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__label__wiki	0.516861	0.516861	The Lost Crews of 95 Squadron Coastal Command West Africa Lost Crew of L5805 B/95 - 11 June 1942 Detailed to escort a ship to Freetown, Sierra Leone went missing. Lost Crew of DV975 H/95 - 28 November 1942 Crashed in the river BUNCE off JUI after a D/F exercise with a H.S.L. Lost Crew of W6063 N/95 - 29 March 1943 Searching for survivors of SS Celtic Star, flew too low and hit a large wave, crashed into the sea Lost Crew of JM6775 S/95 - 28 May 1943 Floating Refueller next to aircraft caught fire Lost Crew of DV973 P/95 - 13 April 1944 Escort to convoy S.L. 155 - aircraft crashed on landing Lost Crew of DW105 T/95 - 5 January 1944 Starboard engine caught fire filling the aircraft with smoke - exploded and crashed in the water In 1944, following the North African landings the allies swept the Germans out of West Africa. No 95 Squadron, who had been based further down the West Coast of Africa in Bathurst (now Banjul), had also set up an Ops base in Port-Etienne (now Nouidhibou) Mauritania (approx. 1100km from Bathurst), in a joint effort with the free French to launch attacks on the U boats and to escort troopships and convoys. Founded by the French in 1905 and named after one of their colonial officials, Eugene Etienne (1844-1921), Port-Etienne, or Nouadhibou as it is now called, stretches along a thin peninsula running out from and parallel to the mainland in a southerly direction, of which the western side is part of The Sahara. Desert. The airmen based there referred to it as "Rag City", due to the amount of Bedouin tented encampments. It was from the harbour here, that the Sunderlands continued their Atlantic U-boat patrol sorties and escorts to the ship convoys. (Centre below, 2 ground crew are rolling depth charges along the bridge for loading). WW2 Port-Etienne Ops Base - Port-Etienne Cabo-Blanco - WW2 Port-Etienne 967558 Sergean tC.L. Hadwell	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line0
__label__cc	0.514338	0.485662	Search Back On For Plane Crash Survivors In Denali NP (Update) August6, 2018 August6, 2018 by chrisco2 Crews were hoping to resume the search for the crashed plane and survivors in Denali National Park at 7 a.m. https://t.co/P04oaPjwV4 pic.twitter.com/3HQvqGgRwQ — Anchorage Daily News (@adndotcom) August 6, 2018 As of Monday morning, search-and-rescue teams are back in Denali National Park hoping to find survivors of a crash of a sightseeing plane on Saturday. Here’s more from the Anchorage Daily News: The crashed plane is a de Havilland Beaver operated by K2 Aviation out of Talkeetna. It’s believed to have crashed around 6 p.m. Saturday at about a 10,500-foot elevation at a location known unofficially as “Thunder Mountain.” Two HH-60 rescue helicopters operated by the Alaska Air National Guard launched shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday were unable to spot the crash site, she said. “The helicopters were not able to make any kind of visual contact or get close to the area,” Belcher said. “They’ll try again at 7 a.m, depending on the weather. There’s supposed to be a small window of opportunity to get closer and hopefully lay eyes on the crash.” The crash occurred near the 10,920-foot summit, Belcher said. Update: The Daily News says the plane carried the pilot and four tourists from Poland. Categories Featured Content Tags featured content Leave a comment Post navigation Sockeye Limits Increased On Kasilof River Women’s Silver Derby Adds To Busy Valdez Summer Free News Letter	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line12
__label__cc	0.669724	0.330276	Home2013Wednesday Night Xtreme 02-13-13 Mark:We Are live in Grand Rapids, Michigan… This is Wednesday Night Xtreme… Rhino:We are on the Road to the Extreme Bowl… Mark:Yes we are and we will see the EWA World Heavyweight Champion in action tonight as Big Daddy Ace takes on Calvin Lumas… Rhino:The Road to the Extreme Bowl is on and that only means one person… Lone Jobber… Mark:Lone Jobber is in action tonight as well against Troy Joseph… Rhino:That should be an interesting encounter… Mark:Plus what will Omega’s answer be to Triple H’s challenge? We will find out more tonight… As we get started with our opening contest here at Wednesday Night Xtreme… $tewie Franchize vs Kronik Pa Announcer:Tonights Opening Contest is set for one fall… Introducing first…From Manhattan, New York… Weighing in at 242 Pounds… $TEWIE FRANCHIZE! (“Power” plays as $tewie Franchize enters the arena…) Pa Announcer:His opponent..From Springfield, Ma… Weighing in at 210 Pounds… KRONIK! (“Pushin’ Limits” plays as Kronik enters the arena…) Mark:Both men lock up in the center of the ring… $tewie Franchize backs Kronik up in to the corner and nails him with chops right across the chest… Rhino:He is lighting up his chest… Mark:$tewie Franchize whips Kronik in to the farside corner… Rhino:Here comes $tewie Franchize… Mark:$tewie Franchize charges in… Kronik gets his boots up… $tewie Franchize is staggering around and Kronik comes out of the corner and takes him off of his feet with a running head scissors… Rhino:$tewie Franchize gets back up on to his feet… Mark:Kronik now connects with a Dropkick! As he goes right for the cover 1………….2…………Kickout by $tewie Franchize… Rhino:Kronik now pulls $tewie Franchize back up on to his feet… Mark:Kronik hooks up $tewie Franchize and nails him with a Brainbuster! Rhino:He dropped him right on his head… Mark:Kronik goes for the cover once again 1……………2…………Kickout again by $tewie Franchize… Rhino:$tewie Franchize is getting back up on to his feet slowly… Mark:Kronik backs $tewie Franchize up in to the corner… Kronik hooks up $tewie Franchize… Tornado DDT! Rhino:He caught him good with that DDT… Mark:Kronik covers $tewie Franchize 1………………..2…………….Kickout once again by $tewie Franchize… Rhino:Right now Kronik is impressing here so far in his EWA Debut… Mark:$tewie Franchize is up on his feet and Kronik nails him with a Swinging Neckbreaker! Rhino:Kronik is now heading up on to the top rope… Mark:Shooting Star Press! No! Rhino:$tewie Franchize was able to get his knees up… Mark:Kronik is spinning around dazed… $tewie Franchize hooks him up… Northern Lights Suplex! With a Bridge! 1……………….2……………Kickout by Kronik… Rhino:Kronik is now getting back up on to his feet… Mark:$tewie Franchize hooks him up… T-Bone Suplex! Rhino:Nice suplex right there… Mark:$tewie Franchize covers Kronik again 1………………2………………Kickout once again by Kronik… Rhino:Things turn in an instant and it has for Kronik right now… Mark:$tewie Franchize gets Kronik up on to the top rope… Muscle Buster! Rhino:Kronik is in trouble… Mark:$tewie Franchize covers Kronik 1……………..2…………3…..No! Rhino:Kronik was able to get his shoulder up at the last second right there… Mark:$tewie Franchize is now waiting for him to get back up on to his feet… Rhino:Kronik is hurting… Mark:$tewie Franchize hooks up Kronik… EXECUTIVE ACTION! Rhino:$tewie Franchize could have Kronik right now… Mark:$tewie Franchize covers Kronik 1………………2…………….3……….NO! Rhino:Kronik was able to get his shoulder up… Mark:$tewie Franchize is now looking to put Kronik away… Rhino:Kronik is learning the hard way what its like to be in the EWA… Mark:$tewie Franchize picks up Kronik… SMALL PACKAGE! 1………………….2……………3…………NO! Rhino:$tewie Franchize was able to kick out… Mark:Very close nearfall… Rhino:$tewie Franchize is getting back up on to his feet… Mark:$tewie Franchize charges at Kronik… Kronik ducks the clothesline… Kronik spins $tewie Franchize around… REVERSE TWIST OF FATE! Rhino:$tewie Franchize could be in trouble right here… Mark:Kronik hooks the leg 1…………………2……………3………..NO! Rhino:So very close right there… Mark:Kronik is now waiting for $tewie Franchize to get back up on to his feet… Rhino:$tewie Franchize is staggering to his feet… Mark:KRONIK KICK! NO! Rhino:$tewie Franchize ducked the kick… Mark:$tewie Franchize with a kick to the midsection… HOSTILE TAKEOVER! Mark:$tewie Franchize covers Kronik 1……………….2…………….3……….. ITS OVER! Pa Announcer:Here is your winner $TEWIE FRANCHIZE! Rhino:$tewie Franchize picks up the victory here tonight over the debuting Kronik… Mark:Still to come tonight we will see the EWA World Heavyweight Champion Big Daddy Ace in action… As we now get back to the ring for more action… PyroManiAxe vs Demon Child Pa Announcer:This next contest is set for one fall… Introducing first…From Lotus Pod… Weighing in at 245 Pounds… PYROMANIAXE! (“Assassins” plays as PyroManiAxe enters the arena…) Pa Announcer:His opponent…From Parts Unknown… Weighing in at 269 Pounds… DEMON CHILD! (“Remember The Name” plays as Demon Child enters the arena…) Mark:Demon Child strikes PyroManiAxe with right hands to start this match up off… Demon Child whips PyroManiAxe off in to the ropes… Back Body Drop! Rhino:PyroManiAxe is staggering back up on to his feet… Mark:Demon Child charges at him and nails him with a running clothesline… Demon Child goes for a quick cover 1…………..2………..Kickout by PyroManiAxe… Rhino:PyroManiAxe is once again getting back up on to his feet… Mark:Demon Child kicks him in the midsection… Piledriver! No! Back Body Drop! And it sends Demon Child over the top rope… Rhino:Demon Child hit the floor hard on the outside of the ring… Mark:Demon Child gets back up and PyroManiAxe dives through the ropes right on to Demon Child… Rhino:Nice move right there by PyroManiAxe… Mark:PyroManiAxe rolls Demon Child back in to the ring… Rhino:Demon Child gets back up on to his feet… Mark:PyroManiAxe whips Demon Child off in to the ropes… Spinebuster! Rhino:He planted him right there… Mark:PyroManiAxe covers Demon Child 1……………..2…………….Kickout by Demon Child… Rhino:PyroManiAxe is putting the boots right to Demon Child… Mark:Demon Child got to the ropes and the referee is pulling PyroManiAxe away… Rhino:Demon Child is now back up on to his feet… Mark:PyroManiAxe goes in after him and Demon Child pokes him right in the eye… Rhino:Cheap shot right there… Mark:Demon Child now hooks up PyroManiAxe and nails him with a Belly to Belly Suplex… Mark:Demon Child covers PyroManiAxe 1…………..2………Kickout by PyroManiAxe…. Rhino:Demon Child is pulling him back up on to his feet… Mark:Demon Child kicks PyroManiAxe in the midsection… Powerbomb! Rhino:PyroManiAxe is in trouble after that powerbomb… Mark:Demon Child covers PyroManiAxe 1…………2…………3…No! Rhino:PyroManiAxe was able to get his shoulder up… Mark:PyroManiAxe is now getting back up on to his feet in the corner…Demon Child charges in… Big Splash! No! Rhino:PyroManiAxe moved out of the way… Mark:School Boy! 1……………2…………3……NO! Rhino:Demon Child kicks out… Mark:Demon Child gets up on to his feet… Demon Child charges in at PyroManiAxe and gets caught with a Roundhouse Kick! Rhino:He caught him square on right in the face with that kick… Mark:Demon Child is now trying to get back up on to his feet…PyroManiAxe hooks him up… Chokeslam! Rhino:He drove him right in to the canvas… Mark:PyroManiAxe is now heading up on to the top rope… Rhino:He is going to take a chance right here… Mark:SHOOTING STAR PRESS! Rhino:PyroManiAxe hit it… Mark:PyroManiAxe covers Demon Child 1………….2…………….3……..NO! Rhino:Demon Child got his shoulder up… Mark:PyroManiAxe thought he had Demon Child down for the count right there… Rhino:PyroManiAxe is now waiting for Demon Child to get back up on to his feet… Mark:Demon Child is getting up slowly… PyroManiAxe charges… SPEAR! NO! Rhino:Demon Child moved out of the way of PyroManiAxe’s Spear… Mark:PyroManiAxe is now spinning around… HEART STOPPER! Rhino:Demon Child caught him right there… Mark:Demon Child covers PyroManiAxe 1………………2…………..3…….NO! Rhino:So close right there… Mark:Demon Child is now waiting for PyroManiAxe to get back up on to his feet… Rhino:PyroManiAxe looks to be out of it right now… Mark:Demon Child is looking to put him away… Rhino:Demon Child has him lined up… Mark:DEMON DROP! NO! Rhino:PyroManiAxe shoves him off in to the ropes… Mark:Demon Child comes off the ropes… PyroManiAxe kicks him in the midsection… STUNNER! NO! Rhino:Demon Child fights out of it… Mark:Backslide! 1………………2……………3……..NO! Rhino:PyroManiAxe kicks out of the backslide pin attempt… Mark:PyroManiAxe gets back up on to his feet… Demon Child charges and nails him with a vicious clothesline… Rhino:He attempted to take his head off with that clothesline… Mark:Demon Child is now pulling PyroManiAxe back up on to his feet… Rhino:He is getting him in position… Rhino:PyroManiAxe fought out of it again… Mark:PyroManiAxe kicks him in the midsection… THIRD DEGREE BURN! Rhino:He hit the powerbombs… Mark:The STF is now locked in… Rhino:Demon Child has no where to go… Mark:Demon Child is trying to fight out… Rhino:He is trapped in the center of the ring… Mark:DEMON CHILD TAPS OUT! Pa Announcer:Here is your winner PYROMANIAXE! Rhino:Strong victory here tonight for PyroManiAxe who makes his return after a few weeks out of action… Mark:Good victory for PyroManiAxe tonight… As everyone gears up for the Extreme Bowl… Its back to the ring for more action… Non Title Match Lone Jobber vs Troy Joseph Pa Announcer:This next contest is a Non Title Match set for one fall… Introducing first…From Shangra-la… Weighing in at 252 Pounds…TROY “THE RAMPAGE” JOSEPH! (“Hall of Illusion” plays as Troy Joseph enters the arena…) Pa Announcer:His opponent…From The Slaughter House now residing in the EWA Offices in Atlanta, Ga… Weighing in at 235 Pounds… The EWA Total Impact Champion…El Presidente LONE JOBBER! (“Shut Your Mouth” plays as Lone Jobber enters the arena…) Mark:Here we go… Lone Jobber gets in to it a little bit with Troy Joseph… Rhino:These two men have a history together… Mark:Troy Joseph blocks the right hand from Lone Jobber and nails him with a couple of right hands… Troy Joseph whips Lone Jobber off in to the ropes… Back Elbow! Rhino:He caught him right in the face with that elbow… Mark:Troy Joseph now scoops up and slams Lone Jobber right down to the canvas… Troy Joseph comes off the ropes… Headbutt! Right down on to Lone Jobber… As now Troy Joseph goes for the cover 1……………..2………..Kickout by Lone Jobber… Rhino:Troy Joseph is coming out firing… Mark:Lone Jobber gets to his feet… Troy Joseph hooks him up… Atomic Drop! Rhino:Lone Jobber is spinning around dazed… Mark:Troy Joseph grabs him by the head and goes to toss him out of the ring… Lone Jobber puts on the breaks and switches places with Troy Joseph and tosses him out of the ring… Rhino:Nice counter there by the EWA Total Impact Champion… Mark:Troy Joseph is getting to his feet… Lone Jobber launches himself right over the top rope and lands right down on Troy Joseph… Rhino:Lone Jobber is now rolling Troy Joseph back in to the ring… Mark:Troy Joseph gets back up on to his feet as Lone Jobber comes off the top rope and nails him with a double axe handle… Rhino:Lone Jobber has changed the pace of this match up… Mark:Lone Jobber now covers Troy Joseph 1………………2……………..Kickout by Troy Joseph… Rhino:Lone Jobber is now working over Troy Joseph… Mark:Repeated Knee Shots by Lone Jobber right in to the lower back of Troy Joseph… Rhino:You can see the pain on Troy Joseph’s face every time he connects with a knee right to the back… Mark:Lone Jobber now picks up Troy Joseph and nails him with a Backbreaker! Lone Jobber goes for the cover 1……………2……..Kickout by Troy Joseph… Rhino:Troy Joseph is holding on to his back as he gets back up on to his feet… Mark:Lone Jobber with a hard irish whip and sends him back first right in to the turnbuckles… Rhino:He is staggering out of the corner… Mark:Lone Jobber hooks him up again… Backbreaker! Rhino:Troy Joseph continues to be in pain… Mark:Lone Jobber is now turning him over… Boston Crab! Rhino:Troy Joseph is now in a lot of trouble… Mark:Troy Joseph is attempting to crawl to the ropes… Rhino:He is in a lot of pain as you can see on his face… Mark:Lone Jobber is really sitting down on the back of Troy Joseph… Rhino:Lone Jobber clearly came in to this match up with a game plan and its paying off right now… Mark:Troy Joseph is trying to muscle up enough energy to crawl to the ropes to break the hold… Rhino:He is getting closer… Mark:Troy Joseph is able to reach out and get a hold of the ropes… Rhino:Lone Jobber has done the damage to Troy Joseph… Mark:The EWA Total Impact Champion is waiting for Troy Joseph to get back up on to his feet… Rhino:Lone Jobber has him lined up.. Mark:Troy Joseph turns around… LOW CARD KICK! Rhino:Lone Jobber got all of that kick… Mark:Lone Jobber with the cover 1………………2……………3……NO! Rhino:Troy Joseph was able to get his shoulder up… Mark:Lone Jobber thought he had Troy Joseph beat with that Low Card Kick… Rhino:Troy Joseph is trying to get back up on to his feet… Mark:Lone Jobber kicks Troy Joseph in the midsection… HERTIAGE! NO! Rhino:Troy Joseph countered with a back body drop… Mark:He saved himself with that counter… Rhino:Lone Jobber is now staggering back up on to his feet… Mark:Troy Joseph now charges and nails him with a Flying Shoulder Block! Rhino:Lone Jobber gets right back up… Mark:Troy Joseph whips him in to the ropes… Powerslam! Rhino:Troy Joseph is riding the momentum… Mark:Troy Joseph with the cover 1……………….2………….3……No! Rhino:Lone Jobber got his shoulder up… Mark:Troy Joseph now scoops up and slams Lone Jobber down to the canvas… Rhino:Troy Joseph is heading to the top rope… Mark:Troy Joseph is going to fly… SWANTON BOMB! NO! Rhino:Lone Jobber rolled out of the way… Mark:Troy Joseph just crashed and burned… Rhino:Lone Jobber is back up on to his feet… Mark:Troy Joseph is staggering to his feet and holding on to his back… Rhino:Here it comes… Mark:THE GIMMICK! Rhino:That’s gotta be it right there… Mark:Lone Jobber covers Troy Joseph 1…………………..2……….3…. ITS OVER! Pa Announcer:Here is your winner LONE JOBBER! Rhino:Lone Jobber comes out victorious here tonight over Troy Joseph… Mark:Troy Joseph was riding the momentum and he went for one big move and it backfired on him… Rhino:That’s why Lone Jobber is the EWA Total Impact Champion… He is able to take advantage of situations… Mark:Yes he does… As we now get set for our next contest here tonight… William McConnell vs Alan Matthews Pa Announcer:This next contest is set for one fall… Introducing first…From Grand Rapids, Michigan… Weighing in at 248 Pounds… ALAN MATTHEWS! (“David De La Hoz” plays as Alan Matthews enters the arena…) Pa Announcer:His Opponent… “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!” Pa Announcer:From Evansville, Indiana… Weighing in at 230 Pounds…WILLIAM McCONNELL! (“Wretches & Kings” plays as William McConnell enters the arena…) Mark:Both men lock up in the center of the ring… William McConnell goes for a headlock…. Alan Matthews quickly escapes and goes behind William McConnell and nails him with a Hammer Lock… Rhino:William McConnell is trying to get out of it… Mark:William McConnell now goes behind Alan Matthews and now tries to take him off of his feet… Alan Matthews goes behind McConnell… Rhino:Both men are trying to out wrestle the other… Mark:Alan Matthews takes William McConnell off of his feet… Alan Matthews now locks in a side headlock… Rhino:William McConnell is now trying to fight his way back up on to his feet.. Mark:William McConnell fights his way back up on to his feet and now shoves Alan Matthews off in to the ropes… Alan Matthews comes off the ropes and nails William McConnell with a shoulder block… Rhino:William McConnell gets right back up on to his feet… Mark:William McConnell charges… Hiptoss! Rhino:Nice move by Alan Matthews… Mark:William McConnell gets back up again and charges and gets caught with another hiptoss… Rhino:Alan Matthews is one step ahead of William McConnell… Mark:William McConnell rolls out of the ring frustrated… Rhino:He is taking a minute to try and compose himself here… Mark:Alan Matthews is trying to go get him but the referee is holding him back… William McConnell back up on the ring apron… Alan Matthews grabs the ropes and slingshots William McConnell back in to the ring… Rhino:That was not how William McConnell wanted to enter the ring… Mark:No it wasn’t as he is backing up in to the corner… Rhino:Alan Matthews is going after him… Mark:Alan Matthews picks him up… William McConnell rakes the eyes of Alan Matthews and now puts Alan Matthews in the corner and nails him with chops right across the chest… Mark:William McConnell whips him in to the farside corner… Rhino:Alan Matthews is staggering out of the corner… Mark:Dropkick! Rhino:Nice dropkick… Mark:William McConnell covers Alan Matthews 1………………2………….. Kickout by Alan Matthews… Rhino:Alan Matthews is getting back up on to his feet… Mark:William McConnell hooks him up… Atomic Drop! Right in to a Belly to Back Suplex! Rhino:Nice combination right there… Mark:William McConnell covers Alan Matthews again 1……………….2………….Kickout by Alan Matthews… Rhino:William McConnell is now plotting out of his next move… Mark:William McConnell goes behind Alan Matthews…Alan Matthews with the reversal and goes behind William McConnell and now runs him in to the ropes… Roll Up! No! Rhino:William McConnell held on to the ropes… Mark:William McConnell charges… Alan Matthews ducks the clothesline… Goes behind William McConnell… German Suplex! Rhino:He dropped William McConnell on his head with that suplex… Mark:William McConnell gets back up… Alan Matthews sets him up… Northern Lights Suplex! With a Bridge! 1……………….2……………..Kickout by William McConnell… Rhino:Close one there… Mark:Alan Matthews now waits… Alan Matthews hooks him up… Fisherman’s Suplex! Bridge! 