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__label__wiki	0.551122	0.551122	Lars Valerian Ahlfors "In 1936, he was awarded the first Fields Medal… Dr. Ahlfors was best known for his contributions to complex analysis, a fundamental subject that has applications ranging from number theory to modern physics. He whetted his appetite in his native Helsinki, Finland, when his mentors at Helsinki University interested him in the analysis of mathematical and algebraic complexes. His research in Helsinki and at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich resulted in his innovative approach to conformal mapping and a noted study of the asymptotic values of an entire function." "Lars V. Ahlfors, 89, Pioneer in the Outer Reaches of Higher Math," The New York Times Fields Medalist, 1936 Univ of Helsinki ScD London Univ PhD(hc) Univ of Zürich LLD(hc) Boston College PhD(hc) Åbo Akademi, Finland Fields Medal	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1871
__label__wiki	0.986814	0.986814	Newcastle United set £15m asking price for Aleksandar Mitrovic after rejecting Brighton offer The Magpies are said to be readying a £20m move for an unnamed forward after Islam Slimani links. By Rhod Cannon January 24, 2018 10:28 GMT Newcastle United have rejected an offer from Premier League rival Brighton and Hove Albion for out-of-favour forward Aleksandar Mitrovic, who is keen to leave St James' Park before the close of the transfer window. Mitrovic has never managed to convince Rafa Benitez that he is worthy of being given an extended run as the spearhead of the Magpies' attack. His lack of discipline has not sat well with the former Real Madrid and Liverpool boss, who has afforded him just 89 minutes of Premier League action this season. Newcastle United sign Kenedy on loan as Chelsea close in on Emerson Palmieri for cover on the left Bristol City yet to receive offers from Everton and Newcastle United for Joe Bryan, says Lee Johnson 'Everywhere': Newcastle need mass overhaul in January window says Warren Barton Newcastle have struggled to find a regular source for goals this season, but Benitez, who has relied on the talents of forwards Joselu and Dwight Gayle in recent months, has not considered starting Mitrovic and is willing to let him leave in order to raise funds for fresh faces. Brighton are said to be interested in taking Mitrovic as they seek to add more firepower to their goal-shy ranks, but the Chronicle report that the powers that be in the north east have rejected Chris Hughton's side's initial offer for the 23-year-old, valued at £15m by the Newcastle hierarchy. Mitrovic will not be allowed to leave Newcastle unless a replacement is brought in, but Benitez's men are said to be working on a deal for a for Feyenoord's Nikolai Jorgensen. Mike Ashley, an unpopular figure on Tyneside, has given the green light to sign a new forward despite making it clear he wishes to sell the club and has instructed managing director Lee Charnley to ensure that the towering Denmark international is wearing Newcastle colours before the end of the month. Jorgensen is said to be valued at £20m by Newcastle, who have also been linked with Hertha Berlin striker Davie Selke. Mitrovic has not been handed much in the way of game-time by Benitez Getty Images Related topics : Premier League Newcastle United FC Brighton and Hove Albion FC Leicester City FC	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1873
__label__cc	0.574755	0.425245	Role alerts Job Title: Treasurer Reference: Treasurer 2019 Contact Name: Adam Garfunkel Contact Email: adam@junxion.com Jacksons Lane is recruiting for a Treasurer Jacksons Lane is a flagship arts and cultural venue, creating a year-round programme that encompasses the best in contemporary performance, arts participation, cultural education and outreach work for both its community and the sector as a whole. A cultural and creative hub, over 200,000 people use our building every year. Our theatre, offices and studios are housed in a Grade II listed former church, based opposite Highgate tube in North London. We are seeking a chartered accountant with energy and enthusiasm to join our Board as Treasurer. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Expected time commitment is to be available for about 6-8 Board meetings a year (evenings 7-9pm), some committee work overseeing finances between meetings. Board trustees are also expected to attend live performances at our theatre across the year to understand – and enjoy! – our artistic offer. Since 1975 we have provided an extensive programme of circus, comedy, dance, theatre and performance with associated classes and courses. We are the UK's leading venue and supporter for contemporary circus and an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation. In addition, we have a large-scale outreach programme for communities across the London Boroughs of Haringey and Barnet, including engagement schemes for children and young people, and initiatives for isolated older people. We have planned a multi-million pound refurbishment programme to upgrade our facilities and recently announced an innovative plan that would bring Jacksons Lane Arts Centre and Highgate Library together under one roof, hosting new and upgraded library services, and to this aim have applied to Arts Council England for a grant of £2.5 million. We are looking for new trustees to expand our board and provide complementary skills to take us forward. If you are interested in becoming a board member at Jacksons Lane, please send a short email outlining how you meet our criteria, to our Chair, Melian Mansfield, at board@jacksonslane.org.uk by 14 January 2019. Please include a phone number and one of our trustees will be in touch for an initial chat. Jacksons Lane is a registered charity no. 1119318. Adam Garfunkel 0 jobs live View Client District Treasurer Trustee - Treasurer Treasurer and Trustee Volunteers site byVolcanic	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1874
__label__wiki	0.882017	0.882017	Designer Unveils Z-Shaped Electric Motorcycle Bikes are meant to thrill. Also a supersonic airliner and a robot singer/songwriter preps for album tour. Alex ShanahanDavid Mantey Robot Singer-Songwriter Prepares for Album Tour Shimon is a singer/songwriter robot created by Georgia Tech researchers. Shimon plays the marimba, writes lyrics with human collaborators, and has the voice of an angel. The team (or band) recently recorded a 10-song album and will hit the road on tour -- a diverse slate of logistical issues in store for the roadies. Shimon was created by Georgia Tech Professor Gil Weinberg. Weinberg gives Shimon a theme and then the robot uses AI to compose the lyrics. Weinberg then creates the melodies. In a way, Shimon is classically trained, learning from datasets of 50,000 lyrics from jazz, prog rock, and hip-hop. The robot uses deep learning to generate its own words that it actually sings. A team from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona used machine learning to create its voice, which is based on hundreds of songs. Recently, Shimon has added some new hardware to interact with its bandmates and have more of a stage presence. That includes a mouth, new eyebrows, and new head movements designed to help convey emotion. The band released its first single, "Into Your Mind," from the upcoming album "Shimon Sings," scheduled to be released 4/10/2020. It features lyrics like, "Shades of delight, rich as a book before night." I've heard worse. Weinberg hopes the tour shows can become more than a novelty act, but is it okay if I come to see it anyways. I'm just wondering where we're at with an OK Go collaboration, really seems to be in their wheelhouse. Boom Supersonic Goes Carbon Neutral Founded in 2014, Boom Supersonic has spent the last six years with a team of 140 employees creating an aircraft they promise to be the fastest commercial airliner in history. Boom is now assembling the XB-1, a Mach-2.2 supersonic demonstrator aircraft that's a one-third scale airplane of Overture, the commercial plane that will seat 55-75 people and be capable of flying 1,688 mph. The company is not only trying to launch a supersonic airliner, but it's the first OEM in commercial aviation to commit to a fully carbon-neutral aircraft test program. According to Boom, the XB-1 test program will use sustainable aviation fuels and carbon offsetting to achieve carbon-neutral status. The XB-1 demonstrator will prove out key technologies for safe, efficient, and sustainable travel at supersonic speeds. In June 2019, Boom partnered with Prometheus Fuels to supply carbon-neutral jet fuel. Prometheus removes CO2 from the air and uses solar and wind power to turn it into jet fuel. Boom's XB-1 is almost ready to fly, and when it does, it will be the first independently-developed civil supersonic aircraft in history. Boom says that fares on the Overture will be similar to long-haul business-class flights. The planes will cost about $200 million, plus options and interior, but the company already has pre-orders from Virgin Group and Japan Airlines. Z-Shaped Electric Motorcycle Joseph Robinson has been sketching cars for as long as he can remember. However, one of Robinson's latest projects is a new electric motorcycle concept. According to Robinson, electrification shouldn't be limited to cars, and while we've seen motorcycles electrified for economic reasons, Robinson stresses that bikes are vehicles of pure thrill. The instantaneous, but smooth acceleration that electric power promises could be ideal in city traffic or on canyon rides. So, Robinson designed the Z motorcycle, which fits a large 30 kW/h battery into the slim frame in a way that is easily swapped out. The design includes foldaway handlebars and footpegs, as well as a telescopic strut. The Z shape on the side of the bike is also a screen that could display graphics, anything from charging status to turn signals or a tachometer. I put it somewhere behind the Curtiss motorcycles and even Harley's LiveWire, if anything, because they're closer to the market. (They're real. ) The Z motorcycle has its skeptics, particularly when it comes to the front and rear suspension and steering. What's most impressive is that Robinson is still a student at ArtCenter College of Design for Transportation Design. You can follow him on Instagram to see some of his promising work, and I look forward to seeing what he comes up with in future designs. BMW to Discontinue Supercar Laser Pointer Melts Glass Lazzarini's Electric Limousine Cool, But Costly 10 Most Congested U.S. Cities	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1875
__label__wiki	0.555528	0.555528	Fitts-Woolard Hall \| NC State ISE Why Build A New Engineering Building? Who Will Use Fitts-Woolard Hall? How Will We Make Fitts-Woolard Hall a Reality? In the last decade, the ISE Department has grown in national rankings. This includes jumping up three spots to 12th in the nation according to the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings – seventh among public universities. Enrollment and research expenditures are up as well. These factors have allowed ISE to attract faculty members who are leaders in their fields and some of the brightest students from around the world. The passage of Connect NC in March 2016, brings us closer to putting our faculty, staff and students together with top businesses and government agencies on Centennial Campus which serves as a model for the ideal 21st-century research campus. I want to give to the Fitts-Woolard Hall fund Watch Fitts-Woolard Hall Being Built Live! Fitts-Woolard Hall will be the fourth academic engineering building on Centennial Campus and will sit between the Hunt Library and Engineering Building I. It will measure 227,000 square feet It will house more than 100 classrooms and state of the art laboratories The estimated cost is $154 million Demand for industrial engineering has never been higher. The high tech economy of North Carolina and the nation demands a steady flow of industrial engineering graduates to maintain the nation’s leadership in a global economy and the ISE Department continues to grow to help meet demand. ISE faculty and students will use the additional classrooms and state-of-the-art laboratories to further research and education excellence in areas of critical societal need: Health systems engineering Fitts-Woolard Hall will not only serve as the home of the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, but also the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering and the dean’s administrative offices. While passage of the Connect NC public bond referendum provides $77 million for the Fitts-Woolard Hall project, it does not fund the entire projected construction costs. The NC State Engineering Foundation has committed to raising $60 million in private donations. They have already received about $20 million in commitments. Early donors of $50,000 or more to the project will join the Cornerstone Society, a select group of donors will: Receive name recognition inside Fitts-Woolard Hall Receive an invitation to other VIP events as well as special insider information about the project If you are ready to help ISE make Fitts-Woolard Hall building a reality, contact: Griffin Lamb, Assistant Dean for Development and College Relations \| grlamb@ncsu.edu \| 919.515.9956	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1880
__label__wiki	0.502309	0.502309	Advances in Convolutional Neural Networks By Wen Xu, Jing He, Yanfeng Shu and Hui Zheng Submitted: July 15th 2020Reviewed: July 30th 2020Published: October 14th 2020 Home > Books > Advances and Applications in Deep Learning Deep Learning, also known as deep representation learning, has dramatically improved the performances on a variety of learning tasks and achieved tremendous successes in the past few years. Specifically, artificial neural networks are mainly studied, which mainly include Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). Among these networks, CNNs got the most attention due to the kernel methods with the weight sharing mechanism, and achieved state-of-the-art in many domains, especially computer vision. In this research, we conduct a comprehensive survey related to the recent improvements in CNNs, and we demonstrate these advances from the low level to the high level, including the convolution operations, convolutional layers, architecture design, loss functions, and advanced applications. kernel methods weight sharing comprehensive survey Wen Xu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Data61, CSIRO, Australia Jing He* Yanfeng Shu Hui Zheng *Address all correspondence to: jinghe@swin.edu.au Advances and Applications in Deep LearningEdited by Marco Antonio Aceves-Fernandez Advances and Applications in Deep Learning Edited by Marco Antonio Aceves-Fernandez Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are specially designed to handle data that consists of multiple arrays/matrixes such as an image composed of three matrixes in RGB channels [1]. The key idea behind CNNs is the convolution operation, which is to use multiple small kernels/filters to extract local features by sliding over the same input. Each kernel can output a feature map and all the feature maps are concatenated together, this is also known as a convolutional layer and it is the core component in a CNN. Note that these concatenated maps can be further processed by the next layer. To reduce the computational cost, the pooling operation such as maximum pooling is usually applied on these feature maps. A typical CNN is usually structured as a series of layers, including multiple convolutional layers and a few of fully connected layers. For example, the famous LeNet [2] consists of two convolutional layers and three fully connected layers, and the pooling operation is used after each convolutional layer. In addition to building a neural network, a loss function is essential to measure the model performance. Therefore, the process of training a CNN model is transformed into an optimization problem, which normally seeks to minimize the value of the loss function over the training data. Specifically, a gradient-descent based algorithm is usually adopted to iteratively optimize the parameters in a CNN. Figure 1 shows the high-level abstraction of CNNs in this survey. Specifically, we firstly introduce two types of convolution operations in Section 2. Then four methods are summarized for constructing convolutional layers in CNNs in Section 3. In Section 4, we group the current CNN architectures into three types: encoder, encoder-decoder and GANs. Next, we discuss two main types of loss functions in Section 5. In Section 6, we give the advanced applications based on the three types of CNN structures. Finally in Section 7, we conclude this research and give future trends. High-level abstraction of convolutional neural networks in this survey. 2. Convolution operations The main reason why CNNs are so successful on a variety of problems is that kernels (also known as filters) with fixed numbers of parameters are adopted to handle spacial data such as images. In particular the weight sharing mechanism can help reduce the number of parameters for low computational cost while remaining the spacial invariance properties. In general, there are mainly two types of convolution operations, including basic convolution and transposed convolution. 2.1 Basic convolution and dilated kernels As shown on the left in Figure 2, convolution operation essentially is a linear model for the local spacial input. Specifically, it only performs the sum of element-wise dot products between the local input and the kernels (usually including a bias), and output a value after an activation function. Each kernel slides overall spacial locations in the input with a fixed step. The result is that we can get an 1-channel feature map. Note that there are generally many kernels in one convolutional layer, and all of the output feature maps are concatenated together, e.g., if the number of kernels used in this convolutional layer is DO, we can get an O∈R3×3×DOfeature map. Left: A demonstration of basic 2D convolution with a 3×3×DI kernel (stride = 1, padding = 0), I∈R5×5×DI is the spacial input and O∈R3×3 is the 1-channel output feature map. Right: A dilated kernel for increasing the receptive fields in the input, where the empty space between each element represents 0. While the kernel size of 3×3is widely used in current CNNs, we may need large receptive fields in the input for observing more information during each convolution operation. However, if we directly increase the size of kernels such as K=9×9×DI, where DIis the depth of input, the total number of parameters will increase dramatically and the computational cost will be prohibitive. In practical, as shown on the right in Figure 2, we can insert zeros between each element in the kernels and get dilated kernels. For example, dilated kernels have been applied in many tasks such as image segmentation [3], translation tasks [4] and speech recognition [5]. 2.2 Transposed convolution and dilated kernels Normally the size of output feature maps generated from the basic convolution is smaller than the input space (i.e., the dimension of input Iis 5×5×DIand the dimension of output Ois 3×3in Figure 2), which results in high-level abstraction by using multiple convolutional layers. Transposed convolution can be seen as a reverse idea from basic convolution. Its primary purpose is to obtain an output feature map that is bigger than the input space. As shown on the left in Figure 3, the size of the input Iis 2×2×DI, after transposed convolution, we can have a 4×4feature map O. Specifically, during transposed convolution, each output filed in Ois just the kernel multiplied by the scalar value of one element in I. Left: A demonstration of transposed 2D convolution with a 3×3×DI kernel (stride = 1, padding = 0), I∈R2×2×DI is the spacial input and O∈R4×4 is the 1-channel output feature map. Note that the receptive fields in O can overlap and we normally sum the values where output overlaps. Right: A dilated kernel for increasing the receptive fields in the input, where the empty space between each element represents 0. Similarly, we can still use dilated kernels in transposed convolution. The main reason why we need transposed convolution is that it is the fundamental idea to construct a decoder network, which is used to map a latent space into an output image, such as the decoders in U-Net [6] and GANs. Specifically, the transposed convolution is widely used in tasks such as model visualization [7], image segmentation [6], image classification [8] and image super-resolution [9]. 3. Convolutional layers The core components in CNNs are convolutional layers. In the last section, we have demonstrated two types of convolution operations and they are the main idea to construct convolutional layers. In this part, we summarize the main methods in deep learning for building convolutional layers, including basic convolutional layers, convolutional layers with shortcut connection, convolutional layers with mixed kernels and convolutional capsule layers. 3.1 Basic convolutional layers Recall that there are normally DOkernels in one convolutional layer, where DOalso denotes the depth of the output feature map. In other words, the number of channels in the output map depends on the number of kernels used in the convolutional layer. More formally, we can denote it as O=∑i=1DOI∗KiE1 where ∗represents the convolution operation which has been addressed above, ∑denotes the concatenation operation and O∈RWOHODOis the output feature map. After convolution operation, a no-linear activation function is applied on each element in the concatenated feature map, which can be denoted as O=σOE2 While there are many variants related to the activation function, the typical ones which are widely adopted are ReLU σx=max0x, tanh σx=ex−e−xex+e−xand sigmoid σx=11+e−x. Note that the non-linear activation functions are essential for building multi-layer networks, as it shows that a two-layer network with enough neurons can uniformly approximate any functions, which is also known as universal approximation theorem [10]. Note that after convolution operation, the width and height of the output feature map O∈RWOHODOare usually close to the width and height of the input I∈RWIHIDI. To further reduce the dimensions of the output feature maps for reducing computational cost, the pooling operation is widely used in the current CNNs. Specifically, for 2D pooling operation, two main hyper-parameters are involved: the filter size F×Fand stride S. And after pooling operation, the width of the feature map Ois reduced to WO=WO−F/S+1and the height of the feature map Ois HO=HO−F/S+1. In brief, we can have O=poolOE3 where pooldenotes the pooling operation discussed above. Typical pooling operations includes max-pooling and average-pooling. A general choice to conduct pooling operation is to use stride=2with 2×2filter, which means that each 4 pixels in the 2D feature map Owill be compressed into 1 pixel. Using a toy example, suppose that there are only four pixels O=1234, then poolmaxO=4or poolavgO=2.5. 3.2 Convolutional layers with shortcut connection It is true that deep neural networks normally can learn better representation from the data than shallow neural networks. However, stacking more layers in a CNN can lead to the problems of vanishing or exploding gradients, which make the networks hard to optimize. A simple and effective way to address this problem is to use shortcut connections, which can help directly transform the information from the previous layer to the current layer in a network. O=σ∑i=1DOIcurrent∗Ki⊕IpreviousE4 Note that ⊕can denote two types of operations. Element-Wise Sum: Each element in Icurrentis added by the corresponding element in Iprevious, which means that the dimensions of Icurrentand Ipreviousmust be the same, and the result is that we can get an output Oof the same size. This type of operation is well known as identity shortcut connection and it is the core idea in ResNet [11, 12]. The main advantage is that it does not add any extra parameters or computational complexity. The disadvantage is due to its inflexible. Concatenation: We can concatenate the current output and previous input together. Suppose the size of the current output feature map is WHDOand the size of the previous input is WHDI, after concatenation, we can have a concatenated feature map Owith a size of WHDO+DI. Note that the widths and heights of input and output must be the same. The advantage is that we can remain the information from the previous layers. The disadvantage is that we have to use extra parameters to handle the concatenated feature map O. (i.e., the depth of kernels for processing feature map Ois DO+DI.) Specifically, this type of convolutional layers is broadly adopted in networks for image segmentation such as U-Net [6]. 3.3 Convolutional layers with mixed kernels So far we have demonstrated that we normally use many convolutional kernels with the same size in one convolutional layer such as 3×3. To enlarge the receptive field, we may adopt the dilated kernels instead. However, it is difficult to know what size of kernels we should use in a CNN. Naturally, we may apply different sizes of kernels in each convolutional layer. E.g., both 1×1, 3×3and 5×5kernels are adopted in one convolutional layer. More formally, we define one convolutional layer with mixed kernels as O=σ∑i=1DO1I∗Ki1×1+∑i=1DO2I∗Ki3×3+∑i=1DO3I∗Ki5×5+poolIE5 where pool(I) denotes the pooling operation such as max-pooling. Therefore, the size of the output feature map is WOHODO1+DO2+DO3+DI. However, if we directly add different sizes of kernels in one convolutional layer, the computational cost involved will increase sharply. In the inception module [13, 14], a 1×1convolutional layer is applied before 3×3and 5×5convolutional layers in order to reduce the convolutional cost. 3.4 Convolutional capsule layers “The pooling operation used in convolutional neural networks is a big mistake and the fact that it works so well is a disaster.”—Geoffrey Hinton. In general, pooling operation is essential to reduce the size of output feature maps so that we can obtain high-level abstractions from input by stacking multiple convolutional layers in a CNN. However, the cost is that some information in the feature maps has been abandoned such as conducting max-pooling. In 2017 [15], Hinton et al. proposed an alluring version of convolutional architectures, which is known as capsule networks, followed by the updated versions in 2018 [16] and 2019 [17]. The convolutional capsule layers in capsule networks are very similar to the traditional convolutional layers. The main difference is that each capsule (i.e., an element in convolutional feature maps) has a weight matrix Wij(i.e., the sizes are 8×16in [15] and 4×4in [16] respectively). 4. Architecture design Although numerous variants of CNN architectures for solving different tasks are proposed from the deep learning community every year, their essential components and over-all structures are very similar. We group the recent classic network structures into three main types, including encoder, encoder-decoder and GANs. 4.1 Encoder In 1990, LeCun et al. proposed a seminal network called LeNet [2], which help establish the modern CNN structure. Since then, many new methods and compositions are proposed to handle the difficulties encountered in training deep networks for challenging tasks such as objective detection and recognition in computer vision. Some representative works in recent years are AlexNet [18], ZFNet [7], VGGNet [19], GoogleNet [13], ResNet [11], Inception [14]. As mentioned earlier, new methods for constructing convolutional layers in these networks are proposed, e.g., shortcut connection [11] and mixed kernels [14, 20]. In general, the above-mentioned networks can all be regarded as encoders, in which each input such as an image is encoded into a high-level feature representation, as shown on the left in Figure 4. And this encoded representation can be further used for, such as image classification, object detection etc. In some literatures, an encoder is also called as a feature extractor. Specifically, the basic convolutional layers are the main components for constructing an encoder network, by stacking multiple layers, each layer in the network can learn high-level abstractions from previous layers [1]. More formally, an encoder network can be written as Left: An encoder network. Middle: An encoder-decoder network. Right: Generative adversarial networks. Z=FencoderXΘE6 where Xis the input, Θis the parameters to learn (e.g., kernels and bias) in the network and Zdenotes the encoded representation such as a vector. 4.2 Encoder-decoder In some specific tasks such as image segmentation [20], our goal is to map an input image to a segmented output image rather than an abstraction. An encoder-decoder structure is specifically designed for solving this type of task. There are many possible ways to implement an encoder-decoder structure, and many variants have also been proposed to improve the drawbacks in the last few years. A naive version of encoder-decoder network which was introduced in [20] can be denoted as Z=FencoderXθencoderE7 X̂=FdecoderZθdecoderE8 where Fencoderdenotes an encoder CNN to map an input sample to a representation Zand Fdecoderrepresents a decoder CNN to reconstruct the input sample with Z. Specifically, CNN encoders usually conducts basic convolution operations (i.e., Section 2.1) and CNN decoders perform transposed convolution operations (i.e., Section 2.2). As shown in the middle in Figure 4, an encoder-decoder network is still one complete network and we can train it with an end-to-end method. Note that there are generally many convolutional layers in each coder network, which results that it can be challenging to train a deep encoder-decoder network directly. Recall that the shortcut connection is often adopted to address the problems in deep CNNs. Naturally, we can add connections between the encoder and the decoder. An influential network based on this idea is U-Net [6], which is widely applied in many challenging domains such as medical image segmentation. The above two equations can also be rewritten as a composition of two functions. X̂=Fdecoder∘FencoderXΘ=FautoencoderXΘE9 Specifically, in unsupervised learning, an encoder-decoder network is also well known as autoencoder. And there are many variants of autoencoders proposed in recent years, some famous ones including variational autoencoder [21], denoising variational autoencoder [22] and conditional variational autoencoder [23, 24]. 4.3 GANs Since generative adversarial networks were firstly proposed by Goodfellow et al. [25] in 2014, this type of architectures for playing two-player minimax game has been most extensively studied. Partly because it is an unsupervised learning method and we can obtain a fancy generator network which can help generate fake examples from a latent space (i.e., a vector with some random noise). On the right in Figure 4 shows the basic structure of GANs, in which a generator network can map some input noise into a fake example and make it look as real as possible and a discriminator network always tries to identify the fake sample from its input. By iteratively training the two players, they can both improve their methods. More formally, we can have Ŷ=DGLθGXrealθDE10 where Gdenotes the generator function and Drepresents the discriminator function. Lis the latent space input in the generator, and its output is a fake example. Xrealis the real samples we have collected. And Ŷ∈01is the predicted result of the discriminator to show whether the input is real or fake. As shown in Table 1, numerous variants of GANs architectures can be found in the recently published literatures and we broadly summarize these representative networks according to their published time. Note that the fundamental methods behind these architectures are very similar. GANs [25] 2014 The original version of GANs, where Gand Dare implemented with fully connected neural networks. Conditional GANs [26] 2014 Labels are included in Gand D. Laplacian Pyramid GANs [27] 2015 CNNs with the laplacian pyramid method. Deep Convolutional GANs [28] 2015 Transposed convolutional layers are used to construct G. Bidirectional GANs [29] 2016 An extra encoder was adopted based on the traditional GANs. Semi-supervised GANs [30] 2016 The Dcan also classify the real samples while distinguishing the real and fake. InfoGANs [31] 2016 An extra classifier was added into the GANs. Energy-based GANs [32] 2016 The Dwas replaced with an encoder-decoder network. Auxiliary Classifier GANs [33] 2017 An auxiliary classifier was used in the D. Progressive GANs [34] 2017 Progressive steps are adopted to explain the networks. BigGANs [35] 2018 A large GANs with self-attention module and hinge loss. Self-attention GANs [36] 2019 The self-attention mechanism is proposed to build Gand D. Label-noise Robust GANs [37] 2019 A noise transition model is included in D. AutoGANs [38] 2019 The neural architecture search algorithm is used to obtain Gand D. Your Local GANs [39] 2020 A new local sparse attention layer was proposed. MSG-GANs [40] 2020 There are connections from Gto D. Representative architectures of GANs in recent years. 5. Loss functions Before introducing the loss functions, we need to understand that the ultimate goal to train a neural network FXΘis to find a suitable set of parameters Θso that our model can achieve good performance on the unseen samples (i.e., test dataset). The typical way to search Θin machine learning is to use loss functions as a criterion during training. In other words, training neural networks is equivalent to optimizing the loss functions by back-propagation. Accurately, a loss function outputs a scalar value which is regarded as a criterion for measuring the difference between the predicted result and the true label over one sample. And during training, our goal is to minimize the scalar value over mtraining samples (i.e., cost function). Therefore, as shown in Figure 1, loss functions play a significant role in constructing CNNs. J=1m∑i=1mLiE11 where Lidenotes a loss function for the training sample i, and Jis often known as cost function, which is just the mean of the sum of the losses over mtraining samples (i.e., usually a batch of mtraining samples is fed into a CNN during each iteration of training). Note that there are numerous variants of loss functions used in the deep learning literature. However, the fundamental theories behind them are very similar. We group them into two categories, namely Divergence Loss Functions and Margin Loss Functions. And we also introduce six typical and classic loss functions that are commonly used for training neural networks. 5.1 Divergence loss functions Divergence loss functions denote a family of loss functions based on computing the divergences between the predicted results and true labels, mainly including Kullback-Leibler Divergence, Log Loss, Mean Squared Error. 5.1.1 Kullback-Leibler divergence Before introducing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, we need to understand that the fundamental goal of deep learning is to learn a data distribution Qover the training dataset so that Qis close to the true data distribution P. Back in 1951, Kullback-Leibler divergence was proposed to measure the difference between two distributions on the same probability space [41]. It is defined as DKLP‖Q=∑XPXlogPX−∑XPXlogQX=∑XPXlogPXQXE12 where DKLP‖Qdenotes the Kullback–Leibler divergence from Qto P. ∑XPXlogPXis the entropy of P and ∑XPXlogQXis the cross entropy of P and Q. There is also a symmetrized form of the Kullback–Leibler divergence, which is known as the Jensen–Shannon divergence. It is a measure of the similarity between Pand Q. JSDP‖Q=12DKLP‖P+Q2+12DKLQ‖P+Q2E13 Specifically, JSDP‖Q=0means the two distributions are the same. Therefore, if we minimize the Jensen-Shannon divergence, we can make the distribution Qclose to the distribution P. More Specifically, if Qdenotes the distribution on data, and Prepresents the distribution which is learned by a CNN model. By minimizing the divergence, we can learn a model which is close to the true data distribution. This is the main idea of GANs. The loss function of GANs is defined as minGmaxD:EX∼PXlogDXΘD+EL∼QLlog1−DGLΘGΘDE14 where Gdenotes the generator and Ddenotes the discriminator. And our goal is to try to make QGLclose to PX. In other words, when the generative distribution of fake examples is close to the distribution of real samples, the discriminator cannot distinguish between the fake and the real. 5.1.2 Log loss Log loss is widely used in the current deep neural networks due to its simplicity and power. The binary log loss function is defined as Lbinary=−YlogŶ−1−Ylog1−ŶY∈01E15 where Y∈01denotes the binary label for a sample and Ŷis the predicted result, (i.e., given a training sample with its corresponding label XY, we can have an output predicted result with an encoder network Ŷ=FencoderXΘ.) When the learning task is multi-class classification, each sample label is normally encoded with the one-hot-encoding format, which can be denoted as Y=y1y2…ynclassT, i.e., if the label is 3, then only y3=1and the others are all given the value of 0. Therefore, the log loss for one sample can be written as Llog=−∑i=1nclass1yi=1logŷiE16 where ŷiis the predicted result for the true label yi. 1yi=1denotes the indicator function, which means that its output is 1 if yi=1, otherwise it outputs 0. We may wonder why the log loss is a reasonable choice. Informally, let Ydenotes the data distribution and Ŷdenotes the distribution leaned by our model, then based on Kullback–Leibler divergence, we can have DKLY‖Ŷ=∑YlogY−∑YlogŶE17 And our goal is to minimize the divergence between Yand Ŷso that the distribution obtained by our model is close to the true data distribution. Because the term ∑YlogYis the entropy related to data, and we only need to optimize the cross entropy term −∑YlogŶ. Therefore, log loss is also well known as cross-entropy loss. 5.1.3 Mean squared error Probably the mean squared error is one of the most familiar loss functions as it is really like the least square loss function. It directly calculates the difference between the predicted result and the true label, which is denoted as Lmean=−12Y−Ŷ2E18 One example which can help us deeply understand the mean squared error is that minimize the mean squared loss of a linear regression model is equivalent to maximum likelihood. In other words, this is a method to optimize the parameters of our model so that the distribution learned by our model is most probable under the observed training data. Therefore, the fundamental goal is still the same as above, which is to make the model distribution and the data distribution as close as possible. 5.2 Margin loss functions Margin loss functions represent a family of margin maximizing loss functions. The typical functions include Hinge Loss, Contrastive Loss and Triplet Loss. Unlike the divergence loss functions, margin loss functions calculate the relative distances between outputs and they are more flexible in terms of training data. 5.2.1 Hinge loss Hinge loss is well known to train Support Vector Machine classifiers. Specifically, there are two main types of hinge losses. The first type is for each sample with only one correct label, it is denoted as Lhinge=∑i≠knclassmax0Δ+ŷi−ŷkpyk=1∑i≠knclassyi=0E19 where yidenotes each element in the one-hot-encoding label, ykis the correct class. ŷirepresents the predicted result of our neural network for each class. Δ=1is the standard choice for the margin. If p=1, the above loss denotes the standard Hinge loss, and if p=2, it is the Squared Hinge loss. However, in real tasks such as attribute classification, each samples can have multiple correct labels. e.g., a photo posted on Facebook may include a set of hashtags. Therefore, the second type for multiple labels is Lhinge=∑i=1nclassmax0Δ−δyi=1ŷipE20 where δyi=1=+1if yi=1, otherwise δyi=1=−1. Δ=1is still the common choice for the margin and p=1or p=2. 5.2.2 Contrastive loss Contrastive loss is specially designed for measuring the similarity of a pair of training samples. Considering two pairs of samples XaXpand XaXn, where Xais known as an anchor sample and Xpdenotes the positive sample and Xnrepresents the negative sample, Specifically, if the pair XaXpis matching, then the loss for the pair is the distance between their outputs from the network dZaZp. While if the pair XaXnis not matching and the distance of their outputs from the model is small than the pre-defined margin 0Δ−dZaZn>0, then we need also to calculate the loss. Formally, we can have Lcontrastive=dZaZpif matched pairmax0Δ−dZaZnif unmatched pairE21 where dcan be the Euclidean distance, (i.e., dZaZp)=Za−Zn2). Alternatively, the above equation can be rewritten as Lcontrastive=ydZaZp+1−ymax0Δ−dZaZnE22 where y=1if the given pair is matching, otherwise y=0. Δis the margin which can affect the loss calculating for the unmatched pairs. 5.2.3 Triplet loss Triplet loss looks similar to the contrastive loss, but it is a measure of the difference between the matched pair and the unmatched pair. Considering three samples XaXpXn, the Triplet loss is denoted as Ltriplet=max0Δ+dZaZp−dZaZnE23 Note that minimize the loss function is equivalent to minimizing the distances of matched pairs and maximizing the distances of unmatched pairs. 6. Advanced applications One of the most exciting areas in deep learning is that we can apply neural networks to a numerous number of applications that cannot be solved well or be handled by the traditional machine learning method. In this section, we summarize the typical advances that CNNs has achieved based on the three types of CNN structures. 6.1 Applications with encoders 6.1.1 Image classification A basic task in machine learning is classification, which is the problem of identifying to which of a list of labels a new sample belongs, such as the well-known CIFAR-10 dataset, in which there are 10 categories of images and the goal is to train a model for correctly classifying an unseen image based on observing the training dataset. In particular, CNNs have made many breakthroughs on large scale image datasets such as the ImageNet challenge [18]. As mentioned in Section 4.1, the classic encoders such as AlexNet [18], ZFNet [7], VGGNet [19], GoogleNet [13], ResNet [11], Inception [14] are regarded as the milestones in the past few years. The successes of these encoders are all based on supervised learning, which means that manual labelling is essential for the dataset such as the ImageNet dataset [42]. Specifically, a labeled dataset is normally divided into training and test dataset (may also include a validation dataset), and our goal is to achieve good performance on the test dataset after training a neural network with the training dataset, and the pre-trained model can be further used for classifying new images that are from the same data distribution space. Classification can also be treated as a fundamental problem in machine learning, the successes of these encoders on image classification also help establish the foundation for many other applications. Specifically, we can utilize an encoder to extract high-level representation from the low-level input image, and the obtained representation can be further used for many other applications. 6.1.2 Object detection In addition to image classification, object detection is also very important in computer vision. Image classification gives us the answer to what a given image is, and object detection is about telling us the specific positions of objects in an image. Specifically, the goal is to train an encoder to output a suitable bounding box and associated class probabilities for each object in a given image. Two typical methods are widely used in the current computer vision, including YOLO [43] and SSD [44]. The core idea of YOLO is that object detection is treated as an regression problem, which means that each image is divided into multiple grids and each grid cell outputs a pre-defined number of bounding boxes, the corresponding confidence for each box and class probabilities [43]. Since the first version of YOLO was proposed, the updated versions have also been proposed. SSD is a more simple method, which utilizes a set of default boxes with different aspect ratios, and each box outputs the shape offsets and the class confidences [44]. 6.1.3 Pose estimation The multiple levels of representations learned in the multiple layers of CNNs can also be used for solving the task of human-body pose estimation. Specifically, there are mainly two types of approaches, including regression of body joint coordinates and heat-map for each body part. In 2014, a framework called DeepPose [45] was introduced to learn pose estimation by a deep CNN, in which estimating human-body pose is equivalent to regressing the body joint coordinates. There are also some extension works based on this method, such as a process called iterative error feedback [46], which encompasses both the input and output spaces of CNN for enhancing the performance. In 2014, Tompson et al. [47] propose a hybrid architecture which consists of a CNN and a Markov Random Field, in particular the output of the CNN for an input image is a heat-map. Some recent works based on the heat-map method such as [48], in which a multi-context attention mechanism was proposed to incorporate with CNNs. 6.2 Applications with encoder-decoders 6.2.1 Image restoration The operation of image restoration is to recover a damaged or corrupt image for the clean image such as image denoising and super-resolution. Therefore, a natural way to implement this idea is to utilize a pre-trained encoder-decoder network, where the encoder can map a noise image into a high-level representation, and the decoder can transform the representation into an original image. For example, Mao et al. [49] apply a deep convolutional encoder-decoder network for image restoration, in particular the shortcut connection method is adopted between the encoder and decoder, which has been demonstrated in Section 3.2. And the transposed convolution is used for constructing the decoder network, as mentioned in Section 2.2. Similar work in [50] has also been introduced for image restoration, in which a residual method is used in the network (i.e., in Section 3.2). 6.2.2 Image segmentation The task of image segmentation is to map an input image into a segmented output image. The encoder-decoder networks have been developed dramatically in recent years and achieve a significant impact on computer vision. Specifically, there are mainly two types of tasks including semantic segmentation and instance segmentation. In 2015, Long et al. [20] firstly showed that an end-to-end fully CNN can achieve state-of-art in image segmentation tasks. Similar work has also been introduced in [6] in 2015, in which a U-Net architecture is proposed for medical image segmentation, and the main advance in this architecture is that the shortcut connection method is also used between the encoder and decoder network. Since then, a series of papers based on these two methods have been published. In particular nowadays the U-Net based architectures are widely used for the medical image diagnosis. 6.2.3 Image captioning One of the exciting applications achieved by CNNs is image captioning, which is to describe the content of an input image with natural language. The basic idea is as follows: Firstly, a pre-trained CNN encoder is used to extract some high-level features from an input image. Secondly, these features are typically fed into an recurrent neural network for generating a sentence. For example, Li et al. [51] proposed a fully convolutional localization network for extracting representation from images and the decoder for generating captions is LSTM. Recently, attention mechanism has been widely used for sequence processing and achieved significant improvements such as machine translation, Huang et al. [52] introduce an encoder-decoder framework, where an attention module is used in the encoder and decoder respectively. Specifically, the encoder is a CNN based network. 6.2.4 Speech processing Note that speech signals exhibit spectral variations and correlations, CNNs are very suitable to reduce them. Therefore, CNNs can also be utilized for the task of speech processing, such as speech recognition. Sainath1 et al. [53] applied deep CNNs for large vocabulary speech tasks. In [54, 55, 56], the CNNs are used for speech recognition. And the fundamental methods are very similar, both of them use the CNNs to extract features from the raw input, and then these features are fed into an decoder for the specific learning tasks. 6.3 Applications with GANs 6.3.1 Image generation The most typical application of GANs is to generate fake examples. Recall that there normally are two dependent networks in GANs, including Gand D. Once the training process is finished, we can utilize Gto generate fake samples from the training dataset. Generating fake samples can be regarded as data augmentation, which means that these fake data can be further used to train models. Note that deep learning is also well known as a data-driven approach. In particular most of the advances that deep neural networks achieved are based on supervised learning. Specifically, the current successful neural network models usually consist of millions of parameters. And annotated data is essential to optimize these parameters for guaranteeing the model accuracy when conducting supervised learning. However, manually labeling data is time-consuming and expensive, especially in some specific domains such as medicine. Even more severe is that it can be hard to collect enough data due to the privacy concerns. There are numerous works to utilize GANs for enhancing model performance. E.g., in [57], a semi-supervised framework based on GANs is applied to semantic segmentation in order to address the lack of annotations. [58] is a work of utilizing synthetic medical images for enhancing the performance of liver lesion classification. Despite the successes of GANs, generating high-resolution, diverse samples is still a challenging task. In [35], they introduce the progressive GANs which can generate high-resolution human faces. Another impressive work to generate realistic photographs is BigGANs [36]. 6.3.2 Image translation Another interesting application derived from GANs is image translation. While there are many specific applications, we summarize them into three categories, including translation of image to image, translation of text to image and translation of image to super-resolution. Image to Image: The task of image-to-image translation is to learn a mapping GX→Y. E.g., Isola et al. [59] apply conditional GANs for an image-to-image task and achieve impressive results such as mapping sketches to photographs, black-white photographs to color etc. Another typical work is the CycleGANs [60], which can transfer a style of an image into another. Text to Image: One of the interesting works from GANs is to synthesis a realistic image based on some text descriptions. E.g., “There is a little bird with red feather.” Some representative works include: Reed et al. [61] introduce a text-conditional convolutional GANs. Zhang et al. [62] apply a StackGANs to synthesize high-quality images from text. Super Resolution: The task of super-resolution is to map a low-resolution image to a high-resolution image. In 2017, ledig et al. [63] propose a framework named as SRGAN, which is regarded as the first work that has the ability to generate photo-realistic images for 4X upscaling factors. Specifically, the loss functions used in their framework consist of an adversarial loss and a content loss. In particular the content loss can help remain the original content from the input images. 6.3.3 Image editing Image editing is regarded as a fundamental problem in computer vision. The emergence of GANs has also brought new chances for this task. In the past few years, GANs have been developed for image editing, such as image inpainting and image matting. Image inpainting: The task of image inpainting is to recover an arbitrary damaged region in an image. Specifically, we can utilize the algorithm to learn the content and style of the image and generate the damaged part based on the input image, such as [64], in which they introduce a context encoder for natural image inpainting. And in [65, 66], their works mainly focus on human face completion. Image matting: The goal of image matting is to separate the foreground object from the background in an image. This technique can be used for a wide range of applications such as photo editing and video post-production. And there are also some representative works such as [67, 68]. 7. Summary and future trends In this research, we have conducted a hierarchically-structured survey of the main components in CNNs from the low level to the high level, namely, convolution operations, convolutional layers, architecture design, loss functions. In addition to introducing the recent advances of these aspects in CNNs, we have also discussed the advanced applications based on the three types of architectures including encoder, encoder-decoder and GANs, from which we can see that CNNs have made numerous breakthroughs and achieved state-of-the-art in computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition, especially these fantastic results based on GANs. From the above analyses, we can summarize that the current development tendencies in CNNs mainly focus on designing new architectures and loss functions. Because these two aspects are the core parts when applying CNNs into various types of tasks. On the other hand, the fundamental ideas behind these various applications are very similar, as summarized above. However, there are still many disadvantages in the current deep learning. The first problem is the requirement of large-scale datasets, in particular constructing a labeled dataset is very time-consuming and expensive such as in the medical domain. Therefore, we need to pay much more attention to semi-supervised learning and unsupervised learning. The second disadvantage is the high computational cost related to training deep CNNs, as the current standard CNN structures become deeper and deeper and they usually consists of millions of parameters. The third issue is that applying CNNs into tasks is not an easy job and it usually requires professional skills and experiences, because training a network involves a lot of hyper-parameters to tune, such as the number of kernels in each layer, the size of kernels, the total number of layers, learning rate etc. Future work should focus on deep learning theory as the solid theory for supporting the current neural models is lacking. Unlike other machine learning algorithms such as support vector machines that have obvious mathematical logic, it is usually very hard to totally understand why a deep network can achieve such an excellent performance on a task. Therefore, based on the current developments of deep learning, we give three trends on which we need to work in the future: Neural Topologies such as the graph neural networks, Uncertainty Estimation such as Bayesian neural networks and Privacy Preservation. This work is supported by China Scholarship Council and Data61 from CSIRO, Australia. 2.Convolution operations 3.Convolutional layers 4.Architecture design 5.Loss functions 6.Advanced applications 7.Summary and future trends Wen Xu, Jing He, Yanfeng Shu and Hui Zheng (October 14th 2020). Advances in Convolutional Neural Networks, Advances and Applications in Deep Learning, Marco Antonio Aceves-Fernandez, IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.93512. Available from: Transfer Learning and Deep Domain Adaptation By Wen Xu, Jing He and Yanfeng Shu Artificial IntelligenceEmerging Trends and ApplicationsEdited by Marco Antonio Aceves-Fernandez Biologically Inspired Intelligence with Applications on Robot Navigation By Chaomin Luo, Gene En Jan, Zhenzhong Chu and Xinde Li	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1883
__label__cc	0.743084	0.256916	Muthuraman Yuvaraj I am Dr. M. Yuvaraj did my UG and PG program in Adhiparasakthi Agricultural College, Kalavai and Agriculture College & Research Institute, Madurai respectively. During my P.G. studies, I was awarded International Panacea Limited (IPL) Fellowship, New Delhi and also received Dr.T.Balakrishnan Gold medal. My postgraduate research is on “Effect of Subsurface Drip Fertigation System on Growth and Yield of Banana cv. Rasthali” which was completed by me with full involvement and extraordinary effort. I always believe in hard work, dedication and constantly updating myself with recent technologies. With high research motivation, I took up doctoral program in the Department of Soil science and Agricultural Chemistry, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore during 2012-2014. My doctoral research is on the Nano Based Smart Delivery System of Zinc for Rice for which I have been awarded UGC-Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (RGNF). Out of my research work, 5 international and 9 National research articles, 4 review articles, 4 Books, 1 Book chapter and 5 popular articles have been published by me in reputed publishers. In addition, I am serving as a reviewer in various journals and also assigned as Editor in Asian Research Journal of Agriculture My professional career started in Aravindhar Agricultural Institute of Technology (AAIT), Thenpallipatu, Thiruvannamalai district as Assistant Professor for eleven months and SRS Institute of Agriculture and Technology for two months. Currently, I am working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry at Adhiparasakthi Agricultural College, Kalavai, Vellore District and handling courses for B.Sc., (Ag) and B.Sc.,(Horti) students. Nanosafety By Muthuraman Yuvaraj, Venkatesan Yuvaraj, Venugopal Arunkumar, Muthaiyan Pandiyan and Kizhaeral Sevathapandian Subramanian The nanomaterials resembling nanotubes, nanospheres, nanofertilizer, nanoherbicide, nanoinsecticide, and nanosheets have the physical, chemical, biological, mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. Still, the nanoparticles have very minute dimensions, enormous area and high reactivity they need the potential ability to penetrate in living cells quite rapidly. The petite size nanoparticles contain lofty surface area may cause higher reactivity with nearby particles. It is broadly predictable that there is a critical need for more information and facts about the implications of manufactured nanomaterials on personal fitness and surroundings. Concerns about potential risks to health that may arise during the making, management, use, and discarding of these nanomaterials have been spoken over the past few years. Consequently, strong research action is being undertaken in various institutions, and industries across the world to appraise their toxicity and spread of nanoparticle. Part of the book: Biochemical Toxicology Role of Legumes in Improving Soil Fertility Status By Muthuraman Yuvaraj, Muthaiyan Pandiyan and Pandurangan Gayathri Legume plants have a probably important role to play in growing indigenous nitrogen production besides meeting human demands for protein and energy. Some legumes have the capability to solubilize in any other case unavailable phosphate by excreting organic acids from their roots, in addition to improving soil fertility. Legumes also assist to restoration of soil natural matter and limit pest and disease issues when used in rotation with nonleguminous crops. Research has shown that the organic nitrogen fixation procedure is the most environment friendly way to grant the giant amounts of nitrogen wished through legumes to produce high-yielding crops with an excessive protein content. For the fixation technique to occur, legume vegetation must enter into a “symbiotic” or collectively beneficial partnership with sure microorganism known as rhizobia. Soon after legume seeds germinate, rhizobia current in the soil or delivered as seed inoculum invade the root hairs and go through an infection thread toward the root. The bacteria multiply rapidly in the root, causing the swelling of root cells to structure nodules. Part of the book: Legume Crops Novel Slow Release Nanocomposite Fertilizers By Muthuraman Yuvaraj and Kizhaeral Sevathapandian Subramanian Nanotechnology deals with atom-by-atom manipulation and the strategies and products developed are quite precise. Despite the fact that the nanotechnology is noticeably exploited in the subject of energy, environment and health, the research is agricultural sciences had just scratched the surface. However, the potentials of nanotechnology in agricultural sciences had been reviewed. Among the applications, nanofertilizers technology is very revolutionary and known to exhibit economic advantage if the products advanced are economically feasible and socially sustainable. These nano fertilizers are pronounced to reduce nutrient loss due to leaching, emissions, and long-term incorporation by soil microorganisms. Part of the book: Nanotechnology and the Environment Role of Organic Farming in Agriculture By Muthuraman Yuvaraj, Peyandi Paraman Mahendran and Eman Tawfik Hussien Organic farming could be an all-encompassing generation administration framework that empowers and improves agroecosystem wellbeing, counting biodiversity, natural cycles, and soil biological activity. It stresses the role of management activities in preference to the use of off-farm data, considering that regional conditions require locally adapted systems. This can be achieved using agronomic, biological, and mechanical methods, in equal share to synthetic materials, to carry out any specific role inside the organization. Organic farming is still only a small industry, which represents only 2% of global food sales. However, it is growing in importance in the world. It is hard to get information due to lack of official statistics and the level of confidentiality of systems of organic produce. Soil practices such as crop rotations, organic fertilizers, symbiotic associations, cover crops, inter-cropping, and minimum tillage are central to organic practices. The static arrangements of soil are achieved by soil fauna and vegetation. Besides, cycling of nutrients and energy is enhanced by increasing the retentive abilities of the soil for nutrients and water. 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__label__wiki	0.949418	0.949418	Veteran street trader was a ‘true Dub’, funeral hears Shauna Bowers Veteran Dublin street trader Tessie Carroll had “an amazing sense of humour, a big heart and an infectious laugh”, her funeral has heard. The 88-year(...) Women and children in mother and baby homes ‘abandoned by church’ The women and children who suffered in mother and baby homes were “abandoned by their church”, a Cork priest has said during Sunday Mass. Fr Colin D(...) Holohan urges people to work from home as ICU total nears 200 Marie O'Halloran Paul Cullen A further 13 deaths of patients with Covid-19 have been reported by the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet), bringing to 2,608 the total num(...) Mary’s story: Roscommon woman believed a lifetime of exile was as it should be Patsy McGarry Her name was Mary, and she was with child. It was the 1950s when she arrived in London with her fiancé. They had left Ireland because of her pregnanc(...) Naomi O’Leary Jack Horgan-Jones HSE chief executive Paul Reid is an avid soccer fan. On Thursday he said Irish people may feel like the country is 5-1 down in the Covid-19 battle but(...) Donald Trump’s second impeachment: five key takeaways Democrats in the House of Representatives made good on their vows to impeach Donald Trump for a historic second time on Wednesday in the wake of last (...) An Irishwoman in the US: Picking up the pieces after a warning shot to democracy Íde B O’Carroll, PhD, is from Lismore, Co Waterford. She lives in the United States, where she is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachuse(...) Northern Ireland representative to US Norman Houston dies in Belfast Suzanne Lynch Tributes have been paid to Norman Houston, one of Northern Ireland’s most senior civil servants who played a key role in representing Northern Ireland(...) Bobi Wine: The election hopes of Uganda’s reggae politician January 9, 2021, 06:00 On Thursday, the people of Uganda will cast their ballots in that country’s 2021 presidential election. The incumbent, President Yoweri Museveni, is a(...) Funeral of Bagatelle singer Liam Reilly takes place in Dundalk Mourners lined the route from singer-songwriter Liam Reilly’s home in Dundalk on Thursday as his funeral cortege passed to St Joseph’s Redemptorist Ch(...)