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__label__cc	0.672417	0.327583	Scientific American - Nurturing Genius 11min As the longest-running longitudinal survey of intellectually talented children, SMPY has for 45 years tracked the careers and accomplishments of some 5,000 individuals, many of whom have gone on to become high-achieving scientists. The study's ever growing data set has generated more than 400 papers and several books and provided key insights into how to spot and develop talent in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and beyond. ... the work to identify and support academically talented students has raised troubling questions about the risks of labeling children and the shortfalls of talent searches and standardized tests as a means of identifying high-potential students, especially in poor and rural districts. Tags: Education, Science, Research, Learning, Mathematics, Talent, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, Julian Stanley, Psychology, Skills, Tom Clynes The Outline - The Sickening Business of Wellness 10min The wellness phenomenon isn’t new, and its strength has never been specificity. In 1950, J.I. Rodale, one of the earliest advocates of organic farming, launched Prevention magazine, giving readers a continuous outlet for information that was a few degrees short of science. He was sure that rimless glasses and saltwater caused cancer and that electricity kept it at bay. ... in our internet era, where presentation matters more than pedigree, we have about a million self-taught gurus who profit from preaching at events like the Longevity Now Conference that certain foods could let you live as long as you wanted ... The wellness industry has exploded into superfoods, detoxes, and celebrity healers selling magic crystals, and the press and the public have gobbled it all up ... are any wellness products worth your money, and is any of the advice being shilled by its gurus going to make you healthier? Evidence says… no. Here’s why. Tags: Health, Wellness, Supplements, Science, Research, Psychology, Placebos, Juicing, Crystals, Yvette d’Entremont Wired - The Young Billionaire Behind the War on Bad Science 16min Like a number of up-and-coming researchers in his generation, Nosek was troubled by mounting evidence that science itself—through its systems of publication, funding, and advancement—had become biased toward generating a certain kind of finding: novel, attention grabbing, but ultimately unreliable. The incentives to produce positive results were so great, Nosek and others worried, that some scientists were simply locking their inconvenient data away. ... The problem even had a name: the file drawer effect. ... The aim was to redo about 50 studies from three prominent psychology journals, to establish an estimate of how often modern psychology turns up false positive results. ... He wasn’t promising novel findings, he was promising to question them. So he ran his projects on a shoestring budget, self-financing them with his own earnings from corporate speaking engagements on his research about bias. ... researchers involved in similar rounds of soul-searching and critique in their own fields, who have loosely amounted to a movement to fix science. ... The problem, they claim, isn’t that scientists don’t want to do the right thing. On the contrary, Arnold says he believes that most researchers go into their work with the best of intentions, only to be led astray by a system that rewards the wrong behaviors. Tags: Philanthropy, Cancer, Science, Research, John Arnold, Reproducibility Project, Bias, Nutrition, Nutrition Science Institute, Meta-research, Sam Apple Quanta - How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder 13min Biological systems don’t defy physical laws, of course — but neither do they seem to be predicted by them. In contrast, they are goal-directed: survive and reproduce. We can say that they have a purpose — or what philosophers have traditionally called a teleology — that guides their behavior. ... By the same token, physics now lets us predict, starting from the state of the universe a billionth of a second after the Big Bang, what it looks like today. But no one imagines that the appearance of the first primitive cells on Earth led predictably to the human race. Laws do not, it seems, dictate the course of evolution. ... Animals are drawn to water not by some magnetic attraction, but because of their instinct, their intention, to survive. Legs serve the purpose of, among other things, taking us to the water. ... there appears to be a kind of physics of things doing stuff, and evolving to do stuff. Meaning and intention — thought to be the defining characteristics of living systems — may then emerge naturally through the laws of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Tags: Complex Systems, Information Theory, Thermodynamics, Mental Models, Science, Research, Physics, Biology, Evolution, Information, Teleology, Philip Ball The Guardian - How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next 17min Statistics were designed to give an understanding of a population in its entirety, rather than simply to pinpoint strategically valuable sources of power and wealth. In the early days, this didn’t always involve producing numbers. In Germany, for example (from where we get the term Statistik) the challenge was to map disparate customs, institutions and laws across an empire of hundreds of micro-states. What characterised this knowledge as statistical was its holistic nature: it aimed to produce a picture of the nation as a whole. Statistics would do for populations what cartography did for territory. ... the aspiration to depict a society in its entirety, and to do so in an objective fashion, has meant that various progressive ideals have been attached to statistics. The image of statistics as a dispassionate science of society is only one part of the story. The other part is about how powerful political ideals became invested in these techniques: ideals of “evidence-based policy”, rationality, progress and nationhood grounded in facts, rather than in romanticised stories. Tags: Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Knowledge, Academia, Society, Politics, Research, William Davies MIT Technology Review - Google’s Long, Strange Life Span Trip 9min The company’s mission: to build a Bell Labs of aging research. It hoped to extend the human life span by coming up with a breakthrough as important, and as useful to humanity, as the transistor has been. ... Google’s founders created an academic-biotech hybrid they call an R&D company to follow up on such clues, providing nearly unlimited funding to a group of top researchers. ... despite the hype around its launch—Time magazine asked, “Can Google Solve Death?”—Calico has remained a riddle, a super-secretive company that three years in hasn’t published anything of note, rebuffs journalists, and asks visiting scientists to sign nondisclosure agreements. ... Right now, there’s no proven test for a person’s “biological” age; finding one would be scientifically useful and possibly lucrative. ... For all these diseases, aging is the single biggest risk factor. An 80-year-old is 40 times as likely to die from cancer as someone middle-aged. The risk for Alzheimer’s rises by 600 times. But what if it were possible to postpone all these deaths by treating aging itself? … The experiment will generate millions of readings—for levels of growth hormones and glucose, among other things. Churchill wouldn’t say how much Calico is paying, but simply feeding that many mice could cost $3 million. Tags: Aging, Calico Labs, Google, Research, Genetics, Biology, Disease, Geroprotectors, Metformin, Biomarkers, Antonio Regalado The Guardian - The hi-tech war on science fraud 19min Statcheck had read some 50,000 published psychology papers and checked the maths behind every statistical result it encountered. In the space of 24 hours, virtually every academic active in the field in the past two decades had received an email from the program, informing them that their work had been reviewed. Nothing like this had ever been seen before: a massive, open, retroactive evaluation of scientific literature, conducted entirely by computer. ... Statcheck’s method was relatively simple, more like the mathematical equivalent of a spellchecker than a thoughtful review, but some scientists saw it as a new form of scrutiny and suspicion, portending a future in which the objective authority of peer review would be undermined by unaccountable and uncredentialed critics. ... When it comes to fraud – or in the more neutral terms he prefers, “scientific misconduct” ... Despite its professed commitment to self-correction, science is a discipline that relies mainly on a culture of mutual trust and good faith to stay clean. Talking about its faults can feel like a kind of heresy. ... Even in the more mundane business of day-to-day research, scientists are constantly building on past work, relying on its solidity to underpin their own theories. If misconduct really is as widespread as Hartgerink and Van Assen think, then false results are strewn across scientific literature, like unexploded mines that threaten any new structure built over them. Also: City Journal - The Real War on Science 5-15min Repeat: Wired - The Young Billionaire Behind the War on Bad Science 16min Tags: Research, Fraud, Science, Mathematics, Algorithms, Statistics, Statcheck, Academia, Meta-research, Bias, Stephen Buranyi National Geographic - Unlocking the Healing Power of You 17min Whether it takes the form of a touch of the Holy Spirit at a Florida revival meeting or a dip in the water of the Ganges, the healing power of belief is all around us. Studies suggest that regular religious services may improve the immune system, decrease blood pressure, add years to our lives. ... Religious faith is hardly the only kind of belief that has the ability to make us feel inexplicably better. ... just as a good performance in a theater can draw us in until we feel we’re watching something real, the theater of healing is designed to draw us in by creating powerful expectations in our brains. These expectations drive the so-called placebo effect, which can affect what happens in our bodies as well. Scientists have known about the placebo effect for decades and have used it as a control in drug trials. Now they are seeing placebos as a window into the neurochemical mechanisms that connect the mind with the body, belief with experience. ... How does a belief become so potent it can heal? ... Most astonishingly, placebos can work even when the person taking them knows they are placebos. Also: Aeon - The lizard inside 5-15min Tags: Placebo Effect, Brain, Neuroscience, Belief, Religion, Placebos, Science, Research, Medicine, Healthcare, Stress, Psychology, Memory, Pain, Chemicals, Ritual, Culture, Erik Vance Aeon - Maps in the head 11min Maps are for humans, but how do animals, which began navigating millions of years before parchment was invented, manage to find their way around? Do animal (and human) brains contain a map, and if so does it have islands and capes, North Poles and Equators, reference lines and so on? And if they do, where is it, and how does it work? How could a jelly-like blob of protoplasm contain anything as structured as a map? ... These questions have intrigued biologists for many decades, particularly because animals can perform astonishing feats such as navigating their way from the North Pole to the South and back again, like the Arctic tern; or returning home after being transported hundreds of miles away, like the homing pigeon. How animals (both human and non-human) work out their location is just beginning to be understood by brain scientists. There are maps in the brain, as it happens. The properties of these maps, which neuroscientists call ‘cognitive maps’, have turned out to be highly intriguing, and are helping us to understand not just how animals navigate, but also more general principles about how the brain forms, stores and retrieves knowledge. Also: National Geographic - He Collected 12,000 Road Maps—Now We’re Discovering Their Secrets < 5min Also: Nautilus - How Your Brain Decides Without You < 5min Tags: Memory, Brain, Neuroscience, Cognition, Maps, Cognitive Maps, Navigation, Biology, Science, Research, Learning, Psychology, Behavior, Hippocampus, Kate Jeffery The New York Times - Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? (2011) 18min Decision fatigue helps explain why ordinarily sensible people get angry at colleagues and families, splurge on clothes, buy junk food at the supermarket and can’t resist the dealer’s offer to rustproof their new car. No matter how rational and high-minded you try to be, you can’t make decision after decision without paying a biological price. It’s different from ordinary physical fatigue — you’re not consciously aware of being tired — but you’re low on mental energy. The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain, and eventually it looks for shortcuts, usually in either of two very different ways. One shortcut is to become reckless: to act impulsively instead of expending the energy to first think through the consequences. (Sure, tweet that photo! What could go wrong?) The other shortcut is the ultimate energy saver: do nothing. Instead of agonizing over decisions, avoid any choice. Ducking a decision often creates bigger problems in the long run, but for the moment, it eases the mental strain. You start to resist any change, any potentially risky move ... experiments confirmed the 19th-century notion of willpower being like a muscle that was fatigued with use, a force that could be conserved by avoiding temptation. ... Any decision, whether it’s what pants to buy or whether to start a war, can be broken down into what psychologists call the Rubicon model of action phases, in honor of the river that separated Italy from the Roman province of Gaul. Tags: Decision Making, Decision Fatigue, Brain, Neuroscience, Behavior, Human Nature, Bias, Ego Depletion, Psychology, Ego, Research, Willpower, John Tierney MIT Technology Review - 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017 5-15min Reversing Paralysis: Scientists are making remarkable progress at using brain implants to restore the freedom of movement that spinal cord injuries take away. Self-Driving Trucks: Tractor-trailers without a human at the wheel will soon barrel onto highways near you. What will this mean for the nation’s 1.7 million truck drivers? Paying with Your Face: Face-detecting systems in China now authorize payments, provide access to facilities, and track down criminals. Will other countries follow? Practical Quantum Computers: Advances at Google, Intel, and several research groups indicate that computers with previously unimaginable power are finally within reach. The 360-Degree Selfie: Inexpensive cameras that make spherical images are opening a new era in photography and changing the way people share stories. Hot Solar Cells: By converting heat to focused beams of light, a new solar device could create cheap and continuous power. Gene Therapy 2.0: Scientists have solved fundamental problems that were holding back cures for rare hereditary disorders. Next we’ll see if the same approach can take on cancer, heart disease, and other common illnesses. The Cell Atlas: Biology’s next mega-project will find out what we’re really made of. Botnets of Things: The relentless push to add connectivity to home gadgets is creating dangerous side effects that figure to get even worse. Reinforcement Learning: By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them. Repeat: MIT Technology Review - 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016 5-15min Tags: Technology, Brain, Engineering, Science, Research, Paralysis, Biology, Bioengineering, Logistics, Trucking, Automation, Jobs, Payments, Crime, Quantum Computing, Cameras, Photography, Solar Power, Genetics, Gene Therapy, Health, Internet of Things, Robots, Learning, Education, Computing, Artificial Intelligence The New Yorker - Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds 9min Thousands of subsequent experiments have confirmed (and elaborated on) this finding. As everyone who’s followed the research—or even occasionally picked up a copy of Psychology Today—knows, any graduate student with a clipboard can demonstrate that reasonable-seeming people are often totally irrational. Rarely has this insight seemed more relevant than it does right now. Still, an essential puzzle remains: How did we come to be this way? ... new book, “The Enigma of Reason” (Harvard), the cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber take a stab at answering this question. ... point out that reason is an evolved trait, like bipedalism or three-color vision. It emerged on the savannas of Africa, and has to be understood in that context. ... Stripped of a lot of what might be called cognitive-science-ese, Mercier and Sperber’s argument runs, more or less, as follows: Humans’ biggest advantage over other species is our ability to cooperate. Cooperation is difficult to establish and almost as difficult to sustain. For any individual, freeloading is always the best course of action. Reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems or even to help us draw conclusions from unfamiliar data; rather, it developed to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative groups. ... Presented with someone else’s argument, we’re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we’re blind about are our own. Tags: Human Nature, Reason, Bias, Facts, Habits, Evolution, Research, Psychology, Biology, Brain, Elizabeth Kolbert The Economist - Here, There and Everywhere: Quantum technology is beginning to come into its own 30min After decades of work in the laboratory, a raft of different devices and approaches relying on quantum-mechanical effects are now nearing market-readiness. It has taken so long mainly because the components that make them up had to be developed first: ever-better lasers, semiconductors, control electronics and techniques to achieve the low temperatures at which many quantum systems perform best. ... Everything in the natural world can be described by quantum mechanics. Born a century ago, this theory is the rule book for what happens at atomic scales, providing explanations for everything from the layout of the periodic table to the zoo of particles spraying out of atom-smashers. It has guided the development of everyday technologies from lasers to MRI machines and put a solid foundation under astrophysicists’ musings about unknowables such as the interiors of black holes and the dawn of the universe. Revealed by a few surprising discoveries, such as that atoms absorb and emit energy only in packets of discrete sizes (quanta), and that light and matter can act as both waves and particles, it is modern physics’ greatest triumph. ... It has a weird side, though, and it is this that has captured interest in what is now being called the second quantum revolution. Also: Wall Street Journal - How Chip Designers Are Breaking Moore’s Law < 5min Tags: Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Science, Research, Innovation, Jason Palmer, The Economist BBC - The astonishing vision and focus of Namibia’s nomads 7min The capital of the Kunene region, Opuwo lies in the heartland of the Himba people, a semi-nomadic people who spend their days herding cattle. Long after many of the world’s other indigenous populations had begun to migrate to cities, the Himba had mostly avoided contact with modern culture, quietly continuing their traditional life. But that is slowly changing, with younger generations feeling the draw of Opuwo, where they will encounter cars, brick buildings, and writing for the first time. ... How does the human mind cope with all those novelties and new sensations? By studying people like the Himba, at the start of their journey into modernity, scientists are now hoping to understand the ways that modern life may have altered all of our minds. ... Like an irregular lens, our modern, urban brains distort the images hitting our retina, magnifying some parts of the scene and shrinking others. Tags: Vision, Eye, Namibia, Himba, Research, Africa, Neuroscience, Brain, Evolution, Anthropology, Focus, David Robson The New Yorker - Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever 33min For decades, the solution to aging has seemed merely decades away. In the early nineties, research on C. elegans, a tiny nematode worm that resembles a fleck of lint, showed that a single gene mutation extended its life, and that another mutation blocked that extension. The idea that age could be manipulated by twiddling a few control knobs ignited a research boom, and soon various clinical indignities had increased the worm’s life span by a factor of ten and those of lab mice by a factor of two. The scientific consensus transformed. Age went from being a final stage (a Time cover from 1958: “Growing Old Usefully”) and a social issue (Time, 1970: “Growing Old in America: The Unwanted Generation”) to something avoidable (1996: “Forever Young”) or at least vastly deferrable (2015: “This Baby Could Live to Be 142 Years Old”). Death would no longer be a metaphysical problem, merely a technical one. ... The celebration was premature. Gordon Lithgow, a leading C. elegans researcher, told me, “At the beginning, we thought it would be simple—a clock!—but we’ve now found about five hundred and fifty genes in the worm that modulate life span. And I suspect that half of the twenty thousand genes in the worm’s genome are somehow involved.” That’s for a worm with only nine hundred and fifty-nine cells. ... For us, aging is the creeping and then catastrophic dysfunction of everything, all at once. ... The great majority of longevity scientists are healthspanners, not immortalists. They want to give us a healthier life followed by “compressed morbidity”—a quick and painless death. ... The battle between healthspanners and immortalists is essentially a contest between the power of evolution as ordained by nature and the potential power of evolution as directed by man. ... Aging doesn’t seem to be a program so much as a set of rules about how we fail. Yet the conviction that it must be a program is hard to dislodge from Silicon Valley’s algorithmic minds. If it is, then reversing aging would be a mere matter of locating and troubleshooting a recursive loop of code. Also: Forbes - Craig Venter Mapped The Genome. Now He's Trying To Decode Death 5-15min Tags: Longevity, Silicon Valley, Death, Healthcare, Science, Research, National Academy of Medicine’s Grand Challenge in Healthy Longevity, Genetics, Human Nature, Gerontology, Biology, Chemistry, Singularity, Tad Friend Aeon - Web of war 16min Whatever the truth of actual brainwashing incidents, the battle for people’s minds loomed large in the late 1950s, and was the subject of serious Pentagon discussions. The US and the Soviet Union were engaged in an ideological – and psychological – battle. Eager to exploit the science of human behaviour as it had physics and chemistry, the Pentagon commissioned a high-level panel at the Smithsonian Institution to recommend the best course of action. ... Psychology during the Cold War had fast become a darling of the military. ... That recommendation was translated by Pentagon officials into two separate assignments handed down to ARPA: one in the behavioural sciences, which would include everything from the psychology of brainwashing to quantitative modelling of society, and a second in command-and-control, to focus on computers. ... Licklider envisioned the modern conception of interactive computing: a future where people worked on personal consoles at their desks, rather than having to walk into a large room and feed punch cards into machines to crunch numbers. ... Licklider wanted people to understand that, more than any specific application, what he was describing was an entire metamorphosis of man and machine interaction. Personal consoles, time-sharing, and networking – the article essentially spelled out all the underpinnings of the modern internet. Tags: History, Computing, Military, Cold War, Psychology, Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, Paul Baran, Internet, Behavior, Research, Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPANET, United States, Soviet Union, Sharon Weinberger Popular Mechanics - It’ll Take An Army To Kill The Emperor 33min The men and women who are trying to bring down cancer are starting to join forces rather than work alone. Together, they are winning a few of the battles against the world's fiercest disease. ... It's not like you don't have cancer and then one day you just do. Cancer—or, really, cancers, because cancer is not a single disease—happens when glitches in genes cause cells to grow out of control until they overtake the body, like a kudzu plant. Genes develop glitches all the time: There are roughly twenty thousand genes in the human body, any of which can get misspelled or chopped up. Bits can be inserted or deleted. Whole copies of genes can appear and disappear, or combine to form mutants. ... Cancer is not an ordinary disease. Cancer is the disease—a phenomenon that contains the whole of genetics and biology and human life in a single cell. It will take an army of researchers to defeat it. Tags: Cancer, Science, Research, Precision Medicine, DNA, Genetics, Immunotherapy, Artificial Intelligence, Jacqueline Detwiler Quanta - How Heat Kills Cells 5min Above a certain temperature, a cell will collapse and die. One of the most straightforward explanations for this lack of heat hardiness is that the proteins essential to life — the ones that extract energy from food or sunlight, fend off invaders, destroy waste products and so on — often have beautifully precise shapes. They start as long strands, then fold into helixes, hairpins and other configurations, as dictated by the sequence of their components. These shapes play a huge role in what they do. Yet when things start to heat up, the bonds that keep protein structures together break: first the weaker ones, and then, as the temperature mounts, the stronger ones. It makes sense that a pervasive loss of protein structure would be lethal, but until recently, the details of how, or if, this kills overheated cells were unknown. ... One of the clearest observations was that in each species, the proteins did not unfold en masse with a temperature boost. Instead, “we saw that only a small subset of proteins collapses very early,” Picotti said, “and these are key proteins.” ... This paradox — that some of the most important proteins seem to be the most delicate — may reflect how evolution has shaped them to do their jobs. ... The more copies the cell made, they reported, the more heat it took to break a protein down. Tags: Molecular Biology, Protein, Science, Research, Biophysics, Evolution, Mental Models, Veronique Greenwood National Geographic - Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways 16min Lying, it turns out, is something that most of us are very adept at. We lie with ease, in ways big and small, to strangers, co-workers, friends, and loved ones. Our capacity for dishonesty is as fundamental to us as our need to trust others, which ironically makes us terrible at detecting lies. Being deceitful is woven into our very fabric, so much so that it would be truthful to say that to lie is human. ... The ubiquity of lying was first documented systematically by Bella DePaulo, a social psychologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Two decades ago DePaulo and her colleagues asked 147 adults to jot down for a week every instance they tried to mislead someone. The researchers found that the subjects lied on average one or two times a day. Most of these untruths were innocuous, intended to hide one’s inadequacies or to protect the feelings of others. Some lies were excuses—one subject blamed the failure to take out the garbage on not knowing where it needed to go. Yet other lies—such as a claim of being a diplomat’s son—were aimed at presenting a false image. ... That human beings should universally possess a talent for deceiving one another shouldn’t surprise us. Researchers speculate that lying as a behavior arose not long after the emergence of language. The ability to manipulate others without using physical force likely conferred an advantage in the competition for resources and mates, akin to the evolution of deceptive strategies in the animal kingdom, such as camouflage. Also: Scientific American - Why It’s So Hard to Keep a Secret < 5min Tags: Behavior, Human Nature, Deception, Society, Research, Theory of Mind, Brain, Psychology, Truth, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee New York Magazine - How the Self-Esteem Craze Took Over America 18min At root, this national obsession was mostly the work of a very eccentric politician: John Vasconcellos. Vasconcellos, who died in 2014, was a California state legislator for 38 years. In his obituary, the San Jose Mercury News described him as a “famously rumpled bear-of-a-man” who was “colorful, witty, brilliant, angry, intellectual and elegantly foul of mouth.” Most of all, though, he was a nonconformist — during one three-year stretch, he decided to just let his hair grow and grow and grow — and his nonconformity frequently took on a decidedly Californian hue. Vasconcellos was an idealist who was convinced that humans had untold, untapped greatness, but it was an idealism driven in part by a bevy of personal demons and a long-running battle to control his anger problems. He was quite public about his varied attempts at self-improvement, which ranged from obscure forms of therapy to the teachings of the New Age Esalen Institute in Big Sur. ... Somewhere along the way, Vasconcellos discovered what was by then a good-size body of psychological research on self-esteem. It showed that people with high versus low self-esteem reacted in different ways to various challenges and instances of adversity ... This was a career-defining find for Vasconcellos. The logic was simple: If low self-esteem is tied to so many maladaptive responses, to so many forms of underachievement and bad behavior, then surely raising kids’ (and other’s) self-esteem could bring with it untold benefits. Soon, Vasconcellos was lobbying Sacramento to launch a statewide self-esteem commission to study the public-policy implications of self-esteem. ... little published evidence supporting Vasconcellos’s ideas. In some areas, high self-esteem actually correlated with worse behavior — some criminals, it turns out, actually view themselves quite favorably. Tags: Psychology, Self Esteem, John Vasconcellos, Government, Media, Society, Confirmation Bias, Research, Meta-research, Grit, Behavior, California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility, Jesse Singal The Atlantic - How Checkers Was Solved 14min Marion Tinsley—math professor, minister, and the best checkers player in the world—sat across a game board from a computer, dying. ... Tinsley had been the world’s best for 40 years, a time during which he'd lost a handful of games to humans, but never a match. It's possible no single person had ever dominated a competitive pursuit the way Tinsley dominated checkers. But this was a different sort of competition, the Man-Machine World Championship. ... His opponent was Chinook, a checkers-playing program programmed by Jonathan Schaeffer, a round, frizzy-haired professor from the University of Alberta, who operated the machine. Through obsessive work, Chinook had become very good. It hadn't lost a game in its last 125—and since they’d come close to defeating Tinsley in 1992, Schaeffer’s team had spent thousands of hours perfecting his machine. ... The two men were slated to play 30 matches over the next two weeks. The year was 1994, before Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue or Lee Sedol and AlphaGo. ... With Tinsley gone, the only way to prove that Chinook could have beaten the man was to beat the game itself. The results would be published July 19, 2007, in Science with the headline: Checkers Is Solved. ... At the highest levels, checkers is a game of mental attrition. Most games are draws. In serious matches, players don’t begin with the standard initial starting position. Instead, a three-move opening is drawn from a stack of approved beginnings, which give some tiny advantage to one or the other player. They play that out, then switch colors. The primary way to lose is to make a mistake that your opponent can jump on. Also: Science - Checkers Is Solved > 15min Tags: Games, Checkers, Marion Tinsley, Jonathan Schaeffer, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Research, Technology, Humans vs. Computers, Machine Learning, Alexis Madrigal Bloomberg - The Mad Cheese Scientists Fighting to Save the Dairy Industry 10min Americans eat 35 pounds of cheese per year on average—a record amount, more than double the quantity consumed in 1975. And yet that demand doesn’t come close to meeting U.S. supply: The cheese glut is so massive (1.3 billion pounds in cold storage as of May 31) that on two separate occasions, in August and October of last year, the federal government announced it would bail out dairy farmers by purchasing $20 million worth of surplus for distribution to food pantries. Add to that a global drop in demand for dairy, plus technology that’s making cows more prolific, and you have the lowest milk prices since the Great Recession ended in 2009. Farmers poured out almost 50 million gallons of unsold milk last year—actually poured it out, into holes in the ground—according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. In an August 2016 letter, the National Milk Producers Federation begged the USDA for a $150 million bailout. ... That Taco Bell is developing its cheesiest products ever in the midst of an historic dairy oversupply is no accident. There exists a little-known, government-sponsored marketing group called Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), whose job it is to squeeze as much milk, cheese, butter, and yogurt as it can into food sold both at home and abroad. ... the group has been the hidden hand guiding most of fast food’s dairy hits—a kind of Illuminati of cheese—including and especially the Quesalupa. Repeat: Forbes - This Secretive Billionaire Makes The Cheese For Pizza Hut, Domino's And Papa John's 10min Tags: Dairy, Government, Milk, Cheese, Yogurt, Butter, Commodities, Food, USDA, National Milk Producers Federation, Dairy Management Inc., National Dairy Promotion Board, Marketing, Research, Technology, Clint Rainey The Guardian - Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? 22min The way to make money from a scientific article looks very similar, except that scientific publishers manage to duck most of the actual costs. Scientists create work under their own direction – funded largely by governments – and give it to publishers for free; the publisher pays scientific editors who judge whether the work is worth publishing and check its grammar, but the bulk of the editorial burden – checking the scientific validity and evaluating the experiments, a process known as peer review – is done by working scientists on a volunteer basis. The publishers then sell the product back to government-funded institutional and university libraries, to be read by scientists – who, in a collective sense, created the product in the first place. ... Journals prize new and spectacular results – after all, they are in the business of selling subscriptions – and scientists, knowing exactly what kind of work gets published, align their submissions accordingly. This produces a steady stream of papers, the importance of which is immediately apparent. But it also means that scientists do not have an accurate map of their field of inquiry. Researchers may end up inadvertently exploring dead ends that their fellow scientists have already run up against, solely because the information about previous failures has never been given space in the pages of the relevant scientific publications. ... Today, every scientist knows that their career depends on being published, and professional success is especially determined by getting work into the most prestigious journals. The long, slow, nearly directionless work pursued by some of the most influential scientists of the 20th century is no longer a viable career option. Repeat: The Outline - The Sickening Business of Wellness 10min Tags: Research, Science, Publishing, Media, Robert Maxwell, Reed-Elsevier, Sci-Hub, Pergamon Press, Butterworths, Meta-research, Metaknowledge, Stephen Buranyi The Atlantic - Hunting for Antibiotics in the World’s Dirtiest Places 11min What Roberts has just done, in an action that he and people who support him have performed hundreds of times, is to return to a practice that was abandoned more than 40 years ago. He has sampled the environment, hoping to find in the dirtiest, most germ-filled places an answer to one of the most pressing problems of our day. ... Drug resistance—the ability of bacteria to defend themselves against the compounds we use to kill them—has impaired the effectiveness of almost every antibiotic produced since the first ones were developed, in the 1940s. At least 700,000 people are estimated to die worldwide every year from infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. That toll could balloon to more than 10 million a year by 2050 if we can’t slow the spread of resistance or find new drugs; routine surgeries and minor injuries will become life-threatening. ... Yet making the necessary changes to stave off this catastrophe seems to be beyond us. We continue to take antibiotics with abandon (nearly a third of antibiotic prescriptions in the U.S. aren’t actually needed) and feed huge quantities of them to farm animals. And pharmaceutical companies—daunted by how quickly resistance can undermine drugs that may take a decade and a billion dollars to develop—are not rushing to fill the gap. ... He launched his campaign, called Swab and Send, in February 2015. For £5, participants got a sample tube, a mailing envelope, and an explanation of what Roberts wanted them to look for: a spot in the environment where bacteria were likely to be competing for nutrition and room to reproduce. He asked them to use their imagination. The less sanitary, the better. Tags: Antibiotics, Medicine, Adam Roberts, Science, Research, Biology, Microbiology, Pharmaceuticals, Bacteria Nautilus - How We Really Tamed the Dog 21min Suppose you wanted to build the perfect dog from scratch. What would be the key ingredients in the recipe? Loyalty and smarts would be musts. Cuteness would be as well, perhaps with gentle eyes, and a curly, bushy tail that wags in joy in anticipation of your appearance. ... You needn’t bother trying. Lyudmila Trut and Dmitri Belyaev have already built it for you. The perfect dog. Except it’s not a dog, it’s a fox. A domesticated one. They built it quickly—mind-bogglingly fast for constructing a brand new biological creature. It took them less than 60 years, a blink of an eye compared to the time it took for wolves to become dogs. They built it in the often unbearable negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit cold of Siberia, where Lyudmila and, before her, Dmitri, have been running one of the longest, most incredible experiments on behavior and evolution ever devised. ... Except for house pets, most domesticated animals do not form close relationships with humans, and by far the most intense affection and loyalty forms between owners and dogs. What made the difference? Had that deep human-animal bond developed over a long time? Or might this affinity for people be a change that could emerge quickly, as with so many other changes Lyudmila and Belyaev had seen in the foxes already? Would living with a human come naturally to a fox that had been bred for tameness? Tags: Biology, Evolution, Behavior, Animals, Dogs, Foxes, Experiment, Research, Genetics, Siberia, Russia, Domestication, Breeding, Hormones, Theory of Destabilizing Selection, Dmitri Belyaev, Lee Alan Dugatkin, Lyudmila Trut	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line8994
__label__wiki	0.857665	0.857665	All tagged "Gröna" Grönan’s new Snake – the most intense ride ever Tomorrow, Saturday 27 April, Gröna Lund will open for the season and invite guests to a completely new ride, Snake. It is the most intense ride that the amusement park has ever had. Snake spins its guests... Di Leva interprets Bowie on Grönans Big Stage His interpretations of David Bowie’s unforgettable song treasure have been praised by both critics and audiences when it was set up at Hamburger Börs in Stockholm. Now the show is being taken on tour where Thomas Di... Wiz Khalifa opens Grönan’s concert summer He has written songs with, among others, Snoop Dogg and won the Critics’ Choice Awards, the BET Awards, the Billboard Music Awards and nominated for both the Golden Globe and the Grammy Awards. This year, Gröna Lund’s... The rival Nöjesfältet reappears at Gröna Lund Between 1924-1957 a bitter battle was fought between two tivoli at Djurgården, when the ambulatory “Nöjesfältet” settled in the parking lot outside Gröna Lund. But what began as bitter competition ended with a wedding. This unlikely love... French metal band Gojira to Grönan The Grammy nominated in 2016 for the album “Magma” in the category “Best Rock Album” and received another Grammynomination the same year in the category “Best Metal Performance” for the single “Silvera”. Now the French metal band... Miss Li to Gröna Lund’s Big Stage After an intensive period in the studio, which will result in new exciting music until 2019, Miss Li returns to tour. This summer, she only makes four exclusive concerts at selected locations in Sweden. August 15 at.... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON TO SWEDEN! He has recorded records with friends Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard and is since a long time elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. With over 30 albums, 70 feature films and... Gröna Lund starts its own restaurant school Now, the annual recruitment starts to all summer services at Stockholm’s famous fairground, Gröna Lund. More than 1,500 services will be added before the park opens its doors on April 27, and one searches for everything from... Fricky ready for Grönan’s Big Stage He was undoubtedly one of 2018’s most influential Swedish artists and just a few days ago he was named “Artist of the Year” on P3 Gold. Before the upcoming Grammy Gala, he is nominated in no less... Carly Rae Jepsen comes to Grönan She broke through 2012 with the megahit “Call Me Maybe”, which gave her well-deserved Grammy nominations in the categories Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. This year she releases an entirely new album, where...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line8997
__label__wiki	0.998489	0.998489	Tag: papeta How popular is the baby name Papeta in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Papeta. Popularity of the Baby Name Papeta Posts that Mention the Name Papeta Rare Girl Names from Early Cinema: P Here’s the next installment of rare female names used by either the actresses or characters in very old films (1910s, 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s). Paducah Pomeroy was a character played by actress Aileen Pringle in the film Piccadilly Jim (1936). Paget Debra Paget was an actress who appeared in films from the 1940s to the 1960s. She was born in Colorado in 1933. Her birth name was Debralee Griffin. Usage of the baby name Paget. Palma May was a character played by actress Irene Castle in the film French Heels (1922). Usage of the baby name Palma. Palola Palola was a character played by actress Hilo Hattie in the film Song of the Islands (1942). Panama Smith was a character played by actress Gladys George in the film The Roaring Twenties (1939). Panca was a character played by actress Linda Arvidson in the short film The Stampede (1916). Pancha Pancha O’Brien was a character played by actress Geraldine Farrar in the film The Hell Cat (1918). Panchita Panchita was a character played by actress Conchita Montenegro in the film Laughing at Life (1933). Usage of the baby name Panchita. Pandora La Croix was a character played by actress Viola Dana in the film As Man Desires (1925). Usage of the baby name Pandora. Panthea Romoff was a character played by actress Norma Talmadge in the film Panthea (1917). Usage of the baby name Panthea. Papela Papela was a character played by actress Gail Kenton in the film The Lure of the South Seas (1929). Papeta Papeta was a character played by actress Anne Schaefer in the short film The Prayers of Manuelo (1912). Papinta Papinta was a character played by actress Bessie Eyton in the short film The Little Organ Player of San Juan (1912). Papita was a character played by the actress Clara Williams in the short film Papita’s Destiny (1913). Parete was a character played by actress Dagmar Godowsky in the film The Altar Stairs (1922). Parisette Parisette was a character played by actress Sandra Milovanoff in the film Parisette (1921). Parola was a character played by actress Helen Ware in the film Fascination (1922). Parthenia was a character name in multiple films, including Ingomar, The Barbarian (1908) and Show Boat (1929). Usage of the baby name Parthenia. Pasqualina Pasqualina Carmetto was a character played by actress Mary Fuller in the short film Tony’s Oath of Vengeance (1912). Usage of the baby name Pasqualina. Patria Channing was a character played by actress Irene Castle in the film Patria (1917). Usage of the baby name Patria (which saw an uptick in usage in 1917). Patta Heberton was a character played by actress May Allison in the film The Come-Back (1916). Patterson Dial was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1920s. She was born in Florida in 1902. Her birth name was Elizabeth Patterson Dial. Usage of the baby name Patterson. Peaches Jackson was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1930s. She was born in New York in 1913. Her birth name was Charlotte Jackson. Peaches was also a character played by actress May West in the film Every Day’s a Holiday (1937). Usage of the baby name Peaches. Peavey was a character played by actress Olive Borden in the film Leave It to Me (1933). Peg Entwistle was an actress who appeared in one film in 1932 (and, the same year, committed suicide by jumping off the H of the Hollywoodland sign). She was born in Wales in 1908. Her birth name was Millicent Lilian Entwistle. Peg was also a character played by actress Anna Neagle in the film Peg of Old Drury (1935). Usage of the baby name Peg. Pegeen Pegeen O’Barry was a character played by actress Pauline Starke in the film Irish Eyes (1918). Usage of the baby name Pegeen. Peggie Peggie Hurst was a character played by actress Chrissie White in the film A Temporary Vagabond (1920). Usage of the baby name Peggie. Peggy Pearce (born a Velma) was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1920s. She was born in California in 1894. Peggy Cartwright was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1930s. She was born in Canada in 1912. Peggy Moran (Mary) was an actress who appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1940s. She was born in Iowa in 1918. Peggy Ryan (Margaret) was an actress who appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1940s. She was born in California in 1924. Finally, Peggy was also a character name in multiple films including Peggy Lynn, Burglar (short 1915) and Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931). Usage of the baby name Peggy. Pelagia Walewska was a character played by actress Maria Ouspenskaya in the film Conquest (1937). Usage of the baby name Pelagia. Pendola Pendola Molloy was a character played by actress Karen Morley in the film Gabriel Over the White House (1933). Penelopeia Pénélopeia was a character played by actress Conchita Montenegro in the film Lumières de Paris (1938). Peola Peola was a character played by actress Fredi Wasghington in the film Imitation of Life (1934). Usage of the baby name Peola (which saw an uptick in usage in 1935). Pepita was a character name in multiple films, including The Street Singer (1912) and The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915). Peppina Peppina was a character played by actress Mary Pickford in the film Poor Little Peppina (1916). Peppy Gilman was a character played by actress Dorothy Burgess in the film I Want a Divorce (1940). Perdita was a character name in multiple films, including In Old California (short, 1910) and The Demon (1918). Periwinkle was a character played by actress Mary Miles Minter in the film Periwinkle (1917). Perka Perka was a character played by actress Georgia Fursman in the film The Seven Sisters (1915). Perpetua Perpetua was a character name in multiple films, including The Arrival of Perpetua (1915) and Love’s Boomerang (1922). Usage of the baby name Perpetua. Perrette Perrette was a character played by actress Simone Vaudry in the film Fanfan la Tulipe (1925). Persis was a character played by actress Mary Treen in the film The Great Man’s Lady (1942). Usage of the baby name Persis. Pert Kelton was an actress who appeared in films from the 1920s to the 1960s. She was born in Montana in 1907. Pert was also a character name in multiple films, including Danger! Women at Work (1943) and Take It Big (1944). Pervaneh Pervaneh was a character played by actress Greta Nissen in the film The Lady of the Harem (1926). Petal Schultze was a character played by actress Amy Veness in the film Red Wagon (1933). Usage of the baby name Petal. Petaluma was a character played by actress Vivian Rich in the short film A Blowout at Santa Banana (1914). Petrie was a character played by actress Claire Du Brey in the film Oh, What a Night! (1944). Petrina Faneuil was a character played by actress Pauline Frederick in the film Let Not Man Put Assunder (1924). Usage of the baby name Petrina. Petronell Petronell was a character played by actress Helen “Bunty” Payne in the film The Farmer’s Wife (1941). Pette Pette San was a character played by actress Mary Fuller in the short film An Almond-Eyed Maid (1913). Pettie Pettie Wilson was a character played by actress Gwen Lee in the film The Boy Friend (1926). Pheasant Vaughan Whiteoak was a character played by actress Molly Lamont in the film Jalna (1935). Phemie Phemie was a character name in multiple films, including The Man Hater (1917) and La Bohème (1926). Philena Philena Mortimer was a character played by actress Helene Chadwick in the film From the Ground Up (1921). Usage of the baby name Philena. Philine Philine was a character played by actress Xenia Desni in the film Pariserinnen (1921). Phillipa Phillipa was a character name in multiple films, including The Flash of an Emerald (1915) and Risky Business (1920). Usage of the baby name Phillipa. Phronsie Sophronia “Phronsie” Pepper was a character played by actress Dorothy Ann Seese in the four Five Little Peppers films of 1939 and 1940. Usage of the baby name Phronsie (which debuted in the data the year most of the films came out). Phroso Phroso was a character played by actress Malvina Longfellow in the film Possession (1922). Phyl Phyl was a character played by actress Margaret Perry in the film New Morals for Old (1932). Phyliss Phyliss was a character name in multiple films, including Broadway Billy (1926) and Pleasures of the Rich (1926). Usage of the baby name Phyliss. Phyllis Gordon was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1940s. She was born in Virginia in 1889. Phyllis Haver was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1930s. She was born in Kansas in 1899. Phyllis Thaxter was an actress who appeared in films from the 1940s to the 1970s. She was born in Maine in 1919. Finally, Phyllis was also a character name in multiple films, including Just Like a Woman (short, 1915) and Wagons Westward (1940). Usage of the baby name Phyllis. Phyra Phyra was a character played by actress Enid Markey in the short film The Soul of Phyra (1915). Pidetta Pidetta was a character played by actress Rosita Marstini in the short film On the Trail of the Tigress (1916). Pidgie Pidgie Ryder was a character played by actress Leatrice Joy in the film The Invisible Divorce (1920). Pierrette was a character name in multiple films, including Under the Make-Up (1913) and Laughter and Tears (1921). Usage of the baby name Pierrette. Pige was a character played by actress Marcia Mae Jones in the film Barefoot Boy (1938). Pina Menichelli was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1920s. She was born in Italy in 1890. Her birth name was Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli. Usage of the baby name Pina. Pinkie was a character name in multiple films, including The Reward (short, 1915) and Oh, Yeah? (1929). Usage of the baby name Pinkie. Pinky was a character name in multiple films, including The Village Sleuth (1920) and Pinky (1949). Usage of the baby name Pinky. Pinna Nesbit was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1920s. She was born in Canada in 1896. Piquette Piquette was a character played by actress Shannon Day in the film Honor First (1922). Plutina Plutina was a character played by actress Clara Kimball Young in the film The Heart of the Blue Ridge (1915). Pola Negri was an actress who appeared in films from the 1910s to the 1960s. She was born in Poland in 1897. Her birth name was Barbara Apolonia Chałupec. Pola was also a character played by actress Elizabeth Allan in the film Insult (1932). Usage of the baby name Pola. Polaire Quinn was a character played by actress Madge Evans in the film The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932). Poldi Vogelhuber was a character played by actress Luise Rainer in the film The Great Waltz (1938). Poll Patchouli was a character played by actress Dorothy Dalton in the film Fool’s Paradise (1921). Polly was a character name in multiple films, including Outlaws of the Sea (1923) and Shanghai Lady (1929). Usage of the baby name Polly. Pompeia Plotina was a character played by actress Caroline Frances Cooke in the short film In the Days of Trajan (1913). Pompilia was a character played by actress Marie Newton in the short film The Ring and the Book (1914). Pomposia Pomposia was a character played by actress Helen Ware in the film The Warrior’s Husband (1933). Poppaea Poppaea was a character name in multiple films, including Nero (1922) and The Sign of the Cross (1932). Portland Fancy was a character played by actress Juliet Brenon in the film The Street of Forgotten Men (1925). (Plus there’s radio actress Portland Hoffa was most active during the ’30s and ’40s.) Usage of the baby name Portland. Posey was a character played by actress Edith Arnold in the film College Scandal (1935). Usage of the baby name Posey. Posie Stanton was a character played by actress Virginia Southern in the film Black Friday (1916). Usage of the baby name Posie. Poupée Andriot was an actress who appeared in films in the 1920s and 1930s. She was born in New York in 1899. Her birth name was Edna Stone. Poupée is French for “doll.” Preciosa was a character played by actress Alice Joyce in the short film Between Father and Son (1911). Usage of the baby name Preciosa. Prissy was a character name in multiple films, including The Dangerous Flirt (1924) and Gone with the Wind (1939). Usage of the baby name Prissy. Protéa was a character played by French actress Josette Andriot in multiple films in the 1910s. Prue was a character name in multiple films, including Only Five Years Old (short, 1913) and The Man Who Had Everything (1920). Usage of the baby name Prue. Prunella Prunella Judson was a character played by actress ZaSu Pitts in the film Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). Psyche was a character played by actress Lillian Yarbo in the film My Brother Talks to Horses (1947). Puff Rogers was a character played by actress Wynne Gibson in the film Lady and Gent (1932). Pundita Pundita was a character played by actress Goldie Colwell in multiple films in the 1910s. …Which of the above names do you like best? 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__label__wiki	0.788006	0.788006	NEF India Martins Ferry earns national honor for S.T.E.M. curriculum Eric Robb, a freshman at Martins Ferry High School, poses with some of the school’s projects. The Martins Ferry City School District was named the National Education Foundation’s S.T.E.M. academy of the year. — Robert DeFrank MARTINS FERRY — Martins Ferry City School District is the National Education Foundation’s Science Technology Engineering and Math Academy of the Year — a distinction that was rewarded with a check for $10,000 during a ceremony on Friday. “We will be investing the monies that we were awarded with for advancement in technologies,” Superintendent Jim Fogle said. “We will also be purchasing more Chromebooks, more carts, more technology programs for our students. This enables us to give the tools to our students so they have what is necessary to succeed in a S.T.E.M. world.” He added he was proud of the students, staff and administrators. “Today was a celebration — a celebration of the success of our students, our staff, our building administrators, all the hard work they’ve done this year. Our students showed the most growth out of all the National Education Foundation S.T.E.M. Academies in the nation,” Fogle said. “We’re very proud of them. We’re honored.” Steubenville City Schools, as well as school districts in Canton, N.Y., Lehighton, Pa., and Warren County, Pa., were recognized with S.T.E.M. cash awards by NEF. Fogle credited the hard work and dedication of all involved for making the district’s success possible. He praised the teachers who set and met goals and the administrators who implemented the plans, as well as the students’ efforts. Fogle added that while the district is proud of its great sports tradition and reputation, the district’s primary goal always will be education of the students. “We are competing worldwide with other countries for jobs,” Fogle said. “We used to compete for jobs in a 30-mile radius. Now we’re competing all over the world.” The school district welcomed Appu Kuttan, CEO and chairman of NEF. Kuttan said he was impressed by the inventiveness and motivation of the students. “I think these kids are really excited, and I think, given the opportunity, these kids can compete with anybody in the world,” he said, having observed their projects and progress. “Now they can do almost anything. They can run robotics. They can design them.” For added motivation, he pointed out next year’s prize will be $50,000. “These kids are going to work very hard, because motivation is the key for these kids. How do you motivate them to come to class every day and find learning to be fun so that they can reach any level they want?” Kuttan stressed the importance of learning the elements of S.T.E.M. and of hands-on application of those lessons through project-based learning. Anthony K. Betrus, national director of NEF, said he was impressed by the progress made in the Purple City. “Two years ago I came down for their kickoff academy. I stopped at your local toy store and I picked up a Sphero Spark, which is a small little round robot, and I demonstrated it in front of the auditorium to ‘spark’ their interest in robotics, S.T.E.M. tools and building, and now I come back two years later and they’ve got multiple Sparks in the room. They’ve got Sphero Olli. They’ve got Fischer Technic, and the kids are building fantastic (projects),” Betrus said. The event concluded with a physical challenge contest with a prize of $1,000. Kuttan won and donated the money for a pizza party for the school. Message to All 50 State QZAB Directors re: NEF’s 2017 National QZAB STEM Academy Award Goes to Martins Ferry, Ohio NEF Awards National STEM Leadership Award to Warren County School District NEF CyberLearning Announces 2014 STEM Leadership Award Recipient Pingback: Get your documents written perfectly Somerton Schools Announced as NEF’s 2018 STEM Leadership Award Recipient Brocton Central Schools honored as STEM Merit Award Recipient NEF’s 2017 STEM Award Goes to Martins Ferry Schools, Ohio Message to All 50 State QZAB Directors Re: Invitation to NEF’s National QZAB STEM Academy Award at Martins Ferry, Ohio Categories Select Category k-12 News Uncategorized The National Education Foundation (NEF) is a national nonprofit leader in bridging the employment, digital and academic divides by providing world-class, affordable, online and blended learning to students and job-seekers. National Education Foundation 1350 Beverly Rd, Suite 219 info@nefuniversity.org In partnership with The State University of New York at Potsdam 8,000+ Courses Powered by Skillsoft Developing the skills of the next million job seekers Only $149 for a limited time. Offer expires August 31, 2019	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9005
__label__cc	0.51549	0.48451	10256 Taj Mahal With the surprise re-release of the LEGO® Taj Mahal, fans have been wondering why The LEGO Group settled on this particular classic set, and whether anything has been changed. Sven Franic is here to shed some light on a set containing no new elements or techniques. The 5,923-piece set is now available priced £299.99 / US$369.99 / 329.99€. What I love most about the Creator Expert theme’s “Landmark” series, or Sculptures as they used to be called back in 2008 when 10189 Taj Mahal was first released, is that they include a low number of lots and very high brick counts. This is great for amassing substantial quantities of bricks of the same type by buying just one copy of the set. This is simply a symptom of a very large and intricate model, but this type of inventory also probably played a major role in the decision to bring it out of the vault after nine years, despite all the conspiracy theories running wild over the internet about what was behind this move. To understand why, we have to go back in time for a second. Back in the late 'nineties, the company was facing some tough times which led to a re-structuring. A significant part of this was keeping better track of elements and colours produced at any single time and evaluating their cost effectiveness. This resulted in cutting the inventory of about 12,000 different elements by approximately half. "Taj Mahal was economical in the production sense. It's important to understand this for all those hoping this re-release is the start of a pattern" They still use a derivative of that system, and although the inventory and capacity has been ever-expanding since the early 2000s, it is kept limited to what is considered cost-effective for that year. This means a piece that was used in a set in 2015 might not be available to set designers in 2018. Depending on how persuasively designers pull their bosses' sleeves and the importance of the project, some pieces can be brought back into production. However, not all elements can be brought back. Sometimes a new standard was set since their retirement and they no longer fit the requirements. These standards can be changed for a number of reasons, from toy safety regulations, susceptibility to wear and tear, or simply because a newer element was designed with more versatility in mind. If an element can’t physically be adapted to a newer standard, the piece is no longer produced unless it is made as a Q-part for Legoland parks. A lot of large sets from the 2008 era, like the first Modular building 10182 Café Corner, use what would now be considered Q-parts. The Taj Mahal, unlike most other retired sets, was economical in the production sense. It is very important to understand this for all those hoping that this re-release is the beginning of a pattern rather than a coincidental exception. All the pieces in the set are still currently in production or have updated mould alternatives which don’t interfere with the build. The low lot count is more cost effective to pack and produce and, apart from updating the instructions, no designers had to devote time to developing and testing a new set. Until recently, 10189 Taj Mahal was the largest LEGO set ever produced, a title it held for almost 10 years which was enough time to grow a new generation of AFOLs who also want an opportunity to own the most amazing, largest thing ever from LEGO. A very big LEGO set Sculpture was an appropriate name for this theme. Parts of the set, like the large rounded dome, are built in a similar way to that which Legoland shop designers and LEGO Certified Professionals build large sculptures for display. It is the closest you can get to buying a set that resembles a downscaled version of the amazing buildings millions of people pay to see at Legoland parks every year. The Creator Expert “Landmark” series makes it possible to have a part of this in your very own home... assuming you have the space to display it. The six 16x32 Bright Blue [TLG] / Blue [BL] baseplates are no real indication of the set’s size, as they are merely used to surround the central structure. The set uses a footprint of 64 x 64 studs, or the equivalent surface size of four standard Modular buildings. Sets like the Taj Mahal put the final aesthetics first. This means the building experience is likely to suffer from repetitiveness. Large parts of the build often repeat themselves four times and this occurs throughout the duration of the build. It would be an understatement to call them mini-builds since most of them use more pieces than you would find in an average-sized set. To use that to your advantage, this gives you the opportunity to share the building experience with one or more other people – something that normally demands taking turns, and a lot of patience. Considering that many new parts have been released since the set was designed, I was constantly on the lookout for outdated techniques that could be done better today. But, apart from the odd 1x3 tile or 1x3 panel which might have contributed more to the set’s structural integrity than anything visual, I couldn’t really find anything to point to. Something that I feel is more encouraged in set designs today is covering studded surfaces with tiles or slopes to make them appear smoother and more realistic. This comes at the cost of losing that classic, distinguishable LEGO appearance which is still present in this model. While all the building techniques used in the set are regarded as standard today, considering the limitations of the element choices in 2008, it was moderately advanced for its time. The use of chain-linked swivel base hinges to form rounded walls was a common technique employed by Jamie Berard in Creator Expert sets of the time. The parts The re-released version of the set uses updated moulds for parts that have been revised in the last decade. Jumpers (Design IDs 3794 and 15573) changed the mould three times since the original design, first adding a lip to the bottom edge and then adding jumper functionality to the anti-studs underneath. The 1x6x2 arches (3307, 12939 and 15254) are also in their third version since the original set was released. Their final revision adapted the internal radius to better fit into the LEGO System and collaborate with other round pieces. (Read more about the changes to LEGO arches.) Other parts have minor changes, for example going from open studs to solid studs or adding reinforcements and rounding off panel edges. None of these changes affect the build and are not visible in the final model. Parts-wise, the set is an enormous selection of mostly white elements in a large variety of sizes. If you own the 21050 Architecture Studio, the Taj Mahal could be considered the ultimate add-on pack or even a complete substitution if you really want to upscale your architecture scribbles. The only thing missing from the selection are slopes and some of the more modern tile shapes and sizes. The Taj Mahal defies the incredible evolution of elements introduced in the last decade by stubbornly maintaining its ability to arouse admiration by using what most of us today consider traditional LEGO pieces. While the build can be a bit monotonous and repetitive for the impatient builder used to the discovery of new elements and colours, it was a fun blast from the past. I wouldn’t regret for a moment building one of the most iconic sets of an aspiring era in the world of large LEGO sets. READ MORE: Joker Manor de-assembled and the new parts analysed including the new rollercoaster pieces Donate an amount of your choosing to help keep New Elementary publishing great articles about LEGO pieces. Why am I asking for money? Read more here. BrickLink, the world's biggest LEGO® marketplace has all the parts and sets you need. Please follow any link from New Elementary to BrickLink before you buy! Amazon USA: Amazon.com Canada: Amazon.ca UK: Amazon.co.uk Deutschland: Amazon.de Products mentioned in this post were kindly supplied by the LEGO® Group. All content represents the opinions of New Elementary authors and not the LEGO Group. Admin: Tim Johnson Posted on 12/04/2017 05:13:00 am Labels: Creator Expert Kalais (Bricks Treasure) 5 Dec 2017, 08:18:00 I think it is a perfect set for the Star Wars fans (for all kind of Hoth MOCs + Rebels Ship interiors like Corellian Corvette) and for all other winter/snow themed MOCs like Games of Thrones, Winter Village etc. Only thing it is missing are curved slopes (i.e. 11477, 61678 etc.) which are pretty nice for snow building. And maybe some tiles. New 2018 LEGO® flower and leaf elements Contest: Kill Teal (Volume 2)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9006
__label__wiki	0.783999	0.783999	NGO: Cuba Doubled Political Prisoners in One Year Wednesday, 15 November, 2017 - 14:15 An NGO operating clandestinely in Cuba reported this week that the number of political prisoners held on the island doubled between April 2016 and April 2017, following reports of yet another mass arrest of dissidents at an airport in Havana Wednesday 15 November, 2017 - 14:15 The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN), an NGO that tracks politically-motivated arrests on the island, revealed this week that, observing its monthly arrest records, there are currently at least 140 known political prisoners in Cuba, up from about 70 such cases a year earlier. The 140 are individuals “convicted of processed [in a court of law] for political reasons or detained under political conditions.” In its press release, the CCDHRN notes that the prisoners comprising the 140 arrested do not include “the thousands and thousands of innocent people languishing in the nearly 200 prisons, labour camps, and criminal settlements” on the island. Elizardo Sánchez, the NGO’s director, told the Spain-based publication Diario de Cuba that the Cuban government has “evolved” in how it targets and persecutes anti-communist dissidents. “Now [the repression] is more extended throughout the country and more selective, less ‘noisy,'” he explained. “the regime has increasingly used preventative repression through police threats and other systematic intimidating action.” The move appears intended to minimise the need for politically-motivated arrests and, thus, keep the eyes of the international community away from the Cuban communist dictatorship. Police threats and “preventative repression” include acts such as limiting travel within Cuba, “arbitrary confiscation of materials and means of work or profit,” and espionage on individuals who may be involved in anti-government activities. In April, CCDHRN says Cuba committed a known 475 politically-motivated arrests, 43 more than the month before, and at least 11 physical attacks on political dissidents. The number of political prisoners and attacks on dissidents in Cuba increased significantly since 2014, when President Barack Obama announced a series of economic concessions to the Raúl Castro regime in exchange for, as Castro said at the time, “nothing at all.” The move has increased profits for the Castro regime that the government has poured into repressing the Cuban people, with no such profits reaching individual Cuban citizens. The month of May began with a dramatic dissident gang beating and politically-motivated arrest. Daniel Llorente, a man unaffiliated with any political dissident groups, interrupted the nation’s communist May Day celebration by running in front of the parade waving an American flag and shouting “freedom for the Cuban people.” A mob, later revealed to be plain-clothes State Security officers, beat Llorente and whisked him away. Llorente remained missing for nearly a week before his son, Eliécer Llorente Pérez, found him at an investigative law enforcement centre in Havana. Llorente faces charges of “resistance” and “public disorder” for his protest. “He had everything figured out. My father is an educated man. A few days before he had bought books on the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Llorente Pérez told the Miami Herald about his father this week. He explained that his father chose the American flag as symbol of protest because “he says that’s where there is a true sense of patriotism and family, things that have been lost in Cuba, that all human values have been lost in Cuba.” Also arrested in May were a group of dissidents organised in Matanzas, a province east of Havana, planning to meet the head of the Cuba Decides democratic movement Rosa María Payá at the Havana airport this week. Iván Hernández Carrillo, Félix Navarro Rodríguez, and his daughters Saylí Navarro were arrested before arriving in Havana around midnight Monday before meeting Payá, who had been traveling the globe raising awareness for the Cuban dissident movement. The head of the group that Payá’s father, the late Oswaldo Payá, organised, the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL), is among the number of political prisoners. Eduardo Cardet was arrested in November following the death of Fidel Castro, allegedly for expressing discontent with the government-mandated mourning activities for the dictator. According to his wife, Cardet was beaten by a State Security gang in front of his children and detained without prompting. Cardet was sentenced to three years in prison for “attacking an official of the state,” a charge eyewitnesses say has no basis in reality. This article was written by Frances Martel. This article first appeared on Breitbart News Network Photo Courtesy: Families Trialogue : CSI Survery Trialogue Business in Society Handbook SANAC: Focus For Impact (FFI)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9007
__label__cc	0.716275	0.283725	“America’s energy abundance is creating employment opportunities and growth at a time when little else in the economy is going as well – and that alone is enough reason to support domestic energy production. But while this energy abundance is a source of jobs at home, it can al...”-- U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power “American natural gas production is booming, creating opportunities to increase exports and create jobs...increasing natural gas exports would not only reduce our trade deficit and create jobs for American workers but also help our allies diversify their energy resources.”-- U.S. Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio), Member of the Oversight and Government Committee, Chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces and Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly “For the United States to be a hub of cheap energy, it is imperative to pursue government policies that allow the private sector to make every energy resource as abundant, accessible, and as versatile in its consumption as possible. Achieving this objective requires that produc...”-- U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and David Vitter (R-La.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska), in a letter to former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu “With the upcoming construction of a $13 billion LNG export facility just outside of Corpus Christi, we are already seeing the positive economic impact of a healthy energy climate. Expanding LNG exports benefits not only the Coastal Bend region, but the State of Texas as a whole.”-- State Representative Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa (D-McAllen) “LNG exports will be a huge economic win for the state of Texas. The widespread benefits will be felt for decades to come and will surely establish the Coastal Bend as an important hub in America's energy revolution.”-- State Representative Todd Hunter (R-Corpus Christi)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9010
__label__wiki	0.598596	0.598596	Multi-Academy Trust Sixth Forms Adult Learn and Train Parkside Sixth Sixth Life Locations and Facilites Enrichment Opportunites Applying for a Place Annual Consultation of Admission Arrangements 2020/21 IB Core IB Group 1 – First Language (A) IB Group 2 – Second Language (B) IB Group 3 – Individuals and Societies IB Group 4 – Experimental Sciences IB Group 5 – Mathematics and Computing IB Group 6 – The Arts IB Diploma Programme (IBDP) Ofsted and Exam Results Students taking the International Baccalaureate achieved a pass rate (93%) and a points score (33) above the world average in this rigorous qualification taken by tens of thousands of students across the globe. Those who take the IB Diploma study six subjects and a core with a dissertation and critical thinking course. There were some outstanding individual results among the cohort. Eli Rubiés scored an exceptional 42 points out of 45, which took her to Wadham College, Oxford, to read Classics. Maya Smith, Lucy Kear and Aoife Murphy all scored over 40 points, a score achieved by only 10% of students internationally. They went on to study Law at UCL, International Relations at Edinburgh, and Midwifery at Anglia Ruskin. Parkside Sixth is pleased to announce another set of International Baccalaureate (IB) results exceeding the international average. The rigorous, academic qualification taken world-wide consists of six subjects of A level equivalence, along with a core requirement of a dissertation, a critical thinking course, and an extra-curricular programme. Students achieving in all of these areas receive the prestigious IB Diploma. The IB has two key measures: pass rate and average point score of students passing the diploma. The cohort of students at Parkside Sixth outperformed their peers internationally in both of these measures, with a pass rate of over 80% and a point score of 31. Students have secured university places at, among other institutions, Bristol, Warwick and Sussex Universities to study courses as diverse as Biochemistry, Sport and Korean Studies. Parkside Sixth also offers Level 3 BTEC Extended Diplomas in Sport, Health and Social Care, and Business. Although results are still provisional for these courses, projections suggest a highly impressive 100% of students in Business achieving three starred Distinctions, the highest possible score. Head of Sixth, Jess Pearce, said: “We are delighted with these results and congratulate our students for their hard work. We wish them all very well in the future.” Headteacher, Jodh Dhesi, added: “On top of Parkside Community College’s Outstanding rating for overall effectiveness by Ofsted this year, these results are a pleasing success. Parkside Sixth offers an inclusive setting with excellent courses where students achieve well.” For a second year running, Parkside Sixth students are celebrating results that show Parkside to be among the best schools internationally delivering this elite qualification. The pass rate of students taking the challenging International Baccalaureate Diploma rocketed from 85% to 97%, well above the 2015 world average of 81%. The average points score of Parkside Sixth students also exceeded last year’s world average, looking set to be an impressive 31 points. One student achieved a highly commendable 39 points out of 45, which puts him at the top of international achievement. He is now looking to take a gap year and apply to the University of Oxford next year. Other students will be taking up places in high-performing universities such as Edinburgh, Southampton, Birmingham and the University of London’s Institute in Paris, the only British University Institute in Continental Europe. The IB pass rate was significantly above the world average with the average points score of 31 also above the world average. The highest mark obtained was 41 out of 45. The BTEC students achieved an amazing average of Distinction. Over 85% of the 72 choosing to go onto university are taking up places at their first choice University. These cover a very wide range of courses such as Medicine at Bristol and QMU, International Relations with Arabic at SOAS, Information Management for Business at UCL, Youth Justice at Nottingham Trent, Geography at The University of Edinburgh, Psychology at Loughborough University, Chemistry at The University of Southampton and Contemporary Dance at Ballet Rambert. These University places were gained via both IB and BTEC courses. Students have also chosen to take up an apprenticeship, go into employment or take a gap year. We wish all our students all the best for their exciting futures. 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__label__cc	0.650992	0.349008	Artebys Large Chinese Famille Rose Oblong Charger early Qianlong Period 1735-1796 - Online Auctions. Thomas MacKay Oil Painting Birds Eye Maple Frame 1912 - Online Auctions. Science & Technology - Online Auctions. Science & Technology - Online Auctions. Do You Know About the Benefits of Professional House Cleaning Services? Houston House Cleaners. Asian Art - Online Auctions. Asian Art. Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent and also home to some of the world’s oldest civilisations – from the Indus river valley to the Jōmon era of Japan. When collectors think of Asian art, however, the emphasis is usually on Chinese art, which is understandable due to the buzz created by items such as the Ming “chicken cup” which sold for $36.3 million in 2014 at Sotheby’s auction house in Hong Kong. But, one reason for the dramatic increase in the value of Chinese art is the equally dramatic increase in the size and wealth of the Chinese middle class, who are spending a big chunk of that new-found wealth on Chinese art – both ancient and modern. There are, of course, other Asian nations with large, increasingly prosperous middle classes, most notably India, where the middle class is larger than the entire population of Europe. Online Auctions. Online Auctions of Art & Antiques. Online auctions of Art and Antiques. New Global Auction Platform Bid To Shake Up Market. Despite a decrease in global art auction sales in 2015, collectors are snapping up art and antiques online in increasing numbers. As outlined in the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report 2016 , the online art market grew by 24% last year with sales reaching $3.27 billion. The online art market could top $9.5 billion by the end of the decade if the growth trajectory continues at the same pace. Vineet Chauhan, Founder of Arteby’s, said, ''The production and enjoyment of art has been long in the DNA of humanity. In Medieval times, art was generally commissioned by a patron who would give the artist instructions on what to paint, where to paint it and what materials ought to be used. For buyers, Arteby’s means access to a diverse range of items, while sellers will be able to reach more potential buyers than they would through a traditional auction. Related: Residential Cleaning Services - Education - Enterprise	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9020
__label__cc	0.559283	0.440717	RECORDING HONG KONG’S VOICES by Suzanne Miao on Nov 10, 2014 in Lifestyle Throughout Perspective's 15 years, we've always strived to be the 'voice' of the industry and the people we write about — here, we talk to author Nicole Chabot, who has given a voice to a sector of workers in Hong Kong who often don't have a chance to speak In Street Life Hong Kong, author Nicole Chabot presents more than two dozen in-depth oral testimonies of people working outdoors in Hong Kong. Supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC), the book is published by Blacksmith Books and is Chabot's second title — her first, Kowloon: Unknown Territory, was published in 2012 — and the first for photographer Michael Perini. The interviewees were approached across the four districts of Hong Kong Island (Central and Western, Wanchai, Southern, and Eastern), but their jobs can be found across Hong Kong. Perini's black and white photography accompanies the testimonies to illustrate the stories of the interviewees, and depict their jobs against the backdrop of dynamic Hong Kong. Like Chabot's book on Kowloon, the aim of Street Life Hong Kong is to reveal more about the socio-cultural fabric of Hong Kong, to engender understanding and appreciation between different socio-economic groups, and to strengthen a feeling of community and Hong Kong-identity. "Due to their position on the socio-economic ladder, people such as the interviewees of Street Life Hong Kong are often invisible and rarely afforded much thought," Chabot says. "Seldom are their stories told, though they arguably form the backbone of Hong Kong."This is a preview of the "Recording Hong Kong's voices” article from the November 2014 issue of Perspective magazine. heritage, Hong Kong, Nicole Chabot, Street Life Hong Kong Q&A Marisa Yiu Marisa Yiu talks about her design-focused initiatives in Hong Kong that seek to put the discipline of design in the spotlight A Great Room Singapore-based co-working brand, The Great Room Hong Kong officially launches at One Taikoo Place Rosewood comes home The Hong Kong-based hotel brand, Rosewood, finally opens a home-market property, aiming to set a new standard in luxury hospitality John Anthony offers modern dim sum in a space that fuses elements of Asia and late 18th-century England Appreciating Pei Pritzker Prize-winning architect I.M. Pei has passed away, aged 102. Practising architect and leading academic Nelson Chen examines his legacy... The 2019 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Junya Ishigami, has been revealed. The annual launch is London's the most anticipated events of the year Sand flight Israel welcomes new airport in the desert, the Ilan and Asaf Ramon International Airport Statute of liberty Design Haus Liberty’s Dara Huang discusses building a creative industry business, ‘good’ design and maternity	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9022
__label__cc	0.628326	0.371674	« Tales from the South: Randy Tardy On a barge at Rosedale » 10 must-have dishes before you die You’ll have to pick up the May edition of Soiree magazine for the full story (and photos that will make your mouth water). But here’s what happened: Jennifer Pyron, the magazine’s editor, called and asked if I would come up with a list of the 10 restaurant dishes in the Little Rock area that you simply must have before you die. I like a lot of things. And Little Rock has a good restaurant scene. This was not an easy assignment. Here’s what I decided: I would go with the tried and true, the kinds of food that longtime Little Rock residents find themselves craving as they drive home at night. There are finer restaurants than the ones I put on my list. There are fancier dishes. I decided to stay away from new recipes. No foam. No molecular gastronomy. The restaurants needed to have been around for several decades to prove their staying power. Look, Little Rock is becoming one of the best places to dine out in the South. The city is now filled with exciting restaurants, food trucks, talented food bloggers and ambitious chefs. It’s quite a food scene. I’m energized by that. Yet the list I came up with spoke to my heart; the heart of a country boy who doesn’t want sugar in his cornbread, wants his country ham to be fried, wishes his wife would let him join the Bacon of the Month Club and could stand to lose a few pounds. 1. Ribs at Sims with a side of greens and cornbread — Sims just screams “quintessential Little Rock” to me. Little Rock is a true Southern city, and it doesn’t get more Southern than ribs, greens and cornbread. I miss the old location on 33rd Street, but the fact remains that this is a place that has been around since 1937. In a city that loves its barbecue, Sims is a shrine. 2. Chopped pork plate at the White Pig Inn — Here we go with the barbecue again. There’s a reason that a photo of the White Pig’s sign is at the top of this blog. This restaurant has been around since 1920, when U.S. Highway 70 was one of the main east-west routes in the country. I like family places, and the White Pig has been in the Seaton family for three generations. The current building is fairly new (built in 1984), but take a look at all the history on the walls. 3. Eggplant casserole and egg custard pie at Franke’s — I know, I know. You’re going to order more than just eggplant casserole and egg custard pie as you go through that line. There’s fried chicken, roast beef, chicken livers, fried okra, turnip greens and more to eat. But I consider the above two dishes the ones that most define this Arkansas classic. C.A. Franke opened a doughnut shop in downtown Little Rock in 1919. By 1922, it was a full bakery. In 1924, he opened Franke’s Cafeteria on Capitol Avenue in downtown Little Rock. The original cafeteria closed in 1960, but two Little Rock locations remain. You will find me at the downtown location often. 4. Buffalo ribs at the Lassis Inn — You Yankees think this is a four-legged mammal, right? You’re wrong. You’re the same people who refuse to believe us when we tell you that rice and gravy and macaroni and cheese are classified as vegetables here in the South. This buffalo is the bottom-dwelling fish pulled by commercial fishermen from the slow-moving rivers of east Arkansas. The ribs are about five inches in length. Tell my friend Elihue Washington that I sent you. 5. Tamales at Doe’s — I realize that you’re likely to order a steak if you’re going to Doe’s for dinner. Still, you must have an appetizer of tamales. If it’s lunch, the tamales can be your meal. George Eldridge has been operating the Little Rock location of Doe’s since 1988. Was it Hunter S. Thompson or P.J. O’Rourke who tried to eat a tamale with the shuck still on when they came to Doe’s to interview Bill Clinton in 1992? 6. The hubcap burger at Cotham’s — The Little Rock location will suffice (though I always have a fern bar flashback to TGI Friday’s and my younger days when I’m in there), but it’s better to be out in the 1917 building at Scott, which has been serving food since 1984. Politicians such as the aforementioned Bill Clinton and David Pryor made the Scott location of Cotham’s famous. What’s that? You say you cannot eat an entire hubcap burger? Then you’ve come to the wrong blog. 7. Gumbo at the Oyster Bar — The Oyster Bar has been around since 1975, but it looks like it has been there since 1924, when the building it occupies in Stifft Station was built to house a grocery story. Yes, it’s a dive. I especially like the fact that they saved the old refrigerator door with memorable bumper stickers attached. Check out the one dealing with that pass interfence call against SMU. Some of us still remember that call. The Hogs wuz robbed. 8. Smoked turkey sandwich and a cherry limeade at Burge’s — The original Burge’s in Lewisville is outside the geographic scope of this assignment, but the Heights location in Little Rock will do since it has been around for 36 years. Lots of rich, tanned Heights moms and their spoiled kids will be running around on Saturdays to take part in what’s a family tradition for many Little Rockians. After moving to Lewisville from Shreveport in 1953, Alden Burge began smoking turkeys in the back yard for friends and family members. Soon, he was selling smoked turkey and chicken dinners before Friday night football games. He bought a dairy bar in 1962 at the intersection of Arkansas Highway 29 and U.S. Highway 82 in Lewisville. The folks who work for Burge’s in Little Rock follow Mr. Burge’s 1950s instructions for smoking those turkeys. 9. Pimento cheese at the Capital Bar & Grill — Sometimes a Southerner simply must have pimento cheese, and no one does it better than the folks at the Capital. Get it as an appetizer with those homemade soda crackers, order a pimento cheese sandwich or have it on the burger. I’m craving it right now. 10. The foot-long chili dog at the Buffalo Grill and the chopped steak at the Faded Rose — OK, I cheated. I listed two restaurants. Here’s why: I first moved to Little Rock in late 1981 to work as a sportswriter at the Arkansas Democrat. I moved into the Rebsamen Park Apartments (cheap and already furnished, along with very thin walls). The Buffalo Grill opened just down the street in 1981. The Faded Rose was opened by New Orleans native Ed David the next year. I would work in those days until about 1 a.m., get something to eat at Steak & Egg (where the Red Door is now), go home and read and then sleep until the crack of noon. Then I would go to one of those two restaurants. I often would have that gut bomb they call the Paul’s chili dog at Buffalo Grill with chili, cheddar cheese, mustard, onion and slaw. On the days when I went next door to the Faded Rose, I would start with the Creole soaked salad (mixed lettuce, chopped tomatoes and green olives tossed in a garlic vinaigrette just like the Creole Sicilian joints do it in New Orleans). That would be followed by the chopped sirloin, which comes in a lemon butter sauce with a big slice of grilled onion on top. Of course, there were potato wedges with buttermilk dressing to dip them in. Like I said, no foam or molecular gastronomy on this list. What dishes make your list in Pulaski County? Let me hear from you in the comment section below. Meanwhile, I’ll see you in Soiree along with the “beautiful people” who are holding wine glasses and forcing a smile in a too-tight tux. This entry was posted on Thursday, May 9th, 2013 at 7:08 pm and is filed under Barbecue, Catfish, Little Rock, Pie, Restaurants, Southern food, Tamales. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Last reply was June 1, 2015 Michael Simons Sounds good to me. I would add Pickets Soul Food in Stuttgart and Craigs in DVB. randy Ensminger View July 17, 2013 How the HELL did I miss this awesome piece??? I gotta unwind and pay attention! Jonathan Sheets View June 1, 2015 I’d like to add two and a half dishes to the list. The half is the fried okra at Cothams, its pretty fantastic. I know this isn’t a burger blog and perhaps they don’t count as “dishes” but I believe the stuffed cheese burger at The Box has got to be tried. Its sloppy, especially with that fried egg on top, but you gotta try it. The second addition is the BBQ and onion rings at Three Sams in Mabelvale. The BBQ is good (and incidentally, they have a nice foot-long dog as well) but the onion rings are, without reservation, the best I’ve ever had. To die without trying them would be a travesty. Rex, If you want to go try them, I’ll buy.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9026
__label__wiki	0.693199	0.693199	Home > North > Holar Hólar is one of two Episcopal seats in Iceland and one of the primary historical places in Iceland. The Bishopric was created in 1106 and the first bishop was Jón Ögmundsson. For seven centuries Hólar was a bishopric and thereto a school has been operated there for centuries. During these times Hólar really was the capital of northern part of Iceland. The bishopric came to an end in 1801 however it was revived in 1985 and now the auxiliary bishop sits there. The most well known bishops were Jón Arason the last catholic bishop and Guðbrandur Þorláksson who printed Guðbrands bible. Jón Arason bought the first printing press to Iceland. The current church at Hólar is the fifth cathedral in a row and was erected in 1763 and is built of red sandstone from Hólabryða a mountain that overlooks the site. It is the oldest stone church in Iceland and has now to some extent been reconstructed to its earlier form. The church and its relics are very remarkable and it is possible to take guided tours of the church every day between 9 am and 6 pm. The school at Hólar was revived in 1882 and the agriculture school was founded as an endeavour to counteract the westward migration of the Icelandic people. Now the school teaches equine and tourism studies at University level as well as fish farming. Tourism services operate at Hólar from May to the end of August. A variety of recreational activities are available both at Hólar and in its neighbourhood. For example a pamphlet has been prepared for tourist to follow a historical trail through the interesting places at Hólar. Phone 455 6333, 455 6300. www.northwest.is	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9027
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Matthew McMahon $5.99 (tax incl.) Are you a member of Christ's church? Are you a covenanter? Do you support your church? Are you committed to it? How do you show it? More Info » 5 Marks of Biblical Commitment to the Visible Body of Christ by C. Matthew McMahon was last modified: 2019-07-09T16:25 by Matthew McMahon The Nature, Danger and Cure of Temptation by Richard Capel (1586–1656) $4.99 (tax incl.)$6.99 (tax incl.) In this masterful treatise on temptation, Capel explains that God’s honor is on the line, and what will Christians do to uphold his honor amidst those temptations? Will they give in easily, or do they know how to fight? More Info » The Nature, Danger and Cure of Temptation by Richard Capel (1586–1656) was last modified: 2019-02-08T16:29 by Matthew McMahon 5 Marks of a Biblical Disciple by C. Matthew McMahon What is a disciple? A disciple has "5 Marks" outlined in Scripture which demonstrate a Spirit-filled walking with Jesus Christ in newness of life. More Info » 5 Marks of a Biblical Disciple by C. Matthew McMahon was last modified: 2018-12-28T19:17 by Matthew McMahon 5 Marks of a Biblical Church by C. Matthew McMahon What are the marks of a biblical church? There are 5 marks that demonstrate the church as the pillar and ground of the truth. More Info » 5 Marks of a Biblical Church by C. Matthew McMahon was last modified: 2018-11-07T17:25 by Matthew McMahon Armilla Catechetica, or a Chain of Theological Principles - by John Arrowsmith (1602-1659) One of the best systematic treatments of important issues by a Master Theologian and one of the most respected Westminster Divines. This is now in an electronic format that makes studying this work very easy, and it is in modern English. 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Walker thoroughly explains the agreement and differences in the covenants, and how God's wisdom is seen in sending Christ, the Mediator of the covenant, for his people. A classic Westminsterian work by one of the divines. More Info » The Manifold Wisdom of God Seen in Covenant Theology - by George Walker (1581-1651) was last modified: 2016-07-13T16:40 by Matthew McMahon Systematic Theology Made Easy - by C. Matthew McMahon Do you love theology? Sometimes it's hard to wade through thousands of pages in giant tomes exhausting every possible subject. Don't you wish there was an EASY systematic theology book? There is.... More Info » Systematic Theology Made Easy - by C. 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__label__wiki	0.526663	0.526663	Integrity - Ministry - Excellence - Legacy - Good Music Music is a universal language that speaks to the human condition; the ideologies, beliefs, thoughts, and experiences of mankind. Certain people are designed and/or gifted with being the emissaries and ambassadors to deliver music, Richard Davis is one of these people. As a Minister of the Gospel, Richard Davis has accepted not only his calling to preach and share God’s Gospel, but also to use his musical gifts to the help build the Kingdom. He has allowed God to use and grow him by blessing him to hone his craft and work with some of the most noteworthy of talents within the Gospel Music Industry. Talents like Byron Cage, Fred Hammond, Leon Timbo, Vickie Winans, Hezekiah Walker, Bishop Michael Pitts, Tamela Mann, Stephen Hurd, John P. Kee, Dottie Peoples, Bishop Paul S. Morton and the late Daryl Coley, have been a part of his cultivation as a musician, artist and Musical Director. He is a noteworthy psalmist, producer, and preacher in his own right. With a diverse musical education, Richard was first introduced to the Gospel music industry with his first CD, In All Your Glory in 2006. In a short time, he founded his own studio, R2D Music Productions and garnered a lot of acclaim and success as one of the top studios in the DMV (Maryland, DC, Virginia) Area. His Sophomore Album, Purity, was Nationally Released in July of 2012. In December of 2016 he released a Nationally Hit Holiday Single, Christmas Gift that charted #1 on the iTunes Billboard. To follow that up in 2018 he released “Pierce the Darkness” By Bishop Michael Pitts & Cornerstone Global in which he was taped as producer, writer and featured vocalist. November of 2018 he released a Christmas EP - “Christ the Lord.” Richard has been able to transcend the potential limitations and hindrances of the music industry and has positioned himself as a stellar musician, writer, and producer. He continues his ministerial duties at as Director of Music & Fine Arts at Strong Tower Church in Fredericksburg, VA and is known as a passionate and gifted worship leader. In 2016 he was tapped as Vice President and Director of Artist Relations for the Jonre Music Group, and Director of Label Operations for 9585 Records. In 2017 he was signed to Flaydo Music/R2D Music. Richard Davis is a man on the rise, a musical maverick, and a faithful contributor to the faith. Richard T. Davis 2019	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9032
