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__label__cc	0.59637	0.40363	HealthyLifeBoxx Man Slips LSD Into Coworkers’ Drinks to Get Rid of Their ‘Negative Energy’ The negative energy for those who’ve worked in office jobs can often be overwhelming. It can be present among coworkers, but also some managers can’t stop breathing down the worker’s necks. There are numerous ways of how to release this condition in working environments. Some workers like easier ways of solving this problem, while others can be really proactive by organizing an office party or bringing some home-baked sweets to their coworkers to save the sinking ship. However, the ideas of fighting negativity sometimes can be very strange, such this one of a teenage male employee (19-year-old) at Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Arnold, Missouri. He decided to make his coworkers being high on a hallucinogenic substance. The police announced that he gave a few of his unsuspecting coworkers a big dose of LSD in a bid to address what he called their “negative energy.” According to Arnold Police Lt. Clinton Wooldridge, the police were notified after two employees became dizzy and started shaking but didn’t know why. According to the Leader, the teenager’s 27-year-old manager saw that he was “acting weird” and had been holding a water dropper and was “messing with” her water jug. She also noticed that he did it with the two employees’ water bottles. Both employees, who were ages 23 and 24, were taken to urgent care before being transferred to a local hospital. The culprit admitted to the police that he dosed the water bottles with acid and also putting some LSD into a third employee’s coffee. He told officers that his coworkers “were too uptight, and they needed to have better energy.” The police experts, including the task force commander Sgt. Tony Dennis of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department noted that the workers’ symptoms were consistent with reactions to LSD. Tony explained: “You’re going to have an increased heart rate, temperature, higher blood pressure. It’s been described as causing the shakes or tremors.” According to the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a hallucinogen that is “one of the most powerful mood-changing chemicals.” Widespread researches were taken to investigate its potential treatment for depression and a range of mood disorders. The findings show that in large doses, it can cause distorted sensory awareness, an elevated mood or euphoria, and hallucinations. All these reactions correlate with boosted serotonin levels in the brain. Many people have testified the positive outcome of their experimentation with LSD, by taking it in a safe, supportive, and aesthetically pleasing environment with a clear idea of what to expect. However, there are risks of taking it if it is a fake acid and by doing it in an unsafe way. The teenager who did it with his coworkers was placed under arrest and he is facing possible charges of second-degree assault and possession of a controlled substance. www.kmov.com www.myleaderpaper.com drugfree.org ages, bottles, condition, Coworkers, employees, environments, hallucinogenic substance, local hospital, Man, managers, Negative Energy, negativity, Office, overwhelming, party, sinking ship, teenage, Water Cadillac Wants to Fly People in Electric Drones Study Shows That With Cannabis Legalized, Ice Cream And Cookie Sales Are on The Rise Homeless Charity Named ‘The Bus Shelter’ Provides Authentic 7-Bed Sleeping Pods Parrot With Damaged Beak Gets Second Chance at Life With New Prosthetic Beak Heart-Stopping Moment 10ft Hammerhead Shark Stalks Unsuspecting Swimmer In Miami Copyright at 2021. HealthyLifeBoxx All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3191
__label__cc	0.602943	0.397057	Sharon Buss – Our President Gwen Shaw – Our Founder Engeltal–Our Headquarters What is an End-Time Handmaiden? What Is an End-Time Servant? End-Time Handmaidens/Servants Vows Quarterly Letter Archived Magazines House of Peace Posted on March 28, 2020 Posted By: wu996 Categories: Israel Gene’s letter: “…Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land: And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory saith the LORD of hosts” (Hag. 2:6-7) “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was founded upon a rock” (Mt. 7:24-25) “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.” (Heb. 12:28-29) Dear Intercessors for Israel: As I write this prayer letter, the nations of the world are in distress and men’s and women’s hearts are fainting. For many, fear and anxiety has become a very real part of life. The spreading pandemic of the Corona COVID-19 virus has impacted the whole world. Everywhere, borders are closed, transportation is limited, people are quarantined, hospitals are overwhelmed, and shortages of materials and foods are everywhere. The nations are in perplexity, as leaders struggle on how to contain or stop this virus. I cannot say, this is the end of days that the Old Testament Prophets speak about , but it is surely, what Jesus said was the beginning of sorrows (Mt. 24:6-8) It is a unique season, a time to enter into your chambers and hide until the indignation be passed.(Is. 26). Marylois and I are taking daily communion praying, encouraging others, avoiding crowds and observing hygiene rules. We know it is an hour to place our faith in Jesus, whose kingdom cannot be moved. We stand on the rock and rebuke the devourer; this virus will bow its knee to King Jesus. God will get the glory. I know also it is an hour for many to repent of their sins and seek him. It is an hour to pray for souls and plant the seeds of revival. It is a season where when it passes, our lives and lifestyles will never be the same. I know, God will get the glory Pray for your loved ones, pray for salvation, pray for protection, pray for those who have been exposed to COVID-19. Pray for the doctors, the nurses, the emergency responders, the staff in hospitals, who deal with this virus every day. We are praying and believing that this pestilence will dry up and cease, even by Passover/Resurrection day. Israel as a nation is observing a severe lock-down. Everyone has been told to remain inside their homes, unless a need arises to buy groceries or go to the pharmacy. Outside activities are limited to one 328-foot walk (100 meters) every day. All modes of transportation are shut down or severely limited (bus service is only 25% of what it once was) restaurants closed, synagogues shut. Anyone arriving from the airport must be quarantined in special hotels and observed for 14 days. The Temple Mount is closed, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, are also closed. Tel Aviv is deserted and Eilat is lock-down as well. Are these severe measures working? Israel, a nation of some 8 million people has reported close to 2,700 cases, and 8 deaths. How long people will have to be isolated is unknown, nor how long this country can function without most of its citizens working. Please pray for Peter and Margaret as they watch over the House of Peace. Pray for the body of believers in Jerusalem and Israel, that this virus does not come near them. Pray for AM Yisrael (the People of Israel), that this pestilence will pass quickly. Pray that they would seek Him and find Him. Israel Government Breaking news Thursday (March 26th), is that after a year and half of impasse, Israel has a government. An agreement was made between the leader of the Blue and White Party Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a unity government. The two opposing sides will share positions and posts. PM Netanyahu will remain Prime Minister for eighteen months then Gantz will step into that position, in September of 2021. Immediately cries of betrayal resounded from Gantz’s own coalition, shattering it. Yair Lapid, leader of Yesh Atid (There is Change) party accused Gantz of “crawling into Netanyahu government” and “theft of votes.” Soon after Gantz’s agreement, all the principal left wing parties of the Blue and White alliance, pulled out. Gantz ‘s was left with his own Resilience Party faction remaining with 16 seats in the Knesset, enough to form a coalition. Immediately after this decision, members of PM Netanyahu’s coalition including Shas, and United Torah religious parties met with Gantz in the Knesset to congratulate him. This unified act, sent even more shockwaves into Gantz’s former coalition partners. Former Defense Minister and present MK Ashkenazi who is a member of Gantz’s Resilience Party defended his action by saying “The country is in the midst of a national crisis, one of the worst we’ve known. A difficult crisis demands difficult decisions. We could not keep standing on the sidelines at a time like this. Israeli citizens now need a national emergency government.” (www.timesofisrael.com) Gantz also took over as the interim head of the Knesset this week. The former head, Yuli Edelstein was forced out by a Supreme Court mandate demanding he convene the Knesset. Yuli then resigned and sent this Parliamentary body into another crisis. How long this emergency government will last is anyone’s guess. No portfolios or ministerial positions have been handed out. Gantz would be Defense Minister in this new government, and MK Ashkenazi would likely be appointed Foreign minister. And so, it goes, in the roller coaster world of Israeli politics! Our prayer for you: “Beloved, we wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers. (3 Jn. 1:2). Gene and Marylois/House of Peace Search Global Outpouring Site and Store Copyright © 2000-2020 End-Time Handmaidens Inc. End-Time Handmaidens, Inc. is registered as a Domestic Non-Profit Organization in the United States Your donations are tax-deductible under Sec. 170, Internal Revenue Code.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3195
__label__wiki	0.603888	0.603888	General Motors Facilities General Motors U.S.A. Facilities General Motors Bowling Green Plant The GM Bowling Green facility, otherwise known as Bowling Green Assembly, is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States. It is the exclusive plant that produces the Chevrolet Corvette. Facility size: 1 million square feet on 212 acres 600 Corvette Drive Bowling Green, Kentucky, 42101 Employee information: Hourly: 839 Salaried: 165 Third party service providers: 11 Shifts: one 8-hour shift, Monday-Friday Union local: UAW Local 2164 The Bowling Green Assembly plant has been exclusively producing the Chevrolet Corvette since 1981. Currently, the plant produces the following vehicles: Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe and Convertible Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Coupe and Convertible Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Coupe and Convertible GM LT4 6.2L V8 engine for Corvette Z06 and Cadillac CTS-V Between June 2003 and April 2009, the plant also produced the Cadillac XLR, which was based on the Chevrolet Corvette C6. Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray is built at the Bowling Green plant (2016 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible with Jet Black Suede Package pictured) Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is built at the Bowling Green plant (2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Coupe pictured) Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport is built at the Bowling Green plant (2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Coupe pictured) The Cadillac XLR (right) and XLR-V (left) were produced at the Bowling Green plant between June 2003 and April 2009 The Chevrolet Corvette wasn’t always built at the Bowling Green plant. In 1953, General Motors presented the Corvette as a “dream car” in New York’s Motorama show at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Shortly after, the first 300 units were built by hand in Flint, Michigan. The following year, production moved to St. Louis and in 1981, Corvette production transferred to Bowling Green. The building was initially built as a Chrysler air conditioning factory. Bowling Green plant produces 1 millionth Corvette on July 2, 1992 Bowling Green plant completely revamped to produce fifth-generation Corvette at the conclusion of 1996 production year Bowling Green plant produces 1.5 millionth Corvette on May 28, 2009 Corvette celebrates 50th anniversary in June 2003, marked with a special 50th anniversary Corvette package 30th anniversary of Bowling Green Assembly celebrated in June 2011 Production of the Cadillac XLR, which was based on the Corvette C5, began in June 2003 and ceased on April 30, 2009 Production of all-new Corvette C7 Stingray began in the 3rd quarter of 2013 Exclusive Engine Build Experience became available to Corvette Z06 customers in March 2015. The program allows aficionados to assemble the supercharged, 650-horsepower 6.2L V-8 LT4 engine for their cars. The $5,000 package includes: A full day with a Performance Build Center engine assembly technician who instructs and oversees the build Personalized engine plaque identifying the owner/builder and the date of the engine build Professional photography of the experience 2005: $5,000,000 for Andon/global error proofing 2005: $12,000,000 for ELPO paint system April 2005: $19,000,000 for C6 model change April 2005: $3,000,000 for paint sludge system/air balance July 2007: $4,500,000 for conveyor addition/rearrangement June 2016: GM invests $290 Million in Bowling Green Assembly December 2015: $44 million for a capacity increase in the Performance Build Center, adding 36 new jobs 2013-2014: $3.5 million for new Performance Build Center (PBC), relocated from Michigan to Bowling Green, adding 30 new jobs; the Corvette Z06 LT4 engine is currently built in this area 2012-2013: $131 million for Corvette C7 changeover, adding about 250 jobs 2012/2013: $52 million for brand new Body Shop to build aluminum frame in-house for the first time May 2015: $439 million for facility upgrades, including new 450,000 square-foot state of the art paint shop, which is almost half the size of the entire current production facility. Construction of the new paint shop began in the summer of 2015 and took two years tow complete. Corvette production schedules were not by the construction. August 2016: Bowling Green Assembly unveils 850kW solar array June 2016: $290 million to upgrade and modify the plant’s vehicle assembly operations with new technologies and processes Milestones, Accomplishments & Awards The Bowling Green plant as well as the Chevrolet Corvette that it produces have received various awards. Chevrolet Corvette C7 Awards Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Award – 2016 Top Gear Muscle Car of the Year – 2015 Corvette Z06 Ward’s 10 Best Engines – 2015 Kelley Blue Book Best Buy (Performance Car) – 2015 Car and Driver 10 Best – 2015 Car and Driver Editor’s Choice Sports Cars – 2015 Consumer Guide Best Buy Premium Sporty/Performance – 2015 Edmunds Most Popular Midrange Sport Car – 2015 North American Car of the Year – 2014 Edmunds Best New Year’s Resolution Cars – 2014 Edmunds Most Exciting Cars – 2014 Edmunds Best Cars for Long Road Trips – 2014 Edmunds Top Rated Coupes – 2014 Ward’s 10 Best Interiors – 2014 Automobile Magazine Automobile of the Year – 2014 Kelley Blue Book Best Resale Value – 2014 Yahoo! Car of the Year – 2014 Popular Mechanics Top 10 of the Year (performance) – 2014 Road & Track Performance Car of the Year – 2013 Autoweek 2014 Best of the Best – 2013 Motor Press Guild 2013 Innovation Vehicle of the Year – 2013 Forbes Hottest New Car of the Year – 2013 Popular Science Best of What’s New – 2013 Esquire Automotive Event of the Year – 2013 Men’s Health Car of the Year – 2013 Intellichoice & AutoPacific Motorist Choice Awards – 2013 Automobile Journalists Association of Canada Best New Sports/Performance Car – 2013 Autoweek Best in Show at NAIAS – 2014 Corvette Stingray – 2013 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray the most awarded car in the industry in 2013 Corvette ranked Best GM model and 5th across the industry for quality by JD Power – 2009 JD Power Best in Segment – 2009, 2002, 2001 Bowling Green Plant Awards Two awards for its 2015 United Way campaign: Highest Giving Increase #2 of the top 10 givers, with a total donation of over $200,000 September 2014: first place award in area March of Dimes Walk for Babies, raising $19,000 September 2013: Bowling Green Assembly receives 2nd place award in area Alzheimer’s Walk, raising just over $5,500 November 2012: Wildlife Habitat Certification, Wildlife Habitat Council (recertified November 2014) September 2011: John B. Holland Business of the Year award from the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce JD Power bronze plant award for quality – 2009 JD Power silver plant award for quality – 2002 Approximately 50,000 tourists from around the world visit the Bowling Green plant every year to see the manufacturing process of the Corvette. Information about the tours can be accessed at corvetteassembly.com. Corvette Museum Delivery The Bowling Green Corvette plant has partnered with the National Corvette Museum to provide Corvette enthusiasts the opportunity to watch their own Corvette being built, have a specialized tour of the facility and take special delivery of their car, as well as acquire an exclusive photo book to commemorate the manufacturing process and “birth” of their Corvette. State Economic Impact Wages: $88,585,304 Income Tax: $18,287,322 Follow this link for GM Bowling Green plant news coverage. 2021 Corvette Production Now Underway At Bowling Green Assembly General Motors Announces Factory Zero Dedicated Electric Vehicle Plant American Axle Plant Fire In Ohio May Impact General Motors Production	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3197
__label__cc	0.749775	0.250225	Hot World Report Home » Celebrities » Tristan Thompson Fears Kardashian Curse & Asks Khloe To Stay Home For Game 4 Tristan Thompson Fears Kardashian Curse & Asks Khloe To Stay Home For Game 4 Tristan Thompson’s on edge knowing that the Cavaliers may go home tonight if they lose Game 4! He’s doing anything he can to make sure the Cavs don’t get swept by the Warriors, and, that includes asking Khloe to stay home and she’s not happy! Who knew Tristan Thompson, was so superstitious? — But, when you’re down 0-3 in the NBA Finals, you’ll do just about anything to preserve any luck you have left. Tristan’s not taking any chances tonight, as the Cleveland Cavaliers’ face elimination in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. The Golden State Warriors will play for it all tonight, and the Cavs will play to survive another day., which is why Tristan has asked Khloe Kardashian, 33, to watch tonight’s game from home because he fears the Kardashian curse. “Khloe and Tristan had a heated discussion when he suggested maybe she should watch game 4 from home,” a source close to the couple tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. And, Khloe was not happy about it. “She was hurt and offended that Tristan would not want her at the home game in person. He made it clear that he is trying to protect her from any blame should the Cavs lose this game.” As for how Khloe feels about the whole “curse” ordeal that’s followed the Kardashians around for years? — “Khloe feels the curse is a ridiculous theory and there is no reason she could ever be blamed for any loss,” the insider reveals. “She told Tristan that nothing would keep her away from the game and from supporting her man tonight.” It looks like Tristan won’t be getting his way with this one! Khloe just attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals in Cleveland on June 6. The Good American designer was photographed at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans arena, where she joined the crowd in their “blackout” donning a black tee, with “CLE” splashed across the front. And, you could have probably guessed that the Cavs lost that game (110-102), hence Tristan’s fear of the curse tonight. The bottom line is, if the Cavs lose Game 4, they will officially be eliminated from the NBA Finals, and more embarrassingly, they would be swept by the Dubs on their home court. « 7 Reasons Straws Are Truly Terrible For The Environment There’s A New Version Of FOMO Called "NEMO" & The Feeling Is Relatable As Heck » Mum wows with her insanely organised fridge online U.S. Teen Jailed for Breaching Quarantine in Cayman Islands Admits 'I Deserved It' How to Streamline Your 2021 Skin-Care Routine With Products Under $16 Police dog TikTok star walks out of hospital after near-fatal shooting	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3200
__label__wiki	0.707818	0.707818	COVID-19 impact on India \| Multiple sectors affected in six months of lockdown by Administrator_India \| Sep 25, 2020 \| Coronavirus News \| 0 comments By Administrator_India India is one of the most affected countries from coronavirus pandemic. The government imposed nationwide lockdown in late March to combat the spread of the novel disease. After six months of closure India has the second highest number of cases in the world with more than 5.73 million positive cases. The government lifted lockdown restrictions in a phased manner while the shutdown took a toll on the country’s economy. The lockdown restriction halted the most economic activities and led to job loss of millions of people and revenue streams. The government took precautionary measures to curb the virus spread by restricting the movement but the virus wreaked havoc in the country. The virus killed many, including those who were fighting the battle against it to safeguard others’ life. Let’s take a look at the impact of COVID-19 during the six months since the lockdown. Healthcare Sector \| Healthcare is the epicenter during this unprecedented global pandemic. Lack of medical investment and healthcare infrastructure are the biggest challenge for an effective response in India in a battle against the novel pandemic. Amid the rising cases lack of healthcare facilities like shortage of beds, lack of protection equipment. GDP Contracted \| In the first quarter of the fiscal year 2021 India’s Gross Domestic Product collapsed by 23.9 percent amid the coronavirus lockdown. Job Loss \| The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the job landscape in India. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) about 21 million salaries employees lost their jobs during April-August. There were 86 million salaried jobs in India during 2019-20. In August 2020, the count was down to 65 million after 3.3 million jobs were gone in the particular month, mostly among the industrial workers and white collar workers, as per the CMIE. Income Loss for Vulnerable Section \| The lockdown has impacted the disadvantaged groups with a greater magnitude. India’s vulnerable section lost incomes amounting to as much as Rs 4 lakh crores, or nearly 2 percent of the country’s annual GDP. Suicide Rate \| The ongoing pandemic has affected people’s mental health majorly. According to the data compiled by a group of researchers at Jindal Global School of Law, suicide was the leading cause of over 300 non-coronavirus deaths reported in India from March 19 till May 2 due to the distress triggered by the nationwide lockdown. Travel & Tourism Industry \| Indian travel and tourism industry is one of the worst-impacted sectors by the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and hospitality consulting firm Hotelivate. Tour operators, including both online and offline as well as inbound and outbound will lose $4.77 billion. The entire value chain linked to Travel & Tourism is likely to lose around 5 lakh crore or US $65.57 billion, with the organized sector alone likely to lose US $25 billion. Hospitality Industry \| The CII-Hotelivate report says that the shutdown which was initially expected to affect revenue streams till October have now indicated otherwise and only 30 percent of occupancy in hotels till the start of 2021. Currently hotels are seeing an 80 percent- 85 percent erosion in revenue streams. The hospitality industry, including branded and unbranded hotels, will incur a revenue loss of $19.31 billion, as per the CII-Hotelivate research. Metro Rail Services \| The country has been under lockdown since March 25 due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, imposing strict curbs on activities and travel across the country. Ever since then the metro rail was also shut nationwide till the government lifted the restrictions and allowed the metro trains to resume services from September 7. While the services were shut, the metro incurred huge revenue loss. Indian Railways \| Amid the coronavirus crisis Railways had suspended all passenger services from March till May 3. During a web conference on July 28, Railway Board chairman VK Yadav said that the Indian Railways expects to incur revenue loss of up to Rs 35,000 from passenger train segment during the FY21 due to a fallout of train travel following the restriction to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Education Sector \| The pandemic has disrupted the education sector as people are forced to stay at home. The schools and colleges remain closed ever since the nationwide lockdown was imposed. Many children are struggling to keep up with the challenges of online classes. Impact on Street Vendors \| Livelihoods of street vendors which depend on being in public places have been hit hard by the unprecedented lockdown.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3201
__label__cc	0.587564	0.412436	Diplomat-speak and the love of Obama Trump, in contrast, does not need a translator By Tom Winter Last updated Jun 16, 2020 Obama, best at diplomaspeak Paying attention to US foreign policy, one eventually realizes there are gradations in openness. These gradations go from bald plain speaking to the opaque boilerplate of diplomatspeak. Sampling the pronouncements of Trump, Pompeo, Jeffrey, and Obama, we find that Obama holds sway in the art of confessing without anyone noticing. Now of course, we could include many another US spokesperson, Samantha Power, or Jen Psaki, for example, but this is only an essay, not a three-volume set. We begin with Pompeo. Translating US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is no challenge at all. Just write the opposite. A sample: “The world must continue to support the Venezuelan people’s effort to restore their democracy and put an end to Maduro’s tyranny which harms millions of Venezuelans.” A translation into truth, I repeat, is no challenge at all. But why not? The world must continue to support: “our lackeys mustn’t falter.” Venezuelan people’s effort: “The US State Department’s effort” to restore their democracy: “to disenfranchise the people.” put an end to Maduro’s tyranny: “oust the people’s choice” which harms millions of Venezuelans: well, they are being harmed all right, but by us. Too easy, and nothing at all to the smoothiness of Obama, who could admit to war crimes without anyone noticing. There could be a large list of times Obama told the truth — in a way that no one picks up on. I’ll start with this from his presser after a G7 meeting: “And, ironically, one of the rationales that Mr. Putin provided for his incursions into Ukraine was to protect Russian speakers there. Well, Russian speakers inside of Ukraine are precisely the ones who are bearing the brunt of the fighting. Their economy has collapsed. Their lives are disordered. Many of them are displaced. Their homes may have been destroyed. We need an Obama dictionary! Here is a start. Russian speakers: inhabitants of Donetsk and Lugansk. Bearing the brunt of the fighting: the people of Lugansk and Donetsk are getting bombed. Their economy has collapsed. Blockaded. Their homes may have been destroyed. Our putschist government in Kiev is bombing civilian residential areas. Many of them are displaced: the natural consequence of the bombing of civilian residential areas. No home anymore, therefore, displaced. He knows what he has done to the Russian speakers, and confesses, but in diplomatspeak. Here’s another Obama text “On Ukraine and Russia and Minsk, there is strong consensus that we need to keep pushing Russia to abide by the terms of the Minsk agreement; we need to continue to support and encourage Ukraine to meet its obligations under Minsk — that until that’s completed, sanctions remain in place.” This presumes that Russia has obligations under Minsk. No. The terms of Minsk and Minsk II make no mention of Russia. “Push Russia, encourage Ukraine.” Well, Ukraine actually did have obligations, and has never met any of them. The US encouragement has been to supply military advisors and military equipment. One confession is still on line, the transcript of Obama’s February 1, 2015 CNN interview “And since Mr. Putin made this decision around Crimea and Ukraine — not because of some grand strategy, but essentially because he was caught off-balance by the protests in the Maidan and Yanukovych then fleeing after we had brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine.” What does it mean? Frankly it means this: Putin made the decision as a consequence of our coup in Kiev. First, the Maidan riots, the flight of Yanukovich, the “brokered” coup, and then, the acceptance of Crimea into Russia. Of course, had Crimea not been allowed back home, and was still “Ukraine” the US could have leased the navy base at Sevastopol from its new puppets in Kiev. Kiev did give them Ochakov. See my earlier essay The Crimea: American or Russian. “We occasionally have to twist the arms of countries that wouldn’t do what we need them to do.” This seems so innocuous, but experience shows it means economic strangulation, coups, regime change proxy war. And then again some confessions have passed as mere jesting: “turns out I’m really good at killing people.” Ha ha. Trump, at least, has no knowledge of diplomatspeak, nor any skill in it: Compare “We’re keeping the oil.” “A second possible reason is to keep the oil fields out of the hands of Assad, and possibly the Russians, and maintain as a bargaining chip for the opposition in the course of working out some kind of settlement with the Assad regime.” [NPR, Oct. 31, 2019] On this same heading, contrast the words of US “ambassador” to Syria, James Jeffrey, pure diplomatspeak. “The collapse of the Syrian pound proves that Russia and Iran are no longer able to sustain Assad’s government, while the regime itself is no longer able to manage an effective economic policy,” Jeffrey says. “And, if he agrees to our terms, and has any regard for his people…” Oh my! “the Collapse of the Syrian pound” — Now how on earth did that happen? In the TIME news item of June 10, “United States Special Envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, announced on Sunday that Washington had offered to lift Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad out of his crisis.” Well, we ask, if it is really Assad’s crisis, how can the US help? Simply, the US could stop causing it. Just as Lavrov can translate Obama, the Syrian foreign ministry has no problem translating Mr Jeffrey: Here, From Stephen Sahiounie’s account in Mideast Discourse: United States Special Envoy to Syria, James Jeffrey, announced on Sunday that Washington had offered Syria a proposal to end the US sanctions. The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry in Damascus said that the statements by James Jeffrey constitute a clear admission by the Trump administration of it being directly responsible for the suffering of Syrians. Again and again, confessions in diplomatspeak can fly right over the heads of the inattentive. Should we, for that reason, be grateful to Trump and his accomplice Pompeo? CNNFake NewsJeffreyObamaPompeoSyriam oils The IMF, Ukraine, trinkets, and a mess of pottage Lord Malloch Brown Revealed: The British Hand Behind the Coup Shows Its Scales Again Win-Win vs Lose-Lose: The Time Has Come for the World to Choose When The Buck Stops Nowhere: Barr – Haspel – Pompeo Trump’s Surprising Alaska-Canada Rail Announcement: Might America Join the Polar Silk…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3203
__label__wiki	0.789003	0.789003	FLORES: Trump’s ANTIFA-Terrorism Targets are Jack Dorsey of Twitter and George Soros By Joaquin Flores By Joaquin Flores Last updated Jun 2, 2020 By Joaquin Flores – The primary target of Trump’s anti-terrorism decree naming Antifa, are not Antifa followers and protesters themselves, but Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and George Soros. In a protest/riot scenario, the police need no new additional powers to stop, detain, or arrest citizens engaged in such activities in the US. The FBI do not need terrorism designations to wire-tap, use COINTELPRO methods, and the like, to frustrate these methods. But the state will need this very serious rationale to go after Color Revolution creating social media platforms like Twitter. Jack Dorsey may turn out to be Minister of Information of the Antifa terrorist organization at the end of the day. Trump’s May 31st designation of Antifa as a terrorist group will have far-reaching consequences. It was the only move that could be made within the context of a whole slew of factors imposed on the the whole country. This has come from actors such as George Soros who have exploited the loopholes inherent in the intersection of oligarchy, philanthropy, capitalism, social movements, and pluralism in civil society. This designation in the immediate sense, will undeniably work against constitutional rights, including speech, assembly, association, bearing arms, and jury trial. Rather, it’s the strategy of tension that will lead to a state of war of all against all. There is no civil society or pluralism in such a state of affairs. Labeling Antifa a terrorist group is the most prudent move at this time, the most conservative, and can be used the most surgically. That is no reason to celebrate the move. We are in the situation of having to make a series of difficult decisions based on which ones will have the least worst outcomes, and moreover, which create the possibility to create the most amenable outcomes. Jack Dorsey and Soros are under investigation for Terrorism The public must avoid falling for the MSM hysteria about Antifa being declared a terrorist organization, because this is a broad announcement which can only effectively be used in a surgical way. It will undermine Trump’s ability to navigate this manufactured crisis imposed on himself and the whole country, if he uses that designation too broadly. Bear in mind that the job of the MSM is to lead us to believe it is being used widely when it is likely to be used narrowly. That means Trump will be making notable efforts to prove this designation is being used conservatively. While abuses will be realized because abuse will always be present wherever it is possible, (like mailed-out ballots), the primary targets are Jack Dorsey of Twitter and George Soros (et al). Jack Dorsey of Twitter is in big trouble, he’s being investigated for links to terrorism as he has been the primary social media programmer for Antifa, which has been declared a terrorist organization. By placing him as part of the investigation on terrorism, it greatly limits Germany’s ability to ‘host Twitter’ as some kind of Deep State base of operations. It also will help civilian government take control of Twitter. Jack Dorsey thought he was above the law Jack Dorsey thought he was above the law because he was part of an Intelligence Community project of the Deep State to use Twitter to foment Color Revolutions abroad. He had all the assurances in the world from his handlers and contacts. But when looking at the situation in the US, things get tricky. The same cabal that thought they had the right to declare which of the world’s governments were legitimate or illegitimate, turned their aim on Trump even before he was elected, which is what ObamaGate and BidenGate are all about. They created a holographic reality in which the legitimate US president was actually a Russian plant that the American people and the IC were, at any given moment, ready to depose in some way. Therefore, all the efforts to remove him by any means necessary would be retroactively considered lawful, instead of unlawful. It was truly amazing how many ISIS-recruiting clerics and imams, and how many open Al Qaeda organizers were allowed to have Twitter accounts. For people only loosely paying attention, this created the illusion that anyone could have a Twitter account, that it as an open and unedited platform, even while in reality Twitter was silencing other views it did not approve of. This effectively means it approved of ISIS/Al Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood organizing, as the public understands better now as there has been a public debate over the difference between platforming and publishing. Trump team delivered the stages of this in stand-alone memetic packets. This is the most widely proscribed method: 1 – Twitter is a Publisher and needs to be regulated as one if they continue to act as one 2 – Publishers publish what they support and don’t publish what they don’t support 3 – Twitter publishes organized Antifa tweets (and organizes them in the way they publish some and not others) 4 – Antifa is a terrorist organization 5 – Twitter lends itself as the publishing arm of Antifa, which is central to its organizing physical manifestations and not just incidental to its message 6 – Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is potentially an Antifa terrorist Some Public Evidence Journalist Tim Poole in a cross-examination with Jack Dorsey on the Joe Rogan show a year ago showed how Antifa-on-Twitter acted as an organization, despite that Twitter vehemently denied that Antifa was an organization. This was because Twitter justified their repression of the Proud Boys as an organization, but Antifa was free to run amok on the platform because they were allegedly not an organization. Tim Poole showed that, functionally, Antfa was an organization. But we can go further in that Antifa is an organization whether or not it is comprised of individuals who call themselves Antifa, it demonstrably includes Twitter itself as part of Antifa. Organizations exist whether they call themselves organizations or not. That Twitter is a publisher, not a platform, and that massively favors Antifa, makes Twitter the publisher – the press-wing – of Antifa. But is Antifa a terrorist organization? Antifa fits the definition of a terrorist organization by Chapter 113B – ‘TERRORISM’ of 18 USC Code, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Citizens under the influence of Twitter-approved twitter-storms using the Antifa hashtag and an array of related hashtags, and retweet these, are not terrorists. Those who have even mobilized in the name of social-justice when Twitter has (as a publisher) made the call for one, are not terrorists. There is manufactured consent, and yet what is surprisingly not discussed, is manufactured dissent. The left by and large does not understand the latter category, just as they struggle with the Color Revolution concept (despite overwhelming empirical/physical and circumstantial evidence). This opens up a broader debate about the limits of agency, and the simulation of social movements and social phenomenon through digital algorithmic manipulation. That said; The religion of the class struggle teaches them that all uprisings of the people, (and for the New Left, especially if they are not white/male/straight) are inherently all grass-roots and real responses to the travesties of capitalism and the racist-patriarchal, authoritarian, bourgeois state. They have to see their belief in the inevitability of an uprising as realized in these miraculous and sudden uprisings. This is because the New Left abandoned the plight of the working class, and became a youth-oriented, sex-race movement, which in fact posed no real challenge to capital while operating in that sphere. So rather than knowing that a labor action is being planned, that a labor action is being organized (with accountable leaders, meetings of workers, etc.), the general mass of supporters of the New Left have only desperate hope that the masses will be provoked into some random confrontation with the state which is some how expressed in burning buildings and police cars. Those who take their activism more seriously, wind up in the Labor-NGO industrial complex which is increasingly under the control of philanthropy. Soros is to progressive philanthropy what Gates is to world health. It’s regulatory capture. Those who wind up in that, as this author did for a time, learn very quickly many of the in-fact organized tactics involved. The broad networks, the power analysis, and so on. To move forward, that system weeds out free thinking individuals and conscientious objectors. It is very much like a form of police, a more sophisticated form of policing done through social control agents operating through labor and the NGO sector. There’s tremendous background on this from, ironically, anarchist critiques of labor but also the Frankfurt School. In a twisted sense, the white anarcho-liberal left hopes, and always hopes, for more martyrs like George Floyd, because they have no real organizing method and strategy of their own that doesn’t rely on the Soros NGO complex or DNC Get Out the Vote campaigns. Magically Twitter just deletes the accounts of some people who are actually a threat to the system, while Twitter has de-activated the report-tabs’ full functionality of protected certain Antifa accounts. These accounts are not shadow banned, and sometimes even overtly promoted, so their relative amplification means that Dorsey is effectively a member of Antifa, and not only that. He’s head of Antifa’s most important vehicle – Twitter, Antifa’s Ministry of Information anti-terrorismantifaBLMcolor revolutioncounter-terrorismHBCUJusticeForGeorgeNGO This is How the Murder Charge on Derek Chauvin Must be Upgraded FLORES: By Targeting Antifa, BLM can be Liberated from the Dixiecrat Plantation The Empire Doubles Down: Open Society Foundations Will Now Be Run by Lord Malloch…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3204
__label__cc	0.584419	0.415581	NotBlamedForNothing I know by the precise cuts under her eyelids that there was sufficient lighting in Mitre Square for Jack the Ripper to see Catherine's body; and so, it would be obvious that he would have been able to make out what was in her pocket when he removed each item. However, under the gloom of that sunwall at Dutfield's Yard, there may not have been sufficient light to see his hand before his face. After all, Louis Diemschutz had to light a match in order to discern the mass on the ground. Edward Spooner: They said, "There has been a woman murdered in Berner-street." I went with them to the yard adjoining No. 40. I saw a young woman lying just inside the gate. There were about fifteen people in the yard standing round - most of them Jews. They were not touching her. I could see it was a young woman before they struck a light. As Diemschitz was capable of driving his pony cart around the streets of London at night time, I'd assume his eyesight was fine. Is someone telling fibs? Coroner: Could you see there was a woman there when you went in? Blackwell: Yes. The doors were closed when I arrived. Andrew's the man, that is not blamed for nothing Joshua Rogan Both Spooner and Blackwell already knew that there was a body in the yard when they arrived, whereas Louis didn't. It's a lot easier to make out an object in the dark if you know what you're looking for. Originally posted by DJA View Post Sutton,with a theoretical bolt hole at 6 Mitre Street,would know the timing of the police beat. I surmise he had been there for at least 3 years. The only person to see him,and live,was Mrs Long at 29 Hanbury Street. He was unlikely to have used a 7" pathologist's knife to make those small cuts in the dark.PBC was and still is a rare condition, 1 in over 3,000 people.Gull was a leader in research,therefore so was his little mate Sutton. Once the cop had left Mitre Square,Sutton has moved her out through the gate and completed the work he had allotted to the time span of up to 14 minutes. My health is a problem right now. I'm not being rude,for a change,it's time to take a rest.There is a lot to explain. The questions you ask should be obvious,when you think about them. Eddowes has gone straight to his place when released. He headed there after killing Stride. Reckon they had time to talk,thus "nothing" in the GSG. Eddowes (and Nichols) had been his patients for almost 21 years. Eddowes may have been attempting to end what was effectively put into action by Nichols, after the idea was planted by Mary Ann Kelly. No doubt she wanted "reimbursement". Might sound convoluted,it isn't. Ciao for now. Again thanks for sharing. While I don´t agree with your take on things, I generally take the view that since I may be mistaken, it´s a good thing that others dig where I don´t. Originally posted by Joshua Rogan View Post Such as a red and white flower? Originally posted by NotBlamedForNothing View Post Many hands make light work The murder was light work One aspect of this casebook that has always intrigued me has been the sequencing of the crime. As in, are there discernible clues that might suggest how and in what order did the killer commit each murder? In the case of "frenzy", I'm certain that the word is subjective; but, I believe that I understand it in similar terms if you are writing that "a frenzied attack" suggests a killer who is beyond self-control, monstrous, without rational comprehension, compulsive, &c. And, based on the nature of the Eddowes murder, it would be easy to dismiss the morbid act as simply savage (which it is btw!). Still, I've considered that the killer may have displayed a more measured attack (ie. acted with a bit of patient self-control) rather than a frenzied one based on the fact that he rifled through Catherine's pocket. I'm willing to be corrected re: the scene of the crime; I vaguely remember that many of her personal items were laid about her body (a similarity that is shared with the scenes of Chapman's and, to an extent, Kelly's murder). For me, this point suggests the opposite of a frenzied attack because the murderer deliberately goes through each of her possessions, an aspect which suggests that Jack the Ripper wasn't at all hurried by himself altho time was still a consideration. I believe that in the 2 cases most probably done by this Ripper fellow that there is a distinctive, structured and dispassionate pattern followed, the coldness of the acts being one of the most provocative features of both crimes. No struggles. No noise, (2 throat cuts ending any potential noise), no struggles, nor chance of survival. Placed on their back, legs spread, skirts up. He knows what he's doing alright. Which is why I wonder about Tabram--about whom I live on the fence. I do believe that the man who attacked Ada Wilson is also the man who killed the Canonical 5. But he had to start somewhere and there's 6 months between Wilson & Nichols. I can't believe he emerged with such a polished MO. But also I can't compute the really frenzied attack on Tabram with the smoother more calculated attacks on the 5. That having been said, no one heard the Tabram attack which took place in a tenement surrounded by people. And silence along with other people in the vicinity are hallmarks of Our Boy. With Stride, that's how I generally read it. Her pockets were filled with all her personal effects rather than being rifled through; for me, that's an indication of an interruption or an obstacle. By obstacle, I mean to say... Interesting thoughts, Robert. 'Obstacle' works well as a word because it would cover an interruption too - basically anything which would have caused the killer to leave the scene the instant he had taken his knife to Stride's throat. I do suspect there was an obstacle of one sort or another - physical, human, psychological, even a combination - which told him this was not a good place to hang around after inflicting the fatal cut. It's not definitive of the same killer, but I read the description of the positioning of Annie Chapman's legs and feet as being similar to the position of Mary Jane Kelly's legs as they appear in the photo of her mutilated corpse. And, I read similarities in the details of how both Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes' pockets were turned-out and their personal belongings being laid next to their bodies [I think that Jack the Ripper is enacting the same pattern when he places Mary Jane Kelly's organs around her body]. I don't remember there being any description of blood found on those personal items (of course, that aspect may have been overlooked). For me, that would suggest that Jack the Ripper rifled through their pockets before he eviscerated these women but after he had them incapacitated/cut their throats. That's just a petty coldness in my opinion: he has a dying/dead woman sprawled before him; he's about to commit a savagery by harvesting her organs; the constable could be on him at a moment's notice; and yet, there he is, patiently mugging through this poor woman's meager belongings - a cigarette case, a tin box , &c. Hi Robert, so you like the similarities and just discard the anomalies? Like Mary was in her own home undressed and in bed? Like the killer didnt break into the room but was apparently let in? The fact the uterus is cut out then left behind? That a heart in not in any way a gender specific organ...and that in Annies case the medical expert said thats exactly what he wanted and knew how to cut her to get specifically that organ? That the victim in room 13 has her thighs stripped of flesh for some odd reason? That the victim struggled with her attacker...find another Canonical that has that element. Some similarities can easily be passed off as mimicking. Every thing that Jack had done was printed for the public. But the anomalies cant be passed off that way. The man killed and mutilated his very first victim on the street...now hes sheepish is he? This kind of speculation is why nothing will ever be resolved about these cases by discussing them, people just ignore the facts and read into them what they will. Its why Israel, and George and fanciful but unsubstantiated opinions about interruptions that are not in any evidence, are still lingering around shaping peoples theories. GIGO. Hi Michael. I find the similarities interesting when they are peculiar to the scenes of the crime. They are by no means definitive, but they sometimes lead down a line of reasoning that yada yada yada. Either way, no need for banal assertions, back to your post. I fail to see the need to mimic a Jack the Ripper murder with Mary Jane Kelly; if the culprit simply wanted her dead, why not just stab her and make the grand adios; what would be the urge to stick-around on the premises once it was clearly obvious that she was dead after the blood had been drained from her body over the edge of the bed?? I'll counter with some other similarities: 1. The killer left a clean crime scene. He's mutilated her corpse and stripped the flesh off the bone. He's ripped her heart out from underneath her rib cage. So, you would imagine his hands would be covered in blood and gore. However, there are no reports of bloody handprints on the wall, window, table, chair, bed, fireplace, door, &c. This killer is astutely self-aware of his presence within his own crime scene. 2. This killer had an anatomical understanding of the abdominal organs independent of each other much like the murderer of Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes. In other words, once he unzipped their abdominal flesh, the killer in all 3 cases does not view the organs as one big block. He can differentiate between a kidney, a uterus, a liver, and a spleen. 3. The killer accesses all the organs from the abdominal cavity. He doesn't cut through the sternum to get to her heart. 4. The senseless cuts - eyelids, thumb, eyebrows, ear, &c. 5. Some indications of using his left hand All I can add is, had I caught Jack the Ripper on November 25th 1888 based on evidence surrounding the Chapman or Eddowes case, there's a strong likelihood that I would have suspected him of the Kelly murder too and not dismissed the thought simply because her murder happened to have occurred in a bedroom. 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__label__cc	0.642883	0.357117	DIU Activities » Sharpen Your General Knowledge Author Topic: Sharpen Your General Knowledge (Read 26417 times) Shamim Ansary Change Yourself, the whole will be changed Re: Sharpen Your General Knowledge How Much Water Do Clouds Hold and How Does the Size and Color of a Cloud Affect How Much Water It Can Hold? The amount of water inside a cloud is not different from the amount of water in the clear air around it. However, while the clear air contains water vapor, inside the cloud the air is saturated with water vapor and it has condensed out to produce the cloud. The difference between the two states is caused by temperature differences rather than the water content. The color of a cloud doesnâ€™t make much difference either. In the higher part of a cloud, the water is in the form of ice crystals. Lower down it is a mixture of ice and liquid water. The color of the cloud depends mainly on this ice/water mixture and the size of the water droplets, and less on the total amount of water. An estimate of a cloudâ€™s water content can be obtained from the amount of rain the cloud can produce. If the entire atmosphere were saturated with water and it all fell in a steady stream, this could produce some 1.4 inches of rain, while the thickest actual clouds produce about 0.8 inches. Cloudbursts can produce 2 inches or more, but this requires additional moisture from the surrounding atmosphere, which means such events are localized. The heaviest cloudbursts roughly follow the following equation: the rainfall in inches equals 162.5 multiplied by the square root of the time in minutes that it has been raining. A more typical shower produces a fraction of an inch of rain, at a rate of perhaps 0.04 inches per minute. Normally 1 inch of rain corresponds to 900,000 cubic feet of water weighing 4,000 tons per cubic miles of cloud, though the thickest clouds can contain up to 20 times as much. You can also estimate the amount of water from the volume of the cloud. By volume, the fraction of the cloud filled with water is about 1 millionth, or 0.0001 percent. The cross-section area of a cloud can be measured from its shadow. A small cloud 1,000 feet by 1,000 feet and 500 feet high has a volume of 500 million cubic feet, of which roughly 500 cubic feet will be water, weighing 15 tons. Even if you canâ€™t calculate the precise amount of water in a cloud, these numbers may still impress your friends. Sadly, just looking at a cloud does not give very precise information about how much water it contains. The color of a cloud depends entirely on the relative position of the viewer and the physical structure of the cloud. Its apparent size is dependent on the altitude of the cloud, and this is generally very difficult to judge from a single observation point. But knowing exactly how much water is contained in a cloud is important for producing accurate weather forecasts. The choice of frequency for a Doppler radar beam is very important. If the beam interacts too strongly with the water in a cloud, in terms of either reflecting or attenuating the signal, then the radar will have only a limited ability to penetrate cloud structure. If the interaction with water is too weak, then no useful information can be returned at all. One facility in England can analyze and extract a huge variety of data and has a maximum range of around 100 miles. It is able to provide information on droplet density, size, speed, and whether the droplets are water or ice. Using this tool, your reader could work out fairly accurately the total water content contained within a cloud and, from the structure of the cloud, how likely it is to start raining, this technique has proved very useful at the Wimbledon tennis championships in past years, which are, of course, notorious for being interrupted by downpours. Such radars help to produce detailed information on weather, from tracking hurricanes to helping to produce your daily weather forecast and predicting areas of turbulence on aircraft flights. And remember that kinetic energy rises with the square of the velocity. "Many thanks to Allah who gave us life after having given us death and (our) final return (on the Day of Qiyaamah (Judgement)) is to Him" Where Did the Engagement Ring Come From and How Did the Tradition Originate? The diamond engagement ring was introduced by the Venetians, who discovered the diamondâ€™s value in the sixteenth century. But betrothal gifts hadnâ€™t included rings until 860 A.D., when Pope Nicholas I decreed that a ring of value must be given as a statement of nuptial intent. It was also mentioned that if the man called off the wedding, the jilted bride kept the ring. If the woman ended the engagement, she was to return the ring and be sent to a nunnery. How Were Time Zones Invented and When? It would be very confusing if the clock said midday in one place and the sun was high in the sky, but in another place at midday the sky was pitch-black and full of stars. Thank goodness someone had the bright idea of time zones. Universal Time. Depending where you are on the planet, it might be the middle of the day or the middle of the night, because the Earth is orbiting the Sun. Of course, before time zones clocks werenâ€™t set at the same time for everyone and no one ate their lunch at 3 a.m. or had breakfast at bedtime. People used the Sun as their guide and the time was set locally, when the Sun was overhead, it was midday. As new ways to travel and communicate were invented, knowing the exact time in different parts of the world became more and more important, and a standard time was needed. Sir Sandford Fleming first proposed time zones for the whole world in 1876. In 1884 an international conference at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, adopted the time zones we know today. Planet Earth rotates on its axis 15 degrees every hour, so the world is divided into 24 15-degree sections, with the clocks in each section set an hour apart (at least, thatâ€™s how it works for most of the world). The zones are all measured from Greenwich, which the 1884 conference decided was the Prime Meridian. The time at Greenwich is known as Greenwich Mean Time or, more grandly, Universal Time. The Pacific country of Kiribati used to have two different time zones. The eastern half of the country was a whole day and two hours behind the western half! In 1995 the time zone was changed so that Kiribati clocks all told the same time. Why Are the Numbers On a Keyboard Arranged With the Lowest Numbers On the Bottom and Phones Are the Opposite? Mechanical adding machines, based on rotating wheels, always have the 0 button adjacent to the 1 button. By convention, most old adding machines had the numbers increasing in value from the bottom and this may be a hangover from when the machines had levers on the wheels rather than buttons. When the numbers were put on to a pad arranged as a three by three grid with one left over, the order of the numbers, as far as possible, was kept the same. On a rotary telephone dial the 0 comes adjacent to the 9 because a 0 in the telephone number is signalled by in pulses on the line. When telephones acquired push buttons in a grid, the ordering of the buttons was carried over from the old telephone dial. What Artist Painted With His Tongue? Huang Erh-nan was a well-known painter who lived in Peking, China, during the 1920s. Most of his work consisted of ink paintings of butterflies and flowers. But what made Erh-nanâ€™s paintings so amazing was that he painted them not with a brush, but with his tongue! The Chinese artist filled his mouth with black ink, leaned over a piece of silk cloth, and brushed on his designs using his tongue alone! How Do Elephants Communicate With Each Other and Why Do They Make Loud Trumpet Noises? Elephants make several sounds when communicating, and are famous for their trumpet calls made by blowing through its nostrils. elephants communicate with low frequency sounds Trumpeting is often made when an elephant is excited or startled. Researchers have known for years that elephants use their trunks to interact socially. However, theyâ€™ve more recently discovered that elephants use low-frequency verbal communication as well. These low frequency sounds can be felt by the sensitive skin of an elephantâ€™s feet and trunk, which can sense the resonant vibrations. To listen attentively, members of the herd will often lay their trunks on the ground, and lift one front leg off the ground. Researchers at Cornell University took recordings of elephant sounds and raised them to frequencies that can be heard by the human ear. They discovered that herds of elephants also sing to each other, and although the research is still in its infancy, it is helping to solve many mysteries. These include how elephants can find distant potential mates, and how social groups are able to coordinate their movements over long distances. Has an Hour Always Had 60 Minutes? Since ancient times, though the day has been divided into 24 hours, each hour has not always had 60 minutes, as we measure them. The ancient Greeks divided the daytime into 12 hours, but they measured a day from sunrise to sunset. So, the longer a day was, the longer was each hour in it. In Rome, too, there were no minutes, and each hour varied with the length of the day. On the shortest day of the year, a daytime hour had only about 441/2 minutes, while a night hour had about 751/2 minutes. And on the longest day of the year, the measurements were reversed, and each daytime hour had 75.5 minutes! Where Does the Word Kindergarten Come From and What Does Kindergarten Mean In German? The word kindergarten is German in origin, and means â€œgarden of children.â€ Educator Friedrich Froebel coined the term, but only after trying to coin another one: Kleinkenderbeschaftigungsanstalt. Although its meaning was clear, â€œinstitution where small children are occupiedâ€, its pronunciation was quite a feat. Public rejection of the term persuaded Froebel to make the switch to Kindergarten. In most countries kindergarten is part of early childhood education, and children are taught to develop basic skills and knowledge through creative play and social interaction. Why Is Play So Important for Children? Psychologists have studied children for many decades and have found that early problems in play have a strong negative impact on social relationships. This is the case not only during childhoodâ€” there are lasting negative effects on adult relationships. While play may seem to be simply a source of fun, it is actually a crucial aspect of childrenâ€™s development. Through play, children develop complex social skills that allow them to interact with others, form friendships, develop empathy, and resolve conflicts, skills they will use throughout their lifetime. By the end of preschool, most children have acquired complex social skills that will serve as a foundation for future relationships. These early skills are displayed in cooperative play, an advanced form of play that involves sophisticated cognitive, emotional, and social skills where the children must respond to one anotherâ€™s actions, words, and behavior. Emotions are a large part of cooperative play, and children must understand and respond to their playmateâ€™s feelings as well as regulate their own. They resolve differences and disputes through negation, a key skill in getting along with others. The solitary and rigid play patterns of Aspergerâ€™s Disorder children interfere with the natural course of using play to develop proper social skills. Why Is Blood-Typing Important and How Is Mixing Incompatible Blood Types Dangerous? Mixing incompatible blood quickly creates a sea of red dumplings swimming in yellowish liquid, bringing on instantaneous death. In 1900 Dr. Karl Landsteiner discovered the A, B, and 0 blood groups and demonstrated that blood could be successfully mixed within the same group. He named the differences the â€œRh factor.â€ What Flower Can Predict the Weather? The small scarlet, white, or purple flowers of the plant called the scarlet pimpernel can give you a better weather prediction than the radio or TV weatherman. If you are in the woods in the morning and you see the flowers on this herb close up, you will know that rain or cloudy weather is coming. If, however, the petals are opened up, the day will be sunny and fair. Because of its unusual powers, the scarlet pimpernel has been nicknamed â€œthe poor manâ€™s weatherglass.â€ Where Did the Expression â€œIn a Nutshellâ€ Originate and What Does the Idiom Mean? â€œIn a nutshellâ€ indicates a drastically reduced summary. Long before modern electronics, a few scholars made attempts at condensing massive literary works so they could be more easily stored. It became an obsession to some to see just how small they could write. For example, a copy of the Qurâ€™an was reduced on a parchment measuring four inches by half an inch. These copies were so small it was said they could be stored in a nutshell. What Is the Difference Between a Mortgage and a Deed of Trust? In some states, a deed of trust, also called a trust deed, is used in place of a mortgage. A deed of trust accomplishes the same goal as the mortgage, but it is structured differently. The deed of trust is a three-party document. The borrower is called the trustor and the lender is called the beneficiary. The deed of trust is not made directly to the beneficiary, but is instead given to a third party called a trustee. The trustee acts in only two situations. 1. If the deed of trust is satisfied and the loan paid off, the trustee issues a reconveyance to the trustor, releasing the lien. 2. If the terms of the agreement are not met (default), the trustee acts for the beneficiary to sell the property. A reconveyance is a legal term for returning something, such as the deed for your home to you. The term mortgage will be used for both mortgages and deeds of trust. Deed of Trust States Alaska Arizona California Mississippi North Carolina Virginia Washington, DC Mortgage States Alabama Arkansas Connecticut Delaware Florida Hawaii Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine New Jersey New Mexico New York North Dakota Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Vermont Wisconsin States That Use Both Deeds of Trust and Mortgages Colorado Idaho Illinois Iowa Maryland Montana Nebraska Oregon Tennessee Texas Utah Washington West Virginia Wyoming What Does the Phrase Buyerâ€™s Market In Real Estate Mean? When the real estate industry is said to be in a buyerâ€™s market, generally home prices are lower, homes stay on the market longer, the amount of money for mortgages is down, and fewer new homes are being built. A buyerâ€™s market is also referred to as an economic correction period because it follows a period of time when home prices rise much faster than salaries and the real estate market is said to be overheated. In a buyerâ€™s market, those wanting to purchase a home are not rushed into putting money down to hold the first home they see. Because homes are on the market longer, the buyer has time to really compare what is available and find that perfect home. In a buyerâ€™s market the seller must place an appropriate price on the home or the home will remain on the market for a long period of time. For buyers, there is more negotiation available on home prices and the potential of getting a real financial deal from an anxious seller. Besides price negotiations, a buyer in this market can put more contingencies on his or her offer to purchase, such as financing, which provides that the seller pay some of the fees. Financing in a buyerâ€™s market can be difficult because during that time there is less money available for mortgages. For a potential buyer the problems in obtaining a mortgage can be lessened by having a clean or improving credit report and a larger down payment. Because the real estate market is cyclical, following a buyerâ€™s market will be a sellerâ€™s market. The fun comes in trying to determine how long each will last. When Were Stop Signs Invented and What Was the First City In the World to Use Stop Signs? Stop signs first showed up in Detroit, Michigan, in 1915. They were black on white and smaller than modern signs. Until then traffic-control devices were generally manual, using semaphores, or flags, policemen in traffic towers, and hand-turned stop-and-go signs. In the 1920s, black-on-yellow signs were introduced, while white on-red signs appeared in 1954. Mounting height has also evolved. Early stop signs were about three feet off the ground. Modern stop signs are more than six feet high, making them easier to see.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3206
__label__cc	0.580233	0.419767	Can't set the artist for an individual track on an album Thread: Can't set the artist for an individual track on an album FastAndFluid DBPowerAmp has served me well with recogniseing tracks and artists until I tried to RIP my copy of the October issue of DMC's DJ Promo 188 which has two CDs. This is not surprising as DMC is a DJ-only service so I was pleasantly surprised when the first CD in the two CD set was recognised and populated all the artists and tracks, but the second CD just lists "Track1 etc". No idea why someone would have entered just the first CD of a two CD set and not bothered with the second in whatever the central database is, but anyway... For the first time I tried to enter all the details manually. The problem is with "Artist". Unlike all the other available columns "Album" doesn't appear in the main grid when it's selected. In fact whether you select it in the column list (by right-clicking the column header to show what you want to select/input) or not it just doesn't appear in the columns. Every other listed attribute causes a column to appear/disappear in the grid below it,but "Artist" does nothing. There is an Artist and an Album Artist input field above the grid that shows the tracks, but whatever I enter is then immediately applied to all the tracks not just the selected track that I'm entering details for. Why have an "Album Artist" if the "Artist" input is going to do the same thing? It makes no sense to have two descriptions and input fields for the exact same thing. I thought at first it was because I'd got all the tracks ticked for ripping but I've tried unticking the tracks, selecting the tracks just one at a time and entering the Artist and it doesn't work. As soon as I enter a name into the "Artist" track it overwrites ALL the tracks. When I go back to a previous track I've entered details for I find it's been completely over-ridden by what the last entry was. How on earth am I supposed to enter individual track artists? Last edited by FastAndFluid; 10-25-2014 at 02:07 PM. Reason: Missing question mark Re: Can't set the artist for an individual track on an album And of course, just after I post I find the answer. There's a "Compilation" checkbox. If you tick that then the last thing you enter for an artist doesn't get copied to all the tracks. Doh! So here's another question? Is there anyway to add a "Genre" that's missing from the drop-down list. I want to add the same genres DMC uses which are missing (eg Dance/EDM, Indie, Indie/Pop, Dance/Pop etc)? You can type in to the genre box. www.dbpoweramp.com rkk I wish we could SELECT what Genres are displayed under 'Genres'. It is a GREAT, almost exhaustive pull-down list, but I always have to type or cut/paste MY OWN Genre choices (from my handy 'cheatsheet' dBpoweramp NOTEPAD doc) Q: Why couldn't we have a checkbox select list for the GENRE field (instead of ONLY defaults)? And, why couldn't we be able to add our OWN customized Genres to that list? example: Americana/Folk/Country [cut/paste is my best option at this point] I never use 'the list' because it is just to extensive/exhaustive/cluttered. Manually typing creates too many Genre errors (which must manually be fixed in the database original file location - later, when we notice them. [I'll add this to the WISH LIST] in Windows open Windows File Explorer and into the address type: %appdata%\dbpoweramp Edit genres.txt thanks, found an appropriate answer in a thread right after leaving this msg. HOW do we delete a msg from The Support Forum when we see we made a mistake? ~ Thanks for your time and expertise. Quick Navigation CD Ripper Top	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3208
__label__wiki	0.562947	0.562947	‘Financial market participants play important role in stabilising economy’ By Helen Oji FMDQ FMDQ Holding Plc has said financial market participants have continued to play an important role in stabilising Nigeria’s economy by providing avenues for governments, corporates, and individuals to efficiently raise capital, transfer value, and manage their risks despite the challenging business environment. The Chief Executive Officer of the group, Bola Onadele, stated this at the unveiling of winners of its 2020 GOLD Awards. He acknowledged the efforts of market participants in remaining relentless in their quest to deepen the Nigerian financial market despite the 2020 challenging business environment. The FMDQ GOLD Awards underscored by the tenets of FMDQ’s GOLD (Global Competitiveness, Operational Excellence, Liquidity and Diversity) agenda, has become a corporate tradition of the company to recognise demonstrated resilience and agility of the financial market players. It also acknowledges the efforts of stakeholders whose participation in the FMDQ markets and across the financial market infrastructure (FMI) value chain of FMDQ’s business – between the review periods of October 2019 to September 2020, have positively shaped the markets and invariably impacted economic development. According to Onadele, the 2020 awards attracted the attention of local and international stakeholders, with awards across the Primary Market, Secondary Market, FMDQ Members’ & Clients’ Choice (as nominated and voted by FMDQ Members/Clients), and FMDQ Leadership segments. He explained that the “2020 GOLD Awards saw 31 Award categories and 34 Award winners, with joint winners in two categories. Winning for the third time in a row, Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited bagged the award for the Primary Markets Champion – Capital Markets Securities Origination Award. “Stanbic IBTC Bank, also for the third time, emerged the Secondary Markets Champion, winning the FMDQ Dealing Member Award, amongst six other Awards were the Stanbic IBTC entities; Dangote Group won four awards, with three bagged by Dangote Cement PLC, including the Largest Corporate Bond, and the Largest Commercial Paper Awards. “Chapel Hill Denham won three Awards, including the FMDQ registration member (Listings) and the most active securities lodgement sponsor awards. