ants. When it's freezing, the snail alters its blood structure to prevent the formation of ice in its tissues. In dry weather, it seals the shell opening with a thin membrane of dried mucus. This helps retain moisture and protects it from insects. The snail's head has four tentacles; the upper two have eye-like light sensors, and the lower two are tactile and used for smelling. How do snails reproduce? Snails are hermaphrodite and take up to 2 hours to mate. They lay a batch of about 80 spherical pearly-white eggs into crevices in the topsoil or sheltered under stones. In a year it may lay six batches or so. That's nearly 500 young snails, which will take one or two years to reach maturity. Slugs Slugs use their mucus as a navigation system, as it helps them follow the trail back to their tunnels and feeding sites. The slug's mantle is an area behind the head and is made of thick flesh. If a slug is frightened or not active it will retract its head into the mantle for protection. The keel is a ridge that runs the length of the back of some species of slug. Slugs live in dark damp places or underground. They need persistent moisture to prevent drying out. Cool weather, rain and fog are perfect for slugs. However in a long dry spell, slugs can encase themselves in a papery cocoon-like structure and attach themselves to a wall or a tree and wait it out. Most UK slug species are herbivorous, eating leaves, flowers, fruits, mushrooms, lichens and decaying plant material. Some, such as the Leopard slug, are carnivorous and hunt other slugs and snails. There are four common species of slug: The Netted or Grey Field slug (Deroceras reticulatum), 3 - 5 cm long, is normally a light brown above, with a chain of darker veins and blotches, and pale with a darker central zone below. It is a pest in gardens as it feeds nearly all year round, mostly on seeds and plants above ground. The Common Garden slug (Arion distinctus/ Arion hortensis), 3 cm long, is brown and striped lengthwise, often with tiny gold spots, and with an orange or yellow underside. Attacks both leaf and root crops, and is a major pest of potatoes. The Common Keeled slug (Tandonia budapestensis), up to 6cm long, is black or grey with an yellow-orange ridge along its body, a pale underside and colourless mucus. It lives underground, feeding on newly drilled seeds such as potatoes. As it spends most of its time underground it is hard to control. The Large Red slug and Black slug (Arion ater) is either orange-red or black with an orange fringe. Despite it's size, up to 12cm, this species of slug is much less damaging than the other pest species. When alarmed, it contracts into a spherical shape and might rock from side to side.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1742
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__label__wiki	0.501815	0.501815	McKesson Looks Forward to a New Year By Dan CaplingerFool.com Image: McKesson. The wholesale pharmaceutical industry has been a battleground lately, and McKesson has had to navigate an environment in which greater regulatory scrutiny and allegations among some industry players of price-gouging practices pose a threat to long-term profitability. Coming into Wednesday's fiscal fourth-quarter financial report, McKesson investors wanted to see modest but measurable growth in its top and bottom line. Although McKesson's fiscal fourth-quarter results left some things to be desired, the company focused on full-year performance and sought ways to do even better as fiscal 2017 begins. Let's take a closer look at the latest from McKesson and what it means for its future. McKesson calls in sick McKesson's fiscal fourth-quarter results included some surprises that weren't so pleasant. Revenue for the quarter rose 4% to $46.7 billion, which was almost exactly what investors had expected from the wholesale drug specialist. Yet after modifying for various extraordinary items, adjusted income from continuing operations fell to $560 million, representing a drop of almost a fifth and working out to adjusted earnings of $2.44 per share. That fell far short of the consensus forecast of $3.14 per share in adjusted earnings. For the most part, McKesson's major segments moved in almost the opposite directions from each other. The Distribution Solutions business makes up nearly all of McKesson's total revenue, and sales there rose 7%. Currency impacts cost the company two percentage points of revenue growth. The international pharmaceutical distribution and services business continued to underperform its North American counterpart, consistent with the behavior we've seen in the past. International revenue was down 1% in dollar terms, masking a 2% constant-currency gain. North American sales from pharma distribution and services picked up 5%. Medical-surgical distribution and services were up only modestly, and operating profits for the segment totaled $811 million on a GAAP basis. Meanwhile, McKesson's Technology Solutions business kept losing ground. Overall, revenue for the unit fell 5%, with McKesson once again discussing the impact of the sale of its nurse-triage business as well as its expected decline in its hospital software business. Growth in other areas of the segment helped keep the losses from being any worse, and adjusted operating profits of $99 million were helpful but lower than in the fiscal third quarter. CEO John Hammergren emphasized the way that the entire 2016 fiscal year has gone. "Fiscal 2016 was a year of growth at McKesson," Hammergren said, "and I am encouraged by the many new and expanded customer relationships throughout our businesses." The CEO characterized solid execution throughout the company as a driving force for success. What's next for McKesson?Looking forward, McKesson thinks that there are ways it can continue to squeeze more from the business opportunities it has. In Hammergren's words, "McKesson's focus on driving value and innovation in our daily interactions with our customers, built on a deep foundation of operational excellence, will continue to propel our company going forward as we look to fiscal 2017 and beyond." Specifically, McKesson's guidance was reasonably upbeat. The company expects to post adjusted earnings of $13.30 to $13.80 per share, once you exclude not only the typical reductions from GAAP earnings but also an additional $0.12 to $0.15 per share in costs related to McKesson's Cost Alignment plan. The company believes that negative generic pharmaceutical pricing trends in the U.S. will hurt its overall results, as will consolidation among its customer base. However, potential growth from McKesson's strategic deployment of its capital could offset those negative trends. To get there, McKesson is making some key assumptions. The company expects high-single digit percentage growth in Distribution Solutions revenue, with even faster low-double digit percentage gains internationally. McKesson isn't expecting the Technology Solutions arena to produce sales growth, but the segment will need to improve to a more modest rate of decline. Pre-tax charges from the Cost Alignment plan should amount to $40 million to $50 million. McKesson investors seemed fairly satisfied with its results, sending the stock up about 1.5% in after-hours trading following the announcement. Despite headwinds, McKesson's opportunity to capitalize on profitable business in the pharmaceutical arena makes the company an interesting play despite its big miss on the bottom line in its most recent quarterly report. The article McKesson Looks Forward to a New Year originally appeared on Fool.com. Dan Caplinger has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends McKesson. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Copyright 1995 - 2016 The Motley Fool, LLC. All rights reserved. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1746
__label__wiki	0.641529	0.641529	BY Michael Xufu Huang in ‘It’s always the young section first’ \| 02 OCT 17 ‘It’s always the young section first’ Michael Xufu Huang discusses supporting emerging artists, using WeChat and his first curatorial project, ‘The Heart of the Tin Man’ BY Michael Xufu Huang in ‘It’s always the young section first’ \| 02 OCT 17 Frieze.com: ‘Heart of the Tin Man’, the show you’ve curated at M Woods, proposes to “register emotion within a contemporary world increasingly governed by algorithms, measurements, and marketing.” What drew you to this topic or area of concern? Michael Xufu Huang: By the time I was born, the shift from analog to digital was already complete—I attended primary school with cell phone in hand—so my perception of technology, especially communication technologies, can seem a bit skewed. They really define the way we live and absorb information. I think it’s a contemporary language, and I’m interested in a wide range of art and artists that address social issues that arise from this reality. Frieze.com: Of course, in The Wizard of Oz, the tin man’s heart is something not there – something he strives to find. Did you – or do you still – have the sense that there is something “heartless” about the internet age - or the art made within and about it? MXH: Yes, very much so. We are always connected to the rest of the world, whether or not we want to be, and there is a general acceptance that the speed of a response takes precedence over the actual content of the message. We continue to have emotions, but instead of taking the time to feel and process them, we might post a picture instead. There’s an element of human interaction that’s been lost, and that’s why contemporary art is so important. It reintroduces meaningful, shared experiences into society. Yngve Holen installation in 'Heart of the Tin Man' at M Woods, Beijing. Image courtesy: M Woods Frieze.com: Other surveys