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__label__wiki	0.897587	0.897587	name lisa charakter Youngest child and daughter of Homer and Marge; sister of Bart and Lisa. Springfield Elementary School bus driver. Beneath the charming and funny exterior is a world full of disgust and moral destruction. She encourages Starr to do as much as she is comfortable with in terms of activism and speaking out. Mother of Selma and Patty Bouvier and Marge Simpson, Grandmother of Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Ling. Lisa, Starr's mother, is an invaluable source of support and care for her daughter throughout the novel. Janitor of Springfield Elementary School. Wife of Homer; mother of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Die beliebtesten Bedeutungen fÃ¼r Lisa sind â€ždie Gottgeweihteâ€œ und â€žmein Gott ist FÃ¼lleâ€œ. Adoptive mother of Ling. Lisa ist die Kurzform des Namens Elisabeth und geht daher auf die hebrÃ¤ischen WÃ¶rter â€želâ€œ, was â€žGottâ€œ bedeutet und auf â€žsabaâ€œ, was â€žder Schwurâ€œ heiÃŸt, zurÃ¼ck. The creators originally intended many of these characters as one-time jokesters or for fulfilling needed functions in the town. List of recurring The Simpsons characters, Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish, $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield, "Flanders loses his faith and an inconsequential Simpsons tests ours", "The Simpsons Season 29 Episode 19 Review: Left Behind", The Simpsons Forever! A number of them have gained expanded roles and subsequently starred in their own episodes. 1 How to Obtain 2 Progression 2.1 Leveling 2.2 Ascensions 2.3 Constellations 3 Playable Characters 4 Upcoming Characters 5 Mentioned Characters 6 Non-Playable Characters 6.1 Manga-Only Characters 7 Navigation Characters can primarily be obtained by using Primogems to purchase Intertwined Fates or Acquaint Fates to perform Wishes (Gacha pulls). Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more! 1. Along with the Simpson family, The Simpsons includes a large array of characters: co â€¦ ; Bart Simpson, the 10-year-old son, who gets in trouble. passenden Namen in der Liste findet, kann die enthaltenen Namen durch leichte VerÃ¤nderungen (Austausch einzener Buchstaben oder Silben) nach seinen WÃ¼nschen modifizieren. Homer J. Simpson, the father, who is overweight, lazy and works at a nuclear power plant and likes doughnuts:); Marge Simpson (nÃ©e Bouvier), the mother, a housewife, who is very tolerant (understanding) of her family. The Simpson family's next door neighbor; owner of. Principal of Springfield Elementary School. Mentally ill owner of many cats. Chief Wiggum's wife; Ralph Wiggum's mother. One-eyebrowed baby. Kirk Van Houten's wife; Milhouse's mother. Student at Springfield Elementary School. Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee; one of Homer Simpson's friends. The following is a list of characters that have appeared in the television series The Batman, which ran from September 11, 2004, to March 22, 2008.The animation style bears a strong resemblance to that of Jackie Chan Adventures, since Jeff Matsuda was the chief character designer for both shows. Injured at the end of the. The fictional characters named Lisa below come from every kind of genre and medium, as this list includes movie characters named Lisa, TV characters named Lisa, and book characters named Lisa. Chinese name Lisa: what you see below is the Chinese name Lisa, composed of two characters. Lisa worries for the safety of her family and convinces Maverick that their family should move out of the Garden Heights neighborhood. Springfield Elementary School lunch lady. Laut Bill Schwab, der Charakter Designer, war Elsa vor dem Song "Lass jetzt los" sehr schÃ¼chtern und hat sich vor anderen versteckt. Der Name Lisa kommt aus dem Deutschen, hat aber einen hebrÃ¤ischen Ursprung. Owner of Herman's Military Antiques shop. Er gibt Hinweise auf Ihre inneren KrÃ¤fte und Entwicklungsziele. List of notable fictional characters whose name is Lisa, including photos when available. A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Continued, The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, The Simpsons Beyond Forever! Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee. Im Song entscheidet sie sich dazu, sie selbst zu sein und lÃ¤sst damit die Vergangenheit hinter sich. Identical twins; Students at Springfield Elementary School. Lists about and ranking the best, worst, most interesting, and most surprising names of real people, normal and famous. Ihr Name wurde Ihnen nicht zufÃ¤llig gegeben. The given name Lisa can be a short form of Elisabeth, Melissa or Elizabeth.In the United Kingdom, the name Lisa began to gain popularity during the 1960s, by 1974 it was the fifth most popular female name there, and a decade later it was the 14th most popular female name there.However, by 1996 it had fallen out of the top 100. Twin sister of Patty and older sister of Marge. Student at Springfield Elementary School. Wann hat Lisa Namenstag? Chairman of Itchy & Scratchy International. TV show clown host, original name Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski. First name is revealed to be Kyle in ". Luann Van Houten's ex-boyfriend; American Gladiator. If you want to save a party member from death, you will have to sacrifice the strength of your character. Former billionaire and Marge's prom date. According to creator Matt Groening, the show adopted the concept of a large supporting cast from the Canadian sketch comedy show Second City Television.[1]. Lisa Carter. In this page you're going to read everything about your Chinese name Lisa in 4 sections: Section 1: Image and text you can magnify; Section 2: Meaning of each Chinese character; Section 3: Traditional version; Section 4: Famous person with the same name. Owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Only main, supporting, and recurring characters are listed. ; Lisa Simpson, the 8-year-old daughter, who is very smart. Husband of Marge; father of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. This category collects all characters featured in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and related media. Despite Marvin Monroe's character being retired in season 7, he continued to appear in the opening sequence until season 20. Lead singer of the Christian Rock band Kovenant. The main episode characters, the Simpson family, are listed first; all other characters are listed in alphabetical order. Along with the Simpson family, The Simpsons includes a large array of characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, local celebrities, and as well as fictional characters. Trying to find out more about an anime or manga character? Der Name offenbart alles was bedeutsam und mit Ihrem Charakter verbunden ist und welche Schwerpunkte Ihr Leben prÃ¤gen. Twin sister of Selma and older sister of Marge. Homer Simpson's father; Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson's grandfather. Ihr Haar sieht wilder aus, ihr Kleid ist magisch und sie ist endlich frei, aber auch ganz allein. Oldest child and only son of Homer and Marge; brother of Lisa and Maggie. Springfield Elementary's school psychologist. Whether you're looking for comedy characters named Lisa or drama characters named Lisa, this list will have what you're looking for. Arch-nemesis of Maggie Simpson. The fictional characters named Lisa below come from every kind of genre and medium, as this list includes movie characters named Lisa, TV characters named Lisa, and book characters named Lisa. You might even find some notable video game characters whose name is Lisa below as well. The given name Lisa can be a short form of Elisabeth, Melissa or Elizabeth.In the United Kingdom, the name Lisa began to gain popularity during the 1960s, by 1974 it was the fifth most popular female name there, and a decade later it was the 14th most popular female name there.However, by 1996 it had fallen out of the top 100. A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Still Continued, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_The_Simpsons_characters&oldid=990989258, Lists of characters in American television animation by series, Lists of American sitcom television characters, Lists of characters in American television animation, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Minister of the First Church of Springfield. Die Figuren der Zeichentrickserie Die Simpsons setzen sich zum GroÃŸteil aus einem zwar breiten, aber Ã¼berschaubaren Spektrum aus â€žSpringfield-Bewohnernâ€œ zusammen, die so in verschiedenen Folgen verschiedene Funktionen und Beziehungen zueinander einnehmen kÃ¶nnen.Das detaillierte Zusammentragen von Informationen Ã¼ber die einzelnen Figuren, die zum festen Inventar von â€¦ For other recurring characters, see List of recurring The Simpsons characters. Grampa's closest neighbor at the Retirement Castle. President of Costington's Department Store. List RulesVote up your favorite fictional Lisa. Bart Simpson's teacher at Springfield Elementary School (until season 25), and Ned Flanders wife (Seasons 23-25, when the character is revealed to have died). Estranged mother of Homer Simpson and wife of Abe Simpson. Springfield Elementary School's music teacher. Professional boxer, a caricature of Mike Tyson. These choices permanently effect the game play. Players will learn what kind of person they are by being FORCED to make choices. Middle child and eldest daughter of Homer and Marge; sister of Bart and Maggie. Bart Simpson's best friend; Student at Springfield Elementary School. Lisa is a quirky side-scrolling RPG set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Incompetent medical doctor. You might even find some notable video game characters whose name is Lisa below as well. This page was last edited on 27 November 2020, at 17:46. SECTION 1: IMAGE AND TEXT. Milhouse Van Houten's father; factory worker. Despite Maude Flanders dying in season 11, she continued to appear in the opening sequence until season 20. Name revealed as Eleanor Abernathy in "See Homer Run". Despite Bleeding Gums Murphy dying in season 6, he continued to appear in the opening sequence until season 20. The Simpson family. Get the details on MyAnimeList, the largest online anime and manga database in the world! Lisa Simpson's teacher at Springfield Elementary School. Vanessa Hudgens Freund, RÃ¶mische GÃ¶tter Bilder, Hotel Hafen Hamburg Parken, Gute Nacht Kuss Gif, Danke SchÃ¶n Auf TÃ¼rkisch, Tanger Outlet Dividend, Bet365 Deutschland Legal, C-130 Hercules Preis, Alexander Hindersmann Instagram Stories, Holiday Park Preise 2020,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line0
__label__wiki	0.533383	0.533383	About AUN-TV TELETHON LABOR DAY CCRShow News Censorship Ebola Already in the USA, Across Mexican Border, Doctors Fear: UPDATED Aug. 5 Health, National, Politics UPDATED August 5 (2:30 AM EST) — In New York City, Mt. Sinai Hospital is testing an American who visited West Africa for possible Ebola infection, displaying symptoms of Ebola, ABC News and Fox News are now reporting on August 4. From March 1918 to January 1919, a virulent strain of ordinary flu (influenza) spread in a pandemic of three waves throughout the United States, and killed an estimated 675,000 Americans, while the same flu spreading worldwide killed an estimated 30-50 million between 1918 and 1919. Today, politically-correct leaders have learned nothing, but place public image above public health. Today’s medical and political leaders are more interested in keeping people calm than keeping them safe. Government documents leaked from the Customs and Border Patrol, as reported by Bretibart, show “Among the significant revelations are that individuals from nations currently suffering from the world’s largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak across the porous U.S. border into the interior of the United States. At least 71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014.” In West Africa, Ebola has already broken out of containment and is spreading into major African cities, as reported by NewsMax in “WHO [World Health Organization]: Ebola Spreading Too Fast, ‘Catastrophic'”. “CONAKRY, Guinea — An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea’s capital.” CBS News is reportinga doctor in the Liberian capital of Monrovia “who spoke to CBS News on condition of confidentiality, said the disease is spinning out of control in Africa partly because it is extremely difficult to contain it in a sprawling, congested city center.” (Emphasis added.) NewsMax further reported: “Randy Schoepp, chief of diagnostics at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, which is running the only lab in Liberia testing Ebola samples, said (emphasis added): “The virus is getting to large, dense, city areas [in Western Africa]. We’re now getting samples (to test) from all over.” But he said he thinks “we’re only seeing a small portion of the cases out there,” partly because many drivers are scared to transport vials of blood that may contain Ebola to the lab.” As reported by Agence France Press (AFP), Nigerian authorities said Monday that a second doctor in the sprawling megacity of Lagos has contracted Ebola. This is significant because movement of the disease out of rural pockets into major cities dramatically transforms the potential for a break-out into a rapidly-expanding pandemic. AFP continued: “The confirmation that a fourth doctor in the region had developed Ebola came Monday as fear and anger about the dead being left unburied in Liberia’s capital Monrovia brought protesters into the streets there. Meanwhile, Sierra Leone’s president said that the regional epidemic threatened the ‘very essence’ of the nation. … The latest doctor to be infected had attended to Patrick Sawyer, who worked for Liberia’s finance ministry and contracted the virus from his sister before travelling to Lagos for a meeting of west African officials. Nigeria’s Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told journalists that 70 other people believed to have come into contact with Sawyer, who has also died, were being monitored.” Dr. Jane Orient — DC Clothesline reports — one of Arizona’s top physicians as well as other researchers have been told by Border Patrol informants that as many as 100,000 migrants from unknown countries have been allowed into the United States under the same provisions that President Obama is presently admitting so-called “unaccompanied minors.” Many of these people come from the same region of the world as the uncontained outbreak of Ebola. As Dr. Orient said in her interview on The Common Sense Show, on June 30, 2014, “It is not a matter of if Ebola comes into the United States, but when.” In a 2012 scientific study reported in Nature in 2012, the most serious strain Ebola Zaire was proven to travel without contact with any bodily fluids Ebola Zaire jumped through the air from infected piglets to macaque monkeys in a proven experimental context. One should recall that the virus originated in monkeys and jumped to humans. “All it takes is one cough, one sneeze, one drop of saliva, and the virus is loose in one of the main transportation centers of the U.S.,” journalist Paul Craig Roberts wrote. Contact with bodily fluids was not required for transmission of the infection in the Reston incident. On October 4, 1989, Ebola-infected monkeys from the Philippines (a crab-eating type of macaque) were imported as laboratory animals into Reston, Virginia, only 22 miles from The White House populated business center straddling major commuting routes straight into the Nation’s Capitol. “The Ebola Reston virus jumped quickly from room to room… Ebola apparently drifted through the building’s air-handling ducts.” Ileana Johnson reports. Two (2) of the 100 monkeys arrived dead in their crates when the Ebola-infected animals arrived at the monkey house called the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit operated by Hazelton Research Products, a division of Corning, Inc. Within 6 weeks, 29 more died. It took nearly 7 weeks for an intern Thomas Geisbert to discover that the cause was Ebola — in fact, a new Ebola Reston, a mutated strain of Ebola Zaire. Two monkey handlers got sick, one had a heart attack and another one was sent to the Fairfax Hospital with flu like symptoms and vomiting. Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, 2014 Ellis Island Medal of Honor winner, and Past Executive Director of The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons explains concerns that at least some illegal aliens who have already come across the US-Mexican border could also be infected with Ebola alongside possible Tuberculosis (TB), chicken pox, etc., and the Obama Administration could mis-categorize those cases as only Tuberculosis (TB). Dr. Vliet’s medical and educational websites are www.HerPlace.com, and www.InternationalHealthStrategiesLtd.com. The chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO), Zack Taylor reported to DC Clothesline that West African illegal immigrants are presently coming into the U.S. through Mexico. These West Africans have been apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley sector in the last few years. Some of these groups speak Spanish in order to infiltrate into the United States posing as Central American immigrants. Mr. Taylor has stated that West Africans are using the porous southern border to illegally enter the USA, but leaves it to the medical professionals to determine the likelihood of them carrying Ebola. Furthermore, the discovery of hundreds of dead bodies strewn across the desert leading across Mexico into the United States and just across our border raises further questions about exactly how those would-be border-crossers died before reaching their destination. (In some cases, the causes are clear such as violence, but in many cases not.) In the United States, some medical professionals conclude that Ebola cases have so far been quarantined, but the underlying policy is leaving an unacceptable risk that further infected people will slip through the border undetected or infect others before being contained. A refusal to change the underlying policy is risking a pandemic. For a couple of decades, Ebola has simmered in very small, rural areas in Africa. It has been kept isolated and in small numbers, aided partly by the 60 – 90% mortality rate and relatively rapid development of disease. Tribal and rural values also hindered the spread. Even now, foreign doctors are being met with young men from villages armed with knives and clubs. The doctors are warned away, with the explanation: “Wherever those people have passed, the communities have been hit by illness.” They don’t understand that the disease is only diagnosed, not spread, by the doctors. The New York Times reports: “Villagers flee at the sight of a Red Cross truck. When a Westerner passes, villagers cry out, “Ebola, Ebola!” and run away. But once the Ebola disease reaches more-modern cities, with mass transit, a catastrophic pandemic could spread quickly around the world. During past epidemics, humans did not have the capacity to travel significantly more rapidly than the development of deadly disease. Never before has a serious epidemic broken out when humans can move around the planet faster than the symptoms of disease can be noticed. And our modern mode of travel — unlike ships or trains or covered wagons — heavily concentrate infected people for hours at a time with other humans traveling from widely diverse points of origin to widely diverse destinations. Thus, modern travel creates a mixing bowl capable of spinning disease around the globe at an astonishing potential rate. NewsMax continues: “Over the last weeks, there has been a significant surge in the epidemic – the number of cases has increased dramatically in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and the disease has spread to many more villages and towns,” the organization said in a statement. “After a lull in new cases in Guinea, there has been a resurgence in infections and deaths in the past week. At least 729 people have died since cases first emerged in March: 339 in Guinea, 233 in Sierra Leone, 156 in Liberia and one in Nigeria.” Was it necessary to bring the Ebola patients to America? Dr. Bob Arnot, an expert on Ebola, who has treated Ebola patients, said on Fox’s Judge Jeanine Show that it is not. He also pointed out that he personally witnessed two doctors die of Ebola after minor contact with patients. Watch the video of his explanation here: One doctor consulted for this article pointed out that government policy does not permit doctors or other medical personnel to quarantine AIDS patients, and often not even to notify people in contact with AIDS patients of the infection. This might be considered to place these events in context. Recall that during past mass migrations to the USA, arrivals were sorted on Ellis Island precisely so that those whose healthy status could not be confirmed were isolated in the dormitories on Ellis Island until any danger had passed. Today’s medical threats are now more serious yet the safeguards less protective. For these diseases, Ellis Island would be too close to large U.S. populations yet also a more secure quarantine. But in sharp contrast, the respected news website DC Clothesline reports “The U.S. Is Quietly Establishing Ebola Quarantine Centers” (July 29, 2014), first reminding us that: “Fatality rates can reach 90% and the incubation period is 2 to 21 days. THERE IS NO VACCINE OR CURE (CDC).” And “Ebola hemorrhagic fever broke out in West Africa in March, and is totally out of control as one of the most deadly illnesses has crossed into seven African countries. The illness causes fever, headache, and internal and external bleeding. It is transmitted person to person through body fluids, and has up to a 90% mortality rate.” (NewsMax quotes medical authorities as observing a 60% rate in recent cases.) The behavior of the Obama Administration when faced with damaging failures — such as the “Fast and Furious” gun-running fiasco and Benghazi — is to instinctively cover up their policy and administrative failures, even going to extreme measures to immediately spin elaborate diversions and cover stories. DC Clothesline further reports: “Presently, we are shipping potentially disease ridden populations to every major metropolitan area in the United States. The illegal immigrants normally spend about 24-72 hours in detention and are released through the use of tax-supported public and private transportation and are subsequently delivered all over the country. Local officials, attempting to find housing for these illegal immigrants, are making used of closed schools and abandoned buildings. This places our local communities in direct contact with the immigrant population which will increase the rate of the transmissibility of these diseases and viruses. Further, as these illegal immigrants are landed in our international airports, they are having transmissible disease type contact with regular travelers who will become potential carriers to their points of destination.” And DC Clothesline also reports: “I spoke with a nurse, afraid of losing her job for revealing secretive health information, and she told me on Sunday that select personnel in a Phoenix area hospital received a confidential memo detailing the symptoms of Ebola. A reader told me upon being treated in a Washington DC emergency room, that she saw a sign on the wall listing the symptoms of Ebola. Even if the CDC and state and county health organizations have not yet publicly expressed concern and issued alerts, there are some officials who taking this seriously enough to spread the word to some of our hospitals.” KVIA.com, an ABC affiliate, is reporting that El Paso, Texas has also been chosen as a “quarantine station”: The Centers for Disease Control has designated El Paso as one of 20 quarantine stations for the ebola virus. The Sun City is part of a comprehensive system designed to prevent the spread of the disease in the United States. A different doctor with decades of experience as a trauma physician confirmed today to this author that the early signs of Tuberculosis (TB) and Ebola are nearly identical. Therefore, the allegations are plausible, the third doctor confirms, that the Obama Administration is putting illegal aliens infected with Ebola under quarantine and calling them TB patients. The allegations are that the Ebola patients are under lock-down. In fact, the Obama Administration has already confirmed that one facility housing recent border-crossers is in quarantine — but saying it is only due to chicken pox. The Last Refuge blog analyzes a Washington Times story: “However, a little more research into the Artesia, New Mexico, Detainment Center and you can find out a week prior a little-known CDC/DHS inspection found there were 89 (eighty-nine) cases of Tuberculosis identified in the exact same facility.” Clearly, if there were 89 cases of TB, as reported by the Current Argus News in New Mexico, the closure would not be announced as being for chicken pox, but for the 89 cases of TB — unless the government is deliberately trying to deceive. The third doctor consulted by this author explains that that is extremely improbable. Chicken pox is not deadly. While chicken pox can be a serious infection for weakened patients like the elderly and young children, particularly those who lack proper medical care, there is little danger of chicken pox escaping into the pre-existing U.S. population. Chicken pox is already widely present among U.S. citizens and residents. Most living in the U.S.A. have already had chicken pox as children or have already been exposed without developing into a serious outbreak. Therefore, most U.S. citizens and residents are already immune, having developed a natural immunity from exposure to the disease. Moreover, if U.S. citizens and residents came down with chicken pox, the U.S. medical system would be able to take very good care of them in most cases. Therefore, it seems highly improbable that one would lock down an immigrant facility to keep chicken pox from escaping out into the U.S. population. Those inside the immigrant facility would be at far greater risk than those outside. Locking down an immigrant facility would be much better explained by a much-more serious illness outbreak that the Obama Administration is unwilling to admit for what it is, using chicken pox as an excuse. For those religiously minded, the horrifying nature of the Ebola disease may be seen as a judgement on the world, if it continues to spread. Posted by Jonathan Moseley border crisis conservative commandos radio Dr. Bob Arnot Dr. Jane Orient Ebola in America Ebola Reston Ebola Zaire Quaratine Zack Taylot Government Botches Response to Ebola, Obama Appoints “Ebola Czar” Ex CBS Journalist… Government Bugged My Computer Watchdog: Feds To Shut Down ISIS Warning Newer PostEbola Terror in Britain, Passenger Collapses and Dies Getting Off Sierra Leone Flight Older PostUnder Executive order US Citizens Showing Signs of “Ebola or Respiratory Illnesses” Can Be Forced Into “Quarantine Stations” 'Ebola Doctor' in US hospital now - Page 8 - US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum August 2, 2014, 9:45 pm CDC can handle Ebola" ...oh yeah? - US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum August 2, 2014, 9:53 pm Emil Kaneti August 3, 2014, 3:49 am What rubbish and crap. Doctor Alleges Ebola has already Crossed US Southern Border \| A Conservative View August 3, 2014, 8:24 am […] READ MORE HERE: […] Doctor Ebola Arrives in the US - US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum August 3, 2014, 8:37 am […] a mixing bowl capable of spinning disease around the globe at an astonishing potential rate… Ebola Already in the USA, Across Mexican Border, Doctor Alleges \| AUN-TV The incubation rate from exposure to illness with ebola is between 2-21 days. Isolated villiages […] Alex August 3, 2014, 1:20 pm Interesting…but too much contradiction. TB & Ebola have different symptoms…Ebola is physically devastating & rapid demise. TB is marginally inconvenient for months. If trying to purposefully infect US citizens…why set up quarantine stations? A ruse? Definitely the porous borders allow illegals from several different countries to bring in many diseases and illnesses. This article trying to link a TB coverup to Ebola doesn’t make any sense. Jonathan Moseley August 3, 2014, 6:46 pm Actually, Tubercolosis and Ebola have nearly identical symptoms in their early stages. West Africans Are Streaming Across the U.S. Southern Border Carrying the Ebola Virus \| Pitts Report August 3, 2014, 5:45 pm wipe out the American population < 90 days - Page 2 August 4, 2014, 8:22 pm […] centers of the U.S.,” journalist Paul Craig Roberts wrote. The rest of the story is at Ebola Already in the USA, Across Mexican Border, Doctors Fear: UPDATED Aug. 4 \| AUN-TV Reply With […] The B&R Tuesday Skim » Black & Right August 5, 2014, 5:00 am […] to how many of the atrocities being committed by ISIS Muslims against Christians in Iraq…? Ebola Already in the USA, Across Mexican Border, Doctors Fear Leaked CBP Report Shows Entire World Exploiting Open US Border Why wouldn’t they? […] Phillip Sanderson October 1, 2014, 8:26 am Is it possible that the ebola outbreaks in Mexico and South America have been casued by the people we are fighting in Iraq. infect people then send them across the Mexican border if true ebola could be seen in every large city within months if not sooner. Think of what a single pint of blood from an infected person could do if dispersed into the air in crowded areas of our cities. Dana Allen October 1, 2014, 12:12 pm Philip, indeed it is possible, West Africa has a lot of Muslims, with the Nigerian terrorist group that kidnapped the girls being an example of the terrorist wing of Islam. Such things have been done for centuries, they used to catapult bodies of sick people into castles. willster October 12, 2014, 1:21 pm I find is extremely odd to the inth’ that they brought anyone here for Ebola treatment. I also find it odd that the USA now seems to be base camp 1 for treating Ebola. Seems to me someone wanted all this to happen. 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__label__wiki	0.558358	0.558358	Buy Football Tickets « Bush Says He’ll Be Better Prepared for 2008 Steelers Wilson charged with assault » Reverend Al at it again? March 19th, 2008 Al Gordon Posted in NFL, Off The Field News It appears that the Reverend Al Sharpton and the Cleveland office of the “National Action Network” will ask NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to cancel the August 3rd Hall of Fame Game pitting the Colts against the Redskins in Canton’s Fawcett Stadium. The cancellation request comes from allegations of misconduct in the Canton Police Department and the fact that newly elected Mayor William J. Healy has not responded to NAN’s previous allegations of the department. Now in defense of Mayor Healy he has only been on the job for roughly 2 and half months. This doesn’t seem to matter to Sharpton or Richard Jones who is the Cleveland president of NAN based in Solon, Ohio. “Over the last few years, the National Action Network has received numerous complaints regarding police misconduct in the Canton Police Department. Despite the intervention of (the) Reverend Al Sharpton and a host of broken promises by the city leaders, the situation has not improved,” Jones wrote in a letter to the media. Andy Hearman who is the Mayor’s communications director says “We have a meeting scheduled for Thursday morning with Richard Jones and (Canton) Police Chief Dean McKimm here at City Hall, he also went on to say that the organization’s request to cancel the game came as” quite a suprise”. It is also being reported that there was a meeting scheduled in February but Mr. Jones cancelled that meeting. “We want to address these alleged situations and we hope that Jones will not cancel Thursday’s meeting,” Herman said Tuesday. Jones stated that NAN will “publish the contact information for Roger Goodell, Gene Upshaw, Troy Vincent and every African-American player in the NFL and ask that our brothers and sisters around the world call, fax and bombard these men with the simple request that the NFL hold the city of Canton to the same standard that it held Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones, Chris Henry, Terry ‘Tank’ Johnson and Michael Vick too.” Jones states that the NFL is 75 percent African-American. Let me see now Mr. Sharpton and Mr. Jones you want an entity (NFL) that has nothing to do with the local government to not bring their millions of dollars to an already poor city that has lost hundreds and hundreds of jobs. That will definitley help the crime situation and the poverty level of Canton, that is just another genius idea. Subscribe to NFL Gridiron Gab via RSS Feed or E-mail and receive daily news updates from us! 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__label__wiki	0.66541	0.66541	About AFS Linking Fisheries Scientists Developing Young Scientists Promoting Global Cooperation Encouraging Network Formation Disseminating Information Addressing Fisheries Issues Thirteenth Council (2019-2022) Twelfth Council (2016-2019) Eleventh Council (2013-2016) Tenth Council (2011-2013) Ninth Council (2007-2011) Eighth Council (2004-2007) Seventh Council (2001-2004) Sixth Council (1998-2001) Fifth Council (1995-1998) Fourth Council (1992-1995) Third Council (1989-1992) Second Council (1986-1989) First Council (1984-1986) Formation of the Society Branches and Sections Fish Health Section AFSSRN GAFS 2019 AFS Year Book New / Renewal Form News / Event 56th Council Meeting of the Asian Fisheries Society Asian Fisheries Society (AFS) holds 56th Council Meeting. The 13th Council of the Asian Fisheries Society (AFS) held its 56th Council Meeting on 08 December 2020 with the AFS President, Prof. Alice Joan G. Ferrer (University of the Philippines Visayas) presiding. Shared during the meeting are a number of accomplishments despite a challenging year: co-publication project of Asian Fisheries Science (journal of the Asian Fisheries Society; SCOPUS/SCIMAGO indexed) and the FAO, completion in attaching DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to all papers in the journal issues starting 2017, increasing number of paper submissions, and the big leap in the Cite Score of the journal. The Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section (GAFS) of the AFS is also wrapping up the big project titled Dialogues in Gender and Coastal Aquaculture: Gender and the Seaweed Farming Value Chain funded by SWEDBIO and is preparing for a new project with World Fish. Among a number of items, the Council discussed a proposal to increase the visibility of AFS and members, and the preparations for the 1) 7th Cage Aquaculture in Asia (CAA7) in Hainan, China in 2021; 2) Fourth International Symposium in Aquaculture and Fisheries Education (ISAFE4) to be hosted by the National Ping Tung University of Science and Technology in Taiwan; and 3) 13th Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum (13AFAF) in Tainan, Taiwan in 2022 to be hosted by National Cheng Kung University. Dr Meryl Williams, chairperson of GAFS and Prof. Mohamed Shariff, chief editor of the Asian Fisheries Science joined the other Council Members in the meeting : Dr. Joykrushna JENA (Immediate Past President; Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Fisheries Science Division); Prof. Han-Ching WANG (AFS Vice President, National Cheng Kung University); Associate Professor Murni Marlina Abd Karim (Secretary, Universiti Putra Malaysia); Dr. Nur Leena WONG W.S. (Treasurer, Universiti Putra Malaysia); Prof. Atsushi HAGIWARA (Nagasaki University); Dr. Ann FLEMING (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research); Prof. Wilfredo CAMPOS (University of the Philippines Visayas); Prof. Liping LIU (Shanghai Ocean University); Prof. Hong-Thih LAI (National Chiayi University); Dr. Umi Muawanah (Research Center for Socio-Economics of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia); Prof. Yu-Hung Lin (National Pingtung University of Science and Technology); and, Ms. Malathi Thanamsegaram (AFS Executive Officer). AFS Councilors, Dr. Achamveetil GOPALAKRISHNAN (Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, India), Prof. Jin-Long YANG (Shanghai Ocean University), and Prof. Neil Loneragan (AFS Incoming President 2022 -2025, Murdoch University, Australia) were on other official business. Copyright © 2021 Asian Fisheries Society. All Rights Reserved. Home \| About AFS \| Branches and Sections \| Membership \| AFS Journal \| Mailing \| News \| Contact Us	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line11
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__label__wiki	0.712207	0.712207	jizzhut Pixel Scroll 1/16/20 Maybe My Flubber Car Only Needed One Coat Of Anti-Gravity Paint After I Redid The Suspension Using Cavorite Posted on January 16, 2020 by Mike Glyer I think the title is going to be longer than today’s Scroll. It’sbeen a busy day! (1) YOUR EYEBALLS HAVE BEEN SPARED. Foz Meadows saw it soyou don’t have to — “TomHooper’s Cats: A Study In Vogon Poetry”. I’m not putting a spoiler tag on this. It’s fucking Cats. Get a grip. I saw Cats today. Voluntarily. On purpose. It’s important you know that I wasn’t coerced in any way, nor was the friend who accompanied me. Of our own free will, being of sound mind and body, we exchanged real human money for the experience of seeing Tom Hooper’s Cats on the big screen, in the company of other real human strangers. Not that our session was packed – aside from the two of us, there were only five other people in attendance, all older to middle-aged women – but the two ladies sitting near us not only cried during Jennifer Hudson’s bifurcated rendition of Memory (more of which shortly), but applauded during the credits. Their happy reactions, audible in the theatre’s yawning silence, added a further layer of unreality to what was already a surreal and vaguely disturbing experience, but once we emerged in the aftermath, stunned and blinking like newborn animals, their enjoyment helped us cobble together a theory about who, exactly, Cats is for – if such a film can truly be said to be for anyone…. (2) CHATTERJEE Q&A. Joseph Hurtgen recently interviewed Indian sffauthor Rimi Chatterjee for Rapid Transmission. Born in Belfast, UnitedKingdom and now teaching and writing in India, “Chatterjee offers economic andcultural perspectives that Westerners need to hear,” says Hurtgen. “The wonderof science fiction is that science and human conflict are universal languages.By embracing non-Western culture and non-Western SF, we discover more aboutourselves.” “RimiChatterjee: Love and Knowledge and Yellow Karma”. RT: I read recently that William Gibson will look at the news, realize the book he’s working on is already outdated, and then revise accordingly. One particularly arresting intervention was the destruction of the World Trade centers, which he decided to include in his book Pattern Recognition–published 2003, though he was writing it in 2001. Does the pace of our 24-hour news cycle with its grim depiction of a world headed to WWIII and continent wide fires ever cause you to revise your stories? RC: Mostly it’s the other way round: the universe treads on my heels. For instance a lot of the story of Bitch Wars is set in Malaysia in a fictional place called KL City (which has a slum called Climate Town where climate refugees or Climies live). So I was researching the 1MDB scandal for background, and the next day I open YouTube and Hasan Minhaj has done an episode of Patriot Act on Jho Low, Goldman Sachs and the whole sorry mess. I’m like: dude o_O. (3) PEACOCK STREAMING. “All Your Favorite Stars Are Coming to NBC’s StreamingService Soon” – GQ fills you in. We’ll excerpt the part that’sgenre — …The other series that’s based on an established IP also has a very loyal, even more niche audience is The Adventure Zone. Based on a podcast of the same name from the McElroy Brothers, who also host the comedy podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me, The Adventure Zone is a comedy fantasy adventure using the rules of Dungeons & Dragons. There is already a comic book adaptation of the series. “The Adventure Zone is a side-splitting and heart-filled fantasy animated comedy series that follows an unlikely, poorly equipped trio and their beleaguered Dungeon Master as they reluctantly embark on a quest to save their world,” reads the official synopsis. (4) BETTER THAN A BOOK BOMB. In the Hindustan Times:“Bookstorefails to sell books, Neil Gaiman seeks Twitter’s help. This is how theyoblige”. Two days back, on January 15, Petersfield Bookshop took to Twitter to share an image and a sad incident. “Not a single book sold today… ?0.00… We think this maybe the first time ever,” the store wrote. “We know its miserable out but if you’d like to help us out please find our Abebooks offering below, all at 25% off at the moment,” they added. Along with the post, they also shared pictures of the empty bookstore. The bookstore’s tweet captured people’s attention when fantasy and science fiction author Neil Gaiman retweeted it. In the caption, he urged Twitter to come together and do something good. “In these dark days it’s wonderful to see Twitter doing something good!” wrote Gaiman. People answered the call and orders came flooding in from different corners of the world. In fact, the store ended up receiving ?1,000 worth of orders overnight with many waiting to purchase more. The store also shared a tweet to give an update on the situation. (5) FAST START. BBC welcomes us to “Meetthe NASA intern who discovered a new planet on his third day”. And notjust a planet, but one orbiting two stars, as in Star Wars. As far as impressing your potential new boss goes, discovering a planet on day three of your internship at NASA is up there. That’s what happened to 17-year-old Wolf Cukier while helping out at the space agency in the United States. He was checking images from its super-strength satellite when he noticed something strange. It turned out to be a new planet, 1,300 light years away from Earth. News just confirmed by NASA. (6) TODAY IN HISTORY. January 16, 1963 — Walt Disney’s Son Of Flubber premiered. Yes, it’s SF. Comedy SF we grant you but SF none-the-less.?Sequel to the Disney science fiction comedy film The Absent-Minded Professor, it starred ?Fred MacMurray of My Three Sons fame. It was directed by Robert Stevenson. A colorized version would be released in 1997. ?It was a box office success earning back three times what it cost to produce, but critics didn’t like nearly as much as they liked?The Absent-Minded Professor. Reviewers currently at?Rotten Tomatoes give it a 86% rating.? January 16, 1995 ?— Star Trek: Voyager premiered on UPN. ?It would last for seven years and one hundred and seventy-two episodes, making it the longest running Trek series to date. Starring a very large cast that all of all you know by heart by now. It’s interesting that it would never make the final Hugo ballot for Best Dramatic Presentation, the only Trek show to date not to so. It rates very high at Rotten Tomatoes, garnering a mid-seventies rating from critics and viewers alike.? January 16, 2015 — On Syfy, the Twelve Monkeys series debuted. It was by created by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, and it riffs loosely off Gilliam’s film and the original French short film Gilliam based his film on, La Jetée . We are not going to detail the cast as the four-season run lasting forty-seven episodes saw significant cast changes. Reception for the most part, excepting Gilliam, was positive. Ratings at Rotten Tomatoes are over 90% but we caution that less than a hundred individuals have expressed their opinion during its four-year run.? (7) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS. Born January 16, 1887 — John Hamilton. He’s no doubt remembered best for his role as Perry White in the Fifties Adventures of Superman series. He also was in the Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe serial as Professor Gordon, and I see he played G.F. Hillman in the Forties Captain America serial film.?(Died 1958.) Born January 16, 1905 — Festus Pragnell. Ok, he’s here not because he had all that a distinguished a career as a writer or illustrator, but because of the charming story one fan left us of his encounter with him which you can read here. Festus himself wrote but three novels (The Green Man of Kilsona, The Green Man of Graypec, and The Terror from Timorkal), plus the wrote a series of stories about Don Hargreaves’ adventures on Mars. Be prepared to pay dearly if you want to read him as he’s not made it into the digital age and exists mostly in the original Amazing Stories only. (Died 1977.) Born January 16, 1948 — John Carpenter, 72. My favorite films by him??Big Trouble in Little China and?Escape from New York. ?His gems include the Halloween franchise, The Thing, Starman?(simply wonderful), ?The Philadelphia Experiment,?Ghosts of Mars and many other films. What do you consider him to have done that you like, or don’t like fir that matter? I’m not fond of Escape from L.A. as I keep comparing to the stellar popcorn film that the previous Escape film is. Born January 16, 1970 — Garth Ennis, 50. Comic writer who’s no doubt best known for Preacher which he did with illustrator Steve Dillon, and his stellar nine-year run on the Punisher franchise. I’m very fond of his work on Judge Dredd which is extensive, and his time spent scripting Etrigan the Demon For DC back in the mid Nineties.? Born January 16, 1974 — Kate Moss, 46. Yes she’s done SF. To be precise Black Adder which we discussed a bit earlier. She played Maid Marian in “Blackadder Back & Forth” in which as IMDB puts it “At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly.” You can watch it here. Born January 16, 1976 — Eva Habermann, ?44. She is best known for playing the role of Zev Bellringer on Lexx. She was succeeded in her role by Xenia Seeberg. Ok, I’ll confess that I’ve never seen the series which I know exists in both R and not so R versions. Who here has seen it in either form? She was also?Ens. Johanna Pressler in?Star Command, a pilot that wasn’t to be a series that was written by Melinda Snodgrass. And she had a role in the?Code Name: Eternity series as Dr. Rosalind Steiner. (8) SPECIALSHROOMS. [Item by Mike Kennedy.] At first glance, it doeskinda sound like mushrooms were involved. A very special kind ofmushrooms. Futurism: “NASA Wants to Grow a Moon Base Out of Mushrooms” NASA scientists are exploring a peculiar strategy for building a Moon base and other off-world structures: growing them onsite out of living mushrooms. The space agency first considered the possibility of fungal space habitats in 2018, but now scientists are conducting tests to determine how well mycelia fungus might grow in Martian soil, Space.com reports. If the research pans out, it would allow future astronauts to construct off-world settlements without needing to carry expensive, heavy building materials with them all the way from Earth — a game-changer in the plan to colonize space…. PS: Technically the structures would not be built outof living mushrooms… The shrooms would take nutrients from the Lunar (orMartian) soil, then the biomass would be heat treated to convert it intobuilding material. (9) THE THIGH BONE CONNECTS TO THE INTERNET BONE. Slate’s“Future Tense” features “TheEthical Dilemmas Surrounding 3D-Printed Human Bones”. Ten years ago, it wasn’t possible for most people to use 3D technology to print authentic copies of human bones. Today, using a 3D printer and digital scans of actual bones, it is possible to create unlimited numbers of replica bones—each curve and break and tiny imperfection intact—relatively inexpensively. The technology is increasingly allowing researchers to build repositories of bone data, which they can use to improve medical procedures, map how humans have evolved, and even help show a courtroom how someone died. But the proliferation of faux bones also poses an ethical dilemma—and one that, prior to the advent of accessible 3D printing, was mostly limited to museum collections containing skeletons of dubious provenance. Laws governing how real human remains of any kind may be obtained and used for research, after all—as well as whether individuals can buy and sell such remains— are already uneven worldwide. Add to that the new ability to traffic in digital data representing these remains, and the ethical minefield becomes infinitely more fraught. “When someone downloads these skulls and reconstructs them,” says Ericka L’Abbé, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, “it becomes their data, their property.” (10) FUTURE HISTORY HAPPENS. James Davis Nicoll got Tor.comreaders excited about “5Thrilling Tales of Deadly Nuclear Reactors”. Or maybe it was him nukingHeinlein. “Blowups Happen” is set in Robert A. Heinlein’s Future History. Rising demand for energy justifies the construction of a cutting-edge nuclear reactor. There is little leeway between normal operation and atomic explodageddon, which puts a lot of pressure on the power plant’s operators. A work environment that requires flawless performances—lest a moment’s inattention blow a state off the map—results in significant mental health challenges for the workforce. How to keep the workers focused on their task without breaking them in the process? This story dates from what we might think of as the Folsom point era of nuclear energy… No, wait, that’s unfair to Folsom points, which are sophisticated hi-tech, really. This was the era when the atomic version of fire-hardened spear points was still on the drawing board. Hence Heinlein can be forgiven for getting essentially every detail about nuclear power wrong. What wasn’t clear to me was how a power plant composed of pure atomic explodium got licensed in the first place. Perhaps it was because this nonchalant attitude towards safety infuses the whole of the Future History. Just ask Rhysling. (11) CLOSE DOWN. “Twitter apologises for letting ads target neo-Nazis andbigots”. Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups. The BBC discovered the issue and that prompted the tech firm to act. Our investigation found it possible to target users who had shown an interest in keywords including “transphobic”, “white supremacists” and “anti-gay”. Twitter allows ads to be directed at users who have posted about or searched for specific topics. But the firm has now said it is sorry for failing to exclude discriminatory terms. Anti-hate charities had raised concerns that the US tech company’s advertising platform could have been used to spread intolerance. (12) WHO’S NOT BOND. “JamesBond: Barbara Broccoli says character ‘will remain male'” – BBC isshaken but not stirred. The producer of the James Bond films has ruled out making the character female after Daniel Craig’s departure. No Time To Die, which will be released in April, marks Craig’s final outing as 007, and his replacement has not yet been announced. “James Bond can be of any colour, but he is male,” producer Barbara Broccoli told Variety. “I believe we should be creating new characters for women – strong female characters. “I’m not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think women are far more interesting than that.” The forthcoming Bond film will see actress Lashana Lynch play a female 00 agent after Craig’s Bond has left active service. Lynch was seen in character for the first time in the trailer, reigniting the conversation about whether James Bond himself could be re-cast as a woman for the next film. Broccoli oversees the franchise with her half-brother Michael G Wilson. “For better or worse, we are the custodians of this character,” she said. “We take that responsibility seriously.” (13) NOT SO PRIMITIVE. We keep finding we underestimated past versions of humans;now the BBC reports that “Neanderthals‘dived in the ocean’ for shellfish” New data suggests that our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals may have been diving under the ocean for clams. It adds to mounting evidence that the old picture of these anciClam shells that wash up on beaches can be distinguished from those that are still live when they’re gathered.ent people as brutish and unimaginative is wrong. Until now, there had been little clear evidence that Neanderthals were swimmers. But a team of researchers who analysed shells from a cave in Italy said that some must have been gathered from the seafloor by Neanderthals. The findings have been published in the journal Plos One. The Neanderthals living at Grotta dei Moscerini in the Latium region around 90,000 years ago were shaping the clam shells into sharp tools. Paolo Villa, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues, analysed 171 such tools, which all came from a local species of mollusc called the smooth clam (Callista chione). The tools were excavated by archaeologists at the end of the 1940s. Clam shells that wash up on beaches can be distinguished from those that are still live when they’re gathered. [Thanks to Contrarius, John King Tarpinian, Nina, Martin MorseWooster, Chip Hitchcock, Andrew Porter, Mike Kennedy, N., and JJ for some ofthese stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day DanielDern.] Posted in Pixel Scroll \| Tagged Foz Meadows, Future Tense, Heinlein, James Bond, James Davis Nicoll, Joseph Hurtgen, Neanderthals, Neil Gaiman, Rimi Chatterjee \| 2 Replies Superman Comic Strip Debuted By Cat Eldridge: On this day in 1939, the Supermancomic strip appeared for readers for the very first time. Let metell about it as it’s a fascinating story. It began on this date, and aseparate Sunday strip was added on November 5, 1939. Both of the strips rancontinuously without an interruption until May 1966. In 1941, the McClureSyndicate which controlled its distribution had placed the strip in hundreds ofnewspapers. The Syndicate says that some three hundred papers with twentymillion readers had access to the strip at its peak. Setting aside the numbers,let’s turn to who created it. Joe Shuster was the initial artist but within afew years, he had turned over those duties to his bullpen including Paul Cassidy,Leo Neowik and JerrySiegel who were among the first and Bill Finger would be the last to doit before it ceased in the Sixties. Siegel wrote them beforehe was drafted in 1943. Whitney Ellsworth, who had begun working on the stripin 1941, did them for four years. Jack Schiff began his writing on the strip in1942 and worked on the strip off and on until 1962. Alvin Schwartz firststarted writing on it in 1944, and he continued on the strip more or less until1958. Finger and Sebel finished off writing it in the last several years. The strip had a number offirsts including the telephone booth costume change, the appearanceof a bald Lex Luthor, and the appearance of Mr. Mxyzptlk. Superman: The CompleteComic Strips 1939-1966 is anunofficial name for the strips now in exquisite hardcover collections publishedby The Library of American Comics. Posted in Graphic Examples \| Tagged Cat Eldridge, Superman \| Leave a reply Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020) Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien and the last of the Inklings, died January 15 at the age of 95 the New York Times reports. For nearly 50 years after his father passed away in 1973, Christophercontinued to edit and publish his father’s unfinished manuscripts, givingJ.R.R. Tolkien’s literary output the benefit of two lifetimes’ work. Christopherassembled from pieces the epic Middle-Earth predecessor to Lord of the Rings,melding them into The Silmarillion (1977). Inall, he edited or oversaw the publication of two dozen editions of his father’sworks, many of which became international best sellers. Alongthe way he produced 12 volumes of The History of Middle-earth, acompilation of drafts, fragments, rewrites, marginal notes and other writings thatshowed the evolution of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium. Christopher is also credited with creating the acclaimed 1954 map of Middle-earth. DuringWorld War II, when Christopher was serving with the Royal Air Force in SouthAfrica, his father mailed him parts of The Lord of the Rings for commentand editing. After the war he studied English at Trinity College,Oxford, taking his BA in1949 and his B.Litta few years later. He becamea lecturer in Old and Middle English as well as Old Icelandic at the Universityof Oxford. In 1945, he became the youngest member of the Inklings, a circle of Oxford writers and scholars started in the Thirties by C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and others, who met weekly in Lewis’s college rooms. Christopher was told in a letter from his father that the Inklings proposed to consider him “a permanent member, with right of entry and what not quite independent of my presence or otherwise.” Dr. Diana Glyer, author of twobooks about the Inklings, including TheCompany They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, mournedhis passing: I must refer now to all the Inklings in past tense; the last of them has died. I met Christopher Tolkien, talked with him, corresponded from time to time. I have devoted my life to studying the Inklings. Today, they have slipped from solid, real, and tangible into the past, beyond reach. I no longer have the privilege of studying what is, only what was. Everything has changed. J.R.R. Tolkien biographer John Garth ended his Facebook announcementof Christopher’s death with this fitting quote from the end of Lord of theRings: “Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” Christopher is survived by his secondwife, Baillie, his sister Priscilla, and three children, Simon,Adam and Rachel. Posted in In Passing \| Tagged Christopher Tolkien, Diana Pavlac Glyer, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien \| 2 Replies Glasgow 2024 Weekend Meeting [The Glasgow 2024 team had their initial team meetings and social gatherings in Glasgow this past weekend, and James Bacon has sent us a thorough write-up.] By James Bacon: It was lovely to be back inGlasgow, amongst fans, looking at the Scottish Exhibition Campus (formerly theSECC) and being welcomed and to the city which held two Worldconspreviously. It issuch a wonderful city and I was impressed to find that there are now tours ofGlasgow Central Station going underground, overground and so forth in properhard hats (glasgowcentraltours.co.uk).I paused to look around the Central Hotel which has changed so much since theMoscow 2017 bid with their incredible amount of vodkas tempting fans to supporttheir efforts in 1995. The view from the bar in the hotel which has hostedEastercons, Albacon of course, and those parties in 1995 looking out over thebusy station is lovely. Imade my way to the new Forbidden Planet, in its new premises on Sauchiehall St,it is very large, and I was stunned by how many new comics they stocked. It wasa vast amount. The shop is spread over two floors, and I was pleasantly engagedby some staff, which was helpful. Also on my list to get to were Thistle Books,Caledonia Books, the Voltaire & Rousseau Bookshop and City Comics.All four not far north from the area of the SEC. The walk from the city to the SEC has changed, The Anderston‘bridge to nowhere’ Footbridge which I spent a lot of time contemplatingin 1995, in its unexpected glory leading to the sky, and of course the IainBanks Espedair Street reference. The area around the SEC has developed mightilyalso, The RadisonRed hotel, now one of six hotels in the immediate area (and two more are beingbuilt.) has a fabulous interior. All of the 174rooms and public spaces have wallpaper designed by legendary Glasgow comicartist Frank Quitely, depicting scenes in a beautiful style. EstherMacCallum-Stewart had announced at Novacon in 2015 that a team wereinvestigating Worldcon venues in the UK, concurrently with the practical visitsand analysis, presentations at Eastercon Smofcons and Novacons, fans were asked— Where would they like to go? — and Glasgow was overwhelmingly the mostpopular choice of city. The selection process came to fruition in 2019 when itwas announced at Eastercon that the SEC was the venue that the team would lookto bid for the 2024 Worldcon. At Dublin 2019 Lewis Hou and the Science Ceilidh(https://www.scienceceilidh.com/) had stolen the show, and it was a bold move to bring over the band fromScotland, which along with their parties and continual table work, saw over 600people pre-supporting the Glasgow 2024 bid. Itwas nice to walk into the SEC, to contemplate the venue. Mike, it’s a feckinglifetime ago since I was an Area Head here in Glasgow, at a Worldcon, but it isa great venue and it feels so nice to be here. The SEC welcomed the bid andhosted these meetings. Signage throughout the venue was adorned with the 2024Logo and Space Field, both by Sara Felix. Wewere joined by Jennifer Roddie of the SEC and Aileen Crawford of the GlasgowConvention Bureau. Aileen has worked with us on the previous Worldcons atGlasgow and as there have been several changes to the venue since it was lastused it was a good opportunity for everyone to see it for the first time or with fresh eyes. Thetour was lovely but there have been many changes, technology is now much moreprevalent, the area on the mezzanine has been developed into a meeting academy,with what was a restaurant now a very nice 400-seater room and soft furnishingsin the common area. Space is of course a fair question. Worldcons are popular.London, Helsinki, and Dublin have demonstrated that there is more interest fromfans. It istoo early to make assumptions of what exactly space will be used for, but whatis interesting is that Mark Meenan had already spent considerable time on thematter, thinking about new programme space, and shared the concept of having a1,500-seater Second Stage in Hall 2, a 400-seater programme space in Hall1 and the addition of M1 with its 400 seats and taking ideas that worked well,such as the giant Gaming Marquee that held the successful gaming at Loncon 3.With eight hotels now in the immediate vicinity, there are also so many moreoptions on smaller workshop type spaces, and of course the Armadillo, which hashad a refresh since I was last in it, will be used the full five days. I admitI found all this very exciting… and we even found a throne for Esther. Thevision for the convention was then worked through, teams using word associationand short tasks to come up with ideas and thoughts, which were presented back.Marguerite Smith did a very good job of getting everyone thinking andcontemplating what they want and hope for and with a quick and energisedapproach we were soon vectoring in on tangible elements and tasks. Timeline,budget, and recruitment were all important items on the agenda for the weekend,and Marguerite took the lead and managed the 20+ people present. MegMacDonald and Matt Calvert were announced as the leads for the Bid Promotionsteam, beautifully choreographed just in time to question the task-based ideasthat came from the Promotions Brainstorming sessions, again managed byMarguerite, but here the new leads got to engage directly and explore new ideasand established strategies. Welcomingnew fans was something that was recognised as being very important, and it wasnot lost on me that in 2013, some seven years ago, Esther walked in to a Loncon3 staff meeting a new volunteer herself, and was in charge of multiple areas bythe time the convention occurred, went on to be a successful Division Head forDublin and is now Bid Chair. Although Esther did go to Conspiracy in 1987,possibly by accident. Marguerite was part of the Valley Forge NASFiC bid, andin early 2016 joined the Dublin team as a volunteer, was soon promoted toDeputy Division head and then onto DH for promotions. Other fans in the room,who had only volunteered for Dublin were now looking at more senior roles. Itwas amazing to think that one of the participants in the room, had been ayoungster at YAFA* in 2005 and was now making a very important contribution.The doors are open, and fans are coming in. There were also Albacon, Eastercon,Satellite, Worldcon staff and chairs all adding experience as well as thosebringing skills from outside fandom to the conversations. Itwas good fun there was a dynamism and energy to the weekend that was reallynice. Esther has sought out and found fans who are so excited with the prospectof a Glasgow Worldcon and keen to help and it was good to be brought togetherto chat and catch up. Bothevenings, drinking and chatting took place. The bar was rammed on Saturday, andBowmore 12 year old proved very popular. A cracking good weekend. I’ll beback up for a comic book swap meet event in March and then Satellite 7 in May.(https://seven.satellitex.org.uk/) *YoungAdult Fun Activities at Interaction the 2005 Glasgow Worldcon. Posted in Worldcon \| Tagged Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Glasgow in 2024, James Bacon, Sara Felix \| Leave a reply Clarkesworld’s Statement About Fall Story Neil Clarke, Publisher of Clarkesworld, today posted in “About the Story by Isabel Fall” an extended statement dealing with the response to the work, especially on Twitter. (See overview: “Clarkesworld Removes Isabel Fall Story”.) The concluding paragraphs are: …Going forward, we will bear these lessons in mind, and hopefully we will become better at fulfilling our responsibilities to our authors, and to our readers. In the meantime I offer my sincere apologies to those who were hurt by the story or the ensuing storms. While our lives have likely been quite different, I do understand what it is like to be bullied and harassed for an extended period of time. I can empathize, even if I can’t fully understand life in your shoes. I have also privately apologized to Isabel. She has chosen to sign over her payment for this story to Trans Lifeline, “a non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis—for the trans community, by the trans community.” They have been a vital resource for her and inspired by her actions, I have decided to match the gift. Through the course of these events, I’ve encountered many deeply personal stories from readers and authors. I’d like to thank those people for sharing and providing many of us with further opportunities to learn from their experiences. Aside from getting to know Isabel, that has been the high point of this experience. I wish you all the best and appreciate you taking the time to share…. Posted in Like Show Business \| Tagged Clarkesworld, Isabel Fall, Neil Clarke \| 11 Replies Wandering Through the Public Domain #26 A regular exploration of public domain genre work availablethrough ProjectGutenberg, Internet Archive,and Librivox. By Colleen McMahon: Itook a hiatus for the holiday season but I’m back and ready to dig into somemore of the public domain treasures out there for fans of old-time sciencefiction, fantasy, and horror. Sincethe new Robert Downey Jr. version of Dolittle is coming out this week, Ithought it might be a good time to take a look at Hugh Lofting, the originatorof the Dr. Dolittle character and stories. HughLofting(1886-1947) didn’t set out to be a writer. Born in Berkshire, England, hestudied civil engineering at MIT and London Polytechnic and spent several yearstraveling the world doing engineering work. When World War I began, he enlistedand served in France for several years before being wounded and invalided out. Thecharacter of Doctor Dolittle, a Victorian physician who can talk to animals andministers to them instead of humans, originated in the trenches during the war.Lofting later explained that his actual experiences were either too horrible ortoo dull to include in letters home to his children, so he began writingstories about Dolittle and illustrating them with pen-and-ink line drawingsinstead. Hecollected those stories into his first book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle,which was published in 1920 to immediate acclaim. He wrote seven more Dolittlebooks between 1920 and 1928, when he tried to end the series by sending DoctorDolittle off planet in Doctor Dolittle in the Moon. Populardemand led him to write four more Dolittle books in the 1930s and 1940s, andtwo additional collections were published posthumously in the 1950s. He alsowrote several works for children that were not in the Dolittle series, and abook-length anti-war poem called Victory for the Slain, published in1942. Thefirst few Doctor Dolittle books are in the public domain now and are availableat Project Gutenberg: The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920) The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922) Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office (1923) DoctorDolittle’s Circus waspublished in 1924 and thus entered the public domain in the United States onJanuary 1 of this year. It will likely be released by Project Gutenberg in thenext few months. Anon-Dolittle picture book, The Story ofMrs. Tubbs, wasalso published in 1923 and is on Internet Archive. Librivox has multiple versions of TheStory of Doctor Dolittle and The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle,including dramatic readings (where different volunteers voice the variouscharacters) of both. Two versions of Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office are inprogress, a solo version and a dramatic reading, and will be released in thenext few months. ClarkAshton Smith(1893-1961) came up in the birthday lists this week. He’s best remembered nowas a fiction writer — one of the “Big Three” of the early years of WeirdTales (the other two being H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard), but hebegan his writing career as a poet. ProjectGutenberg has two volumes of poetry by Clark Ashton Smith: The Star-Treader, and Other Poems (Librivox) Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose (Librivox) Ebonyand Crystalcontains a long blank-verse poem called “The Hashish Eater, or the Apocalypseof Evil”. This poem caught Lovecraft’s attention and his fan letter to Smithinitiated years of correspondence and collaboration. Thispoem and nineteen other works are included in a recent Librivox release, Lovecraft’sInfluences and Favorites. The compilation was inspired by Lovecraft’s 1927 essay,“Supernatural Horror in Literature”, and collects the stories and poemsLovecraft mentions, from Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” to “Seaton’s Aunt”by Walter de la Mare. RonGoulart(1933- ) shares his birthday with Clark Ashton Smith, and is represented atProject Gutenberg by three short stories: Ignatz (Worlds of If, March 1960) Shandy (Worlds of If, October 1958) Subject to Change (Galaxy, December 1960) Noneof these have been recorded for Librivox yet. RecentLibrivox releases: TheClockwork Man by E.V.Odle (1890-1942) In the future, people will be fitted with clockwork devices in theirheads which, among other things, allows them to travel through time. Well,it seems one of these devices has frizzed-out, and a Clockwork man appearsin the middle of a cricket match in 1923. The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odleis believed to be the first instance of a human-machine cyborg appearingin literature. The Kingof Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) This is a 1924 fantasy novel by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany, whichbecame public domain in January 2020. It is widely recognized as one ofthe most acclaimed works in all of fantasy literature. Highly influentialupon the fantasy genre as a whole, the novel was particularly formative inthe subgenres of “fairytale fantasy” and “highfantasy”. And yet, it deals always with the truth: the power of love,the allure of nature, the yearning for contentment, the desire for fame,the quest for immortality, and the lure and the fear of magic. Arthur C.Clarke said this novel helped cement Dunsany as “one of the greatestwriters of this century”. Crossings:A Fairy Play by Walterde la Mare (1873-1956) Under the terms of a will, the Wildersham children have to relocatefrom the family house in the city to “Crossings” in the country,and to spend the first fortnight alone fending for themselves in thehouse. The children encounter interesting country neighbors, includingghosts and fairies. Or are they dreaming? Walter De La Mare was a poet,and we have a number of his poems available at Librivox. This is his onlyplay. ThePhantom Death and Other Stories by William Clark Russell (1844-1911) This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories writtenby William Clark Russell in 1893. The stories are for the most part set onships and bring the reader on board for ghostly nights, wonderful sights,and strange occurrences. Posted in Poor Trufan's Almanack \| Tagged Clark Ashton Smith, Colleen McMahon, Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting, public domain, Ron Goulart, Wandering Through the Public Domain \| Leave a reply Pixel Scroll 1/15/20 This Pixel Has Been Approved For Scrolling Before All Audiences (1) BIG CHOICES. “TheBig Idea: Kameron Hurley” at Whatever. …When I began writing my Worldbreaker Saga back in 2012, which begins with the novel The Mirror Empire, I too was obsessed with this idea of two choices: the light and the dark. I was writing fantasy, after all! While my protagonists might be morally messy early on, I always knew I was headed for a showdown where they had two choices: good or evil. Genocidal or self-sacrificing. But it was a false choice. And it literally took me years to realize this. At some level I must have understood I was setting up a false choice as I finished the second volume, Empire Ascendant, and began the grueling process of tying everything up in the third and final book, The Broken Heavens. Emotionally, I was rebelling against my own embrace of these false choices, because no matter how many times I tried to get myself to write the ending I had in mind at the beginning of the series, it just never felt… right. (2) BASE RUMORS. CoNZealand has extended the deadline forentering the Hugo base design competition until January 31. If you were thinking of entering the competition to design bases for the 2020 Hugo Awards and 1945 Retro Hugos, you’re in luck. The deadline for entries has been extended until 31st January 2020 (from the original deadline of 17th January). Read more about the design contest. Read more about the Hugo Awards. (3) SCREAM QUIETLY. Paramount dropped atrailer for A Quiet Place II. Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path. (4) THEY HAVE ISSUES. Daily Grail spotlights fantasyhistory in “HiddenJewels in ‘The Garden of Orchids’: The Esoteric Content of an Early FantasyMagazine”. For a long time Weird Tales (probably best known for short stories by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert. E. Howard, and later Ray Bradbury) was seen as the first fantastical magazine, publishing science fiction, weird fiction and horror. That history has been revised over the past few years. Der Orchideengarten (in English, The Garden of Orchids) was a Munich-based magazine first published in 1919, predating the better known American magazine by several years, and is now acknowledged as the first fantasy magazine (archived digitally here). Only published until 1921 Der Orchideengarten is somewhat overshadowed by its better known, and more mainstream, Munich-based contemporaries, Jugend and Simplissicimus, yet the breadth of stories and unsettling art is worth looking at. (5) WOLFMAN. One of the many cameos in CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths “Part 5” was the real Marv Wolfman, who co-wrote the original Crisis on Infinite Earths mini-series which was published by DC Comics in 1985-1986. CBR.com has the dialog, from when Marv, playing a fan, stops Supergirl and The Flash to ask for their autographs. “Wait, you know both of us?” Kara asks. “And it’s normal to see us together?” Barry adds. “Well, normally, you’d also have Green Arrow and a Legend or two,” Wolfman explains. “Last year, even Batwoman joined in.” He points to the folder. “Would you make that out to Marv? Thank you!” “You’re welcome,” Barry says as he scribbles. “Marv, as far as you know, how long have Supergirl and I and all the rest of us been working together on this Earth?” “Uh, since forever!” Wolfman answers. (6) LAST TRUMP. The LA Times’ Mark Swed reviews anopera: “KingArthur meets Trump and Superman in Long Beach “. …Meanwhile, Long Beach Opera, as ever priding itself with radically rethinking repertory, has done a full refashioning of the first great “King Arthur” opera (there aren’t many, but Chausson’s “Le Roi Arthus” is a neglected beauty). Arthur here becomes the comic book delusional fantasy of a pudgy, narcissistic, emigrant-phobic politico requiring psychiatric treatment. …Arthur King is a patient at Camelot O’Neil, a behavioral residence mental health unit. His sexy nurse is Gwen E. Veer. His buddy is another patient, Lance E. Lott. Doc Oswald runs the dubious joint. Mitisek then takes apart the opera, adapting Purcell’s music to fit new circumstances and a completely new theatrical structure. His cutup rearranges, revises, reorders and reduces Purcell’s score. The occasional Dryden line is retained, but much of the sung text is new. Five acts become a single uninterrupted one under two hours. Our schlumpy, Trumpian Arthur thinks he can save the world from aliens. He can be ridiculously pompous, Drydenesque even. He can also be sympathetically vulnerable. (7) MAISEL MASHUP. Marvel’sMrs. Maisel: Rachel Brosnahan Enters theMarvel Universe on The Late Late Show with James Corden. January 15, 2010 — Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold‘s?The Lovely Bones novel premiered. ?It starred starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, and Saoirse Ronan. The screenplay was by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson. Although Ronan and Tucci were praised for their performances, it received mixed reviews from critics. It has a 32% rating at Rotten Tomatoes by reviewers. January 15, 2008 – File 770 blog makes its first post. Happy birthday to us! Born January 15, 1879 — Ernest ?Thesiger. He’s here because of his performance as Doctor Septimus Pretorius in James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein. He had a major role in Hitchcock’s not completed and now lost Number 13 (or Mrs. Peabody) which is even genre adjacent. He was also in The Ghoul which was an early Boris Karloff film. And he continued to show up in SFF films such as The Ghosts of Berkeley Square where he was Dr. Cruickshank of Psychical Research Society. (Died 1961.) Born January 15, 1913 — Lloyd Bridges. Though I’m reasonably sure?Secret Agent X-9, a?1945 serial, isn’t genre,?I’m listing it anyways because I’m impressed with it — it was based on a?comic strip by Dashiell Hammett, Leslie Charteris and others. He’s the Pilot?Col. Floyd Graham in?Rocketship X-M,?Dr. Doug Standish In Around the World Under the Sea, Aramis in?The Fifth Musketeer, Clifford Sterling in?Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and?Grandfather in?Peter and the Wolf. His television appearances are too many to list here. (Died 1998.) Born January 15, 1926 — Maria Schell. German actress who had roles in Superman and The Martian Chronicles. I’m reasonably sure that the Village of The Damned was her only other SFF film appearance.? (Died 2005.) Born January 15, 1927 — Phyllis Coates, 93. Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman series for the first season. She’s also in Superman and the Mole Men which preceded the series. And she was in Fifties horror film Teenage Frankenstein. Wiki claims she had an appearance on Lois & Clark but IMDB does not show one.? Born January 15, 1928 — Joanne Linville, 92. Best remembered I’d say for being the unnamed Romulnan Commander Spock gets involved with on “The Enterprise Incident”. (Vulcan’s Heart?by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, calls her Liviana Charvanek.) ?She also starred in the Twilight Zone‘s “The Passersby” episode, and she starred in “I Kiss Your Shadow” which was the final episode of the Bus Stop series. The episode was based on the short story by Robert Bloch who wrote the script for it. This story is in The Early Fears Collection.? Born January 15, 1935 — Robert Silverberg, 85. ?I know the first thing I read by him was?The Stochastic Man?a very long time ago. After that I’ve read all of the?Majipoor series which is quite enjoyable, and I know I’ve read a lot of his short fiction down the years.?So what should I have read by him that I haven’t?? Born January 15, 1944 — Christopher Stasheff. A unique blending I’d say of fantasy and SF with a large if sometimes excessive dollop of humor. His best-known novels are his?Warlock in Spite of Himself series which I’ve read some of years ago. Who here has read has?Starship Troupers series? It sounds potentially interesting.?(Died 2018.) Born January 15, 1945 — Ron Bounds, 75. One of the founders of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society in the Sixties. He co-chaired Discon 2, was a member of both the Baltimore in ’67 and Washington in ’77 bid committees.? He chaired Loscon 2.? He published the?Quinine, a one-shot APA. He was President of the Great Wall of China SF, Marching & Chop Suey Society which is both a cool name and a great undertaking as well. (10) BINTI FOR TV. Author Nnedi Okorafor will co-write thescript alongside Stacy Osei-Kuffour (Watchmen) for Media Res.ShelfAwareness reports – Hulu has given a script order for an adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s Hugo and Nebula award-winning?Binti?trilogy. The?Hollywood Reporter?noted that Stacy Osei-Kuffour (Watchmen,?PEN15,?The Morning Show) will co-write the script with Okorafor. The studio is Media Res, the banner launched by former HBO drama head Michael Ellenberg, who will executive produce alongside Osei-Kuffour and Okorafor. (11) GENERAL WITHOUT TROOPS. NPR finds it’s lonelya the top:“Commander Sworn In As First Member Of New Space Force”. The first newly created branch of the U.S. armed forces in more than seven decades now has its first official member. Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond was sworn in Tuesday as chief of Space Operations. It’s the top post in what since late last month is the Pentagon’s seventh military branch, the United States Space Force. …But at the moment, there are no Space Force troops to command. Most of the 16,000 officers, airmen and civilians who Pentagon officials expect to comprise the new service branch in the next few months would likely be Air Force personnel drawn from the U.S. Space Command, which is to be the Space Force’s operational component. (12) LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. “Secretsof ‘1,000-year-old trees’ unlocked” – BBC shares the key. Scientists have discovered the secret of how the ginkgo tree can live for more than 1,000 years. A study found the tree makes protective chemicals that fend off diseases and drought. And, unlike many other plants, its genes are not programmed to trigger inexorable decline when its youth is over. The ginkgo can be found in parks and gardens across the world, but is on the brink of extinction in the wild. “The secret is maintaining a really healthy defence system and being a species that does not have a pre-determined senescence (ageing) programme,” said Richard Dixon of the University of North Texas, Denton. “As ginkgo trees age, they show no evidence of weakening their ability to defend themselves from stresses.” (13) RIGHT TO THE POINT. James Davis Nicoll tells Tor.com readers about “Five Sword-Wielding Women in SFF”. Steel by Carrie Vaughn In Carrie Vaughn’s Steel, fourth-rate fencer Jill Archer tumbles off her boat during a family vacation near Nassau. She hits the water in the 21st century; she is pulled out during the Golden Age of Piracy. Luckily for the teen, Captain Marjory Cooper offers Jill the choice between signing on as a pirate or remaining a prisoner. (Less savoury fates are not on offer.) She chooses piracy, a life that involves a lot more deck swabbing than Basil Rathbone movies would suggest. Jill’s astounding temporal displacement makes her of considerable interest to scallywag pirate Edmund Blane. Jill will need better than fourth-place sword skills to survive Blane and find her way home. (14) TWO RESNICK TRIBUTES. One of them was a young writer longer ago than the other, but they both admire how Mike Resnick treated them then. George R.R. Martin: “RIP Mike”. I don’t recall when I first met Mike, but it was a long, long time ago, back in the 1970s when both of us were still living in Chicago.? I was a young writer and he was a somewhat older, somewhat more established writer.? There were a lot of young writers in the Chicago area in those days, along with three more seasoned pros, Gene Wolfe, Algis Budrys, and Mike.?? What impressed me at the time… and still impresses me, all these years later… was how willing all three of them were to offer their advice, encouragements, and help to aspiring neo-pros like me.?? Each of them in his own way epitomized what this genre and this community were all about back then.? Paying forward, in Heinlein’s phrase. And no one paid it forward more than Mike Resnick. Michelle Sagara West: “MikeResnick and me, or Laura Resnick is my sister”. …Michelle is shy. People who had met me in real life found this hilar?ious. I?think one of them was certain I?was play-acting. I?wasn’t, of course. I?was terri?fied. I?could stand outside a?door that lead to a?publisher party and hyper?ven?ti?late. Resnick?—?I?called him Resnick, not Mike; I?don’t remember why?—?under?stood that fear. He talked about being nine?teen and terri?fied at his first conven?tion. And I?knew that if I?went to a?conven?tion that Mike Resnick was at, I’d know at least one person. I’d have one friend. (15) TO DYE FOR. “Oreo Is Releasing Pink Easter Egg Cookies This Year And They’re Honestly Adorable” – that’s Delish’s opinion, anyway. From the looks of it, these are actually Golden Oreos that have been dyed pink and made to look like decorated Easter eggs. As @ThreeSnackateers pointed out, these aren’t any fancy flavor, they’re just festive and fun. Pink Easter Egg Oreo Cookies Are Cominghttps://t.co/Cgc6Wigyyn — Scotty K (@ScottyKOnair) January 14, 2020 And maybe you can wash them down with one of these — “JellyBelly Is Releasing Seltzer And It Comes In 8 Sweet Flavors”. Just because the name suggests this will be a super sugary drink (based off the beloved jelly beans, of course) doesn’t mean that’s true. These seltzers are going to have zero calories and zero sweeteners and will only use two ingredients. The cans will begin to stock shelves next week, and the drink comes in eight of the iconic Jelly Belly jelly bean flavors. You can take your pick between French vanilla, lemon lime, orange sherbet, pi?a colada, pink grapefruit, tangerine, very cherry, or watermelon. Each flavor is made only with carbonated water and natural flavors, so you can have a taste of the candy jar with zero of the cals. Jelly Belly in the seltzer game… Not the alcohol game tho https://t.co/Nm6ZAxQvjs pic.twitter.com/XMQub5WfQo — Wild 104.9 (@wild1049) January 14, 2020 (16) HOPING TO LAUNCH. When you’re rich enough, you can get AV Club to treat your singles ad as news: “Rich man taking applications for moon wife”. Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese billionaire and the founder of online fashion retailer Zozotown—according to Forbes, as of today, he’s worth $2 billion… Let me be perfectly clear: the Bachelor references are there for fun, and technically, Maezawa is looking for a female “life partner,” not a moon wife, but other than that, nothing else in this story is a joke. These are facts: Yusaku Maezawa, a billionaire, is taking applications from women (aged 20 and up) who want to be his life partner. One of the things that life partner will do with Maezawa is go to the moon, and that’s not just a minor perk or something, it is his major selling point. (17) JEOPARDY! Andrew Porter was tuned in when a Jeopardy! contestant missed another chance: Answer: This Netflix show is a chilling reworking of Shirley Jackson;s gothic horror tale. Wrong question: “What is ‘The Lottery.'” Correct question: What is ‘The Haunting of Hill House’?” And somebody else took a header over this — Answer: One of England’s most beloved tunes is the one by Hubert Parry names for this faraway Mideast city. Bizarrely wrong question: “What is Van Diemon’s Land?” (18) VIDEO OF THE DAY. In the sci-fi short film ‘Regulation'” on YouTube, Ryan Patch describes a dystopian future where children are forced to wear “happy patches” to fight depression. [Thanks to Cat Eldridge, JJ, Mike Kennedy, Martin Morse Wooster,John King Tarpinian, Chip Hitchcock, Michael Toman, and Andrew Porter for someof these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day JackLint.] Posted in Pixel Scroll \| Tagged Andrew Porter, Binti, Carrie Vaughn, CoNZealand, DC Comics, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Flash, George R. R. Martin, James Davis Nicoll, Jeopardy!, Kameron Hurley, Marv Wolfman, Michelle Sagara West, Mike Resnick, Nnedi Okorafor, Space Force, Supergirl \| 36 Replies Clarkesworld Removes Isabel Fall’s Story Isabel Fall’s short story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” in the January Clarkesworld, the subject of intense discussion on Twitter this week, was removed from the magazine’s website today at the author’s request. Editor Neil Clarke tweeted: Isabel Fall's story has been removed from our website at the author's request. A more detailed official statement will follow soon, but I'm still recovering from surgery, so please allow a little more time for that. — clarkesworld (@clarkesworld) January 15, 2020 The story remains availableto read at the Wayback Machine. This roundup illustrates the sources of the discussionwithin the sff community, and points to some of the more frequently cross-referencedconversations. IS THE STORY TRANSPHOBIC? D Franklin challenges numerous passages as transphobic. Thread starts here. All of that is straight out of the Reddit transphobes' playbook and it doesn't stop being offensive when done with an attempt at a knowing wink. It's still deeply unpleasant. — D Franklin (@D_Libris) January 13, 2020 D Franklin agrees the story should have been pulled. Thread starts here. I'm glad Clarkesworld agreed to pull Isabel Fall's story. I hope she continues to write and gets better editorial support in future. I also hope cis people, next time, take a goddamn fucking seat: on all sides! Another critic of the story as transphobic makes a detailed casefor that viewpoint here. I read the "I identify as an attack helicopter" story and it sucks. It's transphobic, yes, but it sucks in a way that leads me to think the entire point of the story is transphobic messaging. A more detailed breakdown follows. — Publick Universal Effbian (@EffInvictus) January 11, 2020 Lynn E. O’Connacht communicates that “there’s a pretty big difference between “this story makes me uncomfortable’ and ‘this story caused me harm’”. Thread starts here. (Also: if you DON’T know the story? Yes, it’s the SF one based on a transphobic meme published this month. Yes, I’m subtweeting it.) — Lynn E. O'Connacht (@lynnoconnacht) January 13, 2020 WIDER CONTEXT. Bogi Takács sheds light on some matters that drive the reception of this story and works by and about other minorities. First thread starts here. And a huge amount of the engagement I see is from cis people who have never said anything about trans stories before and/or have said very little. Out of all trans stories, this is the one they felt they needed to engage with. — Bogi Takács at #ConFusion (@bogiperson) January 13, 2020 Second thread starts here. This is another aspect of what I was saying earlier:https://t.co/Labb0xL5hd Which is kind of the reverse of it, that ownvoices is not an absolution from criticisms. But yes, one can have an ownvoices stance and still internalize various oppressive argumentation. POSITIVE RESPONSES TO STORY. Phoebe North supports the story and author in “An Open Letter” at Medium, an autobiographical essay that concludes: Whatever you decide to do with your story, Isabel, thank you for writing your story. Thank you for making me feel seen and heard. We don’t get a lot of ourselves in fiction. We often only get scraps. This was more than that. A mirror. Alex Acks says North’s essay “articulates a lot of my own difficult to verbalize feelings” about the story. Berry Grass believes the story has shortcomings, but aligns more with those who consider it to be thought-provoking. Thread starts here. The real shortcomings of the story (& of gender abolitionism as a whole!) is that the story's conception of gender as well as its dystopian, AI-driven world, totally eschews indigenous ways of being & thinking. It mistakes power structures of "the West" w/ the ONLY structures — ? Berry Grass ? (@theBGrass) January 15, 2020 The author is apparently asking Clarkesworld to take down the story because of the negative reaction its gotten. I think its an engaging read, even if (& maybe because) I disagree with its conception of gender. https://t.co/cuFCMsQNdH CONTROVERSIAL ART. Carmen Maria Machado wrote a long, thoughtful thread about provocative stories in the context of art and literature, but while I was editing this together she locked her tweets to all but followers so those are not available to quote. Malcolm F. Cross criticizes the story as having shortcomings as MilSF, too, but marks out more territory on the art vs. harm map. Thread starts here. Military Science Fiction is sometimes regarded as meathead right-wing fiction. And yet there are very progressive works of military fiction out there. The helicopter story is military science fiction, and MilSF is one of my favorites. — Malcolm F. Cross (@foozzzball) January 14, 2020 Should I not write that story? Like I shouldn't write the story with a problematic take on the value of women in society? Of course I should write those stories – But I shouldn't throw it at someone so they can't escape it, use it to justify harming them, use it to belittle them. Warren Adams-Ockrassa’s thread seems to say that whatever the writer’s goal was, they should have handled it differently. Starts here. That’s something more authors might want to consider when they’re taking on a hot topic or “controversial” subject, particularly one they may not be directly affected by: — Warren Adams-Ockrassa — Author (@waxis) January 15, 2020 And I’d urge anyone writing something outside their range of experience to ask for feedback — from people in those communities — about what they’ve written. PULLING THE STORY. Cat Rambo is sorry the story was pulled. Thread starts here. But for the author to be hurt to the point where they pull the story — where a piece of art is removed from our collective repository because of public reaction — how does that differ from other moments in history where people have been shocked and offended by it? — Cat Rambo (@Catrambo) January 15, 2020 One of several eye-opening comments on Rambo’s thread: this entire situation is, honest to god, a realization of one of my greatest fears as a queer content creator: a piece that lands, but produces hurt and a schism in my community. — mrs moo madshoe ? (@peonyfoxburr) January 15, 2020 ROLE OF AN EDITOR. Setsu U finds the discussion about the story connects with many questions and concerns they are responsible for as an editor. Thread starts here. How do I recognize something resonant and real for others when my own baggage is involved? How do I create space for messy exploration w/o burning the audience? What do I need to change about my thinking? — Setsu U (they/them) (@scribblesassin) January 15, 2020 ENDNOTES. Several people have been circulating screenshots of a statement that’s represented as giving background about the story and author. I have neither found the source of the original post, nor confirmation that it is from a Clarkesworld spokesperson, so I am not posting these but you can find a copy here. Alexandra Erin on why she won’t read the story. Thread starts here. Cheryl Morgan says she hasn’t read the story, however, offered advice for holding the discussion. Thread starts here. Some of her points are — 2. Trans people can and do suffer from internalised transphobia and can say/do clueless things — Cheryl Morgan (@CherylMorgan) January 14, 2020 3. Equally people trying to be allies can and do screw up There’s extended discussion at Metafilter. As a whole, I thought I learned more just by searching “Clarkesworld” on Twitter. Posted in Clipping Service \| Tagged Alex Acks, Alexandra Erin, Berry Grass, Bogi Takács, Carmen Maria Machado, Cheryl Morgan, Clarkesworld, D Franklin, Isabel Fall, Malcolm ‘f.’ Cross, Metafilter, Neil Clarke, Phoebe North, Warren Adams-Ockrassa \| 34 Replies Pixel Scroll 1/14/20 Who Is Pixel Scroll? You Are File 770 (1) I’M WALKIN’ HERE. “Facebook: Star Wars’ Mark Hamill deletes account overpolitical ads” – BBC has the story. Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has deleted his Facebook account, lambasting the company’s political ads policy. In a tweet, the celebrity accused the firm’s chief Mark Zuckerberg of having valued profit over truthfulness. It followed its decision to let politicians run adverts that contain lies on the social network. The firm has said that it does not believe decisions about which political ads run should be left to private companies. (2) MEAT SUIT. It’s only the second week inJanuary and Nerd & Tie’s Trae Dorn has already written the headlineof the year: “MeatLoaf Suing Horror Convention Texas Frightmare Weekend”. Oh, I supposeyou want the story, too…. Michael Lee Aday, better known by his stage name “Meat Loaf,” is currently suing horror convention Texas Frightmare Weekend and its venue the Hyatt Regency DFW in Tarrant County, Texas. According to NBC 10: (3) READ ALL ABOUT IT. SF2 Concatenation’s spring edition is now up.Principal contents include: Newscast for the Spring 2020. This includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films; and TV; as well as science;. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections. My Top Ten Scientists – Ian Irvine (marine environmental geochemist) 30th Festival of Fantastic Films 2019 – Great Britain – Darrel Buxton British Fantasycon 2019 – Ian Hunter Dublin – The 2019 World SF Convention – Marcin “Alqua” Klak SF Convention Listing & Film Diary From the archives: UK SF Publishing Snapshot 2002 – Top SF/F authors? Top titles? Interestingto compare this last with this season’s news page’sSF publishing news. Plus there are manystandalone SF/FH book and non-fiction SF & science book reviews. Full details at SF2 Concatenation’sWhat’s New page. (4) YOU GO, JOHN. A Whatever pop quiz: “Hey,Guess Who Will Be Going to Dragon Con This Year?” Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give a warm Agrabah welcome….Wait. Wrong script. Ladies and Gentlemen!We are delighted to announce that John @Scalzi is the #DragonCon2020 literary guest of honor! pic.twitter.com/LYJxI2E7eQ — Dragon Con 2020! (@DragonCon) January 14, 2020 Next quiz question: What Dragon Awards category will he bepresenting? (5) TWEETS OF FLAME. “StephenKing slammed for ‘ignorant’ tweet about not considering ‘diversity’ when votingfor the Oscars” – Yahoo! Entertainment has a roundup of King’stweet and the reactions. Famed writer Stephen King has stirred up controversy after admitting he “would never consider diversity in matters of art,” a remark made in reference to his status as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) voting on Oscar contenders. His remarks come a day after the 2020 Oscar nominations were announced, prompting complaints that women and people of color were largely overlooked. Many critics bemoaned the exclusion of women like Greta Gerwig from the Best Director category, while Harriet’s Cynthia Erivo spoke out about being the only person of color to be nominated across four acting categories. (6) SIX-PACK. Nerds of a Feather’s Paul Weimer discusses “6 Books with Gareth Hanrahan”. 