__label__wiki	0.638781	0.638781	Video \| Business Headlines \| Internet \| Science \| Scientific Ethics \| Technology \| Search Scoop  Sci-Tech Leading the world in shellfish farming innovation Thursday, 4 July 2019, 12:36 pm Press Release: University of Canterbury Aotearoa New Zealand is a world leader in shellfish farming and University of Canterbury Engineering Professor Keith Alexander is part of a team researching ways to keep the country at the forefront. Mussel and shellfish farming is a billion-dollar industry and is crucial to meeting the world’s food demand in the 21st century. It is also an important part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s history and, more importantly, its future. This is why Professor Keith Alexander in UC’s College of Engineering and Mechanical Engineering PhD student Sam Godsiff are working with Cawthron Institute to study methods to improve the efficiency of mussel and other shellfish farming in the open ocean. Cawthron Institute is Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest independent science organisation specialising in aquaculture, biosecurity, marine, freshwater and analytical research. Cawthron is leading the programme, headed by Kevin Heasman and funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, to advance open ocean shellfish aquaculture. For centuries around the world, people have farmed mussels and shellfish in sheltered sites inshore, using long lines anchored to the seabed and kept afloat by a series of buoys that dangle droppers, or ropes, into the water. For mussel farming, the droppers are seeded with spat (baby mussels), which are then on-grown to harvest. Other types of shellfish such as oysters are also farmed using mesh bags or trays. The challenge is that consented inshore sheltered water for farming is very difficult to get, yet the world’s seafood demand continues to increase. Finding innovative ways to facilitate efficient and sustainable aquaculture in the open ocean is therefore becoming an ever-growing need. Professor Alexander says harvesting offshore also presents a number of specific challenges. “These include boat traffic and larger waves, which might cause the mussels to get knocked off the dropper ropes because of the greater movement of the buoys at the water surface. So, the big issue is, if you are going to farm shellfish out in the ocean, how can you do it efficiently and sustainably?” While the team is not at liberty to discuss some of the solutions it is looking into, Dr Alexander says there are a variety of ways to improve on the current high-maintenance technology, which is primarily surface-based but static. “The project team are asking questions like, ‘Can you put the farming systems below the surface?’ This is one of the main ideas that has been floating around for a while. But then how do you access them for maintenance and harvesting? How do you know if the spat ropes below the surface are getting overloaded? Then, what do you do about it?” One of the key issues is the ability to monitor the farms to ensure they are not being overloaded and that farmers don’t miss the optimal window for harvesting. With the new system being offshore, and potentially below the surface, finding an efficient method for keeping tabs on the farming system is more difficult. “If you are harvesting offshore, the system is obviously not close by, so you would have to take a boat out to the farm, but it can’t be just any boat. It would have to be a fairly large boat and one with the capability to travel 8 to 15 kilometres offshore in conditions that can be pretty rough,” says Professor Alexander. But with these challenges comes opportunity. Cawthron Institute, with the help of Professor Alexander and his team, could discover a technology and process that are more economical than the current way of growing and harvesting mussels and shellfish and therefore ensuring the security of seafood supply in future. Professor Alexander believes modern information and technology can revolutionise shellfish farming by making it more efficient. UC PhD student Sam Godsiff has been integral to the project because of his family history. He grew up farming mussels in Aotearoa New Zealand with his father and has provided crucial insight into the intricacies of the current process. “He brings a lot of background and hands-on experience to the table that some of us don’t have,” says Professor Alexander. The team at UC is an integral part of the Cawthron-led project, which also includes scientists based offshore. There is significant international interest from Europe, the United States of America and China as this new technology could also facilitate their own production of species. Some of the team designs that Professor Alexander and Mr Godsiff contributed to are now in the process of being produced for trials. Find more from University of Canterbury on InfoPages. Science thrives in the Waikato 12:10 PM \| The Kudos Awards	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9033
__label__wiki	0.832826	0.832826	Enforced disappearance: Tajikistan Saturday, 6 July 2019, 11:28 am Press Release: UNHCHR Enforced disappearance: Experts urge Tajikistan to comprehensively address challenges GENEVA (5 July 2019) – UN experts said today Tajikistan faces significant challenges in dealing with the issue of enforced disappearances. “We leave Tajikistan with some hope and serious concerns,” a delegation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances said in a statement at the end of a five-day visit to the country. “Very little has been done to deal with issues related to truth, justice, reparation and memory in relation to the civil war that took place between 1992 and 1997, a virtually unaddressed subject in the country.” The experts were unable to get official figures but it is estimated that thousands may still be unaccounted for among the different factions. There are allegedly also a number of unopened mass graves. “It is unprecedented in our experience that there is so little interest in shedding light on events of this significance,” they said. “Tajikistan needs to create conducive conditions to openly and comprehensively address issues related to past violations, including enforced disappearances.” The experts also expressed concern at information received that there have been recent cases, including of Tajik nationals residing abroad forcibly returned to Tajikistan. “In some cases, these individuals have appeared in detention in Tajikistan after a short period of disappearance; in a few others their whereabouts are still unknown,” they added, noting that the authorities have denied these allegations. The experts also acknowledged legislative amendments adopted in 2016 related to the registration of those deprived of liberty and the notification of family members. These provisions, however, could be further improved and are often not effectively implemented. The Working Group called for the establishment of a simple, accessible and effective mechanism for families to quickly locate their loved ones. The experts also urged the adoption of additional measures for prevention. “Some of these measures can be taken swiftly, such as the ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the introduction of an autonomous crime of enforced disappearance in the penal code. We welcome that the ratification of the Convention has been introduced in the 2017-2020 National Plan of Action among the measures to implement the UPR (Universal Periodic Review) recommendations after the second cycle,” the experts said. The Working Group appreciated that the Government granted almost all requested meetings. “The invitation to visit the country, the openness of the Government to discuss a number of issues, as well as some legislative and institutional measures taken, are encouraging steps,” the experts said. “We also welcome that we were given access to a number of places of deprivation of liberty.” “The visit of these places has confirmed the need to establish a centralised nation-wide system of registration of all persons deprived of liberty as provided for in theDeclaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The absence of a centralised digital system renders inaccuracies frequent and abuses possible,” the experts said. The experts were granted a short visit to Vahdat prison, where - after rioting prisoners killed three guards and three other prisoners - the guards responded with force killing 27 inmates. “A thorough, impartial and independent investigation, in accordance with international standards, is urged to determine the circumstances in which the inmates were killed and how their remains were identified,” they stressed. During the visit from 1 to 5 July, the delegation met with Government officials, relatives, lawyers and representatives of civil society organisations. A final report on the visit will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in September 2020. The Working Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances comprises five independent experts from all regions around the world. The Chair-Rapporteur is Mr. Bernard Duhaime (Canada) and the Vice-Chair is Mr. Tae-Ung Baik (Republic of Korea); other members are Ms Houria Es-Slami (Morocco), Mr. Luciano Hazan (Argentina) and Mr. Henrikas Mickevicius (Lithuania). The Working Group was established by the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1980 to assist families in determining the fate and whereabouts of disappeared relatives. It endeavours to establish a channel of communication between the families and the Governments concerned, to ensure that individual cases are investigated, with the objective of clarifying the whereabouts of people who, having disappeared, are placed outside the protection of the law. In view of the Working Group’s humanitarian mandate, clarification occurs when the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person is clearly established. The Working Group continues to address cases of disappearances until they are resolved. It also provides assistance in the implementation by States of the United Nations Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The Working Groups are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity. UN Human Rights, Country Page – Tajikistan Find more from UNHCHR on InfoPages.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9034
__label__wiki	0.68117	0.68117	Harper Poesy Hair Salon celebrates one year Cali Bagby Tue Dec 13th, 2011 6:52pm Tea Quinn It was in her San Juan Island salon that she first saw haircuts as more than a fashion statement or just an act of maintenance. She saw people have the ability to let go of something, or to make a big change with a dramatic cut. A women once came into the salon to cut off 10 inches of her hair and teared up as the locks of her hair hit the floor. Other clients have left with a glow — ready for a fresh start. “People say we hold a lot in our hair,” said Tea Quinn, a certified Redken colorist and owner of Harper Poesy Hair Salon. “It seems to hold a lot of energy and people can get very emotional about it.” Experiencing such transformation was not something Quinn, 28, thought about when she first got into the hair business. She began as a receptionist at an Indiana salon when she was 17. She describes herself as always dressed in high heels and often flipping through fashion magazines. She eventually worked as a stylist and colorist, and as a color educator for Redken. She worked on the road five days a week visiting different salons to talk about color, and worked in a salon the other two days. She frequently started work at 4 a.m. and didn’t finish until 11 p.m. She wore expensive clothes and had a fancy car, but not much of a social life. Gradually, she grew tired of the long hours and lack of balance in her life. Quinn said that she can’t quite explain it, but one day she knew she had to quit. San Juan Island was appealing because she wanted to get in-state residency and eventually attend Evergreen State College, but then she never left the island — she’s lived here for four years. During her first years on the island, she worked on a farm and cut hair for fun — either for friends or the farmers she worked for. “I’ve always liked the act of cutting hair — it’s creative and I love connecting with people,” Quinn said. “It’s a reward to interact with different people and make them feel good.” Eventually, those friends urged her to open her own salon. And a year ago, she did just that. “It all happened really fast,” said Quinn, who celebrated the salon’s first year anniversary this month. “It’s all very breath-taking, it has been a fast first year it has been a lot busier than I expected.” She said her strength is color correction, but she enjoys the whole package of “coloring a design,” stylist jargon for a haircut. In February, she will travel to New York for a Redken advanced haircutting class. “It’s important to keep learning,” Quinn said. “I’m a better hair dresser than when I started, but you can always get better.” Harper Poesy Salon offers haircuts, hair coloring and waxing services, and 20 percent off all gift cards this December. For more info, call 298-5901.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9038
__label__cc	0.539284	0.460716	Soufli on the European silk road – An Exhibition 1/8-10/9/2012 Soufli on the European silk road – An Exhibition of Photos and Archival Material from the silk factories of Soufli in the 20th Century Share a comment: Add comment Reset Welcome to the Art of Silk Museum! For the last 60 years the Tsiakiri Silk House has been active in the production of silk in Soufli. Now they have created a jewel in the centre of the town, a unique space to show off and preserve the rich tradition of silk weaving and production in the area. Here the text Here the text. Here the text.. F or the last 60 years the Tsiakiri Silk House has been active in the production of silk in Soufli. Now they have created a jewel in the centre of the town, a unique space to show off and preserve the rich tradition of silk weaving and production in the area. Original exhibits combined with the latest technology take the visitor, step by step, on a journey as unique as that of silk itself. In the Art of Silk Museum you will be guided through the exhibits in the carefully restored neoclassical building. The exhibits are in working order and the visitor will be able to get a taste of what it meant to work in the silk industry from silk reeling and processing machines to weaving both with power and hand looms. Alongside the exhibits there are videos demonstrating the various stages in the manufacture of silk from sericulture (the rearing of silkworms) to the finished product. Special tours and demonstrations are available for schools and organised groups. The museum has been fitted with the latest technology for presentations and also hosts a multilingual electronic guiding system (XENAGOS) to assist visitors in their tour of the museum. The Art of Silk Museum will also host exhibitions and other artistic and cultural events. ΣThe Museum shop has a selection of the many silk items produced by the Tsiakiri Silk House as well as a number of locally produced specialities. The Art of Silk Museum has full access for the disabled throughout with entrance ramps, an elevator to the first floor and specialised toilet facilities. TRADITIONAL LOCAL COSTUME This outfit was made in 1903 and was worn for the first time by Eleni Papatsaroucha. It has kindly been donated to the museum by Mrs Myrto Papatsaroucha-Kalesi. HAND OPERATED WARPING MACHINE Built in Greece by unknown craftsmen in about 1967. Bought with a grant from EOMMEX (Hellenic Small Business Organisation) in 1971. Used to lay the warp threads preparatory to weaving. As so many threads are required for the warp it is not possible to lay them all at once. Therefore it is laid in strips, REELING MACHINE Made in Milan, Italy in 1927 by BIANCHI DUBINI & KACHEL. The Reeling Machine is the machine used to unwind the silk thread from the cocoons. This reeling machine was acquired by Tsiakiri Brothers in 1970 and was in use for only a short time, approx. 1.5 years, until it was replaced by a more COOKED COCOONS & CHRYSALIDES (“BITZEKIA”) These cocoons have been boiled ready to be pulped and carded into a mass for spinning into thread. The cocoons that were not suitable for Reeling due to being poor quality, misshapen or holed were boiled, pulped and mixed with the waste threads from all the stages of silk processing before being carded into a Made in Soufli in 1929 by local craftsmen. This is the first loom bought by the Tsiakiri family and our Great Grandmother, Pagona Tsiakiri, first wove with this machine. Throughout the Second World War and the German occupation, together with her mother, she wove cloth and scarves which they sold in the villages of North DENIER BALANCE OR “ROMAN” SCALES Made in Italy in 1961 by Speroni. Very accurate metal scales used in conjunction with the Test Wheel (“Prova”) to ascertain the thickness of the silk thread, which is measured in “Denier”. Thread thickness is measured in “Denier” or “Td” which is the weight of 9000m of thread. To take a smaller sample for a TEST WHEEL (PROVA ) Made in Italy in 1961 by Speroni. This winding wheel is used in conjunction with the Denier Balance (“Roman Scales”) to determine the Denier (thickness) of the thread. Made in Soufli in 1946 by local craftsmen from wood, glass and galvanised metal. This type of incubator was used from the 1920s onwards. Before the use of such incubators, the women would put silkworm eggs in small cloth bags and place them in their armpits or under their bosom. They would then strap them The life and works of Neofyto Papanastasio at the Soufli Municipal Museum An exhibition of photographs and archival material at the Soufli Municipal Museum from 2nd September to 14th October 2012 Presentation of the book “The Children of Spartacus” by Dido Sotiriou 4/2/2012 A TOUCH OF SPICE – An evening event on Sunday 20th May 2012 (Greek) ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΗ ΘΡΑΚΗ – ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟΥΠΟΛΗ History of Soufli History of Soufli. A talk given by Thanasis Gouridi Musical Presentation of Kikones Sound CD Book presentation by the author MIHAILIDIS TEFKROS Children’s Event to support the charity Association of Children with Autism Children’s Event for the financial support of the Association of Children with Autism Musical Evening with Bagpipes Astronomy night Τraditional costumes Τraditional costumes of Hellas Emission of ET3 Fushion Event Event for the priests The history of silk is lost in the mists of time. We know from archeological evidence that silk was being cultivated in China as long ago as the 4th millennium BC and that the silkworms used were of the species Bombyx mori, the same species we use today. According to Chinese tradition, the history of silk begins in the 27th century BC, when a silk worm’s cocoon fell into the tea cup of the empress Leizu. Wishing to extract it from her drink, the young girl of fourteen began to unroll the thread of the cocoon. She then had the idea to weave it. Having observed the life of the silk worm on the recommendation of her husband, the Yellow Emperor, she began to instruct her entourage the art of raising silk worms, sericulture. From this point on, the girl became the goddess of silk in Chinese Mythology. The Chinese kept the truth about silk a mystery for nearly 2000 years until about the 1st century AD when the eggs of the silkworm were smuggled out of China in the hair of a princess who was promised to a prince of Khotan. She could not bear to be without her beloved silk so took it with her, finally breaking the imperial ban on silkworm exportation. Over the centuries the secret of sericulture spread to Japan and India. Silk cloth was exported from China from at least the 2nd millennium BC via the “silk road” (a variety of routes leading over the barren wastes of the eastern deserts to the civilizations in the west and around the Mediterranean) and was venerated by all who saw it. Its great beauty and strength were highly prized and it was worth more than its own weight in gold. The military campaigns of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC opened the way for silk to become better known to the ancient Greeks and Romans. The sale of silk in the west was controlled by Persian and Syrian merchants until at least the 5th century AD. It was then that the Roman emperor Justinian sent two Nestorian monks as Christian missionaries to China with orders to smuggle out silkworm eggs and the seeds of the mulberry tree in hollowed out walking canes. They succeeded, and so by 554BC the mystery of sericulture arrived in Constantinople and the practice of sericulture spread throughout Byzantium and also through the Arab world. The crusades spread the cultivation of silk through Europe where it became a booming industry in Italy in the middle ages. By the 16th century sericulture and silk weaving were established in France. By the late 18th century, with the advent of the industrial revolution, silk was being produced in the manufacturing hubs in France (Lyon, Tours & Avignon) and Italy (Genoa, Venice and Como). The outbreak of epidemics of several deadly silkworm diseases in France during the early 19th century caused a massive drop in production from which the area never fully recovered. This, on the other hand, was undoubtedly a major factor in the massive growth of silk production in Greece and especially around Soufli in that period, and the quality of Greek silk surpassed that of France and Italy. In 1882 the first synthetic thread was exhibited at the Paris Fair and marked the beginning of the steady decline in silk’s fortunes. For several centuries the production of silk was more or less a cottage industry for the residents of prefecture of Adrianople (now Erdine), which included Soufli. In 1823-24 an English manufacturer showed their interest in buying locally processed silk and sent the prices skyrocketing. This was also at the time of the terrible epidemics that destroyed most of the French and Italian production. The increased interest in cocoons gave the impulsion for the massive local increase in sericulture. The banks of the Evros river were ideal for Mulberry plantation and consequently the plain around Soufli became a huge mulberry orchard. Almost all the residents of Soufli were involved in the production of silk as producers, factory workers or merchants. By 1880 Soufli was responsible for 40% of the cocoons produced in the whole Prefecture of Andrianople. Address 199 Vasileos Georgiou Str, Soufli,Greece 68400. Phone +(30) 25540 – 22371 e-Mail:info@silkmuseum.gr Daily 09:00 – 21:00. Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays Open. Est cho skazat?? Send message Reset Εxhibits How silk is made The history of silk Properties of silk What is silk? How to identity real silk	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9040
__label__wiki	0.984582	0.984582	Sinlung / Meghalaya India's First Glass Mosque in Shillong Shillong: India will have its first glass mosque - in the country's northeast. Madina Masjid, an imposing and resplendent structure of glass dome and glass minarets, will formally open doors to the devotees on Thursday in Meghalaya's capital. "It is an architectural marvel," Congress legislator Sayeedullah Nongrum, who helped in the mosque's construction, told IANS. "It took us one and a half years to complete the only glass mosque in India and the largest one in the northeastern region," said Nongrum, who is also general secretary of the Shillong Muslim Union (SMU). The four-storey building - 120 feet high and 61 feet wide -- stands inside an Idgah Complex in the city's Lahan area and is close to the garrison grounds along the Umshyrpi river. At night, the mosque's glasswork glows and glitters. The mosque houses a new orphanage named Meherba, a library and a 'markaz'-- an Islamic theological institute. Madina Masjid has a capacity of around 2,000 people and has separate space for women to offer prayers. Nongrum said the new theological institute would impart Islamic teachings and the library there would have books on comparative religious studies. "This place will be open for everyone, but one should maintain the mosque's sanctity," Nongrum said, adding that the mosque was set to become a tourist attraction. Around Rs 2 crore was spent on the building, with fund from SMU and well-wishers, he said. Nongrum said most of the people who built the mosque were Hindus. The mosque was completed in July and SMU will maintain it. Union Law and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is scheduled to inaugurate Madina Masjid, along with Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Vincent H. Pala, on Oct 18. Nongrum said 51 boys and girls are already in an orphanage in the complex and go to a primary school in the Idgah complex established in 1942. The complex also has a minority co-educational institution, Umshyrpi College, set up in 1994. In 2008, the Idgah was the first in the region to open doors to women devotees. "I have seen Muslim women offering prayers with great difficulty in the absence of space and privacy, especially while at work or out of home. When our women go to market, which is considered to be the worst place for a Muslim women under Sharia, we men do not object. So, why can't women go to a 'masjid' and offer prayers? Why fanatics object to it?" he said, adding, "I don't believe in the interpretation of fanatics. 'Purdah' means inner shyness of women. If the shyness is retained, she can go anywhere. There's nothing forbidden in going to a place and offering prayer. The Shillong Muslim Union was formed in 1905 in erstwhile East Bengal, which stretched from Siliguri to Cox's Bazar and Chittagong to Dibrugarh. After India's partition in 1947, SMU narrowed down its activities to Assam. Since Meghalaya's formation in 1972, its activities have been limited to the state. India has about 165 milllion Muslims, the third largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9041
__label__wiki	0.635672	0.635672	Comic Comics #217: I Was a Child Bride Harvey Comics is best known as the publisher of kid-friendly fare such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Hot Stuff, Richie Rich, and Littles Audrey, Dot, and Lotta. But for some reason they also published the obligatory romance comics like everyone else in the late 40s and 1950s. One such title was Teen-Age Brides which focused on young teens falling in love and getting married. Sounds like a great idea. Teen-Age Brides lasted seven issues between 1953 and 1954 and frankly, just based on this story, that was seven issues too long. by Brian Hall at 8/26/2017 11:30:00 AM No comments: Links to this post Labels: comic books, Comic Comics, Harvey Comics, love, marriage, teenagers Don't You Do It! Eclipse. Don't you do it! Hope everyone has fun out there. Please wear glasses. Labels: Comic, comics, eclipse, Moon, sun, webcomic Dancin' Homer Welcome back to #ElevenSeasonsAndAMovie where I go through every Simpsons episode through season 11 and comment, opine, and reflect on it. The Simpsons was a big part of my life and it, along with a few other shows, molded my humor that you all enjoy today. We return today with "Dancin' Homer." Episode 7F05 (#18) Created by Matt Groening; Developed by James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon Written by Ken Levine & David Isaacs Directed by Mark Kirkland Executive Producers James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, and Harry Shearer Special Guest Voice Tony Bennett, Tom Poston Also Starring Hank Azaria, Daryl L. Coley, Pamela Hayden, Ken Levine Homer is in Moe's Tavern regaling the regulars on his return to Springfield after leaving town to become a big-shot mascot for the baseball team the Capital City Capitals. The story begins at an employee night at a Springfield Isotopes game where a drunk Homer, in order to get the fans up and cheering, begins dancing to Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk." It works and the Isotopes win a game. Homer is promptly hired by management and the 'Topes go onto a winning streak. Homer is then asked to join the Capital City Capitals. The Simpsons are hypnotized by the bright lights of Capital City but Homer's dancing antics do not thrill the big city audience and Homer is immediately fired while still in his underwear. The Simpsons return to Springfield and go back to their normal lives. Meanwhile, the bar flys love hearing Homer's story and ask him to tell it again. This was once one of my favorite episodes and in my top five from this season. But on this rewatch, I felt that it did not hold up as well. It may be due to it being more of a kid-friendly episode, which were still pretty common in the second season. There is no B-plot but the episode packs a lot of action into it creating almost an epic episode--a rise and fall. While I feel this episode wasn't as good as I remembered it, it is a well-written, well-scripted, and tight episode that few shows could hold a candle to. "Springfield Nuclear Plant Employee, Spouse, and No More Than Three Children Night" The stadium sells 72 ounce tubs of beer. Ladies and gentlemen, the Gammills. Burns' card needs updating. It reads "Bart, Lisa, and Expecting." Burns throws out the first pitch and it lands only a few inches from him. Bart: "Hey, Burns! You throw like my sister!" Lisa: "Yeah! You throw like me!" Smithers: "I think I could actually hear the air being torn, sir." Bleeding Gums Murphy performs the "Star-Spangled Banner" and it lasts for 26 minutes. Only Lisa is left smiling at the end of it. Isotopes Announcer: "Oh my God! The Isotopes win a game!" Homer: "They weren't laughing at me. They were laughing toward me." Shelbyville's minor league team are the ShelbyVillains. I never noticed before but when Homer spells out Springfield he spells it S-P-R-I-N-G-F-E-E-L-D. The Capital City Goofball. Lisa, on why they shouldn't leave Springfield: "Everyone here knows us and has forgiven us." I love this piece of animation when the Simpsons are about to leave Springfield. Homer's boss allows to Homer to take a leave of absence for "4 years? 5 years!" Homer's good-bye to the Isotopes is modeled after Lou Gehrig's farewell speech. Let's just say the gravity of this situation does not equal the gravity and emotion of Gehrig's farewell. And that's why the writing and animation is amazing. Homer, upon arriving in Capital City: "Look, kids, street crime." The Capital City song sung by Tony Bennett is one of the best things in this season. Trying to make all the things that every middle-sized metropolis has seem amazing and worth going to is hilarious. Two of the major attractions in Capital City are the Crosstown Bridge and the corner of 4th Street and D Street. I find it interesting that the Capital City baseball stadium has a dome. Currently, only 6 of the 30 Major League stadiums have a dome. Since Capital City is a minor league team, it might be because it's not just a baseball field but some sort of sports center where numerous sports are played. The people of Capital City don't like Homer's dancing antics but yet their mascot is the Capital City Goofball. by Brian Hall at 8/17/2017 03:00:00 PM No comments: Links to this post Labels: #ElevenSeasons, television, The Simpsons Supercomics #4 The nation awoke to the sight of Columbus, Ohio no longer there. Harris, now calling himself Cybernet, hijacked missiles and launched them at the city. The Senator’s house that he was staying in was spared since it was on the outskirts of town but a good portion of Columbus was reduced to smoldering rubble. “We know where he is now,” Dmitri said. “Senator King’s house just outside of Columbus.” A picture of it came onto the screen. “The military has given us,” he stressed “120 minutes to go in and take Harris down.” “We’ve seen what he’s capable of,” America said. “Why not just nuke the son of a bitch?” “Seriously?” Alix scoffed. “Nuking him would render what’s left of Columbus and everything in a 50 mile radius around it inhabitable. And there’s no guarantee it would even kill Cybernet.” “Harris,” Geo-Whiz corrected. “Don’t give him the satisfaction of the name.” “Sorry, I forgot. Having these names is pretty cool,” Alix giggled. “We have 120 minutes to get in and get out? What will they do if we go over that time or don’t come out at all?” Agent Spider asked. “They’re going to nuke the son of a bitch,” Dmitri answered. “Something is coming,” Tillerson said, looking at a screen that showed America, Superkitten, Geo-Whiz, and everyone else arriving. “Is it the military?” Cybernet asked. “No, it looks like just five people. They think five people will stop us?” “You know what to do, Tillerson.” Cybernet, now uninterested, turned away. “Tillerson is dead,” he grumbled. “I am Smasher now!” “That’s great,” Cybernet sighed. “Make this quick.” Everyone arrived at the house. “So, what do we do? Do we just rush in? Do you think they have traps or something?” Agent Spider asked. “Just go,” America growled and smashed through the front door. “I guess we’ll just walk on in,” Superkitten said. America, Agent Spider, Superkitten, and Geo-Whiz went into the house. Smoke stayed out in the jet to monitor the time and make sure they were out before the army launched the nuke or if Cybernet tried to escape. They took a few steps into the house when Smasher came around the corner. “Of course he has a henchman,” America said. “I think we need to split up. Geo, Kitten, you get past...Smasher...and find Cybernet.” “Okay. We can do that,” Geo-Whiz aimed his hands at the floor and used the dirt to knock Smasher out of the way. “We’ll stop Cybernet.” “Cybernet can handle those kids,” Smasher scoffed. “I’d rather play with the big boys anyway.” Smasher began charging at America. “Seriously?” Agent Spider exclaimed. “Him? Is it because of his American flag costume?” Spider shot his webs at Smasher. When they attached, he pulled on them and Smasher flew toward him and landed hard on the floor. “It doesn’t matter who they attack first, Spider,” America said. “Just keep him down.” Agent Spider shot more web at Smasher, attaching him to the floor. Smasher struggled to stand back up. He was able to rip some of the webbing off but more replaced it. America stormed over and struck Smasher with his fist. Smasher was ripped from the floor and flew across the room and through the wall. Smasher immediately stood back up and charged at America who handedly dodged the large beast. Agent Spider couldn’t dodge in time and so was knocked down but America was over with him quickly and again punching Smasher as hard as he could. Smasher took grabbed America’s head and threw him back across the room. Smasher stood back up and grabbed Agent Spider in a giant bear hug and squeezed tightly. “I will crush both of you,” he said. Agent Spider heard his spine crack and pop. He aimed his web shooter at Smasher and then blasted some webbing into his face. America then ran up, tackling Smasher and taking Smasher and Agent Spider down together. Smasher let go of Agent Spider and tried to attack America. America kept striking Smasher. Finally, Smasher was able to knock America away. Smasher stood up, his face bruised and twisted with anger. He clenched his fists and screamed “Die!” then collapsed onto the floor, unmoving. Agent Spider rocked Smasher with his foot and when it was clear Smasher was down for the count, began trapping Smasher to the floor with his webbing. “That was a lot harder than I thought it was be,” Agent Spider exhaled sharply. “I wonder how Superkitten and Geo-Whiz are doing,” America wondered. “I don’t know but we should hurry after them. If we had trouble with this guy I can’t imagine what they might be going through with Cybernet.” Labels: Story Series, Supercomics, Superkitten, writing POB #1: Murder Will Out! In the afternoon of June 3, 1882, about half past four, a man's hand was found by three boys playing along the Kansas River bank in Lawrence. They alerted a nearby fisherman who watched the body while the boys ran to inform Marshal Prentice, a reporter at the Lawrence Daily Journal, who went to inform the coroner but found he was in Emporia. Bringing Dr. A. Fuller in his stead, they went back to the river to pull the body out of the river. The body was a fair looking man. Five ten or five eleven, light complexion, blue eyes, sandy hair, dark red chin whiskers and a mustache, drilling drawers, white socks, gray woolen shirt, and red undershirt. The man also had a silver watch and a ring on a chain. Inside the ring were the initials D.B. and the date June 28, 1874. He also had several keys, a knife, several coins and other things. The man also had eight deep gashes upon his head and the middle finger of the left hand was slit and the thumb almost cut in two. The body was taken and washed and viewed by a large number of people in hopes of verifying his identity. No one identified the body. A coroner's inquest was held and it was determined that the victim was murdered in or near North Lawrence within the last 48 hours and thrown into the river. His watch had stopped 9:20 PM and people near the place where the man was found did hear cries near there the previous night but no other clues could be located. Another coroner's inquest was held Sunday afternoon at 3:10 PM. One of the witnesses, Charley Allen, a young boy near the murder site, gave his testimony. "I live in North Lawrence; am seventeen years old. Haven't seen the body. On Wednesday night between 9 and 10 o'clock I saw him killed. I was about ten feet from where he was killed. I was by the corner of the ice house; I saw Isaac King and George Robertson running up by the bank. Then I heard the man holler. He hollered three times that he would get up when they struck him. Ike King had a hickory stick about as big around as my wrist, and a hammer. George Robertson had a crowbar. They took them back to Pete Vinegar's house. I saw Dora Vinegar and Lizzie Ferguson run up to the ice houses, and they had got back to Vinegar's when I got back. Pete Vinegar was at the house all the time. Ike struck first and I heard the man holler. They didn't say anything while they were beating him. I saw the white man and Sis Vinegar and King and Robertson go up by the ice house a short time before the killing. Dora and Lizzie ran back to the house when the man hollered. They pounded him three or four minutes. I saw the man in the water that night after he had been killed, but I was afraid to stay there for fear they would kill me. King and Robertson said if they had seen me and Grant Blackman who was with me they would have killed us. Sis Vinegar, after they had hit him said 'Come on. I've got his money.' When we came back in found Sis and Dora and Lizzie and King and Robertson all standing in the yard by the fence. They all looked scared. After killing the man King and Robertson ran back together and Sis came back alone. Sis came last. Sis asked Mame Vinegar if there was any water in the house and she said no and then started after some water. She told us not to tell about it or she would kill us. Pete Vinegar didn't say anything. We told Robertson and King that we wouldn't say anything about it. They said they would kill us sure as hell if we did tell. I stayed that night at the Millers. Ike and Robertson stayed at the Vinegars. When they came back to the house Ike said they had killed a man. Mame Vinegar asked who he was and Ike answered he didn't know." When Charley went back out the next morning, he couldn't see the body in the river or any sign that the murder had happened but he went and told his mother. The next witness was 12-year-old Grant Blackman he confirmed what Charley had witnessed and added that the man and Sis were walking together. King and Robertson snuck up behind them and hit the man. Sis got his money and told King and Robertson not to kill him. They did anyway and disposed of the body in the river. Other witnesses included Lizzie Ferguson, Dora Vinegar, Pete and Margaret "Sis" Vinegar, and several other people. One of the witnesses was Amos Bausman of Montgomery County, Ohio, who verified the identity of the body. David Bausman had just recently moved to the Globe area of Douglas County. He was born June 11, 1840 in Montgomery County, Ohio to Christina and Jacob Bausman. He had eight brothers and sisters. Bausman enlisted in the 74th Ohio Regiment during the Civil War. He was wounded in the Battle of Stone River in Tennessee on December 31, 1862. He married Sophie after the war and moved to Ohio Township in Franklin County, Kansas where they lived and farmed until Sophie passed away in July of 1881 at the age of 31. She is buried in Table Rock Cemetery in El Paso County, Colorado. David moved to Marion Township in Douglas County shortly after and had told friends he was heading to Lawrence this week to visit friends. While Sis Vinegar denied in her testimony that she ever saw the man, took his money, shouted, or was even there, the coroner determined that Sis lured Bausman to the banks of the river and while he was preoccupied by her, King and Robertson snuck up behind him and struck him. Sis took the money and ran while King and Robertson continued beating Bausman before dumping his body into the river. King and Robertson remained in the city until the body was found when they then fled. David Bausman was remembered by the people of Franklin County as an honest and upstanding man who owned ample property and had money in the bank. It was never determined why he was lured to the river by Sis Vinegar but the empty whisky flask might have been part of the reason. The murder of Bausman made the people of Lawrence take stock in how much they took their peaceful town for granted especially since it was clear that they had "Benders in their midst." On Sunday afternoon, Sheriff Asher went to Independence, Missouri where it was believed that Robertson had went. After spending several hours in town, he spotted Robertson and talked with him. Robertson turned to walk away but the sheriff drew his gun. Marshal Silvers, of Independence, grabbed Robertson and Sheriff Asher, with Robertson, returned to Lawrence around 11 P.M. Almost immediately, Robertson implicated King in the crime saying that he did it all. He also implicated a man named Draper who was already in jail. King, however, had ran away to the Kansas River bottoms east of Eudora. A posse went to Eudora and searched. Feeling them getting too close, King surrendered and he was also brought to the jail. At about one o'clock Saturday morning, about fifty or so men went to the jail and demanded King, Robertson, and Pete Vinegar. The Sheriff initially refused but the citizens began chiseling at the wall and trying to pry the locks off the doors. After a few minutes, the men were in and dragged the murderers from their cells. They were marched to the Kansas River bridge, halted at the middle, said short prayers and then the three were then swung over the Kansas River. Most of the mob wore masks but some just had their faces blacked. As they came back down Massachusetts Street, a crowd cheered for them. It was asserted that most of the men in the lynching party were black. The ropes were put around the men's neck in the jail. Vinegar kept proclaiming his innocence, Robertson begged for mercy, and King said nothing. Robertson went over the bridge first, then Vinegar, and finally King. Robertson and Vinegar died immediately while King was apparently strangled. The Sheriff and coroner viewed the bodies at two in the morning and ordered them cut down and brought back to the jail. A coroner's inquest was held with numerous witnesses describing the scene and what happened. The lynching quickly made the rounds in the newspapers all across Kansas. Many were shocked that "mob rule" would be something that happened in Lawrence. Most papers felt despair and embarrassment that this happened at all in the state of Kansas, let alone in Lawrence. Rev. H.R. Pinckney called a meeting of African Americans in Lawrence and denounced what the murderers did but also the result citing that it is up to the citizens to keep 'law and order'. Rev. Dr. Cordley expressed the same sentiment that justice was not done and that Lawrence and Kansas should be embarrassed by the lynchings and the lack of true justice. Margaret "Sis" Vinegar, who was also in the jail at the time, was spared her life. For now. Sis Vinegar plead not guilty to the murder of David Bausman and her trial began Wednesday, October 4, 1882. It was difficult finding jurors, the public mind prejudiced by the awfulness of the crime and the hangings of King, Robertson, and Sis' father. The same witnesses from Bausman's coroner's inquest were called to testify as well as new people. A large bulk of the trial focused on Vinegar's past crimes of thievery and larceny along with her carousing with other unscrupulous citizens. She was convicted of first degree murder but was granted a new trial. The new trial of Sis Vinegar began April 9, 1883 and she was, again, convicted of first degree murder on April 12. According to the law, she would spend the rest of her life in jail. While Sis did not act directly with the murder, she had conspired with King and Robertson. She was the last player in the murder of David Bausman. She was sent to the women's state penitentiary in Lansing for the rest of her life. Her life, as it would turn out, would end on February 1, 1889 of tuberculosis. She is buried in Mount Muncie Cemetery in Lansing. King, Robertson, and the elder Vinegar, it's reported, are all buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence. None of them have stones and were probably buried in the potter's field in a mass grave. These were not the first lynchings in Douglas County. The first occurred back in the 1850s. A group of six horse thieves were brought back to Lecompton from Rising Sun in Jefferson County and hung for their crimes. While most lynchings in Kansas were related to horse theft, a common crime in the West and one where you were immediately hanged for, there were at least 38 hangings of Negroes between the 1850s and 1930s--typically for murder or rape. And this isn't even a complete list. Dozens of rumored lynchings were reported but the time and place were vague at best. In Kansas, lynchings were always considered beyond the law. "Judge Lynch" was considered an irregular punishment and in direct defiance of the law. In fact, according to Kansas statutes, cities could be held legally responsible if a lynching happened within the city limits. Kansas law dictates that three or more people constitutes unlawful assembly and that five or more people is legally a mob. In the case of a lynching, the number of people is not specified and any group of people wanting to cause violence to a person with disregard of the law is a mob. When the Ku Klux Klan used its influence in Kansas in the 1920s, lynchings were still non-existent. The KKK would tar-and-feather and, once, kidnapped and flogged the Catholic mayor of Liberty. Wanting to tamp down, Kansas Governor Allen issued a proclamation banning the wearing of masks on public streets and ordered them to register as a business, which would never be granted. The KKK lasted in Kansas from 1922 until 1927 before it was finally ousted. For an incomplete list of all lynchings in Kansas plus a brief history, the book History of Lynchings in Kansas is available at the Kansas State Historical Society website. Labels: Douglas County, Franklin County, history, Kansas, Lawrence, lynchings, POB V4, racism	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9043
__label__wiki	0.963781	0.963781	Title: Robert Plant Subject: For Badgeholders Only, 51st Annual Grammy Awards, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin Remasters Collection: 1948 Births, 20Th-Century English Singers, 21St-Century English Singers, Atlantic Records Artists, British Harmonica Players, British People of Romani Descent, Commanders of the Order of the British Empire, English Heavy Metal Singers, English Male Singers, English Rock Singers, English Romani People, English Songwriters, English Tenors, Grammy Award Winners, Kennedy Center Honorees, Led Zeppelin Members, Living People, Mercury Records Artists, Musicians from Worcestershire, People Educated at King Edward VI College, Stourbridge, People from Kidderminster, People from West Bromwich, Robert Plant, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, Romani Singers, Silver Clef Awards Winners, Swan Song Records Artists Robert Anthony Plant (1948-08-20) 20 August 1948 West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England Rock, hard rock, blues rock, folk rock, country rock Musician, singer-songwriter Vocals, harmonica, percussion, guitar, bass guitar, drums[1] Atlantic, Swan Song, Es Paranza, Sanctuary, Mercury, Universal, Rounder, Nonesuch Records Band of Joy, Led Zeppelin, the Honeydrippers, Page and Plant, Strange Sensation, Alison Krauss, Patty Griffin, The Sensational Space Shifters RobertPlant.com Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Possessing a powerful and wide vocal range (particularly using his trademark high-pitched vocals) he has also had a successful solo career spanning more than 40 years. Plant is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock and roll during which time he has influenced musicians such as Freddie Mercury, Axl Rose, and Chris Cornell.[2] In 2006, Heavy Metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the "Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time".[3] In 2009, Plant was voted "the greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by Planet Rock.[4][5] In 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him number 15 on their list of the 100 greatest singers of all time. In 2011, readers of Rolling Stone placed Plant in first place of the magazine's list of the best lead singers of all time.[6] Life and career 1 Early life and musical beginnings 1.1 Led Zeppelin (1968–1980) 1.2 Early years 1.2.1 Lyrics 1.2.2 Stage persona 1.2.3 Solo career (1982–present) 1.3 Early career and success (1982–1993) 1.3.1 Page and Plant (1994–1998) 1.3.2 Priory of Brion (1999–2000) 1.3.3 Strange Sensation (2001–2007) 1.3.4 Alison Krauss (2007–2008) 1.3.5 Band of Joy (2010–2011) 1.3.6 Sensational Space Shifters (2012–present) 1.3.7 Led Zeppelin-related projects and reunion rumours 1.4 Personal life 2 Discography 5 Life and career Early life and musical beginnings Plant was born in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, Staffordshire to Robert C. Plant, a qualified civil engineer who worked in the Royal Air Force during World War II,[7] and Annie Celia Plant (née Cain),[8] a Romanichal woman.[9] He grew up in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Plant gained an interest in singing and rock and roll music at an early age. “ When I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten-year-old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a curtain, a bit similar to that.[10] ” He left King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys in Stourbridge in his mid-teens and developed a strong passion for the blues, mainly through his admiration for Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson and early rendition of songs in this genre. “ I suppose I was quite interested in my stamp collection and Romano-British history. I was a little grammar school boy and I could hear this kind of calling through the airwaves.[11] ” He abandoned training as a chartered accountant after only two weeks to attend college in an effort to gain more GCE passes (General Certificates of Education) and to become part of the English Midlands blues scene.[12][13] "I left home at 16", he said, "and I started my real education musically, moving from group to group, furthering my knowledge of the blues and of other music which had weight and was worth listening to".[14] Plant's early blues influences included Wimpey in Birmingham in 1967 laying tarmac on roads. He also worked at Woolworth's in Halesowen town for a short period of time. He cut three obscure singles on CBS Records[15] and sang with a variety of bands, including the Crawling King Snakes, which brought him into contact with drummer John Bonham. They both went on to play in the Band of Joy, merging blues with newer psychedelic trends. Led Zeppelin (1968–1980) Plant with Led Zeppelin In 1968, guitarist Jimmy Page was in search of a lead singer for his new band and met Plant after being turned down by his first choice, Terry Reid, who referred him to a show at a teacher training college in Birmingham— where Plant was singing in a band named Hobstweedle.[16] Page explained: “ When I auditioned him and heard him sing, I immediately thought there must be something wrong with him personality-wise or that he had to be impossible to work with, because I just could not understand why, after he told me he'd been singing for a few years already, he hadn't become a big name yet. So I had him down to my place for a little while, just to sort of check him out, and we got along great. No problems.[17] ” According to Plant: “ I was appearing at this college when Peter and Jimmy turned up and asked me if I'd like to join the Yardbirds. I knew the Yardbirds had done a lot of work in America – which to me meant audiences who would want to know what I might have to offer – so naturally I was very interested.[14] ” Derivative of Plant's feather sigil used in the Led Zeppelin IV album Plant and Page immediately hit it off with a shared musical passion and began their writing collaboration with reworkings of earlier blues songs, although Plant would receive no songwriting credits on the band's first album, allegedly because he was still under contract to CBS Records at the time. Plant brought along John Bonham as drummer, and they were joined by John Paul Jones, who had previously worked with Page as a studio musician. Jones called Page on the phone before they checked out Plant, and Page hired Jones immediately. Initially dubbed the "New Yardbirds" in 1968, the band soon came to be known as Led Zeppelin. The band's eponymous debut album hit the charts in 1969 and is widely credited as a catalyst for the heavy metal genre. Plant has commented that it is unfair for people to think of Zeppelin as heavy metal, as almost a third of their music was acoustic.[18] In 1975, Plant and his wife Maureen (now divorced) were seriously injured in a car crash in Rhodes, Greece. This significantly affected the production of Led Zeppelin's seventh album Presence for a few months while he recovered, and forced the band to cancel the remaining tour dates for the year. In July 1977 his son Karac died at age five of a stomach infection while Plant was engaged on Led Zeppelin's concert tour of the United States. It was a devastating loss for the family. Plant retreated to his home in the Midlands and for months afterward he questioned his future.[19] Karac's death later inspired him to write two songs in tribute: "All My Love" featured on Led Zeppelin's final studio album, 1979's In Through the Out Door and "Blue Train" featured on Page and Plant's second and final (studio) album, 1998's Walking into Clarksdale. Plant did not begin writing song lyrics with Led Zeppelin until the making of Led Zeppelin II, in 1969. According to Jimmy Page: “ The most important thing about Led Zeppelin II is that up to that point I'd contributed lyrics. Robert hadn't written before, and it took a lot of ribbing to get him into writing, which was funny. And then, on the second LP, he wrote the words of Thank You. He said, "I'd like to have a crack at this and write it for my wife.[20] ” Plant and Page performing an acoustic set in 1973 Plant's lyrics with Led Zeppelin were often mystical, philosophical and spiritual, alluding to events in classical and Norse mythology, such as "Immigrant Song", which refers to Valhalla and Viking conquests. However, the song "No Quarter" is often misunderstood to refer to the god Thor; the song actually refers to Mount Thor (which is named after the god). Another example is "The Rain Song". Plant was also influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien,[21][22] whose book series inspired lyrics in some early Led Zeppelin songs. Most notably "The Battle of Evermore", "Misty Mountain Hop","No Quarter", "Ramble On" and "Over the Hills and Far Away" contain verses referencing Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Conversely, Plant sometimes used more straightforward blues-based lyrics dealing primarily with sexual innuendo, as in "The Lemon Song", "Trampled Under Foot", and "Black Dog". Welsh mythology also forms a basis of Plant's interest in mystical lyrics. He grew up close to the Welsh border and would often take summer trips to Snowdonia. Plant bought a Welsh sheep farm in 1973, and began taking Welsh lessons and looking into the mythology of the land (such as Black Book of Carmarthen, Book of Taliesin, etc.) Plant's first son, Karac, was named after the Welsh warrior Caratacus. The song "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" is named after the 18th century Welsh cottage Bron-Yr-Aur owned by a friend of his father; it later inspired the song "Bron-Yr-Aur". The songs "Misty Mountain Hop", "That's the Way", and early dabblings in what would become "Stairway to Heaven" were written in Wales and lyrically reflect Plant's mystical view of the land. Critic Steve Turner suggests that Plant's early and continued experiences in Wales served as the foundation for his broader interest in the mythologies he revisits in his lyrics (including those myth systems of Tolkien and the Norse).[23] Page's passion for diverse musical experiences influenced Plant to explore Africa, specifically Marrakesh in Morocco where he encountered Umm Kulthum. “ I was intrigued by the scales, initially, and obviously the vocal work. The way she sang, the way she could hold a note, you could feel the tension, you could tell that everybody, the whole orchestra, would hold a note until she wanted to change.[24] ” That musical inspiration eventually culminated in "Kashmir". Both he and Jimmy Page revisited these influences during their reunion album No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded in 1994. In his solo career, Plant again tapped from these influences many times, most notably in the 2002 album, Dreamland. Arguably one of Plant's most significant achievements with Led Zeppelin was his contribution to the track "Stairway to Heaven", an epic rock ballad featured on Led Zeppelin IV that drew influence from folk, blues, Celtic traditional music and hard rock among other genres. Most of the lyrics of the song were written spontaneously by Plant in 1970 at Headley Grange. While never released as a single, the song has topped charts as the greatest song of all time on various polls around the world. Plant is also recognised for his lyrical improvisation in Led Zeppelin's live performances, often singing verses previously unheard on studio recordings. One of the most famous Led Zeppelin musical devices involves Plant's vocal mimicking of band mate Jimmy Page's guitar effects. This can be heard in the songs "How Many More Times", "Dazed and Confused", "The Lemon Song", "You Shook Me", "Nobody's Fault but Mine" and "Sick Again". He is also known for his light-hearted, humorous and unusual on-stage banter, often referred to as "plantations". Plant often discusses the origin and background of the songs during his shows, and sometimes provides social comment as well. He frequently talks about American blues musicians as his inspiration, mentioning artists like Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Willie Johnson and Willie Dixon at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and the 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert with Led Zeppelin. Stage persona Plant (left) with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in concert in Chicago, Illinois, 1977 Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin throughout the 1970s and developed a compelling image as the charismatic rock-and-roll front man, similar to his contemporaries, the Who singer Roger Daltrey, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and Jim Morrison of the Doors.[25] With his mane of long blond hair and powerful, bare-chested appearance, Plant helped to create the "god of rock and roll" or "rock god" archetype. On stage, Plant was particularly active in live performances, often dancing, jumping, skipping, snapping his fingers, clapping, making emphatic gestures to emphasise a lyric or cymbal crash, throwing back his head, or placing his hands on his hips. As the 1970s progressed he, along with the other members of Led Zeppelin, became increasingly flamboyant on-stage, and wore more elaborate, colourful clothing and jewellery. According to Classic Rock magazine, "once he had a couple of US tours under his belt, 'Percy' Plant swiftly developed a staggering degree of bravado and swagger that irrefutably enhanced Led Zeppelin's rapidly burgeoning appeal."[14] In 1994, during his "Unledded" tour with Jimmy Page, Plant himself reflected tongue-in-cheek upon his Led Zeppelin showmanship: “ I can't take my whole persona as a singer back then very seriously. It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. So I got a few moves from Elvis and one or two from Sonny Boy Williamson II and Howlin' Wolf and threw them all together.[26] ” One of the oddest awards he received was the Rock Scene Magazine "Chest O Rama". Readers of the magazine had to decide who had the best chest in rock and Plant was the winner. When they contacted him about it, he replied: "I'm really greatly honoured although it's hard for me to be eloquent on the subject of my chest."[27] Solo career (1982–present) Early career and success (1982–1993) After Led Zeppelin dissolved in December 1980 (following the death of John Bonham), Plant briefly considered abandoning music to pursue a career as a teacher in the Rudolf Steiner education system; going so far as to be accepted for teacher-training. He nevertheless embarked on a successful solo career beginning with Pictures at Eleven in 1982, followed by 1983's The Principle of Moments. Popular tracks from this period include "Big Log" (a Top 20 hit in 1983), "In the Mood" (1983), "Little by Little" (from 1985's Shaken 'n' Stirred), "Far Post" (originally only on the B-side of "Burning Down One Side" but popularised by airplay on album-oriented rock stations), "Tall Cool One" (a No. 25 hit off 1988's Now and Zen) and "I Believe" (from 1993's Fate of Nations), another song written for and dedicated to his late son, Karac. In 1984, Plant formed a short-lived all-star group with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck called the Honeydrippers, who had a No. 3 hit with a remake of the Phil Phillips' tune, "Sea of Love" and a follow-up hit with a cover of Roy Brown's "Rockin' at Midnight". Although Plant avoided performing Led Zeppelin songs through much of this period (he occasionally would improvise his unique Zeppelin screams into his set), his tours in 1983 (with drummer Phil Collins) and 1985 were very successful, often performing to sold-out arena-sized venues. Through the 1980s and 1990s, Plant co-wrote three solo albums with keyboardist/songwriter Phil Johnstone. Now and Zen, Manic Nirvana and Fate of Nations (featuring Moya Brennan of Clannad). It was Johnstone who talked Plant into playing Led Zeppelin songs in his live shows, something Plant had resisted, not wanting to be forever known as "the former Led Zeppelin vocalist". Although Led Zeppelin split in 1980, Plant and Page occasionally collaborated on various projects, including The Honeydrippers: Volume One album in 1984. In the spring two years later Robert performed at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986. The pair again worked together in the studio on the 1988 Page solo effort, Outrider, and in the same year Page contributed to Plant's album Now and Zen. Also, on 15 May 1988 Plant appeared with Page as a member of Led Zeppelin (and in his own right as a solo artist) at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert."Plant also took the stage with Queen at Wembley Stadium for 1992's "The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert" for AIDS Awareness. Plant sang Queen's "Innuendo", Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir", Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" and Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". Page and Plant (1994–1998) Page and Plant became a full-fledged performing act from 1994 through 1998, releasing the Unledded album in 1994 and following with an enormously successful tour in 1995. Fourteen years of speculation from their fans and occasional sniping between the two former members ended when they reconvened their former musical partnership to produce No Quarter. Having long resisted offers from MTV to reform to do an Unplugged show, they finally accepted as part of a deal that also allowed them to visit Morocco to record new material. The album combines the results of both of these projects. The Led Zeppelin material features new arrangements and new instrumentation, including strings, Egyptian musicians and the vocals of British-Asian star Najma Akhtar. Page and Plant recorded their only post-Zeppelin album of original material on the 1998 album Walking into Clarksdale, an effort that was unsuccessful commercially, leading Plant to return to his solo career. A song from this album, "Please Read the Letter", was re-recorded by Plant with Alison Krauss, winning the 2009 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Priory of Brion (1999–2000) Starting in mid-1999, Plant performed until the end of 2000 at several small venues with his folk-rock band, named Priory of Brion. In 1999, Plant contributed to the tribute album for Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence, who was terminally ill. The album, More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album (Birdman, 1999), with the album title referring to Spence's only solo album, Oar (Columbia, 1969), contained Plant's version of Spence's "Little Hands". Plant had been an admirer of Spence and Moby Grape since the release of Moby Grape's eponymous 1967 debut album.[28] In 2001, Plant appeared on Afro Celt Sound System's album Volume 3: Further in Time. The song "Life Begin Again" features a duet with Welsh folksinger Julie Murphy, emphasising Plant's recurring interest in Welsh culture (Murphy would also tour in support of Plant). Strange Sensation (2001–2007) In 2002, with his then newly formed band Strange Sensation, Plant released a widely acclaimed collection of mostly blues and folk remakes, Dreamland. Contrasting with this lush collection of often relatively obscure remakes, the second album with Strange Sensation, Mighty ReArranger (2005), contains new, original songs. Both have received some of the most favourable reviews of Plant's solo career and four Grammy nominations, two in 2003 and two in 2006. Plant and Strange Sensation at the Green Man Festival, 2007. As a former member of Led Zeppelin, along with Page and John Paul Jones, Plant received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and the Polar Music Prize in 2006. From 2001 to 2007, Plant actively toured the US and Europe with Strange Sensation. His sets typically included recent, but not only, solo material and plenty of Led Zeppelin favourites, often with new and expanded arrangements. A DVD titled Soundstage: Robert Plant and Strange Sensation, featuring his Soundstage performance (filmed at the Soundstage studios in Chicago on 16 September 2005), was released in October 2006. With Strange Sensation's Justin Adams he appeared in the 2003 Festival au Desert held in Essakane in the North of Mali,[29] captured in a French-language documentary entitled Le Festival au Désert.[30] On 23 June 2006, Plant was the headliner (backed by Ian Hunter's band) at the Benefit For Arthur Lee concert at New York's Beacon Theatre, a show which raised money for Lee's medical expenses from his bout with leukaemia. Plant and band performed thirteen songs – five by Arthur Lee & Love, five Led Zeppelin songs and three others, including a duet with Ian Hunter. At the show, Plant told the audience of his great admiration for Arthur Lee dating back to the mid-'60s. Lee died of his illness six weeks after the concert. An expansive box set of his solo work, Nine Lives, was released in November 2006, which expanded all of his albums with various b-sides, demos, and live cuts. It was accompanied by a DVD. All his solo works were re-released with these extra tracks individually. In 2007, Plant contributed two tracks to the Fats Domino tribute album Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, "It Keeps Rainin'" with the Lil' Band o' Gold and "Valley of Tears" with the Soweto Gospel Choir. Alison Krauss (2007–2008) Robert Plant on stage with Alison Krauss at Birmingham's NIA on 5 May 2008. From 2007–2008, Plant recorded and performed with bluegrass star Alison Krauss. A duet album, Raising Sand, was released on 23 October 2007 on Rounder Records. The album, recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles and produced by T-Bone Burnett, includes performances of lesser-known material from R&B, blues, folk and country songwriters including Mel Tillis, Townes Van Zandt, Gene Clark, Tom Waits, Doc Watson, Little Milton and the Everly Brothers. The song "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" from Raising Sand won a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 2008. Raising Sand also won Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards.[31][32] The album has been successful critically and commercially, and was certified platinum on 4 March 2008. Plant and Krauss began an extended tour of the US and Europe in April 2008, playing music from Raising Sand and other American roots music as well as reworked Led Zeppelin tunes. The album was nominated for the Mercury Prize in July 2008.[33] Also in 2008, Plant performed with bluegrass musicians at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. He appeared as a surprise guest during Fairport Convention's set at the 2008 Cropredy Festival, performing Led Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore" with Kristina Donahue as a tribute to Sandy Denny. Plant performing with Alison Krauss at the 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, TN, 2008. On 8 February 2009, Plant and Krauss won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Country Collaboration with Vocals, and Contemporary Folk/Americana Album. Band of Joy (2010–2011) Plant with the Band of Joy at Birmingham Symphony Hall, 27 October 2010 In July 2010, Robert Plant embarked on a twelve-date summer tour in the United States with a new group called Band of Joy (reprising the name of his very first band in the 1960s). The group includes singer Patty Griffin, singer-guitarist Buddy Miller, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Darrell Scott, bassist-vocalist Byron House, and drummer-percussionist-vocalist Marco Giovino. After a unique show in the United States on 12 September 2010 at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, another eleven-date autumn tour in Europe was announced to last from October to November 2010.[34] North America tour dates were announced 16 November 2010, with the first show being 18 January 2011 in Asheville, North Carolina.[35] A new studio album called Band of Joy was released on 13 September 2010 on the Rounder Records label.[36] The album was nominated for Best Americana Album in the 2011 Grammy Awards, and Plant's performance of "Silver Rider" on the album (a cover from the Low album The Great Destroyer) was nominated for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance. The band played their final scheduled show together at the Big Chill Festival at Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Herefordshire on 7 August 2011. The show ended with Plant bidding his bandmates "a fond farewell".[37] On 30 September 2011, Plant and Band of Joy played in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, as part of the 11th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.[38] Sensational Space Shifters (2012–present) It was first reported that Robert Plant's new band, the Sensational Space Shifters, would be debuting at 2012's WOMAD festival in Wiltshire, England. An intimate warm up gig was then announced in Gloucester on 8 May 2012 to a crowd of 400. Although it was initially reported that there were 10 members of the band, along with Plant the band consists of former Strange Sensation members, Cast guitarist Liam "Skin" Tyson, Justin Adams, Billy Fuller and John Baggot along with Dave Smith and Juldeh Camara. Patty Griffin was the special guest on the first few shows prior to her new album release and subsequent tour.[39] On 13 July 2012, the band released a download live album called Sensational Space Shifters (Live in London July '12). This album featured a mix of Strange Sensation and Led Zeppelin reinterpretations as well as covers and a spot by Patty Griffin.[40] In addition to Womad and the Gloucester show, the Sensational Space Shifters were scheduled for the free Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival's 25th anniversary in Clarksdale, Mississippi on 10–12 August 2012.[41][42][43][44][45] On 31 August 2013, Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters played at the Irish music festival Electric Picnic alongside Johnny Marr and Fatboy Slim. On 23 June 2014, Robert Plant has announced[46] the upcoming release on 8 September 2014 of Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar, his tenth solo album and the first studio one with his band the Sensational Space Shifters. Plant and his band have also announced an autumn 2014 UK & Ireland tour. On 28 June 2014, Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters played at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival. The band featured West African musician Juldeh Camara, guitarists Skin Tyson and Justin Adams, drummer Dave Smith, Massive Attack keyboardist John Baggott, and bassist Billy Fuller.[47] On 7 August 2014, Plant has announced an autumn 2014 7-date North American tour.[48] Led Zeppelin-related projects and reunion rumours Plant on stage with Jimmy Page in 2007 Plant performed with living members of Led Zeppelin both on 13 July 1985 for Live Aid (with Phil Collins and Tony Thompson on drums) and on 15 May 1988 for Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary. At the 1988 reunion, Jason Bonham, the son of Led Zeppelin's late drummer John Bonham, played drums. Both sets featured only a few songs, performed with minimal rehearsal. Plant was unhappy with both performances, saying that "it was like sleeping with your ex-wife but not making love." At the 1990 Silver Clef Award Winners Concert at Knebworth, Plant was joined by Jimmy Page. Some of their set was released on the subsequent live album and video. In 1995, Led Zeppelin were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Plant performed at the induction show with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham, Neil Young, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, performing spirited versions of "Bring It on Home", "Honeybee" and "When the Levee Breaks". After years of reunion rumours, Led Zeppelin performed a full two-hour set on 10 December 2007 at the Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert, with Jason again filling in on drums. Despite enormous public demand, Plant declined a $200 million offer to tour with Led Zeppelin after the 2007 show.[49] In interviews following the 2007 show, Plant left the door open to possible future performances with Led Zeppelin, saying that he enjoyed the reunion and felt that the show was strong musically.[50] Although Page and Jones have expressed the strong desire to tour as Led Zeppelin,[51] Plant has consistently opposed a full tour and has responded negatively to questions about another reunion. In a January 2008 interview, he stated that he does not want to "tour like a bunch of bored old men following the Rolling Stones around." In a statement on his web site in late 2008, Plant stated, "I will not be touring with Led Zeppelin or anyone else for the next two years. Anyone buying Led Zeppelin tickets will be buying bogus tickets." In February 2013, Plant hinted that he was open to a Led Zeppelin reunion in 2014, stating that he's not the reason for Led Zeppelin's dormancy for the Capricorns [Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones] «are quite contained in their own worlds and leave it to [him]», adding that he's «not the bad guy» and that he's «got nothing to do in 2014».[52] In a spring 2014 interview with the BBC about the then forthcoming reissue of Led Zeppelin's first three albums, guitarist Jimmy Page said he was sure fans would be keen on another reunion show, but Plant later replied that «the chances of it happening [were] zero». Jimmy Page then told The New York Times that he was "fed up" with Plant's refusal to play, stating: «I was told last year that Plant said he is doing nothing in 2014, and what do the other two guys think? Well, he knows what the other guys think. Everyone would love to play more concerts for the band. He's just playing games, and I'm fed up with it, to be honest with you. I don't sing, so I can't do much about it», adding: «I definitely want to play live. Because, you know, I've still got a twinkle in my eye. I can still play. So, yeah, I'll just get myself into musical shape, just concentrating on the guitar.»[53] On 30 July 2014, an NME article revealed that Plant was «slightly disappointed and baffled» by Page in ongoing Led Zeppelin dispute during which Page declared he was "fed up" with Plant delaying Led Zeppelin reunion plans. Instead, Plant offered Led Zeppelin's guitarist to write acoustically with him as he is interested in working with Page again but only in an unplugged way.[54] Robert Plant married Maureen Wilson on 9 November 1968. The couple had three children: daughter Carmen Jayne (1968), (who later married Charlie Jones, Plant's bass player for solo tours); and sons Karac Pendragon (1972–1977), and Logan Romero (1979). The couple divorced in August 1983. Also, Plant has a younger son, Jesse Lee (1991), with Shirley Wilson, sister of Maureen. In 1977, during Led Zeppelin's US tour, his five year old son Karac died of a stomach infection.[55] On 14 August 2009, football club Wolverhampton Wanderers announced that Plant was to become the club's third Vice-President. Plant officially received the honour before kick-off at the club's first match of the season against West Ham United.[56] Plant was five years old when he first visited Molineux Stadium. He recalled in an interview with his local paper, the Express & Star, in August 2010: "I was five when my dad took me down for the first time and Billy Wright waved at me. Honest, he did. And that was it – I was hooked from that moment."[57] In late 2010, BBC Two aired a documentary titled Robert Plant: By Myself. It features Robert Plant discussing his journey with Led Zeppelin and various projects since.[58] According to Sunday Times Rich List, Plant is worth £80 million as of 2012.[59] In a July 2012 interview with the Independent newspaper, Plant stated he "eloped and ran off to Texas" with Band of Joy co-vocalist, American singer Patty Griffin. Plant's UK-based manager told E! News later that the rocker was apparently being cheeky when he used the word "eloped" to describe his home life, for "Robert has not married Patty Griffin," instead "He was just referring to the fact that he's been residing in Texas" with her. Actually, according to a July 2012 Ultimate Classic Rock article, Plant and Griffin had been dating for over a year, spending half of their time together in Austin, Texas.[60][61][62] On 23 August 2014, The Independent, a UK publication, indicated Plant had broken up with Patty Griffin: "“Patty and I tried a sort of zig-zag across the Atlantic,” Plant told the publication, “but she didn’t share my penchant for cider and she used to marvel at the Black Country character I became after four pints of Thatchers. My feelings are very much ones of sadness and regret."[63] In early 2013, Plant contributed to a community buyout scheme to save Bath music venue, the Bell Inn.[64][65] Robert Plant is one of the most significant singers in rock music and has influenced the style of many of his contemporaries, including Geddy Lee, Ann Wilson,[66] Sammy Hagar,[67] and later rock vocalists such as Jeff Buckley and Jack White who imitated his performing style extensively. Freddie Mercury of Queen, and Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses were also influenced by Plant.[2] Encyclopædia Britannica notes "Exaggerating the vocal style and expressive palette of blues singers such as Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, (Robert) Plant created the sound that has defined much hard rock and heavy metal singing: a high range, an abundance of distortion, loud volume and emotional excess".[68] Plant received the Knebworth Silver Clef Award in 1990.[69] In 2006, heavy metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant No. 1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All-Time, a list which included Rob Halford of Judas Priest (#2), Steven Tyler (#3), Freddie Mercury (#6), Geddy Lee (#13) and Paul Stanley (#18), all of whom were influenced by Plant.[3] In 2008, Rolling Stone named Plant the 15th greatest singer of all time on their list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.[2] In 2009, he was voted the "greatest voice in rock" in a poll conducted by Planet Rock.[4][5] He was included in the Q magazine's 2009 list of "Artists of the Century" and was ranked at number 8 in their list of "100 Greatest Singers" in 2007.[70][71] In 2009, Plant also won the Outstanding Contribution to Music prize at the Q Awards.[72] He was placed at no. 3 on SPIN's list of "The 50 Greatest Rock Frontmen of All Time".[73] In the New Year Honours List 2009 Plant was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for services to music"[74] and on 10 July 2009 invested by the Prince of Wales.[75] On 20 September 2010 National Public Radio (NPR) named Plant as one of the "50 Great Voices" in the world.[76] Pictures at Eleven (1982) The Principle of Moments (1983) Shaken 'n' Stirred (1985) Now and Zen (1988) Manic Nirvana (1990) Fate of Nations (1993) Mighty ReArranger (2005) Band of Joy (2010) Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar (2014) Sensational Space Shifters (Live in London July '12) Collaborative albums The Honeydrippers: Volume One (1984) (with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck) No Quarter (Unledded) (1994) (live album with Jimmy Page) Walking into Clarksdale (1998) (with Jimmy Page) Raising Sand (2007) (with Alison Krauss) ^ Michael Hann. "Led Zeppelin: 'There was a swagger – we knew we were good' - Music - The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2014. ^ a b c 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time: Robert Plant Rolling Stone. Retrieved 27 February 2011 ^ a b Hit Parader’s Top 100 Metal Vocalists Of All Time Theinsider.com. Retrieved 27 February 2011 ^ a b "Plant is still top of the tree". The Sun. Retrieved 12 September 2014. ^ a b "'"Robert Plant voted 'greatest voice in rock. Nme.com. 3 January 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2013. ^ "Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Best Lead Singers of All Time (1. Robert Plant)". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 16 March 2013. ^ Williamson, Nigel (2007). 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Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 27 August 2014. ^ James McNair (23 August 2014). "Robert Plant interview: On his new album...and his Led Zeppelin days". The Independent. Retrieved 27 September 2014. ^ "Bath fundraisers nearing target to buy The Bell Inn". this is Bath. 18 March 2013. ^ "Bath's Bell Inn saved by community buyout scheme". BBC News. 21 March 2013. ^ Wilson, Ann. "Ann Wilson Song By Song description – Hope & Glory". Retrieved 26 August 2008. ^ "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". VH1 The Greatest. ^ Susan Fast, "Led Zeppelin (British Rock Group)", Encyclopædia Britannica ^ "Knebworth: The Silver Clef Award Winners-Volumes One, Two & Three (1990)". Michaeldvd.com.au. Retrieved 1 January 2012. ^ admin. "UK’s ‘Q’ Magazine Lists Their Artists of the Century". Thelifefiles.com. Retrieved 1 January 2012. ^ "Q – 100 Greatest Singers". Rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 1 January 2012. ^ "Muse, Kasabian, Robert Plant Triumph At Q Awards 2009 – PHOTOS". GIGWISE.com. 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__label__cc	0.641744	0.358256	Title: Trunking Subject: History of infrastructure development in Bathurst, Joint multichannel trunking and switching system, R2 signalling, Virtual LAN, Blue box Collection: Communication Circuits, Networks A diagram of a hierarchical communications network. Blue: main lines; red: feeder lines. In telecommunications, trunking is a method for a system to provide network access to many clients by sharing a set of lines or frequencies instead of providing them individually. This is analogous to the structure of a tree with one trunk and many branches. Examples of this include telephone systems and the VHF radios commonly used by police agencies. More recently port trunking has been applied in computer networking as well. A trunk is a single transmission channel between two points, each point being either the switching center or the node. Radio communications 1 Trunk line 2.1 Trunk call 2.2 Telephone exchange 2.3 Computer networks 3 Link aggregation 3.1 VLANs 3.2 In two-way radio communications, trunking refers to the ability of transmissions to be served by free channels whose availability is determined by algorithmic protocols. In conventional (i.e., not trunked) radio, users of a single service share one or more exclusive radio channels and must wait their turn to use them, analogous to the operation of a group of cashiers in a grocery store, where each cashier serves his/her own line of customers. The cashier represents each radio channel, and each customer represents a radio user transmitting on their radio. Trunked radio systems (TRS) pool all of the cashiers (channels) into one group and use a store manager (site controller) that assigns incoming shoppers to free cashiers as determined by the store's policies (TRS protocols). In a TRS, individual transmissions in any conversation may take place on several different channels. In the shopping analogy, this is as if a family of shoppers checks out all at once and are assigned different cashiers by the traffic manager. Similarly, if a single shopper checks out more than once, they may be assigned a different cashier each time. Trunked radio systems provide greater efficiency at the cost of greater management overhead. The store manager's orders must be conveyed to all the shoppers. This is done by assigning one or more radio channels as the "control channel". The control channel transmits data from the site controller that runs the TRS, and is continuously monitored by all of the field radios in the system so that they know how to follow the various conversations between members of their talkgroups (families) and other talkgroups as they hop from radio channel to radio channel. TRS's have grown massively in their complexity since their introduction, and now include multi-site systems that can cover entire states or groups of states. This is similar to the idea of a chain of grocery stores. The shopper generally goes to the nearest grocery store, but if there are complications or congestion, the shopper may opt to go to a neighboring store. Each store in the chain can talk to each other and pass messages between shoppers at different stores if necessary, and they provide backup to each other: if a store has to be closed for repair, then other stores pick up the customers. TRS's have greater risks to overcome than conventional radio systems in that a loss of the store manager (site controller) would cause the system's traffic to no longer be managed. In this case, most of the time the TRS will automatically switch to an alternate control channel, or in more rare circumstances, conventional operation. In spite of these risks, TRS's usually maintain reasonable uptime. TRS's are more difficult to monitor via radio scanner than conventional systems; however, larger manufacturers of radio scanners have introduced models that, with a little extra programming, are able to follow TRS's quite efficiently. A trunk line is a circuit connecting telephone switchboards (or other switching equipment), as distinguished from local loop circuit which extends from telephone exchange switching equipment to individual telephones or information origination/termination equipment.[1][2] When dealing with a private branch exchange (PBX), trunk lines are the phone lines coming into the PBX from the telephone provider.[3] This differentiates these incoming lines from extension lines that connect the PBX to (usually) individual phone sets. Trunking saves cost, because there are usually fewer trunk lines than extension lines, since it is unusual in most offices to have all extension lines in use for external calls at once. Trunk lines transmit voice and data in formats such as analog, T1, E1, ISDN or PRI. The dial tone lines for outgoing calls are called DDCO (Direct Dial Central Office) trunks. Trunk call In the UK and the Commonwealth countries, a trunk call was a long distance one as opposed to a local call. See subscriber trunk dialling and Trunk vs Toll. Telephone exchange Trunking also refers to the connection of switches and circuits within a telephone exchange.[4] Trunking is closely related to the concept of grading. Trunking allows a group of inlet switches at the same time. Thus the service provider can provide a lesser number of circuits than might otherwise be required, allowing many users to "share" a smaller number of connections and achieve capacity savings.[5][6] Link aggregation In computer networking, port trunking refers to the use of multiple network connections in parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any one single cable or port. This is called link aggregation. These aggregated links may be used to interconnect switches or to connect high-capacity servers to a network. In the context of Ethernet VLANs, Avaya and Cisco[7] use the term Ethernet trunking to mean carrying multiple VLANs through a single network link through the use of a trunking protocol. To allow for multiple VLANs on one link, frames from individual VLANs must be identified. The most common and preferred method, IEEE 802.1Q adds a tag to the Ethernet frame, labeling it as belonging to a certain VLAN. Since 802.1Q is an open standard, it is the only option in an environment with multiple-vendor equipment. Cisco also has a proprietary trunking protocol called Inter-Switch Link which encapsulates the Ethernet frame with its own container, which labels the frame as belonging to a specific VLAN. ^ This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C" (in support of MIL-STD-188). ^ Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 0-199 ^ Versadial, Call Recording Terms/Definitions, last accessed 8 June 2015 ^ Flood, J. E. (1998). "Telecommunications Traffic". Telecommunications Switching, Traffic and Networks. New York: Prentice-Hall. ^ Motorola, Trunking Communications Overview, last accessed 13 February 2005. ^ The Genesis Group, Trunking 101: A Primer for Newbies, last accessed 15 May 2014. ^ "VLANs and Trunking". 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__label__cc	0.660923	0.339077	Title: Wheelbase Subject: Chrysler New Yorker, Nissan Skyline, Nissan Bluebird, Toyota Land Cruiser, Oldsmobile 98 Collection: Automotive Engineering, Concepts in Physics, Vehicle Technology In both road and rail vehicles, the wheelbase is the distance between the centers of the front and rear wheels. Wheelbase (measured between rotational centers of wheels) Varying wheelbases within nameplate 1.1 Bikes 1.2 Skateboards 1.3 Rail 2 The wheelbase of a vehicle equals the distance between its front and rear wheels. At equilibrium, the total torque of the forces acting on a vehicle is zero. Therefore, the wheelbase is related to the force on each pair of tires by the following formula: F_f = {d_r \over L}mg F_r = {d_f \over L}mg where F_f is the force on the front tires, F_r is the force on the rear tires, L is the wheelbase, d_r is the distance from the center of mass (CM) to the rear wheels, d_f is the distance from the center of gravity to the front wheels (d_f + d_r = L), m is the mass of the vehicle, and g is the gravity constant. So, for example, when a truck is loaded, its center of gravity shifts rearward and the force on the rear tire increases. The vehicle will ride lower. The amount the vehicle sinks will depend on counter acting forces like the size of the tires, tire pressure, and the stiffness of the suspension. If the vehicle is accelerating or decelerating, extra torque is placed on the rear or front tire respectively. The equation relating the wheelbase, height above the ground of the CM, and the force on each pair of tires becomes: F_f = {d_r \over L}mg - {h_{cm} \over L}ma F_r = {d_f \over L}mg + {h_{cm} \over L}ma where F_f is the force on the front tires, F_r is the force on the rear tires, d_r is the distance from the CM to the rear wheels, d_f is the distance from the CM to the front wheels, L is the wheelbase, m is the mass of the vehicle, g is the acceleration of gravity (approx. 9.8 m/s2), h_{cm} is the height of the CM above the ground, a is the acceleration (or deceleration if the value is negative). So, as is common experience, when the vehicle accelerates, the rear usually sinks and the front rises depending on the suspension. Likewise, when braking the front noses down and the rear rises.:[1] Because of the effect the wheelbase has on the weight distribution of the vehicle, wheelbase dimensions are crucial to the balance and steering. For example, a car with a much greater weight load on the rear tends to understeer due to the lack of the load (force) on the front tires and therefore the grip (friction) from them. This is why it is crucial, when towing a single-axle caravan, to distribute the caravan's weight so that down-thrust on the tow-hook is about 100 pounds force (400 N). Likewise, a car may oversteer or even "spin out" if there is too much force on the front tires and not enough on the rear tires. Also, when turning there is lateral torque placed upon the tires which imparts a turning force that depends upon the length of the tire distances from the CM. Thus, in a car with a short wheelbase, the short lever arm from the CM to the rear wheel will result in a greater lateral force on the rear tire which means greater acceleration and less time for the driver to adjust and prevent a spin out or worse. Wheelbases provide the basis for one of the most common vehicle size class systems. Varying wheelbases within nameplate Some Luxury vehicles are offered with long wheelbase variants to increase the spaciousness and therefore the luxury of the vehicle. This practice can often be found on full-size cars like the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, but ultra-luxury vehicles such as the Rolls-Royce Phantom and even large family cars like the Rover 75 came with 'limousine' versions. While Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair was given a long wheelbase version of the Rover 75 for official use.