to which the exhibition might be likened (like Karen Archey’s ‘Art Post-Internet’ at UCCA, ‘Surround Audience’ at the New Museum, etc.) have arguably tended to be both weighed towards both emerging artists and somewhat intangible digital forms - screens, video, VR etc. Whereas ‘Heart of the Tin Man’ engages a range of generations - with mid-career artists like Gillian Wearing and Ryan Gander alongside very young artists like Austin Lee and Liu Wa – as well emphasising the sensory, especially in terms of utilising scent and sound, and even live performance. Can you say more about the curatorial approach you took for exhibition? Was there a conscious decision to “disrupt” the model or paradigm offered by some of these previous exhibitions? MXH: All the exhibitions you’ve mentioned have been inspiring, and Lauren Cornell actually contributed a short essay to ‘Heart of the Tin Man’. Incorporating all of the senses through the artworks was an imperative. With some of the more ephemeral works, like Sean Raspet’s scent portrait commissioned for the show, I felt Chinese audiences lacked exposure to that kind of work. There’s been a huge upswing in the number of exhibitions addressing new technologies, especially in China, but as you’ve pointed out, they tend to be stuck in digital formats. We wanted to produce a show that was well rounded. Frieze.com: What inspired the decision to turn your hand to curating with this exhibition? Did you look to any examples or other curators’ practices for inspiration? Or were there, say, particular conversations or books which sparked your ideas? MXH: I think of this show as a graduation project of sorts. The artists represented mostly belong to the collection, so I’m very familiar with the works. I was really inspired by some of the directions presented in Berlin Biennale 9 — curated by DIS. People have a lot of complaints about that show, but I loved it. Frieze.com: Of course, you must have already seen a lot of exhibitions as a visitor, and speak to a lot of curators – so was there anything that surprised you about the process of curating an exhibition yourself? MXH: What I had to learn were the means by which one communicates through the environment constructed around the artworks. So for example, with Amalia Ulman’s Instagram pieces, we created a labyrinth with mirrors where viewers can ‘play’ and directly engage with the issues of representation that are so central to her investigations. We’ve also tried to reach our Chinese viewers over their preferred social media channels, so using WeChat, they can access a series of videos in which Wanwan and I introduce more information behind the works and the artists that produced them. Michael Xufu Huang with Amalia Ullman's 'Execellences and Perfections' series, in an installaton specially devised for 'Heart of the Tin Man' at M Woods, Beijin. Image courtesy: M Woods Frieze.com: You might compare the cross-generational mix in this exhibition to, say, the way that ‘All Means are Sacred’ at M Woods last year included examples of ancient Chinese sculpture and late medieval European painting alongside contemporary art from Asia and beyond. Do you aim for the programme at M Woods to create these kind of juxtapositions or surprises? I’m thinking here of the amazing decision to include Silver Clouds (1966) in the Warhol exhibition you opened in 2016, ‘Contact’… MXH: The theme for ‘All Means are Sacred’ was lifted from Wassily Kandinsky’s text Concerning the Spiritual in Art and introduced the wide lens by which the other founders and I envision curation and collecting. In many ways, ‘Heart of the Tin Man’ continues in this vein, incorporating works that might otherwise never be associated under more conventional rubrics of geography or generation. We want to collapse the significance attached to temporal and media-specific aspects in order to expose more universal truths embodied through art. Frieze.com: Both the exhibitions I’ve mentioned so far have, I believe, included works from the M Woods collection as well as loans. How would you describe the relationship between the collection, and the wider mission of M Woods - which includes e.g. a residency programme, as well as the exhibitions? Viewers engage with an installation by Institute for New Feeling in 'Heart of the Tin Man' at M Woods, Beijing. Image courtesy: M Woods MXH: Lin Han, Wanwan, and I came together to establish M WOODS because there is still a long way to go for contemporary art institutions in China. We felt a responsibility as collectors to support artists and audiences in a way that institutions do. Our initiatives began (and continue) by building a permanent collection to share with a young generation of learners. The addition of further public programming and an artist residency is intended to compliment our exhibitions program. We’re a very young institution—both in terms of the average age of our staff and the years we’ve been operating—but we are dedicated to presenting quality programming to the public. So we are amongst many private collectors who are taking social responsibilities very seriously. Frieze.com: You mention Lauren’s text for the show, and you’re on the Board of Trustees of the New Museum. Is this kind of collaboration with international curators and institutions something that’s important to M Woods? How do you think Chinese patrons can balance these kinds of international links with fostering the cultural eco-system in China? MXH: Incorporating international links is part and parcel of fostering the cultural ecosystem in China. We aspire to contribute to global conversations surrounding art, bringing together the best of what we see domestically and internationally. Frieze.com: Going back to the range - in terms of nationality, age and practice - of the artists in ‘Heart of the Tin Man’ and ‘All Means are Sacred’. Does that spirit of crossing boundaries and categories apply to your personal collecting? How would you characterise your collecting ethos or approach? MXH: The other founders and I coined the term ‘FAT Art’ to describe our approach. Free, Alchemical, Timeless: these huge ideas describe the principles governing our collection and methods. We are not interested in pursuing artworks based purely on the nationality of the artist. Likewise, we are not solely focused on a single medium. Personally, I am very invested in supporting younger, emerging artists as they tend to drive innovation within the field. Michael Xufu Huang with a Pamela Rosencranz installation in 'Heart of the Tin Man' at M Woods, Beijing. Image courtesy: M Woods Frieze.com: You must have a very global perspective on the art world – not least being recently based between Beijing and going to school in London and college in the US. Do you have any favourite destinations for experiencing art - in terms of where artists are based, or where great galleries cluster, or where the museums you most enjoy visiting are? MXH: New York is great. Everyone wants to be in New York and every artist or curator longs to have a show in the city. But in terms of studio visits, the most productive have often been in Berlin. I like museums to be experimental. Of course, I always visit the New Museum, but in London, I greatly admire the Camden Arts Centre, Whitechapel, Tate Modern and Serpentine Galleries. Frieze.com: Several of the artists included in ‘Heart of the Tin Man’ - aaajiao, Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Sean Raspet, to name a few - have all been significant presences in the young sections at Frieze fairs in recent years. What role do art fairs play in your pursuit of art? MXH: Art fairs are a great way to discover artists, and I always head to the emerging artists section. I also like to see what young galleries are making an impact, so I can follow their programs. Sean Raspet’s Soylent-collaboration with Société at Focus, Frieze New York 2016. Photograph: Frieze Frieze.com: Could you give an example or two of artists in the show and how you first discovered their work? Many people first encountered Amalia Ulman, for example, through her Instagram project, ‘Excellences and Perfections’ (2014); on the other hand, the intangibility of some post-internet art can make it difficult for some collectors to grasp… MXH: Kenny Goldsmith introduced Amalia Ulman during one of my classes with him at the University of Pennsylvania. I met Sean Raspet at Frieze New York 2016, during his scollaboration with Soylent at Société. Then I managed to become part of the work in a way by modeling in a photoshoot for the project. After that we kept in touch. Frieze.com: In terms of the emerging end of the scene, are there any specific galleries that you are especially drawn to at the moment? MXH: Arcadia Missa in London and JTT Gallery in New York, as well as a few other young European galleries. Arcadia Missa's presentation in Focus at Frieze London 2016. Photography: Linda Nylind. Courtesy: Linda Nylind/Frieze Frieze.com: What would be your advice to a first-time visitor to “Frieze week”? MXH: Do some homework on who is showing. Know which sections you want to visit. For me, it’s always the young section first. First time visitors shouldn't try to buy a big piece, wheras the young section is a great way to step into collecting. During Frieze week, all museums and galleries are putting out new shows: it’s a prime time for the art scene. Frieze.com: I would ask about what plans you have for the future but I know you’ve been very tight-lipped about this until now! So instead, I wanted to ask: since the exhibitions at M Woods tend to have a long duration - with mostly just two taking place each year, do you think the pace of the art world today needs to slow down? MXH: I feel with so much information that’s constantly available, we naturally want