4. How about a book you’ve changed your mind about – either positively or negatively? Jeff Vandermeer’s Shriek: An Afterword. I loved the first Ambergris book, City of Saints and Madmen. I picked up Shriek next, and found it utterly incomprehensible and dull. Years later, I got the third book in the sequence, Finch, and loved it. I then gave Shriek another try, and it felt like a completely different book. I was astounded at myself for hating it the first time, and I’ve no idea why I bounced off it so hard.? (7) CAROL SERLING OBIT. Carol Serling, widow of TwilightZone’s Rod Serling and mother of author Anne Serling diedJanuary 9 reports the Binghamton (NY) Press & Sun-Bulletin. After the death of her husband, due to complications after heart surgery, Carol worked to keep Rod’s legacy alive. In 1981, she launched the monthly “The Twilight Zone Magazine” and served as the publication’s editor from 1981 through 1989.?She held the legal rights to Serling’s name and likeness. CBS owns the rights to the television series. In 1994, two new episodes of the sci-fi television series were aired on CBS based on material found by Carol after Rod’s death and then sold to CBS. They aired in a two-hour special titled “Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics.” That?same year, the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror theme park ride opened at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios (then MGM Studio Theme Park) in Orlando, Florida, and Binghamton High School dedicated its arts program as the Rod Serling School of Fine Arts. January 14, 1954 — Riders To The Stars premiered. It?was directed by Richard Carlson (who also stars) and Herbert L. Strock (who is uncredited for unknown reasons) and has the additional cast of ?William Lundigan, Martha Hyer, and Herbert Marshall. Riders to the Stars is the second film in Ivan Tors’ Office of Scientific Investigation trilogy, which was preceded by The Magnetic Monster and followed by Gog. All in all, reviewers considered it a quite unremarkable film. It has no rating at Rotten Tomatoes though Amazon reviewers were kind to it. Fortunately you can judge for yourself as the film is here to watch. January 14, 1959 — Journey to the Center of the Earth premiered. January 14, 1976 — The Bionic Woman aired its first episode. A spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man, it starred Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks. It run just three seasons, half of what the parent show ran. It on ABC, NBC and finally on CBS.? January 14, 1981 — Scanners premiered. Directed by David Cronenberg and produced by Claude Héroux, it starred Jennifer O’Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane and Michael Ironside. Reviewers, with the exception of Ebert, generally liked it, and reviewers at Rotten Tomatoes currently give it a healthy 64% rating. Born January 14, 1924 — Guy Williams. Most remembered as?Professor John Robinson on Lost in Space though some of you may remember?him as?Don Diego de la Vega and his masked alter ego Zorro in the earlier Zorro series.??(Is it genre? You decide.) He filmed two European genre films,?Il tiranno di Siracusa (Damon and Pythias) and Captain Sinbad as well. (Died 1989.) Born January 14, 1943 — Beverly Zuk. Ardent fan of Trek: TOS who wrote three Trek fanfics, two of them on specific characters: The Honorable Sacrifice (McCoy) and The Third Verdict (Scotty). Let’s just say that based on her artwork that I found I’d not say these are anything less than R rated in places. She was a founding member of the Trek Mafia though I’m not sure what that was.?(Died 2009.) Born January 14, 1948 — Carl Weathers, 72. Most likely best remembered among genre fans as?Al Dillon in Predator, but he has some other SFF creds as well. He was a MP officer in?Close Encounters of the Third Kind, General Skyler in Alien Siege,?Dr. Artimus Snodgrass in the very silly comedy?The Sasquatch Gang and he voiced Combat Carl in Toy Story 4. And no, I’m not forgetting he’s currently playing?Greef Karga on?The Mandalorian series. I still think his best role ever was?Adam Beaudreaux on Street Justice but that’s very not SFF. Born January 14, 1949 — Lawrence Kasdan, 71. Director, screenwriter, and producer. He’s best known early on as co-writer of The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi. He also wrote The Art of Return of the Jedi with George Lucas. He’s also one of the writers lately of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Solo: A Star Wars Story.? Born January 14, 1957 — Suzanne Danielle, 63. A Whovian as she showed up as?Agella in “The Destiny if The Daleks,“ a Fourth Doctor story. She was on the?Hammer House of Horror series?in the Carpathian Eagle” episode, and she’s also in Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected multiple times in different roles. To my knowledge, her only other SFF appearance was on the Eighties Flash Gordon film. Born January 14, 1962 — Jemma Redgrave, 58. Her first genre role was as?Violette Charbonneau in the?“A Time to Die” episode of Tales of the Unexpected?which was also her first acting role. Later genre roles are scant but include a memorable turn as?Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, daughter of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart on Doctor Who.? Born January 14, 1963 — Steven Soderbergh, ?57. Though largely not a SFF person, he’s ventured into our ‘verse on occasion by directing such films as Solaris (which he also wrote), Nightwatch which he was the writer of, ?Contagion?which he directed and The Hunger Games for which he was Second Unit Director. I’m tempted to call Kafka for which he was Director at least genre adjacent… Born January 14, 1964 — Mark Addy, 56. He got a long history in genre films showing up first as?Mac MacArthur in Jack Frost ?followed by by the lead in?The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (why did anyone make this?), Roland in?A Knight’s Tale (now that’s a film), Friar Tuck In Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood (has anyone seen this?) and voicing?Clyde the Horse in the just released Mary Poppins Returns. Television work includes?Robert Baratheon on Games of Thornes,?Paltraki on a episode on Doctor Who, “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”, and he was?Hercules on a UK series called Atlantis.? Born January 14, 1990 — Grant Gustin, 30. The?actor, known as Barry Allen aka the Flash in the Arrowverse. I’ve got him as a boyfriend on an episode on A Haunting, one of those ghost hunter shows early in his career. Later on, well the Arrowverse has kept him rather busy. Bliss knows what makes zombies laugh. These folks at Close to Home sound like true introverts to me. (11) RARE BOOK THIEVES PLEAD. “Menplead guilty in thefts of rare books from Carnegie Library” reportsPittsburgh’s TribLIVE. The two men accused of stealing and reselling more than $500,000 worth of rare books, maps and other artifacts from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh reached a plea deal Monday with prosecutors who agreed to drop most of the charges they faced. …Gregory Priore, 63, of Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood, was the archivist and manager of the library’s William R. Oliver Special Collections Room from 1992 until April 2017. The room held a collection of rare books, maps and other items worth millions. Priore was accused of stealing the items from the library and selling them to John Schulman, 56, of Squirrel Hill, who owns the Caliban Bookshop in Oakland. Among the items that were stolen was a 400-year-old Bible printed in London. It was recovered in April 2019 in the Netherlands as part of the criminal investigation. (12) ATTENTION, FLORIDA MAN. Destiny is calling. EXCALIGATOR pic.twitter.com/iXpInBZRk3 — Alex (@macr0roni) October 2, 2019 (13) ALIEN DISCOVERY CENTER. [Item by Cliff Ramshaw.] This is giving me a bad case of the VanderMeers….“Scientistsuse stem cells from frogs to build first living robots” in TheGuardian. Researchers in the US have created the first living machines by assembling cells from African clawed frogs into tiny robots that move around under their own steam. One of the most successful creations has two stumpy legs that propel it along on its “chest”. Another has a hole in the middle that researchers turned into a pouch so it could shimmy around with miniature payloads. “These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth,” said Michael Levin, the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. “They are living, programmable organisms.” (14) ELECTION RESULTS. Cosplayer Lai Pin-yu has been elected to the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan.“Taiwanesecosplay candidate, Sunflower Movement activist wins legislative seat”. When Lai was certain of her win on Saturday, she took to Facebook at 8 p.m. to write: ” Hello friends, I am Lai Pinyu, lawmaker of New Taipei City’s 12th District. Please give me your feedback over the next four years.” In her post, Lai included a photo of herself dressed as Sailor Mars from the “Sailor Moon” Japanese manga series, gaining her 30,000 likes, 2,800 comments, and 2,200 shares within 12 hours. (15) BACKSTORY. If you think you’ve heard of this bookbefore, there’s a reason why. But now it’s in print and Adri Joy reviews it forNerds of a Feather: “Microreview [Book]: Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao”. I don’t want to talk about Blood Heir without acknowledging the route this book took to publication. Originally scheduled for release the beginning of 2019, the book was delayed after numerous ARC readers identified significant sensitivity issues with an aspect of the plot and characters. Blood Heir deals in some depth with the concept of indenture, with marginalised characters in the place where the book is set at high risk of being forced to sign work contracts which leave them effectively in slavery. In original ARCs, the story’s depictions of race provoked strong concerns about how the story came across in the context of historic Black slavery in the USA. In response, author Amélie Wen Zhao delayed the book, revisited in the context of her original intent – to explore concepts of indenture with real-world parallels in Asian countries – and has now released the book, as of late November, satisfied that it did so. Having never read the original ARC, I don’t know how much changed before publication, and I should be clear that I’m white and, as a non-American, less likely to pick up cues that would read “chattel slavery” to US audiences – so I’m not going make claims about whether Blood Heir is now “fixed”, other than to note I didn’t pick up anything other than the author’s intended parallels in my own reading. However, from where I stand it feels like Blood Heir’s delayed, revised publication is an example of sensitivity reading going right, albeit late in the process and therefore more loudly and messily than might have occurred if concerns had been raised earlier. People were right to raise concerns. Zhao was right to listen and use those concerns to revisit her intended, ownvoices, message. I hope and suspect the book is stronger for it. (16) YOUTH MOVEMENT. Victoria Silverwolf shares a discoverywith Galactic Journey readers: “[January 14, 1965] The BigPicture (March 1965 Worlds of Tomorrow]”. Science fiction writers often have to deal with things on a very large scale. Whether they take readers across vast reaches of space, or into unimaginably far futures, they frequently look at time and the universe through giant telescopes of imagination, enhancing their vision beyond ordinary concerns of here and now. (This is not to say anything against more intimate kinds of imaginative fiction, in which the everyday world reveals something extraordinary. A microscope can be a useful tool for examining dreams as well.) A fine example of the kind of tale that paints a portrait of an enormous universe, with a chronology reaching back for eons, appears in the latest issue of Worlds of Tomorrow, from the pen of a new, young writer. Can you rememberwhen Larry Niven was a “new, young writer”? (17) OVER THE COUNTER. “The New York Public Library Has Calculated Its MostChecked-Out Books Of All Time” – there are assorted genre items on thelist. The New York Public Library has been loaning books for a long time — the institution turns 125 this year. To celebrate, the library dug into its records and calculated a list of the 10 books that have been checked out the most in its history. The most-wanted book? The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. The Caldecott Medal-winning tale of a young boy’s encounter with snow has been checked out 485,583 times from the NYPL since it was published in 1962. It shares qualities with many of the other most-borrowed titles: The beautifully illustrated book has been around a long time, it’s well-known and well-loved, and it’s available in numerous languages. (18) HELLO BOOMER. BBC says “Oldestmaterial on Earth discovered”. Scientists analysing a meteorite have discovered the oldest material known to exist on Earth. They found dust grains within the space rock – which fell to Earth in the 1960s – that are as much as 7.5 billion years old. The oldest of the dust grains were formed in stars that roared to life long before our Solar System was born. A team of researchers has described the result in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. When stars die, particles formed within them are flung out into space. These “pre-solar grains” then get incorporated into new stars, planets, moons and meteorites. “They’re solid samples of stars, real stardust,” said lead author Philipp Heck, a curator at Chicago’s Field Museum and associate professor at the University of Chicago. (19) VIDEOOF THE DAY. In“I Have A Secret: Another Bite” on Vimeo, Michael Simeintroduces us to a guy who DOES have room for dessert in a restaurant. [Thanks to JJ, John King Tarpinian, Cat Eldridge, Martin MorseWooster, Cliff Ramshaw, Mike Kennedy, Alan Baumler, Chip Hitchcock, and AndrewPorter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editorof the day BGrandrath.] Posted in Pixel Scroll \| Tagged Adri Joy, Facebook, Galactic Journey, Gareth Hanrahan, John Scalzi, Larry Niven, Mark Hamill, Nerd & Tie, Nerds of a Feather, Paul Weimer, SF Concatenation, Stephen King, Trae Dorn, Victoria Silverwolf \| 80 Replies Marvel and Tsuburaya Productions Team Up To Publish Ultraman Comics A dozen years ago John Hertz and I werediscussing the silly controversy about Nippon 2007’s Hugo Awards base. From allthe griping you’d think the Japanese superhero Ultraman practically dwarfed theHugo rocket. A lot of fansthought it was perfectly fine for a Japanese Worldcon to honor an icon from itscountry’s sf tradition. But for or against, all fans seemed to take forgranted that the figure of Ultraman was exaggerated. No one ever asked whetherUltraman and the rocket might, in fact, be in proper proportion to one another,or how to find that answer. Ultraman is supposed tobe 130 feet tall. Just how big do we conceive the Hugo rocket to be? I came upwith an answer in “How Tall Is theHugo?” It turned out the proportions were just fine. That memory returned when I saw a press release from Marvel Entertainment and Tsuburaya Productions announcing theircollaborative plan for new Ultraman comics and graphic novels in 2020. Ultraman has been a pop culture classic ever since its introduction in the 1960s, resulting in more than 50 years of stories told on screen and in the pages of manga and comics. Today, Ultraman continues to be a worldwide phenomenon, but fans will always remember the groundbreaking thrill and wonder of the first generation of Ultraman that started it all. Beginning next year, Marvel will expand that iconic era of the Ultras through the lens of Marvel’s art and storytelling. “As one of the world’s most popular franchises, Ultraman has brought together some of the most passionate fandoms in pop culture today, and we can’t wait to bring his story to even more fans around the globe,” said Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski. “Like Marvel, Ultraman captivated generations by telling spectacular stories grounded in the real world, and it continues to be a beloved classic through its television shows, movies, toys, games, comics, and more. We are so thrilled to introduce new chapters to the Ultraman Multiverse next year.” Story and creativeteam details will be shared at a later date. 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__label__cc	0.594689	0.405311	Muroidea Muroids Order: Rodentia Superfamily: Muroidea see text Muroidea is a large superfamily of rodents. It includes hamsters, gerbils, true mice and rats, and many other relatives. They occupy a vast variety of habitats on every continent except Antarctica. Some authorities have placed all members of this group into a single family, Muridae, due to difficulties in determining how the subfamilies are related to one another. The following taxonomy is based on recent well-supported molecular phylogenies. The muroids are classified in 6 families, 19 subfamilies, around 280 genera and at least 1300 species. Family Platacanthomyidae incertae sedis Subfamily Platacanthomyinae (spiny dormouse and pygmy dormice) Family Spalacidae fossorial muroids Subfamily Myospalacinae (zokors) Subfamily Rhizomyinae (bamboo rats and root rats) Subfamily Spalacinae (blind mole rats) Clade Eumuroida - typical muroids Family Calomyscidae Subfamily Calomyscinae (mouse-like hamsters) Family Nesomyidae Subfamily Cricetomyinae (pouched rats and mice) Subfamily Dendromurinae (African climbing mice, gerbil mice, fat mice and forest mice) Subfamily Mystromyinae (white-tailed rat) Subfamily Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice) Subfamily Petromyscinae (rock mice and the climbing swamp mouse) Family Cricetidae Subfamily Arvicolinae (voles, lemmings and muskrat) Subfamily Cricetinae (true hamsters) Subfamily Neotominae (North American rats and mice) Subfamily Sigmodontinae (New World rats and mice) Subfamily Tylomyinae Family Muridae Subfamily Deomyinae (spiny mice, brush furred mice, link rat) Subfamily Gerbillinae (gerbils, jirds and sand rats) Subfamily Lophiomyinae (crested rat) Subfamily Murinae (Old World rats and mice including vlei rats) Primary Taxonomic Reference Steppan, S. J., R. A. Adkins, and J. Anderson. 2004. Phylogeny and divergence date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology, 53:533-553. Other Taxonomic References Jansa, S. A. and M. Weksler. Phylogeny of muroid rodents: relationships within and among major lineages as determined by IRBP gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31:256-276. Michaux, J., A. Reyes, and F. Catzeflis. 2001. Evolutionary history of the most speciose mammals: molecular phylogeny of muroid rodents. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 17:280-293. Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. Norris, R. W., K. Y. Zhou, C. Q. Zhou, G. Yang, C. W. Kilpatrick, and R. L. Honeycutt. 2004. The phylogenetic position of the zokors (Myospalacinae) and comments on the families of muroids (Rodentia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31:972-978.de:Langschwanzmäuse fr:Muridé nl:Muridae (taxonomie) pl:myszowate Retrieved from "http://clipart.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Muroidea" Categories: Rodents \| Muroid rodents	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line26
__label__cc	0.573324	0.426676	Bookland: Difference between revisions Bookland (edit) 3 bytes added , 4 years ago →‎History: minor copy edit Justinbb (talk \| contribs) ("Anatomy of a 13-digit ISBN" article moved, URL updated) Revision as of 20:16, 11 March 2016 (edit) (undo) Jonesey95 (talk \| contribs) (→‎History: minor copy edit) Until January 1, 2007, all ISBNs were allocated as 9-digit numbers followed by a [[modular arithmetic\|modulo]] 11 [[checksum]] character that was either a decimal digit or the letter X. A Bookland EAN was generated by concatenating the Bookland UCC 978, the 9 digits of the book's ISBN other than its checksum, and the EAN checksum digit.<ref>[https://www.isbn-information.com/the-13-digit-isbn.html Anatomy of a 13-digit ISBN]</ref><ref>{{citation \|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d5Z5I3gnFh0C&pg=PA265 \|title=Elementary number theory with applications \|author=Thomas Koshy}}</ref> Since parts of the 10-character ISBN space are nearly full, all books published from 2007 on have been allocated a 13-digit [[ISBN]], which is identical to the Bookland EAN. The UCC 979 has now been assigned for the expansion of Bookland,<ref>{{citation \|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KjveruEBBfoC&pg=PT41 \|title=Book Marketing Demystified \|author=Bruce Trelawny Batchelor}}</ref> and was first used by publishers in the French language, which can use now the additional prefix "979-10-" in addition to the nearly full "978-2-" prefix (onto which legacy ISBN 10-character numbersISBNs starting with "2-" have been remapped). Books numbered with prefixes other than 978 will not be mappable to 10-character ISBNs. The GS1 is the global identification standards organization for retail. Every country has an assigned country code which precedes the company code. The "country codes" 978 and 979 are now officially registered for allocation by the [[International ISBN Agency]], which maintains the official international registry of ISBN numbers allocated to book publishers. Jonesey95 Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Mass message senders, Template editors	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line29
__label__wiki	0.615924	0.615924	Bermuda, World & Wikileaks Data Release The expected release of secret communications between the U.S. Government and countries worldwide by Wikileaks started yesterday [Nov 28]. Searching through the data set shows at least one small reference to Bermuda already, however this is not as dramatic as it may seem, as numerous countries are mentioned, and not all cable communication released is of a nefarious nature. Wikileaks said the full set consists of 251,287 documents, and they will “give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities.” The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between the U.S and 274 embassies in countries throughout the world. Wikileaks released 226 so far, with over 250,000 left to go. Material from the documents began being posted online yesterday [Nov 28] afternoon on the websites of several media outlets that have collaborated with WikiLeaks to release the information. The New York Times, the UK’s Guardian, Germany’s Der Spiegel, France’s Le Monde and Spain’s El Pais all gained advance access to the documents to prepare their coverage. Revelations in the cables reported by those outlets include; Arab leaders are privately urging a military attack on Iran, US officials have been instructed to spy on UN leaders,. U.S and South Korea discussed a unified Korea if North Korea crumbles, and that China’s leadership directed a hacking campaign into computers of Google and Western governments. Individuals were discussed in detail, with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has a home in Bermuda, being said to be a “vain and ineffective as a modern European leader” and that he has “frequent late nights and penchant for partying hard.” Cables also ran on lighter notes, with discussions of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s nurse being a “voluptuous blond.” Searching the Wikileaks cable graphics of the cablegate dataset by country, shows that Bermuda is listed on the graph. We are far from alone, as the data set shows approximately 200 countries and territories spanning the globe, whereas a country/territory/area not mentioned would be in the small minority. Bermuda, as shown below circled in blue, has a very tiny raise on the graph, indicating that the cable[s], which span 45 years, will mention Bermuda in some capacity. Additional charts show that 68 cables refer to Bermuda. The Obama Administration issued a statement saying “We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information.” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argued that the documents could serve as “deterrents” to future war crimes. Websites carrying the data experienced server issues, and Twitter is abuzz with the hashtag #cablegate. The cables are said to show the American officials ‘bargaining’ with foreign governments to accept the prisoners being held at Guantánamo Bay. Bermuda was one of the first countries that accepted refugees from the offshore holding center; Khaleel Mamut, Abdulla Abdulqadir, Salahidin Abdulahat, and Ablikim Turahun were released from Guantanamo and resettled in Bermuda on July 11, 2009. The ethnic Uighurs Chinese Nationals, who were held for many years without charge, have been cleared by U.S. officials of any wrongdoing. Referencing the Gitmo prisoners New York Times, who had advance access to the documents, said: Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison: When American diplomats pressed other countries to resettle detainees, they became reluctant players in a State Department version of “Let’s Make a Deal.” Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in Chinese Muslim detainees, cables from diplomats recounted. The Americans, meanwhile, suggested that accepting more prisoners would be “a low-cost way for Belgium to attain prominence in Europe.” AFP News Agency said: Cables depicted US officials searching the world asking countries to take Guantanamo inmates, with Slovenia’s leadership told that a meeting with US President Barack Obama was linked to its decision on taking a prisoner. UK’s Daily Mail said: Now, with Mr Obama’s deadline long gone, the cables released by Wikileaks show just how desperate the U.S. became to offload foreign Gitmo inmates. Searching through the initial cables released do not indicate that Bermuda has specifically been referenced yet. On a slightly correlated note to a local situation, the cables do reveal communications between Germany and the USA on accepting Gitmo refugees, and specifically the ethnic Uighurs – whom Germany specifically did not want to accept due to not wanting to “irritate” China. A German official is quoted within a cable as saying “now that the Bundestag election was past, Germany was ready to help on detainees, as it had promised earlier.” The official also “suggested that the discussions be kept confidential,” as “premature public disclosure could doom the whole initiative.” The quotes below showing the dialogue between Germany and the US about the Uighurs are taken directly from the cables, with the cable reference numbers provided. Cable 09BEIJING1247, BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON DPRK, GTMO German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported that Germany had informed China of the U.S. request to accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo and had been subsequently warned by China of “a heavy burden on bilateral relations” if Germany were to accept any detainees. German Ambassador Schaefer said the German State Secretary had informed China of the U.S. request to accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo, noting that Germany had not made a decision regarding the Uighurs. He noted that no German state had yet agreed to accept the detainees. Ambassador Schaefer said China had not officially demarched Germany but had warned Germany that accepting any Uighur detainees would “put enormous pressure on Beijing and a heavy burden on bilateral relations. Cable 09BERLIN1548, GERMANY RENEWS CONSIDERATION OF GUANTANAMO While Germany prefers non-Uighur cases because of expected tension with China, it will consider the cases of two Uighurs based on humanitarian grounds While all interlocutors did not outright reject the two Uighur cases, Heusgen made clear that the prospect of being the only European country to irritate China by accepting Uighurs would make it difficult, although it is unclear whether Germany would take part in any broader European decision to resettle Uighurs. Cable 09MUNICH328, GERMANY/AFGHANISTAN: IS THE CSU THE WEAKEST LINK The CSU has refused to accept any of the 17 Uighurs to be released from Guantanamo, even though Munich is home to an estimated 500 Uighurs, the largest Uigher community in Germany. Heusgen said that Uighurs would be “too difficult,” but that Germany could probably accept “2-3 others.” (Comment: The reluctance about Uighurs is due to the expected negative reaction of the Chinese government. End Comment.) The cables are Wikileak’s third huge release of classified American data. They previously released thousands of documents, as well a 2007 gun-camera video of an American helicopter crew killing a dozen people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists, with one soldier heard shouting “Ha, ha, I hit ‘em.” The soldiers allegedly mistook the photographer’s camera for a “rocket-propelled grenade launcher.” U.S. officials allege they were passed to WikiLeaks by Army Private Bradley Manning who had access to classified computer networks as a junior intelligence analyst in Iraq. Private Manning is now being held in a military jail, and faces a possible court-martial and, if convicted, up to 52 years in prison. Adrian Lamo, who reported Private Manning to the U.S. authorities, said the soldier had told him in chat messages that “everywhere there’s a US post … there’s a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed”. The cables come via the huge Secret Internet Protocol Router Network [SIPRNet]. SIPRNet is the worldwide US military internet system, which is separated from the ordinary internet and run by the Department of Defense in Washington. Many are unclassified, and none are marked “top secret,” the government’s most secure communications status. Although the system is deemed to be private, reports say that SIPRNet can be accessed by approximately 3 million people. The full cables [over 250,000 still not released] are expected to be posted online over the next few months. Hillary Clinton Emails Mention Bermuda/Uighurs Guardian Report: Uighurs Want To Be With Family WikiLeaks: Bermuda Sought Help on Crime Bermuda’s Undersea Cable Named in Wikileaks Wikileaks Cables: Bermuda’s First Mention WikiLeaks: Bermuda Ban on Iran Insurance #Uighurs #Wikileaks #WorldNews Articles that link to this one: Wikileaks: No Bermuda Cables Released Yet \| Bernews.com \| November 30, 2010 U.S. Consulate Responds to Wikileaks Data \| Bernews.com \| November 30, 2010 I would have been shocked if there wasn’t something about Bermuda and the Uighurs in the leaks. Nothing surprising so far, but I’ll definitely be following this story. Cheers, Bernews, for keeping us posted on international news as well as local. Tigga says: Julian Assange and Bradley Manning are pitiful excuses for a human beings – their money grabbing antics are pathetic. I don’t need Wikileaks to figure out that Brown brought those uigars to Bermuda in exchange for a photo op with Obama. Obvious says: No, just your imagination, unsubstantiated assumptions along with a healthy dose of bias… What is so bias about it? Why was the entire deal shrouded in such secrecy, if it was an open ‘humanitarian’ cause? Why did everyone know that Paulau was awarded several million for taking the Uighurs, but it’s never been revealed what Bermuda got, if anything at all? Or was it quid pro quo? Very few answers, but you’re so sure everyone is just biased about it. The ‘accept anything’ sheep mentality on this island kills me. UncleElvis says: We know it wasn’t quid pro quo, because Dr. Brown said outright that there was no quid pro quo. He made that statement. Of course, Mrs. Correia then went on to say shortly after, to the news on the night of the protest, something along the lines of “What are people complaining about, just think of all the stuff we could get out of this…”, so… who knows. I’d hate to think that the former Premier lied TWICE to the people of Bermuda about this matter. how much did the US give ewart brown for taking them Always nice to hear from the brain-washed party faithful. Why don’t we all just save our judgments for when they actually release the docs and we find out what the truth is. John Q Public Esq. says: Perhaps Wikileaks can do what the courts were unable to do (remember BHC) – get stuff released that Government would rather have covered up. But as another poster said – let’s not pre judge. We know our MPs aren’t choirboys – but maybe (just maybe) they ain’t that bad. (Sound of laughter)……. 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__label__wiki	0.790495	0.790495	Guidelines for Activities at Nagoya University During the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Response Regarding the Novel Coronavirus Disease Regarding classes and various periodic examinations to be held in this semester,etc. About Nagoya University Academic Charter / Declarations Medium Term Objectives / Disclosure System History / Facts and Figures Publications (Information Bulletins) Educational Support Programs Scholarships And Fee Exemption Academic-Industrial Cooperation Research Organization / Profiles of Researchers Collaborative Research / Academics-Industrial Cooperation Research and Ethics 3D model shows bacterial motor in action Scientists have constructed a high-resolution 3D model that shows what happens when a bacterial motor switches directions. Nagoya University scientists in Japan and colleagues at Yale University in the US have uncovered details of how the bacterial propeller, known as the flagellum, switches between counterclockwise and clockwise rotation, allowing it to control its movement. The findings were published in the journal eLife and include a model that shows structural changes happening within portions of the flagellar motor. Vibrio bacteria are rod-shaped organisms that live in coastal waters. They can cause serious intestinal and soft tissue infections that can ultimately lead to septic shock and multiple organ failure. "Vibrio infections are expected to increase as water temperatures rise due to climate change," says Nagoya University supramolecular biologist Michio Homma. "They have evolved a sophisticated flagellum-driven motility to facilitate their invasion of host organisms. We wanted to visualize how their motors switch between clockwise and counterclockwise rotation to further understand this movement." To do this, Homma and his colleagues used an advanced imaging technique called cryo-electron tomography, in which images are taken of frozen samples as they are tilted to produce 2D images that are combined to produce a 3D reconstruction. The scientists used samples from two mutant Vibrio bacteria whose flagella only rotated in the clockwise or counterclockwise direction. This allowed them to compare the two movements and deduce the changes happening within the bacteria's motor to switch directions. Figure 1: Bacterial flagella are generated from the cell surface (A). Motors are buried within the cell membrane at the bases of flagellar filaments (indicated by white arrows). The motor part is shown by the cross-section of three-dimensional tomogram images using cryo-electron microscopy (B). The white-dashed line in (B) is enlarged in (C). The densities of the C-ring and the transport apparatus (EXP and ATPase) are easily observed. (Credit: Jun Liu) "Our comparative analysis and molecular modelling provide the first structural evidence that the flagellar motor undergoes a profound rearrangement to enable the rotational switch," says Homma. The scientists found that the switch from counterclockwise to clockwise involves a signalling protein, called CheY-P, binding to a protein, called FliM, in the flagellar motor's C-ring. This causes another motor protein, called FliG, to move in a way that exposes charged residues on its surface to a transmembrane protein, called PomA, that forms the stationary part of the motor, called the stator, along with another protein called PomB. The interaction between FliG residues and PomA probably leads to changes in the stator that result in an ion flow generating torque, which ultimately rotates the C-ring. Figure 2: The flagellar motor is formed of a series of rings bound by proteins. The scientists looked specifically at the C-ring (blue), which is present inside the bacterial cytoplasm. The C-ring is formed of FliG, FliN and FliM proteins. The scientists found that during the switch from counterclockwise to clockwise rotation, part of FliG moves, exposing its charged residues so they interact with the stator. (Credit: Jun Liu) "Cryo-electron tomography is rapidly evolving, making it increasingly possible to reveal motor structure at higher resolutions," says Homma. "This current study provides one of the highest resolution images by cryo-electron tomography of the Vibrio flagellar motor. This and future studies will further our understandings of the flagellar assembly and function." The study was a collaboration between Nagoya University and Jun Liu's group at Yale University. PhD student Tatsuro Nishikino was supported by Nagoya University's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Program in Green Natural Sciences. The paper, "The flagellar motor of Vibrio alginolyticus undergoes major structural remodeling during rotational switching," was published online in the journal eLife on September 7, 2020, at DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61446. Brittany L. Carroll, Tatsuro Nishikino, Wangbiao Guo, Shiwei Zhu, Seiji Kojima, Michio Homma, and Jun Liu Michio Homma Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University Email: g44416a@cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp World Class Researcher NUportal Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan TEL:+81-(0)52-789-5111 Copyright ©2010-2021 Nagoya University All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line39
__label__wiki	0.573429	0.573429	Home>Music> Kendrick Lamar Track Bracket Finals: "Alright" Vs. "Money Trees" Kendrick Lamar Track Bracket Finals: "Alright" Vs. "Money Trees" We're down to the last two songs. All week, we've given you the incredibly tough task of determining your favorite Kendrick Lamar songs of all time. With such an impressive and classic discography, it can be an overwhelming ask to pick the best cuts from albums such as To Pimp A Butterfly, good kid, m.a.a.d city, and all the others. With our fan-voted track brackets, we wanted you to do exactly that and y'all delivered. Now that only two songs remain, it's time to finally choose which song is the ultimate depiction of how great Kendrick Lamar really is. Is it going to be "Alright" or will it be "Money Trees?" The last remaining two picks aren't all too surprising. While the semi-finals round was close, the two cuts ended up edging their competition. "Alright" ended up taking "Swimming Pools" out of its misery and "m.A.A.d city" was bounced by "Money Trees." At the top of the competition, thirty-two songs were put up against each other and now, that field has been narrowed out to your two favorites. Now, it's your turn to finalize this. In order to vote, you've got to head over to our Instagram page, hit that follow button and watch our stories. From there, the voting process should be simple. Let us know which track you picked and stay tuned for the winner. Music News Original Content Kendrick Lamar track bracket vote Alright money trees to pimp a butterfly good kid maad city best song bracket French Montana Admits "Turning Up" Too Much Landed Him In The Hospital Blac Chyna Claims "Fraud & Deceit" In Rob Kardashian Involved Legal Battle MUSIC Kendrick Lamar Track Bracket Finals: "Alright" Vs. "Money Trees"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line41
__label__wiki	0.615815	0.615815	Tricontinental Atlantic Campus Improved teaching and adaption to the EHES Scientific improvement Innovation and knowledge transfer internalization Strategic objectives of the aggregations Cei Canarias The main strategic aggregation of the Tri-continental Atlantic Campus is that of the two Canary Islands universities that have jointly proposed the project: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. University of La Laguna. The following strategic aggregations serve to reinforce the commitment of public and private institutions in the Canary Islands to the Tri-continental Atlantic Campus project: The Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute (IAC) Level of involvement: Strategic internal aggregation to the project, as this is a public research body that will lead one of the project’s areas of specialisation in the sphere of scientific improvement and knowledge transfer. Strategic complementary contribution: the Institute contributes its knowledge and indicators of excellence in the field of Space Science, as well as the potential for knowledge transfer that it is deploying in its initiative to build a technological centre oriented to advanced scientific instrumentation in Astrophysics, space and other related areas. Campus enhancement: International projection of the institute thanks to visiting lecturers, the capturing of postgraduate students and connections with foreign companies who collaborate with the planned technological centre. Canary Islands Oceanic Platform (PLOCAN) Level of involvement: Strategic aggregation in the field of marine Science and Technology in order to lead this area of specialisation in research, development, innovation and knowledge transfer. Strategic complementary contribution: The Canary Islands Oceanic Platform (Singular Infrastructure of Excellence of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation,) is a major initiative to mobilise marine science and technology in general towards the search for international business socio-economic competitiveness, derived from the access to the ocean. Campus enhancement: International projection of PLOCAN and the Canary Islands universities through visiting researchers who will use the installations of both institutions, as well as students who specialise in Marine Science and Technology Marinas. The number of international and tri-continental projects in this field will also increase. The Canary Islands Parliament Level of involvement: Institutional declaration of support of the Board of Spokesmen of the Parliament, pending final proceedings in the next Plenary. Strategic complementary contribution: The Parliament contributes visualisation of the support of the highest body of citizen representation in the Canary Islands, thereby promoting its involvement and participation in the project. Campus enhancement: Guarantee of institutional support. Presidential Office of the Government of the Canary Islands Level of involvement: Presidential Office’s declaration of support. Strategic complementary contribution: Presidential support ensures the institutional guarantee of the Canary Islands Government in its support for the project. Regional Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sport of the Canary Islands Government Level of involvement: Guarantee and commitment of the department that is responsible for managing funds for the execution of the project. Strategic complementary contribution: This gives us institutional guarantee of the department that is responsible for university policy in the Canary Islands Government. Canary Islands Agency for Research, Innovation and the Information Society Level of involvement: Commitment of support from the regional department responsible for planning and coordination R&D+i (innovation) policy. Strategic complementary contribution: This gives us the logistic and financial support to develop aspects related to scientific improvement and transfer of knowledge. Campus enhancement: Support through funding in both universities of a Mobility centre for lecturers and students. Island Council of Tenerife, Island Council of Gran Canaria Level of involvement: Declaration of support from the President’s Office. Strategic complementary contribution: The Island Councils have helped to bring forward results in a regional development model towards a new economic and social structure in the Canary Islands, under the concept of sustainable global development, which enhances opportunities in Africa and Latin-America. In this sense, they can help to boost the Canary Islands’ university leadership axis among the Outermost Regions of the European Union and among the archipelagos of the North Atlantic that make up Macaronesia. Campus enhancement: Guarantee of institutional support and international contacts. Town Councils of S. Cristóbal de La Laguna, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Telde Level of involvement: Declaration of institutional support by the Board of Spokesmen. Strategic complementary contribution: Given that Town Councils are the bodies responsible for town planning, strategic alliances with them are of vital importance for the favouring of a model of socioterritorial integration of the university. Their contribution is also of maximum importance in terms of ensuring the involvement of the municipalities’ residents in the global development of the project. Campus enhancement: Guarantee of institutional support and of linking the project with the municipality in which the university is located. Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (FECAM) Level of involvement: Commitment of support from this body. Strategic complementary contribution: in terms of favouring a model of socioterritorial integration for the Campus in a global manner, based on collective municipal backing. Campus enhancement: Guarantee of institutional support and linkage of the project with the municipalities. Federation of Island Councils (FECAI) The Island Councils have helped to bring forward results in a regional development model towards a new economic and social structure in the Canary Islands, under the concept of sustainable global development, which enhances opportunities in Africa and Latin-America. In this sense, they can help to boost the Canary Islands’ university leadership axis among the Outermost Regions of the European Union and among the archipelagos of the North Atlantic that make up Macaronesia. Scientific and Technological Park in Tenerife Level of involvement: Commitment of support from the company responsible for managing island policy for scientific and technological parks. Strategic complementary contribution: This contribution coincides with the objectives set out in the project to convert the Canary Islands by 2010 into an Atlantic benchmark in the field of research, development and knowledge transfer, and an urbanistic-territorial point of reference in strategic areas of specialisation for the Scientific and Technological Park: Astrophysics, biotechnology and energy, water and the environment. The University of La Laguna participates in the Scientific and Technological Park initiative in Tenerife, and is an institutional partner in the development of those initiatives presented as the first steps of the Campus of International Excellence project. Campus enhancement: Guarantee of integration in the policy, planning and execution of scientific-technological parks on the island. Scientific and Technology Park Foundation (FPCT) of the ULPGC Level of involvement: Internal strategic aggregation with a public foundation in which the ULPGC and the Economic Promotion Association of Gran Canaria both participate. Strategic complementary contribution: the Foundation is currently extending to develop the Tafira Campus as a scientific nucleus and the Taliarte campus as a nucleus for marine development. Also immersed in development, innovation and knowledge transfer processes. Campus enhancement: Main agents of the policy of Scientific and Technological Parks on the island of Gran Canaria; a major expansion of the buildings used to this end is expected. Spanish Oceanographic Institute Level of involvement: Strategic aggregation for the promotion and improvement of the quality of teaching, research and knowledge transfer in marine Science and Technology. Strategic complementary contribution: The Oceanographic Institute and the ULPGC have, through the ULPGC’s FPCT, been developing scientific projects of international standing in the marine field, fomenting the improvement of knowledge transfer and technology. Campus enhancement: Principales actores de la política de Parques Científicos y Tecnológicos en la isla de Gran Canaria, con la previsión de una expansión importante de los edificios destinados a tal fin. Las Palmas Port Authority Level of involvement: Strategic aggregation in the field of maritime Science to support research and knowledge transfer in logistics and maritime companies in the Canary Islands. Strategic complementary contribution: The strategic geographic location of the ports of the Canary Islands and the renowned quality of their services afford them an outstanding position on the main shipping lines between Europe, Africa and America. Campus enhancement: Support for the tri-continental concept in research and knowledge transfer for the Canary Islands maritime sector, together with international projection for the Campus thanks to the network of ports with which the Port Authority already maintains relations. Institute of Technology and Renewable Energy (ITER) Level of involvement: Commitment of support from the Institute. Strategic complementary contribution: The ITER has covered a lot of ground in the field of renewable energies, adding the business component to the carrying out of its activities. Thus, it shares actions and objectives in the strategy designed in the project, basically in the regional development of a new economic and social structure in the Canary Islands, under the conditioning factor of sustainability and globalization, the origin of opportunities on the African continent. The ITER is part of the strategy of the Scientific and Technological Park of Tenerife, and it is responsible for the headquarters in the south of the island, together with the NAPWACI and ALIX projects, which will articulate communications by means of the underwater cable with Europe from Tenerife and La Palma, and the rest of the Canary Islands. Like other NAPs, Tenerife will become a docking port for connection cables from the African coast, as well as from America, thereby symbolising the last objective of the CEI project: receivers and catalysts of strategic projects with Africa, America y Europe. Campus enhancement: High potential in terms of projection with Africa, where this body is carrying out several projects on sustainability. Moreover, given that it is the body responsible for managing the NAPWACI and ALIX projects, it offers its connectivity potential with the African and Latina-American continents. Official Chambers of Commerce. Industry and Navigation of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura Level of involvement: Commitment of support from these bodies. Strategic complementary contribution: Link with the business section for the development of teaching and knowledge transfer projects. Campus enhancement: In particular, their contacts and support infrastructure for companies that either plan to become or are already present in Africa. Provincial Business Confederations of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and de Las Palmas (CEOE) Level of involvement: Commitment of support from these entities. Strategic complementary contribution: Link with the business sector for the development of teaching and knowledge transfer projects. Trade unions: UGT and CCOO Level of involvement: Commitment supporting institutions. Strategic complementary contribution: Linkage to labor agents and ability to collect union initiatives to improve the conditions of workers in the productive sectors linked to the actions of the campus. Campus enhancement: Possibility of participation in proposal development work carried out since the unions. Economic and Social Council of the Canary Island Level of involvement: Commitment of support of this body. Strategic complementary contribution: Link with social and economic agents in the process of defining economic, social and labour policies in the Autonomous Region of the Canary Islands, to ensure university participation in these policies. Campus enhancement: Opportunity to participate in the process of defining economic, social and labour policies. Text to search Presents and events Tricontinental Atlantic Campus. The Canary Island 2010/2015 Contact: Tlf.:(+34) 928 451 000, Email: contacto@ceicanarias.com © 2012 Tricontinental Atlantic Campus	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line42
__label__cc	0.703027	0.296973	This image is copyright protected. Any public or private use of this image is subject to prevailing copyright laws. Please contact the content provider of this image for permission requests. Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9, red) expression in the hippocampus of the adult mouse brain. Notably, TLR9 stains selectively the mossy fibers (indicated by arrowheads) but not other axonal pathways in the hippocampus. Neurons were identified with the neuronal marker NeuN (green), and cell nuclei are revealed with DAPI staining (blue). For more information on the function of this receptor in the nervous system, see Ma Y, Li J, Chiu I, Wang Y, Sloane JA, Lu J, Kosaras B, Sidman RL, Volpe JJ, Vartanian T. Toll-like receptor 8 functions as a negative regulator of neurite outgrowth and inducer of neuronal apoptosis. J Cell Biol, 175 (2): 209-1. Scale bar, 500 µm. The adult mouse was perfused transcardially with 4% PFA following anesthetization with avertin. The brain was dissected out and postfixed by immersion in 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) overnight at 4 °C, embedded in paraffin and cut into 5-µm-thick sagittal sections, which were deparaffinized using a standard histology protocol immediately before immunohistochemical staining. In the staining procedure, tissue sections were permeabilized with 0.5% Triton X-100 (Sigma) for 10 minutes, then blocked with the buffer containing 10% normal goat serum (Sigma), 1% (w/v) bovine serum albumin (BSA) and 0.2% (v/v) Triton X-100 for 2 hours at RT, followed by incubation with primary antibodies of anti-TLR9 polyclonal (Invitrogen) and anti-NeuN monoclonal (Millipore) antibodies at 1:50 dilution in dilution buffer (2% normal goat serum, 1% BSA, 0.1% Triton X-100) overnight at 4 °C. Samples were subsequently incubated with FITC- and/or Cy3-conjugated species-specific secondary antibody/antibodies in the dilution buffer (1:200 dilution) for 1 hour at RT. VECTASHIELD Mounting Medium with DAPI (Vector Laboratories) was used to mount the fluorescently labeled samples and to stain cell nuclei. Images were digitally acquired using a fluorescence microscope (Nikon Eclipse 660) equipped with Spot cooled CCD camera (Diagnostic Instruments). 3500px 1.424µm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line43
__label__wiki	0.671872	0.671872	Olympics prepare for cyber-attacks Ben Sutherland Flickr An important aspect of the security for the London Olympics will be protection against cyber-attacks. Although some commentators have over-estimated the risk from hackers, Olympic organisers have made online security a priority in the run-up to the Games. The company in charge of online security, Atos Origin, has taken measures to protect important data on competitors, drug-test results, points totals and such like. Much of the work concerns issues of privacy and data protection, but there is also awareness of the danger of a cyber-attack that could completely disrupt the operation of the Games. Security consultant Graham Cluley spoke to The Guardian about the vital issues of Olympic security: "Clearly the computer systems will have personal information about a large number of sportspeople which could be a target for identity thieves," he said. "Also, there are the details about the spectators – those need to be held securely." Hackers' motivations might be for entertainment, publicity or for more malicious reasons. "Olympics websites will receive a lot of traffic," Cluley said, "so there will be a risk that hackers could plant malware on webpages and infect innocent users." With every aspect of the Olympics, from traffic schedules to sprint timings reliant on efficient compiter technology, it’s understandable if a level of paranoia creeps into the security arrangements. "People can have horrible visions of nasty cyber-attacks," says Mikko Hypponen, an online security specialist with F-Secure. "And people prepare. In reality we have seen very few cases." London organisers will hope that remains the story this summer. Hacking, Olympics, online security, Where to watch Sochi 2014 online Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics: Jamaica back for more cool runnings Daniel Radcliffe to Play British Olympic Medallist Sebastian Coe Evernote latest hacking victim as 50 million accounts are compromised Neymar's Brazil coast past Team GB	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line56
__label__wiki	0.515841	0.515841	DEATH SS – Resurrection Lucifer Rising 2013 Back up on their feet, Italian horror clangers do the mortal disco on yer graves. Over the years, there’s been a lot of attempts to marry heavy riffs to dance grooves, but only a few of them sound as successful as this album. Save for execrable name – outsiders will hardly bother to find out that SS are singer Steve Sylvester’s initials – this band, charging on since 1977, know how to be magnetic, and here they serve up a dozen of tracks that are are infectious as black plague. Discarding some songs, first of all the 10-minute epic “The Song Of Adoration” where the quintet lapse into the orchestra-laden power tropes, might have resulted in a stronger impact, yet one could hardly resist the catchy, electronica-tinctured beat of opener “Revived” or “Dionysus.” In such a context the compression on Bozo Wolff’s sometimes motorik drums come more organic than in the classic metal territory explored in the likes of “The Darkest Night” – on the more refined grounds, “The Devil’s Graal” with Al Denoble’s guitar delivering an exquisite solo over Glenn Strange’s bass bedrock, is as punchy as it gets. But if it was a Saturday Night Fever, “Star In Sight,” adorned with female voices and piano, would send Travolta in a zombie trance, and the “Bad Luck” rock ‘n’ rolling would have Alice Cooper’s fans in stitches. Looks like resurrection is fun indeed. Tags: Death SS, heavy metal VARIOUS ARTISTS – Fly Like An Eagle: An All-Star Tribute To STEVE MILLER BAND STEVE HUNTER – The Manhattan Blues Project	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line58
__label__cc	0.723916	0.276084	Guitars made by craftsmen, not accountants The Foo Fighters – A Real Rock Band for the 21st Century October 31, 2013 February 1, 2014 gordon Excuse the hyperbole, but in today’s world of radio rock in which Country Music is Pop, and most Pop Music is the soundtrack to a commercial, are the Foo Fighters the last real rock band? No disrespect intended to the countless rock artists out there creating fine works of art – albeit in relative anonymity — but in terms of mainstream popular music the Foo Fighters are one of the few acts that have succeeded in marrying popularity with independence. The Foo Fighters seamlessly blend influences of the British Invasion, Grunge, Hard Rock, and Punk into music that both is both appealing purely on an entertainment level, and also deceptively complex. And in a world of synthesized drumbeats, Miley Cyrus and vacuous Country trash about trucks and cutoff jeans, these guys actually get airplay. This is no small feat, and their most recent release Wasted Light is hardly a pile of throw-away pop ditties befitting of a light beer commercial. It’s complex, creative music, that is both sensitive, aggressive, and occasionally physically exhausting. These guys just bring it, and one never gets the sense that there is any underlying concern about crafting something deliberately approachable or commercial. They just do what they do. By all accounts they are successful while keeping their integrity intact. You won’t hear them on Glee either. I just wish these guys would (or could) play a venue smaller than a stadium, because I’m too old for standing with 60,000 of my closest friends in a ball field. Then again when you are one of the last real rock bands, a lot of people want to see you. For music-making tools from Upfront Guitars: www.upfrontguitars.com Uncategorized foo fighters, UpFront Guitars ← Vacuum Tubes – Favorite Power Tubes for Guitar Amps Adjusting the action on Godin Multiac guitars → Why Buy from Up Front? Payments / Special Orders Amplifiers and Accessories Guitars and Accessories 2021 © UpFront Guitars and Music All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line61
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__label__cc	0.641903	0.358097	2014-12-18: Dejal announces Simon 4.0 - Server Monitoring Tool Thu, 2014-12-18 00:17 — David Sinclair Portland-based Dejal Systems, LLC today announced Simon version 4.0, the essential server monitoring tool for Mac OS X. This upgrade includes a fresh new design, unifying all of the lists, logs and editors into a single window. It also introduces groups, unlimited tests. email services, a context filter, filter output in the preview, password protection, the ability to hide from the Dock, and much more. Portland, Oregon - Dejal Systems, LLC today announced the immediate availability of Dejal Simon 4.0, the essential server monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports or volumes, and other services for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, Twitter, SMS, HTML reports, and other means. Add tests to Simon to track updated sites, to alert you when an important server goes down or recovers, check on Samba SMB, take periodic screenshots of the system, track posts and new comments on your or friends' blogs, check for web mail, make sure a key application is running, get notifications of updates to favorite news and entertainment websites, keep an eye on auctions, and many other uses. Services include Web (HTTP) to check web pages (including secure ones, and supporting POST and cookies), FTP files and directory listings, DNS, Ping servers, see Twitter updates, watch a local Application, capture periodic Screenshots, watch for System Log Errors, and more. Plus, you can easily add your own services via custom port connections, AppleScripts, shell scripts, or Perl, PHP, Python, etc. Use filters to avoid dynamic content and detect changes in the output of the service and other filters. You can look at multiple portions, or the 10th occurrence, find via simple text matching or powerful regular expressions. You can also remove HTML tags or numbers from the text, result in a change or failure if some text is found or missing, only detect a change if a number changes by some threshold, or is out of range, and many more possibilities. Receive notification of changes, failures, and/or recoveries via various Actions, auto-generated E-mail messages, Growl notifications, Twitter updates or direct messages, SMS messages, an audible Sound, or customizable Speech. You can use custom scripts and port sessions for notifiers too. HTML reports allow remote viewing of a summary and/or details of Simon monitoring. Reports can be saved to a local web server, or uploaded remotely. Customizable templates (with several examples provided) allow embedding in a web page, using a compact format suitable for viewing on PDAs and cellphones, creating a RSS feed, and more. Version 4.0 is a major paid upgrade that includes includes a fresh new design, unifying all of the lists, logs and editors into a single window, so everything is at your fingertips. It also uses a more attractive layout for the lists of tests, services, filters, notifiers and reports. A much requested enhancement is the introduction of groups, enabling you to organize your tests, services, etc into logical collections. Those with lots of tests will be pleased to learn that the limits on the number of tests have been removed -- everyone can have as many tests as they wish. This also simplifies the pricing for new and existing customers. There are numerous other enhancements too, like email services, a context filter, filter output in the preview, password protection, the ability to hide from the Dock, and much more. English, French, German * Intel Mac * OS X version 10.10 or later * 60 MB disk space Dejal Simon 4.0 is available for $99.00 USD, and available as a full-featured demo. This is a paid upgrade for licensed Simon 3 users, with upgrades available for $49.00. Dejal Simon Download Dejal Simon 4.0 Founded by David Sinclair in 1991, Dejal Systems, LLC was originally established in New Zealand, and later moved to Portland, Oregon in 2001. With a focus on the Mac, iPad and iPhone platforms, Dejal specializes in user-friendly and flexible utility software. Copyright 2014 Dejal Systems, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Dejal, the Dejal logo, and Simon are trademarks of Dejal Systems, LLC. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. Dejal Systems, LLC ‹ 2014-12-15: Dejal introduces Pack 1.0 up 2015-04-11: Dejal introduces Watch app for Pack - Simple Packing List for iOS › Home › Press Releases	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line66
__label__cc	0.739319	0.260681	3 Major FSSAI News for the November week. FSSAI in the initial weeks launched the Swasth Bharat Yatra initiative under the Eat Right India Movement and saw a phenomenal success across various cities of India. FBOs are seen implementing all the orders stated by FSSAI genuinely. FSSAI has issued various orders in the last week which prove to be fruitful in the longer run. Let us have a quick look at the FSSAI News. FSSAI NEWS 1. Equinox Labs contributes to the Eat Right India by conducting FoSTaC training With the Eat Right India movement spreading awareness across all the cities of India, Equinox labs put forward its best steps for the cause. Equinox conducted a Food Safety and Hygiene training programme (FoSTaC), which was made mandatory by FSSAI, at Mumbai. Eat Right India ensures the consumption of safe food by all the consumers and eating right. The initiative is launched to curb the non-communicable diseases which is prevalent in today’s time. The three factors that this initiative addresses are Eat Safe, Eat Healthy and Eat Fortified. The Khau Galli opens in the early evening hours (at about 4.30pm), is open till midnight, and serves different kinds of food. About 30-35 food vendors participated in the training. More such programmes are expected to be conducted in the coming months. “Popular food sites like the Khau Galli of Ghatkopar are visited by hundreds of people every day. The number skyrockets to even thousands on a festive occasion. At such crucial sites, even with a minor contamination, the scope of food-borne disease is immense,” said Ashwin Bhadri, chief executive officer, Equinox Labs. (F&B News) FSSAI NEWS 2. FSSAI has ordered all the state authorities to inspect the silver leaf preparations FSSAI has now ordered all the food manufacturers in the state to check if the silver leaf (Chandi ka warq) used on sweets is not made using the material of animal origin. This silver warq is used for decorating sweets and pan. In Regulation 2.11.4 of the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives), Regulations, 2011, pertaining to Chandi ka warq, the regulator had prescribed the silver content and the form in which the leaf should be manufactured. The regulation stated that “It should be in the form of a sheet of uniform thickness, free from creases and folds. The weight of the silver leaf should be up to 2.8g/sq m, and silver content should be of minimum 999/1,000 fineness.” However, it has been observed that some FBOs still indulge in the manufacturing of silver leaf by using materials of animal origin. It is also instructed to the state officials to send a report of the actions to the FSSAI. FSSAI NEWS 3. Fortified Milk to enter into the markets from January 2019 Milk fortification will now be implemented from the month of January to combat the micronutrient deficiencies of vitamin A and D among all age groups. As part of its effort to implement the Act, the FSSAI in association with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), an independent non-profit foundation based in Geneva, conducted a workshop on fortification to brainstorm hundreds of food safety officials including assistant commissioners and lab analysts under the Kerala Commissionerate of Food Safety (KCFS) recently. That’s all for the week folks. We hope the FSSAI News did surprise you and helped you with the latest developments. Tags: EAT RIGHT INDIA, fortified milk, FoSTaC Training, FSSAI, fssai news, silver leaf, WARQ 5 Ways Mold contamination damaged the Company's Reputation Why Corporate Company should eliminate the Sick Building Syndrome? Equinox Labs November 14, 2018 FSSAI’s Eat Right Campus Ensuring Increased Productivity to Campuses Across India Website February 26, 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line71
__label__wiki	0.560423	0.560423	NFL Headquarters NFL PrimeTime/Games on DVD LCS Preview: Heavyweights Clash, Underdogs Flash TOPICS:ALCSanalysisastrosbaseballBrewersCoraCounselldodgersHaderHinchNLCSplayoffspostseasonpredictionsred soxRobertssaleworld series The Red Sox are counting on a big series from Mookie Betts, who will be the 2018 AL MVP, as they take on the defending-champion Astros in the ALCS. Posted By: Michael Seff October 12, 2018 Doesn’t it feel like the baseball season just started yesterday? It was a blink of an eye ago that the season kicked off on a Thursday in March, and now we’re down to four clubs fighting for glory. In the American League, it’s the hardly-a-surprise showdown of the big guns, the Astros and Red Sox .The National League features one blue blood in the Dodgers and one underdog we can all root for, the Brewers. So who has the edge in these series? Let’s take a closer look: American League — Red Sox (108-54) vs. Astros (103-59) Only once before have two ALCS combatants combined for this many wins, when the 95-win Yankees trounced the 116-win Mariners in five games back in 2001. But this is different. The defending-champion Astros appear even better than last year, with a dependable bullpen and another ace in Gerrit Cole. But the Red Sox are locked and loaded with your top two MVP candidates, Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez, at least one dominant ace, and a better-than-you-think bullpen. The Red Sox score runs at will, and will break your spirit with two-out rallies. The Astros are rounding back into a top-notch unit, especially given the breakout year by Alex Bregman. But this isn’t the same lineup as in 2017, and the Red Sox’s 2018 version is better than Houston’s offense was last year. Betts, Andrew Benintendi, and J.D. Martinez are a lethal 1-2-3 combo. The Astros desperately need something from Carlos Correa, as he has been dropped all the way to seventh in the order. Edge: Red Sox. Starting Pitching The Astros are ridiculous in this department. But keep in mind that they had their worst ERA against Boston of any club this year. Verlander, Cole, Dallas Keuchel, and Charlie Morton have the on-paper edge against Chris Sale, David Price, Rick Porcello, and Nathan Eovaldi. Sale needs to prove himself somewhat after a disastrous Game 1 start in Houston last year. Cole’s Astros playoff debut was a smashing success, so there’s reason to believe he’s ready to roll in this series. Edge: Astros. The Astros posted the best relievers ERA in the AL, but is that as big a deal as it seems? Not when you consider how many innings the starters covered. The Red Sox’s pen was strong for the most part against the Yankees, or at least in Games 2-4. Craig Kimbrel has looked shaky, but Roberto Osuna has had some letdowns against the Sox pitching for Toronto in the AL East. Matt Barnes and Ryan Brasier have looked good for Boston. Edge: Even. Alex Cora knows the Astros very well, having been one of A.J. Hinch’s right-hand men during last year’s title run. He is analytics-driven and the approach of his team has been impeccable. Still, Hinch has a way of keeping his team unified under tough circumstances. These coaches know one another very well, and both teams are about as fundamentally sound as they get. Edge: Even. There is just something with Boston sports teams that no other city has or, for that matter, can even define. When the going gets tough, the New Englanders are different animals. Still, one thing to note is that over the years, their dominance is often predicated on getting into the heads of their overwhelmed opponents. That likely won’t be the case with the Astros. One of my favorite personal sayings is “the key to beating the Patriots is beating the Patriots.” So like in the NFL, my belief is that once a team has done it before, they can do it again. The ‘Stros took out the Sox in four games in last year’s ALDS, and that was with a very bad bullpen. They won’t be intimidated. Still, Boston has homefield advantage and just plowed through an incredibly tough ALDS opponent, which is more than we can say for Houston. Edge: Red Sox. Look, I can’t abandon my beliefs now. I was on the Yankees last series, if only for the pride factor of having picked the matchup correctly before season and feeling like they had the momentum to power past the Sox. But I also had my back-pocket disclaimer that the winner of that series would win it all, just as I said before the season. David Price will have at least one good start in this series, and homefield advantage will prove to be the difference-maker just as it was for the Astros last year. Prediction: Red Sox in 7. National League — Brewers (96-67) vs. Dodgers (92-71) The “underdog” in this series, the Brewers, happen to be the team that ended up with the league’s best record. They have won 11 straight, and are doing it in a very similar fashion to the 2015 Royals. But the Dodgers also have something that 2015 Royals team had — a sense of unfinished business. A year after falling a game short in the World Series, the Dodgers are back with potentially better starting pitching and one more superstar in their lineup in Manny Machado. These teams met seven times in the regular season, all after the Machado trade, with the Dodgers going 4-3. L.A. is dependent on the long ball, but the good news is they’ve been getting quite a few of those lately. Thunder up and down the lineup is a far cry from the Brewers, who do have power but have been overly reliant on 2018 NL MVP (yes, I’m saying it now) Christian Yelich. The Dodgers even have offensive depth, with the likes of David Freese and Brian Dozier trumping Jonathan Schoop of Milwaukee’s side. The emergence (again) of Enrique Hernandez has been huge for the Dodgers. Edge: Dodgers. This isn’t even really a contest, because the Brewers don’t even think about the term “starting pitching” anymore. They don’t have anything close to an ace like Clayton Kershaw, and burgeoning star Walker Buehler could be the real X-factor. Hyun-Jin Ryu has also blossomed into an ace, and Rich Hill is always capable of a strong outing. Jhoulys Chacin has been tremendous lately for the Brewers, but they are far inferior in this department to L.A. Edge: Dodgers. Obviously, this is the Brewers’ bread and butter. The bullpen sometimes doubles as the starting pitching, and there are plenty of options for Craig Counsell to navigate a big portion of the game. Josh Hader is looking like Andrew Miller circa 2016, even if Jeremy Jeffress has looked a bit shaky as the traditional closer. Corey Knebel’s resurgence has been a huge part of the team’s recent success. Don’t sleep on L.A.’s bullpen, as the likes of Scott Alexander and Caleb Ferguson have gotten big outs all year to bridge the gap to Kenley Jansen. But Jansen has been shaky at times, and certainly will be pushed again as he has been in years past by manager Dave Roberts. Edge: Brewers. Counsell is quite possibly your Manager of the Year, just as Roberts was last year. He has manipulated his bullpen almost flawlessly in recent weeks, and will need to press all the right buttons again for the Crew to have shot at the upset. But Roberts has been a masterful tactician as well, and deserves just as much credit for getting the most out of a supposedly-mediocre group of relievers. These are two of the premier managers in the game right now. Edge: Even. The Brewers are riding high on an 11-game winning streak, but will this little layoff hurt them?. And will the emotion of all the buzz inside a raucous Miller Park actually over-amp them? The Dodgers underwhelmed at times in 2017, but seem to be perfectly comfortable where they are right now. They are clicking on all cylinders and as I mentioned before, there seems to be a sense of unfinished business after they were denied their first championship since 1988 by the Astros last October (actually, technically, it was last November). The offense seems deeper, with the Machado trade lengthening the lineup, and key veteran additions like Freese paying big dividends. The Brewers have tremendous team chemistry, and that can’t be understated, but the Dodgers will present a much tougher challenge than the beleaguered Rockies did. Edge: Dodgers. In my heart, I’d love to pick the Brewers. Baseball has had a way of giving us some great underdog stories the last few years deep into the postseason, with relative-unknowns such as the Astros, Indians, Royals, and Mets providing World Series thrills. But this is where that 2-3-2 format once again works against the home team, because I don’t see Milwaukee taking the first two at Miller Park. That means if the Dodgers win two of three at home in Games 3-5, they’ll have the edge heading back to Wisconsin. I’m banking on that happening, and this Los Angeles team powering its way back to the Fall Classic for a date with the BoSox. Prediction: Dodgers in 6. 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__label__wiki	0.574026	0.574026	What makes players want to buy Madden 21 so much EA provides a basis for those who are not sure whether to buy Madden 21. After reading these reasons, players will definitely be willing to buy it to experience the latest Madden content. It will synchronize the new content of Madden 21 with the progress of the NFL season in proper time. They should also remember that it is best to get some MUT Coins from online sellers who sell cheap currencies before entering the game. EA has been working hard to introduce the career model to Madden. Soon players will see a new franchise model in the upcoming Madden 21. They will experience an unprecedented good feeling in the alternative model. Their journey will not only start in high school, but will also include the chance to win two college football championships. They can also serve as QB, RB or WR this year. With the appearance of Rich Eisen and Snoop Dogg, this is an opportunity to realize the NFL dream. 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All players in this mode maintain a relaxed attitude to complete unique challenges and get MUT Coins. Today, the model is still one of the most popular. Players who enter this mode on Monday will receive a task reward for completing the challenge last week. Players are pleased that rewards are not very stingy. They have a chance to get a lot of Madden Coins and trophies or points or player cards. The bad news is that weekly task rewards have not been released on time or even sent to players since about five months ago. Players have disappointed and frustrated after the bug that delayed the distribution of rewards. Many players leave comments on EA’s official Twitter and forums. Some players’ rewards even have problems such as incompatibility or wrong levels. So now almost every player hopes that the development team can give them a reasonable argument and make some compensation. In fact, it is no wonder that players complain so much. It is their mistake that the game team did not resolve the bug the first time it appeared. Madden Coins that have not issued will send to the players’ game accounts shortly. Players can take advantage of this time to take part in more challenges to avoid spending more money to go to the store to Buy MUT Coins. Let us look forward to what changes the Madden team will make. Madden 20 players can get a legendary superstar player card for free If you want to get a player card, you must go through some challenges to get it. Now there is another tricky way to help players get a decent player card without spending MUT Coins. Adding such player cards to the player’s lineup looks undoubtedly very cost-effective. The following are the specific implementation steps of this approach. Players who want to do this can look. Now the situation facing players is that if they want to get a powerful player card, they have to pay a great price. Although the existing player cards in the game are very tempting, players with low economic levels still cannot pay. If they insist on pursuing super players, they have to put together five lower-rated player cards for them. According to players on PS4, if they want to buy Warren Sapp cards, it may cost 300,000 Madden Coins. It is obviously a considerable expense. They can get players’ Power Up cards and a slight amount of MUT Coins by completing various characters in Ultimate Legends. After doing this, players also need to buy Powered for Career Edition Legends player, which can enhance the players’ strength. They can also use their own lineup to beat Ultimate Legends and get certain rewards. The difficulty level is directly proportional to the profit. The rewards for difficulty ranging from one star to Samsung are 500 MUT 20 Coins, 1000 MUT 20 Coins and 1200 MUT 20 Coins. By collecting 16 Ultimate Legend Tokens, you can exchange for a Madden 20 Ultimate Legends player. 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__label__wiki	0.573464	0.573464	The NDAA agreement the House just passed is an unbelievably bad deal for taxpayers \| Rare December 4, 2014 - Op-Ed - Tagged: FY15NDAA By Rebekah Johansen, Rare Contributor The House and Senate have reached an agreement on proceeding with this year’s National Defense Authorization Act — and it’s bad news for those who care about budget cuts. The House filed its version of the final agreement on Wednesday passed the bill on Thursday, and the Senate will likely move on the deal next week. Some of the most controversial provisions — and one that had snagged negotiations — has to do with military benefits. Under the final deal, troops would receive a 1-percent pay raise, along with slowed growth in their housing allowance and a $3 increase in most prescription co-pays. Beyond the controversies, key parts of this legislation should concern everyone who cares about the budget. This measure authorizes $521 billion in base military spending and nearly $64 billion more in overseas contingency funds, including about $5 billion for the current fight in Iraq and Syria. Not only do these levels blow past spending caps and add more war funds to an already bloated slush fund, they throttle important opportunities for spending reform. Preventing the Defense Department from retiring the A-10, despite the fact that the Air Force itself wants to retire the aging weapon, the only concession being decreased flight hours and maintenance after the completion of a readiness study. Blocking the Army’s plans to retire any Army National Guard Apache helicopters next year. Authorizing President Obama’s plan to arm Syrian rebels in the fight against ISIS militants. In addition, according to a press release from Senator Ted Cruz, the measure includes quite a few provisions that are tenuously related to national security — if at all. 250,000 acres of new wilderness designations 400,000 acres withdrawn from productive use (for energy, mining, timber, etc.) Fifteen new national park units or park expansions Eight new studies for national parks Three new wild and scenic river designations, 3 new studies for additional designations Study to begin the National Women’s History Museum Not every item on these lists can solve our budget crisis alone. But unwillingness even to consider reform is yet another troubling sign that Congress has no intention of continuing with even very modest spending cuts of past years. Keeping America safe requires smart budgeting, not politically motivated boondoggles. As the new members come to Washington, it’s all the more important to remind them of their campaign promises and their duty to keep America safe with sound budgets. via The NDAA agreement the House just passed is an unbelievably bad deal for taxpayers \| Rare.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line84
__label__wiki	0.75987	0.75987	VOL. XVIII NO. 6 NEWS & VIEWS, NOTES & QUOTES, TO WARN & INFORM March 15, 2001 DEATH PENALTY TO CONVERT A MUSLIM—The supreme leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia warns that his regime will enforce the death penalty on any Muslim who converts to another faith, and said "any non-Muslim found trying to win converts will also be killed." (3/5 Chr. Today) He has ordered all statues to be destroyed. A 5-year jail sentence is decreed for anyone caught selling or distributing anti-Islamic literature. HOLY LAND THEME PARK WORRIES SOME JEWS—Marvin Rosenthal gained notoriety with his 1990 "Pre-Wrath Rapture" book. Now, his new $16 million Holy Land theme park in Orlando is drawing protests from Jews who think it's an attempt to gain Christian converts. Rosenthal wants to use the park to reach out to people of all faiths but promises no overt proselytizing. Born Jewish, some call him a Messianic Jew but he calls himself a Hebrew Christian. Christians have a great commission to give the Gospel (not apologies) to a lost world. Indeed, Jewish leaders today, as in Jesus' day, impede efforts to gain Christian converts and thus fear this theme park. TANGLED IN THE PORN WEB—Pornography sales now exceed $10 billion annually in the U.S. and $56 billion over the world. Porn use—specifically Internet porn—is on the rise and is claiming a high price: lost jobs, failed marriages, and destroyed families. Pastors and other Christian leaders are no less vulnerable to this addiction (3/5 C. Today). In August 1999, 11 percent of the calls received on Focus on the Family's Pastoral Care Line were about pastors and online porn. In August 2000, online porn worries prompted 20 percent of the calls. Almost 10 percent of calls are from women. Many female sex addicts get hooked through X-rated chatrooms. Pornography has become one of the most profitable ventures on the Internet with obscene profits soaring. AT&T TRAFFICKS IN HARDCORE SMUT—AT&T known for many years as Ma Bell has become Madam Bell by offering the Hot Network—which prides itself on being more explicit than the Playboy Channel—as a pay-per-view option on its cable operations (3/5 Chr. Today). A coalition of religious investors has filed a resolution that would require AT&T to report to all its shareholders justification for peddling porn to its cable customers. It cites reports of connections between graphic (sexual and violent) media content and aggressive behavior, and says: "Manufacturers and distributors of products with perceived harmful impact on society (tobacco companies, handgun manufacturers, and alcohol advertisers and retailers) are increasingly being held liable…." The corrosive effects of hardcore pornography should be of great concern to all. PSYCHIATRISTS SAY HOMOSEXUALITY IS EITHER MENTAL ILLNESS OR SEXUAL DEVIATION—A 1992 survey by the American Psychiatric Association's Office of International Affairs in conjunction with the APA Committee of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Psychiatrists surveyed 125 psychiatric associations around the world, family groups report. The survey found that all but three associations consider homosexuality mental illness or a sexual deviation, they said (2/26 Chr. News). Yet, many today demand that Boy Scouts accept "gays" as leaders. HARRY POTTER & THE BIBLE—Richard Abanes, "a well-published evangelical expert on cults and the occult," in a new book by the above name, proves that the Potter books are steeped in a thinly disguised occultism (Moody, 4/01). They "exalt morally flawed, egocentric characters who often lie, use profanity, and refuse to repent…." CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS RIGHT—A Mar.-Apr. Moody editorial gives some excuses for opposing the death penalty, but also lists reasons to support it. It says: "But if we impose the death penalty out of a conviction that life is not only precious but also God-given, justice requires those who wantonly take the lives of others to pay with their own." Some crimes are so heinous, death is the only appropriate penalty. Does it deter? Yes, it is the ultimate deterrent, when applied swiftly and surely (Eccl. 8:11). WHY MUST TAXPAYERS FUND BLASPHEMOUS ART?—Jesus is shown as a nude female at the same art museum where an elephant-dung-decorated painting of the Virgin Mary was displayed in 1999. Liberals call it censorship when decent taxpayers protest being forced to pay for such anti-religious obscenity. But withholding NEA grants from filth-peddlers is not restricting free speech but funded speech. No artist has a "right" to practice his "art" at taxpayers' expense. Why should we be forced to underwrite the undermining of our values through tax-dollar "grants for garbage" to fringe freaks? CHINA STEALS, SELLS HUMAN BODY PARTS—Red China lacks effective laws governing organ donation and transplantation. So doctors take organs and tissue from bodies without permission, peasants hawk their own kidneys for quick cash, and authorities sell organs taken from executed prisoners (2/5 USN&WR). A bitter harvest! DEEPAK CHOPRA, A NEW AGER—Deepak Chopra has been described as a "spiritual guide, New Age guru and poet prophet of alternative medicine." His Hindu-based teaching is that we create reality from universal energy. [See 12/15/97 CC, and Watchman Fellowship] THE OPENNESS DEBATE—Open theism is the idea that God does not fully know the future because humans have not yet made the choices that will affect it (2/19 Chr. Today, 9/1 CC). Bethel College (Minn.) teacher Gregory Boyd, pastor of a large Baptist General Conference church in St. Paul, is the leading proponent of open theism in the BGC. In a 1994 book Boyd claimed: "God can't foreknow the good or bad decisions of the people he creates until he creates these people, and they, in turn, create their decisions." This borders on blasphemy, but the BGC leadership said Boyd's position was within the bounds of evangelicalism so he retained his faculty post. A group led largely by John Piper believes Boyd and his views should be purged from the BGC. The BGC (& the SBC) is a member of the apostate Baptist World Alliance. Bethel's president is George Brushaber (6/15/97 CC), senior adviser for Christianity Today. A Conservative Baptist (CBA) sponsored "Seminary of the East" has merged with and is officially an extension of Bethel Seminary (1-2/01 Fund. Digest). Both CBA and BGC are members of the NAE. PATTILLO CHOSEN FOR NCC STAFF—The National Council of Churches has elected a veteran Southern Baptist communicator from Birmingham, Ala. to its senior staff in NYC. Wesley M. "Pat" Pattillo, currently North American rep for Hong Kong Baptist University, previously served the SBC's flagship institution, So. Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville) for 14 years and Samford University for eight years. Pattillo will become NCC Assoc. Gen. Sec'y for Communications Apr. 16. He will oversee NCC's communications program and its global ministry, Church World Service. The NCC, founded 1950, is the main ecumenical entity in the U.S., comprising 50 million members in 140,000 congregations. Its 36 member denominations include U. Methodist, Presbyterian USA, Evang. Lutheran, Disciples, American Baptist, Episcopal, UCC and most black Baptist and Methodist groups, and major Orthodox groups. Since 1996, Pattillo has been the NA rep for HKBU, the sole surviving Christian university in Red China. Of his new job, he said, "It will be a privilege to join with this unique cooperative organization as it pursues a broad range of Christian ministries, rooted in Biblical faith and focused on the most challenging of human needs. The NCC's pioneering work in Christian education, relief and refugee resettlement, Bible translation, and issues of moral and spiritual witness emerges from a passionate commitment to be faithful to the Spirit of Christ in our time." NCC Gen. Sec'y Bob Edgar said, "We welcome Pat and the experience and expertise he brings to the important task of 'getting the word out' on the work of the NCC and its global service and witness ministry, CWS. We look forward to Pat's contributions…in communications, especially as the Council embarks upon its mobilization against poverty and its exploration of a broader ecumenical vision." Pattillo's wife is an ordained So. Baptist minister and a board-certified chaplain. She coordinates spiritual care for Unity Hospice, a joint program of Baptist and Catholic health systems (B'ham area). They are members of Baptist Church of the Covenant, a So. Baptist congregation affiliated with the NCC-related Alliance of Baptists. Pattillo's election came by unanimous action of the NCC's Exec. Board, meeting in NYC in Feb. [NCC 2/28 e-mail]. How can a So. Baptist leader praise and link up with the liberal NCC? Actually, all SBs are linked with the apostate Baptist World Alliance! S. COVE SPEAKERS—Sandy Cove 2001 speakers include (also see 1/1/98 CC): Michael Horton, Woodrow Kroll, John Ankerberg, Tony Evans, Ken Gangel, Gary Oliver, Ron Cline, and Ken Ham. It is also a meeting site for Seventh-day Adventists, Campus Crusade, Young Life, etc. WCC CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING—The World Council of Churches' 158-member Central Committee opened its 8-day meeting in Potsdam, Germany, Jan. 28, with an ecumenical worship service. An early-on problem for this governing body of the WCC, in its search for full communion/unity, was that both the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church consider themselves to be the official, one, holy, apostolic church established by the Lord. Neither one can recognize the other as that one true church. Relations are also strained between Orthodox and Protestant members of the WCC. Other agenda topics included globalization, syncretism, violence, justice, armed intervention, peace, racism, genocide, "unjust" debts to rich nations, and eliminating poverty. New members joined, bringing the WCC total membership to 342 churches and 60 associate councils. The WCC claims to represent over 400 million Christians worldwide. The apostate WCC is a prime builder of the ecumenical world church of the Antichrist. [Note: ACCC Exec. Sec'y Dr. Ralph Colas attended this meeting as a press member, and will have a report available soon.] SPURGEON—"That I might not stultify my testimony I have cut myself clear of those who err from the faith, and even from those who associate with them." We must separate from apostasy and from brethren who promote it. SBC MISSION BOARD, CHARISMATIC CHAPLAINS—The Southern Baptist North American Mission Board has expanded its prohibitions regarding the endorsement of chaplains to include those who participate in any kind of "charismatic manifestations." (2/19 Chr. News). The new rules against tongues-speaking and other charismatic manifestations will apply to newly endorsed chaplains and counselors and those seeking periodic renewal of endorsement. This is mostly good, but the SBC is by no means rid of charismatics in other areas. (See 3/1/99 CC) EVANGELICALS PROMOTE CATHOLICISM MORE THAN CATHOLICS?—A Catholic journalist (12/00 First Things) says Charles Colson and Billy Graham pay more attention to the writings of [Pope John Paul II] and take them to heart more readily than do some dissenting Catholic priests and theologians. He says "Pat Robertson for a time was sending copies of the Catechism of the Catholic Church as a gift to friends, while some Catholics view the Catechism as oppressive and authoritarian. It could even be argued that Campus Crusade and Prison Fellowship have done more to advance the Church of Mary than entire theology departments of some Catholic universities." (Jan-Feb Foundation) Many other notable new-evangelical leaders praise the Pope and Catholicism. DEATHS:—Richard Wurmbrand, founder of Voice of the Martyrs, died Feb. 17 at 91. A Lutheran minister of Romanian Jewish background, he was an "underground" missionary to Romanian and Eastern European Jews under communism, was arrested several times, and spent 14 years in prison (3/3 World). We have warned of his sometimes strange theology and lack of discernment (see 2/1/99 CC), but would salute him for providing Bibles and literature for decades to persecuted peoples over the world. Rousas Rushdoony, father of Christian Reconstructionism (strongly post-millennial), died at 84. Early on, he was an Orthodox Presbyterian pastor and missionary (3/3 World). He popularized the apologetics of C. Van Til, and was a pioneer and champion of homeschooling. He said Christian statecraft must be based on the Ten Commandments. He founded Chalcedon. Gary North was his son-in-law. Dale Evans Rogers died (Feb.) at 88. She and husband Roy made scores of western movies, and appeared at Oral Roberts, TBN, Billy Graham and Campus Crusade events. 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__label__wiki	0.839444	0.839444	Watch Dogs Releases on May 27 Ben Sheene / Mar 6th, 2014 No Comments Ubisoft announced Watch Dogs will release on May 27. The game will be available for PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC. As previously announced, the Wii U version is still delayed after the official launch. No announcement was made as to when that version will release. A story trailer coinciding with the announcement was released as well. Watch Dogs quickly became popular after being revealed at E3 2012. In October of 2013, Ubisoft delayed the release of the game to spring 2014. The news came at a shock to the industry because it arrived a month before the game’s original Nov. 19 release date. Watch Dogs was set to be a launch title for both the PS4 and Xbox One. The delay aimed to give the development team more time to fully realize their vision of a next gen experience. [adsense250itp]In Watch Dogs, players take on the role of vigilante Aiden Pearce. Aiden is a skilled hacker who uses his smartphone to take control of Chicago. By hacking into surveillance cameras, ATMs, computers and more, players will explore the depths of Ubisoft’s vision of Chicago. Shutting down lights in a city block allows the player to evade cops and enemies. Hacking into computers allows crucial information to be gathered and stolen. Aiden’s story begins when he stumbles upon a dark, criminal underworld he was never meant to see. The routine job cost him the life of his infant daughter. Now out for revenge, Aiden will employ the help of seductive Clara and eccentric T-Bone to get what he needs. Together they will face off with crime lords, human traffickers and fellow hackers. The long drought of information about Watch Dogs was becoming worrying. Thankfully, players now have a release date and new story details to mull over. Though May 27 isn’t Nov. 19, delaying a game usually doesn’t result in a worse release–see GTA 5 and Rayman Legends. Ubisoft says more details are on the way. Hopefully sooner rather than later. Ben Sheene Senior Editor at Gaming Illustrated Ben is from Kentucky where he originally began playing games (an activity he still continues to this day). With a love for writing he graduated from Centre College with a BA in English. He recently moved to California to pursue whatever future endeavors were there. A passion for music, gaming, blogging, and existing keeps him up at night and crafts him into the person he is today. +Ben Sheene Latest posts by Ben Sheene (see all) Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (PS5) Review: Head Games - December 19, 2020 Nioh 2 Review – A Ninja’s Soul - April 8, 2020 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Review: Reboots on the Ground - October 24, 2019 tags: news , ubisoft , watch dogs Warner Bros. Unveils Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League and Gotham Knights Ryan BloomAug 25th, 2020No Comments Activision Announces Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War Ryan BloomAug 21st, 2020No Comments NBA 2K21 Courtside Report Details Gameplay Updates Turtle Beach Unveils Stealth 600 Gen 2 and 700 Gen 2 Headsets Verify That You Are Human... * 7 × 7 =	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line90
__label__wiki	0.675712	0.675712	Grade Scale Veterans & Retraining Programs Why HJC? Safety & Statistics About > Policies & Guidelines > Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), as amended, protects students’ educational records from unauthorized disclosure, provides students with the right of access, of review, and of challenge and of exception to their educational records. Students may request a hearing if the outcome of a challenge is unsatisfactory and may submit explanatory statements for inclusion in their file. Huntington Junior College accords all the rights under the law to students who are declared independent. No one outside the institution shall have access to nor will the institution disclose any information from students’ educational records without the written consent of students except to personnel within the institution, to officials of other institutions in which students seek to enroll, to persons or organizations providing student financial aid, to accrediting agencies carrying out their accreditation function, to persons in compliance with judicial order, and to persons in an emergency in order to protect the health and safety of students or other persons. All these exceptions are permitted under the law. Huntington Junior College will also disclose relevant education information such as attendance and academic achievement to potential employers for students utilizing the placement services of the College. Within Huntington Junior College, only personnel in the administrative staff and academic personnel are allowed access to student educational records. FERPA permits each institution to define a class of information as "directory information." FERPA permits public disclosure of directory information without the student's consent. Information designated by HJC as directory information includes: student name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, major field of study, dates of attendance, degrees and diplomas received, honors and awards received, and the most recent previous education institutions attended by the student. However, the student may opt to keep this information confidential. Students may withhold directory information by notifying the Director in writing. Request for nondisclosure of directory information or educational records to potential employers will by honored by the institution. Please contact the Director for a more detailed explanation of this policy. An educational institution may release personally identifiable information on a F, J, or M nonimmigrant student to the Department of Homeland Security (formally the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in compliance with the Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) Program without violating FERPA. According to FERPA, the privacy interests of an individual expire with that individual’s death. The following policy will be used when dealing with institutional records pertaining to a deceased individual. Within the first year following the death of a student, Huntington Junior College will release the educational records of the individual student under the following condition(s): The student previously submitted a signed Release of Educational Records form designating the person(s) eligible to request and/or receive educational records. Authorized person(s) must submit a signed request for records which can be mailed, faxed, or hand-delivered to Huntington Junior College. The person(s) is the Executor/Executrix of the student’s estate and can provide the college with written legal documentation to show this status. In response to a legal subpoena. The College will respond to requests for records in a timely manner, but records will not be produced the same day. Requested documents will be mailed to the requestor. After one year has elapsed following the death of an individual student, Huntington Junior College may release the educational records of an individual student at its discretion. WHY HJC? Discover the Difference LEARN MORE! Request Information JOIN US! Enroll Now © 2021 Huntington Junior College. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line96
__label__wiki	0.502204	0.502204	Living@Hyd Info@Hyd 2-Wheelers Hyderabadi Biryani Public Speak True Education Marketing Jobs in Hyderabad Hyderabad City About@Hyd Significant Contributors Visiting Hyderabad Business Views Small and Medium Enterprise List of Virtues to Achieve Moral Perfection by Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was one of the most influential ‘Founding Fathers of the United States’. He was a noted polymath, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, diplomat, a leading author and printer. Franklin defined the roots of American values and character which include hard work, education and community spirit. He published a popular yearly almanack called Poor Richard’s Almanack and took a fictitious name, “Poor Richard” or “Richard Saunders”. It was very popular for its extensive use of wordplay, with many examples derived from the work surviving in the contemporary American language. Benjamin Franklin formulated a set of virtues he sought to attain in his own life, without the aid of any church or minister. Through this list of virtues, he sought to achieve “moral perfection”. Here it is, as he presents it in the autobiography. Eat not to Dullness Drink not to Elevation Speak not but what way benefit others or your self. Avoid trifling conversation. Let all your Things have their Places. Let each Part of your Business have its Time. Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself: i.e. Waste nothing. Lose no Time – Be always employed in something useful. – cut off all unnecessary Actions. Use no hurtful Deceit. Think innocently and justly;and, if you speak; speak accordingly. Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the Benefits that are your Duty. Avoid Extremes. Forbear resenting Injuries so much as you think they deserve. Tolerate no Uncleanness in Body, Clothes or Habitation. Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or unavoidable Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dullness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another’ s Peace or Reputation. Imitate Jesus and Socrates. The list is an interesting for what it leaves out as for what it includes. His virtues would all pass the test of usefulness that he had assigned as the reason for their being commanded, presumably by God. And it will be seen that his own conception of usefulness included being useful to others. All his surviving papers testify to his lifelong wish to be useful to his friends, to his countrymen, and to mankind in general. Franklin devoted most of his life to public service. But his list of virtues is focused on habits of behavior that would be useful to him personally and would not usually be considered essential ingredients of moral rectitude like temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, moderation, cleanliness, and tranquility would make for a happy life but neglect of them would not usually be regarded as morally evil except as it might indirectly affect other people. The remaining four – sincerity, justice, chastity and humility – would affect his relations with others. These four are framed not as a positive duty to others but rather as ways of not doing them any harm. What is totally missing from the list is charity, love of one’s fellow man. And charity, it will become evident, was actually the guiding principle of Franklin’s life. It is tempting to conclude that he left it out because it was a virtue that Christians so often failed to exhibit while professing to hold it above all others. By exhibiting it conspicuously in his own life while making no pretension to it, he was perhaps affirming to himself the superiority of a “moral perfection” that had nothing to do with Christianity. Franklin placed temperance at the top of his list, and Poor Richard enjoins it again and again in different guises: Eat to live, and not live to eat; To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals; Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water; He that drinks fast, pays slow; Nothing more like a Foll, than a drunken Man. All these were in the first almanac in 1733, and in subsequent years he found a hundred different ways to say the same thing. The most frequent admonitions, for which Poor Richard became famous, were those to industry and frugality. There were so many of them that in his last almanac, for 1758, he collected them in a speech he attributed to one Father Abraham. It was immediately reprinted separately and continued to be, usually under the title “The Way to Wealth”. There were over a hundred editions in more than a dozen languages over the next fifty years. Because of the popularity of this tract and the title given to it by publishers (not by Franklin), his name has been associated ever since its publication with industry and frugality, as though these were the guiding principles of his life, with wealth as his objective. Franklin certainly did value industry and frugality, along with the other virtues on his list, and they did bring him wealth, enough so that he could retire as the age of forty-two, when he placed the running of his business in the hands of his partner David Hall. He was still a young man, and if wealth had been his objective he could probably have had it in as large a measure as anyone in America. But Franklin had never thought of industry and frugality as the way to wealth but as a way to contentment, and Poor Richard warned that “Contentment and Riches seldom meet together.” Franklin was struck by “the general Foible of Mankind, in the Pursuit of Wealth to no end.” Poor Richard phrased the thought for him: “If your riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you to the other World,” for “the use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money.” And in a letter to a friend, Franklin gave his view that “what we have above what we can use, is not properly ours, we possess it.” Source: Benjamin Franklin by Edmond.S.Morgan 1. The list is the most lasting list of virtues compiled by him. He has modified his previous lists based on experience and new thoughts. Myths About IIM Education – Is It Really Worth it? Meiji Revolution: Japan’s Non-Violent Movement to Revitalize its Society List of Virtues to Achieve Moral Perfection by Benjamin Franklin, 1.0 out of 5 based on 1 rating Tags: Benjamin Franklin, moral perfection, moral perfection virtues, virtues This post is... Helpful: 1 Insightful: 0 Informative: 0 This entry was posted on Jun 2010 at 6:04 PM and is filed under Opinions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Your Feedback Matters! One Response to “List of Virtues to Achieve Moral Perfection by Benjamin Franklin” Thanks for sharing this great article. 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__label__wiki	0.832847	0.832847	Fallen flicks the Switch for new beer October 14, 2020 News, Product Launch, Product of the Week Just a few weeks after the launch of Fallen Brewing’s new-look range of beers, one of Scotland’s leading craft breweries is set to make headlines again by unveiling its latest beer: Switch a 4.8% ABV Hazy Pale. “Switch is the first beer we’ve brewed which draws influence from the New England style,” comments Paul Fallen, Founder of Fallen Brewing. “We’d previously chosen to concentrate on west coast styles but New England pales and IPAs are such great, drinkable beers. It felt like the right time to make the switch and add a New England style to the range. Switch isn’t a full-on murk bomb but it certainly draws on the key characteristics of being soft, juicy, and full of ripe fruit flavours. We’re delighted with the outcome so expect others to follow.” Head Brewer, Angus Morison, adds: “The idea behind Switch was to produce a modern pale ale. This beer was designed to be bitter enough on the finish that it’s refreshing and session-able, while a well-rounded selection of classic and modern hops helps to create a fresh and fruit-forward hop character. He continues: “We opted to use a sweeter, softer malt-bill and water profile that’s favoured these days in hoppy beers. Keeping it under 5% ABV helps with drinkability, and overall, the intention has been to create an intriguing and balanced beer.” Switch joins the line up with the other 440ml can releases which include Stirliner Weisse, Chew Chew, and Odyssey making up a great selection of eight beautifully branded beers. Situated in the old Kippen Railway Station with views towards The Trossachs and The South West Highlands, Fallen Brewing takes inspiration from this railway heritage when it comes to naming its new beers. Switch is the latest to leave the station and joins the collection of other aptly named beers including Platform C, Sleeper Pils, and Local Motive. Fallen Brewing’s range is vegan unless stated otherwise, sustainable, and environmentally robust. And with the brewery’s ongoing commitment to only using the highest quality ingredients, these credentials make them the ideal beer brand to stock for those looking for craft beers with a difference. The brand, which recently withdrew listings of its range from all supermarkets and severed ties with Molson Coors, announced a dedicated commitment to independent beer wholesalers and shops, restaurants, and bars across the UK at the end of July 2020 followed by an exciting brand refresh in August 2020. Available now in selected independent stores, wholesalers with an RSP of £3.30 for a 440ml can. Visit www.fallenbrewing.co.uk for a list of stockists.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line99
__label__cc	0.556225	0.443775	GZ will answer 50 questions before Christmas Zut_boF Post subject: Re: GZ will answer 50 questions before Christmas Philmore wrote: Soracha wrote: c) The Roxy Videos? - Need a budget and an editor I guess that means never. I wonder if every zappa fan send $1k and have our name writen inside as producer would be enough? Location: Hamilton, NJ Zut_boF wrote: Zut, if it were only that simple If we're dumb . . . Then God is dumb . . . (An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side) The Idiot Bastard Gail said "Not never" at the Roundhouse. Out now: The Zappa Tour Atlas https://www.wymeruk.co.uk/webshop/books ... our-atlas/ Who has the fucking video she sent about the EM footage ? edit: oops wrong topic i am talking about the rage and the fury sorry Philmore Location: Oh, in the sky The Idiot Bastard wrote: Gail says a lot of things. I'm not bald; I'm taller than my hair. That's true - and she's prepared to say even more: http://www.zappa.com/whatsnew/ I already e-mailed her with my question. Again (he says nicely so that if Gair reads this she answers my question). I already posted this but i guess in the wrong part, you can keep asking her stuff, she responded my question in a day, nothing really current, but i was curious so i just asked. here it goes Q: Whatever happened with the lawsuit Frank had with Lennon about the song on his album "Sometime in New York" called "Jamrag", which is actually "King Kong". Did it ever got resolved? because its still listed as a Lennon-Ono song. The only song that credits Zappa in the album is "Scumbag". A: There is no lawsuit. I have tried to resolve this with Yoko via her attorney - to no avail. You are correct however. It is King Kong and it is so wrong that it is erroneously being claimed as their composition. bracton Location: Memphis TN I got my answers today. Here they are: Not to dwell on this, but was the Roxy not already advertised (BS dvd comes to mind) as pretty much ready to release? And now she says this, like they're back at ground zero on this project-WTF? It's not uncommon in, say, the world of gaming to advertise something as "coming up" when there is time and budget scheduled for it, even though there is still next to nothing in the works. Whatever the struggle was for Roxy, it's material only. AbnucealEmukaah83 Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:41 am Location: Between Texas & Paraguay... It's not uncommon in, say, the world of gaming to advertise something as "coming up" when there is time and budget scheduled for it, even though there is still next to nothing in the works. Did someone say Duke Nukem Forever ? It has been in development ever since 1997 and it looks like it will finally be released in May this year... Alan Thicke: ''Now Frank, for those of us who have seen you as some kind of guru over the years, that's a kind of nihilistic assesment of music. Where's the hope ?'' Frank Zappa: ''Well, there isn't any...'' There are hints towards Gabriel Knight 4. The GK series are fantastic suspense stories, like a good book you can't put down or a Hitchcock that lets you think in the wrong direction and comes up with a marvellous plot twist. When adventure gaming was considered "dead" by reviewers and gamers, the plans for GK4 were ceased, but there are still references to GK4 in GK3; and from the looks of the disk contents, they changed the ending to match that. Leisure Suit Larry 7 announces LSL8 at the end, when the ship is beamed up by a flying saucer. Work on Larry 8: Lust In Space had already started, when Sierra, the company that made the series, was taken over by a Japanese company, and all the adventure game designers were let off. There is now finally a sequel to the 7th Guest and 11th Hour series: 7th Guest grew immensely popular and spawned many clones. A fan re-make called 13th Doll was made, but a real sequel is to be released "soon"; 11th Hour was made in 1997. The Cluedo Chronicles was intended to be a series in three parts. The first one is Fatal Illusion. It was a neat game, although buggy, but sales were below expectations and Hasbro lost interest. Leaving the unfortunate gamer with unresolved plotholes.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line102
__label__wiki	0.627908	0.627908	The Lawson Sisters The Other Wife Marrying The Rebel Prince Wedding Bells by The Creek Christmas at Coorah Creek Flight to Coorah Creek Kisses & Cupcakes The Choc Lit Love Match Selection Girl Racers The Bachelor and Spinster Ball The Farmer Needs a Wife Fairy Kiss and other stories Loves Me, Loves Me Not 100 Stories For Queensland Fairy Kiss Fairy Godmothers Need Not Apply The Romance Writer Snapshot in Time A Song in His Heart A Bush Christmas The Brown Pony The Reunion Concert Writing Retreats 2021 “Mum, a spaceship has crashed in the allotments.” Jenny looked up from the litter of bills and bank statements on the table. Eight year old Ben was standing in the doorway quivering with excitement. “I saw a spaceship crash in the allotments.” Jenny ran her hands over her face, forced her attention away from the papers on the table and smiled at her son. “A spaceship?” she said. “Well, that’s exciting. Where is it from?” “Outer space of course,” Ben replied with certainty. “And is ET on board?” The film was a favourite. “I don’t know. Can I go and find out? Jenny hesitated. Ben loved playing in the allotments behind their council house, but she didn’t like him going there alone. “Mr Laker is there,” Ben said anticipating her. Jenny nodded slowly. The retired teacher who grew vegetables by the railway line was an old friend. “All right,” she said. “Be home by five o’clock.” The last words were lost in the banging of the door. Jenny sighed and turned back to her struggle with the bills. As an army wife, she was used to coping on her own when Steve was away. But this time it was harder. This time he was in real danger in that far away place. Jenny forced down the dull ache of fear that she had felt every day since her husband’s unit was posted to Iraq. She turned her attention back to the papers in front of her. Steve relied on her to look after things, and she wasn’t about to let him down. She was just about done when her son returned. “Mum, can I have a needle and some cotton?” “Why?” Jenny asked. “They’re Clangers, and one of them is hurt!” Now he had her attention. “Clangers?” Both she and Steve had grown up watching the knitted pink creatures on television. Just before he was deployed, Steve had bought the DVD for Ben. It must be almost worn out now from the number of times it had been played. Jenny wondered if Ben really liked the rather simple TV show – or if the hours spent watching it were more about missing his father. Whatever the reason, he knew the stories by heart and could whistle like a Clanger too. “In the spaceship,” her son explained. “One of them was hurt when the ship crashed. I want to help him.” Jenny nodded, a serious look on here face. “That’s very kind of you Ben. All right, let me see what I can find.” Jenny opened the door to the under-stairs cupboard. An old shoe box contained a wide assortment of sewing implements. “Let’s see.” She found and some thick black cotton. “Will this do?” “Mum,” Ben’s disgust was evident. “Black is no good. It has to be pink!” “Of course it does. Sorry.” Jenny found some wool of the correct colour and her son rushed off. Jenny made herself finish dealing with the bills before she switched on the computer to check her e-mail. She still found it strange that soldiers were able to e-mail their families even in the middle of a war, but the regular contact had helped her cope during the long lonely months. Today, for the second day in a row, her mail box was empty. Jenny was disappointed, but not worried. Some days Steve just wasn’t able to e-mail. Her eyes flickered to the television with its 24 hour news channels. Tempted as she was, Jenny turned her back on the set and returned to the kitchen. She tried to avoid the news when Ben was around. He was back by five o’clock as promised. “How is the injured Clanger?” Jenny asked, setting a pot on the hob for the vegetables. Ben replied with his best Clanger whistle. Jenny thought she could almost hear words in the notes. “I’m glad he’s feeling better,” she said. “Now, wash your hands and come back down. You can help me get dinner ready.” The next morning was Sunday and Jenny slept late. As she dressed, she heard faint whistles floating up the stairs. Ben must have that DVD on again. When she headed for the kitchen a few minutes later, she was surprised to find Ben near the back door, and the television switched off. “Good morning,” Jenny kissed his tousled brown hair. “You were up early. You must be hungry. I’ll get you some breakfast.” “I’m not hungry, Mum,” Ben said. “The Clangers brought me some blue string pudding for breakfast. It was really nice.” “I see. Well, how about a glass of milk?” The milk vanished pretty fast. Jenny surmised that imaginary breakfasts might taste good, but they weren’t too filling. She handed Ben a piece of her own toast. “Mum, I need some tools and stuff,” Ben said between bites. “To help the Clangers fix their spaceship.” “What is a Clanger space ship made of?” “Metal, Mum. You know that.” “All right then. What do you need?” “Can I have some of that foil you use for cooking?” “I suppose so. How much foil does it take to fix a space ship?” As well a length of foil, it seemed spaceship repairs required a rusty old screwdriver that Steve had been planning to throw away, a ball of string and two chocolate biscuits. “There you go,” Jenny said,” Good luck with the repairs. But stay in the garden. I don’t want you going down to the allotments this morning.” “That’s OK,” Ben told her, “the Clangers can come here.” Before starting her own day’s work, Jenny checked her e-mail. There was still no word from Steve. She bit back a ripple of fear, and turned her attention to housework. While she was making her bed, she glanced out the window into the back garden. Ben was happily playing near the shed. She caught a glimpse of something pink at his side. Steve had given his son a Clanger toy to go with the DVD. Ben must have it with him in the garden. The day passed slowly as Jenny tried to avoid going back to her e-mail. She took Ben to Tescos and they did the shopping. While she was hanging out some laundry, she waved to Mr Laker in the allotments, and allowed Ben to join him for a while. But all the time, her mind was with her husband so far away, hoping that next time she turned on her computer, there might be some word. When she called Ben for dinner, he came in proudly clutching a new toy. “What is it?” she asked. “It’s a music boat.” The boat was made from kitchen foil. The mast looked remarkably like an old screwdriver, holding up a piece of broken plant pot decorated with musical notes drawn in marker pen. “It was a present from the Clangers,” Ben told her. “Because I helped them fix their space ship. They are going home tonight.” Home! Jenny felt a tight twist of her heart as her thoughts flew to Steve so far away. Ben spent the evening staring out the window hoping to see the Clangers take off, but sleep finally caught up with him. With her son safely tucked up in bed, Jenny turned on the computer once again. Steve’s e-mail was at the top of her inbox. Jenny closed her eyes for a few seconds, as relief washed through her. Then she opened the mail. I’m coming home. The words leaped of the screen. His unit had been given their orders. Within a couple of days, Steve would be back with her and Ben! Jenny didn’t try to hold back the tears that ran down her face as she typed her reply. After sending her love to her husband, Jenny walked up to her son’s room. Ben was asleep. The curtains were open, and the moonlight shone on the toy clanger and the music boat sitting on his bedside table. Jenny smiled at the music boat. It was cleverly done. She must remember to thank Mr Laker for helping Ben make it. Jenny walked to the window to close the curtains. She paused for a few seconds, looking out at the clear spring sky. Soon Steve would be flying home to her and their son. Behind the house, near the allotments, a sudden flash of light caught her eye. The light moved swiftly up and away and vanished. Jenny’s brow creased. It could have been a light from a passing train, but she hadn’t heard any noise. He face cleared. It didn’t matter. Nothing mattered, except that Steve was coming home. Her heart was singing with joy, and for the briefest moment, Jenny thought she could hear the music. Published as ‘Close Encounters’ by The People’s Friend – September 2008 Artwork by Stephanie Axtell courtesy of The People’s Friend I never met a Clanger as a child. The TV show didn’t make it as far as Australia. My first experience with Clangers was in a bookshop, when my husband (webmaster John) suddenly snapped to attention. “That’s Oliver Postgate”, he said in awed tones looking at an elderly gentlemen signing stuff at a desk. To end my appalling ignorance, he (John that is, not Oliver Postgate) immediately bought the complete Clangers on DVD. What can I say – they are just amazing! Their simple stories had such wonderful messages… that are still important today. This is my salute to the Clangers. © Janet Gover September 2008 © 2021 Janet Gover. Design by John Hocking	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line104
__label__wiki	0.517756	0.517756	(All photos: Getty Images for NASCAR) NASCAR NEEDS TO MAKE EXAMPLE OF EDWARDS Comedian Ron White likes to say "You can't fix stupid." Every time he utters that trademark line of his, he gets tons of laughs. I bring up that line after looking at Carl Edwards' blatant and fairly obvious intentional ramming of Brad Keselowski in Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Stupid, Carl, really, really stupid move. It's a move that shouldn't have happened, but I guess what White says definitely applies to Cousin Carl in this case. Edwards was 156 laps off the pace – 156 laps!!! – and Keselowski was in sixth-place, closing in on a possible top-five finish, when Edwards slammed into Kes, sending him flipping end over end. Was it payback for an early-race incident between the pair, the one that kept Edwards off the track for nearly half the race? Or perhaps it was come-uppance for last year's race at Talladega, where Keselowski sent Edwards flying – almost into the grandstands (even though it fortunately didn't get past the catchfence, debris from Edwards' car still injured seven spectators) – while Keselowski motored on for the first victory of his Sprint Cup career. Don't get me wrong, I like NASCAR's new hands-off, "let 'em race" policy, but Edwards' actions were clearly unacceptable and avoidable. And, as nice of a guy as Carl is 99 percent of the the time, I have a hunch his big smile and buff body are going to be hurting come Tuesday, if not Monday. Given the number of incidents we've already had between drivers in the first four races of the 2010 season – especially incidents between drivers that have a history with each other, like Edwards and Keselowski – someone is going to either kill or hurt someone if this keeps up. NASCAR's "have at it, boys" policy needs to be tweaked so that drivers don't continue taking that phrase to its full meaning. And if that means someone is going to have to be made an example of to keep that from happening, so be it. The time has come. That's why NASCAR really has no other choice but to suspend Edwards for one or more races to show not only himself but also every other Cup driver that aggressive driving bordering on near-homicidal is not going to be tolerated. Edwards needs to be sat for a week at least to make him contemplate his retaliation actions. There's no other route for NASCAR to take or any other way for it to rule. If it lets him off the hook, there are going to be other future confrontations with Keselowski until someone gets hurt – or worse. Ditto for ongoing conflicts between other drivers. Clint Bowyer, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Keselowski and others, take note, because it could just as easily be you in this instance. I like Edwards. He's always treated me with respect and friendliness, so this isn't any type of personal vendetta against him. I feel bad that I have to call for his suspension, but at the same time, we can't have him or anyone else going around and purposely putting other people into the fence, especially at a place like Atlanta, which is the fastest track on the circuit. Think about it: Edwards punted Keselowski at around 190 mph. How many times do we read of regular everyday folks getting killed in their own personal cars in wrecks of 50 mph or less? That Keselowski emerged shaken but not broken or worse is yet another testament to NASCAR's safety program. And that Keselowski didn't sail into the stands is nothing short of a miracle – especially given how Edwards said after the race that he didn't expect Keselowski's car to take off like it did. Gee, Carl, what DID you expect? Did you think a simple bump-and-run at 190 mph could result in a predictable outcome. Sorry, but at such high speeds, there is nothing predictable. I'm not saying Keselowski is without blame. He's an equally significant part of the feud with Edwards. Sure, he made contact with Carl early in Sunday's race, but from how I saw it, the wreck was more of a true accident than the intentional hatchet job Edwards did on his rival later in the same race. Carl has been racing for a long time and if he doesn't know better by now, there's no question he should. If it takes sitting out a race or two – heck, I wouldn't be surprised if NASCAR parks him for several races to really make a significant example of him – Edwards will hopefully learn the lesson that he obviously must have missed one day in racing school. What's sad is that if Edwards is parked for more than one race, his season is in effect over. His sponsors, who paid millions of dollars to plaster their names and logos on his race car in hopes of him finally winning the Cup championship in 2010, will in effect be supporting an also-ran for the remainder of the season. They didn't sign on for that, to have their driver turn kamikaze pilot, and bring shame to himself, as well as their corporate image. Look at what Tiger Woods' actions caused him: the loss of several endorsements and sponsors. While their situations are significantly different, maybe Carl can talk to Tiger about what it's like to mess up big time and be forced to sit out from the sport you love. After all, Carl, wasn't it just seven years ago that you were sitting in a classroom in Columbia, Mo., serving as a substitute teacher, and dreaming about being a Cup driver? If he keeps up what he did Sunday, I'm sure returning to the world of being a substitute teacher can be easily arranged by NASCAR. By Jerry Bonkowski at Sunday, March 07, 2010 You are over reacting. Take some breathing exercises. Hamilin intentionally wrecked Kaslowski. They didn`t suspend him. NASCAR said "Have at it boys". Now you say Carl`s season needs to be ruined. If NASCAR punishes Carl they will never be believed again. Calm down..relax...get a grip. The season is early. Give the drivers and owners a chance to police themselves. Ted March 8, 2010 at 2:14 AM What a moron you are. You need some reality lessons. What Edwards did was like a pitcher intentionally throwing at a batter to hurt him. Let's put you behind the wheel of a race car at 90 mph, let alone 190 mph, and someone got into you and flipped you. Edwards is the most recent driver to prove drivers cannot police themselves. What would have happened if Keselowski's car went into the stands? What would Edwards do or think, knowing he caused it and maybe caused several fans to get killed? I'm a lawyer and regardless of what the fine print says on the back of tickets, if Edwards was found to have caused that wreck on purpose, he could be prosecuted for manslaughter, given that his actions were premeditated and intentional. Think I'm full of it? Try me. You're the one that needs to get a grip. Jerry has a sensible and logical thought, and you put him down ... and then don't have the balls to sign your name. Why don't you grow a set, because it's pretty obvious you have none. Nascar fault for not stepping in an stopping Brad from wrecking! Its Brad who should have been penalized along time ago! When he and Carl wrecked at Talledaga it was going for the win! Never once heard Carl complain! Then got to watching Brad on Nationwide Series, it seem he was always bumping Edwards and Hamlin! Non stop! So mabe Carl seen Nascar wasnt going to help or call Brad in, so he setted in just like Dale SR always did! Thus his punishment should be like the penalies Dale Sr got, which was just a pat on the back! Ron in NC March 8, 2010 at 5:00 AM I agree 100% with Ted. He could have been responsible for the death of Brad, or many fans. And, thank God that didn't happen! Short tracks is where you deal with things like that, and not on the fastest track they drive on. Just watch, NASCAR will do no more than slap Edwards on the wrist, because he's one of their freaking poster boys. Edwards think he above reproach. I say park him for 3 races. He had no regard for Brad's life or the fans in the stands. His actions were premeditated and intentional. Make the idiot sit at home and watch it on TV. joe March 8, 2010 at 5:47 AM i never liked carl but now i think hes one of the best for sending that ba**d in to fence was just hoping it would have broke his neck as he run over everone and thinks its ok for him to do it. nascar should have sent him home last year in nationwide races as he run over hamlin. brad is a prick. if he wasnt ass with hendrick and jr nascar would have been sent him looking last year. hope someone send him to hell soon. like i said hes a b***d Gee if it was the golden boy [earnhardt] or the chosen one [johnson] there would be no talk of suspension. It would just be racing, move on people. I am already done watching week after week the inconsistincies in this sport. Carl Edwards owes the fans a refund. His actions took the race from the fans. What might have been an exciting finish (within regulation, what a concept) was ruined by his retaliation move. Bumping at a short track is one thing, but at Atlanta? Sit him for at least a week. And have him refund the ticket price to all fans. And get rid of the wing. The COT is going to kill somebody, and it might be the fans. Matthew Mark Darnestown, Maryland Ted,you are the moron.Bucky got what he deserved and it was long overdo.Did anyone get hurt?Whatif what if what if?These guys are men not little boys,give me a break.Cousin Carl,you are the man,#3 would be proud of you. Deep River,Ontario If they don't want to suspend him due to sponsor concerns, then they should at least make him start 43rd for three weeks. It was just the wrong place and wrong time for payback. Punishing Carl is not fixing the source of the problem AmandaLouWho March 8, 2010 at 7:32 AM I think that this was a very unfortunate situation. I don't have a problem with bumping someone whatever. As with the Denny Hamlin incident in the last Nationwide race, if it's going to be done he did it the "politcally correct" way. Black flagged one lap. Fine. I didn't have a problem with that. Sunday was a different story. I agree that the incident was not done purposfully. Brad was holding his line, Carl came down on him. Brad didn't give him room. Whatever no one has to give anyone room in my opinion, yes it is curtious but you don't have to do that... Carl should have held his line for that matter. To be honest I was disappointed with how Carl handed the situation. I felt the way he handled the situation was uncalled for. I agree that he should be suspended for a least one race. Will it happen. NO! There's sponsorship issues I'm sure. But WOW if NASCAR suspended him he would be out of the chase. That in my opinion would really send a message to the other drivers (including Brad). I hope they put some thought into how they are going to deal with this situation! People , do we really think nascar is going to suspend Carl? All the tv he does on speed. Won't happen. Plus nascar won't remove the biggest story from the track, this is going to be about ratings.....but I think he should be parked for the race or 10-20 laps. Bottom Line... Without the Wing, Brad would have spun off the wall and down into the grass and NO ONE would be having this debate Here's the math that NASCAR has obviously recognized, even though they will never admit it: 190mph + Wing on the Trunk SEEMS TO EQUAL LIFTOFF... NOW, dock him the points, take some jet fuel cash out of his pocket and move on with a stern warning in the drivers meeting in the next race. Beth Beutler March 8, 2010 at 7:45 AM I'm with you, Jerry. I like Carl but that was uncalled for. He says he's concerned for people's safety but does a dumb move like that. Settle it off the track where others may not be at risk. How would he feel if a fan had been injured or killed? What would he advise his daughter to do in the same situation? I'm still a fan of Carl's but am very disappointed in what he did yesterday. There could be other ways to teach BK a lesson. From weak to weack I tune in to Nationwide & Spint races. Brad has done this same thing several times to other drivers and has always gotten away with it. Dig up all this and you see that Carl learned how to do it from Brad. A twist of the wheel in the right rear Panel Does it. If there's any suspension they Both should be involved in it,after all Brad started this a long time ago. Anon,7:45... What it is it that Brad is actually doing? Is he ACTUALLY turning into people or just actually racing hard and not giving room for someone who wants to move in front of him? It seems everyone wants to say Brad's the bad guy, but in Dega and at Atlanta (early crash), HE did not drive into anyone, he just simply HELD HIS GROUND. What's wrong with that? If Carl can't hold his car on a higher line, maybe he's not as good as you think he is! I'm sorry...I just don't get it. Brad races hard..aggressive..and toe to toe with the "Big Boys". He usually doesn't lift..but as far as I have seen..he doesn't "intentionally" go after someone. Is the entire problem here Brad doesn't race veterans like THEY think they should be raced by a rookie? If so..the veterans need to put on their "big boy panties"... Things have changed for a rookie in this day of racing..they no longer can afford to go on the track and say "yessir" "no sir" to the veterans IF they want to keep a job and a sponsor..the rookies now days have to go out and challenge for a win every week..and I don't think the veterans like it. AND this thing of the CUP guys going to Nationwide and winning every race..well...is it supposed to be a given..are the Nationwide teams just supposed to "step aside" so a CUP guy can wipe the field? I would think NASCAR's "new attitude" of "letting the boys race" INCLUDES the rookies and sophomores..and from what I see some of the veterans need to get over themselves and race like they wish to be raced. If I was a driver now..rookie or veteran...I would sure keep an eye peeled for the 99..I wouldn't want to be on his "bad side". I am afraid we are heading to the era "get him before he gets me"...and I don't think that's racing..its just a wrecking free for all. Watching the lap before Carl finally made contact with Kez..you could see how hard he was "swiping" at Brad...there is no doubt what Carl was trying to do. Carl seems to get crazy and quite scary when he is riled....he has a temper that would make me wonder how is he in his personal life.....at this point Carl makes the past antics of "Tony the Terrible" look like a church picnic! While I am glad that no one (including Brad) got hurt, this was long overdue. Brad runs over anyone in front of him all in the name of "hard racing." Nationwide, Cup, it doesn't matter. He does not respect anyone and seems to feel that it is his right to get past anyone in front of him by any means necessary. He has no respect for anyone and has had this coming for quite sometime. It seems to me that everyone is up in arms for 2 basic reasons. First, that Carl did not wait until the series made it to a short track to exact his revenge. And second, that Carl was well over 100 laps down while Brad was still in contention for the lead. In regards to the first, I understand that the fastest track on the circuit adds an increased amount of danger. And because of that fact, additional penalties for Carl are warranted (money and possibly points) - but suspension is not. If Brad's car had not flipped, this would be a moot point. There was no where near the outcry when Carl's car went into the catch fence at Talladega and no one seemed to care that this was at a track that is notorious for launching cars airborne. So why should Carl be held to a higher standard than Brad? And as for the second, what good would it do if Carl had waited until the next time he was racing Brad (at a short track) where he was not having a good day so as to not affect a good finish for him and his team? When you disciple your kids, you do not wait until they have a slow weekend to ground them. YOu do it as soon as you can and if that means that your son misses playing in a big game, so be it. In order to get your point across, you have got to cause some major discomfort to the offender in order to make them think twice the next time the opportunity arises where they could do it again. And that’s how I look at Carl's action - he wanted to show Brad that his actions have consequences. Say what you want, but I bet the next time Brad is racing Carl he has to decide if running over Carl and possibly causing him to wreck is warranted, he will have the vision of what happened on the front stretch of Atlanta in the back of his mind. Brad reminds me of Ernie Irvan early in his career before he learned to harness his aggression and became a winning driver. Brad makes most of his mistakes by not showing patience and using his skills to his advantage. There is nothing to gain by riling your competitors with bullish driving. As for Carl his prima donna attitude and poor judgement in retaliation needs to be addressed by NASCAR but we all know that it won't.(too many high profile sponsors). I have been following racing long enough to know that you must first gain a reputation as a winner before you can begin to knock people out of your way without reprisal 3 years ago Brad would of looped it into the grass and kept going and Carl would have gotten payback on the safest part of the track... except the wing took over. NASCAR, pull the wing off, put Carl on probabtion for the rest of the year... DONE Point one: In the first incident Brad held his line & Carl came down on him, plain & simple. Point two: Carl had over TWO HOURS to cool off so his retaliation was blatant & planned....no "heat of the moment" excuses apply here. Point three: Carl chose to get his paybacks at 190 mph in front of a full grandstand. The height of that stupidity...and there is no other word to use for it....cannot be measured. Dumb! Dumb!! Dumb!!! Carl HAS to sit, not necessarily for the simple act of retaliation, but for the arrogance, stupidity & the total lack of concern he showed for his fellow drivers, the crews that have to fix the cars, the sponsors, the fans in the stands & everyone else affected by his selfish act. There is NO justification for this one. For one thing, in the first incident Sunday, Carl should have saved it. It was that close. Carl, on the other hand, totally lost control of himself to do what he did to Brad the way he did it. His move resembled more of an instant retaliation to somebody ticking you off the lap before, not 2 hours earlier. He's got a real problem that has surfaced before. Kudos to Carl. BK is a punk. Apparently becoming a father hasn't settled down Edwards into a more mature person. Retaliation could have been handled like they used to...by waiting til Bristol and knocking BK at a lower speed track....or meeting him after the race behind the hauler. I think the proper punishment is having Edwards write a check to Penske Racing to cover the cost of replacing BK's damaged car. No suspension...just double secret probation. He just needs to be told to be smarter with his retaliation. banzaibonnie March 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM If someone had smacked this arrogant rookie in the mouth when he first started acting like he owned the tracks,we wouldn't be having this problem. Where is Jimmie Spencer when you need him??? Crazy Carl is out of control again. If you really look at the replay of the first incident, Crazy Carl wrecked himself, but he has to blame someone else for his poor judgement. What he did to Brad was very dangerous for the fan's and other driver's. He should be suspended! Drug test Edwards. Looks like classic roid rage. I don't know what incidents everyone keeps talking about, but the ones that I have seen with BK and Carl have Carl at fault in every one of them. You can't take someone out when they're racing for a top 5 at the end of a race. I too think Carl should write a check to Penske for the car and prize money difference. And be suspended for 2 weeks. jambalaya j March 8, 2010 at 10:21 AM EDWARDS IS AN IDIOT WHO CAN'T CONTROL HIS EMOTIONS. REMEMBER POCONO! ON THE FRONT STRETCH! Carl blocked Brad at Talladega. Brad held his line. Carl was understanding in the interview after the incident earlier in Sunday’s race. He knew he came down on Brad. Leaving no room is racing. Carl has become an ass! Carl tried to wreck Brad more than once after the first incident on Sunday showing clear premeditation. He needs to be suspended for as long as possible, and on his return, drug test him every weekend for the entire season after his return. Carl needs to write Roger a check for whatever Roger says he had into the car. Carl also needs to buy some black gloves. If I were Brad, I would go right at him off the track and I would not stop. I would start by wrecking him in his four-wheeler that he drives himself around the infield in. Carl knows the cars flip, it happened to him last year. Retaliating at 190MPH is attempted murder. I agree. Carl needs black gloves. And he should donate his share of the purse to the 12 team, and repay the 99 team for the time they spent building his weapo...er, car. I for one will never watch Nascar again if Edwards isnt booted for this stupid stunt. The obvious reasoning is attempted murder charges from Penske, or wanton endangerment from fans in the stands. In fact, 99 should not have been allowed back on the track if there was no way to improve his finishing position. Who is in charge here? I don't care if it was Jr, this cannot happen. Give them boxing gloves and set up a ring for the after race festivus. Total BS Jeez people, enough with the "attempted murder" silliness. At the least, you need to have intent, and if you can prove that it was Carl Edwards' INTENT to KILL Brad Keselowski, you will be the greatest prosecutor on the planet and are wasting your time posting on Trading Paint. And can we please also stop with the "he put the fans in danger" routine? No he didn't. NASCAR with their COT that tends to become an airborne missile are the ones that put the fans in danger. Carl's tap into Keselowski's rear quarter was nothing compared to the hits Dale Sr. used to put on cars. The only difference is that those cars would usually spin out onto the grass. The COTs on the other hand becomes a 2-ton missile. NASCAR is no better than Ford with their Pintos. Ford knew that the Pintos would explode when rear-ended, but decided not to do anything about it. NASCAR knows that the COT become airborne when they spin around and have done nothing about it. Maybe now they'll move up their timetable and swap the wing out for the old spoiler. I wouldn't hold my breath though; considering all the press the 12-99 incident has been receiving, they're probably tickled pink that they're the lead story on an otherwise mundane sports day. In defense of Brad K- Why is it that two of the most over-hyped drivers in the sport seem to have trouble with Brad? What about the other 40 drivers in the race? Could it be that the over-privileged wonders in the 99 and 11 simply can't stand the fact that someone, a Cup rookie no less, is not moving out of their way? After all, doesn't Brad know that they are great? One of them almost won a Cup championship one time. And doesn't Brad know that when they come to the Busch Series(yes, I know it's Nationwide) everyone is to get out of their way. Never mind the number of cars they have run over. And could it be that Brad K, having paid his dues in the Busch series, doesn't seem particularly impressed with drivers who were handed their Cup rides? No one was complaining when Baby Joey ran all over Brad K for his first NASCAR win. Go, Brad, Go. "I'm a lawyer and regardless of what the fine print says on the back of tickets, if Edwards was found to have caused that wreck on purpose, he could be prosecuted for manslaughter, given that his actions were premeditated and intentional. Think I'm full of it? Try me." Then you must have been in the bottom third of your class in some backwater third-tier cesspool if you think a lawsuit like that has a prayer of a chance. You really shouldn't be lobbing verbal bricks like "moron" at someone with a response like that, sport. TrumpinJoe March 9, 2010 at 9:03 AM NASCAR designed and developed their new car with a rear wing and a tendency to roll. NASCAR failed to rein in Keselowski's hyper aggressive driving although they have had multiple opportunities. Had the car not rolled (thanks to the NASCAR design) I believe the majority opinion would be that BK just reaped what he sowed. Suspension is too extreme here. Dock him some points give him a fine and a few weeks of probation. And so it is that Carl Edwards gets probation for 3 races. No fine. No suspension.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line106
__label__cc	0.613836	0.386164	PODCAST EMAIL RSS TWITTER FB Posts in Category/Tag: Not Hip Hop Lo-Fi Coronalife [Side A] Summary: The CD runs 77 minutes in 50 tracks featuring over 60 artists. I hope you find your new favorite song. I know we can all use a little more music in our lives rights now. About: I wanted to create a mixtape that had a little something for everybody. The tracks are edited to be short but offer a glimpses into pop hits and odd audial obscurities and alike. A project of the quarantine. Other: Enjoy some easy listening or get out Shazam and find your new favorite song! Categories: Banger, Electronic, Female, Good Production, Gospel, gregshiphop.com, Instrumental, Lyrical, Mashup, Mellow, Mindful, Musical, Not Hip Hop, Old School, Pop Hop, R&B, Radio Hop, Remix, Soul, Southern, Spanish, Throwback Thrusday \| Make Comment » Sam Cooke – Chain Gang DOWNLOAD MP3 SamCooke-ChainGang.mp3 THIS SONG HAS BEEN REMOVED DUE TO A COMPLAINT BY THE RIAA. Summary: Not hip hop, but a great song. About Artist: Sam Cooke is one of the kings of soul. Though he was murdered in 1964 at age 33, he had over thirty top 40 songs in the last seven years of his life. Sam Cooke’s music gave way to the likes of Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, and James Brown. About Song: I listened to this song growing up but was reminded of it recently when a clipe of it appeared in Donald Glover’s (aka Childish Gambino) “Atlanta” TV show (which is one of my favorites). Favorite Part: I love Sam Cooke’s vocals (which is why he was such a sensation in his own time). I love music of this era and was a huge motown fan growing up. I’ve also been thinkin a lot about mass incarceration since watching “The 13th” on Netflix. Sam Cooke Wikipedia Tags: Sam Cooke \| Categories: Not Hip Hop, Uncategorized \| Make Comment » Seu Jorge – Ziggy Stardust DOWNLOAD MP3 SeuJorge-ZiggyStardust.mp3 Summary: Not hip hop, but a wonderful cultural mashup. About Artist: Seu Jorge has been a popular brazilian singer/songwriter for over a decade. Seu Jorge also happened to be featured in a Talib Kweli song “Favela Love”. About Song: This song is a remake of David Bowie’s classic ZIggy Stardust. Favorite Part: Seu Jorge recently came to perform in Tucson. Seu Jorge had written over a dozen David Bowie covers which were featured in the movie The Life Aquatic. The tour was in honor of David Bowie’s passing, along with the passing of Seu Jorge’s own father. The crowd in attendance was mostly part of the Life Aquatic’s cult following. Even so, I loved the show. It was just Seu Jorge doing his thing on the stage and it was beautiful. Seu Jorge Wikiepedia Tags: Seu Jorge \| Categories: Not Hip Hop \| Make Comment » Contact: greg@gregshiphop.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line112
__label__cc	0.602432	0.397568	Jan 17 2021 13:03:01 «translation project» Find something special do to in Half Moon Bay While you are in Half Moon Bay stop at Coastside Books to see our hand picked selection of books and cards! This site has been brought to you by Coastside Books Things to do in Half Moon Bay There are lots of good reasons to come to Half Moon Bay (on the California coast just 30 minutes south of San Francisco): beaches, hiking, biking on our new path by the coast, whale watching. So many wonderful things to try...historical walk, golfing, surfing, local art galleries and shops to visit. We also have many restaurants offering an array of exquisite food, great wine lists, fabulous cocktails, even live entertainment. Whether you want a quiet romantic experience, or a group social scene, you'll find it here. See the list below with more information about each activity. Select any category from the drop-down list. Show All Sports Friends and Family Intellectual Mind and Soul Billy Childs Quartet in HMB! Four-time GRAMMY© award winner Billy Childs remains one of the most diversely prolific and acclaimed artists working in music today. Childs' canon of original compositions has garnered him an additional 10 GRAMMY© award nominations... For more details on upcoming performances click here ACTIVITIES IN HALF MOON BAY Stevan Pasero, Flamenco Guitar Date:07/07/2017 (Friday), 5:30pm to 8:30pm Sams Chowder House 4210 North Cabrillo Highway http://www.samschowderhouse.com STEVAN PASERO is recognized worldwide as one of the most influential and versatile guitarists of the past three decades. He is a prolific composer, performer, recording artist and studio producer and is one of a few guitarists to record in several music idioms successfully - bridging classical, jazz, flamenco and world music markets. Joyce Grant Date:07/01/2017 (Saturday), 5:30pm Sam Chowder House Joyce Grant, a mezzo soprano is also the great-great-niece of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin. City Swing started a new chapter in 2007 with jazz singer Joyce Grant. Grant has been singing jazz in Bay Area venues for over 20 years. A mezzo-soprano with a voice like dark honey, Grant has a performance resume which includes a wide range of venues including the Empire Plush Room and... Stan Erhart Band Date:06/22/2017 (Thursday), 4:00pm to 8:00pm Sam's Chowder House By way of Kansas City and Chicago to San Francisco... Stan's roots go back to the family farm in Kansas; where hard work and play were accompanied by John Deere tractors, V-8 cars, & country guitars. His brother's baritone horn was the first instrument, followed by guitar, vocals, sax, flute, and an interest in keyboards. Winter Youth Art Show Opening and Artists' Reception Date:01/29/2016 (Friday), 4-7pm Coastside Land Trust 788 Main Street, Half Moon Bay Please join us on Friday, January 29th from 4-7 pm for our Winter Youth Art Show Opening and Artists' Reception. Coastside Land Trust has partnered with Sea Crest School to showcase a wonderfully diverse collection of beautiful, inspiring, humorous and intriguing pieces created by K-5th students... Live Acoustic Afternoon Set Capo Bros The Capo Brothers are an eclectic mix of rock, folk, funk, country and bluegrass all mixed into a tasty stew. Event is free for all ages! Equine Rescue Center Annual Fundraiser Date:01/01/2016 (Friday), 3:00pm Equine Rescue Center Ted Adcock Community Center 535 Kelly Avenue This years event promises to be bigger & better! The fundraiser will be located at an indoor venue. Please come out and support the Equine Rescue Center. Help ERC support our current equines and make it possible for us to take in more equines in need. Cooking Fish at Home: Tacos and Skewers Date:01/01/2016 (Friday), 10am-12pm The Family Chef Princeton Seafood Company Princeton Harbor Amy will demonstrate fish tacos and shrimp skewers which will be served with a rice and lentil pilaf. From Ear to There - CD Release Party Mark Kostrzewa La Costanera Restaurant Lounge area. Montara, CA Multi- Media Event- CD Release Party set to Digitally projected photography for Montara Guitarist Mark Kostrzewa new Cd 'From Ear to There'. Mark will be performing his music live to Half Moon Bay Photographer Peter Buranzon�s coastal/outdoor themed photos digitally projected onto 3 High-Def LED screens behind him... Grgich Wine Tasting Half Moon Bay Wine and Cheese Please join us on Sunday, March 24, from 1:00 - 4:00 PM, as we celebrate the 90th birthday of winemaker, Miljenko "Mike" Grgich and the wines of Grgich Hills Winery. We will be pairing the wines with cheeses and winery representative, Javier Ruiz will be on hand to talk about the wines and share the vision of Grgich Hills. Sonya Jason's Style Date:01/01/2016 (Friday), 6:00pm - 9:00pm It's Italia Sonya Jason on the saxophone, Sam Bevan on bass and Eric Swinderman on guitar. Mellow and satisfying classy jazz by a trio of understated and gifted players. With an uptown cosmopolitan flair, this group plays standards by George Gershwin, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Rogers and Hart, and... Peter Spitzer Jazz Duo Peter Spitzer (tenor saxophone and clarinet) and Dan Neickarz (guitar) are Bay Area jazz veterans who have played together as a duo for several years. Peter's musical background includes over 30 years with various Bay Area Brazilian bands... Grupo Falso Baiano Date:01/01/2016 (Friday), Grupo Falso Baiano is a choro group that offers a window into the history and diverse culture of Brazil... Wavecrest Clean Up Day Date:07/08/2015 (Wednesday), 10:00am - Noon Meet in the parking lot at Smith Field at 9:45, at the end of Wavecrest Road, off Highway 1 at Cameron's Pub. Come out for a day of habitat restoration this Saturday, June 8, from 10am - Noon on Coastside Land Trust's 50-acre bluff top parcel at Wavecrest. Since acquiring the property in 2012... The White Buffalo Date:04/26/2015 (Sunday), 9:00pm Old Princeton Landing The Old Princeton Landing 460 Capistrano Road Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 (650)728-7096 Blues, rock and rythym Drop-In Craft Date:07/19/2014 (Saturday), 10:30 am Half Moon Bay Library 620 Correas Street Contact Number: 650.697.7607 Join us in the Homework Center for a new crafting project each month on the 3rd Saturday. For younger children, parent help required. Chair Yoga for Everyone Date:07/12/2014 (Saturday), 2:00 pm Spread the love within yourself with Chair Yoga. It is a safe and effective way to offer yoga to any group, age, and level of health or mobility. Just like any yoga class, it can give you more flexibility with physical and mental strength; increased energy to improve memory and clarity for better concentration; and support overall health and peace. Chair yoga also brings social connection and a sense of community. You can learn more about Chair Yoga at: http://www.sunlightchairyoga.com Date:07/11/2014 (Friday), 6:30 pm Didgeridoo Down Under uses the Australian instrument to pull together lessons about geography, nature, culture, diversity and ecology. The didgeridoo is a traditional instrument which has been played by Australia�s Aborigine population for at least... Stevan Pasero Date:06/27/2014 (Friday), 6pm - 9pm Gustare il vino with Nikola Cicin Sain Date:06/21/2014 (Saturday), 2:00pm to 5:00pm Please join us and Italian Wine Specialist, Nikola Cicin Sain for a sampling of Unique Wines from Italy. Saturday, June 21 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. We've chosen a selection of wines you've probably never heard of, or had an opportunity to taste. Well, now's your chance! Half Moon Bay,CA 94019 How many different things can you make with Legos? Come here and see! Jose-Luis Orozco Cunha Middle School Multi-use room 600 Church Street, Half Moon Bay Children's author, educator, and recording artist, José-Luis Orozco draws upon the rich heritage of the Spanish-speaking world. Date:06/01/2014 (Sunday), 11:00 am The first Sunday of each month the library, in partnership with the San Mateo County Bar Association, holds free legal clinics. Participants have a twenty-minute free consultation with an attorney. Lawyer's legal expertise may vary from month to month. Call Half Moon Bay Library for details on particular topics. Scott Cooper Acoustic Trio, Bluegrass, Rock and Folk Date:04/26/2014 (Saturday), 6pm - 9pm Multi-instrumentalist Scott Cooper is a veteran of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Though best known for fronting the popular Grateful Dead tribute the China Cats, Scott is well-known for having his hands in multiple projects simultaneously. He has been playing bass with Bay Area jam band the Gary Gates Band for over decade and plays on Gary's heralded CD "San Gregorio General Store" produced by John Nowland (Neil Young, Jewel). Americana, Bluegrass, Western Swing Date:04/19/2014 (Saturday), 6:00pm - 9:00pm JimBo has lead The Fishpeople since 1992 with his hard, fast picking on the guitar and banjo, raw lead vocals, and wry wit. Along the way JimBo has also worked with Trout's Rustic Revelers, Trout's Jug Thumpers, and... Gabi Holzwarth - Past and Present with a Violin Gabi Holzwarth plays a program of sweet and haunting pieces, exploring the intersections between classical music and contemporary sound. 10 Ways to Include More Raw Foods into Your Diet Date:04/08/2014 (Tuesday), 6:00 pm Contact Person: Joe Toschik Lara Price Price was born in the war torn country of Vietnam in 1975. Abandoned at birth Price became a part of the controversial Operation Baby Lift, the mass evacuation of orphans from South Vietnam to the United States... Date:03/31/2014 (Monday), 5:30pm Jenny Kerr Date:03/29/2014 (Saturday), 5 PM A multi-instrumentalist as well as a poetic and passionate songwriter, Jenny Kerr is known for foot-stomping live shows and powerful, authentic voice. Her self-produced debut release, Itch drew critical acclaim as well as comparisons to Delbert McClinton and Janis Joplin. The album sold out during her first year of touring. Kerr is a skilled player of fingerstyle guitar, clawhammer banjo, harmonica, piano, and dobro... Presqu'ile Winery Join us in welcoming from Presqu'ile Winery Owner Matt Murphy and winemaker Dieter Cronje Half Moon Bay, CA. 94019 Classical and Flamenco guitar by Richard Patterson Date:03/18/2014 (Tuesday), 6:00pm to 8:30pm Cafe Gibraltar 425 Avenue Alhambra Classical & Flamenco guitar by Richard Patterson Join knitters of all levels and share knitting tips or swap patterns with others. Please bring your own supplies. Tom Duarte Solo Guitar Duarte's musical style is firmly based in traditional Latin music, while referencing elements of funk and jazz fusion. Midsummer Cellars Please join us and winemaker, Rollie Heitz from Midsummer Cellars on Saturday, March 1st from 2:00 - 5:00 PM for a tasting of wines from Napa Valley. Rollie and Sally Heitz started Midsummer Cellars in 2000 with the goal of making small lot, handcrafted wines of distinction that reflect the terrior and individuality of their vineyard sources. Player Auditions Date:12/14/2013 (Saturday), Blue Blanket Improv Matt Licklider of Lioco Wine Please join us on Saturday, 26 October, 2013, from 2:00 - 5:00 PM for great wine tasting event with Matt Licklider of Lioco Wines. Just $20 for a flight. New Wine Release Date:10/26/2013 (Saturday), Noon to 5pm Trojak Knier Winery 151-A Harvard Ave. The 20th Harvest anniversary party at the winery including Texas style BBQ provided by Frank's Texas BBQ as well as live music provided by Grant Walters. We will be featuring the new release of our 2012 Chardonnay and 2012 Pinot Noir as well as tasting deep into our library of older wines including several magnums. Pumpkin Festival Downtown Half Moon Bay A concept initially planted to bolster Half Moon Bay's then declining Main Street in 1971 has since blossomed into a lively annual festival - drawing several thousand visitors each October with its massive gourds and small-town charm... South City Blues Band The South City Blues Band is dedicated to the groove, providing you with a unique blend of swinging Jump Blues, Jazz/Funk Blues, and "old-school" R&B... Bake 3,800 Cookies Date:08/24/2013 (Saturday), 8:00am to 3:00pm Kings Mountain School Wedemeyer Bakery in South San Francisco We need 50 hip dudes and dudettes to help bak our far-out 8'' cookies! Don't be sqaure, be cool and help support Kings Mountain Elementary School Join us Saturday August 24 from 8:00am to 3:00pmWe need 50 hip dudes and dudettes to help bak our far-out 8'' cookies! Don't be sqaure, be cool and help support Kings Mountain Elementary School Join us Saturday August 24 from 8:00am to 3:00pm. Email Heather at hghuddleston@gmail.com for more details Salmon Fishing April into November Date:04/23/2013 (Tuesday), Hulicat El Granada, CA 94018 Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay enjoys one of the most abundant Chinook (King) Salmon fisheries in the world. Because of its location, Half Moon Bay has excellent access to these "King" salmon... Saxophonist Sonya Jason's Romance duo Sonia Jason Deborah Winters and Jean-Michel Hure Cetrella Cetrella 845 Main Street Half Moon Bay California 9401 A lifelong resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Deborah Winters' childhood was immersed in music and dance. Heavily influenced by her father, who pursued the drums as a young man, and by her mother, who was a professional ballet dancer for the Oakland Metropolitan Ballet Company, Deborah developed a passion for music, dance and the theatre at a very early age... Songbird and Seabird Workshop and Walk Date:05/28/2011 (Saturday), 1�2:30 pm Sea Crest School 901 Arnold Way Back by popular demand after his previous sold-out event, Alvaro Jaramillo will present an entertaining workshop on the songbirds and seabirds found on the Coastside. Learn about their behavior, field marks, ecology, and migratory patterns. Light refreshments will be served. Date:05/28/2011 (Saturday), 12:00-4:00pm Not For Sale Freedom Store 270 Capistrano Rd., Suite 2 Harbor Village Shoppes Creating new futures for survivors of modern-day slavery Come celebrate May 27�29, 2011 Light refreshments Sat., May 28, 2011 DORE COLLER and TRIO MAX at Cetrella DORE COLLER and TRIO MAX Half Moon Bay, California 94019 ECLECTIC BLUEGRASS JAZZ AMERICANA ORIGINAL HYBRID MUSIC- Trio Max combines the talents and multiple genres of three journeyman Bay Area musicians. The interplay and weaving of their respective styles evolves with every performance before the audience's eyes. Wildflower Identification Workshop 777 Miramontes St Please join the Coastside Land Trust for an exciting workshop led by Toni Corelli, Half Moon Bay botanist, State Park volunteer and co-author of Plants and Plant Communities of the San Mateo Coast... Learn How to Surf Sea, Surf and Fun Princeton Jetty (Surfer's Beach) I created the first French surf school in California. I am trying to get the French community of the bay area and tourists to surfing, but at the same time I love to have some American students too. I will teach you in French or in English depending on your preferences! Wavecrest Workday Date:03/26/2011 (Saturday), 10:00am to noon Coastside Land Trust invites you to join us on Saturday, March 26, from 10 to noon, for a management day at our Wavecrest area properties. Roll up your sleeves, grab your clippers... Become a Strategic Job Seeker Date:03/24/2011 (Thursday), 10:00am to 3:00pm PeninsulaWorks 620 Correas St One on one assistance Services will be available both in English and Spanish. No pre-registration is required. 2014 Annual Whale Watching The Oceanic Society Our naturalist-led educational trips leave on Saturdays and Sundays (and selected Fridays) from Pillar Point Harbor from December through May. For nearly three decades, the Oceanic Society has taken participants out on its Coast Guard certified vessels to witness one of nature's greatest spectacles: the annual 3,000 mile migration of nearly 17,000 gray whales from their feeding grounds in the Arctic to the calm lagoons of Baja, Mexico, for mating and calving, and back. Raptor Workshop Meet at the Train Depot, 110 Higgins Canyon Road, Half Moon Bay Please join us for an exciting workshop led by Alvaro Jaramillo, local biologist, life-long birder, eco-tour guide to the Americas, and author of Field Guide to the Birds of Chile and New World Blackbirds. Come learn about the... Sea Horse Ranch 1828 Cabrillo Hwy N Sea Horse Ranch was opened originally in 1963 and has been in continual operation since that time. We are most fortunate in having a wonderful group of employees, many of whom have worked on this ranch for 18 or more years. Historical Downtown Carroza Tours Date:01/01/2001 (Monday), Carroza Tours Tour Main St in downtown Half Moon Bay on a "carroza" and visit the old 1911 jail house, City Hall, Johnston House, cross the oldest bridge in San Mateo county and visit other historical sites in downtown. Special events: Weddings,Kids Birthday Rides, Beach Picnic For more details call Norm at (530) 526-8256 May 17th - Coastside Community Blood Drive Date:05/17/2000 (Wednesday), 10:00am to 4:00pm Standford Blood Center 520 Kelly Street	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line114
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__label__wiki	0.723277	0.723277	'); /* jQuery("#menu-td-demo-header-menu-1").click(function(){ if(menuclose == true){ jQuery(".td-header-menu-wrap-full").css("height","96px"); jQuery("#menu-td-demo-header-menu-1").css("overflow","visible"); jQuery("#menu-td-demo-header-menu-1").css("height","auto"); menuclose = false; } else if(menuclose == false){ jQuery(".td-header-menu-wrap-full").css("height","50px"); jQuery("#menu-td-demo-header-menu-1").css("overflow","hidden"); jQuery("#menu-td-demo-header-menu-1").css("height","50px"); menuclose = true; } }) */ }); January 17, 2021 \| ePaper \| SignIn US, India to work together for success of Afghan peace process External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meets US Special Representative for Afghanistan, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on the sidelines of Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2020 in Germany's Munich. (File Photo: IANS/MEA) New Delhi/Washington, Sep 15 (IANS) The US Special Representative on Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said during his visit to India on Tuesday that Washington and New Delhi will work together for the success of the Afghan peace process. Ambassador Khalilzad held meetings with Union Minister of External Affairs (MEA) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla and other senior Indian officials on the recently inaugurated Afghanistan peace negotiations. Khalilzad had visited India on a similar agenda on May 7, this year. This was his fifth visit to India since January 2019. The discussions, the Central government said in a statement, are a reflection of the India-US strategic partnership which provides for close consultations between the two countries on bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest. Earlier this year, the US signed a historic peace deal with the Taliban and a joint declaration with the Afghan government. On Saturday, Afghan government officials and Taliban representatives met in Doha, Qatar, for officially opening intra-Afghan peace negotiations, as part of the US-Taliban agreement. In official statements issued by the MEA and the US envoy, both the countries said that they shared the view that the peace process must continue until there is an agreement on a political roadmap and a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire. “The Afghan sides should ensure their territory must not be used by any terrorist group against any other country,” Ambassador Khalilzad said addressing India’s concerns pertaining to Pakistan’s cross-border terrorism. As per an UNSC report, Pakistani terror groups meant for attacking India are training in Afghanistan. The US envoy stressed that regional and international support is critical for the success of these negotiations and the implementation of any agreement. India and the US will work together in support of this objective, he said, adding that both the countries share similar views on the importance of long-term assistance, trade and investment for consolidating a peace agreement for the benefit of the people of Afghanistan, the region, and beyond. An MEA statement said that Khalilzad appreciated India’s participation in the intra-Afghan negotiations held in Doha on September 12. He briefed the Indian side about the US assessment of the negotiations and shared the US perspective on the Afghan peace process. The two sides discussed future steps and possible cooperation between India and the US in furthering the Afghan peace process. They also deliberated upon how to promote regional and international cooperation with regard to Afghanistan. Previous articleIndia slams OIC, Turkey, Pakistan over Kashmir in Geneva Next articleHundreds of farmers block highways in Punjab, Haryana Stalemate over farm laws continues, next meeting on Jan 19 Rahul, Priyanka join Cong protest against farm laws in Delhi Biden names Vidur Sharma Covid testing adviser Garima Verma named digital director for Jill Biden Metformin may reduce death risk in Covid patients with diabetes India Tribune, as an English weekly newspaper, was launched in 1977 in Chicago by its publisher Prashant Shah with a lofty ideal to serve the Asian Indian community in the USA. Over the years, it has grown with all vigor, and now it is being published in three editions – Chicago, New York and Atlanta. India Tribune, a journal of its kind for the family in the USA, has been a household name for many Indians for over three decades with each issue commanding a readership of over 125,000. Contact us: prashant@indiatribune.com Ad with us © India Tribune - 2020. All Rights Reserved. Powered By Generation Next.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line121
__label__cc	0.72783	0.27217	Place Covered: Louisiana Subjects: Joyce, William, 1957- \| Authors \| Illustrators \| Children's books \| Moonbot Studios \| Storytellers \| Film Industry \| Animation Courtney, Beth Host Godoy, Al Producer Joyce, Wiliam Interviewee This episode of the series “Louisiana Legends” from April 10, 2011, features an interview with William Joyce conducted by Beth Courtney. Joyce, a native of Shreveport, is a children’s book author, illustrator, and filmmaker. He is also a co-founder of Moonbot Studios. He discusses: the name of Moonbot Studios; the Moonbot character; writing his first full length story in 4th grade; childhood dreams and childhood imagination; the need for storytellers; the effect of new technologies on storytelling; his family; his first published book, “Tammy and the Gigantic Fish”; the nurturing he received from publishers early in his career; his relationship with Disney and Pixar; why he chooses to live in Shreveport; Halloween decorations; bringing the film industry and animation to Louisiana; Moonbot Studios’ first film; and adapting ideas and stories to new media. Author William Joyce Interview Louisiana Legends Gala	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line126
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__label__wiki	0.980436	0.980436	Bohemians announce big signing in Bastien Hery Irish International Alan Browne signs new three and a half year deal with Preston Alan Kelly steps away from Ireland role as goalkeeping coach Bohemians sign Stephen Mallon from Sheffield United Sligo Rovers and Everton announce strategic partnership St. Patrick’s Athletic Waterford FC Wexford FC Home > FAI News > Robbie Brady and Ciaran Clark named in Ireland squad as Lee O’Connor will join up for Friendly Robbie Brady and Ciaran Clark named in Ireland squad as Lee O’Connor will join up for Friendly FAI News - November 7, 2019 0 Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy has offered Robbie Brady (pictured above, centre) and Ciaran Clark a shot at Euro 2020 glory against Denmark – and called Celtic right-back Lee O’Connor into his squad for the Three International Friendly against New Zealand. McCarthy has also welcomed the return of striker David McGoldrick and a first call-up for Spurs teenager Troy Parrott who, like O’Connor, makes the move from Stephen Kenny’s Under-21 squad. Burnley midfielder Brady, who scored against Gibraltar in June, is back after injury and in the final 28-man squad retained for the upcoming Dublin double-header against New Zealand and Denmark. Clark, who scored for Newcastle United against West Ham in front of McCarthy last Saturday, comes into the squad for the first time this year after his own injury problems. McGoldrick missed the away games in Georgia and Switzerland last month but is back to fitness and back on form with Sheffield United ahead of the must win game against Denmark. “Robbie was left out last month simply because he had only played three minutes in the Premier League all season when I named the squad,” McCarthy told FAI.ie. “He is back involved with the Burnley first team now and getting game time and his involvement is a real boost to us ahead of the match against Denmark because of the quality he brings to the team. “I will give Robbie time against New Zealand to get ready for Denmark. He is one of the players in the squad who will really benefit from the New Zealand game before we play the Danes. “Ciaran is in the same boat. He had to get back with Newcastle before he could back with us but he is playing well for them now and I was impressed with him against West Ham last Saturday. “David’s return is the big bonus for all of us. Everyone knows how well he has done for us in the European Championship games he has played this year and he has been brilliant for his club in recent weeks.” With James McCarthy asking to remain with his club Crystal Palace for ‘personal reasons’, McCarthy will mix and match for the New Zealand game before the sell-out against Denmark. O’Connor, suspended for the Under-21 European Qualifier in Armenia, will feature against New Zealand then rejoin Stephen Kenny’s squad for their clash with Sweden at Tallaght Stadium. “The benefit of the friendly before the competitive game is that it allows me to try out a few things and give match time to players who need it,” added McCarthy. “With Lee suspended for the first of the two Under-21 matches, this is the perfect opportunity to have a look at him in the friendly, introduce him to senior international football and see how he gets on. I’ve been impressed with him for the 21s and I know how important he is to them for that Sweden game so this is a win-win for all concerned. “Likewise, Troy Parrott is in the squad for the first time and he will feature against New Zealand next Thursday. All he has to do is look at how well Aaron Connolly did last time in Georgia and Switzerland to see the opportunity that is there for him now. “The same will apply for other players who will get a chance against New Zealand and can give me something to think about for the Denmark match. We know that’s the game we have to win and I can’t wait to get into camp now on Sunday and start working with these players again.” McCarthy has included Middlesbrough keeper Darren Randolph, Wolves defender Matt Doherty and Glenn Whelan of Hearts in his final squad after positive reports from all three on their recent injury worries. “They’ll all be in Dublin and they’re looking forward to it as much as I am,” concluded the Ireland boss. Republic of Ireland squad to play New Zealand and Denmark Goalkeepers: Darren Randolph (Middlesbrough), Kieran O’Hara (Burton Albion, on loan from Manchester United), Mark Travers (AFC Bournemouth). Defenders: Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion), Kevin Long (Burnley), John Egan (Sheffield United), Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United), Enda Stevens (Aston Villa), Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers), Lee O’Connor (Celtic). Midfielders: Alan Browne (Preston North End), Josh Cullen (Charlton Athletic, on loan from West Ham United), Jeff Hendrick (Burnley), Callum O’Dowda (Bristol City), Glenn Whelan (Heart of Midlothian), Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa), James McClean (Stoke City), Jack Byrne (Shamrock Rovers), Robbie Brady (Burnley) Forwards: Callum Robinson (Sheffield United), Troy Parrott (Tottenham Hotspur), Aaron Connolly (Brighton and Hove Albion), David McGoldrick (Sheffield United), James Collins (Luton Town), Scott Hogan (Stoke City, on loan from Aston Villa), Sean Maguire (Preston North End), Alan Judge (Ipswich Town) Karl Sheppard signs for Shelbourne for new season Cian Coleman signs for Cork City League of Ireland All Rights Reserved - Site by Graphic Lights	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line129
__label__wiki	0.993944	0.993944	‘Inalienable’ Kashmir ‘bilateral issue’ with Pakistan, India tells British parliamentarians By KN Web Desk on 09/11/2017 @ 11:07 PM India’s Vice President Venkaiah Naidu Thursday said Kashmir was “purely a bilateral issue” with Pakistan even as he reiterated New Delhi’s traditional stand of the region being an “inalienable and integral” part of the country. He made the remarks during his interaction with the Members of British Parliament, Dan Carden, Anna McMorrin, Preet Gill and Sarah Champion in New Delhi, according to a statement issued by the Press Information Bureau. “The Vice President conveyed his strong concerns that there was considerable misinformation about Kashmir. He said that it was purely a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan,” the statement said. Naidu said that “radicalization and terror are global issues to which we have to find an effective strategy to combat it at various levels.” India had earlier this week conveyed its concerns to the United Kingdom over “Pakistani elements lobbying with certain British lawmakers to raise the Kashmir issue in their Parliament.” The issue was “strongly raised by Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju with British Minister of State for Immigration Brandon Lewis at a delegation-level meeting” in New Delhi on Monday. The Indian side expressed deep concerns over some “Mirpuris and Pakistanis” continuing to engage in anti-India propaganda in the United Kingdom, news agency PTI had quoted a home ministry official as saying. “Rijiju also brought to the notice of Lewis the “lobbying” by Pakistani elements with some current and former UK MPs and Lords, like David Nuttall, Nusrat Ghani, Robert Flello, Fiona Mactaggart, who debated and approved a motion on the Kashmir issue in the British Parliament in the past,” the PTI report said. The Indian side also conveyed its resentment over shadow foreign minister Emily Thornberry of Labour Party saying that that Britain would incorporate its concern on alleged human rights violations in Kashmir in any post-Brexit deal her country would struck with India. Rijiju had said that Jammu and Kashmir was an “inalienable and integral part” of India and Britain must not allow its territory to be used for “anti-India propaganda.” The UK side reportedly said the British society is liberal and it advocates free speech and ideas. (Featured image: Venkaiah Naidu)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line132
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__label__cc	0.590949	0.409051	New Release Round-Up August 10th-16th Hey Girl! Check out these new releases from August 10th-16th. The Restoration of Love by Tucora Monique “You said you wish I was a little more patient…And I just wish your heart was vacant, baby.” — Teyana Taylor Sawyer “Stix” Soules is searching for peace. Due to things she cannot change, Stix had been taught to conform. After leaving the Black Lightning Motorsports Family, the spitfire mechanic has decided to focus on building her own legacy with her cousin, Shooter, at her side. Specializing in restoring old school vehicles, the community activist couldn’t be happier on the business front, though her personal affairs are unraveling. Old wounds have caused her to choose a polyamorous lifestyle and Stix isn’t looking to add to her tribe. Nevertheless, can countless run-ins with a persistent gentleman restore the idea of exclusivity? Yemisi Powers is seeking salvation. Growing up, the God-fearing man was rooted in his brothers’ shadows but also taught the power of timing. As an adult, Yemisi swears by the notion that time is of the essence and will walk away from anyone who devalues what he can’t get back. While praying for his steps to be ordered, the ambitious officer’s dreams are tainted by mischievous measures, and he’s forced to evaluate his purpose. However, amid his life’s alterations, Yemisi meets a complex woman that may be worth more than just his time. Face Down Fridays: Prelude (Crowne Legacy Book 1) by Sherelle Green Ever indulged in your wildest fantasies without any restrictions or consequences? Sly smirk. Heated glance. I knew I was hooked from the first moment our eyes connected. But I’m not the type of woman to give in easily. Especially when his offer is dripping in rule breaking notions threatening to consume me. I wanted her willing and ready for anything before she’d even spoken a single word. I’m a patient man, but even patience has a timeframe when it comes to following her rules. But as she’ll soon learn, I don’t follow rules. I make them. Please Note: Face Down Fridays is a fast-burn, sexy prelude to the Crowne Legacy series. Although this novella can be read as a stand-alone, it’s an intro into the series. The Love Dare: a novella (Flower Sisters Book 6) by Asia Monique Lily Fredericks has many fears, but losing out on the love that Devin Booker is offering to her on a silver platter is number one on that list. Aware of her intense feelings for the man ten years her senior, Lily comes to a decision, but not before Devin ups the ante. Please note, though this story has a beginning, middle, and end it is short in form. If you prefer longer novels, there are other Asia Monique titles for you to choose from. This standalone novella is book six in the Flower Sister series. It is not required, but recommended to start at book one. Wants and Needs by Aubree Pynn Kali has been struggling with finding her place in life again after mothering three children and being tiredlessly devoted to Kofi for twenty years. When life becomes too much for her, she wants out. The extreme and sporadic announcement leaves Kofi springing into action to relearn his wife. Will he succeed? Find out in Wants and Needs. This Time Always by Suzette D. Harrison Vivacious Niyana Nichols isn’t looking for love. Between the demands of work as a Wellness Clinic Administrator, recent widowhood, and being there for her two beautiful daughters, love has taken a back seat for the fifty-three-year-old. To complicate matters, she’s also suffering from Alopecia. Yet, when Niyana meets her daughter’s handsome professor, she is faced with emotions she thought she’d buried with her husband. Divorced single father and African-American Studies professor, Omari Josef, is devoted to his career. When the forty-six-year-old grandfather meets the gorgeous and spirited Niyana, he’s forced to rethink his own happiness. Their age difference doesn’t matter to him. What does is making sure she realizes that she’s a woman worth cherishing. Will the sudden reappearance of Omari’s ex-wife wreak havoc in his life? Or will their undeniable attraction grow into something solid and abiding? The Rose That Got Away by Christina C. Jones As a rose abandoned in the desert, she’s made a vow – she’ll never go back to the way things were… a promise that was easier to keep before a thorn showed up. (This is not a book centered around a love story.) Greed (The Deadly Sins Book 1) by Roy Glenn An uncontrolled, intense and selfish desire for increase in the acquisition of material gain. It could be for social value, status, power and especially wealth. Valencia DeVerão was on top of the world. Her do whatever it takes to make it attitude had served her well. A self-made millionaire at the age of twenty-two, is now the head of one of the top technology companies in the city. But it came with a cost. She was being blackmailed, she was a suspect in a murder, and somebody was trying to kill her. The answer to all of her problems was simple; bring Mike Black to the table. Which, as many before her have found, is much easier said than done. After a chance meeting with Shy, Valencia sees an opportunity to accomplish her objective, and make money on a deal with Shy in the process. That plan not only failed to bring Black to the table, but dragged Shy deep into her web of lies and deceit. With her enemies closing in and her options running out, Valencia turns to ex-lover and member of The Family, Geno Crocker for help. But will it be enough, or has her greed sealed her fate? Happy Hour Hoe (On the Clock Series Book 2) by Shae Sanders According to office gossip, Cairo King has bagged every single woman in his department. A couple of married ones, too. The man is so legendary, the employees at Billingsley-Davis have dubbed him the “happy hour hoe.” So when Taylor Knowles is unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend, her coworkers take her for drinks after work and point her right in Cairo’s direction. Work out your heartache, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. But Taylor soon discovers that there’s a lot more to Cairo than rumors, and the truth will ultimately change them both. Forever. This steamy office romance is part of the On the Clock series of standalones. Can be read in any order.* Vegas Nights : A Billionaire Sweet Romance (Afro Luv Bite) by Unoma Nwankwor A woman scared of being hurt again is bent on playing it safe. A man determined to stay focused and never experience poverty again. One night on the wild side that changes everything. Darius Gray Become a self-made billionaire by thirty. Love was never an option, acquiring the next investment was Deal after deal, I ferociously and ruthlessly operated with that mission in mind. Years later, mission accomplished. Today, I celebrate another chain of hotels under my belt and then I heard her voice… Mixing business and pleasure was never my style Going after her would be a mistake One I might just be willing to make… Safiya Nadar I used to live my best life One shattered heart, a bucket of tears and shame turned it into my worst life Now, I could care less what anyone said, love and the risk it came with was overrated. If only I could get my bestie off my back. Tuh! That’s easier said than done, so now we’re in Las Vegas Three days, in and out, that’s her promise. Nothing extra Until she pawns me for an exclusive, she’s writing Just have drinks with him she said Twenty-four hours later… I wake up with a ring, a contract of two million dollars, And a man, who for sure would leave me with a broken heart and a bucket of Ben & Jerry’s This is the first book in the Billionaire Pact Series. It was formerly titled His Sweetest Mistake Book 2 is titled Second Shot Better Days Ahead (Dare to Win Summer Games Book 1) by T.D. Bryant Gold, Silver, Bronze… What Price Does It Take to Win? After missing a significant play at the international Summer Games, Nona Clay, star volleyball player, is haunted by her mistake. Put in a bind after a tragic death in her circle of friends, she has to decide between: Best friend she’s known for years Ex-boyfriend, she still loves Nona has to navigate between the fine line of friendship and loyalty. Will her friends stand with her to help her bounce back from her fall of disgrace? Better Days Ahead is a short fiction that’s the first in the Sports Series Dare to Win Summer Games centered around different athletes and their stories of courage and overcoming love challenges. Steamy but not explicit. Love & Lyrics: A Professor Student Romance Novella (Passionate Professors Book 1) by Louise Lennox What happens when her love and his career collide? Raina Simpson is a bold, free-spirted poet and reluctant graduate student. Having written off love and dating, she spends her days teaching high school on the Southside of Chicago and most nights performing spoken word at The Shrine. Her lackadaisical attitude towards school comes back to bite her when she finds herself with one final academic year to complete her master’s thesis. Lucky for Raina, her new thesis advisor, Luke Attah, instills order in even the most undisciplined students. But after their first class, Raina finds out the sexy professor is not as by-the-book as he seems. Luke Attah is an unbearably cocky and risk-averse British Ghanaian Professor of Poetics. According to the Dean of the English department, his career advancement depends on Raina’s successful defense of a thesis. He is initially defiant but agrees after it is clear there is no way around it. Luke is sure his charm and good looks will win his new pupil over, as it has countless others. What he does not count on is a drunken moment after one of Raina’s performances, making him Raina’s number one enemy. Despite Raina’s thinly veiled contempt, the usually cool Luke finds himself warmed up by his fiery advisee. Will Luke be able to secure Raina’s heart and keep his job? Can Raina trust Luke after she’s been so badly burned in the past by men that fall quickly for her and disappear? Love & Lyrics is a fun and steamy short read that will leave you wanting your own professor to bare all too. Kept By Blu’s Heart: A Novella by Nai L. When two halves of a whole meet in an unexpected, unconventional, and very desirable place, they create a love that is foreign but honest. Blu and Ryhan are loners who didn’t choose to be that way, but crossing paths led them down a road of chaotic happiness. Blu lived a simple man’s life. Work, gym, bars, and his boys. Nothing surprised him and nothing could change his view on life, that was, until he gave into his needs and met Ryhan. He felt that she was the peace he was missing. One night of passion puts his mind at ease but leads to him wanting more. Unfortunately, Ryhan left without a second thought, leaving Blu to only dream of her. Ryhan also lived the simple life, but she lived it to the fullest with no regrets, just accepting life as it fell in front of her. After a wasted relationship and a trip to the bar, Ryhan’s life changed, forcing her to make decisions that could save her life and bring her joy at the same time. The chaotic happiness embraced by both Blu and Ryhan takes you down a journey that will have you on edge yet captivated by Blu’s heart. You will see a love that is forged from desire, fear, and joy. A love that is pure and full of life. A love that only Ryhan and Blu could have cultivated. Cautiously by J. Shanee Byers Nadia Sanders is in Jamaica preparing for the most spectacular event of her life. Gia is there to make sure nothing spoils her best friend’s big day. But that was not to be when Keith White is offended by what Nadia says. It ruins what is supposed to be. Business brings Nadia and Marcel Baptiste into the same boardroom. Marcel likes what he sees on and off paper and is convinced Nadia can keep her end of the bargain for the business side. However, what he’s more interested in is if she can handle him on the romantic side. Even though she is drawn to him, Nadia is not in a hurry to meet Marcel’s love requirements, but there is no denying he does more than his due diligence to make sure she meets him halfway. Nadia pushes and Marcel pulls being forced to stand his ground. Can Nadia handle a man who refuses to be anything less than a real man no matter how hard she pushes? Find out what’s really in store for these two as they take us on an interesting journey of heartbreak, disappointment, and love. This book contains a rape scene. If you do not like this element in a romance read, this is not the book for you.* Khalid: Book 3 in The Brothers Ali by Celeste Granger Racquel Alexander, Owner of Charles’ Barber Experience, is consumed with extending her father’s legacy by expanding the Barber Experience into new markets. Losing her father changed Racquel’s worldview, narrowing her focus to only those things that help her father live on and not just in her memory. Khalid Ali, Director of Investments for Ali International is all about the business of conquering new territories, investing in new ventures, and expanding his family’s legacy. He is persistent, determined, and focused. A thunderstorm, a flat tire, and a knight in shining armor coming to save her changes the course of Racquel’s existence, but not in a good way. That accidental encounter brings her nemesis, Khalid Ali, into her orbit, rocking Racquel’s foundation and disturbing every preconceived notion she ever had of him. Holding on to old things is easy. Accepting new things is hard. Khalid dares Racquel to accept new things like how his nearness compels her soul to swoon and her heart to thunder in her chest; and how their undeniable magnetism seismically shifts the atmosphere and causes the earth to quake under their feet. When enemies become lovers, it’s tumultuous and passionate and confusing and incredible. When enemies fall in love, it’s unpredictable. Color of Love (Heartbreak Series Book 1) by Manswell T. Peterson and Keith Kareem Williams We all have secrets. Our past is just what we want it to be, our past. When that comes out to stalk us, we run. Our lovers are our lovers, but sometimes they aren’t the ones we desire the most. The dead don’t stay buried, mail doesn’t stay white, secrets aren’t sweet. We all do things we don’t mean to do, but what happens when they come to bite us? Hope Returns by Author Mi’Kea For decades Hope’s life has been defined by bad relationship choices. Faced with her estranged husband’s impending release from prison, Hope finds herself in a familiar cycle. An appointment with her favorite therapist proves to be anything but therapeutic. The session uncovers a love triangle with a resolution that is clear as mud. She has not been dealt the best cards but Hope is determined not to lose this hand. There comes a time in every woman’s life when she wants more. Brandon Williams is definitely more but is he too much for Hope? Through chaos riddled with tears, disappointment and pain, Hope Returns. Not Your Forever by C. Monet Forever was Serenity Gore’s destination, until the man she was pledging her love to left her at the altar. Devastated and in desperate need of clarity, she decided to disappear for a while. Bunking down in a nondescript town might be the remedy she’s seeking. However, a fateful encounter may teach her love wasn’t her sickness after all. Jep Hope runs the town’s bed-and-breakfast. After losing his wife to illness, he’s sworn off love. Dedicated to his country life, he detests the city. Meeting a stranded city dweller on the side of the road awakens the part of his heart he thought he buried, until the day she chooses to leave him behind. Will Jep and Serenity surrender to the longing in their hearts, or will they realize forever is never as long as it seems? The Wine Down: A Brenton Romance Short Book 2 by Genesis Woods Gavyn Rockwell is a thriving business owner who has dreams of expanding her wine and cigar bar, The Wine Down, even if that means losing the only man that she’s ever loved. Blair Hendrix is living his best life after moving to a new town and falling in love with the beautiful entrepreneur who literally took his breath away at first sight. Everything with this couple seems to be going just fine until Gavyn gets this crazy notion that her relationship with Blair is starting to become more of a distraction to her plans of expanding rather than being a positive addition to her life. Once the break up happens, will these two be able to work through their differences and become the power couple that they’re destined to be or will they both be too stubborn to give their budding romance a chance and lose everything? The Wine Down is the second book in the Brenton Romance Shorts. All though this cute little story can be read as a standalone, characters from the first book in this series, Christmas With You do make guest appearances in this novella. If there are any new releases that we missed, feel free to send them our way and we will add them ASAP! PrevPreviousNew Release Spotlight – Deadly Matrimony, by Indigo NextCover Reveal – Sweet Lies Between Her Thighs, by Ash LeyNext	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line136