[2] In contrast, coupé varieties of the some vehicles such as the Honda Accord are usually built on shorter wheelbases than the sedans they are derived from. The wheelbase on many commercially available bicycles and motorcycles is so short, relative to the height of their centers of mass, that they are able to perform stoppies and wheelies. In skateboarding the word 'wheelbase' is used for the distance between the two inner pairs of mounting holes on the deck. This is different from the distance between the rotational centers of the two wheel pairs. A reason for this alternative use is that decks are sold with prefabricated holes, but usually without trucks and wheels. It is therefore easier to use the prefabricated holes for measuring and describing this characteristic of the deck. A common misconception is that the choice of wheelbase is influenced by the height of the skateboarder. However, the length of the deck would then be a better candidate, because the wheelbase affects characteristics useful in different speeds or terrains regardless of the height of the skateboarder. For example, a deck with a long wheelbase, say 22 inches (55.9 cm), will respond slowly to turns, which is often desirable in high speeds. A deck with a short wheelbase, say 14 inches (35.6 cm), will respond quickly to turns, which is often desirable when skating backyard pools or other terrains requiring quick or intense turns. In rail vehicles, the wheelbase follows a similar concept. However, since the wheels may be of different sizes (for example, on a steam locomotive), the measurement is taken between the points where the wheels contact the rail, and not between the centers of the wheels. On vehicles where the wheelsets (axles) are mounted inside the vehicle frame (mostly in steam locomotives), the wheelbase is the distance between the front-most and rear-most wheelsets. On vehicles where the wheelsets are mounted on bogies (amer.: trucks), three wheelbase measurements can be distinguished: the distance between the pivot points of the front-most and rear-most bogie; the distance between the front-most and rear-most wheelsets of the vehicle; the distance between the front-most and rear-most wheelsets of each bogie. The wheelbase affects the rail vehicle's capability to negotiate curves. Short-wheelbased vehicles can negotiate sharper curves. On some larger wheelbase locomotives, inner wheels may lack flanges in order to pass curves. The wheelbase also affects the load the vehicle poses to the track, track infrastructure and bridges. All other conditions being equal, a shorter wheelbase vehicle represents a more concentrated load to the track than a longer wheelbase vehicle. As railway lines are designed to take a pre-determined maximum load per unit of length (tonnes per meter, or pounds per foot), the rail vehicles' wheelbase is designed according to their intended gross weight. The higher the gross weight, the longer the wheelbase must be. Axle track (track) Bicycle and motorcycle geometry ^ Ruina, Andy; ^ http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-reviews/15966/rover-75 Part of the Automobile series Automotive engine Petrol engine Continuously variable transmission Direct-shift gearbox Dual-clutch transmission Electrohydraulic manual transmission Electrorheological clutch Epicyclic gearing Friction drive Giubo Limited-slip differential Locking differential Manumatic Parking pawl Park by wire Preselector gearbox Semi-automatic transmission Shift by wire Transmission control unit Hybrid vehicle drivetrain Concepts in physics Mass, Velocity, Energy, Time, Acceleration Energy, Time, Classical mechanics, Force, Acceleration English language, Operating system, Cross-platform, Distributed resource manager, Free software license Chrysler New Yorker Automobile layout, V8 engine, Model year, Car classification, Sedan (car) Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Wheelbase, Car classification, Four-wheel drive Lansing, Michigan, Automotive design, Oldsmobile 88, Linden, New Jersey, Hardtop	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9047
__label__wiki	0.622926	0.622926	125th Anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge, the view from Brooklyn Heights. ©Mark D Phillips Brooklyn Heights boasts the greatest views of lower Manhattan and brownstone mansions that rival anything on Fifth Avenue. Considered to be the first suburb in America, the Brooklyn Heights of today is much more than a suburb. It has become one of the most desirable neighborhoods for Manhattanites ready to raise a family. It is a Manhattan neighborhood, located on the better side of the river. With a five minute commute to the Stock Exchange via subway, many of today's residents are Wall Street workers looking for more space and neighborhoods with old New York character, something in abundance in the Heights. The Brooklyn Heights Promenade will take your breath away. The unique park built atop the double decker Brooklyn-Queens Expressway draws tourist worldwide for its spectacular views of the East River bridges and the skyscrapers of Manhattan. As you walk the length, small memorials for the World Trade Center still adorn its space. Many residents watched the tragedy unfold less than two miles away. As usual, Brooklyn rebounded. The tragedy at the World Trade Center brought many new residents. The housing boom brought new life to many brownstones as renovations skyrocketed. New construction has appeared on nearly every empty lot. Brooklyn Bridge Park is reshaping the waterfront beneath the BQE and bringing life back to a dilapidated area. The 85-acre park gained unanimous approval from the Empire State Development Corporation in January, 2006. Over the last eight years, the change to the waterfront has been spectacular. SBN_BrooklynBridgePark.jpg As the park takes shape, the neighborhoods are booming. Brooklyn Heights gained a unique access point to the park with the new Squibb Park Bridge, which reconnected the north section of the Promenade with the shoreline. The bridge is built in a style that you would expect in a National Park, with a bounciness and sway that at first is disconcerting. The engineering involved makes the bridge Handicapped-accessible and with its under-slung suspension, provides uncluttered views across the park to the river and Manhattan. With new sports fields open on Pier 5 and the sand Volleyball Courts on Pier 6, the southern end of the park closest to Atlantic Avenue, is already a well-used destination. Joralemon Street provides a direct line access from the heart of the Heights to the sports fields, and the cobblestone street is a classy way to bring first-time visitors in an impressive "Brooklyn" tour. Brooklyn Bridge Park will only get better. The addition of the Picnic Peninsula with Hibachi-style grill tops and picnic tables made of salvaged wood at Pier 5, is totally unexpected. Making the location a full-day destination requires early arrival and planning as the tables cannot be reserved and are on a first-come basis. Also located on Pier 5 are the only bait preparation tables and fish cleaning stations in the park. For both tourists and residents, the park is becoming a location for free events and free outdoor activities. Happenings on SBN is your location for planning visits to the park. From the annual "Syfy Movies With a View" summer movie series, to "Books Beneath the Bridge" and "Sunset Pilates," there are events for nearly every interest. For recreation, the park is becoming unparalleled, and not just for field sports. As construction begins on Pier 2, the 5 acre area will feature active recreation courts for basketball, handball, and bocce, as well as a full size in-line skating rink. It is the location now for the Eco-Dock, where all public kayak programs take place. In the future, a pebble beach will be constructed by Pier 4, providing additional boat access areas. A wave attenuation system between Pier 1 and Pier 4 will create a protected boating environment, allowing both novice and experienced boaters to paddle the East River. Today's Brooklyn Heights is also a monument to the history of New York and the United States. Europeans first appeared in 1645, forming the settlement of "Breuckelen" near the site of today's Borough Hall. Breuckelen, meaning marsh land, is thought to come from the areas resemblance to Breuckelen, Holland, where the settlers originated. The bluffs of Brooklyn Heights gained fame as many of Manhattan's early merchants built mansions to gain the first views of "the city." It was from one of these mansions in 1776, that George Washington made his fateful decision to retreat from Brooklyn. Using the Cornell Mansion as his headquarters, Washington watched the Battle of Brooklyn unfold into a horrific defeat for his army. As his men battled the British in Battle Pass (now located within Prospect Park in Park Slope), he is quoted as saying: "Good God, what brave men must I lose this day!" SBN_FultonFerry.jpg Brooklyn Bridge/Fulton Ferry during snowstorm. At Fulton Ferry, George Washington and the first steamship. ©Mark D Phillips Under the cover of darkness on August 29th, Washington's army crossed the East River from Fulton Ferry to Manhattan, leaving Brooklyn to the British. The British Empire ended its occupation of New York on November 25, 1783. November 25 was celebrated as a holiday in New York for more than a century as Evacuation Day. The 1800's saw unparralled growth in Brooklyn. As New York and Brooklyn blossomed into the heart of the new United States, Brooklyn Heights became the playground for many of New York's wealthiest investors. In 1807, Robert Fulton captained his steamboat, The Clermont, from the Brooklyn Ferry on its maiden voyage up the Hudson River. In 1814, Fulton gained a franchise to operate ferry service via steamboat from Brooklyn to Manhattan. As the population boomed, Brooklyn became a city in 1833. Early on, Brooklyn Heights became an enclave to literary aspirations. In 1855, Walt Whitman printed the first ten pages of his well-known book of poetry, Leaves of Grass, on a press borrowed from some friends. Following in his footprints, Truman Capote wrote his masterpieces, "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," in a basement apartment on Willow Street. The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, held each September at Brooklyn Borough Hall and in, presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors. Montague Street, the heart of Brooklyn Heights, is four blocks long, ending at The Promenade. Named in honor of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, born in 1689 to Evelyn and Mary Pierrepont, she gained notoriety for bringing the practice of inoculations to prevent smallpox to England after witnessing its use in Turkey while her husband served as ambassador for King George I. The past decade has seen a radical change on Montague Street with the influx of national shopping chains replacing the locally owned businesses. Another major change is underway with the Hotel Bossert, once known as "the Waldorf-Astoria of Brooklyn," reverting back to a hotel after nearly 30 years of ownership by the Jehovah's Witnesses. Sold in late 2012 for $81 Million dollars to Clipper Equity and the Chetrit Group, the 14-story building, which hosted the only World Championship Party for the Brooklyn Dodgers, will once again become a boutique hotel with around 300 rooms. For the tourist or history buff, Brooklyn Heights has an abundance of "not to be missed" landmarks: • St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church on Montague and Clinton Streets, was designed by Minard Lafever and constructed between 1844 and 1847. Containing 7,000 square feet of stained glass windows designed in the 1840s by William and John Bolton, they are renowned as the FIRST American made stained glass. • Our Lady of Lebanon Church on Henry and Remsen Streets, features placques on its massive Bronze doors from the Normandie, and inside the church, a bronze railing, a cloisonne enamel bas-relief of a Norman knight, and a bronze statue entitled "La Paix" (Peace). • The Brooklyn Historical Society on Pierrepont and Clinton Streets, is a four-story Queen Anne style building that was completed in 1881 and designed by architect George B. Post. BHS provides a look into Brooklyn's past with changing exhibits and walking tours of the neighborhood. • Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims on Orange and Hicks Streets, first gathered in 1847, led by Henry Ward Beecher, the famed clergyman and antislavery advocate. From its beginnings, the Church served as a vital philosophical and geographical link in the Underground Railroad. Candlelight vigil on Brooklyn Heights Promenade on the night of September 12, 2001. ©Mark D Phillips The Tower of Light tribute over the lower Manhattan skyline on the twelfth anniversary of 9/11 in 2013, looking across Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Squibb Park Bridge from the Heights Promenade. Mark D Phillips Happenings in Brooklyn Heights News & Stories from Brooklyn Heights On the (Queer) Waterfront of Brooklyn A Lunar Eclipse takes to the Sunday Sky A new Gleason's Gym debuts in DUMBO Photoville takes over Brooklyn Bridge Park with world-class photography	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9049
__label__cc	0.544908	0.455092	Home > Domestic Violence > Best Practices > Systems Actors > Role of Police Globally, law enforcement officers are the first actors who a victim of domestic violence is likely to encounter. Law enforcement is a well-known and highly visible community authority, provides free services, and is generally one of the few systems actors who can provide rapid 24-hour daily assistance.[1] As first responders, they play an important role in protecting victim safety and enhancing offender accountability. Although law enforcement may be unable or unwilling to rapidly address all incidents of domestic and intimate partner violence at any hour in all locations, its visibility and authority continue to increase the likelihood that a person experiencing domestic violence will come into contact with law enforcement officers. Thus, law enforcement plays a crucial role in addressing and decreasing incidences of domestic and intimate partner violence. Moreover, law enforcement officers act as criminal justice gatekeepers; thus, “problems arise when allegations are made that police do not take domestic violence seriously, consider it a family problem and, therefore, inappropriate for police action.”[2] In light of their elevated visibility and connecting role to the rest of the criminal justice system—and possibly other assistance—law enforcement officers must be trained to identify domestic and intimate partner violence and act accordingly. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. A 2015 survey of victim in the U.S. discussed sources of women’s fear surrounding law enforcement involvement. The survey found that: Four out of five women who had never previously called the police were somewhat to extremely afraid to call the police in the future, with 59% fearing that police would not believe them or would fail to take any action; 80% of women who had called the police and who were somewhat to extremely afraid to call again specifically feared that police would fail to take action or believe them; One in four women who had previously called the police said they would not call again, and one in three said they felt less safe after they called; 43% felt that the police had discriminated against them, with 46% of those women indicating discrimination due to gender and 24% indicating discrimination due to the police officers’ lack of understanding about DV. Although many of the women in the survey indicated having negative experiences, some highlighted positive outcomes from police involvement. Two of the most helpful things police have done were to “provide[] information about [her] option including specific safety suggestions and referrals” and “provide[] tangible help like helping [her] get a protective order, transporting [her] to safety or connecting [her] with a victim advocate.”[3] Indeed, providing victims with referrals to resources and information on her legal rights reflects best practice standards. To best address the needs of victim, law enforcement should work as part of a broader multi-sectoral approach. As part of this interagency approach, law enforcement should “be educated about violence against women and girls and be trained on how to appropriately intervene in cases of violence against women and girls.”[4] It is important to ensure that the victim’s safety is the central priority and to respect the rights, needs, and agency of the victim.[5] [1] Meg Townsend et al, Law Enforcement Response to Emergency Domestic Violence Calls for Service (Feb. 2005), at 7. [3] National Domestic Violence Hotline, Who Will Help Me?: Domestic Violence Survivors Speak Out about Law Enforcement Responses (2015), at 11. [4] The Multi-Sectoral Model, Virtual K knowledge Centre to End Violence Against Women and Girls, http://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/1503-the-multi-sectoral-model.html (last accessed Nov. 6, 2018). [5] UN Development Program, Mulitsectoral Cooperation–Institutional Response to Violence Against Women (2013), at 76.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9050
__label__cc	0.749144	0.250856	in What's Happening? In the Palm of My Hand was a special project which drew together dance artist Paula Hampson and composer Chris Mellor with a group of women and children from Kinship Carers Liverpool, a registered charity that supports all members of kinship families in the community; carers, children and young people. Summer exhibitions to examine migration, society and the environment We're excited to present two new exhibitions this summer as part of a season examining current issues in society and potential solutions. Wirral Writer Malcolm Lowry Honoured with Blue Plaque Malcolm Lowry (1909-57), author of the classic modern novel Under the Volcano, is to be honoured by Wirral Council with a Blue Plaque in his birthplace of New Brighton.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9054
__label__wiki	0.809	0.809	The Mr.'s Top Ten Favorite Movies The Mrs' Top Ten Favorite Movies Our Preview of This Week's New Releases (For Friday, July 27th) Andrew: Hello readers! We're back with our preview of this week's new releases. Last week we only saw the wide release of one film, the juggernaut that is The Dark Knight Rises, but this week we see two films. One is an original R-rated comedy starring some big names, The Watch, and one is a sequel to a series that I have no idea how or why they're still making more of these, and that's Step Up: Revolution. Sarah, you pick which one we'll talk about first. Sarah: Let's go ahead and get the new Step Up Revolution out of the way. The only good one of these films was the first one. It actually did a lot to help Channing Tatum's career and he has turned into quite the movie star. But now, all these movies are are glorified dance videos. And granted, they have some pretty sweet dance scenes but the storylines are usually lacking pretty heavily. They are niche movies that appeal to a very small audience, but an audience nonetheless so they continue to make them. These movies fall under my "Land Before Time Movies" – as in movies that have sequel after sequel made and I have no idea why. Official Trailer for Step Up Revolution A: I haven't seen any of them, to be perfectly honest. And it's pretty much because I have no interest in seeing them outside of checking out the dance scenes, and THAT'S only because I watched the Jabbawockeez on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew. But looking at the box office information for this series on Wikipedia, I can see why the studio keeps making them. While each new one has made less money than the previous one domestically, it's been the opposite internationally and Step Up 3D actually brought in over $159 million total when it only cost $30 million to make. That's some nice profit. Continuing my amazing research into this film, the star looks to be some actress/dancer named Kathryn McCormick who placed 3rd during a season of So You Think You Can Dance. The biggest name I can find on the cast list is Peter Gallagher, who I know best from The O.C. and a movie I’m not afraid to admit I love, Mr. Deeds. So the film-makers must be doing something right to make such a good profit off of these no-name films. S: Like I said, they do have an audience. I think it is safe to say that we will probably not be seeing this one in the theatres...or ever for that matter. I think I just have a hard time seeing them based on my movie standards. So let's move on to The Watch. This Ben Stiller/Vince Vaughn/Jonah Hill movie looks to bring hilarity with a twist of science fiction to the screen this weekend. What do you think about this one? A: I'm actually quite looking forward to The Watch because of the pedigree it's bringing. As you said, it stars Stiller, Vaughn and Hill who are all funny people in their own rights, but it's also directed by Akiva Schaffer, one of the members of The Lonely Island. He personally directed some of their best videos like "Dick in a Box," "Natalie's Rap," and "I Just Had Sex" to name a few. It's also co-written by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, who wrote Superbad together, and Goldberg also co-wrote Goon, a personal favorite of ours we just caught. So yeah, I'm all about the people behind the making of this movie. The fact that it's rated R gives me some high hopes, too, because those are relatively few and far between. Official Trailer for The Watch S: True! I am expecting it to be similar to 21 Jump Street in the comedy deparment, which is holding the bar pretty high for it in our opinion. Vaughn hasn't been in anything lately that I really loved so I am excited to see what he can bring to this movie. Stiller will be hilarious in it I'm sure, and I love Skinny Jonah Hill. I can't seem to get enough of him lately and neither can Hollywood apparently! So while this weekend isn't going to be as epic as last week at the theatres, it looks to be one where we will be laughing more. A: My one hesitation with The Watch is that Stiller and Vaughn seem to be playing roles that they always play. Stiller is playing the straight-guy, the every-man who's nothing special but kind of reacts to all the shenanigans that are happening around him; while Vaughn looks like he's playing a guy who's related to his Beanie character in Old School. That said I find them to be very funny in those roles. I've also heard good things about Richard Ayoade from some co-workers who've seen him in a British comedy show called The IT Crowd. S: Oh yeah but we have come to love them for playing these characters, it wouldn't be fair to expect them to change for this movie. It should be entertaining and that is all I can ask for! Also, because I was gone while this happened and didn’t get a chance to speak on it, I think it is important to also note that our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the Colorado shooting last week. It was such a terrible thing to happen in a place that brings joy to so many people. A: Amen. Ok readers, be on the lookout for our review of The Watch at some point this weekend as we’ll definitely be seeing that one, and as always thank you for reading! Posted by Two Tickets For... at 3:09 PM Labels: Akiva Schaffer, Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Step Up Revolution, The Watch, Two Tickets For, twoticketsfor.com, Vince Vaughn Follow Two Tickets For... by Email LAMB #1333 The Full Length Trailer for "Skyfall" is Here! So Much Promise, Such Poor Execution: Our Review o... Five Reasons Why: You Should See "The Dark Knight ... Our Preview of This Week's New Releases (For Frida... Sarah Finally Saw TDKR So We Talk About Spoilerish... 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__label__cc	0.702862	0.297138	News Community News Banchory Skatepark News Banchory Skatepark News Common Good Land Consultation - Banchory Skatepark Aberdeenshire Council are consulting on the proposal to lease land within Bellfield Park to allow Banchory Skatepark Group (BSG) to construct and manage a new skatepark facility. The land is adjacent to and includes the area housing the existing skate ramp. It covers an area of 0.15ha and is to the east of Bellfield carpark. Bellfield Park is Common Good Land. When considering disposal of certain types of Common Good Land (whether by sale or lease), certain legal requirements must be followed, including the need for the Council to carry out a Statutory Consultation with the community under Part 8 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. Further details about the proposed new skatepark, including the results of a detailed consultation carried out by BSG in 2018, can be found here in the Banchory Skate Park Feasibility Study, September 2018. A copy of the statutory consultation document can be found by clicking the link. The consultation will be open from 11th February to 8th April 2019 and completed forms can be returned via email: marr@aberdeenshire.gov.uk, via post: Marr Area Office, School Road, Alford, AB33 8TY or by handing them in to Banchory Library. Paper copies of the consultation document are also available in the Library along with reference copies of the Feasibility Study. Please return forms by 8th April 2019.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9069
__label__cc	0.749313	0.250687	“Winning the Future” Requires Real Choice A Commentary By Howard Rich New Media Catches Obama Bribing the Fourth Estate By Howard Rich “Homeland” Radiation Threatens More Than Just Our Health By Howard Rich Social Security: Why America Can and Should Allow Private Accounts By Howard Rich In his State of the Union address last week, U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged that America’s “free enterprise system is what drives innovation.” He also said that if America is to “win the future,” then it must first “win the race to educate our kids.” Mr. Obama is correct on both points – just as he was correct in acknowledging that “too many schools” in our country are falling behind in this race. According to the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), America’s reading scores have slipped by four points over the last nine years. Our fifteen-year-old students now trail their counterparts in Shanghai by 56 points, with even larger gaps existing in science (73 points) and mathematics (113 points) – the subjects which form the basis of our nation’s innovative capacity. This slippage – which Mr. Obama is hoping to mitigate with increased government funding – will only widen the “innovation gap” that exists between 21st Century America and the rest of the industrialized world. According to a 2009 report published by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, America ranked sixth among the world’s top 40 industrialized nations in overall “innovative competitiveness.” However, our nation ranked dead last among these countries with respect to its “rate of change in innovation capacity.” “Do the math,” as the expression goes. As with our government’s ongoing fiscal recklessness, this “innovation stagnation” threatens the very survival of our Republic. Yet as America’s competitive position has steadily deteriorated, our political leaders have continued to ignore free market solutions. Instead, they have chosen to saddle future generations with record debt – while simultaneously impeding their ability to pay all those borrowed trillions back. Now the role that government plays in every aspect of our economy – as well as the role government plays in preparing future generations of Americans to compete in that economy – must be fundamentally reexamined. “The question is whether all of us – as citizens, and as parents – are willing to do what’s necessary to give every child a chance to succeed,” Mr. Obama said in his address. That is the question. Yet in imploring us to meet this challenge, Mr. Obama is once again demonstrating the hollowness of his rhetoric. For example, if Mr. Obama truly believes that free enterprise “drives innovation” in our economy, then why has he dramatically expanded government control over our financial markets? Or pushed a government takeover of the health care industry? Or used multi-billion dollar bailouts to speculatively pick winners and losers in the marketplace? And if Mr. Obama truly believes in providing “what’s necessary to give every child a chance to succeed,” then why did he pull the plug on a successful school choice program in Washington, D.C.? According to a U.S. Department of Education report released last summer, the Washington D.C. Opportunity Scholarships Program has “increased graduation rates by 21 percentage points” among students who took advantage of these scholarships – at a little more than half the cost of public school tuition. Two weeks ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota released a report showing that students in Milwaukee’s successful school choice program “have graduation rates that are 18 percent higher than those of students in Milwaukee Public Schools” – at less than half the cost of public school tuition. Meanwhile a study released by Northwestern University just last week found that public schools in the state of Florida – where a thriving tax credit and scholarship program was recently expanded – have “responded to the increased threat of losing students” by dramatically improving their performance. “The (public school) gains occur immediately,” the study found, and “appear to be much more pronounced in the schools most at risk to lose students.” Better academic results, dramatic savings and improved public school performance– all as a result of free enterprise. Exactly what part of that equation does Mr. Obama find objectionable? The day after Mr. Obama’s speech, House Speaker John Boehner unveiled legislation that would reinstate Washington D.C.’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. “President Obama spoke of the vital role education plays in making our nation competitive,” Mr. Boehner said. “We need to start by making America’s education system itself more competitive.” Indeed we do. America has what it takes to “win the future.” In fact, a study released last month by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that Americans aged 16-25 “possess many characteristics necessary to become inventors, such as creativity, interest in science and math … (and the) desire to develop altruistic inventions.” What these young minds need now is for their government to get out of the way. The author is chairman of Americans for Limited Government. See Other Political Commentary. See Other Commentary by Howard Rich. Views expressed in this column are those of the author, not those of Rasmussen Reports.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9074
__label__wiki	0.574281	0.574281	Sweetwater Records' recording artist Ray Fogg has been leaving audiences with a guilty smile on their faces at Put-in-Bay, the popular Lake Erie party island for over 20 years. Each year he presides over the official opening and closing of the tourist season at the world famous Round House Bar. Then, he spends most of the tourist season performing at the Reel Bar, with special appearances at the Round House Bar. Read More About Ray Dangerously Fun! "One island is not enough to hold all of Fogg's talent." - Sandusky Register "...gut busting, adult humor..." - The Daily Oakland Press "One of Put-in-Bay's most popular entertainers..." - The Columbus Dispatch View More Quotes Sorry If I Was a Dick Last Night Live! Christmas In July I’m Busy The Ray Fogg Show appears at Put-in-Bay, Ohio April through October and in other locations in Ohio, Michigan, New Orleans and Key West in the other months. Ray Being Ray From Put-in-Bay to Bourbon Street. Here is the latest news on Ray. Ray’s 30th Anniversary Performing at Put-in-Bay! 30 years ago today, September 30, 1988, my friend John Salamon (we didn’t know each other then) was booked to play the Roundhouse Bar, but had laryngitis from his... 14th Annual Put-in-Bay Music Festival in Key West Sloppy Joe’s Bar will host the 14th Annual Put-in-Bay Music Festival February 7 – 10, 2018! It’s hard to believe that Key West has been paying homage to Put-in-Bay... Ray will return to Rick’s in Key West for a show on Monday, December 11 at 4pm! While Ray’s shows at Rick are always a blast, this one may be off-the-hook. Frosty’s (of Put-in-Bay) co-owner Ryan Stoiber will be celebrating his 40th birthday at this show! ...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9075
__label__wiki	0.833004	0.833004	Fogg’s PIB Summer Tour rayfogg Summer Fogg in Put-in-Bay Following his heart with music to make people happy, Ray Fogg, Jr. returns at 7:30 p.m. on May 16 to Reel Bar in Put-in-Bay, South Bass Island to kick off the summer season for weekend concerts. Fogg, originally of Brecksville, is known for his island vibe and comedy routine at Reel Bar and Roundhouse, in Put-in-Bay, as well as at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, in Key West, Fla., during the off season. Fogg, a 1982 graduate of Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School, was his class commencement speaker and the drum major of the BBHHS Marching Band as well as playing trumpet. Many fellow classmates may not know he was teaching himself guitar in his spare time and playing bar gigs in seventh grade. “My first professional paying gig was July 4, 1976 – Bicentennial Day – at a city fair,” said Fogg. After playing bars, restaurants, and weddings through high school, Fogg toured the college circuit nationwide from when he was 18 to 28 years old. Although music performance fit his fun personality, Fogg said he “became rather sick of touring.” At that time he joined the family real estate business (yes, that’s why the name is familiar – Ray Fogg Corporate Properties, LLC), for the opportunity to work with his father, all the while still playing the local bars until Put-in-Bay became a serious consideration. His first real break was to fill in for a regular performer John Soloman, and Fogg’s gigs and style developed from there. Fogg liked the idea of living on the island and having the tourists come to see his show instead of him touring to see them. “Music comedy has now become what I am most known for,” said Fogg, but don’t expect it to be a very family-friendly style, as it is more adult humor in his original songs and parodies. Fogg’s performances in Key West are during the yearly Put-in-Bay Musical Festival at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, and he also plays a short winter tour in towns around Put-in-Bay as well as a week on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans. To get to all the destinations, Fogg and his wife are both pilots who travel by private plane. “I also am the founding president of the Put-in-Bay 3 Whiskey, 2 Pilots Association,” said Fogg. “We have about 25 members.” The Ray Fogg Show will feature a new song, “Loose”, when he opens on Saturday. Fogg’s next CD will likely be recorded later this season at Reel Bar. He has recorded six CDs that are available at www.rayfogg.net. Discussing his life as a musician, Fogg has some advice to other aspiring artists to stay happy and grounded in their craft. “Few people can ‘make it big,'” said Fogg. “And with how the economics of the music and recording industry have changed, I’m not even sure what ‘make it big’ means anymore. The most important thing is to find what you love to do, figure out where an audience is who will appreciate that and get in front of that audience. “You must do it for the joy of the art. Then, if you’re lucky and good enough, you’ll find a way to make it work in your life.” By Ingrid Schaefer Sprague, Sun News	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9076
__label__wiki	0.874764	0.874764	Chandrababu Naidu living in illegal house, says Andhra CM Amaravati, June 25 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday alleged that his predecessor, and now Leader of Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu was living in an illegal house on the banks of Krishna river here. Addressing a meeting of District Collectors and Superintendents of Police in 'Praja Vedika', the annexe of Naidu's residence, he declared that demolition of illegal structures on the banks of the river will begin on Wednesday by razing 'Praja Vedika'. On the second and last day of the two-day meeting, Jagan, as the leader is popularly known, alleged that Naidu as the Chief Minister not only lived in an illegal building but also built another structure (Praja Vedika) adjacent to his house in violation of all laws and rules. Naidu's action encouraged others to indulge in illegal constructions and as a result unauthorized structure came up along the entire stretch of the road at Undavalli, he said. "The building where we are all sitting in is illegal. Starting tomorrow, this will be first building to be demolished. We want to send out a clear message. We will not stop at this. This entire road will be cleansed," said Jagan. He, however, was not clear if Naidu's house too will be demolished. Naidu, who is President of main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) had written a letter to the Chief Minister on June 4 to allow him to use 'Praja Vedika' to hold the meetings. However, the YSRCP government on Saturday took possession of the building and the Chief Minister on Monday announced that it will be demolished. Praja Vedika (people's grievance cell) was built by the previous TDP government through Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA), in 2017, as an extension to then Chief Minister Naidu's residence. Costing Rs 5 crore, it was being used by Naidu for official purposes as well as to hold party meetings. Naidu has been staying in the house at Undavalli on the banks of Krishna river since 2016 when Andhra Pradesh shifted its administration to Amaravati from Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana state. A few days ago a legislator of ruling YSR Congress Party had said that Naidu will be made to vacate the house as it was built illegally. Alla Ramakrishna Reddy has already filed a petition in the High Court, seeking demolition of illegal buildings including Naidu's house. "Right in front of our eyes the Chief Minister stays in illegal building," said Jagan. As some senior officials interrupted to correct him, he went on: "The former Chief Minister stays in illegal building. Even if I stay, it is wrong. It doesn't make a difference. We are in positions of authority. Is it justified for a CM, SP or Collector to do such a thing?" Jagan said he deliberately choose this building to show how it was constructed by the government itself in violation of all rules. He said a letter by the Irrigation Department points out that the maximum flood level of Krishna river is 22.6 metres while the building was constructed at a height of 19.6 metres. "This building breached the River Conservation Act, Lok Ayukta judgments, Green Tribunal orders, Master Plan and building bye-laws," he said. He asked Collectors and SPs to take up demolition of illegal structures in their respective districts and come down heavily on illegal activities, corruption and loot. Jagan alleged that during last five years, there was open loot with illegal mining and sand mafia carrying out their activities. He said while effecting transfer of officials, he ensured that they are not only honest and efficient but also not leaning towards the TDP. This was important, he said, as the system had collapsed during last five years with the TDP government making the Collectors and SPs the party. "Is this the good governance, best practices and number one policing," he repeatedly asked in an obvious taunt at the words used by Chandrababu Naidu. Jagan asked the officials to extend all the cooperation with MLAs in all matters, except corruption, illegal activity and looting. He also advised the police to be friendly and transparent with people. "When somebody comes to police station, greet him with a smile. Show your teeth. We can't be always firm. We need to relax a bit. We including me are public servants. We are not rulers. Once it gets into our head, 50 percent of the problem is addressed," he said. --IANS ms/vd	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9082
__label__wiki	0.659525	0.659525	Rochester man accused of sex assault in Winona A 26-year-old man from Rochester, Minn., accused of raping a woman last fall was charged , according to the Winona Police Department. Gallad Abdullahi Gudlawe, 26, of Rochester, was charged with fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct after he allegedly raped a woman last October and summoned to appear in Winona County District Court. According to the report, on October 9, 2018, police responded to a report of a sexual assault at a residence in Winona where a woman reportedly told police that she was raped by a man the night before. The woman then reportedly went to the hospital for an exam, and DNA was taken from the victim and sent to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The DNA reportedly matched Gudlawe. Investigators later met with Gudlawe, who explained that he wanted to “clear things up.” He reportedly told officers multiple versions of events, and allegedly changed his statement multiple times during the conversation. Gudlawe faces a maximum sentence of up to one year in jail and a fine of $3,000.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9083
__label__cc	0.666258	0.333742	St. Charles man arrested after alleged drunken crash A 36-year-old St. Charles man faces multiple charges after he allegedly struck a semi-truck while driving under the influence of alcohol, according to the Winona Police Department. Emanuel Tepole Anastacio, 36, of St. Charles, was arrested and referred to the county attorney for potential charges of second-degree driving while intoxicated, driving after revocation and fleeing a motor-vehicle accident. According to police, at 6:21 p.m. on Sunday, June 9, police responded to a report of a vehicle colliding with a semi-truck near the intersection of Riverview Drive and Prairie Island Road. The driver of the vehicle reportedly fled the scene but later returned to his crashed car. A witness reportedly told officers that the vehicle, driven by Anastacio, was swerving all over the road on Highway 43. Following the crash, Anastacio allegedly fled on foot toward the Mississippi River. The account was reportedly verified by both the driver of the semi and the reporting party. Anastacio was arrested when he returned to his vehicle, and reportedly showed signs of intoxication. He reportedly had a blood-alcohol content measured at 0.21 percent.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9084
__label__cc	0.618265	0.381735	Hungary Passes Controversial Central Bank Law Posted by admin on December 31, 2011 in World Events · 0 Comments BBC, 12-30-2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16362662 Hungary has passed a law that critics say could undermine the independence of its central bank. The ruling Fidesz party, which has a two-thirds majority, has approved the constitutional change in the final session of parliament this year. Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Hungary’s debt to junk status last week, partly due to the proposed changes to the constitution. EU and IMF officials have cut short aid talks with Hungary over to the law. Hungary had been seeking a standby credit line of 15-20bn euros ($19.5bn, £12.6bn) in case it ran into trouble issuing new debt. But the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission have both cast doubts over aid because of the law. On Thursday, Hungary abandoned part of a planned bond auction, when investors demanded a higher interest rate on the debt the country planned to issue. Hungary’s central bank governor, Andras Simor, has said the bill amounts to a takeover of the central bank. The law has also been criticised by the European Central Bank, who said it raised “concern as to whether [it] could be used to influence the decision-making process, to the detriment of central bank independence”. International pressure The government wants to keep interest rates low to boost growth – but last week, Hungary’s central bank increased rates for the the second month in a row, to 7% from 6.5%. Consumer prices inflation in Hungary is currently running at 4.25%, well above the official 3% target. “Some amendments have been made since the original draft was presented before the Christmas holiday, but concerns remain that the essence of the law has not changed,” said the BBC’s Eastern Europe reporter Nick Thorpe. “The reform of the bank would introduce deputy governors and allow the government greater potential influence over key aspects of monetary policy, such as the level of interest rates.” Hungary was given a 20bn-euro standby loan by the IMF in 2008 to prevent it having to default on its debts. But the newly-elected Prime Minister Viktor Orban decided not to renew the standby facility last year. Standard & Poor’s has cited heightened risks to the country’s ability to repay its debts due to the weakening domestic and global economic outlook. “In our view, the predictability of Hungary’s policy framework continues to weaken, harming Hungary’s medium-term growth prospects,” S&P said. Last month, fellow ratings agency Moody’s also downgraded Hungary to junk status, blaming the economy’s high levels of debt and weak prospects for growth.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9085
__label__cc	0.70314	0.29686	Clueless on Catholicism VII: LAT Still Airs Falsehoods About Catholic Faith October 25, 2009 By TheMediaReport.com In a recent news article (Fri. 10/23/09) and a pea-brained editorial (Sat. 10/24/09) regarding Anglicans joining the Catholic Church, the Los Angeles Times again displays its utter ignorance of the Catholic faith. The Times' editorial is yet another weak attempt to air the paper's position that homosexual acts and women priests should be fully embraced by the Catholic Church. 1. The Times editorial repeats the often-heard canard, "Jesus said nothing about homosexuality." In fact, Jesus most certainly has said a lot about it. The Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us, "God is the author of Sacred Scripture" (CCC 105). One source for this is 2 Timothy 3:16, which asserts, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching." Therefore, Jesus, as the second person of the Holy Trinity, has spoken on the issue of homosexuality, not only through natural law, but through the Bible (via Leviticus, Romans 1, and 1 Cor. 6, among others). 2. The Times editorial also claims that because women cannot be priests, they are denied "full participation" in the Catholic Church. What baloney. All people are invited to participate fully in the Church. But as Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians, we all have our unique gifts and roles. There's a lot more one can say about this, but let's just say this is just complete ignorance from the Times. 3. Meanwhile, the Times news article asserts that the Catholic Church does not allow women priests based on "principle." Well … not quite. As I've written before, in the Catholic Church, "Holy Orders" is a sacrament, and sacraments were instituted by Jesus himself. The Church simply does not have the authority to change a sacrament. For more on this, read the essential John Paul II 1994 letter "Ordinatio Sacerdotalis." There's a lot more to take issue with in the Times' article and editorial. (Such as their very flimsy claim, "[The Church has] changed their thinking over the years about everything from usury to the culpability of Jews for the Crucifixion to the desirability of religious tolerance.") How frustrating it must be for a knowledgeable Catholic to pick up the Los Angeles Times and see the Catholic faith misrepresented so often … Filed Under: FEATURE ARTICLES Tagged With: anti-Catholic, anti-Catholicism, Los Angeles Times	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9087
__label__cc	0.701587	0.298413	The Paranormal Guide Giovanni Aldini – Reanimating the Dead! Giovanni Aldini was the nephew of Luigi Galvani, the man who discovered that a dead frogs legs could be made to kick with the application of a spark. Aldini carried out similar experiments, but took them to the next level once he obtained the corpses of freshly executed criminals. A Murderer Waits The experiment was quite successful. 'On the first application of the process to the face, the jaws of the deceased began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent part of the process the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion.' -The Newgate Calendar. The corpse being experimented on belonged to a man named George Forster who was tried and found guilty of murdering his wife and child in 1802. The method by which he murdered his family was to drown them in the Paddington Canal in London. The body of his child was found first and later, after the canal had been 'dragged', the body of his wife was discovered. Although Forster tried to put together an alibi, many witnesses poked holes in his story, seeing him at places linked to the crime. He was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged until he was dead. Giovanni Aldini. Just before his execution on 18 January, 1803, Forster confessed to his crime, and added he had attempted to drown them in the canal on two other separate occasions, but his nerves had failed him. While waiting in his cell in the time leading up to his execution, Forster had also attempted suicide by stabbing himself with a knife in the chest. This was not out of remorse, but rather to save himself from potential future harm. Surely being hanged until one was dead would not necessitate having to save one self from further harm... Well unfortunately, back in those days, when knowledge of the human body was still quite crude, it was not entirely unknown for a person to be hanged, declared dead, only to later regain consciousness. Having to be re-hanged would be a pretty nasty thing, but in the mid 1700's in England, a 'Murder Act' was passed that said hanged criminals could not be buried. And what happened to a majority of these executed criminals corpses? Step in Giovanni Aldini It began with animals but soon progressed to humans. Off to the schools of anatomy they went to be examined, experimented on, and dissected. Forster obviously did not want to wake up mid dissection, but luckily for him the hang man did a good job, and he was thoroughly dead, been left to hang in sub zero temperatures before he was handed over to Giovanni Aldini. Giovanni Aldini was an Italian physicist, whose main field of interest was, funnily enough, anatomy and the preservation of human life. He was the nephew of Luigi Galvani who was quite famous for his studies in 'bioelectricity' (a field of study that looks at electromagnetic fields and how they interact with biological organisms). Galvani found that dead frogs legs could be made to twitch when touched by a spark. He coined the term 'animal electricity' in regards to the 'electric liquid that travelled to the muscles by the nerves' and as such, had the phenomenon where muscles could be made to respond to electricity named after him – galvanism. Giovanni Aldini was an enthusiastic proponent of his uncles experiment with stimulating muscles with electricity, and when he received his first whole, fresh, executed criminals corpse, he set to work manipulating it. Devilish Practices? Newspapers at the time put their spin on things. He hooked up Forster’s dead body to rudimentary batteries that provided the necessary spark to cause the muscles to contract and relax. By touching various muscles, he was able to get the body to do some fascinating things, such as raising its arm and clenching and unclenching the fist. The legs were made to kick. The face was made to tremble, the jaw to shudder, and he even managed to get one eye to open. Back in those days such experiments were not shut away in a lab, but rather were done with witnesses present. Quite a few of those who watched the experiment thought that Aldini was reviving the body, bringing it back to life. Aldini himself was convinced he might have revived the body, had the blood not been drained and the spinal cord severed. The real Dr. Frankenstein? Quite a spectacle it would no doubt have made in the eyes of those who watched. Aldini would continue on with these experiments (carried out in the Royal College of Physicians), that by some were seen to be 'devilish', and it is thought that these activities may have formed some of the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein'. However, some witnesses to this initial experiment on George Forster's body could not handle seeing such an unnatural practice carried out. The beadle of the Surgeons' Company, Mr Pass, actually died of fright! Ashley Hall 2013 Please post your comments below! The Paranormal Guide Articles Here you will find all of the articles written for The Paranormal Guide on all things paranormal, strange, dark, macabre, weird, strange and bizarre! All photos with the blog posts remain the property of their respectful owners. If one of your photos is featured here without attribution please leave a comment on the blog and full credit will be given. 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__label__wiki	0.967326	0.967326	JODIE FOSTER IN NEW THRILLER 'HOTEL ARTEMIS' Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, HOTEL ARTEMIS is an original, high-octane action-thriller starring Jodie Foster as The Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only hospital for criminals. Jodie Foster is joined by an all-star cast that includes Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Day, and Dave Bautista. Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA NJPAC PRESENTS 'LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS' Newark, New Jersey - New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo in a live performance of his Tony-nominated hit, Latin History for Morons, as part of a Netflix special filming at NJPAC, June 28th - 30th, 2018. A sold-out run at the Public Theater. A record-breaking engagement at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. A 2018 Tony Award nomination for best play on Broadway. Chalk it all up to the mad genius of acclaimed writer and actor John Leguizamo. When his son gets a school assignment on heroes, Leguizamo seizes the chance to teach him all about the great figures of the Latino world. But once he sets out on his irreverent crash course across three continents and 3,000 years of history – from conquistadores to cumbia, Montezuma to Menudo, and taking on the characters in all of it – he uncovers provocative truths that shock even him. “A funny and surprisingly poignant quest for the perfect Latino hero,” writes The New York Times. This is Leguizamo’s firs… Location: Newark, NJ, USA THE WILLIE NELSON AARP MAGAZINE INTERVIEW LOS ANGELES, CA — The first in a series of “American Icon” exclusive interviews, Willie Nelson reflects on his life’s trajectory from small-town Texas to the country music mecca of Nashville, the friends he made along the way and his focus on only the essential things in life. With a rich, varied, textured life well-lived and career spanning over 50 years, he is one of the biggest stars in country music. The outspoken musical legend has also endured his share of heartache, from the tragic death of a son to three failed marriages. Even with a 32 million dollar IRS tax bill and drug busts weighing him down, he pulled himself up by the bootstraps and carried on. When questioned about his secret to life in an intimate interview with AARP The Magazine (ATM), Nelson says, “It’s simple. Do what you want to do. If I don’t want to do it, forget it. But if I do want to do it, get out of my goddamn way.” Nelson’s words are a testament to such a life that includes smoking a joint on the White … MCGOWAN GETS JUSTICE BY WEINSTEIN INDICTMENT ** DIRTY HARVEY WEINSTEIN E! NEWS -- Rose McGowan is speaking out after Harvey Weinstein was indicted on rape and sex crime charges. In a new Instagram posted Wednesday evening, the actress and CITIZEN ROSE star reacted to the grand jury's decision made earlier today in a New York City courtroom. "INDICTED. FINALLY. I've been indicted by the media he's bought out for years to trash me. Now it is a new chapter for both of us," Rose began in her social media post. "What would others say about you if they didn't know who you were? Who I am has been told to the world for me in magazines, newspapers, blogs, videos, tabloids." She continued, "The narrative of me—my story—has been sold to you as a work of fiction. The media often cuts you when they can, especially if they've been paid off to–the journalists and reporters who are safe in their cubicles and do not have to drown in your tears or see the bruises. All they see is numbers. Views. Ra… JEAN SHAFIROFF STUNNING @ EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO Jean Shafiroff Striking in a Spectacular Blue Ballgown at the El Museo del Barrio Gala in New York City. Once again the celebrity philanthropist Jean Shafiroff stunned the crowd at the El Museo del Barrio Gala. For this year's El Museo Gala held at the Plaza Hotel recently. Ms. Shafiroff wore a couture gown by the designer Victor dE Souza. Her blue and green gown was hand embroidered and resembled a flower about to bloom. Jean Shafiroff attended the Gala with the designer Victor dE Souza. Founded in 1969, El Museo del Barrio specializes in Latin American and Caribbean art, with an emphasis on works from Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican community in New York City. El Museo del Barrio, often known simply as El Museo (the museum) is a museum located towards the northern end in the neighborhood of Museum Mile, immediately north of the Museum of the City of New York and south of the future Museum for African Art. For. more information go to www.elmuseo.org. Photos Courtesy Of: BFA / E… SUTTON FOSTER 'TAKE ME TO THE WORLD' ALBUM New York, NY– GHOSTLIGHT DELUXE, an imprint of Ghostlight Records, will release Take Me to the World — the long-awaited third album from two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster — on Friday, June 1. Customers that pre-order the digital album will immediately receive a download of the album’s second single. “I’m on My Way / On My Way” is a medley of one of Sutton’s signature songs from the musical Violet, combined with the traditional spiritual. The album is being released in conjunction with the fifth season of the critically-acclaimed TV Land series “Younger,” which returns on Tuesday, June 5. To pre-order the album. Take Me to the World features Sutton’s signature vocal stylings on classics written by musical theater luminaries including Stephen Sondheim (“Take Me to the World”), Cole Porter (“Give Him the Ooh-La-La”), and Kander & Ebb (“A Quiet Thing”), as well as legendary pop songwriters such as Paul Simon (“Old Friends / Bookends”) and James Taylor (“You Can Close Your Eyes”… THE VIEW: ELIZABETH WARREN TALKS DONALD TRUMP Sen. Elizabeth Warren On The View Sen. Elizabeth Warren talks immigration, Trump's campaign spying claims, North Korea summit & Sen. Warren reacts to Pres. Trump blaming "horrible law that separates children from [their] parents" on Democrats: "The fact that children are being torn out of the arms of their mothers is on Donald Trump's head and nobody else's!" Sen. Warren says Pres. Trump is attempting to "undermine" American institutions with claims his campaign was spied on: "As Trump hears the hoofbeats, that [the Mueller investigation's] getting closer to him, he's throwing everything he can in the road." "I want to see America find a way to help move North Korea to denuclearization — that's hard!" Sen. Warren says of the summit. "You gotta have a plan, and you've gotta have people to execute ... I want to see a plan and I want to see America succeed." Trump Slammed For Memorial Day Tweet On Th… ABC CANCELS 'ROSEANNE' OVER RACIST TWITTER CNN'S TAKE ON ROSEANNE BARR ABC has cancelled the revival “Roseanne.” The move comes after series star Roseanne Barr made a comment on Twitter Tuesday morning referring to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.” Jarrett, an African-American, was born in Iran to American parents. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said in a statement. Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger voiced his support for the cancellation, tweeting “There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.” Before the cancellation Wanda Sykes, who worked as a consulting producer on the first revival season, announced she would not be returning for the show’s next season. GO WORK FOR DONALD TRUMP ROSEANNE! SOUTHAMPTON HOMES BEHIND THE HEDGES TOUR See Southampton Homes Behind the Hedges: Tour participants will experience six extraordinary houses that illustrate Southampton’s unique architectural history from colonial days to present. Participants also have the opportunity to tour the 1648 Thomas Halsey Homestead and Saint Andrew’s Dune Church. A champagne reception catered by Sant Ambroeus will follow the tour at 4:30PM at the Rogers Mansion. Houses on the tour include: Village Gem This handsome home sits on nearly an acre, property where Captain E. Halsey, after his last whaling voyage on the Ship Franklin, built a home in 1848. Today’s house and grounds boast all the amenities of modern times, while giving a nod to the property’s rich history. Smaller rooms retain a cozy, traditional look, while a spacious wing with glass-paned French doors is light-filled and furnished with a sofa and chairs that beg to be sunk into. This gabled home, with its soft-grey exterior palette and pebbled circular drive, makes a d… Location: Southampton, NY, USA KATHARINE MCPHEE EXTENDS RUN IN 'WAITRESS' The producers of Broadway’s hit Waitress announced today that Katharine McPhee will take another shift at the pie diner when she extends her engagement, returning to the show from July 5 – August 19. She made her Broadway debut in the show on April 10; her current engagement ends on June 17. Katharine McPhee is currently making her Broadway debut in Waitress. Since vaulting to fame as a captivating singer on “American Idol,” Season 5, she’s become a successful recording artist, landing numerous songs and albums on Billboard’s pop, jazz, holiday and adult-contemporary charts. Her latest album of timeless American standards “I Fall in Love Too Easily” was released by BMG in 2017. As an acclaimed actress, she was the breakout star of the 2013 NBC-TV musical series, “Smash,” Executive Produced by Steven Spielberg with music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray). She is currently starring in the hit CBS dramatic series “Scorpion.” Katharine has long dreamed of appearing… NJPAC ANNUAL MUSICAL TRIBUTE - A MLK CELEBRATION Newark, New Jersey - New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents MLK Celebration. Be inspired by the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at NJPAC’s annual musical tribute, an all-star gospel celebration featuring CeCe Winans, Anthony Brown & group therAPy, JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise, and a special guest speaker to be announced on Friday, January 18, 2019 8:00 PM. This year’s celebration will feature 12-time GRAMMY Award winner CeCe Winans, one of the best-selling female gospel and R&B artists of all time. Winans has been inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and has sold in excess of 5 million albums in the U.S. alone. Her latest recording, 2017’s Let Them Fall in Love, was described by Positively Gospel as “a vibrant, soul-stirring masterpiece.” Since the release of his self-titled, 2012 debut album and its smash hit single, “Testimony,” singer, songwriter and arranger Anthony Brown has become one of the newest gospel stars on the sce… PORCELAN 'LOIS LANE' MADE IN MEMPHIS VOCALIST PORCELAN "LOIS LANE" The newly released lyric video link to "LOIS LANE", the official second single from R&B-Soul Chanteuse, PORCELAN. "LOIS LANE" is the latest delivery from the Made In Memphis Entertainment vocalist after making a mark on the music scene with her chart-topping debut single, "The Real Thing Don't Change", written by R&B Songwriter Hall of Famer, David Porter. The beautiful ballad is based on the comic book character, "Lois Lane" who's beau is no one other than Superman. The song was written by DeNarious Holmes and produced by Hamilton Hardin. "Every woman wants a strong man in their lives that makes them feel secure," mentions Porcelan. "The ideal fancy is to be swept off your feet and protected by a strong man who will rescue you from anything that can bring you harm, and Superman's love for Lois Lane, symbolizes that," she adds. PORCELAN is currently on her national promot… Location: Memphis, TN, USA FLORENCE + THE MACHINE CONFIRM 23 CITY TOUR NEW YORK, NY – Florence + the Machine confirm a 23 city North American fall headline tour today, kicking off August 5 in Montreal, QC and including stops at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl and New York’s Barclays Center. Further dates include Seattle, Portland, Nashville, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago and more. Tickets are on sale to the general public beginning this Friday, June 1 at 10 a.m. local time at Ticketmaster.com. American Express Card Members can purchase tickets for select dates before the general public beginning Tuesday, May 29 at 12 p.m. local time, through Thursday, May 31 at 10 p.m. local time. Visit florenceandthemachine.net for more information. Florence + the Machine’s hugely anticipated fourth studio album High As Hope—co-produced by Florence and Emile Haynie and featuring contributions from Kamasi Washington, Sampha, Tobias Jesso Jr, Kelsey Lu, Jamie xx and Thomas Barlett—is out June 29 on Republic Records. Watch the A.G. Rojas-directe… LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO @ NEW JERSEY PAC Newark, New Jersey - New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents the five-time GRAMMY-winning a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo – “South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors to the world” – makes a welcome return to NJPAC. Nelson Mandela once famously labeled Ladysmith Black Mambazo “South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors to the World,” and that description has continued to follow this acclaimed, all-male ensemble through a career that’s repeatedly taken them to the top of the world music charts. Since they were first introduced to an international audience on Paul Simon’s classic 1986 Graceland LP, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has gone on to earn a whopping 19 GRAMMY Award nominations and five wins, the most recent this year for “Best World Music Album” for Shaka Zulu Revisited. Tickets to see Ladysmith Black Mambazo go on sale Friday, June 1st at 10 AM. For tickets visit NJPAC.org or 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722) or the NJPAC Box Office. One Center Street Newark, New Jersey 07102 BEST MUSICAL 'MEAN GIRLS' BREAKS BOX OFFICE The Tony-nominated Best Musical Mean Girls, produced by Lorne Michaels, Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman, and Paramount Pictures, has broken the August Wilson Theatre box office record (previously held by Jersey Boys) for an eight performance week, grossing $1,565,923.70 for the week ending May 27, 2018. Mean Girls features a book by nine-time Emmy Award winner Tina Fey, based on her screenplay for the film, music by three-time Emmy Award winner Jeff Richmond; and lyrics by two-time Tony Award nominee Nell Benjamin. Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw directs and choreographs. Mean Girls on Broadway is now nominated for 12 Tony Awards, including Best Musical; Best Book for Tina Fey; Best Original Score for Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin; Best Direction of a Musical and Best Choreography for Casey Nicholaw. Fey is this year’s Outer Critics Circle Award winner for Outstanding Book of a Musical and the show has already received eight Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards including Favorite N… DAKOTA FANNING IN SNOW WHITE FASHION @ LAX Dakota Fanning was photographed in virgin white fashion as she ran through LAX International Airport in Los Angeles, California yesterday. Photo By: John Misa/MediaPunch Location: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), 1 World Way, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA 'MACHETE' DANNY TREJO FLYS THE FRIENDLY SKYS Danny Trejo was all smiles when we spotted him at LAX International Airport in Los Angeles, California yesterday. Some of his Hollywood films include, Heat (1995), Con Air (1997), and Desperado (1995), the last with frequent collaborator Robert Rodriguez. Trejo is perhaps most recognized as the character Machete, originally developed by Rodriguez for the Spy Kids series of movies and later expanded into Trejo's own series of films. He has appeared in TV shows such as Breaking Bad, The X-Files, The Flash, and Sons of Anarchy. JEAN SHAFIROFF COVER IN FASHION MANNUSCRIPT ** Her love of giving knows no bounds. Those are the first seven words in the- know New Yorkers would use to describe philanthropist Jean Shafiroff. As Elise McCabe Thompson, president of the New York Mission Society notes, “When it comes to giving, Jean Shafiroff leads the pack.” Jean Shafiroff not only sits on the board of the New York Mission Society, but seven other organizations as well, an impressive number given the commitment each one takes. From the New York Women’s Foundation to the French Heritage Society the presidents, chairmen, and CEOs of these organizations echo McCabe Thompson’s sentiment. Of Shafiroff, Ana Oliveira, president and CEO of the The New York Women’s Foundation powerfully proclaims, “She sets forth a path for philanthropists, new and old, to reflect on their values and discover their own philanthropic identity.” Elizabeth F. Stribling, chairman of the French Heritage Society, agrees: “Jean epitomizes the values of a true philanthropist; she is generous, cari… HGTV LODGE CELEBRATES CMA FEST IN NASHVILLE NEW YORK -- Now in its seventh consecutive year, the HGTV Lodge will once again welcome country music’s hottest stars to the network’s popular and unique venue at CMA Fest in Nashville. From Thursday, June 7 – Sunday, June 10, the 3,500-square-foot HGTV Lodge will offer festival-goers the Ultimate Country Music Fan Experience™, including live musical performances by popular artists Dustin Lynch, Jon Pardi, Kip Moore, Lee Ann Womack, Lee Brice and Luke Combs. In addition, CMA and Grammy award-winning artist and Food Network star, Trisha Yearwood, will bring her Facebook Live show, “T’s Coffee Talk,” to the HGTV Lodge, allowing fans around the world access to this intimate CMA Fest experience. HGTV stars Jonathan and Drew Scott (Property Brothers), Leanne Ford (Restored by the Fords), Page Turner and DeRon Jenkins (Flip or Flop Nashville) and Dave and Kortney Wilson (Music City Fix) also will make special appearances throughout the festival. The HGTV Lodge also will host performances w… Location: Nashville, TN, USA	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9090
__label__cc	0.707407	0.292593	Home > Discovering Islam > Understanding Islam > You’ve Got to Have Hope! You’ve Got to Have Hope! When we realize that life is not a game, and that we are responsible for our actions, all we have to do is make the intention to change. The topic of “hope” has drawn much attention in the West due to a very high rise of depression, suicide, and medication dependency. ‘“Hope Therapy” fights depression’, says Jennifer Cheavens, assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State University. “Hope is a potent weapon,” she says.[i] A growing body of research suggests that hope is a potent way to fight symptoms of depression that doesn’t involve getting a prescription. “We’re finding that hope is consistently associated with fewer symptoms of depression. And the good news is that hope is something that can be taught, and can be developed in many of… Thu 10 November 2016 - 14:23 Raya Shokatfard Ishmael & Isaac – Story of Great Brothers and Prophets Why Does God Swear by the Sacred City of Makkah? Story of Prophet Abraham – A Call to Monotheism The topic of “hope” has drawn much attention in the West due to a very high rise of depression, suicide, and medication dependency. ‘“Hope Therapy” fights depression’, says Jennifer Cheavens, assistant professor of psychology at Ohio State University. “Hope is a potent weapon,” she says.[i] A growing body of research suggests that hope is a potent way to fight symptoms of depression that doesn’t involve getting a prescription. “We’re finding that hope is consistently associated with fewer symptoms of depression. And the good news is that hope is something that can be taught, and can be developed in many of the people who need it,” said Cheavens. [ii] “If you feel you know how to get what you want out of life, and you have that desire to make that happen, then you have hope,” Cheavens said, adding: “Hope is different from optimism, which is a generalized expectancy that good things will happen. Hope involves having goals, along with the desire and plan to achieve them.”[iii] Islam’s Perspective on Hope Islam is not only in agreement with the modern findings about hope and some of the cures for those lacking it, it adds more substantive elements which would make the process long term, meaningful and sustainable. In the busy and chaotic modern world, religion and God have been forgotten by many, or at best have been put on the back burner. Humans are left to their own vices, intellect and life experiences to make choices. Some do well and some don’t. Yet, by noticing the increase in cases of depression and mental illnesses in the modern world, one may safely assume that leaving humans to their own vices without God may not be a successful solution long term. One of Islam’s main focuses is the life after death. When a person believes in this tenet of Islam, the entire picture of human existence in this world takes a different color. Let us assume for a moment that a person was born Muslim, lived an un-Islamic life; or a new Muslim; or one who is considering Islam to be in the same situation. Persons in these categories may have committed so many sins that they sense there is no way to get back on the right path. Not only are they not able to leave a life they are accustomed to, the issue of forgiveness by God and having a second chance does not even enter their minds. If we assume that the hopeless person does have a belief in God, then the glad tidings for him/her are in God’s own words. He says: {Say: O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah: for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.} (39: 53) This is the kind of hope that needs no medication, therapy or external intervention. It is as simple as believing in the Merciful Creator and knowing that His words are true. But does that mean that the person while hoping in the mercy of Allah, can keep sinning with the hope that it will be forgiven when he/she turns to Allah? There are simple, logical conditions to be considered as follows: The penitent person desists from the sinful act. He feels deep and genuine regret for having committed the sin. He resolves in his heart never to return to the sin again. Finally, if the sin caused a transgression against the rights of another person, he needs to do his best to make amends. Fear and Hope These two combined are the prescription for healthy outlook in life. Unlike the modern techniques that pump the person with hope without adequate attention on the consequence of inappropriate deeds, Islam encourages both and reminds the person that all our deeds are recorded and will be presented to us on the Day of Judgment. This means fearing to displease Allah and hoping for His pardon and entry to Paradise. Repentance is a bridge between sin and salvation. It is as easy as having the will to do it and the rest is good news. Allah says: {Unless he repents, believes, and works righteous deeds, for Allah will change the evil of such persons into good, and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful,} (25: 70) It is interesting to note that once a person turns his/her face toward the Creator and seeks guidance, forgiveness and nearness to Him, an incredible process starts. The conscious is awakened and deeds are more carefully taken into account. A Life’s Turning Point Story! Last night, I had the pleasure to host a respected scholar and his family at my home. When I inquired about his life and how he ended up moving from Egypt to live in Hong Kong, he gave me a very short version of his life story. He said he fell in love with a Pilipino girl, and he moved to Hong Kong to be with her. There, he got into all kinds of trouble, including drinking and other bad deeds that he knew were forbidden in Islam. “I just did not care about Islam at all” he said. He got into singing and music and wanted to make that into his life career, until the shocking event happened. The singer he was idolizing the most committed suicide. This shattered all his dreams and woke him up to a realization that he could be the next one doing the same. His life really did not have much deep meaning but just fun and game. He was married to the love of his life, but even that did not mean much until this even happened. He made a major decision. “That night I just started praying. I felt I really wanted to do that.” He said. His wife inquired about it, and then next thing you know, they spent all night talking about Islam, even though he did not know enough. The next surprise came to him when he found his wife converted to Islam on her own. That was it, he was ready to jump both feet into the religion, change his way and start seeking knowledge. Today, he travels around the world, guiding others to the straight path and extending his hands to those that are still stuck and can’t find a way out. Our hero’s name is Sheikh Wael Ibrahim. No Shame No Game When we realize that life is not a game, and that we are responsible for our actions, all we have to do is make the intention to change. Action follows and seeking knowledge goes along with both. A person who is in a transformation journey is not ashamed of sharing their life’s mistakes with those who may benefit from the lessons learned. People seem to identify with those in situation similar to themselves and can find their way out when they see others did it already. Finally, Islam agrees with the above study which indicates, “Hope is different from optimism, which is a generalized expectancy that good things will happen. Hope involves having goals, along with the desire and plan to achieve them.” In Islam, our goal is achieving Paradise through the pleasure of Allah and good deeds. This only is possible if the desire is there. Allah gives us the prescription here: {Establish worship at the two ends of the day and in some watches of the night. Lo! Good deeds annul evil deeds. This is reminder for the mindful.} (11: 114) [i] http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/apahope.htm [ii] ibid [iii] ibid IslamQuranwealthlifepeacehearthopemodernStudyRaya About Raya Shokatfard Raya Shokatfard holds an MA in Journalism/Mass Communications and an M.A.D. in TV journalism. BA in Communication and BA in Islamic Studies. She has been Islamic propagator in the U.S and Egypt for many years and academic lecturer, writer, international presenter, consultant, foreign correspondent. She can be reached at: [email protected] Aisha’s Marriage in Focus Get to Know Surah Al-Jumuah – with Brother Nouman	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9093
__label__wiki	0.824966	0.824966	Bumgarner To Lead CVCC Softball Program Catawba Valley Community College has announced that Josh Bumgarner, a 13-year head coaching veteran, was officially named the first-ever head coach of the Catawba Valley Community College softball program on Friday. CVCC will begin its softball program this fall and will be immediately eligible for championship contention in the spring of 2020. “I’m extremely humbled and blessed to have this opportunity,” Bumgarner said. “I’m a firm believer that the good Lord put me here. All the thanks and honor go to Him. I’m blown away to have this opportunity. Even just to get to build it from the ground up is something that blows my mind.” CVCC Athletic Director Nick Schroeder is thrilled to have Bumgarner establish the Red Hawks softball program. “We are excited for coach Bumgarner to start our program,” Schroeder said. “His excitement for the game of softball and the advancement of student athletes is infectious. Josh will bring hard work ethic to our program, and we are excited to see where he can take it.” An Alexander County native and Alexander Central High School graduate, Bumgarner was taught the value of hard work by his father and grandfather, who both worked in the saw mill industry.Bumgarner believes that trait will help him succeed at CVCC. “Playing basketball and football in high school, I wasn’t the most athletic and not the most gifted as far as height goes so I had to outwork everybody to be successful,” he said. “I’ve tried to carry that over into my coaching style and instill that into my players. So far it seems to be a pretty good combination. We’re just ready to go to work and outwork everybody else.” Bumgarner’s extensive coaching pedigree includes a pair of 3A state championship titles to his resumé in 2013 and 2018 as an assistant softball coach at Alexander Central High School. The Appalachian State alumnus also has six-year coaching stint at South Iredell High School. Also not new to starting up softball programs, Bumgarner was the inaugural head coach of the Alexander Central Post 170 softball team this past summer. “I believe that I know what it takes to win and be successful,” Bumgarner said. “I am a firm believer that having a strong family-oriented environment for the team is the kind of foundation of that. That’s what I base everything on. I’m a player’s coach and are looking forward to finally getting some of those players around here and getting to work.” Bumgarner believes there is a lot of immediate value to potential athletes joining the Red Hawks’ softball program from both an athletic and academic standpoint. “CVCC is a good outlet for people in this area to be able to take advantage of and still play a game that they love for a couple of years,” he said. “We’ll try to help them move on to the next phase of their career if that’s something that they want to pursue. I think this is a great opportunity for the kids that play softball in this area.” As for those who may not be familiar with Bumgarner’s name, he wants everyone to know one important thing about him. “You won’t find a coach that loves his players more than me,” he said. “You won’t find a coach that is as passionate about what they are doing and his team as I am. I look forward to showing that in the years to come here at CVCC.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9103
__label__cc	0.743627	0.256373	Easygoing Eddie Expounds on Everything Born in Kansas City, Missouri on July 15, 1968, Eddie Griffin's stand-up career began when he accepted a dare to take the stage on amateur night at a local comedy club. Developing an irreverent style of humor reminiscent of legends like Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor, Griffin gained national exposure opening for Andrew Dice Clay on a 22-city tour and also in impromptu performances at L.A.'s Comic Store. Over the course of a burgeoning career, he has built his ever-growing fan base on the strength of memorable work in such films as Undercover Brother, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 1 & 2, My Baby's Daddy, Double Take, Scary Movie 3, House Party 3 and Armageddon. On the small screen, he's had his own sitcom, Malcolm and Eddie, and he's appeared on a variety of specials and other series, including Chappelle's Show, HBO's Def Comedy Jam, Roc and Punk’d. Here, the irrepressibly profane funnyman discusses not only Date Movie, his latest movie, a spoof of the romantic comedy genre, but weighs in on everything from Christianity to profanity to mating with midgets to his fellow-comedian, Dave Chappelle. The Date Movie Interview with Kam Williams (Kam Williams) KW: Hey, Eddie thanks for the interview. I'm not sure you're allowed to smoke here. Eddie Griffin (EG): Well, I'm gonna smoke. So, if you're one of them freak non-smokers, now's the time to run. Get the fck out with that Nazi sit. KW: Are you aware of the Surgeon General's report that second-hand smoke can kill? EG: Shut up. If you're mother-fcking immune system is so weak that second-hand smoke could kill you, go die. KW: Fair enough. I heard that in your new stand-up act, you joke about mating with midgets. Is that going too far? EG: Hey, man, there's nothing like a midget. If you get a chance, fck one. Midgets need love, too. KW: I write for a lot of family-oriented outlets. Have you ever thought of substituting clean words for dirty ones. EG: Hell no, man, that Ain't how I was raised. You have to be yourself. You know what I'm saying? You were probably raised Christian. Me, I grew up in the projects. My mother would come home and call me motherfcker. KW: So, you've internalized that? EG: That's just how we talked to each other. So, of course, I'm gonna be myself. And I AM a motherfcker. I fck mothers, soon-to-be mothers, already mothers, I'm a motherfcker. KW: Well, I was raised Christian. But I'm just wondering whether this whole interview is going to be dirty. EG: Oh damn, I hate to hear that. Here we go. Come on, tell me all the rules of engagement, and the morally-sound sit. don't force your religion on me. This is America. We have a choice of religion, and I choose none. KW: What have you got against Christianity? EG: It's a slick game. When we was in Africa, we had all the land, all the gold, all the diamonds. They had all the Bibles. Now we got all the Bibles. They got all the land, all the gold, all the Bibles. Somebody got game. And now there's tithing. God needs 10%. I didn't know God was broke. What, is God on food stamps? I Ain't never seen a tube that goes up to heaven, sucking all the cash to God. Somebody's running a slick-ass game. Kill Jesus and then you sell crosses. And putting Jesus on a bumper stickers and sit. I'm a thinking motherfcker. Moving on. Back to the movie. KW: Okay, tell me a little about your character in Date Movie, Frank. EG: I play this old dude, with caterpillars for eyebrows. KW: How did you prepare for the role? EG: I did a lot of research. I watched everything De Niro did to get ready for the role. KW: Do you have a favorite date movie? EG: Yeah, Scarface. There's nothing like taking a woman to see Scarface. It gets the panties off quick. [laughs] KW: Is Date Movie misogynistic? EG: I have yet to see the film, so I don't know if it's misogynistic or not. KW: Are you at all worried that it might be? EG: Me, myself, I don't get into that. It's a comedy. we're not trying to build a Space Shuttle or save a country. This is just something entertainment, something for you to enjoy. I think people read into it too much, like we're here trying to make a point. It's called ’Date Movie,’ not ’Hi, I'm Going to Save Your Daughter from the Misogynistic Men across America.’ KW: Have you arrived at a point in your career where you don't have to do stand-up anymore? EG: No. Sit, as long as I'm breathing, I'm gonna be on that mike. That's my first love. KW: Do you think being on stage helps you keep an edge? EG: Hell yeah, that keeps you sharp. Never give up what got you there in the first place. It keeps you funny. You watch the ones that give up doing stand-up, their movies start becoming bland, non-funny, suck. [laughs] You know what I mean? KW: Yep. What's so great about stand-up? EG: I like the peoples. It's like jumping out of a plane without a parachute. you're living or dying on your next word. Every motherfcking line, you're taking a chance. That's what makes it exciting. It gets your dck hard. KW: Do you ever have an off-night? EG: Hell no! Eddie's always on. I'm a studier of the art. I never go on stage and fck around. I always bring my A-game, because you never know what a person had to sacrifice to buy a ticket that night. They might have not bought their children some shoes for school because they need a laugh. So, you can't come out and just fck they $20 off. I don't have any off-nights, because I can't afford to fck up. KW: How do you study stand-up comedy? EG: It's a science, man. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally. You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. KW: I guess that helps you with acting, too. EG: you're goddamned right. Yes indeedy. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it. [chuckles] KW: What's your process for joke-writing? EG: I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow. you're either funny or you're not funny. God cursed me with a gift called, ’retarded.’ Sit just be going through my head and comedy, for me, is therapy. If I wasn't doing stand-up, I'd probably be in a mental institution somewhere, talking to myself. ’Hi.’ ’Hi, how’re you doing?’ You understand me? KW: Yeah, how do you deal with hecklers? EG: I don't get hecklers that often, because they pretty much know to leave me the fck alone. I'm too quick and my tongue's too slick to be fcked with. KW: When did you first know you were funny? EG: Let's see? When I came out of my mother's vagina. The doctor smacked me on the ass, I turned around and asked, ’What the fck's your problem. This Ain't Brokeback Mountain.’ You been in a nice, warm, dark pssy, then you come out and all these lights in your fcking face and some white dude you don't even know. You understand? KW: Yep. Speaking of Brokeback Mountain which is up for the most Academy Awards. What did you think of last year's crop of movies? EG: The Oscars have never been about comedies, but it was a great year for comedies. You had Wedding Crashers, rated R. Finally, somebody's listening. There ARE adults that want adult films with ’motherfcker’ and ’fck’ in it. You know what I mean? KW: Yep. EG: Not all these bland-ass comedies. What kind of sit is that? KW: You've worked with Dave Chappelle. Do you have any insights you can share on his situation? EG: [breathes deeply, and sighs] Let me put it like this. Dave is a very close friend of mind. There is nothing wrong with Mr. Chappelle. Dave is fine. Alright? Dave makes his own choices. Obviously, there was something going on at Comedy Central. If it's the #1 show on the network, why you wanna fix a wheel that Ain't broke? Leave it the fck alone. That's my take on it. KW: But why walk out on all that money? EG: The guy's got nuts to say, ’Fck your $60 million. I said I want creative control Kiss my black ass! I'm going to Africa.’ From what I hear, the show's coming back. KW: Did he get creative control? EG: He had creative control from Jump Street. That's why I'm asking, why you wanna fix what Ain't broke? Them corporate suits show up with some ’comedy genius' from behind a desk whose saying, ’I can help the show.’ Yeah, you can fck it up. Sit back and let the money flow, motherfcker. Let the money flow. KW: Tell me a little about your upcoming animated movie, Bunyan and the Babe, where you play an ox. EG: That was as fun as a motherfcker. I Ain't never did no shit like that, the voiceover stuff. And when I finally seen the CGI [computer generated image] of the blue ox, I look just like the motherfcker. I'm looking at the ox, it's got my nose, chin and sht. It even had the ngger's grill. I was like, ’These motherfckers are good.’ KW: Thanks for the frank, forthcoming interview, Eddie. EG: Did you get enough? KW: More than enough. EG: I want to make sure you got good stuff you can use, like ’motherfcker!’ [laughs hysterically]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9106
__label__wiki	0.892405	0.892405	Tripti Home Tripti Joshi (Editor) I Live my life to the Fullest!!! coz you know you only get one !!! Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Updated on Aug 13, 2018 6.4/101 Votes Alchetron Rate This6.4 Director Jay Roach Writer Mike Myers Screenplay Mike Myers 7/10 IMDb 51% Metacritic Genre Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi Film series Austin Powers Duration 89 min Release date May 2, 1997 (1997-05-02) Music director Quincy Jones, George S. Clinton Cast Mike Myers (Austin Powers / Dr. Evil), Elizabeth Hurley (Vanessa Kensington), Michael York (Basil Exposition), Mimi Rogers (Mrs. Kensington), Seth Green (Scott Evil), Fabiana Udenio (Alotta Fagina) Similar movies Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Independence Day, Salt, Donnie Darko, The Final Countdown Tagline If he were any cooler, he'd still be frozen, baby! Austin powers international man of mystery opening Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (commonly referred to as just Austin Powers) is a 1997 American spy action comedy film and the first installment of the Austin Powers series. It was directed by Jay Roach and written by Mike Myers, who starred as both the title character Austin Powers and main antagonist Dr. Evil, Powers' arch-enemy. The film co-stars Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, Seth Green and Michael York. The film also includes appearances by Will Ferrell, Mimi Rogers, Carrie Fisher, Tom Arnold, Neil Mullarkey and Burt Bacharach. Austin powers international man of mystery trailer James Bond references Other sources of inspiration The film spoofs the James Bond films, amongst other classic films. The film, which cost US$16.5 million, opened on May 2, 1997, grossing US$53 million from its North American release and over $67 million worldwide. The film later spawned two sequels, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), with Myers repeatedly mentioning the possibility of a fourth film over the years (as of 2017). In 1967, British spy Austin Powers (Mike Myers) thwarts an assassination attempt by his nemesis Dr. Evil (also played by Mike Myers) in a London nightclub. Dr. Evil escapes in a space rocket disguised as a Big Boy statue, and cryogenically freezes himself. Powers volunteers to be placed into cryostasis in case Dr. Evil returns in the future. Thirty years later, in 1997, Dr. Evil returns to discover his henchman Number 2 (Robert Wagner) has developed Virtucon, the legitimate front of Evil's empire, into a multibillion-dollar enterprise. Uninterested by genuine business, Dr. Evil conspires to steal nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage for $100 billion. Evil also learns that, during his absence, his associates have artificially created his son, Scott Evil (Seth Green), using his frozen semen. Now a Generation X teenager, Scott is resentful of his father’s absence and resists Dr. Evil's attempts to get closer to him. Having learned of Dr. Evil's return, the British Ministry of Defence unfreezes Powers, acclimatizing him to the 1990s with the help of agent Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley), the daughter of his sidekick in the 1960s, Mrs. Kensington (Mimi Rogers). Posing as a married couple, Powers and Kensington track Number 2 to Las Vegas and meet his Italian secretary, Alotta Fagina (Fabiana Udenio). Later, Powers infiltrates Fagina's penthouse suite for reconnaissance and discovers plans for Dr. Evil's "Project Vulcan", which involves drilling a nuclear warhead into the Earth's molten core and triggering volcanic eruptions worldwide. Fagina discovers Powers in her suite and seduces him into revealing his true identity. Learning that Powers is back, Dr. Evil and his entourage conspire to defeat the spy by creating a series of fembots: beautiful female androids equipped with automatic guns concealed in their breasts. Powers and Kensington attempt to infiltrate the Virtucon headquarters but are soon apprehended by Dr. Evil's henchman, Random Task (Joe Son). Meanwhile, the United Nations accede to the demands of Dr. Evil, who proceeds with Project Vulcan regardless. Powers and Kensington are placed in a death trap by Dr. Evil, but they easily escape, and Kensington is sent for help. While searching for Dr. Evil, Powers is confronted by the fembots, whom he defeats by counter-seducing them with a striptease. Led by Kensington, British forces raid the underground lair, while Powers finds the doomsday device and deactivates it. Powers confronts Dr. Evil, but Fagina arrives holding Kensington hostage. They are interrupted by Number 2, who attempts to betray Dr. Evil by making a deal with Powers. Dr. Evil uses a trap door to eliminate Number 2, then activates the base’s self-destruct mechanism and escapes. Powers and Kensington flee just as a nuclear explosion destroys the lair. Powers and Kensington are later married, and during their honeymoon Powers is attacked by Random Task. Powers subdues the assassin using a penis pump, allowing Kensington to knock him out using a bottle of champagne. Afterwards, the newlyweds adjourn to the balcony. Among the stars, Powers spots the cryogenic chamber of Dr. Evil, who vows revenge on Powers. Myers created the character of Austin Powers for the faux 1960s rock band Ming Tea that Myers started with Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs following his Saturday Night Live stint in the early 1990s. Mike Myers stated that he was inspired to create the character after hearing the song "The Look of Love" on the radio, which was the theme song of Ursula Andress' character, Vesper Lynd, in the 1967 version of Casino Royale. Myers' then wife Robin Ruzan encouraged him to write a film based on the character. Dana Carvey felt that Myers copied Carvey's impression of Lorne Michaels for the Dr. Evil character. Myers sought out Jim Carrey to play Dr. Evil, as his initial plan was not to play multiple characters in the series. Carrey was interested in the part, but had to turn the role down due to scheduling conflicts with Liar Liar. The film adopts the late '60s psychedelic pop culture stylings and adapts / parodies many characters, lines, set pieces, and plot points of the James Bond films from that era. Elements from all of the early Bond movies are used for inspiration, including: Dr. No (1962): the shower sequence during the unfreeze sequence; Austin's and Vanessa's change of clothing and dinner with Dr. Evil; Dr. Evil's outfit and general surroundings during the climax; Vanessa's bikini identical to Honey Rider's. From Russia with Love (1963): modeling the Irish assassin on both Red Grant and the leprechaun character from the Lucky Charms commercials; Frau Farbissina partly modeled on Rosa Klebb. Goldfinger (1964): Random Task's name and role modeled on Oddjob; the dialogue "do you expect them to pay? - No, I expect them to die" based on "Do you expect me to talk? - No, I expect you to die"; Random Task/Odd Job chopping off the head of a statue; the final fight between Austin and Random Task against a wall modeled on fight between Bond and Odd Job against a wall inside Fort Knox; Powers stating to Random Task "Who throws a shoe, honestly?" (in Goldfinger, Oddjob kills by throwing his hat); the character Alotta Fagina modeled after the name of Auric Goldfinger's companion and partner in crime, Pussy Galore. Thunderball (1965): Dr. Evil's headquarters, where he kills people around the table; the plot about stealing nuclear arms and holding the world to ransom; conversation about a swimming pool with sharks; Austin playing Black Jack with No 2.; No. 2 modeled on Emilio Largo; both Austin and Bond fighting with a bad-guy in drag—though the audience does not know that it is the bad-guy in drag until the fighting begins. Casino Royale (1967): the song "The Look Of Love"; the rotating bed; psychedelic set during Dr. Evil's initial 1967 escape; No. 2 cheating at cards by having special glasses modelled on a similar sequence with Orson Welles. You Only Live Twice (1967): the lines "this organization does not tolerate failure" and "in Japan men come first"; the scenes with the Jaguar and the video communication with Basil Exposition at the very beginning modeled on similar sequences with Bond, Aki and Tiger Tanaka; external shots of the Virtucon enterprise modeled on external shots of the Osato enterprise; interior of Alotta's apartment; bath tub sequence in Alotta's apartment; Austin's poetry similar to Tiger Tanaka's reading of poetry (actually written by Bond in the novel); Mr. Bigglesworth (Dr. Evil's cat) being a parody of Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's white Persian, although it becomes hairless due to the cryostasis; interior of Dr. Evil's lair modelling interior of Blofeld's volcano lair; face and suit of Dr. Evil modeled on Blofeld. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969): the look and behaviour of Austin Powers modeled on Lazenby's Bond; Frau Farbissina modelled on Irma Bunt; the Fembots are based on Blofeld's angels of death. Diamonds Are Forever (1971): Nevada and Las Vegas locations; Austin climbing through the window into Alotta Fagina's apartment modeled on how Bond enters Blofeld's apartment; double entendres by Austin and Vanessa modeled after those made by the two homosexual hitmen (i.e. "moving", "heartwarming" in the original film); No. 2 using a model of the US to explain the enterprise; Dr. Evil's global attack being counted down in similar style; final attack on Austin at the hotel modeled on similar final sequence on the Queen Elizabeth. Live and Let Die (1973): Dr. Evil's shark tank is an allusion to Kananga's shark tank. Moonraker (1979) Lois Chiles who played Dr. Goodhead in Moonraker also has a cameo role in a deleted scene as the wife of the security guard who is killed by Austin by the steamroller in the Virtucon compound. For Your Eyes Only (1981) When Austin is captured by the fembots, the scene of him viewed from one of their two legs is reminiscent of For Your Eyes Only's poster. Octopussy (1983): Mustafa modeled on Gobinda. A View to a Kill (1985): Vanessa knocking out Random Task by hitting him on the head with a bottle of champagne is a reference to Stacey Sutton knocking out one of Max Zorin's henchman by hitting him on the head with an urn containing her grandfather's ashes. The bed onboard Austin's jet is an homage to Bond's onboard his personal submarine craft. The tub scene with Allota Fagina is similar to the scene Bond has with Pola Ivanova. The Living Daylights (1987): Patty O'Brien partly modeled on Necros. Additionally, Mike Myers has stated that Austin's thick chest hair is based on Sean Connery's. The film also drew inspiration and elements from other movies and television shows of the late 1960s, including: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, the BBC series Adam Adamant Lives!, in which an Edwardian hero is frozen by his arch-enemy The Face and is revived in 1960s London, Michael Caine's bespectacled Harry Palmer character from The Ipcress File (which is why Austin wears glasses), Matt Helm's The Ambushers (Mustafa) and Peter Wyngarde's "Jason King" character from Department S and Jason King. The idea of the Fembots may have been adapted from the 1965 film The 10th Victim and the 1966 film Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. The word "fembot" first appeared during a crossover episode of The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man. The leather-clad Mrs. Kensington was inspired by Diana Rigg's character Emma Peel from the British TV series The Avengers. The characters of Commander Gilmour and General Borchevsky were named after Doug Gilmour and Nikolai Borschevsky, two former players from Myers' favorite National Hockey League team, his hometown Toronto Maple Leafs. The intro scene in which Austin is chased around London by a crowd of women is a reference to the iconic opening of The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night, in which John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison are similarly chased by a frenzied mob of admirers. Powers is also pictured disguised with a fake beard, after Paul McCartney in the same scene. The toilet fight scene resembles a similar scene in Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily?, and the unfreezing scene references Allen's Sleeper. The shots of dancing girls in bikinis and body paint between scenes are taken from the 1960s television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. The line "This is my happening, and it freaks me out" is from the 1970 film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. The film ends with a parody/homage of Veruschka's photo shoot in the 1966 film Blowup. The film contains several references to The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! including the steamroller scene and Dr. Evil's finger pointing move. The opening dance sequence is hugely influenced by Bob Fosse's 1969 musical film "Sweet Charity." Myers estimated that about 30–40% of film was improvised. The film was shot at the following locations: Japanese Gardens, Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, California—Alotta Fagina's penthouse (interior shots); Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada—Alotta Fagina's penthouse (exterior shots); Riviera Hotel and Casino in Winchester, Nevada—interior shots; Stardust Resort & Casino in Winchester, Nevada—interior shots; Valley of Fire State Park in Overton, Nevada; Vasquez Rocks National Area Park in Agua Dulce, California; Circus Circus in Winchester, Nevada—exterior shot The international release differs from the North American release, as it includes these additional scenes: Evel Knievel is among the celebrities frozen in cryo-stasis alongside Austin. When Austin and Vanessa first enter the restricted area at Virtucon, Austin hypnotizes the guard (played by Christian Slater) with a mind control technique he learned on a trip to India. Immediately after one of Dr. Evil's security guards is crushed by a steam roller driven by Austin and Vanessa, the security guard's wife (played by former Bond Girl Lois Chiles) and stepson are informed of his death. After another guard has his head eaten by ill-tempered mutated sea bass, his friends (led by Rob Lowe, who would play the younger No. 2 in the sequel and has previously worked with Mike Myers in the film version of Wayne's World and with Seth Green in The Hotel New Hampshire) hosting a surprise Bachelor's Party at a Hooters are informed of his death. While Austin and Vanessa are escaping Dr. Evil's underground lair which is about to explode, the guard Austin hypnotized earlier in the movie shows up and gives Austin a container of orange Sherbet. Austin's fight with Random Task is longer, with Austin reaching for a knife, a candlestick, and a coral rake during the fight. A scene with Gary Coleman, Evel Knievel, and Vanilla Ice unfrozen The UK release deleted the Princess Diana joke from the theatrical release as the film was released on the week of her death. The joke was subsequently restored in the VHS and DVD releases, as well as its TV broadcast on UK's Channel 4. In addition, many scenes cut from the theatrical release are found on the DVD: While No. 2 talks about the business ventures he created during Dr. Evil's absence, he mentions the Franklin Mint Cheeses of the World Series Commemorative Plates; Austin's flirting with the lead stewardess (played by Cheri Oteri, who later acted with Mike Myers in Shrek the Third) aboard his Jumbo Jet. A portion of this scene was played in the official trailer; During Austin's final confrontation with Dr. Evil, No. 2 attempts to bribe Austin with $1 billion in a Fendi briefcase. When Austin grabs just one stack of $100 bills, he notes that the money is $832 short of a billion, to which No. 2 mentions that the cost of the Fendi briefcase makes up the remainder. They continue to argue until Dr. Evil presses the button to eliminate No. 2; Three alternate endings, all of which show Austin and Vanessa in a lifeboat. "The Magic Piper (of love)" by Edwyn Collins "BBC" by Ming Tea "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock "Carnival" by The Cardigans "Mas Que Nada" by Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 "Female Of The Species" (Fembot Mix) by Space "You Showed Me" by The Lightning Seeds "Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones and His Orchestra "These Days" by Luxury "Austin's Theme" by The James Taylor Quartet "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls "Call Me" by The Mike Flowers Pops "The Look Of Love" by Susanna Hoffs "What The World Needs Now Is Love" by Burt Bacharach and The Posies "The Book Lovers" by Broadcast "Austin Powers" by Wondermints "The 'Shag-adelic' Austin Powers Score Medley" by George S. Clinton "Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers "Happy Together" by The Turtles There are two notable omissions: "Secret Agent Man", which is played during the attack on Dr. Evil's compound, and "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", which plays during the Fembot presentation. Another CD featuring George S. Clinton's scores to the film and its sequel was later released in 2000. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery was released to region 1 single disc "flipper disc" DVD with widescreen and full screen versions on opposing sides of the disc. The widescreen transfer is unusual in that it is a modified version of the theatrical ratio: despite being filmed in 2.35:1 aspect ratio, on DVD it is presented as 2:1 ratio, "as specified by the director" according to the disc packaging. The film was featured in the correct theatrical aspect ratio for the first time when it was released on Blu-ray, in the Austin Powers Collection. All versions of the film released on home video (including VHS) have two alternate endings and a set of deleted scenes. The DVD and Blu-ray versions feature a commentary, as well. However, all US versions of the films are the PG-13 cut, with edits to sexual humor/language. International versions are uncut. On their official website, the UK Ministry of Justice revealed that every week they have one person who wants to change their middle name to 'Danger' – claiming that this was inspired by the line in Man of Mystery, "Danger is my middle name!". (This phrase, however, had been in common use for many years prior to the film: it may be found in James Wallerstein's The Cactus Wildcat (1954) and E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).) Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery received positive reviews. The film received a 70% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 60 reviews, with an average rating on 6.4/10. The site's critical consensus read, "A light and goofy comedy which provides laughs, largely due to performances and screenwriting by Myers". The movie debuted at No.2 at the box office with US$9.5 million. 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__label__wiki	0.703275	0.703275	The All-America Selections Trialing Process All-America Selections National and Regional Winners have been tested for garden performance by a panel of expert judges. Varieties that perform best over all of North America become AAS National Winners. Entries that performed particularly well in certain regions are named AAS Regional Winners. The AAS Winners offer gardeners reliable new varieties that have proven their superior garden performance in Trial Grounds across North America, thus, our tagline of “Tested Nationally and Proven Locally®”. When you purchase an AAS Winner, you know that it has been put through its paces by an independent, neutral trialing organization and has been judged by experts in their field. The AAS Winner label is like a stamp of approval. AAS Winners are bred and produced without using genetic engineering, commonly referred to as genetic modification or GMO. For a downloadable Excel file of all AAS Winners from 1932 to present, please click here. Who Determines an AAS Winner? Independent AAS Judges determine the AAS Winners by judging and scoring the entries. Judges look for significantly improved qualities such as earliness to bloom or harvest, disease or pest tolerance, novel colors or flavors, novel flower forms, total yield, the length of flowering or harvest and overall performance. In the last ten years, an entry needs to have at least two significantly improved qualities to be considered by Judges for an AAS Award. The Judges score each entry from 0 to 5 points, with 5 being the highest. Only entries that meet scoring criteria is considered for a possible Award. New, never-before-sold varieties with proven superior qualities are announced three times each year as AAS Winners. Click on the video on the left where Paul James, AAS Judge, explains the judging process. AAS Trial Grounds An AAS Trial Ground is one of the most important elements in the process of declaring AAS Winners. A Trial Ground is a location where a professional horticulturist works in their field and where the AAS entries are planted next to comparisons or scientifically speaking, controls. Once the AAS entries are transplanted into a Trial Ground, the AAS Judges observe and evaluate the garden performance. At the end of the trial season, the judges send their scores and evaluations to the AAS Office for tabulation. Only the Best Become AAS Winners Only the best garden performers (best scores) become AAS Winners. Once new varieties are announced as AAS Winners, they are available for immediate sale and distribution. Home gardeners will find seeds available from their favorite catalog or online seed source or as young plants at their favorite garden retailer. See All Winners > The AAS Judges Judges are located in geographically diverse areas all over the U.S. and Canada. Since its inception, AAS has relied on the expertise of our volunteer judges to be the eyes and evaluators of our flower and vegetable entries. Without them, we could not confidently say that we have experts in the field who are trialing these new varieties to determine which entries are worthy of an AAS Award. If press or media would like to contact or interview one of our AAS Judges, please contact the office for an introduction. Click here to see a map of all trial sites throughout North America. We are grateful to our judges and thank them for their time. We would like to acknowledge the following experts for their contributions: Mark Amiya, Sakata Seed America Mark has vast experience in the commercial sector of the agricultural industry as a former employee of Tanimura and Antle. He has shown dedicated service to Sakata Seed America as Farming Operations Coordinator. Mark has grown the AAS trials in Salinas since 2008. He joined the AAS as a Judge for the 2015 AAS Edible Trial. Kristen Andersen, Harris Seeds Kristen’s passion for agriculture began at a young age through activity on her family’s dairy farm and home garden. She pursued an education in plant science and identified her love for horticulture and plant breeding through her studies at the State University of New York at Cobleskill and Michigan State University, where she obtained her BT and MS degrees, respectively. Kristen is currently the Vegetable Product Manager at Harris Seeds where she enjoys trialing new varieties and finding creative ways to help vegetable growers solve problems. She joins AAS as an Edible Trial Judge in 2019. Diane Anderson, University of Illinois Diane Anderson is a Research and Education Specialist at the University of Illinois and since 2002 the Grounds Supervisor of the 60-acre UI Arboretum. The Arboretum houses the Hartley Selections Garden where ornamental varieties are evaluated and AAS winners displayed. AAS trials were added to Diane’s evaluation program in 2012. Diane studied agronomic weed science at Southern Illinois University and after 14 years in Agronomy at the University of Illinois obtained an M.S. in Horticulture. She oversees 2 fulltime gardeners and 5 student interns in maintenance, new project development, and plant collection expansion. A recently completed ponds renovation included replacing invasive species with natives. Alex Augustyniak, West Coast Seeds Alex grew up on a farm in Ontario with over 400 acres of vegetables, 15 acres of tomatoes, and a pollinator area of wildflowers; he’s been growing things ever since. Alex is currently the General Manager at West Coast Seeds where they are trialing flowers, herbs, vegetables, cover crops, sprouting seed and microgreens for their own business’ product offering. He enjoys helping customers learn how to grow annuals and perennials and is expanding their display and demonstration gardens to help customers visualize their options. He joins AAS as an Ornamental Seed Judge for the 2018 Trials. Ashley Balderston, Vesey's Seeds Ltd. Ashley began her career at Vesey’s Seeds in 2009 where she was an assistant worker for the flower trials, planting display and ground maintenance. In 2010 she began working in the seed germination lab, she enjoyed her work at Vesey’s so much she decided to earn her horticulture certificate from the University of Guelph. In 2016 she became the Flower Horticulturalist at Vesey’s Seeds, where she continues to work with flower trials and the germination lab. Ashley is an Ornamental Seed judge. Steve Bellavia, Johnny's Selected Seeds Steve Bellavia is a senior product technician at Johnny’s Selected seeds. He began his career with Johnny’s in 1993 as a call center representative and moved into the commercial sales department the following year. In 1997 Steve transitioned into the research department, where he has since conducted field work on nearly every vegetable crop offered by Johnny’s. He is particularly passionate about peppers and Asian vegetables. Because a full week of field work on the job doesn’t satisfy all of Steve’s growing and cooking passions, he also takes pride in maintaining a large home garden to grow food for eating year-round. Steve’s many years of mentorship from former Johnny’s AAS Judge Rob Johnston’s combined with his tenure in the vegetable trialing program makes him the natural choice to become the official vegetable Judge of the company. Pam Bennett, Ohio State University Extension Pam Bennett is an Associate Professor for Ohio State University Extension and is the State Master Gardener Volunteer Coordinator as well as Horticulture Educator and Director in Clark County Ohio. She has a BS in Landscape Horticulture and an MS in Human and Community Resource Development from Ohio State University. Pam specializes in herbaceous ornamental plant trials and evaluates more than 200 varieties of annuals and perennials yearly. She presents programs on annuals and perennials as well as other landscape topics. In 2010, Pam won a national award from the National Association of Agriculture Agents. She has been a Bedding Plant, Flower, and Cool Season Judge for All-America Selections since 2012. Starting in 2015 Pam became an Ornamental Seed Trial judge and she is a Herbaceous Perennial Trial judge. Sherrie Benson, Devonian Botanic Garden Sherrie took her post secondary education in British Columbia where she became a Horticulture Technician, graduating in 2004. In 2005 the University of Alberta offered Sherrie a position supervising the grounds of main campus in Edmonton Alberta. She filled this role for 2 years. Sherrie moved into a position at Holes Greenhouses and Gardens and worked directly under Jim Hole as the Integrated Pest Manager and Cultural Controller for the entire growing operation in 2007. She became the Agriculture and Forestry Research Greenhouses Supervisor at the University of Alberta in 2010. In 2012 she moved to The University of Alberta Botanic Garden. She is the production grower and curator of the Tropical, Arid and Temperate Show house collections. Sherrie joined AAS in 2012 as a judge for the Ornamental Seed Trial. Solange Blais, Norseco Solange received her diploma as a technologist in agro-environment and horticulture production in 2004. Solange has been working with Norseco for the past 7 years and recently took the position of seed buyer for the ornamental division. Solange is replacing long-time judge Lise Goudreau who is retiring after 30 years of managing this department . Solange assisted Lise with the 2017 trials and is looking forward to taking over AAS Ornamental Seed Trial in 2018. Eugene K. Blythe, Mississippi State University - South Mississippi Dr. Gene Blythe is on the faculty at Mississippi State University. He conducts research at the South Mississippi Branch Experiment Station in Poplarville, with research focused on variety trials, commercial nursery propagation methods and production of aromatic plants for extraction of essential oils to be tested as potential plant protectants and insect repellents. Gene was a propagator at Monrovia Nursery in California for over 20 years, including 10 years as Propagation Manager. Gene has graduate degrees in business and horticulture from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Auburn University. He has been an All-America Selections Trials Judge since 2010. He judges the Ornamental Seed, Ornamental Vegetative and Perennial Trials. Jeannine Bogard, Syngenta Flowers Jeannine’s passion for vegetable gardening began at the young age of 5 when she started learning the basics of growing vegetables from her neighbor who was a retired farmer. Her hands have been in the dirt ever since. She is a 1982 graduate of Michigan State University with a bachelor of science degree in Horticulture with a Vegetable Science emphasis. A 30+year veteran of the seed industry, Jeannine has worked extensively with plant breeders evaluating crops for introduction. Since 2012 she has actively managed all aspects of the Syngenta Flowers Home and Garden Vegetable program including sales, marketing and garden trials. In 2019 she joins AAS as an Edible Trial Judge. Allison Boozer, Costa Farms Allison Boozer graduated from Clemson University in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture. While at Clemson she helped research graduates conduct several experiments on rooting agents and moisture levels to promote roots. She also helped manage a sustainable garden and worked on campus beautification. After graduation she started her Horticulture career as an Annuals Manager for a retail garden center. In 2014 she joined the Costa Farms team as a grower in the Trenton, SC location for the perennial division. Some of her duties were planning out tasks for crops, overseeing production, inspecting incoming material, and overseeing chemical applications. In 2018, she was promoted to Research and Development Manager at Costa Farms where her responsibilities include their trial garden and confidential trials. Allison became a judge for the AAS Herbaceous Perennial Trial in 2018. Courtney Buckley, Sakata Seed America Courtney obtained her doctorate in Plant Medicine from the University of Florida, where she worked in the university’s Plant Diagnostic Clinic helping to diagnose a wide range of issues, from fungal and viral infections to insect infestations and improper soil management. She then became Trials Coordinator for the R&D Department at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Michigan and taught Greenhouse Management at Owens Community College. Courtney is currently the Head Grower-Trial Manager at Sakata Seed America where she oversees the ornamental seed trials and manages the production of new floral material presented at the California Spring Trials. Teresa Bunn, Monsanto Vegetable Seeds Inc Teresa Beck Bunn earned her BS and MS in Genetics from the University of California, Davis. She has worked for Petoseed as a Summer Technician and the State of California as a Tomato Inspector. Her work experience also includes a Research Assistant and Plant Breeder for Harris Moran Seed Company and Seminis/Monsanto where she specialized in breeding tomatoes and peppers. She has been a Vegetable (now called Edible) Trial Judge for All-America Selections since 1992. In 2016 Teresa became an AAS Ornamental Seed Judge Brian Campbell, West Coast Seeds Brian Campbell is a production manager at West Coast Seeds. His current responsibilities include assessing seed quality and maintaining seed quality at commercial standards. He is the manager of the vegetable and flower trialing program at West Coast Seeds. Besides his work at West coast Seeds, Brian manages a commercial beekeeping operation at Blessed Bee Farm. The Edible Trials of 2016 mark the beginning of Brian’s trialing as an AAS Judge. Paul Cappiello, Yew Dell Botanical Gardens Dr Paul Cappiello is the Executive Director of Yew Dell Botanical Gardens. Besides his work at Yew Dell, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky, where he teaches horticulture classes. Dr. Cappiello belongs to several professional organizations and has received several honors and awards. He has authored a book and many publications. Paul joined the Council of AAS Judges by judging the first herbaceous perennial trial in 2016. Kristi Challender, C. Raker & Sons Inc Kristi Challender graduated from Lansing Community College in 2006 with an Associate’s degree in Landscape Architecture. In 2001 she was hired at Raker’s in Litchfield, MI and has been involved with their trials since that time. She supervises the moisture management/feeding and pest/disease control during the summer. Kristi sows, transplants and cares for the AAS Trials where she oversees the crop from start to finish. Kristi is an AAS judge for the Cool Season Bedding Plant Trial and the Ornamental Vegetative Trial. Chris Chechak, Stokes Seeds Ltd. Chris Chechak has had various responsibilities at Stokes Seeds Ltd, Thorold, Ontario. She worked as an assistant to plant breeder, Dr. Kerr, specializing in sweet corn, tomatoes and peppers. After that Chris was responsible for design, maintenance and evaluations for the sweet corn, tomato and pepper field trials. Her current responsibilities include growing and maintaining all the trial farm vegetables and flowers and evaluating the vegetable trials. She received her BS in Agriculture, majoring in horticulture, from the University of Guelph. Chris has been an AAS Vegetable Judge since 2008. She is currently a Judge for the Edible Trial. Bernadette Clark, North Carolina State University Bernadette Clark is the Trial Garden Manager at the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. Her responsibilities at the Arboretum include sowing all seed entries and pot up vegetative material , configuring the layout of all entries in the trials, rating the entries weekly, compiling the data, and writing the winter and summer trial reports. She is also responsible for the exhibit of large display containers that are “Living Billboards” for local companies. Bernadette has been a Bedding Plant Judge since 2005, a Cool Season Judge since 2006, and a Flower Judge since 2011 for All-America Selections. Currently she is an Ornamental Seed Judge. Jessica Cloninger, Boerner Botanical Gardens Jessica has been educated in landscape design and has a B.S. in Applied Plant Science. She gained experience working with the AAS trials as an intern at Walt Disney World. After her bachelor’s degree, Jessica worked in the retail garden center industry for eleven years. She was hired at the Milwaukee County Parks in 2010 and is currently responsible for the operations of the John & Hildegarde Voight Trial Garden. In 2015 Jessica joined the AAS Council of Judges as an Ornamental Seed judge. Doug Cole, D S Cole Growers Doug Cole is the President of D.S. Cole Growers and Chairman of New Hampshire Land and Community Investment Program. He is a member of America in Bloom and Past President of OFA. D.S. Cole is the first North American grower to be certified under Dutch standards to be a sustainable grower. In 2014 Doug joined the All-America Selections Council of Judges as an Ornamental Vegetative Judge. Angelica Cretu, Costa Farms Angelica is the Manager of the Trial Garden and Research and Development Department at Costa Farms since 2010. She oversees the trial grounds, evaluates and collects data. She earned her Master of Science Horticulture in 2009 from the University of Florida. Angelica is an Ornamental Seed Judge for All-America Selections. David Czarnecki, Ernst Benary of America David Czarnecki graduate from Texas A&M with a B.S. in horticulture then graduated from the University of Florida with a M.S. and Ph.D. from the Environmental Horticulture department. His graduate degrees were in the field of plant breeding and genetics. He studied native ornamental species and invasive ornamental species while in graduate school. Upon graduation David was hired by Benary in 2011 and he works on breeding several species and his participation in greenhouse and field evaluations is ongoing. William Dam, William Dam Seeds Ltd William Dam graduated from the University of Guelph with a degree in Horticulture and is the third generation owner of William Dam Seeds in Dundas, Ontario Canada. His company’s philosophy regarding the selling of good seed varieties is that “one must know them to sell them with confidence.” Bill has been instrumental in increasing the size of their trials from small family sized plots to over 1000 varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers encompassing five acres. He is also responsible for modernizing the farming methods used by the company. Bill has been a Vegetable (now call Edible) Trial Judge for All-America Selections since 2011. Connie Dam-Byl, William Dam Seeds Ltd Connie Dam-Byl is the Flower Seed Manager for William Dam Seeds in Dundas, Ontario Canada. She graduated from Sheridan College for Fashion Design and Production and later became accredited as a Floral Design Judge with the Garden Clubs of Ontario. Connie oversees the flower trials and designs the display beds for William Dam Seeds. She devotes a lot of her time speaking to garden clubs and horticulture societies about new seed varieties each season. Connie has been a Cool Season Judge for All-America Selections since 2011. She is currently a judge for the Ornamental Seed trial. Brenda DeLong, Dreamscape, Inc Brenda DeLong is a retired Landscape Architect. Owning and operating a Landscape design and construction company for 25 years. Her primary responsibilities were designing landscapes, gardens, pond, waterfalls, etc and overseeing new landscape installations. She earned her Associates degree in Landscape Architecture at Lansing Community College in 1985. After retiring, she started a non-profit for disadvantage children using horses to build confidence, hope, and love. In the non-profit, she used her horticulture & gardening skills installing gardens to produce vegetables for needy families. Venelin Dimitrov, W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Venelin was born and raised in the town of Silistra in north-eastern Bulgaria -South Eastern Europe. He earned his bachelor’s degree in agribusiness from Agricultural University Plovdiv (Bulgaria) in 1999. Venelin began his career in horticulture with Wyevale Transplants in UK during his summer brakes in college, internship at T & L Nursery in Woodinville, near Seattle and then working at Maryland Flower and Foliage as a green-house grower. Before Joining Burpee in 2009, Venelin spent 9 years working for Mayer Seed International in Baltimore as a horticulturalist. At Burpee he has been involved in garden performance evaluation, and selection of the best flower colors and shapes for Burpee’s home gardening customers. He spends his free time in the garden, with his family, antique shopping and traveling. Robert Durgy, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Robert Durgy has been the Farm Supervisor for the CT Agricultural Experiment Station at the Griswold Research Center in Griswold, CT since 2008. The farm is a field station for scientists to conduct experiments on agricultural, horticultural and forestry crops. Previously Rob worked for 13 years for the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension System, the last four managing the Plant Diagnostic Lab. Research studies have concentrated on field corn and vegetable production including pest and weed management, soil fertility and organic production practices. Rob has been assistant to the All-America Selections vegetable trials judge, first under Dr. Richard Ashley and now Dr. Jude Boucher, at the University of Connecticut since 1992. He has taught the vegetable section of the UConn Master Gardener course since 2002. Richard Durham, Univ of Kentucky Richard Durham earned a B.S. in Horticulture from the University of Kentucky and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Horticulture from the University of Florida. He is currently an Extension Professor of Horticulture at the University of Kentucky where he teaches classes in Plant Identification and develops on-line plant related resource materials for K-12 teachers. His extension activities are centered on consumer horticulture and assisting in various county programming needs as well as coordinating the Kentucky Master Gardener Program. He is the former chair of the Consumer Horticulture National Committee and the past vice president of the American Society for Horticulture Science Extension Division. Richard has been a Flower and Cool Season Judge for All-America Selections since 2011. He is currently an Ornamental Seed and Perennial Judge. Mark Dwyer, Rotary Botanical Gardens Mark has been the Director of Horticulture at Rotary Botanical Gardens in Janesville, WI since 2000. He directs the maintenance and improvement of this 20 acre botanical resource with a talented grounds staff and many dedicated volunteers. Mark has degrees in landscape architecture (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) and urban forestry (UW-Stevens Point). Mark’s true passion is obtaining, growing, observing and photographing all types of plants. Mark joined the ranks of AAS Judges for the new Herbaceous Perennial trial in 2016. Scott Evans, Nebraska Extension in Douglas-Sarpy Counties Scott Evans is the Horticulture Program Coordinator for Nebraska Extension in Douglas-Sarpy Counties. His primary role within Extension is leading the Master Gardener volunteers in the two county area. Scott is passionate about plants and pollinators with his B.S. in Botany and Environmental Geology and Masters in Agriculture. Scott joined AAS in 2018 as a judge in the Ornamental Seed Trial, and an assistant in the Edible Trial. Dennis Ferlito, Bejo Geneva Home & Market Gardens Dennis Ferlito is currently the Facility Manager for Bejo Seeds, Inc in Geneva NY. He manages a 309 acre vegetable research and product development farm that conducts trials for breeding, market development, dealer training and promotion. He is involved in trial planning, implementation, growing and conducting trial evaluations for Breeders, Product and Market development. He has also worked closely with researchers at Cornell University. Growing vegetables has been a lifelong passion for Dennis. In 2014 Dennis became an AAS Vegetable Judge. He is currently a judge for the Edible Trial. Jeb S Fields, LSU Ag Center Dr. Jeb S. Fields is an Assistant Professor & Statewide Extension Specialist for the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, focusing on Commercial Ornamental Horticulture. Dr. Fields serves as the director of the Ornamental Trial Gardens at the Hammond Research Station. His research and Extension program focuses on nursery and greenhouse production parameters (soilless substrates, water, and fertilizer) and sustainable landscape systems. Dr. Fields received a B.S. in Horticulture Science from the University of Florida, a M.S. in Ornamental Horticulture from North Carolina State University, and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. David Fiske, Massachusetts Horticultural Society David Fiske is the Gardens Curator at Massachusetts Horticultural Society, since 2007. He manages all gardening and landscaping at this 36-acre facility. The grounds include 8,000 square feet of greenhouses, 15 acres of annual, perennial and vegetable gardens, 15 acres of lawns and hundreds of mature specimen trees and shrubs. Since 2001, David and his wife, Nancy, run Fiske Gardens which specializes in antique and heirloom plants. David has been a judge with All-America Selections since 2009. Adam Flint, PanAmerican Seed Adam Flint has been with PanAmerican Seed since 2017 as a Research Facility Manager. In his role he oversees the PanAmerican Seed Research Facility located in Santa Paula, California. He works with a dedicated team, primarily focusing on ornamental plant breeding, seed milling, and marketing events. In his past Adam has worked as a Production Manager and Research and Development Grower. Adam has been an All-American Selections judge for Ornamental Seed since 2018. Alex Gerace, Welby Gardens Alex Gerace is the President and CEO of Welby Gardens in Denver, CO. This is a family owned business, which opened in 1948. The greenhouse has one million square feet of growing space and produces 70 million plants yearly. Al serves on the AAS Comparison Committee and judges all AAS Trials. His first year as an All-America Selection’s judge was 1994. Leigh Geschwill, F & B Farms and Nursery Leigh runs sales and marketing for F & B Farms and Nursery, a greenhouse grower for the independent market in the Pacific NW. Industry wide she participates in the Oregon Association of Nurseries Research Committee, the Oregon Department of Agriculture Nursery Advisory Board, and is a director for the Hort Reseach Institute. Leigh helped bring the International Trials Conference to Portland’s Farwest Show in 2015. She is passionate about research and innovation for our industry. At the greenhouse, she evaluates new plant introductions and in-house trials for product development and market suitability. Leigh joined AAS in 2018 as an Edible Trial judge. David Graper, McCrory Gardens SDSU Dr. David Graper has been a Professor of Horticulture at SDSU since 1990. In 2006 he became Director of McCrory Gardens and the SD Arboretum, located on the campus of SDSU. David is particularly excited about the new Education and Visitor Center at McCrory Gardens and how it has transformed the gardens into a year-round facility for education, outreach and the enjoyment of gardening and nature. Dr. Graper earned his B.S. in Plant Science from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls (1983), his M.S. in Horticulture from Colorado State University (1985) and his Ph.D. in Horticulture from the University of Maryland (1990). Dave currently teaches several classes and areas of special interest are perennial flowers, greenhouse production and field cut flower production. Dr. Graper was the state coordinator of the SD Master Gardener Program for about 10 years, and was on the SD Public Television “Garden Line” for 18 years. He has been an AAS Judge since 2005. Richard Hawke, Chicago Botanic Garden Since 1986, Richard Hawke has been the Plant Evaluation Manager at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The Plant Evaluation Program is one of the largest and most diverse in the nation and received the Award for Program Excellence from the American Public Garden Association in 2008. Richard has a horticulture degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Plant Evaluation Notes, a Chicago Botanic Garden publication reporting the results of evaluation trials. Richard is an instructor for the School of the Chicago Botanic Garden and in 2005, received the Perennial Plant Association’s Academic Award for teaching excellence. Richard is an author and contributing editor for Fine Gardening and writes for other horticulture publications. In 2016 he joined the AAS Council of Judges and is a Herbaceous Perennial Trial judge. Haldor Howard, Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City Haldor Howard is an assistant professor of Horticulture at OSU, Oklahoma City. He is the recipient of the L.E. “Dean” Stringer Award for Teaching Excellence. Haldor was recognized with the Grower of the Year award by the Oklahoma Greenhouse Growers Association. He serves on the boards of directors of the Oklahoma Nursery and Landscape Association and the Oklahoma Horticulture Society. Haldor has been an AAS Judge since 2000. Aubrey Hymel, LSU Ag Center Botanic Gardens Aubrey Cooper is the Landscape Supervisor at the LSU Ag Center Botanic Gardens. Her primary responsibilities are to evaluate the landscape, maintain it, and install new landscapes in the front gardens and Windrush Gardens. She is also responsible for the upkeep of the Ornamental and Turf research area on the property. She earned her Bachelors in Environmental Plant and Soil Systems in May of 2016 and has worked on the property since 2014. Paul James, Southwood Farm & Market Paul James is a long-time vegetable gardener. He has personal experience from his grandparents’ farm to his own garden. In 1995 Paul launched Pay Dirt Productions and produced “Gardening by the Yard,” for HGTV. The show ran for 19 seasons. Paul hosted and produced several prestigious parades, cooking shows and garden festivals. After retiring from the production business, he returned to gardening basics at Southwood Landscape & Garden Center. Here Paul became an AAS Edible Trial Judge in 2016. Paul has a BS in Chemistry, with undergraduate credits in botany, plant physiology and plant pathology. Jim Jenkins, College of Western Idaho Jim Jenkins is a Certified Nursery Professional who has been in the horticulture industry since 2010. He is a lab supervisor and teaches the annuals and perennials classes at the College of Western Idaho. Jim joins All-America Selections as a judge for the 2016 Herbaceous Perennial Trial. Tom Johns, Territorial Seed Company Tom Johns is the owner and president of Territorial Seed Company. He has served on the AAS Board of Directors for six years. Tom has been an AAS Vegetable (Edible) Trial Judge since 1995. Angela Jones, Stokes Seeds Angela Jones currently works in the Sales Department at Stokes Seeds in Ontario, where she assists Canadian and American sales reps with commercial seed and vegetative accounts. Angela has a B.Sc. Degree (Chemistry / Biochemistry) from The University of Western Ontario and has nurtured her lifelong passion for gardening through many years in the horticultural industry. She is excited to join the AAS judging team in 2019 for the Ornamental Seed trials. Jessie Keith, Sun Gro Horticulture Jessie is a lifelong gardener and naturalist with family roots in both fields. In 1999 she obtained a BS degree in Public Horticulture from Purdue University, and she completed her MS in Plant Biology from Michigan State University in 2003. As a student, she completed internships at Longwood Gardens and the American Horticultural Society where she helped support plant trials. Since then, she has served as a horticultural educator, garden writer, photographer, and online horticultural communications expert for a several companies in the gardening industry. Currently, she oversees communications for the international growing media company, Sun Gro Horticulture. Jessie’s tenure as an AAS Ornamental Vegetative and Herbaceous Perennial Trial Judge began in 2019. James E. Klett, Colorado State University Dr. James Klett is Professor of Landscape Horticulture and an Extension Landscape Horticulturist for Colorado State University. He has been at CSU for over 30 years and teaches in the areas of herbaceous and woody plant materials and in nursery production and management. He works directly with the Green Industry of Colorado, especially the nursery, arboriculture, garden center and landscape contractor industries. His research deals with landscape plant evaluation and introduction water requirements of landscape plants, green roofs, and other culturally related concerns with landscape plants. Jim Klett has been a Flower Judge for All-America Selections since 1999. He is currently a judge for the Ornamental Seed and Perennial Trials. Mark Konlock, Green Bay Botanical Garden Mark Konlock holds bachleors degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison as well as in Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. He was a consulting engineer for 3.5 years before realizing engineering was not his passion so he returned to college to study horticulture. He served briefly as an Extension agent in Walworth County, Wisconsin; worked at a wholesale greenhouse; evaluated seed germination tests; labored on a fruit research farm; and created a yard waste recycling program in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, before taking his current position as Director of Horticulture at Green Bay Botanical Garden (GBBG) in 2005. During his tenure, the garden has expanded by 7 acres and increased the plant collection by 1,571 taxa and almost 26,000 plants. In recent years, the garden has expanded into horticultural science by becoming part of the northern Earth-Kind observational rose trial program and evaluated annual seed and vegetative crops for Ball Horticulture. Mark has judged the Wisconsin Landscape Contractors Association awards and writes one of the Hot Plant features for Wisconsin Gardening magazine. Chris Krabbenhoeft, Chatfield Farms at Denver Botanic Gardens Biography coming soon… Jenny Kuhn, C. Raker and Sons Inc. Jenny Kuhn has spent the majority of her career at C. Raker & Sons in seed related areas. She has been involved as a seed operator, seed purchasing, marketing, sales, database management and program development. Jenny has worked in trials by evaluating and making varietal selections for Raker. Currently, she is a product specialist with an emphasis on seed propagated annuals. Items are included in their programs based on her observations of trials, work with breeding companies and customer feedback. Jenny has been a Bedding Plant and Flower Judge for All-America Selections since 2010. She is currently a judge for the Ornamental Seed Trial. Rod LeDrew, Grimes Horticulture Inc Rod received his BS in marketing from Indiana Univeristy and completed his greenhouse trade study at DuPage Horticulture School in West Chicago, IL. He managed the potted and cut chrysanthemum range in Louisville, KY before joining Pan American Plant Company to manage and relocate Super Seedlings from IL to Parrish, FL. He owned and operated a wholesale greenhouse for finished annuals in Florida before joining Grimes Horticulture where he is currently President. Rod joins AAS as an Ornamental Vegetative judge. Keith Lewis, Burden Museum and Gardens Keith Lewis is the Manager of the Food and Fiber research area at the Burden Museum and Botanical Gardens. His primary responsibilities are to plant, maintain, harvest and evaluate fruit and vegetable crops. Keith has been a Landscape Horticulturist since 1999. He is a member of various landscaping organizations and has earned his BS in 2001 from Louisiana State University. The year 2014 marks Keith’s first year as an Edible (Vegetable) Judge for All-America Selections. Jessie Liebenguth, Iowa State University - Reiman Gardens Jessie Liebenguth has a BS in Horticulture from Iowa State University. Her experience includes working with annuals and evaluating trial materials at Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa. She has worked extensively trialing roses at Reiman Gardens, the botanic garden of Iowa State University. Their aim is to educate the public on new and exciting developments in the world of plant genetics by including new plants in their landscape design. Jessie has been a judge for All-America Selections since 2012. She is judge for the Ornamental Seed, Perennial and Edible trials. Joy Longfellow, Johnny's Selected Seeds Joy grew up working in her family’s greenhouse and nursery business in central Maine where she developed a love for growing plants. She received a degree in Plant Sciences from Cornell University with a concentration in Plant Pathology and Plant Genetics and Breeding. In 2015, Joy joined the research department at Johnny’s Selected Seeds and has worked as part of the Squash and Pumpkin breeding team, as a vegetable Product Technician and most recently as the Product Technician for flowers. Joy joins AAS as an Herbaceous Perennial Judge and an Ornamental Seed Judge. Philip McCabe, Vesey's Seeds Ltd. Philip graduated from the University of New Brunswick with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry degree in 1985. From 1986-2016 he was employed with Parks Canada, first as a Peace Officer/Resource Management Specialist, and later as a Park Ecologist responsible for; terrestrial habitat restoration & protection, species at risk and invasive species vegetation management. Philip is in the Master Gardener program at Dalhousie University and is the Vegetable Trials Horticulturist at Vesey’s Seeds Ltd. Philip joins AAS as an Edible Trial Judge. Daedre McGrath, Michigan State University Daedre is the Annual Trial Garden Manager at Michigan State University. She instructs garden workshops and certification classes. Daedre earned her MS in Horticulture in 2012 and has an extensive background in Biology. She is currently a judge for the Ornamental Seed and Edible Trials for All-America Selections. Sim McMurry, Metrolina Greenhouses Inc Sim McMurry is the Growing Director at Metrolina Greenhouses for more than 20 years. In 2010 Metrolina was awarded Greenhouse Grower’s “Grower of the Year” Award. At that time, Metrolina with its 134 acres of greenhouses ranked number 6 in the Top 100 Growers. Metrolina is located in Huntersville, NC. Sim started as an AAS Judge in 2007. He now judges Ornamental Seed, Edible and Ornamental Vegetative Trials. Penelope Merritt-Price, Young's Plant Farm Penny received a BS and MS in Horticulture from Auburn University. She also interned at Callaway Gardens where she worked on the AAS Vegetable Trials. Penny started working as Trial Garden Coordinator for Young’s Plant Farm in 2012. She is an AAS Ornamental Seed and Ornamental Vegetative Judge. Jeff Mills, Monsanto Vegetable Seeds Jeff grew up gardening with his family, and has been passionate about plants, agriculture, and food for as long as he can remember, getting his first job at age 15 working at a retail nursery. Jeff received his undergraduate degree in Plant Biotechnology from UC Davis and later completed his Master’s Degree in Plant Genetics there as well. ). Jeff has been working at Seminis Vegetable Seeds/Monsanto for 15 years, first developing molecular markers for Melon; and later (currently) leading the cantaloupe breeding program. He works to develop hybrid melon varieties for farmers all over the world. In his spare time, Jeff develops new varieties of dwarf tomatoes and sweet corn, focusing primarily on flavor and novel/attractive varieties for home gardeners. Brian Minter, Minter Gardens Brian Minter is an author, radio host, professional speaker and an avid horticulturalist. He is a member of GWA and a syndicated columnist. He received his BA from the University of British Columbia and holds an Honorary Doctorate at the University of the Fraser Valley, where he is also their Chancellor. Brian is the recipient of the Order of Canada, one of Canada’s highest honors. He chaired and hosted two major conventions in Vancouver: GWA Symposium (2005) and International Association of Garden Center Congress (2008). Along with his wife, Faye, they co-own Minter Country Garden Store. In 2014 Brian joined the All-America Selections family of Judges as a Judge for the Vegetative Trial. Sara Mitchell, Green Leaf Plants Sarah Mitchell works for Green Leaf Plants®, a division of Aris Horticulture Inc. Currently she is New Product Development Manager, where she evaluates new varieties, works with breeders and breeding companies, manages the trial garden. She also works closely with marketing in the promotion of new varieties. As Greenhouse Operations Manager, Sarah also guides the Lancaster, Pennsylvania growing staff to produce more than 60 genera of garden plants. Sarah joined the AAS Council of Judges in 2017 to judge the Herbaceous Perennial Trial. Denise Mullins, Smith Gardens Denise has been with Smith Gardens since 2009 as Trials and Planning Manager. In this role she is responsible for choosing genetics and coordinating production planning across four greenhouse facilities on the Pacific Coast. She manages the planning of over 4,700 line items and 32 brands. With her great knowledge of genetics and eye for what works for the consumer, Denise has been selected to sit on multiple Grower Councils for big-box retailers. She is an AAS Herbaceous Perennial judge since 2016. Denise loves to cook as she believes culinary art and horticulture go hand in hand. She is also a rock climber, skier and wake boarder. Denise has been a volunteer with several nonprofit organizations helping to build houses and clean up wilderness areas. Her interests also include wood working, painting and mosaics. In 2015, Denise was one of GPN’s 40 under 40. James Newburn, Univ of Tennessee Dept of Plant Sciences James is an assistant director and curator of the University of Tennessee Gardens. He started working for UT as a student in 1992. He received his B.S. in horticulture in 1995 and in 1999, after receiving his M.S. in public horticulture. James joined the AAS Council of Judges for the 2015 trials and is a judge for the Ornamental Vegetative and Perennial Trials. Rose Oberholtzer, Mast Young Plants Rose is the Innovating Manager for Mast Young Plants where she has worked since earning her Bachelor’s of Horticulture at Michigan State University in 2015. While at MSU, Rose worked for the MSU Plant Sciences Greenhouse, as well as the Horticultural Demonstration Gardens. After graduation, Rose began working for Neal Mast Greenhouses, where she was a section grower for three years. Rose is a judge for the Ornamental Seed and the Ornamental Vegetative Trials. Barbara Park, Twilley Seed Company Barbara Park is part owner of GeoSeed Company and the Otis S. Twilley Seed Company, Inc. Her main responsibilities include managing the purchasing group, providing an informational interface between her customer service representatives and the seed suppliers, and choosing new vegetable product for Twilley. As part of the Twilley product choice, Barbara has spent the last ten years testing many of their new varieties or potential new varieties in her own home garden. Just for fun, each year she likes to challenge herself to grow one new thing she has never grown before. George Park, GeoSeed George Park received his BS Economics at Davidson College & MA Economics at Duke University, with additional course work auditing Plant Physiology, Genetics, and Population Genetics, He spent many summers as a youth hoeing, weeding, planting, and rooting at the family business, Park Seed. George worked at Park Seed from 1976-1988 and became an AAS Flower trial judge, an assistant to an AAS Vegetable Judge, and Director of AAS. After three years as Partner and Managing Director at K. Sahin Zaden BV in The Netherlands, George returned home and started GeoSeed in 1993 and purchased Otis S. Twilley Seed Company, Inc. in 1994. Todd Perkins, Syngenta Flowers, Inc. Todd Perkins is a breeder with over 25 years experience at Syngenta Flowers, formerly Goldsmith Seeds located in Gilroy, CA. His significant breeding accomplishments include AAS Flower Award Winners Cleome ‘Sparkler Blush,’ Zinnia ‘Magellan Coral,’ and Zinnia ‘Zowie!’ In 2010 Todd was awarded the prestigious All-America Selections Breeders’ Cup Award. Todd has been an AAS Judge since 2002 and serves on the AAS Comparison Committee. Steven Poppe, Univ of Minnesota West Central Reasearch & Outreach Center Gardens Steven R. Poppe coordinates the environmental horticulture program at the West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) in Morris, MN. That program provides scientific evaluations of annual and herbaceous perennial flowers, small fruits, trees, shrubs, windbreaks and shelterbelts, hardy shrub roses, and turf, making it a perfect environment for the AAS Trials. Steven got his start at WCROC by using his horticulture and landscape design degrees as a horticulture technician, research coordinator and scientist. Over the years, he has been the recipient of many service awards in addition to the author or co-author of multiple articles for professional publications. Steven is an Ornamental Seed and Ornamental Vegetative Judge for All-America Selections. John Porter, Nebraska Extension in Douglas-Sarpy Counties John Porter recently began work as the Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator for Nebraska Extension and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Omaha, Nebraska. His position includes both extension outreach and the development and teaching of a new 2-year Urban Agriculture degree program with the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture. His position as assistant professor with NCTA also includes oversight of farm plots at the Omaha Home For Boys Cooper Memorial Farm for use in education, demonstration, and research programs. His areas of expertise include vegetable and fruit production, plant propagation, small-scale market farming, and edible landscaping. Previous to this position, he served nine years as the Ag and Natural Resources agent for West Virginia University in Charleston, WV, where he was the master gardener coordinator and developed innovative programming in the areas of urban agriculture and horticulture. He is an avid garden writer, which he shares on social media and online. He was the popular weekly garden columnist for the Charleston Gazette-Mail newspaper in West Virginia before he moved to Nebraska. He has a BS degree in Botany/Biology from Marshall University and a MS degree in Horticulture from West Virginia University. Rachel Prescott, Ball Horticultural Co. Rachel earned her B.S. in Horticulture Production and Management from the University of Illinois and spent a summer as a Trial Garden Intern at Ball Horticultural Company. Upon graduation, she worked for a landscaping company and later a wholesale greenhouse before accepting her position as Grounds and Garden Production Manager at Ball. Rachel combines her background of annuals, landscaping and greenhouse operations to provide an elite trial ground for the company to use as a showcase for their products. Rachel is one of our ornamental seed judges. Shelly Prescott, State Botanical Garden of Georgia Shelly graduated from University of Georgia with his BSA in Horticulture in 1988. He worked in the private sector before joining the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in 2005, where he is currently the Director of Horticulture. Shelly grew up helping with his family greenhouse business and is passionate about plants and plant displays. He has worked at Metrolina Greenhouses, Home Depot, Private Gardener on Sea Island, and Seasonal Color Designer/ Manager for several large landscape companies in Atlanta. Shelly oversees the AAS Display Garden at SBG and is a judge for the AAS Herbaceous Perennial Trial. Jason Reeves, University of Tennessee Gardens Jason Reeves became the curator of the University of Tennessee Gardens in Jackson in 2002. He received his M.S. in Ornamental Horticultural and Landscape Design in 1999 from UTK. He conducts herbaceous and woody trials for a number of companies and has been growing AAS Winner since he began in 2002. Jason joins AAS as an Herbaceous Perennial Judge. Cary Rivard, Kansas State University Dr. Cary Rivard is an Assistant Professor and Fruit and Vegetable Extension Specialist in the Department of Horticulture, Forestry and Rec. Resources at Kansas State University in Olathe, Kansas. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC where his research focused on the tomato. He has received numerous grants and has an extensive list of publications dealing with tomato grafting and disease management. Dr. Rivard is excited about the opportunities to provide support for local food networks and develop an applied research program that will help to promote local fruit and vegetable production. In 2012 Dr. Rivard was appointed as an AAS Vegetable Judge for All-America Selections. He is currently a judge for the Edible Trial. Kirsten Rosen, Pure Line Seeds In May 2015, Pure Line Seeds started their first field trials geared specifically towards fresh market vegetables. This was done not only to allow PLS employees a chance to look at the vegetable varieties they carry but also to let customers see the products. The 2016 Showcase trials included 140 10 x 10 ft. plots with 19 different vegetables and over 120 different varieties. Kirsten Rosen is the manager of these field trials and an AAS Edible – Vegetable Judge. Sharon Rosen, Pure Line Seeds Sharon graduated from the University of Minnesota-Waseca with an Applied Science degree in Landscape and Nursery Technology. She worked at Colorful Season Greenhouse in Alexandria, MN. planting vegetable and flower seedlings, transplanting seedlings, filling orders, and doing landscape jobs at private residences. Robin Ruether, W. Atlee Burpee & Co Robin has experience in managing annual and perennial trials. She has a variety of experience with aquatic plants and ecological restoration. Robin has been with Kansas State University Research & Extension Center since 2007. John Ruter, University of Georgia Dr. John Ruter teaches classes in plant identification and environmental issues in horticulture and serves as Director of the University of Georgia Trial Gardens. He completed his Ph.D. in Horticultural Science at the University of Florida in 1989. His research and extension activities are focused on nursery crop production and plant breeding and selection for the southeastern United States. Dr. Ruter has published over 400 scientific and popular articles and has received various academic awards and honors. In 2014, Dr. Ruter became a Flower Judge for All-America Selections. He is currently an Ornamental Seed Judge. Chris Schlenker, McCrory Gardens, SDSU Chris Schlenker has been a part of McCrory Gardens since 2007 where he worked as an undergraduate while obtaining his B.S. in Landscape Architecture and minor in Horticulture from South Dakota State University (2009). In 2011 he became Head Gardener of McCrory Gardens located on the campus of SDSU. Sam Schmitz, Ball Horticultural Co. Sam Schmitz is the Supervisor of Grounds Operations at Ball Horticultural Company since 2008. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the Gardens at Ball. His role is to monitor and care for the plants in the gardens. Sam received his bachelor and master degrees from UIUC. Sam is currently an AAS Edible Trial Judge. Denise Schreiber Denise Schreiber was the Greenhouse Manager and horticulturist for Allegheny County Parks for twenty seven years. She supervised growing of approximately 300,000 plants in different greenhouse locations for the county parks system. Those greenhouses produced the majority of the plants for over 12,000 acres of parkland. Denise designed the flower beds that embellished the landscape. Besides supervising the greenhouses and plantings, Denise is a member of the GardenComm formerly known as GWA, The Association for Garden Communicators and writes monthly columns, is a national speaker and is the author of the book “Eat Your Roses.” Denise joined All-America Selections as a Bedding Plant and Flower Judge in 2014. She was a judge for the Ornamental Seed Trial and is now a judge for the Vegetative Flower Trial. Jeremy Shafer, University of Illinois Jeremy Shafer is the coordinator of the horticulture research farms at the University of Illinois, Crop Sciences Department. He has worked as an assistant for the AAS Edible (Vegetable) trial for eight years. He grew and helped maintain various research trials. Jeremy has a BS in forest science and a MS in natural resources and environmental sciences from the University of Illinois. For several years, Jeremy has assisted with the instruction of a vegetable growing class at one of the research farms. He has also been involved with the student sustainable research farm at the University since its inception. Jeremy supervises the management of the eight acre vegetable farm. He is an AAS Edible Trial Judge since 2016. Melissa Shepherd, Walt Disney World Nursery Melissa Shepherd graduated from Ohio State University ATI in early 1989. She moved to Florida and accepted a resident gardener’s position at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios. Melissa transferred to the WDW Nursery in late 1990 and became a working Foremen specializing in the production of hanging baskets and containers. Today some of Melissa’s responsibilities include specialty crop production as well as managing and maintaining the WDW Bedding Plant Trial Program. She became an All-America Selections judge in 2006 for the Cool Season, Flower and Bedding Plant Trials. Melissa currently judges the Ornamental Seed and Perennial trials. Lida Sladkova, Metrolina Greenhouses Inc Lida came to the US 13 years ago through the Ohio Internship Program. She is originally from the Czech Republic, where she earned a Master’s Degree in Forestry Engineering. Her journey started at Selecta One in California, growing plants for spring trials. In 2009 she got the opportunity to work for Fides North America, where she managed a greenhouse focused on Chrysanthemum and Dianthus production as well as internal trials. It was during that time that she started experimenting with bio control. Further down the road she brought her experience and enthusiasm to Metrolina Greenhouses where she currently works in the R&D department. On her leisure time she enjoys traveling, hiking and working in her own garden. She joins AAS as a judge for the Edible Trial. Jennifer Smock, Missouri Botanical Garden Jennifer Smock has worked at Missouri Botanical Garden for over 10 years. After receiving an A.A. degree in Horticulture then a B.S degree in Agriculture Education from Northwest Missouri State, she began working at MoBot as the horticulturist in charge of the Victorian District, Herb Garden and elaborate bedding displays. She then moved into the Annual Display Designer position in charge of designing and maintaining over 30,000 annuals. Currently, she is the Supervisor of the Kemper Center for Home Gardening overseeing 5 horticulturists in charge of 23 demonstration gardens (designed to give homeowners ideas) and all of the Garden’s annual displays. Jennifer is a Herbaceous Perennial Trial Judge.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9110
__label__wiki	0.901261	0.901261	Higgins returned, saved the day for CSKA Feb 09, 2019 by Euroleague.net Print It was battle between the two winningest teams in European basketball history, and a key game for both teams in the fight not only to make it to the playoffs, but also to get home court advantage: CSKA Moscow and Real Madrid met again, almost 56 years after their first ever showdown in the 1963 continental finals, and the game did not disappoint - great basketball, intensity, big plays and a noisy crowd pushing for the home team…exactly what Euroleague Basketball is all about. The game went down to who wanted it more, too. CSKA outrebounded Madrid by 40-28, and those extra 12 rebounds made the difference in a very balanced contest. CSKA pulled down 19 offensive rebounds, limiting Madrid to just 7, allowing a more aggressive CSKA to go to foul line more often. It was CSKA's fourth consecutive win, and the opening three of that sequence came without sharp shooter Cory Higgins. And despite not playing for three weeks, Higgins was ready to deliver as he made his return in a critical game. Higgins came off the bench at the start of the second quarter and had already scored twice - a jumper and a fast break layup - less than two minutes later. More importantly, he ended up scoring 7 of his 15 points in the final 5 minutes. With the game tied at 68-68, Higgins found Kyle Hines for a layup and then scored consecutive baskets in an 8-0 run that put CSKA ahead for good, 74-68. Yes, CSKA was good without Higgins, but it is ever better with him on the court. "I think it was just an OK performance, most of the credit goes to my teammates because they gave me the confidence to keep playing and welcomed me back, but I am just happy to get the win in such a big game," Higgins said after the game. "I think that everybody trusts each other in this team and I don't think it matters the moment for me to come back. Like I said, it was all about my teammates. Again, I didn't think I was that good, but I think the biggest thing was just the loose balls. They beat us to a lot of loose balls in the first half and that translated to a lot of points for them. We changed that in the second half and I think that is why we got the win." CSKA head coach Dimitris Itoudis was understandably delighted to welcome back such a key player, saying: "Everybody in the team is happy because we know about Cory's quality and the value he has as a player and as a person. Still, he is not at his best, he is going to need some time to make certain adjustments, but I am very happy that I have healthy players. Congratulations to Cory for the comeback." Most important of all, however, is that Higgins’ strong showing on his return allowed CSKA to beat Madrid for the second time this season, and the Russian team is now second in the standings with the tie-break advantage against Los Blancos - which could be critical for the Russian powerhouse in its goal to get the best posible home court advantage in the next phase. Coach of the Year: Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA Moscow For the second time in his five seasons on CSKA Moscow's bench, Dimitris Itoudis has been voted by his peers as the winner of the Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year award. CSKA adds Strelnieks at point guard Defending Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champion CSKA Moscow fortified its backcourt by signing a two-year deal with Janis Strelnieks, the club announced Monday. Barcelona lands two-time champ Higgins FC Barcelona snatched one of the top weapons from the reigning Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champion by signing swingman Cory Higgins to a three-year deal.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9112
__label__wiki	0.877439	0.877439	Main » 2016 » March » 19 » Fire Extinguished at an Apartment Building in Al Khalidiya Fire Extinguished at an Apartment Building in Al Khalidiya ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Monday, March 14th 2016 [ME NewsWire] The Civil Defense and Rapid Intervention teams in Abu Dhabi managed to put out a fire that broke out in the first floor of a residential building in Al Khalidiya, Abu Dhabi. The fire resulted in the injury of 15 people who sustained minor to medium injuries, including cases of suffocation as a result of smoke, and were transferred to the hospital. A firefighter suffered heat exhaustion while battling the blaze, which damaged 10 vehicles that were parked in the vicinity of the building and a number of shop windows. The civil defense teams coordinated with the UAE Red Crescent to provide temporary housing and food rations for residents who were affected by the fire. Major General Jassem Muhammad Al Marzouqui, Civil Defense General Commander-in-chief supervised the efforts to extinguish the huge blaze; along with Major General Maktoum Al Shareefi, Acting Director General of Abu Dhabi Police; Major General Omair Al Muhairi, Director General of Police Operations at Abu Dhabi Police; and Lt. Colonel Mohammed Abdul Jalil Abdullah Ahmed Al Ansari, Director General of Civil Defense in Abu Dhabi. They reviewed the precautionary measures that were taken to immediately contain the fire and prevent the flames from spreading to the adjacent t buildings. Elaborating on the details of the incident, Lt. Colonel Al Ansari pointed out that the civil defense headquarters was alerted of the fire breakout at 12.07 p.m. today, (Monday). “Four Civil Defense and intervention teams, supported by ambulances were immediately dispatched to the location of the fire. They promptly managed to extinguish the blaze that broke out and took the necessary preventive measures by evacuating the injured and people residing in the vicinity,” he noted. Moreover, he indicated that the teams provided first aid and medical care to the injured pending their transfer to the hospital. Major General Al Marzouqui noted that according to preliminary inspection, the fire was classified as above average. “Investigation is still underway to determine the circumstances and causes of the fire,” he said. He urged the public to adhere to the safety and prevention requirements in residential and commercial buildings, and to abide by the guidelines issued by the Civil Defense and other entities to provide the necessary prevention measures so as to avoid the occurrence of domestic accidents. The Air Support Department took part in the operation, using wireless drones to broadcast live footage in support of the on-site mission supervisor. The traffic patrols and officers from the Community Police provided support operations, while the Security Media Department’s patrols helped to keep track of the situational logistics on the ground and distribute resources accordingly. Follow us and check our Social Media feeds on: YouTube, Facebook, Google +, Instagram and Twitter	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9113
__label__cc	0.571174	0.428826	Centre for the History of Ibero-America Website: http://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centres-groups/doc/centre-history-ibero-america-chia The Centre for the History of Ibero-America (CHIA) brings together academics, postdoctoral scholars and doctoral students with shared interests in the history of Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries. Their studies range from the medieval period to the present and include explorations of the tenth-century Count of Barcelona, Borrell II (945-93); studies of the Portuguese physician and Dominican friar, Gil de Santarém (d. 1265); the history of slavery and the slave trade in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world; the European experiences and contacts of the Latin American Libertadores before, during and after the independence process; mobility, identity and culture in the post-emancipation Caribbean; the origins of Catalonian nationalism; the eugenics movement in Portugal; the development of the Spanish anarchist movement and the history and memory of the Spanish Civil War.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9116
__label__wiki	0.968362	0.968362	Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/04c4555e92ce44828dc12b0e5d676a07 Wolf taken to Isle Royale National Park this fall dies By JOHN FLESHERNovember 13, 2018 FILE - This Sept. 26, 2018, file photo provided by the National Park Service shows a 4-year-old female gray wolf emerging from her cage at Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. A gray wolf relocated from the Minnesota mainland to Isle Royale National Park this fall has died. The male wolf was among four taken to the Lake Superior island park as part of a multi-year effort to rebuild its declining wolf population. The other three relocated wolves are doing well. (National Park Service via AP, File) TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A gray wolf relocated this fall from mainland Minnesota to Isle Royale National Park has died of unknown causes, officials said Tuesday, a minor setback in a multiyear plan to rebuild the predator species on the Lake Superior archipelago. The 5-year-old male was among the first two wolves released at the park Sept. 26 . Staff biologists became concerned in late October when his radio tracking collar indicated he was no longer on the move, park spokeswoman Liz Valencia said. A team traced the animal and found its carcass, which bore no bite marks or other signs that it had been killed by another wolf. It was taken to a federal wildlife health lab in Madison, Wisconsin, for a necropsy. Results are expected in December, Valencia said. The fatality was the second since officials kicked off a plan to take 20 to 30 wolves to the park over the next several years to replenish its depleted population. A female died in a mainland holding facility in September. “It’s certainly not something you’d want to happen but it was not unexpected,” Valencia said. “It’s a high-risk operation.” Others are likely to die as the Isle Royale project continues, said Rolf Peterson, a Michigan Technological University biologist who studies the park’s wolves and moose. Some won’t make the transition to new habitat smoothly, while others will starve or be killed in territorial disputes with fellow wolves, he said. Peterson said he hadn’t seen the dead male’s carcass but that hunger or stress were among possible factors. It would be hard for a single wolf to bring down even a young moose, he said, although the island has plenty of beaver on which wolves can feed. Park officials shot six moose and spread some of the meat to give the new arrivals a temporary food supply, but it would have been picked over fairly quickly. “Wolves live a very brutal life,” Peterson said. “Their normal condition is extremely lean.” Isle Royale’s wolf numbers averaged in the 20s for decades before plummeting more recently, largely because of inbreeding. Only two remained earlier this year. Scientists say predators are needed to prevent the moose herd, which totals about 1,500, from becoming so large that the voracious animals overeat trees and shrubs. The other wolf released Sept. 26 is doing well, as are two others that arrived in October, Valencia said. Counting the two aging survivors, the park now has five wolves. The newcomers were trapped on the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation in Minnesota. More are expected in January from the Canadian province of Ontario. Plans call for relocating additional wolves from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9118
__label__wiki	0.500164	0.500164	Home » Online Exhibits » Penn History Exhibits » Penn Student Traditions » Hey Day » Timeline Penn Student Traditions Hey Day This exhibit was created in January 2005 by Irina Kalashnikova, B.A. and M.A. 2006 Honor Men Junior Cane March Straw Hat Day Women’s Hey Day Other Awards and Citations Penn Gazette page on Hey Day 1916: The First Hey Day Hey Day began with the inauguration of a “Moving-Up Day”, modeled after a similar custom already established at Syracuse University. The name “Hey Day” was agreed on by a committee a few weeks later. Program of Events: 12:30 pm – Convocation of all classes in Weightman Hall 2:30 pm – Senior-Junior Track Meet at Franklin Field 3:00 pm – Penn-Swarthmore Baseball Game 5:00 pm – Senior-Junior Championship Soccer Match 7:00 pm – Senior Singing at Senior Fence 7:30 pm – Undergraduate Parade from Senior Fence to Franklin Field 8:00 pm – May Day Sports, Sophomore Cremation, Burning of Freshman Caps University of Pennsylvania Campus, 1915 It was decided that Hey Day activities will extend to an entire week, rather than a single day. A gavel was presented to the newly-elected President of the rising Senior Class as a symbol of the duty he assumes for the coming year, a tradition that is continued in following years. The custom of the seniors wearing caps and gowns from Hey Day until the time of graduation was abolished. Instead, seniors now appeared at the morning exercises in their blue and gray blazers, thereby starting a new fad that practically all of the American colleges were expected to follow: namely that the cap and gown be worn only at the Graduation Exercises. Class Day, 1925 1926: The First Women's Hey Day Women’s Hey Day was first celebrated, six years after the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Although there were no senior honors awards, the women’s ceremony, usually held in Bennett Hall, consisted of an academic procession, the changing of offices, a valedictory address, and the induction of new members into various honor societies. Women’s Hey Day was the same day and time as the men’s until 1954, when it was changed to the evening before the men’s Hey Day. Late 1920s to Early 1930s The emphasis of Hey Day shifted away from student activities and celebration. The main focus of the day became the Hey Day assembly and the Honor Men awards, which primarily pertain to seniors. 1931: Class Day and Hey Day Combined Class Day and Hey Day were officially combined into a single celebration known as Hey Day, and Ivy Day was also moved to the same date. This change was made as a result of students’ complaints that Class Day festivities conflicted too much with finals and commencement. 1937: The Parade of All Classes Juniors, sophomores and freshmen were allowed to participate in the Hey Day celebration. A parade of classes was scheduled as an added feature. Such a formal march of students had never been held before, and makes Hey Day “the most interesting class ceremony because it does not pertain to boring speeches”, according to the 1938 Pennsylvanian. The parade, led by the University Band, started on the walk between College Hall and Houston Hall, and was divided into four units. Each group was composed of members of each class and headed by the class president, who carried the class flag. The march ended on the Junior Balcony in the Upper Class Quad, where grandstands were constructed to accommodate the participants and spectators. A public address system was installed for the purpose of this assembly. Hey Day, Class Parade, 1937 1940: Hey Day Threatened by Student Apathy During the 1930s, undergraduate interest in Hey Day seemed to fall and even senior attendance was poor. In 1940, seniors were given the opportunity to vote on improving the program of Hey Day exercises. Most seniors chose not to fill out the questionnaire and those who did respond chose to ridicule the poll, making pseudo-humorous remarks. This resulted in a vote by the Committee on Student Affairs to abolish Hey Day. The April 15, 1940 Pennsylvanian reported that the seniors’ blasé attitude and lack of interest in traditions were a disappointment that took Penn “another step away from her infancy”. Pennsylvania Day, a class exercise inaugurated in 1939, was touted as Hey Day’s replacement. In early May, a student petition, reported to contain more than a thousand names, advocated the reversal of the decision to abolish Hey Day and the old custom was revived. Cane March, Lower Quad, 1941 Hey Day exercises were not held because of wartime conditions. Instead, a modified form of Hey Day, merged into Ivy Day, is held in its place. So many students had left the University to fight in World War II that it was felt that the usual celebration in connection with graduation was not warranted. Ivy Day featured a Senior Chapel and Ivy Stone unveiling, with the awarding of senior honors held off until graduation. Substantial differences between the new Ivy Day and Hey Day were illustrated by the elimination of the traditional Ivy Ball and the reduction in senior class activities. Instead of the senior class voting for the Honor Men, a faculty committee selected the winners of the Spoon, Bowl, Cane and Spade awards. With the end of World War II, students and the administration revived all the customs and ceremonies associated with the historical Hey Day. 1949: The Senior March Preparations were made for a shorter, more interesting and more spirited Hey Day ceremony. To shorten the program, the organizers omitted the main speaker. The Friars Senior Honor Society added a new feature to the ceremony in the form of a senior march. The march, which became a lasting feature of the program, featured a distinctive article of clothing worn by the seniors, namely red-and-blue banded two-dollar straw hats. The idea of wearing straw hats for the march was originated by the Friars to give the ceremonies an added interest, much like the canes gave the Junior March. The seniors also carried canes, described as “black dress type with curved tops and silver bands”, which were sold for 75 cents. After being dismissed from their classes, the seniors, led by a marshal and cheer leader, marched from their respective schools to the library, where they saluted President Stassen with a song and cheer. Then they proceeded to Irvine Auditorium for the exercises. Hey Day, 1950 1965: The Junior Cane March Becomes Part of Hey Day Parade The Junior Cane March, a Penn tradition that was part of Junior Weekend until 1959, was reinstituted as a key feature of Hey Day. The march was previously held on the day of the Penn-Navy football game sometime in late November as part of the annual Junior Week activities. In the past, the march marked the conclusion of Junior Week and preceded the all-University Chapel Service, the poster display, the football game, and the Junior Prom. The 1965 Hey Day Junior March began at 3:30 p.m. at McClelland Hall with the singing of “Drink a Highball”. Decked out in ties and jackets, skimmer and honor society hats, and carrying canes, the juniors moved on to College Hall, where they were joined by Provost Goddard and Dean of Men Craft. The traditional Hey Day Services followed the march. Ivy Day, first co-ed program, 1963 1968: Men's and Women's Hey Days Combined Men’s and Women’s Hey Day ceremonies were combined into a single celebration for the first time. Styrofoam hats replaced straw skimmers. During the Vietnam War, a number of Hey Days were overshadowed by anti-war protests and demonstrations. In 1967, over 50 demonstrators wore gas masks during the annual Hey Day March as a protest against the University’s involvement in chemical and biological warfare research. Many of the demonstrators wore the traditional skimmer hat, but with black bands around the rim. They were not allowed to walk with the main group of marchers to prevent any violence that might occur and so as not to taint the tradition of Hey Day. During the 1972 Hey Day, a group of students expressed their opposition to the United States’ policy in Southeast Asia by staging a sit-in on Walnut Street. The forty-five minute sit-in succeeded in blocking traffic as far back as Center City, but did not significantly impact the Hey Day ceremony, which went on as usual. Hey Day, Protest, 1967 Hey Day canes were made of cheap bamboo and sold along with styrofoam imitation-straw hats for $1.75. Juniors wore red and blue class T-shirts designed especially for the event. The tradition of juniors taking bites out of each other’s styrofoam “straw” hats became a part of Hey Day. Although the exact origin of this practice is not known, the straw hat tradition dates back to 1904, when, to mark the revival of the annual Penn-Princeton baseball rivalry, The Pennsylvanian encouraged students to wear new straw hats to the game. 1990: Rowdiness Threatens the Hey Day Celebration During the 1990 Hey Day, a group of students poured beer over President Hackney, carried him out of his College Hall office on their shoulders and dropped him coming down the steps. The prank put the following year’s celebration in jeopardy, but student-led changes in the celebration kept it alive. 1990s to Present Hey Day, held on the last day of classes, continues to mark the official passage of the junior class to senior status. Around 2002, marching juniors began the tradition of squirting each other with various sticky substances, such as whipped cream, caramel, chocolate sauce, and silly string. Hey Day has four major components: the march of the junior class from the Junior Balcony in the Quad to College Green, the President officially proclaiming them seniors, a picnic on Hill Square, and the sporting of fake straw hats, red T-shirts and canes. The tradition of presenting senior men with the Spoon, the Bowl, the Cane and the Spade awards lives on, but is held off until the Ivy Ceremony. Leading senior women receive the Hottel, Harnwell, Goddard, and Brownlee awards, which originated as a part of Women’s Hey Day. « What’s in a Name? Honor Men »	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9121
__label__wiki	0.814049	0.814049	Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art Meet the Samstags: Artists and Benefactors The American artist Gordon Samstag famously made one of the great cultural bequests benefitting the arts in this country, enabling large numbers of Australian visual artists to develop their skills and abilities internationally. Art Exhibition previously on at Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art in South Australia, Australia. From Friday 14 October 2016 to Friday 09 December 2016 Published by anonymous on Tuesday 02 February 2016. But who were the Samstags? Anne and Gordon Samstag both enjoyed early artistic success in America; Gordon as a successful painter of the American Scene and ‘New Deal’muralist, and Anne as an accomplished textile artist. Married in Manhattan in 1933, they came to Australia in 1961 and stayed for 16 years. Gordon taught from 1961 to 1970 at the South Australian School of Art; after living in Cairns, Queensland, for a time, the Samstags retired to America. The Samstag Bequest was their generous gift back to Australia. Meet the Samstags: Artists and Benefactors illuminates the enigmatic people behind the Samstag Legacy, showcasing the artistic talents of Anne and Gordon Samstag and many treasures from the Samstag Legacy Research Archive. The exhibition provides a glimpse into the rich lives and family backgrounds of two very private people, whose motivations have remained a mystery. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Samstag Scholarships, this timely exhibition celebrates the Samstags and the significance of their historic bequest. Importantly, it complements The Samstag Legacy: An Artist’s Bequest, a major scholarly biography of the Samstags to be published by the Samstag Museum of Art for the University of South Australia’s 25th birthday. http://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/Samstag-Museum/2015-Exhibitions/14102016-Meet-the-Samstags-Artists-and-Benefactors/	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9123
__label__wiki	0.646784	0.646784	All posts filed under: Somewhere Among Somewhere Among This site is a resource for teachers and librarians for my middle grade novel, SOMEWHERE AMONG (Atheneum Caitlyn Dlouhy Books 2016) based on my 25 years in a multi-generational home in Japan. My photoblog, Here and There Japan, is written for children. Updates can be found at FB Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu and Twitter AnnieDonwerth_C anti-bullying / featured / interfaith / Peace / Somewhere Among Heiwa no Daitō, The Great Pagoda of Peace Over the years, I have seen this building rising from the treetops on our way to and from the Narita airport. Though it does not appear in the story of my middle grade novel, Somewhere Among, a rendering of it by Alessandro Gottardo made its way onto the cover. Its Japanese name is Heiwa no Daitō and its English name is The Great Pagoda of Peace. The two-roof building is a tahōtō, a Japanese structure called a unlike pagodas in other Asian countries. It stands 190 feet high and sits on top of a hill on the grounds of Shinshoji Temple in Narita City. Underneath the ground floor of The Great Pagoda of Peace, a time capsule, scheduled to be opened in 2434, holds messages of peace from 11 world leaders. A Peace Festival is held each May. Peace / Somewhere Among Peace Doll Over twenty years ago, as I was getting off the train at my station, a Japanese woman handed me the paper doll encased in a plastic sleeve. A slip of paper on the outside says,”May Peace Prevail on Earth.” We have used it as a Christmas ornament ever since. I was surprised by the English and have always wondered about it. Was the woman handing out dolls to foreigners she saw on the train? Did she have dolls with the Japanese translation to give to Japanese people? I once found a link to a Japanese group who was giving peace dolls away. I cannot find it now, but it may have been linked to the group who created Peace Poles and Masahisa Goi of Japan. When I started writing for children, I searched for a way to use this doll in a story. After the 2011 earthquakes and tsunami of Japan, a story found me. It turned out to be a story set in Japan 2001. SOMEWHERE AMONG, my first novel, debuted in April 2016. Here and There Japan My blog of this and that from here and there in Japan is written especially for children. It was started in 2006 while my children were in Japanese public school. Story Calendar with Links Somewhere Among takes place in Japan 2001. Anniversaries, holidays, solstices, and historical events that Japan and the United States share were woven throughout the story. For verification and further study, I have included links to English sources. Links to other sources are included in each post on this website. It is important to note that Sea Day and Respect for the Aged Day now fall on the third Monday of July and September respectively. That was not the case in 2001. Also note that moon-viewing is traditionally mid-September but it depends on the year Check here for the holiday calendar for 2001. For Japan 2001 http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/japan/2001 Thurs. June 21, 2001 summer equinox http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/longest-day/equinox-solstice-2000-2009.htm Sun. July 1, 2001 Hawaii raising Ehime Maru, Star Bulletin http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/07/01/news/story5.html Thurs. July 5, 2001 12 pm Japan; July 4 8pm CA world server time meeting planner http://www.worldtimeserver.com/meeting-planner-times.aspx?&L0=JP&Day=5&Mon=7&Y=2016&L1=US-CA&L2=&L3=&L4=&L5=&L6=&L7= Sat. July 7, 2001 Tanabata, … Japan 2001 / Japanese holidays / Somewhere Among Story Playlist Many songs influenced the writing of Somewhere Among. I have included links to some of them. I listened to these four songs almost daily: two songs, “Inochi no Namae” (the Name of Life lyrics) and “Itsumo nando demo” (lyrics Ghiblink) from Hayao Miyazaki’s movie Spirited Away, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, were played on TV and radio so often after the release of the 2001 movie in Japan, U2’s “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” (2000), was a filler between shows on Japanese cable in the weeks before September 11, and this solo version of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” was quiet, reflective comfort during the months after September 11. The up-tempo version came out in 1968 when I was eleven, the age of the main character, Ema. Those song titles became poem titles or influenced poems along with two Beatles’ song, “With a Little Help from My Friends” (1967) and “Let It Be” (1970). The Beatles’ “Ob-la-di Ob-la-da” (1968) provided the title and structure for the poem about the Sports …	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9125
__label__wiki	0.532291	0.532291	Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Todd Papaioannou, VP of Architecture, Cloud Computing Group at Yahoo Todd Papaioannou is currently at Yahoo!, in the role of vice president of cloud architecture for the cloud platform group. Before taking on that role, Todd was responsible for new product architecture and strategy at Teradata, including driving the entire Cloud computing program. Before that, he was the CTO of Teradata's client software group. Prior to joining Teradata, he was chief architect at Greenplum/Metapa. Dr Papaioannou holds a PhD in artificial intelligence and distributed systems. In this interview, we discuss: Virtualization as the megatrend of this decade The world's largest Hadoop clusters Cloud benefits to businesses large and small "If it's not your business to be running data centers, don't do it." Analyzing 100 billion events per day A future dominated by hybrid clouds Robert Duffner: Todd, could you introduce yourself and describe your background and your current role at Yahoo? Todd Papaioannou: I'm the chief architect for cloud computing here at Yahoo. My official title is VP of Cloud Architecture, and I'm responsible for technology, architecture and strategy across the whole of the cloud computing initiatives here at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! cloud is the underlying engine on which we run the business, and we like to think of it as one of the worlds largest private clouds. So my responsibilities span edge, caching, content distribution, multiple structured and unstructured storage mechanisms, serving containers and the underlying cloud fabric we're focused on rolling out that makes it all possible. I'm also responsible for Hadoop and the cloud -serving container architecture, as well as all of the data capture and data collection across the whole of the Yahoo network. We dedicate a lot of energy to pulling together a very wide range of technologies as an internal platform as a service. Robert: I imagine that making the move from Teradata to Yahoo! was significant for you personally. Given that your career has been focused on cloud computing for some time now, has the move to Yahoo made a difference in terms of what kinds of projects, initiatives, and solutions you can personally lead or develop in the cloud computing space? Todd: Absolutely. At Teradata, I was responsible for driving the cloud computing program from a blank piece of paper through launch and delivery of multiple products, so I have been focused on the cloud for a number of years as well as all of the other big data initiatives and future-facing stuff. I played the role of looking to the future and helping to drive product strategy and product architecture across the Teradata portfolio. But I became very involved with all of the cloud stuff as I drove that program and saw that this was a very compelling and very interesting part of the market space. So coming to Yahoo! was an opportunity to help drive one of the largest private clouds in the world. There are probably only two or three other companies in the world that deal with these issues at the scale that Yahoo! does, so it's a fantastic opportunity. It also allows me to work closer to the consumer. Robert: You said in a presentation that you developed while at Teradata that "virtualization is the megatrend of the next decade." Do you still feel that's the case? And what do you think has the potential to supplant it, either in this decade or the next? Todd: I still think it's turning out that way. Virtualization is a megatrend that's going on in data centers around the world right now, and virtualization is actually just one component of cloud computing. There's a lot more that goes into cloud computing as a layer above virtualization, and I think the self-service and elasticity aspects are particularly interesting. As I look to what is going to change stuff in the future, ubiquity of devices is clearly another megatrend, as is the explosion of data. When you take massive data, massive sets of devices, and cloud computing together, you start to see a slightly different vision of how software needs to be built, abstracted, and developed to support both the enterprise and the consumer, going forward. Robert: Let's talk a little bit about Hadoop. In a quick set of back and forth tweets with Barton George, you clarified who has the largest Hadoop clusters, with Yahoo, Facebook, and eBay being the largest, in that order. Who also is in the top 10, in your estimation, and are there any particularly interesting implementations that fall outside of the top 10 that you think bear watching? Todd: The top 10 is probably made up of West Coast, Bay Area web companies that are generating huge amounts of data, particularly social graph data, and are finding that traditional tools are not that great for analyzing it. Outside of the ones you mentioned, it's Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Netflix, and those types of folks. We're also starting to see penetration into the financial industry, where they have huge amounts of data to process as well. US government agencies like the CIA and NSA are using Hadoop now, and they use the Yahoo! distribution of Hadoop to do their processing. They won't tell me what they're doing, but I'd love to know. [laughs] Robert: You mentioned when you were part of a panel discussion at Structure 2010 that cloud computing enables business users to be separated from infrastructure cycles, so each can move at a different pace. Can you unpack that statement a little bit and tell me what benefits you think cloud computing provides to both smaller and larger businesses? Todd: To take a simple view of the IT business, there's infrastructure you need to purchase, put in place, and manage. Infrastructure buying cycles tend to be fairly long, because it's a big investment and you want to make sure that you're doing the right thing. That can be a challenge for a small business, a business unit, or someone that's close to the customer, because they need to move at a much faster pace in today's business climate. Cloud computing, in my mind, allows you to decouple the business logic from the underlying infrastructure and allow those two things to move at separate paces. As an analogy, consider the fact that building a road, which is infrastructure, takes quite a long time, but small businesses can spring up or shut down along that road, and people can build houses much more quickly. In the same way, cloud computing enables the business to iterate much more quickly, because they don't have to worry about purchasing infrastructure. Robert: You've tweeted that you see an enormous amount of innovation ongoing today with Hadoop. What excites you the most about the future of that project as a whole? Todd: I think we're at an inflection point for Hadoop. Obviously, we at Yahoo! are extremely proud that we have created and open sourced Hadoop. Over the last four or five years, we've continued to invest in that environment, and right now we have around 40,000 machines running Hadoop at Yahoo!, which is clearly a huge number, and growing all the time. There's another set of folks now who are starting to use Hadoop at a smaller scale, and the exciting thing, I think, is that there is now an ecosystem springing up. There are vendors coming into the ecosystem with new tools and new products, and people starting to innovate around the Hadoop core that we built. Robert: Could you comment on how important the innovation around the core software for the cloud is, in terms of everything that has to happen around running the operations at data centers? Todd: If you think about the entire business, the data center is the lowest level of infrastructure, and then you have the cloud running above that, and then in our case, the business of web properties running above that. There's a huge amount of innovation that has to happen on a vertical basis. We've been driving a lot of innovation in how we design our data centers. We recently opened a new data center that got some awards for its design. It's designed [laughs] like a chicken coop, basically, so it's self cooling in some respects. That was a great, novel approach to some of the problems when you roll out a cloud, you're basically trying to build infrastructure. I want to be able to shunt workloads around from data center to data center depending on changing conditions. For example, we need to respond to it if the data center is getting too hot or we are getting a lot of surge traffic because the U.S. is waking up, and that sort of thing. That can't really be done by humans in front of a keyboard. What you really need to be thinking about is trying to automate everything. One of the big initiatives I've been pushing is to automate everything in the cloud so we have can have more of a high level thought process around control, rather than a low-level, tactical one that focuses on shunting around specific workloads on an as-needed basis. Robert: How can organizations that want to move to the private cloud benefit from the lessons learned by big companies like Microsoft and Yahoo! that have gone before them? Todd: If it's not your business to be running data centers, don't do it. You need to make it Someone Else's Problem. Yahoo!, Microsoft, and a few others out there are in the business of running data centers, and smaller companies should take advantage of that availability. Companies that do need to run their own data centers, for whatever reason, can benefit from the fact that we have open sourced our infrastructure code. One of our stated goals is to open source all the underlying software that sits in our cloud, and we've done that today so far with Hadoop, which is our big data processing and analytic environment, and also more recently with Traffic Server, which is our caching and content distribution network software. And we do that for a particular reason, which is that if you're building software internally, the minute you deploy it and no one else externally is using it, it's already on a path to legacy. You can continue to invest in that software, but you're continuing to invest in a one-off solution. We like the open source world, because if we can build a community around a piece of our software and drive it to be a de facto standard, we can build a measure of future-proofing into our software. If people are already working with it outside of the company, we can also hire people who have previous experience with the software. For the first time, we recently acquired a company that built its product on top of Hadoop, which helps validate our belief that open sourcing our infrastructure software benefits not only us, but the rest of the world as well. Robert: Considering the role of Linux to the enterprise on servers, do you see an analogous software package developing for the cloud? Todd: I don't think that has quite resolved itself yet. There's a lot of competition among the big players like Microsoft, Amazon, and Rackspace. Amazon clearly has a lead, but it's not insurmountable. And then there's obviously the open source world, which includes Eucalyptus, OpenStack, Deltacloud, and others. It's an exciting time to be working in this landscape, and that's one of the reasons I came to Yahoo!. There's a huge amount of innovation going on at every level of the stack, from way down at the hardware level, all the way up to the cloud service level. Virtualization, a massive expansion in server computing power, and low prices have really acted as catalysts. I really see the cloud as an abstraction layer above a set of underlying compute, storage, bandwidth, and memory resources. That abstraction allows you to get access to those resources on demand. Because of that, one of the big initiatives I'm driving here at Yahoo! is to think of cloud computing resources as a utility just like electricity or cell phone minutes. You should just be paying for the utility when you need it, as you need it. Robert: During a panel discussion on big data, you mentioned that Yahoo is analyzing more than 45 billion events per day from various sources to help direct users to the right content and resources on the web. From the user perspective, how does an emphasis on cloud computing technologies enhance their experience with Yahoo as a portal? Todd: First, just to correct the number there, either I said the wrong number, or I was just talking about audience data. We actually deal with 100 billion events a day. That covers audience data, advertising data, and a bunch of other events that happen across the Yahoo! network. Our goal at Yahoo! is basically to offer the most compelling and personally relevant experience to our end users. To do that, we need to understand stuff about you, such as whether you're into sports, travel, finance, or other topics. And we need to do that as you span across our multiple properties. At Yahoo!, we have hundreds of different web properties, each with a different focus and context. So even if you were interested in sports, it may not be so relevant for us to show you a piece of sport content when you're on Yahoo! Finance. Because of that, we use all of the events that we collect, and we use Hadoop to do all the processing, so we drive better user understanding, and we're able to do better content targeting and ultimately, better behavior targeting from an advertising standpoint. Our ultimate goal is to understand you across all of our properties, and depending upon what context you're in, to understand the content you'll be interested in. Based on that, we want to be able to put a contextually relevant advert close to that content to better drive engagement for our advertising customers. Robert: During that same panel, focused on big data, there was a portion of the discussion about on the data problem that the Fortune 1000 are having. To quote you for a moment, you said, "They all have the same problem, but they haven't figured out how much they're going to pay to solve it." Can you expand on that a little bit, and how you think cloud computing technologies can help the Fortune 1000, both in the short and long term? Todd: For any business, there's a spectrum of data that is vitally important right now, whether it's investment mana ement, supply chain management, or user registration. Businesses are willing to pay a certain dollar value for that data, whether it's available or active so they can access it immediately, whether or not it's online. There is a set of data that you don't know the dollar value of yet, because you haven't discovered what it may teach you. But you know that somewhere within that data, there's value to be found, whether it's better user understanding or better insight into how to run your business. I think the question was, "How do we know if you have big data?" And my response was, "Everybody has big data. They just don't know how much they want to pay for that big data." And by that I mean, whichever business you go to, you can say you have a whole bunch of data that you can really gain insight out of around your business, which you are currently just dropping on the floor. On the other hand, you probably believe you should pay a lot less for that data as a business than you would for a more traditional enterprise data warehouse or data mart like you might get from Teradata or Oracle. Still, the insights you can get from that data are huge. So what you want to do is find the platform that matches your dollar cost profile and that allows you to work on that data, discover insight, and then start to promote it up into a more fully featured platform that ultimately ends up costing you more. You can stick a bunch of data in a public cloud, and it's going to cost you a lot less to store than if you're buying a whole bunch of filers or disks locally, for most people. There's also a set of technologies like Hadoop that allow you to discover value in that data at a much lower cost than you would pay a traditional vendor. Because of that, the cloud is a great place for people to process big data or unstructured data that they don't know the value of and are looking for insights into their business. Robert: That concludes the prepared questions I had for you. Is there anything else you would like to address for our Windows Azure community? Todd: We dabbled a little bit on the public/private cloud question, but we didn't really get into that too much. In fact, I think the future is going to be dominated by the hybrid cloud. Companies are going to have a menu of options presented to them. Say you're the CIO of some Global 5,000 company, or even a small 10 person business. You've got to look at this menu and say "Given the business service that I want to run, what are my criteria?" For example, sensitive data or high security demands are likely to push me toward a private cloud. On the other hand, if I have huge amounts of data that I don't need to be highly available, that's the sort of thing that I would put into the public cloud. That would prevent my having to make a large infrastructure investment, and as we talked about earlier, it also lets me move quickly. I really think the future for all businesses is to look at this hybrid model. So, what's my service, what's my data, where do I want to put it, how much do I want to pay and why do I want to pay that? And rather than one menu, you'll have a set of rate cards from vendors that you can go and choose from. Robert: Microsoft's Windows Azure platform appliance announcement concerned the ability to take the services we offer in the public cloud and offer them on premises, while still keeping it very much as fundamentally a service. Todd: I think that makes a lot of sense when you look at what am I going to be worrying about as a CIO. In the life cycle of an application, I may even move it up and down between the layers of the cloud. I may start off in a public cloud and then bring it back in. I think one of the areas for innovation and investment that the industry needs to make is in enabling that. I do not want to be locked into a single place where I can't move my application and I'm stuck with a single source vendor. Being able to move my workload from vendor to vendor, private to public, to me is an important element of what will make a successful ecosystem. Robert: Clearly, you guys are a quintessential example of the public cloud. What are you looking at with regard to public customers? Todd: We actually don't offer a public cloud like Amazon or Google App Engine. In many ways, though, we are the cloud. People don't think of Yahoo that way, but we're the personal cloud. In terms of where people's resources such as emails, photos, fantasy sports teams, and financial portfolio, among other things, are to be found, Yahoo is a personal cloud service for 100Ms of people. It's just that they don't think of us that way. Considering whether we would move our workloads out into the public cloud, we finally come to the conclusion that probably, we would not. At the scale we deal with, it doesn't make sense. There's a certain scale, I think, where it makes sense for you to make it someone else's problem until it becomes a critical part of your business. For us at Yahoo!, running technology and trying to scale technology with 600 million registered users around the world, that is our problem, and it has to be. It's the only way that we can successfully execute on that. You see this with other folks as well. At the Structure Conference, Jonathan from Facebook was saying they have actually come to that same conclusion and that now they're actually creating their own data center, pouring their own concrete and building up. And they did that because they realized that, you know what, it was their problem. And they needed to have the level of control and the level of efficiency that you can derive by owning your own infrastructure. So for folks of our size, it's unlikely we're going to move our workload to Amazon or Azure. It just wouldn't make sense for us. Robert: Todd, thanks for your time. Todd: Thank you. It was great to talk to you.