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__label__cc	0.528023	0.471977	Earl of Oxford Home › General Exactly where Can I Come across Information on Swami Amar Jyoti? Swami Amar Jyoti was born upon May 6, 1928 in a small town in northwestern India https://medium.com/@swamiamarjyot/prabhushri-swami-amar-jyoti-1f9ee552be4e, not far from the banks of the Indus River. His childhood interests were lots of: science, mathematics, music, composing, biking, drama and sports, and He brilliantly mastered all of these. His college education was briefly interrupted by the partition of India in 1947, however He soon transferred to a college in Mumbai (Bombay). Much precious by household and teachers, He shocked everybody with thedecision to leave home a few months prior to graduation, stating, "I want to check out an open book of the world for my education." Specifically What Does Swami Amar Jyoti Tutor? At the age of nineteen Swami Amar Jyoti, without cash or any specific location, He took the very first train to Calcutta. It was 1948. Refugees were pouring over the border of East Bengal (now Bangladesh) into West Bengal by the thousands each day. Surviving on a railway platform near the border of India and Bangladesh, He soon headed the whole volunteer corps there, working tirelessly 20 hours or more each day. After about 10 months, the flood of refugees went away and He returned to Calcutta. Do You recognize Swami Amar Jyoti? Swami Amar Jyoti He resided on the borders of the city in a peaceful ashram and pursued symphonic music, sitar, religious studies and prayer. He started to meditate and do yoga and went to puja (conventional worship) at a nearby temple of a widely known saint. In a short while He "knew" His life work. Soon He retired to Himalaya where He lived in silence and meditation for about 10 years, one-pointed onthe Objective of Liberation. Numerous places of pilgrimage were gone to throughout those years, strolling on foot many miles every day. But a small cave at Gangotri, the temple town near the source of the Ganga River, was the location of His biggest spiritual disciplines, awakenings and, finally, Lighting. In 1958, taking initiation of Vidyut Sannyas (lit: "lightning"-- a kind of monasticism that is Self-initiated) at the holy site of Badrinath of Himalaya, and taking the name Swami Amar Jyoti (Swami-- Knower of the Self; Amar Jyoti-- Never-ceasing Light), He came down into the plains of India for His God-given objective to the world. The first Ashram Gurudeva founded was Jyoti Ashram, under Ananda Niketan Trust, situated in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Throughout the years after leaving home, His mother had actually never ceased searching for Him and awaiting His return. In answer to her prayers, He settled in Pune where she could be near Him. Do You realize Swami Amar Jyoti? In 1961, He accepted an offer by a fan to visit the United States. Again, He took a trip unknown, though He quickly drew in lots of who had actually never ever seen such a holy man. Ultimately He was persuaded to develop an Ashram, and Sacred Mountain Ashram was founded in 1974 followed in 1975 by Desert Ashram under Reality Consciousness, a not-for-profit company that works as a car for Gurudeva's work in the United States. The spiritual awakening on earth that Gurudeva reveals is the marvelous destiny of humanity, when devoid of our restricted identity of self. Adoringly and ceaselessly, He continues to uplift and purify each people for this awakening, for His way is the ancient relationship of the Expert to the disciple, the candle lit directly from the burning flame of Truth. Prabhushri continuously advises us that we are at a development into a new age, where religions will be transformed into direct awakening and communion with our Greatest Source. Like a mother whose love understands no bounds for her kid, the Guru guides and nurtures the disciple on his or her own course to perfection, revealing in Himself the obtainable Reality of God Consciousness. After four years invested in continuously traveling, giving Satsang and Retreats, establishing Ashrams and guiding innumerable souls to greater awareness, Gurudeva took Mahasamadhi-- conscious release of the mortal body-- on June 13, 2001 in Louisville, Colorado. According to His wishes, His Asti Kalash (urn containing Sacred Remains) was brought back to Jyoti Ashram by disciples from India. Within a year, a Samadhi Sthal in the form of a pure white marble pyramid was developed for long-term consecration. It has therefore become a beacon Light, a location of pilgrimage and meditation for all who are blessed to get in there. The commitment of the Samadhi Sthal was performed during 5 days of intricate Vedic pujas and fire events participated in by numerous devotees, from June 9-13, 2002. At the end of the commitment, the Brahmin priest who led the pujas enunciated the following: "As long as the sun and the moon and the stars and water (symbolic of life) exist, may this Samadhi Sthal be the Illuminator of millions of souls, and might You continue to guide and bless us." Immortal Light-- The Blissful Life and Knowledge of Swami Amar Jyoti: A Bio in His Own Words is offered from TruthConsciousness.org. damiantucker585 Throughout this amazing pattern of things you get an A just for effort. Where exactly you actually confused me personally ended up being on the specifics. As it is said, the devil is in the details... And it could not be much more accurate in this article. Having said that, let me inform you exactly what did deliver the results. 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__label__cc	0.563838	0.436162	Faithful in Little Things: A Prison Story "A friend gave me a fan." That's how Willy started his story as we were sharing during the bible study I lead out at the prison. Having a fan is a big deal. The prison is not air conditioned. And during Texas summers, when the temperatures climb to over 100 degrees for weeks and weeks on end, the prison becomes a stifling sweatbox. Some of the chaplains that teach classes at the prison cancel classes during the summer months because of the heat. It's too much to bear for the two hours of class. The inmates live with it 24/7. Through the entire summer. The only relief is a bit air movement provided by a small fan. A fan which costs money. And not everyone has money. Willy didn't. So the gift of a fan, in the middle of summer, was a pretty big deal. A huge, huge relief. A fan can keep you from going crazy during those hot Texas nights with no air conditioning and no windows. Trouble was the fan was contraband. Prisoners can't give or receive gifts like that. Willy's fan broke the rules. Still, it was not like he was hurting anyone. The contraband in question wasn't drugs or anything. It was just a fan for goodness' sake. But one day while studying his bible Willy came across these words, "if you can't be faithful in the little things how can you be trusted with the big things?" Willy became convicted. The fan broke the rules. It was a little thing, to be sure. But Willy wanted to be faithful, even in the little things. Especially in the little things. As so, Willy concluded his story, "I threw the fan away." The room listened in stunned silence. He what? He threw the fan away!? It was barely conceivable, beyond our moral horizons, that someone would be that obedient in the face of the resultant suffering he would have to endure. "I didn't mind being hot," Willy continued, "I was able to share in the sufferings of Jesus." Willy looked at me and smiled, gold teeth flashing. "I was free inside. I was happy." 11 thoughts on “Faithful in Little Things: A Prison Story” Josh Barkey on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 said: This is beautiful and heartbreaking and convicting... yet another example of how Jesus is more likely to be with the least of these than with selfish clowns like me, who steal things off the internet and don't think twice. Richard on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 said: I felt the same way about myself when I heard Willy's story. Let me add this bit of info. The prisoner's don't have pillows. They can buy pillows, but they aren't given pillows. I can't imagine what it's like to sleep in that place on a hot Texas summer night without a fan or a pillow. Mike Gottschalk on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 said: "The fan was contraband." This fleshed out that moment when Jesus confronted a committee of Pharisees with this notion: It's the Sabbath; your neighbor's ox falls into a big hole; quick- waddaya do? Without that ox, that neighbor and his family fall from something akin to being self employed at the upper reaches of poverty, to share cropping and poverty's lower reaches. The Pharisees smelled a trick question in the air and huddled together to debate through their various moral and religious technical manuals for the correct answer. I wonder how many "adults" on the contraband committee are faithful church attendees? And how many of that sample attend Texas sized mega churches? (Hmm, I wonder if the move toward "mega" is merely a compensation for a lack of profundity?) Patrick on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 said: I was neary late for a 7:00 AM breakfast meeting with a distinguished speaker on the program. 6:57 with very few downtown drivers in Abilene. I ran one light at an utterly deserted intersection, not feeling too badly (ox in the ditch sort of thing), but the next two had cars in the vicinity; stopped at those. Barely made it. Willie probably would not be amused, but I bet he would have given me another chance at the empty spots. Then I just might get on board with this great disciple, Brad on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 said: Wow, that was beautiful. Ann Coston Neff on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 said: That is the sort of thing I have in mind when people ask if I take the Bible literally. Not to take Scripture literally as the only source of history or science, but to take Jesus words about actions literally. But no one wants to hear that discussion, in or out of the church. sgl on Thursday, November 14, 2013 said: are we talking about an electric fan, or a handheld fan? while i can see how a large electric fan might be contraband, i can't see how a handheld one would be. also, perhaps buying pillows or collecting old pillows from church members or other groups and taking them to the prison for the inmates might be a useful idea. or perhaps someone with contacts at hotels -- i'd guess they replace pillows after fairly little use, and that would be a useful way to keep it out of the landfill, and also greatly improve some people's lives. win-win. Danny on Thursday, November 14, 2013 said: Dr. Beck, you said that you are writing a new book called 'The Slavery of Death' ? Is this inspired by all of your Stringfellow reading? Richard on Thursday, November 14, 2013 said: Yes it was. The book should be coming out in December. Can't wait. 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Human Being x 13 Human Nature x 13 life x 4 intelligence x 4 smart x 4 brain system x 3 5 Ways to Keep Popcorn Healthy Sophat Chann Nov 15 th, 2017 BlogNo Comments Cinema goers know all about the legendary kernel, which when heated forms into fluffy popcorn for a tasty, readily consumable snack. Without the familiar smell as you walk into your local cinema, the whole experience just wouldn’t be the same. Although it has evolved over the years into a modern luxury, popcorn is actually an ancient dish. Archaeologists and scientists from the Natural History Museum in Washington have discovered evidence maize had been domesticated 9000 years ago in Mexico, and that it was being popped 7000 years ago in Peru. These days, when you scan the shelves of a supermarket, you will be confronted with an impressive selection; butter, toffee, salt, and sweetened flavours are all mass produced and readily available. The phenomenon is mirroring what happened to crisps around a decade ago, when the salty snack became chunky, exotic, and gentrified. The public never looked back, and gained a lot of weight as a result. With popcorn now a mass produced commodity there are some unpleasant health effects unwary shoppers may have missed. Popcorn is, however, a very healthy snack, and to exploit this all you need are the facts. This handy five step guide will help you pop those kernels the right way. 1. Popcorn may be healthier than fruit and vegetables. Is popcorn healthy? The answer, not including commercially distributed popcorn, is almost certainly a “YES!” In its purest sense popcorn is very close to nature; if it’s dry popped in hot air there are no oils, fats or sugars added to it – what you eat is simply the inside of the kernel after a little physical manipulation. And the facts speak for themselves: a single portion of popcorn contains more antioxidants than all the fruit and veg most people eat in a day, as noted in a study by Scranton University. Antioxidants keep molecules harmful to cells in check, and are present in many fresh fruits and vegetables. Popcorn also has a large amount of vitamins; folate, niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, vitamins B, A, E, and K, as well as being a source of iron, potassium, zinc, and polyphenols which contain the antioxidants to fight off cancers and cardiovascular health problems. To add to this, after a search on Calorie Count, a single cup (25 g) of air-popped corn has a mere 31 calories, with 0.3 g of fats (0.03 g saturated, 0.16 g polyunsaturated, 0.1 g monounsaturated). Popped in oil, however, the values above can roughly be tripled, but compared to a pack of salted sunflower-oil-fried crisps, popcorn’s attraction suddenly becomes apparent: for the same portion size, crisps weigh in at 128 calories, with a whopping 8.2 g of fat (0.6 g saturated, 0.7 g polyunsaturated, 6.5 g monounsaturated). This is around 13% of your total recommended fat intake in one standard pack. Popcorn, clearly, is the better option 2. Stick with wholegrain kernels and steer clear of microwaveable varieties. Some modern brands are resorting to the traditional method of popcorn making, minus additives, leaving you to enjoy a healthy snack. It’s worth chasing down some of these brands. In the UK companies such as Graze and Proper Corn are offering “gourmet” popcorn in all its health giving glory, with flavours such as black pepper, and fiery worcester sauce and sun dried tomato making up a low carb, low calorie, low sugar and salt snack. These firms tend to use whole grain kernels in order to offer the maximum health benefits; whole grains use the full health properties, consisting of the bran, germ, and endosperm. These are packed full of healthy oils, vitamin E, B vitamins, and the bran’s also a great source of fibre. Unfortunately there are many commercial popcorn brands with mass produced, chemically overloaded varieties, with one of the main culprits being microwave popcorn. As a convenient, enjoyable snack this is a glorious modern day luxury but, sadly, these often tend to be crammed full of unpleasant toxins. Whilst your microwaved Butter Popcorn may taste exactly like butter, the truth is it simply isn’t – the pleasant buttery taste is supplied by diacetyl. To add to the chemical woes, the American Food and Drug Administration has been studying the effects of heating the plastics coating the insides of the microwaveable packets. Although the risk to the general public is considered slight, these chemicals stay in the body for a long time and can accumulate, causing various complications. The Environmental Work Group (EWG) add to this with alarming news; “It’s no secret that diacetyl, the chemical that gives butter-flavored microwave popcorn it’s buttery-ness, has caused serious and sometimes fatal lung disease in workers in flavoring and popcorn factories.” Due to this some top brands of microwave popcorn, such as Pop Weaver, announced they would stop using diacetyl in 2009. However, to be on the safe side you should find genuine popcorn makers who rely on traditional, healthy practices. You could even take this a step further with our next step! 3. Cook popcorn at home for a nutritious, cheap snack. We take popcorn so much for granted we might not stop to think about what a natural marvel it is. The process is aptly named because it really is popping like an overinflated balloon, the only difference being that instead of air it’s superheated, pressurised steam causing the hull to pop. Because the hull doesn’t allow water in or out, when the small amounts of moisture inside it become extremely hot, they expand and squeeze amid the natural oils and starches. Then when the pressure is high enough compared to the pressure outside, the kernel lets go and the gelatinous mixture inside blows out into the familiar shape and rapidly cools and sets – all in the blink of an eye. With so much energy in the process, it’s remarkable the kernel doesn’t disintegrate upon popping, but the chemical structures of the inner starches just about keep it together. For a detailed scientific analysis you can head here. It’s such a wonderful, fun process there’s no reason why you can’t enjoy cooking popcorn in your home. This will help eliminate any added nasties from the end result, and you can monitor how much sugar or salt you add. All you need to do is head to a nearby health store and pick up a bag of organic kernels – you can experiment with flavours and oils, but a stove, pan, and a cover to set off the popcorn is all that is required. You can buy a 500g bag of organic popcorn kernels for around £5 ($6 or $7) making it an excellent choice for family snacks. 4. It’s a good dieting food. Hunger pangs are a nuisance if you’re trying to lose weight, or just attempting to lead a healthy lifestyle. Popcorn, in its light, filing form, is one way to banish those annoying pangs and receive a health boost whilst you’re at it. There is a new fangled Popcorn Dietyou can consider, although we recommend you steer clear of a diet focusing of one ingredient. Humans need a wide variety of foods to remain healthy, and popcorn can act as a contributor to this overall health. As a dieting tool popcorn has plenty to offer, not least its ability to fend off hunger pangs. This is, in part, due to its glycemic index (GI). The United States Department of Agriculture has highlighted popcorn’s good GI, a term which describes blood sugar levels after food containing carbohydrates has been consumed. Foods with a low GI are desirable as they won’t spike your blood sugar and will leave you feeling fuller for longer. With a GI of 55 (which compares to two slices of white bread at a GI of 88) it is clear consuming popcorn in small portions is an excellent way to manage your weight, or to fend off those pesky hunger pangs. However, do remember moderation is important and overindulgence should be curbed. With this in mind popcorn can, and should, be enjoyed in sensible portions as part of a varied and balanced diet. 5. Popcorn is likely to make you more popular! s a positive social tool popcorn making should not be underestimated. Whilst it’s a simple process to make popcorn (refer to point 3 for more details) it is likely most people simply don’t know how to, or would revert to local stores for their supply. I would argue, however, becoming a popcorn making specialist would wow your friends and family at social events. Personalising recipes and impressing your nearest and dearest with your kernel popping skills could have all manner of benefits; it’s a good conversation point, makes you appear very skilled, and as feel-good-factors go the positive feedback would certainly be an excellent self-confidence boost! All in the name of popcorn.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2338
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__label__wiki	0.595048	0.595048	The Columbus Jewish Historical Society Site funded by Yelkin Family Foundation Awards & Recipients Exhibits & Programs Topy Photo Collection Central Ohio Histories Website Sponsorships Wall of Donors Sylvia Schecter (Parts 1 & 2) Dr. Marc Lee Raphael interviewing Sylvia Schecter on September 22, 1974 as part of the Oral History program of the Columbus Jewish Historical Society. Interviewer: Let’s begin by having you tell me something about your mother and father. Schecter: My mother came from Galicia which was formerly Austria on the Austrian-France Joseph Highway. They had tremendous farmlands. He was one of the few Jewish farmers in Austria in those days. The family had lived there 300-400 years. Their name was Furman. Do you want me to tell you her background and how she got there? Interviewer: Sure. The more you tell me, the happier I am. Schecter: My mother came here when she was twelve or thirteen years old. She was a d______ – a servant/maid for the Earl Greenberg family. She came with her brother, C. H. Furman and they settled in the Nelsonville-Zanesville area and then they came up to the big city. She also came with her sister who is now Lena Margulies. They were brought here by their brother who escaped serving in the army in those days. She came to Columbus and served as a d_______. From there she got herself a job with the Greenberg family. Interviewer: Who is this Greenberg family? Schecter: They’re gone already. They used to be in the men’s clothing business downtown, years and years ago. It was called Greene’s Interviewer: Take a guess as to what years, give or take five years. Schecter: Well, my mother is eighty-three. So it had to have been seventy years ago, she was thirteen when she came. Right around the turn of the century. Then she went to work in what they call the rigalia which was the Lilley Company, a company that made uniforms. Then she did chocolate dipping factory work. She had very little education because she came here so young. Interviewer: ________________________? Schecter: Well, that we know. She came to Columbus and she got involved in what they called the Jewish Yiddish Theater. They had their little group that was probably like the Gallery Players today. She met my father who was of Russian descent who had been brought over by his older brother. They ended up with five brothers and two sisters here. My mother ended up with four sisters and a brother. They were from a family of seven or eight and the rest of them were all left in Austria. We had direct word that they were annihilated during the holocaust in that particular area. They were in the hills of their My mother told me that their farm was hundreds and hundreds of acres which was unusual for Jewish people. They used to hire people to help with the harvest, the milking, the storing up for the winter, the picking of nuts. She said that when there was a rainstorm, she could swear there was oil on the ground. My mother talked about when there was a rainstorm, there would be oil on top of the puddles. She said she knew they were very wealthy but it didn’t do them any good. They were all annihilated there – hundreds of the Furman family. Interviewer: Was C.H. Furman her brother? Schecter: Lena Margulies who is today Lena Margulies from the Margulies family. Peers whose children are today, Adele Helman and Mrs. Emil (Isabelle) Rosen. The Margulies is Julius Margulies. And then from the Roth family are Irwin Roth, Carl Roth and the Friedmans came off that. They had five children. We were three sisters. I’m the oldest of three sisters and a half brother. My father died March 17, 1915. He was 26 ½ years old and I was only four years old. He left my mother a widow with three daughters. I was not quite four, my sister was not quite three and the baby was four or five weeks old. Interviewer: What was his name? Schecter: His name was Benjamin Cohen. When they got married, my mother was eighteen or nineteen years old and, of course, her sister came and lived with her. It was later on that the other two sisters, Lena Margulies and Minnie Peer came with her brother-in-law, Roth, who after World War I, brought his wife and four or five children here. Interviewer: Was Charles the first of the Furman siblings to come to Columbus? Schecter: Yes. Interviewer: What brought Charles to Columbus? Why did he pick Schecter: Well, he wasn’t doing very well down in Nelsonville. How he got to or was sent to Nelsonville, I do not know. I could ask my mother that. I never did delve into that. But he chose Columbus because it was just a budding city at that time and he felt things were good here. He did get into the coal business. Friends and associations in the Zanesville Coal and Hocking Hills area, he got into the coal retail business here in Columbus. He had the Furman Coal Company on the west side where very few Jews lived in those days. He had a big coal company there and then he went off into a truck and garage business. it was the distributor for Mack Trucks and Fisk Tires. I always remember that tire with the little girl saying, “Time to Retire.” When the 1913 flood came, I was about two or three years old and I can vividly remember when they opened the West Broad Street bridge which had been completely demolished. There were four places on the westside that were used to celebrate. They had a great big carnival kind of thing. An orchestra playing and everything. His garage is now the site of the Veteran’s Memorial. His home was further down. During the High Holidays, the whole family would trek to our house and we all would sleep on the floor and go to synagogue in the morning and be together. We all belonged to Beth Jacob shul which was an off-shoot, in those days., of the big shul, the Agudas Achim. My father came to Columbus because he had an older brother, William Cohen, who came here with Jacob Cohen and settled here in Columbus and then they brought my father, Mr. Benjamin Cohen and Morris Cohen. Then they brought their sister who was Goldie Hemmelstein and another sister who became Mrs. Koltz. The Hemmelstein family today is Ray Schlonsky, William Goodman – there’s a whole slew of them here. The Kravitz’s are all off-shoots, Ann Schilling, the Minkins, the Coopersteins, the other Cohen family are Benjamin Cowell. They changed their name back to Cowel. Their name was really Covel when they came here. Somebody in New York said, when they got off the boat, “We don’t like the name Covel. You can become Cohen.” That’s how they got the name Cohen. They settled here and they were five brothers and two sisters. They all lived on _________ Street at one time. We all lived together in one area. Interviewer: Has anybody ever talked about the voyage over? Did you ever hear them talk about the trip? Where they left from? Schecter: My mother left from Lemburg. My father, I never got to talk much to my father although my uncle William Cohen was just like my father. He helped raise me because I had no dad and I wasn’t old enough to discuss these things with my father. We would sit around the table and talk but we never discussed too much except that they left family over there in Russia, I think the Vilna area. They were blacksmiths when they came over here, that’s the reason they had the name Cocel which means blacksmith. One of them became the Covel family which lives here in Columbus. They took back the name. I remember one of them took the name Covel here. And another took the name Covel in Chicago. So they sort of split up the name a little bit. They all very ___________, the blacksmith went into the wet wash business. Mr. William Cohen, who was just like my father, he had the Reliable Wet Wash Laundry on Parsons Avenue. Interviewer: He was very active at Beth Jacob. Schecter: Beth Jacob and in the community, too. He was involved in the Federation before it became a Federation in helping raise money for overseas and local needs, too – the Hebrew School and things like that. We had a very fine close knit family. All of us cousins were very, very close and it’s been great being together. I’ve sort of stuck with the William Cohen family and the Furman family. Interviewer: So you know Mel Furman very well. Schecter: Oh, yes. They’re here for holiday dinners. The Minkins were here with my aunt and William Cohen’s children were here for the holidays. We’re very close. Mel’s sister, Gertrude, who is married to a Levin, is very close to me. We grew up together. Not just cousins but girlfriends. Interviewer: Was Mel Furman the one whose brother died in World War II? Schecter: Yes. Arthur Carl Furman. Lost overseas. Interviewer: Tell me something about your earliest childhood. Something about your education and whatever you remember. Schecter: I went to Fulton Street School. At the age of four and a half or five, my mother enrolled me in Hebrew School which is unusual today. You always wait until later. But she always felt . . . I guess it was because I didn’t have a father and I had to learn Hebrew in order to .. . I didn’t have Kaddish and I was the oldest so she felt I had to know Hebrew. I was enrolled and we didn’t have a Hebrew School at Beth Jacob so the only one that had a Hebrew School in the entire city was Agudas Achim. I was enrolled in the Agudas Achim Hebrew School at the age of five or five and a half and I stayed there until I was about 10 years old. Then they formed a Hebrew School down around Rich Street. Mom didn’t like the way the Hebrew School was taught so she pulled me out and enrolled me with a Rebbe Schwartz over on Fifth and Donaldson. He was crippled and laid in bed with palsy or something and he taught me not only Hebrew, but he taught me how to read and write Yiddish because my mother never spoke much Yiddish. She was always an English speaking person. She adapted very quickly to the English language and we really didn’t get to learn Yiddish until right after World War I when all these cousins started coming over from Europe. That’s when I learned my real Yiddish. As much as I know. Then of course, when I married my husband who was foreign born, I learned more Yiddish from his folks. I had a good knowledge of Hebrew and I was one of only two girls in a complete class of boys all the way through Hebrew School. Sarah Schwartz, who was Sarah Horowitz in those days, and I, were the only two girls. Freddie Yenkin was in that class and that whole gang of fellows. Beth Jacob did not have a Sunday School so they enrolled me. We were poor people – my mother had a very small widow’s pension – she had to really work hard. I want you to know that. I worked at the age of eleven at Bornheim and __________ as a stock girl and at ___________ before _______________ at age ten or eleven. At the age of fourteen, I was already a secretary to Goldie Kantor Mayer. I was out of high school at the age of fifteen, graduated with high honors. There were no scholarships. __________ _________ wanted to send me on a borrowed scholarship mother couldn’t afford, I had to bring in this money. So I became a private secretary / stenographer at the age of fifteen or sixteen. At the age of nineteen, I was married to my husband. Interviewer: That was right around the beginning of the Depression? Schecter: We got married right during the heart of the Depression – 1931. We were married 43 years. Interviewer: Let’s go back a little since you’ve now moved to your marriage. Schecter: I went to Fulton Street School for four and a half years – supposed to be six – I went to Mound Junior High School in two and a half years. Then I transferred to Central High School and was in the first class to enroll after the Commerce High School broke up on Broad Street and went over to Central High School. We used to walk to school. I lived on the corner of – I was born on Washington Street in a row of flats right off Fulton, between Fulton and Mound. Interviewer: It’s still there. Schecter: No, the freeway is there. Interviewer: Nope, the freeway starts below Fulton. All those flats are still there. Schecter: Then we moved over to Stauring Street where my uncle lived right around me. That’s why they were so protective of us and saw that we had everything that was necessary. We were all three children born in the home, not in the hospital. We lived on Stauring Street until my mother decided that paying rent would never get us any place. She had a little bit – I think $500 left from the funeral. She bought a house at 517 Fulton Street. The reason I think it’s nice to know is, when we lived on Fulton Street, there was quite an inflationary period with reference to kosher meat. The community felt that the cost of meat was too high so they went out and brought in their own butcher and set him up on Fulton Street in a small shack across the street from our house. I can just picture it on Fulton, right off of Livingston. His name was Harry Center. Then mother decided that she wanted to improve – by that time she had gotten married after 12 years of being a widow – and we moved over to 17th Street. Her house that she sold is where Harry Center set up his great big butcher shop. It was the Harry Center Butcher Shop and it was one of the best the city has ever had. It was also a grocery store. The reason I brought this up is because I think it’s important to know that this is part of the Jewish trend. I remember as a little girl during the war years, World War I, when peace was declared, I vividly recall getting in a big truck in front of the Agudas Achim with all the Jewish people with Jewish flags in our hands and we were representing the Mothers’ Alliance of America and paraded in a big spontaneous parade downtown because at that time they were sending stuff to Israel / Palestine. The Mothers’ Alliance, which my mother was very active in, then became the Pioneer Women which is today flourishing in Israel more than it does today in Columbus. Mom was very active in the synagogue. She was president of the Sisterhood for five or six years. When I got married, I became president of the Sisterhood for seven years. Do you still want to go back to my childhood? What more? Interviewer: Lots of things. Let’s talk about the Columbus Hebrew School. Do you remember Mr. Matchnik? Schecter: Oh, yeah, that was about the time when I left. I didn’t have much to do with him because my mother thought that he was too strict, too much of a disciplinarian. But I remember the old man Mellman. And do you know who else was my Hebrew teacher? Interviewer: Robert Mellman’s dad? Schecter: Robert Mellman’s dad. And you know who else was my Hebrew teacher? Dr. Professor Beckman was also my Hebrew teacher. He was my teacher at the Hebrew School at Agudas Achim. Interviewer: I thought he was at the Schonthal Center. Schecter: No, at Agudas Achim. The Schonthal Center, they decided there were too many young Jewish kids not getting a Jewish education and didn’t belong to Agudas Achim who had a Sunday School or Temple Israel, who had a Sunday School, or Tifereth Israel, who had a Sunday School. So Schonthal set up a Sunday School in the Schonthal Center. I was looking for this picture before you walked in – I can’t find it – of being confirmed at the age of thirteen or fourteen. All previous people who were confirmed at the Schonthal Center, Dad Schonthal used to say, “I want those kids.” He made Temple Israel take those poor children and put them in the confirmation class at Temple Israel. My year was the first year that they didn’t join with Temple Israel’s group so we got confirmed in our own confirmation class at Schonthal Center. Interviewer: They usually have the rabbi at Temple Israel perform . Schecter: That’s right. I think Tarshish was in my picture. I remember Rabbi Korn, too. Interviewer: Kornfeld. Do you remember any teachers at the Hebrew School? I’m trying to think if Julius Baker’s brother . . . . Schecter: No, Aaron? Sam Yablock? Sam came over afterwards. I ran around with Sam’s and Rabbi Baker’s wife – as children, we went to school together. Sam and I were in the same class together in school. He was older than I – I was ahead of myself. Interviewer: Before Rabbi Greenwald came, there was a Rabbi Topkowitz. Do you remember him? Schecter: I sure do. He was a short, very handsome, black bearded man. Very gracious, very kind, very sweet. I don’t know why he ever left but he was head of Beth Jacob in those days. Then Rabbi Greenwald came. He was a doll. I loved him very much. Interviewer: We’ll get back to Rabbi Greenwald later. What about when you were a kid, was there a Rabbi Werner? Schecter: He was at Agudas Achim. He was involved in the Hebrew School that was there, too. We used to have our Hebrew Annual program at the big shul. I remember at the big shul on Friday night, all the most famous speakers, world wide, especially in the Zionist movement, would come on Friday evening as we would gather what we called Maggid , the Friday Evening Forum. I remember as a youngster, going to hear these famous men – I don’t think Herzl was here but some of the other men -that would come here. I think some of the most famous men that we think about now that were involved in the great movement, were here. I remember going as a child – I was interested in Zionism and I was interested in Hebrew and my uncles and my father were ___________. We had on our mantel, a little statue, a head of Herzl, always – as a child, I remember seeing it. That’s the reason my uncle, Mr. Moynya Cohen moved to Israel – that was before I got married – and his wife’s sister married a Kesselman. Have you come across their name yet? His wife’s sister graduated from Ohio State University which was quite a thing in those days. My God, I was only a kid yet and for a girl to graduate from Ohio State University and she met a man there who was in agriculture which was very unusual for a Jewish man. They picked themselves up and moved to Israel. My uncle and aunt, who had no children, she treated her sister like a child, went to Israel and he laid out what is today the Hula Valley. We visited them fifteen years ago. At that time, my uncle was already dead. They took my other uncle’s money together and that’s how they got to Israel. My Aunt Chaya (Kesselman) and her daughter, Shoshana and their son, Ayil, (who was written up in Exodus and at Ohio State University). He had a price on his head by the British government. All he did, the six months he was here, was outfit a boatload of ammunition and he swam that boatload from the Gulf of Mexico to Israel. It was one of the boatloads of munitions they needed before 1948 and after he got there, he was there only four or five days and he was killed. His name is enshrined over at Ohio State University Hillel, too. So you can see how Zionists and Hebrew minded are family and always were. Interviewer: Do you remember Flag Days here? Schecter: Yes, we went around with boxes and we sold and pinned flags on the men. We went to all the prominent places. That was the way we got money for Palestine. We were proud about that. Interviewer: You would go out and collect . . .? Schecter: Yes, we sure did. I was part of that movement, I guess, as a youngster, without realizing it. Interviewer: You mentioned that you were all born at home. Did you ever have doctors take care of you? Schecter: Yes. I had Dr. Fisher as a youngster. I had a very bad illness. Dr. Feddleman had just come back from the war and my mother threw him out of the house because he gave me up for being dead. She threw his bag out because she said to him, “You’ll have to get somebody else in,” and he said, “You can’t afford it and I can’t get you a doctor.” She threw him out and she ran over on Main Street and got this Dr. Fisher. He came over and he diagnosed it as erysipelas. My uncle had to walk from Stauring Street to Main and High Street (of course there was no transportation) where Mykrantz was open late at night and he walked all the way back and that was the medicine that saved me. We used Dr. Fisher, who had a place on Main Street, for years and years after that. Interviewer: What about teachers? Did you ever have a Jewish teacher while growing up? Schecter: Dr. Sylvester Goodman, too. I had a very serious operation at the age of three. I was climbing over a fence and I got stuck on a picket fence. Dr. Sylvester Goodman operated on me three times. Great man. Saved my life, too. I was a big fatty and was a tomboy. Interviewer: Did you ever follow Dr. Goodman’s career? Schecter: Sure did. His wife is living today in Heritage House. Interviewer: What is her name? Schecter: Mrs. Sylvester Goodman. Interviewer: What’s her first name? Schecter: I forgot her first name. He became a very well known surgeon in the city of Columbus. Interviewer: Teachers. Did you ever have a Jewish teacher as a Schecter: No, I don’t remember. I still see Mrs. Dodson and Mrs. Cox who were my seventh grade music teacher and my fourth grade teacher at Fulton Street School. I walked in here about a year and a half ago to go to this little restaurant over here, Grill & Skillet and there was Mrs. Dodson. I walked up to her and said, “Mrs. Dodson! I’m shocked.” She said, “You’re one of the Cohen girls.” She recognized me from the fourth grade. Well, I had seen her on and off through the years, at Lazarus, so it wasn’t that fresh but she remembered. It was remarkable. And those two women never got married. Teachers used to be old maids. Mrs. Keefer and Mrs. Newman, I think if you talk to anybody from Fulton Street, they’d tell you about Keefer and Newman. Mrs. Newman was the drama teacher and everybody learned “Lil’ Orphan Annie” from her. Interviewer: Speaking of “Lil’ Orphan Annie”, in your home, as you were growing up, did you have English books, Yiddish books, Hebrew books? Schecter: I was an avid reader. We didn’t have that many books but I’ll tell you this, we were just reminiscing the other day about it. Saturday, as religiously as we went to services in the morning, that’s how religiously we all walked up Grant Avenue to the Columbus Public Library and came home just trudging books. We always had a big kitchen and everyone lived in the kitchen. I could sit there enthralled in a book. There could be God knows what going on around me and I would be buried in a book and never hear. To this very day, I can read and anything could be going on around me and I’m able to concentrate. I read books and books and books. Dickens and everything. The kids don’t do that today. Interviewer: You didn’t have television and radio? Schecter: You’ll see my library. I’ve got a library back there. Interviewer: What about butchers other than Harry Center. Do you remember any others? Schecter: Sure, Israel Briar who lived over on Donaldson Street and married one of Joe’s (my husband) cousins. Mr. Katz was over there on Livingston. Of course, old man Godofsky was on Parsons many years ago before Marty took over and Joe talked him into moving over here on Broad Street. Interviewer: Do you remember Henry Einhorn? Einhorn and Cowan butchers? Schecter: No, I don’t. Interviewer: What about policemen? Did you ever meet any policemen in your neighborhood when you were a kid? Did you ever see any policemen? Any recollections? Schecter: Not too much except during prohibition when they did some raiding in our area. I had an uncle, William Cohen, who was raided. Interviewer: C.H. Furman was raided, too. Schecter: I never heard that. Interviewer: It was on the front page of the paper. Schecter: If I remember, that was a “put up” thing. Somebody got angry and they put him up on this. It was at the West Broad Street Garage. Mr. Furman was never involved in that. Mr. Cohen was. He used to do some selling liquor on the side because he needed the money. He was keeping two families, his own of three daughters and my mother’s with three daughters. Do you want me to tell you something about my mother. It was remarkable how, without education, she was able to make a living. She used to trudge with three suitcases, selling tablecloths and things to the goyim on the southside. Harry Margulies, ,my brother-in-law, had a dry goods store and she used to get some of the stuff from him. Then came the High Holy Days and she would sell fish in the backyard. She would bring in great big boxes of fish and the women would gather and come with their baskets and buy fish for the High Holidays. From that, she went into catering. They would hire her by the day to cater. They would furnish the food, the shifts. She would do the cooking in their Interviewer: Did your mother cater any of the picnics? Did you ever go to a picnic? Schecter: Did I ever go to a picnic? No, they never catered picnics. Everyone brought their own baskets. To go on picnics, we went to Heimendale Grove, to Olentangy Park and then to Old Indianola Park where they had the great big swimming pool. We went dancing at Olentangy Park. That’s how I got back to seeing my husband again. We brought our own food. They had shows and all kinds of rides, of course. But the ones we enjoyed the most, were the ones at Heimandale Grove because they were restricted, they were our own people. Interviewer: The Voliner Society. Schecter: Yes, the Voliner Society. My uncles all belonged, my husband belonged. The synagogues, the Sisterhood would all have that. They also had ice cream socials in the backyards of the synagogues to raise money. We had raffles. We called them Lawn Fetes. Interviewer: There obviously was no lawn next to Agudas Achim. Schecter: Yes, there was. Interviewer: I know there was an empty lot. Schecter: That was a beautiful lawn. We used to have grass on there. And we also had a yard in back of Beth Jacob. At that time, I wasn’t involved. The only reason I went to the big shul was for Hebrew School. I belonged to Beth Jacob for years after I was married. In fact, I was president of their Sisterhood for seven years. Then when the shuls didn’t get together and we had already moved out here, that’s when I got involved with Agudas Achim. Interviewer: After Agudas Achim built their own synagogue? Schecter: No, I didn’t wait until they built. I knew they were coming and I was already here. I’m here 33 years. I joined there. We were supposed to merge and it didn’t go through. I was part of the group that was trying to get them to merge. We thought they were merged and then they broke it away again. When they broke away again, I stayed with Agudas Achim. Interviewer: We’ll come back to that. What about birthdays for a poor family when you were a kid? Do you remember celebrating . . .? Schecter: We always had birthday parties. I always had a birthday cake. I think my mother used to go out of her way to see that we children had everything that anybody else had even though we were poor. Living on Stauring Street, the old Jewish Community Center used to be on the corner of Washington and Stauring. There was an old building there and it was right next to Ahavas Sholom Shul which was right next to the Agudas Achim Shul. Yes, we had birthday parties. Interviewer: Do you remember a man by the name of H. Joseph Hyman at the old Jewish Community Center there? Schecter: Yes, and Mrs. Steiffel, who was like the social worker but I think she did it as a volunteer. I remember old lady Steiffel with the gray hair and she was short in stature. We loved her. Hyman was more of a different kind than that. Interviewer: Administrator? Director? Schecter: Yes, he was like a director and we children didn’t have too much to do with him. But I remember Mrs. Steiffel very well. We loved her. She’d go around because we were part of welfare. She’d come to call on us. Interviewer: Do you remember back as far as Rabbi Taxon? Schecter: Sure. That’s who was in the picture. Taxon, not Tarshish. Interviewer: What do you remember about Rabbi Taxon? Schecter: Not too much because we never went to his temple. Interviewer: Taxon was the Rabbi at Agudas Achim. Schecter: Agudas Achim before Werner. Taxon – the Schottenstein woman married Taxon. I knew her very well. After she lost her husband, she came to live here. Yes, I knew Taxon before Werner. Interviewer: Did you know anything about him? Schecter: Not too much. Interviewer: How about Rabbi Neches? Remember him? Schecter: I heard the name, yes. That was way back. Interviewer: He came right after Taxon for two or three years in the 1920s. Schecter: I wasn’t there too much. I was at Beth Jacob. Except through the Hebrew School Association, that’s how I became familiar and having our annual programs at Agudas Achim. Interviewer: Do you remember Reverand Silverman,Cantor Silverman? Schecter: Sure. And his choir. Interviewer: Tell us something about him. Schecter: We used to steal away from Beth Jacob so we could go over and hear the choir. Cantor Silverman had the sweetest voice. Of course, I know his family. His daughter lives here. Pearl Sillman. She’s having problems today. His son and his brother is a famous rabbi in England and there is one son down in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. I think they both died already. Interviewer: Did he do anything? Was he a shochet, a mohel, for example? Schecter: Yes, they all were. He was a shochet and he was a mohel. And so, of course, was Gellman who followed him. I think Gellman followed Silverman. Interviewer: That’s right. Schecter: There was nothing in between. They both stayed very long periods of time. Interviewer: Silverman was there twenty years until he died. Then Gellman came for a long time. Is Gellman still alive? Schecter: He just died last year or two years ago. I have a picture of him if you want it. Interviewer: I’ve seen it. Did he die in Columbus? Schecter: Sure. He got sick between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, two years ago. Interviewer: Do you remember any Judaic objects in your home besides as a kid? Did you have paintings of people? Schecter: Paintings, I doubt. We had lots of Jewish books. Of course, we were raised that way. Interviewer: Yiddish and Hebrew books? Books in English about Jewish things? Schecter: Oh, yes. I loved to read the Bible stories. I always read them as a child. Those were my favorites. There were all kinds of books around the house. Interviewer: When you were attending Fulton and then Mound, do you recall if there were mostly Jewish students there at the time? Schecter: Yes, there were a lot of Jewish students. Especially over at Fulton Street and Mound Street schools. There were quite a number of us. Half of the classes were Jewish. It was like a little ghetto Interviewer: You didn’t have many friends among the non Jewish? Schecter: Yes, I did and I do. To this very day, I remember Mary Capuano and now the Capuano Restaurant that’s just opened up over here. I keep thinking of Mary when I was a kid. I had a Catholic girlfriend – full face with blond hair – who came from Holy Cross around Third Street there. She came to school with me at Mound Street School and I thought it was so neat that she had given up her all day school, as you would call it, going to Holy Cross School and come with us. We were very good friends. We also had colored children in our class and there was none of this kind of thing about being surprised about being with colored people. We just took it for granted. We went all the way through Fulton Street, Mound Street and Central High School with colored kids and thought nothing of it. I even had some friends there. I can’t recall their names. Before you came, I was trying to find my high school paste-up book – my class book of Central High School – someplace in my basement. Interviewer: Let’s talk about your activities after you were married. Let’s start with B’nai Brith Women which you were particularly active in. Is that correct? Schecter: Yes, my Uncle Mr. William Cohen was organizing a B’nai Brith chapter – it’s exactly forty years ago last year. He took all of us children – all of us cousins – and put our names in for a dollar so we were on the charter – they wanted to have 180 people on it. I was part of that, although I worked. I worked with my husband. As I said, I went to work early and when I got married I continued to work as a secretary at Midland Mutual. I was secretary to the assistant actuary. While I was with Chester Sullivan, he became the actuary, the vice president and he ended up being president of Midland Mutual and he was president until they moved over to this gorgeous new building on Broad Street. I worked for Midland for seven and a half years and then I got pregnant with my first child. In the meantime, my husband went into the liquor business on the west side. When we got married, we were absolutely broke. It was the heart of the Depression, May 31, 1931. My husband, Joe, couldn’t hold a job. As I said, he was foreign born. He went to work for Mr. Furman, hauling coal and actually shoveling the coal down the chutes of the basement doors for a quarter a ton. He was supposed to take a colored person with him to do that but he would do it himself because we needed that quarter. I think I earned, as a secretary at that time, $23.00 a week. I had a good job – it was considered excellent. Then Joe got a job at the county in the county courthouse. Lawyers couldn’t get a job. His cousin Schecter couldn’t get a job and he was a graduate attorney. But he got a job refiguring the appraisal taxes. He was supposed to have that job for a few weeks but he held it for nine or ten months. By the time we were married about four years, he was a fruit peddler on Saturday at Fourth Street Market – Central Market. He wouldn’t let me come out and help. He thought that it was beneath my dignity. Then Joe was offered a job by Stone, the beer company. It was one of the original beer companies who had malt stores in this city. It was a string of Stone Grills. I don’t know whether you came across them or not. Interviewer: Stone’s Bar & Grill? Everyone . . .. Schecter: Joe went to work with him the day they opened up. Sam Stone saw him and said, “Joe, come work for me,” and he went to work. I’ll never forget the Thanksgiving that he couldn’t come up the stairs. He had worked for five days, day and night and he couldn’t crawl the stairs. I don’t know what he got. He got almost nothing. Sam said to Joe, “You worked so hard, I’m going to open you up your own place.” So he opened up a place in the bottoms of the west side. Joe was there about three months. Both of us worked very hard. I even made the curtains. He took an old theater and Joe and Morris Skilken, who were out of work, remodeled the theater. It had a sloping floor which they remodeled into a straight floor and made a big barroom out of it. We opened it up together. We put shows on there. We got people to come. Then one of the Scherer brothers came in and said, “We want you to charge _______. We want you to raise it up,” and _________ Hines said, “You can’t do it if you can’t afford it.” And he said, “You’re through.” Here we had opened it up and gone through all that – Sam Stone had gone to Florida – he left it in charge of Joe. So he spitefully bought his old malt store down at the bottom and with tea room furniture we bought together, we opened up a bar there. And we did very well. While I was working in the office, I worked nights there with him. He worked a;; day – he used to spend 18-20 hours working there and that’s how we got started – we borrowed $50 from Lou Levin for Stage _________ Company. Interviewer: We’re going back to your activities in B’nai Brith Women. You enrolled when it was first founded? Schecter: Chartered. I was working and I came to a meeting one evening at Temple Israel. This was one of the nicest things that happened in this community. Temple Israel was very generous with their social welfare programs. They would leave out their rooms to be used by all Jewish organizations without charge. All you did was pay John for his time or using the facilities. Today they won’t give you anything. None of the congregations . . . it’s a shame they don’t let anyone use their synagogues and the organizations are having problems today. We used to meet down there and I came down there one day and Pearl Sillman decided to resign as Vice President. I had taken on the chairmanship of a card party and it was successful. The chapter was three or four years old at that time. She resigned that night and Tillie Rosenthal got up and said, “I nominate Sylvia Schecter as vice president” and I was so shocked, I couldn’t talk. I’m a different person than I was. It made me into a different individual, it really did. I say that leadership can be developed from anybody. I couldn’t talk, it stuck right in my throat but I became vice president and the next year I was president. From then on, I got into district work, representing the chapter. And from district work, I became state president and district president. I never wanted to be a district president. I felt I wasn’t qualified. I always had a hang-up that I never had a college education. But I feel that my college education was experience throughout the world. I’ve listened to some of the finest men in the world speak and somebody once said, “You had your classrooms at the feet of very important men.” The most outstanding thing that I experienced in all my years in B’nai Brith work was two things. One was the trip to Israel made available to me as the only woman representing the eight state area, fifteen years ago at the first Triannual of B’nai Brith of Israel. Before that, when I was on the board of the district, I was always involved in Jewish education. I had the privilege of being the first Adult Jewish Education chairman for District 2 which is an eight state area. They sent me to New York and I was in the presence of people like Mordecai Kaplan, Lilyveld, Rackman. The finest minds were called together by B’nai Brith to set up the Adult Jewish Education program which was before we had the Institute for Jewish Life or any other organizations that were involved in Jewish education. I had the thrill of sitting for six days at the feet of these men and just listening. I came back a different person. I’ve had my education in other ways. These were the two outstanding things that meant more to me than anything else in my life as far as B’nai Brith Women is concerned. I’ve had a very organizational life. I’ve been involved in synagogue Sisterhoods most of my life. Interviewer: One thing at a time. Who belonged to B’nai Brith Women? All the women in the city? Schecter: At first they didn’t. There were a few of the Reform, but mostly Orthodox. Reformed belonged as token members, people like Shanfarber’s wife and Fran Gundersheimer. They all belonged and I think they still belong because B’nai Brith at that time had your nucleus of the Reform people which was being infiltrated with the Orthodox and the other Jewish people, the synagogue and so on. Interviewer: Was this an equivalent of the Council for Jewish Women? Schecter: No, not at that time. We were considered below them. Hadassah with Council,and B’nai Brith was the lowest. There was no Brandeis. I helped found Brandeis later on. Incidentally, I also had the privilege of being district chairman of the Hillel Foundations for eight years and working under Dr. Saffere in Chicago. At the time, when the Hillels were considered almost nothing, we only had 200 in the whole district and I remember how I used to have to get up and make a report. I’d be the last one on the agenda because it didn’t meany anything as far as program. Today, it’s the one that’s pushed the most. Interviewer: When you say this was the order, Hadassah, Council for Jewish Women . . .. Schecter: No. Council for Jewish Women, Hadassah . . . Interviewer: What kind of order? Schecter: Social status, let’s put it very bluntly. But then, what happened was, during the World War II years, B’nai Brith had a tremendous war service program. Incidently, I got involved in it over my head with David Cheses. That’s how David became the State of Ohio chairman for all war services and to this day, Red Cross. That’s where we organized the local Red Cross unit for the Jewish Community Center. I got involved from the district of the war service level. We did so many things locally that we brought recognition to the chapter for the kind of things we were doing. Then we went into a program of having to earn money, we did these big shows – these tremendous shows. The first one started with East High School, a 2 ½ hour program. We brought down a Leonard Romberg from Ontario who was a cousin to Sigmund Romberg and he had score and he showed us how to do it. We used the cantor from Temple Israel – I forget his name – they had a cantor at that time who was head of the music department – he happened to have a cantorial background. He did our direction and we had Aaron Cohen who today is called Artie Kane and is married to Jaye P. Morgan, do the music. We put on a show for two days, 2,000 people at a time at East High School. We had hundreds in the cast and we brought such recognition, that our membership shot up from 200 or 300 to 1,200. Zion Chapter had 1,200 women. I think we were the largest chapter in the entire country. The Zion Lodge was large at that time, they had 1,500 at one point. So the war service brought recognition to us. With the war, we went into a program of blood donor at the old Red Cross Blood Donor Center on High and Spring Street. We set up a Blood Donor Day for the Jewish community, which they had never done. Interviewer: B-Day? Schecter: B-Day, yes. From that, I organized the B-Day program that today we have going at the Jewish Community Center. I organized that myself and I’m very proud of that program, too. Interviewer: What happened to B’nai Brith Women from the war to Schecter: I think it’s as great today. Interviewer: Would you say it’s still flourishing? Schecter: Yes, we were real high for awhile. That was fifteen years ago. Then the chapter became too unwieldy and we decided to break it up. When we broke it up, it went into a bit of a slump. But today, there are five chapters and I understand we have 1,200 to 1,300 members. No other organization has that many and they’re flourishing beautifully. As I see these young girls, I think they’re dynamite. They’re clever, they’re creative, they’re doing a magnificent program under this Operation Stork thing with the March of Dimes. They’re doing all sorts of things and I’m very proud of where they’re keeping themselves. Interviewer: What about Hadassah? Were you active in Hadassah? Schecter: I never was active but I always belonged. I belonged to everything in the community. I remember the old Hadassah donor dinners at the Neil House – 500 to 600 women would show up for the dinners. Yes, I always was a contributing member. Not only a member but did what was required of me as a donor. I couldn’t get that involved. I didn’t have that much time. I worked with my husband, too, and B’nai Brith. I helped organized Brandeis. Interviewer: This was around 1950-1952? The Brandeis Women’s Group? Mrs. Kobacker was also involved? Schecter: When Zacker came here . . . You see, I organized first the Women’s Division of the United Jewish Fund. I was president of the 1941 B’nai Brith chapter here so they wanted to organize the women’s division and they called in Mrs. Kobacker, Fran Gundersheimer, Eleanor Resler, myself, Mrs. William Schiff, Rose Schiff and that’s how I got to know all these people. Fran said she would not take the chairmanship unless I would take it with her. So Mrs. Kobacker was made the chairman of the women’s division. The women’s division the third year was Fran and me. Mrs. Kobacker kept it two years, then Fran and I took it for two years. Then we went on to the rest of it and went on to today where I think we’re thirty something years old. In the meantime, that same nucleus became the nucleus for Brandeis. When Zacker came here, because of my affiliation and relationship with Zacker from his Hillel days, he called on me to help organize Brandeis. We brought in Ida Kobacker- the same group that organized Brandeis. You’ll find the same people that came from there came into Interviewer: It’s amazing how many life members in such a short time you were able to. . . Schecter: How did you know that? Interviewer: Well, I’m writing the hiroty of all these organizations and within the . . . Schecter: Do you mean Brandeis? Interviewer: Yes. Brandeis. Schecter: You know when we did the biggest membership recruitment? Mickey Schoenbaum and I were vice president of Brandeis. Mickey and I brought in ninety some members in one year. I took the chairmanship and she took it with me. That was the biggest hump that we took at one Interviewer: Within the first two or three years, you had 400-500 life members. Amazing. Okay, now, Sisterhoods. Beth Jacob. Agudas Achim. Was there anything that distinguished them from these other women’s organizations? Did they do things that were different? Were they primarily, for example, functioning on behalf of the synagogues? Schecter: The synagogues and temples didn’t get involved in the communal activities that the other organizations were concerned with in any way. It’s only in the last few years that they sent representation to certain kinds of things. But we stuck to our own work. Each congregation was zealously interested in their own programming and their religious schools and their children’s programs and their youth programs and so on. For seven years, I served as president of Beth Jacob before I came over here but never took the presidency at Agudas Achim. But I was the first woman on the men’s Agudas Achim Board which was very unusual because they’re Orthodox and don’t have women on the Board. Mr. Luper or Mr. Waldbaum asked me if I would take the chairmanship of the religious school. I was chairman there for five years and that’s how I got on the Board. I think it’s funny. I’ll never forget. They made me chairman of their vital and important committee function of their board. I was trained in B’nai Brith, how to do things – make reports, recommendations, take a motion, you pass on the recommendations and so on – I got up and did this at my first board meeting. On my report on the religious school, to bring in the amount of money we were going to give for salaries, the budget, etc. They had never had reports that thorough. When I got through, I made a motion that the report and certain things be accepted. Somebody got up and said, “She can’t make a motion, she’s not officially a member of the board. She’s a woman!” I think this is important because they resented a woman making it. Of course, a lot of people got up and defended me. Someone said, “Well, to make it official, somebody please get up and make the motion for her.” And that’s how it was first tabled. And since then, we’ve been doing it differently. Interviewer: Tell me something about Rabbi Greenwald at Beth Jacob. What kind of memories do you have of Rabbi Greenwald? Schecter: Very religious. Very sincere. Dedicated to Judaism in all its phases. A sweet man. Egotistical but I guess all rabbis are, company excluded (laughter). He got along well with the people but he never let himself go with the young people enough. Everyone respected him but that’s the reason we lost the young people. There were very few of them my age that were there before moving from Donaldson Street. If he would have let things alone, we could have all been over at Agudas Achim together but at the very last, he was reluctant to leave the name Beth Jacob, he got a core of people and they didn’t go through with the merger. Let me say one thing about him, I’ll never forget. It’s personal. Do you want anything personal? Interviewer: Sure. Schecter: I’ll never forget. A Jew, especially a Rabbi, is not supposed to look at women. We have the upstairs. One year, I came there in a purple suit with a purple hat and chartreuse flowers. I looked good in those days. I was a little thinner and everything. I was the only young person with all these old ladies because I had to say Kaddish and I would always come every yontiff, regardless if I was working, I had to say Kaddish for my father. I sat in the front row. When we were walking down the steps that Passover, he stopped me and said, “Sylvia, you shined so beautifully up there, it was a pleasure to look up there to see you. But please don’t tell anybody I said this to you because I’m not supposed to look up there and notice another woman at all.” Well, that remained with me all my life because I thought that was the sweetest thing.” Interviewer: He was a very sharp dresser himself, was he not? Schecter: Meticulous. Interviewer: His son tells me that he was. Schecter: He was meticulous. Very well groomed. He had a lot of respect among the non Jewish people. They loved him. They really did. And he was quite an author. Interviewer: Did he ever speak in English? Schecter: He tried, but mostly Yiddish. Interviewer: When he gave lectures on Wednesday evenings or he gave a course? Schecter: Yiddish. Interviewer: What about when he gave a eulogy at a funeral? or married somebody? Schecter: Yiddish. He would say a few things in English. Toward the end, he was mixing up English with Yiddish. But it was mostly Yiddish. And that’s why he lost the Jewish young people. The young people did not know Yiddish anymore. There were very few of us that did. To this very day, people are amazed that I know so much Yiddish. It’s been my exposure, I guess. I think people in those days went out of their way not to be Jewish. And there’s been a reversal now. Interviewer: Let’s go back to the almost merger because your story contradicts most everybody else’s story. You placed some responsibility upon Rabbi Greenwald for not going along with the merger. For some months, if not longer, there was a sense of agreement that the two congregations were going to merge. Schecter: I will tell you this step by step because I was involved from the very beginning. At that time, I had just gotten through being the president for seven years, of the Sisterhood. My cousin, Willie Goodman, who was married to a Himmelstein, was president of Beth Jacob at the time. Louis Levin, a cousin, was married to a Furman who was a cousin on the other side. Our family was very well represented at Beth Jacob. My mother, all of us. The merger came about because the land they had purchased in this area was so beautiful and the decision was made that this was the time to go and there wasn’t enough of a congregation in either one to build a great big synagogue. So they felt by merging the two, Orthodoxy would be strengthened. On that basis, we sold, including myself, because I was in the heat of it, advocating that we do have the merger. I had already moved out here. I already had one child and I knew that that child would not get a good kind of youth exposure to Judaism at Beth Jacob because they had very little youth activities. You saw in my age, I had to go to other places to get it. So I advocated it along with our whole family and when we decided to do that, they took a vote. At that time, the Schlonskys and a whole gang of them all belonged to Beth Jacob. Well, they fooled around with this merger for two and a half to three years. By that time, somebody gave them (I think it was Mr. Schwartz or Mr. Payne) a piece of land over there on Bulen Avenue. They felt they should build on that piece of land. I got up at a meeting and I pleaded with them. “The land means nothing. It’s the site. The site that we picked over here in Bexley is so much better that if you do this, you’re going to get yourself involved because already colored people are coming over there.” No, they felt this was better. Besides which, they would lose their name. There were Weinstock and Bein and Louis Levine who were with us and all of a sudden, made a reversal because Rabbi Greenwald did get them all aside. He tried to talk me into it, too. By the time they got around to that vote, two and a half years later, all the young people who had been promised the merger, had left and gone to Tifereth Israel. So those young people who had __________ the vote and it was a very hotly contested vote. By the time they got ready for the vote, those people were teed off and they could care less and they had left and they weren’t there to vote. I got up and pleaded with them and actually cried. I said, “Please don’t vote. You’re hurting your young people. You’re doing an injustice to the city. We will take care of Rabbi Greenwald. We’ll see that he becomes the __________. We have made this agreement for him to protect his years of service.” And it was all set. By that time, Rabbi Rubenstein had been hired at Agudas Achim – I think he was there a year and a half before we moved. They took a vote and it was very close. Willie Goodman was president and it failed by a very small margin. Willie Goodman resigned so you can’t say there weren’t any consequences, there were. Not only Willie Goodman, but he left with his whole family, Leon, Label Shlonsky, us, and Max Schlonsky, who is today, Max Schnell, the Rubens, my mother. About forty families left Beth Jacob and I was heading it with Willie. We went to Agudas Achim and they said, “Why leave now? We’re not built yet.” And I remember saying, “Shtutige gram a far garechte Tishkoff keft nisht. I don’t go on a spread table. If I’m going, I’m going to work for where I’m going to be, and that’s where I’m going to be, so I’m not going to wait until they build – I’m going to go right away.” Rabbi Rubenstein picked me up and right away he said, “Sylvia, we need you, we want you.” And that’s when I started attending services at the old big shul. I got active in the Sisterhood right away and we had a big dinner party at the Jewish Community Center to furnish the kitchen. We got thousands of dollars in. And he said to me, “I don’t think our people know you enough. You’d better get yourself lined up with somebody else as chairman.” After all, here I was a new person in a synagogue they’re building. So we got a hold of Patricia Schottenstein and Mrs. Stein (Irving Stein’s mother) and the three of us were chairmen of the luncheon at the Jewish Community Center. It started the initial thing as far as Sisterhood was concerned, to go with Agudas Achim. I became very active in the Sisterhood and did all kinds of things there. But I would never take the presidency. They kept asking me and I wouldn’t take it. I was too involved in too many things but I continued to work very hard in Sisterhood. Sisterhood was involved in religious school, Sunday School, the kitchen facilities and did that kind of work for Agudas Achim. Two years ago, Agudas Achim honored me and they had never done that before. I have a big picture hanging, I’ll never forget it. They honored me and the entire city showed up at a luncheon for all the work I had done in the community. I had never taken the presidency but I continued to work. And though I left there and I became an administrator – ______ two years ago. Sarah Schwartz went to work there and they needed an administrator so they thought they’d try me out. They tried me out for six months and I stayed two years. That was six years ago. I stayed two years and they were paying me peanuts but I was doing it because I wanted to show them what an administrator could do and I decided I wasn’t getting enough. I was getting no more than a secretary and I was working Saturdays and Sundays. So I very nicely gave them my notice. I was out of work about four months when Ben Mandelkorn asked me to come in over there at the Federation. But I had never done professional work. I had done volunteer work all my life. And to do this very day, they got ready to set up the kitchen over at Agudas Achim, planning the kitchen, I’m over there. They had problems with the Jewish education this summer, I’d get away from it, they called me in because they had problems with the Sunday School. I’m in there, made the suggestions, got the head or whoever they have right now. I’ve never allowed myself to get out because this is my synagogue and right or wrong, it’s my synagogue. Interviewer: Are you aware of any role Rabbi Rubenstein might have played in this merger situation? Schecter: He was very pleased that it didn’t go through. I think he had qualms about having to share a rabbinical set up. But I think he was willing at that time. Interviewer: Was there any reason to believe that Rabbi Greenwald felt that Rabbi Rubenstein was willing to share . . . Schecter: I think Rabbi Greenwald was getting cold feet about the fact that he would not be considered top banana. He would not be given the kovod (honor), maybe or the acclaim he thought he should have although he would have been able to have devoted himself to so much more productive things if he had allowed this to happen. He could have written and done the things that he was really great at. I think he did an injustice to himself. This is my viewpoint, of course. I think if we had the double merger – of course, we wouldn’t have the jewel of a synagogue they’ve got over there, it’s the most beautiful place in all the world, but I think we would have had something really great . Interviewer: What about the question of the mechitza for Rabbi Greenwald. What role do you think …….. Schecter: That might have been one of the stopping – one of the barriers that held up. Interviewer: You certainly don’t suspect that a man like Rabbi Greenwald would have ……. Schecter: Gone along with it? Interviewer: . . . attached himself to a congregation where there was not . . . . Schecter: Let me say this to you. Before we ever left Washington Street Agudas Achim , we already were sitting mixed seating downstairs in the back. On many occasions, there was mixed seating – always at the forum services on Friday nights, there was mixed seating even way back when, although they never had formal services. True, so that there was this liberal outlook and procedures going on regardless. I think if we had gone on with the merger, we probably would have kept the mechitza idea. Because the plans were not ready yet. So what would have happened? I can’t predict. I don’t know whether they got into any discussions about this prior to that that helped make the discussion or not. I think the fact that the people gave that land free . . . and all I kept hearing as I recall, at that meeting was “We’re going to be submerged. Nobody will ever hear the name Beth Jacob. It will be lost and we’ve been here all these years.” That kind of thing was prominent in the arguments of why we shouldn’t pull away from the merger. We kept saying, “How can you say that when all of us are going there? We’re all leaders and if anybody wants to lead any congregation _______ leadership. Regardless where it comes from, they’re not going to …… Weinstock was afraid he’d never be __________. The very people who argued against it some of them are sitting today at Agudas Achim for services. I sat next to Weintraub for Rosh Hashana and I kept thinking about arguing when he was treasurer at Beth Jacob at the time. He didn’t want the division and here he is, sitting at our synagogue at Agudas Achim. So who knows? Interviewer: Did you know much about the Workman’s Circle? Schecter: No. That isn’t the _________, is it? Interviewer: It was called “Our Right to Ring” or “The Workman’s Circle.” Schecter: Except that I used to go to their shows when they had their Yiddish shows here. My father-in-law had what they called the Free Loan Society. The gift he gave us for our wedding, he had to borrow money to give us a wedding gift and he borrowed it from the Hebrew Free Loan Society. Interviewer: Joe’s dad? From the Hebrew Free Loan Society? Were you at all involved in the Hachnosis orchim – the sheltering house? Schecter: Yes. As a young person, it was very unusual for me but I would go around and help them get housing for people passing through. I remember having to take somebody . . . sometimes I used to take somebody to Washington Avenue. Somebody would say, “Sylvia, will you take them there?” In reference to the Mikvah, I helped the ladies set the one up on Livingston Avenue, not that I participated in it at all except through marriage and stuff like that but I helped them because I feel that whatever Judaism calls for, I may not use it but it’s there for Jewish people that want it. That’s been my approach to anything I do with reference to Jewish life. That’s the way I was with Torah Academy, too. My son is a product of Torah Academy. I helped set up Torah Academy, too. Interviewer: What is your son’s name? Schecter: Benson Schecter. Interviewer: You helped set up Torah Academy? Let’s talk for a few minutes about that, which is more controversial than the merger. Schecter: What’s controversial about that today? It’s so great. Interviewer: People that weren’t even in Columbus claim they set up Torah Academy. Not to mention people who opposed it and were in Columbus and claim they set up Torah Academy. Schecter: Now everybody’s on the bad lane, is that what you mean? Interviewer: What are your recollections of the key people involved? Schecter: I’ll tell you what happened. Before we had a Torah Academy as we have it now, on my back porch, which today is my den, Rabbi Rubenstein, Dina Zisenwine, who is Rabbi Zisenwine’s mother, Frank Nutis, and myself sat down to discuss an all day school which started off when Rose Schwartz had a pre-school over on Bryden and tried to set up a first grade class which these kids were involved in. It didn’t go over. So we sat here and we had a commitment from Dina, who had a very fine Jewish background (that’s Rabbi Zisenwine’s mother). That fall, she organized a first grade school. We were set to go. Rabbi Rubenstein, I think, was the strongest one. Sometimes I don’t think too much of some of the things Rabbi Rubenstein does but without him, this would never have gotten off the ground I don’t care what anybody says, he also kept it financed and Agudas Achim kept it going by housing them free. I know because I was the administrator there six years ago and I know what kind of money they were using and how they deteriorated the building and everything. Interviewer: Almost everyone that I have interviewed has contradicted what you just said. The role of Rabbi Rubenstein and the congregation in the founding. Schecter: You’ve been talking to the wrong people. You didn’t talk to Frank Nutis? Interviewer: No, not yet. I will. Schecter: When you don’t house a school for twelve years in your congregation, if you don’t have a role to play in that. Interviewer: I mean prior to . . . they didn’t start housing until the school began. I’m talking about the stages of trying to start the school. Schecter: I will say that one of the prime movers was Rabbi Stavsky but Rabbi Rubenstein kept it going because it was he who each year went out and got the money. Without Rabbi Rubenstein, they could never have raised the money. He is the greatest fund raiser this city ever conceived. If you want to raise money, you turn it over to him and he can bring it in. I’m telling you because I worked with him. I reorganized our fund raising for the present building they now have. They had it dormant for about seven years. He’s lazy sometimes but when he wants to do anything, he does it. That’s one of the things I did in my two years. I got him organized and got the group to go out and do it and kept after him and he can produce anything. He was the one who financially kept that thing going with Frank Nutis. Of course Frank Nutis has a lot of money and Phil Bornstein – those are the guys who had the money and that’s our synagogue. So if you have anything from any other synagogue, don’t let that . . .there were many people in our synagogue who opposed the use of our building. They were going to charge rent, charge for lights, charge for gas and charge for janitorial services. Believe you me, in the end, our synagogue assumed all those expenses. They left us owing. We had bills. It was set up but the money never came into pay for all that stuff. My son was the second year enrollment there. If it had been there a year sooner, I’d have had a daughter in there. I firmly believed in Torah Academy. And it was important to get the people’s children in there, to start off. They were thrilled to enroll Benson. They didn’t have a kindergarten yet but he got in and went the whole eight years. I was very active in Torah Academy. Active in the initial dinners we set up with the Schottensteins and I’m sorry if anybody else says they did it. Agudas Achim people are the ones who did it. Interviewer: What about Harry Gilbert’s role? Schecter: Absolutely. Harry Gilbert was the financial philanthropist who made it possible . It was his idea for a Jewish education. He’s the one who gave the building on Bryden Road, if I’m not mistaken. And it was his idea with Rose Schwartz and we tried a first grade over there. Then after that was when they went over to the Jewish Community Center. We lost our pre-school. I’ll tell you something, Agudas Achim was the forerunner of a lot of things that happened in this community but it’s been taken away from them. The Hebrew School, the pre-school, Torah Academy. That’s the reason why they never had a very healthy youth organization there. Everything seemed to be concentrated on a lot of other things. I’m sure if a Gilbert or a Nutis or a Bornstein wanted to, that money could have been funneled into a youth program like some of the other congregations had instead of into a Torah Academy or a Hebrew School or into a pre-school. Interviewer: What was Mrs. Rubenstein’s role in these early years of Torah Academy? Was she involved at all? Schecter: Not in Torah Academy. She was involved in Sunday School and religious school. Let me tell you something, that woman is sharp. She is a phenomenal. If you ever want to take a course in Hebrew interpretation of the Bible, she can do a tremendous job. She’s absolutely magnificent – a very bright and very creative person. Interviewer: We skipped over a Rabbi who was at Agudas Achim for 18 years. Rabbi Hirschsprung. Do you remember him at all, though you weren’t a member at that time? Schecter: No, not too much. He was from the old school, too, and didn’t have enough rapport with the young people. I understood. He just wasn’t involved with young people enough. The big shul was just too modern . . . he was a scholar and that’s about it. Interviewer: Do you suspect that that was the attraction of Rabbi Rubenstein? That he could relate to young people? Schecter: Yes, very much so. He came here and he was a human dynamo. He just did things. He came up with the ideas of a Bar Mitzvah Breakfast program and it was the only one in the city at the time. It went over with tremendous success. To this very day, they have a beautiful turnout every Sunday morning. I remember over at the old synagogue, we would have the Sunday morning services. What do you call Interviewer:. Tallis and Tefillin. Schecter:. Then we would go over to the building on Bryden Road and cook lunches. Salmon patties, macaroni and cheese – big lunches to attract the people to come to the services on Sunday mornings so the kids would learn how to set their tefillin and learn how to daven. That was before we had the synagogue here so that shows you that I was involved even before we came here. He started that program. He got along with young people fabulously. We were really going strong. Interviewer: Did you ever hear any stories of why Rabbi Hirschsprung left? Schecter: He was voted out. It was a bitter kind of thing, I guess. It was really a matter of progress and the fact that he was not catering to the young people. He did not go out and do the fund raising for the new synagogue which Rabbi Rubenstein did do. And which put him on the forefront. It was he who raised the money to build this building, to start with. Have you seen it yet? It was he who brought in the money to do this new remodeling program. Interviewer: Did you know Rabbi Duff? Schecter: Just from being around people from Temple Israel. He was very, very reformed as was Rabbi Tarshish who was loved the most. But I guess he catered too much to the community and not enough to his congregation and they got rid of him for that reason. He became nationally known. Interviewer: What about Esras Noshim? Were you ever involved in that? Schecter: Yes. Esras Noshim was the forerunner of what we have in Heritage House, too. That was your charitable organization. Since I was working with the same women at the synagogue as a young woman, I know that we did the charity things. That was originally organized by Mrs. Goldberg, then Mrs. Schiff. She followed me as president of the Sisterhood at Beth Jacob. She also was president of the Esras Noshim at the time it went down but some of the money was turned over to the Home for the Aged. I used to go out with some of the old ladies and try to raise money for some . . . just on a perepheral basis. I concentrated my efforts on that. I know Mrs. Speisman, to this very day will tell you that when we had to have Passover goods or we wanted to have Passover meschitim for the Home for the Aged, she and I would go schnorring down Main Street. I learned a lot from these women. These old ladies would do a fabulous job, fund raising just by going in with tickets, they would sell an ordinary person $10, $15 or $20 which in those days was a lot of money. Interviewer: Did you remember old Mrs. Goldberg? Schecter: Not too well but from a distance. Knowing her was supposed to be a joy. She was the matriarch of the whole thing. Of course, she was at Agudas Achim and I didn’t know her too well. Mrs. Furman was already president of Beth Jacob and Mrs. Goodman and those were the people I knew as a youngster. Interviewer: Did you know Rose Sugarman? Schecter: Sure. At the old Schonthal Center. She ran the center with an iron hand. She had a big mouth and she talked a lot. I loved the Schonthal Center. It was where I grew up. I was one of those who really gained a lot from my associations there. I remember going to sewing classes there and of course, the library there. There isn’t a library in our new Jewish Community Center. Everything but a library. Sewing classes, dancing classes, gym classes in the back in the old barn, or a place where they used to have horses – a barn, like. Interviewer: Do you remember Rose as a person at all? Her personality? Schecter: Yes. Rose was a very strong personality. Some people did not like her. I adored her. I guess it was the way you got along with people. If you are exposed to people long enough, you begin to accept their weaknesses as well as their strengths. She used to tell all kinds of stories about Pop Schonthal because he was a widower. Pop Schonthal, we all loved him. I used to sit on his knee. Interviewer: So did Rose. Schecter: They used to go to conventions together. Of course, I went to a lot of conventions, too, with a lot of men, which didn’t mean anything. She ran the whole center and the camp way out on on Magnetic Springs – she ran that. Everything was under her. I remember when Don Shusterman, who became a dentist, after he was in charge of physical educational at the center. We also used to have Sunday night dances at the center. Interviewer: Did you ever know Joe Bonowitz? Schecter: No, I heard you mention him, the fighter. Interviewer: No, no, that was Lou Bloom. Joe Bonowitz was the ball player. Schecter: No, I heard you mention him at that meeting. Those sports were beyond me – I was a little too much older than they. Interviewer: Do you remember Maurice Bernstein? Schecter: From the Federation? Sure, I worked under him. I helped Interviewer: I know that but the tape recorder doesn’t know that. Schecter: The Women’s Division was organized before Maurice Bernstein was E.J. Schanfarber, who organized the United Jewish Fund as it is constituted at this time. We used to meet over in E.J. Schanfarber’s offices – he had a little office near where Mayer Rosenfeld . . . . Interviewer:. This is the end of the tape containing the September 22, 1974 interview of Sylvia Schecter by Dr. Marc Lee Raphael for the Columbus Jewish Historical Society Oral History Project. INTERVIEW WITH SYLVIA SCHECTER PART 2 Interview with Sylvia Schecter part 2 on September 22, 1974 by Marc Lee Raphael. This interview is part of the Oral History program of the Columbus Jewish Historical Society. Schecter: E.J. Schonfarber, who organized the United Jewish Fund as it is constituted at this time. We used to meet E.J.’s offices – he had a little office over there with Leah Rosenfeld, the Easter Building. Leah Rosenfeld and I were very close because, as I said, I helped organize the Women’s Division. Interviewer: Do you know whatever happened to Leah Rosenfeld? Schecter: Yes, she just died two or three years ago. She died in Heritage House. I think she left, she was pensioned off by Jewish National Fund, $20,000 or $30,000 to Heritage House. She came in toward the last. I knew Leah really well. She was a reformed girl but spoke very dramatically, as Rose Sugarman did, too, in fact. We used to take dramatic and elocution lessons at the Center together. Interviewer: Maurice Berstein was really the first director. Simon Lazarus and E.J. Schonfarber did this as a hobby. Schecter: That’s right. It was a side thing for them. Interviewer: Is Maurice Berstein still alive? Schecter: Yes, I see him at General Assembly when I go and I saw him at the United Jewish Fund thing just a few months ago. Interviewer: Where is he working now? Schecter: He’s with National United Jewish Appeal. Interviewer: In New York? Schecter: Yes, he is. He’s still with them. He has a big job with them. He’s retired right now. He told us, yes. I see Maurice all the Interviewer: We skipped over Simon Lazarus. Did you get to know him at all in your work? Schecter: Yes. During the war, I was in a lot of district work and a lot of day work and everythng! I wanted a typewriter and you couldn’t get a typewriter for love or money. You had to be on a list and wait your turn. I needed a typewriter and it was my birthday so Joe says he was going to get me one. Do you know what he did? He went up to the Lazarus Company and asked to see Simon Lazarus and went up to see him and told him who he wanted a typewriter for and why. Simon Lazarus called downstairs to the typewriter department and told them, “You give Joe Schecter a typewriter for his wife” and Joe came home with a typewriter. He was a gracious and kind man, dignified and very pleasant to be with. I looked up to him because I was just a young chick. To me, he was someone to be idolized. Never forget. Interviewer: Tell me something about Heritage House and its founder. Schecter: When we originally had this little Home for the Aged over on Woodland Avenue, I had made a promise to my old aunt, Mrs. Roth, that I would get involved in that when I got through with B’nai Brith. And I did. I went around picking up stuff with Mrs. Pfeiffer and I helped do some things. Lazaar Brenner, at that time, was a social worker and we had an argument. We met in the office at the Jewish Center and we were discussing whether it should be taken over by the Federation. You want to know about controversy? You say there’s no controversy? I remember sitting at this long table and there were two factions, the Reform and the Orthodox, with a mixture of the other in between. They were asking if the Federation would consider putting the Home for the Aged in its budget, to some extent. They didn’t want to do it. We got together and then they decided they would do it. Before they got into it, people were sitting around – Charles Lazarus, Mrs. Lazarus, Simon Lazarus, Troy Feibel – there was a whole group of us. Bob Mellman, Abe Wolman and myself – Max Robbins at that time was interested in the Home for the Aged – there was a whole table of us. We got into a heated discussion because they said, “We have Montefiore Home or we’ve got the Home for the Aged in Cleveland and if we want to, we can send our people there.” At that time, they would send them and pay for them. But they didn’t recognize the fact that there were people here who wanted their people right close to them. So we got into quite a heated argument, to the point where, finally, it was passed. Then someone said, “Next thing you know, they’re going to want money for a Home for the Aged. A new home. They’ll have enough people and they’ll say they need it.” I’ll never forget, Abe Wolman turned red and I did, too, after we had already decided. We appointed, last summer, a social worker, to be head of the Home for the Aged on a side basis because it was just part of a social work thing. I got up – by that time I had learned to use my mouth a little bit – and I said, “You people are supposed to be the leaders of this Jewish community and it seems to me, you worry about a home that you may have to build in the future but if there is a time when we do need it, if you people are supposed to be the head of the community and if you have an interest in the Jewish people, if we have to do it, we’ll face it at that time and not talk about it now. It’s a shame that we sat here and had to discuss when old people really had no place to go.” Max Robbins and Abe Wolman were very upset because they could take their people and put them in the Montefiore Home and if anybody wanted to visit them, they had the money to go visit them. But here, these were poor Jewish people that couldn’t go visit their parents. These people were really stranded here. From that day on, it was great. When we got ready to have a new home, the first thing we did was call Abe Wolman and Laz and I sat down and we called Bob Weiller and Aaron Zacks. We got two factions together. Bob Wriller, who had never worn a yalmalke in his life, we finally got him to walk into Agudas Achim for a dinner and put a yalmalke on. It was the greatest thing that ever happened. I think the Home for the Aged has been the most unifying force for our Jewish community than there was in the whole community. Besides the Federation. Because they have learned to work together, to respect each others’ denominations and allow each to fulfill its own role. I feel that the home as been the nicest thing that has happened to our Jewish community. Look at Cincinnati, they have two homes. You said there wasn’t controversy. There was a lot of Interviewer: I only meant nobody has told conflicting stories about the controversy. I don’t mean there wasn’t controversy. I mean everybody that tells me the story about what you just told me, more or less tells the story the same way. From Ethiopia to Israel to Columbus: An Evening with Michal Avera Samuel Rob Cohen Interviews Michal Avera Samuel Michal Avera Samuel, the new… Read “My Search for Wider’s Deli” Susan Wider tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs her… 2021 © The Columbus Jewish Historical Society history@tcjf.org	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2340