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__label__wiki	0.880288	0.880288	THE CIA KEEPS PUTIN´S SECRETS / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OP EDITORIAL \| Etiquetas: CIA, Russia, U.S. Economic And Political, Vladimir Putin The CIA Keeps Putin’s Secrets Western governments stayed silent on the U.K. polonium murder of a Putin critic. By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. The Russian president in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Dec. 26. Photo: Getty Images Here’s one more way U.S. intelligence on Russia may not be up to snuff. Many would like President Obama to repay Russian hacking by releasing secret details of Vladimir Putin’s stolen wealth, estimated at up to $160 billion. They may be disappointed to learn the data don’t exist. The idea of weakening Mr. Putin by laying out his secrets is a good one. We proposed it here three years ago. But even then, when the U.S. Treasury announced sanctions on Mr. Putin’s “personal bank” after his Crimea grab, it was quoting the 10-year-old allegation of one of Mr. Putin’s domestic opponents. Treasury revealed nothing you couldn’t find from Google. A second problem may be that Mr. Putin actually owns title to nothing. At least in the latter stages of Russia’s kleptocracy, he merely points to things and people give them to him. Recall Patriots owner Robert Kraft at first acquiescing in the politely diplomatic storyline that he gave his 2005 Super Bowl ring to Mr. Putin as a gift. Later, Mr. Kraft came clean: Mr. Putin asked to try the ring on, then “put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out.” The extreme murkiness of who owns what, and for how long, under Putin sufferance is illustrated by the financial coup with which he ended 2016. To relieve a strained Russian budget and show the country’s appeal to Western investors, his underlings arranged a partial privatization of state-owned oil giant Rosneft. Yet the Italian bank supposedly financing the purchase admitted it was still mulling whether to participate. The key Western participant, Anglo-Swiss mining giant Glencore, was revealed in the Russian press to be off the hook for most of the cash for its $5 billion stake: “Russian banks provided it an exemption from this obligation.” So where the money came from and who might end up owning many of the shares is about as clear as mud. Still, critics are not wrong to suspect Mr. Putin is sensitive to corruption allegations. Nobody predicted the Arab Spring, the Ukrainian revolution, the fall of Gadhafi, etc. Mr. Putin cannot be certain when a public eruption might sweep him from his throne. Igor Sechin, the Rosneft chief and Mr. Putin’s No. 1 ally, has been flinging lawsuits in all directions to suppress Russian media reports about his mansions and yachts. A billion-dollar palace on the Black Sea, allegedly built for Mr. Putin with diverted hospital funds, has been shrouded in murky transactions. Reportedly the property is now owned by a friendly businessman who paid many times its market value. At least the CIA ought to have complete files on Mr. Putin’s early days when Russia’s media culture was wide open and free-wheeling. His alleged involvement in the disappearance of $93 million in food money as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg was documented by a special committee of the city’s elected legislature. Ditto the 1999 apartment block bombings that killed 293 Russians and helped cinch his election as president. Even before the attacks, reputable European and Russian newspapers in Moscow reported that such outrages were being planned by Russia’s secret police. Several subsequent scholarly and journalistic studies have endorsed the view that these “terrorist” acts were actually engineered by Mr. Putin’s supporters. U.S. intelligence agencies surely have definitive estimates on both of these episodes. The CIA may also be able to tell us more than we already know about many convenient murders and suspicious deaths that greased Mr. Putin’s rise and protected him from inopportune disclosures. OK, let us stop kidding ourselves. Let Rep. Adam Schiff, a top Democrat calling for exposure of Putin secrets, stop kidding himself. Western governments have kept silent even on the polonium murder in London of dissident Alexander Litvinenko, an act of international nuclear terrorism. Why? Because they are unwilling to press hard on the Putin regime, fearing either blowback or his replacement by the devil they don’t know. Mr. Obama’s sanctions have been precisely calibrated with these fears in mind, and Donald Trump brings only so much room for change. Rest your mind: Nothing in “The Art of the Deal” suggests Mr. Trump would voluntarily surrender the leverage Mr. Obama’s existing sanctions give him in future dealings with Mr. Putin. At the same time, he will stop accommodating Mr. Putin by supplying loud but weak rhetoric that Mr. Putin can play back to the Russian people as evidence the U.S. represents a geostrategic threat that Mr. Putin is manfully and victoriously outwitting. The best and likeliest outcome if Mr. Trump is successful is that Mr. Putin will stop being an international problem in the run-up to his own re-election in 2018 and a year or so thereafter. Mr. Trump will be freer to concentrate on domestic reform and reacting to whatever emergencies the European Union inevitably throws up in the new year. This holiday will be temporary. Mr. Putin, who has no realistic hope for a peaceful retirement, and whose society and economy are rotting out from under him, is almost certain to be a bane for the world and Russia in the coming decade. EUROPE´S NEW "INDISPENSABLE NATIONS" / PROJECT SYN... 2016 MAY HAVE BEEN AN ECONOMIC AS WELL AS POLITICA... THE CIA KEEPS PUTIN´S SECRETS / THE WALL STREET JO... 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__label__wiki	0.514889	0.514889	WHY VOLATILITY SIMPLY CANNOT RISE / SEEKING ALPHA \| Etiquetas: Investment Strategies, Volatility Why Volatility Simply Cannot Rise The Heisenberg • Transparency, generally seen as a defining feature of post-crisis policy, has a dark side. • It blinds investors to long-term risks by removing the incentive to consider them. • Caught in the information exchange loop, markets become numb. “ For the past decade, traders have been conditioned to expect central banks to both telegraph policy tweaks ahead of time and offer a thorough rationalization of those shifts at the time of implementation. Canada’s central bank provided neither when hiking its benchmark rate to 1 percent on Sept. 6. Monetary policy makers hadn’t spoken publicly since July 12, when they delivered their first increase in almost seven years, nor was the latest decision followed by a press conference. That's from Bloomberg's Luke Kawa and the suggestion is that Stephen Poloz is attempting to change the prevailing dynamic. Years ago, central banks instituted a running dialogue with markets, in the process creating a deeply reflexive relationship. There was always a tacit acknowledgement from policymakers that their reaction functions included a careful consideration of how risk assets like stocks (SPY) have recently behaved. But this is no longer tacit. It is all but explicit. The idea behind forward guidance or, more colloquially, "transparency" is to ensure that markets are prepared for potentially meaningful policy shifts. It's assumed that telegraphing these shifts is critical in the post-crisis world because this is an environment where markets have become accustomed to excessive and persistent accommodation. Aware of the conditioning, central banks (rightly) assume that the removal of accommodation could be destabilizing. Thus, it's necessary to be as transparent as possible even to the point of "telegraphing the telegraphing." That is, policymakers are not only keen on warning markets about policy shifts, they are now predisposed to warning markets about when those warnings are coming. That's an endless regression. More than a few commentators have suggested that this isn't desirable - that incessant central bank jawboning is creating perverse incentives. Rarely does a week pass when we don't hear from an influential central banker in the form of a speech, a media appearance, etc. In many cases, the Fed, the ECB, and other developed market central banks find themselves having to talk back things they just said. One official makes a speech, the market "misreads" it, and another official has to be trotted out the next day to explain why traders misinterpreted things. Again, this happens almost every single week. Deutsche Bank’s Aleksandar Kocic has variously described this in the theatre context - it is, as Kocic famously wrote in 2015, "the removal of the fourth wall." You have ceased to be a passive spectator in the central bank drama. You are not merely an observer of a play unfolding on the policy stage. You are, to quote Kocic, “an alterable observer who is able to alter.” That is, you are helping to write the script. By including you in the play, the Fed is effectively long an option to act on your behalf. That option was financed by selling an out-of-the-money option on policymaker credibility. The problem with this regime is that it renders everything outside of the communication channel between you (markets) and the Fed irrelevant. As Kocic writes in a new note out Friday evening, "without a rigid reference point, like well a specified reaction function, objectives, and triggers, policy risks deteriorating into a matter of referendum." Here's how I described it early Saturday morning: “This is just a kind of rolling plebiscite. Clearly, that creates substantial risks in terms of encouraging mass myopia. Thanks to near-daily speeches and media appearances by Fed officials, this is quite literally a real-time information exchange between markets and policymakers. No one can see outside of this information exchange and if you’re a trader, there’s really no utility in trying. Note the bit about "mass myopia." If no one can see outside of the daily information exchange between the Fed and markets, then no one can form any kind of long-term view. Here's Kocic again: “ In the environment of abundant information, everything becomes short term. A long-term vision becomes progressively more difficult to construct and things that take more time to mature receive less and less attention. The communication loop between the Fed and the markets has become a way of controlling the residual risks associated with their exit. Excessive transparency has been perceived as the most effective way to stabilize the system. When used in this context, it confirms and optimizes only what already exists. The markets remain blind to what lies outside of the context of informational exchange. In this situation, volatility simply cannot sustain a spike. And I mean that less as a subjective assessment and more as an objective statement. Unless the Fed decides or is forced (both of those are unlikely) to stop being transparent, volatility (VXX) cannot sustain a bid. It's worth noting, given all of this, that in the week through Tuesday, the net spec VIX short hit another new record: Those interested can read more from Kocic on all of this here, but for our purposes, just note that the dynamic outlined above has the perverse effect of amplifying whatever risks lie outside of the market-central bank information exchange channel by eliminating the incentive for investors to consider them. 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__label__cc	0.712169	0.287831	Supreme Court Stops Trump From Weaponizing the Census Against Immigrants—For Now Released on June 27, 2019 Democracy won a big victory at the U.S Supreme Court when Donald Trump’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census was defeated. But trust in this core document of our democracy has already been eroded. Scores of immigrants got the message that the census was going to be a vehicle for disenfranchising communities of color. We need to rebuild trust in the census, reach out to immigrant communities and reassure them that they can participate in the census without fear. And we must demand that the Commerce Department and the Census Bureau respect this decision and go ahead with printing census forms without the discriminatory citizenship question. But Donald Trump has never met a settled law he didn’t want to overturn, if it suits his purpose. In a tweet sent from Japan, Donald Trump said he’s asked his lawyers if the constitutionally mandated census can be delayed to accommodate his anti-immigrant agenda. He wants more time to build a legal case that will put the matter back before the Supreme Court this October. We know that the reason Donald Trump wants to add this question is because it will depress Hispanic voting power and boost that of white Republicans. Legal experts are now predicting that we could see a rare September do-over where John Roberts finds a way to change his vote. NOW will not let our guard down until this discriminatory, dangerous measure is finally, definitively, defeated. We will stand up for full representation, and demand that the U.S. Census count every person in America—not just the ones Republicans want to vote. Contact: Kimberly Hayes, Press Secretary, press@now.org, 202-570-4745 NOW In The News	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line143
__label__cc	0.675981	0.324019	Bit English Malayalam App-Best App to Improve English Speaking Skills within 7 days of Time August 10, 2019 Admin2 Leave a comment Bit English Malayalam is an app that helps users to learn English language quickly. It is an educational app which assists to improve the English speaking and communication skills of the users. The developers of this app claim to teach English language to Malayalam speaking people within 7 days of time. Bit English Malayalam app comes under the category of education in the Google play store. The app is developed by BigKnol and it requires an android device with 4.2 and up. The app is last updated on 27th April 2019. The current version of the app is 3.0 and it has got 100,000+ installs in the play store. The size of the app is 3.5M. The app can be used by individuals aged 3 and above. The app has been reviewed by 1,887 users and it has got 4.4 rating in Google play store. Download The App Here BigKnol are developers of useful apps who wish to learn something new and most of their android apps are meant for people who want to learn new languages. Other than English teaching app they have got apps to teach people other languages like Hindi, Tamil and foreign languages such as Arabic and German. The developers have included many innovative features in the app that let users to enjoy more of the power of learning. Bit English Malayalam is an educational app which is easy to download and install in the mobile phone. Bit English app has got lot of phrase and sentences which are not very commonly used. It gives an opportunity to come across large varieties of usages in English language. The app also contains plenty of common sentences used by native English speakers in their everyday life. It is a perfect English language tutorial for Malayalam speakers. The app is completely free and the developers are trying constantly to improve the learning experience by updating various features as required by the users. Key features of the app Bit English Malayalam app has got complicated English grammar lessons explained in a simple and easy to understand way. The developers of the app has taken care to create a practical approach for the Malayalam speaking people to learn to speak in English in a very effective way. Most commonly used English-Malayalam communication is included in the app. The app gives audio feedbacks for every sentence. This app includes English skill tests and rating features. Grammar practice lessons and phrases are made available in the app. The app has got a very useful feature called pronunciation checker which helps the students to check if they are pronouncing a particular word correctly or not. Anyone who knows Malayalam can use this app to learn English. English speaking is simplified for anyone to learn. Bit English Malayalam app is especially beneficial for beginners. The app is useful for both students and common people. Drawbacks of the app The app does not contain a dictionary. Users suggest to add more tests and practice material for thorough learnig. Overall Bit English Malayalam is a very useful learning app which helps a lot of people who are finding it difficult to communicate in English. Posted in: Education Filed under: Best Android App, Best App to Improve English Speaking Skills, Best Education Application, Best English Language Tutorial App for Malayalam Speakers, Best free App ← VDM Player-Best Video Player & Editor App HP Gas App-Best App for HP GasRelated Services →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line144
__label__cc	0.686038	0.313962	Nutley Historical Society Board Member, Annie Oakley Expert, Nancy Gruelich, 80 NHS Board Member, Annie Oakley Expert Nancy Gruelich, 80 Nancy Greulich, 80, of Nutley, N.J., passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. Born in East Orange, Greulich lived in Nutley for more than 50 years where she was always seen and heard at township events. As a long-time Nutley Historical Society board member Gruelich led tours of the Nutley Museum for scouts, schoolchildren and visiting families. Gruelich studied the life of Annie Oakley and the sharpshooter's era here in Nutley and became expert on the life of our famous celebrity. Nancy was a founding member of the Nutley Thriving Survivors, a member of the Women's Initiative of Nutley, past-president of the Nutley and Essex Republican Clubs, an elected Republican Official, a member of the John H. Walker Memorial Fund, the John V. Kelly Foundation, and friends of the Nutley Library. Nancy was the Jaycee's 2009 recipient of the Award for Civic Affairs. She belonged to several dining groups, dog enthusiast groups and was very proud of her work with her therapy dog Casey who for 12 years visited hospitals, Kessler Rehabilitation facilities, handicapped classrooms and people's homes bringing joy and love as only a dog can bring. Nancy served the Nutley Board of Education for 29 years as a Teacher's Aide and Purchasing Agent. Her intensity and passion will be missed in our family and our Township. She was the loving mother of Kim, Jeff (Robyn), Stephen (Robin), and Alex (Deb) and beloved dog Stella. Nancy was a loving Mema to her six grandchildren, DJ, Kyle, Corey, Allison, Melissa and Kirston. She was an endeared aunt and caring friend to many. In lieu of flowers, please refer to Biondi Funeral Home.com for a complete list. Nutley's Annie Oakley expert dies	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line145
__label__wiki	0.660505	0.660505	Follow OCaC here: Glossary of Huzsan terms: agni Agni literally means clan mother. This is a title given to the leader of a clan. Clans are structures with the size and population of a small to medium country. am- Am- is a prefix added to the first syllable of a name to turn it into a diminutive (ex. Ragu --> Amra). Or two syllables if the name is long (ex. Ulmarei --> Amulma). fringe Fringes are people who are not considered adults but also have slightly different rights then small children. More on fringes can be found in the 'Cultural guide' section. Gdezsu Gdezsu is one of the clans. Ragu and Zenwu come from there. The list of everyone from Gdezsu can be found in the 'Characters' section. Haibne Haibne is one of the clans. Uene and Fuzs come from there. The list of everyone from Haibne can be found in the 'Characters' section. hed Hed is the official title of the oldest son of an agni. hym Hym is the official title of the oldest daughter of an agni. The hym is the heiress of the clan. ignaf Ignaf is the official title of the top strategist in a clan. In terms of power the ignaf is usually the second or third person in the clan. ninak Ninak literally means the mother's brother. An in most cases it refers to the brother(s) who live(s) with the mother of the household and help(s) her bring up her children. In the ruling families it may also refer to a bonded mate of the clan ruler, with whom she has her legally recognised children. In a sense an equivalent of a father because it means the person who takes care of the children together with the mother. ses u Ses u means a trainee of. This is the first step in most careers in Huzsa. zsy Zsy means honourable. It is put in front of a name of title to show respect. zsyni Zsyni means honourable mother. It's a very formal and respectful way to address one's mother. Most people use diminutives nini or amni. Chapter 2 page 32 Share this comic We're back from hiatus and starting a new scene in which Ruiso gets an opportunity to be chivalrous and save his colleague from the cats. We received this beautiful piece of fanart from the super talented Caroline, author of the beautiful comic Beneath the clouds. Thank you so much! Characters on this page: Ruiso. Published on 11 August 2019 by Munen. ©2017 by Munen / Updates Sundays European time (but sometimes it's actually already Monday - we're sorry ^^;) / Powered by Grawlix — the CMS for comics / The Infini typeface used in this comic was created by Sandrine Nugue as part of a public commission by the Centre national des arts plastiques.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line147
__label__wiki	0.627709	0.627709	Search the JPFO Site Full Interview with Holocaust Survivor, Theodore Haas Holocaust Survivor Denounces Anti-Gun Movement Unlike many interviews with Holocaust survivors, this one conducted by Aaron Zelman, founder, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (12500 NE 10th Pl Bellevue, WA 98005. Phone: (800) 869-1884; one year membership $25) with Theodore Haas, a JPFO member and a former prisoner of the infamous Dachau concentration camp, is a clear warning to all freedom loving peoples to keep our guard up against arrogant politicians who are hell bent to create governments that control our lives. In pre-Nazi Germany, the good, law-abiding citizens dozed while government passed laws (all purported to be for the public good) that paved the way for tyranny to flourish. Haas, who survived years of Nazi persecutors, is speaking out to Americans who are now dozing while our government, at the strong urging of leftists in the media and others in society they influence, passes laws (again supposedly for the public good) to ban and severely restrict firearms ownership. Theodore Haas believes 'gun control' is a prelude to totalitarian rule -- The editors 1990. Q.) How did you end up at Dachau? How old were you? A.) November 9th, 1938 was Kristalnacht -- The Night of Broken Glass -- The night Synagogues were ransacked and burned, Jewish owned shops destroyed; I guess you could call it the night the fires of hell engulfed the soul of humanity. I was arrested November 10th, "for my own personal security." I was 21 years old. My parents were arrested and ultimately died in a concentration camp in France. I was released from Dachau in 1941, under the condition that I leave Germany immediately. This was common procedure before the "Final Solution." Q.) What did you think when you were sent to Dachau? What did you know about Dachau beforehand? A.) My first thoughts were those many others: "The world has gone mad." I knew that the life expectancy at Dachau was relatively short. I knew beforehand that inmates were abused. The horror of Dachau was known throughout Germany. People (Germans) use to frighten their children, "If you do not behave, you will surely end up at Dachau." A famous German comedian, Weiss Ferdl, said "Regardless how many machine gun towers they have around K.Z. Dachau, if I want to get in, I shall get in." The Nazis obliged him; he died at Dachau. Q.) How did you accept the fears of Dachau? A.) Due to the constant hunger and extreme cold weather, one becomes too numb to even think of fear. A prisoner under these conditions becomes obsessed with survival; nothing else matters. Q.) What were the living conditions like in Dachau? A.) We were issued one quarter of a loaf of bread. That was to last three days. In the morning, we picked up, at the kitchen, a cup of roasted barley drink. There was no lunch. At dinnertime, sometimes we got a watery soup with bits of tripe or some salt herring and a boiled potato. Our prison clothes were a heavy, coarse denim. They would freeze when they got wet. We were not issued hats, gloves or underwear. The first night, about 500 prisoners were stuffed into a room designed to hold 50 (Believe me, it is possible). Later on, we were forced to sleep on straw. As time went on, the straw disintegrated and we became louse infested. The guards delighted in making weak and ill clothed prisoners march or stand at attention in rain, snow, and ice for hours. As you can imagine, death came often due to the conditions. Q.) Do you have residual fears? How do you feel about German re-unification? A.) I have nightmares constantly. I recently dreamed that a guard grabbed me. My wife’s arm touched my face, and I unfortunately bit her severely. German re-unification, in my opinion, will be the basis for another war. The Germans, regardless of what their present leadership says, will want their lost territories back, East Prussia, Silesia, and Danzic (Gdansk). My family history goes back over 700 years in Germany. I understand all too well what the politicians do not want the people to be thinking about. Q.) You mentioned you were shot and stabbed several times. Were these experiments, punishment or torture? A.) They were punishment. I very often, in a fit of temper, acted "while the brain was not in gear." The sorry results were two 9 mm bullets in my knees. Fortunately, one of the prisoners had a fingernail file and was able to dig the slugs out. In another situation, I was stabbed in the washroom of room #1, Block 16. Twice in a struggle where I nearly lost my right thumb. A German prisoner Hans Wissing, who after the war became mayor of his home town, Leinsweiler, witnessed the whole situation. We stayed in touch until a few months ago, when he died. Q.) Do you remember some of the steps taken by the Nazis to de-humanize people and to make them feel hopeless? How were people robbed of their dignity? A.) If you had treated an animal in Germany the way we were treated, you would have been jailed. For example, a guard or a group of them would single out a prisoner and beat him with canes or a club. Sometimes to further terrorize a prisoner, the guards would form a circle around a prisoner and beat him unconscious. There were cases of a prisoner being told to report to the Revier ("Hospital") and being forced to drink a quart of castor oil. Believe me, this is a lousy, painful, wretched way to die. You develop extreme diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, and severe dehydration. If the Nazis wanted you to live and suffer more, they would take measures to rehydrate to victim. Q.) What was the routine like at Dachau? A.) Three times a day, we were counted. We had to carry the dead to the square. Each time, we had to stand at attention in all kinds of weather. We stood wearing next to nothing, had weak bladders, while our tormentors had sheepskin coats and felt boots. The bastards really enjoyed watching us suffer. I remember how the guards had a good laugh when one of them "accidentally" let loose with a machine gun, killing about 30 prisoners. Q.) What did people do to try to adjust to Dachau? Keep up their spirits up? A.) There were some actors, comedians, and musicians among us. Sometimes they would clandestinely perform. One of the musicians got hold of a violin and played for us. To this day, it remains a mystery how he got his hands on a violin. I still keep in touch with other prisoners. I am a member of the Dachau Prisoners Association. Each year I go back to Germany to visit. Q.) Did people ever successfully escape? Do you remember acts of bravery? A.) Nobody escaped, only in the movies does the "hero" escape. Guards received extra leave time for killing prisoners that got too close to the fence. I do, however, think all prisoners were heroes in their own way. Especially the German prisoners, for they would not acquiesce to the Nazis. They suffered greatly too. Q.) Did the camp inmates ever bring up the topic, "If only we were armed before, we would not be here now"? A.) Many, many times. Before Adolph Hitler came to power, there was a black market in firearms, but the German people had been so conditioned to be law abiding, that they would never consider buying an unregistered gun. The German people really believed that only hoodlums own such guns. What fools we were. It truly frightens me to see how the government, media, and some police groups in America are pushing for the same mindset. In my opinion, the people of America had better start asking and demanding answers to some hard questions about firearms ownership, especially if the government does not trust me to own firearms, why or how can the people be expected to trust the government? There is no doubt in my mind that millions of lives could have been saved if the people were not "brainwashed" about gun ownership and had been well armed. Hitler’s thugs and goons were not very brave when confronted by a gun. Gun haters always want to forget the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which is a perfect example of how a ragtag, half starved group of Jews took up 10 handguns and made asses out of the Nazis. Q.) Did you have any contacts with the White Rose Society (mostly German students against Hitler)? Did anyone try to hide you from the Nazis? A.) I did not, but my local friend, Richard Scholl, had two cousins or nephews who were members. Both were executed in Munich (I believe) for standing up for decency and freedom. Not enough people knew about the White Rose Society. There were many non Jews who were not anti Semitic and were very much opposed to Hitler. It was impossible to hide people from the Nazis in Germany -- it is so densely populated and food was rationed. Another point that many people fail to understand is that in Germany, you had a situation where the children were reporting to their teachers if their parents listened to the BBC on the short wave radio, or what they were talking about at home. If a German was friendly to a Jew, he was warned once. If he failed to heed the warning, he would disappear and never be heard from again. This was known as "Operation Night and Fog." Q.) Do you think American society has enough stability that Jews and other minorities are safe from severe persecution? A.) No. I think there is more anti-Semitism in America (some of it caused by leftist Jewish politicians and organizations who promote 'gun control' schemes) than there was in Germany. This may stun some people, but not all Germans hated Jews. My best and devoted friends in Germany were Christians. I perceive America as a very unstable society, due to social tinkering of the Kennedy/Metzenbaum-type politicians. When I first came to this wonderful country after World War II, America was vibrant, dynamic and promising society. There really was an American dream, attainable by those who wanted to work. Now, due to the curse of Liberalism, America is in a period of moral decline. Even worse, corrupt criminals hold high political office, and you have police officials who don’t give a damn about the Bill of Rights. They just want to control people, not protect and serve. When you study history, you see that when a country becomes an immoral manure heap, as America is rapidly becoming, all minorities suffer, and ultimately, all the citizens. Q.) What words of warning would you like to give to young people who will soon be eligible to vote? A.) Vote only for politicians who trust the people to own all types of firearms, and who have a strong pro-Second Amendment voting record. Anti-gunownership politicians are very dangerous to a free society. Liberty and freedom can only be preserved by an armed citizenry. I see creeping fascism in America, just as in Germany, a drip at a time; a law here, a law there, all supposedly passed to protect the public. Soon you have total enslavement. Too many Americans have forgotten that tyranny often masquerades as doing good. This is the technique the Liberal politicians/Liberal media alliance are using to enslave America. Q.) What message do you have for ultra-Liberal organizations and individuals who want America disarmed? A.) Their ignorance is pitiful -- their lives have been too easy. Had they experienced Dachau, they would have a better idea of how precious freedom is. These leftist should leave America. These Sarah Brady types must be educated to under-stand that because we have an armed citizenry, that a dictatorship has not yet happened in America. These anti-gun fools are more dangerous to Liberty than street criminals or foreign spies. Q.) Some concentration camp survivors are opposed to gun ownership. What message would you like to share with them? A.) I would like to say, "You cowards; you gun haters, you don’t deserve to live in America. Go live in the Soviet Union, if you love 'gun control' so d--- much." It was the stupidity of these naive fools that aided and abetted Hitler’s goons and thugs. Anti-gunownership Holocaust survivors insult the memories of all those that needlessly perished for lack of being able to adequately defend themselves. Q.) It appears the Liberal left in America is tolerating, and sometimes espousing anti-Semitism. Why do you think so many Jews still support the leftist form of Liberalism? A.) It is for this very reason that I firmly believe that we harbor more stupid and naive people in our midst, than any other group of people. It amazes me how Liberal Jews have such short memories that today, they would be so supportive and involved in setting up the mechanics of 'gun control', so that a Holocaust can happen again. All they’re doing is playing into the hands of the very clever communists who are masters at conning Americans. Q.) Why did you join JPFO? A.) I feel every Jew should be armed to the teeth, as should every American. I joined JPFO because as a group, we can stand up up Liberal Jewish gun haters and also to Gestapo minded anti-gun police who want total control of the people. I wish JPFO was in existence years ago. I believe the Jewish involvement in gun control would not be anywhere close to what it is today, but better now than never. 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__label__cc	0.721277	0.278723	Blog Tour/Review: Silent Sting by Clair M. Poulson Silent Sting, by Clair M. Poulson 2016, 288p, Clean Contemporary Suspense My Rating=4.5 Stars Source: Received a copy from the publisher for an honest review Catastrophe is looming over the Central Valley of California. The honeybees, vital to the economy of this agricultural epicenter, are dying at an unprecedented rate. The U.S. government is desperate for answers, and researchers at the University of California–Riverside are tasked with providing them. But when the professors assigned to the investigation seem to be systematically dying under mysterious circumstances, it becomes clear that there is something sinister at play. Following the murders of her mentors, it’s up to entomology student Tiana Lambrose to move forward with the research. Special Agent Stu Whiteleather, part of a team of FBI agents assigned to assist in the investigation, is immediately drawn to the lovely entomologist. Together, they discover a breed of bees engineered to be killing machines, which, despite Tiana’s expertise, are like nothing she’s seen before. The question is, who could possibly have the sophisticated technology to engineer these specialized insects and for what motive? The perpetrator will stop at nothing to keep investigators from finding the answer. As threats to Tiana’s life escalate, Stu must battle an unknown foe to protect the woman for whom he has come to care before she becomes the next victim. This story takes place in California. Honeybees are dying and researchers are trying to figure out why. Tiana Lambrose is a student who has been helping with the research. When two professors are killed, she is able to head up the investigation, but she's not safe, either. One of the FBI agents assigned to the case, Stu Whiteleather, takes a personal interest in her safety. There are many people determined to find the mastermind behind this scheme and stop him or her once and for all. I liked Stu and Tiana. They were attracted to each other but didn't have much time to get to know each other because things moved quickly. There wasn't a lot of romance, which was fine with me--they can get to know each other after her life is no longer in danger. I liked the interactions they had and could see the attraction. I love the originality of a suspense novel that centers around bees and found this novel to be quite interesting! The pace was fast and lots of characters were introduced, but it wasn't hard to keep them all straight. There were characters that were obviously shady from the beginning but there were plenty of twists and turns along the way which kept me quickly turning pages to the final reveal. The ending seemed a bit abrupt (yet was still satisfying) and I had a few other minor issues along the way, but it was entertaining and clean, which are two big pluses for me! Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Deseret Book Clair M. Poulson retired after twenty years in law enforcement. During his career he served in the U.S. Military Police Corps, the Utah Highway Patrol, and the Duchesne County Sheriff's Department, where he was first a deputy and the the county sheriff. He currently serves as a justice court judge for Duchesne County, a position he has held for nineteen years. His nearly forty-year career working in the criminal justice system has provided a wealth of material from which he draws in writing his books. Clair has served on numerous boards and committees over the years. Among them are the Utah Judicial Council, and FBI advisory board, the Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, the Utah Justice Court Board of Directors, and the Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice. Other interests include activity in the LDS Church, assisting his oldest son in operating their grocery store, ranching with his oldest son and other family members, and raising registered Missouri Fox Trotter horses. Clair and his wife, Ruth, live in Duchesne and are the parents of five married children. They have twenty-two grandchildren. Website * Facebook Tour Schedule: March 28th: http://mybookaday.blogspot.com/ http://www.bonnieharris.blogspot.com/ http://www.littlelightdesigncollective.com/ March 29th: http://ldsandlovinit.blogspot.com/ http://www.rockinbookreviews.com/ http://seekingwithallyurheart.blogspot.com/ March 30th: http://www.singinglibrarianbooks.com/index.html http://reviewsfromtheheart.blogspot.com/ http://www.wishfulendings.com/ March 31st: http://katiescleanbookcollection.blogspot.com/ http://melsshelves.blogspot.com/ April 1st: http://booksaresanity.blogspot.com/ http://gettingyourreadonaimeebrown.blogspot.com/ http://www.blogginboutbooks.com/ Posted by Melanie at 4:00 AM 0 comments Book Blast: That'th What I Thaid! & The Sore Prickly Bear by Lisa Marie Schinski BeachBoundBooks is pleased to be coordinating a Book Blast for two charming books by Lisa Marie Schinski, That’th What I Thaid! & The Sore Prickly Bear. The blast will run March 28-30, 2016. Title: The Sore Prickly Bear Author: Lisa Marie Schinski Genre: Children’s Picture Book Summary: Fuzzy has a very bad day that keeps getting worse. He is faced with many challenges and doesn’t understand why these things are happening to him. Everyone has had a bad day, week, month or even years. He will make you laugh because everyone can relate to Fuzzy in some way. Things always have a way of working out in the end and sometimes even better than it was before! Title: That’th What I Thaid!: R’s and S’s Illustrator: Lauren Panco Summary: Stitchie is a happy bunny that is having a hard time saying her R’s and S’s. She thinks her friends are making fun of her but they just laugh because they think it sounds funny. They love Stitchie, and in the end, Stitchie practices and meets the best teacher who helps her says her R’s and S’s perfectly. She runs into the woods to share with her friends how far she has come!! About the Author: Lisa Marie Schinski I was born and raised in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. I currently reside in King of Prussia. I wrote the story about the Sore Prickly Bear when I was 8 years old. My teacher, Mrs. Ulrich encouraged me to write and also gave me the young author’s award. I found this book after my mom passed away last year. I had a great childhood but when I wrote this book, my parents got divorced, we moved and I changed schools. A lot of changes for an 8 year old. So I guess I felt like Fuzzy. Around October 2015, I took the book into work to show my friends because this past year and a half has been very hard for me and my family. I knew when I showed my friends, they would laugh and cry because my life was again Fuzzy’s. My friends, Denice, Dee, Candace, Rick, Gina, Tara, Nancy, Tamara and Gina encouraged me to publish this book. So here I am! I am now 46 years old. I have a great job, great friends, and great family. But there are still days that feel very bad and very unfair. My goal for publishing this book is to help children understand that bad things happen and bad days happen. But when we have friends and family in our life to help us laugh at ourselves, we can heal and move forward. Everyone has a bad day, week, month or even years. My dream is to share this story for children to know they are not alone and everyone has a bad day. I am so grateful for my family and friends. “That’th What I Thaid” was published in February 2016. Lauren Panco inspired me to write this story. It is for children who have a hard time with their R’s and S’s. I think many of us have! I want children to know it’s ok to sound different and with practice, it changes. Don’t let anyone make fun of you. We are all perfect the way we are! 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With authors who aren’t afraid to push the boundaries, you get stories that take everything to limit, creating whimsical reads that teens can actually relate to and that adults can enjoy, too. Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Kobo * iTunes Pre-Order it today to save over fifty dollars from the cost of purchasing each book individually! Last Chance to Pre-order! Riley J Ford, INTO YOU – What if you could know exactly what your friends are thinking? High school student Winter Reynolds can, but there’s a catch… She can only read people’s thoughts when she’s kissing them. USA Today Bestselling Authors Rebecca Hamilton, THE FOREVER GIRL – When a spell Sophia casts goes wrong, her personal demons get company, and the newcomers are dangerous. JC Andrijeski, THE CULLING – Jet grew up free, hiding out on Earth after it was conquered by an alien species, but now she might learn about her alien overlords the hard way. Apryl Baker, THE PROMISE – Armed with kick-ass shoes, can CJ save the town from a maniacal coven leader, still get Mr. Melt In Your Mouth Gorgeous, and somehow survive the darkness? Angela Fristoe, WAKEN – If Janie hopes to survive the people of Everod, she’ll need to confront who and what she really is. April Aasheim, THE GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO BECOMING A DEMON – What’s a nice girl to do when she develops horns…and a hunger? Angel Lawson, WRAITH – Classmates think Jane Watt’s is a freak, but she knows her best friend, Evan is real and needs her, even if he’s dead. Katie Salidas, PRETTY LITTLE WEREWOLF – This little werewolf is looking for her fur-ever home. International Bestselling Authors Sarah Dalton, MARY HADES – Mary has a special relationship with the spirit world — a connection that brings her face to face with her worst nightmares… Debbie Herbert, CHANGELING – A wannabe witch who sucks at spells must find her inner magic to nab a pixie serial killer. 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Blog Tour/Review: Everyday MOMents by Jessica Poe Everyday MOMents, by Jessica Poe 2016, 144p, LDS Non-Fiction Discover the divine purpose in your motherhood! Each inspiring chapter moves through another hour in a mother's day, highlighting spiritually symbolic insights and describing how Christ is by your side even during the daily routine. From sun-up to bedtime, this entertaining and uplifting book will help you find the inherent divinity hidden in the everyday details of motherhood. Motherhood has it's tough moments and there have been many days that I've felt like a failure or that I haven't made the most of my time with my children. It's getting better as my children are getting older and there are some stages that I'm so grateful are in the past! I love books like this! There are so many great ideas that won't take much time but can make a huge difference. The chapters are set up as an hour in a day and the types of experiences and challenges mothers face as their day progresses (it's not, however, meant to occur all in the same day). One of my favorite chapters was Chapter 5, "Grocery Store Stories," 9:00 am. I actually can't relate to the types of experiences the author has had while grocery shopping, but one of the quotes she shared really stood out to me and is something I needed to be reminded of right now. It's by Spencer W. Kimball: "We must remember that those mortals we meet in parking lots, offices, elevators, and elsewhere are that portion of mankind God has given us to love and to serve. It will do us little good to speak of the general brotherhood of mankind if we cannot regard those who are all around us as our brothers and sisters." (p. 34) There are lots of other great gems to be found in that chapter alone. At the end of each chapter, she has a "Your Turn!" section where she shares a tip you can do to apply what you've learned in the chapter. Again, these are small things to do but it will take a little time to get through all of them. This is a book that I needed to read quickly this time around but plan to go back and read it more slowly. Looking for Christ in everyday MOMents is a fantastic idea. I loved the author's experiences and insights and enjoyed this book from beginning to end. I look forward to reading it again and applying these concepts in my daily life! Amazon * Books & Things Jessica Poe has spent the last decade writing professionally for healthcare systems across the nation. Prior to freelancing, she worked as a communications specialist for Intermountain Healthcare and earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Brigham Young University. She and her husband homeschool their three children under the lively green trees of Oregon; basking in the small, natural moments. Jessica maintains a collection of divine details from their daily doings at www.jessica-poe.com/blog and she’s a regular contributor at www.multiplygoodness.com. Website * Facebook * Blog Grand Finale Blitz: Her Summer Crush by Linda Hope Lee On Tour with Prism Book Tours. The Tour Grand Finale for Her Summer Crush By Linda Hope Lee We hope you enjoyed the reviews and excerpts shared during the tour! If you missed any of them, go back and check them out now... Launch - Introduction to Her Summer Crush After I finished Eva’s Deadline, I kept thinking about Luci and Cody. Did she get over her crush? Did Cody get to follow his dream? What happened to these two people? Soon I was playing the “what if?” game and writing Her Summer Crush “CODY JARVIS! What’s he doing here?” Luci Monroe stared at the man who’d just stepped out the back door of her parents’ home. Singing Librarian Books - Excerpt The ocean sparkled under a sun about to slip below the horizon, and the waves made a soft shushing sound as they rolled onto the shore. If only she could escape there now. When something upsetting happened, a walk on the beach always helped to calm her. Cody’s unexpected appearance was certainly one of those times. As soon as the party was over... Bookworm Nation - Review "I thought this was a fun read, a nice escape in a charming small town setting. If you enjoy contemporary romance this is a good one!" I Am A Reader - Excerpt “Are you finished now?” Her words came out sharper than she’d intended. She must be in worse shape than she’d realized. He frowned. “Not okay to take your picture? You’re the guest of honor. Besides, you’re a good subject.” Wishful Endings - Review "It was a fun and sweet story from beginning to end, with fun characters, complex family relationships, and a light romance." Katie's Clean Book Collection - Review "I always enjoy the characters journeys of growth and overcoming hard things. I really loved the setting--I love the beach and could picture living in this great, small town. I also loved the relationships between each character and his/her family members, as well as Luci in the role of a mentor to Tessa. This is a gentle, sweet, and clean summer romance, perfect for a pool or beach read." Rockin' Book Reviews - Excerpt "Cody sat at the table, put down his mug and clicked the mouse. A new picture flashed onto the screen. Another shot of Lucy. He chuckled. He's taken more pictures of her tonight than of anyone else." Love, Laughter, Friendship - Excerpt “I like my place,” he said. “It’s cozy and has everything I need.” “Maybe so, but do you think you’ll ever find a woman who’ll put up with all this?” Olive went to the sofa and plumped up the loose cushions. “Not a question that needs to be answered, because I’m not looking. Not right now, anyway.” Thoughts of a Blonde - Review "I enjoyed this story. The characters are fun with a lot of potential there — would have liked to have seen them decide to test their relationship waters earlier in the book." Adult Contemporary Romance March 1st 2016 by Harlequin Heartwarming She's over her crush…isn't she? Luci Monroe is on top of the world. She's just graduated from journalism school and she's already landed her dream job in PR. Then Cody Jarvis saunters into her office. Nothing like finding out that your teenage crush, now a gorgeous, globe-trotting, freelance photographer, is going to be your staffer for the summer. Never mind. They're both professionals. And she's over him. Kind of. Anyway, he's not interested. Cody is always waiting to disappear on his next assignment, and Luci needs someone stable. Someone who wants to build a life right here in Willow Beach… Goodreads│Amazon│Barnes & Noble│Harlequin│Kobo Linda Hope Lee writes contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and mysteries. She enjoys traveling especially to small towns in search of story ideas. She's also an artist, specializing in watercolor, pen and ink, and colored pencil. Photography provides inspiration for both her writing and her art. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where many of her stories are set. Website│Goodreads│Facebook│Twitter Other Books by the Author $50 Amazon eGift Card 3 copies of Her Summer Crush (print if US, ebook if international) Open internationally Ends April 1st Book Review: Banished by Kimberley Griffiths Little Banished, by Kimberley Griffiths Little 2016, 416p, YA Historical Romance Source: Received a copy via Batch of Books for an honest review She thought she’d lost everything… After spending months traveling the harsh, unforgiving Mesopotamian desert, Jayden reunites with a broken, injured Kadesh. Although everyone was convinced the violent and unpredictable Horeb, Jayden’s betrothed, killed the handsome prince, Jayden knew in her heart that her love was alive and safe. But their reunion is short-lived, as they learn Horeb is on their trail and determined to take back the girl he has claimed. Soon, the two star-crossed lovers are on the run toward Sariba, Kadesh’s homeland, where, as heir to the kingdom, he plans to make Jayden his princess. But the trek to Sariba comes with heartache and danger. After narrowly escaping being stoned to death for a crime she didn’t commit, and learning that her sister has disappeared, Jayden’s only solace is her love for Kadesh. But even he is keeping secrets from her…secrets that will change everything. This gorgeous and enchanting sequel to Forbidden is fraught with love, danger, and heated passion that will leave readers breathless. This book picks up right where the first book, Forbidden, left off (you can learn more about it and read my review here). Jayden hears rumors that Kadesh might be alive so she sets out to find him. When she does, she's happy to see him and learns the extent of his injuries. They determine that they need to head to Kadesh's homeland, Sariba, right away. Jayden wants to make a quick stop before they do, which could end in disaster. Like the first book, this is full of heart-pounding action. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time I was reading it. Jayden and Kadesh don't have it easy. Their love is tested over and over and their lives are constantly in danger. They had a few small moments of peace, which I thoroughly enjoyed. We learn more about Kadesh in this book and the truth about Sariba. Jayden has way more spunk than I do. She is constantly making decisions that aren't safe but which she feels passionately about. Sometimes there are tough consequences to those decisions. Kadesh is a little different in this book but is still lovable and kind. They're together through most of the book. I enjoyed their conversations and watching their relationship develop even further. We knew Kadesh was keeping secrets from her and it was good to finally have everything out in the open so Jayden knows what she's dealing with. I loved the first book in this series and loved this one, too! There are new characters and situations introduced which move the story along. Once I picked this book up, it was tough to put down. I love Jayden and Kadesh! There is violence (some of which is graphic) and talk of prostitution (no details). The ending perfectly sets up the third book, which I'm already anxious to read! When I was a kid I read a book a day, scribbled stories, and dreamed about having my very own book on the library shelf. I grew up in San Francisco, but now live in an adobe house on the banks of the Rio Grande with my big, messy family. I think I've drunk so much Land of Enchantment water that some of that ancient magic got into my blood and now spurts out my pencil--I mean ergonomic keyboard. I adore anything old and musty with a secret story to tell. I'm the author of 10 award-winning middle-grade and Young Adult novels with Scholastic and Harpercollins and I make way too many cookies when I'm writing - and I've got the best book trailers in the universe. Check them out here: www.kimberleygriffithslittle.com. Please find me on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, and Youtube. Awards: Southwest Book Award, Whitney Award for Best Youth Novel, Whitney Award Finalist, Association of Mormon Letters of Art Award, Bank Street College Best Books of 2011, 2013, and 2015, Crystal Kite Finalist, New Mexico Book Award Finalist, and Arizona/New Mexico Young Adult Book Award Winner. Website * Blog * Twitter Book Review: The Secrets of Solace by Jaleigh Johnson The Secrets of Solace, by Jaleigh Johnson 2016, 384p, Middle-Grade Fantasy From Jaleigh Johnson, the acclaimed author of The Mark of the Dragonfly, comes another thrilling adventure in the magical world of Solace. Lina Winterbock lives in the mountain strongholds of Solace. She’s an apprentice to the archivists, the wise men and women whose lives are dedicated to cataloging, studying, and preserving the objects that mysteriously fall from the sky in the scrap towns. Lina should be spending her days with books, but the Iron War has changed everything. The strongholds are now a refuge, and the people Lina once counted on no longer have time for her, so she spends her days exploring the hidden tunnels and passages of her home. The strongholds are vast and old, with twisting paths, forgotten rooms, and collapsed chambers, some of them containing objects that have been lost and forgotten even by the archivists. And in one of the forgotten chambers, Lina discovers a secret. Hidden deep in a cavern is a half-buried airship like nothing she has ever seen before. She’s determined to dig it out and restore it. But Lina needs help, and she doesn’t know anyone she can trust with her secret. Then she meets Ozben, a mysterious boy who has a secret of his own—a secret that’s so dangerous it could change the course of the Iron War and the world of Solace forever. Lina is a young girl who lives in Ortana, one of the archivists' strongholds. She works with the archivists who study and preserve the objects that fall from the sky. She tends to get in trouble a lot and is keeping a huge secret. She gets to a point where she needs some help and unexpectedly meets the answer to her problem. His name is Ozben and his true identity needs to be kept secret. They work together and, as their friendship grows, we learn each of their stories. Lina was a fun character to get to know. She's an orphan who needs supervision and there are arguments among the adults about just how much supervision she needs. She's independent, spunky and smart. She makes some huge mistakes that she then needs to fix. Once we learned her plan, I thought the book would be pretty straightforward (with some definite challenges to overcome) and then some twists were thrown in. I enjoy reading stories like this with my children so I can get their take on it as well. While we enjoyed the story, there were some spots that seemed slow to all of us. We liked the maps in the front to help us get a better feel for Solace. This is a companion book to The Mark of the Dragonfly, which is set in the same world, and my understanding is that yet another companion book will come out next year. I didn't feel like everything was wrapped up in a bow by the end, but there was enough to feel closure. I'm looking forward to reading more about Solace in the future! Photo: Mark Jones Jaleigh Johnson is the author of the New York Times Bestselling novel The Mark of the Dragonfly, and The Secrets of Solace, from Delacorte Press. Her books for the Dungeons and Dragons Forgotten Realms fiction line include The Howling Delve, Mistshore, Unbroken Chain, The Darker Road, and Spider and Stone. In her spare time, she is an avid gamer, and also enjoys gardening, reading and going to the movies with her husband. Website * Twitter The publisher has generously offered to give a hard copy of this book to one of my readers! The rules are simple: You must be at least 13 years of age and live in the United States. At the end of the giveaway, I will notify the winner who will have 48 hours to respond. If I don't hear from you, a new winner will be chosen. Thanks for entering and good luck! Grand Finale Blitz: Fear of Falling by Catherine Lanigan Looking Through the Lens Tour Grand Finale for Fear of Falling By Catherine Lanigan Did you enjoy look through Olivia's and Rafe's lens with snapshots of these characters, their lives, and living in Indian Lake? If you missed any of the posts, go back and check them out now (and enjoy the scrapbook of snapshots)... Launch: Introduction Welcome to my world of Indian Lake as seen through the eyes of talented, but cowardly photographer, Olivia Melton. Yeah, she’s been obsessed with cameras all her life; snaps majestic pix of horses and animal life. Though she sees the world through a different filter than most of us---commonly known as “creativity”, she’s terrified of failing. Zerina Blossom's Books - Snapshot: In Love with a Picture I chose photography as Olivia’s creative talent because it was dream of my sister’s... Though Nancy was a fair artist, her photographs weren’t prize-winning. I think that’s why my sister never tried. Therefore, for Olivia that constant fear of “would she be good enough” is the same fear that holds most of us back from trying our wings. Becky on Books - Excerpt: “Good. Great. Then you’ll control your urge to try to make yourself seem special to your girlfriends by using my horse.” That was it. Olivia put her hands on her hips and marched around the bakery case and up to Rafe. Tilting her head back she glared at him. “Look, you, bonehead..." Getting Your Read On - Review: Olivia's thing is photography and I love how that was incorporated into the book. Rafe is all about horses and not just horses, but racing horses and that is something that scares Olivia. Olivia and Rafe have their share of misunderstandings- back and forth throughout the book. Singing Librarian Books - Review: Catherine has creating an intriguing story of horse racing and conquering fears, as well as realistic characters that readers will love from page one and throughout the entire story. Wishful Endings - Character Snapshots Rafe Barzonni has spent his life trying to live up to his father’s high standards... Olivia Melton’s father was a gambling addict and lost the family savings at the race track... EskieMama Reads - Snapshot of Thoroughbred Racing I have to confess that this idea came from my life. Actually, my mother’s life. Horses were in her blood. I still have the newspaper articles from those first horse races. Colorimetry - Snapshot of the Indian Lake Deli Olivia and her mother, Julia, have worked hard to keep the deli open and improving on their menu and catering business. Mel's Shelves - Review: They are likable characters yet each have their flaws. Family and friends are important to them and are a big part of their story. It's a great read for those who enjoy clean contemporary romance! deal sharing aunt - Snapshot of Horses and Training Track Rafe’s track to train his horse... is a place of tranquility, beauty and where dreams are spun. Olivia is drawn to it nearly as much as she is to Rafe... Reading Is My SuperPower - Review: Rowan the horse completely stole the show for me. His intuition and personality gave the book an added depth and placed Rowan among the ranks of my favorite animal characters in fiction. Thoughts of a Blonde - Review: Olivia Melton works hard with her Mom at Indian Lake Deli and on catering jobs and enjoys her life filled with her close relationship with her Mom and friends around town. She’s not looking for anything more, but can’t believe the attraction she feels for Rafe Barzonni when she runs into him. I Am A Reader - Snapshot of Indian Lake Series Indian Lake is a town of loving, sometimes eccentric, characters who are all struggling to find their way in life and love, as all of us do, but they come together as a group, helping, hugging, praying and encouraging each other. Any one can see how easy it would be to fall in love in a romantic town like this. (Shores of Indian Lake #5) Her best bet is to stay away Was Olivia hearing this right? The one man in Indian Lake she'd found truly intriguing since, well, forever—the hopelessly handsome heir to the region's most successful farming operation, Rafe Barzonni—was involved in horse racing? That made him, and her sudden attraction, downright dangerous. He wasn't just out of her league. He was a gambler. Like her father. With the shame of her father's racetrack betting addiction still haunting her, Olivia can't be part of that world. Rafe's world. She can't trust him, or his magnetism. But there's something deep in his incredible blue eyes that keeps drawing her closer… Goodreads│Amazon│Barnes & Noble│Harlequin The Other Books in the Series Catherine Lanigan is the bestselling author of over thirty published titles in both fiction and non-fiction, including the novelizations of Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, as well as over half a dozen anthologies, including “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living your Dream”, “Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul”, “Chocolate for a Woman’s Heart”, Chocolate for a Woman’s Spirit”. Ms. Lanigan’s novels have been translated into over a dozen languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. Ms. Lanigan’s novels are also available on audio-cassette, CD and on electronic format. A prolific writer, she is always writing wonderful stories. She has several titles only available in ebook format on Amazon.com Several of her titles have been chosen for The Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs. Her novel, The Christmas Star, won the Gold Medal Award Top Pick from Romantic Times Magazine for December, 2002, and has also won Book of the Year Romance Gold Award from ForeWord Magazine as well as Book of the Year Romance from Reader’s Preference. In March, 2006 Divine Nudges: Tales of Angelic Intervention and the second in Lanigan’s Angel Watch series of books, was published by HCI, the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher. Website│Goodreads│Facebook│ Twitter│LinkedIn│Pinterest $100 Amazon eGift Card Ends March 25th Book Blast: That'th What I Thaid! & The Sore Prick... Book Blitz: Edge: A YA/New Adult Paranormal Collec... Grand Finale Blitz: Her Summer Crush by Linda Hope... Grand Finale Blitz: Fear of Falling by Catherine L... Blog Tour/Spotlight: Edge: A YA/New Adult Paranorm... 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__label__wiki	0.696029	0.696029	A YouTube video shows a shopper in Dallas tossing groceries after being asked to put on her mask. (Courtesy photos) Coronavirus Life Living Well Park Cities Preston Hollow Masks May Slow COVID Spread, But Are Also Polarizing July 30, 2020 December 29, 2020 Rachel Snyder 1 Comment coronavirus, COVID-19, Life, Living Well, Masks, Matthew Wilson, Outburst Social media rants and embarrassingly angry outbursts caught on video show how polarizing mask-wearing mandates have become during the COVID-19 pandemic. That politicization of public health guidance has even “somewhat surprised” Matthew Wilson, an associate professor of political science at SMU. “Everybody should essentially want the same things and be on the same page in terms of confronting this pandemic,” he said. “The sooner we get this under control, the sooner that everybody – liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, Black, White, Latino – can get back to normal.” He blamed political divisions such as those between urban and rural areas in America with contributing to differing views of the urgency for disease mitigation efforts. “When you live in much less densely populated, more rural areas, they seem less pressing,” Wilson said. “And so the masking urgency was more obvious for people who lived in urban areas, which are disproportionately Democratic, was less obvious for people who lived in more rural areas, which are disproportionately Republican, and since everything in our society has become so polarized along that partisan divide, this naturally fell into that pattern.” Differences among states are also a factor, he said. “The sooner we get this under control, the sooner that everybody – liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, Black, White, Latino – can get back to normal.” Matthew Wilson, associate professor of political science at SMU “For some very good reasons, we have prioritized state-level autonomy and decision making – that’s embedded in our Constitution, and our national values, and our political framework – but that does make things more difficult when states have very different political cultures and where the threat or the challenge is something that transcends state boundaries,” Wilson said. He added that having the pandemic arrive during a presidential election year likely didn’t help. “Our whole political discourse in this country has become, from both supporters and opponents, overwhelmingly about the president, and so this kind of just fell into that,” Wilson said. Until a July visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, President Donald Trump had sought to avoid being photographed wearing a mask. Trump’s reluctance to wear masks played into public perceptions, Wilson said. “I mean, Trump has never said, ‘Don’t wear a mask,’ but by his own decision not to visibly wear a mask, it at least sends the message that this is not a critical public health measure,” Wilson said. The associate professor added that early guidance from public health authorities against wearing masks added to the confusion. “This allows people who don’t want to wear a mask to say, ‘Hey look, just a couple of months ago, the CDC was telling people not to wear masks. Now they’ve changed their tune; I don’t trust any of this,’” Wilson said. “So, the shifting guidance about masks from public health authorities allowed for this to become more politicized than it could otherwise have been.” For nearly 40 years, People Newspapers has worked tirelessly to tell the stories—good, bad, and sublime—of our neighbors in the Park Cities and Preston Hollow. To support our efforts, please contact advertise@peoplenewspapers.com for advertising opportunities. Please also consider sharing this story with your friends and social media followers. ← Dallas County Reports Single-Day High Of 36 Deaths Preston Hollow Dad Leads Parkland’s Data Collection Efforts for Dallas County → Rachel Snyder, deputy editor at People Newspapers, joined the staff in 2019, returning to her native Dallas-Fort Worth after starting her career at community newspapers in Oklahoma. One of her stories won first place in its category in the Oklahoma Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest in 2018. She’s a fan of puns and community journalism, not necessarily in that order. You can reach her at rachel.snyder@peoplenewspapers.com Home, Housewares Show Provides Cool Ideas For Summer April 22, 2018 November 15, 2019 Christy Rost 0 Celebrate Earth Day with EarthX Virtual Experience April 20, 2020 April 20, 2020 Dalia Faheid 0 Friday Food Round Up January 17, 2020 January 17, 2020 Kersten Rettig 0 One thought on “Masks May Slow COVID Spread, But Are Also Polarizing” Masks work as well as chain link fences do for keeping bees out of the yard. If you must, by all means wear your silly amulet if you think it will ward off the “evil spells.” But don’t start demanding other people do the same thinking you are doing something good. Right now, the masks are only good at giving control freaks a power trip. And why in the world is a political science professor being interviewed? You might as well be talking to the local plumber or garbage man for as much as his opinion matters here. It is ok to not wear a mask. It is also ok to be upset with China for the Coronavirus.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line167
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__label__cc	0.719068	0.280932	A reader of Size Doesn’t Matter (110): Stay Until We Break; A Red-Rose Chain; Wonder Women; Once Broken Faith posted at Friday, January 6th, 2017 at 8:00 AM \| Adult, Audiobook Reviews, Mini Reviews, Reviews, Young Adult I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. Stay Until We Break by Mercy Brown Series: Hub City #2 Published by InterMix on June 21, 2016 Genres: Contemporary, Romance Format: eARC What happens on the road stays on the road in the latest New Adult novel from the author of Loud Is How I Love You. Twenty-one-year-old Sonia Grant, a business major, has big plans for a career in the music industry. So when she’s offered the job of tour manager for her best friend’s band, she jumps at the chance for some real life experience. When her number one crush, bassist Cole McCormack, jumps her the first night on tour, she hopes she’s in for three weeks of some hot backstage action, too. But Cole turns out to have more up his sleeve than she or anyone realized. Nobody knows that Cole is on the road to party like a rock star one last time before quitting his dream to take a more practical job and settle down. What he hadn’t planned was to fall in love with a girl he believes is out of his league. Will Cole play out the rock star fantasy he thinks Sonia wants from him, or tell her the truth and take the chance that she’ll either break his heart or make an even bigger dream come true? Loud Is How I Love You really stood out from the rest of NA, and Stay Until We Break shines too, if a bit less brightly for me. What it all comes down to here is that I really loved the voice in Loud Is How I Love You, and, reading them back to back, Cole and Sonia’s voices felt too similar to Emmy’s. I also never shipped Cole and Sonia as much as I did Travis and Emmy, despite the fact that Cole and Sonia have more relationship development. I’m not really sure why. They’re cool and all, but I just didn’t feel it in my heart space. However, the music element’s amazing, and the book’s still super hot. One really cool thing is that the band’s touring in Stay Until We Break, so that makes the feel very different plot-wise from book one. I know basically nothing about how bands tour, so that was pretty eye-opening. Also, bonus points for the strong focus on consent. Cole refuses to have sex with Sonia when she’s been drinking, even though she tries to convince him otherwise. He wants to be sure that she’s into him when sober, and A+ for that. Romances should consider this more often. If you enjoyed Loud Is How I Love You, you’ll probably enjoy Stay Until We Break too. These are fun, and I’m hopeful there will be one more for Joey. Tl;dr – Review in a GIFfy: A Red-Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire Series: October Daye #9 Published by DAW on September 1, 2015 Genres: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Fantasy Source: Purchased Amazon • The Book Depository • Audible Things are looking up. For the first time in what feels like years, October “Toby” Daye has been able to pause long enough to take a breath and look at her life—and she likes what she sees. She has friends. She has allies. She has a squire to train and a King of Cats to love, and maybe, just maybe, she can let her guard down for a change. Or not. When Queen Windermere’s seneschal is elf-shot and thrown into an enchanted sleep by agents from the neighboring Kingdom of Silences, Toby finds herself in a role she never expected to play: that of a diplomat. She must travel to Portland, Oregon, to convince King Rhys of Silences not to go to war against the Mists. But nothing is that simple, and what October finds in Silences is worse than she would ever have imagined. How far will Toby go when lives are on the line, and when allies both old and new are threatened by a force she had never expected to face again? How much is October willing to give up, and how much is she willing to change? In Faerie, what’s past is never really gone. It’s just waiting for an opportunity to pounce. While my rating is deservedly high for A Red-Rose Chain, it’s very much not my favorite of the October Daye series. It’s probably not Toby’s either. One of the things I love about the October Daye books is how not formulaic they are. Sure, Toby handles a different crisis in each book, and sometimes she even handles the same sort of crisis using the same sort of method, but each book feels very distinct. In A Red-Rose Chain, Toby tackles something completely outside of her skill set: diplomacy. Toby’s the sort of person you should send in when you’re hoping to provoke a war, not to prevent one, but Arden Windermere doesn’t have a whole lot of allies yet. You work with what you’ve got. Though there’s a lot of tension and intrigue inherent in the plot, it’s the least action-packed of the series and the slowest-paced, except perhaps for book one. Exciting thing, though: it’s revealed in A Red-Rose Chain that one of the characters is transgender. McGuire’s just my favorite. There’s so much rep in this series about faeries. So much awesome rep. Even though A Red-Rose Chain took me way longer to read than the other installments, it’s very necessary plot-wise and I love the risks McGuire consistently takes. The world’s beautiful and the characters are phenomenal. Even one of my least favorites is absurdly high quality. Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs Narrator: Jodelle Ferland Length: 6 hrs, 34 mins Published by Random House Audio on October 18, 2016 Genres: Nonfiction, History Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered “highly dangerous”? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who planned and embarked on the world’s first scientific expedition? How about Huang Daopo, the inventor who fled an abusive child marriage only to revolutionize textile production in China? Women have always been able to change the world, even when they didn’t get the credit. In Wonder Women, author Sam Maggs introduces you to pioneering female scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors—each profile a study in passion, smarts, and stickto-itiveness, complete with portraits by Google doodler Sophia Foster-Dimino, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to present-day women-centric STEM organizations. Wonder Women‘s an awesome title for teen girls. Think #BygoneBadassBroads, though I admit that I prefer Mackenzi’s tweets. It’s a style thing, because I did feel like Wonder Women was trying a bit too hard to sound hip and cool. However, I do love what Wonder Women is doing, and Maggs’ strong commitment to diversity in the women she includes. There are bunches of POCs, lesbians, and trans women. It’s truly a thing of beauty, and it was awesome to learn about so many more badass historical women. Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire Series: October Daye #10 Genres: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery Politics have never been October “Toby” Daye’s strong suit. When she traveled to the Kingdom of Silences to prevent them from going to war with her home, the Kingdom of the Mists, she wasn’t expecting to return with a cure for elf-shot and a whole new set of political headaches. Now the events she unwittingly set in motion could change the balance of modern Faerie forever, and she has been ordered to appear before a historic convocation of monarchs, hosted by Queen Windermere in the Mists and overseen by the High King and Queen themselves. Naturally, things have barely gotten underway when the first dead body shows up. As the only changeling in attendance, Toby is already the target of suspicion and hostility. Now she needs to find a killer before they can strike again—and with the doors locked to keep the guilty from escaping, no one is safe. As danger draws ever closer to her allies and the people she loves best, Toby will have to race against time to prevent the total political destabilization of the West Coast and to get the convocation back on track…and if she fails, the cure for elf-shot may be buried forever, along with the victims she was too slow to save. Because there are worse fates than sleeping for a hundred years. Months ago, I requested Once Broken Faith, the tenth book in a series I had not started, because I had a shitload of faith that I would like it enough not to regret that. The publisher may have preferred a more timely review out of me, but I also bought nine books to read my one review copy, so I think they came off alright in the end. I suspected I’d like the October Daye books, because Seanan McGuire, but I didn’t expect to love the October Daye books as much as I actually do. I came to Seanan McGuire from her pseudonym Mira Grant. The Newsflesh trilogy is one of my favorites ever. October Daye, though, might be better. Actually, based on the reviews for the new Newsflesh book, I’m pretty damn sure October Daye is better. It shocks me to say that, but it’s true. In this series, McGuire has built a truly massive cast, but she’s done it so slowly and organically that you find yourself loving everyone and caring so damn much even about secondary characters. I mean, I have some serious Patrick and Dianda feels, let me tell you. Oh, also, if you read these, read the novellas. There’s so much lgbt goodness in those, and you get to know so much more about these wonderful characters. Of an amazing group of books, Once Broken Faith is, without a doubt, one of my favorites. It ripped my heart apart a bit, but lbr they all do. Every day with Toby feels like it could be the very last day with Toby, even though you know there are more books left and so it probably won’t be. It’s really hard to talk about the tenth book in a series without massive spoilers for people who haven’t read yet. Keeping it super simple, it’s continually amazing how McGuire never stops raising the stakes from book to book, both plot-wise and character-wise. View Spoiler »It fucking destroyed me in both good and bad ways that Toby was ready to burn the rest of her humanity out for Tybalt. I KNOW WHAT THAT FUCKING MEANS TO HER. « Hide Spoiler Though I can’t say I’ve read a ton of adult urban fantasy, I can basically guarantee the October Daye series resides among the very best of this genre. If you’re not reading them, you should be. There’s an OTP of OTPs, a cast of vicious cinnamon rolls, and so much representation. GET ON THIS AND HAVE FEELS WITH ME. 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__label__cc	0.562831	0.437169	uStream Chat « TalkCast 332 – The Many Projects of Vivek Tiwary TalkCast 333 – Curtis Hickman’s The Void » The Writer’s Block: Ursula Wong on Strong Women September 28th, 2016 by Stacey L \| Posted in Literature This month, author Ursula Wong reflects on strong women in science fiction, and how they’ve inspired her writing. I love strong women and write about them, so on a quest to meet more, I sought out Katniss from Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games, Nyx from God’s War by Kameron Hurley, and the brilliant Trillian from Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Frankly, all three women made me swoon with admiration for their courage, pluck, grit, and brains, despite their vastly different stories. Katniss survives in a weird world of reality TV gone mad; Nyx fights in a war-torn desert; and Trillian shines somewhere out there in the galaxy. I like women who get the job done, but those who use the strength of their convictions to overcome a bad situation, inspire me. All three women inspire me. Katniss is courageous and young. She saves her sister by entering the insane game. She doesn’t flinch during the hunts. She focuses on her humanity, or at least tries to. Nyx is a paid assassin. She is violent, shocking, and fabulous. Killing is what she does for a living, and she has no shame or remorse. She just strives to be good at it. Trillian, a mathematician/scientist, outshines everyone with her brilliance, despite Adams’s choice to make many of his men flaky. Both Katniss and Nyx let nothing stop them and never accept the status quo. Also, like Trillian, they are smart. With these three beauties in mind, I went back to my WWII thriller, Amber Wolf. Its main character, Ludmelia, a twenty-something in 1944, spends most of her time out in the woods fighting Russians. But her characteristics remind me of the three sci-fi wonder women. Like Katniss, Ludmelia becomes a warrior because she has no choice, despite her protective nature. Killing haunts her. Witnessing horrible acts shake her. She remains emphatically focused in the conflict and confusion of war, and like Nyx, is able to gut out a fight until she wins. And she has Trillian’s marvelous creativity and confidence. Maybe it’s strong characteristics that lure us to these women, regardless of whether the genre is sci-fi, historical fiction or, dare I say it, romance. But as women, I don’t think we should doubt our ability to live with the gusto of a last day, even if we have to fight our way through it. After all, maybe we love the strong women we read about because they live inside us. Amber Wolf is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. Ursula Wong is a retired engineer who writes gripping stories about strong women struggling against impossible odds to achieve their dreams. Her work has appeared in Everyday Fiction, Spinetingler Magazine, and the popular Insanity Tales anthologies. Her award-winning novel, Purple Trees, exposes a stark side of rural New England life in the experiences of a young woman who struggles for normalcy despite a vicious and hidden past. Ursula taps her Eastern European heritage in her WW II novel, Amber Wolf. Destitute after her parents are taken by Russian soldiers, young Ludmelia Kudirka joins the farmers who trade pitchforks for guns in a David-and-Goliath struggle against the mighty Soviet war machine. For more about Ursula and her prize-winning flash fiction stories, visit her Reaching Readers Blog on http://ursulawong.wordpress.com. Tagged in: Douglas Adams, Graphic Novels, Heroes, Kameron Hurley, novels, Suzanne Collins Tweets by @sfsn Daily Rants (538) Science Fiction/Science Fact (13) Sitely News (27) Station Illustration (8) Trivia Contests (29) Coming Up Calendar Jennifer Anne Gordon checks us into her series The Hotel Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz comes on to discuss his comic Area 51: The Helix Project Marie Powell talks about Last of the Gifted : Spirit Sight Brian Menard of Dojokun Comics comes on to talk about his Kickstarter for The Healing Wars #01 My Peculiar Family on Audible Official Podcast of: © Sci Fi Saturday Night 2021 \| Designed by mou.me.uk	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line195
__label__wiki	0.827489	0.827489	Double internationalists Contact bluedragon Post by bluedragon » Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:11 am Following the work led by Brian McColl on Scottish amateur and junior internationals, I am now trying to list double internationalists (combination of amateur, junior or full caps). A triple internationalist would be great but we have not found one yet. I have already received great help from the Pie & Bovril forum on the Juniors and I would like to know if anyone here can help. The main sources I have used are: 1) the listing of Junior internationals (Scottish Football Historical Archive), 2) amateur internationals from the listings in the recently revised version of George Campbell’s original work in 1989 (“Forgotten Glories”) and 3) Douglas Lamming’s book of full internationalists. The only existing listing of double internationalists I have come across are in George Campbell’s book and the SJFA Centenary book. I am really just looking for: 1) other possible players that anyone may have come across in their own research that may fit it into one of the categories and I can check out the details. 2) The existence of any other listings, etc than anyone is aware of and to which I may be able to get access. However, please feel free to question any of the details of the players I have already identified. My view is that the list of Junior/Full internationalists is probably the one that is significantly incomplete. The current lists that are: The players who have won amateur and Junior caps while at the same Junior club Gordon Armstrong (Troon Juniors) - 1 Amateur cap & 1 Junior cap Angus "Gus" McMillan (Ashfield) - 1 & 2 William "Billy" Paton (Glenafton Athletic) - 1 & 1 John "Ian" Prentice (Irvine Meadow XI) - 4 & 1 William Stirling McDerment (Johnstone Burgh) - 1 & 1 James I Stewart (Greenock Juniors) - 2 & 1 The players who just won Amateur caps while at a Junior club. Thomas Barr (Lanark United) - 1 Amateur cap Lindsay Finlayson (Tranent Juniors) - 1 Alan S Johnstone (Irvine Meadow XI) - 1 Victor Matassa (Benburb) - 2 Alan McFarlane (Duntocher Hibs) - 4 Thomas McGowan (Duntocher Hibs) - 1 Robert "Bobby" Murray (Irvine Meadow XI) - 1 Edward "Eddie" O'Neil (Thorniewood United) - 3 + 1 as sub. William Ritchie (Cumnock Juniors) -1 Note: For clarification the list is of players who were capped at Amateur International level for Scotland while signed for a Junior club. So the list only shows Tommy Barr’s one amateur cap won at Lanark United and not the 21 caps won as a Queen’s Park player. Similarly Bobby Murray (Irvine Meadow XI) was capped three times when playing for the Metropolitan Police. The players who won amateur and full caps Bobby Clark (Queen's Park) 8 amateur caps & 17 full caps Peter Cormack (Hibernian) 5 & 9 Jim Cruikshank (Queen's Park) 2 & 6 Donald Ford (Heart of Midlothian) 9 & 3 Jack Harkness (Queen's Park) 2 & 11 David Holt (Queen's Park) 4 & 5 John Little (Queen's Park) 3 & 1 Peter Lorimer (Leeds United) 7 & 21 Bert McCann (Dundee United/Queen's Park) 6 & 5 Tommy McLean (Kilmarnock) 4 & 6 Ronnie Simpson (Queen's Park) 3 & 5 Notes: the club affiliation is where they won their amateur cap(s). Alex Ferguson (Queen's Park) won one Amateur cap but his appearances for the full Scotland team were in the 1967 World tour where the games were classed as unofficial. The players who won junior and full caps Pat Crerand (Duntocher Hibs) 3 Junior caps & 16 Full caps Andy Cunningham (Newmilns) 1 & 2 Kenny Dalglish (Cumbernauld United) 1 & 102 Dixie Deans (Neilston Juniors) 1 & 2 Bobby Dougan (Shawfield) 3 & 1 Dougie Gray (Mugiemoss) 2 & 10 Bobby Hogg (Royal Albert) 3 & 1 Jimmy Johnstone (Blantyre Celtic) 1 & 23 Alec Scott (Bo'ness United) 3 & 16 Dave Mackay (Newtongrange Star) 1 & 22 Peter Nellies (Douglas Water Thistle) 1 & 2 Willie Pettigrew (East Kilbride Thistle) 2 & 5 Bobby Walker (Dalry Primrose) 1 & 29 Benny Yorston (Mugiemoss) 1 & 1 Notes: The Junior details include games played by the SJFA XI against other sides apart from England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. sureitsza Contact sureitsza Re: Double internationalists Post by sureitsza » Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:36 am James Lawrence (Glasgow Perthshire) 1 & 1 sureitsza wrote: The players who won junior and full caps Thanks. I have now added him to the list. Many thanks for your earlier help that led me to finding the forenames of two of the Junior amateur internationalists. Post by sureitsza » Fri Aug 18, 2017 3:23 pm Alex Bennett (Rutherglen Glencairn) 3 (+1 to be confirmed) & 11 ScottishFA Location: Dunblane Contact ScottishFA Post by ScottishFA » Fri Aug 18, 2017 8:33 pm A few other junior and full caps: Matt Armstrong (Port Glasgow and Aberdeen) John Brown (Shawfield and Clyde) Jimmy Brownlie (Blantyre Vics and Third Lanark) Donald Colman (Maryhill and Aberdeen) Jimmy Gordon (Renfew Victoria and Rangers) Tommy Low (Parkhead and Rangers) James Raeside (Parkhead and Third Lanark) Harry Rennie (Greenock West End and Hibernian) Scot Symon (Dundee Violet and Rangers) Amateur and Full: William King (Queen's Park) William Wiseman (Queen's Park) I'm sure there will be plenty others. Post by bluedragon » Sat Aug 19, 2017 8:45 am Thank you both for your quick replies. I have added the current list of players capped at Junior and Full level at the end of this post and added the Senior clubs where the players won their full caps. I am kicking myself for not spotting Jock Brown as I knew he was a double internationalist! Some comments on specific players Alex Bennett – the Junior records I have list him playing against Ireland and England in 1902 & 1903, i.e. 4 games. Matt Armstrong, Donald Colman, Tommy Low – a first look of the Junior records do not have these players listed. However, we know these records are not necessarily complete and so these players may have been late call ups for injuries, not spelt correctly in the newspapers, etc, etc. However, we should be able to get the details from these clues. Harry Rennie – the Junior records have him capped out of Greenock Volunteers rather than Greenock West End and so I will check that out. I think he won his first Senior caps as a Hearts player and so I have put him being capped at Hearts and Hibs. Matt Armstrong (Port Glasgow and Aberdeen) ? Junior caps & 3 Full caps Alex Bennett (Rutherglen Glencairn and Celtic/Rangers) 3 (+1 to be confirmed) & 11 John Brown (Shawfield and Clyde) 2 & 1 Jimmy Brownlie (Blantyre Victoria and Third Lanark) 1 & 16 Donald Colman (Maryhill and Aberdeen) ? & 4 Pat Crerand (Duntocher Hibs and Celtic/Manchester United) 3 & 16 Andy Cunningham (Newmilns and Rangers ) 1 & 12 Kenny Dalglish (Cumbernauld United & Celtic/Liverpool) 1 & 102 Dixie Deans (Neilston Juniors and Celtic) 1 & 2 Bobby Dougan (Shawfield and Heart of Midlothian) 3 & 1 Jimmy Gordon (Renfrew Victoria and Rangers) 2 & 10 Dougie Gray (Mugiemoss and Rangers) 2 & 10 Bobby Hogg (Royal Albert and Celtic) 3 & 1 Jimmy Johnstone (Blantyre Celtic and Celtic) 1 & 23 James Lawrence (Glasgow Perthshire and Newcastle United) 1 & 1 Tommy Low (Parkhead and Rangers) ? & 1 Alec Scott (Bo'ness United and Rangers/Everton) 3 & 16 Dave Mackay (Newtongrange Star and Heart of Midlothian/Tottenham Hotspur) 1 & 22 Peter Nellies (Douglas Water Thistle and Heart of Midlothian) 1 & 2 Willie Pettigrew (East Kilbride Thistle and Motherwell) 2 & 5 James Raeside (Parkhead and Third Lanark) 1 & 1 Harry Rennie (Greenock Volunteers and Heart of Midlothian/Hibernian) 1 & 13 Scot Symon (Dundee Violet and Rangers) 1 & 1 Bobby Walker (Dalry Primrose and Heart of Midlothian) 1 & 29 Benny Yorston (Mugiemoss and Aberdeen) 1 & 1 Post by ScottishFA » Sat Aug 19, 2017 9:19 am Matt Armstrong played v Ireland in 1931. He was travelling reserve and stepped in for Renfrew (Dunblane Rovers) who was injured. I've got Colman of Maryhill playing v England in April 1902 (and for Glasgow Junior League a couple of weeks later). Most newspapers spell it Coleman. Low (Parkhead) partnered Bobby Walker of Dalry Primrose on the right wing v England in April 1896. He also played a few times for Glasgow Junior FA. Agree on Harry Rennie's junior club. Unusually, he played as a junior international at half-back, and in March 1897 was a reserve for the full international team there after his move to Morton. He didn't go into goal until 1897. Thanks Andy. Much appreciated. I probably would never have found Armstrong's late call-up. As you suggested I found Donald Colman spelt "Coleman" and I had just missed spotting Tommy Low. Sureitza has been in touch to say the note against Alex Bennett is because he has only seen the team selected for the 1902 game against England. That is the same record I have seen. Donald Colman was selected for the same game and so for consistency I have added the same note to his record in the following revised list. Matt Armstrong (Port Glasgow and Aberdeen) 1 Junior cap & 3 Full caps Donald Colman (Maryhill and Aberdeen) 2 (+1 to be confirmed) & 4 Tommy Low (Parkhead and Rangers) 1 & 1 Post by bluedragon » Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:31 pm I wonder if anyone can help with a specific query? In the list of Junior/Senior internationals I had included Alex Scott (Bo'ness United and Rangers/Everton) 3 & 16. Someone has queried this and so I took a closer look and that is not correct. We have three entries for Scott (Bo’ness United) playing Junior Internationals in 1953, 1955 and 1959 and all playing on the right wing. The 1953 game might be Alex who signed by Rangers in July 1953 and so may have been farmed back out to Bo’ness and so still able to play for Junior Scotland 5 months later in December 1953. The 1959 game must be Jim who joined Hibernian in October 1958 and may have been farmed back out to Bo’ness and able to play for Junior Scotland 3 months later in January 1959. Who was the Scott who played in 1955? It cannot be Alex who was an established Senior at that time and surely cannot be Jim who was only 14 years of age. I am off to look at it but if anyone can shed any light on it then it would be appreciated. Post by ScottishFA » Sun Aug 20, 2017 8:47 am It was Alex Scott in 1953 and 1955. He was still with Bo'ness Utd, having been 'farmed out' by Rangers, when Scotland played Ireland on 12 Feb 1955, and was called up to Rangers on 8 March. He was 18 at the time, went straight into the first team and scored a hat trick against Falkirk on his debut on 9 March 1955. Post by sureitsza » Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:21 am Paul Wilson (Blantyre Celtic and Celtic) 1 & 1 He won his senior cap first then his junior cap. This could be a rare occurrence in that order? Post by bluedragon » Sun Aug 20, 2017 12:27 pm Thanks to you both for the latest corrections/additions. Here is the up-to-date list: Alex Scott (Bo'ness United and Rangers/Everton) 2 & 16 Jim Scott (Bo’ness United and Hibernian) 1 & 1 Post by bluedragon » Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:17 pm ......and another! Ian Wallace (Yoker Athletic and Coventry City) 1 & 3 Post by bluedragon » Mon Aug 21, 2017 4:38 pm I am indebted to have been advised of a list of double internationalists on Wikipedia. I have checked this out. This had 17 more names than the previous list that was posted here but that had 8 more than Wikipedia. Here is the latest list of 45 players with the new additions and one amendment shown in bold. We now have a “Wembley Wizard” on the list – Jimmy Dunn! Johnny Anderson (Arthurlie and Leicester City) 2 & 1 John Brown (Prestwick Glenburn Rovers/Shawfield and Clyde) 3 & 1 Kenny Campbell (Cambuslang Rangers and Liverpool/Partick Thistle) 2 & 8 Steve Chalmers (Ashfield and Celtic) 1 & 5 Jimmy Connor (Glasgow Perthshire and Sunderland) 1 & 4 Johnny Crum (Ashfield and Celtic) 1 & 2 Jimmy Dunn (St Anthonys and Hibernian/Everton) 1 & 6 Bob Foyers (Burnbank Swifts and St Bernards) 1 & 2 John Gilchrist (St Anthonys and Celtic) 1 & 1 Drew Jarvie (Kilsyth Rangers and Airdrieonians) 2 & 3 George Key (Parkhead and Heart of Midlothian) 1 & 1 Willie Lennie (Maryhill and Aberdeen) 1 & 2 Tommy McInally (Maryhill and Celtic) 2 & 2 Brian Martin (Shotts Bon Accord and Motherwell) 4 & 2 Hugh Morgan (Longriggend Wanderers and St Mirren/Liverpool) 1 & 2 Willie Muir (Glenbuck Athletic and Dundee) 1 &1 Pat Quinn (Bridgeton Waverley and Motherwell) 1 & 4 Nicol Smith (Darvel Juniors and Rangers) 1 & 12 Location: New Cumnock, Ayrshire Contact Snuff Post by Snuff » Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:32 pm Of course, with his cricket cap, Scot Symon is a triple internationalist.