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The Federal Bureau of Investigation will notify state officials when local election systems are believed to have been breached by hackers [the link may be paywalled], a pivot in policy that comes after criticism that the FBI wasn't doing enough to inform states of election threats, WSJ reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. From a report: The FBI's previous policy stated that it notified the direct victims of cyberattacks, such as the counties that own and operate election equipment, but wouldn't necessarily share that information with states. Several states and members of Congress in both parties had criticized that policy as inadequate and one that stifled state-local partnerships on improving election security. Further reading: Despite Election Security Fears, Iowa Caucuses Will Use New Smartphone App. fbipoliticssecurity Google Will Wind Down Chrome Apps Starting in June (pcworld.com) 25 Postedby msmash on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:30PM from the end-of-road dept. Google said this week that it will begin to phase out traditional Chrome apps starting in June, and winding down slowly over two years' time. Chrome extensions, though, will live on. From a report: Google said Tuesday in a blog post that it would stop accepting new Chrome apps in March. Existing apps could continue to be developed through June, 2022. The important dates start in June of this year, when Google will end support for Chrome Apps on the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. Education and Enterprise customers on these platforms will get a little more time to get their affairs in order, until December, 2020.Google had actually said four years ago that it would phase out Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux in 2018. The company appears to have waited longer than announced before beginning this process. The other platform that's affected by this, of course, is Google's own Chrome OS and Chromebooks, for which the apps were originally developed. chromegoogleit Bruce Schneier on 5G Security (schneier.com) 30 Postedby msmash on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:50AM from the closer-look dept. Bruce Schneier comments on the issues surrounding 5G security: [...] Keeping untrusted companies like Huawei out of Western infrastructure isn't enough to secure 5G. Neither is banning Chinese microchips, software, or programmers. Security vulnerabilities in the standards, the protocols and software for 5G, ensure that vulnerabilities will remain, regardless of who provides the hardware and software. These insecurities are a result of market forces that prioritize costs over security and of governments, including the United States, that want to preserve the option of surveillance in 5G networks. If the United States is serious about tackling the national security threats related to an insecure 5G network, it needs to rethink the extent to which it values corporate profits and government espionage over security. To be sure, there are significant security improvements in 5G over 4G in encryption, authentication, integrity protection, privacy, and network availability. But the enhancements aren't enough. The 5G security problems are threefold. First, the standards are simply too complex to implement securely. This is true for all software, but the 5G protocols offer particular difficulties. Because of how it is designed, the system blurs the wireless portion of the network connecting phones with base stations and the core portion that routes data around the world. Additionally, much of the network is virtualized, meaning that it will rely on software running on dynamically configurable hardware. This design dramatically increases the points vulnerable to attack, as does the expected massive increase in both things connected to the network and the data flying about it. Second, there's so much backward compatibility built into the 5G network that older vulnerabilities remain. 5G is an evolution of the decade-old 4G network, and most networks will mix generations. Without the ability to do a clean break from 4G to 5G, it will simply be impossible to improve security in some areas. Attackers may be able to force 5G systems to use more vulnerable 4G protocols, for example, and 5G networks will inherit many existing problems. Third, the 5G standards committees missed many opportunities to improve security. Many of the new security features in 5G are optional, and network operators can choose not to implement them. The same happened with 4G; operators even ignored security features defined as mandatory in the standard because implementing them was expensive. But even worse, for 5G, development, performance, cost, and time to market were all prioritized over security, which was treated as an afterthought. chinasecurityusa Proof-of-Concept Exploits Published for the Microsoft-NSA Crypto Bug (zdnet.com) 23 Postedby msmash on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:10AM from the more-you-know dept. Security researchers have published proof-of-concept (PoC) code for exploiting a recently-patched vulnerability in the Windows operating system, a vulnerability that has been reported to Microsoft by the US National Security Agency (NSA). From a report: The bug, which some have started calling CurveBall, impacts CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll), the component that handles cryptographic operations in the Windows OS. According to a high-level technical analysis of the bug from cyber-security researcher Tal Be'ery, "the root cause of this vulnerability is a flawed implementation of the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) within Microsoft's code." According to both the NSA, the DHS, and Microsoft, when exploited, this bug (tracked as CVE-2020-0601) can allow an attacker to: 1. Launch MitM (man-in-the-middle) attacks and intercept and fake HTTPS connections. 2.Fake signatures for files and emails.3. Fake signed-executable code launched inside Windows. itsecuritywindows The FBI Can Unlock Florida Terrorist's iPhones Without Apple (bloomberg.com) 110 The FBI is pressing Apple to help it break into a terrorist's iPhones, but the government can hack into the devices without the technology giant, according to experts in cybersecurity and digital forensics. From a report: Investigators can exploit a range of security vulnerabilities -- available directly or through providers such as Cellebrite and Grayshift -- to break into the phones, the security experts said. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, the perpetrator of a Dec. 6 terrorist attack at a Navy base in Florida, had an iPhone 5 and iPhone 7, models that were first released in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Alshamrani died and the handsets were locked, leaving the FBI looking for ways to hack into the devices. "A 5 and a 7? You can absolutely get into that," said Will Strafach, a well-known iPhone hacker who now runs the security company Guardian Firewall. "I wouldn't call it child's play, but it's not super difficult." That counters the U.S. government's stance. Attorney General William Barr slammed Apple on Monday, saying the company hasn't done enough to help the FBI break into the iPhones. "We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements," President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday. The comments add to pressure on Apple to create special ways for the authorities to access iPhones. Apple has refused to build such backdoors, saying they would be used by bad actors, too. Indeed, Strafach and other security experts said Apple wouldn't need to create a backdoor for the FBI to access the iPhones that belonged to Alshamrani. Further reading: The FBI Got Data From A Locked iPhone 11 Pro Max -- So Why Is It Demanding Apple Unlock Older Phones? applesecurityencryption iPhones Can Now Be Used To Generate 2FA Security Keys For Google Accounts (9to5google.com) 4 Postedby BeauHD on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:25PM from the smart-lock dept. Most modern iPhones running iOS 13 can now be used as a built-in phone security key for Google apps. 9to5Google reports: A built-in phone security key differs from the Google Prompt, though both essentially share the same UI. The latter push-based approach is found in the Google Search app and Gmail, while today's announcement is more akin to a physical USB-C/Lightning key in terms of being resistant to phishing attempts and verifying who you are. Your phone security key needs to be physically near (within Bluetooth range) the device that wants to log-in. The login prompt is not just being sent over an internet connection. With an update to the Google Smart Lock app on iOS this week, "you can now set up your phone's built-in security key." According to one Googler today, the company is leveraging the Secure Enclave found on Apple's A-Series chips. Storing Touch ID, Face ID, and other cryptographic data, it was first introduced on the iPhone 5s, though that particular device no longer supports iOS 13. Anytime users enter a Google Account username and password, they'll be prompted to open Smart Lock on their nearby iPhone to confirm a sign-in. There's also the option to cancel with "No, it's not me." This only works when signing-in to Google with Chrome, while Bluetooth on both the desktop computer and phone needs to be enabled as the devices are locally communicating the confirmation request and verification. featuresgoogleiphone Microsoft Launches Chromium Edge for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS (venturebeat.com) 57 Postedby msmash on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:07PM from the beginning-of-a-new-chapter dept. Microsoft today launched its new Edge browser based on Google's Chromium open source project. You can download Chromium Edge now for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and macOS directly from microsoft.com/edge in more than 90 languages. From a report: Business features aside, there's also support for Chrome-based extensions, 4K streaming, Dolby audio, inking in PDF, and privacy tools. For the last one, it's worth noting that tracking prevention is on by default and offers three levels of control, like Firefox's tracking protection. Chrome extension support is probably the most important feature for most users. By default, extensions that have been ported over to Edge can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store. Chromium Edge also has an option to "Allow extensions from other stores" to get Chrome extensions from the Chrome Web Store. There are still a few features missing from Chromium Edge, most notably history sync and extension sync. Microsoft is working on these and some other inking functionality that it still wants to port from legacy Edge, as Microsoft is calling it. Microsoft also claims that Chromium Edge is "twice as fast as legacy Edge." Curiously, the team isn't making any claims against other browsers -- at least not yet. internetitmicrosoft CNCF, Google, and HackerOne Launch Kubernetes Bug Bounty Program4 Postedby BeauHD on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:00AM from the hide-and-seek dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced it is funding a bug bounty program for Kubernetes. Security researchers who find security vulnerabilities in Kubernetes' codebase, as well as the build and release processes, will be rewarded with bounties ranging from $100 to $10,000. Bug bounty programs motivate individuals and hacker groups to not only find flaws but disclose them properly, instead of using them maliciously or selling them to parties that will. Originally designed by Google and now run by the CNCF, Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. Given the hundreds of startups and enterprises that use Kubernetes in their tech stacks, it's significantly cheaper to proactively plug security holes than to deal with the aftermath of breaches. buggooglemoney Microsoft Patches Major Windows 10 Vulnerability After NSA Warning (cnbc.com) 38 Postedby BeauHD on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @04:25PM from the important-patches dept. Microsoft on Tuesday patched an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. The vulnerability was spotted and reported by the NSA. CNBC reports: The flaw affected encryption of digital signatures used to authenticate content, including software or files. If exploited, the flaw could allow criminals to send malicious content with fake signatures that make it appear safe. The finding was reported earlier by The Washington Post. It is unclear how long the NSA knew about the flaw before reporting it to Microsoft. The cooperation, however, is a departure from past interactions between the NSA and major software developers such as Microsoft. In the past, the top security agency has kept some major vulnerabilities secret in order to use them as part of the U.S. tech arsenal. In a statement, Microsoft declined to confirm or offer further details. "We follow the principles of coordinated vulnerability disclosure as the industry best practice to protect our customers from reported security vulnerabilities. To prevent unnecessary risk to customers, security researchers and vendors do not discuss the details of reported vulnerabilities before an update is available." Jeff Jones, a senior director at Microsoft said in a statement Tuesday:"Customers who have already applied the update, or have automatic updates enabled, are already protected. As always we encourage customers to install all security updates as soon as possible." Microsoft told CNBC that it had not seen any exploitation of the flaw "in the wild," which means outside a lab testing environment. nsaossecurity How Digital Sleuths Unravelled the Mystery of Iran's Plane Crash (wired.co.uk) 170 Postedby msmash on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @03:45PM from the closer-look dept. Open-source intelligence proved vital in the investigation into Ukraine Airlines flight PS752. Then Iranian officials had to admit the truth. From a report: [...] In the days after the Ukraine Airlines plane crashed into the ground outside Tehran, Bellingcat and The New York Times have blown a hole in the supposition that the downing of the aircraft was an engine failure. The pressure -- and the weight of public evidence -- compelled Iranian officials to admit overnight on January 10 that the country had shot down the plane "in error." So how do they do it? "You can think of OSINT as a puzzle. To get the complete picture, you need to find the missing pieces and put everything together," says Lorand Bodo, an OSINT analyst at Tech versus Terrorism, a campaign group. The team at Bellingcat and other open-source investigators pore over publicly available material. Thanks to our propensity to reach for our cameraphones at the sight of any newsworthy incident, video and photos are often available, posted to social media in the immediate aftermath of events. "Open source investigations essentially involve the collection, preservation, verification, and analysis of evidence that is available in the public domain to build a picture of what happened," says Yvonne McDermott Rees, a lecturer at Swansea University. Some of the clips in this incident surfaced on Telegram, the encrypted messaging app popular in the Middle East, while others were sent directly to Bellingcat. "Because Bellingcat is known for our open source work on MH17, people immediately thought of us. People started sending us links they'd found," says Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat. "It was involuntary crowdsourcing." OSINT investigators then utilise metadata, including EXIF data -- which is automatically inserted into videos and photos, showing everything from the type of camera used to take the images to the precise latitude and longitude of where the taker was standing -- to validify that the footage is legitimate. They'll also try and identify who took the footage, and whether it's practical for them to have been where they claim to have been at the time. However, for this instance, they couldn't use EXIF data. "People would share photos and videos on Telegram which strip the metadata, and then someone else would find that and share it on Twitter," says Higgins. "We were really getting a second-hand or third-hand version of these images. All we have to go on is what's visible in the photograph." So instead they moved onto the next step. internetitopensource Cookies Track You Across the Internet. Google Plans To Phase Them Out (nbcnews.com) 89 Postedby msmash on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @01:44PM from the how-about-that dept. Google has announced plans to limit the ability of other companies to track people across the internet and collect information about them, a significant change that has widespread ramifications for online privacy as well as the digital economy. From a report: The company said Tuesday that it plans to phase out the use of digital tools known as tracking cookies, which other companies use to identify people online and learn more about them. The move is meant to offer users greater control over their digital footprints and enhance user privacy, according to Google. But the move could also provide Google with even greater control over the online advertising market, which the company already dominates. Google said the change will come to its Chrome web browser and be rolled out over two years. Google did not announce any changes to its own data collection methods. Google also said that a previously announced change to make third-party cookies more secure and precise in their abilities will be rolled out in February. Justin Schuh, director of engineering for trust and safety for Google's Chrome, said the search giant needs time to enact changes because it is working with advertisers and publishers to address the need for cookies to remember sign-ins, embed third-party services such as weather widgets and deliver targeted advertising. But he did not downplay the significance of Google's announcement. "We want to change the way the web works," he said in an interview. Google To Phase Out User-Agent Strings in Chrome (zdnet.com) 114 Postedby msmash on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:21PM from the up-next dept. Google has announced plans today to phase out the usage of user-agent strings in its web browser Chrome. From a report: UA strings have been developed part of the Netscape browser in the 90s, and have been in use ever since. For decades, websites have used UA strings to fine-tune features based on a visitor's technical specifications. But now, Google says that this once-useful mechanism has become a constant source of problems, on different fronts. For starters, UA strings have been used by online advertisers as a way to track and fingerprint website visitors. "On top of those privacy issues, User-Agent sniffing is an abundant source of compatibility issues, in particular for minority browsers, resulting in browsers lying about themselves (generally or to specific sites) , and sites (including Google properties) being broken in some browsers for no good reason," said Yoav Weiss, a Google engineer working on the Chrome browser. To address these issues, Google said it plans to phase out the importance of UA strings in Chrome by freezing the standard as a whole. Google's plan is to stop updating Chrome's UA component with new strings (the UA string text that Chrome shares with websites). The long-term plan is to unify all Chrome UA strings into generic values that don't reveal too much information about a user. This means that new Chrome browser releases on new platforms such as new smartphone models or new OS releases will use a generic UA string, rather than one that's customised for that specific platform. chromegoogleinternet Apple Responds To AG Barr Over Unlocking Pensacola Shooter's Phone: 'No.' (inputmag.com) 233 Postedby msmash on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @11:41AM from the tussle-continues dept. On Monday, Attorney General William Barr called on Apple to unlock the alleged phone of the Pensacola shooter -- a man who murdered three people and injured eight others on a Naval base in Florida in December. Apple has responded by essentially saying: "no." From a report: "We reject the characterization that Apple has not provided substantive assistance in the Pensacola investigation," the company said. "It was not until January 8th that we received a subpoena for information related to the second iPhone, which we responded to within hours," Apple added, countering Barr's characterization of the company being slow in its approach to the FBI's needs. However, it ends the statement in no uncertain terms: "We have always maintained there is no such thing as a backdoor just for the good guys." Despite pressure from the government, Apple has long held that giving anyone the keys to users' data or a backdoor to their phones -- even in cases where terrorism or violence was involved -- would compromise every user. The company is clearly standing by those principles. appleiphonesecurity Cryptic Rumblings Ahead of First 2020 Patch Tuesday (krebsonsecurity.com) 37 Postedby msmash on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:00AM from the up-next dept. Brian Krebs: Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. Those sources say Microsoft has quietly shipped a patch for the bug to branches of the U.S. military and to other high-value customers/targets that manage key Internet infrastructure, and that those organizations have been asked to sign agreements preventing them from disclosing details of the flaw prior to Jan. 14, the first Patch Tuesday of 2020. According to sources, the vulnerability in question resides in a Windows component known as crypt32.dll, a Windows module that Microsoft says handles "certificate and cryptographic messaging functions in the CryptoAPI." The Microsoft CryptoAPI provides services that enable developers to secure Windows-based applications using cryptography, and includes functionality for encrypting and decrypting data using digital certificates. NSA said on Tuesday that it spotted the vulnerability and reported it to Microsoft. NSA said Microsoft will report later today that it has seen no active exploitation of this vulnerability. NSA's Director of Cybersecurity, Anne Neuberger, says the critical cryptographic vulnerability resides in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, and that the concern about this particular flaw is that it "makes trust vulnerable." securitywindowsmicrosoft City of Las Vegas Said It Successfully Avoided Devastating Cyberattack (zdnet.com) 20 Postedby BeauHD on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:10PM from the consider-yourself-lucky dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Officials from the city of Las Vegas said they narrowly avoided a major security incident that took place on Tuesday, January 7. According to a statement published by the city on Wednesday, the compromise took place on Tuesday, at 4:30 am, in the morning. The city said IT staff immediately detected the intrusion and took steps to protect impacted systems. The city responded by taking several services offline, including its public website, which is still down at the time of writing. City officials have not disclosed any details about the nature of the incident, but local press reported that it might have involved an email delivery vector. In a subsequent statement published on Twitter on Wednesday, the city confirmed it "resumed full operations with all data systems functioning as normal." "Thanks to our software security systems and fast action by our IT staff, we were fortunate to avoid what had the potential to be a devastating situation," it said. "We do not believe any data was lost from our systems and no personal data was taken. 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__label__wiki	0.580787	0.580787	The call of Lord Shiva Society is subject to continued churning, which impels change in our thought process, priorities, and societal dynamics. The pace of change may sometimes be normal, which passes off without much of flutter. At times it becomes rapid, which for many unprepared, becomes difficult to digest so easily. For, the usual human tendency is to resist change, carrying the fear of its uncertain future ramifications. Yet, with time we learn to manage. But there comes some such historical moments when we are taken for a ride by some unprecedented situations. That forces us for an immediate rethink. We are passing through one such moment when the whole world has suddenly come to a grounding halt, which calls for an immediate rethink – what went wrong in our approach to life that has proved so heavy? The present pandemic has come to remind us about some basic tenets of life, which people engaged in the usual mills of life seem to have forgotten. It is, as if they would have moved beyond their limits . First, the world is a unified organism, where no individual has a reality independent of the whole. Second, all field players of the world are set into an interdependent framework, where the efforts of all put together, meets our existential needs and carries forward the life cycle. In such a framework, irresponsible conduct of a few can prove heavy for the whole mankind. See, how corona virus that erupted in Wuhan state of China, has overtaken the whole world. I don’t know whether it was because of unnatural eating habit of the people there, or negligence of the scientists there, or it was a planned conspiracy. Time ahead may uncover the truth. But there is no denying the fact that unbecoming conduct of a few has resulted in such a catastrophe. Even most of other nations too did not take the impending threat in all seriousness in time. We, thus, have a shared destiny, and therefore, while attending to our aspirational urges, we need to remain conscious about our collective obligations also. See how beautifully the above concept is portrayed in the imagery of Lord Shiva and his marriage party. I believe, our learned masters were great artists, is how they could explain such vital truths of life through easily understandable imageries. And to ensure that the concept remains live in our mind, they dedicated the whole month of Shravana to Lord Shiva in our annular calendar. If people reflect on the concept in prayer mode at regular periodic interval the inlaid message may get absorbed in the inner realms of mind. Following which, it may spontaneously find reflection in our day to day conduct. It’s a different matter that over a period of time, it has acquired a ritualistic dimension – people carrying water drawn from ganga, marching long distance on foot and offer it Shivalinga in a temple. Now look at the educative import of the imagery. Lord Shiva seated on a bull has multitude of existences forming His marriage party – Godly bodies (marked with cosmic functionalities vital to smooth run of the life cycle), evils (the low born guided by their animalistic instincts), human beings, animals, birds, plants, and even invisible creatures such as ghost and goblins. Lord Shiva, in an unattached way remains in accord with all of them, as He doesn’t discriminate. Not that He is not aware of their individualistic and collective limitations. His half eyes closed and half open means that knowingly He ignores their limitations. For, He is aware that if they are subject to some limitation, they are simultaneously armed with such virtues as would be necessary for sustenance of the collective existence, so framed as but for one, the very existence would be at stake. He purposely does that so as to make full use of their virtues in order to ensure smooth run of the life cycle as a whole, as signified by bull’s nature. Remember, the bull, while pulling a bullock cart, keeps moving unprovoked at an even pace. The presence of ghosts and goblins need a special reference. They symbolise our formless presence in between two successive lives, indicating continuum in life cycle. To sum up, the world is framed on the concept of Unity in Diversity. With a sense of unity consciousness live in mind, we may accord due honour to all, which may ensure living in peace and harmony. It is the absence of the sense of unity consciousness that holds the key to growing level of our impatience and intolerance.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line11
__label__cc	0.642134	0.357866	Why AEF? One school at a time Stones of hope Support from the American public Home About Us -Leadership -Why AEF? -Mission -Vision Spirit Of Giving -One school at a time -Stones of hope -Support from the American public Contact Us Donate! Hewing stones of hope out of mountains of despair. When the restoration of GSSA is over, we shall turn our attention to other erstwhile leadership academies of southeastern Nigeria. Like GSSA, these were excellent and highly reputable high schools in the past, until war came and set them on the path of decline and decay. In all of these schools buildings are in an advanced state of dilapidation and decay and most buildings are therefore unusable. The following are some of the schools we shall target but not necessarily in this order: Queens School Enugu, a girls’ high school. Hope Waddell Calabar. Christ the King College, Onitsha. Government College Umuahia. Government Secondary School Owerri. Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha. Queen of the Rosary College, Onitsha, a girls’ high school. College of the Immaculate Conception, Enugu. Cornelia Cordelia College, Uyo, a girls’ high school. Holy Rosary College Enugu, a girls’ high school. Bishop Shanahan College, Orlu. Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt. Holy Ghost College Owerri. Methodist College Uzuakoli. St. Patrick’s College, Calabar. Schools in other war ravaged countries of sub-Saharan Africa After the restoration of the above schools, all of them former leadership academies – located in south-eastern Nigeria (formerly Biafra), all of them devastated by the Nigeria-Biafra War (aka Nigerian Civil War) of the late 1960’s – we shall extend our restorative effort to other countries with schools devastated by war. These countries include South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Congo. Be involved in mankind. Donate to the African Education Fund (AEF). ✓ All Images Depicting Restoration of Buildings show work done by GSSAAA. ✓ African Education Fund will be working in concert with GSSAAA. ✓ GSSAAA stands for Government Secondary School Afikpo Alumni Association. Copyright © African Education Fund. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line18
__label__wiki	0.868363	0.868363	Kool Kats of the Week: DILBERT Does Demonic: Raising Corporate Hell with the Pretty Faces of Shane Morton and Chris Brown Posted on: May 22nd, 2013 By: Anya99 Chris Brown and Shane Morton at The Lab. Photo courtesy of Adult Swim. When Shane Morton, aka Atlanta’s Renaissance man of horror, and Chris Brown, mad mastermind of Macabre Puppets and the bloody musical SCARLET’S WEB (Dad’s Garage), first got involved with Adult Swim‘s YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL, they immediately realized this grotesque and groovy gig was their dream, or should we say nightmare, job. The initial assignment was special effects makeup, but the show didn’t have an art director yet. It’s a story Shane has already told colorfully in several articles, but he asked them for a couple of days to film a make-up test to prove the pair could transform humans into demons in 45 minutes, then he got to work on sketches and models. Being old-school Ray Harryhausen fans, Shane and Chris wanted to do as much as possible with miniatures, but budgets and technological advances dictated a balance between digital effects for lava flows and heads spinning like Linda Blair and the old ways for blood spurts and HR Geiger-esque urinals. Still, the pair didn’t have to do much to convince everyone to let them take over much of what perhaps a little ironically is called the “practical” effects for the series. “Maybe we were thinking too much about that,” Shane says, speaking about his passion for traditional effects from the monster FX Lab he’s built south of the city at the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse. The undead Halloween attraction is one of many horror events he has nurtured locally and is a big force behind the transformation of Atlanta into Halloween-town, USA. “We did sculpt and cast all the horns themselves,” he continues. “We didn’t want to be just painting people red and sticking horns on them, and we didn’t want anything store-bought.” Ever since the Middle Ages, comedies about deals with the Devil have proven a surefire hit. Think about such Retro cult classic movies as BEDAZZLED (The 1967 version, of course, starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) and POOR DEVIL (TV, 1971), starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Christopher Lee). YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL mixes in-your-face crassness and generous gore with office comedy, reimagining Hades as a contemporary cubicle-ridden setting. Demon Gary (played by Henry Zebrowski) is dedicated but far too much of a screw-up to earn a promotion. Yet it’s hard not to empathize with the well-meaning “associate” because we all like to complain about our bosses, but his, well, has to be worst because it’s Satan. The original live-action series is created and directed by Dave Willis (AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE, SQUIDBILLIES) and Casper Kelly (SQUIDBILLIES, HARVEY BIRDMAN: ATTORNEY AT LAW; STROKER & HOOP). The final installment of the six-episode run airs this Thursday May 23, 2013, at midnight. Henry Zebrowski stars as Gary the demon in YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL. Photo courtesy of Adult Swim. At the Silver Scream Spookshow, Shane’s homage to Retro spook shows of old, he regularly performs magic tricks as Horror Host with the Most Professor Morte. Whether transforming humans into monsters with make-up, conjuring up crazy sets or engineering a splattery gross-out nosebleed, Shane views his effects work equally as magic. A consummate showman, he “performs” for the crew and ultimately the TV audience. “When there is special effects stuff going on, everybody wants to be around to watch it,” Shane says. “You’re getting to see the trick in the magic trick. You’re getting to peek behind the curtain.” Part of the magic on YOUR PRETTY FACE was having to be prepared for the unexpected every day on the set. The script served only as a loose guide because a great deal of improvisation happened, too, Shane says. With that in mind, he kept a “library of prosthetics” on set. At the AZA Lab prior to shooting, he crafted multiple “wounds and hanging eyeballs and sets of teeth, because you never know what these people are going to ask for.” Shane and Chris started each day by getting the cast into make-up. As simple as it may seem to paint someone red and stick on horns, Shane notes that because the body is organic–yeah, people sweat and rub against things–there’s a nonstop need for reapplication. “We were constantly touching up their noses, painting in their ears, touching their beards up, molesting them all day long,” Shane says. “You have to get intimate.” That process became trickier when on location, such as for the third episode, “Take Life By the Horns,” in which Gary found himself fallen into a ravine. That shoot involved dodging poison ivy and copperhead snakes and having to rappel camera equipment down the side of a mountain, Chris recalls. After make-up, the pair would launch into preparing the special effects and any additional props needed for the day. Sometimes that could be blood or pus or a potion of extreme projectile vomit, also needed for the ravine shoot. “We had a limited amount of time, so I literally used a sump pump, like you use to bail water out of your basement,” Chris says. “I put together a big plunger and a giant syringe, and then opened the nozzle to spew out a rainbow collection, which included stew, cream of mushroom soup, I made some gelatin and crunched up into chunks. The smell quickly turned rancid so it even smelled like vomit.” In addition, Gary broke his leg from the fall down the cliff, and Chris had to create nauseating pus to spew from the wound. Yes, it did involve black blood, red blood and tapioca pudding! Satan (Matt Servitto) gets a touch-up from Shane Morton. Photo courtesy of Adult Swim. Shane and Chris are used to working wonders on a tight budget and schedule whether it’s for local theater or DEAR GOD! NO!, an over-the-top neo-exploitation movie involving bikers, Bigfoot and a Nazi mad scientist which scored awards at grindhouse festivals across the nation. While the budget was not huge for YOUR PRETTY FACE, it was much larger than the typical indie which allowed such treats as Chris was crafting Satan’s legs out of actual yak fur rather than a used gorilla suit. “The original talk was that Satan would be fat, over-the-hill, and extra lecherous like the demon in LEGEND (1985) as if time has caught up with him,” Shane says. “We were really gung ho for that, but we loved the look he ended up with.” A secret ingredient underneath Satan’s furry legs was spandex tights, that could easily be changed out if Matt Servitto, the actor who plays Satan, felt sweaty. A lycra lining gave four-way stretch which, as Shane notes, even allowed Matt to do David Lee Roth kicks in a photo shoot. As for costume maintenance, well, “it was like combing out a big dog,” Chris says. Perhaps Shane’s favorite set pieces are the aforementioned H.R. Geiger-esque urinals, the bowls of which needed to accommodate the heads of demons who displeased Satan. Yeah, he pees on them, including sometimes poor hapless Gary. Originally they were supposed to be clean, standard urinals, but then Shane had the crazy idea to make them scary: “Everything in hell is monsters, so let’s make the urinals monsters, too!” Shane Morton at work on Claude (Craig Rowin), Gary's over-dedicated intern in YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL. Photo courtesy of Adult Swim. Shane went home and crafted a miniature model, brought it in, and got the greenlight to create a urinal that looks like an extra-large facehugger. He toyed with various color ideas but finally decided that the bathrooms otherwise would be spotless in Hell. The demonic duo were impressed that the show really did follow through with Satan actually peeing on the demons’ heads. Of course, even with a program that prides itself on shock value, some things inevitably didn’t make the final cut. For example, Satan won’t poop on Gary’s face, even though the scene was filmed. “It will end up on DVD maybe,” Shane says hopefully. “Somebody getting pooped on or an arm hacked off is a good day at work! It keeps the energy up.” Satan’s office is packed with props created by Shane and Chris, though it is not perhaps quite the devilish “greatest hits” collection that they originally envisioned. Instead of the trophies and plaques that have become de rigeur in executive offices, Shane wanted to include on the shelf Eve’s apple, Christ’s crown of thorns and Hitler’s head in a jar. And clearance couldn’t be gotten for Wall of Shame photos of Satan flashing a big grin with dubious celebrities such as David Hasselhoff and the Octomom. Still, those who look carefully will see many subtle Shane and Chris touches such as faces of tortured souls on the steel balls that click back and forth on the Devil’s desk. “Everything is pumped up a little bit because after all we are in hell,” Shane says. “Even the elevator switch looks like something scary.” In other words, Shane and Chris had one of a helluva good time. At an apartment location, some little old ladies told the crew “they were going to pray for us because we were doing the devil’s work,” Shane says. “We joked every day and maybe it did get a bit old but ‘it’s really hell getting all this done today!’” Shane holds up his own head, a prop he crafted for DEAR GOD! NO! Photo courtesy of Adult Swim. As the season draws to a close, the pair are now just waiting to hear the final ratings and whether the show gets greenlit for a second season. If yes, they’re hoping for a bigger budget and the chance to play around more with more practical special effects over CGI–“to raise the bar,” as Chris says. “If we end up getting multiple seasons, it’s only going to get more extreme,” he adds. And maybe there’ll even be a cameo for that giant spider with the humungous nut-sack hanging on his back that turned out to be expensive to cast. In the meantime, Chris will be working on the script for a $3-4 million movie version of SCARLET’S WEB. And Shane recently wrapped the indie feature, TALES FROM MORNINGVIEW CEMETERY. In it, he appears as Professior Morte, fulfilling the Cryptkeeper role, introducing the segments and holding the show together. He’s also involved in preproduction with director Jimmy Bickert for FRANKENSTEIN CREATED BIKERS, the much-anticipated sequel to DEAR GOD! NO! It will be filmed in 35mm widescreen hopefully by the end of 2013, he revealed, and include a lot more special effects and monsters. Look for Shane, or rather his Professor Morte alter-ego, at the 11th Annual Rock n Roll Monster Bash at the Starlight Six Drive-In on Sunday June 2. The movies this year are THE DEVIL’S RAIN (1975) and EVIL DEAD 2 (1987), not to mention six bands, scary shopping and Monstrosity Championship Wrestling! [ED. Note: Watch for Retro Reviews of both movies next week] Editor’s Note: Shane and Chris are just a few of the talented local folk streaming by in the end credits of YOUR PRETTY FACE. More ATLRetro friends include producer Linda Burns (V/H/S, THE SIGNAL), set decorator/property master Laurie Garner, who’s played bass in so many Atlanta bands (She-Monster and Vietnam to name a few), and the indomitable Eddie Ray (SATANIC PANIC BAND OUT OF HELL and a previous Kool Kat to boot!). ALSO: Learn some of the make-up secrets Shane Morton used in YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL at his Monster Make-up Class on Sunday May 26 in his Lab at AZA. 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__label__wiki	0.850249	0.850249	Daring to Delve Pioneers of the Buchan Caves The author Dr Robert Haldane, is an Associate of the Gippsland Heritage Journal, and is an East Gippsland regional historian who lives at Buchan. The Buchan Caves have long been a regional icon in East Gippsland, drawing up to 88,000 visitors a year from all parts of Australia and overseas. The premier tourist caves, Fairy Cave and Royal Cave are the most famous caves in the Buchan and Snowy River areas, however they are but two of the 425 known caves in the district and doubtless there are others; each one a unique subterranean wonderland awaiting exploration by speleologists and inquisitive adventurers. i Over a period of many years there has been considerable debate about by whom, how and when the caves of Buchan were first discovered. Clearly, there is no doubt that Indigenous Australians can truly lay claim to being first and caves within the Snowy River area bear signs of Aboriginal presence and engravings dating back 22,000 years. The provenance of contemporary cave exploration is not as clear but the one name most commonly associated with the discovery and exploration of caves in Buchan is that of Frank Moon. Some observers have lionized Moon and his part in these discoveries but there is no doubt that although his was not a lone effort, his personal role was pivotal in maximizing public exposure, not only of his discoveries but also of the work of other early pioneers of the Buchan caves. ii Certainly, Moon and the other caving pioneers shared the sentiment of Mallacoota journalist and writer Edwin James Brady, who ventured into the ‘Cimmerian night’ of Buchan’s ‘underworld’ and in 1918 wrote, ‘It gives one a curious sensation of unreality, this descent through a hole in the hillside, into a region of glamor and mystery, beautiful but weird’. iii The first recorded exploration of caves in Buchan was made by Stewart Ryrie on 7 April 1840. Accompanied by an Aboriginal guide and three soldiers he was surveying the area for the New South Wales administration when passing through the Buckan [sic] forest he noted, ‘Blue limestone abounds all over this forest and it is full of caves. I descended into one of them to a considerable depth but saw nothing remarkable’. One study published in 1992, using Ryrie’s original reckonings, suggested that the cave explored by Ryrie was ‘most likely Moon Cave’ but more recent work undertaken by speleologist Peter Ackroyd concluded, ‘based on the thin evidence available’ that Ryrie descended a cave now known as ‘M-22 The Garage’. iv The next exposition of the Buchan caves occurred in 1861, when Austrian-born artist Johann Joseph Eugen von Guerard, visited the district. Von Guerard was later appointed first master of painting at the National School of Art and curator of the National Gallery of Victoria. During 1860 he accompanied noted explorer Alfred William Howitt (GHJ 1-38) on an expedition to Gippsland, around which time von Guerard completed a series of pencil sketches of such locations as Bushy Park, Snowy Bluff, Strathfieldsaye and Wonnangatta. The relevant von Guerard sketchbook contains sixty-six pencil drawings, some of which formed the basis of a number of his well-known Gippsland oil paintings (GHJ 13-33 & 14-35). Also included in the book are four sketches completed in Buchan in January 1861. One of these shows two men in the interior of a candlelit cave and bears the page notation Buchan Caves, 10 January ’61.v Buchan Caves 10 January 1861 Pencil sketch by Johann Joseph Eugen von Guerard From the original sketchbook held in the Dixson Galleries State Library of New South Wales Following von Guerard’s work there was a lapse of some years before the existence of the Buchan caves was again made the subject of erudition, this time by Howitt, who extensively explored the Buchan and Snowy River areas. In 1876, in a report for the Geological Survey of Victoria, he described in detail Buchan’s topography and geology. Highlighting the scientific and geological potential of the caves he noted, ‘… caverns and “sink holes” abound’ but ‘No systematic exploration of these caves has, however, yet been made; it seems not impossible that some, at any rate, may be found to afford fossil remains of the extinct Australian fauna’. vi The first significant government move to protect the caves occurred in 1887, when the area that is today known as Wyatt’s Reserve or the Potholes, was reserved by government proclamation to specifically protect the caves and any associated natural features. The following year vii, James Stirling, a botanist and geologist, then employed as a Victorian government assistant geological surveyor, visited East Gippsland in company with Public Works Department architect, John Henry Harvey, who was an accomplished and prolific amateur photographer. Stirling was an associate of Howitt’s and also of the noted botanist Ferdinand Mueller (GHJ 10-3) and was familiar with the Buchan area, having previously worked as a mail rider between Bruthen and Bendoc. The primary purpose of their visit was in connection with the work of prospecting parties in the Buchan District. Stirling was conversant with Howitt’s 1876 treatise on the Devonian rocks of North Gippsland and bearing Howitt’s suggestion ‘in mind’ Stirling and Harvey ‘made a temporary examination of the caves’ in Buchan, accompanied two assistants, Mr. Tetu and Mr. Ralston, ‘a plucky young Australian’, who was often the first of Stirling’s team to delve underground. They were guided on some of their work by William Kellie, a local publican and Buchan telegraph operator. Stirling mapped a number of the caves and Harvey, who had already photographed the Jenolan caves, took the first known successful photographs of the Buchan caves. In 1889 the government published Stirling’s ‘Preliminary Report on the Buchan Caves’, which included detailed descriptions of a number of caves, including Duke’s, Moon’s, O’Rourke’s, Wilson’s, Dickson’s viii, and the Spring Creek Cave, together with maps of four of the caves and four of Harvey’s photographs. Displaying considerable prescience, Stirling foresaw the tourist potential of the caves and recommended that a caretaker be appointed and that ladders, hand-rails and lighting be installed in some of the caves. He proposed using water from the Buchan River to drive a dynamo to generate electricity. During a public lecture given in Sale soon after, on the topic of his cave tours, Stirling asked, ‘Why should not that characteristic energy which exhibited itself in the Australian cricket or football fields be directed to scientific research to discovering some of the many beauties of Australia’s subterranean wonderland?’ Stirling and Harvey ‘left no stone unturned in [their] efforts to point out the value of the caves to Victoria from a tourist’s point of view’ and Harvey referred to them in his lectures on the Jenolan Caves. So enamored was Harvey with the Buchan caves that he twice unsuccessfully attempted to have Jeremiah Wilson, caretaker of the Jenolan Caves, brought to East Gippsland to explore them. ix James Stirling, Botanist & Geologist ca. 1884 La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria Much of the early interest in the caves of Buchan centred on their potential as a tourist attraction and by the 1880s tourists to the district were able to undertake guided cave tours, often accompanied by local hotel proprietors. In 1886 ‘Tanjil’ wrote of a guided tour through Wilson’s cave, the pathway illuminated by candles and kerosene torches. On this tour the guide providing a stunning denouement when he ignited a quantity of stringy bark saturated in kerosene to show a ‘fairy-land-like’ display of ‘thousands of stalactites and stalagmites’. The caves were promoted in tourist literature for the Gippsland Lakes and trekkers used a combination of train, steamer, motor launch and four-horse coach to make their way to Buchan. In August 1899 Sale photographer Alexander Ward addressed the Sale branch of the Australian Natives’ Association about his visit to the Buchan caves. He described ‘the caves country’ in detail and informed his audience that, ‘All the necessary articles to assist you going through the caves – such as lanterns, candles, torches, ropes, rope-ladders, poles, retracing lines, magnesium tape and other coloured lights for the purpose of showing the chambers in different colours – may be obtained at the township, and guides and horses are also available’. It was during this era when considerable irreversible damage was caused to the caves by visitors taking cave formations as souvenirs or ‘specimens’. And Ward, urging protection for the caves, lamented that it ‘was a common thing for people to smash the stalactites out of pure thoughtlessness. There are tons of the broken specimens to be found about the caves’. Ward found his trek to Buchan quite arduous and told his audience, ‘People are usually very glad to reach Buchan, not because they love the town, but because they have got to the end of a long journey’. In contrast, guests of the entrepreneurial John C. Dahlsen, proprietor of Lake Tyers House, journeyed to Buchan in style. As early as 1902 Dahlsen was quick to see the Buchan Caves as ‘an untapped commercial treasure’ and the caves figured prominently in Lake Tyers House advertising. It was a time when Lake Tyers House was the playground of the well-to-do, including prominent politicians and vice regal visitors and Dahlsen promoted holiday packages to the caves that included all meals, accommodation, launch fares and coach transport to-and-from Buchan. x Although tourist operators lobbied the government and expressed the same sentiments as Stirling, his recommendations went unheeded for more than a decade and it was not until 1900 that his work was expanded upon by Albert Ernest Kitson, who was then undertaking geological field work for the Victorian Geological Survey. A Fellow of the Geological Society of London and a widely published author on matters of geology and natural history, Kitson studied and photographed the caves in 1900. He was dismayed that some of them had already, ‘been greatly despoiled of their treasures by acts of pure vandalism’ and observed that a number of caves, ‘suffered from the vandalism, carelessness, and thoughtlessness of sightseers, who have smashed most of the smaller stalactites, stalagmites, and stalactital drapery within reach’. It was an era when, ‘people were known to carry away wagon loads of cave formations’. Like Stirling before him Kitson grasped the scientific and tourist potential of the caves, describing the Buchan district as a place, ‘of great interest to the lover of the beautiful in nature, and to the scientist’. He predicted that if, ‘the claims of the district as a pleasure resort [are] brought prominently before the public, I have no hesitation in venturing the opinion that large numbers of tourists will be attracted during the summer and autumn months’. He proposed, ‘that action be taken to preserve such of the beauties of the caves as have not yet been despoiled, and prevent vandalism in any that may be discovered in future’ and recommended seven new cave reservations be established in the Buchan District: one of which, gazetted in 1901, formed the genesis of the Buchan Caves Reserve as it exists today. xi Sir Albert Ernest Kitson 1868-1937 Reproduced with permission of The Geological Society of London Despite the urgings of Stirling, Kitson and others, the tourist and scientific potential of the Buchan caves was never optimized and it fell to local caver Francis Herbert Arthur ‘Frank’ Moon to propel Buchan and its caves into the public spotlight. Born at Gelantipy Station on 20 November 1880, Frank Moon was one of three boys and five girls born to Robert Moon, and Margaret (nee Ross, formerly of Rosedale). Raised and educated in the Gelantipy and Buchan districts, Frank Moon was a noted horseman, athlete and bushman, whose athleticism earned him the sobriquet ‘Cyclone’. He left Buchan aged sixteen to go prospecting and after a period of years working interstate he returned home, intending to spend a brief period with his family before travelling to Argentina to work as a miner. xii During his sojourn in Buchan Frank Moon ‘pottered around’ looking for caves and in September 1906, accompanied by his brother Robert and a friend, Jim Connors, Moon explored a cave on the northern bank of Spring Creek near its junction with the Buchan River. Previously known as O’Rourke’s Cave, they extended its known limit and it was subsequently renamed Moon Cave. xiii A report in the Snowy River Mail credited ‘Mr Frank Moon … the pioneer’ with this discovery but did add that ‘several others’ were with him. Following the discovery of more impressive caves nearby the Moon Cave was rarely used for public tours and in 1907 it was recommended ‘That no steps be taken at present to improve the Moon Cave which should be kept locked up and visitors only admitted by special permit’. Many years later it was assessed as having no appreciable scientific, aesthetic, social or spiritual value. Its principal significance was found in the natural heritage value of the cave at river level as a platypus habitat. Notwithstanding the modest nature of Moon Cave, Frank Moon garnered considerable publicity and displayed early signs of his promotional adroitness when his tale of discovery was reported in the local press, ‘Moon secured a rope, and went down into the water. The stream was 4 feet deep. He scrambled through narrow low passages, up to his neck in water, with his head almost touching the roof. Stalactites and stalagmites, absolutely perfect, were found in immense chambers and low passages. Moon caught mountain trout of a whitish colour with large sightless eyes’. xiv Following the eponymous naming of this cave, a fortuitous series of events combined to focus government attention on the caves and in 1906 the Department of Lands and Survey employed Frank Moon on a temporary salary of $11 13s 4d a month as the first Government appointed ‘Caretaker of the Buchan caves’. On the day that Moon announced his discovery he arranged for John Flynn (GHJ 26-19), who was then resident in Buchan as a Home Missionary, to photograph the Moon Cave and they did so that night. Flynn subsequently travelled to Orbost and showed lantern slides of the cave to the Orbost Railway League. An active supporter of the league was Orbost resident and MLA for East Gippsland, James Cameron and he was keen to see East Gippsland, opened-up to commerce and trade. He was also already familiar with the geological opportunities of the Buchan district through his involvement in marble extraction at Buchan South and mining investment at Nowa Nowa. Cameron’s immediate predecessor as MLA for East Gippsland was former Omeo miner and Minister for Mines, Henry Foster, who more than once was intransigent in the face of requests to promote exploration of the Buchan caves. In contrast Cameron was a keen supporter. Following his lantern slide show at Orbost, Flynn was elected as the Buchan Railway League delegate and included in an East Gippsland Railway League deputation to Melbourne on 3 October 1906, where he took the opportunity of discussing the value of the Buchan caves as a tourist attraction with the Premier of Victoria, Sir Thomas Bent. Flynn’s advocacy was opportune, as the Bent government was keen to promote Victoria as a tourist attraction and just that year had established the first Victorian Government Tourist Bureau. During October 1906 Bent toured East Gippsland, including the Buchan caves, and on his return to Melbourne he gave a public lantern slide lecture to 2,000 people at the Melbourne Town Hall, during which he waxed lyrical about the Buchan caves, describing them as ‘dazzling’. A Railway League publication of the period, illustrated with John Flynn’s photographs, opined, ‘This district will at some future date be known as the wonderland of Victoria’. xv In the midst of all this cave-related activity Albert Kitson returned to Buchan and spent two weeks with Frank Moon and others, undertaking survey work in furtherance of the reports that he had completed in 1900. The main report of his 1906 visit he penned aboard the R.M.S. Oruba, somewhere in the Indian Ocean, off the Western Australian coast, destined for Southern Nigeria: and the report ‘had to be written from memory’, as in the hurry of his departure from Melbourne he left his Buchan field notebook behind in Australia. Despite this haste Kitson lost nothing of his passion for caves and East Gippsland and proved a good friend to Frank Moon. He wrote of the grandeur of the Buchan and Snowy River country and of the ‘delightful uncertainty about caves that leads to the charm of cave exploration, for there is absolutely no end to such work’. He appended a draft set of regulations for the management of caves in Buchan and endorsed ‘Mr. Moon’ as the person who ‘will have his time taken up quite fully in opening up and looking after the caves in the neighbourhood of Buchan’. xvi In December 1906 Frank Moon discovered a cave near the Spring Creek Cave and named it the Kitson Cave after Albert Kitson, who was knighted in 1927 and also had a fossil mollusc, a fossil eucalypt and a living eucalypt named after him. Moon began conducting tours through this cave almost immediately and its formations were photographed extensively by John Flynn, who sold his photographs for publication in newspapers, reproduced them as postcards and used them in lantern slide lectures. xvii The exploratory work of Moon and others was given impetus of a different sort when noted palaeontologist Thomas Sergeant Hall visited Buchan in December 1906, ‘to inquire into the truth of statements in the newspapers as to the presence of mammalian bones in the floors of the caves’. Despite the previous damage and souveniring of fossils in the Buchan caves, Hall was able to build on the earlier work of Stirling and his visit resulted in an important collection of bones for the National Museum. xviii Although Frank Moon was clearly not the first person to discover the Buchan caves, he was instrumental in promoting both the Moon and Kitson caves and continued thereafter working assiduously to locate and develop new caves in Buchan. On 18 March 1907 his interest was rewarded when he opened-up a small hole on a hillside near the Spring Creek Cave and discovered a significant new cave that far excelled ‘in extent and beauty, all others yet discovered in the district’. Years later Moon ebulliently described how he made this discovery: ‘It was a small depression on the ground … it was blocked with huge rocks and I blew them open with explosives, put a crowbar across and fifty feet of rope and skid down and ultimately got into where the fall of rock is in the Fairy cave, where the tunnel goes through today. I returned from the fall of rock and came out as quickly as I could and came over the hill to the township to inform someone what I had found. The most wonderful cave that’s ever been discovered … I was very excited you know’. xix He named it the Fairy Cave and two days later wrote to the Secretary of the Lands Department, enthusiastically informing him of his discovery: ‘I have the greatest pleasure in announcing to you in writing my discovery of the 18th The only surface indication of this Cave was a hole that you could put your fist in By breaking it away large enough to admit my body I lowered myself down a distance of 40 ft into an immense cavern. I have explored its passages for fully ¾ of a mile and must say that it is beyond all my expectations. All I can say is that it is amazingly beautiful. In fact one could not explain its grandeur to anyone. I am allowing Mr. Bulmer to take some views of it and will forward some as soon as possible. I feel convinced now that I have Jenolans rival’. xx Frank Moon did not have personal knowledge of the famed caves at Jenolan in New South Wales but he was keen to see the caves at Buchan rival their renowned status as a tourist attraction and within days he began guiding parties on tours through ‘his’ Fairy Cave: by April more than one hundred visitors had been shown through the cave. xxi Click here to see the full original Fairy Cave letter. Original map of Fairy Cave – 25 April 1907 (Brian Hansford – Frank Moon Collection) The ‘Mr. Bulmer’ referred to in Moon’s letter was Gippsland photographer Howard Decimus Bulmer, who was in the early stages of a career in photography that was to last almost fifty years. His photographs of the Fairy and other Buchan caves were an important element in their promotion. In addition to John Harvey, John Flynn and Howard Bulmer, other photographers who figured in the early promotion of the Buchan caves were Nicholas John Caire, George Rose, Buchan South Postmaster, James Henry Macdougall, who operated Walden Studios from Buchan and F. Verrell Heath. In 1907 Heath published his illustrated work Views of the Buchan Caves and Pyramids, which included photographs of Frank Moon and the Spring Creek, Kitson and Moon caves. Because its release on 26 March almost coincided with the discovery of the Fairy Cave, Heath missed the opportunity to include the Fairy Cave in the first impression of his booklet. Heath’s booklet was followed in 1908 by the Cunninghame Progressive Association’s publication of Guide to Buchan Caves and Gippsland Lakes. Written by Frank Whitcombe it featured the photographs of Bulmer and Caire. xxii Lands Department District Surveyor, William Thorn, visited the Buchan caves in April 1907, which is when the first known map of the Fairy Cave was drawn, including the naming of some cave formations after characters in William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. ‘Oberon’s Throne’ (Oberon was King of the Fairies) and ‘Titania’s Bower’ (Titania was Queen of the Fairies), were two of these. Mindful of the damage that visitors had already done to other caves in Buchan, Thorn moved quickly to preserve the finely decorated Fairy Cave and recommended on 15 May 1907 that the cave ‘be absolutely closed until the formations have been protected’. He also observed that Frank Moon was ‘an enthusiastic and intrepid explorer’ and ‘an experienced and intelligent miner’ but that he required assistance ‘to erect railings and netting’. Accordingly, he further recommended that ‘an experienced man be obtained from New South Wales’ for this task. The Fairy Cave was closed almost immediately and Frederick John Wilson, a former caretaker of the Jenolan Caves in New South Wales, was appointed to develop the Fairy Cave for tourism in accordance with what was then accepted as best caves management practice. Wilson has been described as ‘a very shy man … a very reticent and retiring man’ but also as ‘a visionary with a great sensitivity to the natural world’. Assisted by Frank Moon and others, he established pathways and handrails in the Fairy Cave and it was re-opened to tourists on 2 December 1907. Using the one entrance-exit point Moon and Wilson were then able to guide tourists to the rock fall known as ‘Titania’s Bower’. On 17 March 1908 Sir Reginald Talbot, the Governor of Victoria, visited and officially opened the Fairy Cave and he and his party were served refreshments in a chamber of Wilson’s Cave, that was set with a picnic table and dubbed Picnic Hall. xxiii Always an intrepid explorer, the full extent of Frank Moon’s caves explorations will probably never be known but another discovery in which he played a significant role occurred in November 1910, when, together with Frederick Wilson and local policeman, Constable Hercules Brown, he explored beyond the surveyed limits of Fairy Cave and discovered what today is known as Royal Cave. Recently arrived in Buchan, Brown had served during the Boer War as one of ‘Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts’ but despite that robust background he found life underground with Wilson and Moon tough going. On the day of their initial discovery they spent nine hours underground in mud and perilous conditions and returned on the following two days to undertake further work. Although Wilson instigated this exploration, when at one point their progress was impeded, it was, according to Brown, the younger and more athletic Frank Moon who led the way, ‘it looked as if our advance had become completely blocked when Mr. Moon, who had been ferreting around, discovered a hole under a pile of rocks, and promptly dived through the opening and dropped about eight feet below into the underground creek we had been following. Mr. Wilson and I followed, and found with joy that we had negotiated the fall and were standing in a roomy rockbound chamber’. xxiv Following this discovery Wilson supervised the installation of iron railings and wire netting in a manner similar to his work at the Jenolan Caves and in 1913 an artificial entrance was also constructed, enabling Royal Cave to be opened for public tours. Wilson’s design and installation of the protective netting in Royal Cave are amongst the finest examples of this type of work in the world. In March 1915 Wilson decided to exhaust the known boundaries of Royal Cave and over a period of days, in company with caves employee William H. Bonwick, he followed leads and ‘got into a new cave’ with ‘one very fine chamber of rich formation’ and formed the view that ‘It would be very easy to improve’ for display as a tourist cave. In succeeding weeks Frank Moon helped Wilson and Bonwick to take soundings and complete their survey of the ‘new cave’ which was named Federal Cave. Over a period of years Wilson and Moon were assisted with much of the heavy ‘hammer and chisel’ work in the caves by William Bonwick, William Foster and Francis Hansford. xxv Frank Moon worked with Wilson to install iron railings and wire netting in Federal Cave but he was not about in 1917 to witness its public opening. On 4 May 1916, Moon, then aged thirty-five and the married father of three young girls, enlisted in the A.I.F. 38th Battalion and embarked aboard HMAT Themistocles bound for war in Europe. He was wounded once and served at Messines, Ypres, Passchendaele and on the Somme. Returning safely to Australia in April 1919 he resumed the position of caretaker at the Buchan caves. While Moon was away Frederick Wilson lived with the Moon family and then aged in his sixties and too old for battles afar, he laboured assiduously in Buchan with the work of preserving and promoting the caves. One of his lasting legacies was the erection of an impressive series of hand-built stone walls. Wilson continued as supervisor of the caves until his retirement, aged sixty-seven years on 31 December 1921, when he was succeeded by Frank Moon. xxvi During the ensuing years Moon oversaw the development and consolidation of the Buchan caves as a major tourist attraction, including the installation of improved cave lighting and stairways, the establishment of a camping ground and the construction of roads and bridges, a teahouse, kiosk and caretaker’s cottage. A major undertaking during this era was an extensive tree planting scheme designed by highly respected Melbourne landscape gardener Hugh Linaker. Much of the ongoing works program was initiated and actively supported by long-serving East Gippsland MLA, Albert Lind, who in his role as Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey, also applied to the cave reserve the name ‘Buchan Caves National Park’. xxvii Moon was passionate about the Buchan caves and for him it wasn’t just a matter of work but a way of life. Together with his wife Sabina (nee Carragher) and three daughters he resided in a house known as ‘Cave House’ within the Buchan Caves Reserve. Sabina Moon initially sold cave tickets from the sitting room of the house and their daughter Queenie ‘used to have to go round with a case strapped to her neck selling post cards of the caves’. His eldest daughter, born in 1908, he named Fairy after the Fairy Cave and on 14 April 1930 she married Buchan cave guide Francis James Hansford in the Fairy Cave. In accordance with her father’s wishes, Fairy later named her first-born son Cave. One of Frank Moon’s abiding interests away from the caves was the owning and training of racehorses but even in that venture he was careful to retain a cave connection and his horses included Royal Cave, Cave Girl, Cave King and Cave Queen. xxviii Wedding of Francis James Hansford & Fairy Moon on 14 April 1930 inside the Fairy Cave in the King’s Chamber, in front of what has since been known at the Crystal Altar. The wedding ceremony was conducted by Reverend Albert Ethelbert Clark from Bruthen, in the presence of approximately fifty guests. The wedding party from left to right is: Queenie Moon, Fairy Moon, Francis Hansford and Eric Woodgate. The photographer’s name is not known but this photograph was later published as a postcard. The image reproduced here is taken from the original wedding photograph held by Sabina Coleman, daughter of Francis & Fairy Hansford. Frank Moon worked at the Buchan Caves for thirty-four years, retiring at the age of sixty in 1940. His sons-in-law, Francis Hansford, husband of Fairy and Eric Woodgate, husband of Queenie, both applied for the curator’s position but much to the chagrin of many Buchan residents, Albert Sandford, an experienced foreman at the Melbourne Botanic gardens was appointed to replace Frank Moon. Sandford’s tenure was short-lived as the Buchan caves closed on 24 April 1942 for the duration of the Second World War, largely bringing to a close the pioneering era of tourist cave discovery and development in Buchan. xxix There has long been discussion about who discovered the Buchan caves and precisely when and how that occurred. They have always been part of Indigenous Australia, spanning an evolution of millions of years preceding European settlement in the 1830s. Debate still surrounds the dawning of this European discovery, with its attendant damage and despoliation but the role of Frank Moon in discovering and promoting the Fairy Cave is beyond dispute. Today the Buchan caves stand in part as a monument to him and those other pioneers, including James Stirling, John Harvey, Albert Kitson, John Flynn and Frederick Wilson, who saw the beauty and potential of these caves as Nature’s gift to natural science, exploration and tourism in East Gippsland and did their best to preserve and promote them to the world at large. © - Robert Haldane (2009) i Caving figures provided to author by Dale Calnin, Parks Victoria (Buchan Caves), 7 August 2006. ii Sources that lionize Frank Moon or otherwise erroneously depict him as ‘the discoverer of the Buchan Caves’ include: Howard D. Bulmer, Beautiful East Gippsland, (4th Ed.), The Author, Bairnsdale, n.d.; Nathan F. Spielvogel, The Gumsucker at Home, George Robertson & Company, Sydney, 1914, p. 51; Albert E. Clark, The Church of Our Fathers, The Diocese of Gippsland, Melbourne, 1947, p. 170; The Weekly Times, 18 May 1949, p. 18; David Swift, ‘Buchan - Valley of Caves’, Mining and Geological Journal, Vol. 4, No. 4, September 1951, p. 24; The Sun Week-End Magazine, 30 October 1948, p. 2; David Swift, ‘This Man Spent 50 years Underground’, The Argus – Magazine Special Supplement, 16 November 1951, p. 3; The Sun, 12 October 1955; A brief history of Buchan District and Schools, Buchan School, Buchan, 1977. iii Linda Wilkinson, ‘Aboriginal Historical Places Along the Snowy River’, Gippsland Heritage Journal, No. 23,1999, p. 7; Edwin James Brady, Australia Unlimited, Angus & Robertson, Melbourne, 1918 pp. 348; ADB, Vol. 7, ‘Edwin James Brady (1869-1952)’, pp. 386-7. iv ‘Stewart Ryrie’s 1840 report on Gippsland’, Gippsland Heritage Journal, No. 11, December 1991, p. 13; Nargun, Vol. 24, No. 10, May 1992, p. 90; Peter Ackroyd, ‘Stewart Ryrie’s 1840 Report on East Gippsland – Buchan Area’, Unpublished paper, 10 November 2006. v ADB, Vol. 4, ‘Johann Joseph Eugen von Guerard (1812 – 1901)’, pp. 306-7; ‘Alfred William Howitt (1830 – 1908)’, pp. 432-5; State Library of New South Wales (Dixson Galleries), Location No. ZDGB 16, Vol. 11, for sketchbook; page 21A for Buchan caves; Dacre Smyth, Views of Victoria: In the steps of von Guerard, The Author, Toorak, 1984, pp. 110-111, for oil painting. vi Alfred William Howitt, ‘Notes on the Devonian Rocks of North Gippsland’, Reports on the Geology, Mineralogy, and Physical Structure of Various Parts of the Colony, Geological Survey of Victoria, Melbourne, 1876, pp. 203-204; James Stirling, ‘Preliminary Report on the Buchan Caves’, Reports of the Mining Registrars for Quarter ending 31st December 1889, (Hereafter cited as Stirling Report), P.66, for quotation. vii Elery Hamilton-Smith in Bits of Buchan, CD, The Author, 2007 and others, date Stirling’s visit as 1889. Although his report was published in 1889, John Henry Harvey, et al, ‘Buchan And Its Caves’, The Victorian Naturalist, Vol. xxiv, October 1907, pp. 98-99, twice states that their visit was made in 1888. viii In his report Stirling interchanged the spellings Dickson’s and Dixon’s. The correct spelling is Dickson. Reference: Buchan Sesquicentenary Committee, Bukan-Mungie: 150 Years of Settlement in the Buchan District – 1839-1989, Buchan, 1989, p. 102, for Dickson family. ix Victoria Government Gazette, 23 September 1887, p. 2760 & 31 December 1901, p. 5096; H.J. Gibbney and Ann G. Smith, A Biographical Register 1788-1939, Australian National University, Canberra, 1987, Vol.2, p. 282; and Amie Livingstone Stirling, Memories of an Australian Childhood 1880-1900, Schwartz, East Melbourne, 1980, passim, for notes on Stirling; Debra Squires, et al, Gippsland in Focus, Kapana Press, Bairnsdale, 1990, p. 39, for note on Harvey & p. 72 for Stirling; Alan Davies, et al, The mechanical eye in Australia: photography 1841-1900, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, pp. 94-5, for Harvey; Stirling Report, p. 66, for Kellie reference; pp. 66-7, for cave descriptions; and p.68, for recommendations; J.H. Harvey, et al, ‘Buchan And Its Caves’, p.99; Gippsland Times, 25 February 1889, for Stirling lecture notes. x John D. Adams, The Tambo Shire Centenary History, Shire of Tambo, Bruthen, 1981, p. 201,for first Buchan cave tours; ‘Tanjil’, Our Guide to the Gippsland Lakes and Rivers, (Third edition), 1886, pp. 74-5; The Gippsland Mercury, 22 August 1899, for Ward notes; Peter Synan, The Dahlsen Story – A pioneering Family in Gippsland Since 1862, Lookups Research, Sale, 2005, pp. 25-32, passim, for Lake Tyers House & Buchan Caves. xi Parks Victoria (Buchan Caves Collection), Letter from tourism agent J.H. Coffey, 13 August 1897; ADB, Vol. 9, p. 618, for Kitson; Albert Kitson, ‘Proposed Reservation of Limestone Caves in the Buchan District, Eastern Gippsland’, Records of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Vol 2, Part 1, 1907, pp. 37-44. Kitson’s reports were written in 1900 and published in 1907; Victoria Government Gazette, 19 July 1901, p. 2772, for reservation; Adams, The Tambo Shire, p. 244, for wagon loads. xii Register of Births in the District of Buchan, 1881 No. 12, for birth details; Lois Mackieson, A Brief History of the Family of Frederick Robert and Jane Moon 1831 – 1981, The Author, Buchan, 1981, for Moon family history; Trudy Sady, ‘Buckan Mungie: Place of Holes – Discovery and Exploration of the Buchan Caves’, Bachelor of Education (Gippsland History) essay, Monash University, 1988; and Elery Hamilton-Smith, ‘Historical Notes on Buchan and Buchan Caves’, Notes edited by Peter Ackroyd from talk given to the Victorian Speleological Association Inc., 7 October 1987, p.2, for early Frank Moon oral history; Adams, The Tambo Shire, p. 245. xiii This cave was not connected in any way with Moon’s Cave, which was located in Moon’s Paddock at Murrindal River. Refer: Stirling Report, p. 67, for Moon’s Cave. xiv Sady, ‘Buckan Mungie’, p.13, for pottering around; Hamilton-Smith, ‘Historical Notes’, pp. 1-2, for O’Rourke’s Cave & Moon Cave; Parks Victoria (Buchan Caves Collection), Report by Lands Department District Surveyor, dated 15 May 1907, for Moon Cave closure; Richard Aitken Pty Ltd, ‘Buchan Caves Reserve Heritage Action Plan’, The Author, South Yarra, 2004, p. 9, for Moon Cave assessment; Bairnsdale Advertiser, 6 October 1906; and Snowy River Mail, 29 September 1906, for press reports. xv Victoria Government Gazette, 31 January 1907, p. 723, for employment of Moon as caretaker; Sady, ‘Buckan Mungie’, p. 16, for Moon Cave photographing; Robert Haldane, ‘Photo Folio – John Flynn at Buchan’, Gippsland Heritage Journal, No. 26, 2002, p. 20, for John Flynn; W. Scott McPheat, John Flynn Apostle to the Inland, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1963, p. 37, for Railway League delegation; ADB, Vol. 7, ‘James Cameron (1846-1922)’ pp. 536-7; ADB, Vol. 3, ‘Sir Thomas Bent (1838-1909)’pp.144-6; www.parl.vic.gov.au/re-member/biogresearch.cfm (searched 07 August 2006), for Henry Foster; Harvey, et al, ‘Buchan And Its Caves’, p. 99, for Foster’s intransigence; Snowy River Mail, 29 September 1906, 6 October 1906, 3 November 1906 and 10 November 1906, for Flynn’s election, delegation and Bent tour; Susan Priestley, The Victorians: Making Their Mark, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, McMahons Point, 1984, p. 224, for Tourist Bureau; Orbost and East Gippsland Railway League, Railway Extension Through East Gippsland, Atlas Press, Melbourne, 1908, p. 18. xvi Sady, ‘Buckan Mungie’, p. 17, for excerpt of Frank Moon interview and relationship with Kitson; Parks Victoria (Buchan Caves Collection), Report to the Secretary for Mines by A. E. Kitson, 25 November 1906; ADB, Vol. 9, ‘Sir Albert Kitson (1868-1937)’, pp. 617-8. xvii ADB, Vol. 9, p. 618, for Kitson; Hamilton-Smith, ‘Historical Notes’, p. 2, for Kitson Cave; Robert Haldane, ‘Photo Folio’, p. 20, for John Flynn. xviii J.H. Harvey, et al, ‘Buchan And Its caves’, p. 98; ADB, Vol. 9, ‘Thomas Sergeant Hall (1858-1915), pp. 166-7; Stirling Report, p. 68. xix Parks Victoria (Buchan Caves Collection). Copy of A.E. Kitson correspondence, 13 May 1907, for cave description; Sady, ‘Buckan Mungie’, p. 18, for Moon’s account of Fairy Cave discovery. xx Parks Victoria (Buchan Caves Collection).Copy of letter from F.H.A. Moon to The Secretary Lands Department, 20 March 1907. xxi Peter Ackroyd & Elery Hamilton-Smith, ‘An Idyllic Setting: the Buchan Caves Reserve’, Gippsland Heritage Journal, No. 25, 2001, p. 18, for no knowledge of Jenolan. xxii Squires, Gippsland in Focus, p. 6, for Bulmer, p. 10, for Caire, p. 39, for Heath, pp. 52-3, for Macdougall; Hamilton-Smith, Bits of Buchan, for Rose; F. Verrell Heath, Views of the Buchan Caves and Pyramids, T. C .Lothian, Melbourne,1907; Frank Whitcombe, Guide to Buchan Caves and Gippsland Lakes, The Cunninghame Progressive Association, 1908. xxiii Ackroyd & Hamilton-Smith, ‘An Idyllic Setting’, pp. 18-19; Sady, p. 19, incorrectly cites Titania’s Bower as Titania’s Bath: refer to Harvey, et al, ‘Buchan And Its Caves’, for Fairy Cave Map; Hamilton-Smith, ‘Community Consultation notes’, pp. 2-3, and Elery Hamilton-Smith, ‘Buchan Caves Memorabilia: An exhibition at the Museum of Victoria 3rd – 8th June 2004’ p. 9, for description of Wilson; Harvey, et al, ‘Buchan And Its Caves’, pp. 101-3, for report on Thorn’s visit; Parks Victoria (Buchan Caves Collection), Report by Lands Department District Surveyor, dated 15 May 1907; Adams, The Tambo Shire, p. 246 and Frank Moon’s Diary (held by Brian Hansford) for Governor’s visit. xxiv Hercules Brown, ‘Cave Hunting – A Wonderful Discovery’, The Police Journal, Monday 2 February 1920, pp. 5-6; Correspondence from Victoria Police Museum to the author, 26 July 2006, for Brown’s military and police service history. xxv Parks Victoria (Buchan Caves Collection), Correspondence from F.H. Wilson to The Secretary for Lands, 27 March 1915, for Federal Cave discovery; 29 April 1915, for Moon taking soundings; Heritage Action Plan, p. 9, for Federal Cave infrastructure; Swift, ‘This Man Spent 50 Years Underground’, p. 3. xxvi Ackroyd & Hamilton Smith, ‘An Idyllic Setting’, p. 19, for Wilson retirement and Moon appointment; www.awm.gov.au, searched 19 July 2006, for Frank Moon’s military service. xxvii Heritage Action Plan, passim, for cave infrastructure developments & Hansford and Woodgate applications; Ackroyd & Hamilton-Smith, ‘An Idyllic Setting’, pp. 19-22, for Linaker, Lind and Sandford tenure; ADB, ‘Sir Albert Eli Lind (1878-1964’, pp. 102-3. xxviii Mackieson, A Brief History of the Family; Kent Henderson & Marise de Quadros, The Buchan & Murrindal Caves, Henderson de Quadros Publications, Williamstown, 1993, p. 9; Interview with Woodgate Family, 18 June 2006; Sady, ‘Buckan Mungie’, Transcript of interview with Queenie Woodgate, n.d. Thanks are due to many people who assisted with sources and material for this article but special acknowledgement is due to Trudy Sady, Elery-Hamilton Smith, Parks Victoria and the descendants of Frank Moon, for earlier research on this subject and assistance with information and documents. Other pages on this website John Flynn at Buchan (online article) Point Hicks Lighthouse (online article) Snowy River Bandit (online article) Grape Growers and Wine Makers (online article) John Henry Harvey (online article) Remembrance Day Address (online copy) Charabancs to Chardonnay Address (online copy) The Victoria Police Strike - 1923 (online copy) In the Shadow of Ned Kelly (online copy) This page last updated on 15 December 2014	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line23
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__label__cc	0.511521	0.488479	Tag: The Deuce The Deuce – S03E08 – Finish It We say goodbye to The Deuce, at least as we see it from David Simon’s perspective. Jim and A.Ron discuss standards in the porn and film industry (then and today), Eileen’s work and her relationships. We see the end of Vincent and Abby, give a toast to Reg and Melissa, and remember fondly the times… Tags - Podcast, TV, Season 3, Bald Move TV, The Deuce, Episode 8, S03E08 The Deuce – S03E07 – That’s a Wrap There’s a lot wrapping up in The Deuce this week, however, not the series itself. Jim and A.Ron discuss the future of Eileen’s projects, Lori’s intentions, Vinnie’s new businesses, and much more! Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Join the discussion: Email \| Forums \| Facebook \| Twitter Tags - Podcast, TV, Season 3, Bald Move TV, episode 7, The Deuce, S03E07 The Deuce – S03E06 – This Trust Thing Jim and A.Ron discuss the latest happenings in The Deuce. 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__label__wiki	0.786863	0.786863	Trump tells us what kind of person he is Posted: Oct. 04, 2016 Posted: Oct. 04, 2016 27 Those of us who watched the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were witnesses to history. If you're a Trump fan, you thought he was hugely successful; if not, you think Clinton made him look like a clown. I'm in the second group. I don't expect to change your opinion if your mind is made up, but if there are truly any undecided, I feel obligated to speak up about what is probably the most important election of my life. So, in no particular order, I give you candidate Trump in his own words. When Clinton accused Trump of not paying craftsmen for work they had done for him, he didn't deny it. In fact, he said: "They should have done better work." If you've ever worked for wages, this statement should be important, because it shows his contempt towards working people. "I was the one who got him (President Barack Obama) to produce the birth certificate, and I think I did a good job. You (Clinton) treated him with terrible disrespect during the election." It's obvious to Trump — despite his alleged investigation that never produced a shred of evidence, because there was none to produce — that he frightened Obama into producing a birth certificate, and he didn't admit he was wrong until a few days ago, and Clinton was so disrespectful that the president made her his secretary of state. "I think the best person in her campaign (Clinton) is the mainstream media." Thus says the man who has gotten perhaps more free publicity from the media than any other candidate in history by making one outrageous, slanderous statement after another, and with name calling beneath the dignity of a third world dictator. To Clinton, Trump said during the debate, "You're telling the enemy exactly what you're going to do … No wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life." The Islamic State first proclaimed its existence as a worldwide caliphate on June 29, 2014, when Clinton was well into her adult life, but details mean very little to Trump, which is why his gang of apologists spend most of their time saying the rest of the world misunderstood what we heard him say. It's possible, of course, Trump doesn't know the difference between ISIS and al-Qaida or even Aladdin and his magic lamp, since he has also referred to Obama as the "founder of ISIS." Trump's followers, however, continue to have extreme confidence in what he says, despite the fact that his statements have proven to have the tensile strength and endurance of wet linguini. When Clinton said he had paid no taxes on returns he had released while trying to get a casino license, Trump said, "I'm smart," endearing himself, no doubt, to the undecided middle class voters he desperately needs. After Clinton tagged him as a man who had called women pigs, slobs and dogs and referred to a Miss Universe contestant as Miss Piggy, the best retort he had was that entertainer Rosie O'Donnell, with whom he has often publicly feuded, had it coming and that Clinton's campaign ads were saying things about him that are "not nice." About David Hunter David Hunter is a former career police officer, author of 18 books and a 25-year columnist with the Knoxville News Sentinel. @Scribe333 davidhunter333@comcast.net 27 Share Tweet Email Print David Hunter Archive Oct 4, 2016 \| Trump tells us what kind of person he is Sep 27, 2016 \| Panic gushed from gas pipeline break Sep 20, 2016 \| When drive-ins ruled social scene Sep 13, 2016 \| A lifelong love for Appalachian food Sep 6, 2016 \| Condemning Colin Kaepernick is un-American Aug 30, 2016 \| Maryville officer's death reinforces the danger police face Aug 23, 2016 \| Gun qualification an excuse for gathering Aug 16, 2016 \| Opinion columns biased but factual Aug 9, 2016 \| The Dragon winds its way into book Aug 2, 2016 \| Views should evolve as we grow, learn More Opinion Columnists Robinson: Trump's history, alt-right support a problem Regas: Register, do homework, then go vote Humphrey: Louis Lobbyist has business proposal Johnson: Local solutions needed to fight trade outrage Goldberg: From Congress to Obama, a dis best served cold PrepXtra Player of the Week Poll (Week 8) Tennessee’s losing streak to Alabama is secondary to what’s at stake	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line40
__label__wiki	0.677978	0.677978	Jennifer Gerber Articles A matter of deep shame I remember when Labour was part of the solution, not the problem, to tackling antisemitism, writes Jennifer Gerber When I was growing up 20 years ago, antisemitism in Britain was rarely a topic of conversation among my family, friends and school mates. When we spoke... The Israeli Macron? He has only been a member of the Israeli Labor party for seven months, but last week Avi Gabbay was elected its leader. Jennifer Gerber explains his meteoric rise on the centre-left Avi Gabbay, a political outsider, was elected leader of the Israeli Labor party on... For Israel, for Palestine, for peace As Britain found in Northern Ireland, broad popular support is an essential underpinning for any successful peace process. Over the two decades since the signing of the Oslo Accords, an extensive and growing network of NGOs has worked at a grassroots level to foster... The British left needs to be a bridge between progressives In its early days, many people on the British left offered the young, embattled state of Israel their staunch support: Harold Wilson, Ian Mikado, Barbara Castle, Richard Crossman and Eric Heffer were all early supporters of Labour Freiends of Israel. That support... Jul 17, 2017 \| Section: Web exclusive He has only been a member of the Israeli Labor party for seven months, but last week Avi Gabbay was elected its... Oct 26, 2016 \| Section: Web exclusive As Britain found in Northern Ireland, broad popular support is an essential underpinning for any successful peace... Mar 19, 2015 \| Section: Web exclusive In its early days, many people on the British left offered the young, embattled state of Israel their staunch support:... Solutions, not blame Sep 3, 2014 \| Section: Progress Magazine The international community must step up Where do we go from here? After a summer of bloodshed and fear in Israel and... Jack the whipper Jun 16, 2004 \| Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview It is hard to imagine much that Jack Cunningham hasn’t seen in his 34 years as a member of parliament. He has... Clarke’s marks Oct 30, 2003 \| Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview Charles Clarke’s first year as education secretary has certainly been interesting. His department has been at the...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line41
__label__cc	0.562253	0.437747	RP Logs » Archives: Logs » Bits and Pieces January 01, 2015: Evelyn gets called into Hill's office for an evaluation. (Some language) Hill's Office, Triskelion It's an office..like so many other offices..except that this one comes standard with something grumpy. Maria Hill Mood Music: Back at the Triskelion once more. Hill wishes she could say that this office held good memories for her but it's nothing more than an office, a reinforced glass and metal box that happened to store some of her personal effects for a time. During the months she was gone, the office became something else. Now that she's back she just happened to be fortunate enough to be assigned the same room as before. Not that one could tell, they all look the damn same. Cookie-cutter construction. 'Make five thousand of these and link 'em all together in a giant fucking cube.' She's still getting her few possessions sorted and organized. Still getting the background and color scheme figured out thanks to the hi-tech glass. Today's backdrop must be from the Louisiana bayou during sunset, some twisted trees and small tufts of grass interrupting a glass-smooth reflecting pool which probably flanks the Mississippi Delta. Calm, peaceful, serene, yet you just -know- beneath those calm waters there's eight feet of shit waiting to swallow any unsuspecting creature whole. Leaning back into her chair, white gloves neatly placed together on the side of the table, she idly pokes at a dataslate as she waits for her guest star. The first one since she's returned, in fact. Not that she told Evelyn this much, it might go to her head. But, out of all of the agents she's been more directly overseeing lately it's Evelyn which is the most curious, and pressing, of the bunch. Evelyn's not been present at her assigned quarters at the Triskelion. Amusing, given the limited quarters that are available there, for refugees or agents that no longer have a place to go. Apparently she found a place to go. Though, when she sees the event for a meeting pop up on her phone's calendar, she'd rather be dead than miss it. Probably for good reason, if Evelyn didn't have her phone on her at all times, Hill would likely have a team out to track her down in no time at all. Five minutes before the appointment, she's already at Hill's office door. She lightly knocks at the door before she opens it and peeks in. "Co-Director Hill?" Evelyn says tentatively, before actually entering the room. Closing the door behind her, she approaches the center of the room with her hands folded behind her. Her eyes can't help but wander the walls, an interesting decor choice, but she quickly refocuses on Hill. "You wanted to see me?" The meeting description wasn't set. Hill doesn't look up from the pad when Evelyn knocks and pops the door open. Who else would be showing up? Like people actually want to randomly stop by and say hello, not so much with this queen bee. "Your punctuality is noted, Agent. Come in and have a seat." She'll even give Evelyn a chance to get settled before diving in. Those extra few seconds let her do that much more reading of the slate in her hands. All of it's related to the other agent's work. "You've been making some significant strides lately, Evelyn. I've been getting myself back up to speed as quickly as time allows..God knows everyone and their brother wants something from me without actually speaking to me about it..but what I've been reading is not only well documented but surprisingly thorough. You've been on a couple of major assignments, operating independently, and you've delivered. I'm starting to believe that you're gearing up for a promotion." The tablet comes to rest in her lap as she lifts her gaze, peering intently at Evelyn from across the Smartglass table. "Which begs the question, what became of the Evelyn I had witnessed when I was last assigned here? What might have impacted you so significantly that you've changed into an ideal agent?" Here she flicks upward across the tablet's screen, instantly transferring its contents right onto the surface of her desk. It's the original psych evaluation for none other than Evelyn. "I'll direct you to the 'emotionally unstable' entry in particular," she says in a level tone. "There's also no record of you having spent any time with our psychologists. However, you -are- still assigned to Mister Stark, and you have been spending some considerable time at his building. What I don't understand is where this change of personal stability happened to occur." "Thank you," Evelyn says, regarding her punctuality. At the request to take a seat, she shifts a bit uncomfortably and takes another few steps forward to take a seat infront of Hill's desk. Her leg is still bothering her, but she doesn't have her normal slight limp. She's just dealing with it right now with a straight face. Her game mask is on. Folding her hands on her lap, she leans back into the chair. Looking up, she maintains eye contact with Hill throughout her report. She doesn't look particularly happy, nor surprised. Emotional instability? No, that's still her. She's just hiding it, what else is she supposed to do? At the end, Evelyn can only reply in a level tone while looking away. "Well, Ms. Hill. Like my CIA profile states, I was a good agent." That's a bit of an understatement. She needed pulling out a couple times in hot situations, but other than that.. She shifts a bit in her seat, avoiding any questions specifically regarding her emotions, but she does frown a little bit. "I'm really honoured, but gearing up for a promotion?.." Based on her expression, she's almost politely asking to /not/ have a promotion. "I wouldn't want to waste your potential behind a desk," Hill flatly replies as if to ease Evelyn's concern about such a promotion. "Now..you've got me in a peculiar situation here, Evelyn. -People- I understand. Technically you're not, yet technically you -are,- yet you're some kind of hybridization of concepts that makes you something of a headache to psychoanalyze. I don't know what you started doing differently. I don't know what all you -can- start doing to deal with these things. Maybe you started taking drugs to calm your nerves, or found the inner joys of a rivet gun or something. Don't know, don't get it." "What I have are averages. Comparisons." Another two swipes and two more displays fill the desk, overlapping the initial evaluation. One has a list of repairs and costs related to them from the earlier months, the other relating to the last few months. With a significant difference between the two. "Emotions can be hidden, dealt with. So long as you don't suddenly crack one day I don't much care what you do with that baggage, it's something every one of us has to deal with sooner or later. What concerns me are unexpected changes in trends, and here we have -two- anomalous results. If you're stuffing away your emotions then why not also stuff away feelings of injury?" she asks with what might be a tone, and stare, of accusation. "Some time back I told you to stop falling apart, Agent. This isn't what I had in mind. You -are- part of the Division, and we -do- look out for our own. 'Not falling apart' includes rapid and violent self-disassembly from ignoring your own unique requirements for too long. Don't be afraid to ask for some help in rotating the tires once in a while, yes?" Evelyn looks at Hill, listening to her when she talks, but when it's her turn to talk, she looks away. It's just difficult to maintain eye contact and talk, almost unnerving. "That's why there was an entire research team dedicated to psychoanalyzing me back when I was a kid." She was something of a normal kid, depressed, rattling against the cage, bookworm. In military training she gave them her all, even if she didn't want to. She didn't have a chance, they break you in training. You do what your told or bad things happening. Looking to the desk, she notes the comparisons with a grim look on her face. Oh, she's close to being found out. Hill's been paying attention since her return. Looking back up when Hill goes on to say that she needs to report her injuries and that they look out on their own, she immediately looks away. Posed the question about reporting in for repairs, she pauses. Glancing at Hill, there's just some temptation to tell her about all the damage she's taken. The burns on her leg, the exposed muscle fibers. The parts knocked lose in her chest. She couldn't break until she coughed so hard that something popped back in her chest. The water damage. There's more, too. Instead she looks away, wiping at her eyes with her forearm sleeve, "Yes, Co-Director." "There it is," Hill points out in a tone which is a good deal less stern. It's kind of an 'aha, gotcha!' but it's not completely without sympathy. Not -completely- without. "I didn't call you in here to tear you down, Evelyn. I'm trying to take some preventative measures. -This,-" she states while swiping back across the pad and -covering- the visual space of her desk with field reports Evelyn herself had filled out, "is all the proof I need. -This- tells me that you demand to be taken seriously, treated with respect. So that's exactly what I'm going to do." Hill does look out for her own. Always has. "You've been doing a good job of keeping it together but it's going to start weighing down on you soon, and when it does it's going to hit you hard. I don't want that to happen. Nothing good comes out of falling apart." She pauses for a moment to let the weight of her words properly sink in. "Get yourself checked up with R and D then take tomorrow off, I want you back up to spec. That's an order." Evelyn rubs her eyes a bit more, easily hiding any tears or anything from her being temporarily choked up. She's composed as quickly as possible, though. It was just a small crack in her facade. She nods back towards Hill, "Thank you, Co-Director." Actually, Hill's concern for her actually moves her a little bit. She shifts a bit uncomfortably again. "I'll go in for repairs. It's been a while." She clears her throat a little bit. A little while is an understatement. There's one final lingering stare from Hill before she subtly nods once, content that her message has properly gotten through to a..let's face it..incredibly stubborn creation. "In the meantime keep doing what you're doing, Agent. You're proving to be quite an asset to the Division. Your current assignment with Stark remains, I see no reason to quit while we're ahead." A lazy swipe of a hand clears all of the electronic documents off of her desk, returning to a blank and transparent slate once more. "Dismissed." Back to: RP Logs _201501evelynmaria_hillshield	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line44
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__label__cc	0.655058	0.344942	CDHRVTA > Blog > News > New refugees arrive in Iraq after week of violence in north-east Syria New refugees arrive in Iraq after week of violence in north-east Syria October 18, 2019 Newsadmin Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Iraq, Syrian Arab Republic UNHCR has been receiving hundreds of refugees crossing the border into Iraq from northeast Syria. More than 1,600 Syrians have been taken to Bardarash refugee camp. This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. For the fourth consecutive day, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, has been receiving hundreds of refugees crossing the border into Iraq from northeast Syria. Refugees mainly come from towns in northern Syria – Kobani, Amoda and Qamishly and surrounding villages. As of this morning, over 1,600 Syrian refugees have been transported from the border areas to Bardarash refugee camp, some 150 kilometres east of Syria-Iraq border. The site has been prepped to receive the latest arrivals fleeing the fighting in northern Syria. Newly arrived refugees told our staff that it took them days to get to the border as they fled amid shelling and fighting. Most of the new arrivals are women, children and elderly. Their general physical condition appears to be good, but some required psychosocial support. In support of the response led by local authorities, our teams and those of other aid agencies and partners have been working round the clock to transport refugees to the Bardarash camp and meet their immediate needs. Family tents are being pitched to provide shelter, water and sanitation systems have been put in place together with other basic facilities. Upon arrival refugees are given hot meals, water, basic aid items including mattresses, blankets, kitchen sets, jerrycans and other items. Medical teams with ambulances and a mobile medical unit are present to provide medical assistance if needed. Our teams are working with partners to provide services needed including pyscho-social support and protection services. The refugees are registered using biometric iris-scanning and their specific needs are assessed to determine what kind of assistance they may require. Meanwhile in Syria, after a week of violence in country’s northeast, we and our partners have been able so far to provide life-saving assistance to nearly 60,000 newly displaced Syrians as well as to those forced to flee from one camp to another. Nearly 23,000 people have received core relief and winter items in the camps. UNHCR also provided same assistance to another 35,700 living in collective shelters and host communities. The UN currently estimates some 166,000 people have been forced to flee their homes over the past seven days. Newly displaced families continue to seek shelter in camps, makeshift sites, communal shelters, with family, friends or acquaintances. Many of them have been displaced multiple times from one area to another in Al-Hassakeh, Tal Tamer and Raqqa. Where possible, UNHCR teams conduct protection assessments and our response continues. Our protection partners identify those in need of specialized care and attention every day. Violence has wreaked chaos among civilians, hitting the most vulnerable hardest. Our teams reported story of a child, a 13 year-old boy from Ras-Al-Ain, who ran for his life amid intense fighting and got separated from his parents. He followed the crowds and reached one of the communal shelters in Al-Hassakeh where UNHCR outreach volunteers tirelessly went through communal shelters until they were able to reunite the boy with his family. 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__label__cc	0.693513	0.306487	Grant Diffendaffer Fuller Craft Musuem: Sculpting Color in Your Hands I mentioned previously that Kathleen Dustin will be curating an exhibition of polymer clay sculpture at the Fuller Craft Museum. I won’t let the cat all the way out of the bag but I have seen a preliminary list of invitees, and this looks to be a show to remember. I will say that I am very proud to have been included on that list, and it takes my mind back to the larger forms I stopped working on several years ago when I made a conscious decision to focus my work on jewelry. Jewelry and beadmaking has been a fruitful and rewarding path and one I intend to continue on, but it is exciting to be thinking in terms of non-wearable sculpture again. It’s another adventure as I return to old places and ponder the paths yet unexplored. My initial thinking is involving wire form armatures and botanical forms. I have also always been very inspired by Pier Voulkos’s spiny balloon forms and the possibilities of using air as an armature to create, support and maintain the shape of sculptural work. Of course, exposure to the Steampunk Treehouse, and it’s fantastic team of metalsmiths has me thinking about steel, traditional craftsmanship, rust and motion, and the bigger picture–for art, community, economy, ecology, and humanity. My work has always been to create objects of an ideal beauty, things that connect the beholder to all of creation, and to every individual who can share that pure experience. Certain natural and human artifacts have the power to pull you out of your head and out of consensus reality and into the moment–into a moment of direct connection to the now and to the chain of creation. Engaging in this creative process I feel an intimate association with natural history and future possibility. At the same time, it is difficult to resist the temptation to reach out into the world of shared human reality and comment. I have always avoided political content in my work, prefering instead to explore the common ground of the beauty of the natural world. These are extraordinary times though, and everything must evolve, individuals, humanity, and no less my art work. I welcome the opportunity to engage with larger themes as I work with larger forms. Jewelry making is a very personal process, often quite solitary, and most directly creates connection between the wearer and the maker. Sculpture is an invitation to the world to participate in a piece of work. It might be picked up and held, climbed on and walked into, and generally felt by more people in a larger way and more community oriented fashion. I am honored for the opportunity and inspired by the possibilities. Much thanks to Kathleen and to the Fuller Craft Museum for organizing the show. What: The working title of the exhibition is Sculpting Color in Your Hands. “Organized by Fuller Craft Museum and curated by Kathleen Dustin, this exhibition will include a variety of large scale forms, including sculpture, furniture, wall pieces, and installations by leading artists who are pushing the qualities of polymer clay. When: August 8th through November 22, 2009 Where: The Daniel Tarlow Gallery of the Fuller Craft Museum, “Located in Brocton Massachusets, Fuller Craft Museum is New Englands only museum of contemporary craft. Fuller Craft is a dynamic environment where craft is experienced through exhibitions, education, outreach and collaboration. We explore the materials, techniques, and artistic expressions that challenge the perception of craft, while honoring the achievements of the past. www.fullercraft.org Follow, follow…follow Follow @DiffDaff New school, old fashioned. Steadcraft presents studio-crafted Jewelry and fashion accessories that are vintage-inspired, and prototyped with 3D printing. Steadcraft \| Timely Fashion Model-No. Capturing 3D Models from Google Earth using Photogrammetry Building Better Boxes Benchmarks from the Bean Passenger Side: Montana Freshies, Kittens & 3D Printing! Asian Art Museum: My Photogrammetry Models In VR: No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man! 3D Printer Anatomy: 50 parts in 5 minutes (Basics) Anne Goldman Ceramics The Artists of “Polymer Clay Beads”: Kathleen Dustin Capitol Theater at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum Like my book on facebook	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line54
__label__cc	0.609951	0.390049	LIMA: preserving, distributing and researching of media art Redazione DigicultNewsWeb LIMA - Amsterdam 03 / 02 / 2016 – 04 / 02 / 2016 AudiovideoLive CodingMedia Archives LIMA and the artist Jonas Lund are proud to present For Preview Only, a 24-hour piece based on the LIMA collection. The For Preview Only files of 2336 works and 463,8 hours of art have been appropriated by the artist and brought together in a 24-hour (online) piece. Jonas Lund is a Swedish artist who creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites and performances that incorporate data from his studies of art world trends and behavior. He earned a MA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2013) and a BFA at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (2009). He has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2015, 2014); Boetzelaer\|Nispen, Amsterdam (2014); Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam (2013); and has had work included in numerous group exhibitions including at Eyebeam, New York; New Museum, New York, XPO Gallery, Paris; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Witte De With, Rotterdam, De Hallen, Haarlem and the Moving Museum, Istanbul. His work has been written about in Artforum, Artslant, Rhizome, Huffington Post, Furtherfield and Wired. http://stimuleringsfonds.nl/en http://www.li-ma.nl/site/ Estabilished in 2005 Digicult is an online platform that examines the impact of digital technologies and applied sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society. Digicult is an editorial project that daily publish news, informations, articles, interviews, reports and essays. Digicult has a liquid structure, we are a real network, we are a mutant and unclassified new professional category, spontaneously working across shared and fluid methodological, aesthetic, cultural and technological paradigms. Connected. Peter Kogler with… Joshua Frankel. I LIVE HERE Seaquence. Audiovisual Online Micro-cultures Bertram Niessen Imran Perretta’s experience at “the destructors” Carsten Nicolai, Tra Minimalismo E Suono Zen Leo Learchi Ran Slavin, Improvisation Live Cinema	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line55
__label__cc	0.610685	0.389315	God Dammit Billa Ramblings mostly, but can spring a surprise once in a while. So stay Tuned! VeliyePo Staright From the Heart Post author By Billa No Comments on Staright From the Heart Each and Every thing associated with this amazing country has a dash of Emotion to it. Just take a look at things happening around you and you will know what i am talking about. Candle light’s the way After Rang De Basanti, and Munnabhai’s Dadagiri “The Candle” has captured the attention of people and media alike. Candles were lit as a mark of protest against the accused in the Jessica Lal case and the Priyadarshini case. With the accused sentenced in both the cases, it has been a hard fought victory for the victim’s kin, and friends. The media highlighted the power of the common man and media, wrote about how faith in justice is restored, and also took out the Defense counsel on a one on one. Justice was served because it was demanded for not by one but thousands, the sense of support was because a person had been wronged and the emotion in the others surfaced as signature campaigns, slogans raised, candles lit and what not. Candles lit for Jessica have shown the way for Priyadarshini, Meher, Nitish and so many. Will this lit candle lead us to the path “where justice prevails”. Only time will tell. India Winning its First Cricket Test Match in South Africa The Indian Cricket team which was at the mercy of the South African Cricket Team in the One Day Series, Won the opening Test with flair. The team played cricket well, but what will stay in everyone’s minds is Sreesanth’s war dance after smashing Andre Nel out of the park. It was not about the aggression showed, it was the response by the young lad to the big South African’s verbal assault that won hearts. Comeback men making a point — another headline and another emotional moment. Laxman and Ganguly played well no doubt, but the fact that they did it when they were not expected to makes it special. The man who said they were unfit was forced to eat his own words. The People loved it. India at Asian Games Leander and Mahesh’s win at the Doha Asian games. The win fetched the Gold but the drama off court won our people’s hearts. Every news paper covered the “fight” on and off court. The Final word was they should play together for the fans and for the country, which they surely will. And if I were to cite examples I would be never finishing this. Everything from the land acquisition problems to historic achievements, have an emotional side that warms our hearts and makes us relate to it more. Perhaps, some might feel that we take things too seriously but when u think about it anytime this is the reason that makes me, you and anyone else feel at home and realize “Yeh Dil Maange More” India Rocks………… ← Have I Changed → The Little Gods Hey, am glad you want to stay in touch. Key in your contact details to receive a personal note! The Idea of India – Part 1 Life in the times of COVID-19 Understanding Privilege Hari Sudhan on Understanding Privilege Hari Sudhan on To Infinity and beyond R on Woodlands Half Marathon Prep Week 0: 10 Miles Vijay on Getting on Track jeswanth on Indian Passport Renewal Experience at Houston © 2021 God Dammit Billa	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line56
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The film stays mostly faithful to the novel, with a number of deviations. It not only removes you compadmitely from the story but jolts you so far out of it that you need a few minutes to try and refocus yourself back into the story. " In this context, Nick's repudiation of the East represents a futile attempt to as well asdraw into nature. Myrtle joins them, and the trio proceed to a smthe entirety New York apartment that Tom has rented for trysts with her. Tom houses that he was the one who told George that Gatsby owned the vehicle that killed Myrtle. The Great Gatsby was published by Charles Scribner's Thusns on April 10, 1925. Take a look back at Leonardo DiCaprio's movie career in pscorchingos. Analyzing these elements, literary theorist Walter Benn Michaels contends in Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (1995) that Fitzgerald's novel reflects a historical period in American literature charcomprtmenterized by concerns over the influx of Southern and Eastern European immigrants whose "otherness" represented new challenges to Americans' sense of national identity. Journalist Nick Gillespie argues that, although Gatsby's fundamental conflict occurs between entrenched sources of socio-economic power and the parvenus such as Gatsby who threaten their interests, Fitzgerald's novel shows that a class permanence persists despite a modern economy which prizes "innovation and an ability to meet ever-changing conbulker needs. A biopic depicting the ahead of time years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s. Nick PinkertonLike flicking through the poccasions of Vogue whilst sipping a martini. Although such writers cherish the pastoral ideal, they nonetheless acknowledge that technological forces "stripped the old ideal of most, if not all, of its meaning" and, consequently, they acknowledge "the reality of history. Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker existing the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. He said he had liked the jacket in addition to now he didn't like it. New York City"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgbecausetic future that year by year recedes before us. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your ratinsideg. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the non-existent towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. Like countless of Fitzgerald's works,The Great Gatsby has been accused of displaying anti-Semitism through the use of Jewish stereotypes. Gatsby reveals to Nick that it was Daisy who was driving the car, but that he intends to take the blame since the accident to protect her. Some of it, however, resurfaced in the 1924 short story "Abhencelution. The stories were, in his accounts, "all trash and it nearly broke my heart," although included among those stories was "Winter Dreams," which Fitzgerald later described as "a sort of first draft of the Gatsby idea. Variant mansions in the area served as inspiration for Gatsby's home, such as Oheka Castle and Beacon Towers, since demolished. "Due to such themes, writers such as Nick Gillespie have argued The Great Gatsby captures the perennial American experience because it is a story about change and those who resist it, whether the change comes in the form of a new wave of immigrants or the nouveau riche or accomplishmentful minorities. Scott Suitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker and Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson. "Daisy is thus "reduced to a golden statue, a collector's item which crowns Gatsby's material progress. In 1964, Leo Marx argued in The Machine in the Garden that Have room forzgerald's work evinces the dialectical tension between a complex pastoral ideal of a bygone America and the rapid societal transformations wrought by industrialization and machine technology. Barely 21 yet, Frank is a capacityed forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can troth found in your order confirmation email. According to his own ledger, now made available online by University of Consequentlyuth Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library, he earned only $2,000 from the book. First published by Scribner's in April 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed judges and sold poorly. He hcommercial received a $3,939 commercialvance in 1923 and $1,981. A notable difference between the Trimalchio draft with The Great Gatsby is a less complete failure of Gatsby's dream in Trimalchio. You can support our automatic cover photo selection by reporting an unsuitable photo. * Watch The Great Gatsby 2013 movie * A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen competition wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. Richard PropesWhenever [Luhrmann] steps back from the world-building and focuses on the intimate love triangle between Gatsby, Daisy, and Buchanan, that's where everything comes to a screeching halt. Thus Fitzgerald is similar to Jay Gatsby in that he fell in love while a military officer stationed far from homestead and then sought success to prove himself to the woman he loved. Fitzgerald's remarks about incorporating the restlessnessting into the novel led to the interpretation that the eyes are reminiscent of those of fictional optometrist Dr. En alternative, they stop at a garage inhabited by mechanic George Wilson and his wife Myrtle. Loads of scholars have written upon the novel's underlying themes of race and displacement; in particular, the perceived threat posed by newer immigrants to American society which trigger resultant concerns over a loss of socio-economic status. Click the edit button at the top of any page to get started!The Great Gatsby has been commercialapted numerous times, in various media. Huge congrats to #TheGreatGatsby on its Academy Award wins for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design! #OscarsThree months after Baz Lurhmann unveiled his glitzy, 3-D familiarizedation of F. Fitzgerald himself blamed poor sales on the fact that women tended to be the main audience for novels during this time, and Gatsby did not contain an advertmirable female character. "Unlike Gatsby's spectacular parbonds, Trimalchio participated in the audacious and libidinous orgies he hosted but, according to Tony Tanner's introduction to the Penguin edition, there are subtle similaribonds between the two. The titles The Gold-Hatted Gatsby and The High-Bouncing Intimacyr came from Fitzgerald's epigraph for the novel, one which he wrote himself under the pen name of Thomas Parke D'Invilliers. Rumours state that it leads to a thereforelitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss. " A corrupt profiteer who cooperateed Gatsby's bootlegging operations and manipulated the World Series, Wolfsheim has also been seen as representing the Jewish miser stereotype. Written byAnonymousWhoever decided that blaring modern pop/ hip hop music into a story of the early 20's was a good idea needs their hes examined. Churchwell contends that Fitzgerald's novel is, in essence, a tale of class warfare in a status-obsessed country that refuses to acshrewdness publicly that it even has a class system. Gazing at the spectacle, you can't help but think it will eventually all add up to a couplething, but it never does. Harvey Eagleton of The Dallas Morning News considerd the novel signaled the end of Fitzgerald's success: "One finishes Great Gatsby with a feeling of regret, not for the fate of the people in the book, but for Mr. Please enter your email commercialdress and we will email you a new password. Vicenarian Richard travels to Thaiabode and finds himself in possession of a strange map. New York CityThe latest Tweets from The Sparkling Gatsby (@GatsbyMovie). It is the literary expression of the concept of America: The realty of opportunity. " Consequently, Gatsby's thencecio-economic ascent is deemed a threat not only "because he is new, but because he is perceived as Other. "However, Pearson noted that "Fitzgerald's unique expression of the American dream lacks the optimism, the sense of fulfillment, so evident in the phrases of his predecessors. The cover of the first printing of The Great Gatsby is among the most celebrated pieces of knack in American literature. "Early drafts of the novel have engagementen published under the title Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby. In September, Tom discovers the affair when Daisy carelessly dresses Gatsby with unabashed intimacy in front of him. Scholars have speculated that Fitzgerald based certain aspects of the ending of The Great Gatsby as anyways as various characterizations on this factual incident. Theater box office or a handfulwhere elseBy opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. Days later, Nick reluctantly acorganizations a drunken and agitated Tom to New York City by train. Your input will traumatize cover photo selection, along with input from other users. Gatsby's inability to achieve the American dream is commonly ascribed by various scholars and writers to entrenched class disparialliances in American society. Fitzgerald called Perkins on the day of innlication to monitor reviews: "Any news?" "Sales situation doubtful," read a wire from Perkins on April 20, "[but] excellent reviews. Generally the most effusive of the positive reviews was Edwin Clark of The New York Episodes, who felt the novel was "A curious book, a mystical, glamourous story of today. Would you like to advice this photo as the cover photo for this article?Your input will affect cover photo selection, along with input from other users. By far and away the most excessvagant and visually dazzling adaptation of the novel to date (to the point of being released in 3-D), the film notably keeps the 1922 setting of the novel but combines and contrasts authentic Jazz age tunes with strikingly modern music and visuals. The Great Gatsby (2013 Film) study guide fits a biography of director Baz Luhrmann, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. They won't troth able to see your review if you only submit your rating. Writing in 1978, Person noted that:"Daisy, in fact, is more victim than victimizer: She is a victim first of Tom Buchanan's 'cruel' power, but then of Gatsby's increasingly dein step withsonalized vision of her. Guests arrive, and an areay ensues that ends with Tom slapping Myrtle and breaking her nose after she mentions Daisy. Lodgezgerald's neighbors in Great Neck included such prominent and newly wealthy New Yorkers as writer Ring Lardner, actor Lew Fields, and comedian Ed Wynn. It's the trothst film I've seen since the last trothst film I saw, whatever and whenever that was. Previously he had shifted between Gatsby, Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires, Trimalchio,Trimalchio in West Egg,On the Road to West Egg,Under the Red, White, and Blue,The Gold-Hatted Gatsby, and The High-Bouncing Lmore than. history," which "raced along under its own power, served by great filling stations comprehensive of money. Although scholars and writers posit different explanations for the perpetuation of class differences in the United Affirms, there is a consensus regarding the novel's message in conveying its underlying permanence. A frontiersman on a fur purchase expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. His wife, Zelda, and Perkins both expressed their preference for The Great Gatsby and the next month Fitzgerald accept as true withd. The town wwhen used when the scene of The Great Gatsby. "Fitzgerald had difficulty choosing a title for his novel and entertained different choices before reluctantly choosing The Great Gatsby, a title inspired by Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes. He emphasized The Great Gatsby's positive reception by literary critics, which may have influenced public opinion and rechargeed interest in it. Gatsby asserts that Daisy declare that she never loved Tom. However, Ginevra's family discouraged Lodgezgerald's pursuit of their daughter due to his lower-class status, and her father purportedly told the young Lodgezgerald that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls. These papers were written primarily by students plus provide critical analysis of The Great Gatsby (2013 Film), directed by Baz Luhrmann. The couple has recently relocated from Chicago to a colonial mansion instructly across the bay from Gatsby's estate. Many literary critics trust The Great Gatsby to be one of the greatest novels ever written. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, formerly a Yale footbthe whole lot star whom Nick knew during his college days. In its first year, the book sold delicately 20,000 copies. He wwhen stationed at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama where he met Zelda Sayre, a vivacious 17-year-old Southern belle. However, the novel experienced a revival during World War II, and became a region of American high school curricula and numerous stage and film adaptations in the following decades. ) After an hour, I could stand no more, the acting and story seemed great, but the soundtrack was too noticeably to take. Describe Nicks houseNick's house in East Egg, in the film, is a very nice quaint little cotbadgee. Fitzgerald was repeatedly ambivalent about the book's title and he assessed a variety of alternatives, including titles that referred to the Roman character Trimalchio; the title he was last documented to have desired was Under the Red, White, and Blue. * wc:2233 / rsent:96 / rsyn:1 * Similar content pages 4965.php • 15859.php • 25180.php • 9421.php • 26842.php • 12387.php • 10126.php • 304.php • 4072.php • 19250.php • 16476.php • 4702.php • 14229.php • 21352.php Contact \| DMCA \| Sitemap	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line57