things to slow down. But things aren’t going to change just because I want them to. With this exhibition, I’m encouraging thoughtful reflection on the use of technology in our lives and suggesting we at least consider stepping away from the screen every once in a while. Austin Lee’s portrait of me does reveal, after all, that I am the model Tin Man. ‘Heart of the Tin Man’ is on view at M Woods, Beijing until 8th October 2017 Michael Xufu Huang participates in a panel on ‘Collecting Young and Emerging Art’ alongside Diana Campbell Betancourt and Heather Flow as part of ‘Conversations on Collecting’ on Saturday 8th October at Frieze London MICHAEL XUFU HUANG Michael Xufu Huang started his personal contemporary art collection at age 16 as a London high schooler at Dulwich College. He co-founded M WOODS, an independent, not-for-profit art museum which, since its inception has hosted exhibitions featuring a mix of Chinese and international artists, from Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, and Tracey Emin to up-and-comers like Amalia Ulman, Yngve Holen and Yu Hongli. He curated his first major exhibition this past summer, 'Heart of the Tin Man', exploring the double effect of technology on our daily life. A recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Huang also sits on the board of the New Museum in New York, USA. He is based in Beijing, China M Woods Post-Internet Art Tomo Campbell and Alexandre Mattiussi in ‘One Day, Before’ Two cities, two creatives, two shows SPONSORED BY AMI Alexandre Mattiussi At the Office with Sir Paul Smith Marking fifty years of his brand this year, the celebrated designer talks about spending lockdown as the sole occupant of his office - and his plans for the future SPONSORED BY Deutsche Bank BMW Open Work A Little Light Music Madeline Hollander’s BMW Open Work commission utilizes recycled headlights to explore forms of human connectivity BY Harry Thorne \| 09 OCT 20 Alex Petalas Embraces the Intimate From Swatches to Sarah Lucas, the founder of London’s The Perimeter on forming his collection – and why you won’t find him in a gallery’s DMs BY Alex Petalas \| 07 OCT 20 Playing (with) Ghosts On the haunted, transatlantic landscape of Alberta Whittle’s new film commission, shot at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic BY Taylor Le Melle \| 05 OCT 20 Building for Health Tracing survivals of past pandemics across London’s architecture and public spaces, Gillian Darley shows how disease has shaped the city BY Gillian Darley \| 05 OCT 20 Claudia Roden’s Sociable Take On A Tagine ‘Having people around and making dinner is what gives me the most pleasure’ BY Claudia Roden \| 02 OCT 20 DJ Fat Tony Assumes The Recovery Position The clubland veteran is committed to sharing stories of survival BY James Greig \| 02 OCT 20 In ‘Promising Young Woman’ Revenge Is a Dish Served Lukewarm Despite a brilliant performance by Carey Mulligan, the post-#MeToo thriller is an anti-climax BY Philippa Snow \| 19 JAN 21	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1753
__label__wiki	0.862555	0.862555	BY Chris Fite-Wassilak in Reviews \| 11 OCT 13 O Chair O Flesh BY Chris Fite-Wassilak in Reviews \| 11 OCT 13 ‘O Chair O Flesh’, installation view, centre: Florian Roithmayr Inhaler, 2013, digital print, banner, stand, concrete, 210 × 90 × 11 cm ‘Are we truly the crocodiles who look back into the abyss of time?’ Werner Herzog asks at the end of his documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). His 3D exploration of the Chauvet Cave in southeastern France gives us a glimpse of the 30,000-year-old cave paintings. Of course, he can’t help but add a Herzogian flourish, comparing the vulnerability of the nascent homo sapiens species who created these first paintings to a set of albino crocodiles spawned by a nearby nuclear power plant. Several hundred kilometres west, in the valley of the Vézère River, the Lascaux Caves were previously thought to contain the oldest-known cave paintings, before the discovery of Chauvet in 1994. Georges Bataille, writing on Lascaux in 1955, saw the valley as the ‘cradle of humanity’ – not only where art was invented but where ‘Lascaux Man’ originated ‘humanized life’. In a former yarn factory just down the gurgling Vézère, the group exhibition ‘O Chair O Flesh’ posited an evolution gone awry, a parallel ‘Lascaux Man’ who is not a far cry from the cognizant mutant crocodiles evoked by Herzog. Here, Francis Upritchard’s hybrid relic, Sports Trophy (2012), a golf club mounted on the wall with its end morphed into a bird’s head, welcomed us into this being’s otherworldly sitting room. Facing us was Snake Man (2012), a stuffed serpent body poised upright with a meekly serene human face poking out, its unsettling pairing only underscored by the quaintly domestic wooden stand it sat on. Around the corner, winding out from the wall was a wayward, thick ceramic pipe, coiled around itself on the floor before bending up toward us in an open hole. A breathy human-sounding hiss came from the darkness of its mouth: the opening and joints of Bea McMahon’s Utter Pipe (2013) were encircled by red, lip-shaped rings. The title of the show is a translational pun that is both a repetition (‘chair’ is French for ‘flesh’) and what sounds in English like a short ode to materiality. The group show of 13 artists marked a new phase for the artist-run Treignac Projet, under the direction of Matt Packer, former curator at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery in Cork, Ireland. Massive abandoned riverside buildings like the one that houses the Projet are common in the area, one of France’s least populated regions, and Packer drew on this eerie sense of ruin, along with the region’s largest remaining industry (beef), for the peculiarly meaty genesis of the exhibition. The show was patchy, sprawling and effusive, expanding in numerous directions at once to touch on evolution, maternity, labour, consumption and digitization. Several works marked some of the odd things homo sapiens have come to: Florian Roithmayr’s Contact Lens and Inhaler (both 2013) were two tall, clear, pronouncedly bland advertising-style images mounted on concrete bases. Anne de Vries’s Image Transfer (2012) was simply a still life of a pear, banana and apple on a white background, but small text overlaying the image disclosed its sources – from the fruit store to the digital camera to the ink on the printer paper. (The list didn’t, however, include the frame that held the image.) It was at once too much and too little; at points it was as though Packer had included works that felt like stunted excerpts from larger projects and practices that in themselves add to the terrain proposed by the exhibition, but pared down here were simply fancy footnotes. The passing presentation of Xavier Ribas’s Caliche (2010) – photographs of chunks of mined nitrate abstracted from his wider ‘Traces of Nitrate’ project – and Roithmayr’s row of black and white photographs (Untitled [rock carvings], 2010) seemed like token nods to the nearby caves. ‘O Chair O Flesh’ was strongest when it gave in to its own weird logic. Huddled at the back of the gallery was what could be seen as this new Lascaux Man’s study, a gathering of various portraits of ‘humanized life’. Upritchard’s Wanker (2012) was a thin, bow-legged blue-grey man, concentrating intently on the act of his namesake. He faced the six detailed paintings Untitled I-VI (O Flesh) (2013) by Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen – surprising, carnivalesque scenes that were contemporary baroque filled with unsettling Lynchian moments: children in gremlin masks basking under pear trees, bearded truckers with bows and arrows. Alongside this was the running commentary of Allan Sekula’s video, Performance Under Working Conditions (1973), showing the artist and a friend gamely pretending to work in a kitchen, miming the movements while talking about dreams, unions and how crap their jobs are. Despite their disparate approaches, these works shared the tone of the best kind of caricature, which is an insistent realism. Humanity, it seems, is stagnant and not a little bit perverted. What ‘O Chair O Flesh’ gave us was an incomplete, fractured mirror of our own evolution: it’s odd, and sometimes funny, but it ain’t pretty. You might have to admit that Herzog was right. Chris Fite-Wassilak is a writer and critic who lives in London, UK.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1754
__label__wiki	0.758151	0.758151	Trial Instruction. - Is Set In The Ingavi Province, With Seat In The Capital Of Viacha. Original Language Title: JUZGADO DE INSTRUCCION.— SE ESTABLECE EN LA PROVINCIA INGAVI, CON ASIENTO EN LA CAPITAL VIACHA. INSTRUCTION.â€ " It is established in the Ingavi Province, with a seat in the Viacha Capital. GENERAL ENRIQUE PEA ' ARANDA CONSTITUTIONAL CHAIRMAN DE LA REPAsBLICA For how much, the National Congress has sanctioned the following law: ArtA-ass 1o.â€ " Resets the Court of Instruction of the Province Ingavi, with seat in the Capital Viacha. ArtA-ass 2o.â€ " In the budget of the next administration, the corresponding items will be entered. Communal-be to the Executive Branch, for the constitutional purposes. Meeting room of the H. National Congress. La Paz, 7 November 1940. (Fdo) .â€ "A. Galindo.â€" Paz Estenssoro.â€ "Carlos BeltrÃ ¡ n Morales, Senator Secretario.â€" Julio Pantoja Estenssoro, Senator Secretario.â€ "Facundo Flores, Deputy Secretary. â€" F. Iturrade Ch., Deputy Secretary. The law of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of China. (Fdo) .â€ " GRAL. PEA ' ARANDA.â € " Gral Ramos.