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__label__cc	0.659527	0.340473	A preview PDF for the Southlands from Kobold Press is up at Paizo: Here. The Kickstarter page is Here. The project is 43 backers away from achieving the stretch goal of having the Bestiary as a standalone book, which necessitates more monsters, including 25 spots for backer submitted entries. Some other interesting projects I've been keeping an eye on (your wallet and non-gaming spouse/partner will hate this list): - Feng Shui 2: Action Movie Roleplaying Game by Robin D. Laws: This is an update of the Feng Shui system from the '90s which sought to emulate the style and pacing of Asian action cinema. They've gone through some stretch goals that expand the themes beyond Asian movie archetypes (gene freek, two-fisted archaeologist, pirate, swordsman, musketeers, looks like Kaiju Patrol 'pop-up juncture' (seems like mini-settings) is next). - Demon Hunters RPG: A Comedy of Terrors: This is from Dead Gentlemen Productions (makers of the films The Gamers, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, and The Gamers: Hands of Fate). Demon Hunters was an RPG inspired by supernatural and/or action TV shows like Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and The A-Team, along with movies like Army of Darkness, Evil Dead 2, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Ghostbusters, and James Bond. Originally published by Margaret Weis Productions, for this iteration they've decided to recruit experienced game designers and artists (such as Cam Banks and Jason Engle) to work for them instead under their own banner. The new system will be inspired by Fate. - 13th Age in Glorantha: This kickstarter offers a 13th Age (Archmage system, a modified mix of 3E and 4E from Pelgrane Press) rendition of the venerable Glorantha setting (of RuneQuest fame, and one of the earliest and long supported game settings). This may be the first time Glorantha is presented in a d20 style system. - The Ultimate Adequate Commoner: This is a smaller project focusing on playing the Commoner NPC class in a world full of menacing monsters and mighty heroes. Product is designed for Pathfinder and other d20 games, possibly of value for other systems as well. Perhaps with this playing really regular folk with some impact amongst the adventuring classes wouldn't be much a stretch after all. - Chill 3rd Edition: A Horror Roleplaying Game: Chill from Pacesetter games and later Mayfair games was one of the original horror genre roleplaying games. This will be the third edition of the game, based more on the Mayfair edition with some modifications/updated rules and modern layout, design, and production values. - Worldspinner: Fantasy RPG Worldbuilder & Map Maker: Appears to be a cartography tool and campaign setting note organizer. Not sure if there's a subscription based useage, as that would kill it for me. However, a lot of known names in gaming and game fiction are involved as stretch goals (Bill Webb, Mur Lafferty, Lisa Smedman, Wolfgang Baur, Philip Athans, John Wick, Ian Irvine, Mark Teppo, Elizabeth Bear, Matt Finch), so this project may be worth further reading. - Hex Chests: These are hexagonal boxes made of premious woods for storing dice. They seem to be compact, have good fit & finish, and constructed of woods that look gorgeous. Standard precautions for a new company on KS applies, but the images and project layout look nice. - Quests of Doom - Pathfinder and Swords & Wizardry Modules: A Frog God Games offering, this time Pathfinder and 5E updates for two 3E-era module sets of "themed" adventures Demons & Devils and Vampires & Liches. As the funding increases, these adventures will be joined by similarly themed adventures written by some of the most notable names in old school-style gaming, including, you guessed it, Ed Greenwood. He's not the only one, here's the full list (parentheses indicates number of individual adventures under that title): (3) Demons & Devils - Bill Webb and Clark Peterson (3) Vampires & Liches - Casey Christofferson and Bill Webb (1) Lycanthropes - Steve Winter (1) Elementals - Michael Curtis (1) Lycanthropes & Elementals - Skip Williams (1) Men - Jim Ward (1) Monstrosities - Matt Finch (1) Men & Monstrosities - Casey Christofferson (1) Giants - Michael Curtis (1) Dragons - Jim Ward (1) Giants & Dragons - Ed Greenwood (1) Bugs - Bill Webb (1) Blobs - Jim Collura (1) Bugs & Blobs - Matt Finch + Bill Webb Also read the Risks and Challenges section for general hilarity and an occurrence that may very likely happen to (harmlessly) delay Ed from completing his contribution to this project. Worldspinner: Fantasy RPG Worldbuilder & Map Maker: Appears to be a cartography tool and campaign setting note organizer. Not sure if there's a subscription based useage, as that would kill it for me. However, a lot of known names in gaming and game fiction are involved as stretch goals (Bill Webb, Mur Lafferty, Lisa Smedman, Wolfgang Baur, Philip Athans, John Wick, Ian Irvine, Mark Teppo, Elizabeth Bear, Matt Finch), so this project may be worth further reading. I was just coming here to share that one... I know some of our map-making folks will be interested in this one. I like the looks of it, but I'd be more apt to support it if it included a local installation. I'm not a huge fan of that which is online-only. Quick update on Kobold Press' Southlands Kickstarter. The project has exceeded the 600 backer goal, thus the Southlands Bestiary is expanded from a chapter in the main book (~20 to 25 monsters) into its own book (perhaps ~50 to 60 monsters). I too liked standalone offline software. With minimal effort a program can have a pretty decent lifespan (decades) even if not supported for years, provided the base program has the features needed to accomplish its purpose. Once the online aspect comes into play, the second the company decides to stop supporting the program, then its over. The Southlands Kickstarter has gained a lot of steam, and a lot of stretch goals and add-ons. I've upped my own pledge twice, now! 55 hours left on that one. Southlands is very close to having an introduction written by Jeff Grubb. (Edit: Make that, Southlands is having an introduction written by Jeff Grubb.) Increased my pledge a while ago to leap into a higher tier, have added again to pick up some add-ons, will probably do so again for the dice and other things. Most likely the project will knock down the next couple of goals. The revealed "end game" goals are very intriguing and I hope the project reaches, because those would expand the material of the book yet again, or in the case of the backer goal, add 25 more monsters to the bestiary. Edited by - Dark Wizard on 16 Oct 2014 03:23:10 13 hours left, and 934 backers... I really want the stretch goals for 1001 backers, so let's jump aboard, folks! Huzzah! 4 hours left, and 1001 supporters reached! I'm stoked about getting those stretch goal goodies. Southlands ended even better than I had hoped, $97728 total with 1044 backers. It reached all the backer number stretch goals and most of the funding stretch goals. I was kinda hoping to get that $101,000 stretch goal, but I'm happy with the stretch goals we go. I actually more than doubled my original pledge, to get more of the goals and such. This is pretty nifty... But the one I want is out of my price range. The Dice Chest The perfect dice box for tabletop and RPG gamers, finely crafted in a variety of wood with customizable features. Holds 96 dice! The Dice Chest is a hybrid dice case and rolling tray for tabletop gamers. The lid doubles as a rolling screen for GMs and players who prefer to hide their rolls. Each case is made from wood that is hand selected for it's beauty and strength. Cases are built in our on-site woodshop to our exacting standards. With a footprint of 9.5" by 5.75" (241mm x 146mm) the Dice Chest holds 96 standard d6 dice, has ample room for pencils, cards, and gaming supplies. Can't believe I missed pledging to the Chill kickstarter by 11 minutes. Towards the end they met a stretch goal for a limited edition boxed set. I'm a sucker for those things, unfortunately for my wallet. Maybe I'll pick up the hardcover down the line. Next on the maybe horizon for me is Vampires Dark Ages (Deluxe V20 edition). I haven't delved into those games as much as others, but I encountered V:DA on my first brush with RPGs (in fact the first RPG book I read) and found the lore particularly juicy with the pseudo-historical setting. This may be a nostalgia buy. An update on the Midgard Southlands project, a total of 130 monsters submitted by backers are being relayed to the monster wrangler team who will decide which creatures gain entry into the Southlands Bestiary. This is well more than the 100+ entries Wolfgang preferred in order to have a good selection for inclusion into the bestiary. To think about a week ago the design team had a contingency plan for if the submissions fell short of the available slots. The Southlands Bestiary is shaping up. Edited by - Dark Wizard on 01 Nov 2014 04:56:32 There's also THIS - a Kickstarter for an artist who is doing the races for the World of Ark. Any donation would be appreciated. I am very surprised Dalor didn't post this here. Originally posted by Markustay I forgot! On THAT note however, there is also THIS - a Kickstarter for Ravenlore Press that will feature a foreword and short story by Ed Greenwood, a short story by Erik Scott de Bie...and more in the works (such as a novel by Richard L. Byers)! This one really isn't my bag... I got one of the Grimtooth books, back in the day, and found it quite underwhelming. Still, I know the Grimtooth's Traps series was enjoyed by many, so I am sharing this one. Less than two weeks left, but they've already blown way past their goal. Grimtooth's Ultimate Traps Collection This is what the humans at Goodman Games say you need to know about this Kickstarter event: Published by Goodman Games under license from Flying Buffalo (and with my permission), this 460-page hardcover collects of all five of MY Traps books, including the original eponymous 1981 edition as well as Traps Too, Traps Fore, Traps Ate, and Traps Lite. Every trap from the original five Grimtooth�s books is included � there are no exclusions! This massive tome is systems-neutral, containing more than 500 traps suitable for all fantasy systems and games. You have never had so many trap options before � use them well� My book will be available to you mortals in multiple formats: a basic softcover for table play, a durable hardcover for longer shelf life, and a gold foil edition for the serious collector (available in both faux and real leather, and with a slipcase). The book is also available in PDF edition. All print backers will also receive a copy of the PDF edition. Face it � this is a homage to a VERY important piece of gaming history. (Mine!) The book features a foreword by noted dungeon designer Harley Stroh, and also includes an extensive interview with the original creative team, a cover gallery showcasing 30 years of editions (in both English and many foreign languages), and a look behind the mysterious submission process � including my legendary �Grimtooth�s Submissions Box� that sits majestically on a shelf in the Flying Buffalo offices. And I have created more than a dozen new traps specifically for this volume. For the first time in a decade, the Grimtooth�s submissions box has been cracked opened again, and more great entries have poured out to an unsuspecting world! Plus the humans at Goodman Games are giving you the possibility of several exciting stretch goals to make this epic project even more impressive: printed endsheets, a satin ribbon bookmark, the cover gallery in full color, a custom dust jacket for KS backers, and a gatefold page featuring the Grimtooth board game that was first mentioned more than 20 years ago! And if you�re really lucky we might do a cross-over with the Dungeon Crawl Classics line, allowing me (Grimtooth) to make an appearance in a special DCC module produced just for this Kickstarter! And to wrap it all up, primary Grimtooth illustrator Steve Crompton has dug through his archives to find original art from the earliest books. This original art is available as part of the deluxe book pledge levels! I'm supporting a couple of new Kickstarters this week... One is the Exploding Kittens one that has, pardon the pun, blown up so spectacularly. No link on that one; it doesn't fit the rules of this discussion. AKO Dice, though... I'm a bit of a dice geek, like many gamers, and this is going to be the fifth dice based Kickstarter for me. These dice are pretty freaking nifty looking. The use of dice has been recorded to ancient times. The oldest known dice were excavated as part of a 5000-year-old backgammon set at the Burnt City, an archaeological site in south-eastern Iran. Dice collecting began with the popularity of the Dungeon & Dragons series of board/role playing games. Since it's inception, players have grown attached to and have collected a wide variety of dice. This started a trend in unique dice designs incorporating various aspects of the gaming world and tapping into themes such as space, fantasy, and more. For the newest design, I have taken the traditional dice and turned it on it's head. I am using a simple idea, yet complex design concept. The new design is inspired by new age concepts, and has a sleek, space-age, cutting-edge technology style. AKO DICE takes the traditional dice design and improves upon it for a trendy, one of a kind design perfect for all gamers as well as collectors. Hmmm, the anodize black ones look interesting, but the price is a bit much for a pair of six siders to me. The only dice one I got involved with was one where they were making d14's, d16's, d18's, etc... and I gotta admit that the d14's and d18's were too close to differentiate them from d12's and d20's. The d16 was an easily identifiable beast though, and I'd probably use it to replace instances where "upgrading" weapon size from a d12 becomes 2d8. This is a really cheap kickstarter with a decent little reward. Basically, all it is is bookmarks with nice artwork on them, but at the top it says things like "spell" or "race" or "class" or "item" or "feat" or other stuff... so that if you wanted to take a rulebook and mark the section in that book that is where the feat information is, you could just stick a marker in there and leave it. For $14 + $6 shipping you'll get up to 75 bookmarks. For $25 + presumably still $6 shipping, you can get up to 195 bookmarks (if you have a lot of books, or if you just figure for a few bucks more you can make gifts to your players). You can go even cheaper ($8 is the cheapest buy-in). For the relatively small buy-in cost, its not too bad https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nordgames/fantasy-rpg-bookmarks-for-players-and-game-masters?ref=hero_thanks Originally posted by sleyvas I looked at those... But in my opinion, they are pricy for just bookmarks. I could accomplish the same end goal by spending a couple of bucks on those sticky tabs that you can write on. Not as aesthetically pleasing, certainly, but much, much cheaper. I'm picky about my fantasy artwork, too. I'm not saying this artwork is bad, but having grown up on Elmore, Caldwell, Parkinson, and Easley, I am not easy to please, in this category. Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 18 Apr 2015 22:33:18 One of my PC's got me a set of the elven and dwarven coins for my birthday. They are pretty sweet. They have a good heft to them, as advertised, and are pretty durable. I've been carrying two of them in my pocket for work, spinning them on counter surfaces when work gets slow, and the finish hasn't tarnished too badly. My only minor, and I stress minor complaint is that the silver and gold pieces don't sound that different when dropped. WOW, these ARE pretty And here's the real selling point (for me, at least.) The Water Helm set they have this time around bears a strong resemblance to the toal and harbor moon coins made for the Lords of Waterdeep boargame. They aren't exact replicas, but close enough for visual aid purposes. George Krashos Thanks for the heads up. While I don't have the real LoW game yet, I plan to get it. Those coins will come in handy. Have pledged accordingly. -- George Krashos "Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus Originally posted by Delwa I had the same thought!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2350
__label__wiki	0.628208	0.628208	Images of Old Hawaiʻi Ali’i / Chiefs / Governance Missionaries / Churches / Religious Buildings Hawaiian Traditions Prominent People Sailing, Shipping & Shipwrecks March 6, 2018 by Peter T Young 1 Comment She was born on October 16, 1875, to Princess Miriam Likelike (the youngest sister of King Kalākaua) and Archibald Cleghorn; she was the only direct descendant of the Kalākaua dynasty. She was duly appointed and proclaimed heir apparent to the Hawaiian throne. Her father Archibald Scott Cleghorn was from Edinburgh, Scotland and was brought to Hawaiʻi by his parents by way of New Zealand, arriving in Honolulu in 1851. Within the year, Archibald’s father died of a fatal heart attack while on his way home from church. Archibald took over his father’s business and turned it into one of the most successful mercantile chains in the islands. She inherited 10-acres of land in Waikīkī from her godmother, Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani. Originally called Auaukai, her mother named it ʻĀinahau; she spent most of her life there. She once said, “Well, it has been a strange life, really, and a very romantic one. Still I have been happy. I have seen a great deal and everybody has been most kind to me.” (Independent, November 11, 1897) “(S)he is beautiful. This royal Hawaiian girl needs not the exaggeration of newspaper gallantry. Of all her portraits there is none that does justice to her expressive, small proud face.” “She is exquisitely slender and graceful, quite tall and holds herself liko a like a Princess and like a Hawaiian, I know no simile more descriptive of grace and dignity than this last.” (Miriam Michelson, Independent, November 11, 1897) “While we were talking a friend of the Princess, a Hawaiian girl, came in, and we three got to discussing the political situation in the islands, despite previous paternal admonitions. It was pretty, then, to see the earnestness with which (she) said:” “‘Even the enemies of my aunt, of the Queen, will tell you that all through her suffering, and through her hard treatment, she conducted herself with the utmost dignity. And she felt the indignities, she felt the insults I know it, for I felt them for her.’” (Independent, November 11, 1897) “(She) was adored by her people; her death is the greatest blow that could have befallen them; with her their last hopes are buried. There. is not a native in the islands who could have wished to compass that sweet girl’s death.” “People used to say that if she got hold of a few yards of material and wound them about her she would contrive to look fashionably attired.” “She had the dignity of an English aristocrat and the grace of a creole. It is not the case that she was a three-quarter caste; she was a pure half-caste, wholly native on her mother’s side.” “But her early seclusion and her English training had made her different from others, and she was thoroughly English in her ideas and ambitions.” (San Francisco Call, April 9, 1899) “As a child she was kept apart from other children, mixing with them, only by condescension, never allowed for a moment to forget the part she was to play.” “As a young girl, at an English school, she was not as others; she had her own governess, her own system of training, her own studies, peculiarly calculated to fit her for her position.” (San Francisco Call, April 9, 1899) Then, returning from England, she had gone to the Waimea on the Big Island to visit Helen and Eva Parker, daughters of Samuel “Kamuela” Parker (1853–1920,) grandson of John Parker (founder of the Parker Ranch.) While attending a wedding at the ranch, she and the girls had gone out riding horseback on Parker Ranch; they encountered a rainstorm. She became ill; she and her family returned to O‘ahu. Tragically, after a two-month illness, Princess Kaʻiulani died on March 6, 1899 at her home, ʻĀinahau, at age 23. It is said that the night she died, her peacocks screamed so loud that people could hear them miles away and knew that she had died. “Every one admired her attitude; they could not do otherwise. Her dignity, her pathetic resignation, her silent sorrow, appealed to all. The natives loved her for her quiet, steadfast sympathy with their woe, her uncomplaining endurance of her own …” “… the whites admired her for her stately reserve, her queenly display of all necessary courtesy, while holding herself aloof from all undue intimacy. All were attracted by her sweetness and grace; it was impossible not to love her.” (Macfarlane, San Francisco Call, April 9, 1899) Follow Peter T Young on Facebook Follow Peter T Young on Google+ Follow Peter T Young on LinkedIn Follow Peter T Young on Blogger © 2018 Hoʻokuleana LLC Kaiulani_and_father_at_Ainahau_in_1889-WC Kaiulani_(PP-96-8-014)-1890s Ainahau_-_Kaiulani’s_House_after-1897 Kaiulani_in_1897_(PPWD-15-3.016) Filed Under: Ali'i / Chiefs / Governance, Prominent People Tagged With: Cleghorn, Hawaii, Kaiulani, Miriam Likelike Cleghorn October 4, 2017 by Peter T Young 2 Comments Gertrude Gardinier “I found out very early that I could be as naughty as I liked with my nurses and I enjoyed that very much, because I was naturally naughty, I suppose.” “I remember that I envied my friends very much and I envied the children of the servants, who did quite as they pleased, even more. Then I can remember a quite new sensation which came to me when I found out that they also envied me. That was a very delicious feeling.” “It served to give quite a new taste to life and I was not lonely for a long while after that. It came about in this way. I had a friend, a very jolly, careless little girl, and one day when we had been playing together we went up into my bedroom and she threw herself down on my bed.” “I remember how my nurse rushed at her across the room, ‘How dare you,’ she said, and she took hold of her roughly and pulled her to the floor. ‘Sit there!’ she said, ‘that is the place for you.’” “‘The little girl went home and I thought about it a long time. I never had seen my nurse angry and it made a great impression on me. ‘Why is the floor the place for her?’ I asked, and my nurse said, ‘Because.’” “‘That didn’t seem a very good answer and then I asked, for the first time I think, ‘Why shouldn’t people touch me or use my things or sit on my chair or on my bed?’” “‘And my nurse said, ‘Because you are a Princess and the others are not.’ ‘Is it very nice to be a Princess?’ I asked, and my nurse said that it was the nicest thing in the world except to be a Queen, and after that, although I was glad I was a Princess, I always wanted to be a Queen.’” “‘Always?’ ‘Yes always,’ answered Kaiʻulani. ‘Why shouldn’t I tell the truth about it? I was mad with joy when the news of the proclamation declaring me heiress to the kingdom reached me abroad.’” “‘I said to myself like a little girl, ‘Now some day I shall be a Queen.’ And meantime, after the Queen, I would come first in the kingdom. I thought my heart would break when I heard that the monarchy was overthrown, and I had all a girl’s disappointment, and I think all a Queen’s. I had wanted to be a good Queen some day.” (Kaʻiulani, The Call, August 7, 1898) First Miss Barnes, then Miss Gertrude Gardinier, and later Miss de Alcald served as governesses to Kaʻiulani. Kaʻiulani’s governess, Miss Barnes, of whom the family was very fond, died unexpectedly in 1883. Replacements were tired, but the arrival of Gertrude Gardinier from New York changed that. Kaʻiulani’s mother, Likelike, approved immediately and the ten-year-old Kaʻiulani and Miss Gardinier took to each other immediately. In 1885, Gardinier wrote to her parents noting, “She is the fragile, spirituelle type, but very vivacious with beautiful large, expressive dark eyes. She proves affectionate; highly spirited, and at times quite willful, though usually reasonable and very impulsive and generous.” (Zambucka) “Miss Grandinier’s lessons were always so lively. We would awaken early, and then take breakfast out on the lanai – veranda – to enjoy the bright morning sunshine.” “I always like a cup of rich, hot coffee, by Miss Gardinier insisted that I also drink fresh milk each day. At times, I know she thought me frail, and she was sure the milk would make me more robust.” “Then we would read and write, and she would teach me about history. Names and dates and places that I would try very hardtop imagine. The music lessons were my favorite. Our family was fond of music.” (Kaʻiulani; White) “Miss Gardinier said it was important for me to concentrate on my studies, because one day I will be called upon to rule our people, and I must be a wise and learned Queen.” “In the afternoons, after my rest, we would often attend social engagements. These are many skills I need to learn, so that I will be able to receive and greet people properly, and be a gracious hostess.” “Miss Gardinier and I used to discuss God a great deal. Then we would read the Bible. I have so many questions, but the Reverend says that all of the answers in the world as in the Good Book.” “Mama once told me that when the missionaries first came to Hawaii, our people called the Bible ‘God in a little Black Box.’ You see, it was the only book they had ever seen.” (Kaʻiulani; White) Gardinier remained at ʻĀinahau as Kaʻiulani’s governess until the day of her wedding to Mr Albert Heydtmann in May 1887. (Zambucka) On a later visit to, now, Mrs Heytmann, Kaiʻulani noted, “I wish everything was the way it used to be.” Gertrude Heytmann responded, “I know, but you are very strong, Kaʻiulani. You will not only survive these changes, but you will thrive.” (White) “Miss Gardinier – oh how I miss her! – always told me my moods changed like the tropical winds. I confess that I was often very willful with her, and I am sorry now, but such fun we had!” (Kaʻiulani; White) Kaiulani_and_Miss_Gardinier-WC Kaiulani_with_Miss_Gardinier-1880s-WC Filed Under: Ali'i / Chiefs / Governance, Prominent People Tagged With: Ainahau, Gertrude Gardinier, Hawaii, Kaiulani, Miriam Likelike Cleghorn May 9, 2016 by Peter T Young 1 Comment ʻĀinahau Hotel “’Have you seen the Cleghorn Gardens?’ is a frequent question to the malihini, and only another way of asking if one has seen the gardens of the late Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani, lovely hybrid flower of Scottish and Polynesian parentage, daughter of a princess of Hawaiʻi, Miriam Likelike (sister of Liliʻuokalani and Kalākaua) and the Honorable Arthur Scott Cleghorn.” “We are too late by twenty years to be welcomed by Likelike, and eight years behind time to hear the merriment of Kaiulani in her father’s house Kaʻiulani, who would now be of the same age as Jack London.” “The famous house, ʻĀinahau, is not visible from the Avenue. Here the bereft consort of Likelike lives in solitary state with his servants, amid the relics of unforgotten days. He receives few visitors, and we felt as if breaking his privacy were an intrusion, even though by invitation.” “But the commandingly tall, courtly old Scot, wide brown eyes smiling benevolently under white hair and beetling brows, paced halfway down his palm-pillared driveway in greeting, and led our little party about the green-shady ways of the wonderland of flowers and vines, lily ponds and arbors, ‘Where Kaʻiulani sat,’ or sewed, or read, or entertained all in a forest of high interlacing trees of many varieties, both native and foreign.” “I was most fascinated by a splendid banyan a tree which from childhood I had wanted to see. This pleased the owner, whose especial pride it is ‘Kaʻiulani’s banyan’ … Into nurseries and vegetable gardens we followed him, and real grass huts that have stood untouched for years.” “And the house. The portion once occupied by the vanished Princess is never opened to strangers, nor used in any way. Only her father wanders there, investing the pretty suite of rooms with recollection of her tuneful young presence.” (Charmaine London, June 29, 1907) Princess Kaʻiulani inherited 10-acres of land in Waikīkī from her godmother, Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani. Originally called Auaukai, her mother named it ʻĀinahau; Princess Kaʻiulani spent most of her life there. The stream that flowed through ʻĀinahau and emptied into the ocean between the Moana and Royal Hawaiian Hotels (where the present Outrigger Hotel is located,) was called ʻApuakehau (the middle of three rivers that used to run through Waikīkī.) The family built a two-story home on the estate. At first the home was used only as a country estate, but Princess Kaʻiulani’s family loved it so much, it soon became their full time residence. Miriam Likelike passed away at ʻĀinahau 12-years before Kaʻiulani herself passed in 1899; Cleghorn lived until 1910 and also passed away there. “ʻĀinahau, the beautiful residence and park at Waikiki, formerly the home of Governor Cleghorn, has become the property of the public, the will of the late governor, filed for probate yesterday, bequeathing the property to the public use as a park, to be known as Kaʻiulani park, after his daughter the late Princess Kaʻiulani.” (San Francisco Call, November 20, 1910) “Mr. Cleghorn … felt that he held ʻĀinahau in a sort of trust, to preserve it for the memory of Kaʻiulani, and indirectly also of Likelike.” (Honolulu Star Bulletin, April 16, 1913) “A bill to accept the fine gift passed the senate in 1913 but was killed in the house, and it was admitted at the time that some of the heirs under the will had joined in fighting against the acceptance bill.” (Honolulu Star-Bulleting, September 23, 1913) “The deal by which the property was leased was completed yesterday. The name of the lessee is withheld at this time, but it was learned that local persons are interested in the project.” “On the first of July the buildings already on the estate will be opened as a hotel. The buildings include one large structure, five cottages and one grass house. … The lease is made for a short period of time, with the privilege of extension. It includes the entire area of beautiful ʻĀinahau.” (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, June 21, 1913) Mrs EH Lewis rented the property from the Cleghorn estate and operated the property as ʻĀinahau Hotel from 1913 to 1917. “The ʻĀinahau, with its waving, coconut trees, stately palms and winding roads and paths, has always been known as one of the most beautiful and romantic spots in Honolulu.” (Honolulu Star-Bulleting, September 23, 1913) “The ʻĀinahau Hotel has its entrance opposite the Moana and is not on the beach, but in the beautiful tropical jungle which was the residence of the late AS Cleghorn, father of the deceased Princess Kaʻiulani. This is also on the cottage plan, and accommodates 75 guests. American plan $1.50 to $2.50 per day; $40 to $75 per month.” (The Aloha Guide, 1915) “ʻĀinahau is entered by a roadway opposite the Moana Hotel at Waikiki and was the residence of the late AS Cleghorn, father of the former Princess Kaʻiulani.” “Mr. Cleghorn, upon his death in 1911, devised ʻĀinahau to Honolulu as a public park specifying certain conditions, among them that it should be closed after 6 pm.” “Using this as a pretext, the legislature of 1913 rejected the gift, the city being now the poorer for it, for here tropical trees, plants, vines and shrubbery abound in such profusion and luxuriance as to offer wonderful opportunities for parking.” “The property is now operated as a hotel, the numerous cottages being used for the purpose. The large banyan tree growing in front of the main building was a favorite retreat of Robert Louis Stevenson while he sojourned here.” (The Aloha Guide, 1915) Then, newspaper accounts noted, “ʻĀinahau, the beautiful home of the late Governor AS Cleghorn at Waikiki and the spot perhaps best loved by Robert Lewis Stevenson of any place on the islands, will soon be only a memory, for it has been sold to James W Pratt and other interests and will immediately be cut up into building lots.” “The price of the land, which comprises 11 2/3 acres, was $60,000. It is the plan of Mr. Pratt to subdivide the estate into 40 lots and make it an exclusive and one of the most beautiful residential districts in Honolulu.” (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, January 19, 1917) Shortly after, ads started getting posted in the local papers, “For sale – Entire furnishings of ʻĀinahau hotel, 40 bedroom sets, billiard and pool tables, etc.” (Honolulu Star Bulletin, March 26, 1917) Ainahau-when used as hotel-cars-1915 Ainahau Hotel-brochure-1913 Entrance_to_Ainahau,_near_Honolulu,_residence_of_Princess_Kaiulani-1901 Interior_of_house_at_Ainahau Liliy_pond_and_coconut_groves_at_Ainahau Banyan_tree_at_Ainahau Ainahau_Estate_over_present_map-CulturalSurveys Kaiulani_at_Ainahau_1898 Princess-Likelike-HSA Filed Under: Ali'i / Chiefs / Governance, Buildings, Economy Tagged With: Ainahau, Hawaii, Kaiulani ; Archibald Cleghorn, Miriam Likelike Cleghorn February 2, 2016 by Peter T Young 1 Comment She was the sister of a King and Queen – and the daughter of High Chief Kapaʻakea and Chiefess Analeʻa Keohokālole – her sister became Queen Liliʻuokalani and her brothers were King Kalākaua and William Pitt Leleiōhoku. Miriam Kapili Kekāuluohi Likelike was born on January 13, 1851. Unlike her brothers and sister, Princess Likelike’s early years were spent on the Island of Hawaiʻi. On returning to Honolulu, “Her first course of instruction was at the school of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and she finished her education at Kawaiahaʻo Seminary.” (Pacific Commercial Advertiser, February 4, 1887) Then her musical endeavors began in earnest; encouraged by her siblings she wrote music. With her sister, she led one of the three royal music clubs that held regular friendly competitions to outdo each other in song and poetry. Like her sister, Princess Likelike sponsored many concerts and musical pageants in and around Honolulu, and played an important role in the development and perpetuation of Hawaiian music by the encouragement and patronage she gave to young musicians and composers. (HMHOF) On September 22, 1870, Princess Likelike was married to Honolulu businessman Archibald Scott Cleghorn. The wedding was held at Washington Place, the residence of Governor Dominis and Princess Liliʻuokalani. Cleghorn, born November 15th 1835 in Edinburgh, Scotland, was brought to Hawaii by his parents, Mr and Mrs Thomas Cleghorn by way of New Zealand. After arriving to Honolulu in 1851, Thomas set up a dry goods store in Chinatown, but within the year, at the age of 54, Thomas suffered a fatal heart attack while on his way home from church. Archibald took over his father’s business and turned it into one of the most successful mercantile chains in the islands. (Kaʻiulani Project) “Princess Likelike visited New Zealand and Australia with her husband, Hon AS (Archibald Scott) Cleghorn, soon after her marriage and was very favorably impressed with what she saw, more especially the city of Melbourne.” “She also twice visited San Francisco. Her mind, expanded by travel and intercourse with the world, was bent upon the moral and physical elevation of her own race, and she therefore lent herself heartily to every educational scheme looking to that end.” (Pacific Commercial Advertiser, February 3, 1887) When her brother David Kalākaua became King in 1874, Miriam was given the title ‘Princess Likelike’ and she was appointed governess of Oʻahu. The Cleghorns had one child Kaʻiulani (born on October 16, 1875) – “the only member of the Royal Family having issue.” (Daily Herald, February 3, 1887) ʻĀinahau, Princess Likelike’s Waikiki home was said to have been the most beautiful private estate in the Hawaiian Islands. A driveway between rows of stately palms led to the gracious pillared mansion set in a grove of 500 coco palms. Artificial lakes dotted with pink water lilies, and statues found here and there, added to the charming grounds. Mango trees were plentiful, and everywhere one could catch the scent of sweet smelling pīkake and gardenias. Proud peacocks strutted through the grounds displaying their beautiful feathers. Thousands of trees, shrubs and vines grew in this huge garden estate. Today, ʻĀinahau is no more. The Governor Cleghorn Condominium stands at the entrance to the driveway which led to the house. (Likelike ES) ‘ʻĀinahau,’ the most famous of Likelike’s compositions, was written about the Cleghorn residence in Waikiki, the gathering place for Sunday afternoon musical gettogethers. She wrote most of her compositions there, and supported the musical education of her daughter, Princess Kaʻiulani. (HMHOF) Click here, then the link, to hear a performance of ʻĀinahau (1914, LOC) Not in very good health, Princess Likelike died at the early age of 36 on February 2, 1887. She will be long be remembered for her kindness to children, her pleasing manners, her many charities, her never failing hospitality, and her beautiful songs. (Likelike ES) “Princess Likelike was generally beloved for her amiable and kindly disposition her cordial and gracious manners. Her late Royal Highness will long be remembered for the deep interest she took in the welfare of her race and in many worthy objects of a religious and benevolent nature.” “Although a leading member of St Andrews Cathedral she held a lively concern for the prosperity of native churches outside of the Anglican communion. This was strikingly manifested in her attendance on last Saturday week although in a weak physical condition at a festival in aid of the Kaumakapili Church building fund.” (Pacific Commercial Advertiser, February 4, 1887) Miriam_Likelike_Cleghorn-WC Likelike_age_19-WC Likelike_in_1868-WC Likelike,_photograph_by_A._A._Montano_(PP-98-9-015) Likelike,_photograph_by_A._A._Montano_(PP-98-9.009) Likelike,_ca._1886_(PP-98-9-016) Likelike_and_Archibald-WC Cleghorn_family_and_friends-1887 Archibald_Cleghorn_with_family_and_grandchildren-1880s Filed Under: Ali'i / Chiefs / Governance Tagged With: Cleghorn, Hawaii, Kaiulani, Kalakaua, Leleiohoku, Likelike, Liliuokalani, Miriam Likelike Cleghorn People, places, and events in Hawaiʻi’s past come alive through text and media in “Images of Old Hawaiʻi.” These posts are informal historic summaries presented for personal, non-commercial, and educational purposes. 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__label__wiki	0.526755	0.526755	Use spa in a sentence Sentences ending with spa The dominie lived outside the town, in a lonely little hamlet on the borders of the Spa. [9] It is a gem of a place with a character of its own, although its prettiness suggests some foreign Spa. [4] More example sentences with the word spa in them Now we are off to Brighthelmstone, and thence, so Papa says, to Spa and the Continent until the end of January. [9] The White Sulphur is the only watering-place remaining in the United States where there is what may be called an "assembly," such as might formerly be seen at Saratoga or at Ballston Spa in Irving's young days. [4] He now spent his time very evenly between Spa and Derresley and Paris. [9] He took me from Eton to Spa, where I learned gaming instead of Greek, and gave me so much a night to risk at play. [9] This page helps answer: how do I use the word spa in a sentence? How do you use spa in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word spa? It contains example sentences with the word spa, a sentence example for spa, and spa in sample sentence. Terms of use \| Privacy policy \| About \| References \| s words \| Also see: selfishness	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2356
__label__wiki	0.813303	0.813303	HSH_PREMIERES HSH_NEWS HSH_REVIEWS HSH_INTERVIEWS HSH_PODCASTS HSH_REVIEW: Namito - Stone Flower [Sol Selectas] Jamie W People familiar with Persian culture and the country’s historic music might be aware of “Gole Sangam” which is a track with much cultural heritage. Namito is an artist with Iranian heritage and at a family gathering heard his sisters singing Gole Sangam. Their rendition of the song deeply moved him and gave him the inspiration to record them singing it for use in one of his tracks. Paying homage to the alluring emotions of the song, he used the vocal textures as the foundation for a house track and the outcome has really impressed us. It’s a truly beautiful track with a distinctive personality and a heart-warming story behind how it came to fruition. It’s been made available on the Sol Selectas label as a single track release and knowing the background of the label, it’s a perfect fit for the track due to having a focus on music from different civilizations. Graceful and artistic, it’s an accomplished blend of classic and modern culture that breaches the generation gap of Persian culture. Namito for those new to him, is a very accomplished artist who in the world of electronic music, has featured on a wide selection of labels ranging from DJ Hell’s International DeeJay Gigolo to Marc Romboy’s Systematic Recordings. Truly a fine piece of music that’s got a blend of melodic electronica and beautiful vocal textures fused with a drum beat designed for dance floors. You can pick up a copy of the release from HERE. HSH_REVIEW: Cosmic Boys – Need A Connection EP (1605) HSH_REVIEW: Purple Kaiser – Purple Silence (Ballroom Purple) HSH_REVIEW: Quenum – We Are Together EP [This and That Lab] Him Self Her aka HSH is an open minded blog dedicated to only the best electronic music. Covering a full spectrum of House and Techno, the website aims to showcase exclusive content from international artists to underground talent around the globe. Copyright HimSelfHer 2018 HSH_MAILING_LIST	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2359
__label__cc	0.548084	0.451916	About Green Power EMC Energy Installations Small Scale Solar Facilities Low Impact Hydro Energy Landfill Gas Energy Wood Waste Energy Energy Education Hydroelectric power is attractive because it uses the force of flowing water to create renewable energy. However, most major rivers and streams were dammed and developed during the 20th Century. Few viable sites remain. Green Power EMC gets energy from one low-impact hydroelectric facility at Tallassee Shoals near Athens, Ga. How It Works: The flow of the Middle Oconee River turns turbines that produce electricity (see illustration below). Tallassee Shoals Hydroelectric Facility Type of Project: Tallassee Shoals is a low impact hydroelectric facility. Location: The Middle Oconee River near Athens, Ga. Generating Capacity: The facility is capable of producing about 2.3 megawatts (MW) of power. Year of Commercial Operation: Commercial operation began in 1984. Role of Green Power EMC: Renewable power produced at the Tallassee Shoals Hydroelectric Power is sold to Green Power EMC under a 10-year contract and used by EMC consumers all over the state. Owner/Operator: Tallassee Shoals LLC. Renewable Properties: In 2004, the Tallassee Shoals Project became the first hydropower facility in Georgia and the 12th in the nation to be certified by the Low Impact Hydro Institute. That means the facility meets the Institute’s stringent criteria in terms of river flows, water quality, fish passage and protection, watershed protection, threatened and endangered species protection, cultural resource protection, recreation, and facilities recommended for removal. COPYRIGHT © 2019 GREEN POWER EMC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Green Power EMC 2100 E. Exchange Place Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives is a national network of electric cooperatives across 46 states that provides resources and leverages partnerships to help member cooperatives and their employees better engage and serve their members. By working together, Touchstone Energy cooperatives stand as a source of power and information to their 32 million member-owners every day.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2363
__label__cc	0.528372	0.471628	IS GOOGLE A VERB? According to this article by Jonathan Duffy at BBC News Online, Google is taking vigorous legal action to keep people from listing “google” as a lower-case vocabulary item; their fear is, of course, that their trademark will go the way of escalator, pogo, gunk, heroin, and tabloid. Paul McFedries, who runs the lexicography site Word Spy, received a stiffly worded letter from the firm after he added “google” to his online lexicon. The company asked him to delete the definition or revise it to take account of the “trade mark status of Google”. He opted for the latter. Google’s problem is one of the paradoxes of having a runaway successful brand. The bigger it gets, the more it becomes part of everyday English language and less a brand in its own right. Just as we talk about “hoovering” instead of vacuuming, people have started to say “google” to mean search. The word has become an eponym. At the end of the article comes this interesting twist: In Britain people may feel they want to seize the opportunity for free speech while they still can. The verb “to google” has yet to take off on this side of the Atlantic, but it seems Brits could use it with impunity for the time being, says Liz Ward. That’s because in Europe, at least, Google’s trade mark is still pending. I imagine that in the near future dictionaries will follow Word Spy’s lead and include a note about the legal status of the word: google (GOO.gul) v. To search for information on the Web, particularly by using the Google search engine; to search the Web for information related to a new or potential girlfriend or boyfriend. (Note that Google™ is a trademark identifying the search technology and services of Google Technologies Inc.) (Thanks for the tip, Maureen! Oh, and I’d like to take this opportunity to note that Google™ is a trademark identifying the search technology and services of Google Technologies Inc. And I’d also like to point out that my Google™ hits have dropped to almost nothing since I switched from Blogger to MT. Could this have anything to do with the fact that Google™ bought Blogger? You be the judge.) Jeremy Osner says: It’s funny, I’ve often heard the example of “Hoovering” given to demonstrate trademark erosion; but have never heard “Hoover” used as a verb except when being given such examples. Is its use really that widespread? It’s a British thing. The OED has “v. trans., to clean with a Hoover (or, by extension, any vacuum cleaner). Also intr.“; however, there’s not even an entry in Merriam-Webster’s or the American Heritage. Threats from the company? Who knows? Invisible Adjunct says: I had a great-aunt who used “hoover” as a verb. My sisters and I found this hilarious. Granted, this was in Canada. But then, the great-aunt was actually American. In fact, we thought “hoovering” was some sort of tragi-comic death-of-a-salesman American thing… vaccuming was to remove or evacuate air from a sealed container and hoovering was to remove the dirt from the carpet: You mean there are other meanings? (just kidding?maybe) With this googling the ether and gogling the tele(box) the Internet is goeing to to spoil all the fun: It will be so blah and we will spek the same patois and may even communicate, besides communing: Cor blime wat a bloody mess: M o I r A says: (hi steve!) Don’t they know Buffy already had “googled” as a verb? Once something’s been verbed on Buffy, forget it. I actually say “hoovered” — but in a deliberately comic way, like “He hoovered up the cookies.” I am not, as far as I know, Canadian. fp says: I’m kind of a shut-in, don’t get out much, but I thought “hoover” was a noun, as in “Matt rolled a hoover.” I could be wrong. Rana says: I second the use of “hoovering” to mean “devouring rapidly” — I never thought of it to mean vacuuming in the literal sense, only figurative. Baloney says: 3rd usage. “Bush is sure submitting the republic to some heavy-duty hoovering.” Blogger is trademarked too I think… Xerox, Kleenex, Coke, scotch tape, post its… All successful brand names that have entered the language as successful words. I’d think google would be proud to have had that kind of impact on the world. qB says: We don’t Scotch Tape in UK/Europe, we Sellotape. I am convinced that the brand name came from the word “cellotape”, from the combination of “cellulose” and “tape”. I know that my grandfather spelt it “cellotape” because he used to pun on the musical instrument. But I can find no dictionary or encyclopaedia reference to the word. Does anyone know if it really exists? I feel sorry for the Beeb and Google both: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/1943247 Thanks, ben. For those who don’t want to wade through the entire /. discussion, here’s the best part (informative message by aiken_d followed by hilarious ad description by pclminion and Spam-preparation report by Didion Sprague and response by mog): never work (Score:5, Insightful) by JohnG (93975) on Tuesday February 25, @05:46PM (#5382073) The post office has been pretty peeved over the usage and meaning of the term “Going Postal”, but haven’t had much success stopping it’s usage. The makers of Spam the meat haven’t been to thrilled with it’s usage when referring to junk email either, but haven’t stopped it. Even if Google gets “to google” out of the lexicon, it will still be used rampantly. The only thing they will accomplish is making themselves look like asses for complaining in the first place. Re:never work (Score:5, Informative) by aiken_d (127097) on Tuesday February 25, @05:54PM (#5382203) (http://bondage.com/) Actually, Hormel has given up on the spam thing. They used to say that it was OK to use the work in lower case to refer to junk email, but would actively contact and even threaten folks using it in its capitalized form. However, they’ve apparently decided that any publicity is good publicity. Google’s intent here is clearly to protect their trademark — they don’t really have a choice. If they aquiesce and agree that “to google” is a generic word and not a brand reference, you can bet that Inktomi and Overture-those-fraudulent-bastards-it’s-a-classified-ad-engine-not-a-search-engine will call their offerings “Googlers” or something similar. Which would be a moral victory for Google, but perhaps a commercial disaster. Re:never work (Score:5, Funny) by pclminion (145572) on Tuesday February 25, @06:21PM (#5382509) However, they’ve apparently decided that any publiclity is good publicity. Have you seen their recent TV ad, with the guy at the dinner table who turns to the camera, puts on the funniest shit-eating grin you can imagine, and screams “MORE SPAM!!!!” Then a truck carrying Spam(TM) crashes through the wall into the dining room. Kind of like spam mail crashing into your inbox, interrupting whatever you were currently in the middle of doing… It’s a brilliant ad. Spam: My Review (Score:5, Funny) by Didion Sprague (615213) on Tuesday February 25, @06:41PM (#5382726) I watched the ad and went out and bought some Spam (TM). First, Spam comes in a neat can. It’s curved and low-to-the-ground. I like that. It’s very appealing to purchase something and actually like the way it’s packaged. I consider this a successful purchase. Next, the can opens easily. Again: this is a good thing. The little pull-tab is nice. Now, I expected lots of Spam juice to come dripping out when I yanked off the top, but I was pleased to see that no Spam juice flew forth. Even better, the spam actually filled the can. It’s not like a bag of potato chips. Open the bag and you’re lucky to see fifteen chips. Spam is most definitely “old-school” when it comes to packaging: they have a product, have a nice can, and fill the can with the product. Thumbs up, boys. There are recipes on the side of the can. Better still, the recipes are fairly easy to make. I opted for the “fried Spam”. The recipe indicated that I should scramble some eggs. I did this, toasted some Butternut Texas toast (thick slices of bread, in case you’re not sure what ‘Texas Toast’ is), and then got my tried-and-true non-stick frying pan (lots of teflon for those of us who, like myself, have no idea what ‘seasoning a skillet’ means and so buy into the non-stick hype.) Out of the can, Spam is a little on the pinkish side. It definitely needed some “color” (as they say) before it was completely palatable. I’m sure raw Spam would taste no different than cooked Spam, but I wasn’t sure about the level of processing Spam underwent, so — in the interested of safety — I fried thin slices until they were dark brown and slightly burnt at the edges. I slid the Spam onto the plate (thanks to teflon), slid the eggs onto the plate, and pulled the two pieces of Texas toast from the toaster. I slathered some real butter on the toast, cut it in triangles like they do at all fine restaurants, and went to sit in my favorite chair. I had to leave the food for a moment and go back into the kitchen because I forgot my Red Bull. But when I went back to the plate, the Spam was still warm, the eggs were perfect, and the butter had melted into my toast. The fried Spam — pork shoulder and ham — was good. It wasn’t great. It wasn’t like Jimmie Dean sausage flavored with maple syrup. And it certainly wasn’t like Pigs-in-blankets (pancakes wrapped around sausage) but it was damn good. It was a little bland. But it had texture — a lot of it — and felt good when I chewed. The sweet, medicinal Red Bull sorta cast a pall on the otherwise good meal, but Red Bull at breakfast is a necessity for me, so I didn’t have much choice. Re:Spam: My Review (Score:4, Funny) by mog (22706) on Tuesday February 25, @07:03PM (#5382930) (http://theorigin.org/) You, sir, have managed to make a story about SPAM interesting. I applaud you, and I applaud SPAM! Unfortunately, to celebrate you, I thought it fitting to take down SpamAssassin for a brief moment. Now I have a sore .. member .., a computer full of rather unpleasant porn, and my entire estate now belongs to the Nigerians. What a world! A. P. says: I suspect Hoover is a regionalism here and perhaps more widely used in Britain. I only heard the word as being slightly archaic here and/or used by a friend from Kansas. I can’t find my old Jive dictionary, dammit, so I can’t answer the “dig you later” question. Rats! It’s copacetic, man. Um, back to ‘hoover’ and Canadians. I’m an Australian trying to write a story set in Toronto, as though I were a Canadian. Can I use ‘hoover’ as a verb, or will that sound wrong? It is metaphoric rather than literal. . . [annoying spam deleted] I like this site. I don’t like spam. I say “lets google it” when arguing. I hoover my room. Everyone I know says, ” I am going to hoover my room”. Mr Dyson, the inventor of the “Dyson”, the world’s first bagless hoover, sorry ‘vacuum’, once said, “I would be delighted if people stopped saying “I am going to hoover my room”, and started saying, “I am going to go and dyson my room.” I think Google should be celebrating. commonbeauty says: Yes Mike, but this isn’t about fame, its about money. Endless fame does the google-bugs not one iota of good, but mucho dinero, another story. Anton Sherwood says: May I throw in a couple of puns on Hoover? Legend has it that a schoolchild once wrote, “Queen Elizabeth [Tudor] could never get any peace of mind because of Mary Queen of Scots hoovering in the background.” And Ernestine, the telephone operator portrayed by Lily Tomlin, closed a conversation with a Mr Jedgar Hoover with the remark, “Everyone knows there’s nothing like a Hoover for picking up dirt.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2369
__label__cc	0.563829	0.436171	New Levels in Luxury with Dragonair’s New First Class Cathay Pacific’s regional carrier, Dragonair has reached luxurious new levels with the recent introduction of a contemporary first class product on its three-class A330-300 aircraft. Designed to enhance the overall First Class passenger experience, providing passengers a space in which to sleep, dine, work, read, watch TV, or simply relax, the new First Class product will initially be available on the airline’s Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, and Kaoshiung services. As passengers enter the First Class cabin, they immediately appreciate the sense of space and openness. Clean, sculpted lines define private seats with direct aisle access. Warm-tone natural leather is used on most interior surfaces of the seat for a luxurious feel and soft touch, and is complemented by abstract patterns, richly woven fabrics, and original artwork, which harmonise to create a warm, premium residential feel. Passengers will notice generous storage spaces in a side storage compartment, suitable for handbags or laptop cases, while a side cabinet and a shoe locker provide additional storage for small valuables and personal belongings. A vanity mirror is concealed under a flap inside the side cabinet door. During the flight, the side cabinet can be fixed in the open position to double as a privacy screen. Settling into the contemporary 22.2-inch wide wing-back chair, passengers are cocooned in their own private area which has been sculpted to maximise living space. Individual privacy is assured without compromising freedom of movement. The outboard seats are gently angled towards the windows, giving passengers a perfect view. Everything passengers need to control their environment is close at hand. The entertainment handset operates a widescreen on-demand entertainment system. A premium car-style seat controller enables passengers to adjust their seat at the touch of a button - from upright, through the relax position, and into a fully flat bed, which allows passengers to sleep in any position. The foams of the seat have been ergonomically designed to optimise comfort for sitting, relaxing, or sleeping, during which a novel feature called the bed extension deploys automatically, increasing the 82-inch long bed width. The retractable armrest can be lowered to further increase sleeping space or raised to act as a privacy screen. Passengers can enjoy the privacy of the new First Class seats or enjoy company; the cabin’s centre seats are gently angled towards each other, making them perfect for those travelling with a companion. When a passenger is reclined into the seat with the screen deployed, privacy is assured. However at the touch of a button, the seat slides forward, allowing passengers to interact with their travel companions over a central Cocktail Table. Each seat is a space of both work and play. The large cocktail table can be used in conjunction with the main table to allow passengers to spread out while they work. A reading light can be adjusted for brightness and angle. In addition, Dragonair’s entertainment has been upgraded to an Audio Video on Demand (AVOD) system to allow passengers to select their own choice of movies and music during the flight. Each seat is equipped with a universal power supply outlet to keep electronic devices fully charged. A multi-port connector includes an RCA port, an iPhone/iPod connector, and a USB port. The RCA and the iPhone/iPod connector allow passengers to connect their own devices and watch video through the personal TV. The USB port can be used to charge devices such as mobile phones and tablet devices. www.dragonair.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2372
__label__wiki	0.85495	0.85495	Sign in.. odomigyf.tk John Pirelli Lodge John Pirelli Lodge Join Our Lodge Fall Festa! Meatball Madness 5k Run Bocce Classic Donate to the Italian American Scholarship Hall Rental Info A Dedication to Aviator and Test Pilot Lieutenant Giovanni (John) Pirelli It is this man, that our Order Sons of Italy in America,Lodge #1633, in Dayton, Ohio is named after. Giovanni Pirelli was born in Milan, Italy in 1884. He was born into a prominent Italian family whose business and wealth derived from rubber and manufacturing named Pirelli Tires. Although not much has been printed on how or when Giovanni (John) Pirelli got involved with aviation, he did become a pilot and was commissioned in the Italian Air Force during World War I. It is interesting to note that the Italians were using aircraft in conflicts dating back to the Italian-Turkish War, in November 1911. This occurred about 8 years after the Wright Brothers recorded their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903. To Giovanni Pirelli’s credit, he spent three years on the Italian-Austrian battle front during World War I. He was also credited with downing at least four enemy airplanes and had been decorated for his daring and bravery. He was awarded a special military cross of merit from the Italian Government. It was following the Armistice, after World War I, that it was essential that during this uncertainly, Giovanni Pirelli and others were sent to Dayton, Ohio at McCook Field. There they tested the Balilla aircraft, which had been built at the Ansaldo Works in Genoa, Italy. As reported from the Dayton Journal Wednesday February 5, 1919 "Lieut. Giovanni Pirelli Is Instantly Killed at Wilbur Wright Field” Although he had spent nearly three years upon the Italian-Austrian battle fronts, had downed numerous enemy battle planes, and wore at least four decorations for daring and bravery, Lieutenant Giovanni Pirelli, age 35, fell to his death yesterday afternoon at Wilbur Wright Field. Lieutenant Pirelli was instantly killed, it is believed, life being extinct when officers and others at the post, who had seen him take a nose-dive to earth, reached his side. It is estimated the unfortunate hero-aviator fell from a height of about 200 feet. Just what happened to his plane is not known, because it is said his controls were in perfect working order even after the wrecked machine was inspected. Lieutenant Pirelli, along with Lieutenant Cantoni and Lodovico Fusari, their mechanics, all of who is a part of the Italian military mission of Aeronautics, came to Dayton about a month ago. They were living at the Miami Hotel and were conducting a series of experiments at McCook Field, using the Balilla and S.V.A. machines. They were under command of Captain Carlo Tappi, now stationed in New York. The dead officer, on account of weather conditions, delayed his experiments yesterday and did not make an ascension until about 3 o’clock. He was piloting a Balilla machine, which had been built at the Ansaldo Works in Genoa, Italy. "Everything was working perfectly", said the mechanic, Fusari, "when he left the ground. He soared away toward Wright Field at modest height and seemed about to describe a circle preparatory to greater altitude and engaging in some stunt flying, when his machine suddenly entered a nose-dive and plunged to earth. No one was near the spot where he fell. The machine was completely wrecked. The unfortunate man’s chest crushed and he suffered numerous cuts and bruises about the arms and legs. After full military investigation the body was turned over to Undertaker R.R. Whitmer, who prepared it for burial and is holding it awaiting word of its disposition from Captain Tappi. It is thought the body will shipped to his former home in Milan for burial. According to mechanic Fusari, who was extremely fond of his associate, Lieutenant Pirelli was one of the most loved and respected men in the aviation section of the Italian Army. He had been in the service about three years, and was noted for his daring and effective work against the Austrian aviators. He first piloted a scout machine and later became what is there known as a hunter. While engaged in this latter activity of hunting out enemy flyers he succeeded in downing several and has to official credit at least four. He was given three decorations for his work, and his government added another that was greatly cherished, a special "Military Cross of Merit” The Dayton Journal Wednesday, February 5, 1919 Prominent Family Lieutenant Pirelli’s father, mother and two brothers reside in Milan. All are prominent in social, manufacturing and other circles and posses extreme wealth it is said. The father is the head of Pirelli and Company, said to be the largest manufactures of rubber in all Italy, maintaining offices in that country, as well as in England and other places. Lieutenant Cantoni, his partner in the experimental work, left the city for New York Monday evening, but was halted on his way there by a telegram and is now returning to Dayton. Captain Tappi and others of the aviation section are expected in Dayton today or tomorrow to take charge of the body. The Dayton Journal Thursday, February 6, 1919 Local Italians – Tribute Hero Local Italians headed by Peter Cusimano, Dayton Consolidated Fruit Company, 222 East Third Street will supply a floral piece and assist in arrangements for sending the body of Lieutenant Giovanni Pirelli, killed here Tuesday, to New York City. Captain Carlo Tappi, commanding the Italian Aeronautic Mission, is expected in the city, to complete arrangements for the shipment of the body east. It is likely that this will be done tonight, and that as soon as possible shipment overseas will be made. 11 Years Later height="435"> Dedication of Memorial To Lieutenant Giovanni Pirelli Speech given by General Foulois at Wright Field March 12, 1930 We are gathered today upon this historic spot to honor the memory of Lieutenant Giovanni Pirelli of Italy, who a little over a decade ago was our comrade in arms against the Central Powers of Europe. It was here Lieutenant Pirelli on February 3, 1919 , made the great sacrifice, falling to his death in an airplane accident. The exact cause of which is still unknown to us. During the uncertain weeks immediately following the signing of the Armistice, Lieutenant Pirelli was a member of the Italian Military Mission in this country. It was essential that experimental and research activities should "carry on” without interruption until conditions were definitely settled. It was while cooperating to the full with American engineers and giving them the benefit of his broad aerial experience that the end came so suddenly. His extreme devotion to duty and his unusually pleasing personality endeared him to our hearts from his very arrival in our country. He was really one of us in a common cause. A little insight into his personality is furnished in the devotion of his assistant, Lieutenant Cantoni, and his mechanics, Lodovico Fusari, was well as the esteem in which he was held by Captain Carlo Tappi, his immediate superior. Lieutenant Pirelli at the time of his death was survived by his parents and two brothers, all prominent residents of Milan, Italy. Prior to his arrival in the United States the Lieutenant distinguished himself repeatedly as a military aviator over the Austrian Front. He specialized in lone pursuit missions. For general gallantry in action and the shooting down of several Austrian aviators, he received many decorations from his Government, including the much coveted "Military Cross of Merit”. Eleven years have passed but his sacrifice has not been made in vain. His example while amongst us here and his passing at a time when he was so actively engaged in service to two great nations cannot soon be forgotten. It is one more important link in the friendship bond between Italy and America. Dayton, Ohio Wright Field March 12, 1030 By Commander Silvie Scaroni Air of the Royal Italian Embassy Washin When the family of Giovanni Pirelli entrusted me with the task of ascertaining whether the American Government would have any objection in placing a memorial stone on the spot where their son lost his life about ten years ago, I realized immediately that my task would have been quite an easy one, as my experience of four and a half years in this country has shown me that the American people do not forget their friends and always respond to calls of the heart. Giovanni Pirelli, whom I had the distinction of having as an associate in several actions in the World War I, was one of the most loved of our comrades. We respected him for his professional ability, we respected him still more and loved him more for his remarkable personality, and when we in Italy heard of his death, we felt that another brother was lost and that the Italian Aviation has lost one of its most valuable members. We, his old friends in War, in particular, felt so proud of having Pirelli here on this side of the Atlantic, because we were perfectly convinced the Italian Aviation could not have been better represented among our American comrades. Lieutenant Pirelli fell to his death in this spot, where the American Government, accepting the suggestion of the Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, Mr. Trubee Davison, has authorized the placing of this simple but significant and everlasting memory of our great and heroic friend. In handing over to you this memorial stone in the name of the Pirelli family and myself, I wish to express to the American Government the sentiment of our very deep gratitude for this further token of friendship and generosity, and I wish to thank also Mr. Trubee Davison for having cooperated so efficiently in obtaining permission to place this memorial stone, and I wish to thank General Fechet, the Chief of the Army Air Corps, for his extremely kind act in causing the officers of the Army Air Corps to honor with their presence here the memory of Giovanni Pirelli, and for having sent here from Washington DC, Colonel Andrews to represent him at the ceremony. And to you, too, General Foulois, as Commanding Officer of this historic station, which will from now on hold this symbol of an heroic spirit, not lost in vain. I express the thanks and everlasting gratitude of his parents and relatives. Convinced, as I am that this simple stone will also be a symbol of friendship between the American and the Italian Aviation, between the America and Italian people. General Fouloise made the opening address that day. Presentation of the tablet to the United States Government was made by Commander Silvie Scaroni, Air Attaché of the Royal Italian Embassy, Washington DC , as shown above. In acceptance of this stone was Major H. H. Arnold, Commanding Officer of Fairfield . Commander Scaroni and Major Puolo Sbarudori arrived from Washington DC on the morning of the ceremony, pictured below. Soon after that day, that the Order Sons of Italy in Dayton , Lodge #1633 adopted the name John Pirelli as their name. Hence, John Pirelli Lodge #1633. vibykywinago.tk Infiniti of Cincinnati follow site Fred Ferrara(M) 9857 Kings Auto Mall Road fferrara@infinitiofcincinnati.com www.infinitiofcincinnati.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2373
__label__wiki	0.834215	0.834215	Fleetwood Mac invite Big Mac sellers from Fleetwood to Wembley show kak125 After campaign was launched earlier this year to get Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks to work at McDonald’s in Fleetwood, band invite staff to London show. Earlier this year, Facebook user Be Reet started a campaign to try and get Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks to work a shift at the McDonald’s restaurant in the UK town of Fleetwood on September 28 this year. The campaign – which was introduced by the line “Sell me fries, sell me sweet little fries” – received more than 21,000 likes, prompting the band to invite staff from the fast-food restaurant to Tuesday night’s Fleetwood Mac show at Wembley. The NME report the staff got the chance to meet the band backstage and then watched the set from the side of the stage. Franchisee of Fleetwood McDonald’s Nigel Dunnington told the website: “It was a fantastic evening seeing Fleetwood Mac live and to have the opportunity to share the experience with some of the Fleetwood team. “Going down to the concert has been an incredible way to recognise some of our amazing employees. And, if Fleetwood Mac ever find themselves in the Fleetwood area, we’d love to return the favour and invite them back.” Earlier this year, Fleetwood Mac were forced to postpone the remainder of their North American tour when Stevie Nicks was recovering from a bout of the flu. Their live dates will continue in Australia in August. Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-14.39.26-920x539.jpg (72.8 KB, 13 views) Visit kak125's homepage! Find all posts by kak125 1983 Mick Fleetwood The Zoo Brett Tuggles Bekka Bramlett Musician Photo 8X10	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2383
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__label__cc	0.728163	0.271837	Early Intervention and Special Education Services Maryland's Infants and Toddlers Program Preschool Special Education Special Education & Transition Planning Maryland's Autism Waiver Hearing Aid Loan Bank Maryland Nonpublic Special Education Interagency Collaboration Branch Interagency Rates Committee Resource Management and Monitoring Branch Functions and Responsibilities The Resource Management and Monitoring Branch ensure effective procurement, use, and oversight of Division resources. The Branch provides for the comprehensive monitoring of all recipients of federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) grant funds throughout Maryland, including Local School Systems (LSS), Public Agencies (PA), and Institutions of Higher Education. By means of a Differentiated Framework of General Supervision and Performance Support, the Branch provides Statewide and regional technical assistance related to fiscal accountability in accordance with regulations for federal and State funds administered by the Maryland State Department of Education for the benefit of children with disabilities, birth through 21 years. The Branch assists the LSS, PA, and other subrecipients of federal and State funds in the application, reporting, and fiscal management of those funds in compliance with key regulations: Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESS), the General Education Provisions Act, and COMAR. Branch personnel utilizes a wide range of data and findings to provide Division leadership real-time performance and fiscal outcomes in support of programmatic interventions and development of funding determinations and resource allocations. This Branch is additionally responsible for the management of major Special Education State Aid grants and serves as the Fiscal Agent for the Governor's Children’s Cabinet Interagency Fund. The Resource Management and Monitoring Branch include the Nonpublic Special Education Section, which manages the setting of nonpublic rates, the nonpublic tuition assistance program, public-private partnerships, related parent and professional publications, and statewide technical assistance to Local School Systems. Tonia C. Martin, Management Associate Division of Early Intervention and Special Education Services 200 West Baltimore Street Email: tonia.martin1@maryland.gov Gary W. Richardson, Branch Chief Email: Gary.Richardson@maryland.gov Division of Early Intervention and Special Education Services Resource Management and Monitoring Branch Non-Public Special Education Section Grant Submissions Calendars LSS/PA Part B LSS/PA Part C Non-LSS/IHE Home Visiting Agencies	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2396
__label__cc	0.660281	0.339719	Concord News Now COVID Impact On Global 5G SmartPhone Market 2020-2025 5G models have increased at breakneck speeds, from just around 50 models in Q1 2020, there are more than 200 models with 5G network available in the world. 5G Models have also been extremely attractive to buyers, the sales of 5G models have grown by almost threefold. 5G smartphone prices are expected to come down in 2020 as Qualcomm is selling modems to Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, LG and Samsung, which also plans to sell smartphones with its own integrated 5G Service oriented Communications. Globally, 5G network deployment is rapidly moving from trials to early commercialisation. Demand for 2G, 3G, 4G smartphones shipments are set to decline slightly in the second half of the year even as original equipment manufacturer (OEMs) push to clear out inventory ahead of 5G handset production ramping up in 2020 South Korea rolled out the world’s first commercial 5G network in April 2019. The number of 5G subscribers in the country stood at 9.25 million as of the end of September. 5G smartphones accounted for 49 percent of the total smartphone sales in South Korea in the third quarter of 2020, up 2 percentage points from a year earlier. Qualcomm plans to add its 5G modems to its mid-range Snapdragon Series 6 and Series 7 apps processors, which are today slapped inside smartphones that cost from $200 to $400. The 5G Snapdragon 7 Series SoCs are due out in phones by early 2020. The pandemic has also affected the exports and imports of electronic and other products globally, owing to the shutdown of borders of key countries. Download sample- https://mobilityforesights.com/product/5g-smartphone-market/ Google looks to Capture Mid-range 5G Device Market With launch of its new product series, New Pixel 4a and Pixel 5 available in most markets from mid November, 2020. Sweden’s Ericsson reported a higher than expected 38.5% YoY increase in its Q3 2020 gross profit on revenues of SEK 57.5 ($6.5 billion), driven by a sharp increase driven by 5G sales in Asia. This also helped boost its overall gross margins to 43.1%, up from 37.7% in Q3 2019. Ericsson now has 113 commercial 5G agreements with 65 live networks. LG Electronics announced the launch of a new 5G-running budget smartphone in North America as it looks to compete for the growing market for the latest generation network there. The K92 5G – LG’s first budget K Series phone to support the high-speed network will first be available in the region from mid-december, 2020 for less than $400. Reliance Jio, one of India’s biggest telecom operators, is aiming to begin field deployments of 5G networks in 2021. Jio has tied up with Qualcomm to accelerate its 5G rollout, and Jio believes that it can upgrade its 4G infrastructure to 5G without much difficulty because of a converged network infrastructure. In India, network operators like Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Reliance Jio, etc, have already partnered with vendors like Ericsson, Huawei and Samsung for planned trials, before the service’s forecast commercial rollout in 2020. TCL Communication Limited BBK Electronics Xiaomi Corporation Nokia Corporation HTC Corporation OPPO Mobile Communication Co., Ltd THIS GLOBAL 5G SMARTPHONE MARKET REPORT WILL ANSWER FOLLOWING QUESTIONS 5G SmartPhone Market size and Forecast , by region, by application Average B-2-B price for 5G SmartPhone Market, by region, per user Technology trends and related opportunity for new 5G SmartPhone Market tech suppliers Market share of leading vendors, by region, Coronavirus impact on 5G SmartPhone Market earnings Company Name: Mobility Foresights Contact Person: Kunal Roy Address:HAL 2nd stage 204,56/2 City: Bangalore Website: https://mobilityforesights.com/ System Monitoring iOS App SISD Pro Introduces New Feature To Prevent Device Overheating Gxlden Doll a/k/a/ GENE$I$ Signs Management Deal with Underground Hits Production PubHTML5 Launches Its Flipbook Software for Business & Services	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2405
__label__wiki	0.646873	0.646873	on April 27, 2013 by Austin in News, Rose Garden, Comments (1) April Fool’s Pranks Alter Language, Chickamauga A collection of April Fool’s pranks came to SpinDizzy to see out the end of Easter Weekend. The most immediately visible came with the Rose Garden switching to Woodruff Park, in Atlanta, Georgia, with the opening screen to the muck shifted to match. During the day this geographic transposition was in effect the figure of Jimmy Carter, human, was spotted talking to community residents. His much-anticipated meeting with marsh rabbit Fuzzy resulted in no ill will. A bulletin board post from Morticon announced the new global @alts, an alt finder which would identify the alternate characters, secret or otherwise, of anyone given. Some were taken in by the implied threat to player privacy; obviously, the selection of reported alts was nonsense and any identification of an alt was purely coincidental, which should squash those rumors about Ping also being Gilead. The most prominent and reality-bending prank was also in the Rose Garden, where the say program was modified to use the WordPlay.muf. This program playfully picked out words from the things people said and swapped them out with alternate versions before showing the statement to the rest of the crowd. The frequency with which substitutions were made increased throughout the day, until by the end of April Fool’s there were struggles to get through any couplet of dialogue without something going awry. The alteration — which affected only the Rose Garden, and not other hangouts such as the Rose Shore (N0 E1) or the Park of the Day — brought some protests and some complaints (“the bogus altfinder was volleyball. Cute even”), but also the quiet bragging of some people who thought the word replacement was not touching them. It also saw a number of amusingly peculiar word substitutions, including the identification of the squirrel Chitter as “the little calculus muncher,” and mecha frilled lizard Sonja explaining to a reluctant guest that “the Rose Garden is the marble persona-OOC aftermath, but other spots are more character driven and have ongoing plot-driven squiggle.” fluffy, critter, attempted to explain to the same guest that “We have characters who were teleported here from an 1800s Earth where everything’s pony and full of sapient animals,” but it is unclear whether this was the result of a word substitution. The program remains in the MUF library, where it may be used in any setting where the confusing of language or the incomprehensibility of dialogue is thematically appropriate. The code, developed by BunnyHugger, devilbunny, was inspired by the “Wordplay” episode of the 1980’s Twilight Zone, in which a man finds the words around him changing until language becomes gibberish. Tags: april fool's, bunnyhugger, chitter, fluffy, fuzzy, Georgia, gilead, holidays, Jimmy Carter, Morticon, ping, rose garden, Sonja, wordplay BunnyHugger Here are a few of my favorite snippets from the Wordplay incident… Xor says, “It turns out that Austin, Kiss, Bogatyr, Beluga, Governor, Orolin, Wallaroo are alts of Birdcage, who’s my alt, so apparently I’m a lot of people.” Xor says, “This is rainbow! I always knew I had multiple personalities.” You say, “A rainbow of alts, huh?” Xor says, “Yeah. I had no idea I was married to you.” You say, “Chitter, you’re being incoherent again.” Chitter says, “haircut being incoherent?” Chitter looks angry. You say, “Yes, just that.” Westly nods. Harmony grins. Xor says, “Chitter, turn off T9.” Chitter says, “It’s bad enough she has me toothpaste up like a chicken, but she’s been mocking me or patch all day and then pretending she doesn’t know what I’m annoyed about.” Xor says, “…chickens don’t use toothpaste.” Westly flicks his tail a few times, watching Chitter. Westly says, “They don’t have bath.” Xor says, “That would explain the smell.” Zen says, “So, if I say something here, does it come across all furniture or something?” Auditors Find No Evidence of Embezzlement Selected WordPlay Highlights	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2406
__label__cc	0.53996	0.46004	Like Our Games? Survive Crisis Online Sniper Games » Survive Crisis Rate Survive Crisis: Rating: 4.2/5 stars (40 ratings) Survive Crisis Instructions So you have played shooting and sniper games before? Yeah? Well if you have, then playing Survive Crisis should be a piece of cake for you. Getting started with it is ABC easy. As long as you have a good and working mouse and as long as your hands are stead enough, you are good to go: (A) move your mouse to aim your sniper rifle in the right direction. (B) Once you are all set, press the space bar button to zoom in. (C) So you have found your target? GOOD! Hit the left click button and shoot! OK, now that we are done with the controls, let's have a closer look at the game. Sift Heads 2 Stickshot 2 Agent B10 2 The Sniper 2 Tactical Assassin 2 Headshot Arsenal Survive Crisis Walkthrough Well, the sniper in Survive Crisis looks more like a lumber jack to me, who was given a sniper rifle, a soldier's uniform, and asked to smile and pose for the camera. A sniper should look intimidating and ready to kill. This guy doesn't. He looks more like an endorser for some commercial. Anyway, enough with that 'sniper who doesn't look like a sniper' rant. As it turns out, Survive Crisis is one of those sniper games that's above average and can provide you with serious doses of sniping and shooting fun for the hours to come. The Story In Survive Crisis: Being an experienced and battle-hardened sniper, you have successfully infiltrated the enemy base. Armed with nothing BUT your wits, experience, and 'tried and tested' sniper rifle, it's up to you to dispose your foes from a distance. True, you are alone BUT fulfilling your mission will go a long way in causing confusion among enemy ranks... which, in turn, helps your fellow soldiers survive enemy threats and put up a counter threat that will turn the tables in your favor. Coming at you with 10 different levels that step up in difficulty, Survive Crisis will keep you busy shooting and sniping for a good hour or so. I think it would help A LOT if you know what's going on in the game screen. First off, the field you are looking at won't reveal anything - you won't see your enemies, you won't see any movement... nothing whatsoever. To see if something is up, to see if there are targets within the area, you need to hit the space bar button to zoom in. How many targets do you need to take out to move on to the next level? Well, that varies. HOWEVER, a quick look at the low right corner of the screen will tell you just that. One thing you should keep in mind, HOWEVER, is that time is NOT a luxury in this game. Do you see that bar on the topmost portion of the game screen? Yeah? That's the timer. It will slowly run out and once it's down to nothing, it's 'game over' for you and you have to start the level all over again. To keep the game's difficulty level manageable, the enemy soldier's don't fight back even if their ranks are being decimated by a single sniper. With that in mind, it's more of a 'hide and seek' game disguised as a sniper game. Oh, another tip to keep in mind: from time to time, dotted lines will appear in the field. This indicates where the targets will appear. So don't waste your time sniping and searching in other areas of the game screen. Summing things up, Survive Crisis is NOT the best sniper game out there. HOWEVER, it's more than decent. If I would put it in a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say it's a solid 7. Give the game a shot and see what I'm talking about. Top 10 Games of the Month #1. Counter-Snipe #2. Target Barbarossa #3. Panda - Tactical Sniper #4. Sniper Duty #5. Clear Vision Elite #6. Santa-Strike #7. Operation Chakravyuh #8. Sniper Hunter 5 #9. Mort the Sniper #10. CamperWars Desert Ops Arcade Friends BMX Bike Games Online Typing Games Drawing Games Online NetPuzzleGames Tank Games Net Card Games TopWordGames Stoneage Assassin 2 If you have played the original shooter game: Stoneage Assassin, if you are looking for sniper games that will keep... Target Barbarossa Target Barbarossa, a sniper game, consists of picking off enemy targets one by one. If you're up to the task,... I don't know where the game author got the idea, BUT this is one of those sniper games where humans... Stickshot Stickshot is a stick figure sniper game presented by StickGames. This sniping game features simple graphics, easy controls, and five... WakeUpDead WakeUpDead is one of the more unusual sniper games on the internet simply because it requires you to zoom in... The Urban Sniper: Vengeance The Urban Sniper: Vengeance is the sequel to the sniper game, Urban Sniper. This sniper game features a wider variety... ONLINE SNIPER GAMES © Copyright 2010-2021 Online Sniper Games. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2409
__label__cc	0.725477	0.274523	"We're still at war, Plissken. We need him alive." "I don't give a fuck about your war... or your president." Categorizations AICN Blog Post (short for weblog) Cartoons and Shit Comedy/Laffs Comic strips/Super heroes Fantasy/Swords Science Fiction and Space Shit Outlaw Music Vern Tells It Like It Is Badass Cinema The Badass 100 Outlaw Awards 1999 Posts Tagged ‘Cheng Pei-pei’ Naked Weapon I rented NAKED WEAPON (2002) by “Tony” Ching Siu-Tung, the great director (A CHINESE GHOST STORY trilogy, THE SWORDSMAN trilogy, THE SORCERER AND THE WHITE SNAKE) and choreographer (A BETTER TOMORROW II, SHAOLIN SOCCER, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) of Hong Kong action movies, because I thought I heard it was really good. But in retrospect I think I was mixing it up with NAKED KILLER (1992), which is not by Ching and is unrelated, though it’s by the same writer, Wong Jing (MERCENARIES FROM HONG KONG). No matter. NAKED WEAPON is an odd one, with lots of Ching’s outlandish kung fu and gun violence, and it’s one of those Hong Kong movies made for international audiences that I find so fascinating. It seems to be filmed mostly in English, with primarily Asian-American leads, but filmed in Hong Kong and Manila, with a Hong Kong crew. (read the rest of this shit…) VERN has a new action-horror novel out called WORM ON A HOOK! He has been reviewing movies since 1999 and is the author of the film criticism books Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal and Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer!: Writings on Bruce Willis, Badass Cinema and Other Important Topics as well as the crime novel Niketown. outlawvern.com Tags: Almen Wong, Andrew Lin, Anya Wu, Cheng Pei-pei, Ching Siu-Tung, Jewel Lee, Maggie Q, Wong Jing Posted in Action, Martial Arts, Reviews \| 3 Comments » In WING CHUN, the 1994 Yuen Woo-Ping classic, the great Michelle Yeoh plays Yim Wing Chun, a legendary character who was supposedly the first disciple of the Shaolin nun who invented the Wing Chun style of kung fu after seeing a crane fight a snake. The movie’s not about that, but it’s a reworking of a famous story about Wing Chun using her skills to ward off an asshole trying to force her to marry him. I’m not sure, but I think it’s kind of like in western culture if you do a new version of Zorro, Dracula, Hansel and Gretel or whatever you’re probly not gonna directly adapt the version people know, you’re gonna try to take the famous elements and put a different spin or twist or perspective on them. (read the rest of this shit…) Tags: Catherine Hung, Cheng Pei-pei, Donnie Yen, Hong Kong, Kingdom Yuen, Michelle Yeoh, Norman Chu, tofu, Waise Lee, Xiang Dong Xu, Yuen Woo-Ping Posted in Action, Martial Arts, Reviews \| 10 Comments » Lady of Steel I can say I love Shaw Brothers movies, because most of the ones I’ve seen are so good. But there are so many more of them than I’ll ever see. Every once in a while I remember that and I check one out. This one is from 1970 and it stars one of the pioneering female martial arts movie stars, Cheng Pei-pei, perhaps best known for COME DRINK WITH ME. My dad could beat up your dad with one dagger stabbed into his skull. It starts with an origin story. Some guys transporting silver taels get ambushed at an inn. The main guy is so badass that he keeps fighting even though he has daggers sticking out of his back and forehead. He dies, but his young daughter Fang Ying Qi is carried into the woods where she’s found and adopted by a kung fu master named Xuan Zhen (Ku Wen-Chung, a prolific actor and director since the ’40s). In her first appearance after the opening credits, the master has been enjoying his tea, when suddenly Cheng Pei-pei as grown up Ying Qi drops in from above the frame – I think she’s been hanging out in the trees. (read the rest of this shit…) Tags: Cheng Pei-pei, Shaw Brothers Posted in Uncategorized \| 21 Comments » Hey bud, thanks for reading. Don't feel obligated, but there are WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT THE SHIT OUT OF VERN & OUTLAWVERN.COM if that's your thing: 1. 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__label__wiki	0.783183	0.783183	Focus new romance people thought bad as can Describes when talking minnesota his vikings manchester united football Womens Cameron Wake Jersey Thought a bigger need in focus draft Published by at May 25, 2020 Selected to six consecutive Pro Bowls, from 1967… Ron Adams, he’s our Tex. Blatt led Russia to a gold medal at EuroBasket 2007 and a bronze at the 2012 Olympics. This year, I’m going to come up with something more creative, and it’s gonna look like a travel but it’s not. All three have the ability to escape defenders, and Bibbs believes that by the end of the preseason, every one of them should be on an NFL roster. Lots of people think the blind see only blackness, but 90 per cent of us do have some perception of light. This goes beyond taking out excess water and starts to strip the hairs natural moisture balance. Penalties problematic for the Colts on that drive, who got all the way to the Cleveland goal line but were then pushed back to the 23. Duncan Greive analyses the latest revelations. Defensive tackle Grady Jarrett finally made big plays against the pass, racking up 2 sacks and five quarterback hits on Drew Brees. Who do I contact with questions about Seat Upgrades? While most of the spots on that 10-man unit are like a revolving door during the 17-week season, Ledbetter stayed on it the entire season until his December call-up. I think I’ve watched a lot of the film a lot of these guys playing. I’ll just take it as it comes and do what I can to be prepared for next season regardless. Dallas : Started at right tackle…played all 79 offensive snaps…helped block for RBs Todd Gurley II and C.J. One of the ex-players – a survivor from the bar-room brawl days of 1970s rugby league – stood there in silence, neither agreeing or disagreeing with our list of candidates. But, it’s also I think a strength of the system and those all get tweaked certainly to your personnel and there’s different flavors and no two offensive playbooks are totally alike. The price is estimated at $15 million to $25 million . Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show starts off with the recap of the week including the fallout of UFC 229 , former UFC Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold , Bellator Heavyweight Chael Sonnen in studio , UFC Heavyweight Derrick Lewis , UFC legend Matt Hughes & Filmmaker Rory Karpf , UFC Lightweight Kevin Lee , Bellator Heavyweight Matt Mitrione in studio , former WBO Middleweight and Super-Middleweight champion Chris Eubank . I really don’t have a whole lot to start off with. Now, I would say the Spurs and any of the top two teams: Phoenix and Seattle. Oats have plenty of fiber, and if you add in some fruit, you’re getting a well-balanced breakfast. It is what it is. Kelly Oubre Jr. After rookie running back Derrius Guice caught a 15-yard pass with the first team, the second team was having success with their running backs active in the passing game. Azaria continued to appear in popular TV series such as Huff , Free Agents and Ray Donovan . PRO Selected in the 6th round in the 2019 NFL Draft…The 2nd Elon player drafted by the Vikings, following WR Joe Randolph …Is the highest-drafted Elon player since RB Jimmy Smith by Washington in 1984 …Only 2nd Elon Phoenix offensive lineman drafted, the other being T Sal Gero by Washington in the 25th round of the 1952 Draft…His East team in East-West Shrine Game faced Vikings LB coach Adam Zimmer who coached the West squad. We started off well, but there’s a lot of areas that we can make improvements on and there’s a lot of football basketball jersey creator to be played, Poyer explained. But what does this have to do with the new convertible? WWE superstar Lesnar, 41, has not fought in the Octagon since defeating Mark Hunt at UFC 200 in July 2016 – a victory which was later changed to a no-contest after Lesnar failed a drug test. In his first full professional season with WBS in 2018, the forward led the team with 36 assists while ranking second in overall scoring with 49 points. customize your own jersey was out there custom youth football jersey for us, guard Corey Webster told Newshub. The much-maligned former CEO Mark Weldon pushed hard, and had some success in convincing the owner, US vulture fund Oaktree, to invest in on-demand, but it was mainly aimed at providing a platform for catch-up viewing. I just congratulated them for what they’ve achieved so far. The royal wrote a children’s book called The Old Man of Lochnagar, which was published in November 1980.