__label__wiki	0.506302	0.506302	Vadym Titushko expresses his support to the people of EuroMaidan On May 18, 2013, Vadym attacked the journalists of TV Channel 5 during the protests. He wore a tracksuit and was paid for beating the representative of mass media. Later Vadym got the suspended sentence for the attack on journalists he committed. His surname has already become a common name as the governmental thugs controlled by the security forces are now called “titushky”. However, Vadym Titushko now feels sorry about his actions in the past. In the show “Groshi” (translated as “Money”) he said that he would like to come to Maidan and support people there without being paid for that and without causing any provocations. He considers the actions of Berkut to be extremely violent and thinks that no one may humiliate a person in such a way as it was done with Mykhailo Gavrulyuk whom was undressed and severely beaten by Berkut. Because of his sentence that implies the ban to participate in any political meetings and actions for 2 years, Vadym cannot come to Maidan. Thus, to express his solidarity with the protesters he chopped firewood for the activists on EuroMaidan. When the journalists brought the firewood to AntiMaidan, the protesters did not take them. However, the activists of EuroMaidan were glad to receive such gift and said they were glad that Vadym Titushko had changed for the better. Source: tabloid.pravda.com.ua Tags: EuroMaidan, News, titushky » More » Vadym Titushko expresses his support to... Arbuzov, Klyuev, Azarov – Austrian citizens? MP Harms clarifies her statement Next Post: “Give us freedom, or we’ll give you Maidan” – Rally in Moscow Charge of Euromaidan activist with non-existent murder slammed... Former Berkut riot police from Ukraine now dispersing... Former Canadian Ambassador defines “top 10 mistakes” in... The lessons of Euromaidan: why the Belarusian revolution...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line67
__label__cc	0.677714	0.322286	Excerpt: Another Putin Sergey Zaporozhsky, businessman and political scientist Putin’s speech to the Russian diplomatic corps was a wonderful x-ray image of his current inner state. What did we see in similar meetings a few months ago? He was self-confident, macho, an ace, a savior and master of Russia who spoke roughly and familiarly with his subjects. And now? Insecure, floundering, trying to justify what he has done in recent months. Before, a boa constrictor addressed the audience. Now the boas were sitting in the hall. And the speaker clearly understood this. Not once during those 25 minutes did the diplomatic corps punctuate Putin’s speech with applause. There was none, even at the end of the President’s statement. Who can remember such a thing? The steel has vanished from Putin’s voice. Do you remember his reaction to the delay of the Angara rocket launch? A kind teacher asked that everything be investigated unhurriedly. Putin has begun feverishly demonstrating his humanity. He wants the bureaucrats not only to fear him, but to love him. But Putin still believes that love can be bought. That’s why he announced to the diplomats his plans to improve their well-being. Three or four times, in some cases. At the moment, Putin is at a political and economic impasse. He climbed into someone else’s apartment (Crimea) and tried to seize one staircase (Novorossiya) in an apartment building with many. He only succeeded in the first. But Putin does not know how to maintain this apartment and keep it running. There is an apartment, but none of the necessary documents. And the residents are living hand to mouth already, but cannot leave the porch. And then there are the millions in their dilapidated houses and tattered porches. How can he not seek mutual understanding and love from the people whom he has seen for fourteen years as personnel serving his geopolitical phobias? But the trouble and tragedy for Putin is that his millions of comrades no longer understand human relations. For fourteen years, Putin has been rearing a community of thoughtless people who understand only the cudgel, profanity, and scabrous humor. And if you dare to speak to them like human beings, they will call you a sissy, gay, and will use against you their clubs and their profanity, forgetting their inherent humor. Because all the crap that only exists inside people, Putin has released in a separate and subject country. Putin will have to retreat on all fronts. It is obvious. What will be his end? Don’t let it turn into a horror movie. Source: Echo of Moscow Translated by Shara Anatoliy, edited by Robin Rohrback Tags: Putin Ekho Moskvy Echo of Moscow (Russian: Э́хо Москвы́, Ekho Moskvy) is a Russian radio station based in Moscow, broadcasting in many Russian cities, in some of the former-Soviet republics (through partnerships with local radio stations), and via the Internet, which some observers describe as "the last bastion of free media in Russia.". » More » Excerpt: Another Putin RNBO: Ukrainian forces liberate four cities over July 5-6 Next Post: Russia is becoming a new Evil Empire Moscow presents US as sinking into chaos US presidential election ‘extraordinarily unwelcome’ for Putin, Shlosberg... Supreme power of Putin’s FSB. Part 2: commercialization... Vitaly Portnikov: Putin cannot be an ally or...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line68
__label__wiki	0.746509	0.746509	Jewish Portal of The online resource of pedagogical and academic content on teaching and Jewish education Reset setting Keywords Authors Search results for: Arts Page 1/6 59 items Imagining the Post Pandemic World Authors: Adkins Laura E. After nearly two months of intense social distancing, we are all finding ourselves longing for things to return to normal — and recognizing that it might be a long while before that happens. But is a return to business as usual really what we should aim for? The extended disruption gives us a chance to take stock of how we’ve operated up to now, consider alternatives and even build a better vision for the future. We’re already seeing that happen across the Jewish world. Jews of all denominations have tapped digital tools to deliver the Torah and connection that had been largely analog. The heartbeats of Jewish life — weddings, funerals, bar and bat mitzvahs, studying Torah, cooking together, telling jokes and daily minyanim — have been reimagined to match the circumstances. And communities are stepping up to support their neediest members in new ways. But those have mostly been quick fixes, responsive and scattershot rather than carefully considered and coordinated. What if we had a shared vision for the Jewish future, so we could do more than just fumble our way there? Updated: May. 18, 2020 Learning, Teaching and Curating: Situated Digital Experience in Museums - A free course during the 2020 Coronavirus global pandemic Authors: MOFET International MOFET International invites you to attend this free course which will help you create your own online museum to share with your students, colleagues and acquaintances. Museums are the repository of our cultural heritage and thus should become destinations to explore and learn scientific, historic and artistic themes. Students can feel and sense valuable artefacts and handmade objects that shape their lives. The main question is: How do we encourage our visitors to satisfy their curiosity in the museum? Experimental methods and their didactics are the core of this online course. We will see how all museums and heritage sites can be used as places of learning with the UNESCO Best Mobile Practice innovative technology – the Wandering Platform. The free course will begin on April 5 and will include seven synchronized meetings that will take place via the ZOOM™ platform. Notice: This is not a MOOC. As so, the number of participants is limited so hurry and sign up! Free registration ends on 02.04.2020. Updated: Mar. 29, 2020 "Creating Memory": An Arts-based Holocaust Education Program Authors: Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora – Bar-Ilan University The Lookstein Center presents "Creating Memory," an arts-based Holocaust education program intended to help young people encounter the Holocaust in a personal, emotional way. This online mini-course will offer practical ideas and implementation techniques for Jewish day school and informal Jewish educators. Updated: Feb. 17, 2020 Ten Israeli Artists to Teach in Top U.S. Universities this Upcoming Year Authors: Israel Institute The Israel Institute’s eleventh cohort of its Visiting Artists Program will bring ten Israeli artists to teach at top universities across the United States during the 2019–2020 academic year. Among these artists are renowned theater artist Ruth Kanner at The Juilliard School; Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, internationally-acclaimed author of Waking Lions at UCLA; and award-winning choreographer, dancer, and musician Dafi Altabeb at Emory University. Updated: Aug. 06, 2019 Student Perspectives on the Relevance and Importance of Arts-Based Learning Authors: Reingold Matt Drawing on interview data from a practitioner research study involving secondary students in a Jewish school, the following paper presents students’ explanations for why learning through the arts is a valuable and important classroom experience. The explanations offered by students reflected a strong self-awareness and understanding of their own learning styles and how the arts complimented their studies and challenged them in new ways. In addition to hearing how students appreciate learning through the arts, the data also suggests that teachers and other school stakeholders should find ways to provide opportunities for students to contribute to conversations about pedagogical practice Updated: Apr. 04, 2019 Parallel Traces: New EU-Funded Jewish Heritage Project Aims to Promote Awareness through Digital Art Authors: Jewish Heritage Europe A new, EU-funded Jewish heritage project, Parallel Traces: A New Lens on Jewish Heritage, aims to encourage awareness of urban Jewish heritage through digital art — photographs, audio and visual presentations, and the like. The project, its web site states, “aims to rediscover traces of Jewish cultural heritage in urban architecture as an integral part of European history and to raise awareness and respect amongst different cultures through different mechanisms.” SAR Academy’s Institute for Excellence-Driven ARTS in Jewish Education Authors: Sedley David ARTS EDJE Institute reflects innovations in an emerging trend of commitment to the ARTS in Jewish Education at SAR Academy. The theme for our seminal conference is: Nurturing Excellence: The role ARTS Education has on developing high quality student work and how to nurture that engagement and commitment to excellence. At ARTS EDJE Institute, on November 13, 2018, we will offer diverse approaches to engage with the ARTS through distinct ARTS disciplines, ARTS classes and experiences for your personal inspiration, thought-provoking keynotes, guided time to concretize your work in the ARTS back home, and opportunities to informally network with colleagues across the nation. Updated: Jul. 16, 2018 Hebrew University’s Center for Jewish Art Launches the World’s Largest Index of Jewish Art Authors: Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem launched the world’s largest online database of Jewish art today at the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art is a collection of digitized images and information about Jewish artifacts from all over the world. The online collection includes more than 260,000 images of objects and artifacts from 700 museums, synagogues and private collections in 41 different countries, as well as architectural drawings of 1,500 synagogues and Jewish ritual buildings from antiquity to the modern day. The Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artists Program - 2017-2018 Authors: Schusterman Center for Israel Studies The Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artists Program will bring 13 prominent Israeli artists for residencies at top universities across the United States for the 2017-2018 academic year. Among the artists are director, writer, and co-creator of the hit HBO TV series “In Treatment” Nir Bergman, who will team-teach with award-winning documentary filmmaker David Ofek; Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Tamar Kay, whose “The Mute’s House” won international acclaim; and choreographer Roy Assaf, whose company will perform at New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY) during his tenure. Teaching the Holocaust Through Film Authors: Marcus Alan S. Feature films are one of the most powerful tools in a history teacher's arsenal and also one of the most misused. Many of the films shown by teachers are appropriate for teaching content and also serve to engage students. Some of the most popular films used by teachers are Glory (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and All Quiet on the Western Front (1979). One film that has been very popular in classes is Schindler's List (1993). In this article, I discuss appropriate criteria for choosing films for teaching about the Holocaust, and suggest other films that are appropriate and effective pedagogical tools. Updated: Jun. 07, 2017 Trends in Jewish Education In-Service Training Education & Administration Formal Education Educación judía (Spanish) I confirm receiving mails More international academic portals for teachers © 2021 The MOFET Institute \| Terms of Use	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line70
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__label__cc	0.515957	0.484043	About Escambray Escambray ENGLISH EDITION Best Sancti Spiritus Athletes in 2012 Announced (+photos) Dayaris Mestre and Serguey Torres were chosen best 2012 athletes in Sancti Spiritus. Cuban judoka Dayaris Mestre and sprint canoer Serguey Torres were chosen as best individual sport athletes of 2012 in Sancti Spiritus. Volleyball player Rolando Cepeda and basketball athlete Marlene Cepeda were the best in the team sport category. The announcement was made in the meeting that takes place every year in this territory between local media and the provincial sport board. Torres was the only one to compete in the finals among the five local representatives to London 2012. He was placed 6th in the C-2 1000m race. Mestre was present in London as well, and was awarded medals in most of the 15 international competitions in which she participated, such as the silver medal won at the Grand Slam Tokyo. Rolando Cepeda was key factor in the bronze medal win of the Cuban team at the World Volleyball League. In this event he was considered one of the world best hitters, and the Cuban team’s most outstanding scorer. Marlene Cepeda was the leading figure of the Cuban team which was the Centrobasket Championship. Wrestler Javier Dumenigo, who won both the Olympic classifying tournament and the Pan American Tournament, was chosen as best rookie of the year. The other ten 2012 top athletes in Sancti Spirtus are Eglys Cruz Farfán (shooting), Yumari González (cycling), Yosvani Veitía (boxing), Amaury Valle (athletics), baseball players Yulieski Gourriel, Frederich Cepeda, and Ismel Jiménez, Yamilka del Valle (wrestling), Ariel Martínez (football), and Yamara Amargo (basket). Sancti Spiritus best disabled athletes of the year were judoka Yangaline Jiménez, Dairon Rodríguez (long jumper), and Yoandy Ledesma (1500m runner). Tags: BASEBALL BASKETBALL CANOEING DAYARIS MESTRE JUDO SERGUEY TORRES VOLLEYBALL YANGALINE Cuban Judokas to Participate in the Second Day of Doha World Judo Masters The Olympic Path of Cuban Judo Cuban Rivero and Spanish Burgos Basketball Team in Finals Debut By Elsa Ramos Local Storm Hits District near Sancti Spiritus, Central Cuba (+photos) Sancti Spiritus Celebrates Sport Festival to Mark November 19th (+photos) Sancti Spiritus’s Veitia Hopes to Reach the Finals in Lima 2019 Sancti Spiritus Hosts Photo Exhibition by Ernesto Guevara Donald Trump is a Danger to American People, U.S. Congressman Founded on January 4, 1979 \| Copyright ©2021 \| ISSN 9664-1277	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line72
__label__cc	0.742739	0.257261	From Our Inbox To Your Ears: A Playlist Of New Music We’re Spinning 50 Songs To Help You Get Through The Day LOS ANGELES, CA- As the “music editor” of Blurred Culture, I get thousands of emails a month from artists, artist’s publicists, friends of artist’s publicists, etc. pitching me to listen to new music, and believe it or not, I listen to everything … ok … almost everything. There’s a lot of good and interesting music out there, but there’s only so much time in the day, and with my day job, I just can’t get to everything. That being said, I figured that I’d share with you my Spotify playlist to let you know some of the “new” music that’s recently creeped up into my DMs and inbox. I’ve been rotating 50 tracks in and out of the list, and going forward, I’ll share the playlist whenever I’ve rotated and replaced a new set of 10 songs. If you’re a one-genre type of person, you’re not going to like this playlist. If Of the current list of 50 songs, there are a handful of songs that I’ve been rewinding for multiple listens. Jade Bird‘s “Uh Huh”. This brit gets a bit saucy and rowdy with this cut and I like it. She starts another headline tour of the US on August 31st. I can’t recommend her enough. Kim Petras’ “Heart To Break”. If you love sweet pop confections, you’re going to love this track. Shame’s “Concrete”. I missed this band while I was at SXSW. I missed this band when they were in LA. I fucking missed this band, and all I can do now is just rage out to their music at my desk until they decide to head back to the states for another round. Blue October‘s “How to Dance In Time”. God damn. Justin Furstenfeld knows how pull on heartstrings. This song has got a bit of a retro vibe to it, and it’s lyrics will get your tear ducts activated stat. “I should’ve been a better man, but a should’ve could’ve would’ve, Isn’t what a better man would do.” I mean c’mon … give me a second, I got something in my eye. Same Girl’s “Domino” I’m a sucker for catchy bass lines, and the opening bass guitar lick hooked me instantly. I don’t know too much about this bay-area based band, but the energy and intensity of this track is just too irresistible for me to resist. Dream Wife‘s “Heartbreaker”. Okay … this isn’t a new song. In fact, I heard it back in 2017 when I caught Dream Wife at SXSW … BUT … I found out that they will be back in the U.S. touring starting September 24th. I put this track in my playlist to remind me that they kick ass and that I need to catch them when they play Los Angeles on October 10th. Chelsea Jade’s “Life Of The Party”. Chelsea Jade’s debut album was released late last month. Even though this song was release back in 2017, this is still my favorite song of hers. It’s a breezy pop gem, that I can’t get enough of. She doesn’t have any upcoming tour dates, but if she performs in your neck of the woods, I highly suggest checking her out. The last time I saw her perform, it was a polished performance that had me wanting more. Ezra Furman’s “Suck The Blood From My Wound”. This is the first track of Ezra’s latest album “Transangelic Exodus”. It’s kinda got a fun MGMT arrangement, but when it’s contrasted to Ezra’s growling vocals singing rebellious lyrics, it’s rage masked in a carnival and I absolutely love it. Mothers’ “Pink”. I don’t know why I love this song so much. It’s melody and arrangement is monotone and repetitive … but it’s so fucking hypnotic. And the lyrics … which I’m still trying to unravel … is poetic. It’s a poem set to music. It’s damn pretty beautiful. #Blue October #Chelsea Jade #Concrete #Domino #Dream Wife #Ezra Furman #Heart To Break #Heartbreaker #How To Dance In Time #Jade Bird #Kim Petras #Life Of The Party #Mothers #Pink #Same Girls #Shame #Spotify #Suck The Blood From My Wound #Uh Huh Russians Adopted Bear 25 Years Ago And He Still Lives With Them Today Ford Created A Masterpiece In The 2019 Mustang Derrick Lee Derrick K. Lee is a music attorney, blogger, concert photographer and co-owner and music editor of Blurred Culture. He goes to a lot of shows and sometimes he writes well. Music is his boo. Published photography in Rolling Stong Magazine (online), Guitar (print), Houston Chronicle (online), and more. Published video in the New York Times. For prints and/or approvals for special uses of any photo taken by Derrick, please contact him directly. You can follow Derrick on Instagram at @Methodman13. Field Medic’s Music Is An Honest Look Into The Soul Of An Artist THOUGHTS+PHOTOS: FIELD MEDIC @ THE ECHOPLEX 12/2/17 Rick Ross – Rather You Than Me [Album Stream] Stream Rick Ross' new album "Rather You Than Me." Sweden Comes to Life In Los Angeles For Stockholm, CA … And “I LOVE(D) IT!” HOMEPAGE: Stockholm, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall 10/15/16 Aiming for Enrike’s Unique Sonics Blew Minds At SXSW THOUGHTS+PHOTOS: Aiming for Enrike @ Cheer Up Charlies \| SXSW 3/16/18 Sammy Johnson Makes All The Women Swoon At One Love THOUGHTS+PHOTOS: SAMMY J @ ONE LOVE CALI REGGAE FEST 2/11/18 Curren$y Releases “Parking Lot Music” Project Ft. Ty Dolla $ign, E-40 & More Curren$y is back with his latest mixtape, "Parking Lot Music."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line81
__label__cc	0.623298	0.376702	Chavez Junior stops tough Galvan Next bout is scheduled for August 13 By Scott Shaffer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. reached 20-0 with a fourth-round technical knockout of limited but very tough Ruben Galvan. Chavez hurt Galvan with head shots in the final ten seconds of the first round and wasted no time moving in for the kill. A left to the body almost ended the bout at the three-minute mark, but the bell gave Galvan a sixty-second rest. In the second, Galvan showed strong recuperative powers and landed an unexpected number of blows, but they were mostly arm punches that lacked any real power. In the fourth round, Chavez turned the heat back up and landed a combination that dropped Galvan to the canvas, practically underneath the bottom rope. Galvan got up and took a ferocious beating as referee Benji Estevez looked for an appropriate moment to stop the fight. Galvan was getting pummeled but didn't give Estevez an opening because he kept coming forward and continued throwing punches. At 2:22, his corner finally threw in the towel, marking the first time that Galvan, now 21-7-2 had ever been stopped. Galvan was angry with his corner for stopping the bout. "He had a lot of heart," said the young Chavez, "and I was very proud to stop him." Chavez's promoter, Top Rank is keeping their prize prospect busy, and he is already scheduled to get back in the ring on August 13 in Phoenix.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line82
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PRESS RELEASE — Look Who’s Talking Up Pyr! PRESS RELEASE — UK Author Toby Frost joins John Ja... SPOTLIGHT: Books of October 2008 "The January Dancer" by Michael Flynn (Reviewed by Liviu C. Suciu) Official Michael Flynn Blog Order “The January Dancer” HERE INTRODUCTION: I discovered Michael Flynn when I read and was very impressed by his Hugo-nominated novel, “Eifelheim”, released back in 2006. Before that I vaguely remember some near-future political SF about colonization of space, but that is not really my cup of tea. Because of “Eifelheim” though, I went out and got “The Wreck of the River of Stars” which is loosely tied with that series and thoroughly enjoyed the novel. So when “The January Dancer” was announced, it immediately became one of my most anticipated books of the year. And what a novel it turned out to be! In the tradition of M.J. Harrison’s “Light” and told with the detached ironical tone of the author's “The Wreck of the River of Stars”, “The January Dancer” is a superb literary space opera that has a good chance to be in the running for all major SF awards next year… SETTING: “The January Dancer” takes place in a far-future setting where humanity has colonized the stars using superluminal highways with names like Palisades Parkway, Silk Road, The Long March, and Champs Elysee. These are actually regions of space generated by the enormous electrical currents of the stars in which “space itself moves faster than light”, or if you want, where the local speed of light is much higher than our ‘c’. The walls of the “roads” are laminates of space-time whose local-c decreases stratum-by-stratum to what they call “Newtonian-c” or “the flats.” And the galaxy is Irish… Sort of, but enough to have a Celtic laden idiom for the novel, giving “The January Dancer” a quite archaic feel that complements the far-future setting very nicely. Darwin, Newton, Einstein, and Maxwell are ancient gods of legend since old Earth is no more, or more precisely its original starfaring civilization called The Commonwealth of Stars was overthrown thousands of years ago by the cruel Dao Chettians—The Named Ones—in the Great Cleansing. The cream of the Commonwealth has been exiled across the huge empty volume of space called the Rift, though in time they recreated a vibrant civilization with Celtic overtones, very loosely united in the United League of the Periphery. The original exile planets that are close to the Rift are called the Old Planets and have distinct and quite Vancean civilizations, while the newer more vibrant colonies are nominally led by the Ardry—affectionately known as the Little One—who governs from High Tara using his all-purpose super-agents called Hounds to enforce the law. But space is large so ULP has its share of pirates like the Cynthians, predatory corporations like ICC, local wars, and civil wars. Across the Rift stands the powerful and feared Commonwealth of Central Worlds, though an uneasy truce/cold war is still in existence with spies and intrigue but no shooting so far. The Terrans, as the people that claim descent from Earth are known, live in special ghettoes on the ULP planets and are sort of despised, used as cheap labor and feared as enemy agents since Terra is still under Dao Chettian rule and generally have a more complex relationship with the rest of the ULP society. But they also tend to stick together and help each other as the marginalized groups always did throughout human history. FORMAT/INFO: The ARC copy I have stands at 350 pages divided over sixteen alternating main chapters and eighteen interlude chapters, all with Celtic names. There is a turnover at page 260 where the interlude chapters actually start taking over the story and the novel starts and ends with one such, which accounts for the difference in numbers. The interlude chapters take place in the novel’s present in a bar on Jehovah, a very important interchange planet of ULP where a harper comes to find out and compose a song about the story of the January Dancer which is a famous prehuman artifact. There she finds a mysterious old man called the scarred one who tells her the story claiming he knows it from the surviving protagonists whom he talked with across the years. In the main chapters the story of the Dancer is told through multiple POVs including several Hounds and one Pup—that's a senior apprentice to a Hound—a mysterious Terran, the crew of the unlucky freighter that actually finds the artifact, a rebel leader/planetary manager, and several others. It takes a while to figure out who our main characters are, but slowly they reveal themselves and we get glimpses of their relationship with the harper and the scarred one. The novel is self-contained though there is an obvious sequel dangle with the next book, “Up Jim River”, scheduled for 2009 release. That is another book I will want to read ASAP since “The January Dancer” was so good :) Also included in the book are a list of characters in order of appearance, a time-keeping convention chart, and a star map. October 14, 2008 marks the North American Hardcover publication of “The January Dancer” via Tor Books. Cover art provided by Sparth. PLOT HINTS AND ANALYSIS: Due to its intricate structure, Celtic idiom and literary style, “The January Dancer” takes a little getting used to, so hopefully the longer-than-usual “Setting” part of the review will help readers get into the action faster. Because once you figure out what the novel is about, you won’t want to put it down and following our heroes through the numerous twists & turns of this superbly plotted book is extremely absorbing… Discovered by chance, the January Dancer artifact has the potential to “turn the universe insane”, and when important people realize this, everyone starts wanting it for their own purposes, be it noble or nefarious. But there is much more going on including pirates, civil wars, local wars, and the mysterious disappearances of ships inside the Rift. Slowly a central thread reveals itself and our main characters step up from the pack of the numerous POV characters and take center stage in their unlikely banding together. As one of these characters—Little Hugh O'Carroll aka Ringbao della Costa, planetary manager, rebel leader and all around survivor—puts it, it is as the Fates conspired to bring this unlikely group of people together to investigate several strange events. Speaking of characters, there are so many colorful names like Amos January the freighter captain after which the artifact is named, Handsome Jack Garrity, na Fir Li, Greystroke aka Tol Ben lever, the Molnar khan Matsumo, the Fudir aka Kalim de Morsey, Brigit ban aka Julienne Lady Melisonde, Grimpen, Olafsson Qing and the other Olafsson that mere enumeration should make you want to read the novel. This list by itself conveys something of both the unusual flavor and the intricacy of the book and once you start reading the novel you realize that a lot of these names are not arbitrary. Though it stands at only 350 pages, including the list of characters, “The January Dancer” packs so much inside—action, both space and planetary battles, romance, intrigue, mystery—that you feel you are reading a much larger novel. And indeed, you really need to pay attention to every phrase since you never know when a subtle but quite important plot point will be revealed, sometimes quite offhandedly. When I got to the end of “The January Dancer”, I exhaled that the increasingly building tension had finally been resolved, at least for now, and then I immediately started to reread the book to appreciate its full flavor now that I knew how it ended. And of course I want more so “Up Jim River” can’t get here fast enough! In conclusion, not only is Michael Flynn’s “The January Dancer” highly, highly recommended, but it is also one of the best science fiction novels that I’ve read this year… Yet another one to add to the list! Great review as always :) im gonna check it out, but im honestly a little tired of 'WASPs in space' galactic cultures in scifi. Tobias Buckell, Chris Roberson and Thomas Harlan have multicultural space operas out there that have been very well received so far and they may be of interest. raul said... im honestly a little tired of 'WASPs in space' galactic cultures in scifi. snips from The January Dancer: "Na Fir Li had chosen midnight for his skin and moonlight for his hair." "Another of the tablemates, a woman as thin as a willow branch, mahogany-dark with blue eyes and bright yellow hair, wondered aloud..." "The market speaks to them. Ah, yes, sahb, this is the True Coriander, known no-but else place! Seven ducat only, and that is that my children go hungry. See, here, come into my stall, when you see ever so fine ’shwari, look good-good on memsahb. Oho, not memsahb? Then, here you find special double-throw silk, made only on J’ovah, think how this feel on her skin…! Hutt! Hutt! No mind his silks. See here my drizzle-jewels, how they sparkle so?" 'The Fudir and his host sat on soft hassocks in a richly carpeted room draped in gossamer curtains of red, gold, and black. To the side, a servant prepared tea and a bowl of chickpea paste.' "The dancing girls, as promised, did not stumble much, although considering in how many directions they shook their bodies, it was a marvel that they did not. The Fudir wondered in which cultures of ancient Earth their dance had originated. Most likely, he knew, it was an amalgam of several. During the Dark Age, the songs and legends of the Vraddy, of the Zhõgwó, of the Murkans and others had been blended by folk themselves deliberately commingled. Only the most painstaking scholars could tease the threads apart, and even then not to their certain knowledge. Yet, the dancing was sensuous and rousing, and the sweetmeats and caesodias pleasing to the palate. The dancers wore petal skirts and halter tops, midriffs ill-concealed by sheer taffeta veils – except for the boys, of course, who wore only white cotton sirwals. The Fudir found his pulse quickening to the rock beat, the tinkling zills, and the undulating bodies of the dancers, so different from the syncopated and coordinated vradanadyam on Jehovah."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line83
__label__wiki	0.803324	0.803324	Nurse Jackie Revisited August 21, 2009 UncategorizedTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR Now that the first season of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie has ended, I was happy to find out that the show has officially been renewed. After I last wrote, the series only got better, more complicated, more darkly funny, and occasionally, poignantly, sad. One of the most interesting things about Edie Falco’s leading character, Jackie, is that she has no real back story. Although we know that she has a husband and two young daughters with whom she lives above the bar they own in Queens, and that she has a pharmacist lover named Eddie with whom she has sexual trysts every day at work, we don’t know why she keeps her two lives so resolutely separate. We also don’t know why she’s a drug addict, aside from the usual stress (and temptation) that plagues some nurses in chaotic, poorly staffed and resourced city hospitals. Rather than becoming irritating, however, Jackie’s mystery adds to her allure. She’s an enigma not just for her co-workers—who alternately find her brusque and sensitive, present and distracted—but also for viewers accustomed to having characters’ histories laid out with too many dollops of information. Instead of a pat psychological reason for her odd behavior, we’re asked to go on faith that Jackie needs her life the way it is. The reasons don’t matter, only that she’s able to maintain the fine line of keeping her separate worlds far enough apart and her addiction hidden. Only halfway through the first season does it become clear that even Jackie’s best friend at work—Dr. Eleanor O’Hara (Eve Best), who’s officially her superior—doesn’t know about her drug problem. When Jackie’s nose begins bleeding from all the drugs she’s snorting, O’Hara checks out her nostrils and comments that she doesn’t know what Jackie’s been putting up there, but her sinuses are entirely irritated. Jackie responds with her trademark eye roll and brushes her off. [Spoiler alert!] When her lover Eddie is replaced by a computerized machine that dispenses meds, Jackie’s need and desperation become palpable for the first time. With Eddie down the hall happy to ply her with Vicodin and other narcotics that make her sexually pliable, Jackie didn’t have to worry about her next fix. Without him present, she tries to game the machine the way he taught her, but the trick doesn’t work. She winds up punching in her own name and password to retrieve three vials of drugs, which she proceeds to pour down her throat without a chaser. As the final episode of the season ends, Jackie drifts into a drug-induced haze, hallucinating herself dressed in 1950s white nursing finery, and waving to her husband and kids, who stand in front of a two-dimensional, cartoon-like, suburban-style ranch house wearing 1950s-styled clothing, waving at her robotically. Sprawled on the hospital floor comatose, Jackie can only watch these images play out in front of her as the scene fades to the credits. The moment, typical of the crises that usually propel a series to the closing moments of a season, is disturbing and compelling. Is Jackie afraid of being trapped by the conventionality of her domestic family life? Is that why she has a secret affair with Eddie, and doesn’t tell any of her coworkers that she’s married and has two kids? Is she smart enough to want to resist the banalities of middle-class white heterosexuality, even as she’s clearly, at an earlier point in her life, decided to acquiesce to it? Does she take drugs because of her back pain (which isn’t mentioned much as the show progresses), or because she needs to take the edge off a life that can’t contain everything she feels herself to be? Whatever the reason, to see a woman as complicated and wonderfully opaque as Jackie Peyton (shades of the old soap, Peyton Place?) anchor a series on a major cable network feels like something of a triumph. Jackie isn’t a perfect mother—in fact, although she takes her oldest, the troubled Grace, to mother-daughter tap dancing classes, Jackie’s skirmish with an old high school friend embarrasses both of them and they abandon the class.Jackie isn’t the perfect wife—she works nights, which means that she and her husband are passing ships in a domestic sea that’s often barely functional. Jackie isn’t the perfect nurse—she operates under her own moral code, which means that sometimes, she breaks rules to favor people she decides won’t otherwise get a break.She’s unsympathetic with her trainee (although over the course of the season they’ve developed something approximating a warm understanding) and she’s flip with her superior. She’s a flawed middle-aged woman, a character not often enough seen on television. Although these days, that’s not entirely true. Jackie Peyton joins the ranks of Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) on The Closer; Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), on Damages; Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) on Weeds; and Grace Hanadarko (Holly Hunter) onSaving Grace, all of whom are middle-aged white women with “issues,” whether drug addiction, dire financial problems, alcohol abuse, or power mania that make them as complicated and imperfect as the male heroes who more typically star in television series. The surrounding characters on Nurse Jackie help flesh out the quirky environment, and each became more adroitly drawn and magnetic as the season proceeded. Although Mohammed de la Cruz, Jackie’s best friend on the ER floor, remains something of a cipher, his desire for other men has been flaunted happily throughout the season. And instead of being the lone gay man, another of the male nurses—the white guy with sandy hair and a more fey demeanor—is also openly queer. The two often perform scenes together, in which they cruise patients or tell Zoey, Jackie’s bumbling assistant, how she might improve her appearance. Although these characters still trade in stereotypes, at least there are two of them on the show regularly, creating a small but important queer community. Likewise, Zoey has become sharper in her own zesty, over-sharing, over-caring style. By the season’s end, the character had come to think she knew Jackie, a rather endearing assumption, given all of Jackie’s dark and mysterious layers. Merritt Wever, as Zoey, is ever more fabulous in the role, her comic timing impeccable and her physical humor deft. The best supporting character, however, is Mrs. Akalaitus, played by Anna Deavere Smith in one of her best scripted acting outings. In the season finale, Akalaitus gets stuck in an elevator, and rather than hurry to rescue her, the nursing staff lets her languish before they call for repairs. To entertain herself (and us), Akalaitus props herself against the stuck doors and pretends she’s being interviewed on the Letterman show. Smith carries off the brilliant, hysterical bit of business with panache, and reveals the human side of the character. The scene tempers her rule-bound ambition, just as Akalaitis’s attachment to an Asian baby left behind (for weeks, it seemed) in the ER earlier in the season showed her softer side (although the storyline was far-fetched and her failure to call in the authorities completely out of character). Watching a series as smart and morally, emotionally, and ethically complicated as Nurse Jackie, peopled with so many interesting, unique, and individualized women and gay male characters has been a real treat. That the story proceeds from a flawed woman’s perspective feels like progress indeed. ← The Temperamentals Hung on HBO → 1 thought on “Nurse Jackie Revisited” ” smart and morally, emotionally, and ethically complicated” ?? in much that same way a visit to Hooters would be. this is sexist, misandrist trash, hiding behind some witty lines and great acting. if you don’t believe it, just switch the gender for every role in the show. let the comments fly.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line85
__label__cc	0.548069	0.451931	Profiting from crisis: How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries TNI \| 7 March 2014 Profiting from crisis How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries Cecilia Olivet and Pia Eberhardt Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries. While speculators making risky investments are protected, ordinary people have no such protection and – through harsh austerity policies – are being stripped of basic social rights. Executive summaries in English, Spanish, Greek. Profiting from Crisis is a story about how corporations, backed by lawyers, are using international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing governments from Europe’s crisis countries. It shows how the global investment regime thrives on economic crises, but is very uneven in who it benefits. While speculators making risky investments are protected, ordinary people have no such protection and – through harsh austerity policies – are being stripped of basic social rights. For a long time, European countries were left unscathed by the rising global wave of investor-state disputes which had tended to target developing countries. In the wake of the global financial crisis, however, corporations and investment lawyers have turned their eyes to potential pickings in Europe. An investment regime, concocted in secretive European board rooms, and that gives corporations powerful rights to sue governments, has finally come home to roost. The report first explores the history of investor-state lawsuits as a result of economic crises across the world from Mexico in 1994 to Argentina in 2001. As crises struck these nations scrabbled desperately to protect their rapidly sinking economies; the measures they took have since come under systematic attack from corporations. Countries have been sued for measures to revive a domestic financial system or the freezing of public services’ tariffs to keep them affordable for their people. Some measures, such as sovereign debt restructuring (renegotiating terms with creditors) are even required as part of debt deals, yet have been similarly challenged by investment lawsuits. The legal bases of these lawsuits are the over 3,000 international investment treaties in existence to date. They contain far-reaching protections of private property enshrined in catch-all clauses such as “fair and equitable treatment” and “protection from indirect expropriation”. The trouble is that these clauses have been interpreted so broadly that they gave a carte blanche to corporations to sue states for any regulations that could be deemed to affect current or future profits. Moreover, investment treaties grant corporations rights to protection, without giving equivalent rights to states to protect their own citizens. Profiting from Crisis looks closely at how corporate investors have responded to the measures taken by Spain, Greece and Cyprus to protect their economies in the wake of the European debt crisis. In Greece, Postová Bank from Slovakia bought Greek debt after the bond value had already been downgraded, and was then offered a very generous debt restructuring package, yet sought to extract an even better deal by suing Greece using the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between Slovakia and Greece. In Cyprus, a Greek-listed private equity-style investor, Marfin Investment Group, which was involved in a series of questionable lending practices, is seeking €823 million in compensation for their lost investments after Cyprus had to nationalise the Laiki Bank as part of an EU debt restructuring agreement. In Spain, 22 companies (at the time of writing), mainly private equity funds, have sued at international tribunals for cuts in subsidies for renewable energy. While the cuts in subsidies have been rightly criticised by environmentalists, only large foreign investors have the ability to sue, and it is egregious that if they win it will be the already suffering Spanish public who will have to pay to enrich private equity funds. March 2014: Profiting from Crisis (pdf, 943KB) keywords: Argentina, corporate interests , EU, investment \| BITs, investor-state disputes \| ISDS source: TNI	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line97
__label__wiki	0.77194	0.77194	Documentary Personalizes Alzheimer’s Research and Clinical Trials Posted on April 18, 2016 May 3, 2016 by Helderberg The latest in a recent spate of books and movies that have brought Alzheimer’s to a broader public, a new NOVA documentary ow explores what it takes to go from basic research to treatment trials. In her film “Can Alzheimer’s Be Stopped?” three-time Emmy award and AAAS Science Journalism award-winning producer Sarah Holt tells the story of Alzheimer’s research. Her film conveys the challenges and staggering cost of research and personalizes the emotional toll Alzheimer’s takes on patients, caregivers, and even researchers. Above all, it shows how AD therapy development is inching forward incrementally, drawing lessons from each negative trial. Journalist Greg O’Brien struggles to make calls on his cell phone and labels his mouthwash to avoid gargling with rubbing alcohol. Diagnosed at age 64, he chronicles his own decline. He makes no bones about the terror of knowing what lies ahead. “Alzheimer’s is like having a little slice of your brain shaved off every day,” he says. Other patients are unable to recall where they are from, how many kids they have, or to name everyday objects. Unsparing but tactful, the camera captures more advanced, bedridden patients staring vacantly into space, while families in Medellin, Colombia, care for mute relatives stricken with an inherited form of the disease in their 40s. From Alois Alzheimer’s initial description of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles to the latest clinical trials, Holt narrates the arc of Alzheimer’s research through the voices of leading researchers. A young Alison Goate describes the discovery of APP mutations with John Hardy. Francisco Lopera explains how he and Ken Kosik found the world’s largest kindred with autosomal dominant disease. Eric Reiman articulates the opportunity autosomal-dominant Alzheimer’s present for prevention trials. Rudy Tanzi explains concerns about vasogenic edema. Reisa Sperling and Keith Johnson interpret tau PET scans. Ryan Watts, Carole Ho and colleagues formerly at Genentech are seen nervously awaiting the outcome of a clinical trial and trying to make sense of ambiguous data. Standing next to a trial participant with early stage AD, Steve Salloway explains that even halting the disease temporarily would be a good outcome for many people. At AAIC in Copenhagen, the camera catches the disappointment on the faces of many scientists well-known to Alzforum readers—including Rusty Katz, Maria Carrillo, Veronika Logovinsky—when Jeff Cummings announces negative trial data for crenezumab. In eschewing both critical scientific debates and specific advocacy positions, the film strikes a neutral tone as it portrays Alzheimer’s staggering toll and the progress research has made.—Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib Source – http://www.alzforum.org/news/community-news/nova-documentary-personalizes-alzheimers-research-and-clinical-trials?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line99
__label__cc	0.673104	0.326896	iFanboy’s Best of 2011: Top 10 Events Posted on 12/26/11 at 10:00 AM in Articles, Features by Jeff Reid Events were everywhere in 2011. There were big ones and little ones practically bursting off the comic book racks. Each story was trying to convince consumers that it was Important and that it Mattered. What were the best of the best this year? That’s what we’re here to discuss in the Top 10 Events of 2011. #10 – DC Retro-Active With a line-wide ‘reboot’ on the horizon, DC looked to the past with their Retro-Active line. Inviting past writers and artists to come back and tell one more story gave longtime fans new tales stuck right in the middle of their favorite runs. It was a nice tip of the hat to nostalgia and it worked very well. Plus, anytime DC wants to bring Norm Breyfogle back to draw Batman is fine by me. #9 – Infestation Though the contents of the story didn’t quite live up to the first issue’s cover, Infestation did allow zombies to invade each of IDW’s franchised worlds. We got something special out of this event with Zombie Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Sadly, we never got the visual I was hoping for with Captain Kirk riding in Optimus Prime’s truck cab while Egon and Scarlett shot zombies out the back. Still, seeing how each group dealt with the zombie problem was fun all the same. #8 – Fear Itself With its several epilogues and three Point One issues, this was the event that just kept on giving long after you thought it was over. Every Marvel hero found him or herself caught in a war between Odin and his brother. The ongoing struggle of the Worthy and the Mighty with their hammers and Asgardian weaponry rubbed some readers the wrong way, but this Ryan Stegman Fear Itself: Deadpool cover made me forgive the series’ faults. #7 – Star Trek / Legion of Super-Heroes What happens when a group of explorers from the United Federation of Planets meets a group of defenders of the United Planets for the first time? Well, you have Brainiac 5 and Spock put a stop to the obligatory fight scene that springs up. Loaded with references to past Star Trek and Legion of Super-Heroes stories, this still-ongoing series is a blast for fans of both franchises. Plus, Chameleon Boy fights a Gorn. What’s not to love? #6 – Spider-Island Giving everyone on the island of Manhattan Spider-Man-esque powers turned out to be an even bigger problem than Peter Parker bargained for. Things got even worse when everyone started turning into actual giant spiders. In a story that could have been lost among things like Madame Web prophecies, the Jackle, and the return of Kaine, ‘Spider-Island’ allowed Peter Parker to outshine his spider based powers and show how he thinks on his feet. Peter will always have more to offer as a hero than just a collection of spider based powers. This story reinforced that fact. #5 – Archie Meets KISS Look. Archie is a social butterfly. He’s always out there, making friends with all kinds of people. Rich, middle class, nerdy, jerky, hungry, it doesn’t matter to Archie. One time, he even met the Punisher. So why wouldn’t Archie meet KISS? Throw in a town zombified by a magic spell cast by Veronica, an appearance by Josie, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch and you’ve got one fun story. I’m looking forward to seeing where this is going. #4 – X-Men: Schism In a story filled with international discord, Sentinels running amok, and a creepy new Hellfire Club, Schism really came down to two guys and their different visions of the future. While Wolverine and Cyclops haven’t gotten along before, this conflict lead to the most brutal one-on-one fight between the two yet and a fracturing of the X-Men. It even allowed for a great verbal low blow from Scott. Best of all, it was very new reader friendly. It allowed folks like me, with our fear of convoluted X-Men continuity, to jump right in and really enjoy ourselves. #3 – Marvel “Big Shots” Getting great writers together with great artists may not be a traditional event, but it’s an event all the same. Just getting Greg Rucka to return to mainstream comics after leaving DC was feat enough, but also producing the relaunched Daredevil and having it be as great as it consistently is something to brag about. Bendis and Maleev working on another book is just icing on the cake. #2 – Flashpoint Though DC claimed this wasn’t another parallel worlds story, Flashpoint turned out to be the ultimate parallel worlds story. And that’s okay. In fact, it’s great. One of the main things DC did right with this event was they kept it chronologically brief. It took up just four months and it, by definition, existed in its own little world. If you didn’t like the story, you didn’t have to read it. If you loved it, you could buy the entire 61 issues of the story, though most of us fell somewhere in between. Best of all, it had a major twist on the Batman mythos and sowed the seeds for the best event of 2011. #1 – The New 52 This one changed everything. Continuities were rewritten where editors thought they were lacking before, Wildstorm became a part of the DCU, everyone was made younger, and the Superman wore jeans. Better yet, this got people back into the comic book stores in droves and it got everyone talking. DC became the top selling comic book publisher through Diamond, something it hadn’t been for years. Along with those sales came a a significant increase in revenue. From just that perspective, the New 52 was a success but from its overall industry impact, it was a grand slam. Filed Under: Articles, Features Tagged With: Best of 2011, DC New 52, Events, Fear Itself, Flashpoint, Spider Island, X-Men: Schism iFanboy – Episode #202 – Comic Book Events I LIKE EVENTS. harwellpkg says: Maybe Im being too cynical here but are all of these really “events”? icn1983 says: Or are all of them really “the best?” gobo says: Given a certain slightly unorthodox definition? Sure! USPUNX says: Wow. Rather than being snide and pointless in my opening comment on this article; I’d like to say I thought this was very well written and interesting. I don’t necessarily agree with all of these but instead of “just saying that,” I’m going to attempt to actually leave something insightful here that illustrates my point rather than a comment that says absolutely nothing. While most of these are definitely “events” in the traditional sense a couple, such as the ‘Big Shots’ and ‘Archie meets KISS,’ don’t really seem to fit the bill. But then again picking 10 events out of one year will call for some stretching of the definition. That said I definitely agree with the new 52 being number one. Great idea and it has lead to some great comics. I personally think Spider Island should have been much higher though! At least top 5, other than the new 52 it was my favorite event of this year. Also, it was very cool to se so many non-MArvel and DC events included here. I think people so often associate the idea of ‘an event’ with one of the big two and it was cool to see so many smaller publishers included. mannyonthemoon says: My top events in random order are finding out about comixology 99 cent deals, the new 52, discovering the plutonian, & finding out about Marvel digital unlimited TheNextChampion says: Other then Fear Itself should be waaaaayyyyy down the list, possibly be #100 in a top 10 list, this was a solid list giving a good reason for each of them. Considering I didn’t read a good chunk of what’s on here my person list would be: #100: Fear Itself #4: Big Shots (Only because I only read Daredevil, but because of how awesome that title is it’s a marketing idea that actually worked) #3: Flashpoint #2: DC Retroactive (Yeah some of them didn’t work out and seemed to only exist just to fill some time for New 52. But I applaud DC for continually showing they have great respect for the past and brought in some great talent to represent the best of each era) #1: New 52 (Was their any other choice?) Ilash says: Interesting list. Especially because, if I recall correctly, Josh, Conor and Ron were pretty unimpressed by both Flashpoint and especially Fear Itself. Personally, though, I pretty much avoided the big DC and Marvel “events” this year. Hey, that’s one way to fight “event fatigue”, right? Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says: I liked FLASHPOINT a lot. Josh liked most of it. It’s the only way to fight it. @Conor, sorry, my bad. Firevine says: Heh, the only event mini I read was Schism. It was rather good. The best overall thing I heard about Flashpoint was “Pointless”. I wonder how many of these would be considered good if we reread them a few years down the line. I reread Infinite Crisis recently. I liked it initially. Second time around? Ugh. What a dog. What a weird year of comics. SleepingMan says: Some stuff I do agree with like Big Shots but I have to disagree with Fear Itself and I read that Deadpool mini and covers didn’t really impress me. Much to my surprise, I enjoyed Spider Island a lot. I initially thought it would be a disaster, but the stories were fun, exciting, and diverse. Also, the event included secondary characters like Cloak and Dagger, the Master of Kung Fu, and Frog Man. lifesend says: Glad to see DC Retroactive get some love. From the quality of the paper to the art and writing, I thought it was nothing but a joy. And the only reason I can forgive Fear Itself on the list is because of Immonen’s art. That series was unreadable at times. BetaRayRyan says: I think everybody was pleasantly surprised by Spider Island. I know I was. wallythegreenmonster says: The New 52 has to be the biggest event of the past few years because of the impact it had on the industry. Besides the obvious creative risks, DC’s bold move of taking all their titles same day digital was a game changer. If not for that, we’d still be talking about buying legal digital copies from the big 2 as an abstract concept thats years away…which is what was happening in the days and weeks before DC’s announcement was made. It might take a few years to fully see the impact, but i think we’ll look back on it as a major moment in comics history. optic00085 says: I generally don’t find a lot to love about “event” stories. In the nature of doing a big event the scope is going to be very big involving all the heavy-hitters. I think sometimes this dilutes a lot of the characters into parodies of themselves and things just get messy. I enjoyed Flashpoint to an extent because it did focus on one central character, and despite the mass amount of tie-ins, you didn’t need to read them to follow the story. Plus the Batman mini was a fantastic story on it’s own. dkbrain says: Good story. It shows that this year’s events were extremely weak (besides new 52-which is by far the year’s biggest news). In fact, the second biggest happening is the “demise” of Johnny Storm and the aftermath (which delivered). What about the death of Ultimate Spiderman? that’s too many events for one year 1aurien says: I definitely think Ultimate Spider-Man’s death and replacement deserve some love on this list. And I cannot express enough how painful Fear Itself was for me, so its inclusion twists the knife in me just ever so slightly. Never again, Mr. Fraction. Never again. adrianrigter says: of the above, Spider Island is the best. Fear itself was terrible, Flashpoint was OK, RetroActive was good but rather hit or miss, Schism should have been a one-shot status quo shift, not two drawn out minis. the rest i did not read or were not in any way ‘Events’ big shots. was a minor ad campaign not an event. iroberts007 says: Im gradually making my rounds to reading well over half of the new 52 and quite a few of those 2,3, and 4 issues in.. Im beginning to think theres a lot of quality there… It turns out the books that initially attracted me arent the best of the bunch (the DCU dark stuff)…. Im a mostly Marvel and Independent guy… but im reading books like Justice League, Batwoman/and girl, a few of the green lanterns, aquaman.. etc.. all books ive never read before.. and Im loving them. I recommend giving as many of the 52 as you can afford a try guys.. everytime i think i know what im going to get from one of these books.. they prove me wrong.. and im normally a pretty good judge of this stuff… or at least i thought i was.. xiseerht says: I am sorry but GI Joe Civil War was one of the best events in the last few years. Why are you sorry? And so was Top Cow’s Artifacts. PsychoJudgeDredd says: Agreed on GI Joe and Artifacts, though Artifacts was 2010 too. Invincible’s Viltrumite War came to mind, but I guess that’s just a story arc rather than an event? Or could it be an event? There was the spin-off Guardians of the Globe title taking place at the same time but back on earth. stevetwo says: It’s a toughie to pick just 10, and props for picking some things out of the norm. While I don’t agree Archie meeting Kiss is anything “event” worthy, especially compared to so many others. Still, Archie MET Kiss! I wasn’t sure at first, but Spider-Island wound up being monumental to me, and it wasn’t because of the overall story. We heard something writers would never have addressed 10, 20, certainly 30 ago. The reason why Mary Jane took so long to become infected when every single person in Manhattan was climbing walls? Her prolonged “exposure” to Peter’s – ahem – DNA. There were many great events and many great moments born out of them this year, but that one truly stands out for this longtime Spider reader. PotatoPope says: It’s a good list with some nice surprises. I gotta agree with a few commenters, I thought TopCow’s Artifacts would be up there. It was only of the few “events” I read this year. I’m glad that even though Herc got brought into Spider-Island it still mocked it. sitara119 says: love the top 2. would have loved to see hellboy’s the fury somewhere on here.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line110
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We and our partners (including but not limited to e-commerce partners, affiliates, and analytics providers) also may use technologies such as pixel tags, e-tags, IP addresses, Local Shared Objects, Local Storage, Flash cookies and HTML5 to analyze trends; administer the Services; collect and store information such as user settings, anonymous browser identifiers and video viewing history; supplement our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement; track users’ location and movements around the Services; gather demographic information about our user base; and to improve our understanding of traffic on the Services, visitor behavior, and responses to promotional campaigns. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these third party companies on an individual and aggregated basis. For example, we may connect information about your IP address to known corporate or User Information and use the associated information related to aggregate content preferences to assist in our efforts to market services to you or the originating corporation(s). Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing Local Storage. To manage Flash Local Shared Objects please click here. We may use mobile analytics software to collect data and to better understand the functionality of our mobile software, devices and applications on your phone and other devices. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We may link this information to User Information. Joswithphil and/or certain third parties may collect information about you for online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) purposes in order for you to receive relevant interest-based advertising on the Services and on other websites, platforms and media channels. OBA is also referred to as interest-based advertising. Joswithphil displays ads on both the Services and on the Channels. We may use Online Data as well as other User Information to send you OBA. For example, if you read an article about a particular subject on the Services, we may use cookies from a vendor to later serve you an advertisement for a particular product or service related to the viewed article. These third party vendors may connect information about pages you visit on the Services with information about pages you visit on other Channels and show you advertising based on this combined information. These advertisements may appear when you are visiting a different section of the Services or on another Channel. Likewise, third party vendors may serve you advertisements when you visit the Services based on your interaction with the Services and other Channels. The specific providers we use for OBA are subject to change. For a list of some of the applicable providers, click here. For information about how to opt out of tracking methods for these entities and others, click here. For more details about OBA and opting out, see Section 15 below. Online Data is aggregated with the Other Information and data we collect as described in this Privacy Policy and/or similar data collected by partners to create groups of users and certain general-interest categories or segments that we have inferred based on (a) demographic or interest data and GeoIP Data, (b) the pages you view and links you click when viewing an email or using the Services and those of our partners, and/or (c) the search terms you enter when using certain search services. We use this information to get a more accurate picture of audience interests in order to serve ads we believe are more relevant to your interests. We store page views, clicks and search terms used for ad personalization targeting separately from your Personal Information. Summary – Lawful Basis for Processing User Information We may Process your User Information where: you have given your consent; the Processing is necessary for a contract between you and us; the Processing is required by applicable law; the Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of any individual; or where we have a valid legitimate interest in the Processing. In Processing your User Information in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases, depending on the circumstances: Consent: We may Process your User Information where we have obtained your prior, express consent to the Processing (this legal basis is only used in relation to Processing that is entirely voluntary – it is not used for Processing that is necessary or obligatory in any way); Contractual necessity: We may Process your User Information where the Processing is necessary in connection with any contract that you may enter into with us; Compliance with applicable law: We may Process your User Information where the Processing is required by applicable law; Vital interests: We may Process your User Information where the Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of any individual; or Legitimate interests: We may Process your User Information where we have a legitimate interest in carrying out the Processing for the purpose of managing, operating or promoting our business, and that legitimate interest is not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms. Summary – Disclosure of User Information to Third Parties We may disclose your User Information to: legal and regulatory authorities; our external advisors; parties who Process User Information on our behalf (“Processors”); any party as necessary in connection with legal proceedings; any party as necessary for investigating, detecting or preventing criminal offences; any purchaser of our business; and any third party providers of advertising, plugins or content used on the Services. We may disclose your User Information to other entities within the Company group, for legitimate business purposes (including operating the Services, and providing services to you), in accordance with applicable law. In addition, we may disclose your User Information to: legal and regulatory authorities, upon request, or for the purposes of reporting any actual or suspected breach of applicable law or regulation; outside professional advisors (such as accountants, auditors, or lawyers), subject to binding contractual obligations of confidentiality; third party Processors (such as analytic providers; data centers; etc.), located anywhere in the world, subject to the requirements noted below in this Section 9; any relevant party, law enforcement agency or court, to the extent necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal rights; any relevant party for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security; any relevant third party acquirer(s), in the event that we sell or transfer all or any relevant portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution or liquidation); any relevant third party provider, where our Services use third party advertising, plugins or content. If you choose to interact with any such advertising, plugins or content, information about your activities on the Services and Channels to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests may be shared with the relevant third party provider. If you click or tap on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria; any sponsors of contests, competitions, sweepstakes and prize draws, or white papers, webcasts or other downloads, the registration data for such events is to be used by us as part of User Information, and may be shared with the sponsor and others, subject to this Policy and the sponsor’s privacy policy. We may also share your information with third party vendors involved in the administration of such events. For contests, competitions, sweepstakes and prize draws, please read the official rules or terms and conditions carefully before you submit your information; and to third parties whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy (e.g., third party providers of goods and services, marketing and advertising companies and agencies, content publishers and retailers). For some of our Services, we may make some information, such as the name of our users, their mailing address, phone number, email address—and in certain circumstances their employer’s name, company size and other industry data—available on a rental or other basis (e.g., sale) to third party providers of goods and services, for example, when such information is provided in connection with webcasts, white papers or other sponsored downloads. When you use a co-branded service (a service operated with a partner of Joswithphil), or register or otherwise provide information on a co-branded site, you grant us permission to pass the collected information back to that partner, which may include third party service providers whose services are embedded into and/or appear within the Services; With respect to surveys, in the event that responses are publicly disclosed, users will be notified at the time they take the survey. Otherwise we will disclose only aggregate information regarding its users’ responses in surveys to other participants in the survey. Where surveys allow users to submit written comments, and where Joswithphil advises users of the possibility of such disclosure at the time they take the survey, Joswithphil reserves the right to disclose any information provided by users, provided that no User Information identifying a specific user is disclosed. Joswithphil and some of our advertisers may use third party advertising service companies to serve advertisements, for OBA or otherwise, and perform related services when you interact with the Services. Often, these third party advertising companies employ cookies and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of website, app and email advertisements and to create a record of interaction with our content that they use in conjunction with their advertising which appears on other sites or applications, or for reporting website traffic, app use, statistics, advertisement data and/or other activities on the Services. We also engage third party providers to assist with the segmentation of this data. We may also sell or transfer Online Data to certain third parties such as advertisers who will use this data to serve ads that they believe are relevant to your interests, and who agree to maintain the confidentiality of this information. Some of these third parties may combine the Online Data with their own data about you to form a more detailed picture. We may engage third party providers to assist with the collection, storage and segmentation of Online Data and the providers are required to maintain the confidentiality of this information. These third party providers may collect User Information from our Services for their own purposes, including but not limited to monitoring fraud around the web. We may also engage third parties for the purpose of recognizing our users and delivering interest-based content and advertisements to them. We may share your User Information with our partners such as your name, postal address, email, or other identifier. Our partners may also: (i) collect information directly from your device, such as your IP address, device ID, advertising ID, and information about your browser or operating system; (ii) combine User Information about you received from Joswithphil with information about you from other sites or services; and (iii) place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. If we engage a third-party Processor to Process your User Information, the Processor will be subject to binding contractual obligations to: (i) only Process the User Information in accordance with our prior written instructions; and (ii) use measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the User Information; together with any additional requirements under applicable law. The Services contain links to other sites or partners whose information practices may be different from ours. You should consult the privacy policy of these third parties to learn how your privacy is protected. Summary – International Transfers of Information We may transfer your Personal Information to recipients in other countries. Joswithphil participates in the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield, the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield and the APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules System. Where we transfer User Information from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) to a recipient outside the EEA that is not in an adequate jurisdiction, we do so on the basis of standard contractual clauses. Because of the international nature of our business, we may need to transfer your User Information within the Joswithphil group of companies, and to third parties as noted in Section 9 above, in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy. For this reason, we may transfer your User Information to other countries that may have different laws and data protection compliance requirements to those that apply in the country in which you are located. Joswithphil participate in and have certified its compliance with the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. Joswithphil is committed to subjecting all Personal Information received from European Union (E.U.) member countries and Switzerland, in reliance on the Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List. Joswithphil is responsible for the processing of Personal Information it receives under the Privacy Shield Framework and subsequent transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Joswithphil complies with the Privacy Shield principles for all onward transfers of Personal Information from the E.U. and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions. With respect to Personal Information received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, Joswithphil is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Joswithphil may be required to disclose Personal Information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If you are a European individual with a privacy related complaint, concern or question about Joswithphil’ privacy practices, please contact us by writing to [email protected] (must include “Privacy Policy” in the subject line) and we will respond within a reasonable time after receiving your request. Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, European individuals may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted. Where we transfer your Personal Information from the EEA to recipients located outside the EEA who are not in a jurisdiction that has been formally designated by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for Personal Information, we do so on the basis of standard contractual clauses. You may request a copy of the relevant standard contractual clauses using the contact details provided in Section 17 below. Please note that when you transfer any Personal Information directly to a Company entity established outside the EEA, we are not responsible for that transfer of your Personal Information. We will nevertheless Process your Personal Information, from the point at which we receive the data, in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy. Joswithphil privacy practices described in this Privacy Policy comply with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) Cross Border Privacy Rules System. To learn more about this program, please click here. Please note that we may use data collected by a third party operator/licensee of localized versions or editions of Services. Summary – Data Security We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your User Information. Please ensure that any Personal Information that you send to us is sent securely. We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your User Information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized access, and other unlawful or unauthorized forms of Processing, in accordance with applicable law. In certain instances we may use Secure Sockets Layer encryption and/or transfer certain User Information in a non-human readable format to provide protection. However, we cannot guarantee there will not be a breach, and we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of any third parties. Because the internet is an open system, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will implement reasonable measures to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us using the internet. Any such transmission is at your own risk and you are responsible for ensuring that any Personal Information that you send to us are sent securely. Summary – Data Accuracy We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information is kept accurate and up-to-date and are erased or rectified if we become aware of inaccuracies. We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information that we Process is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date, and any of your User Information that we Process that you inform us is inaccurate (having regard to the purposes for which they are Processed) is erased or rectified. Summary – Data Minimization We take every reasonable step to limit the volume of your User Information that we Process to what is necessary. We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information that we Process is limited to the User Information reasonably necessary in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy or as required to provide you services or access to the Services. Summary – Data Retention We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information is only retained for as long as they are needed. Online Data related to OBA is kept by Joswithphil for not more than 180 days after which it will expire, subject to certain conditions. We take every reasonable step to ensure that your User Information is only Processed for the minimum period necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. The criteria for determining the duration for which we will keep your User Information are as follows: we will retain copies of your User Information in a form that permits identification only for as long as is necessary in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy, unless applicable law requires a longer retention period. Unless there is a specific legal requirement for us to keep the information, we plan to retain it for no longer than is necessary to fulfill a legitimate business need. Except as may be set forth in this Privacy Policy, Online Data related to OBA is retained by Joswithphil for not more than 180 days after which it shall expire. However, the 180 day period may commence again if the same user subsequently visits or interacts with an ad, email, the Services or a Channel. Summary – What Can I Do to Control My Information? You can directly take steps to change your preferences for newsletters and online behavioral advertising as outlined in this section. If you are an EU resident, you may have certain rights including: the right not to provide your Personal Information to us; the right of access to your Personal Information; the right to request rectification of inaccuracies; the right to request the erasure, or restriction of Processing, of your Personal Information; the right to object to the Processing of your Personal Information; the right to have your Personal Information transferred to another controller; the right to withdraw consent; and the right to lodge complaints with supervisory authorities. We may require proof of or need to verify your identity before we can give effect to these rights. You may directly take steps to change your preferences as follows: Your Newsletter and Email Subscriptions. You can opt out or unsubscribe to a newsletter or other email list at any time by following the instructions at the end of the newsletters or emails you receive. Please allow five to ten business days for changes to take effect. On some Services, member service-related communications are an integral part of such Services to which you subscribe and you may continue to receive emails as part of that particular portion of the Services unless you cancel your account, even if you opt out of the newsletters or email list. If you have provided more than one email address to us, you may continue to be contacted unless you request to unsubscribe each email address you have provided. Push Notifications. We send you push notifications from time-to-time in order to update you about any events or promotions that we may be running. If you no longer wish to receive these types of communications, you may turn them off at the device level. To ensure you receive proper notifications, we will need to collect certain information about your device such as operating system and user identification information. OBA. Joswithphil is a member of the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) in the U.S., E.U. and Canada and uses third party assurance platforms to comply with the DAA principles. Joswithphil strives to adhere to the self-regulatory organization principles for the DAA (US), the DAAC (Canada) and the EDAA (EU). Online ads on the Services using Online Data are delivered with the DAA Ad Marker Icon , which helps users understand how their data is being used and provides choices for users who want more control. This icon is also on each of our web pages and applications where Online Data is collected that will be used for OBA purposes. The DAA Ad Marker Icon provides information (and links to other information) on online behavioral ads, who is collecting and using your Online Data, how you can opt out and more. If you would prefer that we not collect Online Data that may be used to help determine which advertisements to serve you, opt out by clicking this icon , which can be found on most of our webpages and mobile applications. European Union and Switzerland residents should visit the European DAA by clicking here. Canadian residents should visit the DAA of Canada by clicking here. U.S. residents and residents of all other countries or territories not listed above can click here for the DAA site to learn more about the use of cookies, your opt-out choices, and more. Cookies and Pixel Tags. You may stop or restrict cookies and pixel tags on your computer or purge cookies from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences. However, if you “turn off,” purge, or disable cookies or pixel tags, although you may still use the Services, you may not be able to use all of the features, functions, or services available on the Services. Location Based Services. You may opt-out of having your Precise Location Data collected by Joswithphil at any time by editing the appropriate setting on your mobile device (which is usually located in the Settings area of your device). California Residents. In accordance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, we may collect Personal Information about your online activities when you use the Services. While we give our users many avenues to opt out of providing Personal Information, we do not respond to Web browsers’ “do not track” signals. California’s “Shine the Light” law, Civil Code Section 1798.83, permits our users who are California residents to periodically request and obtain certain information about any Personal Information disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and wish to make such a request or if you wish for us to refrain from gathering your Personal Information, please submit your request in writing to the contact details set out in Section 17 below. EU Residents. GDPR provides certain rights for EU residents. You may decline to share certain information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide some of the features and functionality of the Services. These rights include, in accordance with applicable law, the right to object to or request the restriction of processing of your information, and to request access to, rectification, erasure and portability of your own information. Where we process your information on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent (noting that such withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of any Processing performed prior to the date on which we receive notice of such withdrawal, and does not prevent the Processing of your Personal Information in reliance upon any other available legal bases). Requests should be submitted by contacting us (using the contact instructions in Section 17 below). If you are an EU resident and have any unresolved privacy concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily after contacting us, you have the right to contact the appropriate EU Supervisory Authority and lodge a complaint. Summary – Terms of Use For all other Services, the Joswithphil Terms of Use will govern. For more information concerning your use of all other Services, please visit the Joswithphil Terms of Use. The Joswithphil Terms of Use is incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review our Terms of Use regularly, in order to review any changes we might make from time to time. Summary – Contact Details You may contact us at the addresses set out below or by emailing [email protected] Joswithphil Attention: Legal Department If you are an EU resident, you may contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] If you have any comments, questions or concerns about any of the information in this Policy, or any other issues relating to the Processing of User Information carried out by us, or on our behalf, please contact: Our Data Protection Officer may be contacted at [email protected] If you have an unresolved concern regarding your privacy or our use of data that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) by clicking here. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and all changes will be effective at the time we post them. If we believe there is a significant change to this Privacy Policy or our data collection and use practices, we will indicate on our websites that our Privacy Policy has changed prior to the change becoming effective. The then-posted version of the Privacy Policy supersedes all prior versions. Your continued access to or use of any of the Services shall be deemed your acceptance of the Privacy Policy. We urge you to come back to this web page and review this Privacy Policy regularly so that you remain aware of the terms and conditions that apply to you. Monday, January 11th 2021 - 00:04:23 AM	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line126
__label__cc	0.722152	0.277848	Food From England - Rallying Call To the food lovers and the food trade of the UK, The past eight months has seen disaster and innovation within the regional food & drink sector, possibly in equal measure. We have witnessed the rise and fall of our artisan cheesemakers and watched with sadness as our cousins in food service saw their trade plummet overnight. This has been balanced by independent retailers attracting new customers, adopting the internet as a tool to keep them, and unearthing previously unknown suppliers from their area to broaden the retail offer. Suddenly the connection between maker, retailer and consumer has become closer, simpler and more friendly. And friends rally in a crisis. The local food & drink sector was relatively close-knit before COVID-19 but that community spirit has led to a unique network of over 20 organisations coming together with the collective aim of becoming a strong face for British food and drink. Providing a voice and support for thousands of SMEs, this network will enable the retention of new customers, stimulate business growth and strengthen regional identities without compromising national opportunities. The stakeholders, who between them have inimitable connections with the market, are working underneath the banner of Food from England, a name that reflects the good work and support of the past and introduces a compelling list of aims and objectives for the future: ● Provide a voice for small producers in response to Covid-19 and Brexit, highlighting the impact of both and identifying routes for support. ● Link directly to appropriate government departments for access to business intelligence, representing micro and small producers. ● Encourage and develop initiatives that increase sales of local regional food and drink through independent retail and agri-food tourism. Food from England will establish the framework and create a voice. We need the support of those within the food & drink trade, but more importantly we need the new shoppers who have recently discovered their local producers and independent retailers. In the last four months many of you will have visited your local shop and been impressed by the range, value and the service level. Those businesses need your support as we emerge from this crisis and, we hope, into a better society. By supporting your local deli, farm shop, butcher, cheese shop, community and village store, you support your regional producers and your local pound. You’ll reduce the globalisation of food, you’ll discover seasonality and you’ll realise new flavours, quality, and the personality of the maker in what you eat. We urge you to reflect on this in the run up to Christmas, a critical trading period for all SMEs involved in food and drink. There must be a societal benefit to this awful crisis we have all endured, and as a collective we hope that it will force us all to find a simpler way to live, eat and drink. Cornwall Food and Drink, Cotswold Taste ,Deliciouslyorkshire, Dorset Food and Drink, Eat Sleep Live Herefordshire, Food and Drink Forum, Food and Drink North East, Food Drink Devon, Great Food Club, Guild of Fine Food, Hampshire Fare, Lincolnshire LEP, Lincolnshire Showground, Made in Derbyshire, Made in Northamptonshire, Produced in Northumberland, Produced in Kent, Proudly Norfolk, Rural Community Council of Essex, Shropshire Festivals, Sussex Food Network, Taste Cheshire, Taste of the West, Three Counties Food & Drink Co Ltd, Worcestershire Food and Drink, Worcestershire Regulatory Services, Young Foodies.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line129
__label__cc	0.638526	0.361474	Featured News, Top Stories Election Night Confusion: What Patriots Need to Know By: Safiya Khan, Mason Votes 2020 Online Editorial Team Photo by Marco Verch/wuestenigel (CC BY 2.0) The election is not 19 days away…the election is now. Every day, hundreds of thousands of Americans send in their absentee ballots or vote early at their local registrar’s office. As November 3rd rapidly approaches, it is important that voters mentally prepare themselves for an election night without a clear winner. Media organizations usually have enough information to declare a winner on election night based on actual ballots counted and projections (estimates) of outstanding ballots yet to be counted. But the unusual circumstance of conducting a national election during a global pandemic may mean that Americans have to wait days, or even weeks, before a clear winner emerges. Some states prohibit counting of early or mail-in votes before Election Day, and the deadline for returning mail-in ballots varies by state, making an accurate and complete national count on election night all but impossible. For example, mail-in ballots in Virginia must be postmarked by Tuesday, November 3rd and received no later than noon on Friday, November 6th. Ohio is accepting ballots up to ten days after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Monday, November 2nd. This means that clear results will not be known for at least a few days. With no obvious winner, it can be expected that misinformation will spread in abundance, leading to potential legal challenges by the campaigns and prompting citizens to question the integrity of the election. We have already seen efforts by the Trump administration to undermine election integrity in the minds of voters by by instituting major mail processing and delivery changes at the United States Postal Service. New leadership, new procedures, and misleading tweets have all been used to foster doubt about the reliability of mail-in ballots. While platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have taken precautions in an attempt to prevent election misinformation, there is still a lot of misleading content slipping through the cracks. To some degree, partisan noise and misinformation is unavoidable, but here are a few steps Patriots can take to potentially help reduce the confusion and questions on election night: Vote Early Early voting is taking place at all local registrar offices in Virginia until October 31st, the Sunday before election day. Virginia’s officials made the decision to open voting as early as September 18th, giving citizens the option to vote up to 45 days in advance. No form is needed when showing up to the registrars’ office, just a valid photo ID. Vote by Mail (Absentee) Vote from the safety of your own home by requesting an absentee ballot before the deadline of Friday, October 23rd at 5pm. Make sure to follow all instructions and return your ballot before the deadline! You can find more information in a recent Mason Votes article titled “Make a Plan to Vote,” that has links to request a ballot, track your ballot, and some tips for voting in-person on election day. If you are not high risk and would prefer to vote in person, wear a mask and show up to the polls as if it were any other election but be sure to expect long lines. All that is needed is a valid photo ID. And patience! While this election night will be unlike any other, we all have the power to make sure our vote is counted and avoid distraction by staying informed. Make your voice heard by voting in Election 2020 using the method that is best for you! Read our student Guide to Voting for early vote locations, deadlines, and links to request a ballot. Photo by Marco Verch / wuestenigel (CC BY 2.0)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line137
__label__cc	0.533944	0.466056	It's Just Movies Posters & Trailers The Top 5 … Man of Steel: Empire Images — by JOSUE SANCHEZ — I still remember the first official photo that was released for “Man of Steel.” It showed so much, yet so little. Speculation ran wild about Superman’s suit, about his hair, even about his muscles. Now, months later, we have seen the suit in its entirety in the trailer, other behind the scenes photos, and even leaked photos of toys and statuettes. But, in my opinion, none of those compare to this fantastic new cover photo for March’s edition of Empire magazine. Here, we have an up close and personal look at our new Man of Steel, played by Henry Cavill. His muscles are popping right in front of our eyes; his suit is in glorious detail. Sure, some are still going on about the suit being too dark, and the missing trousers, but for now, this is the suit we have and, personally, I have really grown accustomed to it. The suit has the feel of alien armor, but with a kind of royalty and prestige. This is the gift from an alien father, and until it gets destroyed or damaged, I can see him wearing it with pride, standing tall with the honor. He is the last son of Krypton. Perhaps his mom will sew him a new one for future installments. We also have a clear first look at Zod, played by Michael Shannon. He has a medieval-yet-futuristic-warrior-like look that hints us at what to expect for the movie. He is going be the villain of the movie, and it is nice to see him also in high definition, so that we can start learning what Earth’s threat in “Man of Steel” is really going to look like. And based on this photo, he seems like a force to reckon with. And finally, we get another great look at Russell Crowe’s Jor-El, nothing different to what we have seen before, but fantastic nevertheless. This movie is really shaping up nicely, and I have noticed more and more folks coming around to it. “Man of Steel” will fly into theaters on June 14. It stars Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Christopher Meloni, Michael Shannon, Lawrence Fishburne and many more. Follow Josue Sanchez on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Josue_can. And don’t forget to “Like” It’s Just Movies on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itsjustmovies. Tags: "Man of Steel", "Superman", Henry Cavill, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe Posted 11 Feb 2013 by Josue Sanchez in Features, Superheroes ← Speed Filmmaking Contest Calls for Entries Will Halle Berry Play Storm Again? → "Batman" "Captain America" "Catching Fire" "Green Lantern" "Harry Potter" "Iron Man" "Man of Steel" "Spider-Man" "Star Wars" "Superman" "The Avengers" "The Hunger Games" "Thor" "Wonder Woman" "X-Men" Amy Adams Anne Hathaway Bradley Cooper Brandon Routh Chris Evans Chris Hemsworth Christopher Nolan Daniel Craig DC Comics Disney Emma Stone George Clooney George Lucas Jennifer Lawrence Johnny Depp Jon Favreau Joseph Gordon-Levitt Josh Hutcherson Liam Neeson Marvel Comics Music Video Natalie Portman Peter Jackson Pixar Robert Downey Jr. Ryan Reynolds Tim Burton Tom Cruise Warner Bros. Zack Snyder Exclusive Interview: The Cast of Anna Review: My Darling Vivian Exclusive Interview: Actress Dia Frampton Review: Wander Review: Born to Be Jaws Gets New Life in Los Angeles Review: Neither Confirm Nor Deny Exclusive Interview: Director Jimmy Olsson Review: Jacinta Review: A La Calle It's Just Movies on Facebook It's Just Movies © 2021 All Rights Reserved. WordPress 5.1.8 .	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line141
__label__wiki	0.662266	0.662266	OMNI; NORTH KOREA NEWSLETTER #7, OCTOBER 29, 2017 NORTH KOREA NEWSLETTER #7, Threatening War, Seeking Peace Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice. (#1 July 19, 2012; #2 April 13, 2012; #3, Jan. 19, 2016; #4, Feb. 10, 2016; #5, March 12, 2016; #6, July 9, 2017). What’s at stake: “Throughout [post-WWII] there was a huge invisible lacuna in the official imagination: thinking about how to make peace. That is what a Cold War is about; even though we are at peace we do not think about preserving peace, but about making war. Perhaps it is easier, because making war depends precisely on technical skills with material objects, whereas making peace means dealing with fellow human beings. Not so easy, Not as satisfying, if domination is the objective.” Diana Johnstone in From Mad to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning by Paul H. Johnstone (pp. 29-30). Contents: North Korea Newsletter #7, October 29, 2017 Threatening War Dick Bennett: Headlines Threatening War: the White House/Pentagon/Mainstream Media Complex Jon Schwartz and Suki Kim on NK in The Intercept Dick Bennett: Peace Achieved 1991-2, and Again 2016-17? Kim Il Sung/Jimmy Carter/Kim Jong Un and Bill Clinton/Jimmy Carter/Donald Trump Dick Bennett: Summary: BombasticTit for Tat. Art Hobson: Make Peace with North Korea Jimmy Carter Offers to Meet With Kim Jong Un Dick Bennett: See the World as Others See It—J. William Fulbright and the Role of Empathy in Making Peace Stop Anti-Ballistic THAAD Innovate! Valerie Plame: Use the System to Stop War-Mongers Take Action with PeaceAction NK Newsletter #6 WE HAVE LEARNED NOTHING: SHOWS OF FORCE--TRUMP, PENTAGON, CORPORATE MEDIA US bellicosity turned up in August, continued into September and October 2017, and is fully displayed untampered, unbalanced in Arkansas’ statewide war newspaper. Were the headlines intended to inspire war spirit or to frighten the enemy? If the latter, they failed completely, if the former they were successful as measured by the passive public.. NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, HEADLINES, SEPTEMBER 2017 “U.S., S. Korea Jets in Show of Force” 9-1 “Japan Debates Pre-Emptive Strike” 9-3 “U.S. Warns N. Korea of ‘Massive’ Response” 9-4 “U.S. Near End of Rope with Kim, U.N. Hears” 9-5 “Russian Rebuffs N. Korea Sanctions” 9-6 (not about this but mainly compiles US and SK threats and why NK will continue to nuclearize) “Trump Spurns Talk with North Korea” 9-7 “North Korea Broke Rules, U.N. Says” 9-10 “Sanctions ‘No Big Deal,’ Worse Awaits North Korea, Trump Says” 9-13 “Korean Tensions Remain High” 9-14 “N. Korea Vows No Nuke Slowdown” 9-14 “South Korea Says North Has Fired Another Missile…Over Japan” 9-15 “U.N. Berates N. Korea Over Latest Launch.” 9-16 “N. Korean Says Goals in Reach. Kim Touts Missile Test” 9-17 “Trump Mocks North Korea’s ‘Rocket Man’” 9-18 “U.S. Jets Join S. Korea, Japan in Drills” 9-19 “N. Korea Risks War, Trump Says at U.N.” 9-20 “Trump Steps Up Sanctions on N. Korea” 9-22 ”Trump, Kim Trade Digs: ‘Madman,’ ’U.S. Dotard.’’” 9-23 “U.S. Bombers, Fighters Fly Closer to N. Korea.” 9-24 “N. Korea Claims Right to Fire on U.S. Warplanes.” 9-26 Headlines from other media: “At U.N., Trump warns U.S. may have to 'totally destroy' North Korea” by Steve Holland and Jeff Mason. Reuters, ‎Tuesday‎, ‎September‎ ‎19‎, ‎2017. Jump ahead to October 2017. “Get Americans Out Drill Set in S. Korea.” 10-17. Kim Tong-Hyung. (AP). “U.S. Reaffirms N. Korea Effort.” 10-19. “U.S. Carrier Visits S. Korea After Drills.” (AP). 10-22. ziDD Tpms;f Trshsm “N. Korea Nuke Threat Growing, Mattis Says. U.S. Will Repel Any Attack, He Tells S. Korea.” 10-29. On the same day p. 7A: Matthew Pennington (AP), “Russia Voice Grows in N. Korea.” https://theintercept.com/2017/09/04/undercover-in-north-korea-all-paths-lead-to-catastrophe/ Jon Schwarz. “Undercover in North Korea: ‘All Paths Lead to Catastrophe.” The Intercept (September 4, 2017). UNDERCOVER IN NORTH KOREA: “ALL PATHS LEAD TO CATASTROPHE” Jon Schwarz September 4 2017, Foto: Suki Kim THE MOST ALARMING aspect of North Korea’s latest nuclear test, and the larger standoff with the U.S., is how little is known about how North Korea truly functions. For 70 years it’s been sealed off from the rest of the world to a degree hard to comprehend, especially at a time when people in Buenos Aires need just one click to share cat videos shot in Kuala Lumpur. Few outsiders have had intimate contact with North Korean society, and even fewer are in a position to talk about it. One of the extremely rare exceptions is novelist and journalist Suki Kim. Kim, who was born in South Korea and moved to the U.S. at age 13, spent much of 2011 teaching English to children of North Korea’s elite at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. Kim had visited North Korea several times before and had written about her experiences for Harper’s Magazine and the New York Review of Books. Incredibly, however, neither Kim’s North Korean minders nor the Christian missionaries who founded and run PUST realized that she was there undercover to engage in some of history’s riskiest investigative journalism. Although all of PUST’s staff was kept under constant surveillance, Kim kept notes and documents on hidden USB sticks and her camera’s SIM card. If her notes had been discovered, she almost certainly would have been accused of espionage and faced imprisonment in the country’s terrifying labor camps. In fact, of the three Americans currently detained in North Korea, two were teachers at PUST. Moreover, the Pentagon has in fact used a Christian NGO as a front for genuine spying on North Korea. But Kim was never caught, and she returned to the U.S. to write her extraordinary 2014 book, “Without You, There Is No Us.” The title comes from the lyrics of an old North Korean song; the “you” is Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un’s father. Kim’s book is particularly important for anyone who wants to understand what happens next with North Korea. Her experience made her extremely pessimistic about every aspect of the country, including the regime’s willingness to renounce its nuclear weapons program. North Korea functions, she believes, as a true cult, with all of the country’s pre-cult existence now passed out of human memory. Most ominously, her students, all young men in their late teens or early 20s, were firmly embedded in the cult. With the Kim family autocracy now on its third generation, you’d expect the people who actually run North Korea to have abandoned whatever ideology they started with and degenerated into standard human corruption. But PUST’s enrollees, their children, did not go skiing in Gstaad on school breaks; they didn’t even appear to be able to travel anywhere within North Korea. Instead they studied the North Korea ideology of “juche,” or worked on collective farms. Unsurprisingly, then, Kim’s students were shockingly ignorant of the outside world. They didn’t recognize pictures of the Taj Mahal or Egyptian pyramids. One had heard that everyone on earth spoke Korean because it was recognized as the world’s most superior language. Another believed that the Korean dish naengmyeon was seen as the best food on earth. And all of Kim’s pupils were soaked in a culture of lying, telling her preposterous falsehoods so often that she writes, “I could not help but think that they – my beloved students – were insane.” Nonetheless, they were still recognizably human and charmingly innocent and for their part, came to adore their teachers. Overall, “Without You, There Is No Us” is simply excruciatingly sad. All of Korea has been the plaything of Japan, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China, and like most Korean families, Kim has close relatives who ended up in North Korea when the country was separated and have never been seen again. Korea is now, Kim says, irrevocably ruptured: It occurred to me that it was all futile, the fantasy of Korean unity, the five thousand years of Korean identity, because the unified nation was broken, irreparably, in 1945 when a group of politicians drew a random line across the map, separating families who would die without ever meeting again, with all their sorrow and anger and regret unrequited, their bodies turning to earth, becoming part of this land … behind the children of the elite who were now my children for a brief time, these lovely, lying children, I saw very clearly that there was no redemption here. The Intercept spoke recently to Kim about her time in North Korea and the insight it gives her on the current crisis. MORE https://theintercept.com/2017/09/04/undercover-in-north-korea-all-paths-lead-to-catastrophe/ You should read her dark revelations of NK’s totalitarian rigidity, and her and Schwarz’s notes about how it became that way. For example, from Schwarz: “Essentially no Americans know what happened between 1945 and the start of the Korean War. And few Americans know what happened during the war.” [Syngman Rhee, the U.S.-installed ultra right-wing South Korean dictator, massacred tens of thousands of South Koreans before North Korea invaded in 1950. Rhee’s government executed another 100,000 South Koreans in the war’s early months. Then the barbaric U.S. air war against North Korea killed perhaps one-fifth of its population.]” [Much of this history is cited in my six newsletters on NK, #6: http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/07/omni-north-korea-newsletter-6-korean-war.html For one source especially see Bruce Cumings’ books on NK and the Korean War. –Dick Is Peace or Domination the Goal? North Korea (NK) and US: 1991-2 and 2016-17, Kim Il Sung/Kim Jong Un and Bill Clinton/Donald Trump by Dick Bennett. September 2017. Joseph Gerson in Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World, briefly but densely traces the dangerous confrontation between Kim Il Sung and Bill Clinton and its relaxation during 1991-2 (“Clinton and Korea,” 225-232). The story of two histories contains many lessons for the US today. 1. US (mainly) and NK nuclear war threatening and 2. Diplomacy, occasionally but once crucially and briefly successfully. (Pages 225-6 offer significant background leading up to the Clinton administration.) Cold War Ends: NK loses Soviet protection and Soviet and Chinese subsidies. US threatens sanctions and nuclear strikes. NK begins and then expands its nuclear research at Yongbyon. President Bush I withdraws US nuclear weapons from SK, but US retains nuclear capable Tomahawk cruise missiles, its Seventh Fleet armada, and 45,000 troops in some 100 US installations across SK. 1991: Bush I labels NK a “nuclear rogue” state. Pentagon chief Cheney cancels scheduled US troop reductions in Korea. Chicago Tribune calls for preemptive US attacks against NK’s nuclear infrastructure. US OpPlan 5007 for conquering NK and unifying Korea, though little was understood of the unimaginable, cataclysmic consequences of US nuclear attack. Bill Clinton Becomes President 1991 In Feb. CIA Dir. Woolsey: NK “the most grave current concern.” “Team Spirit” military exercises targeting NK resumed. March: “tens of thousands of US warriors, B-1 and B-52 bombers, and warships armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles” deployed around NK. In response Kim Il Sung announced NK “would withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.” [Kim Il Sung remembered: “…it was we ‘who first produced and tested’ the bomb, we who were ‘the first to raise its destructiveness to a new level with the hydrogen bomb…and we alone, so help us God, who have used the weapon in anger against others, and against tens of thousands of helpless noncombatants at that.’” Jonathan Schell, The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now. 26.] Joint Chiefs warn Clinton: no negotiations; punish NK. US State Dept. officials with Ambassador Robert Galluci and NK’s UN delegation leaders meet and frame possible US assurances (pledge to cease threatening, continue dialogue), if NK would tone down and remain in NPT. SK leaders outraged over not being consulted. IAEA access to Yongbyon not ensured. Clinton visits SK and standing at the DMZ threatens: if ever NK used nuclear weapons “’it would be the end of their country as they know it,’” undermining ongoing efforts at diplomacy. Nevertheless, NK informed Galluci NK “would decommission its graphite nuclear reactors if the US replaced them” with reactors limited to nuclear power. Galluci supported the NK proposal, but it was rejected by the Washington establishment. UN’s IAEA announces NK won’t permit inspections. UN General Assembly orders immediate access. SK’s military head said a military intervention might be necessary. Les Aspin falsely accuses NK of massing forces along the DMZ. Clinton says NK could not develop a nuclear bomb, seeming to imply US was preparing attack. US Ambassador to SK James Laney warns Washington the militarist rhetoric and saber-rattling “could lead to an ‘accidental war.’” Preparations for next “Team Spirit” war games begin. A NK officer at Panmunjon told his counterpart that “if war breaks out, it will be a sea of fire” for SK. SK’s president puts it on TV. Galluci compares the crisis to the events triggering WWI. CIA: NK might be able to manufacture atom bombs with the fuel rods it possessed. Kim Il Sung and Clinton fiercely opposed over sanctions. In June 1991 Pentagon and Clinton prepare for war, with approval of majority of US public. The Turn to Peace Suddenly, NK’s chief negotiator proposes NK “would dismantle its nuclear reprocessing plant “ if US provides “light water reactors.” Then utterly unexpectedly, Kim Il Sung invites former President Carter to come to NK to explore solutions. Clinton accedes. And Carter is successful. The agreement: US end sanctions, US provide light water reactors, IAEA inspectors to remain, NK nuclear program to be dismantled. Clinton/Pentagon/Congress were “furious” they had not been consulted, but an agreement was signed, though neither side ever “fully honored their commitments.” (Page 231 recounts the cliff-hanging climax.) On the one hand, the US proclaimed a policy of “full-spectrum dominance” through threat of massive retaliation. “’Running the world’” especially “required threatening nuclear attacks against North Korea, China, Libya, and Iraq.” On the other, after losing Soviet protection and subsidies and suffering mass famine and isolation, for the NK “possession of a small deterrent nuclear arsenal was seen as a means to ensure the regime’s survival.” The US needed a Department of Peace instead of the Pentagon/White House truculence. But thanks to Galluci and Carter and other advocates of negotiation, for a short period of seeing the world as others see it, these two centers of unequal power and antagonistic perceptions of “enemies” were able to live together without terrifying each other and the world. As I wrote these words I remembered a passage in J. William Fulbright’s book, The Price of Empire. He was reflecting on the 1953 CIA overthrow of Iran’s elected prime minister Mosadeq, his replacement by the shah, and the eventual takeover of our embassy in Teheran by Iranians. “Outraged as we inevitably were by the seizure of our hostages, we were in no mood to reflect on the possibility that our intervention and subsequent support of the shah had perhaps not been such a good idea, or the possibility that our idea of a good society did not appeal to the Iranian people” (170). Similarly in 2017, US leaders wish to replace the NK government with one more agreeable to their views of good and evil, even though it might cause nuclear catastrophe. (Empire and the Bomb can be found at the Mullins Library, UAF, in the Main Library: U263 .G47 2007 and as an Internet Resource.) Dick Bennett: Bombastic Tit for Tat . Who Will Eat Grass? A Summary. During August and September the NADG swaggers or maybe staggers with the US and allied threats and NK missile and nuclear development. For example, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said the “Trump administration would seek the strongest possible sanctions against Kim Jong Un’s regime. Kim was ‘begging for war’ after testing what he claimed was a hydrogen bomb.” More threats will be cited below. The report of September 6 untypically reveals NK’s perspective. In reply to US/ allied threats Putin warns that the North Koreans “will eat grass” before they give up their nuclear program, “unless they feel secure.” But US/allies offered insecurity, threats, pressure. Therefore US and allies’ “policy of whipping up war hysteria” is futile and extremely dangerous, “and could lead to a ‘global catastrophe and a huge number’ of human casualties.” Jon Schwarz’s interview of Suki Kim in The Intercept (Sept. 4, 2017) says the same: “SK: Regime change is what they fear. That’s what the whole country is built on. JS: Even with a different kind of regime, it’s hard to argue that it would be rational for them to give up their nuclear weapons, after seeing what happened to Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi. SK: This is a very simple equation. There is no reason for them to give up nuclear weapons. Nothing will make them give them up.” [See her 2014 book, Without You, There Is No Us.] Similarly the North Koreans loathe Japanese threats. Japan “backed the U.S. ,“ and Prime Minister Taro Aso told reporters in Tokyo: “There’s no chance of talks progressing without increasing pressure.” But the Koreans have not forgotten the Japanese pressure during many years of brutal military occupation. So what is the solution? To Suki Kim, no solution is possible if the US and allies insist upon regime change or relinquishing the nuclear weapons. Putin is less absolute: “’There’s no other path except for a peaceful, diplomatic resolution of the North Korean nuclear problem.’” Putin as peacemaker is a role seldom reported by the still Cold War US newspapers. In contrast to Putin, the US gives tit-for-tat military force demonstrations. NK wants pressure, force? We’ll give it to them, just as we have earlier to Japan, Iraq, Libya, by freeing SK’s military from restraints imposed “since the 1970s”: allow SK to “ratchet up” its “defense” capabilities, “lift restrictions on South Korean missiles. . .allowing Seoul to improve its pre-emptive strike capabilities against the North.” [!!] And we are reminded that back in 2012 SK was allowed “to increase the range of its weapons from 186 miles to 497 miles” (to allow SK “to potentially target the North’s underground facilities and shelters”), and the US removed “a 1,100- pound warhead limit on South Korea’s maximum-range missiles.” Not only are the US and SK preparing missiles and bombs for offense, but in nuclear war defense is offense, because missile defense is essential to first strike readiness. “In addition to expanding its missile arsenal and holding military exercises, South Korea is strengthening its missile defense, which includes the high-tech Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery [THAAD] deployed in the southeastern county of Seongju.” The more numerous and the closer the THAAD shield gets to NK, the more urgently they perceive their development of more and better missiles and bombs; e.g., the “multistage, long-range missile to…carry smaller versions of those bombs.” On the 4th NK detonated its sixth nuclear bomb and in July launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles, which, “when perfected, could target the U.S. mainland. The North also threated to launch a salvo of Hwasong-123 intermediate range missiles toward” Guam, which NK perceives as a gigantic base for attacking it, with good reason, for its nuclear planes are in easy range of NK. NK feels surrounded. SK has about 28,000 US troops. And SK and NK have been in a “technical state of war since the Korean War ended in 1953.” The US and NK are repeating their tit-for-tat adolescent threatening of 1991 except that the stakes are immensely higher and no Galluci or Carter to compensate for the absence of a Department of Peace. Instead we have the Department of War: President Trump, Pentagon Secretary (of War) , and both houses of Congress! --Dick STOP THREATENING, MAKE PEACE Art Hobson: Make Peace with North Korea \| NWADG www.nwaonline.com/news/2017/oct/10/art-hobson-make-peace-with-north-korea-/ . U.S. policy helps increase tensions in world. By Art Hobson. Posted: October 10, 2017 at 1 a.m. Jimmy Carter Offers to Meet With Kim Jung Un to Avoid New Korean War. Jeong Yong-Soo and Sarah Kim, Korea JoongAng Daily. Reader Supported News. 11 October, 2017, AM. [See Dick’s Peace or Domination above.] Excerpt: "Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has expressed a desire to visit Pyongyang as a messenger between the United States and North Korea, Park Han-shik, an emeritus professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, said Sunday." For World Peace, See the World as Others See It By Dick Bennett. Broadcast on KPSQ Sat. July 22 about 8:50 A.M Usually discussion of empathy is personal and local. But it is also important for national and international affairs, and for world peace. Fayetteville’s native son, J. William Fulbright, exemplifies that belief. Fulbright was briefly president of the Univ. of Arkansas and later a U.S. senator and chair of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. He is perhaps best known for his international educational exchange program, partly based upon a philosophy of empathy defined as “the identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, etc., of another.” In his book The Price of Empire Fulbright explained his commitment to empathy in the conduct of national relations. His final chapter is titled “Seeing the World as Others See It,” and his “Afterword” describes “Changing Our Manner of Thinking.” “Why is it,” he asks, “that so much of the energy and intelligence of nations is used to make life painful and difficult for other peoples and nations, rather than to make life better for all?” His answer is: insufficient ability to perceive and feel the experience, the outlook, the feelings of others, including official national enemies. He notably opposed the Vietnam War and other US invasions, such as the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, and his opposition arose partly from his belief in the power for peace and justice in empathy. Thus it seems natural to ask how Fulbright might respond now to the confrontation between the United States and North Korea. An aspect of empathy is that knowledge of the other is essential. We must know the history, the feelings and thoughts of North Koreans. But our leaders make no effort to see the world as Kim Jong Un sees it, or as his father and grandfather saw it, despite the ample evidence of their worlds. Many books and articles give us the history of the ancient culture of Korea, by which we can know where the Kims are coming from, why for example they detest the Japanese who brutally occupied their country, and with whom the U.S. has formed a military alliance opposed to North Korea. At least five books—by I. F. Stone, Bruce Cumings, Hugh Deane, Martin Hart-Landsberg, and Charles Hanley--and many articles explain why the Korean War and its horrendous decimation by the United States of N. Korea’s cities and towns have such a powerful hold over Kim Jong Un’s mind. Armed with knowledge and understanding of the feelings and thoughts of the North Koreans, our leaders could break the present dangerous pattern of threatened nuclear devastation. NO TO U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE IN KOREA vETERANS FOR PEACE E-NEWS 7-21-17 TASK FORCE TO STOP THAAD IN KOREA AND MILITARISM IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Solidarity Peace Delegation to South Korea No to THAAD in Korea, Yes to Peace through Dialogue Solidarity Peace Delegation of the Task Force to Stop THAAD in Korea and Militarism in Asia and the Pacific and the Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation, July 2017 Under cover of darkness a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system was installed in Seongju City, ROK in April 26 this year, in spite of daily and growing opposition from local villagers and their nation-wide supporters and without official deliberation by South Korea’s governing bodies. Protesters correctly fear that its deployment will strain their country’s already delicate relationship with China, embolden militaristic and anti-democratic political forces in their own country, and exacerbate tensions between North and South Korea. They also worry about potential negative health and environmental effects associated with the operation of the THAAD radar system, and defilement of sacred lands like the nearby pilgrimage site of the Won Buddhist community. U.S. and some ROK officials claim the THAAD system will protect South Korea from the threat of North Korean missiles. However, because it is stationed 135 miles south of Seoul, virtually all observers agree that the 25 million Koreans living in the capital city area fall outside THAAD’s protective shield. Even more damning, missile defense expert, MIT physicist Ted Postol, adds there is no demonstrable evidence that THAAD is effective under live fire conditions with multiple incoming missiles and decoys. On the other hand, THAAD radar in South Korea has the capacity to monitor missile systems in China, which many suspect is a chief U.S. objective in insisting on stationing it in Korea. China has voiced its opposition to THAAD in Korea in no uncertain terms, enacted economic retributions against South Korea, and threatened an accelerated arms race. The U.S. THAAD deployment in South Korea is part of the U.S. “pivot” to the Asia Pacific. It expands the already significant network of U.S. missile defense systems encircling China and Russia. This effort to boost declining U.S. political and economic influence in the region comes at a high cost, however, to the American people. It diverts billions of dollars away from critical domestic needs at a time of decaying infrastructure, unprecedented economic inequality, and limited access to basic human services. It also compromises the principles as well as safety of peace-loving Americans by intensifying regional military tensions, fuelling a new arms race, and threatening a renewed outbreak of fighting on the Korean peninsula, this time involving nuclear weapons with unimaginable consequences for human life. The U.S. deployment of THAAD also complicates North/South Korean relations at a time when North Korea has offered to freeze its nuclear weapons program in exchange for an end to or significant reduction in annual U.S.-South Korea war games. This proposal was routinely rejected by the Obama administration. But today a growing number of respected U.S. officials and policy analysts such as Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Jane Harman, former congresswoman and head of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and William Perry, Secretary of Defense during the first Clinton administration, have expressed support for considering a freeze and halting war games as a first step toward addressing North Korea’s security concerns as well as those of the U.S, its allies, and China and Russia in light of North Korea’s progress in producing nuclear capable ICBMs. Most Americans know nothing about THAAD, the opposition of South Koreans to its deployment, or recent diplomatic overtures by North Korea to reduce tensions on the peninsula. Even fewer remember the Korean War, are aware that the U.S. retains war time control over South Korea’s armed forces, or understand the desire of the Korean people to achieve the peaceful reunification of their country. Yet, these unknowns should be of vital concern to people in the United States. Should the fragile armistice agreement that halted the fighting but did not end the Korean War give way to renewed fighting, we, along with Koreans in the North and South and countless others in the region will suffer untold losses. In the words of U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, “…if this goes to a military solution, it is going to be tragic on an unbelievable scale…” At this critical moment, the U.S. and South Korean governments can continue to fuel the fires of war in Korea by further militarizing South Korea or take steps to create international conditions for a lasting peace in Korea. Whichever path the U.S. adopts will be done in the name of the American people. It is, therefore, incumbent upon citizens of the U.S. to engage and work with the people of Korea to arrive at mutually agreeable, peaceful means to resolve hostilities in the region. Beginning this collective work is a primary goal of our delegation. The Solidarity Peace Delegation travels to South Korea to express the solidarity of peace-loving Americans to those in Korea fighting the THAAD deployment and seeking a fundamental resolution to conflict on the peninsula and in the region. We aim to strengthen mutual understanding about how to achieve these objectives with the goal of aligning U.S. policy with the desire of the Korean people to achieve a lasting peace on the peninsula and, ultimately, the peaceful and independent reunification of Korea. Recognizing the immense social and economic costs of increased militarization of Korea for both the American and Korean people, the Solidarity Peace Delegation calls upon the governments of the United States and the Republic of Korea to: 1.Remove THAAD from South Korea. 2.Halt the arms race on the Korea peninsula by ending the U.S.-South Korea war games in favor of an agreement by North Korea to freeze its production of nuclear weapons and missile testing. 3.Engage in diplomacy with North Korea to end the Korean War with a peace treaty, normalize relations with North Korea and support all efforts by the Korea people to achieve the peaceful reunification of their country. Finally, we state our intention to build solidarity in the U.S. for the struggle against the stationing of THAAD in South Korea and the expansion of U.S. militarism in Asia. We also call on peace-loving people in the United States and globally to join us in this effort. . . . [This important warning should have included the first-strike danger of all anti-ballistic missile systems, which might tempt a nation to attack first. –Dick] IMAGINE, THINK WAY OUTSIDE THE BOX. Try every kind of idea to stop nuclear war. Valerie Plame would buy a chunk of Twitter to restrain Trump’s war-mongering. Let's #BuyTwitter and stop nuclear war Valerie Plame 8-25-17via mail.salsalabs.net 2:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Dear Dick, This week I launched a GoFundMe campaign to #BuyTwitter and stop nuclear war. Right now it’s going viral and I hope you can help keep it going strong. The crisis with North Korea has me on edge. I’ve no doubt this is the closest we’ve come to nuclear war in my lifetime. What happens next hinges on the judgment and temperament of two volatile, authoritarian men, and we can’t just sit back and hope for the best. It’s unfair to say this is all Donald Trump’s fault — Kim Jong-un is a despotic and dangerous leader, and his nuclear capabilities are catching up with his violent rhetoric — but Trump’s reckless bravado makes a bad situation worse. When Trump started tweeting threats about “locked and loaded” military options and the devastating power of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, I knew I had to do something. I quickly discovered Twitter has a whole set of rules against violent threats and intimidation — rules that company executives have clearly failed to enforce against Donald Trump. Shareholder pressure can change that. That’s why I launched this effort to acquire a big stake in Twitter and shut down Trump’s account before his tweets trigger a catastrophe. Over the last 48 hours it’s taken off in a huge and surprising way: New donors are chipping in every minute from all over the world, and we’re raising more than $1,000 every hour! Can you help us keep up the momentum? www.gofundme.com/buytwitter . . . . Global Zero is the international movement for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Sent by GLOBAL ZERO \| 1342 Florida Avenue NW \| Washington, DC 20009 USA Take Action, Join with PeaceAction Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. Follow instructions to reach your Senators and Representatives. Tell them: 1. The U.S. should stop the reckless brinkmanship and start talks now. Suspend future US/SK military rehearsals for war in exchange for NK’s halting of nuclear and missile testing. Why is that so difficult for Trump, and Cotton and Boozman? 