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) bagged the Financial Market Regulator Market Transformation Initiative Award for the provision of enabling regulatory environment for Central Counterparty (CCP) in Nigeria through the release of CCP rules and granting of an approval-in-principle for CCP – FMDQ Clear Limited. NSE was also recognised for fostering the derivatives market development, and the release of the Rules on Regulation of Derivatives Trading, as voted by FMDQ Members and Clients.” The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) was also recognised with the FMDQ Capital Market Catalyst Award, for the facilitation of enactment of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020, which has the potential to significantly impact the Nigerian capital markets. Onadele added than an independent validation exercise was carried out by Ernst & Young Nigeria, a global leader in assurance services to maintain the integrity of the awards in line with best practices, Acknowledging the finalists and nominees, and congratulating the 2020 FMDQ GOLD Awards Winners, the Group Chairman, FMDQ Group, Dr. Kingsley Obiora, in a virtual address, noted that 2020 has been a truly challenging, yet rewarding year; and has stretched the resilience of the market, while providing opportunities to deepen the markets. According to him, FMDQ Group commenced the year with great optimism, as it became a Capital Market Holding Company, and Africa’s first vertically-integrated financial market infrastructure group, with four market subsidiaries, even as the group remains committed to the actualisation of its GOLD Agenda. Also commending the winners and all the stakeholders for their efforts at making Nigeria globally competitive, the Director-General, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Lamido Yuguda, represented by the Executive Commissioner, Operations, Temidayo Obisan, reiterated the commitment towards collaborating with the financial market stakeholders. He assured of appropriate market structures, creating an enabling environment, building a transparent and efficient market, and ultimately reducing systemic risks and protecting investor interests. Expressing her delight at the innovative strides of the FMIs, including FMDQ, and other market participants, Ms. Arunma Oteh, Academic Scholar at the Oxford University, United Kingdom and a former Treasurer/Vice President at the World Bank, also congratulated the winners, nominees, finalists and other stakeholders within the wider ecosystem, for their contributions towards deepening the Nigerian financial market. Bola OnadeleFMDQ Holding Plc	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3210
__label__wiki	0.714656	0.714656	NPA remitted N11.3 billion 2018 surplus to government, says Bala Usman 9 hours ago Business News [FILE PHOTO] Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, said the Authority had remitted over N11.3 billion being part of the 2018 business operations’ surplus to the Federal Government coffers this year. Bala Usman, who made this known in a swift reaction to an allegation that NPA failed to remit the sum of N177 billion operating surplus, insisted it had paid the 2017 surplus to the Federation Account, and even paid part of the 2018 surplus already. Bala Usman, in a statement described the view of the ‘testifier’ as an “allegation without foundation,” having remitted a whopping sum of over N38 billion into the government coffers. She stated: “With due respect to our distinguished senator, the Authority wishes to state that this allegation is without foundation. The facts of the situation are as follows: “Total revenue generated by the NPA in the Year 2017 stood at N303.9 billion. “Total expenditure (inclusive of recurrent and capital) amounted to N205.8 billion. “Of the N303.9 billion generated revenue, the sum of N60.12 billion represents uncollectable revenue from concessionaires attributed to clauses in the concession agreements, which the Authority is currently reviewing. “Consequently, the operating surplus for the Authority in 2017 was the sum of N38 billion. “Therefore, the sum of N30.4 billion, which represents 80 per cent of the operating surplus that the Authority is required to remit to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. In line with the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2007, has been duly paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund by the Authority with receipt of payment already issued by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation. “These computations arise from the Authority’s management account pending the conclusion of the audit of the 2017 financial statement, which is ongoing. “It is pertinent to also note that the Authority has already remitted the sum of N11.3 billion for 2018 CRF contribution into the Consolidated Revenue Fund with the use of Authority’s management account ahead of auditing for 2018. “The Authority wishes to state its readiness to present all documents needed to provide clarification to the Senate Committee on Marine Transport and the Senate,” she said further, and appealed to the lawmakers to exercise greater restraint on issues that deal with the integrity of national institutions, in the course of their oversight function. Hadiza Bala UsmanNigerian Ports AuthorityNPA NOW Football	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3211
__label__wiki	0.567913	0.567913	Changing service chiefs won’t solve security challenges, says expert By Rotimi Agboluaje, Ibadan 1 hour ago World [FILES] Chief of Air Staff; Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar; Chief of Naval Staff; Vice Marshal Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas; Chief of Army Staff; Lt. General Tukur Yusufu Buratai and Chief of Defence Staff; General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin. Urges Buhari to seek help to tackle insecurity A retired professor of Political Science at the University of Ibadan (UI), Osisioma Nwolise, has said that changing the service chiefs in the country 300 times would not change the security situation. Nwolise, who did research on spiritual security, stated this, yesterday, at the sideline of the activities marking the 70th birthday of the Ekefa Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oloye Lekan Alabi, at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan. He lamented that the security of the country was going down. He, therefore, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to assemble those who understood security to help in tackling insecurity in the land. Nwolise said: “All of us know that the security of the country has gone down. Both at the physical and spiritual levels, the country is very unsafe. We need to sit down co-operatively, collaboratively, and map out strategies to save this country. “It is beyond the military. We have overstretched the military. “I am not among those who are shouting that the service chiefs should be removed. Removing service chiefs does not solve the problem. What is required is for the President to call those who know about security and get adequate advice on what to do. If you remove the service chiefs and you don’t get the political will to do what is required, nothing would change. “You can change all the service chiefs 300 times but if the political will to do the right thing is not there, there will be no change. So, the President should call those who know what it takes that will give him correct advice and then let the service chiefs map out their strategies and give them the weapons to fight. Let’s equip the military. The military has done well outside the country. Let’s give them proper equipment and they would do the job.” Dignitaries at the event included the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III; Chief Bayo Adelabu, Chief (Mrs.) Julie Coker, a businesswoman, Chief Nike Akande, former First Lady of Oyo State, Chief (Mrs.) Mutiat Ladoja; Ambassador Ronke Adefowope and others. BuharisecurityService Chiefs	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3213
__label__cc	0.678903	0.321097	Provo Golf Club Provo Golf Club Real Estate The Regent Village The Regent Village Townhomes The Regent Grand Park Lane London The Villa Renaissance The Vellagio Turks and Caicos Water Company Provo Water Company About HAB Home » About HAB HAB Group A Leading Turks and Caicos Developer HAB Group is a leading Turks and Caicos Property Developer. The Group was founded in 1983, and later that year acquired almost 800 acres of land on Providenciales, the “tourism capital” of the Turks & Caicos Islands. Recognising the property development potential of Providenciales, the Group purchased Turks & Caicos Water Company in 1989, which in turn allowed the development of Provo Golf and Country Club. By 1992 the hugely popular Provo Golf Club was completed, and the company successfully managed both the water company and golf club, in addition to commencing further developments, this time on the beachfront at Grace Bay. Further land purchases were also undertaken, including land on North Caicos and elsewhere on Providenciales: a smart move given the ensuing period of significant land value appreciation. As a result, HAB Group has been at the forefront of the Providenciales property development boom and has a reputation as outstanding Turks and Caicos property developers of luxury beachfront condominiums and commercial property. Alongside the development of the resorts, HAB Group diversified into resort management, winning substantial accolades for both of its beachfront properties Villa Renaissance and The Regent Grand. HAB’s developments include Villa Renaissance, The Regent Grand, and the Regent Village the premier commercial development in Providenciales. The next planned project which is at the concept stage is The Vellagio. The Vellagio will be HAB Groups third beachfront resort, perfectly located in the heart of Grace Bay. Providenciales is a world renowned high-end holiday destination and an ideal location for property investment. HAB Group is proud to have been part of the development of the islands which has seen the local economy boom and the population increase from 600 inhabitants and some iguanas, to a thriving community exceeding 25,000. Provo Water Company delivers the pipeline distribution to over 90% of Providenciales’ areas with mains water supply. This now covers in excess of 4,000 homes and businesses. Water is distributed under licence from the TCI Government, and quality standards exceed World Health Organisation criteria. HAB Group, leading Turks and Caicos Property Developer HAB Group Regent House Grace Bay, Providenciales Copyright HAB Group 2021 - All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3217
__label__wiki	0.538198	0.538198	Large Wins for Flowcrete UK at the FeRFA Awards 2018 Flowcrete UK has won the Large Industrial Project of the Year and Large Commercial Project of the Year categories at the FeRFA 2018 Best Practise Awards. Flowcrete UK wins the Large Industrial and Large Commercial Project of the Year awards. FeRFA Awards 2018 recognises the best resin flooring projects from the past year. Flowcrete UK’s wins are a testament to the company’s expertise and high performance floors. The Resin Flooring Association (FeRFA) represents major businesses and organisations involved in resin flooring, screeding and surface preparation. Its annual awards event, which this year was held at St Johns Hotel, Solihull, on November 23rd, celebrates the best of the resin flooring industry’s achievements from over the past year. Flowcrete UK’s Managing Director, Kevin Potter, said: “We’re so proud and delighted to have been presented with these awards! Winning two categories is a fantastic testament to the hard work and commitment of the Flowcrete UK team as well as the quality of our flooring solutions. “All the projects that made the shortlist are remarkable showcases of what can be achieved with resin flooring technology and we knew that we faced a lot of stiff competition on the night. ”All-in-all I couldn’t think of a better way to recognise what can be achieved when our products and expertise are combined with architectural innovation and highly trained applicators.” At the awards ceremony Flowcrete UK was first presented with the Large Industrial Project of the Year award, thanks to its work at The Macallan’s stunning new whisky distillery. This was soon followed up by winning the Large Commercial Project of the Year category in recognition of the Menai Science Park’s (M-SParc) Flowcrete UK floor. The Sandbach, Cheshire, based resin-flooring manufacturer was also nominated in the Innovation Award category for its fast curing terrazzo system Mondéco Rapide. The two Flowcrete UK projects that are now FeRFA winners are both exciting examples of unique flooring installations. The Macallan, which was undertaken with applicator partner IFT, raised a number of challenges. The distillery’s floor had to withstand the demands of high-end whisky production while providing a safe, visually attractive and on-brand finish. In addition to all this the application work took place at the client’s idyllic but remote Speyside estate during a cold and blustery Scottish winter. Over 21,000 square metres of Flowcrete UK’s systems were chosen to ensure that the floor in each part of The Macallan’s site was up to the task at hand. This included a robust polyurethane coating for the production areas, fast curing and slip resistant floors for the main tourist routes, a high-gloss and shiny black epoxy surface in the cask room, a natural-effect stone carpet for the external perimeter as well as other assorted screeds, primers and coatings. At M-SParc, it was vital that the flooring reflected the aesthetics and style of the site’s overarching architectural concept. To achieve this, the applicator Coatech installed Peran Comfort in combination with Rustik Glamourstone to create a continuous ribbon of flooring that connected the outside areas to the inside and that emulated the building’s pure white external Corian cladding. The bespoke, decorative finish that was required had to be completed within a very tight turn-around and in a busy site located in the middle of the Anglesey countryside. Thanks to the dedication and expertise of Flowcrete UK and Coatech, the project was finished to the client’s high standards and in time for the science park’s grand opening. For more information please visit www.flowcrete.co.uk/contact-us/ or contact Daniel Ash at Flowcrete Group’s Marketing department on 01270 753 000 or email dan.ash@flowcrete.com. Flowcrete UK has its headquarters in Sandbach, Cheshire and is part of Flowcrete Europe & Middle East, one of the four divisions that make up Flowcrete Group Ltd. Flowcrete Group Ltd. is a world leader in the manufacture of seamless industrial and commercial resin floor, wall and coving solutions as well as other specialist coating technologies. Flowcrete Group Ltd. has international manufacturing facilities in Europe and Africa as well as Central and South East Asia. Flowcrete supplies world-class seamless flooring solutions to transform environments across the globe including; decorative seamless resins, waterproof car park deck coating systems, seamless resin terrazzo, durable antimicrobial flooring, corrosion protection, self levelling underlayments, underfloor heating and now underfloor acoustic insulation. Flowcrete’s ambitious and dedicated team, led by President Craig Brookes, is inspired by excellence in people, products and service as well as continual innovation and sustainable growth. Flowcrete continues to use its global expertise to introduce environmentally friendly, hygienic and aesthetically attractive floors to create a better and more sustainable world. For further information please contact 01270 753000 or visit us on the web at www.flowcrete.co.uk. Europe Middle East Africa Copyright 2019 HACCP International. All rights reserved. - Privacy Statement	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3218
__label__cc	0.61584	0.38416	Difference between revisions of "Dosh" YitzchakSultan (talk \| contribs) (→‎Squeezing Water Out of One's Hair) Davidyisraelaziz (talk \| contribs) (→‎In the Mishkan) ==General Prohibition== # [[Dash]] includes removing any earth-grown food from its natural shell or attachment.<ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 317) based on the explanation of Rabbeinu Chananel (Shabbos 74a). #[[Dash]] includes removing any earth-grown food from its natural shell or attachment.<ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 317) based on the explanation of Rabbeinu Chananel (Shabbos 74a). <br /> The Gemara Shabbos (75a) records a dispute between Rebbi Yehuda and the Chachamim whether the Melacha of Dosh only applies to giduley karka, meaning things that grow in the ground. The Rambam (hilchos Shabbos 8:7) rules like the Chachamim that mi’d’oraisa it only applies to giduley karka, and this is the opinion of most of the Rishonim. </ref> # There is a dispute among the Rishonim whether Dosh is only violated by removing something that is covered by its encasing, as was the case in the mishkan, or that any detachment from something unwanted would be a violation of Dosh.<ref> This dispute is quoted in Eglei Tal (Dosh #2:3). It is based on the machloket between Rashi (73b s.v. mefareik) and Tosfos (73b s.v. v’achas) about how to explain why the Gemara says that one would be in violation of a toldah of Dosh when knocking off a tree. #There is a dispute among the Rishonim whether Dosh is only violated by removing something that is covered by its encasing, as was the case in the mishkan, or that any detachment from something unwanted would be a violation of Dosh.<ref>This dispute is quoted in Eglei Tal (Dosh #2:3). It is based on the machloket between Rashi (73b s.v. mefareik) and Tosfos (73b s.v. v’achas) about how to explain why the Gemara says that one would be in violation of a toldah of Dosh when knocking off a tree. * Seemingly, this question is relevant to whether it is permitted to detach grapes from their vine, and, thus, the Achronim wonder why it is that the Ramo (siman 336:8) rules without question that it is permitted to remove a fruit from a branch that was detached before Shabbos. * The Pri Megadim (introduction to siman 320) explains that the Ramo concludes like those Rishonim who assume Dosh is only violated when it entails removing something usable from a covered p’soles. Seemingly, this question is relevant to whether it is permitted to detach grapes from their vine, and, thus, the Achronim wonder why it is that the Ramo (siman 336:8) rules without question that it is permitted to remove a fruit from a branch that was detached before Shabbos. However, many Achronim are weary of taking this approach. As an alternative, the Eglei Tal (Dosh #11) says that Dosh does not apply when the detachment is being done for immediate use, as threshing is done as a preparation for further processing. A similar approach is taken by Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igros Moshe O”C vol. 1, siman 125) to explain why the removal of a shell from a nut or a peel from garlic is only a question of Borer and not Dosh. The Pri Megadim (introduction to siman 320) explains that the Ramo concludes like those Rishonim who assume Dosh is only violated when it entails removing something usable from a covered p’soles. Another explanation is offered by the Shvisas HaShabbos (Introduction to Meleches Dosh, no. 4) quoting the Shem Chodosh who argues that Dosh is only violated when the ochel is extracted by putting pressure on the entire item, which was the way it was done in the Mishkan. However, many Achronim are weary of taking this approach. As an alternative, the Eglei Tal (Dosh #11) says that Dosh does not apply when the detachment is being done for immediate use, as threshing is done as a preparation for further processing. A similar approach is taken by Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igros Moshe O”C vol. 1, siman 125) to explain why the removal of a shell from a nut or a peel from garlic is only a question of Borer and not Dosh. Rav Mordechai Willig (Am Mordechai Shabbos siman 21) suggests a fourth approach based on the Aruch Hashulchan (319:20) that Dosh is only violated when working on many items at the same time. Rav Willig notes that according to this explanation one would have to be careful not to pick many grapes at once. </ref> Another explanation is offered by the Shvisas HaShabbos (Introduction to Meleches Dosh, no. 4) quoting the Shem Chodosh who argues that Dosh is only violated when the ochel is extracted by putting pressure on the entire item, which was the way it was done in the Mishkan. # A toldah of Dash is mefarek, squeezing fruits. Biblically this applies to squeezing grapes for their juice or olives for their oil.<ref>Mishna Brurah 320:1, Yalkut Yosef Shabbat v. 3 320:1</ref> Rav Mordechai Willig (Am Mordechai Shabbos siman 21) suggests a fourth approach based on the Aruch Hashulchan (319:20) that Dosh is only violated when working on many items at the same time. Rav Willig notes that according to this explanation one would have to be careful not to pick many grapes at once.</ref> #A toldah of Dash is mefarek, squeezing fruits. Biblically this applies to squeezing grapes for their juice or olives for their oil.<ref>Mishna Brurah 320:1, Yalkut Yosef Shabbat v. 3 320:1</ref> ==In the Mishkan== # According to most Rishonim, the melacha of Dosh was done in the Mishkan by threshing the seeds from their shells so that they could be used for the dyes.<ref> 39 Melachos, vol. 2, pg. 315. The Eglei Tal (Introduction #1) quotes the opinion of some Rishonim who maintained that Dosh was done in preparation for the bread that was needed in the Mishkan, in which the case the melacha was removing the grain kernels from their chaff and stalk (39 Melachos, vol. 2, pg. 315). </ref> #According to most Rishonim, the melacha of Dosh was done in the Mishkan by threshing the seeds from their shells so that they could be used for the dyes.<ref>39 Melachos, vol. 2, pg. 315. The Eglei Tal (Introduction #1) quotes the opinion of some Rishonim who maintained that Dosh was done in preparation for the bread that was needed in the Mishkan, in which the case the melacha was removing the grain kernels from their chaff and stalk (39 Melachos, vol. 2, pg. 315). </ref> ==Toladot== ===Mefarek=== # Mefarek is a [[Toldah]] of Dosh. <ref>Rashi [[Shabbat]] 73b and Rambam ([[Shabbat]] 8:7 and 21:12) write that Mefarek is a [[Toldah]] of Dosh. <br /> #Mefarek is a [[Toldah]] of Dosh. <ref>Rashi [[Shabbat]] 73b and Rambam ([[Shabbat]] 8:7 and 21:12) write that Mefarek is a [[Toldah]] of Dosh. <br /> One major difference between Mefareik and its Av is that Dosh is the removal of ochel from p’soles, something unwanted, which is not the case with squeezing juice from fruit. In order to maintain the comparison, the squeezing of the juice must be viewed as squeezing liquid from food. Therefore, the Gemara (144b) rules that squeezing juice directly into food (not drink) is permitted since then it is viewed as removing food from food and is not similar to Dosh where the extract is different than what it is removed from.<br />The Mishna Brurah (Sha’ar Ha’tziun Siman 320, no. 23) quotes a machlokes Rishonim regarding squeezing into a plate with the intention of subsequently pouring it into food. The Chazon Ish (O”C 55:6) rules that it is only permitted if it is direct and such is the opinion of Shmiras Shabbos k’Hilchisa (chap. 5, seif 5). See, however, Biur Halacha 320:1 s.v. muter </ref> # Mefarek includes [[squeezing]] juice from fruit ([[Sechitah]]) or liquid from a cloth. <ref>Rambam ([[Shabbat]] 8:10 and 21:12) writes that [[squeezing]] fruit ([[Sechitah]]) is a violation of Mefarek. 39 Melachos (Dosh note 113) quotes Tosfot Ketubot 6a s.v. Hay who holds that [[squeezing]] a liquid from a cloth is also considered Mefarek. </ref> #Mefarek includes [[squeezing]] juice from fruit ([[Sechitah]]) or liquid from a cloth. <ref>Rambam ([[Shabbat]] 8:10 and 21:12) writes that [[squeezing]] fruit ([[Sechitah]]) is a violation of Mefarek. 39 Melachos (Dosh note 113) quotes Tosfot Ketubot 6a s.v. Hay who holds that [[squeezing]] a liquid from a cloth is also considered Mefarek. </ref> ==Removing peas from a pod== # One may not remove peas from an inedible pod on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 325) </ref> # Peeling fruits (such as oranges or bananas) or vegetables (such as onions or cucumbers) is not considered a violation of Dosh. Nonetheless one should be careful of the conditions of [[Borer]] such as only peeling it right before eating and not using a peeler (but one may use a knife or one's hands). <ref> Rama end of 321, Chaye Adam 14:1, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 323-4) </ref> #One may not remove peas from an inedible pod on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 325) </ref> # One may not the husk from an ear of corn on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 327-8) writes that according to some opinions it's forbidden. However, Halachos of [[Shabbat]] (Rabbi Eider, chap 8, pg 95) writes that it's forbidden (and bases it on the Maharsham 320:83).</ref> #Peeling fruits (such as oranges or bananas) or vegetables (such as onions or cucumbers) is not considered a violation of Dosh. Nonetheless one should be careful of the conditions of [[Borer]] such as only peeling it right before eating and not using a peeler (but one may use a knife or one's hands). <ref>Rama end of 321, Chaye Adam 14:1, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 323-4) </ref> #One may not the husk from an ear of corn on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 327-8) writes that according to some opinions it's forbidden. However, Halachos of [[Shabbat]] (Rabbi Eider, chap 8, pg 95) writes that it's forbidden (and bases it on the Maharsham 320:83).</ref> ==Removing shell of nuts== # One may remove the shell of nuts (pecans, brazil nuts, filberts, peanuts) on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 324-5) </ref> # One may not remove the outer hull (a thick pulpy layer) of an almond or walnut on [[Shabbat]], however, one may remove the inner hard wood-like shell. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 325-6) </ref> #One may remove the shell of nuts (pecans, brazil nuts, filberts, peanuts) on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 324-5) # There is a question of removing the outer thin peel of a garlic bulb on [[Shabbat]] however most poskim permit and certainly it's permitted to remove the peel around the individual cloves. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 326) </ref> Chazon Ovadia Shabbat Vol 4, Pg 101 </ref> #One may not remove the outer hull (a thick pulpy layer) of an almond or walnut on [[Shabbat]], however, one may remove the inner hard wood-like shell. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 325-6) </ref> #There is a question of removing the outer thin peel of a garlic bulb on [[Shabbat]] however most poskim permit and certainly it's permitted to remove the peel around the individual cloves. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 326) </ref> ==Squeezing a fruit== # It is forbidden to squeeze a fruit in order to extract its liquid if one squeezes the fruit into a liquid or empty vessel. The prohibition is violated whether it is done by hand or with a utensil. <Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:1,2. [[Squeezing]] a liquid out of a solid ([[Sechita]]) is Mefarek which is a [[Toldah]] of the Melacha of [[Dash]] (Iglei Tal, [[Dash]] #8, Mishna Brurah 320:1). * Shulchan Aruch 320:1 writes that it's forbidden to squeeze olives and grapes and the juice which flows from them on their own is also forbidden for consumption. However, berries and pomegranates even though they are forbidden to be squeezed the juices from them that flow on their own are permissible if the fruit was meant to be eaten and not be squeezed for the juice. Lastly, all other fruits may be squeezed. The Rama 320:1 explains that in places where it's normal to squeeze certain fruits for their juices it is also forbidden to squeeze those fruits just like berries and pomegranates; in other words, the Rama 320:1 holds that a fruit's usage is based location. Mishna Brurah 320:5 explains that [[squeezing]] berries and pomegranates is forbidden rabbinically because some people squeeze them for the juice like grapes and olives. However, all other fruit in the days of Shulchan Aruch weren't squeezed for juice and were eaten. That's why it is permissible to squeeze such fruits because the fruit if considered like a solid and extracting one solid from another is permissible. #It is forbidden to squeeze a fruit in order to extract its liquid if one squeezes the fruit into a liquid or empty vessel. The prohibition is violated whether it is done by hand or with a utensil. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:1,2. [[Squeezing]] a liquid out of a solid ([[Sechita]]) is Mefarek which is a [[Toldah]] of the Melacha of [[Dash]] (Iglei Tal, [[Dash]] #8, Mishna Brurah 320:1). * Therefore, the Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata (chap 5 note 4) writes that nowadays that it is common to squeeze all fruits for their juice it is forbidden to squeeze any fruit on [[Shabbat]]. On the other hand, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 328) lists certain fruits which are rabbinically prohibited to squeeze including oranges, lemons, grapefruits, apples, pineapples, cherries, strawberries, peaches, plums, pomegranates, and tomatoes. Similarly, Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]], vol 3, 343 and 491) delineates certain fruits which are squeezed for the juices in some places such as grapes, olives, berries, pomegranates, apples, grapefruits, pears, mangoes, tangerines, and pineapples would be forbidden to squeeze on [[Shabbat]], however, fruits which are not squeezed anywhere such as quince or watermelon one be squeezed on [[Shabbat]]. Yalkut Yosef (pg 344) adds that even when it is permissible to squeeze a fruit, it may only be done by hand and not with a juicer (tool).</ref> One may not squeeze a fruit into an empty vessel with intent to put solid food in afterwards. <Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:5. The Mishna Brurah (Sha’ar Ha’tziun Siman 320, no. 23) quotes a machlokes Rishonim regarding squeezing into a plate with the intention of subsequently pouring it into food. The Chazon Ish (O”C 55:6) rules that it is only permitted if it is directly onto food and such is the opinion of Shmiras Shabbos k’Hilchiso (chap. 5, seif 5). See, however, Biur Halacha 320:1 s.v. muter </ref> # It’s permitted to squeeze a fruit with one’s hand onto a solid food if either the food absorbs the liquid or the liquid is meant to improve the flavor of the food. <Ref>Gemara Shabbat 144b, Shulchan Aruch 505:1, Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:3,7, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 345) </ref> Shulchan Aruch 320:1 writes that it's forbidden to squeeze olives and grapes and the juice which flows from them on their own is also forbidden for consumption. However, berries and pomegranates even though they are forbidden to be squeezed the juices from them that flow on their own are permissible if the fruit was meant to be eaten and not be squeezed for the juice. Lastly, all other fruits may be squeezed. The Rama 320:1 explains that in places where it's normal to squeeze certain fruits for their juices it is also forbidden to squeeze those fruits just like berries and pomegranates; in other words, the Rama 320:1 holds that a fruit's usage is based location. Mishna Brurah 320:5 explains that [[squeezing]] berries and pomegranates is forbidden rabbinically because some people squeeze them for the juice like grapes and olives. However, all other fruit in the days of Shulchan Aruch weren't squeezed for juice and were eaten. That's why it is permissible to squeeze such fruits because the fruit if considered like a solid and extracting one solid from another is permissible. Therefore, the Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata (chap 5 note 4) writes that nowadays that it is common to squeeze all fruits for their juice it is forbidden to squeeze any fruit on [[Shabbat]]. On the other hand, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 328) lists certain fruits which are rabbinically prohibited to squeeze including oranges, lemons, grapefruits, apples, pineapples, cherries, strawberries, peaches, plums, pomegranates, and tomatoes. Similarly, Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]], vol 3, 343 and 491) delineates certain fruits which are squeezed for the juices in some places such as grapes, olives, berries, pomegranates, apples, grapefruits, pears, mangoes, tangerines, and pineapples would be forbidden to squeeze on [[Shabbat]], however, fruits which are not squeezed anywhere such as quince or watermelon one be squeezed on [[Shabbat]]. Yalkut Yosef (pg 344) adds that even when it is permissible to squeeze a fruit, it may only be done by hand and not with a juicer (tool).</ref> One may not squeeze a fruit into an empty vessel with intent to put solid food in afterwards. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:5. The Mishna Brurah (Sha’ar Ha’tziun Siman 320, no. 23) quotes a machlokes Rishonim regarding squeezing into a plate with the intention of subsequently pouring it into food. The Chazon Ish (O”C 55:6) rules that it is only permitted if it is directly onto food and such is the opinion of Shmiras Shabbos k’Hilchiso (chap. 5, seif 5). See, however, Biur Halacha 320:1 s.v. muter </ref> #It’s permitted to squeeze a fruit with one’s hand onto a solid food if either the food absorbs the liquid or the liquid is meant to improve the flavor of the food. <ref>Gemara Shabbat 144b, Shulchan Aruch 505:1, Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:3,7, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 345) Chazon Ovadia Shabbat Vol. 4, Pg 137-138 </ref> ===Liquids that oozed out on their own=== # Juice that oozed (by itself) out of fruit, which is specifically designated to be eaten, is permitted to drink. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:11 </ref> #Juice that oozed (by itself) out of fruit, which is specifically designated to be eaten, is permitted to drink. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:11 See Chazon Ovadia Shabbat Vol. 4, who permits the drinking of juice that came out on its own only for fruits with a derabanan sechita prohibition (and those fruits are designated for eating) </ref> ===Squeezing a lemon=== # It is permitted to squeeze a lemon on sugar even if one’s intent is to put the sugar in a liquid afterwards, however, there are authorities who are strict on this issue.<Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:5,6, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 346). Although the Shulchan Aruch 320:6 states that one may squeeze a lemon on [[Shabbat]], the Mishna Brurah 320:22 explains that the reason for the leniency doesn't apply today. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 80:12 writes that it is forbidden to squeeze lemons to make lemonade.</ref> According to Sephardim one can squeeze a lemon even into an empty cup, however, it is proper to be strict to do it into the sugar.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 320:6, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat v. 3 Dosh Sechitat Limon n. 1)</ref> # It’s permissible to cut a slice of lemon and put it into a drink even though the juice will seep out. <Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:2. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata’s source is the Kalkelet Shabbat (Dosh) who cites the Taz 320:7 for this halacha. It seems that the primary reason for the leniency is that the juice being squeezed out isn’t intentional. </ref> Note that if the drink is hot tea its only permissible if it is made in a Kli Shelishi (see [[Bishul]]). One may gently stir the tea but one may not press the lemon against the wall of the cup. Additionally, one should cut the lemon directly over the tea. <ref> 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 340) </ref> #It is permitted to squeeze a lemon on sugar even if one’s intent is to put the sugar in a liquid afterwards, however, there are authorities who are strict on this issue.<ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:5,6, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 346). Although the Shulchan Aruch 320:6 states that one may squeeze a lemon on [[Shabbat]], the Mishna Brurah 320:22 explains that the reason for the leniency doesn't apply today. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 80:12 writes that it is forbidden to squeeze lemons to make lemonade.</ref> According to Sephardim one can squeeze a lemon even into an empty cup, however, it is proper to be strict to do it into the sugar.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 320:6, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat v. 3 Dosh Sechitat Limon n. 1)</ref> #It’s permissible to cut a slice of lemon and put it into a drink even though the juice will seep out. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:2. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata’s source is the Kalkelet Shabbat (Dosh) who cites the Taz 320:7 for this halacha. It seems that the primary reason for the leniency is that the juice being squeezed out isn’t intentional. </ref> Note that if the drink is hot tea its only permissible if it is made in a Kli Shelishi (see [[Bishul]]). One may gently stir the tea but one may not press the lemon against the wall of the cup. Additionally, one should cut the lemon directly over the tea. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 340) </ref> ===Squeezing out excess liquid=== # It’s permitted to squeeze out excess liquid in a food to improve it’s taste if it’s done immediately prior to eating. For example it’s permitted to squeeze a pickled cucumber to remove some of it’s vinegar if one is going to eat the pickle right away. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:8, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 3 pg 350) </ref> # One may squeeze out latkes from excess vegetable oil if ones intention is to get rid of the oil and it is done right before eating.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 342) </ref> #It’s permitted to squeeze out excess liquid in a food to improve it’s taste if it’s done immediately prior to eating. For example it’s permitted to squeeze a pickled cucumber to remove some of it’s vinegar if one is going to eat the pickle right away. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:8, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 3 pg 350) </ref> # It's commendable to refrain from [[squeezing]] a piece of meat, fish, or chicken to get rid of excess gravy if the gravy contains water or wine.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 342) </ref> #One may squeeze out latkes from excess vegetable oil if ones intention is to get rid of the oil and it is done right before eating.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 342) </ref> #It's commendable to refrain from [[squeezing]] a piece of meat, fish, or chicken to get rid of excess gravy if the gravy contains water or wine.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 342) </ref> ===Sucking on a fruit=== # One may suck on any fruit with one's mouth while holding it in one's hand except for grapes. However, one shouldn’t squeeze the fruit with one’s hand.<Ref>Rama 320:1 quotes two opinions whether it is permitted to suck juice directly from grapes. The reason for the lenient view is that it isn't considered a normal way to squeeze fruit by sucking on it with one's mouth. Mishna Brurah 320:12, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:10, and 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 339) are strict for grapes. Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 3 pg 248) and Halichot Olam (vol 4 pg 106) permit even regarding grapes but add that it's a proper practice to refrain. </ref> Certainly though one could put the entire grape in one's mouth, such out the juice and then sit out the part one doesn't want to eat.<Ref>Mishna Brurah 320:12, Yalkut Yosef 320:10</ref> # It’s permitted to dip bread in a soup or other dip and then suck off the liquid, but it’s preferable to eat a little of the bread with it.<Ref> Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:9 </ref> #One may suck on any fruit with one's mouth while holding it in one's hand except for grapes. However, one shouldn’t squeeze the fruit with one’s hand.<ref>Rama 320:1 quotes two opinions whether it is permitted to suck juice directly from grapes. The reason for the lenient view is that it isn't considered a normal way to squeeze fruit by sucking on it with one's mouth. Mishna Brurah 320:12, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:10, and 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 339) are strict for grapes. Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 3 pg 248) and Halichot Olam (vol 4 pg 106) permit even regarding grapes but add that it's a proper practice to refrain. </ref> Certainly though one could put the entire grape in one's mouth, such out the juice and then spit out the part one doesn't want to eat.<ref>Mishna Brurah 320:12, Yalkut Yosef 320:10</ref> #It’s permitted to dip bread in a soup or other dip and then suck off the liquid, but it’s preferable to eat a little of the bread with it.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:9 </ref> ===Cutting a grapefruit or watermelon=== # It’s permitted to cut a grapefruit (or watermelon) even if liquids will ooze out as long as one doesn’t intend specifically to drink the juices rather to eat the fruit and that one doesn’t intentionally doesn’t squeeze the fruit. <Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:12, Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]], vol 3, pg 345), 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 340), [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2278 Rabbi Mansour] on Dailyhalacha.com </ref> # One may scrape out grapefruit with a spoon to eat the pulp (the flesh of the fruit) attached to the peel, however, it's forbidden to press the spoon against the pulp in order to extract juices. <ref> 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2278 Rabbi Mansour] on Dailyhalacha.com. Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat v. 3 320:9) writes that it is permitted to use a spoon to eat a cut grapefruit on Shabbat since one doesn't intend to drink the juice and usually one eats the juice together with the fruit or pulp.</ref> #It’s permitted to cut a grapefruit (or watermelon) even if liquids will ooze out as long as one doesn’t intend specifically to drink the juices rather to eat the fruit and that one doesn’t intentionally doesn’t squeeze the fruit. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:12, Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]], vol 3, pg 345), 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 340), [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2278 Rabbi Mansour] on Dailyhalacha.com </ref> #One may scrape out grapefruit with a spoon to eat the pulp (the flesh of the fruit) attached to the peel, however, it's forbidden to press the spoon against the pulp in order to extract juices. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2278 Rabbi Mansour] on Dailyhalacha.com. Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat v. 3 320:9) writes that it is permitted to use a spoon to eat a cut grapefruit on Shabbat since one doesn't intend to drink the juice and usually one eats the juice together with the fruit or pulp.</ref> ===Squeezing grapes=== # It is permitted to squeeze grapes onto food, but it is forbidden to squeeze grapes into an empty dish even if it is for flavor. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 320:4 </ref> # However, if one is stringent and does not even squeeze fruits onto food shall be blessed. <ref> Mishnah Brurah 320:17 </ref> #It is permitted to squeeze grapes onto food, but it is forbidden to squeeze grapes into an empty dish even if it is for flavor. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 320:4 </ref> # It’s preferable not to squeeze grapes even onto solid foods that will absorb the liquid or be improved. <Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:4 </ref> #However, if one is stringent and does not even squeeze fruits onto food shall be blessed. <ref>Mishnah Brurah 320:17 </ref> # One shouldn’t suck on grapes while holding them in one’s hand, rather one should put the entire grape in one’s mouth, eat (or suck on it) and take out what’s left. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:10 </ref> #It’s preferable not to squeeze grapes even onto solid foods that will absorb the liquid or be improved. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:4 </ref> # It is forbidden to drink juice that oozed out of grapes by itself. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:11 </ref> #One shouldn’t suck on grapes while holding them in one’s hand, rather one should put the entire grape in one’s mouth, eat (or suck on it) and take out what’s left. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:10 </ref> #It is forbidden to drink juice that oozed out of grapes by itself. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 5:11 </ref> ==Squeezing a liquid out of a cloth== # It is forbidden to squeeze any liquid out of any cloth on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 320:12, 18, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 347) </ref> # If wine spilled on a tablecloth one may not wring out the cloth. If some of the liquid didn't get absorbed one may scoop it off with a spoon if one is careful not to spread the colored wine over a wider area (which is an issue of [[Tzoveya]]. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 348) </ref> #It is forbidden to squeeze any liquid out of any cloth on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 320:12, 18, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 347) </ref> # A wet washcloth or rag is not [[Muktzeh]] and may be moved if one is careful not to grip it tightly. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 354) </ref> #If wine spilled on a tablecloth one may not wring out the cloth. If some of the liquid didn't get absorbed one may scoop it off with a spoon if one is careful not to spread the colored wine over a wider area (which is an issue of [[Tzoveya]]. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 348) </ref> #A wet washcloth or rag is not [[Muktzeh]] and may be moved if one is careful not to grip it tightly. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 354) </ref> ==Using a sponge or brush on Shabbat== # One may not clean dishes or even gently wipe a countertop with a sponge because gripping the sponge will inevitably cause liquid to be squeezed out where one's fingers grasp the material. However, using a sponge which has a handle or a vinyl back one may gently wipe a countertop but it is still forbidden to wash dishes.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 348-9) </ref> # One shouldn't use a dry sponge to wipe up a spill unless the sponge has a handle or vinyl back.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 349) </ref> #One may not clean dishes or even gently wipe a countertop with a sponge because gripping the sponge will inevitably cause liquid to be squeezed out where one's fingers grasp the material. However, using a sponge which has a handle or a vinyl back one may gently wipe a countertop but it is still forbidden to wash dishes.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 348-9) </ref> # One may not use a wet brush to scrub if the brush's fibers are soft and dense. However, if the fibers are stiff, sparse, and made out of synthetic material one may use that brush for scrubbing. Similarly, a plastic mesh or wire mesh may be used for scrubbing only if the fibers are thin and the netting is widely spaced. However, one may not use a mesh if the fibers are closely packed; for example, one may not use a steel wool pad. To determine whether the fibers are considered dense or sparse one should conduct the following test before [[Shabbat]]: Immerse it in water and upon removing it if the water drains out immediately the fibers are considered widely spaced, however, if water stays absorbed it is considered densely spaced.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 349-50) </ref> #One shouldn't use a dry sponge to wipe up a spill unless the sponge has a handle or vinyl back.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 349) </ref> # A wet sponge is [[Muktzeh]] Machmat Issur and may only be moved if the space it is occupying is needed. When moving a wet sponge one should do so gently so as not to squeeze out any liquid. However, a dry sponge or a wet sponge which has a handle or vinyl backing aren't [[muktzeh]] and may be moved for any necessary purpose. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 354) </ref> #One may not use a wet brush to scrub if the brush's fibers are soft and dense. However, if the fibers are stiff, sparse, and made out of synthetic material one may use that brush for scrubbing. Similarly, a plastic mesh or wire mesh may be used for scrubbing only if the fibers are thin and the netting is widely spaced. However, one may not use a mesh if the fibers are closely packed; for example, one may not use a steel wool pad. To determine whether the fibers are considered dense or sparse one should conduct the following test before [[Shabbat]]: Immerse it in water and upon removing it if the water drains out immediately the fibers are considered widely spaced, however, if water stays absorbed it is considered densely spaced.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 349-50) </ref> #A wet sponge is [[Muktzeh]] Machmat Issur and may only be moved if the space it is occupying is needed. When moving a wet sponge one should do so gently so as not to squeeze out any liquid. However, a dry sponge or a wet sponge which has a handle or vinyl backing aren't [[muktzeh]] and may be moved for any necessary purpose. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 354) </ref> ==Squeezing Water Out of One's Hair== # It is forbidden to squeeze water out of one's hair on [[Shabbat]].<ref>Mishna Brurah 326:25. See Yabia Omer 4:30:19 who proves that the Rashba and other rishonim hold that there's no rabbinic prohibition to squeeze hair. However, he does not conclude in accordance with those rishonim; instead he follows the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch that it is rabbinically forbidden.</ref> Similarly, one shouldn't shampoo one's hair on [[shabbat]].<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 371)</ref> # One may wet one's hair if one does not squeeze it out. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 371)</ref> #It is forbidden to squeeze water out of one's hair on [[Shabbat]].<ref>Mishna Brurah 326:25. See Yabia Omer 4:30:19 who proves that the Rashba and other rishonim hold that there's no rabbinic prohibition to squeeze hair. However, he does not conclude in accordance with those rishonim; instead he follows the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch that it is rabbinically forbidden.</ref> Similarly, one shouldn't shampoo one's hair on [[shabbat]].<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 371)</ref> # One should not shake one's head vigorously in order to remove the absorbed water. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 372)</ref> #One may wet one's hair if one does not squeeze it out. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 371)</ref> # One may not dry one's hair with a towel by pressing the towel to the wet hair. Instead one should touch the towel lightly to the hair.<ref>Ben Ish Chai (Pekudei II n. 8) writes that one could pat dry the hair with a towel but not press. This is also the conclusion of [https://www.yeshiva.org.il/ask/91086]. See Piskei Teshuvot 326:12 with all the opinions. Mishna Brurah (Biur Halacha 326:8) emphasizes that when going to the mikveh one should be careful not to violate sechita implies the same.</ref> #One should not shake one's head vigorously in order to remove the absorbed water. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 372)</ref> # One may tightly wrap a towel on one's hair to absorb the liquid because the liquid is absorbed immediately and becomes useless.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 371)</ref> #One may not dry one's hair with a towel by pressing the towel to the wet hair. Instead one should touch the towel lightly to the hair.<ref>Ben Ish Chai (Pekudei II n. 8) writes that one could pat dry the hair with a towel but not press. This is also the conclusion of [https://www.yeshiva.org.il/ask/91086]. See Piskei Teshuvot 326:12 with all the opinions. Mishna Brurah (Biur Halacha 326:8) emphasizes that when going to the mikveh one should be careful not to violate sechita implies the same.</ref> # Some permit drying one's beard on Shabbat.<ref>Igrot Moshe 1:133</ref> #One may tightly wrap a towel on one's hair to absorb the liquid because the liquid is absorbed immediately and becomes useless.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 371)</ref> #Some permit drying one's beard on Shabbat.<ref>Igrot Moshe 1:133</ref> ==Drying with a Towel== # One may dry off one's body with a towel and doesn't ahve to be worried that he is going to come to squeeze it out.<ref>Gemara Shabbat 147b, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 301:48</ref> One should try to use a towel which one doesn't care if it is wet and won't come to squeeze out the water.<ref>Mishna Brurah 301:173</ref> #One may dry off one's body with a towel and doesn't ahve to be worried that he is going to come to squeeze it out.<ref>Gemara Shabbat 147b, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 301:48</ref> One should try to use a towel which one doesn't care if it is wet and won't come to squeeze out the water.<ref>Mishna Brurah 301:173</ref> ==Cleaning a counter or table== # One may use a rag or towel to wipe up a spill if the rag or towel is able to soak up the entire spill without needing to wring it out. One may also use many rags at the same time if together they can absorb the spill. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 350-1) </ref> # One may not wipe a surface such as a counter or table top with a wet cloth. However, if a counter is sticky one may sprinkle water on the surface and then wipe it clean with a dry rag but it's preferable to used a paper napkin.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 351) </ref> When necessary one wipe a surface very gently using a saturated rag or wet wet napkin. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 355) </ref> #One may use a rag or towel to wipe up a spill if the rag or towel is able to soak up the entire spill without needing to wring it out. One may also use many rags at the same time if together they can absorb the spill. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 350-1) </ref> #One may not wipe a surface such as a counter or table top with a wet cloth. However, if a counter is sticky one may sprinkle water on the surface and then wipe it clean with a dry rag but it's preferable to used a paper napkin.<ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 351) </ref> When necessary one wipe a surface very gently using a saturated rag or wet wet napkin. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 355) </ref> ==Baby wipes== # Some say that one may use baby wipes to clean a baby if one does it gently and doesn't press down.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 302:31 based on Har Tzvi OC 1:190, [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2277 Rabbi Mansour] on Dailyhalacha.com</ref> However, some advise not using baby wipes but rather tissues and water as described in the following halacha. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 353) </ref> # One should not wet a cloth and then wipe the baby rather the liquid such as water, thin lotion, or oil should be applied to the baby's skin and then wiped with a paper napkin or paper towel and if that's not available then one may use a dry cloth. If one uses a dry cloth then once it gets wet one should be very cautious not to apply pressure when wiping. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 351) </ref> #Some say that one may use baby wipes to clean a baby if one does it gently and doesn't press down.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 302:31 based on Har Tzvi OC 1:190, [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2277 Rabbi Mansour] on Dailyhalacha.com</ref> However, some advise not using baby wipes but rather tissues and water as described in the following halacha. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 353) </ref> #One should not wet a cloth and then wipe the baby rather the liquid such as water, thin lotion, or oil should be applied to the baby's skin and then wiped with a paper napkin or paper towel and if that's not available then one may use a dry cloth. If one uses a dry cloth then once it gets wet one should be very cautious not to apply pressure when wiping. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 351) </ref> ==Nursing== # It is only permissible to nurse on [[Shabbat]] if the infant feeds directly from the mother. A nursing mother who is experiencing pain may express excess milk if it goes directly to waste and is not collected in a cup or container. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 356) </ref> #It is only permissible to nurse on [[Shabbat]] if the infant feeds directly from the mother. A nursing mother who is experiencing pain may express excess milk if it goes directly to waste and is not collected in a cup or container. <ref>39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 356) </ref> ==Milking an Animal== # It is forbidden to milk an animal on [[Shabbat]], as this is a violation of mifarek, which falls under the melacha of Dosh. <ref> Yalkut Yosef [[Shabbat]] vol. 2 pg. 110. see there for discussion if this is a torah violation or rabbinic </ref> # It is permissible to tell a non-Jew to milk an animal for you on [[Shabbat]] because if you don't it will cause the animal pain, but the milk is considered [[muktzeh]] for the day. <ref> Yalkut Yosef vol 2. pg. 110, Sh"t Yabea Omer 9:30 </ref> If a non-Jew is not available one should let the milk go to waste so that the violation is only dirabanan which would be allowed to save the animal from the pain, and one should try to do it with a shinui. <ref> Yalkut Yosef [[Shabbat]] vol 2. pg. 111 </ref> This leniency to allow a Jew to do it, only applies if there are no baby animals who can milk the adults. <ref> Yalkut Yosef [[Shabbat]] vol. 2 pg. 112 </ref> #It is forbidden to milk an animal on [[Shabbat]], as this is a violation of mifarek, which falls under the melacha of Dosh. <ref>Yalkut Yosef [[Shabbat]] vol. 2 pg. 110. see there for discussion if this is a torah violation or rabbinic </ref> #It is permissible to tell a non-Jew to milk an animal for you on [[Shabbat]] because if you don't it will cause the animal pain, but the milk is considered [[muktzeh]] for the day. <ref>Yalkut Yosef vol 2. pg. 110, Sh"t Yabea Omer 9:30 </ref> If a non-Jew is not available one should let the milk go to waste so that the violation is only dirabanan which would be allowed to save the animal from the pain, and one should try to do it with a shinui. <ref>Yalkut Yosef [[Shabbat]] vol 2. pg. 111 </ref> This leniency to allow a Jew to do it, only applies if there are no baby animals who can milk the adults. <ref>Yalkut Yosef [[Shabbat]] vol. 2 pg. 112 </ref> ==Brushing Teeth== see [[Brushing_Teeth_on_Shabbat#Sechita \| Brushing Teeth on Shabbat]] ==Related Pages== * [[Sechitah on Yom Tov]] * [[Showering on Yom Tov]] [[Sechitah on Yom Tov]] [[Showering on Yom Tov]] [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/786011/Rabbi_Mordechai_I_Willig/Halacha_Sugyos_of_Shabbos_73b Halacha Sugyos of Shabbos 73b] by Rabbi Mordechai Willig [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/802348/Rabbi_Daniel_Stein/Gemara_Shabbos_#51_-_Dosh:_Sechitah_Review Dosh: Sechita Review] by Rabbi Daniel Stein *[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/802348/Rabbi_Daniel_Stein/Gemara_Shabbos_#51_-_Dosh:_Sechitah_Review Dosh: Sechita Review] by Rabbi Daniel Stein ==Sources== [[Category:Shabbat]] This article is good. It can still be slightly improved, either by adding content, restructuring the page, or updating its content. 1 General Prohibition 2 In the Mishkan 3 Toladot 3.1 Mefarek 4 Removing peas from a pod 5 Removing shell of nuts 6 Squeezing a fruit 6.1 Liquids that oozed out on their own 6.2 Squeezing a lemon 6.3 Squeezing out excess liquid 6.4 Sucking on a fruit 6.5 Cutting a grapefruit or watermelon 6.6 Squeezing grapes 7 Squeezing a liquid out of a cloth 8 Using a sponge or brush on Shabbat 9 Squeezing Water Out of One's Hair 10 Drying with a Towel 11 Cleaning a counter or table 12 Baby wipes 13 Nursing 14 Milking an Animal 15 Brushing Teeth 16 Related Pages General Prohibition Dash includes removing any earth-grown food from its natural shell or attachment.[1] There is a dispute among the Rishonim whether Dosh is only violated by removing something that is covered by its encasing, as was the case in the mishkan, or that any detachment from something unwanted would be a violation of Dosh.[2] A toldah of Dash is mefarek, squeezing fruits. Biblically this applies to squeezing grapes for their juice or olives for their oil.[3] In the Mishkan According to most Rishonim, the melacha of Dosh was done in the Mishkan by threshing the seeds from their shells so that they could be used for the dyes.[4] Toladot Mefarek Mefarek is a Toldah of Dosh. [5] Mefarek includes squeezing juice from fruit (Sechitah) or liquid from a cloth. [6] Removing peas from a pod One may not remove peas from an inedible pod on Shabbat. [7] Peeling fruits (such as oranges or bananas) or vegetables (such as onions or cucumbers) is not considered a violation of Dosh. Nonetheless one should be careful of the conditions of Borer such as only peeling it right before eating and not using a peeler (but one may use a knife or one's hands). [8] One may not the husk from an ear of corn on Shabbat. [9] Removing shell of nuts One may remove the shell of nuts (pecans, brazil nuts, filberts, peanuts) on Shabbat. [10] One may not remove the outer hull (a thick pulpy layer) of an almond or walnut on Shabbat, however, one may remove the inner hard wood-like shell. [11] There is a question of removing the outer thin peel of a garlic bulb on Shabbat however most poskim permit and certainly it's permitted to remove the peel around the individual cloves. [12] Squeezing a fruit It is forbidden to squeeze a fruit in order to extract its liquid if one squeezes the fruit into a liquid or empty vessel. The prohibition is violated whether it is done by hand or with a utensil. [13] One may not squeeze a fruit into an empty vessel with intent to put solid food in afterwards. [14] It’s permitted to squeeze a fruit with one’s hand onto a solid food if either the food absorbs the liquid or the liquid is meant to improve the flavor of the food. [15] Liquids that oozed out on their own Juice that oozed (by itself) out of fruit, which is specifically designated to be eaten, is permitted to drink. [16] Squeezing a lemon It is permitted to squeeze a lemon on sugar even if one’s intent is to put the sugar in a liquid afterwards, however, there are authorities who are strict on this issue.[17] According to Sephardim one can squeeze a lemon even into an empty cup, however, it is proper to be strict to do it into the sugar.[18] It’s permissible to cut a slice of lemon and put it into a drink even though the juice will seep out. [19] Note that if the drink is hot tea its only permissible if it is made in a Kli Shelishi (see Bishul). One may gently stir the tea but one may not press the lemon against the wall of the cup. Additionally, one should cut the lemon directly over the tea. [20] Squeezing out excess liquid It’s permitted to squeeze out excess liquid in a food to improve it’s taste if it’s done immediately prior to eating. For example it’s permitted to squeeze a pickled cucumber to remove some of it’s vinegar if one is going to eat the pickle right away. [21] One may squeeze out latkes from excess vegetable oil if ones intention is to get rid of the oil and it is done right before eating.[22] It's commendable to refrain from squeezing a piece of meat, fish, or chicken to get rid of excess gravy if the gravy contains water or wine.[23] Sucking on a fruit One may suck on any fruit with one's mouth while holding it in one's hand except for grapes. However, one shouldn’t squeeze the fruit with one’s hand.[24] Certainly though one could put the entire grape in one's mouth, such out the juice and then spit out the part one doesn't want to eat.[25] It’s permitted to dip bread in a soup or other dip and then suck off the liquid, but it’s preferable to eat a little of the bread with it.[26] Cutting a grapefruit or watermelon It’s permitted to cut a grapefruit (or watermelon) even if liquids will ooze out as long as one doesn’t intend specifically to drink the juices rather to eat the fruit and that one doesn’t intentionally doesn’t squeeze the fruit. [27] One may scrape out grapefruit with a spoon to eat the pulp (the flesh of the fruit) attached to the peel, however, it's forbidden to press the spoon against the pulp in order to extract juices. [28] Squeezing grapes It is permitted to squeeze grapes onto food, but it is forbidden to squeeze grapes into an empty dish even if it is for flavor. [29] However, if one is stringent and does not even squeeze fruits onto food shall be blessed. [30] It’s preferable not to squeeze grapes even onto solid foods that will absorb the liquid or be improved. [31] One shouldn’t suck on grapes while holding them in one’s hand, rather one should put the entire grape in one’s mouth, eat (or suck on it) and take out what’s left. [32] It is forbidden to drink juice that oozed out of grapes by itself. [33] Squeezing a liquid out of a cloth It is forbidden to squeeze any liquid out of any cloth on Shabbat. [34] If wine spilled on a tablecloth one may not wring out the cloth. If some of the liquid didn't get absorbed one may scoop it off with a spoon if one is careful not to spread the colored wine over a wider area (which is an issue of Tzoveya. [35] A wet washcloth or rag is not Muktzeh and may be moved if one is careful not to grip it tightly. [36] Using a sponge or brush on Shabbat One may not clean dishes or even gently wipe a countertop with a sponge because gripping the sponge will inevitably cause liquid to be squeezed out where one's fingers grasp the material. However, using a sponge which has a handle or a vinyl back one may gently wipe a countertop but it is still forbidden to wash dishes.[37] One shouldn't use a dry sponge to wipe up a spill unless the sponge has a handle or vinyl back.[38] One may not use a wet brush to scrub if the brush's fibers are soft and dense. However, if the fibers are stiff, sparse, and made out of synthetic material one may use that brush for scrubbing. Similarly, a plastic mesh or wire mesh may be used for scrubbing only if the fibers are thin and the netting is widely spaced. However, one may not use a mesh if the fibers are closely packed; for example, one may not use a steel wool pad. To determine whether the fibers are considered dense or sparse one should conduct the following test before Shabbat: Immerse it in water and upon removing it if the water drains out immediately the fibers are considered widely spaced, however, if water stays absorbed it is considered densely spaced.[39] A wet sponge is Muktzeh Machmat Issur and may only be moved if the space it is occupying is needed. When moving a wet sponge one should do so gently so as not to squeeze out any liquid. However, a dry sponge or a wet sponge which has a handle or vinyl backing aren't muktzeh and may be moved for any necessary purpose. [40] Squeezing Water Out of One's Hair It is forbidden to squeeze water out of one's hair on Shabbat.[41] Similarly, one shouldn't shampoo one's hair on shabbat.[42] One may wet one's hair if one does not squeeze it out. [43] One should not shake one's head vigorously in order to remove the absorbed water. [44] One may not dry one's hair with a towel by pressing the towel to the wet hair. Instead one should touch the towel lightly to the hair.[45] One may tightly wrap a towel on one's hair to absorb the liquid because the liquid is absorbed immediately and becomes useless.[46] Some permit drying one's beard on Shabbat.[47] Drying with a Towel One may dry off one's body with a towel and doesn't ahve to be worried that he is going to come to squeeze it out.[48] One should try to use a towel which one doesn't care if it is wet and won't come to squeeze out the water.[49] Cleaning a counter or table One may use a rag or towel to wipe up a spill if the rag or towel is able to soak up the entire spill without needing to wring it out. One may also use many rags at the same time if together they can absorb the spill. [50] One may not wipe a surface such as a counter or table top with a wet cloth. However, if a counter is sticky one may sprinkle water on the surface and then wipe it clean with a dry rag but it's preferable to used a paper napkin.[51] When necessary one wipe a surface very gently using a saturated rag or wet wet napkin. [52] Some say that one may use baby wipes to clean a baby if one does it gently and doesn't press down.[53] However, some advise not using baby wipes but rather tissues and water as described in the following halacha. [54] One should not wet a cloth and then wipe the baby rather the liquid such as water, thin lotion, or oil should be applied to the baby's skin and then wiped with a paper napkin or paper towel and if that's not available then one may use a dry cloth. If one uses a dry cloth then once it gets wet one should be very cautious not to apply pressure when wiping. [55] It is only permissible to nurse on Shabbat if the infant feeds directly from the mother. A nursing mother who is experiencing pain may express excess milk if it goes directly to waste and is not collected in a cup or container. [56] Milking an Animal It is forbidden to milk an animal on Shabbat, as this is a violation of mifarek, which falls under the melacha of Dosh. [57] It is permissible to tell a non-Jew to milk an animal for you on Shabbat because if you don't it will cause the animal pain, but the milk is considered muktzeh for the day. [58] If a non-Jew is not available one should let the milk go to waste so that the violation is only dirabanan which would be allowed to save the animal from the pain, and one should try to do it with a shinui. [59] This leniency to allow a Jew to do it, only applies if there are no baby animals who can milk the adults. [60] see Brushing Teeth on Shabbat Sechitah on Yom Tov Showering on Yom Tov Halacha Sugyos of Shabbos 73b by Rabbi Mordechai Willig Dosh: Sechita Review by Rabbi Daniel Stein ↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 317) based on the explanation of Rabbeinu Chananel (Shabbos 74a). The Gemara Shabbos (75a) records a dispute between Rebbi Yehuda and the Chachamim whether the Melacha of Dosh only applies to giduley karka, meaning things that grow in the ground. The Rambam (hilchos Shabbos 8:7) rules like the Chachamim that mi’d’oraisa it only applies to giduley karka, and this is the opinion of most of the Rishonim. ↑ This dispute is quoted in Eglei Tal (Dosh #2:3). It is based on the machloket between Rashi (73b s.v. mefareik) and Tosfos (73b s.v. v’achas) about how to explain why the Gemara says that one would be in violation of a toldah of Dosh when knocking off a tree. Seemingly, this question is relevant to whether it is permitted to detach grapes from their vine, and, thus, the Achronim wonder why it is that the Ramo (siman 336:8) rules without question that it is permitted to remove a fruit from a branch that was detached before Shabbos. The Pri Megadim (introduction to siman 320) explains that the Ramo concludes like those Rishonim who assume Dosh is only violated when it entails removing something usable from a covered p’soles. However, many Achronim are weary of taking this approach. As an alternative, the Eglei Tal (Dosh #11) says that Dosh does not apply when the detachment is being done for immediate use, as threshing is done as a preparation for further processing. A similar approach is taken by Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igros Moshe O”C vol. 1, siman 125) to explain why the removal of a shell from a nut or a peel from garlic is only a question of Borer and not Dosh. Another explanation is offered by the Shvisas HaShabbos (Introduction to Meleches Dosh, no. 4) quoting the Shem Chodosh who argues that Dosh is only violated when the ochel is extracted by putting pressure on the entire item, which was the way it was done in the Mishkan. Rav Mordechai Willig (Am Mordechai Shabbos siman 21) suggests a fourth approach based on the Aruch Hashulchan (319:20) that Dosh is only violated when working on many items at the same time. Rav Willig notes that according to this explanation one would have to be careful not to pick many grapes at once. ↑ Mishna Brurah 320:1, Yalkut Yosef Shabbat v. 3 320:1 ↑ 39 Melachos, vol. 2, pg. 315. The Eglei Tal (Introduction #1) quotes the opinion of some Rishonim who maintained that Dosh was done in preparation for the bread that was needed in the Mishkan, in which the case the melacha was removing the grain kernels from their chaff and stalk (39 Melachos, vol. 2, pg. 315). ↑ Rashi Shabbat 73b and Rambam (Shabbat 8:7 and 21:12) write that Mefarek is a Toldah of Dosh. One major difference between Mefareik and its Av is that Dosh is the removal of ochel from p’soles, something unwanted, which is not the case with squeezing juice from fruit. In order to maintain the comparison, the squeezing of the juice must be viewed as squeezing liquid from food. Therefore, the Gemara (144b) rules that squeezing juice directly into food (not drink) is permitted since then it is viewed as removing food from food and is not similar to Dosh where the extract is different than what it is removed from. The Mishna Brurah (Sha’ar Ha’tziun Siman 320, no. 23) quotes a machlokes Rishonim regarding squeezing into a plate with the intention of subsequently pouring it into food. The Chazon Ish (O”C 55:6) rules that it is only permitted if it is direct and such is the opinion of Shmiras Shabbos k’Hilchisa (chap. 5, seif 5). See, however, Biur Halacha 320:1 s.v. muter ↑ Rambam (Shabbat 8:10 and 21:12) writes that squeezing fruit (Sechitah) is a violation of Mefarek. 39 Melachos (Dosh note 113) quotes Tosfot Ketubot 6a s.v. Hay who holds that squeezing a liquid from a cloth is also considered Mefarek. ↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 325) ↑ Rama end of 321, Chaye Adam 14:1, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 323-4) ↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 327-8) writes that according to some opinions it's forbidden. However, Halachos of Shabbat (Rabbi Eider, chap 8, pg 95) writes that it's forbidden (and bases it on the Maharsham 320:83). ↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 324-5) Chazon Ovadia Shabbat Vol 4, Pg 101 ↑ 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 325-6) ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:1,2. Squeezing a liquid out of a solid (Sechita) is Mefarek which is a Toldah of the Melacha of Dash (Iglei Tal, Dash #8, Mishna Brurah 320:1). Shulchan Aruch 320:1 writes that it's forbidden to squeeze olives and grapes and the juice which flows from them on their own is also forbidden for consumption. However, berries and pomegranates even though they are forbidden to be squeezed the juices from them that flow on their own are permissible if the fruit was meant to be eaten and not be squeezed for the juice. Lastly, all other fruits may be squeezed. The Rama 320:1 explains that in places where it's normal to squeeze certain fruits for their juices it is also forbidden to squeeze those fruits just like berries and pomegranates; in other words, the Rama 320:1 holds that a fruit's usage is based location. Mishna Brurah 320:5 explains that squeezing berries and pomegranates is forbidden rabbinically because some people squeeze them for the juice like grapes and olives. However, all other fruit in the days of Shulchan Aruch weren't squeezed for juice and were eaten. That's why it is permissible to squeeze such fruits because the fruit if considered like a solid and extracting one solid from another is permissible. Therefore, the Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (chap 5 note 4) writes that nowadays that it is common to squeeze all fruits for their juice it is forbidden to squeeze any fruit on Shabbat. On the other hand, 39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 2, pg 328) lists certain fruits which are rabbinically prohibited to squeeze including oranges, lemons, grapefruits, apples, pineapples, cherries, strawberries, peaches, plums, pomegranates, and tomatoes. Similarly, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat, vol 3, 343 and 491) delineates certain fruits which are squeezed for the juices in some places such as grapes, olives, berries, pomegranates, apples, grapefruits, pears, mangoes, tangerines, and pineapples would be forbidden to squeeze on Shabbat, however, fruits which are not squeezed anywhere such as quince or watermelon one be squeezed on Shabbat. Yalkut Yosef (pg 344) adds that even when it is permissible to squeeze a fruit, it may only be done by hand and not with a juicer (tool). ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:5. The Mishna Brurah (Sha’ar Ha’tziun Siman 320, no. 23) quotes a machlokes Rishonim regarding squeezing into a plate with the intention of subsequently pouring it into food. The Chazon Ish (O”C 55:6) rules that it is only permitted if it is directly onto food and such is the opinion of Shmiras Shabbos k’Hilchiso (chap. 5, seif 5). See, however, Biur Halacha 320:1 s.v. muter ↑ Gemara Shabbat 144b, Shulchan Aruch 505:1, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:3,7, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 345) Chazon Ovadia Shabbat Vol. 4, Pg 137-138 ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:11 See Chazon Ovadia Shabbat Vol. 4, who permits the drinking of juice that came out on its own only for fruits with a derabanan sechita prohibition (and those fruits are designated for eating) ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:5,6, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 346). Although the Shulchan Aruch 320:6 states that one may squeeze a lemon on Shabbat, the Mishna Brurah 320:22 explains that the reason for the leniency doesn't apply today. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 80:12 writes that it is forbidden to squeeze lemons to make lemonade. ↑ Shulchan Aruch O.C. 320:6, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat v. 3 Dosh Sechitat Limon n. 1) ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:2. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata’s source is the Kalkelet Shabbat (Dosh) who cites the Taz 320:7 for this halacha. It seems that the primary reason for the leniency is that the juice being squeezed out isn’t intentional. ↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 340) ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:8, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat vol 3 pg 350) ↑ Rama 320:1 quotes two opinions whether it is permitted to suck juice directly from grapes. The reason for the lenient view is that it isn't considered a normal way to squeeze fruit by sucking on it with one's mouth. Mishna Brurah 320:12, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:10, and 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 339) are strict for grapes. Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat vol 3 pg 248) and Halichot Olam (vol 4 pg 106) permit even regarding grapes but add that it's a proper practice to refrain. ↑ Mishna Brurah 320:12, Yalkut Yosef 320:10 ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:9 ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:12, Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat, vol 3, pg 345), 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 340), Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com ↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 341), Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com. Yalkut Yosef (Shabbat v. 3 320:9) writes that it is permitted to use a spoon to eat a cut grapefruit on Shabbat since one doesn't intend to drink the juice and usually one eats the juice together with the fruit or pulp. ↑ Mishnah Brurah 320:17 ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 5:10 ↑ Shulchan Aruch 320:12, 18, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 347) ↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 348-9) ↑ 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 349-50) ↑ Mishna Brurah 326:25. See Yabia Omer 4:30:19 who proves that the Rashba and other rishonim hold that there's no rabbinic prohibition to squeeze hair. However, he does not conclude in accordance with those rishonim; instead he follows the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch that it is rabbinically forbidden. ↑ Ben Ish Chai (Pekudei II n. 8) writes that one could pat dry the hair with a towel but not press. This is also the conclusion of [1]. See Piskei Teshuvot 326:12 with all the opinions. Mishna Brurah (Biur Halacha 326:8) emphasizes that when going to the mikveh one should be careful not to violate sechita implies the same. ↑ Igrot Moshe 1:133 ↑ Gemara Shabbat 147b, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 301:48 ↑ Mishna Brurah 301:173 ↑ Yalkut Yosef 302:31 based on Har Tzvi OC 1:190, Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com ↑ Yalkut Yosef Shabbat vol. 2 pg. 110. see there for discussion if this is a torah violation or rabbinic ↑ Yalkut Yosef vol 2. pg. 110, Sh"t Yabea Omer 9:30 ↑ Yalkut Yosef Shabbat vol 2. pg. 111 ↑ Yalkut Yosef Shabbat vol. 2 pg. 112 Retrieved from "https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Dosh&oldid=25842"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3219
__label__cc	0.742977	0.257023	Structuring and Managing Patient Data Structuring and Managing Patient Data (ISYS90078) Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville) This subject develops familiarity with technical and administrative aspects of health information science – when, why and how health data can be generated, collected, stored, communicated and integrated to inform patient care, health research and health services management. It provides an overview of the knowledge and tools that are essential for managing and governing digital patient record data for primary and secondary uses. Lectures and tutorials cover four major topics: (a) Structuring health data in the era of big data in healthcare; (b) Managing and governing electronic health and medical records for safety and quality of care, including: standards, terminologies and mapping approaches applicable to clinical data and clinical documentation; (c) Structural and semantic interoperability to support data use for connected care and population health, including: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR); (d) Managing and governing secondary use of data, including health services administration and health research, including: approaches to data privacy and security, repositories, retrieval, quality assessment, and linkage. On completion of this subject the student is expected to: Explain the roles of a range of information standards and protocols in ensuring the quality of patient health data Analyse relative merits of various ways in which different health information systems record patient data, and explain how such data can be mapped Demonstrate understanding of different levels of interoperability among health information systems, and explain uses of methods and tools for optimising the value of patient data through exchange between systems Critically interpret typical requirements for retrieval and re-use of patient data for purposes other than clinical care, and propose refinements that reflect advances in approaches to digital health data analysis Demonstrate integration and application of health data management principles in the design of new health information systems On completion of this subject, students should have developed the following generic skills: Effective communication of data requirements Understanding of global issues relating to health The ability to work across different disciplines Excellent in-depth knowledge to support responsible leadership	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3220
__label__cc	0.55311	0.44689	As Operation Safeway Bites Road Haulage and Freight Groups Should Welcome Cyclist Safety Campaigns As Police Ramp Up City Biking Programme There is an Alternative 'Good Cop' Policy Still Running for Those Bike Riders Who Care to Use It UK – Many road haulage operators will welcome the news that the Metropolitan Police and Greater London Authority (GLA) have instituted the next phase of ‘Operation Safeway’, the programme to reduce accidents in which casualties and fatalities to cyclists occur. The scheme so far has produced thousands of fixed penalty notices, many for bike riders flaunting the law by riding on the pavements and jumping red lights etc. The policy is one half of the ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ technique with education and advice coming via the ‘Exchanging Places’ scheme which is designed to promote safer interaction between the two wheelers and those HGV drivers responsible for the freight and construction traffic in the city. Since the inception of the Safeway project in November 2013, prompted by the horrendous casualties in that month, over 4,000 cyclists have received Fixed Penalty Notices or prosecutions with thousands of car, and presumably lorry, drivers also caught in the net for offences ranging from lack of insurance to drunken driving. Meanwhile the Metropolitan Police is continuing to run the series of Exchanging Places Events, a timetable of which can be seen HERE. The scheme offers cyclists the chance to sit in the cab of an HGV to better understand the problems which beset truck drivers trying to negotiate their way round the capital whilst coping with the reduced visibility and blind spots inherent in bigger vehicles. The Events are held almost every week until October and spread around the whole of London, and have been praised by many riders who have tried the scheme. An investigation by the London Evening Standard into the deaths of 40 cyclists between 2010 and 2012 showed that only 4 drivers had been jailed as a result. Since that time there have been several high profile cases pending in the capital against HGV drivers which were subsequently dropped. The construction industry has particularly been in focus and operators not involved in the TfL Freight Operators Recognition Scheme (FORS), in which standards of every facet of their company is audited, are not allowed on the premises of most major London building projects such as Crossrail, and TfL offers help and advice for cyclists on its website. Many of the accidents which occur in the capital happen over and over again at the same locations with a death at the Elephant and Castle this month bringing the city’s fatalities of bike riders to five so far this year. This junction in South London has been extensively remodelled to improve safety yet, despite a reduction in accidents, the carnage continues. Another TfL remodelled choke point in Bow saw a young cyclist killed, one of the casualties in November 2013 when five others also perished, which last month’s inquest decided was probably a result of her cycling across a red light, something cyclists are constantly accused of by car and lorry drivers. Part of the problem when it comes to speedily resolution are the extreme views held by some using two, or four or more wheels, each accusing the other of being the principal cause. Weighted opinions have been expressed by senior members of the Green Party and organisations such as the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) with its ‘Space for Cycling’ scheme which demands an extension of road availability in every one of London’s post code areas, targeting specific routes and lobbying for access. The LCC also offers ‘No Win, No Fee’ legal representation to any cyclist who feels they have a claim against any other road user which driving organisations have said previously is reasonable only if cyclists also carry insurance and pay towards the roads they demand so vociferously by way of some sort of Road Fund Licence fee. In truth this is a problem that will never be completely solved but, with a little more cooperation, can be significantly reduced. For the road haulage sector the answers lie in the improved visibility offered by more modern vehicles and the technology of suitable vehicle mounted cameras. Add in the now to be mandatory safety features such as under-run protection, reshaped cab designs and better mirrors. Additionally the latest campaign to opt for ‘out of hours’ deliveries and collections whenever practical can help the cause. For cyclists and car drivers the only answer will be better traffic control where possible but with education, and the elimination of poor or naïve driving, playing the major roles and probably proving the hardest targets to achieve. Photo: Legal or Not? You decide, the Pedibus offers hirers the chance to pedal and tour whilst enjoying copious amounts of alcohol. We trust the guy steering abstains!