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9126
__label__wiki	0.621027	0.621027	Announcing the ACS Studio Prize 2017! The Artists' Collecting Society is proud to announce the inaugural ACS Studio Prize. This year ACS is offering an artist the chance to win £6,000 to contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in the UK. The Studio Prize was established after a number of our members spoke of the economic challenges they faced when starting their artistic careers. ACS realises how difficult it is to focus on your art especially after leaving university. The ACS Studio Prize 2017 was founded to help. If you are an undergraduate or postgraduate university student on an accredited Fine Art course who is about to graduate, or if you have graduated from a university accredited Fine Art course within the last four years, and you work in pictures, collage, painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics, glassware or photography, then you are eligible to apply for the prize. You can enter the Artists’ Collecting Society Studio Prize 2017 by visiting www.acsstudioprize.com. To ensure that you are considered for the prize, please complete your submission by 30 June 2017. For more information about ACS and what we do, please visit the ACS website or get in touch with one of the ACS team. ACS was formed in 2006 as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company to administer Artist’s Resale Right and copyright on behalf of our members. Since 2006 our membership has grown to over 1,000 artists and artists’ estates. Our members range from well-known artists such as Frank Auerbach, Paula Rego and Martin Creed, to estates of artists such as Lucian Freud and Barbara Hepworth. We are also proud to represent artists whose work has only recently started to sell regularly on the UK secondary market such as Bambi, Leonor Antunes and Pablo Bronstein. As a Community Interest Company ACS operates solely for the benefit of our member artists. This means that any surplus income is locked into the company and used for the benefit of our member artists and the artistic community. ACS is proud to fund bursaries for art students at leading institutions, whilst sponsoring a number of art prizes and charities. The Artists’ Collecting Society Studio Prize 2017 is just one such example. Share on Facebook / Share on Twitter	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9131
__label__wiki	0.867909	0.867909	Shin Godzilla tops Japan Academy Prize Date: March 7, 2017Author: asiaincinema Shin Godzilla (シン‧ゴジラ) was the top winner at the 40th Japan Academy Prize, held on March 3 in Tokyo. The Hideaki Anno film won a total of seven grand prizes – Best Film, Best Director (for both Anno and co-director Shinji Higuchi), Best Cinematography, Best Lighting, Best Art Direction, Best Sound and Best Editing. Even before its win at the award, Shin Godzilla has already earned the most accolades for any Japanese monster films, including Best Film at the Blue Ribbon Awards and three prizes at the Mainichi Film Award (including Best Film). It is the first film in the Godzilla series to win Best Film at the Academy Prize, as well as the first Academy Prize for Anno, the creator of the hugely popular Evangelion series. Anno, however, did not attend the ceremony due to work commitments. Shinkai Makoto’s animation sensation Your Name (君の名は。) also made history as the first animated film in Academy Prize history to win the Best Screenplay award. The body-swapping fantasy romance – now the second highest-grossing Japanese film of all-time – also won Best Score and the Popularity Award, but it lost the Best Animated Film prize to indie hit In This Corner of the World (この世界の片隅に). Tearjerker Her Love Boils Bathwater (湯を沸かすほどの熱い愛) also won two awards – a Best Actress prize for Rie Miyazawa (her third win) and a Best Supporting Actress prize for Hana Sugisaki, who plays Miyazawa’s daughter in the film. Miyazawa was also absent at the ceremony. The Best Actor prize went to Koichi Sato for police drama 64 (64-ロクヨン-). This is the actor’s second Best Actor win and fourth Academy Prize overall. Satoshi Tsumabuki picked up his third Academy prize with a Best Supporting Actor win for ensemble drama Rage (怒り). Clint Eastwood’s Sully won the Best Foreign Film award. awardsJapan Previous Previous post: Logan claws its way to top of China box office Next Next post: Love Off the Cuff to open 2017 HK Film Festival	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9133
__label__wiki	0.961721	0.961721	SEC’s latest prosecution: it is possible to pursue individual auditors for missing signs of fraud they should have caught; SEC steps up enforcement actions against CPAs for cooking books; BDO to Pay $2.1 Million to Settle SEC Charges over False and Misleading Audit Opinions http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/09/10/2139813/fraudit-failure/ Fraudit failure Dan McCrum \| Sep 10 10:45 \| 1 comment \| Share If you’re thinking about stock fraud, you don’t want to do it in the US where the SEC has both prosecutorial power and a desire to exercise it. One other point to consider from the SEC’s latest prosecution: it is possible to pursue individual auditors for missing signs of fraud they should have caught, without destroying the audit firm in a repeat of the Arthur Andersen collapse. Washington D.C., Sept. 9, 2015 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged national audit firm BDO USA with dismissing red flags and issuing false and misleading unqualified audit opinions about the financial statements of staffing services company General Employment Enterprises.The SEC also charged five of the firm’s partners for their roles in the deficient audits, and filed fraud charges against the client company’s then-chairman of the board and majority shareholder Stephen B. Pence, who is a former U.S. attorney and a former lieutenant governor of Kentucky. See the release for the full details, BDO settled. BDO agreed to admit wrongdoing, pay disgorgement of its audit fees and interest totaling approximately $600,000, and pay a $1.5 million penalty in addition to complying with undertakings related to its quality controls. The five partners also agreed to settle the charges against them. Two former CEOs of General Employment agreed to settle separate charges, and the litigation continues against Pence. Note too the auditor responsibility as the SEC sees it. “Audit firms must train their audit and national office professionals not only to recognize red flags but also to have the resolve to refuse signing off on an audit if there are unresolved material issues,” said Andrew Ceresney, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. “BDO failed to do that here, even though these issues were elevated to the highest levels of its audit practice.” SEC steps up enforcement actions against CPAs for cooking books Francine McKenna The Securities and Exchange Commission fined Bankrate Inc. (RATE, US) $15 million to settle charges that it engaged in accounting fraud to ensure that its financial results met analyst expectations, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The company’s former Chief Financial Officer Edward DiMaria and former director of accounting Matthew Gamsey, were also sued. The litigation continues against DiMaria and Gamsey. Former vice president of finance Hyunjin Lerner settled for $180,045 settlement for his role in the scheme. The SEC accused the company and the finance officials of scheming to boost revenue and understate expenses to meet analyst targets for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for the second quarter of 2012. That wasn’t the only accounting-related SEC enforcement action announced Tuesday. An SEC news release said the agency had charged MusclePharm(MSLP, US) with omitting or understating nearly a half-million dollars’ worth of perks bestowed upon its executives, including approximately $244,000 paid to CEO Brad Pyatt related to automobiles, apparel, meals, golf club memberships, and his personal tax and legal services. Then-audit committee chair Donald Prosser became directly involved in the process, but MusclePharm continued filing financial statements that neglected to include the disclosures. Andrew J. Ceresney, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement said in a statement, “Prosser, MusclePharm’s audit committee chair, subjected himself to liability when he substituted his wrong interpretation ofSEC rules for the views of experts the company had hired, resulting in an incorrect disclosure.” MusclePharm agreed to pay a $700,000 penalty and hire an independent monitor for one year among other undertakings. CEO Pyatt agreed to pay a $150,000 penalty, and Prosser and former chief financial officer L. Gary Davis Davis each agreed to pay $30,000 penalties. Davis and another former chief financial officer, Lawrence Meer, agreed to be suspended from practicing as an accountant on behalf of any SEC-regulated entities with a right to reapply after three and two years, respectively. In an SEC press briefing on the actions, MarketWatch asked Ceresney if this was a trend, given the number of CPAs and accounting related charges yesterday. Ceresney said the agency is very focused on financial reporting issues and on accounting personnel, especially gatekeepers such as auditors and audit committee members. BDO to Pay $2.1 Million to Settle SEC Charges over False and Misleading Audit Opinions Michael Cohn Accounting Today Online BDO USA has agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission that the firm dismissed a number of red flags and issued false and misleading unqualified audit opinions about the financial statements of a staffing services company, General Employment Enterprises. In addition to charging BDO, the SEC also charged five of the firm’s partners for their roles in the deficient audits, and filed fraud charges against the client company’s then-chairman of the board and majority shareholder Stephen B. Pence, who is a former U.S. attorney and a former lieutenant governor of Kentucky. BDO agreed to admit wrongdoing, pay disgorgement of its audit fees and interest totaling approximately $600,000, and pay a $1.5 million penalty in addition to complying with undertakings related to its quality controls. The firm was thereby able to avoid facing an administrative law judge at the SEC, where it had little chance of prevailing, and also avoid the higher costs of protracted litigation. The five partners also agreed to settle the charges against them. In addition, two former CEOs of General Employment agreed to settle separate charges, and the litigation continues against Pence. “Audit firms must train their audit and national office professionals not only to recognize red flags but also to have the resolve to refuse signing off on an audit if there are unresolved material issues,” said SEC enforcement director Andrew Ceresney in a statement. “BDO failed to do that here, even though these issues were elevated to the highest levels of its audit practice.” BDO said it wished to maintain good relations with the SEC and cooperated with the investigation, helping uncover millions of dollars in funds. “ BDO USA places significant value on maintaining positive relationships with its regulators and is pleased to resolve these claims with the SEC relating to BDO’s 2009-2010 audits of General Employment Enterprises (GEE),” said the firm in a statement. “As stated in the SEC’s press release, two senior GEE officers and the chairman of the board misled BDO. Despite that, BDO’s actions significantly contributed to the return of the $2.3 million in diverted funds at the heart of the case and to the termination of GEE’s then CEO, who would later be identified as a co-conspirator in the diversion of the funds. BDO is committed to complying with all provisions of the agreement as it continues to perform high quality audits for public companies.” According to the SEC, near the end of BDO’s 2009 audit of General Employment, BDO was advised by the company that $2.3 million purportedly invested in a 90-day nonrenewable CD wasn’t repaid by the bank upon its maturity date. BDO also learned that a bank employee indicated there was no record of a CD being purchased from the bank. The $2.3 million represented approximately half of the company’s assets and substantially all of its cash. BDO then received multiple conflicting stories from company management and board members about the status of the purported CD, and the company received a series of deposits totaling $2.3 million from three entities unaffiliated with the bank. One entity was purportedly owned by Pence. After BDO raised more questions, the company claimed the deposits were the proceeds of an agreement to assign the purported CD to an unrelated party in return for the value of the CD. However, BDO never received reasonable and coherent explanations about why the $2.3 million went missing and why an equivalent amount was later received by the company under suspicious circumstances. BDO’s engagement partner on the audit, Sean C. Henaghan, and the concurring reviewer, John E. Rainis, subsequently consulted with senior BDO partners, including regional technical director James J. Gerace, national director of accounting Leland E. Graul, and national SEC practice director Wendy M. Hambleton. BDO then issued a five-page letter to the company highlighting the conflicting information and demanding an independent investigation overseen by the audit committee. But just days later despite no reasonable explanation from the company, BDO withdrew its demand and subsequently issued unqualified opinions on the financial statements included in General Employment’s 2009 and 2010 annual reports. Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Henaghan, Rainis, Gerace, and Graul agreed to be suspended from practicing public company accounting for varying periods. Henaghan agreed to pay a $30,000 penalty, Rainis agreed to pay a $15,000 penalty, and Gerace, Graul, and Hambleton each agreed to pay $10,000 penalties. According to the SEC’s complaint filed against Pence in federal court in Manhattan, Pence made materially misleading statements and omissions to BDO audit professionals in response to questions about the purported $2.3 million CD and dubious related-party transactions. Pence signed the company’s 2009 annual report despite knowing it included misleading statements and omissions about the missing $2.3 million and related-party transactions. Pence also created the false appearance that he was acting independently in his capacity as the majority shareholder and chairman of General Employment when in fact he was acting as an agent for a convicted felon named Wilbur Anthony Huff, who had funded Pence’s purported acquisition of a majority stake in the company. Pence received at least a half-million dollars from Huff in 2009 and 2010 as well as a luxury Cadillac Escalade valued at approximately $50,000. Huff has since received a prison sentence in a criminal action related to his intricate involvement in a wide-ranging conspiracy, which included misappropriating the $2.3 million in question from General Employment. The SEC’s complaint charges Pence with violating the securities laws. The SEC is seeking permanent injunctions, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains plus prejudgment interest and penalties, and an officer-and-director bar. The SEC separately charged former General Employment CEOs Ronald E. Heineman and Salvatore J. Zizza with making materially misleading statements and omissions to BDO. Without admitting or denying the findings, they consented to SEC orders requiring them to each pay $150,000 penalties. “Company executives and board members have an obligation to tell auditors the complete truth about corporate events and transactions,” said Andrew M. Calamari, regional director of the SEC’s New York office. “We allege that Pence misled auditors and investors while acting as a front man for a convicted felon who was actively scheming to misuse company funds.” ← Adviser on Chinese Reverse Mergers Is Charged in a Securities Fraud Case; Federal prosecutors call him something else: a “master of manipulation” who reaped tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits Accounting Rife with Estimates Haunted Toshiba →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9134
__label__cc	0.575219	0.424781	“You’re always thinking, ‘would that work in Belfast?’” Restaurateur Niall McKenna on working with architect Aidan McGrath “The best buildings are the product of an empathetic relationship between the client and architect” – architect Aidan McGrath of McGonigle McGrath (left), with restaurateur Niall McKenna (centre) at McKenna’s James Street South Bar + Grill, Belfast. Barrie Todd, founder of ask an architect, pictured right. Photo: Maria Postanogova. This conversation took place at James St South Bar + Grill, Thursday 10th May 2018. How did you get started working together? Niall McKenna: I first met Aidan at the first Roscoff fit-out and that was a long time ago. So, I was only a cub of 18 and even then I knew that he was something special. It’s Aidan’s reputation and the architectural style that he has – that’s what drew me to working with him. Aidan McGrath: Our first project was Roscoff, then Cayenne, then James Street South and more recently Hadski’s and the James Street South Bar + Grill. Each time you learn a little bit more and gain a little bit of experience. Does your own style and taste come through in the restaurants? NMK: Personally, I really do like the minimal look, but at the same time it’s down to what the customer wants and the market you’re in. Not everything we do in the restaurant is my personal style – it has to be commercially viable. AMG: You have to be constantly aware of the public. You can take the public along with you a bit, but sometimes you have to follow them also. What kind of space do you need to think about when designing a restaurant? AMG: There are a couple of fundamental things. We always consider volume and space to be a luxury: let’s go for tall ceilings and height and volume. But along with that come acoustic issues, so you can get a hugely impressive space in which you can’t hear yourself think. I think the scale should be humane, so that people don’t feel daunted or intimidated by the scale of the space. You wouldn’t want to sit in the King’s Hall or the SSE Arena to have your dinner, you want something much more intimate. So in terms of scale, it’s about humanity, it’s about trying to make it something that people can fairly readily identify with. NMK: From our point of view, it’s about the flow of the restaurant, how the floor works. The practicalities for me as a restauranteur, for our staff and the customer. Normally I’d let Aidan design and then we’d tinker afterwards, because Aidan understands exactly what the restaurateur needs, and to me that is the key thing. It’s one of the things that a lot of people get wrong when it comes to restaurants. They go fully “design” on it but don’t look at the practicalities of the business – working with someone who has the expertise that Aidan has, he gets that straight away. To what extent can you design the atmosphere of a restaurant space? AMG: To some extent it’s intuitive – which is great when it works and a disaster when it doesn’t work! You are constantly researching. You visit other spaces, you visit other restaurants, you make a mental note – and sometimes a literal note – of spaces and rooms that delight you and that you think might be worthy of some closer examination. NMK: To me it’s the subtle things, from entrances, to seats, to the height of tables. It’s trying to get as much into the space as possible that is interesting. I love eating, love wine, love traveling, and to me you’re always learning something, you’re always seeing something new. You’re always thinking, “Oh, would that work in Belfast? Would that work here? Would that work in James Street South? Would that work in Hadskis?” And, that’s where I think design is a great thing. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a restaurant, it could be a museum, it could be anything. Most of the projects you’ve worked on have been in older buildings – what is the attraction? NMK: To me it’s about the area. When we first opened James Street South, it wasn’t in a nice street – it was in a backstreet, we had a hostel at the end of the road. But, to me it was attractive, because I like being on the backstreet, I love the dinginess of it, but at the same time I love the facade of it. AMG: One of the attractions for us about buildings like the one that holds James Street South is that it’s inherently a Belfast building. I think the key is getting the public into these buildings for whatever function. This building has got that red, Belfast, Victorian brick, so you’re not trying to create an image, the image already exists and it’s a powerful one. And too frequently around the city people hide it, or plaster it, or put fake stone in front of it. But here it is – we’ve exposed it and people that come in enjoy it. Visitors recognise it for being what it is. There are challenges working in older buildings like this, but I think that the rewards are greater than the challenges. NMK: When we went inside it was totally bare, so being realistic, other than a couple of poles, supporting beams being in the restaurant, off we went. As soon as I walked in I knew how it was going to be designed: there’s the kitchen, there’s the toilets, there’s that and we’re done. Aidan then comes in and says, Right, this is what we’re going go do and nine times out of ten it’s exactly the same. And then Aidan does his design on it. Within Belfast there are so many beautiful buildings. In my personal opinion no red brick building in Belfast should be knocked down. To me good design is good design and being realistic, if you’re a good enough architect you can design that building and keep the heritage in Belfast. Can we expect more new restaurant projects from you both in the near future? NMK: Within Belfast we’ve just taken over a building on Hill Street. Waterman House is our next project and we’re moving the cookery school there from James Street South. We’re making a food offering somewhere in the building and the rest will be rented out. To me it’s a very interesting building, it’s a beautiful building, it’s a great street, I think the facade of the old listed building is wonderful. You go into a warehouse and then you go into a square brick building at the back with a flat roof. AMG: You have to nurse the project along because to some extent it’s dictated by the building. There’s no point in trying to shoehorn a function into it, or a type of activity into that isn’t appropriate to the building. We’re all getting to know the complex of buildings. NMK: I think it’s interesting – there’s longevity to that building, it’ll be a few-year project. It comes down to how much money can you afford to throw at it from a business side. But we’re going to do it and we’re going to do it slowly and hopefully we’ll do it right. What advice can you share for business people thinking about working with an architect? AMG: One thing I would say, I think that the best buildings are the product of an empathetic relationship between the client and architect – and even the contractors. Architecture tends to fail if one party is forcing an opinion on another. It becomes about ego – and not about the result. NMK: Aidan comes with the design and we come from our side as restaurateurs and there’s a backward and forward, backward and forward. It comes down to cost, how far you want to go. But at the end of the day, the design usually wins because you realise it’s going to work. McGonigle McGrath Architects are participating in the 2018 edition of ‘ask an architect’. Until 20th May 2018, clients including homeowners and businesses can get a one-hour consultation with any of the 52 architecture practices taking part in ask an architect throughout Northern Ireland, in exchange for a £40 donation to the Friends of the Cancer Centre.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9135
__label__wiki	0.897503	0.897503	It’s Barr’s ‘Baby’ Now, Not Mueller’s By Julie Kelly\| 2019-05-02T21:45:57-07:00 May 1st, 2019\| For nearly two years, Robert Mueller worked for the U.S. Department of Justice as a special counsel appointed by then-Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Despite the Left’s attempt to deify Robert Mueller as an omnipotent figure somehow unbound by the constraints of the Constitution and law, in reality, he was an employee of the Justice Department. He was a publicly-appointed prosecutor paid with U.S. tax dollars. On March 22, 2019, Robert Mueller’s job ended when he submitted his long-awaited report to Attorney General William Barr. At that point, according to the federal regulation governing the appointment of a special counsel, Mueller’s task was over: “At the conclusion of the Special Counsel’s work, he or she shall provide the Attorney General with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel.” Or, in Barr’s more memorable words during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, the report became “my baby.” The willful ignorance and collective outrage of the media, Democratic lawmakers and NeverTrump agitators do not change facts or even the “rule of law” they’re always pretending to defend. Barr reiterated that sad reality for reality-challenged Trump haters when, upon receipt of Mueller’s report on March 22, the attorney general immediately notified congressional leaders that, “Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has concluded his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters.” And although Barr is under no legal obligation to release the 448-page report, both Barr and President Trump had made clear that they hoped the full document would be disclosed to the public as quickly as possible. But Mueller, a skilled former FBI director appointed by both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, thwarted that effort—perhaps intentionally. (Mueller also was interviewed by Trump for the job as FBI director the day before he was appointed special counsel.) In mid-February, shortly after he was sworn-in, Barr instructed Mueller’s team to identify any grand jury material in the final report “so we could redact that material and prepare the report for public release as quickly as we could.” Barr confirmed his order during his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning. But Mueller did not abide by that request, and instead submitted a raw report without suggested redactions. Since the report had not been vetted by the special counsel’s office, Barr explained, and it would have taken at least three weeks to protect sensitive information in the document, he decided to compose a summary of the report’s conclusions in order to partially satisfy the public’s interest. “I made the determination that we had to put out some information about the bottom line,” Barr told the committee. “The body politic was in a high state of agitation. There was massive interest in learning what the bottom line results of Bob Mueller’s investigation was, particularly as to collusion. Former government officials were confidently predicting that the president and members of his family were going to be indicted. So I didn’t feel that it was in the public interest to allow this to go on for several weeks.” His baby. On March 24, Barr issued another letter to those same congressional leaders—ultimately intended for the public—condensing Mueller’s key conclusions about both the collusion and obstruction of justice inquiries. Barr accurately stated that the special counsel did not find any evidence of coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The letter also outlined Mueller’s investigation into potential obstruction of justice offenses by President Trump. Barr explained that Mueller’s team presented “evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the Special Counsel views as ‘difficult issues’ of law and fact.” Barr lifts verbatim the specific words included in Mueller’s report: “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it does not exonerate him.” But Barr’s letter, which Mueller refused to review before it was released—again, perhaps intentionally—irritated the former special counsel. He sent the attorney general two follow-up letters, on March 25 and March 27, to express his displeasure. All of a sudden, Team Mueller found their thick black pen. Mueller forwarded an executive summary of each volume that had been “marked with redactions” the day after Barr’s own letter was issued. Mueller’s letter of March 27, which was leaked to the Washington Post on the eve of Barr’s Senate testimony, claimed Barr’s memo “did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions.” The former special counsel claimed Barr’s letter caused “public confusion” about his work and undermined public confidence in the investigation. Mueller asked Barr to release the materials that his team had finally redacted and prepped for public consumption. Barr did not comply with the former special counsel’s demands. Why? Because, at that point, the report was legally and appropriately Barr’s baby—not Mueller’s. The former special counsel had no standing to try to call the shots. Mueller had his chance to comply with a direct order from his boss, and he ignored it, likely in a calculated attempt to delay the process so his biased team could selectively leak damaging portions of the report to complicit journalists and shape the message while the Justice Department remained impotent for nearly a month. Barr was having none of it. So Mueller’s people started whining to the press about their “simmering frustrations,” according to an early April article in the New York Times. If Barr wouldn’t prostrate before the demands of the Almighty Mueller, they would make the attorney general pay the price with hit pieces in the sympathetic news media. Barr released the full report with minor redactions on April 18. The controversy over Mueller’s letter dominated the news cycle late Tuesday and spilled over to the hearing on Wednesday. Democratic lawmakers accused Barr of “lying” when he told Representative Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) during a hearing on April 9 that he didn’t know about the basis for vague “reports” that Team Mueller was frustrated at Barr’s March 24 letter. But Barr did in fact tell Crist that he suspected the special counsel’s office had wanted “more [information] put out” to the public. That early effort, Barr again reiterated, was delayed because Mueller defied Barr’s request to identify sensitive material in the report. During his Wednesday testimony, Barr had a chance to address the Mueller letter, which he called “a bit snitty,” and speculated it had been written by one of Mueller’s staffers. During a March 28 phone call between the two, Barr asked Mueller, “What’s with the letter?” he told the committee about his exchange with the former special counsel. “Why don’t you just pick up the phone and call me if there’s any issue?” Mueller, according to Barr, was worried the media was misinterpreting the report but assured Barr he had no specific gripe with Barr’s letter. If Robert Mueller was unhappy with Barr’s March 24 letter that sought to provide a quick outline of the special counsel’s findings in order to satisfy massive public interest, he only has himself to blame. Mueller’s calculated gambit to delay the full report’s release by refusing to furnish the requested redactions so his team instead could shape the narrative behind the scenes, failed. The former FBI director who knows all the tricks of the trade was trumped, so to speak, by the legitimate and sober lawman. So, when Barr called his bluff; Mueller threw a temper tantrum. But it was too late: It was, and is, Barr’s baby now. Photo Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9141
__label__wiki	0.849654	0.849654	Relient K Posted on July 18, 2016 July 26, 2016 by Jonathan Bautts Lead singer Matt Thiessen and guitarist Matt Hoopes chat on a wide array of topics, including the band’s fresh new album Air for Free, redefining Relient K at this point in their career, and what the future holds. So are you still basking in the Cavaliers title glow? Matt Thiessen: It’s been weird. I don’t know. How do you embrace it? It’s almost one of those things where now that you have it, you’re like, “What do I do with all this happiness that I have?” Yeah, it’s good, but kind of chill. Matt Hoopes: I was so nervous watching Game 7. It was such a joy in my heart, that moment. It’s been amazing, yeah. We’re really, really, really happy for them. Since you wrote the Browns a song with “Mrs. Hippopotamuses,’” is there going to be a Cavs song next? Thiessen: There actually are some old Cavs songs I put on my MySpace a long time ago when MySpace was a thing. I saw some people tweeting lyrics from one of the songs the other day, and I thought it was funny that it was still somehow out there. I don’t know. I might be done with sports songs for a little bit. I actually have a song called “Sports,” but it doesn’t mention any teams. I bet you’re glad you’re not in Ohio this week with the RNC Convention in Cleveland. Hoopes: Yeah, my parents were watching and felt pretty fearful for a national tragedy. Thiessen: Oh, wow. Yeah, we’ll see what happens. The hotel rooms are all booked up around where we’re from. My wife’s dad was trying to get a hotel in Akron, and he’s like, “Is Jesus Christ himself coming to Akron? What’s going on?” Then we’re like, “Oh, it’s the Convention. It’s just Donald Trump.” Oh my goodness. So I think this new record is the most eclectic one you’ve done. It’s got the quirky songs, the love songs, the spiritual songs, the emotionally heavy hitting songs, and somehow you’re able to make that come together to encompass all the different facets Relient K has been over the years. What was that like, just pulling everything together and making it gel like that? Thiessen: I didn’t really do it on purpose. We spent a long time working on the record, so I guess a lot of different songs came out. To that end, I felt like they all grouped together to go on this thing. That’s cool that you think they all work together like that. That’s nice. Hoopes: I actually agree with you, Jonathan. It feels like a lot of the songs really do make sense in context. There are these three and four song pockets of the record that seem to make sense, but then for a lot of them it oddly does make sense as a whole somehow someway. That was mainly not as thought out as one would guess, but we’re happy with how it came together. It was funny. Someone today I saw on Twitter was asking about our song “Runnin’” on the new record, which kind of has a piece from the “Deathbed” song. He was like, “Was that coincidence that these are both track 14?” I was like, “Oh man, we didn’t even plan on that.” Then he also said something about another song being connected to “Sahara” off of our Forget and Not Slow Down record. It was a funny interaction. I was like, I wish it was that thought out. But no, it just kind of happened. We’re just proud of it. The last record, Collapsible Lung, got more of a mixed reaction from the fans, and then in between this record and that record you also did the Mmhmm 10th anniversary tour, which is probably regarded as your most successful and best record. Did either of those two events have any bearing on where you decided to go with this record? Thiessen: Sure. I feel like we’ve been following a pretty safe path ever since releasing the Collapsible Lung record. The 10th anniversary tour was really fun to do, and making an album was obviously the next step after releasing the last one. We took a little while to do it. I don’t know if that helped separate the last album from this album, taking some time. Hoopes: I think everything you do as a person creates a path that you end up on and where you end up at. Especially as a band and as the scope of our career goes, yeah, I think both those things are the reason we’re here where we’re at today. It’s the reason why our album sounds the way it does. Collapsible Lung was an interesting time, too. It does seem like a lot of our fans, even from the initial scowling toward it, have really warmed up to it overall. Like, “Oh, there are actually some pretty good songs on there. I maybe was too quick to be angry about this.” Thiessen: We were going for that with the whole album. We wanted to upset people and surprise people, try hard in some places and really not try at all in other places, and let other people take the wheel just to see what that would turn into. It was an experiment. I like it. I try not to talk poorly about it, but we definitely wanted to make a different record this time around. With Relient K being just the two of you now, has that changed a lot with the way the band operates? Thiessen: Not really. Hoopes: It’s kind of been the underlying story of the last three years. Thiessen: Even longer than that, I would say. Hoopes: We finally decided to make that part of the story. We’re back. We’re doing this. We’re excited about this project and also about the band, and the band is now Matt and Matt plus whatever friends we have. We’ve got some good friends, so it’s been good. I know you worked with Mark Lee Townsend again on this record. What was that like, hooking back up with him? Did you guys bring in any of those other good friends you were talking about to help out with any of this stuff? Thiessen: Yeah, for sure. Our old drummer, Dave Douglas, came down to Nashville and played on maybe half the songs. I don’t have a count in my head right now. Then our friend Tom Breyfogle, who lives here in Nashville and has a band called Birds in the Airport, he’s actually been playing bass live with us. He plays drums on the other half of the record. Then Mark Lee Townsend was basically the bass player in the band. That was from the get-go of forming these songs, and that was a really fun experience. Mark’s never been in the band before. This was the first time it felt like there wasn’t someone he was kicking out to step in and have a role, and that changed everything. Mark’s a Beatles nut, so you’re going to hear Beatles-esque basslines throughout Relient K stuff, which is pretty fun for me to be able to experience that. This record seems to be your most heavily piano-based, or at least certainly up there. Was that a big part of the songwriting for you? Thiessen: Yeah. We tried to do a guitar heavy, up-tempo rock record at the beginning of the process. It didn’t feel right, so we abandoned the idea, and we have some cool songs left in the chest for the future. I just banged out a lot of these songs on the piano at my house, showed them to Hoopes, and then we proceeded with the record when there was enough of them. So yes, it was piano, and just chilling and finding free time to do stuff, which was weird because I didn’t have to finish at any time. I could take my time on certain songs. I really dragged my feet on a lot of it, but that was a fun thing for me to be able to exercise, being at home and writing the record whenever I wanted to. At the end of the whole thing, I had some people looking me in the eye and saying, “Matt, it’s time to finish your album already.” That went on for a couple months before it was done. So I apologize for taking too long, but it was fun to do. Hoopes: I feel like this album should be released now. It does feel like the summertime. It does feel like this is the right time. It’s allowed us a minute to step back and make this thing that is Relient K that we started in high school, to grab it by the horns again. Thiessen: By the udders. Hoopes: Yeah, by the udders. To take a step back and make this want we want, you know? Tour the way we want to tour and make albums the way we want to make albums. I think that was a lot of fun. It’s funny. I was describing this album to a friend earlier today. I keep saying it’s like piano-based rock music with surf guitars [laughs]. I don’t know exactly how to say that, but I definitely approached the guitar from a different perspective because I liked where the piano was at. I wanted to keep the piano and still focus on that, but approach guitars not from we need a wall of 17 guitar tracks as much as how can we make this song better, you know? It does feel like a summer record because there are a lot of outdoorsy references, and a lot of animal references as well. Was there a theme you were going for with all those? Thiessen: It became easier to do, I guess, as it went along. The idea of having a cat, I didn’t have a cat and I wanted to write about the cat, so it was good. That made into referring to a cat in a couple other songs, and even having a song called “Cat.” So really the cat showed up in the ukulele song “Sleepin’” and then he got to be on the rest of the record, because that song was early. I do like animals. I’ve been feeding birds a lot lately, figuring out which kinds they are and what they sing about. All that stuff. That’s fun. I’ve been writing a lot of solo songs that are all about the woods and nature and that sort of thing. It’s something that’s appealing to me in music. Is that how you arrived at the concept and title of Air for Free? Thiessen: Actually, that was a bit of a weird thing. You know that Goo Goo Dolls song where he’s like, “Do you wanna get married?” Do you remember that one? What song is that one? Hoopes: “Slide.” Thiessen: “Slide.” So I had this song and I was singing along. I was like [singing], “Marry me.” It was so cheesy, and then I thought of that Goo Goo Dolls song. I thought I would try and rhyme the words and come up with something different. So “Air for Free” came out of that. The song took shape out of other ideas, too. Like, the second verse had to do more with “Air for Free” than the first verse did, because “Air for Free” didn’t exist when the first verse was written. It was fun. The first song you released from this project was “Look on Up,” which ended up not making the final cut of the album. What was it like deciding to keep that song off? Thiessen: I think originally when we released it, the idea was not to put it on the record. Then I think we may have thought it would be on the record, and then we ended up deciding to not put it on the record. Hoopes: Yeah, it was a very haphazard decision. There was a lot of back and forth about it. Thiessen: The writing process for that one was different. It wasn’t necessarily written for Relient K, and all the other songs were definitely written for this album. I think that was the biggest difference. I feel like this album experiments more with song structures than at any point you have in the past. A lot of songs feel like a couple different songs in one. You got some different movements here and there. What was it like playing around with that kind of stuff? Thiessen: I think whenever you deviate from the norm, it gets a bit annoying. You annoy a listener that’s trying to listen to a regular old pop song. Sometimes what I want to do with music is make it a little bit annoying, or have it jut out a little it. Messing with the arrangement can do that, or just doing anything can screw it up, really. I feel like that’s all over the record. Hoopes: It almost became a theme of like what you were talking about, the movements within the songs. It just always felt right. It felt like it was bringing a new energy to a song that was halfway done by taking a 90-degree left turn. That felt exciting to me. When we were putting these songs together and coming up with, OK, what does the tempo change need to be here? What does the key change need to be here? How will the feel of the song drastically change? That was really exciting to me, as far as putting this album together. And honestly, I think it’s fun to listen to. I enjoy when bands do that. The theme that we had was let’s make ourselves happy. Let’s do music that we feel is important and feels important to us, and feels exciting and fun. I feel like in some ways at least we’ve accomplished that goal. You’ve done some narrative-based songwriting in the past, most notably on “Deathbed,” and that pops up a little bit on this record as well. You got something like “Runnin,’” which has those different movements we were just talking about. Does that change then how you approach writing a song, if you know you’re going for more of that narrative-based approach? Thiessen: Honestly, that example in “Runnin,’” I was probably least in favor of putting that there. The song existed from a long time ago. It sounded cool there, and I wasn’t opposed to it 100 percent, but I had to be convinced to do it, mainly because I think it was hard for me to switch to a narrative there. I like that idea in songwriting. I’d like to write a book some day. I don’t know if I ever could, but narratives are cool and I like to read. Songwriting, some days I just don’t want to think about it as a thing anymore [laughs]. Have you ever tossed around the idea of doing a concept record? Thiessen: Yeah. Hoopes: It’s definitely been talked about. Mark, who produced this record, that’s something he’s brought up since probably 2002. Thiessen: That “Deathbed” song was intended to actually turn into a concept record. The middle song from “Runnin,’” the orphan song, was supposed to be the first track on it. So maybe we’ll finish it, yeah. Hoopes: Who knows? It’s something he was not only constantly suggesting, this concept album type thing, but also he was the one very much in favor of putting those three movements together. He was really driving that ship, as far as making sure that that happened. Thiessen: And that’s what you want in a producer. You want a producer that’s excited about something and sees it as something different than maybe what you see it as. It’s fun to follow him. But yeah, the concept record kind of reminds me of Sufjan Stevens when he said he was going to write about all the states, right? We just haven’t finished it yet, but maybe he’ll write about all 50 states and maybe we’ll finish it. I bet he’s got a lot of states done. He probably just wants to release it all at once. He wants to do an album, right? Hoopes: An album per state, yeah. Thiessen: That’s an undertaking. Another song I really enjoyed and was struck by on the record was “God,” which almost feels like a sequel to “For the Moments I Feel Faint” in some ways. I was curious what do you think has changed for you on that journey over these last 15 years? Thiessen: Not a lot has changed, yeah. I like going to church. I enjoy it a lot. I don’t go every week. Matt goes every week, don’t you? Hoopes: Yeah, I go a lot. Thiessen: Matt takes his kids, and that’s good. Switchfoot is a really good example in this world, and we’re excited to be going on tour with them. That “God” song is cool. It was hard to put on the record, because I didn’t want anyone thinking we were shoving anything, but I think it comes across pretty all right. Hoopes: I think also the older you get, the more of life you live through, you realize that your faith, your spirituality, your overall view of what’s important in this time that we have on this planet, is much more complex than can be fit into a song, or into an album even, and also that music is in and of itself important. Music is one of those conduits that allows for expressing some of those feelings. I think if anything we felt there was some pressure taken off. It’s not like you have to have your entire theology spelled out in an album, but it can be a cool expression here and there for sure. Thiessen: Mark Townsend, before every preproduction day, basically said words over the record and prayed. When you make music, you’re creating something out of nothing. So to do it and give it as gifts, and as you’re doing it embrace it as it’s not for us but to worship and to make music for the joy of making music, when you do it with that attitude, something cool will come out of it. Mark knew that when we started, and I really appreciated him being that leader in that way. You came up in the CCM market on the first few records, and then were in the major label world for a bit after that. Have you ever felt pressure, either externally or internally, to include or exclude certain subjects on records, or anything like that? Thiessen: You can start with swearing, I suppose. I try not to swear in songs. I’ve pushed the envelope, I’m sure, to a certain extent on subject matter. I remember writing a song that Matt Hoopes’ mom didn’t like a long time ago, and then more recently we’ve probably gotten some pushback from Collapsible Lung a little bit. I don’t know. There’s nothing that I want to say that I don’t get to say, I guess. You know, Blink-182, when they can use all the words, you’re like, “Yeah! That’s cool [laughs].” Hoopes: That’s funny. Yeah, I think it’s mainly been a good thing for us. It’s helped us realize what’s important to us and what is the mark we want to leave on the world. For us, being able to focus on positivity, on things that are important to us, has been a help and not a hindrance. We don’t view it as a set of rules as much as just being able to take a step back. Thiessen: We have 10-year-old fans. I mean, that’s a cool thing to have. I embrace that and I’m glad that we have them, and younger. When we write songs, I guess we hope that they’ll like them. Sometimes they may not understand everything, but yeah. One of the cool deviations you throw in on the record is “Empty House,” where you do some Bon Iver/Kanye style vocal effects. What was it like playing around with that? Thiessen: The interesting part, I suppose, is I didn’t play around with it very much. I didn’t know what to sing over the song, so I hit record and what I did is what the song is, what the one lead vocal is in the song. And then I was like, all right. I’m done. I threw an Auto-Tuner on it and some effects I have on my computer. I was like, great. It’s done. Matt actually did like it. I thought it was just one of those joke songs I would have around that I would play every once in a while for a friend or I would go back and visit. But Matt thought it was cool enough to go on the record, so we put some more instruments on it. And that’s it. Hoopes: “Empty House” is a song that to me is one of my favorites, if not my favorite, on the album. I actually pushed at one point to call the album “Empty House.” The reason for that is the first time I heard that demo Matt is talking about that he made, I remember just feeling it. I remember understanding the emotion he was trying to get across, even though all the lyrics weren’t finished and there’s an Auto-Tune on all the way. There’s something about that that I had never heard before that I felt was important. I felt like we would lose something if we went back and tried to fix it or polish it up too much. I just thought it was amazing that I could feel the emotion he was trying to put out in whatever way I was feeling it. I think that makes it important and is an interesting way to do it. It feels bold to me to do that. It feels in some ways the most punk rock thing we could do is to release a piano song with an Auto-Tuner on it and a vocoder, having fun with that type of thing. Two of my other favorite songs on the record I’ll ask about real quick are “Local Construction” and “Man.” Can you talk about those two a little bit? Thiessen: Cool. “Man” is funny. I’ve never heard anybody say they like that song before. Hoopes: I’ve seen it a lot. Thiessen: Oh, that’s cool. That one, I don’t know what it’s about. It was supposed to be somewhat of a continuation of the last song on Forget and Not Slow Down, called “(If You Want It).” There’s some sort of tie in there, with pirate ships and Peter Pan and all that stuff. But yeah, that was one of the first ones I wrote for the record. Then, “Local Construction.” We live in Nashville. I like to get around in Nashville. I like to exercise. I’ll go run around and one place I like to go is called Love Circle. It’s this hill you can climb, usually covered in trash, but you can look out and see the entire city and the skyline. Depending on what time of day, you can see the sunrise. There’s so many cranes out there. You can count them all and it’s fun. Sometimes I get 14, sometimes I’m at 22. You can spot all these cranes making all the construction. It dies down. It gets bigger, and then it gets smaller. But anyways, construction as a metaphor, everybody experiences it. It affects your life, and then there’s what you do in your own life. There was a parallel to making the album, and just being a good guy takes work. Seeing this construction all the time and all these people working, sometimes I feel bad I’m not out there doing something harder, like jackhammering concrete. I don’t want to do that, but I’m glad that people do it for us. Sometimes they put up huge buildings that block the view, but the building therefore becomes the view and the skyline keeps growing. It’s weird to see it change from season to season. So Nashville is just this flurry of construction. I’ve always been a big fan of both your Christmas songs and your covers. I was curious have you ever talked about doing any more of either of those? Thiessen: Always. That’s permanently on the docket, yeah. We probably have another Christmas song to record by now. Hoopes: That we should definitely do. Thiessen: “Christmastime in North America,” is that what it is? Hoopes: Yeah, let’s do that one. We got one more Christmas song coming at you there. Do you have any cover requests? Ooh, cover requests… Hoopes: We’re going to put you right on the spot. Thiessen: We’ll cover it right now. Hoopes: You can text me later. It’s cool. I really like your “Sloop John B” cover, so I wouldn’t mind another Beach Boys one. Thiessen: That’s a good one. Hoopes: A Beach Boys cover album is something I always wanted to do. Thiessen: Yeah, I would do a Paul Simon and Beach Boys cover combo. That’d be great. Hoopes: Either that or we had that idea to do the Nickelback and Smash Mouth cover combo. Thiessen: That’s kind of evil. I hate to talk negatively, but there were songs on the radio that we just couldn’t stand. We were going to cover all of them and it was going to be really great. None of them were by Nickelback or Smash Mouth, though. You’ve been busy doing a bunch of different collaborative songwriting on the side. Have you been doing any of that lately? Thiessen: Yeah, that’s always fun. I got to hang out with Gin Wigmore the other day. She’s really nice. We wrote with my friend, Frank, who has produced Darius Rucker and Brad Paisley. Some really cool country stuff. I’ve been writing with that band COIN. I really like them a lot. They’ve been letting me hang out, meet cool producers and just be in the mix. But yeah, life is an adventure on that front for sure. Sometimes I like to concentrate on the band, sometimes I like to go on songwriting adventures, and sometimes I like to chill. Right now, I’m working on a project with Adam Young from Owl City. I think it’s called Goodbye Dubai. We’ve kind of tweeted about it before or something. Kids know about it. That’s taking shape and that’s really fun. I fly out to Minnesota next week to keep working on it. You worked with the Fray on their new record, right? Thiessen: Yeah, and since then, too. I don’t know where they are with their current endeavor, but I’m excited to hear it. I wrote a couple songs with Isaac that hopefully will come out in the future. They’re really great guys. I know Joe and Isaac the best, but they’re really big personalities. I feel like I can learn so much from hanging out with them for just minutes. It’s cool to get to write with people that I’m a fan of. At this point in Relient K’s career, you are pretty much self-sufficient. You’re on your own label and more or less run the band all in-house. How have you liked taking on all that workload? Hoopes: It’s a lot of fun. It doesn’t come without its problems, but I like that we can do whatever we want whenever we want. It’s calling one guy, rather than making sure a team of people agree with what you want to do. I think right now being nimble, being able to switch gears and do whatever you want, is worth a lot. We try to be thankful for where we’re at and what we’re doing. It’s not without its problems, though. Like for example, we were on the fence about releasing a CD version of this album in general, just making them. We were like, “Are we just putting out waste into the Earth by creating these compact discs?” So right now our compact disc is running a little bit late because of miscommunications between the graphic designer and the printer. Things that are on us to take care of now all of a sudden, and we are not the best at taking care of those things sometimes. Thiessen: That’s funny. I’m just now finding out about this. Hoopes: Yeah, it’s just running a little bit late. It was supposed to be here last week and it’s not here yet. So that’s fun. It will come out, though. We will have a compact disc version. You grew up listening to CDs. I grew up listening to CDs. Is it almost sad, or bittersweet in a way, that you even have to have a discussion these days on whether or not you’re going to make CDs? Thiessen: No, not to me, just because of the way history has accepted and then rejected different media forms. I don’t shed a tear for VHS. It’s kind of fun to pop one in every once in a while. I don’t have an 8-track player, but I kind of wish I did. That’d be cool. Vinyl’s good. CD’s are fine, if you have a CD player. I don’t know if I have one anywhere. Hoopes: Yeah, it’s a funny thing. I do understand that in the scope of our career someone might have all our other records on CD and want to finish it. Thiessen: Yeah, that’s cool. I would want a CD. Hoopes: I guess that’s fine. Me, personally, do I care if an album that I’m going to get, if they make it on CD or not? No, I don’t care. I don’t think there’s any tears shed on our end. You already mentioned it, but the big thing you have coming up in the fall is the Switchfoot tour. It was nine years ago since you toured with them last, which was a really fun time. Can you talk about what you have in-store for that tour? Thiessen: We don’t have much in-store. We’re still trying to figure all that out, but we’re excited to go on it. It’s going to be a lot of shows and should be fun. Hoopes: Yeah, we’re really excited to hang out with them. We’re really excited to play a lot of these venues and just enjoy doing what we do. I think this is an amazing context to be able to do that, touring with these guys that we love. It’s feels very positive. It feels like the right move for this record. Thiessen: We’re really appreciative of them taking us out. They’re pretty awesome. Their live show is really great. I think everything they do is really good. I’ve always been a huge fan of their music. What do you think of their new album? Thiessen: I haven’t taken it in as deeply as I normally take in their stuff. I really do like everything I’ve heard so far a lot. I’ve just been kind of waiting to learn Relient K songs before I give it the real. I take in singles at a time, so I’ve been listening to the single for a little bit, just getting into that. It’s really good. Hoopes: Yeah, I really like it. I really like “If the House Burns Down Tonight.” There’s one other track. The one right before that, kind of slower melody. I forget the name of the track. Yeah, the one where his voice goes up high. Hoopes: Yeah, I like that one a lot. There’s some really great moments on the record. I’m really excited to hear some of these songs every night pretty much, and we will. Thiessen: I think we should play a song with them or something. Hoopes: Yeah, we’ve been talking to them about doing something with them collaboratively at the end of the night. I remember you did that song “Rebuild” together last time. Hoopes: Yeah, that was fun. I know since “Deathbed” is too long, you probably won’t be able to perform it on this tour, but have you ever performed that live with Jon before? Thiessen: Not live. Hoopes: I thought we did it at a festival maybe once or twice. Thiessen: Oh, yeah. Hoopes: I don’t know, though. I can’t fully remember. Thiessen: I don’t know how we did it. Maybe he just came up and did it, and more than likely we didn’t have him in our ears. We, like everybody else, heard it, but we didn’t actually hear it [laughs]. Hoopes: Yeah, I don’t know. We’ve still talked about playing “Deathbed” on this tour. I think it’d be fun. The idea of having only the two bands is that we can each play a full set. We can do whatever we want, right? The main thing in my head right now is how many of these new songs should we subject people to? How many people actually do want to hear some of these new songs? And which new ones and which old ones? There’s so much catalogue to go through. Songs that we think are fun and songs that maybe we’re a little burned on but it makes for a fun night, you know? Thiessen: We could do an interactive setlist. Hoopes: Yeah, we always talk about stuff like that. I think that’s probably the main thing that’s on my mind, seeing that we have a lot of songs. And then plus any time you’re not on a headline tour, you probably want to do less deep cuts that a casual fan might not be familiar with. Hoopes: Yeah, so it’s an interesting thing. I feel like there’s some bands that I’ll go see and I almost get angry when they play new songs, and then there’s some bands I’ll go see and they play almost all new songs and I love it [laughs]. I’m just trying to decide what type of record this is for us. I think this record would be really fun to see live, but that’s just me. Thiessen: No, thank you. Hoopes: I think we could eventually, but since we’re co-headlining a Switchfoot tour, I don’t know. It would be a bold move. Thiessen: Play 100 songs in an hour and 10 minutes. It’ll be great. Hoopes: We’ll try and make it fun for the people who are watching us. So wrapping this up then, have you planned anything out for after the Switchfoot tour? Has there been any talk of what is next? Thiessen: Yeah, it’s funny. Our manager tells me sometimes, “So, this should be our last record, right?” I’m like, “No, it’s not. Nobody said that.” He was as surprised as anyone when I said we’ll just make another one. It’ll be fun to make another one. Hopefully, it won’t take as long this time. Hoopes: I kind of like the idea, going back to what I said earlier about redefining what Relient K is and how we approach it, and the narrative that we’re back and we’re doing stuff. We can call our own shots now. We can release songs at a time. We can release albums whenever we want. We can make videos and do live covers and just have fun with it. I like figuring out what kind of niches we can fill right now, what kind of space we can occupy. A lot of your contemporaries are starting to wind their careers down. Anberlin a couple years ago, Motion City Soundtrack and Yellowcard this year. What is that like, to see these bands you came up with at the same time, end? Like you were saying, do you see yourselves being able to continue on in the future? Have you given thought to that? Thiessen: To every action, there is an equal and opposite. You see guys like Andrew McMahon and Kenny from Starting Line doing new things and keeping it fresh. I think Matt and I are very interested in starting some new projects. I’m doing the thing with Adam, and that’s exciting to me. I’m excited for what Stephen Christian from Anberlin is doing with his life, and I’m excited for what all the other guys are going to do after they put their bands on hold for a little bit. Every band that breaks up or calls it quits is just taking a break until somebody wants them to play bad enough that they get back together. That’s kind of how I always see it. Guns N’ Roses is still touring, right? Hoopes: Yeah, that’s pretty wild. I always see it more that if we can continue to define it in the way that we want to, then yeah, we don’t have to necessarily end this project. We can just continue to make it whatever we want to make it. And yeah, we’re not going to tour 250 days a year in clubs right now. That’s just not what we’re going to do, but we still are going to play shows and have fun when we do it. So yeah, we’ll just kind of keep doing it. Originally appeared on Chorus.fm Posted in InterviewsTagged Matt Hoopes, Matt Thiessen, Relient K	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9143
__label__cc	0.560529	0.439471	Looking at the Pain of Others (on Social Media) BIDS ethnographer Charlotte Cabasse-Mazel recently published a blog post for Platypus reflecting on "the complexity of witnessing from a distance, and engaging with, catastrophic events, disasters or, in this case, terrorist attacks [the November 2015 Paris attacks]" and discussing the concept of resilience from an STS perspective. Reflections on the November 2015 Paris attacks from afar I can’t recall the last time I heard “La Marseillaise” [1] as often as I have in the past few weeks. This is never a great moment for me. As for many fellow French citizens, the vindictive and blood calling lyrics of our national anthem have always triggered a feeling somewhere between discomfort and straightforward rejection. [2] Things were not different on that Sunday morning, November 15, 2015. Like many others—Francophiles or not, Francophone or not, or French or not—I was struggling to find words to explain what happened in Paris on the night of Friday the 13th to my five and seven year old kids. I was thinking our family could later join the crowd gathering in front of the San Francisco City Hall to grieve collectively, which was important as we felt so far from friends and relatives, and powerless. But first I wanted to make sure that my kids’ first encounter with the piece would not be traumatizing as the news of events. [3] Indeed, as people around the world in an act of support and friendship were singing this patriotic march, as they were giving life to lyrics from—what seems like—another time, French and American airstrikes on ISIS headquarters in Raqqa, Syria [4] had already started and the word “war” was on everybody’s lips, with incredulity and sideration but also determination. [5] Following the multiple Paris attacks in the lively and popular 10th and 11th Parisarrondissements on November 13, 2015, I want to reflect on the complexity of witnessing from a distance, and engaging with, catastrophic events, disasters or, in this case, terrorist attacks. Whether we choose to pay attention or not, looking at, and participating in, the social construction of these events, has become part of our (almost) everyday lives. For those of us with computers, smartphones and social media accounts, looking at the unfolding of catastrophic events on our screens has become a routine of our modern life. But the way in which we engage with a crisis, a disaster, or a catastrophic event in social media frames the understanding of it for some time. Building on Susan Sontag and Virginia Woolf’s asynchronous discussion, I also want to reflect on questions of attachment and othering that emerged from this first moment of public definition. Along the way, I will also discuss the concept of resilience from an STS perspective, which has been used by journalists and politicians in the public debate as a performative concept (“we will be resilient”), within hours of the attacks. Crises experienced through social media Rahaf Harfoush, a digital anthropologist, has very well described the phenomenon of our digital moving interest during a crisis. Often moving faster that information on cable TV (at least until the first crews get on the spot), the details of the events are leaked through tweets and posts on feeds that later display news about loved ones, connections and “friends.” Social media are changing the way we relate to disaster: as we feel more connected, we may feel more concerned, depending on what matters for us (a place, a type of event, a category of person, a political context). Social media gave us the opportunity to engage around the narrative that will be deployed slowly, materialized, and historicized. In the case of the Paris attacks, things were no different. As a scholar working on risk and disaster for years, a French expatriate in a US university, a former resident of the 11th arrondissement in Paris, and a sister and friend of many current residents of the 10th and 11th arrondissements, the Paris attacks hit me just between the known and the felt, in a place where for hours after, I was drifting away, finding only bits of comfort in other distressed faces, haggard gaze of friends looking from a distance at a tragedy we could barely imagine. On Friday October 13th, I was at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), in Denver, Colorado, and had just finished giving a presentation on resilience. Yes, resilience. That what I what I have been thinking about in recent years: vulnerability, disasters, trauma, reconstruction, resilience, etc. For people studying (natural or unnatural; mostly both) risk and disaster, like I do, the concept of resilience has become something between a new buzz word and operative concept, last on a long list of practitioners and researchers who have been trying to think—for decades now—about how we could understand, mitigate, prepare for and respond to disasters that, whether we like it or not, never fail to happen, sometime, somewhere, yet always surprise us. The Paris attacks have been for me one of these moments of unexpected collapse, when distance is erased, sensemaking is so hard, and you are submerged in emotion and a great sense of absurdity. Around 4:00pm, Christine, a French woman that I had met and befriended only hours before, rushed to me from across the conference hall lobby with a tormented face, asking: “…attacks in Paris, have you heard?” “What…????” That Friday, sitting on chair of a hotel in Denver, struggling with a terrible WiFi connection, there I was, like millions of other people, with the help of my friend and colleague Laura (because I could not remember how to use my own computer), looking at Twitter, following the news. I knew that what I was living in that moment was an echo of what many of my Japanese friends and colleagues at the same conference had experienced during the Tohoku earthquake (but on a smaller scale), and what many others, looking at the news of a plane crash, an earthquake, a flood, a landslide, have been through. “Put yourself together, text, call, follow the news,” I told myself, trying to stay calm. This time, I—and my family, my friends—have been lucky: my sister was away for the weekend, my friend working on his dissertation (we’ll never praise enough the virtue of working long hours to our kids), others friends traveling for work But friends of friends and family were not and many were killed during the Bataclan attack. Later that day, we (current and former Parisians and friends of Paris) went to eat and get some drinks in bars where the music was loud enough to numb our pain. [6] In the following days, as I traveled back to Berkeley, I kept looking at the news and France seemed like a very small place. For people of my generation—and even more so for younger ones—it is hard not to recognize ourselves in the list of victims that has slowly been released. A very young woman coming from Brittany not far from where I grew up, a guy living in the same location I once did, a woman slightly younger than I who graduated from the same program, only two years apart, another guy working at my friend’s company, a geographer working on urban gentrification teaching in the university where I also defended a PhD in geography, etc. The list goes on. People who were killed last Friday were the cool kids, lefty middle class young people with (often) a college degree, equivalents of the American “hipster.” Not rich, necessarily, but fond of culture, attached to a certain idea of social diversity, engaged with the world. They were the one we called—with sympathy and sometimes disdain—the Bobos, for the Bourgeoisie Boehme. [7] If some of their life echoed my own life trajectory, they were all rooted in the multiplicity of life experiences of a the X and Y generations, the beauty of what big cities can offer to invent, re-invent, and become one’s self. People who died on that Friday were coming from everywhere; they were everybody, offering—beyond the grave they did not even reach—a mirror of both the diversity of the population, but also, and mainly its connection, its closeness. Wherever they were coming from, who ever they were, they were us, they were like us. For a while, social media amplified this feeling of empathy. But talking to my friends and family I could not stop thinking about Sontag’s warning: “No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain” (Sontag 2004 [1977]:8), she wrote in her essay on photography in 1977, echoing a debate between Virginia Woolf and a London lawyer on the roots of the Second World War (Woolf 1963). Sontag has been warning us about the excess of the hyper-mediatization: Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved. How much easier, from one’s chair, far from danger, to claim the position of superiority. (Sontag 2004[1977]:86) In the first hours after the events, I found the #porteouverte hashtag, or any variation of the #prayforparis one, on Twitter. On Facebook, I found the Safety Check [8], a letter of love [9] from a young widower, and a lot of jokes, good and bad, but mostly good [10]. I also found a some bravado (“meme pas peur” [11]) and a lot of determination, to keep doing whatever people were doing before, lengthy and detailed descriptions of Parisians’ love for love, life, alcohol, sex, food, music, and culture; calls for outrage (e.g., Stéphane Hessel’s essay) and for peace. Following a concept they have learned to cherish lately, the Parisians and French were talking about their attachment to their lifestyle, #TousauBistrot. Attachment and othering What we are attached to….? As Bruno Latour points out: It is no longer a question of opposing attachment and detachment, but instead of good and poor attachment, then there is only one way of deciding the quality of these ties: to inquire of what they consist, what they do how one is affected by them. (Latour & Stark 1999:22) The concept makes visible individual “active passion,” “this form of ‘attachment’ which we attempt to describe as that which allows the subject to emerge—never alone, never a pristine individual, rather always entangled with and generously gifted by a collective, by objects, techniques, constraints” (Gomart & Hennion 1999). What I wanted to share during my 4S talk is that, as you understand when working with the concept of attachment, resilience is never given; it is a slow process that can succeed or fail. Despite the moral imperative that seems to proclaim overuse of the concept, despite its polyphony, resilience cannot be declared, or imposed, or even suggested. Rather resilience is a process, both individual and collective, a co-construction that needs to be grounded and which varies depending on the pre-existing situations. In this talk, I wanted to talk about trauma, the wound that never heals, this gaping hole that nothing seems able to fill. Like a Paris terrace where people were killed celebrating a birthday party, or a concert hall where people died in the dark. Social media have certainly changed the mode of engagement around disasters and catastrophe, but can they help build more complex processes? What collective will emerge from the Paris attacks? Like those in Beirut, Lebanon on November 13 or in Nigeria on the 19th, the Paris attacks were a traumatic event for many of us, beyond borders and categories. By November 17th, my Facebook page displayed some of that (like the extraordinary work of my friend Philippe Rekacewicz on mapping the International Jihadist), as well as some reflective thinking from users of social media are starting to question their own practices and the motives of those who provide for the tools they use. Why did Facebook only activate the safety check during the Paris attack, asked Lebanese bloggerJoey Ayoub? Is changing your profile with a French flag helping Facebook test adoption practices? What is the role of the different platforms in helping terrorists get organized? Can we really be cynical about it? [12] How far can solidarity—on social media and in the streets of large metropolitan areas—be extended to others victim of terrorist attacks? Who is we when the other become suspect, in Europe and in the US? Who is “we” when we sing La Marseillaise and paint our Facebook profile in blue, white, and red? Walking in Paris’ street few days later a journalist noted that, in the aftermath of the attacks, “keyboard activists rapidly got activated: messages of solidarity and ‘resistance,’ French flag overlaying Facebook profile pictures, flights of poetry to commemorate the victims…. But in the streets, no one. For three days, many Parisian areas were abandoned to a deadly atmosphere” (Lanneau 2015). [13] Only few day after the events, and despite praise for resilience and unity in media, and despite the bravado, the definition of “we” that congealed around low-hanging symbolic fruit (our terraces, our cigarettes, our drinks, our concerts, our free spirit) seems to be crumbling already, letting more complex political and emotional questions come flooding back, as well as—for a large part of the population—fear for the future. “After Charlie Hebdo, a woman called me ‘dirty Arab.’ It’s November 16th and I have been already insulted twice, and some looks are more hurtful than words,”[14] recalled a young woman (Lanneau 2015). As I was finishing this text, the terrorist suspected to have organized the attack was killed by the special police force in the suburb of Saint Denis. As questions continue to emerge, and as the Climate Conference happening this week in Paris reminds us: it is about time to think about “what we care about” (Hache 2011). Resilience is a co-construction—as much as politics is. [Update: I learned while writing this, on November 19, that Alice, circus artist, dancer, and great soul, as well her brother Aristide, a rugby player, were hit at the Bataclan. Alice received one (several?) bullet(s) in the arm; Aristide was hit in the lungs and leg. They are both still being hospitalized.] [1] The French national hymn, written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle following the declaration of war with Austria in 1792. [2] For the reggae version, see Serge Gainsbourg. Gainsbourg wanted people to dance to the Marseillaise. [3] I should not have worried that much, family life being what it is; we never made it to the gathering…. [4] For more about the Islamic State Syrian headquarters, see Vice’s documentaryby Medyan Dairieh. [5] This answer of course very questionable. Many have been warning against the dangers of a rhetoric of war, among them for instance Latour and Zizek. TheVerso blog has also gathered a collection essays from their authors. [6] Thank you Kyoko, Reiko and Paul. Scott K., if you are reading this, I know I forgot to pay my drink when I left that night. Apologies. I owe you one…. [7] The contested term comes from David Brooks 2000 book Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. Brooks defines the Bobos as “highly educated folk who have one foot in the bohemian world of creativity and another foot in the bourgeois realm of ambition and worldly success” (Voight 2010). As a French sociologist pointed out: “In sociological terms you are talking about the new middle class—journalistically labelled ‘bourgeois bohemian’ not because there is anything remotely bohemian about them but to mark them from off the traditional haute bourgeoisie. There are more and more of them; they are growing all the time; they are less and less uniform; and as they get richer it is far from certain that they will stay left-wing” (Merle in Burke 2008). As French Humorist and guest of the satirical radio show “Si tu ecoutes j’annule tout,” Frederic Formet was singing recently “Allo maman, je suis bobo:” Ouais on est a Paris, a la pointe de tout (Yep we are in Paris, cutting edge of everything) On est petit genis, la gueule en biais c’est nous (We are little genius, and with attitude) Je connais un bistrot, super sympa t’inquiete (I know a bar, very cool no worries) Le café 5 euros, six avec une sucrette (Coffee for 5 euros, 6 with sugar) It’s important to note that the 10th and 11th arrondissements present more social diversity and density than other arrondissements and have kept something of the cheap ’n’ chic spirit rather than Gauche caviar (Caviar left). The 11th arrondissement remains the most densely populated in Paris with 41,536 residents per km2 (source Wikipedia). According to 2006 data from National Institute of Statistical and Economical Studies, aggregated by the website Drmiki.fr, the average annual income in the arrondissement is above 30,000 Euros, more than 50% of the population is single (source: Drmiki.fr), and more than 25% of the population was born outside metropolitan France (source: Wikipedia). [8] Since the Haitian earthquake, connections were made possible across the globe helping in the relief effort, from collecting data and gathering first aid supplies to locating individuals, because of the physical mobilization of individuals and the use of social media tools. Developing tools for disaster has been ongoing for a long time. The Facebook Safety Check was first installed during the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. [9] “Vous n’aurez pas ma haine” By Antoine Lieris. For English version see here. [10] Or at least they seem so at the time…. Like this one: “Never doubt thecourage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible,” Doug Larson, undated; appeared on my Facebook Wall on 11/17/2015. [11] “Meme pas peur!” is what French kids say when confronted to a daunting situation. The bravest would have a look of defiance and turn around, others look at you with big eyes, somehow reassured that nothing bad happened to them. [12] I don’t want to mention here the Bad and the Ugly…. For more of that, seehere. [13] “Le militantisme de clavier s’est rapidement activé : messages de solidarité et de « résistance», incrustation du drapeau tricolore sur Facebook, envolées lyriques en hommage aux victimes… Mais dans les rues, personne. Durant trois jours, de nombreux quartiers parisiens ont été abandonnés à une ambiance moralement mortifère” (Lanneau 2015). [14] “Après Charlie Hebdo, une dame m’a traité “sale Arabe”. On est le 16 novembre et je me suis déjà faite insulter deux fois et certains regards sont bien plus blessants que les paroles.” (Lanneau 2015) Burke, J. (2008). French elite declare the Bobo extinct. Retrieved February 12, 2015, from http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/01/france Gomart, E., & Hennion, A. (1999). A Sociology of Attachment: Music Amateurs, Drug Users. In J. Law & J. Hassard (Eds.), Actor Network Theory and After (pp. 1–28). Wiley-Blackwell. Hache, E. (2011). Ce à quoi nous tenons. Propositions pour une écologie pragmatique (Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond). La Decouverte. Lanneau, T. (2015). Un café entre copains dans un 25m2, plutôt qu’en terrasse. Retrieved from http://bondyblog.liberation.fr/201511182328/un-cafe-entre-copains-dans-u... Latour, B., & Girard Stark, M. (1999). Factures/Fractures: From the Concept of Network to the Concept of Attachment. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 36(Autumn), 20–31. Harfoush, R. (2015). Paris Under Attack: Digital Culture in Times of Crisis. Sontag, S. (2004). Regarding the pain of others. Picador. Voight, R. (2010). In France, a New Class Reinvents the Good Life : “Bobo” Style Has It Both Ways. Retrieved February 12, 2015, from http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/14/news/14iht-rbobo.t.html Woolf, V. (1963). Three Guineas. Harvest Books. The original post can be viewed here. Data Science Insights Charlotte Cabasse BIDS Alumni , Ethnographer BIDS In the News	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9146
__label__cc	0.50082	0.49918	Colorado Sheriff Sued. A Buddy for Arpaio? William Fisher "Without any legal authority whatsoever, Sheriff Ted Mink imprisoned our client and kept him in legal limbo for 47 days with no charges pending, no opportunity to see a judge and no opportunity to post bail,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) charged as it filed a lawsuit against the Jefferson County, Colorado, lawman. The ACLU and the ACLU of Colorado said Luis Quezada was detained simply because federal immigration officers suspected that the man was in the US in violation of federal immigration laws. Mark Silverstein, Legal Director of the ACLU of Colorado said, "Our fundamental constitutional values prohibit depriving any person of liberty without due process of law." Quezada was arrested and taken to the Jefferson County Jail where he was held for three days in May 2009 for failing to appear in court on a traffic charge. He promptly resolved the traffic charge, and the county court judge ordered him released. But he was not released, because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) -- sent the jail an immigration detainer advising that it was investigating whether Quezada was violating immigration laws. Omar Jadwat, an attorney with the ACLU immigrants’ project, told IPS, "Immigration detainers are inherently flawed. It is outrageous that someone could spend six weeks in jail because of nothing more than an ICE form saying that the agency wanted to investigate him." An immigration detainer instructs a jail or prison to hold a particular detainee an additional 48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays) after the detainee's release date. The detainer states that its purpose is to provide adequate time for ICE agents to determine whether to take the detainee into federal custody and begin formal deportation proceedings. Yet after the 48 hour detainer expired, the Jefferson County sheriff continued to unlawfully hold Quezada for an additional 47 days. When ICE finally took Quezada into custody in mid-July 2009, the agency immediately allowed him to be released on bond while he defended himself in immigration court. The ACLU of Colorado says it has received multiple complaints of similar cases in which Colorado jails held suspected immigration violators without legal authority. To address the recurring issue, the ACLU of Colorado wrote to all Colorado sheriffs in the fall of 2008, advising that any legal authority of an immigration detainer expires after 48 hours. The ACLU also asked Colorado sheriffs for copies of any written policies instructing jail deputies on how to proceed when the jail receives immigration detainers. The Jefferson County attorney responded that the sheriff's office had no applicable written policies. ICE routinely issues immigration detainers to law enforcement agencies around the country as part of part of ICE enforcement initiatives involving state and local police such as the 287(g) program, Secure Communities and the Criminal Alien Program. In addition to causing racial profiling and harming public safety, those initiatives raise the risk that agencies and officers will face increased claims for damages as a result of cases like Quezada's. "ICE is issuing detainers by the thousands in an attempt to use state and local police and sheriffs as adjunct federal immigration officers," said Omar Jadwat, a staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. "However, police officers and jailers are always required to obey the Constitution and simply cannot imprison a person in this way, even if an immigration detainer exists. States and municipalities open themselves to liability when they treat ICE detainers as if they were sentences imposed by a court." The 287(g) program has recently come under severe criticism from the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security, who said the program cannot be evaluated properly because its goals, mission and management are confused and substandard. This program has also come under continuing criticism from local law enforcement officials and groups. They charge that local police officers and sheriff’s deputies are not trained in the complexities of immigration law, that They are invoking immigration laws in inappropriate ways, and that the program is diverting limited local law enforcement resources away from the main mission, which is protecting the public from criminal behavior. Sheriff Mink is far from the first local law enforcement officer to be taken to court for allegedly violating immigration laws, which are civil, not criminal. There are hundreds of citizen suits pending against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County (Pheonix) Arizona. Many have already been settled with cash judgments to the plaintiffs. The Department of Justice is currently investigating a civil rights complaint against Arpaio, and the DHS has recently curtailed his participation in the 287(g) program. Posted by Unknown at Sunday, April 25, 2010 Dinah Bee Menil 10:01 PM, April 25, 2010 Nice site, very informative. I like to read this.,it is very helpful in my part for my criminal law studies. Welcome to Arizona! The Invasion of the Body Scanners An Anonymous Jury?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9147
__label__wiki	0.989146	0.989146	Cathedral Merchandise : Womens Tank Tops Select View All Items View All Categories T-Shirts Womens Tank Tops Womens T-Shirts Double Dagger (White Marble) Cathedral are a doom metal band from Coventry, England.The group forged a link between early doom metal and a 1990s extreme metal aesthetic, making doom slower and heavier. Their debut album, Forest of Equilibrium, is considered a classic of the genre.They later on changed their doom style, playing it in a more uptempo and groove-oriented fashion. The band was founded in 1989 by Lee Dorrian (former singer of grindcore pioneers Napalm Death), Mark 'Griff' Griffiths (a Carcass roadie) and Garry 'Gaz' Jennings (formerly of thrash metal upstarts Acid Reign).[1] At first they played very heavy and slow doom metal that was first released through Rise Above Records, vocalist Lee Dorrian's indie label, before signing to Earache. They later incorporated elements of progressive rock into their sound when the band signed to Columbia Records in the USA in 1992 (while still under contract with Earache U.K.).[citation needed] They were later dropped by Columbia Records in 1994. The band continued with Earache Records until 2000. Then signed to Dream Catcher Records for one lp and a tour. In 2004 Cathedral signed to their current label Nuclear Blast. In 1989 Lee Dorrian left his former band Napalm Death mainly because he was getting sick of the punk scene and did not like the death metal direction Napalm Death was heading towards. Cathedral was formed after Lee Dorrian and Mark Griffiths met and discussed their love for doom bands like Candlemass, Dream Death, Pentagram, Trouble, and Witchfinder General. The only original band members in the current line-up are Lee Dorrian and Garry 'Gaz' Jennings on guitars, although Jennings did once leave the band in their early history, only to rejoin shortly afterwards. After no news from the band since they toured for The Garden of Unearthly Delights, they played their first show in two years at Damnation Festival 2008, in Leeds. They played a new song and have confirmed dates for 2009 including Hellfest. On October 28th 2009, MetalUnderground.com revealed that the band were planning to enter the studio the next month to record a new album entitled, "The Guessing Game", which is set to be released around March/April 2010. Some of the song titles confirmed include, "Casket Chasers", "Journey's Into Jade", "La Noche Del Buque Maldito (aka Ghost Ship Of The Blind Dead)" and "Death Of An Anarchist." On February 15th, Cathedral announced the full details on the new album The Guessing Game, which will be released on March 26th in Europe and April 20th in the U.S.A., via Nuclear Blast Records. The Guessing Game was met with mixed reviews upon its release. The album's more experimental sound, incorporating elements of psychedelia, prog and jazz along with the band's traditional doom metal underpinnings, made the record an unusual entry in the band's catalogue. One critic remarked, "the weirder, more psychedelic accoutrements may well be a turn-off to those looking for a more straightforward, balls-out doom record, and Dorrian’s tuneless singing, while perfectly fitting the overall character of the album, could be a sticking point with some folks," whilst also noting "this is undoubtedly an entertaining record, and the ambition displayed by expanding into more experimental material and including these Camel (band)/Gentle Giant-like psych/prog embellishments is laudible, even if their integration can be less organic than distracting at times". * Lee Dorrian - Vocals * Garry "Gaz" Jennings - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Backing Vocals and Drums * Leo Smee - Bass * Brian Dixon - Drums * 1991: Forest of Equilibrium * 1993: The Ethereal Mirror * 1995: The Carnival Bizarre * 1996: Supernatural Birth Machine * 1998: Caravan Beyond Redemption * 2001: Endtyme * 2002: The VIIth Coming * 2006: The Garden of Unearthly Delights * 2010: The Guessing Game	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9148
__label__wiki	0.517913	0.517913	HomeColumbia MD Immigration Attorney Attorney BioAttorney Bio Non-immigrant Visas Visitor VisasVisitor Visas Student VisasStudent Visas Working VisasWorking Visas Business and Investor VisasBusiness and Investor Visas Green CardsGreen Cards Family ImmigrationFamily Immigration Employment ImmigrationEmployment Immigration NaturalizationNaturalization Law Summaries and Articles The National Interest Waiver Program *The National Interest Waiver Rules have been updated since this article was written. Please see A Step in the Right Direction for the National Interest Waiver for more information.