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line197
__label__wiki	0.798942	0.798942	James Stewart Birdwood1 M, #708331, b. 20 June 1833, d. 21 November 1872 James Stewart Birdwood was born on 20 June 1833 at Tannah, Bombay, India.1 He was the son of William Birdwood and Julia Christian Brown.1 He married Elizabeth Riddel, daughter of James Riddel and Roseanna Brinn, on 6 September 1854 at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1 He died on 21 November 1872 at age 39 at Thames, New Zealand.1 Children of James Stewart Birdwood and Elizabeth Riddel Emily Jane Birdwood+1 b. 6 Aug 1858, d. 5 Jan 1902 William Ilbert Birdwood1 b. 1 Oct 1863, d. c 21 Jan 1903 Clara Isabella Birdwood1 b. 29 Apr 1866, d. 18 Apr 1934 James Stewart Birdwood1 b. 27 Oct 1868, d. 22 Jan 1928 Flora Birdwood1 b. c 22 Aug 1873, d. 7 Jul 1963 [S7506] Bruce Mathers, "re: Mainwaring Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 29 March 2015. Hereinafter cited as "re: Mainwaring Family." Elizabeth Riddel1 F, #708332, b. circa 1834, d. 17 January 1911 Elizabeth Riddel was born circa 1834 at Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland.1 She was the daughter of James Riddel and Roseanna Brinn.1 She married James Stewart Birdwood, son of William Birdwood and Julia Christian Brown, on 6 September 1854 at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1 She died on 17 January 1911 at Thames, New Zealand.1 From 6 September 1854, her married name became Birdwood.1 Children of Elizabeth Riddel and James Stewart Birdwood Adeline Ruth Harris1 Adeline Ruth Harris married Thomas William Coldicutt-Addison, son of Thomas William Coldicutt and Emily Jane Birdwood, circa 1932 at Otorohanga, New Zealand.1 From circa 1932, her married name became Coldicutt-Addison.1 Emily Jane Coldicutt1 F, #708334, b. 22 March 1882, d. 28 December 1954 Emily Jane Coldicutt was born on 22 March 1882 at Karaka, New Zealand.1 She was the daughter of Thomas William Coldicutt and Emily Jane Birdwood.1 She married James O'Meara on 7 November 1906 at Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand.1 She died on 28 December 1954 at age 72 at Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand.1 From 7 November 1906, her married name became O'Meara.1 James O'Meara1 James O'Meara married Emily Jane Coldicutt, daughter of Thomas William Coldicutt and Emily Jane Birdwood, on 7 November 1906 at Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand.1 Bertie James Coldicutt1 M, #708336, b. 17 March 1884, d. 16 May 1959 Bertie James Coldicutt was born on 17 March 1884 at Thames, New Zealand.1 He was the son of Thomas William Coldicutt and Emily Jane Birdwood.1 He married Ellen Johnson on 27 June 1906 at Thames, New Zealand.1 He married Lillie Maria Amie Brownett on 5 April 1950 at Thames, New Zealand.1 He died on 16 May 1959 at age 75 at Thames, New Zealand.1 Lillie Maria Amie Brownett1 Lillie Maria Amie Brownett married Bertie James Coldicutt, son of Thomas William Coldicutt and Emily Jane Birdwood, on 5 April 1950 at Thames, New Zealand.1 From 5 April 1950, her married name became Coldicutt.1 Ellen Johnson1 Ellen Johnson married Bertie James Coldicutt, son of Thomas William Coldicutt and Emily Jane Birdwood, on 27 June 1906 at Thames, New Zealand.1 From 27 June 1906, her married name became Coldicutt.1 John Donald Coldicutt1 M, #708339, b. 21 September 1885, d. 2 October 1961 John Donald Coldicutt was born on 21 September 1885 at Thames, New Zealand.1 He was the son of Thomas William Coldicutt and Emily Jane Birdwood.1 He married Edith Gertrude Rowe on 3 September 1914 at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1 He died on 2 October 1961 at age 76 at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1 Edith Gertrude Rowe1 Edith Gertrude Rowe married John Donald Coldicutt, son of Thomas William Coldicutt and Emily Jane Birdwood, on 3 September 1914 at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1 From 3 September 1914, her married name became Coldicutt.1	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line206
__label__wiki	0.507571	0.507571	Guest Art Zac Caslar Q’s A’d. Also bonus points for the cheerful cheek. AdamBombTV I can’t wait till we get to the Citadel of Patricks, and we get to see such Patrick’s like Cowboy Patrick, Car Salesman Patrick, Juggling Patrick, and of course, Evil Patrick who has a goatee. For the love of all things holy let’s be spared a Pickle Patrick But Tiny Patrick would be a welcome addition notquiteotaku Along with their friendly counterpart Fly-fishing Patrick. KittyK And don’t forget Patrick Star Zorae42 References aside, I do wonder if the existence of a non-male Patrick means there could be a non-human Patrick as well. I’m all for finding out his Fursona 😏 Are you… into that? Would you like to go out sometimes I wouldn’t say “into that”. I quite like the character designs the Furry community creates (at least the ones that aren’t overtly sexualized), but I don’t identify as one nor do I really interact with the community at all. I just think it would be neat/interesting if there was some aspect of Patrick that did identify as non-human (anthropomorphic or otherwise). Like if his joy or loyalty was a dog. Or if his sense of humor was Wiley Coyote 😛 Eric Meyer Suuuper Geeeenius. Arkone Axon I would like to say that I am not a furry, nor have I ever been a furry… but I AM a furry lover. Years ago, when I first started going online, I found an interesting text based MMORPG (a MUD, as they were called). I was there for a few years, before finally leaving to truly unbelievable amounts of harassment by veteran players. And by “unbelievable” I mean they did everything from griefing and false accusations to using my character without permission for… rape and snuff roleplay posts; and with no motivation I could discern other than the fact that I was helping newbie players to get situated (these same “oldbie” players enjoyed harassing newbies into quitting the game, then laughing about it). After I learned that someone I thought was a friend had in fact been feigning friendship in order to abuse their metagame authority to investigate me for wrongdoing, while circulating slander about me to every new member of the Sentinels (the group given the metagame authority, of which they occupied a leadership role), I was finally done. I was then taken away from that game by friends who also quit the game in a show of protest, and we went on to play other games (such as City of Heroes). And those friends… were furries. I’ve gotten to know furries pretty well. They have some immature jerks in their circles… but they’ve also got a lot of really awesome people among their ranks. Lucy Merriman First of all: holy hell, what a terrible game / group of people, wtf? Second: As far as common-interest communities go (fandoms, hobbies, etc) furries are some of the tamest. I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a furry conversation become hostile or devolve into name-calling, much less any kind of organized harassment campaign against an individual. It’s a pretty positive atmosphere, and there’s almost unilateral positive regard for creators in the furry fandom (as opposed to, say, Rick and Morty fans, some of whom seem to actively hate Dan Harmon? Or some Game of Thrones fans, or Harry Potter fans…) Another thing I like about hanging out with furries is that, while there is definitely a sexual component to furry fandom, it’s been my experience that when someone’s interest is asexual (so, more interested in the speculative fiction elements, or the design elements), people are willing to keep the conversation in those arenas when that person’s around so as not to alienate them. So, yeah! Furries are pretty neat. pun definitely intended Lisa Izo Pretty sure people who hate Dan Harmon probably do because of the last two seasons of Community, not because of Rick and Morty 🙂 I mean, there are definitely people who harass Dan Harmon on twitter and so on who claim to love Rick and Morty. So, regardless of why they hate him, they both hate him and watch his show. (Weirdly, they seem to hate him mostly for not making the show fast enough. Same with grrm fans.) Well Rick and Morty is excellent. But he ruined Community with those last two seasons according to a lot of the same people. And yeah, making people wait a year and a half or two years between new seasons is sort of sadistic 🙂 Especially since so much of the show seems to be improvisational in the dialogue. I saw him and his partner write up about 20 different show ideas, on the fly, with the artist quickly drawing sketches. I’m pretty sure that Pickle Rick was just made on the fly as well 🙂 It was kinda awesome to watch him do that. Well, he’s just like Rick: someone whose alleged intelligence doesn’t quite make up for how hard he thinks it gives him the legitimacy to be an asshole. It’s not merely just Community. Good (and judging from some stuff I’ve read about him, accurate) observation 🙂 Doesn’t make me stop loving Rick and Morty though… or pretending that Community ended after season 4 in my mind. While I have to acknowledge Rick and Morty was clearly made for people like me in mind, I kind of have to hate that it titillates the same part of my personality I despise that, if left unchecked, goes on to rant on Facebook about being the bestest proudest cleverest cringiest asshole genius whom nobody gets–woe is me Y’know, the kind of entitled moron who will riot over McDonald’s shortage of szechuan sauce. People rant online about all sorts of stuff nowadays. It’s part of using the internet. Speshul snowflake oh woe is me types abound. Just gotta deal with it – it’s what makes the internet the internet… Now imagine if we had access to ‘interdimensional internet’ like Rick and Morty have for interdimensional reality TV 🙂 No, that type of people exists because we let them. “Dealing with it” is the last thing to do. Also my comment was not about them it was about me. “No, that type of people exists because we let them.” Pity about that darned free speech. ” “Dealing with it” is the last thing to do.” Makes me wonder what you think the first thing to do is. You don’t like the limited edition Mulan sauce? Free speech means the government can’t give you shit for what you say (that isn’t hateful) It doesn’t mean that I can’t. Especially when it is hateful. The first thing to do is not caving to the whining dummies like McDonald’s did and let them feel entitled to get their sauce like manbabies? If they will be supposed to be “aspects of his personality” (and they most likely will, considering the runner of the city seems to be in conflict with others the way a mind is conflicted with itself) then I hope this one here is not “the feminine side of Patrick”. It’s wonky to attribute characteristics that belong clearly to a specific gender to start with, then it inevitably ends up being problematic no matter the ones you choose to attribute… I hope it only goes the way of “I live in Patrick’s mind, I am Patrick and I also happen to be a woman. Why are you still asking questions?” Also my proposal is not as of yet rescinded Giacomo Bandini Do not get too hopeful. If this Patrick woman is not an incarnation of a repressed, hidden sexuality, and i don’t think they want to go in this direction, then the only explanation is that.she is archietipe of some aspects of her personality Hah, I am flattered but I’ll have to turn you down; I’m already taken. Alex Harencar Welp. One thing is for certain. This is the internet. Kid Chaos Land of the sublime, home of the ridiculous. 😎 So imagine the cultural-psychological recursion involved there, how in your own mind belief in even the satirical images of the stereotypical separate personalities manifesting might lead a similar psychic explorer into the same kinds of encounters. It is hard as hell to not think at least partially in the language of tropes, nevermind do so while also sincerely identifying yourself without them. Arianwen One Red Dwarf episode has the characters crash into a moon populated by fragments of Rimmer’s psyche, and Rimmer being an unsympathetic Napoleon-worshipping twit with more Freudian excuses than brain cells, it gets interesting. They pass through a graveyard filled with Self Respect (Age 24), Generosity (Age 9), Self Confidence (Age 22), Honour (Age 12), and a very small headstone for Charm (stillborn). And then they arise from the dead as incredibly flamboyant musketeers. Sci-fi is pretty good at psychoanalysis. I remember that episode! I just wish they’d kept up with the morale boosting. Especially since that particular Rimmer turns into a superhero within a few days of an Ace Rimmer (what a guy!) selecting him to assume the mantle. Sometimes all it takes is someone to believe in you. (It’s why I favor positive reinforcement when teaching – as do the vast majority of teachers, instructors, trainers, and coaches. I have nothing but scorn for “Professor Snapes” who’d rather belittle their students than teach them) and Patrick Warburt… uh nevermind. This reminds me of that “Teen Titans” episode, “Nevermore”, where the Cyborg and Beast Boy met different aspects of Raven’s personality. Check it. 😎 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWgG8z6KiSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&noapp=1&v=VwWFY6RdE5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rX0Ka5luX8 Snow Cat That’s exactly what I was thinking of too! Herwood Ugg! NO!!! I liked that episode, but Rick and Morty is on the opposite side of the intelligent entertainment spectrum. Just the thought of SFP copying it would… would… I don’t know, make me pass out! Incendax Patrick’s telepathic break was clearly caused by Evil Morty. damocles6 lol, Rick and Morty hardly invented the idea of multiple variations on a person congregating in one place. I dunno… some of Rick’s lectures to other people might come in handy with some of the characters in this comic. Like in “ABCs of Beth,” where Rick wholeheartedly agreed that he was a terrible father, while at the same time stating, “the rotten apple didn’t fall far from the evil tree. Look at some of these things you asked me to make you when you were a kid…” (the sentient switchblade was a double-punchline. First he whipped it out, then it offhandedly confirmed that yes Rick was telling the truth: “Hello Beth. You’ve really grown! Let’s go stab some people!”) Personally, my main problem with Rick and Morty is that Rick’s “genius” is largely dependent on everyone else being stupid and incompetent. It’s the intellectual equivalent of going up against a 1980s cartoon villain; if their government can be toppled by someone making a random and easily reversed edit in the banking software, then you haven’t really achieved a major victory by toppling a regime one Y2K style bug away from collapse. Cartheon That’s part of the humor of Rick & Morty, and sadly is also what speaks the strongest to the toxic segment of the fanbase. The point is that everyone is so complacent, incompetent, stupid, or lazy that an above average intelligence person could kick over the ant hill of society. How many times have you gone to the DMV, grocery store, county courthouse, or called a support line and thought “The people here would drown on their own spit if they looked up at the sky?” Rick & Morty’s humor makes fun of the isolationism, complacency, and lack of consideration that a bureaucratic society fosters. The toxic fans, though, don’t read it as “Look at what our society does to us! Isn’t this absurd and humorous? Let’s laugh at ourselves!” that it’s supposed to be and instead see it as “I am so smart for not being fooled by the lie that these sheeple are blind to. Let me laugh at them.” Eh, I prefer Scott Adams’ take. “People are stupid. ALL people are stupid. Just… not all the time. We drift into and out of stupidity throughout the day without even noticing the difference.” Rick is supposedly a genius… but he’s also an idiot. The therapist utterly demolishes him with a short, simple lecture – without even trying to do so (she just wanted him to start performing maintenance and repair work on his relationships and the rest of his life). And that’s at the end of a really long day where he comes incredibly close to dying… and where at one point he was mocking a rat for trying to impress its friends instead of impressing him. Repeating with emphasis: he was ridiculing the intelligence of a RAT. He left the sewers after killing vermin and making fun of said vermin to make himself feel better. To be honest, I keep hearing things about the “toxic fanbase” for shows and games and such… with the exception of games like League of Legends, I haven’t really seen it. It usually comes across to me more as if “toxic fans” means “someone whose headcanon differs from my own.” It occurs to me that pretty much every character in the show has had an epic rant to deliver with the exception of Summer (thus far. Unless you count her weary sigh and mutter of “I don’t get paid enough for this” as she fixes yet another of Rick’s screwups). What makes Rick’s rants especially compelling is that they come from someone who isn’t even pretending to be a decent person, whose “internal autobiography” depicts himself as a straw nihilist anti-hero (and with a lot of recreation drug use to help him ignore the innate contradictions and blatant falsehoods in his ideology). He doesn’t rant just because he thinks he’s smarter than you. He rants when he looks at you and sees the person he hates more than anyone or anything else in the multiverse… himself. “Wubba lubba dub dub!” Oh man, there are some really toxic fanbases out there. Like the Voltron fanbase that goes after people for shipping the main characters together because it’s “pedophilia”. And then proceeds to send said shippers death threats and notify the FBI about them. It’s pretty gross. Or how a whole bunch of the Rick and Morty fans who didn’t realize that Rick was a toxic character that you weren’t supposed to want to be like, sent a whole bunch of really nasty messages to the female writers in the newest season because it had to be their fault that Rick got said lecture from the therapist and was actually suffering consequences for his toxic behavior. It got so bad Dan Harmon had to come out and tell them to fuck off because that’s not how TV writing works (they all work together and they only give one person the credit since someone needs to get their name on it; they might be the one who came up with the overarching idea for the episode, but not every little detail that went into it). Wow. Just… wow. And the female writers in the newest season… were they all hired en mass just for season 3, as opposed to having all been there from the start but only just now provoked the wrath of these idiots because “Our hero is never ever wrong?” Just… wow. (And I LOVED that scene with the therapist. And then of course in the car ride afterwards you can see Rick and Beth immediately working to ignore the lesson and go on being terrible people) Perhaps I’ve just been fortunate. Or just not hung around with that sort. There’s an artist named Jay Naylor who does a couple of webcomics as well as a number of furry erotic works. And he’s got an entire hatedom devoted to him, that grab whatever his latest work is, post them on their forum, then create long threads talking about how awful and sucky it is. And they do this with EVERYTHING he posts. And I joined the forum, looked around… and then left after about a week, after asking the obvious, “if you don’t like his work, why don’t you just… not look at it, and then focus on artists you do like?” (And the only reason I hung around that long was that I was introduced to that forum by a friend. Who was later banned from said forum for disagreeing with a moderator about a point of law, and being able to provide factual sources to prove that he was right :p ) So it’s the science-fantasy version of Dilbert? patRick: They’re just metaphors, Allison! It’s okay to punch them! They’re metaphors! David Gillon Just don’t think of Staypuft Marshmallow Patrick. palmvos too late. fan art go! You forgot Flyfishing Patrick, known by his love for flyfishing and trademark flyfishing hat. Illiterate Intellectual Starfish Patrick… Dwight Williams Would the “evil requires a goatee” thing not be dependent on Patrick having watched Star Trek (to use the first example that comes to my mind)? “Do you have a life?” Don’t be rude, Alison. The joke about deconstructed metaphors is delightful. Charmingly cheeky and terrifyingly smart, that’s Patrick alright. Olivier Faure Oh, I didn’t get that! “You can only deconstruct them so much” Ahah, cheeky indeed. It confused me a little though. Does Al’s super strength make her very good at deconstructing metaphors? Or is her character and soul so strong that she even has super strength in a mind-setting? Or maybe because he knows she has super strength, his mind expects her to have it and thus grants it to her while in there. Patrick_GETS_me They’re in Patrick’s mind, right? So she probably has as much strength as Patrick believes she has. I see the metaphor like this: Patrick is not sure which he believes is stronger, “good” (I.E. working together, obeying laws, not trying to take over the world) or “evil” (I.E., trying to gain as much power for himself as possible, regardless of the impact on others). When he met Allison, she showed him that they could be stronger working together in a “good” way, so in his brain-world, she tips the scales an beats the robots, which are a metaphor for Patrick’s “evil” side. Dave Van Domelen She’s been spending the last several years of her life dedicated to deconstructing metaphors. Glotos If you can’t deconstruct a metaphor down to nothing, YOU’RE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH. ClockworkDawn O B L I T E R A T E T H E M E T A P H O R Eric Schissel (… simile. You’re on candid camera.) Weatherheight I have the oddest feeling that it’s only a matter of time before a hookah smoking caterpillar and a smile without a cat will turn up… Maybe I’ll finally get to watch a slithy tove gyre and gimble in the wabe… Martin Váňa I wonder – is this Arc inspired by that one episode of Little Witch Academia? I hope it’s more like that than the Teen Titans episode. Both were great! But I liked the existence of individual representations for such minor personality traits more than being limited to representations for major emotions (although it made a lot of sense for her given the connection between her powers and her emotions). Abel Undercity So we’re in touch with Patrick’s feminine side? Neat. Randolph Carter Yes, a delightfully classic Jungian ‘anima’. https://infogalactic.com/info/Anima_and_animus Ophidiophile Wouldn’t Patrick’s anima be part of his “dark side”? Maybe we’ll get to see a part of himself he keeps repressed. The anima isn’t necessarily “dark” – it’s simply the unacknowledged portion of a man’s psyche. Also often rejected and also often largely consisting of culturally “feminine” qualities, but not necessarily “dark”. That said, the unrecognized portion of the psyche is often… strident… about wishing to be acknowledged and expressed. So “dark” usually gets applied… after the anima gets all interfering and troublesome. The animus also does something similar, but it’s usually more sophisticated than the “blunt force” usually associated with the anima (remembering the source psyche is important here). That said, yeah, very much looking forward to seeing what Patrick is avoiding acknowledging. By dark side, I was referring to the psychological dark side, the attributes of one’s personality that are hidden or not shown to other people (and, sometimes, not even ourselves), as in, not exposed. A man’s anima (and a woman’s animus) would be part of that (unless it has been integrated). It can be things you don’t want others to find out, such as one’s impulse to kill the neighbor’s constantly barking dog, but can also include things that you have given up on, such as becoming an astronaut or a professional baseball player. It’s all the things we hide behind our masks. “I’m not the only Patrick” implies so many different possibilities, especially since Patrick can read other peoples’ minds. He can see the things that other people hide from everyone else. They could resonate with him, or they could repulse him. He would understand women to a degree no other man could. To function, though, he would have to distance himself from a lot of that, and not allow himself to be influenced by those insights. That could mean splitting off and compartmentalizing those parts of himself. He could be suffering a breakdown as those parts refuse to stay repressed any longer. Knew it! Smartly done! More drones, or rather metaphors. Better scamper. MedinaSidonia “They’re metaphors, not robots, you can only deconstruct them so much.” BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! zophah So this is going the route of multiple personas and representations in personality? Loranna So . . . I can’t believe I’m thinking this, but, Female Patrick absolutely rocks the grey bodysuit look. I now wonder whether this is because Patrick is so adept at making even neutral metaphors seem fresh and appealing, or if this aspect of Patrick is his fashion sense. ^_^ if she comments on the arrangement of furniture or color later- then she has the fashion sense. I hope someone talks about that mouse hole. without the use of pellets, please. “I hope someone talks about that mouse hole.” I really, really hope no one does. I have heard that mice really, really hate that…. Oh, baby, it’s both! ::bats his long silky eyelashes:: I see the drones as heading back to the Tower to alert whoever holds it to the presence of Alison (and tangentially, that this girl!Patrick managed to escape submission) I wager this is where we find whatever accounts for a conceptual dream version of Patrick Prime, or whichever of the many versions of him there are managed to take control and is causing so much ruckus outside. Is she going to want to flee the way Alison came from, or beat the drone to a race toward the Tower? How much is she going to reveal how everything works here? Will she brand Alison with the same kind of classy yet sober ornamental epaulets? Flesh Forge If Fem Patrick is in control of this scenario (“That should be enough”) then what was the point? If Patrick or Fem Patrick was in control of their inner mind, they wouldn’t be cutting themselves and banging their heads against walls. JeffH I saw this as this avatar of Patrick recognizing that _Alison_ had defeated her opponents, and was pointing it out. Different than Patrick being in control, I think. One can imagine this as a very very literal interpretation of the phrase “dropping one’s guard”. The Patrick we see before us in these panels is in favor of such vulnerability, while other avatars of Patrick are less so – the Patrick before us is corralled by that guard and needed Alison to “drop” them in order to both continue and to speak with Alison. Ptorq Poor Patrick. It was bad enough when we found out he was cutting himself so he’d know which body was his, now we find out he may be equally uncertain about which MIND is his. I think Patrick may be my favorite character in the strip. The ones I’d actually want to hang out with are the amiably bland/blandly amiable Bat Boy (can’t remember his name) and Super Nerd Pintsize, but Patrick is the most interesting. Alison – ” Wait, I have a plan! ” * Rips out the metaphor’s insides, jumps inside with Pat and wears it like a suit. * ” Now it’s symbolism! “ JohnTomato That’s some major left shoulder wiggle in panel #4. Why wall walk when you can fly? I thought the same thing, but then thought. Alison probably knows her powers best. Or thinks it looks bad-ass (which it does). She may know her powers that doesn’t mean she knows how to use what where and when. She’s grown into a hero by being un-killable but very nice. The anti-Batman if you will. Al is now in a scenario where mental vulnerability is paramount. We’ll see what happens. Technically, she grew into a hero by being recruited by the military to punch giant robots while her likeness was sold to corporations for merchandising. We’ve seen that people are actually kinda divided in regards to Alison (mostly it depends on whether they, or someone they loved, was saved by her smashing stuff, or hurt by her smashing stuff). R Lex Eaton I wonder… is it too late to declare Allison’s Mega Girl as the poster child for why Grant Morisson hates the militarization of superheroes? If Morrison signs off on that, I’m good with it. Ain’t it a shame when symbolic ideals are corrupted for the sake of authority and profit? I’ve always thought of her as Super-mensch without the indomitable will and unshakable confidence that leads Super-mensch to believe he can solve any problem, even those that cannot be solved by physical force (which trope has been undercut greatly in the last forty years or so…). Leverage, she’s torquing its head off. dbdr Alright, this is pretty neat. It also makes sense, because patric seems to experience other people’s thoughts as though he is them, so he probably is some sort of weird gestalt person inside his head even more than most of us are. RaijinK Everyone’s mentioning things this could be inspired by, and I’m surprised no one’s mentioned X-Men’s Legion yet. Trapped in the mindscape of a powerful psychic that’s become a tempest of chaos from warring diverse personalities derived from the psyches he’s absorbed. There may very well be exactly that analogy going on, given Patrick’s tendency to kipnap and absorb others’ life experiences against their wills. Also may be relevant as, As I understand it, Legion eventually began integrating those personalities Tsapki -succumbs to the petty need to feel clever- “There are many Patrick’s here. I am Patrick 63.” “I am not a number…!” (wait, is Patrick’s last name McGoohan? Interesting.) bryan rasmussen I normally hate the multiple personas inside the mind trope but in Patrick’s case I think it’s good, Patrick isn’t intelligent or possessed of any particular personality the way we think of people having these qualities, Patrick absorbs them from others via his power. His vocabulary, analytical capabilities and thought patterns have been imprinted on by reading they strongest minds around him. This is really a hyper version of how each of us develops a personality and mental skills, we mimic others and apply what we perceive of them to our own nascent minds. In Patrick’s case as he learns skills from others he often picks up part of their personality as well, and thus multiple Patrick’s exist within his mind. I also think this crisis in infinite Patricks was maybe precipitated by Allison asking if he could read his own mind. Roman Snow “What was it a metaphor for? A robot?” Urthman Linguists refer to that as a “dead metaphor.” S.I. Rosenbaum ohhhhh, that’s right, Patrick doesn’t identify as a person. A person. Just like Soylent Green, Patrick is people. I wonder how he tastes? SFP follows the adventures of a young middle-class American with super-strength, invincibility and an overwhelming sense of social injustice. Written by Brennan Lee Mulligan Drawn by Molly Ostertag © 2021 Brennan Lee Mulligan & Molly Ostertag - RSS	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line214
__label__cc	0.688717	0.311283	Venezuela, Where do we go? BAD NEWS: THE NIGHTMARE IS HERE: The following is an analysis that was made ex-post facto to the crisis in Chili (Allende) and Perou (Allan Garcia), perfectly extrapolable to the current situation in our country. To read, understand and assimilate that this is not over, and that it would take long time to return to the level from where we started in 1998. Things are going to be worst, and worst, and recovery will be slow and painful. The nigthmare is here. We are in Phase III of the Dornbusch & Eduards analysis. But how does everything go so badly wrong? Dornbusch & Edwards explain that the problem is a combination of factors: The combination of external influences (debt crises,economic blockades etc.), domestic policies (socialization of firms, bank nationalization, etc.) and macroeconomic policies bring about an unsustainable economy where inflation is out of control, and the foreign exchange constraints force realism on policy makers. And they go on to list the four stages of the unfolding disaster. Phase I: In the first phase, the policy makers are fully vindicated in their diagnosis and prescription: growth of output, real wages and employment are high, and the macroeconomic policies are nothing short of successful. Controls assure that inflation is not a problem, and shortages are alleviated by imports. The run-down of inventories and the availability of imports (financed by reserve decumulation or suspension of external payments) accommodates the demand expansion with little impact on inflation. Phase II: The economy runs into bottlenecks, partly as a result of a strong expansion in demand for domestic goods, and partly because of a growing lack of foreign exchange. Whereas inventory decumulation was an essential feature of the first phase, the low levels of inventories and inventory building are now a source of problems. Price realignments and devaluation, exchange control, or protection become necessary. Inflation increases significantly, but wages keep up. The budget deficit worsens tremendously as a result of pervasive subsidies on wage goods and foreign exchange. Phase III: Pervasive shortages, extreme acceleration of inflation, and an obvious foreign exchange gap lead to capital flight and demonetization of the economy. The budget deficit deteriorates violently because of a steep decline in tax collection and increasing subsidy costs.The government attempts to stabilize by cutting subsidies and by a real depreciation. Real wages fall massively, and politics become unstable. It becomes clear that the government has lost. Phase IV: Orthodox stabilization takes over under a new government. An IMF program will be enacted; and, when everything is said and done, the real wage will have declined massively, to a level significantly lower than when the whole episode began! Moreover, that decline will be very persistent, because the politics and economics of the experience will have depressed investment and promoted capital flight. The extremity of real wage declines is due to a simple fact: capital is mobile across borders, but labor is not. To make their point, Dornbusch & Edwards provide the following charts of real wages for, respectively, Chile under Allende and Peru under Garcia. Remember that at the time they wrote, Peru's collapse was in progress. The pattern is clear. When the economy collapses under the triple burden of supply-side dysfunction, unsustainable fiscal finances and capital flight, the real wage falls to below its previous level. The inevitable IMF program restores stability, but at the price of stagnation, inequality and poverty for much of the population. And as Dornbusch & Edwards explain, therein lie the seeds of the next crisis: Initial conditions: The country has experienced slow growth, stagnation or outright depression as a result of previous stabilization attempts. The experience, typically under an IMF program, has reduced growth and living standards. Serious economic inequality provides economic and political appeal for a radically different economic program.The receding stabilization will have improved the budget and the external balance sufficiently to provide the room for, though perhaps not the wisdom of, a highly expansionary program. Policymakers explicitly reject conservative economic policies and implement highly expansionary policies designed to reduce inequality and eliminate poverty quickly, usually by means of large real wage rises. I was struck by the beliefs that justify such dramatic reversal in policy, in particular the rejection of conventional economics: Chavez, Allende and their kind simply don't think that the rules of economics apply to them. And when it all goes horribly wrong, they blame external factors while exonerating the domestic policies that have enabled external factors to exert such a destabilising influence on the country. It is hardly surprising if investors do not wish to invest in countries where their investments are at risk of expropriation, or where their profits could be wiped out by large government-mandated wage rises or sudden tax increases, or where rising inflation erodes not only their returns but their capital. The loss of capital investment arising from these policies is probably the most damaging aspect, since it erodes supply-side capacity and directly causes precipitous real wage falls when the collapse eventually comes. Having said that, it is not reasonable to blame expansionary "populist" policies for economic collapses without taking account of the role of the preceding harshness in setting them up. IMF programmes may stabilise the economy, but too often at the cost of real suffering among the population: the desire to improve their lot is entirely understandable. Austerity breeds profligacy, which in its turn is forced to give way to even more austerity. Rinse, repeat. This has been the story of Latin America for a very long time. http://coppolacomment.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/a-latin-american-tragedy.html Publicado por adrianjuris en 17:04 Ruchy Morán 16 de diciembre de 2015, 12:09 Buen Día Tamara quisiera comunicarme con usted para una posible entrevista vía Skye estariamos encantados de contar con usted en el programa 60 minutos con Jose Luis Yepez, transmitido por Promar TV para lara, portuguesa y yaracuy. Miguel S,. Munoz 9 de diciembre de 2016, 11:33 Hola buen dia Requiero comunicarme con la Diputada Tamara Adrian, y asunto relacionado con TSJ. Kenali Jenis Permainan Ayam Bangkok Dari Sumber Terpercaya hanya di disini. Informasi sabung ayam lainnya di : www.sateayam.co https://instalytic.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/mengenal-karakteristik-dan-sifat-ayam-peruvian/ Gulai Ayam Marketing 3 de octubre de 2018, 18:23 Video Adu Ayam Adu Ayam Bangkok www.bakarayam.co http://gulaiayammarketing.blogspot.com/2018/10/terungkap-khasiat-daging-kambing-untuk.html hahaha 17 de noviembre de 2018, 22:30 hahaha 28 de diciembre de 2018, 11:09 Venezuela, Where do we go? BAD NEWS: THE NIGHTMAR...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line217
__label__wiki	0.584518	0.584518	Case study 1 - IDRC VILLAGE AND INDIVIDUAL WOODLOT PROJECT -- 3M ARRONDISSEMENTS The activities of the 3M Arrondissements Village and Individual Woodstock Project consisted of two phases. These are: first phase -- some sixty common pool village woodlots were planted in Matameye, Magaria and Mirriah Arrondissements from 1974 to 1978; and second phase -- individual woodlots, windbreaks and in-field plantings were organized in eighteen villages in Matameye Arrondissement from 1982 to 1984. The formal goals of the first phase were to develop village woodlots with local people. Firewood and building poles were to be produced in the lots to meet villager demands for these products. During the second phase, in addition to firewood and building poles, the range of goals was expanded to include (1) production of edible forest products (leaves, fruits) which would enhance the local diet, (2) use of trees through in-field plantings to improve agricultural productivity and (3) improvement of overall quality of the local environment. The common pool woodlots of the first phase were created in a top-down fashion, after negotiations between representatives of the International Development Research Center (Canada) and the Nigerien Forestry Service. During the design phase, village officials were consulted briefly and were considered to have approved the project. The approach adopted firmly established a pattern of professional control by a forester over the woodlots, with villagers executing his commands, rather than shared decision-making about woodlot management. The relatively authoritarian manner in which the first-phase woodlots were created, managed and harvested increased the difficulty of developing a system of participatory management in the post-project period. It will require sustained discussion between foresters and local people to establish rule frameworks for participatory management of the common pool woodlots in the concerned villages. It is not clear that, from the villagers' perspective, the required effort is worthwhile. The transactions costs involved in managing the woodlots -- patrolling them, dealing with infractions of use rules, resolving disputes and organizing the harvesting and disposition of wood and other forest products -- can be significant. By contrast with collective woodlots, management of individual woodlots involves lower transactions costs. The woodlot owner has a clearer claim to the trees. He is fully responsible for culturing the trees. This eliminates the discussions about who is responsible for what, an issue which often plagues collective woodlot activities. Furthermore, the owner does not have to coordinate his management activities with other villagers. Despite the nominally greater autonomy enjoyed by owners of private woodstocks, the Matameye forester has exercised the same tight control over the individual woodlots as he has over the collective ones. As of late 1987, owners of individual woodlots were still requesting his permission to carry out management activities (thinning and cutting). This situation highlights two important facts. First, the impact of the Matameye forester's heavy involvement in the development and management of the system must not be underestimated in analyzing the IDRC woodlot projects as they have evolved in Matameye Arrondissement. Second, the determining powers concerning tree tenure which foresters enjoy under the working rules of woodstock management in Niger can be expanded to control nominally private, or local jurisdiction activities. An energetic forester committed to closely controlling woodstock use in his jurisdiction can exercise impressive determining powers. He can compel tree planter/ owners to get his permission before they harvest wood and he may be able to impose fines on "owners" who cut without his authorization. In consequence, rural people feel their liberty to exploit wood that they have planted is severely limited and their reciprocal duty to avoid cutting without authorization is very substantial. First phase - Common pool woodlots This section analyzes the first -- collective -- phase of the IDRC woodlot project using the four categories of the analytic framework, that is, attributes of goods and services, institutions, interactions and outcomes. It then relates the outcome of that analysis to the initiative of the second -- private --. phase of the IDRC woodlot project. ATTRIBUTES OF GOODS AND SERVICES Technical aspects of woodstocks are a critical element in determining the feasibility of local participation in their management. The IDRC Matameye woodlots are limited-product operations. They were planted with neem trees (Azadirachta indica), which can be cultured to produce firewood, building poles or construction beams. Preparation of the woodlot area (surveying, enclosure, and digging holes) and planting can be handled by short bursts of relatively intense activity, usually undertaken by villagers as a group. During the first two or three years when the trees are being established, they must be weeded occasionally. This task can be handled by periodic, short spurts of collective activity or as a costless side benefit of taungya (alley-cropping) cultivation by individual farmers. Later, the increasingly dense shadow which the growing trees cast automatically limits competition from weeds. Animals must be physically kept out of the woodlots, either through adequate fencing, by posting a guard or by requiring that all livestock be either herded, staked or stabled. The IDRC woodlots are enclosed with expensive, fully subsidized, imported barbed wire fencing with mesh or with mesh fencing alone. Given a fence maintained in good condition, management actions required to develop and harvest the woodlots are simple and episodic. When the first set of trees have attained useable size, they should be coppiced (cut off just above ground level). Regeneration can then be managed to promote desired products, such as the following: severe thinning of suckers to leave a single shoot if construction beams are desired; less severe thinning to leave up to three shoots if building and fencing poles are to be produced; and no thinning if firewood is the goal. If protection against livestock damage could be assured by a live hedge, regular management would consist of periodic checking to ensure that the fence was not breached during the period of regeneration following a coppice cut. Furthermore, fencing might be required only' during the establishment phase, when the trees are producing both roots and branches. After the trees are well established, the roots can supply water and nutrients for very rapid growth. If trees are coppiced just before the rainy season, the shoots will be protected for roughly six months by the general prohibition against letting stock wander during the growing season and harvest period. In most years there is enough grass and crop residues for several months of forage after the harvest. By the time the best grasses are exhausted, the shoots of neem regrowth will be big enough and covered with sufficiently tough bark, to withstand animal pressure, for example, goats which might gnaw on new bark. An alternative silvicultural approach is to pollard established trees (top them at the height of the first branches, generally above the browse line). Wandering animals, camels excepted, cannot reach regrowth and so fencing is no longer necessary to prevent animal damage. Protecting woodlots against livestock is a major problem only during the establishment phase. The IDRC project dealt with this problem as far as the collective woodlots were concerned by donating high quality fencing to participating communities. The high cost of such fencing makes replicability of the collective woodlots problematic. Either an effective and legal local alternative.form of fencing must be identified, or communities must somehow organize a reliable system of woodlot protection or ensure that all animals are herded. The production of the woodlots is quite limited by comparison with needs at the village level. Many people probably believe they will not get any benefits and so discount the value of the woodlots. A forester knowledgeable about neem silviculture in Niger estimated that, given local soil conditions, the Saouni village woodlot in Matameye Arrondissement would produce a cubic meter of wood per hectare per year. On a three-year rotation, the two-hectare woodlot would produce about six cubic meters. Estimated annual firewood consumption is about a cubic meter per capita in rural areas.28 In a village of 700 inhabitants, with a firewood requirement of 2,100 cubic meters over the same period, a woodlot managed solely for firewood would cover a little more than a quarter of a percent (0.285 percent) of the demand. A better primary use of the woodlot would seem to be production of building poles and construction beams which are hard to find in the natural woodstock. To summarize, the wood produced in the first phase collective lots, (1) viewed in isolation from the working rules governing access and use, and (2) given the technology financed and made available to villagers by IDRC and the Forest Service, has the character of a private good rather than a common pool resource. It is both subject to exclusion and consumed separably. Animal access can be controlled by the heavily subsized wire fencing used to enclose the collective woodlots. Human access can also be somewhat restricted as long as the fence is maintained. All wood products produced in the lots are consumed separately. Firewood goes into individual fires, beams into individual roofs, and posts into private hut walls and fences. Thus the first phase wood has the essential characteristics of a private good (see Figure 10 on page 46). INSTITUTIONS GOVERNING THE RESOURCE The first phase project designed and implemented the woodlots as common property resources. The formal rules governing their use stipulated that the wood would belong to each village whose residents gave land, cleared and prepared it, planted, nurtured and protected trees, and produced wood. The project document stipulated that fencing, seedlings and technical advice on silvicultural issues would be provided to participating villagers by the Nigerien Forest Service in the three southern Zinder Arrondissements of Mirriah, Magaria and Matameye. The foresters explained the formal (project) rules of woodlot management to the villagers at the start of the first phase as follows: villagers would own the wood produced in the woodlots;29 villagers were responsible for periodically inspecting and maintaining the woodlot fence; villagers had to alley crop the woodlots with legumes during the first two years to prevent weed competition from smothering the seedlings; foresters would control all activities in the woodlot; and foresters would enforce use rules, a responsibility they considered an inherent part of the technical advice they would provide to villagers. Figure 10 - Types of goods and services IDRC PROJECT First phase -- Common pool woodlots Attributes of goods and services given technology without rules EASE OF EXCLUSION If fencing not maintained* maintained* CHARACTER OF CONSUPTION Public- goods and services Toll goods and services That field owner will always prevent unauthorized harvesting of protected tree species on his field To prevent any harvesting of protected tree species from his field without forest service permit Common pool goods Private goods and services - beams - poles - firewood The authorized relationship of the villagers concerning woodlot wood, as local people in all three arrondissements saw them, involved a formal, positive duty to maintain the trees. They also had to prevent animals and people, their animals and themselves included, from damaging the wood. Villagers believed that at best they would enjoy only highly restricted liberty of access to the woodlots. If they did think the foresters would eventually accord them liberty to use the trees, most felt they would be heavily exposed to the equal liberty of fellow villagers to exploit the woodlots, because rights and duties within the village community of potential users were so ill-defined. Villagers did not place much value on the production of the woodlots because they assumed their chances of receiving any wood were quite limited. Taungya cultivation (interplanting crops between the rows of seedlings) was authorized for a period of two years after the woodlots were started. Generally the individual who gave land, or someone he designated, was authorized to do this. It is not entirely clear, but it appears that the owner of the land donated for the woodlot often thought he was responsible for doing taungya cultivation during this period to ensure that the seedlings were properly weeded and so reduce competition for water and improve initial survival rates. For these reasons, villagers involved in the activity concluded that the woodlots did not belong to them, but to the foresters. The woodlots were widely referred to as dawan gwamna ("government forests"). This term reflected the villagers' belief that they were being forced to provide land and labour to produce wood from seedlings supplied by the government. Despite assurances to the contrary, villagers felt they had no real claim to ownership of the trees and certainly no legal standing to sue for ownership. In some Matameye Arrondissement villages this situation persists today despite the fact that assurances of local ownership were subsequently honoured in many villages where the wood was cut and turned over to villagers for distribution as they saw fit.30 In Mirriah and Magaria, where surviving woodlots planted during 1974 to 1978 have still not been harvested even a first time, local people have less and less reason with each passing year to believe that the wood belongs to them. Those who surrendered land for the fields have received nothing. The woodlots in Mirriah and Magaria Arrondissements have produced no tangible local benefits. Given villagers' starting assumptions about the woodlot, it is surprising that many woodlots succeeded as well as they did. Villagers generally countered the foresters' formal rules with a strategy of benign neglect. Their working rule could be translated as, "We get by with a little help from our goats." The village chief, or whoever else felt most exposed to pressure from the forester, occasionally checked on the woodlot. Most villagers, however, did nothing to prevent breaks in the fence. Animals got into many woodlots during the first year and destroyed most of the seedlings. The foresters at first insisted the villagers repair the fences and replant. However, in Mirriah Arrondissement and in some Magaria communities, foresters eventually got the message of popular disinterest after several years and simply gave up on those villages. By contrast, in many Magaria and most Matameye jurisdiction villages despite villager reticence, foresters maintained enough pressure so that the trees were protected and survived to the point where fencing was no longer indispensable. From that stage on, the villagers had little to do with the lots. They had more or less fulfilled their duties to protect the wood and avoid using it without authorization. They believed their rights to wood, and liberties of exploitation, were non-existent. At best they could ask the foresters to authorize a cut. Some eventually did this. The Matameye head forester approved and closely supervised cuts in his arrondissement31 at the beginning of the second phase of the project from 1982 to 1984. He retained strict control over the operation until his transfer out of the district in early 1988 after 13 years residence. No villager interviewed during field work said he would cut a tree without first obtaining permission from the forester. Harvested wood was turned over to villagers, who allocated it according to several different schemes. Construction timbers and building poles were sold locally, often at sharply reduced prices. Some also sold firewood derived from the cut by the same method. Others systematically distributed the firewood among all households in the town or allowed interested parties to take what they wanted. The proceeds of the sale were used in several cases to finance activities of general public interest (village school repairs, well repairs and restocking of the first-aid kit with medicines). In others, both the sale and the little money which resulted were poorly managed, but it is clear that villagers considered the wood valuable. The first cuts in Matameye convinced many people that the working rules governing "project" woodlots were not entirely what they had expected. They saw the promised rights of local ownership confirmed, as far as authority over allocation of cut wood was concerned. Villagers received the benefits and non-villagers in principle were not allowed access without payment. Furthermore, the villagers' own liberty to exploit the common property woodlot is clearly limited by their duty to avoid cutting wood in the lot without the forester's permission. All of this, however, reflects only forester Issa Kokari's exercise of his determining powers. His successor may change the working rules of woodlot use. The interactions described above can be evaluated in terms of at least two criteria. Development occurs more rapidly if resources are used efficiently. Local people are more likely to support development activities if they believe interventions are organized so that costs and benefits are distributed fairly. This section presents a cursory evaluation of the IDRC common pool woodlots in Matameye. The efficiency of the collective woodlot management system is problematic. The Matameye forester's exercise of his determining powers to regulate cutting dates and practices means that he controls use of the woodlots, at least in terms of their prime value to villagers. The transactions costs to villagers of arranging cuts are considerable because the forester has full determining power to decide when, how and by whom cuts will be carried out. On the other hand, because the woodlot trees have matured and can better resist animal pressure, and because the Matameye forester has maintained such tight control, villagers now invest less time and effort in managing their common property woodlots, thus gradually increasing efficiency. Village leaders in well-organized communities where respect for outside authority is strong do not have to invest time and energy in making and enforcing their own management decisions. They merely support the forester's decisions. Where the village is less structured and residents are more prone to ignore local and outside authorities, greater local investment in management might be necessary. In one village, Zane, informants reported that a good deal of wood was being removed surreptitiously from the common pool woodlot. There is no evidence in the lot of wholesale cutting. However, if no one asserts management authority the woodlot could be converted into an open access resource and destroyed through overuse. Because local decision-makers cannot control or do not wish to control distribution of the wood to achieve perfect equity, the fixed-price sale technique adopted in Saouni may be quite appropriate in the sense of being cost effective.32 But the incentives created by this distribution system may not be of a nature to build long-term, broad popular support for a local system of participatory management, especially in light of the restricted size and production of the woodlot. If the collective woodlot operation results *in more, cheaper or better quality wood being generally available to all who want it, or if proceeds from wood sales finance public goods generally available at the village level, such as better infrastructure or health services, villagers may conclude the woodlot is a positive development. They may arrive at this evaluation even if they do not personally need wood at the moment of the cut, or better first aid, or have children attending school in anew building. However, if the religious or politically powerful, or the well-to-do, obtain more than their share of woodlot products, other villagers may conclude that the operation will not function in an equitable manner, and therefore they should avoid investing in it because chances are so slim that they will derive a benefit. INSTITUTIONAL OBSTACLES TO PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS The most difficult aspect of the woodlot activity for villagers to organize is protection. This is especially true if woodlots are to be established without fencing provided through outside assistance. Protection means ensuring seedlings are guarded against wandering livestock that browse during the dry season on any available greenery. Local fencing materials might be adequate if farmers could legally cut enough to make a snug enclosure or reinforce a live hedge. If not, someone must guard each woodlot. If the woodlot is close to the village, people can see animals in the woodlot as they go about their daily activities. If those who see stray animals systematically chase them out, this system can work well. If people ignore stray livestock, however, or if the woodlot is located too far from the village center for easy surveillance, then it will be necessary to post a guard. Guards could be furnished by quarters on a revolving basis, by the official village youth group or by any other local organization. This system will likely be unreliable over time because guards have little or no incentive to do the job correctly. The share they as individuals will receive of woodlot production is insignificant in light of the time and effort the job requires. A salary will probably be required to ensure that the job is done correctly. Guards might work on commission (for a percentage of the harvest), but the three years required for a rotation is a long period to work without pay. These activities may, however, be too limited in time and scope to merit the creation of a special management committee. A cost effective alternative might be provision of management services through the local general purpose jurisdiction. The village headman might appoint an individual both to organize the intermittent silvicultural activities and to ensure that the protection system worked effectively. Villagers have no legal collective financing mechanism at the local level. This makes it difficult to pay someone as a full- or part-time guardian, which in turn undermines the value of a woodlot management committee. The transactions costs of organization evidently outweigh the benefits. Production of management services (protection, weeding and harvesting) might be contracted out locally on a share or commission basis. Various rules could be developed to give the manager a solid incentive to do his job properly, for example, a third of the production or profit and penalties which would deduct losses from his share of the product at the rate of 25 to 50 percent. To avoid his selling off the wood in secret, some sort of regular, for example monthly, supervision would have to be provided at the level of the providing (village) jurisdiction. The role played by an energetic, authoritarian forester during the first (common property woodlots) phase continues to have important impacts in the second (individual woodlots) phase. Peasants understand that the Matameye head forester frowned on uncontrolled cuts, that is, those undertaken without his prior approval. He worked in the arrondissement, first as an assistant and then as head forester, for 13 years from 1974 to 1987. This suggests that the Forest Service supports his approach, since field posts are highly desirable. His regime has now come to an end, however: His replacement's position on community forestry could be an equally important influence on the future of participatory woodstock management in Matameye Arrondissement, depending on how he exercises his determining powers. Second phase -- Individual woodlots This section analyzes the second -- private -- phase of the IDRC woodlot project, again using the four categories of the analytic framework, that is, attributes of goods and services, institutions, interactions and outcomes. The individual woodlots, (1) analyzed from the perspective of consumptive uses and purely as physical phenomena without regard to the working rules governing their use, and (2) given technology available to farmers, have the characteristics of open access goods (exclusion is difficult and the good is rivalrous in consumption). Owners cannot easily exclude others from access to trees planted in open, unfenced fields where people and animals wander at will from after the harvest to the beginning of the next growing season. Costs of enclosing trees with imported, manufactured fencing are prohibitive. Rural people could use the thorny bushes and tree species which are abundant in many areas as fencing materials. However, they avoid doing so because Forestry Code restrictions, depending on how the local forester exercises his determining powers, sharply limit or forbid harvesting many of the best thorn species without a permit. In terms of consumption, once wood is cut, it is subject to individual use. In addition, trees cultured or planted in windbreaks or hedgerows, or scatter-sited on fields, also serve on-site uses. Certain of these exhibit the characteristics of public goods (exclusion is difficult and consumption is non-rivalrous or joint). Others have the characteristics of common pool goods (not easily subject to exclusion within the user group, but rivalrous in consumption) or private goods (subject to exclusion and rivalrous in consumption). Illustrations follow. Public, common pool and private goods. As long as trees and bushes remain in place, alive and uncut, they produce environmental protection benefits available to all within the domain of the good. They screen soils against wind erosion, improve air quality and facilitate water infiltration to recharge local aquifers. It is difficult to exclude others in the immediate area from enjoying the benefits of soil conservation and better air quality. Ground water use may be organized as a private or common pool good, depending on whether the well is a public or private facility. Consumption is separable and, in times of shortage, distinctly rivalrous. Private goods. When trees or bushes pump nutrients back to the surface from subsoil layers, they produce a private good which can only be captured through farming (agriculture and stock raising). Typically, the individual who cultivates the area immediately under and around the tree reaps the most direct benefit in increased harvests. Figures 11a and 11b (see pages 52 and 53) illustrate the seasonally changing attributes of individual woodlot goods and services. INSTITUTIONS CONCEIVED AS RULES The forestry code rules create a bias against using local materials as fencing. The code declares anyone who wishes to use wood from any of fifteen protected species, many of which produce thorns excellent for fencing, has a duty first to obtain authorization from a forestry agent. Without permission trees in this class can only be trimmed up to the height that a man standing on the ground can reach with an axe. By contrast, all unprotected species are subject to use "according to traditional practices", that is, they are open access resources which anyone is at liberty to harvest. The converse also holds, however, that everyone is exposed to the liberty of everyone else to cut unprotected species. Figure 11a - Types of goods and services Second phase -- Individual woodlots and plantings Growing season: Owners work in fields near planted trees As costless side benefit of crop cultivation and harvesting (on-site) - improved air quality - protection against wind erosion Common pool goods and services - acquifer recharge - nutrient pumping (consumptive products) - poles and beams Figure 11 b - Types of goods and services Dry season: Owners not in fields near planted trees Unless patrolled full time (local thorn fencing not available) - shade for livestock The results of these code rules are high transactions costs for legal use of protected species -- or flat legal prohibition on use, depending on how the forestry agent exercises his determining powers -- and legal inability to limit use of unprotected species. Protected species may be subject to very strict state regulation and backed up by fence-riding foresters who will fine peasant landowners found building or reinforcing fences with branches of protected species without proper authorization. There are no clear property rights in unprotected species, and therefore no one is burdened with a duty to avoid cutting them. As available bush areas are eliminated through agricultural land clearing, and as the growing population gradually increases the demand for wood for all purposes, this imbalance between supply and demand should lead to the creation of private rights in unprotected species. That has not yet happened. The individual woodlots were created under special rules. The project document stipulated that the trees would belong to those farmers who planted and nurtured them. The project did not provide fencing materials. However, the Matameye Arrondissement forester exercised his determining powers to impose certain duties on individuals who, by planting trees under the programme, gained title to them as individuals or family members. These duties restrict owners' liberty to use the planted trees as they see fit. The forester unilaterally declared that farmerplanters could not cut the trees until they were authorized to do so by the foresters. This sharply reduced the liberty of the owners to exploit their own trees, and acted as a disincentive to investing in trees for consumptive uses. However, the forester's working rules in this case also created a pro-planting incentive: his close control of individual woodlot use served to distinguish woodlot trees from those in the open access, unprotected woodstock. Thus, even though the trees are planted in open fields without fencing they have not been disturbed much. The planters' right that others avoid using or destroying their trees was expanded and their exposure reduced by the forester's obvious interest in those trees. Implicit in that interest was a willingness to exercise his determining powers to punish anyone convicted of taking wood without permission. The second phase -- family woodlot project -- was undertaken in six villages per year, over a period of three years starting in 1982. Three villages per year were drawn from those in Matameye Arrondissement which had participated in the first -- collective woodlot -- phase of the project. Each year three other villages were selected which had not previously been involved in forestry activities. The family "woodlots" were created in three stages: first stage, seedling production in village nurseries; second stage, plantation on family or individual lands, such as, fields and gardens; and third stage, protection. Exploitation, a fourth stage, has not yet been started because most of the trees have yet to reach harvestable size. In each village, a volunteer was recruited by the forester to participate in a short course in nursery techniques at the Arrondissement headquarters nursery in Matameye. The course included instruction in seed selection, preparation of potting soil mixtures, planting, watering, transportation and planting-out techniques. Once these volunteers completed the course, they returned to their home villages to organize nurseries. Nursery operation varied among the three second-phase villages visited (and presumably in others as well). In one village, Zane (first and second phases), the nursery volunteer ended up carrying out most of the seedling production work himself, contributing his labour as a free good to tree planters. He is a relative of the chief, who may compensate him in other ways (support, status and protection). In the second village, Soma (second phase only), the volunteer organized fellow villagers to prepare potting soil and dig holes in a series of lots cited on adjacent family fields, but watered the seedlings alone until they were ready for planting out. In the third village, Dadin Kowa (first and second phases), the volunteer organized the nursery, but village youth organized by quarter took turns watering the plants. Tree species planted in the second-phase village nurseries were selected by local people. Although other village nurseries may have produced some additional species, the range in the three second-phase villages visited was quite restricted and quite practical: Azadirachta indica (neem) is the exogenous tree used in most of the first-phase lots; it is widespread, hardy and appreciated in the region, and useful for building poles, windbreaks, shade and firewood; Eucalyptus camaldulensis (eucalyptus) is also used in some first-phase lots; this is a relatively new exogenous species in the region but appreciated for the timber which can be used as beams; it is more drought sensitive than neem so it is planted mainly in bottom land gardens where moisture is usually abundant; Prosopis juliflora (mesquite) is an exogenous species of recent introduction; it is useful for live fencing and forage; Adansonia digitata (baobab) is an indigeous softwood species much prized for its leaves which are picked when young, dried, and used in local sauces; Cretiva religiosa (ingadidi in Hausa) is another indigenous species with edible leaves used in sauces; and Moringa pterygosperma (zoogalagandi in Hausa), is a third indigenous species producing edible leaves. The second stage -- planting out -- seems to have been organized in a fairly ad hoc manner. Volunteers were recruited to plant trees on their own lands in Saouni. In Zane and Dadin Kowa, those who wanted seedlings requested them and planted them where and as they chose. In Zane, many people reportedly planted seedlings at scattered sites in their field. Large numbers of seedlings where also planted along paths and the road into the village. In Dadin Kowa, people planted as they wished. In Soma, which the Matameye forester considered a successful secondstage village, most trees were planted the first years by five or six individuals whose fields are contiguous and fairly close to the village. Those trees which were planted in 1982, with the exception of several lines planted as windbreaks, were nearly ready to be harvested for poles. The third stage -- protection -- was handled initially in the three villages by constructing small, loose wicker cages that were placed over the seedlings to keep animals away from them. That worked inadequately in Zane even in years of reasonable rain and adequate supplies of forage: animals knock over the cages during the dry season to get at the young green leaves. In bad drought years, most seedlings simply don't survive, so protection is a moot point. While it may still be too early to make a judgment on the outcome of the second phase, it would appear that many participants consider their individual plantings an improvement in efficiency terms over the collective woodlots of the first phase. Producers who commented on this aspect indicated they preferred the clear allocation of responsibility for the preparation, maintenance and protection of "woodlots" that is inherent in the private ownership rules of tree tenure adopted for trees planted by individuals during the second phase. However, it remains to be seen whether those ownership rights will be respected by non-owners and, in future cases of dispute, upheld by the Matameye foresters. The equity consequences of the new arrangement were not evaluated during the brief visit to the Matameye area. It is to be expected that the individual plantations will result, over time, in withdrawal of a certain amount of biomass from the village open access woodstock. However, existence of new, artificially created increments of supply should contribute at least marginally to production of the local public good of environmental maintenance. A slight increase in supply should also moderate price rises in the future, if open access supplies are seriously depleted. This should ease the burden on those who have most difficulty getting access to wood for domestic energy and building purposes. Such an outcome might well be considered crudely "equitable". 28 Isabelle Bloas, a French Volontaire de Progrès working on improved stove diffusion in Zinder since July 1987, says the family size No. 2 stove costs 650 CFA (US$ 2.25) and reduces urban wood consumption from 800 to 600 grams per day on on average. With very careful use, economies of 50% can be achieved or 400 to 300 grams per day per capita. 29 Just exactly who would get what from woodlot production was not clearly defined until the first harvest. The village headmen typically became responsible, by default, for management of the woodlot in his village. 30 It is difficult to say whether the version of the distribution process described by Issa Kokari reflects the reality experienced by villagers. Intervillage variations in distribution mechanisms suggest, however, that villagers did play a real part in determining distribution mechanisms. 31 To date cuts have been authorized by the forest service only in Matameye Arrondissement. Most of the Mirriah Arrondissement woodlots now contain nothing but grass and volunteer Acacia albida seedlings -- which are better suited in any case to the sandy soil conditions prevalent there. In Magaria, trees in a number of woodlots should be harvested and the wood turned over to villagers for allocation as they see fit to demonstrate to them the productive value of the experiment and to encourage them to participate on an individual basis in similar activities. 32 It is clearly difficult to determine whether equity is being achieved in a particular instance. Those who don't buy may not need wood at the moment, or they may have access to wood which others buy, through obligations owed them by family relations, or they may in effect be gaining political or social "credits" by not bidding against those who want the wood. All of these factors nuance the view of equity neglected which the Saouni operation appears to present. The appearance, however, may be accurate.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line224
__label__cc	0.737365	0.262635	The 40oz. Of Horror! Podcast Episode #77 – Happy New Year… Let’s Get Drunk January 19, 2017 by Chad Butrum 1 Comment Happy New Year! We’re sitting here in the studio and it looks like we’re set up for bad porn. We’re drinking 10% beer… Let’s go to the movies, my friend! James and I had a hard time remembering what happened — what movies we watched in — 2016 and we’re trying to figure out what’s in store for 2017. What do you want us to talk about in 2017? https://media.blubrry.com/40ozofhorror/p/archive.org/download/Episode7740ozOfHorrorPodcast/Episode-77-40oz-of-horror-podcast.mp3 Fathom Events is Bringing Horror to a Theater Near You August 17, 2012 by Brandon Gentry 4 Comments If you’ve never been to a nationwide theater presentation by Fathom Events — you are missing out. Fathom Events are shown in theaters in almost every state at over 500 locations nationwide. …and if you’re on this website, then you’re all about the horror. We’ve got the skinny on what Fathom Events has in store. Here goes: Wed Sept 19 at 7pm TCM presents Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Turner Classic Movies Host Robert Osborne will introduce Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and share with you an exclusive interview he conducted with the film’s star Tippi Hedren specifically for this special presentation. Hedren will not only reveal how “Hitch” hand-picked her to play the part of Melanie Daniels but also how the movie that launched her career — ended it. Osborne will even reach deep into the TCM Archives to share more on set stories from Hedren’s co-stars: Rod Taylor and Suzanne Pleshette. Wed Oct 24 at 7pm TCM presents Frankenstein and The Bride Of Frankenstein Double Feature (note – additional matinee showings in select theaters) The event will begin with TCM Host Robert Osborne as he treats audiences to exclusive interviews conducted at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival. Joining him will be Karloff’s daughter, Sara Karloff along with Bela Lugosi, Jr. the son of the classic Dracula star and Academy Award® winning make-up artist, Rick Baker. All three will talk about classic horror movies, how legendary icons like Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi helped define the genre and how today’s horror films measure up to the classics. Thurs Oct 25 at 8pm ET / 7pm CT & MT / 6pm PT Rifftrax presents a live riffing of Birdemic (note – tape delay in MT & PT) The stars of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” are back in select movie theaters nationwide Thursday, October 25th for a hilarious never-before-seen take on a modern classic in the pantheon of awesomely bad cinema: “BIRDEMIC.” Join of RiffTrax.com on Thursday, October 25th at 8:00pm ET/ 7:00pm CT and tape delayed 7:00pm MT/ 8:00pm PT for a hilarious NEW riff on this spine-tingling “thriller”—just in time for Halloween! This one night event will be your only chance to see the guys fire their wisecracking commentary at “BIRDEMIC” on the big screen. Buy tickets and find a participating theater near you at FathomEvents.com Do you plan on going? Contributing Author: Boxcar Willie 40oz. Of Horror! Podcast Archive Episode #82 – Drinking Canadian whisky and watching Joe Bob Briggs’ THE LAST DRIVE-IN Episode #81— Keep the Ball Rolling, it’s 2018 Episode #80 — “Oh shit, it’s the cops!” HorrorHound Weekend Recap Episode #79 — Eat Your Weight in Pizza Rolls Episode #78 — The World at Your Fingertips; Chad’s Better at the Internet than You Episode 76 – Chad & James’ Lives Have Been Changed Forever	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line227
__label__wiki	0.648276	0.648276	on 09 Oct 2008 17:59 Tags: action mh3 rpg screens video wii Hunting Monsters at TGS Just the other day, WiiHD was opining for Capcom to give us all high-quality access to that TGS Trailer Nintendo showed off and someone from the audience had lifted. Well, Capcom listened. In addition to that trailer being a lot more pleasant, they released on-floor gameplay footage, and a bag of new screenshots. The trailer is gorgeous, and if you don't want Monster Hunter 3 after watching it, even a little bit, WiiHD recommends Vitameatavegamin to help cure whatever ails you. Also, WiiHD has been tweaking our gallery system over the past few weeks, as you may or may not have noticed. Today, we've upped the resolution of the full-size images quite a bit, and we hope that makes for a more pleasant viewing. If you don't see a difference, clearing your browser's cache might help. Catch it all after the break. Tags: action mh3 rpg video wii New Monster Hunter 3 Video GoNintendo was trying to embed this last week, but it kept getting deleted from Youtube. It's the video from the Nintendo Event last week, and the first new MH3 video for a VERY long time. It was taken from the audience and at a bad angle, so cut it a little slack. It's got some nice water-based hijinks. Hopefully, Capcom will release the professionally recorded version before too long. And as always, it's after the break. Tags: ds mass-effect rpg sci-fi Mass Effect DS BioWare's Miles Holmes prompted some DS speculation over the weekend when he talked about Sonic Chronicles, his upcoming DS RPG to eurogamer.de. "We have a lot of big plans for Mass Effect. Having a DS version would be an awesome way to keep interest alive and keep it going in addition to the next one [Mass Effect 2]," said Holmes. Also mentioned as possible DS titles were Jade Empire and Dragon Age. Kotaku suggests that Sonic Chronicles is a way for Bioware to test the water before putting their own IP on the DS. Mass Effect was a huge game for the 360, and it's hard to imagine it not being a welcome addition to the DS library. Bioware has a knack for high quality, so let's hope Sonic Chronicles turns out to be a successful test. GamesIndustry.biz Via Kotaku \| Permalink Tags: chronotrigger ds news rpg Chrono Trigger DS The classic and then cutting-edge RPG Chrono Trigger is getting a DS upgrade, though how much of an upgrade is still unclear. Square Enix put up a countdown site, and sent out a press release letting us know that the game was on it's way. Other than knowing it has wireless multiplayer, we don't know much about how it will differ from the original. Full-fledged sequel? Remake with a tweak? We'll know soon enough, it's due out at the end of this year. Via DS Fanboy \| Permalink	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line228
__label__cc	0.577451	0.422549	> Post Now Local home page \| Follow us on Twitter \| Breaking news alerts \| Facebook \| Lori's A.M. Buzz \| RSS Learn more about Post Now Web Buzz A pagoda in Silver Spring - Silver Spring Singular School chief shortlist? - The Parents Coalition of Montgomery Winter's almost over - D.C. Ladies Candy sushi - Rants and Ramblings Money smarts for kids - Sweating the Big Stuff View All Tweets » Fire damages Alexandria apartments La Plata man fatally shot in his car D.C-area Catholic Charities chief to retire Va. school voucher bill killed Man charged in Md. road rage incident A.M. headlines Elizabeth Flock Loris AM Buzz Michael Birnbaum Traffic and Transportation Posted at 8:45 AM ET, 10/14/2010 Lori's A.M. Buzz: A gloomy forecast By Washington Post editors Good morning. Brrrrrr. An umbrella, scarf and rain boot kind of day. It'll be wet and chilly. The Capital Weather Gang says temperatures will be in the upper 50s. Some spots could get as much as an inch of rain. Be careful on the drive in. And if you have to walk, bundle up. Now for your headlines. Coming up. Ehrlich, O'Malley debate today. Republican Robert Ehrlich and Democrat Martin O'Malley, both hoping to return to the Maryland governor's office, will debate today at noon at The Washington Post. There's still time to submit questions for the two candidates in a race that's a rematch of their 2006 contest. There are multiple ways to be part of today's action. We'll be live streaming the debate, Mike DeBonis will be live blogging and I'll be live tweeting. Use #mdgovdebate as your hashtag. Dislike. Though they've been around Maryland political circles for years, the two are far from chummy. Those testy exchanges in previous debates? The jabs and insults? Apparently, quite sincere. These men really don't like each other. The Post's John Wagner and Aaron Davis trace the roots of their animosity in this story. Metro meetings. Metro officials are expected to take up a number of issues, including what to do with SmarTrip cards, whether to allow riders to exit with negative balances and the recent escalator and elevator audit during committee meetings today. We'll have a full report for you, so be sure to check back throughout the day. Today's meetings come on the heels of an in-depth audit from the Tri-State Oversight Committee, a separate agency that oversees the safety of WMATA. The 300-page document identifies some of the same problems we know plague Metro: track worker safety violations, deficiencies in reporting safety issues and violations, and a lack of proper training for workers. Today's headlines. School reform moves forward sans Rhee. The D.C. Council chairman -- and the man likely to become D.C.'s new mayor -- said Wednesday that school reform will continue despite the departure of D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Compared with previous meetings and this summer's mayoral campaign, the Wednesday press conference in which Rhee announced her resignation was a virtual love-fest for the schools chief, Vincent Gray and D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. For her part, Rhee wasted no time sitting around following the announcement. In short order, she launched a new Web page and joined Facebook and Twitter. D.C. may be in her rearview mirror, but we certainly haven't heard the last of her. Liquor privatization plan on hold? Gov. Robert McDonnell might delay his plan to privatize Virginia's state-run liquor stores after running into opposition from his own party. McDonnell had planned to call a special session next month to consider the plan, but now it looks as if he'll wait until next year's regular session. The tensions between McDonnell and Republican members of the state legislature have been brewing for weeks. McDonnell's top political adviser allegedly threatened to pull support from some legislators if they refused to support the plan. A goodbye. Apostle Betty Peebles, the leader of the 19,000-member Jericho City of Peace church in Landover, has died. Peebles founded the megachurch with her husband, James R. Peebles Sr., in a District basement in 1964. James Peebles died in 1996. Betty Peebles was one of the few women to helm such a large congregation. She helped turn the church -- which later moved to the suburbs of Prince George's -- into a spiritual, social and economic force. Peebles was 76. She died of cancer. Tweet Are you on Twitter? How has Betty Peebles’ death affected you or your community? Tell us in a reply by using #BettyPeebles on Twitter. In short: D.C. police are still searching for a suspect responsible for killing one man and wounding another in an early morning shooting Wednesday at a D.C. Department of Public Works facility. D.C. officials are set to unveil their plan for the redevelopment of Walter Reed. Other items. A scary span. If a drive over the Bay Bridge gives you the shakes, the folks at Travel and Leisure magazine agree. They've named the span one of the "scariest" in the world. Yes, the WORLD. The magazine says the bridge made the list because of frequent storms that (gulp!) limit visibility. Here's a full list of the world's scariest bridges. (WBAL) Good eats. The Post's Fall Dining Guide by Tom Sietsema will be out this weekend, but we'll have an online preview for you tomorrow. Maybe you'll be able to get a jump on those weekend reservations. Meanwhile, here's Tom's recent review of Estadio. That's it for now. Thanks for reading. Lots going on, so be sure to check back with us for more news and headlines. Curious about what folks are saying in the D.C. area blogosphere? I'll have a roundup of intriguing posts from area bloggers this afternoon. Thoughts? Comments? 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__label__cc	0.549941	0.450059	photo by Beyond the Summit T1 are down to four as their carry and coach depart By Belandrial With lots of changes coming out from the China Dota 2 region, the South Korean T1 Dota 2 roster have confirmed some changes of their own as they part ways with their coach and their position one player. T1’s Dota 2 roster have been around for a little over a year now, and in that time the team have seen multiple roster changes, but not much has come from these changes – and as the team have made more changes which have seen their coach and position one player departing. Having joined the team in January of this year, Galvin Kang “Meracle” Jian Wen has been a steady carry player for the team. However, with no major events where the team were victorious, it seems that the player has now decided to take his leave from the roster, barely a month after they acquired Samson Solomon “Sam_H” Enojosa Hidalgo. Today we part ways with Meracle and Xfreedom. We thank both for their contribution to the team and with all the best in the future. pic.twitter.com/WA4j8Uej6l — T1 (@T1) September 16, 2020 Also leaving the roster will be the coach, Nicholas Kelvin “xFreedom” Ileto Lim, who joined the team in early March, having a history of playing alongside the likes of Team Zenith, LGD.international and coaching Resurgence and EVOS Esports. The T1 roster is now down to four and is: Muhamma “inYourdreaM” Rizky Samson Solomon “Sam_H” Enojosa Hidalgo Tri “Jhocam” Kuncoro Wilson Koh “Poloson” Chin Wei At the time of writing, the player and coach have not been revealed to have moved on to any new rosters and for T1, they have no currently scheduled events – so they should have time to technically find a new carry player. However, it remains to be seen what they do in the coming months as we see a spate of Dota 2 events in all regions. Related Topicsdota 2xfreedomsam_ht1	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line233
__label__cc	0.685614	0.314386	3D Optical Metrology – Versatile Tools For Today’s Advanced Manufacturing By Eric Felkel, Product Manager, Zygo Corporation When looking at metrology, general discussion often revolves around the relative merits of contact or non-contact measurement solutions. There is now a drive across nearly all industries for smaller and more complex components (which are often prone to contamination or damage by even the slightest contact with a probe). For these exacting applications, non-contact optical metrology solutions are typically the best fit with its extreme precision and measurement repeatability – vital characteristics when nanometers can make the difference between pass and fail. Typically, non-contact optical metrology solutions cause no damage to parts being measured, and are also much faster than contact systems. This is ideal when the requirement is for high sampling rates of complex products. In addition, 3D optical metrology tools may be incorporated “in process”, which is where the future of metrology exists in advanced manufacturing scenarios. Measurement systems are moving from dedicated metrology rooms or the quality control department closer to, or — in some cases — onto the production floor. Figure 1. A typical COMPASS texture map of a full mobile phone camera lens mold pin. One can clearly see the circular tooling marks from the diamond turning as well as the radial waviness arising from small vibrations on the cutting tool when the pin was manufactured. It is difficult to argue that any alternative metrology solution is close to 3D optical metrology when it comes to the evaluation of a vast number of data points quickly and with precision. As such, in a world where manufacturers increasingly require greater functionality with minimal cost and effort, 3D optical metrology solutions are critical to competitiveness. It is true that in some sectors, there is still a reluctance to deploy optical measurement systems, which is based in part on misconceptions about reliability, lack of experience, or because out-dated metrology tools are confused with the next generation optical metrology solutions of today. Recent advances in optics, computers, high resolution sensors, and data processing capabilities make such reservations redundant, and in 2020, optical metrology is standard in industry sectors such as consumer electronics, semiconductor, automotive, medical, and aerospace. For many manufacturers, quality control is key to cost-effective and efficient manufacturing, and sub-standard metrology solutions have real cost implications. Because of this, optimum quality management systems are key to competitive success. Increasingly, the demand is for automated, non-contact metrology systems as part of a production line where high frequency part inspection is required. In addition, there is a growing emphasis on traceability, increased productivity, and global expansion which necessitates making important production decisions from geographically distributed manufacturing facilities. Because of these demands, industry requires absolutely precise, accurate metrology on all parts produced. 3D optical metrology solutions provide the ability to fulfil such exacting process control requirements Figure 2. Flexible circuit microelectronics are inspected to verify proper feature height, width, spacing, and continuity using ZYGO’s ZeGage, NewView, and Nexview optical profilers. Zygo & Optical Metrology 50 years ago, ZYGO was founded to provide custom optics and precision engineering systems for optics fabrication. As a natural extension of its optics manufacturing activity, the company soon became synonymous with metrology for positioning and surface analysis, and today about 70% of ZYGO’s business is based on the manufacture of 3D optical profilers, laser interferometers, and nano-position sensors. ZYGO’s optical metrology instruments exist at the ultra-precise end of the measurement spectrum, aimed specifically at high-value applications in semiconductor lithography, consumer electronics, optical testing, and precision manufacturing. In all these areas, high performance three-dimensional metrology is the key to process development and manufacturing yield. From ZYGO’s unique perspective, the key demand from users of high-precision metrology tools is for greater data density in ever more complex applications. This metrology is often to be undertaken in extremely difficult environments, where traditional metrology tools would struggle to operate efficiently due to vibration or turbulence. In addition, extracting the maximum data possible from each scan is critical to enabling superior metrology on the widest range of samples. With this pressure on metrology tool manufacturers to preserve measurement precision and flexibility in challenging environments, ZYGO has developed technologies such as its SureScanTM for vibration robust metrology on its 3D optical profilers. In addition, a host of capabilities such as oversampling, High Dynamic Range scans, and industry leading signal processing techniques give rise to ZYGO’s “MoreDataTM” technologies, which maximize the data quality and capability. These technologies help to bring the instruments closer to the production floor and facilitate measurement of virtually any surface from the very smooth, to the very rough, and from very flat to highly sloped, stimulating in-process metrology applications. Figure 3. CSI measures texture on a variety of materials and surface finishing techniques including (a) polishing, (b) grinding, and (c) diamond turning left to right. Metrology & Smart Phone Components One perfect example of industry demand for high accuracy metrology with greater data density is in the manufacture of mobile phones, which has metrology needs across the component spectrum. Applications that include camera modules, flexible circuits, and mechanical components all require critical metrology Lenses. Camera lenses used in smart phones are made up of aspheric elements. The manufacturing yield for a smart phone lens assembly depends not only on the shape of these complicated aspheres, but on the various built-in features that allow individual lenses to fall into alignment when assembled in a lens barrel. As cameras increase in image quality, tolerances of lens designs become tighter, and at the same time characterization requirements become broader. Increasingly complex camera designs require complex surface geometries. With approximately 40 million micro lenses manufactured every day, there is critical demand for fast, high-quality, reliable metrology to support this scale of precision manufacturing. Lens manufacturers require as much information as possible about the surfaces and the interlocking alignment features quickly and with high confidence. For this application, ZYGO developed its COMPASSTM 3D optical profiler system, which combines interference microscopy, multi-axis staging, and software for evaluating lens molds as well as individual production lenses. Through full-surface 3D metrology, the COMPASSTM system characterizes these complex surfaces without compromising precision or accuracy, and can identify defects such as deviation from design and process asymmetries or manufacturing errors that would otherwise be missed, and which would be detrimental to lens performance and image quality. Identifying and quantifying defects can give manufacturers valuable insight about their processes. (See Figure 1.) Flexible Circuits. Many of the internal components of a modern smart phone are connected using flexible circuits in order to save space, weight, and energy consumption. These circuits pack a large quantity of connections into a small area, and minor flaws in a relatively small, inexpensive component can result in a completely unusable high-value device. It is important to evaluate the critical lateral dimensions and topography of the components (usually electrical traces) used in such flexible circuits. Historically this would have been done using two separate metrology systems, but ZYGO optical profilers are able to combine both lateral and vertical metrology tasks into a single, automated solution. This saves time as well as valuable real estate in the factory and enables more efficient workflow. (See Figure 2.) Mechanical Components. Mechanical components such as the barrels that camera lenses are mounted into, or the outer housings that contain all the various parts of a mobile phone also have critical metrology needs that include topography features, lateral dimensions, and surface finish. Surface finish is key for cosmetic parts that need to maintain a consistent look across devices, especially when they may be made in various locations and even by multiple vendors. ZYGO instruments like the NewView 9000, Nexview NX2, and ZeGage Pro optical profilers are deployed into applications of R&D, manufacturing, and quality control to monitor parameters such as these. (See Figure 3.) In addition, ZYGO’s proprietary Mx™ software — which powers all its optical metrology instruments — provides a full suite of measurement results which would typically require 2 or 3 conventional metrology instruments to replicate. Mx™ powers complete system control and data analysis, including interactive 3D maps, quantitative topography data, intuitive navigation, and built-in statistical process control (SPC) with statistics, control charting, and pass/fail limits. Having a common platform like Mx™ (made internally by ZYGO) allows applications to be developed in an R&D lab on one platform, then deployed globally on any of the platforms – letting manufacturers select the right equipment and options across their organization. The rapid growth of advanced manufacturing technology in consumer electronics requires metrology instruments that work at the speed of the industry. ZYGO’s range of optical profiler systems like NewView 9000, Nexview NX2, ZeGage Pro, and COMPASS deliver on this need with the right configuration, capability, performance, and price for any given application. Consumer electronics products will only grow more complex over time, so having a versatile, precise, and powerful surface metrology system available is key to whatever comes next. Today, high precision metrology solutions must be sourced carefully to ensure that they represent the best fit for particular industrial applications. Increasingly, the demands of manufacturers are for the reliable measurement of increasingly complex or difficult to measure parts and components, and for an increased number of such applications, non-contact optical metrology solutions are the only viable solutions in terms of accuracy and cost-effective results. The shift towards in-process automated metrology is also a driver behind the uptake of optical metrology tools, but OEMs need to be aware that not all optical measurement solutions are the same. It is vital that any technology solution provider has the sophisticated hardware and software capabilities to maximize the potential for intelligent and in-depth data acquisition and analysis, and provides metrology tools that can fulfil the sub-nanometer accuracy and repeatability requirements of today’s cutting edge industrial applications. Eric Felkel is the Product Manager for 3D Optical Profilers at ZYGO Corporation, based in Middlefield, CT, USA. He has more than twenty years of experience in non-contact optical metrology instruments and technologies serving diverse markets and applications. His education includes a degree in optics from the University of Rochester, NY and an MBA from Norwich University in Northfield, VT. About Zygo ZYGO Corporation is owned by AMETEK, Inc. a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices with annual sales of approximately $5 billion. ZYGO is a worldwide supplier of optical metrology instruments, high-precision optical components, and complex electro-optical systems, and Its products employ various optical phase and analysis techniques for measuring displacement, surface shape and texture, and film thickness. Electro-Optics and Optical Components businesses leverage ZYGO’s expertise in optical design and assembly, and high-volume manufacturing of precision optical components and systems, for the medical/life sciences, defense and industrial markets. t. +1 860 347 8506 f. +1 860 347 8372 e. inquire@zygo.com w. www.zygo.com Previous New Frontiers: Augmented Reality and the Hospitality Industry Next How Is Smart Technology Set to Transform the Automotive Industry? Top 7 Technology Trends in 2021 And Beyond How to Protect Your Business from the Top six Cyber Attacks? 