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1892
__label__wiki	0.692687	0.692687	Nigel Barden Add to Favourites To book Nigel Barden please contact your JLA Agent. Book Nigel Barden Nigel started out as a wine merchant before turning himself into a food and drink critic (and a part-time rugby commentator). The same enthusiasm led him to the Edinburgh Fringe with a theatrical mission to make sherry trendy. For corporate gatherings Nigel offers a spirited alternative to wine tastings – using gin, vodka, rum or whisky. Guests also learn to make a perfect Mojito, Martini or Cosmopolitan. Nigel writes and presents on food and especially drink. He is the food correspondent for BBC Radio London, appearing regularly on the Robert Elms show. His passion for all kinds of booze has even taken him to the Edinburgh Fringe in a theatrical mission to make sherry trendy. After starting out as a wine merchant in Yorkshire, Nigel changed tack and went off to drama school. He still accepts the odd acting job, like playing an investigative hack on The Bill, and also commentates on rguby. He has presented The Really Useful Show, Eat Drink & Be Healthy and Butch Cooks, and he reached the final of the BBC New Comedy Awards. He specialises in promoting British ingredients and artisan producers, particularly in his role as chairman of judges for The Great Taste Awards, Farm Shop & Deli Awards, World Cheese Awards, British Cookery School Awards and host of the National Fish & Chip Awards. Nigel is a busy food and drink broadcaster, working with Simon Mayo (and previously Chris Evans) on their Sony Gold award winning BBC Radio 2 shows. Nigel’s food and drink expertise is regularly sought on You & Yours and the Nicky Campbell Show, and by readers of the Daily Telegraph, Observer and Independent. He retraced the footsteps of whisky smugglers’ in Speyside for one newspaper and enjoyed himself so much that he returned with a film crew. As well as hosting events like the Havana Club Cocktail Championships, Nigel offers a spirited alternative to wine tastings for corporate gatherings. Using gin, vodka, rum or whisky, he shows how to make the perfect Mojito, Martini or Cosmopolitan. Caspar Berry Former Poker Pro Eric Knowles Antiques Challenge Rainer Hersch Conductor & Entertainer Steve Barnett: The Silent Conductor Motivational Non-Speaker “Nigel Barden was fabulous to work with, very funny, slick and professional.” £1k to £2.5k	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1893
__label__cc	0.636021	0.363979	European Commission Proposes Regulatory Changes for Audits The European Commission today proposed sweeping regulations that would, if approved, trigger major changes in the relationships between European public companies and their auditors. The changes include: Limiting to six years the period that an outside auditing firm can perform audits for a company. A cooling-off period of four years would be imposed before a firm could audit again for the same client. Companies that opt for a voluntary joint audit would be allowed a nine-year window. Prohibiting audit firms from providing nonaudit consultancy services to their audit clients, and requiring large audit firms to separate audit activities from nonaudit activities. Public-interest entities would be required to have an “open and transparent tender procedure” when picking a new auditor. Creating a single market for statutory audits by introducing a European passport for the audit profession, allowing firms to provide services across the European Union. The proposed changes have to be approved by European Union states and the European Parliament. If approved, the changes could alter the European market share of the Big Four audit firms of Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, which would be required to separate their audit and nonaudit services in Europe. In response to the ongoing financial crisis, the EC launched in October 2010 a broad consultation asking whether audit regulations could be changed to mitigate new financial risks in the future. The EC said the crisis exposed weaknesses in the audit sector. "Investor confidence in audit has been shaken by the crisis,” European financial services commissioner Michel Barnier said in a statement, “and I believe changes in this sector are necessary. We need to restore confidence in the financial statements of companies. Today's proposals address the current weaknesses in the EU audit market, by eliminating conflicts of interest, ensuring independence and robust supervision and by facilitating more diversity in what is an overly concentrated market." The package of proposed changes has been scaled back from measures Barnier reportedly favored. Critics of the reforms have said the regulations will erode quality while increasing costs. In a December 2010, response to an EC’s green paper on the issue, the AICPA cited numerous studies that indicate that mandatory audit firm rotation can result in significant costs without enhancing audit quality. PwC issued a statement today saying audit-only firms and mandatory rotation would raise costs and reduce quality. “Some of the proposals will add significant costs, increase regulatory complexity and threaten audit quality, all at a time of major financial upheaval and when growth is an imperative," Ian Powell, Chair of PwC UK, who heads that firm’s region that includes the European Union, said in the statement. In the United States, the PCAOB also is examining potential limits on audit firms’ tenure with public companies. The PCAOB is particularly focused on weighing the advantages and disadvantages of audit terms of 10 years or greater. Feedback on the issue will be gathered by mid-December, with a public forum scheduled for March 2012. Restricting nonaudit services would mark a significant shift in many parts of Europe, where audit firms are allowed to provide other consulting services to their public company audit clients. In the United States, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 forbids auditors from providing many nonaudit services.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1894
__label__wiki	0.813518	0.813518	Return to our main site Music and Comedy Kids + Families Andy Shearer Day 146 - Katie Whittaker: Pick Me Up We featured Perth singer-songwriter Katie Whittaker's fabulous Etta James tribute show a couple of weeks ago and we're now very pleased to premiere a brand-new lockdown recording of one of her original songs. Co-written with her husband Barry, Pick Me Up is an uplifting country-tinged track produced by Perth's very own Joe Meek, Stuart Nisbet. "My husband Barry and I wrote this song in 2011 with dreams of Nashville and playing to crowds in our minds. Many, many gigs later it’s one of my favourite songs to play, it’s a feel good smiley song written by a couple in love. Stuart Nisbet has really done it justice and took the track to the next level with his masterful arrangement and guitar skills alongside a great band of Alan Sutherland (Hammond organ), Kevin Skelly (bass), Ali Pibworth (backing vocals) and Sian Monaghan (drums, percussion). I can imagine folk listening to it, driving around and singing along. I really hope it makes it’s way out into the world and brings a smile to someone’s day." Day 303 - Ali Pibworth: I Don't Need Him Anymore Day 300 - ZZ Bop: Perthshire Jazz Standards Day 296 - Della Mae: The Grass Is Blue Horsecross Arts Ltd is registered in Scotland, no SC301328 and a charity no. SC022400 Registered office: Perth concert Hall, Mill St, Perth, PH1 5HZ Website by Horsecross Technical (C) Horsecross Arts 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1898
__label__wiki	0.726838	0.726838	Baseball / Japanese Baseball \| Sac Bunts NPB stars no longer shy about expressing MLB aspirations Fighters pitcher Kohei Arihara has expressed his desire to pitch in the major leagues sometime in the near future. \| KYODO by Jason Coskrey Kohei Arihara wants to pitch in the major leagues in the near future. Haruki Nishikawa wants to make the move as well. Hayato Sakamoto doesn’t want to, but he had to address it all the same. Welcome to Japanese baseball’s new normal — where the usual offseason cycle of players signing their contracts for the following season may now see more and more stars express a desire to head to North America sooner rather than later. Before it was mostly the absolute cream of the crop, like Masahiro Tanaka, letting everyone know they wanted to be posted in a year or two. Now it’s players a rung or two down on the ladder — Arihara is a fine pitcher, but no Tanaka just yet — angling for a quick exit. What will be interesting is how NPB teams react to more players making their wishes known publicly. Public opinion, for what it’s worth, is probably on the players’ side more than ever. Fans may take exception to a player jetting to another team in free agency, but a move to MLB is another thing entirely. Granted, that only goes so far. Kodai Senga has been trying to get the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to post him for a few years now, and the club even turned down foreign closer Dennis Sarfate. That said, MLB could give some players new leverage. The Yomiuri Giants were just as opposed to the posting system as the Hawks, yet Shun Yamaguchi successfully negotiated an out for himself when he signed with the club as a free agent in 2016. Which led to the shocking news last month the Giants, of all teams, were going to post Yamaguchi. Who’s to say more top free agents, and players nearing free agency, won’t try to finagle the same deal out of Yomiuri or some other team. Would the Giants have to change their stance, or otherwise see players like Yamaguchi turn them down in favor of clubs more amiable to a possible posting as an option? Would a draft pick hesitate to sign with them, or SoftBank, without the promise of an expedited path to MLB? Pitcher Junichi Tazawa bypassed NPB entirely on his way from the corporate league to the majors during the 2008 offseason. He was more or less vilified by baseball officials for doing it, but can at least find solace in nine seasons spent in MLB and rest his head on the World Series ring he won with the Red Sox in 2013. Playing in MLB has to look more attainable than ever to Japanese players. There are four with realistic shots of making the move this year alone. Stars such as Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish, Tanaka, Shohei Ohtani and others are on televisions across Japan every morning during the season and players are dreaming beyond Japan’s borders. It wasn’t so long ago Giants pitcher Koji Uehara was seen as bold for being so matter-of-fact about wanting to be posted or being on the first plane out as soon as he hit free agency. Now it’s fairly routine to hear a player speak openly about wanting to play in the majors in the near future. Nishikawa, an All-Star once in eight seasons, said he hopes to be posted next offseason. Of course, NPB teams could do some real soul searching and try to make staying in Japan more attractive. Just don’t expect it, especially since teams still hold most of the cards. But any new leverage players can wrest away, no matter how small, is a building block. At the very least, as Yamaguchi showed, it can be an effective negotiating tactic in the right setting. Given the power the clubs wield in most situations, even that could eventually represent a major league change. Haruki Nishikawa, Posting system, Kohei Arihara, MLB	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1903
__label__wiki	0.505713	0.505713	Home Kpop DIA Reveal That They Haven’t Made Any Money Yet From Promoting As... DIA Reveal That They Haven’t Made Any Money Yet From Promoting As Idols Kpop fans are feeling very sorry for this girl group that is yet to receive their first paycheck from their company. DIA is a part of MBK Entertainment; they debuted back in September 2015. They are yet to gain the popularity and attention many fans feel they deserve. The group had recently opened up about their earnings and their wishes of getting their first paycheck in an interview with Ilgan Sports, they are now promoting their comeback album “Summer Ade.” DIA members revealed that they haven’t made any money from their 3 years of promotions. They stated, “We still depend on our parents because DIA hasn’t got any earnings yet. Currently, we’re having fun marching towards success rather than focusing on money. We keep going because we receive lots of love and support from our fans while we sing and dance on stage. We didn’t make any money but we sure love performing on stage.” The girls sweetly revealed what they wanted to do with their first paychecks saying, “We want to buy presents for our parents. People around our age work part-time jobs and the first thing they do with their first paycheck is buying presents for their parents, we’re envious of that.” Member Ki Hee Hyun added that she is still receiving an allowance from her parents and that she wants to stop depending on them. She is the leader of her group. Member Eunice is eldest of her group she was born in 1991 which made fans feel sorrier towards her, she is 27 years old with no income still. The group had also only recently received their first EVER Music Show win on SBS MTV “The Show.” The girls couldn’t control their tears as they thanked fans for their first Music Show trophy. Kpop fans wish the best for the 8 member group, I certainly hope that they gain more fame and are noticed by fans for their hard work. What do you think of what the girls said? Are you shocked that they haven’t made money still? Previous articleGOT7’s Mark Father Tweet Worries Fans About His Future With GOT7 Next articleBTS Had To Make This Changes To Their Highly Anticipated Concert Amid Emergency Typhoon What’s Going On With DIA? Chaeyeon And Somyi Will Not Join The Next Comeback American Popular Singer Tinashe Says Her MV Director Wanted To Sue DIA For Their MV “Woo Woo” Girl Group DIA Loses Its Third Member, Here Is Why She Left	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1904
__label__wiki	0.727414	0.727414	Kanye West proposed to Kim Kardashian with Lana Del Rey soundtrack On Monday, October 21, Kanye West has proposed to Kim Kardashian at the sound of Lana Del Rey‘s ‘Young And Beautiful’ hit. At the AT&T baseball stadium Kanye whipped out a full orchestra to perform the track whilst projecting “PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!” on the jumbotron screen behind. Watch the full proposal in video below: https://lanadelreyfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Watch-the-Full-Version-of-Kim-and-Kanyes-Krazy-Engagement.mp4 09/01 Lana Del Rey to perform at Coachella 2014 25/07 Lana Del Rey visits BBC Radio 1 Studios (July 25) 20/04 Lana Del Rey covers Kasabian’s ‘Goodbye Kiss’ 01/10 Lana Del Rey debuts new haircut at Martell cognac event (September 28)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1908
__label__cc	0.708563	0.291437	Home » Coffee Facts » Macchiato vs Latte vs Cappucino: An Ultimate Showdown Macchiato vs Latte vs Cappucino: An Ultimate Showdown Diarising and trying to figure out the menu at your local coffee shop can tend to be a bit of a challenge unless of course, you are fluent in Italian or Barista language. Unfortunately, even for the biggest coffee connoisseurs, understanding exactly how coffee drinks like lattes, macchiatos and cappuccinos are different from each other in terms of ingredients can tend to be overwhelming. Now the reality is that these coffee drinks differ not only in ingredients but caffeine content and nutritional value as well. And in the following article, we’re going to take a closer look at some of the differences as well as the similarities in cappuccinos, lattes and macchiatos. What is the difference between a latte and a macchiato? What is a Latte? Latte origins What is Macchiato? Is a macchiato stronger than a latte? Espresso macchiato vs latte macchiato vs cappuccino Cappuccino vs Macchiato vs Latte - Ingredients and Ratio The key to deciphering what a latte is is in the meaning of “café latte” which basically means coffee milk. The latte is a highly globalized milk drink just like the cappuccino and has endless variations of the recipe. In fact, there is no single way to make a latte; however, there are some incredible machines that can help you make really good ones. In most coffee shops outside Italy, the latte is typically a single espresso topped with steamed milk. So as long as it contains milk, it can be a latte even if it’s not made with coffee. Other café drinks like Matcha latte and Chai latte fulfil the only criteria of being a latte as they contain milk. So consequently ordering a latte in Italy will simply get you a glass of milk. Lots of people in Italy make a latte for breakfast simply by brewing coffee in a Bialetti Moka pot, heating milk on the stovetop and combining the two. The seems to be a common style, and lots of Italians don’t even bother foaming the milk. Simply because the latte doesn’t have one specific recipe, it’s a bit difficult to find out who actually invented it. Over the late 19th and early 20th centuries, milk coffee became popular across Europe. With the regional variations such as Frances cafe, au lait and Germany’s Milchkaffee made by pouring heated milk and strong coffee out of two separate pitchers and mixed to the coffee drinkers preference. The latte came to be widely used, paradoxically in the English-speaking world since the word latte is not a part of Italian café culture. A common recipe for making it evolved including espresso, steamed milk and sweeteners. So in an average Italian coffee bar, you may order a macchiato or cappuccino, but the café latte is seen as a breakfast drink to be made at home instead. The word macchiato literally means “marked”. It’s an espresso “marked” with a spoonful of foamed milk on top. There are countless variations of the macchiato nowadays including the caramelly Starbucks one and a “tall macc” with so much milk that it’s basically a latte. However, if you want to get technical, then a macchiato is simply an espresso with a tiny dash of milk. To make sure you get a macchiato outside Italy, you need to stress that you want an “espresso macchiato”. Nowadays, there are many drinks called macchiato, and they usually have nothing to do with the original recipe. Starbucks, for example, offers a zebra macchiato or an iced marble mocha macchiato with a white mocha at the bottom and an espresso shot on the top. This might please those with a sweet tooth; however, it’s far from the traditional macchiato. A common variation is the latte macchiato which is an inverse macchiato. So it’s basically hot milk topped with espresso. It is usually larger and served in a taller glass. If you want an espresso drink with more milk than a macchiato, then you may enjoy a cortado, which is Latin America’s delicious contribution to milk-based espresso drinks. The main difference between a macchiato and latte is perhaps the milk content. The macchiato and latte are both made of espresso and steamed milk, but the two drinks differ the most in their espresso to milk ratio. Macchiato literally translates to “stained” in Italian, and in this case, the steamed milk is staining the espresso shot. To make a macchiato, you need to pull a shot of espresso and add a dash of steamed milk. Ensure that you aim for about 90% coffee and 10% milk. So if you’re asking the question, what is a macchiato vs. latte? Remember that a macchiato is an espresso finished off with a dash of steamed milk, while a latte prides itself in an abundance of foam. So to answer the question, is a macchiato stronger than a latte, then the answer is a resounding yes. The cappuccino was made popular and perfected during both world wars. It starts off with a bottom layer of one or two shots of espresso, and if you’re in the United States, it is usually two shots of espresso. The second layer is made up of steamed milk, which is added on top, followed by a thick and airy layer of foam to get the rich and velvety texture. Cappuccinos also typically have a much stronger espresso flavor than a latte due to having less milk and more foam than a latte. The best cappuccinos contain one to one, liquid ratios to foam. Latte also begins with the same base, which is either a single or double shot of espresso. The espresso is then combined with several ounces of steamed milk to create a rich and creamy texture. Latte has a more subtle espresso taste. The typical ratio of espresso to steamed milk is about 1 to 2. The latte is then also topped with a layer of foam. The preparation of lattes varies widely since their popularity exploded in the last 20 years. Latte can also be tweaked and made into a sweet version by adding flavors vanilla and hazelnut. Macchiatos are actually very simple coffee beverages that you can even make in the comfort of your own home. It takes just 7 to 8 minutes, and the ingredients include 1 to 2 shots of espresso and a dollop of foamed milk containing the texture of melted ice cream. If you have a good espresso machine, then you can make the milk foam quickly and easily. Alternatively, you can simply invest in a separate milk frother. Start by taking a macchiato cup or any small cup of 4 fluid ounces. Pour the steamed and frothed milk into the cup and then prepare the espresso shots and add them to the steamed milk. The concoction can be served and enjoyed immediately after making it. Cappuccino: A shot espresso with steamed milk and foam. Ratio: 1:2:2 Outside Italy:1:1:1 Macchiato: A shot of espresso with a dollop of milk Ratio: 90% coffee and 10% milk Latte: In Italy, it is coffee with heated milk. Outside Italy: Espresso with plenty of steamed milk Ratio: 15% coffee, 85% milk Now that you have a better understanding of the main differences between cappuccinos, lattes, and macchiatos, you never have to ask yourself what’s the difference again. However, the good news is that by knowing the difference between these delicious coffee drinks, you can make them as often as you want from the comfort of your own home. Furthermore, the next time you walk into a fancy coffee shop, you’ll know exactly what to order, just by looking at the menu. Best Manual Grinder For Your Coffee Beans The Best 15 Types of Cups And Mugs For The Perfect Drinking Experience What Is Chocolate Flavored Coffee? What Is A Breve And How Do You Brew It?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1909
__label__cc	0.647977	0.352023	The Art Collection of Laura I. Stylish September Private View - Debut Contemporary Gallery I have the pleasure of announcing that I am now represented by Debut Contemporary Gallery in Notting Hill. I would like to take this opportunity to invite you on the 5th of September to the Stylish September Private View. Stylish September is a group exhibition that will showcase some of the Debut Artists’ original and unique art works that are celebrating style. Private View \| Wednesday 5th September 2012 \| 6.30 - 9 PM http://www.debutcontemporary.com/ To attend please write to Sohia Victoria at:RSVP@DEBUTCONTEMPORARY.COM , however you can also just pop in. Hopefully I will see you soon ! T 4 C- Update Please don't forget that you can still vote for your favorite artist until the 6th of September 2012. Remember you can only vote once, for only one artist. Please click here to vote via facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=454747527893365&set=a.421892831178835.99687.339003022801150&&theater Or via email:london@thankyouforcreating.com Winners of the T4C London public vote will be awarded an exhibition in Los Angeles along with a series of other prizes and honors totalling over £10,000. Thank you very much for your support ! T4C-Thank you for Creating Exhibition-Voting ! The voting has started! You can vote until the 6th of September 2012. Winners of the T4C London public vote will be awarded an exhibition in Los Angeles along with a series of other prizes and honors totalling over £10,000. Voting takes place in three separate categories: Public Voting. You can cast your vote in person at the venue. QR codes have been allocated to each artwork, now you can also cast your vote by phone. Facebook Voting. Share this link to your friends :http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=454747527893365&set=a.421892831178835.99687.339003022801150&&theat Juried Competition. During the next two weeks, our esteemed panel of judges ( Mary McCarthy,JANINE STONE and Cynthia Corbett) will be reviewing all competition pieces. For more details about the judges please click on this link: T4C Judges. Thank you very much for all your support ! Thank you For Creating Exhibition Please visit my new exhibition 'Thank you For Creating' at the Arch Gallery in London and vote for my work. Each vote will really count. Thank you in advance! An essential part of the London and Los Angeles art calendars, T4C (Thank You For Creating) is an exhibition that brings together these two cutting edge art capitals of the world as never before. T4C Exhibition will take place at the Arch Gallery in London from 15 of August to 6 September 2012. The exhibition draws together a wide range of artworks encompassing paintings, sculpture, photography, printmaking and video art, and provides the most internationally accessible selling and exhibiting platform available to established, unknown and emerging artists of all styles and media. Alongside the juried competition, T4C lets you, your friends, family and the public at large vote for the winning artworks. This year, T4C celebrates the 2012 Olympics theme 'On Sustainability' by challenging artists to create works that express his or her unique vision on this topic. UK T4C Exhibition Start-16 August 2012 London T4C Winners Announcement & First Thursdays Evening - 6 September 2012 16 August to 6 September 2012 12pm to 5pm Daily Awards Evening Arch Gallery have partnered up with the Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays and this time to coincide with T4C London Awards Ceremony held on 6 September 2012 from 6pm to 9pm. To RSVP please email us: london@thankyouforcreating.com. http://www.thankyouforcreating.com THE ARCH GALLERY, 289 Railway Arches, Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9HA. Email:laura_iosifescu@yahoo.com "If you don`t fit in this world is because you are here to help to create a new one"Jocelyn Daher I want to help this artist to create Follow @IosifescuLaura I am in love of nature and to prove my love , I shall revel with the paint the secret of Mother Nature. Search Engine OptimizationSubmit Express	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1912
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__label__wiki	0.558921	0.558921	Justia Lawyer Directory Appeals & Appellate South Carolina Chester County Attorneys Chester County Appeals & Appellate Lawyers Compare top rated South Carolina attorneys serving Chester County. Find Chester County Appeals & Appellate Lawyers by City Eric Christopher Hale Richland County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 17 years of experience (803) 250-5252 1300 Pickens Street Columbia, SC 29201 Appeals, Business, Criminal and DUI University of South Carolina School of Law and Florida Coastal School of Law General legal practitioner. I have represented businesses and citizens throughout the State of SC in: business law matters, civil litigation, criminal defense, personal injury, appeals. I am SC certified Civil Mediator and presently serve as the Town Attorney for the Town of Irmo. Dayne C. 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Whether the issue is a divorce; child custody; parenting time; spousal and child support; property division; division of retirement benefits; tax consequences of divorce; mediation and arbitration; annulments; paternity; prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; change of domicile; or post-judgment proceedings, the investigative... Elizabeth Franklin-Best Richland County, SC Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 18 years of experience (803) 765-1044 900 Elmwood Avenue My name is Elizabeth Franklin-Best and I am an attorney who focuses on criminal appellate law and federal criminal law. I started at the Richland County Public Defender’s office where I worked alongside some of the most passionate lawyers in this profession. Later, I worked at the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Appellate Division where I studied and analyzed hundreds of different cases, and gained valuable experience arguing in the South Carolina Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. I spent 7 years as a partner in the law firm of Blume Franklin-Best & Young, LLC focused on capital... David Lee Paavola Richland County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 8 years of experience (803) 771-8000 1513 Hampton St. Appeals, Business, Legal Malpractice and Personal Injury Christopher Wellborn (803) 746-4302 142 Oakland Avenue Suite C York County, SC Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 32 years of experience Richard Lee Whitt (803) 995-7719 401 Western Lane Irmo, SC 29063 Appeals and Business Mattison Matt Richland County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney (803) 255-9589 1216 Washington Street Appeals, Business and Consumer Steven McKelvey Richland County, SC Appeals & Appellate Lawyer Appeals, Business, Consumer and IP Carmen Vaughn Ganjehsani Beth Richardson Washington University School of Law Jonathan Edmond Bennett Lewis (434) 409-7743 4840 Forest Drive Free ConsultationOffers Video ChatAppeals, Criminal, DUI and Family Jonathan Lewis graduated from Norwich University, the Military College of Vermont, with a Bachelors Degree in 2011. He returned to Norwich University in 2013, where he graduated in 2015 with his Masters in International Affairs, During this time he lectured upon, and focused in, International Extremism / Terrorism. He has spent over ten years in emergency medicine and Fire/Rescue as a Firefighter/Medic in Vermont, Virginia, and for the Department of Defense at various postings in the Middle East. In 2015 Jonathan decided to pursue the practice of law, and attended the University of South Carolina School of... David A. Wilson Greenville County, SC Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 28 years of experience (864) 232-2329 200 Whitsett St. Greenville, SC 29601 Appeals, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury Greenville's Concierge law firm: It's all about you. Every client, every case, every situation is unique. You don't need an attorney who is fixated on dollar signs. Or a large, "mega-firm" that doesn't even remember your name - or who prioritizes you in terms of the law firm's ROI. You are not typical, and I'm not your typical lawyer. My approach is different. Much like the general family doctor from years ago - who knew you personally and understood the dynamics of your family and life - I want to serve you as a true counselor. You deserve... Claimed Lawyer ProfileOffers Video ChatBlawg SearchSocial Media Scott M. Anderson (864) 421-0770 111 E. North St. Free ConsultationOffers Video ChatAppeals, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp Attorney Scott Anderson has a passion for helping the injured and protecting their interests against insurance companies. Mr. Anderson has extensive trial, and strategic negotiation experience is personal injury, wrongful death, and workers compensation matters in North Carolina and South Carolina. He is licensed in both states and has handled matters in both states over the past 29 years. He is managing partner of Grimes Teich Anderson LLP, a North Carolina and South Carolina personal injury law firm with 8 offices in both states. Before becoming a personal injury attorney, he was an insurance defense lawyer, which gives... Andrew Ross Mackenzie (864) 232-6247 100 Mills Ave Appeals, Criminal, Divorce and Family Cumberland School of Law, Samford University and Washington and Lee University School of Law Arthur Kerr Aiken (803) 799-5205 2231 Devine St. Free ConsultationAppeals, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and White Collar Crime Arthur K. Aiken gives his clients quality representation at a fair price Christian Stegmaier 1330 Lady Street Eugene Preston Warr Jr. Darlington County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 36 years of experience Lamar, SC 29069 Appeals, Communications and Construction Frederick Elliotte Quinn Dorchester County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 9 years of experience (843) 603-8135 103 Grandview Drive Summerville, SC 29483 Offers Video ChatAppeals, Arbitration & Mediation, Construction and Personal Injury Elliotte is from Charleston and graduated with honors from the College of Charleston. He received his law degree with high honors from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. While at Emory, he was on the Emory Law Journal and served as its Executive Articles Editor. He received several honors and awards while at Emory including the Pro Bono Medal for his work providing legal services to those in need, the Order of the Coif, the Paul Bryan Prize, and the International Association of Defense Counsel’s legal writing prize. Following law school, Elliotte served as a law clerk for... Cameron Jane Blazer Charleston County, SC Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 13 years of experience (843) 732-4441 1037 Chuck Dawley Boulevard Building D Suite 104 Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal, Personal Injury and White Collar Crime My passion for criminal defense law comes from my personal experience. Before becoming a lawyer, I regularly saw people whose rights were violated by a criminal justice system that is far too often flawed. That inspired me to become an advocate for those who need it most. I have helped hundreds of people stand up for their constitutional rights and avoid unjust penalties. Reynolds Hedland Blankenship (843) 805-4717 174 East Bay Street, Ste 302 Charleston, SC 29401 Appeals, Construction, Personal Injury and Real Estate I have represented clients in every type of court in South Carolina, from municipal courts to the South Carolina Supreme Court. My clients receive focused, intelligent, and personal representation. Lauren Acquaviva Charleston County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 8 years of experience (843) 216-7728 1092 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 Appeals, Divorce, Family and Tax A New Jersey native, Lauren graduated from Monmouth University in 2009 with a B.S. in Social Work. Immediately thereafter, Lauren moved to South Carolina to attend the University of South Carolina School of Law from where she graduated in 2012. During law school Lauren became a volunteer Guardian ad Litem in abuse and neglect cases and served as a volunteer GAL until 2019. Today, Lauren represents volunteer GALs in Berkeley County. In September of 2012, shortly after graduating from law school, Lauren began working for the South Carolina Department of Revenue where she spent six years litigating alcohol licensing... Michael Timbes (843) 937-8000 15 Middle Atlantic Wharf Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation and Business Michael A. Timbes, founding partner, leads the firm’s business litigation and general civil litigation practices and handles the firm’s appeals. He is also a certified civil court mediator and is appointed by the South Carolina Supreme Court to the Board of Bar Examiners. Prior to joining Thurmond, Kirchner, Timbes & Yelverton, P.A., he worked as an associate attorney on the business litigation team with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, in Atlanta, Georgia. Before that, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Kaye G. Hearn, then Chief Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals. He also has... David Popowski (843) 722-8301 171 Church St., Ste. 110 Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Personal Injury Co-Author: “Carriers”, South Carolina Jurisprudence, 1991. Attorney: Interstate Commerce Commission-Office of Proceedings, Section of Rates, 1975 – 1977; Office of the General Counsel, Section of Litigation and Legal Counsel, 1977 – 1980. Chairman, Charleston Jewish Community Relations Committee, 1986 – 1988. Member, Governor’s Export Advisory Committee, 1985 – 1986. Chairman, Commissioners of Pilotage for the Port of Charleston, 1987 – 1988. Member, Board of Directors, Chamber of Commerce, Charleston, 1986 – 1988. President, Propeller Club for the Port of Charleston, South Carolina, 1990 – 1991. Chairman, South Carolina International Trade Conference, 1991 – 1992. Ryan Compton Horry County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 7 years of experience (843) 547-3333 11019 Tournament Blvd. Murrells Inlet, SC 29576 Appeals, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Ryan Compton focuses his practice on representing people who have suffered significant injuries or death. Prior to law school, Ryan graduated from The Citadel with a B.A. in political science. While at The Citadel, he was proudly appointed to numerous leadership positions including serving as a Battalion Commander. He earned his inclusion on the President’s List, the Commandant’s List, and the Dean’s List seven out of eight semesters. Ryan is the 2010 recipient of the Association of Military College’s President’s Award. After earning his degree from The Citadel, Ryan attended the University of South Carolina School of Law on a merit scholarship.... Randell C. Stoney Jr. Charleston County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 41 years of experience (843) 577-7700 288 Meeting Street Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation, Construction and Personal Injury For more than 30 years, Randell C. Stoney, Jr. has focused his law practice in the areas of premises liability, product liability, construction law and litigation and general liability in the Charleston, South Carolina area. He is certified as both an arbitrator and a mediator. He has been recognized annually by Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers and serves as Barnwell Whaley's managing member. For a complete bio, please visit: https://barnwell-whaley.com/attorneys/randell-c-stoney-jr/ C. Scott Masel Horry County, SC Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 28 years of experience (843) 429-2000 4593 Oleander Dr. Myrtle Beach, SC 29577, SC 29577 Free ConsultationAppeals, Business, Employment and Personal Injury I joined the Myrtle Beach law office of Newby, Sartip & Masel, LLC in 1996, and I am the Manager of Palmetto Injury Lawyers, LLC. As a personal injury lawyer, I’ve negotiated and battled with nearly every major automobile insurance carrier licensed to sell in our state, as well as many major premises liability and workers compensation carriers. While most of my time is spent representing injured individuals, I also handle commercial litigation, insurance coverage litigation, health care and billing matters and real estate. When I’m not wearing my lawyer hat, I enjoy spending time with my wonderful wife... Thomas A. Pendarvis Beaufort County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 28 years of experience (843) 524-9500 710 Boundary St., Unit A-1 Beaufort, SC 29902 Appeals and Legal Malpractice Admitted in South Carolina and Georgia Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys in Legal Malpractice Practice concentrated in lawyer professional responsibility matters (plaintiff lawyer-malpractice claims, ethics consultations, law-firm dissolutions, and lawyer moves between firms). Julian W. DuRant (843) 448-1541 2107 Farlow St. Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 Appeals, Business, Personal Injury and Real Estate Julian practices in his hometown of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and can help both South Carolina and North Carolina individuals and businesses. This year he joined up with his father, Frank DuRant, to open the DuRant & DuRant, P.A. law firm. Julian graduated from the University of South Carolina Honors College before attending Wake Forest's School of Law. After graduating from law school, Julian clerked for the Honorable Richard Voorhees, Western District of North Carolina. There, he experienced almost everything federal court has to offer—from civil and criminal trials to appellate designations in the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal.... Stephen Peterson Groves Sr. (800) 926-6757 205 King Street Appeals, Construction and Insurance Defense Stephen P. Groves, Sr. practices in the Litigation and Insurance Groups. Mr. Groves practice includes Commercial Litigation, Appellate Practice and International Law. Mr. Groves has served on the editorial board of the South Carolina Lawyer and as a contributor to South Carolina Jurisprudence. In addition, Mr. Groves has served as a contributor or contributing editor to a number of publications. Among them, South Carolina Civil Procedure and The Law of Domestic Relations in South Carolina, the ABA TIPS' Property Insurance Law Committee's Annotations to the Standard Fire and Homeowners Insurance Policy and Property Insurance Issues in Catastrophe losses. Additionally, Mr. Groves... M. Dawes Cooke Jr. Appeals, Administrative, Arbitration & Mediation and Insurance Defense Dawes Cooke: counselor, mediator, arbitrator, litigator, leader. In the legal community, Dawes Cooke has served as the President of the South Carolina Bar (2018-2019). Among his many accolades, he has been recognized by his peers as the Super Lawyers number one attorney in South Carolina for the years of 2014, 2015 and 2016, and he is frequently named a Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in the areas of arbitration, mediation and bet-the-company litigation for the Charleston area. In his community, Cooke has served as president of the East Cooper Breakfast Rotary Club and vice chairman... Johnny Gardner Horry County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney with 29 years of experience (843) 248-7135 212 Main Street Conway, SC 29526 Appeals, Criminal, DUI and Personal Injury Johnny Gardner is a dedicated trial attorney with years of courtroom experience. He began his legal career in 1992 as a Solicitor for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. This background provides Johnny with a unique perspective of the legal system that greatly assists in the preparation of criminal cases for trial. Three years later, he entered private practice and founded his own law firm. Johnny concentrates his practice primarily on DUI and Criminal Defense, and has tried many difficult, complex cases. He also is a seasoned Family Court lawyer and handles child custody, divorce, and juvenile offender cases on a regular... Diane Summers Clarke II Charleston County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney (843) 577-7700 288 Meeting St Appeals, Construction, Insurance Defense and Personal Injury D. Summers Clarke has been recognized as a South Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Star, listed as a Top Rated Civil Litigation Attorney. She holds an AV preeminent Martindale-Hubbell rating, representing the highest level of professional excellence. Summers Clarke concentrates her law practice in construction law, insurance defense and civil litigation. Her full bio may be viewed on the firm website: https://barnwell-whaley.com/attorneys/d-summers-clarke-ii/ Russell Warren Mace III Horry County, SC Appeals & Appellate Lawyer (843) 839-2900 1341 44th Avenue N., Suite 205 Appeals, Criminal and DUI Juris Doctorate Michael Anzelmo Horry County, SC Appeals & Appellate Attorney (843) 946-5668 7202 North Kings Highway # A Appeals, Business, Construction and Consumer Phyllis Ewing (843) 579-7062 40 Calhoun Street Douglas M. Muller Appeals, Business and Maritime Robert Sumner (843) 579-7018 40 Calhoun St Appeals, Business, Construction and Employment R. Thayer Rivers Jr Jasper County, SC Appeals & Appellate Lawyer with 48 years of experience (843) 726-8136 252 Russell Street Ridgeland, SC 29936 Appeals, Criminal, Personal Injury and Real Estate	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1918
__label__cc	0.684656	0.315344	Justia Lawyer Directory Family Law Georgia Hamilton Attorneys Hamilton Family Lawyers Compare 10 top rated Georgia attorneys serving Hamilton. Adoption Child Custody Child Support Father's Rights Guardianship & Conservatorship Paternity Prenups & Marital Agreements Restraining Orders Same Sex Family Law Brian Anthony Ramey Georgia Family Law Lawyer with 17 years of experience Brian A. Ramey was born and raised in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring of 1996 with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Chemistry.... Read More » Joe Jasper Catuala, GA Family Law Lawyer Catuala, GA 31804 Offers Video ChatFamily, Divorce and Probate Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Faulkner University Let Attorney Joe Jasper assist you in writing your Last Will and Testament, Power of Attorney, Probating Estates, or serving as a Guardian Ad Litem. Joe is admitted to practice law in the state courts of Georgia and Alabama. He is also admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. If necessary, Joe will travel to meet his Clients where they live and work. Georgia Counties: Troup, Meriwether, Harris, Talbot, Taylor, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster, Terrell, Lee, Dawson, Stewart and Muscogee. Alabama Counties:... COLUMBUS, GA Family Law Lawyer with 17 years of experience (706) 536-9085 18 9th Street, Suite 105 COLUMBUS, GA 31901 Family, Divorce, Juvenile and Military Brian A. Ramey was born and raised in Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring of 1996 with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Chemistry. Later, he attended the Florida State University where in the fall of 1998 he obtained a Master’s of Science degree in Biochemistry. From 1999-2000 he was a doctoral student in Biochemistry at the University of Miami, Florida. During this time he discovered that his true passion and goal in life did not lie in the physical sciences, and he made the decision to attend... Stephen Scot Sikes Columbus, GA Family Law Attorney with 21 years of experience (866) 494-6908 5 Bradley Park Court Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Military Mercer Univ-W.George L.S Gerald Ray Akin Columbus , GA Family Law Lawyer with 38 years of experience (706) 324-1499 233 12th St. Columbus , GA 31901 Offers Video ChatFamily, Bankruptcy, Criminal and Divorce John Marshall L.S. (Atlanta) Responsive Law America Ashley Cross (706) 596-6745 4800 Armour Road Family, Bankruptcy, Business and Estate Planning Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law Mrs. Cross has been practicing law since 2000. Mrs. Cross handles the Georgia and Alabama bankruptcies for our firm. She also has a vast knowledge in Real Estate and Wills and Probates. Having admittance to practice law in both Alabama and Georgia, Mrs. Cross has been a member of the State Bar of Georgia since 2000 and the Alabama State Bar since 2002. Mrs. Cross is a proud alumna of Auburn University where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and received her Doctorate in Jurisprudence from Walter F. George Mercer University School of Law in 2000. John Partin Columbus City (Balance), GA Family Law Attorney with 49 years of experience (706) 596-8044 18 9th St Columbus City (Balance), GA 31901 Family, Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Personal Injury Ashley Cooper McKenna (706) 576-4446 6077 Charing Dr Family and Divorce Stacy Cameron Bondurant Columbus City (Balance), GA Family Law Attorney (706) 320-1820 944 2nd Ave William Nash Jr Family, Business, Criminal and Divorce Cumberland L.S./Samford Luther Jerome Smith III (706) 327-1373 2927 Carson Dr Family, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Divorce Newnan, GA Family Law Attorney with 18 years of experience (678) 423-3177 Suite C-4 Newnan, GA 30263 Free ConsultationFamily, Bankruptcy, Business and Divorce Drake University -IA Attorney Jason G. Smith of Southern Piedmont Law PC has been practicing more than twelve years specializing in family law, including divorce, child custody, child support, and adoption. The firm prides itself on delivering personal attention and cost effective, quality representation. Recently Attorney Smith has been in the national news winning a landmark case that made legal history. Keith Prater Newnan, GA Family Law Lawyer with 33 years of experience (770) 253-7778 20 Baker Road Family, Divorce, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury Practicing in Newnan, Peachtree City and Fayetteville, for over 29 years. I have represented thousands of clients and recovered well over 30 million dollars in settlements and verdicts. Today I practice primarily in the areas of injury law, defective products law, family law, and estate law ~ though I have experience in a wider range of problems people encounter that make a visit to a local lawyer a need. Call me if you need a local counsel and advisor in your life events. If I cannot help you I will know who can. Harold Matthew Horne (770) 253-3282 32 South Court Square Family, Business, Divorce and Real Estate With a unique focus on real estate and business law, Matt Horne is an attorney with valuable and varied legal practice experience. Having joined the firm in 2001, Matt is charged with representing clients in a variety of areas including debtor and creditor bankruptcy, wills and estate matters. His extensive background in all forms of litigation has Matt often in court handling business matters and domestic cases. As the head of our Newnan firm’s well-established real estate department, Matt and his closing team regularly handle residential and commercial real estate closings, representing buyers, sellers, lenders and developers. Delia Crouch (770) 304-3642 8 Lee St David Alan Fowler LaGrange, GA Family Law Attorney with 33 years of experience (706) 884-2186 200 Main St LaGrange, GA 30240 Family, Divorce and Estate Planning Christopher Adam Callicott Fort Benning, GA Family Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience 6450 Way Avenue Fort Benning, GA 31905 Family, Consumer, Criminal and Divorce Sandra Heath Taylor LaGrange, GA Family Law Lawyer with 35 years of experience (706) 884-2299 119 Ridley Ave Family, Collections, Divorce and Real Estate Nina Markette Baker Family, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Estate Planning Elizabeth Harwell (770) 251-0800 12 Jackson St Family, Divorce, Personal Injury and Real Estate Lisa Kay Inagawa Peachtree City, GA Family Law Attorney with 21 years of experience (770) 631-3101 136 Holly Springs Dr Peachtree City, GA 30269 Ellaretha Coleman (404) 998-8807 101 Marietta Street NW Atlanta, GA 30303 Offers Video ChatAtlanta, GA Family Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Insurance Claims Ellaretha Coleman is an accomplished litigation attorney with experience defending the rights and best interests of individuals throughout the Atlanta-metropolitan area, as well as the state of Florida. Ms. Coleman has substantial experience in the areas of Family Law, Divorce Law, and Custody. Ms. Coleman has been widely applauded by both clients and peers for her written and oral advocacy skills, but it is her genuine and personable approach towards client relationships which has most distinguished her. A talented and business-savvy entrepreneur, Ms. Coleman continues to diversify her practice to ensure the fulfillment of every client's needs. Ms. Coleman... Regina Irene Edwards (800) 364-7161 3330 Cumberland Blvd SE Offers Video ChatAtlanta, GA Family Law Attorney with 19 years of experience Tulane University School of Law COVID-19 Notice - Our firm has been working remotely for years. We have not missed a beat. We are still processing family law cases, having hearings via video conference, and settling and finalizing cases every day. We are happy to help you. My firm is noted for our aggressive representation, meticulous preparation and I charge fair, flat fees. Potential clients can be assured that I have the necessary experience and dedication to family law, and will give each and every client the personal attention that their case requires. I have been practicing for... Robert Tharp Atlanta, GA Family Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience (678) 527-5171 1545 Peachtree Street, NE Free ConsultationOffers Video ChatFamily and Divorce I am a founding partner of Meriwether & Tharp LLC, where we have been helping clients through difficult times for over 20 years. In my current role as a managing partner, I can assist more clients through our team of over thirty divorce attorneys in the Atlanta area. We know that obtaining a divorce can be a difficult process. Not only do you have to navigate the legal complications surrounding equitable division, child support, alimony, and child custody, but you also have to deal with the emotional toll a divorce places on you and your family. Many of... Nicola Cummings McDonough, GA Family Law Attorney (678) 369-1804 1735 Pennsylvania Street McDonough, GA 30253 Family, Criminal, DUI and Personal Injury West Virginia University College of Law and Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law Attorney Nicola Cummings is an aggressive criminal defense lawyer in Henry County Georgia. She devotes herself to the practice areas of Criminal Defense, Family Law, and Personal Injury Law. She attended Mercer University Law School and Virginia University School of Law where she earned a Masters of Law in Forensic Justice. Attorney Cummings has an extensive career in criminal law. She began her career in criminal justice at Gwinnett County Police Department as a Crime Scene Investigator where she investigated all types of all types of crimes scenes from burglaries to homicide for almost 10 years. She... Terri Herron (404) 418-7777 3348 Peachtree Road Free ConsultationOffers Video ChatAtlanta, GA Family Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law At Terri Herron Law, we strive to do more than just practice family law in Georgia. We'll invest ourselves in your case by intently listening to your story. We'll work hard to give you the legal voice you need to get through this challenging time in your life. Our goal is to become the law firm that your family can turn to repeatedly for personalized and effective representation. For all your family law needs - Contact Terri Herron today for a free consultation! (404) 418-7777 Allen Harris Roswell, GA Family Law Attorney with 35 years of experience (404) 437-7597 295 W. Crossville Rd. Roswell, GA 30075 Allen Harris practices exclusively in Divorce and Family Law. He is a member of the Lawyer’s Club of Atlanta, the Atlanta Bar Association (Family Law Section), and the State Bar of Georgia (Family Law section). Allen received his B.A. degree from Georgia College and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Walter F. George Law School, Mercer University. He has been licensed and practicing law since 1985. He has a comprehensive understanding of complex issues that arise in Divorce and Family Law. He teaches Continuing Legal Education to other lawyers on subjects including: Trinity Marie Hundredmark Duluth, GA Family Law Attorney with 17 years of experience (770) 822-0900 One Sugarloaf Centre Suite 4000 1960 Satellite Boulevard Duluth, GA 30097 Family, Criminal, Divorce and Domestic Violence The University of Georgia School of Law and Stetson University Trinity Hundredmark heads the domestic relations division for Andersen, Tate, & Carr, P.C., while also working within the criminal practice division. She is considered a leader in the southeast in both family and criminal law related matters, and can often be seen in the news media, offering her legal insight on cases in the National spotlight. Trinity leaves no room for error in her criminal law practice, ensuring the best possible outcome for her clients. She has attained certifications in Georgia for both DUI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, and is considered by her peers to be a true trial... V. Joy Edwards (770) 723-7211 3621 Vinings Slope Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Estate Planning Rutgers School of Law-Camden and Huntingdon College Attorney Edwards is a well known experienced Atlanta divorce attorney and an excellent litigator. This means if your case calls for aggressive litigation skills, Ms Edwards is the perfect advocate for you. Ms. Edwards spent three years as the Staff Attorney for two judges in the State Court of Cobb County. That experience has been invaluable in helping her hone her litigation skills and courtroom decorum. It is not often that you can find an attorney to represent you who has had experience from both sides of the bench. After graduating from Law School, Ms. Edwards was employed at a firm... Cawanna Anise McMichael (770) 608-2890 202 Bradley Street Carrollton, GA 30117 Free ConsultationCarrollton, GA Family Law Lawyer with 5 years of experience University System of Georgia - University of Georgia Cawanna Anise McMichael “CAM” is a competent and experienced trial attorney in the West Georgia Area who has defended well over 1000 felony and misdemeanor cases in Superior, State, and Magistrate Courts throughout the State of Georgia.She has built a reputation as an attorney who works tirelessly to achieve the best possible results for her clients and keeps them engaged as she strategically maneuvers their case. CAM believes in transparent representation, she listens to her clients and involves them in every stage of litigation. CAM was born and raised in Carrollton, Georgia. She is a proud Alumni of Central-Carroll High School,... Patrick L. Meriwether Atlanta, GA Family Law Attorney with 24 years of experience (678) 879-9000 1545 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 300 Family, Divorce and Domestic Violence I co-founded Meriwether & Tharp, LLC with Robert “Bob” Tharp in 1998. In the beginning, the firm was just two young lawyers who thought that they could make a difference by teaming up together. At present, we are the largest family law firm in the state of Georgia. The firm has over 40 lawyers dedicated to helping clients get through difficult times. In 2009, we surveyed the family law landscape and decided to make a change. We began to develop a vision of a better way to practice family law. As our vision became a... Emily S. Yu Atlanta, GA Family Law Lawyer (678) 379-9648 5605 Glenridge Dr Offers Video ChatFamily, Divorce and Domestic Violence Family is everything. That's why choosing the right family law attorney to resolve your family disputes will be one of the most important decisions you will ever have to make. Having experienced a family matter litigation myself, I truly understand how stressful and nerve-racking the court process can be and how important it is to have the right attorney by your side. You NEED an attorney you can get in contact with whenever you have questions. Even when it is not an emergency, having a responsive, caring, and knowledgeable attorney makes all the difference during this difficult time in your... Max Ruthenberg-Marshall Decatur, GA Family Law Lawyer with 9 years of experience (678) 435-9069 160 Clairemont Ave Decatur, GA 30030 Max Ruthenberg-Marshall practices Family Law for the Modern Family®, working with families whose needs are not well served by traditional law firms. Max advocates for clients of all identities and family structures in divorce, custody, child support, legitimation, prenuptial and postnuptial agreement, adoption, contempt, and temporary protective order cases. Max also serves as a court-appointed Guardian ad Litem, representing the best interests of children in contested custody cases, and is a registered domestic relations mediator. Max maintains a strong commitment to pro bono work, taking cases through Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF), DeKalb Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (DVLF), and Atlanta Legal... P. Justin Thrailkill Fayetteville, GA Family Law Attorney with 11 years of experience (770) 461-2025 465 N. Jeff Davis Dr. Fayetteville, GA 30214 Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Juvenile and Probate Cumberland School of Law, Samford University Justin devotes his practice primarily to the areas of divorce, custody, and parental advocacy in DFCS matters. As an advocate for the rights of parents, Justin has realized his lifelong passion for helping others in their time of need. Through seven years of practice, Justin has represented a variety of clients in various matters throughout our legal system. He finds great satisfaction in seeing his client’s cases through to a successful resolution, regardless of the challenges that may exist with any particular case. Among his peers, Justin is well known to be a compassionate advocate for... Samantha O. Lennon (404) 445-0227 1776 Peachtree St. NW Suite 410-S Offers Video ChatAtlanta, GA Family Law Lawyer with 7 years of experience Family, Appeals, Divorce and Domestic Violence Samantha represents individuals and families in a wide range of domestic relations legal issues including divorces, custody and child support issues, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, legitimations and adoptions. She devotes time to understanding her clients' individual and family needs. She then develops strategic solutions to protect your rights and best interests. Samantha is committed to developing a close-working relationship with her clients and providing high quality, caring, and efficient legal services for individuals and families. Samantha graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Arts in English and History and a minor in Corporate Strategy. She earned her law degree,... Daria Wise Marietta, GA Family Law Attorney with 19 years of experience (404) 973-9308 3417 Canton Rd Marietta, GA 30066 Free ConsultationFamily and Divorce Daria F. Wise, the founding partner of the Wise Law Firm, has over sixteen years of experience as a trial and family law attorney. Mrs. Wise has successfully handled hundreds of cases from mediated settlements to trial litigation. She is known for accomplishing client objectives in the most expeditious and cost-effective manner possible. She is a knowledgeable, compassionate and aggressive advocate who prioritizes her client´s concerns and goals to ensure the best possible outcome. Mrs. Wise is dedicated to helping individuals and families navigate their way through the often complex and difficult issues associated with family law matters. Ms. Wise was... Atlanta, GA Family Law Attorney with 6 years of experience (404) 233-2800 3490 Piedmont Road Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce and Domestic Violence Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University Savannah Steele is a native of Central Florida, growing up in the Space Coast. While in High School, Savannah began volunteering for the State Attorney’s Office in the 18th Judicial Circuit through their Prosecution Alternative for Youth Program where she was able to advocate for other teens in a juvenile diversion program. She has been dedicated to the practice of law ever since. She is a graduate of the Florida State University where she received a B.A. in Communications and a B.A. in Psychology. At Florida State, Savannah was well known and distinguished in her dedication to giving back to... Maggie M. Heim (404) 888-0100 945 East Paces Ferry Rd NE #2250 Family, Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Estate Planning Maggie Heim represents clients in complex litigation matters in both the Federal and State court systems. She has earned a reputation as a skilled advocate who is unwilling to accept less than the best result for her clients. Maggie has been recognized for excellence in the practice of law by numerous independent attorney rating services, including Super Lawyers, the Daily Report, Martindale-Hubbell, Legal Elite, and Avvo. Kasey Libby (404) 445-7771 1579 Monroe Dr NE #F-315 Free ConsultationFamily, Business, Elder and Probate Georgia State University College of Law and University of Georgia I am a litigation expert in Georgia estates and trusts, and I represent business clients in corporate, contract and commercial matters. I represent clients all across Georgia in estate and trust disputes such as will contests and breaches of fiduciary duty. I also help clients with standard Georgia probate and administration matters. I am an experienced advocate in Georgia guardianship and conservatorship proceedings, and other Georgia elder law matters. I also represent closely-held companies in business-to-business relations, partner and shareholder issues, and contract and Georgia commercial disputes. 