* Normally, individuals who try to get green cards through employment need to go through the often lengthy and difficult process of labor certification. This process requires first that the foreign national (the employee) have an employer who is willing to take up the responsibility of sponsoring the foreign national and pay for a large portion of the costs. The process also requires that the employer advertise the position in a variety of media to see if there are any qualified Americans who may want the job. If there are, the case cannot proceed. One of the ways to avoid labor certification for Second Preference cases is through the "National Interest Waiver" (NIW) program. This program is a way for certain individuals possessing exceptional ability in the sciences, arts or business to immigrate to the US without having to go through labor certification and without requiring employer sponsorship. The purpose of the NIW program is to provide a "short-cut" for individuals who have exceptional ability, who work in a field of "substantial intrinsic merit" and whose work will be providing a benefit to the country as a whole (rather than just a local community, state or region for example). The principal criteria, therefore are that the applicant has "exceptional ability in the sciences, arts or business," the applicant seeks employment in an area of substantial intrinsic merit, the benefit will be national in scope, and the national interest would be adversely affected if a labor certification were required. The foreign national may "self-petition" meaning that he/she rather than an employer signs the I-140 petition on his/her own behalf. An employer is not required to "sponsor" the foreign national or sign the petition. (However, keep in mind that proof of employment in the field is a big part of proving eligibility for NIW). What is "exceptional ability"? Exceptional ability means "a degree of expertise significantly above that ordinarily encountered in the sciences, arts, or business" in the language of the regulation. The regulation lists the types of evidence necessary to prove exceptional ability, and states that the applicant must have at least 3 of them: relevant degree, certificate or similar award from an institution of learning; letters from current and former employers showing at least 10 years of full-time experience in the field; relevant license or certification; evidence of salary or other remuneration indicating exceptional ability; evidence of membership in professional associations; and/or evidence of recognition for achievements and/or significant contributions by peers, governmental entities, or business/professional organizations; If these standard do not readily apply, the regulation allows the applicant to show "other comparable evidence" to establish he/she has exceptional ability. What is an area of "substantial intrinsic merit"? Some of the areas that have been determined to be areas of substantial intrinsic merit include: improving the US economy, improving wages and working conditions for US workers, improving education and programs for US children and underqualified workers, improving healthcare, providing more affordable housing, improving the US environment and making more productive use of natural resources, and interested government agency request. In practice, substantial intrinsic merit has been found in fields ranging from coaching to medical research to television reporting. What is a benefit that is national in scope? The benefit must to the country as a whole, rather than a locality, state, region, etc. In other words, there must be an appreciable impact on the national economy, society, etc. So, for example, a special education teacher, although working in a field that probably has a great deal of "substantial intrinsic merit," does not really provide a benefit that is national in scope. Rather, the benefit is primarily limited to the community in which he/she is working. Therefore, it is likely that type of position would not qualify for the NIW program. On the other hand, a researcher in the field of special education who publishes his/her studies to a national audience of education researchers, would be more likely to meet the "national in scope" criterion. How may one determine if the national interest would be adversely affected if a labor certification were required? This criterion is a bit more difficult than the previous two, in that it really requires looking at two other questions: would the foreign national’s services serve the national interest to a substantially greater degree than would an available US worker having the same minimum qualifications?, and does the foreign national demonstrate such service by a record of achievements with some degree of influence on the field as a whole? The answer to both questions must be "yes" for the case to be approved. To succeed with the first question, it is necessary to show that the foreign national is not only more qualified than the majority of Americans working in that same type of position, but that he/she is at the top of his/her field.To succeed with the second question, it is necessary to show that the foreign national has had a track record of success in the field, and has had a degree of influence on his/her field as a whole. (It should be clear that these two questions are really inter-related, since it is difficult to prove the likelihood of future success without showing a track record of past success). Taking the special education researcher example again, it would be necessary to show that he/she is at the top of his/her focus of research (this does not require that he/she be the top special education researcher, but he/she must be at the top of his/her particular subset of focus in special education), and that he/she has had a demonstrated track record of success with his/her research influencing other researchers in that field. How is it possible to prove all these things? Typically, the core of evidence for NIW cases is the "expert opinion letters" provided by experts in the field that support the argument that the foreign national meets all these criteria. Although there is no minimum number of letters, generally speaking the more the better. A good rule of thumb is no less than 10, but some cases may require more. While it is very likely that a good portion of these letters will come from former or current co-workers and/or supervisors, it is important to know that USCIS will give much more weight to letters from those who do not know the foreign national personally, as these are more likely to represent unbiased opinions. USCIS may even request additional letters from "unbiased" experts if there are too few in the initial submission. Since the evidence that is submitted must closely address each criteria for NIW eligibility, it is important that the letters speak to each factor in turn (or as many as relevant for the expert). Other forms of evidence include proof of an advanced degree in the field; salary commensurate with position; awards or prizes; merit-based association or society memberships; published materials in professional publications written by others about the foreign national; participation as a judge of the work of others in the same or similar field; original scientific or scholarly contributions; and/or authorship of scholarly books or articles in scholarly journals with international circulation. Of course, there are many more details involved in getting an NIW case approved, but this has given you a nutshell version of what the program entails. We have successfully handled many NIW cases, and would be more than happy to discuss this further if you feel you may be eligible. Contact us at 410-719-1501. 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__label__cc	0.699381	0.300619	Philip A Tucci To share your memory on the wall of Philip Tucci, sign in using one of the following options: Provide comfort for the family of Philip Tucci with a meaningful gesture of sympathy. The gesture that can change the world Philip A. Tucci of Monroe Township passed away peacefully on April 27, 2019 at his home surrounded by his family. He was 96 years old. Phil was born August 19,1922 in Montclair NJ to Michael and Antoinette Tucci. He was the second of six siblings.... Read More Philip A. Tucci of Monroe Township passed away peacefully on April 27, 2019 at his home surrounded by his family. He was 96 years old. Phil was born August 19,1922 in Montclair NJ to Michael and Antoinette Tucci. He was the second of six siblings. His early education in Montclair was in the parochial and public school systems. He also served as Vice-President of George Inness junior high school. Throughout his teenage years and into adulthood, he was famous for his excellence as a golfer. During World War II, he enlisted in the Naval Airforce and fought in The Pacific. After his honorable discharge he joined the New York Province of the Jesuits. He then attended Saint Peter's University in Jersey City, NJ and graduated with a BA in English. He was an administrator at The Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the Philippines for twelve years. When returning back to the US, he earned his MA in accounting from Fordham University. Phil went on to work for the Board of Education in New York. Years later, he became the business administrator for Saint Frances De Sales School for the Deaf, in Brooklyn, NY. He retied after thirty years of service. Phil is survived by his wife Mercedes Tucci of Monroe Township, his daughter Maria Soccor of Union, his youngest brother Michael Tucci of Sarasota, Florida and his younger sister, Geraldine Weinspach of Clifton, NJ. Three of his siblings, Peter A. Tucci, Joseph C. Tucci and Alba Munn are deceased. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to: alzfdn.org and https://www.catholiccharitiestrenton.org To plant a memorial tree in honor of Philip A Tucci, please visit our Heartfelt Sympathies Store. Monday, May 6th, 2019 \| 9:30am - 10:30am Monday, May 6th, 2019 9:30am - 10:30am Immaculate Conception Church 30 North Fullerton Ave MONTCLAIR, NJ 07042 In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to: alzfdn.org and https://www.catholiccharitiestrenton.org Monday, May 6th, 2019 \| 10:30am Monday, May 6th, 2019 10:30am Rosedale Crematory 408 Orange Rd We encourage you to share your most beloved memories of Philip here, so that the family and other loved ones can always see it. You can upload cherished photographs, or share your favorite stories, and can even comment on those shared by others. Plant a Tree in Memory of Philip A proud partner of Honoring a Life 3 trees have been planted in memory of Philip A Tucci michiko capone /studio500 loving memory of maria's Dad. As I'm long time friend of maria , I will miss you always 2 memorial trees were planted in the memory of Philip Tucci — Plant a Tree Now Ari Lazaar In memory of Philip A Tucci. With the planting of this tree, your memory will live on forever. A memorial tree was planted in the memory of Philip Tucci — Plant a Tree Now Vanessa Marlowe Philip A. Tucci was a very kind man whose open-hearted spirit truly lives on in his daughter, Maria Soccor. And I’m sincerely grateful I was able to sit with him for a spell and listen to him share some of his life adventures. Whenever with him, he always made one feel instantly at ease, like family, which for me, he was and always will be. You could always see his compassionate and gentle nature, in addition to his wonderful sense of humor, in the way he carried himself and the way he let people in to his heart and life. I have one particular memory while in college...my first, rather raw, attempt at stand up comedy took place out of the former Tucci garage to a very over-heated, non-interested crowd in the middle of a blistering hot and humid Jersey summer. We were doing a fundraiser for a local Mayor. Wearing a large wool blanket and singing West Side Story's, "Maria" I stared out at a crowd of hot, bored, very unamused faces. Everyone was fanning themselves and seemed eager for me to finish my horrible performance. But then I saw Mr. Tucci laughing. At first I thought he was being polite, but I felt he was really, genuinely laughing. And it made me relax a little. He gave me encouragement and comforted me because I felt like he really understood me, like he totally got it and what I was trying to do. While he retained his faculties, no matter how difficult times were, he was always kind, never cruel, and always managed to keep that wonderful sense of humor, something I truly admire and love about him. These wonderful parts of him live on so well through his family, and most especially Maria, of course. But it is that undeniable sense of humor that I will miss most. And he was just such a huggable, lovable person. ^_^ Who could not miss him? But I know in my heart, that he is in peace, a good place, without pain or suffering, because where else could such a gentle soul be but in the place of love in which he came from and lived his entire life in? And I hope we can all feel comforted knowing that he must feel the love we feel for him, wherever he is, because it's too strong to escape! :-) I wish him, and all of his family and friends who miss him and love him, happiness, peace and love. As we continue to remember the light of his being here, the gift that he gave all of us was his life...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9155
__label__wiki	0.877659	0.877659	Survey: Students Choosing Online Programs Closer to Home Online Education \| Feature Reaching Out with Distance Learning Walters State Community College leverages its distance learning capabilities to reach out to high schools across Tennessee. By Bridget McCrea It was the early 1990s, and a handful of Walters State Community College professors were tinkering around online, thinking about how cool it would be if they could deliver coursework over the Web not only to their own students, but also for high school students who signed up for dual enrollment programs. "The faculty members pursued their mission and discovered that distance learning worked pretty well," recalled Linda Roberts, dean of distance education for the Morristown, TN-based college, which has three campuses and 6,000 students. Selling the idea of distance learning outside of that "circle" of founding faculty members wasn't as simple. "People were skeptical of online education delivery in the early '90s, so you really had to sell them on it," said Roberts. "It took a lot of years to break through that barrier and bring distance learning mainstream." Fast-forward to 2010, and most institutions of higher education are involved in distance learning via the Internet at some level. Walters State Community College (WSCC) has stayed ahead of the curve, and today "offers as many classes online that our faculty members can teach," according to Roberts. "The concept has certainly caught on." The school uses distance learning with its own students and also serves as a facilitator of online course delivery for high schools statewide. At Afton, TN-based Chuckey-Doak High School, for example, students take computer classes through the community college's distance learning program. Participating high school students receive college credits when they pass the program. WSCC is also using live video streams that instructors use to broadcast their classroom instruction to offsite locations, such as to the school's satellite campuses. This semester, for example, the community college is offering an American history class to a high school that's located about 80 miles from its Greenville, TN campus. It's a dual enrollment class, with students receiving both high school and college credits for the course. Roberts said the live video streams allow WSCC to better leverage its human resources, particularly when it comes to faculty. "For this particular history class, we couldn't find an instructor who was close enough to drive to the high school every day," she explained. "Thanks to the technology, we were able to use an instructor who is close to our Greenville campus, where he can teach the class while streaming it to other locations." Social Media and Web 2.0 The community college is also experimenting with podcasting its classes to students in the dual enrollment program. High schools located in rural areas, for example, are prime candidates for the podcasting, said Roberts. Currently about five high schools (and about five to 10 students per class), are learning via the podcasting system in conjunction with online instruction. "The podcast is basically a live recording of the instructor lecturing, and giving commentary and information to the class," said Roberts. "Students go online to get their assignments and complete them on their own time." Roberts said WSCC's biggest obstacle to success with online learning involves scheduling the various entities (the college professor, high school teachers and students) for the courses. When the stream is being sent to several high schools at once, she said, the scheduling can be especially daunting. "We have to create a schedule that fits with every school, and with the instructor's calendar," said Roberts. To deal with the challenge, WSCC uses the same course management system that the school relies on for its traditional classroom instruction. The online system handles the scheduling and allows students to submit assignments through a centralized repository where teachers can access and grade the work and provide comments. "We offer so many online courses that it wouldn't be feasible for teachers to pick up the assignments at the school in person or try to manage the process by mail," said Roberts. "The online course management system solves that problem." Reflecting on the Distance Education When it comes to measuring the benefits of WSCC's distance learning investment, Roberts said the most important return is the institution's ability to expand its course offerings and reach without the need for additional physical space. "When a teacher needs to teach an additional English class and doesn't have anywhere to do it, adding an online section solves the problem," said Roberts. WSCC can also reach students who either work full-time (about 75 percent to 80 percent of its student population), or who can't afford to commute to school every day. "If students can't work into our traditional schedule, distance education gives them a lot of flexibility," said Roberts. "They can go to school in their pajamas if they want to." Next year WSCC plans to add more podcasts to complement its online course offerings and meet student demand for the portable option ("students love the podcasts," said Roberts). The college will also include more online video streaming to its distance-learning menu, and expand its technology training program for faculty members. "Students pick up on technology faster than the faculty does," said Roberts. "We have a responsibility to those students to make sure faculty is trained to maximize the use of technology." To institutions looking to replicate WSCC's long-standing success in the distance learning realm, Roberts said to "plan ahead and anticipate problems" before broadcasting the class. A supportive IT team that can mobilize quickly to solve problems is also important, she said, as is a "faculty that's well trained on how to use technology, whiteboards, and course management systems." Expanding the Horizons of Augmented and Virtual Reality in Higher Education	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9158
__label__cc	0.643942	0.356058	Bill Bonner's Diary Ike was right! By Bill Bonner June 18, 2018 Print POITOU, FRANCE – We wait for the world to fall apart. The Dow is still more than 1,000 points below its high; so we presume the primary trend is down. Treasury yields – on the 10-year note – are near 3%… twice what they were two years ago. So we presume the primary trend for bonds is down, too. If we’re right, we are at the beginning of a long slide… down, down, down… into chaos, destitution, and destruction. Recommended Link The simple system that could’ve helped you see $360,000 (WITHOUT using options…) Hand-crafted by an ex-Wall Street trader, this stock system zeroes in on what billionaires are buying in real time. And it just works. In a nearly 30-year back test, this system could have produced long term average gains of 2,418% over the top 150 plays held since 1990. Until last week, this research was only available to hedge funds. For the full story on this amazing system, including a time-limited $250,000 challenge… Faked Out Our working hypothesis is that General Eisenhower was right. There were two big temptations to the American Republic of the 1950s; subsequent generations gave in to both of them. They spent their children’s and grandchildren’s money. Now, the country has a government debt of $21 trillion. That’s up from $288 billion when Ike left the White House. And they allowed the “unwarranted influence” of the “military/industrial complex” to grow into a monster. No president, no matter how good his intentions, can stop it. A corollary to our major hypothesis is that the rise of the Deep State (the military/industrial/social welfare/security/prison/medical care/education/bureaucrat/crony complex) was funded by the Fed’s fake-money system. Now, investors, businesses, households, and the feds themselves have all been “faked out” by a fraudulent money system. None of them can survive a cutback in credit. For nearly 30 years, central banks have backstopped markets and flooded the world with liquidity. But last week, the Fed turned the screws a little further. It now targets a 2% Fed Funds Rate and claims to be on the path of “normalization.” And the European Central Bank (ECB) made it official, too; it hasn’t quite begun tightening, but it’s got its toolbox open. And command of the ECB work crew is set to change hands next year anyway, passing on to a German engineer. The Rapid Profit Method Revealed Legendary hedge fund manager Paul Mampilly recently revealed the proprietary method he’s personally used to see gains as high as 1,264% in as little as 10 days… all during a private, invitation-only online summit. For a limited time, this is now being shared with the public. Click here for the full details Scarred Psyche The German psyche has been scarred by its awful experience in the last century. Even though today’s Germans didn’t live through it themselves, the entire country seems to have a race memory of it. Still preparing for hard times, the household savings rate in Germany is at least three times higher than in the sans souci U.S. Germany’s apocalypse, too, can be described in Eisenhower’s terms – too much debt (arising from World War I)… and too much influence in the hands of the military/industrial complex. Debt led to hyperinflation. But the damage done by Germany’s hyperinflation of the early ’20s led to far more than just wiped-out mortgages and billion-dollar cigars. It discredited the traditional elite of the country – its institutions, its culture, and its politics. Germany had the world’s finest artists, composers, and philosophers. Its writers, engineers, and scientists were second to none. Even in the early ’30s, Germans could still look to the East – to the madness, purges, and famines of Russia – and say to themselves: “Ah, that couldn’t happen here; we are so much more civilized.” But by then, civilization was on the run, from the Rhine all the way to Siberia. And in Germany, the old elite was being chased out of leading posts in academia, the military, and the government. Ruined by hyperinflation and chaos – and hounded by extremists – thousands emigrated from Germany to England and America. Those left yielded to mob spirits and rabble-rousing upstarts – communists, anarchists, and national socialists – who fought it out in the streets. The national socialists – the Nazis – won. Even though it was prohibited by the Versailles Treaty, they quickly began building up the military/industrial complex. Then, as Madeleine Albright phrased it, “What good is it having such a powerful military if you can’t put it to use?” As it transpired, Germany attacked the Soviet Union. By then, the average Russkie may have hated Stalin, but he rallied to defend Mother Russia. By the end of World War II, eight million Germans would be dead, with millions more condemned to die in prisoner-of-war camps or from starvation. By 1945, Germany had been bombed so thoroughly that nothing much was left of its once-impressive industrial capacity. Its farms had been starved of investment (the money went to the military) for the previous 10 years. And the country had been cut in half, with foreign troops ruling over every aspect of life. China’s Opening The Largest Factory In World History As Soon As June 21 – And You Won’t Believe What They’re Making Inside… As soon as June 21, China’s opening the largest factory in world history. Its sole purpose is producing $332 billion worth of this high-tech device – the same device that’s set to become the main energy source of the 21st century. To create all these devices, China needs an enormous amount of raw materials – as much as 1,073x the current world’s stockpile – every single year. So the companies who supply these materials to China are about to see a massive surge in demand. In fact, one virtually unknown U.S. company could have its entire $35 billion deposit bought out. The result could shoot its tiny $1 stock through the roof. And it’s all set to start when China’s factory opens as soon as June 21. For all the details on this time-sensitive opportunity… Runaway Money And today, 73 years later… there are still foreign troops garrisoned on German soil… and the Germans still fear letting the money system get out of control. They’re right to be wary of runaway money. It turns honest wage-earners into paupers, while the speculators get rich. Worse, it gives the meddlers a source of almost unlimited financing. Then, there’s no telling what mischief they will get up to. Revolution? War? Or simply a complete economic collapse? News also came last week that the inflation rate in Venezuela has reached 24,600%. In other words, if you bought a pack of cigarettes for $5 last June, you could expect to pay $1,230 for the same pack today. When the money goes, everything seems to go with it. The economy, government, order, morality, right and wrong – all sink into a greasy stew where you don’t know which parts are edible and which are poisonous. This year’s rise in oil prices was supposed to give Venezuela a little break. Oil is the country’s biggest asset and its major export. And the state-owned oil giant PDVSA was supposed to rescue the nation. But it is too late. The vernacular – the vast web of thoughts and deals that make up everyday life for everyday people – has been so corrupted and distorted that it can’t react normally. Venezuela can no longer take advantage of opportunities or respond to crises. The New York Times reports: Desperate oil workers and criminals are also stripping the oil company of vital equipment, vehicles, pumps and copper wiring, carrying off whatever they can to make money. The double drain – of people and hardware – is further crippling a company that has been teetering for years yet remains the country’s most important source of income. Wages could not keep up with inflation. The NYT highlights the case of a typical rig worker who stayed on the job for the entire month of May, yet earned only enough to buy one chicken. No longer able to feed their children, workers walk off the job. Or drive off. Trucks disappear. So do wrenches and copper pipes. Even with a higher oil price, income falls for the company… the state… and the remaining employees. What’s a man to do? Leave! Venezuelans are rushing the borders to escape, often taking little more than the clothes on their backs with them. But wait… Americans are civilized people with full employment, a solid dollar, and a military that is bringing order to a troubled world. What possible significance could Germany 1920–1945 or Venezuela 1999–? have for us? And Eisenhower was just an old worrywart, wasn’t he? Editor’s Note: Today, Bill shares a picture of a “framed reminder” hanging in his office in France. 100,000 mark Reichsbank notes like the one pictured here became virtually worthless during the hyperinflation years of the Weimar Republic. At the height of hyperinflation, one U.S. dollar was worth approximately $4 trillion German marks. People burned bank notes rather than buying firewood… ECONOMIC INSIGHT: A TALE OF TWO FORECASTS By Joe Withrow, Head of Research, Bonner & Partners The Trump administration projects a rosy outlook for U.S. GDP growth… but other institutions disagree. That’s the story today as we chart the five-year GDP growth forecast from the White House against that of the Federal Reserve, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As you can see, Trump’s team expects GDP growth of 3% over the next five years… but the other institutions see GDP growing at roughly half that pace. The Fed projects 1.8% GDP growth over the next five years… the CBO sees GDP growth of 1.6%… and the IMF forecasts GDP growth of only 1.4%. The IMF echoed Bill when explaining its forecast, saying that the U.S. is poised to run massive fiscal deficits in the coming years, which will “increase the range and size of future risks.” The IMF added that the combination of massive deficits and low unemployment has not been seen since the Lyndon Johnson administration… and that it generates a near-term boost, but will be a long-term drag on the economy. – Joe Withrow Crypto Regulations Are (Almost) Here Cryptocurrencies are the Wild West of investing, with little or no oversight from regulatory agencies. But that’s all changing. Here’s what a regulated crypto market might look like. Why EVs Could Supercharge American Shale The American shale boom is alive and well. According to new data, America now has some of the cheapest natural gas in the world. And all this cheap energy comes at the perfect time to power a new innovation: fleets of electric vehicles. How to Invest Alongside Wall Street “Whales” Want to invest alongside Warren Buffett? There’s an easy – and free – way to do just that. Palm Beach Research Group analyst Nick Rokke shows how here. After some scathing mailbags last week, Bill’s stalwarts write in with praise for the Diary… Right on, Bill! You are seeing it for what it is. Thanks. – Ray W. I’ve been reading your work for 20 years, and I look forward to another 20 more. You’re the best. Reading the Diary is one of the highlights of my day. – Ken H. Hi Bill, I am a liberal who doesn’t agree with you on very much, but I want you to know that I look forward to your daily missives with the same eagerness as an addict looks forward to his next fix! – Svend N. Hi Bill, thanks for your thoughts – a bit heavy on sarcasm, but I understand where it’s coming from. The most depressing thing, though, is your Mailbag! Please keep speaking your mind and telling the truth. Not all your readers are Trump worshippers. They are just louder than us reasonable, independent thinkers with some integrity. This craze will be over soon (I hope), and these lost folks will wake up one day wondering how in hell they got suckered into this cult. Unfortunately, history tells us that this happens to “lesser minds” almost on a regular basis, at least once per century. So keep up the good work, and don’t let them intimidate you into silence or defensiveness. – Veronika H. The universe moves in cycles: “The pendulum swings back and forth.” All you have to do to look like a psychic genius is wait for the pendulum to swing to one extreme and predict that the opposite is about to happen. You will take all kinds of heat at first, and be ridiculed as a fool, until the pendulum starts its swing back and you are vindicated as a visionary. Trump’s pendulum is swinging to the good side at the moment… Wait for it. – James F. Well, it sounds like the entirety of your Diary readers has formed a mob against you! Don’t let them wear you down. I personally agree with exactly what you are saying and I am wondering, too, “Where is the party of small government?” I never really affiliated with any party before, and about five years ago, I quit thinking that the Republicans were even trying to be conservative any longer. There is no conservative party… It is a shame. So keep up the good work, keep fighting the good fight, and keep pointing out the obvious using your wit and humor. Maybe someday, more people than just me will realize the golden nugget that this newsletter is. – Melvin E. Bill’s skepticism is bound to be rewarded sooner or later. But, like most smart people, he’s staying in the game – even as he covers the doom bases also mentioned in When the ATMs Go Dark, a good book with great advice if you can read it. – Michael C. As a registered Republican, I feel very, very frustrated. We used to have great leaders like Lincoln, Eisenhower, and both Governor Tom McCall and Senator Mark Hatfield in Oregon. But now, we have Trump, McConnell, Pence, Ryan, and so many more. Things are going pretty well for many people – especially their friends – but at what cost to the country, both internally and internationally? Many times, I disagree with Bill Bonner, but with respect. It is hard to have that for the Trump worshippers. – Russ G. I admire the balance you seek by printing letters critical of you and your remarks. Take solace. Any sentient being can see that our current president is a shameless showman, not a statesman. He knows how to play the crowd. More than anything, he must be the center of attention. We’re living in a tragic comedy. 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__label__cc	0.517066	0.482934	USC hosts virtual environment’s boot camp By Taylor Treadwell \| Jul 3, 2018 Picture taken using 360 degree camera. The 360 degree cameras used at the camp. The University of South Carolina tried something new and hosted its first Virtual Environment’s boot camp from June 25-29. The boot camp was designed to introduce faculty and staff within the USC campuses and other affiliated campuses to three different types of virtual environment: augmented reality, 360-degree video and virtual reality. Each virtual environment provides something different. Augmented reality overlays virtual objects on the real-world environment. 360- degree video and virtual reality are similar, but virtual reality immerses the users in a full artificial digital environment. The Center for Teaching Excellence at USC hosted the camp at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Augie Grant, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, and a team of experienced educators and experts in virtual technologies ran the camp. “Virtual reality gives you an opportunity in teaching to create an environment that never existed before and also helps find a way to teach a lesson,” said Grant. Dr. Brian Mihalik, a William McFall “Mac” Pearce Professor award winner, integrated 360 virtual reality into his class last spring. “On Tuesday’s we did what we called Travel Tuesday’s. We immersed the students in different international tourism destinations by having them put on headsets and 360 goggles with phone, and they visited places through those goggles,” said Mihalik. Universities across the country are using virtual reality as a teaching skill, because it gives students a chance to experience things instead of just reading them. Virtual reality is aims to work for any field of study. “Every faculty member will have to think of their content and the subject they teach in and how they can best use this,” said Tena Crews, associate provost for academic programs. The University of South Carolina hopes to bring virtual reality into classes by 2019. “I think it’s an awesome idea. I think anything that we can do more with technology and especially with the online environment, which we deal with a lot. I think it would really enhance the classroom, get the students involved more in experiential learning and enhance the learning overall,” said Crews. PreviousUSC journalism students and staff say goodbye to a retiring employee NextColumbia Fireflies’ 4th of July bring fireworks, more Taylor Treadwell Taylor Treadwell dreams of working for a national sports network, anchoring and sideline reporting. As a production intern for a small media organization in Bethlehem, Treadwell realized that after a few shots in front of the camera she wanted to be on screen. She would enjoy anchoring on ESPN’s Sports Center or E! News or hosting an entertainment talk show. https://twitter.com/USCCarolinaNews https://www.facebook.com/USC-Carolina-News-Reporter-1877657275836813/	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9163
__label__wiki	0.764088	0.764088	Series 5, Episode 9: Cold Blood “There are fixed points in time, but this isn’t one of them. This is a tipping point.” After last week’s prolonged set up, this week we got action aplenty – almost too much to cram into one episode, but a satisfying conclusion to the thorny problems established in part one. Humanity vs Homo Reptilia – both had a legitimate claim to the Earth and neither were monsters. Both were right, and wrong. It’s the kind of tricky moral problem that gives each new Doctor a chance to show us his own moral strength by attempting to resolve the dilemma; like Tom Baker in Genesis of the Daleks, or most notably Jon Pertwee in the original Doctor Who and the Silurians. Chris Chibnall has said in interviews that the first thing he did to prepare for writing this story was to read Malcolm Hulke’s novelisation of that original story, published as Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters (the very first Who book ever bought by a very young me, fact fans). You can tell; what he’s done with the Silurians here is create the exact same set of character dynamics. Just as in Hulke’s original, we have the wise, moderate elderly leader, the young, hotheaded warmonger and the dispassionate scientist. The scientist this time turned out to be sympathetic to humanity, taking care of their young, which was a nice touch. Mind you, it was difficult to square this with Mo’s assertion at the end of the last episode that he had been dissected while conscious. I would have preferred it if Malohkeh had started off unconcerned with these mere animals but gradually persuaded that they were intelligent creatures with as much right to dignity as he did, rather like Zira in Planet of the Apes. But there was so much story to pack in that the niceties of such subtle development would have had little room to grow. Stephen Moore played wise old Eldane with the perfect degree of sympathy, though he was perhaps a little too sympathetic to the humans from the outset, given the scenario. His voiceover at the opening of the episode (a very Russell T touch) undercut a lot of the tension immediately by demonstrating that the Silurians, and he himself, would survive the proceedings. I’ve never cared for this kind of portentous voiceover, even with the deliberate attempt to mislead the audience. But Moore’s mellifluous tones did at least lend the story a real gravitas from the outset – even to those of us for whom he is, inescapably, the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android. Neve McIntosh built on her fearsome performance last week to give us not one but two aggressive warmongers. Alaya got the martyr’s death she so obviously longed for, but her role as chief antagonist was supplanted this week by Restac, an even bolder performance as the scar faced warrior chief. Chris Chibnall seemed to be working towards the same ‘caste’ system shown in Warriors of the Deep, when Silurians were the leaders and thinkers and Sea Devils were the warriors. It was actually better developed here (though it could hardly have been worse than Warriors of the Deep), and we got a glimpse at a society that had some real depth – politics, a caste system, a scientific and aesthetic culture. It’s just a shame that such depth had to be represented by only three characters, although to be fair Chibnall managed to show more of the Silurian society than Malcolm Hulke did with the similar limitation of three representatives. The Sea Devils got even shorter shrift in their debut story – only one of them had a speaking role! Restac was most obviously reminiscent of Star Trek’s Klingons in her impassioned warmongering, and the other end of the scale was nicely represented by Eldane and Richard Hope’s almost cuddly Malohkeh. Still, it was hard to see how a balance of power was maintained with masses of warriors and no other scientists or politicians in sight. The big reveal of the city at the end of part one had led you to think that here was a very well-populated settlement of Homo Reptilia, but we then discovered that comparatively few had awoken from hibernation, and all the hibernating reptiles were warriors. The script didn’t extrapolate, but I for one would like to know why they had such a huge army millions of years before humanity was any kind of threat. Perhaps they weren’t quite the noble civilisation the Doctor like to portray them as. And neither was humanity. The debates were handled well, with the Doctor, as before in the original story, trying his best to act as intermediary. But as with the original story, we got the sense that the Doctor was being a little too idealistic in his bigging up of humanity. So it proved, with Alaya being killed to almost provoke the war she was so keen on by Ambrose, whose well-meaning attempts to protect her family almost doomed the planet. It was a nice portrayal of the road to hell being built on good intentions, and Ambrose’s obvious remorse did show humanity to have more of a conscience than the reptile warriors, but it was obviously all going to go as badly as it did in 1970. At least there was no Brigadier on hand to blow them to smithereens this time. The resolution was satisfying without being as dramatic as I’d hoped. Once again, the Doctor, this time with the Silurian leader’s agreement, decided that neither species were ready to live together in peace. After halting Restac’s CG-driven palace revolution with a handy gas decontamination procedure (another nod to Warriors of the Deep? Surely not), Eldane put his people back into hibernation with the alarm set for a thousand years time. The voiceover at least implied that this would be successful, presumably with the aid of young Elliot in spreading awareness of their existence – although UNIT have known about them for a long time and don’t seem to have bothered telling anyone. It’s rather a heavy burden for one little boy to prepare the planet for peaceful co-existence. All the character arcs were at least nicely resolved. Tony Mack would stay with the Silurians to be cured of his venom infection, and Nasreen would stay with him, building on the hints of romance between them in the first part. Robert Pugh and Meera Syal played both parts well, particularly Syal who managed to balance her usual comic persona with some real drama. Nonetheless, I had to wonder whether they knew what they were letting themselves in for. Perhaps a sequel story could show the far more epic emergence of Homo Reptilia in the future, with the baffled Tony and Nasreen acting as ambassadors? Nice thought, but probably unlikely to happen. The conclusion to the story proper was somewhat undermined, however, by the appearance, yet again, of Amy’s crack (chortle). Not that this wasn’t, in itself, a very dramatic sequence, it’s just that when the pace is at its highest, this sequence seemed to rather unbalance the dynamic of the story. It’s unlikely to be any fault of Chris Chibnall’s though, and this scene did at least neatly tie in to the actual story with Rory sacrificing his own life to save the Doctor from the dying Restac. Even though it didn’t arise from the story proper, the ultimate fate of Rory is, I suspect, going to the most memorable sequence in the two-parter. Surely even those who initially disliked him must have warmed to the character by now, and his sudden death was totally unexpected. And not just his death; with the time energy leaking out of the Crack, he’s been erased from ever having existed. The sequence of the Doctor desperately trying to keep his memory in Amy’s mind was a real lump in the throat moment, as was the moment on the hillside when she clearly had forgotten Rory was ever there. But that engagement ring’s still in the TARDIS, and we’ve still to resolve the issue of the Crack. I don’t think it’s beyond the realm of possibility to imagine that Rory will be back, and it’s a measure of how much I liked the character that I really hope he is. So, Crack aside, what we got was a workmanlike and occasionally inspired remake of Doctor Who and the Silurians. And there’s nothing really wrong with that; an actual sequel would, like Warriors of the Deep, have had the additional problem of explaining the concept to a new audience. Effectively revamping their origin story was a far easier approach, and I liked that Chibnall kept the ‘approaching Moon’ plot point as the reason Homo Reptilia went into hibernation. I also liked that the script, at least in this episode, always referred to them as Homo Reptilia; while I’ve read that it may not be entirely taxonomically correct, it’s a sight more valid than ‘Silurians’ or ‘Eocenes’. And it was apparently Chibnall that specified that their guns should look like the ones from The Sea Devils. I like that attention to detail. Better than last week, though the two-parter as a whole was rather badly structured, Cold Blood was an enjoyable episode, and one of Chris Chibnall’s best scripts, though somehow I was expecting a more epic conclusion than the traditional Pertwee-style explosion. But it was thoughtful, well-acted and left the viewer with a lot to chew on, and that’s the mark of a good story. Not a classic, at least in my opinion, but certainly good. And with the big reveal that the Crack contains bits of the disintegrated TARDIS, some ominous foreshadowings of things to come… Author Simon FernandesPosted on May 30, 2010 Categories Doctor Who Reviews Series 5, Episode 8: The Hungry Earth “While you’ve been drilling down, something else has been drilling up.” The Silurians are one of the most interesting concepts 70s Doctor Who ever came up with. As the original intelligent species inhabiting the planet, they went into hibernation to avoid the mass extinction which destroyed the dinosaurs. Unfortunately, their hibernation systems malfunctioned, leaving them asleep as the Earth came to be dominated by that upstart ape descendant, humanity. Given that Homo Reptilia (as the Doctor more accurately referred to them) are a civilised, cultured race with as much claim to this planet as we do, they’re an obvious allegory for the displaced indigenous peoples of nations like America and Australia. The interesting variance here is that unlike Native Americans or Aborigines, the Silurians are in some ways more technologically advanced than Homo Sapiens, and are perfectly capable of taking their planet back – by force, if necessary. So, a well-thought out cultural allegory as originally conceived by writer Malcolm Hulke; the moral ramifications of which were well-explored in their debut story, 1970’s Doctor Who and the Silurians, slightly less well-explored on their return in 1972’s The Sea Devils, and barely glanced at in 1984’s Warriors of the Deep. A thoughtful new Who story could restore some of the original thoughtfulness and depth to the concept, surely? Well, perhaps. But probably not in the hands of Chris Chibnall. In the interests of fairness, I should point out that, regardless of my previous opinions of Chris’ work, I do try and go into each new script with an open mind. Occasionally, this has left me pleasantly surprised; his opening story for Torchwood’s second season, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, was an excellent script, lacking in some internal logic but well-written and put together with panache. By contrast, his previous effort for Doctor Who itself, 42, was a bit of a mess of wasted potential, with some badly drawn characterisation and the ridiculous lack of logic that led to the ‘recall escape pod’ button being placed on the outside of the spaceship! After three years, I still can’t forgive the staggering contrivance of that concept, apparently put there solely to justify the set piece of the Doctor spacewalking. As a script, I think The Hungry Earth falls somewhere between those two extremes; not a classic by any means, but a workmanlike setup for what looks like a more interesting second half. It’s basically, as my friend Kim put it, “45 minutes of exposition”. It does have the feel of an early 70s Jon Pertwee story; the setting of a remote village, enshrouded by a dome-shaped barrier (The Daemons), in which a pioneering scientific project is menaced by a mysterious alien force (any number of stories, but most notably Inferno). The village is curiously underpopulated though; when the barrier enshrouds the area, there are basically only five people inside it. It’s understandable that the story doesn’t really need any other major characters (except the Silurians themselves), but a few disposable extras like in last week’s episode might have added to the feel of the setting. Even with the excuse that most of the project’s workers commuted to work, it seemed a little odd that a village with a sizeable church and graveyard didn’t have at least a few more inhabitants. Unlike in Inferno, it’s not clear what Nasreen Chaudhry’s drilling project is actually for; presently it seems that they’re trying to drill deeper than ever before just to show they can. It also seems curiously under-funded, with the control centre being represented by some computer terminals in what looks suspiciously like a warehouse. Still, budgetary constraints haven’t really harmed the episode’s CG effects – the domed barrier over the village was nicely realised, especially when it turned black to shroud the village in convenient darkness. The build up to anything actually happening had some nice concepts, but seemed dragged out to excess. The idea of graves being robbed from below is nicely creepy, and the predatory holes in the ground were a good touch, noticeably reminiscent of similar sequences in 1984’s Frontios (in which a character comments, “the earth is hungry”). It was a good idea to split the regular team up early, with Rory being mistaken for a police investigator while Amy was kidnapped below ground, but it seemed to take far too long before there was even a hint of the Silurians appearing. When they did, it was in the form of Alaya, a well-written character who got many of the episode’s best lines. As one of the ‘warrior class’ from a previously unseen sub-species of the Silurians, it was a good idea that the make-up left most of her face visible, allowing for a good performance as a proud, even arrogant, representative of a genuinely wronged species. Her assertion that one of the humans the Doctor was so proud of would kill her, thus starting what she sees as an inevitable war, was a particularly chilling pronouncement. It’s a genuine suspense builder that we can’t guess which – Rory, with his girlfriend kidnapped, Ambrose, with her son stolen, or Tony, infected with the creeping poison from this version of the Silurians’ sting. The new versions of the Silurians have some imaginative touches. As well as the aforementioned sting, they’re equipped with Predator-style masks that give thermal vision, nicely parodied by the Doctor with his nightvision shades. This also led to the interesting revelation that Silurians are cold-blooded; an idea still somewhat hotly debated (forgive the pun) with relation to the dinosaurs themselves. It was also interesting that the Doctor referred to Alaya as being “300 million years out of her comfort zone”, a timescale which would put the Silurian civilisation rather early in reptilian development, somewhere around the Carboniferous period if memory serves. Still, given that Malcolm Hulke made a fairly significant historical error in naming them ‘Silurians’ in the first place, it’s hard to take the science too much to task. Working with fairly broadly drawn characters, the guest cast aren’t bad at all, and it’s nice to hear some Welsh accents in the show, given where it’s produced. The characters seem primarily to be there for the Doctor to explain the plot to, so it’s a relief that the likes of Robert Pugh and Meera Syal can take what little they’re given and produce likeable performances. The only slight deviance from the ‘standard family’ of Mo and Ambrose is the idea that young Elliot is dyslexic – I wonder if that might prove a plot point later? With the lion’s share of the dialogue taken up by the Doctor’s explanations this week, even the regular cast got fairly short shrift. Arthur Darvill has perfected an enquiring look as he listens to Matt Smith, and Karen Gillan got to be kidnapped and locked in a pod – very traditional – while looking rather worried. Matt Smith, given the only notable character interaction in his ‘interrogation’ of Alaya, was as good as usual, but hopefully some of the other characters will get a look in next week. After the overlong set piece of the Silurian hunt under the blackened dome, the episode just seemed to amble towards what could charitably be called a climax, though it did seem more like just a convenient chapter break. Tony has a creeping green infection under his skin, Amy is about to be dissected while conscious in a scene reminiscent of Planet of the Apes, and the Doctor has headed underground with Nasreen to look for the Silurians. The revelation that there’s a huge city full of them led to a reasonably well-realised CG vista, but as a climax it was a little too predictable. It’s not really fair to assess the quality of a first part without having seen the second, but on the basis of what we’ve seen so far, I think it’s going to be a rather rushed conclusion to an overlong setup. But the promise of a larger cast and some actual advancement of the plot next week looks interesting, and as an overall story I’ll reserve judgment till then. It’s notable, however, that the first part of the recent Weeping Angels two-parter was packed full of incident as well as exposition, and was an exciting episode in its own right; at this stage, the best I can say for The Hungry Earth is that it’s far from the worst thing Chris Chibnall’s ever written… Series 5, Episode 7: Amy’s Choice “But this feels real!” Doctor Who does Nightmare on Elm St. Via the acerbically witty pen of Simon Nye, most recently responsible for a similarly caustic style in the remake of Reggie Perrin. Quite honestly, I didn’t know what to make of that. It was certainly an entertaining and thrilling piece of drama, it’s just that it didn’t – quite – feel like Doctor Who. It’s great that Steve Moffat has managed to attract big name writers like Nye and Richard Curtis to the show; but from this at least, I got the impression that Nye was a latecomer to the series, unfamiliar with the 47 years of backstory that can be both a blessing and a burden to fan writers. While it was enjoyable, Amy’s Choice had the feel of a newcomer’s impression of what the show should be like. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing. Episodes like Love and Monsters that challenge the accepted format are a lot of fun and help to keep the show fresh. My boyfriend commented that it felt more like a Sarah Jane Adventures story, and one of my friends thought it highly reminiscent of surreal 60s experiments in Who, like The Celestial Toymaker or The Mind Robber. For me, what it felt like was a good Doctor Who Magazine comic strip – a sideways glance at a universe that was almost, but not quite, like the show on the telly. All that aside, though, it still had the emotional heart of all the recent character-driven episodes. There was a lot going on here, from the seemingly deliberate pastiches of typical Who plots, to the differing levels of reality, and the self-conscious gentle mockery of the conventions of the show. Ultimately though, this was a story about the complicated emotional relationship between the three main characters. There’s apparently a school of thought that Rory is too similar to the early, comedy version of Mickey Smith, and that his addition to the TARDIS crew is an echo of the Doctor/Rose/Mickey love triangle of the first two series. There’s some truth in the latter of those two assumptions, though it’s a tribute to Steve Moffat’s clever writing that it’s being played out far more subtly. But Rory certainly has more substance than the comic bumbler Mickey initially was. As I said last week, I think in some ways he’s the most realistic character in the show; most of us would, in such a situation, be as out of our depth as he is. And this week, with a glimpse into his (fictional) future, we saw a genuinely affecting portrayal of an ordinary bloke trying to do the best he could, and always feeling that it wasn’t enough. I love Arthur Darvill in the part, and it helps that he really looks ordinary – not that I want to be unflattering! It’s just that, let’s face it, Noel Clarke was a bit of a looker, wasn’t he? Of course, the other two characters were just as good. As the title bore her name (and was it meant to be so reminiscent of the title of Holocaust angst-fest Sophie’s Choice?), Amy was the key to the whole story. Karen Gillan really rose to the challenge, giving us a performance that was by turns comic (her pregnancy cravings), brave (facing down the Dream Lord), and heartbreaking (her tears when dream-Rory died). As to the Doctor, it’s telling that I’ve started to take Matt smith’s affectedly eccentric performance so much for granted that I almost don’t notice how good he is! The excellent dialogue helped; I love that he’s back to having that alien, not-quite-getting-human emotions quality. Peering intently at Mrs Poggett, he had the terrific – and ultimately significant – line, “you’re very old, aren’t you?”, and he seemingly didn’t initially grasp the idea that Amy was pregnant – “you’ve swallowed a planet!” He also got the best lines when deconstructing the almost post-modern parodies of traditional Who plots. As the aliens possessing the OAPs of Upper Leadworth explained who they were and what they were up to, he finished all their sentences with a hilariously weary, seen-it-all-before air. The main deconstruction of the show was done by the episode’s only other major character – the enigmatic Dream Lord. Toby Jones was fantastic in the part, all his lines delivered with the same acid wit he brought to his performance as Truman Capote. Early on, we got a few clever clues as to who the Dream Lord actually was. The fact that he first appeared wearing what was basically the Doctor’s costume should have given it away, but there were some nicely placed red herrings, such as the Doctor’s comment, “only one person in the universe hates me that much”. He seemed too sane to be the Master (the recent one, anyway), so I immediately thought of the aforementioned Celestial Toymaker. In the event, though, he actually turned out to be a version of the Valeyard! Like that character, he was an amalgam of the dark aspects of the Doctor himself, and also like that character he managed to get off the most barbed insults to the Doctor, steeped in self-knowledge – “you’ve got so many tawdry quirks, you could open a tawdry quirk shop”. Matt Smith reacted to the revelation well, showing us a Doctor who, despite his age and heroics, has plenty of self-doubt and self-hatred. It was the sort of critical look at the Doctor’s failings that we’ve rarely seen since the Sylvester McCoy era. So, while parodying trad Who plots, this was far from a trad Who episode. It was heartfelt, funny and thrilling, but still felt like an intruder from a sort of sideways Who universe. But it was highly entertaining, and did well to advance – but not resolve – the ongoing Doctor/Amy/Rory thread. I certainly enjoyed it, and have a feeling that its’ one of those episodes that would benefit from a couple of repeat viewings to take it all in. And as to the dark side of the Doctor – what with that reappearance of the Dream Lord reflected in the console, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of that… Series 5, Episode 6: The Vampires of Venice “You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you’re around.” You want vampires? Toby Whithouse can give you vampires. After his excellent Doctor Who debut, series 2’s School Reunion. Toby famously went on to create BBC3’s excellent Being Human, in which a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost share a house in Bristol. The Vampires of Venice has nothing like the depth of that series, but nonetheless Toby’s thoughtful writing style raised this a little above the fun romp that it basically was. The actual concept of vampires in Venice is not new; there was a spurious sequel to Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu called Vampire in Venice way back in 1987, and apparently there are actual historic myths about vampires in the Italian city state. But this had the inventive idea that the villains weren’t actually vampires at all – they were alien ‘fish people’, bad enough that they actually preferred to be thought of as vampires! It’s an inventive idea that also neatly sidesteps the need to tie these in with the other ‘vampires’ already in Doctor Who continuity, the Great Vampires seen in State of Decay and the Haemovores from The Curse of Fenric. These ‘vampires’ were creepily played and well-directed, especially the Calvieri girls who were, presumably intentionally, strongly reminiscent of every portrayal of Dracula’s ‘brides’. Joining in with the theme was Murray Gold, whose score was, in its low, mournful strings, inescapably reminiscent of Wojciech Kilar’s score for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It’s a mark of the writing quality that the script wrongfoots you into thinking the villains are entirely without redeeming features. Certainly the sublimely creepy Francesco Calvieri comes across as a straightforward villain, but just as we think the same of his mother, she gives us an impassioned speech about trying to save her race from extinction. Certainly the end never justifies the means, but in the terms Signora Calvieri expresses – one city of 200,000 in exchange for an entire race – you can certainly see the temptation to think along those lines. The Calvieris were an engaging pair of opponents, and strikingly played by Helen McCrory and Alex Price – the latter being especially unnerving, like a young man who was heading towards being good looking and took a wrong turn towards ‘sinister’ at the last moment. It was actually something of a relief that the ‘vampires’ of the title proved to be nothing of the sort, as the screens are becoming irritatingly crowded with bloodsuckers. As well as the aforementioned Being Human, there’s True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and teenage girl swoonfest the Twilight series to contend with. Vampires, in short, a re getting a little routine. So the fish people of Saturnine were overall a more inventive monster, used well in an appropriate and sumptuous historical setting. Standing in for Venice, the Croatian town of Trogir was well used, particularly in street shots when we didn’t have to see a wide vista; the real Venice would presumably have been infinitely busier and too modern to portray its 16th century self. Less successful were the long shots of the city as a panorama, in which it was clear that the watery setting and attendant gondolas had been added by the Mill. But the realisation of Venice in 1580 was there in the writing too. The Doctor’s wariness of the presence of Casanova, the use of the canals to infiltrate the Calvieri Academy, Rory’s pretence to be ‘”a gondola… driver” meant that it was more than just a gratuitous historical setting and actually instrumental to the story. As did the ultimate plans of Rosanna Calvieri; any city can be flooded, but only Venice can be sunk. These short romps tend to have little time to develop supporting characters, so it was pleasing to see the depth given to even the minor players like Carlo the Steward. It was a nice little touch to show him fleeing the Academy with the silver as the catastrophe struck. But the main supporting characters were Isabella and Guido, and not only were they well developed, but another example of Toby Whithouse’s writing taking you by surprise. Given that the initial purpose behind investigating the Academy was to ‘rescue’ Isabella, it was a heck of a surprise that when they failed she was immediately fed to the fishes. It also perfectly set up both Guido’s explosive sacrifice and the Doctor’s moment of righteous anger for the week. And I did like that moment of righteous anger. Matt Smith does fine when he’s shouting passionately as last week, but I much preferred the underplaying of his conversation with Rosanna Calvieri, as he condemned her for killing Isabella without even knowing her name. It was an affecting bit of writing, very well acted, that certainly beat the pants off Tennant’s “Nothing can stop me now” bit in The Idiot’s Lantern. Matt Smith, in fact was on very fine form this week, neatly mixing that kind of gravitas with a superb sense of comic timing. You’d have expected the pre-credits teaser to end with Francesco baring his vampire teeth; instead, we cut to the Doctor leaping out of a ‘stripper cake’ at Rory’s stag do. The Doctor’s baffled attempt to explain Amy’s attempt to jump his bones was a great comic moment, and well-served by the excellent dialogue given to all three leads this episode. Yes, all three leads. Rory’s now officially part of the TARDIS crew, “my boys” as Amy affectionately calls them. And I thought Arthur Darvill was great as a well-written character. I did think there was a little too much use of him as, basically, the comic relief, such as the interview with the Calvieris and his attempt to fight off Francesco with a not very sturdy broom, but really, wasn’t that the most realistic portrayal of how any of us might act under the circumstances. I know we’d all like to think we’d be great heroes if the Doctor whisked us off into time and space, but I suspect I’d be far more like Rory: blundering, scared and completely out of my depth. Which is not to say he was played as stupid, far from it. Aside from his buddy buddy byplay with the Doctor “Yours is bigger.” “Let’s not even go there…”, he got some of the more penetrating lines in the script, including the one quoted at the top of this review. I’m glad to have him around, and hope he carries on in the same way as he did in this episode. And it’s clear now that Amy’s the one who wears the pants not only in that relationship but the one with the Doctor too. Karen Gillan was entertaining as she led the two ‘boys’ into the TARDIS, and throughout the episode. It was a typical but well-played bit of companion heroism for her to be the ‘mole’ inside the Academy, and thankfully this week she didn’t solve the crisis when the Doctor couldn’t: she still needed rescuing, and the Doctor and Rory were on hand to do it, bickering all the way. And the script had one last ace to play that raised it above the level of a mere romp. The final scene between the Doctor and Rosanna, as she threw herself to her doom at the teeth of the last of her species, was an unexpectedly moving moment, and very well acted by both. There were more hints here than previously of what we know the Doctor’s been guilty of in the past, and Matt Smith’s face was a perfect picture of despair when Rosanna asked him if his conscience could bear the weight of one more dead race. Ultimately, The Vampires of Venice is a romp, a filler episode, and should be compared to the likes of The Idiot’s Lantern, The Lazarus Experiment. But some great performances, sparkling dialogue and a bit of unexpected depth lift it above your average filler. It’s still not Genesis of the Daleks, but hey, what is? And the story arc was given little time this week, but what time it did get added another level of creepiness to the ‘crack in time’ concept. Now, it’s not only ‘the end of all things’, but ‘the Silence’. The same Silence that the TARDIS crew heard beginning to seep into 15th century Venice. And somehow, I find that even more chilling than the end of all things… Author Simon FernandesPosted on May 9, 2010 Categories Doctor Who Reviews Downing Street… The Final Frontier… So, on Thursday evening I and a group of friends bravely gathered to boldly go where several men have gone before: to stay up all night watching the election, with only the aid of enormous quantities of alcohol. Election coverage is always fun, as attested to by the numerous parodies of it produced over the years. We watched some of these to get us in the mood. Monty Python’s Election Night Special was followed by Blackadder the Third’s opening ‘Pitt the Younger’ episode, and then some vintage Party Political Broadcasts. Notable was the Green Party one which seemed to consist solely of children being humiliated by having chemical waste dropped on them, the Conservative one which didn’t need words, just a montage of Maggie Thatcher being great to stirring music, and the Conservative ‘car metaphor’ one, in which every party was represented by a car. Labour were of course an old fashioned VdP Princess, the SDP/Liberal Alliance were (of course) a bubble car with two steering wheels, and the Tories somehow thought it would look good if they were an Austin Montego. Plainly they’d never driven one. Then on to the real thing! It had the potential to be one of the most interesting elections in years, with the televised debates creating a swell of support for the Lib Dems and the other major parties heavily tainted by the expenses scandals, not to mention 13 years of discreditation preceded by 18 years of discreditation. I and most of my friends were voting Lib Dem, and while not expecting them to actually win were hoping for a big increase in their share of the popular vote, and perhaps their number of seats. My young boyfriend had even been out canvassing for them and manning the local polling station. 9pm: we switched to Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night, which promised a ‘night of comedy’ relating to all things electoral. Unfortunately it was primarily presented by the annoying Jimmy Carr, a man who by dint of his very personality can make a good joke unfunny. On the bright side, he was accompanied by the ever-witty David Mitchell, and for some reason Lauren Laverne was there, perhaps as eye candy. A few varyingly funny routines were followed by a politically themed Come Dine With Me, a show that I actually can’t stand in the first place. It was amusing to see Derek Hatton squaring up to Edwina Currie yet again whatever the context though, and Rod Liddle, doing his usual impression of a supremely pissed off bloodhound, was entertainingly rude. Only Brian Paddick, the appropriate Lib Dem voice of reason, failed to make much of an impression. But it was 9.55 pm now, and time for the real thing. Over to BBC One we went, expecting it to be the best of the channels covering events. Immediately David Dimbleby popped up, as reassuring as a comfortable old armchair, and a sense of security was generated. Dimbleby would never steer us wrong, and surely in his capable hands the election coverage would be masterful and insightful. Ever since Bob McKenzie introduced the Swingometer, election pundits have been trying to top this fairly basic way of patronisingly explaining events to the clueless viewer, and the advent of CG has allowed for an increasingly barmy selection of ways to realise the political situation as a largely inappropriate visual metaphor. This has tended to give election coverage an increasingly sci fi feel as years went on, and 2010 didn’t disappoint here. As soon as we saw that Dimbleby and co seemed to be wandering around the Operations Centre of Deep Space Nine, it was clear that this was going to be Star Trek: The Political Coverage. And so it proved. For the first few minutes, sub-Next Generation music played continuously as Dimbleby introduced us to the crew. We met the Away Teams, who would be dedicatedly stalking the party leaders all night. Andrew Marr was assigned to David Cameron, while John Simpson had beamed to a location near Gordon Brown, and Kirsty Wark was to be genetically handcuffed to Nick Clegg. In the Holodeck was Jeremy Vine, ready to generate computer images to explain everything. Standing ready to scientifically analyse the incoming results was Lt Cmdr Emily Maitlis, who had been equipped with a giant touch screen iPad to illustrate her points. This device, which made intrusive noises reminiscent of a Tivo whenever touched, was quickly dubbed the ‘iPlinth’ in our house, though variants such as ‘iBelisk’ cropped up on occasion. In a ‘historic first’ Dimbleby then projected several giant phalluses onto the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster. These were to represent how near to the ‘majority line’ each party got as the night progressed. We settled in, beer and nibbles easily to hand, as it all began. At 10pm on the dot, exit poll results popped up on screen. All looked immediately grim (including us). A Hung Parliament? With the Tories in the lead, and the Lib Dems actually losing seats? Surely not. Notes of caution were immediately struck. “The real poll has yet to be revealed”. Sadly, the exit poll would turn out to be all too accurate. Meanwhile, we cut to Andrew Neil, who, in a break from the Star Trek theme, was inexplicably hosting a showbiz party on a boat in the Thames, rather like the Sex Pistols famously did. Unfortunately for us, no police stormtroopers were on hand to break this party up, and we had to endure Neil soliciting the expert political opinions of the likes of Bruce Forsyth and Joan Collins. All the celebs seemed somewhat baffled as to what they were actually doing there, and Brucie even went into his “nice to see you, to see you… nice” routine as a kind of default fallback. Copious amounts of alcohol seemed to be on hand, so that by the time Neil sought the astute political analysis of Bill Wyman, the erstwhile Rolling Stone seemed incapable of speech. We’d cut back to Neil at various times throughout the night, but back at Deep Space Nine, the real analysis was happening as results started to come in. Houghton and Sunderland East, eager to retain their record as first to declare, had enlisted teams of toned teenage athletes to pass the ballot boxes in a relay, which went down well in our house. The first few results were unsurprising; Labour, Labour, Labour. Safe Labour seats always get results in quickly because of their urban nature, and we had to explain to our election newbie that this wasn’t the encouraging sign for Labour it might have seemed. In the mezzanine, Chief of Security Jeremy Paxman was already on the attack. First to be grilled was the ever slimy Peter Mandelson. Paxman tried bravely, but trying to pin Mandelson down was like trying to get a chokehold on liquid shapeshifter Odo. He had better luck with Lib Dem Ed Davey, who was asked the supremely awkward question, “would you be prepared to get into bed with Peter Mandelson?” In the Holodeck, Jeremy Vine was striding over a giant map of Britain while summoning a huge vertical chart of each party’s ‘target constituencies’, complete with floating percentage indicators. It was already like being in a low rent version of Avatar, but Vine would get more bizarre as the night wore on. Back in Operations, the ever reliable Nick Robinson was on hand for any required punditry. Given the already evident Star Trek motif, Nick was inescapably reminiscent of the Emergency Medical Hologram from Voyager: “Please state the nature of the political emergency.” There were signs early on that Nick’s excitement was interfering with his appropriateness gauges, as he began to talk of ‘”hot deals with the Ulster Unionists”. We also saw signs of the other big story of the night beginning to emerge. It looked as though many potential voters hadn’t actually been able to get into polling stations. Some, particularly students, seemed to have been specifically excluded. Footage was shown of a bedraggled trail of voters trying in vain to vote in Nick Clegg’s constituency. “That’s the queue for a nightclub, surely?” exclaimed young James in our living room. Back on Andrew Neil’s party boat, the political insight of Mariella Frostrup was being tapped. Mariella was worried; her concern was that “thoughts could be put into Gordon Brown’s hands”. Fortunately, a stunned looking Ian Hislop was also on hand, to ask an actually pertinent question: why, he wondered, were there no percentage breakdowns for the exit polls. Neil, apparently unprepared for a genuinely relevant question, was nonplussed. “Percentages won’t help you”, he snapped, and immediately buggered off, taking the camera with him. The politicians fall like dominos! Back in the Holodeck, Jeremy Vine was explaining the effect of the expenses scandal with the metaphor of a giant CG domino chain in which every domino bore the face of a naughty politician. A tap of his finger and the virtual naughties fell in a nice pattern, littering the floor of Jeremy’s clean white void. A quick glance at Twitter revealed that, apparently, no one was watching the ITV coverage. “Alastair Stewart could have just gone to bed” opined one Tweeter. Given the results we were now seeing, he actually would have been better off going to the pub. It was indeed looking bad; looking, in fact, exactly as the exit polls had indicated. But there was still time for more pontificating. “George Osborne puts the ‘Shadow’ into ‘Shadow Chancellor’” commented one of us as the hapless Tory gloated all over the screen. Meanwhile, election expert Prof Peter Hennessy had been dragged out from a handy cupboard to explain hung Parliaments: “The Queen is only activated under certain circumstances”. This produced the immediate image of the monarch as Terminator like cyborg, waiting patiently in a lab until the ‘hung parliament’ switch was pressed. Exciting results were coming in. Gordon Brown, predictably enough, won his Kirkcaldy seat, but all were more focussed on the weirdo candidate immediately behind him. Representing ‘Land is Power’, whatever that was, his bald, pallid, sunglass clad visage was inescapably reminiscent of one of the Agents from The Matrix, and his arm was fixed in an inexplicable Black Power salute as the results were read out. Meanwhile, David Cameron was opposed by no less a personage than Jesus Christ, at least according to his outfit and beard. It was a sad indicator of how the night would go that not even the Son of Man could defeat Cameron. Book of Revelations, anyone? We all flagged as this wore on, hour after hour, and the exit polls more clearly became unpalatable reality. After a couple of hours doze at about 6am, it became clear that a Hung Parliament was indeed the result, and the TV coverage would run for at least another day. Dimbleby took a couple of hours off, but Paxman and Robinson continued unstoppably. Even Andrew Neil was continuing to irritate, having abandoned his drunken celebrity filled party boat for a scenic pagoda on Parliament Square. Not even we could continue watching election coverage indefinitely, and at about 3pm we gave up and went to the pub. But not before all the party leaders had shown up to make hotly anticipated statements. Predictably, both Gordon Brown and David Cameron were seeking the support of the Lib Dems to make a workable government. Nick Clegg, to the irritation of many Lib Dem voters (myself included) stuck to his pre election guns of offering to cooperate with whoever had the most seats. It’s fair to say that a large proportion of Lib Dem voters find the Tory party and its policies hugely unpalatable, and despite his integrity I think Clegg risks losing a lot of his core support if he helps David Cameron out in any way at all. Sure it’s a compromise that might help some of their policies into reality, but in my view, the price of also realising Tory policies is too high to pay. But to return to the coverage, and we did from time to time, the result had rather tainted the TV experience (the most important aspect, surely?). An election without a clear result is like a sex act without a climax; it all seems to be building to something great that never happens. So we’re stuck with Dimbleby and co for days yet, probably, and an uncertain governmental future. In some ways, it’s interesting times politically, with no clear resolution in sight and little constitutional precedent. It’s also clear that some form of electoral reform is vital to avoid this result in future. The only question is, will we get reform before we get another General Election? Author Simon FernandesPosted on May 8, 2010 Categories Media, PoliticsTags 2010 General Election, Andrew Neil, BBC, Conservatives, David Cameron, David Dimbleby, Ed Miliband, Jeremy Paxman, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg1 Comment on Downing Street… The Final Frontier… Series 5, Episode 5: Flesh and Stone “What if time could run out?” The satisfying conclusion to the return of the Weeping Angels saw the titular villains collide head on with the real villain of this year’s story arc – the mysterious Crack in Time. It was another ‘cracking’ script from Steve Moffat, proving yet again that, unlike many Star Trek writers, he’s capable of writing a two parter where the second part lives up to the promise of the first. Very much like its inspiration Aliens, the big reveal that the monsters were everywhere around our heroes was followed by a frantic, tense chase, in this case through the innards of the crashed Byzantium. More superb direction from the impressive Adam Smith ensured that this was a heart in mouth, action packed episode that, unlike many a Hollywood actioner, never lost the depth and emotional involvement developed in the first part. Like a Hollywood actioner, it had some brilliant set pieces, and unlike the shoehorned in ‘Spitfires in space’ bit from Victory of the Daleks, these integrated with, and arose naturally from, the story – the hallmark of how a good set piece should work. We were into one from the very beginning, as the Angels gradually encroached on our heroes in the flickering light of the Byzantium’s entrance corridor, while the Doctor worked frantically to open the inner hatch. “Nobody panic… only me then.” Undoubtedly the best set piece though, and the one destined to be remembered by loads of kids when they grow up, was the bit where Amy had to walk, eyes closed, through the Angel-infested forest, as the creatures slowly, creepily, came to life around her. Steve Moffat has, as the later Confidential showed, an incredible gift for portraying the archetypal nightmares of childhood, and this is one that would certainly have had the younger me waking up in the night thinking about it. I guess it’s the influence of his two young sons – and it’s Louis Moffat who we, reportedly, have to thank for this episode’s perfect, creepy title. Action and suspense still mixed perfectly with character involvement, as we saw in the moment when Bishop Octavian was revealed with his throat in a near death grip from a frozen Angel. It was a perfect bit of misdirection in the script; just as the danger of the Crack had been revealed – “There’s worse than Angels out there!” – the Doctor turned to see the jump out of your seat image of Octavian with a ghastly Angel’s arm around his throat. “I beg to differ, sir”. The horror was mixed with real pathos, perfectly underplayed by both Matt Smith and Iain Glen. The tears in the Doctor’s eyes said it all as he turned away, leaving the Bishop to certain death. One thought occurs – did the whole ‘Church military’ idea stem from a character called ‘Bishop’ in Aliens? I wonder… The forest was a good setting for the episode. Like last week’s caves, it’s a traditional scary Doctor Who archetype. Think of Planet of Evil, Kinda, The Mutants… well, maybe not the last one. But it was a splendid, and logical, touch to have it contained within the crashed ship, like the biodomes in Silent Running or the ‘ship’s garden’ in The Black Hole. The ‘tree-borgs’ were a nice science fiction idea in a story that, as usual for Moffat, was so brimming over with interesting concepts he could afford to chuck them out randomly without even paying much attention to them. Amy’s ‘countdown’ was another chilling sequence where the viewer was allowed to see what was happening before the characters onscreen – although I suspect the Doctor picked up on it rather earlier than he revealed. Apart from the inherent scariness of the very idea – an Angel in Amy’s mind, rising from her visual cortex – it was yet another example of how chillingly malevolent these monsters are, as ‘Angel Bob’ revealed that they were using the countdown to scare her, “for fun, sir.” Brrrr. With Amy so central to the peril of this episode, River Song seemed rather more sidelined than last week. But while not so integral to the action, she still got plenty of great character moments, even offering, against all logic, to sacrifice herself to seal the Crack. We know that she can’t, because her death later in her own time stream has already been shown, but she doesn’t. And we also got more hints as to her background, but, satisfyingly, no real answers. The hints add to the puzzle of who she’ll turn out to be, and Moffat has promised that she’ll return and they’ll pay off. But, increasingly, it’s looking like nothing so simple as her being the Doctor’s future wife. We now know that Octavian got her out of prison for the mission, and that she was there for killing “the best man I’ve ever known”, the obvious implication being that her younger self killed an older version of the Doctor. As much as anything, though, a hallmark of Moffat’s writing is misdirection, and such an obvious hint is unlikely to be the real answer. I look forward to her return – assuming the excellent Alex Kingston is available when necessary – and wonder whether, perhaps, it will be later this season… And so to the real villain of the piece – the Crack in Time. So scary even the Angels run from it, it’s arguably undercutting the monsters’ menace to have them sidelined for a more nebulous threat. But again, it integrates perfectly with the story, and fits into the structure perfectly to provide its ultimate resolution. For the first time, the Doctor and Amy have become aware that it’s following them through time and space, and it’s become clear to them, as well as us, that it’s all about Amy. Somehow. And is it scary? Well, it was deeply unsettling as cleric after cleric went off for a closer look and never returned, and we realised that those left had no memory of them ever having existed. Obviously, any sci fi fan had an instant grasp of what was happening – the crack erases its victims from history altogether. And that’s a damn scary idea, in my opinion. “I told them it was the end of the universe.” “And what is it?” “The end of the universe.” The Crack is obviously the key to why Amy doesn’t remember the Daleks, and it’s a better explanation than Donna Noble always having a hangover when aliens invade. But how far back is the new series erasing Doctor Who continuity? Obviously Russell’s increasingly spectacular alien invasions had left Who Earth increasingly divorced from the real one, and it’s a good idea to have the clock reset. But I’d hate to lose everything Russell established, and if the Crack erases back far enough, then maybe none of the show will ever have happened. Still, I have a complete trust in Steve Moffat to resolve the conundrum well, and I look forward to it. Though I do sort of hope it’s not all a big plot of the new Rainbow Daleks. The Crack is also the key to the story’s resolution, and a neat one it is too; with the Angels having drained all the ship’s power, the gravity fails and they fall back into it, effectively sealing it. For now. But if that means these Angels never existed, surely there would have been no reason for the troops to be after that first one. Or for the Byzantium to have crashed on the planet in the first place. I can’t stand the confusion in my mind! But that’s time paradoxes for you, and Steve Moffat’s one of the only writers who successfully explores the potential of this aspect of the show. I did notice one odd thing, and it might have been a continuity error, or it might not; when the Doctor returns, improbably quickly, after leaving Amy in the Forest to give her a couple of words of comfort, he’s wearing his jacket. The one the Angels took from him earlier, which he isn’t seen wearing at any other subsequent time in the story. It’s something you can only just make out, as the shot’s in extreme close up on the Doctor’s face, but it’s there. A continuity error? Or is it another Doctor, perhaps from a later time stream? If it were anyone other than Steve Moffat overseeing the show, I’d put it down to a mistake and forget it. But it’s a hallmark of his attention to detail that it’s made me wonder. And that also makes me wonder about the other apparent ‘error’ we’ve seen – the commencement date on Rory’s NHS ID badge being 1990, when presumably he would have been about five. Another error? We saw it in extreme close up, so I have to wonder. And with the Crack playing havoc with time… Matt Smith was the best he’s ever been in this story, complemented perfectly by Karen Gillan. The interplay when Amy was near death was excellent, with the Doctor pragmatically refusing to lie to her about her condition. He must have learnt his bedside manner form Gregory House! It’s yet another example of how this Doctor is perhaps slightly more alien than his predecessor, and when Amy finally decides she wants to jump his bones in the final scene, he takes an age to catch on and then fights her off, with a near comic outrage. Refreshing that he does that, and even more refreshing that Amy’s looking for nothing as long-term as a relationship. But he’s let off the hook – and instantly back to his in control self – when he realises that Amy’s wedding is the date from which the Crack originated. It certainly removes any doubt as to the time period of that first story – Amy’s wedding is due on the 26th of June 2010. And if eagle eyed viewers haven’t noticed, that’s also the very date on which the last episode will be transmitted! Oooh… Author Simon FernandesPosted on May 4, 2010 Categories Doctor Who Reviews2 Comments on Series 5, Episode 5: Flesh and Stone	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9167
__label__wiki	0.752456	0.752456	Difference between revisions of "Mayor Lymph" Anne (talk \| contribs) <h3>''Línbā Xiànzhǎng'' 淋巴县长</h3> Mayor Lymph is not an actual person but a codeword for its near-homophone, [http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/charter-08/ Charter 08] (''Língbā Xiànzhāng''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_08 Charter 08 is a manifesto] promoting political reform and democratization in China, released on December 10, 2008. The document and its name are both inspired by [https://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/628 Charter 77], written and signed by Czechoslovak dissidents in 1977, including future Czech President [http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2010/01/liu-xiaobo-vaclav-havel-confronts-chinese-on-sentencing-of-dissident/ Václav Havel]. [[File:Charter08logoCHRD_0.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|''(Source: [http://www.inmediahk.net/node/1001730 inmediahk.net])'']]Mayor Lymph is not an actual person but a codeword for its near-homophone, [http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/charter-08/ Charter 08] (''Língbā Xiànzhāng''). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_08 Charter 08 is a manifesto] promoting political reform and democratization in China, released on December 10, 2008. The document and its name are both inspired by [https://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/items/show/628 Charter 77], written and signed by Czechoslovak dissidents in 1977, including future Czech President [http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2010/01/liu-xiaobo-vaclav-havel-confronts-chinese-on-sentencing-of-dissident/ Václav Havel]. Initially signed by 350 Chinese intellectuals and human rights activists, Charter 08 has since been signed by more than 10,000 people worldwide. [[go with the flow\|Liu Xiaobo]] was instrumental in drafting Charter 08 and gathering thousands of signatures. He was detained just before Charter 08 was released and sentenced on Christmas Day, 2009 to 11 years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power." Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, but was [[empty chair\|never able to accept it in person]]. He died under custody on July 13, 2017. Línbā Xiànzhǎng 淋巴县长 (Source: inmediahk.net) Mayor Lymph is not an actual person but a codeword for its near-homophone, Charter 08 (Língbā Xiànzhāng). Charter 08 is a manifesto promoting political reform and democratization in China, released on December 10, 2008. The document and its name are both inspired by Charter 77, written and signed by Czechoslovak dissidents in 1977, including future Czech President Václav Havel. Initially signed by 350 Chinese intellectuals and human rights activists, Charter 08 has since been signed by more than 10,000 people worldwide. Liu Xiaobo was instrumental in drafting Charter 08 and gathering thousands of signatures. He was detained just before Charter 08 was released and sentenced on Christmas Day, 2009 to 11 years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power." Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, but was never able to accept it in person. He died under custody on July 13, 2017. See also empty chair and go with the flow. China Digital Space Related Links Empty chair Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon: Pinyin Index Retrieved from "http://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/index.php?title=Mayor_Lymph&oldid=29885" Resistance Discourse	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9181
__label__wiki	0.7299	0.7299	Adam Emil This talented Chicago R&B singer, keyboard player and songwriter says before he came to Chris G, “I wasn’t sure of the things I was doing. I needed help.” Since then he’s won Amateur Night at Showtime at the Apollo, won a national BET songwriting contest, and was WGCI radio’s first “Hometown Hero” new artist. “The knowledge I obtain from Chris breaking down my songs applies to more than just music—it’s my life.” Song 1: Blowin’ My Mind Song 2: One & Only Carlos Olivera At only 18 years of age this R&B/pop singer from Chicago has already been signed by Epic records as a member of Latin super group Menudo. He is currently recording an album and set to tour in the fall of 2008 as the featured opening act for Hillary Duff. “Chris is the best producer, brother, and friend. Thanks for everything!” Song 1: You Want This Song 2: Let the Rhythm Take Control Dr. Judy Tellerman Setting the bar for a less mainstream genre, Judy has given Judeo/Christian performances at synagogues and churches throughout the country from Washington to Kansas. Along the way she’s won prestigious ASCAP songwriting awards and received great reviews from the industry, including high praise from Danny Buch of Sony Records. “Chris G has been my musical mentor, coach and producer. He has not only helped me, but inspired me in a profound and life-changing way.” Song 1: Help Me Through Song 2: Crossing Over	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9183
__label__cc	0.73676	0.26324	By: Chuck Miller June 26, 2019 Life in the Doghouse on Netflix – watch it or don’t? Yesterday, one of my Facebook friends posted a trailer for a documentary on her FB wall. It looked intriguing. So last night, I decided it would be worth watching. The documentary, Life in he Doghouse, follows the life of Danny Robertshaw and Ron Danta, two experts in equestrian dressage training who developed a passion for rescuing – and adopting out to good homes – over 10,000 new fosters, at the time this movie was made. These aren’t just your typical cute puppies and custom boutique breeds – Danny and Ron travel to dozens of shelters around their native South Carolina, picking up as many of the most unloved or unwanted or unclaimed animals that they can. For example, they will take as many dogs from kill shelters as they can, knowing that the only option for these dogs is rescuing them Saturday or they don’t live past Sunday. They’ve saved breed dogs and poorly bred dogs from puppy mills, frightened and emotionally unstable dogs from hoarding situations, and dogs that were previously abandoned, surrendered or dumped at shelters. There’s even a scene where in the film where Danny and Ron rescue and repatriate nearly 600 dogs who were left behind in the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina – at that time, rescuers were saving humans, and were told to leave the dogs behind. While watching this film, I texted one of my friends – who I knew had rescued dogs and who had saved those animals from a life of dread and gave them a life of respect – and suggested that she watch this film. She texted back and said that she had been advised that there are some scenes in the film where dogs do not come out alive and that it would be upsetting to watch. So I agreed to watch the film from front to back for her and let her know what’s going on. And there is one scene in the film that is very startling – but it’s important to see. At one point in the movie, Danny and Ron visit an underground kill shelter, where the animals are brought to them one by one – and if they don’t take the animals right then and there, the dogs would be put down after the two left. They had planned to save six dogs from that kill shelter; they drove home with fifteen. But after that, there’s a scene where a white pickup truck pulls up to the kill shelter, and euthanized dogs are dumped into the truck’s bed. A few moments later, the truck drives to an open grave, where the dogs are dumped like unwanted trash. This occurs at about 56:00 of the film, so if this makes you uncomfortable – and it should – you know when to fast forward. But through the film, Danny and Ron make it clear that there are so many important things to know about dogs. They stress that it makes no sense for a family to acquire a puppy that would “grow up” with their kids; a five-year-old dog will bond with a family in two days or less. Dogs should be spayed or neutered as soon as possible; and that puppy mills are atrocious. They explain that 99% of the puppies you see at the shopping mall pet stores are bred from puppy mills, where dogs sit in rabbit cages their entire life and are force-bred to produce puppies – which, in turn, are taken away from their mother before they’ve finished weaning. The film also discusses how Danny and Ron’s rescue is not exactly a financial goldmine – Danny at one point has to take out an equity loan against their house just to keep their staff paid, and that they judiciously search for sales on online pet store products, because their animals do eat and poop as often as your dog does. There’s also plenty of hardship at the dog rescue – and there is a scene where one of the dogs, who had survived several tumors, was in the final stages of his life. Danny and Ron wrestle with the concept of allowing the dog to life a full life against having the dog life a life without pain. And in the end, they have to give the dog one final day at the veterinarian – they hug the poor dog, they give it a blanket, and slowly the dog’s final day is complete. At times, the documentary is heartwarming and sad and inspiring and joyful and funny and scary. All the things you want a documentary to contain. If you want to find out more about Danny and Ron’s Rescue in South Carolina – including adopting a dog from the facility, or to donate to the cause – visit this website for more information. And definitely watch Life in the Doghouse on Netflix. It is a very entertaining watch. Especially when you see dogs from the opening moments – including a stubby-legged puppy named Moose – grow to maturity in a new home with a new forever family. “Hurry up! Get in here for the picture!!” K-Chuck Radio: Ah-one, and ah-four, and ah-three, and ah-two… 1 reply to Life in the Doghouse on Netflix – watch it or don’t? Big-time respect for you, Chuck, for writing about a topic that is so important but often is swept under the rug. Trying to save dogs who’ve done nothing wrong, who want to live but are victims of human stupidity or cruelty is an endless, agonizing struggle. Not a single government agency, at any level, offers financial assistance to rescues, even though they absolutely should. If people would spay/neuter their dogs and cats, and not acquire pets that are unsuitable for their living space (Great Danes do not belong in apartments) so much death and misery could be avoided. And never, ever buy an animal at a pet store. There is no suffering to match that of “breeder” dogs, many of whom live in cages their entire lives, producing one litter after another. I hope the day will come that we have a president who is compassionate toward animals and who will make it possible for every person to spay/neuter their pet at no cost.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9184
__label__cc	0.724877	0.275123	Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 Workbook Bulk Pricing Discounts Buy 10-49 at $13.00 each to save 35%. Buy 100-249 at $11.00 each to save 45%. Buy 250+ at $10.00 each to save 50%. Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 Workbook - Softcover Twenty-five years ago, John C. Maxwell published the book that forever transformed how people think about leadership. Developing the Leader Within You showed that leaders are made, not born, and helped more than two million people in the process. Maxwell now returns to this classic text to include the insights and practices he has learned in the decades since that work first appeared. In this completely revised and updated “2.0” workbook, you will receive everything you need to take a significant step in your leadership journey, along with in-depth activities designed to help develop the leader within you. If you complete all the readings and exercises and answer all the questions, you will be amazed at how your influence, effectiveness, and impact will increase in such a short time. And if you’re going through this process with a group, you’ll enjoy the challenging discussion questions at the end of each lesson so you can explore the ideas in even greater depth. No matter the arena in which you find yourself called to serve–family, business, or nonprofit–the principles John Maxwell shares in this workbook on effective leadership will positively impact your life and the lives of those around you. Designed for use with Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 (9780718073992), sold separately. Contributor(s)John C. Maxwell About the Contributor(s) John C. MaxwellJohn C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than thirty... John C. Maxwell John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than thirty million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business by the American Management Association and the most influential leadership expert in the world by Business Insider and Inc. magazines. He is the founder of the John Maxwell Company, the John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation, organizations that have trained millions of leaders from every country of the world. The recipient of the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell speaks each year to Fortune 500 companies, presidents of nations, and many of the world’s top business leaders. He can be followed at Twitter.com/JohnCMaxwell. For more information about him, visit JohnMaxwell.com. Case Weight (lbs)19.5 lb Dimensions 9.1(h) x 7.35(w) x 0.66(d) inches Back to Church & Ministry Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? Equipping 101 Praying the Scriptures for Your Children: Discover How to Pray God's Purpose for Their Lives The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow VIP: How to Influence with Vision, Integrity, and Purpose The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9185
__label__wiki	0.827448	0.827448	„The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.“ — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Context: The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. Liberty, by this definition, is the essential condition and guardian of religion...<!--p.4 John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton1 Citações relacionadas „The power of free discussion is the right of every subject of this country. It is a right to the fair exercise of which we are indebted more than to any other that was ever claimed by Englishmen. All the blessings we at present enjoy might be ascribed to it.“ — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon British Baron 1732 - 1802 King v. Reeves (1796), Peake's Nisi Prius Cases, 85. „The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a country — or, for that matter, a region — to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food.“ — Wendell Berry author 1934 Context: The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a country — or, for that matter, a region — to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food. How can a government, entrusted with the safety and health of its people, conscientiously barter away in the name of an economic idea that people’s ability to feed itself? And if people lose their ability to feed themselves, how can they be said to be free? "A Bad Big Idea". „Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying (as a minority christians).“ — Samir Geagea Lebanese politician and war lord 1952 March 1989, addressing crowds in ain el remeneh. „there is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country if you are president the trouble happens to you but if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people“ — Don Marquis American writer 1878 - 1937 archy's newest deal „We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.“ — Alberto Gonzales 80th United States Attorney General 1955 About selecting federal judicial candidates. „If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.“ — Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence „You delude yourself that you live in a free country because you never test the boundaries of that freedom.“ — Jacob M. Appel American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic 1973 „No free country will ever again have anything like the 90 percent tax rates that we had in this country. Past a certain point, high marginal tax rates are, indeed, terribly destructive.“ — Lawrence H. Summers Former US Secretary of the Treasury 1954 David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal (April 5, 1998) "Rich now pay more in taxes", Mobile Register, p. F1. „Iraq has violated and taken over the territory of a country which is a full member of the United Nations. That is totally unacceptable and if it were allowed to endure then there would be many other small countries that could never feel safe... The fundamental question is this: whether the nations of the world have the collective will effectively to see that Security Council Resolution is upheld, whether they have the collective will effectively to do anything which the Security Council further agrees to see that Iraq withdraws and that the government of Kuwait is restored to Kuwait.“ — Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013 Joint Press Conference with President Bush (2 August 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108170 „The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.“ — Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965 Context: The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country. A calm and dispassionate recognition of the rights of the accused against the State, and even of convicted criminals against the State, a constant heart-searching by all charged with the duty of punishment, a desire and eagerness to rehabilitate in the world of industry all those who have paid their dues in the hard coinage of punishment, tireless efforts towards the discovery of curative and regenerating processes, and an unfaltering faith that there is a treasure, if you can only find it, in the heart of every man—these are the symbols which in the treatment of crime and criminals mark and measure the stored-up strength of a nation, and are the sign and proof of the living virtue in it. Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1910/jul/20/class-iii#column_1354 in the House of Commons (20 July 1910) „This country will not always be an uncomfortable place for a country gentleman to live in, and it is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am afraid that Labour disagrees with me in that. On this matter I am a crusted Tory. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says "there is no wisdom without leisure."“ — W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939 Speech, (28 March 1923), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Damage to Property (Compensation) Bill http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0001/S.0001.192303280011.html „The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.“ — George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950 "Freedom of the Park", Tribune (7 December 1945) „My priority is to establish this country as a poverty-free country, we have a long way to go – we have to do more. When I have been able to establish this country as a poverty-free country, a hunger-free country, a developed country, perhaps at that time, perhaps then I may say I am proud.“ — Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1947 At the UN general assembly to launch the (SDGs). https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/sep/25/sheikh-hasina-i-want-to-make-bangladesh-poverty-free-sustainable-development-goals (25 September 2015) „... the question now was... whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution]... was to be maintained in that freedom... for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.“ — Charles James Fox British Whig statesman 1749 - 1806 Speech in the House of Commons (24 April 1780), reprinted in J. Wright (ed.), The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Volume I (1815), p. 261. „I wish it might be more generally and universally understood what the country is now engaged in. We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.“ — Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865 „Since we are a Christian country, God above all. This history of a secular state doesn't exist, no. The state is Christian and the minority that is against it can leave. Let's make a country for majority! The minority must bow to the majority. Law must exist to defend the majority! The minority suits itself [to the law] or just disappears.“ — Jair Bolsonaro Brazilian president elect 1955 At Campina Grande Airport https://theintercept.com/2018/09/25/ideias-nazifascistas-bolsonarismo/ on 8 February 2018. Brazil presidential candidate Bolsonaro's most controversial quotes https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazil-presidential-candidate-bolsonaros-most-controversial-quotes-012652084.html. Yahoo!, 29 September 2018.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9186
__label__cc	0.702746	0.297254	About CJ / 2017 School Profile Highlights School & Community School Facts College Attendance Testing Profile Marking System (View/Print Entire 2017 School Profile) CEEB School Code: 361:795 As a Catholic institution, Chaminade Julienne adheres to the Christian concept that employment opportunities are based on individual abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, military status, age, ancestry, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law and to the extent applicable to religious institutions. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including hiring, promotion, demotion, recruitment, training, compensation, benefits, and termination. Our fingerprinting policy includes manual fingerprinting for employees and electronic background checks for all employees and volunteers. School and Community Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School is a Catholic secondary school owned and operated by two religious orders, Society of Mary and the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, in conjunction with lay persons. The downtown school has existed for 130 years at its location on Franklin and Ludlow Streets in Dayton, Ohio. The school is proud of its cosmopolitan composition. Students enrolled in grades 9–12 are 69% Catholic, 58.9% Caucasian, 25% African American, 7.2% Biracial, 4.1% Hispanic,1.9% Asian, .6% African, 2.3% other. Of this population, 81% receives some form of financial assistance and/or scholarships. In keeping with our founders’ charisms and CJ’s mission statement, last year students contributed over 11,557 volunteer hours to the community. Over 26,915 men and women are graduates of the school. Student to teacher ratio: 16.5:1 Of certified employees: 76% have a Master’s Degree or beyond Accreditation: State of Ohio, North Central Association (1938), NASSP, and the Ohio Catholic School Accrediting Assoc. National dual certification in Project Lead the Way pre-engineering and biomedical sciences (CJ STEMM) Last year, 97% of our graduates continued formal education, including 81% to four-year colleges and universities and 13% to two-year colleges; 3% entered the military/workforce. CJ Mean: CR 596 State Mean: CR 578 Students Tested: 37% of the senior class CJ Mean: Eng 24.2 M 23.6 Comp 24.1 State Mean: Eng 21.2 M 21.6 Comp 22.0 National Merit Program 2013-17: 14 National Merit Scholars Last spring, 164 students took 248 exams in 13 areas; 48% of the scores were equal to or higher than 3. All students are required to: pass the Ohio Graduation Test earn 25.0 credit hours Credit Hour Requirement Religion (1.0 each year).... English.... Mathematics.... Science.... Social Studies.... Foreign Language.... Fine Arts.... Health.... PE.... Electives.... Senior Capstone Project Total..... CJ does not assign class rank. Two GPAs are reflected on the transcript. Honors and AP are calculated on a weighted scale. All other courses are on a 4.0 scale, except PE, which is not calculated in the GPA. The overall GPA range for the Class of 2017 is 4.69–1.94. The quantitative numerical grades used at CJ have the following qualitative meanings: 100–93 . . . A . . . . . . Superior 92–85 . . . B . . . . . . Above Average 84–77 . . . C . . . . . . Average 76–70 . . . D . . . . . . Below Average 69–0 . . . . F . . . . . . Failure College recommending mark is C. Academic & Guidance Staff Steve Fuchs .......... Assistant Principal for Academics Emily Saunders .......... Administrative Assistant to Academics Jama Badinghaus .......... Counselor Susan Eichenauer .......... Counselor A.J. Grimm ...................... Counselor Kate Elder ......................... Administrative Assistant to Guidance	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9189
__label__wiki	0.658426	0.658426	Filters: First Letter Of Last Name is L [Clear All Filters] Lyon, L., & White C. (1997). Is any press good press? The influence of negative information on brand choice. Conference of the American Academy of Advertising. 187-191. Lwin, M. O., & Hoy M G. (2007). A Comparative Perspective of Online Disclosure Presentation from Web Sites in the United States and Singapore. Cross-Cultural Research Conference. Luther, C. A. (2003). Television News Coverage of Welfare and Welfare Recipients During a Period of Legislative Change. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Luther, C. A., McMahan C., & Shoop T. (2008). Advertisement Images of Men and Women in Culturally Diverging Societies: An Examination of Images in U.S. and Japanese Fashion Magazine . Inernational Academy of Business and Economics Conference. Luther, C. A. (1999). Manifestations of Ethnocentrism in U.S.-Japan Press Coverage. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Luther, C. A., & Nentl N. (1996). Ti-ni-boppa-zu vs. teenyboppers: Cross-cultural social comparison.. (Wilcox, G. B., Ed.).Proceedings of the 1996 Conference of the American Academy of Advertising. 40. Luther, C. A., Kennedy D. A., & Combs-Orme T. (2004). Intertwining of Poverty, Gender, and Race: A Critical Analysis of Welfare News Coverage from 1993-2000. International Communication Association Conference. Luther, C. A., & Harmon M. (2009). U.S. Network TV Newscasts and the Vietnam Veterans against the War. AEJMC Conference. Luther, C. A., & Nentl N. (2001). Japanese Teenage Girls: Their Ad-Inspired Social Comparison Behavior and Perceptions of Women’s Roles. Gazette: The Journal of International Communication. 63, 25-40. Luther, C. A., McMahan C., & Shoop T. (2008). Depictions of Men and Women in Advertisements Featured in American Fashion Magazines. Business Research Yearbook. 15, Luther, C. A., Chang T-K., Berg P., Fung A Y-H., Kedl K. D., & Szuba J. (1996). Assessing Comparative Mass Communication Research, 1970-1994: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention. Luther, C. A., Lepre C., & Clark N. (2012). Diversity in U.S. Mass Media. Luther, C. A., & Miller M. M. (2005). Framing of the 2003 U.S.-Iraq War Demonstrations: An Analysis of News and Partisan Texts. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 82, 78-96. Luther, C. A. (2003). Reflections of Cultural Identities in Conflict: Japanese American Internment Camp Newspapers During World War II. Journalism History. 29, 69-81. Luther, C. A. (2009). Survey. (Sloan, D., & Zhou S., Ed.).Research Methods. 145-160. Luther, C. A. (2000). To Compare is to Despair? Exploring a New Perspective on Television Usage and Life Satisfaction. Feedback. 41, 28-39. Luther, C. A., Kirkham N L., & Hardin R. (2007). Differential News Coverage of Female and Male Athletes During the 2004 Olympic Games. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Luther, C. A., & Nentl N. (1996). Ti-ni-boppa-zu vs. Teenyboppers: Cross-Cultural Social Comparison. American Academy of Advertising Conference. Luther, C. A., & Zhou X. (2004). The Framing of SARS: An Analysis of News Coverage in China and in the United States. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Luther, C. A. (2009). Japanese Fashion Magazines as Reflections of Gender-Related Societal Changes in Japan. AEJMC Conference. Luther, C. A., Chang T-K., Berg P., Fung A Y-H., Kedl K. D., & Szuba J. (2001). Comparing Nations in Mass Communication Research, 1970-1997: A Critical Assessment of How We Know What We Know. Gazette: The Journal of International Communication. 63, 415-434. Luther, C. A., McMahan C., & Shoop T. (2008). Advertisement Images of Men and Women in Culturally Diverging Societies: An Examination of Images in U.S. and Japanese Fashion Magazines. Journal of International Business and Economics. 8 (3), 188-199. Luther, C. A., & Nentl N. (1996). Ad-inspired Social Comparison and Beliefs about Women’s Roles Among Adolescent Japanese Females. International Communication Association Conference,. Luther, C. A., & Zhou X. (2005). The Framing of SARS: An Analysis of News Coverage in China and in the United States. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 82, 857-872. Luther, C. A., & Lloyd J. (2003). Developing a Successful Résumé Tape: A Guide for Students of Broadcast Television News. Broadcast Education Association Conference. Luther, C. A. (2009). Importance Placed on Physical Attractiveness and Advertisement-Inspired Social Comparison Behavior among Japanese Female and Male Teenagers. Journal of Communicaton. 59 (2), 279-295. Luther, C. A. (2000). National Identities and Press Images of Nations: Images of Japan and the U.S.. International Communication Association Conference. Luther, C. A. (2007). Ad-Inspired Social Comparison Behavior and Notions Regarding Physical. International Communication Association Conference. Luther, C. A. (1996). Cultural Identities in Conflict: The Experiences of the Japanese Americans during World War II as Told by the Camp Newspapers.. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Luther, C. A., & Rightler-McDaniels J. L. (2013). ’More Trouble Than the Good Lord Ever Intended’: Representations of Interracial Marriage in U.S. News Magazines. Journal of Magazine & New Media Research. 14(1), Luther, C. A. (2002). National Identities, Structure, and Press Images of Nations: The Case of Japan and the U.S.. Mass Communication & Society. 5, 57-85. Luther, C. A., McMahan C., & Shoop T. (2008). Depictions of Women and Men in Advertisements Featured in American Fashion Magazines. International Communication Association Conference. Luther, C. A., & Boyd D. A. (1997). American Occupation Control Over Broadcasting in Japan, 1945-1952. Journal of Communication. 47, 39-59. Luther, C. A., & Boyd D. A. (1995). Under the Veneer of Democracy: American Occupation Control over Broadcasting in Japan, 1945-1952. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Luther, C. A., & Lloyd J. (2003). Developing a Successful Résumé Tape: A Guide for Students of Broadcast Television News. Feedback. 44, 30-39. Luther, C. A., Shoop T., & McMahan C. (2009). Gender Images in Japanese Fashion Magazine Advertisements. Media Report to Women. 37 (3), Luther, C. A. (2000). The Interplay between Structure, Conflict, and National Identities: Press Coverage of U.S.-Japan Relations. International Communication Association Conference. Luther, C. A. (1996). Cultural Identities in Conflict: The Experience of the Japanese-Americans during World War II as Told by the Camp Newspapers. Midwest Journalism History Conference,. Luther, C. A. (2011). Survey. Research Methods. 145-160. Luther, C. A., & Miller M. M. (2005). Manifestations of U.S.-Iraq War Demonstration Groups’ Pro and Anti-War Master Frames in the U.S. Mainstream Press. International Communication Association Conference. Luther, C. A. (2002). International News Coverage in the Era of ‘Globalization’: A Look at U.S. & Japan’s Media Coverage of International Events/Issues.. International Studies Association- Midwest Annual Meeting. Luther, C. A. (2008). American and Japanese Viewpoints on Press Freedom/Civil Liberty Infringements within the Context of Terror. AEJMC Conference. Luther, C. A. (1999). To Compare is to Despair? Exploring a New Perspective on Television Usage and Life Satisfaction. Broadcast Education Association Conference. Luther, C. A., & Legg R. J. (2007). Social versus Physical Aggression: An Examination of Gender-Related Differences Depicted in Children’s Television Cartoons. International Communication Association Conference. Luther, C. A. (1995). Historical Origins of Interdependency between the Japanese Press and the Conservative Elites in Japan: The Impact of American Occupation Policies from 1945 to 1952. International Communication Association Conference. Luther, C. A., & Miller M. M. (2004). Press Coverage of Anti-War and Pro-War Demonstrations Before and During the 2003 U.S.-Iraq War. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference. Luther, C. A. (2009). Influences of News Media Framing of Terrorism on Public Acceptance of Civil Liberty and Press Freedom Restrictions in Japan. Societies under Siege: Media, Government, Politics, and Citizens' Freedoms in an Age of Terrorism Conference. Luther, C. A. (2001). Press Images, National Identity, and Foreign Policy: A Case Study of U.S.-Japan Relations from 1955-1995. Luther, C. A. (2007). News Media Coverage of Social and Natural Disasters: Whose Voices are Being Heard?. SUNO Race, Gender, & Class Project and ASA SWS Sociologists for Women in Society Conference. Luther, C. A. (1996). Attributional Processes within a Foreign Policy Making Context: An Analysis of US Political Statements Regarding Germany and Japan.. International Society of Political Psychology Conference.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9194
__label__cc	0.637673	0.362327	↪ Title 7. Human Health Care and Safety. ↪ Chapter 11A. Department of Mental Health Establishment. ↪ § 7–1131.03. Establishment and purposes of the Department of Mental Health. § 7–1131.02. Definitions. § 7–1131.04. Powers and duties of the Department of Mental Health. § 7–1131.03. Establishment and purposes of the Department of Mental Health. (a) There is established as a separate cabinet-level Department, subordinate to the Mayor, the Department of Mental Health. (b) The Department shall be the successor in interest to the Commission on Mental Health Services, established by Mayor’s Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1986, effective January 3, 1987 (part B of subchapter VII of Chapter 15 of Title 1), and Mayor’s Order No. 88-168, effective July 13, 1988, and under receivership in the case of Dixon, et al. v. Williams, et al., C.A. No. 74-285 (NHJ), in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. (c) The provisions of this chapter are intended to be construed in a manner consistent with all outstanding orders of the United States District Court inDixon, et al. v. Williams, et al., including the Final Plan adopted by the District Court in its April 2, 2001 order. (d) The Department shall have as its purposes: (1) Developing a system of care for adults that is integrated to the maximum practicable extent with other public systems in the District, including but not limited to addiction treatment and prevention, criminal justice, education, health, housing, income maintenance, and vocational rehabilitation; (2) Developing a system of care for children, youth, and their families that is integrated to the maximum practicable extent with other public systems in the District, including but not limited to addiction treatment and prevention, child welfare, criminal justice, developmental services, education, health, housing, income maintenance, juvenile justice, and vocational rehabilitation; (3) Ensuring that persons with mental illness and children or youth with mental health problems are treated in the most integrated setting that can be accommodated, consistent with individual needs and public safety; (4) Fostering the development of high quality, comprehensive, cost effective, and culturally competent mental health services and mental health supports, based on recognized local needs, especially for persons with serious mental illness and children or youth with serious emotional disturbances; (5) Promoting mental health and public awareness of mental health issues; (6) Ensuring that services provided to mental health consumers meet standards established by the Department pursuant to § 7-1131.14(2)-(5) for the operation of mental health services and mental health supports; (7) Developing and implementing strategies to eliminate barriers and improve access to mental health services and mental health supports for consumers of mental health services; and (8) Ensuring the participation of consumers, families, employees, providers, and advocates of mental health services and mental health supports in the planning, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of these services and supports. (e) In assessing or meeting the service needs of consumers of mental health services, the Department shall not discriminate against consumers based upon their eligibility or non-eligibility for Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance coverage; provided, that nothing in this section shall preclude the Department from establishing by regulation a mental-health-benefit program or plan based upon eligibility or non-eligibility for Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance coverage. (f) Nothing in this chapter requires or shall be construed as requiring the Department or any provider with which the Department contracts to provide mental health services or mental health supports to persons who are not residents of the District, except where those persons are likely to injure themselves or others if services are not provided or where services are otherwise required by law. (g) Nothing in this chapter shall limit the civil rights of consumers of mental health services who have reached the age of majority under District law. (h) Nothing in this chapter shall affect the authority of the Medical Assistance Administration as the single state agency for the administration of the Medicaid Program under section 1902(a)(5) of the Social Security Act, approved July 30, 1965 (79 Stat. 344; 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(5)). (Dec. 18, 2001, D.C. Law 14-56, § 103, 48 DCR 7674; Sept. 14, 2011, D.C. Law 19-21, § 5033, 58 DCR 6226.) Section References This section is referenced in § 7-701.01 and § 44-401. Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 19-21, in subsec. (e), substituted “insurance coverage; provided, that nothing in this section shall preclude the Department from establishing by regulation a mental-health-benefit program or plan based upon eligibility or non- eligibility for Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance coverage” for “insurance coverage”. Emergency Legislation For temporary (90 day) addition of section, see § 3 of Department of Mental Health Establishment Emergency Amendment Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-55, May 2, 2001, 48 DCR 4390). For temporary (90 day) addition of section, see § 3 of Department of Mental Health Establishment Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-101, July 23, 2001, 48 DCR 7123). For temporary (90 day) addition of section, see § 103 of Mental Health Service Delivery Reform Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14-144, October 23, 2001, 48 DCR 9947). For temporary (90 day) addition of section, see § 5002 of Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2011 (D.C. Act 19-93, June 29, 2011, 58 DCR 5599). For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 5003 of Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2011 (D.C. Act 19-93, June 29, 2011, 58 DCR 5599). Temporary Legislation For temporary (225 day) addition of section, see § 3 of Department of Mental Health Establishment Temporary Amendment Act of 2001 (D.C. Law 14-51, October 30, 2001, law notification 48 DCR 10807).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9196
__label__wiki	0.735565	0.735565	D.C. Law 22-50. Public Employee Relations Board Term Limit Temporary Amendment Act of 2017. ↪ D.C. Laws Codified in the D.C. Code ↪ Council Period 22 ↪ Temporary Laws ↪ Laws ↪ D.C. Law 22-50. Public Employee Relations Board Term Limit Temporary Amendment Act of 2017. D.C. Law 22-50 (PDF) D.C. Act 22-198 (PDF) 64 DCR 12547 Law 22-50, the “Public Employee Relations Board Term Limit Temporary Amendment Act of 2017,” was introduced in the Council and assigned Bill No. 22-543 which was retained by the Council. The bill was adopted on first and second readings on Nov. 7, 2017, and Nov. 21, 2017, respectively. After mayoral review, it was assigned Act No. 22-198 on Dec. 7, 2017, and transmitted to Congress for its review. D.C. Law 22-50 became effective Jan. 27, 2018. AN ACT To amend, on a temporary basis, the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 to increase the number of consecutive terms a member may serve on the Public Employee Relations Board from 2 terms to 3 terms. BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this act may be cited as the "Public Employee Relations Board Term Limit Temporary Amendment Act of 2017". Note § 1-605.01 Sec. 2. Section 501(h) of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law 2-139; D.C. Official Code § 1-605.01(h)), is amended by striking the phrase "No person shall serve for more than 2 consecutive terms" and inserting the phrase "No person shall serve for more than 3 consecutive terms" in its place. Sec. 3. Fiscal impact statement. The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement of the Budget Director as the fiscal impact statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975, approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2038; D.C. Official Code § 1-301.47a). Sec. 4. Effective date. (a) This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), a 30-day period of congressional review as provided in section 602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Official Code § 1-206.02(c)(1)) and publication in the District of Columbia Register. (b) This act shall expire after 225 days of its having taken effect.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9197
__label__wiki	0.561261	0.561261	Palestinian Harry Potter fan challenges J. K. Rowling on Israel Boycott Written by Mia Oudeh on October 30, 2015 More in Ireland: “The West, EU, US aggravate Syrian people’s suffering by sanctions” November 4, 2017 The Euro Is Murdering Europe November 14, 2016 “Food Insecurity” Otherwise Known As Famine, Starvation and Death in Ethiopia 2016 May 3, 2016 Dear J. K. Rowling, I am an avid fan of yours, and have continuously read your Harry Potter books non-stop since the age of 11. My whole house is splattered with memorabilia, and I have just returned from visiting Harry Potter World which was one of the most amazing trips of my life. I’m 100% obsessed with your books, and frequently dream about them – in particular,The Battle of Hogwarts, where my sub-conscious always brings in my own personal battle, but a battle in which I think everyone should be taking part. I am writing to you in response to your public support for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue and opposition to the BDS movement in the Guardian’s “Culture for Coexistence” letter. As a Palestinian, I have to say that I was completely disappointed when I read about this, because your books have been the very source of all the hope I have for peace and justice in my homeland someday. You see, my Battle of Hogwarts dreams have always had the death eaters as Zionists, and Harry and his peers as Palestinians. Knowing that the idea for your epic novels was from World War II and the Nazis, I naturally drew parallels between the books and Zionist Israel and Palestine. I am therefore entirely confused and heart broken at your support for this letter, because to me, as a Palestinian Potterhead, it does not quite make sense. The letter in question states, “Cultural boycotts singling out Israel are divisive and discriminatory and will not further peace … Open dialogue and interaction promote greater understanding and mutual acceptance … Cultural engagement builds bridges, nurtures freedom and positive movement for change. We wholly endorse encouraging such a powerful tool for change rather than boycotting its use.” I feel that this letter has not contextualised the grim reality of Israel/Palestine, and is paradoxical in its nature. In this response to your support of the letter, I will be drawing parallels between the Harry Potter world and the Palestinian world in order to demonstrate my confusion. Firstly, “boycotts singling out Israel are divisive and discriminatory,” is a ridiculous sentence in itself. I’m not sure whether you know the history of Israel, but it did not exist before 1948. It is a settler-colonial state which operates on the apartheid of an indigenous people and has broken international law and UN resolutions every single day since its existence. The practices Israel enforces in its culture and every day functioning are in themselves divisive and discriminatory. No cultural engagement between Palestinians and Israelis will ever build bridges, because rather than the “two sides are to blame” argument the letter you signed endorses, there are no two sides. When the death eaters take over the Ministry of Magic and begin to run the magical world, would you have placed them in an equal side to the Potter trio? I definitely would not; the death eaters ran a ministry of oppression – from the “Magic is Might” statue of the naked muggles being used to support the robed wizard, to the brutal treatment of muggle born students at Hogwarts. Additionally, the death eaters had the advantage of fighting together using the Unforgivable Curses, having an army of brutal magical creatures including giants and dementors, having magical spells to track the Potter trio’s movements and having full control of the magical world through their position of power. In contrast, Harry was working in isolation with the support of his two friends. His “side” were terrorised families who could not step one foot out of line in fear of being tortured and/or killed, or who were in hiding and on the run. It was a completely uneven distribution of power and most definitely not two sides. It was a case of the oppressor and the oppressed. Now let’s consider this in the Israel/Palestine context. How can we, as Palestinians, sit and conduct peaceful dialogue with Israelis, as equal sides, both to blame for a “conflict”, when there is also an uneven distribution of power? Israel has the fourth largest army in the world and receives $10.2 million in military aid daily from the U.S.. Palestine has no army and receives no money for military aid. When you look at news articles and pictures of the so-called “conflict”, you can see the Israeli Defence Forces kitted out in uniform, armed with guns and helmets and tanks and illegal chemical weapons and f16s and drones. In contrast, you see Palestinians with rocks and handmade weapons, if they are lucky enough. You can see the damage made with something like drones or white phosphorous in contrast to the damage of “Hamas rockets” (the media’s favourite phrase). This very example shows the uneven distribution of power, and sets the base for why it is argued that Israel and Palestine are not two sides, but the oppressor and the oppressed. In the magical world, the muggles and muggle borns were completely exploited and ridiculed by the death eaters. Muggle borns were named the derogatory name “Mudblood” and were accused of “stealing magic” if they could not provide proof of magical relatives. Muggle-born students were singled out in Hogwarts when the death eaters started teaching there, and some muggle borns had to go on the run and were often rounded up by Snatchers. The death eaters’ hatred and discriminatory practices against the muggle borns were not a secret; they were plain for everyone to see, much like the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel. How can we talk about cultural bridges when Israelis live in illegal settlements (under international law) with unlimited supplies of running water and electricity, whilst meters away Palestinian villages have one of the worst droughts in the world? As one of my dear friends so aptly put, will these bridges of peace bridge the Palestinians who are literally fenced into ghetto villages by an 8m concrete wall, checkpoints and watch towers (which eerily look like the watch towers of Nazi concentration camps) to the land they have been cut off from, which Israelis can access at any time? Will our cultural bridge of peace bridge Shuhada street in Hebron, where Palestinians literally have to use a specific walkway separate to Israelis (much like the bus services around the country)? Shall we invite the Israelis, who are off-duty from their military tasks in for a cup of tea before they return to bombing us with one of the world’s most advanced armies? Maybe when they come over they can wear their t-shirts depicting pregnant Palestinian women, saying “1 shot 2 kills” and talk about how distressed they feel as their leaders are celebrating their regime saying “we are the masters“. Have you ever even looked at the type of Zionist statements made against Palestinians? For example, just two weeks ago 13 year old Ahmad Salih Manasra was shot and a video taken of the scene documented Israeli onlookers shouting, “Die, son of a whore!” and ordering police to “Give him one in the head” whilst he lay bleeding and struggling to breathe on the floor. Perhaps Ahmad would like to have those onlookers as visitors at the hospital he’s now recovering in – they can bring in flowers, see how he’s doing and he can listen to how threatened they felt watching him be attacked. The suggestion of dialogue is as absurd as an oblivious muggle who has no awareness or willingness to understand of the context between a death eater and muggle born. It’s like Vernon Dursley shaking his head, saying that we’re all being foolish and peace will come if only Dean Thomas, whose father was killed because he refused to serve the death eaters, and Antonin Dolohov sat together and “talked it out”. Of course, that would never happen because Dolohov was outwardly for the expulsion of anyone against Voldemort, and could have been the very person who plotted and killed Dean’s dad. How could Dean ever contemplate sitting with someone who’s colleagues killed his father, who was actively seeking out his peers from school, and who was torturing and maiming people for their identity? How about, when the death eaters storm and wreck Xenophilius Lovegood’s house looking for Harry in false exchange for Luna, they all pause their “conflict” and talk to each other about how all of this is making them feel. Because, the death eaters’ feelings are just as valid as Xenophilius’. Because there are two sides to every story. Just like Palestinians when they face daily military incursions, house arrests and house demolitions. I’m sure the families in Sheikh Jarrah (East Jerusalem) would love to talk to the Israelis who made them homeless by illegally kicking them out of their houses so that they can use them as holiday accommodation, and who force them to pay for their water, gas and electricity bills even though they don’t have access to them. Or perhaps my friends in Susiya village, who have had their homes and temporary tent shelters demolished time and time again , would love to invite the illegal Israeli settlers who stole their farm and the Israeli soldiers responsible for their demolitions over for some dinner. Because the illegal holiday making settlers who thieved their homes and farms, and the Israeli soldiers who order house demolitions on tent shelters have feelings just as valid as the families whom they stole their homes from. Two “sides” to every story. I have a feeling, with all due respect, that you have never spoken to a Palestinian before. Your signature on this letter seems to be made from a judgement purely based on privilege and monetary benefits. I therefore welcome you to come visit me and talk to my family about whether they would like to have some dialogue with Israelis and build a cultural bridge of peace. Maybe you could ask my father, who lived through three wars before the age of 25; who grew up with drones flying over his head during his early childhood; who lost contact with his parents, siblings and family whilst he was at university because Israel expelled them from their home; and who was banned from returning to his home because he “willingly left” to go study in Egypt and could therefore not return to search for his family. Or you could ask my mother, who has not been allowed to even visit her birth city in over 40 years. How about talking to all 6 million Palestinian refugees who are dispersed all over the world, waiting with their keys from when they left their homes in 1948 to go back to their still-intact houses; waiting for the promise of their return (granted by the British) to be acted upon at last; waiting for Israel to comply to UN resolution 194 (III) which states “that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible“; waiting for the international community to stop preaching about “two sides” and “dialogue” and to recognise that the state of Israel has been guilty of consistently breaking international law from its creation. Sure, they would love to talk to every Zionist out there who is actively contributing to their displacement. I for one just love to read about American Jews who have no genetic ties to Israel but want to move there because they just love it there, meanwhile if I try to visit I am strip searched, interrogated and shot at even though my parents were born there. Yeah, let’s have some dialogue – it’ll solve everything! The letter you signed is a prime example of the “good, unbiased Westerner approach” which actively ignores international law violations, dehumanises the indigenous Palestinians, and lazily sweeps Western responsibility under the carpet. The elephant in the room that we all need to talk about is: none of this would be happening if it weren’t for Britain who gave the land to Israel in the first place, with no consultation from the indigenous population. No, let’s ignore history and statistics and daily reports of atrocities and say, “you both need to calm down, let’s all sit at a table like we’ve been doing for the past 60 years and talk about your feelings and find some shared experiences from perspectives.” How dare anyone, who has not picked up a book or watched a documentary on the subject, who has never even spoken to a Palestinian about their life tell them what to do when they have no idea how it feels to be oppressed; to be cut off from your homeland whilst international settlers take up camp there; how it feels to see pixelated images of your friends’ dead, mutilated bodies appear on your computer screen through a news report whilst people tell you to “stay calm”; how it feels to stay up all night worrying for 8 months straight whilst the love of your life has been subjected to torture methods in solitary confinement and administrative detention without trial or charge? Can you imagine someone sitting Hermione and Bellatrix down, after Bellatrix has tortured Hermione, to talk things out? Perhaps Neville could join them, and report back to his deranged parents the success of their dialogue. Intergenerational trauma is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses in the Palestinian community, with PTSD being the most common disorder in Palestinian children. Every family living in Palestine has had at least one member of their family arrested under administrative detention and tortured by soldiers for information. Why should a Palestinian who has been subjected to extreme means of psychological and physical torture sit across from an Israeli to hear their perspective? That’s like a cancer patient listening to someone who is completely healthy complaining about a bruise on their leg. “Ah,” I can hear you say, “But what about the Israelis suffering?”, and in response to that I would say please study the published statistics on those killed in the “conflict” and recognise that you cannot even begin to compare the number of deaths of Israelis to Palestinians. Millions have been massacred and murdered, thousands incarcerated in jails without trial or charge. For you, you hear the words “Israel” and “Palestine” maybe once or twice a year, but I hear them every day when my friends tell me of the news coming from there. Additionally, Israel does not limit its atrocities to Palestinians; in this month alone there have already been reports of a British man, Rabbi and Israeli being attacked by Israeli soldiers. Like the propaganda created to argue that muggle borns stole magic, propaganda is dispersed everywhere to paint Palestinians as terrorists, and Israelis as victims. Harry was depicted as dangerous and mad, like a terrorist, to the wizarding community – much like the Palestinians you will see flickering on your tv screen. But, as Hermione might suggest, sources mean everything, and I only hope that you have not taken your information from the Zionists’ version of the Daily Prophet, but rather the Palestinians’ version of Potterwatch. Because just like your novels show, the best way to get information is to go straight to the source instead of a mass media production site. Rita Skeeter herself demonstrated the dangers of reporting and spreading biased and exaggerated news articles, and although I’m extremely certain nobody would trap you in a jar as a beetle, I’m sure that one day you will have to backtrack your arguments. I honestly think you are one of the most creatively intelligent writers we have, and up until now you have inspired me beyond belief. I would hate to think that you knew all of this previously before signing that letter, because by signing it you have automatically signed up to Netanyahu’s inner circle of supporters – the same man who regularly denied that Palestine ever existed and referred to Palestinians as “Arabs” to strip them of their racial identity who has just said that the genocide of the Jews in World War II wasn’t actually from the Nazis but from the Palestinians themselves (yes, he used the ‘P’ word showing that his consistent denial of Palestine was a political tactic). To the Palestinians, many of whom rely on Harry Potter as a means of inspiration and escapism, you have outed yourself as a sympathiser of today’s present-day Nazis who are conducting ethnic cleansing as we speak. I only hope that now I’ve highlighted my concerns that you might withdraw your signature and realise that a peaceful, practical approach to fighting apartheid is to endorse BDS until Israel complies with international law. It worked with South African apartheid, which I’m sure you never supported, and it will work with Israeli apartheid too. So many intellectual academics, scholars, musicians, artists, novelists, scientists and performers have spoken out for their support of BDS. It is the only logical way that this madness will stop. We have spoken until our tongues have dried out – dialogue is a method that has gone stale. We need action and that action is BDS until Israel recognises international law, like every country on this planet should. The letter you signed uses the word “coexistence” in its title – but “coexistence” will never be reached until the lives of every single person is treated with dignity and respect. Somehow, I don’t think sitting down and talking is going to teach the IDF or Israeli settlers to start respecting Palestinian life, because they are so indoctrinated into a culture of brain washed military life. For example, they have been recorded watching the bombing of Gaza as though it were a movie at the cinema. Coexistence will happen once this culture is torn down, and I am so sure that if Harry could defeat Voldemort, Neville could behead Nagini, and Snape could be good, that Palestine will be free and we will all live as one people on this Earth. I hope that this letter is shared as widely as possible so that you may see it, and that I can hear your reply. Originally published (Mia Oudeh’s facebook page) Mia Oudeh	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9198
__label__cc	0.623537	0.376463	Written by Nils Melzer on July 2, 2019 More in Civil Liberties: The Thought Police Are Coming June 12, 2019 I herewith would like to respond to your open letter, co-signed by numerous distinguished academics and expressing your genuine and legitimate concerns as to the manner in which my recent article “Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange” (bit.ly/2INkrxQ), as well as some of my oral statements, address the “rape” narrative imposed and disseminated by the Swedish prosecution in this case. I am grateful to you for bringing this to my attention, and I greatly value this opportunity to respond and, hopefully, clarify some of the resulting misunderstandings in the interest of our shared mission of ensuring protection and human dignity to all victims of violence and abuse. Most notably, you take issue with my conclusion that the allegations made by the two concerned women (AA and SW) do not warrant the prosecution’s finding of “rape”. First, while I believe it is important to counter widespread misperceptions falsely accusing Assange of using violence, I fully agree with you that the defining element of “rape” is lack of consent, and not the use of violence, and also that such consent can be conditional (e.g. on the use of a condom) and can be withdrawn at any moment. We have all come a long way in getting this definition of “rape” accepted in international law, and nothing in my article intends to question this important achievement in any way, neither generally nor in the case of Assange. I also would like to point out that sexual allegations not amounting to “rape” may still amount to serious sexual offences, such as sexual assault. My article discusses the deliberate misuse of the term “rape” by the Swedish prosecution in the case of Assange, against the stated intent and account of both women involved. Second, as far as SW is concerned, her police report states that, after Assange woke her up trying to initiate intercourse, the two had a conversation in which she asked Assange whether he was wearing a condom and he replied he was not. She then said he “would better not have HIV” and he replied that he did not, after which, she “let him continue” (lät honom fortsätta) to have unprotected intercourse. There are no indications of coercive or incapacitating circumstances suggesting lack of consent. Accordingly, Chief Prosecutor for Stockholm Eva Finne stated: “I do not think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape” and closed the case on 25 August 2010 concluding that the “conduct alleged by SW disclosed no crime at all”. Having examined all the evidence before me, I agree with her. My position, like Finne’s, is not that SW’s account is not credible, but rather that the conduct alleged does not constitute “rape”. Third, as far as AA is concerned, even the Swedish prosecution never suggested that the conduct alleged by her could amount to “rape”. In a Twitter-message of 22 April 2013, AA herself publicly denied having been raped (jag har inte blivit våldtagen). AA also stated in a tabloid interview that Assange is not violent and that neither she nor SW felt afraid of him. While I agree with the prosecution that AA’s allegations, if proven to be true, could amount to sexual assault other than rape, the fact that she submitted as evidence a condom, supposedly worn and torn during intercourse with Assange, which carried no DNA of either Assange or AA, seriously undermines her credibility. Fourth, according to their own accounts, neither AA nor SW ever alleged to have been raped, and neither of them intended to report a crime. Rather, evidence shows that AA took SW to a police station, so SW could enquire whether she could force Assange to take an HIV-test. There, they were questioned together by an investigating officer who knew AA personally and ran on the same political party ticket as AA in the general elections three weeks later. When superior investigators insisted on registering SW’s enquiry as a report of “rape” and to immediately issue an arrest warrant against Assange, SW reportedly refused to sign her statement and became so emotionally distraught that the questioning had to be suspended. While at the police station, SW even texted that she “did not want to put any charges on Julian Assange” but that “the police were keen on getting their hands on him” (14:26); and that she was “chocked (sic shocked) when they arrested him” because she “only wanted him to take a test” (17:06). Once Chief Prosecutor Finné had intervened and closed the case, it reportedly was again the police (not SW) who “revised” her statement lodged in the police system to better fit the crime of “rape” before it was resubmitted by a third Social Democrat politician to a different prosecutor who was prepared to re-open the case. In conclusion, I fully agree with your interpretation of the law, and that any victim courageous enough to report sexual abuse must be protected, supported and taken seriously. As far as the case of Assange is concerned, however, I stand by my conclusion that the available evidence does not warrant the prosecution’s finding of “rape”. Beyond questions of law, you also take issue with my tone, which you deem to be “insensitive to victims”. Please let me assure you that, in two decades of work with victims of war and violence, sometimes under very difficult and dangerous circumstances, I have seen and suffered too much myself to be intellectually or emotionally capable of “mocking” potential victims. The countless testimonies I have collected in prisons, camps and villages throughout the world have marked me deeply, and some of them keep haunting me to this day. Whatever misunderstandings may have resulted from my article, they certainly do not warrant accusing me of “insensitivity to victims” or even a “profound lack of understanding that does a disservice to the mandate”. Though the tone of my critique may be harsh, it does not aim at the women, but at the gross arbitrariness of the “rape” narrative, which has been wrongly imposed by zealous officials not only on Assange, but also on the two concerned women themselves, and on the general public. The State not only ignored the women’s own experience and interpretation of events, but also consistently declined to take the necessary measures which would have allowed advancing this matter beyond the stage of preliminary investigation, where it has been so conveniently left to simmer for almost a decade. As is well documented, both the two women and Assange fully cooperated with the police and the prosecution from the outset, he was questioned both in Sweden (2010) and in London (2016), and the only reason he refused to be extradited to Sweden was that Sweden declined to guarantee against further extradition to the United States, where I am convinced he would be exposed to serious violations of his human rights. More generally, I fully share your concerns that sexual allegations against powerful men are often dismissed as attention-seeking or part of a conspiracy to bring them down. I would point out, however, that Assange is not a powerful man shielded by impunity, but an isolated and frail political prisoner persecuted for exposing war crimes and corruption. So, while we all work to safeguard the rights of victims of sexual abuse, let us not blindly dismiss well-founded doubts as to the veracity and / or appropriateness of rape allegations, where there are indications of duress or documented third party interests influencing the process. This holds particularly true in a highly politicized case which, in all involved jurisdictions, is plagued with a pervasive mix of grave and persistent due process violations, concerted public mobbing, humiliation and intimidation, and counterfactual accusations of hacking, spying and even causing death and injury. All of this being said, I salute your strong commitment to human rights, justice, and truth. Sometimes, fighting the good fight of human rights requires strong formulations. Sometimes, doing justice means we cannot shy away from perceived taboos. And sometimes, speaking the truth involves the risk of being misinterpreted or even unjustly attacked. No one can always find “bullet-proof” wording, which cannot be criticized, taken out of context, or simply be misunderstood in good faith. I therefore sincerely apologize to anyone who has been inadvertently hurt by my words, and I hope you will accept my assurance that my mandate and I will always stand by your side. Anyone acquainted with my work knows that I have consistently integrated both a gender perspective and a victim-centered approach throughout the activities of my mandate. This includes, most recently, my upcoming thematic report to the UN General Assembly, which examines domestic violence from the perspective of the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment. Thus, while I can personally attest to the fact that not all victims of abuse are women, the last thing I could reasonably be accused of is a lack of “ability and willingness to deal with gender-based crimes”. I would like to conclude by thanking you, once more, for this important initiative and for giving me the opportunity to respond. I sincerely hope this resolves any misunderstandings that may have arisen in connection with my recent article and clarifies the position of my mandate as to the relevant legal and policy issues. I also sincerely hope these misunderstandings will not divert attention from the extremely important issues I have raised in the course of my interventions on behalf of Mr. Assange, which point to a sustained and concerted campaign of state-sponsored mobbing, vilification and judicial persecution designed to silence whistleblowers, journalists and other human rights defenders daring to expose governmental crimes and corruption. Going forward, as in the past, I stand ready to constructively engage with any interested stakeholders on these and other questions with a view to jointly advancing our shared human rights agenda for the benefit of all. Prof. Nils Melzer UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Originally published: Prof. Nils Melzer (Medium) Nils Melzer	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9199
__label__cc	0.598431	0.401569	Budget Amendments - HB1700 (Committee Approved) Commerce and Trade Economic Development Incentive Payments FY2019 $0 FY2020 $34,000,000 GF Page 99, line 47, strike "$43,823,498" and insert "$77,823,498". Page 102, after line 43, insert: "J. Out of the amounts in this item, $34,000,000 the second year from the general fund shall be deposited to the Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund for the award of grants to a qualified e-commerce company in a qualified locality in accordance with legislation enacted by the 2019 General Assembly and subject to performance metrics agreed to in a memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth.” (This amendment appropriates $34.0 million from the general fund the second year to the Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund pursuant to House Bill 2356 and subject to the terms agreed to in a memorandum of understanding between a qualified e-commerce company and the Commonwealth.) Economic Development Incentive Payments Economic Development Services (53400) $50,034,808 $47,964,808 $44,033,498 Financial Assistance for Economic Development (53410) FY2019 $50,034,808 $47,964,808 FY2020 $44,033,498 General FY2019 $43,754,808 Special FY2019 $6,130,000 FY2020 $5,761,000 Dedicated Special Revenue FY2019 $150,000 FY2020 $150,000 Authority: Discretionary Inclusion. A.1. Out of the appropriation for this Item, $19,750,000 the first year and $19,750,000 the second year from the general fund shall be deposited to the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund, as established in § 2.2-115, Code of Virginia. Such funds shall be used at the discretion of the Governor, subject to prior consultation with the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees, to attract economic development prospects to locate or expand in Virginia. If the Governor, pursuant to the provisions of § 2.2-115, E.1., Code of Virginia, determines that a project is of regional or statewide interest and elects to waive the requirement for a local matching contribution, such action shall be included in the report on expenditures from the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund required by § 2.2-115, F., Code of Virginia. Such report shall include an explanation on the jobs anticipated to be created, the capital investment made for the project, and why the waiver was provided. 2. The Governor may allocate these funds as grants or loans to political subdivisions. Loans shall be approved by the Governor and made in accordance with procedures established by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and approved by the State Comptroller. Loans shall be interest-free unless otherwise determined by the Governor and shall be repaid to the general fund of the state treasury. The Governor may establish the interest rate to be charged, otherwise, any interest charged shall be at market rates as determined by the State Treasurer and shall be indicative of the duration of the loan. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership shall be responsible for monitoring repayment of such loans and reporting the receivables to the State Comptroller as required. 3. Funds may be used for public and private utility extension or capacity development on and off site; road, rail, or other transportation access costs beyond the funding capability of existing programs; site acquisition; grading, drainage, paving, and other activity required to prepare a site for construction; construction or build-out of publicly-owned buildings; grants or loans to an industrial development authority, housing and redevelopment authority, or other political subdivision pursuant to their duties or powers; training; or anything else permitted by law. 4. Consideration should be given to economic development projects that 1) are in areas of high unemployment; 2) link commercial development along existing transportation/transit corridors within regions; and 3) are located near existing public infrastructure. 5. It is the intent of the General Assembly that the Virginia Economic Development Partnership shall work with localities awarded grants from the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund to recover such moneys when the economic development projects fail to meet minimal agreed-upon capital investment and job creation targets. All such recoveries shall be deposited and credited to the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund. 6. Up to $5,000,000 of previously awarded funds and funds repaid by political subdivisions or business beneficiaries and deposited to the Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund may be used to assist Prince George County with site improvements related to the location of a major aerospace engine manufacturer to the Commonwealth. B.1. Out of the appropriation for this Item, $4,879,210 $4,609,210 the first year and $5,446,900 $5,236,900 the second year from the general fund shall be deposited to the Investment Performance Grant subfund of the Virginia Investment Partnership Grant Fund to be used to pay investment performance grants in accordance with § 2.2-5101, Code of Virginia. C.1. Out of the appropriation for this Item, $1,800,000 the first year from the general fund shall be deposited to the Major Eligible Employer Grant subfund of the Virginia Investment Partnership Grant Fund to be used to pay investment performance grants in accordance with § 2.2-5102, Code of Virginia. D. Out of the appropriation for this Item, $3,000,000 the first year and $3,000,000 the second year from the general fund and an amount estimated at $150,000 the first year and $150,000 the second year from nongeneral funds shall be deposited to the Governor's Motion Picture Opportunity Fund, as established in § 2.2-2320, Code of Virginia. These nongeneral fund revenues shall be deposited to the fund from revenues generated by the digital media fee established pursuant to § 58.1-1731, et seq., Code of Virginia. Such funds shall be used at the discretion of the Governor to attract film industry production activity to the Commonwealth. E. Out of the appropriation for this Item, $5,500,000 the first year and $5,500,000 the second year from the Aerospace Manufacturing Performance Grant Fund and $630,000 the first year and $261,000 the second year from the Aerospace Manufacturer Workforce Training Grant Fund is hereby appropriated. These funds shall be used for grants in accordance with §§ 59.1-284.20 and 59.1-284.22, Code of Virginia. The Director, Department of Planning and Budget shall transfer these funds to the impacted state agencies upon request to the Director, Department of Planning and Budget by the respective state agency. F.1. Out of the appropriation for this Item, $4,400,000 the first year and $3,000,000 the second year from the general fund shall be deposited to the Virginia Economic Development Incentive Grant subfund of the Virginia Investment Partnership Grant Fund to be used to pay investment performance grants in accordance with § 2.2-5102.1, Code of Virginia. 3. Notwithstanding § 2.2-5102.1.E. or any other provision of law, and subject to appropriation by the General Assembly, up to $8,000,000 in economic development incentive grants is authorized for eligible projects to be awarded on or after July 1, 2017, but before June 30, 2019. Any eligible project awarded such grants shall be subject to the conditions set forth in § 2.2-5102.1. Any additional grant awards not authorized by this act, including any awards after June 30, 2019, shall require separate legislation. G.1. Out of the appropriation for this Item, $3,750,000 the first year and $3,750,000 the second year from the general fund shall be provided for the Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation (VBHRC), a non-stock corporation research consortium initially comprised of the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, George Mason University and the Eastern Virginia Medical School. The consortium will contract with private entities, foundations and other governmental sources to capture and perform research in the biosciences, as well as promote the development of bioscience infrastructure tools which can be used to facilitate additional research activities. The Director, Department of Planning and Budget, is authorized to provide these funds to the non-stock corporation research consortium referenced in this paragraph upon request filed with the Director, Department of Planning and Budget by VBHRC. 2. Of the amounts provided in G.1. for the research consortium, up to $3,750,000 the first year and $3,750,000 the second year may be used to develop or maintain investments in research infrastructure tools to facilitate bioscience research. 3. The remaining funding shall be used to capture and perform research in the biosciences and must be matched at least dollar-for-dollar by funding provided by such private entities, foundations and other governmental sources. No research will be funded by the consortium unless at least two of the participating institutions, including the five founding institutions and any other institutions choosing to join, are actively and significantly involved in collaborating on the research. No research will be funded by the consortium unless the research topic has been vetted by a scientific advisory board and holds potential for high impact near-term success in generating other sponsored research, creating spin-off companies or otherwise creating new jobs. The consortium will set guidelines to disburse research funds based on advisory board findings. The consortium will have near-term sustainability as a goal, along with corporate-sponsored research gains, new Virginia company start-ups, and job creation milestones. 4. Other publicly-supported institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth may choose to join the consortium as participating institutions. Participation in the consortium by the five founding institutions and by other participating institutions choosing to join will require a cash contribution from each institution in each year of participation of at least $50,000. 5. Of these funds, up to $500,000 the first year and $500,000 the second year may be used to pay the administrative, promotional and legal costs of establishing and administering the consortium, including the creation of intellectual property protocols, and the publication of research results. 6. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership, in consultation with the publicly-supported institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth participating in the consortium, shall provide to the Governor, and the Chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Appropriations committees, by November 1 of each year a written report summarizing the activities of the consortium, including, but not limited to, a summary of how any funds disbursed to the consortium during the previous fiscal year were spent, and the consortium's progress during the fiscal year in expanding upon existing research opportunities and stimulating new research opportunities in the Commonwealth. 7. The accounts and records of the consortium shall be made available for review and audit by the Auditor of Public Accounts upon request. 8. Up to $2,500,000 of the funds managed by the Commonwealth Health Research Board (CHRB), created pursuant to § 32.1-162.23, Code of Virginia, shall be directed toward collaborative research projects, approved by the boards of the VBHRC and CHRB, to support Virginia's core bioscience strengths, improve human health, and demonstrate commercial viability and a high likelihood of creating new companies and jobs in Virginia. H. Out of the appropriation for this Item, $5,669,833 the first year and $2,669,833 the second year from the general fund shall be available for eligible businesses under the Virginia Jobs Investment Program. Pursuant to § 2.2-1611, Code of Virginia, the appropriation provided for the Virginia Jobs Investment Program for eligible businesses shall be deposited to the Virginia Jobs Investment Program Fund. I. Out of the appropriation for this Item, $500,000 the first year and $500,000 the second year from the general fund may be provided to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to facilitate additional domestic and international marketing and trade missions approved by the Governor. The Director, Department of Planning and Budget, is authorized to provide these funds to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership upon written approval of the Governor.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9200
__label__wiki	0.50531	0.50531	Bullet Consulting Posted on June 18, 2014 June 19, 2014 by John Hyde Why Snyder Would Be Foolish Not to Change the Redskins’ Name Yesterday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office cancelled several trademark registrations of the Washington Redskins football team. The team, owned by Daniel Snyder, will almost certainly appeal, as the team has in the past. But this would be a mistake – and a significant lost opportunity for Snyder. It’s important to note, as Vox.com points out, that this is not the first time these trademark registrations have been cancelled. When the Patent and Trademark Office ruled similarly in 1999, the team appealed and their appeal was upheld. If this latest decision stands, it will not mean that the Washington Redskins must change their name. It simply means that the team will no longer have exclusive rights to the Redskins name, and other groups or businesses can then use the name and certain other trademarks to sell shirts, hats, and other merchandise. That outcome could certainly impact a lucrative revenue stream for the team’s owners (and its players). But while losing the trademark rights could hurt revenue, changing the name should have the opposite effect. One reason teams change their jerseys is it gives them an opportunity to sell the new jerseys to fans who want the latest version. US Soccer figured this out a while ago; USMNT’s kits are always changing, it seems, and no true fan wants to be seen in last year’s model. Now just imagine the millions of jerseys and hats the newly rechristened football team would sell to its loyal fan base, who must now replace their old Redskins gear. (There will always be those who proudly wear their throwback Redskins jerseys, but they would comprise a small segment of the market, one that would shrink over time.) Revenue aside, there’s another reason Snyder shouldn’t miss this opportunity to discard the Redskins name: It would demonstrate sensitivity to people who have been the victims of terrible discrimination and injustice for centuries. It would show that Snyder has a conscience. It would be a small but significant step forward in the conversation about discrimination, racism, and the rights and place of Native Americans in this country. It would be the smart thing to do from a brand perspective – and it would be the right thing to do. In short, Snyder and the Redskins have more to gain than lose by changing the team’s name. They’d be foolish to miss this opportunity. Previous PostPrevious 3 Questions Every Customer Wants You to Answer Next PostNext Seeking Graphic Designer / Website Designer hello@bullet-consulting.com \| 530-400-4005 © 2010 – 2019 Bullet Consulting	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9201
__label__cc	0.690157	0.309843	There’s a prevalent idea out there about what self-care looks like, but it’s not realistic. Here’s why self-care is at the center of relationship counseling. Have you ever found yourself standing in the middle of an especially stressful day,… The New Year brings feelings of change. At the start of the year it’s common to set resolutions. It’s a healthy practice to take stock of our lives and consider habits we’d like to change or ways we’d like to… There is a well-known tale about an elder who was teaching his grandson about life. It speaks to the need to demonstrate characteristics of peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, compassion, and faith. 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Despite that intimate knowledge of those who… Power and Sex Addiction: What Hollywood Scandals Are Telling Us With the flood of sexual harassment and abuse stories coming out of Hollywood recently, you might think the phone of a sex and porn addiction counselor would be ringing off the hook as hundreds of people call in to… When His Therapy Feels Like It’s Re-Victimizing You The partners of sex and porn addicts do not always have an easy road ahead of them. Often, an unevenness can begin to develop almost immediately where “his progress,” “his work,” or “his addiction,” can begin to take precedence… Men: Look to Your Past. Do You Have a “Me Too” Moment? In the wake of the terrible sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, women all over social media are stepping forward to bravely say the words “Me Too” to show that they have also been victims of sexual harassment or sexual… Can I Masturbate During Recovery? One of the most common questions or concerns for the men I see in recovery for sex and porn addiction centers on masturbation. Can I masturbate during recovery? Will this set me back? How can I tell the difference between… Sex and Intimacy: Are They the Same? A recently published article opined that the reason fewer and fewer men are interested in marriage or long-term relationships is because they have easy access to sex through text messages, dating apps, and streaming internet porn. In other words,… Porn Doc Is In: How Much Do You Need to Disclose? How Much Do I Need to Disclose? Dear Porn Doc, I am a 40-plus year old man who has struggled with an addiction to pornography. It played a big part in my divorce. I am now in recovery (seeing a… Talking to Kids About Sex and Porn (You’re Doing it Wrong) Modern parents have a lot to talk about with their kids when it comes to sex, porn, and relationships. Here’s how to do that in a healthy, positive way. I want to start off with a statistic I’ve observed… How to Quit Porn: 4 Steps To Recovery Trying to figure out how to quit porn? Recovery from an addiction to sex or pornography is much more like a marathon rather than a sprint. Much will be required of and from you in your pursuit of sobriety. Recovery… Am I a Sex Addict? The “Regular Guy” Sex Addict is More Common Than You Think Sex addiction can affect anyone, regardless of education, profession, location, religion, background or age. If you think you “can’t” be a sex addict, think again. In my work as a counselor, one of the more common misconceptions I run into… Dealing with Withdrawal Symptoms of Sex Addiction Attempting to stop your compulsive sexual behavior requires a non-simple truth—the need to become comfortable with feeling uncomfortable. Once you have acknowledged you have a sex addiction, and made the decision to get help, you need to prepare yourself for… Beginning Couple’s Sex Addiction Therapy: Here’s What You’re In For When a sex or porn addiction first comes to light in a relationship, everything feels chaotic. Perhaps your partner was caught in their behavior and is reluctant to admit any wrongdoing. Perhaps they confessed their behavior when either guilt or… If You’re Watching Porn at Work, You Might Have a Big Problem Surfing porn at work is extremely risky behavior. If you find that you’re not able to stop yourself from doing it, this might be a big problem. A few weeks ago there was a story in the news… Your Inner Sex Addict is Broadcasting Fake News Your inner sex addict is broadcasting “fake news” Fake news—or a hoax—is making, well, news, a lot these days and has become a buzzword representing misrepresentation and falsehoods. Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead… Sex Addiction in the News – This Isn’t a Joke For real people with real sex addictions, the gravity of the situation is huge. While it might seem like the Kardashian family is always in the news, a recent story was of particular importance to me. After being… Dear PornDoc—Journaling, Mindfulness, & Disclosure for Sex Addiction Recovery How can journaling, mindfulness and disclosure help your sex addiction recovery? Journaling for Sex Addiction Recovery Dear PornDoc, I am currently in treatment for pornography addiction. My therapist wants me to journal a lot. My thinking is… Sign up for more info and get a free copy of the Intro and first chapter of my book, Breaking the Cycle	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9202
__label__wiki	0.637532	0.637532	DR Congo declares European commissioner persona non grata Xinhua - January 9, 2010 The foreign minister for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has stopped the granting of a Kinshasa visa to the European commissioner for development, the Belgian Karel De Gucht, in reaction to his recent comments considered by Kinshasa as malicious. "Any demand for a visa for Gucht, the European Commissioner for Development, from DR Congo will be considered by the authorities of this country as an act of provocation," according to Thursday's issue of the La Libre Belgique newspaper. The publication reaching Kinshasa reported the angry response to the European official was contained in a verbal note dated Jan.2, which was written by Congolese Foreign Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba and addressed to the European Commission. The Belgian newspaper said the verbal note from Kinshasa termed as shameful the remarks made by Gucht on Dec. 16 during the debate on DR Congo in the European Parliament. It quoted Gucht as telling the European lawmakers that the "Congolese leaders were inappropriate partners and the aid given by the international community to DR Congo is a total waste." According to La Libre Belgique, the Congolese authorities have informed the Charge d'Affairs of the European Commission in Kinshasa that "in the current state of things, the coming of the commissioner (to Kinshasa) was not desirable" and that "any demand for a visa will be considered as provocation." For the Congolese government, the source explained, the comments by the Belgian were considered as "an attack on the Congolese state, they were racist, showed lack of respect for the government and irresponsible." And yet, the Belgian newspaper went on, Gucht, who was to relinquish the post of European commissioner for development at the end of January and take over that of European commissioner for commerce, was preparing to make a trip to Kinshasa in January. The action by Kinshasa caught Brussels by surprise "which declared that it was amazed by the virulence of the Congolese government's spokesman a day after the European debate," the newspaper said. The Congolese government "seems to want to extent the careless treatment to the European Commissioner for Development like it often treats the Belgian political appointees whose relation with them has always been chaotic even though they are their former colonizers," said the newspaper. It asked a question: "How is the European institution going to react -- given the paternalism of Belgium vis-a-vis Kinshasa and yet her indulgence was required in this attack against the institution?" An immediate effect is the refusal by Kinshasa to receive the European commissioner for development may slow down the implementation of 10 aid projects totalling 278.5 million euros (390 million U. S. dollars), which Gucht was supposed to sign in Kinshasa in January. "This is regardless of whether the successor of Gucht, the Latvian Andris Pielbags, will also be interested," La Libre Belgique said, indicating the consequences. Tensions between Gucht and the government of DR Congo are not new, according to the newspaper. In April 2008, when Gucht headed a government delegation to Kinshasa in the capacity of the Belgian foreign minister, he also made remarks which did not go well with his Congolese hosts. He spoke of lack of transparency in the exploitation of mineral resources in DR Congo, corruption and lack of leadership, urging Congolese officials to start working instead of talking too much. These remarks made in Kinshasa before the Congolese government irritated President Joseph Kabila. In his reaction, the Congolese head of state sent a warning to the Belgian authorities: "There may be no consequences just because I wish there should be none. Next time, there will definitely some consequences." 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Nonsense (November 28, 2012) Protests Against M23 Rebels, Government and UN Spread (November 22, 2012) Thousands Protest M23 Capture of Goma, Turn on Government and UN (November 21, 2012) DR Congo Officials Vow to Defend Goma Against M23 Rebels (November 19, 2012) At high-level meeting, Ban urges political solution to crisis in eastern DR Congo (September 27, 2012) US Cuts Military Aid to Rwanda Over Support to Rebels in DR Congo (July 21, 2012) DR Congo, Rwanda Sign Pact to Fight Rebels in Eastern Congo (July 15, 2012) Police Investigate Former Prime Minister for Corruption (May 14, 2012) • European Commission	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9204
__label__wiki	0.839358	0.839358	Copyright battle over YouTube video with Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” sets new fair use precedent In the first ruling of its kind, Pennsylvania mother now has the right to sue UMG for illegal takedown An infamous copyright lawsuit involving Prince’s classic “Let’s Go Crazy” and a dancing baby has been toiling in the court system since 2007. On Tuesday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco delivered a decision that not only took the wind out of Prince’s sails, but set a strict new precedent for rights holder’s ability to issue takedown notices. In February 2007, Pennsylvania mother Stephanie Lenz posted a 29-second video to YouTube of her baby pushing a toy around and bopping to “Let’s Go Crazy”. In June of that year, a staffer at Universal Music Group assigned to issue YouTube takedown notices for any “significant use” (more than one-second long and not drowned out) of their copyrighted material found the clip and determined the song (not the baby) was the focus of the video. A takedown notice was sent, and in accordance with federal law, the video was immediately pulled. After Lenz cried foul, the video was restored some six weeks later. Universal never actually threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit; however, under a law giving people the right to sue for “mistaken or wrongful denial of access to a posting or publication,” Lenz filed her own suit. In an appeal, UMG argued that the pulldown was completely legal, as the label felt it had a “good-faith belief” that Prince’s copyright had been violated. (Read: U.S. Copyright Laws Blow and Other Disagreements About Sampling) Now, here’s where the new Court of Appeals decision comes in. Lenz’s lawyers argued that UMG failed to consider “fair use” prior to issuing the takedown note, and as a result are liable for damages. Judge Richard Tallman and the two other members of the Court agreed that UMG likely hadn’t done its due diligence, opening the path for Lenz to take the rights company to court. By definition, fair use includes short, private postings that do little to threaten the actual commercial value of a piece of work, as well as journalism, criticism, and educational uses. While the legal obligation to consider fair use has always been part of the takedown laws allowing copyright-holders to demand the removal of works in everything from YouTube videos to news broadcasts, it’s an aspect that had never been tested in court until now. According to Lenz’s lawyer from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Corynee McSherry, the ruling “sends a strong message that copyright law does not authorize thoughtless censorship of lawful speech.” She added, “Congress gave copyright-holders extraordinary power to send an e-mail and take content offline. With that kind of power comes responsibility to consider whether the posting was authorized.” The ruling paves the path not only for Lenz to move forward with her suit, but for others who feel posts were removed without fair use consideration to more easily take copyright holders to court. While these types of cases rarely produce big paydays for the winners, they do make the defendants pay lawyers fees as well as costs. The next step will be to take the wrongful denial of access before a jury to decide if UMG actually failed to consider fair use, as well as if the posting should be protected under the statute. Legal Dispute Grimes’ new album will be a “surprise” release on iTunes Deafheaven premieres new song “Come Back” — listen	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9205
__label__wiki	0.918487	0.918487	Home › Devices › Apple › Tv 4k › Reviews Apple TV 4K Review A lot of devices can run streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, but there's only one that will impress your neighbors as much as the Apple TV 4K. Apple's streaming device is aesthetically pleasing on your shelf and on your TV screen, but its high-end minimalism comes with a maximalist price tag. Is this thing worth your hard-earned money? Well, that's what we're about to find out. Below, we'll unbox the Apple TV 4K and put it through its paces. Our Cordcutting.com Apple TV 4K review starts now. Our Apple TV review kicks off with category-by-category analysis. We'll look at the device and its specs first. Then we'll look at the user experience, streaming quality, and how much the Apple TV 4K costs. We'll wrap things up with our final verdict on the device's quality and value. The device Apple is known for its design prowess, and the Apple TV 4K is as attractive a device as you’d expect. It’s a simple set-top box-style device that comes with a voice- and touch-enabled remote. Let's take a closer look at it, starting with the unboxing. Here it is, folks A look inside the box. Protective plastic is wrapped around the device and remote. Underneath the device, a cardboard organizer covers an instruction booklet and a cardboard sleeve (bottom right) contains the power cord Included in the box are the device itself, the remote, and one of Apple’s proprietary lightning cables (the lightning cable is used to charge the remote, though you can’t charge it using the device, which has no USB port). Everything that's in the box. Clockwise from top left: Apple TV 4K, voice remote, power cable, lightning cable (charges remote), manual and stickers Not included: the HDMI cable that is necessary to connect the Apple TV 4K to a TV. Apple isn’t the only streaming device manufacturer that leaves out this little necessity, but it’s frustrating nonetheless, especially given the Apple TV 4K’s rather high price point. They really couldn't toss in a cheap HDMI cable? A closer look at the device and remote Apple TV 4K specs and more The Apple TV 4K itself is 3.9 inches on a side with rounded corners. It is 1.4 inches tall. It's all black, but the top has the Apple TV logo in tastefully contrasting smooth and shiny plastic. A circular fan compartment, a bit smaller than the rounded-square shape of the rest of the Apple TV, protrudes slightly from the bottom and lets the device cool off. Under the hood, the Apple TV 4K is full of impressive stuff. It has a gigabit Ethernet port, Bluetooth 5.0, a 64-bit chip, and more. It is capable of streaming in 4K, of course, and it's also HDR- and Dolby Atmos-ready. The remote’s Menu button serves as a “back” button within apps. The top-right button is a shortcut to Apple’s TV app (more on that app in the next section). The microphone button is, of course, for voice controls, including Siri. There are no directional buttons on the Apple TV remote: you swipe left, right, up, and down to move around screens. The touch pad portion of the remote also acts as the “OK” button — you can click (not just tap) the whole top bit. Fancy stuff! It was pretty cool to have a touch pad, but it didn’t really do much that a simple directional pad would not have. The touch pad could read changes in direction, but in practice I found it easier to use swipe motions exclusively — it was faster to swipe right and then swipe up, for instance, than to move my thumb right and then up slowly and dramatically enough for the touch pad to figure out I wanted to move over and then up. The touch pad seemed to be affected by temperature a bit. On a very cold morning in New York, I found the pad to be a bit under-responsive until my place started to warm up. It wasn’t a huge deal, but it struck me as a kind of silly thing to have to deal with when a simple Roku-style directional pad would have worked fine. All in all, the touch pad didn't really add much. Its raison d'être, as far as I can tell, is to make the device more high-end and “Apple-y.” The Siri button, on the other hand, added quite a bit to the Apple TV 4K experience — but that's a discussion that fits better in our next section. Put an iOS device near a new Apple TV, and you'll get a prompt to set it up. (For those of you investigating the background: I'll get to that Duolingo lesson soon, I promise.) Setting up a new Apple TV 4K is easy — especially if you have an iOS device. If you own an iPhone or iPad, you can get your Apple TV device up and running just by putting your iOS device nearby and responding to a few prompts that pop up. It's pretty brilliant. In no time at all, I was looking at the Apple TV home screen. And it's a gorgeous home screen. Yeah, it's a photo of a TV — the Apple TV 4K can do a lot, but it can't take its own screenshots (you'll need a Mac computer for that). Apple’s streaming platform is arguably the best one out there. Apple's streaming platform/operating system, tvOS, is simple and user-friendly in the same ways that Apple's mobile platform, iOS, is. It's as easy to use as the famously user-friendly Roku platform — simpler, really, since the settings and Apple’s App Store are both set into the same simple grid instead of into a Roku-style sidebar menu. There's just one main menu on Apple TV, and it's an aesthetically pleasing grid of icons. You add apps to your menu, select them when you want to watch them, and watch content within those apps. Above the grid, Apple TV displays shortcuts to things within the apps (e.g., hover over the Music app and you'll see shortcuts to recent albums). It's simple in an elegant way — the classy minimalist counterpart to Roku's large print, easy-to-read aesthetic. The only minor wrinkle is Apple’s TV app (that's what they call it — it's an app called “TV” that works on Apple devices, including the Apple TV 4K), which aggregates content from other apps under one roof and sort of acts like a streaming platform within a streaming platform. We’ll talk more about that in a moment. The Apple TV platform is awesome. Sure, most of the top streaming platforms are pretty competent at this point, but there are still subtle UX details that set the best ones apart. One of the most impactful areas, in my view, is login information: these platforms need your usernames and passwords for things like Netflix in order to let you use those apps, and typing complex passwords on a typical streaming device remote can be a pain. Lots of streaming platforms let you use your mobile device and a code to log in more quickly, but Apple offered two additional solutions, each of which worked great. One option was to use a nearby iOS device as a keyboard. There was no syncing or anything to worry about: the option just popped up unbidden on my iOS device screen. The second option was to dictate passwords using voice controls. For those who don't mind saying their passwords out loud, this is a pretty quick and painless way to log into apps. Speaking of the Siri-powered voice controls, they were great — but not perfect. Searching for apps seemed to give the Apple TV platform some trouble. A few times, I searched for popular supported apps and got no results (“Sorry, I couldn’t find anything like that in the app store”). Oddly, the Apple TV was consistent in correctly interpreting what I was saying (“Hulu” or “HBO” would appear in text at the bottom of the screen) — it just couldn't retrieve the right page. I'm not sure what was causing the issue. After repeated attempts, my Apple TV 4K did eventually retrieve the app pages for Hulu and HBO. Let's talk about the TV app. Apple press photo of the TV app. The TV app aggregates content from other services and works on different Apple platforms. If used in the way Apple clearly intended, Apple’s own TV app is a centerpiece of the Apple TV experience. The TV app brings content from multiple streaming services together in one app and syncs information across Apple devices. Put simply, the idea is this: most streaming platforms show you menus of apps, and those apps then offer menus of movies and TV shows. The TV app takes those movie and TV show menus and combines them, so that you’re looking at what’s available on Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime, and other streaming apps all at once. You can still use the individual apps if you want to. There’s a Hulu app for Apple TV, even though Hulu can also work within the TV app. And you can even agree to let Hulu share what you watch in the Hulu app with Apple, so that you can start a video in Hulu’s and then finish it in the TV app. The TV app doesn't feel particularly vital, but it does a decent job for what it is. Right now the focus is, understandably, on big apps like Hulu and HBO Now. But I could see “hubs” like the TV app (or Roku's Roku Channel, or the Amazon Video app's support for Amazon Channels subscriptions) becoming more important for smaller streaming services in the future. A niche service like Shudder, for instance, would seem to have more to gain from the TV app in terms of access and exposure than Hulu (or, of course, Netflix) ever could. Streaming Quality I had no issues at all streaming with my Apple TV 4K on Wi-Fi and wired connections. This is a powerful and effective streaming device. I got crisp 4K and 1080p (depending on the app’s capabilities) streaming. Load times were virtually nonexistent. The picture and audio quality were superb. The streaming quality on the Apple TV 4K is pretty much perfect. It’s not wildly better than a top-of-the-line device from Roku or Amazon, but there's a sliver of daylight between it and the mainstream competition. The Apple TV 4K is comparable in video streaming quality to the Nvidia Shield TV, which is impressive (the Nvidia Shield TV can also stream video games, which the Apple TV 4K cannot — see our Shield TV review for more details). With Nvidia Shield TV-like streaming quality and a streaming platform that rivals and sometimes exceeds Roku's, the Apple TV is arguably the best streaming device that money can buy. It’s how much money it takes to buy the Apple TV 4K that’s the problem. An Apple TV 4K will cost you at least $179. That’s for the 32 GB model — you can get the 64 GB model, which has the same specs in every area except for storage, for $199. That doesn’t include tax, but it does include shipping: Apple sent me mine overnight (I’m in New York City, so your mileage may vary). By contrast, Roku’s top-of-the-line Roku Ultra is $99.99. (The Amazon Fire TV lineup doesn’t really have a comparable product, but the Fire TV Stick 4K is $49.99 and the Fire TV-Echo smart speaker hybrid device, the Fire TV Cube, is $119.99. The Fire TV Recast is $229.99, but that device has a built-in OTA DVR. All prices are as of this writing.) The Apple TV 4K is positioned at a super-premium price, but it’s not really head and shoulders above the top-of-the-line offerings from competitors like Roku. In terms of specs and streaming quality, there’s no way that there is $80 or more’s worth of difference between an Apple TV 4K and a Roku Ultra. If you go with the Apple TV 4K, you’ll definitely be paying a premium for Apple’s design style and brand cachet. The Apple TV 4K is easily one of the best streaming devices available. It's arguably the very best. The platform is as simple and as pleasant to use as Roku’s, but much more elegant. The app library is extensive and the streaming quality superb. There were minor drawbacks — I still think that the the touch pad is an unnecessary “perk” — but it's hard to come up with many meaningful complaints about this device. It's great! If there's any issue with the Apple TV 4K, it's the price. While the Apple TV 4K may be better than the Roku Ultra, it is certainly not $80 to $100 better. It's a one-time expense on a device that should last you a few years, sure, but 80 bucks is 80 bucks! For streamers to whom money is no object, the Apple TV 4K is a fantastic choice. To others, the decision will come down to their budget.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9206
__label__wiki	0.981519	0.981519	Start Over You searched for: Collections NLM Publications and Productions ✖Remove constraint Collections: NLM Publications and Productions Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Dates by Range 1950-1999 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1950-1999 1. Report on the National Library of Medicine, July 1982 [Bethesda, Md. : National Library of Medicine, 1982] Libraries, Medical -- economics Library Services -- economics Databases, Bibliographic -- economics Online Systems -- economics National Library of Medicine (U.S.) 2. The National Library of Medicine Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, [1970] Libraries, Medical 3. Opportunities for health science libraries [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, [1967] Financing, Government Legislation, Medical 4. National Library of Medicine: services Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1956 Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, [1959] 7. Manuscript sources in the history of ophthalmology in the National Library of Medicine Bethesda, MD : History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, [1989] Ophthalmology -- history Manuscripts, Medical National Library of Medicine (U.S.). History of Medicine Division. 8. Early Western manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine: a short-title list Bethesda, Md. : History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, 1989 Manuscripts as Topic Western World -- history History, Medieval History, Early Modern 1451-1600 9. John Shaw Billings: an autobiographical fragment 1905 : a facsimile copy of the original manuscript Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913 Bethesda, Md. : National Library of Medicine, 1965 Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913. 