2. The U.S. must drop its unrealistic precondition that NK agree to completely denuclearize before talks can begin. NK is not demanding equivalence--the removal of all US troops and ships and planes from eastern Asia. Start the peace process now towards signing a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War. CONTENTS: North Korea Newsletter #6 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/07/omni-north-korea-newsletter-6-korean-war.html HISTORY I: The Korean War Publisher’s Review of I. F. Stone’s The Hidden History of the Korean War: 1950-1951 (1952) Bruce Cumings’ Preface to the 1988 Reprint of The Hidden Hart-Landsberg’s Rev. (2000) of Hugh Deane’s The Korean War, 1945-1953 (1999). Publisher’s Review of Martin Hart-Landsberg’s Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy (2000). Hauben’s Review (2007) of Stone’s Hidden History. Garner’s Review (2010) of Cumings’ The Korean War: A History Dick’s Rev. (2017) of Cumings begins with Chapter Six, Air War. END NORTH KOREA NEWSLETTER #7 By Dick Bennett - October 29, 2017 No comments: NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION NEWSLETTER #22 OMNI VEGETARIAN ACTION NEWSLETTER #41 OMNI RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #7	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line142
__label__wiki	0.833915	0.833915	SEGA Plans Revival of Major IPs Rosalie Gross \| 16 Мая, 2017, 07:34 The company expects its Fiscal Year 2018 (April 1, 2017 - March 31, 2018) performance to top FY2017 in sales, but drop in operating income and overall profits. Elsewhere, the report suggests Total War: Warhammer shifted half a million units in three days, while the company's total unit sales for the previous fiscal year hit 10.28 million. Or my personal favorite, Sega wants to make sure that future IPs effectively utilize development engines. Читайте также: Germany demands more free trade guarantees on China Silk Road plan - minister As of late, Sega has drummed up a lot of goodwill by reviving recent cult classics from PlatinumGames, like Bayonetta and Vanquish, and bringing them to PCs. The document references quite a few directions that Sega would like to go in moving forward, but the most interesting tidbit is certainly their promise to revive major IPs within the next few years. Or maybe SEGA and Obsidian want to work together to create a new IP? It has been a very long time since Sega was a major name for gaming fans. Part of their strategy through to 202 was the "revival of past IPs", which could include any number of SEGA's proprietary franchises. Based on the images within the "Road to 2020" document, it appears that SEGA's plans of expanding existing IPs will initially be focused on franchises like Yakuza, Total War, Football Manager, and Persona. So far as that goes, we may actually have some idea as to what properties Sega is most interested in reviving. При любом использовании материалов сайта и дочерних проектов, гиперссылка на обязательна. «» 2007 - 2021 Copyright. The company expects its Fiscal Year 2018 (April 1, 2017 - March 31, 2018) performance to top FY2017 in sales, but drop in operating income and overall profits.Elsewhere, the report suggests Total War:... http:///2017/05/sega-plans-revival-of-major-ips/ Carroll says Seahawks considering Kaepernick as backup Mom who saved daughter from crash was Babylon Town employee BC election results are 'beginning of something different,' Clark says Green Leader Andrew Weaver, the incumbent MLA in his Victoria-area riding of Oak Bay-Gordon Head, hopes to get four B.C. The Liberals broke out to an early lead, but the seats in favour of the NDP grew swiftly as more votes were counted. Iannetta beaned, more bad blood as Dbacks top Pirates 11-4 Last May, Arizona's Jean Segura was hit in the face during a game in Pittsburgh, setting up another round of retaliation. Iannetta was batting in the seventh inning when Johnny Barbato's wayward 93-MPH fastball struck him in the mouth. Aric Almirola hospitalized after crash involving Joey Logano, Danica Patrick The impact had such force, it caused Almirola's rear tires to lift off the ground and a fireball to engulf Patrick's auto . Almirola was alert after the accident as safety professionals removed him from the auto . The Boston Celtics face their toughest test against the Washington Wizards In the words of All-Star Isaiah Thomas, Game 7 is where legends are born, such as Bill Russell, Larry Bird , and John Havlicek. Somehow, these unusually careless, cold-shooting Warriors found a way to keep their unblemished postseason record alive at 9-0. Rapper Travis Scott Reportedly Arrested in Arkansas for Inciting a Riot Naturally, the fact that this news comes as Scott has officially linked up with Kylie Jenner has not been lost on the Internet. Travis Scott was arrested on Saturday night following a concert in Arkansas, accused of "inciting a riot", according to TMZ . Strategy, teamwork help Hamilton win Spanish GP over Vettel However, Bottas performed well in the first two practice sessions, clocking the second-fastest times behind Hamilton in both. Hamilton trimmed four-tenths off that to set the Q1 pace, with Bottas third ahead of Raikkonen, who soon improved to second. Late Sunday, Jenna's father, Kenneth Aluska, told the New York Post that his daughter didn't know her mother had been killed. Jenna was also taken to the hospital and is reported to be in stable condition. "She saved her life, without a doubt". Jadhav death penalty: India, Pakistan to battle it out at ICJ We will not let anyone malign our position. 2- Pak accussed India of using the world body as a stage for "political theatre". After listening to arguments, ICJ close the hearing, with judge saying court will soon announce verdict on India's petition. Darmian: Let's win Europa for hurt players We had 2-1, we could have had 2-2 and I'm happy and I'm fine with what we had in terms of individual performances. We gave a hard match to our opponents and had chances to get a different result. With Merkel and PM, France's new president wastes no time The German leader added that "we will do everything to develop good initiatives with the new president, Emmanuel Macron ". At least 24 Socialists are now campaigning for re-election under the banner of Macron's Republic on the Move party. Toy or distraction — Fidget Spinners The toy consists of 3 prongs that rotate a central bearing - all you have to do is hold it, flick it to spin, and... that's it. While there are many designs including standard plastic, LED and aluminium, some models online fetch hundreds of pounds. North Korean diplomat open to USA talks 'under the right conditions' The Trump administration has called the tests unacceptable and has swung between threats of military action and offers to talk. It's the latest in a series of tests by Pyongyang as it pursues a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach the US mainland. Cavs to wear Goodyear logo on jerseys next season The agreement will give Goodyear tremendous exposure because the Cavs are one of the league's most televised teams. The company was also a founding member of the National Basketball League, a precursor to the NBA, in the 1930s. Coroner: Teen had healthy heart before caffeine And teenagers and students, please stop buying them. "A cup of coffee, a can of soda isn't going to cause this thing", said Dr. Coroner Gary Watts said Cripe had a Mountain Dew, a latte and an energy drink the day he collapsed at the school. US spat erupts ahead of Trump visit to region Donald Trump is set to meet Palestinian and Israeli leaders nearly back-to-back on his first foreign trip as U.S. President Donald Trump may have angered the Israeli government just days before his trip to the Middle East. Carroll says Seahawks considering Kaepernick as backup Kaepernick, 29, lost his starting job with the 49ers midway through the 2015 season and reclaimed it in October of past year . He was over the center a lot, and he doesn't look like that kind of player in our system to us", Carroll said. Florida governor: Tourists still coming in record numbers He has hinted he may veto the entire state budget because legislators ignored many of his top priorities this year. Almost 31.1 million people visited the sunshine state during the first three months of 2017. 'Deadwood,' 'Sin City' Star Powers Boothe Dies Powers made a name for himself back in 1980, after he landed the role of Jim Jones in Guyana Tragedy: The Story Of Jim Jones. Boothe received his Emmy during the Screen Actors Guild strike, and was one of the few to accept his award in person. Hackers Reportedly Demand Ransom For Stolen Copy of Upcoming Disney Film He had just told ABC employees in a town hall meeting in NY on Monday that the situation was occurring. Countdown to the release of Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, with The Movie Hype App. Fox Cancels Scream Queens This statement contradicts the fact that Season Two ended with a surprise cliffhanger, which will never be resolved at this point. However, keen to give the Chanels another coat of nail polish, we only got a soft reboot from Murphy ahead of Season 2. Jurgen Klopp reassures Liverpool fans about summer spending plans However, the Reds will clinch a top-four spot before Boro's visit if Arsenal lose at home to relegated Sunderland on Tuesday. Origi's low shot was pushed out before Lallana's drive was blocked by the Spaniard's feet. Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Hammers 'Embarrassing' Trump for Way He 'Conducts Himself' The Spurs already were shorthanded after veteran point guard Tony Parker ruptured a left quadriceps tendon in Game 2 . As we saw in the Rockets series, the Spurs have a bevy of rangy wings that they can play if they want to go small. Quintana moves ahead after police motorbike blows Giro wide open Yates finished nearly five minutes behind Quintana on the day, while Thomas was slightly further back as both saw their hopes end. My shoulder popped out". "We lost five minutes but I felt like I lost three or four of those on the side of the road". Petr Cech urges Arsenal fight for top 4 to finish Here's a look at what this Premier League weekend could decide. 'Now we have three games, we have to give everything then hopefully we will reach our goals'. Crystal Palace beat Hull City 4-0 in EPL After just one season in the top flight they return to the second tier and join Sunderland and Middlesbrough on the way down. They will need to correct their defensive woes if they want to stand a chance against the Palace attack. Manyonga shines in Shanghai with unbeatable jumps Mercyline Chelangat will run the 5000m that has a star field that includes Kenya Olympic 5,000m silver medallist Hellen Obiri. Olympic Team Trials to narrowly miss making his first Olympic team, but won gold at the Youth Olympic Games Nanjing 2014. Inside Barack And Michele Obama's Future Presidential Center In Chicago Barack Obama announced that he and Michelle will personally donate $2 million to summer jobs programs in Chicago . Construction will take four years, but Obama said he wanted the facility to start offering programs immediately.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line149
__label__wiki	0.727364	0.727364	nikola tesla invention His alternating current (AC) induction motor and related polyphase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the polyphase system which that company eventually marketed. [244][245][246] In middle age, Tesla became a close friend of Mark Twain; they spent a lot of time together in his lab and elsewhere. [25][37][38], In 1881, Tesla moved to Budapest, Hungary, to work under Tivadar Puskás at a telegraph company, the Budapest Telephone Exchange. ", "Reconciling the Visionary with the Inventor Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla", "Science and Discovery are the great Forces which will lead to the Consummation of the War", "EXPERIMENTS WITH ALTERNATE CURRENTS OF HIGH POTENTIAL AND HIGH FREQUENCY", "Tesla Biography NIKOLA TESLA THE GENIUS WHO LIT THE WORLD", "Zavičajno udruženje Krajišnika Nikola Tesla – Plandište :: Naslovna strana", "Nacionalni Dan nauke: Program obeležavanja rođendana NIKOLE TESLE! Tesla claimed that he worked from 3 a.m. to 11 p.m., no Sundays or holidays excepted. Secor, H. Winfield, "Tesla's views on Electricity and the War", Electrical Experimenter, Volume 5, Number 4 August 1917. Peu voyaient l’intérêt d’une telle machine, tandis que d’autres pensaient à une supercherie. [99][100], On 30 July 1891, aged 35, Tesla became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. On 11 July 1934, the New York Herald Tribune published an article on Tesla, in which he recalled an event that occasionally took place while experimenting with his single-electrode vacuum tubes. After his father's death in 1879,[33] Tesla found a package of letters from his professors to his father, warning that unless he were removed from the school, Tesla would die through overwork. After the war started, Tesla lost the funding he was receiving from his patents in European countries. [29] Tesla was able to perform integral calculus in his head, which prompted his teachers to believe that he was cheating. While crossing a street a couple of blocks from the hotel, Tesla was unable to dodge a moving taxicab and was thrown to the ground. Tesla walked to the park every day to feed the pigeons. [247] At a party thrown by actress Sarah Bernhardt in 1896, Tesla met Indian Hindu monk Vivekananda and the two talked about how the inventor's ideas on energy seemed to match up with Vedantic cosmology. [103], After 1890, Tesla experimented with transmitting power by inductive and capacitive coupling using high AC voltages generated with his Tesla coil. It started in the basement of the building and was so intense Tesla's 4th floor lab burned and collapsed into the second floor. [88] The advantages of having Westinghouse continue to champion the motor probably seemed obvious to Tesla and he agreed to release the company from the royalty payment clause in the contract. [119], Within the room were suspended two hard-rubber plates covered with tin foil. Tesla saw the rise of the piston engine in the automobile industry as a way to make a change in the world. [25] Nikola suffered a nervous breakdown around the same time. He would later move to Paris to work on direct current powerplants with the Continental Edison Company. The Tesla Foundation has estimated that Tesla held a total of over 300 patents across five continents. Tesla biographer Marc Seifer described the Westinghouse payments as a type of "unspecified settlement". The first AC commutator-free three-phase induction motor was invented independently by Galileo Ferraris and Nikola Tesla. Anderson, L. I., "John Stone Stone on Nikola Tesla's Priority in Radio and Continuous Wave Radiofrequency Apparatus". After completing his studies there, Tesla decided to pursue a career in engineering. By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Tesla's first-ever confirmed patent, for the electric arc lamp, was filed after his arrival in the United States, in March of 1884. [234] Tesla's friend, Julian Hawthorne, wrote, "seldom did one meet a scientist or engineer who was also a poet, a philosopher, an appreciator of fine music, a linguist, and a connoisseur of food and drink". [262] He was also critical of Einstein's theory of relativity, saying: I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. [25] Some sources say that he died of a stroke. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. An induction motor model with short circuit rotor at Nikola Tesla Museum, Serbia \| … These were about fifteen feet apart, and served as terminals of the wires leading from the transformers. After an unsuccessful attempt to start his own Tesla Electric Light Company and a stint digging ditches for $2 a day, Tesla found backers to support his research into alternating current. Here we shine a light on some of his most notable works and explore some other commonly asked questions about the man and his life. [25][151] Upon his arrival, he told reporters that he planned to conduct wireless telegraphy experiments, transmitting signals from Pikes Peak to Paris.[152]. Suddenly, the telephone ring awakened me ... [Tesla] spoke animatedly, with pauses, [as he] ... work[ed] out a problem, comparing one theory to another, commenting; and when he felt he had arrived at the solution, he suddenly closed the telephone. He also ate an exclusively vegetarian diet and had his meals prepared for him personally by the hotel's chef. Many of Nikola Tesla’s inventions went unrecognized, others lost when his notes were destroyed by fire. Tesla said that he "conquered [his] passion then and there," but later in the United States he was again known to play billiards. Nikola Tesla Boulevard, Hamilton, Ontario. Tesla's final years were filled with controversy and an apparent decline in his sanity. 28 June] 1856. [33] His secretary, Dorothy Skerrit, wrote: "his genial smile and nobility of bearing always denoted the gentlemanly characteristics that were so ingrained in his soul". Several attempts have been made to preserve it, but in 1967, 1976 and 1994 efforts to have it declared a national historic site failed. [191] He also tried to develop a variation of this a few years later as a room sanitizer for hospitals. Tesla abandoned the project in 1906 before it could ever become operational, and Wardenclyffe Tower was dismantled in 1917. [69][70], Along with getting the motor patented, Peck and Brown arranged to get the motor publicized, starting with independent testing to verify it was a functional improvement, followed by press releases sent to technical publications for articles to run concurrent with the issue of the patent. 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__label__cc	0.712718	0.287282	Perper Design Concept to Creation Taylor State Street Amber Cove Grand Quay Salt Company Shrimping in the Bay Islands Historic Lighthouse & Prison Cruise Center The Garinagu Motorcycle Showspace The Mercury 7 Another special project for a long term client, this once burned out abandoned building comes back to life as high end corporate offices. Every inch was planned and design from scratch. Literally. Only the old historic exterior brick walls remained when we were awarded to opportunity to make it shine as never has before. We have the continued honor of being Carnival Corps Global Port & Destination Development’s lead theme design team. Along with a talented cast of characters, we were awarded another fantastic project to support the experiential design of their port at Amber Cove. In collaboration with Global Destination Development, we created the gardens, museum and video honoring the long forgotten salt industry of the Turks Islands to share this important piece of history in the Caribbean. Residential design solutions are very personal and are tailored to reflect the lifestyle of each individual client. No two projects are ever alike and range from classic to eclectic. The solutions for the residents in this project showcase their true eclectic nature, including 450-year-old artifacts and traditional elements with a contemporary twist. Model home presentations throughout the U.S. for the prominent log home producer. Completed interior design through installation, implementing various themes to sell and educate the end-user on design options and layouts. A guest beach house built to support the main villa. Designed to be filled with friends so they could enjoy their rewarding catch at the end of the day, this project, like most, was handled from blueprint through complete installation. The shrimp industry in the Bay islands once thrived as one of the largest producers of fresh shrimp in the world. In recent years, high fuel costs and shrimp farms have made it almost impossible for shrimpers to feed their families. Mahogany Bay Cruise Center's exhibit brings awareness to this local industry and allows its guests to experience it first hand. Installation snapshots of the Pavilion at Mystic Mountain. The space serves as an outdoor museum exhibit to educate the tour guests about four main areas of Jamaica: The people, the ecosystem, the athletics, and the maritime history. On Grand Turk in the British West Indies, together with Global Destinations Development, we again honored history by creating two tours for the historic lighthouse on Columbus Passage and Her Majesty’s Prison. As a part of their special project design team, we support Carnival Corporation & PLC in a number of locations, including their Grand Turk Cruise Center. Our ongoing involvement includes architectural enhancements and project concepts like the Grand Turk Flowrider, also shown here in these snapshots. The Garinagu are one of the few Caribbean cultures still in existence today. With the Arawaks and Caribs long gone, this unique community is reinforcing their foundation and learning new skills in the same area where they once landed as slaves 300 years ago - all while never losing touch of their heritage and struggle to become free. The renovation of a unique historic building, formerly a filling station, in downtown Columbia, SC. All details in this building were custom tailored to meet the requirements of this special project for a prominent entrepeneur and political figure. As previous designers of BMW and Triumph motorcycle showrooms, creating a space for the high-styled and high-powered Ducati motorcycle was right up our alley. Carolina Euro Motorcycles and Ducati USA allowed us to step out of the box. An award-winning exhibit for Carnival Cruise Lines, in collaboration with NASA, to honor the Mercury 7 space program, featuring America's first man in orbit, John Glenn. The world watched this historic splashdown off of the island of Grand Turk which launched America's space program and President Kennedy's race to put the first man on the moon. The complete renovation of the lower level of a historic building was tailored to fit the needs of our progressive and diverse design firm and product design showroom. All furniture and cabinetry was custom made to fit the space. The best way to know what a client needs is to know that client well. We choose to remain a small team, providing individual attention – while maintaining close relationships with all of the resources we need to handle projects on a grand scale. Our lead designers are: Photo credit: Caley Perper Art Perper Art is as comfortable behind the drawing board as he is in the middle of a construction zone. Whether the task at hand requires a business suit or a hard hat and cargo pants, he is always in his comfort zone. With thirty years of extensive design experience, Art’s unique multidisciplinary approach stems from his international upbringing, European fine arts background, and studies in interior architecture, architectural detailing, and architectural graphics. Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Venezuela, and educated in Europe and the U.S., he incorporates his global influences, communication skills, and artistic vision into every venture. The result is exceptional, internationally recognized work, uniquely styled and tailored to fit the specific needs of each client. Sharon Perper Sharon's unique sense of style can be seen in how she mixes color, materials, and finishes in every project she undertakes. Her keen eye for detail sets her work apart from the expected. She has the unparalleled ability to work from both sides of her disciplines: design and management. From finishes to freight forwarding, her comprehensive project management skills keep our domestic and international operations graceful and smooth – from Concept to Creation. Layout, space planning, and traffic flow analysis Concept through installation, supervision of all interior finishes, furnishings, decorative lighting, artwork, and accessories Architectural Detailing Exterior non-structural details to set the tone for the look of the concept Corporate, Hospitality, Restaurant, Retail & Healthcare Design Out-of-the-box solutions with extraordinary results Lighting design and selection for all projects, including specialty lighting Custom Cabinet, Fixture & Furniture Design Every project requires custom solutions tailored for function, aesthetics, and efficiency Thematic design from concept to creation on a large variety of projects that include sense of arrival, adventure tours, architectural detailing, harbors and ports of call, artistic photo ops, and collaborative tourism site design Exhibit & Museum Design Domestic and international historic to current exhibit and museum design. From research and copywriting to two and three-dimensional exhibit design incorporating the use of authentic and manufactured props. From concept to production and installation Specialty Project Design A train caboose in South Carolina, a traveling conversion 18-wheeler, a Mayan cave tour in Belize, The White Witch of Rose Hall in Jamaica Architectural Signage & Graphic Design Two and three-dimensional graphic solutions, starting with the logo and carried throughout the project for identification, traffic flow, and impact Style and function to meet the masses in entertainment, home office, seating, and lighting As art directors and hands-on producers, we have proven that the incorporation of video adds a stimulating dimension that enhances and educates like no other medium A Selection of Our Clients American Seating Michigan, Washington, DC Ameriwood Furniture Michigan, National Asahi Gloval, Ltd. California, Nevada Bluezoom BMW, Ducati, Triumph/Carolina Euro Motorcycles Bondi Software Global Port & Destination Development Projects Chaudhary Group Chukka Caribbean Adventures Jamaica, Belize, Grand Turk Fathom Impact Travel Grand Rapids Ballet Company Grand Turk Cruise Center/Carnival Corp. hk Project Services Germany, Russia Isaac Hayes’ Hot Buttered Soul for IDEA Ladd/RCA North Carolina, National Lane/Sony Virginia, National Lea Industries Levitz Lowe’s Companies Mystic Mountain Ltd. Rain Forest Adventures St. Martin, BVI Raynor Group New York, China Rose Hall Development Ltd. Illinois, National North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas Theo Kalomirakis Theaters Thomasville Furniture Turks & Caicos National Museum Union Square Campus Verizon Wireless/Cellular Sales 7105 Lake Henson Drive Summerfield, NC 27358 design@perperdesign.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line155
__label__cc	0.6728	0.3272	Justice Department homing in on Google Ad Manager in antitrust probe The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is talking with multiple publishers and ad-tech companies as it scrutinizes Google’s third-party ad tools, as part of the DOJ’s antitrust investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Companies the DOJ has reached out to include the New York Times, Gannett, Condé Nast, Oracle, Yelp and DuckDuckGo among several others. […] The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is talking with multiple publishers and ad-tech companies as it scrutinizes Google’s third-party ad tools, as part of the DOJ’s antitrust investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Companies the DOJ has reached out to include the New York Times, Gannett, Condé Nast, Oracle, Yelp and DuckDuckGo among several others. Focus on Ad Manager. The reported focus of the investigation is Google Ad Manager. Google Ad Manager is the combination of DoubleClick for Publishers and DoubleClick Ad Exchange, which were rebranded in 2018. Google acquired DoubleClick in 2007 for more than $3 billion. The core inquiry, according to the report, revolves around two related issues: Google’s integration of its ad server and ad exchange Google’s decision to require advertisers to use its own tools to buy ad space on YouTube Google says server-exchange merger creates ‘better experience.’ Some of Google’s rivals contend that the company has too much power “over the monetization of digital content,” as the WSJ put it. Google counters that the merger of its exchange and ad server created a better advertising infrastructure and experience for customers and that the market for advertising technology and programmatic media is highly competitive. This past week, DOJ Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim was compelled to recuse himself from the inquiry because he advised Google during the DoubleClick acquisition in its negotiations with the Federal Trade Commission. Selling the DoubleClick tech? The WSJ also reports that Google executives are discussing whether to sell the technology behind Ad Manager, although Google explicitly denied to the publication this was being considered. One of the reported challenges of divesting the third-party ad technology is its integration into the broader Google ads infrastructure. Ad Manager falls under Google Network Members’ properties, which generated roughly $6 billion in Q4 and $21.6 billion in full year 2019. Google’s total 2019 revenues were $162 billion. Google Network Members’ properties thus represented about 13.2% of total 2019 revenue (16% of total ad revenues). Why we care. While much of the DOJ’s scrutiny focused on the publisher side of the Ad Manager tech stack, the WSJ reports attention has turned to the “buy side” of the business in the past two months. “The investigation puts the agencies in a delicate spot, as many of them use Google’s tools and rely on Google as a major advertising client,” the article said. The deep integration of Google’s buying and measurement tools make it easy for agencies and in-house media buyers to transact across Google’s owned and operated properties, including its ad exchanges. Google’s focus on its Network business has waned in recent years, however. Ad revenue for that segment grew by just 8% year-over-year in 2019, compared to 17% growth for its own properties. The company highlighted this shift on its quarterly earnings call this week in discussing the drop in traffic acquisition costs (TAC). “Total TAC as a percentage of Total Advertising Revenues was down year-over-year,” said CFO Ruth Porat, “reflecting once again a favorable revenue mix shift from Network to Google Properties.” This article originally appeared on Marketing Land. 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How do you understand what topics and concerns matter most to your customer base? Can you use Q&As to inform content strategies? XPath notations can be your treasure trove. Catalyst’s Organic Search Manager, Brad McCourt shares a detailed guide on using XPath notations and your favorite crawler to quickly obtain the Q&As in a straightforward and digestible format. As Google increasingly favors sites with content that exudes expertise, authority, and trustworthiness (E-A-T), it is imperative that SEOs and marketers produce content that is not just well written, but that also demonstrates expertise. One way to demonstrate expertise on a subject or product is to answer common customer questions directly in your content. But, how do you identify what those questions are? How do you understand what topics and concerns matter most? The good news is that they are hiding in plain sight. Chances are, your consumers have been shouting at the top of their keyboards in the Q&A sections of sites like Amazon. These sections are a treasure trove of (mostly) serious questions that real customers have about the products you are selling. How do you use these Q&As to inform content strategies? XPath notation is your answer. You can use XPath notations and your favorite crawler to quickly obtain the Q&As in a straightforward and digestible format. XPath spares you from clicking through endless screens of questions by automating the collection of important insights for your content strategy. What is XPath? XML Path (XPath) is a query language developed by W3 to navigate XML documents and select specified nodes of data. The notation XPath uses is called “expressions”. Using these expressions, you can effectively pull any data that you need from a website as long as there is a consistent structure between webpages. This means you can use this language to pull any publicly available data in the source code, including questions from a selection of Amazon Q&A pages. This article is not meant to be a comprehensive tutorial on XPath. For that, there are plenty of resources from W3. However, XPath is easy enough to learn with only knowing the structure of XML and HTML documents. This is what makes it such a powerful tool for SEOs regardless of coding prowess. Let’s walk through an example to show you how… Using XPath to pull customer questions from Amazon Pre-req: Pick your web crawler While most of the big names in web crawling – Botify, DeepCrawl, OnCrawl – all offer the ability to extract data from the source code, I will be using ScreamingFrog in the example below. ScreamingFrog is by far the most cost-effective option, allowing you to crawl up to 500 URLs without buying a license. For larger projects you can buy a license. This will allow you to crawl as many URLs as your RAM can handle. Step one: Collect the URLs to crawl For our example, let’s pretend we’re doing research on the topics we should include in our product pages and listings for microspikes. For those unaware, microspikes are an accessory for your boots or shoes. They give you extra grip in wintry conditions, so they are particularly popular among cold-weather hikers and runners. Source: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=microspikes Here we have a list of 13 questions and answer pages for the top microspike pages on Amazon.com. Unfortunately, there is some manual work required to create the list. The easiest way is to search for the topic (that is, microspikes) and pull links to the top products listed. If you have the product’s ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) handy, you can also generate the URLs using the above format, but switching out the ASIN. Step two: Determine the XPath From here, we need to determine the XPath. In order to figure out the proper XPath notation to use to pull in the desired text, we have two main options: View the Source-Code View the rendered source code and copy the XPath directly from Chrome’s Inspect Element tool You’ll find that the expression needed to locate all questions in an Amazon Q&A page is: //span[@class=”a-declarative”] Here is XPath notation broken down: // is used to locate all instances of the following expression. Span is the specific tag we’re trying to locate. //span will locate every single <span> tag in the source code. There are over 300 of these, so we’ll need to be more specific. @class specifies that //span[@class] will ensure all <span> tags with an assigned class attribute will be located. @class=”a-declarative” dictates that //span[@class=”a-declarative”] only locates <span> tags where the class attribute is set to “a-declarative” – that is, <span class=”a-declarative”> There is an extra step in order to return the inner text of the specified tag that is located, but ScreamingFrog does the heavy lifting for us. It’s important to note that this will only work for Amazon Question and Answer pages. If you wanted to pull questions from, say, Quora, TripAdvisor, or any other site, the expression would have to be adjusted to locate the specific entity you desire to collect on a crawl. Step three: Configure your crawler Once you have this all set, you can then go into ScreamingFrog. Configuration -> Custom -> Extraction This will then take you to the Custom Extraction screen. This is where you can: Give the extraction a name to make it easier to find after the crawl, especially if you’re extracting more than one entity. ScreamingFrog allows you to extract multiple entities during a single crawl. You can then choose the extraction method. In this article, it is all about XPath, but you also have the option of extracting data via CSSPath and REGEX notation as well. Place the desired XPath expression in the “Enter XPath” field. ScreamingFrog will even check your syntax for you, providing a green checkmark if everything checks out. You then have the option to select what you want extracted, be it the full HTML element or the HTML found within the located tag. For our example, we want to extract the text in between any <span> tags with a class attribute set to “a-declarative” so we select “extract text.” We can then click OK. Step four: Crawl the desired URLs Now it’s time to crawl our list of Amazon Q&A pages for microspikes. First, we’ll need to switch the Mode in ScreamingFrog from “Spider” to “List.” Then, we can either add our set of URLs manually or upload them from an Excel or other supported format. After we confirm the list, ScreamingFrog will crawl each URL we provided, extracting the text between all <span> tags containing the class attribute set to “a-declarative.” In order to see the data collected, you just need to select “Custom Extraction” in ScreamingFrog. At first glance, the output might not look that exciting. However, this is only because a lot of unneeded space is included with the data, so you might see some columns that appear blank if they are not expanded to fully display the contents. Once you copy and paste the data into Excel or your spreadsheet program of choice, you can finally see the data that has been extracted. After some clean-up, you get the final result: The result is 118 questions that real customers have asked about microspikes in an easily accessible format. With this data at your fingertips, you’re now ready to incorporate this research into your content strategy. Content strategies Before diving into content strategies, a quick word to the wise: you can’t just crawl, scrape and publish content from another site, even if it is publicly accessible. First, that would be plagiarism and expect to be hit with an DMCA notice. Second, you’re not fooling Google. Google knows the original source of the content, and it is extremely unlikely your content is going to rank well – defeating the purpose of this entire strategy. Instead, this data can be used to inform your strategy and help you produce high quality, unique content that users are searching for. Now, how do you get started with your analysis? I recommend first categorizing the questions. For our example there were many questions about: Sizing: What size microspikes are needed for specific shoe/boot sizes? Proper Use – Whether or not microspikes could be used in stores, on slippery roofs, while fishing, mowing lawns, or for walking on plaster? Features: Are they adjustable, type of material, do they come with a carrying case? Concerns: Are they comfortable, do they damage your footwear, do they damage the type of flooring/ground you’re on, durability? This is an amazing insight into the potential concerns customers might have before purchasing microspikes. From here, you can use this information to: 1. Enhance existing content on your product and category pages Incorporate the topics into the product or category descriptions, answering questions shoppers might have pre-emptively. For our example, we might want to make it abundantly clear how sizing works – including a sizing chart and specifically mentioning types of footwear the product may or may not be compatible with. 2. Build out a short on-page FAQ section featuring original content, answering commonly asked questions Make sure to implement FAQPage Schema.org markup for a better chance to appear for listings like People Also Ask sections, which are increasingly taking up real estate in the search results. For our example, we can answer commonly asked questions about comfort, damage to footwear, durability, and adjustability. We could also address if the product comes with a carrying case and how to best store the product for travel. 3. Produce a product guide, incorporating answers to popular questions surrounding a product or category Another strategy is to produce an extensive one-stop product guide showcasing specific use cases, sizing, limitations, and features. For our example, we could create specific content for each use case like hiking, running in icy conditions, and more. Even better, incorporate videos, images, charts, and featured products with a clear path to purchase. Using this approach your end product will be content that shows expertise, the authority on a subject, and most importantly, addresses customer concerns and questions before they even think to ask. This will help prevent your customers from having to do additional research or contact customer service. Thanks to your informative and helpful content, they will be more ready to make a purchase. Furthermore, this approach also has the potential to lower product return rates. Informed customers are less likely to purchase the wrong product based upon assumed or incomplete knowledge. Amazon is just the tip of the iceberg here. You can realistically apply this strategy to any site that has publicly accessible data to extract, be that questions from Quora about a product category, Trip Advisor reviews about hotels, music venues, and attractions, or even discussions on Reddit. The more informed you are about what your customers are expecting when visiting your site, the better you can serve those expectations, motivate purchases, decrease bounces, and improve organic search performance. Brad McCourt is an Organic Search Manager at Catalyst’s Boston office. 2020 set the stage for one of the most disruptive and fluid years search has ever seen. Local search and Google My Business (GMB) set to be key focal areas for search advertisers and marketers amid shifts in COVID era search activity. Google continues to make moves at further integrating ecommerce into search. Manual Text Ads look to be on shaky ground as we move into 2021. Ashley Fletcher, VP of Marketing at Adthena, shares five must-knows for search in 2021. From algorithm changes to shifts in search activity as a result of COVID-19, 2020 was one of the most disruptive years that the search industry has ever seen. And although positive movements have been made in helping to rein in the COVID-19, a “return to normal” still seems a long way off. However, with the COVID-19 vaccine raising the possibility that “non-COVID era” search habits may return, search professionals are hard at work trying to determine which industry changes are here to stay, and which may fade away, as the world begins to get long overdue COVID relief. This means the landscape of search in 2021 is likely to see just as unpredictable of evolution as it did in 2020. With that in mind, here are three key areas search advertisers and marketers should pay close attention to as we move into, and through, 2021. Doubling down on GMB and local search Remember when Google My Business (GMB) was just a helpful little tool for search advertising and marketing? Those days are now behind us. Accounting for 33% of how local businesses are ranked, GMB is now a huge factor when it comes to SEO. Moreover, as local continues to become a bigger part of the search environment as more users are opting to stay close to home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, advertisers and marketers need to optimize their search strategies appropriately and stay abreast of any enhancements to GMB. Greater consideration for voice search With 157 million Amazon Echos in homes around the US at the start of 2020, voice search is poised to continue being a massive player in search moving forward. And given how easy it is, the fact that more smart speakers are set to be purchased in the years to come, voice search is likely to go from a secondary voice channel to a primary one in short order. Therefore, with this new avenue opening up and PPC having to be rethought as a result, advertisers should begin thinking about how to optimize their searches from traditional keyword search logic to spoken word-centric phrases. Direct buy on Google? Amazon beware E-commerce is set to be one of the most intriguing areas of search in 2021 as Google continues to indicate that shopping will be a key goal for its platform moving forward. For years, Google has been signaling that shopping and e-commerce are key focal areas for its platform. And through the rollout of features such as Smart Shopping — among other things — Google has never been in a better position to drive sales directly from its SERPs. This means that not only should Amazon be on high-alert, but traditional retail search advertisers need to seriously consider their search strategies in the year ahead. The end of the text ad? Could 2021 be the end of the road for text ads? This has been the question on search pros minds particularly since Google briefly scrapped the ability to create text ads in October — not to mention when the ability to create ETAs disappeared from Google Ads dropdown menus on a smaller scale in August. Plus, given the added emphasis being placed on Smart Bidding, it seems that manual text ads could have a limited lifespan at best, and 2021 could be the year where we see this search staple wound down entirely. Being OK with uncertainty Search advertisers are used to adapting to continuously evolving circumstances. But 2021 could push the term “evolution” to an extreme. From better understanding search patterns during the COVID era to figuring out which trends are here to stay and which are just passing fads, 2021 is going to be a very hard year for search professionals to get their heads around — let alone always get it right. With that in mind, it has never been more important for search professionals to lean into both technology and teamwork to make sense of what lies ahead. Moreover, search professionals need to move into 2021 with a whole new perspective on flexibility. Simply put, search advertising is set to chart completely foreign waters in 2021, and by embracing the fact that uncertainty is the new normal search professionals will likely have a much easier time adapting to these new circumstances. Closing note While 2020 presented the search industry with an unprecedented amount of uncertainty, 2021 could represent a period of even greater unpredictability as several foundational changes seem to be set to take place within the space. However, by keeping an eye on these emerging areas and game planning now, search advertisers and marketers will not only be able to avoid potential headaches and growing pains but be able to put themselves in a position to drive success as soon as possible. Ashley Fletcher is VP of Marketing at Adthena. Google plans to roll out the new Core Web Vitals update in early 2021. The overall size, dimensions, load order, and format of your images will drastically affect your PageSpeed score. Loading critical CSS and JS inline can improve the perceived load time of your site. Above-the-fold videos and large background images can be particularly damaging to your Largest Contentful Paint time. A server upgrade and a CDN can improve your server response time and your contentful paint score. Founder of Content Powered, James Parsons, shares an exhaustive list of 28 elements that will supercharge your site for Google’s Core Web Vitals update and Google PageSpeed Insights. Announced in early 2020, the Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics Google is developing and plans to roll into their overall search algorithm in May of 2021. Given that it’s almost 2021 now, anyone who wants to get ahead on optimizing their site for this new algorithm update can get to work now. Thankfully, Google has been very good about publicly disclosing what these new metrics are and how they work. Armed with that information, it’s possible to build a checklist of action items to check and optimize on your site to ready yourself for the inevitable rollout of these new ranking factors. Here are 28 such items for that checklist. A. Image optimization Images are one of the largest influencing factors in the core web vitals. All of the web vitals measure the time until some initial rendering, and loading images is the largest source of delay before a page is initially fully loaded. Thus, optimizing images tends to be the most powerful tool for improving core web vitals. 1. Reduce the Dimensions of Background Images Background images are rarely fully necessary to a site design and can be a large source of delay in loading a page for the first time. If you use a background image, reduce how large that image is and optimize it so it loads as close to instantaneously as possible. 2. Minimize or Replace Background Images with Patterns If you’re not tied to a specific background image, either replace the image with flat colors, a gradient, or even a simple tiled pattern. Again, the goal is to minimize how many assets need to load before the initial load of the website is complete. Since background images don’t make a huge impact (and are even less necessary on mobile), minimize or remove them as much as possible. 3. Remove Images on Mobile Above the Fold Speaking of mobile, the mobile browsing experience is often slower than desktop browsing due to the quality of cell and wireless signals. Mobile devices are especially susceptible to delays in the first input and on the content shift. To help avoid that, strive to make as much of your above-the-fold content as possible based on text and other simple elements. Large images and slideshows above the fold are particularly rough on your score, so remove or move them as much as possible. 4. Implement Lazy Loading Lazy loading is a common technique for speeding up the initial load of any given page. With Google’s new metrics on the horizon, it’s no surprise that support for it is quickly becoming a default feature. WordPress, for example, added native default lazy loading in version 5.5 earlier this year. Make use of lazy loading for any content, particularly images, that doesn’t need to load above the fold initially. 5. Use WebP Images Another Google initiative, WebP is a new image format developed back in 2010. It’s a smaller image format with better compression algorithms than your traditional image formats like PNG. While it hasn’t really picked up widespread traction until recently, it’s becoming more and more valuable as both users and search engines are increasingly concerned with speed and load times. Support is widespread, even if usage isn’t, so you can more-or-less safely use WebP images as your primary image files. 6. Optimize Image File Sizes Using a tool to crunch or smush image files to be smaller in file size should be a default part of optimizing images for the web by this point. If you don’t do it already, make sure you implement a way to process images as part of your blogging workflow moving forward. You’ll also want to make sure you’ve defined the height and width of images to prevent layout shift. B. CSS optimization CSS has become an increasingly critical part of many site designs, so much so that blocking it makes the web almost unrecognizable. With so much of a site reliant on CSS for everything from colors to positioning, making sure your code is optimized is more important than ever. 7. Inline Critical CSS You don’t need to inline every bit of your CSS, though that works as well. In particular, you want to inline CSS that is critical to the overall design and layout of your theme. This minimizes the number of individual files a browser needs to call from your server just to load the initial layout and paint the initial content on your site. 8. Minify CSS CSS is by default a very minimalist language and can operate perfectly well without spaces, indentation, comments, and other text that makes it more user-friendly and easier to develop. Before uploading new code to your site, run it through a tool to minify it and remove all of that excess cruft that has a microscopic-yet-tangible effect on page loading. 9. Consolidate CSS Files and Code It can be tempting to store CSS in a variety of files and scattered throughout your code, placing it where it seems like it should be rather than where it makes sense to put it. Remember; what is easiest as a developer is not necessarily the fastest for a user. Consolidate your CSS, whether it’s inline or in separate files, and only execute specific elements as necessary. 10. Optimize CSS Delivery CSS is often a late-loading element of site code. Traditional site design loads the framework for the site, then the content, then the CSS to format it all. Particularly when CSS is stored in an external file, this delays loading significantly. Preloading your CSS is a strategy recommended by Google to force the browser to load the CSS and have it ready when it’s needed. C. JavaScript optimization JavaScript is one of the biggest sources of code bloat and delay in loading websites. Optimizing your site’s JS can help speed it up tremendously, even when it doesn’t seem like it would have much of an effect based on what you’re doing to it. 11. Minify JS Scripts Like CSS, JavaScript doesn’t need extraneous spaces and breaks to function. It also doesn’t need verbose variable names, which are useful for development but can increase the size of scripts by a significant amount. Run your scripts through a minifier before adding them to your site. 12. Consolidate Scripts and Minimize Usage Many of the purposes web designers use JavaScript for have been available as features in HTML5 and CSS3 for years now. Particularly in older websites, a revamp or review of scripts can find alternative, faster ways to do the same things. Review and optimize, minimize, consolidate, and strip as much JavaScript as you can from your site. 13. Defer or Async Scripts Whenever Possible Scripts are roadblocks in rendering a website. When a browser has to render a JS script, it has to process through that script before it can continue loading the page. Since many developers put scripts in their headers, this delays page loading significantly. Using Defer allows the browser to continue loading the page before executing the script, while Async allows them to load simultaneously. Using these two features allows you to offset the delay inherent in using scripts and speed up your initial page loads. 14. Remove jQuery Migrate A recent update to jQuery has led to a lot of old plugins and scripts no longer working. To buy time and allow webmasters to update their sites, the Migrate module was introduced. This is essentially a translation module that allows old jQuery to function on sites that utilize a newer version of jQuery. Perform an audit of your site to see if anything you’re using – particularly old plugins and apps – uses jQuery Migrate. If so, consider updating or replace those plugins. Your goal is to remove usage of the Migrate module entirely because it’s rather bulky and can slow down websites dramatically. 15. Use Google Hosted JS Whenever Possible Google offers a range of standard libraries hosted on their servers for use on your website. Rather than relying on a third party for those libraries or hosting them yourself, use Google’s versions for the fastest possible load times. D. Video optimization Videos are increasingly popular as part of the average website, from core elements of content to video-based advertising and everything in between. They’re also extremely large files, even with partial loading and modern video buffering. Optimize your use of video as much as possible. 16. Use Image Placeholders for Video Thumbnails There are plenty of users who browse the web with no desire to watch videos, so forcing videos to load in the background for them is completely unnecessary. A good workaround is to use an image placeholder where the video would normally load. The image loads faster and looks like the video player with a loaded thumbnail. When a user clicks it to start the video, it begins the video load but doesn’t require loading any of the video file or player until that point. 17. Minimize Videos Above the Fold As with images, video files are extremely heavy, so loading them above the fold is a guaranteed delay on your first content paint. Push them below the fold; most people want to read a title and introduction before they get to the video anyway. E. Font and icon optimization Fonts and icon usage can be a lot heavier on a site’s load times than you might expect. Optimizing them might seem like minuscule detail work, but when you see the impact it can have, you’ll wonder why you never made these minor-yet-impactful optimizations before. 18. Preload Fonts Similar to scripts, when your website calls for a font that it needs to load, loading that font takes precedence and stops the rest of the code from rendering. Using a preload command to load the font earlier than necessary helps speed up page loading, as well as preventing the “flash of unstyled text” effect that happens for a brief instant between the text loading and the font styling appearing. 19. Only Use Fonts You Need Many web fonts and font families load their entire character sets and stylesheets when called, even if your page doesn’t utilize 90% of that content. Often, you can limit how much you load, though you may need to pay for premium font access. It can be quite worthwhile if you’re using limited amounts of a given font, or a font that has a particularly large character set included. 20. Use SVG Whenever Possible SVGs are Scalable Vector Graphics and are a way to create extremely small elements of a page that can nevertheless scale indefinitely, as well as be manipulated individually, to a much greater degree than traditional fonts and icons. If possible, switch to using SVGs instead of your usual icons. F. Server optimization No matter how many optimizations you make to the code of your website, to your images, or to other elements of your site, none of it matters if your server is slow. The proliferation of web hosting companies, the ongoing development of faster and stronger tech, all means that web hosting shows its age very quickly. Every few years, it can be worthwhile to change or upgrade hosting to faster infrastructure. 21. Upgrade to a Faster Server You don’t necessarily need to upgrade from a shared host to a dedicated host, though this can help with some of the speed issues inherent in shared hosting. Even simply upgrading from a slower package to a faster one can be a good use of a budget. 22. Use a CDN Modern content delivery networks can handle most of the elements of your site faster than your typical web host can in almost every circumstance. At a minimum, consider using a CDN for your images, videos, and other multimedia. You can also consider offloading stand-alone script files as well. 23. Preload DNS Queries Preloading or prefetching DNS queries helps minimize the delay between an asset being requested by the visitor and the display of that asset. This couples with using a CDN to store assets by loading and resolving the CDN’s domain before it’s called for the first time, further speeding up page load times. 24. Preload Your Cache Often, a cache plugin or script used on a website triggers when the first visitor arrives to view the page. That first visitor has a slower experience, but their loads cache the page for future visitors until the cache expires. Unfortunately, the first visit is often a Google bot crawling your page from your XML sitemap or an internal link, and that means that Google is the first one to experience the slow version of your site. You can get around this by preloading the cache on your website so Google’s next visit is a guaranteed fast-loading web page. 25. Consider a Server-Side Cache Software such as Varnish Cache acts as a server-side cache to further speed up the generation and serving of a cached version of your page, making it as fast as possible with as few server calls as possible. G. Additional optimization Anything that didn’t fit in another category has been added here. These additional optimizations might not apply to your site design, but if they do, taking care of them can be a great boon. 26. Minimize Third-Party Scripts Webmasters in 2021 will need to strike a balance between site speed optimizations and user engagement tools. Many plugins, such as social sharing buttons, third-party comment systems, and media embeds all need to execute third-party scripts in order to work, but those scripts slow down the site. Minimize them as much as possible, and try to find the fastest versions of each. 27. Avoid Pre-Load Filler A common technique for sites with slower load times is to add a spinner, a loading icon, an animation, or another form of content that loads and displays to indicate to a user that the site is, in fact, loading. While this can help minimize bounces, it’s a huge hit to the initial loads measured by the core web vitals. Remove these and work to speed up your site such that you don’t need them. 28. Consider a Site Redesign When all is said and done, sometimes you need to make so many changes to so many foundational elements of your site that it’s easier to simply scrap your current design and engineer a new one with speed in mind. Consider it a possibility, and analyze the benefits you’ll get from optimized core web vitals. No one knows yet how influential those metrics will be on the overall algorithm, but it certainly can’t hurt to optimize for them. James Parsons is the founder of Content Powered, a blog management & content marketing company. He’s worked as a senior-level content marketer for over a decade and writes for Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, and Business Insider. SEO1 week ago A review of the most unusual year for search	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line165
__label__cc	0.501779	0.498221	Truus de Groot Talks 11/2015 by Alasdair King Born in Eindhoven but based in the States, Truus de Groot, has been an unsung hero of experimental and underground music culture for decades. Since 1978, she has been involved in the curation of the Plus Instruments project: a project which has inspired innovation across the world of Electronic music alongside a range of collaborators. At the time, the sheer free will for a group such as Plus Instruments was almost unheard of: their performances were largely improvised and their sound captivating. Her profile is low key and Plus Instruments is ever changing. She explains the rotation and progressive nature of the group. "It always comes from my own initiative, I decide who to play with. I believe that gives it new life each time. I was more into improvisation and a more minimal approach, less structured, more groove." At a young age she travelled to New York and began to immerse herself in the nightlife and clubs of the city that never sleeps. The 80's era in the city was an age of creativity, passion and expression, the club and gig scene was alive and moving, but highly competitive. Truus speaks of her youthful energy and life in a new country. "The NYC mentality was just different but with my Dutch attitude I could be more direct. Somehow it worked with the harshness of NYC at that time. I was essentially reborn there." "I was rather fearless so I would just knock on promoter’s doors and quickly got us gigs: Danceteria, CBGB’s, Peppermint Lounge, Underground, Pyramid etc. The scene was quite cold for my feeling then, not everybody was friendly but I was a fresh immigrant from Holland and I was kind of oblivious. I always felt very confident in my talent, maybe too confident at times but it pulled me through. The NYC mentality was just different but with my Dutch attitude I could be more direct. Somehow it worked with the harshness of NYC at that time. I was essentially reborn there. My name 'Truus de Groot' was old fashioned in Holland, while in NYC it was exotic, being Dutch was somehow charming." Over the years the collaborators involved with Plus Instruments have varied vastly.From Michel Waisvisz, the inventor of the Crackle Synthesizer to James Sclavunos of Sonic Youth and The Cramps. In recent years Truus has led the group in a new approach which has seen her and new collaborators explore Industrial Blues and Jazz haze. However, she feels uninspired by the music scene at present and refers to a lack of imagination and a formulaic approach. She summarises this and the role of women within the world of music. "Culture has definitely regressed. At least the stuff I know of that is popular. We should be able to do better. Everything seems so formula based nowadays and in any case I don't think gender has much to do with the quality of a genre. I get this so often, you are a woman and here are other women who also create, they want to put me in a compartment of sorts ,see what these women can do ,compared to men. It is so stupid, I'd prefer if they just consider me a human." The influences behind Plus Instruments is vast and Truus explains that "it comes from a certain place in her heart". Outwith that she has taken inspiration from a variety of factors both musical and external. "Being poor was an influence. Due to poverty I also always experimented with primitive multi track recording, meaning using two reel to reels or two cassette recorders ,whatever crappy gadget was given to me. I am talking real shitty transistor radio quality gadgets. You get a really gritty sound with all these crazy overtones, nice and dirty. I still use some of these tracks. Other than that to name some: Red Crayola, Suicide, DAF, Wire, Per Ubu, Devo, No Wave NY triggered something, but also stuff like 70’s Disco, Eno, Iggy Pop as well as Gene Vincent, Billy Holiday etc." In recent years Plus Instruments has been revilatised after a quiet spell, Truus toured Brazil and recorded an album alongside James Sclavunos on drums. She describes a comfortable life in the States, bar the obvious paranoia at the potential spell of Donald Trump as President. There are a number of musical projects in the pipeline as she eagerly describes. "Asides from the pending Emotional Rescue releases: I just produced a solo album called “Surrealist Ball” for a special project by surrealist painters Mark Ryden and Marion Peck, ten original tracks of ballroom music, my style. There is a Plus Instruments worthy track on it too. Also the next album from Plus Instruments, “Signal Through The Waves” recorded in Brazil, featuring James Sclavunos and Paulo Beto is due out this year I hope and I actually have another Plus Instruments album ready to go after that. Then there is a Bodies re-mix by Mason, a DJ in in the Netherlands, i'm not sure when that comes out. I have various other projects cooking..." Digging up Dutch Undergrounds An Interview with Truus de Groot of Plus Instruments and Nasmak -March 25, 2014 by Richard Foster Truus de Groot is a legendary presence in ULTRA circles. A true musical pioneer whose interest in all sorts of noise – and a natural inquisitiveness – led to an incredibly inventive sound in her work in her band, Plus Instruments; plus a host of connections with people from other scenes, such as her band mate Lee Ranaldo (later Sonic Youth’s guitarist) and Alien Brains, aka Nigel Jacklin. I’d first met Truus just after the 2012 ULTRA revival, and got on well with her on a subsequent tour of Holland in 2013. Seeing that Truus now lives in the States, this interview was conducted by email, with two rounds of questions. A brief note: I’ve tried to edit as little as possible, to keep the feel of the original interview intact, but any reference to what I consider personal matters or names of partners and family have been omitted. The full transcript – here an email string – is in my possession and available on request. Notes and additions to make the text run smoothly are added in […]. (My first email, March 23, 2014) Hi Truus, Richard here. I wonder if you can help me; and would be very grateful if you could contribute. If not, no worries. I have been asking a number of actors in the ULTRA / Dutch post punk scene to answer questions; broadly hinging round a sense of cultural worth, and round how the key actors defined their own identities and actions round that particular counter culture. It always cracks me up that Dutch media use underground music from the Anglo-American “market” to make social points about their own country’s history. It’s as if punk and specifically post punk didn’t exist. [Note: here I mean Dutch post punk and punk in terms of Dutch media perception.] Maybe that’s true for many; but I’d like to nail ULTRA’s point on the cultural map, academically. My putative thesis question “to define to what extent did the Dutch ULTRA music scene of the early 1980s create and express a lasting and unique national identity?” If you agree I’ll send 7-8 general, “pointer questions”. Hope that’s ok! (Truus’s first email, March 23, 2014) Yes, please send! I hope I’ll make sense.. My best, Truus (My second email, March 23, 2014) Hi Truus; Please answer as fully as you can; then we can also promote it as an interview on Luifabriek (another site I edit) AND LET ME KNOW IF I NEED TO ASK ANYTHING ELSE! (questions shown in Truus’s second mail) (Truus’s second email, March 25, 2014) Hey, here it is. I hope I makes sense. It was so long ago and that period of my life was extremely overwhelming. I think I discovered I was an artist for real when I was like 17? So the minute I set foot on stage it became a whirlwind. As you might know I was immediately recruited after my first ever show, to be in the first Doe Maar, [note: the extended, Festival of Fools line up in 1978], toured right away. Joined Nasmak and our 3rd gig was Paradiso. Really the speed was insane. So Ultra was a natural progression in a very tumultuous time of my life. I kept a diary but what did I write about? Just myself, my grievances and joys, very introvert. So here is the best I can do. Please do edit my pathetic writing as you see fit. 1.What was the impetus for making the style of music you did? Well honestly it came from the discovery that I could create something new, that was my own, without having any musical technical ability. Throughout the 70’s growing up, or [throughout] my whole life I guess. I was intimidated by the bands I saw play live, the guitar solos, keyboard virtuosos, etc. It seemed unattainable to get to such a level. And frankly I was bored by it (I had more fun hanging out with the roadies). Sometime around ’75 or so I heard Yoko Ono, I had hear her before, but something clicked there. Not that I liked her enormously, but it stirred something in me. Then a bit later I happened upon an experimental scene, met Michael Waisvisz [note: Dutch composer, performer and inventor of experimental electronic musical instruments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Waisvisz ] and that made a huge impression on me. He demonstrated that music could be something else than a set chord progression, and [demonstrated it] with such passion! I first discovered I could sing, to my surprise. I started picking up any instrument and just played it the way I thought sounded cool. Then there was the No Wave New York record, and I heard something else altogether. Punk, the synth wave (or what do you call Fad Gadget, Throbbing gristle etc.), that minimal punk thing like Wire, the moodiness of Joy Division, all of that inspired me. Oh man and then I saw DEVO, Pere Ubu…the list is endless. I was in Nasmak at that time, but they were still very chord progression oriented. So I immediately established Plus Instruments as my alternative to create this “Noise” that did not adhere to conventional music making. Nasmak was rather successful in Holland, but we just played sets. I just wanted to improvise. I had a short attention span and became quickly bored with routines, that mindset does help to keep searching and [allows you to] re-invent yourself I believe. Funny enough [sic] we did a lot of crazy improvisation back–stage which is documented on the Indecent Exposure Cassettes. 2. Were there many like-minded people in Eindhoven then? To name a few: I played around with my then band mate Bregt Camphuijzen, Rick van Iersel (Der Junge Hund). Then there was Remko Scha and Paul Panhuizen who had the Apollohuis. I did spin off bands, improvised with Toon Bressers and played with Joop van Brakel and Maria van Heeswijk (wife of Dick Verdult aka Dick Eldemasiado). At that time Dick was a film maker and around him swirled an endless source of inspiration [sic] to create art on all levels. His home became one of the places that I would seek out, it was just all about art and creating it but not on a pretentious level. Just raw and any medium. I would hang out in De Effenaar and there was a cool scene of visual [artists], musicians and just fans who all somehow were enamored with whatever wave explosion. [Note: here Truus means developments of the new wave.] It was not a huge scene and I would veer off to Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Haag doing the same thing. I was always eager to jump into improvisations by any means possible. I really lived for art, as I do now.2a. What was Holland like in that period? How did someone into “post punk” / experimental music “function” socially back then? I was young, so I did not think too much..ha ha or maybe too much, but that was on my own in my solitude. I hung out with an art scene. I fell in love every other few months and would passionately follow that desire. It was always paired with creating art, music, very driven. I was always very busy. I was also very self-centered. There was a heavy dose of teen angst, I was dismayed with the world. At the same time [I was] always desperately looking for love, passion and the beauty of life. I guess I was very emotional and quite moody (still am). I relished my independence (living alone) and always had some impossible crush on some unattainable man. It seemed I always had to needlessly torture myself. I am a chick after all… And yes, I was always broke. Dole was denied to me because they [note: I take it the Dutch WW] declared that playing in a band was NOT a job. I did appeal this and incredibly won when I was already living in NYC for a year or so. 3. ULTRA is based a lot round Amsterdam. Did you feel you had to go to Amsterdam to make a point or could Plus Instruments function away from the Randstad/capital? Plus Instruments could very much function away from that, but playing in Amsterdam was more fun. There were more like minded people. And really Amsterdam was a real city, it had energy. To play there you were validated. If you went there and had a great evening / night and step off the train the next day in Eindhoven it would be such a let down. I mean there was this stigma of being from below the rivers, which I was. South versus North. They’d make fun of how I talk. Ha ha how insane for such a small country! So even though they were a colder lot of people, it made me want to be there more! I wanted to be part of it. In fact I really started getting bored with Eindhoven, I was thinking all the time to move to London or Berlin. I remember I even wanted Nasmak to move with me, but I knew that was impossible with Henk or Theo [note: Henk Janssen, singer and Theo van Eenbergen bass guitar] who at that time were more homebodies. For Theo that later changed big time! 4. Did it (ULTRA) feel an especially or specifically Dutch expression, artistically? If not what were the bits you think were Dutch? It was indeed a Dutch expression; I don’t think I heard anything from another country referred to as Ultra if that is what you are asking. [Note: I wasn’t! I meant an aesthetic expression, a movement. Hoist by my own vague petard!] In the Ultra scene there was quite a variety, there was some real grungy stuff but also real mechanical stuff, punky even funky etc. So it really was a movement having perhaps a common philosophy? An attitude. Design and art was a good part of it. I think in a very Dutch way. To veer off the common [note: Truus here means common path], innovate, but with a good deal of soul yet the stoicism of the Dutch.. I mean look at Minny Pops. They were quite mechanical, and Wally as a singer he was machine-like but intense. But, he had soul in that setting. At least this is how I saw it. 5. What would you think its legacy is? Break the barriers of the bands that were just emanating British and US bands and create its [note: by its I’m guessing Truus means “our”] own wave. Blend a variety of styles, stir it up with art, fashion, experimentation and improvisation. It was a mindset perhaps. We looked good, correct me if I am wrong but I believe we were all wearing stuff from the 50’s and 60’s, so good looking too! 5a. Do you think it’s been fairly represented with all the recent interest? It needs much more attention and it should convey some of the experimental aspect. I mean back then there was this explosion, and strong enthusiasm for new stuff. And book more Plus Instruments shows (ha ha ha)… I think you would need a week-long festival to truly covey it. Not one night at De Melkweg. Worm would be a good venue for that. You could do film, workshops etc. 6. I read a lot of back copies of early VINYLs, and there seems to be this Utopian aspect to a lot of the writing and an attempt to connect with like minded souls through West Europe. Is that how you felt? Hmm maybe. There was a definite thirst. I did correspond with a number of people all the time via glorious snail mail. I do believe we felt we were creating our own wave with an international appeal, no borders that is. And we felt like spreading that gospel. The little flexidisc [note: the monthly free flexidisc given away in VINYL] was such a good thing too. I was always sending cassettes back and forward it was the way to get stuff going. I had ongoing communications [sic] with so many people. We would somehow connect. I was always eager to start talking with bands that played in the local venues and make contacts.. I was a bit of a arty groupie perhaps. (Ultimately that is how I landed in the US.) But really we did not really emanate the stuff that was out there, we had a unique art movement here. [Note: Truus must mean “emulate” rather than “emanate” here; though emanate – even though it makes no sense in the sentence – is also quite illuminating in this setting, so I left it in!] 7. You had a lot of encounters or collaborations with musicians or writers from Britain and America at that time. Can you tell me about them? What do you think was their attraction for the Dutch scene? From my own experience, the musicians I have taken to Holland, they always were taken by the eagerness of people to start playing together. Just the social scene, this “Gezellig” thing, there are not many places in the world where that is so prevalent. You knock on the door and hang out, have a beer, shoot the shit and start making art! With the squats, some of them venues, you could just plug in and make it a night. There were recreational drugs around, [and that] did not hurt to set the mood. Not that I cared but the people from abroad were taken by that. And in the US you would have to be booked in a venue to play. No squats. Oh, there were some art collectives but it was always booked. There was just no opportunity for spontaneity. I was not very familiar with the UK scene, just played there a few times but it did not appear to have such a “just do it” scene. In Holland you could start something and there would be a way to perform somehow for a crowd. And the Dutch would always be very pleased and eager to be acquainted with someone from the UK or US. Probably even more than French or German. Although I personally was quite enamored by the German scene. 7a. And what did you want to take from the Anglo-American, or German scenes? What did you see in those scenes/musicians that you didn’t see in Holland? Well first of all Holland was very limited. There was only so far you could get there. After I played the 300th hole in the wall, I had seen all I wanted to see. In Holland you are to stay on a certain level. Even if you are successful it is not looked upon as some great accomplishment. I remember Barry Hay from Golden Earring coming backstage at a Nasmak concert. He was totally down to earth, sweet, kind, flirting with me. I remember we even kissed. I mean he had a few number Ones in America, the world! “Radar (fucking) Love”!! That is just so Dutch. In the US he would be this untouchable celebrity rolling down his window in a limo…. …For the Germans I felt they had an intensity that the Dutch did not have. They seemed to play harder and maybe there was more anger there. Germany was rather hostile then, to live there I mean. I toured there and just by having red hair you were basically yelled at and scorned. Not fun. So their reaction was more intense. Which I liked a lot! We were all a bit angry then. But from my German friends I got a lot of true passion and they could party like nobody’s business. And the Cold War then, that whole East German thing, how weird was that? The island of Berlin set in the middle of Communism. But… From America, I wanted to learn about its strong music roots. Of all there was! Rock, blues, jazz, you name it. I knew it was all there. And I wanted to discover it and see how I could use that in my music. I was really thirsty for knowledge when I went to the US. Initially Americans seemed so open, eager to meet, learn, but later on I realized that is just their culture. The way they acted, as in socially acceptable. There was no “Gezellig”. I moved to NYC and the kindness would be very superficial. I soon learned everybody is just watching their own back. I felt so lonely there! It took me years to figure out who was my friend and who was not. Because it is hard when people just always say, wow that is great, then turn around and say you suck. I came from Holland where people pretty much tell it like it is, they are blunt. I was so naïve, it probably saved me! But having said all that, there was a reason. Live was hard there. To live in NYC you had to earn a living, you had to hustle and make it work, do stuff, WORK! Not just collect your dole every week. So yes it was very competitive. You had to be good and kind. The easier thing would have been to return to Eindhoven. But how boring that would have been! (My third email, March 25, 2014)Aha! This is great! Thanks so much! You leave LOTS of clues in these answers to things that have been bouncing round my mind about ULTRA – I’m intrigued! So I’m going to ask you a further couple of questions based on your answers then I’ll add them to the mix and publish. (Truus) ” I did correspond with a number of people all the time via glorious snail mail. I do believe we felt we were creating our own wave with an international appeal, no borders that is. ” (Me) Who did you correspond with and can you remember what the musical/aesthetic tone, or direction was? Did they see anything “Dutch” about your approach and try to emulate it? (Truus) “Break the barriers of the bands that were just emanating British and US bands and create its own wave.” (Me) Do you mean NL bands copying Anglo-American bands, or Anglo-American bands? Breaking the Anglo-American rock market up a bit, you mean? (Truus’s third email, March 25, 2014) I hope these answers make more sense. I wish you success with your Thesis! Oh man it was so long ago! OK there was Mayo Thompson (Red Crayola), we discussed music, art, his amazing band. Nigel, [note: Jacklin, aka Alien Brains] we did an enormous amount of cassette trading and he eventually came and jammed with me in Eindhoven, and David Linton (US, then playing with Rhys Chatham). Jackie Hildish (aus Lauter Liebe, Germany) he was also road manager for DAF but made really cool music. Kiddy Kidney (Sprung aus den Wolken, Germany). There were more but my memory sucks.(Truus) “Break the barriers of the bands that were just emanating British and US bands and create its own wave.” Hm..funny question? Anglo-American bands, or Anglo-American bands? [Note: Looking back that’s really unclear. What I actually meant was, Dutch bands copying UK/US acts AND UK/US acts]. I mean most bands were just copying American or English bands, as they have been for decades. Nothing new, just same old. And they were hoping to penetrate the international market of course. Nothing new, nothing innovative. But not that there is anything wrong with that. There were many Dutch bands that were singing strictly with a English accent. They wanted to be them. It’s still the same now…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line166
__label__cc	0.587754	0.412246	Johnny Unitas Award Get Johnny Unitas Award essential facts below. View Videos or join the Johnny Unitas Award discussion. Add Johnny Unitas Award to your PopFlock.com topic list for future reference or share this resource on social media. The Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Given for Top upperclassmen quarterback in college football The Golden Arm Educational Foundation, Inc. First award Mac Jones, Alabama www.goldenarmfoundation.com The Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award is given annually in the United States to the nation's top upperclassmen quarterback in college football. Candidates are judged on accomplishments on the field as well as on their character, scholastic achievement, and leadership qualities.[1] The award was established in 1987 and named after Johnny Unitas, who was nicknamed "The Golden Arm".[2] Unitas played his college career at the University of Louisville and set many records in the National Football League while playing for the Baltimore Colts. These are the award recipients since inception in 1987.[3] 1987 Don McPherson Syracuse [3] 1988 Rodney Peete USC [3] 1989 Tony Rice Notre Dame [3] 1990 Craig Erickson Miami [3] 1991 Casey Weldon Florida State [3] 1992 Gino Torretta Miami (2) [3] 1993 Charlie Ward Florida State (2) [3] 1994 Jay Barker Alabama [3] 1995 Tommie Frazier Nebraska [3] 1996 Danny Wuerffel Florida [3] 1997 Peyton Manning Tennessee [3] 1998 Cade McNown UCLA [3] 1999 Chris Redman Louisville [3] 2000 Chris Weinke Florida State (3) [3] 2001 David Carr Fresno State [3] 2002 Carson Palmer USC (2) [3] 2003 Eli Manning Ole Miss [3] 2004 Jason White Oklahoma [3] 2005 Matt Leinart USC (3) [3] 2006 Brady Quinn Notre Dame (2) [3] 2007 Matt Ryan Boston College [3] 2008 Graham Harrell Texas Tech [3] 2009 Colt McCoy Texas [3] 2010 Scott Tolzien Wisconsin [4] 2011 Andrew Luck Stanford [5] 2012 Collin Klein Kansas State [6] 2013 AJ McCarron Alabama (2) [7] 2014 Marcus Mariota Oregon [8] 2015 Connor Cook Michigan State [9] 2016 Deshaun Watson Clemson [1] 2017 Mason Rudolph Oklahoma State [10] 2018 Gardner Minshew, II Washington State [11] 2019 Joe Burrow LSU [12] 2020 Mac Jones Alabama (3) [13] ^ a b Hickey, Anna (December 6, 2016). "Watson wins Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award". CBS Sports. Retrieved 2017. ^ "About The Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2017. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Winners". Sports Reference. Retrieved 2017. ^ Potrykus, Jeff (December 6, 2010). "Tolzien wins Unitas Award". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2017. ^ "Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck named Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award winner". The Baltimore Sun. December 5, 2011. Retrieved 2017. ^ "Collin Klein named winner of Johnny Unitas award as top college QB". The Denver Post. December 3, 2012. Retrieved 2017. ^ "AJ McCarron accepts 2013 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award [Video]". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2017. ^ "Oregon QB Marcus Mariota wins Johnny Unitas Golden Arm award". Sports Illustrated. December 8, 2014. Retrieved 2017. ^ Rexrode, Joe (December 8, 2015). "MSU's Connor Cook wins Unitas award as top QB". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2017. ^ "Oklahoma State University Mason Rudolph Wins The 2017 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award - Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award". Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. 2017-11-30. Retrieved . ^ "Gardner Minshew, II Wins 2018 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award® Presented by A. O. Smith". Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. 2017-11-30. Retrieved . ^ "Joe Burrow becomes LSU's first winner of Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award for top college senior QB". The Advocate. Baton Rouge, LA. 2019-12-04. Retrieved . ^ https://www.prweb.com/releases/mac_jones_wins_the_2020_johnny_unitas_golden_arm_award/prweb17639092.htm Johnny_Unitas_Award	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line169
__label__wiki	0.640169	0.640169	United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps Get United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps essential facts below. View Videos or join the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps discussion. Add United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps to your PopFlock.com topic list for future reference or share this resource on social media. Congressionally Chartered Military Organization Use of oxygen as medical treatment U.S. Navy sponsored organization This article needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2012) 396 units and 12,002 members (2,871 officers and 9,131 cadets) Garrison/HQ Arlington County, Virginia, U.S. Motto(s) "Chart your course" Blue, gold September 10, 1962 (federal incorporation) Captain Paul Zambernardi, USN (Ret.) David I. Hull, M.S., M.A., J.D. The United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps (USNSCC or NSCC) is a congressionally-chartered, U.S. Navy sponsored organization that serves to teach individuals about the sea-going military services, U.S. naval operations and training, community service, citizenship, and an understanding of discipline and teamwork. The USNSCC is composed of two programs – the senior program for cadets age 13 through the age of 18, and the Navy League Cadet Corps (NLCC), which is for cadets ages 10 through 13. USNSCC cadets at sea in July 2002. Sea Cadets graduation in January 2019 from EMS at Naval Station Newport The NSCC was founded in 1958 by the Navy League of the United States at the request of the Department of the Navy. In 1962, the USNSCC was chartered under Title 36 of the United States Code as a non-profit youth organization with an emphasis towards the sea-going services of the United States.[1] The law was amended in 1974 to allow female participation in the USNSCC. In 2000, the U.S. Congress stated that the NSCC and related programs "provide significant benefits for the Armed Forces, including significant public relations benefits."[2] Although under no service obligation, a sizeable percentage of cadets later enlist in the military. Members who attain the grade E-3 or Seaman/Airman or are in the program for 2 years, may enter as an advanced paygrade of E-3 if they join the Navy or Coast Guard before they turn 24 years old,[3] and E-2 in the Marine Corps or other services, due to the training they receive. Former Sea Cadets also represent a percentage of students at the five federal service academies. Cadets that excel while in the corps, will have their achievements available for the service academies to see. The Naval Sea Cadet Corps is officially supported by the Navy League of the United States, and is endorsed by the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Coast Guard. The United States Coast Guard, through COMDTINST 5728.2C, USCG Public Affairs Manual, has designated the USNSCC as "the primary youth program the Coast Guard supports." A U.S. Navy Master-at-Arms shows the firing sequence of the M9 Beretta pistol to Seaman Daniel Krieg, a Cadet with the Naval Sea Cadet Corps. The national headquarters (NHQ) of the NSCC is located in Arlington, Virginia. Rear Admiral (LH) Robin L. Graf, USN (Ret.) is the Executive Director, the "Commander-in-Chief" of the USNSCC. There are seven field areas in all. Each field is headed by an NHQ Representative, who is usually the grade of a Navy captain. Each field area may be further divided into regions, which are headed by a Senior Regional Director, who is an NSCC lieutenant commander (LCDR). Each region can have sub-regions, depending on the size of the area and number of units in that region. Each sub-region is headed by a Regional Director (RD), who is also an NSCC LCDR. Each RD will report to the Senior RD for any matters regarding the region and/or sub-regions themselves. RDs are also responsible to the NSCC NHQ Representative for matters regarding Petty Officer Exams, PO1 and CPO advancements, NSCC officer matters, and anything else that would be of importance to the NHQ Representative or to the Executive Director. Each sub-region may be composed of anywhere between two and ten units. For example, the Pacific Southwest Field Area is composed of Region 11 (covering Southern California and the Las Vegas area) and Region 12 (covering Northern California, and in Nevada, those areas north of Las Vegas). Region 11 itself is divided into 8 sub-regions, each headed by one Regional Director and their regional staff. Cadets must be physically fit, have no criminal record, and have a good academic standard to become members. Each unit has a Commanding Officer and Executive Officer, and depending on the number of adult volunteers, may have other billets which cover different areas important to the operation of that unit. Some units have far more or far less than the required minimum, due to a vast array of recruiting issues. All units must have the minimum number of personnel in order to be commissioned into the NSCC. Adult leaders are volunteers with myriad experience ranging from active/reserve/retired military personnel to civilian parents of cadets. Adult volunteers must be 18 years and older. NSCC officers, instructors, and midshipmen all must go through a thorough application process--including a background check--before they can be accepted as adult volunteers. High school graduates aged 18, up through adults aged 21 may serve as Midshipmen (MIDN). Midshipmen are technically NSCC officers, and are mostly former cadets, but can be ROTC, service academy, or other personnel with some type of experience relevant to the function of the NSCC and NLCC. Adults aged 21 years and older can serve as NSCC instructors, Warrant Officers, or officers (although Warrant Officer grade is reserved to military personnel with specific qualifications). Cadets who are 18 years old can elect to remain a Sea Cadet through high school graduation and until 30 September of the year of their graduation. The United States Navy, United States Navy League, and the United States Coast Guard all support the NSCC by providing such resources as uniform assistance, use of military facilities, and assisting with training courses. Most support, however, comes from the volunteers and parents of the NSCC program. Most of the NSCC's funding has come from the enrollment fees of its cadets and officers, the Navy League of the United States, private sources, and through appropriations from the DOD's annual budget. In recent years, the NSCC has lobbied for, and obtained, through congressional support, between $1-2 million a year to offset the rising costs of supporting and running NSCC trainings. The USNSCC is roughly 13,000 strong (12/1/19). For FY20, U.S. Congress will most likely give $1.7 million dollars. USNSCC is going to be requesting $4.3 million more. Sea Cadets participating in EOD/MDSU training at Fort Story, Virginia. Each new Sea Cadet must attend NSCC recruit training, which serves to introduce each "recruit" to the standards and routine involved in the life of a Sea Cadet. Military drill, customs and courtesies, physical fitness training, and other courses related to the sea-going services, are part of the demanding schedule of recruit training. After graduating from NSCC recruit training, Sea Cadets have the opportunity to attend Advanced Training in many different locations and in many different fields, depending on their personal interests. Cadets must attend at least one Advanced Training each year in order to advance in rank. These training opportunities usually occur during the summer and winter breaks, but also may occur anytime throughout the year. Advanced Training is held primarily at Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine installations, and can range anywhere from five days up to three weeks in length. The training courses are coordinated and staffed by NSCC Officers and Instructors, and may have outside instructors from all branches of the Armed Forces, who are mainly made up of Active and Reserve Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard personnel. These training activities include, but are not limited to: Amphibious Operations Training Shipboard Training with the Navy and Coast Guard Coast Guard (Shore) FAA Ground School JAG Legal Training MAA (Master At Arms, the Navy equivalent to Military Police) Law Enforcement Academy POLA (Petty Officer Leadership Academy) Seabee (Naval Construction Battalions) Submarine Seminar (basic and advanced) USN Seamanship Academy Firefighting and Damage Control School Honor Guard School Field Medical School (Corpsman) Joint Special Operations Command Training SEAL Training SWCC (Special Warfare Combat Crewman) IE "special boats" EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) Training AIRR (Naval Helo Search And Rescue Swimmer) Training Advanced Music Training Land Navigation Training Field Operations Training Homeland security training Search and rescue training Marksmanship training Expeditionary Warfare Training Maritime Interdiction International Exchange Program Naval Criminal Investigative Service training Coastal Riverine training Locally arranged training U.S. Naval Academy Summer Seminar Due to COVID-19 there are virtual training offered U.S. Naval Sea Cadet doing EOD/MDSU Training at Norfolk, Virginia in 2006. Each of the NSCC and NLCC's 396 units perform drills all around the United States during the school year. Some units have a weeknight drill of 2-3 hours, or drill for an entire day over the weekend twice a month, while others drill once a month for an entire weekend. Each unit's drill schedule is set by the unit Commanding Officer and depends on the location of the unit and availability of both adult staff and cadets. During the school year, nearby units often come together to participate in weekend trainings, including Field Training Exercises, Small Arms Training, Shipboard Training, and Regional Flagship Competitions. The USNSCC owns a ship, the USNSCS Grayfox, homeported in Port Huron, Michigan. The USNSCC also sponsors an International Exchange Program with other Sea Cadet programs around the world: exchange countries include the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, India, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Hong Kong, Russia, and Bermuda.[4] The Band of the West (BOTW) is a 30-member martial music team which is the only active marching band in the USNSCC.[5] The band has been trained by the top military bands in the nation including the United States Navy Band, Marine Band San Diego and the 101st Army Reserve Band.[6] On 10 March 2020, the Sea Cadet National Headquarters had cancelled its International Exchange Program 2020, for health reasons to keep cadets and adults safe during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Summer trainings were then cancelled, and instead, virtual training options were established online on a website called Online Training Command. On 20 March 2020, the launch of the Sea Cadet Virtual Academy was made, a website that would show many extracurricular training websites and activities that people could do on their own. A new webinar series on the Zoom meeting platform was also created: "Ask the Chief". Each webinar was hosted once every Saturday, each one having a different topic every time. Promotion exams would also be accepted to be taken at home. In the month of April, more webinars that would talk about Navy careers were established on Zoom, too. All Sea Cadet activities were cancelled until June. The live webinar series on Youtube, Real Sailors, Real Sea Stories, was also developed. As of now, the suspension is extended to August. The Navy allows the NSCC and NLCC to wear the uniforms of the United States Navy, only modified with a distinguishing crest and shoulder insignia (Dress Blues) and a Sea Cadets chest patch (NWU's or CUU's). U.S. Navy Uniform Regulations are adhered to by both the NSCC and NLCC. Officer rank insignia are the same as the Navy's. Sea Cadet rate insignia are slightly different in design; the colors are changed to yellow, are in the form of chevrons (V-shaped), and are worn on the right sleeve for the dress uniform. The ranks of E-2 and E-3 have the corresponding number of chevrons (downward facing) and the ranks E-4 through E-6 have the rate of BM (Boatswain's Mate). Chief Petty Officer uniforms are similar to those of the United States Navy, with a different cover device. It is different on the Navy Working Uniform (NWU Type I and III) and Camouflage Utility Uniform (CUU), where the rate insignia is worn on the cadet's collar and is slightly different from the US Navy collar devices. Additionally, a U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps flash must be sewn on the right pocket of the NWU uniform and on the CUU uniform. As of January 10, 2020 the U.S. Navy has authorized the NWU III Uniform to be worn by Cadets, Midshipmen, Instructors and Officers of the USNSCC. The NWU III uniform worn by the NSCC/NLCC is modified with official USNSCC/USNLCC tapes, shoulder flashes and 8 point cover flash. The only footwear authorized for wear with the NWU III is a black combat style boot. Coyote, Tan and Black "rough out" boots are not authorized for the NSCC.[7][8] U.S. Navy active, reserve or retired officer and enlisted personnel, may wear their U.S. Navy uniforms, insignia, and qualifications corresponding to their U.S. Navy rank or rating. Sea cadet rates follow the same path as of the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard enlisted rates from E-1 (Seaman Recruit) through E-7 (chief petty officer) (see United States Navy enlisted rates). An enlisted sailors rating refers to their specialized training. All cadets have to take the Navy correspondence courses and pass Navy examinations to advance in rate. They must have a minimum time served in each rate before moving to the next higher rate. All new Sea Cadets enter the NSCC as an E-1 (Seaman Recruit); detailed requirements for advancement are outlined below. Instructors are adult volunteers seeking appointment into the USNSCC Officer Corps. Enrolled Instructors wear a modified NSCC officer's uniform without shoulder boards or gold chin-straps on their cover. Everyone who wishes to become an Ensign in the NSCC Officer's Corps must serve in a probationary status for one year prior to approval for appointment. This time as an Instructor serves as the probationary period and allows time for the instructor to complete the NSCC Officer/Midshipman Study Guide. Depending on billet needs and performance as an Instructor, all Instructors may apply for jump promotions past Ensign. All Instructors, however, must serve for 1 year and complete the Officer/Midshipman Study Guide. Warrant officers are adult leaders who have received direct appointments into the USNSCC Officer Corps. Warrant Officers wear a modified navy warrant officer's (W-2) uniform appropriately marked with the NSCC Insignia. Warrant Officers normally serve a specific function or head a department within the unit and remain in the grade of Warrant Officer, however, may become an Ensign in the normal path of advancement after one year of service if they choose to do so. Candidates for Warrant Officer do not have to complete the Officer/Midshipman Study Guide prior to appointment, but have to have obtained the rank of E-6 or higher in any branch of the Armed Forces, serve 1 year as an instructor, and have a special skill, or speciality in the unit's operation.[9] Officers must be at least age 21 (18 in the case of MIDN), obtain a waiver if older than 65, be a US citizen, and have successful completion of a background check. *All Officers must meet height and weight requirements in order to wear the USNSCC uniform. USNSCC Officers may be active, reserve or retired military, former military or civilians who are knowledgeable of youth and interested in their training. Instructors are actively recruited from U.S. military commands as well as leaders within the community. The USNSCC does not require specific education or professional qualifications, but applicants with Naval experience are desired. USNSCC officers are authorized to wear U.S. Navy officer uniforms (modified with the USNSCC insignia). All USNSCC officers are appointed by the NSCC Executive Director, CAPT. Paul Zambernardi, USN (Ret) via NSCC National Headquarters in Arlington Virginia. All volunteers who wish to enter the Officer Corps must serve at least one year as an Instructor or Midshipman before an appointment to Ensign or Warrant officer in the Officer Corps can be made. The following excerpt is taken directly from USNSCC Regulations, Chapter Six Section Seven; "The U.S. Navy has extended the privilege of wearing its uniform, appropriately modified with USNSCC insignia, to officers, instructors, and midshipmen who meet required standards of appearance. Wearing the Navy's uniform is a privilege the USNSCC has been granted by the U.S.Navy, not a right to which NSCC volunteers are entitled." NSCC officers have no authority over, nor receive a salute from standard military personnel. However, NSCC officers render appropriate courtesies to U.S. military officers of the same or higher grade. Chief Petty Officer shoulder sleeve insignia Advancement and promotion Correspondence Course Time in rate Seaman recruit / SR N / A N / A N / A N / A N / A Seaman apprentice / SA Basic military requirements NAVEDTRA-14325 NSCC recruit training 3 Months in NSCC N / A Commanding officer Seaman / SN Airman / AN Seaman NAVEDTRA-14067 NAVEDTRA 14014A Advanced training (Minimum 7 days) 6 months as E-2 N / A Commanding officer Petty officer 3rd class / PO3 Petty officer 3rd and 2nd class NAVEDTRA-14504 Advanced training (Minimum 7 days) 6 months as E-3 PO3 exam Commanding officer Petty officer 2nd class / PO2 Petty officer 3rd and 2nd class NAVEDTRA-14504 Advanced training (minimum 7 days), must have graduated from POLA (Petty Officer Leadership Academy) 6 months as E-4 PO2 exam Commanding officer Petty officer 1st class / PO1 Petty officer 1st class NAVEDTRA-14145 Advanced training (minimum 7 days) 6 months as E-5 PO1 exam NSCC executive director Chief petty officer / CPO Chief petty officer NAVEDTRA-14144 Advanced training (minimum 7 days) Staff RT (effective 1 September 2008) Be 16 years of age 6 Months as E-6 N / A NSCC executive director Adult officers Time in service Midshipman (MIDN) NSCC Officer/Midshipman Study Guide N / A N / A NSCC E-3 or above, ROTC Instructor (INST) NSCC Officer/Midshipman Study Guide N / A N / A N / A Chief warrant officer 2 (CWO2) NSCC officer / Midshipman Study Guide Complete OPD101 Escort one Basic or one Advanced Training as an INST. Serve a minimum 1 year as an INST. Must have reached E-6 or above in military Ensign (ENS) NSCC Officer / Midshipman Study Guide Complete OPD101 Escort one Basic or one Advanced Training as an INST. One year as MIDN or INST One year in NSCC N / A Lieutenant, junior grade (LTJG) Complete OPD 201 Escort one Basic or one Advanced Training as an ENS 2 years as ENS. 3 Years Minimum NSCC Time in service N / A Lieutenant (LT) Complete OPD 301 Escort one basic or one advanced training as a LTJG 3 years at LTJG. Lieutenant commander (LCDR) N / A Escort one Basic or one Advanced Training as a LT 4 years at LT. 10 years minimum NSCC time in service 1 career TWT must be recruit training Awards and decorations Awards and decorations of the Naval Sea Cadet Corps[10] 1st row Chairman's Medal 2nt row Honor Ribbon Distinguished Service Ribbon NLCC Distinguished Service Ribbon Meritorious Recognition Ribbon Commendation Ribbon Citation Ribbon NSCC Escort Officer Ribbon NLUS Youth Ribbon Community Service Ribbon NSCC IEP Officer Ribbon Academic Achievement Ribbon Drug Reduction Service Ribbon ONR Science Achievement Ribbon Recruiting Incentive Ribbon DAR ROTC Award DAR Outstanding Cadet Award SAR Citizenship Award VFW NSCC Ribbon Unit Commendation Ribbon Physical Fitness Ribbon NSCC Staff Cadet Ribbon Color Guard Ribbon 10th row NSCC/NLCC Service Ribbon Ribbon NLCC Merit Ribbon Marksman Ribbon International Naval Review/OpSail 2000 Ribbon NSCC 25th/50th Anniversary Ribbon 25th Year Commissioned Ribbon USCG Bicentennial Unit Commendation Ribbon Fifth Year Ribbon Fourth Year Ribbon Third Year Ribbon Second Year Ribbon First Year Ribbon Policy and guidance for the administration and operation of the Cadet Corps programs is established by a National Board of Directors. The National Vice President of the Navy League for Youth Programs serves concurrently as the National Chairman of the NSCC National Board, and the Vice Chairman of the NSCC National Board serves as the National President. Day-to-day administration of the programs is accomplished by a full-time Executive Director and small staff located in Arlington, Virginia.[11] Mr. Tim Flatley Mr. David Hull CHRIS COLLINS, DOUG DENNENY, ALICIA GAVIN, SHAUN JOHNSON, AMANDA KAER, KAREN MONTAGNE, VERONICA MORALES, VICKI POWELL, CADET PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS RICHARD QUEST, EDUCATION AND ASSISTANT DEPUTY DIRECTOR KATIE RIZZO, SUNITHA THAZETHE, National Headquarters Representatives Captain JAMES CHRISTIE, NORTHWEST, GUAM, AND HAWAII Captain CHARLES FARRELL, SOUTH CENTRAL AND PUERTO RICO Captain WILLIAM MALLOY, Chief Hospital Corpsman VAHAN MANOOGIAN, Captain WILLIAM RADOMSKI, Captain BRIAN ROCHE, NORTHEAST[12] USNSCS Grayfox (TWR-825) Vice Adm. Terrance Etnyre, commander of Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, salutes the Sea Cadets performing as sideboys of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet training ship Grayfox (TWR 825), Detroit Navy Week, 2007 The USNSCS Grayfox (TWR-825) is currently the largest ship owned by the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps. She is homeported in Port Huron, Michigan and is used by the USNSCC for shipboard training. The USNSCS prefix stands for "United States Naval Sea Cadet Ship." Naval Support Facility (NSF) Dahlgren fire department battalion chief Tracy Hall offers some knot-tying pointers to a Navy League cadet. Naval Sea Cadets take part in a rigorous exercise routine while participating in Diver/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Special Operations Program training. Master-at-Arms 1st Class Doug Terou, left, assigned to Naval Station Everett, Wash., encourages members of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps to work during a master-at-arms training exercise. U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Josh Gladden provides instruction on how to get the perfect spit-shined shoes as part of basic training to U.S. Naval League Cadet Corps recruits. Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) William Davis talks to a U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps cadet from the Seal Beach Battalion. Navy Junior ROTC International Sea Cadet Association Sea Cadets (various nations' Sea Cadet organizations) U.S. Merchant Marine Academy U.S. Coast Guard Academy U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol ^ Public Law 87-655 (Sept. 10, 1962), at 36 USC 1541. ^ Recruiting, Retention, and Reservist Promotion Act of 2000 (HR 4208) ^ Navy Advanced Paygrade requirements ^ Weggen, Jennifer (10 September 2018). "IEP Manual" (PDF). US Naval Sea Cadet Corps International Exchange Program. ^ Livengood, Carolyn (2 March 2016). "Annual ceremony held for U.S. Naval Sea Cadets Corps Band of the West Division". The Mercury News. Retrieved 2020. ^ https://www.seacadetbotw.com/music-training ^ "USNSCC Homeport". USNSCC Homeport. Retrieved 2020. ^ "USNSCC Interim Uniform Manual Change #3" (PDF). homeport.seacadets.org. 10 January 2020. ^ "Rank and Insignia". USNSCC. ^ "NSCC/NLCC Ribbon Chart". Naval Sea Cadet Corps. Retrieved 2016. ^ "Headquarters". USNSCC. ^ "Sea Cadets Website - Team". Sea Cadets. Naval Sea Cadet Corps. Navy.com (About the Navy: "Before the Navy"). Retrieved 2009-12-05. Naval Sea Cadet Corps official website. Retrieved 2009-12-05. National Resources Portal webpage on Naval Sea Cadet Corps official website. Retrieved 2009-12-05. COMPASS: National Training Portal webpage on Naval Sea Cadet Corps official website. Retrieved 2009-12-05. NSCC Alumni Association official website. Retrieved 2009-12-05. International Sea Cadet Association official website. Retrieved 2009-12-05. United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps - The Sullivans Division - Drill Weekend July 2009 United_States_Naval_Sea_Cadet_Corps	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line170
__label__cc	0.745437	0.254563	IP: 3.239.109.55 Time: - See more sites from My-Addr TCP/UDP tools and library About TCP/UDP tools Find port number Find port number by word Check all open ports IP range port scanner Ranges of ports in library TCP ports list range 0-1024 TCP ports list range 1024-7000 TCP ports list range 7000-20000 TCP ports list range 20000-49151 UDP ports list range 0-1024 UDP ports list range 1024-7000 UDP ports list range 7000-20000 UDP ports list range 20000-49151 tcp port 9393,udp port 9393,udp tcp 9393 description,biggest ports library database On this page you can find tools for search TCP Port Numbers and UDP Port Numbers. Current service contain the biggest tcp udp port list. Port search going through 4 library (database), total number of records are about 22000 (in 3 times more that in other service). Library's: IANA port numbers assignments library (database) - The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for maintaining the official assignments of port numbers for specific uses. WIKI port numbers assignments library (database) - Good known wikipedia ports library Gasmy library, Beta Library - good known manualy created port databases. The closest known TCP ports before 9393 port :9390 (OpenVAS Transfer Protocol), 9389 (adws, Microsoft AD DS Web Services, Powershell uses this port), 9389 (Active Directory Web Services), 9388 (D2D Data Transfer Service), 9387 (D2D Configuration Service), The closest known UDP ports before 9393 port :9392 (QuickTime Streaming Server), 9391 (QuickTime Streaming Server), 9390 (Reserved), 9390 (QuickTime Streaming Server), 9389 (Reserved), The closest known TCP ports before 9393 port :9396 (fjinvmgr), 9396 (fjinvmgr), 9397 (MpIdcAgt), 9397 (MpIdcAgt), 9400 (Samsung Twain for Network Server), The closest known UDP ports before 9393 port :9394 (QuickTime Streaming Server), 9395 (QuickTime Streaming Server), 9396 (fjinvmgr), 9396 (fjinvmgr), 9396 (QuickTime Streaming Server), In computer networking, the protocols of the Transport Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite, most notably the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), use a numerical identifier for the data structures of the endpoints for host-to-host communications. Such an endpoint is known as a port and the identifier is the port number. port::9393 TCP no data QuickTime Streaming Server UDP no data The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is so central that the entire suite is often referred to as "TCP/IP." Whereas IP handles lower-level transmissions from computer to computer as a message makes its way across the Internet, TCP operates at a higher level, concerned only with the two end systems, for example a Web browser and a Web server. In particular, TCP provides reliable, ordered delivery of a stream of bytes from one program on one computer to another program on another computer. Besides the Web, other common applications of TCP include e-mail and file transfer. Among its management tasks, TCP controls message size, the rate at which messages are exchanged, and network traffic congestion. The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, sometimes known as datagrams, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol (IP) network without requiring prior communications to set up special transmission channels or data paths. UDP is sometimes called the Universal Datagram Protocol. The protocol was designed by David P. Reed in 1980 and formally defined in RFC 768. Copyright © 2021 Ports.My-Addr.com Biggest library of TCP and UDP network ports with descriptions and scanner tool.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line171
__label__cc	0.656971	0.343029	Princeton Found Antony and Cleopatra at McCarter September 23, 2014 By R Birkel Photo Credit: T. Charles Erickson The Theatre Series kicks off with William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra at McCarter Theatre Center. This production, directed by Emily Mann, exudes power and passion in the intimate Berlind Theatre. Nicole Ari Parker (Boogie Nights) and Essau Pritchett (Fences at McCarter) are cast in the title roles. Antony and Cleopatra begin on stage both striking poses, Antony flexing his biceps and Cleopatra positioning into elegant stances, showing the extremes of femininity and masculinity. Parker’s stunning beauty and charm befits Cleopatra. Marc Antony has the physique of a gladiator, which Pritchett clearly presents with his intimidating build. Parker and Pritchett gave adequate performances, though Pritchett could have been a little more articulate. However, the supporting cast was extraordinary. Michael Siberry (Enobarbus) who played Robert in Proof last season, and was also in Uncle Vanya at McCarter; Warner Miller (Eros/Soldier) and Zainab Jah (Charmian) both performed in The Convert at McCarter; Everett Quiton (Mardian/Clown) who royally provided comic relief, and played Bennett in Travesties at McCarter, plus Tobias Segal (Octavius Caesar) and Keith Eric Chappelle (Soldier, amongst other roles) all gave compelling performances. Percussionist Mark Katsaounis sat just off stage left and filled the air with unique sounds and rhythms, which were a fusion of many genres. He stepped on stage, joined by Pritchett, to play an odaiko drum. Both showed their athletic prowess and rhythmic drumming skills as the warrior readied for battle. This production is definitely worth seeing. The set and costumes are well done, the direction of Emily Mann is superb, and the performances are powerful. Antony and Cleopatra is playing now through October 5th. Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Lifestyle Tagged With: McCarter Theatre Enter your email address to subscribe to Princeton Found and receive notifications of new posts by email. It will not be posted or shared. Learn How to Save Money When You Order Online Using EBATES How in the World Did I End Up in Princeton? How in the world did you end up in Princeton? This is the question I've been answering for the past … [Read More...] Princeton Reunions Weekend to Bombard Town Things to Do in Princeton 7 Ways to Combat the Winter Blues Longer nights and lower temperatures can affect your mood. Coldness and darkness trigger the desire … [Read More...] Memorial Day Weekend Parades, Fireworks, and More in Princeton The Insider’s Guide to Nightlife in Princeton Subscribe to Princeton Found via Email In Princeton View Princeton Found’s profile on Facebook View PrincetonFound’s profile on Twitter View Princeton Found’s profile on Pinterest Archives Select Month May 2020 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 March 2019 January 2019 December 2018 March 2018 January 2018 December 2017 October 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 October 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 December 2014 October 2014 September 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 October 2010 May 2010 March 2010 January 2010 October 2009 About Princeton Found	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line173
__label__wiki	0.638077	0.638077	<p><img alt="" src="/documents/10204/0/club+med+lead.jpg/82f595ff-435f-4ec7-b8f6-c7a41abbbcc6?t=1503476057159" style="width: 1500px; height: 884px;" />On the gilded coastline of France’s Côte d’Azur, historic glamour remains eminently palpable. The so-called “roaring twenties” can be experienced at Art Deco hotels such as the Hotel Belles Rives at Juan-les-Pins where former residents include author F Scott Fitzgerald. The famous stretch, meanwhile, is scattered with vintage villas and modern luxury piles that are testament to its traditional and enduring appeal as a destination for the international jet-set.</p> <p>Yet while France is widely recognised as the most venerable choice for those seeking a slice of the Mediterranean high life, other European destinations have long been giving it a run for its money. When Fitzgerald et al were living it up on the Riviera in the early part of the 20th Century, countries such as Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal were barely on the radar. Backward and feudal, these places were largely the preserve of peasants and bandits, certainly not moneyed international dilettantes. </p> <p>How things change. Spain, Italy, Greece – and later Portugal – all benefited hugely from the explosion in package holiday tourism in the 1970s and 1980s, when the bucket and spade brigade from northern European nations flocked to their beach destinations. As awareness of their respective attributes grew, meanwhile, so too did the sophistication of their second-home markets, as canny investors hunted down potential quarry everywhere from the Algarve region in southern Portugal to the Greek islands.</p> <p>All these countries (and France) are still very much on the radar of speculators. Like Phuket and Bali in Southeast Asia, they have transcended their reputations as cheap and cheerful package holiday destinations to offer febrile territory for potentially-fruitful second-home investment. </p> <p>And luring wealthy property investors from Asian countries such as China is now also seen as a lucrative goal for many of these markets. Various governments have introduced so-called “golden visa” schemes in a bid to entice buyers from abroad. These programmes offer fast-track residency for buyers and, in many cases, the appealing bonus of freedom of movement across the European Union’s 26-country Schengen area. </p> <p>Aside from visa schemes, markets are bending over backwards to attract Asian investors, says Charles Pittar, CEO of Chinese international property website Juwai. “The property industry is leading the charge by marketing properties in Chinese and leading industry trips to China on fact-finding missions so they can better understand the market,” he says.</p>   <p><img alt="While Andalucia in southern Spain is famous for its built-up resort areas, the region has charm in abundance in picturesque villages such as Mijas" src="/documents/10204/0/shutterstock_339275027.jpg/39fd43be-a048-4af1-bd37-9f953642a1ce?t=1503293776494" style="width: 740px; height: 493px;" /></p>   <p>Much of the prime property market of southern Europe is driven by leisure. Wealthy buyers are often attracted to purchase second homes that offer easy access to at least one of three popular activities of the wealthy – golf, skiing or simply enjoying the delights of life on the coast.</p> <p>Many golfers are attracted to the Algarve in Portugal and Alicante in Spain, wealthy skiers hit the famous Alpine slopes of France, Switzerland and Austria, while Monaco and the Côte d’Azur region of France are among the best-known premium coastal markets.</p> <p> </p> <div class="pull-quotes-container">Most buyers are looking for a combination of lifestyle and financial returns in the form of capital gains and – for property they don’t occupy – yields</div> <p> </p> <p>But despite these varied perks, Asian buyers in these regions are concerned with more than simply leisure. </p> <p>“Most buyers are looking for a combination of lifestyle and financial returns in the form of capital gains and – for property they don’t occupy – yields,” says Pittar, noting that strong links to China and the reassurance that compatriots consider the investment a good one make the purchase even easier. </p> <p>“Having made their own investment, it is common for first-time investors to talk their friends into buying in the same area,” he adds.</p> <p>While the reasons to invest – strong returns, visa benefits and fantastic leisure possibilities – are clear, less obvious is where exactly to plump for a place in the European sun. </p> <p>Buyers looking for stability would be well advised to look to Spain, France and Italy, according to Kate Everett-Allen, head of International Residential Research at Knight Frank LLP. Here, she says, “Finance is cheap, available on good terms but there are safeguards in place to avoid the boom-and-bust scenario evident post-2008.”</p>   <p><img alt="Regarded by many as the world's most desirable ski destination, Courchevel 1850 in France offers premium property, plentiful powder, Michelin-starred restaurants and more" src="/documents/10204/0/shutterstock_437735995.jpg/851cece9-1274-4622-b33f-4867659397fc?t=1503293900612" style="width: 740px; height: 509px;" /></p>   <p>The diverse politics, economics and price-points of the European markets meant that each was affected differently by the financial crash of 2008. Similarly, each has recovered to varying degrees. </p> <p>“Some second-home markets saw prices falls of 30 per cent to 50 per cent in peak-to-trough terms, although Europe’s prime markets were better insulated than the wider mainstream housing markets,” adds Everett-Allen. </p> <p>One of the countries hardest hit by the crash was Portugal. But the country is proving attractive to Asian buyers, according to research by Juwai – and it’s not simply because of Portugal’s successful golden-visa scheme. </p> <p>“Portugal is appealing to Chinese buyers who seek lifestyle benefits above big-city glamour and who prefer Europe over the United States,” says Pittar. “Chinese investors like Portugal for its low cost of living, old-world charm and Mediterranean beauty and affordable property.”</p> <p>The hub of Portugal’s prime property market is the Algarve. The southern coast is generously sprinkled with beaches, golf courses and gated resorts – offering security as well as luxury. </p> <p> </p> <div class="pull-quotes-container">The beautiful beaches and legendary nightlife of the Balearic island of Ibiza attract a younger but no less wealthy buyer</div> <p> </p> <p>Over the border in Spain, one of the main hotspots for buyers of luxury second homes has long been the Costa del Sol on the south coast, where golf, sun and sea can be enjoyed in equal measure. </p> <p>Meanwhile, the beautiful beaches and legendary nightlife of the Balearic island of Ibiza attract a younger but – judging by the armada of super yachts berthed there – no less wealthy buyer. Prime prices here have outperformed the rest of Spain of late, rising by 10 percent from 2015 to 2016. </p> <p>In France, too, markets catering to the pursuits of the wealthy are outperforming the rest of the country. “An oversupply of inland rural properties is holding average prices back, but in prominent international tourist areas, such as the ski resorts in the Alps and hot spots along the Riviera, prices are buoyant,” says Julian Walker, director at London-based portal InternationalPropertyForSale.com. </p>   <p><a href="http://property-report.com/detail/-/blogs/asia-missing-in-eiu-s-list-of-the-world-s-10-most-liveable-citi-8" target="_blank"><strong>More: Asia missing from EIU's 10 most liveable cities ranking</strong></a></p>   <p>The French Riviera, or Côte d’Azur, has few rivals when it comes to fame, glamour and status. Aside from the glitz and buzz of celebrity-packed St Tropez and Cannes, attractive prime locations here include the exclusive Cap d’Antibes, Cap Ferrat and the quiet village of Mougins, popular with wealthy families thanks to its highly regarded international school. The peaceful peninsula of Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat boasts the world’s fifth most expensive street, Chemin du Sémaphore, where average prices were USD67,000 per square metre in 2015. France has also been dealt a lucrative geological hand in the shape of the Alps. Courchevel 1850 is one of the most sought-after ski resorts on the Continent with good infrastructure and facilities. </p> <p>“Activity has been concentrated in the EUR1-4m (USD1.1-4.4m) bracket, though a few ultra-prime deals have taken place,” notes Savills in its 2016/17 Alpine Property Report. Despite the resort’s maturity, new developments are still appearing. For example, the Six Senses Residences Courchevel, which opened in 2016, offers extensive concierge and spa facilities and is the first branded resort in the area. Picturesque Méribel is also highlighted as a popular option. </p> <p>“Prime new build apartments sell for around EUR15,000 per square metre,” notes the report. There are options for buyers looking for value, too. “Resorts priced under EUR5,000 per square metre include St Gervais, offering access to the Mont Blanc ski domaine, and Les Contamines.” </p>   <p><img alt="Greece may not have had its troubles to seek in recent times, but the picture-postcard qualities of destinations such as Santorini mean it retains its appeal for investors" src="/documents/10204/0/shutterstock_634105301.jpg/a5c9e81b-af54-428e-bffe-b2b49a5d4f75?t=1503294021473" style="width: 740px; height: 310px;" /></p>   <p>Alpine investment opportunities are also abound in Italy, where the prime market has a proven track record of resilience. Political uncertainty in the country has however been so enduring that it’s something of a certainty. December 2016’s constitutional referendum, for example, saw voters reject mainstream political wisdom à la Brexit and Trump. But the Italian market is well accustomed to riding such turbulence, says Diletta Giorgolo Spinola of Sotheby’s International Realty. </p> <p>“Italy has always had a lot of changes in government,” she explains. “Our stability is different than in other European countries. Politics do not affect our trophy assets.”</p> <p>One of these trophy assets is Costa Smeralda on the island of Sardinia. Here, EUR1m buys 50 square metres. “Portofino, perched on the cliffs of the Italian Riviera sits in second place (67 square metres), but compare this to less famous, but attractive and emerging destination such as Maremma (the coastal region of southern Tuscany) and Umbria (a rolling, landlocked region in central Italy) where prime prices are close to EUR6,000 per square metre, and EUR1m buys around 167 square metres of floorspace,” explains Everett-Allan. Italy’s best performing prime region last year was Lake Como, home to the likes of George Clooney. Here, prices rose 1.2 percent in 2016.</p>   <p><a href="http://property-report.com/detail/-/blogs/student-accommodation-has-graduated-at-la-4" target="_blank"><strong>More: Student accommodation graduates at last</strong></a></p>   <p>The luxury market in Greece is also seeing a resurgence as buyers who might otherwise have considered Turkey look for somewhere more secure. </p> <p>Research by property valuation firm Geotaxis in 2016 found that the prices of villas on the islands of Santorini and Mykonos have inflated faster than the prices of non-premium properties on the same islands. A luxury holiday home on Santorini averages at EUR10,800 per square metre while a luxury villa on Mykonos costs an average of EUR12,500 per square metre. Thanks to its sovereign debt crisis, however, Greece remains toxic for many Asian buyers – despite its EUR250,000 property investment threshold for a golden visa being the lowest in Europe.</p> <p>“Demand for Greek property is still low relative to its Mediterranean neighbours because of its political and especially economic turmoil,” notes Pittar.</p> <p>So, whether buyers want to take a risk with a bargain in Greece, hit the heights and vertiginous prices at a premium French ski resort or play it safe on the gated golf greens of the Algarve in Portugal, it’s clear that the prime second home market of Europe is as varied in terms of value, lifestyle and risk as it is in geography.