1………………2………..3…….NO! Rhino:William McConnell got his shoulder up… Mark:Right now Alan Matthews is bringing William McConnell over in to the corner… Rhino:He has something in mind right here… Mark:Alan Matthews has William McConnell up on the top rope… SUPERPLEX! NO! Rhino:William McConnell is blocking it… Mark:William McConnell shoves Alan Matthews off the top rope… Rhino:William McConnell is now gaining his balance… Mark:Alan Matthews quickly to his feet and falls in to the ropes and William McConnell gets crotched on the top rope… Rhino:Ouch! Mark:Alan Matthews reclimbs the ropes… SUPERPLEX! Rhino:That time he hit it… Mark:Alan Matthews with the cover 1……………..2…………….3……..NO! Mark:William McConnell is slow to get back up on to his feet… Rhino:Alan Matthews is looking to finish off William McConnell… Mark:Alan Matthews has him up… DEADLY DROP! NO! Rhino:William McConnell escapes… Mark:Alan Matthews turns around… SUPERKICK! Rhino:William McConnell hit the kick… Mark:Alan Matthews is out on his feet… Rhino:William McConnell isnt done… Mark:DUAL SHOCK! Mark:William McConnell hooks the leg 1…………….2…………..3……… ITS OVER! Pa Announcer:Here is your winner WILLIAM McCONNELL! Rhino:Hell of a battle between these two… Mark:William McConnell was able to escape with the victory… As we now send it to the back where Kent Richardson is standing by with one of the EWA Commissioner’s Triple H… Kent… Kent:Thanks Guys… Triple H you requested this time as you wanted to address the Omega situation… HHH:Yes I did… You were witness just like everyone last week where Omega was demanding that people pay attention to him right? Kent:Yes… HHH:Well that’s what I finally did… I finally paid attention to what Omega had to say and I gave him this one chance to prove himself… Once chance to reclaim his past glory… And what does he do… He ignores it… And then days later… He decides its finally time to speak and tells me No… Well… If that’s how Omega wants to play it… Then fine… He can turn me down… But this is the LAST time we will ever speak the name of Omega… No one should ever mention his existence EVER again… If you do… Well… Then you and I will have words… Because I gave that man an opportunity and he rejected it… His contract, which he claims to have, is Null and Void… He doesn’t exist any longer… So tonight is the end of the line for Omega… He is… As of this moment… No More! (Triple H shreads Omega’s EWA Contract) HHH:Goodbye Omega… You will not be missed… Kent:Guys… Back to you… Rhino:Not sure what to say… Mark:I dont think there is anything we can say… But its time for our Main Event… Big Daddy Ace vs Calvin Lumas Pa Announcer:Tonights Main Event is a Non Title Match set for one fall… Introducing first…From Raleigh, North Carolina… Weighing in at 215 Pounds… CALVIN LUMAS! (“Ultranumb” plays as Calvin Lumas enters the arena…) Pa Announcer:His opponent…From Boston, Mass.. Weighing in at 273 Pounds…The EWA World Heavyweight Champion…BIG DADDY ACE! (“Made of Scars” plays as Big Daddy Ace enters the arena…) Mark:Big Daddy Ace nails Calvin Lumas with right hands… Rhino:Calvin Lumas is firing back with shots of his own… Mark:Calvin Lumas whips Big Daddy Ace off in to the ropes… Big Daddy Ace with a reversal and nails him with a Back Body Drop! Rhino:Calvin Lumas gets back up on to his feet… Mark:Big Daddy Ace charges… Calvin Lumas ducks and pulls down the top rope and Big Daddy Ace goes flying over the top rope… Rhino:The EWA World Heavyweight Champion falls flat on his face on the outside of the ring… Mark:Calvin Lumas is up on the top rope… Rhino:Watch Out! Mark:Calvin Lumas dives off the top rope right down on to Big Daddy Ace on the outside of the ring… Rhino:Big risk taking chance right there that paid off… Mark:Calvin Lumas now rolls Big Daddy Ace back in to the ring… Rhino:Big Daddy Ace is staggering to his feet… Mark:Calvin Lumas nails him with a Jawbreaker! Rhino:Big Daddy Ace is spinning around… Mark:Clothesline! Taking Big Daddy Ace off of his feet… Rhino:Calvin Lumas is heading back up on to the top rope… Mark:Flipping Leg Drop! Connects right down on to the EWA World Heavyweight Champion… Rhino:Big Daddy Ace is in trouble after that leg drop… Mark:Calvin Lumas with the cover 1…………..2…………Big Daddy Ace kicks out… Rhino:Big Daddy Ace is slow to get back up… Mark:Calvin Lumas scoops him up and slams him back down to the canvas… Rhino:Calvin Lumas is back up on the top rope… Mark:Swanton Bomb! Rhino:He it it… Mark:Calvin Lumas covers Big Daddy Ace again 1……………….2………….3…No! Rhino:Big Daddy Ace was able to get his shoulder up… Mark:Big Daddy Ace is now getting back up on to his feet… Rhino:He is up in the corner… Mark:Calvin Lumas charges… Leg Lariat! No! Rhino:Big Daddy Ace moved out of the way… Mark:Calvin Lumas crashed and burned right there… Rhino:Calvin Lumas is staggering up on to his feet… Mark:Big Daddy Ace charges… SPEAR! Rhino:Big Daddy Ace just speared him out of his boots… Mark:Big Daddy Ace isnt done… Rhino:Calvin Lumas looks to be out of it… Mark:ACE CRUSHER! Rhino:Big Daddy Ace hit it… Mark:Big Daddy Ace covers Calvin Lumas 1……………….2……………..3……….. ITS OVER! Pa Announcer:Here is your winner BIG DADDY ACE! Rhino:Big Daddy Ace pulls out the victory tonight… (“Break It Down” plays as Triple H walks out on to the stage) HHH:Big Win for you there Big Daddy Ace… But will you be so lucky at the Extreme Bowl… When the EWA World Heavyweight Championship is ON THE LINE… INSIDE… THE TRIPLE TIER CAGE! Rhino:The Gold is on the line at The Extreme Bowl… Mark:Can Big Daddy Ace survive the Extreme Bowl? We will see you there… Good Night Everyone! Unholy Alliances 2013 Beach Brawl 2013	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line13
__label__cc	0.576519	0.423481	Qweekend story: ‘Freedom Thinkers: Brisbane Free University’, November 2015 A story for the November 7-8 issue of Qweekend. The full story appears below. Freedom Thinkers In their underground “carparktopia”, the women of Brisbane Free University dispense knowledge to anyone within earshot. by Andrew McMillen / Photograph by Russell Shakespeare About once a month, beneath a bank on Boundary Street in Brisbane’s inner-south West End, an enterprising trio of young women direct their energies toward setting up a classroom unlike any other you’ll find in the city. Under harsh fluorescent lights and between 13 Westpac customer car parks, dozens of plastic chairs are sat facing a white banner taped to the brick wall, covering the bank’s logo. A second banner is hung above the entrance, so that curious passersby might be drawn in by the impromptu gathering of education-minded locals. Since November 2012, a motley crew of passionate, engaged learners has been flocking to this initiative, dubbed Brisbane Free University. Pictured on the banner beside the name is the unmistakable image of an ibis taking flight, its wings outstretched. This bird was chosen for its antagonistic scavenger spirit, and illustrated by 26-year-old co-founder Anna Carlson. It wasn’t until much later that a happy accident was uncovered: the Egyptian god of knowledge, Thoth, was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis. There’s a curious duality at play here, then: the inner city-dwelling ibis takes what it can from its surrounding environment to survive, while the women of Brisbane Free University enjoy nothing more than to share knowledge with whoever happens to be in earshot, free of charge, to enlighten the lives of those around them. Carlson and her two co-founders – Fern Thompsett, 28, and Briohny Walker, 30 – do not take an adversarial approach to the city’s existing tertiary education institutions. To do so would be a touch hypocritical, as the trio met while studying arts/law, anthropology and philosophy, respectively, at the University of Queensland, and a review of BFU’s past sessions show a strong presence of UQ, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith alumni. By 6.30pm on this particular Thursday, Walker steps forward and speaks into a microphone connected to a solar-powered PA system whose two speakers are positioned atop wheelie bins. “Thank you for coming down to carparktopia for BFU. It’s lovely to see you all,” she says, beaming. “Tonight is particularly special because it’s a meta-BFU: tonight at free university, we’re going to be talking about free universities. The acoustics here are a little bit weird, so can I check that everyone at the back can hear me?” After getting the thumbs-up from those in the back rows, she hands over the mic. Facing the audience are two chairs; one for Thompsett and one for the American guest speaker, Laura Nelson, a 26 year-old student of Harvard University who is studying a PhD on the history of free universities. Both are casually dressed and clearly comfortable with fronting this crowd of around 30 attendees, whose average age appears to be about 22. After acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we sit, Thompsett gives a brief overview of how the event came to be. “When Briohny, Anna and myself co-founded BFU, we didn’t realise that there were any other free universities in operation, even at this point in time, let alone in history – which is probably really politically naive of us,” she says with a smile. “It was just an idea that came out of the blue, and a bottle of wine, and then it took form in this very carpark approximately three years ago. It was only a couple of months into the project that we realised that what we’d tapped into was a global movement that stretched back in time, and right around the world.” Last year, Thompsett spent five months travelling throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico, visiting free universities and studying the interrelated concept of radical education. While spending time in Australia, Nelson has been researching this country’s founding movements. She reads aloud a quote to begin: “Training for the economy is the de facto centre of the university’s operations. Students flow in from the public examinations and flow out clutching tickets to membership in the occupational elite. Through the university, a semi-closed upper status perpetuates itself from one generation to the next, preserving the lines of privilege which universal secondary education was thought to destroy. Because their attention is on getting good jobs, the mass of students are insulated from the academic culture of the university and from the radical traditions of student life and thought.” As Nelson explains, this quote was first published in a Sydney University student newspaper in October 1967 and became the foundation manifesto of what became known as the Free U, which ran out of a rented house in Redfern and reached a peak of 300 students within two years. The Sydney experiment inspired similar movements in Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide, among others. As Nelson speaks, buses noisily accelerate out on the street, while occasional hecklers direct their voice toward the carpark, an action which is met with smiles by the organisers. The whole point of using this space is that there is no door between the public and private; instead, anyone interested may walk down and take a seat. That doesn’t happen tonight, perhaps because the audience is among the smallest in recent memory – possible a reflection of the meta theme – but previous discussions on sex and consent, the future of West End and women in media have each attracted healthy crowds. After chatting amicably for an hour, Thompsett opens the discussion up to questions and comments from the floor. A young guy in a suit and a flat cap raises his hand; he drones into the microphone for minutes on end about several tangentially-related concepts before attempting to form a question for the two women. I find myself quickly frustrated by his presence, and reflect on how this behaviour would not be tolerated in a mainstream university classroom; he would soon be drowned out by groans, and the lecturer, sensing the restlessness, would likely intervene. Here at BFU, he is indulged with silent patience by all in attendance, though a couple of young women in front of me start rolling their eyes at one another and quietly giggling to themselves. This young man is passed the microphone several more times during the group discussion. His barely coherent monologues fill the space, and each time Thompsett skilfully acknowledges his contribution before steering the conversation toward more productive pathways. I realise my frustration toward him is rooted in my own studies at UQ several years ago. I rarely enjoyed the Bachelor of Communication program, doing the bare minimum to scrape through with a pass while pouring my time into socialising and extracurricular activities. This is a fault of mine, not the university’s, yet even here, I found myself thinking in terms of exams and assessment criteria. Thoughts such as these are in direct opposition to what BFU represents: learning for learning’s sake, rather than simply chasing a piece of paper, an admirable grade point average or a high-paying job. It’s a beautiful, freeing approach to education, as it opens up avenues beyond the traditional classroom model. It rejects the notion that learning ends with high school, or university. Instead, it’s a lifelong process, and movements such as this acknowledge the universal human hunger for knowledge, discussion and understanding. An informal “tutorial” is scheduled to take place in the beer garden of the nearby Boundary Hotel once the organisers have reset the carpark and packed up the PA, but for now, says Thompsett, “I don’t have any conclusions, I just have more questions, which I think is probably the sign of a sound research project – at least for within this framework of anarchist learning spaces.” As the audience filters out onto Boundary St after helping to stack chairs, minds and mouths alive with inspiration, it’s clear that this has been another successful chapter not only for BFU’s three founders, but for a radical educational concept that first took root almost 50 years ago. brisbanefreeuniversity.org Post Category: Feature Journalism, Published Writing \| Tags: 2015, anna carlson, article, australia, bank, bfu, briohny walker, Brisbane, brisbane free university, carparktopia, Community, education, feature journalism, fern thompsett, free u, history, Interview, laura nelson, learning, Published Writing, qld, queensland, qweekend, radical education, west-end, westpac Not the Pope says: What a great article and what a great idea – to offer the public the opportunity to experience BFU! Any expansion of knowledge cuts through the formalisation of tradition that either deters others from tertiary education … Glad you covered this, Andrew!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line28
__label__wiki	0.750686	0.750686	Chronicles of Love & Resentment by Eric Gans Share \| Subscribe to Chronicles RSS GA and psychoanalysis? No. 653: Saturday, March 28th, 2020 When I wrote my dissertation on Gustave Flaubert’s adolescent writings (The Discovery of Illusion, UC Press, 1971), I found the Freudian “family drama” useful in making sense of these hyper-romantic tales, where the clearly indicated familial roles, including a friend-rival identifiable as Gustave’s friend Ernest Chevalier (and often named “Ernest” in the story), allowed one to trace the development of the configuration up to the point where the “romantic subject”-protagonist was smitten with an extra-familial love, the model for the later heroine of (both versions of) L’éducation sentimentale. But although the family drama was clearly useful in analyzing the works of a romantic adolescent, my subsequent efforts at literary analysis (Mérimée, Musset, Racine…) were more deeply influenced by the notion of pragmatic paradox introduced by members of Bateson’s “Palo Alto” school of psychology—an encounter for which I will always be indebted to Alain Cohen. Since then, one might say that my intellectual life has been devoted to finding a justification for my intuition that paradox, the bane of logicians, is not simply a clever form of what Irving Massey calls Necessary Nonsense (Ohio State UP, 2018), that is, a frustrating anomaly within the metaphysical mindset for which the raison-d’être of logical propositions—declarative sentences—is independent of anthropological considerations. Once one thus explains away the anthropological nature of language, it is no wonder that one can no longer reflect intelligently on what the origin of language might have been, nor comprehend the paradox inherent in it. All thinking is really originary thinking. Its effectiveness depends on what one chooses to consider as its originary elements. But we think of its anthropological foundation less critically when we are familiar with these elements from childhood, as in Freud’s family drama, or when, on the contrary, they derive from what appear to be the logical properties inherent in rational discourse. Hegel’s attempt to construct a logic of “everything,” beginning with Being and ending with the human-centered physical universe, whose history reaches its “end” in the revelation of all conceivable categories of being, marks the culmination of the metaphysical age—and the beginning of its deconstruction. Recorded history and prehistory give us many clues to the origin of the specifically human, but we cannot simply trace them back to this origin. The only procedure that allows one to maintain any degree of rigor is to begin from a hypothesis as minimal as possible. In particular, originary anthropology cannot begin with the child, because the child’s assimilation of culture is a process very different from its genesis. These reflections bring me back to what was ultimately René Girard’s central intuition, and the one that has influenced me most deeply: that the discourse of religion, however fanciful it may appear in its elaboration, is closer to the essence, the soul of the human than any other. This is quite the reverse of concurring with Auguste Comte—and with virtually all of today’s human scientists—that religion’s truths, having emerged at an early stage of human history, have simply been superseded, like those of ancient astronomy and medicine, by those derived from empirical observation via the scientific method. This is by no means to deny the legitimacy of “positive,” natural-science anthropology. But as earlier generations of anthropologists intuitively recognized, with respect to originary anthropology, that is, anthropology as centrally concerned with how we acquired what in the human is not shared by our animal cousins, religion cuts closer to the bone than any other cultural practice. Such an anthropology cannot avoid the paradox of transcendence, which each religious discourse conceives in its own culture-bound set of experiential terms. We cannot eliminate these terms without exposing in their nudity the logical contradictions inherent in expressing the “presence” of the transcendent in the natural world. Yet to remain within the vocabulary of metaphysics, where such paradoxical expression has no place, is to forfeit the possibility of understanding the roots of humanity’s différance. As a follow-up to Chronicles 649 and 651, I recently read Jean Clapier’s Thérèse de Lisieux au risque de la psychologie (Presse de la renaissance, 2010), a book summing up the twenty-odd psychological studies of Thérèse from the 1920s to the present. All of the analyses referred to were respectful of her faith; even the most psychoanalytic did not suggest, with Freud’s The Future of an Illusion, that religious faith was an illusory solution to real psychic difficulties. Yet throughout these analyses, however perceptive, I felt that Thérèse’s own God-centered language was more fundamental than the categories that were alleged to elucidate it. Most critically, her emphasis on love, which was as central to her faith as it is to Christianity (“God is love”), was more faithful to its human/transcendental source than any possible interpretation involving the sublimation of the libido. I have no quarrel with the idea that Thérèse recruited her somatic emotions in the service of her love for God, and have no particular insight into the sources of such emotions, whether the libido or that quite unlibidinal need for someone to give you a hug. But clearly Thérèse’s love for Jesus is not only cheapened but misinterpreted if we conceive it, as Bernini famously did with her Spanish namesake, as a form of sublimated sexual ecstasy. One should rather say that human sexual ecstasy, to the extent that it is more than a physical spasm, is informed by our sense of the sacred. Yet the chastity required of the exemplary devotees of Catholicism as well as of many other religions reflects the fact that even with the best of will, the orgasm, in putting an end to (its) deferral during the act of intercourse, cannot—as can the act of communal eating and drinking—be wholly subsumed within culture’s transcendence. Whether one revels in it, like Sade or Bataille, or deplores it, sex is an animal act, an act of mortality redeemed by biology through reproduction, not by the transcendence embodied in the “immortal” sign. Human love is defined not by the sublimation of Eros, but by the transcendence of resentment. One cannot understand the human by beginning with biology and then tasking the human individual with implementing the transcendent différance that uniquely characterizes us. Beyond the question of language origin, how the child learns to be human, a process whose description Lacan refined from Freud’s series of erogenous zones into the progression of perceptual representation from the (self)-image to the symbolic realm of signs, sheds only an oblique light on the process whereby pre-humans learned to make themselves human. In the time of Thérèse’s étrange maladie (strange illness) around the age of 10, during which she exhibited quasi-schizophrenic symptoms, she worked out her problems herself, or, as she would have put it, with God’s help. This alternative can be restated as the two possible explanations of the “miraculous” smile of the statue of the Virgin that put an end to this episode on the day of Pentecost, May 13, 1883. The anthropological truth in the Freudian-Lacanian link between the “symbolic” and the communal domain of the interdictive superego is that interdiction is inherent in language itself. When the child, instead of grabbing for something or screaming to get Mommy to bring it, uses a linguistic sign to obtain it, he is already deferring his appetite for it, thus expressing this appetite as a desire, which can exist only in deferral. However banal the circumstance, to the extent that one uses an imperative, one defines its object as, in its origin, forbidden fruit. This state of deferred possession arouses in the language-initiated child what we may call primary resentment. It is in overcoming this sentiment that love acquires its transcendent sacrality. And to the extent that we make this process the touchstone of our participation in transcendence, it is difficult to conceive an analysis more fundamental than the Trinitary identification of the sacred with the being that is at the same time sufficient unto itself and also its mortal incarnation, and can be so only by the agency of the “spirit” that communicates between them, which is logos as language itself. If indeed the child’s primary object of love is not simply the biological mother but the mother become a figure of conscious separation that the child desires to end, then we should not explain as “sublimation” Thérèse’s religious solution to what Clapier refers to as her abandonnique sufferings, beginning with her mother’s early problems in nursing her that led to infant Thérèse’s spending an entire year away from home with a wet-nurse, followed by her mother’s death before she was five years old, and then the departure of her quasi-maternal sister Pauline to the Carmel in 1882, precipitating the étrange maladie. On the contrary, when Thérèse becomes finally confident in offering herself to the Trinitary God, toward whom her moments of doubt