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1764
__label__wiki	0.941612	0.941612	Manchester City v Liverpool Henderson criticises 'harsh' penalty decision in Liverpool's draw at Manchester City The Reds skipper has questioned the handball rule after Joe Gomez was penalised during Sunday's clash at Etihad Stadium Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson criticised the “harsh” penalty given against his side during Sunday’s 1-1 draw against Manchester City. City were awarded a spot-kick when Reds defender Joe Gomez was penalised for handball as he attempted to block Kevin De Bruyne’s right-wing cross. The penalty was not initially given by referee Craig Pawson, but the official decided to point to the spot after he was advised by the video assistant referee to watch a replay of the incident. A similar incident occurred during Leicester's game against Wolves earlier on Sunday, with Wanderers defender Max Kilman penalised for handball on that occasion. Henderson admits the two incidents mean the officials are at least consistent in their decisions, but feels the rules are unfair on defenders. "People will say I am biased because it is against us but I saw one similar in the Leicester game. Joe is running back to his own goal, where is he going to put his arms? I think it is so difficult for defenders,” he told Sky Sports. “I felt it was harsh but they have been pretty consistent. In the Leicester game they gave it and they gave it today but for us as players I think it is harsh.” When asked whether the handball rule, which was tweaked at the start of the season, is clear, Henderson told BBC Sport: ”I don't think so, to be fair to the referees, the game before [Leicester vs Wolves] they have been consistent with it. They are going to the letter of the law. “For players it is harsh, I feel for defenders running back with the pace of that Kevin De Bruyne cross, it is hard for him to get out of the way. “Everyone is finding it difficult to know where to put their arms. Hopefully the refs can look at it and it shouldn't be given in both games." The incident did not prove costly to Liverpool because De Bruyne sent his penalty wide of the post. The game was tied at 1-1 at that stage after Gabriel Jesus had cancelled out Mohamed’s Salah early opener for Liverpool , with neither side able to find a winner after the break. Henderson was happy with the Reds’ performance, but admits he is not completely satisfied with a point. "Coming here we knew it would be difficult, City are fantastic and it was an intense game, overall we have to take the point and move on," he added. "It is always a difficult place to come, I would have liked a winner. "We started really well, a lot of the time we do but especially today. The work rate and intensity was really good in the game, defensively solid and so many positives in the game. “We limited the problems they cause and hopefully after the international break we are back for another set of intense fixtures. "Tactically we changed a little bit but not the intensity, that did not change. The front four were brilliant not only defensively but offensively they worked really hard too. "That is why defensively we were so solid. We were waiting for the moment to win the ball back and find the winner but unfortunately did not get the chance to do that.” Transfer LIVE: Odegaard asks to leave Madrid Copyright © 2021 Goal (United Kingdom) All rights reserved. The information contained in Goal (United Kingdom) may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without the prior written authority of Goal (United Kingdom)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1765
__label__wiki	0.724629	0.724629	> used car research > volkswagen > transporter > T6 Transporter VOLKSWAGEN reskinned its long-lived Transporter range in time for 2016, bringing lower prices, an improved and more car-like cabin, available advanced driver safety tech, and additional variants into the fold. Essentially a heavily modified version of the T5 series launched a dozen years ago (but revamped in 2010), it remained an all diesel-proposition. As far as facelifts go, the T6’s was subtle indeed, but the headlights, grille, and bumpers are different, as were the tailgate sheetmetal and tail-lights. With a 14 two-seater Vans in regular, medium, and high-roof configurations, four Cab Chassis models (one Single three-seater, three Double six-seaters), two Crewvan five-seater wagons, six seven-seater Multivan (six-seater Executive flagship excepted), and a single nine-seater Caravelle bus, Volkswagen said it has the largest number of body styles and variants in the Transporter’s class. Some of the more powerful models also offered a Haldex Gen-V 4MOTION all-wheel drive system in lieu of the regular front-wheel drive. The T6’s wheelbases were identical to the preceding version (3000mm/SWB and 3400mm/LWB), with their corresponding lengths being 4890mm and 5304mm respectively. Customisation is key, with the various shapes and sizes meaning there was between 5.8 and 9.3 square metres of cargo space in the Transporter High Roof LWB. As with the preceding model, all models bound for Australia employed variations of the 1968cc 2.0-litre twin-cam 16-valve common-rail direct-injection four-cylinder turbo-diesel unit. Start-stop was standard across the range, resulting in consumption cuts of up to half a litre per 100km. The TDI340 produced 103kW of power at 3500rpm and 340Nm of torque from 1750-2500rpm the TDI400 upped that to 132kW at 4000rpm and 400Nm from 1500-2000rpm, while the Multivan’s headline TDI450 BiTurbo with low-and-high pressure turbos delivered a 150kW at 4000rpm and 450Nm from just 1400-2400rpm. Transmission choices were as before – six-speed manual or seven-speed dual-clutch DSG with sport mode and Tiptronic function. Like before, the front end featured MacPherson struts and coil springs while the rear used semi-trailing arms with coils and an anti-roll bar. The big news inside was the redesigned dashboard, bringing with it Volkswagen’s latest multimedia touchscreen (in two sizes) with apps connectivity, allowing a reverse camera to be offered. Furthermore, there was improved layout and better storage solutions. In the people mover versions, a more car-like presentation and finish was offered in right-hand-drive for the first time, greatly boosting the appeal of the Comfortline and Executive. 17th of December 2015 Volkswagen 2015 Transporter range Visual, refinement, and tech improvements keep the VW Transporter relevant Driven: VW T6 Transporter smartens up Improved value, safety and efficiency boost VW’s T6 van and people-movers T5 Transporter GP Series	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1767
__label__cc	0.711875	0.288125	We use our own and third-party cookies to deliver content to you throughout your experience online. It is possible that some cookies may continue to collect information after you've left our site. By using our site, you consent to cookies. Learn more here. GolfPorn You Little Beauty Planet Golf Golf Bedlam Latest > Golf Joke of the week Golf Joke of the week With Derek the Donkey Words: Derek Derek The Donkey, GolfPunk's grumpy horse-envier is back with 'Joke of the Week'. He likes nothing better than a proper good laugh as long as it's at someone else's expense... Three unmarried men were waiting to tee off when the starter walked up to them and said, “You see that beautiful blonde practicing her putting?” “Her? Wow, she is beautiful,” they all said. “She’s a good golfer,” he continued, “and would like to hook up with a group. None of the other groups will play with a woman. Can she play with you? She won’t hold you up, I promise.” They looked at each other and said, “Sure! She can join us.” Just as the starter said, the woman played well and kept up. Plus, they kept noticing, she was very attractive. When they reached the 18th hole, she said that if she sank her 18-footer, she’d break 80 for the first time. “Guys, I’m so excited about breaking 80 that I have to tell you something. I had a great time playing with you. I can tell you all really love golf. I want you to know that I’m single and want to marry a man who loves golf as much as I do. If one of you guys can read this putt correctly and I make it, I’ll marry whichever of you was right!” All three jumped at the opportunity. The first one looked over the putt and said, “I see it breaking 10 inches left to right.” The second looked it over from all sides and said, “No, I see it breaking eight inches right to left.” The third man looked at the woman, looked at the ball, and said, “Pick it up. It’s good!” Derek’s verdict: Hmmm kind of saw that one coming. And another things.... GolfPunk's getting golf fit TAGS: Derek, Donkey, Golf Joke, Jokes, Golf Bedlam, 2019 Ryder Cup stars descend on Abu Dhabi Golf essential: A pair of rain gloves Ko storms to Tour Championship win COVID-19 golf subscription survey update Players Championship cancelled Masters clearly in doubt as Tour cancels events © 2021 GolfPunkHQ Top	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1771
__label__cc	0.746258	0.253742	hear S U R V I V E’s ominous new single “Wardenclyffe” We premiered the opening track from S U R V I V E's epic forthcoming record RR7349 a little over a month ago, just as the massive Stranger Things wave was beginning to crest, introducing the Austin analog synth geniuses to legions of new fans who were obsessed with the show's brilliant "secret weapon" original score by the group's Kyle Dixon + Michael Stein. Today, S U R V I V E drops RR7349's formidably towering new single "Wardenclyffe", a vividly warped and suspenseful journey that establishes itself as the record's cinematic centerpiece from that ominously lurching intro (get it on iTunes here). RR7349 is out September 30th on Relapse. Grab it on vinyl at S U R V I V E's bandcamp, or pick it up on limited chrome cassette from Holodeck. Filed Under: austin, dallas, holodeck, relapse, RR7349, S U R V I V E, stranger things, tesla, texas, wardenclyffe Categories: featured, mp3, news, on blast	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1774
__label__wiki	0.871321	0.871321	Publication - Minutes National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group minutes: May 2019 Mental Health Directorate Date of meeting: 8 May 2019 Date of next meeting: 19 Jun 2019 Location: Hayweight House, Edinburgh Minutes of the meeting of the National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group, held on 8 May 2019. Attendees and apologies Ms Rose Fitzpatrick (Chair) Mr George Dodds Mr Toni Giugliano Mr Nigel Henderson Mr James Jopling Dr Amy Knighton Chief Superintendent John McKenzie Dr John Mitchell Ms Nicky Reid Ms Angela Scott Dr Michael Smith Mr Billy Watson Dr David Hall Ms Lara McDonald Ms Ruth Moss Ms Jane O’Donnell In attendance Professor Steve Platt, Academic Advisory Group Professor Rory O’Connor, Academic Advisory Group Ms Lynsey Brown, Scottish Government Ms Innes Fyfe, Scottish Government Mr Andrew Grierson, Scottish Government Mr Allan Steele, Scottish Government Ms Lyndsay Wilson, Scottish Government Items and actions 1. Welcome from the Chair 1.1. The Chair of the National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group (NSPLG) (the Group) welcomed Members to their eighth meeting and thanked the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) for hosting today’s meeting. 