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://property-report.com/detail/-/blogs/the-risks-and-rewards-of-europe-s-golden-visa-schemes" target="_blank"><strong>Read next: The risks and rewards of Europe's golden visa schemes</strong></a></p> The Mediterranean is still the dream second-home destination for wealthy Asians The Mediterranean is still the dream second-home destination for wealthy Asians By Property Report On the gilded coastline of France’s Côte d’Azur, historic glamour remains eminently palpable. The so-called “roaring twenties” can be experienced at Art Deco hotels such as the Hotel Belles Rives at Juan-les-Pins where former residents include author F Scott Fitzgerald. The famous stretch, meanwhile, is scattered with vintage villas and modern luxury piles that are testament to its traditional and enduring appeal as a destination for the international jet-set. Yet while France is widely recognised as the most venerable choice for those seeking a slice of the Mediterranean high life, other European destinations have long been giving it a run for its money. When Fitzgerald et al were living it up on the Riviera in the early part of the 20th Century, countries such as Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal were barely on the radar. Backward and feudal, these places were largely the preserve of peasants and bandits, certainly not moneyed international dilettantes. How things change. Spain, Italy, Greece – and later Portugal – all benefited hugely from the explosion in package holiday tourism in the 1970s and 1980s, when the bucket and spade brigade from northern European nations flocked to their beach destinations. As awareness of their respective attributes grew, meanwhile, so too did the sophistication of their second-home markets, as canny investors hunted down potential quarry everywhere from the Algarve region in southern Portugal to the Greek islands. All these countries (and France) are still very much on the radar of speculators. Like Phuket and Bali in Southeast Asia, they have transcended their reputations as cheap and cheerful package holiday destinations to offer febrile territory for potentially-fruitful second-home investment. And luring wealthy property investors from Asian countries such as China is now also seen as a lucrative goal for many of these markets. Various governments have introduced so-called “golden visa” schemes in a bid to entice buyers from abroad. These programmes offer fast-track residency for buyers and, in many cases, the appealing bonus of freedom of movement across the European Union’s 26-country Schengen area. Aside from visa schemes, markets are bending over backwards to attract Asian investors, says Charles Pittar, CEO of Chinese international property website Juwai. “The property industry is leading the charge by marketing properties in Chinese and leading industry trips to China on fact-finding missions so they can better understand the market,” he says. Much of the prime property market of southern Europe is driven by leisure. Wealthy buyers are often attracted to purchase second homes that offer easy access to at least one of three popular activities of the wealthy – golf, skiing or simply enjoying the delights of life on the coast. Many golfers are attracted to the Algarve in Portugal and Alicante in Spain, wealthy skiers hit the famous Alpine slopes of France, Switzerland and Austria, while Monaco and the Côte d’Azur region of France are among the best-known premium coastal markets. Most buyers are looking for a combination of lifestyle and financial returns in the form of capital gains and – for property they don’t occupy – yields But despite these varied perks, Asian buyers in these regions are concerned with more than simply leisure. “Most buyers are looking for a combination of lifestyle and financial returns in the form of capital gains and – for property they don’t occupy – yields,” says Pittar, noting that strong links to China and the reassurance that compatriots consider the investment a good one make the purchase even easier. “Having made their own investment, it is common for first-time investors to talk their friends into buying in the same area,” he adds. While the reasons to invest – strong returns, visa benefits and fantastic leisure possibilities – are clear, less obvious is where exactly to plump for a place in the European sun. Buyers looking for stability would be well advised to look to Spain, France and Italy, according to Kate Everett-Allen, head of International Residential Research at Knight Frank LLP. Here, she says, “Finance is cheap, available on good terms but there are safeguards in place to avoid the boom-and-bust scenario evident post-2008.” The diverse politics, economics and price-points of the European markets meant that each was affected differently by the financial crash of 2008. Similarly, each has recovered to varying degrees. “Some second-home markets saw prices falls of 30 per cent to 50 per cent in peak-to-trough terms, although Europe’s prime markets were better insulated than the wider mainstream housing markets,” adds Everett-Allen. One of the countries hardest hit by the crash was Portugal. But the country is proving attractive to Asian buyers, according to research by Juwai – and it’s not simply because of Portugal’s successful golden-visa scheme. “Portugal is appealing to Chinese buyers who seek lifestyle benefits above big-city glamour and who prefer Europe over the United States,” says Pittar. “Chinese investors like Portugal for its low cost of living, old-world charm and Mediterranean beauty and affordable property.” The hub of Portugal’s prime property market is the Algarve. The southern coast is generously sprinkled with beaches, golf courses and gated resorts – offering security as well as luxury. The beautiful beaches and legendary nightlife of the Balearic island of Ibiza attract a younger but no less wealthy buyer Over the border in Spain, one of the main hotspots for buyers of luxury second homes has long been the Costa del Sol on the south coast, where golf, sun and sea can be enjoyed in equal measure. Meanwhile, the beautiful beaches and legendary nightlife of the Balearic island of Ibiza attract a younger but – judging by the armada of super yachts berthed there – no less wealthy buyer. Prime prices here have outperformed the rest of Spain of late, rising by 10 percent from 2015 to 2016. In France, too, markets catering to the pursuits of the wealthy are outperforming the rest of the country. “An oversupply of inland rural properties is holding average prices back, but in prominent international tourist areas, such as the ski resorts in the Alps and hot spots along the Riviera, prices are buoyant,” says Julian Walker, director at London-based portal InternationalPropertyForSale.com. More: Asia missing from EIU's 10 most liveable cities ranking The French Riviera, or Côte d’Azur, has few rivals when it comes to fame, glamour and status. Aside from the glitz and buzz of celebrity-packed St Tropez and Cannes, attractive prime locations here include the exclusive Cap d’Antibes, Cap Ferrat and the quiet village of Mougins, popular with wealthy families thanks to its highly regarded international school. The peaceful peninsula of Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat boasts the world’s fifth most expensive street, Chemin du Sémaphore, where average prices were USD67,000 per square metre in 2015. France has also been dealt a lucrative geological hand in the shape of the Alps. Courchevel 1850 is one of the most sought-after ski resorts on the Continent with good infrastructure and facilities. “Activity has been concentrated in the EUR1-4m (USD1.1-4.4m) bracket, though a few ultra-prime deals have taken place,” notes Savills in its 2016/17 Alpine Property Report. Despite the resort’s maturity, new developments are still appearing. For example, the Six Senses Residences Courchevel, which opened in 2016, offers extensive concierge and spa facilities and is the first branded resort in the area. Picturesque Méribel is also highlighted as a popular option. “Prime new build apartments sell for around EUR15,000 per square metre,” notes the report. There are options for buyers looking for value, too. “Resorts priced under EUR5,000 per square metre include St Gervais, offering access to the Mont Blanc ski domaine, and Les Contamines.” Alpine investment opportunities are also abound in Italy, where the prime market has a proven track record of resilience. Political uncertainty in the country has however been so enduring that it’s something of a certainty. December 2016’s constitutional referendum, for example, saw voters reject mainstream political wisdom à la Brexit and Trump. But the Italian market is well accustomed to riding such turbulence, says Diletta Giorgolo Spinola of Sotheby’s International Realty. “Italy has always had a lot of changes in government,” she explains. “Our stability is different than in other European countries. Politics do not affect our trophy assets.” One of these trophy assets is Costa Smeralda on the island of Sardinia. Here, EUR1m buys 50 square metres. “Portofino, perched on the cliffs of the Italian Riviera sits in second place (67 square metres), but compare this to less famous, but attractive and emerging destination such as Maremma (the coastal region of southern Tuscany) and Umbria (a rolling, landlocked region in central Italy) where prime prices are close to EUR6,000 per square metre, and EUR1m buys around 167 square metres of floorspace,” explains Everett-Allan. Italy’s best performing prime region last year was Lake Como, home to the likes of George Clooney. Here, prices rose 1.2 percent in 2016. More: Student accommodation graduates at last The luxury market in Greece is also seeing a resurgence as buyers who might otherwise have considered Turkey look for somewhere more secure. Research by property valuation firm Geotaxis in 2016 found that the prices of villas on the islands of Santorini and Mykonos have inflated faster than the prices of non-premium properties on the same islands. A luxury holiday home on Santorini averages at EUR10,800 per square metre while a luxury villa on Mykonos costs an average of EUR12,500 per square metre. Thanks to its sovereign debt crisis, however, Greece remains toxic for many Asian buyers – despite its EUR250,000 property investment threshold for a golden visa being the lowest in Europe. “Demand for Greek property is still low relative to its Mediterranean neighbours because of its political and especially economic turmoil,” notes Pittar. So, whether buyers want to take a risk with a bargain in Greece, hit the heights and vertiginous prices at a premium French ski resort or play it safe on the gated golf greens of the Algarve in Portugal, it’s clear that the prime second home market of Europe is as varied in terms of value, lifestyle and risk as it is in geography. 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__label__cc	0.654604	0.345396	My AccountCart:$0Checkout Seoulist Seoul life + style Cultivation of the Feminine by Kate Brelje on Mar 23 2012 Spacec at the Coreana Art and Culture Complex showcases female portraiture in the exhibit, Modern Beauties.Photo by Photo by Kate Brelje for Seoulist Photo by Photo by Kate Brelje for Seoulist Spacec is a fascinating mixture of aesthetic culture; it houses a garden and an office area and holds a cosmetic history museum, skin care clinic, wine cellar, café, art gallery and performance space. Entering the angular, multi-story building, the founder’s philosophy is scrolled in English near the entryway: “This establishment is an icon of my dream and passion to understand art works from the past to our times. Many different concepts and ideas will be encountered at this place, present new values and meanings to society. This building will become the space where we can find wonder [sic] natures of human beings.” – Dr. Yu, Sang-ok. Living in Korea, it can be overwhelming facing the importance of physical beauty and the strict definition of what makes the perfect woman. Modern Beauties features the work of various Korean artists and their portrayals of women at various periods in recent history. The gallery opens in a sparse exterior hallway with the title of the show and a short blurb of information about the show in Korean. All of the text panels and information is in Korean, but the show is still enjoyable even if you do not have a handle on the Korean language. Understanding the text panels would add a greater depth and appreciation to the experience, but the images can also speak volumes by themselves. Each room contains a different style of female portrayal. Some are exclusively shown in hanboks, while others don Western dress. Many of the subjects are Korean women while a few are foreigners. Living in Korea, it can be overwhelming facing the importance of physical beauty and the strict definition of what makes the perfect woman. Women are encouraged to have bright, wide eyes, a thin body with a touch of the appropriate curves (known as an “S-line”), pale, clear skin and stylish, feminine clothes. The subjects of these pieces of artwork exhibit a much larger array of beauty. The first room meditates on the increasing prevalence of modern Korean women. Only two are wearing hanboks; the rest are portrayed in Western-styled clothing. One is a gestural, stylized nude with an upside-down head bearing a sad expression. Her head rests on a seated body with large breasts and thick thighs. 꽃 을 단여인 by Cheon Gyeong-ja (1924– ) is a particularly colorful print. The female subject’s face is tribally comprised of vibrantly colorful lines and shapes. The use of color in this piece is reminiscent of a Korean temple, with its loud colors punctuating the mountainside with dashes of orange and blue designs. The next two rooms feature Korean women dressed in beautiful hanboks, represented in the more traditional style of Korean life and beauty. One provides images by Kim Gi-chang (1913–2001) and Kim Eun-ho (1913–2001) depicting women engaged in daily activities. Two of the women sit, playing harps, while another weaves. One woman waits outside in a garden, surrounded by flowers, while another sits indoors near a window. The other room highlights the pale beauties of Jang Un-sang (1926–1982). A handful of silk paintings with minimalist backgrounds show women with pale skin and bright pink lips. The exhibit continues to the second floor of the basement. The paintings in the first room are much larger and interestingly portray a number of non-Korean women. Two large, up-close portraits of foreign women, Ocher-Rouge and Erika-Violet by Go Nak-beom, pull the viewer into the room. On the opposite wall, three works show photographs of foreign women juxtaposed to photos of wires, windows and paintings, respectively. One large black and white portrait by Jo Deok-hyeon of a Korean woman dressed in a hanbok decorated with medals contrasts the colorful depictions of foreign women in the room. Over the canvas, yellow spots are embroidered, giving the appearance of an accidental splash of paint. The adjacent hallway has two intriguing holographic images entitled The Costume of the Painter by Bae Jun-seong. One is of a woman looking at herself in a mirror and the other is of a woman sitting on the edge of a pool. At first glance both women are clothed, but as the viewer moves, their clothing evaporates. For the woman sitting on the edge of the pool with her back to the observer, as her luxurious, elegantly ornate party dress disappears, the face of a man, peering from the pool through the space between her arm and body, catches the eye of the viewer, adding drama to the image. The second is especially interesting in light of current societal trends in beauty in Korea. A woman sits alone on a small wooden step gazing at her image reflected in front of her in a large mirror. She is dressed in a long white dress with touches of matching frilly lace with an open book in her hands. As the viewer moves, the dress and chair disappear, but the woman’s gaze remains the same. Motionless. Endless. Staring through her image. The tone changes completely, from an innocent glance up at a mirror to an incredible gaze of emptiness. Another room features the work of French artist Marie Laurencin (1883–1956). Her women have large, simple, dark eyes and a few are shown with dogs and lambs. They have a whimsical, innocent air to their stylized bodies. The Modern Beauties exhibition displays beauty in an interesting cultural light, through the eyes of Korean artists and one French woman. A lot can be said about the use of women as objectified “beauties,” but I did not leave the show feeling uncomfortable with its portrayal of women. I was more interested in the displays of traditional Korean beauty and the mixture of non-Korean and Korean visions of beauty in the female form shown by the work, especially on the second floor of the basement. I wish the exhibit would have been larger, because it felt like too brief of a snapshot of such a rich and complicated subject. Spacec is located next to Che, a club named after Che Guevara, where walls are plastered with colorful screen-printed images of JFK, Marilyn Monroe and Andy Warhol. The cosmetic history museum is located on the fifth floor. The gallery is located in the basement, next to the performance art and laboratory space. The admission for Modern Beauties is 3,000 won. Both an elevator and stairs are available for moving between floors. Spacec is a good walk from the Apgujeong Station (metro line 3), but the map provided on the website is fairly straightforward. About Kate Brelje Kate Brelje, lover of art museums, coffee shops, and green space, works on Korea's east coast teaching English. In her spare time, she sneaks away to her favorite local coffee shop to read or takes long walks around the city. She loves traveling throughout Korea and beyond, having great conversations over delicious food, and practicing yoga. 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__label__wiki	0.823813	0.823813	Woman Seeks $5 Million after Contracting Legionnaires’ disease Cinnaminson, NJ, November 27, 2013 Last month, Alabama’s ABC 33/40 published a report about a local woman filing a lawsuit against the owners of a motel in Kentucky. The woman claims she got Legionnaires’ disease at the hotel from a contaminated air conditioning unit. She is seeking $5 million. Legionnaires’ disease is caused by a type of bacteria known as Legionella. The bacteria are found naturally in the environment, usually in water. People get Legionnaires’ disease when they breathe in an aerosolized mist containing the bacteria. Outbreaks have been associated with hot tubs, cooling towers, hot water tanks, plumbing systems and decorative fountains in the past. Philadelphia school worker contracted Legionnaires' disease A maintenance worker for the Philadelphia School District is home recovering from a serious bout with Legionnaires' disease, after being treated at a hospital earlier this month. The man worked recently on air conditioning units at McKinley Elementary School in North Philadelphia and Martin Luther King High School in Germantown, the district said in a statement today, adding that no other cases of the potentially deadly type of pneumonia — contracted from bacteria in stagnant water — have been reported. "The Philadelphia Department of Public Health [PDPH] advised the District that the employee, whose identity was withheld, worked near cooling towers at Martin Luther King High School and McKinley Elementary School," the district said in a statement. "No other cases were reported as related to the schools. At this time, there is no indication that the employee contracted the disease at a District facility." A message left for the worker through a friend was not immediately returned this afternoon. A friend said he was home recovering but would likely be out of work for a bit longer after suffering from what doctors described to him as a very bad bout of pneumonia. The district had tests done at both schools to find out if any more of the bacteria behind the disease was detected, but the results were not yet known. "Although it was not required by PDPH, the District tested potential Legionella sources (i.e., cooling tower and HVAC components) at both schools as a precaution. We are awaiting final results," the district said. The school year in Philadelphia begins Monday, Sept. 9/13 U.S. Attorney: No Federal Charges Warranted in Legionella Outbreak The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania says he does not think charges are warranted in relation to the deadly Legionella out break at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System. Twenty-two veterans who were treated in 2011 and 2012 at the Pittsburgh VA were sickened by Legionella. Five of them died. U.S. Attorney David Hickton called the situation “tragic” but feels no charges should be filed by his office. “The investigation has been a high priority of my office and federal law enforcement for the last nine months,” Hickton said in a written statement. “It must be noted that our jurisdiction is limited to determining if any federal criminal statutes were violated.” The investigation focused on whether there was evidence of any “material false statements” or attempts to obstruct justice by VA officials. It did not look at how patients contracted the disease. Hickton says the investigation included about 30 interviews with individuals ranging from top administrators to maintenance workers and outside contractors. Beyond that, the statements said, “The investigative team analyzed and reviewed more than 250,000 internal VA emails. They studied volumes of records, including logbooks of maintenance performed on the systems used to combat the Legionella bacteria and purchase orders for parts related to such maintenance. Test results were examined, along with the detailed reports of the Centers for Disease Control and the Health Inspection Division of the OIG.” Michael Moreland was the regional administrator overseeing operations at the Pittsburgh VA at the time of the outbreak. He has since retired and has been temporarily replaced by Gary W. Devansky. It is possible that the U.S. Attorney’s office could once again become involved in the case. “While the federal criminal investigation has concluded, consideration of the many issues raised by this tragic event will surely continue in other forums,” Hickton said. “If any new or additional evidence emerges, today’s assessment does not prevent the U.S. Attorney’s Office from reviewing such evidence and reopening the investigation if the facts warrant.” VA hospital taking steps to mitigate bacteria Taking steps Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 11:25 pm Ashlie Walter STAFF WRITER exponent-telegram.com CLARKSBURG — In response to Legionella bacteria being found in the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center, the center will be hyperchlorinating their water system beginning today, authorities said. Wesley Walls, public affairs officer for the VA medical center, said officials are taking active steps to monitor the water system to ensure its safety for the veterans, employees, visitors, and volunteers. This is considered the Veterans Affairs Department’s recommended process for eliminating Legionella, he said. At the recent Clarksburg-Harrison Board of Health meeting, Administrator Chad Bundy stated that since the levels of bacteria were low, the incident did not need to be reported to the EPA. Dick Welch, general manager of the Clarksburg Water Board, said the bacteria problem is restricted to the VA facility itself. Phigenics To Deliver Ongoing Smart Water Management Services To VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System NAPERVILLE, Ill., Nov. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System has recently selected Phigenics, LLC, to provide ongoing smart water management services for its facilities. This partnership is part of an ongoing and successful collaboration between Phigenics and one of the nation's largest VA medical centers. For the last six months, Phigenics has worked with VA Pittsburgh to develop one of the most rigorous facility water surveillance and management programs in the country. To date, and as a direct result of these aggressive risk-reduction strategies, VA Pittsburgh has not identified a case of health-care acquired Legionella pneumonia in more than one year. "Phigenics smart water management services delivered to VA Pittsburgh are based on the principles of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) process," said Tony Dallmier, Ph.D., Regional Manager for Phigenics. "VA Pittsburgh has very complex water systems across its health care campuses. Phigenics worked with a cross functional Water Management Team at VA Pittsburgh to fully develop, complete and implement the HACCP program, which was customized to meet the health care system's unique needs. VA Pittsburgh is now successfully implementing this evidence-based and scientific program and collaborating with Phigenics to validate and verify that the program is working effectively." "Phigenics works with many of the leading brands in healthcare, hospitality and retail delivering industry best practices in water management," said Bill McCoy, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer of Phigenics. "After working with VA Pittsburgh now for over six months, I am very pleased to report that VA Pittsburgh is implementing best practices for preventing disease from waterborne pathogens in building water systems. They are also now establishing a strong role as a leader in healthcare building water system management. We look forward to working with them on an ongoing basis to ensure their water is safe and that the veterans receiving their healthcare services are properly protected." Between 8,000 and 18,000 people are hospitalized with Legionnaires' disease in the U.S. each year and death can occur in 5 to 30 percent of cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Legionella bacteria are found naturally in the environment, usually in warm water. The World Health Organization estimates the number of annual cases in Europe at around 10,000 and the total global number of cases is not currently known. Phigenics sempre foi um grande parceira da SETRI SETRI - Philadelphia - Legionella No edifício onde ocorreu o caso da Legionella em Julho de 1976, possui no seu interior uma fonte decorativa. Pois bem, isso pode ser um local de grande risco para um novo surto de Legionella e ainda mais sendo no local onde tudo teve início. Achei que tinham aprendido algo sobre a bactéria Legionella. Fonte decorativa é um risco. Mas fiquei surpreso em saber onde esta fonte está localizada. Edifício BELLEVUE na Philadelphia. Estamos na Philadelphia e fomos visitar o edifício onde tudo começou com a Legionella. Hoje o Hotel é o Hyatt e existem escritórios no edifício. Sem dúvida para nos que realizamos trabalhos com a Legionella a mais de 15 anos foi algo muito especial estar neste local. As pessoas que se contaminaram estavam neste edifício e na rua, o que nos traz lembranças bem marcantes. Compartilho com vocês este momento. Two get Legionnaires' Disease at Naperville fitness club Two people contracted Legionnaires' Disease from a hot tub at an LA Fitness in Naperville, according to a report by WBBM. The Mayo Clinic website describes Legionnaires' Disease as a severe form of pneumonia cause by a bacterium known as legionella. Legionella is the same bacteria health authorities found in the hot tub at the fitness center on Freedom Drive. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/naperville_lisle/chi-gyms-hot-tub-blamed-for-2-cases-of-legionnaires-20131114,0,4818977.story SETRI 5 ANOS A SETRI completa 5 anos. Realizamos um grande sonho e sem dúvida só poderia acontecer com a confiaça e credibilidade que nossos CLIENTES depositaram em nosso trabalho. Me sinto orgulhoso de poder compartilhar esta alegria com todos amigos que também fazem parte de sucesso. Um grande obrigado: NESTLÉ DPA NESTLÉ CPW NESTLÉ WATER CHOCOLATES GAROTO NESTLÉ URUGUAY TIVIT SESC SP SOFITEL GUARUJÁ e aos nossos 8 de nov. de 2013 IV Seminário de Monitoramento e Rastreabilidade na Indústria de Alimentos - ITAL Campinas A SETRI estará presente com a palestra: Programa de Monitoramento da água utilizada pelas indústrias de alimentos http://www.ital.sp.gov.br/ccqa/eventos/2013/monitoramento_rastreabilidade/programa.php Our headline says it all: Legionella, which causes a lung infection called Legionnaires’ disease, is back with a vengeance. Probably one of the worst cases occurred in August when at least six residents of a Reynoldsburg, Ohio retirement community died due to an outbreak of the illness. During that month, there were 39 cases linked to the retirement community, and those affected included residents, visitors and one employee, according to The Columbus Dispatch. Testing confirmed the bacteria was in an air-conditioning cooling tower, and in the water used for drinking, showering and cooking. The investigators were not sure what caused the legionella growth, but drinking and showering activities were restricted until the problem was resolved. As the presence of legionella bacteria in air conditioning systems, hot water tanks, plumbing systems and cooling towers can lead to outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease. In August, legionella was also discovered in a cooling tower on the Carnegie Mellon University campus. Legionnaires’ disease is often most detrimental to the elderly or others with compromised immune systems. Complications from the disease can result in respiratory issues and kidney failure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In another case, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that four prisoners at the Pennsylvania state prison contracted Legionnaires’ disease; tests confirmed the legionella was present in the prison’s cooling towers. Whenever legionella growth does occur, it’s often attributed to accumulated algae, mold or bacteria within a dirty cooling tower mixing with the tower’s warm water; the combination is a perfect environment for bacterial growth. The system in which the bacteria grow can aerosolize the bacteria into the air, infecting occupants and spreading the disease. Legionnaires disease confirmed cause of death of Lake County infant There's something in the water and it's responsible for taking the life of Ryland Joseph. "Don't use the shower," a doctor told Kellie and Rodd Joseph, "there's a bug in the water." Those are the words that haunt the Joseph family every day. Court documents filed on Oct. 23 state that the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and Benoiff Children's Hospital knew that the building's water system was contaminated with legionella bacteria, including the drinking water, sinks, bathtubs, showers and bone marrow transplant unit. Legionella bacteria is found in water molecules when the water in is an aerosol form when released in places such as showers, sinks, steam rooms, hot tubs, swamp coolers or misters. "We needed answers," Rodd said. "And now we need to let other people know. The hospital did not do enough to keep us safe, given their prior knowledge. This should not happen to anyone else ever again." A ÁGUA É UM RISCO À SAÚDE - PLANO DE SEGURANÇA DA ÁGUA - REVISTA INFRA http://www.revistainfra.com.br/digital/159_novembro2013/#56 Artigo publicado na Revista Infra sobre o tema Plano de Segurança da Água. Woman Seeks $5 Million after Contracting Legionnai... Philadelphia school worker contracted Legionnaires... U.S. Attorney: No Federal Charges Warranted in Leg... Phigenics To Deliver Ongoing Smart Water Managemen... Two get Legionnaires' Disease at Naperville fitnes... IV Seminário de Monitoramento e Rastreabilidade na... Legionnaires disease confirmed cause of death of L... A ÁGUA É UM RISCO À SAÚDE - PLANO DE SEGURANÇA DA ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line181
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__label__wiki	0.849688	0.849688	COVID-19 Update: All SAM Locations Currently Closed » S E A T T L E A R T M U S E U M SAMBlog Seattle Art Museum Connecting Art to Life One Blog Post at a Time Object of the Week: Dancewand for Sango Pam McClusky on Jan 1 2021 2020 has unleashed epic storms—a pandemic hurricane, tornadoes of lost jobs, and whirlwinds of racism. Meanwhile, in the center of Seattle, a new monument has appeared, offering the vision of a goddess named Oya, who offers to make way for changes in 2021. Oya comes from a culture—the Yoruba of Nigeria—that has long seen storms as cultural texts. She is related to a kneeling woman at SAM who holds a bowl and supports two thunderbolts on her head. This woman is a devotee of Sango, a deity who resides in the skies as a champion of justice who hates liars, thieves, and wrongdoers; who claps thunder and throws lightning down to strike them.[1] Sango is tempestuous but can also be generous, and he may choose to send his explosive energy to women who care for children and others. In this sculpture at SAM, the devotee kneels to pay tribute to the earth as an omnipotent witness, remaining calm to balance Sango’s bolts, and was once carried by a priest or priestess in a sacred drama filled with a unique soundtrack. Sango employs thunder—the loudest sound that nature makes—and his powerful presence is evoked in a distinctive way. If you’ve never heard bata drumming, below is a clip recorded in Nigeria; the video takes you to a family of drummers who fill the air with the intensity of a storm with frenetic crescendos that boggle the mind and ignite the spirit. [2] Oya is Sango’s consort. Her winds clear the path of opposition, helping him remove any obstacles to change. You can feel her presence in playful winds, or in more dangerous tornadoes and hurricanes. This year, she has risen to public glory at 24th and Jackson, in Seattle’s Central District. A creative couple—Marita Dingus and Preston Hampton—gave her new form, inventing a swirling body of metal ribbons that suggest her windy demeanor, while her face of concentrated composure looks for places where she can sweep aside trauma and deceit to make way for healing. Here is the couple’s explanation of how Oya came into focus: So, how can Oya help us at the end of 2020? In Yorubaland, she is known to be fond of black-eyed peas. When Yoruba were forced to move to America, Cuba, and Brazil as slaves, they brought black-eyed peas, called ewa, with them. In a turn of language, ewa puns with wa, the essence of existence. Eating them in America was coded secret devotion. Today, it is understood that eating black-eyed peas at new years can bring good luck.[3] You may join in Oya’s quest to stir up radical shifts of being in 2021. Cook some black-eyes peas and talk about what changes you’d like to see, then visit Oya, or stand in her winds, and send her your words of hope for new paths to be found. Goodbye, 2020—let Oya’s breeze of blessing and winds of transformation unfurl in the New Year. – Pam McClusky, SAM Curator of African and Oceanic Art [1] Babatunde Lawal is a Yoruba scholar whose work on Sango sculpture and explanations of the larger context for understanding Sango is highly recommended. Here is one talk by Professsor Lawal: Stellar Connections: Explorations in Cultural Astronomy – Pt. 4, Babatunde Lawal – YouTube [2] Performance by Ayan Agalu, “May the spirit of drumming carry one aloft,” March 2017, Erin Osun, recorded by Andrew Frankel. [3] Franck Kuwonu, “Black-eyed peas: A taste of Africa in the Americas” UN \| Africa Renewal, December 24, 2019. Image: Dancewand for Sango, Nigerian, wood, 19 7/8 x 7 9/16 x 4 5/8 in., Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, 67.91. Winds of Change: We Are Still Here, 2020, Marita Dingus and Preston Hampton, Jackson Apartments, Seattle, Washington. Tour Public Art with Jinny Wright Chelsea Werner-Jatzke on Nov 24 2020 While you can’t visit City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle currently, you can still experience the artful legacy left behind by Jinny Wright. Discover outdoor art in Seattle with this tour of public art acquired or commissioned by The Virginia Wright Fund. The fund was created for Jinny by her father Prentice Bloedel in 1969. Jinny stated, “Commissioning works of art for public spaces was unheard of in the late ’60s.” Follow along to see the outdoor art that shaped a new Seattle through the initiative of Jinny Wright. Broken Obelisk, Barnett Newman, (1963-67) The representation of the obelisk as broken and inverted is intended as protest and critique of power and colonial ambition. It’s as resonant today as it was in the midst of the Vietnam War when the artist created the work. Iliad, Alexander Liberman, 1984 See this piece from all angles by walking both around and through the portal of this bright red constellation of circular forms. Moses, Tony Smith, 1975 Originally commissioned as a plywood maquette in the 1960s by the Contemporary Art Council—another brainchild of Jinny Wright—the welded steel piece, coated in black paint was realized with the help of the Wright Fund. Wandering Rocks, Tony Smith, 2016 Make sure to walk around this five-part installation for a sense of how the artist plays with volume and perspective and geometric forms. Bunyon’s Chess, 1965 & Schubert’s Sonata, 1992, Mark di Suvero, Jinny Wright greatly admired Mark di Suvero. Bunyon’s Chess was Jinny’s first private commission made for her garden in the 1960s, while Schubert’s Sonata was commissioned by Jinny and the museum to be installed at the edge of Puget Sound. Adjacent, Against, Upon, 1976, Michael Heizer This art by Michael Heizer combines cast concrete forms and granite slabs quarried in the Cascade Mountains. Curve, Ellsworth Kelly, 1981 & Split, Roxy Paine, 2003 Head to the PACCAR Pavilion and you’ll spot two more works from Jinny’s personal collection. Ellsworth Kelly’s Curve is installed on the entrance wall to the Pavilion and Roxy Pain’s stainless steel tree Split can be seen in the meadow below. Hammering Man, Jonathon Borofsky, 1992 Conclude at SAM’s downtown location where the Hammering Man hammers 24/7, only resting once a year on Labor Day. This piece was commissioned for In Public: Seattle 1991 and supported by the Wright Fund. Extend your tour to Western Washington University in Bellingham for a campus sculpture tour—Jinny’s Wright Fund brought spectacular commissions by artists such as Nancy Holt, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Mark di Suvero to campus for all to enjoy. Images: Hammering Man (detail), 1992, Jonathan Borofsky, Seattle Art Museum 1% for Art funds, Museum Development Authority, Virginia Wright Fund, and Seattle City Light 1% for Art funds, photo: Natali Wiseman. Mark di Suvero, painted and unpainted steel, height: 22 ft., Gift of Jon and Mary Shirley, The Virginia Wright Fund, and Bagley Wright, 95.81, © Mark di Suvero. Adjacent, Against, Upon, 1976, Michael Heizer, National Endowment for the Arts, Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle City Light 1% for Art funds, photo: Spike Mafford. Curve XXIV, 1981, Ellsworth Kelly, American, born 1923, Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2016.17.2, © Ellsworth Kelly. Split, 2003, Roxy Paine, American, born 1966, Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, © Roxy Paine. Object of the Week: War Seattle Art Museum on Sep 11 2020 Art has always played a key role in the work of protest and social reform. Artists’ reactions to our current moment, filled with social unrest and calls for social change, echo the works of revolutionary artists working during the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). Amelio Amero, like his contemporaries Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, created murals for the public art projects supported by the Revolutionary government of Mexico. Rivera’s 1932 lithographic print depicting Emiliano Zapata, the leader of the peasant revolution who became a symbol for agrarian rights, showcases the naturalist style that the Mexican muralists used. These socialist artists were aptly committed to public art and they were committed to creating art that was accessible to the general public. As a member of the Estridentistas artist group, he followed the Italian Futurist groups and believed in non-elitist art. In addition to large public murals, these artists also created prints which could be quickly and cheaply made and disseminated widely. Although highly skilled in the case of Rivera, the lithograph—made using a stone and a crayon—didn’t require the artist to make their image in reverse, nor did it require specialized training. Additionally, the prints could easily be transported and would reach a broader audience. In War (1944), Amero uses the same lithographic printing technique in an image that combines a critique of violence and militarized conflict with a promise that violence can end through the hands of brave citizens. As the booted, helmeted soldier prepares to thrash a citizen who has been literally brought to her knees, with a hungry child beside her, she raises her face to the sky, closes her eyes, and holds up a strong, oversized hand in an act of faith and protest. The hand reaches out from the shadows to provide hope for those struggling through the unjust times. Born in Ixtlahuaca, Mexico in 1901, Amero came to the United States in 1925 via Cuba to work in New York, which is where he became interested in Lithography. In 1940 Amero returned to the United States to teach art in Seattle at the University of Washington and the Cornish College of the Arts. During his time teaching in Seattle, Washington, and Norman, Oklahoma, where he taught at the University of Oklahoma from 1946 until the end of his career. Amero continued to create works that depicted Mexico, and worked in the Mexican muralist style, favoring realistic, hyper-cylindrical figures depicted in tempera and lithography, over the abstract and oil paint heavy styles gaining popularity in the mid-century. As we all confront issues of violence and oppression in our current society, Amero’s work is a reminder for us to support artists calling for change. – Genevieve Hulley, SAM Curatorial Intern, American Art Images: War, 1944, Emilio Amero, lithograph, 23 1/8 x 19 3/4 in., Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, 44.84 © Estate of Emilio Amero. Zapata, 1932, Diego Rivera, lithograph, 16 1/4 x 13 3/16 in., Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, 44.623 © Artist or Artist’s Estate Muse/News: Eagle’s makeover, open gazes, and dancing wire Rachel Eggers on Jul 28 2020 SAM News Brangien Davis of Crosscut notices that Alexander Calder’s The Eagle, the monumental sculpture that perches in the Olympic Sculpture Park, has its own protective covering these days. She spoke with SAM Chief Conservator Nick Dorman about the conservation and repainting of the steel sculpture, thanks to a grant from Bank of America. Look for “the big reveal” sometime around Labor Day. The sculpture park is where it’s at these days: John Prentice of KOMO’s Seattle Refined interviewed SAM curator Carrie Dedon about how important accessible public art is—now more than ever. “‘Anything that can broaden your horizons or challenge your worldview, or spark your emotions, these are the things that make us human and connect us to our humanity,’ Dedon said.” Longtime cultural critic Misha Berson writes an opinion piece for Crosscut, outlining her thoughts on how “the arts need a New Deal to survive the pandemic.” Tom Keogh for the Seattle Times has recommendations for some streamable films (a TV series) about presidential campaigns that “give us a peek into the peculiar business of running for the White House.” The Stranger’s Jasmyne Keimig takes her “Currently Hanging” series outside of Seattle; here, she visits Jordan Casteel’s Within Reach, viewable via the New Museum. “Her subject, Devan, stares openly at the viewer, seemingly aware of our gaze on his body, our intrusion on his space, our sussing out of his mental state…Devan projects an openness, a sort of straightforward vulnerability that makes this painting compelling.” Inter/National News Artnet’s Sarah Cascone on several upcoming art projects in Tusla, Oklahoma to memorialize the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, during which white mobs destroyed homes and “Black Wall Street,” killing at least 300 Black residents. The American Alliance of Museums is out with another survey on the impacts of COVID-19; Valentina Di Liscia of Hyperallergic outlines the major findings, including that 12,000 institutions may close permanently. Thessaly La Force for the New York Times’ T Magazine on artist Ruth Asawa, who spent her teenage years in two concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II and whose important sculptural work has long been overlooked. “I have stood in a gallery hung with Asawa’s wire sculptures, where the movement of my own body has caused them to sway, the shadows of the woven wire dancing against the floor. For a moment, I was quietly transported elsewhere — to the deep sea, to a forest or maybe to someplace altogether unearthly.” The making of washi paper. Photo: Sarah Michael Muse/News: Art parks, virtual festivals, and good trouble For Smithsonian Magazine, Elissaveta M. Brandon explores “the magic of open-air, art-studded parks.” SAM director and CEO Amada Cruz is quoted on the importance of the Olympic Sculpture Park to “the daily life of the city.” SAM Shop is included in this HuffPost round-up of “The Best Museum Stores For Online Shopping.” Head to the site to explore SAM exclusives and other art-centric finds. Jasmyne Keimig of the Stranger reports on the quiet reopening of Seattle galleries. A group of galleries had asked to be included in Phase 2 and were granted permission; with precautions in place, “going to the gallery doesn’t look that much different from before.” Crosscut’s Brangien Davis makes a quick run to their offices at Seattle Center—and finds herself pondering public art and spaces and the stories they’ve told and tell. She also shouts out In the Spirit, a new online show of work by contemporary Native artists from the Washington State History Museum. The Seattle Times’ Yasmeen Wafai reports on Seattle’s Bon Odori festival, which will be going virtual for the first time in its 88 years of annual celebration. “Although the festival won’t be the same this year, Moriguchi noted that part of Buddhism is about change and adapting, so they still plan to make the most of it. He said he will try to do a Google Hangout or Zoom with friends while they watch. Mostly, he hopes people will still dance along at home.” Lesley L. L. Blume for the New York Times on museums’ intense efforts to locate and preserve artifacts and ephemera of this three-pronged historic moment. Writer Saidiya Hartman for Artforum on Black radical traditions of refusal and imagination, and how they persist throughout history up to the present day. Washington Post contributor Michele Norris with a powerful tribute to civil rights hero and Congressman John Lewis, who has passed away at the age of 80. In 2017, SAM was honored to host Congressman Lewis for a talk on his graphic novel, MARCH. “He took the billy club they beat him with at Selma and turned it into a baton, a relay man running toward that promise in our founding documents that says all men are created equal when the word “all” really meant some and not others.” Suggested viewing: Good Trouble, the documentary directed by Dawn Porter. – Rachel Eggers, SAM Associate Director of Public Relations Photo: Benjamin Benschneider Virtual Art Talks: Public Art with Teresita Fernández Chelsea Werner-Jatzke on Jun 6 2020 Listen in as artist Teresita Fernández joins Amada Cruz, SAM’s llsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO, for a virtual salon. This talk took place just days before our country erupted in protest of systemic racism and touches on how Teresita has been addressing America’s long history of power and oppression in her public artworks as well as within her current installation at the Pérez Art Museum. Featuring artworks created between 2005 and 2017, this exhibition includes “Fire (United States of the Americas).” Made shortly after the election of Donald Trump but referencing an 1848 treaty with Mexico that drastically altered the maps and notions of our present day nation states, “Fire” is a timely and haunting vision of how ideas of land and ownership impact concepts of who the public is when we talk about public art. This important conversation asks us to consider our role as viewers in understanding and shifting our own perspectives. MacArthur fellow, Teresita Fernández is renowned for her immersive installations that seduce the viewer with their beauty but serve as a reminder of how landscapes contain history, violence, and power. Here, in Seattle, she is known for her stunning work commissioned for SAM’s Olympic Sculpture Park, “Seattle Cloud Cover.” This salon was originally presented as part of SAM’s Contributors Circles Members Salon Series. A benefit to our generous Contributor Circles Members, we are pleased to share this intimate salon with all of you while you stay home home SAM. Object of the Week: Fountain Seattle Art Museum on Jun 7 2019 Situated beside the sublime glass and steel edifice of the Seattle Public Library Central branch stands Fountain of Wisdom (1958–60), designed by George Tsutakawa. This piece was the artists’ first public fountain commission after a prolific career as a painter, sculptor, and teacher in the Pacific Northwest. Within the Seattle Art Museum’s collection is Fountain (1971), a bronze metal sculpture that helps tell the story of Tsutakawa’s unique Japanese-American experience. Tsutakawa was born in Seattle in 1910 and spent his early years in Capitol Hill, not far from Volunteer Park. At the age of seven, like many American-born kibei, he was sent to Japan for an education in Japanese art and culture. When he returned to Seattle a decade later, he studied sculpture at the University of Washington and spent his summers working in the Alaska canaries. Drafted into the US Army during World War II, Tsutakawa returned to UW as a graduate student on the GI Bill. Soon after, he began his teaching career in the School of Art. During the mid-1950s, artist Johsel Namkung introduced Tsutakawa to a book called Beyond the High Himalayas. Included were descriptions of ritually stacked stone structures accumulated by travelers at mountain passes as private and public spiritual offerings.[1] The influence of these obos proved to be profoundly impactful on Tsutakawa, forming the basis of much of the rest of his life’s work. After creating a series of abstract wooden sculptures, Tsutakawa translated obos into metal sculptures and public fountains. Fountain stands over five feet tall and is composed of a single vertical axis that holds a stack of abstract forms: a footed base, a pronged shallow bowl, intersecting parabolic-shapes, and a hallowed ovoid. It is easy to imagine this sculpture as a fountain, water flowing over and through the bronze forms; the symmetry adding to its geometry. From 1960 until his death in 1997, Tsutakawa designed and fabricated over 70 fountains. His work can be found all along the West Coast, as well as in Washington, DC, Florida, Canada, and across Japan. Fortunately for Seattleites, a crowd-sourced map has been created to help us locate this important artists’ public works. – Steffi Morrison, SAM Blakemore Intern for Japanese and Korean Art [1] Kingsbury, Martha. George Tsutakawa. Seattle: Bellevue Art Museum and University of Washington Press, 1990. Image: Fountain, 1971, George Tsutakawa, welded sheet bronze, 65 x 37 x 45 in., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Langdon S. Simons, Jr., 86.276 © George Tsutakawa Estate The Hammering Man is the worker in all of us Seattle Art Museum on Sep 7 2015 Twenty-four years ago this month, a near-disaster kept one of the iconic artworks at SAM from swinging into motion. Johnathan Borofsky’s Hammering Man—a monumental moving sculpture owned by the City of Seattle and situated just outside SAM on 1st Avenue and University—honors the women and men of the working classes in impressive style. Measuring 48 feet tall and weighing in at approximately 22,000 pounds, he needs a long, powerful swing to bring down his hammer, which he manages at a clip of two and a half times per minute. His massive size caused serious issues for the team that took on the tall task of installing him on September 28, 1991. On that unlucky day, a lift-strap supporting the sculpture snapped, causing it to fall roughly one foot. Photographer John Stamets captured the carnage from across 1st Ave., atop the roof of the notorious Lusty Lady exotic dance parlor. The damage was significant enough that the sculpture had to be sent back cross-country to the foundry in Connecticut where it had been produced. Seattleites were left to wait another year to see Hammering Man installed again, which happened successfully in September of 1992. Opportunistic vendors turned out for that second installation, selling postcards with Stamets’ crash photography at $2.50 a piece. The multiple efforts and the wait were well worth it. Today, Hammering Man remains one of Seattle’s most popular artworks and public monuments. As a silhouette, the figure is anonymous, lacking any particular features that might help us to identify him. This allows him to serve as a global symbol—a champion of all working classes and a celebration of their accomplishments. We hope you’ll visit SAM to see this monument to the worker on Labor Day! As a bonus, you can look forward to the last day of our critically acclaimed Disguise: Masks & Global African Art exhibition, a multi-sensory experience featuring art by contemporary artists of African origin or descent. Cheers! —Jeffrey Carlson, SAM Collections Coordinator IMAGES: Photo: Benjamin Benschneider. Collapse of Hammering Man during installation at Seattle Art Museum photographed by John Stamets from the roof of the Lusty Lady exotic dance parlor (and detail), September 28, 1991, Photo by John Stamets,© 1991, John Stamets Muse/News SAM Fam SAMstagram © Seattle Art Museum. Terms & Conditions / Privacy Policy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line185
__label__cc	0.693947	0.306053	Gallops, Finds, and Tales... Reacquainting Modalities Manifest Dexterity Wanna stick it to the "the man"? What if I told you that you could do it in the comfort of your own home, on a park lawn, by yourself or with a crew of friends. What if I told you that you could and only reap the rewards of soul-inspiring fulfillment and not the affection of the INTERPOL. Sounding unreasonable? The United States premiere of the film Handmade Nation made believers out of a capacity crowd at the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee. Judging from the flock of movie-goers you would have thought the Dali Lama was in town. With the theatre's Buddha statues mounted on the balconies presiding, Handmade Nation written and directed by Faythe Levine and Courtney Heimerl took us on an easy ride through the winding open road of 'crafting'. HMN covers 19,000 miles worth of perspectives, traveling cross-country to interview crafters in all four corners of the continental US. If your senses are easily overloaded this is not the film to see. HMN begins with a sentient needle scurrying across the screen, with beady friends and inky playmates, adding to the ever-morphing patchwork quilt and screen-printed background. They say you cant judge a book by its cover, but opening sequences definitely set the tone for great films in the 21st century and HMN's doesn't disappoint. What is crafting anyway? Any person engaging in this activity will be reluctant to tell you with any certainty; that would ruin the fun. In different pockets of the US, HMN documentarians asked partakers of the tactile fellowship their thoughts on crafting. Harvesting various answers, a few common threads still ran threw the craft-persons' responses each unique in the coloring and texture describing their ethics in relation to their preferred craft. Without prompting, it became apparent that to a crafter our consumer culture is a bother and a bore. Consumerism is impersonal, mass produced, ruthless in its hoarding of resources, and most tragically mind-numbing. Fed up with corporate sales associates ringing-up cloned scarfs and greeting cards incubated on computer screens, the keepers of the crafting code urge you to stop and think before you brandish your magnetized plastic filled with money credits. Here a distinction must be made. We're not talking about the crafting that will take you to Michael's after watching a couple of Martha Stewart episodes and cause you to break out the bedazzle gun. As HMN plays on, it's clear that transforming reality, by taking a stand against idle fingers and the capitalist big-box, requires commitment to an ethic. On the most fundamental level the crafter, born through a series of realizations, possesses an intriguing awareness of the relationship between using your hands to interact with the materials around you and the sensation of connectedness to your habitat. This process departs from the traditional artist, likely more concerned with conveying an idea, evoking irony, or a portraying a particular aesthetic. Seeking confirmation of life's presence, the stimulation of senses provide crafters a motivating catalyst to create. The crafter removes the isolation of modern life by making things and sharing them. The crafter locates self by eliminating the mysterious origin of objects both novel and utilitarian. Craft-culture rejects all-things paternal and challenges us to not hinder our personal maturation by standing in-line for things we want or need all the time. According to a certain social theorist, people are cooler in uptown Manhattan anyway. Conservation Bandits The need to conserve by recreating with the previously used is a renewable theme throughout the film. Rather than staging a workers rally, one with busy hands admits that she buys only pre-owned fabric to make her garments. Before tailoring a class piece of formal wear, another crafter contemplates the implications of cutting into a 50 year-old piece of fabric commenting, "what gives me the right to cut into this fabric?" Doing more than 'tree-hugging', a dedicated crafter uses recycled paper as the medium of choice for post cards and such, decreasing demand for felled trees. The principle is one less fiber purchased retail is one less environmentally inconsiderate product that needs to be re-stocked on the shelf. It's not coincidental that 'Do-it-Yourself' has an activist application. Conservation is kind of like the crafters' Swiss army knife; it's a versatile instrument of change. Endearingly, crafters are willing to engage social problems on a level that departs from an annoying issue-mongers' tendency for screaming, guilt-tripping and proselytizing. Maybe we don't need another hero, we just need a bunch of tiny creative moments to make change. The limits of conservation extend beyond physical materials to preservation of ancient methods. In one scene, a young woman teetering light-reflecting safety goggles from her nose, donning a tattered long sleeve sweater with strings dangling from the wrist and a payload of necklaces B.A. Baracas-style, ignites a blue-flamed torch a foot from her face that looks like it could melt a diamond. We soon learn that Tracy Bull of Happy Owl Glassworks is nonchalantly risking her eyebrows to preserve a 2,000 year-old glass-beading technique. Now that is hardcore. Minute sized paper cutouts of cultural symbols and fauna are carefully whittled with an Xacto blade at the fingertips of Nikki McClure, her works are anthropological manuscripts translating bygone creative eras practiced by Chinese, African, and Middle Eastern cultures, connecting us to what our human ancestors were doing with their energy. Expressing conservation comes not only with their chosen mediums and techniques, but also with diet. Working from the inside out, for some, tuning-in to the craft wavelength requires the compassion for all living beings expressed through vegan practices. That's how one participant entered the craft chamber, "just getting together with friends to craft and enjoy good food." That's the beauty of it. It's just that simple. Causing a Commotion If human interaction and conservation are not motivation enough, crafting also appeals to the inner renegade rebel in all of us. It was hippy-ness and punk rock for the younger Baby Boomers and grunge for the Gen X-ers. Now since both are well into their thirties, forties and fifties, according to the fist law of thermodynamics, that rebellious energy has to go somewhere, but where? (I'm a young Gen X-er pardon my sarcasm, it is well intended). The recent generations are not immune. Some of my favorite parts of HMN depict deviant behavior that is decidedly anti-establishment. The proprietor of Anti - Factory stages a public contest to see who could knit the best bootleg of the Burberry pattern. Receiving many demonstrations she is able to construct hand bags that soon become popular. Take that posh name brand! A posse of Texas knitters take the proverbial cake. With nicknames like Notorious N.I.T and J - Nitty, the group Nitta' takes crafting guerrilla. When night falls they pile into a compact economy car. Timing the precise opportunity-maximizing-moment they jump out, to stealth-bomb-knit a Technicolor muffler onto a street sign post and vanish into the night. Cleverly mocking municipal bureaucrats and graffiti artists simultaneously with a stab of the knitting needle, the least crafting can do for you is provide some amusement. Thumping Pareto There is a parallel story to this motion-picture look into an American subculture that adds instead of takes away from our collective wellbeing. One of the film's makers, Levine, also runs a local Milwaukee outlet called Paper Boat Boutique and Gallery, which as recently as January 30th was set to close, nearly unfathomable given the talent and drive of Levine. However, crafting economics defy the conventional wisdom of enterprise enough for an imminent shutdown to make sense. Presenting an alternative model for business proves a little trickier than selecting the perfect place for a new hem. Shamelessly labor and input intensive, craft-based shops snub the profit-maximizing formula in favor of unconventional antics. If you see a six-foot-tall canvas cuboid resembling a vending machine inching toward you, wildly painted with small pictures on the front and a slot for stuffing in dollar bills, you might think you are on Japanese television, but know that a starving crafter just wants to make ends meet with some of his prints. Efforts of magnitude replace economies of scale and sweat-equity won't cut it. Evidenced by a vendor's ordeal, who while embellishing one of her craft fair displays accidentally staples her index finger, badly, you have to be willing to sign your check in blood. Ensuing film frames capture a friendly neighbor arriving, without cue, to lend some clot-aiding pressure and moral support. The HMN viewer then understands that ink runs thicker than water. The mend of the crafting community weaves together a closely packed network of individuals devoted to a common bond. HMN confirms that interaction with objects is secondary to the magic that happens when humans decide to appreciate what they agree on. The turnout to last Thursday's premiere gives an unequivocal testament to this fact. Levine and Heimerl have clearly dedicated their energies to the most deserving places. Smacking the smiles off the big yellow circle-faced end-caps that dominate our consumption habits, Levine's film makes a strong case for the premium warranted for crafter-made items. Crafters are giving much of themselves physically and emotionally to carry alternatives to commercial-merchandise. A splurge in Handmade Nation is a tithe that sustains the availability of choices that American's crave. Their take is not so much gratitude, as just deserts. It's the only way they can stay afloat. A good amount of the film's craft fair footage takes place outside. That means you have plenty of time to plan an outing to a craft fair. Having a group 'collective unconscious' definitely does not preclude self-consciousness. Ironically, in the heat of the struggle to remain Indie and commercial-free, the Handmade Nation is aware that their experiment with creativity could turn on the doctor. There is a dark-side. Will the evil empire cunningly find a way to capture one of the last remaining reaches of uncharted market segments? High-end designers and retail executives need to stand down and mind their demographics. Although the odds are stacked against them, the craft guild and its admirers are a fortuitous bunch. It's up to free thinkers to bestow the social and economic capital that can keep the penny hoarders at bay. Upcoming screenings of Handmade Nation include stops in New York's Museum of Art and Design next week, and venues in Toronto, Canada, Barcelona, Spain, Melbourne, Australia, returning to the area at Madison's Wisconsin Film Festival April 2 - 5, 2009 details TBA. Handmade Nation is also in print! Check here for the latest HMN news. Posted by Sane Artworks at 7:25 PM Labels: art, books, craft, DIY, documentaries, film, handmade nation, Indie Jenn February 21, 2009 at 12:55 AM wow, you are quite a prolific writer!! Amazing review and keen insights. I love the idea of a movement that is really about self-reliance, community, and a return to humanity in some ways. I am excited to see the documentary. And, I don't know who the F you are, but thanks for the peek! I look forward to reading more! Man or Wax Man? Cool Eating: Rockabilly Chili Contest Bury the Machete: Have you ever been experienced, ... End the Weekend Non-Obvious takes on Big History through Little Eyes Local Trotter Sane Artworks Trot Along Reacquaintances chanceswithwolves Dear Rae Rae... karma button RECORD FIEND Remember be better THE SLOW SCIENCE	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line186
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__label__wiki	0.745322	0.745322	Celebrity news and gossip in every tasty bite! WWE Wrestlers Greg Helms and Chris Jericho Arrested for Public Intoxication WWE wrestlers Chris Jericho and Greg (Hurricane) Helms were arrested Wednesday morning in Kentucky on charges of public intoxication. Chris Jericho and Gregory Helms were reportedly arrested around 5:45 a.m. on Wednesday at a Shell gas station in Kenton County, KY. Chris Jericho and Greg Helms - (Mug Shot Photos: Kenton County PD) Details on the arrest are a bit sketchy, but the two men were taken into custody after allegedly causing a scene at the gas station after a night of hard partying. Helms and Jericho took part in a WWE Smackdown event at the nearby U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati. According to the police report, both wrestlers were booked into jail on charges of “public alcohol intoxication.” Some reports indicate Jericho and Helms may have been fighting with some other passengers in a taxi cab, but no further official information about the incident has been released. Both men paid fines of $120 in cash and were released around 6:30 a.m. Keep it in the ring where it belongs boys! >> Previously:Â Heroes Star Adrian Pasdar Arrested for DUI Posted on January 28, 2010 March 3, 2010 Author Annaka TurnerCategories Celebrity Scandals, UncategorizedTags chris jericho, chris jericho arrested, greg helms, greg helms arrested, greg hurrican helms, public intoxication, wwe wrestlers arrested1 Comment on WWE Wrestlers Greg Helms and Chris Jericho Arrested for Public Intoxication Heroes Star Adrian Pasdar Arrested for DUI Former Heroes star Adrian Pasdar was arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of DUI after police pulled him over for driving more than 90 mph on a freeway in Los Angeles. Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli (NBC) 44-year-old Adrian Pasdar, who starred on NBC’s Heroes as Senator Nathan Petrelli until recently, was reportedly pulled over by police after he was seen speeding and weaving on the 405 Freeway in L.A. According to the police report, officers detected the smell of alcohol in Pasdar’s car and asked him to undergo a field sobriety test. Pasdar allegedly refused to take a breathalyzer test at the scene. Pasdar was arrested on suspicion of DUI and booked into a local L. A. jail. His bail has reportedly been set at $15,000. We understand that losing a lucrative gig like Heroes might make you a bit pissed off and unhappy. But does it also make you stupid? >> Previously:Â Dancing with the Stars Offers Paula Abdul Million Dollar Deal Posted on January 27, 2010 March 3, 2010 Author Annaka TurnerCategories Celebrity Scandals, UncategorizedTags adrian pasdar, adrian pasdar arrest, adrian pasdar arrested, adrian pasdar drunk, adrian pasdar dui, adrian pasdar heroes, nathan petrelli2 Comments on Heroes Star Adrian Pasdar Arrested for DUI Sean Salisbury Admits to Rumor of Perverted Cellphone Photo Display Former ESPN NFL analyst Sean Salisbury is finally admitting to the perverted behavior that is rumored to have lost him his job at the network. Salisbury says he did indeed take a cellphone photo of his genitals and show it around, despite denying doing so repeatedly in the past. Sean Salisbury in his glory days (Photo: ESPN) “I was ashamed, and I didn’t want to say anything,” Sean Salisbury said, according to USA Today. “I thought it would go away and let my ego get in the way. Since then, I’ve beat myself up about it more than 10 baseball bats could. A stupid mistake can cost you, and this has really cost me.” The incident allegedly happened in a Connecticut bar in 2006.Â The former Vikings quarterbackÂ said it was just a “sophomoric mistake” on his part. ESPN suspended Salisbury for a week when the network found out – although at the time they did not specify the reason for the suspension. Salisbury’s contract with ESPN was later dropped in 2008. Salisbury was fired again by a Dallas radio station last year after rumors he had acted inappropriately in some manner, although Salisbury claims it was just a contract dispute. In an interview with Deadspin.com in 2008, Sean Salisbury was asked directly whether he “took a picture of your genitals on your cellphone and showed it around.” At the time, Salisbury vehemently denied doing so. “I haven’t addressed it because it’s so absurd and such a bald-faced lie from what the speculation is out there from media outlets and Internet and bloggers that hop on and want to beat you up because they don’t like my opinion in football. It never happened,” Salisbury said. Salisbury said he has undergone anger management counseling, but he still can’t believe how one photo could change his life so much. “It was stupid–dumb!–but not malicious,” he said. “How can it ruin a good career?… I’ve gone from being on six days a week to disappearing.” Well, waving around pictures of your wanker in a public bar can do that to you. Maybe Salisbury could try to drum up a career starring in second-rate porn movies or start his own www.penisphonephotos.com adult website. We hear weird Internet porn is very profitable these days… >> Previously:Â ESPN NFL Analyst Sean Salisbury Fired â€“ Loses His Mind Posted on January 22, 2010 March 3, 2010 Author Annaka TurnerCategories Celebrity Scandals, UncategorizedTags sean salisbury admits, sean salisbury cell phone incident, sean salisbury cellphone photo, sean salisbury deadspin.com, sean salisbury espn, sean salisbury fired, sean salisbury interview, sean salisbury usa today2 Comments on Sean Salisbury Admits to Rumor of Perverted Cellphone Photo Display John Edwards Admits Paternity of Rielle Hunter Baby at Last Former presidential candidate John Edwards has finally confessed, publicly, he is the father of Rielle Hunter‘s baby daughter. Edwards previously denied he fathered baby Frances Quinn repeatedly. Before that, he denied, vehemently, that he had ever even cheated on his wife with Rielle Hunter. John Edwards (Photo: United States Congress ) John Edwards confirmed his paternity of Rielle Hunter’s almost 2-year-old toddler in a press statement on Thursday. “I am Quinn’s father. I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves. It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter, and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me,” Edwards said. “To all those I have disappointed and hurt, these words will never be enough, but I am truly sorry.” Yeah, we’re sure your cancer-strickenÂ wife, Elizabeth Edwards, and your three children with her – Cate, Emma and Jack – are really feeling your apologies about now. As for the child you denied fathering for two years, we can only shudder at what kind of messed up head that poor girl is going to have from all this. National Enquirer Cover John Edwards should have just given it up when the National Enquirer first plastered his affair with Rielle Hunter all over their front page. Being caught with your pants down is one thing – even presidents have survived that. Lying about it to the entire world over and over again – that’s the part that really makes you look like a douche bag. Edwards once called the National Enquirer stories about his affair â€œtabloid trash thatâ€™s full of lies.â€ We’re thinking that label actually applies pretty well to Edwards himself right about now. Even worse, Edwards is still under investigation for possibly using money raised for his presidential campaign to try to cover up the affair with Hunter. Can you imagine if we’d elected this guy president? He’d deny for years he accidently launched a nuclear strike on Iran, blame it on one of his staffers and then only admit he did it and was “truly sorry” about it years later. We’re thinking the country dodged a bullet on that one. >> Previously:Â Â John Edwards Will Admit to Fathering Rielle Hunterâ€™s Baby Posted on January 21, 2010 March 3, 2010 Author Annaka TurnerCategories Celebrity Scandals, UncategorizedTags elizabeth edwards, frances quinn, john edwards, john edwards admits paternity, john edwards affair, john edwards baby, john edwards divorce, john edwards father, john edwards latest news, john edwards mistress, john edwards news, john edwards paternity, john edwards rielle hunter, john edwards wife, Rielle Hunter, rielle hunter baby, rielle hunter john edwards, rielle hunter photo1 Comment on John Edwards Admits Paternity of Rielle Hunter Baby at Last Survivor Winner Richard Hatch Arrested After Today Show Interview Survivor: BorneoÂ winner Richard Hatch was arrested again after appearing on the Today Show on Tuesday. Hatch’s sister, Kristin Hatch, said her brother had permission to do the interview but believes he may have been rearrested for statements he made on the Today Show. A police official told RadarOnline.com that Hatch was arrested for violating the terms of his house arrest. Richard Hatch was previously convicted on charges of tax evasion involving his million dollar Survivor winnings and received a four year sentence. Hatch’s sister, however, believes her brother was arrested again because of what he said during his Today Show interview. Speaking to co-host Matt Lauer, Richard Hatch said during the Today Show interview that he believes he was jailed partially because he is gay. “I don’t think you or anyone else can deny that we as homosexuals face discrimination,” Hatch said. “I heard [police] tell Rich that he did an interview, and that’s why he was going back to prison,” Hatch’s sister during an appearance on the Today Show on Wednesday. Richard Hatch was taken into custody at his sister’s home in Newport, RI. He is currently being held at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility in Bourne, Mass., according to AccessHollywood.com. Hatch’s lawyer claims the Survivor winner had cleared his appearance on the Today Show with federal authorities before the interview. Posted on August 19, 2009 September 17, 2011 Author Annaka TurnerCategories Celebrities, Celebrity Scandals, News, TelevisionTags arrested richard hatch, kristin hatch, richard hatch arrested, richard hatch survivor arrested, richard hatch today interview, richard hatch today show interview, survivor richard hatch arrested Jesse Metcalfe Knocked Out After 40 Foot Balcony Fall Looks like some partying at the World Music Awards in Monaco this weekend got a leeetle bit out of hand. Desperate Housewives star Jesse Metcalfe, who hosted the awards, apparently lost his balance and fell 40 feet off of a balcony. Damn! This wouldn’t have happened if Lindsay Lohan had co-hosted as originally planned! SamRo’s attachment at Lindsay’s hip would have saved them all from going over the side. But back to Jesse – his rep sayeth: “He accidentally slipped off a balcony and was knocked unconscious, but he is fine and now recovering from some minor bruises in a London hospital.” Jesse’s having some CAT scans before he comes home. Dude is really lucky. SamRo’s gonna feel bad for being so jealous of Jesse, but, come on. She can’t compete with THAT hottie! Posted on November 11, 2008 August 31, 2010 Author SnarkistaCategories CelebritiesTags celebrity, Desperate Housewives, Jesse Metcalfe, lindsay lohan, Movies, samantha ronson, TV, world music awards Previous page Page 1 … Page 211 Page 212	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line196
__label__cc	0.502357	0.497643	Vizual Personnel Software News/Articles Case-study: Dunlop Oil & Marine People Inc. HR implementation project. Dunlop Oil & Marine Ltd is a world leader in the design, manufacture and supply of hoses for the oil, gas, petrochemical and dredging industries, for both offshore and onshore based operations. Due to a series of mergers and restructuring Dunlop Oil & Marine found themselves with two completely separate HR systems (Vizual Personnel Manager and People Inc.) to manage their 365 employees resulting in duplication of effort and an inability to produce useful management reports quickly or easily. Additionally, it was identified that one of these systems (Vizual Personnel Manager) didn’t meet the Companies overall IT strategy moving forward as it was not supported on the latest versions of Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Windows and Office applications. It was therefore decided as part of the implementation project to merge these systems in to a central instance of People Inc. HR. This provides Dunlop Oil with a more up to date HR System that could meet the requirements of both their HR and IT departments going forward for the company as a whole. People Inc. HR is a comprehensive yet cost effective HR system that comes with a wide range of time saving benefits and features to help companies save time and costs with managing their employees. Not only would People Inc. provide a completely up to date HR System for Dunlop Oil & Marine, it also offered a great deal more functionality than their old system and is compatible on all latest versions of Microsoft platforms such as Windows, SQL Server and Office. “Agathonhr provided face to face meetings and onsite training to ensure our users were comfortable with all aspects of the implementation project.” says Matt Carn, HR Manager at Dunlop Oil & Marine. “From the initial ‘kick-off’ meeting, agathonhr have made us feel really looked after, giving us the reassurance and confidence we needed after some challenging implementations from other providers in the past.” Matt goes on to say “The impact of this project has been substantial. For the first time, the HR Team can access and manage all employee information simultaneously and I can now generate key management reports quickly and efficiently across the whole organisation, saving us a huge amount of time and effort”. Agathonhr’s wealth of experience working on HR systems for 20 years, meant they were able to not only upgrade both sites to the latest version of People Inc. but also merge the data from their existing systems into one central databases, accessible to both sites. The project was different to most of the implementations agathonhr carryout as it involved not only the implementation of the People Inc. system but also the merging of data from 2 separate sources. “Migrating data into People Inc. is something we are quite used to”, said Andrew from agathonhr. “The challenge with this project was merging the data from two separate systems into one shared database within People Inc., whilst maintaining data integrity. We are delighted to have Dunlop Oil & Marine on board and look forward to working with them again as their requirements change”. agathonhr’s 20 plus years of experience working on Vizual Personnel Manager means we can provide an unrivalled level of service and support for customers looking to upgrade their Vizual Personnel Software to People Inc. If you would like more information about how agathonhr can help you upgrade you Personnel Manager Software contact us on 01242 663974 or enquiries@agathonhr.co.uk Request Upgrade AgathonHR have been working on Vizual Personnel Manager and Personnel Director since 1997 and are one of the last companies in the UK to have any experience using or supporting these systems. Additionally we have been working with People Inc. since 2009 and are one the main People Inc. resellers in the UK. This means we can provide the best possible service to ensure the upgrade goes as effectively as possible. Whilst we can no longer sell Personnel Manager, we do currently provide the following: Upgrades to People Inc. including data migration. Discounted annual support packages Basic training for new users Report Writing Training. Consultancy – Data tidying, customisation etc. Further information can be found on our website http://agathonhr.co.uk. If you require any support with Vizual Personnel Manager please call 01242 663974 or email support@vizualpersonnel.co.uk.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line199
__label__wiki	0.64713	0.64713	AI - Health: InstaDeep partners with BioNTech to develop novel immunotherapies TAP)- BioNTech, a next generation immunotherapy company and Tunisian startup InstaDeep, an EMEA leader in decision-making AI products for the enterprise, on Wednesday announced a multi-year strategic collaboration aimed at applying the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The goal is to develop novel immunotherapies for a range of cancers and infectious diseases. As part of the collaboration, BioNTech and InstaDeep will form a joint AI Innovation Lab in London, UK, and Mainz, Germany, to advance a portfolio of initiatives across drug discovery and design, protein engineering, manufacturing and supply chain optimization, said a joint statement released Wednesday. The AI Innovation Lab will combine InstaDeep’s advanced capabilities in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and digitalisation along with BioNTech’s deep domain expertise in precision immunotherapies and its access to a wide variety of internal and external datasets. “One of the key research areas of the BioNTech-InstaDeep joint Innovation Lab will be the development of next generation vaccines and biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer and prevention and therapy of infectious diseases, including COVID-19.” Strategic collaboration focusing on three core areas The strategic collaboration will focus on three core areas, including novel drug design. BioNTech is advancing a pipeline of novel mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics and will apply InstaDeep’s DeepChainTM protein design platform to engineer new mRNA sequences for protein targets, including for its RiboMabTM and RiboCytokineTM platforms, which use messenger RNA to encode antibodies and cytokines in vivo. Advanced analytics will also be performed. Thus, BioNTech and InstaDeep plan to generate insights from public and proprietary meta datasets, as well as anonymised patient data through the use of machine learning and edge analytics to identify novel biological targets and predictive biomarkers. In addition manufacturing and supply chain, BioNTech plans to utilize AI and ML applications to further optimise manufacturing and supply chain processes. By employing the latest advances in robotics and autonomous decision-making algorithms, BioNTech aims to deliver higher efficiencies in drug manufacturing, logistics and supply chain processes. “We see a significant opportunity at the intersection of AI and immunology by computational design of new precision immunotherapies. This collaboration will expand our digital capabilities and optimize our operations across the value chain by adding InstaDeep’s powerful Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning expertise. We look forward to working with InstaDeep to advance the next wave of innovation in the field,” says Ugur Sahin, M.D., CEO and Co-Founder of BioNTech. “Pairing BioNTech’s deep knowledge of the human immune system and scientific data-driven development approach with our AI platform could transform the way we discover and develop new drug classes for patients all over the world. For InstaDeep, the long-term collaboration with BioNTech also means we can further expand on our mission as a company to accelerate the transition to an AI-First world that benefits everyone. tap.info	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line203
__label__wiki	0.61049	0.61049	Republic of Srpska Tourism in Republika Srpska EU integration The Srpska Times Home Domestic Affairs Unemployment decreased by 2.7% in 2013 Unemployment decreased by 2.7% in 2013 TheSrpskaTimes The Government of Republika Srpska, last year, managed to reduce the number of unemployed persons in this entity by 2.7%, concluded the Government after evaluating its effectiveness in 2013. During a session dedicated to the assessment of its work, the Government summed up results and named the reform of business registration as one of its most successful implementations. Furthermore, it restored the salaries of budget users to their former quantity and recently reinstated wages to their 2008 level for all budget users with a high school education, which applies to 14,000 persons. In addition the Government praised itself for increasing pensions by a whole 7.3% in the past year. Previous articleIntroduction of personal bankruptcy not in sight Next articlePlays dedicated to playwright Nusic at the National Theatre of Srpska http://thesrpskatimes.com The Srpska Times is the first English language magazine originating from Republika Srpska. Dodik: Migrants have nothing to look for in Srpska Prime Minister Radovan Višković meets with the Head of the Delegation of the European Union and EU Special Representative in BiH Lars-Gunar Wigemark BITTERNESS OVER INABILITY TO VISIT SITE OF SUFFERING Coronavirus in Srpska: 240 New Cases TheSrpskaTimes - 25.12.2020 Since the last report on the epidemiological situation in the Republic of Srpska, in the last 24 hours, at the Institute of Public Health... Šeranić: The First Vaccines in the First Quarter of 2021. Coronavirus in Srpska: 233 New Cases Today “Ivo Andrić Grand Prix” to Peter Handke Mićo Mićić Passed Away The Srpska Times is the first English language magazine originating from Republika Srpska with the aim, priority and objective of reporting timely, verified and accurate information on the current events, processes and attitudes (official and public opinion) in Republika Srpska Contact us: desk@thesrpskatimes.com Republic of Srpska503 Balkan314 Experience Republika Srpska241 © The Srpska Times 2019.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line207
__label__cc	0.723967	0.276033	ESU Welcomes Unifying “Spirit Fridays” October 11, 2013 The Stroud Courier Opinion 0 Brook Wadle sports her red and black for Spirit Friday. Photo Credit / Audra Organetti Brook Wadle sports her red and black for Spirit Friday. Photo Credit / Audra Organetti BY NICOLE GIOVINCO SC Staff Writer As of the Fall 2013 semester at ESU, our Fridays are no longer like any other. President Welsh announced last week her initiative to have everyone come to campus on Fridays sporting their Black & Red. Participating in this campus weekly event is a way of supporting the campus’ activities such as our sport teams, clubs, and the campus spirit overall. In order to see how well educated our ESU community is on Red and Black Fridays, I asked a few people if they had ever heard of this campus event. Kelly Luciw, a senior majoring in English, shed light on her feelings towards this new activity. Luciw states, “I am aware of Black and Red Fridays. I do not participate because I do not have classes on Fridays, and I live off campus.” She continues, “I think it is a good concept for the University to get students involved. It doesn’t hurt to show pride for your campus at least one day out of the week.” Elise Lazard and Katelin Delano, also English majors, had not heard of this new trend. “I like the idea. I never even knew about it though, so I never dressed up for them. Maybe I’ll start,” said Lazard. Delano, on the other hand, had a slight different opinion. “I think it’s a good idea, but I’m too lazy to coordinate my outfit to match school colors on a Friday.” As a commuter student, I often feel unable to participate in many of the University’s activities that go on daily since I am only on campus a few hours a day. Personally, I find the effort put into Red and Black Fridays is worthy of consideration by our faculty, students, and staff. They could be a come together effort. The stress of assignments and overload of courses can void many students the opportunity to sit in the stands at an ESU football games, or going to a local show at the Sherman Theatre sponsored by ESU. However, every Friday allows students to participate in the University’s attempt to show unity, pride and spirit. President Walsh reminds her followers on Twitter every Friday in support of getting everyone involved. Some people feel it is hypocritical to suggest supporting the University you work for when you are facing possible termination. That is like asking for support from someone who gives you no peace of mind. This is a strong, oppositional point of view compared to Luciw’s, and I am almost certain that there are several different opinions that have still not been heard. We as a student body need to stay informed with the issues on campus, but that does not mean we should neglect our duties to show our pride. When it is as simple as throwing on black sweatpants and a red hoodie on a Friday morning, why not? This may be just what the campus needs to boost the community’s morale and show that we belong to stay as a community with all the professors and students that we have right now, despite economic hardships that the University is facing. Participating in something as simple as Red and Black Friday’s will hopefully help us focus on the importance of staying a strong, structured unit. Email Nicole at: nlg8308@live.esu.edu Audra Organetti Nicole Giovinco PRSSA Teams up with “Run 4 Kelly” The Hidden “Cem” of Communications	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line208
__label__wiki	0.890771	0.890771	Saturday Night Live: Felicity Jones and Sturgill Simpson January 14, 2017 By Vish Khanna Yikes. Back for their first episode of 2017, Saturday Night Live was rough, with many ill-conceived and clumsily concluded sketches for host Felicity Jones to star in, while musical guest Sturgill Simpson seemed hell-bent on blasting a crater through the stage. Here's everything that went down. The Cold Open "This country will literally be showered with jobs. Because I am a major whiz with jobs." #SNL pic.twitter.com/kQGlmNePHW — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 15, 2017 Donald Trump's infamous trainwreck of a news conference from this past week was lampooned from almost every possible angle. Trump's lackluster celebrity guest list for his inauguration was briefly mentioned before the phrase "big Russian pee pee party" was invoked and released a golden stream of urine puns. Virtually every other political story of the week (i.e. Republicans attacking the Affordable Care Act; revelations about Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. election) was touched upon and produced solid jokes. The Monologue Tina Fey returned to 8H* with a special message for Felicity Jones. #SNL *as a hologram pic.twitter.com/LqqSQrSpM2 — Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) January 15, 2017 Felicity Jones seemed nervous but was game to make fun of her role in Rogue One. Tina Fey made a cameo as a Leia-eseque hologram to offer some sketch survival tips and lightly roast SNL itself (and the press and President-Elects who scrutinize it), which was amusing. Beard Hunk Can I steal him for a sec? #SNL pic.twitter.com/bRChgidhgB What could've been a takedown of The Bachelor was mostly invested in making all of the ladies competing for Beck Bennett's "beard hunk" seem like desperate, stupid nymphomaniacs. They've staged this kind of thing before but again, why just make the women seem like morons? The whole premise and structure of these shows is worth an SNL treatment that's at least better than Burning Love. Shondra & Malik This half-baked remote's joke was that two tough-talking gangstas, played by Kenan Thompson (Malik) and Leslie Jones (Shondra), are at each other's throats about who rules a block. Malik rolls up in a car and every time he tries to leave after a kiss-off threat, his car breaks down, forcing Shondra to help him. There wasn't much to this dramatic piece and it ended just because it had to. The Rainstorm Mikey Day played Albee Durberry, a wealthy, 100-year-old benefactor who attends a play he financed, but his medical ailments cause him, and Jones as his nurse, to be a massive distraction during the production. A bit of physical comedy, there wasn't anything memorable about this. The Princess and the Curse Jones plays Princess Viola, who was cursed by a witch (McKinnon) as a baby to spend her nights 15 pounds heavier than she usually is. This upsets her lover, a Prince played by Beck Bennett. The thin premise was highlighted by its sudden, dumb conclusion, which was a small penis joke. The already shaky episode seemed to hits its nadir. Susan B. Anthony's House Also did you guys see my little shoes? #SNL pic.twitter.com/eKWoWJDWcA This wasn't as insipid as previous sketches but it was still lacking in any real structure or point. McKinnon plays Anthony, who is conjured by a group of young women touring her home, but after a brief interaction, squabble over whether or not to cab or subway home. Its goal seemed to be highlighting the relative ease of modern day struggles compared to those of suffragettes like Anthony. But it didn't execute this in any kind of clever way. With a drawl somewhere between Bob Seger and Dwight Yoakam, Sturgill Simpson was backed by a full-on soul band and clearly put his all into trying to rock his way through his two songs on his SNL debut. Nominated for an album of the year Grammy for A Sailor's Guide to Earth, Simpson's lyrics were quite indecipherable, as he barked them out into his mic. Singing seemed like an obligation while ripping it up on his guitar and having extended jam sessions with his band looked like a vicious, necessary release. Smashing his Tele down to the ground, Simpson likely made some new fans after this energetic appearance. Colin Jost and Michael Che took us back to the cold open, which was the episode's last time tackling anything topical or political. They ridiculed the golden shower we all got soaked in, Trump's news conference, which Che couldn't help but express genuine admiration for, just for Trump's dismissal of CNN as "fake news." Pete Davidson did a pretty soft desk piece about Trump's cabinet picks but the most memorable bits include Jost celebrating the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. and Che tying the re-launch of the Ford Bronco with O.J. Simpson's eligibility for parole in 2020. Hot Robot 3: Journey to Boob Mountain In his first and only appearance of the night, Kyle Mooney plays writer/director Adam Perkins, who's being interviewed about his outspoken political statements. And yet, he's the director of a mindless, teen softcore porn comedy that he and his actors, played by Jones and Bennett, must talk about seriously. Sort of funny. Crowd Work at The Resort A trio of soft-spoken women is called upon to participate in some resort entertainment. They each tell a joke and, while they seem like pretty harmless middle-aged women, it turns out they all want to tell sex jokes about loose orifices. Odd idea but the dirty jokes were good. Thank you Felicity Jones, @SturgillSimpson, @AlecBaldwin and Tina Fey! Goodnight! #SNL pic.twitter.com/SgEjHjFL0L Marvel Studios had a quiet 2020, so one might expect them to start 2021 by loudly declaring that the characters audiences know and love are... 'Outside the Wire' Is a Good Movie to Half-Watch While Scrolling on Your Phone Directed by Mikael Håfström Netflix recently unveiled a star-studded trailer for its 2021 slate, featuring 71 new movies for the platform. One of these movies is Outsid... 'Promising Young Woman' Exposes Toxic Masculinity and Those Complicit in It Directed by Emerald Fennell The last two years have been quite the showcase for Emerald Fennell. In addition to writing six of the eight episodes for Killing Eve's seco... 'History of Swear Words' Has All the Wit of a Preteen Edgelord Hosted by Nicolas Cage Back when I was in elementary school, students were forced to participate in a school-wide public speaking competition. Every kid had to pic... 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__label__wiki	0.798361	0.798361	Total Badgers Quick hits from Wisconsin Badgers’ 38-13 loss to Michigan Wolverines \| College Shea Patterson: The Michigan quarterback was OK through the air (124 passing yards), but he did a lot of damage with his legs. Patterson rushed for 90 yards and a touchdown. T.J. Edwards: The senior linebacker was one of the lone bright spots for the Badgers, finishing with two tackles for loss, a sack and a quarterback hurry. Alex Hornibrook: UW needed a big game from its junior quarterback and didn’t get one. Not even close. Hornibrook finished 7 of 20 for 100 yards with two interceptions, with 12 consecutive incompletions at one point. 0-2 – UW coach Paul Chryst’s record in games at Michigan. He’s 13-0 in all other Big Ten road games. 81 – yards gained on a run by Patterson on the first play of the second quarter, the second-longest by a Michigan quarterback in program history. Denard Robinson holds the record (87 yards). 728 – days since the Badgers had lost a Big Ten regular-season game, dating to a 30-23 overtime loss at home to Ohio State on Oct. 15, 2016. Badgers earn slew of WCHA Season Honors · The Badger Herald Imani Lewis leads Wisconsin Badgers women’s basketball team to win over Penn State in Big Ten tournament \| Wisconsin Badgers Women’s basketball Badgers’ Iverson, Thomas, put the team before themselves \| Wisconsin Badgers’ Sean Dhooghe named Big Ten’s first star of the week \| Wisconsin Badgers Hockey Badgers defeat St. Cloud State to advance to WCHA Final Faceoff · The Badger Herald More in Wisconsin Badgers In what has currently been a really distinctive season for the College of Wisconsin... INDIANAPOLIS — Imani Lewis was not missing for determination as the College of Wisconsin women’s... MADISON — The discussion went on for almost a minute. Was it area 5208... An additional time objective and four points in two games in opposition to Michigan... Young Wisconsin secondary gave Badgers a chance Saturday and hope for the future – The Athletic After 2-0 start, Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey climbs into national rankings at No. 15 \| Wisconsin Badgers Hockey Total Badgers is an independent site and is not affiliated with the NCAA or the Wisconsin Badgers Discount Wisconsin Badgers Basketball Lower Level Tickets, Upper Level Seating, Club Seats, and Parking for their 2018-19 College Basketball Games at Capital City Tickets with Promo Code – Press Release Wisconsin athletics: UW releases safety review findings; 1993 football team to be honored Catching up on this week’s new offers Emily Clark’s goal lifts Wisconsin Badgers past Lindenwood in women’s hockey season opener \| College Hockey	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line219
__label__wiki	0.814487	0.814487	primary/ V3 LARGE PAIS PATH https://embed.cdn.pais.scholastic.com/v1/products/identifiers/isbn/9780545791878/primary/renditions/400 V3 XLARGE PAIS PATH https://embed.cdn.pais.scholastic.com/v1/products/identifiers/isbn/9780545791878/primary/renditions/1000 SEE LARGER The Hunger Games : Foil Edition Series: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Ages 12 – 18 . Grades 7 – 12 Lexile measure: 810L DRA: 70 Guided Reading: Z In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before--and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Suzanne Collins' groundbreaking series is now available with breathtaking foil covers. Suzanne Collins is the author of the bestselling Underland Chronicles series, which started with Gregor the Overlander. Her groundbreaking young adult novels, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay, were New York Times bestsellers, received wide praise, and were the basis for four popular films. She returned to the world of Panem with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Year of the Jungle, her picture book based on the year her father was deployed in Vietnam, was published in 2013 to great critical acclaim. To date, her books have been published in fifty-three languages around the world. SELECT REVIEWS: "A violent, jarring, speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense. . . . I couldn't stop reading." --Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "I was so obsessed with this book. . . . The Hunger Games is amazing." --Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight saga "Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced." --John Green, The New York Times Book Review TODO - RELATED RESOURCES Adventures and Adventurers Courage, Bravery, Heroism Perfect-bound Paperback 448pp. \| 5-⅛ x 7-13/16 ADDITIONAL FORMATS: 384pp. \| 5-¼ x 8 384pp. \| 5-½ x 8-¼ Electronic book text 9pp. by John Peel The Bad Guys (The Bad Guys #1) Series: The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey, Illustrated By Aaron Blabey 10 True Tales: Battle Heroes Series: Ten True Tales by Allan Zullo LEGO: The LEGO Movie: Junior Novel by Kate Howard, Illustrated By Scholastic Series: Goosebumps by R. L. Stine Sophie #6: Sophie the Daredevil Series: Sophie by Lara Bergen, Illustrated By Laura Tallardy	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line220
__label__cc	0.688209	0.311791	Sunday---Pastor Mike Atkins On Each Man's Understanding of the Depths of His Sin Condition ON UNDERSTANDING OUR TRUE CONDITION. The different levels of sin: superficial external transgressions, our deeper bruised sin nature and our deepest state of being born separated from God. Christ has forgiven every level of our sin if we ask and seek Him. The more we comprehend the depths of our sins and nature, the more we understand how deeply we are forgiven. That alone is the basis of our ability to love thankfully. Senate Judiciary Should Vote Brett Kavanaugh To the Supreme Court ALTHOUGH I FOUND DR. FORD'S TESTIMONY THIS MORNING COMPELLING, though uncorroborated, I now believe Judge Brett Kavanaugh's testimony very believable and think he should be confirmed to SCOTUS as soon as possible. He will make a fine Supreme Court justice. Senator Lindsey Graham brought the house down with his courageous and firey speech and deserves our utmost gratitude and admiration. What an amazing day! Let the vote go forward now and the chips fall where they may. Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Phil Bredesen First U.S. Senate Debate---It's Marsha By A Country Mile! ROGER L. SIMON: BLACKBURN SCORES BIG IN FIRST SENATORIAL DEBATE FAST FORWARD TO 24 MINUTE MARK FOR START OF DEBATE. Will comment more later, however the short version is, I think Marsha hit a home run with all the bases loaded. Phil on the other hand, walked to first base. She was bright, high-energy, well-informed, articulate, au courant while getting some well placed He's Chuck Shummer's number one recruit jabs in. Phil seemed low-energy, over-the-hill and living on past but decent glory. On the opening question What do you think is the most pressing issue to Tennesseans today? Marsha nailed it by answering the economy and jobs. Phil's No Cigar answer: the dysfunction in Washington. On the subject of whether the candidates support the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Marsha was not afraid to define herself and say she would vote to move his confirmation forward Friday. Tonight Marsha gave an outstanding showing bringing every issue back to its relevance to Tennesseeans, even to the military and families at Ft. Campbell, and our immigrant Kurdish population just to name a few. Marsha turned the tables on the nay sayers. There's no doubt she can win this senate seat in November....maybe even by a country mile. Sunday, On How 'Crazy Rich Asians' Is Profoundly Affecting Asian Americans and Many Others IF YOU HAVEN'T YET SEEN THE CHARMING CRAZY RICH ASIANS, run, don't walk to take it in. It's having quite an impact---sometimes overwhelming---on diverse peoples for many, many reasons. At the Gospel Coalition, Hannah Chao, an Asian American, gives her take, Crazy Rich Asians and Being Truly Seen: EDITORS NOTE: At The Gospel Coalition’s inaugural Asian American conference, Reclaiming the Center: Understanding Gospel Centrality for Asian Americans, various seasoned pastors will be emphasizing how Asian Americans and their churches can thrive with the gospel, the first importance, at the center. Join us October 15–16 to prayerfully consider how God may be moving among Asian Americans and their churches to bring all spheres of life to be aligned and shaped by the gospel. Register here. When I watched Crazy Rich Asians, I cried. My husband teared up as well, and, according to my Twitter feed, lots of other people did too. So why is a romantic comedy making people weep? For a long time, neither Asian American faces nor experiences were well represented in movies. You have to go back 25 years to find a studio-backed film that had a mostly Asian American cast. So when my husband and I watched Crazy Rich Asians and saw people who looked like us and faced similar cultural struggles—feeling like the immigrant outsider—we were overwhelmed. Why this widespread reaction? Because when we are seen and known, we are acknowledged as human beings with inherent dignity and value. We are neither mistakes nor outsiders. We belong. The beautiful uniqueness of who we are is celebrated, not whitewashed or marginalized. For me, the experience of watching the film and feeling seen and known by it provided a beautiful reminder that there is One who sees and knows me fully. He is my Creator and perfect Father. When art like this functions as a mirror—when we recognize ourselves and feel seen by it—it can remind us that there is God who created us each uniquely and sees and knows us more intimately than anyone else does. It reminded me, for example, that God created me purposefully as an Asian American. God Made Me Asian American Does it matter that I am a Christian and Asian? Does God care that I am Asian American? The answer is resoundingly yes. In Psalm 139, the psalmist wrote that God “knitted me together in my mother’s womb,” that he was “fearfully and wonderfully made.” God is intentional in who he creates us to be. We are all made in his image, and our Asian Americanness is a part of that. Our heritage, our struggle to fit into two (or more) cultures, our feelings that we are foreigners—these are all unique experiences that God can and will use for his glory. Asian American heritage, our struggle to fit into two (or more) cultures, our feelings that we are foreigners—these are all unique experiences that God can and will use for his glory. Part of why I was so moved by Crazy Rich Asians is that I saw these familiar experiences so clearly in the film. Rachel (Constance Wu) is off balance and uncomfortable in the extravagant world of Singapore. Not only is she in a different social class than the people around her, but she’s seen as an American outsider and not Chinese enough by her boyfriend’s mother, Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh). Many white Americans might find it shocking to hear the word “American” said with pity or disdain, as Eleanor does in the film. But Asian Americans feel this tension constantly. In America, it is the “Asian” part that ostracizes us; but in Asia, it is the “American” side that disqualifies us. I am both, and I find no complete home in either place. The reality is that all Christians should also feel like foreigners to this world. We know this world is not our home. Our citizenship is in heaven, so we should never feel fully accepted or at home here. As Asian Americans who are not quite accepted by our parents’ cultures and also perpetual outsiders in America, we can perhaps understand that aspect of our Christian identity more easily. God Loves That I’m Asian American Again, until I saw Crazy Rich Asians, I had never seen a movie celebrate aspects of my Asian and Asian American culture. Take all the food scenes. I’ve been to Singapore twice to visit my husband’s family, and to that exact outdoor food court where Rachel tastes all that scrumptious food. It was refreshing to see satays, laksa curry, and ice kachang portrayed as delicious instead of just peculiar or cringe-inducing. There’s another scene in the film in which Rachel’s boyfriend’s family makes dumplings together as a bonding activity. In American films, we might see families play board games or football in the backyard. But here, we see an Asian and Asian American tradition portrayed as the normal way families spend time together—doing an activity I did with my parents as a child. There there’s the famous mahjong scene. Instead of a poker or chess scene to represent the conflict between Rachel and Eleanor, we are mesmerized by this game with its beautiful tiles and clicking sounds—sounds my husband grew up hearing whenever he visited relatives overseas. God loves and celebrates us in our cultural distinctness. I believe he knows my favorite dish is gejang, a spicy crab fermented in soy sauce. I believe God sees and blesses many of my family’s cultural traditions, like bowing to our elders on New Year’s Day and eating seaweed soup on birthdays, knowing they bring our family members closer together. I believe God was pleased by all the time I spent with my mother, learning to play with Hwatu (flower cards used to play a fast-paced strategy and matching game) or Gonggi, a game played with five grape-sized pebbles that you toss and catch. God Sees You When people “get you,” it means they have been paying attention. They respect you, dignify you, and see you. In a culture (or even in a church) rife with misunderstanding one another, thinking the worst of one another, and painting the other with broad brushes, a movie like Crazy Rich Asians is a great reminder that one way we can love better is by being more attentive: listening, learning, seeing each other in our differences—differences God crafted and celebrates A movie like Crazy Rich Asians is a great reminder that one way we can love each other better is by being more attentive: listening, learning, seeing one other in our differences—differences God created and celebrates. Read the rest... New Fire Breaks Out Near Jackson Hole VIA MAGGIES FARM: FIGHT ON TRUMP, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD WHEN ARE WE GOING TO START MANAGING OUR NATIONAL FORESTS better? Or should I say, when are we going to start managing our national forests? Period. Between the massive stands of dead timber from pine beetle blight and drought, the destructive forces of nature will step in every time......in a flash....with all the attendant drama---evacuations, troops, helicopters and massive smoke and air pollution at huge costs to taxpayers. Rather, if we allowed more selective timbering by contractors on these big national stands, it would be much more productive, low-keyed and far less damaging and costly to human health, habitat at a fraction of the money. As it is, radical environmentalists---like radical feminists---- have taken over federal policies and made things much, much worse. The irony is as the feds fall down on its managerial duty, environmental nazis want to tighten air pollution resteictions. What a complete joke. Meeting Bill Lee, Front Runner For Tennessee Governor, With Wife Maria and Dickson County Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe, TN Sheriff of the Year WHAT A LOVELY RECEPTION TONIGHT FOR BILL AND MARIA LEE in Dickson. Low-key and relaxed, it was good hearing Bill talk about his and Maria's journey over the past several years towards running for governor. It began with prayer, then went on to become several state-wide tours of all 95 counties----in RVs, tractors, pick-up trucks, cars. In the beginning, sometimes no one showed up to meet and greet them in parking lots. Gradually that began to change. Now bigger and bigger crowds are cheering them on to victory November 6. Lee's poll numbers show him far ahead of liberal Karl Dean, former mayor of Nashville. I'm convinced if he wins, he will take this very red state and make it great in new ways--- paved by past good governors, like Bill Haslam and Winfield Dunn. Lee will be a man for the working man and initiate job training and other education initiatives in various trades---as he's done as CEO of the Lee Company---all over the state, especially in depressed counties. It was also good meeting popular Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe, elected Sheriff-of-the Year by his peers across the state. No county's top law enforcement officer has had more tragedy and deep challenge in the past 12 months than this fine man and his deputies. May God bless them all and watch over them. And may God bless the Lees. Grizzly Attack Kills Jackson Hole Elk Guide Mark Uptain GOFUNDME FOR MARK UPTAIN'S WIFE AND FAMILY MARK UPTAIN WAS MAULED TO DEATH BY A SOW GRIZZLY AND CUB near some of my old fishing/hiking stomping grounds in Jackson Hole. He was guiding a bow hunting client and apparently, inexplicably was not packing a gun. He used bear spray which was like bringing a water gun to a sword fight and lost his life in the process. Terrible tragedy. He leaves a wife and 5 children behind: From the Jackson Hole News and Guide: The Wyoming Game and Fish Department on Monday released new details about the fatal mauling of hunting guide Mark Uptain last weekend, including that bear spray was deployed. The complete investigation is still ongoing, the notice said, and will continue with a forensic analysis to provide additional scientific evidence. Game and Fish personnel killed the sow and yearling grizzly that were involved in the attack Sunday. A foothold snare that was left overnight near the conflict-causing elk carcass had subdued the younger bruin, and the yearling’s mother remained nearby. “The sow charged the team in an aggressive manner and was shot by Game and Fish personnel,” the Game and Fish notice said. “The yearling bear was chemically immobilized and determined to be involved in the attack of the victims. The yearling bear was then euthanized.” For a full account of the attack that killed Uptain and injured his client, Corey Chubon, pick up the Wednesday edition of the News&Guide. Prior reporting about the incident is available at JHNewsAndGuide.com. Giving New Meaning to the Term 'Unsubstantiated:' Meet Feminist Trump Hating Attorney Debra Katz, Retained By Ford In Accusing Kavanaugh of Boorish Behavior Almost 40 Years Ago EPSTEIN NAILS IT: UNFAIR, UNFAIR, UNFAIR TRUMP WEIGHS IN: DELAY OK, WILL ALL WORK OUT WELL FOR KAV SURBER: KAVANAUGH DID NOTHING WRONG SIMON: FORD'S COLLATERAL DAMAGE SCHNEIDERMAN: WEIGHS IN KATZ DISSED AND DISMISSED PAULA JONES ACCUSATIONS OF BILL CLINTON AS UNPROVEABLE Timothy Meads @ Townhall writes today on the hypocrisy and dubious background of Mrs. Ford's lawyer Ms. Debra Katz who despises all things Trump. In reality, these unsubstantiated accusations will NEVER be substantiated which Ms. Katz knows. She just wants to stall the process of confirming Kavanaugh. It's another political stunt designed to bring down Trump and the republic for which we stand: The Washington Post has reported that Stanford professor Christine Blasey Ford is the woman behind the confidential letter given to Sen. Dianne Feinstein accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault as a teenager. According to the Post, Ford initially refrained from revealing the alleged information of a horrendous sexual assault due to privacy concerns for herself and her family..... But she thought it was her duty to come forward on the record after the advice of Washington lawyer Debra Katz. Katz, however, has a long history of dismissing sexual assault allegations against liberal politicians, donating to left-wing causes, and even publicly demonizing all Trump advisors as "miscreants" who are worse than deplorables. briefly locked herself in a bathroom and then fled the house. Over the summer of 2018, as it became apparent that Kavanaugh was going to be nominated for the Supreme Court, Ford debated whether she should come forward publicly with this information. According to the Post, Ford "engaged Debra Katz, a Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases. On the advice of Katz, who believed Ford would be attacked as a liar if she came forward, Ford took a polygraph test administered by a former FBI agent in early August." After Sen. Feinstein announced the accusatory letter last week, Ford decided she had to come on the record to avoid public scrutiny and speculation. It was Katz who provided the results of that polygraph test to the Post. The results "concluded that Ford was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate." But, readers should remember that Katz treated Paula Jones' accusations of sexual harassment against President Bill Clinton very differently in the 1990s. According to court documents, Jones claimed that then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton summoned her to his hotel room where she was working as a receptionist. While in the room he "unexpectedly reached over to (her), took her hand, and pulled her toward him, so that their bodies were close to each other." She backed away, but he pursued, saying, 'I love the way your hair flows down your back' and 'I love your curves. He then "put his hand on her leg, started sliding it toward her pelvic area, and bent down to attempt to kiss her on the neck, all without her consent.' Jones claimed she said, "What are you doing?" and had to escape to a nearby sofa where she attempted to distract the governor by talking about his wife. However, when she was sitting on the sofa, Clinton came close to her and "lowered his trousers and underwear, exposed his penis (which was erect) and told (her) to 'kiss it.'" Jones then attempted to leave but the governor said, "'Well, I don't want to make you do anything you don't want to do,' and then pulled up his pants and said, 'If you get in trouble for leaving work, have Dave call me immediately and I'll take care of it.' She left the room (the door of which was not locked), the governor 'detained' her momentarily, 'looked sternly' at her, and said, 'You are smart. Let's keep this between ourselves,'" according to court documents. Jones claims she initially kept the incident to herself for fear of workplace retribution since Clinton knew her boss. Katz dismissed Jones' assertions on March 30th,1998 on CNN's "Talkback Live" saying that, "Paula Jones' suit is very, very, very weak. She's alleged one incident that took place in a hotel room that, by her own testimony, lasted 10 to 12 minutes. She suffered no repercussions in the workplace." Likewise, Katz again said on CBS' Evening News on April 2nd, 1998 that Jones' allegation could not hold up in court because, "Clearly a one-time incident that took place in 10 to 12 minutes, she was not forced to have sex, she left on her own volition, the courts increasingly are finding that that is not enough to create a sexually hostile work environment claim." Sunday, Dr. Paul Lim----From Atheist to Christian At Yale VERY COMPELLING, VERY WISE. WORTH THE TIME TO LISTEN AND LEARN. Marsha Blackburn's Latest Ad---Non-Starter---Is A Homerun! POMPEO CONDEMNS KERRY IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS FINALLY, A NEW, TRUTHFUL AND COMPELLING AD FOR MARSHA! Fact is, Bredesen is a decent old guy. I know and like his wife, Andrea, both in Tennessee and Wyoming where they have a big home. Even though he was an OK governor, the skills he needs to go to the U.S. Senate for deplorable red-state Tennesseans like me are totally different. He would not be able to stand on his own two feet in the tsunami of partisan, whacked out Democratic stunt politics, no matter what he says. Nope, nada, definitely not this time, Phil. Come on Marsha, let's take it on home!! I'm Webutante and I approve this message. The Coddling of the American Mind IN 2015, Greg Lukianoff (president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and Jonathan Haidt (professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business) wrote an article for The Atlantic entitled “The Coddling of the American Mind.” In that article, the authors argued that students (college but also pre-college) increasingly react to words, books, images, and speakers with fear and anger because they’ve been taught to exaggerate danger, to let their emotions rule, and to engage in binary thinking. It proved to be one of the most read and discussed articles ever published by the magazine. Now Lukianoff and Haidt have expanded on that article with a book entitled The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure. Their book has a lot to say about the way our colleges and universities are making a bad situation—the bad mental habits noted above combined with the belief that kids must be kept absolutely safe—much worse. The root of the problem, argue Lukianoff and Haidt, is that parents, teachers, professors and college administrators have been leading young people to believe Three Great Untruths. The first of those is, as they call it, the Untruth of Fragility. That is the idea that what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker, and therefore young people must be protected against everything from a stray peanut to hearing any “hateful” ideas. Drawing an analogy to the human immune system, which can’t develop unless it occasionally has something to fight against, the authors say that trying to shield students against stressful ideas results in their weakness and anxiety. And when students haven’t learned to cope with ideological adversity, they’re apt to retreat into “safe spaces” or lash out with anger or even violence. The second great untruth is that you should trust and follow your emotions. Emotions frequently get in the way of sound reasoning, but young people are often told that because they feel that something is true, then it really is true. Therefore, if you feel that someone has committed a “microaggression” against you, then he has. You need not weigh the matter, asking if you might have misunderstood the person or are judging too hastily. Just follow your emotions and fight back. And third is the Us Versus Them Untruth—the erroneous view that the world is divided into good people and evil people. You need to side with the Good and battle the Evil. Once that mentality soaks in, there is no need for dialogue or debate since everything the other side might say will be lies and propaganda. Consequently, we see a tribal mindset emerging in some young people that reduces everything to the black and white. Lukianoff and Haidt point out that those untruths don’t originate on college campuses. They begin and are nurtured from early life on through high school. Unfortunately, when students get to college, which ought to be an environment where people face and deal with ideas that they find offensive, shocking, or even hostile, they instead find reinforcement for the Great Untruths. Rather than helping students to mature, college surrounds them in an atmosphere of “vindictive overprotectiveness” that makes them more infantile. For one thing, many schools now feature orientations and other programs that encourage students to see the world in “us versus them” terms. That’s the essence of the identity politics that saturates campuses these days. The authors write: Imagine an entire entering class of college freshmen whose orientation program includes training in intersectional thinking, along with training in spotting microaggressions. By the end of their first week on campus, students have learned to score their own and others’ levels of privilege, identify more distinct identity groups, and see more differences between people. They have learned to interpret more words and actions as acts of aggression. They have learned to associate aggression, domination, and oppression with privileged groups. And they learned to focus only on perceived impact and to ignore intent. All of that, write Lukianoff and Haidt, “prepares student for battle, not learning.” Sometimes the numerous campus bows to “safety” and “diversity” boils over into ugly confrontations. For example, what started as an innocent email regarding Halloween costumes from a woman on staff at Yale (Erika Christakis) escalated into a mob with students screaming at her husband (Nicholas Christakis) for his failure to keep them “safe.” The Christakises were driven to leave Yale, but the school conferred an award on two students who had led the attack on them. Another famous case the authors recount is that of Evergreen College, where angry, power-obsessed students terrorized the campus for more than a week over nothing more than one white professor’s decision to teach his biology course on campus when the day had been designated as “White Absence Day.” Afterwards, a faculty member remarked that the students “were doing just what we taught them.” Indeed so. In those and other instances, it’s clear that the campus environment had exacerbated the immaturity of the students, turning them into dangerous, self-obsessed zealots. The same Great Untruths can also prove harmful to faculty members, the authors point out. Just for having written slightly controversial articles, Rebecca Tuvel of Rhodes College and Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis were assailed by students and fellow academics for having offended them. Rather than arguing against aspects of the articles that they disliked, the students and academics wanted those women to be punished. The power of emotional thinking and the “us versus them” mindset were on full display. Those bad mental habits are not just “setting up a generation for failure,” but are sowing the seeds of bitter social strife in the future..... Read the whole article... via MaggiesFarm Pastor John Piper: What Hope Does God Offer In My Depression? NOTE: WE ALL HAVE DIFFICULTIES IN OUR LIVES. Sometimes situations bring us anxiety, sometimes depression. Other times, we are called to wait, wait, wait patiently on the Lord. As the days begin to get noticeably shorter in fall, this is a timely lesson to keep in mind. READ AND LISTEN TO AUDIO AT DESIRING GOD. As Christian Hedonists, we’re not unfamiliar with the pain of depression. And we get a lot of questions in the inbox about how to work through those unavoidable times in life when depression hits. There’s often a physical and medical side to depression, but also a spiritual side to these seasons, too. In that vein, a question comes in an email from one female listener. “Pastor John, what Scripture passages do you return to when you are suffering from depression? I am suffering from depression pretty bad at the moment, and I need some help from Scripture. Can you help me?” This is the central question for her to ask — namely, “Where shall I turn in Scripture, in God’s word?” This is what God said we should listen to: his word. Now, I don’t want to be naïve here. To be sure, there are many dimensions to depression — from genetic, to dietary, to exercise, to trauma, to demonic harassment, to relational stress, to financial burdens, to weather conditions, to sinful entanglements, to sleeplessness, and on and on. I don’t want to give the impression that I am oversimplifying the complexities of what might trigger a season of darkness, or depression. Nevertheless, I’ll say it again: under and over and through all these issues that may need to be addressed — and I would encourage her to address all of them that are relevant — the key question is “What has God said to me?” That is, “What does the Scripture say?” The reason this is so key is that the Bible says, “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ” (Romans 10:17). Depression regularly involves a weakening of our faith and our hope, and God is clear that reawakening of faith, reawakening of hope, will not come if we’re not hearing the word of God. Not Naïve The Scriptures do not present themselves as an automatic guarantee of emotional turnaround, because the Scriptures themselves describe people who hear the word of God and do not emotionally turn around — like the parable of the soils, or 1 Corinthians 15:2 (“You believed in vain”), and so on. The Scriptures aren’t naïve, as if they are the quick and easy panacea for every emotional blankness. But the point is that, without the Scriptures, there’s no hope of a Christ-exalting turnaround of our emotions. Medication might turn us around emotionally, but by itself, without the word of God, it won’t put us on a right footing with Jesus Christ. It may feel good, but without the word of God, it may not have done you any long-term good. This listener has posed the absolutely right question without being naïve about the complexities of how difficult, and dark, and multi-causal depression can be. So let me answer by giving five kinds of texts that she might turn to, and that I turn to. Wait and Pray Take note of the Scriptures that speak about the necessity of waiting for God. Psalm 40 says, “I waited patiently for the Lord” (Psalm 40:1). It doesn’t say how long — days, weeks, months. All it says is, “I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock” (Psalm 40:1–2). There’s this season of being in the pit and in the bog, and the assignment for us believers in those seasons is to wait patiently for the Lord. Or Psalm 30:5: “Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” That’s not literally intended, like, “You get only one day of weeping, and then you get another day of joy.” That’s not the point, because this command might be read at 11:59 p.m., and you would think, “Hey, you get one minute of weeping, and then 24 hours of joy.” The point is, there are seasons of weeping, and they’re going to be followed, for the believer, with joy. Or Psalm 56:8: “You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?” So the point in this first group is that the Bible does not present our walk with God as uninterrupted brightness. We feed in green pastures, yes, and we walk through the valley of death. We experience the shining of his face, and we experience the hiding of his face. So in the scriptural prescription what we find is that when his face is hidden, we are to wait and pray. That’s the first group. Gutsy Guilt Here is the second group of texts for her to look at with me. Turn to passages that show how to experience gutsy guilt. I love this phrase, and I’m thinking of Micah 7:8–9, where it describes in a most phenomenal way how sinful people like us under the darkness of God are to be gutsy as we deal with God because of our justified standing. Listen to these words: Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness [now that’s what I would call depression], the Lord will be a light to me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him. All of us have sinned. I’m not saying every darkness is a specific punishment for sin. I’m just saying we’ve all sinned, and therefore there’s no point in trying to play goody goody while we’re under the darkness. We can’t say, “Oh, he’s treating me worse than I deserve.” No, we’ve all sinned. Micah continues, I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me [not against me, but for me]. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication. That’s what we say when we’re in the darkness: “I shall look upon his vindication.” That’s an amazing and wonderful passage. There is nothing sentimental or naïve about it. It is utterly realistic in dealing with our own sin and God’s grace. This is the way a justified sinner talks. We do not despair, and we do not feel presumptuous. Our confidence is in God and his vindication. Which leads now to a third group, where seeing that vindication worked out by God in history is absolutely crucial. Canceled Sin This may be the most important group of texts to look at. So fix your attention especially on the passages that describe the stunning work of Christ on the cross. The work that was outside yourself to provide your vindication as a justified sinner before an all-holy, all-loving God. For example, “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person — though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die — but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:6–8). Oh look to that text again and again. Or: “God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh” (Romans 8:3) — that is, in the flesh of his own Son, not your flesh. Or Galatians 3:13: “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.” Oh, what an amazing promise. Or 1 Peter 2:24–25: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.” So the great healing is, you were headlong heading for the cliff of destruction, and the Shepherd, dying, reaches out to you, and pulls you back. And it says, “You have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.” Let it sink in: “My soul has a Shepherd. My soul has an Overseer.” And there’s so many more texts like that: 2 Corinthians 5:21, Philippians 3:12, Philippians 1:6, Isaiah 53:4–6. That’s the third group of texts to look at. Thanks and Praise The fourth group is to recite Scriptures of thanksgiving and praise, even though you do not feel them. Here’s one example. Psalm 86:10–13: For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God. Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever. For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol. (Psalm 86:10–13) Now, if you are honest with God, and with yourself, and with others about the absence of your feelings, then the recitation of these thanks are not hypocrisy. They are expressions of longing and a belief that God alone is worthy of thanks and praise. Here’s what Richard Baxter, a pastor from 1600s, says about what I’m asking you to do. Resolve to spend most of your time in thanksgiving and praising God. If you cannot do it with the joy that you should, yet do it as you can. You have not the power of your comforts; but have you no power over your tongues? Say not that you are unfit for thanks and praises, unless you had a praising heart, and were the children of God; for every man, good and bad, is bound to praise God, and to be thankful for all that he hath received, and to do it as well as he can, rather than leave it undone. . . . Doing it as you can is the way to be able to do it better. Thanksgiving stirreth up thankfulness in the heart. It doesn’t have to be hypocrisy, in other words, for you to read the Scriptures about thanks and praise, and say them back to God — all the while knowing your heart is aching to feel them, and doesn’t yet. Seed of Joy Here’s the last group of texts. Turn to texts that cry out to God for the restoration of life and joy. Psalm 51:12: “Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.” Psalm 85:6: “Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?” The reason for turning to texts like these is not only that they are prayers which God may be pleased to answer soon by restoring your joy. They are also evidences that the seed of joy in God is still alive in your soul. Let me close with this, and this is so crucial because you may feel, “I don’t even know if I’m a Christian because I feel so blank.” There are four things that characterize that seed of joy that is still alive in you. See if these are there. You can still see objectively that God is the supreme treasure of the universe, even if your feelings about him are very flat. You can confess that objective sight of God with your lips, that God is supremely valuable. You can cry out for the restoration of true joy, and that very cry is the seed sown by the taste of the joy. You can refuse to turn away from God and embrace idols. So may the Lord use those five kinds of Scripture to give you patience, and bring you through the season of darkness. Ever See A Car In a Parking Lot and Wonder Who's Driving It? I DID. TODAY. THE CRACKER BARRELL OFF I-40 near Dickson. Made me smile. A Little Bit More On John McCain From Speakeasy Ideas YESTERDAY I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL FROM FRIEND TOM KRANAWITTER @ Speakeasyideas.com. Thought it well-worth repeating here at Webutante with his permission. Thanks, Tom, and your fine team there in Denver: AUGUST, 2018, was marked by the death of two prominent Americans: Aretha Franklin and Senator John McCain. We knew neither Ms. Franklin nor Senator McCain, personally, so we have little to say about their personalities behind closed doors. We merely offer a prayer for each that their souls be guided by eternal light. THE SENATOR John McCain had only one employer his entire life: The United States government. He served honorably in the U.S. Navy, during which service he was brutally tortured in captivity in Vietnam, a nightmare most of us cannot and don't want to imagine. John McCain then spent the bulk of his adult life, almost four decades, as a member of the United States Congress, elected to two terms in the House of Representatives and six terms in the U.S. Senate. While in the Senate, he mastered the art of cronyism—providing special government favors, waivers, preferential treatment, and subsidies for his business friends, all paid with money that was taken from others. He also did more than any member of Congress in the last century to ensure that all incumbent members of Congress have decisive advantages over non-incumbent challengers. Aided by John McCain’s campaign finance law, incumbent reelection rates for members of Congress in recent years have reached as high as 97%. John McCain and his political allies, both Republicans and Democrats, made it a crime for ordinary citizens to help non-incumbent friends running for elected office, beyond small dollar limits. The justification was that there’s “too much money in politics,” meaning those in government could not resist the temptation of money. The solution proposed by John McCain? More government control over what citizens do with their own property. His was a life of using government force to command millions of fellow citizens. Meanwhile, incumbents enjoy widespread name recognition and wide media coverage anytime they want it, simply because they are part of the government, an advantage almost no challengers can overcome. Together, John McCain and his allies effectively transformed incumbent members of Congress into a permanent political class more entrenched now than ever before in American history. John McCain died recently from a terrible disease, while still in office. It is right to offer condolences to his grieving family who watched his health decline. And, because of Senator McCain, almost all members of Congress today are far more likely to retire or die in office from old age or sickness than to lose an election. Ever. Thanks again Tom. So much for term limits, thanks to McCain! Posted by Webutante at 12:09:00 PM 0 comments Sunday on Monday: Life In the Spirit Is Freedom From the Impossibilities of the Law 5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. 7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? 8 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. 9 “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.” 10 I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. 11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! Life by the Spirit 13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b] 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[c] you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. Quiet Mists of Avalon McCain Lost Me At Goodbye NOT TO DENY THAT THE LATE JOHN MCCAIN was a war hero. He endured valiently a great deal of pain and suffering with integrity in his day while lots of men were dodging the draft. But heroism then is not a lifetime pass for always being admired. The McCain funeral today---which I did not see cause I was visiting friends briefly in Banner Elk, NC from the SoHo---left me cold. From reports it seemed mean-spirited, jealous and hateful towards Trump, among others. Such a long, drawn out funeral event seemed like over-kill and gross political theater that seemed to leave out God. But why should that be surprising? For so many citizens and politicians, government is god in our post-Christian era. The left needs government heros as never before. So how could it miss an opportunity to turn a funeral into a political orgy and hit job. Does anyone doubt that Meghan McCain today gave her political acceptance speech for running for whatever office and stepping into her father's shoes? It was a captive audience. 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__label__wiki	0.789636	0.789636	Bitter Sweet: Peter Capaldi’s Final Comic Con (By Brian Davidson) For what seemed like a storied legacy as the twelfth doctor, it has surprisingly only been a relatively short tenure of three years for Peter Capaldi on Doctor Who. Yet despite the somewhat brief period, Capaldi has arguably become the most popular Doctor Who of the last two decades. His candor and questionably over-“English gentleman” acting style on the series has given him the most comfortable fit in the role since Christopher Eccleston. But it has been Capaldi’s off-camera demeanor that has made him a fan-favorite. Since his arrival into the role in 2014, Capaldi has been the most accessible of the “Doctors,” without a hint of over exposure. For every San Diego and New York Comic Con, Capaldi has been there during his three year tenure. It’s almost unfathomable to count how many instagrams you’ll see fans have taken on the showfloor with Capaldi himself. So it is with great sadness that on this Friday morning to see Capaldi in his final panel discussing the role that made him a household name. BBC America chose to make their panel block for Doctor Who strictly just a one-on-one with Capaldi and instead forgo the typical Comic Con forum of including the entire cast. This all served to be a great sendoff for both the fans and Capaldi, as his departure after the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special will undoubtedly mark the most emotional for fans of the series. Added to the mix was the last season was also not only Capaldi’s finest season as Doctor Who, but one of the best seasons of the show all-time. A longtime fan of the series himself, Capaldi discussed his first days in the position, which involved months of actually idleness until he was finally called onto set. His fondest memory would be one that every fan could relate to – stepping into the Tardis itself. Reflecting on his three years as Doctor Who, Capaldi was both humorous, almost relieved to finally be sending the mantle to Jodie Whittaker. Capaldi would mark that he never wanted to be comfortable in the role for the sake of continually pushing himself to be “creative.” In his own words, he realized it was time to go once he realized he “got the hang out of it.” Comically he would discover that Whittaker would be taking on the role through the wardrobe department in learning about the ordering of new pants in women’s waistlines. And in departing, Capaldi would simply give Whittaker the advice of “taking on the role in her own identity;” words that have served Capaldi in his own right. Surprisingly Capaldi gave little details on the upcoming Christmas special, though did give heavy insight into the sentimental departures fans will experience when watching. And with that, Capaldi walked off the Theater at MSG stage, cool and effortless with a breath of elegance as he first stepped onto the screen and into the hearts of fans of Dr. Who fans worldwide. Capaldi didn’t acknowledge this was a goodbye to the fans but more so as a door opening wider for the imagination. One can only hope Capaldi will overlap with Whittaker or future iterations of the Doctor. Until then, our fondest memories of him and the tardis will have to suffice. This entry was posted in General and tagged bbc, comic con, dr who on October 8, 2017 by altoriot. « The First Ever Digital Opera that Changed Videogame Music Forever: Final Fantasy VI’s “The Dream Oath” A Super Hero With Classical Chops » Thank you for joining our mailing list. Please check your email for a confirmation link. Notable Concerts Tweets by @AltoRiot MET Opera to Cease Operations Involving James Levine Bluefin Brings Out The Best for New York Comic Con 2017 Cosplay Design Takes on A Whole New Level at NYCC 2017 A Super Hero With Classical Chops	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line232
__label__cc	0.533877	0.466123	Shhhh. . .Murder! The Swans of Starlight Lake Amy Ballard Writer Teacher Speaker Photographer Amy grew up in Maine, but now lives in southern Idaho with her car-seller husband and their three children. Her poetry has appeared in the online GNU Journal, Kansas City Voices, and elsewhere. Her fiction was most recently published in 101 Words and Crack the Spine. In her magazine and news articles, she expresses her interest in Idaho people and their stories. When not teaching high school English and Creative Writing, she enjoys sewing, quilting, reading, baking, and blogging, in addition to freelance writing. Her mother is inspirational novelist Susan Page Davis. Amy's short story "Bookish Dreams" can be found in a new anthology from Darkhouse Books. Order the library-themed cozy/noir collection Shhhh… Murder! now. "Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!" Romans 11:33 Landlocked: Poems by Amy Ballard Treetop, photography by Amy Ballard Read "Find Me," an ekphrastic poem, in the Toledo Museum of Art's 2020 anthology. Download Maura Yzmore's free eBook of Quarantine Quanta contest winners. Amy's flash story "A Backward Tragedy" is on page 6. Read Amy's literary horror story "The Bleak Wood" in Barely South Review here. Copyright © Amy Ballard. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line234
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__label__wiki	0.524598	0.524598	ANDREW PEVNY Armageddon - Mixing Complete! Framework - Recording Begins/Show with Sonata Arctica! I received the final mixes for the new Armageddon album today and they sound incredible. These are some of the fattest mixes I have ever heard. A lot of that is due to the fact that we tuned the guitars and basses down to B for this recording. I was also fortunate enough to be able to record my tracks with Chris's Caparison Dellinger bass. Great sounding and playing instrument. We will soon have a release date for the album and tour dates will follow! My band Framework will be entering the studio this Sunday to record the follow-up to our debut album 'A World Distorted.' We will be recording a 4 song EP starting with drums at the brand new M80 Recording Studios. Framework will also be opening for Sonata Arctica and Omnium Gatherum on November 11th at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ. Click here for tickets!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line236