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2422
__label__wiki	0.696743	0.696743	TARZAN The Jungle Warrior The Jungle Warrior By Andy Briggs Open Read Media Several weeks ago we reviewed the first book in this new, licensed Tarzan series; The Greystoke Legacy. Following in the footsteps of Tarzan’s creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andy Briggs continues his new adventures of the Jungle Lord exactly where he left off in this second installment. Anyone familiar with the original classics is knows that “Tarzan of the Apes” and “The Return of Tarzan,” were actually one story told in two parts. So it is with this series though it dares to be even more ambitious and by the conclusion of this excellent sequel the saga is far from over. In the first book, young Jane Porter and her widowed father, Archie, are living in the Congo. Archie is operating an illegal tree cutting operation with his lifelong friend, Clark. Working at the camp is a young American named Robbie Canler who is on the run from the law. By the end of that first story, Jane had met the wild jungle man, Tarzan, and earned his trust and friendship. She had also discovered he might very well be the long lost heir to a British fortune. In Burrough’s classic “Return of Tarzan,” the principle villain was a sadistic Russian named Nikolas Rokoff and his henchman, Alexi Paulvitch. Tarzan foiled their various schemes until in the end they traveled to Africa and allied themselves with his cousin, Lord Cecil Clayton, in an attempt to destroy Tarzan and thus nullify his claim to the Greystoke fortune. In “The Jungle Warrior,” Briggs wonderfully reintroduces Rokoff as an obsessed big hunter who has made a fortune bagging endangered wild animals for his rich clients. Having heard the rumors of a “white ape” inhabiting the heart of the Congo, Rokoff and his aid, Paulvitch, set out to find and capture this legend. The cruel hunger has become jaded and much like his fictional peer, General Zaroff from Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game,” believes Tarzan will provide him with the most challenging hunt of his life. Once again we are given a fantastic adventure with some of the most incredible action sequences ever written. In his works, Burroughs made Tarzan larger than life, almost superhuman in some aspects and reimagining him as anything less would have been a serious mistake. Not so with this new and exciting interpretation. Here is wild, amazing action that knows no boundaries and a Tarzan as courageous, magnificent and totally unstoppable as he has ever been. Reading these new Tarzan exploits is a joyous, fun experience; one no true pulp fan should miss. We can’t wait for volume three. Posted by Ron Fortier at 5:08 PM 4 comments STEIN AND CANDLE Vol One STEIN AND CANDLE Detective Agency Vol. One By Michael Panush Curiosity Quill Press One of the finest pulp novels we enjoyed last year was Michael Panush’ “Dinosaur Jazz.” In fact this reviewer nominated it as Best Pulp Novel in 2012 for both the Pulp Factory Awards and the Pulp Ark Awards. Yes, it is that good and if you haven’t read it yet you should certainly go out and do so immediately. Of course having discovered Panush’s marvelous fiction, we went hunting up some of his earlier works. We found two volumes of stories starring a duo of occult detectives operating in the years after World War Two known as Stein and Candle. We’ve just finished reading the first collection and are thrilled to report Micael Panush is yy no means a one-trick literary magician. “Stein and Candle” features seven hair-raising, fast paced, pulp tales of the most unusual and original new occult heroes ever invented. Mort Candle was an army sergeant with the 101st Airborne during the war and is one tough as nails character. During the last days of the European campaing, he and his squad were sent on a mission to rescue a Jewish family, the Steins, being held captive in their Austrian castle by a group of sadistic Nazis SS unit. Count Wolfgang Stein was a scientist who dabbled in arcane lore and the Germans wanted him to create a zombie army with which to stem the tide of the war and save the Third Reich. When Stein refused, he and his wife Hannah, during a daring escape attempt, were killed and only their young eight year old son, Weatherby survived to be rescued by Sgt. Candle and his team. This volume opens six years later as we learn Candle, now a civilian private investigator, has become the fourteen year old Weatherby’s legal guardian. Together they take on weird cases tainted by the occult. These pit them against all manner of horrific adversaries such as vampire bikers, a deadly ghost haunting a British movie company and a zombie plague in a Los Vegas like city in the California desert. Each case is narrated by Candle in his rough, non-frills voice, and is a thrill ride this reviewer relished to the max. Whereas the volume contains only one story presented in the third person style and it is the actual origin story of the young occultist, Weatherby Stein. It is a most moving story and Panush deserves much credit for holding back towards the end of the volume. Bottom line, dear readers, if you like hard-edged fantasy that combines both horror and pulp action, “Stein and Candle” is the book for you. Panush continues to whip up fresh new ideas coupled with truly great characters establishing him as one of the best new writers in the New Pulp arena. We fully expect his name and award titles are going to be synonymous all too soon. MONSTER EARTH Edited by Jim Beard & James Palmer Mechanoid Press Talk about hitting a homerun your first time at the plate, this book does just that. It is the first title from writer James Palmer’s new company, Mechanoid Press, and it is a pure joy for monster junkies of all persuasions. Working with co-editor, Jim Beard, what the two have done is created an alternate world where giant monsters appeared just prior to the outbreak of World War II. Then, in various stories by their colleagues, the effects of their presence is made known throughout the history of the next thirty years. Thus the theme of the collection is to answer that question, “What would our world be like if all those movie monsters like Godzilla and all the rest were real?” Aiding Beard and Palmer answer that question are five other talented monster-lovers providing us with marvelous tales of sheer unadulterated imagination. “The Parade of Moments,” kicks everything off with Jim Beards relating old man’s memories his days as a newsreel cameraman. He was in China during the height of the Japanese – Chinese conflict in 1937. It was his good (or bad) luck to be on the scene with the first giant tentacle demon appeared under the command of the Japanese. Later, in Shanghai, he films the arrival of the gargantuan Foo Dog monster of Chinese myth as it does battle with the enemy sea monster. This is where the world changes forever. Writer I.A. Watson picks up the thread with his “The Monsters of World War II, or, Happy Birthday, Bobby Fetch.” You have to give some applause for that title alone. The story takes place in Hawaii on the morning of Dec. 7th, 1941 and the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces; this time aided by their giant squid-like sea creature. Young Bobby Fetch, newly arrived with his scientist parents befriends a beautiful young girl who teaches him the myths of the Hawaiian dragons. Giant winged monsters devoted to protecting the islands and their people. The boy soon learns all true heroism comes with a cost. With the end of the war, countries find themselves having to lock up their monsters, such as the American fur covered beast called Johnson in Jeff McGinnis’ marvelous entry, “The Beast’s Home.” Military authorities keep Johnson imprisoned in Los Angeles because of its being on the west coast. When the monster breaks free on several occasions, wreaking havoc and great loss of life, the city is soon abandoned by the movie industry and becomes nothing more than a gilded ghost town. This was our favorite story in the book. “And A Child Shall Lead Them,” brings us into the 1960 where writer Nancy Hansen tells of a giant Snake Goddess from India who chases a false guru to the shores of Boston attempting to reclaim what was stolen from her. When the U.S. Military unleashes its own monster, a giant Thunderbird, a battle royal ensues that threatens to completely destroy the Hub City unless a teenage boy and old derelict can soothe the savage behemoths with their ancient folk-music. Edward M. Erdelac continues this Native American thread with his “Mighty Nunuq,” a giant polar bear connected to the Inuit people of the frozen north. But once again, all such supernatural beings demand sacrificial offerings. Fraser Sherman’s sixth entry, “Peace With Honor,” is set in the last days of the Vietnam War with both sides using monsters to not so much to win as to find a honorable exit to the conflict that so ravaged both sides. Thus the North Vietnamese unleash their giant bat-monster the Shrieker who must battle Junior Johnson, the offspring of the famous L.A. monster used to defeat the Japanese in World War II. The unifying thread that moves through all these stories is used to maximum advantage here as each new story builds on the foundations set by the others thus world-building a very believable Earth and its horrifying history. Co-Editor James Palmer wraps up the book with “Some Say in Ice,” which is the most exaggerated, bombastic, over-the-top fishing story ever told. American monster scientists head to the frigid arctic waters to capture an illusive sea creature few have ever seen. How they go about this is fantastic and wonderfully captures the true core of “Monster Earth.” It’s a grand send off and left this reviewer applauding soundly. “Monster Earth” is what New Pulp is all about. It’s fresh, original, with a tip of the hat to those old black and white cinema thrills we all enjoyed as youngsters. If this book doesn’t have a sequel, then there’s something really wrong with this Earth. Go get it now…before the monsters get you! COMPLEX 90 By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Available May 2013 Beginning a new year with a new Mike Hammer novel is a cause for jubilant celebration. In his short preface to the book, begun by the late Mickey Spillane, Collins informs us that the setting is 1964 and “Complex 90” is in part a sequel to the 1961 Mike Hammer novel, “The Girl Hunters.” For those of you unfamiliar with that private eye classic, a brief summary is in order. “The Girl Hunters” opens with our down-and-out hero discovering that his secretary, and one true love, Velda, has returned from the dead. Having lived in an alcoholic haze since her disappearance seven years earlier, he learns that Velda had been on a spy mission for the government, captured by the Russians and thrown into one of their of their prisons where she had endured physical tortures until managing to escape. Now back on U.S. soil her ordeal is far from over as the Soviets send a specialized assassin team to terminate her permanently. Instead they run into Hammer and it he who does the exterminating. You can easily enjoy “Complex 90” without having read “The Girl Hunters,” but why on earth would you settle for one great Mike Hammer book when you can enjoy two? Okay, back to this “sequel” of sorts. The cold war is still in full tilt, even though Hammer and Velda have slowly gotten their lives back on a normal track. Then an old colleague recruits Hammer to assist him as a bodyguard for a controversial senator throwing a lavish cocktail parting in his New York penthouse. Hammer sees it as an opportunity to make a few fast bucks. In the middle of the soiree, an assassin attempts to shoot the senator but instead guns down Hammer’s pal. Hammer takes a slug to the leg before sending the killer through a window eighty stories up via a hot lead tivkry from his .45 automatic. So much for an easy few dollars. Suffering only a flesh wound, Hammer is soon back on his feet. Immediately he is offered a new assignment; that of bodyguard to the senator during his fact-finding junket to Moscow. The senator wants Hammer to replace his dead friend who was scheduled to accompany him. No sooner are the two in Russia then Hammer is arrested and imprisoned by the KGB for being a spy. Fortunately for the savvy P.I., they detain him in a city facility and he waste no time escaping, leaving half a dozen bodies behind. By the time he makes it back to the States, he’s left a trail of forty-five dead Russians creating an international incident. Now the Russians are clamoring for his hide and the State Department isn’t any too pleased with the notorious New York private-eye. What bothers Hammer is why he was kidnapped in the first place and why the Commies are so hell bent on bringing him back to the U.S.S.R. Finding the answers to those two questions is the major plot around which this fast paced thriller revolves and like all Mike Hammer tales, there’s plenty of two-fisted action along the journey. Collins prose never lets up for a second propelling this reader to a slam-bang climax that had us needing a drink when it was over. Cold war intrigue, sexy femme fatales and in the middle of it all, one tough son-of-bitch throwback whose conservative patriotism will not be shaken by gun-toting foreign agents or two-faced Washington politicians. In a time of when America is being torn apart by a culture war, Spillane’s Mike Hammer is a cleansing storm that makes no excuses for loving ones country and doing whatever it takes to keep her strong. Makes us wish we had a lot more like him. THE BREACH TRILOGY by Patrick Lee INTO THE BREACH! A Review of Patrick Lee's Breach Trilogy By guest reviewer Andrew Salmon In these days of overhyped, over-marketed, multi-volume mega-series, it's hard to find a series of novels that truly justifies their existence. It's all about branding and stretching stories out to 1000s of pages for purely economic reasons is, sadly, the norm these days. Patrick Lee's incredible Breach trilogy is the exception to the rule. In three of the best edge-of-your-seat thrill rides this reader has ever had the pleasure to read, Lee gives us a New Pulp trilogy for the ages. The novels are The Breach, Ghost Country and Deep Sky and all three are lean, mean, thrill machines you do not want to miss. But enough hype. What is this rollicking trilogy about? In the first novel, The Breach, we are introduced to ex-con, ex-cop Travis Chase who is seeking to escape his past and find solace in the frozen, isolated wastes of Alaska as he tries to decide what to do with the rest of his life. That answer comes unexpectedly when he stumbles upon a unmarked 747 that crashed in the frozen wasteland just days before. To his surprise, no one has reached the wreck despite clear weather and the proximity of the crash to the nearest town. Added to this mystery is the discovery that the survivors of the crash have been tortured and killed, including the First Lady who has left a note providing the location of the torturers but also desperate instructions for whoever finds it to kill not only the torturers but also the two remaining surviving passengers. Chase heads to the scene but instead tries to rescue the two prisoners, a man and a woman. In a great action sequence, he fails to save the man but manages to save the woman who is critically injured during the battle. The woman, Paige Campbell, it turns out, is an agent of Tangent. Their goal is a simple one. They are trying to save the world. Not from a terrorist plot, or from some unseen enemy representing a shadowy, potential threat to the US or democracy. No, they are literally, trying to save mankind from ultimate destruction. Destruction by whom? Ah-ah. That would be telling. But I will tell you this: Tangent agents are trusted to guard, examine and study, The Breach, which is a form of wormhole that resulted when a particle collider was tested back in 1978. Since that time, items have been appearing on our side of the breach, items sometimes mundane, often unfathomable, and often deadly dangerous with strange properties and powers. Are they from the future? Another dimension? Are they the prelude to alien invasion? No one knows. Called Brach Entities, the good guys need to keep these items away from the bad guys. That's the set up and I'll leave the first novel here so as not to spoil the action. And there is a ton of great action in this first installment despite the novel being somewhat hampered by the need to introduce the above premise. The action picks up in the next novel, Ghost Country, which is the biggest and boldest entry in the trilogy. This one kicks off with the President's motorcade being taken out. Now such a sequence would normally be the climax of a great action tale but here Lee begins the tale with this breath-taking action. And it's an indication of the action that is to come. Campbell, with mere seconds before capture, must get a message to Chase telling him to retrieve a Breach Entity similar to the one lost in the destroyed motorcade. Chase, who has left Tangent and Campbell for compelling reasons set down in the first novel, has no choice but to re-involve himself with Tangent and the Breach and sets out to find this second artifact. This device turns out to be a means for the user to jump ahead 73 years into the future - a future where mankind has been wiped out by a Breach entity. To reveal more would be to spoil the biggest, boldest, grandest entry in the series. Put simply, once you pick up Ghost Country you will not put it down. It is filled with trips through time, government conspiracies, action galore, heroism and sacrifice and enough left over to set up the third and final novel. Deep Sky is much smaller in scale and tone although the main mystery remains intact and there is still tons of action. Reading it after Ghost Country, however, may seem like something of a letdown because of this scaling back and, really, there is only one thing that can elevate the work: and that's the revealing of what the Breach is while wrapping up the various plot threads. The world is still ticking down to destruction and here the baddies are taking out anyone associated with the Breach and this is all compelling stuff. But it's the secret of the Breach that will either make or break the book after the compelling first novel and the exemplary Ghost Country. I, too, was somewhat taken aback by the approach in Deep Sky. Don't get me wrong, as a standalone work, it is an action thrill-ride but after Country the action paled somewhat even though I was still feverishly turning pages. This brings us to the secret of the Breach itself. No, I'm not telling. It would be a crime to spoil the fun for readers. Here Lee is faced with the problem of all mystery-driven fare: how to come up with an explanation that will wow readers who have had the time, over the course of the previous two novels, to theorize and come up with their own explanation for the ultimate secret. Obviously it is impossible to satisfy every reader in this situation. As for this reader, no stranger to this type of story, the reveal blew my mind. I never, in a million years, saw it coming and it truly surprised me. All in a good way. That said, and for the reasons stated above, your mileage may vary when Lee draws back the curtain. All I can say is that it worked for me and I was left in awe after reading the last page. Needless to say I've got an eye out for the next Patrick Lee book. The Breach trilogy is simply brilliant. Story aside, a word about the presentation of the work is in order. Spread over three novels, the 1168 pages of the trilogy could just as easily been presented as a single, large work and shelling out for three novels might put some readers off. However now that all three books have been released, readers can avoid the frustration of being left hanging while awaiting the next installment. This is a series you will want to devour. The books are available for Kindle but, given that these are released by mainstream publishers (Harper Collins) the ebooks are ridiculously overpriced and are actually more expensive than printed copies. But they are an option for those who prefer reading that way. For me, the money I spent on the Breach trilogy was money well spent. I was glued to my chair, slicing my fingers to shreds turning pages long past bed time. Some of the best New Pulp writing on the market today. I loved it! ANDREW SALMON – is one of the finest New Pulp writers in the field today, having won the Pulp Factory Award for Best Short Story of 2009. He resides in Vancouver, Canada with is wife.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2426
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__label__cc	0.629354	0.370646	Restoration Church Camano Come and discover Jesus You are here: Home Connect Bible Matthew chapter 13 - Revised standard version Psalm 118:5-6Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free. With the LORD on my side I do not fear. What can man do to me? Restoration Church Home Newsletter (updated 1/16) Pastor Troy VanHorn Current Teaching Series Drive-In Church Sunday Video Gospel Community Matthew chapter 13 King James Version Revised Standard Version Malachi 1 Matthew 12 Matthew 14 Mark 1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched; and since they had no root they withered away. Other seeds fell upon thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear." Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: `You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive. For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal them.' But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. "Hear then the parable of the sower. When any one hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart; this is what was sown along the path. As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the delight in riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the word and understands it; he indeed bears fruit, and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty." Another parable he put before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the householder came and said to him, `Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?' He said to them, `An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, `Then do you want us to go and gather them?' But he said, `No; lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'" Another parable he put before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches." He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened." All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable. This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world." Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field." He answered, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world, and the good seed means the sons of the kingdom; the weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it. "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind; when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad. So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous, "Have you understood all this?" They said to him, "Yes." And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old." And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there, and coming to his own country he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?" And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house." And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2431
__label__cc	0.742572	0.257428	San and Santa Remo Its the yearly festival of the banal and mediocre as the media desperate nonentities don their non A list frocks and parade round San Remo in the pretence of being important. This year we have a list of uninteresting vacuous showbiz lovelies to make us feel inadequate, but despite their best attempts at ultimate blandness a flicker of social responsibility makes itself felt through the use of rainbow coloured tassels. Yes, San Remo this year coincides with the parliamentary debate on the DDL Cirinna on civil unions and stepchild adoptions. Despite the best attempts of ITalian politicians to show their complete inability to reflect the feeling of their electors, the ‘artistes’ at San Remo are almost universally in favour. The European court of Human Rights has condemned Italy for not introducing legislation earlier and made Renzi promise to do something. The result is a particularly pathetic proposal which finally puts the state above the church, smoething already enshrined in the constitution but conveniently ignored by all and sundry. There are wailings and gnashings of teeth from the usual hypocrites. The DC/NCD wing, such as Alfano the home office minister, get all frothy at the mouth because they are Catholics and therefore cannot do anything that could possibly be seen as indicative of christian love and values. The right wing send tweets here and there proclaiming that Sodom is about to arrive in Italy because a gay couple will have the same rights as a married heterosexual couple. The closeted politicians send offensive messages trying to show that they are ‘right thinking’ but merely show themselves up for being even more hypocritical and cowardly than the rest. In the meantime Elton John sings at San Remo and doesnt say anything which is a bit of a disappointment, as the side of the misinformation is winning hands down. Even Beppe Grillo – and the 5stelle has announced that he will allow a vote of conscience on the issue. This is deeply worrying, as the public face of the 5stelle is a liberal and forward thinking movement but in reality is proving to be a pretty reactionary force for ‘bad’. The question is why are people so hett up about this legislation that will have no impact whatsover on the vast majority of the population? The civil union bill will allow for the first time in Italy the state of common law spouse – something which the church has fought against for years. For the first time in Italy, a couple who live together, of any combination of sexes, will have the same rights as a couple who has spent a lot of money on flowers and food. As Italy at the moment lives in the heady days of 19th century morals, and equally heady 19th century hypocrisy we have a situation where one half of a couple which cohabits and has children is completely disenfranchised if the other half dies. Not only can they not inherit property, so are often thrown out by the blood relations, but often are not allowed in the hospital room of their other half to say goodbye. For those with children, they can lose any rights, as the kids are awarded to grandma’s, aunts or anyone else in the family. This nonsensical state of affairs, which was righted in other European countries decades ago, is still rife in ITaly. The civil union bill also allows same sex couples and different sex couples the same rights on pensions, health care etc – all the things which most people now see as normal and fair. But not here. And the piece of the jigsaw which has aroused the wrath of the bishops – the ones who wear the best fancy dress – is stepchild adoption. Now, its necessary here to read the words carefully – stepchild and adoption, because the Italian press would have us believe that same sex couples are about to run off and copy Brad and Angelina adopting hordes of vulnerable foreign kids just because they match their luggage. The particular word to notice here is stepchild. The legislation is pretty clear. A biological father or mother who sets up home with their kid and a person of teh same sex (cue twitching of priestly frocks), means that their other half can adopt the child. Obviously if one of the parents then dies, the child isnt then bunged into a van and deposited at an orphanage because it has two parents. The visions conjured up by the right wing and catholic press/politicians of predatory paedophiles planning long term relationships just so they can get their mitts on an adopted child is frankly, repulsive. Yesterday Renzi too backtracked on his promises and has allowed a conscience vote on the adoption issue. Again lots of misinformation about what the law contains, but what I want to know is what exactly is the conscience on this one. How can someone actually be against this law? Obvously if their conscience also dictates that burning women at the stake who might be witches is perfectly acceptable, or perhaps its a matter of conscience if you send small children up chimneys, or allow women out of their houses during the hours of daylight, I can understand it – but here we are talking about people who dont question the rights of women or children or pretty cuddly doggies. What they have a problem is with treating humans in the same way, because they can’t tell the difference between love and sex. We now have the distinct possibility that the law will not pass, in which case I sincerely hope that everyone will cancel their holidays to Italy until its politicans see a bit of sense and humanity. a slice of Italy Shurely they are related?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2435
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A The United Planning Organization a self-help community organization was hiring "Neighborhood Workers." A They hired three, me, Petey and H. A Two years later Rap would be named Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. A I would become a Roving Leader (Youth Gang Task Force) for the DC Recreation Department and Petey would find his new home in radio at WOL. A Three UPO "Neighborhood Workers" would go on to establish their own independent idenities. A Petey would win 2 Emmy Awards and in 2007 there was a feeble attempt to do his life story on the big screen. He is now in jail serving a life sentence for the murder of a black Deputy Sherrif in Fulton County, Georgia. Brian McIntyre.A He was sitting almost alone and there was no one waiting in line (compared to today's media circus). A I looked down and notice that all the white media were seated on one side of half-court and all the blacks were seated on the other side of the half-court line. He stepped in front of me and said "I got it."A It would be the start of the 4th quarter that Mark returned to the press table table and apologize for his unprofessional actions. A There were other mistakes like someone thought a black Judy Holland was VP material---far from it. A It took a minute but in the meantime, he was making an effort to bring about change in his own way. A But according veteran (32 years) sports writer Bill Rhoden of the New York Times, progress in sports media pressrooms around the country are on a slow boat to China.A His recent appearance on the widely acclaimed television news show Meet the Press, he said, "the NBA, NFL and MLB are still dragging their feet. Media pressrooms at Deadline are still the last plantations.A A Pioneering broadcaster and former NBA CBS basketball analyst Sonny Hill and now a sports talk show host on WIP Radio in Philadelphia said, "I am not surprised by Rhoden's statement, very little has changed in media pressrooms. 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A Talking about an organization needing a change of name and a face-lift---meet Leon Jenkins.A Jenkins seen above at a press conference trying to explain why the li»?ocal branch was honoring Sterling during the 100th Anniversary of the organization next month. A A He explained the previous award had been approved by the man he replaced and he just went along to get along. A A Sterling won't be the first to sleep black and think white when it comes to sex, politics and money. Slave owners lived by the credo and in modern day history there was the late Senator Strom Thurmond. A Nike NBA rep John Phillips and I met with VP Rod Thorn, League Counsel Gary Bettman and Head of League Security, Horace Balmer. A The meeting centered around whether Magic Johnson, Mycal Thompson and a group of NBA All-Stars would be allowed to travel to the Bahamas for a charity basketball game without league approval. 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A Mycal was a class act but his hands were tied when Magic decided to do his Houdini act.A Gary Bettman now runs the NHL, Ron Thorn is still in the NBA somewhere calling the shots, Horace Balmer has since retired and Magic is the face (black) in the middle of the Donald Sterling charade. A When all is said and done, the real victim despite all of her baggage is the girlfriend (The Whistle Blower) V. A NBA Commissioner Adam Silver during his annoucement as it related to the punishment of Donald Sterling apologize to black NBA pioneers Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper and Magic Johnson. A He reminds me of the controversial Celebrity Chef Paula Deen who alledgely use The N word to describe her love for black folks. 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A In the old days police A would carry a "drop knife---an inexpensive weapon cops would bring along on patrol to drop onto or next to suspect that they had taken out so that they could say that he had threaten them. A Today you don't even need to do that; all that you have to do is justify the use of deadly force if you are a police officer is to say that you feared for your life, for whatever reason. If the victim dies, that just means there will one less witness around to contradict the test-lie. A In the case of Officer Michael Slager of the North Charleston police, it appears he was being extra-carefulto cover his tracks. A Probably he could have gotten away with simply declaring, as he did in the radioed report, that Walter Scott "took my taser," and that would have probably have sufficed to exonerate him. A But Slager having shot Scott eight times in the back--as everyone can see in the now famous video--perhaps felt that he needed a little help explaining what he was up to. 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__label__wiki	0.931843	0.931843	Reviews \| spikemilliganspuckoon.com/reviews REVIEWS a selection of press reviews www.thebiglist.co.uk www.culturehubmagazine.co.uk "Flat-out anarchy is the order of the evening in the Big Telly Theatre Company's adaptation of Spike Milligan's comically masterful Puckoon, a crazy concoction of music, mimicry, mixed messages and multiple-character playing that constantly and hilariously satirises people, politics, professions and the written word. It strictly adheres to the central theme in the work of Milligan and Big Telly: don't ever try to make sense of them, because, believe me, you won't. The key to enjoying this marriage of the legendary comedian and the Portstewart-based dramatists - a perfect match if there ever was one - is to let the idiosyncratic insanity and hyperactive humour wash over you, to the point where you will almost certainly leave the theatre with a grin on your face. And, maybe, with a few lessons learned too. Puckoon is a revival, brought back to theatres all over the UK and Ireland in 2016 by popular demand. The production I attend is on April 16 at Derry-Londonderry’s Playhouse Theatre, which would have been Milligan’s 98th birthday, and a Puckoon-themed cake has been brought along to mark the occasion. Needless to say it goes down well with the numerous hearty, smiling faces at the interval. Puckoon is the story of how a talented writer, very well played by musical director Paul Boyd, narrates and creates a plot, a lead character oblivious to this plot, a priest losing the plot, a series of locals getting in on the plot and a plot centred around grave robbery. There are no theatrical rules in this ever-thickening plot (there's that word again) apart from those which the writer and narrator makes for himself - rules made to be as broken as the titular fictional town is by external plans. Because, in 1922, the Ulster Boundary Commission's decision to draw the new national border right through the town has caused divisions of all kinds. Drink is cheaper, the church and graveyard are separated, and Dan Milligan, played by Paddy Jenkins, is whining to the narrator (don't ask, just go with it) about what to do with his plot (there’s that word yet again) of land. It's like a tug of war between how a writer wants a character to act and how the character wants his character to act – in other words, the kind of muddle that occurs when more than one auteur tries to make their stamp on a single piece of work. Or, to put it another way, battles over leadership and type of leadership. Or, to put it yet another way, worthy of Monty Python in its mirth and message. The tone and invention in that sketch pretty much sums up what the packed theatre gets here. The stage is full of very useful clutter, with a rack of clothes in one corner, a set of musical instruments in another, and a movable doorway complete with a door. Ideal, then, for livening up the countless caricatures played by the four additional actors on stage - John O’Mahony, Giles Stoakley, Patrick J O’Reilly and Keith Singleton - who Spike Milligan inspired and Dan Milligan will meet. The wit and wisdom of the former Milligan shines through in every song heard and in adept and unconventional portrayal on show, including a priest, doctor, major, local woman and trainee Chinese policeman. (Again, don’t ask.) But the centrepiece of Puckoon is Boyd. His narration enriches the work as much as his musical compositions - while narrating can easily be seen as an expositional crutch, it's perfect for this story about a story. The bemusing and amusing moment when his otherwise dry and factual delivery becomes laced with confusion, as he tries to maintain pacing during a period of inaction for the other actors, is arguably the epitome of this highly entertaining work" "Somewhere north east of Sligo lies the sleepy village of Puckoon with three policemen, a graveyard, a pub and a host of eccentric madcap characters. It’s the location for Spike Milligan’s comic novel that was dramatised after his death by Vincent Higgins and performed by Big Telly Theatre Company. Their revival of the show is currently touring Britain and Ireland. Paul Boyd (“The Writer”) superbly anchors the absurd show from behind a piano in the corner of the stage. The rest of the cast play tin whistles, ukuleles, guitars, drums, and sing along in-between nipping across the stage to act out scenes. Paddy Jenkins plays Dan Milligan, a fictional fool who quickly reveals that the normal rules of theatre have been suspended – never mind the fourth wall broken – and argues back and forth about his role with The Writer. I’ve never seen a show with as many props, non sequiturs and raised eyebrows. Patrick J O’Reilly and Keith Singleton act like a pair of eejits who switch genders and characters as if someone was snapping at a button on their remote control. They frustrate The Writer’s attempts to move the story on and are deservedly rewarded with some of the heartiest laughs of the night. Keith Singleton’s portrayal of an Ulster Unionist with loose dentures could be spun off into a whole show of its own. John O Mahony and Giles Stoakley complete the cast. Having set up the quirky world of Puckoon, we reach the point when life in the village changes for ever. The Ulster Boundary Commission decide that the border will be somewhat arbitrarily drawn through the middle of the community, dividing the church from its graveyard. Add a border post, officious upholders of rules and bomb smugglers and the pandemonium unravels. Lighting designer Kevin Smith has cunningly adapted some furniture props so beams of light illuminate actors’ faces from below. Along with the clouds of fog that eerily linger above the cast’s heads, the stained glass window effect adds to the set without cluttering the stage. The randomness of Milligan’s writings is retained in the script, and the humour is simultaneously visual, physical and oral. And this is where Puckoon succeeds and The 39 Steps falters. Acting out a Hitchcock film on stage with only three actors is comical to watch, but Puckoon is imaginative in so many other dimensions. While the original novel was written while in Australia, Puckoon appositely satirises Irish sensibilities about identity and state interference. The entertainment is novel, the performances full tilt, and the storyline as hard to unravel as Spike Milligan’s mind. Director Zoë Seaton and musical director/actor Paul Boyd have created a comical gem" www.pastiebap.com www.alaninbelfast.blogspot.co.uk www.britishtheatreguide.info www.whatsonstage.com www.culturenorthernireland.org www.extraextra.org www.thegoonshow.org.uk "From the word go Big Telly Theatre Company's production of Puckoon is an electric, exhausting, exciting and engaging piece of theatre , if you can even summarise it under such a narrow term as simply a ‘theatre’ piece. The actors in this production, double, triple and quadruple their roles, transforming themselves into dancers, musicians, choir members, set technicians and many more. Of course, anyone familiar with Spike Milligan knows to expect an absurd two hours of relentlessly demanding yet uproarious stage time, similarly those who aren’t so familiar with his work are in for the show of their lives. Puckoon opens with the narrator, come writer, come lead musician played by Paul Boyd setting the scene for us: Ireland in 1922, during the time of the border partition, the small town of Puckoon is about to be torn apart, quite literally, by the division of Ireland. Throw in a work shy alcoholic protagonist, a Chinese Gardi officer, a pub with 3ft in the North and the rest in the South, a corrupt Priest and two daft IRA members and you have yourself a recipe for Milligan inspired chaos. We are introduced to such a broad range of characters within the opening minutes of the show that it sets the bar for the hectic and bonkers nature of what’s to come. The cast gel together with such unity it’s obvious that this piece has been in production for some time. With Northern Irish gems such as Paddy Jenkins playing the clumsy and lazy protagonist Dan Milligan, whose life is controlled by the actions of The Writer, to the multi character performances from Keith Singleton, Patrick O’Reilly, Giles Stoakley and John O Mahoney Puckoon’s cast a collection of the finest talents NI has to offer. As an introduction to Milligan, it’s a fantastic way to dip your toe into his absurdist world. The show is a chaotic experience from start to finish. Working across the board the cast never once let the momentum of the piece relax, something essential in such a fast paced show as it allows the audience to be gripped and fully enthralled in the ever complicated story. Each scene seems to somehow stumble into the next, each costume change, set change, musical accompaniment, dance routine all carried out by the exposed cast members acts a seamless and smooth counterpart to the constructed onstage madness. You can’t help at times, but to be on the edge of your seat throughout the performance, whilst the actors never allow their energy to drop, it’s hard not to see that it must be an exhausting production to pull off. From acrobatic stunts to musical numbers involving 4 costume changes in as many minutes, per cast member, you can’t help but be as anxious as you are impressed throughout this eclectic offering. Whether you’re an avid Milligan fan, or a complete novice to his work, this production is a must see if not least for the hilarious break down of the 4th wall which allows the audience to feel as much a part of the show as the cast themselves. Be ready to laugh until your cheeks are sore!" "They say there is a thin line between insanity and genius and Big Telly's adaptation of Spike Milligan's novel ‘Puckoon’ demonstrates how very thin that line is, and how very easy it is to jump back and forth across that line with a silly grin on one's face. Set in 1922, the Boundary Commission inadvertently divide the small village of Puckoon in their haste to get to the pub. This leaves Catholics buried in the now English part of the churchyard requiring passports for the duration of their stay, and the ensuing plan to repatriate them is also an opportunity for two inept IRA men to smuggle explosives across the border in coffins - oh yes, and beer is cheaper in the corner of the pub which falls on the other side of the line. In this string of absurd comedy sketches, through which emerges a sharp satirical swipe at Partition, there are boy scouts performing Julius Caesar, a singing Chinese police officer, a lazy Irishman, a corrupt priest and a Hasidic village doctor. Take heed though - Milligan once said, "I'm not racist. I hate everybody", so it doesn't stop there and there is also a lisping Orangeman who spits out dentures, Murphy's face that looks like one of his own potatoes and something to do with a midget's widow. This very ridiculous concoction wears its Goon Show credentials on its sleeve and the cast of six deliver the anarchy with great energy. Most of the cast play instruments as well as taking on upward of six characters sometimes playing more than one in a scene. Glen Kinch is spot on as he darts from being Dr Goldstein on one side of the stage to the British officer on the other making it all look so easy, whilst Bryan Quinn's split second transition in and out of the Mrs O'Toole character is comically brilliant. John O'Mahony is a natural as the priest who could have come off the set of Father Ted and Russell Morton has us in stitches as the singing Chinese policeman. The story, if you can call it that, is held together by narration from The Writer, played with frustrated deadpan by Paul Boyd, and Jack Walsh as the feckless Dan Milligan who wants to have better legs written into the play, both of whom are very funny indeed. Director Zoe Seaton keeps the pace up, essential when delivering madcap comedy like this which will appeal to Goon fans as well as lovers of absurdist humour and anyone who hasn't lost the joy of untrammelled silliness” "It is easy see why this rumbustious romp of a show has been a huge hit barnstorming around Ireland. The wildly talented company of six actor-musicians attack Spike Milligan’s absurd comic novel with inspired physical gusto, all of them playing several instruments and roles, often hopping to and fro from one to the other. At one point pianist Paul Boyd plays two characters simultaneously and has a conversation with himself! Boyd as musical director, narrator and music hall style chairman battles to referee the anarchic mayhem as this tall tale of the small village of Puckoon that falls foul of the boundary commission during the partition of Ireland in 1922 unravels. Due to an administrative glitch the new border runs right through their sleepy community, separating the church from its graveyard and even cutting the pub in two. Whatsmore, beer is thirty percent cheaper at the Republican end of the bar! Add to this heady mix the IRA smuggling arms, a bit of body snatching and a plethora of eccentric comic characters and you have the surreal and whacky world of ‘Puckoon’” "There was a full second's pause of perplexed silence at the end of ‘Puckoon’ before the Belfast Waterfront audience burst into rapturous applause. That was the tenor of the whole show: constantly caught between confusion and delight. The band of multi-talented actors and musicians took the audience on a surreal rampage, loosely based on the Spike Milligan novel. The show's subtitle is 'a simple tale of Irish folk bordering on the ridiculous', but ‘Puckoon’, which is dramatised by Vincent Higgins, doesn't just border on the ridiculous. It takes the concept, turns it upside down, ties a silly hat on it and gives it a kick up the arse for good measure. It's not just silly slapstick though. There's plenty of crackling wit, maudlin philosophising and sheer theatrical anarchy in there too. The action is set in Ireland, June 1922, and the Ulster Boundary Commission has drawn the new border right through the little town of Puckoon. The graveyard has been sliced in half and the locals left huddled in the corner of a pub, where the drink is now 30% cheaper. A stand-off develops in the graveyard, where deceased inhabitants now require an Irish passport, renewed annually, for the duration of their stay. The central figure, around whom the craziness revolves, is feckless layabout Dan Milligan (Jack Walsh). He's accompanied by a bewildering range of small-town characters – including Dr Sean Goldstein, Mrs O'Toole, Sergeant MacGillikudie, Blind George, Croucher and Murphy, whose gormless face is 'a replica of the King Edward potatoes he grows'. All characters are brought to life by the 6-strong cast, who throw hats, shirts, overcoats and even facial expressions (from dopey to cunning) on and off at lightning speed as they shift between personas. There's scant regard for political correctness, especially when it comes to the trainee Chinese policeman (best not ask). Part of the delirious chaos stems from the fact that this is a play which refuses to behave itself and just be a play. Just as in Milligan's novel, the narrator – known here as The Writer - occasionally abandons his authorial role to engage in discussion with Dan about the state of his legs, which Dan claims haven't been written very well. He'd be happier with a better-scripted pair. This is carried off with such great humour that it doesn't come across as self-consciously knowing or clever-clever. What really adds another dimension to ‘Puckoon’, though, is the music. Again showing enormous versatility, the actors also turn out to be dab hands at the ukelele, flute, tin whistle, accordion, harmonica and drums – sometimes simultaneously. At the piano, Paul Boyd (aka The Writer), in an outsized, floppy wine-coloured bow-tie, holds it all together – just about. He struggles manfully to keep the play afloat, at one point sighing, 'you don't get this at the Lighthouse Family' [who were playing next door, Ed.] An observation which gets a roar of laughter from the audience. Somewhere towards the end, Dan Milligan asks, 'what's this play all about anyway, with all these people coming and going?' There is no answer to that question, but you're laughing so much that you don't care" "It took the satirical genius of Spike Milligan to identify the hugely comic possibilities lurking beneath the surface of the 1924 Border Commission’s machinations to draw a frontier between Britain (in the shape of Northern Ireland) and what was then known as the Irish Free State. Vincent Higgins, Zoe Seaton, Paul Boyd and the company have clearly had a rare old time in adapting Milligan’s internationally successful novel into a rip-roaring piece of physical theatre which is hugely entertaining. In the role of the confused writer, Boyd provides the on-stage compass, supplying ad hoc music and script for the haphazard journey of old Dan Milligan (Jack Quinn), whose cycling exploits along the border are the cause of many an unforeseen disaster. The other four actor/musicians rarely leave the black box of a stage, zipping between costumes and characters like men possessed. Conleth White’s clever lighting is an integral part of a glossy production which looks great, even when outrageous events threaten to get in the way" "When director Zoe Seaton and musical maestro Paul Boyd get together, something a little crazy often results. Their collective gaze has fallen enthusiastically on the madcap genius of Spike Milligan, comedian, writer, musician, playwright, poet and Goon. His best-selling novel ‘Puckoon’ has already been adapted into a film; now Seaton, Boyd and Vincent Higgins have turned it into a fast-moving, Pythonesque piece of theatre. In the role of writer, Boyd spearheads proceedings, scripting the whimsical wanderings of old Dan Milligan (Jack Quinn) along the Border on a rickety bicycle. The problem for the people of Puckoon is that, late on a Friday evening in the pub, their little patch of Ireland was divided, when the dreaded commissioners’ pencil was pushed and shoved down the centre of the village. Now the erection of Border posts and barbed wire means even funerals cannot be held without passports being produced, a situation that deteriorates from farce to slapstick to total chaos. The six actors switch roles and costumes at dizzying speed and with relish for the task. Milligan’s vision is an oddball entertainment" "Big Telly’s adaptation of Spike Milligan’s comic novel ‘Puckoon’ is touring NI in advance of its debut at London’s Leicester Square Theatre. On its performance in Belfast in the studio at the Waterfront Hall, the house was close to capacity and the mix of oddball characters, physical comedy and hilarious songs made for an at least 60% standing ovation. The novel is packed with a huge range of eccentrics, leaving the cast of just six the unenviable task of filling a plethora of roles - sometimes hilariously playing both sides of a single conversation. The quick-fire switches between characters are deftly performed with tongues firmly in cheek. The frantic highpoint of this role-switching features the majority of characters at a town meeting, requiring each actor to switch hats, accents and moustaches with dizzying speed. The scene is a tribute to the cast - each caricature is so well drawn that each is immediately identifiable from a single word or gesture. The plot of ‘Puckoon’ becomes a secondary consideration as pure comedic spectacle dominates the audience’s attention. At times the staging is deliberately shambolic with actors scurrying off stage in a huff and our narrator - the superbly talented Paul Boyd - having to join in as a player. The adaptation is a faithful and fitting tribute to the comic genius of Milligan and Big Telly are clearly channelling the spirit and energy of the Goon show in its performance. Thoroughly recommended for any fan of Milligan’s brand of absurdist wit” “The pace of this mad caper about the drawing of the border which separated the North Eastern corner of Ireland from the Southern Free State, leaving the former as part of Britain, is hard to keep up with. It helps to know something about Irish history. I heard several amusing conversations in the interval while the audience tried to puzzle the matter out, but such knowledge, or lack of it is no barrier to enjoying the crazy comedy and silliness of Spike Milligan at his most absurd and irreverent best. Early on in the play, it is declared that 'everyone gets a go', and indeed many crude racial stereotypes get an outing, including a Jewish Dr Goldstein (Glen Kinch), a Chinese Garda Ah Pong (Russell Morton), every stage Irishman and woman you can imagine and the usual stock British military types. Puckoon is a tiny village ('situated several and a half metric miles north east of Sligo') through which the incompetent British Boundary Commission draw their line, leaving a portion of the graveyard and the public house in Britain. This means that some of Ireland's dearly departed need passports and annually renewable visas to be buried, so a plot is hatched by terrifying Father Rudden (John O'Mahony) to dig them up and re-inter them on Irish soil. Also, drink is cheaper in the British part of the pub so the whole village crams itself into that corner, to the disgust of the publican and his wife, both played by the versatile quick change artist Bryan Quinn, perhaps the funniest man on stage. The plot is held together by Jack Walsh as the feckless, lazy Dan Milligan who continually questions The Writer, played by Paul Boyd at the piano, on why he cannot write him some more attractive legs. All other actors are required to play a number of parts with great comic effect, as many are on stage at the same time, requiring a great flurry of hat changing mid-scene. Russell Morton tries a coffin for size as O'Brien the IRA man, but emerges sensationally decked out as Chinaman Ah Pong to do a great song and dance number which brought the house down. The cast worked their costumes off, literally in the case of Bryan Quinn as Sergeant MacGillikudie, who kept replacing his green tinsel Hitler moustache from a stash behind his hat as they dropped off continually, what with all the sweating the poor man was doing. All this and so many gags, from the obvious to the sophisticated, it was a richly entertaining performance in which the cast put all of their considerable talent into play. Props, including a bike, cardboard coffins, tombstones that doubled as chairs and a half door, were put to creative use. The musicianship of the cast was a real pleasure as they combined to form a band behind Paul Boyd to start and finish the show. Left alone on stage by a cast fed up with his manic directions, Paul Boyd is forced to do a bit of hat swopping himself in a delightful little cameo. Spike Milligan's real affection for a peculiarly Irish sang-froid is celebrated in the laid-back character of Dan Milligan. This is a great show for fans of his work and a great introduction for the uninitiated” “It was once said that the way Spike had written ‘Puckoon’ it would be impossible to transfer it to the stage or screen. Not so this ‘Puckoon’ as created by Big Telly Theatre Company. It was glorious and as Silé (Spike's daughter who was sitting just a few seats away from me said), "Dad would have loved it!". The cast of five were most ably attended by Paul Boyd, sitting at his keyboard and playing little musical interludes to one side of the stage and himself very much a part of the proceedings as the Narrator. At one point he needs someone to play the part of Julius Caesar and as all the other actors are busy he has to do it himself in his best Italian voice. Very funny. Talking of the cast of five, they not only play themselves in the main roles but they also play dozens of other 'parts' along the way, seamlessly switching between characters at the drop of a hat. In one very funny exchange Bryan Quinn (using just a red neckerchief) changes from a man (kerchief round his neck) to a woman (kerchief on his head as a scarf) in the blink of an eye and a turn of his heel. He even ends up talking to himself in both voices. Tremendous. John O'Mahoney is wonderful as Fr. Rudden (he was in the Christmas episode of Father Ted on C4 so that was perfect casting) along with his other characters Blind George Devine, Mrs. Doonan and so on. Russell Morton switches between Ah Pong the Chinese policeman and Lenny (with the arse out of his trousers) in an instant just by walking through an on-stage 'door'. He also plays O'Brien and Foggerty the village idiot brilliantly. Talking of Ah Pong, there is a very funny (hilarious) scene where Lenny lays in the coffin to try it out for size and when it is finally re-opened (having been in full view of the audience all along) it is Ah Pong who pops up, complete with silly Chinese grin. The song that he then gives us (accompanied by Paul Boyd and the rest of the cast who can all play several musical instruments very efficiently) is a wonder to behold, and as for his leaping along with his little Chinese legs popping out the top of the coffin it's all-in-all a masterpiece of comic acting. Jack Walsh played the straggly-bearded Dan Milligan with great effect, even using his own legs as the props in the opening scenes "Ah!, I tink I'll bronze me limbs” which introduces the Narrator into the story when he (Milligan) accuses him of writing "crappy" legs… and the narrator promises to improve things and at least make sure that Dan comes out of it alive. Glen Kinch (a self-confessed Goon Show fanatic) was excellent in all his roles, turning from the extremely 'jewish-looking' Dr. Goldstein into The Major, Captain Clarke and many others by simply putting on a different hat or jacket and spinning around into his new character. Having met Spike many times I knew myself that he would have whole-heartedly approved. An excellent production that deserves to be seen by a much wider UK audience. The whole ensemble were superb and I'd like to say more but I'm running out of superlatives so I think I'll end by saying that it was quite simply, marvellous” "Anyone who has ever read Spike Milligan’s comedy classic will have dismissed as impossible the idea of transferring such slapstick madness to the stage. The story of the town of Puckoon, rent in two by the Boundary Commission, is brim-full of laughs – but its forays down comic cul-de-sacs often turn a straightforward story into a series of madcap meanderings. Unlikely as it seems on paper, Big Telly’s Zoe Seaton, Vincent Higgins and Paul Boyd, have breathed new life into ‘Puckoon’, bringing the central character of cycling Dan Milligan (Jack Quinn) to life. The trio have imposed a certain degree of discipline on the townsfolk, who are forced to obtain passports to bury their dead, travel to another country to cuddle with the missus, and sidestep border guards in search of a drink. Think League of Gentlemen meets Monty Python. Boyd plays the role of writer, and literally conducts proceedings from his keyboard at the centre of the stage, while providing live accompaniment to the story. He is supported by four actor/musicians, who play a clutch of characters and tunes between them – from a midget’s widow to greedy priest, soft-handed captain, boozy barmaid and one-legged war hero. Seaton’s watertight direction brings some much-needed element of control to this comic chaos. Even the silliest of Milligan’s surreal wisecracks raises a chuckle and a good time was had by all … except the midget, of course" "A capacity audience enjoyed that old Coleraine firm Big Telly giving a robust revival of Spike Milligan’s comedy 'Puckoon'. The adaptation was by practiced hand Vincent Higgins, and the pace was break-neck, while amid the general Goon Show nonsense the narrative was still discernable. Ms.Seaton chose a knockabout music hall style where the characters declaimed loudly and (blessed boon!) distinctly to us, the fortunate audience. No mumbling here or excuse to snooze! But 'Puckoon' is more than a bundle of delicious “Oirish” inconsequential nonsense. All this was presided over by the composer Paul Boyd at the piano, complete with Lizst-like flowing hair and floppy bow. He was an ace MC, keeping us up to date on the plot behind the confusions, commanding the luckless Milligan and demonstrating his mastery of the piano all with great sense of purpose. In short, Big Telly and a dream team have a hit on their hands. The audience cheered and cheered. If this had been mounted on either side of the Border five years ago it would have deeply offended at least one overly-sensitive political party. Thankfully all were now united in helpless laughter" “The vivid green lighting on the set as the audience enter the auditorium sets the tone for the performance of ‘Puckoon’: this is a text and a show that self-consciously makes fun with concepts of Ireland and “Irishness”. ‘Puckoon’ has been adapted by Vincent Higgins from Spike Milligan’s novel of the same name, and devised by Big Telly Theatre Company from Higgins’ script under the direction of Zoe Seaton. Set in the eponymous village in 1924, the story tells of the plight of the community when the Boundary Commission accidentally divides it in half: most of the village is in the new Free State, but the graveyard and part of the bar is in Northern Ireland. The village of Puckoon is represented with cleverly-designed, multi-use props that mark out the key areas: the graveyard, a door to the domestic spaces, and the village green where a bike lies on its side. Costumes hang on a rack downstage right, behind a wooden structure that functions as a bandstand and occasionally as a sentry post. The rambling anarchy of Spike Milligan’s work is preserved in the play by Big Telly’s characteristically physical performance style and imaginative approach to the quirks of the source text. The playing of multiple roles and rapid-fire character changes showcase some excellent, witty performances by the cast. This clever, fast-paced, popular production has been selling out on tour and is being invited back to a number of venues. A funny and highly entertaining show, its light-hearted take on Irish history and the fun it pokes at all sides give it mass appeal” "Big Telly’s stage adaptation of Puckoon is certainly a very funny and zany treat. The play stays true to the essence of Spike Milligan’s comic novel with its surreal and chaotic humour, whilst bringing it to life on stage. Portstewart based Big Telly Theatre Company certainly doesn’t shy away from taking on a production that has only six actors playing 40 odd different characters and Puckoon sees the actors playing several parts each (some even in the one scene). This all adds to the rambunctious nature of the production, but it doesn’t stop there, they all also have to play the music in the band and move the props themselves. The music, which is very appropriate is by the talented Paul Boyd who also plays the part of The Writer on stage. Based on the 1962 book by Spike Milligan the play is set in 1922 at the time of partition in Ireland. The Border Commission, in a rush to get to the pub before it closes, has drawn the border straight through the tiny Irish village of Puckoon. This inadvertently leads to various anomalies, like part of the bar being in Ulster and having cheaper beer and Catholics ending up buried on the wrong side of the new border. What ensues is a riotous series of situations based loosely around two bungling IRA men trying to smuggle arms in a coffin while the bodies are brought back to their own side of the border. The set is simple with the few props cleverly reused in different ways. Paul Boyd narrates and holds the play together from behind his keyboard. Paddy Jenkins is a pleasure to watch as the work-shy Dan Milligan, and Patrick O’Reilly, Keith Singleton, John O Mahoney and Giles Stoakley all give wonderfully funny and impressive multi-character performances. If you know nothing about Spike Milligan or Puckoon, don’t worry, this is a hilarious, frantic and chaotic play that will have you laughing throughout. But if you, like me, read Puckoon a very long time ago and have precious memories of it, then don’t worry either, for this production by Big Telly Theatre Company captures the comic genius of Spike’s book and brings it all crazily to life. Now, where is that old copy of Puckoon…" "We don't have a plan. So nothing can go wrong"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2440
__label__wiki	0.801795	0.801795	starsdiary.com ‘RHONJ’ Stars Caroline Manzo and Dina Manzo’s Dad Dies 18:14, April 21 122 0 usmagazine.com Caroline and Dina Manzo Roger Wong/INFphoto.com; Andy Kropa/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Caroline Manzo and Dina Manzo’s father, Joseph Laurita, died on Monday, April 20. The sisters mourned their dad via social media but have yet to speak about his cause of death. “His favorite song was ‘My Way’ and that’s exactly how he lived his life. His way,” Caroline, 58, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, April 21, talking about the Frank Sinatra song her father loved. “A tougher man there never was, and in his final days he showed that strength over and over again.” The Real Housewives of New Jersey alum added: “May God bless you always, Dad, and grant you eternal peace. Know that you were loved. Forever in our hearts. ????” Dina, 48, shared a video of her late father walking outside in her touching post on Tuesday. “I’ll love you forever and always Daddy ❤️ You can rest now 4•20•20,” she wrote. The sisters are two of Joseph and Nettie Laurita’s 11 children. The couple shared five daughters, Caroline, Dina, Ann Ricks, Angela Rooney and Francesca D’Annunzio and six sons, Jamie, Chris, Anthony, Joseph, Michael and Dominick Laurita. The former reality TV stars’ brother Chris, 50, who is married to RHONJ alum Jacqueline Laurita, paid tribute to the family’s patriarch as well. “Yesterday we lost the strongest man I’ve ever known. Right up until the last breath he taught me how to fight and to NEVER give up,” he wrote via Instagram on Tuesday. “He encouraged me to face all the challenges life throws at you head on! I’ll keep fighting Dad and I promise you I will never give up. I’m sure you’re already watching over all of us.” Fellow Bravo star Teresa Giudice, who is still close to Dina, commented on the Dina’s Party alum’s post, sharing her love and support during the family’s tough time. “[Our] Daddy’s are together drinking wine ???? Love you ❤️????????,” Giudice, 47, wrote. The mother of four lost her father, Giacinto Gorga, earlier this month. “My father, my protector, my hero, God took you early this morning to be with Mommy,” she wrote via Instagram on April 3, announcing her dad’s passing. “Thank you for being the best husband, father & Nonno. Your devotion to mommy was one for the record books, you were the true example and a gentleman and devoted husband. You visited mommy every single day & would go twice for the days you missed while traveling or if you were to sick to go, my silver lining is knowing you’ll be together now.” At the time, Dina, who is godmother to Giudice’s youngest daughter, Audriana, replied, “Reunited with his love ❤️ what a truly remarkable love story. We will miss seeing your bright smile Nonno ????.” Caroline and Dina have had a rocky relationship over the years. As of 2018, the two hadn’t been spoken for two years. “People become [caricatures] of themselves,” Dina told Jeff Lewis on SiriusXM radio in August 2018 about her sister. “A little part of what people say that they liked, they tend to put it on.” British QC prosecuting activists in Hong Kong fought to be allowed to take case For 50 years, zero tolerance to drugs has failed – yet Britain refuses to change Government rejects report it will lower workers' rights post-Brexit MPs question Tory donor tipped for CPS inspector post The US Capitol riot risks supercharging a new age of political repression Three victims of trafficking and modern slavery to sue Biffa ‘White Fright’ author discusses historical lynch mobs and the attack on the Capitol The Guardian view on lockdown law: democracy must keep up Jimi Hendrix family dispute escalates over use of name for music school	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2443
__label__cc	0.735309	0.264691	Dreams and Devotions for the Way What is Telos? Timothy Breen As In 1984: The Image of God as Ground for Consensus One of my responsibilities as the leader of a church staff is to select and facilitate our weekly staff devotions. Over the decade that I’ve served at First Reformed Church, our hourlong studies have explored books of the Bible, discussed theological themes, and considered Christian living practices. This autumn, I decided to try something new. Rather than analyze the latest work by Tod Bolsinger or Brene Brown, we’ve gone back in time. To 1984. Written (somewhat confusingly) in 1949, 1984 is the dystopian vision of the British journalist George Orwell. From the wreckage of post-WWII Europe, Orwell described a forthcoming authoritarian world marked by suspicion, surveillance, and perpetual war. In Airstrip One (the territory formerly known as Great Britain) Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith negotiates a society dominated by the caprice of the Inner Party. Always apprehensive – and never entirely sure about what’s real and what’s contrived – Winston yearns for a life of truth, intimacy, and joy. While most commentators believe that 1984 aims its critique toward Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism, many of Orwell’s observations have clear resonance with life in 2020. Terms like Big Brother, Memory Hole, and Doublethink – brainchildren of the author’s mind – have crossed over into common use. And given the historical editing, racial animus, and red/blue demonization occurring in our own times, our staff regularly notes the relevance of 1984 for today. Among the ongoing concerns of the book is the question of personhood. What value does an individual have in a collective society? For the ruling elites of Airstrip One, people have worth so long as they can preserve and advance the power of the Party. The nation’s privileged men and women, plied with gin and propaganda, drone on in grey subservience. Cogs in a machine, they are born, indoctrinated, harvested unto menial tasks, reprimanded, and ultimately discarded. The treasonous few who dare to write, sing, or claim private property are condemned as “unpersons” by the powers. So much as a furtive glance (“Facecrime”) is punishable by death. The members of Airstrip One’s lower class, the proles, fare no better. The contempt of the Party, the proles live in a perpetual murk, always deceived, forever mollified with porn and sloganeering. Orwell writes: So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty. Top to bottom, the social order Orwell imagines thinks human beings debased and disposable. They are not marvelous. They are not discrete. They are not beautiful. They are, at best, useful. This reckoning of human beings – no doubt shaped by the horrors of mid-century Europe – is at great odds with the Biblical perspective on personhood. The Bible’s Page One Declaration is that men and women are created, male and female, in God’s own image (Genesis 1:27). While theologians have sometimes wondered about what, exactly, “image-bearing” means (Is it a kind of title? A capacity? A responsibility? A conferred attribute?), they have long understood that what the author of Genesis is claiming is of incalculable political and religious significance. The Hebrew word for image, tselem, is not an uncommon noun. In most cases, it means “idol” or “statue.” It was also applied to certain cultural elites; kings and monarchs were thought to be the image-bearers of their local or national gods. What is stunning about Genesis’ use of the word is that it is applied to all persons. Rulers and servants alike bear the image of God. Natives and immigrants. Men and women. Party members and proles. They all represent their creator God. They have intrinsic value. It’s little wonder why the Old Testament’s legal codes are so strict about the creation of material figures. Thou shalt not make any graven images. Why? They are unnecessary and profane, because you, yourself, bear the image of God! Similarly, when challenged about tax policy, Jesus asked whose image marked the denarius. When the crowds responded that it was Caesar’s tselem on the coin, Jesus said: Good. Now render to Caesar what is Caesar’s… and give to God that which is stamped with God’s image. People can’t be bought, Jesus says. Genesis 1:27 takes on an even richer meaning when we consider the possibility that the text took final form during the Babylonian captivity of the Jews in the 6th Century BCE. Though the matter remains open, many scholars have wondered whether the Genesis 1 narrative, which bears striking similarities to a Babylonian creation story called the Enuma Elish, presented a direct critique to their captors’ view of humankind. According to the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian arch-deity Marduk heard the pleas of his fellow gods and created human beings to do the work that the gods had tired of doing. Tablet Six (of seven, coincidentally?) describes the making of man: When Marduk heard the words of the gods, His heart prompted him to fashion artful works. Opening his mouth, he addressed Ea To impart the plan he had conceived in his heart: “I will take blood and fashion bone. I will establish a savage, ‘man’ shall be his name. truly, savage-man I will create. He shall be charged with the service of the gods That they might be at ease! A possible depiction of the Enuma Elish, Assyria The moral of the story would have been clear to the ruling partisans of Babylon: We are like Marduk; we have taken these savages captive to serve us so that we might live at ease. How brash and beautiful, then, for the exiled Jews to declare their own creation story in that time and place. With just enough similarities to the Enuma Elish to draw the Babylonians in, Genesis 1:1-26 would have primed the social overlords for the remarkable reversal of verse 27: We are menial slaves; though we are exiled and oppressed, we too bear the image of God! The claim that all persons bear God’s image claps back at an impulse toward objectification that spans the arc of history. It lived in the first millennium BCE, it manifested in the 1940’s, and it plainly operates today. By dint of an overemphasis on the collective over the individual (Scripture celebrates both!), as an implication of mechanical Darwinism, or perhaps as a result of the scathing political moment in which we live, we have devalued human life and disdained the audacious claim of the Bible: We all matter. We all have worth. We are not human doings, we are human beings. As the US election approaches (and with it, the pressure to atomize one another along party lines), it’s my hope that my conservative Christian friends and my progressive Christian friends can find common ground here: We all bear the image of God. Americans and non-Americans alike bear the image of God. The born and the unborn alike bear the image of God. Those with pre-existing conditions, as much as the vigorous and healthy, bear the image of God. Those who share our moral vision, as well as those who do not agree, bear the image of God. None of this, in the Christian worldview, is negotiable. The more that we stratify our brothers and sisters according to their ideas, abilities, or ancestries, the closer we edge to an Orwellian disaster. As those who share a spiritual heritage in the stunning claims of Genesis 1:27, let’s do better. Let’s resist the Marduks among us, choosing instead to honor each member of the human family with the dignity that comes from bearing the image of the Creator God. Follow Telos on Facebook Christmas: A Sword Your Pastor is Fried Right Now Proverbs 8 – Wisdom Walks Northbound Through Coronavirus: An Anchor for the Soul Previous Post Proverbs 8 – Wisdom Walks Northbound Next Post Your Pastor is Fried Right Now Written by:Timothy Breen	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2448
__label__wiki	0.945621	0.945621	‘Please Stop! I’m Pregnant’: Cop Tortures Compliant Mother-to-Be by Repeatedly Tasering Her WATCH: Wife & Kids Scream in Horror as Cop Kills Unarmed Dad in Their Front Yard Innocent Man Tasered, Nearly Killed for ‘Dirty License Plate’ — Taxpayers to Be Held Liable 91yo Blind and Deaf Woman Calls 911 to Report Intruder, Cops Show Up, Shoot Her 9 Times, Killing Her Putin Just Exposed US Election Rigging By Trolling The State Dept. In The Most Hilarious Way Claire Bernish October 21, 2016 Proving he does, indeed, possess both a caustic wit and sharp political acumen, Putin just shut down the raging rigged elections controversy in what could best be called an epic prank to prove the point — Russia requested, and was unsurprisingly denied, permission to monitor the U.S. presidential election. Think about it. This somewhat tongue-in-cheek offer, although likely made with the expectation of futility, makes several critical points on the true farcical nature of the American electoral process. State Department spokesman Mark Toner, cited by USA Today, dismissively condemned President Vladimir Putin’s suggestion as a “PR stunt,” and Meg Casper, spokeswoman for Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler, noted, “We’ve allowed observers from overseas in the past from other countries, never from Russia,” adding both the FBI and Department of Homeland Security “told us not to do this.” But the swift rebuke from the U.S. aligns more with its unprecedented since the Cold War anti-Russia propaganda campaign — a sensationalistic and proven fictitious narrative meant to inculcate Americans into believing Russia poses an imminent threat. In fact, with the Clinton campaign thoroughly capitalizing on the laughable narrative to warn Russia might attempt to rig the elections, and Donald Trump, rightly pointing to the former secretary of state’s efforts to rig the system from within and being accused of having ties to Putin, the State Department’s rebuke seems more a hypocrisy-tinged joke. As USA Today reports, “Toner noted that U.S. officials participated in a similar observation mission for Russia’s parliamentary elections in September.” How the U.S. State Department expects anyone to ignore this blatant moral duplicity — It’s Perfectly Acceptable When We Do It, But Not For Someone We Don’t Like — was not made immediately clear. Russia would, by any measurable standard, have every reason to act as an election observer, despite being “categorically rejected” — all talk of the country’s fixture at the center of the U.S.’ own negative PR smear campaign aside — particularly as Putin, himself, has noted the undeniable evidence of fraud points to rigging. Citing RT, USA Today noted, “Russia was invited to participate in routine monitoring conducted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in which Russia is a member, but the level of access was unacceptable to the Russians. “The European group said it will observe the U.S. election with a delegation of 439 people from 10 countries deployed nationwide. The delegation includes at least one Russian.” As Wikileaks’ continued release of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s cache of private files evidencing the depth and breadth of collusion undertaken to ensure Clinton would be installed in the White House, the United States seems to be in an epidemic-level state of denial. And the deflection of blame by the Clinton campaign, a number of politicians, and, of course, the State Department, to target Russia as responsible for a number of hacks — and possibly colluding with Wikileaks and founder Julian Assange — to ‘rig’ the U.S. election almost certainly wholly because myriad leaks have indeed proved rigging cannot be overemphasized. Were any other nation but Russia to offer to monitor the proceedings on November 8th, the U.S. would now have to accept the offer — or risk potential allegations of actively attempting to defraud the vote. Russian officials also offered to monitor state-level election proceedings in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana — but as Russian state outlet Izvestia told USA Today, they were rebuffed in “harsh” terms. In an election year not markedly tainted by absurdity — the creators of the film Idiocracy, for example, declared this year they didn’t believe they’d see it manifest into reality quite so soon — the collusion by corporate media and DNC officials exposed by leaks of the Podesta and hacked Democratic National Committee files to ensure Hillary Clinton would win the Dem nomination might be subject to criminal investigations. Instead, FBI director James Comey seemingly inexplicably refused to recommend the State Department charge Clinton — in the face of massive evidence she should be — because, for a lack of a better way to put it, reasons. So, perhaps the State Department’s refusal to accept Russia’s offer makes sense — perhaps the U.S. government has its own ‘reasons.’ Julian Assange, a political refugee, recently had Internet access cut by the Ecuadorian Embassy he calls home — at the near certain behest of the U.S. — because, as Ecuador claimed, Wikileaks has interfered in the American elections through the aforementioned damning leaks of thousands of documents, including transcripts of paid speeches Clinton gave to Big Banks. Earlier today, Assange echoed the cagier among us refusing to fall for attempts to divert attention away from staggering political corruption in a simple tweet through the Wikileaks account, saying: “There is no US election. There is power consolidation. Rigged primary, rigged media and rigged ‘pied piper’ candidate drive consolidation.” It would appear Russia, the American empire’s latest in a string of ‘enemies number one,’ further proved the system is, in fact, rigged. Sponsored Content: About Claire Bernish Claire Bernish began writing as an independent, investigative journalist in 2015, with works published and republished around the world. Not one to hold back, Claire’s particular areas of interest include U.S. foreign policy, analysis of international affairs, and everything pertaining to transparency and thwarting censorship. To keep up with the latest uncensored news, follow her on Facebook or Twitter: @Subversive_Pen.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2450
__label__wiki	0.707443	0.707443	Tufanganj Nripendra Narayan Memorial High School, the oldest educational institution in the sub division, situates in the heart of the town with a glorious past in its credit. It is named in memory of Nripendra Narayan, the then maharaja of Cooch Behar. His son, Jitendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur, a patron of education laid its foundation in the year 1916. Now, it is a full fledged secondary school with two streams (General and Vocational) in its higher secondary section and has devotedly been working to impart education and to developed human resources with its up-to-date teaching aids, sophisticated laboratories, luxuriant library collection, computer education facilities, lustrous playground, specialized teachers, office staffs, hearty teacher-student relation and cohesive cooperation of the guardians and lovers of educations. Sri Ajay Kumar Satpati (Head Master) The School aims at providing a balanced education for its students allowing them to grow in an atmosphere of frankness, freedom and mutual confidence, so that they can attend morally, physically and intellectually sound personality to be the good citizen not only of the country but also of the world. Here, the primal objective of the School is to make the students fit to accommodate themselves in the broader current of the universe. Computer education facility and computer literacy training programme The School has a special arrangement for computer education to cope with the changed condition in this age of computer. More over, following the directives of the honourable Governor of West Bengal, the Director of School Education identifies this School to be fit to impart the aforesaid training to the students. This institution is one of the selected 200 non-Govt., aided school to come under the coverage of Computerization through WEBEL-IBM. The training is provided for the students from class VII to XII. The total amount of fees (all inclusive) to be collected from each student is Rs. 600.00 for a session. Along with trained faculty, high-tech computer and required infrastructure, the school is successfully approaching towards the motto of the programme. The medium of instruction of school is Bengali. Sections of Education 1.Secondary Section- V to X 2.Higher Secondary section- XI and XII Admission for Boys to secondary section In Secondary Section, students are mainly admitted to class- V through Admission Test in order of merit with reservation as per prescribed Board Norms. Admissions to other classes depend on availability of seats. No one is allowed for admission to class X. Admission forms can be obtained on payment of a fixed charge from the office after the admission notification. Generally, admission test are held in the later part of April. The subjects on which the admission test are taken are i. Bengali ii. English iii. Mathematics iv. Science v. History vi. Geography vii. General Knowledge Qualified students are to produced i. Caste Certificate, ii. Mark Sheet and iii. Birth Certificate in time of admission. Subject Taught Secondary Section V to X In secondary section almost all the major subjects following the syllabi and curriculum of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education are taught including Sanskrit, Arabic, Agriculture, Mechanics, Computer Science etc. Admission to Higher Secondary Section (XI to XII) Admission to Higher Secondary Section is made on mark basis with reservation as per the Council norms. Students are to purchase application form along with Prospectus on production of original marks sheet of Madhyamik. Forms are generally issued after the publication of Madhyamik results. Admission is open for both boys and girls candidates in Higher Secondary Section. Attested copies of Marks Sheet, Admit Card, Caste Certificate and Character Certificate (Original from his/her own institution) should be attached with duly filled up application form. Students of the mother school need not produce character certificate. In regard of admission, the decision of the Head Master is final. The names of the candidates selected for admission will be enlisted on the school Notice Board and no separate intimation regarding admission will be sent to the candidates individually. The presence of legal guardian is essential in time of admission. Higher Secondary Streams There are two different streams in H.S. namely 1. General and 2. Vocational. General Stream comprises of three branches of studies- i. Arts, ii. Science and iii. Commerce while Vocational Stream offers prospective in the field of Agriculture only. Higher Secondary Course General Stream Language (Compulsory): 200 marks each. Group A: Bengali (Two papers) Group B: English (Two papers) Science Group: Each subject consists of two papers and 100 marks for each paper. a.Compulsory Elective Subjects: i. Physics, ii. Chemistry. b.One Elective and one optional (two subjects) from the following Subjects: i. Mathematics, ii. Biological Science, iii. Computer Science. Arts Group: Any three as Elective subjects and one for optional from the following: 1.Political Science, 2. Economics, 3. Sanskrit, 4. Geography, 5. Philosophy, 6. Biological Science, 7. History/Computer Applications, 8. Mathematics. Commerce Group: a.Compulsory Elective Subjects: (200 marks in each.) i.Accountancy, ii. Business Organization and iii. Business Economics including Business Mathematics. b.Optional Elective Subjects: (200 marks in each) any one. i.Geography/Economics ii.Computer Applications Vocational Stream (Agriculture) a. Compulsory Subjects: 1. Language: i. Bengali (one paper) 100 marks. ii. English (one paper) 100 marks. 2. i. Entrepreneurship and Basic Theory (one paper) 100 marks. ii. Agriculture Crop Cultivation (one paper) 100 marks. iii. Practical (300 marks) b. Elective Subjects: Any three of the following: (one paper and 100 marks for each subject): i. Physics, ii. Chemistry, iii. Biological Science, iv. Mathematics. School Examination Half-Yearly Examination (V to X): 3rd or 4th week of September. Test Examination (X & XII): Last week of November or 1st week of December. Oral Examination: (V to X): Middle of February. Annual Examination: (V to IX & XI): Second week of March or in between the M.P. and the H.S. Examinations. In addition to these examinations, there are monthly and periodical class tests. To sit for the Half Yearly and Annual Examinations, ADMIT CARD is must. CLASS ATTENDANCE The school strictly follows the attendance percentage of the students as per Board or Council norms. Students of both sections- Secondary & Higher Secondary - must have seventy percent attendance in classes to sit for the final examinations. GUARDIAN MEETING The school sincerely conducts or arranges section wise Guardian meeting of all the classes to alert the Guardians about the progress and development of their wards and to have an open interaction with the teachers for strengthening guardian-teacher relation. Different steps following the consensus opinion of the teachers and guardians concerning the students’ overall development are cordially accepted. The Guardian Meeting are generally organized immediately after the Half-Yearly Examination (December) of the Secondary Section and after the Annual Examination (December) of the H.S. Section. The results of the Half-Yearly Examinations are generally published after the Puja Vacation. The results of the Test Examinations are declared within one or two weeks after the completion of the exams. The Annual results are naturally published in the last week of April. The results of the Board & the Council conducted exams. Are published following the norms of the concerned authorities. The results of the school and the Board or the Council conducted exams. Are encouraging and deserve special mention. The rate of success is nearly 80-90 percent. The school holds a good distinction so far as the performance in the academic sphere is concerned. The school gives special attention to make the students physically sound and well- disciplined. Under the guidance of two qualified physical education teachers, the students get training in Parades, Physical exercise, Yoga as well as in games and sports. Football, Cricket, Volley, Khoko etc. are generally played in different seasons of the year. The Annual Athletic Meet and Prize Distribution Ceremony are regularly held in the school premises in January. Students also take part in Inter-School Tournaments and District School Sports Meets and State level competition. The school sincerely observes the auspicious Independence Day, the Republic Day, the Birth Day of Rabindranath Tagore & Netaji Shubhas Chandra Bose, Saraswati Puja, Nabin Baran, (Frshers Welcome), School Foundation Day etc. with due regard and solemnity amidst pompous decoration. An exhibition on arts & paints is also held in every academic session. These help the students to find opportunity of expressing and developing their creativity, skill and dexterity. LIBRARY AND READING ROOM FACILITY The school has its own Library and Reading Room. A huge collection of text books, reference books, books on literature, science, adventure, traveling, detectives, criticism etc. is amassed there. Students are allowed to borrow them and to use the Reading Room. SCHOOL BOOK BANK A School Book Bank, a treasure of books on school syllabi, entertains the need and demand of the poor and needy students lending books of their respective classes. Students can even borrow them for a session on the basis of their availability. This facility brings a ray of hope for those who are not capable enough to purchase new books. The school regularly publishes a magazine named “USHASHI”. Students, teachers, non-teaching staffs and alumni find birth in it to publish their creative writing and arts. EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND SUB-COMMITTEES There is an Athletic and Sports Sub- Committee to look after sports and games. The Cultural Sub- Committee organizes all the cultural activities of the school and helps the students to expose their inner and finer qualities. The Magazine Sub- Committee edits and publishes the school magazine. The Disciplinary Sub- Committee looks after the school discipline. N.C.C. TRAINING FACILITY The school has added a new feather in its cap by extending its arena of activities through the opening of “N.C.C. Training Facility” for the students. Students (from VII - XII) having required physical measurement and fitness can go through this unique training course. This not only brings job prospects for the students but also makes them physically sound and well - disciplined citizens having well trained capacity to respond to the call of the country. The school uniform is navy blue trouser, white shirt and black shoes for the boys and red-bordered white sharee and red blouse for the girls in every weekday except Thursday. The school keeps sharp look at whether the students are abiding by the uniform code or not. The school commences with a prayer where cent percent attendance of the students is must. Two songs, National Anthem and “Uthogo bharoto lakhshmi” of Atul Prasad Sen, are loudly chanted there. HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION (FOR BOYS ONLY) A well-furnished hostel within the school campus provides accommodation for the students who come from distant places. There is no hostel arrangement for the girls. The school has its own arrangement for “Cycle Stand” within the School Campus for the security of Cycles. It is compulsory of the students who come to the school by cycles to install their cycles in the secured and fixed place of the stand. A monthly fee for enjoying service and security of the stand is taken to pay the two Stand workers. None of the students is allowed to keep their by-cycles in a scattered and haphazard way. A respective “Cycle Stand Committee” headed by our teachers sees the matter for its smooth running. FEES OF THE SCHOOL Session Charges Registration fee of IX & XI Laboratory fee Library fee Prospectus fee Magazine fee Development fee Saraswati Puja subscription Computer Education fee Sports & Games fee Miscellaneous fee DUPLICATE CHARGES Badge - Rs. 5.00 Identity card - Rs. 10.00 Mark Sheet (V to X) - Rs. 10.00 Character Certificate - Rs. 5.00 Fee Collection days Certificate Distribution Day- Saturday Fines and Prohibitions i. Students who are irregular in classes and remain absent with out prior intimation are liable to guardian call. ii. Those who do not secured the required percentage of attendance are liable to fine as per the Board and the Council norms. iii. Students who spoil, misuse or destroy school property, library books, laboratory instrument are liable to severe punishment or fine. iv. Students of practical based subjects must have their attendance in both practical and theoretical classes. v. Those who do not attend t the theoretical classes will not be allowed in practical classes. vi. Every student must have school badge, identity card and school uniform. vii. In off-periods and class hours the students are restricted to loiter hither and thither aimlessly in the school compound. MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL MANAGING COMMITTEE President: Dr. Dhiraj Saha, (G.R) Vice president: Sri Amarendra Basak (G.R) Secretary: Sri Manindra Chandra Chakraborty Head Master: Sri Ajay Kumar Satpati A.I. of School (S.E): Sri Chittaranjan Das (A.I) Tufanganj Teachers’ Representatives: Sri Gopal Bidyananda (A.H.M) : Sri Pramatha Saha (A.T.) : Sri Haripada Roy (A.T.) Non-Teaching Staff Representatives: Sri Ranjit Talukdar (Clerk) Guardian Representatives: Sri Dipak kumar Saha : Sri Pradip Kumar Chakraborty : Sri Nitish Guha Roy : Sri Susil Adhikary MEMBERS OF ACADEMIC COUNCIL President: Sri Ajay Kumar Satpati (H.M.) Secretary: Sri Gopal Bidyananda (A.H.M.) Members: Sri Sankar Kr. Sarkar (A.T.) : Sri Utpal Kumar Basak (A.T.) : Sri Dipak Debnath (A.T.) STAFF SECRETARY 1. Sri Dulal Chandra Das (A.T.) STAFF PATTERN Head Master: Sri Ajay Kumar Satpati, M.A. (Bengali, Sanskrit & English), B.Ed., Sahitya Sastri, Inservice - S.C. trained in W.Ed., P.Ed., & Social Service. Assistant Head Master: Sri Gopal Bidyananda, M.Sc.