10. Medicine of the Civil War: an exhibit at the National Library of Medicine, June 11-Sept. 28, 1973 11. The history of cardiology: a bibliography of secondary sources Bethesda, Md. : National Library of Medicine and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Dept. of Health and Human Services, [1986] 12. The history of AIDS: a selective bibliography Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, 1993 Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- history 13. John Shaw Billings centennial [Bethesda, MD] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Library of Medicine, [1965?] Anniversaries and Special Events 14. What is this thing called Medline? [Bethesda] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1972 Databases, Bibliographic 15. Arcana alphanumerica, or, The secrets of HMD call numbers revealed : being a description of call numbers used for printed materials in the History of Medicine Division, with an explanation of their meaning, usage, and derivation Clausen, Carol. Bethesda : National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, 1992 Book Classification 16. Medical illustration: an exhibit of art as applied to medicine, National Library of Medicine, Sept. 15-Dec. 19, 1969 [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, [1969] Medicine in Art 17. The National Library of Medicine Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1971 Bethesda : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1974 19. Armed Forces Medical Library: services Armed Forces Medical Library (U.S.) Washington, D.C. : Armed Forces Medical Library, [1953] 20. MEDLARS: the computerized literature retrieval services of the National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health (U.S.) [Bethesda, Md.] : Dept. of Health, Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, [1981] NLM Publications and Productions✖[remove]377 United States153 Libraries, Medical123 National Library of Medicine (U.S.)88 Abstracting and Indexing as Topic29 Armed Forces Medical Library (U.S.)10 Charen, Thelma.10 National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Reference Services Division.10 Army Medical Library (U.S.)8 The National Library of Medicine6 National Library of Medicine classification: a scheme for the shelf arrangement of books in the field of medicine and its related sciences4 National Library of Medicine: services4 MEDLARS training program: indexing training syllabus3 Armed Forces Medical Library2 Moving image31 English✖[remove]377 Bibliography101 Catalogs34 Biography16 Indexes9 Public domain377 1950-1999✖[remove]377	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9207
__label__wiki	0.556462	0.556462	The pathology and treatment of Asiatic cholera, so called2 A catechism of facts: or, Plain and simple rules respecting the nature, treatment, and prevention of cholera1 A comprehensive and practical treatise on the prevention and cure of epidemic cholera1 A discourse on the epidemic cholera morbus of Europe and Asia: delivered as an introductory lecture, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New-York, November 9, 18311 A dissertation on the causes, preventives, and remedies of plague, yellow fever, cholera, dysentery, and other pestilential, epidemic, or contagious diseases: respectfully proposed to the consideration of the governments, magistrates, philanthropists, beneficent societies, boards of health, medical societies, physicians, and inhabitants of all nations and countries on the globe : containing outlines of a new, uniform, physiological system of medical science and practice. Predicated on the known laws of nature and chemical affinity1 A full account of the operation of injecting the veins with aqueous and saline liquids: for the cure of malignant cholera, in the most hopeless cases : from the last number of the London Lancet1 A geographical and statistical account of the epidemic cholera: from its commencement in India to its entrance into the United States : comprehended in a series of maps and tables, exhibiting the names of places visited by the pestilence, the time of its commencement, the number of cases, and deaths, and duration, at each place : compiled from a great variety of printed and manuscript documents1 A lecture on epidemic diseases generally, and particularly the spasmodic cholera: delivered in the city of New York, March, 1832, and repeated June, 1832, and in Albany, July 4, 1832, and in New York, June, 1833 : with an appendix, containing several testimonials, and a review of Beaumont's experiments on the gastric juice1 A lecture on epidemic diseases generally: and particularly the spasmodic cholera : delivered in the city of New York, March 1832, and repeated June, 1332 [sic] and in Albany, July 4, 1832, and in New York, June, 1833 : with an appendix containing several testimonials, --rules of the Graham boarding house, &c1 A lecture on the epidemic cholera: delivered in Springfield, on the 2d of August, and in Northampton, on the 9th of August, and published at the request of a number of inhabitants of both places1 A medical and topographical history of the cholera morbus: including the mode of prevention and treatment1 A philosophical theory of an "empiric," proved practically: compared with doubtful science and known quackery, as practiced by the regular physicians during the prevalence of the cholera in this city : to which is added, the opinions of the committees appointed by the Assembly of this state, in 1828, '29, and '30, to examine the author's practice1 A plain and practical treatise on the epidemic cholera: as it prevailed in the city of New York, in the summer of 1832 : including its nature, causes, treatment and prevention : designed for popular instruction : to which is added, by way of appendix, A brief essay on the medical use of ardent spirits : being an attempt to show that alcohol is as unnecessary and mischievous in sickness as in health1 A practical treatise on the history, prevention, and treatment of epidemic cholera: designed both for the profession and the people1 A report on spasmodic cholera1 A temperance method of treating epidemic cholera1 A treatise on cholera morbus: or, Researches on the symptoms, nature, and treatment of the disease : and on the different means of avoiding it1 A treatise on epidemic cholera: as observed in the Duane-street Cholera Hospital, New-York, during its prevalence there in 18341 A treatise on epidemic cholera: including an historical account of its origin and progress, to the present period : compiled from the most authentic sources1 A treatise on the Asiatic cholera: giving an account of its rise and progress, character and nature, symptoms, prevention, and method of treatment1	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9208
__label__wiki	0.981806	0.981806	Matt McQuaid Cassius Winston Nick Ward Kenny Goins Xavier Tillman Joshua Langford Aaron Henry Gabe Brown Marcus Bingham Kyle Ahrens Foster Loyer Thomas Kithier Sports NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Men's college basketball College basketball Basketball College sports Men's basketball Men's sports Athlete injuries Athlete health Big Ten Michigan State Izzo should have much of Michigan State Final 4 team back By LARRY LAGE - Apr. 07, 2019 04:46 PM EDT Michigan State's Xavier Tillman, right, takes a shot over Texas Tech's Jarrett Culver during the second half in the semifinals of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Minneapolis. (Brett Wilhelm/NCAA Photos via Getty Images via AP, Pool) Tom Izzo is expected to have much of his latest Final Four team back next season at Michigan State. The Hall of Fame coach was not in the mood to celebrate that after Texas Tech eliminated the Spartans with a 61-51 victory at the Final Four. "You never can feel good because you never know if you'll ever get back here," Izzo told reporters. Michigan State will have to replace departing seniors Matt McQuaid and Kenny Goins, who will be missed for their outside shooting, defense and leadership. Every other player on the roster has a chance to return, which could give Izzo another shot at the second national championship he desperately craves. All-America and Big Ten player of the year guard Cassius Winston and forward Nick Ward may enter their names in the NBA draft before ultimately deciding whether to stay in school or go pro. Ward, whose season was stunted when he broke his left hand, returned last year after initially declaring himself eligible for the draft. Winston and Ward were not ready to talk about their future shortly after the loss Saturday night. Nor was Izzo. "The last thing I'm going to talk about is anybody leaving," Izzo said. Forward Xavier Tillman , who had a breakout season, was willing to commit to returning. "I'll be back for sure," Tillman said. And, he predicted, the experienced and talented team could win it all in 2020. "Sky is the limit," he said. "The potential is winning the national championship." If Winston and Ward both return, they would lead a lineup that includes fellow senior Joshua Langford, Tillman and Aaron Henry, who showed promise as a freshman as Langford's replacement as a starter. Reserves will likely include Kyle Ahrens, Gabe Brown, Thomas Kithier, Marcus Bingham, Foster Loyer and incoming freshmen Mark Watts and Malik Hall. "If we come in with the same attitude that we're not entitled to anything and we have to earn everything, we should be fine," Tillman said. The Spartans overcame a lot to win 32 games — one short of the school record — and the Big Ten regular-season and tournament championships and to knock off top-seeded Duke to make the Final Four. "I'll be proud about this run until the day I die," Goins said. "We fell short so I'm going to be sad right now and it's going to sink in. But looking back on this, I'll never be sad." Izzo has led the program to the Final Four eight times in 21 years, appearing in college basketball's showcase more than any other school during the same stretch, but he has gone to the Final Four six straight times without winning an NCAA title since 2000. "I'm going to come back here someday," Izzo said. "Hopefully, it won't take another four years." Michigan State was not expected to contend for a national championship this season. It lost Miles Bridges and Jaren Jackson, NBA lottery picks who left last year as underclassmen, and a trio of role-playing seniors. During the season, Langford's season ended in December with an ankle injury and Ahrens' injury-riddled season ended with a hurt ankle in the Big Ten Tournament. "Imagine if we would have had Josh on the court," Tillman said. "I think we would have gave it to him and got out of the way. Imagine if we had (Ahrens) on the court, able to give Aaron (Henry) a break. He's another key shooter and offensive rebounder for us. "If we had those two guys, I feel like it would have been a different result, but that's a what-if." More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/MarchMadness and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 Follow Larry Lage at https://twitter.com/LarryLage	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9211
__label__wiki	0.974149	0.974149	Tyus Battle De'Andre Hunter Mamadi Diakite Buddy Boeheim Elijah Hughes Ty Jerome Oshae Brissett Kyle Guy Sports Men's basketball Men's sports Basketball College basketball College sports NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Men's college basketball Virginia ACC Duke Syracuse Long ball propels No. 2 Virginia over Syracuse 79-53 By JOHN KEKIS - Mar. 04, 2019 10:55 PM EST Syracuse forward Marek Dolezaj, left, and guard Frank Howard, right, reach for the ball against Virginia guard Braxton Key (2) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Syracuse, N.Y., Monday, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus) SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Shot after shot the net kept swishing, and Kyle Guy and the Virginia Cavaliers kept smiling. Guy hit a career-high eight 3-pointers to lead a long-range barrage that produced 18 makes from beyond the arc, and No. 2 Virginia beat Syracuse 79-53 on Monday night. Ty Jerome and De'Andre Hunter each had five 3s as the Cavaliers tied the school record for 3-pointers, the most ever allowed by the Orange. As this season winds down, the memory of Virginia's stunning first-round loss to No. 16 seed UMBC in the NCAA Tournament last March is still on the mind. "Everybody knows how last season ended, so we never forget about it, we always remember it, hold it in the back of our head," Guy said. "It's just a chip on our shoulder and we're shooting that well and we're in the zone." The Cavaliers (27-2, 15-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), whose only two losses were to Duke, have won seven straight since losing for the second time to the Blue Devils and lead North Carolina by a half game in the ACC. "I guess it's contagious the way we were shooting," Hunter said. "Everyone's playing well. Everyone's hitting shots. We're playing great defense and getting stops. The morale was really high." Syracuse (19-11, 10-7) was coming off a solid road win at Wake Forest, but the Orange's vaunted zone defense was torched for eight 3-pointers during a 27-3 spurt in the second half. After falling behind by one point, the Cavaliers outscored Syracuse 37-10 over the final 15 minutes and finished the half 10 of 13 from long range. That wasn't the game plan. "We went into the game wanting to make them drive, get them off the 3-point line," Orange coach Jim Boeheim said . "We didn't do that. When you let Guy and Jerome shoot those shots, they're going to make them. They just took over." Guy finished with 25 points, Hunter had 21, and Jerome 16, with a career-high 14 assists. The three finished a combined 18 of 23 from behind the arc. Just over a year ago, Hunter scored 15 points and Guy added 14 as then-No. 2 Virginia humbled the Orange 59-44, the fewest points Syracuse has scored in the Carrier Dome. This one was tight until the big barrage. Virginia's biggest lead in the first 25 minutes was four points, but after Tyus Battle hit a corner 3 to give Syracuse a one-point lead with 15:05 left, the Cavaliers defense kicked in as they scored 11 straight points to gain a double-digit advantage and pulled away. "To shoot like that, it's hard to beat a team when a team is clicking that way, not just one guy but three guys," Virginia coach Tony Bennett said. "Those guys were terrific in the second half. There were three or four that were deep." Hunter hit a 3 from the left corner, Mamadi Diakite converted a layup and Jerome hit a long 3 from the top of the key for a 50-43 advantage nearing the midpoint of the period. Guy's fifth 3 of the game made it 53-43 at 10:26 as Syracuse went scoreless for nearly five minutes and hit only 1 of 10 shots as the lead slipped away. Guy's eighth 3 gave Virginia its 17th from beyond the arc, the most ever against the Orange. Battle, the Orange's leading scorer, finished 5 of 19 for 11 points. Elijah Hughes and Buddy Boeheim also had 11 points apiece as the Orange finished 19 of 57. "They got hot and we didn't locate them," Hughes said. "That's just basketball. Ty Jerome made things happen." The game marked the third time since early February the Cavaliers played on the road on a Monday night after a Saturday home game, and they won the first two in that scenario — 69-61 at No. 5 North Carolina on Feb. 11 and 64-58 at No. 20 Virginia Tech on Feb. 18. TIGHT FIRST HALF Syracuse's zone forced eight turnovers in the first half — the Cavaliers average 9.2 a game —and the Orange took a 34-32 lead into the break, despite allowing Virginia to hit 8 of 12 3-pointers. Syracuse had the biggest lead of the period, 31-25 with 3:54 left after Buddy Boeheim hit a 3-pointer off a feed from Oshae Brissett at the top of the key. The score was tied four times and Syracuse held a 12-2 edge in the paint and had nine second-chance points to three for the Cavs. Jerome, Hunter and Guy each had 10 points in the half. Virginia committed only three turnovers in the second half. HE SAID IT "Our defense broke down and we allowed them to shoot. They're going to make shots. It was the worst it's ever been since I've been here," said Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, who's in his 43rd year. Virginia: The Cavaliers are purring and their long-range game is a real equalizer as they seek their second straight ACC title. Syracuse: Although the Orange lost, they have three wins over ranked teams and should be a lock for a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Virginia: The Cavaliers host Louisville on Saturday in their regular-season finale. Syracuse: The Orange finish the regular season at Clemson on Saturday.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9212
__label__wiki	0.883737	0.883737	TEEN WOLF Halloween Marathon Forget the candy, MTV is the place for the best Halloween treat with an all day marathon of the first season of the critically acclaimed hit series Teen Wolf. From the first bite to the final fight, all 12 episodes will air back-to-back beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET/PT on Halloween day, Monday, October 31. The highly anticipated second season of this young, sexy reinvention of the classic werewolf tale will return Summer 2012 on MTV. The first season of Teen Wolf averaged a 1.5 P12-34 rating, more than doubling its time period average from the year prior, with more than 1.7 million viewers tuning in each week. The gripping season finale delivered a series-high 1.9 P12-34 rating and 2.1 million total viewers. Teen Wolf stars Tyler Posey as Scott McCall; Crystal Reed as Allison Argent; Dylan O’Brien as Stiles; Tyler Hoechlin as Derek Hale; Holland Roden as Lydia Martin; and Colton Haynes as Jackson Whittemore. Teen Wolf was developed by Jeff Davis (creator, “Criminal Minds”) who also serves as executive producer. Additional executive producers include Marty Adelstein (“Prison Break”), Michael Thorn, René Echevarria (“Medium,” “Castle”), Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley. Russell Mulcahy (“Highlander,” “Resident Evil: Extinction”) is co-executive producer. The pilot was written by Jeff Davis and Jeph Loeb & Matthew Weisman and directed by Russell Mulcahy. The Teen Wolf series is based on a screenplay by Jeph Loeb & Matthew Weisman. Justin Levy and Anne Marie McGintee are the MTV executives in charge of production. The series is a co-production with MGM, in association with Lost Marbles Productions, Inc., First Cause, Inc. and DiGa. Posted in Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC -- Past Years, TV \| Tagged Halloween, Marathon, MTV, Teen Wolf \| Leave a reply FX Acquires The New Sitcom, ANGER MANAGEMENT, Starring Charlie Sheen Former Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen will return to television in summer 2012 on FX in Anger Management, a new sitcom loosely based on Revolution Studios’ 2003 hit comedy feature of the same name, announced John Landgraf, President and General Manager, FX Networks. FX has ordered 10 episodes of Anger Management from Lionsgate-owned distributor Debmar-Mercury, led by Co-Presidents Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein. Production on the sitcom will begin in early 2012 with comedy veteran writer-producer Bruce Helford (George Lopez, The Drew Carey Show) as executive producer and showrunner. It will be produced by Lionsgate Television, led by Television Group President Kevin Beggs and COO Sandra Stern; Joe Roth and Revolution Studios’ Vince Totino; Sheen manager Mark Burg’s production company, Evolution Management; and Ramon Estevez and Estevez Sheen Productions. In success, FX will pick up an additional 90 episodes under a unique syndication model crafted by Debmar-Mercury for multiple Tyler Perry sitcoms and Revolution’s and Ice Cube’s Are We There Yet? The series will air exclusively on FX until the off-network episodes start airing in broadcast syndication in fall 2014. “We think that Bruce Helford, Joe Roth and Charlie Sheen have come up with a wonderful, hilarious vehicle for Charlie’s acting talents—and a character we are very much looking forward to seeing him play,” said John Landgraf, President and General Manager, FX Networks. “Two and a Half Men has been an outstanding component of FX’s schedule for the past 14 months, and we have every confidence that Anger Management will soon be as well.” Sheen will retain a significant ownership stake in the series inspired by the film, in which an anger management therapist, who may need more counseling than his patients, wreaks havoc on the lives of his patients through his unconventional methods. “I have been fortunate to work with Charlie Sheen on six hit films,” said Roth. “Now to have Charlie, the number one comedy star on TV, doing Anger Management, feels like a perfect fit. And I could not be happier than being back at Fox with John Landgraf and Chuck Saftler.” “We were very gratified by the high level of interest in Anger Management from across the industry,” commented Marcus and Bernstein. “Ultimately, we felt FX’s track record for airing daring and distinctive shows would provide the perfect home for a sitcom headlined by one of the most successful sitcom stars of all time and produced by Joe Roth.” Beggs said, “The FX brand epitomizes creative excellence and risk-taking combined with entrepreneurial business acumen. Partnering with them on Anger Management is a no-brainer and we are thrilled to bring Charlie Sheen, Bruce Helford and this amazing creative team to the FX family of original series.” “Charlie and I are thrilled to be in business with FX and look forward to producing this series for years to come,” said Burg. Charlie Sheen, who has starred in more than 40 feature films, catapulted to fame in such critical and commercial hits as Platoon and Wall Street. His other feature film credits include Major League, Red Dawn, Lucas, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Eight Men Out, Young Guns, Hot Shots!, Hot Shots! Part Deux, The Three Musketeers, The Chase, Money Talks, Being John Malkovich, Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4. He also appeared in the television movies Rated X and Good Advice. Sheen became known to television audiences through his Golden Globe Award-winning lead role in Spin City. In 2003, Sheen was cast as Charlie Harper in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, which was loosely based on Sheen’s bad boy image. The role garnered him an ALMA Award and four Emmy Award nominations, as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series. In 2011, Sheen set a new Guinness World Record for Twitter as the “Fastest Time to Reach 1 Million Followers,” adding an average of 129,000 new followers per day. About FX FX is the flagship general entertainment basic cable network from the Fox Networks Group. Launched in June of 1994, FX is carried in more than 98 million homes. The diverse schedule includes a growing roster of critically acclaimed and award-winning original series, an established film library with box-office hits from 20th Century Fox and other studios and an impressive roster of acquired hit series. For more information about FX, visit our web site at www.FXnetworks.com. About Debmar-Mercury Debmar-Mercury, a leading media company specializing in syndication, network, cable and ancillary markets, produces and distributes for daytime television The Wendy Williams Show and The Jeremy Kyle Show, and has U.S. distribution rights to Fremantle Media North America’s Family Feud; distributes Tyler Perry sitcoms House of Payne, spinoff Meet the Browns and For Better or Worse (premiering on TBS in November), and through Revolution Studios’ Joe Roth, Debmar-Mercury distributes the sitcoms Anger Management (premiering on FX in summer 2012 and starring Charlie Sheen) and CubeVision’s Are We There Yet?(starring Ice Cube); as well as the Revolution Studios and CubeVision sitcom ; and has U.S. TV distribution rights to South Park, Hell’s Kitchen and a movie library featuring titles from Revolution Studios. Debmar-Mercury is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the leading next-generation studio. About Revolution Studios Revolution Studios was founded in 2000 by Joe Roth, in partnership with Sony Pictures, Starz Encore Group and Fox Entertainment Group. Since its inception, Revolution Studios has created a library of 46 films, including “Black Hawk Down,” “Maid in Manhattan,” “Anger Management,” and the “Are We There Yet?” franchise, collectively earning more than $3.7 billion at the box office. Currently, Revolution Studios is engaged in actively managing its library and pursuing licensing opportunities, including sequels, spin-offs, and other productions based on its films. Prior to forming Revolution Studios, Joe Roth served as chairman of both the Walt Disney Studios and Twentieth Century Fox. In addition to being the majority owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, a major league soccer team, Roth produced “Alice in Wonderland” for Disney, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, which went on to gross over $1 billion. He is currently producing “OZ: The Great and Powerful” for Disney, directed by Sam Raimi and starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams; and “Snow White and the Huntsman” for Universal, directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth and Sam Claflin. About Lionsgate Television Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) is a leading global entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution and new channel platforms. The Company has built a strong television presence in production of prime time cable and broadcast network series, distribution and syndication of programming through Debmar-Mercury and an array of channel assets. Lionsgate currently has 15 shows on more than 10 networks spanning its prime time production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically-acclaimed hits as “Mad Men,” “Weeds,” and “Nurse Jackie” along with recent series such as the comedy “Blue Mountain State” and the critically-acclaimed drama “Boss” as well as the syndication successes “Tyler Perry’s House Of Payne,” its spinoff “Meet the Browns,” “The Wendy Williams Show,” “Are We There Yet?” and the upcoming “Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse.” Its feature film business has generated more than half a billion dollars at the North American box office in the past year, fueled by such hits as THE EXPENDABLES, LINCOLN LAWYER, TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY, THE LAST EXORCISM, KICK ASS and the critically-acclaimed PRECIOUS, which won two Academy Awards®. The Company’s home entertainment business has grown to more than 8% market share and is an industry leader in box office-to-DVD revenue conversion rate. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 13,000 motion picture and television titles that is an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the foundation for the growth of the Company’s core businesses. The Lionsgate brand remains synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world. Posted in TV \| Tagged Anger Management, Charlie Sheen, FX, Lionsgate Television \| Leave a reply A Few Posters and Photos from IN TIME In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage – a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system. Posted in Comic Con, Movies, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC -- Past Years \| Tagged Alex Pettyfer, Amanda Seyfried, Andrew Niccol, Cillian Murphy, In Time, Johnny Galecki, Justin Timberlake, Matt Bomer, Olivia Wilde \| Leave a reply Chuck Season 5 Cast Photos Posted in Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC -- Past Years, TV \| Tagged Cast Photos, Chuck, NBC \| Leave a reply ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME Opens as the Season’s #1 New Drama More than doubling its Adult 18-49 lead-in at 8pm (+160%) and gaining audience throughout its premiere against the World Series and Sunday Night Football, ABC’s series debut of Once Upon a Time opened with an average audience of 12.8 million viewers and a 3.9 rating, 10 share among Adults 18-49, standing as Sunday’s #1 non-sports program. ABC’s Once Upon a Time opened as the season’s #1 drama debut in Adults 18-49. In fact, ABC claims the season’s Top 2 drama debuts with Once Upon a Time and Revenge, respectively. Once Upon a Time drew ABC’s biggest audience in the time period with regular programming in over 3-1/2 years and its top Adult 18-49 number in nearly 3 years – since 3/30/08 and 11/2/08, respectively. In Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, Once Upon a Time stands as Sunday’s biggest non-NFL-driven drama debut in 5 years – since ABC’s Brothers & Sisters on 9/24/06. Posted in Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC -- Past Years \| Tagged ABC, Once Upon A Time \| Leave a reply Fuse Counts Down the Best Beats on TOP 100 HIP HOP HITS Fuse, the national music television network of The Madison Square Garden Company, is counting down the 100 most memorable, influential and beloved hip hop jams in a new show called Top 100 Hip Hop Hits. The ten-hour countdown will be broken up into one-hour episodes. Tune-in every weeknight at 9pm EST from Monday, October 24th until Friday, November 4th as DJ Khaled, Naturi Naughton and Royce da 5’9″ individually host each episode. The countdown will ultimately reveal the most notorious (no, that’s not a hint) hip hop jam of all time. Online at Fuse.tv, viewers can watch web exclusive video features with the show’s hosts, as well as artists featured in the Top 100 Hip Hop Hits. Fuse.tv will also host all 100 videos online, with new clips posted daily as they are revealed throughout the countdown. Tune In On Air & Online Every Weeknight at 9P/8C Starting Monday Oct. 24 Oct. 24 at 9P/8C Videos 100-91 Oct. 25 at 9P/8C Videos 90-81 Oct. 26 at 9P/8C Videos 60-51 Videos 50-41 Nov. 1 at 9P/8C Videos 10-1 ABOUT DJ Khaled Record producer, DJ, record label executive and radio host for the Miami-based urban music radio station WEDR. In July 2011, DJ Khaled released his fifth studio album, titled We the Best Forever. ABOUT Naturi Naughton This singer and actress launched her career as a member of the R&B trio 3LW. Amongst many of her projects, Naturi starred in the remake of the movie Fame, played Lil’ Kim in Notorious and starred as Brenda in the NBC drama series The Playboy Club. ABOUT Royce da 5’9″ Detroit rapper who is one half of the rap duo Bad Meets Evil with Eminem is also a member of hip hop group Slaughterhouse. In August 2011, Royce released his fifth independent album called Success if Certain. WHAT: Top 100 Hip Hop Hits PREMIERE: Monday, October 24th at 9pm ET CHANNEL #: DirecTV 339 cable subscribers, check local listing WEBSITE: http://www.fuse.tv The Madison Square Garden Company and its divisions are committed to working with The Garden of Dreams Foundation to “make dreams come true for kids facing obstacles”. Visit gardenofdreamsfoundation.org to learn more. via Fuse Press Release Posted in TV \| Tagged DJ Khaled, Fuse, Naturi Naughton, Royce da 5'9", Top 100 Hip Hop Hits \| Leave a reply Photos from ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME Posted in Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC -- Past Years, TV \| Tagged Once Upon A Time \| Leave a reply HAWAII FIVE-0 Ka Iwi Kapu S02 E07 Photos “Ka Iwi Kapu” – When the Five-0s investigate the murder of a young couple filming a spooky documentary about a traditional Hawaiian burial site, they are threatened by a drifter who puts a curse on Danny, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Monday, Oct. 31 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Robert Englund (“A Nightmare on Elm Street”) guest stars as the drifter. Photos : MARIO PEREZ/CBS ©2011 CBS BROADCASTING INC. All Rights Reserved. Posted in Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC -- Past Years, TV \| Tagged Alex O'Loughlin, CBS, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park, Hawaii Five-0, Ka Iwi Kapu, Lauren German, Mark Dacascos, Masi Oka, Robert Englund, Scott Caan \| Leave a reply CBS Celebrates the Anniversary of its Iconic Eye Logo CBS‘s Eye logo, one of the best-crafted, most identifiable and most successful corporate symbols in history, turns 60 tomorrow. One of America’s most enduring icons, the Eye was first introduced to the public during the Network’s station breaks on Saturday, Oct. 20, 1951, and CBS is commemorating the anniversary on-air and on CBS.com and CBSNews.com. “From the Network to the Corporation, the CBS Eye is an enduring asset of our company and a major source of pride for all of us,” said Leslie Moonves, President and CEO, CBS Corporation. “It is a corporate logo that is known and respected all around the world, and continues to be a fitting symbol of CBS’s proud history and ongoing leadership.” Tomorrow, CBS.com is replacing its homepage’s current – and prominently placed – CBS Eye with the original Eye logo. Users hovering over it will see a brief explanation of its significance, and clicking on it will direct them to a classic Charles Osgood story about the creation and history of the CBS Eye. CBSNews.com will also run the Osgood story, and users on both CBS.com and CBSNews.com can view photo essays of the Eye logos throughout the decades. Kicking off the primetime schedule tomorrow at 8:00 PM, ET/PT, the Network will broadcast an on-air spot showcasing the various CBS Eye logos throughout the years and highlighting the significance of today’s date. Additionally, a Network ID featuring the original CBS Eye and date the Eye was established will be shown at the top of each of the following two hours of primetime. In the Eye’s original animated incarnation, its center was a camera iris that opened and shut, and the first still version set the Eye against a background of clouds. Over the years there have been different colors and sizes of the Eye, but to this day, the perfectly-balanced design remains unchanged. By 1951, CBS Television had seized the broadcasting spotlight. That year, the Network debuted the immensely popular “I Love Lucy” and launched CBS’s first news documentary series, the critically-acclaimed “See It Now” hosted by the legendary Edward R. Murrow. That same year, CBS President Frank Stanton felt the time had come to give CBS Television a distinct and distinctive identity, so he asked creative director Bill Golden to design an on-air symbol. Golden’s inspiration came while driving through Pennsylvania Dutch country. He became intrigued by the hex symbols resembling the human eye that are drawn on Shaker barns to ward off evil spirits. He also came across a drawing he admired, that had the look of an eye, in a publication featuring Shaker art. With the help of graphic artist Kurt Weihs, the Eye logo was created. As the image became established, Stanton was determined to keep the CBS Eye in the public eye. He had the clouds removed and emblazoned the symbol on cameras, curtains, buildings, jewelry and rate cards. The next season, when Bill Golden prepared to design a new symbol, Stanton overruled him, saying: “Just when you’re beginning to be bored with what you’ve done is when it’s beginning to be noticed by your audience.” Decades later, the Eye continues to receive critical acclaim. On Dec. 13, 1998, it was featured in The New York Times Magazine’s roundup of the century’s “greatest design hits,” and a “Company Logo Smackdown” in the May 5, 2008 issue of Fortune magazine stated “CBS’s logo is as relevant today �as the day [in 1951] it was introduced.'” Most recently, the March 14, 2011 issue of TIME ran a story about the evolving logos of many corporations through the decades, stating “…in the case of CBS, sometimes companies get it right the first time.” via CBS Press Release Posted in TV \| Tagged CBS, CBS Eye, CBS Eye-con, Corporate Logo \| Leave a reply THE SIMPSONS Treehouse Of Horror XXII Promo Posters THE SIMPSONS: In the 22nd annual installment of “Treehouse of Horror,” Homer channels Aron Ralston (guest voicing as himself) after a boulder traps his arm; a venomous spider bite leaves Homer paralyzed; then Ned Flanders, devout preacher by day, transforms into a cold-blooded vigilante by night; and Bart and Milhouse get caught in inter-planetary warfare in the all-new “Treehouse of Horror XXII” episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, Oct. 30 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. THE SIMPSONS © 2011 TCFFC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2011 FOX BROADCASTING CR: FOX Posted in Comic Con, San Diego Comic-Con, SDCC -- Past Years, TV \| Tagged Aron Ralston, The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror \| 1 Reply	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9215
__label__cc	0.666203	0.333797	Post Tagged with: "Will Hoge" Will Hoge Will Hoge Champions “Stupid Kids” On New Single by Jessica × on September 9, 2018 at 8:00 pm × Nashville singer/songwriter Will Hoge recognizes the movement of young people everywhere fighting for change on his newest track, “Stupid Kids” out today. The song is featured on Hoge’s politically-charged upcoming release MY AMERICAN DREAM, out October 5. “Stupid Kids” is directly inspired by the Parkland students and their efforts for […] Will Hoge Explores Stark Political Realities with “My American Dream” by Jessica × on July 1, 2018 at 10:00 am × Nashville singer/songwriter Will Hoge returns with a new album, My American Dream. The release features eight songs of rabble-rousing political commentary that turns a critical eye on the crisis of conscience and culture threatening to tear apart his country. The album is Hoge’s impassioned portrait of what he holds dear […] New Music / Will Hoge Will Hoge Premieres New Track “17” From Upcoming Album ‘Anchors’ by Jessica × on August 4, 2017 at 8:29 am × Grammy-nominated Nashville singer-songwriter Will Hoge has premiered “17” with The Boot. Inspired by hearing his two sons making music in the family garage, the “breezy, nostalgic” track comes from Hoge’s self-produced 11th studio album Anchors, out August 11 via Thirty Tigers. “I was sitting around one day during a period of deep doubt,” Hoge tells The […] Will Hoge Premieres “Young As We Will Ever Be” by Jessica × on July 16, 2017 at 8:30 am × Nashville singer-songwriter Will Hoge has premiered “As Young As We Will Ever Be” with American Songwriter. It’s the life-affirming closing track from Hoge’s 11th studio album Anchors, out August 11 via Thirty Tigers. American Songwriter calls it “a rollicking, Springsteen-esque rocker with a killer guitar solo, with lyrics inspired by persistence in the face […] Will Hoge, Drew Holcomb and More Join Sister Hazel for The Rock Boat XVIII by Jessica × on May 27, 2017 at 2:30 pm × Eighteen…the age of excitement and an adventurous outlook for the future. The Rock Boat, Sixthman’s flagship music festival at sea, will celebrate its 18th birthday January 30 – February 4, 2018 aboard Norwegian Pearl for 5 rockin’ nights. Barenaked Ladies will make a triumphant return to The Rock Boat XVIII […] Artist Interviews / Award Shows / CMT Awards / CMTT Exclusives / Dustin Lynch / Easton Corbin / Frankie Ballard / Josh Thompson / Maggie Rose / Meghan Linsey / Parmalee / Will Hoge Easton Corbin, Josh Thompson, Frankie Ballard and More Tell You Their Favorite Summertime Memories and Songs by Jessica × on July 4, 2014 at 4:31 pm × HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!! To celebrate and make our way deep into summertime we caught up with Easton Corbin, Josh Thompson, Natalie Stovall, JT Hodges, Meghan Linsey, Will Hoge, Dustin Lynch, Parmalee, Frankie Ballard and Maggie Rose on the 2014 CMT Music Awards Red Carpet and asked them their favorite […]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9216
__label__wiki	0.787296	0.787296	> Owner's Manuals>Mercedes Benz C 250 Turbodiesel Manual \| Instrucciones de Servicio Clase C \| W202 Manuals Classifieds by Model Mercedes Benz 600 W100 Series (1963-1981) Mercedes Benz S-Class W105 Series (1956-1959) Mercedes Benz SL-Class R107 Series (1971-1989) Mercedes Benz SLC-Class C107 Series (1972-1981) Mercedes Benz E-Class W110 Series (1961-1968) Mercedes Benz M-Class W163 Series (1997-2005) Mercedes Benz A-Class W168 Series (1997-2005) Mercedes Benz SLK-Class R170 Series (1996-2004) Mercedes Benz SL-Class W198 Series (1954-1957) Mercedes Benz C-Class W201 Series (1982-1993) Mercedes Benz CLK-Class W208 Series (1996-2002) Mercedes Benz E Class W210 Series (1995-2003) Mercedes Benz CL-Class C215 Series (2000-2006) Mercedes Benz R-Class W251 Series (2006-2015) Mercedes Benz UNIMOG U411 Series (1956-1974) Mercedes Benz G-Class W460 Series (1979-1991) Mercedes Benz MB W631 Series (1981-1995) Mercedes Benz Vito W638 Series (1996-2003) Mercedes Benz Vito Series W 639 (2003-2014) Mercedes Benz Sprinter W901-905 Series (1995-2006) Engine Manuals Chassis & Body Manuals Maintenance Manuals G-Class & UNIMOG Manuals Contains instructions for repair and maintenance of the M110 engine... Contains instructions for repair and maintenance of the OM615 engine... This manual is also useful for tasks in all models of the W107 Series.... Mercedes Benz C 250 Turbodiesel Manual \| Instrucciones de Servicio Clase C \| W202 Owner's manual of Mercedes Benz cars of the C-Class, W202 Series that including models C 250 Turbodiesel. Mercedes Benz C 250 Turbodiesel Manual \| Instrucciones de Servicio Clase C \| W202. Today, in many cases, is difficult to find or purchase the paper version of the owner’s manual for Mercedes Benz C 250 Turbodiesel \| C-Class \| W202 Series was originally issued to each vehicle user of the trademark. For this reason we offer a digital version of the same content and the possibility of immediate download. For the owner of Mercedes Benz C 250 Turbodiesel \| C-Class \| W202 Series will not find a better manual. It has 302 pages in Spanish including descriptive images and driving directions, vehicle management, care team and technical data. Available in PDF format also allows reading from the screen of a personal computer, tablet or smartphone as printing the pages. Brief description of contents: Digital format PDF (compressed with WinRAR) Shipping method: Download link Instructions: Unzip and open with PDF reader	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9217
__label__wiki	0.700484	0.700484	New Campaign celebrates the people, experiences of Texas What do you like about Texas? That’s the question the Texas Travel Industry Association wants the public to answer in the spirit of country artist Gary P. Nunn’s song “What I Like About Texas.” TTIA’s “What I Like About Texas” campaign highlights “the pride that Texans have for what they do, where they live, and who they are,” said Chief Operating Officer Daniel Decker. “That includes a number of people from different experiences and cultures and lifestyles throughout the state of Texas. So the campaign really seeks to focus on sharing those experiences, those memories, and those stories.” The campaign kicked off last Friday with an afternoon event at the Texas State Capitol, featuring a performance by Nunn that included the song the campaign is named after. “We felt that song embodied a lot of what we wanted to share, which was people sharing their stories and their experiences,” Decker said. Throughout the summer, TTIA will share videos and testimonials from well-known Texans on its website and social media channels and is inviting the public to share their own Texas experiences online using #WhatILikeAboutTexas to highlight local activities, destinations, and cultures for visitors. To read the full please please click here. Candlelight Ranch is best use of brothers’ Hill Country land Ex-Longhorn sponsored dog who helped catch trooper’s suspected killer	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9219
__label__wiki	0.536222	0.536222	The first group of official visitors is being admitted by invitation-only to the Bolidt Innovation Center, a new hub for collaborative product development and testing that takes flooring and decking design using synthetic materials to a new level. The Bolidt Innovation Center represents the latest example of the innovation for which the family-owned business has prided itself since its foundation in 1964, according to Rientz Willem Bol, Chief Executive Officer of Bolidt. “We have always invested in innovation. If you don’t think about the future, you will not have one,” he comments. Bol says that innovation is “part of Bolidt’s DNA” as a company, determining its approach to sustainability, hygiene, safety, energy & data, and design. It anticipated demand for more sustainable products from the cruise sector by becoming the first supplier to replace teak with the synthetic Bolideck® Future Teak, for example, he pointed out. The Bolidt Innovation Center gives physical form to the creative and collaborative approach keeping the company ahead of its competitors. “In the Bolidt Innovation Center, we will focus specifically on open source innovation and collaboration,” says Bol. “Only by dreaming, thinking and working together, and letting people experience everything that is possible with synthetics, will we achieve innovation that has the potential to conquer the world. That is what we want to achieve here, together with all of our partners.” The striking 15m-high building’s structure features a partly transparent shell, which is echoed by extensive use of interior glass to create a sense of openness and collaboration that is core to the center’s work. Indeed the building’s design themes, developed by a consortium including Luchinger Architects, Kossman.dejong and RoosRos Architects, are evident throughout: on entry, visitors pass through a glass gallery which offers a view of a large exhibition floor where materials are being tested. Using a transparent lift, they then ascend to a spectacular rooftop terrace where outdoor applications from Bolidt are on display. “The building will provide a focal point for us to showcase the products we can offer to a wide range of industries, but also to interact with partners to drive forward our research and development work for years to come,” says Michel van der Spek, Bolidt's marketing and experience director. “We expect the memory of a visit to the Bolidt Center will last a long time as visitors will not only be able to see, feel and experience how materials are created, but can also try their hand at developing materials of their own in the R&D Center.” As part of their tour, visitors interact with exhibits and are even invited to the virtual reality experience of looking over the shoulders of Bolidt employees as they work. They can investigate the augmented reality applications that are already part of Bolidt’s spirit of innovation. Considerable thought has also been put into creating ‘triggers’ that will start interesting conversations. “The building is bursting with moments and places where the visitor is part of the innovation formula,” says Van der Spek. “In the R&D Center you can put together your own samples or conduct experiments under the supervision of specialists. This gives visitors a live experience of all the possible uses for Bolidt’s know-how and materials.” Furthermore, the center features an advanced climate chamber and accelerated weathering laboratory to test materials in harsh and extreme environments, explains Jacco van Overbeek, Bolidt's maritime division director. “We are working on a number of polar and expedition cruise vessel projects at the moment and these facilities will be put to good use developing materials that meet the needs of shipowners and passengers onboard,” he says. Highlights also include a wall with over 600 samples from the Bolidt range, while the ‘Zoom in’ exhibit shows how materials are made to be antibacterial or fire resistant at a microscopic level. Demanding mechanical tests can also be witnessed, including the so-called ‘Cliffhanger’. The Bolidt Innovation Center is reachable by boat from a pier close to Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge. As well as facilities for open-source product innovation, the building houses a library, restaurants, sports facilities, and a board room, all overlooking the water. A sister building on the same site includes a logistics and product warehouse area and a pre-fabrication production facility. “We are calling this entire area the Bolidt Campus, as part of what was the previously empty riverside space called AREA78. The Bolidt Innovation Center is at the heart of the campus, which is exactly as it should be because innovation is the heart and soul of Bolidt.” Well-known for its industry-leading flooring and decking innovation, Bolidt’s recent pioneering projects have included the world’s first Ferrari race-track at sea onboard NCL’s Norwegian Joy, glow-in-the-dark decking that harvests and stores solar energy and flooring with embedded LED lighting. Symphony of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, features 20,000 square meters of Bolidt materials, while other noteworthy references include the spectacular Celebrity Edge. Interested in meeting with Bolidt's team of innovators in person? Don't miss Cruise Ship Interiors Expo Europe, taking place December 4-5, where Bolidt will exhibit at booth 425. Register for your free pass now.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9220
__label__cc	0.549263	0.450737	Cruises from/to Greenock (Glasgow), Scotland Greenock (Glasgow), Scotland Cruise Port Glasgow, which is located about 25 miles from Greenock, features a more blue-collar past than Edinburgh, its neighbor to the East. However, Glasgow has recently come into a culture boom of its own and the arts have never been more alive. The city was recently named a ‘City of Music’ by the United Nations. With more than 130 performances per week, you are sure to find a delightful concert to attend on your next visit. There are also a number of museums, parks and some of the best shopping in the British Isles. Cruise to Glasgow and experience the best of Scottish culture and this land’s natural beauty for yourself. Featured below are a few of our favorite experiences for the cruise port of Glasgow, Scotland: Tour the Glasgow School of Art, which was built by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh during the turn of the century and is still in service today. Check out Scottish art alongside exhibits of stuffed animals in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. Learn about Scottish Football, a game much-beloved by Glaswegians, at the Scottish Football Museum. Explore the history of Glasgow through interactive exhibits at the People’s Place, including a re-creation of a WWII air raid.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9221
__label__wiki	0.72012	0.72012	Francis and Benedict celebrate old age with 40,000 elderly ROME_BUREAU_CHIEF ROME — In a rare joint public appearance, both Pope Francis and his predecessor, the emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, met a group of 40,000 elderly people and grandparents today in St. Peter’s Square, in what amounted to a celebration of old age. “Violence against the elderly is inhuman,” said Francis, ROME — In a rare joint public appearance, both Pope Francis and his predecessor, the emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, met a group of 40,000 elderly people and grandparents today in St. Peter’s Square, in what amounted to a celebration of old age. “Violence against the elderly is inhuman,” said Francis, who was particularly moved by the testimony of Mubarak and Aneesa Hano, a couple of Iraqi refugees that represented the elderly suffering in war zones. “In countries with religious persecution, the grandparents were the brave ones who made sure their grandchildren received the baptism, it’s because of their braveness that faith survived in countries like Albania,” he said. Benedict XVI, who look tired but in good health, participated at the request of the Francis and received a standing ovation by a square that kept cheering loudly whenever his name was mentioned. “Thank you emeritus Pope Benedict for being here,” Francis said. “I’ve always said that having him, here at the Vatican, is like having grandpa home.” Francis also reiterated his criticism of a “throwaway culture,” stating that babies, youth, and the elderly are often forgotten or disregarded “with the pretext of keeping a balanced economic system.” “A country that doesn’t custody the elderly and that isn’t kind with them has no future,” said Francis. “We lose our memory and we stay away of the roots. But you have the responsibility of keeping these roots alive.” Called “The Blessing of a Long Life,” the event was an initiative of the Pontifical Council for the Family. The president of the Vatican office, Italian Archbishop Vicenzo Paglia, called the German pope “the first amongst us [the elderly].” After the first part of the encounter, where various testimonies were shared, representing diverse situations senior Catholics go through, Pope Francis led a Mass together with 100 elderly priests who concelebrated with him. In his homily, Francis referred to the sometimes often “adolescent rebellion” caused by complex historical and cultural reasons and a need to be independent from the legacy of the older generation. “Unless the encounter, the meeting of generations, is reestablished, unless a new and fruitful intergenerational equilibrium is restored, what results is a serious impoverishment for everyone, and the freedom which prevails in society is actually a false freedom, which almost always becomes a form of authoritarianism.” In a September 1 interview with Crux, Paglia said the encounter is an answer to the “constant request for a world day for the elderly,” similar to the encounter addressed to youth that takes place every two or three years in different countries, called World Youth Day. When questioned about the possibility of the second edition taking place during next year’s World Meeting of Family, to be held in September in Philadelphia, Paglia said, “Let’s wait until this one is over. But wouldn’t it be nice?” Bill and Lauren, whose last names weren’t given, said they came to Rome from New York. They were planning a retirement trip around Europe, but when they found out the elderly were being honored, they changed their itinerary to make it coincide with the celebration. “We couldn’t not come,” Lauren said. “We often complain about being forgotten, for the fact that we have to bribe our grandchildren to give us a call. And here’s to pope, spending his morning with us.” Her husband was particularly moved after seeing Benedict XVI. “It was a blessing,” he said. “He’s a great example to us all: he gave it all, and when he couldn’t do it anymore, he was humble enough to take a step back. Many of us learn that lesson the hard way.” Pope Francis is praying for grandparents this December On his birthday, Pope Francis hosts pizza party for sick children On cusp of 81st birthday, Pope calls elderly a ‘patrimony of wisdom’	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9222
__label__wiki	0.610288	0.610288	Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA In 2017, Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA had a population of 135k people with a median age of 34.1 and a median household income of $44,929. Between 2016 and 2017 the population of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA grew from 133,816 to 134,539, a 0.54% increase and its median household income grew from $42,946 to $44,929, a 4.62% increase. The population of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is 69.9% White Alone, 22.4% Black or African American Alone, and 3.04% Hispanic or Latino. 5.43% of the people in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA speak a non-English language, and 97% are U.S. citizens. The largest universities in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA are Liberty University (19,423 degrees awarded in 2016), Central Virginia Community College (1,355 degrees), and Lynchburg College (695 degrees). The median property value in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is $154,200, and the homeownership rate is 61%. Most people in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA commute by N/A, and the average commute time is 20 minutes. The average car ownership in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is N/A per household. Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA borders West Piedmont Planning District Commission PUMA, VA, Southside Planning District Commission & Commonwealth Regional Council PUMA, VA, and Bedford, Amherst, Appomattox Counties & Bedford City PUMA, VA. About the photo: Aerial of Richmond - Facing West Photo by formulanone United StatesVirginia The economy of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA employs 58.8k people. The largest industries in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA are Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges (6,104 people), Restaurants & Food Services (3,795 people), and Elementary & secondary schools (3,285 people), and the highest paying industries are Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers ($93,452), Offices of physicians ($92,411), and Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services ($88,039). Median household income in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is $44,929. Males in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA have an average income that is 1.28 times higher than the average income of females, which is $39,121. The income inequality in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA (measured using the Gini index) is 0.454, which is lower than than the national average. Households in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA have a median annual income of $44,929, which is less than the median annual income of $60,336 across the entire United States. This is in comparison to a median income of $42,946 in 2016, which represents a 4.62% annual growth. Look at the chart to see how the median household income in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. In 2017, full-time male employees in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA made 1.28 times more than female employees. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA by number of full-time employees. In 2017 the highest paid race/ethnicity of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA workers was White. These workers were paid 1.06 times more than Other workers, who made the second highest salary of any race/ethnicity. This chart shows the race- and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA by number of full-time employees. In 2017, the income inequality in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was 0.454 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.801% decline from 2016 to 2017, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even. The 2017 the GINI for Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was lower than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA in comparison to the national average. This chart shows the number of workers in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA across various wage buckets compared to the national average. TotalWhiteBlackAsianTwo Or MoreWhite Non-HispanicHispanic Ashburn (Southwest/Belmont Ridge) & Dulles Airport PUMA, VA McLean & Idylwood PUMA, VA Arlington County (North) PUMA, VA In 2017, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was Ashburn (Southwest/Belmont Ridge) & Dulles Airport PUMA, VA with a value of $154,628, followed by McLean & Idylwood PUMA, VA and Arlington County (North) PUMA, VA, with respective values of $153,934 and $136,088. The following map shows all of the PUMAs in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA colored by their Median Household Income (Total). N/A% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA (N/A out of N/A people) live below the poverty line, a number that is approximately the same as the national average of 13.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are N/A N/A, followed by N/A N/A and then N/A N/A. The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is false, followed by false and false. From 2016 to 2017, employment in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA grew at a rate of 1.59%, from 57.8k employees to 58.8k employees. The most common job groups, by number of people living in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA, are Cashiers (1,611 people), Postsecondary teachers (1,599 people), and Elementary & middle school teachers (1,480 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA. The most common jobs held by residents of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA, by number of employees, are Cashiers (1,611 people), Postsecondary teachers (1,599 people), and Elementary & middle school teachers (1,480 people). Compared to other pumas, Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA has an unusually high number of residents working as Information & record clerks, all other (6.28 times higher than expected), Mail clerks & mail machine operators, except postal service (4.96 times), and Editors (4.05 times). The highest paid jobs held by residents of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA, by average salary, are Physicians & surgeons ($288,257), Marketing & sales managers ($172,021), and Management analysts ($99,248). The most common employment sectors for those who live in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA, are Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges (6,104 people), Restaurants & Food Services (3,795 people), and Elementary & secondary schools (3,285 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA, though some of these residents may live in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address. The most common industries in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA, by number of employees, are Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges (6,104 people), Restaurants & Food Services (3,795 people), and Elementary & secondary schools (3,285 people). Compared to other pumas, Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA has an unusually high number of Mail-order houses (4.64 times higher than expected), Structural metals, & boiler, tank, & shipping container manufacturing (4.11 times), and Soap, cleaning compound, & cosmetics manufacturing (3.69 times) industries. The highest paying industries in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA, by average salary, are Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers ($93,452), Offices of physicians ($92,411), and Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services ($88,039). N/A% of the population of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA has health coverage, with N/A% on employee plans, N/A% on Medicaid, N/A% on Medicare, N/A% on non-group plans, and N/A% on military or VA plans. Per capita personal health care spending in the puma of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was $7,556 in 2014. This is a 3.42% increase from the previous year ($7,306). Primary care physicians in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA see 1316 patients per year on average, which represents a 0.0759% decrease from the previous year (1317 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1494 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 684 patients per year. Between N/A and N/A, the percent of uninsured citizens in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA N/A by N/A from N/A% to N/A%. The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance. Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is home to a population of 135k people, from which 97% are citizens. As of 2017, N/A% of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA residents were born outside of the country. The ethnic composition of the population of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is composed of 94.1k White Alone residents (69.9%), 30.2k Black or African American Alone residents (22.4%), 4.08k Hispanic or Latino residents (3.04%), 3.04k Two or More Races residents (2.26%), 2.66k Asian Alone residents (1.98%), 271 American Indian & Alaska Native Alone residents (0.201%), 192 Some Other Race Alone residents (0.143%), and 48 Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander Alone residents (0.0357%). The most common foreign languages spoken in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA are Spanish or Spanish Creole (2,453 speakers), African Languages (578 speakers), and Other Asian Languages (555 speakers). In 2017, the median age of all people in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was 34.1. Native-born citizens, with a median age of N/A, were generally N/A than foreign-born citizens, with a median age of N/A. But people in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA are getting getting younger. In 2016, the average age of all Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA residents was 35. As of 2017, N/A% of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA residents were born outside of the United States, which is approximately the same as the national average of 13.7%. In 2016, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was 4.53%, meaning that the rate has been maintaining. The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. In 2017, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was Korea, the natal country of 625 Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA residents, followed by India with 473 and Mexico with 465. As of 2017, 97% of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA residents were US citizens, which is higher than the national average of 93.1%. In 2016, the percentage of US citizens in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was 96.9%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been increasing. The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. In 2017, there were 3.12 times more White Alone residents (94.1k people) in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 30.2k Black or African American Alone and 4.08k Hispanic or Latino residents, the second and third most common racial or ethnic groups. The following bar chart shows the 8 races and ethnicities represented in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA as a share of the total population. 578 speakers (0.46%) Other Asian Languages 5.43% of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is lower than the national average of 21.5%. In 2015, the most common non-English language spoken in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was Spanish or Spanish Creole. 1.95% of the overall population of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA are native Spanish or Spanish Creole speakers. 0.46% speak African Languages and 0.442% speak Spanish or Spanish Creole, the next two most common languages. Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA has a large population of military personnel who served in false, N/A times greater than any other conflict. In 2016, universities in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA awarded 21,992 degrees. The student population of Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is skewed towards women, with 34,394 male students and 49,837 female students. Most students graduating from Universities in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA are White (11,903 and 55.4%), followed by Unknown (4,191 and 19.5%), Black or African American (3,663 and 17%), and Hispanic or Latino (922 and 4.29%). The largest universities in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA by number of degrees awarded are Liberty University (19,423 and 88.3%), Central Virginia Community College (1,355 and 6.16%), and Lynchburg College (695 and 3.16%). The most popular majors in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA are General Business Administration & Management (2,793 and 12.7%), General Human Services (1,894 and 8.61%), and General Psychology (1,742 and 7.92%). The median tuition costs in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA are $15,105 for private four year colleges, and $N/A and $N/A respectively, for public four year colleges for in-state students and out-of-state students. Other Multidisciplinary Studies In 2015, the most common concentation for Bachelors Degree recipients in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was Other Multidisciplinary Studies with 1,087 degrees awarded. This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a Bachelors Degree from schools in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA according to their major. Central Virginia Community College In 2016, the Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA institution with the largest number of graduating students was Liberty University with 19,423 degrees awarded. In 2016, 8,785 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA, which is 0.665 times less than the 13,207 female students who received degrees in the same year. This chart displays the gender disparity between the top 5 institutions in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA by degrees awarded. In 2016 the majority of degrees awarded at institutions in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA were to White students. These 11,903 degrees mean that there were 2.84 times more White students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, Unknown, with 4,191 degrees awarded. The median property value in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was $154,200 in 2017, which is 0.709 times smaller than the national average of $217,600. Between 2016 and 2017 the median property value increased from $151,200 to $154,200, a 1.98% increase. The homeownership rate in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is 61%, which is lower than the national average of 63.9%. People in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA have an average commute time of 20 minutes, and they commute by N/A. Car ownership in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of N/A per household. In 2017, the median household income of the N/A households in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA grew to $44,929 from the previous year's value of $42,946. The following chart displays the households in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the N/A range. In 2017, the median property value in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA grew to to $154,200 from the previous year's value of $151,200. The following charts display, first, the property values in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies and, second, owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property value buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA the largest share of households have a property value in the N/A range. This chart shows the households in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA the largest share of households pay taxes in the < $800 range. In 2017, 61% of the housing units in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA were occupied by their owner. This percentage declined from the previous year's rate of 61.7%. This percentage of owner-occupation is lower than the national average of 63.9%. This chart shows the ownership percentage in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA compared it's parent and neighboring geographies. The following chart displays the households in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA have N/A, followed by N/A. Using averages, employees in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA have a shorter commute time (20 minutes) than the normal US worker (25.1 minutes). Additionally, 2.09% of the workforce in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes. The chart below shows how the median household income in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies. In N/A, the most common method of travel for workers in Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA was N/A, followed by those who N/A and those who N/A. West Piedmont Planning District Commission PUMA, VA Southside Planning District Commission & Commonwealth Regional Council PUMA, VA Bedford, Amherst, Appomattox Counties & Bedford City PUMA, VA	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9227
__label__wiki	0.78566	0.78566	Home NEWS Local & State Bullet train brings contracts, jobs to Houston Bullet train brings contracts, jobs to Houston Von Jiles The $15 billion bullet train, the first high-speed rail project of its kind in the nation, will bring contracts and jobs for African-Americans in Houston as Mayor Sylvester Turner signed a memorandum of understanding agreement with the Texas Central Railway. The 90-minute train experience connecting Houston to Dallas is an alternative to the 4.5-hour drive between the two cities, and will cover over 240 miles of elevated tracks using world-class, proven technology. The impact of the bullet train will be significant according to Turner. “Number one, it is huge,” Turner said. “It will be governed by MWBE requirements of the City of Houston. It has to be diverse in terms of the economic multiplier. In order for this train to roll, African-Americans businesses and employees must be integrated in a very real way from top to bottom in this project.” Stephanie Nellons-Paige, vice president of External Affairs for Texas Central Railway, explained that she is responsible for the MWBE and the workforce programs. “[We are] in the development stages,” she said. “We want to look at what the MWBE program is like in Houston, what it’s like in Dallas and regionally.” Paige said the programs should launch during the first quarter of next year and those looking for contract or employment opportunities should monitor the website – www.texascentral.com. In addition to the MWBE focus on minority, women and small business enterprises in line with the city’s goals for professional services, development, construction, supplier and other related services, employment opportunities will play a central role. There will be 10,000 jobs created during the construction phase and up to 1,000 permanent jobs once the train is operational. Turner said the jobs aspect is equally important. “We need to start providing the workforce training for employees right now so they will be ready to go when it starts,” Turner said. “I can assure people in terms of the benefits and opportunities that will be created that African-Americans, Hispanics and women will be a major part of this operation over an extended period of time. “This is not one of those one year and done, two years and done [projects],” Turner said. “It could be a decade of opportunity or more. It’s a $15 billion project. Understanding the importance of employment and contract opportunities, Eric Goodie, Houston Area Urban League director of Asset and Acquisition, has already started working with the project. “We have met with Texas Central with regard to constituent engagement along the corridor that the train will travel from Houston to Dallas,” Goodie said. “Our objective is to provide community outreach, engagement information sessions, coordinate skills training for job placement, work with the prime contractors in hiring those individuals and provide case management to support services to address job retention.” Dr. Laura Murillo, president and CEO of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, added: “We have reached out to [Texas Central] to find out what kind of opportunities are going to be available to make sure they can find people in our community…With all that is going on in this country, Houston is moving forward and we are a diverse community.” African-American contractor Brian Smith, president of Brian Smith Construction, reflected on what the bullet train brings to Houston. “This $15 billion project will lift a lot of boats for minorities,” Smith said. “I’m happy to hear they are modeling their MWBE program after the City of Houston. It really means a lot to small businesses and it stimulates the economy.” Previous articleMary J. Blige owes the IRS $6.5M in back taxes Next articleFort Bend ISD welcomes back students, parents celebrating three new campuses City looking for small businesses to help build up Houston Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner talks about minority contracts Jesse Williams, wife ordered to communicate about children through app	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9228
__label__wiki	0.838461	0.838461	The Six Most Powerful Armies of All Time The 6 Most Powerful Armies to Ever March on the Planet By Zachary Keck and Akhilesh Pillalamarri,The National Interest In an anarchical system like international relations, military power is the ultimate form of currency. A state may have all the culture, art, philosophy, and glitter and glory in the world, but it’s all for naught if the country doesn’t have a powerful military to defend itself. Mao Zedong put it [5] bluntly when he stated: “power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Of all the types of military power, armies are arguably the most important for the simple fact that people live on land, and are likely to continue doing so in the future. As the famous political scientist John J. Mearsheimer has noted [6]: “Armies, along with their supporting air and naval forces, are the paramount form of military power in the modern world.” In fact, according to Mearsheimer, the Pacific War against Japan was the “only great-power war in modern history in which land power alone was not principally responsible for determining the outcome, and in which one of the coercive instruments— airpower or sea power—played more than an auxiliary power.” Nevertheless, Mearsheimer maintains, “land power [still] played a critical role in defeating Japan.” Recommended:The Fatal Flaw That Could Take Down an F-22 or F-35[7]. Recommended:Smith & Wesson's .44 Magnum Revolver: Why You Should Fear the 'Dirty Harry' Gun[8] Recommended:5 Best Shotguns in the World (Winchester, Remington and Beretta Make the Cut)[9] Thus, armies are the most important factor in assessing the relative power of a nation. But how do we judge which armies were the most powerful in their time? By their ability to win battles decisively and consistently and the extent to which they allowed their countries to dominate other states—a function of land power, as only armies could achieve this type of control and conquest. Here are some of the most powerful armies in history. The Roman Army famously conquered the Western world over a period of a few hundred years. The Roman Army’s advantage was tenacity, its ability to come back and fight again and again even in the face of utter defeat. The Romans displayed this during the Punic Wars when despite a lack of knowledge and resources, they were able to defeat the Carthaginians first by waiting them out and then by using the tactics of surprise (by landing an army at Carthage itself). The Roman Army gave its soldiers many initiatives to fight for the army with vigor and determination. For poor soldiers, victory in war meant grants of land. For landholders, it meant protecting what they held dear and also gaining additional riches. For the Roman state as a whole, victory meant securing Rome’s security. All of these initiatives spurred Roman soldiers to fight harder, and morale is a very important ingredient in the performance of armies. Just as important in this was its use of multi-line formations which, among its many advantages, helped the Roman Army replenish front-line troops during battle, where fresh Roman soldiers would square off against exhausted enemies. The Roman Army, often led by brilliant generals, also used mobility to generate offensive advantages, especially against their often defensive-minded enemies. As a result, in a span of about three hundred years, Rome expanded from a regional Italian power to the master of the entire Mediterranean Sea and the lands surrounding it. The Roman Legions [4]—divisions of the Roman Army which contained professional soldiers who served for 25 years—were well trained and well-armed with iron and were placed all over the empire in strategic locations, both holding the empire together and its enemies at bay. The Roman Army, despite some setbacks, really had no competitors of equal strength anywhere in its neighborhood. The Mongol Army The Mongols, who numbered at most one million men [10] when they started their conquests in 1206, managed to conquer and subjugate most of Eurasia in a hundred years, defeating armies and nations that had tens or even hundreds of times the manpower of the Mongols. The Mongols were basically an unstoppable force that emerged seemingly out of nowhere to dominate the Middle East, China, and Russia. Mongol success boiled down to the many strategies and tactics employed by Genghis Khan, who founded the Mongol Empire. Most important was the mobility of the Mongols and their endurance. To begin with, the nomadic Mongol way of life enabled them to move large armies across amazing distances in short times, as the Mongols could live off of their herds or the blood of their horses. Indeed, the Mongols’ mobility was enhanced by their heavy reliance on horses. Mongol Cavalrymen each maintained [11] three or four horses to keep them all fresh. Cavalrymen, who had bows they could shoot while riding, gave Mongols distinct advantages over the infantry during the fight. The mobility generated by the horses, as while as their strict discipline, also allowed the Mongols to utilize innovative tactics including hit and run attacks and a primitive form of blitzkrieg. The Mongols also relied heavily on terror, deliberately inflicting major damages and casualties on their defeated enemies to break the morale of future ones. Ottoman Army The Ottoman Army conquered most of the Middle East, the Balkans, and North Africa in its heyday. It almost always overwhelmed its Christian and Muslim neighbors. It conquered one of the most impenetrable cities in the world—Constantinople—in 1453. For five hundred years, it was essentially the only player in a region that was previously comprised of dozens of states and until the 19th century, managed to hold its own against all its neighbors. How did the Ottoman Army do this? The Ottoman Army began to make good use of cannons and muskets before its enemies, many of whom still fought with medieval weapons. This gave it a decisive advantage when it was a young empire. Cannon took Constantinople and defeated the Persians and Mamluks of Egypt. One of the major advantages of the Ottomans was the use of special, elite infantry units called Janissaries. Janissaries were trained from youth to be soldiers and were thus highly loyal and effective on the battlefield. Nazi German Army After the prolonged stalemates of World War I, Nazi Germany’s Army—the Wehrmacht [12]— shocked Europe and the world by overrunning most of Central and Western Europe in a matter of months. At one point, the Nazi German forces even seemed poised to conquer the massive Soviet Union. The German Army was able to accomplish these enormous feats through its use of the innovative Blitzkrieg [13] concept, which, utilizing new technologies in weaponry and communication, combined speed, surprise and concentration of forces for appalling efficiency. Specifically, armored and mechanized infantry units aided by close-range air support were able to punch through enemy lines and encircle opposing forces. In the opening stanzas of World War II, the aforementioned opposing forces were often so shocked and overwhelmed that they put up only minimal resistance. Executing the Blitzkrieg attacks required highly-trained, capable forces, which Berlin had in spades. As the historian [14] Andrew Roberts has observed, “soldier for soldier the German fighting man and his generals outperformed Britons, Americans and Russians both offensively and defensively by a significant factor virtually throughout the Second World War.” Although Nazi ideology and a melomaniac leader hindered the Wehrmacht’s war efforts, it was ultimately insufficient resources and manpower that brought Nazi Germany down. The Soviet Army The Soviet Army (known as the Red Army before 1946), more so than any other army, was responsible for turning the tide of World War II. Indeed, the battle of Stalingrad [15], which ended with the surrender of the entire German 6th army, is nearly universally cited as the major turning point of the European theatre in World War II. The Soviet Union’s victory in the war, and its ability to threaten the rest of Europe for the next four decades after the fighting stopped, had little to do with superior technology (outside of nuclear weapons) or military genius (indeed, Stalin’s military leadership was absolutely disastrous, particularly early on in World War II, and he had purged many of the more capable commander in the years leading up to it). Rather, the Soviet Army was a military juggernaut thanks almost entirely to its enormous size, measured in terms of landmass, population and industrial resources. As Richard Evans, the preeminent historian of Nazi Germany, explained [16]: “According to the Soviet Union’s own estimates, the Red Army’s losses in the war totaled more than 11 million troops, over 100,000 aircraft, more than 300,000 artillery pieces, and nearly 100,000 tanks and self-propelled guns. Other authorities have put the losses of military personnel far higher, as high indeed as 26 million.” To be sure, there were moments of military genius, mainly when Stalin empowered his few capable commanders, and promising technology, notably the T-34 tank [17]. Still, these were not the decisive factors in the Soviet Union’s ultimate success, as its enormous sacrifices continued through the Battle of Berlin [18]. With the exception of nuclear weapons, Soviet army of the Cold War was not much different relative to its adversaries. While NATO held much of the technological advantages during the four-decade struggle, the Soviet Union enjoyed enormous numerical advantages in many categories, most notably manpower. As a result, in the event of a conflict in Europe, the United States and NATO planned to turn to nuclear weapons early. For much of its history, the United States has eschewed maintaining a large standing army. This was by design: while the U.S. constitution directs Congress to provide and maintain a navy, it only gives the power to Congress to raise and support armies as needed. America was true to this model through the end of World War II, raising large armies during wartime but quickly dismantling them afterwards. Even still, the U.S. Army since the start of the 20th century as been highly effective, especially in battle against nation-states. It was America’s entry into WWI and WWII that helped tip the balance of power in favor of the allies. The United States also demolished Saddam Hussein’s Army in Kuwait in 1991 and Iraq in 2003. More tellingly, the United States is the only power in history to be deploy massive amounts of military force, including land power, in a quick and effective manner. This highlights one of the major factors in the U.S. Army’s success; namely, while not as large numerically as countries like the Soviet Union, the U.S. Army is a highly-trained fighting force operating superior technology. It is also backed up by the greatest naval and air power the world has ever known. This first appeared several years agoin The National Interestand is being reposted due to reader interest. 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__label__wiki	0.601703	0.601703	How The Chicago Design Museum’s “Great Ideas of Humanity” Reimagines America’s First Sophisticated Image Advertising Campaign June 22, 2018 at 10:00 am by Philip Berger by Philip Berger June 22, 2018 July 24, 2018 Filed under: Designed Objects Events/Exhibitions “Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container,” Chicago Design Museum / Photo: Mark Smalling, Office of Experience While it’s generally accepted that Chicagoans care and know about the city’s treasure trove of architecture, recognition for its leadership in the other design disciplines—environmental, industrial, communications—lags behind. Where, you might ask, is the love for its role in the printing arts or furniture manufacturing and so many other non-architectural design arenas? Part of the mission of the Chicago Design Museum (CDM) is to correct this. “It’s about promoting a greater awareness of design in general but also about its role in building community: design changing the world for the better.” says Lauren Boegen, museum director of exhibitions and collections. Certainly “Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container” speaks to this mission, cleverly mining one of the many all-but-forgotten remnants of Chicago’s design legacy for its relevance today. Following World War II, paperboard manufacturer Container Corporation of America (CCA) established itself as a progressive voice in American industry, adopting cutting-edge attitudes toward design and social responsibility years before the mainstream. Its founder, Walter Paepcke and his wife, Elizabeth, the unfortunately nicknamed “Pussy,” were important tastemakers and patrons of the arts responsible for, among other things, the Aspen Institute and its progeny. CCA’s advertising series “Great Ideas In Western Man” ran in the leading business magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s under the auspices of Herbert Bayer, who Paepcke brought to CCA from the Bauhaus school. Never mentioning the company’s product, the ads instead paired pithy wisdom of western philosophers with imagery from important contemporary artists and designers, resulting in what was, conceptually, America’s first sophisticated image advertising campaign. When John Massey, former CCA head of design, encouraged the Chicago Design Museum to reimagine the “Great Ideas of Western Man” campaign, Tanner Woodford, the Design Museum’s founder and executive director, began the reboot of an updated “Great Ideas” series in 2014, but wanted to widen its horizons to reflect a broader range of voices and experiences. Opening and diversifying the scope led to the new title, acknowledging that great ideas could come from sources who were not necessarily men or from the Western world. Substantially more of the ideas here belong to women, and an entire section of the show uses ideas provided by Chicago Public Schools’ students involved in the 826CHI literacy enrichment program, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students from six to eighteen years old with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. It is unclear what kind of lasting impact the original “Great Ideas” series had on American values, but it’s earned a distinguished place in the advertising pantheon. So it’s not surprising that Woodford and the Design Museum staff had no trouble assembling a lot of design talent happy to contribute to this effort. One of the most salient points about the exhibition is that all the material is digitally represented in an online version of the show (found at www.greatideasofhumanity.com) and although no one is discouraging you from going over to Block 37 and visiting the show, the virtual experience is not markedly inferior to the real one, mostly because of changes in technology. This would be more of an issue if the entries were three-dimensional installations or paintings on canvas or even screened prints, but the majority of the works are computer-generated graphic images printed on 18×24 inch sheets of paper, suspended from the ceiling in an ensemble that makes excellent use of the museum’s exhibition space and combines new works with an informative display with materials from the initial “Great Ideas” series, including some original artwork—a design archive that follows CCA’s merging into the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation that found its way to the Smithsonian. If there’s anything awkward about the show within the museum space, it’s the identifying signage, the so-called “wall cards:” Since there’s no actual wall, most of the cards are attached to the bottom of each piece and most easily viewable by crouching. Those didactic materials—especially the text that provides the idea itself, which is often difficult to decipher in the artistic presentation—would probably be far more accessible if experienced on a desktop or other device. An intriguing aspect of the exhibition is that it’s easiest to describe it as a show of posters, which provides an interesting forum to discuss what a “poster” is. To some designers, the term refers to something very specific in its format and usage; others apply a much looser interpretation. In this case, the majority of entries are standard 18×24 inch sheets of paper (although some deviate) and in general, they can be described as agitprop—taking a point of view and projecting a position. An impressive stable of designers offered their contributions to the effort, from the internationally prominent, like Ivan Chermayeff—who reproduced his original entry to the series, the only difference between the two iterations being that he made his original by hand and the current one digitally—and Paula Scher, to newly emerging talent. And while not exclusively focusing on Chicago, it’s the hometown connection that often makes the Design Museum’s mission most compelling. This may or may not explain why many of the more accessible entries are part of the “Chicago Voices” section, featuring work by Chicago artists commenting on Chicago ideas—a special component to the exhibition in conjunction with Art Design Chicago, an initiative of the Terra Foundation for American Art that explores Chicago’s art and design legacy. “Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container,” Chicago Design Museum / Photo: Chris Mendoza My Chicago-centrism may account for the fact that two of my personal favorites are from the “Chicago Voices” section, and despite the comments about viewing the work on the exhibition website, they really should be viewed IRL: both are three-dimensional pieces, and are from artists trained as architects, for which photography does not convey their impact. Jonathan D. Solomon, director of architecture, interior architecture and designed objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, chose a quote from Harriet Monroe, founder of Poetry Magazine and opted not to make a traditional poster at all but an “object,” an option that the project’s rules permitted.: A group of 3D-printed acrylic objects that resemble large, abstracted Monopoly houses, arranged on a surface bearing Monroe’s suggestion that “next to making friends, the most thrilling experience of life is to make enemies.” Via email, Solomon offered that he intended his piece as “an easily readable metaphor for agonism: or positive, permanent conflict,” adding, “I want to remind people that ongoing conflict, confronting differences, is a necessary part of democratic society.” Carol Ross Barney’s entry channels commentary from a foreign visitor, the painter Fernand Léger, who visited Chicago and presents a “great idea” that is directly connected to the city’s history of architectural innovation. In her piece “Plans, 1932; ‘Chicago Seen through the Eyes of a Visiting French Cubist,’” she suspends an outlined Plexiglas map of the city to suggest the role the city’s suspended bridges have played in its development. The exhibit offers a tremendous amount to digest. Some entries are instantly comprehensible as one-liners; many others offer more complex, nuanced presentations. Still others are so impenetrable as to defy interpretation, which is why a visit in real life merits further contemplation and pondering, both online and off. Great ideas are timeless, but they take time to absorb. “Great Ideas of Humanity: Out of the Container” at the Chicago Design Museum, Block Thirty Seven, 108 North State, Third floor. Through August 18, free and open to the public. Philip Berger Philip Berger writes about design for Newcity. He has a day job at a law firm, too, but art, design and style are his passion. 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__label__cc	0.593851	0.406149	Don’t Drink the Lemonade by mm13 \| Oct 7, 2008 \| Afghanistan, Military, Pakistan, Strategic Comm. \| by Monika Maslikowski The Global War on Terror has been accurately described by some as a global counterinsurgency against the groups and individuals that promote the ideology of violent Islamic extremism. Unlike traditional counterinsurgency campaigns, however, there is no single host-nation (HN) in this fight; the enemy is disparate, networked, transnational, and bound together by a destructive and intolerant religious ideology. In recent weeks and months, the difficult issues surrounding this global counterinsurgency have been highlighted in Pakistan. There is a wide range of problems including, but not limited to, the complexity of the tribal networks and absence of security in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA), a lack of cooperation from the Pakistani government, and perhaps too much cooperation from the military and the ISI towards elements of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, TTP). We also find conflicts in the region among different groups of militants, and a resurgence of al-Qaeda and Taliban control. As if this werenâ€™t complicated enough, the mere presence of U.S. forces is unacceptable to many parties, and U.S. incursions into Pakistan tend to delegitimize the Pakistani government and threaten its sovereignty. The primary objectives of counterinsurgency (COIN) operations are to facilitate a legitimate political system within the HN, and to provide security and stability to the population. This makes military operations and political developments inextricably linked. In Pakistan, however, we face the challenge of waging a COIN operation without the use of our military. So, how do you fight a counterinsurgency without boots on the ground? One way is to fight the insurgency through strategic communication operations. Last year, in the Marine Corps Gazette, Colonel Thomas X. Hammes (Ret. USMC) wrote an article entitled “The Message is the Insurgency.” He asserts that “modern insurgency has become essentially a strategic communications campaign supported by military action rather than a military campaign supported by effective strategic communications.” Due to the complicated nature of the situation in Pakistan, a rigorous strategic communication campaign may be one of the most effective operations that the U.S. can engage in. Although this is an extremely complex and dynamic issue, there are three key points to consider when implementing a strategic communication operation aimed at Pakistan. Multiple Messages Pakistan is the definitive rugged landscape; there needs to be at the very least two primary messages–don’t drink the lemonade, and trust your local leaders. The Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Jim Glassman, describes the process of communicating an alternative to the extremist ideology: Think of America’s values and political system as orange juice; think of the al-Qaeda system of violent extremism as lemonade. Our job for the short term is not to put all of our efforts into getting people to drink orange juice, but to get them not to drink lemonade. They can drink anything else they want: milk, ginger ale, tomato juice, Coke. We are confident that, ultimately, they will come around to orange juice or something close to it, but in the meantime, we want them to stay away from lemonade. If we’re enticing people to stay away from extremists, there needs be alternatives out there. It is clear that Pakistan doesnâ€™t effectively govern the tribal areas, so what exactly can they offer their citizens to drink? In a classic counterinsurgency, promoting the legitimacy of the Pakistani government would be of utmost importance. However, the legitimacy of the Pakistani government may not even be relevant in the tribal areas. These areas are largely autonomous, and have been for decades; the national government doesn’t have much influence. The aim of a strategic communication campaign in these areas needs to be towards empowering local non-militant tribal leaders. Pakistani officials might even be on the right track: During the anti-terrorism operation in Bajaur province, currently underway, theyâ€™re dropping leaflets that encourage individuals to trust their local tribesman, instead of the Taliban or al-Qaeda. Also, there was a one-day workshop in Islamabad last week, comprised of Pakistani officials, about initiating a strategic communication campaign in the FATA that acknowledges the importance of these tribal networks. However, the U.S. Defense Department’s Afghanistan/Pakistan strategic communication plan for the NWFP and FATA doesnâ€™t focus on the fact that citizens in the tribal areas are much more likely to support their local leaders than officials of the national government. Although official COIN strategies emphasize the need for citizens to support their national government, it is clear that the unique situation of the tribal areas in Pakistan warrants a new interpretation of these tactics. Stick to Principles Our strategic communication operations in the region need to be coordinated, streamlined, and implemented from the lowest levels all the way up to the highest. They need to be a priority in this global counterinsurgency, and the border regions need to be treated as the central front in the fight against extremism. There are several COIN information operations (IO) principles (as outlined in FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency) that are particularly relevant to Pakistan. They include engaging the media to provide accurate information about the COIN operation, actively countering the propaganda disseminated by militant groups (in a timely manner), pointing out the successes of the HN government and quickly admitting mistakes, and focusing on the present â€“ making promises that might not ever happen decreases the legitimacy of both the HN and the COIN forces. Other tactics, like initiating a dialogue with the opposition, are much more precarious, and unlikely. Although the results of a strategic communication campaign will likely be slow to materialize, it is necessary to be persistent in implementing these principles. At the moment, since U.S. troops can’t (and shouldn’t) be on the ground, this may be one of the only options in stopping the spread of violent extremism in this region. Afghanistan is Key Success in Afghanistan is crucial. If the tribal regions on the Afghan side of the border can be stabilized, and the Karzai government and local non-militant tribal leaders can be recognized as legitimate, then the news of progress will spread to the Pakistan side of the border. Even in Afghanistan, where we have a dominant force in place, IO efforts are struggling. The difficulties the U.S. faces in its strategic communication campaign in Pakistan are directly tied to the resurgence of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. An editorial in a mainstream Pakistani daily newspaper about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan goes so far as to claim that the residents of the tribal areas now consider their past lives under the Taliban as â€œgoldenâ€ in comparison to their current life under the Afghan government and the ISAF, and that any kind of dialogue with Karzaiâ€™s government regarding the stability of the tribal areas in Afghanistan was a â€œwaste of time.â€ Positive developments in Afghanistan need to be widely publicized in order to counter extremist propaganda about the negative influence of the ISAF. If the ISAF is able to make significant and sustainable progress in Afghanistan, itâ€™s likely that the positive effects will be well-received in Pakistan. In order to combat violent extremism in Pakistan, the U.S. needs to convince Pakistanis that the grass is greener on the other side of the Durand line.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0049.json.gz/line9240

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