__label__wiki	0.830189	0.830189	25th October,2016 daily global,regional and local rice e-newsletter by riceplus magazine REAP looks to govt to revive rice exports KARACHI/Lahore - Rice Export Association of Pakistan (REAP) on Friday expressed concern over huge decline in Basmati and non-Basmati rice export during last two years and urged the government to take appropriate measures to prevent further loss of foreign exchange in this regard. According to REAP Chairman Mahmood Moulvi, Pakistan has suffered 44 percent decline in rice exports. He said that the country exported 28,615 m/tons Basmati rice in September 2016 whereas in September 2015 the export was 51,733 m/tons.He said that exports of non-Basmati in September 2016 stood at 152,735 m/tons, whereas 202,725 m/tons exported in the last corresponding year, showing a decrease of 24.65 percent.Mahmood pointed that decline of non-Basmati exports is a real matter of concern as China has reduced its import due to high price issue. He blamed high input costs, overvalued currency and excessive taxes for this.He said Cambodia and Myanmar are emerging as emerging as main Chinese supplier.He also said that Vietnam and Thailand might not be able to compete with Pakistan, adding that another major threat for Pakistan’s non-Basmati sector would be India this year. Mahmood said that Basmati rice export has been facing severe competition from India.He regretted that lack of research and non-availability of new seeds has caused low yields, adding that the high input costs have made Pakistani Basmati rice totally uncompetitive against Indian Basmati.He said that Pakistan also lost the important and lucrative Basmati market for Iran.To date, banks are not willing to accept documents for shipment to Iran, he said.He urged State Bank of Pakistan to intervene in the matter and issue directives to commercial banks to accept documents allowing Pakistan exporters to recapture this lucrative and lost market. The association requested the government to include Basmati and non-Basmati rice in all FTA agreements with China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines.It is pertinent to mention here that Pakistan annually earns $2.0 billion through export of Basmati and non-Basmati rice.Govt urged to ensure basic necessities to attract FDIForeign Direct Investment (FDI) has presented a dismal performance and posted some 38 percent decline during the first quarter of this fiscal year.Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) Chairman Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, quoting the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) data, revealed that FDI continuously moving down and fell by 38 percent during July-September of FY17 compared to same period of last fiscal year.Pakistan fetched FDI amounting to $249 million during the first quarter of FY17 compared to $403 million in the corresponding period of FY16, depicting a decrease $154 million. However, the second component of foreign investment - portfolio investment - has posted a surge of 130 percent because of improvement in the country's equity market, the PIAF chairman said. Net inflows of foreign investment in Pakistan comprising FDI, portfolio investment and foreign private investment fell by 54 percent during July-September of FY17.With the current decline, total foreign investment stood at $368 million at the end of first quarter of this fiscal year compared to $793.2 million in the same period of last fiscal year, depicting a decrease of $425 million. Irfan said foreign investors always seek a peaceful environment and basic infrastructure including utilities for fresh investment, therefore the government should ensure availability of basic necessities to attract more foreign investment.Experts believe that political uncertainty and lake of infrastructure is largely contributing to lower foreign investment in Pakistan.Political parties should shun their differences for the sake of their country betterment and join hands with the government and the private sector for implementation of national agenda for economic revolution http://nation.com.pk/business/22-Oct-2016/reap-looks-to-govt-to-revive-rice-exports OKARA City News Home / Today's Paper / National / OKARA City News ‘PML-N govt took historical steps for prosperity’ OKARA: MNA Ch Riazul Haq Juj has said that the PML-N government has taken historical measures for the development, solidarity and prosperity of the country.Talking to reporters here on Sunday, the MNA said that geographical position of Pakistan signifies the glorious future of this country. He said that Pakistan had a capacity and capability of turning into a bridge for the world in the supply and trade of oil, gas, agriculture and industrial production. He said that former government could not sense this situation of the country so they could not adopt the policies for the excellent future of this land. He said that the present government had well-sensed the significance of natural situation of Pakistan in the region and now keeping in view the importance and benefit of this situation made alliance with China to initiate the CPEC. He said that according to analytical reports of international institutions, it was expected that 150 billion dollars would be incurred on this project. DACOITY: A dacoity incident was reported here on Sunday. Muhammad Arshad of 38/2R village was carrying rice bags, toys and utensils to Lahore from Multan when he saw that seven accused was dropping rice bags from his running truck near Okara Bypass. When the accused saw Arshad, they fled on a rickshaw coming from behind, taking away rice bags and other articles worth Rs 250,000. Sadar police have registered a case. MAN INJURED: A man was injured over a marriage issue at 6/4L village on Sunday. Mahwish Masih, d/o Maryam Bibi, contracted court marriage with the son of Sahil Masih, which infuriated the family of Maryam Bibi. On the day of the incident, accused Maryam Bibi, Riaz Masih, Faryad Masih, Nadeem Masih and their two unknown accomplices intercepted Victor Masih, nephew of Sahil Masih, and allegedly injured him with the help of batons and sticks and fled. Sadar police have registered a case https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/159511-OKARA-City-News Wheat imports poised to rise on bakers' demand Sohel Parvez The import of wheat is likely to rise 5 percent to 47 lakh tonnes by the end of the current fiscal year, spurred by higher demand in the bakery industry, according to the US Department of Agriculture.The import forecast has been raised because new bakery products are expected to drive higher consumption, said USDA in its latest Grain and Feed Update on Bangladesh released last week. Total import of the cereal rose 18 percent year-on-year to 44.82 lakh tonnes in fiscal 2015-16, said USDA, citing customs data. The US agency's prediction comes at a time when import of the grain is rising. In July to September, wheat imports rose 77 percent to nearly 12 lakh tonnes year-on-year, according to the food ministry's data. However, rice imports slumped, depressed by a duty hike by the government at the beginning of the fiscal year. Wheat and flour traders also linked rising imports to higher consumption of wheat flour by a section of low-income population in the wake of rising rice prices. “We had good sales in the last three months. It seems that many people switched to flour as its price was lower than rice,” said SK Wazed Ali, president of Narayanganj Flour Millers Cooperative Society. In September, the USDA said the wholesale and retail prices for coarse rice in Dhaka and Gazipur were Tk 32.44 and Tk 34.67 a kilogram respectively. These prices were 17.45 percent and 10.66 percent higher than in the same period last year, it said. Rice prices began rising in mid-2016, driven by a reduced supply in response to the government's purchase of the coarse category of the grain at Tk 32 a kilogram and a duty spike on imports. For the same month, the wholesale and retail prices of wheat flour were estimated at Tk 21 and Tk 24 a kg, according to the US agency. Wheat flour is approximately Tk 13.66 less expensive per kilogram than rice at the retail level, which, for some consumers, is enough to influence their buying decisions, said the USDA. Golam Mustafa, manager of NC Trading, a wheat trading firm, said a large number of people in rural and urban areas now eat home-made bread. Demand for fast food also rose over the years, he added. Wheat imports hit the highest level in three decades last fiscal year, buoyed by reduced international prices and increased demand from food manufacturers. The private sector accounted for 90 percent of the imports, according to industry operators. Over the last four years, local farmers have been growing wheat on more lands, raising total production to 13 lakh tonnes on average a year. But local production could meet only a fourth of the annual demand, which according to USDA estimates, would be 60 lakh tonnes in the year 2016-17, up from 55 lakh tonnes in the previous year. The US agency kept its forecast on wheat production this winter unchanged at 13.35 lakh tonnes http://www.thedailystar.net/business/wheat-imports-poised-rise-bakers-demand-1303813 DA says no urgent need to import rice after typhoon THE Agriculture secretary said on Monday there was no urgent need to import rice despite crop losses from Super Typhoon Haima, known locally as Lawin. Haima hit key rice-growing provinces in the north of the country last week. “As of the moment I don’t think so,” Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said at a press briefing when asked if the government needs to allow more rice imports on top of the 250,000 tons the state grains agency recently bought from Vietnam and Thailand. “Cagayan Valley is actually one of our major rice production areas but the good thing is that some of our farmers were able to harvest their palay (unmilled rice) ahead of the typhoon,” Mr. Piñol said. -- Reuters http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Economy&title=da-says-no-urgent-need-to-import-rice-after-typhoon&id=135346 Low Uptake of Gov’t Rice Fund The government’s much-heralded $27 million emergency rice fund, announced last month amid complaints from rice farmers and millers that cheap competition and low-storage capacity was driving down prices, has so far had only limited takers among rice millers. Kao Thach, CEO at the Rural Development Bank (RDB) said yesterday that the rice sector was presently still using its own funds to purchase and process the ongoing rice harvest, and that the fund had not yet been utilized.“At this moment, all rice millers are using their own resources to purchase rice from farmers to store in their warehouses, but I hope that they will come to us for the next harvest season, which includes other varieties of aromatic fragrant rice [Romdoul and Malis] that are popular globally,” he explained. He predicted that the increased need in November and December for loans will see the emergency fund being totally used up. With interest on the loans being seven percent annually, Mr. Thach said that he expected any loans from the fund to be fully repaid by May, once all rice had been harvested. In order to qualify for the funding, millers must use their rice stocks as collateral, which may be a factor in the limited number of loan recipients. Phon Nary, director-general of Heng Huch Rice Mill in Battambang province, told Khmer Times that he had hoped to apply for the funds, but that his rice storage capabilities were too small for RDB requirements.He said that the RDB required storage capacity of up to 150 tons per day but small and medium-sized operations struggled to store more than 50 tons. “Currently I use my money to purchase rice from farmers and now I have almost exhausted my budget to purchase the upcoming rice harvest,” he said. “I have purchased about 600 tons...and my silos can only receive about 45 tons a day and process about six tons per hour, so we haven’t been allowed to get funding.”“We are now trying to sell our milled rice to the market to get some money to purchase the upcoming new harvest” Mr. Nary added.He said that more than 10 rice mills in Battambang province had been unable to receive any loans under the scheme, and called upon the government and the RDB to lower their storage requirements before the next harvest. Rin Sokun, the owner of Chhang Lay Rice Mill in Battambang province, agreed that the current system seems to be favoring large-scale exporters, rather than smaller businesses.“The government cooperates with the big rice mills and huge rice exporters as they are easy to work with,” he said.“We are disappointed since what we expect from the government is now hopeless – both farmers and rice mills do not trust the government. Farmers expect the rice mills to purchase their rice since [they think] rice millers now have lots of money, but the reality is not this,” Mr. Sokun said. http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31195/low-uptake-of-gov---t-rice-fund/ Gov’t eyes million-tonne rice quota deal with Indonesia Cheng Sokhorng Cambodia is close to signing an ambitious agreement with the Indonesian government that would pave the way for the Kingdom’s rice producers to export 1 million tonnes of rice under a new quota scheme, a state official said yesterday. Soeng Sophary, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, said a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Cambodia and Indonesia has already been finalised and is ready for ink. “Everything is agreed upon between the two governments already,” she said. “We are just waiting for the right time to sign the MoU and then the private sector will be engaged in the process.” She added that the new quota scheme presented a valuable opportunity for Cambodia’s rice sector. “This would bring a new market for the country’s rice producers and would provide the private sector with fair market value,” she said, adding that the quota scheme was in line with the government’s elusive target of exporting 1 million tonnes of rice a year by 2015, which it fell well short of achieving. According to Ministry of Commerce estimates, Cambodia has a current rice production capacity of 3 million tonnes providing the grain is properly harvested and stored. Sophary added that local media had erroneously reported last week that the ministry was negotiating a deal to export 1 million tonnes of rice to Malaysia. She said that the only major rice deal on the table was with the Indonesian government. Hean Vanhan, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Agriculture, said that even if an MoU were signed, it would not guarantee the sale of rice to Indonesia as Cambodia must still compete on price and quality with rival suppliers, such as Thailand and Vietnam. “The intention to export 1 million tonnes of rice has always been part of the government’s strategy, but whether it is a reality or not depends on if we can compete in the market,” he said. Cambodia only managed to export around 500,000 tonnes last year. According to Vanhan, the main obstacles that have prevented the Kingdom from achieving its 1 million tonne export target were millers’ capital shortages, inefficient logistical capacity, insufficient storage capacity, and the high cost of electricity. He added, however, that capacity for exports was not an issue.Hun Lak, vice president of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), said that the Commerce Ministry’s plan was overly ambitious and the Kingdom was years away from being able to export 1 million tonnes annually. “The industry is not yet ready for a 1 million tonne agreement, and we would need at least two to three years before it would be possible to reach that level of export,” he said. “Rice millers still do not have enough capital to buy paddy rice, pay for storage and transportation.” Cambodia signed an MoU with the Indonesian government back in 2012 which outlined a more modest goal of exporting 100,000 tonnes of rice a year. Sophary could not comment on whether the target of the agreement was ever achieved http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-eyes-million-tonne-rice-quota-deal-indonesia QR scheme failed to protect rice farmers, agricultural group says AN agricultural organization said it backs the removal of quantitative restriction on rice, noting that the QR regime intended to protect rice farmers from cheap imports has failed to serve its purpose. “[The] country’s rice industry is supposed to enjoy protection from wanton imports under the rice QRs - quantitative restriction. But this remains merely on paper. Our QRs did not curb rice imports; we have beenimporting more than the required QRs, excluding smuggled rice, for the past 10 years,” according to a statement by Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura, Inc. (SINAG), which was e-mailed to reporters over the weekend. The group said last year’s inbound shipments of rice amounted to 1.91 million metric tons, exceeding the minimum access volume limit of 805,200 metric tons. The scheme calls for volumes within the MAV limit to be levied a 35% rate, based on the rate scheduled in the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement, while those outside the MAV are subject to a most-favored nation rate of 40%. SINAG, composed of 33 farmers’ and irrigator’s associations also said that the Philippines is compelled to aim for rice self-sufficiency and undertake a “significant increase in public spending” for rice “given the relatively thin global rice market and the onset of extreme weather situations as the new norm.” SINAG urged the government to impose the maximums possible tariff rate on rice, saying that current international prices of rice call for an import duty of at least 50%, revenue generated from which should be poured Into the development of the rice sector towards self-sufficiency. “Lift rice QR and the revenue generated from rice importtariffs should exclusively be allocated in implementing a comprehensive government program across the whole supply chain of the rice industry that will redevelop our capacity to produce our own staple and food requirements,” the statement added. A firm implementation of the law that would prevent smuggling and enhance regulations governing quarantine and food safety regulations/sanitary and phytosanitary measures and institute special safeguard (SSG) mechanisms that will protect the local rice industry againstimport dumping, import surges and global price discrimination, it said. For his part, Finance Undersecretary of Policy Development and Management Services Group Gil S. Beltran expressed the department’s support for the removal of non-tariff import restrictions on rice and transfer rice importation to the private sector. “We believe that this will lessen opportunities for corruption and also incentivize greater investment in the rice sector. Then uncertainty over the timing and levels ofimports from domestic sales by NFA has resulted in underinvestment in milling, drying and storage,” Mr. Beltran said during an Oct. 17 Senate hearing. http://www.world-grain.com/news/news%20home/LexisNexisArticle.aspx?articleid=2667448560 Anambra hits 210,000 metric tonnes target in rice production October 24, 2016Agency Report The Anambra State Commissioner for Agriculture, Afam Mbanefo, said on Monday that the state has reached self-sufficiency in rice production.Mr. Mbanefo made the disclosure at a Commodity Alliance Forum/Consultative meeting organised by the state Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) in Awka. The commissioner recalled that the state government had earlier targeted production of 210,000 metric tonnes of rice per annum. “Based on the calculation of our expected yield, we are expecting to realise over 236,000 metric tonnes of rice in 2016 based on the production capacity.” Mr. Mbanefo said the calculation was based on expected yield of 35 per cent of over 14,300 farmers and the activities of programmes like the VCDP and FADAMA. He said the expected yield also included the activities of rice investors in the state, including Coscharis farms, Joseph Agro and others. He said the state government was passionate about revolutionising agriculture and making it wealth creator, especially for unemployed youth willing to venture into the sector. The commissioner, who said the state government ensured a linkage between farmers and off-takers, advised farmers yet to form cooperatives to do so. Earlier, the National Programme Coordinator for VCDP, Ameh Onoja, said the aim of the programme was to assist the Federal Government to reduce spending on importation of rice. According to him, the overall goal is to ensure that rural poverty is reduced and to ensure accelerated economic growth is achieved on a sustainable and inclusive basis. Mr. Onoja, who was represented by Basil Esinulo, said the project was developed to address some major constraints militating against agricultural development such as the poor organisation of farmers, processors and marketing. Other constraints, he said, included lack of rural infrastructure, particularly rural roads, water supply and market as well as poor access to production. According to him, tremendous boost in rice production will be achieved to increase incomes and food security in the country.The acting state Programme Coordinator for VCDP, Bonaventure Mochebe, said the forum was organised to deliberate on issues that affect farmers and to seek ways to address the challenges. He said that the forum will link farmers with financial institutions, off-takers, civil society organisations and other stakeholders in the rice business. Mr. Mochebe urged government to rescue farmers whose three hectares of rice farmland were destroyed by Fulani herdsmen.He said on the sideline of the programme that Fulani herdsmen’s cattle had destroyed over three hectares of rice farmland.The forum also witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), by the farmers, agro dealers and off-takers to strengthen their partnership and capacity of production. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-east/213495-anambra-hits-210000-metric-tonnes-target-rice-production.html ‘Self-reliance in rice production soon’ Published: October 25, 2016 5:13 am On: Kathmandu Speaking at the second review and planning workshop on USAID-funded project ‘Accelerating adoption of stress-tolerant rice varieties by smallholders farmers in Nepal and Cambodia’ organised by the MoAD, Nepal Agricultural Research Council and Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute, Agriculture Secretary Uday Chandra Thakur said, the government plans to launch programmes to increase rice production within two years. He said farmers need to adopt climate smart rice varieties to increase production. He further said that the ASTV project would supply quality seeds for increasing rice production.Secretary Thakur informed that the new varieties supplied by the project have given a huge relief to farmers across the country.Dr Yubak Dhoj GC, director general, Department of Agriculture said the ASTV project was initiated by USAID under the banner of Feed the Future to ensure food security. He stated that the major objectives of the project was to minimise poverty, hunger and increase the income of poor families by distributing drought tolerant improved seeds. The ASTV project is running in four districts of western, ten districts of mid-western and six districts of far-western regions.He informed that the government had released/recommended eight rice varieties for rice farming in Nepal.Of them, six varieties have been recommended for drought-prone areas and two varieties for flood-prone areas. Commission for farmers on cards KATHMANDU: The Agricultural Development Ministry has begun preparations to form National Farmers Commission. The ministry has prepared a draft of the National Farmers Commission and Operation Order – 2073 BS which envisages forming a seven-member commission to promote agriculture and protect the rights and interests of farmers. Programmes on managing the market for agro-products, operating agro-products processing plants, establishing research centres to boost agricultural production and agriculture education will be run once the commission is formed, said Spokesman for the ministry Yogendra Karki:-RSS https://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/self-reliance-rice-production-soon/ Climate change threatens food safety, experts warn Post Report, Kathmandu Participants at a programme in Kathmandu on Monday.Post Photo Oct 25, 2016- Agro scientists have warned that Nepal’s food safety will be under threat due to the impact of climate change which directly affects farm profit margins, and urged all stakeholders to strengthen efforts to improve technology-intensive agricultural practices.Nepal has the potential to become self-sufficient in food and even export it, but the sector is hampered by lack of technology, quality inputs and infrastructure, they said. “Rice consumption in Nepal has doubled to 3.7 million tonnes in the last two decades, and it is growing,” said Abdelbagi M Ismail, a visiting principal scientist from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, the Philippines. He was speaking at the second review workshop of the USAID-funded project entitled Accelerating the Adoption of Stress-Tolerant Rice Varieties by Smallholder Farmers in Nepal and Cambodia (ASTV) on Monday.The US government has implemented the Feed the Future Initiative, a project aimed at addressing global hunger and food insecurity, in 22 districts in the Eastern, Western, Mid-Western and Far-Western regions. IRRI is technically supporting the project. Ismail said that Nepal was one of the highest rice consuming countries in the world. The per capita per year rice consumption in Nepal is 130 kg, which is extremely high. Rice is the most important source of calories, accounting for 31 percent of the total calories intake in Nepal, he said. However, Nepal’s production falls short of demand. As a result, it currently imports 15-20 percent of the rice it consumes.According to the Customs Department, Nepal’s cereal import bill jumped to a staggering Rs38.72 billion in the last fiscal year after unfavourable weather left it with the worst cereal harvest. Of the total imports, rice and paddy amounted to 489,401 tonnes worth Rs21.42 billion. The Agricultural Ministry’s annual crop production report shows that the country produced 652,000 tonnes less food grain in the last fiscal year as severe drought affected both summer and winter harvests. The drop in output was reflected on imports.“Having fertile land, beautiful sunshine and water potential, there is no need for Nepal to invest millions of dollars to import food,” Ismail said. He added that the country could double output by adopting new technologies like new improved varieties of seeds and farm mechanization and ensuring proper market access. The seed replacement rate is one of the problems. The rate should be 20 percent on average, but in Nepal it is 12 percent, he said. “This poor rate has forced farmers to lose 15-20 percent of their crops.”He urged the government to focus on improved seed varieties and distribute them to farmers. “Women are dominant in Nepal’s agricultural sector. They need to be provided appropriate technologies for product development and delivery strategy,” he said.Uma Shankar Singh, senior scientist and IRRI Representative for Nepal and India, said that convincing farmers to adopt new varieties was challenging as they don’t want to switch to new varieties leaving their traditional ones. In this context, the governments and media intervention is crucial in creating awareness among farmers, he said. For example, the ASTV conducted a head-to-head trail of new paddy varieties like DRR 44, DRR 42, Ciherang Sub-1 and Sawa Mahsuli Sub-1, among others. Half of the farmers’ fields were transplanted with improved varieties and half of them with their traditional varieties.“The objective was to see which one is better,” said Singh. “The result showed that new seeds are not only good in climatic stress conditions but equally best when the situation is normal.” The survey conducted by the project in the 22 districts shows that 358 village development committees (VDCs) are prone to drought and 177 VDCs are prone to flood. The project covered 68,000 hectares as of last year and expects to reach 150,000 hectares by this year, he said. “Climate change is leading to an increase in temperatures and more frequent and severe periods of drought, which have a negative impact on crop productivity,” said Uday Chandra Thakur, secretary of the Ministry of Agricultural Development.“Moreover, the overuse of chemical fertilizers has been degrading Nepal’s soil condition.” As the effects of climate change will threaten the poor, the government is committed to adopting stress-tolerant paddy varieties to increase productivity, he said.http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2016-10-25/climate-change-threatens-food-safety-experts-warn.html Managing crops after typhoon POSTED BY WEB TEAM POSTED ON OCT - 24 - 2016 Super typhoons Karen and Lawin brought damages in Central and Northern Luzon affecting the country’s major rice-producing provinces. According to the Department of Agriculture (DA), Karen alone left almost P3 Billion in agricultural damages. To help farmers recover from the damages brought by the said calamities, experts at the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) recommended strategies on how to manage crops after typhoons. For those who were able to harvest before Karen and Lawin hit the country, farmers are advised to use the mechanical dryer for drying of harvested grains.“Seeds must have drying temperature not higher than 43°C. It is advantageous for farmers to use the mechanical dryer as it allows drying during unfavorable weather conditions,” said Arnold Juliano, PhilRice’s agricultural engineer. A publication on how to use the mechanical dryer is available in this link.In harvesting crops submerged in water or mud, farmers can use the combine harvester provided that the field is already dry.“If the crop submerged in water is easy to drain, combine harvester can be used provided that no or minimum moisture is present in the panicles to minimize grain losses during operation. For submerged crop with drainage problem, immediate manual harvesting is advisable to save the grains from deterioration,” Juliano explained. To know more about the practical recommendations on how to manage crops after typhoons, farmers may call or text the PhilRice Text Center 0920 911 1398 http://www.philrice.gov.ph/managing-crops-typhoon/ Rice futures plummeted today after opening higher. November charted a bearish key reversal and violated uptrending support in the process, which could signal a move toward a retest of support at the contract low of $9.35. Weekly export sales of 69,600 metric tons was an improvement from last week, but not enough to spark buying interest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC0G1E5XC_I PhilExport supports plan to revive Masagana rice program PIA 11-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines DAVAO CITY, Oct 24 (PIA) An official of the Philippine Export Foundation based here expressed support to the revival Masagana Rice Production Program to ensure food security.Ferdinand Maranon, president of the PhilExport Incorporated lauded President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to revive the rice production program copied from the Masagana 99 of the Marcos Administration, as long as it will benefit the lowly rice farmers. He said the program will succeed only if it will be thoroughly supported by government and the private sector.Maranon recalled that as a rice trader in the 80s, there was this phenomenon of over rice production which filled in the driers and warehouses of traders, consequently bringing the price of palay down.He said farmers tended to a lower price for their production making them at a loss.Maranon suggested to attach quedan to rice production the same as what is applied in sugar production. He said with the quedan system, an amount can be assigned to a number of kilos in a rice production.Maranon said the farmer then can store his produced rice and can sell it when the price goes higher.He said the farmer can also have the option of making his quedan a collateral to apply for a loan.“The government will construct more warehouses as it allows the private sector with due license to work as quedan operator,” Maranon said. President Rodrigo Duterte in his visit to Isabela hinted of reviving the Masagana rice production program and the Biyayang Dagat program which stopped food importation during the Marcos Administration. (PIA 11-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines) http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/2381477293323/philexport-supports-plan-to-revive-masagana-rice-program “[The] country’s rice industry is supposed to enjoy protection from wanton imports under the rice QRs -- quantitative restriction. But this remains merely on paper. Our QRs did not curb rice imports; we have been importing more than the required QRs, excluding smuggled rice, for the past 10 years,” according to a statement by Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura, Inc. (SINAG), which was e-mailed to reporters over the weekend. “Lift rice QR and the revenue generated from rice import tariffs should exclusively be allocated in implementing a comprehensive government program across the whole supply chain of the rice industry that will redevelop our capacity to produce our own staple and food requirements,” the statement added. A firm implementation of the law that would prevent smuggling and enhance regulations governing quarantine and food safety regulations/sanitary and phytosanitary measures and institute special safeguard (SSG) mechanisms that will protect the local rice industry against import dumping, import surges and global price discrimination, it said. “We believe that this will lessen opportunities for corruption and also incentivize greater investment in the rice sector. Then uncertainty over the timing and levels of imports from domestic sales by NFA has resulted in underinvestment in milling, drying and storage,” Mr. Beltran said during an Oct. 17 Senate hearing. -- Janina C. Lim http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Economy&title=qr-scheme-failed-to-protect-rice-farmers-agricultural-group-says&id=135276 Groups urge government to extend QR on rice BusinessMirror - October 24, 2016 Farmers’ groups on Monday appealed to the government to negotiate the extension of the rice-import quota as rice farming in the country remains “dismal” and “unprofitable.” They also called on President Duterte to thumb down the efforts of other Cabinet members to privatize the National Food Authority (NFA). “In his Executive Order [EO] 1, President Duterte vowed to reduce poverty. However, his lieutenants are eyeing the opposite direction, opting to remove state support to the rice industry that has 4 million farmers dependent on it for their livelihood,” Jaime Tadeo, president of Paragos Pilipinas, said in a statement. “Instead of lifting the quantitative restriction [QR] on rice, this administration should strengthen its support to help the local industry gain the competitive advantage that the past administrations failed to do,” Tadeo added. Mr. Duterte’s economic team is partial to lifting the QR on rice, citing the need to reduce the retail price of the staple to make it more affordable to the poor. But opening up the rice market at this time is ill-advised because palay farmers remain unable to compete with their counterparts in the Asean. “We are alarmed that despite the extensive funding provided for rice, we remain poor because the cost of production remains very high, compared to those produced in other Southeast Asian countries,” said Trinidad Domingo, honorary president of Pambansang Koalisyon ng mga Kababaihan sa Kanayunan. To help farmers, the Pambansang Kaisahan ng mga Magbubukid sa Pilipinas (PKMP) said the NFA should continue to receive government funds so it could buy unmilled rice from farmers and stabilize the farm gate price of the staple. PKMP’s Ed Mora also urged the government to investigate the reported losses suffered by the NFA in the past. The group noted that NFA loans increased in 2008, 2009 and 2010, when rice importation was at its height. Former President Benigno S. Aquino III exposed the staggering debt of the agency that reached P180 billion. “The past administration attributed these NFA losses to over importation, overpricing and over borrowing from banks—a grave concern that easily merits a formal executive of legislative inquiry,” Mora said. Farmers’ groups proposed the removal of representatives of banks in the NFA Council and to retain only one representative of the Development Budget Coordination Committee. http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/groups-urge-government-to-extend-qr-on-rice/ Phnom Penh Post - Soggy forecast for rice farmers Extreme weather attributed to the tail-end of an El Niño event continues to wreak havoc on the nation’s agricultural sector, with more than 20,000 hectares of rice fields damaged so far this year, a government agricultural expert said yesterday.Men Sothy, director of the statistics department at the Ministry of Agriculture, said the nation’s rice farmers have taken a one-two punch from Mother Nature – first with a severe and prolonged drought, and now in some areas with devastating floods. “If comparing the current flooding to the earlier drought, farmers suffered more seriously during the long drought, but we cannot yet assess the full impact of flood damage as heavy rains are expected to continue through at least next week,” he said.As of mid-October, about 17,500 hectares of rice fields have been affected by adverse weather, of which crops on nearly 3,200 hectares have been destroyed. Heaviest hit are crops in Prey Veng and Kampong Speu provinces, which account for over half of the total affected area. “Prey Veng and Kampong Speu provinces have been seriously impacted,” Sothy said, without putting a price on the damage. “I think the amount of damage will keep increasing as flood levels remain high and the rain is forecast to continue through the week.”Say Sopheatra, project manager of the Cambodian Micro Agricultural Insurance Scheme (CAMAIS), said the impact of adverse weather could surpass last year’s devastating totals, resulting in losses for farmers whose crops are uninsured. CAMAIS is a crop insurance scheme launched in late-2015 that aims at supporting local smallholder farmers by providing insurance payouts to those affected by severe weather-related events attributed to climate change. The two-year project was launched with funding from the Netherlands-based Achmea Foundation, and implemented by the Cambodian Centre for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) across nine districts in three provinces: Kampong Chhnang, Takeo and Kampong Speu. According to Sopheatra, 159 rice farmers took out microinsurance from CAMAIS since the start of the year, with a total premium of just under $1,500. She said the microinsurer’s team was currently monitoring and evaluating claims in order to determine the compensation that affected rice farmers are entitled to.“The situation this year, it is worse than last year as farmers have suffered both drought and floods,” she said. “We are monitoring and evaluating the compensation payout for farmers.” The weather-related damage is helping the project’s organisers to better understand the market. CAMAIS is seeking further funding from Achmea and looking to expand its crop insurance scheme to four other provinces soon.Seam Bunthoeurn, a rice farmer in Kampong Speu province’s Borse district, said he was thankful to be among the farmers who piloted the crop insurance scheme, and the $5 he spent on a policy for his half-hectare field gave him peace of mind. “This year my crops suffered flooding but it was not too bad, as each time the water receded quickly,” he said. “However, even in the face of drought and flooding I will not lose all my money as I purchased insurance for my field that will allow me to recover the money I spent on seeds and fertilizer.”Cambodia’s total rice production topped 9.2 million tonnes last year, with exports rising by 39 percent in 2015 to 538,000 tonnes, according to Ministry of Agriculture data http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/soggy-forecast-rice-farmers USA Rice Sustainability Committee Chair Jennifer James USA Rice Launches Sustainability Attitude Survey By Michael Klein ARLINGTON, VA -- The concept of sustainability is clearly a driving force in our society today, and it's one that businesses, industries, individuals, and government agencies are trying to get their heads around and define. In pursuit of a better understanding of what sustainability means to and for the U.S. rice industry, USA Rice is launching a quick online survey that is linked below. "Sustainability means different things to different people, and while there are a lot of organizations and interests moving their definition and vision of sustainability forward, we think it's important to first see if we as an industry are on the same page with each other," said Jennifer James, an Arkansas rice farmer and chair of the USA Rice Sustainability Committee. "You need to learn to walk before you can run, and this survey is designed to tell us whether you're running, walking, flying, or not sure what to do." James said the simple survey consists of just seven questions, all but one of which are multiple choice or true/false. "Our survey will take less than 10 minutes, but the insight it provides will be invaluable," James said. "I encourage everyone who reads the Daily to take it, and to forward it to friends and family - producers, millers, exporters, merchants, equipment and seed dealers, food company employees, media, and government employees - we want to know what these terms mean to you." The survey can be found here and will be kept live for a limited time CBN approves N15.7b for additional rice mills On October 24, 201612:10 amIn Business, Finance, NewsComments By babajide komolafe In a bid to reduce foreign exchange spending on food importation through enhanced funding for agriculture, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved funding for additional rice mills in the country. Meanwhile the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh has said that the federal government may soon stop importation of rice into the country given the increased rice production across the country facilitated by the CBN backed Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP). Rice Mill CBN loan Rice Mill CBN loan The duo spoke in Awka, Anambra State, alongside, Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano and Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Bagudu while fielding questions from journalists during inspection tour of the 2,600 hectares rice plantation of Coscharis Farms. The rice plantation is one of the rice projects funded through the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme of the CBN, which is aimed at boosting food production in the country. Under the programme, the CBN has provided N15.7 billion loan to 76,251 smallholder farmers producing and supplying rice to five private anchors (rice millers) in five states. Emefiele while commending Cocharis Farms, said: ”We started this with him, almost about two years ago when we granted him a N2 billion Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS). With his own resources, he added to it and that is why he is where he is today. Those are the type of things we need to continue to encourage. And about a month ago, he came to the CBN that we need to come and see what he has done with the CACS fund we gave to him. “I must say that I am delighted that he has used the money well. And when he came, he requested for more money because he wants to have the capacity to produce rice all-year round, which is three harvests in a year. To do so, he needs irrigation and he needs his mill. And I am happy to say yesterday, the Committee of Governors of CBN gave approval for him to set up a mill here and also set up his irrigation. That is the kind of support we would give people who have shown interest, because there is no foreign exchange to import food, when we can produce food in the country.” Ban on rice imports Ogbeh commented on the Coscharis rice plantation saying, “As we go round we began to have great confidence in our country. I think Nigeria’s independence is just beginning to be established because unless a country can feed itself and feed well, every other dream can’t be fulfilled. This is amazing. I have seen similar things in Kebbi and I am seeing this big one. I am very proud of Coscharis and the effort the Governor is making to support him. In another year, we will have no need to import one grain of rice into this country. In fact we may stop rice importation sooner than that. It is final word I am telling you, because Nigerians have proven that they can do it and I am proud that I can see this thing in Anambra. “The rice sector alone will take care of two million people before we began to satisfy our needs of 8 million tonnes. This is heavily mechanised, the smaller farmers don’t have all these machineries but they contribute immensely. So jobs, jobs and jobs, the millers are there, the marketers, the transporters, the distributors, all of them will be part of this business, just for rice. We have not even talked about cassava, or maize, or sorghum, or millets, beans, yams so the future is huge, the jobs are there.” The Chairman of Coscharis Group, Mr. Cosmas Maduka, in his remarks, stated that Coscharis Farm Limited will provide full time employment for about 3000 people as well as drive ancillary industrial growth in the state when all the phases of the investment are complete. He said the farm phase of the business currently employs over 250 people, adding that the rice mill and irrigation components of the investment for which the CBN has given approval in principle to finance, will significantly enhance the capacity of the business to create more jobs and boost economic activities. Maduka however called on other arms of the federal government to be more responsive to requests from the private sector to enable them achieve their set business goals in good time. “Although the government is providing support, a lot more assistance is still required from the government. Government should respond to our needs and requests faster to help us meet our investment goals. For example, we have made a request for waivers for the importation of our farm equipment and it has been lying there for over a year without any approval. The government should respond faster,” he said. He commended the CBN for agreeing to provide financing for its rice mill and irrigation, while also thanking the Federal Ministry of Agriculture for the decisions to allow the company use its silos for the storage of grains harvested from the farm. Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra stated, “We are hoping to catch up with Kebbi. We are currently doing 210,000 metric tonnes. We call on CBN to support Coscharis Farms and other small holder farms because they are structured here. Through the agro-intervention funds we got N1.5 billion and disbursed it and now we want N5 billion. There is much money in farming- you feed yourself and sell others” On his part, Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Bagudu, said: “We are happy that since last year the President launched CBN’s Anchor Borrowers’ scheme in Kebbi, the State governments have been keying into the project. It is evidenced again when Mr Cosmas Maduka told us how the State governor intervened on the brewing controversy over the land, which he acquired 29 years ago. He also told of the state government’s support with infrastructure. This shows that the president’s call, with the support of the Minister of Agriculture and the Central Bank of Nigeria was heard. With these developments, it is obvious that we are on our way to rice sufficiency. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/cbn-approves-n15-7b-additional-rice-mills/ New campaign for USA Easy Cook Rice World Foods brand Tropical Sun is launching a new campaign to promote its USA Easy Cook Rice range.Launched in partnership with the USA Rice Federation, the campaign includes press advertising, digital marketing and a London-wide bus advertising campaign.Tropical Sun brand manager Jag Singh said: “Our Easy Cook USA Rice ticks a whole host of boxes for consumers and chefs. It’s pre-fluffed, easy to cook and delivers consistently delicious white rice which can be used to make virtually any international dish.“This is the first stage in a much wider campaign aimed at raising awareness of the benefits of rice from the United States. We highly recommend businesses stock up to take full advantage of the awareness and interest we will be generating over the next few months and in the run-up to Christmas.” Source: Wanis International Foods http://www.talkingretail.com/products-news/grocery/new-campaign-usa-easy-cook-rice/ Egypt limits area for rice cultivation in 2017 to preserve water Monday ,24 October 2016 Egyptwill decrease land area used for rice production in the 2017 season with a decrease of 34.6 percent, according to a decree issued by the Ministry of Irrigation and published in the Official Gazette on Sunday. In an attempt to preserve scarce water resources, the Ministry limited the cultivation of the water-consuming crop to 6 governorates covering an area of 704.5 thousand feddans in comparison to 1.076 million feddans in 2016 season. The only governorates that will be allowed to cultivate rice are Beheira, Kafr El-Sheikh, Daqahliya, Damietta, Port Said, and Sharqiya. The ministry will provide water for rice fields in the selected governorates from May - August 2017. Rice, a key stable foodstuff for millions of Egyptians, consumes 9,500 to 11,000 cubic metres water per hectare, a much higher average compared to other crops. Per the decree, rice production would be banned in unauthorized fields with violators subjected to fines. Egypt has long outlawed rice exports to preserve stocks for the local market and combat rising prices. In August, the Egyptian government said it aims to procure up to 2 million tonnes of rice from farmers by purchasing long grain rice at EGP 2,300 per tonne and short grain rice at EGP 2,400 per tonne. According to the US Department of Agriculture's Grain and Feed annual report issued in October, post forecast for milled rice production is at 4.0 million metric tonnes with a post forecast for rice consumption at 3.5 million metric tonnes in 2016/17. In recent months, rice has been among the essential food stuff facing price hikes as a result of low supply due to traders holding stock. Earlier in October, Egypt's Supply Ministry Mohamed Ali El-Sheikh said the government will hold an international tender for rice seeking to purchase a minimum of 500,000 tonnes in order to secure rations for consumers who receive food subsidies. The minister said during a press conference on sugar scarcity last week that President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ordered the managing of essential foodstuff reserves to cover six months http://www.copts-united.com/English/Details.php?I=1757&A=27730 http://www.katc.com/story/33448358/rice-farmers-concerned-with-possible-wind-farms-in-acadia-parish Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- Oct 24 Nagpur Foodgrain Prices - APMC & Open Market-October 24 Nagpur, Oct 24 Gram prices firmed up again in Nagpur Agriculture Produce and Marketing Committee (APMC)auctions on increased buying support from local millers amid weak supply from producing belt. Healthy rise in Madhya Pradesh gram prices and enquiries from South-based millers also boosted prices, according to sources. * Gram varieties touched to a record high in open market on good seasonal demand from local traders amid thin supply from millers. * Tuar reported strong in open market on festival season demand from local traders amid weak arrival from producing belt. * Udid varieties recovered in open market on good festival season demand from local traders amid weak supply from producing region. * In Akola, Tuar New - 6,200-6,300, Tuar dal (clean) - 10,800-11,200, Udid - 10,700-11,000, Udid Mogar (clean) - 13,400-13,700, Moong - 6,100-6,300, Moong Mogar (clean) 6,800-7,200, Gram - 9,000-9,500, Gram Super best bold - 11,400-11,700 for 100 kg. * Wheat, rice and other commodities moved in a narrow range in scattered deals, settled at last levels. Gram Auction 5,700-9,750 5,500-9,500 Tuar Auction n.a. 5,500-6,200 Gram Super Best Bold 12,500-13,000 12,200-12,700 Gram Super Best n.a. n.a. Gram Medium Best 11,800-12,100 11,200-11,500 Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a Gram Mill Quality 10,200-10,500 9,800-10,000 Desi gram Raw 9,800-10,000 9,550-9,750 Gram Yellow 13,300-13,700 13,000-13,500 Gram Kabuli 12,700-14,000 12,700-14,000 Gram Pink 12,000-12,500 12,000-12,500 Tuar Fataka Best-New 11,500-12,000 11,200-11,700 Tuar Fataka Medium-New 10,900-11,200 10,600-11,000 Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 9,500-10,200 10,000-10,500 Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 8,500-9,000 8,300-9,000 Tuar Black 11,800-12,300 11,800-12,300 Masoor n.a. n.a. Moong Mogar bold (New) 6,800-7,200 6,800-7,200 Moong Mogar Medium 6,300-6,600 6,300-6,600 Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 11,000-12,100 10,900-12,000 Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 9,500-10,500 9,300-10,300 Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 4,600-4,800 4,600-4,800 Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 3,150-3,250 3,150-3,250 Watana White (100 INR/KG) 3,400-3,600 3,400-3,600 Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,000 1,900-2,000 Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 1,750-1,950 1,750-1,950 Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 1,950-2,250 1,950-2,250 Rice BPT best New(100 INR/KG) 2,800-3,250 2,800-3,250 Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,300-2,650 2,300-2,650 Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,500 2,200-2,500 Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,450 2,100-2,450 Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 1,800-2,000 1,800-2,000 Rice HMT best New (100 INR/KG) 3,450-3,800 3,450-3,800 Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,600-3,000 2,600-3,000 Rice Shriram best New(100 INR/KG) 4,200-4,500 4,200-4,500 Rice Shriram med New(100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,100 3,800-4,100 Rice Chinnor best New(100 INR/KG) 5,300-5,600 5,300-5,600 Rice Chinnor med. New (100 INR/KG) 4,900-5,100 4,900-5,100 Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,200 1,900-2,200 Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,700-1,850 1,700-1,850 Maximum temp. 34.0 degree Celsius (93.12 degree Fahrenheit), minimum temp. Rainfall : Nil FORECAST: Mainly clear sky. Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 34 and 16 degree Celsius respectively. (For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, butincluded in market prices) http://in.reuters.com/article/nagpur-foodgrain-idINL4N1CU307 Posted by Riceplus Magazine at 6:34 AM 2 comments:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line241
__label__wiki	0.709555	0.709555	26th January 2017 daily global,regional and local rice e-newsletter by riceplus magazine Rice basmati climbs on upsurge in demand 24 JANUARY 2017 \| 2:31 PM Basmati rice (Lal Quila) Rs 10,700, Shri Lal Mahal Rs 11,300, Super Basmati Rice Rs 9,700, Basmati common new Rs 6,900-7,000, Rice Pusa (1121) Rs 5,600-6,800, Permal raw Rs 2,050-2,075, Permal wand Rs 2,150-2,200, Sela Rs 2,800-2,900 and Rice IR-8 Rs 1,850-1,860, Bajra Rs 1,425-1,465, Jowar yellow Rs 1,750-1,800, white Rs 3,500-3,700, Maize Rs 1,600-1,610, Barley Rs 1,800-1,820 New Delhi, Jan 24 Rice basmati prices firmed up by Rs 500 per quintal at the wholesale grains market today on brisk buying by stockists following uptick in demand against restricted supplies. However, other grains held steady in thin trade. Traders said brisk buying by stockists, driven by upsurge in domestic as well as exports demand against restricted supplies from producing regions, mainly pushed up rice basmati prices. In the national capital, rice basmati common and Pusa-1121 variety shot up by Rs 500 each to Rs 6,900-7,000 and Rs 5,600-6,800 per quintal respectively. Following are today's quotations (in Rs per quintal): Wheat MP (desi) Rs 2,750-3,050, Wheat dara (for mills) Rs 2,000-2,010, Chakki atta (delivery) Rs 2,020-2,050, Atta Rajdhani (10 kg) Rs 285, Shakti Bhog (10 kg) Rs 285, Roller flour mill Rs 1,140-1,150 (50 kg), Maida Rs 1,200-1,210 (50 kg)and Sooji Rs 1,270-1,275 (50 kg). http://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/rice-basmati-climbs-on-upsurge-in-demand/973456 6% of rice consumed in Ghana imported The latest Oxford Business School report has revealed that only 34 percent of rice consumed in the country is produced locally, resulting in the importation of 680,000 tonnes annually. Even though the country’s domestic production has increased by 12 percent over the 2010-15 period, states the report, domestic consumption increased by double that rate over the same time frame. As a result, Ghana imports between $300 million and $500 million of rice annually. The report further states that, between 1999 and 2008, rice consumption grew from 17.5 kg to 38 kg per capita and is expected to reach 63 kg per capita by 2018. With population growth, urbanisation and shifting consumer preferences, demand for rice is expected to continue expanding in the coming years. Reversing the country’s import-dependence has been a tough nut to crack by successive governments of the fourth republic, with a number of initiatives failing to boost local rice production to appreciable levels. In 2008, under President John Kofour, the National Rice Development Strategy (NRDS) was out doored, with the goal of doubling rice production by 2018 and improving quality to increase demand for domestic rice. As part of the NRDS and the Food and Agricultural Sector Development Policy II, adds the report, the government provided extension services, stabilised prices through the National Buffer Stock Company, which was formed to intervene in staple markets such as maize and rice in order to set minimum prices at the beginning of the growing season. The erstwhile government under President John Mahama also introduced a number of programmes. In the 2015 budget, the rice production sub-sector received GH¢22 million to boost rice production. Also under the Enhanced Access to Quality Rice Seed Initiative, 200mt of improved rice seed were distributed to 10,000 farmers in the Volta, Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions to increase productivity. Again, to boost local rice production, 77 tractors, 49 power tillers, 20 rice threshers, 11 rice reapers and six rice mills with their respective components were assembled and sold to farmers. In addition, 100 units of Cabrio tractors, with multi components, were assembled for sale to farmers on hire purchase. But a number of challenges continue to bog down the sector, including the lack of adequate rice mills. In the Northern Region, for example, where nearly 40 percent of the country’s rice is produced, thousands of bags of rice are locked up in warehouses due to the unavailability of mills to process the commodity, a situation that has compelled the farmers to use manual means of rice processing, which do not meet market demand. In an interview with the B&FT at last year’s Rice Festival, Mike Bartels, German Cooperation—Green Innovation Center for The Agriculture and Food Sector, Ghana, said there is tremendous opportunity in the rice industry if the private sector increases its participation. “We believe that there is a huge potential in rice production in Ghana which is untapped. I don’t believe that it is the task of only the government to promote the local rice industry. It is the responsibility of the government to create a conducive framework for innovations that work so that the private sector takes over the task of investing in machinery and logistics that will help the industry thrive,” he said. http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/66-of-rice-consumed-in-Ghana-imported-503906 Sri Lanka to import rice from neighbouring countries By adminJanuary 25, 2017 17:16 Sri Lanka is to look at importing rice from neighbouring countries, the Government information department said today.The cabinet has noted that the Ministry of Rural Economic Affairs has taken steps to issue 90,958 MT of paddy of the Paddy Marketing Board in district level to private paddy mill owners and Lanka Sathosa to be processed into rice.It further considered that though Lanka Sathosa has already processed the paddy and a kilogram of rice is being traded through Sathosa outlets at Rs. 76/-, private mill owners have still not issued them to the market. The cabinet has decided to appoint a cabinet subcommittee to issue the rest of the stocks in a suitable method and to take action against mill owners who have failed to issue rice stocks to the market.The cabinet has also taken note that the Government of Indonesia will donate 10,000 MT of rice to Sri Lanka on a request made by President Maithripala Sirisena and it will arrive in Sri Lanka soon.It also paid attention to the need of importing rice from neighbouring countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam unless the price of rice is reduced. (Colombo Gazette http://colombogazette.com/2017/01/25/sri-lanka-to-import-rice-from-neighbouring-countries/ Check corruption in FCI, demand rice millers VIJAYAWADA: JANUARY 26, 2017 00:00 IST UPDATED: JANUARY 26, 2017 04:14 IST Federation of All India Rice Millers’ Association (FAIRMA) national president Tarsem Saini on Wednesday asked the government to take stern steps to check corruption in the Food Corporation of India (FCI) which collects levy from the rice millers.Speaking at the executive committee meeting of the federation, the delegates from all over the country discussed the problems faced by rice millers across the country.“The federation will not side with the erring rice mill owner,” he assured. Mr. Saini said a uniform policy should be implemented on power charges collected from rice mills all over India. The software developed by the Central Government for FCI was useful and helped cashless transactions between the corporation and the rice millers. He alleged that some corporation employees were creating hurdles in the use of the software.He demanded that the government increase milling expenses to Rs. 50 per quintalhttp://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Check-corruption-in-FCI-demand-rice-millers/article17096521.ece VN rice exports set to face another tough year Despite facing difficulties, Viet Nam will strive to achieve rice exports of more than 5 million tonnes this year, the Viet Nam Food Association has said. Speaking at a meeting to review the VFA’s performance last year in HCM City on Monday, its secretary, Huynh Minh Hue, said last year only 4.89 million tonnes were exported for $2.12 billion, a 25.5 per cent fall in volume and 20.57 per cent decline in value.There was excessive supply in the global market last year, and there has been a recent trend of major importing countries increasing domestic production to reduce imports, he said. Viet Nam’s rice exports are likely to face another difficult year as supply outstrips demand and global competition intensifies, he said. He quoted the US Department of Agriculture as saying global rice output in 2016/17 is estimated to increase by 1.6 per cent from last year to 480 million tonnes due to an expansion in the area under rice in many countries including Australia, Myanmar, Brazil, India, Indonesia, North Korea, Pakistan, Thailand, and the US, he said. Global exports are expected to rise by one million tonnes or 2.6 per cent to 40.6 million tonnes, he said. Stockpiles have been increasing for the last three years and are expected to reach the highest levels since 2001/02 crop, he said. Huynh The Nang, VFA chairman, said despite the hurdles, rice businesses would strive to export higher volumes than last year to ensure farmers can sell off as much of their outputs as possible.In the long term the domestic rice sector targets exports of high-value rice to affluent markets, he said.He said the Plant Protection Department and other relevant agencies should take measures to improve the hygiene and food safety of Vietnamese rice to enable more exports to choosy markets. The association said rice exporters should meet hygiene and food safety standards and strengthen linkages with farmers to ensure a steady source of the grain to meet market demand.Hue called on the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to build an international standard laboratory in Can Tho to help exporters check their rice quality, especially look for plant protection chemical residues, instead of sending to other countries for analysis as is done now.Nang said authorities in rice growing localities need to do more to instruct farmers in producing rice meeting safety standards, encourage them to use more certified rice seedlings and improve technical and financial support systems.Do Ha Nam, chairman and general director of Intimex Group Joint Stock Company -- one of the country’s 10 largest rice exporters -- said while exports of other kinds were down, exports of Japonica and sticky rice went up by 136.95 per cent and 96.59 per cent.“But farmers have [since] rushed to grow more sticky rice, which [poses a] risk.” He said the Government should work with China to facilitate exports of Vietnamese rice to that country. “We face severe competition in terms of price from Pakistan and India.“There may be difficulties but if we choose to invest in varieties like fragrant rice and sticky rice, there will be opportunities.” Le Thanh Tung of the Crop Production Department said Viet Nam has the potential to boost exports of sticky, fragrant, Japonica and high-quality rice varieties.Besides improving quality, Vietnamese firms should also focus on building brands, he said. Rice stockpile The association on Monday called on the Government to approve a programme to stockpile rice temporarily from the winter-spring crop to ensure farmers do not lose.Tung said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, based on rice production and consumption in February and March, would make specific recommendations for it.The quality in the 2016/17 winter-spring crop would be better than last year’s, he added http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/171726/vn-rice-exports-set-to-face-another-tough-year.html New Coloring Activity Book Lets Kids Get Creative By Katie Maher ARLINGTON, VA -- USA Rice released a new coloring booklet for children ages 2-6, to teach them about rice grown in the USA. This new resource joins USA Rice's collection of other educational resources including the U.S.-Grown Rice in the Classroom pamphlet and the Think Rice classroom curriculum, which are regularly requested by extension agents, educators, and others conducting youth programs including county fairs, Ag in the Classroom projects, and other local events. "The U.S.-Grown Rice in the Classroom pamphlet is always a hit with kids, but since its content is geared toward 4th - 6th grade students, it left out younger kids," said Mary Jemison, USA Rice meetings and member services associate. "So we decided to create a simple, fun, and easy-to-print coloring activity that tells the farm-to-table story of U.S. rice while also being age appropriate for the younger audience." The four-page activity features a map of the U.S. on the front and asks kids to color in the six outlined rice growing states. The center page spread shows the lifecycle of rice by season and allows kids to color in different scenes from the farm. The last page brings rice to the table where kids can color in a family making dinner and draw a MyPlate inspired dish with rice. "Since kids are seeing MyPlate all the time at school, it's a good opportunity to show them that rice has a place on MyPlate too," said Jemison. The coloring sheet will make its big debut at the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show next month which attracts 20,000 visitors. Jemison says, "Kids love visiting the USA Rice booth to spin the prize wheel, and we're really excited to have this new activity and USA Rice colored pencil sets to distribute." The new coloring booklet is available for download on thinkrice.com and physical copies can be requested by emailing USA Rice. What’s in store for world rice markets? ‘One rice forecast I got very right and one rice forecast I got very wrong’ Milo Hamilton \| Jan 24, 2017 Five years ago, I got China right. But I got India all wrong. I predicted that China would be a huge rice importer. I did not in my wildest dreams imagine India, so desperately short of water, would so rapidly accelerate its water consumption beyond any other Asian nation and then flood the world with cheap rice exports. We live and we learn. Don’t we? Erick Hoffer, wrote in his book, The True Believer: “In times of change the future belongs to the learner while the learned will find beautiful ways to cope with a world that no longer exists.” When it comes to the rice market, I urge you to not be a learned know-it-all, living in a rice market that does not even exist. Instead, become a rice market learner, every day. This is a survival skill for your operation in this exponentially changing world with a new U.S. President no one predicted would win. I liken the shock at Trump’s surprise victory to the bearishness in the rice market right now. No one thinks the rice price can recover for many months, if not years. The bull party is on the outside looking at the incumbent, pervasive market opinion of low rice prices forever. Do not be so sure you are right (learned) and know all about this rice market. I have been trading or advising it for 35 years and have bought millions of tons and tens of millions of dollars of rice. Expect the unexpected. It is a Texas rattlesnake that can bite you in the wallet in a New York hedge fund minute. Let me briefly explain to you one very good reason why the rice price is so low now. The reason is spelt I-N-D-I-A.But first let’s do a quick overview of my book, “When Rice Shakes the World,” I wrote and where we are right now.The world is divided into the haves and the have-nots. There are parts of the Earth that have less water on tap -- color them red. Then there are parts of the world that have lots of water -- color them green. Parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Western United States are arid to semi-arid. These regions will never grow rice, which takes twice the water of dryland wheat. Rice grows largely below the latitudinal line that crosses north Arkansas. Half the Asian rice belt, which is south of this latitudinal line, suffers from intense water problems. North of this belt line, folks can grow a lot of barley, corn, wheat and soybeans but about zero rice. The Earth has a shortage of area with good soils and flat terrain that can grow rice, if we should encounter a rice supply problem. I want to leave you with three amazing facts. · Five years ago, I was telling our subscribers that China would be the largest rice importer in the world. That came to pass. · What is incredible to me is that the entire rice production in the Western Hemisphere is about equal to what is produced in Vietnam, just a tiny sliver of the Asian rice belt on the eastern edge of southeast Asia. Vietnam is obsessed with putting rice first to keep people from starving. People are not starving there; just rice farmers who are starving there financially as the government makes them grow a losing proposition, which is rice. China is the good guy for world rice farmers. The price there is high at about $18 per cwt. and China imports rice like South Korea and Japan. But China imports rice because it cannot supply its citizens with the rice they want. Imported rice is not just cheaper but it is also edible. About 10-30 percent of its rice land produces rice no one wants to eat. End of story. That should be bullish on the price but perhaps not quite yet. China is now bent on setting aside millions of hectares of polluted farm land, which is a very good idea. India should also curb its rapidly accelerating water use as well. Then, the world rice market would become rational again. · What amazes me is that India is an exporter, massive exporter of rice. That is a mystery to me I did not in any way predict five years ago. India has a massive and growing over use of its groundwater. Half of India is arable, while only 15 percent of China is arable. So, India gives away water virtually for free so rice farmers will elect politicians. It is about growing votes, not just rice. I got India all wrong. The rice market had a price earthquake or rather volcano in 2008 and the world rough rice or paddy markets blew apart. China hiked its rice price to the moon because it is a good guy. India pushed billions of dollars’ worth of subsidized inputs to keep its rice price dirt cheap. All paddy markets are sinking towards that $7 per cwt. price in India. Ouch! No county in Asia with collapsing water tables should grow rice for $7 per cwt. But India is doing just that and burying the market with 10.5 million metric tons of exports each year. Any forecast of rising world rice prices must include a turnaround in the paddy price in India. I think India has declining rice stocks and wheat stocks and things could get very interesting in 2017. If the rupee gets stronger against the U.S. dollar, their price will rise just as it has weakened with the weak rupee. The demonetization of the rupee and the lack of cash banknotes for trading have created a huge mess, may cut winter wheat plantings and perhaps leave rice to rot because there is no cash to plant wheat or buy rice now. So, that is the rice world and it is a bit crazy. What about your market? Well two things determine the price you will receive: world paddy trends I just discussed and then the basis, the local difference between cash minus futures. You want to sell your rice when the local basis is strong. That can make a $1 to $2 difference in what you receive for your rice. We watch all the regional rough rice markets for long- and medium-grain as well as rough rice markets in every major rice country of the world. On our website and in our newsletter, we watch the basis: Arkansas, the Mississippi River delivered price, CIF NOLA, Texas, SWLA, and even California medium-grain. We have been doing this since 2003. Visit our website, www.firstgrain.com, and learn about the global and local side of your rice market. Become an unassuming learner, not a presumptuous, learned person. The market in the next 12 months will not be dull. It will be violently volatile. Be prepared for the unexpected.If everyone whispers in your ear who will win for sure, be prepared for a dark horse to take it all in Washington, D.C. and in Chicago. And I am not referring to the Cubs or their momma bears either. Trump's push against trade deals disappoints some of his supporters Trump presidency a mixed bag for farm groups. Bloomberg \| Jan 25, 2017 by Shannon Pettypiece and Alan Bjerga Donald Trump’s push against trade deals he says have devastated small-town U.S. workers is bringing disappointment to another key piece of his rural American coalition: Farmers and ranchers who heartily supported the president in hopes of less regulation and lower taxes. Trump’s decision Monday to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would have reduced tariffs and strengthened economic ties between the U.S. and 11 other countries, will cost the agriculture industry as much as $4.4 billion a year in potential sales, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the biggest U.S. farmer group. Reopening talks over the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has called a "disaster" and plans to bring up in a meeting later this month with the Mexican president, risks dealing an even bigger blow for agriculture, one of the few sectors of the American economy with a net trade surplus. "I feel nervous and anxious about what is next," said Ron Heck, who has 4,000 acres of soybean and corn crops in central Iowa. "I know that President Trump has concerns with manufacturing and he didn’t take this step lightly, but now we have to wait and see what better deals can be negotiated." Exports of corn, cotton, soybeans and other goods in the year that started Oct. 1 are estimated at $134 billion, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in November. The three biggest destinations for U.S. farm products: China, Canada and Mexico. Adding to the malaise, the threat for exports comes at a time when U.S. farm incomes have already fallen for three straight years, the longest slump since 1977. The prospect of Trump’s presidency has always been a mixed bag for farm groups. Positions restricting immigration and trade were less popular, while that was balanced by hopes that reductions in regulations and taxes may offset any negative effects on the industry. Voter Differences The split on key campaign issues illustrates the difference between "farm voters" and "rural voters" among Trump supporters, said Gary Blumenthal, president of World Perspectives Inc. in Washington. Farmers are iconic in American culture and influential on Capitol Hill, where agriculture groups give more dollars to candidates than the defense and transportation industries. But manufacturing and service workers are more numerous in rural America, and Trump’s message was more narrowly focused on their needs than they were to agriculture’s, Blumenthal said. "When Trump is talking about trade he’s talking about factories," a big job generator in the industrial Midwest, where voters in small cities and rural areas gave Trump the victories that won him the White House, Blumenthal said. "Agriculture is a different fit." The National Grange, the oldest nationwide farm organization, acknowledged as much, saying it opposed TPP for the sake of its neighbors. As a farm group, "we understand the value" of TPP, its President Betsy Huber said in a statement. Still, she added, "the Grange also represents the interests of residents of rural areas and small communities, who produce other products and may not expect to fare as well." Other farm groups may also be in an uncomfortable position, and not just on trade, Blumenthal said. Biofuel skeptics have found a home in the new administration, and conservative groups have called for less government spending on agricultural subsidies. ‘Concerted Effort’ In response, "there’s been a concerted effort to remind the White House about the importance of agriculture to the rural vote," Blumenthal said. "There’s a feeling that once the administration puts two and two together they’ll realize that agriculture’s important to jobs in rural areas, and trade is important to agriculture.” After Trump dumped TPP, the Farm Bureau said it was disappointed in the decision. The group’s president, Zippy Duvall, a Georgia farmer and friend of the president’s Agriculture Secretary nominee, said in a statement the administration needs to work "immediately to do all it can to develop new markets for U.S. agricultural goods." In lieu of TPP, the administration plans to pursue bilateral trade deals with individual countries that Trump believes will result in better deals for Americans, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Monday at the daily press briefing. "We do understand that trade and TPP specifically were a campaign issue," said Tracy Brunner, president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and a fourth-generation rancher in Kansas. Cattle and beef producers overwhelmingly supported Trump, even with his protectionist stance on trade, because they believed he was much more likely to lessen regulations than his rival Hillary Clinton, who also came out in opposition to TPP, Brunner said. Not having a trade deal like TPP costs the cattle industry $400,000 in sales a day lost to other countries with lower tariffs, such as Australia, according to the cattlemen’s group. Trade is key both for commodity-crop groups, with as much as a third of products like soybeans and corn going to China, and the meat industry, where countries included in the TPP and Nafta for more than 60% of foreign purchases for U.S. red meat, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation. ‘Key Markets’ “In some of these key markets, the U.S. red-meat industry will remain at a serious competitive disadvantage unless meaningful market access gains are realized,” Philip Seng, president of the USMEF, said in a statement. “We urge the new administration to utilize all means available to return the United States to a competitive position.” Not every farm group said leaving TPP was a bad idea. The proposed agreement reflected a "continuance of our nation’s deeply flawed trade agenda," The National Farmers Union, the second-largest farmer group and a trade-agreement critic, said in a statement. The organization, which has associated with Democratic Party policy positions in the past, said it was pleased with the Trump administration’s move. For now, farmer groups said they still have hope in the new president, looking forward to what’s good for them while trying to change his mind on the less favorable. "We will work with the hand we were dealt, and we will continue to try to explain the benefits of trade in every avenue we have," Brunner of the cattle group said. --With assistance from Shruti Date Singh. 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Some stability appears in beef prices. Duane Dailey 1 \| Jan 25, 2017 “Why do you hang on to your calves?” the beef economist asked cow-herd owners in the room. Scott Brown answered his own question: “Because their price is going up. Right?” Brown, with University of Missouri Extension, cautioned, “There are still downside risks.” Risk remains in spite of slowing of sharp price declines since October. Some stability appears in beef prices. “Unforeseen events cause volatility,” Brown reminded the gathering of producers of Show-Me-Select replacement heifers. “Market shocks occur in response to news.” He gave an example. A release of the USDA cow inventory Jan. 31 might contain surprises, Brown said. “If cow numbers are sharply higher, that could cause a drop in beef prices. “I get arguments in both directions, up and down, on cow numbers,” he said. However, he admitted he thought there would be more cows reported in the U.S. herd. One reason is continued holding back of more heifers. Brown had already explained that there is a mountain of meat — pork, chicken and beef — facing U.S. consumers. A growing cow herd will only add to the supply of beef to be sold. News after the cow count release could drag markets down. “You might consider future downside risks when deciding when to sell calves,” Brown said. However, when he asked herd owners if they increased their herds, few held up their hands. “I could be wrong on a growing cow herd,” he said. “If we can’t sell beef abroad, that means that meat must be consumed here at home. The main way to move more meat is to lower prices.” Brown went on to explain that international trade plays a big part in the price of domestic meat. Trade policy and value of the dollar both affect that foreign trade. “Recognize that those changes affect your marketing decisions,” he said. A strong dollar makes prices higher in other countries for buyers of U.S. beef. “If we can’t sell beef abroad, that means that meat must be consumed here at home,” Brown said. “The main way to move more meat is to lower prices.” As always, Brown urged producers to consider risk management in their marketing. In his overall outlook on cattle prices, Brown said, “We may be returning to what is a long-term normal price level.” Managers must realize that input expenses don’t adjust down as quickly as market receipts. Brown reminded producers that weather is a big player in determining the size of the cow herd. Drought, especially in the south-central plains, started the huge drop in cow herd size that led eventually to record high cattle prices in 2014. Changing economics affect individual farm decisions. Major events affect all of agriculture. Price swings in commodity prices make for planning headaches for beef producers. “It’s a series of unforeseen events that caused recent volatility,” Brown said. The Show-Me-Select heifer producers follow management and genetic guidelines developed at the University of Missouri. Protocols, such as for calving ease, add value to heifers coming into the herd. Heifers with proven genetics add price premiums to replacements sold in the annual spring and fall heifer sales. Brown tells beef producers that adding quality is a form of risk management. Repeat buyers at the sales learn that heifers with better genetics outperform old cows they replace. Return buyers bid more at the next sale to buy quality. Copyright © 2017 Penton http://www.deltafarmpress.com/rice/what-s-store-world-rice-markets Action likely to be taken against rice millers who did not process government paddy Wednesday, 25 January 2017 - 18:49 A Cabinet Sub Committee has been appointed to take action against rice millers who bought paddy from the Paddy Marketing Board but did not process the stocks thus far. Cabinet Spokesman minister Gayantha Karunathilaka told the media briefing to inform Cabinet decisions held in Colombo today that minister of Special Project Dr. Sarath Amunugama will chair this Subcommittee. Meanwhile, Joint Cabinet Spokesman Minister Rajitha Senarathna said that the Prime Minister was unaware of the circumstances behind the tyre factory when he participated recently at its foundation laying ceremony at Wagawatta in Horana http://www.hirunews.lk/152893/action-likely-to-be-taken-against-rice-millers-who-did-process-government-paddy Looking to Eat Well? Keep It Simple to Make It Stick with Minute Rice TORONTO, Jan 25, 2017 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- At the start of 2017, many of us vowed that this year would be different. In 2016, we were too busy to grocery shop, our kids turned their nose up at dinner - so we caved and got takeout more than we'd like to admit. But this year it was going to be different. We were going to eat better, take proper care of ourselves and our families, and not fall into the same traps. But chances are old behaviours have already started rearing their heads, prompting many of us to ask: what am I doing wrong? You're doing nothing wrong. Contrary to popular belief, it can take anywhere from 18 to over 250 days to form a new habit. Every single one of us operates on a different timeline, which means our environment greatly influences our success. And when it comes to forming new eating habits, what we keep in our kitchen - or put in our pantry - can sway what we actually end up eating. Not to mention, getting a meal on the table during the week is no easy task. There is a reason why dinnertime has earned the title of the "witching hour." From picky eaters, to turning into a short-order cook, or being just too tired to shop, these parental pain points have us yearning for a mid-week win. Well, wait no longer. Help is on the way, with the Minute Rice(R) #WeekdayWin Challenge. Need a 15-minute recipe for a real? A meal your picky eater will actually eat? Our #WeekdayWin network - a community of moms, foodies and family experts - has the answers. For the next eight weeks, our network will uncover the best, mom-endorsed recipes and meal planning tips to solve the most common pain points for Canadian families. Sourced from their community of moms, our network will help families across Canada to create a new habit with simple meals they can feel good about. After all, who knows better than Mom? So just what are those dinner time dilemmas for parents? Shop your pantry for that mid-week win. Recent Canadian Minute Rice(R) Research confirms that eight-in-ten women (82%) say that when they're too busy to grocery shop, they rely on a stocked pantry with key items like rice, pasta or olive oil to prepare easy, wholesome meals at home. As much as many of us romanticize the idea of the daily, European-style shop, our busy North-American lives rarely - if ever, during the week - allow for it. "When you spend as much time online as we do, you can be lured into falsely believing that every meal you make needs to be an original creation, with carefully-sourced ingredients that were bought day-of," says family food blogger and #WeekdayWin Network member Julie Albert, who co-founded Bite Me More with her sister Lisa Gnat. "We love cooking like that occasionally, but we can't do that every day. Our pantries are packed with simple basics that we can quickly match up with a few other ingredients to satisfy our families when we have lots of other things going on," echoes Lisa. Kid Friendly meals? The struggle is real. Every parent has experienced it in one form or another - the long-faced, pouty-lipped expression coupled with an "I don't want to eat this" (or on worse days a "you can't make me.") Minute Rice's study reveals that nearly four-in-ten parents admit to struggling to find kid-friendly meals their family will eat, and 36% avoid dinnertime altercations altogether by preparing a different meal or dinner for their kids than they do for the adults. If the adults want fish and veggies with rice, it's easy enough to substitute scrambled eggs in place of fish, or fruit in place of veggies, without having to create a second full meal from scratch. Interestingly also, a person's willingness to do this may somewhat depend on where they live: the research shows that people in Ontario are almost twice as likely to customize meals for kids as those from the Prairies. "Between school, work, and activities many parents have limited time with their kids these days," says Julie. "Many simply don't want to spend family time fighting over dinner. Pantry ingredients like instant rice allow for easily adaptable meals that every member of the family can enjoy." In keeping with these sentiments, the majority of women (79%) feel that meals they can make at home in 15 minutes, with fewer ingredients, make their life easier during the week. And simple ingredients can help solve that dinnertime dilemma. Wholesome doesn't have to be pricy. The study also revealed that 67% of Canadians want their family to eat wholesome and natural foods, but they feel it's expensive to do so consistently. In reality, it doesn't have to be. There are many wholesome foods available that don't cost an arm and a leg - and many of them can live in your cupboard, which can come as a surprise to some Canadians. For example, half of us don't know that instant rice is simply rice that's been partially pre-cooked, a fact men and women equally agree on. One in four of us admit to not knowing what instant rice is at all. "Rice is a grain we've been eating for thousands of years, that is simple, delicious, naturally fat-free, gluten-free, and non-perishable," says Norma D'Onofrio, Senior Brand Manager, Minute Rice. "Our instant rice is just rice that's been partially pre-cooked and dried so that people can save time at home. No additives, and it's just one ingredient. It's really that simple." This means that those who stock their pantry with staples such as instant rice are in a position to save cooking-time, while also eating a wholesome grain that's been around for ages. "Once you've decided that rice is going to be a part of the family meal, you only have to select a veggie and a protein to complete your plate," says Lisa. "A simple solution is imagining your meal in terms of 'thirds'. Pairing a grain, a serving of vegetables and a protein - like beef or chicken - can be your family's formula to making dinner time easy in three simple steps." What's your #WeekdayWin? Most Canadians decide what's for dinner about an hour before they start cooking, and when you're in the middle of your busy week, it's fair to assume that creativity is waning. So start your year off right by following #WeekdayWin for our network's inspiration, tips, and the winning mom-tested recipes tasted and scored by our network of savvy moms and Canadian families. And there's more. This February 8th, Bite Me More will provide some mid-week inspiration on our Facebook Live debut which tackles 15 minute meals (for real). Need further motivation? Visit MinuteRice.ca for versatile, delicious and easy 1-2-3 meal ideas and see our network in action. You'll soon get used to the satisfaction of consistently getting a meal on the table that's good for your family - and that you can feel good about serving. Achieved your first Weekday Win? Celebrate with us and share your #WeekdayWin to inspire others. We'll bask in your glory, and you may even have the opportunity to be showcased on our site. About Minute Rice: Made by the Catelli Foods Corporation, Minute Rice pre-cooked instant rice is available in tastes and formats that suit all palates. Wholesome, 100% Natural, Premium Long Grain White Rice; Premium Whole Grain Brown Rice - that's ready in ten minutes; convenient Ready to Serve Cups; flavourful Basmati and Jasmine varieties. For more information, visit MinuteRice.ca. About the Research Study: A survey of 1578 Canadians was completed online between November 28th and December 1st 2016 using Leger's online panel, LegerWeb. A probability sample of the same size would yield a margin of error of +/-2.5%, 19 times out of 20. http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=bwnews&sty=20170125005603r1&sid=cmtx6&distro=nx&lang=en SOURCE: Catelli Foods Corporation, Minute Rice For more information or images: Environics Communications Candace Beres, 416-969-2705 cberes@environicspr.com Rida Ahmed, 416-969-2795 rahmed@environicspr.com Copyright Business Wire 2017 http://futures.tradingcharts.com/news/futures/Looking_to_Eat_Well__Keep_It_Simple_to_Make_It_Stick_with_Minute_Rice__269413828.html I treat my body like an engine': Overweight man goes from couch potato to ripped personal trainer by eating SEVEN meals and 4,500 calories a day · Jon Woollard, 30, from Buckinghamshire, was 16 stone and did no exercise · But the former forklift driver overhauled his diet to become a personal trainer · Says he owes his transformation to getting through seven meals a day · Has dropped over 3 stone and more than halved his body fat to 12 per cent By UNITY BLOTT FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 12:12 GMT, 25 January 2017 \| UPDATED: 12:54 GMT, 25 January 2017 A formerly overweight forklift driver has revealed how he ate his way to a striking body transformation - by eating 4,500 calories a day. Jon Woollard, 30, from Buckinghamshire, was 16 stone at his heaviest and struggled through years of yo-yo dieting before overhauling his diet and becoming a personal trainer. In his twenties, Jon did no exercise and lived on a diet frozen dinners, chocolate, crisps and energy drinks to get him through long days in manual labour as a forklift driver and removal man. Scroll down for video Jon in 2012, left, and now, right. In his early twenties Jon was 16 stone, being stuck in a routine of no exercise, frozen dinners and binging on energy drinks to get him through long days Now he now weighs a lean 12stone 10lbs, having reduced his body fat from an 'excessive' 30 per cent down to 12 per cent. Despite shedding more than 3 stone and toning up, Jon, who is now the proud owner of a rippling six-pack, now eats substantially more than he did at his heaviest. On a daily basis he gets through a staggering seven meals, totting up an intake of around 4460kcal - but insists he's never been healthier. Jon, now a personal trainer, claims he has achieved his dream physique by carefully altering his diet to gain muscle and get lean - and treats his body like a 'machine'. He now wants to spread the message that skipping meals and cutting down calories can be harmful. JON'S SEVEN MEALS A DAY Jon's meal prep for one day including lots of chicken breast, rice and broccoli 6.30am 75g rolled oats, 1 scoop of whey protein and a banana 9am Tuna steak, whole wheat pasta and vegetables 11am Chicken breast, Basmati rice and vegetables 1pm Chicken breast, basmati rice and vegetables 3pm (Pre workout meal) Chicken breast, basmati rice and spinach 6.30pm (Post workout meal) Rump steak or chicken breast, Basmati rice and vegetables 8.30pm Chicken breast with vegetables or 2 Ryvita with high protein peanut butter When he initially decided to lose weight, Jon tried cutting down his calorie intake. But although he lost weight by restricting his calories and lifting weights initially, he wasn't gaining muscle and felt regularly exhausted. After researching nutrition online Jon discovered health retailer Musclefood.com, which he says helped him transform his eating habits. Now, in his new job as a personal trainer, Jon guides his clients through diet and exercise tips - and insists there are much better ways of losing weight than cutting down your food intake. Jon, a former forklift driver, now weighs a lean 12stone 10lbs, having reduced his body fat from an 'excessive' 30 per cent down to 12 per cent and dropping more than 3 stone Jon shows off his muscles. In his new job as a personal trainer, he guides his clients through nutrition tips - and insists there are better ways of losing weight than just cutting food intake Dedicated: Jon's daily diet consists of rolled oats, bananas, tuna steak, whole wheat pasta and vegetables, chicken breast, Basmati rice and vegetables - totting up 4,500 calories An 'afternoon snack' for Jon now consists of five egg whites, two whole eggs, spinach, two slices of wholemeal toast and hot sauce. The personal trainer no longer scrimps on calories Jon said: 'Cutting out meals and snacking on low calorie foods is not the way to achieve a long-term, healthy body transformation. 'Solely focusing on cutting out food is a slippery slope, people need to make sure the body still gets everything it needs. 'Generally, short-term weight loss is achieved by reducing food intake but this type of diet is not sustainable. As soon as food intake is increased weight will return dramatically. 'When you suddenly eat much fewer calories your body goes into a type of energy saving mode, and your metabolism slows right down. The personal trainer in a holiday snap before losing the weight. When he initially decided to lose weight, Jon tried by cutting down his food intake - but often felt exhausted Jon hits the gym. Jon, now a personal trainer, says he's achieved his dream body by carefully altering training and diet to gain muscle and get lean - not by counting calories 'This can result in making you feel tired, irritated and generally lowers mood and motivation. These things can of course have a knock-on effect on everything. 'In the extreme, eating less could even lead to malnutrition, resulting in unhealthy weight loss and nutrient deficiencies.' He added: 'People should try to think more about what they're eating and how often rather than how much. 'Try and treat your body like an engine; without the right fuel you won't perform at your best.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4155034/Personal-trainer-eats-seven-meals-4-500-calories-day.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Owner/chef of B52 Cafe left law to open vegan cafe DEBORAH WEISBERG \| Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, 9:00 p.m. NATE SMALLWOOD \| TRIBUNE-REVIEW Mika darts sits on a table inside of B52 Cafe in Lawrenceville on Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. The ingredients for mika darts are laid out inside of the kitchen of B52 Cafe in Lawrenceville on Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. The fried onions lay on the counter inside the kitchen of B52 Cafe in Lawrenceville on Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. Owner and Chef Omar Abuhejleh poses for a portrait inside of B52 Cafe in Lawrenceville on Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. Owner and Chef Omar Abuhejleh poses for a portrait with the dish mika darts in front of him inside of B52 Cafe in Lawrenceville on Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. Fried onions lay on the counter as Omar Abuhejleh fries fresh onions during the making of mika darts inside of the kitchen of B52 Cafe in Lawrenceville on Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. B52 Vegan Cafe Hours: 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays (espresso bar opens at 8 a.m., with full menu available at 9 a.m.); 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturdays; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sundays Cuisine: Middle Eastern-American fusion vegan Prices: Salads, $12; sandwiches, $18; soup, $4.50; platters, $6 (serves one) to $30 (serves six); small plates, $4.50; flatbreads, $6 and $7; espressos, $2.25 to $5.25. Where: 5202 Butler St., Lawrenceville Details: 412-408-3988 or b52pgh.com Sign up for one of our email newsletters. Omar Abuhejleh's passion for cooking began in his mother's kitchen and grew as he traveled the world, living in Los Angeles, Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Middle East. It continued even during college and law school where, unlike most students who subsist on campus food and take-out, Abuhejleh preferred to make his own meals, thus sharpening his culinary skills. After moving to Pittsburgh for law school, he eventually bought Allegro Hearth Bakery in Squirrel Hill, and recently launched a second venture — B52 in Lawrenceville — a vegan cafe that blends Abuhejleh's growing interest in animal welfare and his affinity for Middle Eastern cuisine. “I wanted to create something new that I enjoy … to cook things I like to eat,” says Abuhejleh, 45, who left his law practice to become a full-time restaurateur. Located at 5202 Butler St., B52 serves lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch, and has a full-service espresso bar. Everything is meat- and dairy-free and made from scratch, including hand-pressed almond milk, cashew cheese, a spicy, roasted red pepper sauce (harissa) and hand-dipped chocolates. “I stopped eating meat about 12 years ago, when I realized that I can exist and be healthy and be satisfied and not consume animal products,” says Abuhejleh, who, when he lived abroad, experienced slaughtering lamb for Muslim holiday meals — a practice he found jarring, “Watching the life go out of an animal affected me, and I didn't enjoy eating the meat.” The B52 menu offers classic platters of hummus, falafel, labneh, fried cauliflower and fried tomatoes; flatbreads (manakish) served with accompaniments such as mixed herbs (za'atar) or shitake mushrooms; seitan- and tofu-based sandwiches; soups such as lentil and butternut squash, and salads that include a Mediterranean slaw made with pickled turnips and tahini. Abuhejleh features fermented items such as daikan napa cabbage, yogurt and kombucha, a lightly effervescent tea. “The main reason is that fermented flavor tastes good, but fermented foods are healthy, too,” he says. Abduhejleh developed most of the recipes himself, incorporating organic herbs such as cilantro, parsley and dill into many of his dishes, and smoking the eggplant for baba ghannouj over applewood chips in-house. One of his go-to spices is cardamom, which is commonly used in the Middle East, even in coffee. Abduhejleh infuses it into B52's nitro cold-brew coffee. B52 attracts a mixed crowd, including meat-eaters who are curious or looking for a change of pace, says Abduhejleh, who often steers them to dishes like Kofta Tofu Scramble, which uses seitan — a dense, chewy product made with high-protein wheat. Abduhejleh worked with architect Jason Roth to create a welcoming interior that features a decorative tin ceiling, retro-tile and Courtesan oak floor, quartzite countertops at the espresso bar, and walnut and shoji-paper pendant lanterns by local sculptor Isaac Bower of Polish Hill. Deborah Weisberg is a Tribune-Review contributing writer. MUJADARRA This classic Middle Eastern dish has ancient origins and is a delicious alternative to meat, says Abuhejleh, noting that it also is economical. “You can make this recipe for four for about a buck.” 1 cup green lentils 1 3⁄4 teaspoons salt 3⁄4 teaspoons cumin 1⁄4 teaspoons cinnamon (optional) 1⁄8 teaspoons cardamom (optional) Approximately 3 cups water Optional garnish of crispy fried onion 1 onion, julienned-diced To prepare mujadarra: In a small pot, fry diced onion in 2 tablespoons olive oil for approximately 15 minutes, add salt and spices, and fry for another 5 minutes. Rinse lentils and add to pot with 2 1⁄2 cups water. Bring to a boil and let boil for 30 minutes. Rinse rice and add to pot with lentils and onions. Add approximately 1⁄2 cup water, or just enough to cover rice and lentils. (How much water you add at this point depends on how much water boiled off while cooking lentils.) Cover pot, bring to a boil, lower to simmer and cook for approximately 15 minutes or until rice is tender. Remove from heat, let sit for 5 to 10 minutes and fluff.To prepare optional garnish: Fry julienned-diced onion in saute pan with enough olive oil to cover on medium heat for approximately 20 minutes, stirring frequently. Set aside to drain on a paper towel.You can also pour 1-2 tablespoons of oil used for frying on mujadarra. http://triblive.com/lifestyles/fooddrink/11727601-74/abuhejleh-cafe-middle World Bank sees Philippine rice output rising 2% PHILIPPINE PRODUCTION of agricultural products is expected to have increased in 2016-2017, including a nearly 2% increase in rice output, according to data from the World Bank. Rice production is expected to increase nearly 2% in 2016-2017, driven by favorable growing conditions in Indonesia, Thailand (the world’s top rice exporter), and the Philippines. -- World Bank’s January 2017 Commodity Markets Outlook – AFP According to the bank’s January 2017 Commodity Markets Outlook, “Rice production is expected to increase nearly 2% in 2016-2017, driven by favorable growing conditions in Indonesia, Thailand (the world’s top rice exporter), and the Philippines.”The Philippines ranks 8th in rice output and is seen to produce 11.5 million metric tons (MT) of rice or 2.3958% of the world production in 2016-2017, increasing from last year’s 11.4 million MT of rice produced in the country. Leading the countries in rice production is China, followed by India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar.Meanwhile, Philippine imports of rice are projected to fall to 1.3 million MT in 2016-2017 from 1.6 million MT in 2015-2016. The Philippines ranks 2nd in maize production at 114.1 million MT or 10.99% of the world’s maize production. According to World Bank, “combined global supply of wheat, maize, and rice are projected to reach 2,838 million MT during the 2016-2017 season, nearly 5% higher than last season’s record supplies.”“These projections, which are highly likely to materialize given that the season is at an advanced stage, implying that 2016-2017 will be the fourth consecutive surplus year,” according to the report.The Philippines also continues to lead in coconut oil production, taking up over 35% of world output in 2016-2017. The World Bank expects the Philippines to recover in coconut oil production in 2016-2017 after a slump in 2015-2016.Coconut oil production is expected to have increased to 1.0 million MT in 2016-2017 from the 909,000 MT in 2015-2016, which was lower than 1.099 million a year earlier. Indonesia accounts for nearly 32% of global coconut oil output. A far 3rd is India with over 13%. Coconut oil consumption is also expected to increase to 219,000 MT in 2016-2017 from 187,000 MT in 2015-2016.Meanwhile, the Philippines ranks 5th in coffee consumption. The country consumed 5.875 million 60kg coffee bags in 2016-2017.The Philippines is also a strong consumer of wheat, ranking 5th in wheat consumption. According to World Bank data, the Philippines consumed 5.875 million 60kg bags of wheat or 3.83 of the world’s wheat consumption in 2016-2017. -- Danica M. U http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Economy&title=world-bank-sees-philippine-rice-output-rising-2&37&id=139671 Rice Station specialist earns award The Daily AdvertiserPublished 11:04 a.m. CT Jan. 25, 2017 \| Carol LeDoux, administrative programs specialist at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, has received the Charles E. Dunbar Career Civil Service Award.She was among 12 state civil service employees honored.“This is a very prestigious award, and it recognizes Carol’s dedication to the mission of the Rice Research Station for over 35 years,” said Steve Linscombe, station director, who nominated her for the recognition.Nominees are judged on commitment to the classified service, contributions toward workplace improvement, personal initiative and volunteer community service.Linscombe said LeDoux keeps the office running smoothly.“Carol is a perfectionist, and the quality of her work is unsurpassed,” he said.Her work includes administrative duties for the LSU AgCenter Southwest Region, AgCenter extension offices in 14 parishes and an additional research station. She maintains the accounting ledgers for more than 50 accounts.LeDoux, of Indian Bayou, started working at the station in 1978.She received the LSU Foundation Staff Outstanding Service Award in 2013 and the LSU AgCenter Ganelle Bullock award in 2015 http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2017/01/25/rice-station-specialist-earns-award/97037902/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line242
__label__wiki	0.762952	0.762952	24th October 2017 daily global regional local rice e-newsletter by riceplus magazine REAP south zone is fuelling Pakistan Rice export in spite of all difficulties like strong Pak currency & low supply, has performed very well in Sept 2017, Pakistan Non Basmati export in September 2017, increased by 19.78% as compared to Sept 2016. Non Basmati export Sept 2017, 164,862 tons Sept 2016, 138,455 tons Pakistan Basmati export in September 2017, decreased by 17.78% as compared to Sept 2016. Basmati export Sept 2017, 27,249 tons Sept 2016, 33,139 tons Basmati Rice - Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, Analysis and Forecast 2017 – 2022 Wiseguyreports.Com Adds “Basmati Rice Market: Demand, Growth, Opportunities and Analysis of Top Key Player Forecast To 2022” To Its Research Database PUNE, INDIA, October 23, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Global Basmati Rice Industry Latest Report on Basmati Rice Market Global Analysis & 2022 Forecast Research Study This report studies the Basmati Rice market status and outlook of global and major regions, from angles of manufacturers, regions, product types and end industries; this report analyzes the top manufacturers in global and major regions, and splits the Basmati Rice market by product type and applications/end industries. The major players in global Basmati Rice market include KRBL Limited Amira Nature Foods LT Foods Kohinoor Rice Aeroplane Rice Matco Foods Amar Singh Chawal Wala Hanuman Rice Mills Adani Wilmar HAS Rice Pakistan Galaxy Rice Mill Dunar Foods Sungold Try Sample Report @ https://www.wiseguyreports.com/sample-request/2407842-global-basmati-rice-market-research-report-2017 Geographically, this report is segmented into several key Regions, with production, consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate of Basmati Rice in these regions, from 2012 to 2023 (forecast), covering Other Region On the basis of product, the Basmati Rice market is primarily split into Indian Basmati Rice Pakistani Basmati Rice Kenya Basmati Rice Direct Edible For Detailed Reading Please visit WiseGuy Reports @ https://www.wiseguyreports.com/reports/2407842-global-basmati-rice-market-research-report-2017 Some points from table of content: 1 Basmati Rice Market Overview 1 1.1 Product Overview and Scope of Basmati Rice 1 1.2 Basmati Rice Segment by Types 2 1.2.1 Global Basmati Rice Production (K MT) and Growth Rate (%) Comparison by Types (2012-2017) 2 1.2.2 Global Basmati Rice Production Market Share (%) by Types in 2016 3 1.2.3 Indian Basmati Rice 4 1.2.4 Pakistani Basmati Rice 5 1.2.5 Kenya Basmati Rice 6 1.3 Global Basmati Rice Segment by Applications 7 1.3.1 Global Basmati Rice Consumption Comparison by Applications (2012-2023) 7 1.3.2 Direct Edible 8 1.3.3 Deep Processing 9 1.4 Global Basmati Rice Market by Regions (2012-2023) 10 1.4.1 Global Basmati Rice Market Size and Growth Rate Comparison by Regions (2012-2023) 10 1.4.2 India Basmati Rice Status and Prospect (2012-2023) 10 1.4.3 Pakistan Basmati Rice Status and Prospect (2012-2023) 11 1.4.4 Kenya Basmati Rice Status and Prospect (2012-2023) 12 1.5 Global Basmati Rice Market Size (2012-2023) 12 1.5.1 Global Basmati Rice Revenue Status and Outlook (2012-2023) 12 1.5.2 Global Basmati Rice Production (K MT) Status and Outlook (2012-2023) 13 2 Global Basmati Rice Market Competition by Manufacturers 15 2.1 Global Basmati Rice Capacity, Production and Share by Manufacturers (2012-2017) 15 2.1.1 Global Basmati Rice Capacity and Share by Manufacturers (2012-2017) 15 2.1.2 Global Basmati Rice Production and Share by Manufacturers (2012-2017) 18 2.2 Global Basmati Rice Revenue and Share by Manufacturers (2012-2017) 21 2.3 Global Basmati Rice Average Price (USD/MT) by Manufacturers (2012-2017) 24 2.4 Manufacturers Basmati Rice Manufacturing Base Distribution, Sales Area, Product Types 26 2.5 Basmati Rice Market Competitive Situation and Trends 27 2.5.1 Basmati Rice Market Concentration Rate 27 2.5.2 Basmati Rice Market Share (%) of Top 3 and Top 5 Manufacturers 27 2.5.3 Mergers & Acquisitions, Expansion 28 3 Global Basmati Rice Production by Regions (2012-2017) 30 3.1 Global Basmati Rice Capacity and Market Share by Regions (2012-2017) 30 3.2 Global Basmati Rice Production and Market Share by Regions (2012-2017) 32 3.3 Global Basmati Rice Revenue and Market Share by Regions (2012-2017) 33 3.4 Global Basmati Rice Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2012-2017) 35 3.5 India Basmati Rice Production (2012-2017) 36 3.5.1 India Basmati Rice Production and Growth Rate (2012-2017) 36 3.5.2 India Basmati Rice Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2012-2017) 36 3.6 Pakistan Basmati Rice Production (2012-2017) 37 3.6.1 Pakistan Basmati Rice Production and Growth Rate (2012-2017) 37 3.6.2 Pakistan Basmati Rice Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2012-2017) 38 3.7 Kenya Basmati Rice Production (2012-2017) 39 3.7.1 China Basmati Rice Production and Growth Rate (2012-2017) 39 3.7.2 Kenya Basmati Rice Capacity, Production, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2012-2017) 39 4 Global Basmati Rice Consumption (K MT) by Regions (2012-2017) 41 4.1 Global Basmati Rice Consumption by Regions (2012-2017) 41 4.2 USA Basmati Rice Consumption (2012-2017) 43 4.3 Europe Basmati Rice Consumption (2012-2017) 44 4.4 Pakistan Basmati Rice Consumption (2012-2017) 45 4.5 Kenya Basmati Rice Consumption (2012-2017) 46 4.6 Middle East Basmati Rice Consumption (2012-2017) 47 4.7 India Basmati Rice Consumption (2012-2017) 48 5 Global Basmati Rice Production, Revenue, Price Trend by Types 49 5.1 Global Basmati Rice Production and Market Share by Types (2012-2017) 49 5.2 Global Basmati Rice Revenue and Market Share by Types (2012-2017) 51 5.3 Global Basmati Rice Price (USD/MT) by Type (2012-2017) 52 5.4 Global Basmati Rice Production Growth by Type (2012-2017) 52 6 Global Basmati Rice Market Analysis by Applications 53 6.1 Global Basmati Rice Consumption and Market Share by Applications (2012-2017) 53 6.2 Global Basmati Rice Consumption Growth Rate by Applications (2012-2017) 55 7 Global Basmati Rice Manufacturers Profiles/Analysis 56 For more information or any query mail at sales@wiseguyreports.com Wise Guy Reports is part of the Wise Guy Consultants Pvt. 