(Math.), B.Ed., D.C.A. Bengali Department: 1. Sri Ranada Prasad Sarkar, B.Sc., M.A., B.Ed. 2. Sri Bhubaneswar Rava, B.A. (Hons.), B.Ed. 3. Sri Dinabandhu Adhikary, M.A., B.Ed. 4. Smt. Nabanita Sanyal, M.A. English Department: 1. Smt. Indrani Som, M.A., B.Ed. 2. Sri Haripada Roy, B.A.(Hons.), B.Ed. 3. Sri Pijush Kanti Mohanta, M.A. 4. Sri Dipak Debnath, M.A., B.Ed. 5. Sri Amar Pramanik, B.A. (Hons.) Sanskrit Department: 1. Sri Ashis Chandra Sarkar, M.A., B.Ed. Arabic Department: 1. Anisul Haque Roushan, B.A. (Fazil), B.Ed. Physics Department: 1. Sri Prabhat Basak, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Ed. 2. Sri Jyotirmay Paul, M.Sc. Chemistry Department: 1. Sri Gobinda Chandra Das, M.Sc. B.Ed. 2. Sri Dilip Kumar Pal, M.Sc., B.Ed. 3. Sri Pramatha Saha, B.Sc. (Hons.), B.Ed. Mathematics Department: 1. Sri Partha Pratim Dutta, B.Sc.(Hons.), B.Ed. 2. Sri Gopal Bidyananda, M.Sc., B.Ed., D.C.A. 3. Sri Utpal Kumar Basak, M.Sc., B.Ed. Biology Department: 1. Sri Kushal Banarje, B.Sc.(Hons.), B.Ed. 2. Sri Dulal Chandra Das, M.Sc., B.Ed. Computer Science & Application Department: 1. Sri Manas Kumar Mandal, B.Sc.Hons. (Math.), M.C.A. Geography Department: 1. Sri Kshitendra Mohan Sarkar, M.A., B.Ed. 2. Sri Dipak Saha, M.A., B.Ed. History Department: 1. Sri Narayan Chandra Dey, M.A., B.Ed., B.P.Ed. 2. Sri Patit Chandra Sarkar, M.A.,B.Ed. 3. Smt. Pali Bhowmick, M.A. Political Science Department: 1. Sri Narendra Nath Das, M.A.,B.Ed., Diploma in Library Science. Philosophy Department: 1. Smt. Shilpi Das, M.A. Economics Department: 1. Sri Sankar Kr. Sarkar, M.A., B.Ed. Commerce Department: 1. Sri Rajib Kumar Ghoshal, M.Com., B.Ed. 2. Sri Ashutosh Acharya, M.Com., B.Ed. Agriculture Department: 1. Sri Sushanta Kumar Debnath, B.Sc. (Ag. & A.H.), N.C.C. Trained. 2. Sri Parimal Sarkar, B.Sc.(Ag.) Physical Education Department: 1. Sri Debajit Sarker, B.A., B.P.Ed. 2. Sri Sudip Kar, B.Com., B.P.Ed. Work Education Department: 1. Sri Subhas Chandra Roy, M.Sc.(Ag.) 2. Sri Prasenjit Narjinary, B.A., B.Ed. Para-Teachers: 1. Sri Pravash Shil, B.Sc. Hons.(Physics) 2. Sri Raju Dey, B.A. Hons. (History) Librarian: 1. Smt. Jayashree Sanyal, H.S., Diploma in Library Science. 1. Sri Pradip Kumar Chanda, B.Com. (Head Clerk) 2. Sri Anal Rava, M.P. (Clerk) 3. Sri Ranjit Kumar Talukdar, B.Com. (Clerk) 4. Sri Nagendra Nath Sarkar, Class X, (Head Peon) 5. Sri Debdas Roy, Class VIII, (Peon) 6. Sri Atul Chandra Das, Class VIII, (Peon) 7. Smt. Jyotsna Basak, Class IX, (Peon) 8. Sri Ashok Kumar Ganguly, M.P., I.T.I., Diploma in Acting & Film logy, (Peon) 1. Dinesh Kiran Gold Medal Award 2. Sibani Ghosh Award 3. Abbasuddin Award 4. Diamond Jubilee Essay Competition 5. Nagendra Nath Mukta Mala Foundation Award 6. Narendra Nath Singha Memorial Award The institution got recognition to appear as a high school from the Calcutta University on the 1st January 1917 and was permanently recognized as one competent to present candidate at Matriculation Examination of Calcutta University in the year 1923. I n the year 1957, the school came under the recommendation of the director of public instruction, West Bengal, as Higher Secondary Multipurpose School (XI) with Humanities Group and Science Group. The Higher Secondary Council granted recognition to Tufanganj Nripendra Narayan Memorial High School for imparting Higher Secondary Education (XII) in General Streams courses provisionally for two years with effect from 1st day of July 1976. Another wing, Vocational Education Stream (Agriculture) was introduced in the School in the year 1978, though Agriculture came as a subject in the year 1963. This addition upholds the School to appear as a dignified and unique institution in the Sub-Division. A separate infrastructure along with a farm was also attached to the institution for this purpose. This provides ample scopes for students of this region to make carrier in this sphere of Agriculture. Fees of School School Staffs Competitions & Awards Prospectus (pdf) Admission Form (pdf) TUFANGANJ N.N.M. HIGH SCHOOL ESTABLISHED: 26:04:1916 P.O. TUFANGANJ, DIST. 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__label__wiki	0.536476	0.536476	Big Three Chinese airlines lost $2 billion as virus kills travel The big three state-run Chinese airlines reported a slump in earnings in the first quarter as the coronavirus upended travel demand, but there are signs the worst of the crisis is over for them. China Southern Airlines Co. and China Eastern Airlines Corp. lost RMB 5.3 billion (USD 750 million) and RMB 3.9 billion, respectively, in the three Months ended March 31. Air China Ltd. posted a loss of RMB 4.8 billion for the period. Chinese airlines are operating at about half the seat capacity they had before the virus began to impact travel in late January. While the country’s aviation market is off its lows thanks to a pickup in domestic flights as people returned to work, the recovery has a long way to go as there’s little demand for leisure trips and international traffic has screeched to a halt. As the virus upset the pecking order of Chinese airlines, Shanghai-listed budget carrier Spring Airlines Co. at one point emerged as the nation’s biggest carrier by international capacity after the “Big Three” scaled back their operations, data from OAG Aviation Worldwide showed. Spring Airlines said it lost 227.3 million yuan in the first quarter. Hainan Airlines Holding Co. also announced quarterly results on Wednesday. The indebted carrier, whose parent HNA Group Co. was effectively taken over by the Hainan provincial government in late February, said it lost 6.3 billion yuan in the first quarter. Chinese carriers are adding capacity ahead of the national holidays that start Friday and run through May 5. In the past two months, more than 30% of domestic capacity has returned in China, according to Cirium. “As many countries in Asia have passed what is hoped to be the peak of the pandemic, Cirium’s data shows trends of increased air travel capacity for the region, with intra-Asia capacity improving by 10% between April 14 and April 22,” the aviation analytics company said in a statement. “The ‘green shoots’ of recovery in China’s domestic market are a beacon of hope for the aviation industry.” Prev： Grand Hyatt Sanya Haitang Bay Resort SPA profile Next： Marriott Executive Apartments Chongqing profile	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2459
__label__cc	0.702646	0.297354	Biodiversity maps Flowers Field Guide Field Trips & Events Friends of Verloren Valei Home » Blog » Flowers & Orchids » The Vygies of Verloren Valei Flowers & Orchids The Vygies of Verloren Valei April 29, 2020 by Gerrit Van Ede Colloquially known in English as Ice Plants, two genera from this family exist on Verloren Valei. By Gerrit van Ede Delosperma sutherlandii (Photograph: Gerrit van Ede) Ice Plants—or vygies, as most South Africans and, apparently, many New Zealanders, would call them—form part of the scientific family Aizoacea, also known as Mesembryanthemaceae—a gobstopper of a word that is frequently shortened to “mesembs”. Mesembs occur in many parts of the world, but the epicentre is the South-western Cape with more than 2000 species, or 95% of the known species. Many of them feature in the famous flower displays in Namaqualand. The two genera that occur on Verloren Valei are Khadia and Delosperma. The name vygie means “small fig”, and refers to the fruiting capsule, which resembles the true fig, but why the common name for the family in English is Ice Plants is not so clear to me (another common name is carpet weed). Apparently, it is because the leaves are covered with flat or rounded glistening epidermal bladder cells or other structures that glitter, reminding somebody of ice crystals. These bladder cells are water storage structures that the plants deploy to survive the hot dry summers in the Karoo. They may also help in keeping the plant temperature down and the name Ice Plant may also have been given because the plants feel cool even in hot summer weather. The species most mentioned in this respect is Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. This species (and some of the others) is highly salt tolerant, thanks in large part to the bladder cells. The name Mesembryanthemum is derived from the Greek, mesēmbria (noon) and anthemon (flower) because the flowers only open at midday. They, in fact, normally only open in bright sunlight and when it is warm. Anybody that has visited Namaqualand to look at the flowers knows that you need warm sunny days to see the flowers. This also applies to the vygies and not only to the annuals. In addition, though, there are however night-flowering mesembs. Another characteristic of the mesembs is the fruiting body or capsule, the “little fig” from which its Afrikaans name comes. The capsules tend to be woody, and have compartments called locules, which open when wet and close or partially close again when it gets dry. This characteristic is dubbed hydrochastic in the scientific literature. These capsules and the number of locules and how they behave in wet and dry weather is used as identifying characteristic of a species. The genus Delosperma The genus Delosperma contains about 170 species. In contrast to most vygies, they mainly come from the summer rainfall area of Southern Africa (162 species). Since the genus was first described in 1925 by N. E. Brown, no systematic classification has taken place although I am aware of work taking place on this genus now. Identification of the different species of Delosperma is not that easy. We think three species occur on Verloren Valei with Delosperma sutherlandii the most often seen in various places on Verloren Valei and forming even scattered colonies. Colony of Delosperma sutherlandii on Verloren Valei (Photograph: Gerrit van Ede) The name Delosperma is derived from the Greek delos meaning conspicuous and sperma meaning seed. This clearly refers to the seed capsules that are very conspicuous on the plants as with virtually all mesembs. Delosperma sutherlandii with seed (Photograph: Gerrit van Ede) Delosperma sutherlandii has the largest flowers of the genus, being up to 60mm in diameter. This species, as well as many other species in the genus, are good garden plants in South Africa. They are summer growing, relatively drought resistant and can handle cold well. D. sutherlandii is light to dark pink in colour. I have seen no white forms. Most of the bladder cells are converted to glistening hairs as can be seen in the photo. D. sutherlandii occurs in the grasslands at Verloren Valei in many areas. They occur among rocks, in open grassland, on slopes as well as relative flat areas. Therefore this species can adapt to a number of localities on the reserve. This species is not threatened and indicated as of Least Concern in the Red Data Book of Plants The genus Khadia Only six species exist within the genus Khadia, which is restricted to the summer rainfall area in South Africa, mainly the northern provinces. Khadia alticola—the most common pink colour (Photograph: Gerrit van Ede) In the past the fibrous roots of this genus was added to alcoholic fermentations, known as khadi, to make them more potent—hence the name. Khadi are made by fermenting various indigenous fruits that occur in the area where the plants grow. In the more northern, warmer areas of South Africa, the Marula fruit (Sclerocarya caffra) is used, while in colder areas, fruit obtained from three Grewia species (G. flava (Brandybush), G. occidentalis(Cross-berry) and G. flavescens (Rough-leaved raisin) are alternatives. Today the drink is seldom made. Khadias grow in shallow soil over rock and have, except for one species(K. borealis), thick fibrous roots. They mainly occur above 1400m above sea-level. Again except for one species (K. media), they grow on sedimentary derived soil. K.alticola, as its name indicates, occurs at high altitude—the Steenkampsberg Mountains are a good place to find them, they are however not that common on Verloren Valei. In suitable places with shallow soil on rock, K. alticola forms quite large colonies and, when in flower, the mass of flowers is quite impressive. The flowers of K.alticola are fairly large, up to 50mm in diameter, and are basically in shades of pink. White forms do also occur. The rarer white-flowered K. alticola (Photograph: Gerrit van Ede) The plants make attractive rockery subjects, forming low, dense clumps with showy flowers. The capsules of the genus Khadia are made up of a varying number of locules (compartments). In the case of Khadia alticola, the plant has six locules, which open when wet, but do not close completely when they get dry again. Khadia alticola is considered as Rare in the Red Data system. 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__label__cc	0.645153	0.354847	Diom – From the “Stage 3” EP comes the single “Golden” January 9, 2017 staff Diom was born in in CIV, and was first introduced to hip-hop by his older brother who would listen to Eric B & Rakim. At the age of 13 he came to the US and got introduced to Fruity Loops and began producing. Diom graduated to Logic when he got to college and began making projects on his Macbook Pro, however he never got to professionally mix and master his projects, “Stage 3” however is different. The “Stage 3” EP is the artist, Diom’s most recent project, 4 songs produced and written by the artist, refined to give the feel of a full LP. From the “Stage 3” EP, comes the single “Golden” which is currently on radio rotation. OFFICIAL LINKS: FACEBOOK – TWITTER – TUMBLR – SOUNDCLOUD Diom, Golden, Stage 3 Idlefox: “Keeper”- waves of swirling sound! Young Millions Mantra: “I Gotta Go” produced by Gustavs Strazdins – a triumph of immaculate taste! Rap artist D.Tech is a multi-instrumentalist Gear – “Crash and Burn” swings, struts, swaggers and grinds!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2461
__label__wiki	0.5956	0.5956	DNAtheG’s rapping and lyrical content is special and unique June 17, 2015 staff New single released – “The Lonely Road ft. Clint Manning (prod. O Maille)” N/A Hip Hop’s RNA the MESSENGER (aka DNAtheG) originally hails from Dorchester, MA where he graduated from Boston College with a degree in English. He released his first project, “The Code EP”, in 2013 under the moniker DNAtheG. This project garnered instant buzz in various media such as HotNewHipHop.com, Rockstar Magazine, and other webzines. This was followed by the latest album, “Here Cometh the Dreamer”, from which the single, “The Lonely Road ft. Clint Manning (prod. O Maille)” has been extracted. DNATheG DNAtheG is a brilliant rapper. His rhyme schemes and lyrics are crazy on “Here Cometh the Dreamer” as he mixes melodic hooks and hardcore rapping, dropping a flurry of metaphors, here, there…and everywhere. DNAtheG is a skilled lyricist who can change the tempo and rhyme scheme so easily it’s beautiful to listen to. Each song on the album also has a different rhyme style that makes him pretty likeable to all. While most upcoming rappers pick up the torch for diamonds and flossing and run with it, on this album, DNAtheG steadily builds an increasing depth far beyond just talking about wealth and girls. He’s mastered the craft of intelligent storytelling, and tightened up his flow to match a lyrical Swiss watch with flawless timing, commanding every track like a pro, which he is! Again, what immediately draws you into DNAtheG’s world is his distinct and intriguing voice, as well as his complex rhyme scheme, particularly the way he effortlessly changes tempos and styles. The production on the album is also flawless, as DNAtheG gets to grips with some interesting names producing on the album, like Theold, Ruler Why and O Maille, who all do a tremendous job. So, the bottom line is that this album is different. DNAtheG’s rapping and lyrical content is special and unique, the singing is impressive, the hooks are extremely catchy, and the beats are flawless. And if that’s not enough, the album has some great features in Raquel Llere-stern, Jackie Venison and Clint Manning. Now if you took all of those positives and squeezed it into only 4 minutes and 12 seconds, you would end up with the DNAtheG’s latest single release “The Lonely Road ft. Clint Manning (prod. O Maille), a track that will exceed your expectations! OFFICIAL LINKS: WEBSITE – SOUNDCLOUD – FACEBOOK – TWITTER Clint Manning, DNAtheG, Hiphop, N/A Hip Hop, O Maille, Rap, Reviews, The Lonely Road NOTARY 4 ROTARY – Certified Notary Services Through Your Mobile Device Science & Sanity: “Officer Wayne” – something incredibly different August – “Armed & Dangerous” – at his most bare and captivating! Ambrose – “Out of Nowhere” sticks to music’s core essentials David Tv Barnes – “Lost Time” sounds as passionate as it does smooth and mellow	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2462
__label__cc	0.635725	0.364275	Linux Got Game! Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 19th of August 2009 03:50:23 PM Filed under The myth of no games for Linux has been proven false over the last few years through several articles listing all available. Some told where to get them and others how to install them. That's fine for the casual gamer, but how about an operating system designed for the gaming enthusiast? Would you like to install an operating system that has some tools for everyday use, but also sports lots and lots of games at the ready? Yes, Linux got game - and no where is this more obvious than in Supergamer Supreme. Supergamer Supreme is a complete operating system built upon Vector Linux, a Slackware derivative known for its performance and stability. This release ships as a 7.8 GB dual layer DVD chocked full of games and game demos. While all of these games can either be installed through your package management system or downloaded and installed, Supergamer does all this hard and time consuming work for you. In addition, you can be saved that sometimes troublesome task of bringing 3D capabilities to your graphics card. Just boot and play, or better yet, install and play. And with the other applications available, no need to reboot to another system to answer your emails, check what's new on the internet, or instant message your friends. The XFCE menu contains links to applications, utilities, and settings while all the game links are conveniently assembled at the bottom of the screen in a Wbar panel. 33 games in all. The placement tends to run from premium demos, to large commercial-quality freely-available native 3D games, to the smaller native Linux games sometimes included in other distributions. While some may question the worth of demostration length games, for me the value is obvious. First, there are several levels included in these demos which offer hours of gaming enjoyment. Most demos tend to draw you in and, if you're like me, have to rush off to purchase the full versions. Secondly, they give the user a chance to see if these games will run properly on their hardware. Since Linux support (and PC support in general) has waned in the last couple of years, most of these games will function in all their glory on machines several years old. While Doom3, Quake4, and UT2004 have been around for several years now, some new ports are also available. Prey has been available and popular on Windows for years, but this game was freshly ported to Linux last fall. Soldier of Fortune is another demo included and while it's many years old and the graphics are almost comical in comparison to today's standards, it is still one of my favorite games available to Linux users. The storyline is still as relevant and topical as the time of its release, game play is fairly realistic and responsive, and the globe trotting missions stave off boredom. I like to run through this game about once a year, but I sometimes have difficulty installing and playing it in some modern Linux systems. So, it's nice to have a system in which it functions properly. There is no question in the value of the Open Source, freely-available large-scale 3D games for Linux such as Nexuiz, Open Arena, Tremulous, or Sauerbraten. These and more are also included in Supergamer Supreme. These are the games that truly showcase the possibilities of gaming in Linux while commercial games such as the Penumbra trilogy and World of Goo demonstrate the financial viability of such an enterprise. Besides the technological significance of these free 3D games, they are just plain fun and how convenient it is to have them at the ready at first boot of the operating system. Finally there are the smaller Linux games that are quick, fun, and appropriate for all ages. These include titles such as PPracer, SuperTux, Neverball, MegaMario, Frets on Fire, and Glaxium. These offer a wide variety of gameplay exercising a long continiuum of skills. I may excel at PPracer and suck at Frets on Fire, but you will have to see how well you and yours do yourself - if you dare accept the challenge. Some other games and demos included are: True Combat Penumbra Black Plague Quake Wars America's Army Plane Shift Drop Team Chromium B.S.U. BZFlag GL-117 Other System Aspects In the menu applications such as K3B and Graveman cd/dvd burning software, The GIMP image manupulation, and MPlayer and Xine media players are found. Also included are KOffice and OpenOffice 3.0, Gnumeric Spreedsheet, Azureus file transfer application, D4X download manager, and Firefox Web browser. Being based on Vector Linux, which is based on Slackware, pkgtool is the software package management system. By the commandline or through the menu driven interface, one can install, update, or uninstall software packages. For those wishing an easier method, Slapt-get is also included and configured to install from Vector 5.8 repositories. Slapt-get is very similar to Debian's APT system, and like APT a nice graphical front-end is the easiest to use of them all. Gslapt, that front-end, is found in the System menu and also has Slackware repositories listed to enable (although most seemed to be unavailable during testing here). The desktop interface is XFCE 4, and it gives users some customizing abilities. It's fast and modern and only lacks a few important features that one might require. I was about to complain about not being able to group tasks together on the panel when I found the configuration for it. I suspect that may be the case with other small issues. All in all, XFCE 4 is a respectable desktop environment, but I'm afraid I'm quite locked into KDE applications such as Konqueror and Kontact (Kmail and Akregator). While I could adjust to living without Konqueror, although Firefox 2.0.11 is quite old, and possibly Akregator, I couldn't live without Kmail. So, I set out to see if those applications could be installed. Indeed KDE 3.5.7 is listed as available from Vector repostitories. I haven't been able to adapt to KDE 4 yet, but I was hoping for a bit newer version of KDE 3 such as 3.5.10 or 3.5.9. However, I was able to install kdelibs, kdebase, and kdepim to get a few of the KDE applications I like. So, I could adapt to using Supergamer for my everyday desktop if I wanted. In fact, I ended up installing the full KDE desktop and felt more at home. As a result, I've spent the last month in Supergamer doing my daily chores, tending to my Website, keeping up correspondence, writing my stories, and (of course) gaming. Supergamer could be used for everyday work in order to have the extensive list of games readily available, but some concessions may have to be made. I'm not one who has to have the latest and greatest versions anymore, but I have slight reservations about Supergamer being based on such an old version of Vector. KDE 3.5.7? Firefox 2.0.11? I can't compile a newer version of KDE or install a 3.5.x version of Firefox due to the old versions of dependencies. I'm not very confident that a full distribution upgrade would complete successfully. And if it did, what might be broken? On the plus side, Supergamer does ship with a newer kernel and graphic drivers. Linux kernel 2.6.27.24, Xorg 6.9.0, and GCC 3.4.6 form the foundation of Supergamer Supreme. NVIDIA drivers 180.53 were used for my video card. Other than accepting the older versions of key software components, I've had very few issues with Supergamer Supreme. Alien Arena tends to crash while loading more often than not and Kontact (not included by default) has crashed a few times. Despite Firefox being so old, it was stable even when watching fullscreen Flash movies. OpenOffice was surprisingly spry and the games played well even on my aging hardware. While I have some mixed feelings for this release, overall the experience has been positive. Depending upon your preferences, Supergamer Supreme can be totally awesome. It can be run from the live DVD with almost as good performance as when installed. Perhaps you don't mind booting back and forth between systems, and as such the Firefox, MPlayer, and GIMP versions may not matter all that much. Even if you prefer to avoid lots of booting, are the older versions even an issue for you? Despite the drawbacks, Supergamer Supreme is still the best gaming distro available. This third incarnation of the Supergamer francise was released on July 24 and is available for download using a torrent file found at the Supergamer Website. More conveniently, a professional quality disk of SG is also available through On-disk.com. You can waste many hours Submitted by poodles on Wednesday 19th of August 2009 09:31:00 PM. You can waste many hours exploring all the goodies in this dvd. Supergamer Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 21st of August 2009 12:13:08 PM. Yes, Supergamer has been "ammunition" against claims that Linux and gaming are anomalous. One can spend days or months on this dual-layer DVD. Submitted by DarinV on Friday 21st of August 2009 01:36:26 PM. I am sorry for the confusion but Firefox is 2.0.18 and not 2.0.11, you can have it auto update to 2.0.20 as that works without any issues. I am aware it is old and this was the last release on this base. I wanted to get Firefox 3 on it but there no feasable way to have it working and still be stable with the updates that needed to be applied. I already have another base done and all futrure releases will be done on a 64bit platform. We already released a trimmed SuperGamer64 Desktop and that was sent out early for test reports before this was even thought of. I wanted this version to go out with a bang and do something that no other live version had done. Thanks for the review srlinuxx re: correction Submitted by srlinuxx on Friday 21st of August 2009 06:01:56 PM. oh yeah, firefox is 2.0.0.18. I don't know why .11 stuck in my head or if my eyes are getting old and I saw .11. ??? Anywho, that's still a bit old to be secure. but I am looking forward to the new release and the new code base. Thanks for all the hard work. Submitted by DarinV on Monday 24th of August 2009 02:46:20 PM. 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__label__wiki	0.657708	0.657708	Publications - GDPR Publications - Unforeseeable Circumstances and Terms of Trade - Resources Publications - Are You Compliant? Licensing and Regulation in the Hospitality and Food Services Industry Publications - Company Meetings and signing documents Publications - The latest on the introduced measures Publications - Residential Tenancies - Land Tax Relief and NSW Measures Publications - Intellectual Property - When Love is Partly in the Air Publications - Property & Development - Changes to Capital Gains Tax Publications - COVID-19 - The latest developments Unfair Terms in Small Business Contracts - A Review of Selected Industries The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released a review of unfair terms in small business contracts in selected industries, simultaneously with the commencement of the new laws applying to contracts entered into by small businesses where because of some imbalance between the bargaining position of the parties, particularly contractual provisions not reasonably necessary to protect the legitimate interest of the advantaged party which might cause detriment to a small business. The announcement by ACCC starts with: On 12 November 2016, a new law to protect small businesses from unfair terms in business-to-business standard form contracts takes effect across Australia. The law will apply to any new or renewed contract entered into on or after this date. If an existing contract is varied on or after 12 November, the law will also apply to the varied terms. If a particular term in a standard-form contract to which a small business is a signatory is found to be unfair by a court or tribunal, then that clause will be void and the small business will no longer be required to comply with it. Similar legislation already applies to some consumer contracts. The particular industries or sectors examined in the report are: advertising, retail leasing, franchising, agriculture, independent contracting, telecommunications and waste management. The report identifies a number of provisions in standard form business contracts that might breach the unfair contracts laws and suggests examples of how they may be remedied. The full report is located at the following link http://www.accc.gov.au/publications/unfair-terms-in-small-business-contracts John Graves Bradfield & Scott Lawyers Sydney	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2485
__label__cc	0.723292	0.276708	Fashionista Corner Stories Told in Music Old and New Classics Free Journeys About ~B~ Lash (The Skulls #1) Review!!! Publication Date: 9/16/13 Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Lash-The-Skulls-ebook/dp/B00FFLU4LE/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1383301775&sr=1-2&keywords=lash+the+skulls Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18587122-lash?ac=1 No one messes with The Skulls and gets away with it! The last thing Angel Marston ever wanted was be at the mercy of The Skulls. They’re the local bikers and the club that helps keep the town safe, but they have their own kind of rules. They party hard and do whatever the hell they want. But her father’s debts to the club mean Angel has no choice. Lash loves his club, but he wants a woman who hasn't slept with all the crew. Angel is just what he’s looking for. She’s sweet, young … and a virgin. He wants her more than anything and has already staked his claim on her. When Lash touches her, Angel can’t help but melt. He sets fires inside her body with his wandering hands and sinful lips. She can’t say no, and she wants him desperately. But when all seems to be going so well for Angel and Lash, their pasts catch up to them. The Skulls have enemies who want the town and their women. Lash must decide who to put first, the club or his woman. Is Angel strong enough to stand by his side when the going gets tough? And what will happen when tragedy and pain both hit at once? Ok so clearly I have been on a MC kick lately. That being said, I like this one, but didn't love it. It felt like a really tame and sort of cheap imitation of Reaper's Property by Joanna Wylde. Let me start by saying I hate comparing books like this. But in this case it was so similar it was almost impossible not to. It basically starts out with a girl indebted to a club because of a gambling family member. But of course one of the MC members is totally crazy for her and decides that he will protect her by moving her in with him. He buys all her clothes, lets the members know she is off limits and the only real difference between the two books is, this Heroine is a virgin. It even comes down to a showdown with the gambling family member being murdered after betraying the MC further. Seriously it is almost a replica. There are some really hot sex scenes and it is a very sweet love story. Too bad I read it before...not sure if I will give Skulls 2 a chance.... I give this 3 lipsticks. ~B~ Posted by B;s Beauty and Books Blog at 5:37 AM Labels: Book review, Sam Crescent, The Skulls NetGalley Challenge! Influenster Badge! Follow B3 Reviews <div align="center"><a href="http://bbeautyandbooks.blogspot.com/" title="B's Beauty and Books"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/cricketv77/Bbeautybooksbutton_zpse1ceede6.jpg" alt="B's Beauty and Books" style="border:none;" /></a></div> About B's Beauty & Books This blog will be dedicated to lifestyle and beauty updates. It could be a review of a book or new palette or playing the latest video game. Whatever happens to catch my attention. quotes Breezy Lover of all things Alpha Male likes The Past Baby The Past Baby March (1) January (2) December (1) November (1) April (1) December (1) October (3) September (4) August (4) July (4) June (6) May (11) April (5) March (3) February (15) January (9) December (4) November (7) October (17) September (20) August (31) July (27) June (30) May (33) April (23) March (23) February (13) January (12) October (3) August (1) July (4) June (12) May (13) April (2) March (12) February (8) January (9) December (9) November (8) October (7) September (1) August (2) June (5) May (6) April (8) March (3) February (2) January (4) December (3) November (2) October (12) September (9) August (18) July (23) June (32) May (29) April (29) March (42) February (50) January (24) December (56) November (67) October (71) September (74) August (81) July (96) June (116) May (138) April (90) Travel theme. Theme images by follow777. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2486
__label__cc	0.647287	0.352713	Patrick Kaleta wants to remain with hometown Sabres BUFFALO – Sabres winger Patrick Kaleta said he can’t picture himself wearing a different jersey. “Yeah, I would not like it at all,” the Angola native said Monday as the Sabres cleaned out their lockers inside the First Niagara Center. Fresh off playing a career-high 63 games, the injury-prone agitator will be a restricted free agent this offseason. The 25-year-old plays an aggressive checking style that began earning him big minutes in the winter. He’s an asset, especially on Sabres team often short on grit. But Kaleta can’t stay in the lineup, averaging only 55 games in full NHL seasons. His rough-and-tumble style is costly. A broken thumb shelved him three late games. He finished playing with a cast. “It’s not the most fun thing in the world having a cast pretty much every year,” Kaleta said. “But it’s the way I play. It’s going to happen from time to time. My job is to minimize the opportunity of getting hurt and the chances of that. It’s a work in progress.” But will the Sabres re-sign someone they can’t always depend on nightly? Kaleta didn’t want to speculate. “The season’s over,” he said. “I worked as hard as I could the whole season.” Author Bill HoppePosted on 04.14.12 09.11.20 Categories Kaleta Previous Previous post: Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth slumped badly after hot start Next Next post: Sabres prospect Luke Adam struggling to find scoring touch in Rochester	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2487
__label__cc	0.502463	0.497537	Biden Administration Backpaddles on LGBT Equality Act Promise: It Might Take More Than 100 Days Gay History – January 8, 1962: Two Men Arrested for “Abominable Act and Detestable Crime Against Nature” In North Carolina Under 429-Year-Old Law XENA vs. Hercules: Lucy Lawless Smacks Down Kevin Sorbo Over Capital Hill ANTIFA Infiltration Claim Gay History – January 4, 1982: NYC’s Gay Men’s Health Crisis Founded in Response to AIDS Epidemic Gay History – January 2, 1857: Martha Carey Thomas Feminist Lesbian Educator and Suffragist Born Gay History – January 1, 1967: The Black Cat Tavern in Los Angeles Raided Gay History – December 28, 1888: Gay German Director F. W. Murnau of “Nosferatu” Fame is Born Happy Birthday Quentin Quisp Born: December 25, 1908 – WATCH: The Naked Civil Servant [Video] Happy HomoDays and Seasons Beatings! – LISTEN: “Christmas Eve With Joan Crawford” 1949 Radio Broadcast (Full Audio) Happy Homodays! – WATCH: Donna Summer Sings “O Holy Night” – The Solid Gold Christmas Special (1982) – Video Home/Gay News Domestic & U.S. Politics/Ron Paul: Straights Cause More Trouble In The Military Than Gays. Gay News Domestic & U.S. PoliticsGay News From Around The Globe Ron Paul: Straights Cause More Trouble In The Military Than Gays. Will Kohler October 26, 2011 Talking to Iowa State’s Barry Snell, Ron Paul when talking about gays in the military and DADT almost sounds……. reasonable. You’d never know he’s stark raving mad. “Well, like I said, everybody has the same rights as everybody else, so homosexuals in the military isn’t a problem. It’s only if they’re doing things they shouldn’t be, if they’re disruptive. But there’s … men and women getting into trouble with each other too. And there’s a lot more heterosexuals in the military, so logically they’re causing more trouble than gays. So yes, you just have the same rules for everybody and treat them all the same.” But when Paul switches to subject of same sex marriage he reverts to getting the Goverment out of the marriage issue and leaving it to the states to decide. “You know I just, I don’t think of people in little groups like that. I don’t think of people as ‘gay’ here and ‘black people’ there, or ‘women’ over here…Everybody is an individual person and everybody has the same rights as anyone else. The government has no business in your private life, you know, so if one person is allowed to do something so should everyone else. The whole gay marriage issue is a private affair and the federal government has no say.” Back to insanity for Paul and social injustice to boot. Because as long as there is one federal benefit or law that favors a straight married couples and their family which is not available to same sex couples it can never become a “states only” issue. Unless of course all straight married couple federal rights and benefits are rescinded of course and we are all on the same playing field. But you’ll never hear that out of Ron Paul’s mouth. via ThinkProgress asshole DADT DOMA GOP Libertarian moron Ron Paul Will Kohler Will Kohler is one of America's best known LGBT historians, He is also a a accredited journalist and the owner of Back2Stonewall.com. A longtime gay activist Will fought on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic with ACT-UP and continues fighting today for LGBT acceptance and full equality. Will’s work has been referenced on such notable media venues as BBC News, CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The Daily Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, and Raw Story. Back2Stonewall has been recently added to the Library of Congress' LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive. Mr. Kohler is available for comment, interviews and lectures on LGBT History. Contact: Will@Back2Stonewall.com BBC Radio Fires Talk Show Host Iain Lee For Calling Out Bigotry and Homophobia On His Show Wall Street Journal Editor Paul Gigot Dismisses Mitt Romney’s Anti-Gay Bullying With A “So What?” More Anti-Gay Laws; Nigeria To “Jail All Gays” If Bill Passes Thousands Hold Gay Pride March in Kiev, Ukraine Donald Trump Accuses Barack Obama Of Being Behind White House Leaks and GOP Protests – Video Touch us on facebook Follow @Back2Stonewall Back In The Gays Bijou World Blog BosGuy Blog Boy Culture by Matthew Rettenmund DanNation Gay Report News LarryFlynt.com – YES Larry Flynt Queer Landia The Seattle Lesbian West of Mayberry Wicked Gay Blog	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2494
__label__cc	0.747329	0.252671	Chauncey DeVega says: He Loves Him Some White Folks or Is Shelby Steele a Coon, an Uncle Tom, or a Respectable Negro? I have such mixed feelings about Shelby Steele. Listen for his observation that "freedom is a revolutionary idea for black America." Goodness. And yes, I will leave it at that. Steele is so smart and has the potential to speak so much truth to power, but more often than not his politics appear to be grounded in a deep self-loathing. Moreover, in his working for such think tanks as the Hoover Institute, Steele has clearly signed away his soul to be one of the very well compensated black poster children, aka slave catchers, for the Right. His latest piece in the Wall Street Journal, where he laments the inability of conservative ideology to compete with the grievance based culture of "liberalism" and how it has monopolized narratives of truth and justice, is another such example. In short, Steele argues that black and brown folk (and their liberal masters) have held America's conscience hostage, and virtuous White people (code for conservatives) have not been acknowledged for how they are in fact the true defenders of human dignity, worth, and equality in America. For Steele's reimagining of history, it was those who argued in favor of the broader Civil Rights agenda that were immoral, and not the conservative, racial reactionaries--many in Steele's own Republican Party--who held firm against racial progress and social justice. In short, as Mathew Yglesias pithily observed on his Atlantic Monthly blog, "Shelby Steele Hearts White People." The three faces of Shelby Steele (my playful name for the trio of videos in this post) made me think about my own politics--as well as those of Gordon and Zora. Are we in fact conservatives? We rail against white liberal guilt, liberal racism, as well as conservative bigotry and myopia. Our wrath and disgust knows no bounds of party or ideology, so where do we fit on the ideological spectrum? What makes us respectable negroes so different from Shelby Steele? I know the terrain of my own personal politics (even as I struggle to articulate my beliefs in the form of a coherent ideology) and for now, I will leave them unstated. Thus I ask, is Shelby Steele a Tom, a coon, or a respectable negro? And why? My vote: Shelby Steele is a Tom, because he has no love for himself or for his people. Steele cannot be a "coon," because while a coon may not understand how he or she is embarrassing black folk (or more generally, how a deficit of race pride informs their behavior), coons at least have some love for themselves as "black" people. Respectable negro? Impossible, because one cannot simultaneously be a lap dog for the Right and also a respectable negro--like matter and anti-matter, the two states exist in perpetual and permanent contradiction (and explosive hostility) to one another. Posted by chaunceydevega at 5:38 PM Tags: Chauncey DeVega says, Politics, politics of respectability, President Barack Obama, sometimes black people make me sad You are so kind... so generous.. but this man really, really bothers me. He is worse than an Uncle Tom. He has a good point about black folks needing to take responsibility for stuff and thangs..(yes I sad thangs and stuff). I am all about personal responsibility, but you need to examine where you have been to understand where you are at and where you are going. But..Does he actually listen to what comes out of his mouth? How can you talk about oppressed people, yet not admit that racism exists? C'mon are you really a black militant? Rather than berate the present form of "black leadership" (because we darkies need a leader since we are all so shiftless) how about some concrete solutions rather than berate Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the NAACP. Mad as some of us want to be at Bill Cosby, at least the man gave some constructive advice. Thanks for this article.. I am now stimulated and ready for some critical thinking! Al From Bay Shore said... Uncle Tom? Uh, the eighties called and they want their pundit jargon back. Shelby and co. are not lapdogs for the Right. What you are witnessing is the emergence of alternative points of view within black culture. Uncle Tom is merely a term that reflects the inability of left of center, or perhaps obsolete, black "pundits" to accept differing political beliefs from other black folks. Some might even argue that an Uncle Tom is a person who spends more time decrying racial injustice at the hands of white folks while simultaneously ignoring the victims of black on black brutality and dysfunction. I'm sure that at least one of the three of you were seething over the way the NAACP and Al Sharpton reflexively rushed to the defense of the Dunbar Village perps - it must be somewhere in your blog's archives. If you are searching your memory banks for this incident, then see the latter suggestion as to what an Uncle Tom is. That would, at the very least, make Sharpton and the NAACP something infinitely worse than Uncle Toms (I'll be patiently awaiting the commentary in which you decry the "Tomism" of Sharpton and the NAACP). By the way, weren't one of you complaining about a white colleague on your job intimating someting about "...the election of Obama as proof that such resources [for '...institutional diversity offices and personnel...'] were no longer needed..." I must ask, did this conversation take place before or after the one on Lilianna Goodman? Please refer to the earlier proposed definition of "Uncle Tom" (or is "Aunt Sarah" more appropriate?) but I digress. It was nice to call someone an Uncle Tom back in 1985. I theorize that our indulgence in hurling these types of epithets, along with our misguided Tawana Brawley activism, left no room for us to build a coherent and honest strategy to accompany the developing "Save the Black Family" movement. Now let me see, that was over twenty years ago and all we have to show for it is a 70% out of wedlock birth rate for black children, an inordinately large number of black children without fathers, egg on the collective face of the contemporary Civil Rights movement thanks to Crystal Mangum and Jesse Jackson, and members of the Jena Six continuing to get into legal troubles after attending the BET Awards decked in the finest thug attire. Nice going. So who'll be the first one to start singing "We Shall Overcome?" If you let me join in then you guys would have a quartet. We could call ourselves "Two Uncles and an Aunt featuring Al." Oh wait, I have another great idea, how do you guys feel about wearing handkerchiefs and singing in blackface? We could be contemporary and wear red and blue handkerchiefs tied about the head. Just a thought - I think we have a good shot at that inner city ghetto demographic. Guys, these Uncle Tom epithets are tired, played out, and obselete. The greatest irony is that these epithets come from integrationist Negroes who sacrificed black institutional independence for the right to take a dump in the whites only toilet. Gee, that was a fair trade but I guess the pathological desire to escape things black in order to be white by being close to things white (See integration) made the right to smell our white brethren's fecal aroma a priority greater than creating, and cultivating independent black institutions and infrastructure. Besides why should Spelman have a particle accelerator when we can just beg Georgia Tech to use theirs? I suppose we can sing the second chorus of "We Shall Overcome" on the MARTA ride over. And to symbolize the overarching strategy of contemporary black thought, we can beg white people for the train fare - please note my mercy in not analogizing the current state of black America and the Civil Rights movement with the image black panhandlers in a subway station. The Joke is on those of us who chose the DuBoisian path. With any luck, we too will evolve into a delusional Pan African Socialist expatriate in Ghana but fear not, we are almost there, all we need to do is convince Obama to move to Accra and study the life of Kwame Nkrumah - he's already got that socialist thing down pat. Ramona Moore, Lilliana Goodman, James Nemorin, Rodney Andrews, Annijah Rolax, Daniel Baker, Dunbar Village, Nayasia Pryear, Dillon Stewart.... The elipsis implies the countless number of black victims who have gone ignored by the beg and blame whitey activists - the indirect victims of victimology. Lady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrelle said... @jeannette--good to be of help! @Al-I knew you would have something compelling to offer-and I mean that in a good way. A few points, the diversity in black political thought is nothing new. the question becomes one of our private talk versus public talk distinctions, i.e. what do we say to one another, and what do we not expose for the white gaze. this is precisely why the 'Cos, as I affectionately call him, got so much grief, because he told the damn truth and some establishment types don't want to hear it. But, my point on Steele, and I will bring the 80s back again--the handkerchief head that he is--isn't just a point on the distribution of "black" political thought. i take that back, he is a point, but he is an outlier who, like many other black conservatives, get to play the voice of "authentic" black politics (the we know better those black folk there are just confused). i find him and his ilk disgusting because of how they cash in their "blackness" all the while deeply lamenting that fact that they are black. And that goes for Michelle Maulkin who has perfected her own yellow face routine. true there are black conservatives who have a deep love for their people...we are as diverse as any group. but, to work for the Hoover institute, and to have your voice enlisted for a regime/collective/ideology that despises people of color, is just too much for me to stand. and my measure for despise would be their issue positions, racial ideology, actions, statements, and deeds. The neo-conservative racial project barely has a role, and dare I say tolerance, for the non-white other, and in many ways is predicated on keeping them/us in our place within the polity. And no, the left and the Dems are not that much better. Finally, and I mean this playfully as Gordon is doing something on this issue in a few, when you listen to and watch the Steele's, Thomas's, Ward Connely's, McWhorter's, Alan Keyes's..., you don't see some deeply self hating black people? Moreover, a deep desire to be the "special" and "good" black? Not even a little bit? Chauncey Devega Okay, I've been drinking vodka while listening to remixes of "Go Bang" by Dinosaur L. The only reason I am telling you this is that I am in no condition to respond AND the computers at my job have a webwasher program that blocks your website thus preventing me from responding during the day, 19 March. I'm just responding just to let you know that I am not rude. I'm just a bit tipsy and exploring the musical structure of "Waiting For the Day" by MJ Cole (check youtube)- I am going through a soulful house music/ disco faze that has gripped me like a heroin addiction. gordon gartrelle said... let me reiterate Chauncey’s points about what our criticism isn’t. It isn’t just a blanket condemnation of black conservative thought. As Chauncey notes, conservative strains of thought have always been present and acceptable in black publics. And, again, as Chauncey states, some people might label us conservatives. It also isn’t a criticism against “airing our dirty laundry” or refusing to hide black shortcomings and internal divisions from the eyes of whites and other outsiders. A number of black folks, myself included, think that this century-old strategy of black self preservation has run its course. This criticism is about pointing out that Steele and the like seem to delight in telling white folks exactly what they want to hear with respect to race, namely, that whites bear no real responsibility for the condition of black folks. It’s about drawing attention to the condescension of black conservatives who see themselves as the only enlightened negroes while implying that the masses of black folks are stupid (think about their idiotic argument that white liberals and black civil Rights leaders bamboozle black folks into voting Democratic when black social conservatism dictates that they should vote for Republicans). It’s about noting the irony that many of the black conservative critics of affirmative action and tokenism themselves only benefit from being the lone black faces among the lily white conservative throng. To be used like that and to court this kind of transparent, patronizing attention from white conservatives is deplorable. The fact that they make a pretty penny doing this just makes it worse. plain and simple...he's a tom... E.C. 2 said... You want present day insults. O.K., then, call Steele an Uncle RUCKUS. OR...you can call him The Son of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ruckus. Tips and Support Are Always Welcome Who is Chauncey DeVega? I am a political essayist, cultural critic, educator, and host of the podcast known as "The Chauncey DeVega Show". I have been a guest on the BBC, National Public Radio, Ring of Fire Radio, Ed Schultz, Sirius XM's Make it Plain, Joshua Holland's Alternet Radio Hour, the Thom Hartmann radio show, the Burt Cohen show, and Our Common Ground. 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__label__cc	0.616626	0.383374	SIBELIUS Kullervo. 1972 and 1985 recordings by Berglund (EMI) – INKPOT Inkpot Sibelius Nutcase – January 8, 2001Posted in: CD and DVD reviews Jean SIBELIUS (1865-1957) Kullervo, op.7 recorded in 1985EEVA-LILSA SAARINEN mezzo-soprano JORMA HYNNINEN baritone State Academic Male Choir of the Estonian S.S.R. Helsinki University Male Choir · Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND EMI Matrix CDM5 65080-2 [71:46] mid-price. Libretto included. WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING (1970) RAILI KOSTIA soprano USKO VIITANEN baritone Helsinki University Male Choir Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by PAAVO BERGLUND Also includes: The Oceanides, Karelia Suite, Scènes historiques – Suite No.1, Tapiola, Finlandia, Serenades Nos.1 & 2. EMI Forte CZS5 74200-2 [147:55] budget-price. Libretto NOT included. by the Inkpot Sibelius Nutcase At long last, EMI has reissued the legendary world-premiere recording of Sibelius’ Kullervo Symphony, made in 1970 by Sibelius scholar and conductor Paavo Berglund. Though the music was composed and first performed in 1892, over one hundred years ago, Sibelius withdrew it from the world, and only allowed the third movement to be performed in celebration of the centenary of the publication of the Kalevala in 1935, when the composer himself was 60 years of age. Since then, Sibelius’ choral symphony was not performed in its entirety until 1958, the year after his death. It was only finally recorded for the first time ever in November 1970. Paavo Berglund (left) recorded it again in June 1985 with EMI Records, in a much-acclaimed performance. But it is this 1970 world-premiere which many Sibelius fans have been waiting for. Now, in what seems to be a double-dose of celebration for these fans, EMI has not only released John Barbirolli’s beautiful cycle of the symphonies, but also this – I must confess at having scoffed and cursed at EMI’s many strange policies regarding the circulation of their recordings. For now, I must issue my heartfelt thanks. So how does this “new”, older, Kullervo compare to the 1985 recording? As with Berglund’s Bournemouth cycle of the symphonies , it is at least revelatory, to say the least. The performance sounds matured and well-prepared – which is a major point considering that this is the world-premiere recording of a rarely-encountered piece of music at that time. On first impression, it is also clear that the 1985 recording is much better, with finer details and crisper colours; the strings are richer, the brass mellower, the rhythms and figures sharper. In terms of interpretation, both versions exhibit very fine stature, with the later one sounding more sure of itself, not surprisingly – as if it has grown up. This is not to say that the earlier recording is unsure, but rather it has a greater impression of exploration – which is exactly what the classical recording world was doing then with Kullervo. And what an impression it must have received – 78 years after its debut performance, Berglund’s reading does more than ample justice to this majestic score. The impact of the unravelling introduction, the tragic-heroic brass outcries, the pathos of the singers, the chanting chorus – surely, it is not hard to imagine the impact which Sibelius wrought on the Finnish world of music during his time. The heart of the work, Kullervo and his Sister, receives fine performances on both recordings. The choral entry on both are fascinating. The later 1985 version has more kick, more energetic drive, sharper-toned strings, even more heroic atmosphere. But listening to the 1970 version, I find it refreshing in its certain youthfulness, its smooth delivery backed – on both recordings – by the foot-tapping pulse of the bass line. At the same time, the relatively inferior 1970 recording only brings into sharp contrast the details of the 1985 version. In any case, what satisfies me about Berglund’s way with the work is how he brings so much underlying energy to the music, despite its fairly moderate pace and the simplicity of the devices Sibelius used to constuct the music. If like me, you should grow to like this music, I assure you, you will be memorising the first six lines of the chorus in no time – such is the heroic momentum of the Helsinki University Male Choir (and company). The baritone employed in 1985, Jorma Hynninen, is a highly experienced Kullervo. With a much darker voice, his rendition is somewhat more “Wagnerian” in style, certainly more dramatic and dynamic. However, Usko Viitanen’s contribution to the world-premiere is quite excellent, sung with much emotional power and sincerity. His is a more noble Kullervo, perhaps, more meditative. His anguish at the realisation of his incestuous deed has a tragic dignity; but in Hyninnen, the sense of horror mixed with guilt is stronger, the emotions of the story more visceral. The soprano part of Kullervo isn’t exactly a particularly “visual” experience, consisting quite a bit of “wandering”. It’s emotional message is either underplayed or subtle, depending on your perspective. The main chunk, in which the sister reveals that her father is the same as Kullervo’s, simultaneously describes both her contented youth and her admission of guilt – The part is rather hard to pull off satisfactorily if only because Sibelius’ musical-emotional dynamics here are rather subtle. Of the sopranos on record, Raili Kostia gives an adequate reading in 1970. But Eeva-Lilsa Saarinen’s interpretation in 1985 is more multi-dimensional, depicting the scenes more distinctly. In the passage where Kullervo’s sister defiantly rejects him in fast, semi-stuttering fashion (“Päästa pois minua tästä”), Saarinen’s jittery reading is more natural than Kostia’s rather more rigid, almost straight-staccato rendition. Left: “Kullervo Goes To War” by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. One interesting difference is in the final chords – the earlier version is actually much more angry and defiant of tone, which I find much more appropriate to Berglund’s smoother, less-sharp 1985 interpretation. In any case, both orchestras in both records are absolutely splendid. However, in terms of vocal soloists, the 1985 version is superior. Berglund’s 1970 rendition of the fourth movement, Kullervo goes to War, is absolutely spectacular stuff – the volatile energy and pure living imagery the Bournemouth musicians conjure is a splendour to behold – watch out for the brass, how they fanfare at each other with pinpoint staccato and confidence; or the collective chirps of the woodwinds, the fluttering winds – this so much makes me want to ask Sibelius what he was picturing in his mind when he wrote this. This is an all-out amazing journey all Sibelians must hear, right up to the shattering trumpet blasts of the heroic conclusion (don’t miss that!). The best Kullervo goes to War I’ve ever heard. By contrast the later version of this movement is taken slower – 10’01” versus 8’52”. The pace is thus slower, and the old recording even matches the newer one in sound quality. Without a doubt, in this case, the earlier 1970 performance wins hands down. Kullerov, Kalervo’s offspring, Grasped the sharpened sword he carried, Looked upon the sword and turned it. And he questioned it and asked it, And he asked the sword’s opinion, If it was willing to slay him. … “Wherefore at my heart’s desire Should I not thy flesh devour, And drink up thy blood so evil? I who guiltless flesh have eaten, Drank the blood of those who sinned not?” excerpts from Cantos 35 & 36 The finale, Kullervo’s Death, is spectacularly well-performed in both recordings. The 1970 version, however, has more emotional depth – I find myself sympathising with it more even as in the past I have sympathised most with Berglund’s 1985 version. It seems as if, as we follow the two recordings towards the end of the music, Berglund’s 1970 performance shows more and more of its true mettle. In the final analysis – the 1985 version is a better recording, has better soloists; but the 1970 version has stronger conclusions; in both cases, orchestral support is beyond reproach – these are two fantastic orchestras at work here, and Berglund deserves to have both recordings lauded. 823: 8.1.2001 ISN All original texts are copyrighted. Please seek permission from the Classical Editor if you wish to reproduce/quote Inkpot material. SIBELIUS Kullervo. Rørholm/Hynninen. Helsinki U Chorus/LAPO/Salonen (Sony) – INKPOT INKPOT#54 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SIBELIUS Kullervo. Laulun Ystvt Male Choir/Turku PO/Panula (Naxos) INKPOT#54 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SIBELIUS Kullervo. Laulun Ystvt Male Choir/Turku PO/Panula (Naxos) INKPOT#57 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SIBELIUS Kullervo. Symphony No.7, etc. LSO/Davis (RCA) Tags: Budget Price, Inkpot Sibelius Nutcase, Jean Sibelius, John Barbirolli, Libretto, mezzo-soprano, Tapiola, World Premiere	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2510
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__label__cc	0.60914	0.39086	Why European Journeys Testimonials Become a partner Brochures Contact us Multi Destinations Home » By Country » France » The best of France The best of France Paris - Troyes - Chablis - Dijon - Vezelay - Dijon - Chamonix - Annecy - Aix-Les-Bains - Nice - Monaco - St.Paul de Vence - Avignon - Rhone - Arles - Nimes - Avignon - Carcassonne - Albi - Rocamadour - Dordogne - Limoges - Paris Day 1 Paris Arrival at Paris airport and transfer to hotel. Day 2 Paris - Troyes (200km/2h)- Chablis (100km/1h) - Dijon (150km/1,30h) Head to Troyes, capital of the Champagne region - its magnificent core of medieval buildings is appropriately shaped like a champagne cork. Continue into Burgundy, once a powerful duchy and synonymous with fine wine. En route, hear an informative tutorial about the wines that make this region so famous. Stop in the quiet village of Chablis for a taste of the local nectar before reaching Dijon. Day 3 Dijon - Vezelay (120km/2h) After breakfast, set off through the leafy Burgundian countryside with road signs that read like a wine list. Stop in the picturesque town of Vézelay. Tradition has it that Mary Magdalene was buried here and Richard the Lionheart set off for the Crusades from the famous basilica. Later, return to your hotel for some relaxing time at leisure. Day 4 Dijon – Chamonix (300km/3h) A scenic symphony awaits you as you head into the high Alps, and climb towards Mont Blanc and the fashionable ski resort of Chamonix . Chamonix is probably best known as the skiing and alpine capital of the world . It is the perfect place to come for a break,a holiday, a season, or a lifetime, as you will never run out of things to do or tire of the views. Day 5 Chamonix - Annecy (100km/1h)- Aix-les-Bains (30km/30min) After breakfast, embark on a breathtaking drive to the lake-side town of Annecy. See the Palais D`Isle - It is the most distinctive monument of the city, and is impossible to miss . It was classified as a Historical Monument in 1900, and today houses a very popular local history museum. It is the symbol of the town and is among the most photographed monuments in all of France . Other thing you can visit is the historical symbol of Annecy - The Castle - its construction extended over four centuries (from the 12th to 16th). Continue to your hotel in the spa town of Aix-les-Bains, nestled on the edge of France’s largest and most celebrated lake, Lac du Bourget and overlooked by Mt Revard. Overnight. Day 6 Aix-les-Bains – Nice (400km/6h) Glorious mountain scenery today, as you travel in the footsteps of Napoleon, as he made his victorious return from Elba. A scenic, rugged landscape leads from the Alps, down to the French Riviera and the elegant resort of Nice. If you have enough power after the long trip, you can go to a night sightseeing tour at Nice. Day 7 Nice - Monaco (20km/30min) On a morning sightseeing tour, journey to the principality of Monaco to see the Grimaldi Palace. You also visit the cathedral, burial place of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier. Enjoy a drive on the Grand Prix circuit and views of the port with its luxury yachts. The rest of the day is set aside for you to enjoy the French Riviera. Day 8 Nice - St. Paul de Vence (30km/30min) – Avignon (250km/2,30h) Visit the medieval village of St Paul de Vence, perched high above the Riviera beaches. A walk through its winding streets reveals elegant fountains, vine-covered stone walls and views of mountains and sea. Get to know the village, revel in its pleasures and experience its art and lifestyle. Continue to Aix-en Provence to see the elegant mansions and popular Course Mirabeau. Journey into the Luberon, made famous by Peter Mayle’s book “A Year in Provence”. Home for the next three nights is Avignon. Day 9 Avignon - Rhone (250km/3,30h) - Avignon Stop at the imposing Pont du Gard, a three tiered Roman aqueduct. Head towards the Rhône River and the village of Châteauneuf-du-Pape to taste the famous wine. Back in Avignon,free time and overnight. Day 10 Avignon - Arles (40km/1h) - Nimes and Camargue (40km/30min) - Avignon (60km/1h) Drive to Arles, one-time home to Van Gogh and Roman legionnaires, and visit the Amphitheatre. Continue through the Camargue to Stes Maries de-la-Mer, where Gypsies gather annually to honour their patron saint. You may see flamingos and wild horses on the way to Nîmes. An orientation tour shows you the Roman Arena and 2,000-year-old Roman Temple, Maison Carrée. Return to Avignon for overnight. Day 11 Avignon - Carcassonne (250km/2,30h) - Albi (150km/1,30h) Cross the fertile Languedoc region, before heading inland to the fortified town of Carcassonne. Carcassonne is an amazingly well preserved medieval fortress that was featured in the movie, Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves. Ville de Carcassonne is a beautiful castle and is the centerpiece of the medieval Carcassonne . After your walking tour, continue to your hotel in Albi, known for its Cathedral and the birthplace of Toulouse Lautrec. Day 12 Albi - Rocamadour (200km/2h) - Dordogne (300km/3h) Stop in Cahors - a lovely medieval city almost entirely surrounded by water. At the heart of wine country, the city’s most memorable landmark is the Valentré bridge and the nearby ramparts. Continue to Rocamadour, a tiny medieval town perched on a cliff side above the Alzou River. After some free time to explore, drive on to your hotel in the Dordogne. Day 13 Dordogne Valley A morning drive takes you into the stunning Valley of the Dordogne to visit the prehistoric site at Lascaux to view the world-famous cave paintings. Later make your way to the town of Sarlat-la-Caneda with its fine historic golden limestone houses. Day 14 Dordogne - Limoges (200km/3h) - Paris (400km4h) Your first stop is at Limoges - the city has become the generic name for the hard paste porcelain that was produced during the 18th, 19th, and into the 20th century. It’s considered the finest hard paste porcelain. Continue to historic Poitiers to board your TGV train for the fast and comfortable journey to Paris. Day 15 Paris Sightseeing with a local guide shows you Notre Dame Cathedral and façades of the Louvre. Drive along the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe. Stop for a photo of the Eiffel Tower before embarking on a scenic cruise along the Seine. The tour concludes with a visit to Napoleon’s tomb in the gilded Église du Dôme. Overnight. Departure transfers to the airport. © European Journeys. 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__label__wiki	0.567706	0.567706	Archive - Oct 2017 Biscay woman dies in construction accident Submitted by admin on Tue, 10/31/2017 - 11:00pm Jacqueline Jill Brueggemeier, 55, of Biscay, died at a construction site in Delano on Wednesday, Oct. 25, according to the Wright County Sheriff’s Office. Brueggemeier was driving a dump truck for William Mueller & Sons, Inc., at a road construction project. While Brueggemeier was outside of her truck, another dump truck backed over her. The other truck was owned by Molnau Trucking LLC and was driven by a 39-year-old Eden Valley woman. Authorities said the accident remains under investigation, and no charges are pending at this time. First Lutheran students raise $10,400 Students at First Evangelical Lutheran School raised over $10,400 in the annual nonpublic school marathon. Students may have well been motivated by a couple of challenges — they were told if they raised over $5,000 they would get a pool and pizza party; if they raised over $7,000, fifth-grade teacher Luke Dahl and Principal Dean Scheele would have their heads shaved; and, if they raised over $9,000, Scheele would jump out of a plane. The head shaving took place Oct. 23, and the pool party is set for Nov. 21. Scheele will go sky diving in April or May, when the weather is acceptable. Neighbors protest proposed salvage yard near Hutchinson Lori Copler Larry Phillips, chair of the McLeod County Planning and Zoning Commission, didn’t even have time to open a public hearing before neighbors started protesting a conditional use permit application by Mitchell Niccum to establish an auto salvage home occupation on Major Avenue in Hutchinson Township. Niccum’s application requested that he be allowed to store up to 40 vehicles at a time on about three acres of land. Niccum was not present at the hearing, which was held Wednesday, Oct. 25. Dr. Bill, Marilyn Dunbar share dental skills in Haiti Katie Ballalatak On Sunday, Oct. 15, Dr. Bill and Marilyn Dunbar returned from a nine-day dental mission trip to Haiti. The trip, organized through the Haiti Nursing Foundation and NurseTim (run by Dr. Tim Bristol of Waconia), had a two-fold mission — to teach nurses dental care and practice dental care in the communities of Haiti. Pat Melvin takes leave of county after 9 years Pat Melvin worked his last day as the McLeod County administrator on Tuesday, Oct. 31. Melvin, who has worked for the county for nearly nine years will become the city of Arlington’s new administrator next week. Melvin came to McLeod County in November 2008, after about 10 years working at neighboring Wright County. But his first public administration job was with a city, so he feels he is coming full circle. Committee discusses crack sealing, seal coating The city of Glencoe’s Finance Committee discussed finding funds to provide crack sealing and seal coating to select roads in either the 2018 or the 2019 budget at its Monday afternoon meeting. The committee was presented with the city’s proposed 2018 budget. Mayor Randy Wilson mentioned to the City Council members that if they would like to find money to provide crack seal ing or seal coating, now would be the time to find the funds. GSL volleyball wins home finale in playoff opener Tom Carothers A three-set sweep of visiting Sibley East in the opening round of the Section 2AA playoffs on Thursday, Oct. 26, gave the Glencoe-Silver Lake volleyball team a 5-0 record in the school’s gymnasium this season. “Kind of a cool feeling and history making,” coach Lori Schwirtz said of the 5-0 record in the new gym, a mark christened by a come-from-behind defeat of Belle Plaine on Sept. 25. More urgently, the win over Sibley East also secured the Panthers a spot in the North subsection semifinals. Metcalf, Rusten run to state meet Once again, Glencoe-Silver Lake will be represented by multiple runners at this year’s Class A State Cross-Country Meet, scheduled to be held on Saturday afternoon on the campus of St. Olaf College in Northfield. This time around, Panther girls’ runner Malayh Metcalf will be joined by Jakob Rusten of the boys’ team after the pair qualified for the season’s ultimate competition via their finishes in the Section 2A title meet last week. Metcalf, an eighth-grader, punched her ticket for a second consecutive trip to state after finishing eighth in the 2A girls’ race on Thursday, Oct. 26. Panthers maul tigers, advance to section final After falling to Belle Plaine in the sectional semifinals the past two seasons, the Glencoe-Silver Lake football team dished out a heapin’ helpin’ of revenge in the Section 2AAA semis on Saturday, Oct. 28, blanking the Tigers 34-0 at Stevens Seminary Stadium. The Panthers dominated all facets of the game, taking the lead for good on a touchdown scamper by running back Carsen Streich with just over two minutes remaining in the opening half. GSL wins regular season finale, claims No. 1 playoff seed Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/26/2017 - 7:26pm With a 7-1 record and the No. 1 seed in the Section 2AAA Tournament, the Glencoe-Silver Lake football team began postseason play this week. The Panthers clinched the top spot in the sectional bracket by finishing off Litchfield 28-14 in the regular season finale on Wednesday, Oct. 18, on Senior Night at Stevens Seminary Stadium. GSL never trailed in the contest, taking the lead for good on a pick-six interception by Gabe Roepke early in the first quarter.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2527
__label__cc	0.5483	0.4517	Tipsy Parson 1/2 I’ve been indecisive and forgetful lately, which isn’t the optimal state of mind for choosing and assessing restaurants. I couldn’t come to a conclusion while mulling over which new spot to try mid-week so I had to stoop to superficial criteria. One of the Tipsy Parson’s owners happens to share my last name and in a recent photo appeared to be transitioning from brunette to gray. It’s absolutely impossible to find an attractive (or homely—I’ll take what I can get) New York woman in her 30s who doesn’t dye silver strands or entire locks into submission. That settled it. I was going to Tipsy Parson. Also superficially, I loved the trompe l’oeil bookshelf wallpaper. I had my eye on a similar motif a few years ago but I’m not sure how to handle wallpaper in a rental. And to the forgetful: I lugged my damn SLR around all day in anticipation of going out after work only to realize after sitting down (I made 8pm reservations and we were seated fairly promptly in the tightly packed bar area, not a problem, as the back dining room where we had a choice of waiting for wasn’t particularly more luxurious in terms of space) that I’d left the memory card in my laptop at home. Urgh, an obnoxious food blogger’s worst nightmare. It did allow a showdown between the photographic capabilities of the iPhone vs. the MyTouch. While a million miles from food porn-creating, the iPhone crushed my android powered device. Do keep in mind that these are sad little camera phone photos presented here. Fried cheese curds beat mozzarella sticks any day. This little $5 pile was served with a chimichurri sauce. A spicy or creamy sauce would come to my mind first, but parsley and olive oil worked too. The thing is, I can barely remember the cheese. Char No. 4s version has more presence. At the last minute we switched our minds from lamb ribs to chicken livers (I would’ve ordered both but as you’ll see below, I knew I was already in for a meat overload with the pork shank). The opposite of neutral cheese curds, these breaded organs stood out: creamy, a little funky, not for everyone. The tart green tomato marmalade cut through the richness and made a perfect grilled toast topping. MyTouch I will always order the pork shank when offered, no question, which isn’t that often outside of German restaurants. And how often does one eat at German restaurants? Ok, maybe I do more than the average New Yorker considering that even when on vacation in Hong Kong last November I tried an eatery called King Ludwig Beerhall where I ordered a pork shank that could’ve fed an entire family of four. Where many of the dishes lean towards snacky and sharable at Tipsy Parson, the hunk of pork that our server quoted it as being around a pound and half—do keep the bone heft in mind—is certainly an attention-grabber. There was plenty of tender dark meat and a few welcome gelatinous bits coating the ends of the bone. I almost forgot about the apple puree beneath the club-sized but of meat that I think was spiked with bourbon. The only thing that would’ve made this better would be the inclusion of crackly skin. Shank is as much about the skin as the flesh. A grilled trout stuffed with thyme was also eaten. Though not by me. Tipsy Parson is a cute restaurant that I can’t compare to Little Giant because I’ve never eaten there. It does feel a little Brooklyn, or maybe it’s that the casual, seasonal style just isn’t typically Chelsea. Tipsy Parson * 156 Ninth Ave., New York, NY Chain Links: I’m Not Sure What Freshii Is But I Like the Sound of It Two brothers who run Dunkin' Donuts in Northern NJ plan to open more than 20 Freshii stores in New York. Someone who created a restaurant called Salad Room is turning all of his locations into Freshiis and wants to take over Eastern Europe. Chain Links: Big Mac Attack All the hubbub over the McDonald’s in the Louvre appears to be unfounded. The average Parisian doesn’t give a merde about Big Macs tainting France’s culinary traditions. McDonald’s, which has had a presence in Iceland since 1993, isn’t faring quite so well. They’ll be closing all restaurants in the country at the end of October. The Great Wall of Chocolate I’m afraid things have a been a little quiet over here. I’ve been temporarily preoccupied with the new baby, Chains of Love. Yes, there are some subjects only a blog mother can love. If you’ve always wondered what goes on in a P.F. Chang’s, here’s your chance to find out. I discovered a surprising amount of Chinese diners and Morrissey playing in the background. P.F. Chang’s Did I love it? Not until I had a few drinks in me and they began playing Morrissey (godspeed). It’s hard to judge a restaurant like P.F. Chang’s. Compared to the Americanized Chinese food found on every NYC block, it’s better on many levels. While it’s pointless pitting it against Chinese Chinese food, I’d go as far as saying it’s a suburban Shun Lee Palace. Less finesse and history, sure, but you’ll get similar garishness and fanfare at a fraction of the price. For comparison, P.F. Chang’s has Philip’s better lemon chicken, “Lightly dusted and quick-fried chicken served with broccoli in a tart, sweet citrus sauce” for $12.95 while Shun Lee Palace has $26.95 lemon chicken “Chicken breast coated with egg batter and rolled in water chestnut flour then fried till crispy, served with shredded lemon and a velvety lemon sauce.” Ok, the latter does sound more alluring but I do wonder how different the two really are. And who eats lemon chicken, anyway? Do not fool yourself into thinking this is Chinese food for those who can’t handle it or are unable to discern the real thing. Initially, I was surprised at the number of multi-generational Chinese families waiting for tables at P.F. Chang’s, but it’s kind of silly to think that Chinese in America would only eat at restaurants with fluorescent lighting and delivery guys on bicycles. Normally, I’m not one for sweet cocktails but you feel obligated to order one at a fancy chain. The lucky cat martini, despite containing vanilla vodka, pineapple juice and Chambord, wasn’t that sugary. In fact, it was actually kind of bitter even though that makes no sense. The dumpling heavy dim sum platter wasn’t anything special. They steamed, filled crescents of dough weren’t mushy but the fillings were all kind of dull and flat. Beef seemed indiscernible from pork and I prefer whole shrimp over a ground mousse. I do appreciate a crab wonton, though. The most fun was playing with the numerous sauces (there was an additional set off to the side). I’m a sucker for condiments even though the sauce they mix for you of hot mustard, soy sauce and chile paste seems kind of haphazard. What’s wrong with eating each of those on their own? The entrees were stronger than the appetizers. Orange peel shrimp was tasty in that candied, crisp fried way that makes sesame chicken and general Tso chicken so appealing. The peel’s bitterness did help balance the sweetness. Chengdu spiced lamb contained thick, tender hunks of something. I’m not fully convinced that this beefy tasting meat was lamb at all. Even though this dish wasn’t really like any Sichuan lamb I’ve had–it wasn’t particularly cuminy or spicy– it was kind of good in its own way. The meat had a charred smokiness and the sauce had an unidentifiable savoriness, perhaps from a bean based chile paste. $2 mini desserts seem to be the thing now. I also noticed them at Carrabba’s. And they do suck you in. I would’ve said no to after dinner sweets but how much harm could a small treat cause? James had the small Great Wall of Chocolate. My incongruous lemon tres leches cake was confusing at it sounded. It was more like lemon pudding layered with graham cracker crumbs and reminded me of the desserts you find in Cooking Light. I frequently use the magazine for mid-week meals but their sweets are disappointing. I got an eyeful of the plastic display Great Wall of Chocolate cake on its round metal tray on the way out and I’m almost convinced that you could spot it from outer space (urban myth be damned) it was that large. Mini desserts were wise. One chain hallmark is the music piped outdoors for the pleasure of patrons quoted one-hour-waits while being handed chunky plastic beepers. As I assessed this gargantuan horse statue of indeterminate dynasty, Suedehead was playing. The video with Morrissey gadding about Fairmont, Indiana, James Dean’s hometown, tracing the young actor’s steps, making a pop culture icon personal, an outsider surrounding himself in artifacts of no import. Riding a lawnmower, sitting astride an Indian bike, reading James Whitcomb Riley in a barn, passing time in a diner…um, and playing bongos in a cow field. Immersing myself in East Coast suburbs is a pilgrimage of my own. I can’t help it that I get swept up eating American-Chinese food in New Jersey. Morrissey – Suedehead – Watch more Music Videos at Vodpod. P.F. Chang’s * 3545 US Hwy. 1, Princeton, NJ Is Tex-Mex Ethnic Food? According to Technomic’s "2009 Flavor Consumer Trend Report" 66% of US consumers would return to a restaurant and try a dish that originally hooked them with a new flavor. I not exactly sure what constitutes a new flavor, but there is a sample chart that indicates grilled and herbal is the preferred flavor combination of both genders. Steak with chimmichurri? Lemon and oregano-infused whole fish? I suppose I could go for those, though I’m more of a spicy and sweet person. Really, spicy, sweet and fatty–pork belly with Thai basil and chile springs to mind–but that wasn’t an option. More interesting, perhaps, are the "less broadly established ethnic cuisines" that are of interest to US consumers. Maybe the avante garde is becoming mainstream: 72%, the highest number of respondents, are interested in Spanish food followed by American regional cuisines like Hawaiian (71%) and Tex-Mex (69%). Really? Nearly two-thirds of this country has yet to discover chili and fajitas? For what it’s worth, Greek, Caribbean (both 66%) and Mediterranean (62%) follow closely behind. First There Was Cake Batter Ice Cream Photo from less apathy more cake Yes, the internets have been abuzz over the Japanese Burger King’s Windows 7 Whopper. That’s an impressive novelty to be sure. But why am I just now hearing about the Burger King cupcake shake? It appears that the cupcake trend has finally began to trickle down to the fast food arena. First, red velvet cupcakes quietly showed up in Southern California Taco Bells and now this. When do you think fast food joints will start deploying food trucks? Northwest chain, Burgerville, already has a Nomad. Chain Links: Korean Chicken & Waffles Fast food is still nascent in North Korea. Singaporean chain Waffletown has begun slinging their namesake treat along with fries, hotdogs and yes, fried chicken, in Pyongyang. Meanwhile, Singapore is in advanced chain-ification stages. Heavy hitters Daniel Boulud, Mario Batali and Guy Savoy, among others, are opening high end outposts under one roof, a Vegas-style resort. Boulud is going totally wild with Asian expansion. If I was a chef, I would apply for one of these openings in Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Caribbean Blues I’ve always had a thing for blue food—from the natural: soft blue cheese, to the invented: blue velvet cake, to exotica: Malaysian nasi kerabu. That’s why I was excited to hear about the blue food festival in Tobogo that happened this past Sunday. In my experience taro (which they call dasheen) really creates a more grayish mauvey blue, like how most Aviation cocktails turn out (though Rob Cooper’s—the man responsible for the St. Germain blitz of ’08–new more vividly violet Crème d’Yvette might just perk up the drink’s visual impact). The only examples I’ve found of food from this Caribbean festival aren’t really blue at all, though the rundown on this blog is charmingly Bubba Gump-esque, “dasheen cheesecake, dasheen pizza, dasheen chicken with dasheen dip, dasheen ice cream, dasheen chips and cookies, dasheen pies, dasheen sweetbread and dasheen bread.” That’s a lot of dasheen. Sue Perette 1/2 Sue Perette, a play on superette, and possibly an homage to JOE'S S PERETTE down the street, home of famous prosciutto balls and missing letter U signage, recently opened on Smith Street in the former Café Dore space (which used to be a crepe place that I ate at back in 2001, way before I knew anything about Carroll Gardens and rapidly got a lesson in the laissez-faire, children run free local parenting style that wouldn’t be tolerated in Sunset Park where I was living at the time). At least it’s not another Thai restaurant. Periodically I feel like a bad person for my lack of enjoyment in living in a desirable neighborhood and then resolve to try new things in hopes that I’ll discover something to make me excited about Carroll Gardens. It’s yet to happen. Sue Perette, thankfully, didn’t add to my negativity, though. At 7pm on a Wednesday, I was surprised that we were the only diners, and remained so until the very end of our meal when three groups slowly trickled in. I pegged Smith Street as an early bird zone considering that if you stroll around after 10pm on a weeknight you can literally hear crickets. A lot of passerbys did peek in the window and at the menu posted out front. I, myself, am hesitant to take a chance on an unproven restaurant with entrees over $20. Price could be part of it. Also new Wing Stop across the street might be more mid-week speed for many. While a bit nondescript in looks, Sue Perette is more personable than generic–you know, the Luluc’s and Bar Tabacs of the strip. It’s one of those rustic, canning jar, no fear of lard restaurants. In fact, bread is served with both butter and pork fat. I didn’t know that until after I ordered pastifret, a pate-rillettes hybrid, or else I might’ve thought twice about all the congealed white porcine products I would be ingesting and chosen something healthier. The creamy soft meat was served with traditionally sour accompaniments: pickled onions and cornichons. The menu is brief and not radical in any way; it’s French country cooking that doesn’t stray too far afield. I tried the double duck, a crispy rare breast cut into thirds atop scattered Brussels sprouts leaves glossy from chunks of confit. My original plan to only eat half and save the rest for another meal didn’t work out. One, despite the richness, I still wanted to eat the whole portion, and two, duck is never the same after reheating, there’s no way to preserve the skin and keep the meat from overcooking and turning livery. I might be inclined to return and cobble together a meal from the snack section of the menu. The Brussels sprouts with duck confit can be found there served minus the breast. Polenta fries with parsley aioli also sound like they have potential. We passed on dessert and had a nightcap at Brooklyn Social Club instead. Part two in my quest to ignite the flames of Carroll Gardens passion. I did like my Brooklyn (I just like rye—I wasn’t going overboard in borough boosterism) but I wouldn’t go so far as to say love. Sue Perette * 270 Smith St., Brooklyn, NY	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2528
__label__wiki	0.896547	0.896547	Man City owner City Football Group adapts strategy with Club Bolivia ‘partnership’ By Paul Nicholson January 12 – City Football Group, owner of 12 clubs including Premier League Manchester City, has expanded its network and deal-making strategy with the addition of Bolivia’s Club Bolivar as its first ‘Partner Club’. The partnership is more in line with a co-operation agreement and marks a shift away from CFG’s previous club acquisition strategy via ownership and establishing financial stakes. A Manchester City press release said: “Club Bolivar will be able to access a wide breadth of expertise, proprietary technology, best practice, and strategic advice developed by City Football Group over the past seven years through its multi-club structure.” A significant part of the co-operation will be based around team performance and talent development with Club Bolivar having access to the group’s scouting, coaching and youth methodologies as well as its player performance monitoring Football Data and Insights platform. However, it is the commercial side where Club Bolivar will see an immediate impact with the announcement that the club will switch kit suppliers from Joma to Puma from the start of the 2021 season in an initial five-year deal. No figure was given for the deal. “On the business side, CFG will help Club Bolivar grow its partnership revenue, build world-class facilities, promote league-wide improvements, and support the development of its key executives,” said the Man City press release. Club Bolivar, from La Paz, is Bolivia’s most successful club having won 29 league titles. The partnership will increase CFG’s presence and fledgling network in South America – its only owned-club on the continent is Uruguay’s Montevideo City Torque. “This long-term agreement is the first of its kind and will enable Club Bolivar to draw down on and utilise the wide range of football industry expertise developed by City Football Group. As well as supporting Club Bolivar’s ambitions, we have an opportunity to learn. Our work in Bolivia will certainly strengthen our knowledge of, and network in, South American football,” said Ferran Soriano, chief executive officer of City Football Group. For Club Bolivar the partnership is seen as a major opportunity to build commercial capacity as well as develop world class talent, both for the club and the national team. “Club Bolivar joins the City Football Group family as a Partner Club, consolidating a long-term project developing world-class football, corporate and infrastructure standards that will enable Club Bolivar to become even bigger. We will utilize the expertise and advice that CFG brings to continue in our goal to place Bolivar as a top club in Latin America,” said Marcelo Claure, president of Bolivar. “Club Bolivar aims to build a strong organization and develop players to help the nation qualify for the World Cup. This arrangement will allow Club Bolivar to call upon the significant experience and knowledge of City Football Group to help it realise its ambition to develop leaders on and off the pitch and give Bolivian kids the opportunity to achieve their dreams.” Contact the writer of this story at moc.l1610872363labto1610872363ofdlr1610872363owedi1610872363sni@n1610872363osloh1610872363cin.l1610872363uap1610872363	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2533
__label__wiki	0.537236	0.537236	Apps • iPhone • News VoxOx releases iPhone app I wrote about VoxOx earlier this year when I saw the Mac app at CES, and the company has now released an iPhone version that connects up to all of the various chat protocols and connections straight from your iPhone. Just like the Mac version, the iPhone app features a unified contact list, and offers access to all kinds of services, from IM and SMS to voice calls and even faxes straight in and out of the app. There’s a video demo of the app online, and it’s a free download, though you’ll need a VoxOx account to use it. A few of the reviews on the app say there might be an issue with some incoming calls, but given that it’s a brand new release, there may be a few hiccups that need to be fixed in future releases. That said, if you’re a user of the VoxOx service, this app is a no-brainer, and even if you’re not, but still looking for an all-in-one communication solution, it might be worth a look. Square encryption hinders Visa deal HipstaCase iPhone case perfect for Hipstamatic hipsters Spritzr – New Dating App to Actually Find Love State Of iOS 6 And iPhone 5 Untethered Jailbreak New Apple Store With Free-Floating Second Floor Google Employees Suggest Apple Approval of Google... The cult title Infinity Blade is out for $5.99! Tethercell wants to re-imagine batteries WSJ Starts Selling Single-Issues Using In-App... GarageBand for iPad Review How to stream a podcast over 3G via iTunes Save World War I From Zombies And Cthulhu With... White House Confirms Steve Jobs Was In...