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3221
__label__wiki	0.846488	0.846488	Engineering and Cyber Security for Container Ships and Short Sea Ferries Recognised with Awards Raft of Companies Credited for Technological Advances NETHERLANDS – One of the factors in ocean shipping that often goes unrecognised are the constantly evolving and improving technologies that power the vessels so it is good to know that there are events recognising the subculture of engineering which is literally the driving force behind the industry. This week's Sulphur Cap 2020 Awards in Amsterdam saw the driving forces for container ships and an electrically powered ferry alike credited, whilst fuel development and cyber security also received approvals. The annual technical awards recognise innovations across a range of marine engineering and technology sectors and are presented to those companies or individuals that have developed a novel product, system or process that demonstrates an ‘imaginative and effective solution to an engineering requirement’. A shaft seal may not inspire the average reader but the revolutionary SeaThigor from Ontario headquartered family firm Thorndon Bearings excited enough interest to see the seal win the Marine Propulsion Innovation Award. A robust mechanical face seal, the Thordon SeaThigor is for water lubricated propeller shafts found in all types of merchant and naval ships. In the event of a face failure of the primary seal, it incorporates a secondary seal module to provide Safe Return to Port capability. This unique feature means the propeller shaft can be rotated at reduced speeds allowing the vessel to make it safely to a repair facility under its own power, without causing further damage. Thorndon adds the award to the 2015 Tanker Shipping & Trade award for its COMPAC seawater-lubricated propeller shaft concept and Jeffrey Butt, Thordon’s Business Development Manager - Marine, who collected the latest accolade was clearly a happy man, saying: “For a maritime technology company, winning the Innovation category of the prestigious Marine Propulsion Awards is like winning Best Picture at the Oscars. We are absolutely delighted to win this award.” Other notable winners of the Awards on the night were as follows: The Efficiency Improvement Award was awarded to MAN Diesel & Turbo, for its 45/60CR four-stroke engine which claims a 50% cut in lowest specific fuel oil consumption (SFOC) of 166 g/kWh and highest power output of 1,300 kW per cylinder. The Emissions Reduction Award was taken by Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD) for its X-DF engines, the most powerful gas and dual-fuel engines to date as being fitted to the next generation of CMA CGM mega container vessels. The Marine Intelligence Award which rewards IT technology innovation was won by Naval Dome’s Maritime Cyber Protection System which defends against cyber-attacks against maritime operations. Winner of the Ship of the Year Award was FinFerries' battery-powered ferry Elektra which uses on shore power generated from nuclear and hydro-electric sources to carry 40% more vehicles while emitting 60% less emissions. The Industry Leader Award, one of the two individual awards, went to President of Marine Business at Rolls-Royce Mikael Makinen whose company are leading the charge to a new age in vessel design whilst Larsen Priem of the Antwerp Maritime Academy took the coveted Graduate Research Award for his work using heat to elicit a Fast Pyrolysis Oil (FPO) from bamboo which is completely carbon neutral. Priem used a thermal reactor and says the main problem now is growing sufficient bamboo!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3222
__label__wiki	0.746142	0.746142	‘Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’ by Ubisoft Montreal: Game Review by Thomas Noss Grab your axe, bend the oars, and sound the raid horn – it’s time to go a-viking in the highly anticipated Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Assassin’s Creed is an aged beast at this point. With almost two dozen released games, numerous comics and novels, board games, films, and a live-action series in the works, one might be forgiven for thinking that the series should have run out of steam some time ago. So, with the axe-swinging, mead-drinking, longship-sailing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla standing as the series’ twelfth main release, has Ubisoft Montreal managed to weave some fresh magic into this veteran franchise? Too bloody right they have. A tale worthy of legend? I must admit, I had low expectations for the narrative of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. I anticipated that it would set up a bunch of tired, hollow clichés about gruff Norse men doing Viking things, and initially that’s exactly what I got. Without spoiling any of the story beats, you’re thrown head-first into the shoes of Eivor, who is already a warrior of substantial fame and renown in Norway. The game clumsily expects you to care about Eivor’s existing relationships with the predictable, cardboard cut-out characters that you-the-player are only now meeting for the first time. Oh no, the fates fortell that you will betray that generic dude you have no reason to care about! Oh dear! Luckily, it becomes much easier to get invested once you make your way over to the shores of England, ripe for the pillaging, and begin to meet individuals that are blessedly unfamiliar to Eivor too. From there you’ll be engaging in a range of fun, novel missions alongside well-realised, distinctive characters as you develop your new settlement and explore all the mysteries that this new land has to offer. The tone of the game also seems to shift at this point, from predictable to frequently delighting in its own silliness. Go into this expecting the joyful, campy fun of an ’80s action film, rather than the meaningful, masterful storytelling of The Last of Us. Being an open-world game, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will naturally struggle to control the pacing and tension that the player experiences. Much like Ganon will politely wait to conquer Hyrule until Link has finished hunting Koroks, 873AD England will stand still until you’re ready to assault the next town or murder the latest despot. But that’s good news – because there is a lot to keep you busy. Settlements to build, people to decapitate Having arrived in England, you will find it absolutely teeming with things to do. The core mission is to establish a burgeoning colony in this lush new world, developing your fledgling colony from a hamlet, to a settlement, to a village, and beyond. For this, you will need resources – and what better way for a Dane to secure them than by raiding? Raids are a true joy in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. From the moment you point your longship at the shoreline of a target and sound your horn, you’re in for a treat. Peasants go scattering as your warriors clamber out into the water and storm in to overwhelm the defenders. Thatched roofs catch ablaze, terrified archers loose arrows then scamper away. You and your crew are predators, and the entire country is your prey. The primary quests in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla also support your goals of growing and empowering your settlement, as you travel from place to place building alliances and making your foothold in hostile territory more secure. As you explore, you’ll naturally stumble upon a range of side-quests, mini-games, and points of interest. Lost Drengr are powerful warriors seeking a final worthy opponent, flying papers offer parkour challenges, and Animus Anomalies offer a change of pace by presenting puzzles to solve. The world is naturally littered with animals to hunt, fish to catch, and resources to gather – all of which can be invested into making you, your gear, and your fellow Vikingr stronger. The mini-games found in various townships can be hit-or-miss. Drinking contests boil down to dull, extended quicktime events. Orlog is an amusing dice game that could stand to move at a faster pace. My personal favourite was Flyting, where you and an opponent trade poetic insults, and the sickest burn wins. Who wouldn’t want to join in a Viking rap battle? But aren’t you an assassin? With some kind of creed? The customary franchise features take a back seat in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Sure, Eivor can still parkour with the best of them, deftly scaling the highest structure available to reveal that portion of the map. There’s still the obligatory sci-fi elements, where the game being played is ostensibly a simulation being run from the future. There’s still the ever-present shadowy war being waged between the Assassins and the Templars. Stealth is still a viable option, assassinations are still beneficial, and of course you have a hidden blade housed inside a bracer. You get the idea. Thankfully, much as Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was a game about being a pirate who sometimes did assassin things, Valhalla is first and foremost a game about being a bad-ass Viking (who, yes, can also do assassin things). This approach worked wonders for Black Flag, adding a much-needed breath of fresh air to fill the franchise’ sails – and the same holds true for Valhalla. This creative choice plants it firmly among the ranks of the best entries in the Assassin’s Creed series. And the final verdict? Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is a damned fine game in its own right, a stand out in the Assassin’s Creed series, and a worthy rival to any other open-world action RPG you might care to name. While it gets off to a shaky start in narrative terms, it soon finds its footing and delivers with appealing characters and interesting missions. Going a-viking is a true pleasure, and the world you’re presented with is rich with compelling objectives and fun distractions constantly dangling new hooks to pull you forward through the experience. Launch day is November 10th on the Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PS4, Stadia and PC, plus a PS5 version will be released with the console on November 12th. Do yourself a favour – head on over to the official website, pick up a copy, and we’ll share a mead in Valhalla soon enough. 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__label__cc	0.619358	0.380642	Stable +35% Monthly with FBC14 algorithm – Interview with the CEO 3 key reasons why Polkastarter (POLS) price rallied 500% since December Enjin Coin surges 71% after becoming first regulatory approved gaming token in Japan Dozens of refugees released from Melbourne hotel and detention centre Curve Accuses Saddle Finance of Copying Its Algorithm Home » World News » Picture-perfect thatched cottage on goes up for sale for £1million Picture-perfect thatched cottage on goes up for sale for £1million 01/08/2021 cotta, Picture-perfect, thatched A slice of English heaven! Picture-perfect thatched cottage on south Devon coast with its own tea gardens goes up for sale for £1million Quintessentially English Rose Cottage has manicured grounds and serves cream teas to 185 customers The thriving business has been running for 20 years, but remained closed in 2020 due to coronavirus Located in the village of Cockington, near Torquay in Devon, the idyllic property is now on the market One of the most quintessentially English homes has gone up for sale for almost £1m. Rose Cottage, a picture-postcard thatched cottage on the south Devon coast, comes with its very own tea gardens. The thriving business, based in the 1.5 acres of manicured grounds, has a separate kitchen and restaurant that serves cream teas to 185 customers at a time. The tea gardens is fully licensed and has been established for 20 years, although it didn’t open last summer due to the coronavirus pandemic. The picturesque, pink Rose Cottage sits on 1.5 acres of manicured grounds, adorned with plants. The thatched property is perched in a spacious countryside setting in the sleepy village of Cockington, near Torquay, Devon The Grade II listed cottage, in the village of Cockington, near Torquay, has a kitchen, sitting room, dining room and four bedrooms, including a master suite that has a dressing room and en-suite bathroom. The grounds, as shown above, include garden furniture, a traditional gazebo, footbridges crossing the stream as well as outdoor ornamentation for people to enjoy as they relax with a tea and soak up the idyllic atmosphere The property has plenty of period features including exposed oak beams. The property boasts its own tea gardens just outside the main entrance, complete with a restaurant which can serve 185 customers at a time. Guests can sit at the outdoor tables to enjoy the peaceful scenery on a quintessentially English day out One of the two kitchens in the property – it features several wooden cupboards with an staircase leading to the next floor as well as plenty of surfaces and an oven, sink and storage space The main feature of the immaculately maintained gardens is the stream that meanders through the grounds, with several footbridges in place. Michael Clark, consultant negotiator at Jackson-Stops, said: ‘Rose Cottage is one of the most iconic properties in Cockington Village.’ The cottage and gardens sit on the edge of a river and rolling green landscape. Pretty and well-kept flowers, plants and trees make up much of the attraction’s appeal, with many opting to visit for a peaceful break from everyday life The master bedroom of the property includes space for a large bed and multiple storage facilities. A window on the right on the room allows for sufficient daylight to brighten up the wooden-based furnishings The cosy sitting room provides a comforting ambiance, with lots of space and a log burner. The bright room also features more wooden decorations and storage facilities, with space for multiple sofas and tables Mr Clark added: ‘Everyone who visits the village remembers the ‘chocolate box’ thatched cottage, with a bubbling brook running through its gorgeous gardens, and bisecting sweeping lawns and terraces. A detailed floorplan shows the location of the tea garden, which sits outside of the cottage, along with the internal make-up of the property. The layouts of the kitchen, garden, sitting room, as well as bedrooms on the first and second floor can be seen ‘The home is also known for the traditional Devon cream tea served at its famous tea gardens, enhanced by a pianist who plays during opening hours.’ ← S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs as stimulus hopes outweigh dire jobs report Fed's Clarida says vaccines have buoyed economic outlook → Detroit-area Catholic priest compares Black Lives Matter, Antifa protesters to 9/11 terrorists U.S. AG Barr faces wrath of Democrats for skipping 2nd day of hearings Saudi Arabia ‘will execute three scholars including FEE Announces Two Major Gifts from Bitcoin.com Founder Roger Ver Rice-Based Stablecoin Is Being Launched in Indonesia – Press release Bitcoin News Netherlands: Bitstamp Users Must Now Undergo KYC to Withdraw to External Wallets	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3231
__label__cc	0.636188	0.363812	Holly Rayner Bestselling Romance Author The Billionaire’s Troublesome Triplets By Holly Rayner Buy on Amazon.comBuy on Amazon.co.uk “My company invented the world’s first male contraceptive pill, But now I discover that it may not be 100% effective. And the woman I spent the night with? 100% pregnant!” Lucas Gainsborough has a lot to be happy about; as the billionaire CEO of a pharmaceutical company, he’s confident his new male contraceptive pill will change the world. And what better way to celebrate than with the gorgeous American woman he meets by chance? On a dream getaway to Rome, Elise Johnson can’t believe her luck when a chivalrous and temptingly handsome stranger recovers her bag from a pickpocket. At first it seems as though one beautiful, romantic night together is all fate has in store for them—but in this case, one night is all it takes. Elise has barely gotten home when she discovers that Lucas’s so-called wonder-drug may not be as effective as he claimed. She’s pregnant, and Lucas is the father! With his company’s reputation at stake, Lucas faces a stark choice: cover up the pregnancy before it can become a scandal, or stand by the woman with whom he shared that fateful night in Rome. But the biggest surprise is yet to come. There’s not just one baby, but three! The Billionaire’s Troublesome Triplets is the first book in the Babies and Billions series by Holly Rayner. Series: Babies and Billions Copyright © 2021 · Holly Rayner	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3235
__label__cc	0.73428	0.26572	9 Of America’s Finest Just-Outside-The-City Drives Category Things to See, Trip Ideas Living in the city can often feel oppressive with traffic around every corner and tall buildings blocking most of the sun. Luckily, salvation isn’t far away. Get out of the concrete jungle and enjoy the open road for the first time in weeks. Here are nine of the best quick drives you can easily hit from some of America’s great cities. Get moving. Seattle Route Chuckanut Drive is a road along the coast that’s maybe greener than any drive you’ve taken in your life. You’ll be surrounded by overhanging trees and it’ll often feel like you’re driving through a tunnel of foliage. There’s a faster way to get to and from Seattle, but why would you skip a beautiful, twisting, cliff-bound drive full of farmland and mountains? You can even make make it a foodie trip by stopping along the way at places like Breadfarm or Taylor Shellfish Farms. Los Angeles Route West coast drivers have the ultimate asphalt blessing: Highway 1, an idyllic, 655-mile stretch of Pacific coastline driving. Blast some music and take the trip up to the perfectly unfancy and delicious Malibu Seafood Fresh Fish Market. Open your window for the ocean breeze. Get some fish, grab a picnic table across the parking lot, and stare at the water. Now, drive to Point Dume, and sit on the beach for as long as you possibly can. Denver Route You can see the mountains from the city and they’re calling your name. Drop everything (except your keys) and drive straight to Gem Lake Trail. Cruise up the mountains and keep the windows open for that fresh air, even if it’s cold. Lean into the curves and accelerate at the apexes. You’re in the Rocky Mountains, for God’s sake: Not having your windows down should be criminal. Asheville Route Even though Asheville isn’t known for hustle and bustle, everyone needs to get out of town once in a while -- and you’re so close to an amazing drive, especially in the fall. Meet up with the Blue Ridge Parkway wherever it’s closest to you and take it to Mount Mitchell State Park. The overlook is spectacular. Keep driving on the parkway and, pro tip, throw on some driving music you can turn up. San Francisco Route A drive in the City by the Bay is now more stop than go, so take the Golden Gate Bridge out of the city, head to Muir Woods National Monument, and drive among trees that were around when Charlemagne was crowned emperor of Rome. Then go directly to Hog Island Oyster Co in Marshall. You’ll take the famous Highway 1 and enjoy stunning views of the ocean and Point Reyes National Seashore. You might not want to stop. Minneapolis Route You’ve heard of Minnesota’s many, many lakes, but there are also many, many rivers that make for great weekend cruising. Take I-94 E out of Minneapolis and connect with MN-95 N/St. Croix Trail North. You’ll follow the St. Croix River, which you can take all the way up to the National Scenic Riverway Visitor Center. The whole trip feels like you’re canoeing along the St. Croix, but in a much better (and faster) vehicle. You can easily take this route back to the city if you’d like, but you can also head back by starting on US-8 E if you want a change of pace and enjoy views of some of the state’s 11,842 lakes. Maui Route Iceland has its famous Ring Road that circles the entire country but America has the Maui Loop in Hawaii. You’ll drive from Kahului, taking the Hana highway to Ho'okipa Lookout for a spectacular view of the ocean. When you’re not on the ocean, you might be climbing mountains with stunning overlooks and steep curves. Drive to Halfway to Hana for their famous banana bread, and then stop at the Hana Lava Tube, Waianapanapa State Park, or Koki Beach -- or just keep going to the Laulima Farm Fruit Stand or Grandma’s Coffeehouse on your way through the trees. The Columbia River Scenic Highway was the first scenic highway in this country and you’ve probably never heard of it, even though it’s beautiful and filled with moss, waterfalls, flowers, and, of course, the river. Take it to Vista House for a panoramic view, or keep driving to Latourell Falls or Bridal Veil Falls or Multnomah Falls or Horsetail Falls (there are a lot of waterfalls). Keep your window open and listen to the falls thunder as you speed by on your way to Cascade Marine Park where you can overlook the Bridge of the Gods. Yes, that’s what it’s really called. New York Route What New York has in traffic and congestion it makes up for upstate. To make the most of it, head north along the Hudson River and take the road to Bear Mountain, which is known for its hiking (the Appalachian Trail runs through it) and stunning view from Perkins Memorial Drive. Then drive to the giant sculpture park that is Storm King Arts Center or see farm animals at Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture. Or, you can cross that bridge you saw, Bear Mountain Bridge, and get lost in the windy roads of the mountains. Hopefully you have a car that can handle turns and hills. If not, take it easy, enjoy the view, and head back down to the city along the river. 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__label__wiki	0.790717	0.790717	Through the Lens Series IGS Nostalgia Smart Glass World IGS Online Media Specifics Home Features International Towers at Barangaroo \| Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners FeaturesProjects International Towers at Barangaroo \| Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners by Lewis Lewis August 21, 2018 The towers are conceived as three sibling buildings within the RSHP masterplan for Barangaroo South, each with their own identity. They form a western extension to Sydney’s CBD, meeting increased demand from tenants for large floorplate offices, and integral to the ongoing viability and success of Sydney as a global city and key financial centre. Together they assist in completing Sydney’s framework of tall buildings, established at Circular Quay and adjacent to the Botanic Gardens, with a rising form from south to north and a strong edge to the open water beyond. This cluster of buildings, similar in height to some of the existing CBD buildings, completes the city’s northwestern limit. Each office tower responds to its unique geographic and environmental condition, along with the changing solar load throughout the day. This response has informed the design development of the floorplate and facades, bringing diversity and individuality to the design of each building. Image Courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners One of the aspirations for the project was to set new environmental benchmarks in Australia. This is achieved through the combination of solar shading, glass technology and thermal performance directly responding to context, orientation and solar path. Energy consumption is reduced by arranging the lift cores and ‘vertical village’ community spaces on the northern elevation of the building, which provides shading for the internal workspace. These vertical villages – which include communal breakout spaces and meeting areas – enable visual and physical connections to be made between floors and encourage social interaction between users and visitors throughout the building. The precinct-wide centralised plant spaces allow the whole rooftop to be used as an open terrace and the podium roofs, vertical villages and building insets all provide the opportunity for planting, adding biodiversity to this urban site. The towers sit on a three-storey plinth conceived as a carved piece of ground that mediates between the waters’ edge and the cliff edge presented by the city behind. The plinth creates a tight human scale streetscape with lobbies alongside other street activities such as retail and leisure. To minimise the number of service vehicles entering the development, the buildings share a common basement accessed from a single point of entrance, leaving the surrounding streets fully pedestrianised or pedestrian prioritised. All these factors help to generate a public realm that is vibrant and animated and safe. Our initial proposals, which formed part of the second-stage masterplan submission in 2006, put forward five clear principles governing the towers’ design: 1. Standardised rectilinear office floors with offset animated shared core spaces. 2. Building orientation with long sides north–south to mitigate the impacts of the westerly sun. 3. North–south faces designed to accommodate add-on multi-height communal spaces to enable workplace communities across multiple floors and to break down the scale of the long façades. 4. Structure expressed on the perimeter, with building rigidity in the narrow direction taken though the east–west façades, using visible steel components that would help to further reduce façade exposure and to bring the buildings to ground. 5. A massing composition across all the buildings, as seen from Darling Harbour. At this stage in the design, the commercial buildings sprang from an outdoor raised ground floor connected directly to Kent Street and cascading down to the water’s edge. The majority of the retail was to be located within the level below, making its presence felt on Hickson Road and the extension of King Street. The tallest tower was some 160 metres high, with the majority below 100 metres. The design for the successful bid for Barangaroo South two years later in 2008 had to contend with a smaller site, held back more than 60 metres from the harbour edge in accordance with the line proposed in the plans by Hill Thalis – which had won the 2006 competition but had since fallen by the wayside – and the authorities’ requirement for a material increase in floor area as a result of the NSW State Government’s desire to receive higher land payments. A concept of what became known as ‘semi-detached office buildings’ was developed to incorporate fewer but larger floorplates. Two pairs were squeezed into the site and sub-site plots. The east–west roads were eliminated and the buildings splayed apart to mitigate the impact of their proximity and to create a more clearly defined pedestrian route back to Kent Street. The raised ground floor evolved into a carved plinth animated with office lobbies but maintained the notion of stepping down to the water over the retail. The western edge was broken down to a human scale to allow smaller buildings to occupy the foreground along the new Hill Thalis line. Comments from the jury that they would prefer to bring pedestrians down to the existing ground level at Hickson Road initiated a key evolution in the design. From this moment, the decision that retail space would have to be mixed with commercial addresses has defined the project. A relaxing of the Hill Thalis line to allow a building set back from the water’s edge of only 30 metres created the additional layer needed to construct a network of clearly defined streets. The ‘semi-detached office building’ concept was developed to create a semi-covered office piazza – with its address on Hickson Road and the extended King Street – that would allow the blurring of workplace and public realm. The scale of each floor, however, had grown as Lendlease refined their demand through market testing. The four floorplates were therefore reduced to three, rendering the concept of the super-efficient (shared space) ‘semis’ redundant. The final straw was concern over how a tall building with what was in effect a party wall could be marketed to investors interested in a distinct entity with clear boundaries. This is a blight of the modern city, where discontinuity at street level becomes a product of boundary division. The towers were now conceived of as three siblings. A decision was made to orient them the ‘wrong’ way around, using the common core areas to protect their northerly faces to reduce energy demand. The central tower, to be delivered first, had to comply with the existing masterplan height restrictions of 180 metres but the others would be subject to amendment, giving birth to the concept of a stepped composition. Each tower was to have a linear lobby running east–west from Hickson Road to King Street and plinth buildings between each created pedestrian streets connecting east–west, as well as defining clarity of ownership. The cores of the towers were pulled apart along their length to provide communal spaces that allowed a radical approach to lift-lobby design, enabling destination-control lifting and striking a balance between the space needs at lobby level and those on the floors. These changes all contributed to the efficiency of the floorplate, while the increased building widths, following the move to separate the buildings, further splayed the plan and helped to retain views out. At this point, the final geometry of the fan of buildings was adopted, but there remained a lack of clarity concerning the interdependence of public realm and commercial lobbies at street level. This stage produced a unique and exciting response, which was pursued for many months until, following a review by workplace expert Frank Duffy of DEGW, it was deemed too extravagant in its provision of ‘interstitial space’ – the space that would make the buildings interesting, the office community space. In the final design, to reduce the interstitial space, the three separate core elements were pulled together across the façade, producing an ill-defined ‘bump’ on the north elevation with no clear articulation or structural form. To optimise efficiency, Lendlease’s engineering team (which had taken over from Arup) were proposing a standardised structural solution: flat-slab post-tensioned concrete (a system regularly used to minimise floor-to-floor heights in a city where height controls are rigorously enforced), involving a traditional jump-form concrete stability core, ideally sitting in the centre of the building. Elements of the core began to migrate into the clear plan, upsetting the balance between the two, and the narrow-end structural bracing became unnecessary. The expanding floors again began to compromise the space between buildings, which in turn led, for the first time, to a change from a rectilinear to a curved/tapered and ultimately a semi-circular form, adopted for its more graceful resolution with the street network below. Optimum performance of a post-tensioned slab is gained by having a back-span. The back-span in turn means columns cannot be placed on the façade, so to minimise interference to space planning and allow partitioned offices at the building’s perimeter, the columns need to sit back from the façade by approximately 4.5 metres. The 4.5 metre cantilever, while excluding the possibility of expressing columns on the façade, gave us the opportunity to break the building horizontally, expressing the lift rises and mid-level plantrooms introduced following the loss of space at basement level and demand for expanding space across the lower floors, which ultimately gave rise to three-storey street buildings topped with useable outdoor space. We accepted the jump-form external concrete lift cores and used them, together with the horizontal slots, to graphically articulate the tripartite form at a distance. This brought legibility at city scale. The communal multi-height spaces found their location on top of the lift banks. Glazed lifts and shafts were employed at the east and west ends to animate the visible lower levels of the ‘servant’ areas and bring legibility at street scale. Unusually, the non-active lobby spaces were given over not to toilets but to meeting rooms. With the toilets occupying space in the inboard section of the core. The north elevations with their views to Sydney Harbour Bridge thus maximised activity for all. Throughout the design evolution we had consistently expressed the shading of the façade as part of the buildings’ scale and grain, with clear distinctions between north–south and east–west. The semi-circular form became an opportunity to grade this change, which in turn gave clarity and continuity to the served space. And so, for the first time in practice history, we were heavily reliant on the articulation of the façade to provide legibility at building scale. The development of this idea as a response to a technical constraint, amplified by the Sydney location and high ambitions towards sustainability, has resulted in buildings that are uniquely of their place and has helped to raise them to prime real estate. The scale of the buildings as seen from the south had been a consistent concern for the design advisors. City rules require significant moves to break down the scale of developments above 60 metres in width – and we were at 85 metres. This was solved initially by pop-out elements and eventually by vertical recesses that correspond with the arrival space on floor from each bank of lifts. The concern was articulated at street level with worries about the grain of the public realm. The evolution to a more centralised core suggested a centralised lobby on the southern elevation of each tower. This would place the lobbies on the ‘secondary’ pedestrian streets, preventing direct drop-off by car. It did, however, give primacy to retail on the principal streets. After months of debate, it was settled that since 85 per cent of workers would be arriving by foot, the lobbies should address the pedestrian streets. Such large-scale buildings usually have an anchor tenant – the green light for construction was pressed only when an anchor tenant was found for each tower. The opportunity existed to create smaller secondary lobbies to the north of each tower, independently accessing the lift banks. This allowed the anchor tenants to decide whether they would reserve either lobby for their own use, but more importantly in urban terms opened the possibility of what was prosaically described as the ‘through-site link’. This link, which bypasses card-controlled areas, offers a public short-cut from north to south, effectively irrigating the urban block with a connected indoor/outdoor space. Open eighteen hours a day, its manifestation on the pedestrian streets helps to bring these huge buildings gracefully and legibly to ground without intimidating passers-by. The buildings forming the streets are thus not anodyne podiums in the traditional sense but bookend the towers, so creating a complex dialogue analogous to the ad hoc delight evident in any historic city centre. Construction of Barangaroo commenced with the basement works in 2010 on the site of a former container port which in turn was reclaimed land built on top of the wharves buildings. The towers share a two-level basement retained around its perimeter by a 770m long diaphragm wall that now houses a 62-megawatt district cooling plant, (DCP), a high voltage embedded electrical network and a recycled water treatment plant. Construction of the towers began in 2013 with Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) and energy efficiency being key objectives for RSHP and Lendlease, the developer and design and construction project manager. They targeted a 20% reduction in embodied carbon during construction, including a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the top 20 building materials and Lendlease built its own concrete plant on site to save more than 300,000 truck movements and 5,000 tonnes of carbon emissions. It also ensured that 97% of all the construction waste was recycled. To optimise efficiency, the towers were constructed utilizing an in-situ concrete post-tensioned frame with band beams to minimise floor to floor heights whilst maintaining ceiling height. Optimum performance of a post-tensioned slab is gained by having a back-span. The back-span in turn means columns cannot be placed on the façade, so to minimise interference to space planning, the columns sit back from the façade creating a 4-meter cantilever to minimise floor to floor heights at 3.8m, whilst maintaining a 2.9m floor to ceiling height. The services risers, linking the basements and the 3 plant floors per tower, and which contain the toilets and escape stairs, are located off-centre and inboard of the lifts to optimize their runs and routes. These were constructed using a jump- form stability core. Inserted into this are the prefabricated vertical services risers, built in an off-site factory and incorporating ductwork, pipework, fire rated walls and access platforms. This major feature of the HVAC installation took less than an hour to install from the time the truck arrived on site and were a first for high rise buildings in Australia. The lift cores are separated from the rest of the risers and expressed on the northern face. They also utilized jump-form construction up to 15 floors ahead of the main floorplate construction and enabled the launch for the 5 day main floor construction cycles. The façade systems were developed with the Sydney-based engineering team from the international firm Yuanda and fabricated in China. They utilize a common primary system whereby a vertical fin and horizontal louvre system is attached to its specific tower. These are installed onto the common unitized facade panels on the floorplate and hung from the floor above, prior to launching out externally – roughly 5 floors behind the previous floorplate. The fins are fixed to the 1.5m wide facade panels at 3 metre centres and are up to 1.8m deep and 3.7m long. They are pin-fixed top and bottom for alignment and are designed to resist wind loads of up to 150km/h. 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__label__wiki	0.930265	0.930265	Liberal leaders asked to wait for Waite SA Govt considers paying parents to adopt kids in care SA's $6.5 million 'satellite the size of a cereal box' Acidic oceans a positive for one fish, SA researchers find 20 Crace Road, Fulham Coronavirus: What we know today, March 24 Follow this post for rolling updates on the impact of the coronavirus in South Australia, the nation and the world, as well as the latest health information and links to official advice. Norwood's vibrant cafe strip shut down yesterday except for take away, along with hospitality businesses across the country. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily Refresh this page for updates – scroll down for links to official health information. SA cases increase to 170 Education Dept seeks more teachers UK locks down population Stay away from Centrelink today, Federal Govt pleads IOC member says Games will be postponed SA hits 170 cases as 600 people get tested South Australian cases of COVID-19 have increased to 170, with 36 new cases reported by SA Health on Tuesday. SA Health said it had contacted roughly 600 people for testing. including a cluster of five people who had attended Lyndoch Hill Winery in the Barossa. The state’s chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier urged all people who had attended the winery since March 14 to self-isolate and get tested. She said among the new cases was what might be the first community transmitted case. She said a woman in her 50s was being tested after close contact with people from overseas, none of whom showed symptoms of coronavirus at the time of contact. Spurrier said the department was also contacting people who attended a function with Senator Rex Patrick, after he tested positive for COVID-19, to check for symptoms. SA schools seek reinforcements The state’s Education Department is scouring its reserve list of registered teachers for reinforcements as it plans to keep schools open amid the escalating coronavirus crisis. It comes as the teachers’ union demands SA schools close as early as this week until at least the end of the looming Term 1 holidays to enable alternative teaching models to be developed for the longer-term. Casual and relief staff across the state have been sent emails from the agency telling them: “As a teacher currently registered on the department’s Employable Teacher Register, we are contacting you to check your availability to teach for the department at this current time”. Meanwhile, the State Government says it is spending $5 million to boost hygiene in schools, including increasing contract cleaning. The Government is delivering extra supplies of products including hand sanitises, paper towels and more, as the Education Minister John Gardner revealed this morning that 13 of the state’s public school sites had reported a lack of supplies. The Education Department has established a central distribution point “with orders already having gone to sites that have indicated a shortage”. Cabaret Festival cancelled The coronavirus crisis has forced the cancellation of this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival, which was preparing to celebrate its 20th anniversary with the final program curated by current artistic director Julia Zemiro. Zemiro said the festival was now working on ways to take the cabaret platform online. “Cabaret has always been a way for artists to express political commentary and satire in a way that uplifts audiences and perhaps that’s what we need at this time,” she said. “Watch this space…” UK orders people to stay home British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered people to stay at home, escalating an already unprecedented clampdown on daily life to try and halt the spread of coronavirus. Deaths from the virus in Britain jumped by 54 to 335 on Monday as the government said the military would help ship millions of items of personal protective equipment (PPE) including masks to healthcare workers who have complained of shortages. “From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction – you must stay at home,” Johnson said in a televised address to the nation, replacing his usual daily news conference. Get InDaily in your inbox. Daily. The best local news every workday at lunch time. Thanks for signing up to the InDaily newsletter. Johnson said people would only be allowed to leave their homes for basic necessities: exercise, for a medical need, to provide care or travelling to and from work where absolutely necessary. “That’s all – these are the only reasons you should leave your home,” he said, adding that people should not meet friends or family members who do not live in their home. “If you don’t follow the rules the police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings.” Govt’s Centrelink apology after “maybe a million” left jobless Thousands of people have again formed long queues outside Centrelink offices around the country. Monday’s coronavirus-prompted shutdown of pubs, restaurants and arts and events-based and other businesses has left the government grappling with just how many hundreds of thousands of workers might now be jobless. The government today urged people wanting Centrelink services to avoid queueing and go online, despite the MyGov website crashing yesterday after unprecedented demand. Government Services Minister Stuart Robert initially blamed the collapse on denial of service hacking, but later admitted the portal shut down after it was overwhelmed by masses of people now out of a job going online. “I probably should have waited for the investigation before jumping the gun,” he told 2GB radio on Tuesday. “We prepared over the weekend for 55,000 … I didn’t think I’d have to prepare for 100,000 concurrent users. “My bad not realising the sheer scale of the decision on Sunday night by national leaders that literally saw hundreds of thousands, maybe a million, people unemployed overnight.” IOC member: Games decision already made International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound believes the IOC has already decided to postpone the Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic. The IOC has given itself four weeks to decide on the future of this year’s Games, which are due to start on July 24. But in a newspaper report Pound said the Games were likely now to be held in 2021, with the details to be worked out in the next four weeks. “On the basis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided,” Pound told USA Today on Monday. “The parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know.” Australia and Canada withdrew from the Games on Monday as organisers faced global pressure to postpone the Olympics for the first time in their 124-year modern history. OFFICIAL SOURCES OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION Local updates and resources SA Health: www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/COVID2019 National advice and information Australian Government Coronavirus information hotline: 1800 020 080 Australian Government travel advice: smartraveller.gov.au Free, government-funded, health advice: healthdirect.gov.au – Reporting by InDaily staff, AAP and Reuters Make a comment View comment guidelines Jump to next article Make your contribution to independent news A donation of any size to InDaily goes directly to helping our journalists uncover the facts. South Australia needs more than one voice to guide it forward, and we’d truly appreciate your contribution. Please click below to donate to InDaily. Powered by PressPatron Tom Richardson Wednesday, January 20 Stephanie Richards Wednesday, January 20 Science & Tech Science & Tech Jessica Bassano Wednesday, January 20	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3249
__label__wiki	0.515075	0.515075	Sweet Success With Candy Concepts August 1, 2010 By Publisher CandyConceptsInc.com is not just about candy. In fact, candy now accounts for a mere ten to 15 percent of the company’s sales. The primary product line has evolved into displays and containers of all sizes, shapes and styles, for both candy stores and other retailers. New and repeat buyers find the greater selection, as well as the convenience, extremely appealing. Throw in the successful retail store experience of owners Terry Keenan and his wife, Darlene, added to their dedication to assisting buyers in selecting merchandise and setting up new stores, and it’s a winning combination for everyone. CandyConceptsInc.com, is a 20 year old company, and began as a retail store. Said Terry Keenan, “One of the interesting things that came about from the retail experience was the education of who buys what in the candy industry.” When he noticed video store demographics were the same as his candy store, Keenan correctly reasoned that a point-of-purchase candy rack in video stores would be profitable for both parties. “The rack functioned as a remote vending machine, which we filled from order forms faxed to us on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.” As the remote vending program expanded regionally, Keenan picked up additional retail stores. Adding an Internet site in the ’90s allowed them to move their program into other states. “We really got going when we developed an ecommerce website four years ago,” said Keenan. “We discovered that there was a lot of interest in a particular kind of container we were using in our displays.” The container interest, he said, was not limited to candy. “Other types of businesses inquired too, and suddenly we were in the container business,” said Keenan. “It led to different kinds of racks to hold containers and different types of displays.” Now CandyConceptsInc.com’s customers span a wide range of retail stores, including liquor, hardware, gift shops and water parks. “We also work with corporations who put containers on retail counters. Lately, we are heavily into the convenience store market,” Keenan said. Most of their new customers find them from Internet searches. Keenan says they are now seeing an increase in repeat customers. “Display products are not perishable; it takes a while before you see repeat customers,” he said. “A $300 candy rack might be the last rack they need. Other new customers might buy 100 containers, and then a year later when they expand, need another 100.” What customers like most, he shares, is the variety of products, combined with the low $30 minimum. For instance, a buyer might purchase just one rack, or an assortment of items such as a pegboard display, a t-shirt rack, five cases of hexagon containers, and 20 display barrel. “Additionally, we are the only display source where you can find buckets shown in racks. You can find wire racks, but not the bucket racks we have.” CandyConceptsInc.com’s home page is eye candy, really, with 28 pictured categories that encompass over 800 products, so it is no surprise that perusing the website generates ideas. “You can find some of what we have in different places, but you are not likely to find them all under one roof,” said Keenan. “Visitors assume they are going to buy a standard display, but when they get on our site, the variety stimulates sales.” Along with the standard navigational menu on the left is the “Open A Store” button. Consequently, the Keenan receives phone calls from buyers with questions generated from onsite research. “We give a lot of personal help, because the nature of our product generates people needing advice with opening a store. It is not uncommon to spend 30 or 45 minutes with someone,” he said. For those customers, or ones looking to expand, there are three product grouping packages to help them get started: $3,000, $8,000 and $11,000. These are guidelines that the Keenans will help to customize, based on what the buyer needs. The top menu includes two “Articles” buttons, as Keenan commissions a writer to provide customers with merchandising and display ideas. “For instance, we sell a great many fishbowls for everything but fish, so we have articles about using fishbowls for counter top displays and other sales ideas,” said Keenan. There is also an Affiliate program, which Keenan claims is an ideal way for businesses in related fields to bring in extra profits. By signing up, listing their name, and putting a link on their website, the affiliate receives a commission on anything purchased by the referral. “A vendor who sells only small, plastic, acrylic containers might have a customer searching for racks to hold those containers, which we offer,” Keenan said. “We have convenience store wholesalers who are affiliates, and show our banners on their websites.” Keenan noted that one of the reasons the convenience store segment is growing so rapidly is from joining WholesaleCentral.com a few months ago. “We have seen dramatic increases in traffic,” said Keenan. “We buy Google AdWords, and WholesaleCentral is a quarter of the price for a visit to our website. I was referred to WholesaleCentral by another C-store wholesaler who had a terrific experience, and the results have been even better than I expected.” On the right side of the individual product categories are ten rotating banners, showing different product and merchandising ideas, as well as promotions more creative than the standard coupon. Said Keenan, “We want to show visitors different ideas for our products. If a customer sends a video or digital image of product purchased from us, we give them $50 cash, or a five percent discount on anything on the website for one year’s time.” Keenan and his wife function as valuable business allies for their customers. The site’s new “About You” tab is a twist on the traditional “About Us” page. It shares the Keenans’ philosophy of providing help to the business owner, and their desire to remain on the cutting edge of retailing. It is a work in progress, and will soon devote space to customer testimonials and pictures. “We are basically a one-stop shop for a lot of store owners,” said Keenan. “They can log on, get familiar with our site, and fill up a whole new store. We are available on a daily basis, and all they have to do is pick up the phone.” Minimum order: $30 CandyConceptsInc.com W226N781 Eastmound Dr. Email: terry@candyconceptsinc.com Website: www.CandyConceptsInc.com Filed Under: Food & Grocery, Supplier Profiles	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3250
__label__wiki	0.829191	0.829191	Home/Tag: Actress I want to bring life to stories with a diverse cast: Emily Shah India Inc. Staff2020-09-07T14:02:27+00:00May 18th, 2020\|iEntertainment, iGLOBAL\| Emily Shah is a Global Indian actor based in Los Angeles, who wears the dual hat of producer in an upcoming rugby biopic ‘Jungle Cry’. The Gujarati-origin actor plays Roshni Thakkar in the film based on the real-life story of a group of tribal boys from the eastern Indian state of Orissa who go on to win the Under-14 Rugby World Cup in England 13 years ago. Shah talks iGlobal through the journey of the film, which is set for [...] Ace Turtle to partner with Kontoor Brands to lead integrated strategy for Lee and Wrangler in India 19th January 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3251
__label__cc	0.73176	0.26824	How Fast Internet Pipes Choke On Full HD Video by David Strom September 10, 2012 3 min read InternetVideo Just because your home or office has a fast Internet pipe doesn’t mean that you can watch full HD video content online. This is according to a new survey published in August by Wistia, a video hosting service based in San Francisco. “Almost a fifth of all video views in the U.S. are not capable of seamlessly streaming HD content. These views are spread out across the nation and affect people in many different places, including businesses large and small. The Northeast of the United States has the best percentages for HD capable views as compared to the rest of the country, but still 10-20% of views in this region are not HD capable,” states the report. Wistia hosts videos for tens of thousands of companies and records detailed analytics on how every viewer watches every video. Included in this data is the connection speed at which the end user is able to access content from multiple, global content delivery network partners. For this research, the company examined millions of video-viewing events over all types of business-related video content just for U.S.-based viewers. The company analyzed the download speeds at 25 large organizations, as well as at its own office, and found that an average of a quarter of users aren’t capable of streaming HD video, with a range from 3% to 85%, depending on particular circumstances. Wistia’s 13-person office is instructive. It has a 22-Mbps Internet connection, but rarely did anyone experience this level of bandwidth, and indeed, about seven percent of views were less than 2 Mbps needed to get the full HD quality. The actual speeds varied widely too. You can see the results from the other 25 organizations in the chart below. Perhaps not surprisingly for anyone who has traveled lately, 60% of all hotels aren’t HD-capable. Wistia concludes the report by saying, “Clearly, not all viewers will be able to seamlessly stream your videos in HD. Here at Wistia we try to remind content creators about the inherent tradeoff between video quality and video deliverability. The world’s best-looking video will not be seen by many viewers if it requires buffering. The data is this report simply attempts to put concrete numbers behind this trade off so all video creators can make informed decisions about their content.” So if you are developing or posting video content, keep these suggestions from Wistia in mind: Use bandwidth detection and automatic switching to match quality with speed capabilities; At the very least, give viewers of the content the option to switch to lower quality content to avoid buffering; YouTube has a capability to switch quality, but it’s not very obvious to many people, so set your videos to automatic switching when possible. Report: The State of HD Video Viewing in America [Wistia.com] Image: Broadcast tunnel by Bigstock Fraunhofer IIS Announces Full-HD Voice Calls The Most Painful Internet Lag We’ve Ever Seen [Video] Video: Hiring at an Internet of Things Startup Hadoop, Mobile Apps Helping Drive Analytics Adoption: Pentaho Dice Survey: Are Tech Pros Rushing to Get MBAs? One Response to “How Fast Internet Pipes Choke On Full HD Video” Guy Rich September 10, 2012 This is another reason why we need fibre optic all the way to the local-loop (premise) As they do in Europe and Japan. David Strom	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3255
__label__wiki	0.52109	0.52109	Insights - U.S. English eBooks & Reports Talent Mobility Program Strategy Trends & Research Home » Case Studies » Graebel supports IT company with small volume and large needs Graebel supports IT company with small volume and large needs F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA Global technology company and industry leader in Application Delivery Networking Conducts business in more than 100 countries Employs 2,100 people in more than 30 offices worldwide F5’s Human Resources team did not have sufficient staff or resources to manage the complexities of the 20 international relocations the company required each year. F5 decided to invest in a cost-effective, outsourced solution that could provide customized, high-level service for its U.S. domestic and international assignees. Quickly put in place a full-service, global relocation program to manage approximately 20 assignments per year. Our consultants proposed that F5 subscribe to the Graebel Express Relocation Services program, which features an a la carte menu of mobility services, allowing the company to customize the components and details of each assignment. But first things first—F5 did not have formal relocation policies in place. Our consulting team worked with F5 to design a mobility program that was in sync with the company’s culture and needs and was aligned with industry trends and best practices. F5 was eager to put the arrangement in place, and our Express Relocation Service lived up to its name—contract implementation and program initiation took only five days, including the following steps: Execute a simplified eight-page agreement Set up an expense management payroll Demonstrate and launch the customized globalCONNECT web-based platform for corporate and assignee users Introduce our domestic and international relocation consultants and the related process flows “F5 Networks, Inc. has continued to expand globally, and we have partnered with Graebel to streamline and standardize our relocation programs as well as ensure they are competitive, cost-effective, and manageable.” – Nancy Apgood, Director of Human Resources, F5 Networks, Inc. With the contract and program in place: F5 was authorized to take advantage of volume discounting from our pre-qualified global relocation service partners Through globalCONNECT, the F5 human resources management team had secure access to reports that captured companywide and individual relocation activity and related costs F5’s relocating employees could access their own globalCONNECT portals to take advantage of reporting tools and obtain detailed information about their relocation status and destination Shortly thereafter, we successfully carried out an employee relocation to Mumbai, India— a new location for F5. Our service scope with F5 continued to expand. We now support the company in additional global mobility program areas such as budgeting and activity forecasting. F5 also has chosen to engage us as their sole partner for commercial workplace mobilization. Click to Download Case Study PDF t here Graebel seamlessly brings 52 families to Suzhou China from North America and Asia The Challenge After announcing plans to open a new office in Suzhou, China, this Graebel client wanted its ... Graebel helps global company expand its relocation program in record time The Client Publicly-traded global payments technology firm Offers services in more than 200 countries The C... Mobility insights delivered to your inbox - Subscribe to receive our emails! Preparing Talent Mobility Professionals to Lead Through the first 120 Days of COVID-19 As COVID-19 prompted governments across the world to close borders, restrict travel and implement stay-at-home orders, global talent mobility professionals were tasked with adjusting strategy. Graebel Manages Move of a National Research Lab for Childhood Diseases Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Research Institute is well known for its work related to pediatric diseases. When the organization moved into a new facility, they called on Graebel to help. Patient Care and Comfort Preserved during Johns Hopkins Hospital Relocation Johns Hopkins’ medical facility in Baltimore expanded its campus with a 1.6 million square foot tower – one of the largest hospital development projects in U.S. history. Moving 60 departments... Hospital Relocation Performed with Surgical Precision St. Anthony Hospital - part of Colorado's largest healthcare network - had just finished building a brand new 50-acre campus in Lakewood, Colorado... From SF to DFW: Graebel Strategy Encourages Group Move to New Dallas, Texas Campus Leaving friends, family and perceptions behind a large pharmaceutical company in the San Francisco Bay Area was preparing to move an entire business unit to a new campus in Dallas, Texas. Graebel supports hundreds of KinderCare Learning Centers across the US U.S. nationwide service coverage flexible labor model and logistical expertise required The Client KinderCare Education (formally known as Knowledge Universe® – U.S.), the largest provider of... Employee Experience Guides Development of Company’s Core-Flex Program A multinational life sciences company realized that despite its strong culture of putting employees first, its Mobility program wasn’t living up to that standard. The company averages over 600... The Best of Both Worlds: Core-Flex Program Reduces Costs and Improves Employee Experiences for Multinational Tech Company A multinational technology company that annually relocates approximately 250 employees internationally (typically through permanent assignments) was providing a standard international relocation... What’s In a ⠠⠃⠕⠭ (Box)? A family relocating with us had a sensitive issue in moving their son who was visually impaired. Uprooting his belongings troubled the family’s primary caretaker. “The mother was very concerned... Graebel loans casegoods to keep hotel renovation project on track A true JLL Synergy Partner makes it happen. The Client JLL a professional firm specializing in commercial real estate services. The Challenge JLL was overseeing a guest room renovation project... A Taxing Holiday: Fortune 100 Reaps Savings at the 11th Hour Managing New Tax Codes — At Whose Expense? Mobility professionals work with employees every day to ease transitions. So what happens when they’re the ones dealing with sudden change? On December... Building a Presence: Graebel Opens New Market in 60 Days, Saves $60k for Offshore Drilling Client A new market, a tight timeline — and many unique needs When leaders from a large offshore drilling contractor met with us to discuss a new project in Abidjan, on the southern Atlantic coast of... Graebel Helps Expand Housing & Schooling Options in Luxembourg Big Business In Luxembourg For nearly two decades, the Luxembourg government has implemented many policies and programs, including an array of tax incentives, to support economic diversification... Employee workspaces relocated in 32 countries in just 36 hours Network of vetted providers means rapid response and global reach. The Client JLL, a worldwide commercial property services company, representing an international manufacturing company The... ETrade Restack of 400 Employees Graebel Commercial Services® completed the ETRADE restack in two days and under budget – Meticulous planning meant the 400 employees didn’t miss a beat... Multi-phase facility integration after an acquisition Graebel Commercial Services® supports JLL with multi-phase integration after client’s acquisition – Achieving savings of more than 10% facility-by-facility The Client JLL, a professional... MAC program design and implementation for S&P 100 client The Client S&P 100 U.S. telecommunications company Annual revenue in excess of $110 billion USD More than 150,000 employees The Challenge In 2015, this company processed more than 21,000 MAC... Relocating a Silicon Valley firm to a unified campus with zero downtime The Client A semi-conductor and software developer in Santa Clara County, California The Challenge This tech firm needed to move from its multi-building corporate headquarters to a new, unified... Case Study: Filling the Vacancy for Short-Term Accommodations Graebel partnered with SilverDoor to enhance customer service and temporary housing availability for relocating employees around the world. Over the past five years, the global footprint has expanded, Case Study: Building a Rental Market Solution Graebel works with supplier partner Dwellworks to create a custom rental solution for a large client that has successfully provided service to over 9,000 transferees.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3256
__label__cc	0.649538	0.350462	Journalism History journal Ethics & Malpractice Statement Podcast Staff Shemberger Essay: Education Reporting in the Civil Rights Era 11Feb 2020 5 Feb 2020 Melony Shemberger, Murray State University “Southern Education Report: An Examination of a Magazine’s Contribution to Education News in the Civil Rights Era” (Journalism History, December 2019) sheds light on how one of journalism’s most important news beats, education, gained prominence through a publication’s reporting efforts during its short-lived existence. Throughout the 20th century, the pursuit of education has been approached differently across political and social spectrums, with decisions and events from the local to state to national educational levels covered sporadically in the news media. The civil rights era raised the profile of several issues, especially topics that were pertinent to schools. However, education as a news beat was not well established in many news organizations, according to the literature review in the scholarly article. Likewise, the historical study of education news has not been pursued extensively, despite education arguably being one of the most important news beats in journalism and a subject that affects the entire American society. Therefore, the historical development of education news is deserving of academic attention in any classroom. To supplement the research article, this teaching essay offers several active learning approaches that could be used in journalism courses — skills or knowledge, face to face or online, graduate or undergraduate, individually or as a class — or in collaboration with other disciplines. The suggested learning activities can be modified according to an instructor’s learning objective for a module or unit. Journalism or media history course An examination of whether the mainstream news media has failed the public in education news coverage. The research article argued that the Southern Education Report covered education news that the mainstream news media failed to report. A couple learning activities could be designed. One would be a structured debate, in which students would prepare contentions supported by their research to argue in the affirmative, plus have counter-arguments on the ready. The second could be a content analysis of education news stories in a community or regional newspaper over a period of time, such as one month. A study of publication design of magazines. Observations were made in the scholarly article about the cover designs of the Southern Education Report, specifically how it progressed from using abstract art to photography as the dominant image. For a brief research assignment, students in a publication or news design class could review other magazines from the 1960s to discuss the graphic design elements of the era and how those have evolved. In addition, students could argue whether design is important and how graphic design depends on the topical nature of the magazine. Gender observations through bylines. Male writers dominated the pages of the Southern Education Report with their work. The names of women who wrote the articles did not appear until much later in the magazine’s history. A learning activity could involve a research exercise in which the purpose would be for students to examine gender disparities in a magazine of their choice. Students would record in a spreadsheet the gender of the writer, if known. They also could content analyze the article to determine whether the piece captures perspectives from all genders. The instructor could specify the number of magazine issues that the student should have in the research. Use of older magazines as archival sources or part of special collections. An issue of the Southern Education Report was located in an archival library collection at the author’s university, leading her to examine the magazine in more detail. After learning that the magazine existed for four years, the author submitted an interlibrary loan request to obtain all the editions of the Southern Education Report, with all four bound volumes coming from a research university’s special collections unit. Older magazines and similar publications lend historical research opportunities for textual and content analyses. Instructional guidance should emphasize the significance of such material as rich subjects to study. Journalism skills course Comparison between education issues of the civil rights era and education issues of the 21st century. Writers for the Southern Education Report focused on desegregation, poverty, literacy and other issues arising during the mid- to late 1960s. What issues in education are reported 50 years later? How could these inform a newsroom’s editorial agenda? These questions can serve as discussion board prompts, story planning assignments or essays to prime a module or unit on education reporting. Discussion and analysis of the news writing or storytelling approaches. Articles in the Southern Education Report were written mostly as feature or enterprise news stories that used the Wall Street Journal formula or sections technique. Hard news stories in the inverted pyramid format were rare in the magazine. Nevertheless, the articles in the 1960s magazine can serve as prime examples for students to use in learning to practice writing in-depth or feature stories. The articles can strengthen an instructor’s learning guidance to demonstrate how these kinds of stories remain relevant for news consumers in the 21st century. Collaborations with other courses Opportunities with education faculty and classes. The article focused on education news, which could present possible collaborations with education courses in foundations and/or issues. A seminar about education then and now could be planned for campus and community involvement, team-teaching of education and journalism classes could be planned, or learning materials could be shared. Partnership with history courses. Since this article focused on an aspect of journalism history during the civil rights era, an instructor could work with a colleague in the history department who might be teaching a civil rights course to design a lesson about the media’s involvement and coverage of related topics, such as education, during this important period in U.S. history. Featured image: Integrated students at Anacostia High School, 1957, by Washington Area Spark (CC BY-NC 2.0) Teaching Essay Previous Prendergast podcast: Covering Conflict and Controversy Next Roessner podcast: Jimmy Carter and the Media Archives Select Month January 2021 (4) December 2020 (3) November 2020 (7) October 2020 (6) September 2020 (5) August 2020 (5) July 2020 (5) June 2020 (5) May 2020 (4) April 2020 (4) March 2020 (5) February 2020 (4) January 2020 (4) December 2019 (4) November 2019 (4) October 2019 (6) September 2019 (4) August 2019 (4) July 2019 (5) June 2019 (4) May 2019 (4) April 2019 (6) March 2019 (4) February 2019 (4) January 2019 (4) December 2018 (5) November 2018 (4) October 2018 (5) September 2018 (2) August 2018 (3) Dr. Gregory A. Borchard Editor, Journalism History Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 455007, Mail Stop 5007 Email: gregory.borchard@unlv.edu Books for review may be sent to: Sonya DiPalma University of North Carolina at Asheville 306 Karen Hall, CPO 2120 1 University Heights Copyright © 2021 AEJMC History Division. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3267
__label__cc	0.654298	0.345702	July 14, 2017 Crisis DuJour, Highly Flammable, The Joys of Home Ownership, WritingHumor, Karma, Mental Health, Nature, New Roof Blueskirizar Life is funny. And tragic. Sometimes it’s both. But mostly, it’s a fight to the finish. Bathos Theater in Conjunction with the Below-the-Belt Boxing Federation Presents: “A Low Blow” Announcer: “In this corner, weighing it at 8000 pounds pressure per square inch, the reigning champion: LIFE!* [LIFE bounces around in the corner wearing hardened leather gloves. Shiny, red satin shorts jiggle as the mammoth boxer warms up.] Announcer: And in this corner, weighing it at… (looks down at card)… None-Of-Your-G.D.-Business, and facing the wrong way: The Czarrrrina of Pain!* [Czarina looks down at pink Hello Kitty boxing gloves with perplexed bewilderment.] Kiri-Czar: “Hey… there’s been some kind of mistake here.” [Announcer walks to center ring, dragging reluctant Czarina along with him and holding a hand up to stop LIFE from plowing right over her before the bell rings.] Announcer: (grabs dangling mic) “This fight will go ten rounds until one of the fighters is knocked out or their manager throws in a towel.” Kiri-Czar: (looks frantically around) “Where’s a towel? Wait…where’s my manager? Somebody get me a manager…or a towel!” Announcer: “Are you ready to RumbbbbbbbbBBBBBLLLLlleee?” Kiri-Czar: “NO!” LIFE: (snorts like bull, nostrils flare) “AaaROOOOOoooooOOOOOO!” [Bell Rings DING] Kiri-Czar: (holds up Hello Kitty clad hands) “Wait! You wouldn’t hit a girl with glasses, would you?” LIFE: (swings) “Snarl!” Kiri-Czar: (ducks frantically) “I guess you would.” [The next five minutes are a slap-stick routine where the Czarina runs around the ring trying to hide behind an annoyed announcer while LIFE tries to pin her to the ropes. Brace yourself, sports analogies are not her forte.] LIFE: (growls, dances back and forth) “Stop running away!” Kiri-Czar: “Stop chasing me!” [The Czarina grabs an oar from an audience member and WHACKS! LIFE over the head with it! LIFE shakes head as tiny yellow birds tweet in a circle around LIFE’s head.] One hour into a 4 1/2 hour Canoe Trip. Still had energy to lift cell phone to take a picture. LIFE: “Oh, so that’s how you wanna play it?” (grabs tweety bird, throws it at Czarina) “I whip the bird at you then!” Kiri-Czar: (ducks bird) “That’s not how you whip someone the bird…” (tries to whip bird…stares at boxing glove) “Oh…right.” [The Czarina raises the oar once again as LIFE stomps toward her. She swings. Misses. LIFE snatches oar with dismissive snort.] LIFE: (breaks oar over knee) “You can run…but you can’t hide!” Kiri-Czar: (slips behind Announcer) “Oh yeah!? Watch me!” LIFE: “I’ll find you in the end. You should just give up now.” Kiri-Czar: “Screw that.” LIFE: “Oh, I plan to!” [LIFE doubles back, pushing the announcer aside, and advances on the Czarina. Czarina grabs a tent and camp stove—holding them in front of her.] Before The End Came LIFE: “Where do you think you’re going?” Kiri-Czar: “Camping. What does it look like?” LIFE: (rears, one arm back) “Hah. I don’t think so…” [SWOOSH. SMACK. THUD.] Announcer: (Counting) “One Mississippi…” [Czarina lies on floor, dazed, babbling about recent events.] Kiri-Czar: “All I wanted to do was take him camping… he likes camping… ” Announcer: (Counting) “Two Mississippi…” Kiri-Czar: “Two nights, we made it two nights…and then…BAM! We are off to the emergency room at midnight.” Turns out he was just badly…uh…compacted. Took 3 hours and x-rays to confirm the problem. Sigh. Announcer: (Counting) “Two-and-a-half Mississippi…” Kiri-Czar (eyes announcer): “What happened to Three Mississippi?” Announcer: “If I don’t count…LIFE gets to come over and stomp you until you get up again…” Kiri-Czar: “What kind of crooked game is this?” Announcer: “It’s the game of LIFE. Two-and-three-quarters Mississippi.” Kiri-Czar: (scrambles upright) “Does that mean LIFE always wins?” Announcer: “It means, no matter how you play, sometimes, you gotta lose.” Kiri-Czar: “Well that’s just great.” LIFE: (charges) “ROAAAARRRRRR!” [Czarina drops to her knees and crawls through LIFE’s legs.] LIFE: “Get back here punny human!” Kiri-Czar: (stops to correct LIFE’s spelling): “I think you mean ‘Puny!’ ‘Punny’ would be like if I said I would called you a banana…except you have no appeal!” Found in Google search of ‘boxing puns’. Stolen from long-ass webpage link. LIFE: “PUN THIS!” [LIFE lands a sharp jab—a sweet kiss to the Czarina’s glass jaw.] Kiri-Czar: (staggers back, one drunken blue bird whizzing before her eyes) “Now, that’s a bird of a different color!”