1.2. Apologies had been received from Dr David Hall, Ms Lara McDonald, Ms Ruth Moss, and Ms Jane O’Donnell. 1.3. Chief Superintendent John McKenzie would be attending from 1pm. 1.4. The Chair introduced Ms Lynsey Brown, policy manager and Mr Andrew Greirson, programme manager as this was their first meeting. 1.5. The Group approved the minutes from the March meeting for publication with no amendments. Action 8:1 Action log 1.6. Ms Fyfe gave a brief update on actions of previous meetings. These were all either complete, on track or in hand. The importance of the resource plans was highlighted to Members and it was agreed that these would need to be completed in advance of the next meeting. Action 8:2 1.7. Mr Dodds updated the Group following discussion at the previous meeting regarding transition away from Choose Life as an identity (Action 7.17) noting that NHS Health Scotland would produce a paper on the background, reach, and utilisation of Choose Life in advance of the June meeting. Action 8:3 1.8. Ms Fyfe noted that the format of the action log would be amended for easier identification of the status of actions. Action 8:4 Forward look 1.9. The Forward Look document was circulated to Members prior to the meeting. The Group was again encouraged to update the Secretariat with any other important dates. 1.10. The Group discussed Suicide Prevention Week in September. It was agreed that the Secretariat would collate information from Members’ home organisations about their general approach to the week and any material scheduled for release during that week. This would allow consistency of messaging where appropriate for the NSPLG. Action 8:5 1.11. The Chair also updated the Group on the Expert Review of Mental Health at HMP & YOI Polmont. A draft report has been reviewed and drafting observations submitted. 1.12. The Review of Forensic Mental Health Services was mentioned. Ms Fyfe reminded the group that the Chair intended to write to the Chair of this review once appointed to highlight the issue of criminalization of suicidal behaviour. 1.13. Dr Mitchell updated the Group on a recent meeting at Dumfries House with His Royal Highness Prince Charles (2nd May 2019). This had been a positive meeting with opportunity for further awareness and communication. Dr Mitchell and Mr Dodds would work together on utilising these opportunities. Action 8:6 2. Delivery plan progress Highlight report 2.1. The Highlight Report of the Delivery Plan was circulated the week before the meeting and Members were invited to speak to this and provide any further update. Update of National Suicide Prevention Action Plan actions Action 1 (local planning) 2.2. Mr Jopling reported that as part of the mapping exercise of existing activity, NHS Health Scotland had begun analysing responses to the questionnaire that had been circulated to regional stakeholders. There were still a small number of questionnaires to be returned. 2.3. The Group requested that the results of the questionnaires be circulated to all Members given the broad value of insight they would provide. Action 8:7 2.4. The picture built by the questionnaire responses would be augmented by interviews with Choose Life Coordinators around the country. This would be drawn up in a report by the Action 1 Sponsors. 2.5. It was noted that the work was slightly behind on the timescale of the Delivery Plan. Projected timeframes for future work would bring this back in line. 2.6. Thought was also being given to possible mechanisms of dissemination, such as the potential for issuing local planning guidance to authorities at the point of any grant payment. 2.7. During the Action sub-group meeting, resource commitments for implementation were considered and a pilot approach for introducing guidelines was being proposed (between three and five regions). At present the indicative costs attached to this approach were in draft, though would be confirmed prior to the July meeting. 2.8. The Group discussed the progress made by the Sponsors and the importance of linking work streams together. Of specific note was the link to Action 10 (Reviews) which was also looking at a test or pilot approach. It was suggested that the test sites could be aligned in a structured approach. Possible areas for consideration could include Ayrshire, West Dunbartonshire, Shetland, and North East Scotland. 2.9. The interdependencies of the Actions was raised again. Sharing information between the Sponsors and ensuring a shared understanding of the Suicide Prevention Action Plan (SPAP), and the NSPLG place within it, would inform a coherent work programme. Action 8:8 Action 2 (suicide prevention training update) 2.10. Mr Dodds and Ms Reid updated the Group on the progress of the first phase of their Action. This included a new universal online awareness raising resource (in the form of an on-line animation) which would be accessible in a wide range of settings; a Workforce Development Plan; and an updated Knowledge and Skills Framework. 2.11. The animation would be ready for viewing on the 21st May 2019, prior to an official launch on the 28th May 2019. Action 8:9 2.12. Mr Dodds and Ms Reid also indicated that the second phase of Action 2 would continue through to 2021. Action 3 (public awareness) 2.13. Mr Dodds and Mr Watson reported that progress had been made on the engagement plan and resourcing for this Action. 2.14. The importance of coordinated messaging by public service leaders was re-emphasised during the Action 3 update. 2.15. The link between this Action and the ongoing discussion on Group communications and engagement was highlighted. This was in terms of the Group’s communication and engagement strategy and the consideration of the future of the ‘Choose Life’ identity and future suicide prevention activity in Scotland. 2.16. The Group discussed that any consideration of the ‘Choose Life’ identity would consist of two broad stages. Firstly the strategy for concluding ‘Choose Life’, which as noted in para 1.7 would be presented by Mr Dodds and would cover the existing state of play and potential options moving forward. Work on the communication and engagement plan by the Secretariat would then feed into the decision on what could and should replace this along with a transition plan to a refreshed identify for suicide prevention in Scotland. Action 8.10 Action 4 (support for those affected by suicide) 2.17. Mr Giugliano noted that the Highlight Report gave a good overview of the status of this action. The work to deliver the research agreed at the Group’s March meeting was now underway, jointly funded by Scottish Government and the Mental Health Foundation (MHF). 2.18. Mr Giuliano indicated that there had been a delay to the work progressing and the Secretariat undertook to explore why this had happened. [Post meeting note: A small Research Advisory Group had been established between the Scottish Government and MHF and included Prof O’Connor from the AAG. That met for the first time on 24th April 2019 where MHF advised of its intention to apply for Ethical Approval for this work. Scottish Government supported this approach though noted the possible impact on timescales. MHF agreed to keep Scottish Government updated on this and any impact on timings.] 2.19. The Members also noted that the Sponsors have continued to engage with stakeholders with regard to trauma and distress response. Action 5 (crisis support) 2.20. Mr Henderson and Dr Knighton reported that they had formed a sub-group which had met for the first time the previous week. This was productive in terms of linking other relevant pieces of work concerning crisis support, including the Mental Health Strategy, NHS 24, Children and Young People Mental Health Taskforce (CYPMH Taskforce), and Distress Brief Interventions and would also fill this picture out further. 2.21. With regard to resourcing it was proposed that a literature review take place to scope the work outside of local and national government. Action 6 (digital) 2.22. Mr Jopling outlined recent work including stakeholder engagement, the literature review of online apps by Professor Steve Platt of the AAG, and a proposal for funding of £750 - £1000 for analysis of the use of suicide prevention apps in Tayside, Highlands, and North East Scotland. 