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__label__wiki	0.511809	0.511809	ESPN personalities sound off on Riley Curry: Sportz is serious business, no kids allowed Posted on May 20, 2015 at 4:34 pm Some talking heads are nothing more than wind merchants, and those people have jobs that run counter to how most fans watch and enjoy sports. Supposedly they’re around to make sports more enjoyable, to provide perspective and information, and to entertain. But their actual goal is to incite and inflame the public. So ESPN execs are probably high-fiving and raising glasses of Bristol’s finest vino after the takes spewed by Brian Windhorst (public detective who trails LeBron James 24/7), Skip Bayless (who’s just the worst) and Colin Cowherd (who questioned John Wall’s IQ because he danced, and backed up his comments on Wall by calling him out for not having a father). Still, the comments by these men about Riley Curry’s appearance at what should’ve been a run-of-the-mill Stephen Curry press conference show how out of touch a few people who are paid to cover sports can be. Transcript of Skip Bayless and Brian Windhorst complaining about Riley Curry on First Take @BlueManHoop@LOLKNBRpic.twitter.com/uLVx5xuOVV — Eric He (@erichesports) May 20, 2015 Bayless calling for the NBA “to preserve the sanctity of the postgame” is amazing. Here’s a rule: If you think of a comment that includes the word “sanctity” in a way that isn’t 100% ironic, DON’T SAY IT. And Windhorst dropping the “business setting” nonsense … uh, we stand around in steamy locker rooms 20 feet away from guys who are showering. Athletes make a game out of throwing their towels and game-worn uniforms, socks and whatever else over reporters’ heads into laundry bins. Some “business setting.” And in what “business setting” do people order others to “talk about” something? If we ever get to a point where kids are forbidden at press conferences, questions with “talk about” need to be banned as well. It’s only fair. Maybe even drop the “how did it feel when you ____” questions, which athletes and coaches make fun of behind the scenes. Let’s move on from “First Take” to “The Herd,” a show on ESPN Radio. “Steph Curry was great, I came in this morning and you couldn’t use any of [his press conference] because his kid was yapping in the background,” Cowherd said Wednesday morning amidst a rant that included some industrial-grade false equivalencies, like, “I don’t bring my kids to work,” and, “What if a school teacher brought their kids to work?” Ahem, Colin, Steph Curry didn’t bring his daughter onto the court and the press conference went viral. How is this akin to you letting your children interrupt one of your uptight lectures on #business practices? You talk for a living — Steph Curry doesn’t. Let this one slide. “It’s not the end of the world, but it’s a gateway into another topic,” he continued. “Casual dress Friday.” Seriously guys, someone help this man overcome his debilitating Type-A personality disorder. “Airline pilots: ‘I’m gonna wear flip flops just this one flight,’ then it’s, ‘I’m not wearing a belt,’ then it’s untucked — then pretty soon I’ve got Spicoli at the controls.” I was at the press conference, as you can see from the super-raw Vine footage I dropped on the internets after the game. (Check it out to get the perspective of a true Riley Insider!) Riley’s appearance added MAYBE two minutes to Curry’s session. Not one person in attendance complained. As Andy Liu mentioned, everyone had their phones out like it was a rave (myself included). And Curry (who’s essentially a more talkative Buster Posey — a star who rarely comes close to saying anything remotely controversial) produced every quote he would’ve normally if Riley wasn’t there. No offense to Steph, who’s smart, accessible and one of the best athletes I’ve ever seen in person, but he’s not even in the top three when you’re looking at the most quotable Warriors. Draymond Bogues Mo Buckets (no filter) (tie) Iguodala and Curry That’s just my opinion, and the ESPN guys are entitled to theirs. And maybe I’m biased because my baby is six months old, and as I watched Riley I started imagining what my daughter will be like at Riley’s age. But isn’t this what sports is supposed to be all about? Adults play the games and report on the action, but the kids drive the family outings to games (not literally, because that would be illegal and dangerous). They’re the ones who imagine what’d it’d be like to be in Curry’s shoes. It’s a basketball game, not a White House press briefing. Curry showed us that despite his talent, drive and fame, he allows himself to worry about more than … well, himself. His wife is pregnant, and he took Riley (a very cute handful, but clearly a handful) off Ayesha’s hands for a few minutes. Instead of talking about how his jump shots felt as he flicked his right wrist, he gave the world an extra glimpse into what he’s about. Preserve the sanctity of the press conference? The NBA has to be celebrating! It wasn’t that long ago when guys like these ESPN personalities were lamenting the rise of “rap culture” in the NBA, and how that made it difficult for the ticket-buying public (read: rich white guys) to relate. Curry seems like a perfect human (he’s even a scratch golfer), and what’s more relatable than a guy losing control of his two-year-old in public? “Important quotes”? This press conference was watched by a wider audience than any I can remember, because fans don’t give a crap about cookie-cutter questions and cliche answers, and they definitely don’t care about reporters’ deadlines. This is all entertainment, for people of all ages (especially kids), and those who can’t adapt to press conferences that stray from the norm need to take a look within and remember why they started covering sports in the first place. Related Items:Brian Windhorst, Colin Cowherd, Golden State Warriors, Riley Curry press conference, Skip Bayless, Steph Curry, Stephen Curry, zzzfeatured Draymond Green and Andrew Bogut named to NBA All-Defensive teams Union members demonstrating against Cumulus tonight outside AT&T Park	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line242
__label__wiki	0.656269	0.656269	On White Women and Buddhism December 11, 2010 \| arun What’s gender got to do with Buddhism? How are women—and men—working with the challenges of sexism in Buddhist institutions? What opportunities present themselves when women pursue the path of dharma outside of traditional institutions and organizations? With these questions—and more—we are welcomed into Buddhadharma’s Winter 2010 feature, “Our Way.” Brought together to discuss these questions are the brilliant minds of Grace Schireson, Christina Feldman, Lama Palden Drolma, Rita Gross, Lama Tsultrim Allione, and Joan Sutherland. These authors delve into the history of women bringing balance to the Buddhist community, current forward-moving trends and the outlines of a more equitable future for us all. But apart from these great women and their compelling discussion, I found something missing. Namely, Asians. In fact, no People of Color were included in this list—but here I prefer to underline the most blatant omission. For a feature that focuses “on women and Buddhism”—the editors chose none to represent Buddhism’s largest demographic: Asian women. Even when we narrow our purview to the Buddhist community in the “West,” Buddhists of Asian heritage are still an obvious part of the picture. Our voices are Western voices. Our mothers, sisters and daughters also reside in these lands, attend Western schools, live by Western rules, embrace Western values and grapple with the pernicious challenges of patriarchy that so regrettably pervade time and border. Asian American Buddhist women even represent the State of Hawai‘i in the U.S. House. By charting “Our Way” with the voices of white women, Buddhadharma has chosen to displace Asian women from “our” discussion. Keep in mind that there are plenty of Asian Buddhist women capable of delving into these questions. The editors could easily have contacted Mushim Ikeda-Nash, Rev. Patti Usuki, Ven. Tenzin Kacho or Anchalee Kurutach, women of varied backgrounds who are engaged Buddhists and also Asian American. (In fact, you can even listen right now to two of them talk about Buddhism in the United States—in an all-Asian American broadcast to boot!) All that said, when it comes to Shambhala Sun’s track record at bringing Asians into the conversation, they’ve made it clear that, well, we’ve just about got a Chinaman’s chance. My laments have become so frequent that they are banal. Only last month I admonished Shambhala Sun Space (among others) for covering white non-Buddhist politicians, while completely ignoring non-white politicians who are actually Buddhist. Two years ago, I excoriated Buddhadharma for deliberately excluding Asian Americans from a forum on “the future of Buddhism in a post-baby boomer world.” We can even look back to Beneath a Single Moon, Shambhala Publication’s anthology of contemporary Buddhist poetry, which failed to include a single Asian American Buddhist poet. Keep it up, and I’ll be able to publish an anthology of my own—a record of Asian Americans’ marginalization by the white Buddhist establishment. If any of this is news to you, welcome to the discussion. Concerning the key actors involved, however, no new ground has been covered. We all know this dance. Angry Asian Buddhists castigate the white-privileged editors—who in turn acknowledge their faux pas, bemoan their obliviousness and profess their love for equality. Who knows, they may even ask for a letter to the editor. How grand! But what would it take to have real change? How do we get consideration for a seat on that next panel—and how do we avoid being Chinatowned into a group of Asians talking about some “Asian” topic? I assure you, we Asian Buddhists can do a lot more than iron your clothes, paint your nails and serve you our “ethnic” food. We can talk about individual struggles, community institutions and transformative frameworks. I work with white Buddhists (and other Buddhists of color) all the time out here in the field, but I wonder what it takes to hang with the white kids in the big leagues. Many of the divisions in the Buddhist community cannot be healed overnight. As one simple step, publications like Buddhadharma could simply recognize the broader diversity that exists. There are few starker lines of the so-called “ethnic divide” than the refusal of white Buddhists to even acknowledge the voices of the Asian Buddhist majority in the West. Asian BuddhistsBuddhadharmaFeminismWestern Buddhistswhite Buddhists < Best Buddhist Writing 2010 Tribute to Preah Ros Mey, 1925-2010 > One thought on “On White Women and Buddhism” Archivist says: Archivist’s Note: Comments have been preserved from the original website for archival purposes; however, comments are now closed. @tishushuDecember 11, 2010 at 8:31 AM I say publish your arguments… Not having a woman of Asian descent, or other POC, represented in this discussion is yet another reason why I don’t support these periodicals… I would buy your published work, too! NathanDecember 11, 2010 at 10:12 AM I saw the same thing when I opened the issue. One woman of color on the front page and zero in the actual discussion. Buddhadharma is an excellent publication in many ways, but like Trike and Shambala, it’s mostly the same cast of mostly white writers and teachers over and over again, with a heavy seasoning of “celebrity” Asian teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama. I hate to say it, but I don’t think it will change until either a)the leadership changes at these pubs and/or b)rival publications with completely different approaches gain prominence and challenge the monopoly. The internet is already breaking some of this down, and print media is struggling to stay relevant, but there’s still too much unnecessary division being disseminated, whether in print or on-line. The white leadership (teachers, scholars, and prominent lay practitioners) of the “convert” Buddhist community need to wake up, grow up, and stop acting like they have discovered some “essence” of Buddhism that must trump all over views and approaches. Richard HarroldDecember 11, 2010 at 2:21 PM Despite the fact I am a white male, I would love to be involved in launching a Buddhist publication that is dominated by minority contributors and that would have an editorial board in which whites were a distinct minority. I have no money to invest in such a venture, but I have a strong background in both print and online media (I was an editor of a daily newspaper and currently I am the content director for a family of news websites). What do you think? thanissaraDecember 13, 2010 at 2:54 PM I think its a good idea… it’d be good to have perspectives from those ‘in the margins’ – To move the margins more central – one powerful way of doing this is through publication. thanissaraDecember 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM It’s taken a lot of hard work by some POC (People of Color) Dharma leaders and community – to make conscious some of the issues raised in this article. It takes a particular kind of focus to explore bringing accessibility to Dharma, and visibility, to those communities who are marginalized because of race, sexual orientation, class, economic income – At present in Western Buddhism, Dharma teachers, resources, power, narrative, tends to be very much in the white middle-upper class domain. As we can see from the dialog around gender equity in Buddhist monasticism, it takes a lot to educate about the impact of assumed entitlement – how that tends to exclude, dis-empower and undermine the growth of leadership in those who are not offered the same levels of support, encouragement, resources and respect. The same kind of ‘platform.’ Entitlement makes huge amounts of the lived reality, of those who struggle as a consequence of disparity, entirely invisible. I see Awakening not only a transcendence of our conditioned views about those who appear different – but Awakening is a process that directly uncovers and makes conscious our learned individual, cultural and collective prejudice’s. This is painful work and requires much inner honesty and reflection. Jeffrey KotykJanuary 6, 2011 at 2:16 AM On the reverse, I imagine if you look at Chinese language periodicals on Buddhism you’ll hardly find a photo of non-Asians. You complain that Asians are excluded from Buddhism in the west, but there are plenty of temples in western countries that cater specifically to a certain demographic and exclude everybody else. They operate in a foreign language and print their materials almost entirely in non-English languages. I read Chinese and Japanese and I’ve seldom if ever seen in Buddhist publications much interest taken in what white Buddhists are up to. Discrimination goes both ways unfortunately. ArunJanuary 6, 2011 at 8:01 AM @Jeffrey Kotyk: Your comment here compares apples to oranges. I’ll elaborate on this more in a separate post, but simply put—to what extent are white Chinese-speaking Buddhist voices underrepresented in Chinese-language Buddhist publications? I imagine reality is quite reflective of the numbers. On the other hand, I am looking at the underrepresentation of Asian English-speaking Buddhist voices in English-language Buddhist publications—that discrepancy is much larger. But even this is beside the point. Your comment amounts to little more than “I know what you are, but what am I?” So what if Chinese-language Buddhist publications deliberately exclude white Chinese speaking Buddhists? It would certainly be neither fair nor just—but this inequity in no way excuses the very same exclusion by a Western Buddhist publication whose editors do aim to promote fairness and justice.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line244
__label__cc	0.563397	0.436603	NICKEL MINING – Crowflight secures Bucko Lake licence MANITOBA - Toronto-based CROWFLIGHT MINERALS has received the provincial Environment Act licence that allows produc... CaNickel Mining Limited MANITOBA – Toronto-based CROWFLIGHT MINERALS has received the provincial Environment Act licence that allows production to begin at its Bucko Lake nickel mine near Wabowden. The company says production could start as early as the third quarter of this year, but it is unlikely that federal permits for the storage of tails in Bucko Lake would be issued by that time. Therefore, the company has submitted a notice of alteration to its original environment proposal that will allow it to store tailings temporarily on a land-based site – “temporary” being as long as 12 months, provided half the waste material is returned to mined-out areas underground. Due to the design of the temporary tailings management area, only provincial permitting is required. However, Crowflight will continue the process of securing federal environmental permits for the use of Bucko Lake as a tailings impoundment area (TIA) for long-term tailings storage. Once the final approval for the proposed TIA is obtained from the federal government, the company plans to transfer the tailings stored temporarily on land to the Bucko Lake TIA, as this method is considered the most environmentally-sound approach for secure, long-term tailings storage. Crowflight’s construction schedule calls for commissioning the processing plant, and ore throughput ramp-up will occur in the third quarter of 2008, with mill commissioning expected in July and the first ore to be processed through the mill in August of 2008. Please visit www.crowflight.com for photos of construction activities at the Bucko Lake nickel project. NET NIT – An insider’s take on the DRC GOLD EXPLORATION – Starratt Olsen drilling returns near 6-oz intersection	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line253
__label__cc	0.595204	0.404796	LvB Restaurant Experience Today I am going to dedicate this review to one of the most incredible restaurants I had visited these days. I had a chance to speak to LvB’s owner Toni Ventura and the head chef Ryan Gialanze about their newly launched concept, get to know about the gastronomical experience that they offer and find out about their ideas regarding the local food industry. I must say, this was one of the most mysterious conversations I had so far, which makes it even more interesting to write about! If you are curious, you should definitely continue reading! First things first, let’s make the name of the restaurant clear – the abbreviation of LvB means ‘Lobster versus Beef’, a simple yet fancy combination known as Surf-n-Turf worldwide. Though this concept is no longer a discovery for a larger-scale gastronomical arena, it is, however, quite unique for the local food industry. Coming from a family-run retail business, Toni Ventura analysed the restaurant industry and realised that the local diners had started expecting a lot more than just a good meal – they were after a new experience. Given a steady growth of restaurants appearing on the market, Toni felt the need for differentiating himself from the crowd. He knew that in order to succeed he needed to be original and that was the time when he got inspired by the lobster and beef concept. Even though he was never a chef himself, Toni wanted to create something simple, yet original. ‘I imagined it to be a fancy New York Deli style restaurant, where I would serve pastrami with lobster benedict’, says Toni. He then decided to leave the price of the beef normal, while reducing the lobster price, hoping that people would reciprocate one day. ‘And it really worked out’, admits Toni. LvB was opened as recently as on the 2nd of February 2017, just half a year ago. ‘Even though there were a lot of risks involved, the way I overcame them is still my biggest accomplishment’, says Toni Ventura. It has been a month since Toni has got introduced to Ryan Gialanze, the present chief of LvB. Only by listening to their story one can instantly become inspired – it’s not a common practice to develop such a synergy at work between the two different personalities. The secret lies in finding a balance and in smart allocation of responsibilities – while Toni is a business-oriented individual, Ryan is the one in charge of the kitchen. He is the person who comes up with the items on the menu, some of which are being updated as often as once a week. ‘I am happy to be working with Toni. We are a team’, says Ryan. Toni and Ryan acknowledge a variety of restaurants in Malta, yet they do not consider themselves to be competing with others. ‘We are here not to compete, but to work together towards educating people about food, bringing them an experience that is set at a high level, while keeping our business sustainable’, points Ryan. As we all know, food sustainability is currently one of the most serious social concerns and I was pleased to hear I found a restaurant that shares this opinion. Toni and Ryan’s aim is to order only as much products and ingredients as they will actually serve, not more than that. ‘Like this we are not only reducing the food waste to the minimum but also saving a lot of costs’, argues Toni. ‘When people come to our restaurant – that means they have chosen us. Yes, they are willing to spend money, but, most importantly, they are willing to spend their time. This is what matters the most and this is why we strive to give them something back, a new incredible experience’, says Ryan. Being humble and attentive to each and every customer that comes to dine at LvB, you shouldn’t doubt that you would be receiving an exceptional service. Ryan himself comes to every table to explain his dishes – the kind of attitude that I personally admire so much. LvB has reevaluated its original direction to become a restaurant serving only the tasting menus, which, by all means, requires a lot of confidence. At the moment, you can find three menus – lobster and beef 5 and 7 course menu and vegetarian 7 course menu. It might be surprising to find a whole menu consisting of 7 vegetarian different dishes in the restaurant called ‘Lobster versus Beef’. However, I must assure you, as a person who loves to eat both meat and seafood, the items on this menu are mouth-watering to say the least! What do you think about sous vide pumpkin and chickpea dahl with coconut and coriander? Do the variations of beetroot with cashew cheese and truffle sound as delicious to you as they do to me? I appreciate their vegetarian menu even more, because it was created as something separate, not additional. Something as good as meat or fish. Well, I am definitely trying them next time when I come to LvB. With regards to the original lobster and beef menus – I can say that both 5 and 7 courses are outstanding and must-try. Lobster Ceaser Salad served with Spanish Iberico ham and black caviar, pork belly with apples and samphire, rockfish with crab, water spinach and parsnip topped with bisque are just three items of the lists. Not to mention the artistic and aesthetic plate presentation – all together the experience is mind-blowing. Though it is not in my intention to spoil a surprise, the wine selection at LvB is planned to experience some changes in the nearest future. With the assistance of a professional sommelier, Toni and Ryan are willing to add value to the variety and types of wine they offer at LvB. There are even bigger and greater plans that the guys are preparing for us and this information will be revealed in the nearest future. I told you, our talk was a mysterious one, so my advise would be to keep yourself updated for more news! I never stop wondering, whether creativity is something that is inherited by birth or developed during the lifetime. Although both Toni and Ryan have been creative and passionate about cooking since their early childhoods, they both feel that experience and practice had a role in their development. While Ryan has realised that cooking is his calling at a young age, Toni has changed his direction from running a family retail business to opening his own restaurant with a fresh approach. It gets me fascinating to hear stories like these – how inspiring it is to do something you truly love? I wish everyone to find their passion and embrace it, like Toni and Ryan did. Hope you have enjoyed reading my article and I will be looking forward to receiving your insights! LVB Restaurant Go: 65/66, Merchants Street, Valletta, Malta Call: 7928 5845 When: Tuesday-Sunday 19:00-23:00 Enormous thanks to Aygul Yunusova for all her help.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line263
__label__cc	0.630959	0.369041	Readers' Choice Awards 2016 ~ Results Release Day Review: Enemy of My Enemy (The Executive Office #2) by Tal Bauer Title ~ Enemy of My Enemy (The Executive Office #2) Author ~ Tal Bauer Publisher ~ NineStar Press Published ~ 24th October 2016 Genre ~ Contemporary M/M Romance Fifteen years from now, an affair rocks the world. Two men commit to their impossible love. One general is determined to destroy them both. President Jack Spiers and former Secret Service Agent Ethan Reichenbach throw caution to the wind, committing themselves publicly as the first out male lovers and partners to occupy the White House. Jack moves Ethan into the Residence, but as Ethan settles into his new role as first gentleman of the United States, not everyone is thrilled with their choices. When it seems like the world turns against them, Jack and Ethan must turn to each other, finding the strength together to press on. In the chaos, Jack's relationship with the Russian president, Sergey Puchkov, grows closer, and the two nations find themselves working almost as allies. But President Puchkov has secrets of his own, secrets that could rip everything apart. And Ethan steps back into the action with Lieutenant Adam Cooper, taking charge of a covert kill team tasked with hunting down General Madigan once and for all. But Madigan is elusive, and his dangerous reach is long. He strikes at Jack and Ethan from the shadowy corners of the globe, unraveling their entire world. As the mad general draws new allies together, he is single-minded in his quest to destroy the only two men who ever beat him. He will stop at nothing until Jack and Ethan are shattered men, worlds apart, and struggling to get back to one another. And after that, Madigan's true revenge begins… Freya’s Review When looking for something to read I usually plum for books that are around the 70K line or less, but I have a few exceptions. Anything written by Tal Bauer is an exception. I am a self-confessed addict for a read that contains love, mystery, guns, and action. And when I heard that one of my favourite books of all time, Enemies Of The State had a follow-up, I squealed like a 12-year-old girl. I know that this type of book isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I love ‘em, and will appropriately gush. Book 1 – Enemies Of The State can easily be read as a standalone. It is an excellent complete read, involving forbidden love, politics and a good number of bombs and guns. It also all ties up at the end. Book 2 – Enemy Of My Enemy, involves a larger measure of politics and a revelation that a madman is out for more than blood. By the end, some issues get resolved, but there is the hook that advertises - sequel. This second story can be read without reading the first, as prompts bring readers up to speed. But, I would still advise reading Enemies Of The State, because it’s so damned good. In the first percentages of Enemy Of My Enemy (EOME), I was introduced to the plot via a two-pronged attack. Firstly, there was a security breach at a prison. Captain Cook, aka The Butcher, is aided in an escape. Secondly, a world in shock because President Jack Spiers has moved his lover, former Agent Ethan Reichenback, in as First Gentleman to The White House. Several members of staff resign, and there are protesters outside the gates calling for God to strike down the gay president and his lover. The announcement gets worldwide attention too, inviting protests of a positive and negative nature. Negativity also has the louder voice. The President and First Gentleman take flak from all sides, including their own party, though some stay loyal. Loyalty also comes via Russia, who has its ample share of political unrest. In the meantime Ethan has difficulty getting used to the life of First Gentleman of the United States – he is thrust into a life of ‘florists, state dinners and clandestine kill missions.’ Some of his duties he handles better than others. Yet, under it all, he feels guilty for subjecting Jack to the shit storm that their coupling has brought to the White House. In other parts of the world, former General Madigan is building an army of his own and is efficiently conducting a terror campaign through subterfuge, misdirection, and murder. The final focus is unknown (at the start), but it is clear that Jack and Ethan are in the way and need eliminating. Nothing is above or below him. He has spent years building up a spy network and gaining support. The man is completely unhinged with a lifetime of military experience behind him, who wrote the book on US strategy. One of his specialties is to utilise human weakness to divide and conquer. He uses this tactic on the Russians and the first family. The results of which left me with my heart in my mouth and eagerly reading on. EOME is a meaty in depth story that some may not have the patience for – mainly because; to set up such a massive plot needs some pretty in depth scene setting. One has to have the upheaval, investigations, emotional trauma and political dealings to get to the bottom of such events. Personally, I found it fascinating and there were lighter times that eased the pressure. The stage of world politics cannot be navigated within a few paragraphs. Ethan and Jack provide some hot man loving, too. When the physical action gets going, and bullets started flying – I found it nigh impossible to stop reading. It took me close to 15 hours, but I read all 390 pages in one day and didn’t skim read a single paragraph. That’s a record for me. Ohhhh and there are twists in the plot that left my heart in my mouth, and me reaching for something stronger than tea. Tal Bauer uses a combination of show, tell and effective use of media bulletin’s to get the story across. I loved some of the descriptions, e.g., ‘that pitch-black oil-slick buried in his soul that held all the things he never wanted to remember.’ On the technical side, I only hiccupped in a couple of places. This story is written in the third person, and in one part it said, ‘Ethan’s body felt wrecked’ – I’m on the fence with this one, as I felt sure it would have been better being ‘Ethan felt wrecked – his body ached….’, or words to that effect. It’s a fine line. It is impossible to adequately summarize a novel of this length in a few paragraphs. There were times when, frustrated, I cussed the pages and other’s when I shouted “Hallelujah!” I love a good plot but love it, even more, when the butt kicking starts. Occasionally, I was on the edge of my seat urging President Spiers to take control and grow some balls. For me, the first book was ground-breaking to my reading, and therefore had a bigger impact. EOME is still one hell of a 5* read. It contains military operations, more political shenanigans, revolutions, confrontation, heartbreak, blood, bombs, bullets, love, and trauma. Russia has a hard time, and plays a large part in this story. And I almost forgot a lovely little arc involving a prince and a soldier, which I’m sure could be turned into a spin-off. When I realized that EOME was going to continue to a sequel, I cursed. Tal Bauer had better be bloody well near finished with it else I’m gonna be on a plane and protesting with my banner. “I want the sequel – when do I want it – NOW.” AMAZON GLOBAL LINK Enemies of the State (The Executive Office #1) by Tal Bauer Amazon –> http://bit.ly/2o80hBo Review –> http://bit.ly/1mDNkOf A rogue Black Ops unit with the president in their crosshairs. A Secret Service agent who will break every rule. A president falling for the one person he shouldn’t—a man. Newly elected President Jack Spiers’s presidency is rocked from the very beginning, and he’s working furiously to keep the world from falling apart. Between terrorism attacks ripping apart Europe, Russia’s constant posturing and aggression, and the quagmire of the Middle East, Jack is struggling to keep his campaign promise—to work toward a better, safer world. For Special Agent Ethan Reichenbach, Jack is just another president, the third in twelve years. With Jack’s election, he’s been promoted, and now he’s running the presidential detail, which puts him side by side with Jack daily. He’s expecting another stuffed suit and an arrogant DC politician, but Jack shocks him with his humor and humanity. There are rules against a Secret Service agent and one of their protectees developing a friendship—big rules. Besides, Jack is straight as a ruler, and a widower, and Ethan has always avoided falling for straight men. Ethan keeps his distance, but Jack draws him in, like gas to a naked flame, and it’s a lure he isn’t strong enough to turn away from. As the two men collide, rules are shattered and the world teeters on the verge of war, and a rogue Black Ops unit bent on destruction sets Jack in their deadly crosshairs. Ethan must put everything on the line in order to save the man he’s come to love, Jack’s presidency, and the world. Enemies of the State contains adult content suitable for mature readers only. Meet Tal Bauer Tal Bauer writes LGBT fiction and romance, bringing together a career in law enforcement, trauma medicine, and international humanitarian and disaster relief work to create dynamic, strong characters, intriguing plots, and unique, exotic locations. Tal's stories weave together pulse-pounding adventure, cunning intrigue, and sweeping romance. Tal is a member of the Romance Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America. WEBSITE \| FACEBOOK \| GOODREADS Posted by Debra E at 04:00 Labels: ~Contemporary Romance~, ~male-male~, ♥ Freya ♥, 5 STARS, NineStar Press, Review, Tal Bauer Lisa 24 October 2016 at 20:55 I loved Enemies of the State! This one is next up on my to buy list. Click here to show all posts with current giveaways Men & Mischief with Charlie Cochet Tweets by @Sinfully_MMBlog Visit Sinfully Sexy Book Reviews's profile on Pinterest. Created with flickr slideshow. The Indie View Release Day Review: Expanded Hearts (Heartland #2) by Logan Meredith Release Day Review: The Arrangement by Felice Stevens Time to Say Goodbye ... 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__label__cc	0.682683	0.317317	How to write poetry How to write a memoir Writer's shop Free Online Creative Writing Course - Class 5: Point of View This is the Class 5 from CWN's free online creative writing course in fiction. (If you're not signed up for the course, consider yourself invited. Click here to start.) Free Creative Writing Courses - Class 5 Topic: Point of View There you are! Good to see you. Today's class is about narrative point of view and different types of narrators. 10-minute writing assignment - Do this after reading the lesson: Imagine a blind date. The guy thinks it goes wonderfully -- amazing chemistry; they have so much in common. The girl thinks it's a disaster, that he's a real creep. (Optional: write character profiles first for both of these characters). Part 1 (5 minutes): Write about the date in the first person, from the girl's point of view. E.g., "I met him at the restaurant at seven. He looked..." Part 2 (5 minutes) Write about the same date in the first person, from the guy's point of view. Today's reading - After completing the reading, return here to do the 10-minute writing assignment: How to Write Short Stories from Inside Your Character's Head. First, fill out the Progress Checklist, and come back to this page. Next, complete today's reading, and come back. After you've finished the reading, do the 10-minute writing assignment. To review the guidelines for 10-minute writing assignments, click here. When you've finished, fill out a Goals Worksheet. The goals you set here will be your homework for next time. After filling out the Writing Goals worksheet, put the date and time for Class 6 on your calendar. Good progress! See you next time. Free Online Creative Writing Course - Links Class 6: Dialogue Goals Worksheet for Writers Progress Checklist for Writers Orientation Guide to Free Writing Lessons Free Writing Lessons main menu << BACK from Creative Writing Course - 5 to Creative Writing Now Home Feedback on Our Courses "As usual - I already love the course on Irresistible Fiction, rewriting a lot and improving greatly even after the first lesson. Thanks so much for the great courses." - Kitty Safken “Essentials of Fiction proved that I could indeed write and I wrote every day, much to my boyfriend's dismay (waa sniff).” - Jill Gardner "I am loving the course and the peer interaction on the blog is fantastic!!!" - Bill Lane "I'm enjoying the weekly email course, Essentials of Poetry Writing. Thank you for offering a basic, no nonsense basic poetry course at a reasonable price." - Michele "Thank you for all the material in this course. I have learnt so much." - Jacqueline Tasik "I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the lessons and feel they were very helpful in introducing new ideas and perspectives to my writing. I am sure I will go back frequently to review them for reference during many of my future writing projects. Thanks again!" - Jenny Jacks "Thanks very much for this course. It's been really helpful and well-explained. I look forward to any more courses you run." - Robin Gott "I'm learning so much. This course is amazing." - Karl Tobar "Thank you so much!! You're always there... The course is great. You are always looking forward to the next lesson like a good novel!!!" - Nuria Alberti "Thank you for a course that builds writing skills with direction to excellence. Everything was included, possibly more than college courses can offer." - Janett Lee Wawrzyniak "It was a nice journey for me to be able to write in answer to your e-mail lessons. Being able to post the answers on WordPress is exciting. I had not done that before taking your writing class. I plan to take another of your e-mail class, either the 8-week descriptive or the new poetry class." - James Sciullo "The Irresistible Fiction course is going well. I see why it's a bestseller. I can't wait for the next email." - Kayode "Thank you so much for putting together this writing course. It was of good value to me as it got me started thinking more deeply about my characters. I don't have a lot of time to write, working two jobs, but I am doing the ten-minute exercise with each lesson, and each evening, trying to get in the habit of sitting myself down to write... I would recommend the course to anyone." - Barrie Creamer © 2009-2020 William Victor, S.L., All Rights Reserved. Terms - Privacy - Returns & Cancellations - Affiliate Disclosure	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line266
__label__cc	0.548597	0.451403	Chris Jones Media Martin Johnson verdict on Dylan Hartley’s place in England World Cup squad Posted on 5th June 2019 24th July 2019 AuthorCJM World Cup winning captain Martin Johnson is backing Dylan Hartley to be included in Eddie Jones’s England squad for this year’s tournament in Japan despite the Northampton hooker having been side-lined since December by a knee injury. Johnson knows what it’s like to triumph at the World Cup and also the problems associated with a failed campaign having been in charge of England at the 2011 tournament in New Zealand where Hartley was part of the squad. The former Leicester lock believes experience is a key factor for England and expects Jones to pick Hartley as one of his three hookers for Japan where the 2003 champions are in the same pool as France, Argentina, USA and Tonga. With England having failed to get out of their pool as the host country in 2015, Jones is under pressure to ensure a successful Cup challenge and Johnson said: ““Trust is a big word at this point. It’s not only about who Eddie trusts in his squad, it’s also important amongst the players. You need to be lining up against players you trust will perform every time. “There’s plenty of players who can turn it on now and then, when it’s all going their way, and everyone looks good, but you want the players who are going to perform when you’re 15-10 points down with 10 minutes to go. Who do you believe in then? Who do you trust then, and I think Dylan Hartley is one of those “I think Eddie Jones is already quite sure on where he is with his squad, but the players have to make sure they back it up. You can’t go into a World Cup camp thinking you are definitely on the plane to Japan, even if you already know you probably are – you have to go and produce the goods.” The fact that 97-cap Hartley, 33, is going to be short of match practise will be a factor and Johnson sees experience as tipping the balance it the hooker’s favour. “It’s a difficult one with Dylan because you never know with these injuries, but I’m really hoping we will see him at the World Cup in the autumn,” said Land Rover ambassador Johnson, who was speaking at this season’s Premiership Final where he supported the national grassroots initiative, the Land Rover Premiership Rugby Cup. “He’s a vital cog in England’s line-up as a very experienced player. If he gets to Japan, it will be his third World Cup and he will desperately want to get there. England will be sure to want him because you have to take three hookers. I think rugby-wise he would be fine, because he has played so many games in his career. When you’re as experienced as he is, you can take a little while out and come back in and be immediately okay. “There will be players who come in because they have been doing exceptionally or because someone else has an injury, but I don’t see that person being someone who has never been in the England set-up.” CategoriesNewsTagsdylan hartley, eddie jones, England Rugby, martin johnson, rugby union, world cup 2019 ← Previous Previous post: Mike Brown should be part of England’s World Cup armoury says All Black Evans Next → Next post: King predicts Saracens machine will nullify French World Cup threats Lozowski concussion recovery shaped by Thompson story Jonathan Davies fears rugby union is stagnating Rowntree issues Georgia warning to England Lions upbeat over fans being allowed to watch South Africa series With Danny Cipriani you get what you expect – on and off the pitch Gatland and Umaga need to get their acts together in front of media London Welsh are just the latest to fall into the money trap in English rugby Goode is too good to leave out but not according to Eddie Jones @chrisjonespress 16th January 2021 Springbok legend Naas Botha has accepted the role as head coach of the India Rugby team. @Springboks @RugbyIndia Some of the wonderful sights on the edge of the Howardian Hills today #northyorkshire https://t.co/3Vkvmo9Q3j Copyright © 2021 Chris Jones Media. All Rights Reserved \| Website by Secret Pie	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line270
__label__wiki	0.583055	0.583055	Brother's Justice (now on video) [BROTHER'S JUSTICE is now available on home video.] Even though meta-satire TV comedies like Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Larry Sanders Show, Entourage, Extras etc. have done the idea to death, BROTHER'S JUSTICE is another one of those mockumentary-type deals in which real-life movie-industry folk portray themselves, generally as ego-swollen jerkwads. Just kidding, right. Uh, right? In a setup that seems to be a takeoff on Joaquin Phoenix's bizarre career turnabouts, comic actor Dax Shepard (Dax Shepard, portraying himself as a borderline racist/homophobe with a soupcon of substance-abuse issues) announces he's going to forsake funny business and become a dead-serious martial-arts action star, a la Chuck Norris, in something called "Brother's Justice." There isn't even a script, just a vague Dax-centric scenario pitch about drug-dealing biker gangs and a kidnapped brother. Shepard doesn't even know any martial-arts skills. But he bulldozes ahead with the thing and brings aboard his lifelong buddy Nate Tuck (Nate Tuck), normally a Kinko's manager, to produce. There's a funny between-the-lines subtext that Shepard's been mooching off Tuck in one form or another for ages, including pooling their finances to buy Shepard a cool car for a racetrack documentary that never got underway. Dax and Nate schlep their concept around Hollywood, getting brushoffs from Jon Favreau and Bradley Cooper (and, in an amusing post-credit sequence, Seth Green). They have more "luck," of sorts, with Tom Arnold - who, via his role in TRUE LIES, promises to be a stepping-stone to James Cameron. Arnold here is a self-deprecating scene-stealer (turning in laugh-out-loud schtick even in the DVD extras), as another self-centered showbiz douchebag equal to Dax Shepard; Arnold keeps insisting he's young enough to play Shepard's brother in "Brother's Justice" rather than an uncle or pa. But meanwhile Shepard's relationship with Tuck begins to sour, especially when Dax bungles showing off his karate moves on national TV. Among the critics who dumped all over BROTHER’S JUSTICE on Rotten Tomatoes, one of them made a quoteworthy comment that it’s a vanity project spoofing a vanity project. Guilty as charged, but as a rental the 80-minute flick is still an okay rainy-day time passer for those in search of a Hollywood-insider goof, even if the message - that cinema types are a-holes who relentlessly use each other - is one we've heard before (and will likely hear again, being a good deal true). But I was decently amused much of the time. Shepard and Tuck bring it off briskly on an obviously DIY-miniscule budget, and Tom Arnold could make a sideline of sending up his own image, if only William Shatner would stop monopolizing the field. (2 1/2 out of 4 stars) Labels: Brother's Justice, Charles Cassady Jr., Cleveland OH, comedy, Dax Shepard, mockumentary, Movie Review, Tom Arnold	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line271
__label__cc	0.510476	0.489524	Fanwork Policy Rune Breaker Ridsekes Malady Place So I Married A Supervillain World of Ere Shorts Home » Miniseries » Vorpal: Gyre and Gimble #1 Vorpal: Gyre and Gimble #1 By Vaal August 24, 2011 August 3, 2016 Miniseries, Premiere Issues, Story, Vorpal: Gyre and Gimble This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Vorpal: Gyre and Gimble Vorpal: Gyre and Gimble My name is Stephan Arceneaux. In certain circles, I am called by Mister Voice instead. This is not my story. Perhaps in time, I will either accumulate such deeds as to deserve to have my story told, or such infamy that I need it, but I am content simply to be myself. And in the course of being myself, I find myself unable to ignore the sea of agony that my dearest friend drowns herself in. Someone must set the record straight and she is unwilling to look into herself for fear of monsters dwelling there, real and imagined. What follows is for her and only for her, that she may know the truth of herself from my eyes. And though my information gathering network is extensive, I do not know everything. My hope is that my dear Alice’s memory will fill in the gaps. It begins with a crisis of conscience that was heard around the world, one which would give birth to another crisis, which for too long has been suffered in darkness and solitude. It is time to show the truth of what happened to Zoe McNamara. “Give it!” A childish squeal rang out through the apartment, accompanied by two sets of running feet. One set was noticeably lighter than the other, even if the other wasn’t clomping around in huge, black hiking boots. The boots got to the open kitchen door first and their wearer skidded into view. She was almost fifteen, but so skinny and at the moment, acting so childish that she looked younger. In addition to the hiking boots, Zoe wore black leggings under a denim skirt that reached past her knees, a white T-shirt with a red eyed, horned smiley face on it, and an old, gray hooded jacket. Gripped tightly in her hand was a strip of black cloth with two rough holes poked into it. “Hold on a second, I’m fixing it.” She insisted over her shoulder as she darted into the room. “No you’re not, you’re being a jerk.” Warrick Kaine did his best at stomping into the room. At nine years old, he was, like Zoe, small for his age, but he managed to stomp quite well thanks to having his rain boots on. The rest of his outfit was no less ridiculous; a cape made of one of Zoe’s tank tops with the arm straps tied around his neck, a plain green shirt with a ‘K’ made of duct tape on the front, and some terrifying sort of apparatus made of Popsicle sticks and rubber bands strapped to his arm. Zoe hopped up on the kitchen counter and opened a drawer, fishing around until she found a pair of scissors. “Here we go.” Warrick shrieked in a pitch only young children were capable of, the kind that should have been featured in every high school health class on contraception. “No! You’ll ruin it!” With that, he charged at her, only to be held at bay by a boot placed gently, but firmly into his chest and held there. Ignoring him, Zoe snipped away. “I’m not ruining anything. You can’t see out of these eyeholes you made, so I’m widen—OW! You twerp!” Stymied from a physical attack by her foot, Warrick had switched to using the contraption on his arm for a ranged attack. Zoe picked up the projectile that hit her in the neck from where it landed in her lap. It was nothing more than a folded piece of paper. Her anger ebbed into confusion. “How did you get paper to hurt so much.” The boy shrugged. “I dunno. Fold it a bunch of times?” “Wow.” She commented. They she laid aside the scissors and paper and held up the strip of fabric. The holes in it were larger and more clearly defined. “See? I didn’t ruin it. Here.” She hopped off the counter to tie the mask around the boy’s head, completing his superhero costume. He beamed at having his secret identity once more protected and at being able to actually see while maintaining it. “Thanks, Zoe.” Grinning, she reached down and ruffled his hair. “Who’s your favorite cousin?” “Damn… um, darn right.” “It’s okay. Daddy say ‘damn’ all the time for work.” And about work, but not in front of the young ones. “Yeah, but Auntie S would kill me nine kinds of ways if she thought I was being a bad influence.” She punctuated this by drawing a finger across her neck and making a rather graphic sound. Warrick dutifully imitated her, making her laugh. The door in the main hall opened shortly thereafter and Sandra Kaine entered, leading five year old Talia (who was being called ‘Tammy’ far too often for Sandra’s taste) by the hand. As usual, the little girl had her thumb firmly in her mouth and a glare that dared anyone to attempt to convince her to give it up. Those who tried it forcibly got bitten, often and hard, sometimes days after the initial attempt. “In here, Auntie S!” Zoe called. She was side by side with Warrick, grinning as Sandra and Tammy came in. Sandra held back a laugh. “Well hello there, Zoe… that is you in those clothes, right Zoe?” “I’m a beautiful fashion disaster, I know.” Zoe laughed for her. “But he insisted that I had to be ‘in costume’ too if I was going to be Evila, the vile, vulgar vigilante-turned-villain. The, uh, alteration is mine. I wanted to play partners too, but someone had a problem with that.” Warrick sniffed, offended. “I don’t want to be your sidekick.” “I was more than willing to be your sidekick.” “You can’t be my sidekick, you’re taller than me.” Warrick rolled his eyes at the clearly absurd idea of hers. “Kid logic.” Sandra chuckled. “When you grow up and have kids of your own, you’ll get used to it. So what does the ‘K’ stand for?” Zoe giggled. “He won’t admit it’s for Kaine, so he’s K-man. So either he’s the misspelled defender of the islands, or the really misspelled protector of alligators. But you’re right: kid logic.” Still smiling, Sandra set her purse down and rummaged in it for her phone. “Isn’t it, just the best? Are you all packed?” The teen nodded. “Yeah. I’m not going to be happy leaving or going back to school, but I miss mom and dad, so I guess I’m ready.” “You’re not gone yet.” Sandra noted, producing her phone. “There’s still time to get one more wholesome American meal into you. How about I whip us up a good old fashioned call to the delivery place; what’s your pleasure: Thai? Italian? Chinese?” “Can’t go wrong with some General Tso’s Shrimp.” Zoe said. “The place back home doesn’t even have it, so I better enjoy it while I can, at least until I’m back this summer.” Sandra started dialing. “That’s going to be great; getting the whole family together again finally.” She never understood why her cousin Mina, Zoe’s mother, felt the need to go all the way to Brazil for work. Moreover, she was more than a little concerned about the saber-rattling going on between America and Brazil over the last few years. If things got any worse, a full blown cold war would break out and who knew when she would see her extended family again. “Good evening.” President Norman Claybourne’s voice was heard on thousands of TV sets and internet newscasts across not only America, but the globe as foreign news agencies got wind that something big was happening in the Americas. Reports had been coming in for the past few hours, but none were confirmed. “This is a difficult subject to broach, so I won’t try to dress it up with slick words or fanfare.” Claybourne was a naturally gruff man, but still managed to have the charisma needed to win elections and provide coattails tot he rest fo his party. “Two hours ago, a United States reconnaissance craft located off the coast of Natal, Brazil was attacked by a land based railgun system and sank with all hand aboard.” What he neglected to mention was that the craft had suffered a failure in its stealth system and got caught out in the open in Brazilian waters. Still, the ship was sunk without a single hail or warning. “Efforts are being taken to rescue our brave sailors, but this event underlines the terrible truth we’ve been avoiding for far too long: Brazil, our long time ally, is no longer our ally. For over a decade, the Brazilian government has stockpiled dangerous military technology, some speculated to be many time more dangerous than the atomic bomb, without an ounce of international oversight. “America has tried to lead the way in responsible and globally conscious technological development, but every overture made to the Brazilian government has been met with indifference and hostility. If they are allowed to continue down this path, it will lead only to bloodshed and pain.” Again, it was ignoring nuances. There was no proof about the ‘more dangerous than nukes’ weapon. What worried the US and it’s allies most was Standing Field technology: essentially a configurable forcefield, which apparently had been protecting their largest cities for years before detection. The Brazilians claimed that the configuration they used was an advanced air and UV filter, but the applications in terms of missile defense were the main sticking point. Mutually assured destruction wasn’t effective doctrine if someone in the world could sell forcefield tech to one side. The bare fact was that Brazil was outpacing the US, the EU, Japan and China all in the tech race. The War on Terror and Arab Spring at the turn of the century resulted in something not unlike the end of World War Two: Tyrants and former strongmen with lots of money and connections fled to South America, where their investments and the passage of time created new markets and this time, a tech boom larger then the one that hit Japan during the Korean War. Brazil’s already strong tech industry became an unstoppable juggernaut of an empire by the 2050’s. Now that empire’s success was seen by the President’s party as a threat to the US economy and national security. The sinking of the spy ship was just the thing that brought events to the tipping point. They had been ready with their own tech and PR experts to sell the war. Most of the speech had been written the month before. “It is a sad thing that American lives were lost.” Said Claybourne. “And at any other time in our history, we would have met blood for blood. But as saddened as I am for the need, I stand proud tonight as I tell you that today is the day that America takes the first step past the era in human history when war necessarily means bloodshed. “If the enemy has no weapons, he cannot fight and we need not slay him.” He raised his hand and before his podium appeared a holographic screen depicting a flying wing aircraft. “This is the USAF R-17 Full Stealth Bomber, its designation: Jabberwock. It is the latest in stealth technology with minimal detection profiles to radar, thermal imagining and even visual identification. This plane is as close to invisible as modern technology can create. But it is her ordinance that will bring us forward into a new age of war:” The image change to that of a sleek bomb. It was shot through with odd, clear windows filled with blue, glowing liquid. “Codenamed, Groundwire, this device is capable of permanently disabling any electrical system over a large area. It can neutralize eighty percent of all military technology currently in use, knocking any enemy to America back to the stone age in one shot.” Some of his advisers, including one of the project’s scientists warned him that the device needed more testing. Some of his military chiefs pointed out that there were still plenty of low tech guns in the world. As far as he and his best advisers were concerned, they were being overly pessimistic and lacking in faith in American ingenuity. Nowadays, they were far too advanced to have to worry about such things as hundred year old firearms and guerrilla warfare. Norman Claybourne knew exactly what was right for his country; the party line. The Brazilians needed to be shown that their tech was nothing compared to America’s; that they simply would not be allowed to isolate themselves from the world community that (according to his party’s doctrine) America built while holding a fist full of wild cards. And he’d show it to the entire goddamn world live. With a show of strength and domination in his pocket, the re-election that November was a forgone conclusion. “At this very moment, the Jabberwock is approaching the city of Juiz de Flora, a major military target and where railgun weaponry like that is produced in Brazil.” That was an outright lie. Railgun devices were mostly American and Japanese designs and it was almost a certainty that the weapon that sank the spycraft was made in America. “Their mission is to use the Groundwire device to cripple manufacturing in the region and show the Brazilians that if they continue aggressive action, we can stop them right in their tracks. And we will do it without spilling a drop of blood on either side. Then we’ll let the Brazilian people decide who is right and who is wrong.” The image on the holographic projector transitioned to a live shot of the Jabberwock’s cockpit with the instrumentation blurred out digitally in the twelve second delay. Claybourne drew himself up, chest swelling with pride. “And we’re transmitting this event live, because I want the entire world to see what America has become under my leadership.” “Camera just went live.” Air Force Major Noel Gibson said to his co-pilot, Major Margret Borstein. “Smile for America.” “Are the mics hot?” Borstein asked, refusing look as Noel flashed the thumbs up to the unwanted tagalong. He had practiced everything he was going to say twice already, as if he was going to get his fifteen minutes of fame from it. With his flight suit, helmet and goggles on, all anyone could see of him was the bottom half of his dark skinned face. “Not yet. They’re probably talking over us.” Gibson laughed. “Then I just want to say that this is probably the most demeaning thing we’ve ever done, including all of basic.” Borstein said sourly. “This is a retaliatory strike for the sinking of a ship with service men and women abroad; it shouldn’t be made into a damn TV show.” “Tell me about it.” Gibson said. “But orders are orders and the pres wants to make us look good. Plus,just because the mic’s not hot doesn’t mean out flight recorder isn’t and that thing is going straight to the Smithsonian. I don’t want a tape recording of my insubordination going into the history books, you know what I’m saying?” A red light came on in his head’s up display. “Mic’s hot now. Let’s make this look good.” He whispered before toggling his com. “Jabberwock to Javelin Base. Come back, Javelin Base.” “This is Javelin, Jabberwock. What’s your estimated time to target?” “Coming up on five minutes. Sending you final weapons check and requesting permission to make Groundwire hot.” Borstein opened the retrofitted firing console for the Groundwire and started running the checks. The process made her uncomfortable; they only had two weeks of training with the specialized fire controls of the device and no one seems to be able to tell special nuances to the thing yet beyond depending on the computer to do its job perfectly. In her experience, no computer ever performed perfectly. Still, everything came back green and she had no verifiable reason to doubt it. “Javelin, fire controls say go. Permission to go hot?” The com was silent for half a minute as the information from their check was relayed to the scientists in charge of Groundwire. Thirty seconds was a long time based on their drills, something wasn’t right. “Jabberwock,” The voice from Javelin Base came back eventually. “You are go to make Groundwire hot. Proceed to target zone and release on the mark. Once you do, throttle up to full, you must be at least twenty kilometers out before detonation. Thirty would be better.” “Got that, Javelin. Time on target, two minutes.” said Gibson. “Alright, Jabberwock. Good hunting.” The ship tore through the dying light of a South American summer toward the bustling town of Juiz de Flora. They saw the halo of city lights reflecting off the slight haze of moisture gathered by the Standing Field before they saw the city itself. Hitting the whole of Juiz de Flora was out of the question; the municipality sprawled across almost two thousand square kilometers, Their target was the most dense industrial sector, specifically the heart of their tech industry. “Coming up on the target.” said Gibson. “Do the honors, Bor, I’m ready to put the pedal to the metal the second the cargo’s away.” Borstein nodded and keyed in the fire commands. “Release in 3..2…1. Clamps are loose, Groundwire is away. Twelve second to detonation.” The Groundwire device didn’t plummet like a normal bomb. The second it was released, small fins extended at odd angles from it, forcing it into a slower, tumbling fall above the city. The clear portion emitted a blue light, which intensified as it fell. Twelve seconds after the Jabberwock sped away, the casing on the Groundwire blew open, revelaing a system of servos and hoses that blossomed into an almost beautiful configuration with the blue glowing nodes at its core and edges. Electricity began to form brilliant purple arcs between the nodes, swarming over the entire structure. The arcing reached a crescendo and exploded in an invisible pulse. Invisible, that is, until it encountered the standing field. Series Navigation Vorpal: Gyre and Gimble #2 >> About Vaal Landon Porter is the author of The Descendants and Rune Breaker. Follow him on Twitter @ParadoxOmni or sign up for his newsletter. 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__label__wiki	0.63894	0.63894	How Honorio Banario Intends To Hand Lowen Tynanes His First Loss ONE Championship - January 23, 2019 1 K Views Honorio “The Rock” Banario will be on the lookout for Lowen Tynanes’ takedown attempts when they meet inside the cage this coming Friday, 25 January. The Team Lakay representative is scheduled to lock horns with the undefeated American phenom at ONE: HERO’S ASCENT, which takes place at the Mall Of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines. It will serve as both the night’s co-main event and the first quarter-final of the highly-anticipated ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix. Banario, who previously held the ONE Featherweight World Championship, is longing to test how far his current skill set has improved. Having been branded as solely a striker early in his career, he feels now is the time to showcase his development in the grappling department. “This will be a good bout because this will test if I have really improved my wrestling,” the 29-year-old Filipino said. “Lowen Tynanes is something else. He has good wrestling, and [he is] a high-level athlete. He’s a very well-rounded martial artist, who is yet to be defeated.” Hailing from Hawaii, Tynanes holds an unblemished record of 9-0 with four wins by submission and two by knockout. Using an aggressive striking approach and wrestling techniques to subdue his opponents inside the cage, the American has defeated some of the biggest names in the Asian mixed martial arts scene — including Banario’s teammate and reigning ONE Lightweight World Champion Eduard “Landslide” Folayang. “It’s a big challenge for me to face him,” the Team Lakay veteran admitted. “My team was surprised when we found out that he will be my first opponent for the ONE Lightweight Grand Prix.” Banario is coming off a hard-earned unanimous decision victory over Singapore-based Indian Rahul Raju at ONE: CONQUEST OF CHAMPIONS last November. The Filipino knows he will have his hands full against Tynanes, and that the upcoming bout will be a step up in competition. With the help of his team, “The Rock” is confident he will pass the acid test with flying colors. “I have huge respect for him as a mixed martial artist,” Banario said. “I think Tynanes will attempt to take me down, so I have to defend his takedowns and do my best to keep it standing. “If it goes to the late rounds, I’m certain that he will try to go to the ground. I am hoping for a favorable outcome in this bout.” 3 Grand Highlights From ONE: ETERNAL GLORY < Previous Post New Year’s Resolution Weight Loss Tips From World Champions Next Post > ONE Championship is the largest sports media property in Asian history. Headquartered in Singapore, the world’s most exciting mixed martial arts organization hosts the largest sports entertainment events across Asia featuring the best Asian mixed martial artists and world champions, all signed to exclusive contracts, on the largest media broadcast in Asia. ONE Championship is broadcast to over 1 billion viewers across 118+ countries around the world with some of the largest global broadcasters, including FOX Sports, Setanta, MNC, Astro, Thairath TV, ABS-CBN, TV5, MYTV, HTV, OSN and more. How Agilan Thani’s girlfriend helps inspire him to victory Janet Todd Does Not Mind ‘Underdog’ Label Ahead Of World Title Clash ONE: UNSTOPPABLE DREAMS Opens With Electrifying Preliminary Bouts Geje Eustaquio’s Lifelong Journey To Martial Arts Greatness Tukkatatong Petpayathai’s Never-Say-Die Attitude Made Him A Martial Arts Legend Siyar Bahadurzada Hopes To Take Evolve’s Athletes To Greater Heights	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line283
__label__cc	0.697252	0.302748	Ep 628: Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil & Jane Adams [5 mins. 56 secs.] This episode celebrates the new indie film "She Dies Tomorrow" with filmmaker Amy Seimetz ("Sun Don't Shine", "The Girlfriend Experience") returning to the podcast as well as actors from the film Kate Lyn Sheil and Jane Adams. After waking up convinced that she is going to die tomorrow, Amy’s carefully mended life begins to unravel. As her delusions of certain death become contagious to those around her, Amy and her friends’ lives spiral out of control in a tantalizing descent into madness. "She Dies Tomorrow" has been playing in drive-ins this past week and now is available for streaming on demand at Apple Movies, Amazon, Fandango Now & Google Play. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. The podcast is also available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play & Youtube. ← Ep 627: Joshua Burge Returns Ep 629: Ramona Diaz • Mario Furloni & Kate McLean →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line284
__label__wiki	0.975891	0.975891	WWW.FOUNDTHATFILM.CO.UK Lost in time films now available to purchase Kids - 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s Presents 4 you Soaps (UK) Donald Campbell Categories Drama The Incredible Robert Bladick - Never Come Night DVD (1972) The Incredible Robert Bladick - Never Come Night DVD (1972) The Incredible Robert Baldick is a 1972 drama that formed part of the third season of Drama Playhouse, the BBC's launching pad for potential series (the first and second seasons had already seen pilot episodes make it to full runs with Codename, The Befrienders, The Regiment and The Onedin Line. It marked the return to the drama department, for the first time in six years. The pilot episode was entitled "Never Come Night" and was produced by Anthony Coburn, and directed by Cyril Coke. The drama was described as 'Victorian Gothic Suspense'. Robert Baldick, played by Robert Hardy, was an eccentric dilettante scientist/detective, possessed of a personal steam locomotive, The Tsar, originally built for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, complete with armour plating, bulletproof glass and an on-board laboratory. The programme was scheduled to be shown on Wednesday 6 September 1972 but, in the immediate aftermath of the Munich massacre, the production was removed at the last moment. The programme was finally shown on 2 October 1972, but despite achieving 6.6 million viewers and mainly positive feedback - The Observer ; "The Incredible Robert Baldick should rate like mad: it's a kind of take-home Hammer film wrapped in silver foil. The well-heeled hero is a piece of nineteenth-century fuzz dedicated to fighting evil in its more occult manifestations. He steams about in a special train. This item was never commerically released. We've transfered from VHS to DVD. Good quality. Brendon Chase DVD - 13 Episodes The Witches and the Grinnygog DVD (1983) Dark Tower DVD The Odd Job DVD An Englishman Abroad DVD Deadly Summer DVD (1997) Intensive Care Play for Today DVD (1982) Is Harry on The Boat TV SERIES Dvd La Cabina DVD (1972) The Telephone Box The Rainbirds DVD (1971) Play for Today - Madge Ryan, James Cossins, Andrew Grant Resnick DVD (2002 - 2003) Complete Series - Neil Dudgeon The Bullion Boys DVD Running Scared DVD (1986) - Mini Series Blaster Bates Stand Well Back DVD Kisses At Fifty DVD (1973) Browse this category: Drama	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line286
__label__wiki	0.515604	0.515604	Dangerous Product Report Owners and manager of Tampa pill mill receive 30-year prison sentence November 21, 2014 \| Product Liability The owners of what police say was the largest pill mill in Tampa were sentenced to 30 years in prison on September 19, after what was reported to be the longest trial in Hillsborough County’s history. Michele Gonzalez and Jorge Gonzalez-Betancourt were convicted of racketeering and drug trafficking charges in March. The married couple were the owners of 1st Medical Group, a licensed pain clinic that prosecutors say the pair used as a front to sell opioid prescriptions to addicts and dealers, some of whom traveled from faraway states to reach the supplier. The trial lasted four and a half months, with five days of jury deliberation. At sentencing, the Gonzalezes and their former office manager, Maureen Altman, were each sentenced to 30 years in prison. The Gonzalezes were each fined $750,000, and Altman was fined $500,000. Altman was the only defendant to address the court, saying that she took the job in order to support herself. Judge Caroline Tesche said the defendants were responsible for an organized criminal enterprise that profited on the backs of addicts. People who have suffered harm due to improper prescription and dispensation of drugs may be able to obtain compensation by pursuing a pharmaceutical negligence lawsuit. Contact Joyce & Reyes to learn more about your rights. If you need to speak with a personal injury lawyer, Call Joyce & Reyes at 1.888.771.1529 or visit more of http://www.joyceandreyespa.com/. Read the full article http://www.lawfirmchronicle.com/2014/11/owners-and-manager-of-tampa-pill-mill-receive-30-year-prison-sentence/ http://twitter.com/ebadpress Sanus Elements Surge Protectors Recalled by Milestone AV Technologies Due to Shock Hazard Fun World Recalls Little Pet Vet and Dr. Littles Halloween Costumes with Toy Stethoscopes Due to Choking Hazard Trump picks Sonny Perdue for agriculture secretary - Washington Post Police officer fired over Trayvon Martin shooting target - Orlando Sentinel Children's Hooded Sweatshirts with Drawstrings Recalled by Sunsations Due to Strangulation Hazard Toys and Children © 2011 Ebadpress.com Flickr Digg Yahoo! Technorati MySpace Facebook Delicious Twitter RSS	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line288
__label__cc	0.634339	0.365661	» Hatrack River Forum » Active Forums » Books, Films, Food and Culture » The poor Kids In The Hall Author Topic: The poor Kids In The Hall Stone_Wolf_ KITH came out with a movie last year, Death Comes To Town and I never even heard of it! Darn Netflix has it as unavailable... David Foley is clearly doing the best, acting in 6 movies in post, guest spots on random shows...Desperate Housewives, Friends with Benefits, Leverage, and voice over work. Bruce McCulloch isn't doing much of anything. Kevin McDonald is doing some TV I've never heard of, and some spots on NickJR's Dino Dan as a bossy weird librarian. Mark McKinney isn't doing much of anything, although I spotted him on Dino Dan as the quirky gym teacher. Scott Thompson is also doing TV that I've never heard of. Probably all that unknown TV is Canadian. I'm just really sad, as Kids in the Hall and News Radio are two of my favorite shows and to see these really funny and interesting guys just not really into much makes me sad. I'll need to get my hands on a copy of "Death Comes to Town", that's for sure. If it's as good as Brain Candy was, then I'll be in for a treat. mr_porteiro_head I watched a few episodes. There were a few good moments, but overall, I was unimpressed. Posts: 16551 \| Registered: Feb 2003 \| IP: Logged \| AchillesHeel Bruce was on atleast one episode of Gilmore Girls... not that I ya know... watch. Anyway, they all do stuff its just not as important as Charlie Sheen self imploding. I loved Kids in the Hall back when it was fresh, but the episodes I've seen here and there recently haven't been all that spectacular. I'm not sure if it just hasn't aged well, or if I've just changed enough that I don't find it that funny anymore, or if I've just had the bad luck to catch their weaker episodes. I watched McKinney in "Slings & Arrows", a sort of mini-series about a Canadian Shakespeare company. 'Twasn't bad. Originally posted by Stone_Wolf_: What makes me sad is when people define actors and comedians, or any artist, as being only as good as "what they've done lately," in the strictly defined terms of things being very much like what they have already done before, or what the person speaking considers relevant to themselves personally. People have families, start businesses, change careers, retire, change career paths and become involved in aspects of the same business wherein they do not maintain a public profile, nor need one. I find it rather distasteful to imply that they "aren't doing much" because they aren't publicly engaged in exactly the same kind of work you know them for. It's not fair to them, and I doubt they welcome pity from their fans in most cases. For instance, Dave Foley alone has done something like 10 seasons of television comedy work in his career as a show regular and star. For this he has been payed a lot of money, and continues to earn residuals. Do you consider it a failing for him to choose not to subject himself and his loved ones to still more years of television shooting schedules because if he doesn't, his career will fade? 10 years is a long time, and if you worked your ass off for ten years and made that kind of money, I bet you tell yourself you'd take the time off and enjoy it. We hold actors to a pretty weird standard, if you ask me. Noemon Originally posted by Sterling: I loved the first season of Slings & Arrows. I really need to watch the other two. Orincoro...it not as human beings that I feel sad about KITH...I sure hope they have great lives filled with leisure and family and whatever they want. It's as an audience member deprived of their particular brand of creative hilarity that I'm saddened, that and the seeming lack of prestige they have. Members of Monty Python's Flying Circus get to pick their own projects, and seem to get a lot more respect and opportunities to showcase their talents. What I found most disheartening was that their latest movie was not widely advertised or made commercially available. Especially when truly bad movies like Transformers II (the revenge of Khan) get so much exposure. The talent and creative minds at play in that comedy troop deserve better. Please do not take that as a slam on them. Originally posted by Noemon: It must be said that it does fall into certain predictable patterns with regard to plot arc and theme. But it's still fairly well written and performed, and worth a look. Seatarsprayan Dave Foley is not doing well at all. The child support system is clearly broken, but not knowing the details I wouldn't leap to Foley's defense. Why did the marriage break up? How much did he send for his kids? How much did he see them, or try to? I have no idea, so I don't know if he's getting screwed by the system or getting screwed by the system but also a deadbeat. Posts: 454 \| Registered: Mar 2005 \| IP: Logged \| Awwww...my fave Kid in Hall is a deadbeat dad? Sad...for his children.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line295
__label__wiki	0.596711	0.596711	Angry Mom Korean Drama Review By Monisha on September 29, 2015 in Drama A Force to Be Reckoned With I’ll be honest, when I first heard the premise of Angry Mom, I thought it would be silly and cheesy. But I was absolutely wrong. Angry Mom gave me a thoughtful, emotional drama, complete with an amazing cast and great writing. All of the characters were well rounded and had their time to shine so that we can really get to know them. Angry Mom truly showcases how writing should be done: straightforwardly and naturally. The drama went above and beyond my expectations and deserves any and all acclaims it received. Episodes 1-4 Review These episodes lay down a strong yet unusual opening. Jo Kang Ja (Kim Hee Sun) finds out that her daughter, Oh Ah Ran (Kim Yoo Jung), is being bullied at school. Yet Ah Ran refuses to say who’s responsible, leading Kang Ja to ultimately infiltrate her school as an undercover student. This premise may seem simple and childish on the surface, but it soon develops into a complex and deeper story. Angry Mom guides us to expose and experience a world full of bullying and more corruption than initially perceived. Case in point, although everyone believes her friend Yi Kyung’s death to be a suicide, Ah Ran knows that’s not the truth. Yet no one would take her words seriously because she’s being hospitalized from the mental toll of being bullied. So the drama leads us to think that Kang Ja is fighting against Jung Woo (Kim Tae Hoon) at this point, a teacher at the school and the person Ah Ran suspects as responsible for Yi Kyung’s death. An intriguing mystery and well developed characters capture my interest. These episodes also introduce us to two important characters: Yi Kyung’s bully Go Bok Dong (Ji Soo) and homeroom teacher Park No Ah (Ji Hyun Woo). As we soon discover, Bok Dong doesn’t have a great life back at home. He is in fact vulnerable and easily manipulated, but he’s forced to put on a mask of toughness to survive his harsh environment. Meanwhile, No Ah is an altruistic, caring teacher who not only wants his students to succeed, but to confide in him with any problems they may have. He’s a breath of fresh air in a school where students and teachers alike count down the time until they’re out. Angry Mom starts strong with an intriguing mystery and well developed characters that capture my interest. Angry Mom kicks into full on comedic mode with Ah Ran returning to school and now being classmates with her mom. This leads to many hilarious scenes of bickering and antics between the two. I appreciate that the humors of Angry Mom are well placed and natural, rather than forceful and awkward. It’s nice to see the comedy flow naturally as Kang Ja interacts with students so many years younger than her. Another benefit in having Kang Ja as an outsider at school is that she can help uncover the inner workings and conflicts of the students and the faculty. She brings to light their worries and concerns, facilitating the viewers to sympathize more with them. In terms of the plot development, the story is moving along quite nicely. Kang Ja works diligently to unmask the mysteries behind Jung Woo, and how he’s really related to Yi Kyung’s death — if at all. She finds a few pieces of incriminating evidence and brings us one step closer to solving this puzzle. Angry Mom successfully keeps me engaged and leaves me anticipating the next episodes that can help me unravel the entire story. Episodes 8-11 Review The next few episodes of Angry Mom provide a deeper look into Bok Dong and No Ah’s character development. Interestingly, we’re invited to examine Bok Dong under both humorous and serious lights. The drama shows him struggling to do the right thing because of how he’s raised. It’s a realistic way to demonstrate that in a new environment, kids will be exposed to different ideals and they have to make their own choices of right or wrong. Despite having different views from his guardians, Bok Dong’s development towards his own identity is done gradually and subtly, rather than rushed or drastic. This is the way I think characters should grow to be convincing and relatable. Meanwhile, in these equally important episodes for No Ah, he learns a crucial secret about his job and also tries to do the right thing. His actions speaks to his character of valuing hard work and honesty. To me, this is one of the most comforting things to look forward to in a drama with much deeper corruption than what’s shown on the surface. Episodes 12-14 Review One of the things I love about Angry Mom is that it’s a story focused on family and friendship rather than romance — something we’re rarely treated to in Korean dramas. Rather than creating conflicts solely for the purpose of advancing the storyline, Angry Mom goes a step further to convey a message about growth and introspection. Kang Ja and Ah Ran are defeated time and time again, but they refuse to give up. They firmly believe that they will power through and divulge all the lies and secrets of the school. As a result of what they have been through, Kang Ja and Ah Ran actually grow closer as mother and daugher. By the same token, we also see Ah Ran’s other classmates with strenuous family relationships get their happy endings as well. I love that Angry Mom is a story focused on family and friendship rather than romance. Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned and the mother-daughter team incurs more casualties in the fight against the school. But Kang Ja doesn’t back down even amidst the chaos and obtains another piece of incriminating evidence that is sure to turn the odds in their favor. It’s a great lead up to the finale of the drama, where we hope to see Kang Ja and Ah Ran serve justice to those behind the corruption. In these final episodes of Angry Mom, the antagonists of the drama get what they deserve and everything is nicely resolved. The drama leaves us feeling satisfied with the closure and gives a ray of hope for the characters we’ve seen grown thus far. Although the epilogue implies that corruption and lies are still concealed in the world, Kang Ja’s voice over reassures us that there are people who will always fight for the truth. Angry Mom delivers a heart-wrenching, bittersweet story, coupled with phenomenal character development and writing. It leaves me in pensive reflection about the world we live in and I won’t be moving on from it anytime soon. 2015barocomedydramafamilyhigh schoolji hyun wooji sookim hee sunkim yoo jung앵그리맘 Thanks for the review. Your review is excellent and your thoughts do resonate with mine. Glad that I’ve found your article. I heard about this drama years ago, but didn’t watch it until few days ago… and as the stories starts with just ‘school bullying’… we come to a point of discovering much more than that… This drama really gives its audience a new outlook about our daily life… The cast had done a wonderful job in delivering the emotional side of each character, that made the audience sympathize with what they had to go through… I’d recommend wholeheartedly this drama to anyone who hasn’t watched it yet.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line296
__label__cc	0.69206	0.30794	Home / Firewatch Is official, Firewatch will have at least one film The case of Firewatch is quite curious. A video game, apparently simple, which has become a success while fame has not come given by big promotions or advertisements on television. In fact, those users have bought the game after check that existed content of quality. A proposal by the Campo … The film of Firewatch is the first draft set of field Holy and Good Universe Field Holy, the Studio behind Firewatch, has started to work with the producer Good Universe for «develop content both for video games as for films», according to reports The Hollywood Reporter. Their first joint project will be the adaptation Firewatch films. Sean Vanaman, founder of field Holy, ensures that the …	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line297
__label__wiki	0.7814	0.7814	Gavin Aronsen Adam Lanza's Gun Research One year ago today, James Holmes opened fire at the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring dozens more. Later that day, Mother Jones senior editor Mark Follman and I began working on a database of similar public shootings over the past 30 years to see what patterns we might find. But little did we know at the time that another shooter had been collecting similar data in preparation for an abhorrent crime that would relaunch in earnest a national debate on gun culture and permissive gun laws. Researching and writing about mass shooters for months on end became pretty grim, to the point that I started dreaming about gunmen hunting me down near my apartment. It got especially strange, though, after more details of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting last December in Newtown, Connecticut, began to emerge. In March, officials revealed that the shooting's perpetrator, Adam Lanza, kept detailed records of other killings, and they theorized that Lanza may have been trying to outdo Anders Breivik's 2011 rampage in Norway that left 77 people dead. The New York Daily News described the records as a "sickeningly thorough 7-foot-long, 4-foot-wide spreadsheet with names, body counts and weapons from previous mass murders and even attempted killings" that a law enforcement source told the paper "sounded like a doctoral thesis, that was the quality of the research." "Mother Jones and Adam Lanza created the two most thorough databases of mass shooters," someone commented to me after reading the Daily News report. Then, on June 30, the Hartford Courant reported that investigators found evidence that Lanza, in 2009 and 2010, edited 12 Wikipedia articles on massacres around the world. They included at least four that I read on several occasions while I worked on the Mother Jones database. As the Courant reported: One entry meticulously specifies the weapons Kip Kinkel used at the age of 15 to kill his parents before going on a shooting spree at his Oregon high school, where two were killed and 25 were wounded in May 1998. The poster also revised entries about the October 1991 massacre at Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, in which 23 were killed and 20 more injured and the 1988 massacre at ESL Inc., a high-technology software manufacturing company in Sunnyvale, Calif. The gunman at ESL, Richard Farley, killed seven people and wounded four others. The poster believed to be Lanza delves deeply into Wikipedia's account of the ESL shooting, revising it on at least four occasions in February 2010 and adding such details as the caliber and manufacturer of weapons in Farley's arsenal. There are striking similarities between the ESL massacre and the Sandy Hook shooting more than 20 years later. Farley, carrying more than a thousand rounds of ammunition on a vest and wearing earplugs, shot through the glass of a door of ESL, gunning down employees as he encountered them in the building. It's a grim thought, but I can't help but wonder if Lanza read our research in the final months of his life, before he shot his way into Sandy Hook. It appears pretty certain that I read his. Mick Terry said... Gavin Aronsen - Enjoyed this & your 3-15-13 Mother Jones article, "10 Crazy Gun Laws Introduced Since Newtown". Any further updates to that article ? Had been doing research for a song based on idiotic gun laws, & then yesterday's Reno NV Sparks Middle School shooting ... Some previous work re: guns: http://MickTerry.com/lyrbodycount.html (school shootings) http://MickTerry.com/lyrinnocenttoy.html (in wrong hands) http://MickTerry.com/lyrheyitsnotme.html (gun traders) Any info you could provide would be greatly appreciated. - Mick Terry Composer-songwriter MickTerry.com MickTerry@MickTerry.com Gavin Aronsen said... Any info in particular you're after? Journalist. National Magazine Award finalist for digital media reporting. Zealous Iowa booster. "The erstwhile editor of [Mother Jones]," according to playwright John Steppling, with a "slacker chic" style, in the eyes of Oakland Police flack Chris Bolton.