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__label__cc	0.719063	0.280937	07387 789530 London info@karlicoding.com 1. What exactly is Karli Coding about? Karli Coding creates and delivers customized coding lessons developed to teach children basics and logic of coding and algorithm based on age and level suitability. 2. What is coding? Coding or programming is writing a sequence of commands (set of instructions) for a PC or any electronic circuit to perform. Coding is the first step in software programming. It’s a language that enables a user to create software, apps, or web sites. 3. What’s the purpose of coding classes? The aim of coding is to show children that computers and tablets are not just about playing games. Coding enables children to create their own games or write their own programmes thus partaking in their development as creative and productive individuals. Having familiarity on technology and coding (programming) provides an advantage in the workforce as we enter the digital era. Coding also supports developing problem solving skills and promotes creativity. 4. What are the benefits of coding? According to experts, learning coding at a young age greatly improves a child’s computational and algorithmic thinking skills. Through coding, programmers create commands for computers to execute, add new features, functions and tasks to electronic devices. Coding is viewed as a language that will enable children to communicate with and command machines, artificial intelligence and big data that will surround them. 5. What age should coding classes begin? Currently, in the UK, computing is part of the national curriculum from Key Stage 1 (age 5) to Key Stage 4 (age 16) – (Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-computing-programmes-of-study). At Karli Coding we start our training programmes from age 4. We combine creative drama techniques and use toys and games specifically designed to teach coding for our 4-5 age group. This way, our younger students absorb the logic behind coding and algorithm without realizing that they are learning, it’s transferred to them through fun activities. Starting at age 7, we use tablets and PCs to teach coding and robotics. 6. Do we need to bring our own PCs and tablets? We provide the required equipment for each of our courses. For those who wish to continue programming at home, it’s recommended to bring their own laptops or tablets. 7. Is it possible to teach coding to those who are not fully engaged in coding? Although coding may seem complex and obscure, it is possible to become fluent in it and embedding it into everyday usage provided that the basic knowledge is delivered efficiently. Evidently, not every little coder will become a programmer, but our tailored classes provides the encouragement and the right environment to illustrate that coding is fun! Coding, the language of the future, incorporates various techniques and applications, at Karli Coding we identify the suitable aspects and prepare a tailored program based on each child’s level and interest. 8. Is it possible to organize group classes? Group classes are arranged based on a date and location provided by the families, it’s important that the group level of coding is compatible among the participants. The 4-6 age group, where we use games and toys in delivering coding basics is very suitable for groups and parties. 9. Where do the courses take place? Private as well as group courses are based on student’s homes or any preferred location. For the location of our periodic activities, please visit our “Announcments” page. © 2021 Karli Coding. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1922
__label__wiki	0.715859	0.715859	Live Action News Support Live Action EXPOSED: NARAL webinar on ‘health disinformation’ relies on falsehoods to attack pro-life movement By Samantha Kamman \| April 16, 2020 , 08:38am The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) recently hosted an online training session to educate members about how to spot health disinformation. Featuring Ellie Langford, a research director for NARAL, the meeting detailed the impact these supposed falsehoods have on “our lives and our elections, and how [disinformation] is spread through social media platforms like Facebook.” Ironically, though the event’s purpose was to train NARAL members to be wary of deceptive tactics, the webinar relied on inaccuracies to try to discredit the ever-growing pro-life movement. Listen: NARAL claims most Americans favor “reproductive freedom” The stated purpose of Langford’s presentation was to help others understand “the dishonest tactics” she claims the “anti-choice movement” and the ‘radical right’ have “pioneered.” Langford claims that the pro-life movement has been historically unpopular, and says that even before Roe v. Wade, a majority of Americans supported abortion, even most Republicans. She concluded that most Americans today favor “reproductive freedom.” (Time stamp – 1:13-2:42) But there’s a problem: Abortion didn’t officially become part of the women’s movement until 1967, after a contentious debate took place at a meeting for the National Organization for Women (NOW). One-third of feminists resigned from the group after it voted to champion legalized abortion. This division was glossed over by the media, who highlighted NOW’s alleged support for abortion and the sexual revolution, claiming this represented the views of 28 million women. In reality, it was more like 57 people. Polls done before Roe showed widespread disapproval for the procedure, even amongst women. The people who were most likely to support it were sexually progressive men. It’s absolutely false to claim that “anti-choice” people went against the majority to push an agenda. The combined efforts of the media and pro-choice men propagandized the pro-abortion movement, making it seem as if it was for women, and created by women. This tactic isn’t new, and in the past, we’ve seen NARAL rely on flawed studies to make the number of Americans who support abortion seem higher. In addition, recent polling shows that Americans actually favor heavy restrictions on abortion, with 70 percent wanting it restricted to the first trimester. This includes nearly half of those who identify as “pro-choice.” NARAL claims pro-lifers put ideology over science Health disinformation, Langford said, is defined as placing ideology over science, which then puts communities at risk and helps the ‘far right’ push policies that block “necessary abortion care.” (Time stamp – 3:50 – 4:18) But was NARAL looking out for at-risk communities when they were one of the last organizations to speak up about Kermit Gosnell? Instead of using the incident to discuss the need for safety standards at abortion businesses, NARAL claimed it was proof that regulations on facilities needed to be loosened — even though a lack of restrictions is what allowed Gosnell to escape justice for so long. Similar to NARAL, the Pennsylvania Health Department did not want there to be “barrier[s]” for women who wanted abortions. Gosnell was not an outlier, but NARAL continues to push the idea that safety standards only make abortion dangerous. The pro-life movement is the side that’s repeatedly using the science of fetal development to show that abortion destroys actual, living human beings — while abortion proponents largely avoid the idea that another human is killed in an abortion. READ: Pro-abortion group NARAL vows to keep attacking pregnancy centers NARAL tries to link pro-life movement to white supremacy According to Langford, “anti-choice” groups, the far right, the alt-right, white supremacists, and men’s rights activists all “use the same playbook” to push disinformation. She accused the pro-life student group Students for Life of echoing memes from the “neo-Nazi blog” The Daily Stormer. Langford asserted — while giving no proof — that “not a lot of daylight separates these groups.” (Time stamp – 8:28 – 9:24) In addition to citing no proof against the pro-life movement, it appears that Langford is either unaware of or in denial about the pro-abortion movement’s roots in eugenics and racism. Rarely, if ever, do abortion proponents condemn acts of violence against pro-lifers. A man roundhouse kicked a woman for simply saying she was against abortion without exception — and abortion supporters cheered. Harlan Drake murdered an elderly pro-lifer in September 2009 because he was offended by the older gentleman’s anti-abortion material. Where was the condemnation from abortion supporters? Coordinated attacks have been launched against pro-lifers at their own events, and other violent assaults have been carried out by pro-choice activists. This attack by the pro-abortion movement is just more of the same namecalling usually instituted by desperate opponents. NARAL attacks Live Action Lila Rose and Live Action were accused by name of spreading the “dangerous” idea on Facebook that abortion is never medically necessary. Langford stated, “In these screenshots you can see anti-choice activist Lila Rose and her organization, Live Action, pushing the dangerous health disinformation that abortion is never medically necessary. This is a claim that has been debunked time and time again by medical authorities like ACOG. And it’s an incredibly irresponsible thing to promote at a time where maternal mortality and morbidity rates are already dangerously high, especially for Black women.” (Time stamp – 12:10 – 14:21) The ACOG is definitively in favor of abortion, yet even they have determined that pre-term delivery – not abortion – is the best course of action when health complications arise during pregnancy. Some abortionists have admitted that the supposed medical necessity of abortion is untrue, and is merely meant to make it sound “noble.” Langford’s mention of maternal mortality rates neglected to state that they typically aren’t just measuring deaths associated with delivery. Included are fatalities from induced abortion, tubal pregnancies, and molar pregnancies. In terms of how this affects Black women, Dr. Ingrid Skop, an OB/GYN, has noted how Black women are three times more likely to have an abortion, a procedure that can negatively affect maternal health. Langford claimed Rose’s video was flagged after being fact-checked by medical authorities (they were actually two abortionists). She also claimed that Rose, alongside her supporters, began a successful pressure campaign to remove it, citing it as an example of “anti-choicers” being allowed to violate social media guidelines while everyone else plays by the rules. But Rose’s claim was made by thousands of physicians long before Rose ever made the statement herself. As for “playing by the rules,” even Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg noted that the fact check itself was “inherently biased.” READ: As abortion survivor testifies to Congress, NARAL claims she’s ‘imaginary’ NARAL’s focus during a worldwide pandemic is ensuring abortion access Kristin Ford, the national communications director at NARAL, took over the webinar to present the questions from the chatbox. She emphasized how terms like “forced pregnancy” carry “real power,” and she reminded webinar participants to work with abortion funds during COVID-19 so women can have access to abortions. (Time stamp – 39:13 – 44:08) Ford said abortionists are doing their best to provide “nonjudgmental care” for “pregnant people” — a term she claimed should be used because women are not the only ones who can become pregnant. This nonjudgmental care apparently means promoting dangerous at-home procedures. The webinar concluded without any guidance about how to connect pregnant women to essential resources aside from abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Like” Live Action News on Facebook for more pro-life news and commentary! Mom’s photos of ‘perfect’ 14-week miscarried son have saved other babies A 40-year-old mother of 11 children in Missouri has shared photos of her miscarried... These 10 images may change your mind about abortion Pictures speaks a thousand words, and images have the power to propel movements. The... Miscarried at 19 weeks, baby Walter’s life is changing the abortion debate “Clump of cells.” “Tissue.” “Just a fetus.” These are common ways people who are... Live Action News publishes pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective. Learn More What is Live Action News? Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective. 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__label__wiki	0.906056	0.906056	That's Cold! Molecules Cooled to a Shade Above Absolute Zero By Jesse Emspak 11 September 2017 (Image: © Alexander Softog/Shutterstock) A new technique pushes the limits of how cold molecules can get to a tiny fraction of a degree above absolute zero. The researchers used a combination of lasers and magnetic fields to trap a molecule of calcium monofluoride, and cool it to 50 microkelvin, or 50 millionths of a degree above absolute zero, or minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 273.15 degrees Celsius). Other labs have made molecules colder, said study lead researcher Michael Tarbutt, a physicist at Imperial College London. The new technique, however, works with a wider range of substances than purely laser-powered cooling. For example, most labs have to build exotic molecules from elements such as sodium and potassium. "These molecules don't have all the properties needed for many of the applications of ultracold molecules," Tarbutt told Live Science in an email. Some of those applications include studying superconductivity, and whole systems of atoms governed by the bizarre rules of tiny subatomic particles known as quantum mechanics. Knowing more about how superconductivity works could help scientists understand what materials can do it – and eventually how to make ones that operate at higher temperatures (Generally superconductive materials need to be kept cold). [The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics] Cooling way down Temperature is just a measure of how fast, on average, the molecules in any substance are moving, so to get these ultracold temperatures, the molecule in the sample (in this case calcium monofluoride) is slowed down. That's where the laser beams come in. Cooling involves a set of lasers firing at the molecule from opposite sides. The first laser hits it from the left, and the molecule absorbs a single photon. That photon reduces the molecule's momentum, just like a billiard ball colliding with another ball from the opposite direction. The calcium monofluoride molecule doesn't lose all of its momentum after that first laser shot, though. It moves toward the direction of the second laser, the one on the right. As it approaches, the light from that laser appears to have a shorter wavelength from the perspective of the molecule, a phenomenon known as Doppler shifting. The molecule absorbs another photon from the second laser, and again is slowed down. In a game of laser-powered table tennis known as Doppler cooling, the molecule gets slower, and colder. The lasers also excite the molecule, enough that it emits photons after each absorption. But those photons are sent off in random directions, so the overall momentum of the calcium monofluoride isn't changed after many laser shots. That photon emission does put a lower limit on the molecule's momentum, because each emission provides a tiny "kick" – and that means the molecule is still a little "warm." That lower limit of temperature is known as the Doppler limit. To get beyond that limit, Tarbutt's team used a magnetic field to trap the molecule in place, to be hit by lasers again. If one imagines the molecule at the bottom of a "hill," with the hill being potential energy, the lasers push it up the hill. In the ordinary world, kicking a ball up a hill increases its potential energy, but reduces its kinetic energy, because it slows down as it approaches the top. The same thing occurs with the calcium monofluoride molecule. (This is called Sisyphus cooling, named for the man in Greek myth who was sentenced to an eternity of rolling a rock up a hill only to have it roll back down). Reducing the molecule's kinetic energy reduced its temperature to 50 microkelvin. Beyond the temperature record, another unique aspect of the work was using naturally occurring substances, said Lincoln Carr, a professor of physics at the Colorado School of Mines, who was not involved in the study. "Before people were always working on something weird like potassium-rubidium," he said. While potassium-rubidium and other molecules do not naturally occur, calcium and fluoride atoms will make molecules in nature, and so don't require specialized techniques to unite. That opens up a lot of research avenues, Carr said. "There are all kinds of naturally occurring molecules you could study," he said. The study appeared in the Aug. 28 issue of Nature Physics. Worrisome California coronavirus variant is tied to large outbreaks RNA ties itself in knots, then unties itself in mesmerizing video	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1929
__label__wiki	0.689477	0.689477	What’s there to know about West Sacramento CA Home/Posts/Sacramento Locksmiths/What’s there to know about West Sacramento CA West Sacramento has a lot to offer travelers by way of interesting attractions, hotels, dining, shopping and more. Has a rich history in the creation of California and was once the most significant cities, second just to San Francisco. During the 1800s, West Sacramento was the main destination for pioneers buying a new life in the western part of the country. The population really exploded in 1849 after gold was uncovered at Sutter’s Mill on the local American River. It became the key distribution heart for gold and goods during the Gold Dash and the western fin of the transcontinental train. It’s situated at the confluence of the North American and Sacramento Rivers, which has been beneficial for trade but also inundated metropolis occasionally. West Sacramento is a city in Yolo County, California. Despite the city being contiguous with Sacramento they are both separated by the Sacramento River which also separates Sacramento and Yolo counties.Wikipedia West Sacramento is a Cal State Park located in the western world of downtown on the Sacramento River. Old Barda de golf is a preserved area of the original city from the Gold Rush age. It rivals any rare metal mining town along Road 49 with its historical buildings, place and interesting attractions. Old Sac features more than six blocks of shops, restaurants, museums and more. A restored riverboat offers the only strategy to overnight stay in the park and also features a restaurant, bar & grill and 2 cinemas. The Sacramento western Trip Train entertains visitors with a 6-mile, 40-minute-long coach ride over the Sacramento River levee in classic train cars. Hop onboard a Hornblower ship for a Sacramento River luxury cruise that includes passing within drawbridge. Museums in Aged Sac include history museums, a railroad museum, and auto museum. Visitors enjoy walking the wooden sidewalks, shopping in the unique stores and taking horse-drawn carriage rides around the town. The California Point out Capitol is a neoclassical structure just like the U. H. Capital. It’s located within Capitol Park in the center of downtown. Polish capitol Park includes memorial sculptures, fountains, gardens and open up lawn space. Free daily tours of the Polish capital are available and guests are also able to tour the building independently. For clear reasons, getting through an airport-like security checkpoint is required to enter the capitol. When inside, you’ll pass through impressive halls of a pebble that rise to the top of columns. Be prepared to see an intensive number of art, statues, antique fixtures and artifacts. Large wood made doors that line the halls are the office buildings of residing Senators and Legislators. Visitors are pleasant for taking a seat in the viewing balconies of the Senate and Legislature watching the passing of bills and other goings on of government. All of us recommend joining a travel to get familiar with the design of the building and then venture away on your own. Meals and drink are offered at two cafeteria-style restaurants within the Capitol. Generally, there are many other sights in West Sacramento worth examining out. The Governor’s House is an 1877 Even victorian mansion that served as a home to A bunch of states Governors from 1903 to the Reagan era. The Leland Stanford Mansion is an exquisite 1856 Even victorian mansion that was possessed by railroad magnate, Leland Stanford. The home today serves as the official point out reception center for frontrunners and dignitaries from around the world. The Crocker Art Museum features a modern art museum and a 1870s Victorian house that was the original Crocker home. The Crockers were a wealthy family involved in railroad and banking during the Yellow metal Rush. The museum is one of California’s most recognized art galleries. Sutter’s Fortification was at first established in 1839 by a Deluxe immigrant. It served as a settlement and provide a depot for early leaders migrating west. In 1848, gold was uncovered at local Sutter’s Mill, which sparked the 1849 Platinum Rush. The plight of early settlers can be realized at the Good old City Cemetery where leaves the graves of cholera victims, Spanish-American War members of the military, gold miners and more. The latest fashions are obtainable at Downtown Sitio, which includes numerous division stores, boutique shops and restaurants in an outdoor venue along 5th Streets. West Sacramento Ca West Sacramento is located about 1/2 -hours east of San Francisco, 2-hours western world of South Lake Tahoe and 6-hours north of Los Angeles. Situated at the junction of the 5, 50, 80 and 99 freeways, It can be conveniently accessed from anywhere in the express. For quicker access, the Sacramento Airport terminal is merely 15-minutes north of town center. On several occasions, we now have used the Sacramento International airport as our starting place for trips to S. Francisco and Lake Tahoe. One of our best ski trips started out with a be in Sacramento before heading to the mountains of Tahoe. Local plumber to visit West Sacramento is in the spring or show up. Winter will produce heavy rains and summer can be downright hot with temps creeping in the hundreds. For a major city, West Sacramento is a relatively safe place for travelers about the Capitol and Ancient Sacramento regions. Two days and nights is a good amount of time to see almost all of Sacramento’s attractions and we recommend it as a bucket-list-worthy place of Silver Rush history, government, and museums Attractions in West Sacramento ca By Smith Grot\|2020-02-20T16:26:00+00:00April 21st, 2018\|Categories: Sacramento Locksmiths\|Tags: West Sacramento CA\| April 21st, 2018\| 0 Comments info about the city November 25th, 2017\| 0 Comments How to Become a Locksmith in California Sacramento ca gun show Top Skydiving Spots at Sacramento CA Magical Moments of Sacramento ca Night Life Top 4 Cool Places to Visit in Sacramento Hotels that make you Bliss in Sacramento Ca	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1946
__label__wiki	0.554363	0.554363	Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) Best Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) Doctors Choose from 26 best Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) doctors in All Destinations Colorectal medicine Top Surgeons for Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) Dr. Varun Gogia Dr. Sameer Kaushal Dr. Mohamed Ramadan Mahmoud Dr. Svati Bansal Dr. Muhammmad Iqbal Khan Dr. Uma Mallaiah Dr. Supreet Juneja Dr. Waseem Mostafa Mahoul Dr. Sanjay Dhawan Dr. Arif A. Adenwala About Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) Phacoemulsification is a technique used to perform cataract surgery and treat the condition known as cataracts. In patients with cataracts, the lens of the eye becomes clouded, making it difficult for the patient to see. In cataract surgery, the doctor replaces the clouded lens with an artificial replacement. When using the technique of phacoemulsification, the doctor can use an ultrasonic probe to emulsify the lens, remove the fragments, and then insert the replacement. One kind of replacement lens is the IQ IOL (IntraOcular Lens). Frequently Asked Questions about Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) Surgeons The Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) doctor typically first sees the results of the tests ordered to assess the overall health of the patient. Based on the initial assessment, the doctor would prepare a treatment plan tailored according to the individualized needs of the patients. The treatment plan for Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes), its alternative options, the pros and cons associated with each option and the treatment cost is thoroughly discussed with the patient to seek their approval. Once the patient gives his or her consent, the Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) surgeon addresses his team members and shares the details of the case with them. The team members prepare for Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) and share a scheduled date of the procedure with the patient. The patient is advised to follow a few instructions as given by the Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) surgeon. In addition, the Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) hospital initiates the formalities and informs the patient about the estimated cost. The patient is accordingly required to submit documents for any insurance claim approval. What is the Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) surgeon responsible for? The surgeon is responsible for the preoperative diagnosis of the Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) patient, for performing the operation, and for providing the patient with postoperative surgical care and treatment. The surgeon is worked as the leader of the Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) surgical team. Ophthalmologist \| Medical Director and Senior Eye Surgeon MBBS (AIIMS), MD (AIIMS), Vitreoretina, Uvea & Cataract Specialist Works at Medanta The Medicity Dr. Varun Gogia is highly renowned Ophthalmologist in New Delhi who works at IClinix – Advanced Eye Care, a premier eye care clinic. He is one of the most experienced Eye Surgeon with expertise in treating complex eye disorders like Cataract, Vitreo-retina, Retinopathy of Prematurity and Uvea. He has completed his medical education from the most prestigious institution of the nation – All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He also trained and received a Fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery from AIIMS.Dr. Gogia has received an award for his outstanding work for Clinical acumen and patient care when he was training at Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre of Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS. Dr. Varun Gogia also has experience of working at international reputed medical centre, including being a Clinical Observer at Cleveland Clinic, USA. He is considered to be a pioneer who has done tremendous work on the surgical innovations for uveal melanoma, endo-illuminator assisted scleral buckling surgery for retinal detachment. He has also been involved in discovering the new frontiers of treatment for serpiginious choroiditis. Dr. Gogia has more than 60 national and international publications in indexed scientific research journal. He also actively involved in attending and presenting his research work at several national and international conferences. Vitreo Retina Intra-ocular tumours IJO Quiz,2012,First rank Topper,2011,M.D Ophthalmology Best Junior Resident,2010-2011 Clinical and academics at Dr. R.P Centre, AIIMS Indian Academy of Paediatric Quiz,2006,Winning at Institute and representing AIIMS at state level Institute summer Scholarship,2003,Summer research in Anatomy at AIIMS 13th Indian National Biology Olympiad (National level),2002,Qualified at national level and awarded by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR),Mumbai Excellence Awards,2001-2002All round performance at D.P.S R.K Puram, New Delhi NTSE Scholarship,2000,National talent Search Examination by N.C.E.R.T AITSE Scholarship,1996,Merit in exam conducted by CBSE Ophthalmologist \| Head - Ophthalmology (M.D.) Ophthalmology, (D.N.B.) Ophthalmology, (M.B.B.S.) Works at Artemis Hospital Gurgaon, India - 4.5 / 5 - (1 Review) Dr. Sameer Kaushal is a qualified eye surgeon from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. After completion of his graduation as well as post graduation from the prestigious institute, he spent a few years in the Cornea, Cataract, Refractive Surgery Unit of the institute gaining expertise in treatment of eye disease especially corneal disorders. He also gained valuable experience in performing various eye surgeries especially anterior segment surgeries including phaco surgery for cataract, LASIK and corneal transplantation. His expertise extends to the latest treatment modalities including sutureless corneal transplants and artificial corneas. Treatment of Corneal disorders Ocular Surface Disorders including ocular allergies and Dry Eyes Refractive surgeries including LASIK and Phakic IOLs Paediatric ocular disorders especially paediatric cataracts Apart from various scientific research publications in International journals, also co- authored books on LASIK, Corneal transplantation and surgical video DVD in book “Management of Corneal Ulcer.”Teaching faculty at various National workshops on cornea and refractive surgery as well as phacoemulsification.Participated in “WHO workshop for formulation of guidelines for management of corneal ulcer and ocular trauma.” Ophthalmologist \| Consultant MBBCH, Master Degree in Ophthalmology, FRCS, MD Works at Zulekha Hospital Dubai and 1 more hospitals Dr. Mohamed Ramadan has more than 18 years of experience in the field of Ophthalmology. He did his MBBCH, Master degree & MD from Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt & later on completed FRCS from Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, UK June 2007. During the career, Dr. Mohamed Ramadan had worked as Lecturer of Ophthalmology at Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt & Consultant Cornea & Refractive Surgeon in Egypt Eye Center, Cairo, Egypt. Corneal Transplantation (Keratoplasty) by Femto Laser. Femto LASIK and PRK for correction of myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. Intracorneal Segments Implantation, Corneal Cross Linking and ICL implantation for treatment of keratoconus. Phacoemulsification & IOL implantation (including toric and multifocal IOL) for treatment of cataract. Intravitreal injections and Laser retinal treatment for diabetic retinopathy and age related retinal degeneration. Treatment of Glaucoma by Laser, surgery and valve implantation. Pediatric surgeries: to correct squint Lacrimal obstruction treatment by DCR and intubation Eye surgery reconstruction after trauma 11 year old boy from Zambia came to India for a Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) to treat Sickle Cell Disease Every Mother dreams of her child leading a normal, happy and healthy life. This is the story of Mwanza's Son who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease shortly after his birth. https://www.youtube.com Mr. Sunday Eikhenomian from Nigeria Traveled to India for Laser Prostatectomy My name is Eric Eikhenomian, the medical attendant and son to Mr.Sunday Eikhenomian who is the patient. Our country of origin is Nigeria. Back in my country, my father developed multiple health challe MBBS, MS (Ophthalmology) Dr. Svati Bansal specialises in Orbit and Oculoplasty, Ocular trauma, Ocular oncology and Neuro-ophthalmology. She received her degree in Ophthalmology from the prestigious PGIMER, Chandigarh and then further trained in Orbit and Oculoplasty and Neuro-Ophthalmology at the renowned Aravind Eye Hospital (Madurai), Moran Eye Centre Salt Lake City (USA) and Singapore National Eye Centre (Singapore). Oculoplasty and Orbit Ocular trauma MBBS, FRCS (Glasgow), ICO (UK) Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Khan Has more than 17 years of experience in the field of ophthalmology in handling simple and complex surgeries. He completed his Fellowship from Royal College Physician and Surgeons Glasgow in the UK and completed ICO from International Council of Ophthalmology (UK). He holds active Registration and Licenses to practice with General Medical Council in UK & Iris Medical Council in Ireland. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal Khan had associated with many prestigious Eye hospitals like Nishter Medical College and Hospital Multan and King Edward Medical University and Layton Rehmat Benevolent Hospital. He was also associated with Al Nahda Hospital Muscat (Oman) and Dubai Hospital (UAE). Phacosurgery and Lens Implantation Extracapsular Cataract Extraction and Lens Implantation Small Incision Cataract Surgery Pterygium Excision, Probing , Syringing intravitreal injection Lasik,ICL Lens Implantation Ophthalmologist \| Senior Consultant M.B.B.S., DNB, FRCS, Fellowship Works at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals Dr. Uma Mallaiah is a top-class Ophthalmologist and General Physician with 23 years of clinical experience. Having attained her educational qualifications from renowned national and international medical institutions, she holds expertise in a number of procedures including Glaucoma, Ectropion, Entropion, Lasik surgery, Phacoemulsification Surgery (MICS), Refractive Surgery and Evisceration with Orbital Implant. Dr. Mallaiah is credited with successfully performing 3500 cataract surgeries and 500 glaucoma surgeries. She has also been a with Apollo to set up an Eye Department in Dubai. Apart from this, she has also been involved in corporate and international marketing along with organizing camps at the American embassy, Hero Honda and Indian Oil Corporation. Ocuplastics Paediatric Opthalmology Phacoemulsification Surgery (MICS) Evisceration with Orbital Implant Traumatic Lid Repair Trabeculectomy with SICS Men and Women Wellness Screening Vitreo Retinal Surgery Recognized for Best research presentation in the Northern Region, United Kingdom Ophthalmologist \| Eye Surgeon MBBS, MS Works at Sharp Sight Dr Supreet Juneja works as a Senior Retina Consultant in Ophthalmology at Sharp Sight (Group of Eye Hospitals), New Delhi. He has completed his post graduation from S S Medical College Rewa; and fellowship in Vitreo Retina from Aravind Eye Institute, Madurai. Previously, he has worked at Venu Eye Institute, New Delhi and Centre for Sight, New Delhi. Phaco Cataract Surgery Cornea Transplant Surgery Vitreoretinal Surgery Ophthalmologist \| Specialist Ophthalmologist MD (Ophthalmology) Dr.Waseem has completed his medical degree from the University of Aleppo, Faculty of Medicine. He has more than nine years of experience in ophthalmology and ophthalmological-related surgery. He is certified as Ophthalmology Specialist from the Ministry of Health in Syria and also he worked as a specialist ophthalmologist in the Eyes Specialized Hospital in Aleppo, Syria where he also spent one year in an internship training program to fine tune his expertise and his surgical skills in cornea and anterior segment. Corneal Diseases, Dystrophies, Degenerations Corneal Surgery (DALK, PKP, Relaxing Incision) Phacoemulsification, ECCE, Pterygium Anterior Segment of the eye Eye Specialty \| Director Ð Ophthalmology MBBS, MS (Ophthalmology), DO (Ophthalmology) Dr. Sanjay Dhawan is a renowned Ophthalmologist in India who works at the one of the apex hospitals in Delhi, Max Super Specialty, Saket. He has a vast experience of over 23 years as a specialist in the field of eye surgery and has served at many premier medical facilities in India as well as abroad. His specialty interests include cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, lens implant procedure as well as Femtosecond laser surgery and LASIK technique. Dr. Dhawan has competed his medical education from the leading teaching healthcare institutes in Delhi, namely Moulana Azad Medical College and Lady Hardinge Medical College. He has been prolific doctor in training and was awarded gold medal in M.S Ophthalmology by Delhi University. He is an active member of many several medical associations and societies related to Eye care and Ophthalmology, including All India Ophthalmological Society and Indian Medical Association. Director & Head of the Department - Ophthalmology at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon Medical Director at Vasan Eye Care, New Delhi Head of Department – Ophthalmology at Max Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi Professor Ophthalmology – Manipal College and Medical Sciences, Nepal Senior Eye Surgeon at Lions Hospital & Research Centre, Delhi University Gold Medal for MS (Ophthalmology), Delhi University (1995) MS, DNB, FRCS, FGO, ICO (UK) He worked as Consultant at Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital, one of the premier hospitals in Bombay with Dr S. Natarajan. He completed his Fellowship in General Ophthalmology and Phacoemulsification from a 200 bedded super-speciality eye hospital in India, and Fellowship from Royal College of Surgeons UK in 2004. He holds active registration and license to practice with General Medical Council UK. Topical Phacoemulsification with implantation of Multifocals, Monofocals or Toric IOLs. Refractive Surgery including FEMTO-LASIK,SMILE,PRK,RLE, Implantation of ICL etc. Management of Keratoconus including evaluation using PENTACAM and treatment with ring segments or corneal cross linkage. Pediatric ophthalmology including squint. He’s also into phacoemulsification, manual small incision cataract surgery, glaucoma surgeries, and squint corrections Participating in various research projects Best Phacoemulsification; IQ Intraocular Lens (Both Eyes) Hospitals Medanta The Medicity Artemis Hospital Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals 4.5 average based on 1 reviews.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1949
__label__wiki	0.667473	0.667473	Michael Addelman Media Relations Officer: Biology, Medicine, and Health michael.addelman@manchester.ac.uk Register for news releases (journalists only) Run Wild action shot good No sweat for students in 24 hour run challenge University of Manchester students will be raising money for a homelessness charity by running non-stop for 24 hours. The Run Wild Society are hosting the 24 Hour relay on 13 November to raise money for the Greater Manchester Mayor's Charity in support of the Bed Every Night Scheme. The scheme provides a bed, a warm welcome and personal support for rough sleepers who cannot access other accommodation. The Manchester 24 Hour Run Against Homelessness consists of 5KM laps, completed in groups, and running at a comfortable pace for everyone present. The challenge will start at 12 noon outside the University of Manchester Students' Union and head into the city centre and finish . Each runner can take part in as many laps as they want, and the organisers say they aim to start 1 lap within each 30-minute window. There will also be a Facebook Event and anyone who wants to donate can visit the Society’s Just Giving Page. We’re really excited about this challenge. Not only will it be a lot of fun, it will also raise awareness and provide real help to homeless people struggling on the streets of our city President of the Run Wild Society, student Thomas Lewis Follow me on Facebook (opens in new window) President of the Run Wild Society, student Thomas Lewis says if runners can also donate clothes or any essential items on the day, they’ll pass them on to local homeless shelters. He said: “We’re really excited about this challenge. Not only will it be a lot of fun, it will also raise awareness and provide real help to homeless people struggling on the streets of our city. “We think no one should have to sleep rough on the streets of Greater Manchester – especially as winter is about to set in. “If you like running – and it doesn’t matter how fast you are – then please do join us. See you on November 13." Study at The University of Manchester opens in new window	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1953
__label__wiki	0.90891	0.90891	Allentown attorney joins Lehigh County judicial race By Laurie Mason Schroeder Of The Morning Call \| Attorney Tom Capehart (Contributed photo) An Allentown attorney with nearly three decades of legal experience has joined the crowded race for Lehigh County judge. Tom Capehart, a partner in the firm Gross McGinley, announced Thursday that he’s seeking the seat formerly held by Judge Carol K. McGinley, who moved into a senior judge position last year. The married father of two from Upper Milford said his wide-ranging experience will distinguish him from his opponents. “Throughout my legal career, I have strived to provide fair and ethical legal advice to my clients and worked to treat opposing counsel and parties with respect,” Capehart said. “As judge, this is a commitment I will continue so that everyone who comes before the bench knows they will be afforded fair and impartial justice.” Capehart, a Republican, said he’ll cross file to appear on both parties’ ballots. A graduate of Emmaus High School, Dickinson College and the University of Akron School of Law, Capehart has handled numerous civil, business and and family law cases. Outside of court, he’s a member of the East Penn Chamber of Commerce, a board member of the Lehigh Conference of Churches and the Emmaus Lions Club. He’s also served as a PIAA football official for nearly two decades, officiating high school football in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and Colonial Leagues. “I think sports offer children who choose to play a valuable opportunity to learn life skills,” he said. Capehart announced his run during a small gathering at Gross McGinley’s downtown Allentown office. Colleague Thomas E. Reilly, a partner at the firm, said Capehart will be a good addition to the Lehigh County bench. Leading local stories delivered on weekday mornings “I know Tom to be very ethical, very fair, and Tom has great respect for the legal process,” Reilly said. “He in turn has earned the respect of the legal community, his clients … and judges in the judiciary throughout the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” Capehart’s wife, Michelle Capehart, is an East Penn teacher, and his two children also work in education. He said was seeking the bench so he could serve his neighbors. “My active involvement in our community coupled with my nearly 30 years of experience across a broad spectrum of the law makes me uniquely qualified to effectively deal with the issues that come before the court,” Capehart said. Capehart, 54, is the fourth attorney to launch a bid to wear a black robe at the Lehigh County courthouse. Prosecutors Anna-Kristie Morffi Marks and Jared Hanna, both Republicans, are seeking the seat, as well as civil attorney Zachary Cohen, a Democrat and former Lehigh County Bar Association president. At least one other attorney is expected in January to announce a run. Denise Cali, who survived a brutal attack by Lehigh Valley serial killer Harvey Miguel Robinson, dies Judges at the county level in Pennsylvania, officially called the Court of Common Pleas, serve 10-year terms. The current salary is $180,299. University of Akron Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1958
__label__wiki	0.573093	0.573093	SEC Charges Two Florida Companies and Their CEOs for Pump-and-Dump Schemes On September 30, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged two Florida companies and their CEOs for engaging in two separate pump-and-dump schemes involving the issuance of misleading press releases hyping the companies while the respective CEOs sold their stock for major gains. The SEC claims that Quri Resources, Inc. and Jaime Santiago Gomez, Quri’s CEO, of Miami issued numerous misleading press releases in 2009 falsely stating that Quri was involved in a mining project in Ecuador whereby it would likely find a gold reserve valued over $1 billion. The SEC separately charged Atlantis Technology Group and Christopher Dubeau, Atlantis’ CEO, of Weston, Fla., for issuing false press releases boasting that the company had business relationships with television networks to sell their video and telecommunication services. Neither the services of relationships existed. In addition to the alleged mining project, the SEC claims that Quri Resources also made several other misrepresentations, including that it was going to acquire two mining projects in Arizona, and that it was going to acquire two additional, valuable mining projects in Ecuador. The SEC further claims that Gomez reviewed and approved the misleading press releases, while repeatedly selling Quri stock as the press releases were issued. According to the SEC’s complaint against Atlantis Technology Group and Dubeau, Atlantis falsely claimed that Global Online Television Corporation – a subsidiary of Atlantis – offered Internet protocol television (IPTV) services and video phone services to consumers, and that Atlantis had relationships with television networks to offer such content to subscribers. The subsidiary, however, could not offer the IPTV or video phone services in 2009, and Atlantis never had any agreement with a television network to offer media content to customers. The SEC further claims that Dubeau prepared, reviewed, and approved Atlantis’s misleading press releases while at the same time knowing that Atlantis did not offer the advertised services or possess the business relationships identified in the press releases. During this time, Dubeau also sold over 60 million shares of Atlantis stock for approximately $240,000 in gains. By McCabe Rabin, P.A. \| Posted on October 6, 2010	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1959
__label__cc	0.697262	0.302738	Home News Business News 90% of Businesses Have Improved Workplace Safety; 41% of Employees Say It’s... 90% of Businesses Have Improved Workplace Safety; 41% of Employees Say It’s Not Enough By: Express Employment Professionals New Survey Reveals Worker Concerns Allen, TX – Although the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, according to experts, 41% of workers say companies aren’t doing enough to protect them from the virus. In a May 2020 survey from Express Employment Professionals, 90% of decision makers said their businesses have taken steps to improve overall safety in response to COVID-19. New safety protocols reported include: Monitoring employees’ temperatures Plexiglass dividers between workstations 6-foot social distancing markers on floors Monthly virus safety training Increased building disinfecting Continued remote work for employees Staggered shifts Despite these safety improvements, an Express survey of employees during the same time frame found that only 59% believe their employers have done enough to improve workplace safety. One job seeker said their company was allowing an infected co-worker to continue working at the facility, but only at night. Another said Lysol had been removed from the building and hand sanitizer dispensers had not been refilled. “My company has done nothing,” added one respondent. “They do not believe the virus is actually happening, so it's not taken seriously.” In one retirement community, an employee said they were only required to wear masks recently, well after the start of the pandemic. But several other employees praised their company’s efforts to keep workers safe: “Our office has never been so clean. We allow as much work-from-home as possible, but also maintain a very clean environment at the workplace and with our clients.” “At-risk employees were supported with additional paid leave during this time. Our hours were changed to minimize customer contact, as well as allowing only so many customers in at a time to help control distance between customers. I commend my company on taking care of their associates, as well as the customers.” “Providing masks for us. Making sure we are all doing okay during these uncertain times. My company rocks!” “The company immediately packed up everyone's computer equipment, let us pick it up, and set us up to work remotely in our homes. Awesome company!” “There is nothing worth more to a company than the health and reassurance of a safe environment for its workers,” Express CEO Bill Stoller said. “June was National Safety Month, and while it looks quite a bit different this year, safety should always be a top priority for every business.” The survey of 297 business leaders and decision makers was conducted in May 2020 through the Express Refresh Leadership blog. The survey of 344 job seekers and employees was conducted in May 2020 through the Express Job Journey blog. Express Employment Professionals is in the business of people. From job seekers to client companies, Express helps people thrive and businesses grow. Providing localized staffing solutions to our community, Express employed 552,000 people across North America in 2019. The Allen Express office is located at 402 W McDermott Drive, Allen, TX 75013 and serves the Collin County market with administrative, professional and commercial staffing. Local businesses and applicants are encouraged to stop by, visit www.ExpressPros.com/AllenTX or call (972) 423-1112. Staffing / Recruiters Related newsMORE FROM AUTHOR Craig Ranch Fitness & Spa Partners with Local Healthcare Leader CourMed Support Local This Holiday Season While You “Shop, Click and Wine” Health Wildcatters Portfolio Company LocuMatch Relocates To McKinney	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1962
__label__wiki	0.549115	0.549115	South of the City of Charlottesville on route 20 south you’ll find the Scottsville Historic District, located along the horseshoe bend of the James River. Downtown Scottsville is home to 153 buildings of nationally-recognized historical significance. Scholars and fans of classical architecture will find a cornucopia of architectural styles throughout the Scottsville homes of the Historic District, including greek revival, colonial revival, and craftsman homes. The Architectural Review Board of the town protects the integrity of its architectural inheritance, reviewing any and all requests for exterior changes to the Scottsville homes and buildings in the historic district. The result is a town that fosters a thriving commercial environment without sacrificing its historical inheritance. Scottsville is a mere thirty minutes from the City of Charlottesville via Route 20 South. The City is home to the University of Virginia and nationally recognized employers such as LexisNexis, Willowtree Apps, and the University of Virginia Health System. Route 20 is also home to a thriving community of award-winning wineries, among them Blenheim Vineyard, Jefferson Vineyard, and First Colony Winery. Route 20 also takes Scottsville residents directly toward Monticello High School, named for Thomas Jefferson’s nearby estate. MHS boasts faculty that have been recognized with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Listings in Scottsville 7640 Langhorne Rd Scottsville, VA 24590 Valley St sqft / 8.28 acres 5199 West River Rd 5,158 sqft / 29.7 acres 0 Hatton Ferry Rd sqft / 104.52 acres 70 Jim Lane Rd 215 Glendower Rd 31 Beaver Lake Dr 635 Valley St 5* Blenheim Rd sqft / 29.74 acres	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1963
__label__wiki	0.913369	0.913369	Mazda Brings Zoom To 'Fashion Rocks' by Karl Greenberg , August 1, 2014 Can Mazda’s Miata Zoom Zoom in Moschino? Sure, the little roadster has been fashionable for a quarter of a century. And the brand has aligned with music acts for as long. Mazda actually launched the Miata in the 80s, when New Wave was in and fashion band Duran Duran was hip. Now, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the car while launching the new 2016 model Miata MX-5, the automaker is combining music and fashion as exclusive automotive partner of the Sept. 9 CBS special “Fashion Rocks” during Fashion Week. The sponsorship, via a partnership with Three Lions Entertainment and Don Mischer Productions gives Mazda a presence during the show, category-exclusive content and real-estate on Fashion Rocks digital properties. Mazda’s six-week campaign around the event, which will be hosted by Ryan Seacrest and held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, starts Aug. 1 with a digital campaign called “Road to Fashion Rocks” at www.FashionRocksLive.com/The-Roa. The branded site has curated music content including Mazda-branded videos featuring artists participating in Fashion Rock like Pitbull, J. Lo, Usher, Nico and Vinz and Duran Duran with the new Miata as well as Mazda’s Mazda6, Mazda3 and CX5 models. The effort, via Costa Mesa, Calif.-based WPP unit Garage Team Mazda, includes co-branded TV and digital ads, custom videos for social media, and an eight-page print advertorial within the Fashion Rocks collector’s edition magazine, created by "InStyle." The partnership also wraps in the reveal of the 2016 MX-5 Miata roadster on Sept. 3. The car will be shown at a private concert in Monterey, Calif. featuring one of the Fashion Rocks artists. The concert will be live streamed, with #MX5Turns25 and #LongLivetheRoadster as sites for social extension. Russell Wager, Mazda’s North American VP marketing tells Marketing Daily that during the concert broadcast “The MX-5 will be part of it in some form or fashion; we are working out the details.” He adds that Mazda will also have ad buyers during broadcast. “The interesting aspect of this is that 25 years ago when we introduced the [Miata] MX-5 one of the hottest bands was Duran Duran. That’s why we picked them back then [to be involved in the launch]. Now Nico and Vinz are the number artists with ‘Am I Wrong.’” Wager says the sponsorship makes sense on several levels. “We have had a relationship with Three Lions Entertainment Group going back many years," Wager says. "They spoke with us early this year when we were in the throes of finalizing how to launch and reveal the next-generation Miata. When they talked about the timing of ‘FashionRocks’ during Fashion Week, and that it’s 25 years after the first Miata launch, it just made perfect sense.” And, he notes, the partnership lets Mazda exploit Fashion Week without getting sucked into the ‘fashion-nado’ across the river that week, where Mercedes-Benz is the title sponsor. “It gets us out of the city and puts it out to the rest of the country," he says. "And it has a broader appeal. Everyone knows Ryan Seacrest, and performers like Usher, Pitbull, and J. Lo. The show has a broad spectrum of talent, so the broadcast appeals to everyone.” automotive, brand marketing, fashion, marketing, music, promotion, tv, video	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1965
__label__cc	0.634808	0.365192	News OnePlus could announce its Next Smartphone near Christmas time OnePlus could announce its Next Smartphone near Christmas time OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei disclosed in an interview with USA Today that the next OnePlus handset would be outside prior to the conclusion of the year, maybe around Christmas time. The executive said that it might or might not be a higher spec’d model than the OnePlus 2 which means it could function as the rumored OnePlus miniature version. On the flip side, we’ve learned in regards to a cellphone known as the OnePlus X with a 1440 x 2560 display which could be a higher-spec’d variation of the recently launched OnePlus 2. That isn’t the first time that we’ve learned about another OnePlus mobile being readied for launch in 2015. Back in April, we told you that the organization would offers a more affordable handset this year after the launch of the OnePlus 2. Carl Pei himself was quoted by Bloomberg as saying the second 2015 apparatus may be made to get a “different kind of audience, maybe for those that value design over specs.” Pei said that when he saw the image for next mobile, he needed it to be his daily driver, but when 2nd Gen OnePlus camer out, he changed his mind. He says it is quite difficult to choose which to use and both mobiles are fine. Throughout the interview, Pei told the national paper that there will be room in the smartphone marketplace for three firms. He recorded OnePlus, Samsung and Apple saying the other firms will die off due to their inability to make big enough margins to sustain their company. That looks funny to listen to in the head of a firm recognized to offer its cellphones virtually at price, but Pei included that if individuals continue to support OnePlus’ products and adore the business, it’s unavoidable that business will grow rapidly and will make money. Pei also answered critics who whined about the shortage of NFC support on the latest OnePlus phone. He explained that “Very few folks are using NFC, so we cut it. It is as easy as that.” He added that by the time NFC is extensively used, 12 to 18 months from now according to his calculations, individuals will be on to their next mobile. Pei noted the business broke because of the low selling price of OnePlus One, however they managed to sell more than 1 million units of its first version. He explained that it is going to be a stretch to break even in 2015 as they have added lots of new workers. However, while there is discussion of internal goals inside OnePlus reaching 3 million to 5 million handsets in 2015, Pei says that it is more priority than sales that what consumers are saying in regards to the mobiles of the company. And do not anticipate OnePlus to branch off into other products or tvs or wearables. He said that only by focusing on a single product, a company can make the most effective in any certain class, while Pei shown that OnePlus nearly branched into fitness trackers. SOURCEusatoday oneplus mini Previous articleHTC Desire 728 Real Life Images Exposed Next articleSony Xperia M5 announced, dubbed “super mid-range” phone Android 8.0 Oreo for OnePlus 3 and 3T Released as Open Beta Version 25 and 16 OxygenOS 4.5.2 Rolls Out For OnePlus 5, Update Brings Bug Fixes and Stability Improvements Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Specs, Features, and Launch Details: Here’s What is Rumored So Far OnePlus 5 Launched in India Today: Price, Specifications and Where to Buy OnePlus 5 Price, Specs, Features, Design & Release Date – Everything You Need to Know OnePlus 5 (A5000) Leaked with 8 GB RAM, Snapdragon 835, and Android Nougat on Benchmarking Website	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1971
__label__cc	0.672663	0.327337	Throwback Thursday Feast at The Root Restaurant & Bar User Submitted When: Thu., Jan. 28, 6:30-9:30 p.m. 2016 therootrestaurant.com Taste what it would have been like to eat dinner prepared by internationally renowned French chef Jacques Pepin through the 70s and 80s. The Throwback Thursday Feast at The Root on Jan. 28 features Pépin’s classics prepared by executive chef Nick Rodgers made with the restaurant’s signature fresh, local Michigan ingredients. Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. with the first course served at 7 p.m. Cost is $65 per person, plus tax and gratuity and an additional $35 per person for expertly selected throwback wine pairings. Reservations can be made by calling the restaurant at 248-698-2400. The Root Restaurant & Bar 340 Town Center Blvd E106, White Lake Greater Pontiac Area Michigan 48386 www.therootrestaurant.com Special dinner, User Submitted Select a category COMMUNITY SERVICES General EDUCATION Library LODGING Hotel NIGHTSPOT British/Irish pub Neighborhood bar RESTAURANTS American Eclectic European Tavern Fare Chef's Cuisine (0.08 miles) White Lake Township Library (0.55 miles) White Lake Township Hall (0.60 miles) Sprader's On The Lake (1.02 miles) Pet Supplies "Plus" (1.08 miles)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1974
__label__wiki	0.943367	0.943367	March madness begins with UConn-Cincinnati David Borges dborges@nhregister.com @DaveBorges on Twitter Feb. 28, 2014 Updated: Aug. 12, 2017 2:57 p.m. UConn’s Ryan Boatright and the Huskies will face Cincinnati on Saturday.Jessica Hill — The Associated Press STORRS >> Six ranked teams played on Thursday night. Five of them lost. An so, as the calendar officially turns to March on Saturday, it only solidifies the notion that we are in for one wild and whacky month of college basketball. And there certainly could be worse ways to start off March than Saturday’s UConn-Cincinnati battle at the XL Center (noon, ESPN). Both teams are solidly in the NCAA tournament, with really no way of falling out at this point. UConn (22-6, 10-5 AAC) is looking for another signature win that would keep its feint hopes of moving up the conference standings alive. The Huskies are also looking to avoid a season sweep at the hands of the 11th-ranked Bearcats (22-4, 13-2), who beat UConn 63-58 on Feb. 6 in the Queen City. “It’s important,” swingman Lasan Kromah said of Saturday’s game. “Having three games left, going into the AAC tournament, this would be good momentum getting a win.” Coach Kevin Ollie, however, doesn’t want to put any added weight into the game. “It’d be a big-time win for us, just like USF was a big-time win for us,” Ollie said, referring to Thursday night’s comeback win over the 3-12 Bulls. “I can’t measure it, I don’t want my team to measure it. It’s just another win, another opportunity where we can show that we’re a better team. I want the guys to understand and respect that.” Indeed, even after the Huskies were barred from postseason play a year ago, Ollie doesn’t want his team thinking about the upcoming conference and NCAA tournaments. “We’ve got our own struggles to deal with,” he said. “We’re not worrying about the NCAA tournament. I think it really helped those guys not going to the tournament last year, they just kept playing. They’re just playing basketball, that’s why I love this group.” No. 11 CINCINNATI at UCONN When: Today, noon Where: XL Center, Hartford Records: Cincinnati 24-4 (13-2 AAC), UConn 22-6 (10-5 AAC) Radio: WTIC 1080 Rest or rust?: Cincinnati hasn't played since a 58-57 home loss to Louisville a week earlier. Sean Kilpatrick scored 28 points in that one and became the second Bearcat player to score 2,000 points for his career. The other? "The Big O," Oscar Robertson. "He's a real good player," said Lasan Kromah, who'll likely be guarding Kilpatrick often on Saturday. "We've got to put a lot of good team defense on him. His teammates get him open to get open shots, coming off screens. He's really good at coming off screens." Full strength: In UConn's 63-58 loss at Cincinnati on Feb. 6, the Huskies were without DeAndre Daniels, who suffered back spasms shortly before tip-off. Daniels is good to go this time around, though he's struggled of late, shooting just 4-for-15 in UConn's last two games for a combined 11 points. In three of UConn's last four games, Daniels has hit just two field goals and failed to score in double figures. Probable starters NameHt.Yr.Pos.PPG Titus Rubles6-7Sr.F7.0 Shaq Thomas6-7So.F6.9 Justin Jackson6-8Sr.F11.3 Ge'Lawn Guyn6-2Jr.G4.8 Sean Kilpatrick6-4Sr.G20.5 DeAndre Daniels6-9Jr.F12.6 Ryan Boatright6-0Jr.G12.6 Shabazz Napier6-1Sr.G17.8 Lasan Kromah6-7Gr.G/F7.2 Amida Brimah7-0Fr.C4.1 Off the bench Cincinnati: Troy Caupain, 6-3 Fr. G, 5.7; Jermaine Lawrence, 6-9 Fr. F, 3.4; James Saunders, 6-5 Jr. F, 5.9. UConn: Niels Giffey, 6-7 Sr. G/F, 8.1; Omar Calhoun, 6-5 So. G, 4.9; Phil Nolan, 6-10 So. F, 3.8. Ollie may not be thinking ahead to the upcoming tournaments, but we will. The Huskies are currently tied for fourth place in the AAC with Memphis. As it stands, those two would play in the 4-5 game of the league tournament in Memphis on March 13. The Huskies are a game behind SMU, but since they’ve lost twice to the Mustangs this season, they’d have to finish a game ahead of them in the standings to get the No. 3 seed. All teams in the conference have three games left to play, so that means UConn would have to be two games better than SMU over the final three games of the regular season. Not impossible, but not easy. In order for UConn to move into a first-place tie with either Cincinnati or Louisville, it would have to go undefeated over the next week while the Bearcats and/or Cardinals lose three straight. Even more unlikely. In all likelihood, the Huskies will be playing in that 4-5 game against Memphis. UConn has already defeated the Tigers twice this season, but as the old adage goes, it’s tough to beat a good team three times in one season – especially with the third meeting coming before a sellout crowd on that team’s home floor. As for NCAA tourney seeding, conventional wisdom has the Huskies at a No. 6 or 7 seed right now. CBSSports.com’s Jerry Palm, for instance, has UConn as a sixth seed, while ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi has the Huskies as a No. 7. A sweep through its final three regular season games and a march to the AAC tourney title could be enough to get UConn perhaps as high as a No. 3 seed. More likely, the Huskies are looking at anywhere from a No. 4 to No. 8, depending on how these next two weeks go. But first things first: Cincinnati in Hartford on Saturday afternoon. “At the end of the day, you’re going to have to fight and play together,” said Ollie. “We know this game will come down to rebounding and who wants it the most. Hopefully, we come out on top on those categories.