had been conquered through an ever stronger love that manifested itself not as a simple act of will, but as the paradoxical one of will to submission to God’s will, this confidence can be understood as the discovery of the originary basis of the human psyche in the revelation of humanity’s need for a transcendent solution to our capacity for self-destruction. Far from an attractive illusion, the originary sacred is the central human truth. This confrontation led me to reassess the relevance of the Freudian conception of the psyche. Once “religiously” accepted, Freud’s tableau has fallen out of fashion—for to say it has been discredited would imply that some better theory had taken its place. Instead, like all the great syntheses of the 19th century, it has simply been replaced by a general distrust of such syntheses, or “master narratives” (métarécits). Yet, the sacred element aside, Freud’s map of the psyche is not so very different from the one GA would draw of our psychic constitution. The opposition between Ego and Id opposes our “human” to our “animal” components in the fundamental dialectic of human psychic activity. As animals, we have “instincts” or “drives,” but to the extent that they go beyond physiology to have an impact on the human community, we have a “self” that can re-present them scenically to ourselves in a space of deferral and decide whether and how to exercise them. Most crucially, to distinguish the human Ego from the consciousness of even the highest animals, which cannot be said not to think, Freud adds the superego. Whether or not “introjected” into the psyche by the Father, the superego corresponds to the internal complex of forces that connects us with the rest of the human community, including as its originary elements not only the “moral model” of reciprocal exchange, but most fundamentally, our sense of this complex as grounded “beyond itself” in the sacred/transcendent. This remains true of our sense of “right and wrong,” whether or not we subscribe to any institutional religious belief. Lacan’s insistence on the importance of the “symbolic,” of language, makes explicit what Freud’s “talking cure” had always presupposed; that our use of language and related symbolisms was the principal sign of this super-egoistic agency, whether or not we need accept, or even understand, his pronouncement that l’inconscient est structuré comme un langage. Freud’s interest in “the psychopathology of everyday life” is centrally concerned with language, as is his interpretation of dreams. The Freudian unconscious, we might say, occupies the wings of our internal scene of representation. This is not to deny what Thérèse understood better than any of the psychiatrists who have sought to clarify her psychology: that the dominant presence of the sacred cannot be fully encompassed within the superego. Freudian therapy seeks to permit the individual to liberate himself from his neuroses in order to be able to function in the world, to have a satisfactory affective and above all sexual life. But the one thing we cannot introduce into our relationship to our superego is love. Reading Thérèse’s passionate yet chaste poetry about her love for God/Jesus, we realize that this Trinitarian “superego” was for her the mediator of all love. The therapy that such as my old friend, the late Rusty Palmer exercised by getting the patient to become aware of and to root out his worldly idol-mediators goes very much in this direction. And by beginning Mensonge romantique with the Max Scheler quote, “Man possesses a God, or an idol,” and ending it with Alyosha Karamazov speaking to his followers of the joys of the afterlife, Girard makes explicit that in genuine conversion, the liberating gesture of negation must be followed by adherence to the one true mediator. GA is not in the business of telling people how to define this mediator, whether as a divine subject in its own right or a virtual totality like Durkheim’s la société—or as the human paradox itself. But as Thérèse made clear in her life, and as Christianity makes perhaps clearer than any other religion, to love God is to love his creatures, to express our love for “humanity” not in a vague “humanitarian” sense, but concretely in every action of our lives. This Chronicle offers merely a preliminary suggestion of how the originary hypothesis might be elaborated into a post-psychoanalytic understanding of the human psyche. It is a suggestion that I propose to others to flesh out through research and reflection, in confidence that the originary hypothesis provides the most fundamental understanding of the specific difference that makes us human. Enjoy this column? If you enjoyed this column, subscribe to the GAlist and you'll receive updates about our on-line journal Anthropoetics and the Chronicles of Love and Resentment regularly by email. Chronicles home page \| Return to Anthropoetics home page \| Chronicles Feedback Eric Gans / gans@humnet.ucla.edu Copyright 2021 Chronicles of Love & Resentment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line29
__label__wiki	0.646917	0.646917	Evaluation of implementation of technologies to assess, monitor and treat neurodevelopmental disorders An evaluation of factors that influence the implementation of technologies to assess, monitor and treat neurodevelopmental disorders: a narrative systematic review The aim of this review is to identify the current evidence for technologies used clinically in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders. Using pre-specified search terms, we will systematically search databases. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts for relevance. The full text of included articles will be judged against predetermined inclusion criteria. The technologies will be summarised on their evidence for: effectiveness (clinical/service), economic and user impact (acceptability/feasibility), and assessed for the quality of evidence and suitability for clinic adoption. The review will produce a template summarising the evidence and the findings will also be published. Why we are doing it: Neurodevelopmental disorders represent a significant expenditure to the NHS. There are a lack of services offered for children, young people and adults suffering from these disorders. This means patients often do not have access to the best care, or have to wait a long time to receive an appropriate diagnosis and access available treatment options. There is a local need to be able to identify appropriate technologies to improve access to treatments and interventions within this population. An important starting point in this process is to summarise the evidence on the available technologies and evaluate their suitability for clinical adoption. By creating a template that summarises and evaluates the existing evidence for technologies used to assess, monitor and treat neurodevelopmental disorders we shall: Inform local commissioners on which technologies may be most suitable for clinical adoption Inform the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence(NICE) on which technologies may be particularly suitable for review through the‘Health Apps Briefings’ Provide an evidence base for the technologies which may not be selected by NICE for review but are of interest for commissioners and healthcare professionals Study Team Dr Charlotte Hall (Senior Research Fellow) Dr Althea Valentine (Research Fellow) Professor Chris Hollis (Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) Dr Maddie Groom (Assistant Professor in Applied Psychology and Psychiatry) Ms Nikki Brown (Patient and Public Involvement Lead) Dr Jen Martin (Programme Manager MedTech Co-operative) Dr Bethan Davies (Research Fellow) Dr Emma Rowley (Senior Research Fellow) Mr Joe Kilgariff (Advanced Nurse) Mrs Emma Young (Information Specialist) Professor Richard Morriss (Professor of Psychiatry and Community Mental Health) Dr Julie Clarke (Consultant Paediatrician, Lincolnshire) Dr Neeta Kulkani (Consultant Paediatrician, Leicestershire) Katharine Browne (Nottinghamshire CCG) Georgie Hill (North Derbyshire CCG) Dave Clarke (Service Provider, Leicestershire) Elaine Egan-Morriss (Leicestershire CCG) QbTech (Managing Director, Tony Doyle) Study Lead: Name: Dr Althea Valentine and Dr Charlotte Hall Role: Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow Organisation: University of Nottingham charlotte.hall@nottingham.ac.uk	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line30
__label__cc	0.578557	0.421443	CASPIAN OIL & GAS - Azerbaijan enters Turkish gas distribution market Azerbaijan enters Turkish gas distribution market By Azad Hasanli – Trend: Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR has acquired EWE Turkey Holding, owned by the German energy company EWE AG, Trend reports with reference to the company Jan. 30. Together with the holding, SOCAR acquired the holding’s assets - Bursagaz, Kayserigaz, Enervis, EWE Enerji and Millenicom. The deal will be completed after approval by an anti-monopoly authority and other responsible structures of Turkey. SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev said that the acquisition of the holding will allow SOCAR to enter the end-user market directly. Abdullayev said that the acquisition of gas distribution business will complement the investment chain of SOCAR in Turkey. Entering Turkey’s gas distribution market is a strategic step from a commercial point of view and completes the entire chain of production, transportation and distribution of gas, he noted. He said that since 2013, SOCAR has been annually supplying 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey, and the commissioning of TANAP last year created favorable conditions for the gas supply to Turkey. “We will continue exploring other opportunities in the market,” Abdullayev added. Earlier, EWE AG told Trend that the decision on the possible sale of its assets in Turkey is related to the optimization of the company's activity. EWE Turkey Holding has been operating in Turkey since 2007 and is the fourth biggest supplier of natural gas in Turkey. In 2017, the company’s turnover amounted to almost 2.4 billion Turkish liras. SOCAR is represented in Turkey by its subsidiary SOCAR Turkey Energy. So far, SOCAR Turkey Energy has invested over $14 billion in the Turkish economy. Meanwhile, 5,000 people work in the company, while the annual export potential reaches $3 billion. Among SOCAR’s current assets in Turkey are the Petkim petrochemical complex, the STAR refinery and the Petlim port.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line43
__label__cc	0.663689	0.336311	DC Collectibles The Flash Statue – Review + Giveaway February 1, 2016 Arelis Giveaway, News, Review, Television, The Flash DC Collectibles statue of Barry Allen as The Flash, courtesy of Entertainment Earth. This version of The Flash is from season one of The CW hit television series, portrayed by the talented Grant Gustin. The statue is 1/6 scale, 12.5 inches tall, cold cast porcelain, hand painted and sculpted by Steve Kiwus. The statue comes in two separate pieces, the figure of The Flash, which is then inserted into the base, through pegs. Placing the figure into its base without scratching it was a bit of a challenge, as the pegs didn’t exactly line-up. But once in placed, the base remained firmly attached, with no worries of it falling off while handling. The statue is completely solid and with a good weight to it, 3.6 pounds to be exact, with extraordinary amount of details throughout. The face of the statue actually looks like that of Grant Gustin’s, these attention to details continue throughout the figure with the texture, folds and creases to the suit as it flows throughout his stance, down to the gold details. The position of The Flash’s stance was wisely chosen, as every angle works, which helps when placing it out for display. Even looking down at it from above, you can’t help but appreciate it. Overall this statues is a great collectors piece, that’s very well made and fans of The Flash television series will especially enjoy! Enter to win this awesome Flash statue by DC Collectibles, courtesy of Entertainment Earth. There’s four ways to enter, each way gives you a different amount of points, the more points collected, the greater chance of winning! Giveaway Ends on Saturday, February 6th. The winner will than be announced once chosen. Be sure to enter your correct email if you enter using an email and not a Facebook account, as we’ll be notifying you through email be that the one you entered or the one associated with your Facebook account, if the email is incorrect and or don’t respond in a timely matter, another winner will then be chosen. This Giveaway is for US and Canada Residents Only. Note: By entering this contest you agree to allow up to 12 weeks for delivery, accept the fate of packages getting lost, stolen or damaged (neither Entertainment Earth nor the host of the contest are responsible for replacement or compensation either in product, credit or currency) and a correct, valid physical address must be provided (wrong address provided, unfortunately no shipment). Supergirl "Bizarro" - Sneak Peeks General Mills Batman v Superman Prequel Comic "Field Trip" Barry AllenDC CollectiblesDC ComicsEntertainment EarthgiveawayGrant GustinnewsThe FlashThe Flash Season 1	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line56
__label__cc	0.533217	0.466783	Dchieng The premier destination for modern art in Northern Sweden. Open from 10 AM to 6 PM every day during the summer months. Works and Days August 1 — December 1 Theatre of Operations October 1 — December 1 The Life I Deserve From Signac to Matisse “Cyborgs, as the philosopher Donna Haraway established, are not reverent. They do not remember the cosmos.” With seven floors of striking architecture, UMoMA shows exhibitions of international contemporary art, sometimes along with art historical retrospectives. Existential, political and philosophical issues are intrinsic to our programme. As visitor you are invited to guided tours artist talks, lectures, film screenings and other events with free admission The exhibitions are produced by UMoMA in collaboration with artists and museums around the world and they often attract international attention. UMoMA has received a Special Commendation from the European Museum of the Year, and was among the top candidates for the Swedish Museum of the Year Award as well as for the Council of Europe Museum Prize. Become a Member and Get Exclusive Offers! Members get access to exclusive exhibits and sales. Our memberships cost $99.99 and are billed annually. © 2021 Dchieng	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line57
__label__wiki	0.60865	0.60865	Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy Measurements of Ambient NO3 and N2O5 Large Amplitude Motion in 9-Methylanthracene: High-Resolution Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Theoretical Calculation Theoretical Study on Direction of Vibrational Transition Dipole Moment of XH Stretching Vibration in HXD All Title Author Keyword Abstract DOI Category Address Fund ScholarOne online submission system SCI IF About CJCP Journal Online Editer Login How to Revise Reviewer receipt How to submit a comment Expertise Form Cover Galley 2005 Vol. 18, No. 6 Select articles Quantum Mechanical Reactive Scattering Theories and Their Applications Zhang Jun, Sun Xiaomin, Cai Zhengting, Feng Dacheng 2005, 18(6): 849-855. doi: 10.1088/1674-0068/18/6/849-855 [Abstract](1314) [PDF 795KB](1204) [Cited by] () All the microscopic and dynamic information of a chemical change from the reactant to the product can be obtained using the laser and crossed molecular beam techniques. They can yield many interesting physical measurements such as differential reaction cross section, integral reaction cross section, excitation function, quantum state distribution and et al. Based on this, the chemical reaction kinetics were developed from the macroscopic to the microscopic elementary state-to-state level. Quantum mechanical reactive scattering theories can give the most complete description of all elementary state-to-state bimolecular reactions allowed by natural law. In this review, several current quantum mechanical reactive scattering methods, such as time-dependent wave packet propagation, closed-coupling differential equation, the S-matrix variational approach and a linear combination of arrangement channels-scattering wavefunction and their applications are given. In addition, further development of the aforementioned theories is also explored. Preparation of Network Fe3O4 Film by In-situ Oxidative Hydrolysis Yao Suwei, Zhao Zhaohui, Zhang Weiguo, Wang Hongzhi [Abstract](960) [PDF 825KB](1071) [Cited by] () Pyridine Decay Dynamics by Two-color Femtosecond Pulse Laser Fields Zhang Jianyang, Liu Hongping, Yin Shuhui, Cong Shulin, Lou Nanquan, Wang Xiuyan Stimulated Raman Scattering in H2 Pumped by a Single Longitudinal Mode Nd:YAG Hua Xiaoqing, Leng Jing, Yang Heping, Sha Guohe, Zhang Cunhao Strong backward first Stokes (BS) in H2 is observed when a single longitudinal mode fundamental frequency Nd:YAG laser (1.06 μm， pulsed width about 9 ns， linewidth 0.003 cm-1) is used as the pump source. Using a pump energy of 120 mJ, photon conversion efficiency of FS and BS was determmed to be 66% and 15% respectively in 1.5 MPa H2, while in 4.0 MPa H2 the respective values are 46% and 39%. Due to their propagation in opposite directions, there is tension between FS and BS, which leads to a relaxation of the oscillation that splits both FS and BS pulses into two peaks, with the BS pulses being narrowed to about 1 ns. Surprisingly, the BS peak power reaches twice that of the pump, which can never happen in the FS case. Furthermore, the beam quality of BS is much better than that of both FS and pump. At 4 MPa of H2 pressure and a 10 Hz cycle rate, the thermal release of the Raman process deteriorates the FS beam quality, without noticeably affecting that of BS. According to this calculations, within the present experimental conditions, the stimulated Raman scattering process does not reach the steady state. Because of this, all of the experimental results can be explained explained by a related transient state, theory of stimulated Raman scattering. High Resolution Study on Highly Excited Rydberg H Atom Scattering with He Wu Guorong, Ran Qin, Dai Dongxu, Yang Xueming [Abstract](1185) [PDF 1092KB](1138) [Cited by] () A high resolution study of the high-n Rydberg H atom scattering with helium was carried out using the H atom Rydberg tagging time-of-flight technique. Differential cross sections were measured for scattering process of H(n)+He→H(n′)+He at the collision energy of 0.526 eV. Experimental result indicates that the scattered H(n′) product is mainly forward distributed, with signals observed in the wide range of angles at the sideway and forward scattering directions. At the sideway and forward directions, a lot of oscillatory structures in the angular distributions are present. Detailed analysis also shows that the principle quantum number, n, is not changed much for the Rydberg H atom at the forward scattering direction. This work provides a good test ground to investigate theoretically the exact collision dynamics between the high-n Rydberg H atom and the helium atom. Photoionization Studies of Chlorobenzene Using Synchrotron Radiation Ma Jing, Ding Lei, Gu Xuejun, Zheng Haiyang, Fang Li, Zhang Weijun, Yang Rui, Wang Jing, Qi Fei Photoionization studies of chlorobenzene were performed by using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS) with vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photons from the Heifei synchrotron radiation source. The photoionization mass spectrum and the photoionization efficiency (PIE) curves of both parent and fragment ions were measured. The appearance potentials of the major ions were obtained from their PIE curves. From these data, the standard formation enthalpies of C6H5Cl+, C6H+5 and C4H+3 were evaluated, some dissociative energy was derived. We will be able to detect chlorobenzen with SPI-TOFMS and 118.0 nm laser light. Identifying Combustion Intermediates of the Premixed Yao Chunde, Li Qi, Ji Qing, Huang Chaoqun, Yang Rui, Wei Lixia, Wang Jing, Yang Bin, Qi Fei A low-pressure premixed gasoline/oxygen/argon flame was studied by using molecular-beam sampling mass spectrometry combined with a tunable synchrotron radiation photoionization technique. The photoionization time-of-flight mass spectrum of gasoline/oxygen/argon in the flame was recorded and the ionization energies of some species were detected. Compared with the ionization energies in literatures, the isomers were uniquely identified. The reaction process of five typical hazardous products was empirically analyzed by species concentration profiles. The experimental results are helpful in establishing the kinetic modeling for a gasoline/oxygen flame. Application of the Zeeman Effect to the Spectral Assignment of Cl2+ Including Its Isotopics Wu Ling, Zheng Lijuan, Guo Yingchun, Xu Chunyan, Yang Xiaohua, Liu Yuyan, Chen Yangqin The A2Πu-X2Πg electronic absorption spectrum of the Cl2+ molecular cation in the region between 16820 and 17350 cm-1 was observed by employing optical heterodyne magnetic rotation enhanced velocity modulation spectroscopy. Cl2+ is a paramagnetic molecule; however, the intensities of some spectral lines, belonging to three bands whose origins are near 17282, 17324 and 16913 cm-1, respectively, remain unchanged with in the magnetic field. This indicates that both the upper and lower states have a weak Zeeman effect. The Zeeman contribution is nearly zero for the 2Π1/2 state, while nonvanishing for the 2Π3/2 state. Therefore, this behavior for the spectral assignment of Cl2+, including its isotopics was utilized and the identity of these bands was confirmed as members of the Ω=1/2 component of the electronic transition conveniently and unambiguously. The assigned bands are the (3, 7) band of the Ω=1/2 component of 35Cl+2 and 35Cl37Cl+ and the (2, 7) band of the Ω=1/2 component of 35Cl2+. It extends the range of vibrational assignments considerably in both the ground and the excited state, and leads to the successful rotational analysis. New molecular constants of Cl2+ were obtained from the observed line positions, band by band, using a weighted leastsquares fitting procedure. Electronically Excited NX(b)(X=F,Cl,Br) Formation by Active Nitrogen Reaction Tang Xiaoshuan, Wang Hongmei, Han Haiyan, Li Jianquan, Jin Shunping, Huang Guodong, Chu Yannan, Zhang Weijun, Zhou Shikang A new method for producing electronically excited nitrogen monohalides NX(b) (X=F,Cl,Br) is reported. The strong emission spectra of NBr(b1Σ+→X3Σ–) are observed when alkyl bromides (CHBr3, CH2Br2, C2H5Br, and C4H9Br) are added to a stream of active nitrogen, generated by a hollow-cathode discharge of N2, in a flowing afterglow system. Some tentative experiments show that the electronically excited NBr(b) is formed by means of metastable N2(A3Σu+) Electronic-to-Electronic energy transfer to NBr(X), which is from the reaction of N(4S) with alkyl bromides. The emission spectra of NCl(b1Σ+→X3Σ–) are obtained when CCl4 or SOCl2 is admitted into a flow of active nitrogen, but neither CHCl3 nor CH2Cl2 addition results in such an emission. It has been proposed that the origin of the excited NCl(b) is an energy transfer from N2 (A) to NCl(X), generated by the reaction of N(4S) with CCl3 (or SOCl2). Similar experiments are also carried out with SF6 as reagent of active nitrogen, or as mixture with N2 in the discharge. By recording fluorescence it was found that excited NF(b) is produced only under discharge through N2/SF6 mixture. The NF(b) state presumably arises from the energy transfer from N2(A) to NF(X), and the latter is generated from the abstraction of fluorine by N(4S) from SF5. Positron Annihilation Study of Irradiated Crosslinking Polyethylene Cheng Mingfu, Ye Bangjiao, Cheng Bin, Zhang Xianfeng, Xi Chuanying, Zhang Liangping, Weng Huimin, Zhou Xianyi Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscope(PALS) was applied to investigate the micro-structural changes of polyethylene(PE) which was irradiated by γ-ray or ultraviolet radiation, the spectra were decomposed into three lifetime components using PATFIT package. Then it was found that the shifts of the degree of cross linking and crystallinity were detected effectively in samples. Moreover, a small quantity of oxygen, which involved in the crosslinking process, was measured sensitively by PALS. The regularity of positron lifetime intensity vs radiation intensity in γ irradiated sample was opposite to that in ultraviolet irradiated one, which is due to the preparation methods of samples and the change of polar functional group in initiator. Furthermore, contrastive patterns were studied by positron doppler broaden(DB) method and the results were agreed well with PALS data mentioned above. Shock Tube Studies on the Nonequlibrium Electron Affinity Kinetics of Fluorine Atom at High Temperatures Wang Su, Cui Jiping, Fan Bincheng, He Yuzhong To study electron affinity kinetics, a shock tube method was applied, in which the test gas was ionized by a reflected shock wave and subsequently quenched by a strong rarefaction wave. As the quenching speed of 106 K/s was reached, a nonequilibrium ionizationrecombination process occurred, which was dominated by ion recombination with electrons. A Langmuir electrostatic probe was used to monitor variation in the ion number density at the reflection shock region. The working state of the probe was analyzed, and a correction was introduced for reduction of the probe current due to elastic scattering in the probe sheath. The threebody electron affinity rate coefficient of the fluorine atom over the temperature range 1200 to 2200 K in an ambiance of argon gas was directly determined. The temperature dependence of electron affinity rate coefficient was discussed. Semirigid Vibrating Rotor Target Model for the Reaction F+CD4→CD3+DF Yao Li, Huang Dekang, Zhong Haiyang In order to study the quantum reaction dynamics of large molecular systems, the timedependent quantum wave packet approach was used to study the F+CD4→CD3+DF reaction systems. The semirigid vibrating rotor model proposed by J.Z.H. Zhang was used on the MJ1 potential energy surface. The barrier height of the MJ1 PES was about 66 meV. In the semirigid vibrating rotor model, the fragment CD3 was fixed to in the geometry, its transition state value, because from the reactant to the transition state the C-D bond in the CD3 group almost remains constant, which can be treated as a spectator bond. The numerical calculation showed that there were oscillatory structures in the energy dependence of the calculated integral cross section. Those structures are generally associated with dynamic resonances. Cross section and rate constant were calculated based on the MJ1 PES of the ground state. These results are comparable to the results of previous calculations and reaction dynamic experiment results. At low temperature and collision energies, the tunneling effect works most remarkably in the reaction process to make the D abstraction easier. At high temperatures and collision energies, the rate constant is higher than the experimental results. Theoretical Study on the Reaction Mechanism of N(4S)+CH3X(X=Cl、Br) Yang Yong, Zhang Weijun, Pei Shixin, Shao Jie, Huang Wei, Gao Xiaoming The reaction of N(4S)+CH3X(X=Cl、Br) was studied by the ab initio method. The geometries of the reactants, transition states and products were optimized at the MP2/6-311+G(d,p) level. The corresponding vibration frequencies were calculated at the same level. The single-point calculations for all the stationary points were carried out at the MP2/6-311++G(3df,2p) and the QCISD(T)/6-311+G(d,p) levels using the MP2/6-311+G(d,p) optimized geometries. The energies of all the stationary points were calculated by the G2MP2 method. The results of this theoretical study indicate that the reaction has three reaction channels: H abstraction reaction channel a, Cl or Br abstraction reaction channel b and substitution reaction channel c. For the N(4S)+CH3Cl reaction, reaction channel a is the main reaction channel. Reaction channels b and c may have a slight contribution in the reaction. For the N(4S)+CH3Br reaction, reaction channel a is the main reaction channel. Reaction channels b and c may have some contribution in the reaction. Theoretical Study on Mechanism of Cycloaddition Reaction of GeX2(X=F,Cl) with Formaldehyde Tan Xiaojun, Li Ping, Wang Dangsheng [Abstract](1071) [PDF 20KB](696) [Cited by] () The mechanisms of the cycloaddition reaction of singlet GeX2(X=F,Cl) with formaldehyde was studied employing the HF/6-311+G theory. The electron-correlation corrections have been further considered by the fourth-order Muller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP4SDTQ/6-311+G). The results show that this reaction proceeds in two steps: ① Difluorogemylene and formaldehyde form an intermediate complex, which is a barrierless exothermal reaction; ② the intermediate complex isomerizes to form the product, which is a rate-control step in the whole reaction. In the second step, the calculated barrier heights are 216.7 and 196.4 kJ/mol before and after considering electron-correlation effects. Compared with that of the cycloaddition reaction of difluorosilylene with formaldehyde, the cycloaddition reaction of difluorogemylene with formaldehyde is relatively slow, whereas the cycloaddition reaction of dichlorogemylene with formaldehyde can be comparable in speed. Theoretical Study of Intramolecular Nucleophilic Substitution on Nitrogen Zeng Yi, Ren Yi Using the -CHR-(CH2)3-NFCH3(R=H, CH3, CH2CF3, CHO, COCH3) as the computational model, the two possible intramolecular reactions, nucleophilic substitution on nitrogen and elimination reaction, were studied at the theoretical level of MP2(full)/6-31+G(d,p). The results indicate that the elimination mechanism, when the -CHR radical is more basic (R=H, CH3, CH2CF3) leading to linear products R-CH2-(CH2)3N=CH2 is preferred. In contrast, electro-withdrawing groups CHO and COCH3 on the attacking site will favor the intramolecular nucleophilic substitution of nitrogen and form 5-membered heterocyclic compounds. These theoretical predictions agree with the available experiments. Theoretical Study on 5-hydroxy-7,4′-dimethoxyflavanone Li Mingjing, Zhang Jinglai, Zhao Dongbao, Liu Xiuhua, Wang Hanqing Geometries of 5-hydroxy-7, 4′-dimethoxyflavanone abtained from Artemisia Ordosica Kraschen were calculated theoretically by both ab initio (Hartree-Fock) and density functional theory(B3LYP). The 1H and 13C-NMR of the compounds were also calculated using the GIAO (gauge-independent atomic orbital)method. Statistical error analysis for the theoretically predicted δH and δC values versus those experimentally observed for the compounds was discussed. The results show that the atom H at C(2) is β-H, so the absolute configuration of the compound is the S conformer. DFT Study on Two Kinds of Electron-transport Materials: 1,3,4-oxadiazole Derivatives and 1,2,4-triazole Derivatives Li Xiaobing, Wang Xueye, Gao Jinwei, Yu Xinliang The simplest organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) device is a two layer device of: ITO/HTL/ETL/Mg: Ag, in which HTL or ETL can act as light emitter. The mobilities of charge are important in optimizing the performance of OLED devices, as high mobilities reduce the resistance of the device leading to greater power efficiency. The electron-transport in the organic solid can be viewed as an electron hopping process. By means of DFT (B3LYP) methods, the structures of two kinds of electron-transport materials in neutral, cationic and anionic states were optimized. The results suggest that the process of electronic transmission of 2,5-diphenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole is mainly the N→O transferences, the process of electronic transmission of 3,4,5-triphenyl-1,2,4-triazole is mainly the N(double linkage)→N(single linkage) transferences and the transition from the triazole ring to the benzene ring connected with the N atom. The third position of the benzene ring was substituted by the electron acceptor groups, the electronic transmission performance was enhanced, while it was substituted by the electron donor groups, the electronic transmission performance was reduced. Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship of Quinazoline Derivatives with the Inhibitory Activity Toward NF-κB Wu Wenjuan, Chen Jincan, Zheng Kangcheng, Yun Fengcun The electronic structures, geometric structures and some molecular properties (generalized structural indexes) of quinazoline derivatives were computed by using density functional theory and molecular mechanism methods to investigate the quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) of the inhibitory activity toward the nuclear factor kappa B. Via a stepwise regression analysis, some main factors affecting the activity of the compounds were factored out, and then the QSAR equation was effectively established. It was found that the hydrophobic parameter of the substituent on ring D is the main factor affecting the inhibitory activity of the compound. The analysis indicated, the larger the hydrophobic parameter, the higher the inhibitory activity of the compound. In addition, the net charge of the first atom and the stereoscopic parameter (MR1) of the substituent R1 on A-ring as well as the net charge of C3 are closely correlated with the inhibitory activity of the compound. In order to test the predicted results of the QSAR equation, we adopted the “leave one out” cross-validation , and found that the calculated coefficient q2 was rather high and the predicted results were both accurate and reliable. Such facts show that the obtained equation has great predictive ability. The above results can offer an important theoretical guide in the search for new quinazoline derivatives with higher inhibitory activity, and in an analysis of their action mechanisms. It is noteworthy that this scheme would be very advantageous in factoring out precursors with excellent inhibitory activity via the computer ADDIT molecule-design, since all parameters in the QSAR equation are computable and controllable. Magnetic Characteristics for Aromaticity and Multiple-fold Aromaticity in All-metal Dianionic Clusters Ga42- and In42- Chi Xianxing, Xu Xiaoqiu, Chen Xiangjun, Yuan Zhensheng The optimized geometries, frequencies, and total electronic energies of two all-metal dianionic clusters Ga42- , In42- are calculated at the B3LYP, B3PW91, and MP2 levels of theory. There are two stable structures for each Ga42- , In42- species. For Ga42- , In42- species the square isomers are the most stable. On the basis of these computed stable structures we focus on two magnetic properties: magnetic susceptibility anisotropy and nucleus-independent chemical shift (NICS) for the square planar Ga42- , In42- isomers, which are calculated with B3LYP and HF methods. The computed results of NICS show that the square planar Ga42- , In42- isomers possess strong aromaticity. The detailed molecular orbital analysis for the two isomers further reveals that the two square planar Ga42- , In42- isomers have multiple-fold aromaticity: one delocalized π MOs and two delocalized σ MOs， which play important role in explaining the special stability of these all-metal square clusters. DFT Study on the Complexation of Protonated Acetophenone-Water Clusters Xu Xuesong The structure and growth trend of the protonated acetophenone-water clusters have been investigated using the DFT-B3LYP method combined with the standard 6-31+G(d,p) basis set. In order to obtain more accurate single-point energy the B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,2p) method was adapted. The results show that the formation of H+C8H8O-H2O is a barrierless reaction process and the equilibrium distance between the proton and the O atom in C8H8O molecule is 1.015 A. For H+C8H8O-(H2O)n(n=1,2,3) clusters, the proton lies between the acetophenone molecule C8H8O and the water molecule H2O. The distance between the proton and the O atom of the C8H8O molecule increased from n=1 to n=3; C8H8O-H+-H2O can be regarded as an solvation shell. For H+C8H8O(H2O)n (n=4,5,6,7,8) clusters, the proton lies between the two H2O molecules forming a H5O2+ structure, C8H8O-H5O2+ is an important structure, which the other H2O molecules will attack from different sides. Exploring the Effects of an External Electric Field on the Characteristics of the Cyclic Water Trimer Li Guixia, Ma Meizhong, Gao Tao, Zhu Zhenghe The influence of an external field on the ground states energy and dipole moment of the cyclic water trimer is investigated. Employing the Hartree-Fork method with basis sets 3-21G. The field-induced H-F force including the internal and external forces and clusters equilibrium structures under balance of this force are analyzed. The external field is varied in the 0.001~0.01 a.u. range. It is shown that the magnitude of the external electric field has important effects on these characteristics of the cyclic water trimer. The energy was found to decrease and the dipole moment to increase with the increasing external field. The change of the electronic population of every atom leads the electrostatic field to vary accordingly. Structure and Properties of the Hydrogen Bond Complex Between Pyridazine and Water Huang Fanqqian, Li Quan The hydrogen bond structure and interaction energy on the ground state of pyridazine and water complex are studied with B3LYP and MP2 method. All calculations show that there are strong interactions for a hydrogen bond N…H-O and large red-shifts for the symmetric H-O stretching vibrational frequencies in the pyridazine and water complex. The first singlet 1(n, π ) and 1(π,π) vertical excitations of the monomer pyridazine and the hydrogen bond between a pyridazine molecule and a water molecule have been investigated with time-dependent density functional theory TDB3LYP method. First Principles Calculation for the Polyacrylonitrile Chain Xu Guoliang, Zhu Zhenghe, Ma Meizhong, Jiang Gang, Xie Andong The equilibrium geometries of the polyacrylonitrile (PAN) chain was theoretically studied using the Hartree-Fock method at the STO-3G levels. As for the optimized structures, the average distance of the C atom couple in the main chain is 155.6 pm; the average distance of the C atom couple in the branch chain is 149.7 pm; the average distance between a C atom bonding with N atom is 115.5 pm. For the charge distribution, because of the influence of a N atom with its comparatively larger negative charge, the C atoms in the main chain are different in their charge distribution. Finally, the vibration models of the chain have been analyzed to clarify the reaction sequence of dehydrogenation and cyclization during preoxidation and carbonization of the polyacrylonitrile. Calculation of Effective Dielectric Constants of a Simple Cubic Lattice of Conducting Spheres Wang Xiaoyun, Zhao Heping, Yan Lin Based on the Maxwell-Wagner model, an analytical formula for effective dielectric constants is derived as a series expansion in powers of the volume fraction of spheres. Effective dielectric constants of simple cubic lattices of conducting particles suspended in dielectric or conducting fluids are calculated. The numerical results show that effective dielectric constants depend upon the ratios of the permeability of conducting spheres to that of the suspending fluids under high frequency (0.1-1 kHz) applied fields, whereas, it is determined by the ratios of the conductivities of spheres to that of fluids under low frequency or dc electric fields. The imaginary parts of effective dielectric constants can be very big sometimes. This means that the resistive losses of electrorheological fluids can be very strong at times. The effect of conduction in a system cannot be neglected in the design of high performance electrorheological fluids. Revised Model of the Magnetorhelogical Elastomer Based on Distributed Chains Dang Hui, Zhu Yingshun, Gong Xinglong, Zhang Peiqiang [Abstract](1117) [PDF 2123KB](772) [Cited by] () On the basis of distributed chains, the model of MR elastomer was revised. After the potential energy of a chain was analyzed using the local field method, a special function was used to describe the distribution of chains. Then the MR effect of distributed chains as well as the overall MR effect were studied. Concurrently, the effects of the curing magnetic field and the matrix were incorporated into the model of MR elastomer. Temporal Self-organization of the Electrode B-Z System Controlled Externally by Weak-Periodical Current Constraint Wei Guoying, Zhong Donghui, Zhang Wenhua, Luo Jiuli The coupled dynamical model consisting of the electrode B-Z system, and its related bulk phase B-Z system externally controlled by a periodical current is proposed on the basis of the Oregonator model. Dynamical behaviors of the electrode B-Z system, when subjected to external current constraint have been investigated systematically under the condition that the bulk phase is at a steady state. Furthermore, by means of the analytic method of slow manifold the regimes favorable to the appearance of limit-cycle oscillation have been determined on both the current~concentration of BrO3- and the current~model parameter plane respectively. The results are similar to those of experiments controlled externally by weak-periodical potential constraint, as reported in former works. It turns out that a limited cycle oscillatory regime degenerates under external periodical current constraint. Meanwhile, a kind of forced oscillations emerges in the regime where limit-cycle oscillations can t appear under constant current constraint. Department of Physics, Shaoxing College of Arts and Sciences, Shaoxing 312000 Chen Zidong, Chen Gang A simplified method, Laplace transformation, is used to discuss the radial Schrodinger equation with the weakest bound electron potential model (WBEPM). Through using such method, the second-order differential equation is reduced to a first-order differential equation and the exact bound state solutions including energy spectrum and normalized wave functions are obtained by making use of the integral. The results agree with those obtained by Zheng. It is most important that the two kinds of new recursion relations of radial wave functions are derived by the same method. These new recursion relations are the relations between the effective principal and angular-momentum quantum numbers, and are comprehensive in application to the calculations of transition probabilities in atomic and molecular physics. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Crystallizing and Vitrifying Processes for Metal Cu Wang Hailong, Wang Xiuxi, Liang Haiyi A series of simulations of the crystallization and vitrification processes for metal Cu were carried out by means of the molecular dynamics technique. The radial distribution function, common neighbors, internal energy and volume of the system were recorded during the processes. The atomic internal energy, atomic Voronoi volume and atomic stress field of the relax system were analyzed at zero temperature. The interaction between atoms in the system is described using the embedded atom potential as proposed by Mishin. The simulation results show that crystalline and non-crystalline phases form at lower and higher cooling rates respectively. In comparison to nanocrystals, it is found that metallic glass has higher internal energy and larger volume. The intrinsic stress field is induced by distortion of the lattice. Effects of Geometrical Confinement on Depletion Force in Colloidal System Guo Jiyuan, Chen Zeshun, Huang Lixin, Xiao Changming The depletion force on a large hard sphere in a solvent of small hard spheres under geometrical confinement is investigated by using local density integration method through Monte Carlo simulations. The model considered here is a rectangular box with two boundless hard plates placed in a direction. Small hard spheres are randomly distributed in the box to form a hard sphere fluid. The number of small spheres is determined by the given volume fraction. The size ratio of the large to small-sphere is 5. Three systems maintained at bulk volume fractions 0.116, 0.229, and 0.341 are studied. The effects of geometrical confinement are taken into account through changing the distance of the two plates. To get rid of the finite size effect, the sizes of the box in other two directions are enlarged in a way when the distance between the two plates is decreased. The configurations of the small spheres are sampled according to the Metropolis algorithm with the two large spheres fixed at a separation. Each small sphere is chosen and relocated using a trial displacement. The new position is accepted so long as it does not result in an overlap with the large hard spheres, the other small spheres or the plates. To take the geometrical confinements into account, the fixed boundary condition is used corresponding to the two plates. Meanwhile the magnitude of the maximum random displacement is adjusted so that the overall acceptance ratio is about 0.3-0.5. The numerical results show that the depletion force is affected by the geometrical confinements. Furthermore, the nearer the two plates are to each other, the larger the effects from the geometrical confinement will be. Suppression of a Spiral Wave Using Linear Feedback Ma Jun, Wei Zhiqiang, Chen Yuhong, Li Yanlong, Pu Zhongsheng A class of excitable media described by the Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation is investigated. Based on the stable and selfadaptive theory, the error between the systems grid variables and the standard sampling of the periodical signal or constant signal was feed back into the system both globally and locally. When the controller was then shut off, automatically, the whole system became homogeneous. Additionally, the scheme was tested under noisy conditions. The numerical simulations results demonstrate its effectiveness. The system reached a homogeneous state and a spiral wave was converted into a target wave, resulting in a wonderful pattern emerging using a different controller. The scheme proved robust in resisting the effects of noise. Monte Carlo Simulation on Stretching of Single DNA Molecules in Confined Environments Zhang Huming, Xie Yongjun, He Xiujuan, Shi Qinwei, Zhu Pingping, Yang Haiyang 2005, 18(6): 1005-1009. doi: 10.1088/1674-0068/18/6/1005-1009 Stretching and relaxation of a single DNA molecule tethered in a specially designed thin slit were studied using Monte Carlo simulation combined with bondfluctuation method. It was found that the extension and relaxation of the single DNA molecule are greatly affected by the confined environment. If the extent of the confined environment is increased by decreasing the distance between the two planar surfaces of the slit, the extension of the single DNA molecule increases, due to the screening of the hydrodynamic interaction of DNA segments by the planar surfaces of the slit. The relaxation of the single DNA molecule in different confined environments verifies this assumption completely. The correlation between the end-to-end separation and flow velocity obtained by Monte Carlo simulation is in good agreement with either the experimental results or theoretical consideration reported previously. Rare Earth Modification and Mechanism of Cobalt Ferrite Ionic Mmagnetic Fluids Liu Yongchao, Jiang Rongli, Zhao Wentao Rare earth composite cobalt ferrite ionic magnetic fluids were prepared by precipitation in the presence of Tri-sodium citrate. The sample phase, structure and particle sizes were determined by X-ray diffraction transmission and electron microscopy. It is clear that the particles appear as variously sized balls, Cobalt ferrite with sizes of 12-15 nm, Dysprosium cobalt ferrite and Yttrium cobalt ferrite with sizes of 6-8 nm. By adding rare earth ions, the average diameter of the magnetic nanoparticles was decreased. The decrease in diameter was explained using a micro-model of rare earth modification. The effect of rare earth ion modification on the saturation magnetization and magnetic induction of magnetic fluids was carried out using a Gouy magnetic balance and a spectrophotometer. The result shows that saturation magnetization and magnetic induction can be improved by adding Dy3+. By adding Y3+, magnetic induction was increased. However, the saturation magnetization then decreased. A theory of the mechanism of rare earth ion modification is discussed in detail. Hydrothermal Synthesis and Gas Sensitivity Study of SnO2 Nanocrystallites Chen Youcun, Zhang Yuanguang SnO2 nanocrystal with different crystalline sizes were prepared with SnCl2 2H2O and H2O2 raw materials by a hydrothermal process. The synthesized powders at different reaction temperatures were characterized by means of powder X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscope， specific surface area and gas sensitivity measurements. The results revealed that the pure SnO2 nanocrystallites synthesized at 120 ℃ have high specific surface area （210.3 m2/g）, and show a high sensitivity to C2H5OH gas. Both traits are beneficial in gas-sensitive detection application. Sized-controlled Synthesis of Platinum Nanoparticles Du Yukou, Zhao Feng, Zou Cuie, Yang Ping, Li Xingchang, Tang Ji'an Different size platinum nanoparticles, ranging in size from 1.8-14.1 nm, were prepared by multi-step reduction of H2PtCl6 by hydrogen adsorbed on platinum atoms. Transmission electronic microscopy and X-ray diffraction were used to characterize the nanoparticles. After thirty-two iterations of the reaction, the diameter of platinum nanoparticles increased from 1.8 nm to 14.1 nm. The average iterative increase was approximately 0.4 nm. The size distribution of the nanoparticles was narrow. Synthesis procedures which allow for control of platinum nanoparticle size offer the possibility for the further research into how the sizes of nano-catalysts effect catalytic activity. Nano-phase Microstructure of Poly(ε-caprolactone)/Silica Hybrids and Its Crystalline Nucleation and Growth Nie Kangming, Pang Wenmin, Wang Yusong, Lu Fei, Zhu Qingren The nano-phase microstructure of high molecular weight poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) /silica hybrid materials, in which polymeric and inorganic component are coupled by hydrogen bonding, and nucleation and growth of PCL chain in the hybrids were studied by scanning electronic microscopy, wide-angle X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry. The results show that the micro-phase separation in the hybrids occurs at the nano-meter scale. The average scale of the polymeric domain is about 70 nm. The morphological structure of the inorganic component appears as irregular particles. The uniform distribution of two phases relates to the bonding strength of hydrogen bonding between components in the hybrids. After a PCL is hybridized, the relative degree of crystallinity decreases and the corresponding scale of microlite change. In addition, with inorganic content increasing, the equilibrium melting points of the PCL in hybrids decrease. The energy that polymeric chains fold to form crystals on the surface of crystal nucleus increases. This result is due to the influence of silica and the bonding strength in hybrids. Studies of Host-guest Nanocomposite Material (NaZSM-5)-AgI Zhai Qingzhou, Cai Jianyan, Li Jingmei, Hu Weihua, Zhang Xiaoxia, Geng Aifang, Shen Zhaoying, Wang Junfan Silver iodide nanoclusters were successfully prepared in the channels of NaZSM-5 zeolite by a thermal diffusion method. Chemical analysis, powder X-ray diffraction, nitrogen adsorption technique, and infrared spectroscopy were used to characterize the prepared samples. The solid diffuse reflectance absorption spectra and luminescence properties were studied. Chemical analysis showed that the guest silver iodide was incorporated into the host NaZSM-5. Powder X-ray diffraction analysis showed that the framework of NaZSM-5 still remained in the (NaZSM-5)-AgI samples. Infrared spectra indicate that the vibration of the framework of NaZSM-5 had little variation attributable to the encapsulation of AgI in the host. This phenomenon is due to the incorporation of silver iodide into NaZSM-5. Investigation of the absorption revealed that the guest silver iodide was encapsulated in the channels of NaZSM-5. Solid diffuse reflectance absorption spectra indicated that the absorption of prepared (NaZSM--5)-AgI host-gust samples had nothing with the host NaZSM-5. The absorption spectra of the (NaZSM-5)-AgI samples were influenced by the size of AgI nanoclusters. Luminescence investigation showed that the prepared samples had a high energy band gap and a strong radiation process. The (NaZSM-5)-AgI samples are luminescient composite materials. Influence of Substrate Temperature on the Structure and Electric Properties of ZnO Films Lu Hui, Yin Qijun, Xia Jiaozhen, Pan Xiaoren ZnO films were deposited on glass substrates by gas discharge reaction evaporation. The influences of substrate temperature on the surface morphology, crystal structure and electric properties of ZnO films were studied by scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, X-ray diffraction spectroscopy and complex impedance spectroscopy. The results show that the films with dense and amorphous structure and lower grain boundary resistance were deposited at room temperature. When the substrate temperature is higher than 50 ℃, the films with certain c-axis orientation can be deposited. With the increase of the substrate temperature, the preferential orientation of ZnO films along c-axis is augmented, the tensile stress along c-axis orientation decreases and the grain boundary resistance increases in a marked degree. When the substrate temperature is higher than 100 ℃, the increasing trend of the preferential orientation of ZnO films along c-axis slows down. ZnO films possess high preferential c-axis orientation and best crystalline quality at 180-200 ℃. These possess a smooth surface, symmetrical grain dimension (i.e. 30-40 nm), inerratic crystal shape, less tensile stress and 0.965 epitaxial degree along the c-axis direction. Here the grain boundary effect increases and the grain boundary resistance is evidently more than that of the films deposited at room temperature. The mechanism by which substrate temperature affects crystal structure and grain boundary properties were also discussed. Self-assembly of Water Soluble Multi-wall Carbon Nanotube/Copper Phthalocyanine Dye Multilayer Films Yu Haihu, Yu Dingshan, Zhou Lingde, Wang Haixia, Jiang Desheng Water soluble multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were prepared via chemical oxidation. Under ultrasonication，the chemically treated MWCNTs can be dispersed in water to form colloids. The MWCNTs were characterized by FT-IR spectra. The FT-IR spectra reveal the presence of carboxylic groups on the nanotubes. The functional groups can improve the nanotubes-solubility in water. Alcian Blue 8GX (AB), a quaternary ammonium dye of the copper phthalocyanine group, was dissolved in water and used to form electrostaticcally self-assembled multilayer films. The MWCNT/AB composite films were characterized by UV-vis absorption spectra as well as AFM and fluorescence spectrum. The experimental results show that the MWCNT/AB composite films can be produced easily. Compared to those of the AB aqueous solutions, composite films exhibit pronounced differences in the absorption and fluorescence spectra, which suggests that AB molecules aggregated in the composite film, and that a chargetransfer might exist between AB molecules and the MWCNTs. All-Solid-State Thin Film Lithium Batteries with LiCoO2 Cathodes Liu Wenyuan, Fu Zhengwen, Qin Qizong Amorphous and oriented polycrystalline LiCoO2 thin films, used as cathode material for an all-solid-state thin film battery, were fabricated by using RF magnetron sputtering and annealed at different temperatures. The morphology and structure of LiCoO2 thin films were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. All-solid-state thin film batteries, comprised of LiCoO2 cathode films with different structures, lithium phosphorous oxynitride electrolyte film and metallic lithium anode film, was successfully prepared and their properties were examined by chronopotentiometry. Results showed that the structure and crystallinity of the LiCoO2 films strongly influenced the electrochemical performance of all-solid-state thin film lithium batteries. Worth nothing was the battery with an oriented polycrystalline LiCoO2 film it exhibited the best electrochemical performance, and delivered a discharge capacity of ～55.4 μAh/cm2μm. Furthermore, when subjected to over 450 charge/discharge cycles, that battery suffered no obvious fode in capacity. Hydrogen Adsorption and Oissociation on the Ni(511) Stepped Surface Xiao Haixia, Deng Huiqiu, Hu Wangyu The adsorption and dissociation of hydrogen on stepped surface (511) of nickel are studied with the embedded-atom model (EAM) method. The adsorption energy, the length of the adsorption bond and the adsorption height for a single hydrogen atom are calculated. Three kinds of stable sites are found for hydrogen adsorption. There are the double-fold bridge site B on the step edge, the three-fold hollow site H3′ on the step surface and the four-fold hollow sites H1 and H2 on the terrace surface. Compared with a hydrogen atom adsorbed on low-index (001) surface, there are two other adsorption sites near the step: the two-fold bridge site B on the step edge and the three-fold hollow site H3′ on the step surface. At the same time, the absorbability of the hydrogen atom at the site H1 is intensified. The results show that hydrogen adsorption on Ni (511) is affected by the existence of the step. The active barriers, adsorption energy and corresponding bond length for dissociation of a hydrogen molecule on the stepped surface are presented. The results show that the dissociation is easier at the bottom of the step. It is shown that the steps are the active sites for hydrogen adsorption and dissociation. Thermochemical Study on Solid State Reaction of Nanocrystalline Zinc Phosphate Tetrahydrate at Room Temperature Yuan Aiqun, Wu Jian, Huang Zaiyin, Song Baoling, Liao Sen Nanocrystalline zinc phosphate tetrahydrate was synthesized by solid-state reaction at ambient temperature using Na3PO4·12H2O and ZnSO4·7H2O as regents. The enthalpy of reaction and the standard enthalpy of formation of zinc phosphate tetrahydrate were studied by microcalorimeter. According to Hess s law, a new thermochemical cycle was designed. The dissolution enthalpies of reactant (△H1) and product (△H2) were performed by a RD496 microcalorimeter at 298.15 K using aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid (4mol/L) as a calorimetric solvent. Ultraviolet spectrum, conductivity and refractive index were measured respectively. The results show as follows: △H1=(-47.180±0.084) kJ/mol, △H2=(-7.617±0.096 )kJ/mol. The ultraviolet spectra of the above solution are the same. Conductivity values after 500 times diluted are 2180 and 2181μs/cm respectively. Refractive indexes are 1.3679 and 1.3678 respectively. The standard enthalpy value of the reaction was calculated: △rHm=-39.530 kJ/mol. The standard enthalpy of formation for zinc phosphate tetrahydrate are recommended -4354.004 kJ/mol. Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Ce-MCM-48 as a Mesoporous Molecular Sieve Jin Zhongxiu, Tong Hongwu, Yong Guoping, Sheng Liangquan, Liu Qingliang, Liu Shaomin Cerium incorporated MCM-48 molecular sieves have been hydrothermally synthesized by both a mixed template and a variable pH approach. The samples were characterized by various physicochemical methods, including X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, diffuse reflectance UV-vis spectroscopy, XRF spectroscopy, nitrogen adsorption. These results reveal that cerium is incorporated in MCM-48 in the form of well-dispersed tetra-coodinated cerium ion. Maintaining the proper concentration of cerium and adjusting the pH allows for a more ordered structure with a much higher specific surface area than that of MCM-48. Ce-MCM-48 was employed in the liquid phase oxidation of cyclohexane with aqueous H2O2. The results showed that Ce-MCM-48 is more active as a catalyst for the liquid phase oxidation of cyclohexane. The oxidation conversion catalyzed by Ce-MCM-48 is 8.3 %-14.2% higher than that catalyzed by MCM-48 and the selectivity for the main products increase by 63.4%-68.8%. Accordingly, Ce-MCM-48 has been shown to have important potential applications. 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__label__cc	0.586098	0.413902	wiltshire horn cross dorper The Wiltshire Horn is one of the foundation breeds for Katahdin, Wiltipoll, and Easycare breeds and the Hampshire breed along with Southdown sheep and the Berkshire Nott.[4]. First cross WiltshirexMerino ewes are excellent prime lamb mothers. He produced some excellent lambs and has now been sold. We purchased our first White Dorper ram in 2011 from Paul Hamilton’s Dorper Stud (Berwick, Victoria). Buyer Beware! As we decided to start our own Wiltipoll flock, we purchased two ASSBA registered Wiltipoll rams and some Wiltipoll ewes in 2013. He has produced some great terminal lambs for market. Dorper Lambs waiting to be fed. The large commercial operator can tap into Wiltshire Horn genetics and create wool-shedding hybrids, so freeing themselves from the expense and hassle of annual shearing; This page was last edited on 17 October 2020, at 16:19. The smaller-scale producer seeking added value with quality, naturally reared, full-flavoured meat. The ram had strong Wiltshire Horn characteristics. Our new Reavesdale ram (2017) was registered with ASSBA and joined to all our ewes in March 2019. This is a hair breed, growing a thick, coarse coat in the winter and shedding in the summer. We started producing our prime lamb with Wiltshire Horn/Dorper Composite sheep. We purchased a commercial Wiltipoll ram from the Gee Tee Stud (Gunbower, Victoria) and joined him with our younger ewes in March 2013 in order to produce lambs closer to the standards being developed for the Wiltipoll breed. He has sired some beautiful lambs, and we have decided to keep five of his young ram lambs from our Registered Wiltipoll Stud for sale later in 2020. Until the 20th century, the breed was chiefly traded at local events such as the Westbury Hill Fair. In 2012, we purchased a second White Dorper ram from Paul Hamilton. These rams were used again to produce our 2015 drop Wiltipoll and Composite lambs. No longer a rare breed, the Wiltshire Horn is proving its worth to three particular groups of producers: Australian Wiltshire Horn Breeders Association, Belgian breeder with extra information about this breed (only available in dutch), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiltshire_Horn&oldid=984007755, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2010, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The Wiltshire Hornis a breedof domestic sheeporiginally from Wiltshirein southern Englandraised for meat. They were replaced in 2016 with an AWA registered A1 BINGARA Wiltipoll ram and a young ASSBA registered ram (2014) from our flock. This ram has now been sold. Males and females both have horns. We previously used the following rams to develop our Wiltshire Composite flock: Our original Wiltshire Horn x Dorper First Cross was a commercial ram, purchased in 2009 from Patricia Ballantyne’s Wiltshire Horn Stud (Munro, Victoria). [2] They are good mothers and have high fertility. We are now only joining registered Wiltipoll rams to all our ewes, including our Wiltshire Composite flock. We previously joined this ram each year with our original Wiltshire Horn x Dorper First Cross ewes, also purchased from the same property. The Wiltshire Horn was until the eighteenth century one of the predominant sheep breeds of southern England. Das Wiltshire Horn ist eine der ältesten britischen Schafrassen und gehört zu der Gruppe der kurzwolligen Schafe. Follow us on Facebook to catch the latest news and events. We then added some Dorper rams; however have decided during this process that we prefer the Wiltshire breed. In 2013 we joined a young commercial Wiltipoll ram to some of our cross-bred ewes and produced some excellent poll, clean shedding lambs. Dorper Wiltshire Horn Cross. [1] The breed is unusual among native British breeds, for it has the unusual feature of moulting its short wool and hair coat naturally in spring, alleviating the need for shearing. The Wiltshire Horn is suitable for crossing with any other breed to produce lean prime lambs. Dorper Ram. In 2011, 2012 & 2013 we joined him with ewes retained from earlier lambing seasons. Rams weigh about 250 lb (110 kg) and ewes 150 lb (68 kg).