2.23. This funding proposal was considered by the funding sub-group last week. They mutually agreed that this would be beneficial and agreed to recommend approval to the Group. The Group did approve this and the analysis would proceed. Action 8:11 2.24. This combined work would provide a picture of the existing services in Scotland and point to any obvious gaps. The first sub-group meeting would discuss these results. It was noted that the progress of the other Actions of the SPAP would provide the direction for further substantive work. 2.25. The Online Harms white paper published by the UK Government was also discussed. It was noted that Scottish Government would be responding to the consultation and Members agreed that they would wish to submit a separate response reflecting the views of the Group. Action 8:12 Action 7 (at risk groups) 2.26. Dr Smith and Mr Watson had had a number of discussions in the past month about the conceptualisation of ‘at-risk’. After considering the merits of defining this by setting or demographic, the Sponsors now advised that framing this using the Integrated Motivational-Volitional model put forward by the AAG would allow a targeted approach which could help to avoid stigma. 2.27. Using this perspective, three areas of work emerged. These included: improving self-recognition in individuals affected by suicidal thoughts or behaviour; ensuring help seeking is encouraged; and that the service response to requests is useful. This would require ongoing and consistent engagement with people with lived experience of suicidal thoughts. Action 8 (children and young people) 2.28. Dr Mitchell noted that there was significant work being done for children and young people’s mental health including the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce and Distress Brief Interventions. 2.29. With regard to the NSPLG work in particular, a proposal was put forward for qualitative research around how young people interact with suicide prevention online content and applications. The Group agreed that this proposal should be revised and considered by the funding sub-group .Action 8:13 2.30. The funding sub-group had not seen this proposal prior to the meeting and therefore were not able to recommend approval or disproval. The Chair proposed that the funding group should have delegated approval for recommendations to Scottish Government to fund small pieces of work (estimated to be under £2,500). This would allow these proposals to be processed more regularly and efficiently. The Group agreed to this. Action 8:14 2.31. Ms Reid asked if the group could receive a regular report on the recommendations that they had made to the Scottish Government and what had been spent from the budget to support the SPAP. Ms Fyfe reiterated that the governance and process of funding remained with the Scottish Government. She also agreed that transparency on recommendations and the resultant spend was important. Action 8:15 Action 9 (evidence) 2.32. Professors Platt and O’Connor updated on Action 9 during the afternoon session. Action 10 (reviews) 2.33. Ms Scott updated on the progress made following meetings of a sub-group of organisations who currently had a formal role in reviews of suicide in particular settings/circumstances. A paper was circulated in advance of the meeting and this identified the various current reviews and the criteria for each. 2.34. A draft of a second part of that paper was tabled at the meeting and this identified circumstances in which reviews did not currently take place and began to highlight potential recommendations. The Group were asked to feedback any comments on this paper to the action Sponsors or Secretariat. Delivery plan update 2.35. The Chair proposed that there should be a revision of the Delivery Plan which could be published by the end of June. This would keep the promise that the current Delivery Plan would be regularly revised and allow the Group to provide an update on emerging detail of the Delivery Plan as well as report on what had been achieved. The Group agreed that a six-month revision was timely. Action 8:16 3. Lived experience engagement update 3.1. Ms Wilson updated the Group about engagement with individuals with lived experience moving forward. The Alliance would host a follow-up event with those people who attended the Delivery Plan discussion in December 2018. This would allow the NSPLG to provide an update on progress so far, outline plans for future engagement and seek views. The event was due to take place on Tuesday 21st May 2019 and Sponsors were asked to let Ms Wilson know if they would like to attend. 3.2. Ms Wilson advised that the lived experience sub-group have agreed to establish a competitive grant process seeking a third sector organisation to set up and provide support for the lived experience panel. Organisations would be invited to bid for this work. Sponsors were asked to identify any organisations who may be interested in this work and ask them to let Ms Wilson know by the end of the week. Ms Wilson reiterated the need to keep pace with this piece of work. 4. Themed discussion: data 4.1. Professor Platt presented on ScotSID data (Appendix A). 4.2. Members were grateful to Professor Platt for the presentation and reflected that the information in his presentation was helpful, particularly to those Members who were not familiar with the range and methods of collection of data on suicide. Professor Platt advised the Group of the limitations in the data and spoke of imminent improvements to data collection, particularly by including Unscheduled Care data from the current year. Action 8:17 4.3. Some Members of the Group were concerned that the ambition of a 20% reduction in the rate of suicide by 2022 as expressed in the Suicide Prevention Action Plan would be difficult to achieve and should not be the only measure of achievement in preventing suicide. Discussion followed about the importance of measuring the outcomes across the individual SPAP Actions to understand the progress and impact of work being done to help reduce the suicide rate, through an outcomes framework which reflected the complexity of drivers, actions and stakeholders. The Group agreed that supplementary and interim measures would be needed to know the impact of delivery of the Actions within the Suicide Prevention Action Plan. 4.4. Following from this discussion, Professor Platt and Professor O’Connor updated the group about their view that an evaluability assessment should be undertaken for the SPAP which would then allow evaluation. They described that a similar exercise had been undertaken for the Distress Brief Intervention programme. Mr Dodds described that his organisation had particular capabilities in conducting evaluability assessment, but that capacity may be a delaying factor. The Group agreed that the assessment should be done, and asked that Prof O’Connor and Mr Dodds work to progress this. Action 8:18 4.5. Professor Platt, with contributions from Mr Jopling and Professor O’Connor, informed the Group of work being done in Japan to identify local data trends. This was done in ‘dashboard’ style and the Group recognised how helpful this appeared to be in informing action to reduce suicide rates and reflected that local data is key to informing Actions 1 (Local Planning) and 10 (Reviews) and the development of local profiles should be considered in the medium term. 4.6. The Group reflected on the difficulties experienced across agencies in data sharing, particularly between the Police / Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and ScotSID. Professor Platt advised that this had been an ongoing issue for many years but was clear that the issue did not arise through an unwillingness to share, simply incompatible IT systems. This issue has been discussed with the Action 10 Sponsors and would be considered as part of their work moving forward. 4.7. Professor Platt advised the Group that the Academic Advisory Group met for the first time on Monday 29th April. This was an introductory meeting but there was a willingness by the AAG Members to assist wherever they could add value. Professors Platt and O’Connor informed the Group that they would be proposing to recruit a dedicated researcher on a full or part time basis to meet the needs of the multiple requests from the Group for research / literature searches. The Group were in agreement that this would facilitate the work of the NSPLG and the delivery of the SPAP Actions and would expect to view favourably a detailed proposal for funding. Action 8:19 4.8. Dr Mitchell presented on NCISH data (Appendix B). Members found this helpful and complementary to the previous presentation. Dr Mitchell offered to provide members with his presentation in full to inform further discussion at a later time. Action 8:20 5. Annual report 5.1. It was agreed that the Secretariat would circulate some initial thoughts from the Chair on what the NSPLG Annual Report in September might include, together with a timeline for drafting and production of the Annual Report, and invite thoughts from Members on content and style. This would allow thinking to develop prior to the next meeting where further discussion would take place. Action 8:21 6. Meeting close 6.1. The Chair thanked Members for their attendance, their valuable contributions and for the progress being made to support delivery of the SPAP Actions. She reminded Members that the Minister for Mental Health would be attending for part of the next NSPLG meeting on 19 June 2019. 