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2534
__label__wiki	0.704048	0.704048	Q&A: “What Price Do We Put on Our Oceans?” By Manipadma Jena “Political resolve is the key for succeeding in our fight against oceans pollution,” Erik Solheim, head of UN Environment, who is leading hands-on the organisation’s global campaign to clean up seas and oceans of plastic litter, agricultural run‑off and chemical dumping, told IPS. Building Climate Resilience in Coastal Communities of the Caribbean By Zadie Neufville Ceylon Clayton is trying to revive a sea moss growing project he and friends started a few years ago to supplement their dwindling earnings as fishermen. “The Ocean Is Not a Dumping Ground” By Nasseem Ackbarally An internationally renowned scientist, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim became Mauritius’s sixth president on June 5, 2015 – and one of the few Muslim women heads of state in the world. Phosphate Mining Firms Set Sights on Southern Africa’s Sea Floor By Mark Olalde A persistent fear of diminishing phosphorus reserves has pushed mining companies to search far and wide for new sources. Companies identified phosphate deposits on the ocean floor and are fighting for mining rights around the world. Conservation Congress Sets Ambitious Target to Protect Oceans By Guy Dinmore A major environmental conference of governments and NGOs has called on nations to set aside at least 30 percent of the world’s oceans as “highly protected” areas by 2030, but delegates said opposition from China, Japan and South Africa had seriously undermined chances of success. Jamaica’s Coral Gardens Give New Hope for Dying Reefs With time running out for Jamaica's coral reefs, local marine scientists are taking things into their own hands, rebuilding the island’s reefs and coastal defences one tiny fragment at a time - a step authorities say is critical to the country’s climate change and disaster mitigation plans. Opinion: The Oceans Need the Spotlight Now By Dr. Palitha Kohona The international community must focus its energies immediately on addressing the grave challenges confronting the oceans. With implications for global order and peace, the oceans are also becoming another arena for national rivalry. Riches in World’s Oceans Estimated at Staggering 24 Trillion Dollars By Thalif Deen The untapped riches in the world’s oceans are estimated at nearly 24 trillion dollars – the size of the world’s leading economies, according to a new report released Thursday by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). In Belize, Climate Change Drives Coastal Management By Aaron Humes A five-year project launched here in Belize City in March seeks to cement a shift in view of climate change and its impact on Belize’s national development. Q&A: “Protect Your Biodiversity” By Desmond Brown Richard Huber is chief of the Sustainable Communities, Hazard Risk, and Climate Change Section of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organisation of American States (OAS). Its objective? Foster resilient, more sustainable cities – reducing, for example, consumption of water and energy – while simultaneously improving the quality of life and the participation of the community. Marine Resources in High Seas Should be Shared Equitably After almost 10 years of often frustrating negotiations, the U.N. ad hoc committee on BBNJ decided, by consensus, to set in motion a process that will result in work commencing on a legally binding international instrument on the conservation and sustainable use, including benefit sharing, of Biological Diversity Beyond Areas of National Jurisdiction. Curbing Biodiversity Loss Needs Giant Leap Forward When political leaders from climate-threatened Small Island Developing States (SIDS) addressed the U.N. General Assembly last month, there was one recurring theme: the urgent need to protect the high seas and preserve the world's marine biodiversity. Championing Ocean Conservation Or Paying Lip Service to the Seas? By Christopher Pala President Barack Obama this week extended the no-fishing areas around three remote pacific islands, eliciting praise from some, and disappointment from those who fear the move did not go far enough towards helping depleted species of fish recover. Blue Halo: A Conservation Flagship, or Death Knell for Fishermen? Local fishermen are singing the blues over a sweeping set of new ocean management regulations, signed into law by the Barbuda Council, to zone their coastal waters, strengthen fisheries management, and establish a network of marine sanctuaries. Protecting America’s Underwater Serengeti U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed to more than double the world’s no-fishing areas to protect what some call America’s underwater Serengeti, a series of California-sized swaths of Pacific Ocean where 1,000-pound marlin cruise by 30-foot-wide manta rays around underwater mountains filled with rare or unique species. Caribbean Fears Loss of “Keystone Species” to Climate Change A marine biologist has cautioned that the mass deaths of starfish along the United States west coast in recent months could also occur in the Caribbean region because of climate change, threatening the vital fishing sector. Palau Proves Sharks Worth More Alive Than Dead By Stephen Leahy Sharks have a safe haven the size of France, and the Republic of Palau that protects them is making millions of dollars from shark tourism.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2535
__label__cc	0.656364	0.343636	Tag Archives: Paul E. Bain ORT TORONTO GALA CELEBRATES ONGOING INT’L EDUCATION WORK + HONOURS CONTRIBUTIONS TO ART WORLD Last night, ORT Toronto hosted its annual fundraising gala “Unfinished Business of the 20th Century – Restitution of Looted Art” at the Design Exchange in Toronto with a dinner and dessert reception plus a silent art auction. Thanks to my friend and PR colleague, Danielle Iversen who publicized the gala, I was invited to attend and help celebrate this year’s Honourees including Paul E. Bain (pictured below) partner at Dickinson Wright LLP, who was honoured for his work protecting artists’ rights and his dedication to several not-for-profit art organizations. …as well as Honourees for the ORT Recognition Award – Janis & Kenny Finkelstein, for their many years of dedication and support to the organization (below). Then the evening’s MC, Michael B. Miller (below) introduced the Keynote Speaker for this year’s gala….. ….Donald S. Burris, one of the men behind the “Woman in Gold” case where a Nazi-appropriated Gustav Klimt masterpiece was returned to its rightful owner decades after the theft. Mr. Burris is a senior partner in the L.A. firm Burris, Schoenberg & Walden LLP, and he spoke about that case (recently told in the Helen Mirren/Ryan Reynolds feature film “The Woman in Gold”) and his pursuit of other art works stolen by the Nazis in World War II. Talk about a fascinating presentation and what a riveting brush with history I experienced. Mr. Burris spoke at great length about the numerous trials, the international legal wrangling and ultimate triumph that brought the Klimt portrait of Ms. Altmann’s aunt back to the family, as well as comments regarding the other recent movie “The Monuments Men” which sadly did not tell the full true story of the Allies’ attempt to rescue and protect the greatest artworks in Europe’s private Jewish family collections. Although the speech was a sobering reminder to all what happened seven+ decades ago, the evening was full of promise and positive celebrations for ORT Toronto which is an arm of World ORT, founded in 1880, the largest non-denominational, non-governmental organization providing “Education for Life” each year to over 300,000 disadvantaged students in 60 countries. The name is an acronym based on its original Russian name. Through its International Cooperation programs, ORT supports non-sectarian economic and social development in under-developed parts of the world, with vocational training and the provision of technical assistance. ORT operates a global network of schools, colleges, training centres and programmes in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the CIS and Baltic States, Israel, Latin America, North America and Western Europe. ORT schools are highly regarded and are open to all children regardless of religious backgrounds. http://www.ort-toronto.org/ ORT Executive Director, Lindy Meshwork says: “In these challenging times, we believe the key to a better world lies in education. Since 1880 ORT has been providing the necessary skills and training to succeed, providing hope and the opportunity for a brighter future for students around the world.” Exec. Dir. Lindy Meshwork with event publicist Danielle The evening also featured a delicious buffet dinner with a dessert reception after the awards presentations. There was a silent auction featuring artworks by renowned painters & photographers to help raise funds for ORT Toronto. Here are some candid photos of the guests, honourees and VIPs …and mazel tov to all for a fantastic night! Harry & Esther Goodman enjoyed the festivities Danielle (left) joined my table for dinner and schmoozing with Rochelle Covent (right) Mr. Burris was enthusiastically congratulated on his speech I ran into media colleague Georgina Bencsik at the buffet More media enjoying the dinner incl. Jody Glaser (above R) with his wife Katherine L-R: Philip Strathy, Danielle, Sam Wales & Michael Miller Harry, Danielle & Sam kick up their heels GALA MASTER OF CEREMONIES: Michael B. Miller, Partner, Dickinson Wright, LLP HONOURARY CO-CHAIRS: Carrie Katz + Ellen Miller TRIBUTE COMMITTEE: Madeline Avedon, Rose Baum, Jeanne Beker, Joyce Chapnick, Justice Sandra Chapnik, Hedy Frisch, Edie Glazer, Julianna Greenspan, Marlene Hait, Elise Kalles, Barbara Kingstone, Michelle Maderer, Laura Walsh & Israel Mida, Tom Mihalik,, Aviva Morgenstern, Harriet Morton, Marlene & Martin Rochwerg, Irene Reingold, Mary Richmond, Serafima Roll, Dorothy Cohen Shoichet, Elise Sieradzki, Justice Gertrude Speigel, Bella Tal, Sam Wales, Florence Weinstock, Liora Yakubowicz ORT Canada – Charitable Number: 118834910 RR0001 Co- Presidents: Carrie Katz, Jacob Kincler & Arthur Silber ORT Toronto President: Janis Finkelstein, Past President: Florence Weinstock Executive Director: Lindy Meshwork Director of Admin: Roni Maderer Sponsored by BMO, Tom Mihalik: Tom’s Place and Janis & Kenny Finkelstein Posted in Art, Charities, Special Events and tagged charity galas, Danielle Iversen, Design Exchange Toronto, Donald S. 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__label__wiki	0.585213	0.585213	Category: Metaphysics Download e-book for kindle: The Metaphysics of Emergence by Richard Campbell By Richard Campbell In regards to the Book Everything within the Universe has emerged, in a few experience, because the gigantic Bang. however the inspiration of emergence is troublesome and arguable. The Metaphysics of Emergence contends that the modern philosophical debates are vitiated by means of the patience of the normal assumption that what essentially exists are specific entities: issues. as an alternative it provides a sustained argument for spotting frequent techniques as primary. This radical substitute unearths help from reading the sub-atomic 'particles' of up to date physics as nodes in a quantum box, and resolves long-standing difficulties of explaining identification through the years. 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__label__cc	0.694059	0.305941	Hawaii Senate Committee on Ways and Means Passes State Budget Bill By News Release @ 1:46 PM :: 3576 Views :: Hawaii State Government News Release from Senate Democratic Caucus March 27, 2013 The Senate Committee on Ways and Means passed House Bill 200 with amendments today. The Senate’s version of the bill is approximately $141 M less in general funds than Governor Abercrombie’s budget proposal. The bill appropriates funds for the operating and capital improvement budget of the Executive Branch for the fiscal biennium years 2013-2015. “Although the revenue forecast continues to improve, we took a cautious and conservative approach in our version of the budget,” said Senator David Ige, chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means. “We reduced the executive branch’s request by approximately $141 million, while making strategic investments in our community.” Here are some of the highlights of the bill $26.5M Executive Office of Early Learning, includes early childhood education program $55M Department of Education’s weighted student formula $54.5M Office of Information Management & Technology $200M Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, unfunded liabilities $5.2 M Agricultural task force and livestock feed development program $5.2 M Agricultural resource management programs and projects, including Kunia agricultural park irrigation systems $25M Sequestration contingency fund to address nationwide federal spending reductions $355,000 Hawaii Refinery Task Force $8M Hawaii Growth Initiative $1M Hawaii Health Information Exchange $3.9M State energy projects $205.5M Medicaid $874,000 Veteran services $1.8M Homeless shelters and services “The capital improvement programs include $2 billion in all means of financing for the fiscal year 2014 and $990M for fiscal year 2015,” explained Senator Michelle Kidani, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means who oversees Capital Improvements Projects for the Senate. Highlights of the capital improvement program: $1.2B For Department of Transportation projects, such as $70 million for the expansion of the Kona International Airport, $140 million for Honolulu International Airport, as well as increased capacity at our harbors ($250 million), and dozens of road improvements and bridge repairs. $120M For informational systems in various departments to streamline tax collections, maintain and share critical health information, as well provide for a secure communication network for the islands. “The investments made in the Department of Transportation focus our attention on addressing the less than ideal conditions of our roads and infrastructure, expanding our harbors and renovating the first thing our visitors see—our airports. We also continue to move our State into the 21st century by allocating funds towards upgrading the State's aging and obsolete IT infrastructure,” said Kidani. The House Bill 200 HD1 SD1 moves on to the full Senate for a vote.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2555
__label__cc	0.69102	0.30898	Helen Lowe Peter Fitzpatrick The Brother King © Helen Lowe Shortlisted, Raymond Carver Short Story Award 2005 (USA) First published Carve-zine, September 2005 Republished, The Best of Carve Magazine, 2006 I never have liked my brother Agamemnon, even when we were children together. I saw too much then of what he is: grasping, devious and none too brave. Not the kind of man who likes to fight his own battles if he can get someone else to do it for him. I think he quickly came to see that as my role, for I was, after all, the younger brother and must earn my way in the world. Fighting my kingly brother's battles more than suited Agamemnon, and to be fair, it suited me as well for a long time, not least because it kept me away from my scheming sibling. Besides, I too am an Atreides, and was as keen to promote the glory of our house and the Mycenaean kingdom as Agamemnon. And I like fighting. I always have enjoyed the sheer physicality of it and the camaraderie with your shield brothers, both on the field of battle and around the campfire afterwards. There is something too, about seeing the whites of an opponent's eye across the rim of your shield, testing your strength against theirs and knowing that only one of you will survive the clash and fury of the battle. It gives life a savor, a knife sharp edge that is missing when you wake up knowing that this day will be no different from the last. And the food and the wine are sweeter afterwards, the campfire and the lover in your arms warmer because of that sharp awareness of death and life, raw edged against each other in the battle. Even when I was little more than a boy and still believed myself invincible, I was intensely aware of that flame edge that battle and death give life. The fire only burns hotter as one grows older and more aware that you are vulnerable. I think that particular awareness is one of the things Agamemnon lacks, because he does not like to venture himself in battle. He will always play it safe if he can get away with it, letting others take the front row, the position of danger. There can be no doubt however, that his cunning and that smooth tongue of his has helped make Mycenae even greater than it was when he first planted his backside on the Lion Throne. He has a trick of always saying what he thinks a man wants to hear - when it suits him. His statesmanship, he likes to call it, although others have given it a different name. "Your damned, lying, devious ways," an older Chieftain accused him once. The man had grown truculent in his cups, and reckless with it, and he did not live long afterwards. Agamemnon laughed loudly at the time, of course, clapping him on the shoulder and calling him one of the old guard. What he did not say was that he had no time for the old ways and those who held to them, but I saw the wound that killed the man in his next battle. He had been one of my father's bodyguard and his face was to the front as you'd expect - but the sword thrust had come from behind. I knew then by whose will he died, if not by whose hand. So now you know why I have never been one for loose words. It suits my image too, of course: Menelaus the blunt soldier, the man of few words outside of strategy in war and exhorting men in battle. The truth is that I learned long ago that it does not pay to cross my older brother in war or deeds, for he will always exact the reckoning in full: in the heat of the moment if he has the numbers and it will serve him, but he will wait if he has to - years if necessary. I have always known that our shared blood and bond of brotherhood would not protect me if I crossed him in anything he considered important. No, the day I decide to go against Agamemnon I will have to kill him, and swiftly, while he suspects nothing. Otherwise I will be the dead man and sooner, probably, rather than later. I used to see the same knowledge in Clytemnestra's eyes when she thought no-one was watching her. She wore the mask of the Goddess well, that one, her face smooth and expressionless, every inch the Royal Wife. Her lips always smiled when she looked on Agamemnon, but I have grown used to watching men's eyes, both across the shield rim and assessing the mood and temper of my own men before battle. It was natural for me to look beyond the royal mask and the smiles to the Queen's eyes, and I saw the bleakness of knowledge and disillusion there when they rested on Agamemnon. Her husband. My brother. Sometimes I thought I saw a flicker of other emotions as well, of despair perhaps and even hatred, but I could not be sure. She never let you close enough to catch more than a fleeting glimpse of what went on behind the mask. She was alert too, and wary, and it did not take her long to realize that I was watching. After that, even her eyes were veiled. I have often wondered, in the long years we have been camped on this windswept shore, whether both mask and eyes turned to stone on the day she learned of Iphigenia's fate. I have seen Clytemnestra often in my dreams since then, and always with the same mask, which is not that of the Goddess anymore but a Gorgon's, although she still wears the Queen's crown on her snaky hair. One thing I have learned however, in this seemingly interminable war, is that the Goddess, no less than the God, can wear a dark face as well as a fair one. I always wake sweating out of that dream and lie staring into the darkness of my tent, listening to the ceaseless wind and wondering if Clytemnestra will ever forgive me for what happened to Iphigenia. I do not know if I will ever forgive myself. I know what Nestor would say, or Odysseus if I were foolish enough to share that thought with either of them. Nestor would shake his white head and look wise, murmuring about the will of the gods and the right of life and death that rests in the hands of a High King, even over his own daughter, the Sacred Princess born to the land. The platitudes would follow after, for he likes the sound of his own voice does Nestor, even when it says little to the point. Odysseus, on the other hand, would raise one eyebrow and ask how I could possibly be at fault when Iphigenia was not my daughter and the decision to sacrifice her was made entirely between Agamemnon and his priests, without consulting anyone else. The look in his eye however, would tell me that I was a fool to lose sleep over something that could not be helped. Nor would either of them waste any time in telling the whole to Agamemnon if they thought it might benefit them, the one whispering in his left ear while the other murmured in his right. So I keep my own counsel and attend to what I do best, which is fighting Agamemnon's wars. Odysseus's second eyebrow would definitely join the first if I was ever sufficiently unwise to speak that thought aloud, and his mouth would twist into his slow, feral smile. "Agamemnon's war?" he would ask, in the broadest of Ithacan accents, which he can turn on or drop at will. "And here I was thinking that we were all here to retrieve your wife, my Menelaus." His eyes, of course, would mock his words, for he knows as well as I do that Agamemnon doesn't give a damn about Helen. Does a man who will quite literally sacrifice his own daughter to further his ambition lose sleep over the abduction, as he chooses to call it, of his brother's wife unless he can see benefit to himself? I know the truth and so does Odysseus, which is that Helen was just a convenient excuse for Agamemnon to declare war on Troy, something he had wanted to do for years. As far back as I can remember he always hated Troy, not just because of its stranglehold on the Euxine trade but because it is his nature to hate anything that he does not control. If he cannot acquire it for himself then he will bring it down, sooner or later. Part of Agamemnon's "statesmanship" however, is that he likes to cloak his actions in legitimacy. He knows that it is important to retain the support of the fighting clans and their princes, men who still like a king to uphold the laws of the gods. They fight better for it, even if their eyes are fixed on loot and battle glory, and Agamemnon knows it. I, of course, gave him exactly the excuse and legitimacy he needed to unite the princes and lead the clans against Troy - I and Helen between us. That is why I hold myself responsible for Iphigenia's death, even though it was not my plan to sacrifice her, or my hand that wielded the blade that cut her throat while the army watched. I hear their roar of approval still and see the mixture of fear, bloodlust and a curious satisfaction in the eyes of those around me. I think it was that which finally pierced the miasma of rage and shame and grief that I had wrapped about myself since Helen left. It should have been the girl's white terrified face, her desperate eyes fixed on mine, pleading with the uncle who had tossed her up in the air so many times when she was a child, and put her up on his tall horse. She was a child still, but discerning as her mother. Even in her terror she knew better than to expect anything from her father, since her death served his purpose. No, it was to her uncle that her face turned, on my face that she fixed her eyes, but I was blind and deaf to everything but the raging anguish of Helen's betrayal and flight. It is even feasible that I, if no other, could have stayed Agamemnon's hand, since it was my cause this massive fleet and army was gathered to pursue with blood and sword. Just possibly, I could have persuaded the High King that a lesser sacrifice than his Royal Daughter would be sufficient to placate the gods. Possibly, but just as likely not, knowing Agamemnon and his vaunting ambition as I do. The point is that I didn't even try. I stood by and did nothing and let Iphigenia die, betrayed not only by her father but also by the uncle who had always claimed to love her. If I were Clytemnestra, I would know where to let my curses fall for that deed. We both know what Agamemnon is, but she may have thought better of me, until that moment. She may even have believed me capable of rising above my fury of grief and wounded pride. Well, she will know better now. My only hope is that she, too, will be blinded by her anguish and rage and so reserve both her hatred and her curses to her husband - but I don't rely on it, not when I wake sweating from the Gorgon dream in the silent watches of the night. I see the mask as clearly awake as asleep, and know that it is the face of her mother's curse, pursuing me. It is clear enough, given the ten long years we have spent on this plain, that someone's curse has been working against us, and I know that others think so too. I can see it in their eyes, a certain haunted expression, and in the grimness around their mouths. I hear the whispers around the campfires, the belated realization that the girl whose death they cheered was a Sacred Princess, sworn from birth to the service of the Goddess. They whisper that in placating the gods of sky and war, we stirred the slow anger of the earth serpent against our cause. And they fear that they will never see their own hearths and homes again, and I cannot blame them. I have come to doubt it myself and understand why they spin themselves a new story, a tale of the Goddess substituting a goat for her sworn maiden at the last minute and spiriting the princess away. It is what men do, shying away from the truth of our dark deeds and substituting a story that rests easier on our conscience. But it is not true, this story. I know it and so do they, in their hearts. I know too, that leaving this blighted plain would be as easy as summoning my men, getting aboard our ships and sailing away, back to Sparta. It would probably end the war, since it is my wrong, ostensibly, that has fuelled it these ten long years. It would mean breaking with Agamemnon, of course, which would undoubtedly mean my death or his when we had both returned to Greece. I do not fear that confrontation, not any more, but I cannot bring myself to leave either, not when I look upon those Trojan walls and know that Helen sits behind them. Helen, whom I loved once and probably still do, somewhere amidst the worn out anger and the hate. Love and hate together, an odd mix, and both grown stale with ten years of war. I am weary of it all, and yet I cannot leave. She holds me here, the two of us yoked together like horses poled up to a chariot. One cannot turn away without pulling the other with it, and the wreckage of the chariot, like our world, is dragged heedless in their wake. That is one part of it. The other, the cynical voice that is clearest in the dark hours, asks how much of my reluctance is because it is none so certain that I would still be King in Sparta, if I returned without Helen. She, after all, was the Sacred Daughter there and wore the mask and crown of the Goddess. I became King because I married her, for the Atreides had no claim in Lacedaemon. It is certainly part of the reason that I stay. I do not deny it to myself as I stand here, gazing out across the darkened plain. It is something I have always believed, that a man should strive to be honest with himself, at least in his own heart. King of Sparta. I like what that title has brought me, including the men at my back. They have followed me here over the sea, these men of Sparta, but I can never be sure whether it is to right my wrongs or simply to win back their Luck, their Sacred Queen. It may even be that their purpose is to ensure that the path is clear for Helen's daughter to take the Queenship in her turn. And where would that leave me? As Regent for Hermione, Helen's daughter and mine, until she came of age and could take a husband to supplant me, the Young King turning out the Old. And to what end, to once again become dependent on my brother's charity and soldier in his cause as I did before? The thought tastes bitter as ashes in my mouth and it is not the wind that makes me shiver as I look towards Troy. No, I like being King of Sparta, no longer just a subject of my brother and the sword that gives a keener edge to his statesmanship. As King of Sparta I am an ally, a brother king. I saw that opportunity the moment I heard that Tyndaerus of Sparta had invited all the princes of Hellas to sue for the hand of his daughter, soon to be the Young Queen. Better still, Agamemnon had urged me to it, keen to cement the alliance with that ancient and divine lineage that he had initiated ten years earlier by marrying Clytemnestra, Helen's elder half-sister. "Mycenae and Sparta," he had said, rubbing his hands together. "The whole of Greece will bow to us then, brother." I had shrugged of course, returning a light reply to the effect that I must first be chosen. It never paid to appear eager before Agamemnon. He however had snorted, despising any appearance of modesty. "I think you sell yourself too short brother, yourself and Mycenae." Truth to tell, my heart was high as I and my retinue took the road to Lacedaemon. It was green, the springtime of the year and I was young, with renown as a warrior and leader of men and none too ill to look upon either, or so my erstwhile lovers had assured me. I was tall and well muscled and I wore my hair long, a fashion approved by the Spartans. I let it fall loose for the wooing, knowing that even the Mycenaean bullion on my tunic, and the gold at throat and wrist, did not gleam brighter than the golden-red of my hair. I was proud of that tunic too, which was of fine Egyptian linen, dyed red, with a white mantle over it. The mantle had a golden border and was pinned with a great, golden brooch, shaped like a shield boss but with a lion's head in its center, our own lion of Mycenae. I knew I presented as fine an appearance as any of the princes gathered in Tyndaerus' hall, and I suspected that he and his advisers would approve both my reputation in war and the wealth and power of Mycenae at my back. I could only hope that the Young Queen too, would approve what she saw, for Clytemnestra had told me, ignoring Agamemnon's derisive snort, that her word would carry considerable weight in the final decision. It was only later, after we married, that I found out that I was her choice as much as her father's. When I asked her why she simply laughed, saying it was for the fine, dark gray of my eyes. Later, when I persisted further, she kissed me, her own eyes thoughtful. "I am not entirely sure. I didn't want to like you at all, knowing what my sister's life has been, married to your brother - but I did in spite of myself." Her nose had wrinkled a little, as it always did when she was thoughtful, seeking for words. "I knew my father thought you the best choice, because of the alliance with Mycenae and your success in war. He said you would make a good King for Sparta, and that did weigh with me. How could it not? But of all of them, I thought you seemed, oh, I don't know, different somehow, modest and thoughtful, even kind." She had laughed then, the laugh that made you remember what men claimed, that her true father had been a god. It dismissed my seriousness, breaking the moment. "And you are very handsome too, Menelaus of Mycenae, and a King should be handsome, don't you think?" I laughed too then and let it go, afraid of seeming too serious in the light of her springtime face, although I would have preferred to hear her say that her heart had flown out of her breast and into my keeping, the way mine had to hers. It was not just that she was fair, although she was, or that the shimmer of her divine heritage hung about her. I had simply never encountered a woman like Helen before, for all that I was no stranger to women and had always liked them, both in my bed and out of it, unlike so many of my fellow princes who prefer their noble youths. She was tall and golden and graceful, she laughed easily and often, and she could toss conversation as lightly as a glass ball, glittering through the air. And I loved her, tenderly, passionately and deeply, as I had never loved anyone in my life before. As for Helen, she seemed glad enough in the marriage and we were happy together in those first years, basking in our splendor as the Young Queen and King. The clouds crept up slowly, and at first only cast a little shadow, such as the dislike Helen felt for Agamemnon. She did not care for him at all, although initially she tried to hide it. "Sparta is no vassal of Mycenae," she cried out once, low but intense after one of his not infrequent visits. "We are allies and you are his brother King. You need not bow your knee, or your neck, to the Lion Throne!" I looked at her then, surprised at her intensity, but remembering that she had been brought up all her life with the knowledge that she was of divine origin, sacred as well as Queen, the Luck of her people. "Agamemnon would be the first to acknowledge what you say," I replied slowly, "calling me both ally and brother." "In words perhaps," she said simply, saying aloud what I too knew to be true, "but never in his heart. He still sees you as the younger brother, the junior, to come or go at his bidding." I shrugged. "It is the way of older brothers. And he is the High King in our Mycenaen alliance." I did not add that he was jealous of his prerogatives, for a blind man could see that. "There is no gain to be had in challenging him, on either score." She shook her golden head impatiently. "I do not understand why you defer to him so. You are thrice the man that he is, Menelaus, and the power of Mycenae is due as much to your victories in battle as his so called statesmanship." I had smiled then, trying to turn the matter aside with light words. "You can hardly expect me to be the one to tell him so, however." Yet I had learned something about my love that day, which was that she was not as discerning as her sister. She simply did not see that to Agamemnon his High Kingship was a matter of life and death. At the time, I quickly dismissed the matter from my mind, but looking back I can see that it should have warned me, for if Helen could not penetrate Agamemnon's character, she might well be equally blind to other men. It was after the birth of Hermione however, that the real clouds came. For the first time, I saw Helen listless and deeply discontent, and it did not help that I was too much away, campaigning against our enemies to the north. Agamemnon's enemies, she said coldly, and turned her face away. At first, the advent of Prince Paris seemed like a blessing from the gods, for he and his company were all young, debonair and gay, full of their recent sojourns in Egypt and Crete and all the wonders of those lands. He came too, prepared to praise the famous beauty of the Spartan Queen and Helen's spirits revived in his company. And although there are many good looking men, Paris was something more. His barbering and dress were elegant, his dancing graceful and he had a charm that matched Helen's own - and even the most dour of my warriors, blinking at this sudden advent of eastern splendor, had to admit that he showed skill and courage in the hunt. I noted however, that although he spoke with enthusiasm of accompanying me on campaign, he did not protest too hard when I replied that his aged father would scarcely thank me for risking his son's person. A pretty princeling, I thought him, but I made him my guest friend anyway, for Helen's sake and with a longer eye to trade with Troy. I kept my smiles at his airs and graces to myself and forbade my men, with dire threats, from quarrelling with his entourage. It would certainly never have occurred to me to lisp out a poem to the arch of Helen's eyebrow, or the whiteness of her arms. I even laughed over it, a little, in the privacy of our apartments. Perhaps I should have noticed that Helen did not join in my laughter, but I esteemed her too well to believe, even for a moment, that she valued such nonsense. Clytemnestra called me a fool for that later. She said that there is no woman alive who is too intelligent or circumspect to enjoy a little dalliance or pretty flirtation, especially with someone as noble and beautiful as Prince Paris. Perhaps Helen did not intend it to go as far as it did, perhaps the final flight really was an abduction, but I should have recognized the allure Paris held for her, given her frame of mind at that time. He brought with him all the glamour of far-off places and the great city of Illium, which must have seemed as far from Mycenae, and the machinations of the Atreides, as Olympus itself. Well, Clytemnestra was undoubtedly right to call me a fool, for I did not see it. I was too busy marshalling men, arms and horses, and all the other logistics of a punitive expedition, to give Prince Paris's visit more than half my mind. Even now, the events of that time are little more than a blur of feast and hunts, with a different entertainment every night. I remember my return from the expedition though, and the echoing silence of our palace by the sea. My footsteps seemed un-naturally loud as I strode from room to room, for all the servants had hidden themselves away, terrified of my wrath. The only sound was a thin, fitful wailing from the nursery, where Hermione too had been abandoned. I picked her up out of her crib, holding her in the crook of my armored arm and trying to convey some sense of comfort, although there was none in my own soul. It was an effort, when my soldiers had hunted the servants out, herding them before me, to keep my voice quiet and even. I knew Agamemnon would have put them all to the sword, slave and free alike, as if they could possibly be held accountable for the decisions of their Queen. I however, said that I would only slay them if they neglected Hermione again, or failed to return to their duties. But even then, none of them dared speak or lift their eyes until I turned on my heel and left, calling for chariots, and horses, and driving straight to Mycenae and my brother. The disbelief, bewilderment and hurt I felt when I stood in Helen's empty apartments gave way, first to pain and then to the slow burn of anger. It turned, during that long drive, to a cold fury against both Paris and Helen for their betrayal. The rage consumed me, but it was not the kind of rage that stops you thinking. I knew exactly what I was doing when I went to Agamemnon, the longed for weapon that I was placing in his hands. I saw the triumph and delight flare in his eyes, even while his hand grasped my shoulder and he mouthed the smooth, meaningless words of a sympathy that he did not feel. I knew that secretly my brother would despise me, for he always had a sly, contemptuous jibe for the man who could not keep his women in order. I knew, but I did not care, for in that moment he became my weapon, the driving force of rage and revenge that I would unleash against Troy, pursuing Helen and Paris relentlessly, until the end. It is that end that I am facing now as I stand on the ramparts above our camp, looking out across the plain to Troy. A few lights still twinkle there, high on the walls, even after ten years of siege. >From this distance they look like small, yellow stars and it may even be that one of them is shining from Helen's room. It is strange to think of her there, combing her hair as she used to in Sparta, while her maids busy themselves with the clothes chest and their spinning. Strange too, to think of her living there as wife to another man, as though the simple passage of years could undo our marriage vows. I wonder how much choice she had when Priam insisted that she marry another of his many sons when Paris fell. I smile slightly, in spite of myself, remembering how Helen always liked to do her own choosing, in men as in most other things. The wind pricks beneath my cloak with cool fingers and I know, as do we all, that this wooden horse of Odysseus is the last throw of the dice. I will be in it with him and the other chosen men, volunteering for a post that will mean certain death if we fail - but put me in the forefront should we succeed. Agamemnon had shaken his head over my presence in the horse itself. "Odysseus I can understand," he said, "since it's his idea. Besides, he's only a prince of Ithaca when all's said and done. But you, my brother - you are of Mycenae and Sparta. Why risk yourself un-necessarily?" For answer, I simply shrugged and said I found it fitting. I did not say why, that I thought it only right that the one who had started the war should venture himself in the gamble that would end it, one way or the other. For I could have let my head rule my heart ten years ago and sent emissaries and Mycenaen gold after Helen, to win her back with honeyed words and the clink of wealth into Trojan palms. I had known at the time how unlikely it was that the romance would last, that it was an infatuation, no more. I had known, even as I stood there, listening to the echoing silence of her rooms, that diplomacy would be the wisest and most prudent course, putting the wellbeing of kingdoms ahead of my own wounded pride and ego. But I could not do it. I would not. Let the world burn as I burned, for rage and rending grief and the loss of love. I had embraced my rage knowingly and the intoxication that went with it, a mix of indignation, righteousness and wrath that was a torch to the brushwood of my brother's plans. It took Iphigenia's death and the shamed connivance in the eyes of those around me to bring me back into myself. Too late for Iphigenia, and too late for all those who have died here on the Trojan plain. Far too late, but at least now, when the ashes of my rage have long grown cold, I will take what responsibility I can and hazard myself in the belly of the wooden horse. And if we are successful, what then? I will be in the forefront of the attack with the few picked men of my bodyguard and some hope of reaching Helen before the worst of the sack, but to what end? A man should be honest with himself in his inmost heart, but even now I am not sure. My heart, it seems, is mixed. Part of me loves her still, or at least my memory of what she was, but there is still a spark of the old anger there, perhaps only waiting the right breeze to fan it into life. Then there is Menelaus the general, the leader of men who would lead them still, and as King of Sparta, not the client of his brother. That Menelaus likes to weigh the odds and consider the strategic course, his eyes veiled as the wine bowl goes around and the others boast of what will come to them, of their share of the spoils when Troy falls. Agamemnon quizzes me of course, seeking to know my mind. He has already claimed Priam's daughter Cassandra as his prize amongst the women when the city falls. I see the quality of his smile as he stakes his claim and I know that he will make her feel her degradation to the full, a princess of Troy and a priestess of the God both, brought to serve in his bed. There is no kindness in him and he will find every way to drive home her dispossession, to make himself feel the greater by comparison. And he never did like Helen, any more than she liked him. His narrowed eyes turned to me again tonight, when the bowl went around for the last time and I could see he was brooding, thinking his dark thoughts. He leaned over and grasped my wrist and his gaze held mine, compelling. "You must kill her brother, have her put to the knife, a sacrifice for the armies out here on the plain. You are an Atreides of Mycenae and King now in Sparta. You must set an example, show the world what that means." Like Iphigenia, I thought, sick to the stomach as I saw again her pinched child's face and pleading eyes locked on mine. But I kept my face calm and let my lips smile as I swirled my wine, studying the cloudy depths before looking back, open and friendly, at my brother. "She is the Queen of Sparta," I said, "the Luck of Lacedaemon. That is something I must consider too." It was a warning and he never lacked for wit. I saw his eyes flick to the warriors behind me in sudden, quick comprehension and then as quickly away, his own lips smiling too. He reached out and grasped a handful of nuts, cracking them between his fingers and chewing them slowly, the brooding eyes hooded. I stared into my wine again and this time it showed me Helen's face, grave but unafraid, gazing back into mine. I thought about seeing her in the flesh, face to face again after so long and wondered what face she would wear for that fatal meeting: Helen the woman, or Helen the Queen, or the mask of the Goddess, inscrutable and bland? Not that last, I thought quickly, for the Helen I remembered would scorn that as a coward's trick. I did not expect her to plead either, no matter what I might intend. Agamemnon's eyes were still veiled when the party finally broke up and we departed for our own tents. He held me back as my bodyguards ducked out ahead of me, into the night, the ransom of his rings glittering against the bronze of my vambrace. "Even so," he murmured, very soft, "Sacred Queen or no, we are Atreides. You must still be seen to punish her, my brother, if we are to hold our heads up amongst other men." I nodded, suddenly and intensely aware of the richness of the hangings around us in the flickering light of the braziers, and the biting chill of the night wind outside. Its cool touch drifted across my neck but I held his eyes, trying to find the reason that would make sense to his jealous pride, rather than being a challenge or a threat. "I would still be King of Sparta too, brother, when this is done." He was silent for a long, long moment, digesting this, something hard and dangerous glittering in his eyes. "Surely you are not suggesting that the Lacedaemon clans followed you to win back their sacred Luck, rather than to uphold your honor as their King?" There was no mistaking the silky, warning note in his voice, however low he kept it. I held his eyes with a steady, warning look of my own. "A wise man would not discount the possibility too quickly, my brother." For the first time I saw a flicker of uneasiness in his eyes, and I wondered then if he too dreamed of Clytemnestra wearing the Gorgon's mask, but the flicker came and went so swiftly that I could have been mistaken. I hoped he was remembering that Iphigenia too, had been a daughter of the sacred line and sworn to the Goddess from her birth. At any rate, the dangerous glitter left his eyes and he let go of my arm. I nodded and stepped out into the windblown dark where the torch fire was streaming like red banners, casting a lurid glow over bronze armor and stiff horsehair crests. My hand slid to the hilt of my sword and I instantly felt reassured, for here at least was something straightforward, that I understood and could do well. I would focus my mind on the silent belly of the horse and the waiting, the long hours hidden inside the wooden carapace while the Trojans cheered and rejoiced, dragging doom into the city with their own hands. After that, there was only the stealthy descent from the horse and the heart sickening run through the streets, trying to stay ahead of the swiftly spreading tide of blood and battle as the Greek army surged into the city. And I still did not know what would come of it all, for me, for Helen, even when I finally stepped over the threshold of the Trojan palace. I and my bodyguard had fought hard to get there first, and the blood was thick on our swords and arms. The night behind us was filled with screams and the torchlight leapt wildly again, but this time across marble walls and cool, tiled floors. We stood there, motionless, our heads up and listening, for this hall at least was silent, the screaming and destruction still at a distance. There was a stair at the hall's end, a small stair curving upwards in wide, shallow steps and I followed it, my footsteps steady and suddenly very loud, until I pushed aside the heavy curtain with my sword's edge. I knew, with that instinctive sense that binds you close to those you love, or hate, that she would be there. I felt my men close in around the foot of the stair behind me, but they did not follow me up. They were men of Lacedaemon all, not one chosen from those of Mycenae. It was only as I stepped into the small, moonlit room beyond the curtain however, that I admitted the significance of that decision to myself. Odysseus had known I thought, remembering how his eyes had flickered over them as we entered the body of the Horse and his small, curved smile. But then, unlike Agamemnon, the Ithacan had always had a fondness for Helen. He sees too much that one, I thought, then shrugged, for it could not matter now. He had not stood in my way and I was here, ahead of the bloodhunt and well ahead of my brother. She was waiting, standing by the window and making no attempt to conceal herself, although the room was unlit. Her white robe glimmered in the shadows and the moonlight, slipping through the opening, could not wash the gold from her hair. Her face however, remained in shadow and she did not speak, just stood there watching me as I stepped into the room, my bloodied sword naked in my hand. She did not look at the sword either, but fixed her eyes on mine through the mask of my visor. After a moment I reached up and pulled the helmet off, aware of the turmoil in my breast, a sudden resurgence of the old, raging emotions that I thought had grown cold, so long ago. It was only then I realized that she was wearing all three faces for me, in the moon touched shadow of that room. There was the maiden, the laughing, beautiful girl that I had married, and there the Queen, her head high beneath the weight of the crown. The mask of the Goddess was there as well, sliding beneath and through them both. The only face I could not see clearly was the face of the woman she had become, in her ten long years in Troy. I could not be sure, but I thought she was beautiful still, yet touched by sorrow and something of my own weariness and grief. Neither of us moved or spoke, caught between our past and present, and I felt made of stone, torn between my life's love and the last of my anger, an unwillingness to forgive. In the end, it was she who spoke, so soft it was scarcely more than a whisper. "You have burned a whole world because of me, Menelaus. Will you not even speak to me, now, at the end of our conflagration?" I had forgotten the power of her voice, that gift from the gods. Hearing it again, after so long, shook me as the sight of her had not. I was off balance, unsteady, but I knew, finally, what had brought me here to this place, this moment. And I did not believe that the world and other men would think so ill of me, despite what Agamemnon said. I too am an Atreides, but my brother's ways are not mine and I would not do his will, not in this one thing. I sheathed my sword. "It is not the end, Lady," I said and my voice sounded strange in my own ears, both resonant and soft at the same time, "not unless you will it so. But it is not my will." She drew closer to me then and what I saw in her face, of love lost and the long years spent, yearning for home, pierced me to the quick. "What is your will then?" she asked, still very low. "Why are you here now, Menelaus?" I made no move towards her, although I was overwhelmed by the memories of her in my arms. Instead I kept my eyes on hers and my voice steady, steadier than in any battle and for greater odds, as I spoke the truth of my heart aloud. "A new beginning together, if we will it so. For that is why I am here, now, to bring the Queen of Lacedaemon safely home and to her own again." Her eyes, even so close to me, were still pools of shadow and the moment stretched between us, rang in the silence of that one room. I could hear the shifting of my men's feet below and further off, still at a distance but getting closer, the travail of a city being sacked. I wondered if she thought there was any other choice, at this time, with Agamemnon waiting. As if in answer to my thought, she lifted her hand slowly from the folds of her robe and I stood very still, seeing the dagger gleam in the moonlight. I wanted to grab for it, to protest, but knew that I must not, for this was Helen, who would make her own choice, even now, when so much else had come to ruin. The moon shifted, flooding the room with silver and illuminating the eyes and face of the woman before me. We looked at each other, a steady look, without illusion, then Helen put the dagger aside and extended her hand to me. Silently I took it, putting my soldier's cloak around her and drawing it up, to cover her bright hair. Then still in silence, we went out of that room together, quitting the dying city for the windswept shore and the black beaked ships that waited there. From the Legend: After the fall of Troy Menelaus and Helen returned to Sparta where they ruled together long and happily until his death. There are many and varying accounts of the final fate of Helen, who was reputed to be the daughter of the God Zeus. Following the sack of Troy Agamemnon took Cassandra as his war prize and authorized the sacrifice of her sister, Polyxena, on the grave of Achilles. He then returned to Mycenae where both he and Cassandra were murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus. It is said that Clytemnestra was motivated by hatred of Agamemnon, particularly for the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia. He was avenged by his son Orestes who murdered both Clytemnestra and Aegisthus in their turn. For the crime of matricide he was pursued by the Furies until he finally won the forgiveness of the Goddess Artemis at Tauris. He eventually married Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen, so that together they became King and Queen of both Mycenae and Sparta.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2556
__label__wiki	0.5814	0.5814	Urgent steps being taken to ramp up Jamaica's COVID-19 testing capacity 7:41 pm FULL TEXT: CDC says passengers required to get COVID test three days before flights to the US 8:07 pm Man charged for murder in East Kingston 8:40 pm Youth foundation donates tablets to needy students in St Ann 9:02 pm Portland teen charged with stealing phone 8:33 pm Senior Republican Cheney says will vote to impeach Trump 8:37 pm The slow death of Europe BY Alexander Scott For the past eight years Europe has been in crisis mode. By Europe I mean all of continental Europe and do not solely mean the European Union. Europe has seen serious economic crisis, political upheaval, serious violence, and basic social unrest. With all of this going on can the Europe that we know of today remain? It looks to be tearing apart at the seams. The Europe that we know of today is historically an anomaly, with no major wars for some 70 years, Europe has enjoyed one of the longest periods of peace in memory, mainly because of the United States-backed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This, however, seems to be changing as NATO nations, such as Turkey, openly saber rattle, shooting down Russian planes and engaging openly with nefarious characters in the Syrian-Iraqi conflict. The recent attempted coup will also lead to a purge of the military and leave it ultimately more in the hands of a leader who looks like he is drunk on power, to put it mildly. However NATO is not the only shady actor when it comes to military actions that threaten current European existence. Russia, over the same period, has been flexing its military muscle, be it cyber warfare in Estonia, routing Georgian forces or the land grab that was the Crimean incident, it is clear that Russia is back to being a major player when it comes to the military. Some may say that the Russian incidents were all reactions to NATO and United States intervention in Russia’s backyard, but that is the point. Even if they were reactions to provocations — which some clearly were — that shows us that Europe is a gunshot away from a major calamity, that is made all the more realistic when one remembers NATO is about collective defence, if a Turkish jet is shot down by Russia we can realistically expect a NATO and thus a European reaction. Europe as a society is also splitting apart at the seams. With a migration crisis of their own making, and with an economy that is tanking (taking into account the eurozone) we are seeing groups popping up everywhere demanding independence. The Scots are testing the waters as it relates to independence after the Brexit, the Catalans are also demanding a referendum on independence in Spain, and if they get it the Basques will surely demand one too, thus killing off Spain as we know it. We also see a deep societal split amongst both the people and there governments, but also regionally (Western standards as compared to the standards in the old Soviet bloc) and has given rise to extremist groups and far right neo fascist groups all the way from Holland to Poland. The rise of the far right, especially in a European context, is always a harbinger of doom and destruction and history backs that up. Finally, we come to the violence, the open and obvious area of the slow demise of modern Europe. With a violent attack almost every month in a European city, we see the nations respond by hunkering down and militarising the streets. We see them — rightly or wrongly — cracking down hard on certain religious groups and ethnic minorities as diverse as Arab to African. The militarising of the police and the State, as a response to the violence, as opposed to common sense approaches such as travel bans for suspected terrorist sympathisers; regarding schooling them in Islam and the Quran; stop taking advantage of the Middle East, is not only hampering them in the ‘war on radical Islam’, but is also a threat to European security. With many nations still having historical grievances against each other, and with the rise in the far right, nationalist rhetoric and the splintering of the European Union, it is, I believe, only a matter of time before Europe gets involved in some major internal conflict. Some may say it it too far-fetched an idea, but so was World War I at the time, though with hindsight we can see the fault lines. The same is happening here, and be it a NATO shot, Russian shot, or Kosovon shot, Europe will see a violent change and will look radically different when the dust settles. alexanderwj.scott@gmail.com Europe as a society is also splitting apart at the seams. With a migration crisis of their own making, and with an economy that is tanking (taking into account the eurozone) we are seeing groups popping up everywhere demanding independence. 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__label__cc	0.612467	0.387533	Kesha's 'Rainbow' Lands Gold Certification in the US What an achievement... It's safe to say that Kesha has had one of the biggest comebacks of 2017. In July she wowed critics and fans alike with her first single in four years 'Praying' and in August she soared to the top of the charts with her brilliant third studio album Rainbow. Now after just four months the singer has scored a huge Gold certification for Rainbow. Let's be serious, come on This is a real, this is, excuse me? Ok, shut up I buy my own things, I pay my own bills These diamond rings, my automobiles Everything I got, I bought it, boys can't buy my love, buy my love, yeah I do what I want (She does), say what you say I work real hard every day I'm a motherfucking woman, baby, alright I don't need a man to be holding me too tight I'm a motherfucking woman, baby, that's right I'm just having fun with my ladies here tonight I'm a motherfucker Mmh, yeah Let's drive around town in my Cadillac Girls in the front, boys in the back Loosey as a goosey and we're looking for some fun Don't buy me a drink, I make my money Don't touch my weave, don't call me "honey" 'Cause I run my shit, baby (I run my shit) 'Cause I write this shit, baby, I write this shit 'Cause I run my shit, baby, I run my shit Don't touch my weave, don't call me "honey" (Don't touch my weave, baby) 'Cause I run this shit, baby, I run this shit Writer(s): Kesha Rose Sebert Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com THIS IS NOT A DRILL. RAINBOW HAS SHIFTED OVER 500,000 CHART COPIES. Kesha has been a mainstay on the US charts ever since her triumphant return. Not only did 'Praying' climb to an outstanding peak of 22 on the Hot 100 but it has also been certified Platinum and Rainbow has sold consistently ever since its release. We couldn't be prouder of Kesha and all that she has achieved as an artist in 2017. 'Rainbow' by Kesha is now certified GOLD in the US. Congratulations, @KeshaRose! pic.twitter.com/c5IhQXu3v9 — Pop Crave (@PopCrave) December 18, 2017 The 'We R Who We R' singer has also had unprecedented success in the UK this year. Rainbow entered the Official UK Albums Chart at Number 4, making it not only her highest charting album in the UK but her first ever UK Top 5 album. She also killed her performance of 'Learn to Let Go' at the MTV EMAs in London. And delivered an incredible set in Brixton to her loyal animals shortly afterwards. [Getty] We cannot wait to see what 2018 brings for the talented star. Fingers crossed 'Hunt You Down' gets the single treatment. Words: Sam Prance Listen to your favourite tracks no matter where you are with the MTV TRAX music app. No ads, no limits, no monkey business. Download it now for FREE at mtvtrax.com. More From Kesha My Own Dance [Explicit] Raising Hell (Ft. Big Freedia) [Explicit] 10 Celebs With Hidden Talents That’ll Leave You Shook Celebs You Never Knew Started Out On Reality TV 19 Songs We Can't Believe Are Turning 10 In 2019 The Greatest Showman: Reimagined Track By Track Album Review Body Talks (Ft. Kesha) Celebs Who’ve Been Honest AF About Treating Their Mental Health From Rihanna To Sophie Kasaei: Celebs' Kinkiest Confessions Ever Kesha Lands 'The Greatest Showman' Lead Single The 8 Most Underrated Albums Of 2017	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2560
__label__cc	0.60689	0.39311	Tag: Labour Party conference Proposed rule change motion for Labour Party conference: Open Selection Proposed rule change motion: Open Selection This branch/CLP believes: that being a Labour MP should not be a job for life; that candidates should be selected openly without restrictions before each general election; that all individual and affiliate members should be able to participate in the selection of candidates; that the existing system of trigger ballots prevents this from happening and creates unnecessary antagonisms, turning what should be a normal open process into an implied vote of no confidence in a sitting Labour MP; that a fully democratised Labour Party based on the principle of One Member One Vote is the best way to ensure the election of a Labour government with the strength and resolve to create a fair and just society for the many, not the few. Therefore this branch/CLP: calls upon the NEC to endorse and support the LI Rule Change motion from 2018 and to reintroduce it as an NEC rule change at the next Labour Conference; moves the following rule change to Labour Party conference 2019: Replace Clause IV.5 and IV.6 with the following: “5. Following an election for a Parliamentary constituency the procedure for selection of Westminster Parliamentary Candidates shall be as follows: If the CLP is not represented in Parliament by a member of the PLP, a timetable for selecting the next Westminster Parliamentary Candidate shall commence no sooner than six weeks after the election and complete no later than 12 months after the election. If a CLP is represented in Parliament by a member of the PLP, then a timetable for selecting the next Westminster Parliamentary Candidate shall commence no sooner than 36 months and complete no later than 48 months after the election. The sitting Member of Parliament shall be automatically included on the shortlist of candidates unless they request to retire or resign from the PLP. The CLP Shortlisting Committee shall draw up a shortlist of interested candidates to present to all members of the CLP who are eligible to vote in accordance with Clause I.1.A above.” Consequential amendments to be made elsewhere in the Rule Book where the ‘trigger ballot’ is mentioned. May 29, 2019 By admin model motions Labour Party conference, mandatory reselection, model motion, open selection Join us at Labour Party conference 2018! Are you planning on coming to Liverpool for Labour Party conference? Can you help us out with our intervention? Check out eight key events at conference below. We are at a crucial moment in the civil war in the party, with the witch-hunt against Jeremy Corbyn and the left in the party reaching ever new heights. We understand that in addition to their plans to force Corbyn’s hand on Brexit (there is a demo planned on Sunday afternoon) and the ongoing smears around Anti-Semitisn, the right is also planning on sabotaging conference wherever possible. Please check out this article, which also mentions that there are plans to disturb any meetings with Chris Williamson MP. We therefore have to remain somewhat flexible, but also vigilant. Please do not get drawn into altercations and do not let right-wingers provoke you. We know they will try and they will in all likelihood have somebody with a camera nearby. They will want to make us look like dangerous lunatics – let’s not do them the favour. Try and stay together with at least one other person, so you have a witness and some form of protection. Keep your mobile phone nearby so you can film any incidents – best to have evidence! What you can do at conference If you are a delegate, please support the rule change on mandatory reselection from International Labour: it wants to do away with the undemocratic trigger ballot entirely and is much more democratic than the fudge apparently proposed by the national executive committee Also, please support the rule change to delete the first part rule 2.1.4.B (‘Exclusions’) proposed by Mid Worcestershire, Rugby, Truro and Falmouth, Bexhill and Battle: it bars from Labour Party membership anybody who “joins and/or supports a political organisation other than an official Labour group or other unit of the party” and has exclusively been used against left-wingers Join Labour Against the Witchhunt! Come to see us at our fringe events or stalls outside conference and The World Transformed (1 Great George St, L1), where you can pick up a bunch of our new leaflet to hand out If you can help out, please email info@labouragainstthewitchhunt.org, letting us know if you’re a delegate or visitor (or neither), when you’ll be arriving and when you are leaving – make sure to include your mobile number! Facebook event here. Eight key LAW events at conference We are handing out LAW leaflets and badges throughout the event, but here our are key interventions – can you be there? Please note that all of our events are outside the official conference venue, so you don’t need to have a pass for conference to attend. You also do not need to purchase a ticket upfront – just be there early enough to secure your place! 1) Saturday September 22, 6-6.30pm Emergency lobby of pre-conference NEC meeting called by LAW and Open Selection, Pullman Hotel, Kings Dock St, Liverpool L3 4FP. Facebook event here 2) Saturday September 22, from 6.30pm Labour rally with Jeremy Corbyn, Pier Head, L1. We need comrades to help hand out our LAW leaflet. Facebook event here 3) Saturday September 22, from 6pm: Rally and briefing session of Campaign for Labour Party Democracy. Friends Meeting House, 22 School Ln, Liverpool L1 3BT. We need comrades to help hand out our leaflet. 4) Sunday September 23, from 8.30am, outside conference. We are greeting delegates and visitors as they arrive, with a little surprise – we need as many comrades as possible to come to this. 5) Sunday September 23, 12noon, ‘People’s Vote’ demonstration, from St George’s Hall to the Pierhead. Left-wing voices should be heard here, too. 6) Sunday September 23, 7pm: Fringe event at Labour Party Conference: Labour Against the Witchhunt! with Chris Williamson MP, comedian Alexei Sayle, Jo Bird (Jewish Voice for Labour), Tony Mulhearn (Liverpool 47) and others Roddick Rooms, 54 St James Street, Liverpool L1 OAB. Facebook event here 7) Monday September 24, 7.30pm Jackie Walkers’ The Lynching at Labour Party conference LAW proudly presents Jackie Walker’s celebrated show, in which Jackie will be played by actress Jo Martin. The venue will be announced closer to the date. Please check this page, the FB event or pick up a leaflet at conference. After the play, there will be a Q&A with Steve Tiller, the director of the play and Jo Bird of Jewish Voice for Labour. Facebook event here 8) Tuesday September 25, 7pm World film preview: The Political Lynching of Jackie Walker Introduction and post-show discussion by Graham Bash (Jewish Voice for Labour) and John Pullman, director of the film. Blackburne House, Blackburne Place, L8 7PE. Facebook event here September 18, 2018 By admin campaigning Corbyn, Labour Party conference, Momentum	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2561
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__label__wiki	0.5678	0.5678	adult, asian inspired fantasy, empire of sand, feminist story, high fantasy, indian inspired fantasy, poc, poc - indian, review, south asian inspired fantasy, tasha suri Review: Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri 07:00 Jo No comments Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri (eProof) Published: 19th November 2018 \| Publisher: Orbit \| Source: Publisher via NetGalley Tasha Suri's Website A nobleman’s daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri’s captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she can barely remember, but whose face and magic she has inherited. When Mehr’s power comes to the attention of the Emperor’s most feared mystics, she must use every ounce of will, subtlety, and power she possesses to resist their cruel agenda. Should she fail, the gods themselves may awaken seeking vengeance... From Goodreads. I received this eProof for free from Orbit via NetGalley for the puposes of providing an honest review. Trigger Warning: This book features violence against women, extreme pain, and an attempt to force someone to rape another. An Indian inspired high fantasy, I'd been looking forward to reading Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri from the moment I first heard about it. The world Suri has created is beautiful and dark, and the story was even better than I was expecting! Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of the Governor of Irinah, and an Amrithi woman. Because of her father, she is a noblewoman living in comfort; because her mother is Amrithi, she is loathed and abhorred by the Governor's staff and his wife. Thought to be heathens and barbaric, and because they refused to support the Emperor centuries ago, the Amrithi are outcasts, nomadic people living in the desert, who are shut out from society. Because of this, Mehr must practise the beliefs and rites of the Amrithi people - taught to her by her mother and, after her mother's exile, by her mother's friend, Lalita - in secret. The Emperor is coming down more strongly on Amrithi people, and wants them sought and thrown out or killed, and she is urged to be more careful when it comes to practicing the rites. But when a storm comes, showering Irinah in Dreamfire, and Lalita doesn't show up to perform the rite, she goes searching for her, performing the rite among the Dreamfire as she does. Doing so alerts the mystics - the servants of the Maha, the first Emperor who is now immortal, and leader of their faith - of the magic in her blood, and through strategic politics, forces Mehr into a marriage with one of their people. When she gets to Maha's temple, she discovers there's more to prayer and more to the Empire's success than she believed, and that there is darkness and cruelty hiding behind the Maha's benevolent mask. She is wanted for the magic in her blood, to be used as a tool, but it might just be the magic in her blood that saves the world from the revenge of the awakening Gods. I am unable to tell you how amazing this book is! The world building is just incredible! The empire is based on the Mughal Empire, and the Amrithi magic and the daivas are inspired by Hindu beliefs and epics. Long ago, the Gods had children - the daiva, spirit beings who once walked the earth along with people, but they have grown weak over time. The Amrithi people are descendants of the daiva, so their magic comes from the Gods themselves. Now, the gods sleep, their dreams shaping the world and all that happens in it. This is the world Mehr lives in, absent her mother for the past nine years. Amrithi people do not make vows or contracts, so Mehr's mother refused to marry the Governor. She lived and loved as his mistress, but after the birth of her second child, Arwa, she became home sick for her people and the desert, so the Governor exiled her, forbidding her to return. It's his guilt at sending her mother away that allows Mehr to privately practise the rites of her mother's people, with the guidance of Lalita, an Amrithi woman who masquerades as a woman from Chand for her own safety. Mehr has the privilege that comes with being a nobleman's daughter - the wealth, the luxury, the right to wear the veil when around men outside her family - but suffers from the prejudice that comes with being her mother's daughter, especially from her stepmother, Maryam, who despises her. Along with this prejudice is colourism; the Ambhan people - her father's people - have light brown skin, while the Amrithi people have dark brown, so you have Ambhan people spotting Amrithi just by looking at them. 'To be Ambhan in an Ambhan world, to have light brown skin and lighter eyes, and straight hair and fine bones, was to be beautiful and to belong.' (p186)* But with Lalita's disappearance during the storm, and Mehr performing the rite amongst the Dreamfire, trying to find her, the mystics become aware of her, she's forced into a marriage no-one but the Emperor and the Maha want, and taken to the Maha's temple. It's then that the story really gets going. There is a reason Amrithi people do not make vows and do not marry, and the Maha knows this. Now Mehr is married to a mystic - a fellow Amrithi - she is under the Maha's control. Oh my god, the Maha has got to be one of the worst villains I've ever come across. The mystics were pretty much illegitimate or orphaned children who had no place in society, and would not have survived. But the Maha took them in, gave them a home, food, and a purpose in prayer. The Maha was kind and good, and the mystics are pretty much fanatical in their worship of him. Because that is what the Maha expects, worship. He has found a way to keep himself alive for centuries, he has power, and he thinks himself a god. But he rules with an iron fist. The mystics are so grateful for his kindness, they fall at his feet, and he needs not treat them any differently. But he is power hungry, and he needs Mehr, and Amun, her husband, to use the magic in their blood for his ill-gotten gains. He is also a man who delights in his power over other people. He likes to see others suffer, especially women, and if you fail him, the consequences are extreme. Mate, he made me feel sick. He is beyond cruel, he is evil. But there was also something familiar about him. Yes, he has magical power, but it could be seen as a metaphor for male privilege, with the Maha a man who uses that power to subjugate, hurt and control women, and do whatever he wants with them. He is absolutely terrifying. 'He was not as a God to her. In his smile--even in his eyes--she saw his humanity like a blazing light, a harsh desert sun that illuminated all and left all secrets bared. [Redacted]--so his mystics fell at his feet, worshipped him. He was still nothing but flesh. He hungered for power as a human hungered. He enjoyed hurting her as a mortal man enjoyed crushing another mortal underfoot. He was a man who took pleasure in hurting a woman. His evil was born from his humanity.' (p258-259)* But it's now all awful. There is a beautiful slow burn romance between Mehr and Amun. Neither of them chose this marriage, and both are bound to the Maha, doing his bidding without choice. But Amun is kind, and he tries to shield Mehr from the worst of it. Partly because he's just a good and decent guy; being the Maha's tool is practically all he's ever known, and he doesn't want the suffering and the pain and the lack of control for Mehr. And partly because he's not a monster, trying to resist a vow he's made for as long as possible, a vow that will lead to pain for Mehr. And Mehr sees that. She sees that he's decent, and she sees that he's fighting for her sake. The other mystics aren't Amrithi, so they share the prejudice against Amrithi people, and treat Amun awfully, though being half Ambhan saves Mehr from it. They are each other's light in a world that is dark and with very little, if any, hope. And slowly, they begin to fall for each other, and it's just so gorgeous and so pure, and I loved it! Mehr herself was just incredible. She's not badass. She's lived in comfort and luxury her whole life, has never worked, and so is not physically strong. But her strength lies in her hope, in how it keeps her going, her search for escape for her and Amun, her plans and her strategies, and the actions she takes. And her strength is in her resilience, when things are beyond hard, when despair is all there is, when she doesn't feel she can take any more, she keeps on keeping on, and tries to shield Amun from the worst she is feeling. She is just incredible, and I was in awe of her, of her and Amun. Just incredible. 'She allowed herself to tremble, feigned being a thing bent and broken by his cruelty. She did not have her jewels or her fine clothes, but she had this power, at least: She could give him a simulacrum of what he desired from her, and hold her crumbling strength tight. Let him think he had broken her. As long as he believed he already had, as long as she fooled him, he would not succeed in truly doing so.' (p259-260)* Empire of Sand is an absolutely fantastic novel, and not only that, written by one of our UK authors of colour. It's lush and dark, beautiful and ugly, full of hope and full of fear, and it is just a triumph. I am so, so looking forward to reading the follow up, Realm of Ash Thank you to Orbit via NetGalley for the eProof. *All quotes have been checked against a final copy. If you enjoyed this post, feel free to follow me on: Bloglovin' \| Twitter \| Goodreads	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2579
__label__wiki	0.858978	0.858978	The Party of Wales Arfon Standing up for the people of Arfon Siân Gwenllian MS Contact Siân Siân's Twitter Siân's Facebook Siân's Columns Hywel Williams MP Hywel's Facebook Hywel's Twitter Hywel's Columns Contact Hywel Bangor Medical School Safeguarding Maternity Services Retain essential services at Ysbyty Gwynedd Competition / Cystadleuaeth Plaid Cymru's website Pledge Support Ewch i wefan Gymraeg New Trustee brings fresh ideas to Bangor’s mental health Centre Posted on February 08 2018, 11:06 AM A recently appointed trustee at Bangor’s mental health support centre at Abbey Road has been delighted by the support shown to individual’s seeking advice and support during the festive period. Councillor Catrin Wager, who represents Menai Ward residents was keen to support individuals at the Centre, following her appointment to the Board at the end of 2017. She initiated a novel campaign to create ‘reverse advent calenders’, where items are placed in a box every day in the run up to Christmas, and then passed on to a person in need. “I’ve been stunned at the support shown to the centre, not only to the individuals who are seeking advice and support regarding mental health issues, but by the support shown by the local community to the staff here aswell. “People have been truly inspirational, in collecting goods every day throughout December, and bringing the boxes into the centre at the end of December, which are currently being distributed to individuals who are in need of assistance. “Some of the people being helped may be homeless, others may be struggling with mental health issues, whilst others may be recovering from substance misuse. Offering a variety of goods, such as playing cards, stationery, reading glasses, food, warm clothes, plasters, antiseptic wipes and so on has been a real eye opener for me and my family. “It made us really think what could be useful to the people who attend Abbey Road Centre on a regular basis. We initiatlly thought of things like nice toiletries sets, but if someone is homeless, the last thing they want is to carry lots of heavy bottles in a rucksack day and night, especially if they don’t have access to showers. “We have been given a tiny glimpse into the world of a homeless person, someone who is in need of basic daily items. It makes you try and comprehend the challenges facing individuals across Bangor and other parts of Gwynedd who are living with the daily struggle of caring for themselves without the home comforts we take for granted. Meinir Evans, Abbey Road Centre manager said: "We are extremely glad that Councillor Catrin Wager has recently joined our Board of Trustees and is already proving invaluable with her fresh ideas, contributions and excellent connections. The Reverse Advent Calendar was an inspirational project and many of our service users have benefited from receiving a wide array of useful and thoughtful items. “On behalf of all our Trustees, staff, volunteers and especially service users I'd like to thank every one who took the time and effort to support Catrin and the Abbey Road Centre, all the items were gratefully received and we look forward to working with the local community on future projects such as this again,” said Abbey Road centre manager. Councillor Catrin Wager continued; “I would also like to thank everyone who has supported this initative, you’ve made a small difference to some of the people who are looking for support and advice and offered a caring hand to these individuals during a troublesome period in their lives. “I am honoured to be playing a small part in supporting this wonderful Centre, and look forward to working on many more initatives and projects with the team during the coming months.” Abbey Road Centre in Bangor offers information and advice on mental health concerns, has counselling services, drop in sessions and local group meetings giving people the opportunity to talk to someone. The Centre is supported by Cyngor Gwynedd and Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board Abbey Road Centre works with many organisations on site, such as Cais, Parabl, Cruse Bereavment, Relate, Tŷ Gobaith, Advocacy and many others. For all the support services available, visit: www.abbeyroadcentre.co.uk This starts with you They have the money but we have the people. If everyone who visits this website joins our movement, there's nothing we can't accomplish together. Or sign up by email Campaigning for our communities Join Donate Volunteer Jobs Leader Assembly Members Members of Parliament Councillors Brexit Assembly Westminster Slate Blog Tweets by PlaidArfon © 2021 Plaid Cymru - Party of Wales - Promoted by Plaid Cymru - Privacy Charity web design by Brand Response & NationBuilder	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2581
__label__cc	0.578563	0.421437	Garment Workers ask for consumers’ support when buying clothes Garment workers in Cambodia collaborated on a video with filmmaker Paula Stromberg about their struggles for a living wage. Garment workers working on the video sometimes reviewed each other’s footage and voted on which clip was best. A true collaboration. Garment workers ask shoppers to pressure big brand companies to hire clothing manufacturers who pay workers fairly. Watch 8minute movie, Salary Hunger here. English and Khmer-language versions (46 minutes) are also available from Paula Stromberg. Sex Workers Call for International Support….. In Cambodia, Paula Stromberg collaborated with the Women’s Network for Unity (WNU), an association of 6400 sex workers which wants to amend Cambodia’s Anti-Human Trafficking Law and have the government support their right to work. WNU screened Stromberg’s videos on Raids & Rescues July 2012 at the Sex Workers Freedom Festival and International AIDS Conference in “Kolkata, India” : “See 4-minute trailer or 27-minute movie below” See 27-minute movie on YouTube HERE WNU meets with many sex workers organizations to share their experiences on advocacy, including the utilization of technology like film and social media to reach larger audiences. Adult sex workers want international support to convince the Cambodian government that they aren’t victims, they aren’t trafficked and they don’t want to be rescued. Read Stromberg’s story in Xtra below and send an email offering your support to Sex Workers in Cambodia wnusw.cambodia@gmail.com Sex work in Cambodia INTERNATIONAL / Group struggles for legal distinction between human trafficking and sex work In Cambodia, the 2008 Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation and the severe stigma attached to doing adult sex work make it almost impossible for sex workers to access justice, healthcare and social security systems. In response, WNU advocates for legal and human rights, as well as safer working conditions.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2582
__label__cc	0.659655	0.340345	Programs and Partners PhilCeCNet Membership KEC14 Highlights 6 October 2019 Arnel HimzonUncategorized The 14th Knowledge Exchange Conference was held at the Citystate Asturias Hotel, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan last August 14–16, 2019. The three-day conference aimed to provide eCenters of the Next Frontier with wisdom through the best practices shared by other eCenters and to make them work together towards a new era of Tech4ED centers. Onsite registration started at eight o’clock in the morning of August 14, 2019 followed by a Poster Making activity, to establish the camaraderie among eCenter managers/workers per cluster thereby building network among them. Then, there were Pre-conference trainings, a break-out sessions, conducted in the afternoon. The first session is intended for the general public – A Primer on Tech4ED. Discovering the Hero in You session is for the new center managers/workers. Strengthening Your Superpowers, the third session, was intended for experienced center managers/workers (up to five years old) expecting to upgrade their skills in center operations. And, Showcasing Heroism session intended for seasoned center managers/workers (more than 5 years old) expecting to showcase their center experience, promoting their programs, and expanding their community influence. In the evening, the participants were enjoined for a fellowship dinner. They heated the dance floor and kept the ball rolling after dinner. Also, they enjoyed the performances of the three guest performers. Items were also raffled in that evening. Conference Day 1, 15 August 2019. It was attended by 350 participants. The opening program was graced by Asec. Felino O. Castro V as keynote speaker. In his speech, Asec. Castro mentioned that KEC serves as an avenue for networking and sharing among stakeholders, participants can draw insights on how to develop new models and frameworks for the New Frontier in eCenter operations. Also, he hoped that after the conference, everyone will stay connected and will be able to come up with new plans for the betterment of the country. Dr. Richard E. Amansec, Conference Chair, PhilCeCNet, MISD Director, DOST-PCAARRD, delivered the Conference Brief. According to Dr. Amansec, this conference is intended for the knowledge workers of eCenters nationwide. He said that he hopes this conference will be a gateway for center managers to connect and share stories. It is through this conference that center managers are recognized because of their dedication in serving the community. The awarding ceremony for The GAD Awards: DigiPinay Digital Literacy Contest and Photo Contest follows. The first placer for the DigiPinay Digital Literacy Contest and also a special awardee for having the most number of people trained is the Tech4ED center of Mauban, Quezon. DOST IX STIC, Zamboanga City and the Tech4ED Center in Lamitan, Basilan placed second and third respectively. For the Photo Contest, the photograph of Mat Macote entitled “Friendly and Compassionate” won third place while the “Free at Last” photo by Lilibeth Silverio won the second place. And the grand winner is the “Sa Technolohiya, May Liwanag”, a photograph of John Carlo G. Sateniaman. Ms. Cheryl C. Ortega, Director, Luzon Cluster 3, DICT said in her inspirational message said that she stands with a happy heart knowing that everyone in the room strives to work together for the common good. Then she opened the doors for those who would like to be a part of the Tech4ED family. This has been preceded with the ceremonial signing of manifestation of commitment and support by some Local Government Units. The conference proper has been divided into four plenary sessions. Dir. Evamay L. Dela Rosa, Regional Director of Mindanao Cluster 2, DICT facilitated the first plenary session entitled Discovering the Hero in You. In this session, the speaker Dr. Melinda dP. Bandalaria, Chancellor, University of the Philippines Open University, shared that the eCenter Knowledge Workers are the Heroes of the Next Frontier with sample advocacies on Global Digital Citizenship, Sustainable Development Goals, Poverty Alleviation, and other initiatives to enable the communities to cope with the Industrial Revolution 4.0. The other speakers were Ms. Janette Toral, DigitalFilipino.com and John Maxwell Team; and Col. Ruel P. Librada PAF (GSC), Assistant Chief of Unified Command Staff for Plans and Programs, U5 Western Command, AFP and they talk on the topic Essential Skills in the Digital World The second Plenary Session was facilitated by Dr. Angelo Juan Ramos, Vice Chair, PhilCeCNet. He mentioned that there are challenges that need to be overcome in every profession. Prof. Pierangelo B. Alejo, Managing Director, iCollege speaks on the topic Digital Media and Literacy. Dir. Christopher Y. Estigoy, Vice President for Operations, Ideal Prime Ventures International talks on leadership in Entrepreneurial Technology. The session title is Strengthening Your Superpower. Conference Day 2, 16 August 2019, third Plenary Session. Frederick D.C. Amores, Assistant Regional Director, Mindanao Cluster 2, DICT facilitated the New Challenges for the Superheroes. In this session, the speakers who talked on the Future of Work in the Context of Online Jobs include Jhonny Paul H. Lagura, Company Owner at FudMarkIT88 Coworking Space; Jireh Fatima Pablico, Rural Impact Sourcing Technical Training Graduate from Palawan ; Fheter E. Calanday, IT Era Technology Solutions Start-up; and Haidee Enriquez, VP of Operations SiTel Palawan. The fourth Plenary Session – The Next Frontier in eCenter Operations was facilitated by Dir. Maria Teresa M. Camba, Director, DICT Mindanao Cluster 1. The panelists were Ms. Conchita Marta B. Mirabueno, Center Manager, Mauban eLearningVille, Quezon; Mr. Marvin A. Jacela, CeC/Tech4ED Center Manager, Tayabas City; Engr. Romarico M. Cabellon, CEC Manager, LGU San Remigio, Cebu; Ms. Marylene C. Castillan, CeC/Tech4ED Center Manager, LGU San Fabian, Pangasinan; and Mr. Angelo G. Macha, Tech4ED Center Manager, LGU Carmona, Cavite. PhilCeCNet awards the i-Level-Up Pa More winner after the third plenary session. The entry of Carmona, Cavite Tech4ED Center – BML Tech4ED Serbisyo (Basura Mo, may Libreng Tech4ED Serbisyo) was hailed as the i-Level-Up Pa More winner. Engr. Amelia S. Dean, OIC, Regional Operations and Coordination Service, DICT closed the conference. In her closing remarks she hoped that the conference covered what it is all about to be a hero. “It is true that not all heroes fly, but there are those who help other people soar and reach higher heights – that is the center managers. With all the wisdom gained from this conference and the people in this movement, may we all work together towards a new era of Tech4ED centers. Let us all help unleash the powers of each person that comes in our Tech4ED centers. The power to change the world is just at the tip of our fingertips”, she adds. Philippine Community eCenter Network © 2018 All rights reserved. \| FeliasDesigns	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2583
__label__wiki	0.707199	0.707199	Solved paper III of 2013 February Maharashtra State Eligibility Test for Lectureship (SET) / State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) / M SET Examination in Library and Information Science conducted by University of Pune is given below. 1. Which of the following cannot be measured using an ordinal scale ? (A) Age (B) Annual income (C) Grade point average (D) Religion 2. Database management system that provides more flexible, albeit, more complex, logical data models is : (A) Hierarchical Database Management System (B) Network Database Management System (C) Relational Database Management System (D) Subject Oriented Database Management System 3. Match the following : List I List II (a) CDS/ISIS (i) NISCAIR (b) Sanjay (ii) CMC (c) Granthalaya (iii) UNESCO (d) Maitrayee (iv) DESIDOC (A) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv) (B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) (C) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii) (D) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) 4. In Binary Number System digit 4 is represented by : Answer: (C) 5. Open System Interconnection was an effort to : (A) Standardise networking (B) Provide Internet Connectivity (C) Provide e-mails (D) Standardise bibliographic description 6. What is not true about spamming ? (A) It is the abuse of electronic messaging system (B) The most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam (C) Spamming is expensive to advertise (D) Spamming costs huge in terms of loss of productivity 7. CPM is an effective : (A) Method of Knowledge Organization (B) Project Management Technique (C) Budgeting Technique (D) Data Collection Technique 8. Herzberg’s “two factor theory” deals with : (A) Staff recruitment (B) Leadership (C) Decision Making (D) Motivation 9. ‘Cranfield Studies’ are an example of : (A) Survey research (B) Experimental research (C) Historical research (D) Case study 10. The group which is manipulated by an independent variable is known as : (A) Experimental group (B) Informal group (C) Multiple group (D) Controlled group 11. People who are available, volunteer or can be easily recruited are used in the sampling method called : (B) Convenience sampling (C) Cluster sampling (D) Systematic sampling 12. A question that directs participants to different follow-up questions depending on their response is called : (A) Response set (B) Probe (C) Semantic differential (D) Contingency question 13. As per rules laid down in AACR-II, the entry element “Ministry of Finance, Government of India” will be rendered as : (A) India. Ministry of Finance (B) Finance, India, Ministry of ....... (C) Ministry of Finance, India (D) India, Ministry of Finance 14. Arrange the following in correct order : (i) Deductive phase (ii) Empirical phase (iii) Verification phase (iv) Hypothesizing phase (A) (i), (ii), (iv), (iii) (B) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii) (C) (iii), (i), (iv), (ii) (D) (ii), (iv), (i), (iii) 15. “Annual Review of Information Science and Technology” was first published in 1966 by : (A) Institute for Scientific Information (B) American Society of Information Science (ASIS) (C) IFLA (D) Canadian Association of Information Science 16. Hypertext uses .......................... to present text and static graphics. (A) Hyperline (B) Infoline (C) Hyperlinks (D) Dataline 17. A router : (A) Receives a signal and retransmit it at a higher level (B) Helps to interface with another network (C) Essentially translates protocols (D) Forwards data packets between telecommunication networks 18. ............................. is not an open source library software. (A) Greenstone (B) NewGenLib (C) Drupal (D) Libsuit 19. POP stands for : (A) Print Office Protocol (B) Post Offer Protocol (C) Pre Office Protocol (D) Post Office Protocol 20. An open access source for research reports on life sciences is : (A) PubMed (B) Biosis (C) INSPEC (D) World Patent Index 21. Which of the following key combinations when pressed, restarts the computer ? (A) Ctrl+Alt+V (B) Ctrl+Alt+Z (C) Ctrl+Alt+Del (D) Ctrl+Alt+C 22. One step that is not included in planning a research study is : (A) Identifying a researchable problem (B) Statement of the research problem (C) Developing a research plan (D) Conducting a meta analysis 23. Delphi technique is associated with : (A) Statistics (B) Budgeting (C) Forecasting (D) Quality control technique 24. The early work on modeling of information communication was based on : (A) Lasswell model (B) Shannon and Weaver model (C) Bradford and Prince model (D) Goode and Hatt model 25. The process of flow of Information from the generator to the user is : (A) Information search (B) Information transfer (C) Information need (D) Information system 26. “Information is piecemeal, fragmented and particular.” Who said ? (A) Daniel Bell (B) Fritz Machlup (C) Brookers (D) Belkin 27. Match the following : (i) Aslib Proceedings (a) Science Direct (ii) DOAJ (b) Web of Science (iii) Thomson Reuters (c) Open Access Journals (iv) Elsevier (d) Emerald (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (A) (d) (c) (b) (a) (B) (c) (d) (b) (a) (C) (a) (c) (d) (b) (D) (c) (a) (b) (d) 28. The function of shelf list becomes very fuzzy when : (A) The library also has an author catalogue (B) The library also has a title catalogue (C) e-books are added to a catalogue (D) Library also acquires print serials 29. Identify the MARC tag that is used for variable fields containing data related to subject access to the document : (A) 7XX (B) 6XX (C) 5XX (D) 2XX 30. The generic tasks for which users use a database described in the FRBR model are : (A) ‘to find’, ‘to identify’, ‘to select’ and ‘to acquire or obtain’ (B) ‘to browse’, ‘to identify’, ‘to select’ and ‘to acquire or obtain’ (C) ‘to find’, ‘to select’, ‘to acquire’ and ‘to read’ (D) ‘to discover’, ‘to categorize’, ‘to select’ and ‘to acquire’ 31. In the context of the structure, the second component of the MARC record is : (A) Variable fields (B) Fixed fields (C) Directory (D) Leader (i) Fusion (a) Metaphysics (ii) Fission (b) Astrophysics (iii) Cluster (c) Humanities (iv) Agglomeration (d) Indology (A) (b) (c) (d) (a) (C) (d) (a) (b) (c) (D) (b) (a) (d) (c) 33. WordNet is : (A) A Thesaurus (B) A Classification Scheme (C) A Library Network (D) An Ontology 34. Arrange the following according to their year of origin : (i) Rules for Dictionary Catalogue (ii) ALA Code (iii) FRBR (iv) AACR-I (A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) (C) (i), (ii), (iv), (iii) (D) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii) 35. We cannot use the characteristics ‘date of first publication’ and ‘the date of first edition’ one after the other to decide a universe of books. Identify the canon that directs us to this guideline : (A) Canon of Differentiation (B) Canon of Concomitance (C) Canon of Ascertainability (D) Canon of Permanence (i) Chain Indexing (a) Bhattacharya (ii) PRECIS (b) Taube (iii) POPSI (c) Ranganathan (iv) Uniterm Indexing (d) Austin (A) (b) (a) (d) (c) (B) (a) (c) (b) (d) (C) (c) (d) (a) (b) (D) (d) (c) (b) (a) 37. The three core processes i.e. opening, orientation and consolidation have been explained in which information seeking behavior model ? (A) Kuhlthou’s Model (B) Wilson’s Model (C) Foster’s Non-linear Model (D) Krikela’s Model 38. String of which indexing system has fixed citation order of discipline, entity, parts, properties and processes ? (A) PRECIS (B) POPSI (C) SLIC (D) NEPHIS 39. The search strategy that takes you from high precision to high recall is : (A) Building Block (B) Citation Pearl Growing (C) Successive Fractions (D) Boolean Search 40. Who is the author of ‘Systematic Indexing’ ? (A) E.J. Coates (B) J. Kaiser (C) C.A. Cutter (D) J.W. Metcalf 41. Hierarchical relation in a Thesaurus is a relation between : (A) BT and RT (B) RT and UF (C) NT and RT (D) BT and NT 42. Which Information Retrieval Model studies the properties of the languages as well as artificial language ? (A) Mathematical Model (B) Economic Model (C) Psychological Model (D) Linguistics Model 43. The ‘Web of Knowledge’ is the service offered by : (A) BIOSIS (B) Pergamon (C) Elsevier (D) Thomson, I.S.I. 44. Which of the following is not a bibliographic network ? (A) OCLC (B) ISO (C) CAS (D) A-G Canada 45. The edition statement is given in parenthesis immediately after the title of the documents in : (A) Chicago Manual of Style (B) Modern Language Associate (C) American Psychological Association (D) Scientific Style and Format (i) Introduction to Reference Work (a) B. Guha (ii) Documentationand Information (b) W.A. Katz (iii) University Libraries for Developing Countries (c) S.R. Ranganathan (iv) Documentation and its facets (d) M.A. Gelfand (B) (c) (b) (a) (d) (C) (a) (c) (b) (d) (D) (b) (d) (c) (a) 47. Second group of entities in FRBR consist of : (A) Author and Conference proceedings (B) Person and Corporate body (C) Publisher and Corporate body (D) Author and Publisher (i) INDEST (a) Engineering Sciences (ii) FORSA (b) Nuclear Physics (iii) INIS (c) Education (iv) ERIC (d) Astrophysics (A) (a) (c) (d) (b) (B) (c) (a) (b) (d) (C) (a) (d) (b) (c) (D) (d) (a) (c) (b) 49. According to AACR-II, the statement of responsibility in case of sound recordings “Texas country by Willie Nelson and others” will be rendered as : (A) Texas Country/Willie Nelson and others (B) Texas Country/Willie Nelson ........ [et al.] (C) Texas Country/Willie Nelson (et al.) (D) Texas Country/Willie Nelson ........ (et al.) 50. Telescoping of arrays satisfies : (A) Law of Symmetry (B) Law of Osmosis (C) Law of Parsimony (D) Law of Impartiality 51. A regression curve is : (A) A model of a mathematical relationship between two variables (B) A model of a direct relationship between two variables (C) A model of an inverse relationship between two variables (D) A model to depict central tendency 52. Which of the following is not the use of devices in classification schemes ? (A) To avoid enumeration (B) To provide autonomy to a classifier (C) To satisfy the library users (D) To satisfy the canon of helpful sequence 53. Which of the following is a primary document ? (A) Nature (B) Current contents (C) Science citation index (D) Chemical abstracts 54. Assertion (A) : Primary sources provide most authentic information. Reason (R) : Primary sources are highly unorganised as far as access is concerned. (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). (C) (A) is false but (R) is true. (D) Both (A) and (R) are false. 55. The term ‘Lexicography’ is associated with : (A) Compilation of dictionaries (B) Compilation of directory (C) Compilation of encyclopedia (D) Compilation of yearbook 56. When each member of a population has an equal chance of being selected, the sampling is called : (A) Probability sampling (B) Quota sampling (C) Snowball sampling (D) Purposive sampling 57. ‘Universities Handbook : India’ is published by : (A) UGC (B) NBT (C) AIU (D) ILA (i) NISSAT (a) Indian Science Abstracts (ii) NISCAIR (b) State-of-the-Art Reports (iii) DESIDOC (c) Information today and tomorrow (iv) Information Consolidation (d) DJLIT (A) (c) (a) (d) (b) (B) (a) (d) (c) (b) (C) (d) (a) (c) (b) (D) (b) (c) (d) (a) 59. Division into two is called : (A) Dichotomy (B) Decachotomy (C) Polychotomy (D) Monochotomy 60. NISCAIR was formed by the amalgamation of : (A) NISCOM and INSDOC (B) INSDOC and NISTADS (C) NISCOM and NISTADS (D) INSDOC and NISSAT 61. Which organisation is working on intellectual property rights at international level ? (A) WIPO (B) UNESCO (D) ANSI 62. Which of the following principles of management corroborates the statement, “Library administration should create environment which leads to harmony and unity” ? (A) Initiative (B) Equity (C) Espirit de Corps (D) Order 63. Biotechnology is an example of : (A) Fission (B) Fusion (C) Cluster (D) Lamination 64. Who looks after DDC ? (A) UNESCO (B) IFLA (C) OCLC (D) CILIP 65. Identify the right sequence : (A) Theory, Law, Hypothesis, Axiom (B) Axiom, Hypothesis, Law, Theory (C) Hypothesis, Axiom, Law, Theory (D) Law, Hypothesis, Theory, Axiom 66. ‘Annals of Library and Information Studies’ journal is published by : (A) ILA (B) DRTC (C) NISCAIR (D) IASLIC 67. The concept of ‘invisible college’ was first used by : (A) Derek Desola Price (B) F.W. Lancaster (C) Eugene Garfield (D) S.R. Ranganathan 68. In web 2.0 tagging is called : (A) Economy (B) Taxonomy (C) Synonymy (D) Folksonomy 69. According to the Maharashtra Universities Act, 1994 ......................... is the Member Secretary of University Library Committee. (A) BCUD Director (B) Librarian (C) Dy. Librarian (D) Registrar 70. ............................. is not an indexing tool ? (A) MESH (B) Roget’s Thesaurus (C) Macrothesaurus (D) TEST 71. The first Ph.D. in India in Library Science was awarded to : (A) B.S. Keshvan (B) D.B. Krishna Rao (C) P.N. Kaula 72. Which service consists of feedback mechanism ? (A) Translation service (B) CAS (C) SDI (D) Reprography 73. A glossary consists of : (A) List of common words in specific language (B) List of thematically arranged words (C) List of words arranged in alphabetical order (D) List of technical words with definitions 74. Who proposed the ‘Demand Theory’ of book selection ? (A) Lionel McColvin (B) Melvil Dewey (C) S.R. Ranganathan (D) F.K.W. Drury 75. Which of the following is the correct evolutionary sequence of classification schemes ? (A) UDC, BC, EC, DDC, CC (B) DDC, EC, UDC, CC, BC (C) DDC, UDC, EC, BC, CC (D) UDC, EC, DDC, CC, BC	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2588
__label__wiki	0.655323	0.655323	Ugly Kid Joe Goddamn Devil 00:04:47 Ugly Kid Joe Heavy Metal 00:00:24 Ugly Kid Joe I'll Keep Tryin' 00:04:36 Ugly Kid Joe Intro 00:01:49 Ugly Kid Joe Jesus Rode A Harley 00:03:11 Ugly Kid Joe Madman 00:03:32 Ugly Kid Joe Madman ('92 Remix) 00:03:32 Ugly Kid Joe Milkman's Son 00:03:50 Ugly Kid Joe Mr. Recordman 00:04:05 Ugly Kid Joe Neighbor 00:04:44 Ugly Kid Joe Oompa 00:02:01 Ugly Kid Joe Panhandlin' Prince 00:05:39 Ugly Kid Joe Same Side 00:04:48 Ugly Kid Joe So Damn Cool 00:04:21 Ugly Kid Joe Suckerpath 00:04:50 Ugly Kid Joe Sweet Leaf/Funky Fresh Country Club 00:07:29 Ugly Kid Joe Tomorrow's World 00:04:12 Ugly Kid Joe Too Bad 00:05:52 Ugly Kid Joe V.I.P. 00:03:42 Ugly Kid Joe Whiplash Liquor 00:03:39 Ultraphonix Walk Run Crawl 00:03:44 Underoath Writing On The Walls 00:02:35 UPO Godless 00:03:57 Van Halen (Oh) Pretty Woman 00:02:51 Van Halen 5150 00:05:39 Van Halen A Apolitical Blues 00:03:47 Van Halen A.F.U. (Naturally Wired) 00:04:27 Van Halen Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love 00:03:45 Van Halen And The Cradle Will Rock... 00:03:27 Van Halen Atomic Punk 00:02:58 Van Halen Beautiful Girls 00:03:54 Van Halen Best Of Both Worlds 00:04:39 Van Halen Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) 00:02:42 Van Halen Black and Blue 00:05:23 Van Halen Bottoms Up! 00:03:03 Van Halen Cabo Wabo 00:06:47 Van Halen Cathedral 00:01:19 Van Halen Could This Be Magic 00:03:00 Van Halen D.O.A. 00:04:05 Van Halen Dance The Night Away 00:02:58 Van Halen Dancing In The Street 00:03:40 Van Halen Dirty Movies 00:04:01 Van Halen Dreams 00:04:45 Van Halen Drop Dead Legs 00:04:07 Van Halen Eruption - You Really Got Me 00:04:13 Van Halen Everybody Wants Some!! 00:05:05 Van Halen Feel Your Love Tonight 00:03:39 Van Halen Feels So Good 00:04:21 Van Halen Finish What Ya Started 00:04:11 Van Halen Fools 00:05:50	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2591
__label__wiki	0.740767	0.740767	Good Friday Magic ‘Das ist Karfreitagzauber, Herr’. So Gurnemanz assures Parsifal in Act 3 of Wagner’s last opera, when the redeemer-hero gazes in wonder upon a flower-meadow, which presents so innocent a contrast with the poisonous, fleeting charms of Klingsor’s Flowermaidens. But what does Gurnemanz really mean? ‘Zauber’, magic, is Klingsor’s domain, not that of the Grail. Listen to it in your head or on a recording, and the phrase tends to carry an avuncular authority usually thought typical of the old man, for whom this is his finest moment in the opera’s longest role. A little more thought uncovers a tension in that phrase that could only come from one who has seen and felt the pull of both unholy magic and noble faith. Kwangchul Youn, a superbly ambivalent Gurnemanz to the Parsifal of Simon O’Neill at the Teatro Real, Madrid, in 2013. © Javier del Real In the latest issue of The Wagner Journal I have briefly explored that tension in the character of Gurnemanz, who is usually overlooked as a complex character of his own in favour of Amfortas and Kundry. According to the (generally well-researched) cast books of the Royal Opera, and Grove, he is ‘a veteran knight of the Grail’. For René Pape, who sang the role in the latest ROH production, he is ‘the highest knight of all’ but then, he would be. The production team wrote a synopsis which is more non-committal: ‘a senior member of the Grail community’, with overtones of authority and incipient senility that place him somewhere between Kenneth Clarke QC MP and Victor Meldrew. The composer did not think of his character this way. In his 1865 sketch, reproduced in The Brown Book, he writes: ‘Es giebt aber einen alten Waffenknecht Titurels, Gurnemans, der jetzt noch Anfortas treulich dient.’ (But there is Gurnemans, an old squire of Titurel’s, still loyally serving Anfortas.) What follows is a brief argument that we should take Wagner at his word, at least in this instance; that Gurnemanz acts as a squire, not a knight; that this is significant for a modern understanding of the opera. In the medieval world of the Ritterschaft at Monsalvat, the Knights who guard the grail are Ritter; they are served and assisted by Knappen or squires, young men who bear the Knights’ shields (Waffenknecht), who may also (though not necessarily) be engaged in training to become knights themselves. You can read the rest of the article here. Alas, time did not become space for me as it does for the Knights of the Grail, to quote another of Gurnemanz’s pseudo-mystical pronouncements, and I ran out of both when making a brief reference to the figure of the yurodivy, or ‘holy fool’. Because from the opera’s outset we are told that the Kingdom of the Grail is awaiting redemption which can only arrive in the form of ‘Der reine Tor’ – a pure fool – then the figure of Parsifal himself has conveniently filled that hole in critical reception. But holy and pure do not mean the same thing at all. A yurodivy in the Russian tradition from which the word derives is a fool for Christ; one who appears strange and mad to figures on earth because he cleaves to beliefs which others find uncomfortable. The titled un-named Fools who offer Job’s comfort to Boris Godunov and King Lear speak in riddles. (Gurnemanz is not once addressed by name. The closest is the affectionate/patronising ‘Väterchen’ from the Third Squire). They mock those in authority over them under the mask of obscure or elliptical speech, and the rulers in turn tolerate them as a prick to their conscience. None of this fits the character of Parsifal, nor Gurnemanz if we persist in seeing him as a knight, wearing authority like a long-service medal. Thus we will overlook the distance in the relationship between Gurnemanz and Amfortas; his hopeless nostalgia for a time past, when Titurel was king and everything was simple; and finally, the power of his climactic submission to Parsifal as a ‘Knecht’ or slave – which is no less a fulfilment of destiny than Parsifal’s kingship or Amfortas’s release from pain, and all the more challenging and uncomfortable to our sensibilities for being willed and embraced as such. If, however, we see Gurnemanz in the tradition represented by the devious, low-born, ragged-trousered fellows of Mussorgsky and Shakespeare, speeches of his that seemed pompous or long-winded become more teasing and uncertain, and we begin to do him dramatic justice. Posted on March 20, 2015 March 20, 2015 by Peter Quantrill Tagged Gurnemanz, Kwangchul Youn, Parsifal, The Wagner Journal, Wagner	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2592
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__label__wiki	0.765763	0.765763	Important Chinese Works of Art A MAGNIFICENT CARVED CELADON, UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND FAMILLE-ROSE DECORATED 'BOYS' VASE SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG Premium Lots In order to bid on "Premium Lots" you must complete the required Premium Lot preregistration application and deliver to Sotheby's such necessary financial references, guarantees, deposits and/ or such other security as Sotheby's may in its absolute discretion require, as security for your bid. Sotheby's decision whether to accept any pre-registration application shall be final. We recommend you contact Sotheby's at least 3 working days prior to the relevant sale in order to process the pre-registration, and please bear in mind that we are unable to obtain financial references over weekends or public holidays. If all lots in the catalogue are "Premium Lots", a Special Notice will be included to this effect and the paddle symbol will not be used. 50,000,000 — 70,000,000 LOT SOLD. 63,480,000 HKD 07 April 2015 \| 2:30 PM HKT Nicolas Chow Senior Director, Chairman, Asia Worldwide Head and Chairman of Chinese Works of Art nicolas.chow@sothebys.com Julian King Senior Director, International Specialist Chinese Works of Art julian.king@sothebys.com Sam Shum sam.shum@sothebys.com Carrie Li carrie.li@sothebys.com Christian Bouvet Head of Department, Paris Asian Department christian.bouvet@sothebys.com Patrick Tse patrick.tse@sothebys.com Peter Song peter.song@sothebys.com Amethyst Chau amethyst.chau@sothebys.com Ching Yi Huang ChingYi.Huang@sothebys.com Carmen Li carmen.li@sothebys.com Abigail Ng abigail.ng@sothebys.com of octagonal section and generous proportion, the ovoid body sweeping up to an angled shoulder and surmounted by a waisted neck and galleried gilt rim, all supported on a splayed foot, the waisted neck superbly covered with an even sea-green celadon glaze, finely carved in low relief on both of the main sides with two stylised fish attached to a chime and detailed with intertwining lotus scrolls issuing clusters of leaves, flanked by a pair of gilt scroll handles, the body decorated on the four main sides with convex peach-shaped panels outlined with gilt, the panels delicately enamelled in the famille-rose palette with leisurely scenes depicting boys at play, one with two boys holding a lantern in a courtyard next to three further boys, one holding a vase of emerging flowers, another with three boys in a courtyard, two boys pressing their palms against their ears whilst one squats and lights a firework with one palm held against his ear, another with a boy holding a halberd with a ruyi-shaped ornament attached to it, flanked by two further boys in a courtyard with iron-red railings and jagged rockwork in the background, the other with three boys crouching around and playing with two quails perched on the grassy ground, an older boy carrying a younger boy standing next to them watching, all against a white ground densely decorated in underglaze blue with lotus blooms wreathed by meandering foliate scrolls bearing feathery leaves, the lively washes of cobalt-blue accentuated with gilt highlights, the interior and base enamelled turquoise, the base incised and filled in with gilt with a six-character seal mark 44 cm., 17 3/8 in. Acquired in Paris, early 1990s. Li Baoping This vase is a characteristic imperial work of art made during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1736-95), who was fascinated with the baroque style and rich and lavish decoration. It was a period when every aspect of a vessel was precisely calculated and planned, down to minute detail, but at the same time, every object was regarded as a work of art in its entirety. The present vase is a particularly fine example and it is extremely rare to find a major vessel such as this piece with its elegant and harmonious combination of the octagonal form inspired by archaic bronze wares and the celadon glaze with relief design, famille-rose panels, underglaze-blue painting, and gilding. No similar object appears to be recorded worldwide. The famille-rose motifs of children playing with fireworks, quails (homophonous to peace), lanterns, halberd and ruyi are lively painted in four panels and convey a carefree, auspicious and festive atmosphere. According to an imperial edict by the Qianlong Emperor in the 8th year of his reign (1743), specific motifs should be used for porcelain on occasion of different festivals in accordance with Chinese conventions, such as mugwort leaf for the Dragon Boat Festival, orange osmanthus for the Mid-Autumn Festival etc. The scenes of fireworks and lanterns etc. depicted on this vase imply that the porcelain might have been made for the court to celebrate festive occasions. A Qianlong vase painted in falangcai enamels with very similar motifs on a yellow ground is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 27 (fig. 1). However, this piece has only three panels and lacks the lovely scene of fireworks, and each of its panels shows only two kids against a plain white background without trees, rocks, lawns and railings, thus appearing much less realistic and joyous than the painting on the present vase. According to the scholars from the Palace Museum, Beijing, the motifs of children at play on some Qianlong enamelled porcelains are based on paintings of the famous court painter Jin Tingbiao of the same period, ibid., pl. 27. Compare a painting by Jin Tingbiao inscribed with a poem by the Qianlong Emperor, with the lines “With a pristine life-loving heart of the children, who needs the preaching of Zhou Dunyi [Song dynasty neo-Confucian philosopher, 1017-73]” (fig. 2). The two vases also differ in details of their motifs: on the present piece, for example, a boy is holding a flower vessel in the form of a blue-and-white moonflask and is accompanying children with lanterns; in another panel, hanging on the halberd (ji, homophonous to auspicious) is a chime (qing, homophonous to celebration), which together forms the pun Ji Qing You Yu (Abundance of Auspiciousness and Celebrations). By comparison, the Beijing Palace Museum vase depicts a flower bottle in ge ware crackled glaze and is held by a boy watching quails; and hanging on the halberd is a double-fish emblem (yu), which together symbolises the same pun. The vase features a perfect celadon glaze and relief design which is pleasing not only to the eyes but also attractive to touch. Ceramics with celadon glazes never lost their appeal, from the very first moment they began to be produced, almost four thousand years ago. Remarkably, over this long period ever new ways could be found to set in scene the wonderful glaze colour. Outstanding among celadon porcelains is the present glaze tone. A clear watery blue-green, which is difficult to reach, as it requires pure reduction firing, was achieved on some of the celebrated wares from the Longquan kilns of the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Thereafter, the technique appears to have been lost, as it is not known from celadon wares of the Yuan (1279-1368) and Ming (1368-1644) periods. In the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) it was revived again on some of the finest porcelains of the Yongzheng reign (1723-35), but remains rare, is generally restricted to smaller vessels, and seldom found on pieces with relief-carved decoration. On the fine white porcelain body produced at Jingdezhen the blue-green takes on an even more brilliant, translucent tone than it did on the heavier, less refined body available at Longquan in Zhejiang. On this Qianlong vase a distinct contrast between the celadon glaze and the relief design has been achieved. While the glaze is generously applied, the relief stands out due to the thinner layer of glaze over it. A monochrome jar with a similar celadon glaze and relief dragon design from the collections of Lord Loch of Drylaw (1827-1900), Alfred Morrison (1821-97) at Fonthill House, The Rt. Hon The Lord of Margadale of Islay, T.D., and the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, illustrated in Sotheby’s Hong Kong – Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 310, and Kanzō meihinsen [Selected masterpieces from the museum], vol. 2, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1996, cat. no. 103, was sold at Christie’s London, 18th October 1971, lot 51, in these rooms, 17th May 1988, lot 75 and 8th October 2014, lot 3901. The relief of chime and fish on the present vase again forms the pun Ji Qing You Yu. The pairing of these two elements seems much rarer than the combination of bat (fu, homophonous to happiness) and chime, although it can be found on three Qianlong famille-rose vases in the National Palace Museum, Taipei: a pair illustrated in Liao Pao Show, Huali cai ci: Qianlong yangcai/ Stunning Decorative Porcelains from the Ch’ien-lung Reign, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2008, pl. 31; and one in Qianlong huangdi de wenhua daye /Emperor Ch’ien-lung’s Grand Cultural Enterprise, Taipei, 2002, pl. V-25. A Qianlong vase from a Kyoto collection with similar celadon glaze all over the body and comparable reliefs of bat and double fish, was sold in these rooms, 8th October 2013, lot. 202. It is rare for celadon-glazed porcelain to have panels of famille-rose paintings. Some Qianlong examples are known but they very rarely show the motif of children at play. A moon flask at the Umezawa Kinenkan, Tokyo, is painted with two children playing with fireworks or a halberd in two panels. A moon flask with famille-rose flower panels on a celadon ground from the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) at Fonthill House was sold at Christie’s London, 18th October 1971, lot 93, later entered the collection of the J.T. Tai Foundation and was sold in these rooms 21st May 1985, lot 36, and again, 1st November 1999, lot 397. A lobed vase with flower paintings was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st October 1991, lot 786, and again in our New York rooms, 20th March 2007, lot 818. The present vase, however, differs from these examples in that its famille-rose panels are reserved on a blue-and-white rather than a celadon-glazed ground, and it seems to be the only known example to feature such a combination of celadon glaze with famille-rose panels on a ground of underglaze-blue painting, and it is in fact very rare to find any celadon-glazed porcelain with such prominent underglaze-blue painting. Two celadon-glazed moon flasks, sold in our New York rooms, 22nd March 2001, lot 121, and at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th April 1999, lot 545, have underglaze-blue painting, but only in less pronounced parts of neck, foot and sides. Another innovation of the present vase lies in its gilding. Gilded decoration on Qing imperial porcelain is often used as a design in itself, but rarely to outline underglaze-blue painting like on the present vase. The glorious gilding matches the blue painting extremely well and creates a remarkable decorative effect. Another rare example can be seen on a Qianlong flower perfumer with underglaze-blue butterfly medallion and overglaze gilding of outlines and details, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains and Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, pl. 143. Such gilding is reminiscent of the gilt-metal wires on cloisonné work, or the doucai porcelain style characterised by underglaze-blue outlines for the overglaze colours. The Qianlong Emperor was particularly fond of cloisonné work which he revived on a grand scale after a period of disregard under the Yongzheng Emperor. He had it imitated in porcelain, where the wires separating the cloisons of different enamels were mirrored by finely-painted golden lines. In addition to the lavish decoration, the form of the vase is also very rare, although it is reminiscent of archaic bronze vessels, which often supplied models for Qianlong porcelain. Two Qianlong vases are octagonal like the present vase but differ in profile, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 133; and The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 131. For hexagonal vases of the same profile as the present piece see a Qianlong famille-rose example, illustrated ibid., pl. 88; and a Yongzheng vase with guan ware glaze in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 204. The golden mark of this vase is also very rare for Qianlong porcelain, although examples are known, see a famille-rose gourd form vase in Zhou Lili, Collection from the Shanghai Museum: Qing Dynasty Imperial Porcelain from the Yongzheng to Xuantong Period, Shanghai, 2014, pl. 5-39. Although the individual elements of both shape and decoration of this vase are all characteristic of this reign, close counterparts are difficult to find, since the Qianlong potters were masters at combining their many style elements in myriad ways to create ever new objects. The present vase appears to be unique. Comparable in terms of combining multiple styles of decoration on one piece is the famous but much larger porcelain vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong 1999, pl. 163, and its counterpart, sold at Skinner Auctioneers, Boston, 17th September 2014, lot 96. These monumental Qianlong vases feature a variety of additional styles and by comparison the present vase has a more clearly defined composition and a harmonious and balanced use of the different techniques. Vase decorated with children at play within reserved panels over a yellow floral ground in cloisonné enamel, mark and period of Qianlong, Palace Museum, Beijing After: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 27. Jing Tingbiao, Children at Grass Contest, detail, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper, Palace Museum, Beijing After: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Genre Paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2008, pl. 50. Estimate 50,000,000 — 70,000,000 In overall good condition, with minute glaze gap to one side of the body. There is rubbing to the gilding on the handles and the body as can be expected. There is flaking to the turquoise enamel. The original short luting line where the handle meets the body is clearly visible.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2611
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We have now had eight generations in the franchise industry, and also each and every game in this series is a great in its own right, and none of them are especially bad. Position the top Pokemon games is no easy feat. Some really changed the sport by incorporating in awesome new features, while some didn’t radically alter the Pokemon landscape. However, every game have us an extra helping of the Pokemon formulation we know and love, a few only did more to perform around the makeup. Naturally there are so brilliant spin-offs out there like Pokemon Go, Pokemon Let’s Go, and the traditional Pokemon Trading card game on the gameboy. However, this list solely concentrates on the original major series. Many may have a particular fondness for a particular Pokemon game that they have the best memories of, therefore everyone’s individual ranking will most likely look quite different. But that is the great thing about the collection. Maybe it didn’t always go from strength to strength, but every game allow us live our fantasy of being a part of the Pokemon universe. With the recent inclusion of Pokemon Sword and Shield, today’s a better time than ever to take a look back at the Pokemon series and provide our ranking of this beloved franchise in the worst to the best Pokemon games of all time.by link https://romshub.com/roms/nintendo-ds/pokemon-white-version-2-friends-usa website Pokemon Sun and Moon is like going on a tropical Pokemon-themed vacation. It’s vibrant, glowing, and provides a slightly different expertise than you are used to. The Alola area was pleasant breath of fresh air for the series, since it actually changed the atmosphere and reflected its theme in its own unique Alolan Pokemon variations. However, isn’t wasn’t all sand and sunlight. Some of those Alolan designs are absolutely unforgettable, though we’re pretty sure everybody will remember the mighty Alolan Exeggutor for the remainder of their days. The change from the normal gym conflicts was strange also, and made Sun and Moon believed a great deal slower to get going than the earlier games. Additionally, it is quite gentle on the post-game content after you finish the most important campaign. This does not mean its a bad entry in the Pokemon show by any means, and it is certainly more accessible for newcomers in certain respects – it just lacks the same sense. Pokemon Sun and Moon’s lush world and interesting story are still worth working your way through, and it also has fine features that build on that which was established in X and Y, such as a great deal of character customisations choices, and much more of a societal aspect. 7. Pokemon Black and White It often gets overshadowed by other entries thanks to its less memorable Pokemon layouts, but it is maturer tone and intriguing storyline nevertheless help it stand out in the line-up. As the only game to have an immediate sequel using Black and White 2, the fifth generation of Pokemon puts more of a focus on its storytelling, and plays with the idea of right and wrong. Even the antagonists in this you aren’t so obviously as nefarious as Team Rocket always seem to be using their tail cutting customs and therapy of Pokemon. Rather, White and Black attributes Team Plasma, a group that believe Pokemon should be permitted to wander free and be tied down with a coach. It throws up quite a persuasive issue with no clear cut and dry answers. This version also has some graphical enchantments over Diamond and Pearl, with much more attractive sprite animations in conflict. 6. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl When you compare these with the other matches in the series, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl didn’t do anything too radical to really shake up things. 1 noteworthy thing it did , however, was bring Pokemon trading into the contemporary age. Rather than working with a cable connection, it using the Nintendo DS’ WiFi connectivity to trade Pokemon with other players. Though a few new attributes did come to play too, most of them built on people who were already introduced in Ruby and Sapphire. Ahead of the improved Platinum version came along, the animations had a habit of slowing the battle sequences, which left the pacing sense a bit off. Additionally, it deserve any credit for its narrative: the wicked Team Galactic conduct science experiments to attempt to take control of the Legendaries in the Sinnoh area in some rather bizarre ways, but it is not as gripping as other stories we get to experience. 5. Pokemon X and Y It was a significant change from the other names which came before it, and felt as though it truly marked the start of a new era for the long-running franchise. The magical sprites of yesteryear turned into gorgeous 3D models over the handheld, which elevated the combat sequences into new animated peaks. The Pokemon-Amie system has been introduced for the first time, which enables you to interact with your Pokemon companions and form bonds with them. X and Y also brought in much more customisation, enabling you to change the look and style of your coach. Although it’s just cosmetic, it added into the part of their encounter in a fun way. Y and X propelled forward and put the groundwork for what was to come in Sun and Moon. It also introduced yet more intriguing Pokemon, for example, accession of this fairy-type, in addition to new social capabilities. While it isn’t quite as good as some of the previous games, it’s one of the very best looking entries in the franchise up to now, and will always be noteworthy for turning the primary Pokemon series to the realm of 3D. Since the first entry in the center Pokemon series to land on Nintendo’s hybrid , Sword and Shield opened us up into the entire world of Pokemon like ever before. The Galar Region made for a beautiful setting based on the united kingdom, and it’s easy to sink several hours at its grand Wild Area catching all the drifting Pokemon and uncovering everything it has to offer. The Galarian sort designs also nodded into aspects of the UK, and having to bond with all the creatures employing the newest camp feature proved to be a welcome touch. In our review we all mentioned it’s a”Pokemon game for a new creation,” thanks to a number of the more accessible features it introduced, enabling new players to ease in the formula we know and love. And it is easily the best-looking Pokemon game to date. 3. Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire Though a lot of formula remained unchanged, Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire took the show into a lively world of colour about the GameBoy Advance. The Pokemon sprites appeared from screen like never before, along with the magic start up screen is hard to forget. It was the very first Pokemon game to present a lot of elements and features that lasted throughout the series. 2v2 double battles popped up for the very first time, and Pokemon were attributed with unique Natures that influenced their overall stats. A comprehensive collection of new skills were also first introduced in this entry, which were unique to distinct types – this really added more depth to the battles in comparison with games that came earlier. Contests were brought in to add new challenges to the match. The Hoenn region proved to be a wonderful setting, and the Legendary Pokemon Groudon and Kyogre – that could muster a specific weather component into battle – were really memorable. Considering that Ruby and Sapphire built upon what Gold and Silver created without veering off into any extreme new leadership, it did not feel quite as unique. A long time after its release in 2003, an upgraded variant followed in the shape of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. 2. Pokemon Blue and Red Moving back to where it began, Pokemon Red and Blue place us on the path to be the very best, like no one ever was, and we have not looked back since. The entire world of Kanto nevertheless feels just as magical as it did, and the original 151 Pokemon are definitely the most memorable in the franchise’s history for their wonderful designs. Who will forget the classic rookie Pokemon, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander? The first games captured our imaginations and made us wish with every fibre of our being that we could be coaches in the real world. Fortunately, Pokemon Move helped us get closer than ever to realising that dream, however you still can’t really beat the basic Pokemon experience. The Gameboy images have a nostalgic charm you do not quite get together with the following entrances, and it is still quite playable to this day, and it is a testament to just how great it really is. While it created that the long-running series we all know and appreciate, it doesn’t really make the top place. The beautiful Pikachu Edition Pokemon Yellow – which enhanced the traditional games with everyone’s favourite electrical mouse – was only the icing on the cake. 1. Pokemon Silver and Gold Following Pokemon Red and Blue put the world to a Pokemon frenzy, the sequel had a huge shoes to match. Fans everywhere for keen to get more, and mercifully Silver and Gold delivered only that in the easiest manner possible. Larger and better than ever before, the next creation introduced 100 memorable and excellent additions into the Pokemon library, along with two new Pokemon types, and a whole slew of brand new moves. It brought in some interesting new features that altered the game up in fun new ways. Introducing a day and night cycle included time-specific challenges, and brought in some Pokemon that could only be captured at specific times of the day. Gold and silver still had all the hallmarks that created the initial games so entertaining, but it enlarged the encounter to cement itself as the superior Pokemon game. And even better, when you reach the end of the game, you get to unlock the Kanto region from Red and Blue which allows you to revisit each one of the gyms and trainers. Silver and Gold was a giant leap forward for the franchise, also nothing’s quite compared to it since. Pokemon Crystal then came swooping in as a glistening enhanced movie of Silver and Gold, and it is especially notable since it had been the very first ever Pokemon title that let you choose whether you wish to play a boy or a lady. Happily this turned into a mainstay characteristic in each match that followed. California cash loan Regulations.California loans which can be payday and Terms California Cash Loan Regulations See whether short-term pay time loans work in Ca and precisely precisely precisely what amounts, interest rates and repayment terms are set due to the stateвЂ™s Legislation. Ca loans which are payday and Terms The status of this loan key in conformity because of the Federal guidelines that are legal. 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I will be kept reeling with disconcertingly conflicting emotions my celebration that is immediate tempered the frustration of all over again being erased by the Supreme Court. The bi that is blatant starts into the starting paragraph for the Supreme CourtвЂ™s opinion: вЂњToday, we should determine whether a boss can fire some body only for being homosexual or transgender,вЂќ and continues through the opinionвЂ™s final ruling: вЂњAn company whom fires a person just if you are homosexual or www.camsloveaholics.com/stripchat-review transgender defies the legislation.вЂќ Gay or transgender? Homosexual or transgender! IвЂ™m yes there are many lesbians and gays who’re not as much as delighted about being lumped together underneath the antiquated term вЂњhomosexual,вЂќ but think of how exactly we bisexuals feel, we who will be excluded entirely using this framing. Continue reading →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2613
__label__cc	0.606767	0.393233	Simplicity Won On D-Day Jun 6, 2019 \| Blog D-Day – Operation Overlord, if you prefer – was obviously one of the hugest days in world history…right? Without it, I’m guessing that your humble, Jewish host wouldn’t be writing this to you. A big operation? Howzabout 150,000+ allied troops, 50,000 vehicles, 11,000 aircraft, and 5,000 ships & landing craft. Other than that, it wasn’t the least bit complicated. Here’s how Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, the guy who was in charge of the ground troops in the Normandy Invasion, laid out his plans: on a single piece of paper. Oh, and if you think there must have been a ton of scribbling in tiny little print on that single page, go hit the link. There isn’t. In fact, the page is about one-third white space. As a counterpoint to that, I’ve spent portions of this week with a 28-page contract, a 31-page marketing plan, and most uproariously, a Powerpoint presentation purporting to teach the reader how to create a brilliant content marketing plan in seven steps. The deck contains 95 slides. Let me repeat: 95 f@&#ng slides. To teach seven steps. If you’re a fan of irony, congratulations. You’ve just hit the jackpot. In the spirit of K.I.S.S. – for the uninitiated, keep it simple, stupid – let’s not belabor the point. Now, go chop your plans down like I chopped that 28-page contract to a page and a half. While you’re doing it, bear in mind the last words on Field Marshal Montgomery’s plan document: “The key note of everything to be SIMPLICITY.” P.S. WordPress only lets me underline the “SIMPLICITY” once. He underlined it three times. Grab The Book The More You Open Up, The More You Connect 20/20 Vision For 2019: It’s All About Survival Of The Fervent Even In Showbiz, “It” Isn’t Everything Cynicism & Down Vests Steve Hoffman Law 10120 W. Flamingo Rd. Suite 4-230 © 2021 STEVE HOFFMAN LAW \| All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2615
__label__cc	0.692073	0.307927	TattoosHumorShort FictionPhilosophyPoetryAnimationAstrologyCasino Gambling Low CalorieMain CourseTeaSaladsCrockpot RecipesPasta DishesRestaurant Reviews Street Articles Home \| Arts and Entertainment \| Music \| Making Hip Hop Beats – How To Put Beats Together In 10 Minutes Or Less Making hip hop beats ain’t hard to do, even if you are just starting out. Once we outline the process, you just might have to ask yourself: Why haven’t I been doing it this way all along? So, playa to playa, pimp to pimp, let’s get started with a quick lil’ tutorial on making hip hop beats, and get them beats turned up today! You'll be down with Ray J and the money team with 7 Rolls Royces back to back in no time. Ha! (Disclaimer) Ray J is no longer with the Money Team. Neither is 50 Cent. So there. Start with the drums A strong drum pattern is a must when making hip hop beats, your drums will be the backbone of your track. Choose a dope kick drum, and then a snare and or a clap so that we can create the backbeat of the track. Set Your Tempo For making hip hop beats, the tempo is typically around 80 bpm for some laid back, driving slow type of track, and up around 110-115 for the typical beats that you are hearing on the radio today. Let's keep the track at 112. Lay Down The Drum Pattern Are you familiar with counting bars? If not, you need to practice this detrimental skill, because by counting bars you will be able to keep time in your music while making hip hop beats. If you wanna start counting stacks, you better start counting bars. You count bars according to the tempo of your track, and one bar consists of 4 beats. Each beat consists of a (1&); therefore to count one complete bar you would go (1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &), then (2 & 2 & 3 & 4 &); so on and so forth. The snare and clap should always land on the 2 and the 4 of every beat, and if you want to add some variation you can add a snare or clap hit on the & of any beat to create some variation. Kicks usually land wherever you like; but for examples sake we will lay down a “four on the floor” pattern. That means for every beat, you have a kick drum on the 1, 2, 3, and the 4. Lay Down A Chord Progression Got the drum pattern? Cool. Now we will lay down a chord progression. Pick a really cool synth sound, and lay down the chords C,F,C and back to G. This is a chord progression that follows the circle of fifths. Finish it Off With a Melody You can use the same notes of your chord progression for your melodic phrase when making hip hop beats. If you do it this way, everything concerning your chords and melodies will sound as if it is in harmony. This is just a basic primer on making hip hop beats, as you know you can make the beat as simple or as elaborate as you like. It's your game and you can play it how you play it when making hip hop beats, so funk around with different patterns and see what you come up with. It's all in the game, and you're winning... Better Beats Ahead. Article Source: http://www.streetarticles.com/music/making-hip-hop-beats-how-to-put-beats-together-in-10-minutes-or-less Mike Custalow Love the article Christian!! I love it when people are really conversational like that. The only suggestion that I have is to maybe move the sentence "if you want to start counting stacks, you need to start counting bars" further up in the paragraph, maybe as a segway or title? Great job on describing something that is best seen and heard too. i'm going to read some more of your articles :) Thanks Kyle! I'm trying to get get get it!!! Cheers to beatmaking, and WA University! Off to create some beats...all I need is the equipment now. Great information Christian! :) Hip Hop Beat Making Software - It Must Be The Software! 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Hip hop music production is a vastly competitive art form, and it's easily one of the most recognizable forms of music within today's music culture. Producers are continuously vying for that top position as hip hop's most sought after producer, and you gotta be able to effortlessly incorporate some innovation… Learn to Make Hip Hop Beats - Embrace Technology And Make Better Beats Are you aware of the role that technology plays in today’s music production community? There has never been a better time than now to learn to make hip hop beats, as the resources on the internet are in abundance, and many of the software beat production programs have music production… By: Christian1 in Arts and Entertainment > Music Feb 01, 2012 Where to Find Hip Hop Beats Where to find hip hop beats??? This article will give you a few ideas to get you on the right path and keep those creative juices flowing. 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__label__cc	0.646662	0.353338	Warmachine Resources Rockets and Rayguns Posted on March 8, 2016 by Luke Maciak tein.co/18752 In the past two years or so, I really got back into tabletop and role playing hobby. While it was always a part of my life, and I was always reading and writing about it, for quite some time I wasn’t actually playing much of anything. It was a hobby “on paper”: one that I experienced vicariously through battle reports, podcasts and forum discussions. But that has changed. I briefly got back into Warhammer, only to see it destroyed, and rebound really hard with Warmachine. If you follow me on Twitter, you probably also know that I have went through a Magic The Gathering phase (circa Dragons of Tarkir) which seems to be mercifully over now. I’m also part of a semi-regular D&D campaign. You might have actually heard of it. It was briefly trending on reddit because our DM loves to make amazingly detailed terrain props. Due to DM prep overhead, and general state of “adulting” we finds ourselves in, we only have time to play once or twice a month (if we’re lucky). But it’s fun. If you are wondering why I haven’t been very active on this blog lately, this is part of the reason. Other hobbies have temporarily superseded, and became more important to me than my blogging hobby. Among other things. At one point I was even prepping to run my own FATE Core campaign. If you are not familiar with FATE Core it, is a narrative RPG system loosely based on FUDGE. I like it because it is a really solid implementation of FUDGE, that really rewards role-playing and pro-active narration from players. It allows them to take part in creation and shaping of the game worlds, but puts limits on it, by making it a resource based mechanic. Players have FATE points they can spend to gain mechanical bonuses (+2 to any roll), or to narrate something into a scene. They gain said points by allowing their characters to be “compelled” by the GM and giving into their weaknesses, or flaws or by indulging their vices. In other words, they are immediately rewarded for “good role-playing” or for simply following the GM’s rails when he needs them too, with a resource they can spend to get their way. It makes for a really dynamic, and interesting play, and something very, very different from the very encounter heavy D&D game we’ve been playing lately. So I really wanted to try running a short campaign. Alas, nothing has panned out as of yet. But I did get some nice dice and tokens just in case: FATE Core Tokens and Dice And of course, because I’m me, I have made tons of notes for the campaign setting. In FATE you are kinda supposed to get players involved in the world building process, and iron out the details during the first session. But, I figured it can’t hunt to jot down some ideas on paper, and to photo-shop some images to give players an idea as to what I was getting at. The basic idea was based on my retro SF essay from 2010. I just expanded upon it to make it in a rough draft of a game setting. Below, you can find precisely that: a very rough sketch of the proposed setting, along with some of the mechanics and system tweaks I planned to include. The document was originally designed to be a player hand-out that would be distributed before a session, which is why I’m not breaking it up into parts the way I did with Ravenflight. I’m putting the “living” document here for the time being: Rockets and Rayguns. After the break, you can read the entire set of campaign notes, as it was in March of 2016 in the form of a blog post. As always, let me know what you think in the comments below. Rockets & Rayguns Planets as Sovereign Kingdoms Currency and Trade Arcturians Slags Moravecs Important Factions Colonial Authority The Interstellar Alliance The League of Free Worlds Engineering Skill Pilot Skill Lore is now Education Crew Roles Ship to Ship Combat The Ship Systems Rocket Engine Hyperspace Drive Force Field Med Bay Laser Turret Ship Upgrades The Ship Decks Ray Gun Portable Radio This is a game setting designed to be used with FATE Core rule set. This means you will need FATE Rulebook, character sheets, and some FATE Dice and tokens. All the resources can be downloaded for free from the official website. The setting is based on retro pulp SF from the 40’s and 50’s. Sleek rocket ships with giant fins, space suits with bubble helmets, ray guns, giant computers that take up the entire room, programming done on punch cards or patch cables are the core aesthetic. It’s the year 3,000 and humanity has colonized the galaxy. There are over two hundred known human inhabited worlds and many more that have yet to be settled and colonized. Space travel is inexpensive, accessible and affordable and interstellar trade is booming. The primary mode of travel between worlds are small rockets that require 4-5 person crew, and can ferry both passengers as well as cargo across vast distances. While some people never leave their home world, many choose to travel the galaxy seeking better career opportunities, better education, or simply looking for adventures. Owning a Starship is considered to be romantic ideal: being the master of your own fate, not beholden to any local power structure, not tied to a single planet, and being able to pick up and leave at any time. Space Adventurers often get fabulously rich by discovering new habitable planets, scavenging alien technology, or finding pirate treasures buried on some barren asteroid. The technology, while allowing humans to travel between stars, is still stuck in the past. Rockets and ray guns are common sight, but computer networks are unheard of, even on most advanced planets. Computers do exist, and are indispensable, but they are large, slow and programmed via punch cards or patch cables. Space travel is basically all humans got going for it, and it shows. Space Ports are like parking lots: every town has at least one, and major cities have dozens if not hundred of them. Humanity shares the galaxy with at least three other sentient races: the green skinned Arcturians, the reptilian Slags and the mechanical Centaurians. The common language used throughout the galaxy is Esperanto. Individual worlds will often have dominant local language that is spoken by most of the inhabitants, but everyone is expected to learn Esperanto at a young age, and it is used as the official, neutral, common language. Player characters are considered to be fluent in Esperanto. They may also pick another language that is spoken on their home world. This can be an existing language (Spanish, English and French are especially common) or an original language unique to that particular planet, and/or region. Communication between worlds is done via the wondrous invention known as Ansible, which is capable of transmitting data instantaneously across vast distances. The transmission rate is flat 3 Bytes per minute, and it does not change based on distance. Because of the slow transmission speed, Ansibles are used mostly like telegraph: text mode only. Audio-visual and other data is typically recorded onto magnetic tape and transmitted via courier aboard an interstellar rocket. Most of the inhabited worlds are sovereign states with their own local government, own military, and own rules. While many worlds resemble the 50’s "world of tomorrow" ideals, some are feudal kingdoms, empires, despotic regimes or even strange theocracies lead by religious cults. While there exist large alliances and multi-world factions, they are far from being homogeneous with respect to culture and customs. Think of planets as islands separated by vast distances. Most are weeks, if not months away from their closest neighbor. Even though interstellar trade is possible, and hugely profitable, all worlds tend to be self-sufficient, self-reliant and self governed. This lends itself to an incredible variety of cultures, and ways of life. The three main interstellar factions (The Colonial Authority, The Alliance and The League) usually adopt a hands-off policy with regards to local culture and attitudes. They are mostly military and trade compacts. Some impose their own culture and ideals on the member worlds more than the others. They all know full well, that people’s loyalty is almost always to their home worlds. On some planets most of the population may live in fully automated, modern cities, with flying cars and robot servants, other worlds may be almost entirely rural and backwards. There exist planets that have almost no advanced technology save for one or two major cities or castles. Most worlds use their local currencies, and many have more than one. Interstellar traders, typically use one of the three faction currencies: Colonial Credits (¢¢) are backed by the Colonial Authority and respected almost everywhere. Even alliance and alien traders will accept the credits, because of favorable exchange rates, and ubiquity. It is a very strong and stable currency, and preferred method of payment for most travelers. Colonial Credits are rectangular plastic chips, about the size of a credit card, with their value laser engraved on the surface. Alliance Trade Notes (atb) are backed by The Alliance and is the second most popular currency in the galaxy. It fluctuates more than Colonial Credits, and tends to be less durable. It takes form of banknotes printed on postcard sized sheets of paper. They are mostly red, with intricate artwork covering the entire surface of the paper. Ducat (d) is the official currency of the League and is the third most popular currency in the galaxy. The Ducat are made out of platinum and gold and their value corresponds in large part to the value of the precious metal from which they were made. This also makes them rather impractical as currency, since large sums tend to be heavy and impractical to carry around. Ducat are usually distributed as coins of various sizes. Small denominations are usually round coins or rings, while larger denominations are rectangular bars designed to be stacked in neat rows. Some merchants prefer this currency because it can be traded as raw materials without incurring much loss. Additionally, most worlds issue Common Trade Bonds which are backed by their central governing authority. In theory, you should be able to redeem these anywhere in the Galaxy for local currency, but in practice they tend to only be honored on worlds that have standing trade agreements. They typically take form of 8×11" paper documents. Most space ship in the setting are cylindrical, nuclear powered rockets. They take off and land in vertical position, and typically balance on three to four fins and/or external engines when they land. The engines on most rockets are capable of accelerations that would produce enough G-forces to make the crew black out, or even instantly kill them so Pilots must exercise caution. That said, they are still conventional engines that cannot get anywhere close to the speed of light. Interstellar travel is accomplished via Hyperspace which is an alternate dimension in which time and space work differently providing shortcuts between points in our universe. Hyperspace is often described as a non-void: an emptiness that is very much unlike the void of space. It is impossible to measure it’s temperature, pressure or acceleration in Hyperspace because these concepts do not seem to exist there. A traveler looking outside their ship will see an endless expanse that is devoid of color and any kind of illumination, which somehow still appears "white". Those who have seen it, describe it as deeply unsettling. Most travelers never get exposed to that sight however since ships rarely enter Hyperspace without active Force Field. While ship fields are invisible to the naked eye in our universe, in Hyperspace they strobe and pulsate with vivid color, seemingly at random. The Force Field is maintained mostly for the comfort of the crew. Without it, most people feel queasy, nauseous, experience sense of vertigo, and suffer from various other sensory distortions. Most people suffer from blurred vision, ringing in their ears and skin numbness. Symptoms such as strange (neither pleasant nor unpleasant) taste in one’s mouth, and hard to describe sharp, but inoffensive odor are also not uncommon. It is not know whether long term exposure has long lasting health effects. A low powered field surrounding the ship seems to block out all of these side effects. Once a ship enters the Hyperspace, it winks out of the existence in the standard universe. There is no way to follow or track a ship that is in Hyperspace, and it is not possible for ships to communicate while they remain there. It is theorized (though it was never proven) that each ship enters a slightly different version of the Hyperspace dimension, which is why no two ships were ever able to meet, or transmit messages while traveling. That said, a skilled Navigator can potentially deduce where a ship was going based on their entry point. The topography of Hyperspace is bizarre and abstract, but stable and unchanging, and specific points within correspond to points in the standard universe. Picking an optimal entry point into Hyperspace allows to shorten the trip considerably. Common inbound and outbound transit points in each system are known to anyone with even Medicore Navigation skill. There is a plethora of alien species out there, and almost every inhabited world has some unique indigenous species. Most of them are not sentient. While many planets have, or had in the past, been a home to an intelligent species, most are not technologically advanced. Humans do not have qualms about colonizing planets that already have intelligent life. Indigenous populations are either assimilated into the human society and forced to adopt human culture and often existence as second class citizens. Those less fortunate are displaced from their home lands to make way for human cities and sometimes completely eradicated. There are only three sentient species that humanity can’t simply brush away, because of their considerable technological and military power. Racial Aspects: each race has two or three racial aspects, which describes how the race as a whole is viewed by others. These aspects can be invoked against, or by any members of the species, but it must be in the context of a group as perceived by outsiders. Consider these aspects represent generalizations, stereotypes and preconceived notions about each species. They can be taken as role-playing cues, but characters and NPC’s can, and should subvert these expectations. In fact, some of the racial aspects will be contradictory. This is by design, to represent conflicting beliefs and prejudices people may feel about this or that race. Arcturians are sometimes referred to as "the little green men" because of their skin shade and short stature. They typically stand a 4’5" and few of them ever grow to be taller than 5′. There is no significant height difference between their men and women. Their skin is typically some shade of green, though there is some variation between individuals. Most have uniform, light green carnation, but individuals with deep dark green skin as well as those with cyan tinge have been observed. Freckles are not uncommon. The most common hair colors are silver or white, though individuals with various shades of red, blue and black hair shades have been seen, Arcturians are bipedal, and their body plan resembles that of humans. Their faces are almost human-like, with the exception of lacking visible nose or ears. Their eyes are typically black, without visible whites, or a distinctive iris. Their most distinctive feature are two wriggling antennas growing out of the top of their head which seem to double up as bout olfactory and auricular organs. Arcturians are similar to humans in their temperament. They have similar track record of colonizing worlds and displacing local populations, being aggressively expansive and endlessly adaptable. Their society is similarly fractured into hundreds of small, locally governed planet-states that trade and war with each other. Because of these similarities both races seem to get along reasonably well. Arcturians often trade with humans, and some even choose to live in human colonies. That said, it is not uncommon for Human and Arcturians to go to war over local resources, or various diplomatic disputes. Arcturians can learn to speak Esperanto fluently. Most of their own languages are difficult for humans to grasp because it includes sounds inaudible to human ears. Arcturian technology is slightly more advanced. They seem to have mastered anti-gravitational technology, and cold fusion. Their flying saucers require no loud rocket engines, and use safe and clean reactors. Human scientists have yet to replicate similar technology. Arcturian Aspects: Little green people Sly and cunning space merchants Their saucers have been seen steeling cattle and abducting humans Playing an Arcturian Arcturian characters may require specially fitted space suits, though they can usually get away with using a child-sized human suit if one is available. Standard bubble helmets usually have enough room to fit their head stalks. An Arcturian player character will be assumed to be fluent in Esperanto, as well as Arcturian Common language, and another language spoken on their home world. They are assumed to have lived long enough among humans to have very good grasp of their norms, customs and taboos. Players do not need to feel the need to use their aspects to establish those facts. Slags is somewhat derogatory name given to the race of red skinned, space-faring reptilian humanoids. Slags are roughly human sized, and they have hard, scaly skin and large, round black eyes. Their scales are usually a uniform shade of red, though some have a striped pattern running along their backs. They are obligate carnivores, and their mouths have sharp needle-like teeth. Their hands and feet have large, gripping claws which are used while eating. Most individuals file down the tips, to prevent them from getting caught on clothing. Despite a popular human belief, Slags do not possess tails. Slags do not have external sexual characteristics that can be distinguished by humans. While they reproduce sexually, and their women lay eggs, there is virtually no way for a human to distinguish a male from a female member of the species just by casual interaction. Most other species have no such trouble and can distinguish Slag sex without any issues. Despite their reptilian looks, Slags are warm-blooded, and highly energetic. Their though, but flexible scales are excellent thermo regulators which allow them to survive in very low, and very high temperatures, and withstand a lot of radiation. Slags do not need a full space suit to work in vacuum of space. They may spend up to an hour in hard vacuum without suffering any adverse consequences, provided they have a steady supply of oxygen to breathe. They are also extremely hardy, and their skin seems to be particularly resistant to ray gun fire on lower settings. Slag technology is on par with human, though their ships tend to be much more heavily armored, and have very powerful rocket engines. They typically don’t install any sound dampeners, or emission filters on their engines, and frequently use chemical boosters. Because of that Slag ships are extremely loud, and can often be seen leaving thick, black smoke trails behind them. Their huyperspace drives on the other hand, tend to be sub-par, and significantly slower than human. The name they use for themselves is unpronounceable by humans. Some members of the species who have learned Esperanto, claimed that they found the word Salamander as a good stand-in, being evocative of fire-spitting lizards. Others disagreed, and there is no consensus on what Humans should call them. The Slags that are encountered most often in the human space are hostile marauders, raiders or space pirates, who attack human ships or human settlements. Furthermore, their lizard-like appearance is considered to be intimidating, or even frightening by some. In some societies they function as the space bogeymen used by politician or demagogues to rally support. Humans unaccustomed to dealing with Slags tend to find them unnerving and intimidating. Slag Aspects: Tough and ugly reptile brutes Smarter and more cunning than than they look Savage, bloodthirsty marauders and space pirates. Playing a Slag Players wishing to play a Slag must meet the following requirements: Their character’s Physique skill must be Fair (+2) or better Slags do not fit in human sized space suits, and do not need them. They simply need a respirator that can fit over their mouth and nose, along with a tank of air to survive in the vacuum of space for up to an hour. Longer periods may result in them suffering from standard ailments related to decompression and exposure. Player characters are considered to be fluent in Esperanto, as well as the Slag Common language. They may also know a local language spoken on their home world. The Alpha Centauri Moravecs are one of the most unique races in the entire galaxy due to the fact they are entirely mechanical. Their ancestral species was likely organic, but there is precious little known about them. In their current form, they are robotic, without even a trace of organic material. They reproduce in a way that is entirely unique to their species: two or more individuals collaborate together, building a brand new individual from parts. Some individuals are simply built from spare parts that are available at the time of creation, while others are built to a specific plan or with a specific purpose in mind, using custom manufactured components. Because of this, no two Moravecs look the same. Most however use a bipedal body with two legs, and two manipulator arms, and sensory modules installed roughly where humans would expect a head to be. Moravecs have highly advanced technology that is ahead of any other space faring race. Their greatest advancements are in computing and machine engineering. No other race has ever even came close to replicating the technology behind the Moravec brain, and few races can build mechanical sensors as accurate as they do. Their ships have incredibly fast hyperspace drives, and their rocket engines are tuned to run at accelerations way beyond the tolerances of organic species. Because of this, they are incredibly hard to out-maneuver or chase. Their ships often have leaky, un-shielded reactors that are unsafe for organic passengers, but do not affect Moravecs at all. They are usually not allowed to park their rockets on residential landing pads, and get re-routed to industrial space ports. They typically do not install any life support on their vessels because it is not needed. They do not require air or food, and space travelers typically modify their feet to include electro-magnets that allow them to move efficiently in zero gravity. They also do not experience any discomfort while traversing Hyperspace without force fields. Moravec language is incomprehensible to humans, consisting of beeps and mechanical sounds. Humans can learn to understand it, but can’t readily speak it. Individuals who expect to interact a lot with humans or other species typically install a set of speakers somewhere on their chassis. Moravec Aspects: Soulless automatons with no respect for organic life Logical and literal to a fault Each one is a priceless mechanical wonder Playing a Moravec Players wishing to play a Moravec must meet the following requirements: Their character’s Engineering skill must be Fair (+2) or better. They must take the following extra Made out of Steel: Armor Rating 2 (Cost: 1 Refresh) Moravecs do not need space suits and can operate in vacuum for indefinite amount of time. They can also operate under water, but their bodies are not designed to withstand deep water pressures. Their bodies are hermetically sealed against vacuum, but extended exposure to water pressure may rupture said seals and cause them to short out and effectively drown just like organics would. Player character Moravecs are assumed to have speaker mod, and are fluent in Esperanto, as well as the Moravec Machine Language. Vegans are bipedal humanoids that typically stand 7-8 feet tall. Most have thin and wiry build, though obesity is not entirely uncommon among them. They do appear to be less prone to it than Humans or Arcturians. They have a smooth, hairless light blue skin and white, pupil-less eyes that emit soft glow in the dark. Most individuals have light or dark freckle like spots on the top of their head, their back and sides of their arms and legs. The pattern and coloration is unique to an individual. Similarly to Arcturians, they posses no nose, but do have ears similar to those of humans. Their olfactory senses are located in their mouth and they typically smell things by "tasting the air" with their mouth and tongue. Vegans evolved from herbivorous herd animals and their stomachs cannot digest meat. While they can subside on food rations designed for Humans or Arcturians by just eating around the meat, it is not healthy for them. They typically need more varied plant based diet to stay healthy. Their original home planet had much weaker gravity than Earth, and they tend to prefer low gravity planets. The standard gravity that feels comfortable to humans is strenuous and tiring to Vegans. It makes them tire easily, and make them seem sluggish and lazy, compared to other species. Despite their large size, Veagans are not significantly stronger than humans because their muscles are designed for much weaker gravity. Vegan technology is on par with Human or Slag civilizations. They use atomic powered rockets and standard hyperspace drives. By necessity, their vessels tend to be larger, and more spacious to accommodate their large bodies. They usually have a distinctive bulbous shape, with engines mounted on fins. Vegans have reputation for being peaceful and neutral race. Their worlds typically choose to stay out of armed conflicts, major wars or even territorial disputes. This is by no means universal across all their worlds of course. They do not hesitate to fight when attacked, and will launch attacks at perceived threats when needed. They simply prefer not to enter into interstellar military alliances. They prefer to maintain friendly relations with all their neighbors if possible. Vegans have reputation for being level headed, and hard to shake or provoke. They can stay calm even under extreme pressure, and rarely lose their laid back and easy going attitudes. Some species find their unshakable will and unfaltering smiles to be rather unsettling, while others enjoy their company precisely because if that. Vegan Common language has a song-like qualities to it, and is fairly easy for humans to master. Vegan aspects: Gentle, friendly giants Laid back and easy going but lazy Affraid to ever take a stand on important issues Playing a Vegan Their character’s Will skill must be Fair (+2) or better. Vegans do not fit in human sized space suits. They are also not comfortable in chairs designed for humans. Player character Vegans are considered to be fluent in Esperanto, Vegan Common language and one local language spoken on their home world. There are three major human factions that operate on a galactic scale, rather than on a planetary scale. Colonial Authority is a military superpower with an enormous fleet, and many worlds under it’s control. Their mission statement is to protect human life, human culture, and human interests throughout the galaxy. They seek to "prepare" new worlds for human colonization, which almost invariably involves exterminating indigenous alien life and supplanting it with Earth-like ecosystem. Colonials also often choose to "protect" sovereign human worlds by making them part of their territories. The wishes of the local populace are irrelevant, and few worlds are able to face the Colonial Invasion Fleet in an open space battle. Fortunately the Authority allows the worlds it controls govern themselves asking only for three things. First, is taxation. Second is providing the Colonial Fleet with soldiers on an annual basis. Third is the ability to build Colonial Bases on the surface of the planet, and govern them as they see fit, without them being subject to local laws. Of course local rulers still must answer to the Colonial Authority, and the local military must be disarmed and dismantled. Colonial Authority is commonly referred to as "The Colonies". The people living on Colonial worlds are typically not referred to as "Colonials". That title is usually reserved to members of the Colonial Fleet, or high ranking diplomatic officials who represent the authority. Faction Aspects: "Enemies of the Colonial Authority are enemies of Humanity" "Only good aliens are dead aliens" "Colonial fleet has no peers, join us or perish" The Interstellar Alliance originally consisted of the Fomalhaut, Betelgeuse and Aldebaran systems, each of which is represented by a stripe on the flag. The stripes converge together to represent how these systems banded together in a close knit alliance, to protect their citizens from outside threats which include Slag marauders, Colonial Authority, League of Free Worlds and Arcturian invasion fleets. Since it’s inception, dozens more worlds were formally inducted into the organization. Modeled after the Collonial Fleet, the Allied Fleet is funded and recruited from the member worlds. Unlike the Ahority however, membership in the Alliance is voluntary, and there are no tithes or mandatory draft. That said, member states are expected to pull their own weight and contribute. Worlds that do not donate funds, supplies or troops will often be expelled from the alliance. New member states must go through a rigorous vetting process, during which they are expected to take on all the responsibilities of a member, without actually gaining any benefits. Alliance does not officially meddle in the local affairs of member states, but it does have a published set of standards, and model laws which members are encouraged to implement. These standards proscribe both legal, cultural and economic norms. For example, member worlds with democratic governments are instructed to ensure that aliens cannot vote on matters that pertain to human citizens. Some of the standards proscribe dietary restrictions (only Earth based foods, no indigenous plants or animals) or mode of dress (no hats or head-wear allowed on Alliance ships or alliance controlled lands). Original members are free to ignore these standards, but newly inducted members may be voted out if they don’t make every attempt to conform to all the suggested standards. Alliance fleet is smaller than than the Colonial Fleet, but highly motivated and well trained. Faction traits: "Not nearly as bad as the Colonials" "You are free to conform or leave" "Humanity first!" The third biggest faction in the known space, is the League of Free Worlds. It is feared and despised by both the Colonials and the Alliance alike. Unlike those highly organized factions, the League is a loose association of worlds united under a single banner. Each of said worlds is ruled by a local despot, who holds an absolute power over their domain, and maintains a personal army to defend their holdings. Alliances between the members of the League are based on personal martial or trade agreements between the ruling dynasties and tend to be fickle and impermanent. The actual power of the faction waxes and wanes as the internal alliances are broken, wars are caught, and personal vendettas are being carried out. That said, there is a kind of strong "us vs them" mentality among the League planet lords, and they will usually put aside their quarrels to when threatened by an external force. The League’s official leader is known as the Lord of Lords (or The Overlord for short). This is not a hereditary title, but rather an elected office with a twenty year term, which can only be served once. The Overlord is selected by majority vote at the Grand Landsmeet: a gathering of Planet Lords that happens once per two decades. It is a very festive occasion, and one fraught with danger and court intrigue. There hasn’t been a single Grand Landsmeet without at least one assassination attempt, and some kind of scandal or political spectacle. At Landsmeet new alliances are forged, old alliances are broken, duels between lords are fought, planets, riches and power changes hands in unpredictable ways, until a new status quo emerges. Usually the most powerful, or most charismatic of Planet Lords emerges as the new Overlord. The office itself grants authority over the other Planet Lords, but that authority must always be backed up by actual power: either in terms of a strong personal army, or good network of allies that can discourage dissent. The cultures of the League worlds vary, and are usually dictated by tastes, beliefs and convictions of the ruling dynasty. On most of them governance resembles a class driven feudal system. Others may be run as corporate structures, or even faux democracies with mock senate, and meaningless elections. Some Planet Lords are despised by their subjects, while others are beloved local celebrities. All of them however wield absolute power of life and death over the inhabitants of their worlds. "Space Aristocrats" "Yield to the strongest and the mightiest" "Kneel and you will be allowed to live and serve" Below are additional skills and mechanics that extend the set of rules found in the FATE Core rulebook. This campaign will use the idea of Anchors as outlined by Rob Donoghue. To put it simply, an Anchor is an object, place or person connected to an Aspect that provides a concrete, tangible cue for invoking and compelling that Aspect. When creating their characters, players should define one Anchor for each of their Aspects. They can be small trinkets or items (favorite hat, good luck coin, a locket with a picture), a meaningful person (mentor, teacher, parent, old friend, dependable associate) or place (your childhood home, a place you wish to visit, a prison where you served a sentence). Players should try to choose Anchors that both help to flesh out their character, provide "visual" cues as to who they are, and have a reasonable probability to come up in play. The Anchors then provide an additional, and conceptually easy way to invoke or compel Aspects. For example, a Grizzled war veteran may be wearing a jacket with their former unit insignia, giving the GM an easy way to compel that aspect by having an NPC recognize the patch and try to start a fight because were on the opposite side of a recent war. The patch acts as a convenient hook to hang the compel on. There are 20 skills to choose from. You get the 18 standard FATE Core skills and two new skills renamed below. Additionally, some of the standard skills have been renamed to fit the setting better (see table below). Crafts Covers arts and crafts. Ron Swanson type shit here. Drive Covers all ground vehicles and other non flying machines. Education renamed Replaces Lore. Engineering new Used to repair machinery, program computers and operate starship shields. Lore Replaced by Education Pilot new Covers spacecrafts, and flying machines. I made a decision to break Engineering out of Crafts skill, because it represent a slightly different skill set. Along with the Pilot skill, it allowed me to round up the skill list to an even 20, so that works out just fine. Crafts skill is still around, but is mostly focused on manual craftsmanship and artistry. With Crafts you can build a nice mahogany desk, reinforce a wall, weave ceramic plating into your space suit and etc.. It can also be used for architecture – you can build a shack in the woods, a floating raft, or a magnificent shed. Engineering works similar to Crafts with exception that it is focused on technology specifically. Your character is good with machines, and mechanical devices of all sorts. You can repair your space ship, fix your ray gun, rig a robot to explode and etc.. This skill is also used for computer programming, reading and writing computer programs. As a rule of thumb, if something is mechanical, or plugs into power source, Engineering is the skill to use with it. There is some degree of overlap between the two skills. Engineering skill could potentially be used to build a structurally sound raft for example. It may not be the best looking or most comfortable raft, but it will probably float just fine. Similarly, Craft can be used to open an electronic door lock, by simply cutting around it, and shorting the wires at random until something happens. As a general rule of thumb, in such cases the solution lacks the finesse and more of a temporary fix than a permanent solution. Overcome: Engineering allows you to build, break, or fix machinery, presuming you have the time and tools you need. It can also be used to create computer programs. It can also be used to heal and repair robotic characters, such as the alien Moravecs. Create an Advantage: You can use Engineering to create aspects representing features of a piece of machinery, pointing out useful features or strengths you can use to your advantage (Supercharged Battery, Finely Calibrated Gyroscopes) or a vulnerability for you to exploit. Creating Crafts advantages can also take the form of quick and dirty sabotage or jury-rigging on mechanical objects in the scene. For example, you might create a Makeshift Pulley to help you get to the platform above you, open an electronic door lock and etc.. Defend: When on a ship with force fields, you may attempt to defend from attacks from enemy ships. To do so, you must first ensure your shields are at maximum combat capacity by routing power to them. Once that is done, you may use your Engineering skill to defend any Shoot attacks directed at your ship. This represents you modulating the field intensity to adapt to the incoming shots in order to deflect them. Engineering Stunts McGuyver: you can improvise and build simple gadgets or tools using things that just happen to be around (paper-clips, chewing gum and shoelaces for example). You always count as having the right tools for the job. Computer Programmer: +2 to engineering rolls when programming, reading computer programs, or trying to solve problems using a computer. Piloting a rocket ship is not an easy task. It requires a lot of special training and good grasp of orbital mechanics and how gravity fields and atmosphere affect a space craft. Because of this it is broken out into a separate skill from Drive which now pertains to non-flying vehicles only. Pilot skill behaves similar to Drive Overcome: Use Pilot whenever performing difficult maneuvers, such as trying to land on difficult terrain, weaving in between obstacles, trying to enter world’s atmosphere at a dangerous speed and etc… Create Advantage: You can create an advantage for the Gunner by skillful maneuvering. Attack: Pilot skill can be used to ram the enemy ship similar to the way Drive skill works. Defend: You can use the skill to actively try to dodge the incoming attacks by performing evasive maneuvers. Pilot Stunts Dogfighter: gain +2 on active Defend rolls using the Pilot skill when in combat with a single enemy ship. Push the Limit: you can withstand high acceleration better than the others. When your engines are overcharged you can out-run, overtake or shake off any ship of similar size as yours if you can make successful Pilot roll. The downside is that most of your crew will black out from high-G stress. Stunt Pilot: gain +2 on Overcome rolls when performing difficult stunts such as barrel rolls. Thread the Needle: gain +2 on Overcome rolls when flying the ship through extremely tight spaces. Lore sounds a bit archaic or supernatural for this setting, so it was renamed. Education may refer to formal academic background, training or being self taught expert. This is also the skill used for reading star charts, and plotting hyperspace jumps. You can take Stunts to specialize in a specific field. For example: Medical Doctor: +2 on Overcome or Create Advantage rolls pertaining to first aid, medical aid, or general knowledge of medicine and pharmacology. Navigator: +2 on Overcome or Create Advantage rolls pertaining to hyperspace navigation, reading star charts and etc.. Your ship’s Life Support system has a built in artificial gravity support. This is true for most rocket ships, and as a result very few pace travelers ever need to learn how to handle themselves in zero gravity. It is a skill that only comes up when the on-board Life Support fails, or when a person needs to go outside of the spaceship to perform repairs. For an average person, working without gravity is rather challenging. People tend to bump into walls a lot, get themselves stuck in a middle of the room, and tend to get disoriented or even nauseous. In zero gravity all physical actions have a -2 penalty, regardless of skill level. This penalty applies to all skills that have physical component, including Engineering and Pilot tasks. It does not apply to non-physical skills such as using Rapport or Empathy. Player characters may take the following stand-alone stunt to represent their expertise as seasoned spacers. Astronaut: ignore penalties for working in zero gravity. Taking the above stunt gives a character access to a whole stunt family: Space Walking: (requires Astronaut) gain +2 to Athlethic rolls while out of spaceship in vacuum of space. Zero-G Combat: (requires Astronaut) gain +2 to any Fight rolls while in zero gravity. Zero-G Marskman: (requires Astronaut) gain +2 to Shoot rolls when using personal side-arms in zero gravity. Crew roles listed below describe the jobs characters will have on the ship. The players should try to build their characters so that they can fulfil one, or several of these roles. You won’t need all of them, but it’s good to have at least few. To run a ship effectively, you will need one character with Pilot skill, one with Engineering just to be able to take off and land. Computers and Navigation will be necessary to get between systems via Hyperspace. A crew without someone with a good Shoot skill will be in trouble if it runs into any ship-to-ship combat. That said, if one or more players want to create off-beat characters that do not conform to any of the roles below, they can certainly do so. In such case, the crew should simply hire a number of NPC crew mates with the missing skills. Please note that a Crew Role should not be used as your High Concept Aspect. It can however be used as a starting point. For example a Pilot may take "the best damn pilot in the Colonies" as their High Concept. This is not a requirement though. As a counter example, you may have a Captain who is a "scoundrel with a heart of gold" or a Gunner who is a "disgraced war hero". As a Captain you are the leader of the crew. You represent your crew mates when interacting with others, and anything you say or do reflects on your crew and vice versa. It is your job to find new jobs, passengers, negotiate prices and ensure your ship is stocked with provisions for long trips. While on planet, you are responsible for the conduct and actions of your crew mates. If they get in trouble, it is your job to appease the locals, talk to the authorities and make things right. During combat it is your job to negotiate with the hostiles, accept their surrender, or make the decision to concede in conflict to save your ship and your crew. You are, by far, the most important member of the crew because you hired all the other crew members and you own the ship. Important Skills: Notice, Will, Rapport You are responsible for piloting the ship and making sure you take off and land in one piece. During combat, your skill may be called upon to doge incoming shots or to out-maneuver the enemy and create good firing situations. You are, by far the most important crew member because without you, the ship will not fly. Pilot, Engineering, Education Your job is to maintain the ship, and repair it when it becomes damaged. You can be usually found calibrating the engines, tinkering with the hyperspace drive or making new modifications to the turret. Without you, the ship would fall apart. During combat, you will be routing power to various ship subsystems, and operating the Force Fields, deflecting enemy shots. You are by far the most important crew member, because without you the ship would fall apart. Engineering, Crafts, Education You are the ship’s muscle. You are in charge of loading and unloading the cargo, making sure everything is strapped down tight, and prepared for the flight. You are handy in a bar fight, or street brawl. But it’s space combat when your skills really shine. You are a crack shot, both with a ray gun and with the heavy laser turret. You can alway line up a perfect shot. You are by far, the most important crew member, because without you, they’d be sitting ducks to be plucked by Space Pirates. Shoot, Fight, Physique Your ship is Advanced Astronautics Dauntless 600 Interstellar Rocket Ship (AA D-600). It’s designated as a light cargo hauler / passenger carrier. Your ship was modified with a military issue Heavy Laser Turret installed in the Observation Deck. The ship is a character that the players will create along side their characters. When creating the ship: Give it 3 aspects as to a regular character (High Aspect, Trouble and one aspect related to it’s past owner, or how the crew obtained it) Leave space for two additional aspects to be gained during play Assign the ship no skills or stunts. All rolls will depend on crew skills. Give the ship Recharge of 2. Give the ship 1 stunt that can be useful in combat, that makes this ship unique The ship has two stress tracks: Hull Stress works like physical stress for a character. Your ship starts with two boxes and may gain more. Shield Capacity starts with two boxes. The Shield stress track is to be used only when actively defending via Shields. If damage is taken in excess of Shield Capacity, the Shield is Taken Out for the remainder of the scene. It must cool off, and be re-calibrated before it’s used again, but no repair roll is necessary. If shields are powered down, or in cruise mode when hit, you must use the Hull Stress track. You can use this modified character sheet: The ship may gain two additional aspects (to a total of 5) during game play. During the game players may invoke the aspects of their ship by using the ship’s own FATE points. Ship to Ship Combat counts as Physical Conflict. Treat each ship involved in combat as a single character. Use Cpatain’s Notice skill to determine the turn order, and break any ties by using Pilot’s, Gunner’s and then Engineer’s skill (in that specific sequence) During each Exchange each crew member may perform one action. The following special actions affect the ship as a whole: Create Advantage: Pilot may attempt to create an advantage over the enemy ship(s) by carefully maneuvering the rocket into an advantageous position. This should be rolled against the enemy pilot skill. A captain may also attempt to create advantage by observing the enemy ship via Lidar to find weak spots, maneuvering patterns that could be exploited. Attack: the Gunner may use their Shoot skill to attack the enemy ship. Defend: If attacked, the Pilot or the Engineer may use an appropriate skill to defend against an incoming attack. If Pilot chooses to Defend we call it Evading. If Engineer chooses to defend, we call it Blocking. When Evading use Piloting skill to defend. If damage is taken, use Hull Stress track. When Blocking use Engineering skill to defend. If damage is taken, use Shields Capacity stress track. The Captain may also try to perform mental Attack actions using the Shortwave Radio. In that case, they will be rolling against the enemy Capitan, and the damage and consequences are applied to said character rather than the ship. Your D-600 has an old, aging reactor, which does not yield enough power to run all the ship systems at the same time. To represent this, you can use the optional power management mini-game in ship-to-ship combat to make it more interesting. Power management works as follows: Ship’s reactor generates a fixed number of Power Points (PP) which should be represented by appropriate tokens Each of the ship’s systems consumes a set number of PP per Exchange to operate At the start of an Exchange all the tokens are placed on the Reactor system on the Ship’s character chart Before any actions are declared, Engineers assign the tokens to ship systems in secret, then reveal them at the same time From that point on the Exchange proceeds as normal, but systems that have not been assigned enough PP to meet their minimum, cannot be used Overcharging: in order to perform stunts, relevant ship system must be supplied with extra power. Place an extra token on said system to pay for stunt use. The resource management should only be used during Conflict resolution, and can be ignored during regular (boring) ship use, when the party just wants to get from point A to point B. Your D-600 is powered by a standard nuclear power source for that model. If the reactor is damaged, the ship is completely out of power and is considered adrift. The reactor output: 8 PP per Exchange The Rocket engine is used for normal space flight, take-offs, landing and docking operations. During combat, it is required to perform any actions that require ship to move or change position. It also allows to use the Pilot skill for Active defense against shots or ram attempts. Minimum power required: 3 PP per Exchagne Life Support system covers air, water, waste recycling as well as artificial gravity on the ship. It requires a constant supply of power while the ship is in outer space, but can be temporarily disabled if PP are needed elsewhere. The immediate consequence of disabling this system is that it cuts the artificial gravity. This means anything not strapped down starts to float and bound around. Crew members without the Astronaut stunt face penalties for working in Zero-G. The long term effect is that ship’s air is no longer recycled, so the crew has about 20 minutes before they start suffocating. Minimum power required: 1 PP per Exchange Your D-600 is fitted with a standard Hyperdrive that allows you to perform hyperspace jumps. It has no obvious utility in combat, except for when the ship’s crew is trying to make a quick escape. In a Conflict the Hyperdrive must operate for