* LIFE: (Feints left, crosses right) “That was a play on words. Not a pun!” [SMACK, SMACK, KA-POW! THUD.] [Announcer looms over Czarina, counting while LIFE gloats.] LIFE: “Just for that, your son gets chronic constipation and an addiction to popcorn.” Kiri-Czar: (aghast) “Noooooo!” LIFE: “Plus you have to give him this medicine for three days until he goes ‘Pop!’” Kiri-Czar: “Don’t you mean poop?” LIFE: (evil smile): “You’ll see.” Announcer: (wheezing) “Two and ninety-nine-one hundredths Mississippi…” Kiri-Czar: (staggers to feet) “That’s it. Go ahead. Pick on the little guy!” [Wildly swinging, the Czarina advances throwing haymakers as she goes. She lands a glancing blow to LIFE’s bread basket.] Kiri-Czar: “How do you like that, you…you big bazooka?” LIFE: “Do you mean ‘Palooka?’” [Czarina continues to piffle away at LIFE throwing more dope than rope. LIFE holds her off with one leather glove pushing against her sweaty forehead.] Kiri-Czar: (winds up and swings): “Whatever! I’ve had it. I go canoeing. I go camping. And wherever I go, I get no peace. There is always this counter attack waiting to knock me down, every damned time I step in the ring. I’m beginning to feel like a punching bag. When am I gonna get a break?” LIFE: “You want a break?” Kiri-Czar: (Hello Kitty balled fists on hips) “Yes. Yes I do!” LIFE: (shrugs) “Okay. If you say so.” Announcer: (bellows into mic) “LIFE feints left and then crosses with a right hook to the head. Czarina’s glasses go flying. She’s blind now, ducking a barrage of punches. Hello Kitty gloves are no defense against LIFE. LIFE isn’t pulling it’s punches anymore. LIFE delivers a damaging blow to the kidneys. The injustice! There’s no Marquess of Queensberry here, folks! Next, the Czarina dodges a jab only to walk straight into an uppercut. Oooh, the Czarina’s on the ropes. The blows are pounding her like hail on a Kansas wheat field. LIFE is raining down. Rain is raining down. LIFE switches to KickBoxing and the Czarina takes a roundhouse to the noggin. The Czarina’s on the ground. She’s taken a beating, ladies and gentlemen. I don’t think she’ll be back up again for quite some time. I’m calling this fight. The Winner by KO and Ultimate Fight Champion of the World is…LIFE.” [LIFE dances around the ring, both arms raised, pumping the air in victory. Stops to stand over the inert form of the Czarina sprawled on the floor. In the distance, the final bell DINGS.] LIFE: (shouts) “Get the cutman…we’ve got a bleeder!” [The crowd departs, LIFE raised on its shoulders. The loser is left in a pile on the floor, the white towel of surrender shrouding her face.] time passes Cutman: “C’mon, let’s get you patched up.” Kiri-Czar: (wakes confused) “What…what happened?” Cutman: “It’s 3:00 A.M. LIFE dropped a tree on your house and took out your electricity. Your kid is on the power laxatives for two more days. You get to stay home and wait for the shit to stop pouring in.” My poor house and formerly new roof. Kiri-Czar: (jaw drops) “WHAAAAAT? You’ve gotta be kidding me!” Cutman: “You asked for a break from the routine chaos, right? You were tired of everything you’ve been dealing with, yeah?” Kiri-Czar: “Uh…yeah. But, I didn’t ask for…” (looks around, gestures to the dark and utter chaos)… “THIS!” Cutman: “LIFE’s tricky that way. You asked for a ‘break’…it gives you a ‘break.’” (points to tree on roof, shakes head) “You just gotta be grateful it wasn’t your leg! Or worse.” Kiri-Czar: (holds ice to black eye) “Right…just, ask LIFE…no more breaks for me for a while, okay? Please?” Cutman: (packing up gauze, tosses loose pinecone to the Czarina) “I can’t make any promises. But let’s agree…we won’t be complaining about ordinary LIFE so much after this, right? That’s what LIFE gives you…perspective. It can always be worse.” Yep. That pretty much sums it up. Kiri-Czar: (raises pinecone in disbelief) “If life gives you lemons…you make lemonade. What’re you supposed to make with pinecones?” Cutman: (looks around and the devastation/deforestation) “I don’t know…Pińa Coladas, maybe?” Kiri-Czar: (wincing) “Ugh…what a terrible pun.” [With a flourish, the Cutman whips off the surgical mask revealing the grinning face of LIFE.] LIFE: (taps Czarina gently on the chin] “Nuh Uh! It’s a play on words, not a pun! I think someone’s had just enough PUN-ishment for one day.” Kiri-Czar: “Ugh.” Or, as my friend put it when she heard the news: “You’re some kind of shit magnet, you know that?” LIFE looks a bit like the HULK and MR. CLEAN had an angry, bilious baby. *Look, coming up with sports-related puns was definitely not in my wheelhouse. And, even if it were, someone would probably drop a tree on it. You’ve read the whole thing bonus: I will be selling Roof Killer Pinecones at a reasonable price of $25.00. Drop me a line if you too want to plant this decimating conifer in your backyard. And if anyone wants me, I’ll be at a cabin this weekend watching the campfire with a disturbing amount of pleasure as I watch the kindling burn. Burn baby, burn! ← Brain on Standby…Hold, Please Say Cheese! → 18 thoughts on “Down For The Count” This is profound: This is so funny and real. I LOVE it! It reminds me of the months before my mom died. She truly died of an overdose of Tums (that’s already absurd, but it was calcium poisoning). There was a day I was plowing through 2 foot snow drifts on foot for a mile or more because I couldn’t get the car out of her driveway (the plow hadn’t made it out to her townhome yet) to go look at a nursing home for her when she got out of the hospital. That was just one of the absolutely excruciating blows life was pummeling me with at that time. I won’t bore you, but when she died, my Aunt Jo, my brother and I read her will. She left her brand new car to my unemployed alcoholic brother. She left me her two TV sets (I don’t watch television and haven’t forever) but I had a 30 mile commute every day to work in a truck that was near death. My Aunt Jo and I just sat there laughing and crying both at the same time. Everything is just absurd. It’s finding the absurd in things that keeps me sane, or relatively so. But when bad shit happens, it can take a while to find the funny. Thank you for finding it with me. (Autocorrect is having a field day right now. I’m on a flat mattress in a cabin in the woods right now. My child is growling and squeaking while climbing up and down the bunk bed railing. He is a very odd looking rooster at the moment.) Only and hour and a half before breakfast. Sigh.) Happy trails wherever life takes you today. I hope your brother used the car to get a job…or at least get sober. No, my brother didn’t get sober and the car was pretty much wrecked when he sold it. He did put a band-aid (really) over one of the dents. I think my life would have ended a long time ago if I were not blessed with the ability to see the funny side. A dark sense of humor is a life saver. ❤ Coulda fooled me: “sports analogies are not her forte” Brilliant, as usual, but also very painful to observe. And I’m viewing from a very safe distance. I had to finally throw in kickboxing just so I could use the word roundhouse. I kept gravitating to it and then remembering it was a different sport! I appreciate my readers (I like to think of you as ‘my’ reader, I hope you don’t mind. Makes me feel all important and such.) You are always kind and uplifting. I’m grateful that, so far, the trolls haven’t found me. Oh, dear, this is hilarious … please forgive me for laughing at your life! It makes it easier to laugh at my own! Thanks for this post. You are welcome to laugh. It’s either that, or cry. And I’d much rather laugh. I love what your friend said about you being a shit magnet, all the while you are praying for your son to be able to produce just that! Yeesh. You can’t make this shit up, can you? I never even put that together! Since the constipation preceded the tree falling, it’s entirely possible it occurred to her! But still, some things are too true, too perfect for the moment to be anything other than genuine utterances. So, while one might ‘make this shit up’, I suspect LIFE does it naturally. And so do my friends! 😏 Is Mayhem from the insurance commercials your boyfriend,or something? Geez-o-Pete, gurrl! Googles reference.* Oh, THAT guy! No, but it would be a perk, wouldn’t it?! Great post. I get the lesson–don’t complain about the mundane. In baseball analogy, Life is always throwing you a curveball, pulling the old hidden ball trick, or smacking you in the head with a beanball. Will Google “bean ball” later. As mentioned, I lack a certain facility with sporting vernacular. Though, from your context, I suspect it’s a baseball to the head–which happened to me when I played the sport as a kid, so perhaps my lack of knowledge is a defensive mechanism?! Be careful. What you don’t know CAN hurt you. 🙂 Pingback: It Is With Sadness… \| TheDustSeason Pingback: 2017 – A SUCKY Year in Review \| TheDustSeason Pingback: Boob Job \| TheDustSeason	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3272
__label__cc	0.714975	0.285025	Wagner’s Ring Cycle: 15 hours of epic opera online – BBC Arts BBC Arts and The Space present Richard Wagner’s monumental Ring cycle, in a radically stripped-back, critically acclaimed production by Opera North. Filmed during live performances in Leeds in 2016, this is total immersion in a unique, all-encompassing music drama. Audiences worldwide can watch the complete work below. Stream the whole Ring cycle. Source: BBC Arts – BBC Arts – Wagner’s Ring Cycle: 15 hours of epic opera Categories TechTags classical music The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare – The New Yorker How to rip DVDs with Handbrake 2 thoughts on “Wagner’s Ring Cycle: 15 hours of epic opera online – BBC Arts” rwestcott Feb 23, 2017 at 4:03 pm \| Reply Thanks for the tip. Rheingold was shown on BBC4 about 10 days ago. I have been watching for broadcasts of the others but so far seen nothing in the listings. I prefer to record BBC stuff since the iPlayer versions expire pretty quickly (although not in this case, The Ring is available till August).	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3273
__label__wiki	0.500385	0.500385	Kenneth Haglind Kenneth Haglind of Minnesota Hospice Answers FAQs About Hospice Care May 1, 2020 \| admin123 \| Ken Haglind It can be devastating when a parent, grandparent, sibling, or other relative is diagnosed with a terminal disease and told that they have less than six months left to live. In addition to strong emotions such as fear, worry, sadness, and even anger, most folks feel overwhelmed by the details and difficult decisions that lie ahead. Hospice care providers can help shoulder this burden. Kenneth Haglind, President and Co-Founder of Minnesota Hospice, wants to make sure that everyone understands the value of hospice care. Q: What Is the Goal of Hospice? A: “The goal of hospice is, first and foremost, to make the patient as comfortable as possible in their last months or weeks of life. However, hospice team members also play an enormous role in assisting the patient’s caretakers and family,” Kenneth Haglind explained. Q: When Does a Patient Need Hospice Care? A: Ken Haglind explains that terminally ill patients are referred to hospice when their doctors determine that they have six months or less left to live. Q: Where Does Hospice Care Take Place? A: “Spending one’s last months or weeks in a hospital is never ideal. One of the major benefits of hospice care is that it can often take place in a patient’s own home, whether that is their house, an assisted living community, or a skilled nursing facility. In other instances, a patient can go to a freestanding hospice center, where all medical issues can be treated but which has a homier, more comfortable atmosphere than a hospital,” says Kenneth Haglind of Minnesota Hospice. Q: Who Is on a Hospice Team? A: A hospice team comprises a number of professionals, as well as volunteers, each dedicated to the goal of helping a patient be as comfortable as possible. According to Ken Haglind, a typical team includes: -Physicians -Registered Nurses, nurse assistants -Licensed vocational nurses -Certified nursing assistant and home health aides -Licensed social workers -Chaplains and spiritual care counselors -Dieticians -Speech, physical, or occupational therapists -Bereavement counselors -Integrative therapies such as massage and music therapists -Pharmacists -Volunteers Q: What Do Hospice Volunteers Do? A: In short, Ken Haglind says, just about anything that the medical team members don’t. They can run errands, prepare light meals or do light housekeeping, or simply lend a hand to hold or a shoulder to cry on — for both the patient and their loved ones. Volunteers are also called on to provide brief respite care, staying with the patient so that their family members can have a break from the demands of caretaking. Q: Are There Licensing Requirements for Hospice Providers? A: “Yes, on the state level. Additionally, hospices are required to comply with federal regulations and undergo regular evaluations to ensure they are in compliance. Hospice programs are also certified for reimbursement under Medicare,” Ken Haglind of Minnesota Hospice explained. Q: When Are Hospice Team Members Available? A: Ken Haglind says, “because the symptoms and pain of life-limiting illnesses do not follow a 9-5 schedule, neither do hospice workers. At the minimum, a nurse will be on call 24/7 and able to respond to a patient’s needs by phone or a face to face visit. Some hospice programs also keep chaplains, social workers, and others on call, as well.” If you are interested in hospice care for yourself or a loved one, Kenneth Haglind advises that you speak to your (or your loved one’s) physician to determine whether hospice is appropriate. They can also refer you to a hospice program in your local area. Kenneth Norman Haglind Discusses How Minnesota Hospice Goes Above and Beyond in Providing Hospice Care Minnesota Hospice Expert Kenneth Norman Haglind Explains How To Decide If Hospice Care Is A Good Fit For Your Loved One Hospice Care is Changing Amidst the Pandemic According to Kenneth Haglind Kenneth Norman Haglind Explains How Minnesota Hospice Supports the Patient’s Quality of Life Kenneth Haglind of Minnesota Hospice Explains How Minnesota’s We Honor Veterans Program Helps Veterans Get Higher Quality Care Ken Haglind Kenneth Norman Haglind	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3276
__label__wiki	0.77587	0.77587	AP: ‘Apprentice’ cast and crew say Trump was lewd and sexist Posted on December 20, 2016 October 6, 2020 by Two Apprentice stars have been in a ‘secret relationship for weeks’ Apprentice winners and candidates: what happened next? The Apprentice 2019: Lottie Lion, 19, and Lewis Ellis, 28, ‘had fling during filming’ The Apprentice’s Michaela Wain and Harrison Jones are having a baby Faulty Apprentice – A Visual Novel/Dating Sim 10 Disney Channel Stars You Didn’t Know Dated Former Series 10 candidate, Mark Wright, is involved too and prompted Somerset resident Lottie to lash out. Lottie Lion and Ryan-Mark were rumoured to be in a surprising relationship not so long ago – that was how well the stars of The Apprentice were getting on. But now an image of one of them eating a McDonald’s with a knife and fork has sparked a bitter Twitter row. Ryan-Mark, who was fired by Alan Sugar just weeks ago, was photographed in a McDonald’s restaurant armed with his own silver cutlery. He tucked into what looked to be a burger using his own silverware, dressed in a smart suit with a red tie – his classic attire on the BBC show. Mark Wright, who now owns a successful business and regularly visits the West Country, tweeted a response to the image, saying: “This is the most cringe thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life The new series of The Apprentice will see sixteen aspiring entrepreneurs doing battle to win investment in their business and face Lord Sugar in the boardroom. I have been the highest performer across every workplace I have worked within. A network marketing consultant from south-east London, the year-old considers resilience to be one of her best personal qualities, having come from a humble background in Venezuela. 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And they have booked a holiday, for immediately after Christmas. The relationship is in the early stages though. On Wednesday night, Jessica hinted at the getaway as she took to Twitter and revealed she’s got something planned after Christmas. At the beginning, middle and end of each spot: a puffed up, perma-squinting Donald Trump. In a slapdash attempt to bridge Donald Trump as he seemed then — funny mean, not scary mean — with the man as he appears now, I found myself rewatching the first season of the series earlier this year. Even as I eye-rolled at the casual sexism of the men-versus-women teams and at the obviously canned intros, the unmilled, unscripted brashness of the rest of the program was still rib-tickling all these years later, in the undying way eavesdropping on a workplace argument stirs excitement. The commercial break cliffhangers just as heads were about to butt, as well as Mr. NEW YORK — In his years as a reality TV boss on “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump repeatedly AP: ‘Apprentice’ cast and crew say Trump was lewd and sexist Looking To Find The Perfect Dating in Alberqueque? Who Is Claudia Conway? Her time on the show was fraught with controversy, both about the fact that no one seemed to like her, the fact that she slept with a fellow contestant in the house, and about an alleged incident of racist language against another candidate during a row on WhatsApp after the show finished filming. The incident put the BBC in a tricky position. But last night, before she was sent home, Lottie did illustrate one final, interesting story. One of the interviewers, Claudine Collins, takes the role of being a little bit nicer to the candidates and usually making them cry. Either Lion is a really good actress, or there was a sense of genuine sadness in the way that she answered the question. In that moment, the UK or at least the portion who watched The Apprentice seemed to find sympathy for Lion. She seemed contrite. And as narratives go, the bold and bolshy woman finally finding her humility is a good one. We like a redemption arc almost as much as we like to see people at the top of their games toppled. Their aim: to agree what level of benefit is fair. If you value what this story gives you, please consider supporting the Ipswich Star. Click the link in the orange box above for details. This newspaper has been a central part of community life for many years. Our industry faces testing times, which is why we’re asking for your support. Every contribution will help us continue to produce local journalism that makes a measurable difference to our community. The loved-up pair got together after filming of the BBC show wrapped up and decided to enter construction business together. Get the best celeb exclusives and video house tours to your inbox every evening with our daily newsletter. A source told The Sun: “There was always a connection between them but they tried to resist their urges during filming. James White, who won the latest series alongside Sarah Lynn, had a romance with fellow contestant Jade English. Meanwhile, Andrew Brady, who is currently in Celebrity Big Brother, was rumoured to have had a fling with fellow candidate Anisa Topin, but she denies anything happened between the pair. If someone deserves credit, I will give them it. Celebrity News. 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__label__wiki	0.67054	0.67054	Skyrim Mod Making $33,000 A Month Accused Of Stealing Code For a while now, a development team has been working on releasing a mod called Skyrim Together that would allow players to jump online and make their way through Bethesda’s RPG together. And for almost as long, they’ve been facing long-standing accusations of having stolen code from another team. The guys behind SKSE (Skyrim Script Extender) have for years been feuding with the Skyrim Together crew over allegations of code theft, with SKSE even going so far as to write this in their code’s license: Due to continued intentional copyright infringement and total disrespect for modder etiquette, the Skyrim Online team is explicitly disallowed from using any of these files for any purpose. That of course hasn’t stopped Skyrim Together from working on their project, which is accepting backing on Patreon and is raking in over $33,000 a month at time of posting. The mod scene is always full of drama, and projects like mod packs that bundle a lot of other people’s work and pass it off as their own have always been a source of controversy. But a mod that’s making money off other people’s work, when modders tend to do what they do for love and release it for free is a big deal, and so are these accusations. For the technically-minded they’re spelled out in this thread. In response, a Skyrim Together team member posted this comment on Reddit: “We have had disagreements with the SKSE folks in the past, I have tried to communicate with them but they have never replied, so we stopped using their code. There might be some leftover code from them in there that was overlooked when we removed it, it isn’t as simple as just deleting a folder, mainly our fault because we rushed some parts of the code. Anyway we are going to make sure to remove what might have slipped through the cracks for the next patch.” To which an SKSE member replied: So, to be clear - you are saying that you: started using our code then asked for permission never got permission continued using it eventually removed part of it yet somehow left some of it in continued to charge for access the entire time? promise to totally clean up a now license-tainted project? The Skyrim Together team’s Patreon page says they “hope to release the first stable version of the mod during the year 2019", but the same Reddit post in which they defended their use of SKSE’s code also says “We are far from a real release, currently the mod is unstable and has a lot of features disabled.” sǝuןq ɥɔsʇıʞ Lol, what’s the fascination with playing Skyrim online? The engine at that time was even more janky than the current one powering Fallout 76, so this seems even less of a good idea. Also, Elder Scrolls Online is a pretty good mmo guys.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3285
__label__wiki	0.582889	0.582889	These patients COVID-19 private smells of life The olfactory neurons, placed at the bottom of our nose, have a capacity for regeneration. The loss of sense of smell, or anosmia, one of the symptoms of the COVID-19, deprives you of the ” smells of life “, a disability is invisible, but ” psychologically difficult “, and that has no treatment of its own. “What I miss most is the smell of my son when I embrace them, it is the smell of the body of my wife, the scent of my dad. Anosmia cup smells of life, it is a torture, “said AFP Jean-Michel Maillard, president of the association” Anosmie.org “. Finished also the pleasures of daily life as the scent of coffee in the morning, the freshly cut lawn, or even ” the smell if reassuring the soap on his skin when preparing for an appointment “… “We discovered the smell when it loses,” says the forty-something woman, who became anosmic after an accident. Not to mention the problem of not being able to detect gas, smoke or a garbage improperly washed. The meals are also disturbed because 90% of what we eat is linked to the sense of smell. “Differentiating a Bordeaux from a Burgundy, a difference between a beef stew, a veal Marengo, it is the sense of smell,” notes Alain Corré, ENT-Hospital-Foundation Rothschild in Paris. “There are dozens of causes of anosmia,” says the specialist, citing the polyposes the nasal, rhinitis, chronic, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s… and now the COVID-19. Data \| Our interactive content on the COVID-19 – Vaccine against the coronavirus : sprinter to a marathon – Occupations at risk are more occupied by women? – The pandemic in Quebec, quotes and dates – How is the coronavirus has he progressed in different nations? In this case, it is even a symptom pathognomonic, that is to say, a clinical sign, which, alone, allows to establish the diagnosis. “When people lose the sense of smell and that there is no recovery, there is a genuine alteration of the quality of life and depression rates not negligible at all,” adds Alain Corré. The problem is when this disability sets in : “to be deprived of sense of smell for a month, this is not serious. Two months, it starts to be annoying. But at the end of 6 months, you’re all alone, under a bell glass, ” says Jean-Michel Maillard. “There is a psychological dimension very difficult to live, it is necessary to get help “. There is no specific treatment for the disorder of the sense of smell. It is necessary to treat the cause, but “the problem of anosmies related to the virus, this is that often the treatment of viral infection has no effect on the sense of smell,” says Dr. Corré. “According to preliminary figures, roughly 80 % of patients with the COVID-19 recover spontaneously, in less than a month and often even quickly in 8-10 days,” notes the doctor. For others, it would seem that the olfactory neurons, which act as a sensor of odour, have been destroyed by the coronavirus. But the huge advantage that nature has given us, is that these neurons are placed at the bottom of our nose, have a capacity for regeneration. The parisian hospitals Rothschild and Lariboisière have implemented a study “CovidORL” and test the effectiveness of the washing of the nose with cortisone (budesonide), associated with the rehabilitation of the smell. A treatment that has proven its effectiveness on the anosmies post-cold, ” hope “, for alan Corré. The rehabilitation of the smell so you can continue to stimulate the cognitive, the associative pathways that combine the memory and the sense of smell, develops the ENT. His advice : choose five odors in your kitchen — that you like — like cinnamon, thyme, bay leaf… Breathe-two times per day for 5 to 10 minutes, watching what you are breathing. With Hirac Gurden, director of neuroscience research at the CNRS, the association “Anosmie.org” also has made available on its website a protocol of rehabilitation with essential oils diluted, based on the work of the researcher Thomas Hummel (Dresden). “Since march, we have received hundreds of phone calls, e-mails from people who had the COVID and calling for a rescue because they didn’t feel nothing “, remembers Hirac Gurden. Last winter, Jean-Michel Maillard has finished the rehabilitation with the four odours. “Today, I have ten : fish, cigarette, essential oil of rose… and I even found a fragrance that I feel ! “says it. To see the video Dropcap the popularization of the “ideal measure” has led to advice such as “Increase font size for large screens and... Intro text we refine our methods of responsive web design, we’ve increasingly focused on measure and its relationship to how... The point about the risks of the COVID-19 for school-age children Photo: Adam Robison The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal via Associated Press "The ability of the children to transmit the infection...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3286
__label__wiki	0.857478	0.857478	Postgame Notes: Kansas vs. Newman Final Stats \| Notes \| KANSAS STARTERS (CAREER/SEASON): Angel Goodrich (85/9), Tania Jackson (19/7), Monica Engelman (77/9), Carolyn Davis (79/9) and Natalie Knight (43/9). KU’S WIN: – Improved the Jayhawks record to 8-1, overall. KU now has a 50-game winning streak against non-conference teams during the regular season while playing in Allen Fieldhouse. – Moved Bonnie Henrickson’s record at Kansas to 146-122 at KU (9th season) and her career record to 304-184. – Secured Kansas’ lead in the series against Newman, 1-0. The last time KU lost to a non-conference team at home during the regular season was Dec. 31, 2006 against Xavier. – Brought the Jayhawks all-time record to 743-520 and its all-time non-conference record to 323-148. TEAM NOTES: – The Jayhawks outscored the Jets 18-6 in the first 6:39 of play. Davis contributed 10 of Kansas’ 18 points. – Eight Jayhawks added to KU’s season-high 51 first-half points. – Kansas secured its largest lead of the game (36 points) with 2:09 left to play. – The Jayhawks tied their season-high with its 55 percent field goal accuracy. KU shot 43-for-70 from the floor to record a season-high for field goals made. KU also scored 68 of their points in the paint, also a season-high. – As a team, the Jayhawks shot over 50 percent for the third time this season 54.8 (44-for-73). – KU’s 16 steals were a season-high, breaking the previous season-high (12), set twice earlier this season (Grambling State, Minnesota). INDIVIDUAL NOTES: – Senior forward Carolyn Davis scored first for the Jayhawks for the fifth time this season and chipped in the Jayhawks’ first 10 points. Davis led KU with 24 points and tied a season high with nine rebounds – all in 14 minutes. – Senior guard Monica Engelman recorded four assists and scored 10 points, just one assist and one two-point bucket away from tying season-highs in each. – Senior guard Angel Goodrich led her team with seven assists, set a personal high with five rebounds and contributed 11 points. – Sophomore forward Chelsea Gardner came off the bench for KU and scored the second-most points for KU with 17 points and grabbed seven boards. Over the last four games, she has come off the bench to score a combined 65 points on 29-for-39 (.744) shooting. – Sophomore guard Asia Boyd set a personal high of three assists and added nine points for the Jayhawks. – Freshman guard Lamaria Cole added seven points and maintained her 100 percent shooting average as a Jayhawk.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3289
__label__wiki	0.698574	0.698574	Dirt Bag Khloe and French Montana 'Break Up,' Reveal He Was a Paid E! Employee Lindy West Bad news for all you hopeless romantics out there. It seems that French Montana and Khloe Kardashian have "broken up," and all that's left is for him to collect his sizeable E! check at the door. RIP, KHLENCH MONTASHA. IF ONLY I'D MADE UP THAT PORTMANTEAU SOONER. Rumors have been swirling of a split between unlucky-in-love-lately Khloe Kardashian and rapper French Montana. The reason behind the summer fling's sudden breakup? Not only was French Montana's loyalty to the third Kardashian sister questionable, he also was dating her for the popularity benefits that come with all things Kardashian these days—he even admitted as much in an interview with Billboard. Well, further murmurings reveal that it seems that he was cashing in on the relationship—literally and figuratively. Not only did dating Khloe boost his popularity profile, but the execs at E! wrote him a sizable check for appearing on the family's reality show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians and the spinoff show Kourtney and Khloe Take the Hamptons. ...An anonymous source told the New York Daily News 'He's expensive, and some people at E! just don't think he's worth the money," the source says. "I've heard execs moaning about it, saying, 'We're just paying so much for him!'" I know that people just get checks for appearing on reality TV, whether LOVE IS A LIE OR NOT, but still. Love is a lie. [MarieClaire] TMZ strongly implies that Katy Perry is dating Riff-Raff. Even though she probably isn't. [TMZ] But she did reportedly "get handsy" with Diplo. K. [E!] Paula Patton wore a dress. [JustJared] I don't know what any of this means, but it might interest you? [E!] Courteney Cox ice bucket chaalhasdlkjfhsdlfkjshdfadsf. [Us] Justin Bieber got rear-ended by a paparazzo, then tweeted, "We should have learned from the death of Princess Diana." [TMZ] Cate Blanchett is in Australia. [JustJared] Bella Thorne and her boyfriend broke up. [E!] Justin Timberlake went to a party. [E!] I don't know what the "Kardashian Effect" is, but it's apparently happening to Sofia Vergara. [JCH] Image via Getty. When I saw "Riff Raff", my brain first went to: I am so not hip. :(	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3298
__label__wiki	0.722302	0.722302	Little Edie Beale: The Ultimate Recessionista Sadie Stein You know, we've talked a lot about the difference between 'fashion' - that remote art form that most of us admire from afar - and style. What we wear. A couple of years ago, Little Edie Beale, the eccentric poor relation of Jackie Kennedy immortalized in Grey Gardens, was discovered by Fashion. We all know the trademarks: cashmere sweaters on her head, upside-down skirts, pantyhose sarongs, trouser minis. Designers were thrilled by this creativity, quick to reinvent and intellectualize it in expensive fabrics. But Little Edie wasn't intellectual; she was instinctive. With straitened circumstances and, okay, a healthy dash of delusion, she condensed a hundred Today show segments every hour. Reinvention? Check. Second-hand chic? Check. DIY? Natch. Well, little Edie's real moment has come - and we're not talking Drew Barrymore's biopic.No, the importance of Little Edie is that her variation on a towel dress is representative of the can-do spirit that we're all being urged to adopt now that we're in a Recession. What she wore - the countless bizarre "costumes" and outfits and mix-and-matched pieces - was cool, yes, but what made her a true Recessionista (as it should be used) was that she used limitation as a jumping-off point and did more with that than had she had a huge clothing budget. Did she sew? Re-use? Reinvent? Yes! But even more important, she dressed without fear, for self-expression. She reminded us of the redemptive powers of clothing and how little they have to do with frivolity. There is nothing of the clotheshorse in Grey Gardens: the point is never acquisition, but the actual purpose of the clothes themselves. When designers took inspiration, it was literal: replicating a bejeweled sweater turban or a skirt made from safety pin trousers. But it was the spirit of her dressing that's a help to the rest of us. Nowadays we're inundated with tips for essentially how to manufacture the illusion of an unchanged lifestyle, and that's not tenable. Little Edie, from madness or wisdom, didn't do that. She created a new reality for a new set of circumstances. It's easy to see why fashion types are enchanted with the famous eccentric, but still a bit jarring. When the Grey Gardens musical first hit the stage, suddenly Little Edie wasn't just the property of those of us who'd long loved the cult Maysles documentary - and maybe wrapped sweaters around our heads in high school: everyone loved her! A film of cut scenes was released. Philip Lim's 2007 show, Marc Jacobs, the Olsen Twins and Italian Vogue were all competing for her favors. Rhapsodized Isaac Mizrahi in 2006: "The way that we now make mistakes on purpose comes from Edie Beale. I'm still and always trying to match her sense of the absurd, her playfulness, her sense of the drama of clothing." The stylesmith for the newest Grey Gardens stage production, Alex Jaeger, had this to say in Sunday's Washington Post: Her fashion sense comes out of a deep need to be creative. And she was fabulously creative. These outfits, she made them out of whatever she had. As strange as they may be, there was a lot of thought put into them, and she would make 10 or 12 a day. She would change her clothes all day long. But all of this is really beside the point: Little Edie was poor - very poor - and she was obviously not well. Said Simon Doonan, seldom a slave to fashionable bromides, in May: "[Said my friend Deb] who works in a psychiatric hospital and has a front-row seat at the unwitting fashion show that is mental illness. 'Walk around any in-patient unit: Lots of people are sitting around with things tied around their heads, just like Little Edie. They are not making a fashion statement; they are trying to block out the voices in their heads.'" It should be said that Little Edie was probably more concerned with covering a bald pate, but there is something exploitative about mining what is essentially tragedy for inspiration (while crying homage), but whereas the Little Edie fashion moment of the past two years had me cringing, I feel like now her true fashion moment has come. Because the times in which we live are unprecedented, an unprecedented role model is called for; we're left not with a scant pile of threadbare basics that need to see us through the next half-decade, but, rather, the detritus of petty decadence: trendy, cheaply-made things never intended to last, that now reproach us from our overflowing closets. In this, Little Edie is a great help. She made the clothes work for her, remembered that they were nothing more than fabric - not a season, not a style, only raw material. She had nothing to do with Fashion, but a lot to do with everyday clothes and the people who wear them. People embraced her a few years ago because they were jaded, hungry for novelty, and sick of perfection. We can embrace her now not ironically, not patronizingly, but as a true role-model, and a boon for our times. Standing on Fertile Ground for Creative Expression [Washington Post] Related: One Flew Over the Couture's Nest[New York Observer] Little Edie, Big Style [New York Daily News] southernbitch i am not going to lie. i could not finish the documentary. i found it painful to watch. and normally i love shit like that. it was just a really uncomfortable line between campy and mental illness, and ultimately i didn't know if i felt like i was being informed or if i was perpetuating in an exploitation.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3299
__label__wiki	0.617721	0.617721	Anton Van der Ven Research Lab \| Materials Department \| UC Santa Barbara Author anyAagesen, L. K.Aagesen, Larry KAagesen, L. K. et. al.Abeykoon, Milinda Abeykoon, M. al., et. Allison, John Alvarado, Judith Amatucci, G.G. Amatucci, G. G.Amatucci, Glenn GAraullo-Peters, Vicente Arroyo y de Dompablo, ME Aryanfar, A. Asta, M Asta, M. Aydinol, M.K. Aydinol, Mehmet KAydinol, MK Badway, F. Bai, Jianming Bai, J. Banerjee, S. Barnard, L. Bartlett, Bart MBartlett, B.M. Bashian, N. H.Battaile, CC Battaile, C.C. Bechtel, J.S. Bechtel, J. S.Belak, A.A. Beyerlein, Irene J.Bhattacharya, J. Bickel, J.E. Bocarsly, J. D.Bozin, Emil SBozin, E.S. Britto, S. Britto, Sylvia Bruce, L. Cabana, Jordi Cabana, J. Callahan, Patrick G.Carlier, D Casas-Cabanas, Montse Ceder, G. Ceder, Gerbrand Ceder, G Chabinyc, Michael LChabinyc, M.L. Chan, M.K.Y. Chan, MKY Chang, Donghee Chang, D. Chapman, K. W.Chapman, K.W. Chen, Liang Chen, M.H. Chen, L. Chernova, N. Chernova, Natalya Chi, H. 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__label__wiki	0.8771	0.8771	Li Jin Investing in the Podcast Ecosystem Posted on May 23, 2019 November 6, 2019 by ljin18 Originally published on a16z.com In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-quality audio content to flow into the space. There are now over 700K free podcasts available and thousands more launching each week. As new tech platforms hit scale, we on the consumer team have been closely watching the future of media and the technology driving it — in all forms. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. Our investment philosophy is to not be too prescriptive, so we do the kind of “market map” overview below to help us have a “prepared mind” when we see new startups in the space. The below deck and commentary (with some sections redacted, of course) was presented to the extended consumer team, including general partners Connie Chan and Andrew Chen, who are investing in this space. If you’re working on anything interesting in this area, we’d love to hear from you! (P.S.: If you’re interested in getting a PDF version of the 68-page deck itself, you can sign up for our newsletter to get a copy.) From niche internet community to one-third of Americans Over the course of the last 10 years, podcasts have steadily grown from a niche community of audiobloggers distributing files over the internet, to one-third of Americans now listening monthly and a quarter listening weekly. Americans listening weekly to podcasts grew from 7% in 2013 to 22% in 2019. 65% of monthly podcast listeners have been listening for less than 3 years. People are already spending a lot of time on podcasts, and it’s growing: listeners are consuming 6+ hours per week and consuming more content every year. Among weekly podcast listeners, there’s high consumption: 7 episodes per week and nearly 1 hour per day. The demographic of podcast listeners is not your average American. Roughly half of podcast listeners make $75,000 or more in annual income; a majority have a post-secondary degree; and almost one-third have a graduate degree [source]. There’s also a gender gap with podcast listeners skewing mostly male, mirroring the gap among podcast creators as well. However, the gender gap has narrowed from a 25% gap in 2008 to 9% today. Podcast listeners are not your typical American: they’re affluent, highly educated, and skew male. In the years following the release of Apple’s podcast app in 2012, smartphones pulled ahead of computers for podcast consumption and have grown to become the dominant way that consumers listen to podcasts. The green line includes smart speakers, which have grown 70% year over year in terms of listening. Since Apple launched its Podcasts app in 2012, smartphones have quickly grown to become the most common device for podcast consumption. What may surprise people living in heavy commuter markets is that listening primarily happens at home, which represents almost half of all podcast consumption. We would also anticipate that more recent technologies like Bluetooth-enabled cars and smart speakers — now owned by 53M Americans or 21% of the population — could change the mix of where podcast listening happens. The lion’s share of podcast listening happens at home, followed by taking place in a vehicle. A brief history of podcasting Simply put, podcasts are digital audio files that users can download — or in some applications, stream — and listen to. While podcasts differ widely in terms of content, format, production value, style, and length, they’re all distributed through RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, a standardized web feed format that is used to publish content. For podcasts, the RSS feed contains all the metadata, artwork, and content of a show. To listen to a podcast, a user adds the RSS feed to their podcast client (such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.), and the client then accesses this feed, checks for updates, and downloads any new files. Podcasts can be accessed from computers, mobile apps, or other media players. On the podcast creator side, creators host the RSS feed as well as the show’s content and media on a hosting provider, and submit the shows to various directories, such as Apple’s podcast directory. Podcast content is typically available for free, though creators can choose to set up private RSS feeds that require payment to access. Current headlines about podcasts today hail them as the next major content medium, describing them as “suddenly hot”, as the next battlefield for content, and as an “antidote” for our current news environment: How did this “suddenly” happen? As with all tech trends, it had a longer and slower start before going more mainstream. Let’s time travel back 15 years ago, when there were no smartphones and the internet was accessed only through desktop computers. In February 2004, journalist Ben Hammersley wrote about the emergent behavior of automatically downloading audio content in a February article in The Guardian: “MP3 players, like Apple’s iPod, in many pockets, audio production software cheap or free, and weblogging an established part of the internet; all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? GuerillaMedia?” In doing so, Hammersley accidentally invented the term we still use today, “podcasting” — a portmanteau of “iPod” and “broadcast” — for this kind of content. The word was added to the Oxford English Library later that year. In 2005, podcasts were added to the iTunes store, with Steve Jobs saying, “Podcasting is the next generation of radio, and users can now subscribe to over 3,000 free Podcasts and have each new episode automatically delivered over the Internet to their computer and iPod.” In 2007, the first iPhone was introduced, but it wouldn’t be until 2012 that Apple created the Podcasts app. The release of this app is widely considered an inflection point for the industry, as it put podcasts a single tap away for hundreds of millions of users around the world. Ironically, a few months later, Google discontinued its own podcast app called Google Listen. In 2014, the first season of Serial aired, considered to be the first breakout podcast, with its narrative audio journalism drawing in 5M downloads in the first month. In the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of listening behavior and innovative content. New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. And an explosion of new content — ranging from daily news to narrative to talks shows — met the growing listener appetite. In tandem, ad spend has been growing steadily each year, from $69 to $220M in 2017 [source]. The app landscape Many apps for listening to podcasts, but little differentiation or loyalty Apple Podcasts played a pivotal role in the development of the industry and remains the dominant app for listening. However, its market share has fallen in the last few years, from over 80% to 63%. The corollary to this stat is that historically, podcasting has been predominantly an iOS user behavior, given that Google didn’t have its own native application, something that changed last summer with the launch of Google Podcasts. Apple’s share of the podcasting market has slipped from over 80% to 63%, while Spotify has quickly grown to almost 10% of the market. Spotify — which has made a big push into podcasts in just the past couple years — now accounts for almost 10% of listening. Beyond these two large companies, there’s a long tail of listening apps from smaller companies. Most of these apps all have roughly the same content, given widely open directories of podcast RSS feeds. And there’s hundreds more listening apps out there. The barriers to entry for creating a new podcast app are quite low, since content is all distributed via RSS feeds and anyone can access them. There are also tools for creators to create their own podcast app from their own RSS feed. A note on comparing listening apps: metrics between apps are not entirely an apples-to-apple comparison, as some apps (like Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Stitcher) auto-download shows that users subscribe to, whereas others (e.g. Spotify, Castbox) don’t continuously download new episodes. This affects comparisons between apps and may overstate the traction of listening apps that auto-download shows. The industry has not standardized around what defines a download or listen. A taxonomy of consumer podcast apps From our research, users seldom feel passionately — either positively or negatively — about the podcast app they’re using. This suggests that the audio content itself is the core element users are engaging with, and since the content is the same on all apps, users don’t feel particular affinity to any one listening app. Three major categories of consumer podcast listening apps: the incumbent, large existing audience and new podcast focus, and long tail listening apps. I categorized consumer podcast listening apps into three major categories: The incumbent: Apple Podcasts Companies with large, existing audiences who are newly focusing on podcasts Long-tail listening apps The major feature of Apple Podcasts is that — despite its shortcomings in user-facing features and monetization — it’s pre-installed on all iPhones, making it a tap away for 900M people worldwide. We estimate that Apple Podcasts has 27M monthly active users in the U.S., based on App Annie, so a sizeable absolute number but relatively small compared to the total install base. Though Apple accounts for the majority of podcast listening, the company currently doesn’t monetize podcasting at all — all ads that you hear on podcasts are a result of advertisers and podcasters connecting off-platform. For some users, the app is a basic, functional listening app, as compared to other media apps and products, with rudimentary categorization and discovery features. For some creators, the features it currently lacks include native monetization capabilities, in-depth analytics, demographic information for listeners, or any attribution for where listeners come from. Since Apple Podcasts launched in 2012, the app itself has changed very little. The New York Times wrote in 2016 that “the iTunes podcasting hub that Mr. Jobs introduced remains strikingly unchanged,” and beyond adding more analytics features in 2017, the same still holds true today. In the second category, there’s a number of media and technology companies that have large existing audiences making a big push into podcasts, including Spotify, Pandora, and iHeartRadio. The strategies for these companies are mostly centered around leveraging their existing audiences to cross-promote podcasts; using listener data to personalize listening experiences or to help surface relevant podcasts; and leveraging their reach and existing monetization mechanisms to help creators earn more revenue. Google, which launched a standalone Podcasts app last year, has talked about making podcasts a first-class citizen in terms of surfacing podcast content in search results, as well as the growth opportunity that Google users worldwide represent in terms of potential podcast listeners. Finally, there’s the long tail of podcast apps. These are comprised of startups and a fair number of non-VC funded companies. These apps are predominantly competing on the basis of better user-facing features such as improved discovery, search, and social capabilities, as well as creator monetization including their own ad networks or direct user monetization features. Increasingly, startups in this last category are also looking for other ways to distinguish themselves outside of listening experience — including experiments with exclusive, sometimes paid, content. A discussion about shifting user behavior around consuming podcasts would be incomplete without calling out Spotify. In just the past few years, Spotify has burst onto the podcast landscape, moving from being music-centered to “audio-first”, and becoming the second largest platform for listening after Apple Podcasts. Spotify’s market share in podcasting has grown to 9% in a few short years based on data from Libsyn, a podcast hosting provider, and the company has laid out plans to become a destination for all types of audio content. Interestingly, Spotify may be growing the market of podcast listeners: the data below from Megaphone (formerly Panoply Media) shows that downloads of podcasts from Spotify happen in geographies that historically had fewer podcast downloads. Downloads data suggests that Spotify is growing the audience of podcasting. Spotify also accounts for two of the largest podcast acquisitions in industry history — Gimlet and Anchor — which occurred earlier this year. The company has committed to spending hundreds of millions of dollars more on acquisitions, and has also stated that podcasts are strategically important for driving increased user engagement, lower churn, faster revenue growth, and higher margins than the core music business. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s letter about their “audio-first” strategy is worth a read. He predicts that over time, more than 20% of listening on Spotify will be non-music content, and that the Anchor and Gimlet acquisitions position Spotify to be a leading platform for creators, as well as the leading producer of podcasts. Podcast creator and listener activity Extreme power curve among podcast creators If traction among consumer listening apps appears highly concentrated among a small number of apps, the same can be said of podcast creators. The creator landscape reflects a power-law type curve, with most of the podcasts consumed in the top 1% of all content. According to Libsyn, one of the oldest podcast hosting providers, the median podcast only has 124 downloads per episode — but the top 1% has 35K downloads per episode. A taxonomy of podcast creators I created a taxonomy of the podcast creator ecosystem as a rough framework for thinking about the various types of creators, roughly split across five categories: media companies with internal podcast efforts; standalone podcast-only studios; large indies (including what our editor-in-chief Sonal Chokshi calls “cult-of-personality” shows); non-media businesses and nonprofits; and the long tail of hobbyist creators. In order of descending audience sizes, these categories are: Media companies that have internal podcast departments, whose goals in podcasting can range from audience development to diversifying revenue. Examples of companies in this category include traditional media companies like the New York Times, where audio was treated as an experiment before The Daily became a major hit in 2017; radio platforms like iHeartRadio, which bought Stuff Media to double down on podcasting; and digital media companies like Barstool Sports, a sports and pop culture blog which produces a number of podcasts. These companies can leverage their existing user base to drive listenership for the podcast — and if the podcast becomes popular, vice versa. Podcast production companies focused mainly — if not exclusively — on podcasting, which necessitates building a viable business from podcasting alone. Their revenue primarily comes from advertising, which means those podcasts need to amass large, repeatedly engaged listener bases. Examples include Gimlet (the creator of Reply All, StartUp, Crimetown, and others), acquired by Spotify in early 2019; and Wondery (Over My Dead Body, Generation Why, Dr. Death). Large indies and personality-driven talk shows primarily hosted by one or two personalities. These podcasts monetize mostly through ads, donations, and sometimes merchandise or live events. Examples include Tim Ferriss, Sam Harris, Rachel Hollis, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark (My Favorite Murder), Roman Mars (99% Invisible), Joe Rogan, and many others. Non-media businesses and nonprofits that also produce podcasts. The primary goal behind these podcasting initiatives is mostly brand-building and marketing, rather than driving revenue. Mailchimp and HBS podcasts fall into this category. Lastly, there are the individual hobbyists creating and posting content — often un-monetized and with very limited audiences. Podcasting tools like Anchor and others are democratizing the ability to launch a podcast, which will lead to more and more hobbyist creators. Note that these categories serve as a rough segmentation of the creator landscape, because there is a lot of overlap and blurriness between some of them. For instance, NPR — the #1 podcast publisher in terms of downloads — produces many hit podcasts including Hidden Brain, How I Built This, Planet Money, and others, and is considered by some as having raised the profile of the medium overall. NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. While podcasting has deep roots in public radio — This American Life, for instance, launched in 1995 under WBEZ (Chicago Public Radio) — the non-profit aspect of these organizations has implications on the business. Alex Blumberg, the CEO of Gimlet and a cofounder and producer of Planet Money, was reportedly frustrated with NPR’s slow decision-making and strict rules around advertising, which led him to found Gimlet: “‘We should be making more; people want more… There should be the Planet Money of technology! Of cars!’” Rich variety of content The top iTunes podcasts chart from May 2019 is interesting for its glimpse into the tastes of Americans who have iPhones. A small number of publishers account for multiple top shows, including Wondery and NPR. We can also see how much Americans love crime/mystery content, as well as talk shows! While NPR and iHeartRadio have roughly the same number of monthly downloads, NPR is able to accomplish this with just 48 shows vs. iHeartRadio’s 170. (Shows with blue check marks have gone through Podtrac’s podcast measurement verification process.) Making money from podcasting The current state of monetization in podcasting mirrors the early internet: revenue lags behind attention. Despite double-digit percent growth in podcast advertising over the last few years, podcasts are still in a very nascent, disjointed stage of monetization today. Today, podcasts primarily monetize via ads and listener donations. Though we’ve heard anecdotally from advertisers that podcast ads are effective — and are unique in their ability to reach a hard-to-access, attractive demographic — the ad buying experience is manual and tedious. Especially compared to purchasing other forms of digital advertising, since the dominant listening platform (Apple) doesn’t offer a way for hosts and brands to connect. As a result, you’ll see price sheets floating around online for major shows, with set rates to sponsor episodes, based on historic downloads figures. Ad networks in the podcasting space like Midroll Media and AdvertiseCast aim to make this process easier, while more new listening platforms are also enabling easier advertising, for instance by selling ads on behalf of shows in its network. But advertising doesn’t always cover the entire cost of producing a show, even for hit shows. Serial is one of the most successful podcasts ever — and the first ever podcast to reach 5 million downloads — and asked for donations in order to fund the production of the second season. This American Life also publishes requests for donations, including these blogposts detailing the high costs of producing the show, with Ira Glass writing, “People sometimes ask me if it’s frustrating, having to request donations directly from listeners. It’s not. It’s the fairest way to fund anything: the people who like these stories and want them to exist, we pitch in a few bucks.” Donations to podcasters primarily happen off-platform today, via third-party tools such as Patreon, PayPal, and Venmo. The top podcaster on Patreon, Chapo Trap House, a political humor podcast, earns over $131K per month from almost 30K patrons (link). Himalaya, the U.S. podcasting app backed by the Chinese company Ximalaya, has a donations feature. And some other listening apps also have introduced one-off tipping capability or patronage features. Another monetization mechanism that companies are experimenting with is branded content. As opposed to advertising — which first start with the content and then sell ads to monetize — branded shows create a podcast in collaboration with a company, for a fee. Examples include The Mission, which is selling to enterprises to create branded podcasts — for instance, a podcast called The Future of Cities, sponsored by Katerra; and Gimlet, which has collaborated on shows like The Venture with Virgin Atlantic. By removing dependence on ads for monetization, branded shows like these are able to go deeper into a subject matter and create more niche content that doesn’t rely on listening volume to generate revenue. There’s also a lot of activity happening right now in the subscription and membership space. Recently-launched podcasting app Luminary Media (which bills itself as the “Netflix for podcasts”) charges $8 a month for access to a slate of more than 40 exclusive podcasts, and the app also has a free listening experience. The launch has been bumpy, with issues ranging from podcasters taking offense at their tweet that “Podcasters don’t need ads”; to controversy about removing links in show notes, including donation and affiliate links that help podcasters monetize; to using a proxy server to serve podcasts, which made it challenging for podcasters to receive accurate analytics. Luminary’s launch serves to signal a few things — that the golden age of investing in podcasting is underway in terms of dollars flowing in, but also that getting the buy-in of creators is just as important as winning over consumers in building a new platform. The model of subscription premium audio content is popular in China, where Ximalaya, a unicorn consumer audio platform, has a subscription feature for $3 monthly that enables users to access over 4000 e-books and over 300 premium audio courses or podcasts. Audio content is also available a la carte starting at $0.03 per short, serialized book chapter, or anywhere from $10 to $45 for paid audio courses. Other monetization models we’ve seen include grants or foundation support, ticket sales for live events, and merchandise sales. There’s also licensing deals happening with the likes of HBO, Amazon, Fox, and other content companies who view podcasts as a source of intellectual property and want to adapt them into movies and TV shows. For instance, Gimlet’s scripted podcast Homecoming debuted as an Amazon Original Series in November 2018. The directionality of influence goes both ways: some podcasts are offshoots of other content — such as HBO’s Chernobyl podcast which discusses each episode of the mini-series — or written content — like Binge Mode’s deep dive into Harry Potter. Podcast ad revenue is growing but is still tiny compared to other content formats In 2019, the podcast industry ad revenue is estimated to hit over $500 million dollars, having doubled each year for the past few years. However, overall industry revenue is still tiny compared to that of other content mediums. In particular, based on average revenue per active user per hour, podcasts monetize at a fraction of other content types. Though podcast ad revenue is growing, the medium monetizes at a fraction of the rates of other content types (source: Nielsen via Hacker Noon) Limitations of podcast advertising Based on our conversations, lag in monetization isn’t due to lack of efficacy of ads. Various studies, including by Nielsen and Midroll Media, have found that podcast ads meaningfully increase purchase intent. Why is podcasting monetization so low? Reasons include: Inability to monetize directly on the dominant platform, Apple Podcasts. The long tail of podcasters not being able to monetize because advertisers only want to work with podcasts that have a high level of listenership. Given the lack of advertising inside major listening apps, advertisers need to connect off-platform with podcasters — whether directly or through an ad network. This manual process means that for most advertisers, the long tail of podcasts requires too much time and effort to find and work with. Lack of clarity around actual listens. For a long time, downloads were used to proxy delivered ads, but a “download” doesn’t necessarily mean a “play”. Detailed listener data is also not available. There’s also a lack of sophisticated targeting tools on par with what Facebook and other digital platforms offer advertisers. Today, podcast ads are primarily direct response, with ads read by hosts. You’re probably familiar with ads on podcasts with hosts talking about a product and verbally sharing a discount code. Podcast ad attribution is very rudimentary: the common methods of attribution are vanity URLs (for instance, http://www.ecommercewebsite.com/<podcastname>); promo codes entered at checkout; and surveys asking users, “How did you hear about us?” Despite all these issues and barriers to monetization, podcasts are still able to command a premium CPM of $25 to $50, based on downloads, due to their efficacy. And the highest performing shows can cost even more. How much are podcasters making? While the majority of shows don’t monetize at all, the most successful ones can earn substantial revenue through advertising. A couple of data points: in July 2018, The New York Times’ The Daily podcast was projected to book in the low eight-figures revenue in 2018 from ads, and had 5 million listeners monthly and 1 million listeners daily, or about $2 to $10 revenue per monthly listener. For context, The Daily was only started in January 2017. For comparison, in 2018, Spotify earned $605M from 111M monthly ad-supported listeners, or $5.45 per free listener. The New York Times as a whole had $709 million in digital revenue in 2018, so podcasting is still small relative to their entire business, but has an outsized impact on brand awareness. Michael Barbaro, the host of The Daily, shared in Vanity Fair that “When we started the show, we had many goals. We didn’t realize we were going to make money that was actually going to get pumped back into the company.” Blogger and podcaster Tim Ferriss has written that if he wanted to fully monetize the show at his current rates, he could make between $2-$4 million per year depending on how many episodes and spots he offers. Some back-of-the-envelope calculations around how much podcasters are making: Assuming CPMs of $25-50, if a podcast is in the top 1% in terms of downloads episode, or has 35,000 downloads per episode, each episode could generate about $4,000 per episode with two ad slots. Audio trends and lessons from China Over the past five years, dedicated audio apps in China have been growing quickly. In fact, online audio market users grew by over 22% in China in 2018, a faster rate than either mobile video or reading. Looking at China can illustrate potential business models — partly through adopting an audio-centric approach rather than adhering to a strict definition of podcasting. Ximalaya FM, which last raised $580 million in August 2018 with a $3.6 billion valuation, is an audio platform with over 530 million total users and 80 million monthly active users. Ximalaya’s product is audio content in every form — from podcasts and audiobooks to courses, live audio streaming, singing, and even film dubbing. The monetization models are just as diverse: there’s advertising, subscriptions, a la carte purchases, and donations / tipping. Interestingly, not all paid content is included in their subscription membership (similar to Amazon Prime Video’s mix of free and paid content), but members get an additional 5% discount on any exclusive content. China’s unicorn audio platform Ximalaya helps illustrates creativity in product and business models. As a result of the platform’s diverse purchasing models, the discover leaderboard filters not only by content category, but also according to monetization method, top hosts, most subscribers, and what’s trending on that very day. Ximalaya leaderboards can be sorted by top grossing content, top hosts, highest number of subscribers, and also by category of content. The app contains many different tabs with categorized content to allow users to optimize their listening experience. As the below screenshots indicate, users with children can get their feeds custom-curated for family-friendly listening; and users interested in learning English can get daily custom curated playlists with lessons, techniques, or even testing advice. In total, there are over 50 interest-based feeds available for users to choose from. Ximalaya features customizable feeds of audio content. Ximalaya places a large emphasis on social interaction and community, which also has its own monetization model. One of the app’s most popular features is live audio broadcasting — which resembles live video, but through voice only — where users can host their own channel, invite other broadcasters, and earn money through virtual gifts from their listeners. Popular live streaming categories include music (singing songs or talking with music in the background); chatting about relationships; or discussing anime. Meanwhile, the Discover tab curates audio content into a custom social network so users can see not just the most popular content, but also what people are saying about it. Ximalaya social features include live audio broadcasting — monetized via virtual gifting — and a social feed of other users’ activity. Ximalaya illustrates a potential path for the development of audio platforms in the U.S., through its wide range of content types, monetization strategies, and interactivity. Examining the product may also hint at experiments it could run with Himalaya, its U.S. podcasting startup. Beyond Ximalaya, social audio is a growing category in China, with apps like Hello (live audio broadcasting); KilaKila (an anime community with live audio and video broadcasting); and WeSing (a social karaoke app), all of which monetize through virtual gifts. Other apps such as Soul, Zhiya, and Bixin leverage audio for making friends, dating, and even video game companionship. These apps showcase the potential of audio to serve as a platform for social interactivity — voices act as a core component of users’ identity and are the medium through which individuals interact. Startup trends, challenges, and opportunities Biggest outcomes: no large standalone companies yet Early 2019 saw the two largest ever exits in the podcasting industry — but against the larger backdrop of venture-backed companies, the exits were still small. The industry hasn’t yet seen a “Facebook buys Instagram” moment — or a large independent company emerge. Most acquisitions have been for listening apps or podcast production studios. Early 2019 saw the two largest exits ever for the podcasting industry, which were both to Spotify. In early 2019, Spotify acquired Gimlet Media, the studio behind top podcasts including Startup, Crime Town, and Reply All, for over $200 million; and Anchor FM, a podcast creation and distribution platform that aims to make podcasting extremely simple and enable anyone to start a podcast using only their smartphone, for about $100M. Beyond these two companies, there have been a number of smaller acquisitions in the space. Most of these exits have been “acquihires” of small listening apps that were subsequently shut down post-acquisition. More recently, podcast studios with expertise producing popular content have also been a target of acquisition, including Stuff Media (to iHeartRadio) and Parcast (to Spotify). Startup trends: new apps, monetization experiments, production experiments There’s been a flurry of funding activity in podcasting — so much so that some publications are wondering if we are in a “podcast bubble” (see for example this, this, and this). Here are some of the major trends we’ve seen. 2018 saw a record number of venture capital investments and capital raised for podcasting startups. Startups are building new listening apps, verticalized audio platforms, and producing podcast content. 1. Consumer listening apps for general podcast content A lot of startup activity is happening on the consumer side of listening apps: Many startups are capitalizing on the opportunity to create a better listener experience, given that Apple Podcasts is relatively simple and bare-bones, and until recently, there has been no default listening app for Android users. Issues these apps are addressing include better discovery of podcasts through algorithms, curation, or social signals; more effective ways to search for relevant content (e.g. by automatically transcribing podcasts so as to be able to search within them); or improved social features. We on the consumer team tend to believe that better podcast discovery, recommendations, and other user-facing features alone aren’t sufficient to draw a large listener base. The core of what users are interacting with on a listening app is the content itself — after all, it’s normal for listeners to start playing audio content, then to background the app or put their phones away, so the listening app becomes secondary to the content. As a result, many podcasting startups have expressed interest in offering some flavor of exclusive content, as well as monetization options for creators, in order to further differentiate themselves. Here’s a small sample of the approaches some of these new listening apps are taking: Charging consumers directly for podcasts — these apps’ exclusive podcasts account for a relatively small share of all of the content available in these apps. Examples include Luminary and Brew, both of which have subscription models for access to exclusive content, in addition to allowing users to listen to widely available free podcasts. Adding a social layer onto podcasts — to help with discovery and/or to capture the conversation happening around podcasts. Some early companies in this space include Breaker, Swoot, and others. Offering translation and transcription — essentially enabling episode-level rather than show-level discovery. Castbox, for instance, offers podcasts in multiple languages, as well as the ability to search within podcasts by transcribing content. The app also recently launched live audio broadcasting that allows anchors to interact with listeners via voice, text, and call-in and to earn tips from followers. Adding context — Since podcasts expose listeners to so much new information and prompt questions, these could be more seamlessly explored without disrupting the listening experience. Entale, for example, is a “visual podcast app” that uses AI to showcase relevant information to users as the podcast is playing — this could be displaying the Amazon link to a book that someone mentions, or linking to the Wikipedia page about a speaker’s biography. Specializing by vertical — For parents growing increasingly cognizant of exposing kids to screen time, having a curated selection of audio content targeted towards kids, suitable for entertainment and learning, can be valuable. Leela Kids, for example, is a children’s podcast app that curates kids-safe content. 2. Vertical consumer audio apps Beyond general and for-kids podcasts, there’s also a number of adjacent audio apps with more focused content, including those targeting education, audio books, fiction, health and wellness and fitness. By focusing on a specific subject matter and going very deep, these apps aim to create full-stack listening experiences that combine original content around that particular vertical; user monetization mechanisms; and other value-added features that enhance the user experience and help users achieve their goals. To give a few examples, Calm and Headspace are both guided audio meditation apps, which offer both free and subscription-only content that’s exclusive to their own platforms. Both have features beyond just the content itself that help users with mindfulness — for instance, daily reminders, streaks, visualizations and videos, etc. In the ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) vertical, Tingles is an app where fans can watch or listen to videos of ASMR content, filter by specific categories, and support creators through subscriptions. In the fitness category, Aaptiv, ClassPass Go, and MoveWith are examples of companies offering audio fitness classes across a variety of exercise types. 3. Podcast production companies Lastly, there’s a surge of venture-backed podcast production companies creating podcast content and distributing it through third-party listening platforms. Examples of these include Wondery, the studio behind a number of hit shows including Dirty John, Dr. Death, and American History Tellers; and WaitWhat, the content incubator that developed Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman and Should This Exist. Most podcast producers are creating entertainment-focused, general interest content that appeals to a wide audience, likely because of their monetization model, which is primarily ad-supported. Since these content studios distribute through other platforms and don’t have direct relationships with end users, they need to monetize through advertising, which necessitates content that appeals to a wide audience and promotes lengthier consumption times and ongoing listening. Successful production studios could be prime acquisition targets for media companies as efficient sources of IP, or for consumer listening apps as a way to differentiate based on content — and a number of startups in this space have already been acquired. Another possibility is that once these content companies generate enough listener traction, they could create distribution platforms of their own, and use these as a way to deepen listener relationships and diversify revenue, for instance by charging users for, say, early access to content, back catalogs, exclusive content, or other features. So what are we interested in investing in? Given the challenges with monetization, how can startups create a path to becoming a sustainable business? With the distribution and capital advantages that incumbents have — coupled with the fact that Apple and Google own the end mobile platforms, where are the opportunities for startups? And how do we evaluate these opportunities? To understand startup opportunities, it’s important to consider where the incumbents and large audio companies like Spotify, Pandora, and iHeartRadio are uniquely advantaged: Consumer traction and awareness, and a large audience to which podcasts can be cross-promoted Large budgets for content production and acquisition User data on preferences and existing media consumption Existing monetization mechanisms, such as through ads, subscription So how to navigate creating a large opportunity, given the above advantages? We think the most promising players will combine the following aspects: Focus on audio content broadly, rather than exclusively podcasts. Just as the lines between blogs, articles, and other written content online have blurred, the same is happening with all audio content, and so we are interested in all types of content delivered via listening. As outlined above, podcasting was historically synonymous with audio distributed via RSS — now, with the rise of exclusive, paid podcasts, the distinction between podcasting and other audio content is becoming less meaningful. The potential for network effects. We’ve written extensively about network effects and how to measure them; the consumer team loves businesses with network effects! Network effects in audio could take different forms. Like many content platforms, there’s a two-sided marketplace network effect, where more high-quality content makes the platform more valuable to consumers, and more users makes it more appealing for content producers to distribute their content there. All things being equal, most users would prefer to use the platform that has the largest, best inventory of audio content. A social audio app could also have direct network effects, where the experience becomes better with more users/friends. While we prefer full-stack startups that own the experience end to end (positive feedback loops from listening app to content to monetization), we wouldn’t rule out breakout apps that are strong on any one aspect. High-quality differentiated and deeper content vs. broad, free libraries of shallower content. Since the large incumbents seek content that appeals to their large user bases, they’re less focused on seemingly niche, in-depth content. We also believe that for certain high-value content verticals, there’s potential to shift the burden of payment to businesses, schools, or other organizations — rather than on to end consumers. Consumption experience that enhances the experience of the audio content. This could be through live, social audio, or other features that increase stickiness and engagement. For instance, Headspace’s meditation streaks, animations, multi-level categorization, and session length options differentiate and enhance the experience, compared to listening to meditation audio content on general podcast listening apps. Alternative monetization beyond solely ads (Connie Chan has written a lot about this). Given the dominance of existing large platforms like Google and Facebook for ad targeting, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to build a new large company based on advertising alone. We are bullish about audio companies that are aiming to monetize users directly — this could be accomplished through charging for content that has higher perceived ROI, or by introducing payments as a way to alter the content experience (e.g. social recognition after tipping in live streams). More importantly, it’s also a way to align incentives of consumers with content creators. What could some examples of these startups look like? 1. Vertical audio platforms We’re excited about startups that are going deep within a particular vertical and building a full-stack audio experience tailored to that vertical. There’s less chance of incumbents competing directly here, given the more niche focus and fundamental differences in feature sets needed to enhance the user experience. We also see greater willingness for users to pay for content that has higher perceived ROI — for instance, various fitness and meditation/wellness audio apps have already gained high levels of traction in usage and monetization. 2. Interactive, social audio… finally While people have been talking about it for years, we think there’s still an opportunity to finally have truly interactive, social audio. Without being too prescriptive on what this looks like (we want founders to tell us!), the fact is, audio content today is still largely broadcast in nature, with a one-directional flow of information from creator to listener. While there are some conversations happening around audio content (including on Twitter, Reddit, and other forums), they happen in a fragmented, isolated way, and on platforms that aren’t designed for that purpose. Call-ins to radio and live talk shows are two current forms of interactive audio, with the social element fundamentally contributing to the content itself. Twitch also has podcasters who use the platform to live stream themselves while recording, sometimes responding to user comments which become part of the show’s content. There’s a number of startups enabling users to comment on static podcast content, but the social experience needs to become even more interactive to attract a wider audience and pull users off existing platforms. In China, live audio broadcast, group karaoke, and even audio dating products are flourishing, and there may be an opportunity to create an audio product that is more interactive and social for U.S. audiences, too. 3. Platforms that helps creators own their end users and monetize content Most creators are disintermediated from their end listeners, since they produce content that is distributed solely through various third-party platforms. Given the brand equity and large followings that some creators have established, we believe that there’s an opportunity to give these creators a way to distribute their own content, own their customers, and to monetize through alternative sources besides advertising and off-platform donations. Some influential podcast publishers have developed their own solutions to engage and/or monetize their own audiences, including Slate Plus, a paid membership program from Slate with podcast benefits including ad-free and bonus podcast; The Athletic, which launched over 20 exclusive shows behind a paywall in April; and BBC Sounds, an app that puts music, podcasts, and radio from BBC into one personalized destination. But for creators who don’t have the technical or financial resources to develop their own apps or piece together various third-party solutions to accept payments or manage members, there could be a turnkey platform for creators. Down the line, there’s opportunity to create a network of these creators and listeners, along the lines of “come for the tool, stay for the network.” “If you think of audio as the way you think of, say, film, like we’re still in the black-and-white period of podcasting. What’s color going to look like? What’s 3-D going to look like?” I love this quote from the host of Today, Explained, Sean Rameswaram — since we are still indeed in the black-and-white phase of podcasting. Taking a step back, it’s amazing how much progress the industry has made since the Apple Podcasts app was introduced 7 years. It’s still early days, so if you’re building something that is related to any of these aspects, please drop me a line! 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__label__cc	0.701833	0.298167	London Dungeon LATES with Cocktail Something A Little Different, Walks & Tours and Food & Drink This event has taken place. Multiple start times (see ticket info) Lates mashes up theatre, special effects and intriguing storytelling with wit, humour, and plenty of edge-of-the-seat surprises for an after-hours experience like no other. • 2 Free drinks • Drop-Dead Ride • 8 Live shows • Humour and Horror Fear is a funny thing; take a step back in time into London’s dark past told by live actors, scares and immersive sets. Your tour starts in a Victorian Gin Palace where a complimentary Gin fizz is served before heading off into the Streets of Jack the Ripper and to meet other infamous people from Sweeny Todd to Mrs Lovett you will receive another drop of Dutch courage in the Ten Bells served by the landlady. Audience participation is encouraged as you pass from one show to the next. The finale is a drop ride which may leave you in need of a stiff drink, lucky for you our Tavern awaits. The Tavern is an ideal place to regroup and to take a breather before heading out. This adult’s only experience is a great alternative to a West End show or a great way to experience one of London’s top attractions without the crowds. Over 18s only. We operate challenge 25 so you may be required to show valid ID Tour approximate run time: 90 minutes. Tickets/Times 19:00 Arrival Please arrive 15 minutes before your tour time, late arrivals may not be admitted 19:00 - 22:00 £29.00 London Dungeon, County Hall, Queens Walk, London, SE1 7PB Westminster (Tube) Citymapper Google Maps T&C s 1. The ticket holder voluntarily assumes all risks and danger incidental to the event for which the ticket is issued, whether occurring prior, during or after the event. 