6.2. The Chair let members know that there would be a change to the theme for the next meeting. It was initially proposed to be Children and Young People with the Youth Commission to be invited to present its findings to the Group. However, it would important to have Action 8 sponsors attend and Dr Mitchell had given his apologies. This theme would be moved to the July meeting. [Post meeting note: The Chair decided that that next meeting’s themed discussion would focus on the Annual Report] Summary of actions: 8:1. Secretariat to publish March minutes 8:2. Members to provide resource plans in advance of the June meeting 8:3. Health Scotland will produce a paper on the background, reach, and utilisation of Choose Life in advance of the June meeting. This will also cover options on how to transition away from Choose Life as an identity 8:4. Secretariat to update format of the action log for easier identification of the status of actions 8:5. Secretariat to collate information from the Members’ home organisations approach to suicide prevention week in September 8:6. Dr Mitchell and Mr Dodds to work together on utilising awareness raising opportunity raised by HRH Prince Charles’ Dumfries House visit 8:7. Action 1 Sponsors to circulate questionnaire response report to other Group Members for information 8:8. Secretariat and Members to map Action interdependencies. 8.9. Secretariat to inform Members of learning and awareness resource release dates 8:10. see action 8:3 8:11. Mr Jopling and Secretariat to take forward recommendation for analysis of the use of suicide prevention apps in Tayside, Highlands, and North East Scotland 8:12. Members to send feedback on Online Harms Whitepaper to Secretariat for collation by 19th June 2019 8:13. Dr Mitchell to submit a proposal to the funding subgroup for qualitative research around how young people interact with suicide prevention online content and applications 8:14. Secretariat to establish a delegation limit for funding sub-group recommendations 8:15. Secretariat to provide a regular report on the recommendations that the NSPLG had made to the Scottish Government and what had been spent from the budget to support the SPAP 8:16. Secretariat to work with members to produce an updated Delivery Plan for publication before the end of June 8:17. Professor Platt to provide his presentation for circulation to the group 8:18. Prof O’Connor and Mr Dodds to progress and evaluability assessment for the SPAP 8:19. Professors Platt and O’Connor bring a proposal for a dedicated researcher on a full or part time basis to meet the needs of the multiple requests from the Group for research / literature searches. 8:20. Dr Mitchell to provide his presentation for circulation to the group 8:21. Chair to circulate initial thoughts on what the September annual report should contain Future meeting dates: 19 June: Verity House, 19 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh EH12 5BH, COSLA offices 31 July: venue TBC 11 September: venue TBC 23 October: venue TBC 4 December: venue TBC 15 January: venue TBC National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1776
__label__cc	0.596503	0.403497	Contraceptive MethodsLaw, Policy and FundingSTDs Does Title X Funding Enhance Clinic Services? Recent decades have seen both a growing need for publicly subsidized family planning services and repeated threats to federal funding for such care, so an assessment of whether the Title X program provides expanded access to sexual and reproductive health services is useful. In an analysis of data collected in 2010, Heike Thiel de Bocanegra and colleagues did just that: They examined whether Title X funding among California providers was associated with improved availability of services. What they found was reassuring. The authors surveyed more than a thousand public and private providers, encompassing Planned Parenthood and community clinics, federally qualified health centers and private medical practices. They found that Title X‒funded public clinics were significantly more likely than other public clinics or private providers to offer extended clinic hours (on evenings and weekends) and outreach to vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations (e.g., adolescents, males and sexual minorities). In addition, these clinics were more likely to employ advanced technologies, such as electronic recordkeeping, online scheduling and appointment reminders by text or e-mail. The take-home message: California clinics that received Title X funding reduced barriers to care and facilitated access to services. The researchers found that such funding allowed clinics to invest beyond their core medical services and, in combination with health care reform that supports clinical care, could be effective in enhancing family planning services nationwide. Given the continuing threats to undermine Title X, findings like these may help bolster political support for essential sexual and reproductive health services. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Family Planning Perspectives may be accessed through Wiley Online Library (2003–) and JSTOR (1969–2011). Cover illustrations of Margaret Sanger © Matthew and Eve Levine - Any -AbortionAdolescentsContraceptive MethodsFact CheckFun FactHIV/AIDSLaw, Policy and FundingLGBTMenSex EducationSexuality and Sexual BehaviorSTDsTeensThemed IssuesUnintended Pregnancy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1780
__label__wiki	0.822502	0.822502	Mick Herron’s six Slough House novels have been shortlisted for eight CWA Daggers, winning twice, and shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year three times. The first, Slow Horses, was picked as one of the best twenty spy novels of all time by the Daily Telegraph, while the most recent, Joe Country, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Mick Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford. Slough House PRE-ORDER SLOUGH HOUSE NOW! - Soon to be a TV series starring Gary Oldman 'Slough House, is as eye-wateringly funny as it is nerve-shreddingly tense.… 'This tightly plotted tragicomedy will provide a welcome fix for addicts awaiting Herron's seventh Jackson Lamb novel' The Times 'Packed with Herron's trademark witty one-liners… The Drop & The List Two Slough House Novellas THE DROP 'It is time Mick Herron was recognised in his own right as the best thriller writer in Britain today'… Joe Country THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER PRE-ORDER SLOUGH HOUSE THE LASTEST IN MICK HERRON'S BESTSELLING SERIES Soon to be a TV series starring Oscar-award winning actor Gary… 'It is time Mick Herron was recognised in his own right as the best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday Express Old spooks carry the… This is What Happened Something's happened. A lot of things have happened. If she could turn back time, she wondered how far she would go. Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is… London Rules PRE-ORDER SLOUGH HOUSE THE LASTEST IN MICK HERRON'S BESTSELLING SERIES Soon to be a TV series starring Oscar-award winning actor Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb… 'Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to' Mark Billingham Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead,… Spook Street Nobody Walks 'A first-rate modern thriller' Daily Mail Set in the same fictional London as the CWA Dagger Award-winning Slough House series, Nobody Walks introduces JK Coe,… 'Masterful . . . superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison' Publishers Weekly What should have been… Down Cemetery Road 'Good characterisation, dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible' Daily Telegraph When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb… 'Herron is a stylish writer with a mordant sensibility and a deadly wit. He's also a tricky plotter' New York Times Book Review When Zoë… Smoke and Whispers 'This is one of these novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but to see what happens on… The Last Voice You Hear 'Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind finale, a marvellously extended set-piece'… Real Tigers SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER AND THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'If… Dead Lions Slow Horses Picked as a 'best thriller of the last decade' by The Times* PRE-ORDER SLOUGH HOUSE THE LASTEST IN MICK HERRON'S BESTSELLING SERIES *Soon to be… Slough House Thriller Zoe Boehm Thrillers A Slough House Novella	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1783
__label__wiki	0.662772	0.662772	Great British Life > Things To Do > Wildlife Exploring the hidden wildlife on the Yorkshire coast Published: 11:00 PM September 3, 2018 Updated: 5:00 PM December 17, 2020 Puffin (c) Lynne Newton - Credit: Lynne Newton The hidden life below the waves is vital to the wildlife above it. Clea Grady from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust takes a peek into the North Sea Grey seal (c) Tom Marshall - Credit: Tom Marshall Yorkshire Wildlife Trust currently maintains over 100 nature reserves on land; delivering projects and defending wildlife when it comes under threat from development and harmful policies. But it’s not only on land where wildlife desperately needs our help. The North Sea is unique in terms of its sheer diversity and abundance of marine wildlife. It supports over 230 different species of fish, thousands of seabirds and an exciting variety of whales, dolphins and sharks. In an ecosystem, of which the North Sea is a giant example, all life depends on each other. When something within an ecosystem is threatened, the ripple effect is far-reaching – because iconic species depend on lesser-known creatures in order to survive. A puffin, for example, thrives on a diet consisting mainly of sandeels. If something causes the sandeel population to dwindle, then this will be echoed within the puffin population. In simple mathematical terms: fewer sandeels equals fewer puffins. Sadly, when it comes to sandeels and puffins, we are not talking hypothetically. Overfishing, climate