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line298
__label__wiki	0.606653	0.606653	Internal Romney Poll Numbers At The New Republic, Noam Scheiber has internal Romney poll numbers: Romney pollster Neil Newhouse told Scheiber that the polls were accurate except for Colorado and New Hampshire. This is mostly true, but not entirely. Set aside Florida and Virginia, for which I don’t have internal poll numbers, but which the campaign apparently believed it was poised to win. Among those I do have, the Iowa number is also questionable, showing the race tied even though Romney ended up losing by almost 6 points. If Romney’s internal polling number in Iowa was roughly accurate, it would imply that Obama won every single undecided voter in the state, something that’s highly unlikely. (Newhouse didn't respond when I emailed him a follow-up question about Iowa.) Together, New Hampshire, Colorado, and Iowa go most of the way toward explaining why the Romney campaign believed it was so well-positioned. When combined with North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia—the trio of states the Romney campaign assumed were largely in the bag—Romney would bank 267 electoral votes, only three shy of the magic number. Furthermore, according to Newhouse, the campaign’s final internal polls had Romney down a mere two points in Ohio—a state that would have put him comfortably over the top—and Team Romney generally believed it had momentum in the final few days of the race. (You see hints of this momentum when you compare the Saturday numbers in each state with the Sunday numbers. Romney gains in five out of the six states, though Newhouse cautions not to make too much of this since the numbers can bounce around wildly on any given day.) While none of this should have been grounds for the sublime optimism that leads you to eschew a concession speech—two points is still a ton to make up in a state like Ohio in 48 hours—you see how the campaign might conclude that the pieces were falling into place. Labels: Colorado, government, Iowa, New Hampshire, political science, Politics, Public Opinion, Romney Dem Supermajority in 2016? Senate Republicans have a shot at a majority in 2014, but if they blow it, they could face a Democratic supermajority after 2016, when they will have a lopsided exposure of 24-10. Stuart Rothenberg explains: Getting to 60 seats is always a struggle, but the Republicans’ huge 2010 Senate class — like the Democrats’ big classes of 2006 and 1958 — automatically put the goal of a filibuster-proof supermajority on the table. So the Democrats’ strong showing earlier this month not only denied Republicans the Senate majority they sought in 2013 and obliterated any chance that Republicans could win a supermajority in the Senate anytime soon, it now gives Democrats a class of 25 senators and the opportunity to make a run at 60 seats in 2016. The best news for Republicans is that Democrats have 20 Senate seats up next time, while the GOP has only 13 at risk. That should make for plenty of Republican opportunities — especially since Democrats will be defending seats in West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Dakota and Alaska. But Republicans had great opportunities going in 2012 and lost two seats. And, of course, Republicans have proved their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Senate races. Given their large class this year, Democrats need only hold their own in 2014 and then win just 15 of 34 Senate seats two years later o reach their 60-seat goal. Even if they experience modest losses in 2014, which seems likely given the seats up and the challenges faced by a president’s party in second midterms, they could still be within range of 60 seats in the 2016 elections. Democrats will then have an opportunity to win back Senate seats that they lost because of the 2010 anti-Obama GOP wave. Their 2016 targets surely will include Republican Senate seats in Illinois, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as seats in Iowa, Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio and even North Carolina. All of those states, except for North Carolina, went for Barack Obama twice. Labels: 2016 election, congressional elections, government, political science, Politics, Senate The 2012 Republican Nomination Contest in Retrospect Notes for class lecture, November 29, 2012 Early starts and the "next in line" theory: Richard Nixon in 1960 and 1968 Ronald Reagan in 1980 George H.W. Bush in 1988 Bob Dole in 1996 John McCain in 2008 Front-runner strategy -- Dan Balz compares Romney's approach in 2008 and 2012: When Romney lost both Iowa and New Hampshire, his campaign was essentially over. He went on to win elsewhere, but he no longer controlled his own fate. Weakened in South Carolina, he was dependent on Huckabee to block McCain’s strengthening campaign, and Huckabee failed. Flummoxed in Florida, Romney saw all hope for the nomination dissipate with McCain’s victory in the Sunshine State. Fast-forward to this year and see the differences. Romney’s campaign advisers say their strategy is based on two major assumptions: No state will determine Romney’s fate, and delegates matter. The next-in-line candidates who did not run: Others who did not run: The candidates who challenged Romney: Raise and Spend Big Bucks Early: Campaign Receipts through December 31, 2011: It was a race of multiple bounces. Not in Wayne: Super PACs: For Romney: Restore Our Future For Gingrich: Winning Our Future For Santorum: Red, White, and Blue Fund Also not in Wayne: Debates, Twitter, and YouTube in the 2012 race: Labels: Campaign Finance, government, Newt Gingrich, political science, Politics, presidential nomination process, Republican, Romney, Santorum The Republican Consultant Family At Red State, Erick Erickson has harsh criticism for RNC and the GOP consultant/staff community: [Rich] Beeson was a partner at FLS. The FLS stands for Feather, Larson, and Syndhorst. As an aside, it is hilarious that the FLS Connect website looks like something out of MS Frontpage ’98. Rich Beeson left FLS and went to the RNC and wound up going to serve as Mitt Romney’s Political Director. Jeff Larson, the L in FLS, left his partnership at FLS to become the Chief of Staff at the Republican National Committee. He is in that position currently. On CNN tonight, Reince Priebus announced the RNC will do an “autopsy” on what happened. So will Rich Beeson’s former partner at FLS, Jeff Larson, who now works at the RNC where Beeson used to work, be involved in this autopsy? Given his position, he would just about have to be. Incest leads to all sorts of birth defects, in kids and in campaigns. Labels: government, political consultants, political science, Politics, Republican National Committee, Romney Age and Race in 2012 Pew reports that Obama lost young white voters to Romney: While Obama carried the youth vote overall, his support declined from 2008 among all young voters and among key subgroups. In particular, Obama lost ground among young whites, men and independents. Only 44% of white voters under 30 backed Obama, while 51% voted for Romney. This is a substantial change compared with 2008, when Obama carried the young white vote by 10 points (54% to 44%). Far more young blacks and Hispanics backed Obama than Romney, and there was little fall off in his support among these groups from 2008. Obama also lost support among young men. Overall, 53% of men under 30 supported Obama, down from 62% in 2008. Fully 66% of young women voted for Obama, similar to the 69% who voted for him in 2008. However, Obama lost support among both white men and women. Overall, 41% of white men supported Obama while 54% supported Romney. In 2008, Obama won the vote among white men, 52% to 46%. While white women voted for Obama over McCain by a 56% to 42% margin four years ago, they were divided this year (48% voted for Obama, 49% for Romney). Surprisingly, Obama’s vote also declined among young black men, by 14 points, while holding steady among young black women. But he still carried the overall youth vote because it is becoming less and less white: The racial and ethnic composition of young voters has shifted dramatically over the last four presidential elections. Just 58% of voters age 18-29 identified as white non-Hispanics, while 18% were Hispanic, 17% were African American and 7% identified as mixed-race or some other race. The share of young voters who are white has declined 16 points since 2000, when 74% of voters under 30 identified as white and 26% identified as nonwhite (including 12% who were African American and 10% Hispanic). This stands in sharp contrast to older voters. Fully 76% of voters 30 and older were white, down only six points from 2000. Only 24% of voters 30 and older were nonwhite, including 12% who identified as black and 8% as Hispanic. Labels: African American, Demographics, government, Hispanic, Obama, political science, Politics, Public Opinion, Romney, youth Dem House Gains Unlikely in 2014 There is nothing certain about a six-year itch midterm, but Democrats do not seem likely to pick up House seats in 2014, as Politico reports: Anger, exhaustion and frustration tend to set in among voters as presidents approach the last leg of their final term. It happened to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1938 when voters recoiled at his New Deal reforms. Twenty years later, consternation over the economy cost Dwight Eisenhower 48 House seats. And in 2006, George W. Bush, presiding over two drawn-out wars in the Middle East, watched Republicans lose 30 seats and control of the House. On the surface, the brass ring looks well within reach for Pelosi and her party: Democrats will need to flip only around 17 or 18 GOP seats to win the House. But that relatively modest gap probably masks the degree of difficulty. “Voters get frustrated and there’s burnout,” said Andrew Myers, a Democratic pollster who counts many congressional candidates as clients. “It’s overexposure. People are just ready for something different.” Republicans are pretty close to their maximum seat share in the House. And Nate Silver explains a couple of related reasons why Democratic losses in 2014 probably won't be huge: First, there is some reversion to the mean: a party tends to lose more seats in the House when it has more of them to lose. There is also another type of reversion to the mean that is often overlooked: the president’s party tends to lose more seats in the midterms following years when it performed very strongly in the presidential race. For example, the large margins of victory achieved by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 and Lyndon Johnson in 1964 were followed by large losses in the House two years later. But D gains are still unlikely: This year, there were only 11 House seats that Democrats lost by five or fewer percentage points. Thus, even if they had performed five points better across the board, they would still have come up six seats short of controlling the chamber. In other words, Democrats would have to perform quite a bit better in House races in 2014 than they did in 2012 to win control of the chamber – when usually the president’s party does quite a bit worse instead. One should never say never when it comes to forecasting the outcome of an election two years in advance. But it might take a major scandal in the Republican party, or for Republicans to splinter into factions, for Democrats to have more than a remote chance of winning the House. And there is one more factor working against Democrats: they have become increasingly reliant upon voters, like Hispanics and those under the age of 30, who do not turn out reliably in midterm election years. Democrats have a broader coalition than Republicans do in high-turnout environments, so perhaps this will benefit them in 2016. But these are not the voters you would want to depend upon to make gains in midterm election years, when turnout is much lower. Labels: 2014 election, congressional elections, government, midterm election, political science, Politics Obama Campaign: Analytics and Evidence At TechPresident, Nick Judd and Micah L. Sifry write that the driving principle of the Obama campaign was an evidence-based approach to person-to-person contact. From a certain point of view, the only truly new thing in the 2012 Obama campaign was the ability to get all of the campaign's gears to work together more smoothly. The door-to-door ground game was a legacy of 2008. Obama for America also stood out in 2008 for a structure that placed senior digital staffers on the same level as other top staff rather subordinate to another shop within the campaign, something that many campaigns emulated in 2010 and again in 2012. In this election, OfA merely put more resources into an area — technological campaign infrastructure — that the evidence indicated would be useful to help them win. As chief innovation and integration officer, Michael Slaby sat at the campaign's highest level, with a chief technology officer, chief information officer, and chief analytics officer all reporting to him. "There were analytics types all over the campaign," said Amelia Showalter, the campaign's director of digital analytics. Besides digital, there were separate analytics teams dedicated to modeling, the battleground states, polling, paid media, finance and communications. "There was constant testing," Showalter said. "A lot of people were responsible for that culture ... a culture of experimentation. If we had an idea that was kooky, we would test it to see if it would work." For example, for a fundraising email, the digital department decided to try emphasizing text with highlighting that was ugly on purpose. It outperformed other emails, so the campaign kept using it — the formatting trick seemed to draw the eye. When the novelty wore off and that tactic stopped performing better than other ones, the campaign dropped it and moved on. The 2008 campaign made 30 million phone calls to voters, according to Daniel Kreiss' book "Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama." In a campaign memo sent the weekend before election day, campaign officials claimed they had already made 125 million calls to voters or door-knocks in 2012. In an interview with Politico on Tuesday, campaign manager Jim Messina said the campaign registered 1.8 million people "on the doors" and another 1.1 million people online. He also said that the use of targeted sharing, the program that combined Facebook data on users with internal data on voters among those users' friends to suggest which content those users should share, allowed the campaign to reach more than five million people "directly through their Facebook world and people that they knew." Labels: campaign technology, GOTV, government, Obama, political science, Politics GOP: Missing Talent, Misunderstanding Technology The Democrats are way ahead of the GOP on campaign technology. At The Atlantic, Patrick Ruffini warns that Republicans cannot catch up simply by buying stuff: The most pressing and alarming deficit Republican campaigns face is in human capital, not technology. From recruiting Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes in 2008, to Threadless CTO Harper Reed in 2012, Democrats have imported the geek culture of Silicon Valley's top engineers into their campaigns. This has paid significant dividends for two election cycles running. While there are many brilliant minds in the upper echelons of the Republican data and technology world -- including those who built the first national voter file -- the bench is not very deep. The Republican campaign world by and large does not demand technologically deep solutions, or much more than a glorified WordPress blog for campaign websites. Thus, the market largely does not supply them. Technology entrepreneurs are constantly fighting to "jump to the next curve," avoiding obsolescence to ride the wave of a rising technology from newness to maturity. We can partially predict what the mature technologies of 2016 will be by looking at what the new ones were this year. Just as venture capitalists would reject pitches from companies aiming to become the next Facebook or Google, as their business models seem fairly secure, Republican donors should apply a similar framework to evaluating technology projects. Is the project trying to solve a problem which has already been solved, or whose relevance is on the decline? If so, they shouldn't invest. Sometimes, problems persist for a long time until a shift in the technology makes a solution possible. Success with mobile donations has long eluded campaigns, until the Obama campaign's "Quick Donate" which stored supporters credit card information and allowed them, in the words of supporters I've tweeted with, to "drunk donate" with a single click. If Orca had worked, would Romney have won? Nope, says Christopher Bedford at The Daily Caller: Here is where the whole farce unravels, because the short answer is absolutely not, because robocalling is stupid and doesn’t work. And we don’t just take our own word for it (even though we have hung up on every robocall we have ever gotten): Robocalls have been studied over and over again, and they simply don’t turn people out, forget about in the tens of thousands necessary to turn Romney’s loss into a win. Some bloggers have cited the number of additional votes needed for a win by Romney in swing states (66,379 in Nevada, 73,189 in Florida, 103, 481 in Ohio and 115,910 in Virginia), with one lead critic writing that if not for Project ORCA, the GOP could have turned these states around. The intricacies of the effectiveness — or ineffectiveness — of GOTV operations are a big subject best left for the coming weeks, but that charge is, as one data wizard put it, “total bullshit.” Because the hard truth of the matter is that 30,000 volunteers and a website — no matter how devoted and how nifty — don’t actually swing 359,000 votes on the final day of a two-year election campaign. Labels: campaign technology, government, political science, Politics, Republican, Romney, social media Hispanics, Conservatives, and Republicans A previous post noted that the president did not need an extraordinarily high share of the Hispanic vote to win reelection, and that it would be difficult for the GOP to win that vote. At AEI, Charles Murray casts further doubt on the idea that Hispanics would flock to the GOP if it were not for the issue of immigration. Using data from the General Social Survey, he finds that they are not necessarily social conservatives: Latinos aren’t married more than everyone else. Among Latinos ages 30–49, 52 percent are married. Everyone else: 54 percent. Latinos aren’t more religious than everyone else. Among Latinos, 29 percent attend worship services regularly (nearly once a week or more). Everyone else: 31 percent. Among Latinos, 18 percent not only attend regularly but also say they have a strong affiliation with their religion. Everyone else: 24 percent. Latinos aren’t more opposed to gay marriage than everyone else. Among Latinos, 44 percent disagree or strongly disagree with the statement that “homosexuals should have the right do marry.” Everyone else: 50 percent. Latinos are a little more opposed to abortion than everyone else, but not by a landslide. Among Latinos, 12 percent are opposed to abortion under all circumstances. Everyone else: 9 percent. Among Latinos, 21 percent are opposed to all abortion unless the mother’s health is seriously endangered. Everyone else: 14 percent. Latinos aren’t more conservative than everyone else. Among Latinos, 14 percent describe themselves as “conservative” or “extremely conservative.” Everyone else: 20 percent. Byron York concludes: In addition, exit poll information suggests Hispanics voted on a number of issues beyond illegal immigration -- and those issues favored Democrats. A majority of Hispanics who voted Nov. 6 favored keeping Obamacare. A majority favored higher taxes for higher earners. A majority -- two-thirds, in fact -- said abortion should be legal. None of this is to say the GOP shouldn't seek more Hispanic votes. There are opportunities; for example, Romney made significant inroads among Hispanic voters with college degrees. But the fact is, Republicans had a serious problem with lots of voters, as well as potential voters who didn't go to the polls. The Hispanic vote was just part of it. Robb Austin offers a more hopeful view, with a concrete suggestion akin to the RNC's old Working Partners program Hispanics will change their perception of the GOP when they get to know Republicans -- really know them -- and that won't happen until the GOP initiates a "bottom-up" strategy; decentralizing national Republican politics. To change the perception that exists now, it will take an organized and sustained grassroots effort at the precinct level in key states. It needs to be the goal of the Republican Party that Hispanic and minority voters are as aware of a GOP presence in their community as they are of their local church. The party should be there, and everywhere, at all times. Voting habits begin with trust, and being a good neighbor is the surest way to gain trust from people in the neighborhood. For practical purposes, this means the GOP should open and staff working local Republican headquarters in the neighborhoods of large Hispanic precincts throughout the country. This would not be an expensive endeavor, nor should it be. The GOP presence in Hispanic communities should focus on all the things good neighbors are known for, most of which is not political. In a broad sense, this might include volunteering in after-school programs; helping Hispanics with math and English, sponsoring community events, or offering constituent service to Hispanics interfacing with local government. The aim is not to talk or promote politics year-round but to invest the time necessary to connect and develop personal relationships. Supporting and working for local and state candidates, registering voters, and recruiting volunteers at election time is the purpose of all political parties, and this should be a GOP objective, too. Labels: Demographics, government, Hispanic, political science, Politics, Public Opinion, Republican National Committee The House Democrats' Seat Pickup in Historical Perspective The latest count puts the national popular vote at 50.8 percent for President Obama, 47.51 percent for Governor Romney, giving the president a 3.29 percent margin. (This figure is still subject to change as the last of the late votes trickle in.) With Rep. Allen West's concession in Florida and Rep. Mike McIntyre's apparent lead in North Carolina, House Democrats have scored a net gain of eight seats over their 2010 level. So how does this seat change rank with other elections since 1896? About in the middle: 17th of 30 elections. Actually, the House Democrats' showing is better than it might look at first: in all the elections where the winning party picked up more seats, the presidential margin was bigger. Accordingly, 2012 does not seem to be a "coattail" election like 1920, 1932, or 1964. Rather it was more like a "snapback" election following a large change in the previous election (i.e., 2010). Margin Seat Change 1 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 17.76% 93 2 1948 Harry S. Truman 4.48% 75 3 1920 Warren G. Harding 26.17% 63 4 1912 Woodrow Wilson 14.44% 62 5 1904 Theodore Roosevelt 18.83% 43 6 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 22.58% 37 7 1980 Ronald Reagan 9.74% 34 8 1928 Herbert Hoover 17.41% 30 9 1924 Calvin Coolidge 25.22% 22 10 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower 10.85% 22 11 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt 7.50% 21 12 2008 Barack Obama 7.27% 21 13 1984 Ronald Reagan 18.21% 16 14 1900 William McKinley 6.12% 13 15 1972 Richard Nixon 23.15% 12 16 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 24.26% 11 17 2012 Barack Obama 3.29% 8 18 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt 9.96% 5 19 1968 Richard Nixon 0.70% 5 20 1996 Bill Clinton 8.51% 3 21 2004 George W. Bush 2.46% 3 22 1976 Jimmy Carter 2.06% 1 23 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower 15.40% -2 24 2000 George W. Bush -0.51% -2 25 1908 William H. Taft 8.53% -3 26 1988 George H.W. Bush 7.72% -3 27 1992 Bill Clinton 5.56% -9 28 1960 John F. Kennedy 0.17% -20 29 1916 Woodrow Wilson 3.12% -21 30 1896 William McKinley 4.31% -40 Labels: congressional elections, government, House of Representatives, Obama, political science, Politics The Hispanic Vote in Context A New York Times analysis of exit polls finds that President Obama did not need an extraordinarily high percentage of the Hispanic vote to win reelection. He would have won Iowa, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire without any Hispanic votes at all. He would have carried Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio with less than a majority of Hispanics. These states would have brought him to 285 electoral votes. On the other hand, Romney might have carried these states with a larger share (though less than a majority) of the Hispanic vote: New Mexico, Florida, Nevada and Colorado. Which brings us to our second question: Would a revamping of the Republicans’ immigration policy be sufficient to cause Hispanics to shift to the Republican Party? The exit poll results suggest that the Republicans’ assertion that Hispanics are socially conservative is not necessarily true. Two-thirds of Hispanic voters said that abortion should be legal in most or all cases, compared with slightly more than half of white voters, according to exit poll results. Hispanics were also more liberal when it came to same-sex marriage, with 59 percent saying it should be legal in their state, compared with 51 percent of blacks and 47 percent of white voters. Exit poll results also indicate that Hispanics are not necessarily racing to adopt the Republican platform of smaller government. Nearly 6 in 10 Hispanics said Mr. Obama’s health care law should be expanded or left as is, compared to about a third of white voters. And 57 percent of Hispanics said that government should be doing more to solve the problems of individuals, compared to 36 percent of whites. Hispanics, like the rest of the electorate, were also in favor of raising income taxes in order to reduce the federal deficit. These observations are consistent with an April poll by the Pew Hispanic Center: Much has been made about the socially conservative views of Hispanics. This is true on some specific issues (such as abortion), yet results from the survey suggest that Hispanics are no more or less likely than the general public to describe their political views as conservative. Some 32% of Hispanics and 34% of all U.S. adults say their political views are “very conservative” or “conservative.” However, Latinos are more likely than the general public to describe their views as liberal. Overall, 30% of Latino adults say this, while just 21% of all U.S. adults say the same.5 When it comes to the size of government, Hispanics are more likely than the general public to say they would rather have a bigger government providing more services than a smaller government with fewer services. Some 75% of Hispanics say this, while 19% say they would rather have a smaller government with fewer services. By contrast, just 41% of the general U.S. public say they want a bigger government, while nearly half (48%) say they want a smaller government. Labels: conservative, government, Hispanic, liberal, Obama, political science, Politics, Public Opinion, Romney State Legislative Supermajorities AP reports: There's a new superpower growing in the Great Plains and the South, where bulging Republican majorities in state capitols could dramatically cut taxes and change public education with barely a whimper of resistance from Democrats. Contrast that with California, where voters have given Democrats a new dominance that could allow them to raise taxes and embrace same-sex marriage without regard to Republican objections. If you thought the presidential election revealed the nation's political rifts, consider the outcomes in state legislatures. The vote also created a broader tier of powerful one-party governments that can act with no need for compromise. Half of state legislatures now have veto-proof majorities, up from 13 only four years ago, according to figures compiled for The Associated Press by the National Conference of State Legislatures. All but three states - Iowa, Kentucky and New Hampshire - have one-party control of their legislatures, the highest mark since 1928. The result could lead to stark differences in how people live and work. "Usually, a partisan tide helps the same party across the country, but what we saw in this past election was the opposite of that - some states getting bluer and some states getting redder," said Thad Kousser, an associate political science professor at the University of California-San Diego who focuses on state politics. As a result, "we'll see increasing policy divergence across the states." Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/11/19/3925568/powerful-supermajorities-elected.html#storylink=cpy Labels: California, government, Polarization, political science, Politics, state legislatures, taxes What Happened to the Orphans? Previous posts discussed GOP efforts in "orphan states," where the absence of serious presidential campaign activity jeopardized the party's chances in House races. At National Journal, Reid Wilson writes: In a few cases, mostly in red states, that strategy worked. The orphan-state victory centers made more than 10 million voter contacts. Republicans protected vulnerable incumbents in several areas that tilted toward Democrats. Republicans won Democratic-held seats in Arkansas, Indiana, and Kentucky, all districts that featured Boehner-funded offices. But even the speaker’s attention couldn’t save some members from a blue-state Democratic wave. Illinois was a bloodbath; Democrats ousted GOP Reps. Joe Walsh, Judy Biggert, Bobby Schilling, and Robert Dold. In New York, Reps. Nan Hayworth and Ann Marie Buerkle lost their jobs. So did Rep. Mary Bono Mack in California. Two other California Republicans, Reps. Brian Bilbray and Dan Lungren, trail their Democratic challengers but have yet to concede defeat. Boehner’s committees paid for 12 offices in California, 10 in New York, and six in Illinois. “The ground game that we built, I still think, is an important part of the election and an important part of the process going forward,” Boehner said in a subsequent interview looking back at the election results. “But there are limits on what the ground game can produce, especially when you’re being swept away at the top of the ticket, as we saw in California and Illinois.” Labels: American Action Network, Boehner, congressional elections, government, House of Representatives, political science, Politics Big-Picture Thoughts on 2012 At RealClearPolitics, Sean Trende offers some perspective: "Just looking at the numbers the Republican Party, overall, is actually in pretty good shape. Of course, that doesn’t mean it isn’t set for a major decline; this could be a high point. But it does mean the Party would be starting its decline from a pretty high peak." The party is close to its postwar high in number of House seats; Its share of Senate seats is within historical ranges, well above its low points; With 30 governors, the GOP has a larger percentage than in all but six years since 1876. Its share of state legislative seats is near postwar highs. As for the presidential race: The simple truth is that this election turned out pretty much the way that the econometric models suggested it should. The GOP had deluded itself into believing that 2012 was a “gimme” -- and to be sure, it was winnable. Team Romney made some mistakes and failed to capitalize on opportunities. But overall, the result wasn’t out of line with what we’d expect from a tepid economy (this also cuts against the “demographics” argument; if demographics were becoming the GOP’s main problem, the GOP would increasingly run behind what the economy suggested it “should”). At The New York Times, Ross Douthat sees a Democratic coalition stemming from social disintegration and united by economic fear: True, Democrats are more welcoming to immigrants, but "they’re also winning recent immigrants because those immigrants often aren’t assimilating successfully — or worse, are assimilating downward, thanks to rising out-of-wedlock birthrates and high dropout rates. The Democratic edge among Hispanics depends heavily on these darker trends: the weaker that families and communities are, the more necessary government support inevitably seems." Democrats win singles in part because "single life with children — which is now commonplace for women under 30 — is almost impossible to navigate without the support the welfare state provides." Seculars are not just good-humored village atheists. "But the typical unchurched American is just as often an underemployed working-class man, whose secularism is less an intellectual choice than a symptom of his disconnection from community in general." He faults both parties: What unites all of these stories is the growing failure of America’s local associations — civic, familial, religious — to foster stability, encourage solidarity and make mobility possible. This is a crisis that the Republican Party often badly misunderstands, casting Democratic-leaning voters as lazy moochers or spoiled children seeking “gifts” (as a certain former Republican presidential nominee would have it) rather than recognizing the reality of their economic struggles. But if conservatives don’t acknowledge the crisis’s economic component, liberalism often seems indifferent to its deeper social roots. Labels: congressional elections, Demographics, economic policy, government, governors, House elections, House of Representatives, political science, Politics, Senate, state legislatures Narwhal and Orca The Obama campaign had Narwhal, the data platform that underpinned the campaign and let it track voters and volunteers. The Romney campaign had Orca, which was not the same king of thing, as Alexis Madrigal explains at The Atlantic: Orca was supposed to be the Republican answer to Obama's perceived tech advantage. In the days leading up to the election, the Romney campaign pushed its (not-so) secret weapon as the answer to the Democrats' vaunted ground game. Orca was going to allow volunteers at polling places to update the Romney camp's database of voters in real time as people cast their ballots. That would supposedly allow them to deploy resources more efficiently and wring every last vote out of Florida, Ohio, and the other battleground states. The product got its name, a Romney spokesperson told NPR , because orcas are the only known predator of the one-tusked narwhal. The billing the Republicans gave the tool confused almost everyone inside the Obama campaign. Narwhal wasn't an app for a smartphone. It was the architecture of the company's sophisticated data operation. Narwhal unified what Obama for America knew about voters, canvassers, event-goers, and phone-bankers, and it did it in real time. From the descriptions of the Romney camp's software that were available then and now, Orca was not even in the same category as Narwhal. It was like touting the iPad as a Facebook killer, or comparing a GPS device to an engine. And besides, in the scheme of a campaign, a digitized strike list is cool, but it's not, like, a gamechanger. It's just a nice thing to have. For all the hoopla surrounding the digital savvy of President Obama's 2008 campaign, and as much as everyone I spoke with loved it, it was not as heavily digital or technological as it is now remembered. "Facebook was about one-tenth of the size that it is now. Twitter was a nothing burger for the campaign. It wasn't a core or even peripheral part of our strategy," said Teddy Goff, Digital Director of Obama for America and a veteran of both campaigns. Think about the killer tool of that campaign, my.barackobama.com; It borrowed the my from MySpace. "The real innovation in 2012 is that we had world-class technologists inside a campaign," [Michael] Slaby [Obama's 2008 chief technology officer], told me. "The traditional technology stuff inside campaigns had not been at the same level." And yet the technologists, no matter how good they were, brought a different worldview, set of personalities, and expectations. The article also does a good job of distinguishing Tech, Analytics, and Labels: campaign technology, Field Offices, GOTV, government, Obama, political science, Politics, Romney The Post-Hope Election Hope and change were the words of 2008. What of 2012? Pew reports on a post-election survey: Overall, Obama still elicits more positive than negative feelings among voters but these reactions are less positive than they were in 2008. A 54% majority says the president makes them feel hopeful, down from 69% in 2008. A similar percentage (53%) says Obama makes them feel proud, down 12 points from four years ago. Currently, 41% say Obama makes them feel uneasy, up from 35% in 2008. And the percentage saying the president makes them feel angry has roughly doubled, from 9% four years ago to 21% today. Fully 45% of Republicans say Obama makes them feel angry, up sharply from 17% in 2008. Feelings of unease with Obama also have increased among Republicans, from 68% in 2008 to 81% today. Just 10% of Republicans say Obama makes them feel hopeful and 13% say he makes them feel proud, which also are much lower than in 2008. By a slim 52% to 45% margin more say they are happy than unhappy that Barack Obama was reelected president. This reaction is not as positive as in 2008 when more said they were happy than unhappy by a 58% to 35% margin. However, these views are on par with reactions to Bush’s reelection in 2004 and Clinton’s in 1996. Voters also are more likely to say they are happy than unhappy that Democrats maintained control of the U.S. Senate and that Republicans maintained control of the U.S. House. When voters are asked for a single word that describes their reaction to Obama’s victory, the top word among Obama voters is “relieved,” far more than expressed this in 2008. Far fewer say they are hopeful than did so four years ago (when that was the second most common reaction among Obama voters). Similar to 2008, a substantial number expressed their positive reaction with words like ‘”happy,” “excited” and “elated.” Romney voters responded to Obama’s win much like McCain voters did in 2008. The overwhelming response among Republican voters in both elections was disappointment. Romney voters also said they were “disgusted,” “shocked,” “surprised,” “fearful” and “sad.” Labels: government, Obama, Polarization, political science, Politics, Public Opinion, Romney More Republican Reassessments CNN reports on Haley Barbour's comments to RGA: "The ground game is really important, and we have to be, I mean we've got to give our political organizational activity a very serious..." he said, taking a pause and looking for the right word. "Proctology exam. We need to look everywhere." Speaking at a conference for the Republican Governors Association in Las Vegas, Barbour said his party needs to not only adapt to demographic changes but also reform its messaging. "We can catch up in four years doing this," he said. "This isn't rocket science, but it is hard work that we can't wait and start in 2016." The party needs a "brutally honest assessment of everything we did," he added. "We need to take everything apart and look at all of it." Like other Republicans in recent days, Barbour stressed the importance of being more inclusive to Latinos, African-Americans and other minorities. Barbour in particular chided the party for its tone on illegal immigration, saying many illegal workers contribute to the economy and comprise an important part of society. Karl Rove also writes about doing better with the ground game and appealing to African Americans and Hispanics. He makes other points as well: One reason the GOP didn't do better with its pro-growth agenda was that Mr. Romney's character and record were undermined by early, relentless personal attacks that went largely unanswered. In a world of Twitter, YouTube and cable TV, the cliché that "if you're responding, you're losing" is dead. Republican campaigns need to get better at responding, setting the record straight, and bending the argument back toward their narrative. The GOP must reduce the destructiveness of the presidential primaries. In the first place, activists can withhold support from candidates who make reckless assaults on competitors, which happened too often this time. Also, the Republican National Committee should limit the number of debates and, by showing wisdom in picking debate moderators, limit the media's ability to depict the party as a fringe group. Another idea: Holding the convention in late August made sense when candidates relied on public financing for the general election. That will never happen again. The Romney campaign had tens of millions it couldn't spend for months until he was officially nominated on Aug. 28. Future conventions should be held as early as late June. At The Christian Science Monitor, Linda Feldmann notes a disagreement between Romney and Jindal: Mitt Romney is complaining about “gifts” – but to Democrats, it’s Mr. Romney who’s the gift. And he keeps on giving. The Republicans’ failed presidential nominee has inflamed intraparty tension by blaming his loss on President Obama’s “gifts” to young voters and minorities – health coverage, contraceptive coverage in health insurance, forgiveness of interest on college loans – not any failings of his own as a candidate. Mr. Romney made the comments Wednesday afternoon on a conference call with fundraisers and donors, a few of whom allowed reporters to listen in. Later in the day, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) of Louisiana, new chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA), became “visibly agitated” at a press conference when asked about Romney’s remarks, according to Politico. “No, I think that’s absolutely wrong,” said Governor Jindal, a rising Republican star who is Indian-American, speaking at an RGA meeting in Las Vegas. “Two points on that: One, we have got to stop dividing the American voters. We need to go after 100 percent of the votes, not 53 percent. We need to go after every single vote.” “And, secondly,” Jindal continued, “we need to continue to show how our policies help every voter out there achieve the American dream, which is to be in the middle class, which is to be able to give their children an opportunity to be able to get a great education. … So, I absolutely reject that notion, that description. I think that’s absolutely wrong.” Labels: convention, debate, Field Offices, GOTV, government, Haley Barbour, Jindal, Karl Rove, political science, Politics, primaries, Romney, twitter, YouTube Republicans Hang On Down the Ballot In 2012, Michael Barone notes, Democrats failed to recoup their 2010 losses downballot. Between 2008 and 2012, they gained seats in only three states: Delaware, where a popular Republican ran for the Senate in 2010; Maryland, thanks to Democratic redistricting; and California, where a supposedly nonpartisan redistricting commission was dominated by Democrats. The reapportionment process following the 2010 census cost Democrats some seats because their strong states had relatively little population growth. They have five fewer seats in New York, for example. The reapportionment effect was strengthened because the 2010 backlash against Democrats gave Republicans control of redistricting in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, all of which lost seats, and North Carolina, which stayed the same. As a result, in the 113th Congress, as compared with the 111th, there will be three fewer Democrats from Michigan, six fewer from Ohio, seven fewer from Pennsylvania and four fewer from North Carolina. In state legislative races, Democrats also rebounded from 2010, but fell far short of the losses they sustained then. They went into the 2010 election with 53 percent of state senators across the country and 56 percent of state lower house members. (Nebraska elects its one legislative chamber on a nonpartisan basis.) Democrats came out of the 2012 election with only 46 percent of state senators and 48 percent of state lower house seats. In that time, they gained seats in both chambers in only three states: New Jersey (one seat in each body), Illinois and California. Democrats still hold most legislative seats in the Northeast. But Republicans now have more state legislators in the Midwest, West and South. The changes in the South have been especially striking. Democrats went into the 2010 election with 51 percent of state senators and lower house members in the South. They came out of the 2012 election with 38 percent of state senators and 40 percent of lower house members. Labels: congressional elections, government, House of Representatives, political science, Politics, Redistricting, state legislatures Priorities USA Cyber-War In cyberspace as in direct mail, Democratic Super PACs appear to have spent their money more wisely than their GOP counterparts. Politico reports: Priorities USA had a laser focus during the presidential election: to define Mitt Romney as an out-of-touch, super-rich, ruthless business profiteer with little regard for the middle class and poor. The pro-Obama super PAC accomplished this, according to interviews with Priorities leaders and confidential documents obtained by POLITICO, through a multi-pronged Internet strategy — targeting certain groups of Web users, buying search terms on Twitter and Google like “47 percent” and “dressage,” and airing attack ads featuring laid-off workers and plant shutdowns blaming outsourcing during programming on Hulu and Pandora to reach younger voters. “The hardest hits on the Bain stuff were not coming from the Obama campaign itself because Obama didn’t want to be the nasty guy,” said Liz Mair, online communications director for the Republican National Committee during the 2008 cycle. “They came from Priorities.” The combined metrics underscore the sense that many GOP digital strategists had throughout the cycle that neither the Romney campaign nor allied outside groups used the Internet effectively. “They didn’t understand how it worked,” said Eric Frenchman, a McCain 2008 digital strategist who ran the Web component of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s reelection bid this year. “The biggest disadvantage was they didn’t understand what buying online meant.” [Bill] Burton shares the assessment of his rivals. “They made huge mistakes on how they spent their money,” he said. “They had a huge organization that had a tremendous amount of money and they squandered most of it.” Labels: Bain, campaign technology, Google, government, Internet, Obama, political science, Politics, Romney, social media, super PAC, twitter The 2016 Conversation Starts with Jindal In a Politico interview, incoming RGA chair Bobby Jindal seems to endorse the "Sam's Club" approach of Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday called on Republicans to “stop being the stupid party” and make a concerted effort to reach a broader swath of voters with an inclusive economic message that pre-empts efforts to caricature the GOP as the party of the rich. In his first interview since his party’s electoral thumping last week, Jindal urged Republicans to both reject anti-intellectualism and embrace a populist-tinged reform approach that he said would mitigate what exit polls show was one of President Barack Obama’s most effective lines of attack against Mitt Romney. “We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything,” Jindal told POLITICO in a 45-minute telephone interview. “We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys.” He was just as blunt on how the GOP should speak to voters, criticizing his party for offending and speaking down to much of the electorate. “It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments — enough of that,” Jindal said. “It’s not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can’t be tolerated within our party. We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters.” The last point is telling, since Douthat has also noted that "any future `Party of Sam's Club' Republican majority is going to need to win back at least some of the mass-upper-class votes that the party has hemorrhaged during the Bush years." Rhodes Scholar Jindal may be well positioned to unite these groups. Labels: 2016 election, Demographics, economic policy, government, Jindal, political science, Politics, Republican At RealClearPolitics, James Ceaser writes that the 2012 election resulted in the status quo: a Republican House v. a Democratic president and Senate. Yet in this very sameness, it was not hard to discern that the country was now a different place. If, as both candidates acknowledged, America was set on a path of fundamental transformation—with a form of nationalized medical care and a dramatically higher level of government involvement in society—then the simple act of keeping the status quo was one of the most important “decisions” in American history. The 2012 election served to consolidate what Barack Obama had already set in motion four years earlier, even if his campaign, for tactical reasons, did not always emphasize this fact. Not so the Republicans, who promised to eliminate the Affordable Care Act and to begin to reduce government involvement in the economy and society to pre-2008 levels. Their failure to win the presidency spells defeat. By not losing, Obama can now safeguard the measures passed during his first term. Future disputes will have to deal with the new order’s consequences, but the order itself will not be wholly undone. The politics of America will resemble more the “blue” model of California and Illinois, which focus on coping with the added demands of a larger government, then the “red” model of Indiana or Ohio, which have sought to hold the line or scale back what government is asked to do. Yet when it comes to enacting a governing program, the 2012 election was hardly favorable to President Obama. He won no mandate for a new major agenda—indeed, he hardly bothered to ask for one, except for raising taxes on the wealthy. The aim of his campaign was to retain the keys to the presidential office, at virtually any cost. He succeeded by hanging on. Obama made history in 2012 almost as much as he did in 2008. For the first time, an incumbent won re-election to a second term while receiving a smaller share of the vote than in his first term. In 2008, he had received 53% of the vote; in 2012 it was 50.6%. All other victorious incumbents—most recently Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush—gained strength, Obama lost it. This singularly unimpressive result was obscured on election eve by his singularly impressive victory in every state in which the two candidates had actually engaged: Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia, New Hampshire, Nevada, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. Watching these states fall one by one on election eve was like witnessing a juggernaut. Labels: congressional elections, government, health care, Mandates, Obama, political science, Politics, Romney Outside Groups Helped Warren and Other Democratic Senate Candidates It is clear now that Elizabeth Warren picked Scott Brown's pockets on "the People's Pledge." It committed the candidates to reject outside spending on broadcast and Internet ads. But it did not apply to other -- and probably more effective -- forms of outside spending. American Crossroads CEO Steven Law warned at the time: Because the agreement allows union phone banks, direct mail, and get-out-the-vote drives — all union core specialties — Warren’s latest agreement has loopholes the Teamsters could drive a truck through, the longshoremen could steer a ship through, the machinists could fly a plane through and government unions could drive forklifts of paperwork through. And in the fall of 2012, direct mail flooded mailboxes. Right after the election, the Boston Globe reported: Over the course of the campaign, union members knocked on the doors of 327,936 union households, said Steven A. Tolman, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. They made 242,000 phone calls to union households, distributed 250,000 leaflets to 175 work sites, and worked 10,708 volunteer shifts, he said, often standing for hours outside Warren’s events. An article in Politico suggests that Warren and other Democratic Senate candidates had "outside" help in a vareity of forms. A super PAC close to Harry Reid spent about $2 million in Massachusetts during the final weeks on direct mail, a field operation and "other under-the-radar activities." Majority PAC ended up spending millions across the country — including $2.8 million in Connecticut; $4.5 million in Indiana; $4.1 million in Missouri; $5 million in Nevada; $4 million in North Dakota; $3.3 million in Ohio; $6.2 million in Virginia; $4.2 million in Montana; and $5 million in Wisconsin. Nearly all of it was in attack ads pummeling Republicans. But sometimes, it took action in under-the-radar ways. In Maine, when independent Angus King came under attack from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Majority PAC and Patriot Majority conducted a private poll to inform allies there that the attacks were having an effect and the Republican candidate, Charlie Summers, needed to be defined. The effort was particularly sensitive because Democrats in Washington refused to endorse their own party’s long-shot nominee, hoping privately that King would win and caucus with them. And after Labor Day, as the Warren-Brown race remained tight, Majority PAC and Patriot Majority — along with labor, environmental groups and abortion rights groups — put together an extensive mail, phone and field operation to attack Brown, identify Democratic voters and woo swing voters to back Warren. The Reid-affiliated groups dropped $354,000 in the race — and it had a very blunt message for Bay State voters. “Don’t let Scott Brown give Republicans control of the U.S. Senate,” Majority PAC warned in a mailer to voters there. And the Republicans? The article quotes former DSCC executive director and Schumer confidant J.B. Poersch: “They spent $162 million on their side, in Senate races, just on television,” Poersch said Saturday. “On the Democratic side, the collective number was $80 million. As outsized as it sounds, there was a wider percentage difference than in 2010. And when you look at how they spent it, [Republicans] spent way too much money early." Labels: American Crossroads, congressional elections, Elizabeth Warren, government, political science, Politics, Reid, Scott Brown, Senate, super PAC Anti-Incumbency? Not in 2012 There was some speculation that 2012 might turn out to be an anti-incumbent year. After all, approval of Congress was low and some polls indicated that voters were wearying of their own lawmakers. The anti-incumbent tide never arrived. Even if the few undecided House races turn against incumbents, the 2012 reelection rate (including primaries and the general election) is about 90 percent in the House and 91 percent in the Senate. The House figure is a bit below the historical average, but many of the defeats stemmed not from anti-incumbency but from redistricting, which put some members in less favorable territory or pitted them in primaries against incumbents from the same party. Labels: Congress, congressional elections, government, House of Representatives, incumbency, political science, Politics, primaries, Senate Voter ID Backlash, Backfire State-level voter identification laws: Lost in court; Overlooked the far more serious problem of mail-ballot fraud; and Triggered a backlash that increased black turnout. National Journal reports: For African-Americans in Ohio, coming out to vote during this election was personal. Many saw the state’s voter-ID bills as a direct threat to rights denied their ancestors decades earlier. Fueled as much by angst against the ID mandate as enthusiasm for a black president, African-Americans voted at a rate so much higher than 2008 that they may have been the decisive voting bloc. President Obama captured Ohio, arguably the most important battleground state, thanks to record African-American turnout. The Resurgent Republic, an independent not-for-profit organization that gauges public opinion, pointed out, “If African-American turnout was in line with 2008, Romney would have won Ohio,” according to Politico. Ohio, with its complex melting-pot populace that crosses many socioeconomic levels, has long been a battleground. National Journal’s Ron Brownstein asserted that Obama took Ohio by focusing on income equality and fairness, a strategy that attracted enough working-class whites and blacks to swing the election. But some observers also point to a 2011 effort to spur blacks to vote. That plus anger stirred by the still-pending voter-ID bill that passed the Ohio House last year became the impetus that reenergized many African-American voters, said E. Faye Williams, president of the National Congress of Black Women. During a Washington event on the minority vote weeks before the election, Williams told a small group that such laws would likely push minorities to come out in droves. The exit poll showed that African Americans made up 15 percent up the Ohio electorate in 2012, compared with 11 percent in 2008. From the Politico story: LUKE FRANS of Resurgent Republic sends this fascinating analysis of Ohio exit polling: “Romney won the white vote 58-41 (2008: McCain won 52-46). Romney won white men 63-36 (2008: McCain won 53-45). Romney won white women at about the same margin as four years ago, 53-46. But the white vote overall was 79% of the turnout, down 4 points from 2008 (white men: 3 points; white women: 1 point). The Ohio population is about 84% white. Ohio has a low percentage of Hispanic population (3%) compared to the national average (17%) and the exit polling had the Hispanic vote at 3%, a 1-point decrease from 2008. Obama made up the margin by turning out the African American vote, which increased from 11% in 2008 to 15% yesterday. He won these voters 96-4 and the higher turnout more than made up for any slight movement from his 2008 97-2 margin. What's more notable, African Americans make up 12% of the Ohio population, but they represented a higher share of the electorate yesterday. … “This resulted in a +8 Democratic turnout advantage in the state. And it's difficult to overcome that margin, even considering that Romney won independents by 10 points (53-43) -- which is a net 18-point swing away from Obama since 2008. … If African American turnout was in line with 2008, Romney would have won Ohio. That's how both sides truly believed they were narrowly winning Ohio on Election Day. Labels: African American, civil rights, government, political science, Politics, Voter Turnout, Voting Rights Act The House Democrats' Seat Pickup in Historical Per... Outside Groups Helped Warren and Other Democratic ... GOP Polling Was Bad Coordination, Crossroads, and Romney Republicans, Reassessments, Recriminations Did Obama Have Senate Coattails? Beating a Dead Orca Pete Sessions Outside Groups' "Return on Investment" More on Orca and the Romney Fail Mobilization: F-Troop and A-Team The Real Reason Why Obama Won In the States California Money Trail Why Republicans Will Keep the House The Crossroads Groups The Medicare Dud Crossroads GPS Up in Minnesota and New Mexico Crossroads GPS Attacks Obama in Spanish American Crossroads v. Obama on the China Issue A Tie in the Ground Game?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line308
__label__wiki	0.922548	0.922548	Hothouse Partworks Limited – Investment for Jenson SEIS & EIS Fund 4 We are excited to announce the investment by the Jenson SEIS and EIS Fund 4 into Hothouse Partworks Limited. Digital partworks is a completely new format and disruption of a popular and successful consumer publishing tradition, aimed at today’s enthusiasts and hobbyists at all levels of ability. Each product is dedicated to a particular subject and is a uniquely personal, progressive-learning pathway that builds together in step-by-step, bite-sized, affordable chunks. This step-by-step, carefully-managed progression is a major feature of the product’s appeal to customers as evidenced in market research carried out by Atticus Research agency. Content consists of high-quality video tutorials, podcasts, exercises, projects, user-generated submissions and an interactive community of like-minded enthusiasts. Digital partworks are presented as a continuity series of regular Parts, published every fortnight on a dedicated website, purchase-able online as a subscription or on a continuous-call, Part-by-Part basis. The launch of each product is advertised both digitally and via targeted TV programming. Part 1 is free. iWrite is the first online-only partwork: it represents the evolution of the partwork consumer publishing tradition on to digital platforms. iWrite will be presented as a continuity series, with the content of each new instalment being uploaded to the site on a fortnightly or monthly basis. The product will be rolled out in a series of phases, each supported by a mix of digital and/or traditional media, planned on a targeted cost-per-acquisition basis. Director, Richard Maskell, was marketing director at partwork publisher Marshall Cavendish from 1985-1988, before leaving to set up Fabbri Publishing which became partwork market leader in the UK by 1991. In the mid-90s he became MD of Panini UK and, on acquisition, merged this with Marvel Comics. Subsequently he ran Marvel Comics UK and Marvel International Distribution before going on to set up the UK partwork operation for Hachette. Director, Reg Wright went from editor to executive editor at Marshall Cavendish Partworks from 1979-1987, then as MD of its book company until 1989, Reg went on to be new product manager at direct marketing company IMP before going to London Business School. After LBS, Reg set up and founded Planet Three in 1995, first as a packaging company then from 2000 as a partwork publisher and developer. Richard commented: “This investment will enable us to move swiftly forward with testing and roll-out of the product. We’re delighted to get this funding and the business-planning support that comes with it.” Brainbroker Limited – Investment for Jenson SEIS and EIS Fund 4Investments Wallden Technology Ltd – Investment for Jenson SEIS & EIS Fund 4Investments	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line316
__label__wiki	0.673407	0.673407	Total Donar Un recurso en línea para los derechos de los trabajadores de la red (in) migrantes TotalCambio Canada Todos Alberta British Columbia Manitoba Ontario Quebec Americas Todos México United States Guatemala Jamaica Asia Todos Bangladesh India Malaysia Nepal Pakistan Philippines Sri Lanka European Union Todos France Germany Italy Poland Spain United Kingdom Middle East Todos Kuwait Qatar Saudi Arabia Pacific and Oceania Todos Australia New Zealand Detalles del documento Imprima y guarde Grabe en formato RIS Compatible con EndNote, RefWorks, Procite Electrónica de artículos Solidarity or Exclusion? British Columbia Unions and Chinese Mineworkers David Camfield fficials from the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Construction and Specialized Workers' Union (CSWU) have gone to court to try to cancel the company's authorization to employ Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs). Their rationale is clear. When interviewed on the CBC Radio One program As It Happens on November 21, Mark Olsen, the President of the Bargaining Council of BC Building Trade Unions, argued that Canadian workers should get preference for these mining jobs and that the Chinese workers already in BC should be sent home. Título de la revista New Socialist It's obvious why HD Mining is hiring workers in China to work at the Murray River Coal Project in Northern BC. Because they are admitted to Canada on work visas under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), the company can pay them a lot less than it would have to pay Canadian citizens or permanent residents. The owners of HD Mining are no doubt thankful that the Tory federal government has been expanding the TFWP, allowing employers in more sectors to bring in migrant workers. This move by Harper & Co. is part of their broader austerity agenda, which includes lowering wages and increasing insecurity among working people. Officials from the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Construction and Specialized Workers' Union (CSWU) have gone to court to try to cancel the company's authorization to employ Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs). Their rationale is clear. When interviewed on the CBC Radio One program As It Happens on November 21, Mark Olsen, the President of the Bargaining Council of BC Building Trade Unions, argued that Canadian workers should get preference for these mining jobs and that the Chinese workers already in BC should be sent home. Officials of District Three of the United Steelworkers have put out a leaflet with the same message. Titled "BC Jobs for BC Workers," it proclaims "Stop the sellout of our province." The leaflet goes on to ask, "Is this type of future we want for our country? A future where low-paid foreign workers with no rights or protection fill jobs that drive down Canadian standards and allow larger profits for already profitable mining companies?" This kind of response to the hiring of migrant workers appeals to many people in Canada. Unemployment and the fear of having to look for a job when decent work is getting harder to find are on the minds of many. But this response is dead wrong. It's also an echo of the racist hostility to Chinese workers that was rampant among workers in BC a century ago. Echoes of a Racist History In 1891 the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (made up of craft unions, the vast majority of whose members were white male skilled workers) called for a ban on Chinese immigration. This demand for exclusion was widely supported among white people in BC in the early 20th century. It fuelled the racist hatred that exploded in the 1907 riots in BC against South Asian and East Asian immigrants. Then, as now, the Chinese workers in question were denied citizenship rights by the state and super-exploited by employers. Then, as now, the demand to exclude migrant workers rested on the assumption that some people (British subjects then, Canadian citizens or permanent residents now) are more entitled to jobs than others (Chinese migrants). This stance pits workers who happen to have been born in different countries against each other. Yes, people in Canada need paid work to support themselves. But so do people in China. Is it any surprise that some Chinese workers are willing to leave their homes and travel thousands of kilometres to work in a remote area of BC for wages that are higher than they would make in China? Treating some people as less deserving of jobs than others simply because they don't hold Canadian passports devalues their lives. It's an invitation to immigrant-bashing and racism. People who say they're against employers bringing in TFWs because it drives down wages and benefits, worsens working conditions and boosts corporate profits are actually writing the recipe for that very result. The federal government isn't going to curtail the TFWP -- many bosses love it. Nationalist campaigns against the hiring of migrant workers will only reinforce divisions between citizens and non-citizens and fan the flames of racism. Employers will celebrate the fact that workers are fighting each other. "Status for All" Instead of trying to exclude Chinese workers, BC unions should be thinking about how to build links of solidarity with them. That's what socialists and other industrial union activists in BC did a century ago, challenging the racism of the craft unions. But we don't have to look back a hundred years to see what needs to be done. In 2006, SNC Lavalin and SELI Canada brought in Latin American workers under the TFWP to work on the Canada Line extension of Vancouver's Skytrain light rail service and paid them less than TFWs from Europe. The CSWU organized the workers, took their case to the BC Human Rights Tribunal and won. There are plenty of Mandarin-speaking activists in BC who could be part of an innovative initiative to reach out to miners from China. Growing numbers of employers are turning to the TFWP to get workers who are less expensive and easier to control precisely because they're not citizens or permanent residents. Unions face the same choice they did a century ago: "Exclusion or Solidarity?" Trying to exclude migrant workers did nothing to help workers in Canada challenge employers and pro-employer governments in the early 20th century. It won't do any better this time. The alternative to calling for exclusion is to address the needs of all workers, regardless of citizenship status. A good starting point for an alternative approach rooted in solidarity is to demand "Status for all" (giving permanent resident status to migrants as soon as they arrive). This should be linked to a demand for the creation of well-paid, secure jobs doing work that reduces greenhouse gas emissions (not jobs in coal mines!) .Such a demand could bring together union, migrant justice and environmental activists. Let's hope that some delegates on the floor at the BC Federation of Labour convention next week will challenge exclusion and argue for this kind of alternative. http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php/663-solidarity-or-exclusion-british-columbia-unions-and-chinese-mineworkers Los sectores económicos Construction trades helpers and labourers y Underground mine service and support workers Tipos de contenido Policy analysis, Casos documentados de abuso, y Iniciativas de apoyo Los grupos destinatarios Los sindicatos Relevancia geográfica Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, Colombia Británica, Otras provincias, Federal, y Nueva Escocia No hay documentos relacionados. Ningún jugador conectado. No hay eventos relacionados. No relacionadas con la campaña.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line324
__label__wiki	0.993114	0.993114	Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Part of See It Big! Comedies & See It Big! (Past Programs) Sunday, March 16, 2014, 4:00 p.m. Dir. Frank Tashlin. 1957, 93 mins. DCP. With Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams. Ex-Looney Tunes animator Frank Tashlin’s bedazzling 1950s style of comedy finds perhaps its greatest expression in this delightful satire about a Madison Avenue television advertising writer (a quintessential Randall) who rises up the executive ladder, only to find the high life is not what it’s cracked up to be. Mansfield, meanwhile, is a joy to behold in her signature role as a ditzy blonde bombshell who is the key to his newfound success. Among many other things, the film pokes fun at the disparity between small-screen television and big-screen CinemaScope movies. Free with Museum admission on a first-come, first-served basis. Museum members may reserve tickets in advance by calling 718 777 6800. For more information about becoming a Museum member and to join online, please click here. Calendar Email Newsletter Become a Member Sloan Science & Film Pinewood Dialogues The Living Room Candidate EVENT RENTALS RENT THE QUEENS DRIVE-IN 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106 Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Tumblr Google+ Sitemap and Credits Terms of Use Privacy Policy Contact eNews © 2021 Museum of the Moving Image	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line328
__label__wiki	0.635879	0.635879	Interpolating Leaf Area Index Between Destructive Sampling Dat... Glenn Fitzgerald1, Rob Norton2, Garry O’Leary1 and Mahabubur Mollah1 1 Department of Primary Industries, 110 Natimuk Rd., Horsham, VIC 3401. Email glenn.fitzgerald@dpi.vic.gov.au 2 University of Melbourne, 110 Natimuk Road, Private Bag 260, Horsham, Victoria, Australia The Australian Grains Free Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (AGFACE) experiment in Horsham, Victoria, was designed to simulate the elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations expected to occur in 2050, in part to provide data for validation of crop models. The experiment measures interacting effects of different atmospheric CO2 concentrations, irrigation, time of sowing, nitrogen fertiliser, and cultivar on wheat growth and production. Carbon dioxide was injected over the crop in open-air 12 m rings. Destructive samples were collected at stem elongation (DC30), anthesis (DC65) and harvest (DC92). Important crop attributes, such as leaf area index (LAI) and biomass were collected at these sampling times but, due to limited space, more destructive measurements to track seasonal trends could not be sampled. This study explored the use of the remote sensing Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a surrogate to estimate LAI at dates between destructive sampling times. The relationship predicting LAI from NDVI, using treatment mean data from both DC30 and DC65 had r2 = 0.79 and root mean square error = 0.22 LAI (m2/m2). Also, the pattern of statistical significance for differences among treatments was similar at both DC30 and DC65 for both LAI and NDVI. These preliminary findings suggest that NDVI may be used as a surrogate to estimate LAI at dates between destructive sampling dates. FACE, LAI, remote sensing, NDVI, interpolation Free Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (FACE) experiments were developed to elevate CO2 levels around plants in as realistic a way as possible, to study the effects on plant growth and development. Open rings are used to distribute CO2 over the crop to simulate future CO2 levels. The AGFACE experiment was established to quantify the response of wheat to elevated CO2 to better understand the crop response to climate change. Providing data for modeling the growth and development of wheat canopies under future climate change scenarios is one of the main objectives of the AGFACE experiment. Since destructive sampling occurs only at the developmental stages (decimal code) DC30, DC65 and DC92 developmental stages, effects of elevated CO2 and interactions with other treatments at other times cannot be assessed directly. Remote sensing can provide an indirect measure to understand canopy development between the sample collection dates. Leaf area index (Leaf area/ground area, LAI) is an important input variable to crop models for the AGFACE project. The Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) has been used for many years to estimate LAI, biomass and other parameters of crop canopies (Carlson and Ripley, 1997). Once a relationship between the LAI and NDVI from the destructive samples is established, the LAI can be interpolated from NDVI at dates where LAI has not been measured. These data can then be used to validate the model output and, if necessary, provide information to update or correct model parameters. A preliminary assessment of the NDVI and LAI relationship was undertaken in this study. The FACE experiment was established at the Department of Primary Industries Plant Breeding Centre in Horsham, Victoria, in 2007. The site was planted to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with 24 treatment combinations, constituted from two levels of CO2 (ambient aCO2, elevated eCO2 – 550 ppm), two levels of irrigation (Irrigated (I), Rainfed (R)), two times of sowing (early, TOS1 and late, TOS2), and three variety-nitrogen treatments (Yitpi-N0, Yitpi-N+, Janz-N0). Each ring was either I or R. The four CO2-irrigation treatments were applied to 16 rings (Main Plots) arranged in a 4x4 row-column layout similar to a Latin square. Each ring (octal) had a diameter of 12 m and was located in the centre of a 20 X 20 m (400 m2) area planted to wheat. Each ring was divided into two half rings which received the two TOS treatments. Each half ring was split into six sub-plots, each of size 1.6 x 4.0 m, three designated for intra-season growth measurements and three for measurements at maturity. The three variety-nitrogen treatments were randomly allocated to the three growth stage and the three maturity sub-plots (Figure 1). Destructive samples were taken from within the growth stage sub-plots at DC30 and DC65 for each TOS. Final harvest material was collected from the maturity sub-plots. Figure 1. Example of an AGFACE ring and sub-plot layout. Each ring was assigned a CO2 X Irrigation treatment (ie, aCO2 x I, aCO2 x R, eCO2 x I, eCO2 xX R). Letters designate each of the sub-plots. Plant samples for LAI were collected from the growth sub-plots at both DC30 and DC65 (4 X 0.5 m of drill rows). The NDVI data were collected from both growth and maturity sub-plots at 14 dates throughout the season, including DC30 and DC65. The NDVI data from the growth and the maturity plots were respectively compared to the DC30 and the DC65 LAI data. This was done because after DC30 the growth plots had gaps that changed the relationship of LAI to NDVI. Although DC65 biophysical data were not collected from the maturity plots, these represented undisturbed areas, more similar to the areas within the growth plots at DC30. Remote sensing data were collected using an active sensor (Crop Circle, Holland Scientific, USA). This sensor collects two wavebands of information in the Red and NIR portions of the spectrum and outputs an NDVI value. It has a built-in light source so is an “active” sensor. The sensor was mounted on a handheld boom and “walked” across the plots approximately fortnightly throughout the season. The instrument collects ten readings per second with 30-50 acquired from each sub-plot. The NDVI were averaged at sub-plot level for use in further analysis. We used two criteria to investigate the appropriateness of using NDVI as a possible surrogate for LAI. The first was to assess the nature and the strength of relationship between LAI and NDVI through regression analysis. The second criterion was to assess if LAI and NDVI, at both DC30 and DC65, delivered a similar pattern of significance of differences among treatments. For this, the sub-plot level data on LAI and NDVI were analysed in GenStat software as per experimental design using either the analysis of variance (ANOVA) at DC30 or the restricted maximum likelihood (ReML) at DC65 due to outliers or missing data (2 out of 48 observations excluded). The NDVI data were scaled by setting soil values to 0 and the seasonal maximum to 1 (Carlson and Ripley, 1997). Data more than 3 standard deviations from the treatment means were removed from analysis. There were four data sets available for analysis: TOS1 and TOS2 at both DC30 and DC65. TOS 1 and 2 were sown nine weeks apart (Table 1) to provide differences in yield and different temperature regimes during grain fill. Table 1. Agronomic dates, FACE 2007 Sowing date Destructive sample dates TOS 1, DC30 20 Nov and 3 Dec 071 1TOS-time of sowing.2 Part of TOS2 was not at DC65 so sampled when reached this stage. Analysis of variance at DC30 and DC65 for TOS1 (Table 2) showed that at DC30 there were no significant effects of the main treatments on biomass, LAI or NDVI. The one interaction of CO2 x variety or N was significant for biomass and LAI at α=0.1 but the NDVI did not detect this. At DC65, there were several significant treatment effects (p<0.05) with NDVI and LAI showing similar treatment significance pattern. The ANOVA results thus seem to exhibit a similar pattern of treatment significance at both DC30 and DC65 for LAI as well as NDVI. To give a sense of the actual treatment differences, at DC65 for example, the range of biomass across treatments was 1.72 (aCO2, R) to 2.01 (eCO2, I) t/ha and LAI ranged from 1.19 (eCO2, R) to 1.75 (eCO2, I). Table 2. Effects of treatments on aboveground biomass, LAI and NDVI at TOS1, ANOVA, 2007 (significant relationships only, p ≥ 0.1). Aboveground biomass -------------------- DC30, 6 Sep 07 (p values) ---------------------- CO2 X (V or N) Irrigation (Irr) Var or N --------------------- DC65, 29 Oct 07 (p values) --------------------- I X (V or N) V or N 1 NDVI at DC30 collected from “Growth” plots, which were destructively sampled at DC30 and DC65. 2 NDVI at DC65 collected from “Maturity” plots, which were destructively sampled at harvest. The treatment-means-based regression (Fig. 2) of LAI on NDVI had slope = 3.98 and intercept = -1.26 (both had p < 0.0001), with RMSE = 0.22 LAI (m2/m2) and r2 = 0.79. This was based on n=45 (3 points removed > 3 s.d. from mean) treatment means at TOS1-DC30, TOS1-DC65 and TOS2-DC65 corresponding to the four CO2-irrigation and two variety-nitrogen treatments (Yitpi-N0, Yitpi-N+). This did not include TOS2-DC30 data as this sampling showed unusually high LAI relative to NDVI. The reasons for this have yet to be investigated. Regression residuals were approximately normally distributed and showed uniform scatter. Figure 2. Plot and treatment mean NDVI scaled to soil and maximum canopy values vs. Leaf area index (LAI) for sub-plot data (〉, thin line) and treatment means (●, thick line). Using the sub-plot level data (n=138), the regression of LAI on NDVI had slope = 2.93 and intercept = -0.69, (both had p < 0.0001) with RMSE = 0.39 m2/m2 and r2 = 0.47. Low values of NDVI (below 0.3) are not reliable measures of plant biophysical features (Baret and Guyot, 1991) so four points were excluded from the plot level data and one from the mean data set (which was also an outlier). Two other outliers were removed from the mean data (residuals more than 3 s.d. from mean). Much of the variation was likely caused by different spatial sampling scales of the biophysical and remote sensing data. The NDVI data represented sub-plot means. The LAI data were obtained from the biophysical samples and represented 2 m of drill row within each sub-plots. All sensors are sensitive to the amount of living vegetation in their field of view. Plant responses that affect the amount of vegetation visible from above the canopy will change sensor values. For example, water stress can cause leaf angle changes (drooping and wilting) that cause a reduction in NDVI values while not affecting the physical measure of LAI. A scaled NDVI was used to normalise the data to the maximum and minimum range of NDVI values for soil and maximum canopy (Carlson and Ripley, 1997) resulting in values of 0 to 1 that represent the range of NDVI present during the season. This can potentially provide a more consistent measure of canopy cover (or LAI) than the NDVI alone when comparing across locations or dates. It is well established that before full cover is reached (about LAI = 3) there is a linear or near-linear relationship between LAI and NDVI (Carlson and Ripley, 1997). In rainfed wheat in Victoria, LAI values as high as 3.0 are uncommon. Thus, NDVI vs. LAI relationships should have minimal non-linear features (Fig. 2). However, as pointed out by Carlson and Ripley (1997), LAI, cover, and NDVI are not independent. Estimation of LAI from NDVI depends on fractional cover, which is a function of LAI. In the rainfed wheat systems of Victoria, a direct measure of LAI from NDVI may require adjustment for fractional cover. This may be the reason the intercept in Figure 2 does not pass through zero. This will be investigated in future analyses. A time series of NDVI data shows how the eight treatments for the Yitpi wheat variety differed across the season (Fig. 3). There are few differences at DC30, evident also in the ANOVA data (Table 2). Later, canopy responses diverged with some “crossing over” or treatments having greater relative NDVI values early in the season and lower relative values later. This type of temporal data can help validate crop models. Figure 3. Time series NDVI for TOS1, Yitpi variety, Maturity plots. I = irrigated, R= rainfed, N0 = no added nitrogen fertiliser, N+ = added N fertiliser, aCO2 = ambient CO2 concentration and eCO2 = elevated CO2 concentration. The objective of using remote sensing data (NDVI) as a surrogate for LAI is to “fill in” the gaps between destructive sample dates in this FACE experiment is to understand temporal patterns and as a validation for crop models. The relationship between NDVI and LAI is established at the destructive sampling times. Analysis of variance of the sub plot data showed that the NDVI and LAI elicited similar significance patterns. Regression modelling of treatment means using NDVI to predict LAI established the relationship to be near linear with a acceptable correlation coefficient. Thus NDVI could be used to track changing LAI across the season and for validation of crop models based on treatments means. It is unclear whether sub-plot level inferences can be made due to the high variance in these data. The high variance was likely due to sampling methods that will be modified in the following seasons. Future analyses will include more years of data as well as testing other remote indices that can be derived from the two wavebands available and more sophisticated analytical techniques. Baret F and Guyot G (1991). Potential and limits of vegetation indices for LAI and APAR assessment. Remote Sensing and Environment 35:161-173. Carlson TN and Ripley DA (1997). On the relation between NDVI, fractional vegetation cover and leaf area index. 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__label__cc	0.728685	0.271315	Very loosely related to Mother's Day Awesome Old Song of the Week: "Mama Said Knock You Out" by L.L. Cool J Other than having the word "mama" in the title, this song really has no connection to Mother's Day whatsoever. But, it was one of the first rap hits I ever remember hearing on mainstream pop radio. When L.L. Cool J made "Mama Said Knock You Out" back in 1990, do you think he expected to be hanging out on a network cop show with Chris O'Donnell two decades later? My lasting image of L.L. will probably always be the chef with a parrot on his should from that ridiculous movie about a super intelligent shark, Deep Blue Sea. A quick google search revealed Mr. Cool J also made a music video to go with the 1999 film, something I'm guessing he's not too proud of: Also, his real name is James Smith. Follow @LucidSportsFan posted at 11:53 PM Read more of Mark Van Deusen's work on: Celtics Life Next Impulse Sports CLNS Radio Created by Mark Van Deusen Pageviews this week: LucidSportsFan.com cited by The Wall Street Journal awesome old song of the week (247) bar stuff (112) celtics (408) general unawareness of others (192) MLB (non-sox) (174) NBA (non-celts) (357) NFL (non-pats) (174) other sports (210) patriots (191) philosophizing (604) porcellometer (5) really good stats (221) recycle sunday (18) red sox (308) regression to the mean (60) self promoting (149) sizemometer (6) tankometer (17) tebometer (27) vineyard (76) @LucidSportsFan on Twitter LucidSportsFan@gmail.com The Bruins' playoff loss brought to light my issue... There's palm trees floating on water in Boston harbor ACC football has no need to worry about scheduling... How long before a healthy pitcher opts for Tommy J... Get ready for Kevin Garnett's final NBA game It's annoying that you can't send text messages th... Very loosely related to Mother's Day Awesome Old S... Original LSF logo LucidSportsFan.com. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line333
__label__wiki	0.616846	0.616846	Working Titles MR Online Blog Reviews Interviews Mr Jukebox Favorite Things The Next Best Thing Our America Digital MR Working Titles Digital Chapbooks Subscriptions Single Issues Working Titles Broadsides Merchandise Facebook Twitter Instagram tumblr Dr. Rieux, Meet Dr. Fauci - By Lynn Levin (Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. NIAID Director. Photo: NIAID) Seeing Albert Camus’s The Plague with 2020 Vision In the summer of 2020, seventeen Drexel University students, many of them international students, Zoomed into my Great Works class to explore Albert Camus’s The Plague. The students found themselves amazed at how eerily this World War Two allegory paralleled our own struggle with Covid-19. Many characters in the novel endure quarantine, exile, and the pain of separation from loved ones, and so did a number of my students. Camus describes many of his characters’ actions as expressing the best of humanity; similarly, my students gained a sense of optimism as they observed the empathy and solicitude of doctors and nurses, the tireless service of sanitation workers, and everyday people sharing kindnesses. These and other parallels made reading this masterpiece a real-life experience for us. The line between the novel and now became porous. Of course, we were not caught in an actual war, but we were fighting on four fronts: the coronavirus, the state of the economy, the cultural upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the looming presidential election. Guiding students through this novel at this time—and, just as often, standing back to listen in amazement to their insights and debates—was easily the most exciting experience of my twenty years of teaching. Both a philosophical inquiry and a novel of action, The Plague is set in the then-French Algerian town of Oran, which is in the grip of an epidemic of the bubonic plague. The gruesome and agonizing disease allegorizes the German occupation of France; the fight against it, undertaken by medical doctors and citizen volunteers, represents the French resistance. The quarantine that health authorities institute to contain the epidemic echoes the border closures during the occupation, a type of imprisonment that forces loved ones to live apart in loneliness and longing, or, as Camus often puts it, to linger in a state of exile. I had taught the novel several times before, but grappling with the book in past years, intellectually exciting as it was, was a historical and academic experience. Whenever we talked about epidemics of the past, such as the actual black death, polio, malaria, zika, the influenza of 1918, or even HIV/AIDS, our discussions felt safe, remote, even antiseptic. Now, however, we were in the midst of our own plague, and our perceptions were extraordinarily sharpened. We came to read the book as a chronicle of our own experience. So immersed were the students in the now of the book that I periodically had to call the class’s attention to Camus’s subtle and not-so-subtle references to Nazism, the Holocaust, the occupation, and the resistance. As electrical engineering major Christina Strobel wrote, “I found it absolutely fascinating that everything Camus described was what we went through in our own pandemic. He would describe things, and I would think ‘I’ve been there,’ or ‘I’ve felt that.’ I kept having to remind myself that Camus hadn’t actually witnessed what the world is going through today.” Because many of my students lived abroad or had family in other countries, they related keenly to pain of separation that many of Camus’s characters feel as they find themselves trapped in quarantined Oran. A biomedical engineering student, Kebeh Maryann Oden said, “It is hard being away from my family. My mum is in Nigeria, and we try to talk every day, but it is hard. Summer was the time for all my family to come together and enjoy time with each other.” Muhammad Ubaid Ullah, an economics and finance major, was in a similar situation. “I think I am living in exile. Sure, today’s lockdown is not comparable to the one in Oran, but I’m still locked away from Pakistan, my home. I can video call my family to talk, but I cannot be with them in a time they need me emotionally.” American students writing from the States did not feel exiled, but they certainly felt lonely. The people in Oran mostly had to rely on ten-word telegrams to reach others out of town. All the students marveled at how much easier it was for us with the Internet and cell phones, even though our technological marvels could not fully resolve separation anxiety and loneliness. As data science major Palash Pandey, now back home in India, observed, “All the tech in the world can’t help you when you’re stranded in an airport worrying if immigration will let you through.” The book follows the tireless efforts of the book’s protagonist, Dr. Bernard Rieux as he attempts to tend to the victims of the plague. Who was our Dr. Rieux? Hands down, it was Dr. Anthony Fauci, everyone in the class agreed. His was the voice of sanity and reason, always serving, always there to protect the public’s health. Old Dr. Castel who tries and tries to develop anti-plague serum mirrors our medical researchers, who are racing to develop treatments and vaccines for Covid-19. And who comprised our “sanitary squads,” the citizen volunteers organized by Dr. Rieux’s friend Tarrou to help combat the plague by transporting victims and improving health conditions, risking infection as they worked? (In the book, these teams represent the French resistance.) Everyone immediately said they were the health care workers, the guys who hauled away our trash, the food processing workers, indeed, all the essential workers who often were putting their lives on the line to care for us and feed us. I named as our class’s own “Tarrou” student Amber Bolli, a biology major and aspiring veterinarian who is serving as a volunteer contact tracer in the state of Pennsylvania. Maybe I overdid it. Despite the distance of Zoom, I think I saw Amber shrink from my praise. Palak Bhargava, an engineering and math major from New Delhi, said, “Custodians were the ultimate yet the most underrated sanitary squad workers. The people who wipe our floors and hallways, pick up our garbage, clean our sewers and do much more—all without a sliver of praise.” And while Camus demurs from overpraising as heroes people who are simply doing what basic common decency demands, the students nevertheless honored as heroes all the essential workers who served us diligently in our time of plague. In the novel, a combination of coming cold weather, a possible weakening of the disease, and Dr. Castel’s newest serum puts an end to the epidemic. Speaking through Dr. Rieux, who has endured the deaths of many including those dearest to him, Camus concludes with a call to vigilance and a declaration of hope for humankind, stating “quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.” Most students drew from the book a sense of optimism and pointed out how many people showed their good sides in this time of coronavirus and civil unrest. Once again, all the students spoke of their admiration for the doctors and nurses, delivery drivers, sanitation workers, and other essential personnel who kept us functioning during these fraught months. Audrey Coffey, a psychology major living in the suburbs of Philadelphia, praised those protesting in support of Black Lives Matter and those checking in on loved ones. Tommy Nguyen, a computer science major from the Chicago area, expressed cautious optimism as he spoke about “non-profits and governmental organizations coming together to create policies to help people in need.” Among such uplifting measures, he listed “pauses on evictions, stimulus checks… and people cleaning up broken glass after the George Floyd riots.” Ultimately, he said, The Plague made him more optimistic about overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic. Other class members praised people who sewed masks and made charitable contributions. Several students pointed out that the stay-at-home guidelines enabled them to get to know themselves and their partners better. A few also noted that the lockdown triggered some divorces. Tarik Kose, an information systems major residing in Philadelphia wrote, “Despite all the negativity around the virus and people who aren’t doing their part, but are instigating further negativity, there are many slivers of positivity that give me hope.” He also drew the distinction between “plagues of the flesh” over which we have little control and “plagues that darken our hearts”—these, he said, are the ones we have some power to avoid. Christina Strobel, the electrical engineering major, for whom the book had an uncanny way of expressing many of her feelings, wrote, “We don’t need to be saints or doctors, just people who know what we are capable of,” people who are aware “that we only have a limited time to relieve as much suffering as possible.” When the town of Oran announces the official end of the plague, citizens swarm the streets in celebration, a scene reminiscent of rejoicing at the liberation of Paris. This August, there was a massive pool party in Wuhan, China where revelers celebrated the city’s bounce back from the health crisis. Quite a few class members debated the rights and wrongs of the Wuhan pool party. Would there, I asked, be dancing in the streets when we get a Covid-19 vaccine? I do not recall any of the students’ thinking that huge public celebrations would erupt in America, though one person said that he expected some wild times at private parties and in bars. Mostly the students expected a muted response, stating what many health authorities have told us, that the coronavirus would continue to live among us. For as Camus says, referring doubly to reigns of terror and onslaughts of disease, “the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good.” Aarnav Chauhan, a finance and business analytics major from Mumbai, observed that we can never truly consider ourselves free of pandemics. “In 2020,” he wrote, “we are still completely unprepared for an event that has occurred at least every century for several centuries.” Still, the students hung on to a prevailing belief in human goodness. Just as Camus maintains that there are “more things to admire in men than to despise,” Amber Bolli, the biology major and volunteer contact tracer, summed it up best: “Our biggest takeaway from this novel and in our current times, is just how well humanity can come together in times of need.” It is always the right time to read or teach Albert Camus’s The Plague. This year, however, the masterpiece astounds and enlightens more than ever. Lynn Levin is a poet, writer, and translator and teaches at Drexel University. She is the author of eight books, including The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky, 2020) and Miss Plastique (Ragged Sky, 2013), a 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry. After Us The Next Best Thing Working Titles Excerpts Reviews Interviews 10 Questions MR Jukebox Videos Podcasts Readings Prize Winners Favorite Things Our America Colloquies Broadsides Subscribe to the Blog RSS Front Cover by Rose B. Simpson Directed South, 2015. 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__label__cc	0.677931	0.322069	Ian Duckles' Home Page‎ > ‎This is the page for students of Dr. Duckles‎ > ‎Philosophy 100 Spring 2020 TTH‎ > ‎ Phil 100 S20 TTH: Schedule and Syllabus All courses will be meeting in an online format starting the week of March 23. Check the main page and your email for details. Philosophy 100: Logic and Critical Thinking CRN 21417 TTH 8:00-9:25 Location: SB 212 Instructor Information Dr. Ian M. Duckles Email: iduckles@sdccd.edu Office Hours: MW 11:30-12:30; TTH 10-11:00am Office: Online in Zoom Course Description: This course explores the relationship of communications and critical thinking with a focus on good reasoning and the impediments to its mastery. This course emphasizes the development of skills in logical processes including familiarity with the more common fallacies. This course is designed for students learning to apply principles of critical thinking to the practical problems of everyday life. (FT) AA/AS; CSU; UC. Course Objective: Students will learn the basic elements of critical thinking with a particular focus on logical fallacies and then will learn to apply these tools to real world problems and issues. Course Learning Outcomes: Critical Thinking: Think critically in reading, writing, and/or speaking about communication, reasoning, and logical processes, thereby identifying problems, theses, arguments, evidence and conclusions. Communication: Write or speak about communication, reasoning, and logical processes, thereby addressing problems, formulating theses, making arguments, analyzing and weighing evidence, and deriving conclusions. Personal Actions and Civic Responsibilities: Demonstrate an ability to understand one's role in society, take responsibility for one's own actions, and make ethical decisions in complex situations. Requisites and Advisories: Advisory: ENGL 101 with a grade of "C" or better, or equivalent or Assessment Skill Level R6/W6; or ENGL 105 with a grade of "C" or better, or equivalent or Assessment Skill Level R6/W6. Textbooks: There are two texts required for this class: Novella, Steven, et. al. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. Grand Central Publishing, 2018. Frankfurt, Harry G. On Bullshit. Princeton University Press, 2005. Reading assignments can be found on the schedule. Schedule: (topics and important dates included): Homework will be due daily and assignments will be announced in class. Do not be concerned if we fall ahead or behind on this schedule. The most important goal is that everyone understand the concepts and problems. This schedule is subject to change. All changes will be announced in class and posted on the course website. The schedule uses the following abbreviations: SGU for The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe OB for On Bullshit Week 1: Introduction Tuesday, February 4: Introduction, What is Philosophy Thursday, February 6: Scientific Skepticism (SGU Introduction, Chapter 1) Homework Due: What is "scientific skepticism?" What are some of the core tools and values of the scientific skeptic? Week 2: Neuropsychological Humility February 11: Memory and Perception (SGU Chapters 2-4) Homework Due: In Chapter 3 Novella discusses how our brains process visual information. Please explain that account. February 13: Memory and Perception Continued Homework Due: What might be some implications of our discussion of memory and perception for the criminal justice system? February 18: Neuropsychological Humility (SGU Chapters 5-7) February 20: Symbolic Logic (Material Available Online) Homework Due: Find examples of the following types of arguments. Each argument should consist of two premises and a conclusion: (1) a valid, sound argument; (2) a valid, not sound argument; (3) an invalid argument; (4) a strong, cogent argument; (5) a strong, not cogent argument; (6) a weak argument. Week 4: Symbolic Logic Homework Due: Symbolic Logic 2, Problem Set A, #'s 21-25. Week 5: Exam March 3: Review for Exam March 5: FIRST EXAM March 10: Symbolic Logic (Material Available Online) March 12: Symbolic Logic Continued Homework Due: Symbolic Logic 4: Problem Set B, #'s 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Week 7: Logical Fallacies March 17: CLASS CANCELLED Week 8: Metacognition March 24: Fallacies (SGU Chapter 10) Homework Due: Find examples of five of the fallacies we discussed in class. March 26: Fallacies Continued Week 9: Spring Break!! March 31: NO CLASS!! April 2: NO CLASS!! Week 10: Metacognition April 7: Metacognition (SGU Chapters 8, 9, 11-18) April 9: Metacognition Continued, Introduction of Paper Topic Homework Due: Describe two cognitive biases and two heuristics discussed in Chapter 11 of the textbook. April 14: Metacognition Continued April 16: Metacognition Continued; Exam Distributed (Take-home exam) Homework Due: Select a topic for your final paper. Week 12: Exam April 21: Open Class Period; Professor available on Zoom for questions (use the regular link for class) April 23: Second Exam; Open Class Period; Professor available on Zoom for questions (use the regular link for class) Week 13: Science and Pseudoscience April 28: Science and Pseudoscience (SGU Chapters 19-23) April 30: Science and Pseudoscience (SGU Chapters 24-28); Bullshit (Read On Bullshit) Homework due: Find an example of a late-night infomercial style product. Describe it. How does that product work? What does it claim to be able to do? Week 14: Bullshit May 5: Bullshit Continued May 7: In-class Peer Editing, Bullshit Continued Homework Due: Bring two copies of a draft of your paper to class for in-class peer-editing. Week 15: Media May 12: Media (SGU 46-51) Homework Due: Why do you think there is so much bullshit? What benefit does bullshit serve for the bullshitter? May 14: Media Continued Homework Due: Final Paper Due May 21: Media Continued; Distribution of Final Week 17: Finals May 26: Open work period for Final May 28: Open work period for Final; Final Exam due STUDENT EVALUATION: Assignments: Your grade in the course will be out of 500 points and is based on your performance on the following assignments: 100 points: Exam 1 100 points: Final Exam 50 points: Final Paper. Though only worth 10% of your grade in the course, failure to complete this assignment or the associated pre-writing will result in an F on the assignment. More information on this assignment will be provided later in the semester. 50 points: Homework. This is due at the start of the class for which it is assigned. Late assignments will not be accepted. 100 points: Pop Quizzes. These will be given at the start of class and will cover the material from previous classes. They cannot be made-up if missed. Grade Scale: ≥ 450 = A ≥ 400 = B ≥ 350 = C ≥ 300 = D < 300 = F ACADEMIC POLICIES: Student Responsibility to Drop/Withdraw: It is the student’s responsibility to drop all classes in which he/she is no longer attending. It is the instructor’s discretion to withdraw a student after the add/drop deadline (February 18) due to excessive absences. Students who remain enrolled in a class beyond the withdrawal deadline, as stated in the class schedule (April 17), will receive an evaluative letter grade in the class. Attendance: During the first two weeks of class, students will be dropped for any absence. Starting during the third week, students may be dropped for missing two classes. In addition, students who arrive unreasonably late or leave unreasonably early will be marked absent. Professionalism: It is assumed that students will conduct themselves in a professional manner with a positive attitude. An open mind is one of the most important tools required for success in academia. If a student is negative and feels as is there is nothing of value to be gained by the college experience or this course, he or she will not do well in this course. Academic Integrity and Conduct: Mesa College students are bound by the Student Code of Conduct, Policy 3100. In this course, cheating, plagiarism, disruptions of instructional activity, fraud and/or lying will result in, at a minimum, a grade of “F” for the assignment/test with no make up permitted. 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__label__wiki	0.808374	0.808374	Jack Kevorkian Connects With Armenian Fans at Sold Out Show On a recent unusually warm Saturday night, UCLA’s Royce Hall was packed to the brim with an anxious audience, waiting to catch even just a glimpse of right to die Armenia, Diaspora Silence Is Not a Solution: Armenians March Amid Increased HIV/AIDS Infection Rates While at least 56 countries have either stabilized or decreased rates of new HIV infections, rates in Armenia have increased over the last decade by 25 percent, according to a Diaspora, Society Armenian Taxi Drivers Rally Against Santa Monica’s Cab Ordinance Despite a bevy of Armenian taxi drivers rallying at Santa Monica’s City Hall last night against a city proposed taxi limit that would leave them unemployed, the City Council approved Gay Armenians Raise Thousands for AIDS The Gay and Lesbian Armenian Society of Los Angeles (GALAS) has raised over $5,000 for AIDS Walk Los Angeles and will be walking with thousands of Angelenos in support of Armenian-American Crime Ring Charged With $100 Million Medicare Fraud Forty-four alleged members and associates of an Armenian-American organized crime ring were arrested and charged with racketeering, identity theft and money laundering in the largest single Medicare fraud ever charged Glendale News-Press: Now in Armenian With Armenians making up almost 30 percent of Glendale’s population according to the 2000 U.S. Census, many of them recent immigrants, Times Community Editor Dan Evans wanted to offer something Diaspora, Features Bring Me Some Dirt: An Armenian-American & The Motherland Have you ever suddenly started thinking about a place—a restaurant let’s say—that no longer exists? Come on; don’t say “Not really.” You know what I’m talking about: you’re just sitting Suspect Arrested in Los Angeles Armenian Family Murders A suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of three members of an Armenian family who immigrated to the U.S. in 2003. There is evidence that a man Suspect in Armenian-Related Restaurant Shooting Captured Nerses Galstyan, the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of four people at a Valley Village restaurant has been captured by authorities less than a month after the incident Detectives Probe Armenian-Related Restaurant Homicide Four Armenian men were shot and killed at a Mediterranean restaurant over the weekend in North Hollywood’s Valley Village district, with Los Angeles Department Homicide Detectives still struggling to find Prev 1 2 3 4 Next Page 3 of 4 © Ianyan Mag 2017. All rights reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line355
__label__cc	0.648522	0.351478	> Technical Articles This is the most common thermocouple type that provides the widest operating temperature range. Type K thermocouples generally will work in most applications because they are nickel based and have good corrosion resistance. •1.Positive leg is non-magnetic (Yellow), negative leg is magnetic (Red). •2. Traditional base-metal choice for high temperature work. •3. Appropriate for use in oxidizing or inert atmospheres at temperatures up to 1260°C (2300°F). •4. Vulnerable to sulfur attack (refrain from exposing to sulfur-containing atmospheres). •5. Perform best in clean oxidizing atmospheres. •6. Not recommended for use under partially oxidizing conditions in vacuum, or when subjected to alternating cycles of oxidization and reduction. Composed of a positive leg, which is approximately 90% nickel, 10% chromium and a negative leg, which is approximately 95% nickel, 2% aluminum, 2% manganese and 1% silicon.Type K Thermocouples are the most common general purpose thermocouple with a sensitivity of approximately 41µV/°C, chromel positive relative to alumel. It is inexpensive, and a wide variety of probes are available in its -200°C to +1260°C / -328°F to +2300°F range. Type K was specified at a time when metallurgy was less advanced than it is today, and consequently characteristics vary considerably between samples. One of the constituent metals, nickel, is magnetic; a characteristic of thermocouples made with magnetic material is that they undergo a step change in output when the magnetic material reaches its Cure Point (around 354 °C for type K thermocouples). Type K Thermocouple ( Chromel/Alumel) Type K thermocouples usually work in most applications as they are nickel based and exhibit good corrosion resistance. It is the most common sensor calibration type providing the widest operating temperature range. Due to its reliability and accuracy the Type K thermocouple is used extensively at temperatures up to 2300°F (1260°C). This type of thermocouple should be protected with a suitable metal or ceramic protection tube, especially in reducing atmospheres. In oxidizing atmospheres, such as electric furnaces, tube protection is not always necessary when other conditions are suitable; however, it is recommended for cleanliness and general mechanical protection. Type K will generally outlast Type J because the JP wire rapidly oxidizes, especially at higher temperatures. •Thermocouple grade wire, −454° to 2,300°F (−270 to 1,260°C) •Extension grade wire, −32° to 392°F (0 to 200°C) •Melting Point, 2550°F (1400°C) Accuracy (whichever is greater): •Standard: ± 2.2C% or ±.75% •Special Limits of Error: ± 1.1C or 0.4% Deviations in the alloys can affect the accuracy of thermocouples. For type K thermocouples the tolerance class one is given as ± 1.5 K between -40 and 375 °C. However, deviations between thermocouples coming from the same production are very small and a much higher accuracy can be achieved by individual calibration. Metallurgical changes can cause a calibration drift of 1 to 2°C in a few hours, increasing to 5 °C over time. A special grade of Type K is available that can maintain special limit accuracy up to ten times longer than the regular grade. TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE APPLICATIONS Type K thermocouples are used for measurements in many different types of environments such as water, mild chemical solutions , gases and dry areas. Engines, oil heaters and boilers are examples of places where they may be found. They are used as thermometers in hospitals and the food industry. TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE PROS AND CONS •Good linearity of emf to the measurement temperature. •Good resistance against oxidation below 1000°C (1600°F). •Most stable among thermocouple of inexpensive material. •Not suitable for reducing atmosphere but will withstand metallic vapor. •Aging of the emf characteristic, in comparison to thermocouples of noble materials(B, R, and S). WHY CHOOSE A TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE A coupling of Chromel and Alumel wires, has a range of -270 °C to 1260 °C and an output of -6.4 to 54.9 mV over maximum temperature range. This is one of the major advantages of thermocouple type k over other thermocouples in general or other temperature transducers such as the thermistor or the resistance temperature detector (RTD). Its capability to function in rugged environmental conditions and in various atmospheres makes it a preference over other temperature transduction devices. TYPE K TEMPERATURE RANGE Thermocouple devices must use the appropriate wire because different wires measure various temperature ranges. Type K is popular because of its wide temperature range. Of the four major thermocouple types, type K covers the widest range from−200°C to 1,260°C (approximately minus 328°F to 2,300° F). TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE WIRE PROTECTION OR INSULATION MATERIAL When protected or isolated with ceramic beads or insulation material. Due to its reliability and accuracy, Type K is used extensively at temperatures up to 1260°C (2300°F). It's good practice to protect this type of thermocouple with a suitable metal or ceramic protecting tube, especially in reducing atmospheres. In oxidizing atmospheres, such as electric furnaces, tube protection is not always necessary when other conditions are suitable; however, it is recommended for cleanliness and general mechanical protection. Type K will generally outlast Type J because the JP (iron) wire rapidly oxidizes, especially at higher temperatures. When protected by compacted mineral insulation and outer metal sheath (MGO). Type K is usable from -35 to 1260°C (-32 to 2300°F). If the application is between 600 to 1100°F, we recommend Type J or N because of short range ordering that can cause drift of +2° to +4°F in a few hours time. Type K is relatively stable to radiation transmission in nuclear environments. For applications below 0°C (32°F), special alloy selections are usually required. TYPE K LIMITS OF ERROR Thermocouple wire sensitivities and margins of error are considerations when selecting a type. Type K has a higher margin of error than other types of thermocouple wire; manufacturers that choose this type are generally willing to sacrifice accuracy for the wide range of sensitivity. Type K has a margin of error related to a percentage of the temperature measured. It is roughly 0.75‰ or 2.2°C, whichever is greater. TYPE K THERMOELECTRIC VOLTAGE Type K has an exponentially increasing voltage the differences in voltages become easier to measure and more accurate at higher temperatures. At very cold temperatures minus 260° C to minus 250° C type K thermocouple voltages differ only one or two thousandths of a millivolt for every degree Celsius. At extremely high temperatures around 1,350°C voltage differs about 3.3 hundredths of a millivolt per degree Celsius. TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE WIRE COATING Uncoated wire probes respond more quickly to temperature. Coated wires display different response times in different media. Some test subject chemicals might damage exposed probes and wires. A 1/4-inch wide, sheathed, ungrounded type K thermocouple responds to temperature changes in water in about 2.25 seconds. A bare thermocouple wire responds in just over 0.6 seconds. TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE JUNCTIONS Grounded Thermocouple This is the most common junction style. A thermocouple is grounded when both thermocouple wires and the sheath are all welded together to form one junction at the probe tip. Grounded thermocouples have a very good response time because the thermocouple is making direct contact with the sheath, allowing heat to transfer easily. A drawback of the grounded thermocouple is that the thermocouple is more susceptible to electrical interference. This is because the sheath often comes into contact with the surrounding area, providing a path for interference. Ungrounded Thermocouple A thermocouple is ungrounded when the thermocouple wires are welded together but they are insulated from the sheath. The wires are often separated by mineral insulation. Exposed Thermocouples (or "bare wire thermocouples") A thermocouple is exposed when the thermocouple wires are welded together and directly inserted into the process. The response time is very quick, but exposed thermocouple wires are more prone to corrosion and degradation. Unless your application requires exposed junctions, this style is not recommended. TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE CONDUCTOR GAUGE Thermocouple conductors come in a variety of sizes. Depending on your application, the gauge selected will affect the thermocouple's performance. The larger the gauge size, the more thermal mass the thermocouple will have with a corresponding decrease in response. The larger the gauge size the greater the stability and oper-ating life. Conversely, a smaller gauge size will have a quicker response, but may not deliver the stability or oper-ating life required. TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE SHEATH Maximum temperature: 1650. Best corrosion resistance of the austenitic stainless steel grades. Widely used in the food and chemical industry. Subject to damaging carbide precipitation in 900°F to 1600°F (482°C to 870°C). Maximum temperature: 1650°F (900°C). Same as 316 SST (04) except low carbon version allows for better welding and fabrication. Maximum temperature: 1650°F (900°C). Most widely used low temperature sheath material. Extensively used in food, beverage, chemical and other industries where corrosion resistance is required. Industry: Subject to damaging carbide precipitation in 900 to 1600°F (480 to 870°C) range. Lowest cost corrosion resistant sheath material available. Maximum temperature: 1650°F (900?C). Low carbon version of 304 SST (02). Low carbon content allows this material to be welded and heated in the 900 to 1600°F (480 to 870°C) range without damage to corrosion resistance. Maximum temperature: 2100?F (1150?C). Mechanical and corrosion resistance, similar to but better than 304 SS. Very good heat resistance. This alloy contains 25% chromium, 20% nickel. Not as ductile as 304 SS. Maximum temperature: 1600°F (870°C). Similar to 304 SS except titanium stabilized for intergranular corrosion. This alloy is designed to overcome susceptibility to carbon precipitation in the 900 to 1600°F (480 to 870°C) range. Used in aerospace and chemicalapplications. Maximum temperature: 2100°F (1150°C). Ferritic stainless steel which has good resistance to sulfurous atmospheres at high temperatures. Good corrosion resistance to nitric acid, sulfuric acid and most alkalies. 