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We tried out The London Dungeon's new after-hours experience Being completely honest, I wasn't quite sure what to think as an actor placed a top hat on my head and stuffed a tied cravat into my denim shirt at the entrance. I had always pictured The London Dungeon as the most tourist-targeted experience in London. And, given that three different vendors had tried… DesignMyNight contact info DesignMyNight 23-28 Penn Street N1 5DL Secure payments via Stripe DesignMyNight supports the responsible consumption of alcohol. DrinkAware.co.uk Discover our solutions for the hospitality and events industry. We're here to help. Get listed and instantly get your venue out to millions. We can drive bookings direct to your venue. An e-gift voucher platform built for the hospitality industry. Sell gift vouchers for your restaurant, bar, pub or event. An online ticketing and marketing platform at your fingertips. Leading box office technology combined with free advertising to millions of our users. 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__label__wiki	0.711232	0.711232	About Lisa Miller About “Heaven” Praise for “Heaven” Forgive Me, Pepsi, For I Have Sinned October 18, 2008 By Lisa Miller Why do you choose Coke over Pepsi, Corona over Bud, Crest over Colgate? You don’t think much about these choices, you say; your gut decides. Marketing guru Martin Lindstrom says otherwise. Your preference for Macs over PCs is embedded in your brain circuitry. In “Buyology,” he shares the results of a three-year, $7 million study, in which he submitted 2,000 people to fMRI scans to explore what, exactly, happens in your brain to make you stand in line all night for an iPhone. Filed Under: Newsweek Tagged With: Lisa Miller Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is a former columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife." Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife." In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014. NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD "Just because you have sold your soul does not mean that you have driven a hard bargain." ICYMI this… https://t.co/NdV3sCJJWI January 17, 2021 4:36 pm I have been waiting breathlessly for these photos. I want to hear the scrrrnnnch of the packing tape. https://t.co/fOD4BIdihc January 15, 2021 9:05 pm Question for the group: who wrote tonight’s Trump speech? And who pressured him to deliver it? January 13, 2021 11:57 pm you know what's really delicious? pretzels dipped in nutella. January 9, 2021 8:26 pm We were telling our daughter the other night about the Beer Summit. January 9, 2021 5:31 pm https://www.twitter.com/lisaxmiller Children of Quarantine My Therapists Were Right About Uncertainty Why Did I Think She Wouldn’t Die? The Making of a Molotov Cocktail Two Weeks With Rachel Noerdlinger, the Movement’s Publicist Copyright © 2021 Lisa Miller	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3321
__label__wiki	0.646745	0.646745	Cedar Crest Shows Its Mettle As Falcons Squash Warwick Upset Bid Written by: Andy Herr on Saturday, January 20th, 2018 Cedar Crest at Warwick boys’ basketball in Lititz, PA on January 19, 2018. Mark Palczewski Photo. Ask any coach in any sport at any level and they’re bound to tell you that there are certain places where they just don’t like to play. Talk to the head men patrolling the sidelines in Lancaster Lebanon Section 1 Boys’ Basketball and there’s one answer you may get back that could catch you by surprise. Warwick. It has nothing to do with the facilities themselves mind you. No, pound for pound, the gym on West Orange Street in Lititz is arguably one of the nicest and most spacious around. Look no further than it’s ability to host league, district, and state playoff contests for proof of that. But in between the white lines inside the gymnasium, the Warriors’ home court has proven to be a snake pit over the last handful of years where some of the top teams in District 3 come up short after 32 minutes. Or more. If you’re fan of white-knuckle games that have the potential to end in big time upsets, Warwick has been the place for you over the last decade. Consider this, last year Warwick pushed Hempfield to the limit and then some before the Warriors ultimately succumbed to the Black Knights 90-85 in a crazy five overtime affair that was one for the ages. That just so happened to be the same Black Knight team that would go on to finish in the Elite 8 in the 6A field of last year’s PIAA State Playoffs. And even this year Hempfield flirted with the razor’s edge yet again in Lititz as a Ryan Moffatt buzzer beater gave Hempfield a dramatic 38-36 victory. Oh by the way if you’re keeping track at home, this year’s Hempfield squad entered Friday night at the #2 line in the District 3 6A standings just behind the defending state champion, Reading. Even the best program in Section 1 historically, the McCaskey Red Tornado, have not been immune to Warwick’s house of horrors. In 2015, the Red Tornado traveled up to Lititz only to come away on the short end of the stick, 44-43. The resume on that 2015 McCaskey team would go on to read as a state semifinalist as the Red Tornado were eventually turned away by Roman Catholic in the Final Four, a mere three points shy of a state title game appearance. But that’s not all. There is still one other great program in that resides in Section 1 that Warwick has been able to put on their home hit list in recent years. That being the Cedar Crest Falcons. In 2008, an 11-1 Cedar Crest team rolled into “The Coolest Small Town,” only to be sent back home to Cornwall shocked following a Chris Neidermyer buzzer beater that gave Warwick one of it’s five wins of the season, 50-48. And just like McCaskey in 2015, Cedar Crest’s trip to Lititz that same year not be fun either as the #1 ranked team in District 3 fell to Warwick as the Warriors’ posted a jaw-dropping upset on senior night over the visiting Falcons. And just for record keeping, that same 2015 Cedar Crest team would go on to finish with a 27-5 overall record and advance to the District 3 final before eventually falling to the same Roman Catholic team that upended McCaskey in the 2015 state playoffs. Fast forward to January 19, 2018 and the stage felt eerily similar. Warwick, playing their best ball of the season was sitting there waiting in the weeds to spring another headline-stealing upset as the #4 ranked team in District 3 6A came calling fresh off a disappointing loss to rival McCaskey just 24 hours before. But with so much riding on the line, Cedar Crest head coach Tommy Smith knew better than to just sweep the Falcons’ previous Warwick experiences under the rug heading into Friday night. “We talked about it. We said that this is one of the most difficult places to play. Flat out, the most difficult place I’ve had to play as a coach,” the head Falcon said when bringing up previous Lititz road trips to this year’s Falcon squad. “(Warwick) brings a great atmosphere. I think Warwick feels great here and it’s just a tough place to play.” And just like so many great teams before them, Cedar Crest too would be pushed to the limit Friday night. The key difference being that this group of Falcons had the moxie and mental makeup to stand tall in the face of a Warwick upset bid and return home victorious with a badly-needed victory to keep their dreams of a Section 1 championship alive and well. A victory that may very well turn out to be a defining moment in their season. One thing became very apparent when the game got underway. Warwick would push all their chips to the center of the table by planning to hit it big from behind the 3 point line. And sure enough, the Warriors were able to do exactly that. Just 50 seconds into the contest, Warwick star freshman guard Joey McCracken knocked down a triple to give the home-standing Warriors the quick 3-0 lead. Although Cedar Crest senior forward Cole Laney would eventually answer back with a 3 ball of his own, Warwick continued to shoot it well from behind the arc as a Clayton Mohler trifecta with 5:30 to go in the first quarter made it an 8-5 Warwick lead in the early going. To their credit however, Cedar Crest did not flinch as the Falcons promptly answered back with a 4-0 run of their own to take their first lead of the ballgame at 9-8 following a pair of free throws from all-star senior guard Blake Thomson before a pair of freebies converted by Cole Laney followed suit, eventually increasing the Falcon lead to 11-8 with 3:40 left to play in the first period. But that just so happened to be the time when Warwick would begin to really heat up. Following the Laney free throws, Warwick answered back with two consecutive triples, one from Clayton Mohler, and another from Ryan Shirk as the Warriors retook the lead 14-11. From then on, Shirk continued to have the touch from beyond the arc as the 6’2” junior guard pumped in another trifecta to make it a 19-13 Warwick lead with just one minute remaining in the opening stanza. But there were still time for more heroics from bonus distance by Clayton Mohler as the senior guard knocked down his third triple of the opening quarter to make it a 22-14 Warwick lead when the first frame eventually expired. As it would turn out, the brief break in between quarters did nothing to cool down Warwick’s hot shooting. Case in point, Ryan Shirk rising up and knocking down yet another triple which saw the Warwick lead swell to double digits at 25-14 just 1:30 into the second stanza. And even though Warwick was setting the nylon nets ablaze, Coach Smith remained calm and collected knowing his Falcons could weather the storm. “(Warwick) shot great the first quarter,” Smith said of the Warriors’ early punch. “I didn’t think we needed to change anything. Now if they shoot like that in the second quarter, maybe at halftime we have to make some adjustments, but a few tweaks here and there just understanding personnel. I thought in the second quarter we did a better job of getting out and getting after them and that’s really what turned the tide.” Foul shooting. Foul shooting. Foul shooting. So often it can make or break games. Well in Cedar Crest’s case in the second quarter against Warwick on Friday night, free throw shooting is what helped keep the Falcons afloat amidst Warwick’s early surge. After a pair of freebies knocked down by Falcon senior guard Jaiden Melendez made it a 26-16 ballgame with over five minutes to go in the second quarter, the Falcons quietly plodded about their business, sneaking back into the game while Warwick was hit by a cold snap in regards to their outside shooting prowess. Sure enough, Cedar Crest stuck to their gameplan. And after a steal and finish that culminated in an old-fashioned three point play by senior guard Dylan Miller, the Falcons were back within a half dozen at 26-20 with four minutes remaining in the half. Flash forward to the conclusion of the second quarter and practice made perfect for Blake Thomson as Cedar Crest’s senior guard closed the half with four straight free throws from the stripe which brought the Falcons to within five at the intermission, 30-25. For as much as Warwick had enjoyed prolific outside shooting at the outset of the contest, it would be Cedar Crest who would have the same type of success once the second half got underway as a 3 ball canned by junior guard Logan Horn brought the Falcons to within four at 36-32 with 4:30 left in the third. But from there, Warwick’s bruising forward Bryan Rottkamp had the answer as the 6’1” senior forward rattled off his own personal 4-0 run to push the Warrior lead up to eight at 40-32 shortly thereafter. And although Cedar Crest would close the gap down to five at 40-35 following a trifecta by way of Dylan Miller, Warwick answered back with a 4-0 flurry to extend the lead back out to 44-35 with 2:20 left in the third. With the game on the line, Cedar Crest needed their senior leaders to step up. And right on cue, the two-headed monster of Blake Thomson and Cole Laney arrived with bad intentions as Laney promptly ripped off a 4-0 run to close the gap back down to five before Thomson splashed a triple to cut the Warrior lead to two at 44-42 with the quarter winding down. Fortunately for Warwick, Ryan Shirk was there with the answer to stop the Cedar Crest run as his put back, good for 2 of his team-high 17 points on the night, sent things to the fourth quarter with Warwick clinging to the 46-42 lead. After Cole Laney put home a stick back that got Cedar Crest to within a deuce on the Falcons’ first trip down the floor to start the final quarter, it seemed like a Falcon tie or lead was all but a certain. But after several trips down the floor that came up empty, Warwick was able to withstand the early quarter pressure before eventually going up by four following a pair of free throws nailed by Ryan Shirk to make it a 48-44 ballgame midway through the final quarter. But for all the hard luck that Cedar Crest experienced over the previous few minutes, Blake Thomson was there to make that a thing of the past as the senior guard knocked down two enormous triples down the home stretch to give the lead back to Cedar Crest, 50-48, with two and a half minutes to go. A lead the Falcons would never relinquish. In fact, the Cedar Crest lead would balloon to four right after the Thomson 3 point aerial display as a Logan Horn tough reverse finish at the cup increased the Falcon lead to 52-48 with 1:45 to go, prompting Warwick to call a timeout. Although the Warriors would come up empty on their ensuing possession coming out of the timeout, their defense was able to come up with a timely stop as a Ryan Shirk steal eventually culminated in a foul and a trip to the charity stripe where the junior guard calmly knocked down the pair to bring Warwick back within a bucket at 52-50 with one minute left to go. But the dreams for Warwick to draw even or perhaps retake the lead were dashed by Logan Horn as the junior stepped in front of a pass on the ensuing Warrior possession as the Cedar Crest starting quarterback ironically got the chance to play the role of a defensive back on the hardwood, thwarting one of the final Warwick chances down the stretch. And from there, a pair of Blake Thomson free throws, good for 2 of his game-high 19 points, fittingly closed things out as Cedar Crest came out on top, surviving an upset scare from Warwick, 54-50. Although it will go down as just one win in record book, it was a big win for Cedar Crest on Friday night for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, the Falcons showed off their resolve by putting Thursday night’s disappointing loss to McCaskey behind them, dodging the bullet of having that loss possibly manifest itself into two or more. Secondly, Cedar Crest did not play their best ball, yet it was still good enough to pull out a road victory within the section. Wins that you take no matter how they are presented to you. Yet even though the Falcons may have appeared off their game somewhat, Coach Smith was quick to acknowledge that their opponent had a lot to do with that. “I think their shooting, knocking down six 3’s early, that’s tough,” Smith regarding the challenge Warwick posed on Friday night. “The way (Warwick) shot, they built that lead and we just tried to play one possession at a time. Grind back, grind back, grind back and eventually I think we did, holding them to four foul shots in the fourth quarter which was inevitably the difference in the game. Give Warwick credit. They fight.” NEXT UP: With the much-needed win over Warwick now in their back pocket, Cedar Crest gets back to the grind in just a few hours as the Falcons are faced with the unenviable task of playing three games in as many days thanks to the clipper system that rolled through the area earlier this week dumping snow and ice behind in its wake. And for as much as the average person may say they hate the snow, let’s just say that coaches aren’t exactly fans of the havoc the winter season can play regarding scheduling snafus that are just part of the nature of the beast. “It’s difficult to get gameplans together,” Coach Smith admitted Friday night regarding the challenge of facing two section foes in back to back nights before matching up with one Pennsylvania’s best programs in Williamsport on the third day on such a condensed schedule. “Luckily we have a group of seniors that have been through it before so we can gameplan tomorrow morning for Williamsport, but it’s hard playing three games in a row with no practice in between.” As far as Warwick is concerned, the Warriors will back in action on Saturday as well, loading the bus to head over to York County to take on Red Lion. Following Saturday’s tussle across the river, Warwick returns back to Section 1 action next week with roadtrips to Lebanon and Hempfield before finally returning home for a date with McCaskey on January 30th. « District 2 Scoring Milestones Wilson Powers Past Garden Spot As Bulldogs Knock Off Red Hot Spartans In Key Nonconference Battle »	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3325
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World Scholar: Latin America and The Caribbean World Scholar: Latin America and The Caribbean is a new resource for regional studies, combining primary and secondary sources. 19th century, full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. Search Internet Resources for Primary Sources Ashmolean Collection Online The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy British Library Digitized Manuscripts British Museum Collection Database Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Hanover Historical Texts Collection The Library of Congress: Digital Collections Life Photo Archive NARA: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration The National Musem of American History Collections New York Public Library Digital Collections Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives - Digital Collection The Vietnam Center and Archive Women in World History - Primary Sources Find Books & eBooks about California & San Diego History Search Internet Resources for San Diego & California History Chariot Online Archive (MiraCosta College Student Newspaper) "California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 California State Parks: Office of Historic Preservation California Surf Museum Calisphere (University of California) Early California Populations Project (Huntington Library) Historical Society: Carlsbad Historical Society: Encinitas Historical Society: La Jolla Historical Society: Oceanside Historical Society: San Marcos Historical Society: Solana Beach Historical Society: Vista History.com: California San Diego Genealogical Society San Diego History Center Society of Architectural Historians: Southern California Chapter Journal of San Diego History Last Updated: Apr 20, 2020 1:45 AM URL: https://library.miracosta.edu/history Subjects: History & Political Science Tags: ancient, civilization, culture, early times, historical, medieval, old, past, primary	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3328
__label__wiki	0.672722	0.672722	Deal struck to abolish EU roaming charges A deal to abolish mobile phone roaming charges in the European Union in 2017 has been struck in Brussels, officials said Tuesday. (AFP) A deal to abolish mobile phone roaming charges in the European Union in 2017 has been struck in Brussels, officials said Tuesday. The agreement will scrap roaming charges imposed on EU citizens who use their mobile phones in other member states from June 15, 2017. But providers would still be allowed to apply a "fair use policy" to prevent "abusive" use of roaming, a statement from the European Council said. A first move towards "net neutrality" is also being introduced under which operators will be obliged to treat all traffic equally when providing Internet access services. Roaming fees are already set to fall from April next year, when caps of 0.05 euros per minute for calls, 0.02 euros for SMS's and 0.05 per megabyte of data will be imposed. The deal was reached between the Latvian presidency of the EU and the European Parliament after overnight talks and was described as "provisional." The agreement needs formal approval by the bloc's parliament and 28 governments.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3336
__label__wiki	0.619984	0.619984	The Charioteer by Mary Renault Originally published in 1959, "The Charioteer" is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Vidal's "The City and the Pillar" and Isherwood's "Berlin Stories" as a monumental work in gay literature. Read Less Originally published in 1959, "The Charioteer" is a bold, unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Vidal's "The City and the Pillar" and Isherwood's "Berlin Stories" as a monumental work in gay literature. Read More Fiction > War & Military Fiction > Psychological Fiction > Gay New Books from $8.95 There's some clever,thoughtful, and good writing in this book. Without those qualities the book would never have made its way or be remembered. But by today's standards, it's excessively detailed. Detailed in ways that do not advance the plot or enrich the characters. If submitted to a publisher today, it probably would not be published, or certainly would not be widely distributed. It was one of the few serious treatments of gay relationships at the time it was written, and deserves credit for that. Today, an editor might want it condensed into a short story, or a novella at most. But if you're willing to read a book that is more prolix than concise, you can find some rewards here. Trade paperback, Good 1994, Mariner Books Publisher: Mariner Books Trade paperback, Fair Kona Bay Books Kailua-Kona, HI, USA Used-Acceptable. Wichita, KS, USA Good. Moderate cover and spine wear, firm binding, some highlighting and underlining in the text. Previous owner's name scrawled on textblock foredge. MABBooks Fair with no dust jacket. Worn. The Book House - Saint Louis Good. Good mass market paperback. 1983. Spine creased. Trade paperback, Very Good Bibliomuse Very good. Text pages clean & tight with no markings or highlighting. Cover has scattered scratches. A recovering wounded soldier makes a discover about himself that is both unsettling & liberating. Very readable copy.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3340
__label__wiki	0.532491	0.532491	Ethiopian Café Anfilo in Oakland, Where The Food Is As Strong And Bold As The Coffee Other Ethiopian restaurants in the area may do better business, but our writer likes going here. by Cynthia Salaysay Andria Lo The doro wot’s thick sauce clung to simple chicken drumsticks, which tasted as rich as beef. At Anfilo’s coffee ceremony in the middle of the Grand Lake farmers market, frankincense burns a constant, clean smoke. Everyone chats idly around a low table, listening for the sharp, cracking sound of just-roasted coffee beans, and the equally sharp, short cup of espresso-like coffee that follows. In striking and beautiful contrast to the frenetic market, it’s an intimate, peaceable affair, bidding one to slow down. But that’s not easy to do at Anfilo’s brick-and-mortar café, on the busy corridor at Broadway and Grand, where people tend to rush. And so, the cafe shifted its business, from making the Ethiopian coffee more known to its hip, food-knowledgeable neighborhood, to creating a more modern context for the rich tradition of its food. Manager Ambessaw Assegued and his wife, Dagmawit Tesfaye, who owns the business, have been here a long time — Assegued for more than 35 years — and the restaurant seems fully aware of the expectations of the local foodies. Hanging on its walls are pictures of Ethiopian socialites, not Ethiopian basketry, and playing on the stereo is vintage Afrobeat and modern Ethiopian music. The place provides forks, and serves its a la carte meat dishes on plates with injera on the side, making for cleaner flavors. Most importantly, Anfilo makes a point to source fresh, vibrant spices. It shouldn’t be any surprise that an outfit that imports hand-picked coffee growing wild in the forests of Ethiopia might take similar care with its spices. Anfilo gets theirs in Ethiopia, from Tesfaye and Assegued’s family. As opposed to Ethiopian commercial spice companies, which machine-dry and process their berbere and shiro spice mixes, the family dries its chilies and other spices in the sun and does everything by hand. Also handmade is Anfilo’s spiced ghee. It’s a difference I could taste. I found many of Anfilo’s dishes spoke louder, in fiery and flowery tongues, than the more popular Injera in Alameda and Café Colucci in Oakland. The spices are more dynamic; the chilies have a slightly more forceful sting. After my first breakfast there of strong coffee — made traditionally, but in the kitchen — and banatu firfir, injera tossed in berbere, I felt like my neural circuitry fried and my body fell into an altered, euphoric state. I found that each dish in Anfilo’s lunch buffet stood out boldly against the others. The kik alicha, a yellow split pea stew spiked with ginger and garlic, was the sweetest, its child-friendly mildness as far away as one can get in character from the spicy, berbere-spiked savor of Anfilo’s mesir wot of red lentils. It was a force to be reckoned with, and on my first visit, I found it addictive. Berbere continued to dance on my tongue in the doro wot, or chicken stew. Wots are generally thickened with onions that have been cooked until falling apart; in this case, the thick sauce clung to the meat, making a simple chicken drumstick taste as dark and rich as beef. What balanced the meal was the strong, earthy tang of Anfilo’s injera, made with 100 percent teff. It was darker, less fluffy, and sourer than most, and I found that it stood up nicely to Anfilo’s bold spicing. Anfilo co-owner Agmawit Tesfaye. Should one want a more temperate meal, there are a good number of milder dishes. I reveled in the flavor of ghee in the cafe’s breakfast of quinch’e, a comforting dish of cracked wheat, cooked al dente. The ghee, sweet and flowery, allowed each grain to separate and roll on the tongue, and was all that was required to elevate a simple bowl. Anfilo does have misses. I found the eggs in its Asmara scramble of onions and beef to be a bit overcooked, its curds too dry. Its gomen, a dish of braised kale, was chewier than I would have liked. And the spicing does vary in small degrees from day to day. On most of my visits, the heat was fairly brazen. But on my last, it seemed a little more moderate. Though Ethiopian coffee takes time, the buffet is perfect for those who lack it. It’s an efficient spot for a good $10 lunch for local worker bees — you can just go up to the counter, grab a takeout container, serve yourself, and be on your way. You’ll find in great part the typical lentil or chickpea dishes one sees in the veggie combos around town, and, generally, at least one lesser-known item, like green beans sautéed in onion, tomato, and pepper. Other Ethiopian restaurants in the area may do better business, but I like going here, where there’s always a kind word from the staff and something new to explore. Anfilo’s menu changes all the time — on my last visit, kitfo, the raw dish of beef mixed with ghee and served with mitmita, had just appeared on the menu, as had a breakfast foul or phool, both of which, I trust, would be worth my time. Anfilo 35 Grand Ave., Oakland Hours: Mon.-Wed. 8am-3pm, Thu. 8am-3pm Lunch buffet $10 Doro Wot (Chicken stew) $12 Ethiopian coffee $2 Restaurant Review Anfilo	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3342
__label__wiki	0.539675	0.539675	I<< HOME Year Book 2018-19 Contents Officers 2018-19 County Match Fees & Petrol Allowance YCA League Match Venues Secretaries of Competing Clubs Match Correspondents ‑ Woodhouse Cup Match Correspondents ‑ IM Brown Match Correspondents ‑ Silver Rook YCA League Fixtures 2018-2019 ECF Game Fee Changes &c Joining the ECF Standard-play Grading Trends 2002-18 Notes on the YCA Grading List Results Graded July 2017 to June 2018 YCA Grading List Yorkshire Junior Reports Correspondence Chess Report U-160 Captain’s Message 2017-18 League Tables & Match Results County Match Result Summary English County Finals 2018 Recent Winners of YCA Events YCA League Rules Index to Rules Individual Championship Rules Contact Details Index Event Calendar 2018-19 Shrinking Silver Rook and the idea of a Minor League for Smaller Teams Andrew Zigmond has launched a consultation on the future direction of the Yorkshire team chess, here looked at under two headings: The Shrinking Silver Rook and the idea of a Minor League for Smaller Teams What follows is an independent “web-editorial” view of things. Now is probably the time to start considering such things, rather than wait for an under-represented, possibly inquorate AGM to try to sort out whatever problems arise for 2019-20! Shrinking Silver Rook There are currently 29 teams in the league, one less than last season, split 12:12:5 between divisions 1 to 3. There are concerns that a further reduction of teams in the Yorkshire league might occur, if not for 2019-20 then perhaps for 2020-21, and potentially leave the Silver Rook (division 3) with too few teams for it to go ahead, meaning a small number of teams would have to be turned away if no adjustment were made to counter this. To adjust the present league structure so that teams in too small a division can be preserved involves either 1) combining two divisions to form a larger single division, which is precluded due to the lack of extra match weekends in the calendar, or 2) reducing the size of higher divisions, which might involve some teams having to move down despite not being formally relegated. Twelve teams in most divisions has been the traditional preference (though it is not laid down in the Rules, league structure and organisation being mainly left to the decision of the AGM). Opportunities for other forms of weekend chess have over the years increased massively, so maybe there is a case for moving toward 11 teams as the target number per division, in order to feed teams down into division 3, and even to move after that to 10 teams. (10 teams require two less match weekends.) More teams (re-)joining later would allow expansion back to 11, or 12. An AGM can, of course, restructure the league in a way involving movement of teams between divisions in addition to normal promotion and relegation, but if affected clubs were absent from the AGM, then the meeting might feel reluctant to make such changes. Equally, absentee clubs might feel aggrieved if such actions were taken. An alternative way the AGM could attempt to constructively manage shrinkage of the league is to consider the second idea of adding a Minor League for smaller teams. Loss of the Silver Rook would not, of course, imply the imminent collapse of the YCA in totality. In 1914 the number of team competitions (not connected then by promotion and relegation) increased to three, but shrank back to two in 1929. In 1959 the number returned to three with the formation of the Silver Rook which then folded in 1966. In 1973 it was back to three with the re-birth of the Silver Rook. In 1978 it increased further to four, with the advent of the A. G. Sunderland Cup (division 4). From 2003, the A. G. Sunderland was detached from the league structure as such, being rehashed as more of a “fun event” to keep it alive, and ended in 2010. Now, in 2019, there are worries that the Silver Rook will fold, taking us back to the where we were in 1966, and about when I started participating – still before promotion and relegation were introduced. Numbers of teams in league divisions since 1992 were as follows (2004 data missing): Minor League for Smaller Teams The main reason for loss of teams is probably a reduction in numbers of players available, and adjusting division sizes cannot prevent that loss, though shortage of potential captains can also be a problem. Accordingly, Andrew Zigmond is considering proposing an additional “Minor” league for smaller teams, possibly 6 players per team, but more probably 5 (to fit in one car). Obviously, in the first season there would probably not be more than one “division”. As things are envisaged, player eligibility would still be such that playing in the top half of a team in the main 8-player league would preclude playing in the Minor league. Thus the Minor league would continue hierarchically below the lowest division of the 8-player league for player-eligibility purposes. However, there would be no promotion and relegation between the two leagues, though teams could switch from one league to the other, and new teams could enter either league. Thus a dwindling Silver Rook team could switch to the Minor League to avoid folding completely. Such a Minor League might attract teams from some smaller clubs which cannot envisage entering the main Yorkshire league, so there might be teams in the Minor League which were stronger than those in the bottom division of the main league. That could be avoided, if it were perceived as a problem, by admitting to the Minor League only teams from the CMs (clubs) represented in the main league. In time, the Minor League could expand to two or more divisions. Clubs which have participated in the past might re-enter at 5-player level. Scarborough, Barnsley and Rotherham come to mind. Of course, such “new” teams might drain players from existing teams. Potential operational problems might surface after the competition had started, meaning Rules might need to be refined. Steve Mann	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3349
__label__cc	0.740669	0.259331	All good things tell a story. We deliver it to you. Come and experience it. 0 Your cart is empty Taste & Knowledge Tale written during the creative writing course of the Sicily Summer School 2019 by Alessia Martino «‘A verra è verra pi’ tutti ». Mom used to repeat it every morning, with a mixture of pain and disbelief, when we crossed Largo delle Sirene to attend to the day houseworks. There was always something to be amazed: Chistians who all looked down from above and now begged for bread; respectable, young widows who paraded under the voracious eyes of German soldiers. They weren't always young, actually, or even widows. It was war for everyone, even for us. The name of our family competed in fame with those of the Trapani most illustrious families. Our company, a small fish preservation industry, employed a dozen family fathers before the war, but had been closed for months. Even our putìa in Via Carolina was close to suffering the same fate. My family and I lived not far from this, in a small house that faced, along with those of my aunts and that of my grandfather, on a paved courtyard where we had lunch and dinner all together in the summer. It was one of the few things that the war had not taken away from us. A long horseshoe table was being prepared, to which we all sat together. Mom had two sisters and a brother. Uncle Paolo, besides being the only male, was also the smallest of them: he was just ten years older than me, and I had grown attached to his legs. Among the five grandchildren, I was his absolute favorite and never missed an opportunity to point this out and create jealousy between us children. Uncle Paolo was a thin and strong boy, with thick dark curls and a big smile that enchanted. The sisters had raised him as a son: they were left motherless when he was very small. His grandfather, then, loved him in a special way: Uncle Paolo was his pride, the desired son after the three girls. It was his whole life. At the outbreak of the war, Uncle Paolo had just turned nineteen. The grandfather did everything he could to save him from the call. Letters, telegrams, recollections. He tried any way. He also risked getting into trouble when he once offered a big gift to a powerful party affiliate. But in the end, there was nothing to be done: the postcard arrived anyway. I remember that the end of the world broke out: tears, prayers, recommendations to all the saints. I had the feeling that, until that moment, the war had only touched us. Now it really had broken out. Uncle made fun of everyone. "You are already crying for a dead man!" In the days of preparation for departure, he often performed in grotesque scenes in which he always involved me. His favorite was that of the bisito: he lay in bed, on his back, with his arms crossed over his chest, and I had to stand at his bedside with flowers in his hand and a black mother's handkerchief on his head, to pity him. It always ended that one of the women of the house chased us away by throwing a tappina at us. Finally, the day of the detachment arrived. The whole family gathered in the courtyard for greetings. When my turn came, Uncle bent down to hug me, and squeezed me tight. He left a kiss on my hair, and for the first time in those days I felt like crying. The grandfather wanted to accompany him alone to the station. When he returned home, he was taciturn, with a drawn tight face. His old face only revived when the letters arrived. From time to time it was a leap for everyone because everyone always feared the worst. When uncle finally obtained his first license and returned home, it was a big party: in those few days, foods that had not been seen for months reappeared on our table. The grandfather, radiant, never left his son. The uncle was thinner, but he was fine. He told little about where he had been and what he had done. He looked tried, but was happy to be home again. Despite the bombings and hardships, in those days, there was always something to smile about. Before leaving, my uncle squeezed me hard. I clung to his neck, asking him not to leave me. But he left again, and with him, life and joy disappeared from our home. Winter passed slow and cruel. There was hunger everywhere. They were sad days. After three months, finally, another license. This time my uncle came back with crutches and some wounds, with a thin lean face. The injuries were not serious; after a few days, we realized that it was not one of those we had to worry about. He had no appetite, and spent most of his time locked up in his room, in bed, in the dark. Despite everyone's efforts, they couldn't get him out of the house. He had become solitary and uninhibited. He didn't even look like my uncle. I could only drag him into the yard, with the excuse of having his leg trained in convalescence. He looked twenty years old. Una volta sentii il nonno chiedergli cosa fosse successo. Lui lo guardò con occhi vuoti. «A’ verra fa schifo», disse solamente, con un filo di voce. Once I heard the grandfather ask him what had happened. He looked at him with empty eyes. «A’ verra fa schifo» ("The war sucks") he said only in a faint voice. Within a few weeks, the wounds healed completely. The doctor said he could leave. It was a very hot day in July. I helped my mother wash the dishes in the courtyard, in the big marble pile, while her aunts settled. Grandpa was dozing in the chair, in the shadow of the climbing vine. Suddenly, the quiet was torn by a deafening bang. In a fraction of a second I thought of bombs, planes, tanks. Instinctively, I ran to huddle against the door jamb of the house. The little girls screamed, frightened. Grandpa awoke, looking around. I don't know how he understood. Something in him had suddenly snapped, simultaneously with that deafening detonation. "Paolo," he said only, and rushed into the house. Moments later, we heard a cry. I stayed where I was, terrified, while my mother and aunts ran towards my grandfather. I heard their cries and tears. "Paolo! Paolo! "They all shouted and cried, and shouted," What have you done, Paolo ?! " I waited to hear the uncle's voice. My heart beat back in my ears, covering the desperate moans coming from home. I thought of the gun I had seen in my uncle's bedroom one day, when I saw him pass it in his hands, and then hide it under his pillow as soon as he noticed me. I covered my ears with my hands, and I started to cry too. Il nonno divenne un fantasma. Ci guardava tutti con distacco, come se non esistessimo neppure. The only reactions he had were when, in the evening, we heard the news on the radio. From his corner of solitude, we could hear him cursing in a low voice. He shook his head, then, and hid his eyes behind his big, calloused hand. At the beginning of March, the radio began to give news of riots and unrest in the north of the peninsula, all suffocated in the bud. Still, the rumors that circulated were others. To the daily speeches new protagonists were added: the American. It was clear that something was changing: there was an air of tension in the streets, it was caught in the strange movements of German soldiers, in the nervousness in their eyes and made them even more hateful and dyed. Almost a year had passed since his uncle's death, when the news of the British attack on Pantelleria arrived. Terror began to spread not only among the occupiers, but also among the population. Mum started packing for a possible evacuation, which we had avoided until then. In the midst of that restless and unbreathable climate, his grandfather continued to be impassive. Less than a month later, the Allies landed in Sicily. A general stampede began. The first to leave were the officers: I saw them leave the city on cars packed with luggage, closely followed by trucks and other military vehicles with simple soldiers. Within a week, no more uniforms around. Only a handful of soldiers remained in their headquarters, at the Lazzaretto. They made me almost tender: they were all very young, with clean faces, and in those uniforms they seemed out of place and uncomfortable. It was not difficult to understand, even for a child, that they were afraid and that they hated that war just like me. They too, after a few days, disappeared. The Lazzaretto remained empty and silent. Qualcuno disse che era rimasto un solo soldato, che adesso si aggirava disorientato e spaventato. «Si l’attrovano l’americani, si lu manciano», era stato l'unico commento del nonno, in un tono del tutto incomprensibile. Quella sua affermazione mi aveva fatto venire u' scanto. One day, finally, the dreaded tanks entered the city with a great din. Panic broke out, because we didn't know what our fate would be. In a very short time, however, what had seemed the umpteenth invasion, turned into a big party. The war was over for us. One night, I woke up because of the heat. I went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, and I saw a shadow move in the courtyard. I pulled the window curtain back a little, and almost screamed. Although dirty and crumpled, I recognized the German uniform on what looked like little more than a boy. He looked around in fear. Then, I saw the grandfather. At first, I couldn't understand what was happening. Grandpa passed something to him. "Veni ccà, cànciati" ("Come here, changed"), he said in a low voice. That obviously could not understand him, but he certainly understood the gestures. Intrigued, I watched the scene. The boy hastily undressed his uniform, and dressed himself with what his grandfather had given him. With a sinking heart I recognized, from the initials on the pocket, one of the uncle's shirts. My eyes began to burn: that boy had the same stature, the same build. In the twilight of the night, he really looked like my uncle. Grandpa approached the soldier and adjusted his shirt collar. Then he looked at him and caressed his face roughly. «Figghio meo ...». His voice was broken by emotion. Hidden behind the curtain, I watched them hug. His grandfather helped him escape, and no one ever knew anything. Broken by the pain of having lost a son, he had saved another's son. He had won the war. Voci da Favignana And suddenly the Landing of Ulysses appears by Umberto Rizza Landscapes and tastings A skyscraper in Favignana by Guido Conti A different view Japanese "King lovers" by Manuela Soressi Copyright © 2015-2019 NTV 3.1 Srl - Via Toscana 45/1 - 43123 Parma, Italy - VAT Number: IT 02738260344	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3352
__label__cc	0.629291	0.370709	Melissa Terras Adventures in Digital Cultural Heritage Stats and the Digital Humanities 28 Nov 2011 ~ Melissa Terras Update 01/12/2011: do read the comments! lots of good stuff below this post. So yesterday, I was having a relatively laid back day, rolling about the living room with the bairns, occasionally seeing what was happening on the twitters. A few people were retweeting How To Design Your Own Infographics and I thought “hey, I should make an infographic.” I concede that the world does not need any more infographics, but its just my line of work that it pays to play and tinker with these kind of things, before we start talking about them in class. What should I make an infographic about? I thought. Digital Humanities, of course! But then you run into the problem… where are the stats about Digital Humanities that could be used for such a thing? There is nothing about it on the (problematic) wikipedia page, and facts and figures arent terribly close to hand. Now, I may never get round to making that infographic, but it would pay, I think, to start to gather up information about our discipline. Here is a list of some things I have come up with – or at least, could track down pretty quickly. I also asked the twitters, so have credited some people, below, who were quick to answer. The growth in interest could be charted by the growth in subscriptions to the Humanist discussion list, 2002 onwards, which is available here, although Willard would have to be prodded for the more up to date figures, or they could be gleaned from the AHDO minutes from the past few years. (Willard has emailed me stats – current subscription is 1831 on the list!). Update: Willard has provided me with the number of posts to humanist over the years: Year Messages 1993-4 646 Willard has also supplied the number of members of the list: year members Lou Burnard has also pointed me to a report he made about early use of Humanist, between August 1987 and January 1988. There are some crucial stats there about both individuals and topics in that period. As Lou says… “I leave it to the reader to determine whether anything much has changed“. The number of submissions to the DH annual conference (formerly ALLC/ACH), compared with the acceptance rate, could be gathered, from the ADHO minutes. (I’m digging on this. Paul Spence has told me there are just under 400 submissions for dh2012). John Unsworth gave me the keys to the kingdom to generate the stats from conftool myself: long papers accepted %accepted DH2007 90 68 75.6 DH2008 156 95 60.9 DH2009 210 114 54.3 DH2011 was the first conference to have short paper formats in addition to the long papers: 57 were submitted. 21 of those were accepted, which was an acceptance rate of 36.8%. (Thanks, Matthew Jockers for the prod on that one). The number of people on twitter identified as Digital Humanities scholars, in Dan Cohen’s comprehensive list. (It currently stands at 359 individual scholars doing Digital Humanities who are on twitter). Rachel Murphy pointed out that 46 phd students are currently enroled in the Digital Arts and Humanities PhD Programme in Ireland. The number of people subscribing to Literary and Linguistic Computing, which means they are part of at least one membership association tied to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, and the individual numbers for ALLC, ACH, and Sedi/semi. Dave Beavan has responded: as 2 Nov 2011 @LLCjournal subscribers: ACH 89, ALLC 78, SDH-SEMI 36, joint 172. Total is 375! (will dig out historical figures to show the trajectory). Update: here is a table showing the growth in membership of ADHO through subscription to LLC, culled from Dave and I’s membership reports: type Nov-07 Nov-08 Nov-09 Nov-10 Nov-11 ACH 73 57 87 76 89 ALLC 84 72 82 84 78 SDH/SEMI n/a 13 17 39 36 Joint 67 92 121 115 172 Total 224 234 307 314 375 Update: Edward Vanhoutte tells me that as of December 6th, there are now 378 Subscribers to LLC. There are also 3,018 institutional subscriptions. Edward has also provided some statistics regarding the home countries of authors who submit to the journal: In 2011, the breakdown of the submitted papers per country shows that although most submissions come from Europe (81) and the US & Canada (27 & 14), Asia is following with 22 submissions. There is potential growth in South America (3), the Arab world (3), Africa (2) and Australia (1). He also provided an overview of growth of total submissions to the journal: 2008 (65), 2009 (47), 2010 (41), 2011 (123). The acceptance rate for papers submitted to LLC in 2010 was 54.84% coming down from 63.16% in 2009 and 71.70% in 2008. The acceptance rate for 2011 is 55.10%. The annual hits and downloads to LLC online are thusly: Home Pages TOC pages Abstracts HTML Full-text PDF Full-text Total Full-text 2008 32,413 13,120 93,619 6,109 17,404 23,513 2010 28,644 15,341 101,649 7,476 20,770 28,246 2011 ytd 36,096 15,811 111,759 8,350 20,172 28,522 A list – and $ total – of all the grants that the National Endowment for the Humanities, from the Office of Digital Humanities. This is via @brettbobley. I’m getting a total of 250 projects, with an outright award of $15,268,130 total (although I’m doing this on a tiny screen, so do correct me if I’m wrong, I need to see the spreadsheet on a much larger monitor to make sure that is correct!). wow. thats a lot. The list – and $ total – of the joint NEH and JISC grants awarded for Digital Humanities projects (via @brettbobley, and @alastairdunning ). I’m getting 8 projects with an outright award of $966,691 (although again, teeny screen and large spreadsheet issues, do check my working). There is a list here of 330 projects funded by the AHRC between 1998 and 2004 that had some form of digital output. They dont include the funding amounts in the spreadsheet though (why? scared?) – I contacted them, and Ian Broadbridge, Portfolio Manager for the AHRC, provided me with this information A list of AHRC-funded digital research resources is available on line at http://www.arts-humanities.net/ahrc. As you can see, it includes a wide range of browsing, sorting and filtering options, and connects to detailed information about each project, including content type and methods used. A report on this site gives a some brief statistical information about the costs of the projects involved. All these DRR projects also represent a significant investment of public money, to a total cost of approximately £121.5m across all the years and schemes covered. Taking, once again, Standard Research Grants for the years 2000-2008 as the more reliable basis for illustration, we can see that the average cost of DRR projects is significantly higher than that of all projects in this group taken together: £309,110 as against £232,948. The average costs increased substantially from 2006 because of the move to full-cost funding: in 2008 the respective figures for Standard Research Grants were £413,838 and £324,703: the cash difference remains in line with the overall figures, though the proportional difference is reduced as a result of a larger overhead element. The ICT Methods Network Award was £1,037,382 The Award amount for the ICT Strategy Projects is £979,364 The Award Amount for e-Science Workshops is £65,498 The Award amount for Research Grant (e-Science) is £2,014,626 The details of all of the individual value of the grants is obtainable from http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundedResearch/BrowseResearch.aspx There is also a review, by David Robey, of the AHRC ICT Programme here. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fund a large amount of projects in the Humanities which have a digital component. Their Scholarly Communication and Information Technology strand of funding paid $30,870,567 to projects in 2010 (gleaned from their grant report). I’m asking about previous years, as their reports work differently across other years. Lisa Spiro identified 134 courses in Digital Humanities worldwide in her 2011 paper at DH. This can be compared to the 9 institutions offering courses in 1999 from McCarty and Kirschenbaum’s overview of Humanities computing units and institutional resources in 1999, which I had to claw from the wayback engine. This needs a closer looking at, to see what comparisons can be made. Mark Sample has been charting the growth of Digital Humanities sessions at MLA over the past few years. 2010: 27, 2011: 44, 2012: 58/753. Alastair Dunning suggests we could look at http://arts-humanities.net for some more project information, although I think that takes some digging to get some stats. There is the uber cool Network Visualisation of DH2011 which could be used to generate some useful stats, such as where everyone who came to DH2011 came from. which I have used above in this post. This was created by Elijah Meeks. Centernet – an international network of Digital Humanities centres – “has over 200 members from about 100 centers in 19 countries”. I cant see any easy way to get an exact figure from the listings. I emailed them – there are currently 167 digital humanities centres that are members of Centernet and “we get another couple every few weeks or so”. Neil Fraistat has added “Member centers come from 26 countries and currently 247 folks are on its listserv”. Karen Dalziel pointed me to the google map which plots all these centres. Should be relatively easy to export the KML file and datamine it to get the co-ordinates if you want to plot it in any other software. Kristel Pent has pointed out that there is another list of centres of Digital Humanities on the ALLC pages, and these should be cross referenced with the list on Centernet. Bethany Nowviskie has posted over at DH answers that there were: 28,837 unique visitors to DH Answers in the first year from 164 countries 969 registered DH Answers users contributing 1387 posts on 223 topics And here are the numbers of Humanities Computing / Digital Humanities-related sessions held at MLA — by count of the ACH: http://ach.org/mla-pages 604 panels over 13 annual conventions Fred Gibbs did a lovely post categorizing Definitions of Digital Humanities, which would make a nice pie chart. Dave Beavan suggested looking at the numbers of people contributing to the Day of DH, but the server always seems to be down. I’m emailing real people instead. Peter Organisciak has provided me with the stats re those who registered for the Day of DH over the past few years: Day of DH 2009: 103 Registered (83 participated) Day of DH 2010: 154 Registered Day of DH 2011: 244 Registered There are some interesting visualisations of the Day of DH up there, too. James Cummings tells me there are 700 subscribers to the Digital Medievalist Discussion List. Further details: DM-L started in 2003. 15th Jan 2005 there were 306 members, 28th April 2010 537 members, 27th August 2011 672 members, 5th December 2011 700 members. There are also 584 followers of the twitter account. James also gave me access to the user statistics of the Digital Medievalist website: in 2011 there were 16,808 Visits, from 12,763 Unique Visitors, with 35,546 Pageviews. 25% were returning visitors. James also gave me access to the stats for the Text Encoding Initative‘s website: in 2011 there were 176,469 Visits from 107,320 Unique Visitors, with 537,750 Pageviews. 40% were returning visitors. Syd Bauman tells me there are currently 949 people subscribed to TEI-L. Gabriel Bodard tell me there are currently 374 subscribers to Digital Classicist email list. Leif Isaksen has told me the subscriber counts to Antiquist discussion list: Aug 2006 - 3 Jan 2008 - 180 Jan 2010 - 264 Dec 2011 - 330 @DHNow has 2676 followers on twitter. @Dancohen has told me that last month the DHNow website had 14.5K visits from 5K unique visitors, and 48K page views. @DHquarterly has 688 followers on twitter. A quick look at google analytics tells me that in the past 6 months (when google analytics was switched on in DHQ) there have been 23,636 visits from 15,547 Unique Visitors who have looked at 52,370 pages in total (average of 2 and bit pages per visit). There have been visits from 137 different countries. @LLCJournal has 513 followers on twitter. Boone Gorges provided me with some stats about the code behind Anthologize – code lines, files, and commits another great way to measure intellectual investment in DH! (It was Bethany Nowviskie who suggested this, actually). There are 61 files, with 8693 lines of code, and 1722 comments. That’s some programming. Ray Siemens has provided me stats about the Digital Humanities Summer Institute: DHSI people stats: 2012 (300+ confirmed so far), 2011 (230), 2010 (180), 2009 (150), 2008 (125), 2007 (115), 2006 (95), 2005 (80), 2004 (75), pre-2004 (35-40 at each offering). 540 twitter followers @DHInstitute, 1429 members on the email announcement list. Elisabeth Burr has told me that the European Summer School “Culture & Technology” at Leipzig had 85 students in 2009, and 2010, and 21 lecturers, from 21 different countries (Brazil, Burkina Faso, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Canada, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary, USA, Cyprus) Julianne Nyhan has provided me with stats about the Computers and the Humanities journal (commonly known as CHum) which ran from 1997 to 2004. There were 1244 papers published in total, from 811 single authors, and 433 joint authors. What other facts and figures exist about DH? I’m looking for some other stats that “exist” – ie, dont tell me “count all the projects that say they are DH!” – erm, yeah. Tell me the count, and how you worked it out. Otherwise its a research project, rather than a “grab the existing stats” thing, which we should, as a community, be able to do, right? right? I’ll ask the twitters, and DHanswers, but if you tweet me or message me or leave a comment here, I’ll update the list, above. Maybe someone will make that infographic… Update: Desmond Schmidt did an analysis of the jobs posted to Humanist “There have been a lot of advertisements for jobs lately on Humanist. So I used the Humanist archive to do a survey of the last 10 years. I counted jobs that had both a digital and a humanities component, were full time, lasted at least 12 months and were at PostDoc level or higher”. 2008: 27 (incomplete – 1/2 year) 2011: 65 so far Breakdown by country: US: 133 GB: 65 CA: 35 IE: 18 DE: 13 FR: 8 IL: 3 NL: 2 ES: 2 AT: 1 AU: 1 BE: 1 Normalised by population: IE: 4.0 GB: 1.051779935 CA: 1.038575668 US: 0.433224756 NO: 0.416666667 IL: 0.405405405 DE: 0.158924205 FR: 0.127795527 NL: 0.121212121 AT: 0.119047619 BE: 0.092592593 AU: 0.04587156 ES: 0.043572985 You can also see the Digital Humanities job trends from indeed.com but the percentages are so small I’m not sure its statistically worth including. < Previous Computer Games and author lists Next > Imaging the Great Parchment 19 thoughts on “Stats and the Digital Humanities” Alastair Dunning says: There's a also a list of UK Digitisation Projects (up to 2009) at http://www.peelingwall.org/uk-digitisation.html This is digitisation rather than DH projects, and does not include projects funded under the AHRC Research Grants scheme (which tend to be hidden) Thanks Alastair! Craig Bellamy says: Thanks Melissa. I too will try this. I suppose it depends on that slippery definition discussion of digital humanities (ie. research vs utility as Alistair hints at etc.). I would like to do a similar project here; but not sure what metrics to use and what can be measured. I wonder have other epistemic practices done this? This is terrific! One quick comment: One of the key DH funders is the Andrew Mellon Foundation. (They are US based but also fund international projects.) I don't think they have a list of their DH funded projects, per se. So teasing out that data will be more difficult. But if you feel like digging into it, they do list all their grants in their annual reports. http://www.mellon.org/news_publications/annual-reports-essays Trevor Owens says: Google trends for digital humanities is interesting. According to Google, only recently have people started looking for digital humanities in large enough numbers to detect. http://www.google.com/trends?q=digital+humanities&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 NeilF says: More about centerNet: there are 247 people currently on its listserv and member centers come from 26 countries. nowviskie says: Hey, Melissa, I added some numbers to your posting on DH Answers. Some were meta: number of DH Answers users, unique visitors, countries of origin, posts… — and I also counted up 13 years' worth of MLA convention sessions on DH-related topics, as chronicled by the ACH. Amanda French says: If you consider THATCamp to be a digital humanities meeting (there are arguments for and against that), here are some THATCamp stats: 1 THATCamp in 2008 3 THATCamps in 2009 17 THATCamps in 2010 23 THATCamps (so far) planned for 2012 70 attendees on average per THATCamp 1899 registered users on http://thatcamp.org 57% of respondents “strongly agree” that THATCamp was useful for them 37% of respondents “agree” that THATcamp was useful for them 2% “neither agree nor disagree” that THATCamp was useful for them 4% “disagree” that THATCamp was useful for them Arno Bosse says: There's a list of subject keywords associated with DH conference paper/poster/panel submissions which AFAIK has been in place and presumably added to over the years. It would be very interesting to track the distribution of submissions across these headings over the years. Along these lines, it would also be very interesting to see what percentage of registered attendees at the DH conferences also attended the previous year's (or 3 or 4?) conference(s) and which subject keywords were associated with the attendees who were coming back year after year and who was not. Similarly, the subject keywords associated with accepted papers and those of rejected papers. The general idea is to try and use this as a way to track what kinds of disciplinary drifts have taken place in the DH world – so, for example, a slow and steady move away from the dominant position of English literature (or not) or a slow drift towards a greater inclusion of visual media. Come to think of it, it may be a good idea to revisit the DH conference subjet list. There may be some value in replacing it instead with the list drawn up by http://www.arts-humanities.net/ One more idea.. download/”readership” stats from DHQuarterly and LLC. FWIW I can offer them for articles on http://jdhcs.uchicago.edu Thanks for all these comments! I am chasing up all of the leads for ready stats… 1 Dec 2011 at 10:03 pm ps yes, Arno, do post stats from access to the colloquium papers! I've uploaded an Excel spreadsheet (.xls) to my Dropbox account: http://db.tt/BE7q0vmO OJS offers stats on Abstract, HTML and PDF views of an article. JDHCS doesn't (with one or two exceptions) publish articles in HTML format so the column “Total Galley Views” is in effect the same as PDF views (i.e. downloads). Feel free to repost and re-use. The data is current as of Dec. 12th. 2011. @Arno, really interesting stats. Most papers getting really good readership! Tell me, do you have an overall figure for the whole collection of papers, number of unique viewers to the site? I cant tell from the stats you give whether its the same readers reading a lot, or different ones, you see. Yes, that would be good to know. Short answer, unfortunately, is that I don't have good numbers for either of your questions. Longer version is that the OJS stats don't offer a vistor focused perspective (though no doubt it could be tickled out from the raw web logs). And as for total viewership.. JDHCS runs on letterpress.uchicago.edu (which also hosts another OJS journal) and was recently moved to a VM so the available stats are incomplete and somewhat inaccurate: http://bit.ly/tfYWkH Chicago has Google Analytics would be better for this and its running on the site as well but for whatever reason it's (I've been told) not capturing visitors properly. Dominguero says: These stats are basically UK-US based (and biased) and the result is a colonial-style infographics. They almost totally ignore the huge amount of DH work done in other countries (i.e. Italy, Spain, Portugal, France etc.). It would not be a bad idea if some of the ALLC / ADHO / TEI people would start reading (in) other languages. It is so sad to see how self-centered the anglo-american world of DH has become these days. @dominguero, thanks for your comments. Yes, the stats are mostly from UK and USA. These are the ones that I have been able to find. Tell me, instead of complaining, why dont you do something productive, and provide me with some stats that are from beyond the UK or USA? Why dont you do some legwork? I have made it clear that I am interested in ALL stats that I can get, and if I cant get stats from beyond the UK or US – is that my fault? its as much your fault as mine, please suggest something constructive rather than dismissing the whole activity. I would welcome constructive insight – I am not so taken by people who just complain and dont suggest a way forward. and actually, @dominguero, thinking about your comment – in what way is twitter, or website stats just linked to the us/usa? When we say there are 167 countries featured, etc – in what way is that saying its just the us/usa? I wasnt aware that online activity was just the us/usa – so I think your comments are a little groundless. Thanks for stopping by, but do give me something to work with, rather than making snark. Dear Melissa, I promise I will be “constructive” as soon as you will admit that you have misrepresented the international scenario of DH/HC. I think it is your problem to provide grounded info, not mine, as you presented your work as a “survey” of Digital Humanities. Actually, the info and data are out there: just search the Net with words like: Humanidades Digitales, Digitale Geisteswissenschaften, Informatica Umanistica, etc. Being a native English speaker can be a privilege, but it's not an excuse. If you look at the data for Internet access you'll discover that users in the western world (Europe and the U.S.) represent only the 35.7% of the total Finally, before starting a survey, you need a methodology. It doesn't seem you have got one: what you have, instead, is a pile of data arranged nicely. Cheers New paper: Digital cultural colonialism: measuring bias in aggregated digitized content held in Google Arts and Culture Arise Sir Generative: When AI Met the Queen New Book Out Now! Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future New paper: Understanding multispectral imaging of cultural heritage: Determining best practice in MSI analysis of historical artefacts Fully Funded AHRC Studentship: “Adopting Transkribus in the National Library of Scotland: Understanding how Handwritten Text Recognition Will Change Management and Use of Digitised Manuscripts”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3372
__label__wiki	0.653103	0.653103	memorious researching, writing, and repeating history Is Our Historians Learning? Popular, Academic, and Political History August 31, 2016 November 13, 2016 / Ted McCormick Last Thursday, PhD student and amateur historian Rebecca Rideal published a book about London in the very busy year of 1666.[1] Written for “the general reader”, it’s entitled 1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire. As is not unusual for authors of trade books to do — when the chance presents itself — she gave an interview in a major media outlet, The Guardian, in which she was quoted as saying the following: The time of the grand histories that are all about male figures is coming to an end…. I think people are understanding now that there were women around, too, and they were doing important things. A handful of academic historians promptly tweeted their umbrage. Decrying narratives of great men and their doings is old hat, they pointed out. That women existed in the past will not come as news to anyone who’s pursued a PhD in the last half-century; not only are the fields of women’s and gender history well established — named-professorships-and-research-institutes established — but both the historical roles of women and the analytical power of gender have come to inform most other, more traditional fields, as well. All this, moreover, represents work on which Rideal almost certainly draws in her book. Yet here she is acting like God’s gift to women, or historians, or something. Get off my lawn! Most academic historians, to judge unscientifically from my own Twitter feed, seem to have thought the criticism of Rideal as unfair, counterproductive, or at the very least inappropriate for Twitter. Books are fair game for criticism, but it looks bad when senior academics “punch down” at students in public — and although I imagine it was at Rideal the popular historian rather than Rideal the PhD student that they meant to strike, I’m not sure how much difference that makes since no one had read the book. The entire kerfuffle was over that one short quote. And, in context, it was just the sort of quote that one might expect in a newspaper interview with the author of a popular history, looking for a pithy and memorable way to sum up the book’s interest for a general reader — for whom, by the way, history may well still be much more obviously a matter of great men (well, Ed Balls, Nick Clegg and Hitler, at this hour) than ordinary women or households. Truly, Rideal’s was an offence taken rather than given. A funny thing happened a few days later, across the water. Two academic historians, Fredrik Logevall and Ken Osgood, published an op-ed in the New York Times with the plaintive title “Why Did We Stop Teaching Political History?” As if transposing the recent call for a Council of Historical Advisors into a minor key, they described the historical profession’s sad decline from influence to irrelevance via the rise of fields other than traditional political history (that is, the doings of great men): Political history — a specialization in elections and elected officials, policy and policy making, parties and party politics — was once a dominant, if not the dominant, pursuit of American historians. Many of them, in turn, made vital contributions to the political process itself…. What happened? After noting a precipitous drop numbers of jobs and specialized courses (the latter identified by course catalogue title, importantly, rather than by examining the actual content of syllabi), the authors get to the point: America’s misadventure in Vietnam led to broad questioning of elite decision making and conventional politics, and by extension those historical narratives that merely recounted the doings of powerful men. Likewise, the movements of the 1960s and 1970s by African-Americans, Latinos, women, homosexuals and environmental activists brought a new emphasis on history from the bottom up, spotlighting the role of social movements in shaping the nation’s past. Not only did historians’ focus change; historians themselves did. Specifically, they got less white and had fewer penises between them. The long overdue diversification of the academy also fostered changing perspectives. As a field once dominated by middle-class white males opened its doors to women, minorities and people from working-class backgrounds, recovering the lost experiences of these groups understandably became priority No. 1. All this was, ahem, necessary and enriching, ahem, but it came at the cost of “‘traditional’ types of history that examined the doings of governing elites”. And while the mice have taken over the orchestra, “scholarly expertise” in political history has vanished. No wonder the world is such a mess! Only very thinly veiled behind Logevall and Osgood’s bizarre and insulting assumption that non-whites, working-class men, and women of any sort pursued careers in academic history only for the purpose of “recovering” their lost experiences (lost how? to whom?) lies an equally dubious — but revealing — series of constructions: of serious, relevant, universally necessary history as “political”; of “political history” as essentially about “the doings of powerful men”; and of both, as indeed of political power itself (one can only assume) as the natural province, enriching exceptions notwithstanding, of middle-class-or-better white males. One obvious and important reply is that “political history” means a good deal more than Logevall and Osgood appear to think, and that much of the work of the last forty or fifty years has been broadening its reach and range of connections rather than annihilating it. Another is that there is a difference between an existential “crisis”, which is what Logevall and Osgood say they see, and a loss of “dominance”, which is what they actually describe. A third is to wonder whether Rideal’s comments are as out of place as some academics might like to think. So we have one set of academics condemning a popular historian for ignoring scholarship’s inclusiveness, and another set arguing that that inclusiveness has made scholarship irrelevant. Here to close the circle is Barbara Kay in yesterday’s National Post, championing popular history (well, Thomas Carlyle and Barbara Tuchman, at least, though one wonders what either would make of being pressed into Kay’s service) as a bastion of tradition and truth-seeking against the domination of academic scholarship by sociology (well, Marxism) and its progressive (“SocProg”) agenda. Thomas Carlyle considered history writing the first example of man’s creative thought: “There is no tribe so rude that it has not attempted history.” The ancient Greeks thought so highly of history that they accorded it its own muse — Clio, one of Memory’s seven daughters. Sociology cannot boast so old or distinguished a lineage. Although philosophers have studied man in society for thousands of years, it was only in the 19th century that it emerged as a “science”…. From the 1960s forward, when the New Left started calling themselves “progressives,” sociology was subsumed into the Marxist agenda as an activist tool for social engineering. As one textbook defines sociology’s mission today, it is “to alleviate human suffering and make society a better place to live.” This is political activism, not truth-seeking. Kay’s disjointed argument is what Logevall and Osgood’s might look like if shredded, dissolved in bile and fired from a water-pistol. In Saskatchewan. Large parts of it are so misinformed or nonsensical that they become hilarious: the sentimental and most unscientific appeal to “lineage” as a marker of intellectual value; the equation of Marx, or Marxism, with “sociology” (as defined in “one textbook”, no less), and of both with the “Sophists and Cynics of Athens 2,500 years ago”(!); the implicit reduction of academic humanities and social sciences to the purported “agenda” these motley bogeymen apparently represent; to cap it all, her praise for the book she’s reviewing — Curtis McManus’s Clio’s Bastards: Or, the Wrecking of History and the Perversion of Our Historical Consciousness — as written “to boost the spirits of deflated conservatives”. In this regard Kay inadvertently makes a pretty compelling case for academic training. Still, it’s hard to feel too good about where we are as historians. In Kay’s screed one feels the sharp end of a deep public ignorance about the real relationship between good academic scholarship and the good popular history that invariably draws on it. Tuchman not wanting to write like an academic is a long way from Tuchman not needing to read academic work; but arguments like Kay’s ignore that distinction. Like the idiot (sorry, elected official) who suggested replacing professors with Ken Burns videos, Kay wants, wittingly or not, to replace an unending process of learning with a polished, accessible, and partial snapshot of where a branch of it once stood — perhaps, given her reference points, a very long time ago. The response to Rideal, on the other hand, shows a peculiarly similar inability on the part of academics to appreciate that, as Catherine Fletcher has very helpfully argued, a positive relationship between popular history and the professional discipline might benefit both sides — particularly in a climate where pieces as shoddy and dismissive as Kay’s find audiences. It suggests that some academic historians are perfectly willing to saw off the branch they’re sitting on, if only to prove a point that no-one in the academy doubts — and that no-one outside it cares about. [1] Since writing this, I have been informed by Rebecca Rideal that she is a researcher and writer, and that she does not claim to be a historian either amateur or otherwise. In short, I am as guilty as the rest here in going by the Guardian story linked. Clearly I should have checked, and I am grateful for the correction and sorry for any harm caused. 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__label__cc	0.670198	0.329802	Margaret War Field 20+ Roof Types, Styles, And Materials You Should Know in 2021 Often overlooked as a significant architectural feature for any construction, the style of roofing types and materials you add to your home can make all the difference, both structurally and visually, and roof styles may also have a remarkable impact on property value to boot. Whether you’re looking for new construction inspiration or are in the marketplace to upgrade your current roof, we are looking at the best roof types which will add value to your home while helping you to better convey your home’s appearance and feel. And while roof construction and preparation are always significant, the roof style and material you choose can help update the outside of your premises in game-changing fashion.To make the selection process easier for you, we tasked our renovation and construction experts to weigh in on the best roof styles that are sure to never feel outdated. 