change, plastic pollution and a number of other pressures on the marine environment, are taking a massive toll on sea creatures, and the puffins’ favoured food source is declining rapidly. As a result, Atlantic puffins are classified as vulnerable. In other words, they are under threat of localised extinction. So what can be done to protect them? Marine Protected Areas, or MPAs, are effectively nature reserves at sea: designated to safeguard marine habitats and species. Their primary objective is conservation and recovery and although you cannot pack a picnic and explore them as you can a land-based reserve, it’s so important that we champion and support them. Without these sites, some of our most rare and vulnerable marine wildlife – from seahorses to living reefs – will remain at serious risk or worse. Common Dolphin (c) Caroline Weir - Credit: Caroline Weir The sea bed is a vital habitat for fish, for example, and fish are a vital food source for other much-loved species like seals and harbour porpoise. The ocean’s sandy floor is perfect for spawning, foraging, feeding and even acts as a nursery area for baby fish, but damaging practices have dramatically disturbed it and the species which rely upon its healthy existence. Within an MPA, the protected sea bed is allowed to recover by removing those activities deemed to be damaging and – as all life in the water is cyclical – the fish once again begin to flourish. The more fish there are, the more food there is for magnificent mammals like seals, dolphins and whales. In short, if we care about seals, dolphins or whales then we should care about the lesser-known animals as well and how we can protect them. It can be difficult to become passionate about something that seems so far away from our everyday lives, however. Luckily, we live in Yorkshire! Our coastline is host to a fabulous array of beaches, rocky coves and towering cliffs, and located along its length are two Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserves; Flamborough Cliffs (consisting of 400ft high chalk cliffs) and Spurn Point (Yorkshire’s very own Land’s End). Our spectacular coastline provides many fantastic opportunities for wildlife spotting and regularly plays host to a variety of marine mammals and birds, including harbour porpoise, grey seals and puffins. We can and should be passionate about the life and plight of these animals because, ultimately, they are living right on our doorstep. In fact, this area of coast sits within an area so abundant in wildlife that it’s referred to as the Yorkshire Nature Triangle. Grey Seal (c) Neil Aldridge - Credit: Neil Aldridge Common Seal (c) Paul Carter - Credit: Paul Carter	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1787
__label__cc	0.517799	0.482201	Publications: Measuring & Governing A call to climate action as CEOs press for a strong Paris agreement 26th Nov 2015 · Guest Authors Image: Tobi Gaulke / Flickr Most business leaders are backing a strong climate change agreement in Paris to support private sector investment A clear majority of CEOs say that a long term agreement at the UN climate summit (COP21) in Paris is critical to supporting private sector investment in low carbon solutions, according to a global study by the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture. The study is based on a survey of 750 business leaders from UN Global Compact participant companies across 121 countries. It reveals that 70 percent of executives at the largest firms - with annual revenues of more than $1bn - see climate change presenting opportunities for growth and innovation for their company within the next five years. Sixty-seven percent already see a clear business case for action on climate change. Both figures are higher than the results for businesses of all sizes, demonstrating that the largest multinational firms are more likely to see addressing climate change as an opportunity than challenge. “The international community has a unique opportunity in Paris to advance action on climate change through a bold, ambitious and universal agreement,” said Lise Kingo, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact. “Our research clearly shows that business leaders are committed to leading the way, and we believe that business can play a central role in galvanizing momentum to meet the first test of our collective ability to deliver collaborative action on the Sustainable Development Goals.” Business leaders see government action as critical to laying a sustainable pathway for business, with 74 percent of large firms and 61 percent of all respondents viewing a long-term agreement in Paris as critical to unlocking private-sector climate investment. The study identified five key policy measures that could unlock private sector investment in climate solutions: Legislative and fiscal mechanisms to increase investment in climate solutions; Financial instruments to stimulate R&D and innovation in low-carbon solutions; Performance standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance climate resilience; Global, robust and predictable carbon pricing mechanisms; The removal or phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies. “For perhaps the first time, we are beginning to see a united front of business leaders and policymakers setting their course toward a bold deal that can begin to close the gap between ambition and execution on climate,” said Peter Lacy, managing director, Accenture Strategy. “It is clear from our research that business leaders increasingly see climate change through the lens of fundamental disruption in their industries, and that leading companies are approaching climate change as an opportunity for growth, innovation and competitive advantage.” The study also identifies five key leadership behaviours that will be essential for companies to adopt in their efforts to play a leading role in addressing the climate challenge: Providing proactive, constructive input for governments to create effective climate policies; Collaborating with industry peers to foster leadership, innovation and scaling of climate solutions; Investing in low-carbon technologies and solutions to drive energy efficiency, grow the supply of renewable energy, leverage low-carbon innovations and build climate resilience; Taking concrete measures to increase climate resilience in operations and communities; Setting emissions reductions targets in line with science and the 2°C limit. The GEC sees business leadership on climate as an essential part of the emerging green economy, but we need government to do it's part in Paris in setting the framework for businesses to succeed - sustainably and fairly. Join our coalition and work with civil society to make inclusive green economies a reality. For more information on the A Call to Climate Action report, please visit the website. Image credit: "business guy" (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by gato-gato-gato Measuring & Governing India's environmental laws and COVID-19 A green COVID recovery for India The EU Green Deal – is it the real deal?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1788
__label__wiki	0.967746	0.967746	It also got late inning offensive heroics from outfielder Connor Bright who drilled a pitch over the left/centerfield wall for grand slam to break open what had been a hotly contested game. Despite Bright's late game heroics, the story of the Gamecocks victory was starting pitcher Jack Wynkoop. In improving his record to 3-1, the lefthander shut out the RedHawks on three hits and a walk. He threw only 88 pitches during his stint. "I have tried to build on every outing and get a little bit better," said Wynkoop, who shut Miami out on three hits and a walk during his eight inning stint. "The defense did a great job today and I'm giving them all the credit." Wynkoop was been solid since an opening night loss to the College of Charleston. He has won three straight games since then and appears to have hit his stride. "I think the story of the game was the way Jack Wynkoop threw," said USC coach Chad Holbrook. "He was in complete control, got all his pitches over for strikes. His changeup was working. He threw some really good changeups to left handed hitters, which is very difficult for left hand hitters to face. "They've got some pretty good left handed hitters, but he was in complete control today." The win improved the Gamecocks to 11-3, while Miami (Ohio) dropped to 2-7. Miami (Ohio) starting pitcher Jacob Banks also pitched well, but was the victim of shaky defensive play along with five walks during his five and one/third inning stint. He still managed to hold the Gamecocks to three runs, however. South Carolina took the lead early when Bright walked, reached second a D.C. Arendas infield single. Bright scored when Banks attempted to pick off Arendas at first, but his throw was wild. For much of the game it appeared the final score would be 1-0 as both pitchers mowed down the opponent's lineup with relative ease. That changed in the sixth when USC scored two and then got out of hand in the seventh when Bright drilled a 1-0 pitch over out of the playing field give the Gamecocks their final margin of victory. "I really was just looking to get a sacrifice fly, anything to get a run in," said Bright, who has hit three homers this season. "But I got a pitch up. It was a pretty good pitch to hit and I was able to get it out." The teams close out their four-game series Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Freshman Clarke Schmidt (2-0, 3.38) will start for the Gamecocks and be opposed by senior right hander Nathan Williams (0-0, 0.00).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0037.json.gz/line1790

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