[4]. Dorper Lambs. [3] For hundreds of years, it served a clear function on the thin chalk soils of the Wiltshire Downs, requiring little shelter from the elements and providing dung and urine to fertilise the wheat-growing land. White Dorper Ram. In the early 1980s, 45 registered flocks were in the UK,[4] but the 2009 edition of the flock book of the Wiltshire Horn Sheep Society recognises almost 300 flocks. Our original Wiltshire Horn x Dorper First Cross was a commercial ram, purchased in 2009 from Patricia Ballantyne’s Wiltshire Horn Stud (Munro, Victoria). The fact that they do not require shearing or crutching and do not suffer readily from flystrike is making them increasingly attractive to the commercial sheep sector, particularly as even pure-bred lambs can reach slaughter weight in as little as 16 weeks. In March 2014 we joined one of these rams (BUSSEY) with a small group of ASSBA registered Wiltipoll ewes (also from the Gee Tee Stud) and the other ram (GRANGE VALE) with our flock of Wiltshire Composite ewes. We sold him towards the end of 2013 as we had decided to reduce our flock and wished to increase the percentage of Wiltshire type sheep. View gallery. Both sexes are white with occasion black spots on the undercoat. Click the link to the left to take a look at our new ‘shop’ page full of stunning Dorper Society merchandise. The ram had strong Wiltshire Horn characteristics. Dorper Rams. Dorper Viridian Corky & Wiltshire Horn Ram. In December 2013, we acquired two registered Wiltipoll rams that had been purchased earlier by the Gee Tee Stud. Sein Haltungsschwerpunkt war die englische Grafschaft Wiltshire im Südwesten Englands. They are good mothers and have high fertility. This ram was sold in 2014. Brickhill Doodle Dorper x3. White Dorper Ewes. Ram horns grow one full spiral each year until maturity. [citation needed]. It was nearly extinct at the start of the 1900s. The Wiltshire Horn is a breed of domestic sheep originally from Wiltshire in southern England raised for meat. Past Events. Dorper x2 Wiltshire Horn x3 Cross. At the same time, it provided an easily managed source of quality meat, but the rising price of wool and a general move away from horned sheep had the breed suffer a dramatic decline throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The breed is unusual among native British breeds, for it has the unusual feature of moultingits short wool and hair coat naturally in spring, alleviating the need for shearing. Our 2016, 2017 and 2018 GLENAL Wiltipoll lambs were sired by our BINGARA A1 Wiltipoll ram (2013). In 1923, in an attempt to save the breed, the Wiltshire Horn Breed Society was formed. This property produced both Wiltshire Horn and Dorper sheep and a cross-breed of the two. Dorper Ram. We also registered one of our GLENAL Wiltipoll rams (2014) with ASSBA (Australian Stud Sheep Breeders Association) and ran him with our Wiltshire Composite ewes in 2017. This property produced both Wiltshire Horn and Dorper sheep and a cross-breed of the two. Brickhill Dorper Ewes & Lambs. Da das Wiltshire Horn seine Wolle im Frühjahr abstößt, muss diese Schafrasse nicht geschoren werden. They have the great wide hips, wedge shape of the Wiltshires and are good milkers. This ram shed completely by summer and produced good lambs when joined with the younger ewes. In 2018 we purchased an AWA registered A1 Wiltipoll ram, as well as some A1 Wiltipoll ewes, from The Reavesdale Wiltipoll Stud in NSW. The Queen 12 September 2019 Full Episode, National Academy Of Sports Medicine Reviews, Cable Bench Press Alternative, Lincoln Mkc 2018 Price In Uae, Lincoln Mkc 2018 Price In Uae, Basil Pasta With Sundried Tomatoes, 87 El Camino, 2020 Toyota Land Cruiser For Sale, 9th Grade Biology Lesson Plans,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line64
__label__cc	0.677965	0.322035	Cultura em Lisboa. Museu de Lisboa – Torreão Poente do Terreiro do Paço Close Image Gallery The Museum of Lisbon is a multi-branched museum comprised of five distinct spaces: Palácio Pimenta, Roman Theatre, Saint Anthony Museum, Casa dos Bicos and the West Tower. The first four spaces present long duration exhibitions that complement one another despite having their own distinct themes. The West Tower of Terreiro do Paço is located on a site that, prior to the 1755 earthquake, contained the Paços da Ribeira (which King Manuel I ordered built in the early 16th century as the official royal residence in Portugal). Part of the structure of the officially named Praça do Comércio – one of the largest squares of its kind in Europe – it has been transformed in recent years into a space for medium duration exhibitions of a wide variety of themes related to the culture and history of Lisbon. Accessible for people with reduced mobility. Exhibition Room Praça do Comércio, 1 Only during temporary exhibitions 11 AM to 5 PM (Tuesday to Sunday) Closed on Mondays and on 1 January, 1 May and 25 December. Last entry: 30 minutes before closing. info@museudelisboa.pt www.museudelisboa.pt 711, 714, 728, 732, 735, 736, 759, 760, 781, 782 Avenida Eng. Duarte Pacheco, 26 geral@egeac.pt © 2021 EGEAC. Todos os direitos reservados. \| Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line65
__label__cc	0.716455	0.283545	Elizabeth Drakes's Site Micro Fiction: Goddess of War 30 July 25, 2020 by Elizabeth Drake The goddess of war had her army. She had her generals. And the demons quaked. Or did they? Kvasir stared at the barren plain where Emelia had been lost. Beyond to the harbor that still bore no fish where Caledon had died. And to the mountains forever covered in snow where Dominic was slain. If the demons could not separate them this time, they would usher in a new era. But if the demons turned them against Athena again, he feared all humanity would be lost. Filed Under: Micro Fiction Tagged With: alone, Athena, battle, children, Demon, Goddess of War, Gods, Gods of Light, loss, love, Micro Fiction, romance author, Romance Novel, Romance Writer Dominic lost control at Kvasir’s words and accidentally smashed the training dummy in two. “You cannot send me back!” “I’m trying to take you home.” “But I must protect Athena and Emelia, and goddess knows what trouble Caledon will need me to help him with.” “But what about your family?” Dominic slammed his fist on the table, shattering the heavy oak. “My family cares little about me. But I will protect those I love.” “Don’t look at me like that. I’m not going back.” Caledon folded his arms over his chest. “But your family, your friends,” Kvasir said. “No one has called me a half-breed since I arrived here. No one has told me I don’t belong. Pushed me down. Accused me of stealing. And if they did, Athena, Dominic and Emelia would set ‘em straight. For the first time, I belong. You’re not taking that from me.” Kvasir caught Emelia hugging the stuffed bear Athena had given her that first night so long ago. “I am trying to get you home. I promise.” “That’s why I’m afraid. Here, I have you and Athena that care for me. Caledon and Dominic are infuriating but are like brothers. Back home…There is nothing and no one.” She hugged her bear again. “I can help Athena save the world. I know I can. And… I don’t want to be alone again.” Athena frowned. “I don’t remember much of my childhood. We’ve discussed this before.” “But none of it?” Kvasir asked. “Perhaps it was too awful to remember.” “Or perhaps it did not exist,” Kvasir murmured. Athena tossed a sword to Dominic. “I would rather prepare for the future than think of the past.” Kvasir handed the sword back to Athena as his apprentice’s words echoed through his mind. It wasn’t possible, and yet…If the legends were true, the goddess had created the world then chose to walk among her creations when they most needed Her. Could she not then pierce the sky or turn back time? How much did he know about Athena?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line67
__label__wiki	0.626187	0.626187	Reading: Ethereum Just Shot Up $250 But Don’t Bet on That Resistance Breaking Share Tweet Send Share Bitfury to Host Upcoming Blockchain Summit on Sir Richard Branson’s Private Necker Island Matthew Tompkins \| Jul 22, 2017 \| 11:30 The Blockchain Summit, held on British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s private Caribbean island, is hosted by the Bitfury group and Bill Tai. Credit China Fintech is also listed as providing special support. Now in its third year, the annual event is being held for key global influencers in technology, civil society, democracy promotion, and innovation. It will be held from July 25-29, 2017 on Sir Branson’s private Necker Island. It is not open to the public which, for a summit advocating pro democracy, does give the event an exclusive and isolationist overtone. Branson, who hires out the Island, is outspoken on the benefits of Bitcoin and blockchain technology. In 2013 he was among the first to accept Bitcoin payments as a business, by announcing he would accept the currency for his Virgin Galactic enterprise, which would see his company providing trips into space. According to Valery Vavilov, CEO and co-founder of The Bitfury Group: Sir Richard Branson is a true visionary and we share his deep passion for global change for the better. We are thrilled to announce the second annual Blockchain Summit will happen this summer on his Necker Island and look forward to an extremely thoughtful and provocative dialogue with some of the world’s top influencers. A Private Event The Blockchain Summit is a private event, held on Branson’s private island and is described on the Summit’s website as being; …a set of intimate discussions to lay out the framework for a world where humankind is fully benefiting from the amazing technology behind the blockchain. The island offers accommodations for up to 30 people and can be rented out at US$65,000 a day or US$2,167 per person per day. There is no mention or promotion of Bitcoin on the Blockchain Summit site making the coin conspicuous by its absence. Bitcoin has allowed people around the world access to global trade, alongside low-cost transactions, which is already revolutionary in finance and pro-democratic in itself. Not mentioning Bitcoin may indicate a movement to recognizing more closed source proprietary uses of the open source technology. Bitfury operates a major Bitcoin mining pool so it is unlikely that they would wish to see a conflict of interest, indicating they are looking to pivot or further branch out their blockchain solutions. The purpose of the Summit is to explore how blockchain technology can be applied across a broad spectrum of scenarios, from cyber security and economic empowerment to content rights and voting applications. Among this year’s most notable participants are former Estonian president Toomas Ilves, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, Afghan tech CEO Roya Mahboob and EU Parliament member Eva Kaili. An impressive lineup of speakers will also be in attendance, including MIT’s Brian Forde and Michael Casey, Bitpesa CEO Elizabeth Rossiello, and CIVIC founder Vinny Langham. According to the Summit’s website: This unique Summit will welcome key global influencers in technology, civil society, democracy promotion and innovation to a riveting discussion about the world-changing potential applications of the Blockchain to include but not limited to democracy promotion, cyber security, the sharing economy, voting and land titling. The video below features muted highlights from the 2016 Summit, which, in an age of streaming media, lacks the transparency many have come to expect from events like these. The event, however, looks set to provide blockchain news and information on its usage to those within the industry, helping facilitate the sharing of ideas and cooperation alongside peers whilst also helping to educate business leaders on the latest developments and trends with blockchain usage. Let’s hope it meets its goals. Do exclusive events like this make you feel separated from the discussion? Are they useful for growing the industry? Could there be more done to keep the discussion open? Tell us what you think in the comments below. Images courtesy of Forbes, Pixabay, YouTube BitStarz Player Lands $2,459,124 Record Win! Could you be next big winner? Tags: blockchain summit, blockchain technology, Sir Richard Branson For updates and exclusive offers enter your email below. 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__label__cc	0.563513	0.436487	The Imagination of Revenge Last Saturday, Rosemary, our daughter Hilary and Hilary’s younger daughter Lauren, 11, and I watched King Solomon’s Mines after dinner. I make it a point to select a film for us to watch that will please everybody. In many cases I have seen the films before and usually I had seen them as a boy. As a man of 71 I can laughingly comment that I would surely dump my wife of 45 years for Deborah Kerr (or Charlotte Rampling or Molly Parker). Rosemary smiles but does not know how serious I am really. My eldest granddaughter Rebecca is shocked and said so that I would opt for a dead woman (Kerr) over my very much alive wife. I have no idea if Rosemary thinks the same (would she dump me for the handsome dead star?) about the other star of King Solomon’s Mines, Stewart Granger. But what is important is that it is human to dream, to imagine and associate. For today I took out the 1934 version of Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Montecristo, directed by Rowland V. Lee and with Robert Donat and Elissa Landi. My reason for picking these films is that I remember them as the films of my boyhood. Life was simple. You went to school, you ate and you went to the movies. There were only five classifications for movies worth seeing, they were conboys (Argentine Spanish), de guerra (war), espadachines (sword fighters but especially with fencing foils), piratas and that exclusive classification, Tarzán. I had read 13 of Andrea Camilleri’s novels featuring Salvo Montalbano, a comisario of police in Sicily before I first saw the wonderful Italian TV series Montalbano with Luca Singaretti as the sensitive man who likes to eat and swim. For many of us who read novels before seeing films the often-made argument is if the actor or actress fits our idea of the protagonist of the novel. For many Basil Rathbone was and is Sherlock Holmes. For John le Carré we know that after having seen Alec Guinness play George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in the TV series, somehow the man, Guinness had taken his character, Smiley out of his head and that he, le Carré would henceforth have a hard time writing about that protagonist. Few today would ever read To Kill a Mockingbird and not imagine Atticus Finch not being Gregory Peck. But in spite of the reality of a film and its actors supplanting the imagination of the characters of a novel I see imagination still with us and important. Earlier today, Lauren was playing in the living room. She was putting her fingers in the soil of my potted plants. I asked her what she was doing. Her reply startled me, “I don’t know what I am doing,” and she grinned as she told me. I realized that somehow I had broken a game of her imagination. When Rebecca was 8 I proposed to my friend, Argentine painter Juan Manuel Sánchez that he teach her to draw and paint. At the time Rebecca was just three blocks away. I found it practical that Rebecca would learn art from a master while conversing in Spanish. Sánchez was adamant that this was not a good idea. He explained that a child until 11 or 12 had to be left alone to play with their imagination. They had to be left alone so that they could draw loosely without any restraints of an imposed style. Ancillary to this was that old-time dictum (is it still relevant today?) that you never asked a very young child what a sketch or painting was supposed to represent. Nor were we supposed to ask, “What did you learn in school today?” It seems we had to be careful not to destroy that world/life of the imagination by asking precise questions as to content and meaning. We watched The Count of Montecristo. Lauren had seen a more modern version of it but was still transfixed, glued to all the activity on our Sony Trinitron TV set with its former cutting edge cathode ray tube. The whole evening cemented my acute realization on how important a child’s imagination is. And of course part of that is a child’s willingness to read books without pictures where the child has to imagine faces and places. In the beginning of Olaf Stapeldon’s Star Maker and man sits in his garden, leaning on a tree to gaze a starry sky: Overhead obscurity was gone. From horizon to horizon the sky was an unbroken spread of stars. Two planets stared unwinking. The more obtrusive of the constellations asserted their individuality. Orion’s four-square shoulders and feet, his belt and sword, the Plough, the zigzag of Cassiopeia, the intimate Pleiades, all were duly patterned on the dark. The Milky Way, a vague hoop of light, spanned the sky. Imagination completed what mere sight could not achieve. Looking down I seemed to see through a transparent planet, through heather and solid rock, through the buried grave-yards of vanished species, down through the molten flow of basalt, and on into the Earth’s core of iron; then on again, still seemingly downwards, through the southern strata to the southern ocean and lands, past the roots of gum trees and the feet of the inverted antipodeans, through their blue, sun-pierced awning of day, and out into the eternal night, where sun and stars are together. For there, dizzyingly far below me, like fishes in the depth of a lake, lay the nether constellations. The two domes of the sky were fused into one hollow sphere, star-peopled, black, even beside the blinding sun. The young moon was a curve of incandescent wire. The completed hoop of the Milky Way encircled the universe. And from there he soars out of his body to explore space. Stapledon published Star Maker in 1937 and is a work that is purely of the imagination. Coincidentally tonight, in bed reading the Sunday NY Times that is delivered Saturday night I found in the Sunday Review a column by conservative Ross Douthat, who in spite of being a conservative is someone I admire and read. The column called Puddleglum and The Savage points out that on November 22, the date of John Kennedy’s assassination (the presidential motorcade was leaving Love Field), C.S. Lewis collapsed in his Oxford bedroom. And when a TV in the next room announced Kennedy’s death Aldous Huxley requested a final shot of LSD. In that column I found this: In C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair in which a character named Puddleglum confronts a queen who has confined the heroes in an underground kingdom, and lulled them with the insistence that the underground world is all there is – that ideas like the sun and sky are dangerous wishful thinking, undermining the immediate contentment [Puddleglum says] “Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things. – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones…We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow.” As I read the above I understood the role of old-style films with few or elaborate special effects. I understand the importance of convincing, pushing, coaxing a young person to read. By doing so it will be a while before an Alec Guinness or a Luca Singaretti can replace that imagined person into the flesh and bone of the actor playing him. We enjoyed The Count of Montecristo. I did not tell my family that my image of the count had for some years been the face on the cover of my Penguin Classic - Portrait of an Artist by Jacques-Louis David and that Robert Donat seemed too pretty and too good to play the vengeful man. After all The Count of Montecristo features: literature’s most famous case of an implacable and most un-Christian revenge. It features a female serial poisoner, two cases of infanticide, a stabbing and three suicides, an extended scene of torture and execution, drug-induced sexual fantasies, illegitimacy, transvestism and lesbianism, a display of the author’s classical history, the customs and diets of the Italians, the effects of hashish and all in about 1000 pages. Both King Solomon's Mines and The Count of Montecristo can be found at Limelight Video Alas they and the Vancouver Public Library do not have The Corsican Brothers with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. or The Crimson Pirate with Burt Lancaster. Next Saturday's film will have to be another. Link to: The Imagination of Revenge First Man of the Land It is impossible to ignore today that event in Dallas 50 years ago. This morning I drove my wife to whom I have been married for 45 years to the UBC Hospital to undergo one of those feminine operations, one not involving a scalpel. She is a trooper. She slept the night but I didn’t. I feel that she and I are like our 2007 Chevrolet Malibu. The warranty is long gone and the repairs are going to be cropping up haphazardly until that final one and we will go where cars and elephants ultimately end up. In 1960 I was attending St. Edward’s High School, a Catholic boarding school in Austin, Texas. My mother, who lived in a mining town in Mexico, Nueva Rosita, Coahuila, was all in a flurry of excitement. She was telling me that a sexy Catholic US Senator would perhaps become the first Roman Catholic president of the United States. On campus we were excited, too. We all had to explain to a few of our non-Catholic classmates what Papal Infallibility was about and the fact that if Kennedy were elected president he would be his own man. Few believed us. On September 26, 1960 I had been playing pool in our Junior/Senior rec room. We had a TV in the room and some of us watched that first debate between Nixon and Kennedy. I was particularly impressed by the voices of both men. They were speaker’s voices. I found Kennedy’s insertion of an r at the end of any word that finalized with an a charming. I was told that it was a Bostonian accent. When Kennedy did win the election our campus was in a minor uproar of delight and pride. I graduated in 1961 and our Edwardian, the school yearbook was dedicated to Kennedy and another icon of the time Pope John XXIII. Our pride was short-lived. We had many Cuban students in our school and when the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs occurred I remember distinctly being harassed by one of those Cuban students that “Your president abandoned us.” It was then that I had some of my first intimations of a doubt that have followed me all these years. When convenient I am an Argentine, or a Mexican, or a Canadian (I am a citizen of Argentina and of Canada) but deep inside I feel very American even when I suffer the indignity of crossing the border at Blaine. I am treated as an alien. Which I am. The Americans, with singular foresight have paved the way for the eventual immigration of Martians and Proxima/Alpha Centaurians. Those at the border would never suspect or know that I have a feeling of alienation in Vancouver, in Buenos Aires, in Mexico City and now that my mentor Brother Edwin Reggio, C.S.C. has died this year I no longer have a desire to visit Austin. Austin is a place where I lived the transition from boyhood, those teenage years and I almost became a man. I have those roots there and a lingering feeling of “I am an American!” persists. No further revelations of Kennedy’s errors of judgment, a presidency perceived as being so-so, and no new indications of possible incompetence will mar my memory of my first reading of that Edwardian dedication 52 years ago. In spite of my present alienation, Kennedy was a presence in my life, at least on those Camelot years that I can look back and tell myself, “I belonged. I was part of that.” I look forward to that phone call from UBC Hospital sometime today. I will pick up my Rosemary and bring her home. We belong there. Here! Link to: First Man of the Land Photography - Full Speed Ahead & Damn the Equipment For anybody beginning to read here, today's blog is the first one that has appeared elsewhere first. I have written it for Medium. I have developed a rapid liking to it as it is intelligent and nobody is able to leave such stuff as "nice pic,", "I like," or inject YouTube videos or links to newspapers without at the very least placing intelligent words explaining the motive behind it. Perhaps there is indeed hope for us. Rebecca Stewart — Alex Waterhouse-Hayward For the photograph above I used a Mamiya RB-67 Pro-SD and a 140mm floating element macro lens. Film was Kodak Plus X. After scanning the negative(in RGB) I added red and yellow for the result. Below is the same picture without the colour. At age 71 I am a former magazine photographer and writer in obsolescence (redundant in British lingo) retired because at least here in Vancouver and probably in the rest of Canada the era of paid photography is either gone permanently or at best for a while. A scanned 100 ISO Polaroid taken with Mamiya RB and 90mm lens. I used a 2x3 Chimera softbox fired by a Norman 200B I purchased my first camera an Agfa Silette in 1956 in a Washington DC pawnshop. The first roll I used was Kodak Tri-X. I remember taking snaps of the Parthenon replica in Nashville. The negative is long lost. A year later after saving up with odd jobs in the boarding school I was attending, St Edward’s High School in Austin, Texas I spent $100 on a Pentacon F single lens reflex which came mail order from Olden Cameras in New York City. Ektachrome 100G, Nikon FM-2 50mm lens But it wasn’t until I moved with my Canadian wife and two Mexican-born daughters to Vancouver in 1975 that I became a photographer full-time. In that job I have been sent all over the world on assignments, worked for virtually every magazine around (except the National Geographic) and had access to film stars, rock stars, directors, politicians and hoods. Mamiya RB-67 Pro-SD, 140mm lens, Ektachrome 100G, 2x3 ft Chimera softbox fired by Norman 200B Until three months ago