27% chromium content gives this alloy the highest heat resistance of any ferritic stainless steel. Maximum temperature: 2150°F (1175°C). Most widely used thermocouple sheath material. Good high temperature strength, corrosion resistance, resistance to chloride-ion stress corrosion cracking and oxidation resistance to high temperatures. Do not use in sulfur bearing environments. Good in nitriding environments. Maximum temperature: 2150°F (1175°C) continuous, 2300°F (1260°C) intermittent. Similar to Alloy 600 with the addition of aluminum for outstanding oxidation resistance. Designed for high temperature corrosion resistance. This material is good in carburizing environments, and has good creep rupture strength. Do not use in vacuum furnaces! Susceptible to intergranular attack by prolonged heating in 1000 to 1400°F (540 to 760°C) temperature range. Maximum temperature: 2000°F (1095°C). Widely used as heater sheath material. Minimal use in thermocouples. Superior to Alloy 600 in sulfur, cyanide salts and fused neutral salts. Susceptible to intergranular attack in some applications by exposure to the temperature range of 1000 to 1400°F (540 to 7607deg C). HOW TO MEASUERE TEMPERATURE WITH A TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE A thermocouple circuit contains the two alloy junctions, wire sand connectors and a voltage measuring device. When the two junctions are experiencing different temperatures, measurable current flows through the circuit. The current is related to the temperature differential. Because the measurement is relative, one of the temperatures must be known in order to calculate an absolute temperature. In early thermocouples, one junction was kept at 0° C by immersing it in an ice water bath. Today, one of the junctions, the "cold junction," is electrically compensated to maintain a standard. The other junction, the "hot junction," is exposed to the environment to be measured. COLLECTING DATA FROM A TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE A Type K thermocouple can be connected to a voltmeter for simple data collection. In this case, the output is a voltage, and the reader has to convert the voltage level to temperature using a conversion formula. To record data, the thermocouple can be connected to a data logger or a data acquisition system to store collected data. In these cases, a conversion circuit or a software operation can be used to calculate the temperature using the voltage output. TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE SIGNIFICANCE Like all thermocouples, they are inexpensive, have a fast reaction time, are small in size and are dependable. They can accurately measure extreme temperatures. Depending on where they are manufactured, these range from −270° to 1,370° degrees C or Celsius, with errors within 0.5 to 2 degrees C. They have a sensitivity that is approximately 41 microvolts per degree C. K types are more generally used at temperatures above 540 degrees C. To limit excessive error, the recommended usage is in oxidizing or completely inert atmospheres with a range of −200° to 1,260° C. All thermocouples have some disadvantages. They need to be calibrated very carefully before usage. Their output signals are very small and so they may have a problem with noise. They are prone to stress , strain and corrosion, particularly as they age. K types, however, have special problems. TYPE K THERMOCOUPLE CONSIDERATIONS Type K thermocouples are only stable for short periods at certain temperatures, after which they tend to drift in a positive direction . The size of the drift is dependent on the temperature. For example, at 1,093° C, their readings may be off by as much as five degrees. Alternate or cyclical exposure below 371° and above 760° C yields unstable measurements. Prolonged exposure from 427° to 649°C makes them age faster. The chromel element is subject to what is known as "green rot." When this happens, the chromium becomes oxidized and turns green and corroded. This occurs in reduced oxygen environments from 815° to 1,040°C. Such depleted-oxygen environments are called reducing, and K-type thermocouples should never be used in either reducing or cyclically oxidizing and reducing atmospheres. Also, they should not be used in sulfurous environments because they will become brittle and break rapidly. The presence of chromium makes them unsuitable for vacuums, save for short periods of time. This is because vaporization may occur. TYPE K WORKAROUND The problems may be minimized by using them within the recommended temperatures and environments. Careful calibration, installing them with the proper connectors and wires, and using compensation circuits also serve as aids. K types constructed to reduce the errors include those that are well insulated, pre-aged or are annealed above their operating temperatures. Some users also take care to replace them often. Others switch to type N, which was specifically constructed to be an improvement over K. PREVIOUS：Safety Testing / Surge Testing NEXT：E12 Caps Gauges Instructions What is the ISO/IEC 17025? What is meant by IEC(International Electrotechnical Commission)? IEC Member countries list List of IEC standards What is a CNAS Certificate?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line357
__label__wiki	0.816952	0.816952	Pugnacious Creed II a crowd-pleasing punch to the gut by Sara Michelle Fetters - SGN A&E Writer Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) has emerged out of his late father Apollo Creed's shadow. Thanks to the tutelage of his friend and mentor Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) and the love of his longtime singer girlfriend Bianca (Tessa Thompson), he is now the heavyweight champion of the world. He has done exactly what he set out to do, and for this one brief moment as far as Adonis is concerned all is right with the world. But someone from out of both Rocky's and his father's past has come back to haunt the new champion. In the heart of the Ukraine, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) has been patiently training his son Viktor (Florian 'Big Nasty' Munteanu) to be an even more unstoppable beast inside the ring than even he was. They have challenged Adonis to a bout, and it's a fight the new champion feels he cannot turn down. Ivan is the man that inadvertently killed his father during their fight. Rocky is the one who, in his grief, subsequently went to Moscow and shocked the world by knocking Ivan out in front of his own countrymen. Adonis feels like he has to accept this fight no matter what the consequences, worrying he'll disappear back behind his father's massive silhouette if he fails to take down the son of the man who beat him to death three decades prior. Creed II is a direct sequel to 2015's surprise hit Creed and also 1985's Rocky IV. It brings back characters from both of those films as well as ones from other Rocky entries. It gives Phylicia Rashad a tiny bit more to do as Adonis' mother Mary Anne Creed. Screenwriters Stallone and Juel Taylor give just as much credence to the Ivan/Viktor storyline as they do the Rocky/Adonis one. New director Steven Caple Jr. (The Land) deftly follows in original filmmaker Ryan Coogler's (Black Panther, Creed, Fruitvale Station) footsteps by insisting the drama remain focused on the characters and their respective journeys above any and everything else. It's an incredibly well-realized motion picture that continues on the enduring legacy of the previous films yet also manages to make its own individualistic mark as well. In short, it's a darn good sequel, and it's safe to say I kind of loved just about every single second of it. At the same time, it's obvious we've ventured outside of Coogler's original vision displayed to such vibrant meticulousness in the last film and have instead strayed back into the one Stallone spent three decades perfecting while working on six different Rocky films beginning with the Academy Award-winning original in 1976 and culminating with his triumphant final chapter Rocky Balboa in 2006. Not only does he bring back the protagonist of Rocky IV, he also throws in a troubled pregnancy subplot culled from Rocky II and the initially reluctant trainer narrative beat from Rocky III. Additionally, as terrific as both Rashad and Thompson might be, and the latter is electrifying stealing scenes left and right from Jordan with magnetic forcefulness, the women are still relegated into the background, their wants, needs and desires secondary to that of the men sharing their lives. In short, it's back to basics right down to returning composer Ludwig Göransson's (Venom) heavy utilization of Oscar-winner Bill Conti's original Rocky themes throughout the 130-minute drama. While he waits to unleash 'Gonna Fly Now' until the ideal moment, the rest of Conti's music can be heard so frequently it's easy to wonder whether he came out of retirement to compose the score and Göransson's name is there only as an alias. And, while I'm likely being disingenuous in regards to how intricate the music here is, there's still no denying this sequel sounds more like any one of the '80s entries in the series than it does Coogler's film from just three years ago. I'm nitpicking. But that still doesn't mean I didn't want more complexity as it pertained to Adonis and Bianca's relationship; that I kept feeling like she needed to be her own woman and construct her own life and not just be a feminine device to help augment her husband's story at the expense of her own. Even so, it's refreshing to see a relationship like the one these two share in a major Hollywood sequel, the heat of their romantic passions genuinely palpable. More, Jordan and Thompson continue to showcase a fiery chemistry that burns through the screen, and I couldn't have loved the both of them more whenever they were together if I had wanted to try. The rest of the movie follows the general Rocky template right down to the overblown training montage. The fact it all works as well as it does is a testament to how rich the performances are as well as the kinetically captivating efficiency of Caple's direction. I loved the way Stallone and Taylor's script balances its screen time between Rocky, Adonis, Ivan and Viktor. The latter two are given a lot to do, the fervent depth of their relationship subtly speaking volumes as father and son both look for redemption even when they don't always see eye-to-eye as why it is exactly they're both doing so. Their familial love is real, and I adored the fact so much of the story is reliant upon it being so, and unlike Rocky IV where Ivan was the clear villain this time around he and Viktor are almost as sympathetic and worth rooting for as Adonis and Rocky unsurprisingly continue to be. But all anyone is truly going to care about is the final confrontation between Adonis and Viktor and whether or not watching it is worth the price of admission. It is. While cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau's (The Darkest Minds) camerawork isn't nearly as gorgeously fluid as what Maryse Alberti brought to the last film, that doesn't make his visual styling any less incredible. He brings a brutal urgency to the final fight that's bruising in its dynamic intensity, each left hook or right jab an eye-popping punch to the gut that had me sitting at the edge of my seat eager to discover what was going to happen next. In the end, Stallone continues to be perfect as Rocky Balboa and Jordan was born to portray Adonis Creed. Their relationship grows in a number of charismatic ways, the purity of their bond one I'm not about to take for granted. If this sequel isn't quite the marvel its predecessor was that doesn't make it any less entertaining, and whether for die-hard fans of the series who have been there since the beginning or for newcomers who just come to it on the strength of Coogler's 2015 opus, Creed II is a pugnacious delight worth getting into the theatrical ring to see. December 2018 theater openings An Evening with AUNTIE MAME returns! - Three Dollar Bill Cinema's annual holiday fundraiser Dec. 12 Charmed, I'm sure with Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Seattle Humane - Pets of the Week Delightfully imaginative Ralph Breaks the Internet a superior sequel Animating friendships - Head of animation Kira Lehtomaki helps bring Ralph Breaks the Internet to life Well-intentioned Front Runner a few votes shy of victory	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line359
__label__cc	0.658857	0.341143	Beer Flavour Wheel My Golden Pints 2013 These get harder every year. Mostly because my memory is getting worse thanks to all the beer, but still… Best UK Cask Beer: Oakham Citra My drinking has shifted in the last year or two and I now drink way more keg beer than cask beer. One of the best casks I had was Portobello’s Pilsner, in The Gunmakers, but it seemed like a one-off barrel of brilliance and I haven’t tasted it as good again. Burning Sky Aurora was amazing and I can’t wait to drink way too much of it next year. But Oakham Citra is becoming one of the best beers in Britain and that’s the best cask beer I’ve had this year (their Green Devil is also ruinously good). Best UK Keg Beer: Camden Town Indian Summer A lot of contenders for this one. BrewDog Dead Pony Club is something I find impossible not to order. I’m loving Beavertown’s Gamma Ray. A couple of Siren beers really stood out – Soundwave and Liquid Mistress. Citronvand by Alpha State was a crackling little beer bursting with big hops. My favourite was the beer that I’ve probably had more pints of than any other British beer this year (given that I worked there one day a week, that makes sense, but still…): Camden Town’s Indian Summer. A hopped-up 6%ish IPA-slash-lager, it’s exactly the kind of beer I love. I’ve already requested that it becomes a permanent beer. And goes in cans. Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer: Partizan Mosaic Saison Summer Wine Maelstrom has nailed the Double IPA in a way that no other British brewery has – a bottle that I had this summer was unreal. When Dead Pony Club is good it’s unbeatable. Any of the Salopian small-batch stuff is superb. A bottle of Tap East’s APA was fantastic. But the best… Partizan Mosaic Saison was ohmyfuckinggod good, as was the Amarillo version, and as are all the other variations they do on saison. Best Overseas Draught Beer: Nomad Karel Nomad Karel. No question one of the best IPAs I’ve ever tasted and it’s made using only Czech hops. I drank it on a stag do in Prague and all I remember is basically spending two hours saying how much I loved the beer and that it’s the best beer in the world ever. It was so juicily fruity, so clean, so soft and just perfect. I also had plenty of other good ones: a green-hopped pilsner from Schonramer; Eschenbrau’s pilsner in Berlin rocked; Bells Two Hearted was a perfect IPA when I had it in Philadelphia; Uerige Alt from the brewery is an unmissable beer experience; as is rauchbier in Bamberg, where my first taste was Spezial’s; Naparbier’s Back in Black in Barcelona was as good as any black IPA I’ve tasted; since Lagunitas IPA arrived in Britain I’ve got too drunk on it too many times; all of the beers at Social Kitchen and Brewery in San Francisco; and an Oskar Blues Mama’s Little Yella Pils on draft in Philly was beautiful and way hoppier than I’d tasted it before. Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer: Stone & Wood Pacific Ale I’ve had a lot of Duvel this year and it’s become a fridge staple. FirestoneWalker’s Pivo Pils almost made me propose marriage to David Walker, then I realised how drunk I was and walked about 50 New York blocks home… (I’m just glad I didn’t drink Union Jack in front of him on the same night or it would’ve got really embarrassing). The single most holy-shit-this-is-awesome beer was Boulevard’s Tank 7 which after one sip made me text Mark and tell him to buy bottles immediately. But the beer I fell headoverheels in love with this year was Stone & Wood’s Pacific Ale. I don’t know how they manage to make a beer that’s so bloody delicious. Best Collaboration Brew: Fyne and Wild Cool as a Cucumber Cool as a Cucumber by Fyne and Wild. It’s an amazing beer and I want more! The Wild/Burning Sky/Good George Schnoodlepip was also really excellent. Best Overall Beer: Nomad Karel Nomad Karel for the joyous pleasure it gave me while drinking it. I even went back to another bar the next day to drink more (when I should’ve been chilling for a while before a big night out). It must’ve been that cheeky pint which gave me the stamina to still be sitting in a Prague strip club at 5.30am… (LAD!) Best Branding, Pumpclip or Label: Partizan The easiest choice this year: Partizan. I love them all. Alec Doherty's artwork rocks. Best UK Brewery: Partizan Partizan. I think every beer is excellent and they make exactly the kinds of beers I want to be drinking. Super hoppy saisons, a wonderful singel, banging pale ales, and the dark beers rock. Best Overseas Brewery: Schlenkerla I’ve drunk more bottles of Schlenkerla Marzen than almost any other beer this year and I got to go to the tavern in Bamberg. It’s such a weird and esoteric beer yet it’s remarkable. Go to Bamberg if you can – it’s one of the best beer town’s in the world. Best New Brewery Opening 2013: Burning Sky Burning Sky. Gorgeous saisons, plus pale ales and IPAs with more hop flavour and depth than almost anyone else. And there’s going to be barrel-aged beers coming soon. Pub/Bar of the Year: Well and Bucket The Well and Bucket. It’s my favourite London pub. Cool place, lots of good beers, sliders. And jointly this also goes to The Gunmakers. It’s my new work local and there’s nothing like walking in there and being warmly greeted by the staff – you can also guarantee some of the best-kept cask beer in London. Best New Pub/Bar Opening 2013: BrewDog Shepherd's Bush BrewDog Shepherd’s Bush. It’s an insane beer playground and I expect to drink there a lot in 2014. Beer Festival of the Year: GBBF I’ve been to shockingly few festivals this year (I’m a bit bored of big old halls and warm, weird beer – I’d rather go to the pub). I’ll never miss GBBF because it’s the best. Going to Braukunst in Munich was a fun experience. Supermarket of the Year: Waitrose Waitrose. Though I think Tesco is getting a lot better. Independent Retailer of the Year: Bottle Shop Bottle Shop in Canterbury. It always wins my award because I love it. The Beer Boutique in Putney also deserves a mention. Online Retailer of the Year: AlesByMail I use AlesByMail more than any other. Best Beer Book or Magazine: BEER and BeerAdvocate So there’s this book called Craft Beer World which I think is pretty good… CAMRA’s BEER magazine is always interesting, as is BeerAdvocate magazine (I do write for both of them...). Sadly there’s just a massive lack of general beer writing in more mainstream media, which is always such a shame. Best Beer Blog or Website: Beervana I think Beervana is the best beer blog around. Insightful, interesting, informed and it’s the blog which I wish I wrote (and I’m fairly sure I wrote the same thing last year, so I probably should just start writing that kind of thing…). Best Beer App: Craft Beer London Craft Beer London. I use it a few times a week and it’s excellent and reliable (and then on the way home I use the KFC finder app…). Simon Johnson Award for Best Beer Twitterer: Chris Hall Chris Hall. Definitely one of the most entertaining voices in British beer. Best Brewery Website/Social media: Camden Town Brewery I think most are pretty terrible with streams of retweets praising themselves or just general boring posts like “Brewing our lovely bitter again today.” Very few actually get it right. I think Camden Town Brewery are one of the best, and I say that as the person that used to do it but now doesn’t (so with bitterness that it’s now better without me!). It’s conversational and interesting and not a stream of bullshit – nice work, Zoe! Food and Beer Pairing of the Year: Schlenkerla Marzen and everythingI’ve spent half the year trying to figure out great beer and food pairings (for my new book! It’s called Beer & Food! You can pre-order it NOW!). My new favourite beer to go with food is definitely Schlenkerla Rauchbier Marzen. It’s capable of some of the most unexpected and brilliant things (Try it with stilton! Try it with chocolate!). A simple one is often the best and with a spit-roast chicken it’s unbeatable. My other favourite new pairing is Sam Smith’s Oatmeal Stout with a good rare steak, parsnip chips and horseradish. It’s amazing. Posted by Mark Dredge 2 comments The Golden Pints 2013 Time to round-up the best of beer in 2013. As we have done for the last few years, Andy Mogg from Beer Reviews and I invite anyone and everyone to share their favourite beers and pubs from the last year. This time around we’ve made a few updates to the categories, reflecting a few changes in British beer: we’ve broken UK draught beer into cask and keg; we’ve added categories for new breweries and new bar openings; there’s one for collaboration brews, as these are very common now; and there’s a category for the best smartphone app. We also changed the name of the Best Beer Twitterer in the honour of Simon Johnson, who passed away earlier this year. He had a clean sweep of wins in that category every year that we’ve done the Golden Pints, so it seems like a good way to remember his impact. Feel free to answer with one word for each category or with whole sprawling paragraphs. Give runner-up choices if you wish, or even top 10s in each category. Blog them, tweet them, paste them into the blog comments below – however you want to do it. The ‘UK’ focus can easily be changed to whatever country you are based in. And you can use the Golden Pints logo when you post. Here are the categories for this year’s Golden Pints. · Best UK Cask Beer · Best UK Keg Beer · Best UK Bottled or Canned Beer · Best Overseas Draught Beer · Best Overseas Bottled or Canned Beer · Best Collaboration Brew · Best Overall Beer · Best Branding, Pumpclip or Label · Best UK Brewery · Best Overseas Brewery · Best New Brewery Opening 2013 · Pub/Bar of the Year · Best New Pub/Bar Opening 2013 · Beer Festival of the Year · Supermarket of the Year · Independent Retailer of the Year · Online Retailer of the Year · Best Beer Book or Magazine · Best Beer Blog or Website · Best Beer App · Simon Johnson Award for Best Beer Twitterer · Best Brewery Website/Social media · Food and Beer Pairing of the Year Get them posted by the end of 2013 and we’ll try and do a round-up early in 2014! Posted by Mark Dredge 40 comments Craft Beer in Barcelona It may have been planned as a non-beery weekend away for some October sunshine, but you can’t keep a beer geek away from local craft beers, especially when it’s a major city in a country that isn’t yet known for its brewing... So what’s Barcelona like for good beer and where should you go to find the best? BierCaB This was in the process of opening when I was there (early October 2013) and it was only a tweet from a local that sent me there, but I’m very glad we went. With 30 taps, lots of Spanish beers, plus really great imported beers including rarely-seen American stuff, this is the place to go for beer in Barcelona (and a world-class bar wherever you are in the world). It’s very smart and modern, the beer list is on big TV screens and there’s very good food. Naparbier’s US-hopped unfiltered lager was so good I ordered their Back in Black, a chocolate orange of a Black IPA, and that was so good that I ordered their ZZ+ Amber which was also very good. BierCaB is an essential Barca beer stop. CatBar This place is fun. Small and filled with mis-matched furniture, there’s jazz in the background and drawings of cats all over the walls. There are nine beers on tap (six were Spanish when I went) and they do flights if you want to sample some things before you get a pint. They have a good fridge of Spanish bottles and the food menu is vegan – the burgers are good. A porter from Fort was tasty, as was a bottle of Ausesken Cat IPA, which was recommended by the bar staff (though it was quite dark in colour – a lot of IPAs seem to be brown... is this Iberian Pale Ale, perhaps). This is a must-visit beer bar. La Cerveteca A short walk from CatBar, this is a bottle shop and cool corner bar that feels like an old English pub, especially as they had a beer on cask and a humming chatty atmosphere. A list of import beers were on tap with the only Spanish option being on the handpull. The cask was from Ales Agullons and was soft, dry, fragrantly hoppy and bitter – it was superb. The bottle range has a lot of Spanish choice. It’s too close to CatBar to not do both. La Bona Pinta A few streets away from the La Sagrada Familia is this little bottle shop which doesn’t look much from the street corner but it opens into a bar with seating inside. BrewDog, Siren, and some other imports were on tap, while the fridges and shelves were loaded with Spanish beers. Go here to get bottles, but stay for a glass while you’re there. Cervesera Artesana A brewpub in town, not far from La Sagrada Familia. Walking in it’s like an old sports bar, only there’s brewing kits in the back. It has lots of classic bottles plus five of their own beers on tap. Obviously I ordered all of them, though slightly regretted it as they all had some unusual flavours from fermentation, though they were definitely drinkable. Their Imperial Stout was good and worth going for (if a little boozy for 25C weather) – dark chocolate and coffee, plus their associated acidity, some fruitiness, lots of cocoa, liquorice and vanilla, but more weird fermentation flavours. Go if you’re nearby. Ale & Hop I loved this place. A cool, long bar, with stool seating and then tables in the back. A good bottle fridge and food menu – we stopped for brunch on Sunday and the food was superb. The beers were some of the best, too. Fort’s Citra Golden Ale was perfect: fresh and fruity, juicy and delicious. They had a couple of great Naparbier beers on, plus imports. Definitely go here for food and for beer. Homosibaris Off a small placa, this is a smart bar and bottle shop with eight taps mixing local and imports. Cosy seating in the back, interesting art on the walls, some snacks, and a good atmosphere. There’s a brewery attached but there were no house beers on when I went. Fabrica Moritz This is a decent-sized brewery in the middle of the city. It’s smart and modern, you can see the tanks, you can order some tapas, and they serve two types of beer: an unfiltered lager and an amber lager. Both are good, very clean, simple, yet quenching in the warm weather. I liked this place a lot and if you want a good, refreshing lager then go here. I couldn't resist an Estrella with a paella Barcelona is an amazing city and I love it. Getting lost in winding old streets, seeing the beautiful buildings and being by the beach is a great mix. Big beer dominates, which is evident as the Estrella brewery is pretty much the first thing you see when you leave the airport, but there is a growing number of small breweries. And what I found was that they are making a wide range of different styles from straight-up pilsner, to American-style pale ales and IPAs, lots of stouts, and even some wild ales and sour beers. Many either seemed a bit sweet or aggressively bitter but the best beers I tasted were equal to the best beers brewed anywhere in the world, which is great (Fort, Agullons and Naparbier were my favourites, though there are no doubt others making really good beers which I didn’t get to try). One caveat is that for every great beer I had, I also had a poor one which had some kind of brewing issue (most often acetaldehyde, diacetyl or just some weird yeast flavours). So it’s currently a bit of a beer roulette. Next to the Spanish beers, everywhere served imported beers, mostly British with BrewDog, Magic Rock, Buxton, Moor, Siren, and others. And if you do visit then watch out for opening times: lots of places don’t open until 6pm and many are closed on Sundays. Barcelona is a great place. You might not necessarily go there on a beer holiday, but if you’re there then you’ll be able to drink some great beers, as long as you don’t mind a few duds in between. Cooking with beer: Shepherd’s Pie with London Porter I’ve spent the summer blinkered by beer and food, whether it’s trying to come up with great combinations or using beer as an ingredient in different recipes. So when I get an email from Sainsbury’s seeing if I’d like to shoot a YouTube video for them, I thought I’d have a go at taking one of their Live Well for Less recipes and giving it my own beer tweak. I cooked up a classic, simple Shepherd’s Pie and included some Fuller’s London Porter in the lamb mix. The beer is perfect for this: roasted, a little sweet, a bit chocolatey and there’s something wonderfully savoury about it when it gets cooked with meat and tomatoes. It gave a delicious extra depth into the dish and worked really well. Reunite the beer and pie and pour the Porter when you eat – it’s a great match. For the recipe, go to the Sainsbury’s website. The only tweak I made was to forget the mint sauce and add about 200ml of porter, plus a teaspoon of sugar to balance any beer bitterness - this is a useful tip whenever you're cooking with beer and just a little bit of something sweet can help a lot. Thanks to Nathan Nolan who shot the video and edited it (and let me wear his shirt because my grey jumper made me blend into the background!). He’s cool so you should check out his website, Mr Drink ‘N’ Eat. Fix: The Greek word for beer With a background of financial crisis and a market dominated by multi-national breweries, Fix Hellas made at Olympic Brewery, based near Athens, have focused on their heritage, their provenance, and a quality product to go from nothing to over 10% of the Greek market in four years. In fact, they’ve found that the country’s financial problems have enabled them this astonishing growth. Thank Fuchs for Greek Lager In 1832, Greece broke free from the Ottoman Empire, which it had been ruled by since the 15th century. Regaining autonomy as a Kingdom, Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria, became the first king. With a Bavarian in charge, other Germans followed him. One of those was Georg Fuchs, who worked to construct mines. Georg’s son, Johann, travelled to Greece to be with his father. When he arrived he learnt that his father had been shot dead. Despite this, Johann chose to stay and seeing his fellow countrymen and their thirst for the drink of their homeland, he started importing German beer. Johann Fuchs (left) and son Karl (right). From here With a growing population of Germans, Johann decided to build a brewery to be able to make beer in Greece, rather than importing it – this was Greece’s first modern brewery and Johann gave his brewery a slightly-more-Greek sounding version of his name: Fix. By the middle of the 19th century his beer was popular among Greeks and Germans, and his brewery had become a central meeting point in Athens. King Otto ruled from 1833 until 1863, when a democratic constitution was introduced and King George I took over, albeit with reduced powers to his predecessor. Taking advantage of additional freedom under the new leadership, plus the growing success of Fix, Fuchs moved his brewery and opened a new site in 1864. The old Fix brewery. From here. Other breweries were operational at this time and beer was so popular that by 1893 Fuchs had built a large new brewery on Syngrou Avenue, in a suburb of Athens. Johann’s son Karl joined his father in the family business and together they continued the brewery’s success and growth. Always looking to be as technologically advanced as possible, Fix became fully steam-powered and then Karl was responsible for introducing artificial refrigeration to Greece in 1920. When Karl died, his two sons – Yiannis and Antonis – took over the brewery and they built a malting facility to be able to use Greek barley. By now, the brewery had become synonymous with Greek beer and the nearby Syngrou Avenue metro stop was named Syngrou-FIX – the name remains today. As Athens spread, the area around Syngrou Avenue started to grow and become a more populous suburb of the city. In 1957 the brewery was refurbished and expanded to be a state-of-the-art building, designed by a famed architect of the time, where the whole of the ground floor was glass-fronted to allow people to see into the brewhouse. But this was to be a peak before a long, slow fall past political problems, internal issues, accusations of operating a beer monopoly, then strong competition from other beer brands like Amstel and Heineken. In 1982, Greece’s most famous beer brand went bankrupt and stopped making beer. Genesis of a Fixed brand In 2006, brothers Ilias and George Grekis, of GR INOX which manufactures stainless steel, including breweries, built a brewhouse and small filling line, from which they launched a new lager brand called Genesis. But it didn’t last long. “Genesis means nothing in Greece,” says Ilias Grekis, a George Clooney-esque man with wide shoulders and a booming, chesty voice. “In Greece you have to make people understand that Genesis means beer.” Making Greek understand Genesis was a challenge and instead they started to look into the old Fix brand. Then in 2008 they started a corporation with Yiannis Chitos of Zagori Natural Mineral Water and together they took ownership of the Fix brand and the Olympic Brewery – from 1995 the Fix trademark was owned of D. Kourtakis SA, who briefly re-launched the beer without success. But this time it would be different. “We did research before we bought the brand to see two things: if people remember the brand and how they remember: in a good way or bad way,” says Grekis. “The result was excellent: they had very good memories and 95% said Fix was beer,” with the other 5% linking it to the metro station, which was named after the brewery. “This is treasure, it’s gold.” The new Fix “The first challenge was to make a decent beer. A beer that Greeks would like,” says Grekis. “It was a challenge but from the result we think that we have a success there. Fix Hellas has a good market, good marketing, good distribution, but beer is for fun, you drink beer because you like it, not because you have to. I believe that we have success with making good beer.” The second challenge was distribution. Before Fix, there were only two big companies: Carlsberg and Athenian. Carlsberg make Mythos, perhaps the best-known Greek beer. Athenian brew Heineken, Amstel, Fischer and Alfa (Alfa, by the way, is an old beer brand started by a cousin of Fuchs who built another brewery in Greece, separating the family by doing so). Together they had over 90% of the Greek market. They are also the main importers of beer, so they control the whole market. With water magnate Yiannis Chitos, who has a very good relationship with wholesalers thanks to his water business, Fix found access into the market. “The third challenge is the consumer. We focus on the consumer because he has the final judgement of the product.” This involved clever marketing and focusing on the Greek provenance and history of the beer. It was immediately successful from its launch in March 2010, perhaps too successful; in the middle of that year, just as the peak tourist season approached, they ran out of beer. “We sold everything we have,” says Grekis. “We haven’t beer to drink ourselves. This is a terrible time. So we make a decision that we have to increase our capacity.” Olympic Brewery Following an initial €4m investment, they spent another €16m in filling lines, filter and cellars for their four-vessel 100HL brewhouse, which produced 100,000HL of beer in 2010. The next year they invested a further €15m to install an additional four-vessel 200HL brewhouse (supplied by GR INOX) while also increasing filling capacity and fermentation capacity which allowed their output to jump to 195,000HL, deliberately stopping there because in Greece there is small brewery tax relief for those producing less than 200,000HL annually (it’s €0.34 per litre for a large brewery versus €0.17 for a small one). In 2012 they made full use of the second brewhouse, which they run concurrently with the original (they brew eight turns through each brewhouse each day) and their output grew to 410,000HL. In early 2013 they invested €4m in fermentation tanks and recycling facilities for filtration, meaning they are able to maximise their brewhouse output and reach 550,000HL. To grow further they need to build another brewery and plans are being worked on. The Olympic Brewery are also looking into the possibility of building a malt plant in Greece. Fix brews with Greek barley but aside from two private plants for Athenian brewery, Greece does not yet have a malting facility, so the 150 hectares of barley that Fix planted in 2013 will be sent to Germany to be processed. “We need a malt plant here in Greece,” says Grekis. “I believe that somebody will make this investment. If nobody does it we will see to make it ourselves.” It would cost about €8-10m for 10,000 tonnes, which is the amount that Fix currently uses, so they would want to make a larger malting to be able to produce 20,000 tonnes to also support the growing number of Greek microbreweries. “It would be a plant for all. It’s a safe investment. You will sell it, no matter what.” A modern brewery The brewery is a very impressive facility. The two brewhouses sit side-by-side with a small production office between them, monitoring the process. There’s an enormous filtration area and then a spotless, stunning cellar: tiled floors, bright hoses snake across it as the conical bases of vast tanks look like upside-down pyramids. It’s calm, clean, and quiet. Into the packaging area and things get noisy and busy as 28,000 cans and 24,000 bottles are filled an hour – in the summer they will fill up to 60,000 cases of beer a day (which drops to just 3,000 in winter showing the seesaw seasonality of beer in Greece). There is also a 100-litre trial brewery sitting in the pipes beneath the 100HL brewhouse. It’s in this that they can try out different recipes. They used this to work on FIX Dark, a beer which was introduced in 2012. A schwarzbier, it’s smartly branded and aimed at younger drinkers and while it was initially launched with the winter in mind, it’s selling throughout the year and it’s quickly been successful: it will account for around 8% of the brewery’s production in 2013. A Fix to the financial problems? But for a country that’s in financial crisis, how has Fix managed to achieve this monumental growth in such a short time? “The economy is very difficult in Greece, especially for the banks. And if you have a huge growth like we have, you need banks,” says Grekis. “But if you have in front of you a company that is going well with growth, you don’t have problems,” he says. “The thing is that the crisis has helped us very much as a company. We are an original Greek company. Through the crisis Greek people started turning to Greek products to support their country. Fix Hellas is Fix Hellas. It’s Greek.” The name – Fix Hellas – suffixes the Greek word for Greece (Hellas), therefore closely aligning it to the Greek people. And where Fix is unique is that it has a long history in Greece, it was the original Greek beer, it’s now an entirely Greek company, employing Greek people, with a Greek-built brewhouse, and using Greek-grown barley, and they have used this to their advantage. “Why the consumer will pick my product is the marketing – the strength of the brand,” Grekis says. How did they build that? “Millions of Euros!” he laughs, but behind that is a serious statement: there is a large marketing budget, and they aren’t afraid to spend the money, but it’s really just telling a good story that appeals to Greek sentiment and their current desire for Greek products. The financial crisis had a big impact on their sales. Where wine was once the drink of choice, beer has now became the affordable alternative and Greeks are now choosing Fix over Amstel, Heineken, and the others, because they want to support and buy Greek things. There isn’t a pub drinking culture in Greece and beer was previously a glass of summer refreshment, but that’s changing; beer is becoming the drink of choice. And with clever marketing, quality approachable beer, smart branding and, crucially, a Greek product, Fix has grow phenomenally against the backdrop of a financial crisis and they now have a considerable segment of the market – and it’s still growing. Fix. It's the Greek word for beer. A Bamberg Beer Tour Last night I was drinking in Munich until 2am and then I woke up at 6am to get a three-hour train north, so my first steps in Bamberg should be painful, weary, disinterested by the prospect of drinking more beer, but they aren’t. I leap off the train, already excited at having seen a malting plant on the way in, and eager to see how this new end of town merges into the postcard-pretty centre. With a population of 70,000, a fifth of whom are students, Bamberg has 9, 10 or 11 breweries, depending on who you do or don’t count. There is also a brewery manufacturer, two maltings, 36 churches, a cathedral, rivers, seven hills, a Benedictine monastery, museums, markets and much of the town is UNESCO listed. Say Bamberg to beer lovers and they will think rauchbier. The name flashes into my head a picture of that old white building hanging over the river and I imagine that the air smells like smoked sausage. Rauchbier is a curious drink. Made with malt smoked over beechwood fires, it takes on a distinct smoky meatiness. Challenging and unusual, I don’t really like it; it’s an olfactory assault which takes hours to clear, as if the smoke is stuck in my nostrils like last night’s bonfire clinging to an old coat. But mention Bamberg and otherwise blokey brewers go all gooey and weak, so if I’m going to start liking the style then this is the place to fall for it. I’m staying at Fässla Brauerei and during the short walk from the station I notice, to my disappointment, that the town doesn’t smell of meat. I’ve been conditioned by beer geekery to assume that Bamberg means bacon. All I can smell is clean, fresh Franconian air which hangs with the threat of sleet and rain. Where’s the bacon? You enter Fässla through large doors into a covered courtyard. Five men are standing in here drinking beer – it’s about 10.30am, by the way. I’ve read about this place and I’m intrigued. It’s called the ‘schwemm’. A curious local thing, a few of the breweries have this and it’s a crafty way for men to go to the pub and get a beer without having to go inside the pub. So when their wives ask if they’ve been in the pub, they can honestly say that they haven’t: they were standing outside it. The small serving hatch passes through full pints to the waiting men. I dump my bags in the cosy, comfortable room upstairs (it’s very affordable, by the way – when I return to Bamberg I’ll stay here again), take a shower, get dressed because I’m still in yesterday’s clothes, and then decide that I might as well just go downstairs and start drinking. Not quite in the mood for vertical drinking in the schwemm at 10.45am, I go inside where there’s only one free table – they start drinking early in Germany. A bright bar in the morning light, the dark wood panels and tables presumably turn this into a cosy evening drinking den. I choose the Lagerbier and it’s gold with a thick, creamy foam, it has a bright fragrance and the rich malt texture of Bavarian beer which is full yet still somehow light. It’s finished before 11am. One brewery down, lots more to go... Opposite Fässla, on Konigstrasse, a street which once had 23 breweries, is Spezial Brauerei, with its handsome frontage and blooming window boxes. This is where I can get my first taste of rauchbier in Bamberg. I probably should walk all the way into the city centre to start with Schlenkerla, the most famous smoked beer, but I’m outside already and my pre-noon thirst is surprisingly large. The clock runs 10 minutes fast in Spezial (though you’ll probably still end up being 10 minutes late to wherever you’re going next), there are stag horns on the walls and it’s mostly single men sipping in silence. I join them and I order the Rauchbier Lager. Amber with a thick white foam, there’s soft, sweet smoke in the aroma, like bonfires and smoked meat. The beer is incredibly clean and smooth, some background bacon depth hangs around and gives a savoury meatiness, there’s a hint of lemony freshness and the smoke is surprisingly elegant. By the time I’m halfway through it, I barely notice the smoke anymore. It’s a wonderful beer. As it’s only midday, I decide to take a walking tour of the city. Heading towards the river, the main shopping area still has small stalls set up in the middle, a reminder of when this was the busy market place. Look up and around and the buildings are tall and varied as the winding streets lead closer to the thing I really want to find: the Old Town Hall. The famous image of Bamberg is the building hanging over the river; this is the Old Town Hall. Much of the architecture in town dates from the 15-18th century and is a mix of Medieval structures and Baroque facades, meaning you now see timbered buildings and elaborate frontages side-by-side. This famous old bridge is the best place to see both together. It’s a handsome sight and what you never get to experience on those postcard pictures is that there’s more than just this building here. You can see the slopes of the seven hills surrounding Bamberg, there’s river-lined terraces of tall buildings and the river itself splits and rushes in different directions, giving the nickname of ‘Little Venice’. The origin of the Old Town Hall supposedly comes as the townsfolk were not given any land to build a communal hall on, so they decided to build it over the river. Next I follow the cobbled streets to the enormous Cathedral. In a small city like this, it’s unexpectedly vast. The Sunday service has just finished and people stand around outside and talk. Inside it’s dark, lit like a kaleidoscope from the stained glass. Here you’ll find the only pope buried outside of the Vatican. Up what I assume is part of one of Bamberg’s convergence of hills is Michaelsberg Abbey. It’s now holds the Franconian brewery museum for half the year (I’m there in the half when it isn’t a brewery museum) and there are well-kept rose gardens leading to a view over the old town, showing off the orange roofs, the flow of the river and the steeples of the churches. In the distance are the towers belonging to the maltings. It’s a magnificent sight. Photos taken and tourist stuff ticked off, I pick one of Bamberg’s seven hills and walk up it (I choose the one which leads to a brewery, of course). Just a few minutes from the bridge and it’s into the suburbs. At the top is Greifenklau. The lights are off and there’s a hand-written sign on the door. It’s closed. Down the hill again and my thirst is growing by each cobble-stone step. I check my map and follow another hill (I think so anyway, it’s hard to tell where each of the hills begins or ends) which gets me to Klosterbräu, the oldest brewery in town. I sit next to a young American couple who are eating pig knuckles bigger than their own heads. This place does 0.3l pours, so I try the three house beers. A fresh lager, a textured and malty braunbier that’s not quite dunkel and more chocolatey, and a very excellent Schwarzbier that makes me wish I had a spare fork to help myself to the leftover pork knee beside me. Next up is the place I’ve been waiting for all day. I could’ve started here, I know I could, maybe I should’ve, but I like the extra satisfaction that comes from delaying gratification or teasing out expectation, which is why my first stop in Schlenkerla is my fourth brewery of the day. If you haven’t been to Schlenkerla’s tavern, then you might have an image in your head of what it’s like. I certainly do. I picture it as the Old Town Hall. Whenever Bamberg and Schlenkerla are talked about, there’s always an image of that building, so I associate them as the same place and I was looking forward to getting a seat with a view of the river. Combining that with a clichéd image of a huge beer hall, I expected Schlenkerla to be very different to how it is. In the centre of the old part of the city, Schlenkerla tavern, home to Brauerei Heller-Trum, is a simple, slated-window-fronted building around some tight streets. It’s inconspicuous, really. Inside it’s dark, almost like a cave, there’s lots of doors and levels and wood, and my eyes see a fog of smoke in the air but I don’t think it’s actually there. The ceilings are tall and arched like an altar, an appropriate shape for a building on the beer pilgrimage map. I find a seat that allows me to look over most of the bar and I order a Märzen, the famous flagship brew. It’s a really deep red-brown with a thick off-white foam. Lifting the tankard, the smoke fills the senses straight away, aromatic and woody like bonfires with leftover barbecue (and much less like the bacon I expect). This beer is poured from wooden barrels and the body is so soft and pleasing, it has such an alluring, intriguing depth of flavour and I feel like I’m getting sucked into the charms of rauchbier. There’s dried fruit and bitter candied bacon; it’s far, far better than any bottle I’ve tasted. And it’s odd: the smokiness feels like you’re drinking it while sitting in a smoky room, rather than the beer itself having a smoked flavour. It’s evocative. Photo from here I probably should stay for another but I’ve still got other places to get to and one is next door. Everywhere else I’ve been to today has been busy with people drinking. It’s early-afternoon on a Sunday and Ambräusianum is empty, which probably should’ve forewarned me about what the locals think of it... A little brewpub, the only brewpub in town, with nice copper kit in the middle, it feels like an ersatz German brewhouse which is ironic because it’s a genuine German brewhouse. I order the small-pour safety of a sample flight and that was enough for me. If you’re passing – and as Schlenkerla is next door you will be – then tick off a brewery visit and have a quick half, but there’s better places to linger. With the main middle of the town conquered, I spread west to where I know there’s some more breweries. Keesmann and Mahr's are opposite each other. As it’s Sunday (don’t go to Bamberg on Sunday...), Keesmann is closed, but Mahr's is open. Walking in through the schwemm, the warm old tavern is dark, the tables are huge and busy with big groups and families, and the food smells great. I’ve heard that their Ungespundet is the beer to order. Ask for U (Oooh) and they know what you want. The name is to do with an ‘unbunged’ beer, meaning it’s not packaged under pressure, so you’re getting a kind of kellerbier or unfiltered lager with less carbonation. Dark amber, the body has toffee and toast with a dinner-in-a-glass richness, and it’s as soft as a pillow with a comforting duvet of malt depth. It’s dark when I leave. And raining. But I’m ahead of schedule and have only one more planned stop. Cafe Abseits is on the edge of town and walking away from the historic centre feels like a different world of fast cars and modern buildings which could be anywhere in Central Europe. This is a great beer bar, busy, buzzing. It has the relaxed feel of a Belgian cafe with six draught beers, four classic German styles and two are more adventurous, there's also around 50 bottles on the menu. I take the Keesmann Herren Pils, having missed the opportunity to drink it at the brewery: it’s remarkable. Peachy and fresh, grassy, dry and bitter, it wakes me up and gives me the energy for more drinking (I love when a beer can do that; I was ready to sleep before this, now I’m ready for more drinking). Then I order a bottle of Weyermann Schloffegerla. If you drink smoked beer anywhere in the world, then there’s a very good chance it was brewed with malts smoked by Weyermann Malting. They also have a small brewery, where Schloffegerla was made. It’s a wonderful dark smoked beer which is like maple and chocolate smoked meats, deeply smoky and remarkable in how you get a glassful of malt flavour without it being sweet or chewy or overpowering. I’m still thirsty, somehow, and being in Bamberg I figure I should go back to Schlenkerla, where they have Fastenbier on tap. A spring seasonal, it’s bigger and dark than the Märzen, more woody than smoky, a little sweeter and still as evocative. The bar is quiet tonight, relaxed. I like it a lot. I can sit here for hours, though I’m four pints into rauchbier and think I’m done with that for today. Before bed, I finish up in Spezial for their unfiltered lager, the only unsmoked beer they brew. Soft, lemony and spritzy, creamy and smooth, it’s amazing and I only wish that I hadn’t been drinking for 12 hours and that I could start again. As I finish the beer I look around and see two other solo drinkers and both are talking to themselves; I can’t help but wonder if I’m doing the same, though they are probably having a laugh at the tourist taking photos of his beer and writing things in a little notebook... Say Bamberg in the beer world and it means rauchbier, though there are only two (three with Weyermann) breweries in town which make it, which is surprising for a place so synonymous with one idiosyncratic beer. As important as rauchbier, or arguably even more important, is the malt made in Bamberg. Arrive by train from the south and you pass BambergerMalzerei; arrive from the north and you pass Weyermann (Spezial and Schlenkerla also smoke their own malt). They use barley grown nearby and it’s malted and then shipped to breweries around the world. Not everyone has been to Bamberg, not everyone has drunk a rauchbier, but I reckon everyone will have drunk a beer made with malt produced in Bamberg. This malt has probably made more impact on world beer than the smoked style, even if the smoked malt is the one with the star status. And the Bamberg beers all share a richness of malt without ever being heavy; it’s like the malt flavour is fresher, fuller, cleaner, there than anywhere else. I expected Bamberg to be an interesting place to visit but I also expected it to be a day of smoked beer. I wasn't prepared for just how much I loved Bamberg. Yes, it’s famous for smoked beer and that tastes better in Bamberg than anywhere else, but you’ll also find more beer choice than any other Germany city and it’s a beautiful, interesting old place which you can walk around. I tried to do it all in one day, which was fine but I wanted longer to linger. It's a must-visit stop on a world beer tour. Bamberg is probably my new favourite drinking city. As well as those listed (I’ll repeat them: Fässla, Spezial, Greifenklau, Klosterbrau, Schlenkerla, Ambräusianum, Keesman, Mahrs, Weyermann), there’s also Maisels and Kaiserdom breweries. That’s 11 breweries. Four of the best British beers I’ve drunk this year have been made by Salopian Brewery. Oracle is like the other 4% ABV pale and hoppy beers, only it’s better. Drinking the beer and scribbling down some notes became a game in which I had to try and name every yellow or orange fruit in the world – nectarines, mango, pineapple, peaches, mandarin, grapefruit. It’s super fruity from the hops, the malt is super simple and clean and the bitterness is dry, quenching and peppery. It’s a beer you look at with a shrug yet drink with a surprised smile. And then order another. Darwin’s Origin is a beer I first drank in The Rake. I went to the bar, looked at all the fancy foreign taps, and Glyn told me to order the Salopian. It was perfect. The clarity of flavour in the malt, the lightness of it yet the complexity of it, then a freshness from the hops which was balanced yet bold. This is the kind of beer which makes you change what you’re drinking and keep searching for others like it; it makes you forget the IPAs for a few weeks and look for 4.3% British bitters which have elegance and excitement. Then there’s two new beers, two brews in smart, sexy 330ml bottles embracing the craft side of things. Automaton is a 7% IPA hopped with Saaz and Citra and it’s spectacular. Gold going towards copper, there’s fruit flying out in all directions with mango, tangerine and a whole tropical cocktail, the body has malt but never enough to make it fat or sweet and the bitterness kicks with botanic-like sharpness. It’s as good as, perhaps even better than, any IPA brewed in Britain right now. And Vertigo is a 7.2% Black IPA hopped with Centennial and Galaxy. Earthy, minty and roast citrus in the aroma to begin then after a few big gulps it’s like cracking into a Chocolate Orange. Full body, making it satisfying to drink, with fruity hops throughout, and a mix of hop and malt bitterness at the end, though only a hint of dark malt flavour with a whiff of chocolate. The balance is brilliant but more than that it’s just a fun beer to drink. In my opinion, this is how all great Black IPAs should taste. I rarely hear people talking about Salopian Brewery. But they should be. 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__label__cc	0.707726	0.292274	Fr Bill Meacham - a tribute It is said that if you can fake sincerity, then you have got it made. This priest, Fr Bill Meacham, was the genuine sincere article, someone St Peter himself would be proud of. This story will be told in parts. First the context details, then the homily at his funeral, followed by the rough transcript of a video tape of him speaking about his priestly life on the occasion of his 50th anniversary of priesthood. After that the homily from the local memorial Mass and then my own memories and some of those shared with me during our time of mourning his loss. Front page of the funeral booklet for Fr Bill Meacham Fr William John Meacham, known to all and sundry as 'Fr Bill' came into this world together with his twin brother on 1 Feb 1933. He was ordained to the priesthood on 8 Mar 1958, and was the parish priest at St John the Baptist, Woy Woy from Nov 1982 until Mar 1997 when he was forced to retire due to ill health. His latter years were spent in Pottsville on the far north coast of NSW, helping out in parishes around that region as required. Later on he required nursing home care until the good Lord decided that his time of earthly service was ended on 1 Jun 2016. The mementos on the casket included a white chasuble, a white stole, his chalice, his rosary beads, a photo of him as a young priest or seminarian, and his divine office – opened at a page with a prayer card of St Mary MacKillop. The readings were rather standard, Wisdom 3, Psalm 23, The Beatitudes from Matthew 5. However the 2nd reading from Ephesians 3 that begins 'I pray before the Father from whom every family gets its name…' was really apt because he was a priest who continually prayed for his people, and who got others to pray as well. I will expand upon that topic later. For various reasons his good mate, Fr Aub Collins MSC was unable to preside over the funeral, so his ordination classmate Fr Michael Kelly did the honours instead: 'As the Passover drew near, Jesus arranged for His disciples to prepare the table for the Last Supper. There with His apostles He said, 'Take and eat of this, for this is My Body, the new Manna. This is My Blood. This is Me. Now you go and do what I have done.' On His death bed Jesus gave the family of God the gift of the Mass. 'Go out', He told them, 'cure the sick, look after the poor, if they have sinned, give them My forgiveness.' When Cardinal Gilroy ordained us back in 1958 he told us that the same gift has been conferred on you as given to the Apostles. We were commissioned just as they were, to transform bread and wine into Jesus, and then to go out to the poor and the lonely. Fr Bill went out in joy, to go out like Jesus. He wasn't a book man, but he was a prayer man and a Mass man. He prayed through all his apostolates, the jail, other parishes and Woy Woy, first and foremost giving them the Mass. After a recent Mass at Bateau Bay where Fr Bill's death had been announced a lady came up and spoke to me. Years ago her parents were living at Woy Woy, but they had both lapsed in their faith. Now her dad was seriously ill, so she called the presbytery. Within 30 minutes Fr Bill was at her dad's bedside giving him the sacraments and the last rites. That was the kind of man he was, a man for others. I was up there with him some three weeks ago and I anointed him. Then I asked him to anoint me. I asked him, 'Bill, are you ready?' His answer was, 'Well Mick, we are only going to meet the Master.' The video clip In our funeral booklets told us that there would be a slideshow after Communion. What we never expected in a million years was this extraordinary video clip which preceded the slideshow. Who expects the deceased to preach to you at his funeral? Therefore it took a little while for me to stop being gob-smacked and to start the pen moving over the paper, so some of the early detail is missing. It was a relaxed and happy Fr Bill that we saw. The room where the food and drink part of his 50th ordination celebrations took place had seats around the perimeter for the adults and lots of children in the middle playing happily. May God reward the person who took this video and arranged it such that it felt like Fr Bill was talking directly to the viewer. It started something like this 'I'm going to tell you a bit about my life as a priest. If you want to listen, that's fine. If you don't, well that's fine too.' And then he did a quintessentially Fr Bill thing, he moved from standing up to getting down at the level of the children, half-reclining on one elbow on the floor. He spoke first about his parents, how his Dad would go and visit the poor every Sunday morning and bring them assistance and how his Mum would go every Friday to visit her housebound mother. From their example and from their faith in God he learned that 'you gotta care for and look after people, especially the sick and the needy'. He decided that the best way to love God and help people was to become a priest. He recalled a day soon after his ordination, at home with his family, when his dad brought in the mail containing the news that he had been appointed to Katoomba parish. Being a Penshurst boy, he had little desire to be sent that far away. But he went, and God blessed him there. From there he was sent to South Hurstville and then to Waitara. It was at Waitara that he experienced the darkest days of his priesthood when his Mum died. Some 10 months after that, his Dad died. Sometime after that one of the Sydney auxiliary bishops (Muldoon?) told him that Cardinal Gilroy wanted to see him. 'O God, what have I done now?' 'No, its not quite like that, I think Gilroy wants to talk to you about doing prison chaplaincy.' So he went to see Gilroy, and Gilroy sent him to serve at Long Bay Jail. Having no clue about how to tackle such an appointment, he contacted Fr John Brosnan 'Brozzie' who was serving as chaplain at Pentridge Prison for advice. It was good advice. 'Don't whatever you do sit on any committees, they're nonsense. Don't ever be critical of the men and women inside. Say to yourself, 'There would I go except for the grace of God'. Just walk around and be friendly with them.' So I did. I would tell them 'Believe in yourself. Believe that you are loved by God and that Christ lives in you. You can choose to live that way, or your old way. How to do it? Act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God.' For all of us, what we've gotta do is to love one another. God loves you, just as you are. We don't take that truth in nearly enough. Remember, you can take nothing with you when you go, except your kindness and concern for others.' At that point the video clip ceased, and we were heartbroken at missing the rest of the story. The slideshow was good; it showed Fr Bill as a boy growing up in his family, and the close relationships he kept with his brother and with his sisters all his life. There were lots of photos of him dressed in pre Vatican II clobber and offering Mass the pre Vatican II way. But there were also shots of him relaxing on holidays and doing some mild horsing around, living life to the full with gratitude. The church of St Declan's Penshurst was full to capacity for Fr Bill's funeral Mass. It says a lot for someone who had been out of circulation for 19 years. It says a lot when many drove over 90 minutes in peak hour traffic on a Friday prior to a long weekend to get there, and many of them were aged under 50. Fr Bill Meacham in late 1992 The Memorial Mass This fell on the Monday of the long weekend, and we had numbers close to a Sunday Mass attendance. A good many had not been in church much since primary school days, but they came back to pray for Fr Bill and to honour him. The homily for the Mass by the current parish priest, Fr John 'Jack' Robson, went something like this: 'It is good to see so many here this morning in honour of Fr Bill Meacham. I did not know him well. All I know is hearsay. He was a hardworking priest to this parish. I have been doing school interviews recently, and many of the parents are ex-St John the Baptist students who were at the primary school during Fr Bill's time. He left a deep and lasting impression on them, and on the whole school. Many made their sacraments with him, some he even baptized. The lives of each of us leave an influence on others whether we know it or not. Pondering that is quite humbling. We hope that this influence is for the good, but it is nonetheless true. It brings to mind a time I was walking along the beachfront at Manly when a young mum with three kids came up to talk to me. 'Sir, you haven't changed a bit'. It turns out she was a pupil from my teaching days. I would tell my classes, 'My name is Mr Robson, but you can call me by my first name, which is 'Sir''. This mum said, of all the teachers I had, I remember you most. Fr Bill's influence went beyond anything he could have imagined. Moving the school site from near the church at Woy Woy over to where it now stands was bold and visionary. In 2 years' time there will be three streams of classes from K to 6. It is growing. I do wish that some of that growth would translate to this part of the parish. Fr Phil, Fr Tim and I will keep plugging away, hoping to inspire parents in their faith enough for them to hand the faith on to their children. Fr Bill, servant of God, priest, man, we remember. He was subject to our same frailties, yet he devoted himself and his life to the service of God and to you, the people of this parish.' Fr Bill Meacham conducting a baptism in the old Woy Woy church in the Easter of 1995 Fr Bill was a tall gangly man, who walked with a loping off-centre stride. He had a booming voice, a crooked smile and a heart of gold. He had no time for airs and graces, and many a time his shirt needed tucking in again. After he gave up the 'coffin' nails' (cigarettes) he would walk and walk in his white shirt with the gold crosses on the collar and black trousers. There were lots of 'God luv ya nows' and invitations to trust 'in the good Lord and His blessed Mother'. Homilies were short and pithy, with no highfalutin language. One parishioner was surprised that one of the hymns for Fr Bill's funeral wasn't the Galilee Song, because one of her strongest memories of him is him processing down the aisle of the church, swinging his arms to the rhythm of the beat and belting out 'So I leave my boats behind, leave them on familiar shores. Set my heart upon the deep, follow you again my Lord.' (The hymns we did have at the funeral were 'Will you love Me?', 'Gentle as Silence', 'Strong and Constant' and 'Here I am Lord', with 'Bridge over troubled water' as background music to the slideshow.) Another lady of Asian descent spoke movingly of how Fr Bill was a rock for her when her husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and her children were still in primary school. He helped her through not only her husband's death, but dealing with life and grief afterwards. Another mum's life fell totally apart when her teenage son committed suicide. All of us worried at how tempted she was to do the same. But Fr Bill's prayers and support got her through the worst of it and now she's in a place where the light of Jesus beams from her face. Someone else shared with me 'out of the blue' how much Fr Bill's sense of inclusion meant to her when she was a young mum with children at St John's. At the school Masses he would always particularly welcome the mums who weren't Catholic and made them feel for the time of that Mass that they truly belonged. Fr Bill could talk to anyone, especially those who were doing it tough. The precursor to Mary Mac's Place was The Cottage where people could drop in for a cuppa or a meal and be accepted without question. Its founders could not have made it happen without the support and inspiration of Fr Bill. The Cottage being next door to the presbytery, he would drop in too for a yarn. He'd sit down next to someone, size up the situation pretty swiftly, join them in conversation and then lean over and say, 'You know being on the turps isn't good for you mate.' Sure enough, in the next week or so that person would find Fr Bill and open up their hearts to him, and find the grace to start changing their lives. Here's a few comments that were made online about Fr Bill: One of his signature calls was ' God loves you no matter what.' He always took time to be present to the school kids, and to remember their names with a 'G'day ……..'. 'What a great man he was! With his gruff manner, when he first arrived at Woy Woy I thought he was sent to the wrong parish. Maybe he should have gone to some country town in the outback. Those thoughts soon passed on. He was the most compassionate priest anybody would ever meet.' 'What lovely childhood memories I have of this man including gathering the children around the altar to tell stories like Jesus did. I often think of him and his gentle loving ways.' 'He was amazing, he was so caring. He made everyone feel special. There will never be another like our Father Bill'. 'Fr Bill was an inspiration to me by way of his living example of humility, compassion, simple lifestyle and living example of a true priest of Christ.' 'The most down to earth Priest I've ever had the pleasure to meet. He will be sadly missed.' Another photo from that Easter baptism day in 1995 at the old church at Woy Woy with Fr Bill Meacham presiding. And the rest of the memories... Fr Bill was first and foremost a man of prayer, and a man of prayer that got his people praying too. Before every Mass either Morning Prayer or Evening Prayer was prayed. He wanted that atmosphere of prayer in preparation for Mass. He would join in, and go and get vested as the Benedictus ended. As he sat on the end of a pew, there would often be an interruption from a person seeking a blessing, sharing a confidence or wanting absolution. After morning Mass was the rosary, and he stayed as often as his duties allowed to pray it with his people. At some point before my time Fr Bill had organized a vocations crusade. He asked everyone to commit to coming to Mass an extra day a month to pray for vocations, and after each Mass we would pray the parish prayer for vocations together. We still do. And people still keep that commitment, one lady I know shows up for her day every 17th of the month. This is that prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, You said ‘The harvest is great but the labourers are few. So pray to the Lord of the harvest, to send workers into His harvest’. I pray to You now Lord, at this my daily/weekly/monthly Mass for Vocations: In Your gracious goodness, gift our community with worthy Priests and Religious. May those You choose recognise Your call and respond with a generous heart. And may they always remain true to Your name. Fill with Your strength those who serve us now and remind us to encourage them so that by their happy lives, they will inspire others to follow them. Amen. You won't be surprised to hear that the diocese went through a very dry vocations patch for some 15 years, and that the only young man ordained in that era came from Woy Woy. We had a parish prayer too, which was prayed at the end of every Sunday Mass. It still gets incorporated every so often into the prayers of the faithful. Parish Prayer Father pour out Your Spirit upon the people of this parish And grant us a new vision of Your glory A new experience of Your power A new faithfulness to Your Word And a new consecration to Your service That Your Love may grow among us And Your Kingdom come Through Christ our Lord. Amen. Every 5th Saturday of the month had Morning Mass praying for married couples, and especially for married couples going through rough patches. Fr Bill was one of those priests that could be seen walking up and down the presbytery driveway or the verandah of the hall praying his breviary. He was a very good confessor. He was also well ahead of his time before 'inclusion' was a buzz word. At every Sunday Mass he would always begin by 'welcoming any visitors and people not of our faith.' In the same way he was ahead of his time in putting on an annual Christmas Eve Mass at the parish school, where lots of those who would have felt uncomfortable about going inside a church were happy to come, and the children could sit down the front near the altar and pay as much attention as they were capable of. Anything that curbed him from helping people as he saw they needed helping (bishop's decisions, bureaucracy, Catholic Schools Office etc) he was impatient with. Only a few months back there was a parish meeting with our new bishop. He asked us what was good about our parish, and over and over again Fr Bill's name came up as the person who had engaged them in parish life and called forth gifts in them that they hadn't recognized in themselves. The Rosary Makers who get together each Tuesday morning to pray and to make rosary beads and scapulars probably started in Fr Bill's time too, and he most definitely encouraged them. Only God could count the number of rosaries that have gone off blessed to mission lands abroad and to catechist classes close at hand. He organized bus loads to go down to Randwick for the beatification of Mary MacKillop in 1995, and kept the spiritual temperature of the parish healthy with parish missions from the Redemptorists and from Fr Aub Collins MSC. He was generous with practical wisdom too. If a couple came to him preparing for marriage, he'd tell them to start with a simpler honeymoon than they were planning and to go for a better holiday together some 6 months down the track when they'd enjoy it far more after all the initial awkwardness had worn off. In his time the 50th anniversary of the parish came up. He knew what to do, worked out the parishioners who had the ability to get things done, put them in a room, gave them a few parameters and watched them work out the jobs that needed doing and each one volunteered for the parts that appealed to them. Every fortnight or so until the celebration events were over, the group met to checked in with each other on progress. Never, ever have I seen a team work so well, so productively and so happily as I saw that team do. We had a parish celebration dinner at a local club, a big celebration Mass at the school, a parish history booklet printed, and commemorative bottles of port. Lest you think it was all roses, there were thorns. One parishioner still goes to sleep by counting curates rather than sheep. The parish needs two fully gung-ho priests for it to hum, and so often Fr Bill would be given someone to work with who was only capable of shouldering 50% of the weight they needed to. There were health issues too, and recovery from a serious car accident. God alone knows what he had to deal with long term after an inmate knifed him in prison. To those close to him he would share the grief he had over the ignoring of his recommendations for choosing which of the teachers on the shortlist who would be best able to help the children. Because he cared what happened to people, he sometimes had to use the whisky bottle to calm down after bureaucratic frustrations. He kept his distance from bishops, and always sent someone else out to welcome them and look after their requirements. Each of his parishioners knew that they were loved by God, and by him. No one since has yet been able to love the parish into life like he did. May the Master he served so well, show him the full extent of His Mercy and grant Fr Bill all the eternal rewards he so richly deserves. Amen. If you knew him (or even if you didn't) and want something to remember him by, here are some bookmarks (below) arranged on an A4 page. You will need 160-210 gsm paper to print them on. frbillmeachambookmarkpdf.pdf St John the Baptist, pray for him. St Mary of the Cross MacKillop, pray for him. Seven biblical reasons to work on your welcome. When a dear friend comes to your home, what do you do? You give them something nice to eat, something pleasant to drink, you fix them up with any clothing they forgot to bring (cardigan, swimming costume, dressing gown etc) and you happily put them up for the night if they need it. That's a warm welcome. They are also the first 4 corporal works of mercy: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless. Developing our ability to welcome then, is a prerequisite for becoming merciful like the Father (Luke 6:36). In truth, each and every person we meet is someone God wants us to spend a happy eternity with. Each one has an invitation from God to be a prince or princess in heaven, and we may as well start treating them like that now. That's reason enough for some, but others like a bit more encouragement. So here are 7 biblical reasons to work on your welcome. Hebrews 13:1-2 Continue to love each other like brothers, and remember always to welcome strangers, for by doing this, some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Which would make most people remember Abraham's story from Genesis 18, where he was minding his own business at the hottest part of the day when only fools or those on urgent matters of great significance travel. He ran to meet the three men, and bowed to the ground before them, before offering them food, drink and a place to rest and refresh themselves because 'that is why you have come in your servant' direction'. Abraham also accompanied them in order to show them the way to the city of Sodom. An application: There is always a reason why someone you don't know darkens the door of your parish church, and it is usually a big one. A family member is dying / has just died ; someone close to them is having surgery : they are praying for a job for themselves or others ; a child is going through big exams ; or they are in some kind of need (and that includes the occasional one who is looking for money or looks mentally ill). If they leave without connecting with someone and without at least sharing the burdens on their hearts, then we have failed them and God. It is relatively easy to say, 'Did you know we have a prayer intentions book over here? Every weekend Mass those intentions are prayed for, and you can write them anyway you want, in shorthand, code, in any language.' That tends to have a 95% success rate in getting a prayer intention written. Matthew 25:35 I was a stranger and you made Me welcome. If our ability to welcome is good we will be happy in the kingdom of God forever with Jesus. If we don't have the first clue about how to welcome the stranger, then we could find ourselves deprived of everything that is good for all eternity. An application: Many of the strangers entering your parish church will have travelled there for a funeral, a baptism, a confirmation etc. Anyone who has travelled distance knows that the first burning question is 'Where's the loo?' How easy is it for a stranger to find the answer to that burning question? If we were really serious about welcome we would have teams of people on hand for occasions like these to do like Abraham did, and show them personally to where the toilets are and have a chat on the way. In hot weather cups of cold water should be provided free, and as something we always do as a parish, if we are really serious about the welcome we give to those who travel for special occasions. Perhaps if we start getting that right, we might begin doing that no matter what the weather. Mark 9:37 Anyone who welcomes one of these little children in My Name, welcomes Me; and anyone who welcomes Me welcomes not Me but the one who sent Me. Little children make noise, they fidget, they are rarely able to sit still. They like kicking their heels on the wood paneling, getting a change of scene by dragging an adult off to visit the toilets, and testing the acoustic qualities of a building with their vocal chords. We are called to see them as a special gift, and not as a hindrance. How well do we welcome children? I suspect they get far less welcome from us than their accompanying adults do, and yet Jesus says they are His representatives. I am reminded of travelling a long distance overseas to listen to someone considered holy, we travelled with two youngsters 2 years 6 months and almost 3 years old. They were very good, and making minimum 'I'm happily occupied' noises. I was asked to take them outside. I stood my ground, but it came at the cost of not being able to truly listen to anything that was said because my emotions were too jumbled. An application: Welcome is far more than pointing out – graciously or ungraciously - where the nearest cry room is. When was the last time an audit was done of the cry room? Is the sound from the microphones outside getting inside the cry room? Is it clean? Is it comfortable? Do the toilets have a baby change table? Are there toys and books in good condition with a faith component to them? Is there a place where an autistic youngster overwhelmed with all the sights and sounds of regular worship can safely go to calm down? Maybe we need to think about specialist greeters for children, who are good at establishing rapport and good at helping the children use their natural joy and sense of fun to enrich the whole community. Our children are God's treasures and our treasures, and we have just got to start treating them like precious treasures and stop treating them as unwanted nuisances. We are called, too, to bridge the generation gap and to make efforts to talk to and include our pre-teens, teens and young adults in conversation and community activities and service opportunities. If we want to welcome Jesus in them, then we have to make special effort. Hebrews 11:31 It was by faith that Rahab the prostitute welcomed the spies and so was not killed with the unbelievers. Rahab's story is found mostly in Joshua Chapter 2, and a little in Chapter 6. She is mentioned too in the genealogy of Jesus. I wonder how many people the Israelite spies sought lodging with before Rahab opened her home to them because she had heard of all the wonders the Lord God had done for the Israelites. She had wisdom, and she had guts to hide these men from their pursuers and to insist upon getting her extended family under God's protection. Welcoming God's people in these foreign strangers saved her life. An application: Most of us haven't yet been called to shelter strangers who put our own lives at risk for the sake of the kingdom of God. But we need to ponder Rahab's example and how highly she is praised not only in the book of Hebrews, but in the letter of James, and being included by name in the genealogy of Jesus. In our own times Pope Francis has been leading by example and welcoming refugees into Vatican city to live. How much do we go out of our way to welcome someone who looks like us and talks like us, and how much do we go out of our way for those whose skin colour is different and whose command of English is poor? Take the time to get to know people in your parish who were born in a different country, so that when someone from Korea or the Sudan comes to your parish you can introduce them to parishioners who are a bicultural match. Anyone who has taken that great leap of faith to leave their own country and come to build a life in another country has courage and great gifts and stories to share. Get to know them, and just like Rahab, you will never regret the effort to do so. 3 John 1:5-8 My friend, you have done faithful work in looking after these brothers, even though they were complete strangers to you. They are a proof to the whole Church of your charity and it would be a very good thing if you could help them on their journey in a way that God would approve. It was entirely for the sake of the name that they set out, without depending on the pagans for anything; it is our duty to welcome men of this sort and contribute our share to their work for the truth. So it is our duty to welcome and help support the missionaries that God has sent to us. We might groan at their less than perfect grasp of our language, but we have to get beyond that and treat them as if it were St Paul himself who has landed in our parish for a while. I doubt St Paul's Latin, Greek and Macedonian were as good as his Aramaic, Syriac and Hebrew. But if the communities to which he was sent didn't make an effort to welcome and accept him, what an unimaginable huge loss that would have been for them. An application: If you have a priest whose mother tongue is not the same as your own, then it is time to quit complaining and time to start appreciating the sacrifices he has made and the special cultural gifts he brings. It does take a lot more effort to converse with someone whose English isn't fluent, and to keep trying, but that is part of the welcome we are called to extend to them. We ourselves would be the losers. Acts 21:17 On our arrival in Jerusalem the brothers gave us a very warm welcome. A bit of context will help. St Paul was called by Tertullus 'a perfect pest; he stirs up trouble among Jews the world over' Acts 24:5 And now St Paul is returning from a long missionary journey, having been warned by the Holy Spirit that trouble awaits him in Jerusalem. Remember too that he used to be a persecutor of Christians, and had a stand-up argument with St Peter, and we begin to get a clue how extraordinary this warm welcome was. The community in Jerusalem welcomed him as a brother and apostle of Jesus, no matter the cost nor the possible repercussions to themselves later. An application: How well do we support our own troublemakers? Those who have been in the media (or in public life) defending the Gospel and the teachings of the Church, do we welcome and support them, or do we keep our distance? The warmth of our encouragement will help them keep up the good fight, but indifference and avoidance will crush them and the calling God has on their lives. It has to be practical too, not just warm hugs and conversation but donations of money, clothes, equipment and elbow grease. Do you even know who the social media apostles are in your parish? If they are writing good stuff capable of bringing souls back to God, are you liking and sharing it with your own networks? Never underestimate the encouragement that a 'like' or a positive comment can provide to those in this often lonely and besieged apostolate. Mark 4:20 And there are those who have received the seed in rich soil: they hear the word and accept it and yield a harvest, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold. It takes time for a seed to produce grain. There is no 'quick fix' for that process, and you don't know whether the payout will be thirty, sixty or a hundredfold. Depending upon your bible translation 'welcomed' and 'received' are interchangeable. It is when we open up our hearts to each other and welcome them in, that our hearts welcome God in too at the same time. An application: Remember Abraham, he was sitting by the entrance to his tent when the three men came. That's where we need to be too, on the outside of our church buildings on the lookout for the prodigals. In fact we need our parish welcomers on the outside, and on the inside of the church doors. But don’t look for quick rewards. It may take many months of smiling and 'Happy Easter!' and 'It's going to be a long one tonight, we've got the choir' before someone might feel comfortable enough to ask a question or respond with more than a one word answer to 'How's your week been?' Persevere, pray, and the good fruit will come. May St Martha, St Mary Magdalene and St Lazarus, who were so good at welcoming Jesus into their hearts, home and family, intercede for us that we may grow in our welcome of Jesus and of all those He sends to us; the needy, the travelers, the children, the strangers, the missionaries, the troublemakers and the prodigals. (prepared as a guest post for Mere Catholicism)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0070.json.gz/line368
__label__wiki	0.8979	0.8979	THE DEATH OF THE MIX TAPE Wordpress Feed REACHING OUT: The 100 Best Songs of all Time TOP 100 SONGS SINCE 2000 BEST ALBUMS OF THE 90'S, PART 1 What was it that was so special about the 90’s? For me, perhaps it was that this decade was when new, exciting and different forms of music entered my life. I could decide what I liked, what I didn’t and go crazy exploring all the various sounds I never knew were out there just a few years earlier. Today’s first half of the list consists of all around excellent albums, and you’ve likely heard of most of them. I tried to give a varied list of albums that cover multiple terrains, and all found unique audiences. Enjoy! 20. Massive Attack, Mezzanine, 1998 By now most ambient electronic music fans are very much aware of these Trip Hop legends, and if truth be told, its mostly because of this record. “Mezzanine” came to us during the Nu Metal years, and somehow found an audience that was more open than the typical Korn fan. The songs, and effects, blend into each other to build a slow, melty sound that radiates groove after groove. Tracks like album opener “Angel,” stubbornly find their way with slow precise beats, while “Teardrop” is a song loved far and wide, even if the band isn’t. 19. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, F#A#, 1998 Not for a casual music listener, but this debut album is one of the most striking and monstrously strong records of the decade. With only three songs making up the duration, you’d think it might be hard to get sucked in, but you’d be dead wrong. It’s full of dark energy, visions of dusty roads after the sun has left us, and more orchestral instrumentation than nearly all of this list combined. There’s a reason this band has been able to do what they want for years, and it’s brilliant, soul moving records like this that continue to make it possible. 18. Jeff Buckley, Grace, 1994 Such a true gift lost. That’s all I can ever think about when I listen to this record. It’s compelling, haunting, and beautiful. It’s also a fleeting moment, although there was no way to know this at the time. The guitar quietly whispering under the sweet serenade of Buckley’s voice, it’s hard not get emotional just listening to a few songs. That’s the power of this album. It had everything you could want from an sullen debut album, but sadly it’s his only one. There’s a testament to the fact that this album is still mentioned among the greatest folk rock albums ever, and every time you experience it, you get to share in a spceial moment. 17. Beastie Boys, Ill Communication, 1994 By this point, the Boys were well known, but this record throws down in a way that the other ones don’t. I always imagined this as their victory lap after the brilliance of “Check Yo Head” and “Paul’s Boutique,” and i guess in some ways you can say that, but this album brought them to gigantic audiences, and showed them tearing up stages far and wide. Let’s also not forget the juggernaut that is “Sabotage.” Song after song delivers everything from straight forward hip hop, to groove rock, to punk, and everything in between. 16. Daft Punk, Homework, 1996 How is an album nearing its twentieth birthday still light years ahead of the genre it helped to invent and popularize? Well that’s easy: It’s Daft Punk. They’ve long been gods in many many eyes, and it’s easy to see why. If you don’t, then god bless your soul. The beats are rhythmically perfect, and effects cascade from one brilliant exit to the next, and constantly there’s new arrangements to go crazy over. The two French powerhouse may have not invented electronic music, but this album, and subsequent releases have kept them miles ahead of their “contemporaries,” and I don’t expect it to stop. They just need to tour. //////△\\\\\\ 15. Michael Jackson, Dangerous, 1991 At that moment in time, the “King of Pop” was without a doubt the biggest entertainer in the world. He had it all. Amazing sensibilities, a great voice that could’ve come from the heavens, and more skill than any other well known star. This album, of course, was a huge hit, and the lead single “Black or White,” was a marvel for video at the time. The music is where it’s really focused on. Many of the songs convey his brilliance and understanding of various genre’s, and if you’re a fan of MJ, you’re more than likely familiar with this massively popular record. 14. Mr. Bungle, California,1999 This is probably the least well known album on the list of twenty, but it’s a rare gem found in deserted valley. It’s alternative music for the truly alternatively inclined music listener. It has everything that makes up weird music, but Mike Patton and company are able to compound it into one wondrous train of sound. Records like this aren’t really a thing anymore, and there’s a reason for it. These types of albums have so much going on in them that many people can’t handle the back and forth and variations between tracks though. 13. Nirvana, In Utero, 1993 After a life changing album like “Nevermind,” where do you go? If you're the three members of seminal grunge band Nirvana, you make an album even heavier and in your face then your previous efforts. Cobains difficulty during this time is obviously well documented, but for me this is easily the band's best record. It showcases slower, heart felt songs, while piercing through the bullshit that they seemed to want nothing to do with. It’s an angry, fear inducing record, and to this day, it remains a severe case of what comes next. We’ll never know. 12. Beck, Odelay, 1996 Before “Odelay,” he was that one hit wonder who sang that “Loser” song, but after this miraculous record threw itself into the hemisphere, he was “Beck.” This record still blows me away with ease, and he’s still at the game of reinventing himself with each subsequent release. “Devil’s Haircut,” still swirls with sinister disco beats, while “Where It’s At” comes slowly onto you in 60’s soul then turns itself into a one man beat boxing machine. This is where the world took notice of the brilliant Mr. Hansen, and thankfully he still wants to give his gift to us. 11. Bjork, Homogenic, 1997 “Homogenic,” the 1997 album from Iceland crown jewel Bjork, wasn’t just a great album, it’s her greatest album,and the bounty of love and effects bestowed upon the listener are are wide ranging and heartfelt as her voice. “Bachelorette” is a mountain of power, while “Hunter” slowly winds its way through our subconscious This album is largely electronic, but it’s not the typical type that was prevalent during this time, but that’s maybe why it works so well. It’s like seeing a painting with familiar themes for the first time. We’ll have part two for you Wednesday of the next week, with a different post on Monday. See you then! Landon Murray is a New Orleans native, who thrives on painting the world he interprets through the useful forms of all types of art he feels connected to. He's seen over 1000 bands, and had loved mostly every minute of it. 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