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1978
__label__wiki	0.942301	0.942301	News > Medscape Medical News > Conference News > ASRS 2020 Ophthalmologists Called to Catch Cancers Earlier Laird Harrison Significant advances in the management of eye cancer mean that early referrals to subspecialists are crucial when ophthalmologists suspect disease in their patients, two leaders in the field say. "Don't be afraid or embarrassed to contact an ocular oncologist," said Carol Shields, MD, from Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. Improvements in prognosis and treatment are saving the eyes and lives of patients with uveal melanoma and retinoblastoma, said Timothy Murray, MD, from Ocular Oncology and Retina in Miami. Because these cancers are so rare, there have been very few randomized clinical trials. Uveal melanoma, the most common primary eye cancer in adults, affects about 3000 Americans each year, and retinoblastoma, the most common eye cancer in children, affects about 300. This means there is currently no consensus on standard of care. But ocular oncologists have helped each other move rapidly forward by tracking their own patients and sharing data with each other, said Murray, who will speak about advances in the field of ocular oncology at the virtual American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) 2020 Annual Meeting. There was a time when enucleation was the only option for patients with uveal melanoma, but a transition to radiotherapy began in the late 1980s. Two forms — brachytherapy and charged-particle therapy — are now in use. And alternatives are being developed that allow ocular oncologists treat smaller and smaller tumors. Imaging and genetic analyses can now help clinicians identify which cancers are most likely to metastasize. "We're moving to treat patients earlier and earlier and earlier," Murray told Medscape Medical News. Early Identification Key Shields recommends a mnemonic — To Find Small Ocular Melanoma Doing Imaging — as a reminder of what to look for when imaging patients with suspected uveal melanoma: Thickness (greater than 2 mm), Fluid subretinal, Symptoms of visual acuity loss, Orange pigment, Melanoma hollow, DIameter (greater than 5 mm). When genetic analyses indicate that patients are at risk for metastases, "we put them on neoadjuvant therapy to protect them from metastatic disease," she told Medscape Medical News. Catching the tumor early is more important than categorizing it, said Murray. "When I started, we believed that if you had a class 2 tumor, you were essentially going to die," he reported. "Now we know that if we can get you early and you have a class 2 tumor, that may not be the case. That was a really big finding." Radiotherapy can cause radiation retinopathy, radiation optic neuropathy, and neovascular glaucoma, so Murray said he has moved to treatment with surgical ablation. In fact, he was a pioneer in the use of microincision vitrectomy surgery and endolaser photocoagulation. "In the surgical ablation approach, you have almost 99% tumor control," he said. "Patients maintain visual acuity and function. The mortality rate is zero." There have been concerns about scotomas in microincision vitrectomy surgery, but Shields said she has been impressed with Murray's short-term results with this form of surgical ablation and looks forward to longer-term data. Meanwhile, she has been pleased with the effectiveness of prophylactic therapy, in which VEGF inhibitors are used to reduce the risk for adverse reactions to brachytherapy. And she is involved in the development of AU-011 (Aura Biosciences), which consists of viral-like particle bioconjugates that bind selectively to receptors on cancer cells. The particles, activated with an ophthalmic laser, disrupt the membrane of tumor cells but spare key eye structures; no surgery is required. Data from the ongoing phase 1b/2 clinical trial of AU-011 in the treatment of choroidal melanoma — the predominant form of uveal melanoma — will be presented at the ASRS meeting. "Wild Ride" in Ocular Oncology The management of retinoblastoma has gone through a similar progression. Murray said his gold-standard treatment changed from enucleation to external-beam radiotherapy in the late 1980s. Then, in the mid-1990s, when it became clear that radiotherapy was leading to secondary malignancies, his gold standard became systemic chemotherapy. But this, too, led to adverse effects, so in the early 2010s, he switched to intra-arterial chemotherapy. Shields said her practice has followed a similar progression, and she now uses intravenous, periocular, intravitreal, and intra-arterial routes for chemotherapy, depending on the tumor laterality and staging. Thanks to these innovations, retinoblastoma is the most successfully treated of all pediatric cancers, Shields said. But catching retinoblastoma earlier could further improve prognoses. "One of the things people have talked about is screening children in the NICU, which we do routinely now for retinopathy of prematurity," said Murray. "Maybe we could extend that screening to the well-baby nursery." The two experts agree that the fast pace of these developments — almost without support from randomized clinical trials — is breathtaking. "Boy, has it been a wild ride in the field of ocular oncology," Shields said. "It's wilder than any roller coaster you can ever imagine." Shields reports a relationship with Aura Biosciences. Murray reports financial relationships with Regeneron and Alcon Surgical. American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) 2020 Annual Meeting. To be presented July 25, 2020. Follow Medscape on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Medscape Medical News © 2020 Cite this: Ophthalmologists Called to Catch Cancers Earlier - Medscape - Jul 17, 2020. 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__label__wiki	0.621398	0.621398	REVIEW: Shirley Valentine Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre has done Victorians a great service by bringing Nicola Cavendish back to town as the star of Shirley Valentine May. 17, 2012 10:00 a.m. Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre has done Victorians a great service by bringing Nicola Cavendish back to town as the star of Shirley Valentine, and on opening night at the McPherson Playhouse, she shone brightly. Cavendish brings heart and humour to the life-affirming play by Willy Russell. Shirley Valentine offers incredible insight into the life of a 52-year-old English housewife who feels so alone, she only has the walls of her kitchen to talk to. Neither her two children, her friends nor her husband care about how she’s feeling — as long as tea is on the table on time. She’s desperate for a day in which there’s just a taste of adventure, a day in which she doesn’t already know the outcome before she gets out of bed in the morning. Then one day she finally plucks up the courage to reawaken her soul and takes the audience on the trip of a lifetime, full of laughs, new friends, and old memories that ends with a fresh outlook on life. The set, designed specifically for this tour by Anna Sequin Poirier, brings us right into Shirley’s world — the kitchen — complete with a working cooker and rain that pounds against the window. The aroma of chips frying in hot oil wafted through the theatre’s expanse making mouths water and tummies grumble. Act 2 takes the audience to the shores of Greece, where Valentine lives out her dream and comes to terms with her reality, all while delivering non-stop laughs. Cavendish embodies the characters in her life, her children, her husband, her friend with such detail — a twitch, a raised eyebrow, a gesture — that clearly separates them from Valentine so the audience has no trouble at all with the transitions. Like a fine Greek wine enjoyed at the edge of the sea, Cavendish’s performance has matured over 22 years (her performance of this piece has earned her Best Actress accolades in both Vancouver’s prestigious Jessie Richardson and Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Awards) and more than 600 performances into a tour de force that is an absolute delight to behold. If this play doesn’t make you want to live the life of your dreams, you’re already dead. Isn’t that right, Wall? Directed by Roy Surrette Sets by Anna Sequin Poirier Costumes by Phillip Clarkson Lighting by Harry Frehner Sound by Peter Cerone and Stage Managing by Rick Rinder Shirley Valentine runs at the McPherson Playhouse until May 20 What few tickets left are available at rmts.bc.ca. M City Something May 17-23 Uno Fest Preview	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1989
__label__wiki	0.86971	0.86971	Update to Netflix allows Android users to speed up or slow down streaming content Subscription streaming content provider Netflix has made a small but important change to its Android app. Users can now change the speed at which they view movies, TV shows, documentaries, and more. While normal playback speed is 1.0, The Verge reports that slower speeds now available on the app include .5x (half-speed) and .75x (three-quarter speed). Faster playback speeds include 1.25x (one-quarter percent faster) and 1.5x (50% faster than normal). These speeds are available also available on videos downloaded and saved for online use. In 2018, Google added a 1.75X playback option to YouTube. The app has a wider range of playback options than Netflix does at .25x, .5x, .75x, 1.0x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x, and 2x. Speaking of Netflix, subscribers need to adjust the speed before they start viewing every video. Netflix did this so that a subscriber doesn’t end up watching everything at a faster or slower speed. For example, let’s say that you’ve set the playback speed at .75x for Fuller House. The next title to be viewed (say Stranger Things) will play at 1.0x unless a different speed is selected. “We’ve also been mindful of the concerns of some creators,” a Netflix spokesperson told The Verge. “It’s why we have capped the range of playback speeds and require members to vary the speed each time they watch something new — versus fixing their settings based on the last speed they used.” When the playback speeds were first announced back in 2019, actor Aaron Paul (Jessie in Breaking Bad) was not pleased with the upcoming change. Director Judd Apatow disseminated a tweet last October that said, “No. That’s not how it works. Distributors don’t get to change the way the content is presented. Doing so is a breaking of trust and won’t be tolerated by the people who provide it. Let the people who don’t care put it in their contracts that they don’t care. Most all do.” Netflix is also trying to prevent the quality of its content from getting disrupted by any change made to playback speed. For example, the streamer says that along with the visual change of speeding up or slowing down the playback, it will automatically correct “the pitch in the audio at faster and slower speeds.” Netflix says that it has been asked to add this feature for some time now. Keela Robison, Netflix’s vice president of product innovation, said, “The feature has been much requested by members for years. Most important of all, our tests show that consumers value the flexibility it provides whether it’s rewatching their favorite scene or slowing things down because they’re watching with subtitles or have hearing difficulties.” The new feature started rolling out today and will be available to all Android users after the next few weeks. Written by Alan Friedman. View the original article at here. PhoneArena – News www.phonearena.com Cresco Capital Partners Close $60 Million Oversubscribed Fund The Daily Hit: July 10, 2019	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1990
__label__wiki	0.827819	0.827819	Audi India unveils Audi A3 sedan Audi India presented an exhilarating line-up of luxury cars along with the Audi Sport quattro concept at the Auto Expo. The company unveiled the next big Audi - Audi A3 Sedan - apart from special versions of its cl... Hyundai India unveils the new ‘Xcent’ Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) has unveiled its highly anticipated compact sedan “Xcent”. The global unveil marks Hyundai’s entry into the compact sedan segment in the Indian auto industry. Xcent will be availa... Ford unveils the Figo Concept Ford has unveiled the Figo Concept which will head the global B-segment compact car expansion for the company. Ford’s aim is to set new standards in terms of quality, design and technology in the compact car market.... Mercedes-Benz introduces new V-Class Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its largest passenger vehicle called the V-Class. This large MPV will set new benchmarks in terms of styling and innovation in the segment. Eight people can be carried in the V-Class high-... New Renault Koleos for Rs 22.32 lakh onwards Renault India has launched the all new Koleos with Indian Bollywood start Salman Khan becoming the first owner of the vehicle. The key to the Koleos was handed over by Sumit Sawhney - Country CEO and Managing Direct... New BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe launched globally BMW has presented a new BMW 4 Series Gran Coupé globally, the first four-door coupé in the premium midsize class that represents a consistent extension of the model range. Following the launch of the BMW 4 Series Co... Ferrari 599XX Evo car model from Hot Wheels There is a new car model from Hot Wheels. Hot Wheels Elite has presented both 1:18th and 1:43rd scale models of the powerful Ferrari 599XX Evo car in multiple liveries. The Ferrari 599XX Evo was unveiled at the 2011... TomTom India launches range of in-car phone mounts TomTom India has launched the TomTom hands free car kit for smartphone and iPhone with the good quality audio for loud and clear navigation and hands-free calling. The new car kit features an advanced noise and echo... Honda lines up 7 models, global showcases Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. (HMSI) has announced its exhibition outline for the 12th Auto Expo 2014 to be held at the India Expo Mark in Greater Noida. Takanobu Ito - President, CEO and Representativ... New 2014 Korando Sports model The Korando Sports from Mahindra controlled Ssangyong group from South Korea brought a new level of refinement to the pick-up market when it was launched just over a year ago, blending the suspension, engine and cab... First 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 Mercedes launches 2LOOK Edition of SL63, SL65 AMG FCA India unveils new 2021 Jeep Compass with loads... Mahindra Automatic Transmission W6 Variant of XUV5... Mitsubishi Concept XR-PHEV at 2014 LA Auto Show New 2017 Nissan GT-R debuts globally Tata Motors Kite 5 concept is now Tata Tigor UPES engineering students showcase award winning a... Shelby GT350R Mustang unveiled Tata Manza, Prima at SA Motor Show	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1995
__label__cc	0.738819	0.261181	We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. Click here to learn more and change your settings. Otherwise, we’ll assume you’re OK to continue. Mountain Kingdoms Website Welcome to the view from the top of the world... Walking and Trekking The Himalaya Jim Davies Jude Limburn Kirsty Parsons Niki Morgan Vaughan Sydenham Itinerary requests The birds and animals of Costa Rica – our top 10 wildlife sightings Welcome to Mountain Kingdoms travellers’ tales! Here is the place to share your stories, to pick up travelling, walking and trekking tips and to gain inspiration for future adventures. Mountain Kingdoms are worldwide walking and trekking holiday experts with 30 years of experience in running trekking holidays as well as select trekking peaks, cultural tours and cycling holidays. Whether you’ve travelled with Mountain Kingdoms before or just love to travel, we’d love to hear your tales. Email us your Travellers’ tales Search for your next adventure The Meaning of Prayer Flags One Step at a Time to Ama Dablam High Speed Internet at Everest Base Camp A Knife Edged Ridge Hike up Mt Snowdon In Search of the Yeti Tweets by @MKingdoms By Mountain Kingdoms in The Americas - 28th May 2019 I was lucky enough to travel to Costa Rica for Mountain Kingdoms to research a brand new walking and wildlife holiday. It was a country I'd long wanted to visit knowing that it was renowned as a wildlife wonderland. Travelling with my husband Adam, a keen amateur wildlife photographer, we were eager to see some of the birds and animals that Costa Rica is particularly famed for - unsurprisingly, sloths and toucans were right at the top of our list. Having ticked both of these off on the very first day we knew we were in a special place. I guess that with 5% of all the world’s birds and animals making their home in Costa Rica it’s not surprising that we saw so many wonderful creatures during our two weeks in this nature lover’s paradise. Here are just ten of our favourites, although it could have been so many more. Setting off on an early morning boat tour along the tranquil waterways of Tortuguero National Park, we were fortunate enough to see this Three-toed sloth, lazing around in the trees beside the water. Not only did we watch it enjoying its breakfast, and having a slow stretch, but it also turned and smiled for us. What a welcome. There are six different types of toucans that you can find in Costa Rica, but it is the Keel-billed toucan that is the most eye-catching and the one that we are most familiar with, mainly from seeing them in Guinness adverts over the years. In Costa Rica we saw Keel-billed toucans on several occasions, in national parks as well as perched on trees beside the road – their ridiculously colourful beaks and bright yellow breasts making them quite unmissable. The one pictured here was dancing in the trees above us in Curi-Cancha Reserve. Red-eyed tree frog The Red-eyed tree frog is another of Costa Rica’s famous animals – often seen on images promoting the country alongside sloths and toucans. Another nocturnal creature, it is best spotted on a nightwalk in the rainforest, although you can find them hiding under broad palm leaves during the daytime. We had our best, close-up sightings of these very cute creatures at our Lodge in Tortuguero which has a special frog habitat making it easy to both see and hear them; they make a surprisingly loud noise for such a little creature. These tiny, beautiful birds with their iridescent colours, slender beaks and madly beating wings are a treat for the eye as they flit between trees and flowers. Costa Rica has over 50 species of hummingbirds and we saw several during our stay in the cloudforest region of Monteverde. The Violet sabrewing, the largest species of hummingbird in Costa Rica, was a regular visitor to the sugar feeders on the terrace of our cloudforest lodge whilst the Mexican violetear (pictured here) posed beautifully for photos in the Curi-Cancha Reserve – a birdwatcher’s paradise. Cruising along the Rio Frio River in the Cano Negro Wildlife Reserve we encountered rather a lot of monkey business. There were Howler monkeys lazing in the high canopy of the surrounding forest, Spider monkeys leaping acrobatically between trees and White-throated capuchins playing in the branches or angrily warding us off when our boat got too close to their territory. Their entertaining antics made the boat trip a definite highlight of our trip. Green basilisk lizard Reptiles such as lizards, iguana, snakes and caimen, are a common sight amongst the animals of Costa Rica, frequenting the country’s parks and rivers. One of the most colourful and interesting of all is the Green basilisk lizard, also known as the Jesus Christ lizard due to its amazing ability to run on water when startled by a predator. We did see one speed across the water after being startled by a capuchin monkey in Cano Negro, but it ran far too quickly to get a photo. More usually, we came across them basking photogenically on trees and logs. Motmots Our expectations were very high that we would see many unusual and exotic birds during our time in Costa Rica, and we certainly weren’t disappointed. We may not have seen the famed Resplendant quetzal, but instead we saw Ringed and Green kingfishers, Orange-bellied trogon, Purple gallinule, Montezuma Orpendolas, Great kiskadees and Blue-gray tanagers to name but a few. But perhaps the one we enjoyed the most was the Turquoise-browed motmot - a really colourful little bird, with striking tail feathers that perched on telegraph wires and roadside fences, especially in the hot-dry Guanacaste region, keeping us company on our travels. Along with agutis, coati were regular visitors in the national parks and wildlife reserves we visited. A member of the racoon family they’re about the size of a large house cat with a long, ringed-tail. As with your first sighting of any animal we thought we’d come across a strange and unusual creature, soon to realise that they’re pretty commonplace although a little camera shy. Whilst on a walk through forest trails in the grounds of our lodge in Montezuma, just before dark, we startled this baby coati which dashed up a tree and peered briefly at us before scampering away. It was certainly the cutest animal we saw in Costa Rica if not the rarest. Golden orb weaver spider My biggest fear ahead of travelling to Costa Rica was that I’d have a close-up encounter with a tarantula – I’m definitely not a fan of huge, hairy spiders – but fortunately I managed to avoid them altogether. Instead, whilst walking the Rio Celeste Trail in Tenorio Volcano National Park we saw these rather magnificent Golden orb weaver spiders which, even though large, were surprisingly beautiful. The female spider with her striking coloration and long legs, weaves a vast, golden-coloured web which glints in the sunlight attracting insects to her enticing lair. Who’d have thought a big spider could be more seductive than scary! A particularly good place to see these spiders is alongside the path on the Rio Celeste Trail in Volcan Tenorio National Park. Great Curassow (also known as Lupe) No sooner had we checked in to our hotel in La Fortuna then we had our first encounter with a Great Curassow. This large, impressive bird is in fact endangered, but this particular female, along with her mate, had taken up residence in the grounds of the hotel and was on a constant lookout for new sources of food. Whenever we opened the door of our cabin, there was Lupe looking longingly at us. Whenever we went to the pool for a swim, along came Lupe, pecking at our discarded clothes and possessions whilst we were in the water. And, whenever we sat outside our room, there was Lupe, jumping on the table and trying to eat pens, books, Kindles – in fact anything! We said our fond farewells to her when we left, but she was already eyeing up the next guest. So there you have it, a terrific top ten of all the birds and animals we saw on our flying visit to Costa Rica. If you're inspired to go and see Costa Rica's wonderful wildlife for yourself then take a look at our Gentle Walking & Wildlife Costa Rica holiday. If you have any questions about the trip contact Kirsty on 01453 844400, she'll be more than happy to talk about her exciting wildlife adventure with you. Blog Home Mountain Kingdoms Website © 2021 Mountain Kingdoms Ltd. 20 Long Street, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 7BT Email: info@mountainkingdoms.com Web Design by Moresoda	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1996
__label__wiki	0.704171	0.704171	Monster in Law 2005 - PG - 13 - 102 Mins. Director: Robert Luketic Producer: Michael Flynn Written By: Anya Kochoff Starring: Jane Fonda Jennifer Lopez Michael Vartan Wanda Sykes Review by: Tamika Johnson Official Site: www.monsterinlaw.com/ After this we may both need to go back to aerobics vids ‘Monster in Law’ marks Jane Fonda’s return to the big screen after a fifteen year absence and Jennifer Lopez’s return to film after the Bennifer debacle. The film tells the story of Viola (Fonda) a Barbara Walters-esque reporter who loses her job to a young, blonde skinny Minnie she thought was only there to fetch her coffee. Upon learning this news she's been replaced, Viola has an on-air breakdown and after some time in a psych hospital, returns home only to learn that her only child Kevin (Michael Vartan) is going to marry a girl (Lopez) that she has never met. Hijinks ensue (think Meet the Parents with the women at each other’s throats instead of the men) and an all out war erupts between Fonda and Lopez while Vartan’s character remains completely clueless. I was under the impression this was supposed to be a comedy. If that's true, someone forgot to tell Anya Kochoff that when writing a comedic script, jokes should occur throughout the entire movie and not just the last half hour. With much of the film devoid of laughs, Monster in law is a bumbling mess that makes you cringe instead of laugh, and leaves you wondering how ‘Klute’s’ Bree Daniel and yes, how even the ‘Wedding Planner’ could chose this as their comeback film. In Jane’s defense she did the best she could with the script she had. It is hard to make Lemonade with rotten lemons, and that is just what this script is…rotten. The jokes were played out and unfunny and even the dependably funny Wanda Sykes couldn’t save this stinker. Also, Fonda just isn’t suited to physical comedy. She tried: there were all the requisite falls, slaps and over exaggerated reactions but none of it played well. When I was supposed to be laughing I was shuddering instead thinking: “Wow, could this possible get any worse?” Fonda’s role would have been more suited to a Streisand, a Midler or a Streep, all have whom have shown in the past they have the 'aging, vindictive diva' role down and might have been able to save the film, I stress the might. Fonda wasn’t the only person miscast. Jennifer Lopez as the sweet, innocent, underachieving, slightly dimwitted and very naïve Charlie was about as believable as the though of Ben Affleck saying “I do.” A scene where she is gushing about the importance of marriage and how her marriage to Greg is going to be the most important day of her life was one of the few funny moments in the movie, even though it wasn’t scripted to be. You just can’t sell Lopez as the gushing, sweet, anti-diva Charlie. It’s just not possible to suspend disbelief that far. Let’s face it, we’ve seen too many marriages, too many divorces, heck too many engagement rings and this is the same woman who purportedly had an 'all white objects' clause in her concert contract rider, and if it wasn’t fulfilled all hell broke loose. Sweet, innocent and down to earth, I think not. And poor Michael Vartan. I guess he was just happy to have a starring role in a movie so it didn’t matter to him that he was little more then a well dressed extra, who serves as a poor excuse to propel this sorry excuse for a plot along for the 102 minutes it bumbles across the screen. Vartan had very few lines, and of those most were just plain bad and he was then unceremoniously dismissed for two-thirds of the movie so Fonda and Lopez could go at each other without him being present. The movie could have really gone on without him. As it was it was quite easy to forget that he existed or that he was even the reason why of all the shenanigans in the movie were happening to begin with. Believe it or not ‘Monster in Law’ isn't all bad. About two thirds in something amazing happened: thanks to a doctor who was really a waiter, a bowl of gravy and a really bad allergic reaction to nuts I had my first real laugh of the movie. Watching Fonda squirm as her mother in law played by Elaine Stritch, shows up was priceless. Those scenes were the best acted and best scripted scenes of the entire film. They almost made the movie worth watching. Unfortunately, this doesn't make up for the other 2/3rds, and I can't recommend the film. ‘Monster in Law’ just isn’t worth your time or money. Seeing Jane Fonda back on the big screen was nice, but I really wish she would have chosen a better vehicle to make her long awaited comeback.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1998
__label__wiki	0.947161	0.947161	Garry Frew's scrapbooks of Northland sporting history online via Whangārei Library Former Northern Advocate sports reporter Garry Frew's scrapbooks have been digitised. Joey Yovich and Colleen Atchison have been working on the project. Photo/ File By: Kristin Edge Kristin Edge is a reporter for the Northern Advocate kristin.edge@nzme.co.nznorthernadvocat A slice of Northland's sporting history as seen and recorded by revered sports journalist Garry Frew has been preserved in electronic form for future generations to read. The private collection of 146 scrapbooks belonging to Frew, a former Northern Advocate sports editor, can now be accessed online through the Whangārei Library website. By just a click of a mouse or push on a screen, thousands of pages of stories can now be accessed. Frew covered all sports from marching to tennis to equestrian to swimming. You name the sport, Frew would have reported on it. Garry Frew, MBE. Photo / File Scrolling through the online pages of the scrapbooks, that cover the period between 1950 and 1976, will be of interest to any Northlander involved in sports then and now. Frew's sports-writing career spanned 40 years, and encompassed an All Blacks tour to the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and Olympic Games, and two North Auckland Ranfurly Shield tenures. There is an interesting report by Frew who wrote about Ken Going having trouble kicking with his boots while on tour as fullback with All Blacks in 1974. Frew reported the boots were half a size too big, "as his brother Sid said they were". After Frew died suddenly at his Kamo home in 2000, aged 64, the scrapbooks were gifted to Sport Northland. Longtime family friend Colleen Atchison, who is Sport Northland's sponsorship and funding leader, said the idea to have the books digitised was sparked when a club wanted to know about the club history but had no reference materials. The collection of scrapbooks proved to be an important resource. Atchison said some of the scrapbooks were in desperate need of digitisation as they were beginning to deteriorate and if not captured would be lost forever. Injured war vets racing to Cape Reinga Women's RWC part of blockbuster year News briefs from across Northland Piles put down for Hundertwasser Gallery Thanks to funding from the Oxford Sports Trust, the scrapbooks were sent to Wellington where New Zealand Micrographics had scanned them. "Preserving that history is so important now future generations can go back and see the achievements of Northland sports people over the years," Atchison said. The first story about the scrapbooks published in the Northern Advocate in September had prompted a number of clubs to contact Sport Northland about how they could go about saving their sporting club history. Atchison said the digital version was expensive and they were unable to do more but it had prompted plenty of discussion for clubs about what should be done with club records. "People have realised the importance of preserving their sporting club's history." Frew was a New Zealand table tennis representative at 17, touring with the national team to Scotland and China in 1961 during which he became the Scottish singles champion. He held his place in the New Zealand team for many years. But his time in the New Zealand team was just a small part of his table tennis career, which included a hatful of national titles (in singles, doubles and mixed doubles) and many Northland titles. He was also one of the best tennis players in the region and also played premier grade club cricket and senior club rugby. In 1965, Frew was named Northland sportsman of the year. He was awarded an MBE, a Member of the British Empire, for services to sport in 1992. Easy steps to access the scrapbooks: The recollect site is now up and running on the Whangarei Library site So if you want to have a look and say search for particular things of interest…like a person's name or say the history of various sports you can do this. 1. https://wdc.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/2567 - brings up all the scrapbooks to look through. So for a search… 2. Click on Collection 3. Enter what you are looking for eg "racing club" – put in speech marks otherwise all clubs will come up or you can search a person's name ... you are too young for this one! 4. Dates – a good idea to search, say, 10 years at a time otherwise it takes a while to load. 5. Search.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line1999
__label__cc	0.589174	0.410826	Home Offshore wind TenneT Issues EUR 1 Bln Green Bond TenneT Issues EUR 1 Bln Green Bond TenneT Holding B.V. yesterday launched and priced its inaugural Green Bond issue, a EUR 1 billion dual tranche (6 and 12 year) bond issue, each sized at EUR 500 million with coupons of 0.875% and 1.750% respectively with the support of five banks, HSBC Bank plc., ING Bank N.V., Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB Bank plc. and Rabobank. Otto Jager, TenneT’s Chief Financial Officer, said: “Today’s inaugural Green Bond issue demonstrates our commitment to working with our stakeholders to continually improve and innovate in our approach to Corporate Social Responsibility while at the same time achieving attractive long-term financing to support investment in three offshore wind transmission projects in Germany. I expect that this will be the first of a series of Green Bond issues for TenneT.” An important investor among the many parties that came forward is the German promotional bank KfW, TenneT said. KfW has very recently announced to build up a EUR 1 billionn green bond portfolio to refinance projects that actively contribute to environmental protection and the prevention of climate change. Rita Geyermann, Head of KfW Asset Management states: “TenneT plays a central role in the energy transition process and we highly welcome to participate in this very convincing Green Bond issued under its Green Bond Framework.” The announcement relates to the issuance of Green Bonds for investments in the transmission of renewable electricity from offshore wind farms to the onshore electricity grid. The following offshore projects are financed with the proceeds: – DolWin1 (commissioning 2015): a 165 km HVDC (high voltage direct current) link with 800 MW capacity. – DolWin2 (commissioning 2015): a 135 km HVDC link with 916 MW capacity. “Future TenneT Green Bonds could not only be used to finance other sustainable projects of TenneT in Germany, but also for Dutch offshore projects to connect offshore wind farms to the Dutch grid,” Otto Jager adds. TenneT’s investments in offshore wind energy projects across the Netherlands and Germany are expected to total EUR 7 to 9 billion over the next 10 years. In the period up to 2019, TenneT is realizing over 7,000 megawatts (MW) of connection capacity for offshore wind farms in the German sector of the North Sea, transmitting electricity equivalent to the annual power consumption of approx. 9 million households. By 2023, the TSO expects to have realized 3,500 MW of connection capacity in the Dutch sector of the North Sea, corresponding to the annual power consumption of over 4 million households. In April, TenneT published a Green Bonds Framework which serves as a structure for verifying the sustainability quality (i.e. the social and environmental added value) of the projects to be financed through the issuance of Green Bonds. The Framework was prepared in collaboration with oekom Research AG, who provides a second-party opinion in relation to a potential upcoming Green Bond. Additionally, TenneT has incorporated into its existing EMTN (Euro Medium Term Note) Programme specific Use of Proceeds provisions designed to be aligned with the Green Bond Principles. View post tag: green bond View post tag: TenneT TenneT to launch first 2 GW offshore grid tenders in March CORRECTION NOTE: The article has been updated to say that the tenders to be launched in March will b... TenneT awards contracts for helicopter, CTV ops TenneT has awarded several contracts to helicopter and crew transfer vessel (CTV) operators for oper... TenneT chooses ZTT for two German offshore wind connections TenneT has commissioned subsea cable manufacturer Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT) for two... TenneT issues call for BorWin6 platforms TenneT TSO GmbH has issued a tender notice for the design, manufacture, installation, and commission... NordLink interconnector enters trial operation phase N-Sea and SeaRenergy finish offshore job for TenneT German offshore wind production reaches new peak in 2020 Posted: 4 minutes ago SPE Offshore Europe EEW Special Pipe Constructions GmbH Build your success on solid foundations Since 2008 EEW SPC produces thick-walled, longitudinally welded large pipes for foundations, with currently diameters of up to 12 m, lengths of up to 120 m and up to 2,500 t piece weights with an annual capacity of approx. 200,000 t. Under these conditions, we are perfectly prepared to […]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2003
__label__wiki	0.670116	0.670116	Major New Study Blows Away Every Gun Control Argument Written by: Off The Grid News Staff Guns & Ammo 0 A new scholarly paper written by an economics professor who is a Democrat seems to confirm the arguments of gun rights activists, and it has placed him squarely in the national gun control spotlight. The core findings: Assault weapons bans have no effect on murder rates and restrictive concealed weapons laws actually lead to slightly higher gun murder rates. Mark Guis’s paper, “An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates,” was printed in the journal Applied Economics Letters. Guis studied the murder rates in the United States between 1980 and 2009 and looked for a correlation with gun-control laws. The Quinnipiac University professor said his research was not financed by any gun company or political organization. Instead, he was simply curious to see if gun control laws worked. Murder Rate Higher During Assault Weapons Ban Among other things, Guis discovered that murder rates were higher between 1994 and 2004, when a federal ban on “assault weapons” was in place. “During the period of the federal assault weapons ban (which was repealed in 2004), murder rates were approximately 20 percent higher than in the nonfederal weapons period,” Guis told The New Haven Register. Guis also discovered that states with more restrictive concealed weapons laws had higher rates of gun-related murder. Keep Your Handgun Locked and Loaded, Ready For Instant Use – Without Fear Of An Accident! His paper says in the summary: Using data for the period 1980 to 2009 and controlling for state and year fixed effects, the results of the present study suggest that states with restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons had higher gun-related murder rates than other states. It was also found that assault weapons bans did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level. These results suggest that restrictive concealed weapons laws may cause an increase in gun-related murders at the state level. More Study Needed, He Says He said that his paper alone is not justification enough for policy changes. “I’m saying in my paper we need more research in this area,” Guis said. “Mine isn’t the first study on this topic. There are three or four that found that really restrictive laws either reduced the murder rate or had no effect on the rate. And then there are … three or four that found the opposite, like mine.” In 1997 John Lott Jr. and David Mustard published a paper with similar conclusions. Lott has since published a book called More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws. Guis said he doesn’t know Lott but he has been in contact with him since he published his paper. Not Prepared for Attention or Controversy Guis admitted that he wasn’t prepared for all the attention his paper has received. “I’ve actually done other research on gun control and gun ownership,” Gius said. “So it’s kind of amazing that, for some reason, this article really took off.” In the last few days Gius has been interviewed on Fox News and Al Jazeera America. News outlets such as The Washington Times have also approached him. He has also been attacked by liberal blogger Tommy Christopher. Christopher attacked Guis because he wrote a paper about the effect of ultrasound images on abortion rates. Christopher thinks this proves Guis is right wing. Sign up for Off The Grid News’ weekly email and stay informed about the issues important to you Off The Grid News Staff assault weapons ban Breaking News featured gun control laws mark guis murder rate Previous: 7 Ways To Protect Sprinklers, Plants & Trees from Freezing Next: Basil, Garlic and Tomato: The Culinary (And Healthy) Three Musketeers 5 Best Home Defense Shotguns For 2019 Most Versatile Optic for the AR-15 Staying Battle Ready With Your Handgun British Columbia 12494 Ontario 3619 Arizona 1866 By Off The Grid News Staff The Benefits Of Seaweed As A Garden Fertilizer The Danger From The Smart Grid That No One Is Talking About 10 Great Cold-Hardy Vegetables Double Your Survival Garden Production By Adding Key Nutrients	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2004
__label__wiki	0.953259	0.953259	Police back at N.J. postal facility to probe crash that killed worker; OSHA notified Updated Jan 16, 2019; Posted Mar 24, 2016 Police investigate fatal crash at USPS facility Gallery: Police investigate fatal crash at USPS facility By Caitlin Mota \| The Jersey Journal A memorial has been set up for Nadia Assad, a clerk from Jersey City who died after being hit by a van Tuesday on her way to work at the U.S. Postal Service building in Kearny. Twitter photo from @TheJohnBorell. KEARNY -- Police were at the Dominick V. Daniels Processing and Distribution Center this morning, continuing their investigation into Tuesday's motor vehicle accident in which a postal worker was struck and killed. Nadia Assad, 54, a clerk from Jersey City, died after being hit by a 2012 Nissan NV van early Tuesday morning as she made her way to the U.S. Postal Service building to start her work shift, police said. This morning investigators could be seen in the parking lot of the facility. Kearny Lt. John Taylor said measurements were being taken in the lot. A photo of Assad sat in the parking lot next to flowers that had been set up at the spot of the crash. Employees could be seen stopping at the memorial to say a prayer as they walked through the lot. Though little information has been released regarding the fatal accident, Taylor said today that Assad was struck near a pedestrian exit of the parking lot at 5:42 a.m. after the van -- driven by a male employee -- turned a corner as he was looking for parking. Kearny EMS brought Assad to University Hospital in Newark, where she died at 9:17 a.m., Taylor said, adding that Kearny police are leading the crash investigation and that no charges have been filed. A sign posted at a truck entrance to the property, just feet away from the crash site, stated the area speed limit is 10 mph. A spokeswoman for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said the department was informed of the incident and is "looking into" the crash. According to OSHA's website the distribution center was last fined in 2012 for maintenance and construction of exit routes. Each fine was $4,000, but the facility informally settled the complaints and paid a $2,000 per fine. George Flood, a spokesman for USPS, said the facility sends their thoughts and prays to the families affected by the crash. "As the Dominick V. Daniels postal family grieves the loss of their colleague and moves forward with the healing process, they would appreciate respect for their privacy," Flood said. Counseling was being offered at the facility to help employees through the grieving process, according to a flyer sent to The Jersey Journal. "To support the DVD P&DC family's healing process during this difficult time, Employee Assistance Program professionals will be talking to employee groups on all three tours,'' the note signed by Plant Manager Mark Dahlstrom said. Police said the full accident report would not be available until sometime next week. Caitlin Mota may be reached at cmota@jjournal.com. Follow her on Twitter @caitlin_mota. Find The Jersey Journal on Facebook.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2009
__label__wiki	0.938449	0.938449	NJ restaurant owners and local officials make their case for indoor dining New Jersey Herald By Sarah Griesemer Restaurant owners and local officials alike are ready for indoor dining to return, and this week they're speaking up. Mayors from several New Jersey municipalities sent letters to Gov. Phil Murphy to request that restaurants be allowed to serve indoors, which has not been permitted since March. Another mayor and a county freeholder spoke out in support of restaurants during meetings, and, on Saturday, Ocean County Sheriff Michael G. Mastronardy sipped coffee inside Lacey's Lakeside Diner, which has been cited more than a dozen times since June for serving patrons indoors. A social media campaign created last week by a pair of restaurant owners continues to draw attention to their plight, and one owner in Kenilworth is rallying others to open alongside him on Sept. 8, despite the governor's current executive prohibiting indoor dining. Here's a look at the various efforts to persuade the government to allow restaurants to open. But when? On Wednesday, during Murphy's coronavirus press conference, he was asked about a possible return to indoor dining Sept. 14 or 15. "I hope it’s before then. As I sit here today — today is the 26th of August — I hope that we’ve got some indoor dining before then," the governor said. "Again, I’m not hanging my hat on it; I’m not trying to make news. But that’s not a date that I’m using, at least." Also during the news conference, State Police Superintendent Col. Patrick Callahan said Bamboleo, a night club in Elizabeth, had been cited for violation of the governor's executive order prohibiting indoor dining, and that Lacey's Lakeside Diner "continues to be charged with fourth-degree contempt for violating a closure order from the Department of Health." Officials appeal to the governor In Bergen County, the Pascack Valley Mayors' Association sent a letter to the governor that states "with the onset of cold weather, restaurants in NJ's Northern and Pascack Valley towns will inevitably lose patrons to southern NY venues that offer indoor dining, just a short ride away." The letter, dated Aug. 25, was signed by 10 mayors of Northern New Jersey towns. "Pascack Valley's restaurant owners only want an opportunity to operate under a rational, accessible and transparent set of rules — as their counterparts in NY have been afforded," the letter states. "COVID-19's progress is monitored daily and any loosening of restrictions can, if necessary, be immediately tightened again." In Ocean County on Tuesday, Toms River Mayor Maurice B. "Mo" Hill Jr. cited decreasing hospitalizations for COVID-19 patients statewide and said it is time for New Jersey to allow businesses to reopen. "I have asked them repeatedly to open up indoor dining, fitness centers and movie theaters with limited 25% occupancy," stated Hill, who said he has made his feelings known during regularly scheduled calls local mayors have with the governor's office. "We're one of the only states that don't have indoor dining." The governor has said gyms may open on Sept. 1. Also in Ocean County, Freeholder Jack Kelly on Wednesday said the governor is a “left-wing, socialist dictator” whose unwillingness to allow indoor dining was “bull----." “If this county had the authority to do so, I would propose a resolution to open all the restaurants in Ocean County,” Kelly said during his public remarks at an agenda session of the five-member, all-Republican Board of Freeholders. “The problem is, this governor shows what he’ll do. He’ll send the State Police in and put people in jail for opening their restaurants.” In Hunterdon County, Clinton Township Councilwomen Rielly Karsh and Megan Johnson started a change.org petition "to lift the ban on indoor dining to restaurants, at 25-50% capacity, by no later than October 16, 2020," it reads. The petition, which was created Aug. 24, has accumulated more than 250 signatures. Restaurateurs turn to social media Restaurant owners have banded together under the social media campaign #ReopenIndoorDiningNJ — created by Ashley Coyte of The Grand Tavern in Neptune City and Russell Lewis of Watermark in Asbury Park — in their attempts to reach the governor. "We are asking Governor Murphy to give us a date when we can reopen indoor dining with restrictions," reads a post from The Grand Tavern. "We continue to follow all of the rules and CDC guidelines to operate safely. The summer is almost over and every state surrounding us, that we can all visit, has had indoor dining since June. Never in our lives did we think we would be pleading with a governor to allow us to open our businesses." When asked about the campaign on Monday, the governor's office said there was no update regarding indoor dining. An owner plans to reopen Like many New Jersey restaurant owners, Attilio Guarino is frustrated. The dining room of his Kenilworth restaurant, Ava's Kitchen & Bar, has sat empty for months. He can fit just four tables outside, and his takeout business began to suffer when locals headed south for summer vacations. He has watched as other indoor businesses reopened, but not restaurants. "Everything is open, nobody is social distancing. I was on the boardwalk this week, no masks," he said. "You can get your hair done, nails done, the list goes on and on. You can get a massage." "We're left in the dark, the whole food world, and it's going to get really bad right now," Guarino said. "If you want us to close, fine. Then compensate us for it. Pay us to shut down. What are we supposed to do right now, just listen and lock our doors?" On Wednesday, Guarino, 40, shared details of a campaign he is leading to reopen indoor dining at nearly 50 restaurants across the state, despite the governor's executive order prohibiting such service. He declined to name participating restaurants, but said they are located in Union, Hudson and Monmouth counties — including Asbury Park — will reopen Sept. 8. "We are stronger together. We want to open up all at once because we don't get answers," he said. "I'm doing this to make a lot of noise right now. If more participate and do it, maybe the message will get across to him (the governor)." At Ava's Kitchen & Bar, Guarino, said he will seat diners at 50 percent capacity at socially distanced booths "with plenty of space between guests," and he will require customers to wear masks when not at their tables. Bar seating will not be available. Sarah Griesemer joined the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey in 2003.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2010
__label__wiki	0.897441	0.897441	‘Wonder Woman 3’ is happening and will be fast-tracked by Warner Bros The franchise's two major players will also return Gal Gadot in ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ CREDIT: Alamy Stock Photo Wonder Woman 3 has been confirmed and will be fast-tracked by Warner Bros, the studio has announced. The second Wonder Woman film, Wonder Woman 1984, was released on Christmas Day in the US in both cinemas and online on HBO Max. READ MORE: Wonder Woman 1984 review: a smart and stylish superhero sequel with lots of heart The movie has so far earned $85million (£62.7m) globally, with nearly half of all HBO Max subscribers watching it on the day of release. Because of WW1984’s success, Warner Bros Chairman Toby Emerrich said the studio has now begun fast-tracking the development of Wonder Woman 3. Emerrich also confirmed star Gal Gadot and director and writer Patty Jenkins would return for the next movie. “As fans around the world continue to embrace Diana Prince, driving the strong opening weekend performance of Wonder Woman 1984, we are excited to be able to continue her story with our real life Wonder Women – Gal and Patty – who will return to conclude the long-planned theatrical trilogy,” he said. In a four-star review of Wonder Woman 1984, NME said: “It’s a smart and stylish sequel that’s endlessly entertaining; but more than that, in the dumpster fire of 2020, Wonder Woman 1984 is a two hours of hope filled escapism – something all of us could do with right now.” The film was released in cinemas in the UK on December 16 and will arrive on VOD on January 13. Jenkins, meanwhile, recently revealed she nearly quit the Wonder Woman franchise over pay discrepancy. After helming the original 2017 film, the director found male superhero movie directors were getting paid more than her and took the fight to Warner Bros to raise her fee.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2011
__label__cc	0.676542	0.323458	Nonprofits Retained More Donors in 2010, Report Shows Nonprofit organizations in the U.S. were better at retaining donors and shored up their net losses in donations in 2010, according to the latest report of the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP). The FEP, a report of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, compares gains and losses of donors and donation amounts. The FEP indicates year over year growth by comparing how many new donors are acquired with how many stopped giving, and the donation levels of each. Campaign for Equal Justice Increases Online Giving By 276 Percent Using Sage Fundraising Online with Sage Payment Services Sage North America announced Campaign for Equal Justice (CEJ) in Portland, Ore., has experienced a 276 percent increase in online giving using Sage Fundraising Online, Sage’s flexible fundraising and event registration connected service, with Sage Payment Services for donation processing from Sage Payment Solutions, Sage’s payments division. Nonprofits Can Perform Form Testing, Strengthen E-Advocacy Using Enhanced Sage Fundraising Online Sage North America announced several major enhancements to Sage Fundraising Online, its flexible fundraising and event registration connected service that helps nonprofits increase giving, participation, and overall support online. A nonprofit can use Sage Fundraising Online to create and embed donation, event registration, and personalized fundraising forms anywhere on the web to allow donors and participants to fundraise on their organization’s behalf. New Web-Based Sage Grant Management Helps Not-For-Profits Strengthen Collaboration, Build Pipeline Management, and Optimize Success Measures Sage North America introduced Sage Grant Management, a new Web-based grant receiving product that helps nonprofit and government organizations maximize their funding potential by tracking grants and providing transparency at the organization, program, and grant level. An integrated development and financial management solution, Sage Grant Management helps organizations strengthen collaboration, build pipeline management, and optimize success measures so they can better serve their missions, constituents, and communities. Sage To Fundraise on Behalf of The ARK During the 2011 AFP International Conference Sage North America announced it will help raise as much as $5,000 for The ARK, a not-for-profit, community-funded social service agency based on Chicago’s North Side, in conjunction with the 48th Association of Fundraising Professional (AFP) International Conference on Fundraising, being held March 20–22 in Chicago. U.S. Nonprofits More Optimistic About Meeting Fundraising Goals in 2011, According to Sage Nonprofit Insights Survey Sage North America announced the results of its recently conducted Sage Nonprofit Insights, Q1 2011, survey of U.S. nonprofit organizations. In general, organizations that fundraise are optimistic that 2011 will be a better year than 2010, with 90 percent saying they expect the amount of funds raised in 2011 to be equal to or higher than the amount raised in 2010. In addition, organizations are planning to put more effort behind online fundraising during 2011. Forty-four percent of respondents said they expect the share of donation made online to increase this year. The Future is Community Nonprofit organizations inherently champion “community” in their work -- communities organized around fighting diseases, regional issues, oppressed groups, third-world needs, politics, education, faith and more. Yet, community is conspicuously absent in one critical area: operations. To date, nonprofits have not been able to leverage, in any significant way, their collective wealth of knowledge, experience and technology pertaining to fundraising, IT and internal processes Granted, groups such as the Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Nonprofit Technology Network and others facilitate community through publications, conferences, Web sites and other vehicles for education, networking and knowledge share. But the ability to do this CLONED: The Future is Community Leading the Charge June’s cover story examines how the Wounded Warrior Project, led by Founder and Executive Director John Melia, embraces multichannel strategies to fund its mission to transition America’s youngest disabled vets back into civilian life. Web to the Max Getting the most from your organization’s Web site can seem daunting. But in the June feature “Web to the Max” Sage Software’s Heather Burton and Daniel Gonzalez explain how to take it step by step so that it’s a manageable endeavor. Web to the Max Getting the most from your organization’s Web site can seem daunting. But in the June feature “Web to the Max” Sage Software’s Heather Burton and Daniel Gonzalez explain how to take it step by step so that it’s a manageable endeavor. Leading the Charge June’s cover story examines how the Wounded Warrior Project, led by Founder and Executive Director John Melia, embraces multichannel strategies to fund its mission to transition America’s youngest disabled vets back into civilian life.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2014
__label__cc	0.606262	0.393738	Acetaminophen news, articles and information: Common acetaminophen labels being changed to highlight liver damage risks 9/22/2016 - The Canadian government is requiring stricter warning labels on products containing acetaminophen, in the hopes of preventing lethal side effects stemming from consumers unwittingly taking too much of the dangerous over-the-counter drug. Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, and is highly... Behavioral issues found in children linked to mothers taking Tylenol during pregnancy 8/19/2016 - Many people mistakenly believe that acetaminophen, the painkiller in Tylenol, is a relatively safe medication. However, just because it's available over the counter does not mean that it cannot cause adverse effects. This is especially true when it comes to pregnant women. Even the most cautious... Taking Tylenol can dull your ability to care about others, research reveals 5/16/2016 - Tylenol doesn't just dull your perception of physical pain, it also dulls your ability to relate to the physical and emotional pain of others. In other words, Tylenol affects your ability to show empathy, according to a pair of studies conducted by researchers from Ohio State University and published... Tylenol found to dull the brain and make people less likely to notice errors... the dumbing down of America continues at full pace 4/17/2016 - The active ingredient in Tylenol may interfere with people's ability to detect errors, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia, and published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. It's not the first... Painkillers kill your emotions and numb your mind, study suggests 4/28/2015 - The active ingredient in Tylenol might numb people's emotional reactions, according to a study conducted by researchers from Ohio State University and published in the journal Psychological Science. "People who took acetaminophen didn't feel the same highs or lows as did the people who took placebos,"... ADHD development in children linked to use of acetaminophen during pregnancy 3/14/2014 - Pregnant women who take the painkiller drug acetaminophen, known more popularly by the brand name Tylenol, are more likely than pregnant women not taking the popular pharmaceutical to bear children with severe attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), claims a new study out of Denmark recently... Avoid common painkillers and cold remedies that destroy your liver and more 1/2/2014 - Do you know what over-the-counter pharmaceuticals Tylenol, Excedrin, NyQuil, Theraflu and prescription painkillers Vicoden and Percocet have in common? They all contain an ingredient that has forced almost 80,000 ER (emergency room) visits, 26,000 hospitalizations and around 500 deaths annually. That... Tylenol can kill you; new warning admits popular painkiller causes liver damage, death 12/6/2013 - It has been a common household name in over-the-counter pain relief for more than 50 years. But the popular painkiller drug Tylenol is getting a major labeling makeover following a string of personal injury lawsuits. According to the Associated Press (AP), so many Tylenol users these days are suffering... NSAIDs used for infant fevers tied to higher rates of childhood asthma, other health issues 11/22/2012 - Parents who give their young children acetaminophen (Tylenol) and various other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to treat fevers and other ailments could be putting them at serious risk of developing childhood asthma. A new study out of Denmark links the use of these potentially deadly... Drug babies before vaccinating them, doctors demand 4/11/2012 - A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests that giving eight-week-old babies several doses of acetaminophen (Tylenol) before and after the barrage of recommended childhood vaccines they typically receive will help them to sleep better, and improve vaccine efficacy. And because many... Study: Tylenol, acetaminophen linked to causing blood cancer 5/16/2011 - A new study out of the University of Washington (UW) provides even more evidence that taking over-the-counter painkillers can kill you. Published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the study explains that taking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, for extended periods of time can increase... Acetaminophen Linked to Asthma 10/7/2010 - Childhood asthma, a common disorder which causes shortness of breath, wheezing and tightness in the chest, has just been linked to the use of acetaminophen. Acetaminophen is widely used as an over the counter pain reliever in children because of its perceived safety. Asthma in children has actually... Acetaminophen more than doubles risk of asthma in young people 8/17/2010 - Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol and other common painkillers, is under fire after a new study revealed that the drug can significantly increase young people's risk of developing asthma and eczema. According to the report published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care... Be Aware of the Most Common Over-the-Counter and Prescribed Killer Drugs 4/30/2010 - It has been confirmed that correctly prescribed pharmaceuticals rank among the five highest causes of death in the USA, and that the U.S. medical system is responsible for more deaths in the USA than anything else! And what dangerous ingredient is common to both prescription painkillers and over the... Common Painkiller Acetaminophen Linked to Asthma 3/9/2010 - The common painkiller acetaminophen may increase the risk of asthma and other allergies in both children and adults, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of British Columbia-Vancouver and published in the journal CHEST. Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, is the... Acetaminophen Linked to Asthma in Children and Adults 11/24/2009 - Acetaminophen is nothing new to NaturalNews readers.1 It is one of the most doctor-recommended drugs for fever, inflammation, and pain today. Recent studies, however, have linked it to asthma and some other allergies, the latest doing so with teenagers. This new study shows that teens... Taking Common Painkiller (acetaminophen) with Coffee is Extremely Toxic to the Liver 4/21/2008 - Combining caffeine with the active ingredient in Tylenol (acetaminophen) may be extremely dangerous for the liver, according to new research conducted at the University of Washington and reported in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology. Researchers performed the study on E. coli bacteria that... FDA proposes warning on acetaminophen painkillers 30 years after the fact 12/21/2006 - Dr. Peter Lurie, Deputy Director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen -- a non-profit consumer advocacy organization -- issued a statement this week questioning the length of time the Food and Drug Administration took to issue recommendations for warning labels on over-the-counter acetaminophen... 11 million bottles of acetaminophen recalled after metal fragments found 11/10/2006 - Generic drug maker Perrigo Co. announced yesterday that 11 million bottles of the popular painkiller acetaminophen are being recalled because they may contain fragments of metal. The recall affects bottles of 500-milligram acetaminophen in varying quantities that were sold under store-brand names... Long-term use of Tylenol (acetaminophen) found to cause kidney damage, says new study 7/27/2004 - New research shows that long-term use of acetaminophen -- sold under the brand name Tylenol -- harms kidneys. 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__label__wiki	0.613567	0.613567	colleges and universities Jan 13 Colleges in CT Prepare to Welcome Students Back for Spring Semester Colleges and universities in Connecticut are preparing to welcome students back. After an extended winter break, some students across the state will begin returning to campuses as early as this weekend. The return to campus comes at a difficult time in the pandemic, both in Connecticut and across the country. Connecticut’s COVID-19 test positivity rate came in at 6.23% Wednesday,… Thousands of Local Students Prepare to Return to Campus The spring semester is just around the corner for several colleges and universities here in our state, as COVID-19 remains a concern. Make It Jan 12 I Went on 100 Interviews in 8 Months. This Is What It's Like to Negotiate Your Salary as a Black Woman On Equal Pay Day, Brittany Oliver writes about her experience going on 100 interviews in eight months: “While graduates who received their degrees in 2011 faced one of the worst job markets, there was another factor that made entering the workforce even more of an uphill battle for me: Being a black woman.” A UK University Is Pivoting to Sustainable Tech With Solar and Wind Turbine Deal Keele University is the latest educational institution looking to develop and analyze sustainable technologies. coronavirus Nov 19, 2020 Governor Cuomo Offers Free Online Skills Training for Unemployed New Yorkers New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo partners with online learning platform Coursera to give unemployed and underemployed residents free online skills learning. coronavirus pandemic Nov 16, 2020 State Imposes Restrictions on College Students Traveling for Holidays The state, in cooperation with regional partners, are highlighting restrictions around college students returning home for the holidays. colleges and universities Sep 21, 2020 Spring Break is Canceled for Thousands of Connecticut College Students So far, there’s been about 30 cases of COVID-19 among college students and staff living on campus at the four universities in the state college system. “Unlike what we’re seeing around the country, where there’s hundreds of cases at some of these universities we’ve been very fortunate at our four universities so far and I hope to continue that... University of Connecticut Aug 31, 2020 UConn Students Return To Classes Amidst Pandemic Tens of thousands of University of Connecticut students returned to classes Monday wearing masks and taking other safety precautions, kicking off the fall semester in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We just have to get adjusted. This is how it is going to be in this age,” said Mason Holland, a sophomore student from New Jersey. “It is going… reopening schools Jul 15, 2020 Colleges Navigate Safety Precautions for On-Campus Housing With colleges and universities in the state preparing to welcome students back to school, those institutions are having to make some changes for what on-campus housing will look like. coronavirus Apr 27, 2020 Colleges, Universities Preparing for Continued Online Learning This is the last week of classes at the University of New Haven and most students are finishing up online. Officials said they’ve had success with distance learning, and online registration for summer courses is already higher than normal. But overall student enrollment numbers have changed a bit. “If we’re looking at returning students and registration, those numbers are... colleges and universities Apr 27, 2020 Colleges Navigate Uncertain Future for Students Colleges in Connecticut and across the country are providing online learning while trying to plan for an uncertain fall semester	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2024
__label__cc	0.646704	0.353296	Posted on October 1, 2019 January 3, 2020 by Joanna Berry Movies4Kids Top 20 Christmas Movies ‘Tis the season to be slumped in front of the TV after too many mince pies, which also makes it the perfect time to catch up with some classic Christmas movies. Here’s Movies4Kids’ pick of the seasonal movies you can watch at home (most are on Amazon Prime and/or Netflix) with the whole family – beginning with our five favourites. Click on each movie title for the full Movies4Kids review. And check back soon for our alternative Christmas movie list that’s for grown-ups and older kids only! THE TOP FIVE The Muppet Christmas Carol Michael Caine is miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in this adorably fluffy version of Dickens’ classic, while Kermit is employee Bob Crachit, Robin is Tiny Tim and Gonzo narrates the story as Dickens himself with the help of Rizzo the rat. A great introduction to the story for little kids, and a complete hoot for everyone else. One of the many lovely movies to come from Aardman Animation, this is the story of how Santa’s son Arthur (voiced by James McAvoy) almost ruins Christmas when he tries to deliver a missing present to a little girl on Christmas Eve. The impressive voice cast also includes Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton. This 1946 b&w movie is a classic for a reason – it features one of cinema legend James Stewart’s best performances and, despite being a big old weepie, does restore your faith in humanity by the end. Stewart, of course, plays George Bailey, who contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve but is shown how his life has affected others by trainee angel Clarence (Henry Travers). Will Ferrell is Buddy, the human who has been raised as an elf at the North Pole, in this enjoyable comedy. When he realises Papa Elf Isn’t his real dad, Buddy beads down to New York to find his biological father – who just happens to be gruff businessman Walter Hobbs (James Caan). This is getting a cinema re-release in the UK from December 4th. Dr Seuss’ The Grinch Dr Seuss’s classic kids’ book, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, was made into a 2000 live action movie starring Jim Carrey (who was a bit scary for very little ones – here’s our review) but we prefer the 2018 animated adaptation, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the voice of the fuzzy green creature who hates the residents of Whoville for being so cheerful. 15 more Christmas movies for the family: The Christmas Chronicles – Kurt Russell is Santa. Why did no one think of this before? (And if you like this one, you’ll be pleased to hear a sequel is being made). A Christmas Star – An Irish adventure about a girl who believes she has special powers because she was born on Christmas Day, featuring cameo performances from Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan and Kylie Minogue. Home Alone – Macaulay Culkin has to protect his house from inept burglars Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci when his family accidentally go away for the holidays without him. Jack Frost – don’t accidentally download the 1997 horror of the same name, you want the 1998 version with Michael Keaton as the dad who is reincarnated as a snowman to be with his son. Jingle All The Way – Arnold Schwarzenegger is the dad desperately trying to buy sold-out toy Turbo-Man for his son in this seasonal comedy made long before we could all order gifts online. The Man Who Invented Christmas – Dan Stevens plays Charles Dickens in this drama that supposes how the author was inspired to write his classic A Christmas Carol. Amusing fare for older viewers. Miracle On 34thStreet – There have been two movie versions of the story of a little girl who believes a department store Santa is the real deal. The 1947 version has Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle, while it’s Mara Wilson and Richard Attenboroiugh in the 1994 remake. Nativity! – We’re not big fans of the four Nativity! movies here at Movies4Kids but they’re certainly very British crowd-pleasers featuring cute kids and actors including Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Martin Clunes and Marc Wooton. The Nightmare Before Christmas – Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated movie isn’t for little kids but older ones will love the story of what happens when king of Halloweentown, Jack Skellington, discovers Christmas Town. The Nutcracker And The Four Realms – A retelling of the classic magical fantasy The Nutcracker And The Mouse King with a starry cast (Morgan Freeman, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Richard E Grant). The Polar Express – Once you get past the odd animation, in which each adult character looks like a slightly creepy version of Tom Hanks (who also contributes some of the voices), there is much to enjoy in this animated story from Robert Zemeckis. Prancer – Have tissues to hand for this adorable story of a young girl who nurses a wounded reindeer whom she believes is one of Santa’s. Sam Elliott stars. The Santa Clause – Silly but enjoyable comedy with Tim Allen as the man who accidentally injures Santa and finds himself magically recruited to take the jolly one’s place on Christmas Eve. Saving Santa – Noel Clarke, Joan Collins, Tim Curry andMartin Freeman are among those providing voices for this animated story of a lowly elf who is the only one who can stop an invasion at the North Pole. Scrooge – There are numerous versions of A Christmas Carol, including an animated one with Jim Carrey that’s a bit scary for very young viewers (Read our review here). This is the 1951 classic, though, with Alistair Sim the one being haunted on Christmas Eve. More Movies4Kids Bah Humbug! The Best Anti-Christmas Movies Saving Santa review Get Santa review Arthur Christmas review CategoriesNews, Top 10s TagsA Christmas Star, Arthur Christmas, Christmas, Elf, Home Alone, Jack Frost, Jingle All The Way, Miracle On 34th Street, Muppet Christmas Carol, Nativity!, Prancer, Saving Santa, Scrooge, The Christmas Chronicles, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Nutcracker And The Four Realms, The Polar Express, The Santa Clause Previous PostPrevious New Spies In Disguise trailer Next PostNext Bah Humbug! The Best Anti-Christmas Movies A Boy Called Christmas – first look We Can Be Heroes – first trailer New trailer for Tom & Jerry: The Movie We Can Be Heroes review Come Away review	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2026
__label__cc	0.585258	0.414742	PEMAC Now Machinery and Equipment Maintenance Case History: Magnetic coupling reduces pump and motor problems at pulp and paper mills By MRO Magazine April 16, 2001 -- Based on newly released results related to maintenance and energy savings at two U.S. pulp and pa... April 16, 2001 — Based on newly released results related to maintenance and energy savings at two U.S. pulp and paper mills, new technology from MagnaDrive Corp. of Seattle, Wash., has been shown to generate significant benefits in the use of motor-driven systems. At the Daishowa America mill in Port Angeles, Wash., the company’s adjustable speed drive technology cut energy demand in one application by 56 per cent. In another installation at the Ponderay Newsprint mill in Usk, Wash., it reduced energy use by 62 per cent. Using the power of rare-earth magnets to precisely control the load speed, the MagnaDrive mechanical adjustable speed drive (ASD) significantly reduces energy use. Its vibration-free design also lowers equipment and maintenance costs, a benefit experienced at both the Daishowa and Ponderay facilities. In a typical application, the ASD is installed between a motor and the load the motor is driving, generally a pump, fan or blower. The drive is a non-electronic, mechanical device. It consists of two independent components that have no physical contact. One component, a precision rotor assembly containing high-energy permanent magnets, is mounted on the load shaft. The second component, a copper conductor assembly, is connected to the motor shaft. Relative motion between the magnets and the copper creates a magnetic field that transmits torque through the air gap between the components. Varying the width of the air gap changes the coupling force, so the amount of torque transmitted between the motor and load can be continuously adjusted. This allows precise and efficient speed control for optimum performance, including soft starts and stops. The result is a much more efficient use of energy. Because there is no direct mechanical connection between the motor and load, the MagnaDrive ASD also eliminates the costly wear-and-tear caused by vibration. Daishowa America’s Port Angeles plant manufactures about 160,000 tons of paper annually, using wood and recycled pulp. Mill managers installed MagnaDrive ASDs on two 100-hp, 1175-rpm motors that power pumps in a wastewater treatment process. Prior to installation of the ASDs, the motors drove the pumps at a flow rate of 7,000 gpm, while the treatment process itself averaged a flow rate of 4,800 gpm. To achieve that rate, the system used bypass and discharge valves to restrict and regulate the flow. Consequently, a bypass valve returned 2,200 gpm to the pump station, wasting significant energy. In addition, starting the motors while they were connected to the pumps caused locked rotor currents, leading to motor overheating. Starting and stopping the pumps also created flow surges and water hammer that damaged the pipes. And because the pumps always operated at top speed, the equipment suffered from vibration and cavitation. The ASDs now control the speed of the pumps to maintain the required flow rate. This eliminates the use of the energy-wasting bypass and discharge valves, reducing energy demand from 142 kW to 62 kW, a 56 per cent savings. Moreover, the motors can be started uncoupled from the pumps, avoiding the flow surges, water hammer and overheating. The ASDs also eliminated system vibration. As a result, the mill is achieving maintenance cost savings estimated at $15,000 per year. “We’re extremely pleased with the energy savings we’re getting with the MagnaDrive ASDs,” said Rex Springer, pulp and utilities manager at the Daishowa plant. “With the stability, reliability and reduced maintenance requirements of the system, we’re excited about moving forward with other applications in the mill.” Ponderay’s mill has an annual capacity of 265,700 tons of newsprint. Plant managers installed a MagnaDrive ASD to increase the energy efficiency of a two-stage pulping and de-inking process. A 250-hp, 1800-rpm motor-driven system pumped water at full speed under constant pressure at 50 psi. However, during each hour-long cycle, only the de-inking stage of the process — lasting just 12 minutes — required the maximum flow of 3,200 gpm. For the other 48 minutes, the process required only 1,610 gpm. To reduce the flow to 1,610 gpm while maintaining the necessary 50 psi pressure, the system used a bypass valve to redirect 1,590 gpm back to the pump. Because the pump always ran at full capacity, the system also suffered the damaging effects of vibration and cavitation. Ponderay’s managers used the magnetic ASD to vary the speed of the pump while maintaining the constant 50-psi line pressure. This allowed them to close the wasteful bypass valve. The pump now runs at maximum speed for the 12-minute de-inking process and at a lower speed for the 48 minutes when flow demand is reduced. Energy demand dropped from 173 kW to 65 kW, a 62 per cent reduction. The ASD also dramatically reduced vibration and eliminated the cavitation problem, lowering maintenance costs. “This new technology delivered real energy savings for us,” said Don Guenther, energy manager at Ponderay. “We’re also very pleased with the additional maintenance cost savings. We plan to add more MagnaDrive ASDs in our facility to take greater advantage of these economic benefits.” At the Daishowa mill, variable frequency drive (VFD) technology was ruled out for these applications because of limited space and high infrastructure costs. At Ponderay, a VFD was not even considered due to significantly higher VFD costs associated with the 2,300-volt system. Founded in 1999, privately held MagnaDrive Corp. is based in Seattle, Wash. Currently all the company’s installations are in U.S. facilities and it has no office in Canada. Its ASDs have been installed in 37 systems in several industries, including water/wastewater treatment, pulp and paper, HVAC, material processing, irrigation, food processing, and power generation. Its ASDs are available for motor sizes up to 500 hp. For more information, visit www.magnadrive.com. 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__label__wiki	0.967758	0.967758	Kagiyama Yuma: From strength to strength one year after Lausanne 2020 gold In the year since the Japanese won Youth Olympic gold, he has made his senior Grand Prix debut to great fanfare and established himself as a top skater. By ZK Goh · {{day}} {{monthName}} {{year}} {{hour}}:{{minuteTwoDigit}} Exactly one year ago, Japan's Kagiyama Yuma staged a comeback in the free program to win the Winter Youth Olympic Games figure skating competition in Lausanne, Switzerland. In the 366 days since, the now-17-year-old has gone from strength to strength despite a difficult year with limited competitions. And Kagiyama, the back-to-back two-time national championships bronze medallist, only seems to be heading for bigger and brighter things. Men's Single Free Programme - Highlights \| Winter Youth Olympic Games 2020 Yuma Kagiyama (JPN) won gold in the Men's Single Free Programme competition... Duels with Mozalev In Lausanne, Kagiyama landed two triple Axels and two quadruple toe-loops as he made up a seven-point deficit to Andrei Mozalev of Russia. "I am super happy to be standing on the podium today. It’s a once in a lifetime moment," he told Olympic Channel then. Those same jumps carried him to a Four Continents Championships bronze medal a month later, as he finished behind teammate Hanyu Yuzuru and USA's Jason Brown. That impressive display, which was Kagiyama's first senior international medal, came as a surprise to the Japanese teenager himself. "I never could have imagined getting a medal here and I'm still in shock," he told the ISU. Before the coronavirus pandemic took a hold on the world, the last major global figure skating competition was the World Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, in March – a hotly-anticipated re-match between Kagiyama and Mozalev. The Japanese put in a solid showing to lead after the short program, but committed uncharacteristic errors in his free skate to allow Mozalev to pip him to the title. An under-rotation on his signature quadruple toe-loop resulted in a fall, and he lost points on his camel spin and step sequence before popping his closing triple Axel down to a single. While he was visibly disappointed at the way he ended his junior career, that setback would only provide motivation for a complicated – yet rewarding – first full senior season. Shining in tough times With the globe in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic in the summer, the International Skating Union announced in July it was cancelling the entire Junior Grand Prix season. The following month, it indicated the six events on the senior circuit would be held as regional events. Reports also suggested skaters would be limited to just one Grand Prix instead of the normal two, which was confirmed when the ISU released the assignments in October. That meant Kagiyama would be restricted to just the NHK Trophy in Osaka, and with second-tier Challenger Series events also cancelled, would have no competitive international skating between March and November. With Hanyu opting to withdraw from the Grand Prix season and Uno Shoma assigned to the subsequently-cancelled Internationaux de France, the stage was set for Kagiyama to shine. And shine he did. In addition to his quad toe, Kagiyama had clearly spent his competitive downtime working on a second quadruple jump, the Salchow. He showed it off beautifully in Osaka, scoring highly with the judges for the jump's grade of execution in both the short program (3.10) and free skate (4.07). "The first half of the programme was better than anything I had done in training – Salchow and toe-loop included," Kagiyama said after the short program. "Last season definitely added to my confidence but that was that," he added in reference to his successful 2019/20. Across both routines, the Yokohama skater landed five quadruple jumps cleanly and looked like he had been competing at elite senior level for years. Step up against Hanyu and Uno One question remained – namely, how would he do in competition with both double Olympic champion Hanyu and PyeongChang 2018 silver medallist Uno up against him? While Kagiyama won the NHK Trophy by nearly 50 points, his winning score in Osaka (275.87) was still lower than what Hanyu received (282.77) in the 2019 nationals where the latter won silver. The Japanese nationals at the end of December in Nagano marked the first time the three had competed against each other since the previous year's competition after Uno sat out the 2020 Four Continents. Kagiyama lived up to the hype. While the two more-experienced skaters were clearly better, the youngster held his own for the second consecutive year to win bronze. He improved his score from the NHK Trophy by some three points, and clearly took a lot out of the experience of skating between Uno and Hanyu. With the 2021 Four Continents – originally scheduled for Sydney, Australia, next month – long since cancelled, the World Championships in March are the next obvious target. Assuming the championship isn't cancelled for the second year in a row after last year's event in Montreal, Canada, fell foul to the pandemic, Japan will have three spots to use in the men's singles. With Hanyu and Uno – if they don't withdraw – both certainties to be selected by Japan, Kagiyama's strong season has made him the apparent clear choice for the third spot. Based on results from both the NHK Trophy and nationals, no other Japanese male singles skater is close to the top three at the moment. Tanaka Keiji was some 40 points behind Kagiyama in fourth at nationals. After the Worlds in Stockholm (22–28 March), the World Team Trophy is scheduled for Osaka in April. Hanyu sat out the 2019 edition of that event and if he chooses to do so again, Kagiyama would be the obvious man in line to take that spot. Then there's the looming Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, where Japan are again likely to have three men's skaters. For his part, Kagiyama said after the NHK Trophy: "I'm not thinking too far ahead or about my future at the moment. 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__label__cc	0.721926	0.278074	12 Estates in Keysborough VIC 3173 Stanley Estate - Keysborough 📍 152 Stanley Road, Keysborough VIC 3173 Total land lots 41 Area size 2.09 hectares City council City Of Greater Dandenong Project developer N/A Project marketer Barry Plant Keysborough Distance to Melbourne CBD 28 km south-east Land for Sale, House and Land Packages: Land sizes range from 📐375m² to 555m² Land prices starting from 💰$616,875 Road work starting soon! Looking to sell or lease In addition to price-list & release map, what else are you interested in? Requested info Price-list & Release map Price-list & Floor-plans Great! What's your best email to receive the price-list & release map? Perfect! Also what's your full name? 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Wonderland Estate - Keysborough Green Village Estate - Keysborough Haven Townhomes Estate - Keysborough Krystal Estate - Keysborough Popular Estates near Stanley Estate - Keysborough Land Release Applications for Stanley Estate - Keysborough Land release Lodged date Settlement tracking 152 Stanley Road, Keysborough VIC 3173 41 PS837101C Terrain Consulting Group Pty Ltd 06/03/2020 Certification Decision Pending (Outstanding Conditions) Planning application: S154842J Status: Certification Decision Pending (Outstanding Conditions) Responsible Authority: City of Greater Dandenong Applicant: Terrain Consulting Group Pty Ltd More details on SPEAR Final Referral Response (Cert) Lodged at Land Use Victoria Not Lodged Original Certification Date Not Issued Registered at Land Use Victoria Released for Lodgement Street Addressing Not Advised Updates for Stanley Estate - Keysborough Facebook updates: Submit the Facebook page for Stanley Estate - Keysborough. www.colliers.com.au Land Sold — 152 Stanley Road KEYSBOROUGH VIC 3173 \| Australia \| Colliers International Colliers International is pleased to present 152 Stanley Road, Keysborough for sale by Expressions of Interest closing Thursday, 8th August at 2pm.The opportunity delineates a sizeable corner allotmen 152 Stanley Road, Keysborough, Vic 3173 152 Stanley Road, Keysborough, Vic 3173. 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Location & Map for Stanley Estate - Keysborough Reviews & Comments on Stanley Estate - Keysborough Estate Brochure, Masterplan, Engineering Plan, Plan of Subdivision (POS), Design Guidelines Estate info pack Schools near Stanley Estate - Keysborough Here are 6 schools near Stanley Estate - Keysborough: Mt Hira College - Keysborough Prep-12 Independent Combined School 1.2km south-east Governing Body: Independent Schools Victoria http://www.mthira.vic.edu.au ACARA 2019 Data ICSEA: 1017 ICSEA Percentile: 54 Bottom SEA Quarter: 27% Lower Middle SEA Quarter: 30% Upper Middle SEA Quarter: 26% Top SEA Quarter: 16% Teaching Staff: 51 Full Time Equivalent Teaching Staff: 49 Non-Teaching Staff: 32 Full Time Equivalent Non-Teaching Staff: 29.6 Total Enrolments: 604 Girls Enrolments: 310 Boys Enrolments: 294 Full Time Equivalent Enrolments: 604 Indigenous Enrolments: 0% Language Background Other Than English: 93% Resurrection School - Keysborough Prep-6 Catholic Primary School 2.0km north Governing Body: Catholic Education Commission of Victoria http://www.reskeysborough.catholic.edu.au Full Time Equivalent Teaching Staff: 27.2 Full Time Equivalent Non-Teaching Staff: 9.4 Lighthouse Christian College - Keysborough Prep-12 Independent Combined School - School Head Campus 2.0km west http://www.lighthouse.vic.edu.au Haileybury College - Keysborough 2.1km north-west https://www.haileybury.com.au/ Bottom SEA Quarter: 1% Lower Middle SEA Quarter: 5% Teaching Staff: 457 Full Time Equivalent Teaching Staff: 433.6 Non-Teaching Staff: 258 Full Time Equivalent Non-Teaching Staff: 206.7 Total Enrolments: 4054 Girls Enrolments: 1776 Boys Enrolments: 2278 Full Time Equivalent Enrolments: 4054 Chandler Park Primary School - Keysborough Prep-6 Government Primary School 2.2km north-east Governing Body: Department of Education and Training Victoria http://www.chandlerparkps.vic.edu.au ICSEA: 987 Top SEA Quarter: 9% Keysborough Primary School - Springvale South http://www.keysboroughps.vic.edu.au/ Land Price Trend in Keysborough In Oct - Dec 19, the median price for vacant land in Keysborough VIC 3173 was $563,200. * From Oct - Dec 17 to Oct - Dec 19, the median price for vacant land in Keysborough VIC 3173 has decreased 3.73%. * From 2008 to 2019, the median price for vacant land in Keysborough VIC 3173 has increased 140.89%. * Annually Quarterly * Price data comes from Valuer-General Victoria on 30/06/2020 FAQs about Stanley Estate - Keysborough How many homes does Stanley Estate - Keysborough consist of? There will be 41 new homes in Stanley Estate - Keysborough. What’s the total area size for Stanley Estate - Keysborough? Stanley Estate - Keysborough has 2.09 hectares total area size. Which city council does Stanley Estate - Keysborough fall under? City Of Greater Dandenong is the local government area for Stanley Estate - Keysborough. What is the distance from Stanley Estate - Keysborough to Melbourne CBD? Stanley Estate - Keysborough is 28 km south-east of Melbourne CBD. Who is the project marketer for Stanley Estate - Keysborough? Barry Plant Keysborough is the project marketer for Stanley Estate - Keysborough. View all estates marketed by Barry Plant Keysborough Which schools near Stanley Estate - Keysborough? Below are the nearby schools for Stanley Estate - Keysborough: Mt Hira College - 1.2km south-east Resurrection School - 2.0km north Lighthouse Christian College - 2.0km west Haileybury College - 2.1km north-west Chandler Park Primary School - 2.2km north-east Keysborough Primary School - 2.9km north 📐 375m2 to 555m2 land lots are selling from 💰 $616,875.Land for Sale from $616,875	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2033
__label__wiki	0.852266	0.852266	NUFC star shares some much needed good news – & names top 3 moments of 2019/20 season April 11, 2020 April 11, 2020 Charlie Bennett Leave a comment Martin Dubravka has given us Toon fans some positive news during this crisis as he reveals he is nearing full fitness – also sharing his top 3 saves of 2019/20. The Slovakian suffered knee ligament damage in the 1-0 win at Southampton on March 7th – something which left many fearing we’d be without this season’s star player for the Premier League run in and FA Cup quarter final. Just a month later, however, Dubravka says the injury wasn’t as bad as many feared and he is almost ready to return to action. Speaking to Sky Sports Keith Downie, he said the following after confirming he’s all but back to full fitness: “It wasn’t a serious injury so I only needed a few weeks to recover. It might take a little longer as I have been doing my rehab away from the club and by myself. “Some of my team-mates make the joke that the lockdown is all because of me, because I didn’t want to miss any games and I want to be back out on the pitch.” “At the same time though we know how difficult it is for all the people around the world and the pandemic is the most important thing of all. “We want people to be safe. But for me personally what’s happened has given me more time to recover.” Dubravka says he’s also been ticking over his fitness with his wife at home, adopting her as a makeshift personal trainer amid the global crisis. He also told Sky what he believes are his best three saves so far this season, with there being plenty to choose from as he has made more than any other goalkeeper in the Premier League! 3. Wolves away in January, from Raul Jimenez “This one was a reaction with my leg. A cross from Traore on the right and I had to react from 2-3 yards, I think it was Jimenez or Neves, I can’t really remember as it happened so quick. “I think that laid a platform for the team to go on and take a point. I love the saves that help us achieve something.” 2. Scott Dann header in the 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace in February. “It was a corner from the left side, and header but don’t know who from. “I managed to get it over the crossbar. It happened very fast.” 1. A save from Gary Cahill in the same match. “It was a great header from Cahill I have to say, it stuck in the air and I had to really reach far. “One of the best I’ve ever had in my career, probably my best save in my time at Newcastle. “Sometimes you are so focused you don’t know how you made the save. Sometimes my teammates ask me after a game how I made a certain save and I can never answer them because you are so focused in the moment you can’t remember.” You just knew the Cahill moment was going to be on there before he names his three – what a save it was! If and when the season commences, us Toon fans will breathe a lot easier at the thought of Dubravka being between the sticks! NUFC star makes it a hat-trick with yet another brilliant act of kindness amid COVID-19 crisis Amanda Staveley & Saudis now aware of £50m hit at NUFC – Mike Ashley’s response could be key.. “Best player on the pitch!” – NUFC loanee stars in win at Sunderland – Quality stats & comments	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2040
__label__cc	0.577927	0.422073	Orfeo Home › Artists › Gérard Caussé Gérard Caussé Having studied first at Toulouse, Caussé completed his training at the Paris Conservatoire, winning first prizes in viola and chamber music. As well as giving solo recitals and appearing as a soloist with orchestras worldwide he has played chamber music with numerous quartets and ensembles throughout his career. He is currently Professor of Viola at the Paris Conservatoire and the Queen Sofia College of Madrid. Caussé regards Mozart as the first composer to realise the viola’s potential as the ‘mediator’ between upper and lower stringed instruments, both orchestrally and in the string quartet. He is also a champion of new repertoire for the viola: a number of concertos have been written for him and he has given several premières. A significant discography with major labels such as EMI, Phillips, Erato, and Deutsche Grammophon includes recordings that have won the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros, the Gabriel Fauré Prize, the SACEM Prize and the French Grand Prix du Disque. Caussé’s playing shows, in many ways, the survival of identifiable traits in French performing practice heard from much earlier string players. This is interesting in itself in an era when most players exhibit a homogenised, international stylistic outlook. The most notable element is his vibrato which is passionate, reasonably tight, and very intense—something we hear with players such as Maurice Vieux. There is little of the unmistakable ‘French portamento’ associated with older players, but Caussé does admit idiosyncrasies that mark him out from the crowd. The fruit of this is a powerful, well articulated yet sustained sound of some considerable emotive power. It is perhaps unexpected that this Frenchman’s skills are put to best effect in German Romanticism (albeit in the case of Klughardt’s Schilflieder the newer Lisztian-Wagnerian strain). The Klughardt and Herzogenberg examples here (both recorded in 2007) are played with great power. This can sound a little over-histrionic in the first movement of the Klughardt, but well suits the drama of the fourth (marked Feurig). Herzogenberg’s Legenden is in any case a very strong work, especially in the gigantic-toned and -textured middle movement where Gladkov’s monumental piano sound works very well on the modern instrument. Rota’s Intermezzo (1997) makes more modest musical and technical demands but evidences a fine cantabile tone, only marred by some unnecessary swells of vibrato in the centre of notes and some undue stressing (probably done not for reasons of musical importance but, one suspects, because the instrument and Caussé’s physiology favour a big vibrato in certain places). The viola sits convincingly in counterpoint with the flute in Raphaël Fumet’s homage to the ‘Early Music Movement’—Diptyque Baroque (1995); this appreciation of chamber music textures carries expertly into Petitgirard’s dark Dialogue (2002), a complex, referential ‘film score’-type work. Caussé, with Kovacic and Baillie, recorded Tippett’s Triple Concerto under the composer’s baton in 1990 and his sound is a little more restrained here: appropriate, given that this composition integrates the soloists in a typically varied and colourful Tippettian texture, rather than highlighting them in more traditional concerto fashion. In some respects Caussé’s playing may be a little ‘over the top’ for the sensibilities of many listeners, but it is perhaps just this charisma that defines his musicianship and attracts his many devotees.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2045
__label__wiki	0.548574	0.548574	Home Newsroom News and press releases Addressing OSCE PA Bureau Meeting ahead of Bratislava Ministerial Council, Chair’s Special Representative stresses importance of parliamentarians in increasing understanding on OSCE’s work OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Conflict prevention and resolution, Democratization Addressing OSCE PA Bureau Meeting ahead of Bratislava Ministerial Council, Chair’s Special Representative stresses importance of parliamentarians in increasing understanding on OSCE’s work Media accreditation to OSCE events OSCE Live Lukas Parizek, Special Representative for the OSCE Chairmanship and State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, addresses the Bureau of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Bratislava, 4 December 2019. (OSCE Parliamentary Assembly) Photo details Ahead of the official start of the OSCE’s 26th Ministerial Council, the Bureau of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) met in Bratislava on 4 December 2019 to discuss their work over the course of the year. Bureau members heard from Assembly President George Tsereteli, Treasurer Peter Juel-Jensen, OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella, and Lukas Parizek, Special Representative for the OSCE Chairmanship and State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia. Opening the meeting, Tsereteli reported on his activities since the OSCE PA’s Autumn Meeting in Bishkek, noting his recent visits to Armenia and Egypt, his address last month to the OSCE Permanent Council, and his participation in Council of Europe, European Parliament and Inter-Parliamentary Union events in Strasbourg and Belgrade. He noted efforts to strengthen ties with these organizations, including by exploring possibilities for holding joint events. Addressing the meeting, State Secretary and Special Representative for the Slovak OSCE Chair Parizek stressed the crucial role parliamentarians play to make the voices heard of the people they represent, as well as bringing the OSCE’s work back to their countries. “We need you to support the OSCE with your voice in your countries and explain the importance of this unique organization to people. Without this understanding, there will always be a lack of political will and insufficient funding,” he urged. Among the issues raised by parliamentarians were ensuring freedom of the media, various conflict and settlement settings, as well as efforts to improve the humanitarian situation on the ground in the OSCE region, in particular in the east of Ukraine. The PA President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and Officers of the three General Committees and President Emeritus serve in the Bureau. They are all elected by the Assembly at the Annual Sessions. Communication and Media Relations Section Phone: + 43 676 71 74 592 press@osce.org Sign up to receive OSCE Press Releases and Media Advisories by email as soon as they have been published.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2046
__label__wiki	0.865899	0.865899	Texas Stars Center Travis Morin Named American Hockey League MVP April 18, 2014 - American Hockey League (AHL) - Texas Stars News Release CEDAR PARK, Texas - The Texas Stars, proud American Hockey League affiliate of the Dallas Stars, announced today that center Travis Morin has been voted the winner of the Les Cunningham Award as the AHL's most valuable player for the 2013-14 season. The award is voted on by coaches, players and members of the media in each of the league's 30 cities. Since notching four points on opening night, Morin has been the American Hockey League's leading scorer wire-to-wire in 2013-14 and has 32 goals and 55 assists for 87 points with a plus-16 rating in 65 games with Texas heading into the final weekend of the regular season. Leading the offense for the regular-season champion Stars, Morin has nearly doubled his 44-point output from a year ago while setting franchise records for assists and points in a season. The CCM/AHL Player of the Month in both October and January, Morin began the season on a 10-game scoring streak and has gone without a point in consecutive games on just four occasions all year. He took part in the 2014 AHL All-Star Classic in February and was named a 2013-14 First Team AHL All-Star last week. A seventh-year pro from Brooklyn Park, Minn., Morin has also appeared in four games with the Dallas Stars this season, picking up an assist for his first career NHL point. In 349 career AHL games with Texas and Hershey, Morin has totaled 99 goals and 196 assists for 295 points, and he is the Stars franchise's all-time leader in goals (99), assists (195), points (294) in 344 contests with the club. Here is the link to a highlight package of Morin from this season, courtesy of SendtoNews: http://www.sendtonews.com/#!highlight/story/U34FUdz7Sg The AHL's most valuable player award honors the late Les Cunningham, a member of the AHL Hall of Fame who was a five-time league All-Star and three-time Calder Cup champion with the Cleveland Barons. Previous winners of the award include Carl Liscombe (1948, '49), Johnny Bower (1956, '57, '58), Fred Glover (1960, '62, '64), Mike Nykoluk (1967), Gilles Villemure (1969, '70), Doug Gibson (1975, '77), Pelle Lindbergh (1981), Ross Yates (1983), Paul Gardner (1985, '86), Tim Tookey (1987), Jody Gage (1988), John Anderson (1992), Don Biggs (1993), Derek Armstrong (2001), Jason LaBarbera (2004), Jason Spezza (2005), Darren Haydar (2007), Keith Aucoin (2010), Corey Locke (2011), Cory Conacher (2012) and Tyler Johnson (2013). In operation since 1936, the American Hockey League continues to serve as the top development league for all 30 National Hockey League teams. Nearly 90 percent of all players competing in the NHL are AHL graduates, and through the years the American Hockey League has been home to more than 100 honored members of the Hockey Hall of Fame. The 2013-14 regular season ends on Saturday, and then 16 clubs will continue to vie for the league's coveted championship trophy when the 2014 Calder Cup Playoffs get underway next week. The Texas Stars will complete the 2013-14 regular season at Cedar Park Center on Saturday, April 19th at 7:00 p.m. against the Abbotsford Heat. Saturday's game is Fan Appreciation Night with a Stars Commemorative Print Giveaway, as well as being a Coke Zero Family Four Pack Night and a Texas Lottery Lucky Row Night. Texas Stars' 2014 Calder Cup playoff ticket packages are on sale now! Reserve your seats for all Calder Cup playoff games at Cedar Park Center at a discounted rate. For more information on Texas Stars playoff tickets call (512) GO-STARS (467-8277) or visit www.TexasStarsHockey.com . Check out the Texas Stars Statistics Record Attendance on Fond Farewell Night - Adirondack Phantoms Griffins' Quest for Division Title Down to the Wire - Grand Rapids Griffins Barons Take on the Texas Stars in Western Conference Quarterfinals - Oklahoma City Barons Rampage Close out 2013-14 Season with 3-0 Loss to Abbotsford - San Antonio Rampage B-Sens Hang on against Penguins to Clinch East Division Title - Binghamton Senators Playoff Hopes Sink with 5-3 Loss to Chicago - Rockford IceHogs Admirals Sweep Bears to Clinch Playoff Berth - Norfolk Admirals Heat Shut Out Rampage 3-0 - Abbotsford Heat Texas Stars Announce Schedule for 2014 Western Conference - Texas Stars Admirals Stifle Bears in Road Finale - Hershey Bears Barons Clinch Playoff Berth with 4-3 OT Win over Iowa - Oklahoma City Barons Next Stop: the Playoffs - Manchester Monarchs Amerks Dispatch Crunch in Regular Season Home Finale - Rochester Americans Wolves Win to Pull Even with Grand Rapids in Midwest Division - Chicago Wolves Pens Drop 5-4 Decision in Binghamton - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Sound Tigers Defeat Phantoms in OT - Bridgeport Sound Tigers Barons Edge Wild 4-3 in OT - Iowa Wild Sharks Blanked 6-0 by IceCaps - Worcester Sharks LeNeveu Keeps Wolf Pack Hot with 2-1 Win over Springfield - Hartford Wolf Pack Monsters Top Griffins 4-2 - Cleveland Monsters P-Bruins Clinch Playoff Berth, Win over Monarchs, 2-1 OT - Providence Bruins IceCaps Take Care of Business Versus Sharks - St. John's IceCaps Syracuse Toppled by Rochester 5-1 - Syracuse Crunch Falcons Win Streak Snapped in 2-1 Loss at Hartford - Springfield Falcons Admirals 2014-15 Home Opener Set for October 10 - Milwaukee Admirals Davies Repeats as Winner of Dan Snyder Award - Chicago Wolves Bulldogs Release Narbonne from Try Out - Hamilton Bulldogs Texas Stars Center Travis Morin Named American Hockey League MVP - Texas Stars Texas's Travis Morin Voted 2013-14 American Hockey League MVP - AHL Gameday: Comets vs Toronto - Utica Comets Tye McGinn Returns, Other Transactions Completed - Adirondack Phantoms Other Recent Texas Stars Stories American Hockey League Cancels Remainder of 2019-20 Season Texas Stars Sign Defenseman Max Martin Jake Oettinger Named Stars' Man of the Year AHL Suspends 2019-20 Season Dallas Stars Reassign Left Wing Joel Kiviranta to Texas	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2048
__label__wiki	0.92804	0.92804	NewsGroove Uk > Video game > Black Friday: Fremont police arrest 5 after video games stolen, shots fired at Target – FOX 5 Atlanta Black Friday: Fremont police arrest 5 after video games stolen, shots fired at Target – FOX 5 Atlanta Video gameNovember 29, 2019 Shots fired at Fremont Target after video games stolen 5 people arrested after shots were fired into the air on Black Friday at a Target store in Fremont FREMONT, Calif. – Fremont police arrested five people, including one 17-year-old, whom they say fired off shots into the air and stole video games on Black Friday from a Target store at the Hub shopping center. “I saw near the back side of the store, some sound was happening,” said Karuppaih Ramiah, who was inside the store at the time of the crime and returned Friday to shop some more. “Everyone was shouting. And then we started running.” Spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said the shoplifting and gunfire was reported Thursday at 11:38 p.m. outside Target on Fremont Boulevard, which was set to close at midnight. The suspects had gotten into a fight with security guards just outside the store after they had been confronted about stealing merchandise Bosques said. They walked out of the store with a shopping cart full of items including several PS4 game consoles, Bosques said. Everything scattered on the ground when they got into the scuffle with security guards who were waiting outside for them. One suspect picked up a PS4 game station console and ran to the car. Bosques said it was later found in the vehicle. Black Friday shooting in Fremont Spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said one of the suspects fired off a gun into the air on Thursday at 11:38 p.m. outside Target on Fremont Boulevard, which was set to close at midnight. No one was injured. READ Two in three American adults now play video games - TechSpot At that point, the suspects’ friends drove up in a getaway car and that’s when one of them fired multiple rounds in the air, Bosques said, before they took off in a silver Volkswagen. No one was injured. A witness at the store told police which direction the car took off in and police spotted it at Mowry Avenue and Glenview Drive in Fremont. One suspect jumped out of the car and eventually all five were arrested at Central Avenue and Cedar Boulevard in Newark, police said. The rest of the suspects are 18- and 19-years-old. Fremont police said the suspects were booked and the stolen merchandise, as well as the loaded gun, was recovered. Police spent the night collecting evidence, which included picking up several shell casings. On Friday morning, Target spokeswoman Jenna Rack said in an email that the store “immediately” called police after the shoplifting attempt and they closed the store for the rest of the night. Target has also provided police with the video surveillance inside the store to help with the investigation. The store reopened as normal at 7 a.m. Shoppers went on social media to report the shooting, and the commotion that was caused. Michelle Houston, who shopped at the Target on Friday, said she just wishes the violence would stop. “I wish for the holidays we could find a way to have a little bit more of the positive spirit,” she said. “That is what is all supposed to be about.” Teen Who Spends Up To 12 Hours A Day Playing Video Games Says, ‘They’ve Always Been My Escape’ – Yahoo Entertainment Musician's love of video games leads to creation of first game – moosejawtoday.com The little-known video game studio that created the smash hit 'PUBG' is planning an IPO that could take i.. – Business Insider Hitman 3 review – a satisfying end to a beautiful stealth trilogy – Eurogamer.net Infinite Fleet: Sci-Fi MMO Stratgey Game Launches STO – Blockonomi Start making games with these code-free tools – ArtsHub Police chief uses videogames to interact with community – The Daily Progress Felix Kramer's Top 10 Games of 2020 – Giant Bomb	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2056
__label__wiki	0.955806	0.955806	EVALUATION OPPORTUNITIES WORLD PARA ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS Manuela Schaer makes it spectacular six in London Swiss wheelchair racer maintains unbeaten marathon streak 28 Apr 2019 Manuela Schaer made it six straight marathon wins with victory in London ⒸGetty Images By World Para Athletics Swiss star Manuela Schaer notched up a phenomenal sixth consecutive major marathon victory as she claimed World Championship gold in the women’s marathon T54 in London on Sunday. The 34-year-old – who has won every major race since the Berlin Marathon last September, including Chicago, New York, Tokyo and Boston – never looked in doubt as she quickly took to the front of the 16-strong field. By the half-way point Schaer had opened up a lead of over two minutes, and that margin had extended to more than five minutes by the time she crossed the finish line in 1:44:09 – although victory wasn’t as easy as it looked. “It was really tough today because it felt like there was a headwind all the way, and I struggled at some points,” she admitted. “I didn’t know how far in front I was – I didn’t know if the others were just around the corner - so mentally and physically that was a really tough race today.” As for winning the world title, Schaer was clearly delighted. “It’s amazing, I tried not to think about it before the race because I just wanted to do what I do all the time – prepare for a really important marathon. I’m overwhelmed right now. “It means so much to me, I’m just really grateful to my team at home, my coach – they’ve done such an amazing job. It just seems like all the hard work is finally paying off.” But despite her impressive run of form, Schaer, who won marathon gold at Lyon 2013, is still adjusting to life as the one to watch out for. “It feels different, it’s a new position and I have to get used to it,” she admitted. “I feel like it’s more difficult. I’ll take it step by step now – I don’t see the bigger picture, but of course Tokyo 2020 is on my list.” Sweet silver for McFadden The USA’s multiple major marathon winner Tatyana McFadden (1:49:42), still racing in a borrowed wheelchair belonging to her coach Adam Bleakney since her own was damaged eight months ago in Berlin, got the better of Australia’s Commonwealth champion Madison de Rozario (1:49:44) in the closing stages to claim silver. “Nothing else can go wrong!” laughed McFadden. “I’ve raced in a different chair, raced in a broken chair, raced in a borrowed chair; I’ve had flats in the past, I’ve had health issues. So after all these things coming my way to get second is quite amazing actually. That means I can only get stronger. “It was technical, really hard; but I’m really pleased with the way I mentally got back in to the race. I just had to re-focus and keep going. I’m learning a lot about being mentally strong, which is awesome.” Michishita’s major breakthrough World gold also went the way of Japan’s Misato Michishita, who won the women’s marathon T12 in 3:06:18. Victory marked a first major title for the 42-year-old who won silver at Rio 2016 and bronze at the last World Championships in 2015. “I was determined to win, that was my plan, so I’m very happy that I was able to do what I wanted,” said Michishita, who also completed her third successive victory round the 26.2-mile London course, having won in 2017 and 2018. “This gold medal is special for me as it is a bridge towards the next step which is Tokyo 2020, so this was really important for me.” Edneusa de Jesus Santos Dorta of Brazil took silver (3:13.17), with Morocco’s Meryem En-Nourhi upgraded to bronze after Spain’s Maria Parades Rodriguez was disqualified due to her guide pulling her in the closing stretch. Tokyo 2020: Marathon route confirmed Marathon Majors: How do things stand? IPC staff take on Bonn marathon Boston beckons for Swiss legend Sandra Graf Past winners head Boston Marathon field Daniel Romanchuk races into history books Misato Michishita targets triple triumph David Weir relishing return to racing World marathon titles at stake in London Michael Roeger unstoppable on London Marathon debut World Para Athletics Partners Official website of World Para Athletics info@worldparaathletics.org	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2065
__label__wiki	0.858661	0.858661	Sushant’s Girlfriend Rhea Finally Breaks Silence On His One-Month Death Anniversary Home » Celebrities & Glamour » Sushant’s Girlfriend Rhea Finally Breaks Silence On His One-Month Death Anniversary By S J On this date one month ago, Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his home in Mumbai. The actor won acclaim for his role in the 2016 biopic of former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Sushant’s rumored girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty has penned down an emotional note for the Chhichhore actor today, the first time in 30 days after his death on June 14. Taking to Instagram, the Jalebi actress shared her photos with Sushant and said, “Still struggling to face my emotions.. an irreparable numbness in my heart.” Still struggling to face my emotions.. an irreparable numbness in my heart . You are the one who made me believe in love, the power of it . You taught me how a simple mathematical equation can decipher the meaning of life and I promise you that I learnt from you every day. I will never come to terms with you not being here anymore. I know you’re in a much more peaceful place now. The moon, the stars, the galaxies would’ve welcomed “the greatest physicist “with open arms . Full of empathy and joy, you could lighten up a shooting star – now, you are one . I will wait for you my shooting star and make a wish to bring you back to me. You were everything a beautiful person could be, the greatest wonder that the world has seen . My words are incapable of expressing the love we have and I guess you truly meant it when you said it is beyond both of us. You loved everything with an open heart, and now you’ve shown me that our love is indeed exponential. Be in peace Sushi. 30 days of losing you but a lifetime of loving you…. Eternally connected To infinity and beyond A post shared by Rhea Chakraborty (@rhea_chakraborty) on Jul 13, 2020 at 9:49pm PDT “Be in peace Sushi. 30 days of losing you but a lifetime of loving you,” said Rhea in her emotional note to the late actor. Sushant’s former girlfriend, Ankita Lokhande also lit a diya for him. The two met in 2009 on the sets of Indian television show Pavitra Rishta and they started dating a year later. However, they split up six years later. Here’s Ankita Lokhande’s Instagram post: CHILD Of GOD 😇 A post shared by Ankita Lokhande (@lokhandeankita) on Jul 13, 2020 at 8:15pm PDT Sushant’s mysterious death Sushant was 34 years old when he was found dead at his residence. He started his acting career with television soap operas and made his Bollywood debut in 2013. Sushant had acted in 10 films and his eleventh, an official remake of the Hollywood hit “The Fault in Our Stars”, is set to be released online soon. Several of his friends in the industry wrote about his struggles to breakthrough. Social media and some cultural commentators criticized the allegedly closed culture in Bollywood for this death, where some families have dominated for up to four generations. Meanwhile, an investigation into Sushant’s death is still on. However, it is now being alleged that he murdered By Dawood Ibrahim’s gang. An ex-RAW Officer NK Sood in a video said Dawood Ibrahim’s gang had threatened Sushant for which the actor was suffering from mental illness. Sood’s revelations related to the case have made it more complicated. What do you think about the story? Tell us in the comment section below. Meet Kiran – The Hijabi FOODPANDA Rider Who Is Now A Social Media Hero Meet Hoorain – Daughter Of Late Amjad Sabri Who Is All Grown Up Now	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2066
__label__cc	0.682495	0.317505	You are at:Home»News»Airport»The Design Solution to undertake commercial planning at Riyadh The Design Solution to undertake commercial planning at Riyadh By Tara Craig on August 8, 2019 Airport, Construction & Architecture London-based The Design Solution has been appointed by Riyadh Airports Company (RAC) to carry out commercial planning as part of the major redevelopment program at Riyadh King Khalid International Airport (KKIA). The contract is part of a long-term national program that will radically update the kingdom’s airports, including raising capacity and enhancing infrastructure at King Khalid International Airport. Pragma Consulting joins The Design Solution in advising on the commercial aspects of the project. In 2016, The Design Solution was appointed by DAA International to carry out commercial planning and design of the new Terminal 5 at Riyadh, followed by the design of the walk-through travel value store. The first phase of this latest project involves renovations to Terminal 3, which has been closed since August last year, and Terminal 4, which has never been occupied, both of which are due for completion in 2020. The development will expand capacities, improve services and dramatically transform the commercial offer, with each terminal having a walk-through duty-free shop in addition to its own shops, cafés and restaurants. The development of terminals 3 and 4 creates opportunities for adjustment to passenger operations across all the airport’s terminals, including the re-allocation of domestic and international passengers and a stronger commercial planning approach throughout. The planning includes a new centralized commercial area (post-security) between terminals 1 and 2, before passengers depart through either of the two terminals that will then act essentially as piers. The Design Studio and Pragma Consulting have developed a classic commercial plan for terminals 3 and 4, creating a central heart in each terminal immediately after the walk-through duty-free stores. These feature unusually high shopfront zones where the concessionaires can maximize their impact. “Designing the commercial layout in airports is always challenging, since it depends on intense analysis that aims at defining the perfect commercial offer while enhancing the passenger’s journey. The new design aims to enable KKIA to increase its commercial offering by 40% and enhance the passenger experience through an additional 25% of space allocated for passenger facilities,” said Abdulaziz Algoufi, commercial analytics manager at Riyadh Airports Company.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2068
__label__cc	0.502849	0.497151	Auckland Formation – From Strangers to Friends UncategorizedPassionist Family AUCKLAND FORMATION DAY – SATURDAY 8THJUNE 2019 About 35 of us from across 5 Auckland parishes (as well as 3 Auckland Companions and Paul and Linda Darbyshire) gathered at St Ignatius Parish, St Heliers to once again be inspired by Father Brian Traynor CP as he presented ‘From Strangers to Friends’. This topic covered ‘Belonging, Believing, Behaving’ as opposed to ‘Believing, Behaving, Belonging’. The former puts the emphasis on belonging and inclusiveness from the get-go which was the message of Jesus, and which has always been fundamental to the Passionist Family Group Movement. The latter has been the model of Christendom over the centuries. But as our Pope has said, let’s put into practice a ‘change of era’. Father Brian also talked about ‘teams’ and how the movement is implementing leadership teams at every level. This approach shares the load and brings more/different strengths to any role. True to the spirit of things Passionist, there was much sharing of ideas in small groups. There was also much fellowship and socialising over food during the breaks. We were delighted to be joined by Paul and Linda Darbyshire from the National Co-ordinating Team who commissioned the newly formed Auckland Diocese Co-ordinating Team. Libby Giddey On behalf of the Auckland Diocese Co-ordinating Team Colin and Lindsay Brand, Penny Hudson and Libby Giddey.