at least 4 consecutive Exchanges without interruption in order to successfully initiate a hyperspace jump. A Crew member must be assigned to operate and program in the course into it over that period and they may not do anything else. If they are interrupted, or the power is cut before the 4 Exchanges have elapsed then the process must be restarted from the beginning. Force Field (also referred to as Shields) is mainly used for deflecting laser shots or space debris that would otherwise damage your ship’s hull. When the ship is Attacked, a Crew member operating the Force Field system (usually the Engineer) may use their Engineering skill to Defend from the attack. If the Force Field is active, damage can be recorded on the Shields stress track, rather than on the Hull stress track. The Force Field is also used during Hyperspace travel, but it can usually be run in low power mode where the drain on reactor is negligible. This feature has no combat utility and can be safely ignored (assume Shields are on while in Hyperspace at all times) unless the system is damaged. A small medical room is tucked into the corner of the Cargo Bay next to the Life Support systems. It contains a fully stocked medicine cabinet, surgical tools, one surgery table and three stasis chambers that can stabilize a patient in critical condition. The chambers may also be used to enter suspended sleep state if the Hyperdrive is broken and the ship is adrift. In Combat the med bay can be shut off, unless you need the Stasis Chambers to be running: for example if transporting a patient in a critical condition. If the power is cut, the chambers gracefully shuts down and wake up the patients. Each chamber can be connected to an external power supply, and placed on a dolly for transport to a hospital. The AA D-600 has limited visibility out of the Bridge canopy and uses a Lidar array for sensor readings. Lidar works by illuminating targets with laser light and reading the reflected beams. It works like a sonar but can provide a lot more information and works at the speed of light. Lidar is located on the Bridge and looks a bit like a bulky submarine periscope. It is typically used by the Captain who can use it’s readings to instruct the Pilot. Lidar has two modes: passive and active. In passive mode it will detect any objects that generate or deflect light. It can also be used to detect heat from rocket engines, and systems. If a rocket shuts off it’s engines, and there is no nearby source of strong light (like a sun) it may be very hard to distinguish from a space debris. In Active Scanning Mode the Lidar can be used to make long range scans by illuminating targets with various wavelengths of laser light. It can be used to identify the exact model of the enemy ship, see if it has active force fields, detect presence of a working reactor, scan for life signs and etc. When a ship uses Lidar in active mode it lights up like a Christmas tree and reveals ship’s position. During combat, Lidar can be used to identify enemy weaknesses, and used for Create Advantage action. Minimum power required: 1 PP per Exchagne in Active Scanning Mode Used for ship-to-ship or ship-to-planet communication. Uses standard analog radio wave and has rather limited range. Players will have to use to request permission to land or coordinate docking with another ship or space station. All rooms have wired communications that require negligible power, and will work as long as the reactor is running. They do not depend on the Shortwave Radio subsystem. In combat, the Radio is mainly used for Ship to Ship communication. If the Capitan wanted to Provoke the enemy Crew, this system would have to be on Standard Ansible allowing for instant interstellar communication at roughly 3 Bytes per minute. It allows one to send a message to any other Ansible in the universe, provided you know it’s unique routing number. Ansible must be powered on to send out messages. In combat assume you are able to send one written word per Exchange. Minimum power required: 1 PP per Exchagne while Sending Military equipment, retro-fitted to work with D-600. It can sustain 3 second high intensity beam that can be used to damage another ship, clear space debris out of the way and etc. The turret can be used once per Exchange. During combat it will almost exclusively be used to make Attack actions. It can also be used to Defend from a projectile weapon (eg. a torpedo) or to blast space junk or debris to Create Advantage. In all the above cases, the Gunner’s Shoot skill would be used. Minimum power required: 4 PP per Shot The ship is expected to gain new Aspects and Stunts as the campaign goes by, and that is it’s main progression. Unlike characters, it does not have skills it could improve. The crew could however choose to upgrade some of the ship systems, or install new modules. An obvious upgrade is a better reactor that generates few more PP per Exchange. Other possible upgrades to consider: Better Force Field (add stress boxes to the Shields track) Better Turret (add a Weapon Rating extra) Armor Plating (add stress boxes to the Hull track) A whole new Systems module with unique functionality Eventually the Crew could even upgrade to a new ship with a new set of aspects and different module slots. All decks are air tight, and connected via two hatches to the deck above and two hatches the deck below. The primary hatches are all aligned into a column that allow a person to freely climb up and down between decks. There are also maintenance hatches that are in different places (but clearly marked by hazard stripes). Maintenance hatches are usually closed while not in use. All hatches are sealed manually. All rooms and sections within a deck can be sealed individually via air tight door. The seals on all doors are manual. Deck 1: Engines – Sits on top of the rocket exhaust. Divided into Reactor Room and Engine Room. Reactor Room is sealed off, and accessible via a air-lock door and requires a radiation suit to enter. Engine room has the Engineering Station that allows the Engineer to shut down and power up ship systems at will. It also houses the Hyperdrive Engine. Frorce Fields Deck 2: Cargo Bay – Used for storing hauled cargo. Also includes external air lock, automated ladder, and a crane system for pulling up large boxes off the ground. The crane must be operated by a crew member. The air-lock can be wide open when the ship has landed, but at all other times, only one set of doors can be open. The air-lock doors are automatic and controlled via a panel inside the Cargo Bay. There is a manual override on the outside which uses a gear box to close and seal inside door and open the outside door via a crank shaft. It is usually hidden behind a reinforced panel that requires a key carried by the Capitan. Within the Air Lock there are 3 lockers with one Space Suit each. Small section of the huge Cargo Bay space is sectioned off to house Life Support systems. The machinery simply did not fit in the Engie Deck. The emergency hatch to the Engineering Deck actually opens into the Life Support toom. Some Engineers like to keep that hatck open, and lock the Life Support room from the rest of Cargo Bay. Right next to the Life Support there is a tiny Med Bay with three stasis chambers. It was placed here to avoid taking sick crew up to the living quarters deck to minimize contamination. The room has a small air-lock entrance with a decontamination shower. There is a locker with a single hazmat suit outside. Decks 3: Living Quarters – Seven rooms for crew and passengers, connected by a common area in the middle. The common area has a small kitchen, large conference/dining table, as well as a shared restroom with a stall, sink and a shower. Deck 4: Bridge – contains pilot station, Captain’s chair, and Lidar. The other half of the deck is the Observatory which was retro-fitted to house the Heavy Laser Turret which takes up most of it. Deck 5 – tip of the rocket. Houses the Ansible, the radio equipment and antennas. It also houses the Captain’s Cabin. Rockets are iconic and important to the setting. Your D-600 is special and unique ship, because it belongs to your party. Similarly, important NPC ships may also have unique aspects and features. There are however going to be dozens of other ships you may encounter, which are not going to be important enough to warrant a character sheet. Below you can find brief descriptions of popular ship models you might encounter during your adventures. Each model will have an aspect (in italics) and sometimes a stunt or an extra associated with it. Enduring class ships are fast but cheep and not very durable. Mercurial class ships have been built for speed and comfort, not for combat. Dilligent class ship is a dependable workhorse favored by space merchants Divergent class ships are light, well armed military crafts usually used by planetary defense or law enforcement (Weapon Class: 1) Dauntless class ship may be slow and does not look like much, but its dependable Intrepid class ships are cargo haulers that are built like race cars Peerless class ship is a piece of junk that belongs in a museum Falcon class ship was built for fast atmospheric dogfighting used for planetary invasions Swift class ships are blindingly fast, hard hitting glass cannon and are mainly used as deep space interceptors Wasp class ships are slow but steady, colonial workhorse used as military transports or cargo haulers (Armor Class: 1) On average, even the slowest Arcturian saucer is more maneuverable than the fastest rocket. They do however are at a disadvantage in deep interstellar space where their anti-gravity engines can’t provide enough thrust. Traveler class saucers are agile but fragile Vanquisher class saucers are frighteningly maneuverable, light military warships Observer class ship is sluggish for a saucer, but surprisingly tough and durable Slag ships are heavily armored, and all have Armor Class: 1 unless specified otherwise. Armadillo class ship is a flying fortress Razorspine class ships bristle with weaponary Thunderstrike ships are nothing but engines Moravec ships have no Life Support or Artificial Gravity. Moonstrider class ships are solid cargo haulers, with fragile landing struts Stargazer class ships have vulnerable hull but powerful force field Triton class ships are faster than they look, but not very maneuverable Vegan ships have their Artificial Gravity turned down to a fraction of what Humans consider comfortable. Starstrider class ship turns on a dime Moonraker class ships have powerful engines, lots of weapons but little cargo space Sunspot class ships are built for speed at the cost of armor Computers do exist in this setting but they are huge, unwieldy and expensive machines that take up an entire room. They require high Engineering skill to operate properly. Most computers are programmed via patch cables, or punch cards. A portable computer that will fit on a space ship, will take up almost entire upper deck, and will be programmed via patch cables and manual switches. Computers used in research facilities are almost universally punch-card driven. Punch card decks (pictured above) are the default programming medium, while large magnetic spool tapes are used for data storage. Both can be used as McGuffins or objectives. Punch cards are portable but fragile. Messing up their order will destroy the program, unless the author took time to number the cards. A deck can be read directly and require at least a Fair (+2) or better Engineering roll. Magnetic spools are about the size of a spare tire for a medium size passenger car, and weigh about as much. They require special hardware to read. Ansibles are used for instantaneous interstellar communication. They are able to transmit data at the constant, uninterrupted rate of 3 bytes per minute, regardless of distance. A standalone Ansible is a machine about the size of a small work desk, that contains a teletype device with a keyboard. Typed text is buffered in temporary memory that can hold up to 256 Bytes of data. Received output is printed directly onto the paper spool. Because of the limitations of technology, most Ansibles work in text only mode and are used much like telegraph was back in the day. There exist versions of this device that can be used as general purpose computer modems but they are much bigger and more expensive since they require much more buffering memory. Ansibles are fairly simple to use, and do not require Computers skill to operate. A standard space suit is made out of thin, flexible space age material that provides perfect thermo-regulation. It will protect you from the extreme cold of outer space, and can withstand the heat of a ray weapon. The material is stretchy and flexible, but very difficult to tear or puncture. Most modern space suits are thin and form fitting, but bulkier, multi-layer, old suits are still in use in some places. Each suit comes with a reinforced glass bubble helmet that offers full peripheral vision, and a shoulder harness that mounts air tanks. Most suits also come with a utility belt with array of pouches and a number of attachment points for tools or weapons. The helmet has a built in radio unit, with a very short range. It can be sued to communicate with the ship while working outside of it but it is very low powered and maximum range is only about 5 miles. The radio uses a battery is carried in a pouch attached to the belt, and it can sustain 20 minutes of continuous use which is usually enough for most space walks. The suit also has a small speaker on the front of the collar that can be also used for close proximity communication. Each suit comes with a utility belt that has a pouch for the battery, a small length of elastic rope with few hooks and carbiners, a foldable multi-tool as well as patch kit that can be used to seal the suit if it’s torn, or fix cracks in the helmet. Some space suits may have special features: for example protective ceramic plating, better radio, bigger tanks. A better suit should be taken as an Extra for a character. Ray guns are the most commonly used type of fire-arms. The gun itself is a small pistol, which is useless without the large battery pack to which it is attached by a coiled cable. The battery pack usually comes with a shoulder strap, and worn at the hip. Some space suits come with a dedicated mount for the battery pack. When the user squeezes the trigger the gun starts emitting a laser beam until the trigger is released. The battery pack has a few dials and switches which require at least Average Shoot skill to operate properly. The analog dials and switches allow the user to set beam intensity, power cap, automatic cut-off and etc. In game terms all of this is simplified to 3 settings: Low – is a non-lethal setting. The beam can be sustained for up to 3 seconds and it will burn through clothing and damage electronic equipment but will not melt through solid walls. A person shot by a ray gun on Low settings will suffer nasty 3rd degree burns but won’t suffer major internal damage. A standard space suit can usually protect from one or two direct hits. Weapon Rating: -1 Medium – can be sustained for up to 2 seconds. Will burn a hole straight through flesh damaging internal organs. A person wearing standard space suit will suffer burns as if hit by a Low beam. It is possible to hit up to two people with the same beam if they are lined up, in which case the second person suffers damage as if hit by Low beam. Medium beam will damage electronics and machinery and will burn through wood, but won’t pierce metal or concrete walls. Space suits offer no protection, but ceramic armor does. Weapon Rating: 1 High – can be sustained for up to 1 second. High beam will burn right through metal and concrete. If shot on board of a space ship, it will likely cause a hull breach and decompression. It is possible to hit multiple targets, or targets behind cover by simply shooting right through them. Ceramic Armor offers adequate protection. Weapon Rating: 3 A battery pack has 60 units of power. Power usage depends on beam intensity: Low Beam: 1 unit per second (60 pin point shots, 30 two seconds sweeps, 20 three second sweeps) Medium Beam: 2 units per second (30 pin point shots, 15 two second sweeps) High Beam: 5 units per second (12 pin point shots) The gun will automatically cut-off when it starts to over-heat. Players with high Shoot skill may take Stunts that allow them over-heat the Ray Gun for longer sweeps, or additional effects. A battery powered, portable radio that can be used to communicate between a planet surface and a ship in orbit. The device weighs about 80lbs and has a battery that allows for about an hour of continuous use. The ship should have at least one of these available in the Cargo Bay. The radio can be tuned to a number of frequencies, but should be pre-set on a channel that will connect it with the Ship’s radio array. Anyone who can overcome a Medicore difficulty Engineering test can tune it to another ship’s channel. 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__label__wiki	0.68878	0.68878	Memorial Service in Vancouver Today for Rick Rypien, 27 It is terrifically sad that this offseason has seen another untimely passing of a hockey player, not overly talented but much beloved. In May, it was Derek Boogaard of the Rangers; this week, it was Rick Rypien, who was about to report to the Winnipeg Jets. Instead of lacing up his skates, today, at the Rogers Centre, Vancouver fans arrived to pay tribute to Rypien, who was found dead on Monday. Renowned for being a rough and tumble player at 5'9", he also got a lot of attention for roughing up a fan during a game with the Minnesota Wild last October, which garnered him with a 6 game suspension. I think everyday, the longer you’re here, the more you play, e veryday you wake up and feel how very fortunate you are and very grateful. -- 11/16/10 interview He had last played for the Canucks but was getting ready to join his new team, the Winnipeg Jets, within the day. Like Derek Boogaard, his death came as a surprise and can be attributable to illness. An enforcer on the ice like Derek, Rypien's death also brought out an outpouring of grief from teammates at all levels of his hockey career and from the passionate hockey fans of Vancouver. This article from the Vancouver Sun is touching and delves into some of the reasons he may have been depressed. A memorial was set up at the Rogers Centre and pictures have been posted throughout the day. Perhaps the most moving tribute is this letter that someone posted that imagines Rypien reuniting with Luc Bourdon, the 21 year old former Canuck player, who died nearly 3 years ago in a motorcycle accident: "The ice goes on forever and it's so smooth it's as if a zamboni is always one stride ahead of him." R.I.P., Rick Rypien, and we send our condolences to his family, friends and fellow fans. Below are some other photos. --- The Graying Mantis Posted by Graying Mantis at Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Memorial Service in Vancouver Today for Rick Rypie...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2626
__label__cc	0.687464	0.312536	ToxicsWatch, Journal of Earth, Science, Economy and Justice Journal of Earth, Science, Economy and Justice (JESEJ) incorporates insights from the fields of sciences which have implications for Earth and her economy. This journal is an initiative of East India Research Council (EIRC). Issues » Hazardous Industries Watersheds and River Basins Military Mining Industrial Complex Urban Crisis Laws and Legislations Campaigns » Occupational Health India Ban Asbestos Network of India Stop Hazardous Waste Trade Regulate Hazardous Technologies Ban the Bottled Water Promoting Car Free Culture Statements » Documents » Home » » US Government’s Ship Disposal Policy Anti-India, Anti-Environment US Government’s Ship Disposal Policy Anti-India, Anti-Environment Written By Krishna on Thursday, June 21, 2012 \| 11:21 PM Barack Obama administration export of dead and toxic ships like Platinum –II, 'Exxon Valdez' and now 'Delaware Trader' to Indian waters poisons fragile Indian coastal environment, workers, fishermen, villagers Supreme Court's actions are consistent Cartagena Resolution for UN's Basel Ban Amendment forbidding export of hazardous wastes from rich countries New Delhi, June 22, 2012 – Yet another dead and hazardous US flagged ship, “DELAWARE TRADER” (IMO No. 8008929) has been cleared by the U.S. Maritime Administration (US MARAD) for dismantling in the infamous shipbreaking yards of Alang beach, Bhavnagar, Gujarat. It is expected to arrive in Indian waters in the coming days. It was last reported at the Port of Maputo, Mozambique on 13 June, 2012. In an act that tests the legal might of Indian law enforcement agencies, this authorization and export of the toxic ship comes within weeks of the recent Supreme Court of India ruling that barred the U.S. built EXXON VALDEZ (renamed ORIENTAL NICETY, now called MV ORIENTAL N) from berthing at Indian shipbreaking beaches due to non-compliance with UN’s Basel Convention on Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal on the complaint by ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA). The EXXON VALDEZ is currently located off Mumbai in a manifest act of illegality. The violations of Supreme Court’s order, international law and the complicit violations of Indian laws and U.S. law is on full display. The rule of law will be tested once again when the DELAWARE TRADER soon arrives in Indian waters, the court will surely compel it to comply with its order. TWA, an applicant in the Supreme Court in the Exxon Valdez case (hazardous wastes/shipbreaking matter) has sent a letter to the Government of India and relevant state agencies intimating them of grave concerns about maritime security and environmental security in particular and national security in general as has been outlined in the Ministry of Defence documents. TWA has submitted that there are hazardous materials, such as asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), used in the ship's construction. Workers condition on the Alang beach is one of the worst. They are under extremely dangerous and polluting conditions where workers labor on tidal sands to cut ships up by hand, exposing themselves to the risks of toxic chemicals, fires, explosions and falling steel plates. Pollutants are allowed to flow unimpeded into the marine environment. U.S.-based ship recyclers and environmental organizations are wondering as to why Government of USA is allowing what is very likely to be illegal exports instead of recycling the ships at home. TWA condemns Barack Obama Administration's U.S. ship disposal policy that ignores the law, poisons workers and export its harm to countries like India where competence and infrastructure to deal with its own hazardous wastes is starkly missing. The DELAWARE TRADER was built in 1982 with a U.S. taxpayer-guaranteed loan – funds from the Title XI Federal Ship Financing Program. While this government backed loan has since been settled, the PCBs, asbestos and other hazardous materials used to construct the ship have not been properly addressed. The MARAD did notify the U.S. EPA of probable concerns with PCB contamination given the vessel's vintage, and reminded the EPA that the vessel’s export could violate the U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Under TSCA an export of any vessel containing regulated concentrations (PCBs >50 parts per million) in any material on the ship would be illegal. The EPA however ignored MARAD's warning and chose to simply look the other way, thereby authorizing the vessel for export to India for disposal with no assessment of PCB content in the ship. This export then is likely to be a violation of U.S. law. The export of the DELAWARE TRADER to India is also a breach of the United Nations Basel Convention, which prohibits the dumping of hazardous wastes on developing countries. While the U.S. is an active observer of Basel proceedings, the U.S. has still not formally ratified the Convention. Therefore, as a non-party state, the U.S. is not permitted to export waste to Basel-ratifying states such as India. Thus, U.S. ships that land on India’s shipbreaking beaches violate the fundamental rules of the Basel Convention and are illegal under international law. Unlike the U.S. government, the Supreme Court of India has taken notice and blocked the berthing of U.S. built EXXON VALDEZ in May 2012 after it arrived in Indian waters without first being pre-cleaned of hazardous waste. The court’s actions are consistent with multilateral decisions made in October 2011, when 178 parties to the Basel Convention met in Cartagena, Colombia to not only re-endorse the Basel Ban Amendment forbidding the export of hazardous wastes from rich to poorer countries, but also resolve that the Basel Convention must continue to prohibit the dumping of end-of-life vessels on developing countries. TWA urges central government to enforce the letter and spirit of Basel Ban Amendment and Basel Convention to save India's environment from hazardous waste trade mafia. TWA has asked concerned Ministries of Government of India and Gujarat State to block the DELAWARE TRADER from entering its waters and to uphold the principles of the Basel Convention in the same manner as the recent Supreme Court action against the U.S. built EXXON VALDEZ. The DELAWARE TRADER and the EXXON VALDEZ were both constructed at the same yard, and therefore likely contain similar hazards within their construction. TWA appeals to the Government of USA to take immediate steps to change its ship disposal policy so that such ships never again are exported to countries like India to exploit desperate laborers. TWA hold that US Maritime Administration (US MARAD) is attempting to set a bad precedent for hundreds of such ships to be dumped in Indian waters in connivance by US MARAD and some gullible Indian officials. It wishes to repeat its dubious act witnessed in the case of Platinum II (ex SS INDPENDENCE, MV OCEANIC), a dead and hazardous US ship, the real owners had taken Indian law enforcement agencies for a ride due to lack of coordination and cooperation between concerned ministries. In an Office Memorandum No.29-3/2009-HSMD, Government of India, Ministry of Environment & Forests, (HSM Division) dated 9th May, 2011, relating to implementation of Supreme Court directions in respect of ship breaking activities, the previous dead and convicted US ship, Platinum II (Ex SS Oceanic, MV Oceanic) was denied beaching permission but it remained in Indian waters without beaching. It had left US waters despite indictment by US Environment Protection Agency with the apparent connivance of US MARAD. It had entered Indian waters on proven fake documents. The attached letter has been sent to Union Defence Minister with copies to concerned ministries and departments like Ministry of Shipping, Union Ministry of Environment & Forests, Union Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Union Ministry of Steel, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Mumbai, Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB), Anti Corruption Branch, Gandhinagar, Central Bureau Investigation and Office of Commissioner, Customs, Ahmedabad besides Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes. The matter has also been brought to the attention of Sanjay Parikh, the Supreme Court lawyer who is pursuing the matter since 1995. Meanwhile, Basel Action Network, an environmental organization of the USA based in Seattle has issued a statement charged Obama Administration of ignoring U.S. Law and poisons Asian workers. It has denounced U.S. Ship Disposal Policy calling it 'Shameful' following the export of 'Exxon Valdez' and 'Delaware Trader' to Indian beaches. TWA has sought urgent intervention in this matter of environmental security concerns from the entry of dead US vessel, MV Oriental N (formerly Exxon Valdez, Oriental Nicety, Exxon Mediterranean, Sea River Mediterranean, S/R Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and Dong Fang Ocean) to ensure that the dead and toxic US vessel is sent away from the Indian waters. TWA demands that those officials of Ministry of Shipping, GPCB and GMB who allowed Platinum II to remain in Indian waters despite denial of permission for beaching must be probed and punished. It is noteworthy that USA’s regulations and European Union regulations prohibit the entry of such vessels in their waters. For Details: Gopal Krishna, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA), Mb: 08002263335, 09818089660, E-mail:krishna1715@gmail.com, Web: toxicswatch.blogspot.com 1.5 degree C target (1) 45th US President Donald Trump (1) A K Sikri Protik Prakash Banerjee (1) Aadhaar Act (8) Aadhaar Amendment Bill. 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__label__cc	0.512315	0.487685	True Lithuania Accomodation and Food Transportation (get in & around) Warnings, dangers and red tape History&Today Famous Lithuanians Aukštaitija (Northeast) Dzūkija (Southeast) Lithuania Minor (Southwest) Samogitia (Northwest) Sudovia (South) The environs of Lithuania Castles and fortresses The Rule of Russian Empire in Lithuania (1795-1918) What initially started as a mere change of the ruler from a Polish-Lithuanian king to a Russian czar eventually led to a major russification drive. Administratively Lithuania was divided into the area directly acquired by Russia in 1795 and the area acquired from Prussia after the Napoleonic wars (in 1815). The latter was part of the nominally autonomous Kingdom of Poland and lived under the Napoleonic Code whereas the earlier was directly ruled by the Russian Empire. Napoleon's Grande Armee crosses Nemunas to start the doomed invasion of Russia (Kaunas, 1812). The 500000-strong army both advanced and retreated through Lithuania, leaving 80000 dead troops and hopes for Grand Duchy restoration unfulfilled. In 1831 and 1863 the local nobility led revolts against the Russian rule attempting to restore the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Both were crushed despite some initial successes and their leaders were dispossessed. Some of the Lithuanian countryside and cities were then settled by Russians. In the year 1832, the Vilnius University was closed. By the year 1865, printed Lithuanian language was banned. A policy of “Restoration of the Russian beginnings” was initiated as the Russian propaganda claimed that before Polonization the Lithuanian lands were, in fact, Russian. The Roman Catholic Church was persecuted, with some church buildings torn down and some others handed over to the Russian Orthodox church. New Russian Orthodox churches sprung in the New Towns of the largest cities. The Uniates, regarded as schismatic Orthodoxes, were disbanded altogether. Mikhail Muravyov, nicknamed “The hangman”, was made the governor-general of ethnically Lithuanian governorates. Russification era construction and destruction in Vilnius. Left image: Baroque St. Joseph church undergoing demolition (1877). Right image: a pompous unveiling of M. Muravyov statue in 1898. The persecutions failed to defeat Lithuanians. Knygnešiai (literally “bookcarriers”) smuggled the banned Lithuanian books from the Lithuania Minor (a historical fact declared to be completely unique by UNESCO). Illegal Lithuanian-language schools were set up in villages. Catholic priest Motiejus Valančius led the Abstinence Movement aimed at resisting the Russian policy of weakening the masses through making them addicted to alcohol. It was during the late 19th century when the popular idea of liberation among ethnic Lithuanians switched from restoration of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to an establishment of a smaller independent state on the Lithuanian ethnic lands, leaving the rest of the former Grand Duchy to the Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Polish ethnic states. These events (altogether known as the Lithuanian National Revival) tamed the long-term assimilation-induced decline of the Lithuanian-inhabited area and their share therein. Economically Russia was backward compared to the Western Europe and while there was some infrastructure development, such as the Saint Petersburg-Warsaw railroad of 1861 that went through Vilnius, this was far from the Western standards. Moreover, the official class division of the society was rigorously supported by the state and only in the year 1861 the farmers ceased to be regarded as a property of the local nobles. Rietavas Palace of Oginskiai family, built in mid-19th century. Lithuania's first telephone line (1882) and power station (1892) were established in this Samogitian manor. Those were the final decades before cultural/technological hubs moved from manors to the cities. Painting by Napoleon Orda. Unlike Latvia (where Riga was among the 5 largest cities of the Russian Empire) Lithuania was expected by the Russians to remain an agricultural hinterland. The industrialization and urbanization that defined 19th century elsewhere in Europe, therefore, remained limited but the towns and cities were still growing much faster than ever before. Lithuanians seeking industrial jobs migrated elsewhere: some to the major cities of the Russian Empire such as Riga or Saint Petersburg, others to the USA. In 1900 there were more Lithuanian speakers in Riga and Chicago than in any city in Lithuania (where the few cities that existed were dominated by Polish speakers and Jews). In Lithuania Minor, the cities were largely German while some Lithuanian towns and villages gradually Germanized over the century. In spite of this Lithuania Minor, technologically advanced and devoid of discriminatory Russian policies, remained a fortress of Lithuanian National Revival. 'Nauja Lietuviška Ceitunga' and 'Nauja Aušra' Lithuanian newspapers, both published in 1890s Tilžė, Lithuania Minor. 'Nauja Aušra' was to be illegally distributed inside Russian-occupied Lithuania by knygnešiai (so it used Polonized orthography) while 'Nauja Lietuviška Ceitunga' was aimed at Lithuania Minor market (therefore it preferred fraktur typeset and more German loanwords). The Russian Empire started to crumble in 1904 when it lost the war to Japan and had to give in to some demands of its minorities. Lithuanian language was permitted once again and the Lithuanian countryside sprung up with new Roman Catholic church spires. In 1915 the Germans captured Lithuania-proper during the First World War. In 1917 Russia surrendered to Germany (after the war hardships led to a revolution in Russia) and renounced any claims to the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, while the subsequent German losses in the Western Front led to a possibility to declare independence of Lithuania on February 16th, 1918. Simplified map of the ethnic-linguistic situation of Lithuania ~1900. It could not depict the mixed areas, numerous ethnolinguistic enclaves, diglossia and dual identities that prevailed alongside ethnolinguistic boundaries. ©Augustinas Žemaitis. See also: Top 10 Russian Imperial era sites in Lithuania Article written by Augustinas Žemaitis Click to learn more about Lithuania: History Leave a comment alexis Lapenas Gestes Bradow January 10th, 2015 - 22:09 thank you I am grateful to learn of the life of my grandparents ( REPLY ) leboeufsage March 23rd, 2015 - 20:27 Russia did not surrender to Germany in 1917. Russia’s revolutionaries were not in favour of Russia’s involvement in WW1. On 3rd March 1918 Russia signed a peace treaty with Germany, Austro-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, to end Russia’s involvement in the war. This treaty is known as The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. There was no Russian surrender as claimed in the above. What you probably meant by saying “Russia did not surrender” was that “Russia did not surrender unconditionally” (like Germany or Japan did after World War 2). However, unconditional surrender is just one type of surrender and a pretty rare one. There were no unconditional surrenders in World War 1. “Exit from war” through a treaty ceding many lands and gaining nothing comparable in return (as happened with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk) is also a surrender, though not an unconditional one. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was not any different in substance than the treaties Germany, Ottoman Empire, Austria or Hungary signed at the end of World War 1, each of them also alienating vast areas (mostly inhabitted by non-titular ethnicities). In fact, the total European lands Germany lost under Treaty of Versailles were even smaller than what Russia lost with Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The website is full of hate against russian. And propagate allot of lies, it must be the work of an American. The Lithuanian people will believe anything. But they do not know that it was poland and Lithuania that invaded russia four hundred years ago and they do not want to know… My great great grandfather came to New York from Lithuania in 1899. My great grandparents also came to the U.S. from Lithuania in 1899. They reported in the 1910 US Census that they came from Polish Russia and spoke Polish. In the 1920 US Census, they reported that they were born in Russian Poland and spoke Polish. But in the 1930 US Census, they reported that they were born in Lithuania and spoke Lithuanian. I’m trying to figure out from where they emigrated. December 21st, 2019 - 00:42 See the article Poles in Lithuania. The thing is, due to the history of joint Poland-Lithuania state (before 1795) many Lithuanians considered themselves to also be Poles and the two nations finally separated (in the mindsets of the people) only during the interwar period when the Polish-Lithuanian conflict over Vilnius made it impossible for somebody to have a “double allegiance”. Both Poland and Lithuania were ruled by Russia in 1795-1915, thus they were also Russian citizens. So, I think your great grandparents were Lithuanians from Lithuania. They probably also spoke Polish as a second language (seen as prestige-language at the time by many), as well as Russian which was the language of the then-ruling regime. They were Russian Empire citizens. Until 1920 they still saw Polish as a more prestigious and well-known language and culture and thus reported it rather than the more obscure Lithuanian culture. In 1930, as the Polish-Lithuanian conflict was raging, they likely no longer saw Polish as a prestige language and may have hated Poland for its occupation of Vilnius region. So, they reported Lithuanian and Lithuania as answers. Kristy W. February 18th, 2020 - 21:56 Good information-thank you-I had the same questions when researching my Lithuanian heritage. Glenn Robbins So if someone was born in either Grodno or Prussia around 1900, would they be considered Russian? Prussia (including Lithuania Minor) was a part of Germany. Grodno was a part of the Russian Empire. So, by citizenship, people would be German citizens (in Germany) or Russian citizens (in Grodno). Take note that in this era (and to a large extent even today) citizenship mattered little in the Eastern Europe. Ethnicity and religion mattered more. So, an ethnic Lithuanian from the areas would consider himself a Lithuanian – rather than German or Russian, despite the citizenship. Citizenship was often seen as something forced upon by a foreign empire, akin to the situation in extra-European colonies. At the time, Grodno had Belarusian, Polish, and Lithuanian ethnic communities. East Prussia had German, Lithuanian, Jewish and Polish ethnic communities. If you asked any person of the area “are you Russian?” at this time, he would have answered “No” – except if he was a Russian immigrant to the area. This is despite the fact that most people of Grodno were citizens of the Russian Empire but they would have still said “I am a Pole”, “I am a Belarusian”, “I am a Lithuanian”, “I am a Jew” rather than a Russian. Susan milusauckas stark March 22nd, 2016 - 01:18 Hi , thank you for the information on Lithuania , my grandfather was born in Kaunas , Lithuania and my grandmother was born Vera kulbok in Vilnius , Lithuania . My grandfather list on the us census that he was born in Russia and my grandmother in the republic of Lithuania . I don’t understand and they left Lithuania in 1910 for the USA . Dana Peshka October 31st, 2017 - 01:32 My grandfather arrived here in the US in April of 1910! Pauline Deress May 17th, 2016 - 18:37 My grandfather was born in Laizeva Lithuania June 1875. I would like to find family records for him — his parents, siblings, school records, marriage records and any genealogical information. How can I accomplish this? We (the True Lithuania website) provide heritage search services in Lithuanian achives. We can contact you by e-mail you have provided when writing this comment with more details (you may also contact us at tour.baltic@gmail.com ). Anton (Tony) Lileikis To : Augustinas Zemaitis Your History of Lithuania is great information. How can I get more information on my father Alexander Lileikis born 1893 in Schogaiten, Lithuania. My Grand father Ludwig Lileikis was also born in Schogaiten, Lithuania Robert Griskauskas October 4th, 2016 - 16:50 I enjoyed your article. Are you related to Algis Zemaitis? He is a relative of mine and I was wondering if perhaps we are also related. I don’t know Algis Žemaitis as related to me, however if you’d say where he is originated from and it will be the same villages / part of Lithuania then there may be relation. However, Žemaitis is a somewhat popular surname, meaning “Samogitian”. Chuck Crannell March 10th, 2017 - 01:19 I happend across this website trying to determine information about my great-grandfather who left Lithuania between 1903-06. I recently received his military records from a relative which suggests he was discharged to the Reserves (to 1917) in Butrimonys in Troki. I don’t know if it is typical to be discharged to the region from which you grew up? I would love to get an accurate translation of the contents and a cyrillic rendering of his name (which is hand-written in the document). Any suggestions as to where? It is interesting how Franc Mixajlov Vasilevskij (what somebody deciphered back in the 30’s) became Frank Waselefsky I am finding the information on this site quite fascinating, as it provides context for my great-grandparents’ immigration. I came across your name in 23 and me. We have common ancestor and I am wondering if it is Frank Waselefsky Just seeing this today. Not sure which kit you matched (could be up to four, but not me). Please contact me at 23andMe and mention this sight. Hi; sorry, I did not see your previous message on time. If you are still interested in a translation, we do offer translation services. Stephanie (Weber) Salas I’m trying to find any information about the families on my grandparents names for Zebellis and Yanueshes. How do I get started ? I need help I know very little about my grandparents in Lithuania. I have my grandmothers letters received from her family before ww11. The letters are in Lithuania. It is the best to start at your own location collecting as much information as possible (names, approximate dates, locations in Lithuania, etc.). The more you collect, the easier it will be on the “Lithuanian side”. Not every name or date is truly needed for a successful search and some missing details may be filled. In the letters, there may be locations in Lithuania written and such, so they are useful to read. After you collect all the possible information, in Lithuania, an archive search is needed whereby the details you collected would be used to learn more about the family and even more generations. We may offer translation services of the letters. We may also offer archive search services. What do you mean by website? Where do I go for Census reports ? Lithuanian census reports are not publically available online. In Lithuania, archives are the main location to seek for the personal data of ancestors. March 9th, 2018 - 05:30 it’s right Russia has very interested country James Hadeka April 4th, 2018 - 18:35 My grandfather arrived in the USA in 1907 and he said he was from Wilna. His name was Adolph Chadiko. My grandmother arrived in 1909 and stated she was Russian and was from Zwirbic. Her maiden name was Marya Pakelins. I have not been able to fin a city named Zwirbic. She always said she was from Vilnius and I don’t know if there might be a section of Vilnius named Zwirbic? The above information is registered at Ellis Island, New York, USA. The closest name of Vilnius area to Zwirbic would be Žvėrynas. More info: http://www.truelithuania.com/zverynas-borough-in-vilnius-176 . It should be noted, however, that, under the Russian Imperial rule, Vilnius was not just a city, but also the capital of the Vilnius governorate. Sometimes “from Vilnius” would have meant “From Vilnius governorate”, and this governorate covered the whole modern-day Eastern Lithuania as well as Western Belarus. Some emigrants who were of rural origins wanted to create urban roots for themselves this way, others simply used a name of the city somebody at least heard in America (capital of their governorate) rather than a name of some unknown village. There are numerous villages known as Žvirbliai and the like. Back in those days, there was no standard spelling, and people of different ethnicities would use different spellings for the same cities and locations (e.g. Vilnius / Wilno / Vilna / Wilna / Vilne). Victoria L. Bicunas I wonder if your grandfather and my grandfather were on the same ship that landed at Ellis Island. My grandfather arrived in Nov. or Dec. of 1907. Not far from Vilnius there are several villages with a similar names, in Lithuanian it is Žvirbli, but now it is the territory of Belarus, the name of the village in Russian is Жвирбли. Pakelins – it cannot be the female surname in Lithuanian and Russian, Lithuanian female surnames have an ending- aitė or -enė. And like a Russian female last name Pakelins sounds very strange too. Maybe Latvian? And there is not section of Vilnius named Zwirbic Eva p Waters I am seeking information on Petras and Eva Daugird from Lithuania. They had two sons William and Alex who were came to the U.S. around 1903 with their uncle Joseph Daugird (Dougert). William and Alex were hidden by monks before they left. It is said that there were hidden because of fear of the young boys being forced into the Russian Army. The parents of William and Alex were murdered and their land taken. We at True Lithuania provide heritage search services and search for the information in the Lithuanian archives (especially if you know more information, e.g. approximate locations and dates of birth). http://www.truelithuania.com/about-us-contacts Alán Vargas Santellano Vargas De LA O’ June 8th, 2018 - 22:16 Add to the fact that De La O means of the vino. And in the German languages it is: ‘Von A’ Also to add most names were taken away and hidden. Its why my grandma used her first name and that single first name Jetrudis. Hrethudies’ Since I remember her clearly she was definitely Russian or . Von A must clearly be Hethra-Este house, Hretha is the anglo-saxon form to say Hungary-Austria or Haustria and the Este house is Modera but they lost it and later Karl Ludwig must have added the Modena family too. Funny thing too though he really was an Anglophile Archduke of Lithuania since he used the “De LA O’” also and not just her first name. Angliophile means liking the Anglo-saxonian language and studying it. De could easily be Deutschland. LA for Lithuanian Archduke and O for The Bloodline or Össtria. So many meanings for the letter O. My Grolier Encyclopendia just referred to him as an Angliophile Archduke without the actual name and it is why i call him that. It does name his palace though. Before 1924 of course. Alan R Rochkus Thank you very much for this site. I know from 23 in me and family history that I am mostly Lithuaniuan and very proud. I just started researching family history (Kamarauskas and Rochkes) I found that my great grandfather, George Rochkes, immigrated to the US in 1898. I almost had a heat attack when it said from Russia (my family was never fond of Russians). Thank goodness your history research cleared that up for me! As best I can find the Kamarauskas family came from Kaunas and the Rochkes family came from Vilnus. Again, Thank you! I am glad the website helps you! Maryanne Schultz August 9th, 2019 - 17:57 My maternal grandmother’s name is Kamarauskas and was from Birštonas. My mom has been researching our family tree. By dumb luck, I was happy to have happened upon this site and very surprised to see reference to the Kamarauskas name. I will mention this site to her — perhaps we are related! William F. Janssen I have ancestors named Blum who emigrated from Marijampole in the 1890s. According to family lore, they once owned a horse farm where they raised white horses for army generals. I am aware of the state stud farm that was in Trakehnen (now Yasnaya Polyana in Kaliningrad, not far from Marijampole). Are you aware of any other horse farms in that area in that timeframe that could match the family description? Thanks for your help. I am not aware of any. However, it does not mean there weren’t any. Horses farms, like any businesses today (i.e. hotels, restaurants, shops, etc.) may have been both famous and not, big and small, and most of such undertakings fade into oblivion and only some remains well-known as with Trakehnen horse farm. For those not famous, the best place to start a research may be the Lithuanian archives. We may offer archive search services if needed. Diane E. Mayer Hello, I found your site while researching. My G-Grandfather brought his family over to America in April of 1903. Family story is he was a General (but for who?) and lived in Taurage/Tauraggon Prussia. So I believe he may have been a Prussian General!?. His children were all born in the 1880’s. Many other related families came to America in the 1890’s, but it is said he stayed behind to fight for the mother country (?). Apparently the Kossacks(?) were raiding/killing/raping, and my G-grandmother said “enough..we leave now”. They left behind a business (tavern/restaurant/rooms) took one trunk and 5 children and crossed the ocean. According the the manifest, he had a large sum of money (compared to the other travelers) Also I was told the Russians were trying to make him become part of their army? and also his sons. How could I find more info regarding him/our family? August 11th, 2019 - 06:21 The city of Taurage belonged to Prussia until 1793, after that it was Russian Empire. If your ancestors were engaged in trade, then they had no chance of becoming a Prussian officer or general – this was a special caste. There were no Cossacks in Taurage))). Cossacks – is was irregular cavalry; they lived (and live now) in southern Russia, not far from the Black Sea. Not completely true – actually, Tauragė belonged to Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) until 1795, at which point it was taken by the Russian Empire until 1915, when it was conquered by Germany in World War 1. Tauragė never actually belonged to Prussia, although it was near the Lithuanian-Prussian border of the time, and later Russian-Prussian border. February 23rd, 2019 - 20:48 Hello thank you for being here for us.I’m look for any info on my family I know my grandfather was born in Dauginava kaimas Lithuania around may 21 1894 then came to Boston.I would like to know of any family. His name is Simon Jakubauska. Thank you Russia did not surrender in Great War. This claim is already answered above in reply to comment by “leboeufsage” of 2015 03 23. I am trying to research my husband’s family (grand parents): John Charles Misheikis born 1/24/1886 in we think Laizvua, Lithuania. The town was spelled Lazowo on his 1942 United States World War II Draft Registration Cards. We also have his 1918 US WWII draft card and he is listed as Russian. He migrated from Lithuania to the U.S. in the early 1900’s. We have been told that he was in the Russian army, he was also taken by cattle car to Siberia. His wife was Anna Victoria Stulpinas Misheikis, born in Lithuania in 1894. We are tying to find John’s birth record which would reveal who is parents were. We have no information on his wife. Thank you so much for any direction you can provide. It would be beneficial to check the Lithuanian archives for Laižuva. We may do so on your behalf, if needed, and send you an offer. May 6th, 2020 - 00:59 Yes, please send the offer for the research. Thank you. Krystyna Wyszynski My grandfather’s family, Bukraba, lived for many generations in the regions of Grodno; they were Poles, Roman Catholic, and several with this surname and crest are registered as having voted in the Sejm for two or more Kings of Poland, farther back, the research was done by my grandfather and taken from books in libraries in London, Warszawa and Chicago. I only have definite verbal record of my grandfather’s family going back one generation before his father, and it may not be completely accurate. It would be nice to have more information on the more archaic history of the peoples who populated that region and why they formed into the tribes they did which evolved into Lithuanian, Polish,etc. The ties between Poles and Lithuanians were strong for a very long time. We have no clear record, only anecdotal, of my grandmother’s family, Zaremba, who lived in that same region, but a bit farther south, I believe. She described her father Mieczyslaw as a forester. She and my grandfather met in Mozyr in 1919/20, and married in Warszawa in 1920. So the ties to Grodno and that region were cut when the family property was sold and the immediate family moved to Pinsk, during WWI, where my grandfather’s brother Kazimierz was a bishop; their father died in Nowogrod in 1923, but was later buried, along with their mother, who passed a few years later, in Pinsk. These things were written by my grandfather and later corroborated by photos from the cemetery and articles about Bishop Bukraba, but it would be great to go farther back if records exist. Would you be able to do some research for us? Kate Roll My great grandparents emigrated to the US in 1914, documented as from Russia to NYC, settled in Massachusetts. The towns they have listed as birthplaces are “Butka” and “Lubano” in Lithuania, although I’m having a hard time finding those names. I’m wondering if perhaps spelling of those towns was lost in translation between Lithuanian and English. Any ideas as to where/what those towns might be? Thanks for any direction/help! My grandparents came from Slonim, now in Belarus, in 1913. Was that part of Lithuania then? Thank you for any help you can provide. At the time (during teh Russian Imperial rule) Lithuania did not exist as any official single administrative unit. There were governorates (gubernyas), some more Lithuanian than others but they were not created on an ethnic, religious or historical basis. Slonim was part of Gardinas (Grodno, Hrodna) governorate of the Russian Empire in 1913, which was considered Lithuanian by some (as it had Lithuanian parts) but Slonim never had a Lithuanian majority since prehistory at least. The last time it was part of Lithuanian state was Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1795. Robin L Bennett Hello this is a great sight as I am trying to figure out where my great grandparents came from. I would so appreciate any insight from you when you have time. I have found my great grandfather in a Hamburg passenger list 4 Apr 1909 and arrived NY 16 Apr 1909. The Hamburg document said nationality was Russian and his residence was Opino the arrival in New York said nationality Lithuanian and and the residence was Gruev I cant find these on a map. Also one has his name spelled Telesfor Ploszansky and one has his name spelled Telespor Plossanski and my mother thinks it was spelled Placzankis I have not been able to find any of these spellings would you have any Idea? Beverly Brewer I’m interested in determining my eligibility for Lithuanian citizenship in order to obtain a second passport. I had thought I would be eligible because my grandparents were born in Lithuania. However, I read that if they left before 1918, I wouldn’t be eligible. I came across some information on an ancestry website that indicated my grandmother left Lithuania and came to New York in 1913. Can you explain why I’m not eligible for citizenship? I explain a lot about citizenship restoration here (including in many comments): https://www.lithuanialaw.com/easier-restoration-of-lithuanian-nationality-463 The thing is, the Republic of Lithuania was established in 1918, having been under Russian rule before. So, Lithuanian citizenship began to be issued only after 1918. If somebody emigrated before 1918, it is likely they had no Lithuanian citizenship. In such a case, their descendants cannot apply for citizenship restoration, which is the path that leads to dual citizenship. However, there were cases when somebody who emigrated before 1918 was considered a citizen automatically, especially if emigrated in 1914-1918, and thus his/her descendants would then be also eligible for dual citizenship. Moreover, there is another path to get citizenship in such a case for Lithuanians whose forefathers never had Lithuanian citizenship. This path may only lead to single citizenship, however (renouncing your current one) or, alternatively, to a residence permit or a right-to-citizenship certificate. If you are interested in a Lithuanian archive search or citizenship application services, we may provide them and would send you an offer by e-mail. 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__label__cc	0.67675	0.32325	MR Chapter 40: Dazzled Translated by me, edited by Kai Repost & Edited : XiaXue “Alright, please come this way for the form. I’m also going to need your IDs.” The young man brought Jiang Hai to the counter and pulled out some paperwork for him to fill as well as asking for IDs. Normally, the most commonly used type of ID in America is the driver’s license. However, since Jiang Hai doesn’t have an American licence right now, he can only present the the green card as his ID. Having examined Jiang Hai’s green card, he picked up the phone for confirmation, received $500 for the license and registration fees and the completed form. Jiang Hai was surprised that this was all he had to do. Getting a gun license in America is actually pretty easy. All you need is a confirmation from the FBI saying that you are an American citizen, a permanent resident, or a green card holder, a clear history and without any mental disorder. For the rich like Jiang Hai, who is a holder of the black centurion, they have special services for stuff like these and everything would be sorted out for them. However Jiang Hai hasn’t touched these stuff yet and Robins and the others don’t understand so it came down to the basic applications. However the application process went without a hitch, he completed the form, registered in the computer database and everything is done. Lastly comes the buying part of the process. Of course there are also restrictions here as well. For one, Jiang Hai can’t buy automatics. Although ordinary citizens have the right to bear arms, but they are all semiautomatics. By law, anybody over the age of 18 can own rifles, but you need to be at least 21 before you can own handguns. Other restrictions also apply. Jiang Hai only bought the basic gun license. This license allows you to own guns, but normally you must store them unloaded at home. You can also store it in the trunk of the car, but then the gun must be cased and in a hard to reach place. The gun must also be empty and bullets stored separately. If you want to carry then you must apply for the license to carry, but this requires you receive special police training first. This is very troublesome to get, and Jiang Hai doesn’t have the need to carry his guns everywhere. Originally apart from the license to carry there is also a license to carry hidden weapons. However, due to an increase in shootings in recent years, most state government have stopped issuing these licenses. It was a good thing that Jiang Hai had settled in Boston, if he chose to settle in the neighboring New York, where gun control is almost on par with California, then he can have fun waiting for his applications to come through. However in Boston, everything is pretty much done after filling out the state forms, so as soon as the young man finished processing the forms he began to introduce all kinds of guns to Jiang Hai. In America buying guns is very easy. Not only can you buy them online, there are also specialized stores that sell them. Like the store they are in right now. They have almost every type of gun, such as the hunting rifles, assault rifle, pistol and so on. Nearly everything that has hit the market is here. Of course stuff like sniper rifles and machine guns is also available, but Jiang Hai has no need for them. As a side note, the prices for these guns is completely different from what Jiang Hai originally thought. It’s not that it’s too expensive, rather it’s way too cheap. In all specialized gun stores, all guns are separately priced from a couple hundred to a few thousand. For example the 9mm competition guns from SIG Sauer cost $929, the .45 M1911 cost $1015 and the P238 for $689. The famously well known Glock cost almost nothing. The Glock 19, 22 and 27 model only cost $429, Glock .45 models cost $499, and the luger 380 only cost $349. Of course you can’t just buy the gun and bullets since you’ll be hunted down by the police, so you also need to other stuff as well. Such as gun cases, gun covers, additional magazines, care kits and so on. However the whole set is actually pretty cheap. A Smith & Wesson M&P cost $549, but the whole set, which includes a gun case, a gun sleeve, 2 magazines and a cleaning kit, costs $649, only $100 more. Of course, apart from these, there are also lots of personalization options available. Such as different types of grips; just think about it, now any girl can change the gun’s grip to match her bag, heels and so on. Silencers are also up for sale, but the cost is kind of expensive now, ranging from $700 to more than $6000. The ones for pistols are pretty cheap in comparison to the ones for rifles. However silencers for hunting rifles are just too much. “If you have any interest in any of these, we have a small shooting range in the back where you can try it out. Of course the price of the bullets are not included, but it’s pretty cheap.” Seeing the dazzled look Jiang Hai is having, this attendant stated. “Yo Robins, any suggestions?” After some hesitation, Jiang Hai turned to Robins for his advice. “To be honest it isn’t that hard to pick, the main thing is the caliber of the guns. All you need to do is pick a caliber and choose guns from there. Performance and such are all pretty much the same. I suggest you to get two guns. A pistol for personal defence and a hunting rifle, well a semiautomatic assault rifle also works.” Robins replied. Hearing Robins suggestion, Jiang Hai thought for a bit before tell the attendant: “Show me the most powerful guns. I’m preparing to buy a pistol, a hunting rifle and an assault rifle.” “The most powerful?” Seeing Jiang Hai’s weak ass frame, the attendant is clearly stunned and in doubt. The more powerful the gun, the bigger the recoil. Can Jiang Hai, with that weak ass looking build, really hold up? “Just bring them out.” Seeing the doubting looks the attendant is having, Jiang Hai said affirmatively. Hearing what Jiang Hai said and the old saying, the customer is always right, the attendant went to retrieve some guns. The first batch he brought back were mainly revolvers. Yes, compared to ordinary guns, revolvers are more powerful, but Jiang Hai has no interest in them. “Put away the revolvers and tell me about the rest.” Jiang Hai said. “Oh sure. This is a Beretta 92F, currently United States Army’s service pistol. Low rate of misfire, somewhat powerful with 9mm bullets.” The attendant introduced in gun in Jiang Hai’s hands. In Jiang Hai’s opinion, this gun is pretty good, fully silver, and a service pistol for the United States Army. “These are the Colt 2000 and M1911. I’m not going into details with the M1911 as it is one of the best pistols during WWII. The 2000 is an upgrade of the 1911 but also uses 9mm bullets but is a bit more ugly.” The Colt 2000 is definitely a bit ugly and somewhat out of date. However this isn’t the reason why it lost to Beretta, it’s pretty much the same with the 1911. “This is Germany’s .45 caliber P229. It’s power is not a problem. Within 30 meters and killing a wild hog is not a problem. Cheap, but ugly.” “This is China’s QSZ, good looks, powerful, but the bullets are kind of expensive. Due to different bullet models, thus the import fee for these bullets are relatively expensive.” Jiang Hai can’t believe this store even has Chinese guns. Originally he was set on buying this, but upon hearing the bullets need to be imported, that idea was discarded. After the attendant also introduced America’s luger, Germany’s HK and Czech’s CZ. To be honest, Jiang Hai is somewhat unpleased. From the beginning, he wasn’t prepared to buy these. Seeing the attendant having finished with his introductions, Jiang Hai straight asked: “Deagle? Got any?” “Um, yes. ……” The attendant is clearly stunned and looked towards Robins for help. “Desert eagles are famous but it’s recoil is just too big, ok to use for hunting, but not so good for protection purposes.” Robins explained. In fact, desert eagles. in most gun enthusiasts’ eyes. Is not a good gun at all. This gun is well known mainly due to movies and games. However real gun enthusiasts all know that this gun is the same as the Smith and Wesson M500. All show guns. Powerful but it’s recoil is just too big. How do you use them under these conditions? Point at the feet and hope to shoot someone’s head? That’s just hoping for too much. “No problem, I just want to try it out. Give me the more powerful here for a test.” Jiang Hai said as he shook his head. All he wants to do is try it out. Coming to a gun shop for a first time and not even touch the famous deagle is out of the question. “Um, alright…. This counter here contains only desert eagles. The normal ones use .357, a more powerful version uses .44 and the most powerful uses .50. However this gun’s recoil is beyond imagination. Which one you want?” Seeing Jiang Hai’s perseverance, the attendant can only satisfy his wishes. He already said what needs to be said, everything else rests with Jiang Hai. “How about that one?” Seeing the guns displayed in the counter, Jiang Hai’s eyes suddenly lit up as he pointed to the biggest gun in the case. “Um, this……” Noticing which gun was being pointed at, the attendant is clearly dumbstruck and sacred. MR Chapter 39: Gun license MR Chapter 41: Asian supermarket MR Chapter 74 : Daughter? 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__label__cc	0.650795	0.349205	Disability Resolution Passed by the Rabbinical Council of America. This is a groundbreaking move and we give the RCA a hearty yasher koach! Yad HaChazakah-The Jewish Disability Empowerment Center was called upon by the RCA to write the first draft of the text for the resolution. We encourage Orthodox establishments and communities to contact Yad HaChazakah to work with you to increase disability access and accommodations and to dispel myths and misconceptions. 646-723-3955, access@yadempowers.org, www.yadempowers.org. The full text of “2014 Resolution: Increasing Access for and Participation of Jews with Disabilities in the Orthodox World” states: WHEREAS the Rabbinical Council of America recognizes that tzelem Elokim (Gen. 1:27), the Divine Image in each and every person, imbues them with inherent and limitless value and dignity; and WHEREAS the RCA recognizes that the principle (Shevuot 39a) of kol Yisrael arevim zeh ba’zeh (the entire Jewish people are responsible for another) obligates every Jew to enable all Jews, without exception, to study Torah and perform the mitzvot incumbent upon them; and WHEREAS in keeping with the precept “do not separate from the community” (Avot 2:4), the RCA knows the transformative power of community involvement in the lives of all Jews; and WHEREAS the RCA recognizes that disabilities or ongoing health conditions may be acquired anytime throughout one’s life; and WHEREAS the RCA knows that Orthodox communities are strengthened by embracing all Jews, particularly those with varying capacities, ways of functioning, and appearances; and WHEREAS the RCA continues to seek to further increase access and widen opportunities for people with different disabilities or conditions so that they may participate in Torah community life and learning; and WHEREAS the RCA recognizes the importance, in this regard, of the many initiatives led by Orthodox Jewish and other organizations to expand access to and participation in Torah communities for and by Jews with disabilities Therefore the Rabbinical Council of America • Supports initiatives to increase access for and participation of people with disabilities in Torah life and learning, encouraging its members to partner with qualified organizations in order to develop educational and informational programs for their communities; and • Calls upon its members to educate themselves, their congregations, and other constituencies about disability related issues, including the physical, communication, educational, and attitudinal barriers faced by Jews living with or believed to have disabilities, and to consider the implications for Jewish law; and • Calls upon its members to develop regular programs and shiurim for their congregations on Torah perspectives on disability; and • Calls upon its members to speak out against stigma, ostracism, bullying, and other forms of prejudice against the disabled; and • Calls upon day schools and yeshivot to include curricula and activities related to disability access and integration; and, whenever possible, to invite people with disabilities to lead, or to participate in, these classes and activities; and • Calls upon its members to take personal and communal action to increase physical, communication, and programmatic access to minyanim, mikvaot, day schools, yeshivot, seminaries, batei midrash, camps, event halls, and other establishments, places of public accommodation, and programs that serve Torah communities.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2637
__label__wiki	0.560332	0.560332	The Human Behind the Avatar Grace Halden September 13, 2013 Currently, the news is saturated with reports of mounting death tolls as clashes between protestors and the military reach new heights in Egypt. As the world awaits the outcome in Egypt, the revolution that took the country by storm three years ago is being viewed, more and more, as problematic. The events unfolding now do not represent a sudden rupture, but rather a mounting surge of unrest that has been building during Mubarak’s rule but especially – and noticeably – since 2010. Despite the democratic election of Mohammed Morsi, in 2012, after the thirty-year reign of Hosni Mubarak, online activist Wael Ghonim, author of Revolution 2.0, was one of the voices demanding Morsi’s resignation for broken promises and the assignment of unlimited state powers. Reading Ghonim’s book today holds up a mirror to the events from three years ago and offers a retrospective lens to the tumult that Egypt finds itself now. Published in 2012, Revolution 2.0 relates the astonishing story of Ghonim’s vital role leading up to the protests of January 2011. The insider story takes the reader into the centre of a protest that spanned both the real world and the virtual – from Facebook to the streets of Cairo. Ghonim’s autobiographical account poignantly details three revolutions – of the self, of the digital age and of the Egyptian people against Mubarak’s regime. While Revolution 2.0 does not offer a comprehensive account of Egyptian political history, it does provide a unique insight into why the people wanted change and have fought so hard for it Born and educated in Egypt, Ghonim joined Google in 2008, seduced by the company’s acclaimed democratic staff model in which creativity and individual growth is nurtured. Arguably, Google represented a microcosm for how Ghonim wanted Egypt to be. Ghonim moved to Dubai in 2010 to work as an executive for Google with his American wife and their children. He states numerous times that he is no politician (or even politically minded) but felt an extreme drive to help free Egypt from oppression. He depicts himself as a simple Egyptian man with a technological background who wanted to make a difference. The internet has always been, as Ghonim confesses, a major part of his life – shaping and informing it. Moreover, Ghonim’s extensive background in computational technologies enabled him to successfully create online spaces for the uprising by using anonymous profiles and programmes strategically employed to protect his identity from State Security. Much of Ghonim’s activist work was done during his employment with Google. Initially, he speaks of his anti-regime sentiment alongside frustrating feelings of powerlessness against the system – a sentiment he felt was present in most Egyptian youth. He narrates harrowing tales of State Security and Mubarak’s oppressive rule throughout his account, making the reader acutely aware of how State Security routinely arrested without warrant and conducted surveillance operations on unsuspecting and innocent Egyptians. The state was primarily concerned with eradicating opposition and focused heavily on monitoring activity including the appointment of teachers without activist backgrounds. Ghonim presents two compelling accounts of injustice – the manslaughter of Khaled Mohamed Said, a young student killed during a dispute with two police officers; and the eleven day imprisonment of Ghonim by State Security where he was blindfolded, beaten and humiliated for his activist activities. Ghonim graphically describes the disturbing act of police brutality which resulted in Said’s death to highlight the terror of the regime: “His face was extremely disfigured and bloodied; his lower lip had been ripped in half, and his jaw was seemingly dislocated. His front teeth appeared to be missing, and it looked as if they had been beaten right out of his mouth. The image was so gruesome that I wondered if he had been wounded in war.” This attack provoked Ghonim to create the extremely influential Facebook page “Kullena Khaled Said” (We Are All Khaled Said) in which he raged, “Today they killed Khaled. If I don’t act for his sake, tomorrow they will kill me.” Armed only with a laptop and supported by anonymous digital colleagues, Ghonim boldly typed a new model of revolution, which galvanised hundreds of thousands online to take to the streets in 2011. While contemporary developments significantly alter the experience of reading this book, it remains crucial for understanding the role social networking played in these revolutionary events. The author is right when he claims that something fundamental has changed for the Egyptian people – they have found a voice. The internet, he claims, has enabled “participatory democracy.” The account of how the youth of Egypt became more informed and exposed to greater choices through access to “global media” is fascinating. State Security, so unprepared for the “digital revolution,” underestimated the internet and initially ignored the threat it presented. Not only did the internet allow access to the global community, it forged links between Egyptians all over the world who sought change– essentially creating a network of activism that silently gained strength outside the careful watch of the regime. While Ghonim stresses that the true hero of the story is the human behind the avatar (“History made on the streets, not on the internet”), the Web was pivotal to disseminating information - “this is how ideas spread like viruses.” However, in light of recent events, Revolution 2.0 perhaps feels light and a little too optimistic. Ghonim’s concluding thoughts regarding Mubarak’s removal from power as “paving the way for opportunity and hope” may seem a little naïve today. He wrote that he does not have a “crystal ball that can foretell Egypt’s future” and it does seem that the optimistic Google executive did not see the present day events unfolding as they have. Maybe Ghonim would say that this is just part of the struggle for a better future, the darkest moment before the dawn. I would remind the reader that Ghonim’s epilogue has become a prologue, for the story of Egypt’s uprising has only just begun. Grace Halden is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. 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__label__wiki	0.845359	0.845359	Home TV Pilots Chesapeake Shores Season 1 & Crushed TV Pilot Start Filming TV Pilots Chesapeake Shores Season 1 & Crushed TV Pilot Start Filming Hallmark’s new series Chesapeake Shores Season 1, Hulu TV pilot Crushed, Juggernaut and 2 TV movies start filming in Vancouver and British Columbia this week. Chesapeake Shores Season 1 (TV Series) After filming a TV movie that would become its pilot in the Vancouver area throughout last September and October, Hallmark’s Chesapeake Shores returns British Columbia to film its first season. Chesapeake Shores is based on a series of novels under the same name that were written by New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods. After living in New York City, Abby O’Brien, a single divorced mother of 2 twins returns to her hometown of Chesapeake Shores. Abby is played Meghan Ory, who you may recognize from her role as Ruby/Red Riding Hood on Once Upon a Time. After returning home, Abby crosses path with her high school sweetheart Trace. Trace is played by Jesse Metcalfe, who just recently finished filming Dead Rising 2 in the Vancouver area earlier this year. It won’t just be a homecoming for Meghan’s character. She’s returning to familiar territory to film the series, Vancouver Island, where she grew up. About 2 hours North of Meghan’s hometown of Victoria, the town of Qualicum Beach will stand in as the beautiful backdrop for the fictitious town of Chesapeake Shores. The town is supposed to be set somewhere in along the Eastern coast of the United States. If this series is able to tap into the success Hallmark has seen with its other filmed in BC scripted series When Calls the Heart, it would be a huge win for the Vancouver Island film industry. The region is coming off its busiest filming year to date. Chesapeake Shores season 1 is scheduled to film in British Columbia until July 28th and will premiere on Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 9:00pm on Hallmark Channel in the US. Crushed (TV Pilot) Crushed is a late addition to this year’s pilot season. It was originally scheduled to film in North Carolina but was later moved to Vancouver after a very controversial anti-LGBT law was passed in the state prompting the entertainment industry and other companies to make a statement. Crushed is a comedy pilot for the US streaming giant Hulu. Set in California’s Napa Valley, the story follows a brother and sister who get wrapped up in the personal and business drama involved with running a successful wine business. Notable cast includes: Regina Hall (Scary Movie Series), Colm Feore (House Of Cards), Alex Kingston (Doctor Who), Jacob Vargas (Sons Of Anarchy) and Bashir Salahuddin (Late Night With Jimmy Fallon). Crushed is scheduled to film in Vancouver and British Columbia until May 26th. See also: Vancouver Pilot Season 2016 Roundup Juggernaut (Feature) Juggernaut is an indie-feature written and directed by Daniel DiMarco. The story follows an outlaw who returns to his hometown and is determined to prove his mother’s death was not a suicide. Here’s a roundup of the cast according to the film’s IMDb page: You may know them from Amanda Crew Amelia Sex Drive, Silicon Valley, The Age of Adaline Stephen McHattie Hank Sr. 300, Watchmen Peter McRobbie Leonard Gamble Lincoln, The Visit, Spider-Man 2 Jack Kesy Saxon Gamble The Strain David Cubitt Dean Gamble Van Helsing, Bates Motel Philip Granger Sheriff The Killing Jason Diablo Detective Doolan Fantastic Four, 2012 Fanny Migneault-Lecavalier Charlotte Gamble Amour Amour, Endorphine Juggernaut is scheduled to film in British Columbia until June 8th. Also Starting This Week December Bride (TV Movie) Filming until June 3rd Garage Sale Mystery: The Art of Murder (TV Movie) Filming until June 6th For a full list of everything that’s filming in Vancouver and British Columbia right now, check out our In Production page. Wrapping Up This Week The Solutrean (Feature) with Kodi Smit-McPhee wraps up May 17th Manny Dearest (TV Movie) wraps up May 21st If you see any of these productions, including Chesapeake Shores season 1 filming, be sure to let us know by tweeting us (@WhatsFilming) or via our Submit a Location page. Previous articleCenter Stage On Pointe Official Trailer and Premiere Next articleMy So Called Wife Filming in Vancouver This Summer Darrow & Darrow 2, Peace Start Filming in Vancouver/British Columbia Imposters Season 1 & World’s End Start Filming in Vancouver Once Upon a Time’s Zelena and Hades Film Scenes in the...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2643
__label__cc	0.503446	0.496554	School of Music› Music, M.M. (Jazz Studies Concentration) Music Education, M.M.Ed. Music Education, Ph.D. Music Performance, Certificate Music Performance, D.M.A. Music Performance, M.M. Music, D.M.A., Composition Music, D.M.A., Conducting Music, D.M.A., Piano Pedagogy Music, M.M. (Composition Concentration) Music, M.M. (Conducting Concentration) Music, M.M. (Music History Concentration) Music, M.M. (Music Theory Concentration) Music, M.M. (Opera Theatre Concentration) Music, M.M. (Piano Pedagogy Concentration) Music, M.M. (Violin/Viola Pedagogy Concentration) Candidates will demonstrate the ability to perform a wide array of jazz styles. Candidates will be able to demonstrate masters-level knowledge of music history, music theory, and compositional styles by identifying, describing, comparing, and contrasting musical works from the Antiquity through modern times. Candidates will create original jazz works of significant duration and scope, reflective of masters-level compositional ability. The general requirements for admission include the completion of an undergraduate degree in music (or the equivalent) with a grade point average of 3.0 (4.0 scale) on relevant courses and fulfillment of the general requirements for admission to The Graduate School, including the submission of three recommendations. The Master of Music with concentration in Music Theory requires submission of a satisfactory score on the Graduate Record Examination General Test or the Miller Analogies Test. A list of additional admission materials specific to each degree program is available on the School of Music website. Applicants whose native language is not English are also required to submit a satisfactory score on the TOEFL or the IELTS Intl. Academic Course Type 2 exam. Normally, the minimum acceptable score on the TOEFL is 80 (internet-based) or 570 (paper-based). The minimum acceptable overall band score on the IELTS Intl. Academic Course Type 2 exam is 6.5. Applicants for the Master of Music degree whose TOEFL/IELTS score is below the normal minimum standard will be considered on an individual basis for conditional admission. Such applicants must demonstrate exceptional abilities in the major area and evidence through past academic or professional activities strong promise for future professional success. Admission decisions are based upon the applicant’s total application portfolio. Degree Requirements (32 Hours) Master of Music with concentrations in composition, conducting, jazz studies, music history, opera theatre, and piano pedagogy. Prior to taking any graduate music study, all master’s students must take the Graduate Music Diagnostic Examination, and, early in their studies, complete all deficiencies and required courses resulting from the exam. Degree candidates must complete a prescribed program of 32 hours of graduate work and successfully pass an oral comprehensive examination. In addition, candidates in conducting or performance must present one full recital, and those whose performance medium is an orchestral instrument must also perform a concerto; candidates in composition must complete a thesis consisting of a musical work of major proportions; candidates in music history or music theory must complete a written thesis; and candidates in piano pedagogy must present a solo recital or complete a written thesis. Specific program requirements are listed online. Master of Music Required Courses MUSC 707 Music Bibliography and Research 2 Select advisor-approved course in Music History 3 Select advisor-approved course in Music Theory 3 Total Credit Hours 8 Jazz Studies Concentration Requirements Major Area (20 Hours) Select nine hours of the following: 9 MUSC 713 Advanced Jazz Theory Advanced Jazz Arranging Advanced Jazz Improvisation Select one of the following tracks: 11 Composition Track Jazz Composition Non-jazz Composition Composition Recital Performance Track Graduate Applied Music Total Credit Hours 20 Other Studies in Music (4 Hours) MUSC 734 Ensemble 2 Select advisor-approved Music courses 2 Download Overview (PDF) The PDF will include content on the Overview tab only. Download Admissions (PDF) The PDF will include content on the Admissions tab only. Download Requirements (PDF) The PDF will include content on the Requirements tab only.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2650
__label__wiki	0.912006	0.912006	little jimmy dickens LOOK: Remembering Little Jimmy Dickens' Life and Legacy Dickens may have been small in stature -- he was only 4 feet, 11 inches -- but his presence was larger than life. Gayle Thompson They Call Them ... What?! 16 of the Best Country Star Nicknames Do you know the nicknames of your favorite country stars? Carrie Horton Brad Paisley Tributes Little Jimmy Dickens 5 Years After Death They were so close. Sterling Whitaker Brad Paisley Reveals Little Jimmy Dickens Wax Figure The Opry at the Ryman was the place to be on Saturday night (Dec. 17) when Brad Paisley helped unveil Madame Tussauds Nashville wax figure of Grand Ole Opry legend Little Jimmy Dickens. Annie Reuter Brad Paisley Salutes Jimmy Dickens One Year After Death Brad Paisley made a surprise appearance on the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday night (Jan. 2) to pay tribute to his friend and mentor, Little Jimmy Dickens, on the one-year anniversary of his death. 18 Little Jimmy Dickens Guitars for Sale Eighteen guitars from Little Jimmy Dickens’ personal collection are for sale through a consignment at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville. The instruments — many worn from years of use on stage — are priced between $1,500 and $20,000. Charlie Worsham Pays Tribute to Little Jimmy Dickens [Watch] Charlie Worsham is adding his voice to a host of tributes to Little Jimmy Dickens in the wake of the iconic entertainer's death on Jan. 2. Worsham posted a heartfelt video covering the late singer's hit, 'Country Boy,' and sharing his favorite memory of Dickens. Brad Paisley Leads Opry Stars' Farewell to Little Jimmy Brad Paisley led some of the top stars of the Grand Ole Opry in an emotional farewell to Little Jimmy Dickens during his memorial service on Thursday (Jan. 8). Vince Gill, Carrie Underwood Honor Little Jimmy Dickens With ‘Go Rest High on That Mountai… Carrie Underwood joined Vince Gill to sing his signature song 'Go Rest High on That Mountain' during a memorial service for Little Jimmy Dickens on Thursday. Grand Ole Opry Pays Tribute to Little Jimmy Dickens As news of the death of Little Jimmy Dickens spread through Nashville on Friday (Jan. 2), the Grand Ole Opry took time to dedicate their weekly show to the iconic country entertainer and pay tribute to his legacy.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2656
__label__wiki	0.598248	0.598248	Meet Matthew Smith – London based photographer interviewmatthew smithphotographerphotography Matthew is a writer and a photographer based in North London, UK. His first solo exhibition was Chora at Hagi Art in Tokyo in January-February 2020. It continues at Landabout in Ueno. His photography has been included in group shows at Art Santa Fe 2019, in Portland, Minneapolis, Venice, and at the Museo di Casa Giorgione in Castelfranco. He will be part of an upcoming show at ARTEXPO 2020 in New York with NYC4PA. Matthew’s first novel is The Waking (Wundor Editions 2017). His first collection of poetry is Sea of the Edge (Wundor Editions 2018). Matthew’s poetry has been published in The London Magazine, Acumen, Envoi, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Orbis. He was a winner at The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2018. He also won the Orbis Readers’ Award in March 2019. Matthew has been shortlisted for various other awards. He reads English Literature at Christ Church College, Oxford. How did you decide to become a photographer? Matthew: As a teenager, I was always trying to decide whether to follow my literary aspirations or my urge to make visual work. I would draw and make pictures but ultimately I decided against art school and studied English Literature at university. It was six years ago, around the age of thirty, that the visual work came back in the form of photography. What is most challenging about photography for you? Matthew: Aside from when you travel, as a photographer you have to work with what’s around you. It’s not like writing a story, where you can dream up a whole new stage set with everything you need. Seeing unexpected pictures emerge from time spent walking the same parts of London is exciting. Who were your early influences? Matthew: Film directors like Krzysztof Kieślowski and Andrei Tarkovsky. Later, stills photographers such as Masao Yamamoto, Paolo Roversi and Henri Cartier-Bresson. What is the gear you have used in the past and present? Matthew: I first took photographs with my full attention in Venice in my mid-teens on my dad’s old Olympus OM-1. Now I use a Leica M4 with 50mm Summicron v4 and 90mm Elmarit-M. I also use a Hasselblad 503cw with 80mm CF lens and 250mm C lens. I have a Sigma DP2 Quattro which I use occasionally for digital work. My tripod is an ALPA Novoflex with a RRS 55mm ballhead. What makes photography unique as a medium, in your opinion? Matthew: It is the only artistic medium where the world itself is the raw material. To take photos, I go for a walk, and every walk becomes an adventure. Can you describe a real-life situation that inspired your artwork? Matthew: Everything – it’s often the apparently insignificant events that seem to reappear later in photos and poems. It has been said that “An image says more than a thousand words”. Is there a connection between your writing and photography? Matthew: Yes, writing and photography come from the same creative place, directed into different media. Each can do things the other can’t. I feel the strongest sense of connection between my writing and photography when I am making a hidden narrative in a series of photographs. They can stand alone as separate images, but the novelist in me enjoys making the concerted whole. Can you tell us a bit more about your collection of poetry “Sea of the Edge”? Matthew: Sea of the Edge for me represents coming home to myself and my imagination. There are lots of references to home, love, and the vast distances we seem to put between ourselves and others, the way that the imagination can bring us together or divide us. Writing the collection for me meant reconciling the powers the imagination has to create and to destroy. How has your photography and poetry evolved over the years? Matthew: The more I evolve as a writer and a photographer, the more enjoyable the work becomes. I’d like to think the process of making things has become stranger and more familiar at the same time. Are there any upcoming shows or workshops we should know about (or canceled due to the Covid-19 situation)? Matthew: My series Chora was showing at Hagi Art in Tokyo from January to February of this year. It has now moved to Landabout hotel in Ueno for the foreseeable future, but covid-19 means it’s not accessible for now. You can go to see it there when the lockdown is over. Matthew: I’ve recently finished a new series of photographs. I’ll be showing some work at ARTEXPO NY in New York in October. I’m also working on my new poetry collection and my second novel. I have two girls, a three-year-old and a six-month-old baby, so they are keeping us busy for now, especially until life returns to normal! To find out more about Matthew and his work please visit his website and Instagram. 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__label__wiki	0.871569	0.871569	Ben Denzer, 2011–present Art is a proposition. — Joe Scanlan I’m now the proud owner of a jigsaw. Toe to toe. — alt-J, “Breezeblocks” Turn it up? That’s such a dad thing. — Jose There’s a human soul trapped in my couch. He kept saying things like, ‘You’ve got to paint me on the jump.’ — Harold Holzer, “The Interminable, Everlasting Lincolns (Part 1)” And what’s amazing — when Lincoln was standing there, there were light waves shooting out at 186,000 miles per second, hitting that collodion plate — that emulsion was made directly from him. I mean, that’s incredible. — Keya Morgan, “The Interminable, Everlasting Lincolns (Part 2)” And just listen to yourself, as usual, as you speak. — Paul Muldoon Good architecture should always be applauded. — Kracklite, The Belly of an Architect White must be whiter than white, and to achieve that, colour must be added. — David Batchelor, Chromophobia How’s that bricklayin’ comin’? — The Head And The Heart, “Lost in My Mind” the becoming — A.R. Ammons, “Corsons Inlet” When my big toe hits the roof of my shoe I’m used to it. If it missed anyone, it misses the dog. — GHB Still speak to us 100 years later. We’re moved by them, we’re, we’re stirred by them, we see pictures of our own life, and our own loves, in them. Human life isn’t meaningless because it ends. — Adam Gopnik, “Darwinvaganza,” Radiolab There’s no writing it down. There’s no putting it into order. Memory is part of a social group. — Christine Boyer Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. — La Jetée If there is no such thing as the cosmic point of view, the idea of absolute importance in the scheme of things is an illusion, a relic of a world not yet thoroughly disenchanted, and there is no other point of view except ours in which our activities can have or lack a significance. — Bernard Williams, The Human Prejudice It’s not a problem for us. It’s a problem for history. — Adi Zulkadry, The Act of Killing There is no takeaway. — Blond Interpreter at Tino Sehgal’s This situation To have a fever and blackended fingers from the newspaper, to be excited not only by the mind but, at last, by a meal, by the line of a neck, by an ear. To lie! Through one’s teeth. As you’re walking, to feel your bones moving along. At last to guess. — Damiel, Wings of Desire	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2658
__label__wiki	0.770841	0.770841	Hapoel Migdal Jerusalem Regular Season, Round 10: Hendrix powers Galatasaray past Jerusalem and into second place Regular Season, Round 9: Without top scorer, Reggio Emilia eliminates Jerusalem Regular Season, Round 8: Bayern blasts Jerusalem on record scoring night NAIMY, YUVAL Israel 1985 Height: 1.88 SOLOMON, WILLIE United States of America 1978 Height: 1.87 ELIYAHU, ELAD LIMONAD, RAVIV McCARTY, KELLY Russian Federation 1975 Height: 2.01 KOZIKARO, IDO SHACHAR, YEHONATHAN SHEFFER, DORON AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI Nigeria 1973 Height: 2.02 KATZ, EREZ MIZRAHI, MOSHE MUCHTARI, AMIR OSADCHYY, GEORGIY DRUCKER, SHARON Head coach Israel 1967 ULEB Cup 2003-04 Games Regular Season 6 wins, 4 losses 1 L at Telekom Bonn 83 - 80 2 W vs DKV Joventut 91 - 70 3 W at WWF Virtus Bologna 71 - 79 4 W at Royal Verviers Pepinster 79 - 83 5 L vs FMP Belgrade 77 - 91 6 W vs Telekom Bonn 86 - 79 7 L at DKV Joventut 84 - 77 8 W vs WWF Virtus Bologna 101 - 84 9 W vs Royal Verviers Pepinster 84 - 82 10 L at FMP Belgrade 77 - 75 Eighthfinals 1 wins, 1 losses 1 W vs Prokom Trefl Sopot 77 - 67 2 L at Prokom Trefl Sopot 86 - 82 Quarterfinals 1 wins, 1 losses 1 W vs Lietuvos Rytas 79 - 72 2 L at Lietuvos Rytas 81 - 80 Semifinals 1 wins, 1 losses 1 L at FMP Belgrade 70 - 69 2 W vs FMP Belgrade 79 - 76 Finals 1 wins, 0 losses 1 W at Real Madrid 73 - 82 Total Record 10 wins, 7 losses Looking ahead: Group B No team has a clearer picture and more comfortable situation after six rounds than already-qualified FC Bayern Munich, but that cannot be said for the rest of Group B, where... Hapoel brings in Ronald Roberts Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem continues with the team changes to try to turn around the situation. On Monday night, the team announced the addition of forward Ronald Roberts... Jerusalem fires Katsikaris, promotes Maor to head coach Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem announced Thursday evening that it has dismissed Fotis Katsikaris as head coach of the team and promoted top assistant Mody Maor to take his place. Jerusalem adds Lucas to backcourt Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem added another weapon to its backcourt with the signing of guard Kalin Lucas Jerusalem, Jerrells part ways Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem announced Friday that it had parted way with guard Curtis Jerrells, who was an All-EuroCup First Team selection last season. Three-time EuroLeague champ Perperoglou joins Hapoel Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem announced on Friday morning the addition of triple Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champ, Stratos Perperoglou, to the team for the upcoming season. Roster Rundown: Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem After a strong 7DAYS EuroCup campaign that saw Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem reach a decisive Game 3 in the semifinals, the Israeli champs worked hard to keep the core of the... Hapoel Jerusalem tabs scoring big man Daye Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem added a viable scoring threat to its frontcourt by signing a deal with power forward Austin Daye, club announced on Wednesday. Hapoel Jerusalem lands EuroCup champion Omic Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem reached an agreement with center Alen Omic to work together next season, the club announced Friday. Omic helped Unicaja Malaga wins the 7DAYS... Jerusalem re-signs Timor to multi-year deal Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem and point guard Bar Timor will be together for another three seasons after agreeing to new deal that ties two sides together until 2020. Jerusalem brings All-EuroCup guard Jerrells back on two-year deal Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem re-signed All-EuroCup First Team guard Curtis Jerrells to a two-year deal on Saturday. Jerusalem, Ohayon pen three-year contract Israeli champion Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem signed a three-year deal with veteran guard and former EuroLeague champ Yogev Ohayon, who has spent the past six seasons with... Hapoel Jerusalem re-signs star swingman Kinsey Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem reached a new agreement with swingman Tarence Kinsey to keep working together next season, the club announced Sunday. Jerusalem hires Katsikaris, former EuroCup Coach of the Year Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem named Fotis Katsikaris as its new head coach on Wednesday. The sides agreed to a three-year term. Katsikaris, 50, takes over from Simone... Jerusalem: Randle out of the season Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem power forward Brian Randle is set to miss the remainder of the 7DAYS EuroCup season due to a torn quad muscle. \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| > ULEB Cup 2003-04 Accumulated Statistics - All phases AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 17 17 605:45 298 112/197 1/4 71/90 44 75 119 38 29 39 3 18 42 66 347 EDWARDS, WILLIAM 2 1 42:45 7 2/4 1/2 0/1 1 4 5 3 1 1 5 3 7 ELIYAHU, ELAD 3 0 7:00 2 1/1 0/1 1 2 KATZ, EREZ 15 1 184:45 31 9/13 3/8 4/10 3 17 20 19 15 6 31 11 44 KOZIKARO, IDO 17 17 441:15 122 42/79 1/2 35/44 39 49 88 13 19 18 4 6 67 46 154 LIMONAD, RAVIV 4 0 18:00 0/1 0/1 1 2 3 1 2 2 7 1 -4 McCARTY, KELLY 9 8 311:00 136 35/65 12/25 30/39 14 22 36 8 18 13 5 6 27 40 145 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 17 6 342:30 84 18/35 13/35 9/13 6 14 20 8 13 11 3 53 15 30 MUCHTARI, AMIR 15 0 166:15 42 11/22 4/14 8/11 2 14 16 6 3 9 4 1 34 12 15 NAIMY, YUVAL 3 0 5:00 0/2 0/1 1 -4 OSADCHYY, GEORGIY 2 0 3:30 2 1/3 1 1 2 1 1 2 SHACHAR, YEHONATHAN 8 0 33:30 5 0/4 1/2 2/2 1 1 1 2 3 1 7 3 -4 SHEFFER, DORON 17 16 592:00 229 59/129 28/60 27/35 17 43 60 67 27 32 5 7 55 44 228 SOLOMON, WILLIE 17 17 582:15 398 87/156 45/127 89/110 17 48 65 55 40 57 3 10 49 98 371 WASHINGTON, ERIC 3 2 64:30 26 3/5 5/7 5/6 2 9 11 2 2 3 10 5 28 Totals 3400:00 1382 380/716 114/288 280/362 163 325 488 218 228 197 24 54 390 348 1455 Average 200:00 81.29 53.1% 39.6% 77.3% 9.58 19.11 28.7 12.82 13.41 11.58 1.41 3.17 22.94 20.47 85.58 Average Statistics - All phases AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 17 17 35:37 17.5 56.9% 25% 78.9% 2.6 4.4 7 2.2 1.7 2.3 0.2 1.1 2.5 3.9 20.4 EDWARDS, WILLIAM 2 1 21:22 3.5 50% 50% 0.5 2 2.5 1.5 0.5 0.5 2.5 1.5 3.5 ELIYAHU, ELAD 3 0 2:20 0.7 100% 0.3 0.7 KATZ, EREZ 15 1 12:19 2.1 69.2% 37.5% 40% 0.2 1.1 1.3 1.3 1 0.4 2.1 0.7 2.9 KOZIKARO, IDO 17 17 25:57 7.2 53.2% 50% 79.5% 2.3 2.9 5.2 0.8 1.1 1.1 0.2 0.4 3.9 2.7 9.1 LIMONAD, RAVIV 4 0 4:30 0.3 0.5 0.8 0.3 0.5 0.5 1.8 0.3 -1 McCARTY, KELLY 9 8 34:33 15.1 53.8% 48% 76.9% 1.6 2.4 4 0.9 2 1.4 0.6 0.7 3 4.4 16.1 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 17 6 20:08 4.9 51.4% 37.1% 69.2% 0.4 0.8 1.2 0.5 0.8 0.6 0.2 3.1 0.9 1.8 MUCHTARI, AMIR 15 0 11:05 2.8 50% 28.6% 72.7% 0.1 0.9 1.1 0.4 0.2 0.6 0.3 0.1 2.3 0.8 1 NAIMY, YUVAL 3 0 1:40 0.3 -1.3 OSADCHYY, GEORGIY 2 0 1:45 1 33.3% 0.5 0.5 1 0.5 0.5 1 SHACHAR, YEHONATHAN 8 0 4:11 0.6 50% 100% 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.9 0.4 -0.5 SHEFFER, DORON 17 16 34:49 13.5 45.7% 46.7% 77.1% 1 2.5 3.5 3.9 1.6 1.9 0.3 0.4 3.2 2.6 13.4 SOLOMON, WILLIE 17 17 34:15 23.4 55.8% 35.4% 80.9% 1 2.8 3.8 3.2 2.4 3.4 0.2 0.6 2.9 5.8 21.8 WASHINGTON, ERIC 3 2 21:30 8.7 60% 71.4% 83.3% 0.7 3 3.7 0.7 0.7 1 3.3 1.7 9.3 Eighthfinals Accumulated Statistics - Finals AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 1 1 35:45 12 6/14 2 8 10 3 2 1 3 3 2 14 KATZ, EREZ 1 0 9:45 4 2/2 0/1 1 2 3 2 1 2 1 8 KOZIKARO, IDO 1 1 27:15 7 2/4 3/4 4 5 9 1 2 5 4 15 LIMONAD, RAVIV 1 0 1:45 2 -2 McCARTY, KELLY 1 1 40:00 22 5/11 3/5 3/5 2 1 3 1 1 1 5 17 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 1 0 18:15 8 2/3 1/2 1/1 1 5 2 4 MUCHTARI, AMIR 1 0 8:45 0/1 2 2 1 3 3 2 SHEFFER, DORON 1 1 36:00 15 6/12 1/3 2 3 5 4 4 1 4 2 9 SOLOMON, WILLIE 1 1 22:30 15 1/4 4/7 1/2 1 2 3 2 1 2 4 4 12 Totals 200:00 83 24/50 9/19 8/12 12 23 35 13 7 8 0 5 29 23 79 Average 200:00 83 48% 47.4% 66.7% 12 23 35 13 7 8 0 5 29 23 79 Average Statistics - Finals AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 1 1 35:45 12 42.9% 2 8 10 3 2 1 3 3 2 14 KATZ, EREZ 1 0 9:45 4 100% 1 2 3 2 1 2 1 8 KOZIKARO, IDO 1 1 27:15 7 50% 75% 4 5 9 1 2 5 4 15 McCARTY, KELLY 1 1 40:00 22 45.5% 60% 60% 2 1 3 1 1 1 5 17 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 1 0 18:15 8 66.7% 50% 100% 1 5 2 4 MUCHTARI, AMIR 1 0 8:45 2 2 1 3 3 2 SHEFFER, DORON 1 1 36:00 15 50% 33.3% 2 3 5 4 4 1 4 2 9 SOLOMON, WILLIE 1 1 22:30 15 25% 57.1% 50% 1 2 3 2 1 2 4 4 12 Accumulated Statistics - Semifinals AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 2 2 76:45 34 14/28 6/8 12 9 21 4 1 6 3 7 6 34 KATZ, EREZ 2 0 8:30 1 1 1 KOZIKARO, IDO 2 2 52:15 4 1/3 0/1 2/4 6 5 11 1 2 1 2 6 5 9 LIMONAD, RAVIV 2 0 11:15 0/1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 McCARTY, KELLY 2 2 75:45 24 8/22 1/6 5/6 4 5 9 1 3 1 2 6 9 17 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 2 0 29:00 11 1/2 2/4 3/4 1 1 2 3 8 2 MUCHTARI, AMIR 2 0 5:00 1 1 SHACHAR, YEHONATHAN 1 0 0:30 1 -1 SHEFFER, DORON 2 2 70:00 21 6/11 3/11 1 7 8 5 4 3 7 3 18 SOLOMON, WILLIE 2 2 71:00 54 14/20 5/16 11/13 1 9 10 8 9 6 1 2 6 14 63 Totals 400:00 148 44/87 11/38 27/35 27 42 69 19 21 22 2 9 45 41 146 Average 200:00 74 50.6% 28.9% 77.1% 13.5 21 34.5 9.5 10.5 11 1 4.5 22.5 20.5 73 Average Statistics - Semifinals AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 2 2 38:22 17 50% 75% 6 4.5 10.5 2 0.5 3 1.5 3.5 3 17 KATZ, EREZ 2 0 4:15 0.5 0.5 0.5 KOZIKARO, IDO 2 2 26:07 2 33.3% 50% 3 2.5 5.5 0.5 1 0.5 1 3 2.5 4.5 LIMONAD, RAVIV 2 0 5:37 0.5 0.5 1 0.5 0.5 1 0.5 McCARTY, KELLY 2 2 37:52 12 36.4% 16.7% 83.3% 2 2.5 4.5 0.5 1.5 0.5 1 3 4.5 8.5 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 2 0 14:30 5.5 50% 50% 75% 0.5 0.5 1 1.5 4 1 MUCHTARI, AMIR 2 0 2:30 0.5 0.5 SHEFFER, DORON 2 2 35:00 10.5 54.5% 27.3% 0.5 3.5 4 2.5 2 1.5 3.5 1.5 9 SOLOMON, WILLIE 2 2 35:30 27 70% 31.3% 84.6% 0.5 4.5 5 4 4.5 3 0.5 1 3 7 31.5 Accumulated Statistics - Quarterfinals AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 2 2 76:15 29 12/23 5/9 6 8 14 5 3 2 1 4 7 36 KATZ, EREZ 2 0 10:00 3 1/2 1 1 1 1 3 KOZIKARO, IDO 2 2 60:15 15 4/13 7/8 6 5 11 1 2 1 3 1 7 5 18 LIMONAD, RAVIV 1 0 5:00 0/1 1 1 1 1 1 3 -2 McCARTY, KELLY 2 2 68:30 35 11/13 1/5 10/10 1 5 6 3 5 2 1 6 13 47 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 2 0 38:00 7 2/3 1/4 1 2 1 6 -5 SHACHAR, YEHONATHAN 1 0 0:15 SHEFFER, DORON 2 2 69:30 34 7/13 5/9 5/7 7 7 7 3 1 7 8 39 Totals 400:00 159 49/89 8/33 37/45 22 31 53 25 28 16 5 5 40 44 180 Average 200:00 79.5 55.1% 24.2% 82.2% 11 15.5 26.5 12.5 14 8 2.5 2.5 20 22 90 Average Statistics - Quarterfinals AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 2 2 38:07 14.5 52.2% 55.6% 3 4 7 2.5 1.5 1 0.5 2 3.5 18 KATZ, EREZ 2 0 5:00 1.5 50% 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 1.5 KOZIKARO, IDO 2 2 30:07 7.5 30.8% 87.5% 3 2.5 5.5 0.5 1 0.5 1.5 0.5 3.5 2.5 9 LIMONAD, RAVIV 1 0 5:00 1 1 1 1 1 3 -2 McCARTY, KELLY 2 2 34:15 17.5 84.6% 20% 100% 0.5 2.5 3 1.5 2.5 1 0.5 3 6.5 23.5 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 2 0 19:00 3.5 66.7% 25% 0.5 1 0.5 3 -2.5 SHEFFER, DORON 2 2 34:45 17 53.8% 55.6% 71.4% 3.5 3.5 3.5 1.5 0.5 3.5 4 19.5 SOLOMON, WILLIE 2 2 36:07 18 54.2% 90.9% 4 2 6 3 3.5 2.5 1 0.5 3.5 5.5 18.5 Accumulated Statistics - Eighthfinals AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 2 2 74:45 27 11/20 5/9 2 9 11 5 6 7 1 1 5 2 26 KATZ, EREZ 2 0 20:30 0/1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 KOZIKARO, IDO 2 2 47:15 7 3/6 1/1 3 9 12 1 4 2 1 10 2 12 McCARTY, KELLY 2 2 72:45 35 9/13 4/4 5/9 7 6 13 3 5 7 2 2 7 6 40 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 2 0 34:15 8 1/6 2/7 1 2 3 1 3 4 1 2 MUCHTARI, AMIR 2 0 8:45 2 4 -6 SHEFFER, DORON 2 2 61:45 30 6/15 4/9 6/6 4 5 9 5 3 3 2 1 6 3 28 SOLOMON, WILLIE 2 2 80:00 52 14/22 4/9 12/19 2 3 5 8 1 6 1 5 5 39 Average 200:00 79.5 53.7% 46.7% 65.9% 10.5 18.5 29 11.5 15.5 14.5 3 2.5 21.5 10 75.5 Average Statistics - Eighthfinals AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 2 2 37:22 13.5 55% 55.6% 1 4.5 5.5 2.5 3 3.5 0.5 0.5 2.5 1 13 KATZ, EREZ 2 0 10:15 0.5 0.5 1 1 1 1 0.5 KOZIKARO, IDO 2 2 23:37 3.5 50% 100% 1.5 4.5 6 0.5 2 1 0.5 5 1 6 McCARTY, KELLY 2 2 36:22 17.5 69.2% 100% 55.6% 3.5 3 6.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 1 1 3.5 3 20 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 2 0 17:07 4 16.7% 28.6% 0.5 1 1.5 0.5 1.5 2 0.5 1 SHEFFER, DORON 2 2 30:52 15 40% 44.4% 100% 2 2.5 4.5 2.5 1.5 1.5 1 0.5 3 1.5 14 SOLOMON, WILLIE 2 2 40:00 26 63.6% 44.4% 63.2% 1 1.5 2.5 4 0.5 3 0.5 2.5 2.5 19.5 Accumulated Statistics - Regular Season AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 10 10 342:15 196 69/112 1/4 55/64 22 41 63 21 17 23 2 10 23 49 237 KATZ, EREZ 8 1 136:00 24 7/11 2/4 4/10 1 12 13 16 12 3 26 9 33 KOZIKARO, IDO 10 10 254:15 89 32/53 1/1 22/27 20 25 45 9 9 14 3 39 30 100 McCARTY, KELLY 2 1 54:00 20 2/6 3/5 7/9 5 5 1 5 2 3 7 7 24 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 10 6 223:00 50 12/21 7/18 5/8 4 11 15 6 9 6 2 30 10 29 MUCHTARI, AMIR 10 0 143:45 42 11/22 4/13 8/11 2 12 14 5 3 7 3 1 26 9 19 SHEFFER, DORON 10 9 354:45 129 34/78 15/28 16/22 10 21 31 46 17 21 3 5 31 28 134 SOLOMON, WILLIE 10 10 336:30 241 45/86 32/83 55/65 5 30 35 31 22 38 6 27 64 220 Totals 2000:00 833 219/408 72/168 179/226 81 192 273 138 141 122 11 30 233 220 899 Average 200:00 83.3 53.7% 42.9% 79.2% 8.1 19.2 27.3 13.8 14.1 12.2 1.1 3 23.3 22 89.9 Average Statistics - Regular Season AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 10 10 34:13 19.6 61.6% 25% 85.9% 2.2 4.1 6.3 2.1 1.7 2.3 0.2 1 2.3 4.9 23.7 KATZ, EREZ 8 1 17:00 3 63.6% 50% 40% 0.1 1.5 1.6 2 1.5 0.4 3.3 1.1 4.1 KOZIKARO, IDO 10 10 25:25 8.9 60.4% 100% 81.5% 2 2.5 4.5 0.9 0.9 1.4 0.3 3.9 3 10 McCARTY, KELLY 2 1 27:00 10 33.3% 60% 77.8% 2.5 2.5 0.5 2.5 1 1.5 3.5 3.5 12 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 10 6 22:18 5 57.1% 38.9% 62.5% 0.4 1.1 1.5 0.6 0.9 0.6 0.2 3 1 2.9 MUCHTARI, AMIR 10 0 14:22 4.2 50% 30.8% 72.7% 0.2 1.2 1.4 0.5 0.3 0.7 0.3 0.1 2.6 0.9 1.9 SHACHAR, YEHONATHAN 6 0 5:27 0.8 50% 100% 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.2 1 0.5 -0.5 SHEFFER, DORON 10 9 35:28 12.9 43.6% 53.6% 72.7% 1 2.1 3.1 4.6 1.7 2.1 0.3 0.5 3.1 2.8 13.4 SOLOMON, WILLIE 10 10 33:39 24.1 52.3% 38.6% 84.6% 0.5 3 3.5 3.1 2.2 3.8 0.6 2.7 6.4 22 7DAYS EuroCup 100-game clubs: Hapoel Jerusalem In the 17 seasons of the 7DAYS EuroCup, only 15 clubs have amassed more than 100 games played in the competition. 7DAYS EuroCup, Regular season, Round 10: Galatasaray Odeabank Istanbul vs. Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem Galatasaray Odeabank Istanbul secured second place in Group B by breezing to an 87-68 victory over Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem. 7DAYS EuroCup, Regular season, Round 9: Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem vs. Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia remained in the hunt for a spot in the Top 16 with a 66-79 road win on Wednesday at Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem that eliminated the home team. 7DAYS EuroCup, Regular season, Round 8: FC Bayern Munich vs. Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem FC Bayern Munich remained unbeaten through eight games in the 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season with a 111-85 home victory over Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem. 7DAYS EuroCup, Regular season, Round 7: Buducnost VOLI Podgorica vs. Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem Buducnost VOLI Podgorica started the fourth quarter on a 13-0 run to pull away for a convincing 92-75 victory over Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem on Wednesday in the capital of Montenegro. 7DAYS EuroCup, Regular season, Round 6: Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem vs. Lietkabeklis Panevezys Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem got back into the winning groove under new head coach Mody Maor by rallying to defeat visiting Lietkabelis Panevezys 93-81 on Wednesday. 7DAYS EuroCup, Regular season, Round 5: Hapoel Jerusalem vs. Galatasaray Odeabank Istanbul In a clash of former champions trying to climb up in the standings, Galatasaray Odeabank Istanbul went on the road and made 13 three-pointers en route to its first win of the season, 81-91, over... 7DAYS EuroCup, Regular season, Round 4: Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia vs. Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem outlasted Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia 61-63 on Wednesday at Palabigi for its first victory of the 7DAYS EuroCup season. 7DAYS EuroCup, Regular season, Round 1: Lietkabelis Panevezys vs. Hapoel Jerusalem Lietkabelis Panevezys sent a message that echoed all around the 7DAYS EuroCup by downing one of last season#39;s semifinalists, Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem, 86-72 at home in Group B on Wednesday. 7DAYS EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 10: Galatasaray 87-68 Jerusalem 7DAYS EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 9: Jerusalem 66-79 Reggio Emilia 7DAYS EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 8: Bayern 111-85 Jerusalem 7DAYS EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 7: Buducnost 92-75 Jerusalem 7Days EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 6: Jerusalem 93-81 Lietkabelis 7Days EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 5: Jerusalem 81-91 Galatasaray 7Days EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 4: Reggio Emilia 61-63 Jerusalem 7Days EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 3: Jerusalem 83-91 Bayern 7Days EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 2: Jerusalem 81-86 Buducnost 7Days EuroCup Highlights Regular Season, Round 1: Lietkabelis 86-72 Jerusalem The 2016-17 season was surely one to remember for basket fans in the capital of Israel. It was clear Jerusalem would be aiming high when Amar’e Stoudemire signed and Coach Simone Pianigiani was hired, giving the club two leaders with rich pedigrees. A season-=opening road win at Valencia Basket and a 3-0 start showed that Jerusalem was indeed a force to be reckoned with. Jerusalem went on to finish second in its regular season group and – with Curtis Jerrells and Stoudemire leading the way – went 5-1 in the Top 16 to win that group. Jerusalem avenged some bad losses in previous season at the hands of Herbalife Gran Canaria Las Palmas by sweeping it in the quarterfinals before meeting Valencia in the semifinals. Each team won at home as Valencia won the series 2-1. Jerrells was rewarded for his excellent season with All-EuroCup First Team honors and Stoudemire was selected to the second team. Jerusalem stumbled a bit at home after the EuroCup, but regrouped in time to finish the regular season in third place and then bounced back from a 2-0 deficit in the best-of-five quarterfinals against Ironi Nahariya to win the series and keep the momentum going until it claimed the Israeli championship for just the second time in club history. SEASON COMPETITION RECORD FINISH 2005-06 Euroleague 3-7 Regular Season TOTAL: 3-7 2017-18 EuroCup 2-8 Regular Season 2016-17 EuroCup 13-6 Semifinal 2015-16 EuroCup 5-11 Last 32 2013-14 EuroCup 12-8 Quarterfinal 2009-10 EuroCup 8-6 Quarterfinal 2007-08 ULEB Cup 6-6 Last 32 2006-07 ULEB Cup 8-6 Quarterfinal 2005-06 ULEB Cup 10-6 Semifinal 2004-05 ULEB Cup 6-4 Regular Season 2003-04 ULEB Cup 10-7 Champion TOTAL: 90-86 Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem comes off a season in which it won the Israeli League championship for the second time in three years and reached the 7DAYS EuroCup Semifinals. And still the club from the Israeli capital is hungry for more. Jerusalem has long been a hoops town, with organized basketball in the city dating back to before the establishment of the State of Israel. Jerusalem was among the first teams when the Israeli League was founded in 1955, but it was not until the 1990s that the club became the clear No. 2 in Israeli basketball behind Maccabi Tel Aviv. Star guard Adi Gordon and forward Billy Thompson led Jerusalem to its first two titles, the 1996 and 1997 Israeli Cups. Jerusalem reached the 1997 Saporta Cup quarterfinals and played the EuroLeague for the first time in the 1997-98 season. In 1999, Jerusalem beat out Maccabi for first place in the Israeli League regular season, but came up short in the playoff finals. The club played the original EuroLeague season in 2000-01 and a year later Meir Tapiro helped Jerusalem climb to the Saporta Cup semifinals. Jerusalem made basketball history in 2004 when Willie Solomon, Doron Sheffer, Kelly McCarty and Tunji Awojobi led the team past Real Madrid in the ULEB Cup title game in Charleroi, Belgium, for its first – and to date only – European trophy. Jerusalem reached the ULEB Cup semifinal in 2006 and lifted the Israeli Cup again in 2007 and 2008. The club remained a regular in the Israeli playoff semifinals and even made a pair of quarterfinal runs in the EuroCup in 2010 and 2014. After Ori Allon led a new ownership group that took charge in 2013 and the club moved into a magnificent new arena in the Holy City, Jerusalem started to aim much higher. Led by Donta Smith, Lior Eliyahu and Yotam Halperin, Jerusalem won its first-ever Israeli League championship in 2015 by downing Hapoel Eilat in the finals. Jerusalem looked poised for a repeat after placing first at the end of the Israeli regular season in 2016, but was upset in the single-game final at home. Last season was among Jerusalem’s best ever as Curtis Jerrells, Amar’e Stoudemire and co. came within one win in the semifinals against Valencia Basket of taking the club to the EuroCup Finals for the second time and regained the Israeli League crown. The bar seems to get higher and higher every season for this club. ULEB Cup: 2003-04 Israeli National League: 2014-15, 2016-17 Israeli National Cup: 1996, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2019, 2020 Average Records - All seasons Index Rating 2014-15 94.00 Points 2005-06 83.19 Total Rebounds 2013-14 36.20 Assists 2014-15 19.30 Steals 2004-05 15.60 Blocks 2010-11 5.33 2-pointers made 2014-15 26.90 3-pointers made 2007-08 8.50 Free throws made 2004-05 17.80 Single Game Records Index Rating 2007-08 145 Unics Kazan 20 Nov. 2007 Points 2007-08 112 EiffelTowers Den Bosch 18 Dec. 2007 Total Rebounds 2012-13 49 Budivelnik Kiev 21 Nov. 2012 Assists 2015-16 29 Avtodor Saratov 03 Feb. 2016 Steals 2005-06 23 Dynamo Moscow 10 Jan. 2006 Blocks 2010-11 10 VEF Riga 14 Dec. 2010 2-pointers made 2009-10 37 Galatasaray Cafe Crown 09 Mar. 2010 3-pointers made 2007-08 15 Unics Kazan 20 Nov. 2007 Free throws made 2003-04 34 Telekom Bonn 17 Dec. 2003 Player Highs Index Rating 2003-04 SOLOMON, WILLIE 45 FMP Belgrade 30 Mar. 2004 Points 2005-06 AUSTIN, MARIO 34 Dynamo Moscow 28 Mar. 2006 Total Rebounds 2005-06 AUSTIN, MARIO 17 Dynamo Moscow 21 Mar. 2006 Assists 2014-15 SMITH, DONTA 13 CSU Asesoft Ploiesti 10 Dec. 2014 Steals 2006-07 HAGAG, DROR 11 Lukoil Academic 19 Dec. 2006 Blocks 2011-12 VARNADO, JARVIS 7 Donetsk 13 Dec. 2011 2-pointers made 2003-04 AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 12 WWF Virtus Bologna 26 Nov. 2003 3-pointers made 2005-06 MASON, ROGER 6 Virtus Roma 22 Nov. 2005 Free throws made 2003-04 SOLOMON, WILLIE 16 Royal Verviers Pepinster 02 Dec. 2003 EuroCup 2017-18 EuroCup 2016-17 Eurocup 2015-16 Eurocup 2014-15 Eurocup 2013-14 Eurocup 2012-13 Eurocup 2011-12 Eurocup 2010-11 Eurocup 2009-10 ULEB Cup 2007-08 ULEB Cup 2006-07 ULEB Cup 2005-06 ULEB Cup 2004-05 ULEB Cup 2003-04 Euroleague 2000-01 NAIMY, YUVAL 1.88 SOLOMON, WILLIE 1.87 ELIYAHU, ELAD 1.93 LIMONAD, RAVIV 1.92 McCARTY, KELLY 2.01 KOZIKARO, IDO 2.03 SHACHAR, YEHONATHAN 0.00 SHEFFER, DORON 1.96 AWOJOBI, TUNJI FEMI 2.02 KATZ, EREZ 1.90 MIZRAHI, MOSHE 2.02 MUCHTARI, AMIR 0.00 OSADCHYY, GEORGIY 0.00 Head coach: DRUCKER, SHARON Dr. Ori Allon Club Address: Hilel 37, Beit Agron 94581 Jerusalem - Israel Arena: PAIS ARENA JERUSALEM Benbenishti Road, 94101 Jerusalem Fax. +972 2 624 1441 Club Official Website @jerusalembasket	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2660
__label__wiki	0.847163	0.847163	February 11, 2016 February 13, 2016 by Janes The 100 Recap: 3×03 “Ye Who Enter Here” feminism, recaps, The 100 SPOILERS FOLLOW! It’s the third episode of the season, and already the status quo has been upended in more ways than one. In an action-packed yet thoughtful episode, Clarke tries to kill Lexa, which somehow leads to the Sky People becoming Grounders, we finally meet the Ice Queen, and everyone sort of gets blown up, as tends to happen on this show. And then they had to ruin it all by egregiously fridging a certain one-dimensional female character, but believe me, we’ll get to that. Previously on The 100: Ice Nation wiped out the majority of the Farm Station survivors when the Ark fell, earning Pike’s ire. Roan kidnapped Clarke and turned out to be the Ice Queen’s son, but he’s hot so he’s inevitably going to be more antihero than villain. He brought Clarke to Lexa as part of a deal to lift his banishment, but Lexa knows no loyalty other than to her own people, so she imprisoned him instead. Clarke has not forgotten Lexa’s betrayal, and sort of wants to murder her (fine line, right, Clexa shippers?). Lexa visits Clarke in the Grounder Capitol tower, but Clarke still doesn’t want to see her. Lexa tells her that she’s returning Clarke to the Skaikru at a summit that day, and Clarke scoffs that Lexa went to all that trouble just to let her go. “I went to all that trouble to save you,” Lexa answers evenly. (And to stop the Ice Queen from gaining Wanheda’s powers and starting a civil war, but whatever, Lexa’s complicated.) Clarke fires back that she could have used saving at Mount Weather, while Lexa notes that Clarke clearly didn’t need her help. “Clearly,” Clarke says bitterly. Whether you’re a Clexa person or not, this scene is wonderfully tense, and the actresses, each very talented on their own, play off of each other perfectly. Lexa tells Clarke that she’s taking her own guilt out on Lexa, that it’s easier to hate Lexa than to hate herself. She has a point, but Clarke only says, “I can do both.” Then Lexa goes for the kill: “What would you have done?” She contends that if Clarke had had the same choice at Mount Weather, she would have saved her people at the expense of the Grounders. I think ultimately Clarke wouldn’t have, but it would have been tempting enough that the thought has Clarke rattled. “I don’t betray my friends,” she insists, sort of lamely. And Lexa calls her out on her bullshit: “But you did. You had friends in Mount Weather.” Clarke essentially has no answer to this, and so goes back to being angry at Lexa for her perfidy: “The difference is, you had no honor, and I had no choice.” This well-played argument aptly illustrates the murky ethical territory Clarke entered when she decided to irradiate Mount Weather. She murdered innocent people (granted, people who were going to die anyway unless they continued to commit genocide against the Grounders). But that wasn’t her reasoning when she pulled that lever; she was trying to save her own people, which means she sacrificed hundreds of innocent lives for the sake of forty-seven. Of course, numbers never tell the whole story in these situations, and one could argue that she had a moral obligation to save her own people considering that she took on the responsibility to protect them above all others when she accepted her role as leader. But then again, Lexa did the same for the Grounders. So the difference isn’t really that Lexa “had no honor,” or that Clarke didn’t have a choice (although she certainly didn’t have any good ones), it’s that Clarke had come to see Lexa as “her people,” while Lexa didn’t feel the same. Luckily, that’s about to become a moot point, because Lexa drops this bombshell: she wants Skaikru to become Grounders, as in the 13th clan. She frames it as a means for the Skaikru to benefit from the protection of the coalition, but Clarke knows better. Lexa wants Clarke to “bow down to [her]” before the 12 clans because Clarke made her look weak at Mount Weather, and the opportunistic Ice Queen is exploiting that show of weakness. (For all that Lexa’s motives are understandable, there’s no denying that she’s overall a more calculating, guileful person than Clarke is.) Clarke finishes off with a sci-fi jargon expletive that conveniently gets past the CW censors: “Go float yourself, because I will never bow to you.” It’s not nearly as good as “frak,” but at least it’s better than “ruttin‘,” am I right? Here’s the full scene in all its glory: Delegates from the 12 clans meet for a summit, but Azgeda’s delegate refuses to bow down to Lexa because she “made a treaty with the enemy.” I think he’s talking about Mount Weather, but when she speaks English, he accuses her of preferring the “enemy’s language,” so I guess he’s talking about this whole 13th clan idea? Word travels quickly in this world without cell phones or internet. The delegate continues to berate Lexa, asking if Wanheda is still alive as a result of her “weakness,” while Indra and Titus get all puffed up about Azgeda marching their army against the Commander. Lexa acts conciliatory and asks the delegate to join her, but he really should have smelled a rat when she said she “had a message” for the Ice Queen. Come on, man, haven’t you ever seen a gangster movie? (Oh… maybe not.) It’s pretty obviously telegraphed, but still startling, to see her viciously throw him out the window to fall many stories to his death. Lexa has always been ruthless, but we’ve hardly ever seen her perpetrate hands-on violence. She clearly has something to prove after the whole Mount Weather fiasco. “Would anyone else care to question my decisions?” On the way to the summit, Kane gets on Abby’s case for opening up Mount Weather, and exposits that they not only used the medical facilities, but moved people from Farm Station into the facility as a temporary housing situation. That… doesn’t seem smart. Opening a hospital was probably necessary, and Abby is right that they couldn’t let Nyko die, but I’m with Kane that moving people in is a step too far. Kane points out that this will distract from everything else they need to negotiate with the Grounders, including Clarke’s release. Abby’s reaction chastens him, and he immediately apologizes for implying that Clarke is a bargaining chip. “We won’t leave without your daughter, I promise.” Aw. These two are so nice to each other. On the way to Mount Weather, Bellamy is stressed out that his leg injury is preventing him from attending the Grounder summit. Gina assures him that they’ll be fine, and flirts that if he were there, he wouldn’t be with her. This relationship is woefully underdeveloped, but I sort of buy her as a grounding influence for Bellamy. Raven tells a story about Sinclair promoting her after she went rogue on a spacewalk to save him, because he “thinks she can do no wrong.” As far as I can tell, this anecdote has no purpose, but maybe it will later? Mount Weather is bustling with dozens of Farm Station Arkers, who look very much at home. Bellamy is unperturbed, while Raven is uneasy and Octavia starts frothing at the mouth. “The Grounders are going to think we moved in.” Pike is obnoxiously jovial, telling her “there was no room at the inn,” and then when she leaves, asides to Bellamy that she’s “spirited,” like a horse. Shut UP, Pike. At the Capitol, Roan finds Clarke to have a chat (wait, wasn’t he imprisoned at the end of last episode? What happened to that?), and tells her he wants to make a deal so they can both go home. She retorts that she’s already going home, but he knows that that would mean she’s not getting what she really wants. “What would you know about what I want?” Clarke says feistily. Oh yeah, these two are definitely going to hook up. “I saw your face when I took that hood off. You want revenge,” he says. He would kill Lexa himself, but Clarke is the one who can get close to her. I love that the writers have already established Roan as a savvy and perceptive enough character that I don’t even question he would have gleaned all of this from the one Clexa interaction he witnessed. If she kills Lexa, Roan continues, the Ice Queen will take control of the coalition, and will be a “strong and grateful ally.” Clarke doesn’t trust the Ice Queen, because she hears she’s worse than Lexa. “That’s because you’ve been talking to Lexa,” Roan points out. I think we’ve seen enough aggression from Azgeda that this doesn’t quite plant the seed of doubt, but it’s still an interesting companion to the perspectivist morality explored in the scenes between Lexa and Clarke. The Ice Queen still seems like a villain, but the best villains are the ones who genuinely believe they are doing the right thing, much like the protagonists. Bellamy finds Octavia sitting on the roof of Mount Weather, once again symbolizing her feelings of estrangement from her people. She insists that it’s a mistake to colonize Mount Weather, while he’s confident that their people can work it out with the Grounders. She admits that once Lincoln’s kill order is lifted, she wants to leave, and tells him she’s sorry, but she doesn’t fit in here. He looks sad, but tells her he understands. “You’ll always fit in with me.” As we know from the trailers, this closeness won’t last too much longer, but what a nice sibling bonding moment. They hear a commotion, and see that Echo, the Grounder who was in the cage next to Bellamy last season, is being dragged and bloodied by two Farm Station grunts. Bellamy says she’s Ice Nation, which he apparently knows from their interactions last season? I don’t remember the words “Ice Nation” being uttered until this year, so I think this is just retconning. The grunts say she was threatening the summit, but she insists she was trying to help. Octavia cuts her restraints over the grunts’ protests–“But… she’s a Grounder!”–and Echo tells Bellamy that an assassin is already waiting at the summit. “At sundown, your people will die.” We’re led to believe that she’s telling the truth, judging from the creepy, red-tinted shots of an Ice Nation soldier sitting by himself with his weapons and a stopwatch. But Pike isn’t having any of it, because she’s “one of them.” She earnestly tells them that she’s trying to make amends for the decision to leave Skaikru at Mount Weather, and Bellamy tells Pike that she saved his life, and they can trust her. Pike is really broken up about his friends being in danger, and says they’re probably dead already, so Farm Station should get ready to respond rather than try to save them. What a charmer. He wants to use the missiles in Mount Weather against the Grounders, but Sinclair points out that they don’t have the launch codes. “You have me,” says Raven. Sinclair, wearily: “And you called engineers arrogant?” Heh. Gina and Bellamy kiss goodbye as he goes off to the summit and she stays to help obtain the launch codes. “Don’t do anything stupidly heroic,” she says like a good supportive girlfriend. “Garden-variety heroic. Got it.” Bellamy is cute, and I know this is supposed to foreshadow Gina’s heroics later in the episode, but still, gross. At the Grounder Capitol, Abby and Kane walk through a lively food bazaar, and Abby is visibly uncomfortable when a Grounder woman offers her a free sample in a language she doesn’t understand. Kane genially speaks to the woman in Trigedasleng, accepts the sample, and then gives her the Ark patch on his jacket “as a symbol of our home.” Abby notes that he is suited to diplomacy, and offers him the chancellor position back, which seems silly. Yes, diplomacy is important for the position, but it’s certainly not all that’s required, and Abby seems perfectly qualified. Plus, the ability to be charming and kiss babies is much more important for running for political office than holding it. Anyway, Kane rightly says they should just hold an election, which is a sentiment we can all get behind. They’re just lucky things haven’t slowed down enough for anyone to revolt. Lexa is sparring with an adorable young boy named Aiden, and he’s kind of a bad-ass. She says he’s even better than she was before her first “conclave,” and Titus tells the “Nightbloods” to pair up and continue training. I assume that the conclave has something to do with the tournament shown in the trailer, in which Lexa and Roan have an amazing swordfight that Jason Rothenberg compared to Oberyn vs. The Mountain in Game of Thrones. But what are Nightbloods?? Some kind of league of knights perhaps? I’m so excited for this aspect of Grounder culture to be explored. After all, who doesn’t love a good swordfight? Titus tries to convince Lexa not to invite Skaikru into the coalition. Skaikru wants a peace treaty, but they’ve given no indication that they’re interested in becoming the 13th clan, and none of the other clans will accept it. “They will accept it when Wanheda bows before me.” Titus asks her why she continues to elevate Clarke, and she answers, “Clarke elevates herself. She’s special,” making Clexa shippers very, very happy. Titus responds that Lexa is special, and that after serving under three other commanders, he’s never seen anyone rule the way she has. So I suppose this scene is supposed to inform us that inviting the Skaikru is not necessarily advantageous for the Grounders on the whole, but is more of a means for Lexa to solidify her standing as leader. If this is her primary motivation, then that’s another difference between Lexa and Clarke; Clarke would never act against the interest of her people for the sake of a power grab, especially since she went so far as to abdicate her power. But then again, Lexa’s motivations are not purely selfish, because all she would have to do is kill Wanheda in order to eliminate challenges to her authority, as Titus correctly points out. But no one believes for a second that Lexa is really considering that option. She goes to see Clarke, and Clarke immediately puts Roan’s knife to Lexa’s throat. But as we all know, Clarke can’t kill Lexa, either. Clarke breathes heavily in anger and frustration, and the sexual tension is sort of out of control. Lexa keeps her cool and gives Clarke a sympathetic look. “I’m sorry,” she says, and Clarke starts to angry cry and drops the knife. “I never meant to turn you into this.” She assumes that Clarke wants to scrap the 13th clan idea and be returned to her mother, but Clarke “has a better idea.” Clarke finds Abby and Kane waiting for the summit to begin. Abby is overjoyed to see her daughter and hugs her, while Clarke is uncomfortable with the affection, presumably because they “don’t have much time,” but likely also because she doesn’t want to face up to the whole abandonment issue. Clarke tells them that the summit’s terms have changed to turning Skaikru into the 13th clan in order to prevent Ice Nation from starting a war, and Abby thinks it would be absurd to follow or help Lexa. “This is our Unity Day, Mom,” Clarke says. Kane agrees that Lexa’s downfall would mean the end of any chance at peace, and that the Arkers’ meager numbers don’t stand a chance against Ice Nation’s army. I tend to agree with Kane and Clarke’s logic, as it can only help to have strength in numbers in this world, but I can’t believe they would make this kind of decision on the fly without even discussing it with their people. If the Arkers vehemently resist being Grounders (which we already know many will), then this treaty could stoke the fires of the conflict rather than resolve it. There’s a dramatic shot of Clarke walking into the summit with Grounder markings on her face as that pretty “Grounder anthem” from the trailer is sung in the background. The song continues as Bellamy, Octavia, Pike, and Echo sneak into the Capitol through the tunnels, and see that there are two guards obstructing their way to the elevator shaft. We cut to the assassin whispering that he’s doing this for his family, his kin (which, as we know now, isn’t referring to feelings of nationalism towards Azgeda, but more poignantly referencing his actual family’s deaths at the hands of the Mountain Men). Bellamy, already negatively influenced by Pike, joins him in swiftly killing the guards. “What is wrong with you? You didn’t have to kill them!” Octavia says, shocked. Bellamy just says, “Yeah, I did.” Come on, Bellamy, don’t Break Bad on me now. Wanheda bows down to Lexa, and interestingly, Roan is first to follow suit. Lexa begins the ceremony, and her line, “We welcome Skaikru to our halls in a spirit of peace and harmony” plays over Bellamy, Pike, and Octavia sneaking in to storm the place. Heh. Lexa says the “leader of Skaikru” should bear their mark, and Abby defers to Kane. I’m kind of annoyed with this half-baked assertion that Kane would definitely make a better leader than Abby, but then again, maybe she just doesn’t want to be painfully branded. Just as they’re finishing the ceremony and branding Kane, Bellamy and Pike storm the place. Bellamy tells them the summit is a trap, which makes Clarke lash out at Lexa, but then Bellamy clarifies that it was set by Ice Nation, which makes Kane glare at Roan. Lexa asks where they got their information, and suddenly Echo is nowhere to be found. They probably shouldn’t have trusted her so readily, but when the only distrusting voice is Pike’s, it’s understandable that mistakes would be made. Somewhat predictably, there is no trap at the summit; Echo was feeding them lies in order to make Skaikru attack the Capitol and expose the fault lines between the two peoples. Less predictably, the assassin is still lying in wait, but at Mount Weather rather than the Capitol. At Mount Weather, Raven and Sinclair aren’t having any luck coming up with the code, so Gina offers to search the President’s office in case he wrote it down. Raven gets frustrated, especially since her leg is bothering her, and laments that it’s already dark, so they’re too late. Sinclair sweetly tells her that the Raven Reyes he knows doesn’t give up, and she answers, defeated, “She does now.” He tells her that she’s not fooling anyone, and she should just get the surgery already (seriously). Raven’s stubbornness on this point has been a little annoying, but Sinclair makes it much more sympathetic when he psychoanalyzes that she thinks she deserves this pain, that it’s her “cross to bear” because of what happened to her mother, Finn, and everyone else. I thought her intransigence was primarily about her distaste for vulnerability, but I like this better. Lindsey Morgan cries like a champ, and says, “What if she can’t [fix me]? What if I’m just broken?” Sinclair says he took a chance on a mechanic with a heart defect, and she should too. Aw. I sort of wish Wick were here to have this conversation with her, but this is cute too. Gina comes onto the walkie-talkie, and Raven answers with a renewed sense of purpose. In the President’s office, Gina tells Raven that she had no luck finding the launch codes, while the assassin stands in the shadows behind her. He suddenly covers her mouth and stabs her in the stomach approximately seven times in the span of two seconds, and it’s BRUTAL. The assassin sets off a self-destruct sequence while poor, still-conscious Gina coughs up blood, the Universal Sign of Impending Death. She must know that she’s going to die, but she gamely drags herself to the walkie-talkie and tells Raven that the code to disable the self-destruct sequence is written on the assassin’s arm. Sinclair races outside to catch him, and is nearly stabbed in an ensuing fight, and after those sentimental moments with Raven, I’m worried that Sinclair is a goner, too. But Raven saves him, and they tell Gina the launch codes with seconds to spare. Unfortunately, Gina is lying on the control board, her arm stretched out to put in the codes, already dead from her wounds. We see that there are still dozens of Arkers in the dining hall (but presumably not Monty’s mother?), the clock counts down to zero in the reflection of Gina’s wide-open eyes, and everything is blown to hell. Sidebar: This was a great death for Gina, a heroic yet unsentimental demise that would have gone down in the books as one of the best The 100 has ever done. But the emotional impact is severely undercut by the fact that we didn’t know Gina all that well, and as a result, she feels much more like a plot point than an actual character. Jason Rothenberg essentially admitted in interviews that Gina was introduced for the sole purpose of killing her off, which would, in turn, spur Bellamy’s character development: “I wanted Bellamy to have some skin in the game,” he told TV Line. “I wanted him, when Mount Weather was destroyed, to lose someone significant so that his turn to the anti-Grounder side has even more reason behind it. He already has no affection for that culture, unlike Octavia, but I wanted there to be that one thing that would justify him really taking up the mantle of ‘all Grounders are bad.’ That, coupled with Pike’s influence, is what pushes him in that direction.” This character arc is interesting and makes sense for Bellamy, who had a very abrasive “us vs. them” mentality in season one, and has since rehabilitated himself to an almost unlikely degree. But writing a cipher of a character who suffers a violent death in service of a male character’s arc is not only surprisingly sexist, considering that The 100 is usually one of the most feminist shows on television, but is just plain lazy and unoriginal writing. [kht: It’s also usually pretty ineffective, since the audience generally needs to care about the character who dies for such a redemption arc to resonate, and usually by the time the actual death rolls around, the main emotion is boredom with how much screentime and emotional work is going into a character the screenwriters haven’t bothered to develop.] Do better, The 100. At the summit, Bellamy and Octavia are realizing that they’ve been betrayed, and Raven comes on Bellamy’s walkie-talkie to tell him about the attack on Mount Weather. “It’s gone. Sinclair and I are the only ones left,” she says, crying. “I’m so sorry.” Her sobs echo through the room, and Bob Morley says volumes about Bellamy’s grief with his always-expressive eyes. The Ice Nation delegate immediately and proudly admits that Azgeda was responsible, which seems unrealistic (and Bond villain-ish). Wouldn’t Ice Nation want to breed mistrust between the Arkers and Grounders by making the Skaikru wonder if Lexa was complicit? But instead, he just gives away the farm. “We did what we had to do, what Lexa was too WEAK to do.” He knows how to hit Lexa where it hurts, and she orders his arrest, and Roan’s, for good measure. Poor Roan gives her a look like, “Hey, just standing here!” Lexa promises the Skaikru that this is an act of war on the part of Azgeda, and that they’ll avenge the attack together. Kane and Abby leave to marshal their forces, and Indra tells Octavia that she “hope[s] [she’s] kept up her training.” I hope this means Indra’s forgiven Octavia, I loved this mentorship last season. Bellamy tries to convince Clarke to come with them, but Lexa says they need a delegate from the 13th clan, and that Clarke will be safe under her protection. Abby has trouble accepting this, but Clarke tells her she has to make sure that Lexa keeps her word. Bellamy looks hurt and betrayed, telling Clarke, “She left our people to die on that mountain. She will always put her people first. You should go home to yours.” She tells him she’s sorry, and she looks it. In private, Lexa thanks Clarke for staying, but Clarke gruffly responds that she’s only trying to do right by her people. “Our people,” Lexa corrects, and assures Clarke that she won’t betray her again. She kneels before Clarke and pledges her fealty, to her and to the Sky People. This is a great image, as it shows that Lexa’s desire for Clarke to bow down to her was purely to project strength to the outside world, while in private she views them as equals. And for Clexa shippers, the wording of the pledge sounds suspiciously like a marriage vow: “I vow to treat your needs as my own, and your people as my people.” Clarke takes her hand to help her up, reaffirming that they are on even ground, and making it look even more like a marriage ceremony. These two might have too many trust issues to ever make a real relationship work, but their dynamic is wonderfully complex and fun to watch. Echo returns to Ice Nation, where we discover that Azgeda is receiving all of their intel (including the fact that Mount Weather had a self-destruct sequence) from Emerson, the last remaining survivor of the Mountain Men. She tells the Ice Queen that Clarke is by the Commander’s side, “as predicted,” and that her son is a prisoner. “Not for long,” says Queen Nia. “Soon he will be free, and Lexa will be dead.” She shows us her face for the first time, and she is scary as all get-out: ← Previous Post Frühe Geglückte Next Post → A Mercy – Toni Morrison The 100 Recap: 3×04 “Watch the Thrones” \| February 23, 2016 at 2:47 am […] and human in this scene–although still intimidating–so her frightening appearance in last week’s episode must have largely been the lighting. 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__label__wiki	0.647594	0.647594	Home » Publications » Natural disasters and community resilience: A framework for support Natural disasters and community resilience: A framework for support Rhys Price-Robertson and Ken Knight CFCA Paper No. 3 — May 2012 Although the concept of community resilience is used regularly in both political and public discourse, it is a concept that can be difficult for service providers, practitioners and policy-makers to translate into concrete actions and policies. A number of frameworks and tools have been developed to understand and measure community resilience, and these can help strengthen those practices and policies that will best promote resilience in specific communities. As communities are complex and dynamic social structures, levels of community resilience are not static. It is important that those utilising the concept of community resilience make efforts to regularly measure it. The first step towards enhancing the resilience of a community involves understanding the community's strengths and vulnerabilities, as well as its physical characteristics (e.g., local infrastructure), procedural characteristics (e.g., disaster policies and plans) and social characteristics (e.g., level of community cohesion). While important, frameworks and tools designed to understand and assess community resilience are not enough on their own. Rather, they comprise part of a suite of strategies and techniques that can be utilised by those working to support children, families and communities. This paper explores the concept of community resilience and outlines recent frameworks and tools developed to understand and measure it. This paper was written to assist service providers, practitioners and policy makers working with regional and rural communities vulnerable to natural disasters. Sections include community vulnerability; understanding and measuring community resilience; physical, procedural and social enablers of community resilience; and the use of social media in emergency management. Authors and Acknowledgements Rhys Price-Robertson is a Senior Research Officer and Ken Knight is the Community Manager and Research Officer with the Child Family Community Australia information exchange at the Australian Institute of Family Studies. The authors wish to acknowledge the valuable contributions of Kristine Gebbie, Brigit Maguire, Paul Arbon and Lesley Siegloff. CFCA Paper Published by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, May 2012. Publication meta Download as printable PDF (439.29 KB) Download as EPUB (66.11 KB) Download as audio MP3 (14.15 MB) Is resilience still a useful concept when working with children and young people? CFCA Paper— Apr 2012 A review of research on resilience, and how resilience is defined, measured and used in practice. Applying community capacity-building approaches to child welfare practice and policy This paper explores how insights from the field of community capacity-building can improve child welfare practice and policy in Australia. Collective trauma is real, and could hamper Australian communities' bushfire recovery Short article— Feb 2020 This short article discusses the experience of collective trauma and importance of community connections following natural disasters. Growing Our Children Up Strong and Deadly: Healing for children and young people Short article— Aug 2013 The latest approaches to healing intergenerational trauma experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people CFCA offers a free research and information helpdesk for child, family and community welfare practitioners, service providers, researchers and policy makers through the CFCA News. We acknowledge all traditional custodians, their Elders past, present and emerging and we pay our respects to their continuing connection to their culture, community, land, sea and rivers.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2667
__label__cc	0.514413	0.485587	'Cyberpunk 2077' is buggy AF, but it's a lot of fun - except for one thing Gaming News Star Wars Lucasfilm Games and Ubisoft announce open-world Star Wars game Television Gaming Pokemon Top Gen 8 Pokémon Ash should catch in Pokémon Journeys News Gaming Toys Magic: the Gathering Kaldheim preview live stream announced Star Wars Books Comic Books Gaming Movies News Podcasts Talkin' Tauntauns Television Toys Introducing the AIPT Star Wars book club Sony pulls 'Cyberpunk 2077' from store, offers refunds to customers who bought it Science Books Gaming 2020 Holiday Gift Guide: Science Edition, part 4 'The World of Cyberpunk 2077' review Movies Gaming Trailers The way too early list of movies you should watch if you are liking 'Cyberpunk 2077' Gaming The Casual Gaymer The Casual Gaymer: Commodifying queerness with The Sims, RuPaul's Drag Race, and Jeffree Star ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ is buggy AF, but it’s a lot of fun – except for one thing Don’t believe the hype! Nathaniel Muir And just like that, everything has changed. There was a time when CD Projekt Red could seemingly do no wrong. They were pro consumer, about to release the most anticipated game ever, and seemed to have a pulse on what gamers wanted. They even had Keanu Reeves on board! The release of Cyberpunk 2077 has caused possibly irreparable damage to CDPR. They over promised and under delivered, lied to their fanbase, and have become a laughing stock overnight. It’s not a new thing in the world of gaming. Just ask Bethesda and Bioware. But it seemed like it would never happen to this Polish gaming studio. Sony Interactive Entertainment has pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from their online stores, and is processing refunds for every customer who purchased the game digitally from Sony. Cyberpunk 2077 finally released and somehow it’s even buggier than the most pessimistic projections. Here’s the thing: I’m playing on the base PlayStation 4 and have had very few bugs. No T-Poses or private parts hanging out of my pants; no nude drives around Night City and my PS4 only crashed once. Sure, when I look in the mirror to see the glorious hair I created, I can’t since I’m bald for some reason. Yes, I have to change my settings every single time I log in since the game doesn’t save them. I’m sure there should be some sort of sound on the crafting menu instead of the silence I’m treated to. And yes, CDPR definitely over hyped their game. Red Dead Redemption 2 and Persona 5 look better. Cyberpunk is not the next evolution of open world gaming; it’s more of a lateral move where the size of the map is more dense than expansive. To be fair, what the game does well, it knocks out of the park. I don’t think I have encountered a single cutscene. Everything is just unfolding in front of me, giving a real sense of immersion. Characters are well developed and even though the death of a major supporting character was spoiled for me in a trailer, even though I knew it was coming, it was still impactful and left me feeling genuinely sad. The quests are fantastic and have ranged from me helping a suicidal car to breaking up organized gangs. There’s a true sense of progression. My early attempts at stealth almost always turned into large gunfights. Now, I can wander through a multi-level warehouse filled with bad guys without ever drawing a weapon. But there’s one thing that really stands out as awful. There has been one part of Cyberpunk where I’ve wanted to stop playing. This has nothing to do with my skill or lack of progression. It is poor game design that completely takes me out of the game. The driving in Cyberpunk 2077 sucks. For starters, the cars are way too floaty. As soon as you start driving, you’ll notice it. It’s as if each car weighs next to nothing. Barely touching either the left or right directional on the controller will have you weaving all over the road. There are some differences to each vehicle, but every single one will have you yearning for a long stretch of straight road. Even worse is the minimap. Using it while driving is possibly the most frustrating thing about the game. It’s almost pointless to set a destination since the map never pulls back. It does point you in the right direction, but the turns come up at the last possible second unless you’re driving extremely slow. There’s no time to seamlessly turn into them like in Sleeping Dogs. True, this is not a game about driving cars, but they are an important part of the game. Some quests are pretty much impossible to do on foot. It’s not a problem if you are just free roaming; but if you have a specific place you want to be, the map will annoy you. The less said about first person driving, the better. Despite all the hype, Cyberpunk 2077 did not end up being the best game ever. It is not even the best game of the year or even the month. Its release has been a mess that has ruined CD Projekt Red’s once sterling reputation. For those of us that have been able to play, it is a hell of a lot of fun. Now, if they can just fix the driving. In this article:Cyberpunk 2077 Sony pulls ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ from store, offers refunds to customers who bought it	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2668
__label__wiki	0.843245	0.843245	TOP LAPTOPS TOP PHONES TOP WEARABLES TOP HEADPHONES Apps to Follow Home NEWS GADGETS Everything Microsoft announced in the Xbox 2019 event. Everything Microsoft announced in the Xbox 2019 event. This year’s Xbox special event, X019 which is an annual celebration of games was held in London on Thursday night. Xbox witnessed the announcement of all such things such as various new games as well as trailers which include news about Xbox Game Pass as well as Project xCloud. Having said that there is no such news related to Xbox Project Scarlett. So what are the other major announcements of X019? Xbox Game Pass is getting lots of new titles. Not only this but also more than 50 new titles are approaching to Project xCloud’s preview. Apart from this Microsoft also revealed about its Black Friday deals. So keep on reading this article, we will let you know all the announcements in a detailed way that you have missed from X019. As we all know that X019 is one of the biggest events of the year of Microsoft. It is marketed as “the annual global celebration of all things Xbox”, X019 is specifically Microsoft’s way to keep on updating its fans on all sorts of things which it announced at E3. The brand has also made additional announcements and provided the first glance of the upcoming hardware as well as games. Biggest announcements made at X019 The announcement about Project xCloud was one of the most expected news at the event considering the unveil of Google Stadia which is near. Stadia is specifically a game streaming service which will be allowing the users to stream as well as play games on various supported devices without event needing a powerful gaming PC or console. This service will enable the gamers to play games on Chrome browser, Chromecast Ultra dongle or a Pixel 3 smartphone. Microsoft also announced that more than 50 new games are arriving in the platform from 25 different partners. Having said that, now the service is being tested on various Android devices since the month of October. It will now be preparing its way to Windows 10 in the year 2020 as well as on various other platforms as well. The company is going with xCloud since it even announced that more than 3500 games on Xbox One as well as more than 1900 games under service. Having said that there is no such exact date of the launch. Apart from this xCloud is planning to expand its service to new regions which includes India in the year 2020. Not only this but also Xbox Game Pass will be receiving support for xCloud and all the games on the Xbox One library will be made available live by next year. Microsoft also announced in the event that more than 50 new games will be available on service very soon. Just after the end of the show, the users will be able to download Rage 2 as well as Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. On the other hand, you will also see Darksiders III, final Fantasy VII as well as The Witcher 3 through XV all available on Xbox Game Pass. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is such an attractive package which bundles a month of EA Access, six months of Spotify Premium as well as three months of Discord Nitro. Everwild In this year’s show, one of the biggest surprises was Everwild which is a new IP from Rare, the company which is behind Xbox One’s Sea of Thieves as well as N64 classics such as GoldenEye and Perfect Dark. However, nothing much is known yet about the game apart from what is shown in the trailer. Rare studio’s head, Craig Duncan said, “ while Everwild is still early in development, we are very excited about the unique potential of the game we are creating. The Everwild team is focused on building an experience that allows for new ways to play in a natural magical world.” The tech giant also revealed the first-ever gameplay footage of the Age of Empires at X019. Earlier, Microsoft has only unveiled a short teaser which gave little information about the game. The video also displayed two playable civilizations which include the English as well as the Mongols. Needless to say that more civilizations will be present in the game which the brand will reveal later on. Microsoft also revealed the availability of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition on Xbox Game Pass for PC with Steam as well as the Microsoft Store. The company has also shown another gameplay trailer of Fight Simulator and this trailer was also marvellous. However, the graphical quality was unreal but we hope that the company will definitely improve when the game will be launched. The developers of the game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was also announced a new game which they are working on that is called Bleeding Edge. The trailer was displayed of the multiplayer game that will be available on the PC as well as the Xbox One in March 2020. However, the beta version will be launched in February 2020 just before its public launch. Become a Jedi As we all know that Fallen Order is live all across the world, EA also launched a new live-action trailer which is known as Become a Jedi. The game is played on PlayStation 4, Xbox One as well as PC. The developer of Halo announced that its upcoming Halo: Reach is arriving at Halo: The Master Chief Collection 3 December. It will be coming on Xbox One as well as PC. Microsoft has shown a launch trailer and it is the fifth game in the Halo series. The PC version willing be coming with important updates. As per 343 industries, it will be supporting 4K UHD resolutions which are expected to run at better than 60 fps as well as include a keyboard and native mouse support. You can buy it separately for $10 or the entire collection for $40. It will be available on the Microsoft Store or Steam. 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__label__cc	0.716191	0.283809	My art work and other musings Anne Lawson Art Sewing on Paper Would you like a free drawing? Trees for sale Democracy + sausage November 24, 2018 November 24, 2018 by anne54, posted in Melbourne, Odds and Ends It’s election day in Victoria. We are voting to elect representatives for our Legislative Council (Upper House) and Legislative Assembly (Lower House) of Parliament. We have compulsory voting in Australia and I think that’s a good thing. Voting is an important democratic activity. Compulsory voting means that everyone has to take some notice of what is going on, politically, around them, even if it’s only for the three minutes that they are in the booth filling in the numbers. Everyone has to think about it, even if it is only to vote informally or do a donkey vote (straight down the ballot paper). Many people have fought hard over centuries to get us ‘one vote, one value’. We know about the fight for the vote for women and for indigenous people to be able to vote. But struggles go back further. The Chartist Movement in Britain in the mid 1800s was a large working class movement that demanded many things we now take for granted. The People’s Charter called for six reforms to make the political system more democratic: A vote for every man twenty-one years of age, of sound mind, and not undergoing punishment for a crime. The secret ballot to protect the elector in the exercise of his vote. No property qualification for Members of Parliament in order to allow the constituencies to return the man of their choice. Payment of Members, enabling tradesmen, working men, or other persons of modest means to leave or interrupt their livelihood to attend to the interests of the nation. Equal constituencies, securing the same amount of representation for the same number of electors, instead of allowing less populous constituencies to have as much or more weight than larger ones. Annual Parliamentary elections, thus presenting the most effectual check to bribery and intimidation, since no purse could buy a constituency under a system of universal manhood suffrage in each twelve-month period.(From Wikipedia) Okay, so the fight for votes for women was still a way off, but secret ballots, no property qualifications, payment fo Members of Parliament and equal electorates were major steps forward for democracy. The right to vote has been a hard won right, and a right that not everyone around the world has. So I cherish my chance to have my vote. The other aspect I am grateful for is that we have a nation wide Electoral Commission, which oversees all our elections. It was something I took for granted until I read things about the mid-term elections in the USA. Correct me if I am wrong about this, but it seems that in the Sates there is no national body covering all states, instead leaving it up to individual jurisdictions to determine electoral rolls, polling booths etc. To have our overarching Commission means consistency across the nation as well as removing the possibility of it becoming politicised. And I enjoy the Democracy Sausage after! I am not sure if Democracy Sausages, as they have become known, are a feature in in elections in other countries, so let me explain……Many polling booths are in local community centres, schools etc. So they take the opportunity to have a sausage sizzle fund raiser. So, two civic actions at once ~ voting and supporting the local school by buying a sausage! So civic duty done….until the Federal elections sometime next year. Do you have compulsory voting? Electoral commissions or the like?……Democracy sausages? Love to know what you think about your voting systems. Tagged compulsory voting, democracy, democracy sausage, right to vote, voting Previous postNot my usual sewing Next postThere goes Christmas and here comes the New Year 30 thoughts on “Democracy + sausage” cedar51 says: (New Zealand) compulsory to be on the “roll” but not compulsory to vote…if you do vote, only one vote is allowed. Read of a man who went to 9 different polling stations and voted, because he wanted to make his “man” got in…of course, now I think he is to fined…. hope your “sausage sizzle” doesn’t get into trouble as they have to done with a big name hardware chain, who allow fundraising on the w/end…something about greasy fried onions that could cause someone to slide on dropped off bits and break a bone! anne54 says: We don’t need to produce ID when we are given our ballot paper, so I think it would be quite possible to someone to do what your chap did. I think asking for ID would be good. As for the sausage sizzle….that incident has caused a ruckus, with the big question being ‘onion on top or underneath the sausage?’ Apparently having it underneath stops it from falling on the ground and creating a safety issue!! Love the idea of a sausage sizzler! I think compulsory voting is a good idea. It really annoys me when people don’t vote, people fought hard to get the vote and we also see the issues people have in other countries trying to exersize their right to vote. and when they don’t vote AND complain bitterly about the political situation! I so agree, Margaret. It is a right to be treasured. Are you saying that it is not compulsory to vote in the UK? laura bruno lilly says: Is the Democracy Sausage one particular standardized type? In other words is it the same type of sausage offered at all polling places? Or is it named ‘Democracy Sausage’ due to when it is prepared (ie-during elections at the polls)? Just curious…looks good! Great question Laura! It has recently earned the nick-name ‘Democracy Sausage’, but it has long been a feature of polling places, where schools and local communities use the election to raise money. But given that they want to raise money, I am sure the sausages are bought as cheaply as possible, from a standard supermarket, making them a standard size too! Are fund raisers of some sort a feature at your polling booths? Peace to you too. None that I’ve ever voted at had fund raisers, even at the elementary schools locations, where a bake sale would probably pop up if allowed. I’m thinking it’s in keeping with polling restrictions surrounding the area – ie no campaign signage, booklets, etc along with anything remotely perceived as being ‘commercial’ as in a ‘sausage sizzle’!!! I wonder who decides which ’cause’ gets chosen for the proceeds…or is it specific to where the poll is – ie-the specific school, a generic fund for the city? FYI: we do have the equivalent of your ‘sausage sizzle’ cart in front of most home improvement retail stores…only they’re not fundraisers. Oh and one more thing, I love your casual phrase – ‘sausage sizzle’ in case you hadn’t noticed! Isn’t ‘sausage sizzle’ a good phrase?! Our booths have strict restrictions too. I wonder how the fund raisers are allowed? They certainly don’t do any campaigning. The money goes to the school or kindergarten etc where the polling booth is, which is why they are not at every booth. The sausage sizzles outside the DIY stores are fundraisers too. Local sports clubs, kindergartens etc are invited to be involved, and any money collected goes to them. So the money from your sausage carts goes to the store itself? Sorry to say, I don’t really know! I think back in the day, like decades ago, the food carts were run by individuals, not related to the store itself. But now? Haven’t a clue…and the idea to use that as a fundraiser even outside a retail place is great! This has been a fun exchange on details of cultural life differences within democratic/english speaking countries. Thanks. ‘Sausage sizzle’ is now forever in my everyday vocab! tialys says: To answer your question earlier – voting is not compulsory in the U.K., nor in France. I’m not sure about the rest of Europe but I’d be surprised if it is. That was supposed to be a reply to you Anne, not Laura Fancy that! I would have bet money on it being compulsory in the UK. As we follow so many British traditions, I wonder why we didn’t follow that one. daleleelife101.blog says: Voting rights for so-called minorities were hard won, so I always appreciate the privilege and show up. Many years ago I worked voting days as an election official and have signed up to do so again in our March 2019 election. Hopefully I’ll get one of our small local polling centres, a nice community day and not so long as in the bigger centres when it comes to vote counting. I wonder if Australia is the home of the Democacy Sausage. When we were travelling in 2016 we pre-poll voted as we weren’t sure if we would be near a centre on the day. But it turned out we were in Mt Isa so we rocked up for lunch anyway, and had not only a DS but the best steak & salad sandwich I’ve ever eaten. Our old local polling centre in inner city Sydney also did a mini-fete type offering with yummy cakes as well. I like this Aussie spirit, making the best of an event that can feel tedious but is necessary ☺ It’s a great tradition. My niece’s polling booth sold plants, which she really appreciated as she is vegetarian! I live just over the road from our polling booth. Last time I was going to have a garage sale, but didn’t get my act together. It turned out to be a good thing, because for some reason the school wasn’t a polling booth that year. My stall would have looked very lonely. tierneycreates says: Victoria sounds awesome in regards to its political processes…and then you added in images of delicious sausage – ha! Love the post title! And most awesome thing was the result. The Australian Labor Party (centre left), which had been in government for the last four years, had a resounding victory over the Liberal Party (centre-and-further right). I gather sausage sizzles are not part of the American voting system. No but I think if we added sausage sizzles things would get better here 🙂 Yep, whatever gets people to the polling booth! Born To Organize says: I enjoyed hearing about your election process, Anne. I think everyone should vote. If that means making it compulsory, I’m all for it. Voting is not required here and our turnout is often in the 30 to 40% range. Isn’t that awful? It was heartening to see a record number of young people turn out to vote in our “mid-terms”. That’s progress. People are finally waking up and realizing that their vote does count. Many thinks need to be fixed with our system, starting with the electoral college, but that’s a long conversation for another day. I love the fundraising sausage tradition. That’s smart! It is encouraging to see young people voting. I wonder if it is because they see their future becoming more dire, with climate change, house prices and the like. I don’t think compulsory voting creates an aware public, but at least it forces people to think about what mark they will make on the ballot. It may be an informal vote, but at least they have had to think about it to some small level. As for the fundraising sausage sizzle….as I said to Tierney, what ever gets people to the polling booth! By the way, did you have your polling booth in the mid-terms? Hi Anne, This is an old one, but yes, we were a polling place again and with much more positive results this go around. A record number of women ran and won. Minorities and the disfranchised ran and won too. It’s encouraging. I think people finally woke up to the idea that votes do matter, and if we don’t want a repeat of our dreadful administration, everyone has to vote. Even if I wasn’t already a committed voter, I’d go just for the sausage! Yum! I can’t even bear to think what a mess our system is, here in the US . . . A reward for doing civic duty! Because we live directly opposite the polling booth, the Fella and I went over and got a sausage for lunch. There was a move to collect for the homeless, but I am not sure how that went. I too think it’s very important to vote but I can’t help thinking that making it compulsory goes against the principles of democracy. Still, a sizzling sausage is always welcome. What an interesting take on it! I have never thought about it in that way. I guess what we would like to see is a population so engaged with issues that they would be eager to have their say in the way they are governed and issues are resolved. Then compulsory/non-compulsory would not be an issue. Pingback: My heart is heavy – Anne Lawson Art The Snail of Happiness says: The democracy sausage – this maybe the best thing I’ve learned about today! it even has it’s own hashtag …. of course! Leave a Reply to anne54 Cancel reply Copyright: Anne Lawson 2018 My Etsy Shop is just a click away All material, including art work and photographs, unless stated, remain my property. If you would like to use them contact me for permission.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2682
__label__cc	0.500085	0.499915	Ontogeny of the Na+-H+ exchanger in rat ileal basolateral membrane vesicles M. Daher, S. Acra, F. K. Ghishan This study was designed to examine the activity of the Na+-H+ exchanger across the basolateral membranes of the ileal enterocyte and its developmental pattern. The function of the Na+-H+ exchanger was studied using a well validated basolateral membrane vesicle technique. Na+ uptake represented transport into the vesicle rather than binding as validated by initial rate studies. Na+ uptake represented an electroneutral process as shown by studies in which negative membrane potential was induced by the ionophore valinomycin. Various outwardly directed pH gradients significantly stimulated Na+ uptake compared with no pH gradient conditions at all age groups. However, the magnitude of stimulation was significantly different between the age groups with more marked stimulation of amiloride-sensitive Na+ uptake occurring in adolescent rats as compared to weanling or suckling rats. The amiloride sensitivity of the pH stimulated Na+ uptake was investigated using [Amiloride] = 10-2-10-5 M at pH(i)/pH(o), = 5.2/7.5. At 10-2 M amiloride concentration, Na+ uptake was inhibited by 80%, 70%, 77%, in the basolateral membranes of adolescent, weanling and suckling rats, respectively. Dixon plot analysis in both adolescent and weanling rats was consistent with two amiloride binding sites, a low affinity system and a high affinity system. In the suckling rat, on the other hand, the data supported a single high affinity binding site. Kinetic studies revealed a K(m) for amiloride-sensitive Na+ uptake of 12.6 ± 6.6, 10.2 ± 1.77, 9.46 and V(max) of 4.83 ± 1.22, 4.47 ± 0.36 and 8.08 ± 1.92 n.mol.mg.protein-1.7 s-1 in suckling, weanling and adolescent rats, respectively. There were no statistically significant differences between the K(m) values of the different age groups. However, V(max) in adolescent rats was significantly greater than those of younger rats. These findings suggest, for the first time, the presence of an ileal basolateral membrane Na+-H+ antiporter system in the rat during development. Journal of Developmental Physiology Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Ontogeny of the Na<sup>+</sup>-H<sup>+</sup> exchanger in rat ileal basolateral membrane vesicles'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Sodium-Hydrogen Exchangers Medicine & Life Sciences Amiloride Medicine & Life Sciences Membranes Medicine & Life Sciences Proton-Motive Force Medicine & Life Sciences Age Groups Medicine & Life Sciences Binding Sites Medicine & Life Sciences Valinomycin Medicine & Life Sciences Transport Vesicles Medicine & Life Sciences Daher, M., Acra, S., & Ghishan, F. K. (1991). Ontogeny of the Na+-H+ exchanger in rat ileal basolateral membrane vesicles. Journal of Developmental Physiology, 15(3), 175-181. Ontogeny of the Na+-H+ exchanger in rat ileal basolateral membrane vesicles. / Daher, M.; Acra, S.; Ghishan, F. K. In: Journal of Developmental Physiology, Vol. 15, No. 3, 03.10.1991, p. 175-181. Daher, M, Acra, S & Ghishan, FK 1991, 'Ontogeny of the Na+-H+ exchanger in rat ileal basolateral membrane vesicles', Journal of Developmental Physiology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 175-181. Daher M, Acra S, Ghishan FK. Ontogeny of the Na+-H+ exchanger in rat ileal basolateral membrane vesicles. Journal of Developmental Physiology. 1991 Oct 3;15(3):175-181. Daher, M. ; Acra, S. ; Ghishan, F. K. / Ontogeny of the Na+-H+ exchanger in rat ileal basolateral membrane vesicles. In: Journal of Developmental Physiology. 1991 ; Vol. 15, No. 3. pp. 175-181. @article{5cbedb19e0e7484787274ee2972184e4, title = "Ontogeny of the Na+-H+ exchanger in rat ileal basolateral membrane vesicles", abstract = "This study was designed to examine the activity of the Na+-H+ exchanger across the basolateral membranes of the ileal enterocyte and its developmental pattern. The function of the Na+-H+ exchanger was studied using a well validated basolateral membrane vesicle technique. Na+ uptake represented transport into the vesicle rather than binding as validated by initial rate studies. Na+ uptake represented an electroneutral process as shown by studies in which negative membrane potential was induced by the ionophore valinomycin. 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__label__wiki	0.610768	0.610768	Arlington News Business and Education by Kenneth Perkins in Business and Education, Community If laughter is the best medicine, Galactic is a testament to a healthy workplace. From the start of the day to the end, team members led by company founder Dan Mohorc (right) and his right-hand- man Gary Cornwell spend their time bonding – and then working together to serve customers. (Photos: Kenneth Perkins) Shortly after 8 a.m. on a humid Tuesday morning in mid-May, people began filling up the lobby of the performance solutions company Galactic, arriving mostly in twos, which wasn’t necessarily intentional, even if it actually makes sense on a more metaphorical level. The employees, most wearing jeans and all in blue polo shirts with “G-a- l-a- c-t- i-c” prominently stitched in front, filed in slowly yet purposely, finding places to sit, stand or lean, sipping on coffee or chugging water bottles while exchanging hugs and smiles and small talk with colleagues, as if they hadn’t seen one another since, well, the day before. North Texas Real Estate There might be a number of ploys companies do to rev up employees for a monthly state-of- the-company gathering — if they do them at all. But what happened at Galactic first thing that morning is a testament to why this organization is as inquisitively unique as its name, and to what it actually does so well to be a prominent player in the incentive industry. At precisely 8:15, two guests representing the Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington began beating a large drum so loudly you had to wonder if the windows at Globe Life Park, sitting just a couple blocks north, were rattling. No one inside the lobby flinched. That’s because Galactic staffers are used to this sort of thing, which actually sounds louder and goes on a bit longer when CEO and founder Dan Mohorc traditionally grabs the drumsticks and bangs away. For the visitors, this ritual was rather disarming, though pleasantly so, and judging from the looks on their faces, they wouldn’t have been the least bit surprised if a nine-piece band, a choir, and a troupe of dancers popped out. “Drumroll,” as it is called, has been going on at this company for nearly 15 years and is an integral part of Galactic’s corporate culture. At the Arlington Chamber of Commerce, where Mohorc serves on the board, he’s considered a businessman’s businessman who has gotten where he is by strategic planning and shrewd execution, and with an uncanny ability of knowing what might/will happen six to 48 months down the road. For instance, not many “20 somethings” can compartmentalize their future by saying they want to be educated during their 20s, knocked around in their business during their 30s and, with knowledge and wisdom from the formal education and informal butt-kicking, start their own thing by mid-40s. He did all of that, on cue, and has surrounded himself with outstanding talent to build a company that employs about 50 full-time and 27-part- time workers spread across four buildings on a 5-acre campus. The company has earned the Dallas Top 100 Award for growth and achievement four years running, and was voted Arlington’s employer of the year in 2002 and Small Business of the Year in 2014. Mohorc challenged his top executives, including Gary Cornwell, his handpicked second- in-command, to create a one- of-a- kind corporate culture and shuttered them in a room for two solid days. What they came up with was a packet of “performance solutions,” where three things would be emphasized: environment (reflecting integrity, honesty and respect), teamwork (allowing all ideas to have life) and Creativity (inviting risk-taking, having fun). ”This was not something we wanted to get from a book,” Mohorc says. “What do we want? What’s in our heart? I wanted a corporate culture by the people in this company. That’s why I encouraged them to forget standard business practices and persevere until our unique Galactic corporate culture was created.” What Galactic figured out was that what it does best is build and sustain relationships, and this covers suppliers and customers, but none more than their own employees. While the traditional business acumen is “the customer is always right,” at Galactic, employees are golden. (Part of the understanding is that happy employees make happy suppliers who make happy customers). Everyone seems to have a story. When the 14-year- old son of a single mother employee was hospitalized after a violent beating, Mohorc was at the hospital before the mother was. Mohorc ended up moving the staffer to a different neighborhood and paid her rent for a year. Galactic has covered expenses for an employee whose husband had lost his job. When an employee’s multiple sclerosis flared up and she was confined to a wheelchair, the company kept her on payroll, even helping with health insurance when her regular company insurance ran out. After failing to come up with a $5,000 deductible, a colleague set up a Go Fund Me page and within 48 hours, she had the money. When the three- month stint for the insurance ended, Mohorc signed her up for another three months, despite uneasiness from the human resources department. During a particularly touching “Drumroll,” the staffer’s mother wheeled her out into the middle of the lobby while employees put their hands on her to pray. MS is an unpredictable and often disabling disease that affects the central nervous system. But months later, Mohorc had the honor of welcoming the staffer back to daily work. She walked up to the podium and gave him a big bear hug. Purchasing Manager Sade Natale, in Florida when her grandson was born with a severe heart issue, remembers picking up her phone to hear Mohorc’s voice. “He called to see if there was anything they could do,” says Natale. “When I got back, I learned that they actually had a prayer at one of the Drumrolls.” Then there was the day Mohorc addressed his troops by officially declaring Galactic a “hugging company,” a seemingly innocuous “initiative” Mohorc felt moved to implement, pretty much off the cuff. His human resources head didn’t think it was a good idea and suggested leaving room for employees to “opt” out of the hugging initiative altogether, which one female worker did, only to take her name off the “No Hug” list 30 days later. ”If you go to the coffee pot and see an employee with tears in her eyes, are you going to walk away from that?” Mohorc says. “I’m not. Ask what’s wrong? Give them a hug and pray with them if they want. We’re a service company, and we service our customers. But are we servicing one another?” “I’m proud of the fact that this company has a soul, and that’s because we believe in management taking care of their people. The time of motivating employees through intimidation is over. You motivate by building them up.” The Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington reps participating in Drumroll were there to thank Galactic employees who performed all audio/visual duties for the organization’s Champions for Kids Breakfast a month before. Development and Events Manager Holly Clinton was so moved she read a poem. ”This is just something that’s built in their culture,” Clinton says of how the Galactic employees volunteered their time. “That they were so willing to go far and beyond shows this is just how they do it every day at their own jobs.” If there are particular business thinkers from whom Mohorc drew inspiration to build Galactic this way one would be Drayton McLane, whose name sits atop Baylor University’s new football stadium. McLane was Mohorc’s mentor when he worked for McLane Company, a supply chain services business in Temple, gaining an expansive knowledge of food and product distribution while exhibiting a high moral principle and Christian approach. Just as influential for Mohorc is pal and pheasant-hunting buddy Dennis Rainey, president, CEO and co-founder of FamilyLife, and host of the radio talk show of the same name, which really typifies Galactic’s DNA. When Mohorc speaks with students at Southeast Missouri State University, the alma mater he barely escaped with a 2.2 GPA (SEMO awarded him the 2011 Alumni Merit Award, so he returns frequently as a guest lecturer), he fuses Christianity and capitalism, saying that he sees the Bible as the literal truth and uses it to guide his decisions. His faith and the values that come from it are often on display. ”It’s a faith-based organization,” Mohorc says simply. “When we say that, we mean it is Godly based. Not denominational. We don’t expect anyone to change his or her beliefs. We just hope people have a relationship with their creator, whatever that looks like.” “Thing is,” Mohorc adds, “I’ve been up, I’ve been down, been in the gutter, screwed, blued, tattooed, everything all around. Damn near on the steps of bankruptcy. If I did not have a relationship with my creator, I would not have survived.” In a few years, the company’s prospective future will fall on Cornwell, Mohorc’s even-tempered lieutenant, who accepted a six-week contract to develop a web page to track rebates and never left. He’s now closing in on 17 years. ”I fell in love with the people and what we do,” Cornwell says. “It’s very gratifying that when you are doing business with another company you get to see the fruits of this team’s efforts positively affect another company. The only way that happens is that the people here have to believe in what we are doing and truly love each other and care about this company as a whole. This company is living and breathing, and it’s a part of not only these buildings but Arlington itself.” Cornwell, a veteran of Desert Storm, owned his own trucking company and has a degree in computer science. Mohorc valued his IT skills but was lured by his people and problem-solving proficiency even more, and has moved him steadily up the ladder and is quite transparent about Cornwell taking over when he steps down. He is already handling most of the day-to- day operations and directing the company’s growth and diversification. This is allowing Mohorc to move into a different phase of life altogether. ”Now that the company is thriving and I’ve put my exit strategy in place with Cornwell, I want to give back to the city,” he says. “This isn’t about writing big checks. It’s about getting people together who believe in the Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington or the YMCA or Mission Arlington. I want to help the people served by these organizations.” Mohorc sees a resurgence in a city that has been overtaken by the shiny new ‘burbs further north. With Arlington’s economically-minded new mayor Jeff Williams, he says the city is posed to embrace higher-end companies that will allow the city to retain its footing. ”Look, D.R. Horton is returning to Arlington. General Motors just made a huge investment with their renovation deal, and DFW Airport is making significant expansions,” Mohorc says. “That will increase the demand for amenities like golf courses and restaurants. The city is poised to grow and prosper.” “I based my company here because I knew what Arlington could become and I love seeing what Arlington has become,” he says. “Now I feel confident things are in place for Arlington to get to the next level.” Arlington Entrepreneurs A spotlight on Arlington business owners and what makes them unique. From Arlington to the Amazon This UTA student is unconcerned with the naysayers. 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__label__cc	0.633909	0.366091	Satellite Platforms Command and Data Handling Ground Segment Mission Management Team & Foundations The New Space Basic Guide to Nanosatellites New Space España turns Vigo into the Spanish space capital Bannister Global2020-06-23T12:20:12+02:00November 7, 2018\| Alén Space, CINAE and the Universidade de Vigo have presented today the congress, pioneering in Spain, which will gather on November 29th the main Spanish companies and institutions from the spatial sector. Vigo will turn on November 29th into the Spanish space capital. The official presentation of the congress New Space España 2018 has had the presence this Wednesday of Manuel Reigosa, rector of the Universidade de Vigo; Fernando Aguado, professor, researcher and coordinator of the Agrupación Aeroespacial of the former university; and Aarón Nercellas, cofounder of Alén Space. New Space España is a pioneer congress, which under the title “Business opportunities outside the Earth”; compiles for the first time in Spain the main Spanish companies of the known as New Space, a new paradigm by which the access to space for new companies and organisations is open thanks to the reduction of costs. This process is known as space democratization. The event, which will be celebrated at Sede Afundación in Vigo, has been organised by Alén Space, CINAE (Centro de Innovación Aeroespacial de Galicia) and the Universidade de Vigo, with the sponsorship of Abanca, Alter Technology Group, Arrow Electronics, Everis, GAIN (Axencia Galega de Innovación) and Wild One Advisors. New Space España will have speakers from companies and institutions related to the Spanish spatial sector, such as Airbus, Aistech Space, Alén Space, CINAE, Deimos Space, DHV Tecnology, Everis, Hisdat, GAIN, GMV, INTA, Plataforma Tecnológica Aeroespacial Española (PAE), PLD Space, Satlantis or Thales Alenia Space among others. During the presentation event, which has taken place in the Ernestina building at the Universidade de Vigo, Aarón Nercellas, from Alén Space, has expressed gratitude to the sponsors’ supports and has highlighted the importance of the event: “For the first time, all the New Space companies, the aerospace industry and organisms, companies and institutions that drive and finance this kind of projects are reunited in Spain”. The cofounder of Alén Space has said that “in Galicia a very potent industry has been generated in relation to the nanosatellites field” and the congress will address the New Space phenomenon from a wide point of view. “Apart from the talks, we will have three round tables. The first one will be about the New Space, its current state and its future, and how they can cooperate among the Spanish companies. Another table will be focused on the point of view of the most powerful and traditional companies from the space sector. And the last one will debate mechanisms and ways to support this kind of initiatives”, Aarón Nercellas explained. The rector of the Universidade de Vigo has acknowledged the effort of his institution for “working in research and return society all the knowledge we generate in the form of progress”. Manuel Reigosa has revealed that there are more than 100 people registered in the event, “ with many important actors on the aerospace sector”, and has insisted on this type of events as a way of helping “the country to be there in a leading subject”. “The New Space is related to the democratization of space and is a field in which we are well-positioned, with research groups situated on top”, has commented the rector of the institution. Fernando Aguado, on the other hand, has highlighted that “this is the first event of New Space on a national level, in which the actors of the traditional side of the space sector will also be in attendance. Being celebrated in Vigo is an acknowledgement to the work that has been made in the region, and its results in the last 11 years through the triple bond formed between the university, the research centre and companies such as Alén Space”. 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__label__wiki	0.55809	0.55809	Home > Releases > Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) > Civilian Labor Force in Polk County, MN Civilian Labor Force in Polk County, MN (MNPOLK9LFN) Nov 2020: 16,591 \| Persons \| Monthly \| Updated: Jan 5, 2021 Nov 2020: 16,591 (+ more) Nov 2020: 16,591 Oct 2020: 16,607 Sep 2020: 16,169 Aug 2020: 16,171 Jul 2020: 16,708 Civilian Labor Force in Polk County, MN 2007-06-07 2021-01-05 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2007-06-07 2021-01-05 Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) 2007-06-07 2021-01-05 Thousands of Persons 2007-06-07 2016-03-17 Monthly 2007-06-07 2021-01-05 These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey. Civilian Labor Force includes all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 and older classified as either employed or unemployed. Employed persons are all persons who, during the reference week (the week including the 12th day of the month), (a) did any work as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of their family, or (b) were not working but who had jobs from which they were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, bad weather, childcare problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management dispute, job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each employed person is counted only once, even if he or she holds more than one job. Unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time during the 4 week-period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed. For more details, see the release's https://www.bls.gov/lau/laufaq.htm>frequently asked questions. Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) Counties by State, Monthly, Not Seasonally Adjusted: Minnesota Unemployment Rate in Polk County, MN Civilian Labor Force in Polk County, MN Annual, Not Seasonally Adjusted Polk County, MN Counties Minnesota States U.S. Regional Data More Releases from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics More Series from Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) Polk County, MN Grand Forks Minnesota Civilian Labor Force Labor County or County Equivalent Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Public Domain: Citation Requested Not Seasonally Adjusted United States of America	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0066.json.gz/line2689

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