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And though the silhouette of a gable roof may seem relatively simple, it’s actually composed of a few different panels. Simplified, gable roofs are a long, triangular prism with three essential components to this roof style. Two sides of a gable roof are sloped at an angle similar to a pitched roof. These sloped angels meet along a central ridge running parallel to the length of a home. The gables themselves are the vertical, triangular section of the wall exposed between the pitched sides on each end along with the parts of the wall that extend from the bottom of the eaves to the peak of the ridge. Box Gable Box gable roof types feature a triangular extension at each end of the structure, with the roof section boxed tailored at the end. This design is similar to a standard gable roof, but highlight the triangular section of the roof style more. Dormer roof types feature a roofed structure most often with a window that extends vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. Also referred to as a rooftop window, dormers are used to increase usable space in a lofted area while adding additional windows along the roof plane. Shaped like an abbreviated pyramid, hip roof styles are a type of roof where every side slopes downward, usually with fairly subtle roof angles. A hip roof features no gables or other vertical sides that extend to the roof. Hip And Valley Taking a cue from a classic hip roof, hip and valley roof types work best when a building needs a combination of roof types and angles to facilitate the structures architectural elements. Gambrel roof styles are symmetrical two-sided panels with slopes on each side. Their design takes in the advantages of sloped roof angles while lengthening headspace inside a building’s upper level while diminishing what would otherwise be a tall roof. Popular for centuries throughout Europe, a mansard roof is a four-sided take on a gambrel roof with two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope punctuated by dormer windows housed at a steeper angle than the upper. Because its shape evokes a butterfly’s wings, a butterfly roof design features a V shape and is characterized by an inversion of a standard roof, with two roof angles sloping down from opposing edges to a valley near the middle. Intersecting/Overlaid Hip Intersecting roof types feature a combination of a gable and hip silhouettes to top off more intricately built homes for a more dynamic visual effect thats grander, yet still utterly classic. Dutch Gable Dutch gable roof styles boast a petite gable at the top of a hipped roof to evoke a more idyllic, pastoral feel. Jerkinhead A jerkinhead roof is a take on a gable roof where the peaks are abbreviated to mimic a hip roof. Here, clipped roof angles streamline the peak of a standard gable roof to reduce potential wind damage An ancient roof style, flat roofs are often used in arid climates to allow the roof space to be easily used. Flat roof types are an easy to construct and affordable roofing option that consists of a roof almost flatly leveled in contrast to the variety of sloped and peaked roof styles available. Flat roofs have around 10 degrees of a slope, known as a pitch. The only downside of this roof style is that there needs to be a proper irrigation system in place to avoid any possible flooding. Cross Hipped An enduringly popular variation of a hip roof design, a cross roof remains a common roof type and is often laid out in an ‘L’ shape. A cross hipped roof features two intersecting hip sections that run perpendicular to one another. M Shaped Boasting one of the most striking of silhouettes among modern roof types, M shaped roofs give off the impression of a bold zig-zag horizon, making even the simplest and spare buildings all the more statement-making. Hailing from New England and often used for a wooden frame house, saltbox home roofing is a traditional roof style with a long, pitched point that slopes down towards the back. A saltbox home also often has just one story in the back and two stories in the front due to its slanted styling. Lifted from barn roof styles, a shed roof has only one sloping plane and is often not attached to another roof surface, keeping the look simple yet effective. Perfect for all kinds of weather and conditions, combination roof types offer the best possible functions for any building. And as the name suggests, combination roofs use two different roof styles or more as needed, creating unique appeal and a striking juxtaposition of aesthetics. However, take note that the biggest risk of combination roof styles is creating unwarranted valleys that can create areas for leaks, and sometimes mismatched styles just aren’t meant to be. A classic A-frame home takes its shape from idyllic barn roof styles and features steeply-angled sides that can often start at or near the foundation line and meet at the top to form the shape of the letter A. A bonnet roof boasts a double slope on all four sides with the lower slope less steep than the upper slope. Bonnet roof styles don’t just cap off a home, they often lend spaces covered patios and porches via an extended overhand. Gable And Valley Combined, gable and valley roof types allow for full use of the arched space inside and are a classic option for homes of any size as they help maximize space. This is due to the inward slopes of a gable roof on two sides with the other two sides boasting a wall with a triangle shape at top. Pitched roof types slope downwards, usually in two parts at angled from a central ridge, or in one part, from one end to the other. The pitch of a roof is its vertical rise split by a steep horizontal span. A variation of a hip roof, pyramid roof types keep all sides sloping down towards the walls and depending on the size of the building, they may have three or more rectangular faces. Sloping Flat One of the most dramatic and minimal roof types of them all, sloping flat roofs feature one flat angled plain for a stunning effect. When choosing roofing materials, consider the following questions. Now that we’ve gone over what makes each roof style unique, here’s everything you need to know about home roofing materials, from the pros to the cons. But before you begin charting course, ask yourself these essential cues: What kind of specialized installation will this material need? Are there a variety of colors and styles available in this material that complement your home? Does the material meet the local fire codes in your area? Are there special installation and maintenance techniques to consider? Depending on frequent weather conditions in your area, what kind of performance can each material best provide you? What is the cost, lifespan, and warranty for each home roofing material? These essential answers to these questions will help you determine the best roof style choice for your home and budget. And since there are a ton of roofing material options priced from high to low, here’s what makes them different. Roofing Materials To Consider: The most common and affordable roofing material used throughout the United States, asphalt shingles remain a go-to as they are cost-effective and easy to install and manage. Plus asphalt shingles can be reinforced with fiberglass or organic materials without altering their appearance. Pros: Asphalt is available in a variety of colors, is easy to source, and is the most affordable roofing application of them all. Cons: Asphalt doesn’t last as long as roofing materials, doesn’t provide the same kind of insulation as others, and the quality can vary. House Styles: Asphalt shingles work well with popular modern architectural styles – making it perfect for traditional suburban homes. Cost and Life Span: Prices can range from about $65 to $150 a square and when maintained properly, they can last up to 20 to 25 years. Clay and Concrete Tiles Perfect for a gable roof, and often Spanish inspired, clay and concrete tiles add texture and evoke a far-off, romantic feel. Clay tiles are extremely durable but also very heavy. And though they also boast a heavy weight, concrete tiles are equally versatile and are far less expensive than clay options. Pros: Concrete tiles are energy efficient, and both clay and concrete tiles are long-lasting and non-combustible investments. Cons: They can be expensive, are heavy, and require additional framing. House Styles: They lend the perfect finishing touch to Mediterranean, Mission, Southwestern, and Spanish inspired homes. Cost and Life Span: They can start at $300 to $500 a square and when maintained properly, can last about 40 to 50 years. hip roof affordable roofing Resistant to extreme weather conditions, there’s two types of metal roofing to consider boasting either metal panels or shingles. And since metal roofing comes in a variety of materials including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, and zinc, there are plenty of directions you can choose from. Pros: Metal roofing is sleek, lightweight, long-lasting, recyclable, and durable, and lasts much longer than any other roofing material. Cons: Metal roofing can be more expensive. House Styles: Metal roofs look great topping off modern and contemporary structures, or juxtaposed with older more quaint facades. Cost and Lifespan: Prices average around $100 to $300 a square, with some more elaborate options reaching up to $600 to $800 a square. However, the plus side of the extra cost is that metal roofing can last around 40 to 75 years. Boasting a distinctively modern elegance, slate roofing styles come in rich shades of black, green, grey, and burgundy. Pros: Slate is strong, fire-resistant, and can be recycled. Cons: It can be expensive and requires extra framing. And the quality can vary with imported slate materials. House Styles: Slate roofs pair well with Colonial, European, and French-inspired homes. Cost and Lifespan: Prices start at $600 a square and they can last 50 to 100 years or more. Wood Shingles and Shake Popular for hundreds of years, wood shingles and shakes age with a gorgeous, time-worn patina. Wood shake squares are handmade and are more organic looking than wood shingles, which are cut by machine. Look for wood shingles treated with a fire-resistant coating. Pros: Wood shingles lend a rustic feel and are a natural product. Cons: Check your local fire codes for possible use. Wood shingles can mold, split or rot in wet climates. House Styles: Both options rustic appeal pairs well with bungalow, Cape Cod, cottage, Craftsman, and Tudor-style homes. Cost and Lifespan: Prices start at around $100 to $150 a square and will last around 25 to 30 years. Synthetic Roofing In terms of more affordable roofing options, synthetic roofing products are designed to be strong and easy to maintain with some materials boasting fire-resistant fabrication. Pros: Synthetic roofing materials are less fragile, heavy or as expensive as natural roofing products. Cons: Often, they can absorb water creating mold and the quality varies. House Styles: Synthetic roofing products work well with almost all architectural styles. Cost and Lifespan: Prices are around $300 a square and they can last up to 50 years. Probably one of the most talked about roof types of them all, solar paneled roofing has come a long way. Derived from the sun’s radiation, solar shingles and panels are extremely beneficial for the environment as they are an efficient source of clean energy. Plus, with innovative companies like Tesla making it easier for you to produce and store clean, renewable energy for your home with solar shingles and panels that are modern and designed to mimic the feel of traditional roofing materials to be more aesthetically pleasing, they seem all the more viable. Pros: Renewable energy source that can reduce electric bills, and have low maintenance costs. Cons: They can be expensive, weather dependent, and solar energy can be costly to store. House Styles: Thanks to innovative technological updates by the likes of Tesla, solar shingles can now mimic the look of many popular roof styles. Cost and Life Span: They can as little as $25 a square and when maintained properly, can last 25 years or longer. Images via Pinterest written by naveed Tags: architectureroof stylesroofs Content retrieved from: https://www.decoraid.com/blog/roof-types. Previous: Previous post: 9 Ways to Style a Grey Sofa in Your Home 2021 9 Ways to Style a Grey Sofa in Your Home 2021 Living Room vs. Family Room— Knowing How They Differ in 2021 The rise of the McModern Bedroom Ideas In Minecraft Beige Color Jumpsuit Powered By TecXoo	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3378
__label__wiki	0.678687	0.678687	Hydra members, High Council of Hydra members, National Socialist German Workers Party members, Rat Pack (Scavengers) members Project Nietzsche members Height 5' 10" No Eyes Jack Kirby/Creator Bronze-Age Characters Arnim Zola (Earth-616)/Quotes Super-Genius Intelligence Peak Human Strength Superhuman Speed Enhanced Durability Fighting Ability - Poor Power Bestowal Telepaths Zola Family Arnim Zola Experiment Atheist Characters Consciousness Transferred WWII Characters Spider-Geddon participants Arnim Zola (Earth-616) Arnim Zola Dr. Arnim Zola The Bio-Fanatic, Scientist Supreme[1] Ian Rogers (son); Jet Zola (daughter); Arnim Zola 4.2.3 (duplicate) Hydra's High Council; formerly Nazi Germany, Rat Pack, Project: Nietzsche Gehenna, New Zealand; formerly Dimension Z, Exiles Island, Sargasso Sea, Atlantic Ocean; Weisshorn Mountain, Switzerland. Swiss, Zolandia Biochemist, Scientist Characteristics[38] 5' 10" (1.78 m) ; originally 3'3" 200 lbs (90.72 kg) (originally 101 lbs) No Eyes ; originally Brown No Hair ; originally Brown Zola has an ESP Box instead of a head. A three-dimensional hologram of his original face appears in a view-screen on his chest. The ESP Box enables Zola to see and hear by psychic means, as well as to control his genetic creations telepathically. Human whose consciousness has been transferred into a Robot Weisshorn Mountains, Switzerland Captain America #208 Dr. Arnim Zola, Ph.D, was a Swiss scientist working for the Nazi's during World War II.[2] He become the lead scientist of Project: Nietzsche, creating Super-Soldiers in the Nazi's quest for world domination. Zola was one of the first biochemists in history using notes left by the Deviants.[3] He was able to transfer his consciousness into a robotic body. allowing him to continue his experiments well into the next century.[4] 2.2 Studying Genetics 2.3 Nazi Party 2.4 World War II 2.5 Hydra 2.6 Modern Era 2.7 Deadpool 2.8 Kronas Corporation 2.9 Reborn 2.10 Grandmaster 2.11 Spear of Destiny 2.12 Lost Clone 2.13 M-Day 2.14 Dimension Z 2.15 Hydra's Resurgence Revenge is good. As good a fire to move forward as any. Remember those who stood on your fingers as you climbed the craggy cliffs. Remember their faces. Remember their families. -- Arnim Zola src Dr. Arnim Zola was born and raised in the Weisshorn Mountains of Switzerland in the early part of the 20th Century. He was a child prodigy excelling in all areas of science and was accepted into the best schools in Europe.[citation needed] Studying Genetics Dr. Zola studied under Wladyslav Shinsky. In 1928, he attended a genetics conference along with Jonathan Drew, Herbert Edgar Wyndham, and Noah Black. Zola was the first human genetic engineer in history, basing his work on some papers from the Deviants. Later, Zola received secret aid from Phaeder and his son Maelstrom in developing genetic advancements.[3] After this, Dr. Zola found supporters in the Nazi party in Germany, who wanted to use his discoveries to assure the existence and triumph of a "master race".[citation needed] During World War II; Dr. Zola aided the Nazi scientist Baron Heinrich Zemo in creating a series of androids which could expand from the size of a doll to over six feet tall. [citation needed] Arnim Zola creating the "Ubermensch" Dr. Zola kidnapped the allies team of heroes the Invaders and used the the DNA of Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch (Jim Hammond) and Toro to create his new super-soldier the Ubermensch. However Bucky arrived to save his friends and was able to hold off the Ubermensch long enough to free his friends from their captivity and they destroyed Zola's experiments.[5] Accounts vary, but at some point Zola established a process by which a person could project their mind onto a cloned body (It is believed that it was one of his first projects). He presented this process to Adolf Hitler.[citation needed] Dr. Zola later performed experiments of the town of Vliet, Netherlands. He turned the townsfolk into monsters who were killed by the Invaders. To save himself from the infections he transferred his mind to his robotic body.[6] Talking with the Red Skull he presented him with a pill to use to place himself in suspended animation. Zola then presented Hitler with a completed cloned body to which he could transfer his mind before death. After Hitler walked out, Baron Strucker, a fugitive, entered the room. Strucker invited Zola to take part in the establishment of Hydra.[citation needed] Since around 1944, Strucker would think of Zola in his ESP-box body - this would support that Zola had switched bodies at this point.[citation needed] However, while another account does show Zola in his ESP box on the day that Hitler's original body died, Hitler as the Hate-Monger would later recall Zola was still in his original body.[citation needed] In any event, Zola prepared a series of bodies for Hitler to use in his new identity of the Hate-Monger. (Zola once told Captain America that surgeons had extracted Hitler's brain and that he had preserved it to create a new body for it. This story appears to be a ruse to hide the truth about the Hate-Monger. Since then, the truth behind the Hate-Monger has been discovered, and is known to Spider-Man, Silver Sable, and Nick Fury.)[citation needed] Hitler, according to a soldier who was with him the day his original body died, supposedly recommended Zola's process to Baron Zemo. "like your Führer, Zemo", he said, "you will become... a God... Zola will see to that." It appears that Zemo did not for some reason undergo the process. [citation needed] Arnim Zola in Action The Red Skull financed Zola's experiments since the end of World War II, allowing him to produce creations such as Primus and Doughboy - which would later help the Red Skull in his own schemes. Zola's association with the Red Skull led to their first fight against Captain America in the jungles of Central America following Captain America's encounter with Arnim Zola's creation Man-Fish. Captain America was captured, but he managed to escape. [7] He tried to steal the discoveries of Dr. Bruce Banner by sneaking into an observatory. The observatory was destroyed in an explosion and Zola was believed to have died in it.[8] Inexplicably, Zola survived and fought Irish super heroine Shamrock. He did not count on Clover's probably-altering powers and his cybernetic body exploded. Zola threatened her in a parody-like tone - he made a reference to The Wizard of Oz and then insisted that he would came back, especially to a monthly series. [9] After the devastation caused by Onslaught, Zola collected humans from the rubble of New York City and endowed a girl with superpowers, creating Jolt. Jolt would join the team Thunderbolts, who would eventually go on to stop Zola.[10] Zola has continued with his experiments at various locations around the globe, although his crimes against humanity had brought him to conflict with different self-proclaimed heroes, including Captain America many times and Deadpool. When fighting Deadpool, Zola created proto-husks of dead villains using their DNA; many of these were destroyed by Deadpool, except for four Gwen Stacy clones.[11] Kronas Corporation Zola later reunited with the Red Skull and criminal psychiatrist Doctor Faustus. He was instrumental in a plan to capture and brainwash S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter and manipulate her into assassinating Captain America. [12] Following Captain America's death, Zola took great interest when he discovered that Carter was pregnant with Cap's child. During her imprisonment at the Red Skull's lair at the Kronas, Zola subjected her to many experiments. It is believed that Sharon Carter miscarried her child while prisoner, but this remains unverified. Carter escaped and avenged herself against the Red Skull by fatally shooting him in the chest. Arnim Zola downloaded the Skull's essence into a robotic body similar to his own.[13] Zola revealed to Norman Osborn that they were using a variation of Dr. Doom's Time Platform to retrieve Steve Rogers from the past before Sharon damaged it, causing Steve Rogers to become unstuck in time. Steve is shown bouncing from place to place and time to time throughout his past.[14] In Latveria Doctor Zola had reassembled the device meant to bring back Captain America.[15][16] The Grandmaster developed a crush on the Mutant singer Dazzler. To get her attention he arranged a roller derby against a group of villain which included Arnim Zola. The villains lost and the Grandmaster left the Earth in peace.[17] Spear of Destiny The Spear of Destiny was later recovered by an elderly Dutch man from the town of Vliet whose was killed by the Invaders when the townsfolk were turned into monsters by Arnim Zola. Using the Spear he made a deal with with Shuma-Gorath to restore the town of Vliet to its former self in return for the Invaders' lives.[18] He granted his wish but along with the Nazi forces lead by Zola who once again prepared to mutate the townsfolk.[19] The Invaders arrived to help and found the man he attacked them with the spear.[20] After dealing with the Axis forces, the approached the man and offered to find a cure using modern medical science. They succeed and the townsfolk wished to return to the afterlife. He was determined to break his deal with Shuma-Gorath, but was stopped by Zola who killed him. Zola, now wielding the Lance, and the Axis attacked the Invaders just as Shuma-Gorath traveled to Earth.[21] They all battled together Captain America managed to capture it and throw it to Vision, who used it to stab Shuma-Gorath in the eye sending him back to his realm.[22] Lost Clone Edmund Heidler a clone of Adolf Hitler created by Dr. Zola to house the Hate-Monger's evolved Spirit. After a battle against Captain America left him free the clone wandered off.[23] M-Day After the events of M-Day in which most mutants lost their powers; Beast of the X-Men contacted some of the best minds in super-villain community including Zola. Surprisingly, few have offered to aid him in his quest to reverse the effects of M-Day.[24] Dimension Z He later escaped to a "Dimension Z", which he ruled and filled it with many of his creations. Eventually, Captain America found Zola hiding that alternate dimension, where time moved at an incredibly faster rate as compared to Earth, and Zola had built a massive fortress, dubbing his new land Zolandia. Zola was making a massive army of genetically altered soldiers with the intent of conquering Earth. In the initial assault, Cap rescued a genetically engineered infant boy.[25] In the decade stranded in Dimension Z, Cap raised the boy as his own son, Ian Rogers.[26] The two took up with the peaceful Phrox, and eventually led a rebellion to stop Zola's forces, now commanded by Zola's daughter, Jet Black. One of his creations, Captain Zolandia, was a mutated clone of Captain America, he had his memories and tried to kill both Cap and Ian.[27] Ian was later captured by Zola, and brainwashed to accept Zola as his father again, but eventually broke out of his control, only to be shot by Sharon Carter. Eventually, Carter sacrificed herself to destroy Zola and his fortress, allowing Cap and a now reformed Jet to escape back to Earth.[28] Zola was later revealed to be alive as he opened a portal in New York to lead an invasion from Dimension Z as a part of helping the Red Skull's newest plan.[29] After a battle across New York City with his mutants and Unvengers,[30] he departed with his daughter after driving a wedge between her and her new lover, Sam Wilson.[31] Hydra's Resurgence Zola was asked by the new Madame Hydra to join a new High Council of Hydra.[32] As a member of the High Council, he was there when Steve Rogers became the new head of Hydra after killing the Red Skull.[33] When Hydra took over the United States, he ruled the country along with the other members of the High Council.[34] Zola was sent to lead a Hydra force to invade the country of Wakanda to retrieve a remnant of sentient Cosmic Cube Kobik, but Zola and his forcers were always thwarted.[35][36] Super-Genius Intelligence: Arnim Zola possesses a brilliant mind, with knowledge and technological understanding far beyond the standard of the time. [37] Expert Biochemist: Arnim Zola is considered one greatest genetic engineers in history, a biochemist whose knowledge of genetics was enhanced by his study of Deviant science. He studied under Wladyslav Shinsky.[37] Robotic Expert: He was able to build a functioning robot body with the limited technology of the 1940's. [37] Arnim Zola Strength is dependent on the robotic chassis he is currently housed in.[37] Zola's Robotic Body: Zola's consciousness has been transferred in to a robotic body allowing him a form of immortality. If a body is destroyed his mind is downloaded to a spare body. [37] ESP Box: Arnim Zola possesses the ability to mentally control his various genetic creations by means of the ESP Box mounted atop his torso and surgically attached to his central nervous system. Although most of the creatures possess limited intelligence and the capacity for creative thought, Zola can override their mental processes if he so desires. The ESP Box is a retractable device that can convert brain waves into electronic signals for transmission as telepathic commands within ordinary radio range. Normally, Zola is capable of controlling only his own organic creations, but if he remains linked to his support equipment, he can stimulate his own mental power to such a degree that he can create a psychokinetic network able to animate inorganic matter within radio range. Zola is unable to control natural organic life. The ESP Box also provides Zola with the following powers: Mind Ray Mind Transfer[37] Zola deploys mental commands to his creations in the form of energy bolts of approximately 100,000 volts. Similar in purpose to the ESP Box, the prod is limited in range to 18 feet and can only work on his own organic creations.[37] Zola uses exotic weaponry, androids, and genetically engineered lackeys in his schemes. His androids (or "bio-servants") can host Zola's mind and life-force.[37] 100 Appearances of Arnim Zola (Earth-616) 12 Minor Appearances of Arnim Zola (Earth-616) Media Arnim Zola (Earth-616) was Mentioned in 48 Images featuring Arnim Zola (Earth-616) 5 Quotations by or about Arnim Zola (Earth-616) Character Gallery: Arnim Zola (Earth-616) Search this site for: Arnim Zola (Earth-616) ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #14 ↑ 3.0 3.1 X-Factor Annual #3 ↑ Captain America Vol 7 #4 ↑ Captain America and Bucky #622 ↑ Invaders Now! #2 ↑ Captain America #208 ↑ Avengers Annual #13 ↑ Marvel Comics Presents #24 ↑ Thunderbolts #1-4 ↑ Deadpool #0 ↑ Captain America Vol 5 #25 ↑ Captain America: Reborn #1 ↑ X-Men: To Serve and Protect #4 ↑ Invaders Now! #2-3 ↑ Uncanny X-Men #488 ↑ Captain America: Steve Rogers #14 ↑ Secret Empire #1 ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 37.4 37.5 37.6 37.7 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #1 ↑ Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z hardcover Vol. 14 Retrieved from "https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Arnim_Zola_(Earth-616)?oldid=5884621" Robots (Full Listing) Hydra members High Council of Hydra members National Socialist German Workers Party members	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3379
__label__wiki	0.838694	0.838694	Linden Hills Co-op workers vote to unionize with UFCW Local 653 Workers at Linden Hills Co-op won their election yesterday to form a union with the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 653. 85% of workers voted in favor of unionization. “We are excited to begin the bargaining process because it is the next step in making our already amazing co-operative even more amazing. We love where we work. This is an extremely positive thing!” said Tracie Lemberg from Health and Body Care. Workers have begun circulating bargaining surveys to help the bargaining committee understand their fellow workers’ priorities. “I have been working at co-ops in the Twin Cities since I was 16. Forming a union is the best way to make sure all workers are treated fairly and have a say in creating a positive work environment. I’m proud to work at this co-op and look forward to making it an even better place,” said Emily Calhoon from the Produce Department. Workers want to actively ensure good jobs and a sustainable co-op that best serves the needs of the community. Evan Adams-Hanson, a Front End Floor Coordinator said, “Forming a union reinforces co-op values of community throughout our store. Linden Hills Co-op can be a model for how workers and management cooperate to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability at all levels.” When workers first started discussing forming a union, they met at each other’s houses discreetly to create a safe space to refine their goals and identify who would be most interested in organizing. “Organizers helped provide advice and experience, but this organizing was done by us – we were making commitments to each other to have each others’ back,” said Grocery Buyer, Bryce Christopherson. “For other workers who are forming their union I would advise as much transparency and outreach to your co-workers as feasible. And reach out – we are happy to help you go through the process of forming your union.” Mark McGraw from the Scanning department said, “I feel more connected than ever to my co-workers and our store, and I’m excited to have all voices at the table as we move forward with our contract negotiations.” Support for these workers has been pouring in. “I am an assistant bakery manager and have been a member of my union for 20 years,” said Monica Hayes who works at the Lunds & Byerly’s in Richfield, “and I want to welcome my new brothers and sisters from Linden Hills Co-op.” “Our union is part of a bigger movement for change. We want to raise industry standards for all retail workers. This is an example of how workers have power when we act together,” said Judi Johnson, an executive board member of UFCW Local 653 who works as the Floral Manager at the Blaine West Cub Foods. “I’m excited that workers in Minneapolis are organizing a Union to secure long term improvements and ensuring good jobs in our city. Making sure workers have a voice on the job is democracy in action and is consistent with the spirit of democracy that is core to co-ops. As a member-owner at Linden Hills Co-op, I support these workers one-hundred percent,” said Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges. “The organizing and activism of these workers is an inspiration to me and all the members of our Local. We wholeheartedly welcome them,” said UFCW Local 653 President Matt Utecht. Linden Hills Co-op workers were inspired by other workers who recently organized a union at the Wedge Community Co-op and Whole Foods Co-op in Minnesota and the People’s Food Co-op in Michigan.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3380
__label__wiki	0.658679	0.658679	Misha Hussain Baobab & Banyon Nigerian women’s choir defies Boko Haram The Nigerian girl’s choir in the semi-savannah landscape of the Mandara Mountains, which divide northern Nigeria and northern Cameroon. Minawao refugee camp, Far North region, Cameroon, November 2013. Photo by Misha Hussain The sublime harmonies of the Nigerian girl’s choir in the Minawao refugee camp echoed out across the dusty Mandara Mountains, a desolate area in the Far North region of Cameroon. The girls had fled brutal violence across the border in northern Nigeria, where Islamists want to apply Sharia. Just months later, insurgents abducted some 300 girls and threatened to sell them in a move that shocked the world. The choir was hardly Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but the raw tones belted out alongside rhythms, beat out on plastic and tin containers, were amongst the sweetest sounds I’ve ever heard. For some of the girls, these were a memento of the lives they left behind and a constant reminder of who they are and where they came from. For others, the melody was homage to hope that one day they’ll be able to go home. For me, the notes were the faintest of cultural war cries; every crotchet and quaver held in its arms what journalists, aid workers, policy makers and the general public ought to be fighting for tooth and nail – freedom. These were the very sounds that Islamists all around the world have been trying to muffle. Their actions have led harmonious societies to find cultural barriers that only serve to weaken their communities. The division was clear to see in the Minawao refugee camp. Religious affinities, strengthened through mutual distrust and sometimes hatred, had set Christians and Muslims apart. Minawao was a bleak glimpse of the future, if northern Nigeria is forgotten. For now, the sound of the girl’s choir carries the hope that this once peaceful community can live again in harmony. April 3, 2009 by Misha Hussain	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3388
__label__wiki	0.500634	0.500634	Home News & Events Véron Frédéric Frédéric Véron Chief Information Officer & Head of Safety & Soundness Symposium Roles Speaker/Panelist 2018 Panels Participated in Safe and Sound Software for Digital Execution (2018) Frédéric Véron is CIO and Head of Safety & Soundness at Deutsche Bank. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Mr. Veron was Senior Vice President and Enterprise CIO at Fannie Mae, where he built the team that led the company through an enterprise Agile transformation, implementing automated release pipelines while improving the robustness and stability of core systems. Prior to that, Mr. Veron held multiple roles at Fannie Mae, including CTO and Head of Applications, where his group was responsible for developing and maintaining all applications supporting the company’s business—including portfolios spanning capital markets, customer engagement, underwriting and pricing, credit loss management, finance, risk, and corporate systems. Before joining Fannie Mae, he was a partner and managing director at several consulting firms, including KPMG, Kurt Salmon and BearingPoint, where he directed significant IT strategy and technology transformation initiatives for clients such as AIG, AXA, Bank of America, Banque Nationale du Canada, JPMorgan Chase, MetLife, Société Générale, TD Bank Financial Group, Visa, and others. Mr. Véron has a Master’s in computer science from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris. Top 10 SearchCIO videos: IT industry leaders share DX advice (2018-12-21) CIO roles: Developing ‘safe and sound’ IT systems (2018-07-18) Enterprise digital transformation: Leading the charge at Deutsche Bank (2018-06-28) The benefits of data-driven digital transformation strategies (2018-06-28) Deutsche Bank CIO shows how to do software right in the digital era (2018-06-18) Digital business strategy: Safe, end-to-end software development (2018-05-31) CIOs Talk AI, Digital Pressures and Other Pain Points at MIT’s CIO Symposium (2018-05-24) Speaker recommendations Sponsorship information request CIO Award inquiries Volunteer for the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Website questions/comments © 2003-2020 MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3392
__label__wiki	0.52953	0.52953	NCHSAA putting next foot forward following statewide reopening plan From staff and wire reports Sep 4, 2020 Updated Sep 5, 2020 Following in the leading footsteps of the state’s government officials, the N.C. High School Athletic Association will also be taking steps to modify its guidelines for public school-related athletic activities as well early next week. On the heels of earlier this past week’s announcement by N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper that the state has progressed into the 2.5 phase of the Safer At Home reopening process caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCHSAA will also be making plans to adjust its schedule accordingly. As of late last week, the state advanced into the next level that will, among other particulars, allow more people to gather in a single place at both inside – from 10 to 25 – and outside – from 25 to 50 – gatherings. As a result, the state’s governing body for North Carolina’s public schools sports programs will also make amends. The NCHSAA presently limits the number of participants – athletes and coaches combined – in its allowed workouts to 10 attendees inside and 25 for outdoor affairs. “In light of this,’’ said Que Tucker, NCHSAA commissioner through a mass email to the state’s member schools, “the NCHSAA staff and board of directors are developing guidelines that will incorporate the changes included in the 2.5 phase, such as increased numbers of individuals at mass gatherings. “The modified guidelines,’’ continued Tucker, “will be released and go into effect on Tuesday. Other updates will be shared at that time.” As it now stands, NCHSAA member programs have been unable to conduct any type of sanctioned organized athletic activity since March 13 due to coronavirus-related concerns. Various adjustments in the schedule have taken place since then. Most notably, the organization released its updated school sports revised schedule for the already-in-progress, 2020-21 school year in mid-August that determined specific start times – relating to both practices and regular-season slates – for all sports due to continued COVID-19 concerns. As a result, the sports of girls and boys cross country and volleyball will be the first to get underway when allowed to begin practices on Nov. 4 in preparation for the start of play that can start no earlier than Nov. 16. Among the more notable season changes reflected by the NCHSAA schedule finds the sport of football, traditionally a fall sport activity, and wrestling, usually conducted during the winter season, now taking place at other times of the calendar year. Football will now be held beginning with practice on Feb. 8 and games played through the middle of March. Wrestling will now take place from April to June. Que Tucker Subscribe to our Daily Headlines newsletter. Officials: Boy exposed himself to teachers, students during online class session A boy exposed himself after someone logged into a Mooresville Intermediate School classroom session Monday. Police: Cocaine, marijuana found during search; two men arrested A man on supervised probation for multiple convictions for selling cocaine was arrested Wednesday after Mooresville Police Department officers… Iredell County Crime Watch: (felonies, DWIs), Jan. 7-13 The following is a list of those booked at the Iredell County Detention Center on felony and driving while impaired charges from Jan. 7-13. Li… PHOTOS: Pets of the Week Are you ready for a new pet in your life? All of these are available for adoption at Iredell County Animal Services, 430 Bristol Drive, States… Mooresville man arrested on child pornography charges A report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led to the arrest of a Mooresville man for downloading images of children… Iredell County Crime Watch: (felonies, DWIs), Dec. 23-Dec.30 The following is a list of those booked at the Iredell County Detention Center on felony and driving while impaired charges from Dec. 23-30. L… 'This is a dream come true for FeedNC' A small group gathered Thursday morning for a ribbon cutting in the front yard of 2456 Charlotte Hwy., Mooresville, the address of the newly p… Drive-thru COVID-19 vaccinations goes 'much better' at Mazeppa Park Last week, the Iredell County Health Department held a drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination at Stumpy Creek Park in Mooresville, and it did not go … Mooresville woman arrested twice on drug-related charges A Mooresville woman, on probation for drug-related charges, was arrested on new charges twice earlier this week. Movies in a Minute: "Promising Young Woman" Movies in a Minute: "One Night in Miami" Movies in a Minute: 'The Croods: A New Age' & 'Buddy Games' NC company's new masks get the attention of the federal government	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3395
__label__cc	0.563933	0.436067	Musically Amusing Contact / About Me Shows/Reviews ← Listen: Hustle and Drone – “Evaporated” Listen: Wolf Gang – “Lay Your Love Down” → Must Hear: MONO – “Where We Begin” When MONO began in 1999, they set out with a simple mission: From bliss to bludgeon, no matter how long or winding the path may be. Their debut album, Under The Pipal Tree, outlined that mission in twisted, psychedelic fury. Subsequent albums would see the band honing their craft, mastering their mission, and ultimately abandoning that path in favor of more grandiose pursuits. Flanked by increasingly larger orchestras, MONO performed live at some of the most prestigious venues in New York City, London, Tokyo, and Australia. MONO had become an orchestral rock band, a spectacle of extreme melancholy and melodrama. By 2012’s For My Parents, the band had finally reached the logical conclusion of that era; it was time to remember where they started, and to rethink where they were heading. Less strings? No strings? Louder? Quieter? Lighter? Darker? Yes. Remember their song “Life in Mono” that was in the movie Great Expectations with Ethan Hawke? I LOVEDDDDD that song!!!! The Last Dawn and Rays of Darkness are a pair of new albums by MONO. Recorded simultaneously yet conceptually and creatively disparate, the two act as both opposing and complementary sides to a story. No strangers to narratives, the twin albums explore familiar themes for the band: Hope and hopelessness, love and loss, immense joy and unspeakable pain. Those elemental parts of life and the complicated relationships they create have never been more resonant through MONO’s music than they are here. The Last Dawn is the first of these two companion albums, and is the “lighter” of the two, thematically and melodically. It contains undoubtedly some of MONO’s strongest songs ever, drawing on an array of influences from minimalist film score to vintage shoegaze. It is MONO at their absolute purest, executing an uncanny, unspoken dialogue with each other without the dozens of stringed instruments that have been so prominent throughout their catalog in recent years. The songs are also noticeably more efficient – there hasn’t been a MONO full-length record that fit on a single slab of vinyl since 2003’s One Step More And You Die – and the album benefits immeasurably from this streamlined approach. MONO have always been masters of telling compelling stories without words. But now they’ve proven they can do it without frills, too. Listen: MONO – “Where We Begin” from The Last Dawn Preorder The Last Dawn Rays of Darkness is the first MONO album in 15 years to feature no orchestral instruments whatsoever. That fact alone is remarkable given the band’s reputation for sweeping, dramatic instrumentals that recall Oscar-worthy film scores. Instead, Rays of Darkness more closely resembles a jet engine taking off inside a small, crowded auditorium. 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__label__cc	0.730581	0.269419	Transferrin receptor in T cell activation and transplantation Allison L. Bayer, Prabhakar Baliga, Jennifer E. Woodward Transferrin receptor (TfR) expression is up-regulated during T cell activation after the interaction of the T cell receptor with the antigen- major histocompatibility complex and the expression of interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor. We hypothesize that anti-TfR monoclonal antibody (mAb) will prolong allograft survival by altering T cell responses. In a murine heterotopic nonvascularized cardiac allograft model, CBA/J (H-2(κ)) recipients were transplanted with neonatal C57BL/6 (H-2(b)) donor hearts. Anti-TfR or isotype-matched control mAbs (100 μg) were administered at the time of transplantation and on the following day. Splenocytes from naive CBA/J mice were stimulated in vitro with C57BL/6 alloantigen. Anti-TfR mAb was administered at 5 μg]mL during the initiation of culture. Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) and mixed lymphocyte responses (MLR) were performed to assess T cell function. After 24 h in culture, cells were harvested, RNA isolated, and semi-quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction performed. Anti-TfR mAb prolonged allograft survival to 25.7 ± 0.9 days compared to the isotype control (10.7 ± 0.4 days, P < 0.01, Wilcoxon rank sum). Anti-TfR mAb completely abrogated the CTL response and suppressed the MLR by 70-86% compared to the isotype controls. Anti-TfR mAb suppressed IL-2, interferon-γ/(IFNγ), IL-10, and IL-12 p40 mRNA expression, but had no effect on IL-4, IL-12 p35, and IL-15 mRNA expression. In conclusion, anti- TfR mAb prolongs allograft survival, suppresses T cell function, and alters IL-2, IL-10, IL-12 p40, and IFN-γ mRNA expression. These data suggest that the downregulation in IL-12 mRNA by anti-TfR mAb may prevent the development of T helper cells, thereby promoting graft survival and altering cell- mediated immune responses. The partial effect by anti-TfR mAb on cytokine mRNA expression may be due to other contributing factors such as costimulation. Journal of Leukocyte Biology https://doi.org/10.1002/jlb.64.1.19 Cytotoxicity Immunozuppression T lymphocytes Th1/Th2 10.1002/jlb.64.1.19 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Transferrin receptor in T cell activation and transplantation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Transferrin Receptors Medicine & Life Sciences Cell Transplantation Medicine & Life Sciences T-Lymphocytes Medicine & Life Sciences Monoclonal Antibodies Medicine & Life Sciences Interleukin-12 Medicine & Life Sciences Allografts Medicine & Life Sciences Messenger RNA Medicine & Life Sciences Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes Medicine & Life Sciences Bayer, A. L., Baliga, P., & Woodward, J. E. (1998). Transferrin receptor in T cell activation and transplantation. Journal of Leukocyte Biology, 64(1), 19-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/jlb.64.1.19 Transferrin receptor in T cell activation and transplantation. / Bayer, Allison L.; Baliga, Prabhakar; Woodward, Jennifer E. In: Journal of Leukocyte Biology, Vol. 64, No. 1, 07.1998, p. 19-24. Bayer, AL, Baliga, P & Woodward, JE 1998, 'Transferrin receptor in T cell activation and transplantation', Journal of Leukocyte Biology, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 19-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/jlb.64.1.19 Bayer AL, Baliga P, Woodward JE. Transferrin receptor in T cell activation and transplantation. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 1998 Jul;64(1):19-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/jlb.64.1.19 Bayer, Allison L. ; Baliga, Prabhakar ; Woodward, Jennifer E. / Transferrin receptor in T cell activation and transplantation. In: Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 1998 ; Vol. 64, No. 1. pp. 19-24. @article{51eed3f6ebac407d9d895638d2d72b8c, title = "Transferrin receptor in T cell activation and transplantation", abstract = "Transferrin receptor (TfR) expression is up-regulated during T cell activation after the interaction of the T cell receptor with the antigen- major histocompatibility complex and the expression of interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor. We hypothesize that anti-TfR monoclonal antibody (mAb) will prolong allograft survival by altering T cell responses. In a murine heterotopic nonvascularized cardiac allograft model, CBA/J (H-2(κ)) recipients were transplanted with neonatal C57BL/6 (H-2(b)) donor hearts. Anti-TfR or isotype-matched control mAbs (100 μg) were administered at the time of transplantation and on the following day. Splenocytes from naive CBA/J mice were stimulated in vitro with C57BL/6 alloantigen. Anti-TfR mAb was administered at 5 μg]mL during the initiation of culture. 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__label__wiki	0.508709	0.508709	Counterfeit Money Is The Motive Behind Gangland’s George Floyd Arson And Looting Riots Yoichi Shimatsu – Rense.com Friends of the rioters and su[porters of gangsters are now threatening the Cup Foods store, whose owner is an Arab American, Apparently brown skin isn’t enough if you run an honest business serving a poor community, and he was expected to subsidize George Floyd’s cigarette habit. Many of the new liberal friends of George are the same people who are offended by smokers inside bars or on the sidewalk, hypocritically defending a smoker’s right to defraud a local small business with a counterfeit 20-dollar bill. Most people have never had to deal with gangs, the way I did in placing immigrant teens saved from gang leaders and released out of New York City’s juvenile detention center, thanks to the police officers and the warden’s program who tried to save them from damnation. Of course the Chinatown gangs wanted the youths back to gun down their rival criminal bosses, but my program would not allow those teenagers to drift back to criminal activity and spend the rest of their lives in prison. Glorifying street violence and looting today are beyond ridiculous, it’s nothing less than advocacy of crimes against society and encouragement of a warped mind-set among the younger generation glorifying anti-social violence. Even more hypocritical are the feminist protesters who make a lot of noise about women’s sexual rights. It so happens that George Floyd was a performer in the black porn industry in his home state of Texas violating African American women. Where is all the outrage that was directed at Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey Epstein who at least paid the female talent a high-end salary, up in the 90 percentile bracket? Before going to burn down a mom-and-pop shop, do your research, you irresponsible fools. READ MORE AT RENSE.COM Looters ransack 118-year-old music store in DTLA National Guardsmen Stand Watch on Steps of Lincoln Memorial	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3408
__label__cc	0.584079	0.415921	September 22, 2019MARKETING TECHNIQUES: Planning for 2020: 5 Points of an effective marketing plan January 19, 2021$750K N.J. Grant Program Focuses On Very Early Stage Clean Tech Companies January 18, 2021Create a People-First Organizational Culture to Inspire Successful Design, Justin Dauer Tells User Experience Professionals Association January 15, 2021Virtual NJIT New Business Model Competition Highlights Budding Entrepreneurs January 14, 2021Oksana Sokolovsky Talks About Her Startup ROAR and Being Golden Seeds NJ Chapter’s First Investment January 8, 2021Predicting 2021—Ed Carey of Audience Town Looks at Tech’s Influence on Real Estate Marketing January 7, 2021Predicting 2021—Commvault Execs Look at IT and Security Trends for the New Year January 5, 2021Attention Founders! 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Neu is an experienced lawyer and partner at Kuzas Neu, a law firm with a practice focused on technology and venture capital. Regulation A-plus was adopted by the SEC on March 25. A part of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, the regulation is intended to help startup companies raise money from the general public. But its cumbersome rules have largely stopped this from happening. Raising money through Regulation A-plus has been referred to as crowdfunding. But Neu explained that the process is much different from the kind of reward-based crowdfunding that takes place on platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. On those websites, “they’re arguably selling almost a product, as opposed to getting investment capital in the firm,” Neu said. He then explained that raising money using Regulation A-plus is more complicated. Regulation A-plus was partly designed to help startups collect money from a group known as “non-accredited investors.” A non-accredited investor is someone who makes less than $200,000 per year or has less than $1,000,000 in assets. A person’s primary residence is not counted in the valuation of his or her assets. Most provisions on raising investment capital forbid general solicitation of money from non-accredited investors. Regulation A-plus allows such solicitation, but companies using it must comply with rules designed to protect non-accredited investors. “So, in Reg A-plus you’ve got basically two types of offerings, what we call ‘Tier 1’ and ‘Tier 2,’” Neu explained. Companies partly choose which offering to use based on the amount of money they want to raise. Tier 1 has a $20 million cap, while Tier 2 has a $50 million cap. Startups using Tier 1 have to comply with a unique set of securities regulations, called “blue sky laws,” in every state where they’re soliciting cash. Because of this, Neu said, “you’ve got a bunch of deadlines … as well as filing fees in every single state.” That could be problematic for companies soliciting through social media, as they are technically making offers in every state. But if a company is only raising money in one state, “then your requirements of registration and related [compliance] are significantly more minute, simply because then you just have that state’s regulations to deal with,” Neu said. Tier 2 does not require companies to comply with blue sky laws. In both Tier 1 and Tier 2, “you have to file an investor disclosure with the SEC,” Neu said. “And then, on top of that, with Tier 2 there’s a lot more regulations when it comes to making that offer. You’ve got to have audited financials, your filing with the SEC is much more complex, and then you also have an exit report that you have to file with the SEC when you are done raising.” Early-stage startups will usually have trouble raising money with either Tier 1 or Tier 2. Neu told guests, “The IRS has basically said [Regulation A-plus] is a light or a mini IPO. That’s their intent. Their intent is not guys with a napkin or PowerPoint or seed stage to use this as a vehicle. One of the significant issues with Reg A Plus is the expense in getting there. You’re talking—from a compliance standpoint—probably a minimum of eighty grand in expenses.” Neu suggested that using Regulation A-plus could be appropriate for “late-stage guys that don’t want to IPO, but they do want to raise significant capital. … And, for whatever reason, you don’t want to go through the general [venture capitalist] route. Maybe you feel you can do better on the public market than you can in the private market.” He explained that few companies have successfully used Regulation A-plus to raise money. However, “There’s been a couple of people that have used it to success, mostly for the PR splash,” Neu said. One such company is DSTLD, a direct-to-consumer denim company. DSTLD raised “almost $10 million,” Neu explained. He added that “for a jeans company, they couldn’t have paid for that amount of PR. It was everywhere.” However, Regulation A-plus is still encountering problems. “One is that state legislators are very annoyed that Tier 2 exempts blue sky laws,” Neu said. “And so, actually, several states have sued the SEC within the last couple of weeks because of that exemption.” Additionally, he said, “There’s been a lot of pushback that the SEC did not achieve the mandate” of making capital more accessible to startups. Neu said that because of these problems, “I would assume that there would be revisions to the Reg A-plus rules in the next couple of years. And they’ve got Tier 3 regulations, which are supposed to come out in [quarter three] of 2016.” He speculated that Tier 3 regulations may address the complaints concerning Regulation A-plus, but was unsure if this would happen. Previous: Technology Marketing in the Digital Age: Using Social Media? Here’s Top Ways to Get Immediate Value for Your Business Next: Piscataway-based Ciqada Has Internet of Things Solution Ready to be Deployed Now John Critelli $750K N.J. Grant Program Focuses On Very Early Stage Clean Tech Companies By Eric Strauss / ROI-NJ [This article is reposted with permission from our friends at... 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__label__cc	0.742634	0.257366	My Georgia O'Keeffe by Ann Daly PhD About Ann Daly Tag Archives \| gender equality Georgia O’Keeffe: feminist forever By Ann Daly Right from the get-go, Georgia O’Keeffe resisted patriarchy. “I have always resented being told that there are things I cannot do because I am a woman,” she told a National Woman’s Party audience in 1926. “I remember how I used to argue with my brother about which were best, boys or girls. When I argued […] Georgia O’Keeffe on the Equal Rights Amendment, 1942 It is hard to realize that any group still has to work for equal rights before the law. . . . Surely today when women are taking their place everywhere we should not think in terms of reservations and prejudices of the past, but of a joint effort, the freedom of peoples and of human […] What would Georgia O’Keeffe say about Hillary? After the emotional overdrive of Hillary’s nomination last week, I’ve been wondering what Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986) would think – and feel, and say. One hundred years after the pioneering modern artist got her first group exhibit in New York City, O’Keeffe would likely be saying, “It’s about time.” Popularly recognized today as the […] abiquiu abstraction ambition ansel adams archives artworks awards books columbia college correspondence criticism documentary exhibitions exhibits feminism gender equality ghost ranch homage legacy museum my book new mexico patio door photography portraits process quotes recipes religion stieglitz stieglitz texas Todd Webb tony luhan works Who’s Ann Daly? I've written about women artists like Isadora Duncan, Imogen Cunningham, and Martha Graham. Now I'm in the thick of researching Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe up-close in new book O’Keeffe: rapturous possibilities Georgia O’Keeffe’s last visit with Ansel Adams, on video Hey, that’s me on YouTube! Sculpture or incinerator? © 2019 Ann Daly PhD. All rights reserved. Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie's II, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1930. Gift of the Burnett Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. (header) Georgia O'Keeffe, by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. (portrait)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3414
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__label__wiki	0.669389	0.669389	Lil Baby Pays for Surprise Birthday Party for George Floyd’s 7-Year-Old Daughter Prince Williams, Getty Images Lil Baby made George Floyd's 7-year-old daughter's birthday a lot brighter this year. The Atlanta rapper teamed up with restaurateurs Ericka and William Platt of Restaurant Ten and Rosie’s Café as well as former NBA star Stephen Jackson—a father figure to Floyd's daughter—to help celebrate the 7th birthday of Gianna Floyd on Wednesday (Dec. 16). Gianna's father, George Floyd, was an unarmed Black man who was killed by a White former Minneapolis police officer who kept his knee on Floyd's neck for over eight minutes while in custody on May 25. Floyd's death, which was captured on video, was a catalyst for global protests and civil unrest across the country over the summer. abesipr via Instagram According to a report from TMZ yesterday, Baby covered all of the expenses for the birthday event that was filled with colorful balloons, food and a customized sign spelling out Gianna's name. The Quality Control Records artist and NBA champion Shaquille O'Neal attended the surprise party, too. Images were shared on Gianna's social media as well as Abesi Manyando, who is responsible for setting up the event. As far as the party's setup, there were manicure stations, a foot spa, the girls in attendance were able to get their hair done and there was a tub filled with mini balloons as well. The children of Rayshard Brooks, another Black man killed by police in Atlanta back in June, were invited to the party also. Gianna's mother, Roxie Washington, spoke of the surprise party and support herself and her daughter have received following George Floyd's death and said, "This is a very difficult time for my daughter so we’re very grateful that our extended family is creating such a special experience for Gianna on her first birthday without her father." Check out some footage from the birthday celebration below. Here Are the Rappers We're Thankful for This Year Source: Lil Baby Pays for Surprise Birthday Party for George Floyd’s 7-Year-Old Daughter Filed Under: Lil Baby	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3416
__label__wiki	0.805089	0.805089	Foreign employment to blame for rising divorce cases in Baglung: Judge Published On: August 20, 2017 08:41 AM NPT By: Sangam Gharti Magar BAGLUNG, August 20: Cases of couples seeking divorce have increased in Baglung district in the last four years. In the fiscal year 2016-17, 138 cases among the total 489 cases filed at the District Court, Baglung were related to divorce cases. According to the district court, 125 of the 138 cases have been settled so far. In the fiscal year 2015-16, 135 cases were related to divorce among 694 filed at the court. Meanwhile, in 2014-15, 105 among 448 cases were related to divorce. District Judge Him Lal Belbase said, "We can say that this society is starting to open up considering a number of divorce cases that have been filed," adding, "As the women are getting empowered, they feel that they should not be oppressed. This is why divorce cases are increasing." He attributed foreign employment as a key reason behind the growing divorce cases in the district. District Court of Baglung has settled 73 percent of divorce cases, which is three percent more than what they were aiming for in this fiscal year 2015-16. Judge Belbase said that the court had settled a total of 354 cases so far including 142 from last year. In the fiscal year 2016-17, 489 cases were filed in the court. Besides 138 cases related to divorce, 69 were property disputes, 64 property allocation cases, 34 forgery cases, 25 cases related to family relations, 24 rape cases, 14 murder cases and 5 were criminal cases. Judge Belbase said that it had been hard for them to settle cases due to both applicants and defendants recording conflicting statements. The district court informed that it has still yet to recover Rs 853,000 from punishable offenses after settling all these cases. foreign employment rising divorce baglung Youth choose foreign employment as government incentives become ineffective BAITADI, August 19: Despite the government’s efforts in giving different types of incentives to the youth for self-employment at home, the... Judge: Trump has power to ban foreign travelers A federal appeals court judge says President Donald Trump has the authority to block foreign travelers and courts must defer... Prime Minister Oli accuses rival faction chairperson Dahal of misguiding youths	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3419
__label__wiki	0.750524	0.750524	Myschool Scholarships By Academic Level Under Graduates More Opportunities Home Australia TC Beirne School Of Law funding At University Of Queensland – Australia... TC Beirne School Of Law funding At University Of Queensland – Australia 2019 The TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland is awarding scholarship opportunities to Interested applicants who are seeking to pursue a degree program at the Institution. The successful scholar will receive a reduction of 50% and 25% of the tuition fees for courses undertaken towards the approved law program. Eligible Countries: International Type: Undergraduate Applicants who have applied for the undergraduate program in law and who have not yet commenced at UQ. Applicants must be International students Applicants must be high achieving candidate seeking admission into either the undergraduate Bachelor of Laws (Honors)/ (LLB (Hons)) or the dual degree programs that include the LLB (Hons). Also Apply: Curtin Housing Funding At Curtin University - Australia 2019 How To Apply: Interested applicants are advised to take admission in an undergraduate degree at UQ. After receiving an offer of a place to study, students are permitted to download the award application form and send it to [email protected] with all documents. Applicants are required to send official academic transcript/s, a personal statement outlining why you want a career in law, two reference letters, and resume. Visit The Official Website For More Information Register your email for Scholarship Updates Remember to check your email immediately you register, to complete the process. Previous article2019 International First Year Funding At University Of Canterbury – New Zealand Next article2019 International Excellence Funding Program At University Of Sussex – UK Myschool Kelly Dean’s International Bursary for Professional Advancement at City University of London, UK 2021 Department of Biomedical Sciences International Awards at University of Padua – Italy Government of Azerbaijan Scholarships for International Students 2021 2021 KUAS-E Scholarships at Kyoto University of Advanced Science – Japan Exclusive Widener Scholarships at Widener University – USA 2021 2021 ZUKOnnect Fellowships for Early-career Researchers at University of Konstanz – Germany New Perspectives International Scholarship At Hertie School – Germany 2021 2021 Sustainability and Energy Policy Scholarship at Hertie School of Governance – Germany Sustainability Science Scholarships At United Nations University – Japan 2021 2021 SDA Bocconi School of Management Scholarships for African Students – Italy Presidential International Baccalaureate Scholarships at Saint Mary’s University, Canada 2021 2021 Be Exceptional International Awards at University of York, UK Full International Awards at Sharif University of Technology International Campus, Iran 2021 2021 ECA Ray Hart Memorial International Scholarship at University of Western Australia Bring Your Own Device Bursary for International Students at Humber College – Canada 2021 MySchool Scholarships is your Scholarships, Awards, Conferences, Competitions and Many Opportunities website. We provide you with the latest breaking news and opportuinies straight from Our Information Network. Dean’s International Bursary for Professional Advancement at City University of London,... 2021 Department of Biomedical Sciences International Awards at University of Padua... Under Graduates1399 Masters Scholarships1271 More Opportunities706 Doctorate584 © 2017 Myschool Scholarships. Powered BySilvaCreate	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3420
__label__cc	0.65607	0.34393	The application process and criteria for the scholarship are as follows: Applicants MUST BE enrolled as a Masters or Doctoral level student, and a current NASSS member at the time of application submission. Applicants must prepare the following: A one-page essay, which addresses your current research and how you plan to contribute to the field of sport sociology/physical activity. (Please use 12 pt., Times New Roman Font Only) A letter of recommendation from a faculty member who is familiar with the student’s work and aspirations. Applicant Contact Sheet with the following information: Name, Address, Phone & Email Address, Student Classification (Masters or Doctoral), College/University Affiliation, Name of Faculty Recommender. Download the Applicant Contact sheet here All required documents MUST BE sent via email as one complete PDF document in the following order 1) Applicant Contact Sheet, 2) Faculty member letter of recommendation, and 3) One-page essay. Application Deadline: Wednesday, July 15th 2020 The NASSS Diversity and Conference Climate Committee will review all applications and select the winners. Winners will be notified via email by September 2020. The winners and runners-ups will have an opportunity to present their research during a special Gary Sails Diversity Award Session at the 2020 NASSS Conference, in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 4 – 7, 2020. The winners will also be recognized at the Annual NASSS Conference Business Meeting during the 2020 Conference. Submit materials or questions to: F. Michelle Richardson, Ph.D. Chair, NASSS Diversity and Conference Climate Committee Dr.FMRichardson@gmail.com Gary “Doc” Sailes is an award winning professor at Indiana University. He is widely recognized for his research and advocacy on collegiate sport access and Critical Race Theory. A champion of student-athlete development, Dr. Sailes has led Congressional hearings, and presented to the International Olympic Congress on abuses in college athletics and the value of diversity across sport. A recipient of the 2011 NASSS Distinguished Service Award, “Doc” continues his support of the NASSS community by bestowing resources that annually fund the Graduate Diversity Scholarship. In acknowledgment of the recommendation made by the Racial Diversity Committee in the fall of 2003, the NASSS Conference Program Committee has implemented a scholarship for a graduate student who is a member of a racial or ethnic “minority” group. The purpose of the scholarship is to create a mechanism to identify racial and/or ethnic “minority” graduate students who are researching in the area of sport sociology and provide a means of supporting their work and association with NASSS. The award of $500 is applied toward expenses associated with attendance at the NASSS 2020 Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 4 – 7, 2020. Previous Recipients To download a PDF of all previous NASSS award winners, including all winners of this award, please click here: NASSS Award PDF 2019 Master’s Award: Arturo Jaime Morales Jr. (University of Tennessee, Knoxville); Doctoral Award: Ajhanai Channel Inez Newton (University of Connecticut) 2018 Master’s Award: Tori Thompson (University of Maryland); Doctoral Award: Nida Ahmad, (University of Waikato) 2017 Master’s Award: Dervon Francis (Western Illinois University); Doctoral Award: Alexander Deeb, (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) 2016 Master’s Award: Urooj Shahzadi(University of Toronto); Doctoral Award: Traci Canada(University of Virginia) 2015 Master’s Award: Alexander Deeb (Western Illinois University); Doctoral Award: Bahar Tajrobehkar (University of Toronto) 2014 Master’s Award: Caroline Piquette (Laurentian University); Doctoral Award: Ember Skye W. Kanelee (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 2013 Master's Award: Bahar Tajrobehkar (York University); Doctoral Award: Satoko Itani (University of Toronto) 2012 Chelsea Johnson (University of Southern California) 2011 Albert Y. Bimper, Jr. (University of Texas) 2010 Nikolas Dickerson (University of Iowa) 2009 Jasmine Hamilton (Louisiana State University) 2008 Kyoung-Yim Kim (University of Toronto) 2007 Rachel Sarabia (University of California, Santa Barbara) 2006 Nicola Potopsighn (Queen's University) 2005 Bryan Bracey (University of Maryland)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3426
__label__cc	0.696463	0.303537	No Truce With Kings « "Don’t be evil" my aching back Net Neutrality? Follow the money. » Smoke ’em if you got ’em I’ve been smoking for 45 years (nearly as long as I’ve been paying FICA, now that I think about it). And I get the externalities of smoking, so I don’t feel aggrieved when people or organizations prohibit smoking on their property. No problem: I’ll respect their air and grounds. I’ve got tenants who are heavy smokers and, yep, that house has a definite stink to it. We’ll need a few gallons of KILZ when they move out. Again, no problem. It’s their home and we knew they smoked when they signed the lease. The clean-up is a very minor cost, all things considered. What I do have a problem with, though, is when the Nicotine Nazis get their hands on the levers of power and start proposing regulations like the one described below. Banning tobacco sales is just another form of Prohibition, after all, and we know how well prohibitions work. What we learn from history is that we never learn from history (said whomever you want to credit with that adage). Raucous hearing on tobacco sales in Westminster halted WESTMINSTER — An unruly public hearing on a proposal to prohibit the sale of tobacco products came to a sudden and rowdy halt Wednesday evening after shouting and clapping opponents of the ban repeatedly refused the chairwoman’s request to come to order. The ban, proposed by the Board of Health in this Central Massachusetts town, would be the first of its kind in the state. It has led to angry reactions from residents who worry that it will hurt the local economy and allow government too much discretion in controlling private conduct. “This is about freedom; it’s my body and it’s my choice to smoke,” said Nate Johnson, 32, a Westminster farmer and auto body worker. He was puffing on a cigarette at a rally before the hearing where opponents held signs saying “It’s not about tobacco — it’s about control” and “Smoke ’em if you got them.” […] The ban would cover sales of products containing tobacco or nicotine, including cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and electronic cigarettes, which use batteries to heat nicotine-laced liquid, producing a vapor that is inhaled. The proposal, made public Oct. 27, touched off an intense reaction from opponents. More than 1,000 of the town’s 7,400 residents signed a petition against the ban. I was tickled to read about the residents of Westminster raising hell about this proposal. Evidently there were even non-smokers upset about the proposal — as they should have been since it’s the kind of idea that reminds you of Mark Twain’s comment about school board members. CJ GUNTHER/EPA “What’s next?” is a very good question. It’s one we ought to be asking ourselves about practically everything the government plans or does. And just as a matter of curiosity, doesn’t it strike anyone else as curious that several states are now allowing the sale of marijuana to be smoked – Massachusetts itself may allow it – and this Board of Health wants to ban the sale of tobacco? Here’s some commentary about a topic related to my question above. It’s from Kevin Williamson at National Review (1/28/15). A Lifestyle So Good, It’s Mandatory California has effectively decriminalized marijuana (possession of less than an ounce is a civil matter roughly equivalent to a speeding ticket — a rarely written speeding ticket), and the state has a medical (ahem) marijuana program that is, for the moment, largely unregulated. At the same time, the state is launching a progressive jihad against “vaping,” the use of so-called e-cigarettes that deliver nicotine in the form of vapor. The state public-health department says that this is justified by the presence of certain carcinogens — benzene, formaldehyde, nickel, and lead—in e-cigarette vapor. But by California’s own account, all of those chemicals are present in marijuana smoke, too, along with 29 other carcinogens. If that seems inconsistent to you, you are thinking about it the wrong way: For all of its scientific pretensions and empirical posturing, progressivism is not about evidence, and at its heart it is not even about public policy at all: It is about aesthetics. The goal of progressivism is not to make the world rational; it’s to make the world Portland. Vaping is, from the point of view of your average organic-quinoa and hot-yoga enthusiast, a lowlife thing. It is not the same thing as smoking, but it looks too much like smoking for their tastes. Indeed, California cites the possibility of vaping’s “re-normalizing smoking behavior” as a principal cause of concern. Dr. Ron Chapman, director of the California Department of Public Health, says that vaping should be treated like “other important outbreaks or epidemics.” But epidemics of what? Prole tastes? In addition to regularly writing incisive opinion pieces, Mr. Williamson was also a cell phone vigilante a couple of years ago. Posted in City government, Fear your government \| Tagged tobacco ban, westminster ma \| What he said (14) Can we find more regulators like this? 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__label__wiki	0.825096	0.825096	‘Jane’ Party to Celebrate Cleveland DJ Icon Rob Sherwood March 14, 2018 Darren Ressler Leave a Comment Cleveland DJ icon Rob Sherwood suffered a heart attack and passed away on February 18. He was 54 and had recently battled prostate cancer. To celebrate Sherwood’s legacy, a party called Jane (Sherwood was known as Jane to his friends) has been organized at Sachsenheim Hall on March 31 by The Disco Mafia. The night will feature drag performances and DJ sets by Sherwood’s Color Blind production partner Mike Filly, Lady Miss Kier, and Kenny Summit. Sherwood was a beloved fixture in the city’s club music community. He spun at numerous gay and straight venues — as well as one-off raves — including Nine of Clubs, Alterhouse, Aquilon, Lift, U4ia, Trilogy, Metropolis, the Church, and Freak. From the mid-80s on he navigated himself through countless musical trends, DJing around the US and living for a stint in NYC. “I went to New York and lived every single DJ dream I ever had,” he once said. “All of my heroes were coming out of the studio at night saying, ‘I just cut a disc, I want you to play it’ – my heroes. Not just some guys, my DJ and producer heroes. Every club I ever dreamed of wanting to work at, I worked at.” Sherwood, who contributed music reviews to Cleveland-based publications Underground News and Buzz, was an in-demand remixer in the ’90s and ’00s. “He produced floor-filling remixes for Deee-Lite, Sparks, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, The Lightning Seeds, and Sagat,” says NYC-based dance-music label veteran Joe Berinato. “Nightlife luminaries are rare breeds these days and none were like Rob Sherwood. The extent of immeasurable devotion, unwitting impact and ultimate legacy he left on DJs and club culture alike, not only in Cleveland but in many other cities across the country, will be honored and celebrated here on this night.” Berinato remembers Sherwood as a “super passionate, talented, determined — hands down what you saw is what you got. Young curmudgeon with a heart of platinum. Captivating storyteller; he could talk about cleaning a stop sign and manage to get your attention. I loved hearing him bitch about the state of the music industry, how one bad remix after the next was driving yet another nail in the coffin of dance music. He was known for throwing outlandish parties. When he moved to NYC in the early 2000’s he wanted to celebrate his arrival by holding a dildo toss competition — ‘no holes barred’ lol, fuckin’ Sherwood.” “Friends and strangers alike have been incredibly kind and helpful, and now we’re both really looking forward to celebrating our sister.” — Tim Nezuka The idea of presenting a tribute party evolved organically between fellow Cleveland club scene mainstays Tim Nekuza and Dick Russell after Sherwood’s passing. “Rob died on the Sunday of Presidents Day Weekend,” says Tim Nekuza. “Dick and I were communicating, grieving, processing; and almost like a reflex, we just sort of moved into planning a tribute. We confirmed an event date the next day. A mutual friend asked me about what was involved in plotting a memorial for Rob Sherwood. Do you know what Jane would want? My reply was, ‘Well, yes. More importantly? I know what Jane wouldn’t want.'” Nezuka says that they’ve taken great care in producing the party. “We just started putting together core elements of Rob’s aesthetic: provocative visuals and transcendent music. A combination of high and low culture. It’s been almost 20 years since Dick and I collaborated on throwing a party, but the pieces have mostly moved into place organically. It’s been a very rewarding experience so far. Long days. Mild anxiety. Zero arguments. Friends and strangers alike have been incredibly kind and helpful, and now we’re both really looking forward to celebrating our sister.” When asked about his fondest memory of Sherwood, Dick Russell parses them into two buckets. “On the personal end, he introduced my performance of ‘The Art of Drag’ at my gallery,” he says. “He was emotional. And then he called me the week before he died to tell me how proud he was of me. Those are obviously very important memories. “He could bring all walks of life together while making them feel comfortable. It crossed all barriers; no matter how much money they made, no matter who they fucked, no matter what color they were, what part of town they came from. The music brought them all together.” — Dick Russell “In the nightclub world? These edgy, mind-blowing, witty ideas just came to him. We’d fed off of each other and then he’d pull it all together with this amazing music. Once at Next, I was fighting backstage with a very tall, very ripped male dancer. Jane came in and announced, ‘You bitches are fired unless you wrestle in pudding next week to settle this.’ And that’s exactly what we did the following weekend.” Russell says Sherwood’s demeanor attracted and united people. “We did an after-hours, Ms. E-Wreck-Shaun’s Breakfast Buffet,” he recalls. “The concept was simple: give acid and electric skillets to a group of drag queens. We cooked up scrambled eggs and pancakes and threw them down the dance floor to this fabulous music. He could bring all walks of life together while making them feel comfortable. It crossed all barriers; no matter how much money they made, no matter who they fucked, no matter what color they were, what part of town they came from. The music brought them all together.” Do you have a fond memory of Rob Sherwood? If so, please share it in the comments section below. News Rob Sherwood Previous Article← Wearable MIDI Ring Controller Puts Your Finger on the Pulse of Music Next ArticlePremiere: Luca D’Alberto – Everywhere You Are (Yehezkel Raz Rework) →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3444
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__label__cc	0.565536	0.434464	After 10-month ordeal, charges finally dropped against Sochi journalist Lawyer Popkov and journalist Nikolai Yarst (right). Photo: Svetlana Kravchenko for Caucasian Knot Posted by: su07bir09 Dateline: Undated Date : Mar 17, 2014 Link to source article Russian authorities have finally dropped the drug possession charges they first brought against Sochi-based independent journalist Nikolai Yarst in May 2013. Sochi police headquarters formally notified his lawyers on March 15 that the case has been dismissed. Yarst and a colleague were heading to an appointment at the Sochi office of the Investigative Committee (Russia’s FBI equivalent) in the hope of getting information for a story on May 23, 2013, when their car was stopped and an envelope containing drugs was “discovered” on the back seat. Official accounts of the circumstances of his arrest quickly proved inconsistent. Nothing was found in a search of his home and analyses for evidence of drug use were negative. Manipulation of evidence and retraction of statements by prosecution witnesses supported Yarst’s repeated claims that he was the victim of trumped-up charges that had been prompted by his reporting. At the time of his arrest, he was investigating the possibility of police complicity in the actions of a convicted person. Yarst was placed under house arrest from June 3 to December 5, during which time he was completely isolated. Thereafter, the restrictions were loosened but he remained under judicial control and continued to face prosecution on a charge that carried a maximum sentence of ten years in prison. “We are pleased that Yarst’s senseless ordeal is finally over and that he has recovered full freedom of movement,” said Johann Bihr, head of the Reporters Without Borders Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk. “The decision to dismiss the case nonetheless leaves a bitter taste. Yarst was subjected to six months of house arrest, slandered and unable to work just because his investigative reporting upset people. Why did the authorities need all this time and several additional investigations to finally take account of the contradictions and irregularities that were evident from the outset?” Bihr added: “An investigation must be ordered to identify those responsible for fabricating these charges and the reason for this persecution. All possible light must be shed on this case in order to render justice to Yarst and to dispel the intimidatory effect on his colleagues.” Date posted: March 18, 2014 Last modified: May 23, 2018 Total views: 7 Iceland aiming to be a global press freedom haven Curbs on news coverage put on hold as editors say move is throwback to Emergency days Weekly critical of Ahmadinejad suspended a day after Ayatollah Khamenei threatens media New Mexico campaign to protect journalists addresses public, seeks end to impunity Crimes against journalists not being punished in Honduras Freedom retreated in much of the world in 2008, reveals Freedom House annual report Islamists behead second American journalist CPJ welcomes dismissal of charges against Barrett Brown France: Counterterrorism bill would breach free movement, expression The press release is still a valid, and valued, tool Social networking can help people lose weight	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3446