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2069
__label__wiki	0.769113	0.769113	Africa sails through despite Covid-19, terrorism threats President Mnangagwa chats to his counterparts — Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi (far right), President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa (second from right), Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi (second from left) and Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu — in Maputo, Mozambique, after an Extraordinary Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation Summit Ruth Butaumocho African Agenda Twenty-twenty is a year many people would easily want to forget following the outbreak and subsequent effect of the novel coronavirus of 2019 (Covid-19). Massive developmental projects that African leaders had anticipated to roll out at the beginning of the year were shelved as Governments diverted funds meant for them towards fighting the pandemic. The outbreak of the pandemic and its subsequent effects, which literally left nearly two million people dead and major economies grinding to a halt numbed the globe, throwing the world into disarray. However, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Africa held its own and plodded through the challenges posed by the virus to implement important strategies for the development and stability of the continent. AfCFTA gains momentum Preparations to kick-start the continent’s biggest trading market, the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement have been gathering steam throughout the year amid indications that Nigeria is now the 34th country to ratify the treaty. With Nigeria’s decision to ratify the treaty early this month, Africa is already geared to deliver a commercially viable continental trading market that kicks off tomorrow, amid expectations of a high turnout of traders on an exclusively African platform. Twenty-member states among them Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique are yet to comply. However, that will not stop AfCFTA to execute its mandate of ensuring that African member states will be trading by themselves, a platform that the continent had been yearning for all these years. The AfCFTA agreement entered into force on May 30, 2019 after the treaty was ratified by 22 countries, Zimbabwe included, the minimum number required under the treaty. Trading that was initially scheduled to start on July 1, had to be postponed for six months to January, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. The platform is expected to spawn an array of opportunities for countries whose products and services are good enough to trade on such a highly competitive arena. It therefore calls to order for countries to polish their workmanship, lest they might find it difficult to access opportunities. Africa affirms democracy through elections This year, Africa pulled a feat in the political terrain when more than 20 African countries held elections — 12 of them presidential — in a show of democracy despite the financial and social strain that Covid-19 had on many economies. Some of the countries that held elections included Tanzania, Niger, Central African Republic, Ghana and Malawi. Despite some reported cases of violence in some countries, new leaders were sworn into office, a clear attestation that Africa is capable of defining its own political trajectory without the interference of the outside world. However, good as this may sound, critics say the 2020 elections may turn out to be a historic lost opportunity towards gender equality in politics after it emerged that the few female candidates participated in the elections from various countries failed to make it into office. Unlike the Americans who played the gender card right by electing Kamala Harris — the first female of colour as their vice president-elect, male candidates emerged winners in Africa, with no single female candidate being elected into high office. Lack of female representation in the top echelons of power in Africa is a historical and structural problem African leaders will need to urgently address, considering that women make up half of Africa’s population, yet their representation has remained insignificant over the years. The challenges stalling women in governance issues are well documented and would need political will and resourcing to hoist the female populace on a political pedestal. Africa committed to deal with insurgency Silencing the guns by 2020, proved to be a challenge for Africa, after violence and terrorism broke out in some parts of the continent, with conflicts being reported in Nigeria, Ethiopia’s northern Tigray and insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado. However, the robust decisions taken by both the Ethiopian government and Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security on insurgency attests to the continent’s commitment to thwart any attempt to destabilise constitutionally elected governments. The conflict between Ethiopia’s federal forces and the rebellious Tigray’s People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is believed to have killed thousands and displaced approximately 950 000 people since November. In the northern part of Mozambique, terrorism has left more than 3 000 people dead and thousands more homeless, a development that resulted in Sadc calling for an Extraordinary Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation Summit in Maputo this month. The summit was attended by President Mnangagwa among other leaders to strategise on the way forward. However, Sadc countries will not take the events in Mozambique lying down and the bloc has since indicated that it is monitoring the security situation in that country while mapping out strategies to ensure Islamic insurgency activities in the northern parts of the country are tackled appropriately. In the event that the insurgency escalates, Sadc will have no option, but to step in and stop the further loss of lives. End of an era: Western Countries dump the CFA Franc In a landmark decision, several countries in the West African Economic and Monetary Union finally agreed with France to rename its CFA franc the ECO and cut some of its financial ties with Paris that had pinned the region’s common currency since its creation during World War Two. Under the new development, the Eco will remain pegged to the Euro, but the countries in the bloc will no longer have to keep 50 percent of their reserves in the French Treasury. In addition, they will no longer be French representatives on the currency’s board. Some West African countries wanted it gone because they viewed it as a relic from the colonial times, while others argued that it provided some form of financial stability in the turbulent regions. chinhemaruva@gmail.com 2020 pays off for Zim-UAE model Nothing will stop reopening of schools: Kenya Education Cabinet Secretary Main News • Opinion & Columnist Editorial Comment: Give us another win to lift our... IT was a stunning win which captured the imagination of the world with Zimbabwe bathing in the glow... Zim-Swiss relations blossom after 40 years Niculin Jager Correspondent This year marks the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between... Main News • Opinion & Columnist • World News In America, the Emperor stripped for the world Were it not for the just-ended presidential election in America, many in Africa would still be... ZimBho: The fad of our time Isdore Guvamombe In Kariba, water is worthy benevolent mistress, kissing the sky with all the love... Africa can benefit from China’s new global status The fact that China has overtaken the United States to become the world’s largest economy might not... Editorial Comment: State enterprises’ reform will... The announcement this week that Government is establishing a special committee to focus on...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2071
__label__cc	0.733162	0.266838	Wow! THG really are unstoppable... Some interesting uses of buildings here. Will be fascinating… Is the North West region now to simply serve Manchester? Are no other areas… Plot 1 used to have the old ordsall shopping centre, the ordsall legion and… I used to go to the cinemas with the missus once a week before… Commercial Valuation Surveyor (MRICS and Registered Valuer) VACANCY REF: AK18430 The company An excellent opportunity has... Kingsley, Lancashire / North West Prioritising zero carbon – why we need regulation change to make it happen Real change often only happens when regulations require. Is... Julian Broster Civic Engineers Civic Engineering Glenbrook plots £70m Wigan industrial park ‘Prices increased most in North West’, says Rightmove Michael Hunt The strong start to the year has remained as the average asking prices in the North West housing market were up by 4.6% in the past month, according to the online estate agency portal. Rightmove said average asking prices in the region rose from £162,674 in February this year to £170,194 in March 2010. Compared to the West Midlands, East Anglia, and London, which all showed falls, the region had fared well, while Yorkshire and the South East showed a small increase in prices. Rightmove said the average asking price in the North West in March last year was £156,584, which has shown that the annual change has shown 8.7% increase. Miles Shipside, commercial director of Rightmove, said: "Observers of the market should note that new sellers are up by over a third on March last year and by 17.5% on last month, so in some areas more restrained pricing is required as a direct consequence of buyers having more choice. We still forecast some further rises in the first half of this year when buyers have picked over the newly marketed stock, though the small increase in March shows how much more unpredictable the market has become. "In periods of greater volatility, it is worth noting regional year-on-year asking price movements, rather than single months in isolation. This shows that the stock shortages have had a levelling effect, with annual increases tightly grouped across the country. Sellers have upped their initial marketing prices most in the North West, 8.7%, followed by the South East and South West, both at 7.4%. The spread of top to bottom is only 5.3%, with the East Midlands and Yorkshire and Humberside being the worst performers at 3.6% and 3.4% respectively."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2072
__label__wiki	0.52826	0.52826	War, What is it Good For? Learning from Wargaming By: Matthew Kirschenbaum “To a wargamer,” writes Greg Costikyan in the just published collection Tabletop: Analog Game Design, “wargames are not abstract, time-wasting pastimes, like other games, but representative of the real. . . . You can learn something from wargames; indeed, in some ways you can learn more from wargames than from reading history” (180). I take the theatrical curl of the lip at “abstract, time-wasting pastimes” to be spoken in character, but that aside, what can we learn from wargames? Which is to say, what can wargames teach, or do, that other game design traditions—including serious games, independent games, and art games—cannot? Is brute simulationism—some sort of interactive history textbook, presumably—really the answer? My investment in this question goes deep, since as an academic and a good left/progressive at that I often find myself wondering about—and occasionally asked to outright explain—my passion for these martial pastimes. A wargamer, especially one who follows military history and current military affairs, looks suspiciously like a closet warmonger, complete with Mission Accomplished banners furled in back behind the winter coats. (It goes the other way too: announcing “I’m an English professor” isn’t exactly a conversation-starter when the person sitting next to you is dressed in ACUPAT fatigues.) I’ve written about some of the appeal and interest of these games before on Play the Past, but the other week I had an opportunity to see how wargaming is presented amid the formal trappings of Powerpoints and plenaries. Connections is an annual conference designed to fit the niche at the intersection of professional and recreational wargaming, with active duty military personnel, hobbyists, academics, designers, industry representatives, and policy wonks all rubbing shoulders. I’d never been to one of its meetings before, but as an academic I’m no stranger to conferences—I have literally hundreds of keepsake badges adorning my office. So, on a sticky August morning I hied me down to the Washington, DC campus of National Defense University at Fort McNair, just across the river from National Airport. There I found lots of people talking about what wargames can and can’t do, but very few talking about “representing the real.” But more about that in a moment. Wargaming, as I suggested or at least implied above, is a distinct game design tradition. Indeed, the Connections conference advertised itself as being held on the 200th anniversary of the “invention” of wargaming. What can this mean, with games like Chess and Go dating back to antiquity? In the early 1800s, the Prussian staff officer Georg von Reisswitz formally introduced his Kriegsspiel, a game played by laying metal bars across maps to mark troop dispositions (derived from a set his father had made up) to his fellow officers. “This is not a game! This is training for war!” one general is said to have exclaimed. (The authoritative account of the origins and development of Kriegsspiel is to be found in Peter Perla’s excellent The Art of Wargaming.) An example of the Von Reisswitz Kriegsspiel, played using a modern set The game used dice to resolve random events like combat within a spectrum of probabilistic outcomes, and featured formal rules and procedures. It was quickly adopted and became the foundation for the German use of wargaming (Kriegsspiel) which persisted through World War II (these are the very “sand table exercises” of which Friedrich Kittler gnomically writes in his preface to Grammaphone, Film, Typewriter). By the end of the 19th century, the game had evolved two major variants, so-called “rigid” and “free” Kriegsspiel. The latter attempted to replace the elaborate rules and calculations of the von Reisswitz game with a human umpire who made decisions about combat, intelligence, and other aspects of the battlefield. This design fork between rigid and free Kriegsspiel was to find itself echoed in the 20th century’s evolution of tabletop RPGs from historical miniatures wargaming, as chronicled by fellow Play the Past contributor Rob MacDougall. Likewise, the same basic schism governs wargame design today. While the hobbyist fascination with recreating Gettysburg and Waterloo with rules and charts and hexes and counters persists in the best tradition of rigid Kriegsspiel, professional wargames are often, by contrast, collaborative and team-based, with a premium on verbal interaction and problem solving. They are umpired. Players do not have complete information about the scenario, and scenarios can be abruptly modified by “injects,” developments introduced in mid-play by the game master. Most of the action seems to involve sitting around a table and talking (sometimes colloquially referred to as BOGSAT, “Bunch of Guys [and Girls] Sitting Around a Table” by those in the know). Such games, which are staged not only by the Pentagon but also by corporate consulting firms like Booz Allen Hamilton, can be about response to a global pandemic or an interruption in the supply chain for a manufacturing process as well as military operations and contingencies. Wargaming, increasingly, is a term as likely to be encountered in a business leadership seminar as inside a Beltway think tank. And indeed, at Connections, the emphasis was consistently placed on expanding wargame design methodology to new subject spaces and domains. NDU President Vice Admiral Ann E. Rondau who opened the conference asked, “What happens when Yemen runs out of water? How do you game that?” Indeed, over and over again, wargaming was presented as a tool not for learning or simulating history, but for teaching critical decision-making; on this there was near complete consensus. "What happens when Yemen runs out of water? How do you game that?" The combination of mathematical descriptions of events (specifically the strain of quantitative modeling known as operations research) coupled with a heavy emphasis on the behavioralist tradition in political and social science was the chief epistemological axis in play at Connections, while games topics under discussion ranged from terrorism and counter-insurgency to the global energy crisis. Neither Jane McGonigal’s World Without Oil nor Mary Flanagan’s POX would have been greatly out of place there. The gathering at NDU stands in marked contrast to Costikyan’s insistence on hawkish simulationism as the hallmark of wargame design versus other game design traditions. The Connections presenters focused not on a given game’s predictive value, but on its potential as a vehicle for its participants, either through role-playing or the arbitrary rule-based constraints of the game world, to critically examine their own assumptions and decision-making processes. The best games, concluded one speaker (Roger Mason, who designs game for law enforcement and emergency responders), were those that could be learned in under ten minutes and played in under two hours, and which sought to engage participants through a combination of competitive play, social interaction, and suspense or uncertainty regarding the eventual outcome. Nor can we simply ascribe the disconnect between the Connections crowd and Costikyan to a schism between the world of professional game research and the hobbyist community of which the latter was speaking. One internet discussion group which I frequent was recently the site of vociferous debate over how history is modeled in various game designs about the Napoleonic era. The epitome of the simulationist tradition, a venerable game system known as La Bataille which dates back to the 1970s and whose hex-grids have overlain many a grognard’s table, was challenged for its obsession with the minutiae of battlefield phenomena such as formations, the dispositions of individual battalions and gun batteries, and even the accuracy of the uniform depictions which grace its distinctive unit counters. By contrast, the more desirable and historically rewarding games, it was suggested, were those that aspired to a gestalt view, manifested (in the words of Charles Vasey) in a “belief that the individual actions of sub-units (a Brownian motion of battalions) can be swept up into much larger outcomes without the need to determine the individual actions individually.” Most of the more successful Napoleonic game designs of the last twenty years or so hew to the latter model (dubbed “dynamicist” on the forum) as opposed to the La Bataille drill-book formula. This discussion is not unrepresentative of hobbyist trends in general, where an obsession with rivet-counting (as it is sometimes called) is far less fashionable than shorter, quick-playing games which seek to model an overall commander’s decision-making amid the chaos and uncertainty of the battlefield. Richard Borg’s very popular Command and Colors series of designs is emblematic of this trend, as is the emergence of the CDG (Card-Driven Game) school, epitomized by cross-over games like Hannibal and Twilight Struggle. By any measure, wargaming is in an interesting place right now. On the one hand there is a documentable design tradition that goes back at least decades (to Charles S. Roberts and the founding of Avalon Hill in the early 1950s) or centuries (to von Reisswitz), or, if you like, even further back than that, to the clay figurines discovered in Egyptian tombs. But as wargaming seeks to expand the purview of its design space beyond only martial topics and themes, its relationship to other areas of game design becomes more nebulous. What does a “war” game about the water supply in Yemen or influenza teach us that a newsgame on the same subject might miss? If wargaming is indeed applicable to any contemporary situation that seeks to examine decision-making amid an atmosphere of crisis, uncertainty, and conflict or competition, then it seems important to be able to discriminate its capabilities vis-à-vis other game design movements. Jim Dunnigan, who founded the legendary SPI in 1969 (where he was also Costikyan’s first boss) gives us some starting points in his own contribution to the new Tabletop anthology, in which he lays out primitives that–while forged amid hex and counter belligerence–are applicable to any game design situation. These include such variables as scale, environment, “intensity,” basic and special aspects to be modeled, and unknowns (“fog of war”); the primitives also include game design objectives, which might be analytical or exploratory or pedagogical; interface and physical systems; basic research; the sequence of play; resolution of conflict (“combat”) and adjudication of victory; and so on. These underlying precepts, which have been honed through hundreds of hobbyist designs, might be used to recapitulate the Battle of Kursk, but they might also be used to teach wilderness navigation, as in Dunnigan’s own Outdoor Survival, or to model the tensions and dynamics behind the 1999 WTO protests, as in Brian Train’s Battle of Seattle. Map from Brian Train's Battle of Seattle, a game about the 1999 WTO protests It’s worth noting that Dunnigan cultivated an extremely strong internal design culture at SPI, with core sets of rules and procedures codified and underlying games on a wide variety of topics at varying levels of complexity. The sheer output of SPI—dozens of games a year at its heyday—makes it an important study in the leveraging of a centralized game design process. If Dunnigan gives us methodological primitives, Rex Brynen, Professor of Political Science at McGill and proprietor of the excellent PaxSims blog, offers additional essential insight. In his own coverage of Connections, Brynen suggests that “[W]argaming is much more policy- and planning- oriented than most other gaming. It also has much more rigorous traditions of design, validation, adjudication, instrumentation/reporting, and analysis.” This seems fundamentally right to me, and an excellent start. Wargame design, if not “realistic” in a mimetically simple or brute simulationist sense, does have a responsibility to “storyboard” its products, that is map a game’s findings to known or historically plausible outcomes. This storyboarding injects an element of ground truth into the design process that is very different from the obligations of, say, a Eurostyle game, which, regardless of theme (trading, settling, railroading, etc.) is not meshing its mechanics with any external measures of validation, at least not beyond those of the marketplace. Likewise, as Brynen notes, wargames have also developed precedents and formats for the dissemination of game sessions and their outcomes, in the form of after action reports and debriefings. These might assume greater or lesser degrees of formality in their presentation, but conflict and resolution is, as any narratologist will tell you, the essence of story-telling, and so just as the competition and contest inherent in warfare lends itself to game situations, so too does war (and games about war) make for compelling narrative experience. (So, storyboarding and storytelling: maybe that’s why I keep getting drawn back into my bellicose little cardboard worlds. I am, after all, an English professor, and that makes me something like a professional connoisseur of stories, wherever we may find them.) Finally, let’s remember that wargaming was the first real laboratory for independent games in the commercial marketplace. Charles S. Roberts at Avalon Hill had no desire to compete with Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley. Today outfits like GMT and Victory Point Games are able to survive, even thrive, on thin market margins because they produce and print games either on subscription or on demand. This means that designers can work on marginal topics without any immediate economic peril. Staff assembling games at Victory Point Games Likewise, Philip Sabin, who uses wargames in his military history courses as King’s College, London is able to turn each student into his or her own independent game designer, partly as a result of the dissemination of the design tradition to which I refer above (from which students can borrow and steal ideas) and partly because of the DIY access to basic tools and physical systems, be they cardboard and glue or computer platforms such as VASSAL and Cyberboard. So what can we learn from wargames? Where Costikyan sees realism and historical fidelity and validity in simulation, I see a contemporary player and design community (both hobbyist and professional) that values attention to process in the procedural or quantitative representation of complex, often literally contested phenomena. Where Costikyan sees a focus on outcomes, I see a focus on the in-game experience, and the after the fact analysis and discussion of what happened and why. Cover of Wargame Design, a compendium by SPI designers published in 1983 Perhaps most importantly I see a game design tradition with a remarkable amount of open source material (collected in magazines, some books (like SPI’s 1983 Wargame Design), and today on the internet) that engages with its own practice and craft, one which is the scene of often sharp disagreements and ongoing critical self-reflection. Designer’s notes are commonplace in wargame rulebooks, rare in computer game manuals and Eurostyle rulebooks. The impulse that’s at work here seems fundamentally pedagogical to me, and perhaps that’s also why I respond to it so deeply. Wargaming must do a better job of outreach to neighboring design communities, and to vetting and evaluating its own contributions. There is, at present, no peer-reviewed journal to serve the professional wargame design community; the closest is a SAGE publication, Simulation and Gaming. Connections, as a well-established conference (its been meeting for almost twenty years now) would do well to make deeper inroads into both the serious games movement and academic ludology—there was precious little awareness in the discussions I heard of the outpouring of game scholarship in the last fifteen years or so. Blogs like Play the Past and PaxSims should recognize their kindred interests and audiences. Most of all, though, we need to engage wargaming as a living tradition of game design, one has responded to changes in the games industry and the world around it, one that is no longer simply about hexes and zones of control, and one that has preserved a space for critical, independent game design addressing a broad spectrum of contemporary issues and topics. War, it turns out, is good for lots of things—just so long as no one is actually fighting one. Previous Post: Playing Pastwatch 2: History is always a useful fiction Next Post: Gamification, Bullshit, and Teaching History That’s McGill, not McMaster–but great piece, Matt! Rex Brynen “There is, at present, no peer-reviewed journal to serve the professional wargame design community” Stay tuned… 🙂 Other comments anyone? Would love to have some feedback. Does the field need a professional wargaming journal? \| Wargaming Connection I’m not so sure a peer-reviewed professional wargaming journal is the best place to focus efforts: http://wargamingcommunity.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/does-the-field-need-a-professional-wargaming-journal/ Matthew, my feedback is that your writing is superb and your overview of war games is invaluable for a novice like myself. You state that “wargaming was presented [at Connections] as a tool not for learning or simulating history, but for teaching critical decision-making.” This theme – ably explained over the course of the essay – is seminal not only for war games but all serious games and heuristic learning. Bravo Matthew Robert Becker Great post. Having played Avalon Hill and SPI games since the 1970s (but no face-to-face gaming in at least 10 years), I really enjoyed reading this. I’ll have to direct my old ftf gaming friends here for a read! David Navarre A well argued post, Matt. I do feel I’ve been set up a bit as a straw man; note that my purpose in characterizing wargames as “about the real” was to contrast them with other schools of boardgame design (abstract strategy, Eurogame, and Ameritrash); the simulationist impulse is indeed core to wargaming in a way that it is not to those others. Nor is this belied by your otherwise valid point that the trend in wargame design is away from picayune detail; the extreme of that style would be Richard Berg’s Campaign for North Africa, in which you do such things as keep track of the amount of water available to individual battalions. This is intensely simulationist in a sense, but in another sense, that level of detail sabotages the game’s depiction of reality; Rommel and Montgomery surely did not concern themselves with something so picayune, any more than, say, Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO and my ultimate boss at present, reads my game design specs. Simulation fidelity is often improved by simplicity, since this allows players to focus on the actual issues and concerns of the situation. Greg Costikyan @Greg Thanks for stopping by; straw man certainly wasn’t my intent. I think one relevant distinction underplayed in both your essay and in my post here is that between historical and hypothetical gaming; with a historical situation we have recourse to the kind of storyboarding that I mentioned, which in turn feeds the simulationist impulse. The better games (and I think that hobby wargaming in general has gotten better about recognizing and articulating this) are able to make a distinction between simulation in the brute force mode of Campaign for North Africa (tracking water supplies for individual battalions) and “simulation” of a few key aspects of the gestalt (c.f. Vasey’s comments above). For a game on a hypothetical subject (which accords with the popular understanding of wargaming, as in “What happens when the ICBMs fly,” as well as “What happens when Yemen runs out of water”), we are on trickier ground. Here, lacking the ground truth of the historical record, simulation has a tendency to creep into “prediction,” which is what the Connections crowd seemed keen to disavow; hence the emphasis on process and analysis rather than outcomes per se. Ultimately I think “simulation” is a term that just comes with too much baggage; the burden of expectations is too great, and it becomes too easy to dismiss the insights any individual game has to offer because of a perceived flaw in its fidelity to the “real” world, either historically or subjunctively construed. The emphasis on process and outcomes at Connections, I think, was partly by the driven that (professional) wargaming has something of intellectual value to offer. It was also driven, I think, by a certain degree of professional tribalization: a desire to somehow mark out the boundaries of “professional wargaming” as something distinct from that of rival tribes. The main rival, moreover, is a somewhat parochial one–the I/ITSEC electronic S&M tribe (the annual trade conference in Orlando draws 20,000 attendees and almost 600 company exhibits—the GenCon of military simulation). These drivers aren’t entirely unrelated, of course. (Part of the secret tribal ritual too is that the majority of Connections participants push cardboard, lead, or plastic across a table for fun.) In addition to these two drivers, there are also two competing impulses that emerge. One is the desire to acquire the trappings of a profession (or better yet, a guild)—a print journal, professional certification, academic conferences, and so forth. The other is to view the challenge in a completely different way–not one of building a guild, but rather of fostering networks and facilitating the flow of ideas across disciplinary and professional boundaries. You and I seem to both be firmly in the latter camp on this. All right, I’ll accept that “simulation” can be a problematic term. And yet, to take “What if Yemen runs out of water?” as an example, a “wargame” approach is still tied to reality. A wargame asking the question would, I’d hope, be informed by a serious research attempt to understand what’s going on in Yemen now, what the hydrography is like, and what options might be available to the roles the players take. By contrast, I could take Puerto Rico and retheme it for “a game set in Yemen with water as a critical resource,” and it might well be fun to play, but it would cast no light on the issues involved. Similarly, I could invent some fictional roles for power opponents in Yemen, and devise a system with lots of backstabbing and dice roles, and probably come up with an entertaining game that similarly had nothing to do with the real — an Ameritrash approach. Even historical games are, in some sense hypothetical; if I’m playing a game about Gettysburg, the purpose is not to re-enact the battle, but to explore what-ifs, and perhaps to try to do better than the historical commanders. Maybe what we see here then is that simulationism is best employed in defining the parameters of the game, as opposed to measuring its outcome or serving as a crutch for validating the exercise . . . Great article! It is particularly interesting to distinguish wargaming from boardgaming. Perhaps the closer analogy to wargaming (worldgaming?) would be better found in the world of LARPs (Live Action Role-Playing games) and jeepform(?) (Greg C. is often on about this). There does seem to be a core distinction between games as systems or rule-drive (rigid) and games as story-making enterprises (free). The games that NDU seems to be more interested in are in the latter category which have much more to do with (real) role-playing and story exploring than any of the SPI games we all grew up with. You’re right about the free/rigid distinction. One way of framing what’s happening at the moment, though, is the realization that the traditions of “rigid” gaming (precisely because there is a tradition, i.e. ideas and precedents that can be recycled) impose lower overhead than free-form games, which require large groups, an umpire, etc. So hex and counter gaming is opening up to some non-traditional subjects, which in turn brings it into closer proximity to alternative game design communities, such as newsgames or art games. When we have a hex and counter game about Waterloo it’s clearly a wargame; but what happens when we have a hex and counter game about Seattle 1999 or London 2011 or immunization policy or . . . ? This forces the question of what wargame design has to offer to the rest of the gaming world. But why are we focused on hex/counter games? I assume other board/map metaphors (from the Game of Life or Monopoly to Risk or TV Wars) are valid? (or am I missing something?) What about card-based games a la Magic? Are you focusing on tight, rules-based systems? The lowest overhead is something like Monopoly, not a hex game… look at all the darn X-opoly games that use “The Landlord Game Engine”. Designers Notes and such are really tied to the rise of Authorship which became more visible in the “hex” wargame community earlier than in more social board games. The “hardcore” “free” wargames would seem to me to be in a different category as they rarely are played repeatedly (though I’ve participated in training courses that used game elements) and the interest is less on the design of the game and more on the Guys Around The Table Talking portion. (I guess there is/was “How to Host a Murder”) 🙂 So, what do YOU want to learn about? Better game design (free or rigid), understanding “games” themselves or what can be learned through games and how that process can be improved? Yeah, I knew someone would ding me for “hex and counter.” It’s really just a shorthand for, well, wargame, which could certainly includes cards or areas or whatever . . . But to the larger gist of your question, why limit the scope of inquiry to just wargames, whatever we finally decide they are: mostly for what I would deem “social” rather than “formalistic” reasons. In other words, “wargaming” encompasses various groups of people who self-identify with the term, who often know (or know of) each other and interact, and who leave documentation where others with kindred interests may find it. Those “social” factors are ultimately more important to me than identifying particular traits and characteristics with wargames themselves. Connections 11 AARs \| Wargaming Connection Great review and great points! I’m glad that you posted a link to this on the Game For Change list serve. I strongly agree that both of these communities can benefit by looking at what the other has to offer. As always, nice post. It strikes me that an important distinction between the kinds of war-games you are describing from the conference and much of the kinds of things that happen in educational games has to do with what both intend as the nature of learning. The talk driven war games seem to me to be much more hermunitic in nature. They effectively serve as thought prompts for working through senarios. This is very much a kind of learn by doing without the doing. In contrast, much of the world of educational gamming needs to (as part of a “facts” focused educational standards regime) focus on “covering” content. Do you think this difference, between decimating wrote knowledge and generating new knowledge is in play here? So are we ultimately back to something like learning outcomes, which (as you’re suggesting) are necessary for educational games but more amorphous when it comes to wargames, at least of the BOGSAT variety? I’ve always been fond of the story that’s told about Herman Kahn, the real-life defense analyst and futurist who is often cited as the inspiration for the Dr. Strangelove character. Kahn, when accosted by a general who questions his (civilian) credentials to be discussing matters of nuclear war is said to have replied, “And how many thermonuclear wars have you fought in, general?” Let me pick up one of your themes. For me at least, a wargame has value if it passes the test, “Does it impart something worth knowing about its subject?” This is a pretty low bar, though, and indeed it might even be lower than it looks. As Rex Brynen has pointed out, for example in his review of GMT’s Labyrinth game, even occasional weaknesses in a game’s model can by exploited by a skilled teacher, so long as the basic structure is sound. The more interesting test is I think, “Does it add something to the sum of our knowledge on its topic?” In this regard, though apparently lacking somewhat in rigour, the attempt by John Prados to “prove” hypotheses using multiple plays of the SPI Cobra game is a heroic recent effort. (In “Normandy Crucible: The Decisive Battle that Shaped WW II in Europe.”) Even should a game fail to meet the stringent conditions of Test 2 in their entirety, I do not believe that its value would be necessarily limited solely to the classroom. La Bataille can possibly provide an example of what I mean. The precise meaning and nuance of the language in Napoleonic military history source material has eroded over the years, to the point where even an informed reader must spend much time scratching his head in frustration. When does the apparently ubiquitous phrase “column” mean one of a number of specific formations, and when does it mean a body of troops, to pick one obvious example of many. By providing the tools to test alternate interpretations of the source language in a virtual cardboard model, a La Bataille game (or more properly, fragments of the game) may provide clarity, or even insight, not easily obtainable through other means. Whether La Bataille is acting as a “game” in such an endeavour is a question on which I would defer to the more qualified voices in this forum. I think this is all very well put. Hobbyists often talk about the way that games lead them to go and read up on a subject, thereby making them better people or at least better students of history. In my own case, I’ve read up on those low level Napoleonic formations precisely because I realized that, for all of its vaunted “detail,” I still couldn’t visualize what was happening inside the La Bataille hex. In fact, as we’ve discussed elsewhere, I know of no board wargames on the market that operate at a true drill-book level of detail, at least in this period. What’s interesting to me is not validating the investment in gaming through recourse to books (“Look, the game made me read a book, it must be educational!”) but rather the way in which the formal limitations of the game and its mechanisms exposed the edges of the simulation and revealed to me (if we can evoke Donald Rumsfeld) a known unknown. The prospect of throwing some light on the known unknowns is what makes Phil Sabin’s work so encouraging, I think. Excellent post Matt, and thank you for the hat-tip for Battle of Seattle. I designed that game just a couple of weeks after the actual events, to try and teach a couple of simple points about how it wasn’t so much what you were doing, but where and who saw it – for good or ill; and the easy availability but ultimately counterproductive nature of violence in mob-confrontation situations. The game is still available from my website for free but it has popped up on some places on the left side of the Net. I don’t mind as long as I still get the name-check…. Brian Train Infovore » Links for August 22nd Educational Games Research » Kriegsspiel: Powerful Lesson from War Games ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education Great article: There is educational value in designing and playing games. There seems to be a current move away from pure military subjects to representing society and economy. The common thread seems to be enabling interactive decision making by the players. There are many types of game. The Wargame Developments (WD) website (attached) has a handbook- http://www.wargamedevelopments.org/Wargame%20Developments%20Handbook.pdf Tabletop, map-figures, committee, cardboard simulator and live role play all feature. Subjects covered include the intrigues of the contemporaries of Tutankhamun, history current events and the shapes of things to come. The conference that WD runs each July in England is unique as a forum for multiple play tests of these. A well tested system of interactions is the key of a successful game. War, What is it Good For? Learning from Wargaming - TheNewTopical.com - current events, politics, culture, ethics, economics discussion forum THATCamp Games Retrospective \| Play The Past Making the Connection \| Play The Past To be honest very little of this struck a chord. I see a wargame as a means to test ones ability to say, command a company. One of the issues is I am not a military man. A company commander that knows intimately how a platoon will deploy and can to some significant extent ignore this aspesct. I have seen enough of real platoon commnders to know that I could not easily replace him with a few chosen words in a rule book. Therfore games need to be played at a set of diffrent levels, very simply, as real commanders have a much broader scope. This leads to understanding of the basics of command and deployment. Learning to be a Platoon commander takes more than ten minutes to understand and learn, more like years in the real world, particularly as certainly the command is backed up by an experienced NCO who may have vastly more experiencxe than a new platoon commander. So a professional “wrgame” taking 10 miniutes to learn and 3 hrs to play is patently a different animal, wargame but “Not as we Know it Jim”. A airline pilot can learn to fly with a preponderance of time spent on a simulator. It does not really impact the overall “flying time” needed to qualify. Wargames are to some extent a poor mans “Miles simulator” where guns are replaced by lazer beams. The US even use 3D VR to do similar. Wargames can be a mixture of this and basic l;earning of how to deploy in time and space. This is wildly diffrent to a set of folk siting roiund chatting. This is more like a risk assessment we do in engineering where we look at potential routes and hazards for a particular proiject. All experts looking at some basics but it is in no way a simulation of the enginnering taks or even basic planning. Therfore not I submit anything in co0mmon wih at least some tabletop games. On that basis the whole of the article is somewhat flawed in not covering all aspects of wargame simulation at all and then covering only a some aspects in detail. Avlon hills Advanced Squad leader, though perhaps too detailed and too low level, is a commecially succcessful type of game that is not realy represented well in this papaer. It CANNOT SHOULD NOT BE ten Minutes to learn and 3 hrs to play. That would be ridiculus as the real world is not like that and the plaer would learn nothing of the basics of understanding the tactical issues. Brian Handley : Here I like strategic or operational level games. I want to learn history. I am looking for wargames (or history games) with clear easy rules (don’t want to spend my time reading the rulebook), that have fast turns (so I can see history unfolding)and that simulate the war accurately. I play reasonably fast, not doing factor counting. I don’t identify with one side or the other. I am a neutral observer. Every once in a while I will stop moving counters and study the situation for one side or the other, and try to understand the strategic decisions that were made historically. Then I play a couple of turns fast to see what unfolds. I expect a good solo wargame to be able to recreate the historical result effortlessly (without special rules to guide the game). This gives me confidence in the game’s ability to predict the result of “what if” decisions that deviate from history. Edenfantasys Leave a Reply to Steven Davis Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2077
__label__cc	0.671421	0.328579	Read our rss Be a fan on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Link us in linkedin The Medical Home Shared Principles Defining the Medical Home Medical Home FAQ Role in the Health System Results & Evidence Statements of Support Primary Care Innovators Network About the Collaborative Stakeholders Care Delivery & Integration Employers & Purchasers Outcomes & Evaluation Patients, Families & Consumers PCPCC Resources Primary Care Investment: Lessons Learned from Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Groups Innovations in Oral Health and Primary Care Integration: Alignment with the Shared Principles Primary Care Spending: High Stakes, Low Investment Primary care and covid-19 Care Delivery Reform Payment Reform Benefit Design Training Database Initiatives Map State View National View Outcomes View Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the Time of COVID January 22, 2021 \| Mass General Brigham January 2021 webinar: The State of Primary Care Spending January 25, 2021 \| PCC Medical Director Leadership Institute (session 2) February 4, 2021 \| Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School PCPCC in the News Medical Home News Doctors’ offices contend with a deluge of requests for the vaccine. Creating a post-COVID health care system January 13, 2021 \| Becker's Hospital Review Beth R. Smolko Beth R. Smolko, DMSc, MMS, PA-C President, American Academy of PAs Dr. Beth Smolko is the president of the American Academy of PAs (AAPA). She has served on AAPA’s Board of Directors since 2016, following several years of service and leadership in AAPA’s House of Delegates. She also served in multiple leadership positions at the Association of Family Practice PAs (AFPPA), including it board of directors and as its representative to national discussions on Hepatitis C at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the White House. She is the founding Program Director and Department Chair for Frostburg State University’s PA Medicine Program in rural western Maryland. The program was created to increase access to healthcare in Appalachia and medically underserved areas across the country. She is currently working to create a statewide telemedicine curriculum for PA programs across Maryland. She is also Chair of the Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) – Maryland West. Dr. Smolko is also a nationally recognized speaker and author on topics in telemedicine including legislative barriers and access-to-care issues. She was the Lead Clinical Advisor and Telemedicine Lead for Wellness Center Operations for Lockheed Martin, the largest defense contractor in the world. She authored Lockheed’s telemedicine white paper used by the corporation to address access to care for employees and detailed the financial benefits to the corporation when employees have access to the right care, at the right time, in the right setting. Smolko’s passion for accessible, effective, and compassionate patient care led her to found a nonprofit called The Heart of Medicine, dedicated to delivering primary care to poor and underserved communities. As President, she coordinates volunteer medical trips for healthcare professionals, including leading teams of volunteers to deliver health care in mobile clinics and non-traditional healthcare settings in Haiti. Smolko earned a BA in Biology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, a Master of Medical Science in PA Studies from Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona, and a Doctor of Medical Science degree from Lynchburg College. She has also earned Six Sigma Greenbelt certification and is a nationally certified health coach (NSHC). Authorship and News Mentions October 21, 2020 - Video PCC Webinar: Making the Call on the Best Use of Telehealth in Primary Care October 21, 2020 - Event PCC's October webinar: Making the Call on the Best Use of Telehealth in Primary Care	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2079
__label__wiki	0.943621	0.943621	CDC circuit to resume in Canada & USA The Championship Darts Corporation is set to return to action later this month, with weekends planned in Canada and the USA for players to qualify for the William Hill World Darts Championship and BetVictor World Cup of Darts. The CDC circuit has not been able to commence so far in 2020, although an online Championship League and "Cyber Series" virtual tour have been running to keep players in North America active. However, the CDC is to stage two four-event weekends which will give CDC Tour Card Holders their chance to secure places in the World Cup and World Championship. Canadian players will be competing on September 26-27 in Woodstock, Ontario - with one place in the World Cup team alongside PDC Tour Card Holder Jeff Smith on offer alongside one spot in the World Championship. American players will then play off on October 3-4, with two places in the World Cup team available alongside one World Championship place. In addition, with the North American Championship not having been held in 2020, the World Championship place usually reserved for that event has been awarded to 2019 CDC Continental Cup winner Danny Lauby (pictured above) due to the exceptional circumstances this year. Each weekend will be open to CDC Tour Card Holders from that country only (with no qualifying events for non-Tour Card Holders), and will feature four events (two per day). World Cup qualification will see points earned in the four events added to the players' 2019 total on the CDC Order of Merit. For World Championship places, the selection will be based on performances across those four events alone, with the leading player in Canada and the USA progressing to compete at Alexandra Palace. Championship Darts Corporation Canadian weekend - September 26-27, Woodstock, Ontario USA weekend - October 3-4, Indianapolis, Indiana The events will be staged by the CDC under strict regulations, which will include a temperature & welfare check on arrival for all players, social distancing and limits on the number of people permitted in a venue. Full details are available through the CDC. BetVictor World Cup of Darts Campbell to represent Canada at World Cup and World Championship DartPlayers Australia unveil 2021 ProTour plans Overseas Sanctioned Tours DartPlayers Australia have announced plans for their 2021 ProTour. PDC Nordic & Baltic Tour update The planned restart of the 2020 PDC Nordic & Baltic circuit in October has been cancelled. Super League Germany Group B concludes on PDCTV this weekend	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2080
__label__cc	0.588562	0.411438	Differing Experience with Bee Remedy 1- 1 rating Bee Stings Terry Graedon Not too long ago, we asked our readers whether they rely more on experience or on evidence. It’s really a false division: even when doctors insist on evidence, they are relying on someone to record and analyze the experience of volunteers in a study. Sometimes it is hard to know when our experience should be trusted and when it should be tested further. This is especially obvious in the case of home remedies. Putting a bar of soap under the bottom sheet to stop leg cramps sounds so crazy that it needs to be tried out before anyone will believe it might help. Perhaps the same holds for munching coconut macaroon cookies to ease chronic diarrhea. It might be useful to bring a similarly open-minded but skeptical approach to certain prescription drugs. Not all medications help each and every person, after all. Sometimes doctors and patients will need to try out quite a few antidepressants or blood pressure pills before finding one that works. The difficulty in sorting out experience from experiment was illustrated recently in readers’ reactions to a column about a non-chemical approach to discourage insects: “I was at a child’s birthday party and wasps and bees were flying all over while the food was out. Someone said to get self-sealing plastic bags (sandwich size is fine), fill them with water and put them on the table. The wasps disappeared. If I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes I never would have believed it.” This report inspired a back-yard experiment: “I’ve had a problem with yellow jackets & wasps around my hummingbird feeder all summer. So this morning, I filled two large plastic bags with water and laid them on the porch railing, directly under the feeder. I then watched the scene for the next four hours. “The bags did NOT deter the insects AT ALL. The bags were in shade when I started the experiment, and now they’re in full glaring sun. So light doesn’t seem to have an effect.” The photos this reader sent were quite convincing. But we soon heard from critics of the experiment: “I’ve never heard of just laying the bags on the railing like that. And I haven’t heard of this deterring wasps. “But I can tell you that hanging them is a good fly deterrent. I learned this from Mexican restaurants that have an outdoor covered patio. The water-filled bags are hung around the edge of the patio (from the eaves). They’re hardly noticeable; I never noticed them ’til someone told me, then I noticed them everywhere. “They use a quart-size zip bag, filled about 3/4 full of water and hung every 8 feet or so around the perimeter. They say the flies see themselves magnified or something, and stay away. For whatever reason, they do stay away.” Another reader reported on his own experiment: “I tried the water-filled plastic storage bag trick but added three pennies. It was hung from my porch roof to ward off bumblebees that had made a nest under the deck. It worked and there are no bees. It has something to do with sunlight and a prism effect on an insect’s compound eyes.” We wish an entomologist could share the scientific evidence on plastic bags. Instead, you will have to use your own judgment on the value of this practice. Your judgment is even more essential when it comes to your own health. Terry Graedon, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and co-host of The People’s Pharmacy radio show, co-author of The People’s Pharmacy syndicated newspaper columns and numerous books, and co-founder of The People’s Pharmacy website. Terry taught in the Duke University School of Nursing and was an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology. She is a Fellow of the Society of Applied Anthropology. Terry is one of the country's leading authorities on the science behind folk remedies. Read Terry's Full Bio. Get the latest health news right in your inbox Join our daily email newsletter with breaking health news, prescription drug information, home remedies AND you'll get a copy of our brand new full-length health guide — for FREE! Join over 150,000 Subscribers at The People's Pharmacy We're empowering you to make wise decisions about your own health, by providing you with essential health information about both medical and alternative treatment options. Daily Newsletter (Sent 5 days / week) Bi-weekly Newsletter (Sent Tuesday and Friday) Weekly Newsletter (Sent each Wednesday) Health eGuide Announcements (Sent only when we publish a new ebook)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2083
__label__wiki	0.941262	0.941262	Senior Amazon employee resigns after virus protesters sacked By Ashleigh Webber on 5 May 2020 in Coronavirus, Health and safety, Latest News, Resignations, Whistleblowing Amazon workers in New York staged a protest on 1 May 2020. JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock A vice president at Amazon has resigned “in dismay” at the company’s treatment of workers who criticised working conditions that they believed put them at risk of coronavirus. Coronavirus return to work TUC and CBI offer contrasting views of draft return to work guidance Crisis then calm: How coronavirus is affecting the job of HR Return-to-work guidance: seven workplaces reconceived Tim Bray, a senior engineer at Amazon Web Services, announced his departure from the online retail giant in a blog post yesterday (4 May), which stated the company’s decision to dismiss workers who had organised protests against working conditions had been “designed to create a climate of fear”. It has emerged that the company allegedly dismissed the organiser of a small protest against working conditions at a warehouse in New York, while Bray said it had also sacked office staff who had been organising another protest and had spoken out about climate issues. Bray’s blog post says that “firing whistleblowers” is “evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture”. “I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison,” he adds. He says remaining an Amazon vice president “would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised”. Amazon has long faced criticism about its alleged working conditions and Bray is the first senior employee to speak out about them publicly. Amazon declined to comment on Bray’s resignation, but a spokesperson said the health and safety of its employees was a top concern. “We expect to invest approximately $4 billion from April to June on Covid-related initiatives to get products to customers and keep employees safe,” the spokesperson said. “This includes spending more than $800 million in the first half of the year on Covid-19 safety measures, with investments in personal protective equipment (including deploying 100 million+ masks to sites), enhanced cleaning of our facilities, less efficient process paths that better allow for effective social distancing, higher wages for hourly teams, and developing our own Covid-19 testing capabilities, etc.” In a blog post, Amazon said it had implemented disinfectant spraying and temperature checks across its operations globally. Employees who work in a role that can be done effectively from home were welcome to do so until at least 2 October 2020. Last month the company was forced to temporarily close six warehouses in France after a court ordered it to stop all but essential deliveries. Employee relations opportunities on Personnel Today Browse more Employee Relations jobs Nokia: how a global employer is handling coronavirus Employers need to be pragmatic and fact-based and clear in their communications when managing staff, including some in Wuhan, China,... Businesses clamour for guidance over coronavirus data privacy What data privacy rules should businesses consider when dealing with Covid-19? Construction, automotive and hospitality firms reopen sites Construction giant Taylor Wimpey, which has announced a phased reopening of its building sites from Monday 4 May, is among...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2087
__label__cc	0.520384	0.479616	Aguilera Adds AWS 900 Beverly Hills, CA (April 7, 2009)--Engineer Oscar Ramirez, who has worked with Kanye West, P. Diddy and Aftermath Records, suggested a Solid State Logic AWS 900+ console to drive the resident Pro Tools system for Christina Aguilera’s private studio. Beverly Hills, CA (April 7, 2009)–Engineer Oscar Ramirez, who has worked with Kanye West, P. Diddy and Aftermath Records, suggested a Solid State Logic AWS 900+ console to drive the resident Pro Tools system for Christina Aguilera’s private studio. “I had used the AWS 900+ at another studio and so I was very familiar with its capabilities,” says Ramirez. “This particular console became available to us and I strongly recommended making it the centerpiece of Christina’s studio over simply getting a control surface to run Pro Tools. For the mission of the studio, the AWS was the best choice because it is a real console that gives us that great SSL sound. When you are dealing with top level talent and producers, you really need to deliver and the AWS delivers.” According to Ramirez, one of the considerations was that the AWS 900+ does not need a separate machine room, and that worked for the budget and the space requirements of the control room. The studio room is large enough for a drummer, a bass player and a guitarist to play, so the space savings with the AWS was a plus for this studio. Aguilera’s design team additionally purchased eight channels of XLogic mic amps and dynamics modules to augment the 24 channels available on the console, yielding a full 32 channels of SSL’s SuperAnalogue sound. “We have been using the console for just over a month and everything has been going great with the console,” states Ramirez. “We’re doing the whole writing and recording process at the studio with Christina and we are working right now on some projects. The beauty of the AWS is that if we have to go to a bigger studio, the tracks we create with the AWS are finished tracks because the quality is there. We can also get amazing mixes out of the console. I really love working with the AWS.” www.solid-state-logic.com Solid State Logic Updates AWS 900 Console Solid State Logic AWS 900 Analogue Workstation System Protocol Adds SSL AWS 948 Delta Celldweller Adds SSL AWS Ayrshire College Adds SSL AWS 924 SSL Bows 16-Fader AWS 916 JMJ Adds SSL Rattle Room Adds SSL	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2089
__label__wiki	0.875208	0.875208	D2 Gets A D2 New York (August 23, 2005)--Back in its mid-80s heyday, legions of teens referred to Duran Duran as "D2" for short; these days, the band itself is benefiting from a D2 of a different sort. Preparing for the second leg of the band’s Astronaut world tour, lead singer Simon LeBon has been wearing personal monitors mixed by Leon Dalton, who has a pair of XTA D2 stereo dynamic EQs on the monitor vocal, assuring LeBon that he’s hearing a sound tailored to his voice. New York (August 23, 2005)–Back in its mid-80s heyday, legions of teens referred to Duran Duran as “D2” for short; these days, the band itself is benefiting from a D2 of a different sort. Preparing for the second leg of the band’s Astronaut world tour, lead singer Simon LeBon has been wearing personal monitors mixed by Leon Dalton, who has a pair of XTA D2 stereo dynamic EQs on the monitor vocal, assuring LeBon that he’s hearing a sound tailored to his voice. Dalton has one XTA D2 positioned on the input to the monitor console from LeBon’s microphone. The other D2 is stationed on the console output to the singer’s personal monitor. “Simon has a very flamboyant vocal style,” remarked Dalton. “He has a lot of nuances to it, especially in the top end, so the ability that the D2 gives me to choose which frequencies I compress and precisely how much is incredibly helpful. It’s the best dynamic compressor I’ve ever used in this kind of application, and I’m looking forward to using it again.” XTA (Distributed in the U.S. by Group One) www.g1limited.com Grand Ole Opry Gets New Monitor Console Sensaphonics Debuts D2 Dual Dynamic IEMs Roger Federer Gets Into Farm League Pro Audio Gets Proactive on Piracy QSC Gets in the Vans Henszey Sound Gets Immersed in Immersive SSL’s System T Software Gets Immersive HOW Sound New Hope’s New Sanctuary Gets New Audio	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2090
__label__wiki	0.716797	0.716797	Sales of BE Messagecasting Products Triple Quincy, IL (July 17, 2006)--Broadcast Electronics (BE) reports that orders for its Messagecasting products from The Radio Experience have tripled in the first six months of 2006 compared to the same time period in 2005. Quincy, IL (July 17, 2006)–Broadcast Electronics (BE) reports that orders for its Messagecasting products from The Radio Experience have tripled in the first six months of 2006 compared to the same time period in 2005. “Sales far exceeded our expectations. Even our most optimistic projections two years ago fell short of what is turning out to be runaway adoption of Messagecasting by broadcasters,” said Ray Miklius, BE vice president studio systems. Broadcast Electronics was the first radio equipment manufacturer to come out with a Messagecasting studio product in 2004. It is currently the only company to offer a turnkey suite of applications for managing, scheduling and formatting messages for readout on HD Radio and RDS tuners, as well as over the Web. Miklius attributes the success of BE’s Messagecasting line to its flexibility, specifically in the area of “interleaving.” Being able to interleave dayparted promotional and sponsored messages with song title and artist text has the potential to enrich listenership as well as create new revenue opportunities for broadcasters, he said. An evolution of BE’s two decades as a leader in music scheduling and rotation, BE Messagecasting is available by the module or by the package. Options include online connectivity to the company’s TRE Data Center for real-time song information lookup with message “laundering,” and EAS function for transmitting emergency text messages originated by civil authorities. Traffic and other data provided by outside services also can be added as plug-in applications that work alongside native applications. Packages are available for a single station or a cluster of stations; for a single format or all three formats reaching HD Radio, RDS and Web listeners. www.bdcast.com QSC Names Sales Directors QSC Adds New Sales Directors Steve Johnson Joins Audix as VP, Sales & Marketing TSL Products Previews 2018 NAB Show Updates Harman Announces New Approach To U.S. Sales, Support RTW Names U.S. Sales Director Radial Adds Sales Managers Adam Names Director of U.S. Sales	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2091
__label__cc	0.723414	0.276586	NAMM Show to Expand Pro Audio Presence The annual Winter NAMM Show draws more than 100,000 attendees from around the world to the Anaheim Convention Center, all focused on seeing the latest and greatest in MI, pro audio and event technology. Next January’s edition will see some radical shifts for the Show, as many pro audio exhibitors will move into a new building, Anaheim Convention Center North, which will make its NAMM debut. A newly released convention map outlines the changes. ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff ⋅ Published: August 14, 2017 Anaheim, CA (August 14, 2017)—The annual Winter NAMM Show draws more than 100,000 attendees from around the world to the Anaheim Convention Center, all focused on seeing the latest and greatest in MI, pro audio and event technology. Next January’s edition will see some radical shifts for the Show, as many pro audio exhibitors will move into a new building, Anaheim Convention Center North, which will make its NAMM debut. A newly released convention map outlines the changes. Pro Audio for isn’t the only market that will be relocated, as the map reveals that the show has moved many product communities into new spaces across the convention center. Pro Audio will continue to have a presence in Hall A as it has for years, but that will lead into the new building, where the show’s focus will be on Pro Audio/MI Technology and Distributors. Hall A overall will offer Pro Audio, DJ/Pro Audio, Pro Audio and Technology, and Event Technology, a new area of the show intended to showcase lighting, rigging, DJ, sound, special effects and staging products and services. NAMM’s educational programs, previously held on higher floors of the Convention Center, will be relocated to the Hilton Anaheim, where they will cover four floors, covering a variety of disciplines. Part of that effort will include the Audio Engineering Society’s new format: AES@NAMM Prosound Symposium: Live and Studio. Also of note to the pro audio industry will be the annual TEC Awards on Saturday, January 27. www.namm.org Pro Audio Education to Expand at NAMM 2019 NAMM Refines Its Pro Audio Experience NAMM Show by The Numbers NAMM Pro Audio Exhibition Wing Debuts Top Pro Audio Exhibitors Discuss NAMM 2020, Part 1 Seen on the Scene: 2019 NAMM Show, Day One Audio Offerings at The Photography Show & The Video Show Virtual Festival Galaxy Audio Acquires Special Projects Audio and Ansr Audio	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2092
__label__wiki	0.725008	0.725008	Work & Clients Who Is Punchee TennisTVs YouTube Metrics Double in 12 Months At the beginning of 2017 Punchee Media took on consultation and strategy for ATP’s TennisTV YouTube channel. In this period Watch Time increased 30%, Views 62%, Likes 122%, Shares 124% and Subscribers 110% and a 35% 18-24 year old market. We look forward to further success in 2018. Milo Down Under Punchee Media was tasked with creating the website and digital for alt-right provocateur, Milo Yainnopoulos' Australian tour. Working with Penthouse Australia, Punchee Media designed an easy to use flexible site with the sole objective to sell tickets in all Australian capital cities. This was a sold-out tour across all Australian cities. Erin Bloomer Socials with Punchee After creating and designing the website for the hugely talented singer/songwriter, Erin Bloomer, Punchee Media have now taken on both her digital and social media management and digital music distribution. Having amassed over 107,000 organic Instagram followers all before the age of 15 and her debut song 'Right Love, Wrong Time' hitting half a million streams in 6 months there is no doubt this currently unsigned artist is going to be the one to watch. Inter Milan FC As the Facebook clutter grows, more and more sporting organisations are looking at YouTube to distribute professional video content. Punchee Media were tasked with consulting for Inter Milan FC to support their YouTube channel for the following season. It's an exciting prospect and we look forward to seeing what we can achieve together. Beatties Sudio Clicks with Punchee Beatties Studio is taking a remarkably different shot to what they have been used to since creating the rare, historic and unique images of Tasmania since 1840. Beatties Studio now enters the digital age and will be working with Punchee Media in developing and driving social throughout 2017 in the lead up to the studio's long-awaited book launch. International Tennis Foundation and Punchee Media Punchee has teamed up with the folk at LiveWire Sports once more, this time we have been asked to consult on the current YouTube strategy from the ITF, International Tennis Federation - the governing body of world tennis, wheelchair tennis, and beach tennis which includes the Davis and Federation Cup. Punchee Media Delivers for DHL Punchee Media was tasked with analysing video content that has been published and distributed via YouTube from global brands sponsoring some of the biggest sporting leagues, events and tournaments in the world. Our work was designed to provide DHL with the knowledge of what will or won't work for the brand's sport sponsorship for 2017 ATP and Punchee Media 2016 ended the year with a very exciting client in the ATP (the global elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals) Punchee Media was tasked with analysing their current YouTube output to find their strengths and weaknesses and what opportunities there are, by the medium of YouTube, to push people to their owned and operated live streaming device. Punchee Launches Down Under A new chapter has begun for the now named Punchee Media. Formally Punchyee, Punchee Media now rolls out more in to the Australia market. While maintaining its presence and clients across the UK and Europe, Punchee Media will now extend business Down Under. We look forward to what's in store, it's a whole new ball game. Created by Punchee Media, 2017. ABN: 57 864 180 625 - Contact: morgan@puncheemedia.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2095
__label__wiki	0.519956	0.519956	Potter’s Wax Museum is now open. Museum Hours & Information St. Augustine Group Tours Introducing the St. Augustine Hometown Pass Program. Residents of St. Augustine can take advantage of our tour for FREE when accompanied by an adult paid guest.* It's free to join and easy to use. Sign up today and rediscover the magic of St. Augustine! *Hometown pass holder can be an adult or child (ages 4-12) who resides in eligible areas of Historic Tours of America tours and attractions. Each Hometown pass holder rides free when accompanied by a guest who has purchased A FULL FARE adult ticket. Accompanying adult guest ticket must be purchased at a Historic Tours of America tour or attraction ticket booth. Tickets may not be purchased online and may not be purchased using any discounts or coupons. Hometown Pass is not valid for packages. St. Augustine: All residents of St. John's County. A Valid driver's license, government issued id or voter's registration must be shown at the depot in conjunction with the Hometown Pass for all pass holders over the age of 15. Sorry, we cannot accept utility bills. Hometown passes are only valid in YOUR hometown and are not transferable to other cities. Thru Jan. 31: Mon. – Sun.: 9am – 8pm 31 Orange Street St. Augustine, FL 32084 Sign up for our enewsletter to receive the latest news and discounts! Owned and Operated by Historic Tours of America, Inc. ® Copyright © 2021 Historic Tours of America, Inc. ® This website uses an ADA accessibility tool. View our ADA Accessibility Policy.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2099
__label__wiki	0.603543	0.603543	Evidence from randomized evaluations is changing how we understand and address problems related to poverty. Policymakers, practitioners, and funders worldwide are increasingly applying this learning to social policies and programs. Over 400 million people have been reached by programs that were scaled up after being evaluated by J-PAL affiliated researchers. Many more have benefitted from the several broader ways evidence can inform policy, outlined below. Well-designed randomized evaluations test theories and provide general insights about how programs designed to address poverty work. These insights, when combined with descriptive data and a deep understanding of the local context and institutions, provide useful guides for policy design. Strong partnerships between implementers, researchers, and donors are critical to leveraging evidence to inform policy. Pathways to Policy Change Shifting global thinking Knowledge generated by randomized evaluations has fundamentally shaped our understanding of many social policies. Example case studies: Free bednets to fight malaria Institutionalizing evidence use Many organizations, including governments and large NGOs, have institutionalized processes for rigorously evaluating innovations and incorporating evidence into decision-making. A government innovation lab to improve education Applying research insights Lessons from randomized evaluations have informed the design of programs. Fund flow reform for social program delivery Phone-based technology for agricultural information delivery Adapting and scaling a program Programs originally evaluated in one context have been adapted and scaled in others. Teaching at the Right Level to improve learning Targeting the ultra-poor to improve livelihoods Scaling up an evaluated pilot Innovate, test, scale: Replicating and expanding a successful evaluated pilot to similar contexts. Targeted information to improve social assistance Simplified reminders to increase take-up of tax credits Scaling back an evaluated program Innovate, test, reassess: Partners have scaled down, redesigned, or decided to not move forward with programs that were evaluated and found to be ineffective. Limits of technological solutions to provider monitoring Unintended effects of anonymous resumes All PathwaysShifting global thinkingInstitutionalizing evidence useApplying research insightsAdapting and scaling a programScaling up an evaluated pilotScaling back an evaluated program With support from J-PAL and IPA, the Ministry of Education in Peru created a dedicated unit to identify, test, and scale low-cost interventions to improve educational outcomes. Community chlorine dispensers for better health Innovative safe drinking water technology has reached 4 million people in Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda. Deworming to increase school attendance After research found that school-based distribution of deworming pills in areas with high infection rates boosted health and school attendance, the approach has been scaled to reach over 280 million children in 2019. Evidence from randomized evaluations played a role in shifting global opinion to support free distribution of key preventive health products. Central and state governments in India have adopted a financial reform to enhance public service delivery informed by evidence. Giving directly to support poor households GiveDirectly has expanded its cash transfer program, which was found in a randomized evaluation to have improved economic and psychological well-being in Kenya, to reach over 125,000 households in rural Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda since 2013. Incentivized community grants for aid effectiveness A performance-incentivized community grant program shown to accelerate improvements in health reached about 4.9 million people from 2010 to 2018 and generated important lessons for future programs to reduce childhood stunting in Indonesia. Individualized tutoring to improve learning Saga Education’s intensive math tutoring program has been shown to improve academic outcomes and has now reached 2,500 students facing barriers in the United States. Information and enforcement to reduce overfishing Evidence from a randomized evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis led the Chilean government to expand a consumer information campaign to protect at-risk marine species. Information and mediation to improve labor courts The Government of Mexico used insights from a randomized evaluation to inform a national labor law. Based on evidence that biometric monitoring technology did not increase doctors' attendance at primary health centers, the government of Karnataka decided to end the program, saving taxpayers millions of dollars. Parental engagement to improve children's schooling The French Ministry of Education has expanded a parental involvement program to all public schools in the country on a voluntary basis. Precision Agriculture for Development leveraged findings from two randomized evaluations to create and diffuse a new mobile-phone based model for agricultural extension. Promoting housing choice to improve economic mobility Evidence from a flagship randomized evaluation in the United States prompted legislative and administrative changes to expand housing choice for low-income families. Following an evaluation in California testing variations of reminder letters to low-income households to increase take-up of tax credits, the US tax agency scaled up nationally the use of reminders that simply and prominently displayed potential benefits. Skills training to strengthen police performance Training in soft skills for police in Rajasthan, India improved public perceptions of their performance. Strengthening third-party audits to reduce pollution Evidence from a randomized evaluation informed the scale-up of a pollution audit policy in Gujarat, India. Government scale-up improves access to targeted social programs for 65.67 million people. A multifaceted livelihood program has reached and improved the standard of living for more than 640,000 women in Bangladesh and India following randomized evaluations by J-PAL affiliates. Reorienting instruction has improved learning opportunities for over 60 million students in India and Africa. The French government abandoned a policy that would have required firms to make recruitment decisions based on anonymized resumes after research showed that a voluntary, pilot scheme actually harmed minority applicants’ employment chances. Policymaker Voices Enhancing Delivery through Financial Reform of MGNREGS Using Identification Cards to Improve National Social Assistance in Indonesia The Evidence to Policy resource page features tools for policymakers, practitioners, donors, and others interested in leveraging evidence to inform policy. These resources provide practical guidance on adapting evidence from one context to another, assessing whether a program is ready for scale, fostering a culture of evidence use within organizations, and more. View all Evidence to Policy resources. New J-PAL Report: Creating a Culture of Evidence Use in Latin America It improved lives elsewhere. Will it here? Applying the generalizability framework: Adopting Teaching at the Right Level in Zambia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2101
__label__wiki	0.775668	0.775668	Rema Hanna Scientific Director, J-PAL Southeast Asia Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies @rema_nadeem Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South East Asia Studies and a Co-Director of the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) research program at the Center for International Development, Harvard University. In addition, she’s the Scientific Director for Southeast Asia at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and a faculty affiliate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Professor Hanna is particularly interested in understanding how to make government services “work” for the poor in developing countries. She has worked on large-scale field projects with governments and non-profits to understand how to improve safety net systems, reduce bureaucratic absenteeism, and reduce corruption. Professor Hanna holds a PhD in Economics from MIT and a BS in Public Policy from Cornell University. Prior to joining the Kennedy School, she was a faculty member at New York University. Related Evaluations The Impact of Social Program Targeting Strategies on Reported and Actual Asset Ownership in Indonesia Evaluating the Karnataka Integrated Medical Information and Disease Surveillance System (IMIDSS) in Primary Health Centers in India The Medium-Term Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Health and Education in Indonesia Encouraging Carpooling in Malaysia and Singapore Plugging the leaky bucket: Generating experimental evidence to support Indonesia's social protection reforms Enrolling Informal Sector Workers in National Health Insurance in Indonesia Improving the Transparency and Delivery of a Subsidized Rice Program in Indonesia Local Elites and Targeted Social Programs in Indonesia Improving Targeting of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia Predicting Loan Repayment by Rural Households in India Discrimination in Grading in India Effectively Targeting Anti-Poverty Programs in Indonesia Farmer Decision-Making and Technology Experimentation in Indonesia Cooking Stoves, Indoor Air Pollution, and Respiratory Health in India Encouraging Teacher Attendance through Monitoring with Cameras in Rural Udaipur, India Spend Fossil-Fuel Subsidies on Pandemic Relief and the Poor Cushioning the poor from the COVID-19 shock The Myth of Welfare Dependency Pollution by the Numbers For food-aid recipients, information is power Implementation ups and downs: Monitoring attendance to improve public services for the poor in India BISP to collaborate with MIT to strengthen evidence based policy making The devil is in the details: The successes and limitations of bureaucratic reform Strengthening safety nets for the poor The myth of welfare's corrupting influence on the poor Cash transfers to Indonesia's poor don't discourage work These cheap, clean stoves were supposed to save millions of lives. What happened? Hanna to serve as Scientific Director at new J-PAL office in Indonesia Smokeless Stoves, Girl-Friendly Schools, and the Bloc That Wasn’t Clean Cookstoves Must Be Rethought so They Actually Get Used in Developing World What Cookstoves Tell Us About the Limits of Technology The Limits of Plug-and-Play Development The Cookstove Conundrum When Helpful Intentions Go Up in Smoke Coming Clean on Cookstoves ‘Clean Cookstoves’ Draw Support, But They May Not Improve Indoor Air Quality Innovation in India Handicapping Economics' "Baby Nobel", the Clark Medal Special Report: The $25 billion question - Aid to Africa Statistics over Stories Joint International Graft Research Sought Camera and Cash Pill for Truant Tutors Perché il dibattito politico prescinde dai dati Esther Duflo wins MacArthur Fellowship Award Using smartphones to trace mobility during regional lockdowns in Indonesia Using evidence to improve open government initiatives Empowering Citizens with Information: Improving Access to Social Assistance in Indonesia Solving Absenteeism, Raising Test Scores	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2103
__label__wiki	0.601123	0.601123	BoxId: 288322 – Unlimited personalisation with BMW ConnectedDrive Press release BoxID: 288322 (BMW AG) Petuelring 130 80788 München, de http://www.bmw.de Manfred Grunert +49 (89) 382-27797 Unlimited personalisation with BMW ConnectedDrive Infotainment of the future - Concept BMW Application Store (PresseBox) ( Munich, 09-09-14 ) These days, the success of any mobile phone is determined not least of all by the availability and range of "apps", or applications. It is primarily these numerous little extra programs, which can be subsequently downloaded, that provide the greatest use. BMW is presenting its Concept BMW Application Store at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA). It is the world's first carmaker to demonstrate the fundamental possibility of downloading and storing individual applications either from the car at any time on the move or from your PC at home. It means that, as with a mobile phone, the car can be adapted to the needs and interests of its occupants for the first time, thus benefiting from almost limitless personalisation. The Concept BMW Application Store is a further innovative highlight of BMW ConnectedDrive. At the touch of a navigation system button. Conceivable examples of this are - as in the showcase -multimedia travel guides from MERIAN, Geowiki, games, web radio, podcasts, Facebook®, XING and Twitter®. In addition to this scope for individualisation, another stand-out feature of the visionary Concept BMW Application Store is the ability to transfer contact data such as addresses or telephone numbers to the navigation system or mobile phone at the touch of a button. The information is displayed in suitable adapted form by the vehicle's HMI (Human Machine Interface), i.e. its operating logic. In practical terms, this means that, via the menu path "BMW Services", "Application Store", "On the road", customers can download digital travel information and tips from MERIAN (as audio guides in audio book quality or in picture and text form) on points of interest, hotels, restaurants and leisure/nightlife options, manage contacts on "social networks", and receive and compose tweets - all without leaving the car. Plus, the menu item "Entertainment" leads the user to options including podcasts and a "guess the origin of the licence plate" quiz. Applications draw on car-related data. Applications from the Concept BMW Application Store of BMW ConnectedDrive draw on information from the vehicle. With the BMW applications for XING and Twitter®, for example, the car's position is taken from the navigation system and, if the system is actively guiding the car to a destination, information about the destination time and location are used. Beyond that, the future use of numerous other vehicle data for BMW applications is conceivable, e.g. acceleration or braking data. Always at the cutting edge of development. In the future, vehicle occupants could be supplied with a constant stream of new and interesting applications to download from the visionary Concept BMW Application Store. It may also be possible to download software to the car at any time while on the move. In this way the vehicle would be kept up-to-date with the latest developments throughout its service life and costumers would continue to benefit from the BMW Group's latest technical innovations after buying their car. About BMW ConnectedDrive. Under the overall concept of BMW ConnectedDrive, BMW assembles a unique portfolio of innovations which enhance comfort, allow infotainment to be experienced at a new level and significantly improve safety in a BMW. Here BMW ConnectedDrive stands for the exchange of information between the driver, the vehicle and the environment. Whether it's the latest traffic reports, e-mails, emergency call function, Night Vision with pedestrian recognition, BMW Routes, the Internet or telephone information services - the comfort, infotainment and safety systems on board a BMW provide the driver with as much information and as many services as are needed and desired at any time. That's because BMW ConnectedDrive bundles all the functions available to the driver that make Sheer Driving Pleasure an even more comfortable, safe and intensive experience. Further information is avalaible on the Internet at www.bmw.com/connecteddrive. BMW Werksfahrer Martin Tomczyk zu Gast beim "WEC Super Season Launch" - "Ich kann kaum abwarten, dass es endlich losgeht" AAI feiert GT-Titel in der Asian Le Mans Series Starker Auftritt der BMW M6 GT3 Teams bei den 12 Stunden von Bathurst bleibt unbelohnt Additional information about „Internet“ Amazon Web Services gehen offline Amazon Web Services hat auf seiner Online-Konferenz „AWS re:Invent 2020“ u.a. vier neue Container-Funktionen, eine neue Open-Source-Distribution von Kubernetes sowie fünf neue Funktionen für Amazon Connect, das Angebot für Callcenter, angekündigt. Das Wichtigste schwang bei Andy Jassys Keynote aber zwischen den Zeilen mit. read more Petuelring 130 80788 München, de +49 (89) 382-0 [PDF] Press release: Unlimited personalisation with BMW ConnectedDrive Recommend Unlimited personalisation with BMW ConnectedDrive press release	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2105
__label__wiki	0.920917	0.920917	Tenant arrested after allegedly assaulting landlord in Standish John Siciliani, 34, was charged with aggravated assault and assault on an officer, both felonies. By Megan GrayStaff Writer Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Standish man Thursday after he allegedly assaulted his landlord. John Siciliani, 34, was charged with aggravated assault and assault on an officer, both felonies, according to a news release. He also faces misdemeanor charges for assault and refusal to submit to arrest. He was held without bail on a warrant for a probation violation. The sheriff’s office said deputies were called to Deerfield Circle in Standish because of a disturbance between a homeowner and a tenant. Siciliani was allegedly assaulting the homeowner, who ultimately suffered only a minor injury. The deputies forced entry into the house, but Siciliani allegedly punched one of them in the face and fled out a window. The sheriff’s office tracked Siciliani with a K-9 team and used two Tasers during the arrest near the home. The news release said he did not suffer any injuries. Another person, 41-year-old Christopher Webster, was in the home but not involved in the initial disturbance. The sheriff’s office said he locked himself in a bedroom to avoid apprehension on a warrant for felony domestic violence assault, but he ultimately surrendered to arrest on that charge. His bail was set at $1,000 cash. Maine colleges lend critical research freezers as state mobilizes for historic vaccine rollout Portland city manager to appoint citizen to police use-of-force committee standish maine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2106
__label__wiki	0.825494	0.825494	News / India India approves purchase of Russian fighter jets despite US sanction threats Friday, 03 July 2020 6:33 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 03 July 2020 10:01 AM ] This is a file photo of a Russian air force MiG-29 plane. India has approved buying 33 Russian fighter jets, worth more than $2.4 billion, despite US threats to impose sanctions on the country over transactions with Moscow. New Delhi approved on Thursday the purchase of 21 MiG-29 planes and a dozen Su-30 jets which will cost a total of $2.43 billion, according to the defense ministry. The purchase, along with the upgrade of 59 other MiG-29s, was an attempt to address the “long felt need of the Air Force to increase its fighter squadrons,” it added. Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh paid a visit to Moscow last month, calling on his hosts to speed up deliveries, officials have said. The deal came as the Indian air force is about to retire its old fighter jets — most of them of Russian origin. Russia has long been India’s biggest weapons supplier, but in recent years, the US has been trying to get in their way by imposing sanctions on the purchase of Russian armaments. Yet, New Delhi and Moscow signed a deal back in 2018, for the supply of Russian S-400 missile system, worth $5.4 billion. US threatens India with sanctions over purchasing Russia’s S-400 missile systems The US has threatened India with sanctions over purchasing Russia’s S-400 missile defense systems. The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on President Donald Trump’s administration for exemptions from sanctions, mandated under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). CAATSA, signed into law in July 2017, mandates Washington to impose secondary sanctions on any nation entering into high-value deals to procure military hardware from Russia. The Trump administration, however, remained non-committal on CAATSA, saying that the deal itself had no provision for exemptions for India or any other particular country entering into a defense deal with Russia. His administration has even warned its allies and partners to forgo transactions with Russia that risk triggering sanctions, according to a State Department spokesperson who was speaking to the Indian daily the Hindu last year. Meanwhile, Washington is seeking to expand ties with New Delhi, but India’s relations with Russia have always been an issue for the US. US officials have previously met with Indian officials in New Delhi to discuss a military-communications agreement that would boost the interoperability of US and Indian armed forces. India will 'not rush into deal' with US during Trump's visit to Ahmedabad India says it will not "rush into a deal" with US during a visit by President Donald Trump to Ahmedabad next week. But India refused to sign the logistics agreement, known as Comcasa, with the US in 2016. At the same time, India signed a deal with Russia to lease a Russian-made nuclear submarine, to purchase four Russian frigates, the advanced S-400 air-defense missile system, and to set up a joint venture with a Russian firm to produce military helicopters. India has also bought $15 billion worth of US arms since 2008. India russia deal Military deal US warns India against S-400 purchase deal with Russia: Report WhatsApp scrambles as users in big Indian market fret over privacy Hundreds fish in Indian lake to celebrate harvest festival EU calls for close cooperation with Biden administration on Iran deal 5min VIDEO \| Foreigners without face masks punished with push-ups in Bali 32min	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2107
__label__cc	0.558138	0.441862	Natalie MacMaster Quotations Natalie MacMaster Natalie MacMaster, CMis an award-winning fiddler from the rural community of Troy in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada who plays Cape Breton fiddle music... (wikipedia) Born in Canada ↪ Born On June 13, 1972 ↪ Nationality Canadian Quotes ↪ Profession Violinist Quotes Fans Quotes When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage. Celtic Music Quotes Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out. Celtic Quotes There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds. Rocks Quotes I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it. Thinking Quotes 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside. Although Quotes I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite. Basically Quotes I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next. Hearing Quotes I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure. Jobs Quotes It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours. Performers Quotes When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer. Islands Quotes Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island. Uncles Quotes I’m very proud to say that Buddy MacMaster is my uncle. He gives credibility to what I do and I’m glad I can carry that MacMaster name because he has created such a good name. My uncle Buddy MacMaster is one of the greatest fiddlers Cape Breton has ever produced, and we've produced a lot of them! His fellow fiddlers owe him a huge debt, for he has greatly influenced and inspired all of us. He makes you want to dance; he can bring tears to your eyes. Anyone who likes Cape Breton fiddle - no, anyone who likes fiddling - needs to own this album Natalie MacMaster Fans Also Likes Quotations from Nigel Kennedy Lucia Micarelli Joshua Bell Charlie Siem Niccolo Paganini Jascha Heifetz Aleksey Igudesman William Osler	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2113
__label__wiki	0.7058	0.7058	Racing Victoria’s vision is “Racing For All”. We want more people, more often engaging and enjoying our sport. To guide Racing Victoria and our decision-making we have developed a strategic framework in which the customer is at the centre of our existence. Punters, owners, racegoers and viewers are the customers of Victorian racing and they represent the central reason why we conduct our sport. Our purpose is to lead and champion great horse racing in Victoria. Who is Racing Victoria and what do we do to contribute to the Victorian Racing Industry. See the board of directors that create the Racing Victoria vision. Annual Reports & Presentations See the Annual Reports of Racing Victoria dating back to 2007 Racing for the future. See Racing Victoria's strategy to further diversify the racing industry. See the Strategic Framework for the future of Racing Victoria and the horse racing industry. View all key contacts for Racing Victoria here. The impact of the Victorian Thoroughbred Racing industry extends well beyond the racetrack. See how the industry impacts Victoria. Freedom of Information – Part II Information Statements Statements and links to information published and held by Racing Victoria	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2115
__label__cc	0.652073	0.347927	This site uses cookies, as explained in our Cookie policy. If you agree to our use of cookies, please close this message by clicking on "I agree". Private Debt/Equity Acquiring and Investing M&A And Capital Raising HM to Shut Stores as Quarterly Results Plunge Publication Date: 15 Dec 2017 - By Market M. By Market M. Differentiated Equity Fundamental Equity EU Consumer Fashion retailer H&M announced today that it will be shutting down more stores after it experienced its biggest drop in quarterly sales in at least a decade. Although group sales rose by 4% over the year, fourth quarter sales shrank by 4% year-on-year, to 50.4bn kronor ($6bn), as fewer customers visited its stores. This was far below the retailer’s expectations. Shares in H&M have now hit their lowest level in eight years. H&M plans to adapt to changes in the market by closing more stores and selling the brand through Chinese online platform Tmall. It aims to integrate its physical and digital stores more, and will give more details on their strategy changes at a meeting with investors on February 14. The company said: “The quarter was weak for the H&M brand’s physical stores, which were negatively affected by a continued challenging market situation with reduced footfall to stores due to the ongoing shift in the industry[…] In addition, there have been imbalances in parts of the H&M brand’s assortment composition.” The company’s rival, Inditex, the owner of high street brand Zara, as well as Massimo Dutti, Bershka and Pull&Bear, has continually outperformed H&M, as it expands more into e-commerce. However, this week, the Spanish giant also reported a slowdown in sales in its third quarter but said sales improved again in November given the colder weather. The post H&M to Shut Stores as Quarterly Results Plunge appeared first on The Market Mogul. I have no positions in any of the securities referenced in the contribution I do not use any non-public, material information in this contribution To the best of my knowledge, the views expressed in this contribution comply with UK law I agree with the terms and conditions of ReachX This contribution is for informational purpose and does not constitute investment advice nor is it an offer to sell or buy, nor is it a recommendation for any security. Market M. Business Resilience: How to thrive in a crisis – or not! This article discusses the importance of resilience in businesses and why preparing for the next crisis is now an urgent board-level task K-Pharma, the Next Wave? An Introduction to the Korean Pharmaceutical Sector - by Min Ji Kim, Senior Consultant at Scitaris GmbH A race to vaccinate the world: An overview of COVID-19 vaccine status Update on the COVID-19 vaccines mainly comparing the top 3 leader in the field - Pfizer/ BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca/Oxford We are looking for smart, engaged, curious professionals to reshape financial services work at reachx We will respond to any questions to work with us or suggestions ReachX is highly focused on compliance and regulated by the FCA Advisor Newsletter Investor Newsletter Corporate Newsletter Fifth Floor, 11 Leadenhall Street, EC3V 1LP info@reachx.co Memberships about us press contact us compliance ReachX Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA number 811226) Copyright (c) ReachX, 2021. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited ReachX is registered with the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) in the UK ReachX Limited has appointed DataRep as its Data Protection Representative for the purposes of GDPR	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2120
__label__wiki	0.902282	0.902282	Cricket: Inside the million-dollar homes of Australia’s cricket stars They’re some of Australia’s wealthiest sporting stars, so it is no surprise that our cricketers own some incredible homes across the country. From waterfront abodes to country estates and humble homes, there’s a cricketer that owns it. With many on multimillion-dollar contracts, it is no surprise that they have invested heavily in property, with some owning up to 10 properties in our most expensive cities. MORE: Inside Karl Stefanovic’s waterfront mansion House prices get biggest lift since COVID hit Epic home has own rainforest and mountain bike trail Take a peek inside the homes of Australia’s Test Cricket team: Steve Smith — Vaucluse, NSW Steve Smith owns at least nine properties in Sydney. Picture: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images. Former Australian cricket captain Steve Smith has amassed a property empire that is worth upwards of $15m with the ownership at least nine properties, according to CoreLogic. His most recent purchase was a $6.6m four-bedroom property in Vaucluse this past year. The acquisition follows Smith and wife Dani Willis renting in the suburb after moving out of their Coogee penthouse. He purchased this Vaucluse property with wife Dani Willis last year. They are in the process of modernising the luxury home. The couple are now in the middle of renovating the property that has a pool, gym, steam room, wine cellar and a four-car garage. It also has views out towards Sydney Harbour. His investment portfolio is predominantly located in and around the Balmain peninsula in Sydney. RELATED: Steve Smith pays $6.6m for Vaucluse home Inside Steve Smith’s insane property portfolio Smith’s Balmain investment home he renovated. Smith owns a penthouse in this Coogee apartment block. It was his first home. Properties include a stylish three-level house he paid $1.41m in 2016, a derelict home in nearby Birchgrove that cost $1.95m in 2017 which he is updating, a Balmain East house with Harbour Bridge views bought for $2m in 2015 and rented for around $2000 a week after a knock down and rebuild. He also has homes in Marrickville and Sans Souci. Tim Paine — South Hobart, TAS Tim Paine at his South Hobart home with wife Bonnie and kids Charlie and Milla. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES. The 46th Australian Test Captain and wicketkeeper lives in South Hobart with wife Bonnie and their two children. Paine previously told The Sunday Tasmanian the family moved to South Hobart for more space for their growing family. Their current house combines character charm with modern touches and enjoys sweeping district views of the mountains and beyond. The manicured gardens help create a sense of privacy from surrounding neighbours. RELATED: Tim Paine makes tidy profit from Sandy Bay home Paine had previously called Sandy Bay home Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES The Sandy Bay property had modern interiors. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Paine converted the garage into a home gym and a space to practise his cover drive. This did not go to plan when his car was broken into after he had to park it on the street as a result of the cricket set up. He previously made a $250,000 profit when he sold a four-bedroom house in York Street, Sandy Bay in 2018 for $1.5m. The family also own homes in North Hobart and Spring Beach. David Warner — Maroubra, NSW David Warner and his wife Candice own a number of homes around Maroubra. Picture: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images. The opener and wife Candice own four properties worth almost $10m in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra. The Warners are building their forever home on a cliff top overlooking Lurline Bay after buying a dilapidated apartment complex, with uninterrupted ocean views for $3.9m in 2015. The couple are building their dream home at this location. Picture: Tim Hunter. Currently the Warners are living at this four-bedroom home in Maroubra. Shortly after that purchase the couple sold their South Coogee pad for $7.05m, after buying it for $6.25m in 2014. CoreLogic confirms the couple are currently living in a $2.33m four-bedroom house while they wait for their home to be built. They also own a $830,000 two-bedroom Maroubra Rd unit that is rented for $680 per week. They sold their South Coogee pad for $7.05m ahead of auction. Warner also owns a top floor two-bedroom unit in a 1970s block on Broome St with ocean views that set him back $975,000 three years ago. RELATED: David and Candice Warner sells investment unit David Warner continues property spending spree Pat Cummins — Clovelly, NSW Pat Cummins at his farm that he shares with fiancee Becky Boston. Picture: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images. On track to become one of Australia’s greatest bowlers of all time, Cummins calls Clovelly in Sydney’s eastern suburbs home. He lives in a three-bedroom unit near the beach that cost $1,362,500 in 2013. RELATED: Pat Cummins puts Moss Vale investment up for rent They also own this apartment in Clovelly. This Moss Vale property is owned by the vice-captain and is rented for $550 per week. The world’s number one bowler and vice-captain, also owns a $905,000 Moss Vale property in the Southern Highlands, which he currently rents for about $550 per week. He also owns a farm nearby where he trained during the pandemic and was the location of his proposal to now fiancee Becky Boston. Marnus Labuschagne — Ormiston, QLD Marnus Labuschagne and wife Rebekah own two homes in Brisbane’s bayside. Picture: AAP Image/Michael Dodge. Batsman Marnus Labuschagne and his wife Rebekah own two homes in Brisbane’s bayside including one across the road from the water in Ormiston. The $915,000 home was purchased in April 2019 — months before he became an unlikely hero of the 2019 Ashes tour of England. The Ormiston home is across the road from the water and was purchased in 2019. They still retain their former home in Wellington Point. The five-bedroom home near the exclusive Raby Bay has a swimming pool, an outdoor entertaining area, oversized interiors and a triple garage that Labuschagne has configured for indoor cricket. The couple previously lived in a four-bedroom house at Wellington Point that was purchased in 2017. The $585,000 property is now being rented for $650 per week. Mitchell Starc — North Curl Curl, NSW Mitchell Starc and Alyssa Healy own five properties on the northern beaches of Sydney Picture: Phil Hillyard. Mitchell Starc and his cricketer wife Alyssa Healy own five homes on Sydney’s northern beaches that are worth more than $10m combined. The cricketing power couple currently live in Jennifer Hawkins’ old North Curl Curl home, which they paid $5.235m for in 2016. The North Curl Curl residence had been owned by Jennifer Hawkins. Incredible views. It was designed by renowned architect Koichi Takada, and is described as a resort style residence” with views of North Head, Manly and the ocean. The purchase followed Starc offloading a five-bedroom Mosman home for $5.95m in the same year. He had paid $4.455m in 2014. RELATED: Cricket power couple expand their property portfolio Australian cricketers bowling over the property market The pair own a stunning home in Collaroy Plateau. Losses mount for apartment sellers in Sydney’s oversupplied high-rise regions Hunter and Albury regions flagged as cheap areas where home prices will ‘boom’ This Killarney Heights house is used by the couple as an investment property. Property records show they also own a 600sqm Forestville home that set them back $1.525m in September, as well as a Collaroy Plateau investment home with wraparound timber deck and built-in barbecue by the pool bought for $1.95m in 2018. Travis Head — Mitcham, SA Cricketer Travis Head with girlfriend Jess Davies. Picture: Tricia Watkinson. The South Australian owns a 7000sqm estate that might have the coolest views of Adelaide. Head and his girlfriend Jess Davies were revealed to be the buyer of a luxury Mitcham estate in March for $3.05m. The 7000sqm home has 1000sqm of internal living. Picturesque views of Adelaide. Described as “an exceptional resort-style home”, the four-bedroom house with 1000sqm of internal space has district and ocean views, an entertainment pavilion, infinity pool, two garages and oversized interiors. RELATED: Travis Head’s epic Adelaide home The swimming pool is spectacular. Records show it was once owned by bankrupt winemaker Andrew Garrett. Head also owns properties in Tennyson and Kidman Park. Nathan Lyon — Tennyson Point, NSW Nathan Lyon recently purchased a new townhouse in Sydney with his partner Emma McCarthy. Picture: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images. On track to make his 100th appearance in the Baggy Green next week at the Gabba, Nathan Lyon recently settled on a $3.8m five-bedroom townhouse in Tennyson Point on the Parramatta River with his partner Emma McCarthy. RELATED: Nathan Lyon buys $3.8m townhouse The property has five bedrooms and five bathrooms. Picture: Damian Shaw. Their home has five bedrooms, five bathrooms and three car spaces on its 400sqm built by Davina Constructions boss David Buono. Lyon sold the Port Hacking waterfront home he shared with his ex-partner Mel Waring and their children earlier this year for $3,615,000, a loss of almost $200,000. Josh Hazlewood — Hunters Hill, NSW Josh Hazlewood owns a Hunters Hill home in Sydney. Picture: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images. Known for his accuracy with the ball, Josh Hazlewood lives on Sydney’s lower north shore in the quiet suburb of Hunters Hill. The home has a swimming pool and four bedrooms. Striking designer interiors. The strike bowler who claimed 5-8 in India’s second innings in Adelaide paid $3.8m for the newly built home in 2016. The dual-storey house with a swimming pool features a media room, multiple entertaining areas and a level backyard. Matthew Wade — Hobart, TAS Matthew Wade and wife Julia Wade have moved to Hobart after previously calling Melbourne home. Picture: AAP Image/Scott Barbour. They sold this Highett house for $1.7m in 2017. The left-hander made easy work of the real estate game when he sold his four-bed Melbourne home at 5 Sydenham Street, Highett for $1.7m in 2017 upon his controversial move to Tasmania, after purchasing it for $1,187,500 four years prior. RELATED: Matthew Wade catches buyer for Highett home Additional reporting by James MacSmith Liam Hemsworth settles on former Byron Bay hinterland wedding venue for $6.5m Hemsworth brothers Chris, Luke and Liam sell Malibu home January 30 shapes up as upper north shore’s first big auction day for 2021 COVID-safe McMahons Point apartment sells for around $7.5m	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2122
__label__wiki	0.858019	0.858019	'Cash for Criminals' or an answer to violence? Council has decision to make on Advance Peace Roger Phillips Record Staff Writer @rphillipsblog STOCKTON — Mayor Michael Tubbs first went public with his interest in a violence-prevention program called “Advance Peace” in early July. Tubbs' critics quickly dubbed the program “Cash for Criminals” and mocked the mayor for championing what is, in essence, a behavior-modification approach that includes rewards to at-risk young men who stay out of trouble after receiving an Advance Peace “fellowship.” Six months have passed since Tubbs first discussed Advance Peace. The program offers participants a package of services and opportunities that includes the ultimate carrot of a maximum stipend of $1,000 a month for those who have participated in the program for six months. Tuesday night at City Hall, Tubbs will seek the City Council’s approval of a resolution to test Advance Peace in Stockton for four years. Tubbs says he has commitments from four philanthropic organizations to fully fund the program, which, if adopted, will have “no direct financial impact” on Stockton. Following is a look at the Advance Peace issue. Advance Peace DeVone Boggan developed Advance Peace when he was the director of Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety. Boggan portrays Advance Peace as a holistic approach that provides young men with multiple positive role models; assistance with navigating social services; “transformative travel” opportunities; and ready access to an “elder council.” According to Richmond’s data, gun violence resulting in injury or death has dropped by 71 percent in the decade since the establishment of Boggan's Office of Neighborhood Safety. If Stockton approves the plan, it will join Sacramento as one of two California cities replicating the model Boggan developed in Richmond. Tuesday's agenda item includes letters of support from State Assemblywoman Susan Eggman; Cleveland School Remembers-Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence; the San Francisco-based Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence; and the Stockton Heat hockey team. Though it might seem incongruous for a hockey team to weigh in on a public-safety issue, Heat CEO Brian Petrovek wrote that he supports all efforts to change Stockton’s “negative narrative” and believes Advance Peace has the potential to help the city reach that goal. “Part of changing the narrative is reducing violent crime,” Petrovek wrote. “I am supportive of Advance Peace and believe this is a step in the right direction. “Reducing violence and making Stockton a place where more people come to visit is not only the right thing to do, but is also good for businesses like the Stockton Heat.” Attorney Mike McLively of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence cited a 2016 report titled, “Healing Communities in Crisis: Lifesaving Solutions to the Urban Gun Violence Epidemic.” McLively wrote, “Based on this extensive research, we concluded that the Advance Peace model … is one of the most effective existing strategies for addressing the protracted problems of urban gun violence and saving lives.” Detractors Social media provides a forum for citizens to voice their opinions, pro and con. Online criticisms of the proposal have taken aim not only at Advance Peace, but at Tubbs, as well. Here’s a sampling from Facebook this week: JR Guillory: “Think 2017 couldn’t be worse for Stockton Politics? Think again, Advanced (sic) Peace is in town and they want their check.” Judy Wiefel: “OMG. (Tubbs) needs to be stopped. Now. We the People no longer want him in this town. Is their (sic) a petition yet?” Roy Morales: “I Am Sorry I Just Don't Get It. I Thought The (OVP) Office Of Violence Prevention Was Providing This Type Of Service?” Note: Tubbs wrote on Facebook back in September that “Advance Peace dovetails perfectly with our existing violence reduction strategy.” Sue Hiskey Simas: “I wonder how the Police feel about paying criminals? I can't believe we are paying criminals. Forget the New City Hall and paying criminals. Get some miniature golf, a water park. Build a homeless shelter. Stop making fools out of Stockton citizens. (Tubbs) will be living in another city when this idea fails. It's called spend and run.” Note: According to the mayor’s office, the cost of the proposed Stockton Advance Peace program will be covered by contributions from the Silicon Vally Community Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, LIVE Free and PICO California. Regardless of where you stand on this issue, the Advance Peace/Stockton flirtation earned a segment on Thursday’s edition of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. Correspondent Michael Kosta, a comedian by trade, opens the segment with a snarky attitude in league with Advance Peace’s “Cash for Criminals” detractors. “This is like telling a 3-year-old you’ll buy them ice cream if they stop throwing a tantrum,” Kosta says. Later, however, he interviews a graduate of Advance Peace in Richmond. The young man tells Kosta, “The money is the bait … they just throw that out there to reel you in. When you get in they start to teach you real values that nobody in your life taught you before.” By the end of the Daily Show’s five-minute segment, Kosta seems sold on Advance Peace. “It’s not about cash,” Kosta said. “It’s about giving people a bigger picture of the world. (The) program is changing lives, and maybe it could change Stockton, too.” Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or rphillips@recordnet.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/rphillipsblog and on Twitter @rphillipsblog. recordnet.com ~ 530 East Market Street, Stockton, CA 95202 ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Cookie Policy ~ Do Not Sell My Personal Information ~ Privacy Policy ~ Terms Of Service ~ Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2123
__label__cc	0.532912	0.467088	Retro Game Reviews Amstrad GX4000 (4) Atari 5200 (3) Atari 8-bit (28) Atari Jaguar (10) Colecovision (20) Commodore Amiga (4) Fairchild Channel F (3) Gamate (0) Gizmondo (11) Microvision (12)* Neo Geo CD (5) Neo Geo Pocket Color (8) Nintendo Game Boy (15) Nintendo Virtual Boy (24)* Nokia N-Gage (5) Panasonic 3DO (5) Sega Game Gear (32) Sega Mega CD (26) Supervision (10) Tapwave Zodiac (2) Tiger Game.com (5) Turbografx 16 (9) Vectrex (33)* ZX Spectrum (3) Kirby's Adventure (NES review) Developer: HAL Laboratory Kirby's Adventure is an action-platformer and the sequel to the Game Boy original known as Kirby's Dream Land (1992). Your job is to defeat King Dedede and reclaim the seven parts of the Star Rod. The gameplay is similar to the original as Kirby can inhale enemies and spit them out as projectiles. However, the major change here is that he can now copy the abilities of 20+ enemies and attack with power-ups that include a Hammer and a Sword. Each level is short but full of imagination and diversity; for example, one minute you're on a tropical beach, the next you're in a cave, before climbing a treehouse. Other times you'll be piloting a UFO and destroying everything in sight with your Beam, or lighting a fuse and quickly jumping into a cannon to blast off to a distant cloud! You're kept fully engaged throughout and there's tons of secret areas that can only be accessed if you're holding the right weapon. The huge range of power-ups mean you can play the game several times without getting bored as they force you to attack the levels in different ways; in particular the Wheel barges through everything in its path, while the Laser turns the gameplay into a Mega Man clone of sorts! Cool mini-games can be accessed from the hub screen which include Crane Fever where you move a crane inside an Arcade style machine to grab extra lives. Each boss fight is awesome and highlights includes the tree that rains down apples, and a machine that bulldozes its way through a bunker while firing bombs. The game saves your progress which is great considering it's a lengthy adventure. The graphics are gorgeous with beautiful texture detail and top-notch animation, and the music is catchy with plenty of upbeat tracks. Kirby's Adventure is a gem in the NES library and it's clear that so much thought went into every little detail. It's a massive improvement to the already excellent Game Boy original and its sheer scale and beautiful, ever-changing level design make this an action-platformer you simply owe it to yourself to play. Random trivia: The game was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in 2007. Posted by Roberto Rodriguez at 16:35 Labels: 1993, hal laboratory, Kirby's adventure nes review, NES reviews, nintendo Previous Page Next Page Home	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2128
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__label__wiki	0.606535	0.606535	Publish in this journal Ethics in publishing Editorial statute October 2014 Facing the challenges of ventricular hypertrophy: The eyes don’t lie Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (English edition) The Portuguese Journal of Cardiology, the official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, was founded in 1982 with the aim of keeping Portuguese cardiologists informed through the publication of scientific articles on areas such as arrhythmology and electrophysiology, cardiovascular surgery, intensive care, coronary artery disease, cardiovascular imaging, hypertension, heart failure and cardiovascular prevention. The Journal is a monthly publication with high standards of quality in terms of scientific content and production. Since 1999 it has been published in English as well as Portuguese, which has widened its readership abroad. 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Pages 647.e1-647.e5 (October 2014) More article options Ethical disclosures Protection of human and animal subjects Confidentiality of data Right to privacy and informed consent Facing the challenges of ventricular hypertrophy: The eyes don’t lie Resolver os desafios da hipertrofia ventricular: os olhos não mentem? Patrícia Rodriguesa, pfdrodrigues@gmail.com Corresponding author. , Mário Santosa, António Marinhob, Sofia Cabrala, Miguel Vieiraa, Hipólito Reisa, Paulo Palmaa, Severo Torresa a Cardiology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal b Internal Medicine Department, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal This item has received (Daily data update) We describe the case of a 47-year-old man with new-onset heart failure who was found to have severe biventricular wall thickening. We present comprehensive data from invasive and non-invasive multimodality imaging, genetic and histologic tests, and briefly describe their importance in the final diagnosis. To our knowledge, this is the first case of the Portuguese variant of familial amyloid polyneuropathy presenting with heart failure in the fifth decade of life. This is an unusual case report, but also an illustration of how to approach any patient with suspected infiltrative cardiomyopathy. Ventricular wall thickening Infiltrative cardiomyopathy Descrevemos o caso de um doente do sexo masculino de 47 anos, com insuficiência cardíaca de novo, que apresentava marcado aumento da espessura da parede de ambos os ventrículos. Apresentamos dados dos exames de imagem, estudo genético e análise histológica que nos guiaram no diagnóstico, explicando o nosso precurso pelos diagnósticos diferenciais e a interpretação dos diferentes testes. Tanto quanto sabemos, é o primeiro caso descrito de um doente com a variante portuguesa da polineuropatia amiloidótica familiar que se apresenta com insuficiência cardíaca na quinta década de vida. Este é um caso clínico invulgar, mas também um exemplo ilustrativo da abordagem de um doente com suspeita de cardiomiopatia infiltrativa. Hipertrofia ventricular Cardiomiopatia infiltrativa Polineuropatia amiloidótica familiar Increased ventricular wall thickness can be a physiologic response to pressure overload or to exercise, but it can also be pathologic, resulting from myocyte hypertrophy or deposition of an abnormal substance. Finding its exact cause can be challenging, but is crucial in determining the appropriate management. We describe the case of a 47-year-old Caucasian man complaining of tiredness and dyspnea on moderate exertion lasting several months, progressively worsening and associated with orthopnea. A history of erectile dysfunction, night sweats and paresthesias in both hands and feet was also reported. He had also experienced bilateral calf pain during the previous month, with no specific relieving or aggravating factors, and had noted blurred vision in the left eye for the previous six months. He denied chest pain, fever, muscular weakness or other symptoms. His medical history was positive for type 2 diabetes and his family history was unremarkable. On physical examination, bilateral rales and hypoesthesia of the hands and feet were noted. The chest X-ray revealed an increased cardiothoracic index and arterial blood gas analysis showed mild hypoxemia. Blood analysis revealed increased proBNP (1781 pg/ml), without anemia or renal impairment. The electrocardiogram showed normal sinus rhythm, QS waves in the inferior leads, poor R progression in the precordial leads and T-wave inversion in I and aVL (Figure 1). 12-lead electrocardiogram depicting poor R-wave progression in the precordial leads and a pseudo-infarct pattern in the inferior leads. (0.22MB). The transthoracic echocardiogram (Figure 2) showed severe biventricular concentric thickening with normal ejection fraction. Diastolic assessment indicated restrictive physiology; mild pericardial effusion was also noted. Transthoracic echocardiogram, parasternal long-axis (A) and 4-chamber (B) views, showing biventricular hypertrophy (interventricular septum 21 mm; posterior wall 19 mm), increased thickness of the interatrial septum, biatrial enlargement (left atrial indexed volume 42 ml/m2) and mild circumferential pericardial effusion. Diastolic assessment shows a restrictive pattern: transmitral flow (C) with E/A ratio >2 and deceleration time <150 msec; decreased tissue Doppler (D and E) E′ velocities (lateral E′: 4.6 cm/s; septal E′: 2.8 cm/s) and increased E/E′ (mean E/E′ ratio: 25). Decreased myocardial velocities on pulse-wave Doppler (lateral S′: 3.7 cm/s, septal S′: 3.3 cm/s) can also be observed (D and E). At this point, our findings suggested an infiltrative cardiomyopathy, such as amyloidosis, Fabry disease or glycogen storage disease.1,2 The neuropathy and visual changes could fit with a systemic disease. Interestingly, the ECG did not show decreased voltages, which is common in familial amyloidosis. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was another hypothesis. Against it was the ECG showing poor R-wave progression and echocardiographic findings suggestive of an infiltrative disease, with symmetric biventricular wall thickening and pericardial effusion. We excluded hypertensive heart disease, since the patient did not have hypertension. Blood analysis and thoracic computed tomography showed no changes suggestive of hemochromatosis or sarcoidosis. Thyroid disease and HIV, HCV or HBV infection were also excluded. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) showed marked concentric left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, mild right ventricular (RV) hypertrophy and normal ejection fraction. There was biatrial enlargement, thickening of the interatrial septum and mild pericardial effusion (Figure 3). Short-tau inversion-recovery (STIR) sequences showed no myocardial edema or inflammation. In late gadolinium enhancement study, there was difficulty in setting the optimal inversion time to correctly null the myocardium, with a relatively dark blood pool and diffuse subendocardial enhancement of the interatrial septum and the LV and RV walls (Figure 4). The diffuse subendocardial late gadolinium enhancement, coupled with abnormal myocardial and blood-pool contrast kinetics, was most consistent with cardiac amyloidosis. The fact that the optimal inversion time that would null the normal myocardium could not be found is an indirect sign suggesting amyloidosis, because if abnormal fibrils are widespread in the intercellular space, the gadolinium may not be taken up by healthy myocardium.3 Cardiovascular magnetic resonance showing concentric left ventricular hypertrophy and increased right ventricular free wall thickness, with decreased left ventricular volume. Cardiac magnetic resonance, 4-chamber view, depicting the late phase after gadolinium injection, with widespread subendocardial hyperenhancement of the left ventricle, not matching any coronary artery territory, but also involving the right ventricle, both atria and the interatrial septum. (0.1MB). Endomyocardial biopsies and biopsy of the salivary glands were then performed but were negative for amyloid. Immunosubtraction testing for free immunoglobulin chains in serum and urine, which could point to AL amyloidosis, was also negative. An electromyogram suggested the presence of a pressure-sensitive neuropathy of the lower limbs, bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and signs of parasympathetic dysfunction, which would be compatible with amyloidosis. Finally, we returned to the patient's complaint of left visual impairment. Vitreous opacities in the left eye were reported and, after vitrectomy, vitreous humor analysis confirmed the presence of amyloid. Since the patient had no abnormal immunoglobulin chain production or inflammatory condition suggesting AL or AA amyloidosis, we searched for the most common mutation in Portugal of a protein responsible for the production of amyloid, and a mutation in the transthyretin gene (TTR Val30Met) was found, leading to a diagnosis of familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) with a Portuguese type 1 variant.4 The patient gradually improved and was discharged after a few days. He is currently being assessed for possible heart and liver transplantation and genetic counseling has been offered to his only son. To summarize, when assessing a patient with increased ventricular wall thickness, it is important to determine whether it is a restrictive cardiomyopathy as opposed to other types of disease, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or hypertensive heart disease.5 The echocardiogram is crucial, raising the initial suspicion based on structural abnormalities and restrictive physiology. Further study with cardiac magnetic resonance and endomyocardial biopsy can help to identify an infiltrative cardiomyopathy and usually establish the diagnosis. Due to the systemic nature of these deposition diseases, it is essential to investigate the involvement of other organs and to check the family history.6 Amyloidosis consists of a group of diseases characterized by changes in secondary protein structure, in which insoluble extracellular fibril deposits form, leading to organ dysfunction.7 FAP is usually diagnosed in the third decade of life. Its predominant feature is sensorimotor neuropathy,8 but patients commonly have autonomic dysfunction, renal failure and cardiac involvement, which is the major prognostic factor. The most common mutations affect the transthyretin gene (FAP-I or -II), but apolipoprotein A1 (FAP-III) or gelsolin (FAP-IV) may also be involved. Transthyretin is produced mainly in the liver, with a small percentage in the choroid plexus and the retina. Amyloidosis due to a TTR mutation is an autosomal dominant disease. Many mutations have been described, but the Val30Met mutation is the most frequent mutation in Portugal, where it has more than 90% penetrance. The cornerstone of treatment has been liver transplantation, particularly when there is already cardiac or renal impairment. However, a new drug (tafamidis) that promotes stabilization of the transthyretin protein has been approved in Europe and has shown promising results in halting progression of the disease at an early stage. This case illustrates a highly atypical presentation of FAP, with advanced heart disease and mild neurologic impairment, relatively late onset and no family history. In fact, we believe this is the first case described so far of FAP caused by a TTR Val30Met mutation with predominantly cardiac involvement in this age-group. This case is a reminder of the diagnostic limitations of endomyocardial biopsy and of the value of genetic testing in patients with cardiomyopathies,9 which in this instance was crucial not only to establish a definite diagnosis, but also to outline the prognosis, treatment options and follow-up for the patient and his family. It also highlights the importance of multimodality cardiac imaging in the diagnosis of cardiomyopathies. In this case, both the echocardiogram and CMR were fundamental in guiding our investigation. A 99mTc-3,3-diphosphono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic acid (99mTc-DPD) scintigraphy scan could also have helped to identify TTR amyloid deposition in the heart. Finally, this case highlights the importance of combining all the phenotypic manifestations and persevering in determining a diagnosis, which is essential for deciding on the therapeutic approach and counseling. Ethical disclosuresProtection of human and animal subjects The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study. The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work center on the publication of patient data. The authors have obtained the written informed consent of the patients or subjects mentioned in the article. The corresponding author is in possession of this document. The author has no conflicts of interest to declare. C. Rapezzi, E. Arbustini, A.L. Caforio, et al. Diagnostic work-up in cardiomyopathies: bridging the gap between clinical phenotypes and final diagnosis. A position statement from the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehs397 \| Medline Z. Yousef, P.M. Elliott, F. Cecchi, et al. Left ventricular hypertrophy in Fabry disease: a practical approach to diagnosis. Eur Heart J, 34 (2013), pp. 802-808 H. Mahrholdt, A. Wagner, R.M. Judd, et al. Delayed enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance assessment of non-ischaemic cardiomyopathies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehi258 \| Medline M.J. Saraiva, S. Birken, P.P. Costa, et al. Amyloid fibril protein in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy. Portuguese type. Definition of molecular abnormality in transthyretin (prealbumin). J Clin Invest, 74 (1984), pp. 104-119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1172/JCI111390 \| Medline J.B. Seward, G. Casaclang-Verzosa. Infiltrative cardiovascular diseases: cardiomyopathies that look alike. J Am Coll Cardiol, 55 (2010), pp. 1769-1779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2009.12.040 \| Medline P. Elliott, B. Andersson, E. Arbustini, et al. Classification of the cardiomyopathies: a position statement from the European Society Of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehm342 \| Medline Y. Misumi, M. Ueda, K. Obayashi, et al. 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__label__wiki	0.814664	0.814664	TOM ROBINSON. Posted by RCT Admin \| Jul 20, 2017 \| Music \| 0 \| ANNOUNCES “2-4-6-8 MOTORWAY” 40th ANNIVERSARY SHOWS THIS OCTOBER To mark the 40th anniversary of 2-4-6-8 Motorway in October 2017, TOM ROBINSON pays tribute to the original Tom Robinson Band by performing his entire ‘Power In The Darkness’ album at select venues across the country. Taking in 15 dates in total, the tour will also see Tom back at London’s legendary 100 Club for a 3 night residency with a classic four piece lineup. His incendiary live quartet features Faithless drummer Andy Treacey, Richard Ashcroft guitarist Adam Phillips and keyboard virtuoso Jim Simmons plus Tom himself on bass and lead vocals. Full dates listed below. Born in Cambridge in 1950, Tom Robinson first became known in the late 1970s as a musician and LGBT activist with the Tom Robinson Band (TRB) who were early supporters of Rock Against Racism and Amnesty International. In 1977 their Top 5 debut release 2-4-6-8 Motorway became one of the landmark singles of the UK punk era. Other hits included Glad To Be Gay, Up Against The Wall and the band’s debut album Power In The Darkness which went gold in the UK and Japan. As a solo artist Tom had further solo hits in 1983 with War Baby and Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio, and co-wrote songs with Peter Gabriel, Elton John and Dan Hartman. His 14th studio album Only The Now was released in 2015 featuring guests such as Billy Bragg, John Grant and Ian McKellen. Recent festival dates include Latitude, Green Man and headlining the Left Field stage at Glastonbury 2016. As a radio broadcaster Tom hosts three shows a week on BBC Radio 6 Music, is a member of the Ivor Novello Awards committee and in 2016 was awarded a fellowship of LIPA to recognition his support for new music artists through BBC Introducing. OCTOBER TOUR 2017 10 – Cardiff, The Globe 11 – Milton Keynes, The Stables 12 – Cambridge, The Portland 13 – Bewdley Festival 14 – Nantwich, Words & Music 17 – Wakefiled, Unity Works 18 – York, The Crescent 19 – Nottingham Rescue Rooms 20 – Sheffield, Leadmill 21 – Manchester Home 24 – London 100 Club 28 – Newcastle, Riverside 29 – Glasgow, King Tut’s TR homepage: http://tomrobinson.com TR on Twitter: http://twitter.com/freshnet TR on YouTube: http://youtube.com/bothways TR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomrobinsonmusic/ TR on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freshonthenet/ Or Contact – thom@sonicpr.co.uk [ DOWNLOAD HI-RES IMAGES ] Copyright © 2015* * Sonic PR * All rights reserved. PreviousWILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. NextAMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Magical musical moments – 1977-1981 Party in the Park offers a perfect pop package. SCOTTISH POST-PUNK ICONS FOR CARDIFF GIG THIS SUMMER WARD THOMAS	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2132
__label__wiki	0.924281	0.924281	Home Politics Fuming Republicans find themselves powerless over tech clampdown Fuming Republicans find themselves powerless over tech clampdown Cristiano Lima Donald Trump has spent the better part of his presidency railing against the big tech companies, accusing them of anti-conservative bias and demanding that Congress strip them of their legal protections. Now he and his supporters are largely powerless to respond as the same companies muzzle him and one of their favorite alternative platforms. Trump and his allies are seizing on the latest clampdowns by Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon to fire up conservative outrage over being kneecapped by Silicon Valley — a theme the GOP hopes to ride as a campaign message into 2022 and beyond. But with Democrats set to take power in Washington, Republicans have few if any immediate avenues for punishing the companies that squelched Trump’s social media accounts and knocked the free-wheeling Parler platform offline after last week’s deadly Capitol assault. “There’s just not any options left” before Inauguration Day, one GOP congressional aide said Monday. “I don’t think that Trump has many options,” said Rachel Bovard, senior director of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute, a right-leaning political advocacy group. “Should he put out an executive order, it’ll just be reversed … and the same goes for Republicans. They don’t have power in any meaningful way right now.” Responding to tech companies’ recent actions is still the No. 3 priority for Republicans right now, behind sorting out their reaction to the rioting on Capitol Hill and the brewing impeachment battle, a second GOP congressional aide said. But the aide said the party, traditionally opposed to regulatory burdens on business, has no clear consensus on how to move forward on the tech front. “I don’t think that anyone has coalesced around any specific response,” the aide said. It all adds up to a big loss of influence for a party whose lawmakers have hauled in Silicon Valley CEOs for numerous hearings in recent years — and for the president whose appointees filed two major antitrust suits last fall against Google and Facebook. Washington’s power struggle with Silicon Valley remains very much alive, but the incoming Democratic Congress and President-elect Joe Biden will largely decide where it goes next. One of the only potential regulatory avenues left is a rulemaking effort that the Federal Communications Communication announced in October, requested by Trump, which could narrow legal protections for the online industry. But the FCC’s last Trump-era meeting is on Wednesday, and Chair Ajit Pai said last week that he doesn’t plan to bring it up. Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro took a swipe at Pai’s decision. “Backbones in short supply in the DC Swamp,” he tweeted over the weekend. Some of the big tech companies’ critics took stabs at reprisals anyway. Parler filed an antitrust suit Monday against Amazon, which had canceled the platform’s web hosting service for what it called a failure to moderate violent rhetoric among its users. Trump supporters called a protest Monday morning outside Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters, though local news reports said it drew a sparse crowd. An internet provider in Idaho blocked access to Twitter and Facebook for what it called censorship. Trump has hinted that he may have other tricks up his sleeve. On Friday night, when Twitter permanently suspended his personal and campaign accounts, he said in a White House statement that he was weighing a range of responses, including possibly setting up “our own platform in the near future.” But for the Republicans whose reign in Washington is sunsetting, the main response was to cry foul, with some calling for Congress or the executive branch to act. “Amazon, Google and Apple’s decisions to block the download or use of Parler by their consumers is dangerous,” tweeted Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.). “This blatant monopolistic behavior is designed to shut down debate and silence conservatives.” Barr added that he was “calling on the DOJ to initiate investigations of possible antitrust violations by these tech giants.” Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), one of the lawmakers leading bipartisan efforts in the House to update U.S. antitrust laws, said GOP officials should direct their anger at the companies’ business practices. “Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple have used their monopoly power to censor speech,” he tweeted Sunday. “Until Republicans understand that antitrust enforcement is the answer, these companies will continue to abuse their power.” After Amazon announced its Parler takedown this weekend, Buck tweeted that he’ll be “introducing legislation this Congress to hold Amazon accountable for their anticompetitive behavior.” Some Republicans have also indicated they plan to channel their fury into efforts to roll back or overhaul a crucial legal liability shield for the online industry, known as Section 230. That’s the same law that Trump unsuccessfully demanded last year that Congress repeal, a plea that failed to gain traction even in the GOP-controlled Senate. “I’m more determined than ever to strip Section 230 protections from Big Tech (Twitter) that let them be immune from lawsuits,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tweeted in response to Twitter banning Trump. But with Democrats set to lead those negotiations, GOP complaints about ideological bias will have a lot less sway. Instead, Democrats’ anger at Silicon Valley is driven mainly by issues like political falsehoods, hate speech and threats of violence festering online. Trump’s own efforts to use the powers of the executive branch to hammer social media companies for allegedly censoring conservatives have basically petered out, even before Republicans lost the White House and Senate. The president signed an executive order in May asking federal agencies to pare back Section 230’s legal protections, which shield online platforms from lawsuits over content their users post and give them broad leeway to take it down. But neither the FCC nor the Federal Trade Commission has taken any significant action on that request, and Democrats in Congress have rejected the idea of repealing the law. “I think it needs to be revised, but you cannot repeal it or else you will destroy protections for small businesses and entrepreneurs working their way up,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a news conference in December. Trump’s calls for a full repeal have also caused confusion among some congressional Republicans, according to one aide, given that lawmakers of both parties have long pushed for changing but not revoking the law. “The playbook is totally torn up” on Section 230, said one GOP congressional aide. The bias issue is also not likely to make it into any of the flurry of federal and state government antitrust cases hitting the tech giants — even though defenders of Trump and Parler say the decisions to knock them offline are a clear example of an abuse of Silicon Valley’s market dominance. For example, the antitrust suit that the Justice Department and 11 states filed against Google in October didn’t include allegations of ideological discrimination, despite hopes by some Republicans. In the meantime, state attorneys general have continued investigating Google over antitrust concerns related to its Play Store — the same app store that it kicked Parler off of last week. But that multistate investigation is bipartisan, led by attorneys general from Utah, New York, Tennessee and North Carolina, and the states have sought to keep politically fraught aspects out of their antitrust complaints. The Democratic attorneys general aren’t likely to back a suit that makes Parler’s removal a key part of an antitrust case against Google. One thing that may need to happen before the GOP can really bring consequences to the tech giants: Republicans need to agree among themselves on how they want to address the companies’ behavior, said Bovard, adding that the party has long been splintered among factions. “I think their base is pissed, quite frankly, that they feel like they wasted four years of chest thumping and hearings and rhetoric, but no real action,” she said. “So I think now is the time for Republicans to build up their policy positions so the minute when they reemerge in a position of power, they have a policy agenda that they are ready to enact.” Leah Nylen contributed to this report. POLITICO NEWSLETTERS Technology news from Washington and Silicon Valley — weekday mornings, in your inbox. 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__label__wiki	0.659637	0.659637	Gayest Places In Oregon For 2020 We looked at years of data to determine which Oregon cities have the most pride Chris Kolmar, RoadSnacks January 5, 2020 - 17,045 views Editor’s Note: We updated this article for 2020. This is our sixth time ranking the gayest places in Oregon. Swipe left for slideshow. Article continues below. When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriages, America generally, and the gay community specifically, celebrated. Same-sex marriages, and the gay and lesbian movement is more mainstream than ever. While the national discussion has been brought to the forefront, at the state level, conversations continue. Did you know that an estimated 0.38% of Oregon residents is gay? That ranks as the number 10 most gay state in the nation. That means there are a total of 7,355 gay households in The Beaver State. Our goal with this post is to use data and science to determine the gayest cities in Oregon. After analyzing 107 cities with over 1,000 households, we’ve determined these are The Gayest Cities in Oregon for 2020. The 10 Gayest Places In Oregon For 2020 Seaside (Photos) Sweet Home (Photos) Milwaukie (Photos) Phoenix (Photos) Coos Bay (Photos) Hood River (Photos) Portland (Photos) Warrenton (Photos) Redmond (Photos) Monmouth (Photos) What’s the gayest place in Oregon? According to the facts, Seaside is the gayest place in Oregon for 2020. If you’re looking for something more national, check out the gayest cities in America. For more Oregon reading, check out: Best Places To Live In Oregon Cheapest Places To Live In Oregon Most Dangerous Cities In Oregon The 10 Gayest Cities In Oregon For 2020 1. Seaside Households: 2,890 Gay Households: 42 (24th highest) % Gay Households: 2.91% (1st highest) More on Seaside: Data \| Photos Seaside is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. The name Seaside is derived from Seaside House, a historic summer resort built in the 1870s by railroad magnate Ben Holladay. The city’s population was 6,457 at the 2010 census. 2. Sweet Home Source: Wikipedia User Sword Fern \| CC BY-SA 3.0 Gay Households: 50 (22nd highest) % Gay Households: 2.78% (2nd highest) More on Sweet Home: Data \| Photos Sweet Home is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States. The population was 8,925 at the 2010 census. According to the city, “Sweet Home is sometimes referred to as the ‘Gateway to the Santiam Playground’ due to its proximity to nearby lakes, rivers and the Cascade Mountains.” 3. Milwaukie Source: Wikipedia User Finetooth \| CC BY-SA 3.0 Gay Households: 110 (9th highest) % Gay Households: 1.91% (3rd highest) More on Milwaukie: Data \| Photos Milwaukie is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. A very small portion of the city extends into Multnomah County. The population was 20,291 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1847 on the banks of the Willamette River, the city, known as the Dogwood City of the West, was incorporated in 1903 and is noted as the birthplace of the Bing cherry. The city is now a suburb of Portland and also adjoins the unincorporated areas of Clackamas and Oak Grove. Source: Wikipedia User Ian Poellet \| CC BY-SA 3.0 % Gay Households: 1.51% (4th highest) More on Phoenix: Data \| Photos 5. Coos Bay Source: Wikipedia User Themom51 \| CC BY-SA 3.0 Gay Households: 51 (21st highest) More on Coos Bay: Data \| Photos Coos Bay is a city located in Coos County, Oregon, United States, where the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The city borders the city of North Bend, and together they are often referred to as one entity called either Coos Bay-North Bend or the Bay Area. Coos Bay’s population as of the 2010 census was 15,967 residents, making it the largest city on the Oregon Coast. 6. Hood River Source: Wikipedia User Sam Beebe \| CC BY 2.0 More on Hood River: Data \| Photos The city of Hood River is the seat of Hood River County, Oregon, United States. It is a port on the Columbia River, and is named for the nearby Hood River. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,167. 7. Portland Source: Wikipedia User Visitor7 \| CC BY-SA 3.0 Households: 264,428 Gay Households: 2,857 (1st highest) More on Portland: Data \| Photos Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. The city covers 145 square miles and had an estimated population of 639,863 in 2016, making it the 26th most populous city in the United States, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest. Approximately 2,424,955 people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area, making it the 25th most populous MSA in the United States. Its Combined Statistical Area ranks 18th with a population of 3,160,488. Roughly 60% of Oregon’s population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. 8. Warrenton Gay Households: 9 (52nd highest) More on Warrenton: Data \| Photos Warrenton is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. The city is named for D.K. Warren, an early settler. The population estimate 5,282 in 2016, according to the US Census Bureau. 9. Redmond Source: Wikipedia User Doug Kerr \| CC BY-SA 2.0 More on Redmond: Data \| Photos Redmond is a city in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. Incorporated on July 6, 1910, the city is on the eastern side of Oregon’s Cascade Range, in the High Desert in Central Oregon. From Redmond there is access to recreational opportunities, including mountain biking, fishing, hiking, camping, rock climbing, white-water rafting, skiing, and golf. Redmond is a full-service municipality and one of the fastest-growing industrial and residential communities in Oregon. Redmond had a population of 26,215 in 2010, and the population continues to grow at a rate of about 8percent each year. 10. Monmouth % Gay Households: 0.83% (10th highest) More on Monmouth: Data \| Photos Monmouth ( is a city in Polk County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was named for Monmouth, Illinois, the origin of its earliest settlers. The population has reached 9,534 as of the 2010 census and it is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area. How do you determine the best cities for same-sex households in Oregon for 2020 In order to rank the gayest cities in Oregon, we used the 2014-2018 American Community Survey from the U.S. Census. We looked at: Percentage of all households that are unmarried, same sex partners Worst Places To Live In Oregon We limited the analysis to non-CDPs that have over 1,000 households. We ranked each place from 1 to 107 with the city containing the highest percentage of unmarried, same sex partners households being the most gay. In the end, ended up being the the most gay place with 2.91% gay households. You can download the data here. Read on below to learn more about the gayest places in Oregon. Or skip to the end to see the list of all the places in the state from gayest to straighest. There You Have It – The Most LGBT Friendly Cities In Oregon For 2020 If you’re looking at the number of gay households in Oregon, this is an accurate list. If you’re curious enough, here are the least gay places in Oregon: Richest Cities In Oregon Safest Places In Oregon Most Expensive Places To Live In Oregon Detailed List Of The Gayest Places To Live In Oregon % Gay Households 1 Seaside 2,890 2.91% 2 Sweet Home 3,603 2.78% 3 Milwaukie 9,101 1.91% 4 Phoenix 2,252 1.51% 5 Coos Bay 6,794 1.27% 6 Hood River 3,494 1.14% 7 Portland 264,428 1.06% 8 Warrenton 2,044 0.88% 9 Redmond 11,292 0.85% 10 Monmouth 3,392 0.83% 11 Forest Grove 8,320 0.82% 12 Reedsport 1,754 0.8% 13 Independence 3,232 0.68% 14 Beaverton 39,452 0.62% 15 Hermiston 6,198 0.61% 16 Astoria 4,534 0.57% 17 Pendleton 5,947 0.57% 18 Silverton 3,758 0.53% 19 Tigard 21,016 0.48% 20 Lake Oswego 16,492 0.47% 21 Lincoln City 3,947 0.46% 22 Gresham 40,051 0.43% 23 Salem 59,693 0.35% 24 Oregon City 13,089 0.35% 25 Springfield 24,522 0.34% 26 Troutdale 5,700 0.32% 27 Tualatin 10,833 0.28% 28 Hillsboro 38,371 0.27% 29 Newport 4,560 0.26% 30 Wilsonville 9,474 0.23% 31 Eugene 68,855 0.22% 32 Happy Valley 6,278 0.22% 33 Hubbard 1,078 0.19% 34 Ashland 9,816 0.16% 35 Medford 31,655 0.15% 36 Mcminnville 12,462 0.14% 37 Albany 20,469 0.08% 38 Corvallis 22,554 0.07% 39 Cornelius 3,631 0.0% 40 Coquille 1,623 0.0% 41 Rogue River 1,153 0.0% 42 Roseburg 10,322 0.0% 43 Central Point 6,892 0.0% 44 Sandy 3,969 0.0% 45 Scappoose 2,697 0.0% 46 Cave Junction 1,041 0.0% 47 Shady Cove 1,397 0.0% 48 Sheridan 1,549 0.0% 49 Sherwood 6,498 0.0% 50 Canby 6,412 0.0% 51 Burns 1,273 0.0% 52 St. Helens 4,997 0.0% 53 Stayton 2,838 0.0% 54 Grants Pass 15,158 0.0% 55 Sutherlin 3,260 0.0% 56 Winston 2,294 0.0% 57 Aumsville 1,333 0.0% 58 West Linn 9,846 0.0% 59 Baker City 4,116 0.0% 60 Veneta 1,869 0.0% 61 Umatilla 1,802 0.0% 62 Prineville 4,145 0.0% 63 Bandon 1,518 0.0% 64 Toledo 1,388 0.0% 65 Tillamook 2,284 0.0% 66 Boardman 1,075 0.0% 67 The Dalles 6,300 0.0% 68 Talent 2,980 0.0% 69 Brookings 2,814 0.0% 70 Bend 37,339 0.0% 71 Sublimity 1,173 0.0% 72 Cottage Grove 3,968 0.0% 73 Philomath 1,777 0.0% 74 Florence 4,322 0.0% 75 Lebanon 6,795 0.0% 76 Lakeview 1,252 0.0% 77 Gladstone 4,577 0.0% 78 Lafayette 1,295 0.0% 79 La Grande 5,328 0.0% 80 Madras 2,322 0.0% 81 Klamath Falls 9,015 0.0% 82 Keizer 13,850 0.0% 83 Junction City 2,290 0.0% 84 John Day 1,030 0.0% 85 Jefferson 1,057 0.0% 86 Jacksonville 1,483 0.0% 87 Gold Beach 1,107 0.0% 88 King City 1,900 0.0% 90 Wood Village 1,142 0.0% 91 Milton-Freewater 2,401 0.0% 92 Creswell 2,022 0.0% 93 Dallas 6,116 0.0% 94 Ontario 4,207 0.0% 95 Oakridge 1,433 0.0% 96 Nyssa 1,043 0.0% 97 North Bend 3,837 0.0% 98 Fairview 3,651 0.0% 99 Dundee 1,081 0.0% 100 Myrtle Point 1,052 0.0% Download The Entire Oregon Ranking Data About Chris Kolmar Chris Kolmar has been in the real estate business for almost ten years now. He originally worked for Movoto Real Estate as the director of marketing before founding HomeSnacks. He believes the key to finding the right place to live comes down to looking at the data, reading about things to do, and, most importantly, checking it out yourself before you move. If you've been looking for a place to live in the past several years, you've probably stumbled upon his writing already. You can find out more about him on LinkedIn or his website. Gayest, Rankings Oregon	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2136
__label__cc	0.578867	0.421133	Robert E. Hill A twentieth century life My life history Early childhood in Mansfield School and youth My early transport Joining up and France Lancastria Military transport Back in Blighty 8th Army transport Paiforce Persia and India Civvy street Iraq Petroleum Company All about oil Maureen’s memories London to Baghdad by car Driving in Lebanon Back to the Arabian Gulf Second hand car dealer Retirement in Portugal Return to Qatar Qatar and Johah Another debacle avoided Finally leaving Qatar Trip to Taprobane 1986 Christmas in Sri Lanka Unanwitiya – house building Shopping in Galle Some family films Silver and Pussy-Wee Home »Retirement »Christmas in Sri Lanka I live in Hove. My son Richard and his family live in Bath. My daughter Julie and her family live in Devon. I have three bedrooms, Richard’s house has six and Bath is equidistant between Hove and Devon. It therefore made sense to hold my 80th birthday party in Bath with Richard and Margaret and my two grandchildren Benjamin and Victoria and with Julie and her husband Mark and my other two grandchildren Breanna and Alexannder, motoring up from their farmhouse in Devon, bringing. Magic, who is part of their family, an oversize border collie, highly intelligent but crazy. We had a splendid time and Richard served an excellent burgundy dated 1952 the year he was born. I was also able to enjoy lunch with their mother Maureen and recall old times. However a few days later I was due to fly to Sri Lanka where I have usually spent the winter months for the past two decades, enjoying the warmth of the sun and watching the tea grow. So I drove back to Hove in my battered but faithful B. M. W. locked the garage door, gave my pretty char-person who looks after No. 84 her Christmas present and drove away in a taxi to Heathrow to enplane on B. A. for Colombo. I was somewhat unhappy feeling unwell and not being able to travel to Sri Lanka in late 95/96. In June 1996 my friend of longstanding Sri Robert M. Gamage, a tea planter and businessman called me on the telephone and said he had heard I was unwell. I admitted I felt at a low ebb and was not inclined to move far from 84. I told him I had just had a visit from Hassan Al Ansari and his wife Sheikha who tried to cheer me up and suggested I get about more, which I did, spending a few days with them at their house in West London. 0. K. said Robert Gamage I’m on my way before the end of July after I have cleared up a few things, I’ll be with you, and he was. We travelled to Bath and Woodbury in Devon and up to Nottinghamshire to see friends and to attend my elder sister’s 90th birthday party. She was very fond of Robert Gamage and he of her and it was sad blow to both of us when we attended her funeral only two months afterwards. One morning over breakfast I opened the company newsletter and remarked to Robert G. I can’t believe it, Larry has died. We were taken by surprise at Larry Harrison’s demise for he had been a good friend of mine and Robert G. knew him well. It was Robert G. who pointed out he had died just one week before his birthday. Larry and I used to phone each other on our birthdays, his on 23rd June and mine on 23rd November. There was no reply when I called on 23rd June. He would have been very ill when I was experiencing my unusual bout of depression. In January 1997 Robert Gamage returned to Sri Lanka to finish building his fine new house on part of his best tea land. He invited me to see it and stay on when it was completed by the end of November. Thus here I am on Christmas Eve standing under a simulated Christmas tree illuminated by pretty electric lights which also power a tiny transistor amplifier the size of a match box playing a tinkling musical version of Bing Crosby’s carols. Clever people these Taiwanese. Unanwitiya house building >>> Copyright and legal notices Copyright © 2002 - 2021 Richard D. S. Hill. All Rights Reserved Written by Richard D. S. Hill I use cookies to ensure that I give you the best experience on my website. If you continue to use this site I will assume that you are happy with it.OKRead more	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2137
__label__cc	0.703802	0.296198	Free Russian Resources Russian Resources Free Russian Lessons Russian Phrases Russian Pronunciation Russian Questions Russian Salutations Russian Time Russian Vocabulary Russian Words Rocket Russian free trial Rocket Russian (Level 1) Rocket Russian Travelogues Russian pronunciation is easy once you know all the letters of the Russian alphabet. Then all you need to know is where the stress falls in a word and a few simple pronunciation rules. Let's jump right in! Learn Russian online the simple way The time it takes to learn Russian properly Breaking Down Words into Syllables Before we familiarize ourselves with these Russian pronunciation rules, let’s have a look at some important reading techniques. When you want to read an unfamiliar Russian word for the first time, the first thing to consider is how you can break it down so that you can read one little part at a time. As you probably know, words can be broken down into syllables (small pronouncable parts of a word with only one vowel sound, e.g. sy-lla-bles). Let’s see some examples of how words in Russian can be broken down into syllables: If a word has only one vowel it means that you can’t break it down; it only has one syllable. Here are some examples below: Rocket Record lets you perfect your Russian pronunciation. Just listen to the native speaker audio and then use the microphone icon to record yourself. Once you’re done, you’ll get a score out of 100 on your pronunciation and can listen to your own audio playback. (Use a headset mic for best results.) Problems? Click here! The Stress in Russian Russian is known for its chaotic and irregular stress. It can fall on any syllable in a word as you may hear in the following examples. paspart spaseeba tilifon Pronouncing Russian words with the correct stress is important for communication: getting the stress wrong will make your speech sound foreign and awkward. Sometimes in Russian the stress of a word can even shift depending on its role in the sentence so practice is essential. There is no rule unfortunately that can help you to find where the stress falls in a word. For beginners, stressed vowels are often indicated with a stress mark; in authentic Russian texts, however, you won't see that, it is only for learning purposes! So whenever you encounter a new word and you are not sure how to pronounce it, it is always good to refer to a dictionary. Mostly though you will pick up stress automatically when communicating with native speakers. If you don't often get a chance to communicate with native speakers, make sure you work on getting stress placement correct with Rocket Record: practice makes perfect! Stress and How It Changes Vowels A Russian word, no matter how long it is, can only have one stressed syllable. The stressed syllable in a word is usually longer and is pronounced with more emphasis than the unstressed syllables. It is also important to know that unstressed vowels undergo reduction, i.e. they are pronounced quicker and less clearly. Let's have a look at some examples. The word мама (mama) "Mom" has two 'a'-s, but if you listen carefully, you’ll notice that they are not pronounced exactly the same. This happens because the stress falls only on one of them, the first one in this case. So the second 'a' sounds shorter. Reduction is even more noticeable in vowels that are further away from the stressed syllable. Take, for example, the word карандаш (karandash) "pencil". The third 'a' is stressed, the second 'a' is reduced somewhat, and the first 'a' after 'к' is so reduced that it sounds closer to a 'u' sound similar to how the 'a' in the middle of the word "readable" sounds. karandash Pronunciation Rules You Should Know Here are three tips that will help you to blast forward through the process of learning how to read. We call these "Pronunciation Rules". When you learn these simple rules you’ll be able to read any new word you come across correctly! Tip #1: Pronunciation of 'o' This is one of the important pronunciation rules: the letter 'o' in an unstressed position tends to be pronounced as 'a'. Have a look at these examples: "спасибо" "thank you" is pronounced спа-си-бa (spaseeba) because the stress falls on the 'и' with the unstressed 'o' sounding like 'a'. Compare it with the word хорошо "good". This word is pronounced as ха-ра-шо (kharasho) because the stress is on the last 'o'. kharasho Tip #2: Pronunciation of 'e' The next most important pronunciation rule is that the letter 'e' in an unstressed position is pronounced closer to 'и'. You can see some examples of this below: mitro Tip #3: Pronunciation of 'я' The last pronunciation rule is similar to the second: the letter 'я' also can be pronounced closer to 'и' when it is unstressed. The exception to this is when the word ends in 'я'. If you see 'я' at the end of a word it is always pronounced as 'я', regardless of whether it is stressed or not. Have a look at the examples below and listen to how the words are pronounced carefully: desit' izyk All words with more than one vowel can be broken down into smaller parts which makes reading easier. Stress in Russian is not fixed and it may fall on any part of the word so use dictionaries to check the stress and keep practicing with Rocket Record! The stress in Russian heavily influences the pronunciation of vowels. If a vowel is stressed, it it pronounced very clearly, if not, it can sometimes be pronounced like a different vowel entirely. When 'о' is unstressed it is pronounced as 'а'. When 'е' is unstressed it is pronounced closer to 'и'. When 'я' is unstressed it is pronounced closer to 'и'. Culture: Loan words in Russian Language There are many words in Russian that came from different languages: French, German, Italian, and, of course, English. Some good examples of these loan words are, музыка (muzyka) "music", культура (kul'tura) "culture" or компьютер (kamp'uter) "computer". Many of these words, known as "international words", sound similar in different languages, especially if they belong to the same language family. Learning words of this kind will help it feel like the language is not that strange and unfamiliar after all and will also help you expand your vocabulary quickly. The most popular loan words in use at the moment are ones related to modern technologies, such as, gadgets, social networks, and the internet in general. Some Russians don't like the fact that foreign words have become so widely used and argue that new, authentic, Russian words should be invented to replace them. Well, they probably don't realize just how many seemingly authentic Russian words which are in common usage now were actually borrowed from other languages hundreds years ago! Let's familiarize ourselves with some interesting examples. Апельсин - "Orange" In the past no one in Russia really knew what an апельсин (apil'sin) "orange" was. Even in Europe people had never even seen them until the 17th century, when merchants from the Netherlands brought them back from trading expeditions in the East and started selling this fruit to their neighbors. When people asked what this weird, new, colorful fruit was, the merchants answered: "Appel sien!", which literally means "Chinese apple". This word was borrowed wholesale by Russians who still use it to describe this most orange of fruits. Деньги - "Money" This might come as a surprise even for Russians themselves, but the Russian word for "money" is not homegrown, but rather has Turkish roots. Most likely the word came from Iran, where people used the word "tenge" to refer to silver coins. The word changed slightly during its use by Russians. First it had a singular form деньга (din'ga), but now it is used only in its plural form деньги (den'gi). It is a common word for coins, notes, as well as money held online or credit. Вокзал - "Train Station" Originally this word came from the English "Vauxhall" which was the name of a manor house named after its owner. This place was famous for the different kinds of entertainment which were held there, such as dance nights, fireworks, or concerts. The first railway in Russia connected the capital, Saint Petersburg, with the town of Pavlovsk. When this first line was opened in 1837, in order to attract people and encourage them to use this new type of transport, a big hall was built in Pavlovsk where different concerts and performances were held. This hall was named вокзал (vagzal) after the famous English manor house. Even after the hall at Pavlovsk fell into disuse and was knocked down, the train station kept the hall's name and other newly built train stations inherited it afterwards. Top 10 Russian hacks Whether you've been studying Russian for years or are considering giving Russian a try, the following 10 hacks and simple tricks can help you to learn Russian fast and effectively. 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__label__cc	0.726764	0.273236	Muay Thai Legacy Tee SC - T-shirt $ 48 USD Size Guide We are proud to bring you this new Muay Thai collab with two amazing people who we have become friends with and created this capsule with. Ilaria Urbinati is a fashion stylist whose clients include Rami Malek, Donald Glover, Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson, Ben andCasey Affleck, Chris Evans and many more. She also trains Muay Thai and boxing with Johnny Hunt - who is a former world ranked Muay Thai champ who fought andtrained for many years in Thailand, Japan, and China. He now trains a long list of top celebrities out of Fortune Gym, Hollywood. Ilaria first discovered Roots of Fight when she purchased one of the brand’s Bruce Lee jackets at a store in LA, then wore it to a set she was working with Dwayne Johnson. She didn’t know Dwayne’s history with us but, he instantly recognized it and offered to make an introduction. That same week, coincidentally another client of hers, Bradley Cooper showed up to a styling wearing an RO Ali Jacket. At that point, Ilaria and RO were connected by a mutual friend (Thank you Slater) and started talking about potential ways to get creative together. Ilaria and Johnny came up with creative theme focused on Muay Thai and this collab and line were born. Johnny and his love of Muay Thai and knowledge of the history felt like “Boxer’s Day” - which is celebrated every year in Thailand on March 17th would be an ideal subject to dive into. According to legend, in 1774 Nai Khanom Tom was one of thousands of Siamese prisoners being held by the Burmese King Mangra after the Burmese invasion in the Ayutthaya Kingdom. The king selected Nai Khanom Tom to fight against a Burmese fighter. Nai Khanom Tom won by Knock Out. The referee claimed the win not valid due to possible sorcery. The King then sent in 9 other fighters, one by one without time breaks. They were all put on the ground by the hands (and knees and elbows) of Nai Khanom Tom. Impressed by these abilities, King Mangra claimed Nai Khanom Tom to be “blessed with venom”. He was pardoned, along with the other Siamese prisoners, and allowed to return to Siam. He was acknowledged as a hero and his fighting style became known as Siamese-Style boxing, later to be known as Muay Thai and would be recognized as the national sport. Model is 5'10"/155lbs and wearing size M Quality tee shirt! Soft, comfortable, and sized right. Great quality shirt! I love all ROF shirts . I am 119 pounds and the small fits perfect and just slightly loose int he sleeves for a perfect roll up. I am a girl and wear the smalls for everyday! Great quality and fast shipping always. Looks great, very soft and comfortable and the fit is true to size; I ordered a S and it fits perfect. I have gotten many compliments on it. So Nice I got it Twice My wife stole mine for a night shirt and I had to get another one to match my pants, bag and mask. Really soft and great design.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2142
__label__wiki	0.828131	0.828131	Spotlight Hub Zach D'Amico The Block Island Sound Will Sweep You Away In the last five years, horror movies have often fallen into one of two traps: the heavy metaphor that sacrifices scares for symbolism, or the scream-fest that runs out of steam after rummaging through its bag of tricks in the first hour. The Block Island Sound deftly avoids both, zig-zagging from the unexplainable to the unsettling to the unspeakable (and back). The McManus brothers pace the hell out of their 96 minutes, ratcheting up the confusion, awarding brief respites for air before plunging their characters and story back into the depths of the ocean. The Block Island Sound follows Audry to the titular Block Island, just off the small southern coast of Rhode Island, where she unwillingly reunites with her family: her father Tom, a local fisherman, and her brother Harry, a townie who’s been spinning his wheels for nearly a decade. Something sinister lurks off the coast, and it’s been causing the rapid deterioration of Tom. Violent outbursts; memory lapses; blackouts; emotional instability. It’s a fairly rote set-up for a low-budget horror indie, but the McManus brothers defy expectations with each new turn. They instill the same disorientation in their audience as they do in their characters - numerous sequences left me bewildered but intrigued, giving the movie a hold over me even when the action slows down. And when they lift their camera to the heavens for a blitzkrieg of a finale, I was left wholly unmoored. Though it’s mostly Harry’s film, and Chris Sheffield turns in a strong performance, it’s Neville Archambault’s haunting, mesmerizing turn as Tom that will be left stirring in the back of my brain for months. Archambault understands the ache of mental disintegration, and taps into something relatable and pedestrian despite the extraordinary context. Jim Cummings also provides a killer, committed, albeit brief appearance as Harry’s conspiracy-prone high school buddy, Dale, clad in unfamiliar long hair but recognizable manic energy to anyone who has followed the budding filmmaker’s career. The Block Island Sound tackles grief without becoming consumed by it, provokes paranoia without succumbing to it, and offers both thrills and chills along the way. The McManus brothers transcended their DIY brand of filmmaking to offer one of the scariest and most touching horror films of the year. Be sure to seek it out once it becomes available. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Raises the Bar for Stage Adaptations Apples Review: The Courage of Memory Education is a Fitting Cap to Small Axe © 2020 Rough Cut Cinema	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2143
__label__wiki	0.968171	0.968171	Prince Harry shows off massive Los Angeles home he shares with Meghan Markle and baby Archie The couple, who tied the knot in May 2018, have moved into this new house after swapping Kensington Palace and life in England for a new start in America Prince Harry has given fans the first look at his massive Los Angeles home. The royal is sharing the glam pad, located at the top of a hill in the ultra-exclusive Beverly Ridge Estates guard-gated community, with his stunning wife Meghan Markle and their one-year-old son Archie. The €16 million house comes complete with 12 bedrooms and eight bathrooms and was previously owned by Hollywood actor and producer Tyler Perry. Harry showed it off during an appearance in a video to discuss rugby in England amid the coronavirus pandemic. Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas tells why they really broke up Wearing a white polo shirt, the father of one had a huge smile on his face as he sat in front of his gorgeous cream wall with plants weaving up the wall. The video was shared on England Rugby's Instagram page earlier this week. The caption alongside the now widely shared clip said: "When the game was paused, the rugby family came together as one. Thank you from all of us." Talking to sports fans, he began: "We all miss rugby.” Joining the likes of Jonny Wilkinson, Eddie Jones and Sarah Hunter, another person added: “This pandemic might have paused the game." Swipe across below to see the full gallery of images for yourself In Pictures: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's amazing LA house Before Harry concluded with a positive affirmation: “But it hasn't taken away our spirit.” As well as the many bedrooms and bathrooms, Tyler Perry's Instagram reveals that the place also comes with a sunken bath, a separate chapel, a nursery and the sweeping views of the famous Los Angeles skyline. This video comes after Harry wrote an emotional letter to praise RE:ACT Disaster Response for their amazing work alongside the Hubb Community Kitchen in helping vulnerable people during the pandemic. He said: "As you may know, the Hubb Community Kitchen is an initiative incredibly close to my wife's heart that continues to be supported by the legacy of their community cookbook Together. Newsletter: Celebrity news, mega competitions and more Get all the latest celebrity news direct to your inbox. Simply sign up in this article here. Every day we'll send you a roundup e-mail of all the latest news from the day along with cutting edge celebrity stories and real life stories, plus health, beauty and lifestyle features all in one handy e-mail. Sign up, here. "Brought together by the Grenfell Tower fire, these inspiring women continue to give back to the community, most recently mass cooking for communities who were struggling during lockdown. "Thanks to Team Rubicon, they were able to reach further afield, ensuring that as many people as possible were supported during the pandemic." Prince William's brother went on to say: "To see the coming together of organisations my wife and I champion so strongly was truly humbling." Coronation StreetCoronation Street's Ray Crosby to die after shock disappearanceSpoilers ahead: "There's a really brilliant power struggle between Debbie and Ray, which has twists and turns – with literal life-or-death jeopardy. It's all really exciting"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2144
__label__wiki	0.95972	0.95972	People & Business Health & NHS Sponsored CPD Modules OTC Videos Extend Your Learning Practice Scenarios Project Rethink Pharmacy The Wright Review - What next for LPCs? NHS Reset: A P3pharmacy & Numark in Conversation Covid Hub Covid Support Forum Scotland funding package “not quite” what CPS hoped for A 2019-20 financial package for pharmacy in Scotland with a £2.6m uplift from last year is “not quite” what had been hoped for due to “one outstanding issue”, but there is overall cause for hope, Community Pharmacy Scotland has said. A circular from chief pharmaceutical officer Rose Marie Parr issued on April 23 advised contractors and NHS boards that the global sum would rise to £183.6m for the 2019-20 financial year, an increase of £2.6m on the previous year. It was also announced that the Pharmacy First service, which facilitates treatment in pharmacy for certain minor ailments without the need for a GP appointment, would be integrated with the national Minor Ailment Service as of April 1, with remuneration set at the existing level of £1.1m. The Drug Tariff discount clawback for generic drugs dispensed in 2018-19 was raised to six per cent, though the Government said a “cash flow support mechanism” that could be drawn on to adjust or suspend the generic clawback rate “should market conditions deteriorate” continues to be included in the package. CPS board chairman Martin Green said: “We are not quite where we want to be with this negotiated financial package and I sincerely hope that we can continue to work with the Scottish Government to resolve our one remaining difference and will be looking for a commitment to do so. “Nevertheless, this financial package has been negotiated during a time of significant political uncertainty and during a financially challenging period for all parties involved. We have reached this point and are disappointed full resolution couldn’t be achieved but will continue to work on designing future services for patients such as the extended Minor Ailment Service, which should be ready to roll out in April 2020.” Phil Galt, the National Pharmacy Association’s board member for Scotland, said: “We applaud both the constructive spirit in which the talks have been conducted and the continued commitment on all sides to developing community pharmacy services, including the Pharmacy First programme.” “Scotland’s Achieving Excellence Strategy, in particular Pharmacy First, is very much in line with the NPA’s view of community pharmacies as people’s front door to healthcare and healthy living. “We look forward to more details emerging as soon as possible knowledge of the financial situation.” By Arthur Walsh Enhanced Services, Financial Management & Funding, NPA, Scotland, PHE taken to task for pharmacist vaccination snub RPS raises concerns with apprentice trailblazer group Are pharmacists guinea pigs for covid19 So, still the doctors are working from b... By R 2 months ago VIVA LA PDAU, VIVA LA CAC After the la... By satish shah 2 months ago News/Alerts The largest, most experienced publisher in the UK pharmacy sector CIG is the UK’s leading provider of sector-specific content, publishing 15 healthcare and beauty titles including Pharmacy Magazine, Training Matters, P3Pharmacy, Independent Community Pharmacist and Beauty Magazine. The company has built an enviable reputation in pharmacy, journalism, education, awards and conferences, that today amounts to more than 350 years of healthcare industry experience. © Communications International Group Ltd, Linen Hall, 162-168 Regent Street, London W1B 5TB Back to top Sign in This website is for healthcare professionals, people who work in pharmacy and pharmacy students. By clicking into any content, you confirm this describes you and that you agree to Pharmacy Magazine's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. We use essential, performance, functional and advertising cookies to give you a better web experience. Find out how to manage these cookies here. We also use Interest Based Advertising Cookies to display relevant advertisements on this and other websites based on your viewing behaviour. By clicking "Accept" you agree to the use of these Cookies and our Cookie Policy.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2146
__label__wiki	0.879526	0.879526	COLE PLAYING NO PART IN ROCKY HORROR SHOW Dale Moon Leamington Super-lightweight aiming to become an elusive boxer... The epic Rocky Balboa movies of the 70’s and 80’s are viewed as a source of inspiration for many boxers. The popular soundtrack, the endless motivational quotes and the bloody showdowns with the likes of Apollo Creed and Ivan Drago acted as a catalyst for future fighters to lace up their first pair of gloves. Though Leamington Super-Lightweight Michael Cole says it’s the steely suburbs of Sheffield and not the hills of Hollywood which tell the greatest boxing stories. “I grew up watching the likes of Naseem Hamed and Ryan Rhodes,” the 29-year old explains. “I would love to be like the Sheffield boys and become a real elusive boxer. “That’s just good boxing to me. I think people sometimes forget the basics of boxing – hit and don’t get hit. “Not this Rocky Balboa stuff of standing there trading blows. I like smart boxing. “Fans said at my last fight that it was the most technical fight on the card. “It was never going to be a war. I’ve got them in me but you save them for when you have to go into the trenches. “If I can keep my performances like they are, I don’t see why I’m not cosmetic enough to make a career out of boxing.” Cole steps into the ring for just the third time this Friday as part of Black Country Boxing’s four fight event ‘Seasons Beatings’ at Walsall Football Club’s Banks’s Stadium. After stopping the durable Matt Seawright (5-143-5) in his professional debut in May he showcased a smarter side to his repertoire by out-manoeuvring the awkward Kristian Laight (12-236-7) in his last outing. “I showed my power the first time around and to fight the trickiest fighter out there in just my second fight was a great education for me,” he added. “It was a game of chess with Kristian. "I always wanted to fight him but I didn’t think I was ready yet so I was glad to get the win. “We knew we wasn’t going to stop him so we said lets use our brain instead of just power. “I prefer the professional ranks because there’s more thought involved. As an amateur you sometimes just swing and I think of myself as a thoughtful, considered boxer. “A lot of my wins were knockouts and my losses were on points. “I always used to go for broke but I was speaking to pros before I turned over and they all stressed the importance of keeping your guard. “Now I’m holding my sword and shield properly and I’m finding its working. “We’ve been working on one or two things and hopefully after Christmas we can look for more rounds. “I think that’s the big thing. When you reach the later rounds, your arms start to tire, your back hand drops and you can leave yourself open and in the pro game there’s no room for error. “I’ve learned so much more in the two fights than I did in 8 years of amateur boxing. The learning curve is so steep and you have to keep improving. “If I can keep winning and keep my knockout percentage of around 50% then hopefully my name will be up there as well.” Standard tickets for ‘Season’s Beatings’, priced at £30, are available by calling the boxers. £60 VIP tickets for tables of ten, with two-course meal, are available by calling Walsall FC Box Office on 01922 651 414/416. Walsall’s Luke Paddock, Chester’s Nathan Clarke and Stoke’s Owen Jobburn also feature. Grosvenor Casino Walsall will have a presence at the football club on the evening and have linked up with local taxi firm, Yellow Taxi’s, to supply a number of free taxi’s to take guests from the Banks’s Stadium to the casino post-fight. Find out more about Grosvenor Casino Walsall here: http://www.grosvenorcasinos.com/local-casinos/walsall/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2154
__label__cc	0.714064	0.285936	What we doOur approachScope of our expertiseTestimonialsPublications and reports BackgroundSAFOSO in numbersTeamCareers Learning@SAFOSONewsContact People behind SAFOSO: Patrik Buholzer Who are the people behind SAFOSO? What inspires them and how do they contribute to solving animal health challenges? Patrik Buholzer shares his story. ‍Who are the people behind SAFOSO? What inspires them and how do they contribute to solving animal health challenges? Patrik Buholzer shares his story. Patrik, what inspires you to come to work every day? I strongly believe that our work contributes to improving at least part of the world. The fact that we create added value is what inspires me. We are a great team at SAFOSO, supporting and inspiring each other to find good, purposeful and practical solutions for our clients, which is another important source of inspiration. How do you contribute to SAFOSO? SAFOSO is a growing consultancy company and as a Director, one of my main responsibilities is strategic development of the company, to determine what we want to be in the future. It is exciting to develop and implement strategies, acquire new projects and ultimately lead the company to new opportunities. One of the current focus areas is African swine fever, for which we organize trainings and workshops to increase knowledge and awareness for this highly contagious disease. Just last month, we completed an online training with veterinarians in South East Asia in partnership with the regional FAO office. This is a typical example of our knowledge dissemination projects, where we train the trainers, so they can in turn train veterinarians in their region. In your opinion, what are the biggest challenges in animal health? I see the biggest challenge in the fact that the animal health sector still too often approaches problems in isolation, rather than approaching them from a broader, more holistic perspective. To find truly sustainable, good solutions, you must be willing to think outside the box, be open to new and different approaches, and be willing to learn new things. We recently contributed a letter to the editor to Transboundary and Emerging Diseases to increase awareness among the scientific community for how a One Health approach to the different epidemics in humans and animals can not only save human and animal lives but also safeguard the global economy. It is critical that we don’t just talk about how important interdisciplinary approaches are, but also act accordingly. At SAFOSO, we seek to integrate the different aspects in our knowledge transfer aswell as in risk analyses. What has been a highlight in your work for SAFOSO? One of the activities I have been engaged in lately is to provide customers, who do not have a specific scientific background, with information about COVID-19. The goal is to help them navigate the current challenges around the pandemic. An example is the e-learning course “epidemiology for non-epidemiologists” we have developed, as well as COVID-19 webinars (online seminars) we are organizing for our clients. Hearing back from customers about how well they liked the format and how satisfied they are, has been a real highlight. The fact that we can transfer complex scientific knowledge in an entertaining and captivating manner and that our clients now have the knowledge to build their own opinions regarding COVID-19, makes me really proud. About Patrik Buholzer Patrik joined SAFOSO in August 2019 as Director. He studied biochemistry and organic chemistry at the University of Applied Science, Zurich and holds an executive MBA from the University St. Gallen. He has more than 15 years of experience in the field of production-animal diseases. Working for multiple international diagnostics companies has helped him gain profound knowledge of veterinary diagnostics and its application in different settings. During his career he successfully managed numerous projects with partners from private industry, government and institutions from all over the world. See more news about SAFOSO People behind SAFOSO: Carla Stoffel Webinar about antimicrobial resistance Workshop compartmentalisation at the ECVPH Annual Conference 2020 SAFOSO AG Waldeggstrasse 1 CH-3097 Liebefeld info@safoso.ch Please subscribe to our newsletter. It provides the latest news every six weeks. Thank you for susbscribing to the SAFOSO newsletter! Something went wrong while submitting the form. We sent only premium content when we think is worth enough to share. Impressum \| Cookie Policy \| Privacy Policy \| Copyright: SAFOSO AG, 2020 \|	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line2155

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