my only digital camera was an iPhone 3G. I have taught photography at several schools in Vancouver and I have never had the need to tell my students that I did not own anything like the expensive Nikon and Canon DSLRs they had in their hands. Three months ago, after having been urged by my wife, I finally purchased a digital camera. I am extremely proud of my most sophisticated Fuji X-E1. Mamiya RB-67 Pro-SD 90mm lens, Kodak Plus X negative scanned, from below, with sheet of white paper over it to get the texture seen here. I went to Buenos Aires a month ago and took the Fuji (along with two Nikon FM-2 loaded with b+w and colour negative film). Because I have yet to acquire anything like Lightroom I shot jpgs and I was satisfied, even happy with my results. Mamiya RB-67 Pro-SD 140mm lens, 2x3 softbox powered by a Dynalite. This is a scanned and reversed Polaroid peel from the 100 ISO Polaroid film. Just a few years ago I did a lot of work for a local arts weekly. Work diminished. In one assignment where I had to photograph some Shakespearean actors I took some pictures with my iPhone 3G but I used the modeling light of a 2x3 ft sofbox and placed my subjects on a nondescript darkish wall. The folks at the magazine never noticed the difference and even lauded me for sending them something that seemed to be “different” from my usual. Mamiya RB-67 Pro SD. 90mm lens, 2x3 softbox and Norman 200B, Ektachrome 100G Before I left for Buenos Aires I shot a cover for the publication and five inside shots with my Fuji. I did use a largish softbox and a good studio flash. They never noticed the difference either iPhone 3G, under Western Red Cedar, late afternoon But I had to adjust to the idea of still using the small camera on my big tripod. When you shoot loose with a small camera you (or at least I did) tend to have heads too close to the top or slice the fingers of my subjects’ hands. For too long I have used a Mamiya RB-67 Pro-SD on a tripod and I like to frame my shots carefully. Nikon FM-2, 85mm lens, Kodak Tri-X, modeling light from Dynalite in 2x3 softbox — colour added in scanning negative When I shoot cover jobs for magazines I rarely take more than 20 pictures on 120 Ektachrome (now Fuji Provia). With my digital Fuji I shot the cover with 8 exposures. I am not about to let that camera dictate how I am to use it. I was frugal with film, I will be frugal with pixels! Same as above picture The purpose of this essay, my first purpose-written for Medium.Com is to clear misunderstandings that I have gleaned from reading some of the interesting stuff in Click the Shutter. A few have written that with an iPhone 5 you don’t need better equipment. Others decry the loss of the analog system of taking pictures. Others, rightfully state that the equipment is not as important as knowing how to use what one has. I would only modify that last statement by adding that it is important to note the limitations of the equipment being used. With that said I have often loaded my heavy and largish Mamiya with Ilford 3200 ISO film and hand held it as if the camera where a 35mm camera. While digital stitching has made the expensive swivel lens film cameras of the past obsolete, I still believe my Noblex (it takes a negative or slide that is 2¼ by 7 inches long) can take pictures that very good and with a perspective different to the one of stitching. iPhone 3G, Texas If there is a problem with digital cameras it is the perception, mostly thanks to their advertising, that says that with one of these in your hands you can do anything. I would beg to differ as this eliminates the idea of using lighting to control contrast and to impose on the picture a bit of one’s personal style. Mamiya RB-67 Pro SD, 250mm lens wide open with slow shutter and using the modeling light (no flash) coming from a 2x3 softbox powered by one Dynalite head. Vignetting Corel Pro X2 With that said I will place here some portraits of my granddaughter through the years and I will mention what I used and how I took them. Note, especially, one photograph that I took with my 3G iPhone. If one realizes the iPhones are most comfortable with low contrast situations you will understand why my Rebecca sitting in a metal bench under a conifer in a late afternoon looks so good. Slide film would have rendered the scene a greenish blue. A digital camera, even a cheap one with good white balance would have rendered the scene in the right colour.There is a saying in Spanish (I am Argentine born): El diablo sabe más por viejo que por diablo. That translates to: the devil knows more not because he is the devil but because he is older. Something then has to be said for experience. And lastly here in Vancouver we still have at least five labs that process colour negative and slide film in small and large formats. The b+w film I shoot, I process and print in my still functioning darkroom. Link to: Photography - Full Speed Ahead & Damn the Equipment	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line71
__label__wiki	0.625925	0.625925	COVID-19, Response COVID-19: Update from Asif Saleh (27 June 2020) by Asif Saleh Bangladesh has crossed 100 days of COVID-19. Testing has plateaued. Health facilities outside the capital remain under strain. Read the latest on COVID-19. Dear colleagues, partners and friends, Bangladesh crossed 100 days with COVID-19 this week. The number of confirmed cases have plateaued to a range of 3,300 to 4,000 this week, but so has the testing. There still has not been any decision on how red zones will be implemented in Dhaka. Positive news after testing kits controversy The government is planning to introduce multiple COVID-19 test methods from July, including antigen, nucleic acid, and antibody ‘dry and wet’ tests – which provide results in less time. The Directorate General of Health Services plans to import 100,000 to 200,000 kits at a time. Efforts to expand testing facilities at the sub-district level are underway. 3,000 medical technologists and technicians are being recruited. Again, the question remains how quickly this will be done, as time continues to be of essence. There was a major scandal this week about a testing fraud by an authorised private sector provider, JKG Health Care. Questions have been raised about how this organisation was given authorisation to test in the first place. A coordination cell to prevent COVID-19 transmission has been formed. The cell will monitor and coordinate the virus preventive activities of all the agencies and departments under the division, ensure coordination between the activities of the agencies of the division and other departments of the government and monitor all the civic services being provided by city corporations in red zones, involving volunteers, public representatives, imams (religious leaders), NGO representatives and eminent personalities. The work of the community support team, implemented by BRAC, with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and World Bank, is set to start very soon in a number of wards of Dhaka. Further coordination with Dhaka North City Corporation was established this week. The pressure on health care facilities is growing outside Dhaka now, where there are increasing reports of people dying with symptoms similar to COVID-19. There are also increasing accusations from patients of not getting critical medical care. Last week in Khulna, a Mr Mujahidul Islam’s family was refused treatment in six hospitals before he passed away due to lack of oxygen. He was not suffering from COVID-19. The numbers of cases in Khulna exploded from 150 to 1,000 last week. The rising tension is causing people to take the law into their own hands. A clinic owner was beaten to death on 17 June after the public accused him of wrong treatment. Three more red zones were announced in Khulna, which went under lockdown from 25 June. Our key focus at BRAC, that we have invested most heavily in, has been community-level awareness, ownership, testing, and wearing of masks. How are the slum dwellers in Dhaka? There are surprisingly low numbers of people going to hospitals or reporting symptoms within the slums. BRAC’s informal survey, conducted through its community organisers, found 290 patients with symptoms similar to COVID-19 in approximately 300 slums we work in. There are no reports of people going for testing, nor is there widespread reporting of hospitalisations. No one seems to be sure how wide the spread is. Newspaper reports say that the impact of the disease on the low income population seems to be mild, but this is based on anecdotal observation and no formal study has been done. Universities could look into this. These people mostly work in outdoor spaces and are from a relatively younger age group. Those may play out as factors as well. Some persisting challenges Gaps in data continue to cause issues. Inaccurate data released by the Directorate General of Health Services continues to create confusion. Many initiatives to contain the virus are being delayed due to data constraints. There has been a temporary halt in the publication of infection data for Dhaka city since 16 June by the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research. As they are the only source of COVID-19 data in Bangladesh, Dhaka is now in a data-blackout. The government is yet to ensure safe management of COVID-19 waste, resulting in infection risks and environmental hazards. Experts fear that poor waste management may exacerbate the situation. BRAC’s climate change programme and Social Innovation Lab are working on a project in this regard. Reports continue about people abandoning family members due to fears of becoming infected by the virus. Authorities are supporting affected people and taking legal action against the perpetrators. Looking at the economy, experts suggest that Bangladesh should delay its graduation from a least developed country (LDC) to a developing country. Bangladesh will lose preferential trade benefits that are likely to have a negative impact on employment and local investments during this time of economic disruption, experts warned at a virtual discussion organised by the United Nations. 12 million people have been pushed into the category of “new poor”. Bangladesh’s official graduation is scheduled for 2024, with a three-year grace period for preparation. More details are in the situation report. China has said Bangladesh will get priority in terms of cooperation and support if they can successfully develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Bangladesh has also been selected for human trials for the second phase of the Chinese vaccine trial. A team of Chinese medical experts attribute the spread primarily to a lack of awareness about social distancing and hygiene practices amongst the public. 50,000 people have left Dhaka, or have shifted their families to their village homes, because of unemployment and pay cuts. Many are leaving without the certainty of income back in their villages. BRAC spoke to Al-Jazeera about this trend this week here. In terms of how the pandemic is affecting more vulnerable groups, some notable developments this week include: An urgent appeal to the government and policymakers was released by a number of leading rights organisations. Organisations fear the virus has worsened conditions for women who were already challenged by prevalent gender inequalities. 13,494 women and children were survivors of violence in May 2020, according to a survey by Manusher Jonno Foundation. 4,160 people admitted to have faced abuse for the first time in their life. Findings show a sharp rise in incidents of violence, with access to support services limited by the lockdown. Family courts, which deal with such cases, are still not under the new virtual court system. Rohingya children are facing increased risks of violence, trafficking, child marriage and child marriage, due to the socio-economic conditions caused by COVID-19, according to Educo, an global NGO dedicated to child rights. BRAC also released the results of its own study on how the pandemic is affecting students in Bangladesh, see more on that in the feature in the report. From next week, while the letter will come out every week, the extended report will come out fortnightly instead of weekly. See the full report here. If you want to see any particular issue covered, please let us know at covid19response@brac.net. Asif Saleh is the Executive Director of BRAC in Bangladesh. Tm Masum Great job ! Go ahead. Gender-based violence is a phenomenon deeply rooted in gender inequality and continues to be one of the most notable human rights violations within all societies. Patriarchy and structural factors at multiple levels within our societies, prevent women and girls from gaining access to equal opportunities and realising their dreams. Both women and men experience gender-based violence but the majority of victims are women and girls. Working with men and boys is part of the solution to bring about gender transformative change in our society. 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__label__wiki	0.533937	0.533937	Editor's Picks, Financial inclusion Understanding the many faces of poverty by Marjan Hossain For three days, I embarked on this journey with a dearth of knowledge on village etiquette, a language barrier (weak spoken Bengali), tainted with urban hues. Yet I was accepted into their homes with open arms and wide-eyed grins. And as we spoke to the families, our preconceived, textbook definitions of hardcore poverty came into question. Bangladesh and poverty go a long way back. Statistically, we show progress by the significant decline in national poverty rates. But recent studies show that poverty reduction rate has reduced from 1.2 percentage points annually from 2010 to 2016 compared to 1.7 from 2005 to 2010. Approximately 20 million people still live in extreme poverty in Bangladesh. To enlighten myself and understand the multidimensional aspects of poverty, I, along with 11 other students from various universities in Dhaka, travelled to four villages in Rangpur- a district where poverty levels have actually risen since 2010. We interviewed 3 families living in ultra-poverty, as part of a visit facilitated by BRAC and BRAC Institute of Governance and Development. Our first interview with an ultra-poor family (control household for a randomised control trial research) revealed that despite having access to electricity, a sanitary latrine, and a steady source of earning, the family of 4 are still severely susceptible to climate and health shocks. They barely manage to eat 3 times a day – meals largely consisting of rice and foraged leaves. Foreseeing no other means of living, the family resorted to sending their 7-year-old daughter to Dhaka to work as a housemaid. The second household, a recently selected participant of the programme, had a consistent income source, by selling puffed rice, and a cow (provided by BRAC). Yet they still continued to sleep under a leaking roof with no access to a sanitary latrine. The author on the left and BRAC UPG programme participant Monoara on the right. Fighting poverty as their everyday battle, these resilient individuals inspired us. We evidenced this full throttle while interviewing our third household, a 2015 graduate of the BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation Programme. She received a cow as an asset, and with the appropriate mentoring from BRAC, she was able to diversify her income. Within 3 years, she became the proud owner of poultry, livestock and a sewing machine, which judging from her expression, was her favorite amid the rest. She had better living standards which helped to reinforce her identity, self-confidence and strengthened her position as a decision-maker in her household. She exhibited incredible confidence in her daughter’s future as a working woman. Our experience proved to us that the extent of poverty goes deeper than we had imagined. Unless we step out of our shoes and into theirs, we cannot truly comprehend ultra-poverty. A take on local governance: Reality vs. Perception We commonly depict local government officials as unreliable in performing their duties. What the majority believe may not be entirely wrong, but such depictions may be a misrepresentation of the entire truth. We gained a different perspective when we met local government officials at Badarganj Union Parishad. We learnt of their sources of funding, safety net allocations and other initiatives they implement for communities. We realised two things from the discussion: Firstly, critique should be backed with facts or primary data. Secondly, in spite of the corruption, and the existence of a flawed system, we found that sometimes, the officials are making an actual effort. These efforts fail to catch our attention due to constraints, such as shortage of safety net allocations, funds, inadequate tax collections, etc. Misunderstandings among locals arise due to the process of arbitrary decision-making in the allocation of funds for various development programmes. Along with many other internal issues that we were not privy to, the job of a union parishad official is, nevertheless, a difficult one. “Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being.” We encounter poverty every day. We go past slums. We lend an ear to our helpers in distress. We talk to our rickshaw mamas. Yet, its gravity fails to grasp our psyche, since we have never really experienced absolute constraints in living. Three days are not enough to comprehend the intensity of their suffering, but it was enough to start a conversation within myself. This experience made me realise that, with consistent mentoring and asset transfers, these individuals can come to recognise their potential and slowly, but surely, lift themselves out of poverty. I saw extreme poverty compelling one mother to send her daughter off to work at an early age, while a small transfer of reproducible assets stimulated another to invest in developing her daughter’s human capital. Poverty is multidimensional, and hence should be tackled with multidimensional skill-sets. But what are we, the labeled millennials and generation Z’s doing about this? We need students from various disciplines, from engineering to anthropology to finance, to take initiatives and contribute effectively to tackle this issue. It seems tedious in theory, but during such times of global turmoil and uncertainty, we the youth, can no longer afford to be apathetic. Marjan Hossain is a Graduate Research Assistant, East West University. 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__label__cc	0.742603	0.257397	History of the Port Townsend Marine Science Center In 1982, a small group of dedicated individuals, led by Libby Palmer and Judy D’Amore, approached Washington State Parks to obtain use of an empty building on the pier in Fort Worden State Park. Their goal was to establish a community-based, marine educational facility so that Port Townsend residents, along with state park visitors, could learn more about and directly experience the region’s abundant marine heritage. These founding volunteers established a non-profit corporation, signed an agreement with Washington State Parks, received a small grant to build the first touch tables and purchase a pump, and started offering seasonal marine educational programs. For many years the PTMSC operated solely on a voluntary basis. Programs expanded into local classrooms, an adult lecture series was established and in 1988 the PTMSC secured a significant water quality monitoring grant that marked the beginning of the PTMSC’s Citizen Science Program. In 1989, the PTMSC established year-around paid staff positions. From there, growth took off—a formal volunteer program was begun; residential marine science summer camps were established; partnerships with local, regional, state and national schools continued to flourish; the state-wide, model education program, “Our Water World” started; bird-watching and natural history cruises were established; Citizen Science opportunities expanded; an annual teacher training workshop was established in addition to operating the aquarium and offering daily interpretive programs. In order to accommodate this continued growth, in 2001 the PTMSC renovated the marine facility on the pier and refurbished a vacant building across the street, creating a new exhibit space focusing on natural history and entitled, “Where the Land Meets the Sea.” Programs and exhibits in the Natural History Exhibit were developed in partnership with the Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus and with Washington State Parks. 30 years later, we’re celebrating PTMSC’s birthday in July! This is one of 30 reasons to give $30 to celebrate 30 years. Or increase your impact and give more. All funds support the Future Fund to keep the PTMSC going strong. Donate online or call (360) 385-5582, ext. 104, or send a check to 532 Battery Way, Port Townsend, WA 98368. Imagining the next 30 Coming Soon – Hope’s Story Acquiring an Orca Skeleton Opening of the Foss Maritime Discovery Lab The Legacy of Volunteers at the PTMSC Opening the Natural History Exhibit Port Townsend Bay Monitoring Project “Look, a Shrimp!”—Driving an ROV Collecting our Marine Animals for the Exhibit PTMSC’s First Hydrophone In 2003, Seattle’s Burke Museum Partnered with PTMSC Finding the First Whale Skull Fossil “Docks Project” for Quilcene 8th graders Rhody Parade with Mammoth What a freezer could tell Home Crew The Seaweed Study Chocolate Octopus Dive Summer Camp—An excerpt from the Fall 1990 Octopress Winter at the PTMSC Our Beloved AmeriCorps Kaza’s Story Free Science Classes Marine Biology Camp—from a camper’s point-of-view Low Tide Fest Itti-vik, the baby seal Flensing the Baleen (whatever that means) PTMSC’s First Beach Seine and First Octopus	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line80
__label__cc	0.559956	0.440044	Yuri Leiderman Anne Frankʼs Father and Mushrooms of Consciousness Extension (Geopoetics 2) (Moscow Variant), 2010 Untitled, 1986, pages from a notebook on cardboard, collage and black pen on paper, 20,5 x 33,5 cm Visions of Hans Castorp, exhibition view at Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, 2010. Photo: Marcus Schneider From The Best and the Very Dubious, part 2, 1992, oil on canvas, plaster, strings, collage on cardboard, 100 x 120 cm Die Ehre hüt von Jugend auf (Geopoetics 19), actors and accessories, 2009. Exhibition view at Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2009 Saxophonist in Goyang, pastel on paper, 68,5 x 100 cm, 2011 Birmingham Ornament, in collaboration with Andrej Silvestrov, film, 2007 - 2013 Death of Mammoth, production photo for the film “Birmingham Ornament” (ongoing project), in collaboration with Andrej Silvestrov, 2009 Untitled (Elk-Socks Auto-Portrait), inkjet print, 55 x 72,5 cm, 2000 Third Millennium, exhibition view at Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, 2008. Photo: Marcus Schneider From Third Millennium (1), newspaper, soup, painting on cut paper, 200 x 140 cm (framed), 2008 Untitled, paper collage on C-Print, 82,5 x 62,5 cm (framed), 2004 Portrait of Serezha Esenin in Reeds, oil on canvas, 180 x 130 cm, 2012 Simurg, oil, acrylic and watercolor on paper and canvas, 170 x 230 cm, 2012 Skaldic Kennings, color pencil on paper, 5 drawings, 28 x 34 cm each (framed), 1997 Portrait of S. Anufriev, oil and enamel on canvas, 210 x 150 cm, 2012 Born in 1963 in Odessa, Ukraine. Lives and works in Berlin and Moscow. Often drawing inspiration from national identity themes, Leiderman’s works seek to transform those issues into abstractions, thereby testing their elasticity while foregrounding their unexplainable character, and thus restoring to them some measure of irreducible, if not ironic dignity. He was one of the founding members of the Medical Hermeneutics group in 1987. Portrait dans les roseaux, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France. Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany. Die Visionen des Hans Castorp, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany. Samizdat, Galerie Traversée, Munich, Germany. Die Ehre hüt von Jugend auf, Museum Folkwang im RWE Turm, Essen, Germany. Centre d´Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland. Third Millennium, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany. Birmingham Pattern, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK. Geopoetika, Traversée, Munich, Germany. On shore. The dances of killed Trojans, KU galerii, Tallinn, Estonia. Rapport Geopoetique, Musée d’ Art Contemporain, Marseille, France. Kolumbarienmaschinen, Elisabeth Kaufmann gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. Le Quartier, Quimper, France. Les performances de Dima Blein, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France. Kefir grains are going onto the flight, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj, Slovenia. Bare Buttocks Bremen flower, NCCA, Moscow, Russia. Géologues: Nord contre Sud, le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France. To give names to kefir grains, Herzliya Art Museum, Herzliya, Israel. Achselhohlen eines Entenflugels, GAK, Bremen, Germany. Electrons names, Michel Rein gallery, Paris, France. Bill Beirne / Yuri Leiderman, TV gallery, Moscow, Russia. Circles and Lumps, Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Apprendre l’histoire de l’Europe à un chat et mesurer le bonheur en petits chiens, Galerie Michel Rein, Tours, France. General reminder, (with Janos Sugar), Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Galeria Wyspa, Gdansk, Poland; Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia; TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Apprendre l’histoire de l’Europe à un chat, FRAC Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France. Soccer WorldCup, Skola gallery, Moscow, Russia. Paris-Jura road /fragments/, Galerie Michel Rein, Tours, France. West in Space, (in co-operation with A. Andora), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The Best and the Very Dubious, Skola gallery & 1.0 gallery, Moscow, Russia. Bergen Assembly, Bergen, Norway. Heimat Kunde, Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Impossible Community, The State Museum of Contemporary Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia. Panorama, Michel Rein Gallery, Paris, France. Contrepoint, l’art contemporain russe, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. Ground Floor America, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria, travelling to Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark. European Atelier, Central house of Artist, Moscow, Russia. Corpus Extreme (Life +), Exit Art, New York City, USA. 1st Brussels Biennial, Brussels, Belgium. Total Enlightenment Moscow Conceptual Art 1960-1990, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. Worpswelten, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. Tanzen, Sehen, Museum für Gegenwart Kunst, Siegen, Germany. 2nd Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia. Ready Trade Trailer, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany. VER BAILAR, CAAC- Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain. Trajectory1 The sun on the wall, Exhibition hall Arsenal, Riga, Latvia. Voices of silence, Herzliya Art Museum, Herzliya, Israel. Common Destination, The Drawing Center, New York City, USA. Venture II, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Artists Against The State, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York City, USA. Reflections, NCCA, Moscow, Russia. Avenirs de Villes, Site Alstom, Nancy, France. One/And another/About, City Art Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Second present, Trafo gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Works on the Edge, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary. MIR Dreams of Space, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. Statements, Traversée, Munich, Germany. Shrinking cities, Kunst Werke, Berlin, Germany. Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Biennial, China. Flipside, Artists Space, New York City, USA. 7 sins, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Introducing Sites 2, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany. Individual Systems, 50th Biennial, Venice, Italy. Berlin/Moskau – Moskau / Berlin 1950-2000, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany; traveling to Tretjakov Gellery, Moscow, Russia. MIR – Art in variable gravity, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK. Broadcasting, Technical Museum, Zagreb, Croatia. September horse, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Small Talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. What, how and for whom, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria. Geologists at sunset, Fort Asperen, Netherlands. L´Autre moitié de l´Europe, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France. Peripheral 4, Iasi, Romania. What, how & for whom, Dom hdlu, Zagreb; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria. ARTEAST 2000+ International collection, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia. La frontiere recit dexperiences, Maison du livre / Institut dart contemporain, Villeurbanne, France. Total recall, TV gallery, Moscow, Russia. Act 99, Galerie Maerz, Linz, Austria. Fairy tales, Metamedia centre Plasy, Czech Republic. Distant similarities, Veleterzni palac, Prague, Czech Republic. After the Wall, Moderna Museum, Stockholm. Travelled to Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany. Le fou dedouble, CHA- Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia. (and other places) Еuroremont, Cultural centre Slavjanskiy bazar, Moscow, Russia. Hô!, Flemish cultural centre De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Academy of Ice, Fine Arts Museum, Odessa, Ukraine. 11th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Ecology of emptiness, ICA, Moscow, Russia. Mystical correct, Hohenthal & Bergen Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Interpol, Fargfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden. 1st European biennial Manifesta, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Borders of interpretation, Russian state humanitarian university, Moscow, Russia. No Mans Land, Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark. Kraftemessen, Munich, Germany. 1st Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, South Korea. Fluchtpunkt Moskau, Ludwigsforum, Aachen, Germany. Fontanelle, Kunsthalle Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. Passage de oriente, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy. Identity – Selfhood, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland. 3rd Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey. Perspectives of conceptualism, The Clocktower Gallery, New York City, USA. MANI Museum, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt Am Mein, Germany. Sowjetische Kunst um 1990, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf – CHA- Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia. Artisti Russi Contemparanei, Museo d`Arte Contemparanea, Prato, Italy. The New Soviet Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma; ICA- Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA. In de USSR en Erbuiten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Expensive Art, 3-rd KLAVA exhibition, Moscow, Russia. Green show, ExitArt, New York City, USA. Moskau – Wien – New York, Messepalast, Vienna, Austria. Perspectives of conceptualism, 4-th KLAVA exhibition, Moscow, Russia. 1st KLAVA exhibition, Moscow, Russia. Beyond the fence, AptArt, Moscow, Russia. This entry was posted on May 22, 2013 by admin.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line90
__label__cc	0.514155	0.485845	Damsels, Divas and Dames Bring Glamor and Awareness to Eugene by Matt Toomb February 21, 2011 April 4, 2011 Latest/Music "Cher" at the Hult When was the last time you got to see big names like Cher, Madonna, or Lady GaGa at the Hult Center? I’ll let you in on a well-kept Eugene secret, these Damsels, Divas, and Dames have been coming to the Hult every year since 2000. ISCEE Seal Thanks to the Imperial Sovereign Court of the Emerald Empire, better known as ISCEE (Lane County’s oldest Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Transgender non-profit). “Damsels, Divas and Dames,” a drag show benefitting Eugene’s HIV Alliance, is now entering it’s 12TH YEAR and has become a steady favorite for attendees from all over Oregon and Washington. “It’s a great chance for the community to experience what we’ve (I’ve) been doing for 30 years in a comfortable setting, and doing it for a good cause as well. It’s dual-purpose, ‘cause most [of the attendees] don’t go to the bars,” Bill Sullivan, aka Regent Empress XXXVII Daphne Bertha Storm, told EDN today. Originally started in 1992 as a one time fundraiser by Empress 16 Salli B Goode, eight years later it became an annual event. “In 2000 we decided to pick it back up again, and it’s just been building and building each year. HIV hits real close to home for many of us, over the years the people we’ve lost, it’s just a great cause.” Damsels, Divas and Dames 2010 Statistics show that three people were infected with HIV in the time it took most of us to drink our coffee this morning. In Oregon the number of people thought to be living with HIV is just below the 5,000 mark. This number may be low as it is estimated that roughly 21% of people that are infected don’t know they are. Hoping to raise $7000 for the HIV Alliance, the show, which features entertainers from all over the NW including many local favorites, is skyrocketing in popularity. “This year our mailing list tripled, we had 600 people on the list last year, now we have 1900. We ordered 2000 more postcards that HIV Alliance mailed out this week, and if we can get a ¼ of the mailers to buy tickets we can sell out.” Returning masters of ceremonies this year are the fabulous Diva Simone and KMTR’s Marc Mullins. “He and Diva are our favorites, and audience favorites. They’ve been doing it for years and they do such a great job.” If you have never been to a drag show and have always been even slightly curious about checking one out – I gotta tell you, THIS is the one to see. I attended last year’s show and had a total blast! This will not only be entertaining, it is an event, and a cause, worth supporting. ISCEE UO Provost asks for feedback on tuition increase Administrators aim to improve communication with students through office hours, but few students attend We’ve Waited For What Seems Like A Very Long Time For The Start. Matt Toomb Matt Toomb is a blogger, professional writer and game reviewer. Matt currently lives in Eugene, Oregon. The Ducks Claim Insurer Stiffed them Over Bonuses Sonic Highways: The World According to Grohl HBO Go, Netflix, and The Beginning of The End? Comcast's $2 Billion-a-Year Secret Order Eat Repeat The Food Fight Upgrading to an iPhone 6 - More Phone, More Money Cutting the Cable: Week 2 Cutting The Cable Toomb's New Blu Rays (and DVDs) Toomb's New Releases for 5/13 Toomb's New Blu Rays (DVDs too) Toomb's New Releases for 5/6 Toomb's New Releases for Friday 4/29 Doug Benson Cracks up the WOW Hall Bilbo Baggins is Back as Peter Jackson Returns to Middle Earth Toomb's New Blu Rays (and DVDs) - No Release Day Edition Cirque de la Symphonie, Why it was Worth Going Evening Update – FEB 21 Latest from Latest "Red sky at night, sailor's delight, Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning." That old A Beginner’s Guide To Buying Your First Bong Throughout the years, bongs have been widely available in different forms. For those who’ve been using New technology could change the lives of amputees and paraplegics by connecting their brain to a Through fires both literal and figurative in the incredibly hard year now drawing to a close,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line93
__label__wiki	0.501669	0.501669	DOMINICAN MUSIC ABOUT THE PROJECT CREDITS REVIEWS GENRE GUIDE AUDIOS BIBLIOGRAPHY IMAGES VIDEOS in the united states Images: KumbaCarey Fruto de mi Cosecha CD album cover, ca. 2016 Photo credit: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library; Music Collection « Previous: Yasser Tejeda and Palotre performing during Sonido Kiskeya event at El Museo del Barrio, August 7, 2019 Next: Fiesta de Palo featuring Pa' Lo Monte at Jet Set Cafe, Bronx, NY, June 18, ca. 2000 » MORE FROM OUR GALLERY Credit: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library; Music Collection KumbaCarey Fruto de mi Cosecha CD album cover, ca. 2016 A History of Dominican Music in the United States, a project of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) at the City College of New York, has been made possible in part by a Digital Project for the Public Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Division of Public Programs (www.neh.gov). Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed on this website do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. To contact the project's staff, please write, call, fax or email the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute: The City College of New York, North Academic Center (NAC) 4/107, 160 Convent Avenue at 138th Street, New York, NY 10031 Tel: 212-650-7496, Fax: 212-650-7489, Email: dsi@ccny.cuny.edu, Website: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/dsi. © 2021 CUNY Dominican Studies Institute	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line95
__label__cc	0.612093	0.387907	Henry Hollist Family Tree: Henry Hollist, 1816-1870 On FamilySearch.org under ID: KWJ8-B1M Born in Sussex, England - Died in Farmington, Utah, USA The life story of Henry Hollist Married Elizabeth Chandler in 1837 and had the following kids: William Chandler Hollist - 1844, Elizabeth Hollist, Deborah Hollist - 1846 Elizabeth and Deborah didn't carry on the Hollist name, and William Chandler died around age two. Elizabeth wrote a history which contains information about her parents and origins. His wife Elizabeth died in Dec. 1864 after they had moved to Farmington, Utah, USA Henry then married Frances Berry in 1865 and had the following kids; which, as far as I can tell, were the only one's to carry on the Hollist name into the 1900's: William Henry Hollist John Taylor Hollist All of the above were born in Sussex, England with exceptions of William Chandler and Elizabeth, born in Middlesex, England, and William Henry and John Taylor, born in Farmington, Utah, USA Henry Died just 6 months before his last child, John, was born, and Frances lived another 15 years (he was 19 years older then Frances Berry and 10 years younger then his first wife, Elizabeth). From Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line97
__label__cc	0.738788	0.261212	Dare - The First City covers an area of 350 mu, has a total construction area of about 700 thousand square meters. The project is located at the junction of Jinling West Road and Fenghuang Road where a mature community life, developed public, traffic facilities, the surrounding facilities are available Project planning includes multiple property forms, such as French court villa, new classical high-rise, personalized business street, and great supporting with friendly children's community, intelligent community, green ecological community, international high-end service community, including Luojia Children's Theme Park, intelligent community, palm app "Ding Dong life", Royal maid service, multi-theme landscape gardens and others, which are the attracting spots of the project. Dare - The First City jointly creates the representative work of Danyang high-end luxury housing by collaboration with some noted firms, such as Tongji University Architectural Design Research Institute, L&A Design, Colliers International, Aidi Renhe, Run Chuang Institution, Nantong Sijian Construction and others. It is an one-stop system integrating prime locations, premium housings and better services alltogether, and actualize the concept of Danyang version "three good models of international community", and provides high-end residential experience for each of elites with good taste and pursuit, which is synchronizing with Europe and America. The world's top-tier partners Architectural design: Tongji University Design Research Institute, second firm to none in architectural design throughout China Landscape Design: L&A -- top-tier player in this industry, customizes the scheme of landscape garden; Property management: Colliers International, one of global five great property management enterprises Whole Agency: Aidi Renhe, the high-end residential experts Marketing: Run Chuang Institution, the domestic excellent marketing team, provides consultant service for the whole process; Powerful combination and unprecedented lineup build you 1st dream house. One city, thousands of dreams Wu Culture originated in Danyang 5000 years ago. The residents in this city with rich cultural traditions have their own lifestyles. Dare Global, known as an icon of global Danyang, has entered into the real estate industry, performing a magnificent turn! Latest masterpiece --- Central great living city of 700 thousand square meters is a new benchmark of cultural and enjoyable human housing. The chief ecological luxury housing World-class "central park style luxury housing" concept has provided the ecological green landscape covering an area of nearly one hundred thousand square meters. Urban villa --- it has carefully selected natural stone dry hanging facade, and the full-height living room, suite type master bedroom design, super large entry garden. Classic and elegant neoclassical high-rise foreign-style house, with a super large space between buildings, is equipped with 87-270m2 multi-area housing type, meeting the customers' different needs. The first “friendly children's” community With the forward-looking concept, it creates the first "friendly children's" community in Danyang: brand kindergarten where the next generations grow up internationally and win at the starting line; Luojia Children's Theme Park sets with the pirate ships, the tree houses, crawling, sand and other entertainment facilities, enabling the children challenge themselves in their own nature. Community Children’s Activity Center is a space where children can get close to communicate with each other and teaching through lively activities. "Cloud services" intelligent community The future science and technology can be enjoyed now. The advanced APP software can integrate the community activities, business consultation, property services and other information into one platform to facilitate you control in one hand; Intelligent community centrally integrates the functions from community one-card and parking management, to indoor intercom, security system and others, making access intelligent management be enjoyed. Five star intelligent security system and high-tech remote monitoring system can ensure that your life shall not be affected by the outside world upheaval and ensure a comfortable homeland all the time. Customized style "royal maid service" Colliers International, one of global five great property service enterprises, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the United States, has 485 branches in 63 countries around the world. At the invitation of Dare, Colliers International brought top luxury housing service standards of New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo to Danyang for the first time, customizing "royal maid service" for Dare - The First City. Global supreme property service standards can be enjoyed in Danyang exclusively.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line100
__label__cc	0.612175	0.387825	HomeWORLDUPDATE: Iran begins installation of IR6 centrifuges: report UPDATE: Iran begins installation of IR6 centrifuges: report Under an international nuclear deal in 2015, which put an end to the Iranian controversial nuclear issue, Iran agreed to reduce the purity of its enriched uranium to 3 percent. April 9, 2019 admin 0 Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) started the installation of IR6 centrifuges on Tuesday, official IRNA news agency reported. The installation of a chain of 20 advanced IR6 centrifuges began in the Natanz enrichment facility in central Iran, following a decree of President Hassan Rouhani, said the report. “We are happy to announce the installation of the IR6 centrifuges. This will be a big achievement for the Iranian nation,” Rouhani was quoted as saying at a video conference. With the installation of the centrifuges, subsequent tests will be carried out, according to the report. In July 2018, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the AEOI, said that Iran had set up a factory to manufacture rotors used in advanced centrifuge machines. In February, Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the AEOI, said Iran was ready to boost the capacity of its uranium enrichment and to increase the level of enrichment to 20 percent of purity. Following the withdrawal of Washington from the Iranian nuclear deal in May last year, Tehran has threatened that it might reconsider its approach to the deal, if other signatories fail to guarantee Iran’s benefits from the accord. 1937: Japan flies into the aviation record books Rebels attack military position in Syria’s Hama, killing 3 soldiers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0041.json.gz/line101

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