__label__cc	0.522642	0.477358	› Trading › CHINA, NEPAL PLEDGE TO ENHANCE COOPERATION CHINA, NEPAL PLEDGE TO ENHANCE COOPERATION nepalnewsgazette.com June 22, 2018 Comment Closed Trading BEIJING, Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, held talks with Nepal's Prime Minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, in Beijing, and they agreed to enhance cooperation. Li said China and Nepal are good friends and partners linked by mountains and rivers. Since the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries, China and Nepal have developed friendly cooperative ties, on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, Li said. China is willing to make joint efforts with Nepal, to inject new impetus into bilateral ties and cooperation, he said. The development of bilateral ties is not only beneficial to both sides, but also to regional peace, stability and prosperity, Li said. China appreciates Nepal's firm adherence to the one-China policy, respects Nepal's independent choice of social system and development path, and supports Nepal in safeguarding its national independence, sovereignty and legitimate rights and interests, he said. China is willing to work with Nepal to build an interconnectivity network across the Himalayas through the projects in ports, railways, highways, aviation and communications, he said. Li called on the two sides to make use of their complementary advantages to cooperate more in economy and trade, production capacity, investment and agricultural products. Li said, China supports its companies in investing in Nepal, and hopes the two sides start FTA negotiations as early as possible. Both China and Nepal advocate safeguarding multi-lateralism and free trade, Li said, calling on the two sides to use multi-lateralism to maintain the stability of the international order. China is willing to communicate and coordinate more with Nepal in the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and other multilateral organisations, to safeguard common interests, Li said. Oli said Nepal and China enjoy long-term close relations, and both countries uphold the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and respect each other's core interests and major concerns. Nepal firmly adheres to the one-China policy and will never allow anti-China activities on Nepalese soil, Oli said. Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK 45 SECURITY FORCES, 16 MILITANTS KILLED IN CLASHES IN W. AFGHANISTAN ― June 21, 2018 HANOI COMMITS TO FULFILLING 90-90-90 GOALS IN HIV/AIDS PREVENTION	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3453
__label__wiki	0.782585	0.782585	Ikea and Sonos bring light and sound to Milan's Salone del Mobile By Paul Ridden Ikea and Sonos bring light and... The Symfonisk range has debuted in Milan, and comprises a table lamp with built-in wireless speaker and a streaming bookshelf speaker The Symfonisk bookshelf speaker can act as a book-end or as an actually bookshelf The Symfonisk bookshelf speaker's mounting bracket can support up to 3 kg The Symfonisk range's first products are a table lamp with integrated Wi-Fi speaker and a small bookshelf speaker The Symfonisk table lamp has been designed to seamlessly integrate with existing home entertainment systems Last month, Ikea and Sonos announced that they were collaborating on a new range of light and sound products. Now the Symfonisk range has debuted in Milan, and is made up of a table lamp with built-in wireless speaker and a small, versatile standalone streaming speaker. The Symfonisk table lamp combines light and sound. It needs to be plugged into the mains, the light is switched on using a dial on the side and there are playback controls on the base. Music can be streamed to the built-in speaker over Wi-Fi – which should support high resolution playback – and the Sonos mobile app can be used to fine tune the listening experience. "Ikea and Sonos recognize the importance of great sound and its potential to positively affect life at home for the many people," Tad Toulis from Sonos revealed. "We set out to create products neither of us would or could develop independently. To this end, since music and light are both instrumental in creating a sense of place, we developed a product that can deliver both – the Symfonisk lamp speaker." The Ikea/Sonos Symfonisk table lamp with Wi-Fi speaker is making its debut at Salone del Mobile in Milan this week, and will retail for €179 when it goes up for sale in late August. The second member of the Symfonisk range is a bookshelf speaker, literally. This Wi-Fi speaker can actually be used as a bookshelf, and its bracket can support up to 3 kg of hardbacks or knick-knacks. It also has hooks that allow for attachment to kitchen rails, or it can just be placed on a solid surface in vertical or horizontal orientation. Playback buttons on its face are used for listening control, and this device can also be controlled using the Sonos app. The Symfonisk book-shelf speaker will have a recommended retail price of €99.95. Ikea says that the Symfonisk range has been designed to seamlessly integrate with existing home entertainment systems, but little in the way of detail has been offered at this time. "Our goal is for our collective work to save space, get rid of cables, make clutter invisible, and bring sound and music into the home in a more beautiful way," said Giles Martin from Sonos. Source: Ikea Home EntertainmentIKEASpeakersWi-FiLampLightSonos Paul Ridden While Paul is loath to reveal his age, he will admit to cutting his IT teeth on a TRS-80 (although he won't say which version). An obsessive fascination with computer technology blossomed from hobby into career before hopping over to France for 10 years, where he started work for New Atlas in 2009. Now back in his native Blighty, he serves as Managing Editor in Europe. minivini April 9, 2019 02:16 PM These are really cool. I hope the price conversion isn’t direct, as that will make them a little too pricey unless the sound quality is pretty exceptional. Epson's latest business projectors designed for work or play at home Asus projector serves up coffee-cup-sized big-screen entertainment Prototype TV ditches the plug and powers up wirelessly Hisense aims for color purity with 2021 TriChroma Laser TVs	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3454
__label__wiki	0.921823	0.921823	Incumbent judge campaigns on qualifications [vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][text_output] By Liam Cary-Eaves and Jessi Mace The first time Miles Hanisee was appointed to the NM Court of Appeals, he was removed by voters the following year. Now he’s been reappointed to the court and he’s asking voters again to keep him there. “I am only the second judge on this court, in its history, to be appointed twice,” Hanisee said. “Now that sounds great but what it means is that I lost an election in the middle.” Republican Gov. Susana Martinez first appointed Hanisee to an open seat on the appeals court in 2011, but he lost his election to keep the seat in November 2012. Then, the very next month, due to the retirement of Judge Celia Castillo, Martinez again appointed Hanisee to an open seat. On Nov. 4, Hanisee faces a challenge for the seat by Democrat Kerry Kiernan, a long time attorney. Judges on the NM Court of Appeals review cases that have been appealed in district and trial courts in the state of New Mexico with the exceptions of appeals from the Public Regulation Commission, cases dealing with life imprisonment, and cases involving habeas corpus (a writ ordering a person in custody to be brought before a court). Judges on the court of appeals make $117,505.44, according to the New Mexico State Government employee listing. The judge said that he tells both Democrats and Republicans that his political affiliation shouldn’t be the only thing voters look at. Instead Hanisee said he would like the voters of New Mexico to look at the things that he has accomplished rather than his party. A particular case in which Hanisee wrote the opinion came in January, 2013. Hanisee voted to sustain tax relief for a private conservation entity called Pecos River Open Spaces, Inc. The state Constitution doesn’t state that conservation land is exempt from property taxes, and Hanisee wrote an opinion to preserve the non-profit from increased taxation. The decision in the case states the charitable use of the conservation project is beneficial to the public and therefore should be exempt from having to pay additional taxes. “It seeks the beautification of New Mexico Lands. If you’ve ever been up to the Pecos River, you don’t want anything on those lands,” Hanisee said. “That’s certainly a ruling that I would think all New Mexicans can celebrate.” Looking beyond the party Allan L. Wainwright, a private practice lawyer admitted to the New Mexico District Court in 1982, said that he agrees with a lot of the opinions that Hanisee has written. However, he said that because Hanisee is a Republican in New Mexico, the incumbent judge is at a disadvantage. “The problem with our judicial election system is that the general public doesn’t know virtually anything about judicial candidates,” Wainwright said. Wainwright said the majority of people voting in judicial elections simply side with their favored party, and the majority of New Mexican voters are Democrats. “The common public, if they’re lucky, doesn’t have to deal with the judicial system, particularly on a day in and day out basis,” Wainwright said. “They don’t have enough knowledge to make an informed decision and they’re not able to get enough information.” Hanisee said that there needs to be a change to the process of judicial elections since the voting process has nothing to do with party affiliations. “Nothing about this job has anything to do with being a Republican or being a Democrat,” Hanisee said. “Yet here we have one of the most regressive antiquated of mindsets when it comes to judicial elections. It’s time we change that.” Judge Hanisee says his experience both on the bench and before the court attest to his qualification. “Incumbency (for me) means I have a record of fairness, a record of independent thinking, and have contributed to New Mexico in a positive way,” Hanisee said. “Never once have any of my colleagues dissented anything that I have written.” An important quality for the appeals court is for judges to have a wide range of experience in different types of law, he said. “We want judges that are experienced in all areas of the law,” he said. “I think a better question is ‘what did you do in that period of time (while serving on the bar). Have you done a lot of different things?’” Hanisee points to his work as a clerk for three federal courts of appeals: the seventh, ninth and tenth circuits. Clerks are the judge’s staff members who often conduct research, organize memos and opinions, verify sources, and proofread opinions written by judges in order to gain hands on experience with the law. “Very few lawyers in the United States have served as authors on the staffs of three different federal court of appeals judges,” he said. “I don’t know of any other.” After his clerkships, he took the assistant United States attorney position in New Mexico from 1996-2007. During that time he was recognized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for several major prosecutions. Hanisee also served as a civil rights coordinator, a criminal prosecutor and Pueblo of Zuni Project Coordinator while during his tenure at the Assistant U.S. Attorney in New Mexico.[/text_output][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][image type=”none” float=”none” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” src=”3015″][text_output] Miles Hanisee Photo by Jessi Mace / NM News Port [/text_output][/vc_column][/vc_row] First-time candidate in pivotal House race Ideas for streamlining process fuel judge campaign New Mexico Voices, Top story Trump Campaign Rhetoric Threatens to Undermine NM Census Results By Alika Medina & Mariah Perry / NM News Port On March 12th, the U.S Census Bureau sent out its first invitations to file. In New Mexico, advocates for the immigrant community face a particular challenge in trying to allay concerns and getting residents to file their census forms. According to Isaac Navarro, the communications […] Political New Mexico, Top story Lawmakers may be more accessible via social media Celia Raney / New Mexico In Depth When the legislative session comes to an end today, lawmakers will disperse throughout the state. But communicating with them doesn’t end when legislative leaders gavel the session to a close. All legislators have contact information like a phone number or email address listed on the state’s legislative website, […] Creative New Mexico, Top story How the remnants of a campaign turned into community outreach By Anna Padilla / NM News Port / For most political candidates, the end of a campaign is the end of the line. For Albuquerque native Gus Pedrotty, 23, the end of his 2017 mayoral campaign was the beginning of a greater community conversation. “I mostly took away that communities feel disempowered by government because […]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3456
__label__wiki	0.694259	0.694259	Enhance Life with Music By Mindy Peterson Augment life with the inspiration and enrichment of music by looking at its benefits through the lens of science, medicine, sports, education, entertainment, business, service, and history. A Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, Mindy Peterson explores the many ways music affects and enhances our everyday lives. Ep.78: How and when are songs selected for TV & film scenes? with Jody Friedman01/19/2021 Ep. 77: Music interventions in speech development & disorders, with Laura Moorer, M.A., CCC-SLP01/12/2021 Ep. 76: What are the benefits of being an adult (even “old”!) beginner? With New York Times bestselling author Tom Vanderbilt01/05/2021 Ep. 75: How Pfizer, Sony, and Unilever use music to develop their executives’ business & leadership skills; with Maestro Roger Nierenberg12/29/2020 Ep. 74: Why do birds (and insects and whales) sing? With David Rothenberg, PhD12/22/2020 Ep. 73: Philip Brunelle, Godfather of the Scandinavian Lutheran choral mafia12/15/2020 Ep. 72: “The orchestra that doesn’t behave:” The story of one community music group, with Marlene Pauley12/08/2020 Ep. 71: Give the gift of music: Research-based ways to GIFT music (the gift that keeps on giving)12/01/2020 Ep. 70: What you don’t know about 1 in 6 people you encounter, and why it matters; with David Knott11/24/2020 Ep. 69: Tinder for musical instruments – matchmaking AND community building11/17/2020 Ep. 68: Advocating for justice with music, and cultivating creativity for the common good; with Sara Groves11/10/2020 Ep. 67: “Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste,” with author Nolan Gasser, PhD11/03/2020 Ep. 66: Olympic trainer Daniel Stewart on enhancing motivation and performance with music10/27/2020 Ep. 65: Musical Playgrounds–the neuroscience of nature & music combined with PLAY! With Melissa Hughes, Ph.D.10/20/2020 Ep. 64: Does Practice Make Perfect? With Ed Varner, Ed.D.10/13/2020 Ep. 63: Confessions of a piano tuner, with Billy Sadler10/06/2020 Ep. 62: How do restrictions and limitations INCREASE our creativity? With Dr. Patricia Stokes09/29/2020 Ep. 61: The moral, artistic, and economic power of color in classical music, with Afa Dworkin09/22/2020 Ep. 60: How does music training affect children’s Social-Emotional Learning, and how is SEL affected by a pandemic? With Dr. Assal Habibi09/15/2020 Ep 59: How does MUSIC learning impact OTHER learning? With Dr. Anita Collins09/08/2020 Ep. 58: What does Sesame Street music have to do with guide dogs? September is National Guide Dog Month; with Rena Strober09/01/2020 Ep. 57: What the music you like says about your personality; with David Greenberg, PhD08/25/2020 Ep. 56: How do artists and songwriters get paid when I stream their song or hear it played in a store? With Songtrust’s Anna Bond08/18/2020 Ep. 55: “If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.” Music education in the new “classroom,” with David Jewell08/11/2020 Ep. 54: What happens when an entrepreneur combines music, health, and technology? With Point Motion Founder & CEO Kevin Clark08/04/2020 Ep. 53: One teen’s story of how she ended up on Spotify, with Grace Lundeen07/28/2020 Ep. 52: In honor of the “2020” Olympics: The MUSICAL Olympic event, with champion equestrian Betsy Van Dyke07/21/2020 Ep. 51: Conscious music: How do lyrics shape my mental narrative? with Jamie Goldstein, PsyD07/14/2020 Ep. 50: Earworms: How do songs get stuck in my head, and how can I get rid of them?! with Dr. Katherine Cotter07/07/2020 Ep. 49: “Traditional learning methods don’t work for me.” Utilizing Multiple Intelligences in Learning, with Graeme Winder06/30/2020 Ep. 48: Tips from a time management coach on accomplishing (or helping our kids accomplish) musical goals this summer, with Elizabeth Grace Saunders06/23/2020 Ep. 47: In honor of George Floyd: The role of music in social justice; with Bruce Henry06/16/2020 Ep. 46: How do songs end up on Spotify playlists, anyway? With Streaming Promotions’ Michael Sloane06/09/2020 Ep. 45: Laurie Berkner describes music’s stabilizing effect for children during uncertain times, and serenades her graduating childhood fans06/02/2020 Ep. 44: What will the music education of the future look like? With Dr. Clint Randles05/26/2020 Ep. 43: Memorial Day: A combat veteran tells his story and shares how music is serving those who serve our country, with CreatiVets’ Richard Casper05/19/2020 Ep. 42: What does hip-hop have to do with mental health and well-being? With child and adolescent clinical psychologist Dr. Eliott Gann05/12/2020 Ep. 41: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a look at how music preserves Mexican heritage and connects cultures, with Eugene Rodriguez05/05/2020 Ep. 40: Does society serve art, or does art serve society? A metropolitan opera utilizes music as a community development program teaching academic, vocational, and life skills.04/28/2020 Ep. 39: Parkinson’s Disease Interventions with Music; “Music provides structure for movement.” Marion Haase, M.M.04/21/2020 Ep. 38: How does music affect my TV viewing experience? With TV production insider Steve Mulholland04/14/2020 Ep. 37: Businesses turn to jazz to develop teamwork, leadership, and innovation; with Jazz Impact’s Dr. Michael Gold04/07/2020 Ep. 36: Mental Skills for Stress Reduction and Peak Performance, with author Dr. Vanessa Cornett03/31/2020 Ep. 35: Oxytocin and dopamine in times of social-distancing; and how does music give us the chills? With Indre Viskontas03/24/2020 Ep. 34: Music as palliative care, a container for sacred moments, and lifetime preserver of memories; with Crescent Cove’s Katie Lindenfelser03/17/2020 Ep. 33: Looking for music lessons that fit your unique situation? Check out these options, with MacPhail Center for Music’s Paul Babcock03/10/2020 Ep. 32: The immediate, visible, hands-on power you didn’t know you have, with Save School Music’s John Benham03/03/2020 Ep. 31: "Good Music, Brighter Children: Simple and Practical Ideas to Help Transform Your Child's Life Through the Power of Music," with author Sharlene Habermeyer02/25/2020 Ep. 30: Baseball & organ – the sound of spring fever, with MN Twins organist Sue Nelson02/18/2020 Ep. 29: Music tech interventions for mental health challenges (with staggering success rates), with Noise Solution’s Simon Glenister02/11/2020 Ep. 28: My CHILD is taking music lessons; what’s MY role? with Suzanne Greer02/04/2020 Ep. 27: Are musicians better able to pick up subtle emotional cues? with Dr. Nina Kraus01/28/2020 Ep. 26: Music's Role in Video Games, with Dr. Ryan Thompson, MSU Game Design and Development Program01/21/2020 Ep. 25: MLK Day: Role of Spirituals within African American Culture, with award-winning musician and educator Bruce Henry01/14/2020 Ep. 24: Autism Interventions with Music, with Esther Thane, MTA, AVPT01/07/2020 Ep. 23: Enhance Athletic Performance by up to 15% with the Legal Doping of MUSIC, with Power Music’s Dan Hubbert12/31/2019 Ep. 22: Putting Joy on the Menu for Hospitalized Kids, with Children’s Cancer Association’s MyMusicRx12/24/2019 Ep. 21: An American Pianist Successfully Invades Russia (and "The Life of Pi"), with Robert Thies12/17/2019 Ep. 20: Music Heals the Soul, with founder & Dove Award winning songwriter Steve Siler12/10/2019 Ep. 19: What IS it about Christmas Music?! Love it or not, why the response? with psychologist Dr. Krystine Batcho12/03/2019 Ep. 18: Is Background Music Influencing My Purchasing (or my Thanksgiving Guests)?! with Songtradr's Jody McKinley11/26/2019 Ep. 17: Vietnam’s Best-Kept Secret is its Bright and Diverse Music Scene (with Sivaraj Pragasm)11/19/2019 Ep. 16: The Backstory of "Awakenings" and "The Music Never Stopped," with Dr. Concetta Tomaino (basis of a main character in each film)11/12/2019 Ep. 15: Veterans Day Tribute + Role of Music in the Military: with Jari Villanueva, Taps Historian, USAF11/05/2019 Ep. 14: The Healing Power of Music for Child Soldiers and Refugees: with Hollywood Music in Media Awards Nominee Samite Mulondo10/29/2019 Ep. 13: Heartbeat of the Stadium and the Sound of Fall: Cheers to the Drumline (with UNT Drumline + Director of Athletic Bands Daniel Cook)10/22/2019 Ep. 12: Coldplay's Music Therapy for Kids Suffering Illness: with Melodic Caring Project's Levi & Stephanie Ware10/15/2019 Ep. 11: A Lion Mom Roars: with America’s Got Talent Contestant Susan Pascale10/08/2019 Ep. 10: NHL Season Kick-off -- Gloria! (with theScore hockey editor Josh Gold-Smith)10/01/2019 Ep. 9: Artist Spotlight (from Australia to Cincinnati, Composer & Vegan Foodie Douglas Knehans)09/24/2019 Ep. 8: Music Improves Concentration (“Music is the new superfood.” – Dr. Julia Mossbridge)09/17/2019 Ep. 7: Sound of Your Heritage: Music's Role in Jewish Culture and Celebrations (Hazzan Alisa Pomerantz-Boro)09/10/2019 Ep. 6: How to Get Your Child to Practice... Without Resorting to Violence! (Author Cynthia Richards)09/03/2019 Ep. 5: Why is the Ukulele So Popular? (Ben Hassenger, Ukulele Ambassador to Michigan)08/27/2019 Ep. 4: Music Rewires the Brain (Maegan Morrow, music therapist to Gabby Giffords)08/20/2019 Ep. 3: Music Reduces Poverty (BIIG MIIC & Urban Ventures)08/13/2019 Ep. 2: Music in Movie Trailers (Ariella Abrams)08/04/2019 Ep. 1: Introduction07/31/2019 Listen to Enhance Life with Music now. Listen to Enhance Life with Music in full in the Spotify app	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3458
__label__wiki	0.559347	0.559347	Order of Interbeing \| Tiep Hien Ordained students of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh Order of Interbeing What is the Order of Interbeing Timeline of Community Dharma Teachers Sangha Statements and Guides Dharma Teachers Sangha A Road Back Conflict Resolution Guide Ethical Concerns Regarding Dharma Teachers Mindful Approaches to Behavior & Mental Health Difficulties Events (Mindfulness Bell) Engaged Practice LBGTQ Earth Holder Sangha (external link) ARISE (external link) For the Aspirant Sangha Directory Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings Application to be an Aspirant For the Member Mentoring Models Audio Archives (password required) Dharma Teachers (password required) October 11 – Birth of Thich Nhat Hanh (TNH) (birth name: Nguyễn Xuân Bảo in Thừa Thiên, Vietnam) Birth of Sister Chan Khong (born Cao Ngoc Phuong in Ben Tre, Vietnam) Thich Nhat Hanh entered the Tu Hieu Temple Monastery as a novice monk 194_ Thich Nhat Hanh graduates from Bao Quoc Buddhist Academy Thich Nhat Hanh is ordained a monk Thich Nhat Hanh co-founded An Quang Temple in Saigon, Vietnam Thich Nhat Hanh Founded the Phoung Boi (Fragrant Palm Leaves) Meditation Center in the highlands Thich Nhat Hanh named Editor-in-Chief of “Vietnamese Buddhism” the periodical of the Unified Vietnam Buddhist Association Sister Chan Khong enrolled at the University of Saigon, studying biology Thich Nhat Hanh goes to the United States to study comparative religion at Columbia University and Princeton University Thich Nhat Hanh Teaches at Columbia University and Princeton University Thich Nhat Hanh returns to Vietnam Sister Chan Khong goes to Paris, France to complete her degree in biology Thich Nhat Hanh establishes the Van Hanh University, La Boi Press, and the School for Youth and Social Service (SYSS) Sister Chan Khong returns to Vietnam to work with the SYSS The Order of Interbeing is established Thich Nhat Hanh writes “Searching for the Enemy of Man” a letter to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. urging him to publicly oppose the war in Vietnam February 5 – the first 6 members (the Six Cedars) are ordained into the newly formed Order of Interbeing May 1 – Thich Nhat Hanh is given the Lamp Transmission at Từ Hiếu Temple from Master Chân Thật, making him a Dharmacharya (Dharma Teacher) Thich Nhat Hanh returns to the US to lead a symposium at Cornell University Thich Nhat Hanh speaks to many groups and leaders, including Robert MacNamara and Martin Luther King, Jr. Sister Chan Khong is named operations director of the SYSS Control of Van Hanh University is taken over by the Vice Chancellor who severs ties with the SYSS, calling Sister Chan Khong a communist The SYSS continues to work despite the harassment and murder of many of its members Thich Nhat Hanh is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr. Thich Nhat Hanh is exiled from Vietnam by the Vietnamese government Thich Nhat Hanh gains asylum in France May – Nhat Chi Mai, one of the first six Order of Interbeing members, immolates herself for peace Thich Nhat Hanh Leads the Buddhist Peace Delegation Sister Chan Khong joins TNH in France to assist with the Buddhist Peace Delegation; she is considered an enemy of the Vietnamese government and exiled as well Thich Nhat Hanh establishes the Unified Buddhist Church in France Thich Nhat Hanh lectures at the Sorbonne in Paris Paris Peace Accords are signed. Thich Nhat Hanh is not allowed re-entry into Vietnam by the newly formed communist government. Thich Nhat Hanh and Sister Chan Khong form the Sweet Potatoes Meditation Center in France Thich Nhat Hanh and Sister Chan Khong lead efforts to rescue Vietnamese boat people Thich Nhat Hanh ordains Anh-Huong Nguyen into the Order of Interbeing. This ordination in France is the first ordination since the establishment of the Order of Interbeing in Vietnam in 1966. Plum Village Buddhist Center in the Dordogne region in France is established by Thich Nhat Hanh and Sister Chan Khong Sister Chan Khong is ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh as a nun on Vulture’s Peak in India Sister Annabel Laity (True Virtue) ordained as a Dharmacharya and serves as Director of Practice at Plum Village The first conference of the International Order of Interbeing is held. This conference established the Order of Interbeing Charter, elected an Executive Council, and established that Assembly meetings would be held regularly to revise and amend the Charter. It also established a Council of Elders and a Council of Youth to draw from the experience of it’s members for leadership and guidance. Maple Forest Monastery was formed in Vermont Unified Buddhist Church (UBC), Inc is formed in the United States Sister Annabel named to head the UBC, Inc Green Mountain Dharma Center formed Sister Annabel named Abbess of the Maple Forest Monastery and Green Mountain Dharma Center June – Thich Nhat Hanh assists in writing the Manifesto 2000 which consists of six pledges to promote a culture of peace and non-violence in the world. It has been signed by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Deer Park Monastery is formed in California near Escondido. Thầy Giác Thanh is the first abbot. September 21 – Thich Nhat Hanh begins a fast for peace and to remember those who have died in the September 11, 2001 attacks September 25 – Thich Nhat Hanh gives a speech at the Riverside Church in New York City urging the American people and government to think before reacting to the events of September 11th and to look for a peaceful resolution. October – Thầy Giác Thanh, abbot of Deer Park Monastery passes away. January 12 to April 11 – Thich Nhat Hanh returns to Vietnam to visit Buddhist temples, teach, and is allowed to publish a limited number of his books in Vietnamese; 100 monastic and 90 lay members of the OI accompany him Two temples are re-established in Vietnam with TNH as their spiritual head: the Tu Hieu Temple and the Prajna Temple August – Magnolia Village Practice Center is accepted by TNH as an Order of Interbeing center in Mississippi October 9 – Thich Nhat Hanh and Order of Interbeing members lead the “Peace is Every Step” walk at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, California. October – Thich Nhat Hanh receives Magnolia Grove Monastery located in Batesville, MS May 22 – Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Old Path White Clouds is optioned for the film Buddha to be produced by MCorpGlobal. TNH makes an appearance at the Canne’s film festival to promote the project. September 11 – Thich Nhat Hanh makes an appearance in Los Angeles to promote the Buddha film project. His Holiness the Dalai Lama endorsed the project at the luncheon which was attended by a number of Hollywood actors. October 7 – Thich Nhat Hanh addresses UNESCO, calling for specific steps to reverse the cycle of violence, war, and global warming. He calls for a commitment of observing a weekly No Car Day to be promoted globally. October 11 – Thich Nhat Hanh enjoys his 80th birthday February 20 to May 9 – Thich Nhat Hanh Returns to Vietnam to conduct “Grand Requiem For Praying” ceremonies to help heal the wounds of the Vietnam war. Maple Forest Monastery closes May – Blue Cliff Monastery is established in Walker Valley, New York May – Plum Village Hong Kong is formed, later renamed the Asian Institute of Applied Buddhism August – European Institute of Applied Buddhism is established Waldbröl, Germany. This is the first institute and it belongs to Plum Village and Order of Interbeing. March – North American Dharma Teachers gather at Deer Park Monastery for a retreat. During the retreat, the Dharma Teacher Caretaking Council was formed. The initial fourfold Council includes Sister Huong Nghiem, Brother Phap Tri, Brother Phap Hai, Brother Phap Dung, Sister Dang Nghiem, Anh-Huong Nguyen, Eileen Kiera, Jack Lawlor, Joanne Friday, Lyn Fine, Mitchell Ratner, and Peggy Rowe Ward. April – Lotus Pond Temple is established in Hong Kong and Thich Nhat Hanh announced it would start the Asian Institute of Applied Buddhism. From August-October, the North American Teaching Tour includes a stop in Vancouver, British Columbia followed by Colorado, California, Mississippi, New York, and Washington DC. Plum Village Practice Center Celebrates Thirty Years June: 21-Day Retreat on The Science of the Buddha June: 21-Day Retreat on What Happens When you Die? On 11 November 2014, a month after his 89th birthday, and following several months of rapidly declining health, Thich Nhat Hanh suffered a severe stroke. August-October: The Miracle of Mindfulness: On Tour with the Monastic Community of Thich Nhat Hanh stops in New York, Mississippi, and California January – After over a year of intensive rehabilitation in Northern California, Thich Nhat Hanh returned to his hermitage at Plum Village March – Members of the Dharma Teachers Sangha of North America gather at Deer Park Monastery for a retreat December – Thich Nhat Hanh travels to Thai Plum Village International Practice Center, Pakchong, Nakornratchasima Province. 7 replies on “Timeline of Community” LynFinesays: Hi Kenley, and whoever else assisted in putting together this wonderful first step of a history of the Order of Interbeing in the West. I look forward to seeing more and more entries to fill in the gap-years. With love and gratitude, Lyn (Lyn Fine, Berkeley CA) Kenley Neufeldsays: Thanks Lyn! The timeline has been a group effort and if you (or others) have a contribution then please share here and I’ll update the page. digadeesays: Maybe the death of Thay Giac Thanh and his appointment as Abbot at DeerPark should also be added? Next to TNH, Thay’s energy and heart was uncomparable to any other. I’ve updated and added a few items, including your suggestion regarding Thầy Giác Thanh. Thank you for the motivation. Thank you Kenley, bless you, brother. Dzung Vosays: Thank you for this history. I have vivid memories of the Sept 25, 2011 dharma talk in New York, just after 9/11. A profound moment of peace and healing in a very turbulent time. Whatever happened to the “Old Path White Clouds” film project? Was the film ever completed, and if so how can we view it? Oops I meant Sept 25, 2001 Dharma talk. 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__label__wiki	0.774472	0.774472	Organic Food Iberia & Eco Living Iberia postponed 14.01.2021 by Editor (comments: 0) © Organic Food and Eco Living Iberia Due to the ongoing Corona pandemic, the exhibitors announced that Spain’s and Portugal’s biggest trade event will not take place as planned. The two joint exhibitions have been rescheduled to September 2021. The organisers of Organic Food Iberia & Eco Living Iberia, Diversified Communications and IFEMA, have recently announced that the show will now take place on the new dates of 8-9 September 2021 – instead of June – in Hall 8 at IFEMA - Feria de Madrid. According to a press release, the decision was made after close monitoring of information and discussion with the industry with respect to the continuing impact of Covid-19. “Although there are positive signs that large scale events will be able to restart in the coming months, we still feel that June could be too early to run Organic Food Iberia and Eco Living Iberia. We want to deliver a second edition of the show that’s as safe and successful as possible, and with the recent news of vaccines and rapid testing, September feels like the right time to do that,” says portfolio director Vicky Holman. Eduardo López-Puertas, General Manager at IFEMA, further declares “we are preparing our facilities with the latest technology in security and occupancy control systems, on the basis of the criteria established by the health authorities and the main international public bodies and industry organisations, so that we can welcome trade visitors and exhibitors to Organic Food Iberia and Eco Living Iberia with the maximum degree of safety, and guarantee that commercial activity and business generation can continue to take place effectively.” For more information, please visit www.organicfoodiberia.com and www.ecolivingiberia.com. What is the sum of 8 and 6?*	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3463
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__label__wiki	0.526414	0.526414	On Being Lured Away From The Typewriter Hotel Zed in Victoria, Canada. See Arthur Black's 2014 column below. Black is black I want my typewriter back Grey is grey Since she went away - with apologies to Michelle Grainger, Tony Hayes, Steve Wadey The Unreliable Memories of Arthur Black On June 10, 1989, this column by Canadian humorist Arthur Black appeared in The Chilliwack Progress in British Columbia: Comparing a gorgeous Olympia typewriter to Golda Meir And a 1980s Tandy "laptop" to an alluring young siren Oh, Elizabeth blushed, all right, because in time Arthur even forgot his jilted Olympia's name. Last September, 25 years after writing his column upon abandoning the typewriter, Arthur wrote this in the Algoma News (Ontario): is Old Again The pimply-faced kid in the backwards-facing ball cap shows up to fix my laptop, taps a couple of keys, shrugs and says “It’s dead. You probably need to replace it.” Yes. Of course. It’s almost six years old. A total fossil. This is my fourth - or is it fifth? - personal computer. It’s the latest in a daisy chain of technological bewilderment and woe that stretches all the way back to an ancient clunky Commodore 64 which is the machine that first seduced me away from my old Olivetti typewriter. The one that never broke down, never crashed, never lost a file and never once in thirty years required the ministrations of a ‘typewriter expert’. This despite gallons of spilled coffee on its keyboard, breadcrumbs and cigar ashes in its innards, frequent manual abuse and once, being hurled right off my desk into a wall (impending deadline; writer’s block). I never thought much about my old Olivetti when I had it but in retrospect I mourn for it like a lost love. I miss its music; the ta-pocketa peck of the keys striking the paper, the ka-ching of the bell that warned me I was nearing the end of a line; the whirr and ka-boom of the carriage as I cuffed it across to start a new line. Oh hell. If you’re under 40 reading this I might as well explain how to harpoon a whale. You have no idea what I’m talking about. Used to be you couldn’t find an office without at least one typewriter. Now they’ve vanished into the landfill of history, along with Eaton’s catalogues, fax machines, garter belts and buggy whips. And public telephones. Pay phones haven’t disappeared entirely, but as an urban feature that used to be on every street corner they are now as scarce as flamingos. That’s not a surprise given that just about everyone nowadays totes a plastic lozenge that can make calls, take calls and tell you the current humidity reading in Mogadishu. Humans now carry more information in their breast pocket or purse than our grandparents would access in a lifetime. The fact that a majority use it to play Angry Birds or tweet a review of our latest purchase at Tim Horton’s? The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars. Or in our BlackBerrys. There is a brand new hotel in the city of Victoria - or rather a brand-new ‘old’ hotel - called Hotel Zed. Sixty-two rooms all retro-fitted to whisk the client right back to, oh, say 1967. The colour scheme is sixties-psychedelic, there’s a ping pong table in the lobby along with - yes - actual typewriters that guests can use. Each room has a bulletin board instead of a guest directory, old fashioned alarm clocks, radios you can actually see the dial on… And telephones. Real telephones. The clunky Bakelite ones with the curly cords and the one-ringy-dingey, two-ringy-dingey rotary dial right in the middle. You’ll find the rotary phone right by the bed in your room at the Hotel Zed. And if you’re a little mystified by the device, not to worry - there’s a How-to-Use it guide in the drawer. Or you could just hold your iPhone up to the phone and click. You’ll get an instruction video. Not sure how to use a rotary phone? Hey, there’s an app for that. Arthur Black was born in Toronto on August 30, 1943. He has written 12 books of humour and is remembered across Canada as the host of Basic Black, a national weekly radio show that delighted Canadians every Saturday morning for 19 years (1983-2004). He also hosted and wrote two award-winning TV series, Weird Homes and Weird Wheels. In addition, he writes a syndicated newspaper column that appears in more than 50 papers from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland. After stumbling through a succession of unsuccessful careers (dog walker, underwear salesman, cattle prodder, door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, oil tanker deckhand, sheet metal apprentice and plumber's assistant, to name only a few), Black began his broadcasting career. His radio show was a wacky potpourri of off-beat music, comic sketches and interviews with the weirdest human beings Black could dig up each week. Over the years Black chatted with eccentric scientists, serene cave dwellers, transvestite bikers, nude sunbathers and skunk control officers (but no typewriter collectors ....?). Black now lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Olympia SM Portable Typewriter Advertising - US and Australia 1949-59 I still hadn't had my early morning "wake-up" cup of coffee in my Xavier University mug (with broken handle) when I read Richard Polt's comment on my post from yesterday about Doug's SM2 Olympia portable typewriter. So, not being as alert as I might have been, I immediately went into a bit of a flap, thinking I might have got it wrong, and it was an SM3. However, it turns out the main distinguishing feature between the SM2 and the SM3 is tabulation, the key for which normally sits up on the top right of the keyboard. I was right to assume the SM3 is the DeLuxe version of the SM2, although, the tab key apart, it isn't always all that easy to distinguish between them. For one thing, there are two distinct variations of the SM2, the early one having raised areas on the spools cover, on top of where the spools sit, mimicking the spools flaps on the earlier Olympia portable. This similarity with the SM1 (aka Orbis) might alone be used to mark these out as SM2s. However, later SM2s also have the flat top, the same as the SM3. As well, there are earlier SM2s with the name badge on the paper plate and later ones with it on the front of the spools cover. So it can get quite confusing. I had already planned to follow my post on Doug's SM2 with one about advertising for Olympia portables in the United States and Australia in the immediate post-war era and through the 1950s. In part I had used these ads to identify Doug's SM2, as well as online images of the SM2 and Leonhard Dingwerth's two-volume 2008 book on German typewriter manufacturers. Not that I could I say these sources gave me absolutely definitive answers. But looking through the ads and images does help identify some of the distinguishing features. 1952 advert US adverts did not distinguish between models. In Australia, advertising code letters and numbers offered some hints, but only the "new model SM2" was identified from other models. These Australian "new model SM2" ads partially sorted out something that was a bit confusing in Dingwerth's book - which states in one part that the SM2 first appeared in 1950 and an updated version came out with the SM3 in 1952, and in another that the SM2 first came out in 1952. However, an advert for the flat-topped SM2 (with name badge on paper plate) appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald as early as October 1951: Below is a 1950 German advert for the (Olympia Werke West) Wilmelmshaven-made Olympia SM1, interestingly also with a flat top and name badge on the paper plate. Australian advertising, however, establishes another variation of the West German-made SM1-Orbis had the raised areas on the spools cover, as did the first SM2: The two things that most interested me in this research into Olympia portable advertising in the US and Australia were: 1. That the first Olympia portable advertised for sale in Australia after World War II was the Plana made in Erfurt. This appeared in the Daily News in Perth, Western Australia, in November 1949, before the separation between Erfurt and Wilhelmshaven had been fully sorted out and two years before Wilhelmshaven had won the right to use the trade name Olympia (Erfurt adopted Optima). So Australia was shipping in East German-made Olympias before it was able to market West German-made Olympias. I was surprised to find the Plana was even sold in this country. Machines from the West German company began to be advertised in earnest in 1950 with the establishment in this country of Olympia Typewriters, a division of Hedesan & Company in Sydney, set up to import goods from the reconstructed north-western section of Germany, including Büssing AG trucks and buses from Braunschweig. And this advertising was for the Olympia Orbis (the SM1 with the raised areas on the spools covers and name badge on the paper plate). Advertising codes identify this as an SM1: These were sold in Melbourne up to March 1952, by John McCallum Trading. In 1954, advertising for all Olympia typewriters in Australia ground to a sudden halt, and didn't resume until 1963. In the interim, there simply wasn't an importing agency. What sold in the period from 1951 to 1954 was the SM2 and its "DeLuxe" version, the SM3 (each with the flat top and from 1954 with the name badge on the spools cover): 2. In the United States, for me the most fascinating aspect of Olympia typewriter advertising was the emphasis placed by some selling agents on the West German (Wilmelmshaven) manufacture - bearing in mind this was at the height of the Cold War. In June 1945, Joachim Wussow had rolled up Olympia portable typewriter blueprints (with the notable exception of the Plana), packed them in his car with his family, and escaped the advancing Soviet army, which was about to take over control of the area around Erfurt. Wussow headed West, into American occupied Germany, and eventually in 1946 found a base in Wilhelmshaven. In May 1954 The Rotarian told some of his story: In 1958-59, at least one Olympia agent in the US felt this was something worth stressing ("Wussow Escapes Reds"): Olympia SM2 and SM3 portables (with name badges on the paper plate) weren't widely advertised in the US in the period 1951-52, when they were quite heavily advertised in Australia: In 1957-58, however, US advertising picked up considerably - at the very time these models weren't being sold in Australia. One of the more interesting aspects of this late 50s campaign was the spotlight put on Olympia's cursive typeface: These images show some of the more noticeable differences between the later SM2 and the SM3 (according to Dingwerth, the SM4 emerged in 1958): This, conversely, is the SM2 I bought at WordPlay in Cincinnati last year: And here are later SM2s that I once owned: I readily admit that correctly identifying these models caused me much angst and confusion in the past. Olympia SM2: Bought in London in 1954, Serviced in Canberra in 2014 As implied in my post yesterday on the Torpedo 15a, I don't get the chance to "play" with "new" typewriters very often these days. By "new", of course, I mean particular typewriters that are "new" to me. As I am no longer buying any typewriters for myself, the ones I do get to "play" with more often than not belong to someone else, and have been brought over here to be serviced. Just such a portable is this lovely grey Olympia SM2. A Canberra gentleman called Doug, who turns 94 next March 19, bought the Olympia just before he left England to return to Australia on the Orient Line in March 1954, after three years' service with the Royal Air Force. If I could read the little shield decal on the front of the Olympia, I might know which store Doug bought it in, but he says it was definitely in London. And it was distributed by Olympia Business Machines Co Ltd of 71 New Oxford Street WC1. This became "Brunsviga Olympia" in 1956. PS: Thanks to Nick Bodemer's sleuthing, we can now positively identify this shield as the trademark of typewriter dealers Thrale & Beaumont, Central House, Kingsway, London WC. Here is a clearer image of the decal, taken from photos of an old Underwood standard for sale on eBay in Italy. "My wife owns an electric," said Doug, "but I refuse to touch the thing!" I'm glad Doug, when he picked up his Olympia this morning, cleared up for me when he bought it, as I thought he'd told me 1953, and a check of the serial number, 669919 (which is also on the carriage), indicated this typewriter was made after 1953. In fact, the serial number database would suggest 1955, but Doug is adamant it was bought in 1954, close to his 33rd birthday, and I can say with total confidence that his mind is as sharp as a tack. 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__label__cc	0.745863	0.254137	Books and TV Memes and Tags Author Archives: Chloe Graduate, Writer, Book Blogger , Reader http://paintandbutterfliesbooks.com April Wrap Up & May TBR! Hi everyone, hope you’re all doing well sorry I’ve been away so long part of the reason is I’ve been without internet for six weeks, barely even a bit of patchy 4G where I live it’s been an emotional roller coaster. My line was finally fixed yesterday and it feels so good not have to stand at the top of the stairs wave my phone around head in hands crying I know this is where the 4G is. I don’t know about you guys but I have been trying to read a little bit more than usual and be proactive with my reading during these crazy times. I plan to get around to reading a few books that have been on my TBR for longer than I would care to admit, so my reading list is looking a bit hefty at the moment. This month I have read some (mostly) great books: I started April reading The Dark Artifices series by Cassandra Clare her third series within her Shadowhunter world. I have been putting off this series for sometime now. Not for any negative reasons, I really enjoy reading Shadowhunter books and Cassandra Clare is one of my favourite YA authors so I think having a whole series waiting for me for when I was ready instead of having to wait years for the next book in an on going series to come out made a sort of sense. Lady Midnight is definitely my favourite opener of all Cassandra Clare’s books and the Dark Artifices definitely has the most solid world as the other books have provided such a solid foundation for the series to continue. (And there’s fairies, that’s always a big selling point for me.) Lady Midnight ☆☆☆ Lord of Shadows ☆☆☆☆ Queen of Air and Darkness ☆☆☆☆ Later on in the month I read The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow firstly take a look at the cover it’s stunning, Orbit having been coming out with some beautiful cover art recently. This is what originally drew me to the book in the first place, I’m such a magpie when it comes to beautiful cover art but this one really blew me away. I’m going to do a full review on this so won’t go into it to deeply. Set in the 1900s it follows January the young ward of a wealthy gentleman, her life changes for ever when she finds a very unique book. It’s very well executed debut with a strong, well fleshed out woman of colour as the main protagonist. This book is an interesting read would definitely recommend if you’re a fan of portal fantasy. The Ten Thousand Doors of January ☆☆☆ The final books I read this month were Pax by Sara PennyPacker and Transcendence by Shay Savage. Pax is a middle grade book about a boy and his fox, the boy is made by is Father to leave his fox on the side of the road, this is the journey of the boys heartbreak and regret as he journeys back to Pax as Pax waits for his boy. The concept of this book was interesting but my main issue was who was this story really for? The narrative structure was that of a middle grade book but the content was really quite mature. In the end it was bit of slog which was a shame as this book isn’t even 300 pages. Pax ☆☆ Transcendence seems from other reviews I’ve read online a pretty popular self published novel about a caveman who falls in love with a woman from the 21st century when she accidentally time travels to his time. i was looking for a light, fun, romance novel and this definitely is that but this one just wasn’t for me- DNF. I have some fun reading plans for the month of May I won’t reveal my whole TBR as I like to keep things pretty open. But I am going to be involved in the blog tour for the Jane Austen society in June so that’s top of my TBR and it has also encouraged me to add Emma by Jane Austen to by reading list, also I plan to read Crescent City by Sarah J Maas and Daisy Jones and the Six, Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare and Fleabag by Pheobe Waller Bridge. Currently Reading: Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore I’m only about 70 pages in but so far this is a really fun regency romp with a Darcy and Elizabeth vibe to it. That it now, happy reading and i’ll see you next time. Come find me! See you next time guys! This entry was posted in books, Uncategorized, Wrap Up and tagged amreading, april wrap up, book blogger, books, bringing down the duke, Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight, Lord of Shadows, pax, queen of air and darkness, Shadowhunters, TBR, tdi, the ten thousand doors of january, TMI, Wrap Up on May 1, 2020 by Chloe. Reading Slumps, Second Hand Books and Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire Review. Recently I have been in a bit of a reading slump, they are the worst, right? I used to have a bit of a system to get me out of slumps, read a bit of super trashy YA, give me the romance, give me the tropes, the works and then work my way back to normal reading habits from there. But recently I have been doing a lot of stop starting, stop starting, picking up books put them down again. It’s been a reader’s worst nightmare because really all you need to get you out of a slump is that one book that draws you and holds you there and then you’re away. I have just finished Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan Mcguire this book has been on my TBR for a really long time and I’ve seen it bouncing around book blogs and BookTube and it’s kept my interest (since 2016 when it was first published). I finally purchased a second hand copy which, I do a lot unless I really want to go out my way to support the author or am really excited for a release so will already have the book on pre-order. But I l do love secondhand books and a good bargain it’s my way of buying a lot of books with out it costing the moon (and back). The thing that often happens when you buy second hand is that they can (not always) take ages to arrive. So, I completely forgot Every Heart a Doorway was coming until it turned up at my house. (Yay book mail!) For those of you who have read the book you know it’s short, finishing at 169 pages which was great for me as someone just coming off a reading slump it was just what I needed to ease myself back in. Also, the premise sounds really original- Children who have doors opened up to them in their childhood and are taken to different fairy worlds but what happens to them when they come back and how do they cope living in a world that they no longer consider to be come? It’s a really interesting concept, almost like Narnia gone wrong… what would it be like if the Pevensey Children came back from Narnia with some serious mental health problems because they could never go back and that is basically what we are talking about here. As well as watching our interesting cast of characters adjust to life in school for children who are just like them… but not quite. As we get to know our main character Nancy she is the new member of the school and our gateway into the story it is fascinating to learn about all of the children’s different worlds and as a mystery unfolds around them they use the skills developed in these worlds to cope with what is going on. The book is also diverse as it has a Transgender character, Kade and our main character Nancy is A Sexual. This was interesting as the book being in the YA genre was just getting to the point where in my mind it was ‘setting up the romance’ and then Nancy’s sexuality was revealed, it was really refreshing not only to have a broad range of representation with in the book I was reading but to know for certain in a YA fiction book that Romance was off the table; because that is something we have come to expect in the genre and it allowed the story to go in a different direction. Overall, I really like the book, I’m unsure of weather to call it a novel or novella because of its size but regardless it was great. I have recently found out that it is part of a series and I am picking the second one up immediately the second book is called Down Among The Sticks And Bones and from what I have seen on Goodreads it follows two other characters from the school Jack and Jill. 4/5 stars from me I will be continuing with this series and look forward to what comes next. Why not check out all my other book reviews here! And for more bookish news and chat check out my socials below! This entry was posted in Book review and tagged Bestseller, book blog, book review, books, Every Heart A Door Way, Fairytales, fantasy, LGBTQ+, Seanan McGuire, YA, YA Fairytales on August 16, 2019 by Chloe. WWW Wednesday 20/2/19 WWW Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted by Sam at Taking On a World of Words. Three questions, three answers. Go! I am currently reading Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier I’m in the mood for something a little darker and bit brooding which is typical from Du Maurier I’m only few pages in but so far I’m getting the right vibes. I have read loads (for me) in February I have read Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Lethal White by Robert Galbraith, A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness and Shadow and Night by Deborah Harkness. You can find my A Discovery of Witches review here. I’m quite keen to finish reading the All Souls Trilogy so I imagine I will read The Book of Life next after that I’m not sure I’ve kept my TBR pretty open as there are quite a few new releases I want to get my hands on! What are you guys reading at the moment? This entry was posted in Uncategorized, WWW Wednesday and tagged a discovery of witches, book blogger, book reviews, books, J.K Rowling, Jamaica Inn, kindered, Lethal White, WWW Wednesday on February 20, 2019 by Chloe. A Discovery of Witches- All Souls Trilogy Book 1- Review All of last year I was in the most frustrating reading slump I did read but I seemed to just bounce from slump to slump never quite making it over the mountain and over the other side. I don’t know whether it was me or my reading choices, but I was stuck. Luckily, I seem to be having a much better time in 2019 steadily making my way through my TBR which is heavily featured on my Instagram if you fancy peep. My most recent read was The Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, back in the Autumn I watched the series on t.v and loved every episode and the series quickly made it’s way to my TBR and this February I finally got around to reading it. For those of you who don’t know, the story follows Doctor Diana Bishop she is a reluctant witch, and a Yale graduate, currently teaching at Oxford University. She is doing research in the famous Bodleian Library when she requests a book for her alchemical research, the manuscript Ashmole 782. Once she touches the book Diana instantly knows this isn’t just an ordinary text but a magical book, a lost book that creatures believe has the answers to their creation. It is in this same library where she meets Vampire Mathew Clairmont and of course that’s where all the real trouble begins. I really enjoyed A Discovery of Witches, normally when reading books about magical creatures’ whether they be witches or vampires or other worldly beings I have found that these ‘tropes’ can often be found in Young Adult books. Which is fine but can feel a little tiered after a while because let’s be honest when reading a YA fantasy romance 9/10 times you know where the plot is going and whose ending up with who, of course there are exceptions but that’s for another day, another post. I find reading an adult novel in this genre interesting, the stakes feel higher when reading about an adult romance in fantasy which I found interesting, it’s defiantly something I’m going to explore further. I love history and our main character Diana is a History Professor I really enjoyed reading about such an accomplished young woman this allowed the plot to based in the historic city of Oxford and this added a creepy layer to the world which the All Souls Trilogy inhabits every page peeling back a little bit more. The book has its roots embedded in history and historical fact and you can tell the author both knows her stuff and has done a lot of research when writing this book this gave the novel a feeling of authenticity, the fact that a lot of what is being written is rooted in fact I loved that. The only small issue I have is that sometimes you can really tell this book was written by an American which can pull you out of the writing a bit when you’re reading about England clearly written by someone who isn’t British but trying to sound as authentic as possible it can be a little jarring when you know what is written isn’t quite accurate, or describe quite right. It’s only sometimes and not a big deal but as I’m about to start book three The Book of Life I’ve clearly been having a great time making my way through this trilogy. If you love a good romantic romp, with vampires and daemons not forgetting the witches of course then I would highly recommend you start this trilogy. The romance in this book is an interesting one it’s gripping as well as frustrating and although it falls in line with all the usual ‘vampire falls in love’ tropes the author did a great job weaving them through out the story and just made it fun to read. This book is also full of positive representation which was great about I can’t see where this story goes next. Why not check out all my other book reviews here! 3/5 stars! This entry was posted in Book review and tagged a discovery of witches, book blogger, book review, books, deborah harkness, demons, Diana and Mathew, magic, reviews, vampire, vampire books, witch, witches on February 19, 2019 by Chloe. My Problem with Pooh and Christopher Robin too. Unexpectedly I came to see the (2017) film Goodbye Christopher Robin which tells the tale of the world famous Playwright and Author A.A Milne but most notably as author of Winnie- the Pooh. First published in the wake on the first world war in 1926, the film follows Milne known to his family as Blue as he returns from the first world war with shell shock or what we now may recognise as PTSD. Devastated by his time at the Somme Blue wants to write a book about war, encouraging peace for future generations; but that is not the story that finds him. Thanks to the decision to move his young family to the Sussex country side Blue started to spend more time with his young son known to the family as Billy Moon and his beloved bear affectionately named Edward (would later be re-named Winne-the-Pooh). I saw a video with the films director and he talks about how Blue and his wife Daphne were very much of their time, how it wasn’t uncommon to have baby and continue on with life as if nothing had happened only seeing the child for half an hour in the morning and evening. Looking at the relationship of Billy, Daphne and Blue through modern eyes is difficult and it is almost impossible not to judge their relationship. Billy Moon has a nanny Nou whom he adores and as the film unfolds I found myself wondering in a house or family like this when a child has so little access to their own parents who is really Billy Moon’s mother is it Daphne or is it Nou? In later life a grownup Christopher Robin is even quoted when describing Nou as ‘Almost a part of me’ and they remained close for her entire life. Blue and Billy eventually get to bond when both Nou and Daphne are away from the house hold leaving the pair alone together with no choice but to either sink or swim. Blue eventually discovers what a bright and vibrant imagination his son has discovering the names of his favourite toys, which along with Edward Bear included Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore the depressed Donkey. They play together in the long hot summer days just Blue, Billy and his toys and Billy’s imagination that essence of childhood become the inspiration for A.A Milne’s most famous creation, his Winnie the Pooh stories. The Stories were an instant success, lifted up on the back of the tragedy of World War One ‘the country is wounded’ Blue cries to his wife Daphne in the film and with the help of Winnie the Pooh they could remember that life could be good again and life was worth living after all. But by writing about his son and his toys Blue was effectively selling his sons childhood to the masses. The books were an instant stand out success and at one point Christopher Robin who was slowly but surely losing his identity as Billy Moon was named the most famous child in the world. Comparing it not just to today’s standards but famous children throughout history there are very few examples where child stars come off unscathed. Christopher Robin was more famous than his father A.A Milne and his mother was not only the driving force behind commercialising Milne’s’ books also could see what a commodity her son was becoming. He would do interviews and photographs, signings; all the while Edward Bear had become Pooh and no longer just belonged to him but him and millions of other people all over the world. Billy Moon’s real problems started when he attended boarding school at age nine. It is depicted in the film but the real Christopher Robin had spoken of it many times in his books and interviews over the years that he was consistently bullied for being the child in his father’s books and poems he was pushed kicked and repeatedly pushed down the stairs. He felt his father had ‘climbed on the back of my infant shoulders’ to forge his career leaving Billy without any identity and with no say in how famous he had become and he was famous for no real reason. Eventually Billy Moon would shed his Christopher Robin identify all together when he joined the army and became Private Milne. He would survive the war and later marry his first cousin. This would cause great strain on his relationship with his parents one that was already full of emotional entanglements and resentments. Daphne and Christopher soon to wife’s father were brother and sister and did not get on and the marriage between the pair further strained his relationship with his mother who was a hard woman at times and is depicted as such in the film. As he grew into a man Christopher seemed to always looking back to his childhood his was filled with a bitter resentment towards the books and what they did to his life and was still angry at his father. He did not speak or see to his father until he was on his death bed and Daphne and Christopher would never reconcile. Goodbye Christopher Robin did a good job of showing that Daphne and Blue were flawed humans and their relationship with him was fraught. But it ends right when a young Christopher Robin gets home from war, the viewers never gets to know how it ended for the family and how they would never be reconciled. How Christopher would never take a penny from the Winnie the Pooh franchise but eventually when he and his wife had a disabled daughter they were eventually forced to take some money to pay for her care ‘For Clare’ I read him say, which is both beautiful that he loved his child in a different way than his he parents loved him but tragic that he had to forgo his principles in the end and his wishes to separate himself from Pooh. The origin story of Winnie the Pooh is a sad one but it got me thinking about the new Christopher Robin movie to be released this year. (2018) When you’re telling the story of an adult Christopher Robin who famously came to hate Pooh Bear shouldn’t how he really felt about his situation be addressed? I get it, this is Disney and this is the sentimental tripe we love, it has echoes of Robin William’s Hook to me and I’m sure it will be a box office smash. But where does the morality come in? The Little boy Christopher Robin is immortalised in book form destined to be playing with his ‘Silly old Bear’ forever but the adult man who grew up and away from Pooh does he stop mattering cause he’s dead? When did we stop caring about truth? Honestly I think that this movie is a morally bankrupt idea, and yes people will love it because it’s Disney but they will be loving a lie somehow I don’t think I will ever look at Winne- the -Pooh ever the same way again and that’s both a good and a bad thing. This entry was posted in Book Features, Books and Movies, Uncategorized and tagged A.A Milne, book blogger, books, childrens books, Christopher Robin, Daphne Milne, Disney, film review, Goodbye Christopher Robin, movie review, Nou, Piglet, the house at pooh corner, Tigger, Winne-the-Pooh on August 24, 2018 by Chloe. The Surface Breaks by Louise O’Neill – A Review. The Surface Breaks is a feminist re-telling of The Little Mermaid all dressed up and ready to go in the most beautiful cover I’ve seen all year. Louise O’Neill takes the story of The Little Mermaid back to it’s Hans Christian Anderson roots moving away from the Disney version we all know so well. When I was a little girl I loved Ariel and watched that movie many times but I also owned the (1975) Anime version of the tale. Which is a very close re-telling to the original fairy-tale and as a girl enjoyed both but for different reasons. It’s a much darker story which Disney turned on it’s head and made into something light and filled with a romantic musicality. I was excited to head into this new re-telling and from the first few pages I knew it had the original story ingrained in it’s roots. Louise O’Neill tells the story we all know well of a young mermaid princess who falls in love with a human boy, and after saving his life desperately wishes to become human. But there are two twists to this tale, the first is her feminist take on a classic, the Mer-people but specifically the mermaids live in a misogynistic and patriarchal society where there only choices are to be pretty to be silent and to be mothers. Beauty is how our little mermaid and her sisters measure their value and it causes repression, anguish and a fierce sibling rivalry. The second twist to this tale, no pun intended is this stories darkness long gone are the singing crabs and fishes for best friends but one thing stood still and firm, her roots at the very centre of The Little Mermaid’s story, I am talking of cause about The Sea Witch. But even the word witch is turned on it’s head on this tale. The Sea Witch is a major character in all versions and in The Surface Breaks I enjoyed this complicated interpretation of her character Ceto. She’s the centre of most of the stories darkest moments but has some great lines and oodles of body positivity all the while leaving me not really knowing if she was good or evil or just morally grey. Enjoying my summer reading time. I really enjoyed this book, I would say it took a little while to get going, a lot of time was spent in Mer-society which was great… but I could of cut that just slightly shorter and gone above water sooner. The is a very famous fairy tale after all even down to the mermaid losing her beautiful singing voice, all major plot points we know and love they remain. So there was no need to drag certain things out because as readers we know where the story is heading because we’ve been there before, it’s just a case of where we end up. The book really got going up for me in the last 50 pages and while reading I felt we were in for a huge pay off. And I really did love the ending… but I could of done with an Epilogue or another chapter, the ending just felt a little unfinished to me especially in terms of Oliver I think he (and i’m being as vague as possibly here to keep it spoiler free) but I feel that all I really needed was a paragraph or two on him and then a chapter on what happens after the end of the book as we know it. It was brilliant but felt a little vague. Anyone who has read The Surface Breaks let me know your opinions I would love to hear your thoughts. Over all loved it! Great story telling and an interesting perspective from a unique female character who grows and develops as the story unfurls. This entry was posted in Book review, Uncategorized and tagged book review, bookblogger, books, fairytale, fairytale retelling, fiction reviews, Louise O'Neill, movies, retelling, reviews, The Little Mermaid, The Surface Breaks on July 19, 2018 by Chloe. The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shaffer & Annie Barrow (A Review) Both happily and unhappily I have just finished reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, from here on out I shall just refer to it as Guernsey and I think you will understand why. It has been softly on my radar for a few years now but with no real intention of reading but I’m not sure why. It’s definitely my genre, it had been sat on my Goodreads shelves for awhile now and it’s one of those books that I had seen around in varying covers but had never quite reached for. Then I saw the trailer the Guernsey movie and knew I’d been missing out and bought the book without hesitation. The first thing I discovered was this book is a epistolary novel for those who don’t know this book is written in the form of letters, I have only ever read one book in a similar format before Cecilia Ahern’s Love, Rosie and I just didn’t get on with the structure and ended up DNF-ing the novel. But Guernsey is different, it is so easy to fall on love with the characters. The book follows Juliet a young writer and journalist who has been writing fluff pieces during the second world war to cheer up the nation she’s looking for a new and interesting book idea when she get’s a letter from a man in Guernsey who has bought one of her old books that had her contact detail written inside. They begin to correspond and he discuss he is a member of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. They enjoy corresponding so much that Juliet begins to get letters from other members of the society and this is where the fun really begins. When Juliet travels to Guernsey and meets the real people she has been writing to, her new friends from her letters and becomes part of their lives. She discovers what Guernsey and it’s people went through during the war, occupied by the Germans, Guernsey was the only part of the British Isles to really have to live with their enemy and Juliet a writer and a seeker of truth is determined to find out what that really means. She also becomes curious about the societies founder Elizabeth, Elizabeth becomes the centre of this story that Juliet becomes determined to write and her love for the island pours out of her and onto every page. Guernsey is a book about friendship, loyalty and love, in a period in history when there had been so much tragedy and devastation it shows is the small things that truly bind people together and love will always win out even in the darkest and most brutal of times. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a beautiful story that everyone should read it is written in letters but the characters feel fully formed and full of colour. The book is so short it was like being on a short visit with great friends, who I already miss. This entry was posted in Book review and tagged amreading, Annie Barrows, book blogger, book reviews, books, Guernsey, guernsey literaey and potato peel pie society, Historical Fiction, lovely reads, Mary Anne Shaffer, reviews, World War Two, WWII on May 3, 2018 by Chloe. WWW Wednesday – 18/4/18 Hi guys it’s Wednesday and you know what that means? It’s time for WWW Wednesday! WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam @Taking On A World Of Words, the rules are simple you just have to answer these three questions: I have just started reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. This Historical fiction novel is set shortly after WW2 and written as a series of letters between the characters. I have only read one book in a similar format before and that was Love, Rosie by Cecilia Ahern and really didn’t get on with the writing style. I’m going to see this in the cinema when it comes out and know it’s a very popular novel so hopefully this time round this style of writing will be a hit with me. I have been on a bit of a Angel kick recently and have just finished Fallen by Lauren Kate and Angelfall and WorldAfter by Susan Ee. Reviews for all three on the way soon (promise). I’m really excited to read a few books at the moment, Folk by Zoe Gilbert, The Cruel Prince by Holly Black and Circe by Madeline Miller. What are you guys reading this month? Let me know in the comments. Come Find Me This entry was posted in Uncategorized, WWW Wednesday and tagged book blogger, book meme, books, WWW Wednesday on April 18, 2018 by Chloe. Let’s Talk About- Series I’ve Started, Read the First Book and Never Made it to Book Two… I am a series sinner I have been doing the same damning thing for years and it needs to be addressed. I have a terrible habit of starting series, picking up the first book jumping head first into a word getting, often getting completely sucked in to the characters, the stories. But then when I finish and place the book back on my shelf, instead of picking up the next book in the series I read something else instead, which is fine if I were to ever get around to reading the second book in the series; but I rarely do. And this can be frustrating for me as a reader, as a reviewer and just as a person who wants to know what happens but lacks the discipline or the will to finish what she has started. In an attempt to tackle the problem I started to look through my bookshelves, now I don’t know how you all organised you TBR and your shelves but I keep all my unread books on the same one. I started pulling off all the second, and third, fourth books in series that I haven’t read I started to realise I have a problem. After some thought I decided it was time for an unhaul, what books am I realistically never going to read (or read again in some cases) and what books but looking at series in particular am I just never going to get around to completing. (All the books below are going to be donated to my local library) This works both ways as well, I like to have a monthly TBR and yes I’m flexible with my reading but I do like to have a rough idea of what I may like to read in a month. So in April I came up with the idea of introducing or re-introducing series often a second book that I have forgotten about to my TBR. A Series that I still want to read and have never lost interest in even after time has passed. This month that series is AngelFall and the Penryn and the end of Days books by Susan Ee. I read the first book Angelfall a few years ago and it became victim to my usual pattern of failing to read book 2, but thanks to my new monthly plan I have just finished the second book in the series WorldAfter (review to come). Going through my shelves I really thought seriously about series I intended to finish and at the top of my list are Shatter Me, Angelfall, Cinder and Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I know my reading tastes are maturing and changing in general and there are some books I’m never going to get around to reading The last book in the Selection Series is a great example of this. But as I grow and change and explore new genres and writing styles as a reader there are some books I want to bring with me, some I don’t want to forget. This entry was posted in Book Features, Uncategorized and tagged amreading, angelfall, blogger, book reviews, bookblogger, bookbloggers, bookhaul, bookish, books, bookstagram, bookunhaul, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, reader, reading, reviews, Shatter me, susan Ee, WorldAfter on April 17, 2018 by Chloe. Page to Screen Series: Episode Two- A Cuckoo’s Calling Hey guys and welcome back to the second episode of my brand new Page to Screen series launched only last week. The basic premise is that I will talk about books that have been adapted for the big and small screen but in a more in-depth way than when I just do a standard review. I don’t hold back in these discussions but I will try and do this as spoiler free as possible as I know many people still have series this on their TBR. Here is Episode one where I talked about Atonement. If you have dropped by my blog in the last week you may have noticed I have mentioned the Cormoran Strike Series a few (okay many) times. It all started when I binged the BBC adaptation and then began reading the first book. As someone who is not really a lover of crime it was a surprise that I have completely falling in love with this series and it’s characters. Based on the Robert Galbraith (J.K Rowling) novel of the same name A Cuckoo’s calling stars Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger they play the one legged private investigator Comoran Strike and his new assistant and temp Robin. Strike is the son of a model and rock star and internally has been dealing with his mothers murder for years he also lost his leg while serving in the army. So when he meets Robin on the morning he and his long time girlfriend Charlotte break up after a blazing row he has been through a lot. Robin has moved to London to be with her boyfriend Mathew and has been temping, an intelligent university graduate Robin is capable if achieving more than she has been doing and at this point in her life she knows she has been floundering. But it’s only when she walks into Strike’s office and he nearly kills her by knocking her down the stairs that she starts to feel a sense of gravitational pull and knows that working with Strike is where she’s suppose to be. Although her Fiance Mathew hates her doing the job and that friction is felt between them as he desires her to work in a more corporate environment. The reader can feel his dislike of Strike, it just flies off the page and this has been translated brilliantly on screen. Strike who really is just a quite loner, he lives for the job and is busy building his fledgling business but Mathew dislikes him, just as much he dislikes the fact that working for him makes Robin a low earner. Together Strike and Robin have been hired to re-examine the case of Luna Landry a model at the height of her fame when it appeared she jumped from her penthouse. The Celebrity world comes easy to Strike and washes over him like nothing but it’s exciting for Robin moving in these glamours but ultimately tragic circles. Luna, it’s reveled was adopted and had been investigating her biological family and for a time it’s thought that this could be the reason for her death. I really like Rowling’s writing for adults, I’ve said before that Harry Potter wasn’t really part of my childhood it somehow managed to pass me by until about three years ago when I read the whole series. I should say I enjoyed the Harry Potter books but I think when you consume something whether that be books or music or movies as a child or in your teens it has a different effect on you than when you just experience it as an adult, a huge part of that is the nostalgia factor. Reading Rowling’s writing as Robert Galbraith has been a really lovely experience she invokes some interesting discussions including race and disability. I am thrilled that the Strike series is continuing with the adaptation of Lethal White I just hope the book comes out soon! I hope you enjoyed Episode two of my page to screen series, I love reading your comments especially if you have opinions on the books or the series, I’ll see you next time! This entry was posted in Books and Movies, Books and Television, Memes, Uncategorized and tagged A Cuckoos Calling, book blogger, book blogger tv series review, books, cormoran and robin, Holliday Grainger, review, reviews, Robert Galbraith, Strike, Tom Burke on March 11, 2018 by Chloe. View paintandbutterfliesbooks/timeline’s profile on Facebook View @chloemckayyy’s profile on Twitter View chloekaymckay’s profile on Instagram View chloemckay90/’s profile on Pinterest Follow for more bookish reviews and fun things! 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__label__wiki	0.847245	0.847245	The Internet Explorer browser Internet Explorer is the default browser for the Windows OS, first released in 1995 to compete with Netscape. During 2002 and 2003 it had a market share of about 95% but the market share quickly declined with the release of Firefox and later Chrome - and partly due to sloppy W3C support on Microsoft's behalf. Internet Explorer has always been known for a very arrogant attitude towards the W3C recommendations and is still a great source of frustration for frontend developers due to the need for custom development and/or hacks to support it. The Desktop Browser Versions 1 to 8 Looking back this is nothing to be too proud of. The requirement for hacks and workarounds are extensive. To support these version the trick is to keep it simple and know your hacks. IE6 CSS Hack: * html .selector {} IE7 CSS Hack: *+html .selector {} IE6-8 CSS Hack: .selector { property: value\9; } Ok, you're right. It sucks. These versions were released from 1995 to 2009. Categorized as: desktop_light A major improvement from IE8 now supporting the W3C event model and a very minimal set of CSS3. It was still far behind the competition, lacking among other things CSS transitions, FormData and the FileReader API. IE9 still doesn't support innerHTML on tables. To allow IE9 to be grouped depending on your required feature support it has it's own segment. This version was released in 2011. Categorized as: desktop_ie9 Again a huge improvement from the previous version but still behind the competition due to only partial implementations of the standards and no WebGL support. There are also some problems when creating Form elements in JavaScript, which requires specific code. IE10 also featured a new minimum timeout limit (default is 10ms) to compensate for bad animation speeds. To allow IE10 to be grouped depending on your required feature support it has it's own segment. Categorized as: desktop_ie10 Now getting closer to the bar this version almost supports the full range of CSS3 but still with only partial support for 3D effects. This version was released in 2013 The Mobile Browser The mobile version of Internet Explorer is a scaled down version of the desktop rendering engine. The mobile version is also known as IEMobile (which carries different version numbers). These version are more or less equivalent to the Desktop versions in terms of CSS and JavaScript support. Likewise requiring a lot of hacks and workarounds. Microsoft skipped version 8 for mobile. Categorized as: mobile_light Versions 9 to 11 As with the desktop counterpart huge improvements were seen but still with to many missing parts to qualify for the smartphone segment. The phone allows you to browse in Desktop mode, which will efficiently replace the IEMobile marker with a WPDesktop marker. When the WPDesktop is detected the device is treated as a desktop_light browser. Categorized as: mobile The Tablet Browser Microsoft does not have a specific tablet browser since it does not really have a tablet OS as such and does not provide its browser for other OS's. There exists a number of Windows driven devices with both keyboard/trackpad and touchscreen running the Windows desktop OS blurring out the tablet category a lot. Typically the useragent includes a touch marker if touch input is enabled - but you are still required to support mouse events separately (they are not seamlessly translated) and thus you have to create dual events handlers for everything. The Edge browser Installing web stack on Windows 10 The Chrome Browser In 2008 Google released the first version of Google Chrome based on Apples WebKit engine. The browser was a remarkable improvement for Windows users which didn't have access to a WebKit browser yet. Since then the WebKit based browsers have become a dominant player on both desktop and mobile devices. In 2013 Chrome switched to a WebKit fork named Blink to allow more freedom for the Chrome development. The Firefox browser Firefox is an open source browser developed by the Mozilla foundation. Firefox is by all means a full feature browser and one of the few browsers with its own rendering engine as more and more producers switch to the WebKit engine. The Safari browser In 2003 Apple released the first version of Safari, using a fork of the KHTML rendering engine they called WebKit. Safari became the default browser of the OS X series and the rendering engine has been adopted by a wide range of browsers since then, most notably Google Chrome uses a WebKit fork called Blink. Microsoft Edge is the successor to the infamous Internet Explorer. It was first released in 2015, with a strong orientation towards web standards. When it first came out it almost parred it's competitors, but since then, possibly due to a very slow adoption, development has slowed down. The Baidu browser	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3485
__label__wiki	0.782907	0.782907	Art Articles Through the stained glass, vividly Katayun Saklat , 82, is a charming and exuberant painter and stained glass artistSeated in the drawing room of her Auckland Square apartment, Katayun Saklat, painter and stained glass artist, though not necessarily in that order, speaks about her... Astad is gone, but is more alive than ever Dec 22, 2020 \| Art 'Astad had the courage to plough a lonely furrow. He made a life of his own, on his own, and created a path-breaking... Dance pioneer Astad Deboo passes away in Mumbai ‘His works represent an important segment in contemporary dance expression in India,’ the Sangeet Natak Akademi had... Video Honours famous Pakistani Artist Jimmy Fali Engineer Nov 27, 2020 \| Art WHAT’S ON the newsletter of the Karachi Zarathoshti Banu Mandal informs…Video: “The Servant of Pakistan: Jimmy Engineer” Honours “apro” Jimmy Fali EngineerAs a tribute on the 143rd birth anniversary... Remembering Jehangir Sabavala, the versatile nonconformist In an exclusive conversation with The Morning Standard, Puneet Shah, Founder of Akara Art, and Curator of the show tells us more.Connoisseurs of Jehangir Sabavala (1922-2011), will take delight that... These landscapes from Jehangir Sabavala’s new solo reveal the luminous beauty of his art Nov 9, 2020 \| Art A master of light and play, with a blend of Impressionist and Cubist elements, Jehangir Sabavala's blue-chip art has inspired a sense of wonder and awe. Akara Art's latest show revives the late... This Artwork Changed My Life: Pestonji Bomanji’s “Feeding the Parrot” Oct 28, 2020 \| Art Elephant and Artsy have come together to present This Artwork Changed My Life, a creative collaboration that shares the stories of life-changing encounters with art. A new piece will be published... 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The dancer’s guide to hitchhiking: Astad Deboo May 9, 2019 \| Art Celebrated Indian contemporary dancer and choreographer Astad Deboo on his 50-year career, hitchhiking across the world and moreArticle by Samira Sood \| CNN TravellerAstad Deboo in flow. Photo: Amit... Jimmy Engineer selected for Habib Jalib Peace Award World-renowned Pakistani artist, peace activist and social crusader Jimmy Engineer has been selected for Habib Jalib Peace Award for 2019 in appreciation and recognition of his meritorious services... Architect Sarosh Anklesaria Wins 2019 Richard Rogers Fellowship Sarosh Anklesaria is one of the six winner of the 2019 RIchard Rogers Fellowship. Announced by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Sarosh will will spend three and a half months completing an... Astad Deboo’s Astonishing Back-bends The dancer is revolutionary in many ways, one being his ability to make his body do what he wants it to At 71, Astad Deboo has one hell of a back bend. 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__label__wiki	0.956665	0.956665	Home News New Music PWR BTTM Share ‘West Texas’ PWR BTTM Share ‘West Texas’ Debut Album Ugly Cherries Out 18th Sep Via Father/Daughter & Miscreant Records. New York queer punk duo PWR BTTM have shared the video for ‘West Texas’ which will feature on their upcoming debut album Ugly Cherries. The album, which is due for release on September 18th, will also feature the album title track and ‘Dairy Queen’. Seems to us at Overblown that ‘West Texas’ is about trying, or wanting, to run away from a bad situation. I think we can all identify, amirite? Watch the video for the track above. The boys in PWR BTTM were kind enough to talk to us here at Overblown recently about their upcoming album, queer politics, and Ariana Grande. Peruse the interview. Do it. Ugly Cherries artwork: Follow PWR BTTM on Facebook. Follow Overblown on Facebook and Twitter. Previous articleGold Celeste Share Video For ‘Is This What You Could Not Do?’ Next articleTop 18 Underrated 90’s Alternative Rock Albums	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3489
__label__wiki	0.737505	0.737505	Home News New Music SWMRS Share Debut Single ‘Miley’, US Tour Dates SWMRS Share Debut Single ‘Miley’, US Tour Dates On Tour With WAVVES And Twin Peaks In The U.S. Pop-punk quartet SWMR have shared ‘Miley’ their irreverent ode to pop provocateur Miley Cyrus. It is their first single under their new moniker since the dissolution of previous project Emily’s Army. The track was produced by Zac Carper of FIDLAR fame, and mirrors that group’s recent move to a more polished sound. Commenting on the inspiration for the single, singer Cole Becker offered, “I was trying to explore my relationship to Miley Cyrus as this person who has been a presence in my life since I was really young. I feel like I grew up with her.” Justifying Cyrus’s position as “a punk rock queen,” Becker elaborated, “I think it’s just the fact that she does exactly what she wants. I think it’s really rare to see somebody doing that. She’s a business commodity, but seems to have maintained a lot of creative autonomy, which I think is super punk rock. And the fact that she’s standing up for sexual freedom and gender fluidity – I think that’s really important, and something that not a lot of pop stars are doing.” Listen to ‘Miley’, and the single’s b-side ‘Uncool’, below: SWMRS US Tour: September 8th, 2015 Seattle, WA The Neptune September 9th, 2015 Portland, OR Wonderland Ballroom September 10th, 2015 San Francisco, CA Bimbo’s 365 Club September 11th, 2015 Santa Ana, CA Constellation Room September 12th, 2015 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour September 14th, 2015 Los Angeles, CA Teragram Ballroom September 15th, 2015 San Diego, CA Observatory North Park September 16th, 2015 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom September 18th, 2015 Austin, TX The Mohawk September 19th, 2015 Dallas, TX The Prophet Bar September 20th, 2015 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre September 21st, 2015 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre September 22nd, 2015 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater September 24th, 2015 Milwaukee, WI The Rave Follow SWMR on Facebook. Follow Overblown on Facebook, and Twitter. Previous articleHinds Announce Debut LP ‘Leave Me Alone’, Share ‘Garden’ Next articleTrust Fund Announce New LP ‘Seems Unfair’, Share Video For ‘Football’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3490
__label__wiki	0.588136	0.588136	You are here: Home > Respiratory > BRC funds new COVID-19 research projects 6 April 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Imaging, Multimorbidity and Long-Term Conditions, Respiratory, Technology and Digital Health The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has allocated funding to three COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs. The funding, originally earmarked for BRC cross-theme cluster projects, has been diverted to research projects in the BRC’s Respiratory, Technology and Digital Health, and Imaging themes. The Oxford BRC’s Director, Prof Helen McShane, said: “The researchers we support are already at the forefront of national efforts to find a vaccine for COVID-19, and effective treatments for patients – both in hospitals and general practice – who have contracted the virus. “Such is the breadth of expertise in our BRC – whether in immunology, technology, big data or imaging – that we are especially well placed to address many different aspects of this pandemic, from developing treatments in the short-term, to looking at the longer-term impacts of the virus. “For this reason, we have released funds to get these projects up and running as quickly as possible so that as many patients can benefit as possible.” Widely-used drug COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus-induced disease 2019) can induce severe disease in 30 percent of hospitalised patients. Progression from a mild fatigue, fever and cough, to severe respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation typically happens one to two weeks into the disease. This provides a window of opportunity to provide disease-modifying treatment. One candidate is Azithromycin (AZM), a commonly used antibiotic. AZM, used for a range of common infections, is safe, inexpensive and available worldwide. It also has broad antiviral properties and has been used against a wide range of inflammatory lung diseases and viruses, including the common cold, Influenza A, Zika virus, and SARS. Photo: www.doctor-4-u.co.uk/ via Flickr The ATOMIC trial, led by Dr Tim Hinks of the Experimental Medicine Division of the Nuffield Department of Medicine, will test the efficacy of 14 days of once-daily AZM tablets in preventing progression from moderate disease to severe respiratory failure in patients who present to hospital with COVID-19, but who are suitable for initial management as outpatients. Dr Hinks said: “Severe respiratory disease occurs relatively late in the infectious process after virus numbers have begun to decline and so, by the time a patient is admitted to hospital an approach which predominantly targets the excess lung inflammation is likely to be more effective than simple antiviral therapy. AZM does both. “It has broad antiviral properties against a wide range of viruses. As an anti-inflammatory it suppresses a wide range of inflammatory chemical messengers which are not suppressed by traditional steroids. AZM has therefore proved effective in treating a variety of inflammatory lung diseases. It has additional antibacterial properties which may help prevent secondary bacterial infection, present in 16 percent of COVID-19 deaths. This medicine is already being used in some places but what is urgently needed is solid evidence based on well-designed clinical trials.” Another research project, jointly led by Prof Peter Watkinson of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, will use national QResearch-Oxford record linkage study to understand whether drugs commonly taken for chronic conditions such as hypertension or diabetes may exacerbate or reduce the severity of COVID-19 disease. It is hoped this study will be able to identify alternative drugs for patients with chronic conditions, as well as possible drugs to treat COVID-19; and identify high-risk patients in primary care. Around 14 percent of the adult population in England take anti-hypertensive medications, and around five percent receive medication to treat diabetes. The prevalence increases with age, making usage particularly common in those at risk of for severe COVID-19 infections. In many cases drugs from a different class could be used instead. Prof Watkinson said: “If these drugs are increasing the risk of severe infection, they represent one of the few modifiable risk factors for severe COVID-19 infection. Medical and research communities need rapid large-scale accumulation of data on the outcomes of patients who develop COVID-19 infection whilst taking these drugs to allow appropriate risk assessment and clinical decision making for these patient groups.“ Other drugs in common use in primary care patients are believed to have anti-viral activity to COVID-19, such as hydroxychloroquine, used in rheumatoid arthritis, and lopinavir-ritonavir, used in the treatment of HIV. There are also immune-suppressive therapies that may either increase the risk of severe illness by preventing the body’s response to infection, or attenuate the hyperinflammation syndrome associated with COVID-19 disease, so preventing severe disease. “The incidence of severe disease in patient groups taking these medications urgently needs to be established to guide both their management and investigation of COVID-19 treatment strategies,” Prof Watkinson explained. The Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) is already providing up-to-date information on the admission characteristics and outcomes of all patients with severe COVID-19 infection treated on an ICU in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Prof Hippisley-Cox and Prof Watkinson’s study will seek to match this against data on prior long-term medication and chronic disease, information contained in the QResearch databases derived from the anonymised general practice health records. “We estimate we will be able to link over 50 percent of all patients with severe COVID-19 infections in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We will provide useful knowledge that patients, GPs and intensive care doctors can use to reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 infection within this pandemic,” Prof Watkinson said. Prof Hippisley-Cox said: “This is an urgent question of international importance which is likely to directly inform policy and patient care. We are uniquely placed to do this research rapidly at scale using the QResearch database which has recently relocated to Oxford and which is already linked to hospital and mortality data. “This is the first time GP data has been linked to this clinically-rich ITU database nationally. It will establish a world-class resource to enable COVID-19 research both in the short and longer term as we get to grips with understanding this new disease and how best to treat it.” The third project, the C-MORE study, led by Dr Betty Raman of the Radcliffe Department of Medicine and the Oxford BRC’s Imaging Theme, is looking at the longer-term impact of the virus on patients’ organs. AVIC scanner at the John Radcliffe Hospital (archive image) Previous studies have suggested that the effects of corona virus infection can carry on for months after the acute infection. Six months after infection, SARS survivors exhibited persistent impairment in lung function, exercise capacity and quality of life compared to a normal population. Using Oxford’s advanced state-of-the art imaging facilities, Dr Raman’s group will assess what the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection are, not just on the lungs, but also the heart, liver, kidney and brain. The team will recruit Oxford University Hospitals patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 infection, as well as healthy individuals to act as controls. Where clinically indicated, they will undergo a cardiac MRI scan and a chest CT scan during the acute stage, along with routine clinical investigations, including blood tests, to check for biomarkers of injury to the heart, liver and kidneys. Six months later, participants will undergo a multi-organ MRI to assess the heart, brain, liver and kidneys, a repeat chest CT, as well as a series of tests, exercises and questionnaires to assess lung, cardiovascular and brain function, quality of life, frailty and mental health. The patients’ clinical data will be collected for up to 12 months after the infection from electronic patient records, general practice information systems and other NHS databases. Dr Raman said: “COVID-19 is a global public health emergency. We expect our study to provide a number of new insights into the prevalence and extent of persistent multi-organ damage in COVID-19 patients, as well as deeper understanding of the impact on the quality of life of affected individuals and the need for ongoing medical surveillance will emerge from this work. “We anticipate our work will pave the way for the development of treatment pathways intended to prevent and limit multi-organ injury in future viral pandemics.” ← New wearable technology used to monitor COVID-19 patients Oxford-led research describes the safety profile and potential harms of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3492
__label__wiki	0.824661	0.824661	Reality & game shows $3.99 Rent HD $17.99 Buy HD It's time to celebrate as Disney's phenomenal HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL hits new heights in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR! This extravaganza delivers nonstop entertainment from start to finish! It's almost graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Chad, Ryan and Taylor -- and the thought of heading off in separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats thinking they need to do something they'll remember forever. Together with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical reflecting their hopes and fears about the future and their unforgettable experiences growing up together. But with graduation approaching and college plans in question, what will become of the dreams, romances and friendships of East High's senior Wildcats? Find out what happens to all your favorite characters in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR! It's a fabulous celebration the whole family will love! Cast and credits Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, Olesya Rulin Bill Borden, Barry Rosenbush Peter Barsocchini Rotten Tomatoes® score Eligible for Movies Anywhere Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible. Learn more. English [Stereo] Start within 30 days, finish within 72 hours. Eligible for Family Library Eligible if purchased with select payment methods. Rentals are not eligible. Learn more Popular with similar viewers The captain of the East High basketball team and the key member of the academic club shock the student body by teaming to audition for the upcoming school musical in a Disney Channel Original Movie that's all about being yourself and following your dreams. Troy (Zac Efron) is best known as the player who keeps the East High basketball team on the scoreboard. Of course, life isn't always about athletics, though, and as Troy slam dunks on the boards, beautiful and brainy Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) is raising the reputation of East High as the key member of the school's successful academic team. Despite their outgoing natures, no one would ever peg Troy and Gabriella as theater types. When word gets out that this popular pair has secretly chosen to reach for the stars and try their luck on the stage, the students of East High are about to learn an important lesson in teamwork while gearing up for a musical performance that will have their audience dancing in the aisles. It's time to sing and dance because there's so much more to celebrate in High School Musical 2. The East High Wildcats are gearing up for big fun as they land the coolest summer jobs imaginable. Troy (Zac Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), Chad (Corbin Bleu), and Taylor (Monique Coleman) have scored sweet gigs at the Lava Springs Country Club owned by Sharpay and Ryan's family. Sharpay's first rule of business: Get Troy. As Troy experiences a life of privilege he's never known, will he give up the Wildcats and Gabriella to rise to the top? Featuring an all-star cast, hot new songs and awesome dancing, High School Musical 2 is way 2 good 2 miss! Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Just how fabulous do you have to be to make it big in the Big Apple? One aspiring diva is about to find out... the hard way! Ashley Tisdale shines in this totally captivating comedy. After a talent scout spots her performing with her dog Boi at a charity gala, Sharpay Evans (Tisdale) sets off for the bright lights of NYC, convinced instant fame and fortune are in the bag (designer bag, that is). But theatre's a dog-eat-dog world, as she and Boi discover when they encounter the devious owner of a pampered pooch named Countess and a scheming Broadway starlet who will do anything to crush the competition. Fortunately, Sharpay also meets Peyton (Austin Butler), a handsome student filmmaker who finds Sharpay nearly as fascinating as she finds herself. Spectacular! Get ready to rock the house with the Nickelodeon smash original movie Spectacular! When bad boy Nikko (Nolan Gerard Funk) gets dumped by his band, he finds the path to stardom can take some unexpected twists. Enter Courtney (Tammin Sursok), a show choir girl in need of a new star front man to help her group "bring it" and snag the national championship away from her arch rival Tammi (Victoria Justice). When this unlikely duo gets together, it's a rock explosion that lights up the stage in a way you've never experienced before. Featuring 10 hot new tracks from the music team behind High School Musical and hip dance moves that will have you movin' like a super-star! © 2009 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. Bandslam Vanessa Hudgens, Aly Michalka, Gaelan Connell and Lisa Kudrow star in a comedy about following dreams and doing what scares you. Ultra-popular Charlotte (Michalka) is determined to face-off against her ex at the country's biggest music competition. She just needs a band. Newcomer Will (Connell) knows more about musicians than anyone. He just needs a friend. And, rebel guitar player Sa5m (Hudgens) has a wicked voice but needs someone to believe in her. Together, this unlikely trio will take on Bandslam in a way no one thought possible.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3496
__label__wiki	0.611215	0.611215	Home / Comment / Who are your Guardians of the Galaxy? Who are your Guardians of the Galaxy? Posted by: Stephen Flockton in Comment, Film March 29, 2014 1 Comment 14,748 Views The film is out now and it’s as glorious as I predicted in this article way back in March. If you’re looking for the Pop Verse review then look no further than HERE! Otherwise read on and check out how accurate a lot of my guesses about the plot turned out to be. So you watched the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer (if not go watch it now, I’ll wait…) and you may be wondering several things. Was that a Raccoon? Why is that Raccoon wielding high powered weaponry? Is that an Ent? I thought this was Science fiction, not fantasy? What’s the deal with the Space Police? What’s with all the green people? What’s this all got to do with the Purple guy from The Avengers after credits scene? Well never fear gentle reader, I’m here to introduce you to your Guardians of the Galaxy. Who are the Guardians of the Galaxy? The Guardians are a rag-tag group of misfits and rogues thrown together by circumstances outside of their control that go on to become the saviours of the Galaxy (think ‘Dirty Dozen in space’). As typical for the reluctant hero’s trope the guardians are not traditional heroes like Captain America or Thor. They are a mix of Han Solo style rogues, ex-Assassins, outlaws and anthropomorphized raccoons. Peter Quill (aka Star-Lord) Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) is the leader of the Guardians. Taken from earth as a child in the 1980’s Peter has been wandering around the galaxy looking for fame, fortune and women. In the comics, Peter takes up the mantle of Star-Lord (a sort of interplanetary policeman) but loses his powers when he is defeated in battle. The exact background of the character has not been revealed for the new film but will most likely take the form of unpowered human with a suit that allows him to survive in space. He typically uses twin sub machine guns to take down his foes. Expect a cocky, fast-living and fast talking rogue who plays by his own rules. Gamora (Zoe Saldana) is the last of her race and is the adopted daughter of Thanos (we’ll get to him). Raised to assassinate the enemies of Thanos. She tries to find a new path once she discovers his true plans. Her powers include superhuman strength and agility, and an accelerated healing factor. She is also an on again-off again love interest for Peter Quill. Drax (Dave Bautista) was originally the human Arthur Douglas but when he and his family are killed by Thanos his spirit is captured and put in a new body with only one purpose – to destroy Thanos. Drax’s powers include enhanced strength and resilience. Drax is a very powerful warrior and considered one of the most dangerous beings in the universe. In the movie Drax’s family were murdered by Ronan the Accuser (see Below) leading Drax to go on a bloody rampage. Groot (Vin Diesel), a tree-like humanoid, is the last of his race and claims to be scion of the elite royal family of his planet. The only thing Groot is able to say is ‘I am Groot’. Groot has formed an unlikely friendship with Rocket Raccoon who seems to be the only one who understands what he is saying. Groot’s powers include giant growth and regeneration. Rocket (Bradley Cooper) is a genetically engineered raccoon with a penchant for heavy weapons. Rocket is a highly trained marksman, expert strategist and tactician. He often uses his friend Groot as a mobile artillery position (as he does in the trailer). Other Important Characters Other than the Guardians, there were also other important characters revealed in the trailer. Read on to find out about some of the villains and supporting cast. Nova Corps The Nova Corps are an intergalactic military/police force from the planet Xandar. In the comics the Nova corps wield the Nova Force which provides them with various levels of superpowers (including flight, super strength and energy powers). It’s not clear from the trailer if the Nova Corps will have super powers but keep your eye on John C. Reilly who is credited as Rhomann Dey – a particularly important officer of the Nova Corps. Ronan the Accuser Ronan (Lee Pace) is the Supreme Accuser of the Kree Empire (think Judge Dread with superpowers). In the film, Ronan is an admiral for Thanos, tasked with hunting down the Guardians. Ronan’s powers include super strength and resilience. He also wields a very powerful hammer which is capable of altering matter at a molecular level. He only appeared for a brief glimpse in the trailer but can be seen here on the right holding up Drax with one hand. Nebula (Karen Gillan) is an ally of Thanos and is sent to aid Ronan in hunting down the Guardians. Nebula is a space pirate and mercenary who has a complicated relationship with Gamora. Nebula is a skilled warrior and tactician with cybernetic enhancements to heighten her already deadly skills. Taneleer Tivan / The Collector The Collector (Benicio Del Toro), in the comics, is one of the Eldars of the universe. An immortal being who has been alive for billions of years. He was first seen in the after credits scenes of Thor 2 where he was given possession the ‘Aether’, one of the five infinity stones, for safekeeping. Expect this to be a big part of this film and the rest of the cinematic universe. Thanos the Mad Titan Thanos (Damion Poitier) is from Titan (a moon of Saturn). He is an incredibly powerful being who is in love with the physical embodiment of Death (comics can get a bit weird). In the comics he is mainly interested in the infinity stones. He first appeared in the after credits scene at the end of The Avengers, where it’s implied he was the power supporting Loki in the invasion of Earth. In the Guardians film, he is expected to be the main villain in a plot to obtain the infinity stones. Still on the fence? The Guardians of the Galaxy film is a little different from the films the have gone before it, as it is taking place in the ‘cosmic’ part of the Marvel Universe. Critics claimed that no one would take a film seriously with a norse god in it. The same critics have said that no one will take the Guardians of the Galaxy serious with a talking raccoon and a walking tree. They were proved wrong with Thor and they will be proved wrong with Guardians. Trust me, go see it release day and you too can enjoy the witty one liners from a talking raccoon. Guardians of the Galaxy: No raccoons or tree creatures were harmed during the making of this film. Guardians of the Galaxy: Why You Should Stop Worrying and Love the Raccoon Marvel to publish new Star Lord series – Legendary Star Lord Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2: Showtime, A-holes! Avengers Bradley Cooper Chris Pratt Comic Books Comics Gamora Groot Guardians of the Galaxy John C. Reilly Marvel Marvel Cinematic Universe Nebula Nova Corps Peter Quill Rocket Raccoon Ronan the Accuser Star Lord Thanos Thanos the Mad Titan Thor Vin Diesel Zoe Saldana 2014-03-29 Stephen Flockton Tagged with: Avengers Bradley Cooper Chris Pratt Comic Books Comics Gamora Groot Guardians of the Galaxy John C. Reilly Marvel Marvel Cinematic Universe Nebula Nova Corps Peter Quill Rocket Raccoon Ronan the Accuser Star Lord Thanos Thanos the Mad Titan Thor Vin Diesel Zoe Saldana Previous: The Acquirers: The Wizard Next: Veronica Mars: The movie – Our story is epic. Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined and blood shed. 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__label__wiki	0.561216	0.561216	Kilic B. Kanat Associate Professor, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend) Dive into the research topics where Kilic B. Kanat is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Turkey Social Sciences foreign policy Social Sciences cold war Social Sciences transatlantic relations Social Sciences Israel Social Sciences gulf war Social Sciences bilateral relations Social Sciences Israeli Social Sciences Shaping foreign policy debates in Turkey: The SETA foundation for political, economic, and social studies Ustun, K. & Kanat, K. B., Jul 22 2018, Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and the Emerging Powers. Springer International Publishing, p. 405-417 13 p. The manbij roadmap and the future of U.S.-Turkish relations Kanat, K. B. & Hannon, J., Jan 1 2018, In: Middle East Policy. 25, 3, p. 111-123 13 p. Transatlantic relations in the age of donald trump Kanat, K. B., Jun 1 2018, In: Insight Turkey. 20, 3, p. 77-88 12 p. security partnership economic relations Understanding the July 15th failed coup Kanat, K. B., Jan 1 2018, Turkey's July 15th Coup: What Happened and Why. Utah State University Press, An imprint of University Press of Colorado, p. 130-149 20 p. The search for an American foreign policy and US-Turkey relations in the Trump era Ustun, K. & Kanat, K. B., Jan 1 2017, In: Orient. 58, 2, p. 59-67 9 p. Middle East policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3503
__label__wiki	0.583223	0.583223	By BTL Staff\|2005-02-10T09:00:00-05:00February 10th, 2005\|Uncategorized\| Get connected! Non-profit organizations are encouraged to send listings of ongoing events to Community Connections via email at [email protected], fax at 248-615-7018 or postal mail: 20793 Farmington Rd., Ste. 25, Farmington, MI 48336. FORTY WORD MAXIMUM. BTL reserves the right to edit for space, grammar and suitability and to run Connections items as space permits. If yours is a for-profit or one-time event, list it with our calendar at https://www.pridesource.com. Be sure to include your contact information! Support Organizations throughout Michigan The Trevor Project Youth Hotline for LGBT and questioning youth. Frightened? Feeling alone? Free help is available. Call 1-866-488-7386. This number won’t show up on your parents’ phone bill. Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center 195 West Nine Mile, Ferndale, MI 48220 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.GoAffirmations.org Affirmations offers group support for youths, seniors, men, women, and health issues. Activities throughout the week; call, email or visit their web site for more information. Metro Detroit area. Blue Water Pride offers men’s, women’s and youth groups in Port Huron. Contact 810-364-1080 or [email protected]. Care of the Soul and Companions offers various faith-based groups for LGBTs at El Sombrero Restaurant, 801 Old 13 Mile Rd. in Warren. Visit http://www.careofthesoul.org for more information. Friends North provides social, educational and support activities and opportunities for the LGBT community in the greater Grand Traverse region and northwestern lower Michigan. Visit http://www.friendsnorth.org or call 231-946-1804. Gays In Faith Together sponsors various support programs for LGBTs in Grand Rapids. Visit Gays In Faith Together.org or call 616-774-0446. The HIV/AIDS Resource Center in Ypsilanti offers several support groups for people living with AIDS as well as testing, case management and other services. Call 734-572-9355 or visit http://www.r2harc.org. Kalamazoo Gay/Lesbian Resource Center offers groups for LGBT youths and adults. Call 888-377-7271, email [email protected] or visit http://www.kglrc.org. Lansing Association for Human Rights offers a variety of social and support activities; coming out group (beginning in April), gender non-conformists, bowling and more. Call the hotline at 517-332-3200 or visit http://lahronline.org. PFLAG – Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays – sponsors support and social groups throughout Michigan. Visit http://www.pflag.org or call Mike Neubecker 734-783-2950. Ruth Ellis Drop In Center serves LGBTQ youth 13-24, and those at risk of homelessness. Meals, support, HIV/AIDS testing, movies, daily programs. Mon. – Fri. 4 – 8:30 p.m.; Sat. 1 – 8:30 p.m. 16501 Woodward, just one block south of McNichols. Call 313-867-6936 or visit http://www.ruthelliscenter.com. Suburban Lesbians Of Michigan is the largest lesbian online community in Michigan. Meet new friends and network with other lesbians within the state. http://www.slomorg.com. TransGender Michigan offers a hotline, meetings, and online support for trans persons throughout the state. Call 517-420-1544, email [email protected] or visit http://www.transgendermichigan.org. Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP) 325 Braun Ct., Ann Arbor, MI 48107 http://www.wrap-up.org WRAP hosts a number of social & support groups, incl. Huron Valley Bears and Transgender Day of Remembrance. Open ArmsÊwelcomes all persons infected or affected by HIV/AIDS Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in Ferndale. Also a group for thoseÊ30 andÊunder on the last Wednesdays. Call Andrew at MAPP, 248-545-1435, or email [email protected]. WINGS offers an HIV/AIDS support group Tuesdays, 7 p.m. at the Community Pride Building, 429 Livernois in Ferndale. Call 248-544-3320. Office hours are Tuesday – Thursday Noon – 5 p.m.; high speed internet access available. Couples Connect Network is a friendly group for couples of all sexual orientations, sizes, genders, races, religions, economic and educational levels, cultures, and physical abilities. Our goal is to create a safe, welcoming environment for couples. Contact Latrice Jackson 248-544-6411 or [email protected]. Lambda Music Network All levels and instruments, including voice, are welcome. The Network’s purposes are to enable musicians to network and form ensembles, both small and large, and to have at least one benefit concert per year for one of the fine organizations in our LGBT community. Contact Brandy Sinco at 930-0646 or [email protected]. Gender non-conformists’ group meets Thursdays at 8 p.m. at Coral Gables in East Lansing. Call Rachel at 517-347-3681 or email [email protected] Downriver Rainbow LBGT group meets 1st Sundays; Grace Hall, 15650 Reeck Rd., Southgate, from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Ages 19-100. E-mail [email protected] Downriver Detroit Transgender Group meets Thursdays 7 – 9 p.m. Changing room & social time, 6-7 p.m. This is a social and support group. Kendra Leigh or Sharon L. Van Nest, 313-381-4528 or 313-363-5319 or [email protected]. Drop-in support group for survivors of sexual assault meets Mondays from 6:30-8 p.m. (except holidays); St. Luke Lutheran Church. Contact Domestic Violence Project/SAFE House, 734-973-0242; Amy, ext. 209. A free and confidential program; bus tokens and child care provided. Higher Ground is a holistic/spiritual support group for HIV/AIDS positive people. Meets Mondays in Royal Oak. Email [email protected] or call Rick at 586-427-1259. GILDA’s Club of Metro Detroit has a Gay and Lesbian networking group for anyone touched by cancer that meets 3rd Wednesdays from 6-8 p.m. at 3517 Rochester Rd. in Royal Oak. Call Chris at 248-577-0800 x24. CLUB 45 – Gay men age 45+ meet for conversation, networking and support Sundays at 5 p.m. at Angel’s Cafe in Ferndale. Contact Henry at 313-833-0863. Hermanos de Corazon (Brothers of the Heart) meets Thursdays at Menjo’s from 9-10 p.m. Hermanos de Corazon serves LGBTQ Latino men. Call Ben Sedillos at 313-967-4880 or e-mail [email protected]. Karibu House sponsors Co-Gender Rap Sessions for LGBTs of color, 1st Wednesdays from 6-8 p.m. at the Northwest Activity Center, 18100 Meyers at Curtis in Detroit. Call 313-865-2170 x 3. Riot Youth is a queer and queer-friendly youth led activist group focusing on discussion, education, support, and radical change in our community. Fridays 4-5:30 at the Neutral Zone, 637 N. Main, downtown Ann Arbor. At couches on first floor. Call Ben Farrell 734-277-4647. Downriver Area Youth Outreach (D.A.Y.O.) Youth Group for LGBT teens meets 1st Saturdays at Grace Episcopal Church in Southgate from 1-4 p.m. Call 734-783-2950. HARC provides free HIV/AIDS testing at the Washtenaw Rainbow Action Project (WRAP) offices, 325 Braun Court in Ann Arbor, on Mondays, 3-5 p.m. and Sundays, 9-11 p.m. Call 734-572-9355 or 866-HIV-TEST. Sports & Social The LimeLight is a monthly event dedicated to all the arts, hosted by PuppetArt. Events take place on the last Saturdays of every month. For more information on each month’s event, contact Darren at 313-590-8767 or [email protected]. Flint Women’s Rugby Club pre-season Thursday practices. Call 810-919-6883. Motown Frontrunners meets to run, slow jog or walk, followed by meals and conversation Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. Meets outside Pronto!, 608 Washington, Royal Oak. Call David at 248-542-3829. Ann Arbor Queer Aquatics hosts a non-competitive swim Sundays. All abilities welcome. At Mack Pool 10-11:30 a.m. Call 734-663-0036. Rainbow Pride; Flint’s GLBTA Bowling League weekly play at B’s Bowling Center, in Flint; 6:30 p.m. $12/bowler weekly. Call 810-743-7570. International Gay Bowling Organization Member League (IGBO) Big Three Coffee Social; LGBT employees of Ford, GM, DaimlerChrysler and their suppliers meet 1st Mondays; The Coffee Beanery, Ferndale; 248-642-7569; [email protected] or [email protected]. Ann Arbor Front Runners and Walkers; all abilities are welcome. Contact [email protected] or call either Rick at 734-741-1763 or Stephen at 734-483-2524. ONE voice chorus rehearses Tuesdays, 7-9 pm at Affirmations Sept.-May, all levels welcome. Todd at 734-480-4480 or Linda at 248-827-4196 The Out Loud Chorus rehearses at Ann Arbor’s Memorial Christian Church Mondays 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Call 734-973-6084 or visit http://www.aaoutloud.org. Faith Action Network is looking for about 20 volunteers that are interested in getting involved in the Second Annual Together in Faith Conference. For more information about getting email your contact information to [email protected] Include your professional skills. First Step program – The Western Wayne County Project on Domestic and Sexual Violence is looking for volunteers. A variety of opportunities are available. Call 734-416-1111. AIDS Partnership Michigan is looking for volunteers to assist with light reception duties and to answer calls made to the Michigan AIDS Hotline. If interested contact Chris Prince at 313-446-9800 or call 1-800-872-2437. LGBT-friendly Church/Spiritual Services That All May Freely Serve an LGBT fellowship group allied with the Presbyterian Church. Meets third Sundays, 5-8 p.m. at the Southfield Presbyterian Church. Informal worship, potluck, fellowship. Call 248-591- Divine Peace MCC offers services 10 a.m. Sundays and 7:30 p.m. Thursdays in Clarkston at 5311 Sunnyside. Dr. Rev. Deborah Dysert. Call 248-618-1186, email [email protected] or visit http://www.divinepeacemcc.org. Praise Fellowship Christian Church meets for contempory worship Sundays 10 a.m. at 27617 John R. Rd., Madison Heights. We offer small group studies, social activities, Holy Unions, pastoral conseling & other opportunities to get involved. Call 586-201-7884 or visit http://www.praisefcc.org. St. Mary’s Lesbian and Gay Outreach Ministry meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays 7-9 p.m. at St Mary’s Student Parish on Thompson St in Ann Arbor. Too many gay Catholics suffer unnecessary guilt. This affirming group provides a safe space for discussion, healing and prayer. Contact Mark Thiesmeyer at [email protected]. WHOSOEVER Ministry, 1411 East Jefferson Downtown Detroit YWCA is a Word Teaching, Life Application Ministry for WHOSOEVER. Pastor Rev. Dr. Selma Massey, all are welcome Sundays at 11:00 a.m. Northside Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor worships Sundays at 11 a.m. at 1679 Broadway St. Rev. Chuck Booker-Hirsch, Pastor. LGBTQ folks especially welcome! http://www.NorthsidePres.org or 734-663-5503. Dignity Detroit offers services Sundays at 6 p.m. in the chapel of Marygrove College in Detroit; http://www.dignitydetroit.org; 313-278-4786. EarthWalk Spiritual Community meets for worship second Sundays, 10:30 a.m. in Detroit. EarthWalk also offers workshops, sweatlodges and social events; http://www.earthwalk.org. Rev. Lorraine Weber. Full Truth Fellowship of Christ Church holds monthly information workshops 2nd Saturdays at 10 a.m. Worship Sundays at 11:30 a.m. Full Truth Fellowship of Christ is located at 4458 Joy Rd., Detroit. Call 313-896-0233. Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit holds services Sundays at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the Drayton Ave. Presbyterian Church’s chapel, 2441 Pinecrest, Ferndale. 248-399-7741. Tree of Life MCC has moved to the WRAP office for Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m. We are a queer church. Call 734-449-4189, email [email protected] or visit http://www.geocities.com/tol-mcc. Sunday Church services at 2:30 p.m. at Unity Fellowship Church Detroit, 20846 Reimanville Avenue in Ferndale. Rev. Darren McCarroll, Pastor, [email protected]. All are welcome. Send wedding, birth, and other announcements to Dawn Wolfe at [email protected]. Pictures are welcome as .jpg files. Forty word limit; BTL reserves the right to edit for space, grammar, and suitability. Be sure to include your contact BELLASOL QUEENSOL Biden to Sign Day One Executive Order Implementing Supreme Court Ruling for LGBTQ Rights	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3515
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Test cricket is the form of the sport of cricket with the longest match duration, and is considered the game's highest standard. Test matches are played between national representative teams that have been granted Test status, as determined and conferred by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The term Test stems from the fact that the long, gruelling matches are mentally and physically. Viele übersetzte Beispielsätze mit "match test" – Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch und Suchmaschine für Millionen von Deutsch-Übersetzungen. Als Test Match bezeichnet man im englischen Sprachraum die Spiele von Auswahlmannschaften in den Sportarten Cricket, Rugby League und Rugby Union. Test Cricket wird in Spielen (Test Matches) ausgetragen, die heute stets auf fünf Tage Dauer, früher oft mit einem Ruhetag. Many translated example sentences containing "match Test" – English-German dictionary and search engine for English translations. December 07, Phrases Speak like a native Useful phrases translated Schenefelder Einkaufszentrum öffnungszeiten English into 28 languages. Es werden daher zwei Innings je Mannschaft ohne Overbegrenzung gespielt. In the following scenarios, the team that bats first is referred to as Team A and their opponents as Team B. History of cricket. The first match was won by Australia, by 45 runs and the second by England. You can share it with your friends :. The term Test stems Diamantenspiel the fact that the long, gruelling matches are mentally and physically testing. Cricket portal. Log In. Two rival English tours of Australia were proposed in the early months ofwith James Lillywhite campaigning for a professional tour and Fred Grace for an amateur one. Indoor cricket Indoor cricket UK variant. If the whole of the first day's play of a Test match has been lost because of bad weather or other reasons like bad light, then Team A may enforce the follow on if Team B's first innings total is or more fewer than Team A's. Gleichzeitig Match Test das historische Argument bemГht, Gewonnene Zahl In Der Lotterie Wilhelm 440 Henslmann 268 Hentzschel. - Testen Sie Ihren Wortschatz mit unseren lustigen Bild-Quiz. Sehen Sie alle Beispiele von test match. Get advice based on the 40 answers to this lovetest. It also calculates the compatibility between you and your sweetheart using numerology based on the names that were entered. The Love Test also provides astrological compatibility information about the selected zodiac signs. Now gives you the meaning of your name as well!. To test your astrological compatibility with your partner, you can get your natal charts; ‘Kundlis’ and ‘Gunas’; compared. 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Ordinarily four innings are played in a Test match, and each team bats twice and bowls twice. Before the start of play on the first day, the two team captains and the match referee toss a coin ; the captain who wins the toss decides whether his team will bat or bowl first. In the following scenarios, the team that bats first is referred to as Team A and their opponents as Team B. Usually the teams will alternate at the completion of each innings. The winning team is the one that scores more runs in their two innings. A team's innings ends in one of the following ways: [30]. If, at the completion of Team B's first innings, Team A leads by at least runs, the captain of Team A may but is not required to order Team B to have their second innings next. This is called enforcing the follow on. It is rare for a team forced to follow on to win the match. In Test cricket it has only happened three times, although over follow-ons have been enforced: Australia was the losing team on each occasion, twice to England, in and in , and once to India in If the whole of the first day's play of a Test match has been lost because of bad weather or other reasons like bad light, then Team A may enforce the follow on if Team B's first innings total is or more fewer than Team A's. During the 2nd Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley in , England batted first after the first day was lost because of rain. This is similar to four-day first-class cricket, where the follow on can be enforced if the difference is runs or fewer. If the Test is 2 days or fewer then the "follow-on" value is runs. After 80 overs, the captain of the bowling side may take a new ball , although this is not required. The roughened, softer surface of an old ball can be more conducive to spin bowlers, or those using reverse swing. The captain may delay the decision to take the new ball if he wishes to continue with his spinners because the pitch favours spin. After a new ball has been taken, should an innings last a further 80 overs, then the captain will have the option to take another new ball. A Test match will produce a result by means of one of six scenarios:. Test cricket is almost always played as a series of matches between two countries, with all matches in the series taking place in the same country the host. Often there is a perpetual trophy that is awarded to the winner, the most famous of which is the Ashes contested between England and Australia. There have been two exceptions to the bilateral nature of Test cricket: the Triangular Tournament , a three-way competition between England, Australia and South Africa hosted by England , and the Asian Test Championship , an event held in —99 and — The number of matches in Test series has varied from one to seven. With the entry of more countries into Test cricket, and a wish by the ICC to maintain public interest in Tests in the face of the popularity of one-day cricket , a rotation system was introduced that sees all ten Test teams playing each other over a six-year cycle, and an official ranking system with a trophy held by the highest-ranked team. In this system, umpires are provided by the ICC. An elite panel of eleven umpires was maintained since , and the panel is supplemented by an additional International Panel that includes three umpires named by each Test-playing country. The elite umpires officiate almost all Test matches, though usually not Tests involving their home country. Several pairs of Test teams have established perpetual trophies which are competed for whenever teams play each other in Test series. There has been no World Cup for Test cricket conducted thus far. However, a league competition for Test cricket began in — The schedule for this Championship is a set of typical bilateral series in various countries, where one team is the host and other team is the visitor. The length of each series varies between 2 matches and 5 matches. Ireland, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan are not competing in this competition, but instead play a program of Test matches against competing teams, and each other, during the period of the Championship. There is a common perception that Test cricket may be losing popularity, particularly in the face of the advent of short form cricket. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The longest form of cricket. This article is about the format for men's international cricket. For the women's format, see Women's Test cricket. Forms of cricket. History of cricket. History of cricket to History of cricket — Main articles: History of cricket , History of Test cricket from to , History of Test cricket from to , and History of Test cricket from to See also: Playing time cricket. Main page: Category:International cricket tours. Cricket portal. Retrieved 21 December Dictionary of Cricket. Download as PDF Printable version. Disambiguation page providing links to topics that could be referred to by the same search term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Test match. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Are you two peas in a pod? Or anything but? It's time to put it to the test with these easy questions! Just be as honest as you can be. This test is not based on any scientific study whatsoever. It is intended for fun only so do not treat the result too seriously :. Do not think about the answers too long. 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__label__wiki	0.561539	0.561539	RachFeed Sleeping Too Much Can Be Bad for the Brain, World’s Largest Sleep Study Reveals We all know that too little sleep is bad for the brain. That’s why it really is good to follow the doctor-recommended sleeping average of 7 to 8 hours a day. But did you know that sleeping too much can also be bad for the brain? Whoa. The world’s largest sleep study recently released its preliminary results, showing that people who sleep 7 to 8 hours a day perform better than those who sleep too little or too much. On science journal, Sleep, neuroscientists from Western University’s Brain and Mind Institute released their findings from what they dub as the world’s largest sleep study, having started the program in July 2017 involving over 40,000 people across the world. In the online scientific investigation, the neuroscientists studied the effect of sleep with the cognitive performance of each test subject. “We really wanted to capture the sleeping habits of people around the entire globe. Obviously, there have been many smaller sleep studies of people in laboratories but we wanted to find out what sleep is like in the real world. People who logged in gave us a lot of information about themselves. We had a fairly extensive questionnaire and they told us things like which medications they were on, how old they were, where they were in the world and what kind of education they’d received because these are all factors that might have contributed to some of the results,” explained Adrian Owen, Western’s superstar researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging. Based on their study, the researchers were surprised to discover that those who regularly had less than 4 hours of sleep a day performed in the tests as if they were around 9 years old. But those who slept too much also had similar results. “We found that the optimum amount of sleep to keep your brain performing its best is 7 to 8 hours every night and that corresponds to what the doctors will tell you need to keep your body in tip-top shape, as well. We also found that people that slept more than that amount were equally impaired as those who slept too little,” said lead author Conor Wild, Owen Lab Research Associate. The study also discovered that the amount of sleep had the same effect on all adults, no matter what age. Regardless of age, the study subjects performed best when they had 7 to 8 hours of sleep but performed badly with very little or too much sleep. “Participants’ reasoning and verbal abilities were two of the actions most strongly affected by sleep while short-term memory performance was relatively unaffected. This is different than findings in most scientific studies of complete sleep deprivation and suggests that not getting enough sleep for an extended period affects your brain differently than staying up all night,” the researchers concluded. What are Neuroscientists? A neuroscientist is someone who studies the nervous system. This multidisciplinary branch of biology combines different fields of study, including molecular biology, developmental biology, physiology, anatomy, mathematical modeling, cytology, and psychology to understand the fundamental and emergent properties of neurons and neural circuits Related Topics: sleep studysleep study surprising resultssleeping too muchtoo much sleep is bad for the brain What can you Say? General55 mins ago The Most Poisonous Pests Found in Chicago Lifestyle5 hours ago Xian Gaza Offers Car to Yukii Takahashi, Asks Nothing but Friendship in Return Dad Goes Viral after Appealing for ‘En Pointe’ Prosthetic for Ballerina Daughter Lifestyle4 days ago How to Unstick Your Superglued Fingers Using Salt Beautiful Mom Goes Viral for Reaction after Son Passed Bar Exams Lifestyle3 weeks ago UK Company Sells Bottled ‘Fresh Air’ in 500-ml Bottles, Items Actually Got Sold Out Cat Eats Student’s Graduation Certification, Netizens Share Similar Photos Dad Goes Viral after Allowing Daughters to Put Makeup on His Face Netizens Slam Donors for Giving Rotten Leftover Foods to School Guy Finds Empty PS5 Box, Actually Gets $30 After Selling It as Prank Because They Met Online, Parents Name All Their Kids with ‘Dot Com’ Food1 week ago Adorable 2-Year-Old’s Online Baking Show Goes Viral TikTokers Go Viral after Eating Ice from Supermarket Freezer Copyright © 2018 RachFeed \| Powered by Business News Philippines	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3520
__label__wiki	0.666664	0.666664	WEXPN2 - Focusing on a Moment A few days ago we were in line to go inside from recess. Then a teacher came over and asked someone in line if the can hold the ball. Then Ryan shouted out and said " Oh yeah, we call him butterfingers."! Then me and Stephen just started cracking up. With are faces red, we couldn't even take a breath. Then the teacher gave Ryan a " Hey quit it look." and said that he was dribbling the the ball on purpose. Then Ryan just said in quit voice but we could still here " Okay, um, dribble fingers?". Then me and Stephen literally blew up with laughter. Then me Stephen and Ryan walked in With are faces as red as a tomato. Once we walked into the building I just repeated in Ryan's ear " Dribble fingers!?" in a confused and humorist voice. Then for the rest of the time down the hall way we kept on talking about it and how funny it was. WEXPN1 - Acting in Focus Theater Brainstorm T-Chart What I Did on the Weekend Played last soccer game had friends over for lunch ate steak and hamburgers ate breakfast played soccer in backyard looked at are house being built had nachos played with friends played soccer in backyard. played goalie made awesome saves shot very powerful shots played a fun game called goalie wars penalty kick shoot out. lost penalty kick shoot out because of ball that flicked over my back from a weird bounce. 1. Which team were you a member of? 2. How did you feel at the beginning of the game? 3. Who did you think would win the game at first (RED or BLUE)? Why? 4. How did you feel as the rules changed? Did you get discouraged or more confident? Why? 5. What were the reasons why the BLUE team won? 6. Historically speaking, what happened once America won the Revolutionary War? What changed in America? Why was it important that America won the war? 7. What would have been different if America had lost the war? I was part of the Red team That we might have a chance at winning because we had the big people on are team. Red because we had bigger people and more strength. But the blue team had smaller people but lots more. I got a little discouraged because they had double the people that we did. They had like 3 times the people and had Mr. Solarz They one because they had more people and wanted to win more. They also got more people, we did to but they got them quicker. America broke free from England and had there own country. They didn't have a government set up yet though so they had trouble getting started at the beginning. America would still be part of Great Britain and would have colonies and not states because we would be owned by England. We would not have the government that we have set up today. What this summarizes is that Britain had the big people but didn't want to win that much, the colonists really wanted to be free from Britain so they tried harder and had more people fighting for there freedom, Britain's reinforcements took longer to come because they had to travel all the way across the ocean, but the colonists had them all ready. At the end the colonists won because they wanted there freedom and had more people. Schoolwide Nonfiction Reading - Lesson 6 Topic: A Hawks harsh life that he survives. Type of nonfiction: Literary Point of view: 3rd Person. Information the author really wants us to know . The Hawk could not get the arrow out of his leg. . That it is a true survival story. . Hawk was very unlucky and was getting hurt a lot. . People helped Hawk and then hawk was able to get the arrow out and be free. So what's the point? Summarize - What message does the author really want us to take away from the text, or what was the author's purpose in writing this text? I think the main purpose was to not stop trying and even if things seem horrible and your going to die, help will come at some point but only if you don't give up. Readers of nonfiction determine the writer's purpose for writing a text. We will consider how identifying an author's purpose helps them learn about a topic. Stop and Jots: Hawk seems to be very unlucky because he keeps getting hurt. hawk is having a very hard time in his life and its not getting any better. Hawk can't stop because he has to still eat. I wonder where Hawk is being taken. I wonder this because he is inside a box. Is someone taken somewhere safe? Are people going to help him get the arrow out of his leg. People cared about the Hawk. They trained him so maybe he can get free instead of just maybe killing it. This helps hawk because he has been struggling for a while and just wants to be free. Using Context Clues and Background Knowledge to figure out unfamiliar words Good readers combine information from the book and what they already know to figure out new words that they read. Do your best during today's reading to figure out what new words mean to you using these two sources of knowledge. Asking Questions While Reading Nonfiction Readers of nonfiction ask themselves questions before, during, and after reading. We do this to activate prior knowledge, build understanding, and monitor comprehension. Before Reading .How does the title help me know what this text is going to be about? - I wonder what Henry's freedom box mean? What do I know about this topic or subject? - I think it is about slavery because the subtitle says its about the underground railroad. What questions do I have? - What is Henry's freedom box and how might it help him in any reason. What type of nonfiction is this? How does that help me prepare for this read? -Historical Non-Fiction but I don't know yet until I read it. Is there a particular way that the text is structured? - It is structured as a story During Reading What do I understand? - I think I understand why Henry is very still because he thinks his children might be sold? What is unclear? What new questions do I have? -Will Henry ever see his family again. Will the rest of his family be freed? -Why can't slaves sing? - What is oil of Vitriol? After Reading What have I learned? More then 100,000 slaves escaped Henry Brown was a real person What are the important ideas that stuck with me? Slaves were not allowed to know there birthdays. Slaves not allowed to sing in public What new or lingering questions do I have? -I wonder how many under slaves mailed themselves to a free area John Hancock's Museum Letter Dear George Washington, Hello George, its John Hancock and I am a patriot and believe that America should be a free country. I was the president of the second continental congress and served two years in it. I wanted a free country so I decided to be a patriot. I was a patriot because I knew that everyone should be equal and nobody should be able to control others unless by vote or if that person is able to lead appropriately. I thought this because Britain is taking over the country that was made for freedom. I got my bachelor's degree from Harvard college. I was very proud of when I got this. I received this in 1754. after I finished College and got my bachelor’s degree at Harvard, My uncle became very rich by trading with Britain and I also went to work with my uncle for a few years. In 1768 the British seized my ship and said what I was doing was Illegal. Other patriots rioted about what had happened later. I wanted to lead the war like you did but you got chosen. I did lead an army of 5,000 to free Rhode Island from the British but I failed. I served nine terms as Governor of Massachusetts. I used my money to support American Independence. The British thought that I was a dangerous man and they feared me. That is what is about me and I hope you like my beliefs. The Declaration of Independence was the document I signed with my big signature. I really liked this because I put my life at risk when I wrote this. The patriots wanted freedom from Britain. But the British wouldn't let them and King George didn't want them to have freedom. So the patriots fight with different things like the Boston Tea Party, Protests, etc. Then Britain finally lets go after the U.S wins the war and has written and signed the Declaration of Independence.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3523
__label__wiki	0.564917	0.564917	SolarWinds fallout: DOJ says hackers accessed its Microsoft O365 email server NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 11: A US Department of Justice seal is displayed on a podium during a news conference. (Photo by Ramin Talaie/Getty Images) Ramin Talaie, Getty Images The US Department of Justice confirmed today that the hackers behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack targeted its IT systems, where they escalated access from the trojanized SolarWinds Orion app to move across its internal network and access the email accounts of some of its employees. “At this point, the number of potentially accessed O365 mailboxes appears limited to around 3-percent and we have no indication that any classified systems were impacted,” DOJ spokesperson Marc Raimondi said in a short press release published earlier today. With DOJ employee numbers estimated at around 100,000 to 115,000, the number of impacted DOJ employees is currently believed to be around 3,000 to 3,450. The DOJ said it has now blocked the attacker’s point of entry. The DOJ now joins a long list of companies and government agencies that publicly admitted to having been impacted in the SolarWinds hack. Previous victims include the likes of: The US Treasury Department The US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) The Department of Health’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) The US Department of State The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) The US Department of Energy (DOE) Three US state governments Many hundreds more, such as Cisco, Intel, VMWare, and others. SolarWinds hack part of a Russian intelligence-gathering effort The SolarWinds supply chain attack came to light on December 14 when Microsoft and FireEye confirmed that hackers gained access to the internal network of IT software company SolarWinds where they inserted malware inside multiple update packages for the Orion software inventory and IT monitoring platform. Around 18,000 private companies and government organizations downloaded these trojanized Orion updates and were infected with a version of the Sunburst (Solorigate) backdoor trojan. However, in a subsequent analysis published since the original attack, security firms and US cyber-security agencies investigating the hack said that hackers escalated the attack only on a few of the infected companies. This escalation relied on deploying a second-phase malware strain named Teardrop, taking control of the local network, and then pivoting to gain access to the victim company’s cloud and email infrastructure, with the purpose of gathering intelligence on the target’s recent activities. In a joint statement published yesterday, the FBI, CISA, ODNI, and the NSA attributed the SolarWinds supply chain attack to an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor, likely Russian in origin.” The four agencies described the entire SolarWinds operation as “an intelligence gathering effort,” rather than an operation looking to destroy or cause mayhem among US IT infrastructure. SolarWinds Updates Previous ArticleUS government formally blames Russia for SolarWinds hackNext ArticleHack-Tools v0.3.0 – The All-In-One Red Team Extension For Web Pentester	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3528
__label__wiki	0.599987	0.599987	Uncle Giuseppe’s Set to Grow in 2021 By Bridget Goldschmidt - 07/01/2020 Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace plans to open two new stores, one in New Jersey and one in New York, next year. Independent grocer Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace will open a more than 42,000-square-foot store within the Briarcliff Commons shopping center in Morris Plains, New Jersey, next year, marking the upscale food retailer’s second store in the Garden State. The new store comes in the wake of the success of its first New Jersey store, in Ramsey, which opened in 2016. Expected to open by the fall of 2021, the new store will feature the grocer’s signature gourmet offerings, among them a full-service deli, specialty butcher and scratch-made bakery, as well as its well-known viewing rooms where pasta and mozzarella are made fresh daily, and also include a full grocery, dairy and frozen food selection in what Uncle Giuseppe’s called “a convenient location with ample parking.” For added convenience, the store will offer home delivery and curbside pickup for everyday grocery essentials. “We are thrilled to be opening our second New Jersey location in prestigious Briarcliff Commons,” said Philip DelPrete, co-founder and president of Uncle Giuseppe’s. “This property puts us at a premier location in Morris Plains, where we will be able to introduce the community to our unique gourmet offerings and shopping experience.” The shopping center is currently home to First Watch, Chick-fil-A and Skechers, with Chopt Creative Salad Co. expected to join the tenant list in the summer of 2021. “Briarcliff Commons is already the most visited shopping center in its market for every day needs, and we expect the addition of Uncle Giuseppe’s will increase visits further while introducing a one-of-a-kind, specialty grocery experience unmatched in this market,” noted Chris Weilminster, EVP and COO of developer Urban Edge Properties, which has offices in New York and Paramus, New Jersey. “We are very pleased that our recent investment to renovate and redevelop this property, including the new retail lineup, has enhanced the offering for the community. It’s a win-win, and we look forward to welcoming Uncle Giuseppe’s.” The grocer also plans to open a North Babylon, New York, store in the spring or summer of 2021. Farmingdale, New York-based Uncle Giuseppe’s now operates eight stores, seven in New York and one in New Jersey. The grocer was named an Outstanding Independent by Progressive Grocer in the produce category in 2020 and in the meat/seafood category in 2019. 2020 Outstanding Independents, Produce: Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace This Farmingdale, N.Y., independent grocer focuses on the best fresh produce and meats 2019 Outstanding Independents, Meat/Seafood: Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace, Farmingdale NY Grocer finds success with old-fashioned methods Uncle Giuseppe's to Bow Biggest Store this Week Debuting Wednesday in the Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.’s Port Plaza shopping center, which recently underwent a multimillion-dollar makeover “to create a more community-focused retail destination,” according to developer Edens & Avant, is the newest store in the Long Island-based Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace chain. Uncle Giuseppe’s Opening 5th Location Italian-inspired markets offer handmade delights Independent Grocers Outstanding Independents 2020 Outstanding Independents: Faster, Fresher and More Localized These 21 Independent Grocers Don't Let Size Hold Them Back HelloFresh Boosts Distribution	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0039.json.gz/line3530
__label__wiki	0.601889	0.601889	Project DeX Where are your hammers for these nails? What Good Is A Minion’s Resistance If He Still Supports His Master’s Agenda? Posted on September 10, 2018 September 6, 2019 by Project DeX If anyone isn’t familiar with these words by now, the rock they’re living under needs a serious renovation: “The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making. Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright. In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic. Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more. But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.” “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” \| The New York Times \| Anonymous \| 09/05/2018 Because this is such an unprecedented moment in Presidential history, I have several comments: 1) No one of note (not even Sarah Huckabee Sanders) has said this op-ed is fake. Only an idiot thinks The New York Times would risk its reputation on producing a fake. That itself is as earth-shattering as the op-ed. 2) Which senior official wrote this op-ed is less important than the possibility that any senior official inside this administration could have written it. (I’ve speculated Dan Coates or Nikki Haley, but I also think John Huntsman could’ve penned it.) Meanwhile, Cabinet Secretaries lining up to say “I didn’t do it” like antsy first-graders adds yet another layer of paranoia and absurdity to the absurd paranoia that surely defines Trump’s White House. 3) So much of this feels…Nixony. There’s a very good Slate podcast called Slow Burn. Its first season is about Watergate. The parallels between Nixon and Trump are chilling. However, equally startling are the similarities between Nixon and Trump supporters. Listening to recordings of Nixonistas expressing why they supported that paranoid crook are as eerie as they are similar to what Trumpistas love about their dear leader. This reminds me of a study that “finds a correlation between white Americans’ intolerance, and support for authoritarian rule. In other words, when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.” 4) Senator Rand Paul advised the White House to use lie detectors on White House staffers with a security clearance. And he’s done this before! It’s a joke to think of him as a real civil libertarian. 5) My favorite line from a Washington Post story: “Aides were analyzing language patterns to try to discern the author’s identity or at a minimum the part of the administration where the author works.” Truly ludicrous. 6) In the wake of Times anonymous op-ed, the Jared and Ivanka vs. John Kelly war has flared up again: “With Trump so far unable to execute a strategy to stanch the drip-drip-drip of damaging disclosures, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have taken the lead in getting control of the crisis. (The Washington Post reported that Trump said the only people he could trust were his family.) Earlier this week, they told Trump they were deeply troubled by the accounts in Woodward’s book and blamed Chief of Staff John Kelly for many of the leaks, an outside adviser close to them told me. “‘He’s destroying your presidency,’” Ivanka told her father, the outside adviser, who was briefed on the conversation, said. Their hunt for the author of the Times op-ed may bring them into the final chapter of their long-running feud with Kelly.” “”He’s Destroying Your Presidency”: In The Po-Ed Aftermath, Javanka Quickly Blamed John Kelly And His Deputy A New Suspect Emerges” \| Vanity Fair \| Gabriel Sherman \| 09/07/2018 Much of the static between Kelly and Javanka has its origin in Kelly’s early days as Chief Of Staff, when he tried (and failed, it seems) to reign in access to the President and make all communication flow through him as all modern chiefs of staff have done. 7) In the face of what may be the beginning of an existential crisis for this administration, thus far no elected or appointed official has jumped ship from the Trump agenda. To quote John Heileman recently on Nicole Wallace’s MSNBC show, they are “Craven, weak-willed enablers.” One has to wonder 8) Yet again, President Trump told another lie responding to an article about how he lies so much. “Our poll numbers are great, and guess what? Nobody’s going to come even close to beating me in 2020,” he said, though his poll numbers are awful on just about any measure: “In fact, Trump’s numbers are dropping to near the lowest point of his presidency. In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, Trump’s approval rating is at 36 percent, and a majority of respondents strongly disapprove of his performance. An IBD/TIPP poll also puts the president at 36 percent, while the Economist shows him at 38 percent. Some others have him above 40 percent (Gallup’s latest is 41 percent), but not by much. This isn’t a dramatic swing, but it is an identifiable downturn, especially since Trump’s approval ratings have been so stable over the course of his presidency. And if there was ever a moment when a small change could make a big difference, this is it.” “Trump’s Dipping Approval Is Putting Republicans In Dangerous Territory” \| The Washington Post \| Paul Waldman \| 09/06/2018 9) Lost in the sauce is just how much this anonymous senior official agrees with Trump’s agenda, including “effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military,” in an age of stagnant wages, the costs of healthcare, education, and housing spiraling out of control, and perpetual war. The only thing worse than a mad king, are the sane courtiers who continue to support him. This is the sense in which a quiet resistance is no resistance at all. @Project Dex IMAGE SOURCE: Dementia Warning Trump Donald (Creative Commons) Tagged Anonymous, Authoritarian, deregulation, Donald Trump, John Heileman, Lodestar, Military, MSNBC, NIcole Wallace, Nixon, Rand Paul, Republican Tax Cut, Republicans, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Slow Burn, The New York Times, The Resistance, Watergate Published by Project DeX Edgy political, cultural, ideological analysis and commentary from a post-liberal perspective. View all posts by Project DeX Previous Post Billy Wagner Belongs In Baseball’s Hall Of Fame (And So Does Mike Mussina) Next Post The Road From Enron To The Financial Crisis Get ProjectDex In Your Inbox! 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