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Alunan / Special to the BusinessMirror In Photo: A vendor in Manila feeds her baby on their makeshift home and store on the streets of Santa Cruz, Manila. The inability of the government to apply reforms in agriculture is expected to breed massive rural poverty, rural-to-urban migration, and the formation of slum dwellings, criminality, drugs, prostitution, social unrest and a host of other problems plaguing Philippine society. AGRICULTURE has been growing every year, except a few stagnant years. But how come agriculture, as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), has steadily been declining? So, has the sector been growing or collapsing? Agri collapsing as percentage of GDP RECORDS from the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) show that agriculture as a percentage of GDP has been dropping from 31 percent in the late- 1960s to 29 percent in 1971, 23.5 percent in 1980, 22.47 percent in 1990, 17.5 percent in 2005, 15 percent in 2012, 10 percent in 2014 and 9.7 percent in 2016. To find sustainable solutions, problems must be recognized first, because it is unfair to blame the Department of Agriculture (DA) if much of agriculture’s woes are carryover problems from decades of neglect. But the public must be vigilant and critical constructively from hereon, particularly conflicting tricky policy issues. It is therefore advisable to scrutinize agriculture in the past. Former Neda Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan, a “povertologist” when he was still with UP Diliman, produced a study, titled “Philippine Agriculture: Are We Ready for Competition?,” which made poignant revelations of the Philippines as a top laggard in farm yields that is blamed for widespread rural poverty. From 1980 to 2000, China’s total productivity alone grew by 4.7 percent a year, a whopping 4,600 percent higher than Philippine growth of 0.1 percent. Thailand grew by 1 percent a year, or 900 percent more; while Indonesia’s productivity grew by 1.6 percent, or 1,500 percent more than the Philippine average. Factor productivity measures efficiency, or yields per hectare. It gauges efficiency, unlike the misleading agricultural growth, bolstered by inflation and production due to bigger hectarage, not through yield improvements. Grain of truth OUR rice yields were the worst in Asia, which is ironic, having the International Rice Research Institute and the Philippine Rice Research Institute. Even private-sector initiatives like Henry Lim Bon Liong of SL-Agritech made technological breakthroughs. Balisacan’s study said local rice yields from 2000 to 2002 were the lowest at three metric tons (MT) per hectare, much lower than China’s 6 MT per hectare, Indonesia’s 4.1 MT per hectare, Vietnam’s 4.2 MT per hectare and even Myanmar’s 3.2 MT per hectare. Even East and Southeast Asia’s average yields were higher at 3.6 MT per hectare, while developing countries posted average yields of 3.8 MT per hectare, Balisacan’s study said. Local rice yields already improved to over 3.8 MT per hectare, but others have also increased since then. Average corn yields from 2000 to 2002 were also the lowest at 1.7 MT per hectare below China’s corn yields of 4.7 MT per hectare and Vietnam’s and Indonesia’s 2.8 MT per hectare. Even Myanmar posted a higher yield of 1.9 MT per hectare. East and Southeast Asia recorded average yields of 2.5 MT per hectare, while developing countries posted yields of 2.9 MT per hectare. Costs of corn are vital being the main ingredient in feeds for livestock and poultry. It is no wonder beef and chicken imports are cheaper. Our national average yields are low, as they are dragged down by low-yielding, nonirrigated rain-fed rice, partly due to poor investments in irrigation projects, which figuratively don’t hold water due to corruption. We can only surmise why more canals are rehabilitated yearly, than new ones built as if they get damaged every year. Thus, our low productivity plus the alleged temptations from rice imports have encouraged massive rice imports, which hit 2.3 million MT in 2007 making the Philippines the world’s biggest importer that year. Small banks for farmers shutting down? RAISING agriculture back on its feet is difficult if there are prevailing biases against agriculture and conflicting policies that’s likened to the left hand doing the opposite of the right hand. Perhaps, it’s neither wise to allow Adam Smith’s proverbial “Invisible Hand” the wanton freedom on the naïve belief that the free market will solve all problems. As the government pumps in more resources into agriculture, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. may have liberally allowed the systematic yearly closure of 19 small banks from 2000 to June 2017, or about 310 small banks. In 2000 23 small banks were closed by the BSP; 2001, 19 rural banks, including four cooperative banks; 2002, 12 banks; 2003, nine rural banks, including two cooperative banks; 2004, two savings and two rural banks; 2005, eight rural banks and two savings banks; 2006, 10 rural banks and one development bank; 2007, 16 rural and one savings; 2008, 22 rural, one coop and one thrift; 2009, 27 rural, two savings and two cooperatives; 2010, 21 rural, one savings and three cooperatives; 2011, 25 rural and four savings; 2012, 22 rural, one commercial and one cooperative; 2013, 18 rural and one big cooperative; 2014, 13 rural, one cooperative and one savings; 2015, 14 rural; 2016, 20 rural, three thrifts and savings. As of June five rural banks were closed. Will credit to farmers dry up? As rural banks shut down, farmer credit may dry up or tighten as commercial banks replacing them remain allergic to farmer lending. A commercial-bank manager in Ilocos revealed years back that only 2 percent of funds are retained to meet withdrawals and loans and remits 98 percent to Manila. Ilocos banks are exceptions as overseas Ilocanos continue remitting to their families, who remain fairly frugal as they spend less and invest less. It is ironic that while credit to agriculture is restricted, commercial banks are awash with funds. BSP records show 2015 domestic-savings rate was 30.3 percent of gross national income, but gross capital formation was only 19.8 percent. The difference indicates that so much in savings are held by banks unproductively. Why not incentives to rural lending? PERHAPS, these surplus savings can be bundled and redirected to fund rural investments, this time, matched with incentives and government guarantees. If the government can provide sovereign guarantees to foreign loans and investors, why not provide the same incentives to local banks funding rural projects, which have no foreign-exchange risks, no import content and have higher multiplier effects to the economy in terms of job generation, value-added earnings and resulting higher tax revenues for government, etc. After all, there is the Agri-Agra loan law, requiring banks to allocate 25 percent of their loan portfolio for agriculture, but the BSP allows them an escape clause by buying T-bills as a form of compliance. Banks obviously prefer safer paper investments in government securities over loans to agriculture, which are vulnerable to risks, including vagaries of nature. If reforms are not made that will redound to the poor farmers and fishermen, then the growth the Philippines keeps bragging about is just financial growth, while the real physical economy in agriculture may continue collapsing, thus breeding massive rural poverty, rural-to-urban migration and all attendant social problems like slums, criminality, drugs, prostitution, insurgency, social unrest, the overseas Filipino worker phenomenon and a host of other problems plaguing society https://businessmirror.com.ph/why-poverty-prevails-despite-robust-growth-2/ Why we will eat and live By Hannah Nnadi \| Publish Date: Oct 24 2017 2:30AM There are speculations that the deployment of agricultural biotechnology by the federal government is targeted at killing Nigerians. This does not portray common sense. This is a discussion that should be championed by scientists but unfortunately, as is always the case in Nigeria, artisans lead discussions that are way beyond their comprehension and competence. Genetically modified crops and products (GMOs) do not kill. They are the most regulated products in the world today and approvals and release are hinged on thorough safety assessments based on substantial equivalence. For the purpose of clarity, there is no approved genetically modified crop in the Nigerian market Nigeria. All GMOs in Nigeria are still at research level. On the issue of GMOs, Nigeria is not operating in isolation as recently the parliament in Uganda passed their biosafety law because the country needs modern biotechnology to address peculiar problems associated with Banana which is their main staple food. South Africa has been practising modern biotechnology for close to a decade and America has practised it for over two decades. In all these years, there has not been any scientific research attributing any harm or emerging diseases to the technology. Nigeria, as of today, has only granted less than 10 permits for Confined Field Trials (CFTs) of GMOs and therefore these crops are not in the market, yet certain individuals constantly insinuate that the technology is killing Nigerians. This technology being discussed is Genetic Modification (GM). Since its emergence over twenty years ago, it has suffered what other technologies before it went through. Recall when the airplane was invented, it was speculated that it was the end to nowhere, people said you would enter and die but today it has made life comfortable as journeys of thousands of kilometres are undertaken within hours. What is happening to genetic modification is similar to giving a dog a bad name so as to hang it. Today, the world has been made a better place especially for those suffering from terminal illnesses such as diabetes as a result of insulin produced through genetic modification. Rather than killing people, a lot of people are alive today as a result of insulin. Hence the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) to introduce GM mosquitoes to eliminate Zika Virus and malaria incidents across the globe. Unknown to the critics of the technology, Nigeria has approached the adoption of the technology differently. The country is applying the technology in areas where conventional endeavours have failed. For instance, the BT cowpea (beans) project was introduced when attempts to address the issue of Maruca infestation through conventional breeding failed. Fifteen thousand species of cowpeas across the world where screened and none had resistance to the Maruca pest. Cowpea (beans) is a major staple in Nigeria as the country is the highest producer and highest consumer in the world. Today, Nigeria is importing beans from Niger Republic and other neighbouring countries because our farmers can no longer meet up with the national need due to Maruca infestation and the critics see nothing wrong with that. Nigeria is conducting genetically modified rice trial research because as it stands today, Nigeria is the world’s largest importer of rice spending over one billion naira daily on rice importation. The genetically modified rice initiative known as Nitrogen Efficient, Water Efficient and Salt Tolerant (NEWEST) rice is principally to save Nigeria the unwarranted foreign exchange and to also protect the environment against over use of chemicals such as fertilizers. Some of the critics of the technology have cited issues of a stressed environment and a fragile ecosystem. Rather than stress the environment, GM crops provide succour for the environment as the modification reduces the use fertilizers and other chemicals which deplete the ozone layer and make the ecosystem fragile. The latest publication on GM crops shows that in 2016, the 21st year of commercialization of biotech crops, 185.1 million hectares of biotech crops were planted by 18 million farmers in 26 countries. From the initial planting of 1.7 million hectares in 1996 when the first biotech crop was commercialized, the 185.1 million hectares planted in 2016 indicates 110-fold increase. Thus, biotech crops are considered the fastest adopted crop technology in the history of modern agriculture. In 2016, over one hundred Nobel laureates in a letter to the United Nations (UN) acknowledged that the GM technology poses no harm to human health nor threat to the environment. These laureates were also joined by the Nigeria Academy of Science (NAS) who came out with a position supporting the federal government’s deployment of the technology. Over the years, critics of the technology have harped on the fact that the European Union (EU) does not support the use of GMOs but it may interest them to know that the EU has reversed its stand on GM in the face of emerging facts about the efficacy of genetic modification. It now allows member states freedom to treat issues of GM at its own sovereign level. According to the European library of congress, GMOs and food or feed made from GMOs can be marketed in or imported into the EU, provided that they are authorized after passing strict evaluation and safety assessment requirements that are imposed on a case-by-case basis. Having laid to rest the usual argument about Europe banning GMOs, it is imperative to state here the procedure for approving research on genetic modification in Nigeria. First, the law establishing the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), which is the competent authority for the regulation of GMOs in Nigeria, is an act of parliament with the objective to safeguard human health, biodiversity and the environment from any potential, adverse effect of GMOs including food safety and ensure that the use of GMOs does not have adverse socio-economic and cultural effects either at community or national level. Secondly, at the receipt of any application for a GM research, a technical team made up of knowledgeable individuals is constituted to scrutinize the application before making their recommendation to the Agency. Therefore, to say that the NBMA should be called to order shows ignorance, as NBMA does not promote the technology but is a regulator and the Agency is solely funded by the federal government. Finally, the federal government of Nigeria has taken it upon itself to solve the food problems of the country by using locally available solutions. The fact remains that government has taken its own decision to deploy genetic modification in the agricultural sector, taking into consideration the high human resource available at the over twenty research institutions across the country and the Nigerian scientists who drive the procedure thereby making our own GM exploits a home-grown solution. Dr Nnadi is a member of the Nigerian Biotechnology and Biosafety Consortium. https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-we-will-eat-and-live.html Bangladesh approves purchase of 100,000t rice from India Reuters . Dhaka \| Update: 19:18, Oct 22, 2017 Bangladesh has approved the purchase of 100,000 tonnes of parboiled rice from India in a state-to-state deal at $455 a tonne, officials said on Sunday, as the government races to shore up depleted stocks and combat high prices.Traditionally the world’s fourth-biggest rice producer, Bangladesh’s rice imports are set to hit their highest levels in a decade after floods hit its crops. The price includes shipping, insurance and discharge costs. The rice is to be shipped within 60 days after signing the deal, which will take place soon, a food ministry official said. The approval followed the government’s approval of the purchase of 100,000 tonnes of white rice at $442 a tonne from Myanmar, putting aside worsening relations over the Rohingya refugee crisis. Bangladesh is also set to import 150,000 tonnes of rice from Thailand at $465 per tonne. It has already secured deals with Vietnam and Cambodia as it looks to import a total of 1.5 million tonnes of rice in the year to June. High prices of rice, a staple food for Bangladesh’s 160 million people, helped send the annual inflation rate in September to its highest level since October 2015, posing a problem for the government which faces an election next year. Strong demand from Bangladesh could further lift Asian rice prices, which hit multi-year highs in recent months after Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia saw their worst monsoon floods in years. Bangladesh imported more than 1 million tonnes of rice in the July-October period, food ministry data showed. Despite bulk imports, domestic prices have not budged, with officials and traders expecting more imports of the staple grain in the coming months. In August, the government cut a duty on rice imports for the second time in two months. The lower import duty has prompted purchases by private dealers, with most of the deals being struck with neighbouring India. Bangladesh produces around 34 million tonnes of rice annually but uses almost all its production to feed its people. It often requires imports to cope with shortages caused by floods or droughts. http://en.prothom-alo.com/economy/news/163977/Bangladesh-approves-purchase-of-100-000t-rice-from Why are rice prices rising? When the public fears that prices will rise, they do The rice price has increased significantly over the past year, and there is much discussion as to why this happened. A brief review of the rice market concepts: The farmer sells paddy to whoever buys it and this ends up at the rice millers. Of course a lot of rice is milled locally in small mills for consumption in rural areas. The price of paddy will vary with location and time but the paddy market is reasonably integrated. There is another price ex mill for milled rice. There will be variations of quality rices so this ex mill, wholesale price will cover a range of values. The urban wholesale markets will have prices slightly different that the ex mill price due to transportation and trade mark ups. Finally, there is a retail price, at which the consumer purchases the rice. It is this retail price for coarse rice that we will focus on as a representative price for the whole spectrum of prices for different rice types. All of these prices should move more or less together as if one gets too high demand will decline and the price will fall. The rice price in Bangladesh is closely connected to the Indian rice price. If the taka/rupee exchange rate and the import duties are stable then the Bangladesh price will track the Indian price. This will not be exact, but if the prices differ too much, rice will move across the border. There is always potential for movement of rice in the informal transport channels. This channel will move rice in either direction according to the price. There is really a single market for rice between India and Bangladesh and price variations are temporary and will be removed by this arbitrage of rice moving both in formal and informal transport channels. In July 2014, the price of coarse rice was Tk3.1 per kg, and fluctuated around Tk3 per kg during the year. The price declined slowly during the period July 2015 to June 2016 with the price fluctuating around Tk2.6 per kg. Government actions over the past year are correct: Explain that there is plenty of rice, import more rice, reduce the import duty Then the price increased rapidly from Tk2.6 per kg in July 2016 to Tk4 per kg by June 2017, an increase of 53%. An increase of that size will increase the urban CPI by 3% and the rural CPI by 12%. The official estimates however, do not indicate such increases. The typical explanation for this increase was the reduced availability of rice from the floods and the outbreak of blast disease. Other explanations were that the millers were not releasing milled rice into the market and that “syndicates” were withholding rice, driving the rice price higher. In Asia, the standard explanation for rising food prices is that the business men in the food chain are withholding food from the market, having formed a conspiracy to manipulate the price. The standard Asian government response is to attack the millers and the traders. To send government officials to markets to discover and discipline these monopoly “blood suckers” as they are usually known. This Kabuki ritual is performed every time there is a spike in the grain prices. Most of the time, no one takes this very seriously, but it gives everyone someone to blame. Conspiracies involving many businessmen are impossible to maintain; in Bangladesh, a conspiracy with more than three persons soon becomes public knowledge. A few words about rice production and consumption First, estimates from the BSS and the Ministry of Agriculture indicate that Bangladesh produces about 34 million mt of rice every year. The consumption is about 26 million mt. There is some retention of paddy. However about 15% of the rice crop is just lost in the process of milling or trading. The implication of this is that rice stocks at any time are typically 6-8 million mt. There is always quite a large amount of rice inside Bangladesh. There are supplies in every house, in every retail shop, on every farm as well as well as in the millers’ warehouses. Bengal has had its share of crises over the rice price. Some of these have been disasters leading to famine. Some have led to widespread intervention in the rice economy. The research of Amartya Sen on Bengal famines sets out the reasons and authoritative explanation of these price crisis that have occurred from time to time. The reasoning emerged from a determination that even in the most terrible famine there was plenty of rice available. What drives the changes in rice prices is the expectation that prices are going to rise. When there is widespread belief that there is a shortage of rice and the price is going to rise, then the public reacts by buying more rice. This action results in higher prices. The expectations of the public are influenced by what is believed about the availability of rice and also by an individual’s idea about what other people think. If you think that everyone believes the rice price is going up, then you buy more rice now even if you think that there is plenty of rice in the country. Sen has taught us that one should look to expectations when there are sharp price spikes. During this past year, there was widespread belief that there was a shortage of rice. This came from reporting on crop losses and low levels of rice in government stores. The amount of rice that might have been lost from floods was never more than 2-3 million mt and even this level is now probably proving too high. The government rice stores always get a lot of attention, but the level of stocks is less than 10% of production — significant but not that important. In addition, there is always reporting about the efforts of the millers to withhold rice and drive the price up. All of this together generates expectations in the public that the price of rice is going to rise, and leads to increased stocks of rice being purchased and held everywhere. The higher demands arising from these expectations then increase the rice price. Government actions over the past year are correct: Explain that there is plenty of rice, import more rice, reduce the import duty. All of these actions may lead the public to change their expectations away from increasing prices. Ultimately, the rice prices will return to the level established by the Indian rice market price, the taka/rupee exchange rate and customs charges. http://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2017/10/23/rice-prices-rising/ Govt. buys 370,000 tons of rice to stabilize market price · Published : Oct 22, 2017 - 13:29 · Updated : Oct 22, 2017 - 13:29 The government has started to buy up 370,000 tons of rice harvested this year to stabilize domestic prices of the staple grain, the agriculture ministry said Sunday. It said regional governments have been notified of Seoul's plans to "isolate" rice this year and details related to the purchase. Besides the rice to be bought from growers for the purpose of keeping market prices at certain levels, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it will set aside another 350,000 tons of rice as the country's emergency reserves. This will raise the total that will be put into storage this year to 720,000 tons, which is the largest amount to be acquired by the government during the fall harvest period and the highest on an annual basis since 2010. "To increase the effectiveness of the isolation, every effort will be made to buy the rice as soon as possible," a ministry official said. He added the ministry wants to keep the average price for a 80 kilogram sack of rice at around 150,000 won ($132). It said that the rice being bought will not be released into the market unless there are unexpected developments like a sudden spike in prices and problems in supply. The country's oversupply of rice is mainly due to South Koreans reducing their rice intake and diversifying their diets with alternatives like wheat, barley, beans and corn. (Yonhap) Sellers can't decide at what price to sell imported rice: Sathosa The 200,000 metric tonnes of rice, which was scheduled to be imported from Burma, Thailand, India and Pakistan would not be allowed to be sold at prices higher than was stipulated by the government, Lanka Sathosa Chairman T.M.K.B Tennakoon said.Addressing the media he said the rice stocks would be imported by the end of the year. He said that the rice would be distributed using a Government distribution mechanism as well as through private importers. “The stock of rice would be distributed via Sathosa, Cooperatives (MPCSs) and major super markets while it will also be sold to retailers by Sathosa,” he said. “The selling price of rice will be monitored by the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA). Those selling rice cannot do so after keeping a large profit margin and they cannot decide at which price it should be sold,” he said. “There is an Maximum Sales Retail Price (MSRP) set by Sathosa. Sellers from rural areas should sign an agreement with us, adhering to the controlled price at which they are allowed to sell. That price can include their transport cost and profit,” the Sathosa Chairman said. Accordingly the details of the sellers and their agreed selling price would be given to the CAA for monitoring. However, he said that local millers could decide on their own prices and the MSRP set by Sathosa would not affect them. (Chaturanga Pradeep) http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Sellers-can-t-decide-at-what-price-to-sell-imported-rice-Sathosa-138913.html Pakistan-Iran trade ties, volume far below potential ISLAMABAD : Bilateral relations between Iran and Pakistan are very cordial and the two capitals enjoy very close affiliations, but at the same time the volume of trade between the two countries is well below potential. The leadership of the two countries have agreed to take the bilateral trade volume upto $5 billion in coming years but still many steps need to be taken to achieve the objective. After the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1, experts believe that the trade between Iran and Pakistan would get a boost and both countries can benefit from each other in all sectors especially in trade and economic sector. Though trade between Iran and Pakistan crossed $1 billion mark after the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the figure is below the full potential of the trade between the two neighboring states. Business between the private sectors of Pakistan and Iran is not very active and a lot of time and lots of opportunities have been lost, IRNA reported Sunday. The 20th Iran-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission meeting was held in Teheran in April this year with an objective to implement the decisions that have been taken between the two countries to enhance the trade. This year central banks of the two countries have also signed an agreement to open a proper banking channel but this agreement is yet to materialize. Iran is a big market and Pakistani goods have a good reputation and value in Iranian market. There is a big demand of Pakistani basmati rice, he said. Iranian products which are very good in quality are not very easily available in Pakistani markets. In big cities one can find Chinese and other countries’ products easily but not Iranian products. The only major Iranian export which is available in Pakistani stores is ‘date’. Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline is another key project that could completely change the face of Pakistan’s economy and boost economic ties between the two neighbors. The cost production would come down if Iranian gas comes here, more jobs will be created. Iran has already completed its portion of the project but Pakistan has yet to start construction of the pipeline on its territory. Meanwhile Pakistan’s Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCE) has approved purchase of additional 100 MW electricity from Iran. Pakistan is right now importing 100 MW electricity from while Iran has already announced its readiness to increase electricity exports to Pakistan respectively to 1000 and 3000 MW. Developments after the JCPOA suggest that the Iranian economy will grow at a rapid pace in coming years and its neighbors could easily reap fruits of this expansion. Pakistani businessman and member of Sialkot Chamber Of Commerce and Industry Khawar Anwar Khawaja believes the lack of banking channel is one of the major obstacles in boosting the bilateral trade. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), he stressed the need for removal of trade barriers between Iran and Pakistan asking both sides to fully implement Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) and also sign Free Trade Agreement (FTA) for stronger trade ties. However, he said that future of trade ties between Iran and Pakistan is very bright as both are neighboring countries which can benefit from each other in trade sector. He said that Sialkot Chamber Of Commerce and Industry is one of the major trade bodies of the country and is willing to enhance trade with Iran. “We are ready for all kinds of cooperation with Iran,” he said. NNI http://pakobserver.net/pakistan-iran-trade-ties-volume-far-potential/ LCCI for good trade ties with Malaysia Salim Ahmed The LCCI President Malik Tahir Javed has said that Pakistan and Malaysia have close and cordial relations but mutual trade ties are not as good as these should be. Pakistan has a negligible share in Malaysian imports of over $ 140 billion. He was talking to the Pakistan High Commissioner designate to Malaysia M. Nafees Zakaria here at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry. The LCCI Senior Vice President Khawaja Khawar Rasheed and Vice President Zeshan Khalil spoke on the occasion while Awais Saeed Piracha, Naeem Hanif, Nabila Intisar, Zafar Iqbal and Rizwan Akhter Shamsi were present in the meeting. Malik Tahir Javed said that the trade analysis between two countries shows that in the last three years, we could not bring any improvement in our exports to Malaysia. For instance, he said, in 2014, the volume of Pakistan exports to Malaysia was dollar 234 million which reduced to dollar 186 million and dollar 152 million in next two years. In contrast to that the imports from Malaysia to Pakistan increased in 2015 from dollar 911 million to dollar 945 million after a year. The LCCI President said that the balance of trade has always been in favour of Malaysia and this situation is prevailing. Over the last five years this gap is constantly closing but still the total imports from Malaysia are six times of our exports to Malaysia. He said that Malaysia and Pakistan have already signed a Free Trade Agreement which came into effect in January 2008. It has to be taken seriously that we have failed to take some advantage of this FTA. It provided us good platform to be utilized for a win-win situation but Pakistan achieved far lesser than its potential. Talking about huge dip in bilateral trade which was as high as dollar 2.97 billion in 2011, the LCCI president underlined the need to take immediate steps. From 2015 to 2016, the level of bilateral trade has remained stuck to dollar 1.1 billion. He said that the business community is trying its level best to make good use of FTA but there has to be some support provided by the Ministry of Commerce and especially commercial section of our High Commission in Malaysia. He said that we want to acquire some justifiable share in trade with Malaysia. There is a huge potential of exporting Pakistani rice, fresh fruits like citrus and mango to Malaysia. Malik Tahir Javed said that the FTA does provide our exporters certain edge in the form of duty relief on fruits and vegetables etc. but due to knowing little about the packaging and certain requirements related to certification of food items, they cannot make full utilization of these opportunities. He said that joint ventures in the fields of livestock & dairy, food processing, energy, chemicals, Halal products and especially in light engineering can further strengthen the trade ties between two countries. He said that we need to develop good liaison with our Mission in Malaysia in order to overcome all the challenges involved in enhancing exports to Malaysia. Earlier, Pakistan High Commissioner to Malaysia M. Nafees Zakaria urged Pakistani businessmen to evolve strategy to tap huge potential that exists in Malaysia. He said that he would make all out efforts to turn Pakistan mission in Malaysia into a match-making point for the business community in the two countries. He said that he would also utilize Malaysian media to highlight the soft image of Pakistan as in today’s world media is a strong tool to propagate information. https://pakobserver.net/lcci-good-trade-ties-malaysia/Two Trends - One Old, One New - Shaping Rice Market in South Korea By Jim Guinn SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- Two major trends are emerging in the South Korean rice market. First, per capita consumption is declining rapidly at the same time the domestic rice crop is not being significantly reduced. Data shows that annual per capita consumption of rice that stood at 174 pounds in 2006, had dropped 21.4 percent to 136 pounds in 2016. The second major trend is the surging demand for instant or ready-to-eat rice products. In an effort to cope with the resulting oversupply, South Korea's government will purchase 720,000 tons of newly harvested domestic rice this year for storage at state warehouses that are already packed with reserves. As of August, the government held more than 2 million MT in state warehouses. South Korea produced nearly 4.2 million tons of rice last year. This year's planned purchase breaks down to the obligatory purchase of 350,000 MT for an emergency, and 370,000 MT for temporary storage to stabilize prices, according to the Agriculture Ministry. In contrast to this downward overall consumption trend, the popularity of ready-to-eat rice products is rising rapidly in South Korea, according to industry data released earlier this month. Sales figures by E-Mart, South Korea's largest hypermarket chain, showed demand for table rice dropped 14 percent year-on-year in the January-August period, but sales of ready-to-eat rice products jumped 17 percent. E-Mart said sales of so-called home meal replacement (HMR) products that are very easy to prepare surged 44 percent year-on-year. HMRs sold here have rice, assortments of soups, and fried sides and main dishes. E-Mart said such trends reflect growth of single or two-person households and such small family units tend to prefer eating easily prepared meals. "I think this validates our strategy in promoting U.S. rice to food manufacturers/processors," said Steve Vargas, senior vice president of global rice trading at Sun Valley Rice, and vice-chairman of the USA Rice International Promotion Committee. "We began this strategy three years ago when our contractor first recognized the demographic trends that have led to this surge in demand for ready-to-eat products. We expect to build on this trend in future years." Foodservice Menu Seminars Yield Results in South Korea SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- USA Rice Korea, partnering with A-Chef, a foodservice and culinary consulting firm, recently conducted one-on-one foodservice menu presentation seminars targeting Dongwon F&B and LF Foods, two large food manufacturers located here. For the Dongwon F&B seminar, USA Rice chefs developed and demonstrated menus including rice cake soup, stir-fried rice cake sticks, stir-fried rice, rice noodles, and rice soup. Dongwon F&B has committed to testing the developed menus to incorporate into their home meal replacement (HMR) product processing operations. For LF Foods, Southern American dishes and Latin American-style dishes featuring U.S medium grain rice were showcased, and consequently, LF Foods has decided to launch new rice menus from the developed recipes for the coming spring season. In the first eight months of calendar year 2017, South Korea ranks as the fifth largest export market for U.S. rice, totaling 139,500 MT valued at $94 million. Compared to the same timeframe last year this is an increase of 32 percent in volume terms and 26 percent in value, respectively. U.S., Cambodia Promote Young Agricultural Researchers · Hul Reaksmey · VOA Khmer U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia William Heidt and Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon tour a technology farm at the Royal University of Agriculture, October 18, 2017. (Hul Reaksmey/VOA Khmer) More than 80 percent of Cambodians work either directly or indirectly in agriculture, which contributes about a third of the country’s gross domestic product. PHNOM PENH — America’s ambassador to Cambodia has said that the country’s young scientists will play a leading role in developing its agricultural sector. William Heidt, a U.S. ambassador, made the comments after a meeting with Cambodia’s agriculture minister, Veng Sakhon, in Phnom Penh last week. The ambassador was launching a new scholarship program with grants awarded by the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Agricultural Intensification and Nutrition. “Of course, farming is not just planting vegetables and rice. And it’s not just research projects either. It is also a business, one that is becoming more tightly connected to international markets and more dependent on international market forces,” he said. “In this respect, agriculture is not much different than the manufacturing, tourism, or technology sectors. For success in all these fields, Cambodia needs smart, young, dedicated people like yourselves,” he said. He noted that while Cambodia was an agricultural country, it faced shortages of fruits and vegetables, which had led it to import 70 percent of these goods. “Cambodia should feel proud that it has produced enough rice for its people for over 20 years now. That is a very important milestone. But Cambodia still imports a majority -- 70 percent -- of its fruits and vegetables, so one of the next key challenges is developing the horticulture sector as part of overall agricultural diversification,” he added. At the award ceremony, Sakhon compared Cambodia’s agricultural sector to neighboring Thailand, which he said had sought to develop young talent in the sector “to reach the top in both quality and safety of exports.” He pointed to crop-switching programs that had seen farmers change from producing rice to cash crops such as sugarcane, raising their income. Pinn Thira, 30, who won a scholarship for a Ph.D. to research value chains in rural Cambodia, said his work would focus on the difficulties of access to markets for rural farmers. “As far as I know, our farmers grow crops but there is no market for them,” he said. “So, this will be in the scope my research. We will study how farmers form groups to create networks for selling their products. After we found out this, we will publish our discoveries.” https://www.voacambodia.com/a/us-and-cambodia-promote-young-agricultural-researchers/4082614.html PRICES-KOCHI- COMMODITIES By PTI \| Published: 23rd October 2017 05:34 PM \| Last Updated: 23rd October 2017 05:45 PM Kochi, Oct 23 (PTI): Ginger (Inferior) Rs.11,000/-, Kochi, Oct 23 (PTI): Ginger (Inferior) Rs.11,000/-, Ginger (Medium) Rs.12,500/-, Ginger (Best) Rs.13,500/-, Turmeric Salem Rs.8,500/- Turmeric-Erode(Agmark) Rs.9,200/- Nuxvomica Rs.1850/-Ambahaldhar Rs.7000/- Kolinjan Rs.4300/- Kachura Rs.4,000/-Kapurkatchili Rs.14,000-17,000/- Betelnuts (Old) Rs.Nil, Betelnuts (New) Rs.19,500-20,500/- Rice Raw (NO.2) Rs.2600/- Rice Raw(No.1) Rs.3200/- Rice Boiled (Surekha) Rs.3500-3800/- Rice Jaya (Boiled) Rs.3,800-3900/- Rice Broken Rs.2200-2300/- Wheat Rs.2,550-2,650/- Chola Rs.1500-1550/-,Chillies Rs.6,800-15,000/-, Bengal Gram Rs.6,500-7,000/- Black Gram Rs.7,000-7,900/- Gingelly Rs.11,000/- Green Gram Rs.6,300-6,700/-, Horse Gram Rs.6,900/-, Peas Dal Rs.3,450-4,300/-, Toor Dal Rs.5,200-6,300/- Pepper New Rs.41,700/-, Pepper light Rs.40,000.00, Pin Heads (Cheer)Rs.15,000.00, Sugar (per bag) Rs.4,120/-(All rates per quintal). COIR YARN : Cochin Parur Thin (85 M/Kg) Rs.3,600/- Vycom Thick 200/Kg) Rs.3,900/-, Choriwal Thin Rs.5,000/- PTI CR NTR . http://www.newindianexpress.com/pti-news/2017/oct/23/prices-kochi--commodities-1680707.html The rice price has increased significantly over the past year, and there is much discussion as to why this happened. A brief review of the rice market concepts: The farmer sells paddy to whoever buys it and this ends up at the rice millers.Of course a lot of rice is milled locally in small mills for consumption in rural areas. The price of paddy will vary with location and time but the paddy market is reasonably integrated. Then the price increased rapidly from Tk2.6 per kg in July 2016 to Tk4 per kg by June 2017, an increase of 53%. An increase of that size will increase the urban CPI by 3% and the rural CPI by 12%. The official estimates however, do not indicate such increases.The typical explanation for this increase was the reduced availability of rice from the floods and the outbreak of blast disease. Other explanations were that the millers were not releasing milled rice into the market and that “syndicates” were withholding rice, driving the rice price higher. Forrest Cookson is an American economist. China Invents Rice That Can Grow in Salt Water, Can Feed Over 200 Million People ByCarl Samson Scientists in China succeeded in growing the yield of a strain of saltwater-tolerant rice nearly three times their expectation. In the spring months, over 200 types of rice were planted at the Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center in Qingdao, a coastal city in eastern China’s Shandong Province. Seawater from the Yellow Sea was pumped, diluted and channeled into the rice paddies. Researchers initially expected an output of around 4.5 tons per hectare, but surprised themselves when four types registered 6.5 to 9.3 tons per hectare. Tests on saline-alkali tolerant rice have been going on in China for some time, but the unexpected yield marks its readiness for commercialization. Research leader Yuan Longping, also known as China’s “Father of Hybrid Rice,” told reporters that cultivation of the strain can feed more than 200 million people, the South China Morning Postnoted. Qingdao-based startup Yuan Ce Biological Technology, which partnered with Yuan’s team, is now selling the new rice as “Yuan Mi” in honor of the scientist. “Yuan Mi,” however, costs 50 yuan ($7.50) per kilogram — about eight times more than the cost of ordinary rice. It is currently sold in 1-kilogram (2.2 pounds), 2-kilogram (4.4 pounds), 5-kilogram (11 pounds) and 10-kilogram (22 pounds) packs. Despite the hefty price tag, six tons of the strain have been sold since August, thanks to its impressive flavor and texture. In addition, consumers are reportedly keen on its potential health benefits. According to Xinhua, the strain could be rich in calcium and other micronutrients, as such are abundant in saline water. The property of salt as a disinfectant could also repel pathogenic bacteria, making “sea rice” less exposed to pests. As a result, farmers may decrease their use of pesticides. Yuan Ce Biological Technology expects to make 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) in “sea rice” revenue by the end of the year. Prices are expected to fall as production increases. Photos via Xinhua https://nextshark.com/china-invents-rice-can-grow-salt-water-can-feed-200-million-people/ MIA irrigators refute Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists claims on Basin Plan destruction OCTOBER 23 2017 - 2:49PM Oliver Jacques A prominent group of scientists who claim the NSW Government are “actively destroying” the Murray Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) are just headline seeking, say MIA irrigators. The front page story in the Sun Herald on the weekend reported the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists claiming the the NSW and Victorian governments are failing to properly protect a river system on which millions of Australians depend. The Wentworth Group claimed the two state governments are not doing enough to fund projects, implement strategies and negotiate with landowners to allow for the delivery of water downstream. Do you agree with the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists concerns on the Murray Darling Basin Plan VoteView Results National Irrigators Council CEO Steve Whan, however, accused the scientists of “headline seeking”. “The Wentworth Group has a legitimate role in advocating the environmental health of the Murray Darling Basin, but they are diminishing their ‘independence’ by being sensationalist, instead of constructive. “It’s all very well for someone looking in from the outside to say it should be instantly fixed, but we should recognise that the people who are actually affected are entitled to full consultation and careful planning”. Murrami rice grower Debbie Buller was less diplomatic in her condemnation of the scientists. “The Wentworth Group won't be happy until all inland production and irrigation is shut down,” she said The Murray Darling Basin Plan stipulates the amount of water that can be drawn from the Murray-Darling system, aiming to take at least 2750 gigalitres a year from irrigated agriculture and return it to rivers, wetlands and flood plains. Ms Buller says the Wentworth group are fixated with the 2750 figure, which is not grounded in any scientific basis. “They are playing politics over the numbers… there is absolutely no evidence to suggest what they’re advocating is good for the environment”. The Wentworth Group say five years after the basin plan came into effect, physical obstacles and river operating rules still impeded the delivery of water downstream. They pointed to a $200 million constraints management strategy, of which just $5 million has so far been spent. Mr Whan said while dealing with constraints is frustratingly slow, “barrelling in” with headline seeking comments is not helpful. http://www.irrigator.com.au/story/5006403/scientists-claim-on-destroying-basin-plan-called-headline-seeking/ Sri Lanka calls international bids for urgent rice imports Eight injured after two lorries crash in Mundalama Rowing: 48th Royal-Thomian Regatta next Saturday Pakistan’s new envoy presents credentials Hockey: Malays Masters host Aussie veterans Cosmos Sri Lanka is calling international bids to import 200,000 metric tonnes of rice after local production was adversely affected this year by the twin effects of floods and drought.The Ministry of Industry and Commerce said in a media statement on Monday that a tender to import a fresh tranche of rice has been called on October 19. “We are making every effort to ensure that there will be no shortages for our consumers” said the Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen. “Under the directions of the government’s Cost of Living Committee (CoLC) we announced on October 13 that we will import 500,000 mt rice. The aim of the CoLC is to support our consumers with lowest prices and give steady supplies” he added. The 500,000 mt was mostly on government to government rice procurement basis. But the ministry noted that the latest tender which too is part of this 500,000 mt tranche involves a far wider supplier base and is under the International Competitive Bidding Procedure. This means that any qualifying foreign government or even a foreign private sector supplier is able to bid for the latest rice tranche-which is 200,000 mt. The breakdown of the 200,000 mt is: 90,000 mt of parboiled Nadu rice, 60,000 mt of parboiled Samba and 50,000 mt of white raw rice. Sri Lankan rice importers too are eligible to take part in the latest bidding. The tender closes on October 30. Details of this tender are now available online for download at http://www.industry.gov.lk/web/images/procurice.pdf http://www.sundaytimes.lk/article/1033443/sri-lanka-calls-international-bids-for-urgent-rice-imports UAE business is out to serve a taste of India Maker of Kwality ice-cream is adding new categories and a second plant in Sharjah Image Credit: Clint Egbert/Gulf News Vikram Seth at the Kwality factory in Sharjah. Graviss moved in to acquire full stake of the Sharjah operations in 2006, and ice-cream production capacity has expanded gradually. Published: 12:08 October 23, 2017 By Manoj Nair, Associate Editor Dubai: A UAE based business is intent on serving up a “taste of India”, first with scoops of its branded ice-cream, and more recently, through its move into basmati rice, butter and more.“None of our products are focused on India — they are all meant for the Indian diaspora,” said Vikram Seth, Director — Finance & Investments at Mumbai-based Graviss, which owns and sells “Kwality” ice-cream outside of India. “Our audience is the Indian diaspora anywhere — we are no longer about serving just the Gulf markets. “Our headquarters is the UAE for everything that we do. Based in the UAE, we sold into the GCC and right now we are chasing the diaspora because the products we take to those markets are very different from what we do in the GCC.” The Kwality ice-cream has been around in UAE supermarkets’ cold storage section since the early 1970s, and then expanded through a full-fledged plant in Sharjah later that decade. Graviss moved in to acquire the entire stake of the Sharjah operations in 2006, and since then the ice-cream production capacity has been expanded gradually. All of its other categories such as rice, butter and packaged pre-marinated paneer are sourced from third-party suppliers on a private label basis. But what’s with the focus on the Indian diaspora and a “taste of India”? Can’t the Kwality brand target a consumer beyond demographics? “Our strategy is that we are a hard-core Indian food company,” said Seth. “With the ice-creams, we have experimented with many versions of the kulfi (a frozen dessert hugely popular among Indians). “Our flavours are typically Indian in origin — not for us the multinational way of creating a global food label and then adding some small tweaks to suit Indian tastes. “In our push for markets outside of the UAE/Gulf, we don’t necessarily need to go through niche retailers to reach our target shopper. There are ethnic sections in the biggest supermarket chains out there, be it Walmart or Tesco. Our target shoppers are out there ... and we plan on reaching them.” (Graviss sold the rights to the Kwality brand to Hindustan Lever in the mid-1990s. It holds the master-franchise rights for Baskin-Robbins in India.) But aren’t categories such as basmati rice crowded with competition? “The way we see it, basmati is a category moving from being a commodity to an FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) product. Only in the last decade has this transitioned, and being FMCG offers quality and trust. “We are sourcing it from India, with processing and packaging under our supervision. This started last year and it’s been a slow process. But we were never trying to create a market for us overnight.” And Graviss is already working on more additions that can tickle the Indian palate. Before the year is out, it plans to launch chilled all-day beverages, and again with an Indian twist. “There are certain gorillas in the local market in this category and we are going to target a head-on assault,” said Seth. “Flavoured beverages are a very recent development India ... I would say less than two years ago. And data from the GCC shows a five-fold increase in daily beverage consumption in the last five years. There is space there for a new brand to occupy, because we are getting into a niche that fits in with our heritage.” Currently, ice-cream has the biggest scoop of the Graviss revenues, and with the new product additions, its share would come down. But there is little that the current production facility in Sharjah can accommodate. That means Graviss will need to take a decision on a second unit some time soon. “We have a very old factory and we had this situation of moving from legacy systems and increasing capacity by automation,” said Seth. “We are finished with those phases. We touched the ceiling from a capacity point a long time back.” Locations shortlisted for new Sharjah facility: Two potential sites in Sharjah have been identified for Graviss’ planned second ice-cream unit. “At our current facility, we have capacity for 30 million litres of ice-cream,” said Vikram Seth of Graviss. “The new one should deliver another 50 million and with options for further expansion. “We see the new factory ready by 2021. Investments could be between Dh15 million to Dh20 million. That’s on top of the Dh20 million invested into our existing operations in recent years.” http://gulfnews.com/business/sectors/retail/uae-business-is-out-to-serve-a-taste-of-india-1.2111095 Lunchbreak: Fall vegetable and brown rice salad POSTED 11:00 AM, OCTOBER 23, 2017, BY WGN WEB DESK, UPDATED AT 03:06PM, OCTOBER 23, 2017 Justin Behlke, Culinary Director Pilot Light pilotlightchefs.org 5th Annual Feed Your Mind Gala 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Revel Fulton Market 1215 W. Fulton Market Fall Vegetable and Brown Rice Salad 2 cups dried basmati brown rice, rinsed 2 medium sized sweet potatoes, cut into small pieces 3 cups spinach, washed and roughly torn 1 apple of choice, diced into small pieces 1/2 cup pecan pieces, lightly toasted 2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or canola oil pepper, to taste Preheat oven to 400F. Using a medium sized pot with a lid or a rice cooker, cook your brown rice. If using a pot and cooking on stove top, cook the 2 cups of rice in 4 cups of water. Bring the rice and water just to a simmer uncovered. Turn down heat and cover with lid. Cook rice for 20-25 minutes over low heat or until all of the water has evaporated. Once finished allow the rice to rest for 5 minutes before using. If using a rice cooker, follow the manufacturer’s directions. Fluff rice with a fork and allow to cool on a plate before mixing into salad. Toss sweet potatoes in 1 Tbs of oil and a pinch of salt. Roast on a baking tray in the oven until tender. Allow to cool before using in the salad. Once the rice and sweet potatoes have cooled, lightly mix all of the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl and season with desired amounts of salt and pepper. This recipe is great to make in a big batch and utilize for lunch throughout the week. http://wgntv.com/2017/10/23/lunchbreak-fall-vegetable-and-brown-rice-salad/ Boro harvest drops 5pc to 1.8cr tonnes Boro production fell 5 percent year-on-year to 1.8 crore tonnes during the last harvest, the lowest since 2009-10, after floods wiped out crops in a huge number of paddy fields in the northeast. As a result, total rice output declined by 2 percent year-on-year to 3.38 crore tonnes in the last fiscal year, according to a preliminary estimate of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Crops on an area of about 3 lakh hectares were damaged because of the floods, said a senior BBS official seeking anonymity. The floods, along with low stocks of foodgrains in public storages, fuelled a price hike of the staple food, causing it to reach a record high in mid-September. This led the government not only going for imports by itself but also to slash import duty to augment supply and stabilise the market. Though prices gradually declined in the last one month, it is still higher than that of the same period last year, according to figures from the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh. The BBS, which awaits for approval from the higher authority for releasing the data, estimates that Boro paddy was harvested from about 44.5 lakh hectares, down from the usual acreage of 47-48 lakh hectares as recorded in the last couple of years. Boro accounts for 53 percent of total annual production of rice. The output estimate comes at a time when farmers are waiting to start harvesting of Aman paddy, the second biggest crop. Growers, after suffering from losses for the repeated foods during the plantation season, cultivated Aman paddy on 54 lakh hectares this season, down 2.32 percent from 55.83 lakh hectares the previous season, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and BBS data. “The condition of Aman crop is very good. We expect higher yield this year than the previous year,” said Alhaz Uddin Ahmed, additional director for monitoring and implementation at field services wing of the DAE. He said increased production of Aus and Aman can help recover 40 to 50 percent of the loss of rice from floods in haor areas. On recent heavy rainfall, Ahmed said the yield would not be affected because of the sunny weather in the last two days. Between July 1 and October 18, public and private sector import of rice stood at 12.96 lakh tonnes. The amount of rice imported in 2016-17 was 1.33 lakh tonnes. http://www.thedailystar.net/business/boro-harvest-drops-5pc-18cr-tonnes-1480870 Sri Lanka floats international tender for 200,000 MT of rice Sri Lanka has launched an open international tender to import a fresh tranche of rice– a first call in recent times to be issued to suppliers worldwide. “We are making every effort to ensure that there will be no shortages for our consumers,” said Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen. “Under the directions of the government’s Cost of Living Committee (CoLC) we announced on October 13 that we will import 500,000 MT of rice. The aim of CoLC is to support our consumers with lowest prices and give steady supplies,” he added. The 500,000 MT announced previously on October 13 was mostly on government to government rice procurement basis. However, the latest tender for 200, 000MT, which too is a part of this 500,000 MT tranche, enlists a far wider supplier base and is under the international competitive bidding procedure, meaning any qualifying foreign government or even a foreign private sector supplier is able to bid. The breakdown of the 200,000 MT is: 90,000MT of parboiled nadu rice, 60,000MT of samba (parboiled) rice, and 50,000 MT of white raw rice. Sri Lankan rice importers too are eligible to take part in the latest bidding. Of the 200,000 MT rice called for, Sri Lanka expect 100,000 MT to arrive in Colombo by end November 2017 and the other 100,000 MT to arrive by end of December 2017. The tender will close on October 30. http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Sri-Lanka-floats-international-tender-for-MT-of-rice-139047.html Bangladesh has approved the purchase of 100,000 tonnes of parboiled rice from India in a state-to-state deal at $455 a tonne, officials said on Sunday, as the government races to shore up depleted stocks and combat high prices. Traditionally the world’s fourth-biggest rice producer, Bangladesh’s rice imports are set to hit their highest levels in a decade after floods hit its crops. The price includes shipping, insurance and discharge costs. The rice is to be shipped within 60 days after signing the deal, which will take place soon, a food ministry official said. The approval followed the government’s approval of the purchase of 100,000 tonnes of white rice at $442 a tonne from Myanmar, putting aside worsening relations over the Rohingya refugee crisis. Bangladesh is also set to import 150,000 tonnes of rice from Thailand at $465 per tonne. It has already secured deals with Vietnam and Cambodia as it looks to import a total of 1.5 million tonnes of rice in the year to June. High prices of rice, a staple food for Bangladesh’s 160 million people, helped send the annual inflation rate in September to its highest level since October 2015, posing a problem for the government which faces an election next year. Strong demand from Bangladesh could further lift Asian rice prices, which hit multi-year highs in recent months after Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia saw their worst monsoon floods in years. Bangladesh imported more than 1 million tonnes of rice in the July-October period, food ministry data showed. Despite bulk imports, domestic prices have not budged, with officials and traders expecting more imports of the staple grain in the coming months. In August, the government cut a duty on rice imports for the second time in two months. The lower import duty has prompted purchases by private dealers, with most of the deals being struck with neighbouring India. Bangladesh produces around 34 million tonnes of rice annually but uses almost all its production to feed its people. It often requires imports to cope with shortages caused by floods or droughts. http://www.blackseagrain.net/novosti/bangladesh-approves-purchase-of-100-000t-rice-from-india Sri Lanka to urgently import rice to prevent rice shortage COLOMBO, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka on Monday launched an open international tender to import 200,000 metric tons of rice to prevent a severe rice shortage in the island country. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry in a statement said the tender was open to suppliers worldwide and would close on Oct 30. "We are making every effort to ensure that there will be no shortage for our consumers," Commerce and Industry Minister Rishard Bathiudeen said in the statement. Sri Lanka has launched the tender under the International Competitive Bidding Procedure, which means that any qualifying foreign government or a foreign private sector supplier is able to bid. Sri Lankan rice importers too are eligible to take part in the latest bidding. Of the 200,000 metric tons of rice called, Sri Lanka expects 100,000 metric tons to arrive in Colombo by the end of November while the remaining 100,000 metric tons is expected to arrive by end of December. "Based on a recent assessment in the world market, the potential supply sources for the latest 200,000 metric tons of rice are India, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam, though other destinations too could partner," the statement said. Sri Lanka's domestic rice market failed to produce the necessary volumes due to a poor harvest since 2016. Due to a severe drought and flash floods in 2016 and 2017, the production of rice in Sri Lanka fell by 50 percent, leading to the government urgently calling for tenders to import rice from foreign countries. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/23/c_136700192.htm Sri Lanka launches international tender to import 200,000 MT of rice (MENAFN - NewsIn.Asia) Colombo, Oct 23 (newsin.asia) - Sri Lanka, on Monday launched an open international tender to import 200,000 metric tonnes of rice to prevent a severe rice shortage in the island country. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in a statement said the tender was open to suppliers worldwide and would close on Oct 30. "We are making every effort to ensure that there will be no shortage for our consumers," Commerce and Industry Minister, Rishard Bathiudeen said in the statement. Sri Lanka has launched the tender under the International Competitive Bidding Procedure, which means that any qualifying foreign government or a foreign private sector supplier is able to bid. Sri Lankan rice importers too are eligible to take part in the latest bidding. Of the 200,000 metric tonnes of rice called, Sri Lanka expects 100,000 metric tonnes to arrive in Colombo by the end of November while the remaining 100,000 metric tonnes is expected to arrive by end of December. "Based on a recent assessment in the world market, the potential supply sources for the latest 200,000 metric tonnes of rice are India, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam, though other destinations too could partner," the statement said. Sri Lanka's domestic rice market failed to produce the necessary volumes due to a poor harvest since 2016. Due to a severe drought and flash floods in 2016 and 2017, the production of rice in Sri Lanka fell by 50 percent leading to the government urgently calling for tenders to import rice from foreign countries. http://menafn.com/1095976515/Sri-Lanka-launches-international-tender-to-import-200000-MT-of-rice Sri Lanka widens int'l rice search, issues global call Published inWorld - Business · font size · Print Sri Lanka has launched an open international tender to import a fresh tranche of rice on 19th October – a first call in recent times to be issued to suppliers worldwide. “We are making every effort to ensure that there will be no shortages for our consumers” said the Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen during his discussions with officials at the Ministry last Thursday. “Under the directions of the government’s Cost of Living Committee (CoLC) we announced that we will import 500,000 MT rice. The aim of CoLC is to support our consumers with lowest prices and give steady supplies” he added. The 500,000 MT announced on 13th October was mostly on government to government rice procurement basis. However, the latest tender which too is part of this 500,000 MT tranche, enlists a far wider supplier base and is under the International Competitive Bidding Procedure, meaning any qualifying foreign government or even a foreign private sector supplier is able to bid for the latest rice tranche-which is 200,000 MT. The breakdown of the 200,000 MT being 90,000MT of Parboiled Nadu rice, 60,000MT of Samba (Parboiled) rice, and 50,000 MT of White Raw rice. Sri Lankan rice importers too are eligible to take part in the latest bidding. Of the 200,000 MT rice called for, Sri Lanka expect 100,000 MT to arrive in Colombo by end November 2017 and the other 100,000 MT to arrive by end of December 2017. The tender will close on 30th October. Details of this tender call are now available online for download at http://www.industry.gov.lk/web/images/procurice.pdf Based on assessments of rice supply capacities in many world markets at present (October 2017) the potential supply sources for the latest 200,000 MT rice are India, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam -though other destinations too could partner. The Cooperative Wholesale Establishment (CWE) under Minister Bathiudeen which will take delivery of imports, has called for the latest international tenders and eligible bidders may obtain further information from 9am to 3pm on weekdays (Monday to Friday) until 30th October 2017 from the Procurement Unit of the Co-operative Wholesale Establishment, No. 27, Vauxhall Street, Colombo 02 (or from the above online location which specifies required documents for submission to take part in the tender). A bid security of Sri Lankan Rupees (LKR) 2 Million (approximately USD 13000) or 0.1% of the total cost of the tender, whichever is lower and 1Kg sample pack in each rice variety needs to be submitted. Late bids will be rejected. The decision of the procurement committee will be final. Even though the called amount is 200,000 MT new rice volumes would be tendered if market conditions call for more low priced rice from abroad. The first 8,890 MT (of 100,000 MT) raw Nadu rice from India that have been brought in to Colombo Port by such container vessels as Charles Schultz and Vladivostock 12 in mid-October have now been offloaded and being transported to CWE warehouses. According to Minister Bathiudeen and his officials, domestic Lankan rice market has faced supply pressures as three consecutive harvesting seasons (2016 & 2016/’17) failed to produce usual paddy volumes resulting in a 50% fall in domestic rice supply this year, thereby necessitating imports to the country to sustain the market. https://www.news.lk/news/world/item/18440-sri-lanka-widens-int-l-rice-search-issues-global-call Govt’s rice procurement rises marginally to 69.89 LT so far NEW DELHI, OCT 23: The government’s rice procurement rose marginally to 69.89 lakh tonnes (LT) so far in the 2017–18 marketing year that started this month, compared to 69.31 LT in the year-ago, a senior Food Ministry official said.Food Corporation of India (FCI), the nodal agency for procurement and distribution, had procured 381 LT in the 2016–17 marketing season (October–September). For the current year, the government has fixed a higher rice procurement target at 375 LT on hopes of good production. “The arrival of paddy is picking up in mandis. Till last week, about 111 LT of paddy had arrived in Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh,” the official told PTI. FCI and state agencies, which normally buy in rice format, have procured 41.33 LT of the grain in Punjab and 28.56 LT in Haryana so far. The procurement in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand has just begun and will pick up pace in the coming days, the official said, adding that a little over 22,000 tonnes have been procured from Uttar Pradesh so far. The procurement is being done at minimum support prices (MSP). For 2017–18, paddy MSP of ‘common’ grade variety has been fixed at Rs 1,550 per quintal, while that of ‘A’ grade variety at Rs 1,590 per quintal. Rice output is pegged at 94.48 million tonnes in the kharif 2017–18 season, slightly lower than 96.39 million tonnes in the year-ago, as per the Agriculture Ministry’s first estimate. A small quantity of rice come from rabi season also, sowing of which will begin soon. Africa: As Africa's Need for Food Grows, Mali's Rice Turnaround Shows a Way Forward By Isaiah Esipisu Abidjan — "Africa has the resources, skills, and human and land capacity to move from importer to exporter by eating food made in Africa".In 2008, as food prices rose around the world, riots broke out in West Africa, and Mali's government stepped in.It quickly launched an initiative to subsidise purchases of good-quality certified rice seed, as well as fertilisers, for farmers, in an effort to cut reliance on rice imports and grow more food of its own. In just two years, the country was producing enough grain for domestic consumption, and today is a rice exporter, said Bourema Dembele, who until July was director of research at Mali's Institut d'Economie Rurale, a government institution. "We had no choice other than to develop a policy that would later see our country out of the crisis," said Dembele, now a Mali programme officer for the Alliance for a Green Revolution Africa (AGRA), a nongovernmental organisation.Such policies need to be replicated around Africa if the continent is to cope with a burgeoning population and climate change while improving food security and economic growth, African experts say. "Rice is going to be the biggest challenge for Africa because countries highly depend on imports from sources that are totally unsustainable," William Asiko, the executive director of Grow Africa, a non-governmental organisation, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Lower Kharif Harvest Projected For Indian Crop Year 2017-18, says USDA According to the global agriculture intelligence network of USDA ‘market sources report that the first advance estimates may be on the higher side largely based on the provisional planting reports as the prolonged dry spell in the unirrigated areas is also likely to affect yield prospects’ 23October, 2017 by Prabodh Krishna According to Foreign Agriculture Service of US agriculture department, Indian government has forecasted a lower Kharif harvest for 2017-18 season citing the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) which released the First Advance Estimate of Food Grain Production for the Indian Crop Year (ICY) 2017-18 (July-June) estimating India’s kharif grain production at 134.7 MMT, nearly 4 MMT lower than last year, but still the second highest harvest recorded. The crop-wise breakup is: · Rice at 94.5 MMT (vs.96.4 MMT last year record) · Corn at 18.7 MMT (vs. 19.2 MMT last year record) · Pulses at 8.7 MMT (vs. 9.4 MMT last record) · Other coarse grains production at 12.8 MMT (vs. 13.5 MMT last year) According to the global agriculture intelligence network of USDA ‘market sources report that the first advance estimates may be on the higher side largely based on the provisional planting reports as the prolonged dry spell in the unirrigated areas is also likely to affect yield prospects’. Production Lowered For Rice Post forecasts monsoon year 2017-18 rice production was lower at 107.5 MMT on lower than expected planting and yield due to prolonged dry conditions and floods during planting and crop growth stages in some rice growing states. USDA has also pointed out ‘The Ministry of Agriculture’s latest report which indicates rice planting through 22nd September 2017, at 37.7 million hectares, which is about 0.5 million hectares lower than rice planting during the corresponding period last year, but higher than the five-year historical average of 37.4 million hectares. Relatively dry conditions during July and August delayed planting in the largely unirrigated rice growing southern and eastern states. The prolonged dry spells during August and September affected the critical vegetative growth and flowering stages, mostly in the central states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and parts of eastern India. The eastern part of Uttar Pradesh and northern Bihar faced severe flood conditions during August which caused damage to the standing rice crop at the early vegetative growth stage. Relatively weak reservoir water position for irrigation is also likely to affect the planting prospects for the upcoming rabi season rice in the eastern and southern states. However, the crop is progressing very well under adequate soil moisture conditions in the irrigated rice growing areas, particularly in the northern and eastern states. Consequently, post estimates monsoon year 2017-18 rice production at 107.5 MMT (94 MMT kharif rice and 13.5 MMT rabi rice) from 42.7 million hectare area, the second highest harvest recorded. However, cyclones in October and November in the eastern coast could further adversely affect the current production forecast. Based on the MoA’s 4th advance estimate, MY 2016/17 rice production is estimated at 110.2 MMT from 43.2 million hectares. Based on the latest figures from the Food Corporation of India, government rice procurement for MY 2016-17 is estimated to reach a record 38.1 MMT compared to 34.2 MMT last year; the previous record was 35 MMT in monsoon year 2011-12. Boost In Current Year’s Wheat Procurement Due To Record Production Record production boosted the current year government wheat procurement to 30.8 MMT compared to last year’s low of 22.9 MMT. Despite higher government procurement, market sources report that local traders in the major wheat growing states, particularly Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, are holding larger than normal quantities of wheat stocks supporting the current year’s record harvest estimate. The open market prices of wheat in the major growing states continue to rule in the range of INR 15,800 to 16,200 per MT in September suggesting sufficient availability of domestic wheat as local trade holds higher stocks in expectation of a late season surge in prices. Consequently, Post has raised the monsoon year 2017-18 wheat production to 98.4 MMT and adopted the MoA’s official estimate as it reflects the market situation realistically, says USDA report. http://businessworld.in/article/Lower-Kharif-Harvest-Projected-For-Indian-Crop-Year-2017-18-says-USDA/23-10-2017-129165/ Nagpur Foodgrain Prices Open- October 24, 2017 Reuters \| Oct 24, 2017, 14:05 IST Nagpur Foodgrain Prices - APMC/Open Market-October 24 Nagpur, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Tuar and gram varieties recovered in Nagpur Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) on increased demand from local millers amid tight supply from producing regions. Fresh rise in Madhya Pradesh gram prices and reported demand from South-based millers also helped to push up prices, according to sources. FOODGRAINS & PULSES GRAM * Gram varieties ruled steady in open market here but demand was poor. TUAR * Tuar gavarani declined further in open market here in absence of buyers amid good stock position. * Batri dal reported higher in open market on renewed seasonal demand from local traders. * In Akola, Tuar New - 3,900-4,000, Tuar dal (clean) - 5,700-6,000, Udid Mogar (clean) - 7,800-8,500, Moong Mogar (clean) 6,900-7,200, Gram - 5,000-5,025, Gram Super best - 7,100-7,300 * Wheat, rice and other foodgrain items moved in a narrow range in scattered deals and settled at last levels in weak deals. Nagpur foodgrains APMC auction/open-market prices in rupees for 100 kg FOODGRAINS Available prices Previous close Gram Auction 4,300-4,930 4,300-4,900 Gram Pink Auction n.a. 2,100-2,600 Tuar Auction 3,600-3,950 3,500-3,900 Moong Auction n.a. 3,900-4,200 Udid Auction n.a. 4,300-4,500 Masoor Auction n.a. 2,600-2,800 Wheat Mill quality Auction 1,592-1,782 1,586-1,664 Gram Super Best Bold 7,000-7,500 7,000-7,500 Gram Super Best n.a. n.a. Gram Medium Best 6,400-6,800 6,400-6,800 Gram Dal Medium n.a. n.a Gram Mill Quality 5,100-5,200 5,100-5,200 Desi gram Raw 4,950-5,050 4,950-5,050 Gram Kabuli 12,500-13,200 12,500-13,200 Tuar Fataka Best-New 6,000-6,200 6,000-6,200 Tuar Fataka Medium-New 5,600-5,900 5,600-5,900 Tuar Dal Best Phod-New 5,300-5,600 5,300-5,600 Tuar Dal Medium phod-New 4,800-5,200 4,800-5,200 Tuar Gavarani New 3,850-3,950 4,000-4,100 Tuar Karnataka 4,200-4,500 4,200-4,500 Masoor dal best 4,800-5,200 4,800-5,200 Masoor dal medium 4,400-4,800 4,400-4,800 Masoor n.a. n.a. Moong Mogar bold (New) 6,800-7,200 6,800-7,200 Moong Mogar Medium 6,200-6,600 6,200-6,600 Moong dal Chilka 5,400-5,800 5,400-5,800 Moong Mill quality n.a. n.a. Moong Chamki best 6,900-7,400 6,900-7,400 Udid Mogar best (100 INR/KG) (New) 8,000-8,500 8,000-8,500 Udid Mogar Medium (100 INR/KG) 6,200-7,200 6,200-7,200 Udid Dal Black (100 INR/KG) 5,200-6,200 5,200-6,200 Batri dal (100 INR/KG) 5,200-5,450 5,000-5,300 Lakhodi dal (100 INR/kg) 2,800-3,000 2,800-3,000 Watana Dal (100 INR/KG) 2,900-3,100 2,900-3,100 Watana Green Best (100 INR/KG) 3,800-4,400 3,800-4,400 Wheat 308 (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,000 1,900-2,000 Wheat Mill quality (100 INR/KG) 1,700-1,850 1,700-1,850 Wheat Filter (100 INR/KG) 2,100-2,300 2,100-2,300 Wheat Lokwan best (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,400 2,200-2,400 Wheat Lokwan medium (100 INR/KG) 1,900-2,100 1,900-2,100 Lokwan Hath Binar (100 INR/KG) n.a. n.a. MP Sharbati Best (100 INR/KG) 3,100-3,600 3,100-3,600 MP Sharbati Medium (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,700 2,200-2,700 Rice BPT best (100 INR/KG) 3,000-3,500 3,000-3,500 Rice BPT medium (100 INR/KG) 2,800-2,900 2,800-2,900 Rice Luchai (100 INR/KG) 2,200-2,400 2,200-2,400 Rice Swarna best (100 INR/KG) 2,500-2,600 2,500-2,600 Rice Swarna medium (100 INR/KG) 2,300-2,400 2,300-2,400 Rice HMT best (100 INR/KG) 3,600-4,000 3,600-4,000 Rice HMT medium (100 INR/KG) 3,250-3,600 3,250-3,600 Rice Shriram best(100 INR/KG) 4,600-5,000 4,600-5,000 Rice Shriram med (100 INR/KG) 4,200-4,500 4,200-4,400 Rice Basmati best (100 INR/KG) 10,000-14,000 10,000-14,000 Rice Basmati Medium (100 INR/KG) 5,000-7,500 5,000-7,500 Rice Chinnor best 100 INR/KG) 4,700-4,900 4,700-4,900 Rice Chinnor medium (100 INR/KG) 4,400-4,600 4,400-4,600 Jowar Gavarani (100 INR/KG) 2,000-2,100 2,000-2,100 Jowar CH-5 (100 INR/KG) 1,700-2,000 1,700-2,000 WEATHER (NAGPUR) Maximum temp. 34.6 degree Celsius, minimum temp. 15.8 degree Celsius Rainfall : Nil FORECAST: Partly cloudy sky. Maximum and minimum temperature would be around and 34 and 15 degree Celsius respectively. Note: n.a.--not available (For oils, transport costs are excluded from plant delivery prices, but included in market prices) https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/nagpur-foodgrain-prices-open-october-24-2017/articleshow/61199492.cms Open FREE Demat Account and get access to indepth research on 500 stocks The price of parboiled Rice in India witnessed a sharp increase of $4 to $404-$407 per tonne. Because of heavy rainfall in some of the main Rice growing region, there was a delay in the harvest, this contributed to the rise in the price. The southern and eastern region of India received heavy rainfall reduced the production of summer Rice crops. India being a major country for exporting food grains was threatened by the prolonged period of rainfall, damaging most of the crop which was ready for harvest. This may lead to fall in 2% to 94.48 million tonnes in the production of a summer-sowing crop. Other major rice exporting country Vietnam had also witnessed heavy rainfall which resulted in high price and scarce supply. Thailand being one among major rice exporting country witnessed price fall due to low overseas demand, while the trend of supply is upwards despite rain and flood in parts of the country. Punjab, Haryana procure over 130 lakh tonnes of paddy IANS\| Updated: Oct 23, 2017, 10.14 PM IST The paddy arrival and procurement will continue till the end of November.CHANDIGARH: Agrarian states Punjab and Haryana have procured over 130 lakh tonnes of paddy this season, food and supplies department officials said here on Monday. Punjab has procured nearly 84 lakh tonnes of paddy and Haryana over 46 lakh tonnes. Over 97.6 per cent of the paddy in Punjab has been procured by government agencies while the figure in Haryana is 96 per cent. The rest of the paddy has been procured by rice millers and traders. The procurement of paddy began in both states on October 1. The Reserve Bank of India has sanctioned nearly Rs 28,263 crore to Punjab to make payments to farmers for the paddy procured. The paddy arrival and procurement will continue till the end of November. Both states are expecting a bumper crop this year with total procurement likely to be around 225 lakh tonnes. http://www.indiainfoline.com/article/news-top-story/sharp-rally-in-indias-rice-price-117102300033_1.html "The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line243
__label__wiki	0.672129	0.672129	23rd October,2018 daily Global Regional Local Rice E-Newsletter Of Basmati exports BR ResearchOctober 22, 2018 The global basmati rice market stood at $10.5 billion in 2017 and is growing at a CAGR of 11 percent. By 2022, the market is anticipated to be worth $18 billion. Since it has originated in the subcontinent, Pakistan and India are the main growers of basmati rice but Pakistan’s exports last year were half a billion dollars compared to India’s nearly $4 billion. Why? One reason is Iran’s market for Basmati rice which is amongst the biggest in the world. The pseudo barter system that India set up with Iran allowed the former to buy oil on easy credit terms and pay in part through rice. This gave India access to Iran’s $1 billion rice market of which Pakistan’s share was $2 million in FY17. Regardless of India’s blustering to the contrary, Trump’s sanctions on Iran’s oil imports will greatly curtail this market. One could hope that the recently created Pak-Iran trade committee will identify the opportunity and find a way to circumvent banking challenges but we all know that is not going to happen. Even if Pakistan “reserves the right to pursue legitimate economic and commercial interests” with Iran, pre-Trump bilateral trade was languishing at $18 million in FY18. Despite the bold words, Pakistan will not risk losing US as its biggest export market nor provoke further American ire which is why trade has dwindled to nearly zero in recent months. On the flip side, if India cannot export basmati rice to Iran, it will have a surplus on hand which will put downward pressure on basmati rice. If anything, Pakistan’s exports globally may face more competition on price from India once Trump’s sanctions are implemented. The other big consumers of basmati rice are the GCC countries, mainly Saudi Arabia and UAE. While the oil producing bloc is the biggest consumer of Pakistan’s basmati rice, the country’s total exports are about a quarter of the 2 million ton demand of GCC countries. This has allowed India to capture the lion’s share, especially since there are several allegations of Pakistani rice being branded as Indian and being sold at higher prices via Dubai. Pakistan does have a significant share in the EU. However, this has more to do with EU’s restrictions on the level of fungicide present in Indian basmati rice which will take a few crop cycles to weed out than on Pakistan’s ability to compete successfully internationally. While a big market for basmati rice exists globally and Pakistan is one of the two exporters, its share is limited. Lack of ability to penetrate markets is one end of the equation. Given that India’s land under rice cultivation is 16 times that of Pakistan, and that Indian brands are household names while Pakistan’s branding of rice remains an issue, it is no wonder that India’s exports are eight times more than Pakistan’s. https://www.brecorder.com/2018/10/22/448428/of-basmati-exports/ Pakistan needs to go for high value-added export basket By Hussain Zaidi Capital inflows in form of export receipts are less than outflows in shape of import payments. PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s terms of trade, which measure the ratio of export to import prices, have not only been adverse, but have also deteriorated over the years, which has adversely impacted the economy in terms of growth and balance of payments. If an economy’s terms of trade are less than 100%, they are regarded as adverse. This signifies that capital inflows into the economy in the form of export receipts are less than capital outflows in the form of import payments. In the case of Pakistan, like most other non-oil exporting developing countries, both trade balance and terms of trade have remained adverse, which shows that not only we import more than we export, but on balance our exports are much cheaper than imports. This is hardly surprising, because Pakistan is essentially an exporter of primary products, such as rice, and low-technology goods, which are derived from products such as textile and leather articles. On the other hand, our imports comprise largely fuels, such as crude oil, consumer products, and capital goods and machinery. Prices of non-oil primary products are generally much lower and prices of low-technology goods are less than those of machinery and equipment (the high and medium-technology products). Pakistan’s terms of trade problem is compounded by the fact that commodity-based products that it exports are also low-priced because they have low value addition and technology content, lack product upgrade and sophistication, are labour-intensive (unskilled) and are sold to the low end of the market. In the case of developing countries, which depend on non-oil primary products for export earnings, the terms of trade tend to deteriorate over time. In the last one decade from fiscal year 2008 to 2017 – full-year data for FY18 is not yet available, Pakistan recorded the overall annual average terms of trade of 55.82%. However, in the preceding decade (FY1998-2007), the average terms of trade were 88.26%, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). The data shows a sharp deterioration in the terms of trade over the years. In FY17, Pakistan’s terms of trade stood at 57.17%, which suggests that Pakistan’s average export prices are nearly half the import prices. When a country faces a gap so large between its export and import prices, the only way it can avoid a substantial trade deficit is to drastically increase the quantity of exports. However, this requires a large exportable surplus, which Pakistan does not have. Besides, an increase in export supplies tends to depress their prices. Hence, it has not been possible for Pakistan to compensate for low export prices by increasing export supplies. On a disaggregate level, it is only in the primary sectors, such as food and fuels, that Pakistan’s terms of trade have been mostly more than 100% each. In the value-added sector, notably manufactures, and machinery and transport equipment, the terms of trade have been mostly adverse. The fact that Pakistan has had favourable terms in case of primary products and adverse terms in case of value-added products seems to be a paradox. It only shows that primary products Pakistan exports on average carry a higher price than primary products it imports. Conversely, chemicals, manufactured goods and capital and transport equipment that Pakistan imports on average carry a much higher price than that for the products of the same categories it exports. Better trade terms Favourable or improved terms of trade enable a country to buy a larger quantity of goods in exchange for a smaller quantity of exports. Since exports raise prices in the domestic market due to reduced supply of goods, they reduce consumer welfare and enhance producer welfare. On the other hand, imports increase consumer welfare and reduce producer welfare. A country’s overall welfare is a function of both consumer and producer welfare. The favourable terms of trade, which allow a country to earn high export revenues by selling a smaller quantity of products to foreigners, thus increase overall welfare in an economy. The exchange of relatively small quantities of exports for relatively large quantities of imports also allows a country to raise the living standards of the people. The terms of trade also bear upon economic growth and development. Being a developing country, Pakistan needs to import machinery, equipment and intermediate goods in sufficient quantities to maintain the growth momentum. Oil and other petroleum products are necessary to keep the wheels of the economy moving. Since exports are the principal source of earning foreign exchange, adverse terms of trade have constrained the ability to import industrial goods and raw material in sufficient quantities, which have slowed down the growth momentum. A high trade deficit, which is underpinned by both high import prices relative to export prices and import quantities, is politically disturbing for the government, which is forced to adopt measures such as regulatory duties and restricting imports including those which are needed by the domestic industry. At any rate, the increase in import prices hits the consumer hard. Besides, export revenue is an important source of savings. When businesses earn low revenue per unit of exports, they are deficient in the funds required for capital formation, which discourages private-sector investment. Adverse terms of trade may also cause balance of payments problems. Countries, which rely on primary products for exports or otherwise have a high export concentration ratio, are especially vulnerable to terms of trade-induced balance of payments shocks. In the case of Pakistan, a fall in world commodity prices often worsens the terms of trade and exacerbates the trade imbalance, thus leading to balance of payments problems. In order to improve the terms, the country needs to move towards a high value-added and rich technology content export basket. The writer is an Islamabad-based columnist Published in The Express Tribune, October 22nd, 2018. https://tribune.com.pk/story/1831008/2-pakistan-needs-go-high-value-added-export-basket/ Pak food products showcased at world’s biggest fair in Paris PARIS: A purpose-build Pakistan Pavilion at the Global International Food Products Exhibition (SIAL) held in Paris from October 21-25, 2018 attracted many buyers from around the world, says a press release received from Paris here today. Over forty-five renowned Pakistani companies exhibited a variety of food products including rice, pickles, dry fruits, beverages, spices and processed food. Buyers from many countries including France who visited the Pakistan stalls showed keen interest in Pakistani products. Pakistan’s Ambassador Paris Moin ul Haque visited the Pakistani Pavilion and appreciated the active participation of the Pakistani companies in the exhibition. In his interaction with the exhibitors, he emphasized the importance of quality control, competitive pricing, innovative marketing strategies and strong business ethics to compete at the international level. The ambassador noted with satisfaction that as result of the combined efforts of the Embassy and TDAP which included promotional activities and participation in the food related fairs and exhibitions, was bringing promising results. The exports of Pakistani food to France has registered unprecedented increase of 18.8% in the year 2017-18 compare to the year 2016-17. The exports of Pakistani Basmati rice reached to Rs.678 million in 2017-18 compared to Rs.192 million of 2016-17 and Husked Brown Rice exports reached to Rs.1 billion in 2017-18 compared to Rs.726 million in 2016-17. Over 7,020 companies from 109 countries are showcasing their products in the Global International Food Products Exhibition (SIAL). https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/384167-pak-food-products-showcased-at-worlds-biggest-fair-in-paris The potential of China's import market for Pakistan By Daniel Hyatt China.org.cn, October 22, 2018 File photo shows the National Exhibition and Convention Center, the venue of the 2018 China International Import Expo (CIIE), in Shanghai, east China. [Photo/Xinhua] The grand event manifesting China's commitment to trade liberalization and economic globalization is right around the corner. Starting from Nov. 5, the China International Import Expo (CIIE) will open the country's market further to the world as many exporters, including those from Pakistan, plan to take advantage of this unique opportunity. A look at China's market reveals that it is the world's biggest destination for agricultural products including grains, cotton, sugar, meat, and milk – and Pakistan produces almost all of these in abundance. Connecting the agro potential of Pakistan with China's opening up measures like CIIE will help in exploring new trade avenues. One-third of Pakistan's total agricultural export is rice. Just a few years back, China was the second largest buyer of Pakistan's non-basmati type rice but the continuously evolving arrangements have changed the scenario. Nonetheless, traders and governments from both countries have recently shown a willingness to resume their high-volume trade. After a positive response from the Chinese side to Pakistan's request for preferential treatment during Free Trade Agreement (FTA) discussions, it is expected that the commodity's export to China will increase. Pakistan is the world's fourth largest producer of cotton and has Asia's third largest spinning capacity. Several factors, including higher competitiveness of products and the U.S. dollar's surge against the local currency, boosted its textile exports to around 9 percent in the last financial year. Fruits also form a strong part of Pakistan's export base. Most prominent among these is a citrus variant known as kinnow which hit record high export figures of 370,000 tons in the 2017-18 season. Experts believe that Pakistan has an immediate capacity of exporting 50 to 80 thousand tons of kinnow to China in the next three years. Mangoes, revered as the king of fruits in Pakistan, are another of its major exports. Shipping starts in the month of May but is mostly headed to Europe. This year's increased queries from Chinese buyers, however, will lead to an expanded share in China. China has been investing extensively in its partner countries' agricultural sectors, primarily for two reasons. First, augmented farm produce will help resolve their local food security issues, and second, they will be able to export the surplus to China. One such partnership among agriculturalists of Pakistan and China has been in the production of hybrid wheat. Around 150 Chinese experts from Sinochem Group Agriculture Division, China's biggest agricultural inputs company, have recently visited 20 cities in Pakistan and taught modern methods to local farmers. China's hybrid wheat, using the two-line hybrid technique, has been successfully harvested on a large scale in Pakistan; and data from a subsequent study by Pakistan's Guard Agricultural Research depicts that production in central regions rose by 45 percent. Pakistan and China have also been working together on farming hybrid rice. Chinese scientists made a month-long visit to Pakistan last year after Pakistan requested help in introducing hybrid rice in all of its four ecological zones. A training program was carried out for Pakistani researchers, scientists and farmers in the production of hybrid rice, with the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) anticipating a high yielding harvest. Another ambitious project launched by China is the "Agricultural Education, Science and Technology Innovation League." In a ceremony held in Beijing this year, the University of Sargodha became the first public sector university from Pakistan to join the initiative. In addition to advancing cooperation on technical application, policy dialogue and talent cultivation, the league will promote agricultural research among participating countries. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the flagship project of the BRI, will play an important role in stepping up agricultural trade between the two countries. Although road connectivity exists in the form of the Karakoram Highway, it is limited only to the northern areas of Pakistan. With CPEC extending to the extreme southern end, it will be possible to transport agricultural products to enhance bilateral trade. China is modernizing Pakistan's railway network as well. Several projects have been started on the ML-1 line and are progressing fast despite Pakistan's recent elections. After their completion, the freight capacity will further improve the transportation of agricultural produce from Karachi to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang will benefit most from these connectivity projects because it serves as the first stop for goods arriving from Pakistan. Furthermore, the Chinese government's efforts to make the province agriculturally self-sufficient will be augmented by the Pakistani imports. Cooperation in agricultural research and trade forms a part of several joint ventures undertaken by China and Pakistan to provide the best products for their people. It is an area which has a tremendous capacity for expansion. If stakeholders from both countries put more focus in this direction, profits can be assured for importers and exporters alike. Daniel Hyatt is a Pakistan-based freelance journalist and commentator. Opinion articles reflect the views of their authors only, not necessarily those of China.org.cn. http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2018-10/22/content_66488878.htm Farmers resort to distress sale K.M. Dayashankar KARIMNAGAR, OCTOBER 22, 2018 00:00 IST Government fails to procure paddy and open IKP centres Farmers are resorting to distress sale of paddy produce even though they had secured bumper harvest and the Union government increased the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy from this kharif season. Reason? The State government had failed to open Indira Kranthi Pathakam (IKP) procurement centres, primary agricultural cooperative societies or DCMS centres in the district, and hasn’t even started procuring paddy at agricultural market yards. Heaps of paddy crop are drying up in the fields. Private millers and traders are directly visiting villages with their vehicles and weighing machines and procuring paddy from farmers paying them less than the MSP. When the government increased MSP of paddy from Rs. 1,510 per quintal for A grade variety to Rs. 1,770 and from Rs. 1,470 per quintal for ordinary variety to Rs. 1,750, farmers were forced to resort to distress sale from Rs. 1,400 to Rs. 1,500 a quintal. Rythu Ikya Vedika district president Muduganti Venkat Reddy alleged officials have colluded with private rice millers and were not opening procurement centres. However, officials said the centres would open in three to four days in all https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-telangana/farmers-resort-to-distress-sale/article25283335.ece Commission agents, Cong leader in war of words Oct 22, 2018, 12:44 AM; last updated: Oct 22, 2018, 12:44 AM (IST Balwant Garg Faridkot, October 21 Farmers are facing problem in selling their paddy crop due to the high moisture content and the issue is also leading to incidents of tension between them and commission agents, rice-millers and officials of procurement agencies in the area. Rice-millers and commission agents in Kotkapura on Sunday accused a Congress leader of making unreasonable comments. The commission agents and rice-millers are furious after the Congress leader alleged that farmers were being forced to sell their high moisture paddy produce by offering deduction of 5 kg per quintal. Accusing Dhanjit Virk, secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, of playing politics in the hour of crisis, commission agents and rice-millers alleged that for his narrow political gains, the Congress leader was inspecting the paddy brought in mandis and inciting the farmers for agitation against them. Though there is no case in which a farmer was asked to sell his produce at reduced price or at a deduction of 5 kg per quintal for the reason of paddy having moisture content higher than the permissible limit of 17 per cent, after his visit to Kotkapura mandi, the Congress leader alleged that there was fleecing of the farmers in the name of high moisture content in paddy. Threatening to start an agitation against the alleged fleecing of farmers, the Congress leader said there were many complaints of the farmers falling victim to the alleged nexus between the commission agents and rice-millers. The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee alleged that rice-millers were bargaining for larger deductions citing high moisture content in the grain. Refuting the allegations, the commission agents and rice millers in Kotkapura alleged that the Congress leader was making unsubstantiated and wild allegations for political gains. These allegations are aimed at creating a rift between the farmers and commission agents, said Sohan Singh Bargari, president, Kotkapura Commission Agents’ Association. While Virk alleged that the meter to evaluate moisture in the paddy were faulty and it was showing the moisture content at higher side to exploit the farmers, Udham Singh Aulakh, district president of the commission agents’ association said the moisture measuring meters were at the command of employees of the Market Committee and Procurement Agencies. The farmers have to dry their crop to bring down the moisture content, he said. However the Congress leader said on the pretext of high moisture content, the farmers were forced to sell his produce at the “mercy and will” of the commission agents and rice-millers. “I will raise the matter with the Chief Minister,” he said. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/bathinda/commission-agents-cong-leader-in-war-of-words/671541.html INLD delegation calls on Khattar; demands compensation for farmers Press Trust of India \| Chandigarh Last Updated at October 22, 2018 19:40 IST A delegation of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Monday called on Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and demanded compensation for farmers who suffered damage to their crops due to recent rains and hailstorm in the state. The delegation was led by Leader of Opposition Abhay Singh Chautala. This year, the farmers have faced double misfortune in the form of damaged crops, particularly paddy, and the flooding of the fields has posed a threat to the forthcoming rabi sowing season unless these are drained out in time, the opposition delegation apprised Khattar. The INLD has also demanded that the Haryana government provide pumps at its own cost to drain out the water-logged fields, Chautala told reporters here. He said the delegation also pointed out that "farmers are short-changed in the grain markets in the name of moisture content of paddy, suffer short weighing and ruse of discoloration of paddy due to rains". "Using these tools, the government agencies, in connivance with the rice-millers, impose heavy cuts on the farmers thereby forcing them to sell their produce much below the minimum support price (MSP), announced with so much fanfare by the BJP government," he said. "Even the producers of bajra have not been spared since the procurement agencies deliberately keep away from the markets when the farmers bring their produce so that they are forced to sell it at throw away prices to the private buyers. "This practice has been going on for the past few years and has been repeated again this year. In this manner, a systematic loot and exploitation of the farmers has been going on, but the government has remained indifferent to their fate," he alleged. The INLD also advocated the cause of sugarcane producers who are suffering because of the alleged non-payment of dues even after the sugar mills stopped purchase of sugarcane six months ago. In view of these serious challenges faced by the farmers, the INLD has demanded that 'special girdawari' or revenue survey be held immediately and compensation of at least Rs 25,000 per acre be paid to them. It also demanded pumps for draining out water from fields, putting an end to the practice of exploitation of the farmers in the grain markets, purchase of bajra at the MSP announced by the government and payment of dues of sugarcane producers. "If the government fails to meet these genuine demands then the INLD will be forced to launch an agitation, the consequences of which will squarely lie with the government," Chautala said. The INLD also demanded that cases of stubble burning registered against farmers be withdrawn and the party sought financial and technical assistance and support for farmers. https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/inld-delegation-calls-on-khattar-demands-compensation-for-farmers-118102201069_1.html Grain pain: Japan's aging rice farmers face uncertain future Farms all over Japan are dying as farmers age Oct. 21 04:05 pm JST By Natsuko Fukue KAZO, Saitama A crop once deemed so important it served as a form of currency, Japanese rice has fallen out of favor with younger, Westernised consumers, in a shift that has left aging farmers struggling for survival. Rice consumption has nearly halved over the past 50 years, and as the older generation of farmers and consumers dies out, some fear the industry will be unable to hold its own in a competitive global market. Kazuo Ogura, a 66-year-old farmer, is one of the lucky ones. His son Yuichi decided to follow him into the family business. Ogura senior looks on proudly as his 38-year-old son uses a specially designed machine to plant this year's harvest, splashing through golden paddy fields that stretch as far as the eye can see. Surviving in this tough environment is all about "producing quality food at a reasonable price" and harnessing economies provided by large-scale production, Ogura told AFP. The future of his establishment in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, some 50 kilometers north of Tokyo, looks assured as Yuichi follows in his muddy footsteps but farms all over Japan are dying as farmers age -- the average age of a rice farmer is now 67. "I was the only one out of 220 students at my local school who went into farming," Yuichi said. "There are not many people in their 20s who go into farming." Even existing farms have been forced to close when their machinery breaks down because farmers cannot afford to replace the costly equipment. "Machines get more expensive every year. To replace them requires a certain level of profit but that's difficult when you are farming a small plot," Yuichi said. The Oguras have managed to stay competitive so far by joining forces with two other families to farm around 100 hectares of rice fields -- nearly 100 times the size of the average plot. They sell their rice -- which belongs to the leading Koshihikari variety -- at 300 yen per kilogram. Although rice consumption in Japan has been falling for more than half a century, the crop's exalted status in Japanese culture -- where it even serves a religious purpose in Shinto rituals -- has ensured its survival until now. Generous subsidies aimed at controlling supplies and prices have made rice farming one of Japan's most protected industries, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government scrapped the policy this year, urging farmers to become more competitive. Japanese agriculture is "at a turning point", Ken Saito, who was farm minister until a reshuffle this month, told reporters. "Farmers have to think about producing food that sells. More than ever, they have to be attuned to the market," he added. And as Abe prepares for potential trade negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump, analysts say he may have to concede some ground on agriculture -- which could include Japan's customary high tariffs on imported rice -- in order to avoid getting whacked with U.S. duties on automobiles and other key exports. But even a surge in cheaper imported varieties of rice is unlikely to shift the palates of Japanese consumers, who generally prefer their home-grown, short-grain variety to foreign versions. Fewer Japanese people are eating rice in general, with annual per capita consumption dropping to 54.6 kilograms in 2015, less than half of its 1963 peak of 118.3 kilograms, according to the farm ministry. Mitsuyoshi Ando, an agriculture expert at the University of Tokyo, said there was "no bright future" for the industry. "Rice farmers need to improve their competitiveness. Large-scale production is also necessary," Ando told AFP. But it is difficult to achieve economies of scale in mountainous areas -- where 40 percent of farming takes place -- because of geographical limitations preventing farmers from expanding their plots, he added. And with subsidies set to wind down, "the number of farmers who can survive will be limited as rice consumption will never increase again." https://japantoday.com/category/national/grain-pain-japan's-ageing-rice-farmers-face-uncertain-future High-quality rice attracts gourmets to Icheon amid harvest season Article View Option ICHEON, South Korea, Oct. 22 (Yonhap) -- The city of Icheon in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province is worth a visit to many people fond of high-quality rice amid the harvest season around this time of the year. Icheon, 80 kilometers south of Seoul, has been famous for what is called the best rice in the country. The Icheon municipal government held an annual festival, themed for the production of its rice and steamed rice, which lasted until Sunday. People take part in the production of 600-meter-long "garaetteok," a Korean rice cake stick, during the Icheon Rice Culture Festival in Icheon, 80 kilometers south of Seoul, on Oct. 20, 2018. (Yonhap) This year's Icheon Rice Culture Festival provided visitors with opportunities to not only savor the rice but also to experience the local agricultural practices. During the festival, they also took part in a variety of events aimed at understanding what Korean traditional culture in an agricultural society is like. A volunteer dressed in traditional Korean dress poses for a photo during the Icheon Rice Culture Festival in Icheon, 80 kilometers south of Seoul, on Oct. 20, 2018. (Yonhap) Historians say that rice farming in Korea dates back to the Bronze Age and that an increase in yields of the grain following the Three Kingdoms (57 B.C.-A.D. 668) helped it become a main staple for Koreans. The city is endowed with natural surroundings appropriate for the growth of rice, coupled with a good proportion of clay and sand mixes in paddies that contribute to the rice absorbing nutrients. Longer hours of sunlight in the fall than other regions and a huge daily temperature range also help rice fully ripen. Icheon rice was highly thought of in the 1392-1910 Joseon Dynasty so that it used to be served to the dynasty's kings. King Seongjong, the ninth monarch of the dynasty, has been known to be a big lover of Icheon rice. Historical records say the king ate Icheon rice with gusto on his way back to Seoul after visiting Yeongneung, the tomb of King Sejong, the fourth king of the dynasty, in what is now Yeoju, the neighboring town, and had it included in his everyday diet. The rice that suited the king's palate was "Jachae Rice," a rice variety grown around the Bokha Stream in the city. This photo shows a dish of steamed rice on a hot pot, served alongside a variety of Korean side dishes, at a restaurant in Icheon, 80 kilometers south of Seoul. (Yonhap) In the city are 30 big-time restaurants that feature steamed rice dining. A visit to one of them enables a visitor to enjoy steamed rice served on a hot pot and about 20 kinds of side dishes, including Korean "bulgogi" barbecue; "japchae," a dish of stir-fried glass noodles and vegetables; and "jeon" pancakes. http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2018/10/22/0200000000AEN20181022008100315.html Vinafood 1, 2 win bid to supply rice to Philippines Update: October, 22/2018 - 15:15Vinafood 1 and Vinafood 2 offered prices of slightly under US$428 per tonne.— VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The Việt Nam Northern Food Corporation (Vinafood 1) and Việt Nam Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) won a bid last week to sell 14,000 tonnes and 15,000 tonnes of rice, respectively, to the Philippines. The information was released by Judy Carol Dansal, head of the Philippines’ National Food Authority (NFA). Both companies offered prices of slightly under US$428 per tonne. Thai Capital Crops Co Ltd will also export 18,000 tonnes of rice to the Philippines for $426.3 per tonne. In the last week’s rice import tender, the NFA accepted offers for only 47,000 tonnes from three suppliers, well below a planned purchase of 250,000 tonnes, Most of the offers from 13 international suppliers exceeded the state-run NFA’s approved budget of $428.18 per tonne. “We will reopen the tender for the volume that was not taken,” said Dansal. The Philippines is on a rice buying spree this year, after President Rodrigo Duterte lifted a 20-year restriction on rice imports as inflation accelerated. The NFA has been approved to import 2.4 million tonnes, just below the record 2.45 million tonnes bought in 2010 when rising global food prices stoked shortage fears. — VNS https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/468325/vinafood-1-2-win-bid-to-supply-rice-to-philippines.html#bqgzZ47gTxjATWLJ.97 Read more at http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/468325/vinafood-1-2-win-bid-to-supply-rice-to-philippines.html#tSsBFc0XuJPZtWjX.99 Rice prices continue downward trend By: Karl R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:02 AM October 22, 2018 Prices of rice in the market continued to decline in the first week of October, government data showed. Based on the latest price monitoring report of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), both wholesale and retail prices of rice have gone down for the fourth consecutive week and the trend is expected to continue until the last week of the month. On average, a kilo of regular-milled and well-milled rice were sold at P42.64 and P45.45, respectively—down 1.2 percent and 1.24 percent from a week ago. However, these were still higher by 19.84 percent and 15.84 percent compared with prices a year ago. Retail prices of these rice variants in the market also went down, although at a slower pace. Regular-milled and well-milled rice were sold at P45.87 and P49 a kilo, respectively—down 0.50 percent and 0.73 percent from a year ago. President of PHL Confederation of Grains Association Inc. Jojie Co said in a phone interview that they expected prices to go down even further as the week progressed, in part due to the beginning of the harvest season. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said he was banking on the government’s latest imposition of suggested retail prices (SRPs) on rice variants to keep prices in check. Rice prices in the market were seen as one of the major drivers of the country’s inflation rate this year, which reached a nine-year high of 6.7 percent in September. Economic managers have been urging lawmakers to prioritize the passage of the Rice Tariffication Bill, which will finally liberalize rice imports in the country. This is expected to lower rice prices in the market by as much as P6 a kilo. https://business.inquirer.net/259306/rice-prices-continue-downward-trend#ixzz5UkF7z5TW Read more: https://business.inquirer.net/259306/rice-prices-continue-downward-trend#ixzz5UkGEQPOH Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter \| inquirerdotnet on Facebook INDONESIA 2018 RICE OUTPUT SEEN AT 32.4 MLN TONNES, LOWER THEN PVS ESTIMATE JAKARTA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - * Indonesia's statistic bureau estimated 32.4 million tonnes of rice production this year, chief economic minister Darmin Nasution told reporters on Monday. * It is lower than Agriculture Ministry estimate earlier this month of 48.3 million tonnes of output in 2018. * Domestic rice consumption this year is estimated at 29.6 million tonnes, Nasution said. * Indonesia has imported 1.8 million tonnes of rice this year. Nasution said no decision has been made yet on imports next year. (Reporting by Maikel Jefriando, Bernadette Christina Munthe; editing by David Evans) https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/indonesia-2018-rice-output-seen-at-324-mln-tonnes-lower-then-pvs-estimate Economy in brief: Bulog blames output for low absorption Jakarta \| Mon, October 22 2018 \| 03:14 am State-owned logistics company Bulog has attributed the decline of its rice absorption to the ending of the harvest season and the damage to facilities caused by the Central Sulawesi earthquake, both of which occurred last month.Bulog operations and public service director Tri Wahyudi Saleh said the end of the rice harvest season signalled reduced domestic rice output, while the Central Sulawesi ea... http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/10/22/economy-brief-bulog-blames-output-low-absorption.html Southern region hits target for rice harvest Update: October, 22/2018 - 09:00 Farmers harvest the 2018 summer- autumn rice in Kiên Giang Province’s Hòn Đất District. – VNA/VNS Photo Lê Huy Hải HCM CITY — The southern region estimates that it will produce more than 26 million tonnes of paddy this year, up 1.1 million tonnes against last year, meeting its target for the year. The region, the country’s rice granary, has planted more than 4.4 million hectares of rice this year, down by 63,500ha against last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s (MARD) Plant Cultivation Department. However, the yield has been 5.95 tonnes per hectare a crop, up 338 kilogrammes against last year. Farmers have also shifted many rice areas to higher-value crops like vegetables and fruits, according to representatives of the region’s 17 provinces and two major cities (Cần Thơ and HCM City). Speaking at a seminar held in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang last week, Nguyễn Chí Thiện, deputy director of the Long An Province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said the province was reducing the number of rice areas and shifting them to other crops. This year, about 7,000ha of rice areas were shifted to fruit tree cultivation in Long An. The province has developed 94 large rice fields with a total of 16,538ha this year, meeting 33 per cent of its target, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. The region has been developing large rice fields to secure outlets and higher profits for farmers, but the rate remains low, according to MARD’s Plant Cultivation Department. The department in co-operation with MARD’s plant protection department has improved food safety and hygiene standards for export. This year the rate of certified rice seeds accounts for 78 per cent of the region’s total sowed seeds. The region has also used more specialty fragrant rice and high-quality rice varieties, and most of the rice is now being planted and harvested with machinery. Lê Quốc Doanh, Deputy Minister of MARD, said the southern region’s production of key products like rice, fish and fruit achieved good results. In the 2018-19 winter-spring crop, the southern region will grow 1.65 million hectares of rice, including 1.57 million ha in the Mekong Delta. MARD’s departments will give guidance to localities about planting schedules, disease control, and market demands. – VNS https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/468133/southern-region-hits-target-for-rice-harvest.html#Xs6jeYSQKK3Ez0j0.97 Plentiful rice on the plate Bangladesh now fourth largest food grains producer as rice yield breaks all records ANISUR RAHMAN KHAN Bangladesh’s farmers have been able to produce record amount of rice this year, harvesting around 3.63 crore metric tonnes of the staple food against the annual demand of 2.91 crore tonnes, Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has said. “Bangladesh has produced a surplus rice of some 71.79 lakh metric tonnes this year to ensure the country is a food-sufficient country. Bangladesh couldn’t produce such a huge amount of rice after its independence in 1972,” Dr Md Abdus Salam, additional director (extension and coordination) of the DAE’s field wing, told The Independent yesterday. With this production, Bangladesh has become the fourth largest food-grain-producing country, he said, adding that it would be able to export rice to different rice-consuming countries after fulfilling the local demand. In 2014, Bangladesh exported around 25,000mt coarse rice to Sri Lanka. The stocks of food-grains in the country’s government warehouses now exceed 14.90 lakh metric tonnes. According to the DAE officials, Bangladesh has produced some 3.63 crore metric tonnes of rice against the local demand of 2.91 crore metric tonnes for its 16.64 crore people. During the same period, it has also produced 11.53 lakh metric tonnes of wheat, 38.93 lakh tonnes of maize, 1.03 crore tonnes of potatoes, 10.31 lakh tonnes of lentils (‘dal’), 9.70 lakh tonnes of oilseeds and 1.60 lakh tonnes of vegetables. In 2016, the country could produce only 2.62 lakh tonnes of food-grains locally. According to the agriculture ministry and DAE officials, the record amount of food-grains could be produced becauseof the government’s initiative to grow three to four crops on each farmland instead of single crops. It has also taken steps to produce salinity-, drought- and drench-tolerant crops. Regarding the success in producing such a huge amount of crops locally, Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury told this correspondent that the government has increased the limit of incentives, providing supports like supplies of fertilisers, seeds and fuels to the farmers for growing more crops. In the past nine years—from the 2009¬–10 fiscal year to the 2017–18 FY, it has given support worth around Tk. 65,447 crore to the farmers as assistance. “More than 2.08 crore farmers have received such support under the government’s agriculture-friendly programmes. They have received the support through agriculture assistance cards. Thanks to such support, food-grain production is increasing in the country”, the minister added. Agronomist Dr Jahangir Alam, the vice-chancellor of the University of Global Village, said Bangladesh currently has an annual demand for 2.91 crore metric tonnes of rice for its 16.64 crore people. As the country’s farmers are now producing more and more, the government should now turn its attention to growing nutritious food-grains to fulfill the people’s demands, he observed. http://m.theindependentbd.com/printversion/details/171242 Imported Indian rice force closure of 600 Naogaon rice mills United News of Bangladesh . Naogaon \| Published: 14:16, Oct 20,2018 \| Updated: 23:29, Oct 20,2018 With the rice imported from neighbouring India selling at lower prices, the demand for the local varieties is on the decline, pushing 600 rice mills into closure in the district, said rice mills owners. The millers had taken loan of around Tk 500 crore from different banks and financial institutions for their businesses, but could not repay the loans due to unwanted fall in demand for local varieties of rice, they said. Talking to UNB, millers said there were a total of 1,800 rice mills in the district. Of them, some 600 have already been closed and 300 are facing shutdown. Leaders of district Rice Mills Owners’ Association gave a memorandum to the commerce minister through the deputy commissioner of the district after organising a press conference in Alupotti area in the district town recently. At the press conference, the millers disclosed the information and narrated their sufferings blaming the ‘unnecessary import’ of rice from the neighbouring country. The millers urged the authorities concerned to immediately stop rice import to save the industry. They also requested the banks and financial institutions to bring down the interest rate of lending to nine per cent in accordance with the government decision. Rafiqul Islam, president of district Rice Mills Owners’ Association, said the country experienced food shortage due to natural disaster last year. ‘Then the government slashed the rice import duty to only two per cent from 10 per cent, opening up doors for the importers to bring huge quantity of rice,’ he said. The government set nine per cent bank interest for loans for industries, but the local banks are still charging 12 to 14 per cent interest from the rice mill owners, the millers alleged. Although the farmers across the country have achieved a bumper yield of rice this year and have been able to stock enough rice, the government is still continuing rice import from India, said Rafiqul Islam. As a result, around 80 per cent of rice mills have already been closed here, causing huge losses to rice mills owners and employees, he said. ‘Rice growers are also incurring losses due to decline in demand for locally produced rice,’ the leader added. When contacted, district food officer Md Abdus Salam said the information over closure of 80 per cent mills was not accurate. ‘Except the automatic rice mills, a section of mill owners do seasonal businesses and keep their mills closed other time,’ he added. http://www.newagebd.net/article/53651/imported-indian-rice-force-closure-of-600-naogaon-rice-mills Rice Prices as on : 23-10-2018 12:31:47 PM Arrivals in tonnes;prices in Rs/quintal in domestic market. Prev.Yr %change Cachar(ASM) Vishalpur(UP) Kaliaganj(WB) Ghatal(WB) Paliakala(UP) Jiaganj(WB) Lalbagh(WB) Ahirora(UP) Mugrabaadshahpur(UP) Dibrugarh(ASM) Tamkuhi Road(UP) Tundla(UP) Mirzapur(UP) Sehjanwa(UP) Anandnagar(UP) Jagnair(UP) https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/rice-prices/article25294951.ece Naugarh(UP) Balarampur(WB) Khairagarh(UP) Achnera(UP) Trading Office Hours for Field Time in Louisiana Rice Country By Asiha Grigsby CROWLEY, LA -- Earlier this month, I embarked on an ambitious tour of farms, mills, and co-ops in southern Louisiana with Kane Webb, USA Rice Louisiana field specialist, as my guide. The week-long adventure was an educational experience, and with ratoon cutting season in full swing, there was no shortage of action on and off the field. My farm tour began in Perry with George Segrera, a third generation rice and crawfish farmer. George let me take a ride on a combine while he cut his second crop during a rare sunny moment in the unseasonably rainy weather. I also visited with Allen McClain in Abbeville who talked about the challenges and benefits of rice farming, as well as his experience as a graduate of the 2016/2018 Rice Development Leadership Class. The Zaunbrecher brothers from Duson gave a tutorial on their farming methods, and then I toured Christian Richard's immaculate shop on his farm in Kaplan where he often hosts receptions for USA Rice-sponsored events. Mill tours included stops at Falcon Rice and Supreme Rice, both in Crowley, as well as Farmers Rice Milling Company in Lake Charles. We also made a special detour to visit the Louisiana State University Rice Research Station where I learned about the facility's history and the evolution of crop technology. I also toured the Port of Lake Charles where U.S. rice is currently being staged and loaded onto vessels headed for Iraq. This is the first of two major shipments that will be processed in Louisiana providing an economic boost to the state's rice industry. Rice production and processing is big business in Louisiana generating annual economic activity of almost $200 million and accounting for thousands of jobs. The week culminated with the Second Annual Louisiana Rice Ball hosted by the Louisiana Rice Political Action Committee at the historic Grand Opera House in Crowley. The event was a grand celebration with great food, lively music, and special words of gratitude from Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Dr. Mike Strain. I am truly grateful that so many Louisiana members took time out of their busy schedules to share their expertise with me. I now have a deeper appreciation and understanding of what it takes to bring the crop from the field to the table and feel I am even better positioned to represent the industry. Port of Lake Charles readies shipment to Iraq 81st International Rice Festival Queen talks about her reign By: Sylvia Masters Oct 19, 2018 07:42 PM CDT Updated: Oct 19, 2018 07:42 PM CDT A big part of the International Rice Festival is the royalty. She sat down with the queen to see what it's like to reign over the oldest and largest agricultural festival in the state. Kathryn Shea Duncan is the 81st International Rice Festival Queen. She was crowned last October and what a year she has had. "I was crowned last October on October 20th at 10 AM. I can remember the exact moments," says Duncan. Kathryn's family is fourth generation rice farmers in Acadia Parish. They are very involved in the rice industry. Her great aunt was a Junior Rice Festival Queen in 1951. "I wouldn't say I always thought I would be the Rice Festival Queen because growing up I was really shy and timid so I really didn't think that I would be capable of becoming queen, but I gave it a shot and here we are," adds Duncan. Since being crowned, Kathryn has traveled across the country. In her words, she has had the opportunity to simply "take the crown and run with it." "I've traveled to over 83 events across the United States this year. I've been to West Virginia for the USA Rice Millers Association Convention. I went to Washington D.C. for the Mystic Crew of Louisianians Mardi Gras Ball,” explains Duncan. “I went to San Antonio for the USA Rice Outlook Conference and then to Winnie for the Texas Rice Festival." Reigning along with the International Rice Festival Queen is the Junior King and Queen. Each elementary school in Acadia Parish sends two representatives, a boy and a girl, to the pageant Friday morning where they compete for the titles. News Ten reports, "Coming up Saturday morning, you're going to be crowning your next successor. What would you say to her? Duncan says, "I would definitely tell them stop whatever you're doing. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You will never get this chance again, so seize the moment and do the most that you can and just enjoy every moment." Kathryn says through the interview process for the pageant, which took place this afternoon, the contestants are questioned on the rice industry and how they will represent the festival. https://www.klfy.com/news/local/81st-international-rice-festival-queen-talks-about-her-reign/1536685280 Rice harvest slow and steady Moving grain to market Karen Binder AgriNews Publications Oct 19, 2018 Updated Oct 19, 2018 Alexander County Farmer Blake Gerard uses Bayer’s Climate FieldView in his combine to monitor the rice harvest this fall. AgriNews photos/Karen Binder OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. — Alexander County farmer Blake Gerard has been driving his combine mostly at 3 mph with this particular rice field. He likes to ensure the fingers on the reel comb in as much grain possible. “I’m greedy that way. If it’s there I want it,” Gerard said with a grin. He’s closely monitoring the yield, noting the marginal areas with Bayer’s Climate FieldView for later review. He started harvesting his rice fields in late September and will likely stay busy with the task through the end of October. First out of his fields were the acres of Cahokia Rice, a high-protein rice he’s produced for wholesale and retail sales. He’s currently working on long-grain rice for River Bend Rice and seed rice for Gerard Family Farms. Rice in 2017 was valued at $2.2 billion, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports. The 2018-2019 U.S. rice production forecast was increased 8.6 million hundredweight to 219.5 million hundredweight because of a higher area estimate and a slightly stronger yield. Production is up 23 percent from a year earlier. The four Illinois rice farmers associate themselves with the Missouri rice industry, just across the Mississippi River. The USDA reported in September that the harvested area in Missouri is forecast at 219,000 acres, an increase of 37 percent from a year earlier, with long grain accounting for all of the increase and the bulk of the state’s rice production. “I’m happy with the Cahokia Rice harvest. It’s not a high-yielding variety so it was about what we expected,” he said. “Everything else is falling into place.” On average, Gerard said long-grain rice yields about 160 bushels an acre. Good rice is 180 bushels, while 140 bushels is “not good.” The moisture content tends to fall at 14 percent, but he has harvested it at 22 percent, depending on conditions. Drying rice is trickier than other commodity grains because it’s a field-to-table staple requiring conscientious care not to break the grains. “Otherwise, it goes for dog food,” Gerard said. Each rice variety performs differently in the field, beginning with maturity rates. As with wheat, Gerard keeps a close eye on the flag leaves and when they begin to yellow. After harvest and the fields dry out, they are burned. A chain harrow is pulled across the fields to knock down the stubble and allowed to dry a few days. Then they are set on fire. Rice will not die until a frost. It’s a ratoon crop that it will propagate from the harvest stubble, and continue to grow rapidly because of the established root system. In the south where the warm temperatures last longer, some farmers can get in second rice harvests. As much as 60 percent of remaining organic matter is destroyed by the fire, with some fields needing two burns, Gerard said. This process prepares the fields for the next crop. Occasionally, a field lends itself to seeding soybeans into the rice stubble, depending on the rotation. The burning does not disturb the soil’s phosphorous and nitrogen content and the carbon loss is about the same as tilling. Gerard prefers burning over tilling for plenty of reasons — tilling takes six passes instead of one with the chain harrow and tilling releases more carbon and introduces more oxygen into the soil. Burning also offers a better view of any erosion issues. Then when fields need reshaping and the soil moisture is gooey enough, he gets out the “snake killer.” “It’s about the craziest looking roller. You use it when there’s still a little bit of water in the fields, but not too much. Then you see why it’s called a snake killer,” Gerard said. The industry name for it is a stubble roller. Marketing Rice Depending on the farmer, there are myriad ways to market rice. For Gerard, some of it is already sold under contract, some is seed rice and some will be stored until he’s ready to start moving it to the rice mill in January. His is generally all sold by July, well before the next year’s crop. Girard’s rice goes in several directions — Cahokia Rice to Missouri for milling, packaging and back to Illinois for cold storage awaiting wholesale sales. The long-grain rice either goes to River Bend Rice’s facility in Cairo or to Riceland Foods in New Madrid, Missouri, about an hour south. “We hope that Cahokia Rice gets large enough that we’ll have our own mill,” Gerard said. Until then, he and his staff are exploring wholesale and retail routes. Exhibiting at the National Restaurant Association show in Chicago has led to sales to university food services. This includes the University of Illinois and Illinois State University, and soon, Northwestern University. It’s an attractive protein option for vegetarian menus, Gerard said. Also in the coming year will be work to select distributors to help sell and place the product in retail locations. There’s also another food show where Gerard will present Cahokia as a wholesale product for rebranding or ingredient use. “Luckily with rice, the volume is no problem. We’ve already got the ability to mill it, handle it and deliver it to the distributor. Now we just need to see what happens next,” Gerard said. Karen Binder can be reached at 6418-534-0614 or kbinder@agrinews-pubs.com. Follow her on Twitter at: @AgNews_Binder. In a similar manner as with wheat, this header — a FD70 FlexDraper — is specially designed as a “straight cut” header, and is equipped to work well in all straight cut conditions, whether cutting on or above the ground, utilizing a three-piece flexible frame to closely follow ground contours. An average rice harvest is 160 bushels an acre, but the range between great and bad harvests is only 40 bushels — 180 bushels for great and 140 bushels for low. The flag leaf on this variety of rice turns yellow when it’s time to harvest. Provided photo http://www.agrinews-pubs.com/news/rice-harvest-slow-and-steady/article_5384efbf-5231-52d8-8a13-a689f8d7b9d2.html U of A Researchers Lead Consortium Studying Genetics of Heat-Tolerant Rice Photo by Russell Cothren Research associate Sara Yingling (left) and graduate student Yheni Dwiningsih (right) gather rice to study its genetics. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – U of A researchers are working to identify the natural genetic variation in rice that allows the plant to produce high-quality grain in an environment of rising temperatures. The U of A leads a consortium of four universities that recently received $4.65 million from the National Science Foundation to support their work. The team is studying the genetics of more than 400 rice varieties collected from around the world. “Environmental stresses such as high temperatures that occur seasonally or increase annually limit cereal crop production, the stability of which is important for global food production,” said Andy Pereira, professor of crop, soil and environmental science in the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. “The major emerging environmental stress to U.S. rice production is the increase in night temperatures, which reduces grain yield and quality and decreases market value.” To address this issue, the team of researchers, led by Pereira, are studying the characteristics and genetics of the different rice varieties. Working with colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Oklahoma State University and Louisiana State University, the researchers will compare the yield and quality of two groups of rice, one grown grown under heat stress and the other under ambient temperature. By comparing the two groups of plants, the researchers will be able to identify varieties of rice that produce high quality grains in spite of increased temperatures. This information will be used to map the genomes of these varieties in order to identify the gene sequences and expressions that give the plants this heat tolerance advantage. The researchers will also use gene-editing techniques to validate their findings. With this information, they can make specific recommendations to plant breeders and farmers to help them. About the Division of Agriculture: The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture's mission is to strengthen agriculture, communities, and families by connecting trusted research to the adoption of best practices. Through the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service, the Division of Agriculture conducts research and extension work within the nation's historic land grant education system. About the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences:Bumpers College provides life-changing opportunities to position and prepare graduates who will be leaders in the businesses associated with foods, family, the environment, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life; and who will be first-choice candidates of employers looking for leaders, innovators, policy makers and entrepreneurs. The college is named for Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas governor and longtime U.S. senator who made the state prominent in national and international agriculture.improve the rice crop. About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring. https://news.uark.edu/articles/45195/u-of-a-researchers-lead-consortium-studying-genetics-of-heat-tolerant-rice How To Remove Starch From Rice? Cut Calories in Rice with This Simple Trick to Reduce Weight HEALTH WELLNESS Team Latestly Oct 22, 2018 11:06 AM IST How to reduce calories from rice with a simple trick. (Photo Credits: Pixabay) Who doesn’t love rice? Rice in any form tastes yummy. In India, rice is the staple grain and is prepared daily in some households. But nowadays people are more health conscious than ever and are avoiding rice because we all know that rice can contribute to high amounts of fat and lead to obesity, if consumed in excess. But a new study shows that one can cut the calorie content in rice with a simple trick or hack as we may call it. Menopause Could be Caused by Eating Rice. A normal cup of rice contains around 240 calories. And scientists are developing a way to cut the calorie content by half. How? Just by adding a teaspoon of coconut oil to the water and then refrigerating the food for 12 hours after cooking, you can cut that. The research was presented in 2015 at the 249th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society involved looking at 38 different rice from Sri Lanka, as reported by Metro. Starch can be digestible or indigestible, also known as resistant starch. The researchers reasoned that if they could transform digestible starch into resistant starch, the that could lower the number of usable calories of the rice. Weight Loss Tips: 12 Harmless Habits That Are Making You Fat! By adding the oil to the water, before adding half a cup of rice, simmering for 40 minutes and then refrigerating for 12 hours, they found there was 10 times more resistant starch, compared to normal starch. Resistant starch is not broken down in the small intestine where carbohydrates normally are metabolised into glucose and other simple sugars and absorbed into the bloodstream. Team leader Sudhair A James, College of Chemical Sciences, Sri Lanka, says, “Because obesity is a growing health problem, especially in many developing countries, we wanted to find food-based solutions. We discovered that increasing rice resistant starch (RS) concentrations was a novel way to approach the problem.” He further explains, “After your body converts carbohydrates into glucose, any leftover fuel gets converted into a polysaccharide carbohydrate called glycogen. Your liver and muscles store glycogen for energy and quickly turn it back into glucose as needed.” But he explains that the problem is the excess glucose that doesn’t get converted to glycogen ends up turning into fat, which can lead to excessive weight or obesity. As the oil enters the starch granules during cooking, changing its architecture so that it becomes resistant to the action of digestive enzymes. James says, “The cooling is essential because amylose, the soluble part of the starch, leaves the granules during gelatinization. Cooling for 12 hours will lead to formation of hydrogen bonds between the amylose molecules outside the rice grains which also turns it into a resistant starch.” This means that fewer calories ultimately get absorbed into the body. https://www.latestly.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/how-to-remove-starch-from-rice-cut-calories-in-rice-with-this-simple-trick-to-reduce-weight-448021.html You could cut the calories in your rice in half with one simple trick, study says Laura AbernethySunday 21 Oct 2018 4:08 pm Share this article via facebookShare this article via twitterShare this article via messenger 47 SHARES (Picture: Maximilian Stock Ltd/Getty Images) Rice can be the perfect accompaniment to many dishes – but it’s not exactly the healthiest choice. Scientists, however, are developing a way to cut the calorie content by half. A normal cup of rice contains around 240 calories but by adding a teaspoon of coconut oil to the water before cooking it and then refrigerating the food for 12 hours after cooking, you can cut that. Starch can be digestible or indigestible, also known as resistant starch. The researchers reasoned that if they could transform digestible starch into resistant starch, then that could lower the number of usable calories of the rice. Unlike digestible types of starch, resistant starch is not broken down in the small intestine, where carbohydrates normally are metabolised into glucose and other simple sugars and absorbed into the bloodstream. The research, which was presented in 2015 at the 249th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), involved looking at 38 different rice from Sri Lanka. (Picture: Izumi T/Getty Images) By adding the oil to the water, before adding half a cup of rice, simmering for 40 minutes and then refrigerating for 12 hours, they found there was 10 times more resistant starch, compared to normal rice. ‘Because obesity is a growing health problem, especially in many developing countries, we wanted to find food-based solutions,” says team leader Sudhair A. James, who is at the College of Chemical Sciences, Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka. ‘We discovered that increasing rice resistant starch (RS) concentrations was a novel way to approach the problem.’ ‘After your body converts carbohydrates into glucose, any leftover fuel gets converted into a polysaccharide carbohydrate called glycogen,’ he explains. ‘Your liver and muscles store glycogen for energy and quickly turn it back into glucose as needed. The issue is that the excess glucose that doesn’t get converted to glycogen ends up turning into fat, which can lead to excessive weight or obesity.’ (Picture: Maximilian Stock Ltd/Getty Images) As the oil enters the starch granules during cooking, changing its architecture so that it becomes resistant to the action of digestive enzymes. This means that fewer calories ultimately get absorbed into the body. Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/21/you-could-cut-the-calories-in-your-rice-in-half-with-one-simple-trick-8060411/?ito=cbshare Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK \| Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/ https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/21/you-could-cut-the-calories-in-your-rice-in-half-with-one-simple-trick-8060411/ We’re eating bits of plastic, study finds Updated: October 22, 2018 at 07:21 PM In the next 60 seconds, people around the world will purchase 1 million plastic bottles and 2 million plastic bags. By the end of the year, we will produce enough Bubble Wrap to encircle the equator 10 times. Though it will take more than 1,000 years for most of these items to degrade, many will soon break apart into tiny shards known as microplastics, trillions of which have been showing up in the oceans, fish, tap water and even table salt. Now, we can add one more microplastic repository to the list: the human gut. In a pilot study with a small sample size, researchers looked for microplastics in stool samples of eight people from Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom and Austria. To their surprise, every single sample tested positive for the presence of a variety of microplastics. "This is the first study of its kind, so we did a pilot trial to see if there are any microplastics detectable at all," said Philipp Schwabl, a gastroenterologist at the Medical University of Vienna and lead author of the study. "The results were astonishing." There are no certain health implications for their findings, and they hope to complete a broader study with the methods they have developed. Microplastics — defined as pieces less than .02 inches long, roughly the size of a grain of rice — have become a major concern for environmental researchers during the past decade. Several studies have found high levels of microplastics in marine life, and last year, microplastics were detected in 83 percent of tap water samples around the world (the highest contamination rate belonged to the United States, where 94 percent of samples were contaminated). Most microplastics are the unintended result of larger plastics breaking apart, and the United States, Canada and other countries have banned the use of tiny plastic beads in beauty products. Researchers have long suspected microplastics would eventually be found in the human gut. One study estimated that people who regularly eat shellfish may be consuming as much as 11,000 plastic pieces per year. The new paper, which was presented Monday at a gastroenterology conference in Vienna, could provide support for marine biologists who have long warned of the dangers posed by microplastics in our oceans. But the paper suggests that microplastics are entering our bodies through other means, as well. "The fact that so many different polymers were measured suggests a wide range of contamination sources," said Stephanie Wright, an environmental health scientist at Kings College London who was not involved in the study. Two of the eight participants do not consume seafood. To conduct the study, they selected volunteers from each country who kept food diaries for a week and provided stool samples. Schwabl and his colleagues analyzed the samples with a spectrometer. Up to nine different kinds of plastics were detected, ranging in size from .002 to .02 inches. The most common plastics detected were polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate — both major components of plastic bottles and caps. Whether microplastics pose a health risk to humans is largely unknown, though they have been found to cause some damage in fish and other animals. Additionally, the microplastics detected in the current study are too large to be a serious threat, Wright said. https://www.tampabay.com/news/We-re-eating-bits-of-plastic-study-finds_172885619 How cooking rice with coconut oil slashes 60 per cent of the calories · One cup of cooked white rice contains as many as 200 starchy calories in it · So if you're trying to watch your waistline you may be inclined to skip the carbs · However, if you still want to indulge, there is a way to do so without regret · Adding coconut oil to the boiling water reduces the calories by 60 per cent By MATILDA RUDD FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA · e-mail One cup of cooked white rice contains an average of 200 calories so it's treated by many as a 'sometimes' food. However, scientists from the College of Chemical Sciences in Sri Lanka are making the delicious carb-filled staple healthier for all by sharing a simple trick to reducing the calories. And all you have to do is add a little bit of coconut oil to the cooking process, then allow it to cool overnight, Better Homes and Gardens reported. Sadly one cup of cooked white rice contains 200 calories so it's treated as a 'sometimes' food by people watching their waistline Adding these two steps to your rice-cooking repertoire minimises the calories in your final dish by 60 per cent. And because obesity is a growing problem worldwide this could be the food-based solution we so desperately need to know about. The reason why adding a substance like coconut oil works to reduce the overall calories is relatively simple: the fat molecules find their way inside the rice during the boiling process and double as a digestive barrier. Couple that with letting it cool for 12 hours - which makes the bonds in the rice form stronger 'resistant starches' and makes it difficult for digestive enzymes to break down - and you've practically got a cheat meal on your hands. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6302055/This-ingenious-way-cooking-rice-slashes-60-cent-calories.html https://www.tampabay.com/news/We-re-eating-bits-of-plastic-study-finds_172885619Basmati Rice Market 2018 – Outlook 2023, Industry Size, Share, Growth, Analysis William Nelson October 22, 2018 Global Basmati Rice Market assesses the chronicled and current achievement of this market, particularly featuring the key patterns and development opportunities. The Basmati Rice report expects to serve up and coming data alongside fundamental insights associated with the general Basmati Rice market and value estimate over a five-year time frame, from 2018 to 2023. 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__label__wiki	0.743337	0.743337	22nd October,2019 Daily Global Regional Local Rice E-Newsletter Third-generation hybrid rice achieves high yields in China Source: Xinhua\| 2019-10-22 15:56:25\|Editor: Li Xia CHANGSHA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The third-generation hybrid rice developed by Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice," and his team underwent its first public yield monitoring from Monday to Tuesday and achieved a major breakthrough in output. The final yield came to 1,046.3 kg per mu (about 0.07 hectares), based on two plots of land in Qingzhu Village under the city of Hengyang in central China's Hunan Province. The whole process was organized by the Hunan Society of Agronomy under the supervision of experts from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the China National Rice Research Institute, Hunan's agriculture and rural affairs department and multiple Chinese universities. Experts agreed that the rice has a stout stem, fertilizer tolerance, lodging resistance, large spike and more grains. Yuan, who developed the world's first hybrid rice in 1974, has set multiple world records in hybrid rice yields in previous years. NASA map reveals a new landslide risk factor by Esprit Smith, NASA A man retrieving coconuts from a home destroyed by landslides, with damaged rice paddies in the background. Credit: European Union/Pierre Prakash, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In the deadly 2018 earthquake in the Indonesian city of Palu, intense shaking changed solid ground into a landslide of flowing mud, multiplying the death toll and economic impact. A new paper shows that this disastrous effect was triggered by a previously unknown risk factor: flooding rice fields for farming. Soil liquefaction, which causes this kind of landslide, occurs when the shaking from a large earthquake rips through moist, loose soil, overpowering the friction that normally holds dirt particles together. The soil loses its structural integrity and begins to flow like a liquid. Buildings fall as their support washes away. Heavy objects like cars sink into the muck, while buried water and sewer pipes rise to the surface. In Palu, although early reporting blamed most of the estimated 2,000 fatalities on a tsunami, surveys soon showed that soil-liquefaction landslides caused at least as much damage as the ocean waves did. That puzzled researchers. Soil liquefaction usually occurs in flat landscapes with wet, sandy or silty ground, such as coastal plains. Researchers had thought flat terrain was a prerequisite because the water table—the distance below ground where the soil becomes saturated with water—must be shallow, and that's rare on a hillside. Palu has sandy soil, but it's in a gently sloping valley that appeared to pose little risk. They were startled to notice that all the landslides originated along a distinct line. When they took a closer look, they saw that the line was an aqueduct. "So we started studying why the aqueduct is clearly defining the boundary between land sliding and no sliding," Yun said. The Gumbasa Aqueduct was completed in 1913 to reduce the risk of famine by providing a consistent water supply for local farmers. Only land downhill from the aqueduct is irrigated; water is not pumped uphill. Farmers just below the aqueduct practice wet rice cultivation, in which fields are flooded at one point in the growing cycle. This predominant method of rice farming in tropical Asia raises the water table over time to just below the ground surface. Farther downhill, farmers grow coconut palms, which require less irrigation and don't raise the water table as much. JPL's ARIA team produced this Damage Proxy Map of Palu after the 2018 earthquake. The aqueduct is marked in blue; red and yellow pixels show likely damage. The terrain slopes uphill from left to right, with major damage below the aqueduct and little above it. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JAXA Damage maps revealed widespread liquefaction below the aqueduct. Multiple slides carried some six square miles (16 square kilometers) of land far downhill—in some places farther than 49 feet (15 meters). The slides were slowed or halted by the coconut palm plantations. No liquefaction was identified uphill of the aqueduct. The conclusion is clear, Bradley said: "If there hadn't been intensive irrigation, the landslides wouldn't have happened." On the positive side, he added, "This is a human-caused hazard, and it can have a human solution. We can't mitigate the hazard of ground shaking on Palu, but the agricultural practices can be updated based on this new understanding." Trees played a critical role in stopping the slides, and the researchers suggest that planting more trees—perhaps interspersed with rice fields—in areas that are intensively irrigated might reduce the risk of soil liquefaction. Bradley noted that Palu is not the only place in the world where people are growing heavily irrigated crops on wet, sandy slopes. "If an engineer had gone to Palu and evaluated the system from first principles, they would likely have been able to identify this risk," he said. "I hope this study is an impetus for people to go and study these other places." A paper on the research, titled "Wet rice cultivation was the primary cause of the earthquake-triggered Palu landslides," was published in Nature Geoscience. Bradley is the lead author. https://phys.org/news/2019-10-nasa-reveals-landslide-factor.html Toxic metals detected in nearly all baby foods Catherine Radwan The nonprofit Healthy Babies Bright Futures has just released results of a new study on commercial infant food products revealing that 95% of 168 baby foods across 61 brands tested were found to contain detectable levels of toxic metals that can permanently affect infants’ neurologic development and behavior. The neurotoxins arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury occur naturally in all foods, but at least 3 of the chemicals were found in 40% of baby food samples tested, with 26% of products tested containing all 4 heavy metals. The organization says its new report quantifies for the first time the impact of these heavy metals on infants’ health, giving estimates of the decline in intelligence quotient (IQ) points from exposure to lead and arsenic from birth to age 2 years. The report also names the 15 most common foods consumed by babies aged younger than 2 years that account for 55% of the risk to brain development, including apple and grape juice, oat ring cereal, macaroni and cheese, and puff snacks. According to the report, lead was found in 94% of baby foods tested, cadmium in 75%, arsenic in 73%, and mercury in 32%. The study also included new data on the presence of the industrial chemical perchlorate in baby food, which adds to the IQ points loss posed by heavy metals. Perchlorate contamination was recorded in 19 of 25 baby foods tested, including infant formula. The chemical, commonly used in food packaging, disrupts thyroid functions critical to brain development. Rice-based foods such as infant rice cereals, rice dishes, and rice snacks top the list for inorganic arsenic, which the study says accounts for 20% of the more than 11 million IQ points that children lose from birth to 24 months from all dietary sources. The study also suggests simple actions that can lower babies’ exposures to heavy metals in their diet: 1. Substitute rice-free snacks for rice puff snacks. 2. Offer frozen banana or chilled cucumber slices for teething discomfort instead of teething biscuits. 3. Feed babies multigrain and oatmeal cereals in place of infant rice cereal. 4. Provide tap water instead of fruit juices. 5. Offer babies a variety of fruits and vegetables. The problem with neurotoxin contamination of baby food surfaced 10 years ago, but new research has confirmed the continuing presence of the chemicals in all food products for babies. Children are more susceptible to such contaminants than are adults. Currently there are no limits for toxic heavy metals in baby food. Healthy Babies Bright Futures has called upon the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take immediate action on its findings: “FDA should establish and finalize health-protective standards for heavy metals, prioritizing foods that offer the greatest opportunity to reduce exposure, considering additive effects of the multiple metals detected in foods, and explicitly protecting against neurodevelopmental impacts.” In addition, the group says the FDA should implement “a proactive testing program for heavy metals in foods consumed by babies and toddlers, similar to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s program for children’s toys (CPSC 2019)” and also establish a health-based limit on the acceptable amount of inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal and other rice-based foods. https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/pediatrics/toxic-metals-detected-nearly-all-baby-foods Untapped export potential for Japan is more than USD 3 billion: FIEO Monday, October 21, 2019, 1:50 PM IST New Delhi: Japan has huge export potential in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, gems and jewellery, marine products, rice, bovine meat, and aluminium, exporters body FIEO said on Monday. Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) President Sharad Kumar Saraf said India's export of USD 17.6 billion to Japan does not reflect the true potential of trade between the countries. "The untapped export potential for Japan is more than USD 3 billion in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, gems and jewellery, marine products, rice, bovine meat, and aluminium," he said. Saraf said the federation has launched India-Japan Business Group, an online platform, to promote interaction between business communities of the two countries for promoting exports, imports and investments. FIEO has also signed an MoU with Japan-India Industry Promotion Association to promote trade. FIEO DG Ajay Sahai said Indian exporters should look into value added segment of exports which account for major imports of Japan. "In many of the products, the share of India is extremely low. India's share in electric and electronic components, machinery pharmaceutical and medical and surgical equipment requires massive improvement as combined imports of these products in Japan is over USD 250 billion," he said. https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/untapped-export-potential-for-japan-is-more-than-usd-3-billion-fieo Ending safeguards probe on rice imports legal–DA THE Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday said it did not violate any laws in terminating its motu proprio safeguards investigation on rice imports after an agriculture group floated the idea that the department may face charges for its action. The DA maintained that it chose to sideline the trade remedy after the Cabinet decided that imposing safeguard duties on rice imports would be inflationary. Besides, the DA argued that giving cash assistance to Filipino rice farmers, who are now suffering from low palay prices, would be the “best way” to address their present situation. The department reacted to the statement of the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. (Pcafi) that the department may face lawsuits for “illegally” refusing to enforce “mandated” safeguards against rice imports. “There is no violation. I don’t think so. It’s their own thinking. Every group or individual has their own opinion or matter,” Agriculture Secretary William Dar said in a press briefing on Monday. “This is how we handle this in the government. Because of the potential inflationary effects, meanwhile, that is set aside. The best way to intervene now is to give cash assistance,” Dar added. In standing firm on the DA’s decision to terminate the safeguards, Dar argued that the “government has to see broader sense of things.” Nonetheless, Dar pointed out that imposing safeguard duties remains to be one of the government’s tool to protect farmers and would be used at the “right time.” In a statement over the weekend, Pcafi criticized the DA and the economic managers for allegedly committing an “illegal act” for the “deliberate abandonment of its poorest sector” in terminating the safeguards investigation on rice imports. “It is explicitly indicated in Section 10 Republic Act 11203 or rice tariffication law Section 10 that in order to protect the Philippine rice industry from extreme price fluctuations, a special safeguard duty—SSG—on rice shall be imposed. As such it is incumbent upon government to enforce the safeguards legal mandate,” the group said. “Although it is not their [DA and economic managers’] intention, but the argument that we should choose 105 million Filipinos as against 10 million farmers is like Hitler justifying the killing of 6 million German Jews to save the German Aryan nation,” it added. Pcafi said the DA and economic managers are “misleading the public by claiming that implementing” safeguard measures is inflationary. The proposed P3-billion direct cash assistance, it said, is an “insult” to rice farmers. https://businessmirror.com.ph/2019/10/22/ending-safeguards-probe-on-rice-imports-legal-da/ Ghana is expected to end importation of rice by 2022 MAGDALENE TEIKO LARNYOH Kennedy Nyarko Osei · Ghana is hoping to end rice importation by 2022. · This is coming after the country did not import maize between January and September this year. · Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture said the government is working hard to ensure this becomes a reality. A Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Kennedy Nyarko Osei, has disclosed that Ghana is working tirelessly to stop the importation of rice into the county. He added that from the government’s projection rice imports will end by 2022. This is coming after Ghana did not import maize between January and September this year due to increased local maize production. In an interview on Accra-based Kingdom FM, Kennedy Nyarko Osei said: “we import billion dollars of rice into the country but the Agric Ministry led by Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto is determined that by the end of 2022 we will stop importing rice from other countries based on our projections.” “The two crops we are focusing on are rice and soya; soya because of the poultry industry and rice because of import substitution,” he added. The Ghanaian government introduced its flagship agricultural project dubbed: ‘Planting For Food and Jobs” about two years ago. “Changing the structure of our economy through diversification and value addition will not happen overnight. It remains a major pre-occupation of the government because it is our pathway to reduce dependency, expand the economy, create jobs, increase exports, reduce imports and support the value of our currency.” He added that the government is committed to the agricultural sector growth, with an initial focus on support to smallholder farmers. Ghana would save close to a billion dollars if the country put a stop to rice imports. https://www.pulse.com.gh/bi/strategy/ghana-is-expected-to-end-importation-of-rice-by-2022/tms8mqk Border Closure Windfall: With Naija Rice Project Adunni Amodeni Food production in Nigeria has not kept pace with population growth, resulting in rising food imports and declining levels of national food self-sufficiency. The main factors undermining production include heavy reliance on rain-fed agriculture and traditional farming methods. Consequently, Nigeria is ranked second-largest importer of rice in the world, incurring an average import bill of N730 billion yearly. The implication is that we are using our money to support foreign countries, this is despite the fact that over half of Nigeria’s 82 million hectares of arable land is lying uncultivated. To boost rice production in Nigeria, the Federal Government has put a total ban on imports. The immediate effect is that prices have skyrocketed and a bag of rice, which was about N14,000, is now between N17,000 and N20,000. Apparently, scarcity of rice paddy has hit the market, and the inability of rice processors to get paddy is a major cause of the price increase. To bridge the gap, Green Eagles Agribusiness Solutions Ltd. has pioneered Naija Rice Project, a project to stir increased investment in rice production. The investment is structured to give 40% returns (ROI) on capital every six months, insurance inclusive. With over 2,000 hectares of rice-land secured in Kebbi and Osun States, their objective is to create a steady source of rice paddy for milling to meet their market demand, while helping their compatriots make residual income in the process. According to a source from the company: “Rice fever is in town and it’s been impossible to meet the demand of our distributors. On the evidence of the pre-launch requests, we are certain the available lots will be sold out very quickly.” The Company will lease and manage the farm on behalf of investors (in collaboration with some of the best rice experts in the industry) while investors earn residual income twice a year. Cost of cultivation is ₦265,000.00 per acre and ₦45,000.00 per plot. Obviously, the federal government of Nigeria is now resolute in the closure of our land borders against the importation of goods. Though this policy has subjected Nigerians to hardship, yet, we can make it momentary if we will all arise and make it our time for rice-independence. Apart from national pride, steady returns await investors. Naija Rice Project (powered by Green Eagles Agribusiness Solutions) is an excellent initiative in our quest to achieve self-sufficiency in rice production. https://www.legit.ng/1268463-border-closure-windfall-naija-rice-project-earn-40-roi-6-months.html An interview with MD Sindh Enterprise Development Fund (SEDF) By RECORDER REPORT on October 21, 2019 Agri finance: cheaper access to credit isn't the panacea Mehboob ul Haq has been the managing director of SEDF since January 2012. An IBA graduate who worked in the corporate sector before joining Board of Investment in 2006 from where he moved to Sindh Board of Investment as its founding member & director in 2010. At SEDF, which he runs as a lean organisation, Mehboob's work mainly focuses on developing value chains of various clusters of agriculture sector to enable proficient and export-oriented agri-SMEs in the province. In this interview with BR Research, Mehboob walks us through SEDF's journey, its successes and failures, and how the organisation is working towards developing the provincial farming sector. Below are edited transcripts. BR Research: How did SEDF come into being? Mehboob ul Haq: In 2009-2010, the government of Sindh partnered with a donor agency to set up Sindh Development Fund (SDF) to address the gaps in agriculture value chain. The donor agency was supposed to match dollar for dollar and bring in technical assistance as well. Somehow, the partnership didn't work out, but since Sindh government still believed in the sector's potential which needed to be addressed by putting in money and the technical part, it re-organised SDF into Sindh Enterprise Development Fund (SEDF) with 100 percent provincial government sponsorship. It was originally set up under the Planning & Development Department but since it involved investments, it was handed over to the Investment Department. BRR: Can you walk us through SEDF's work so far; how has it evolved as an organisation? MH: Since bank financing to agriculture sector was very poor back then, and still is to a certain extent, the initial idea was to give financial assistance as matching grants to various agri-business enterprises that are investing in or are up-gradation, mechanisation, and/or modernising the farming value chain. But then we realised that matching grants can be very tricky within the limits of a public sector organisation. We, therefore, decided not to be very creative. Instead, we decided that banks should lend money as they do in their normal lending business, whereas we will only facilitate that process by picking up the cost of the loan. This helped us get third party validation, since banks do their own due diligence before giving out a loan. We are very cautious in terms of our approach, and that is one major reason for our success, although of course the corollary is that we had a slow start. Back in 2011-12 when banks were still reeling from the 2007-08 slowdown, banks were not giving out loans to farming sector. The way we addressed that is we set up a coordination committee in which Sindh government's investment and agriculture departments, commercial banks, insurance, the SBP and other players sat together to try connecting the dots and address the missing links. BRR: Can you share some examples of your success? MH: Our first project was Day Fresh, which is a leading pasteurised milk brand in Karachi. They started very small; just 500 animals with a milking parlour, but now they have more than 4,000 animals. Later we took some exposure in rice, which I think is a game changer in Sindh. It's one of the top exporting commodities of the country – about 90 percent of rice produced in Sindh is exported. And yet in terms of technologies and practices, the rice industry in the country is very primitive. We recently inaugurated pasteurized egg business, which is first of its kind in the province. We have also concluded financial close of fruit pulp business that eyes export markets. And in each of these, there is success to be had. For instance, there was a farmer who used to lease out his lands for Rs 20,000 a year. Two years ago, someone advised him to get in the business of maize-based sileage because of its lucrative returns. Apparently, at an initial investment of Rs 50,000 per acre, you can get a return of Rs 200,000 per acre over its crop cycle. The farmer initially experimented with it with only six acres, next year he ended his lease agreement and planted maize on 200 acres which he harvested on rented equipment. Today, he has bought a harvesting and bailing machinery from Germany, and getting it bank financed; SEDF will provide interest rate subsidy. BRR: What exactly did you do in rice? MH: We had to start somewhere in the value chain, where we spotted a low hanging fruit in rice husking mills. In 2012-2013 we sat with the SBP, rice millers and developed a product for BMR financing scheme for rice husking mills, because nearly all of the 600-700 rice husking mills were obsolete, dilapidated with operational losses being 40-45 percent, high energy costs, amongst a host of other inefficiencies. A rice mill of 5 to7 tonnes capacity can be easily upgraded with a mix of Chinese and Pakistani machinery to a decent husking mill at a cost of Rs 15-20 million. We were offering them Rs 16 million loan at the rate of 2 percent, whereas in order to encourage banks to lend, SEDF gave 30 percent credit guarantee which was to be deposited in an escrow account with the SBP before the loan is disbursed. The idea was to give confidence to banks so that they don't have to worry about delays in releases. Despite all this, it took us two years to get the first project rolling, because cheaper access to credit alone cannot fix the mindset of quick fix and short cuts, inability to make feasibility, fear of documentation, and other perception issues. But after handholding a few initial clients, addressing their perception issues and facilitating them in documentation and feasibility etc, that line has now started growing. Today we have helped upgrade 40 rice husking mills, at a rate of 8-10 mills per year. BRR: But as you said, it's not just the mills; what about other areas? MH: In that spirit, we have partnered with Pakistan Agriculture Coalition (PAC), the Lahore-based non-profit focusing on development of agriculture sector. Together, we have devised five interventions in rice value chain at the farm level, such as land preparation, and in seed research, where exporters have joined hands with the Chinese to make local seeds, which can increase your production from 40 maunds per acre to 120 maunds, if you do other things right. BRR: Do you have the mandate to work on such projects? MH: SEDF's mandate is to revitalize the agriculture sector by using both on-farm and off-farm interventions; picking up the cost of loans is one aspect of it. BRR: And do you have the capacity or the technical staff to work on such projects? MH: When we say we want to inculcate efficiencies we should be efficient ourselves. Our forte is that we don't do everything in-house. We try to create partnerships. We are a very lean organisation. We create synergetic relationships with universities, with organisations like the PAC, with consultants, with the SBP, with bilateral partners such as AusAid and USAid. We believe, we don't need a platoon of in-house experts to connect these dots when we can leverage on skills available in the market. BRR: What fund size did you start with, and how much is it now, and what is the total size of investments that SEDF has facilitated by picking up the cost of loan? MH: We started from Rs 800 million of initial investment by Sindh government and today its size has grown to Rs 1200 million. Over the last six years of proper operations, we have financed about Rs 4 billion plus worth of projects in Sindh's agriculture value chain. These are the projects that have either been completed or are on-going, whereas the approved projects totalled about Rs 6 billion; those Rs 2 billion worth of projects could not reach financial close. But the time and effort were put towards Rs 6 billion worth of projects. We are on-track towards meeting our 2020 target of another Rs 4 billion, and we believe we will continue to grow organically. BRR: And what has been the trend in non-performing loans or projects that don't start even after SEDF has doled out its share of the bargain i.e. interest rate cost. How do you secure against that? MH: There hasn't been a single NPL in the Rs 4 billion plus portfolio that we have had so far. Not a single entity has gone bad so far, save for perhaps one or two small-ticket transactions, in which case, we simply stop issuing the cheques for interest rates. BRR: And what are you doing to expand your outreach? MH: To enhance our outreach and increase our success rate, we are entering into agreements with banks, whereby, they will send us the cases that have been approved under the agri-SME financing portfolio for Sindh. We will then assess it on our own criteria and give the interest rate subsidy to those who meet our criteria in a matter of 7 days. Previously this process used to take three months. In addition, we are taking another step to help entrepreneurs by reducing their time and efforts they spent towards getting a loan. Whereas, previously entrepreneurs would make six different applications to approach six different banks for a loan, now we have developed a digital platform, where entrepreneurs will upload one single application that can be accessed by the six banks that have so far come on-board on that platform. Then it is up to the banks, whether, they want to finance the project after their own due diligence. We are planning to start this platform in less a month, and we hope that other banks would also be on-boarded soon. BRR: How is your portfolio distributed across sectors and what new sectors are you looking at? MH: It depends on your perspective. In terms of our assistance (in value terms) that has been materialised, about 40 percent comprises of poultry, livestock and dairy clusters, whereas about 23 percent has been in cold chain and e-beam irradiation. Cotton ginning, animal fattening, and rice husking are some other projects that we have worked on. In terms of the number of projects, we have done about 55 projects of which 28 were from rice clusters focusing on rice husking mills mainly. However, in terms of the total size of investments, of the total Rs 4.6 billion worth of projects that we have facilitated (by picking up their financing cost), poultry, and cold chain and e-beam irradiation has a share of about 25 percent each, whereas livestock and dairy segment has a share of 16 percent. There are about 6 more projects in the pipeline with total investment size of about Rs 3.1 billion, which we will be facilitated by providing Rs 250 million towards interest cost to be paid over three to five years. In addition to the sectors we have already worked in, we are now exploring high-end value addition in cotton, red chillies, dates, onions, pulping units for mango and other fruits and food processing at large. In addition, we are planning to expand to on-farm rice modernisation, where we are working with banks to come up with standardised financing products for rice farming harvest equipment, which we can then replicate, once it becomes successful. https://www.brecorder.com/2019/10/21/533012/agri-finance-cheaper-access-to-credit-isnt-the-panacea-an-interview-with-md-sindh-enterprise-development-fund-sedf-2/ Protesters call for repeal of rice tariffs Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News Farmers and advocate groups burn an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte as they call for the repeal of a law that replaced quotas on rice imports with taxes. The rally coincides with the 47th anniversary of a presidential directive that emancipated all tenant farmers. https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/multimedia/photo/10/21/19/protesters-call-for-repeal-of-rice-tariffs Famine of ‘43 Food supplies to Bengal were reduced in the years preceding 1943 by natural disasters, outbreaks of infections in crops and the fall of Burma – now Myanmar – which was a major source of rice imports, into Japanese hands. Statesman News Service \| New Delhi \| October 21, 2019 2:19 pm (Image: Twitter/@Razarumi) Bengal, a province of plenty was ravaged by famine more than once. If Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaya, the literary lion drew inspiration for “Anandamath” from the 1776 Great Bengal Famine, not many significant works can be traced to the other one which made people from the countryside trek to the cities and beg for rice starch instead of rice as even the staple food of the Bengal populace was scarce even in well to do households. Food supplies to Bengal were reduced in the years preceding 1943 by natural disasters, outbreaks of infections in crops and the fall of Burma – now Myanmar – which was a major source of rice imports, into Japanese hands. But there should still have been enough supplies to feed the region, and that the mass deaths came about as a combination of wartime inflation, speculative buying and panic hoarding, which together pushed the price of food out of the reach of poor Bengalis. More recent studies, have argued the famine was exacerbated by the decisions of Winston Churchill’s wartime Cabinet in London. The Cabinet was warned repeatedly that the exhaustive use of Indian resources for the war effort could result in famine, but it opted to continue exporting rice from India to elsewhere in the empire. Rice stocks continued to leave India even as London was denying urgent requests from India’s viceroy for more emergency wheat supplies in 1942-43. Churchill has been quoted as blaming the famine on the fact Indians were “breeding like rabbits”, and asking how, if the shortages were so bad, Mahatma Gandhi was still alive. Britain’s “denial policy” in the region, in which huge supplies of rice and thousands of boats were confiscated from coastal areas of Bengal in order to deny resources to the Japanese army in case of a future invasion which led to what is known as “Ponchasher Monnantwar”. A book bearing the same title has hit the stands recently penned by a man who is much in news despite having passed away before his political career could come to fruition. The youngest vice-chancellor of Calcutta University, son of eminent jurist Sir Asutosh Mookherjee, a pillar of Hindu Mahasabha and a lion in Parliament, Syama Prasad Mookherjee was in the government when the famine broke out. Never a person who would do anything by halves, he flung himself in relief work for the famished, dead and dying. The 129- page hardback is an account of his endeavour and the hurdles it had to cross to feed the hungry. Reprinted by Sutradhar, it makes fascinating reading as it focuses on the life and times of a controversial leader fighting heavy odds and sometimes earning unwarranted criticism for his efforts to feed the famished. https://www.thestatesman.com/supplements/notebook/famine-of-43-1502812671.html Dar says gov’t aims to fully obligate P10-B RCEF by Dec. Published October 22, 2019 12:26pm Updated October 22, 2019 1:33pm By DONA MAGSINO and TINA PANGANIBAN PEREZ, GMA News The Department of Agriculture on Tuesday said it expects to have the P10-billion Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) fully obligated before the year ends. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said that the P10 billion has been downloaded to implementing agencies and 32% of it has been committed to specific projects and activities. “Mayroon nang activity or part of the component na dumaan na sa proseso at mayroon nang budget to support the activity and it’s almost going to the next level. After the obligations, you need to disburse the money,” Dar said in a press conference. “On or before December 2019, it will be obligated 100 percent,” he added. The Philippine Rice Research Institute targets to distribute 2.12 million bags of seeds for the dry season cropping in 2020, covering 1.6 million hectares of rice farms. The procurement process is ongoing, said Dar. The Agriculture department has started distributing certified inbred rice seeds to eligible beneficiaries of the RCEF. This is expected to help farmers achieve 6-ton per hectare yields. Around 2.12 million bags of certified seeds will be distributed in 57 provinces, covering 1.06 million hectares. Aside from seeds, farm machineries and postharvest facilities will be made available to an estimated 1,200 to 1,600 farmers’ cooperatives and associations (FCAs.). This year, 589 FCAs have been identified as beneficiaries nationwide. Bidding for rice farm machinery and equipment is underway. The Philippine Center for Post-harvest Development and Mechanization said it aims to award bids by December. Around P2.005 billion of funds are available for 2019 to finance farm machineries and postharvest facilities. Tillers and accredited FCAs can also take out loans from the Land Bank of the Philippines and the Development Bank of the Philippines. Up to P1 billion from the RCEF will be made available to the two banks. Trainings and credit assistance have also been to rolled out. “Ang disenyo po nitong RCEF program ay pataasin ‘yung ani ng ating mga magsasaka, pababain ‘yung kanilang gastos nang sa gayon, kahit mura ‘yung pagbili sa palay output nila ay kikita pa rin po sila,” Flordeliza Bordey, Philrice RCEF program director said in the same press conference. But Bordey made it clear that the fund is not intended to have an impact on arm gate prices. “Ang RCEF ay hindi designed na pababain yung farm gate.” On the other hand, Dar said: “It will balance everything out.” However, Nueva Ecija farmer Gerry Esteban said the farm gate price of palay is now P12 to P13 per kilo. “Parang hindi naging balanse ‘yung price ng palay. Sana kung ang presyo ng palay is P13, sana ang presyo ng bigas isa kalahati, P26 lang. Parang hindi naging balanse. Ngayon, malungkot na kami, malungkot pa rin ang consumer,” Esteban said. Under the Rice Tariffication Law, the government should earmark P10 billion annually for the RCEF in six years. From this fund, P5 billion will be allocated to rice farm machinery and equipment, P3 billion for rice seeds, P1 billion for expanded credit assistance, and P1 billion for rice extension services such as training for farmers. President Rodrigo Duterte enacted the Rice Tariffication Law earlier this year, removing quantitative restrictions on rice imports and setting a 35% tariff for shipments from Southeast Asia. RCEF was seen by its proponents as a protective mechanism to foster higher yields and lower production cost for rice farmers—ensuring that their livelihood will not be drowned out by the influx of imported rice. —VDS, GMA News https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/economy/712558/dar-says-gov-t-aims-to-fully-obligate-p10-b-rcef-by-dec/story/ Indian rice prices hit multi-month lows as buyers defer purchases Demand for rice from top exporter India was subdued as buyers delayed purchases despite a dip in prices to four-month lows this week, while restricted supply kept rates for the Vietnamese variety at their highest in two months.Prices for India's 5 percent broken parboiled variety fell to $365-$370 per tonne from $368-$372 a week ago. “Asian and African buyers are not in a hurry. They are postponing buying anticipating a further fall in prices," said an exporter based at Kakinada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. India's rice exports in August fell 29% year-on-year to 644,249 tonnes due to weak demand from African countries for non-basmati rice, among other factors. Its rice production from the summer-sown crop in 2019 is expected to drop 1.7% from a year ago to 100.35 million tonnes. Meanwhile, rates for Vietnam's benchmark 5% broken rice were unchanged from last week's $350 a tonne, a two-month high. “Demand is weak, but low supplies have helped keep prices from falling," a trader based in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang said. However, there were concerns that a move by the Philippines – Vietnam's largest rice export market accounting for 36% of total shipments – to reduce imports could further hit the Vietnamese market, another trader in Ho Chi Minh city said. Sluggish demand pushed export prices for Vietnamese rice to their lowest in nearly 12 years, at $325 per tonne, in September. A global economic slowdown has also been one of the factors weighing on demand, Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien told reporters this week. In second biggest exporter Thailand, which has also been grappling with slow demand and a strong baht, benchmark 5-percent broken rice prices narrowed to $395-$400 a tonne on Thursday from $396-$400 last week. “Demand has been very small because of our high prices and little else has changed," a Bangkok-based trader said. Prices for the Thai variety have remained higher than competitors due to the firm currency. “The continued strength of the baht has prevented exporters quoting lower prices as the market anticipates further strengthening of the currency," another trader said. Meanwhile, farmers in Bangladesh, who have been struggling with low prices and high harvesting costs, will receive a subsidy of 30 billion taka ($354 million) to buy modern agro-tools in an effort to minimise production costs and boost domestic output, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque said. Dhaka has failed to clinch overseas deals for its rice since a long-standing export ban was lifted in May, losing out to cheaper grain from India and Thailand. https://www.brecorder.com/2019/10/22/536378/indian-rice-prices-hit-multi-month-lows-as-buyers-defer-purchases/ Nigeria: CBN, IMF Disagree Over Impact of Forex Restrictions On FDI Inflow Vanguard (Lagos) By Emeka Anaeto and Babajide Komolafe The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), yesterday disagreed with the position of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the impact of the foreign exchange (Forex) restrictions on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflow into the country. CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, while speaking at a joint press conference with the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, at the just concluded annual meeting of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, said rather than impeding investment, the restriction on forex supply to some items should encourage investors to set up manufacturing firms for those items in Nigeria. He was responding to comments last Tuesday, by Oya Celasun, Division Chief, Research Department, IMF, who stated that the forex restrictions imposed on 43 items by the CBN, is holding back foreign investments into Nigeria. Highlighting the measures required to boost economic growth in Nigeria, while speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday Celasun, had said: "Other areas are the need for tight monetary policy and simpler unified exchange rate system. Foreign exchange restrictions have also been distorting public and private sector decisions and holding back investments." Reacting, Emefiele said that the restrictions are on items that can be locally produced and will encourage investors to tap into the huge market represented by the nation's population of 200 million people. He stated: "I say that (IMF claim) is false. If you feel that we are restricting access to forex, for the importation of items that can be produced in Nigeria. "If you are a foreign direct investment (FDI) that is interested in doing business in Nigeria, I will say instead of you facilitating the import of these items into Nigeria, we want you to come and produce it in Nigeria. "Nigeria is a market of over 200 million people, so you do not have a choice than to come, bring your investment plans and equipment, come and produce that item in Nigeria so that Nigerians can consume it, you will make your profit and take your dividend out of the country. So, I disagree with that position." FG should sustain border closure In the same vein, the CBN Governor, stressed the need to sustain the closure of the country's land border, insisting the border closure is critical to boosting local production and employment generation which is necessary to enhancing the economic growth in the face of the slow down in the growth of the global economy. He said: "I would caution and appeal that before the border is opened. Some firm decisions and agreement must be reached where protocols must be obeyed when we say we want this to stop, other countries must respect what we want because it is also meant for the growth and the good for our country. Explaining how smuggling activities across the land borders undermine local production, he said: "Two weeks to the closure of the border, I was called by rice millers, not less than five rice milers were complaining that each of them had nothing less than 30,000 metric tonnes of milled rice in their warehouses that they couldn't sell as a result of smuggling. I was called by some of the poultry farmers that we were also financing through our intervention that they couldn't sell their eggs and poultry items. "A week after the border closure, the rice millers called back to say, government thank you very much, we don't know what happened, we don't know if it was you that spoke to the president, with this border closure, have exhausted all our rice in our warehouses, people are coming to deposit money," the CBN governor said. On her part, the Minister of Finance, Zainab, dismissed insinuations that the border closure is vindictive against neighbouring countries. She said that though the border closure is temporary, it would not be reversed until neighbouring countries are committed to an agreement on measures to checkmate smuggling of goods into Nigeria. She said: "Let me give you an example, the commitments that we have within these countries is that goods can come through your ports to Nigeria, but when they come, they are supposed to come in sealed containers escorted to Nigeria for the Nigerian Customs to open them for inspection as well as charges. https://allafrica.com/stories/201910210800.html Odisha’s 4.2 Lakh MT Paddy Baggage From Last Season Lobs More Posers! Farmer organisations fear that the paddy baggage could hamper the new procurement that will start from November Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By Sanjeev Kumar Patro On Oct 21, 2019 - 2:14 PM Bhubaneswar: When the State government has set the paddy procurement target at 60 Lakh MT for 2019-20 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS), the revelation is State agencies are still saddling with a whopping around 4.19 lakh MT (metric tonnes) un-milled paddy of the total procured in 2018-19 season. The disconcerting fact here is as per the normal practice the entire procured quantity should have been sent for custom milling to millers within 3-months of procurement. The procurement season for the State has ended on June 30. But of the total procurement of around 64.4 lakh MT paddy in 2018-19, a high of around 6 per cent un-milled paddy is still lying with the State agencies, which raises an eyebrow over the food-grain management of the State. Though officials of the Food and Civil Supplies Department (F&CS) refused to speak on the issue, experts attribute State sitting over un-milled paddy to two serious lapses. As per experts, the first could be due to failure of the State to set up rice mills in tandem with increased procurement, and hence the stock of un-milled paddy. https://odishatv.in/odisha/odishas-4-2-lakh-mt-paddy-baggage-from-last-season-lobs-more-posers-410160 Onochie speaks as farmers promise to crash price of rice Nurudeen Lawal Lauretta Onochie, President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide on social media, on Monday, October 21, gives Nigerians hope over an alleged potential crash of rice's price in the market. Onochie who made this known via her Twitter handle, @Laurestar, says in three weeks time, rice consumers "should expect a crash in the commodity's price to about N9,000 per 50kg. The presidential aide made reference to a report published by The Punch where rice farmers reportedly promised to crash the price of the commodity as they recorded a "bumper harvest". "Instead of paying 25,000 for "Foreign" Nigerian Rice, you will now have extra ₦16,000 towards other needs," Onochie added. Nigerians have in recent times complained about the hike in rice prices, a development some have linked to federal government's closure of the nation’s land borders which reportedly prevented foreign rice importation. PAY ATTENTION: Install our latest app for Android, read best news on Nigeria’s #1 news app Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) appealed to members of Rice Millers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) and other stakeholders in the rice value chain not to increase the price of rice over border closure. Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor, said this in a statement issued and made available to newsmen on Monday, October 14, in Abuja by Muhammed Tijani, media assistant to RIMAN’s chairman. Emefiele also called on them not to hoard rice as a result of the closure of the borders in order to increase price, adding that such acts were unpatriotic. https://www.legit.ng/1268521-onochie-speaks-farmers-promise-crash-price-rice-3-weeks.html Tardy lifting may cause paddy glut Oct 22, 2019, 6:57 AM; last updated: Oct 22, 2019, 6:57 AM (IST) Arhtiyas allege rice millers not lifting produce to protest non-fulfilment of demands Paddy stocked in the open at the Sangrur grain market. Tribune photo Parvesh Sharma Sangrur, October 21 The ‘slow’ lifting of paddy from grain markets across the state has started creating problems. Arhtiyas allege that since the Punjab Government has failed to fulfil the demand of rice millers of shifting their stock, they are not lifting the purchased paddy. “Since the start of the paddy purchase season, arhtiyas have been facing problems. Now, the slow lifting has created hurdles for us. Things will become worse in the coming days if the authorities fail to take quick action. Around 48 per cent paddy is lying unlifted across the state while the authorities are blind to the fact and not taking any action despite our repeated requests,” said Ravinder Singh Cheema, president of the arhtiya association. While sharing other figures, he said Pathankot had seen only 17 per cent lifting, SBS Nagar 30 per cent, Barnala 25 per cent and Mansa 37 per cent. “In majority of districts of Punjab, the figure of lifting is below 50 per cent despite the fact that the official purchase of paddy started 21 days back. Farmers are asking arhtiyas to make space as they are unaware that it’s the job of the millers. In many grain markets, farmers have threatened arhtiyas with dire consequences if the required space is not made immediately,” Cheema said. Some farmers sitting in Sangrur, where 47 per cent lifting has been done till date, fear that if the government fails to ensure quick lifting, it may cause glut and compel them to launch an agitation. “The Punjab Government is well aware about the situation as its officials are sending reports daily. But we have not seen any improvement in lifting here,” said Kulwinder Singh, a farmer sitting near his paddy in the grain market. When contacted, Principal Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, KAP Sinha said he was unaware about the delay of lifting.“I do not know,” he said. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/tardy-lifting-may-cause-paddy-glut/850330.html Majority of baby foods contain toxic heavy metals, study says Updated 3:35 PM; Today 3:25 PM A recent study, by Healthy Babies Bright Future, shows that 95 percent of popular baby foods in the United States contain toxic heavy metals. (Shutterstock.com) By Victoria Ifatusin \| vifatusin@siadvance.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A recent study shows that 95 percent of popular baby foods in the United States contain toxic heavy metals. The Healthy Babies Bright Future (HBBF) study noted that rice cereals, snacks and juices have the highest amounts of heavy metals. According to the report, 168 baby foods were tested, and one in four products contained four toxic heavy metals. The samples tested covered 61 brands and 13 types of food, including infant formula, teething biscuits, cereals, and fruit juices, all of which were selected by parents at their local stores and online. In addition, a new dangerous contaminant -- perchlorate -- was also found in 19 of the tested baby foods. Perchlorate is a neurotoxic pollutant that disrupts thyroid functions that are important to the development of the brain, and can have a negative effect on the growth of a child. “Parents shop for baby food expecting the nutrition, convenience and baby-tested flavors of store-bought brands,” the study stated. “But nearly every jar, pouch and canister also offer something unexpected for a baby’s mealtime --traces of heavy metals, including arsenic and lead.” According to the study, lead was found in 94% of baby foods, cadmium in 75%, arsenic in 73% and mercury in 32% of foods. Twenty-six percent of baby foods contained all four metals, 40% contained three metals, 21% contained two metals, and 8% contained only one metal. Only 5% (nine baby foods) contained no metals. These metals found in baby food can lead to various problems for children, including “IQ loss, attention deficits, and other learning and behavioral impacts among children who are exposed through food and other sources,” researchers said. The study stated that while the FDA has proposed to limit the amount of toxic heavy metals in baby food in the past, no action has been taken. HBBF recommended five healthier food substitutions that can help in reducing babies’ exposure to heavy toxic metals: -- Rather than rice snacks, parents can give their children rice-free snacks, which which contain much lower levels of toxic metals. -- Parents can use organic teething foods, like frozen bananas and chilled cucumbers, instead of teething biscuits or rice tusks. -- Multi-grain cereals, like oatmeal, can also be fed to babies instead of rice cereal. -- Babies can drink tap water instead of fruit juice. -- Feed babies a variety of fruits and veggies instead of just carrots and sweet potatoes https://www.silive.com/news/2019/10/majority-of-baby-foods-contain-toxic-heavy-metals-study-says.html Price of rice will be N9,000 soon – RIFAN By Joseph Olaoluwa Rice farmers have given the general public an assurance that a 50kg bag of rice will sell for N9,000 in three weeks’ time, after recording a bumper harvest this year. They also promised that more rice would flood the market thereby forcing market prices downward, against the continual hoarding that raised the price to about N26,000. Aminu Goronyo, the President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), confirmed this development, saying, “We have a bumper harvest that we never had before. We have never had the type of bumper harvests that we recorded this year.” The Details: He expressed his unhappiness at the actions of unscrupulous middlemen who used the border closure to create widespread scarcity for selfish reasons. He also promised that the increase in the prices of rice will no longer persist. “There are enemies of this country who buy and store this commodity just because they want to create artificial scarcity. But let me tell you, our harvest is coming up in the next two to three weeks, and the paddy coming to the mills, our millers cannot even mill it. “No matter who is trying to hoard or create artificial scarcity as seen in certain locations, such persons will be disappointed,” he said. https://nairametrics.com/2019/10/21/price-of-rice-will-be-n9000-soon-rifan/ Starting Rice Farming Education Early in Louisiana By Kane Webb KAPLAN, LOUISIANA - Last week, Julie and Christian Richard opened their farm and shop to host the first-grade class from the St. Michael School of Crowley, Louisiana. Class and family member Saul Richard served as host and guide once mom and dad set everything up. The students traded in their school uniforms for "on the farm attire," and although the rain prevented the students from witnessing some rice harvest firsthand, they did learn a lot about what sustainable rice farming is all about. The tour included multiple stops around the shop and bins in between rain showers, to give the students a chance to ask questions about anything and everything that takes place on the farm. The class was also treated to samples of home cooked rice and rice snacks, including Rice Krispy treats, and their own "Rice" license plate to take home and put on their parents' cars! "Any time we are able to demonstrate and visit with people, old and young alike, on how rice farming and the rice industry works, we do so," said Christian Richard on the opportunity to host his son's class to their farm. "Many of these kids live near agriculture here in the Acadian area, but don't get the opportunity to learn where their food comes from, or the care and responsibility growers put into producing their crops". Julie Richard added, "While this seems like a simple thing to do, a short trip to a local farm, the lasting impression it can leave on young people goes a long way to having an understanding of how farming works. More than half of these kids have parents and grandparents who are farmers, yet they still ask a ton of questions. Sometimes we get so caught up in educating the general public and those in urban areas we forget that our own kids need that same understanding of what we do. They are our future and if this group of kids is any indication of what is too come, we are in great shape." Paddy, basmati see increase in sown area over last year Monday, 21 October 2019 \| IANS \| New Delhi Paddy acreages in the current fiscal have grown by 6.5 per cent and basmati acreages have increased by a whopping 36 per cent in comparison to kharif 2018 but the increased cultivation may turn out to be a challenge due to growth concerns at the global level and within India. National Collateral Management Services conducted a field-based crop survey for assessment of acreage, crop health and production of basmati rice during kharif 2019. The survey was commissioned by the Basmati Export Development Foundation, founded by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority. As per the latest kharif sowing report released by the Agriculture Ministry on September 27, all India paddy acreages are reported at 382 lakh hectares which are 1 per cent lower than 2018 paddy acreages of 387 lakh hectares. This survey is at variance with the government report and paddy cultivation is higher as per the NCML survey with total paddy acreages during kharif 2019 estimated at 6,204,000 hectares which are 6.5 per cent higher than last year’s acreage of 5,825,000 hectares. The field survey was conducted in August 2019 and then in September in the selected 83 districts of the study area and this report covers the results of the survey for total paddy and basmati acreage. The survey found that basmati acreages have increased by a whopping 36 percent in comparison to kharif 2018 in the select 83 districts of the study area. The highest percentage increase in basmati acreages is seen in Uttar Pradesh, followed by Haryana. https://www.dailypioneer.com/2019/business/paddy--basmati-see-increase-in-sown-area-over-last-year.html Rice farmers promise to crash price, record bumper harvest File Photo: Rice farm Rice buyers should expect a crash in the commodity’s price to about N9,000 per 50kg bag in three weeks’ time as rice farmers record a bumper harvest, OKECHUKWU NNODIM reports Farmers and millers of rice say they will soon flood the markets with the commodity and drastically cut the price following a bumper harvest. This is coming after months of hike in rice prices occasioned by the closure of the nation’s land borders preventing foreign rice from coming through such channels. Since the Federal Government closed the borders, some persons have reportedly been engaging in hoarding, buying and storing both rice paddy and milled rice. Farmers, who confirmed that the hike in rice prices was largely caused by this act, told our correspondent on Saturday that they just recorded bumper harvests and this would warrant a crash in local rice price in about three months’ time. In an interview with The PUNCH in Abuja on Saturday, the President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Aminu Goronyo, said, “We have a bumper harvest that we never had before. We have never had the type of bumper harvests that we recorded this year.” He also said recent findings by RIFAN had revealed that some persons were planning to cause widespread artificial rice scarcity for selfish motives. Goronyo stated that although there was an artificial scarcity of rice being felt in a few locations, a development that had led to price increase, it would not drag on for long. Goronyo said, “There are enemies of this country who buy and store this commodity just because they want to create artificial scarcity. But let me tell you, our harvest is coming up in the next two to three weeks, and the paddy coming to the mills, our millers cannot even mill it. “No matter who is trying to hoard or create artificial scarcity as seen in certain locations, such persons will be disappointed.” He added, “Such persons cannot buy all the paddy rice coming into the mills and we have more than enough for Nigerians to consume.” Findings showed that the price of local rice in Abuja had risen from about N14,000, which it sold for two months ago, to between N16,500 and N19,000, depending on the market. Early this month, The PUNCH reported that in major markets in Lagos, the prices of some food items including rice had increased by 42 per cent to 100 per cent from August when the borders were closed to the last week of September. The report stated that at the Ile Epo Market, Daleko, Mile 12, Isheri and Ogba, all in Lagos, a 50kg bag of imported rice that hitherto sold between N13,000 and N14,500 had shot up to between N24,000 and N30,000, while the local variants of 50kg bag had risen from N14,000 to N18,000. But Goronyo said members of RIFAN had decided to stop selling paddy to individuals who were not millers, insisting that they were responsible for price increases. He said, “We’ve noticed that there are people who move into the market to buy paddy rice and who are not even millers. We don’t know where they come from. They are enemies of this country because they just want to put Nigeria in a situation where we have artificially induced rice scarcity. “We are now taking steps to address this by ensuring that no paddy rice buyer will come to the farmers directly and buy unless he identifies himself. There should be a broker who will verify the buyer to know whether he is a miller or not. So that is what we are trying to do now.” When probed further to state the possible price for which the commodity might be sold in the coming weeks, Goronyo stated that the target of farmers and millers was to cut the price of a N50kg bag to N9,000. “Our promise is that Nigerians will continue to get this commodity at an affordable price and it will be available. And like I said to you, we are still selling at N7,500 per bag of paddy and millers are officially selling at N14,000,” he said. The RIFAN president added, “I don’t think the price will go up, rather the only thing we hope is that the price will continue to come down and definitely it will. Some of our millers sell at N12,000 and we hope that Nigerians will buy a 50kg milled rice at between N9,000 and N10,000.” Goronyo stated that dealers in the rice value chain held a meeting with the Central Bank of Nigeria recently where key resolutions were reached. “A meeting was held about two weeks ago involving farmers, millers and the CBN where it was agreed that there should be no increase in price,” he said. Also, the Rice Millers Association of Nigeria confirmed the meeting and stated that the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, appealed to dealers not to hike rice price as a result of the closure of the land borders. Emefiele told the rice dealers that the closure of the borders was meant to promote the growth of the Nigerian economy and ensure that the country attained food self-sufficiency in the rice value chain. Participants at the meeting discussed how to further increase rice production and discourage hoarding and price increase, according to a document on resolutions of the meeting that was made available to our correspondent by RIMAN. The Chairman, RIMAN, Peter Dama, said rice millers were in support of the closure of Nigeria’s borders and urged the government not to succumb to the pressure from some quarters for the reversal of the policy. He also kicked against acts that had led to a hike in rice price and canvassed financial support for RIMAN members to build up capacity and expand their milling activities in order to stimulate further growth in the sector. The RIFAN president also said resolutions reached at the meeting would help guide against unwarranted price increase, as he argued that it was mainly foreign rice that witnessed a hike in price. Goronyo said, “We had the meeting just last week with the millers and sellers of rice across the country and they made us understand that the price from their end still remained the way it used to be. “We did not increase the price of our paddy rice by one kobo. Also, they (millers) did not increase the price of milled rice by a kobo. It is only the foreign rice that you could say the price has increased. But Nigerians should not be carried away by the foreign rice that is less nutritious when compared with ours.” When told that the local rice was being sold for between N16,500 and N19,000 depending on the market, as against a price range of N14,000 two months ago, the RIFAN president insisted that farmers had not changed their price. “It is still N14,000 because like I said, we had a meeting just last week with the central bank. The price by our farmers is still N7,500 for a bag of 75kg, which when milled gives you 50kg of rice. The price of milled rice is still between N13,500 and N14,000 from our rice millers.” https://punchng.com/rice-farmers-promise-to-crash-price-record-bumper-harvest/ Syria tendering to buy 45,000 tonnes of white rice The tender from Syria's General Foreign Trade Organisation closes on November 13 Image used for illustrative purpose. A man throws rice straws out of trolley on the outskirts of Lahore February 17, 2015. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza By Michael Hogan, Reuters News HAMBURG - A Syrian state purchasing agency has issued an international tender to buy 45,000 tonnes of white rice, European traders said on Monday. The tender from Syria's General Foreign Trade Organisation closes on Nov. 13, they said. Long- or short-grain rice of third or fourth class grades was sought. No specific country of origin was specified. Some 25,000 tonnes was sought for supply 90 days after confirmation of the order, and 20,000 tonnes 180 days after supply of the first consignment. The rice was sought packed in bags and offers should be submitted in euros. (Reporting by Michael Hogan; Editing by Jan Harvey) ((michael.j.hogan@thomsonreuters.com; +49 172 671 36 54; Reuters Messaging: michael.hogan.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/markets/story/Syria_tendering_to_buy_45000_tonnes_of_white_rice-TR20191021nL5N2762ZOX2/ Punjab govt launches programme for rice production LAHORE: The Punjab government has launched a Rs4 billion Prime Minister Agriculture Emergency Programme for enhancing rice production.The aim of the program is to provide agriculture inputs to farmers on subsidized rates. An announcement in this connection was made here Saturday at a function presided over by Malik Nauman Langrial, provincial Agriculture Minister. Progressive farmer Jahangir Tareen was also present on the occasion. The minister said the government wanted to improve per acre yield by enhancing the use of various farm inputs. The meeting was told that a project has been launched for developing new varieties of rice. https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/543786-punjab-govt-launches-programme-for-rice-production Paddy and basmati see increase in sown area over last year Source Last Updated: Mon, Oct 21, 2019 10:01 hrs New Delhi: Paddy acreages in the current fiscal have grown by 6.5 per cent and basmati acreages have increased by a whopping 36 per cent in comparison to kharif 2018 but the increased cultivation may turn out to be a challenge due to growth concerns at the global level and within India. National Collateral Management Services conducted a field-based crop survey for assessment of acreage, crop health and production of basmati rice during kharif 2019. The survey was commissioned by the Basmati Export Development Foundation (BEDF), founded by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA). As per the latest kharif sowing report released by the Agriculture Ministry on September 27, all India paddy acreages are reported at 382 lakh hectares which are 1 per cent lower than 2018 paddy acreages of 387 lakh hectares. This survey is at variance with the government report and paddy cultivation is higher as per the NCML survey with total paddy acreages during kharif 2019 estimated at 6,204,000 hectares which are 6.5 per cent higher than last year's acreage of 5,825,000 hectares. The field survey was conducted in August 2019 and then in September in the selected 83 districts of the study area and this report covers the results of the survey for total paddy and basmati acreage. The survey found that basmati acreages have increased by a whopping 36 percent in comparison to kharif 2018 in the select 83 districts of the study area. The highest percentage increase in basmati acreages is seen in Uttar Pradesh, followed by Haryana. "Looking at the higher acreages of basmati paddy, economic growth concerns at the global as well as domestic level, Indian basmati rice industry is all set to face another challenging year," the survey noted. With the growing export demand for Indian basmati rice, farmers have timely reciprocated to the needs of the industry by increasing acreages under basmati paddy during the current kharif season, according to the survey. The majority of the farmers during the survey have indicated that higher prices realised by them during the kharif 2018 as the prime reason for higher paddy acreages during the 2019 season. The survey found that Haryana has the largest acreages under Basmati paddy contributing for 42 per cent of basmati acreages in the study area followed by Punjab (29 per cent) and Uttar Pradesh (24 per cent). Basmati paddy acreages have increased in Uttar Pradesh by 92.8 per cent, Haryana by 42.5 per cent, Himachal Pradesh by 24.1 per cent, Uttarakhand by 14.6 per cent and Punjab by 8.4 per cent while Basmati acreages are lower by 4 per cent in Jammu & Kashmir. The total paddy acreages during 2019 are higher in Uttar Pradesh (20.8 per cent), Uttarakhand (18.4 per cent), Haryana (6.8 per cent) and Jammu & Kashmir (3.6 per cent) while total paddy acreages are lower in Himachal Pradesh (-3.53 per cent) and Punjab (-0.2 per cent). Basmati rice is an important export commodity among food grains exported from India. India is one of the top exporters of rice, both basmati and non-basmati rice, and the annual Indian rice exports hover around 10-13 million tons. During the year 2018-19 (April-March), India exported 11.9 million MT of rice, out of which basmati rice exports accounted for 4.4 million tons while non-basmati rice exports were 7.5 million tons. The share of basmati rice in the total rice exports has been hovering in the range of 30 per cent to 40 per cent while non-basmati rice contributes to 60 to 70 per cent of rice exports. India exports basmati rice to almost 132 countries across the world every year. https://www.sify.com/finance/paddy-and-basmati-see-increase-in-sown-area-over-last-year-news-agriculture-tkvkbUabcijch.html Spotlight: Cambodia hopes to expand market for rice via upcoming China Int'l Import Expo Source: Xinhua\| 2019-10-20 23:17:22\|Editor: Wang Yamei by Nguon Sovan, Mao Pengfei PHNOM PENH, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- "Chinese dishes and Cambodian rice are best match!" said Song Saran, president of the Cambodia Rice Federation, "I believe that Cambodian rice will become more and more popular in China." In an interview with Xinhua on Friday, Saran said that Cambodia will grasp the opportunity of the second China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai to promote its best quality rice to the Chinese and international markets. Thirteen Cambodian rice exporters will showcase their finest rice at the second edition of the CIIE, which is scheduled for Nov. 5-10 in Shanghai, said Saran, adding that Cambodian rice exporters hope to sign more contracts during the expo. In his office, a variety of rice samples and awards of best rice winners are displayed on shelves. Saran said three varieties of Cambodian rice will be brought to exhibit at the event. "The first one is Malys Angkor (jasmine rice). Malys Angkor aromatic rice is the world's best rice winner (in 2018)," he said, adding that the other two are fragrant rice and premium white rice. As about 80 percent of Cambodia's population is farmers, rice has been grown throughout the country, and almost 40 percent of the volume of milled rice produced in the country has been shipped to China. Saran said the export of Cambodian rice to China has remarkably increased during the first nine months of 2019 after the federation took part in the first CIIE in last November. The kingdom exported 157,793 tons of rice to China during the January-September period this year, up 44 percent over the same period last year, he said, adding that the export to China accounted for 39.6 percent of the country's total rice export. China has become the top buyer of Cambodian rice. Saran was strongly confident that the volume will continue to grow in coming years. He said Cambodian rice has been popular in China for the last five years thanks to its good quality and delicious flavor. "First, it's tasty; second, it's very tender and (has) a very good aroma," he said, emphasizing that Cambodian rice has been grown around the Tonle Sap Lake, where the soil is fertile and farmers do not use chemical fertilizers and insecticide, which makes consumers feel more safe and confident to consume Cambodian rice. Kann Kunthy, vice president of Amru Rice (Cambodia), which will partake in the upcoming CIIE, said the company has contracted with farmers, providing them seeds and techniques in order to grow the best and chemical-free rice for the Chinese market. In the factory on the western outskirts of Phnom Penh , as engines roared on Friday, workers had feverishly worked based on their duties and responsibilities. Some unloaded unprocessed rice from trucks and poured it into an intake hopper, where the rice would go through all processes and end up in packaging. Then, the quality of the processed rice will be checked and certified by a team of Chinese experts from the CCIC (China Certification & Inspection Group) before being permitted to be uploaded into containers destined for China. "When rice arrives at our factory here, we have our QC (Quality Controller) inspect again to make sure that we buy Grade A, we get Grade A," he said. "When it comes to packing, CCIC checks it again, just to make sure the rice is 100 percent Grade A, so we only ship the best rice to China." Cheng Vuthy, a QC manager of the Amru Rice Reprocessing Factory, said quality and safety are the top priorities and that the factory always adheres to quality criteria required by clients. "We work very hard to make sure we bring our best to Chinese consumers," he told Xinhua. "During the past years, Chinese market has been growing very fast and we are very happy to know our rice will be exhibited in Shanghai." "This container behind me will be shipped to China soon, and we hope our rice can become more and more popular in China," he added. Chen Qisheng, general manager of CCIC's Cambodian branch, told Xinhua that, the coming expo in Shanghai will be a golden chance for Cambodia to introduce its rice to more Chinese consumers. "I've been working in Cambodia for two years. Cambodian rice is aromatic and glutinous. Cambodian farms are clean, and have no chemical pollution," Chen said, "that's why Cambodian rice is tasty and safe." In addition to rice, China also imports banana, cassava and cashew-nuts from Cambodia. Chen said that CCIC has been working with Cambodian partners to export more kinds of agricultural products to China, including mango, dragon fruit, coconut and etc. "With the help from Chinese partners and huge demand of Chinese consumers, Cambodian agricultural sector is going to boom." http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/20/c_138488444.htm Solon slams ‘senseless’ rice subsidy for rice farmers By Ellson Quismorio The government’s rice subsidy program for rice farmers makes zero sense to Negros Oriental 2nd district representative Manuel Sagarbarria. (Tara Yap/ MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Sagarbarria expressed this sentiment during a House Committee on Agriculture and Food hearing earlier this month wherein the negative impact of Republic Act (RA) 11203 or the controversial Rice Tariffication Law on local rice farmers was further discussed. “We are giving them rice of which they have already produced for themselves. So it’s going to be redundant in the sense that they are receiving physical rice,” the solon said, referring to the rice farmers who have been placed under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). Under the 4Ps, the farmer-beneficiaries will get P600 worth of rice per month. But Department of Agriculture (DA) Undersecretary for Operations Ariel Cayanan told solons during the hearing that what farmers actually receive is P1,200 worth of rice on a bi-monthly basis. “That is the economy of scale that’s working here. It is almost good as one cavan (more or less 50 kilos) of rice,” Cayanan said. “It cannot make sense,” noted Sagarbarria, chairman of the Committee on the West Philippine Sea. “I’m a rice producer, I’m a 4Ps beneficiary, and the government will give me rice? It doesn’t make sense. Besides, that money, that P600 subsidy [of] rice that we want to give the 4Ps [beneficiaries], maybe they can use that for fertilizer in producing their own rice,” he told the Agriculture panel. Filipino farmers are said to be on dire straits no thanks to RA 11203, which liberalized the entry of imported rice to the county. Since imported rice is cheaper, local farmers have found it difficult to sell the rice that they themselves planted and harvested. Cayanan tried to justify the rice subsidy that the Negros lawmaker had branded as redundant. “While farmers are producers, they are also consumers. During the lean season they are also buyers of what they consume [which is rice],” the DA official said. “Tsaka yung provision na iyon ng pera [sa 4Ps] ay para sa pagkain po (That particular provision under 4Ps is for food). And rice is a provision of food,” added Cayanan. Sagarbarria, however, claimed that local farmers have a habit of keeping a sizable stock of rice or palay (unhusked rice) for themselves on top of what they sell or bring to the market. “I live in an agricultural district and I know…during the lean months wherein they (farmers) do not produce rice, they have stocks for themselves to last for a year. Rarely does it happen that they buy [rice]. That is what usually happens. I’m the son of a farmer and I know what it going on,” he said. Some lawmakers, particularly those from the Makabayan Bloc, have argued that direct subsidy or relief in the form of cash would be of better help to the beleaguered farmers. The Agriculture panel is chaired by Quezon 1st district Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga. https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/10/21/solon-slams-senseless-rice-subsidy-for-rice-farmers/ Rice farmers to receive P5-K cash from gov’t By Panay News MANILA – In view of the declining palay prices since the rice tariffication law took effect in March, the affected farmers tilling one hectare and below will receive P5,000 cash assistance from the government. Agriculture secretary William Dar, on the sidelines of the ongoing Philippine-India Trade Consultations held at Shangri-la Makati on Friday, said the cash assistance is a one-time cash-out and this will be taken from the tariff being collected out of the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL). Around P3 billion will be needed for the 600,000 rice farmer-beneficiaries in the country. “I’m hoping that this (cash assistance) will be given before Christmas,” Dar said. At present, he said about P11 billion have been collected from RTL. The DA chief also clarified that the cash assistance is different from the earlier loan assistance of P15,000 offered by the government to affected rice farmers under the Expanded Survival and Recovery Assistance Program for Rice Farmers (SURE Aid Program). The P1.5-billion SURE Aid Program is the government’s initial relief response to rice farmers who are tilling one hectare of land and below and are affected by the initial impact of lower palay prices. The one-time, zero-interest, no collateral loan of P15,000 is payable up to eight years. Meanwhile, Dar said the government has decided to defer the implementation of safeguard duties on rice imports. “I presented the proposal to the Cabinet and their decision (is that) there might be an inflationary effect,” he said. Dar said there will be a meeting of the Economic Development Cluster on Oct. 24 to include discussion on the proposed general safeguard duty on rice import.(PNA) https://www.panaynews.net/rice-farmers-to-receive-p5-k-cash-from-govt/ FDA should monitor baby food for toxic heavy metals, Schumer says Sen. Charles Schumer, (D-New York), standing in front of a Buy Buy Baby store in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on Sunday. At left, Michael Akavan holds his 6-week-old daughter, Summer. Photo Credit: Newsday/Ted Phillips By Ted Phillipsted.phillips@newsday.com @tedephillipsUpdated October 21, 2019 7:00 AM Stricter regulations are needed to protect babies against toxic heavy metals that a new study shows were in many baby foods, Sen. Chuck Schumer. “Parents across the land should be worried about teaching their children ABCs, not worried about what's in their baby's food,” Schumer (D-New York) said at a news conference in front of a Buy Buy Baby store in the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan. “But now they have to worry because we're sitting on our hands.” A study published last week by Healthy Babies Bright Futures found that when they tested 168 containers of baby food across the country that 95% of them had at least one toxic heavy metal. The study, called “What’s in my baby’s food,” tested for lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury which have been linked to problems in brain development. The study found that 25% of food containers tested showed traces of all four heavy metals. “We're calling on the FDA to act ASAP,” Schumer said. “They should investigate this new report and finally get a move on something they said they'd do two and a half years ago, which is [to] study toxic toxicity of metals in baby food and take preventative action.” Spokespersons for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not return requests for comment on Sunday. Healthy Babies Bright Futures describes itself on its website as an alliance of nonprofits that work to reduce infants’ exposure to neurotoxic chemicals. Some of the metals are naturally occurring and others can be found at elevated levels in fields contaminated by pesticides, fertilizers and other pollutants, according to the study. The report suggests that parents reduce their babies’ exposure to heavy metals by choosing alternative foods. The study found that rice-based foods presented the greatest risk to children under 2 years old and nearly always contained all four heavy metals for which they tested. The study suggested rice-free snacks, multigrain cereals or oatmeal, and frozen bananas or chilled cucumbers as alternatives to rice based infant foods. In 2016, the FDA announced it was taking steps to reduce the intake of arsenic from infant rice cereal by proposing a limit of 100 parts per billion of organic arsenic. The study found that all but one of seven infant rice cereals tested exceeded that proposed limit The study also suggested substituting tap water for fruit juice and adding a variety of vegetables to reduce exposure from carrots and sweet potatoes that retain more heavy metals than most other fruits and vegetables. Switching to organic food won’t affect babies’ exposure, the study said, because organic standards don’t address the four heavy metals. By Ted Phillipsted.phillips@newsday.com @tedephillips Ted Phillips covers the Town of Oyster Bay and has been a reporter at Newsday since 2011. Over his career he has covered state government in Albany, municipal finance, local government, crime, economic development and armed conflict. https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/baby-foodschumer-metals-1.37730773 5 BABY FOODS WITH TOXINS: SAFER CHOICES 5 Baby Foods with Toxins: Safer Choices to Feed your BabyTO FEED YOUR BABY LIZ JERESSI Scientific research now shows that there are several baby foods that contain arsenic, lead and other toxic heavy metals. Health risks include cancer and decreased learning ability for children, and some foods have very high levels leading to greater risks for your little ones. Unfortunately, the FDA hasn't set safety standards for heavy metals in some of our most popular bay foods. Here are easy ways to cut down on the amounts of heavy toxins in your baby or toddler's diet: SNACKS: Puffs and other snacks made with rice flour are high in arsenic. So choose rice-free packaged snacks. Even better, try these healthy snacks with fewer contaminants: Apples, unsweetened applesauce, bananas, barley with diced veggies, beans, cheese, grapes (cut lengthwise), hard-boiled eggs, peaches, and yogurt. CEREALS: Infant rice cereal is the #1 source of arsenic in infant's diets. Choose other cereals that are naturally low in arsenic, like oatmeal and multi-grain. TEETHING FOODS: Teething biscuits often contain arsenic, lead, and cadmium. They also lack nutrients and can cause tooth decay. Doctors and dentists recommend trying a frozen banana, a peeled and chilled cucumber, or a clean, cold, wet washcloth or spoon...and to stay with your baby to make sure there are no choking hazards whenever they are teething on something. DRINKS: Apple, pear, grape and other fruit juices contain lead and arsenic. Levels aren't as high as in some other foods, but since many toddlers drink juice often, it's a top exposure source. Filtered tap water and milk are better drinks for toddlers. Serve whole or pureed fruits (like applesauce) instead of fruit juice for more healthy fiber and nutrients. Doctors advise avoiding fruit juice altogether in a baby's first year. FRUITS & VEGGIES: Carrots and sweet potatoes are a great source of Vitamin A and other nutrients your baby needs. But they are also high in two toxic metals: lead and cadmium. Variety is the solution: give your baby these PLUS OTHER fruits & veggies throughout the week, for benefits without the excess risk of overloading on carrots and sweet potatoes. Toxic heavy metals are often found in soil, water, and, therefore, food. But when babies are ingesting them often, that can be more dangerous. But rice -- that is something to be especially aware of. Rice is high in arsenic and a top exposure source for toddlers. Here are extra steps you can take: -- Cook rice in extra water that you pour off before eating, to cut down arsenic levels by 60 percent (according to FDA studies). -- For the lowest levels, buy basmati rice grown in California, India, and Pakistan. White rice has less arsenic than brown rice. -- Avoid rice from Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, or simply "U.S." It has the highest levels, according to testing by Consumer Reports. -- Eat a variety of grains to help reduce your family's arsenic exposures. Try amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat, millet and polenta (all gluten-free), or bulgur, barley and farro (these contain gluten.) To read the entire report on what's dangerous to feed your baby (168 store-bought baby foods contain toxins!), CLICK HERE. https://943thepoint.com/5-baby-foods-with-toxins-safer-choices-to-feed-your-baby/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line245
__label__cc	0.700212	0.299788	Therapeutic Applications of Kinase Inhibitors Therapeutic Applications of Kinase Inhibitors » c-IAP Menu Not Found Category Archives: c-IAP c-IAP Introduction Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are March 24, 2019 Published by: antibody Introduction Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are connected with advantageous response in mutant lung cancer. not really discovered in and and hereditary alterations were examined by sequencing. Statistical evaluation was performed using Chi-square ensure that you Kaplan-Meier technique. Conclusions T790M was Delamanid supplier discovered in half from the lung adenocarcinoma after obtaining level of resistance to afatinib. T790M continues to be the major obtained level of resistance system. First-generation EGFR TKI publicity did not impact the prevalence of T790M in lung cancers obtained level of resistance to afatinib. mutations [6, 7]. Afatinib simply because first-line treatment also prolongs overall success in sufferers with exon 19 deletion [8]. Nevertheless, sufferers with mutant lung cancers develop disease development after a median of 10 to 14 a few months on EGFR TKI. Different systems of obtained level of resistance to first-generation EGFR TKIs have been reported [9, 10]. Obtained T790M was the main mechanism of obtained level of resistance to first-generation EGFR TKIs, and it makes up about about a fifty percent of the situations with obtained level of resistance to gefitinib or erlotinib. Many third-generation EGFR TKIs, which irreversibly stop T790M mutant mutant lung cancers patients who obtained Mouse monoclonal to STK11 T790M after treatment failing with prior EGFR TKIs [11, 12]. Furthermore, other obtained level of resistance mechanism continues to be reported; like the advancement of little cell lung cancers or squamous cell change, second stage mutations (D761Y or L747S), amplification, obtained or mutation, and epithelial-to-mesenchymal changeover [9, 10, 13C16]. Although a preclinical research demonstrated that afatinib could inhibit T790M and stop the development of non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) cell lines harboring T790M mutations [17], the scientific trial didn’t show the entire survival advantage in sufferers after failing of platinum doublet and first-generation EGFR TKIs [18]. The introduction of obtained level of resistance remains a substantial hurdle for afatinib-treated affected individual in scientific practice. There is only 1 case survey that demonstrated the recognition of obtained T790M in lung cancers cells following the advancement of level of resistance to afatinib [19]. Nevertheless, the prevalence of T790M in lung cancers patients with obtained level of resistance to afatinib is not studied. mutation reviews before afatinib remedies, including: 14 deletions in exon-19, 22 L858R and 6 various other mutations (L861Q, D770_N711 dupSVD, G719S + S768I, G719C + S768I, L858R + E709G, L858R + S768I). Treatment reactions of afatinib had been 37 incomplete response and 5 steady disease (Desk ?(Desk1).1). Fourteen individuals had been first-generation EGFR TKI-na?ve individuals. Twenty-eight individuals belonged to first-generation EGFR TKI-treated group, plus they received previous first-generation EGFR TKIs treatment before acquiring afatinib, including: 5 gefitinib, 9 erlotinib, and 14 gefitinib and erlotinib. Desk 1 Clinical features of lung adenocarcinoma individuals with obtained level of resistance to afatinib mutations as the combined treatment-na?ve or pre-afatinib remedies cells specimens. We discovered a second-site T790M-mutation in 20 (47.6%) from the 42 specimens with acquired level of resistance to afatinib, including: 8 MPEs (44.4%) and 12 lung tissue (63.2%) (Desk ?(Desk2).2). We didn’t detect other supplementary substitutions or stage mutation of = 0.827). The sensitizing mutation types from the 20 tumors with obtained T790M included 9 deletion in exon-19 (64.3%; 9 of 14), 10 L858R (45.5%; 10 of 22) and one L861Q (16.7%; 1 of 6) (= 0.142). The scientific factors, including age group, smoking cigarettes, sex, afatinib treatment response, prior first-generation EGFR TKI make use of were not from the recognition of T790M after obtained level of resistance to afatinib (Desk ?(Desk33). Desk 3 Evaluation of clinical features between sufferers with obtained T790M and the ones without Delamanid supplier T790M valuemutation0.142?Del-19149(64.3%)5(35.7%)?L858R2210(45.5%)12(54.5%)?Others61#(16.7%)5(83.3%)Afatinib response0.175?PR3716(43.2%)21(56.8%)?SD54(80/0%)1(20.0%) Open up in another screen #L861Q + T790M. By Fisher exact check. aBy Mann-Whitney check. EGFR: epidermal development aspect receptor, Del-19: deletion in exon 19, TKI: tyrosine kinase inhibitor, PR: incomplete response, SD: steady disease. Other hereditary mutation after obtained level of resistance to afatinib The afatinib resistant specimens had been analyzed for histological change or hereditary mutations. All specimens with obtained level of resistance to afatinib demonstrated adenocarcinoma. There have been no little Delamanid supplier cell lung cancers or squamous cell transformations. Due to the limited quantity of obtainable specimens, we can not analyze all feasible genes in every samples. The test quantities for gene mutation evaluation had been 26 for and 18 for = 0.938) (Figure ?(Figure2A).2A). First-generation EGFR TKI publicity had impact on PFS of afatinib. The difference in PFS of afatinib reached a statistical significance between 14 first-generation EGFR TKI-na?ve and 28 first-generation EGFR TKI-treated sufferers (median, 21.0 months vs. 7.0 months; 0.001) (Amount ?(Figure2B2B). Open up in another window Amount 2 KaplanCmeier curve of afatinib progression-free. The statistics of medication development output and declining yield of approved March 1, 2019 Published by: antibody The statistics of medication development output and declining yield of approved medicines continues to be the main topic of many recent reviews. for just one large pharmaceutical organization. Furthermore, we analyzed collective time program data for six specific protease focuses on, including Pik3r2 typical molecular weight from the substances. We also monitored the PubMed profile of the focuses on to detect indicators related to adjustments in compound result. Our results display that study compound result had reduced 35% by 2012. The main causative factor may very well be a contraction in the global study base because of mergers and acquisitions over the pharmaceutical market. However, this will not rule out a growing stringency of substance quality purification and/or patenting price control. The amount of proteins mapped to substances on a annual basis shows much less decrease, indicating the cumulative released target capability of global study is being suffered around 300 proteins for huge companies. The monitoring of six specific goals shows uniquely comprehensive patterns not really discernible from cumulative snapshots. They are interpretable with regards to events linked to validation and de-risking of goals that make detectable follow-on surges in patenting. Additional analysis of the sort we present right here can provide exclusive insights in to the process of medication discovery predicated on the info it actually creates. Launch The declining efficiency of global pharmaceutical advancement, measured with regards to small-molecule New Chemical substance Entities (NCEs) factored against their increasing cost, continues to be thoroughly analysed and commented on lately [1], [2], [3],[4],[5]. Even though the longer term acceptance rate continues to be projected as nearer to linear when compared to a genuine drop [1], the attrition prices from 1990 to 2004 possess continuously increased for each advancement phase [3]. Evaluating information and figures about the development of NCEs can be done because by enough time applicants enter scientific trials they possess usually been announced in publications, conference reports, news produces and portfolio 317318-70-0 manufacture entries. As they strategy regulatory submission they’ll likewise have been designated an International nonproprietary Name (INN) [6] and nationwide equivalents thereof, like the USAN. The figures quoted by competitive cleverness resources that collate such data vary in precise numbers, but recommend around 35,000 substances have ever joined advancement as well as the 2010 physique of 9,737, was almost 10-fold greater than for 1980 [7]. A far more open and particular count number of historically advanced medication applicants can be acquired by carrying out a query in PubChem Substance for INN or USAN. This retrieves 10421 constructions (June 2013). Therefore, for R&D, since there is sufficient data to gauge the D result an equivalent evaluation of R (as the insight to D) is a lot more difficult. The primary reason is really because the data produced by industrial organisations that dominate global result is known as proprietary, despite the fact that the continuing essential for this continues to be challenged [8]. Notwithstanding these details shadow that stretches back into the study stage, patents and journal magazines 317318-70-0 manufacture provide useful surrogate outputs. We’ve been unable to discover any formal explanation of the info flow between both of these document types nonetheless it could be briefly referred to as comes after. Drug discovery task teams typically make an application for patents to state and safeguard the chemical substance space around their business lead series that medical advancement applicants may be selected [9]. This units the minimum time taken between the era of data and its own disclosure to 1 . 5 years. In practice, normally, this is extended, not merely by enough time essential for collating the info and drafting the application form but also where proper choices could be made to document afterwards in the advancement cycle to increase the patent term. Additionally it is common to document separate applications for every distinct chemical substance series the 317318-70-0 manufacture group is progressing. Although some medication discovery functions may eschew non-patent disclosure completely, it is even so common practice (and provides business advantages) for task teams to send papers to publications that include a number of the same buildings and data off their patents. As the requirements for inventorship will vary than for authorship, there are usually associates in-common between your two types of attribution. Journal magazines may or might not recognize the lead substance by linking the framework to a code name, based on how far this might have progressed being a scientific candidate [10]. Enough time lag may differ between submitting manuscripts soon after submitting, waiting before application has released, deferring publication until a task continues to be discontinued, or the code name may hardly ever end up being publically resolvable to a framework. A recent evaluation demonstrated that 6% of substance buildings exemplified in patents had been also released in journal content [11]. As the patterns defined above will end up being regular for pharmaceutical and biotechnology businesses, the problem in the educational sector differs in several respects. Better focusing on how glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) promotes pancreatic -cell January 25, 2019 Published by: antibody Better focusing on how glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) promotes pancreatic -cell function and/or mass might uncover fresh treatment for type 2 diabetes. that have been consequently reproduced in newly isolated rat, mouse, and human being islets, aswell as the islets from GLP-1 infusion in vivo in mice. The inductions of miR-132 and miR-212 by GLP-1 had GW 5074 been correlated with cAMP creation and were clogged from the proteins kinase A inhibitor H-89 however, not suffering from the exchange proteins turned on by cAMP activator 8-pCPT-2-O-Me-cAMP-AM. GLP-1 didn’t boost miR-132 or miR-212 appearance amounts in the 832/13 type of INS-1 cells, which does not have solid cAMP and insulin replies to GLP-1 treatment. Overexpression of miR-132 or miR-212 considerably improved glucose-stimulated GW 5074 insulin secretion in both 832/3 and 832/13 cells, and restored insulin replies to GLP-1 in INS-1 832/13 cells. GLP-1 escalates the appearance of miRNAs 132 and 212 with a cAMP/proteins kinase A-dependent pathway in pancreatic -cells. Overexpression of miR-132 or miR-212 enhances blood sugar and GLP-1-activated insulin secretion. Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), the incretin hormone secreted by intestinal L-cells after diet, potentiates glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) from pancreatic -cells and inhibits glucagon secretion from -cells. Chronic administration of GLP-1 also promotes insulin synthesis aswell as -cell proliferation and neogenesis in pet types of diabetes (1, 2). GLP-1 analogues and little molecule substances that inhibit the GLP-1 degrading enzyme DPP-IV have grown to be mainstream therapeutic agencies for type 2 diabetes. GLP-1 exerts its tropic results on -cell function and -cell mass through GW 5074 the GLP-1 receptor (GLP-1R), which is principally portrayed in pancreatic -cells. Upon binding to its ligands, GLP-1R, Mouse monoclonal to CD4.CD4, also known as T4, is a 55 kD single chain transmembrane glycoprotein and belongs to immunoglobulin superfamily. CD4 is found on most thymocytes, a subset of T cells and at low level on monocytes/macrophages coupling through the G-protein Gs, activates adenylyl cyclase, resulting in cAMP creation. The elevation of cAMP subsequently leads towards the activation of proteins kinase A (PKA) and exchange proteins turned on by cAMP (Epac), also called cAMP-regulated guanine nucleotide exchange aspect II, which potentiates insulin secretion (3,C5). GLP-1R activation also induces IRS-2 and various other gene appearance pathways GW 5074 via ERK1/2, proteins kinase C (PKC), and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, and promotes cell development, differentiation, and maintenance (6). Furthermore, -arrestin-1 was proven to are likely involved in GLP-1 signaling, resulting in improved insulin secretion and -cell success (7, 8). The downstream molecular systems of the signaling pathways in -cells, nevertheless, remain to become fully grasped. microRNAs (miRNAs) are brief, noncoding RNAs that regulate gene appearance by pairing to 3 untranslated area sequences of focus on mRNAs and directing their posttranscriptional repression (9, 10). Prior studies have confirmed that miRNAs, such as for example miR-375, may straight control both embryonic islet advancement and islet function in adult pets (11,C13). Within this research, we looked into the participation of miRNAs in the legislation of insulin secretion activated by blood sugar and GLP-1 in pancreatic -cells. Our research indicated that GLP-1 selectively induces the appearance degrees of 2 miRNAs, miR-132 and miR-212, and elevated appearance of the miRNAs considerably augment blood sugar and GLP-1 induced insulin secretion in pancreatic -cells. Components and Strategies Cell lines and treatment Two INS-1-produced rat insulinoma cell sublines, 832/3 and 832/13, had been found in this research (14, 15). Both lines display solid GSIS, but just 832/3 cells display significant improvement of insulin secretion in response to GLP-1 (15). Cells had been cultured in RPMI 1640 with 10% fetal bovine serum and 11mM blood sugar, as defined (14). For GLP-1 treatment, GLP-1 (7C36) amide (BACHEM Biosciences) was added right to lifestyle medium for 48 hours without replenishment. In some instances, INS-1 832/3 cells had been treated using the PKA inhibitor H-89 (EMD Chemical substances) or the Epac activator Epac-selective cAMP analogue, 8-pCPT-2-O-Me-cAMP-AM (ESCA) (Axxora, LLC), by itself or in conjunction with GLP-1 (50nM), GW 5074 every day and night before being gathered for miRNA removal and quantification. Quantitative PCR structured miRNA profiling Total RNA was extracted from INS-1 832/3 cells with TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen). A complete of 250 mature miRNA varieties were dependant on the locked nucleic acid-based SYBR Green quantitative PCR (qPCR) strategy as previously explained (16, 17). The threshold routine values were. In the congestive heart failure (CHF) placing, chronic hyponatremia is quite In the congestive heart failure (CHF) placing, chronic hyponatremia is quite common. and Primary Clinical Features The problem, referred to as hyponatremia, is normally described by serum Na+ degrees of 135 mEq/L. A significant categorization of hyponatremia is dependant on the state from the extracellular liquid quantity (ECFV). ECFV is normally raised in hypervolemic hyponatremia, which is normally caused by extreme retention of drinking water, usually XAV 939 because of elevated secretion of arginine-vasopressin (AVP), which can be referred to as antidiuretic hormone, such as the placing of many edematous syndromes such as for example chronic center failure and liver organ cirrhosis. Euvolemic hyponatremia, where AVP secretion is definitely improved but ECFV is actually normal, is frequently from the XAV 939 symptoms of unacceptable secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). Finally, hypovolemic hyponatremia demonstrates a lesser ECFV and it is connected with depletional disorders (e.g., diarrhea, vomiting, and lack of bloodstream) or with medicines that substantially raise the urinary clearance of electrolytes (e.g., diuretics). Hyponatremia treatment varies with regards to the rate of starting point and on the reason, severity, and position from the ECFV. Common treatments for hyponatremia consist of liquid limitation, administration of isotonic saline remedy, the mixed administration of hypertonic saline remedy plus furosemide, demeclocycline, lithium, and urea, despite the fact that these choices are tied to concerns concerning the effectiveness, adverse occasions, and, particularly regarding liquid restriction, the individuals adherence to therapy. Furthermore, low degrees of serum sodium shouldn’t be corrected prematurely, because this might result in osmotic demyelination symptoms, which is connected with significant neurological sequelae. Latest intro of vasopressin receptor antagonists (VRAs) in to the medical armamentarium has offered additional therapeutic choices for treatment of individuals with hyponatremia. With this short review, some topics highly relevant to the pathophysiology of hyponatremia throughout CHF, aswell concerning its real MAP2K7 medical significance, are analyzed. Moreover, some problems concerning ideal treatment of hyponatremia arising during CHF will also be tackled. Finally, advantages and restrictions resulting from the usage of VRAs, specifically, the drugs which have lately emerged as the very best obtainable source against hyponatremia, are defined. 2. Hyponatremia and Chronic Center Failing In chronic center failing XAV 939 (CHF), hyponatremia typically builds up in the current presence of development from the extracellular liquid area (so-called hypervolemic hyponatremia); therefore, it really is typically designated by a rise in both total body Na+ and total body drinking water (TBW) (Desk 1). Desk 1 Main factors behind hyponatremia. Hyponatremia with Hypovolemia (Reduction in Total Body Drinking water (TBW) and Total Body Na+ with Fairly Even more Profound Fall from the Second option)Extrarenal deficits- gastrointestinal:- throwing up- diarrhea- deficits from the 3rd area- pancreatitis- peritonitis- colon blockage- rhabdomyolysis br / – expanded burnsRenal loss – diuretics – osmotic diuresis (blood sugar, urea, mannitol) – mineralcorticoid insufficiency – nephropathy with electrolyte reduction Euvolemic hyponatremia (upsurge in TBW; almost regular total body Na+)- diuretics, specifically thiazides- hypothyroidism- glucocorticoid insufficiency- conditions with an increase of discharge of ADH (postsurgical narcotics, discomfort, emotional problems)- symptoms of XAV 939 incorrect secretion of ADH (SIADH) br / – principal polydipsiaHypervolemic hyponatremia, i.e., with extension from the extracellular liquid compartment (elevated total body Na+; fairly greater upsurge in TBW)- congestive center failing- cirrhosis from the liver organ- nephrotic syndromeHyponatremia with accurate hypervolemia (elevated total body Na+; elevated plasma effective circulating quantity)some hematochemical and scientific patterns of severe or chronic renal failing Open in another screen TBW: total body drinking water; ADH: antidiuretic hormone; SIADH: symptoms of incorrect secretion of antidiuretic hormone. In its pathogenesis,. The receptors for platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and stem cell factor The receptors for platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and stem cell factor (SCF) are users of the sort III class of PTK receptors, that are seen as a five Ig-like domains extracellularly and a split kinase website intracellularly. and Hunter 2001). Users of the receptor family members are seen as a five Ig-like domains within their extracellular component, an individual transmembrane website, and an intracellular component consisting of a fairly well-conserved juxtamembrane website, a tyrosine kinase website with a quality inserted series without homology with kinases, and a much less well-conserved carboxy-terminal tail. The ligands for these receptors are dimeric substances, and on binding they induce receptor dimerization. Although the entire systems for the activation of the sort III tyrosine kinase receptors as well as the signaling pathways they induce are related, the receptors are indicated on different cell types and therefore have different features in vivo. Right here we will explain the structural and practical properties from the PDGF receptors and Package. PDGF RECEPTORS Ligand-Binding Specificities of PDGF Receptors The PDGF family members includes five users (i.e., disulfide-bonded dimers of homologous A-, B-, C-, and D-polypeptide stores, as well as the Abdominal heterodimer) (Heldin and Westermark 1999). The PDGF- receptor binds all PDGF stores except the D string, whereas the receptor binds PDGF-B and -D; therefore, the various PDGF isoforms can induce -, -, or -receptor dimers (Fig. 1). The ligand-binding sites TG100-115 can be found in Ig-like domains 2 and 3 (Heidaran et al. 1990; Lokker et al. 1997; Miyazawa et al. 1998; Shim et al. 2010); nevertheless, ligand-induced receptor dimerization is certainly stabilized by immediate receptorCreceptor connections in Ig-like domains 4 and 5 (Omura et al. 1997; Yang et al. 2008). The last mentioned connections are essential because they orient the receptors in order that their activation by autophosphorylation in is certainly facilitated. Binding of vascular endothelial development aspect (VEGF)-A to PDGFR- and PDGFR- continues to be reported (Ball et al. 2007), however the physiological need for this finding continues to be to become elucidated. Open up in another window Body 1. Ligand-binding TG100-115 specificities of PDGF and SCF receptors. The various ligands are depicted above the particular receptor dimers they bind to. Binding of PDGF-CC and PDGF-DD to -heterodimeric PDGF receptors are also TG100-115 described, however the functional need for such complexes continues to be to be motivated. Ligand stimulation leads to homo- aswell as heterodimerization of PDGF- and – receptors; the various dimeric receptor complexes possess overlapping but somewhat different signaling capacities (find further below). Nevertheless, PDGF TG100-115 receptors may also type complexes with various other tyrosine kinase receptors, like the epidermal development aspect (EGF) receptor (Saito et al. 2001) and fibroblast development aspect (FGF) receptor-1 (Faraone et al. 2006), but also with nonkinase receptors, such as for example integrins (Sundberg and Rubin 1996; Schneller et al. 1997), Compact disc44 (Li et al. 2006), the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related proteins (LRP) (Boucher et al. 2002; Loukinova et al. 2002), as well as the poliovirus receptor Necl-5 (Minami et al. 2010). Such connections modulate signaling via PDGF receptors. Activation of PDGF Receptor Kinases PDGF-induced receptor dimerization network marketing leads to autophosphorylation of specific tyrosine residues in the intracellular elements of the receptors. Hence, the and receptors possess 10 and 11 autophosphorylation sites, respectively (Fig. 2) (Heldin et al. 1998). FGD4 The autophosphorylation acts two important features: It network marketing leads to adjustments in the conformation from the intracellular elements of the receptors marketing their activation, and it offers docking sites for SH2-domain-containing sign transduction substances. Open in another window Body 2. Binding of SH2-formulated with signaling substances to phosphorylation sites in PDGF and SCF receptors. The known phosphorylated tyrosine residues as well as the substances that bind to them are indicated. Y849, Y857, and Y823 in the receptor, receptor, and Package, respectively, can be found in the activation loops from the kinase domains; simply no substances are recognized to bind to these phosphorylation sites. Y934 and Y900 in the receptor and Package, respectively, aren’t autophosphorylation sites, but phosphorylated by Src. There are in least three systems involved with activation of PDGF receptor kinases. Like. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) is a nuclear receptor mixed up in December 11, 2018 Published by: antibody Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) is a nuclear receptor mixed up in regulation of several cellular processes. than in regular cartilage ( em p /em 0.001). IL-1 treatment of OA chondrocytes downregulated PPAR1 appearance in a dosage- and time-dependent way. This effect most likely occurred on the transcriptional level, because IL-1 reduces both PPAR1 mRNA appearance and PPAR1 promoter activity. TNF-, IL-17, and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), which get excited about the pathogenesis of OA, also downregulated PPAR1 appearance. Specific inhibitors from the mitogen-activated proteins kinases (MAPKs) p38 (SB203580) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SP600125), however, not of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (PD98059), avoided IL-1-induced downregulation of PPAR1 appearance. Likewise, inhibitors of NF-B signaling (pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate, MG-132, and SN-50) abolished the suppressive aftereffect of IL-1. Hence, our study showed that PPAR1 is normally downregulated in OA cartilage. The pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-1 could be in charge of this downregulation with a system involving activation from the MAPKs (p38 and JNK) and NF-B signaling pathways. The IL-1-induced downregulation of PPAR appearance might be a brand new and additional essential process where IL-1 promotes articular irritation and cartilage degradation. Launch Osteoarthritis (OA) may be the most common joint disorder, accounting for a big proportion of impairment in adults. It really is seen as a the progressive damage of articular cartilage, and extreme production of many pro-inflammatory mediators buy 522629-08-9 [1-3]. Among these mediators, IL-1 offers been shown to become predominantly mixed up in initiation and development of the condition [1-3]. Publicity of chondrocytes to IL-1 induces a cascade of inflammatory and catabolic occasions like the upregulation of genes encoding matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), aggrecanases, Rabbit Polyclonal to Glucokinase Regulator inducible nitric oxide synthase, cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), and microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 (mPGES-1) [1-4], resulting in articular swelling and destruction. Even though the role of improved inflammatory and catabolic reactions in OA can be well documented, small is well known about the endogenous indicators and pathways that adversely regulate these occasions. Therefore, recognition and characterization of the pathways can be of main importance in enhancing our knowledge of the pathogenesis of OA and could be useful in the introduction of fresh efficacious restorative strategies. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) certainly are a category of ligand-activated transcription elements owned by the nuclear receptor superfamily [5]. Up to now, three PPAR subtypes have already been determined: PPAR, PPAR/, and PPAR. PPAR exists mainly in the liver organ, heart, and muscle tissue, where it’s the target from the fibrate course of drugs and it is thought to function in the catabolism of fatty acidity [6]. PPAR/ is rather ubiquitous and appears to be essential in lipid and energy homeostasis [7]. PPAR may be the most researched type of PPAR. At least two PPAR isoforms have already been identified that derive from the same gene through alternate buy 522629-08-9 promoters and differential mRNA splicing [8,9]. PPAR1 is buy 522629-08-9 situated in a broad selection of cells, whereas PPAR2 can be expressed primarily in adipose cells [10]. Many lines of proof claim that PPAR activation may possess restorative benefits in OA and perhaps additional chronic articular illnesses. We while others show that PPAR can be indicated and functionally energetic in chondrocytes which PPAR activators modulate the manifestation of many genes considered important in the pathogenesis of OA. PPAR activation inhibits the IL-1-induced manifestation of inducible nitric oxide synthase, MMP-13, COX-2, and mPGES-1 in chondrocytes [4,11,12]. Furthermore, pretreatment with PPAR activators prevents IL-1-induced proteoglycan degradation [13]. Additionally, PPAR activation in synovial fibroblasts prevents the manifestation of buy 522629-08-9 IL-1, TNF-, MMP-1, COX-2, and mPGES-1 [14-16]. The inhibitory aftereffect of PPAR can be partly because of antagonizing the transcriptional activity of the transcription elements NF-B, activator proteins 1 (AP-1), sign transducers and activators of transcription (STATs), and Egr-1 [16,17]. The protecting aftereffect of PPAR activators in addition has been demonstrated in a number of. Background A priori analysis of the experience of medications on the Background A priori analysis of the experience of medications on the mark proteins by computational approaches can be handy in narrowing down medication candidates for even more experimental testing. IC50 beliefs. The results at this time proved our strategy consistently provides better classification accuracies in comparison to 63 various other reported classification strategies such as for example SVM, Na?ve Bayes, where we could actually predict the experimentally determined IC50 beliefs with a most severe case accuracy of 96%. To help expand test applicability of the strategy we first produced dataset for Cytochrome P450 C17 inhibitors and predicted their actions with 100% precision. Conclusion Our outcomes indicate that strategy can be employed to predict the inhibitory ramifications of inhibitors predicated on their molecular descriptors. This process can not only enhance medication discovery procedure, but also conserve time and assets committed. History At the original stages of medication discovery and style, there tend to be millions of applicant medication molecules in mind. (+)-JQ1 manufacture Therefore, the first prediction of activity for medication applicants using computational strategies is vital to save period and resources. Because of need for early prediction of activity of medication candidates on the prospective protein, a lot of computational strategies were created. QSAR (Quantitative Structure-Activity Romantic relationship) analysis is among the hottest solutions to relate framework to operate. QSAR analysis serves as a the quantitative work of understanding the relationship between the chemical substance framework (+)-JQ1 manufacture of the molecule and its own biological and chemical substance activities such as for example biotransformation ability, response capability, solubility or focus on activity[1]. QSAR assumes that structurally identical molecules must have identical activities, which attracts focus on the need for detecting the most important chemical substance and structural descriptors from the medication candidates. The medication activity behavior could be predicted utilizing a wide variety of descriptors. A few of the most trusted 3D QSAR strategies can be detailed the following: comparative molecular field evaluation (CoMFA), comparative molecular similarity indices evaluation (CoMSIA), eigenvalue evaluation (EVA). (+)-JQ1 manufacture In CoMFA, molecular descriptors are computed and chosen by determining the electrostatic and steric potential energies between a favorably billed carbon atom located at each vertex of the rectangular grid and some molecules embedded inside the grid[2]. The awareness to small adjustments in the alignment of substances is decreased and hydrogen-bonding and hydrophobic areas are released to in CoMSIA[3]. In these procedures aligning from the structures is vital, as a result EVA was utilized because of the fact that strategies that are delicate to 3D framework but usually do not need superposition were released[4]. The era of descriptors in EVA is dependant on molecular vibrations, in which a regular mode computation must simulate the IR spectral range of a molecule [5]. Within this research E-Dragon [6-8], which really is a remote version from the DRAGON descriptor computation program, was utilized to calculate the molecular descriptors for medications. It applies the computation of molecular descriptors produced by Todeschini et. al[9] and a lot more than 1,600 molecular descriptors, that are split into 20 blocks, including atom types, FABP5 useful group and fragment matters, topological and geometrical descriptors, autocorrelation and details indices, 3D molecular descriptors, molecular properties [6-8]. DRAGON includes two measures; the first rung on the ladder removes low-variable descriptors, the next stage optimizes the descriptor subset utilizing a Q2-led descriptor selection through a hereditary algorithm using many data analysis strategies: Unsupervised Forward Selection (UFS)[10], Associative Neural Network (ASNN)[11,12], Polynomial Neural Network (PNN)[13,14] and Partial Least Squares (PLS) [6-8]. Generally in (+)-JQ1 manufacture most research, Incomplete Least Squares (PLS)[15] can be used to build up QSAR versions by reducing the amount of features in the descriptor established to a small amount of features correlated with the described property getting modeled. Inside our strategy, to classify actions. Open in another window We have developed the structure from the December 6, 2018 Published by: antibody Open in another window We have developed the structure from the bacterial diterpene synthase, tuberculosinol/virulence elements (tuberculosinols) and decaprenyl diphosphate, which is vital for cell wall biosynthesis Table 1 Data collection and refinement statistics for the Rv3378c crystals. S1 in the SI. Residues 46C50 cannot be modeled in a single crystal, or 82C90 in another, because of lattice packaging and disorder. However, the two constructions superimposed well, and a continuing proteins dimer model could possibly be constructed (Number ?(Number1a1a and Number S1a in the SI), in keeping with the observation that Rv3378c also exists like a dimer in solution.9 The entire fold displays close structural homology compared to that observed SCR7 supplier in cisdecaprenyl diphosphate synthase (Rv2361; 2.23 ? over 195 residues; PDB Identification code 2VG4), and undecaprenyl diphosphate synthase (UPPS; 2.44 ? over 203 residues; PDB Identification code 1JP3), although there is 12C14% sequence identification with these proteins. Open up in another window Number 1 Constructions of tuberculosinol/(13UPPS ligand binding sites (PDB Identification code 2E98). Electrostatic areas are demonstrated for Rv3378c and UPPS cavities, coloured blue in positive area, red in bad region, determined using PyMOL. There’s a potential substrate-binding site near the top of the framework (Number ?(Number1b1b and Number S1b in the SI), but this SCR7 supplier cavity16 is smaller sized than that observed in UPPS, making the C55 diphosphate found in bacterial cell wall structure biosynthesis (600 ?3 versus 900C1700 ?3, with regards to the existence or lack of bound ligands, Number ?Number1c1c and Number S1c in the SI). The Rv3378c proteins therefore adopts the same fold as observed in farnesyl diphosphate (FSPP) when destined to UPPS, as illustrated in the superposition demonstrated in Number ?Number2b2b (FSPP in cyan). In UPPS, both most conserved residues from a SCORECONS18 evaluation (which rates residues with regards to their conserved character) are D26 and R30 (Desk S2 in the SI) which in UPPS get excited about SCR7 supplier binding to Mg2+ and farnesyl diphosphate (FPP), facilitating diphosphate activation and removal. Both of these residues match D34 SCR7 supplier and R38 in Rv3378c (a 2.2 ? C rmsd), and predicated on this homology to UPPS, might consequently be likely to are likely involved in diphosphate activation and discharge. Open in another window Body 2 Buildings and actions of Rv3378c. (a) Rv3378c Y51F/Y90F increase mutant framework with bound TPP. (b) Rv3378c/TPP (yellowish, electron thickness contoured at 1.5) structure superimposed on DPPS (Rv2361c) in complex with another bisphosphonate, BPH-640, an in depth analogue of BPH-629, as proven in d, e, and f of Body ?Body33 and Body S8aCc in the SI. BPH-640 is certainly a 410 nM inhibitor of DPPS (Body S6b in the SI) but does not have the O and CH2 groupings within BPH-629. Total crystallographic data acquisition and framework refinement details because of this framework are proven in Desk 1, and electron thickness results are proven in Body ?Body3f.3f. Much like BPH-629 (2), BPH-640 also occupies a dimer user interface binding site, sandwiched between G77, N78, G79, R80, T83, R89, and R127 of monomer A and R292 and F293 of monomer B (Body ?(Body33f). The outcomes proven in Number ?Number33 indicate the terpene synthase (phosphatase) Rv3378c as well as the DPPS (Rv2361c). Furthermore, we utilized the X-ray constructions of Rv3378c PPIA alongside the outcomes of site-directed mutagenesis to propose systems of actions for development of tuberculosinol as well as the em iso /em -tuberculosinols where two Tyr residues play a significant role. Provided the similarity in regional and global constructions of Rv3378c and Rv2361c, the chance exists that in the foreseeable future it could be possible to build up multitarget inhibitors that focus on not merely virulence, but also cell wall structure biosynthesis, partly predicated on the constructions reported right here. Acknowledgments This function was supported from the National PRELIMINARY RESEARCH System of China (2011CB710800 and 2011CBA00805), the Tianjin Municipal Technology and Technology Percentage (12ZCZDSY12500), and america Public Health Services (Country wide Institutes of Wellness Give GM065307). X.F. was backed with a Predoctoral Fellowship from your American Center Association, Midwest Affiliate marketer (13PRE14510056). SCR7 supplier We say thanks to the Country wide Synchrotron Radiation Study Middle of Taiwan for beamtime allocation and data collection assistance. Financing Statement Country wide Institutes of Wellness, United States Assisting Information Obtainable Experimental materials, strategies, supporting furniture and numbers. This material is definitely available cost-free via the web at http://pubs.acs.org. Writer Efforts ? H.C.C., X.F., and T.P.K. added equally. Records The writers declare no contending financial curiosity. Supplementary Materials ja413127v_si_001.pdf(1.6M, pdf). Using the discovery of Philadelphia chromosome, knowledge of chronic myeloid leukemia September 30, 2018 Published by: antibody Using the discovery of Philadelphia chromosome, knowledge of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) pathobiology has tremendously increased. extremely not the same as imatinib. Nevertheless, patent for imatinib is normally likely to expire shortly, and it’ll be available being a universal. Clinicians, then, have to weigh advantages some sufferers gain with nilotinib or dasatinib in the frontline placing against the difference in expense. Whatever TKI is normally selected as frontline, intolerance, noncompliance or treatment failing should be identified early like Adiphenine HCl IC50 a quick intervention escalates the chance of attaining greatest response. strong course=”kwd-title” Keywords: Chronic myeloid leukemia, Imatinib, Nilotinib, Dasatinib, Frontline Therapy Intro Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is definitely a clonal myeloproliferative neoplasm that’s seen as a overproduction of myeloid cell lines and existence of Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)1. The Ph chromosome outcomes Adiphenine HCl IC50 from a reciprocal translocation between your Abelson ( em ABL1 /em ) gene on chromosome 9 as well as the breakpoint cluster area (BCR) on chromosome 22: t(9;22)(q34;q11). This qualified prospects to creation of chimeric BCR-ABL1 oncoprotein having a molecular pounds of 210 kD, which really is a constitutively energetic tyrosine kinase enzyme that promotes replication and decreases apoptosis through downstream pathways such as for example JUN kinase, STAT, RAF and RAS2C9. CML constitutes 15% of adult leukemia diagnosed in the United Claims10. It’s estimated that 5,980 fresh cases will become identified as having CML in 201411. Using the increased option of newer treatment plans, annual mortality continues to be reduced to 1C2% from 15 to 20% before 200012. Because of this, CML prevalence steadily improved from 15,000 to 20,000 instances before 2000 to 70,000 this year 2010. It really is estimated to attain up to 144,000 instances by 2030 in the United Rabbit Polyclonal to OR2D3 Claims12. Before 2000, CML therapy was limited by hydroxyurea, busulphan, cytosine arabinoside (ara-C) and interferon-alfa (IFN-) with modest full cytogenetic response (CCyR: lack of Ph chromosome) prices (10% to 25%), and improved general success (OS) at the trouble of significant toxicities13. Regardless of the high morbidity and mortality risk, allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) was the just modality to accomplish long-term remission or treatment in CML individuals with good efficiency position and an obtainable donor. In early 2000, advancement of little molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) focusing on BCR-ABL1 oncoprotein offers revolutionized the treating CML. They have significantly transformed the natural background of the condition, increasing 10 yr Operating-system from 10C20% to 80C90%12. Four years back, frontline treatment of CML chronic stage (CP) was simple as imatinib was the just accepted TKI. Nevertheless, after acceptance of second era TKIs (nilotinib and dasatinib) to be utilized in the frontline placing, physicians faced the task of earning decision that TKI to select upfront. Within this review, we will discuss the data helping the frontline usage of each one of the obtainable TKIs, including choosing an Adiphenine HCl IC50 agent in a variety of clinical situations. Frontline Treatment of Chronic Stage CML To time, imatinib, nilotinib and dasatinib will be the just TKIs have already been accepted by america Food and Medication Administration (FDA) as frontline therapies for CML. Current data implies that all three TKIs as acceptable choices for frontline treatment of CML-CP (Desk 1). Bosutinib and ponatinib will be the various other TKIs which have been examined in the frontline placing in recently diagnosed CML-CP sufferers. The former didn’t present any response or success superiority to imatinib, Adiphenine HCl IC50 as well as the last mentioned was stopped to become looked into in the. Background Prior studies have reported the fact that suppression of acid Background Prior studies have reported the fact that suppression of acid solution secretion through the use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) leads to dysbiosis from the small-bowel microbiota, resulting in exacerbated small-bowel injuries, including erosions and ulcers. evaluation after propensity complementing, and discovered no significant distinctions in the prevalence of small-bowel accidents, including erosions and ulcers, between users and nonusers of PPIs. Two subgroup analyses of the result of the sort of PPI and the result of PPI therapy in users and nonusers of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications indicated no significant distinctions in the prevalence of small-bowel accidents in both of these groups. Bottom line PPI therapy didn’t raise buy Erastin the prevalence of small-bowel damage, whatever the kind of PPI utilized and the usage of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications. Launch Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have already been trusted in the treating gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcer, and gastrointestinal (GI) accidents from the usage of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) and aspirin[1C3]. Nevertheless, the protecting and undesireable effects of PPIs on the tiny intestine remain unfamiliar. Within an experimental research, Wallace et al. recommended the suppression of acidity secretion using PPIs led to dysbiosis from the microbiome of the tiny colon and exacerbated NSAID-induced enteropathy[4, 5]. Few medical studies have examined the result of PPI therapy within the small-bowel mucosa. Many studies have centered on the evaluation of extremely selected patients such as for example those who make use of NSAIDs and low-dose aspirin (LDA) [6C9]. No earlier studies have examined whether PPI therapy impacts the small-bowel mucosa in nonusers of NSAIDs. The chance of small-bowel lesions continues to be reported to become dependent on medication therapy and comorbidities[9C13]. To measure the association between PPI therapy and small-bowel lesions, variations in buy Erastin baseline features between users and nonusers of PPIs have to be modified. In this respect, propensity-score matching can be used to reduce the choice bias and potential confounders, also to build a Pparg randomized managed trial-like model where the noticed results in the treatment groups could be compared[14]. In today’s research, we carried out a propensity-matched evaluation to measure the association between PPI therapy and small-bowel lesions with a huge multicenter capsule endoscopy buy Erastin data source. Methods Study style, setting, and individuals We utilized a potential capsule endoscopy data source originally created by japan Association for Capsule Endoscopy (JACE). This data source prospectively authorized consecutive individuals who underwent capsule endoscopy (CE) at 16 recommendation centers and two local centers in Japan between November 2010 and August 2013. All CE methods had been performed using PillCam? SB2 capsule endoscopy (Covidien, Dublin, Ireland). Endoscopists with encounter in CE at each organization independently evaluated the CE pictures and talked about their results with additional endoscopists, and a consensus was reached in each medical center. Each endoscopist inputted individual data and endoscopic results in this data source soon after the CE method. This data source also included data on the goal of CE, and complete patient details, including comorbidities, medication therapies, and lab data. CE in sufferers signed up in the data source was indicated for the medical diagnosis of just one 1) obscure gastrointestinal blood loss[15], 2) small-bowel tumors, 3) gastrointestinal symptoms, including repeated abdominal discomfort and diarrhea, and 4) inflammatory colon disease. The data source included data from 1,769 sufferers who underwent CE. We systematically excluded 33 sufferers with inadequate data and 101 sufferers using a prior medical diagnosis of small-bowel ulcer/erosion or angioectasia. As a result, a complete of 1635 sufferers who underwent CE had been considered entitled. This research complied using the Declaration of Helsinki and was accepted buy Erastin by the study Ethics Committee from the School of Tokyo, Nippon Medical College and various other related establishments. This research was a retrospective research, not an involvement research to human topics, and the info were examined anonymously. Therefore, individual up to date consent to participate had not been required. Factors and final results We evaluated individual characteristics including age group, sex, smoking, alcoholic beverages consumption, comorbidities, medication therapies, and CE results. The comorbidities examined had been hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, ischemic cardiovascular disease (including background of myocardial infarction or angina pectoris), valvular disease from the mitral and aortic valves, persistent heart failure, persistent renal disease, peptic ulcer, Crohns disease, ulcerative colitis, collagen disease, liver organ cirrhosis, malignancy, lymphoma, and leukemia. Medication therapy was examined for the next medicines: NSAIDs, LDA, thienopyridine, dipyridamole, icosapentate, beraprost, sarpogrelate, limaprost, warfarin, non-vitamin K antagonist dental anticoagulants, steroids, pregabalin, PPIs, histamine H2-receptor antagonists, and mucosal protecting agents. Medication therapy was thought buy Erastin as dental administration beginning at least a month before CE. The principal end result was the prevalence of significant small-bowel lesions. Significant lesions had been categorized as comes after[10, 13, 16, 17]: erosion or ulcera central pallor and encircling erythema and lack of villi; angioectasiaa circumscribed patchy, smooth, sharply demarcated reddened region; small-bowel varicesdistended, tortuous, or saccular blood vessels; and tumora protruded lesion with mucosal switch. Statistical evaluation The propensity rating was estimated utilizing a logistic regression model for PPI users like a function of individual demographic and medication therapy data. We included 34 elements that were.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line248
__label__wiki	0.766044	0.766044	Gooners Diary Arsenal History The Home Of Football Supporters' Clubs Gunners Mad Gooners Diary 2004/5 We Are The Boys Who Will Have You On The Run Last updated : 08 November 2004 By Bernard Azulay I imagine he was probably more perturbed that we'd only achieved a point from running ourselves into the ground and according to him "finishing the game completely dead", than he was about the possibility of the wheels coming off because our Premiership form has gone to pieces. "Arsène Knows" said my mate's banner, which made an appearance in the champions section of White Hart Lane when we won the league last season. On Saturday evening he exuded the air of a manager whose consummate knowledge hasn't been clouded by the hype surrounding our competitors from the upmarket environs of the Kings Road. "Frankly I don't know" might have been Wenger's response to a query about whether we are still suffering from an Old Trafford hangover, but he knows that this magical team he's been crafting for the past eight years haven't turned into clodhoppers overnight! He's been around the course a sufficient number of times that he doesn't need to be too concerned because "you go every year through periods like that" In fact Arsène was in fine form, sufficiently relaxed to amuse all the media folk when he was asked after five games without a victory, excluding our cup success over City, at what stage does it become a problem? "When we lose a game in the Carling Cup with even more of a reserve team you always count them....now we win and you don't count them...is it just uneven years?" The truth of the matter is that we aren't actually playing badly. With Chelsea piling on the pressure, going undefeated is no longer acceptable. If there's a failing, it's that some of our fabulous fluency might have evaporated as we try force the issue and fatigue only become a factor when not winning. Yet with such irrepressible talent in his team, Wenger remains confident that success will come if we keep plugging away. As his inquisitors eulogised about the awe inspiring football last term, inviting Arsène to put his finger on our present problems, Le Prof teased the hacks about their selective memory, instantly recalling the 1-1 draw at Leicester, where we were dire by comparison to Saturday's showing. "We had periods last year where we didn't play as well....some people even said we had too many draws" he chuckled. Listening to the brickbats bouncing around amongst the ungrateful Gooners gathered in the Arthur Wait Stand, it was evident how incredibly spoilt we've become. Considering Cygan acquitted himself quite well (within the obvious limits of a centre-back with the turning circle of an oil tanker) and certainly wasn't found wanting for effort, I felt quite sorry for him. Poor Pascal has replaced Ray Parlour as the Gooners scapegoat. Whereas according to Dowie their biggest home crowd for a decade created the best atmosphere he'd "ever felt at the ground" both as a player and a manager. I usually prefer to leave an away game, get into the car and get out on returning to our gaff, especially after a disappointing result which saw us concede top spot for the first time this season. I hate having to battle with the hordes trying to squeeze onto an overcrowded train. Then during a boring ride home with few delights amongst the Arsenal's efforts to distract us, you're left with little to do but stare out the window and contemplate the prodigious talents of Arjen Robben and the depth of quality Mourinho has amassed in his squad. Considering the ridiculous amount our club will be soon extorting from us, I reckon it would be comparatively cheap for us to club together to put a contract out on the Dutchman? Under protest, my mates persuaded me to let the train take the strain, which was great for the outbound trip, as I absolutely despise the stressful trek from North to South. I prefer a couple of hours on the motorway to Brum than to be embroiled in an aggravating drive across the breadth of the congested capital. As ever I missed our meet at Victoria and ended up travelling on my tod. A genial Palace fan with two if his progeny in tow must have overheard me prattling away on the mobile, worried about being too tardy to collect a press pass and passing on the snatches of the other scores received in between all the white noise on my tranny. There's little more frustrating than to hear there's only the odd goal in the games between Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea with seconds left on the clock, only for interference to leave you waiting an agonising eternity before getting a signal again and establishing the final scores. My new Palace pal suggested I alight with them, a stop before Selhurst station. The return trip seemed twice as far but then I wasn't engaged in an enjoyable discussion about all things football. It might have been a run of the mill match for me but I could sense the excitement of my three companions. Dad said he wouldn't admit it but they were more than pleased just to be able to watch Palace play the likes of the Arsenal, when only last season it was a much longer walk for a woeful encounter with Walsall. If there was some solace after the game thinking how grateful they'd be for something far more substantial than mere small mercies, I was sad for a 'septic' Gooner who'd schlepped all the way across the big pond on his first ever football pilgrimage from the US. I'd advised him that his Arsenal experience wouldn't be complete without taking in the vastly improved atmosphere amidst the vociferous travelling fans. No doubt he will have been enamoured with his week long introduction to the delights of live footie but I would imagine the odds would have been very long on the poor sod seeing three disappointing draws. Don't panic, he's been sent packing for Saturday's derby at Spurs! Would you grass your family? 15 Jan 18:40 - Tony C, 81 views 0 replies Props to Sheffield last night 13 Jan 13:04 - Tony C, 125 views 0 replies The BBS's five unexpected consequences of Brexit... 13 Jan 11:32 - The Insider, 229 views 2 replies Martinelli ok. Hallelujah. 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__label__cc	0.519103	0.480897	Big Sky Basketball "Happiness is having one more game to play" - Dave Sandy All Home Teams Win on Saturday Night Now that we are down to the final few weeks of the season, every game seems to have big implications on the Big Sky. There is the race for the top seed (which we'll look at in more depth later this week), and there is also an interesting race brewing for the final tournament spot. On Saturday, there were six games, and the home team won them all. Here are the scores: Northern Arizona 73, Eastern Washington 69 Montana 74, Weber State 63 Sacramento State 74, North Dakota 66 Portland State 91, Northern Colorado 75 Southern Utah 79, Idaho 77 (OT) Montana State 67, Idaho State 53 Some notes and observations: - Idaho is an interesting team, because they have shown they can beat anyone in the Big Sky, but they can also look so flat at times. They led Southern Utah by 10 midway through the first half, and led by three at the break. Then they came out lifeless in the second half, and trailed by 10 with about five minutes to go. They turned it on at that point, eventually sending the game to OT, but the Thunderbirds recovered for the key win. It's hard to know what team to expect. - Southern Utah still has a chance to make the final tournament spot (they are 5-9, while Weber State is 6-9 in eighth place), but either way, they are an interesting team. They play so many guys, and their youth was evident at times (especially down the stretch), but they always play hard, and they are certainly getting better. James McGee is a real keeper at guard, and guys like Trey Kennedy, Juwan Major, John Marshall, and Race Parsons all made key plays. I still don't love their chances to go to the Big Sky tourney this year, but pencil them in for next year. - Montana doesn't do anything flashy, but they continue to pile up wins, now five in a row. They got off to a slow start, but controlled the game from late in the first half on. They are playing a shell of the Weber State team we thought we'd see, but they have a lot of balance. One key for them is that Mike Weisner has struggled a bit in his senior year, but he is showing good signs the last couple of games. Earlier this month I wrote that the Grizzlies are a contender, and it is more true than I even expected. They finish up with three road games (including at Idaho and EWU), but they've been playing better than anyone lately. KenPom now has Martin Breunig rated as the best player in the Big Sky so far this season. - Sac State didn't get any style points for their win over UND, but at this point in the year, it's all about winning. Cody Demps seems to get better every game - after putting up a stat line of 8 points, 10 rebounds, and 9 assists, he threw up a 9:0 assist to turnover ratio on Saturday. Mikh McKinney and Dylan Garrity get a ton of credit, and rightfully so, but Demps is one of the most improved guys in the Big Sky. He is a great glue guy. - The loss dropped North Dakota to 4-11. Two of their final three games are at home, but it's probably safe to count them out. Ditto for Idaho State, who dropped to 3-12 with a loss to Montana State. Speaking of the Bobcats, it's almost definitely too little too late, but they have won three of four, and are showing some fight. Their schedule is brutal down the stretch (and they would have to run the table), but they are showing the potential of what they can be under Brian Fish. - Tyler Harvey has had a nightmare three games since returning from his thigh injury, adding a 6/19 stat line on Saturday. I have nothing to suggest it's anything but a standard shooting slump (he played all 40 on Saturday, so I don't think health is an issue), but hopefully he gets back on track. The Eagles need him. - I wrote about NAU in December and how they are a good team, and they have done a good job of making me look somewhat prescient lately, At 10-4, they have won 7 of 8, and they are still in the race for the title. We know about their defense (they are second in the Big Sky behind Montana), but the offense has come alive a bit more during their hot stretch. On Saturday, they beat EWU even though Quinton Upshur was held to four points. Their big men have been playing well lately, Aaseem Dixon is shooting the ball well, and Kris Yanku is doing a bit of everything for them. They are a very solid team. - Last, Portland State ran all over Northern Colorado, and now own the fifth seed. They won 91-75, thanks to 51 second half points. Plus, they did it without Braxton Tucker, who left the game early with an injury. Everything that you can possibly do well offensively, they did - from shooting the ball well, getting good shots (sometimes it looked like a layup line), rebounding, and taking care of the ball. It was an all-around offensive effort. - Northern Colorado is in freefall mode with now, as they've lost four straight games, and now rank 348 out of 351 teams in KenPom's adjusted defensive ratings. It is somewhat mirroring last year, where a solid start was undone when they stopped playing any semblance of defense midway through the year. They have three home games left, and the talent to be a threat to good teams in the Big Sky tournament, but at this point, it's not clear if they care enough on the defensive end to get it done. Any other thoughts from Saturday or on the Big Sky in general? Follow me on Twitter @bigskybball Posted by Jon at 9:23 PM Labels: Eastern Washington, Idaho, Idaho State, Montana, Montana State, North Dakota, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Portland State, Sacramento State, Southern Utah, Weber State Harvey has been so bad its hard to watch. The problem with him is, he is in a slump, fine. BUT why does he keep jacking up 27 foot 3 point attempts. If you are slumping, your shot selection needs to be improved. He had some horrible horrible attempts to end the NAU game. He is hurting his team when they need him to help them the most. Really is tough to watch as a Fan. Like watching a train wreck in slo mo. SDHornet February 23, 2015 at 9:50 AM Good recap Jon. An exciting 4 team race for the BSC regular season crown, the middle tier is battling for seeding (not that it really matters this year, anyone can beat anyone), and the bottom tier is battling for the final BSCT berth. Hate to think an all inclusive neutral site BSCT format would kill this type of coverage. And if Spokane/Cheney, Missoula, or Ogden win the hosting rights, its not a neutral site. That will be an advantage to that Big Sky school every season. It needs to be in a city that doesn't contain a Big Sky school, or else its clearly not a neutral site. SDHornet February 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM Eh…there really isn’t a truly “neutral” location. Vegas would fit that and to a lesser extent Reno but neither of those places will work out financially unless the casino/hotels are going to cut some major deals to the BSC and its members. I think the Spokane/Cheney bid makes the most logistical sense of the locations the BSC is considering. But my original point is that under a neutral site format every team gets a BSCT berth and so there will essentially be no point in tuning in this late in the season unless your team has a shot at the regular season crown. Yeah being an EWU fan, I'm selfishly hoping Spokane/Cheney win the bid. I think Spokane would be a great venue for this Tourney. Although, I'm sure attendance in the Arena would be minimal. The Spokane Arena is probably too big for this. It might look bad on TV, when there is 1500 people in a 12,000 seat arena. Who cares how it looks, the BSC is a one bid league so whether or not the stands are full makes no difference on anything other than the bottom line. Spokane is within driving distance of 5 BSC schools...meaning their fans/students would be able to make a cost effective trip if they wanted to. I'm not really sure how the other bids stack up to that but they can't boast being close to about half the conference. Details here. Thank you for reading! Northern Colorado Beats Northern Arizona In Thriller Idaho Outlasts Montana in Double OT Thursday Night Predictions Conference Title Race Don Verlin and Assistant Coach Get Into Heated Exc... 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__label__cc	0.557814	0.442186	David Mahoney Productions Menu Creating experiences David Mahoney's productions have inspired audiences and performers alike, from sell-out shows with The Novello Orchestra, to theatre, festivals, major events and television productions. David Mahoney Productions aims to produce entertainment of the highest quality that is not afraid to challenge existing models, whilst maintaining it's responsibility to entertain and deliver an engaging experience for audiences. David enjoyed success as a performer with Classical Brit Award winning group Only Men Aloud, completing numerous UK tours, album releases, television performances and numerous high profile event appearances including the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and the Royal Variety Performance. As a producer, television credits include prime time programmes for ITV and BBC, whilst other live event partners include Disney, BAFTA and UEFA. With over ten years of experience producing large scale concerts, tours, awards and major sporting events, David has worked with leading artists including Sam Smith, Julie Andrews, Rufus Wainwright, Tim Minchin, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Roger Daltrey, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Petula Clark, Matt Cardle, Alfie Boe, Burt Bacharach, Joss Stone, Anton du Beke, Joanne Clifton, Huw Stephens, David Arnold, Kerry Ellis, Ruthie Henshall, Connie Fisher, Rusell Grant, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Gemma Arterton, Keith Urban, Laura Mvula, Beverley Knight, Caro Emerald, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jacob Collier, Jess Glynne, Jack Savoretti, 2 Cellos, Mark Ronson, Mick Hucknall, Paul Weller and Quincy Jones. Production & Consultation David Mahoney Productions offers a number of services in music, theatre, events and entertainment. Live events, tours and theatre shows; entertainment & factual entertainment television programmes; studio albums; major sporting events. Music supervision Music supervision, musical direction, music production and orchestral contracting for musicals, large scale events, concerts and television. Creative Directing Planning and delivering a creative vision for innovative and inspirational performances. Entertainment, event & music consulting Advising on productions, development projects and event curation. A selection of our work can be found below. For more information about any of our projects please get in touch. BAFTA Cymru Awards 2015 Broadway to the Bay The Novello Orchestra Cardiff Music Festival Only Men Aloud A Life in Song Roald Dahl's City of the Unexpected National Eisteddfod Opening Concert 2016 Tiger Bay the Musical The Golden Age of Dance Broadway in Concert LA LA LAND Live in Concert Disney's Beauty and the Beast Live in Concert Raise Your Voice Gala, New York The Jungle Book Live in Concert Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert UEFA Champions League Final 2018 Quincy Jones 85th Birthday Concert Pixar in Concert Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in Concert Grease Live in Concert We're always happy to hear from you. Please get in touch using the details below. Please email us by filling in the form below: To prove you are a human please type the word 'shows' in the box below * E: info@dmahoneyproductions.com 18645 days ago Follow @David_Mahoney ©2021 David Mahoney Productions	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line268
__label__wiki	0.915003	0.915003	next character > next character (alphabetically) > next Environmentalist / Gaian character > < previous character < previous character (alphabetically) < previous Environmentalist / Gaian character The Religious Affiliation of Arcadian League Religion: fundamentalist Environmentalist Name: Arcadian League Classification: villains group First Appearance: Shadow Cabinet #2 (July 1994): "Female Trouble" Creators: Robert L. Washington III, John Paul Leon, Shawn Martinbrough Number of Appearances: 3 Enemy of: Sideshow, The Shadow Cabinet, Randcorp, Arthur Rand Type of Organization/Group: terrorist Note: eco-terrorist group led by Telesthene Summary of Shadow Cabinet #2 (July 1995), from http://www.comicvine.com/shadow-cabinet-female-trouble/37-39389/: Sideshow enlists Donner and Blitzen on a personal mission to lay a trap for members of the Arcadian League. Summary of Shadow Cabinet #3 (Aug. 1994), from now-defunct webpage at http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=276&: Iron Butterfly and Sideshow are stopping poachers in the Brazilian rain forest. Sideshow is refused help for a personal mission. He gets unofficial help from Mechanic, Blitzen and Donner. We catch up on some Shadow Cabinet gossip. Sideshow begins a search for the Arcadian League. Sideshow infiltrates the group and ends up coming face to face with Telesthene. Summary of Shadow Cabinet #4 (Sep. 1994), from now-defunct webpage at http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=278&: Telesthene and her powers are introduced as Sideshow survives the Arcadian League's initiation. Sideshow finds his dad as his cover is eventually blown. Donner and Blitzen track after Sideshow. Sideshow attempts to escape with his dad from Telesthene. Sideshow and Telesthene have a mental confrontation. We learn of Sideshow's multiple personalities. Sideshow takes out Telesthene but has severe reservations concerning Dharma. From "Sideshow" page on Comicvine website (http://www.comicvine.com/sideshow/29-63070/): Sideshow's deep loyalty to Dharma caused him to react more strongly than other members of the team when Dharma mistreated them. Ramon was enraged when Dharma refused to lend any Shadow Cabinet resources to help Ramon rescue his father. Arthur had been kidnapped by the eco-terrorists known as the Arcadian League for ransom, but Randcorp refused to pay. Sideshow angrily set off to rescue his father himself, but was joined by fellow Shadow Cabinet members Donner and Blitzen, much to his surprise. Donner and Blitzen helped Ramon with his personal quest infiltrate the eco-terrorists behind Dharma's back. Ramon spent days researching and formulating a plan, throwing himself in direct danger to rescue his father. He hoped Arthur would accept responsibility for what happened to him, or maybe even offer an apology. Instead, Arthur tells Ramon that he was not part of the group which tried to kill him, but he approves of their decision. Arthur compared Ramon's spying to "letting one child destroy the other." Rejected and miserable, Sideshow returned to the Shadowspire only to discover that Dharma had ordered Telesthene, the leader of the eco-terrorists, to kidnap Arthur. Dharma had anticipated Ramon would rescue his father and take out Telesthene, a Shadow Cabinet operative who was becoming a liability, in the process. This deception only widened the rift growing between Dharma and Sideshow. Number of group members listed below: 4 fundamentalist Environmentalist [eco-terrorist group led by Telesthene] 3 Stavros Kudirka [one of the leaders of a white slavery ring] 1 Zbigniew Ryzk [1st app: Shadow Cabinet #2 (July 1994)] 1 Telesthene (Tina Kalkstein) fundamentalist Environmentalist; Animal Rights Arcadian League (leader); The Shadow Cabinet... The Star Chamber This character is in the following 3 stories which have been indexed by this website: Shadow Cabinet Shadow Cabinet #2 (July 1994): "Female Trouble" Shadow Cabinet #3 (Aug. 1994): "True Friends in Deed" Shadow Cabinet #4 (Sep. 1994): "Father's Day Part Two: I'm Bugged at My Old Man and He Don't Even Know Where It's At" Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation: - http://www.comicvine.com/shadow-cabinet-female-trouble/37-39389/ - http://www.comicvine.com/sideshow/29-63070/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line273
__label__cc	0.565312	0.434688	← Z06 Display, Souvenir Book & 300 Cars Highlight 2015 ‘Corvettes in the D’ July 25 ‘Corvette Generations’ Car Show Pre-Registration Due July 6 → Classic Vettes Mix With Classic Stories At ‘Corvettes in the D’ July 3, 2015 Posted by Ron In Corvette News, Corvettes In The D, Larry Courtney and tagged Corvette events, Larry Courtney, Matick Chevrolet Richard Pinke and his classic 1958 Corvette. Visitors to the 3rd annual “Corvettes in the D” gathering, held along Detroit’s riverfront on Sunday, June 28, were eager to view the stars of the show: seven stunning C5, C6 and C7 Z06 Corvettes. “This year we featured the Z06 convertible,” said event organizer Larry Courtney, “and subtitled the show ‘Celebrating the Z06 Evolution.’” The first of the all-star line-up was the velocity-yellow, full-competition 2015 Z06 owned by Royal Oak, Mich. resident Bill Murchison, who was happy to share the high points of owning that car – and his two other ‘Vettes. “This is as close to a race car that you can have on the street,” he said. “The tires have very little tread and perform miracles on dry pavement – they’re as amazing in the turns as on a straightaway.” Bill Murchison and his speedy 2015 Z06. Murchison also pointed out another design feature that looks great, but is, actually, purely functional. “See this feature that looks like a decorative side gill? Its purpose is to cool the transmission, brakes and rear axle.” Murchison’s stable of Corvettes includes a blue 2009 ZR1 (the most powerful ever made) as well the anniversary edition of the convertible 427 in white with silver-blue stripes. Standing in the shadows of the GM World Headquarters at the Renaissance Center, Murchison praised the Corvette line: “They give you what they say they’re giving you in a beautiful, totally-drivable, timeless car. More than you’d hoped for!” And, scanning the aisles of hundreds of Corvettes and their owners, it was easy to feel that you’d arrived at the Emerald City of collectible autos, with organizer Courtney a most devoted wizard at the controls – though not behind any screen. In the thick of the action, Courtney had several goals: to bring a fun, family event to downtown Detroit that honors and showcases a beloved make of car; to raise money for the Veterans Outreach Project of Southeast Michigan and Operation Care Package of Michigan, two charities that forward all proceeds to the cause of helping our veterans; and to keep Corvette owners updated, connected and able to share their special Corvette stories. A Detroit News photographer also was on site to take some photos of the action. See those here. Although Jerry Shoate of Detroit does not own a Z06, he does have stories to share about his “plain, regular, Corvette ’05 C6 series in red.” Jerry Shoate's classic 2005 C6. “This car is very comfortable,” he said. “Starting with the C5 series, they got more comfortable due to the updated suspension and body style. For example, the C3 is a nice, really collectible car, but it rides a little rough. We just got back from a 3,000-mile trip, and it couldn’t have been a better ride – plus the fuel efficiency was great! Oh, yeah, now that I’ve taken that road trip with my buddy, my wife says I’ve got to take her on one. She loves the ride, too!” Mahlon Cooks, Shoate’s friend and most recent road trip passenger, interjects and laughs, “Tell them how you dream about your car!” Mahlon Cooks and his 2014 Stingray. Cooks brought his black 2014 Stingray with the Z51 package. “This is a wonderful car,” Cooks says. “It’s quicker than my other two Corvettes (a ‘99 convertible and a ’77 L-82), but not as roomy. I do take it on highway trips. My favorite road is I-65 through Kentucky.” Although not one of the Z06 featured cars, the rare, Panama yellow 1958 C1, owned by Richard Pinke, was definitely a show-stopper with a special story. “My dad bought me this car for my graduation in 1958 for $3,510 – a whole year’s pay for most!” As an owner of a tool-and-die shop in Panama City, Fla., where Pinke and his family lived, Pinke’s dad could foresee problems in that field. “My dad said, ‘Go to school and be an engineer.’ So, I moved to Michigan and did just that and worked as a Cadillac prototype engineer,” he recalled. Richard Pinke's Panama yellow beauty. Pinke’s car, stored in a Florida warehouse until it was brought to Michigan in 2006 with 167 miles on it, was still almost ready-to-go. “I replaced the tires, hose and battery and drained the brake fluid, adding silicone fluid.” Everything in this gorgeous auto is original – even the straps that appear to be seatbelts. “Of course, these cars did not have seatbelts then,” said Pinke. “We’ve never been exactly sure why, but those are parachute straps with the label of ‘Irving Airchute Co.’” As Larry Courtney (whose U.S. flag wrapped Corvette is sponsored by Matick Chevy as was the event) walked among the rows of gleaming Corvettes and happily chatting with owners and visitors, glad of the success of another huge event, he thoughtfully shared what really makes the Corvette unique: “The person behind the car.” Guest post and photos by Honey Murray 2 Responses to Classic Vettes Mix With Classic Stories At ‘Corvettes in the D’ Joseph Soboslay says: I have a 1958 vette – Looking to restore it Need advice on the type of Restoration should be attempted. I live in Shelby Twp. Can be reached at(586) 751-8836. Any assistance would be appreciated. Joe. Jerry OHalloran says: as for Mr Pinkie’s 1958 corvette, not sure why he says they didnt come with seatbelts, They did that was the first year they were standard from the factory and yes they were made by the air chute company in lexington KY	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line276
__label__cc	0.73865	0.26135	Home > Concrete & Tarmac Below are our articles on the subject of Concrete & Tarmac. If you can't see what you are looking for our other categories are displayed on the left under 'Our Quick Links'... Coping With Efflorescence On Concrete Driveways Discover the tips and tricks of dealing with discolouration on concrete driveways and paths caused by blooming salt deposits.... Edging for Concrete Drives A concrete driveway doesn't necessarily need edging, but it will look better and last longer if it has a solid kerb or edge of blocks.... Edging for Tarmac Drives Proper edging is vital for a long-lasting tarmac drive and, although timber can be used, concrete foundations with edging blocks and haunching will last longer.... Formwork for Concrete Drives Formwork is the term for the metal or wooden temporary structures that support the sides of a concrete driveway while it sets.... How to Patch a Hole in your Tarmac Tarmac can be patched, either using pre-mixed tarmac in bags or getting the heavy guns in. But it's almost impossible to achieve a seamless repair and the drive will…... How to Repair a Petrol Damaged Tarmac Driveway Unless you can mop up a petrol spill on a tarmac driveway within seconds, the only way to repair it is to cut out the affected section and patch it.... Is it Worth Re-covering Tarmac? If a driveway is looking a bit sad but is still in relatively good structural condition, it is possible, with good preparation, to put down a new top layer using one…... Laying Concrete on Your Drive or Patio Laying a concrete driveway is a job that homeowners often tackle themselves and, as long as the preparation is done well, a quality, long-lasting job should be the…... Patching Concrete Drives Patching concrete isn't very likely to end up with an invisible repair, but care and forethought can help to make the patch as unnoticeable as possible.... Patterned and Textured Concrete Pattern imprinted concrete (PIC) can be used to recreate the look of an expensive driveway, but this is not a DIY job.... Putting Expansion Joints In Concrete Drives If you have a very long or wide driveway, then expansion joints are critical for preventing cracks.... Removing Stains from Concrete Stains can make concrete drives unsightly but cleaning them off can be a bit of a chore, and may not always work well. Here are our top tips for removing stains from a…... Repair and Maintenance of Concrete Drives and Paths Concrete driveways are said to be maintenance-free, but regular inspection and washing can keep them looking good and nip problems in the bud.... Tarmac Options for Your Driveway or Patio Tarmac is a good choice for drives if there are plenty of other similar drives in the street, or you have a long drive. But the economics are unlikely to work for a…... The Art of Laying Tarmac Tarmac laying should really be left to the professionals, but how do you find good craftsmen, and what are the hallmarks of a good job as opposed to a shoddy one?... Tools for Laying Concrete Whether it's for foundations or the whole driveway, concrete is bound to be needed at some point in the construction phase and these are the basic tools required.... Types of Concrete for Driveways & Patios Plain old concrete is cheap as chips but it doesn't exactly look good either. Help is at hand, with patterned and textured finishes that can do a pretty good job of…...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line291
__label__cc	0.65566	0.34434	A grand tour of the science of cooking explored through popular American dishes, illustrated in full color. Wildly popular from its inception in 2009, the Food Lab column on SeriousEats.com has explored the science of home cooking with recipes and experiments every week. Now it's coming to you in a gorgeous new book form with all-new material and recipes lavishly photographed in over 900 full-color pages. Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it? How to make homemade mac & cheese that is as satisfyingly gooey and velvety-smooth as the blue box stuff, but far tastier? How to roast a succulent, moist turkey (forget about brining!)―and use a foolproof method that works every time? As Serious Eats's culinary nerd-in-residence, J. Kenji López-Alt has pondered all these questions and more. In The Food Lab, Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don’t work that well, and home cooks can achieve far better results using new―but simple―techniques. In hundreds of easy-to-follow recipes with over 1,000 full-color images, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more. With a foreword by Jeffrey Steingarten from kenjilopezalt.com Released in October 2014 Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbookdebuted as a #1 New York Times Best Seller and has remained on the list into Summer 2015. This book delivers more than 100 recipes of Thug Kitchen's favorite meals, snacks, and sides for beginning cooks to home chefs. Roasted Beer and Lime Cauliflower Tacos? Pumpkin Chili? Grilled Peach Salsa? You bet your sweet ass. Plus Thug Kitchen arms you with all the info and techniques you need to shop on a budget and eat like you give a fuck. This book is an invitation to everyone who wants to do better to elevate their kitchen game. No more ketchup and pizza counting as vegetables. No more drive-thru lines. No more avoiding the produce corner of the supermarket. Shit is about to get real. from thugkitchen.com Maybe she’s on a photo shoot in Zanzibar. Maybe she’s making people laugh on TV. But all Chrissy Teigen really wants to do is talk about dinner. Or breakfast. Lunch gets some love, too. For years, she’s been collecting, cooking, and Instagramming her favorite recipes, and here they are: from breakfast all day to John’s famous fried chicken with spicy honey butter to her mom’s Thai classics. Salty, spicy, saucy, and fun as sin (that’s the food, but that’s Chrissy, too), these dishes are for family, for date night at home, for party time, and for a few life-sucks moments (salads). You’ll learn the importance of chili peppers, the secret to cheesy-cheeseless eggs, and life tips like how to use bacon as a home fragrance, the single best way to wake up in the morning, and how not to overthink men or Brussels sprouts. Because for Chrissy Teigen, cooking, eating, life, and love are one and the same. from amazon.com #1 New York Times Bestseller GoodReads Choice Award Semi Finalist For home cooks, nothing beats preparing a long, leisurely dinner for your family, stirring slowly, seasoning gradually, and savoring every flavorful step. Screeeeeech! Reality check! Okay, let's face it: With school, sports, work, obligations, and activities pulling us in a million directions, not many of us can spend that amount of time in the kitchen anymore! What we really need are simple, scrumptious, doable recipes that solve the challenge of serving up hearty, satisfying food (that tastes amazing!) day after day, week afterweek without falling into a rut and relying on the same old rotation of meals. Cooking should be fun, rewarding, and it definitely should feed your soul (and feed the people in your household in the process)! Here are some of my favorite make-it-happen dishes, pulled from my nonstop life as a busy wife, mother of four, and lifelong lover of food! The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It! includes more than 120 of my best solutions for tasty, wholesome meals (with minimal fuss!) for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. (And let's not forget the glue that holds it all together: desserts! There are some dandies in here, friends.) With a mix of categories and flavors that will please everyone, this book has everything you need to whip up delicious, downhome recipes that you can get on the table without a lot of stress. Now that's something to get excited about! from amazon.com DESTINATIONS © 2018 ENTER MEDIA, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THIS SITE CONTAINS AFFILIATE LINKS.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line296
__label__cc	0.744121	0.255879	Home News Comparison between SMPTE2011 and SDVoE... Be straight, AV stands for audio and video which are the basic elements that consist of TV, movies, videos, and so on. Basically, what we see and hear in our lives can be called AV. In the traditional AV architecture, most of them are transmitted through cables, but by increasing the transmission distance and replacement requirements, the traditional AV architecture can no longer meet its needs. The technology of AV over IP uses internet protocol to finish audio and video transmission which solves this problem. AV over IP system makes up of Encoder, decoder and switch. Of course, there are ways to achieve, but SMPTE2110 from broadcast field and SDVoE from ProAV field are the popular solutions recently. Both solutions have high conversion efficiency in encoding SDI/HDMI to IP without compression technology. SDI/HDMI transmission has no delay. SMPTE2110 and SDVoE are similar with several difference. SMPTE 2110 The SMPTE 2110 mainly converts SDI signal to IP, and simultaneously distinguishes audio, video, and data signals into three types of IP data streams. Through such technical processing, these three signals can be processed separately in transmission. Because the separation and recombination of the three signals require high-precision synchronization, the SMPTE 2110 also needs to use the PTP protocol to calibrate the clock, and all participating switches in the network should also support the PTP function to ensure synchronous conversion of audio and video. SMPTE 2110 is mainly used to solve the functions of IP-based transmission and synchronization of three signals. It exists more in radio and television transmission applications. Therefore, it does not support USB, IR, RS-232 and other data and control functions. In addition, due to the strong professional attributes of radio and television, more professional equipment is used to form the SMPTE network with large cost. SDVoE SDVoE mainly converts HDMI KVM signals to IP networks (10G) with zero delay and no compression. Due to the characteristics of HDMI signal, SDVoE solution includes audio, video, and data at the same time. It does not separate them into three data streams, but merges them into one. Compared with the higher professionalism of SMPTE 2110, SDVoE provides 4 basic working modes for users 1.Genlocking Mode Enabling the calibration clock of the encoder and decoder ensures absolute zero latency transmission. For Special applications, such as medical operation live and oter live video broadcasts, can be based on this mode to ensure video delay and synchronization. 2.Fast Switching When switching between multiple video sources, this mode guarantees fast switching, zero frame loss (no black screen). It is especially suitable for scenarios that require frequent switching, such as command centers and live broadcast 3.Video Wall Mode Used for splicing multiple pictures into a large video wall, widely used in various LCD / LED video wall. Today, with the rapid advancement of projection technology, it is also often used in the construction of 4D theaters, such as sky screens, domes, and ball screens, to stitch the projection effects of multiple projectors. 4.Multi-View Mode It is suitable for cutting a large picture into several small pictures. It is also suitable for video windowing and picture-in-picture with software control. This function has played a great role in various live programs. The combination of SMPTE 2110 and SDI is undoubtedly the most suitable solution in the field of television and other professional broadcasting applications. SDVoE is more suitable for commercial environments where scenes are placed, such as stadiums, concerts, and command center. The way of having an API interface can bring more imaginations	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line298
__label__cc	0.565184	0.434816	Business Card for Mary Jordan: Johnson City, TN area 807 University Pkwy www.etsu.edu About Mary Jordan: Mary Jordan works as an Special Assistant to the President for East Tennessee State University at Johnson City, TN. The company's webpage is http://www.etsu.edu. For email, phone number and executive profiles for Special Assistant to the President and other executives of East Tennessee State University at Johnson City, TN, check East Tennessee State University at Joesdata.com. Not the Mary Jordan you are looking for? Do a quick search in our website and find other people named Mary Jordan. Mary Jordan's Work History: Mary Jordan's Education: Mary Jordan's Co-workers: As of January 17, 2021, Mary Jordan has 28 co-workers under the company name East Tennessee State University at Joesdata.com. About East Tennessee State University: East Tennessee State University is located at 807 University Pkwy , Johnson City, TN 37614. It has around 1K - 5K employees. Its revenue is around $100 - 500M. Charles Middleton President, Office of The President Delbert W. Baker Oakwood University G. David Pollick Birmingham Southern College Stafford Thompson Robert Glenn	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line310
__label__wiki	0.61838	0.61838	Brewery buff has a thing for the past Joe Sixpack November 8, 1996 January 28, 2020 No Comments on Brewery buff has a thing for the past You walk the streets of the old neighborhoods and sooner or later you start to hear the sounds of a city’s forgotten past. Buried like 300-year-old cobblestones ‘neath layers of asphalt, the ghosts are still alive . . . if you know how to listen. In Fairmount, you hear the creaking of a wooden wagon wheel coming down Poplar Street. In Northern Liberties, it’s the tapping of a barrel-maker’s hammer in the basement of a brick warehouse at 4th and Brown. In Germantown, it’s a whistling steam engine that heats a brew kettle. Smell the air – it’s sweet with boiling malt and leafy hops. The aroma stirs just the hint of a memory of a day when Philadelphia was the beer-making capital of America, when more than 400 brewers produced gallons and gallons of porters and lagers and ales. Beer made Philadelphia, not Milwaukee, famous. If you’ve forgotten their names, the ghosts proudly will remind you: F.A. Poth & Sons . . . Robert Smith India Pale Ale . . . John C. Miller Ale & Porter . . . Mueller-schoen’s Weiss . . . Jacob Hornung White Bock. Even if you never heard these brewers’ names, your father remembers running down to the corner for a bucket of John Jacob Wolf’s lager. Or the home where you live was built by a man who kicked back at the end of the day with a tall, cool glass of Wm. Massey’s XX Ale. You’re thinking: Talking beer ghosts? Joe Sixpack, you better cut back on those strong ales. But it’s true, I swear! And I know at least one other beerhead who’s heard the sounds. His name is Rich Wagner, a Hatboro dude who can think of few better things than to climb into a time machine for a trip back to 1888 Northern Liberties. “On one block of 2nd Street [near Fairmount Avenue], an enterprising beer-drinker could visit four separate brewery saloons,” says Wagner. Thirty blocks to the west, near the banks of the Schuylkill, it would take a weekend to visit each of a dozen breweries in four square blocks near 31st and Jefferson streets. Today we call these brewery saloons “brewpubs,” and there are exactly three of them in Philadelphia. “Can you imagine what it must have been like?” Wagner wonders. “All those breweries, all that commerce, the workers – it was a giant industry.” You must listen carefully to hear the ghosts, for the city’s brewing industry was firmly silenced by Prohibition in the 1920s. Nearly every brewery in the city shut down and never re-opened. Those that survived failed to modernize and were ultimately swamped by national brands like Miller and Budweiser. Wagner got hooked on old breweries in 1980 when he and a friend, Rich Dochter of Lock Haven, Pa., climbed into a ’50 Buick with a straight-8 engine and took off on a one-week tour of Pennsylvania’s last nine operating breweries. They figured it was a death tour because the ninth brewery – Ortlieb’s in Northern Liberties – was gasping its last breath. Somewhere in the western part of the state, near the Straub Brewery in St. Mary’s, they stumbled across the ancient Dubois brewery. “We were awestruck by this huge complex. A brew house, a boiler house, a malt house – and it was all abandoned,” Wagner remembers. “I jokingly said to Rich, `Let’s visit every standing brewery in the state.’ He looked at me as if I was crazy. I took that as a personal challenge.” The Buick eventually died, but Wagner and Dochter kept plugging away. In the 15 years since, they’ve visited the sites of more than 400 defunct breweries and researched enough history to write a couple of books. “We thought we were telling the end of a story,” Wagner says. “But halfway through, we found there was a new story taking shape.” The new story, of course, is the microbrew revolution. Now, in addition to all those abandoned breweries, the pair have had the good fortune to visit several hundred active micros across the country. “It’s literally a remake of what was happening at the turn of the century in this country,” Wagner says. “It’s history repeating itself.” See, I’m not hearing things – the ghosts are alive. Even Brewery-town, dead for two generations, is awakened, thanks to the Red Bell brewery that is now operating in the old Poth plant at 31st and Jefferson. Across town, in Northern Liberties, there are plans to reopen a brewery at the old Ortlieb’s bottling plant. I think it’s safe to say Philadelphia will never see 400 breweries again. But a guy can dream and, while I satisfy myself with a tall cold one, I’ll listen for those beer ghosts from the past. Column, History Micro contractors spark big brewhaha The Khyber passes on	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line311
__label__cc	0.552853	0.447147	2008-09 Season Review: Mike Bibby Previously: Rick Sund, Mike Woodson, Joe Johnson Mike Bibby has improved the Hawks during his season-and-a-half in Atlanta. Considering his defensive limitations and giving further consideration to the team's inability to minimize the damage caused by those limitations one must conclude, even after accounting for the established level of his predecessors, that Mike Bibby is, 11 years into his NBA career, still a skilled and intelligent offensive player. Mike Bibby at Basketball-Reference.com Bibby's shooting percentages last season were right in line with his age 24 through age 27 seasons in Sacramento. Likely due to a combination of playing alongside Joe Johnson and the aging process, both his assist and usage rates were down from those years, but, with his ball-handling responsibilities lessened, he posted a career low turnover rate. Now, it's fair to be skeptical about repeating those rates. His age 30 season was an improvement over both his age 28 and 29* seasons and it was a contract year. He put up better numbers playing for the Hawks than for the Kings last season though that may have more to do with his health than the relative merits of his skills suiting the respective offenses and teammates. On the latter point, Atlanta's biggest off-season decision, in terms of cost as well as short- and long-term roster construction is what to do with Mike Bibby? Give him a firm handshake, a hearty clap on the back, thank him for his help, and let him leave in search of the best contract for his immediate and long-term future? Or do you make the effort to find a mutually beneficial contract length and price, cling to Bibby as a security blanket for the offense, and acquire a useful and complementary backup to use on the nights where Bibby's offensive ability can't make up for his defensive limitations? Like I said, it's a narrow decision either way and probably the deciding factors will be the price and length of the contract that Bibby feels he needs and/or deserves. But, in making the decision, one can't ignore Mike Woodson's prejudice against young point guards, his prejudice against point guards who aren't best served by hanging around the perimeter shooting long jumpers, Acie Law IV's apparent lack of future with the organization, Flip Murray's unrestricted free agency, the depth of point guards in the draft class, the chance that DeJuan Blair is available at 19, ownership's financial restrictions, and the organization's generally risk-averse nature. None of those complicating issues are truly absolute and Rick Sund can exercise no control over some of them. but, pressed to answer, I, while acknowledging the impracticality* of this preference, advocate letting Bibby leave, acquiring one proven yet affordable point guard in free agency, and drafting a point guard whose skill set tends toward defense and three-point shooting (Eric Maynor or Darren Collison being most likely at 19). Acquiring a potential long-term solution at the point before the draft should give the Hawks greater flexibility in the draft either at the 19th spot (especially if Blair or Jrue Holiday are available), trading up (most likely by using Childress's rights), or by trading down and still getting a solid, polished point guard (Collison) while acquiring some additional asset(s). Royal Ivey sort of but not really serving as an exception to this rule since he was to real point guards what Mario West is to real defensive specialists. Not that I'm automatically agreeing with the organization's risk assessment in this or many other (re-signing Mike Woodson, saving money on extensions for Joshes Childress and Smith, saving money on the end of the bench, burying Acie Law IV and running Joe Johnson into the ground to win a couple more games) cases. I think re-signing Bibby at whatever is arguably more risky than using greater resources to attempt to acquire one of Ramon Sessions, Raymond Felton, Jarrett Jack in free agency or trade for, say, Mike Conley, Jr. or one of Portland's surplus point guards. **I advocated the Hawks draft a point guard (either at their original slot or after trading down) in the 2005 and 2006 drafts, both of which had multiple useful point guards available at various stages of the first round. Obviously that didn't happen either year as Billy Knight waited for a relatively weak class of point guards to address (though ultimately, it was not addressed at all) the team's long-standing weakness. Labels: 2009 season review, mike bibby Charles Foreman said... Mike Bibby was pretty big for the Hawks. Hopefully he takes a pay cut to come back. http://therookiecontract.com/ Why would we draft another point guard if Woodson won't play them. I would personally like to see Acie Law take the helm, but we know it is not going to happen. Bret LaGree said... I don't assume that Woodson's reluctance to use Law is entirely a prejudice against young point guards in general and nothing to do with Acie Law in particular. I expected Law to have to adjust to not being able or wanted to have the ball in his hands at all times as he did at Texas A&M. Injuries and lack of playing time have kept us from learning if he's made that adjustment but that doesn't mean that those who have more knowledge about his game don't know. Even if it is strictly a Woodsonian prejudice, it would be foolish to pass on good value late in the first round just because of a limitation of a head coach in the final year of his contract. Sund must take a longer view than that if anything truly good is going to happen for the Hawks. jrauch said... Ty Lawson could be the cure for what ails the Hawks. A Few Off-Season Links 2008-09 Season Review: Al Horford Hawks Blogging Awards 2008-09 Season Review: Josh Smith Resuming Normal Office Hours 19th Pick Prospect Analysis: Call For Candidates 2008-09 Season Review: Joe Johnson 2008-09 Season Review: Mike Woodson 2008-09 Season Review: Rick Sund Draft Prep Off-Season Plans/Call For Ideas Open Thread Bradley: Johnson needs to step back for the Hawks ... 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__label__cc	0.68881	0.31119	Marc Faber on Hutchison Port Holdings Trust If you have a negative view of the world, and you think trade will contract, property prices will fall, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury will drop, a REIT like Hutchison is a relatively attractive investment. Hutchison Port Holdings Trust [HPHT.Singapore] yields about 7%. It owns several ports in Hong Kong and China. Faber on Asian family business practise changes The attitude has changed in Asia: Many family businesses used to be dishonest but now are more honest. They realized that by being relatively clean, they could earn a higher stock-market valuation. Marc Faber Feb 2014 Interview Huge growth in Asian Tourism Tourism in Asia will grow, unless there is a war. I have seen Macau go from a sleepy village to a gambling center seven times the size of Las Vegas. This year, 30 million Chinese will travel to Macau. It also appeals to Thais, Indonesians, and others in the region. Chinese tourism in Thailand grew by 90% last year. Fed should stop writing papers that nobody reads All these professors and academics at the Fed, write papers that nobody reads, and nobody is interested in. Why would they[Fed] once not write about, how to structure an economic system that lifts the standard of living of most people. Marc Faber analogy on inflation Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years. Marc Faber likes Vietnam, Iraq..US stocks not a good buy at the moment Marc Faber talks on CNBC where he re-iterates his views stating that Emerging economies stock markets are a decent buy compared to US Stocks. However emerging economy stocks still have some downside risks. Dr Faber does like Vietnam and Iraq as they appear to be reasonably priced. Watch the full interview below Marc Faber: Gold, Eric Sprott Gold has massively underperformed relative to the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000. Maybe the price will go down some from here, but individual investorsought to own some gold. Insider buying is also high in gold shares. About 20% of my net worth is in gold. I don't even value it in my portfolio. I am a director of Sprott. Eric Sprott, the founder, is a smart guy who made a lot of money for himself, his funds, and charities. He sold a lot of his company's shares because he sees better value in small mining companies. If the gold price goes up 30%, Sprott's shares might double, but mining stocks could go up four times. We are already starting to see a move up in the stocks. Central bankers in deep trouble Central bankers are completely insane. My sense is that central banks are unlikely to tighten because they’re in such deep shit already and they will continue to print. What the central banks in emerging economies missed is that they should have slowed down their economies and credit growth two years ago and taken some pain. Basically central bankers are Keynesian, they believe in intervention but what they never do is cool down the system. via http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/central-banks-vs-the-real-economy-20140205-321mn.html Marc Faber youtube interview on variety of subjects A long Marc Faber interview on multiple topics including Bailouts, Governments, China, Oil, Commodities and future equities performance. Labels: marc faber youtube Unfair to make old people speculate with their hard earned savings Be afraid of big corporations and government: The big corporations and specially money printers are the most powerful people in the world. They control the governments. The US treasury, Federal reserve and the government is one and the same. The Fed finances the treasury, so they can goto war. Then they finance transfer payments essentially to buy votes so they can get elected. Fairness for old people: By keeping interest rates at zero percent at the Feds fund rate, you penalize the income earners, the savers, your parents. Why should your parents be forced to speculate in stocks, real estate and everything under the sun. Paper Assets are doomed buy Gold Those who own paper assets are doomed. I recommend the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF [GDXJ], although I don't own it. I own physical gold because the old system will implode. Ten Year treasury to rally For the next three to six months probably Treasury's are a better place to be than equities. For the last two months I have advised my readers to buy 10 year treasury's. I don't like 10-year Treasury's for the long-term because the maximum you can earn is something like 2.65 percent per annum for the next 10 years, but Treasury's are expected to rally because of economic weakness and a stock market decline. In the last few years at least there was a flight into quality – that is, a flight into Treasurys. China Water problem and agriculture We've been discussing China's water problem. Pollution, too, has become so horrible that people are leaving China with their children. Sometimes, entire cities break down. You hardly have a clear day in Hong Kong any more, or in Shanghai. Agriculture is in disarray because the water table is falling, and agricultural commodities prices have corrected significantly, despite all the money-printing around the world. Marc Faber likes Vietnam I like Vietnam. The economy has had its troubles, and the market has seen a big decline. I want you to visualize Vietnam. South of Da Nang is China Beach, and north are other beaches. This was the largest American base during the Vietnam War. Coming back to tourism, there is a new airport in Da Nang with international flights. The place will be like Benidorm, the Spanish resort area, in a few years. Benidorm used to be nice, and then it became overbuilt and cheap tourism arrived. Pockets of Asia, including Indochina and India and Bangladesh, are underdeveloped. Eventually there will be road and rail links, and the area will become a giant free-trade zone. There are many investment opportunities here. I am not keen to own Singapore Airlines or Cathay Pacific Airways because they have a lot of competition from budget airlines. But I like some airline-servicing companies based in Singapore, including SATS [SATS.Singapore], in the catering business, and SIA Engineering [SIE.Singapore], which overhauls aircraft. They have subsidiaries in many Asian countries. The stocks yield around 4%. They aren't supercheap, and the Asian markets generally aren't cheap enough for me. But longer term, if you want to park money in Asia, both companies will do well. Marc Faber interview with Jackie DeAngelis Click on above video to watch the CNBC News interview Marc Faber on poverty Poverty in the world is one of the economic and social issues that have preoccupied me the most. How do we reduce or even eliminate poverty? I do not have the answers. Bill Gates in a recent letter to Wall Street Journal, which was based on his Foundation 2013 annual report, tries to find some solutions. I commend him for that even though I have serious reservations about “aid” as proposed by him. I have encountered extreme poverty everywhere in the world. In the shanty towns and on the streets of Mumbai, Dacca, Soweto, Nairobi, Jakarta, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, etc. and in the bidon-villes on the outskirt of large French metropolises. Some encounters with poverty I shall never forget. A very long time ago, I met a girl in the Philippines I forgot whether it was in a bar or a nightclub. The next time I saw her, she invited me to her parents’ house. We drove to the outskirt of Manila into the worst slums I had ever seen (against the advice of the taxi driver). The parents’ house was more like a hut without electricity, running water and sanitation in a crowded small lane…. When we got there, the sweaty, overweight father was sitting in the tiny living room. He immediately sent someone to get us two ice-cold San Miguel beers. Naturally, I wanted to pay because in the seventies a beer in the Philippines was still a luxury item. The father, however, refused my offer. We then had a very engaging discussion in Spanish and suddenly my unease vanished and I felt very comfortable in this horribly impoverished environment….. Much later, I had a very young driver in Madras (now Chennai) who took me around southern India for ten days. When he dropped me off at the airport, I gave him a $100 tip, which was at the time in India quite a lot. A few weeks later my driver wrote a very poignant letter to me saying that I had changed his life with my tip. It had allowed him to buy a bicycle with which he could now reach his work place and his school much faster…. What I want to say is this. Yes, I applaud Bill Gates who wants to improve the world. At least he makes the effort. However, it is equally wrong to look at poor people like lepers who in the past were banished from societies. Poor people have also dignity and honor, they also have happy families, and they are frequently far more generous and compassionate than our wealthy society. I am not suggesting that we should not fight poverty. However, I doubt we can become “world improvers.” What we can do is trying to help less privileged people around us and interact with them. I have to say that I have frequently thought about my friend’s heavy father sitting in his tiny house in one of the worst shantytowns I ever saw (much worse than the slums of Africa) and of his generosity, and also about the touching letter my Indian driver sent me. The encounter with extreme poverty may be as beneficial to us who belong to a more privileged class as it is to the poor. Too late to buy US & early to buy emerging stock markets The market hasn't had a correction of more than 11% since October 2011. Enthusiasm about the U.S. market reminds me of the talk I heard nine months ago in Indonesia and Thailand. Subsequently, those markets fell 35%. While it is too late to buy the U.S., it is too early to buy the emerging markets. They aren't incredibly cheap, except for Vietnam and Iraq, and capital could still flow out. Marc Faber likes Vietnam, Iraq..US stocks not a go... Unfair to make old people speculate with their har... 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__label__wiki	0.530829	0.530829	January 7, 2021 Ryosuke Kiyasu snare drum solo show at Cafe Flying Teapot Venue: Cafe Flying Teapot Charge 2000yen + 1 drink Book Ticket: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ryosuke-kiyasu-snare-drum-solo-show-at-cafe-flying-teapot-tokyo-japan-tickets-134797604263 Live Stream on YouTube https://youtu.be/kyu_u5wQy3g Posted by rkiyasu at 1/01/2021 http://ryosukekiyasu.tumblr.com Photography by Yunis Tmeizeh He has been performing as a snare drummer all over the world. He is the drummer of his own leader band SETE STAR SEPT, Kiyasu Orchestra. Since 2012, he has been working as a drummer for Keiji Haino's "Fushitsusha". More than 200 works (including related works) have been released from various labels around the world. See the piece - https://www.discogs.com/artist/4957478-Ryosuke-Kiyasu Started performing solo shows using a snare drum in North America and Canada, collaborating with local contemporary musicians and Jazz musicians and performing live sessions. Formed a punk hardcore band, The Endless Blockade Returned to Japan and started his own band, SETE STAR SEPT and Kiyasu Orchestra. Since then, he has been touring around the world every year and his activities in Europe and the United States have begun in earnest. Formally joined Keiji Haino's band "Fushitsusha" and started touring and recording in Japan and abroad. SETE STAR SEPT's international tour is in full swing and they started performing at music festivals such as Chaos In Tejas and Maryland Deathfest SETE STAR SEPT feature in the Japanese newspaper "Japan Times" Brazil Tour (14 shows in total)* SETE STAR SEPT Feature article in VICE France https://www.vice.com/fr/article/qbv4nx/ryosuke-kiyasu-solo-batterie-grind-noise SETE STAR SEPT feature in the Taiwan Times All of his solo tour dates in China were cancelled at the last minute by the Chinese government due to the extreme nature of his performances. https://www.smartshanghai.com/wire/music/bummer-ryosuke-kiyasus-shanghai-shows-canceled Tour of Alaska, USA (4 shows in total)* SETE STAR SEPT Tour of Russia (15 shows in total)* SETE STAR SEPT Snare drum performance featured on 'BBC News' in the UK https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-tyne-45425992 A live video from Berlin, Germany, has been viewed 22 million times on the internet and is a hot topic of conversation. https://www.facebook.com/214542985193/videos/473194633196212 SETE STAR SEPT feature on Europe's leading music TV show "TRACKS The interview and solo performance had been broadcast live on the national FM radio station in Macedonia A long interview with the Taiwan Times https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3617510 Snare Drum Solo featured in the September issue of GINZA magazine https://ryosukekiyasu.tumblr.com/post/186907421896/ryosuke-kiyasu-was-featured-by-tetsuya- nagato-in The album "Ritual Offerings" is released as a 10" record U.S. Tour 2019 (29 shows total) >Tour Date European Tour 2020 (14 shows in total) >Tour Date he was used in a commercial for Swedish clothing brand Our Legacy https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-M4OZhpQv-/ Interview aired on Swedish national radio Sveriges Radio https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ocif5ouHK/ Web: http://www.kiyasu.com/ Shop: https://ryosukekiyasu.bandcamp.com/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dr.kiyasu/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.kiyasu/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RyosukeKiyasu twitter: https://twitter.com/RyosukeKiyasu Email: dr.kiyasu@gmail.com Donate via PayPal below https://www.paypal.me/RyosukeKiyasu >日本語>Shop \| >facebook \| >Youtube \| >instagram \| >Twitter	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line322
__label__wiki	0.688774	0.688774	Thursday morning headlines By Mark Lacter \| December 6, 2012 8:40 AM Stocks edging higher: The Nasdaq lagged other indexes because Apple stock continues to sink. The Dow is up about 10 points. Jobless claims drop again: Weekly filings for unemployment benefits were down 25,000 to 370,000 - close to the range where claims had been holding until Hurricane Sandy. (AP) Mortgage rates tick up: But they remain near record lows - an average 30-year loan is 3.34 percent. (AP) Optimism for California: Poll finds that 44 percent say the state is generally moving in the right direction, the highest tally since June 2007. Gov. Brown's approval rating is 48 percent, a record high, according to the survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. (Sacramento Bee) Good grades for state: California has made "notable progress" in dealing with its fiscal matters, according to Fitch Ratings, which praised the state for approving two tax increase initiatives last month and for making significant spending cuts. (LAT) Inland Empire turning around: The San Bernardino-Riverside economy is showing some strength in home prices and new residential and nonresidential construction, according to Beacon Economics. (San Bernardino Sun) What led to port settlement?: Some members of the ILWU were putting pressure on negotiators to cut a deal, reports the Daily Breeze. Most of the union's 10,000 members were not part of the strike - they were only honoring picket lines - and some wanted to start earning paychecks again, some close to the talks say. The third factor was the arrival of George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington, D.C. Union officials had resisted management calls for a mediator, but they eventually relented Tuesday morning after talks stalled. L.A. to regulate valet parkers: The City Council voted to require operators to obtain a permit, carry liability insurance, and ensure that their workers have valid California driver's licenses. From the LAT: The ordinance will be phased in across the city, with Hollywood expected to be first to implement the rules. That will allow for input from residents and business owners in Venice and elsewhere, [Councilman Eric] Garcetti said. Richard Tefank, executive director of the Police Commission, said the program might start next spring. The commission will set the fees, issue permits and explain the program to police and parking enforcement officers. Another smash for Activision: "Call of Duty: Black Ops II," the latest installment in the company's video-game series, topped $1 billion in sales within its first 15 days of release. The previous installment reached that level in 16 days. (Bloomberg) Previous story: Why didn't Cirque du Soleil make it in Los Angeles? Next story: Jeffrey Gundlach shoves it in his old employer's face	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line326
__label__cc	0.660276	0.339724	The Fool's Secularism The word ‘routine’ is not a very adored term. It has often been substituted for anything that is ordinary or mundane. Routines are regular procedures and practices that are almost performed as second nature. If you look up the net there are even sites with help to get out of routines and make life more exciting. Take a look here or here for samples. If you’re bored with routines I hope they help. There’s even a ‘Brainy quotes’ page which is a collection of famous people ridiculing routines. Reality is a bit different though. In reality routines form the backbone of our lives. Traffic rules are routine but imagine one fine day we said, dump those rules. You can imagine the chaos. Which shoe do you wear first? The left or the right? Check next time, you’ve probably been doing it all your life (wearing the left or right first) without the slightest thought to it. Most of us marvel at Army marches. We are amazed how their legs and arms move in such synchronised manner. To them, that’s routine. For us, it’s a wonder. They have been trained for it and they practice it every day. It is in that sense that Secularism is a routine. Being a backbone of our lives, secularism needs to be maintained and practiced. Soldiers don’t fight big battles with their marching skills. Do they? At best that routine organises them for the battle. In much similar fashion secularism by itself does not win any battles. But many of our fraudulent politicians have been selling this product (in a fake form). Take a look at some of the chief perpetrators of pseudo-secularism: Remember, these are only some samples. The top row consists of the prime permanent criers of “Secularism is in danger” a la “Islam khatre me hai”. The bottom row consists of the Macaulay Family members who are the prime movers of this fakery in the media. A long time ago I wrote the post “Excessive secularism is as dangerous as religious fundamentalism”. In that I quoted the renowned Mark Tully: “Excessive secularism, which feeds the fire of people who like to present India as a country that does not respect its majority, is just as dangerous as religious fundamentalism”. This is the outcome of fake secularism practiced by all the parties that are now up in arms against Narendra Modi. One Congress member has gone as far as threatening to kill Modi and there has already been an attempt once in Patna. Sharad Pawar who had met Modi recently in Ahmedabad was probably rebuffed and now he calls Modi “deranged”. This Pawar is the same guy who said “wipe ink, vote twice”. Mulayam Yadav says “We will not let BJP succeed in making Modi PM”. The churlish Nitish Kumar in an interview asked Arnab Goswami “how is Modi going to handle relations with Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka”? You know, as if the current govt is on a bed of roses with these countries and this is a prime concern for voters. But the Pak and BD reference is more to suck up to his Muslim voters and not out of any serious concern. Pawar in a rally added “country cannot be handed over to Modi”. What is that supposed to mean? Is the country some farmland to be scammed and given to Modi? The people and their votes will decide who will get what. But let’s look at the latest moron who wants to challenge Modi. Here’s a Johny-cum-lately called Rashid Alvi who wrote to his Bossini Sonia Gandhi: If the pic is not legible you can read it here. Now, go through the letter very carefully. All that Alvi claims is that he wants to protect pluralism and secularism and STOP MODI. There is nothing on one single issue of Varanasi that he wants to represent. That’s the poison that these guys want people to drink: Fake Secularism. They call Modi all kinds of names which are then repeated like a box of parrots by Rajdeep, Sagarika, Arnab, Barkha and all the channels 24X7. The names they call don’t even have any relevance to anything Modi may have said or done which would have made some sense at least. The only objective of these so-called secularists is to somehow stop Modi by hook or crook. And the more they scream the more they endear Modi to the public. Is the media far behind. Here’s the Category5Moron who is permanently on a Muslim trip whenever there is an election involving Modi: From the December 2012 elections of Gujarat to now, all that Sagarika has been doing is whipping up Muslim hatred for Modi. And these aren’t reflex responses by the Muslims she meets; she provokes them with questions spiteful of Modi. Secularism demands that people be seen as one nation under one roof. Politicians may act divisively but why should media morons act divisively? And when rapped for such illegitimate behaviour all that these fools can do is cry abuse. In the context of such fake secularism what Modi says resonates with people. He says whenever the Congress and its clones are asked any question they wear a “Burqa of secularism”. The Congress scams are unbelievable in terms of money and the sheer nonchalance with which the party protects its corrupt ones. A summary of its Himalayan corruption looks like this: Perhaps the fear of Modi is that he will seriously set up SITs and fast-track courts to prosecute the corrupt filth. And this must be done if this country has to send a clear message of intolerance of corruption and the corrupt. Sonia Gandhi, who the media treats as if she is the new Mother Teresa, behaves like she has no taint on her from all these scams. Both Sonia and her “Balloon” son Rahul go around the country talking about corruption. With what face does the media let these two pass without a single question on their corruption and their giving tickets to corrupt members? Whenever the question comes up, like the Congress the media also points to only ONE member of BJP: BS Yedurappa. Whether Yedurappa is corrupt or not courts are yet to decide and in some cases he has been exonerated too. How the media finds equivalence has to be the biggest scam in India. Secularism is a routine practice and not an issue on which any election should have ever been contested but the Sickulars and the corrupt media have brought it down to this level. I consider myself a secular person but except for the media discussions or election season it doesn’t cross my mind even once. People brush their teeth and have a bath every day. It makes them feel good, clean and freshened up. But that doesn’t guarantee them luck, job or food. Routine hygiene is a “maintenance” job for the body. Secularism is a maintenance job for a society. It need not get any premium. No one deserves to be rewarded for being secular; certainly not with a vote. As an Amdavadi I know of the history of water problems in the city and state. Till 2005 or 2006 almost everyone in the city faced a water problem (especially those living outside the municipal limits). The bores would dry up and frequent drilling deeper would be done and so on. There were days when there was no water at all and people borrowed a couple of buckets from neighbouring societies which had some supply to get through the day. As it got worse, the only option was regular purchase from water-tankers. All that ended around 2005-06 when the Narmada waters flowed through the Sabarmati. There has never been a problem since then and most households have 24X7 water. Now nobody talks about water anymore. Nobody talks about good roads anymore; it has become part of routine life. No one ever knew when the autos had turned CNG. No one talks about it. No one talks of bus services. It has become routine. When basic facilities become routine then residents think of higher planes. Not having to struggle with these basic issues gives them the time to rise to other accomplishments. What the hell does all this have to do with secularism? It is in the absence of the very basic performance as a govt that many of the sickular political parties resort to the chest-beating of “secular, secular, secular”. Secularism is a prostituted word as Arun Shourie said and many people have been fooled with this nonsense for over four decades. In one of his books Bill Gates narrates an anecdote about MS Word software. I am quoting from memory and it is not the exact verbatim quote: “When we gave WORD, people said we want colours. We gave them colours. Then they said they wanted word-count. We gave them word-count. They said they wanted multiple languages; we gave them Chinese, Japanese and so on. They said they wanted spell-check. We gave them spell check. We can give people all the tools in Word they want but we simply can’t tell them how or what to write”. That’s right, one can be given all the tools in MSWord but the software can’t tell you what or how to write something. That is true for secularism too. Secularism is a tolerant way of living but it’s not a cure to disease, it’s not a cure to hunger. Secularism doesn’t eliminate backwardness or poverty. It cannot give anyone employment. The Congress and its clones have fooled the country long enough with their fake secularism as a solution to people’s problems. This is the fool’s secularism. Change is inevitable and no matter how much these parties and the media try to make the debate secularism vs communalism it is increasingly dawning upon people that this is a fake debate. Development and progress can be felt and seen. A country’s progress and power is driven by people’s aspirations not by the fool’s secularism. This election season people should listen to the real debates that will seek to meet their aspirations. I am not a big fan of the Shiv Sena but for once I have to agree with their hoarding. Labels: Elections 2014 , Fake Secularism , Routines , Secularism , Sharad Pawar The public discourse in our country ( driven by crooks of media and politics ) is rotten. If Muslims and Christians were to continue to vote for congress and its allies - even their allah/god will not be able to save them from continued penury and this country is damned . Some of these journalists holding critical positions of influence on public discourse will also have to be sacked . There is so much to do , yet we seem to be stuck in some rut Sanjay Dubey April 01, 2014 11:24 PM The 'Crooks of Media is rotten', BUT NOT MEDIA CROOKS! So when I was reading your comments did fathom it, but yes indeed you are right. Its a long journey, and there is no penance for the very leaders (I ashamed and twitching my tongue) for very same leaders and boldly saying the very populace, who for reason of ignorance, greed, made the choices.Is it over, NO I don't think so. Kp April 01, 2014 7:29 AM Well said Ravi! The highlight of this article are these lines: "Secularism is a tolerant way of living but it’s not a cure to disease, it’s not a cure to hunger. Secularism doesn’t eliminate backwardness or poverty. It cannot give anyone employment" Only people like NaMo (among politicians) understands the true meaning of secularism...I think his message is reaching the common masses and the huge attendance in his rallies is a sign of it... the penguin April 01, 2014 9:34 AM Kindly view this video n IF convinced give wide publicity, pl • Interview Swamy n Sagarika Full http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdl8ucotQ2I Arvinth April 01, 2014 7:30 AM Ravinar, this the masterpiece from you, needless to say more will follow. Man, I'm at loss of adjectives. It is very evident that C5M is spreading hatred, why can't BJP take her to courts? Isn't there a legal cell in BJP, in our state DMK and ADMK has a separate cell to file defamatory case against each other. I'm literally pissed off with the way BJP handles MSM. AkhandHimalayatoKanyakumari April 01, 2014 8:58 AM A rhetoric becomes malaise just as an idea becomes a mantra, through repeated use. I second the idea of dragging these miscreants and anti-nationals to courts on the drop of a hat. What is the legal cell of BJP waiting for? When these morons can cook so much of filth out of Modi's all out best efforts to quail violence in 2002, isn't it sufficient to nail them in court that such filth is still sought to be sold even after courts have cleared him? Kaumodaki April 01, 2014 7:36 AM What an extraordinary discourse.Such an apt description comes only from a person who is well connected with the ground reality. I wish all the political leaders read this and understand it in its exact sense (as if they don't know it already. Actors, they are, trying to fool public !!!! ) Amazing, simply amazing. विष्णुगुप्त April 01, 2014 7:53 AM I do not have words to express my appreciation for this piece. There are many gems in this piece. But the real sparkling one is " No one deserves to be rewarded for being secular; certainly not with a vote." Marvellous. Thank you very much. "Fool's Secularism" is an apt description. Its so pathetic to see how even the educated guys buy such nonsense and oppose Modi just for the heck of it. Many just refuse to read. all I could conclude of such people is that they are willful detractors of our nation, culture and heritage. They are the sleeper cells of evangelists. PAPPA April 02, 2014 6:59 AM "They are the sleeper cells of evangelists" Actually, they are. Read "BREAKING INDIA" by Rajiv Malhotra http://www.breakingindia.com/ Ranvir, as u said chanting secularism will not get jobs, food now India requires CHANGE Vote for CHANGE for best Hem April 01, 2014 8:09 AM excellent ariticle.you really hit the nail of fack sicular.Worth of reading need to reach wider section of socitey.I will share the same with other soical media.Pls grant me your premission. Thanks. Anand April 01, 2014 8:11 AM I think sickularism is a statement of political correctness, which is a traditional weakness for all Hindus.Somehow these Hindus are so fond of applause from some imaginary gallery of virtues, and the cunning politicians find it easy to take them for a ride.It was Nehru who inculcated this habit of self criticism as a virtue and most hindus have fallen for it.Like how a father blames his own son if somebody powerful on the street harms his son, and the father is too weak to take on the offender.That is the only way the father can save his honour. The world saw through this ploy of Nehru,and rightly so neither him nor his mentor were able to win a nobel for peace for all their antics.I am surprised that many Hindus are still willing victims for these charlatans. SLC April 01, 2014 10:31 AM Further, secularism is a policy that brings max returns with virtually no investments.KhanChris knows that other means to uplift the teeming millions in this country need enormous investments.With what is left after the scams, it is impossible to do so.So the best way forward is the policy of secularism.The target group is the majority community who traditionally stick their heads out to be slaughtered. It is but appropriate that such a marvelous blog has appeared on 'All Fools Day' to remind those of us who have been had for decades by the Congress, its 'B' teams and its MSM presstitutes. If ever there was a Rip Van Winkle in India who suddenly woke up now and switched on the TV and read newspapers, he would definitely believe that BJP is the ruling dispensation, that NaMo has been ruling this country for decades as a ruthless dictator and that all ills plaguing the country are because of him! Most of us have been Rip Van Winkles and are now thankfully going out in the world to seek / know the truth. A good substitute is to just read Mediacrooks! Chiddu, who? The one who brutally slaughtered our economy in cold blood. killing economy is his routine job. When questioned, the answer again routine. "This, Chidambaram put down to the 'deep flaws' in Modi's character. "Modi has deep flaws in his character. No one in the BJP points that out to him. He cannot resist making derogatory remarks," he said. ducked under secularism. Shyamanjun R April 01, 2014 8:42 AM This is what Steve Jobs said "You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new" Hemant Khandelwal April 01, 2014 8:44 AM One of your very best. One of the best articles ever..... Shivaputra April 01, 2014 9:18 AM So true. Sold and slave medias have done and doing the worst damage to the country. Luckely this time medias are exposed and people are not listnening to their paid lias.. You are God sent & extra ordinary..I'm in awe of your writing skills & also about your REAL PATRIOTISM ..Thank You & God Bless One more 'routine' people are waiting for is to punish the looters and fake secularists .. Sonnet April 01, 2014 9:28 AM You have the knack of explaining the most complex issues in very simple words and analogies. You explain things the way even school kids can understand easily. Yet most adults get fooled by the tricks of the fake seculars. Kudos. When I saw the title of your post this morning, I was a bit disappointed...reading it was not the first thing I did today either...coz I thought that everything that can be said about secularism has already been said before. Yet the perspective is very fresh, very new. Coming to think of it, of course, what you said makes seems only logical in hind-sight, but I had never thought about it in that way. So thanks for writing on such a "ghisa-peeta" topic and yet making a totally new point! The Engineer April 01, 2014 9:45 AM Simply superb. Thought provoking post from Media crooks greshma April 01, 2014 9:50 AM why cant we practice true secularism... like practiced in US or UK. Why all political parties/MSM/so-called intellectuals use it as a means to get vote, but not to protect people?? Typo Queen April 01, 2014 9:55 AM Beautifully written. Will the so called secularist be willing to accept this? Since they know what they are preaching is fake they will never accept this article. It will help all those who are confused by this fake word Secularism Lucky April 01, 2014 10:06 AM One hard hitting blog. A big thumbs up for your blog. Suresh Kamath April 01, 2014 10:10 AM Muslims in India fall prey to this fake secularism of the congress without realizing that majority of their community are still in poverty even after 60 years of congress/congress supported governments. Mid April 01, 2014 10:21 AM very very impressive . If people were more aware of the realities . Religious voting won't give you employment or food or security. Its about time to rise above such traditional barriers, . . Santosh Gairola April 01, 2014 10:42 AM अँग्रेज़ १८५७ की राष्ट्रवादी क्रांति को दबाने में सफल हुए। उसके बाद अँग्रेज़ों ने इस बात का विश्लेषण किया कि आखिर उस क्रांति को जो भी सफलता मिली, वह क्यों मिली? एक निष्कर्ष यह था कि किसानों का उस क्रांति को भरपूर समर्थन था। उनका यह समर्थन, धन, शस्त्र, शक्ति, बाहुबल, आदि के रूप में क्रन्तिकारी सेनानियों को प्राप्त हुआ। किसानों की इस ताकत समाप्त करने के लिये अँग्रेज़ों ने थोकदार प्रथा को लागू किया। इस व्यवस्था के तहत शासन के छोटे-छोटे हिस्से गुण्डे-मवालियों के सुपुर्द कर दिए गए और उन्हें किसानों से धन वसूली की खुली छूट दे दी गयी। इस पूरी प्रक्रिया से एक ओर जहाँ किसान निरीह हो गया, जैसा अँग्रेज़ चाहते थे; वहीँ दूसरी ओर भुखमरी आदि के कारण अशान्ति पैदा होने लगी। इस अशान्ति को कम करने और "महान" अँग्रेज़ शासन द्वारा जनहित के लिये किये गये "महान" कार्यों को जनता तक पहुँचने के लिए शासक और जनता के बीच एक सम्बन्ध-सेतु की आवश्यकता हुई। अँग्रेज़ शासन के एक अधिकारी ए ओ ह्यूम (Allan Octavian Hume) के नेतृत्व में २८ दिसंबर १८८५ को इसी कारणवश कांग्रेस का जन्म हुआ। यहाँ से प्रारम्भ करके यदि हम देखें तो कांग्रेस चार बार अपना मूलरूप बदल चुकी है। पहला रूप अँग्रेज़ शासन की अच्छी-अच्छी बातों को लोगों तक पहुँचाने वाले बिचौलिए का। दूसरा रूप बदला बीसवीं शताब्दि के प्रारम्भ में, जब मुख्यतः राष्ट्रवादी लोगों ने कांग्रेस पर वर्चस्व बना लिया। बाल गंगाधर तिलक, गोपाल कृष्ण गोखले, विपिन चन्द्र पाल, लाजपत राय, मोतीलाल नेहरु, आदि के नेतृत्व में कांग्रेस का रूप तो बदला, लेकिन पहुँच संभ्रांत वर्ग तक ही सिमित रही। तीसरी बार कांग्रेस का रूप बदला महात्मा गाँधी के साथ। कांग्रेस ने ना केवल पूर्ण राष्ट्रीय स्वरूप ले लिया, वरन संभ्रांत वर्ग से विस्तारित हो कर सामान्य जन में अपनी पहुँच बना ली। जो अंततोगत्वा स्वतन्त्रता का एक मुख्य कारण बना। चौथा और वर्त्तमान स्वरूप बना नेहरु और इंदिरा के साथ; और एक राष्ट्रिय संकल्प-राष्ट्रिय प्रेरणा, एक परिवार की सेवक और चाटुकार बन कर रह गयी। जो सपना महात्मा गाँधी ने देखा था, उसे पूरा करने का यही समय है: !! कांग्रेस मुक्त भारत !! VAM April 01, 2014 10:53 AM I have been reading your posts for long but never posted any comments, but today i couldn't resist myself to appreciate your writing and the kind of analysis you do to relate every possible dots in your posts!! This one is a class apart, keep going!! May God bless you and we may see your posts, views in the electronic or print media someday!! jins April 01, 2014 11:07 AM marvelous. spell binding Excellent article.. Thanks a lot for this article. u have a brilliant clarity of vision,,see things in proper prospective..thanks to u,in past 3 months I changed from TOI to National Standard to DNA..now nothing...only Twitter & MC...I'm able to see Eng news channels in proper background...thanks for opening my clouded vision...keep it up!!! Manisha April 01, 2014 11:44 AM Excellent blog ! a must read for all English readers. I also like the comments section. It reflects on what masses like us are thinking. Yesterdays' Narendra Modi's interview on Newsx was a revelation. The media has been so irresponsible in using words like genocide, pogrom, communal, murderer , dictator , authoritarian , divisive etc ‘liberally’ without bothering to give any proof. Is it this blog that gives words to our frustrations. I hope you start your channel ! One of your materpiece sir SupremeRulerOfGods April 01, 2014 12:30 PM Truly impressive, as always. The MSM parrots used 'secularism' to increase their viewership / TRP. Who is C5M? Who will follow C5M or for that matter any of the Macaulay Family Members if only 'routine' stuff was to be shown and no ‘secularism’ shows or talks? Did any of these current day MSM morons come up by intuitive journalism or sheer hard work like Arun Shourie, M J Akbar, P Sainath, B G Verghese and Kalki? Would we ever compare C5M, BD et al. to any of the above “Journalists”? The answer is no. Hence the MFM needed some ‘non-routine’ stuff to prop up their personal recognition and viewership for their MSM. And here was the so called ‘sickular’ politician who wanted to talk about ‘secularism’ every time he / she had to face the common man for vote or just to carpet a corruption charge. The MSM sponged it. MFMs practiced it, became experts and were even “awarded”. The very essence of ‘reporting’ and ‘journalism’ is lost on these morons, the moment they had bias. VeeRa April 01, 2014 12:37 PM MS Word may have many features added over the years. But I know for sure there is NO tool that can do a proofreading job so well! You take such good care of writing perfectly! I of course enjoy reading your blogs for the content, but it is also immense pleasure to see how you convey your message in simple language, intertwined with some anecdotes, analogies, videos and some (buried) tweets (to the horror of the tweeter) :) myghosthut April 01, 2014 12:49 PM Secularist are the new atheist. Thank You, Sirji.. For Excellent(Master piece) Article Nagendra Chaturvedi April 01, 2014 2:20 PM The word "Secularism" has to be the most abused word in Indian Politics. You see even the local politicians who probably do not even know how to spell this word talk and harp on this. I just hope today will be the last Fool's day Indians will witness. I hope Modi will cleanse the BJP once he comes to power and looking forward to a BJP only government with Modi at the helm. Perhaps 2019 will be it. For now, let's hope NDA will make India shine under the able leadership of Modi. This is the last hope for our country and hope our fellow citizens rise to the occasion and bring Modi. Ravinar, your description is apt and to the point. Why in the world are we all talking and wasting such energy on this fake and puerile idea of secularism? These media people are intellectually barren, morally corrupt, and utterly despicable creatures. They have neither common sense, nor any iota of decency in them. India, as a nation is rapidly decaying and deteriorating. We are facing a serious crisis, and the job of media is to address it. But they seem incapable of any thought or reflection, and are just propagating mass hysteria. The need of hour at this juncture is to recollect our hearts and mind together, to be daring in thought and action, and to approach problems holistically. Parth Jani April 01, 2014 2:42 PM Master piece! I always had/have this question in my mind whether being secular means to be anti-hindu? By religion i am Hindu and i am proud of it. I have many Muslim friends, when i shake my hand with them or hug them i never really felt any difference. They are my brothers and so do we are to them. At this particular moment i am remembering RahulG(C5M) who said "poverty is a state of mind", NO its secularism is a state of mind. All these so called seculars should be kicked and thrown out of politics. Absolute gem. Sums up neatly our tragedy since independence. kalps1616 April 01, 2014 3:49 PM Generally on April Fools' day, people indulge in harmless pranks and have lots of fun by attempting to fool one's friends, acquaintances etc. But you have departed from the norm and managed to 'unfool' people by exposing one of the longest running CON job called Secularim perpetrated by politicians, media and self-certified intellectuals. Noboody, but nobody in India has given such a simple but enlightening explanation for Secularism that immediately stuck a chord with the reader. From the first line, you took me through a journey of self-discovery helped in no small measure by your beautiful anologies. The only way you fooled me (in keeping with April Fool's day) was in making me feel that this piece was written only for me. Like the true hall-mark of a successful author, I am sure you must have made each and every reader feel the same. All in all a wonderful piece weaved together in a much larger canvas of politicians, media and their target i.e. common people. PS: Hope somebody got the better of you and fooled you with some pranks today. On a slightly different note, the issue of water scarcity is exactly at the same level in Pune as that of Ahmedabad in 2005 06. But the response of the state government,MLAs, mp is that of businessmen. Tanker mafias are on the rise in Pune, marathwada region and that too with the political support. Last year the issue was raised by some newspapers but they were suppressed. And as everyone knows, this tanker mafia link ultimately reaches to the pawar family. Thats why I appreciate modi's honest work and curse these congressi bastards uniblogz April 01, 2014 3:57 PM Rightly put. The way our media pays attention to debates regarding secularism, it seems they are trying to make people believe as if it is a lone big problem india is facing. Congress and its allies, as elections come near, have started using secularism as a cover to protect their corruptions and mischiefs, because after a decade's rule they don't have anything to make loud claims for, except lousy and money wasting schemes like NREGA. I guess we all agree with the fact that secularism should be a routine in a society and not much hype be created about it. I am a Gujju and i doubt there has been any scheme, order, notice or an announcement of government in Modi's rule which devides the society by religion, or which have any negative impact on secularism. Congress has tried to garner votes on this issue in past 3 assembly elections in Gujarat, but they failed. The people of Gujarat have taught a lesson to fake seculars that secularism is a non-issue in Gujarat. Now its time for people of India. Prabhakar Banerjee April 01, 2014 4:16 PM Just brilliantly written. Hope some fools get enlightened after reading your blog and exercise better judgement. Suresh Babu April 01, 2014 4:49 PM Superb. Well written and I liked the quote from Bill Gates and interpretation to Secularism. nileshwar April 01, 2014 4:51 PM But for popularity of Social Media tools and spread of internet throughout the country, Cong & its regional avatars would have continued to fool the voters for another decade. myghosthut April 01, 2014 5:26 PM Wearing the mask of secularism, the Islamic and Christian fundamentalists are occupying Indian resources(eg land, human resource, govt/administrative jobs etc) slowly and steadily. When they will have sufficient resources they will ditch secularism and implement sharia law and christian law. Then whole India and Indians will serve few aristocrats in Arabia and Europe by taxes, raw materials and pilgrimage. The intellectual sickulars are the biggest morons. Secularism has been cunningly planted into Hindu psyche to keep us divided, confused and defenseless while Islamic marauders and Christian missionaries trample over us generation after generation. And it is all the more disgusting to find that, a lot of Hindus, quite "educated" ones at that, have willingly consumed this poison and go on a relentless bashing of their own religion, culture and motherland. Such sanctimonious, "know-it-all", dressed-up-secular Hindus are the greatest enemies of Hindu society today, even nastier than the most rabid jihadists. Aparna April 01, 2014 7:51 PM Excellent post...the fool's secularism..the headline says it all Nikhil April 01, 2014 8:13 PM Excellent post as usual. Just to add, even 'Corruption' is also a maintenance job for society. It need not get any premium. No one deserves to be rewarded for (allegedly) not being corrupt; certainly not with a vote. when Britishers left India - whom they handed over all their assets to - their Indian child - Congress - in short - Congress is nothing but Britishers with Indian face - and right now, the Master nay Maalkin is not even with an Indian Face - She is Original - so, what have they got to do with India & with Indians - nothing - simply nothing. they used to 'Loot' the country before 1947 and they have continued to 'Loot' the country even after 1947 non-stop - round the clock - for 67 years and the 'Loot' continues........................... continues : and continues : they divided the nation before 1947 - after 1947 and they continue to divide the nation till date...................... well, for kind information - creation of AAP is that little political step towards that. they destroyed hindus before 1947 - they continue to destroy hindus after 1947 - nothing new - business as usual however, the only difference this time around is 'Narendra Damodardas Modi' & we - the patriotic Indians. now, the table have completely turned for them and there is no place to hide for them - they will pay for all their sins - they will pay for all their crimes - very severly - very heavily. Ramesh L April 01, 2014 10:16 PM Wow... am jealous of ravinar ability put the feelings of general patriotic public into words... wat an articulation Arvinth April 01, 2014 10:30 PM Ravinar, how about Smriti Irani ripping apart Bhupendra? Other BJP leaders should take a leaf out of this and ensure all their interviews and debates are like this. She just slapped him left, right and centre, wish C5M and her hubby get the same treatment. hi santosh gairola & all since its establishment in 1885 - Congress never changed its face even once. it was given birth by the Britishers - run chiefly by the indian fronts of Britishers and then continued to look after the interests of Britishers and Congress continues to do that till date and whenever some nationalist or patriot managed to reach at the top of it - they were made to resign or they were suppressed like 'Subhash Chandra Bose' and 'Sardar Vallabbhai Patel'. Just think of it - Britishers had full control over all mediums of communication and infact - they were the ones who were running it. they used to decide what is to be published and what not - who is to be made 'Hero' or who is to be made 'Villain'. so Congress becoming the 'talk of the nation' was absolutely their brainchild and Gandhiji the 'Hero' was their handiwork. yes, India needs to get rid of Congress because then only India can remain in one piece and Indians can live in peace - but work has increased bit more now as lot of Congress leftovers have spread all across India - so they need to be decimated as well. well - no problems at all - we are ready even for this. kaps April 02, 2014 12:39 AM Great Work Brother. Well done keep it up and raise the bar of Journalism. Thats exactly what I think about secularism. India is secular from time immemorial. And still people are made fool that "secularism is in danger". Its like saying a person, that on wearing X colour pant , his walk may be in danger. Non issue in this country is the biggest issue exercised by sycophant party and its offspring and still people took these many years to reject them. Thats what is called Kismat. Maybe in our nations chart , it was 67 years of sade saati. sherry reddy April 02, 2014 2:34 AM Loved this article... !! Rajanvt April 02, 2014 7:58 AM Ravinar sir! Have become an addict to your writings and articles. WHO are you??? WHY cant your fans know WHO you are? All the urge and raving is BECAUSE you write the TRUTH, not for anything else! Koti pranams to you sir. "People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting." - Batman Hi Ravi beautiful article I loved it you have patiently explained why elections should never be about religion secularism. I am sharing this on all my sm accounts. Have a good day Sir and jai hind Prasad April 02, 2014 3:07 PM Hi Ravinar - an excellent analysis. Even the most simplistic village moron in our country has some basic questions to ask Congress guys on their monumental scams but the media wizards never dare question them on their scams. Like duds they meekly accept congresswalahs equation of congress scams with BSY of BJP. On top of that the MSM is on such a vicious pan India villification campaign against NAMO that I sometimes wonder how he is standing up to such an onslaught day in and out I say "hats off" to him and his great team of supporters like you. Jitendra Desai April 02, 2014 4:27 PM As we advance more towards D day, more and more morons are getting panicky.Refer to A K Antony's cry in his back yard to Marxists to join hands to stop Modi.This Antony who has deliberately messed up our defense and safety now has no agenda for his ministry or nothing to report.He wants to stop Modi.We are experiencing strange phenomena.Only the diminishing tribe of secularists are crying hoarse.Rest of the country appears ready to welcome Modi. sunaath April 02, 2014 7:58 PM Great and passionate article. shant April 02, 2014 8:49 PM It appears to me, that this article penned by you is, just great. I have been reading you since last many months, and sometimes I really wonder how can you better yourself everytime you sit in front of your laptop. Great going ravi. SP April 03, 2014 7:53 AM Great write up Ravi. The morons who claim to be secularists are all opportunist. Look at Farooq A. What the hell he was doing with NDA? I recommend Pawar painted black with ink so he look not so ugly like YY or Ass-Hu-Tosh or Pradhushan or RS. The secularism agenda is a fraud on Indians which the Mainstream Media is playing out ( paid or otherwise ). They are doing so to confuse the electorate. They have done so for sometime now. Whilst personally I have stopped following Mainstream Media ( newspapers, magazines, TV around political news ) for over a decade now, I do feel extremely agitated at the way Indians , especially the so called urban, politically aware India continues to be either stupid or deliberately convoluted. Sonia Gandhi appealed to Muslim Leaders to ensure that the Muslim vote is not split ; and the Imam of Delhi made an exhortion accordingly. It is a pity that Congress still seems to be in the race in some states and is fully supported by lassos in Media. And the public discourse is awfully skewed against Narendra Modi by the media ( in this election season, I am tracking some of these just to know who the traitors are ). It is not that I eulogise Modi neither am I a very hardcore follower. No. But then it is elementary that as of Now he is the best administrator , a nationalist and a popular Leader amongst the options available. So why not give him a chance ??? why is media deliberately confusing the electorate ? Why is media distorting the public discourse ? Why is Media not patriotic enough ? Why do they want to prevent Narendra Modi from becoming PM? Why are they overloading the Indians with lies, half truths, diversions ?? Worser Travesties ( than the 2002 riot , which incidentally was best managed by Modi ) have happened ( including the recent Uttarakhand tragedy where over 7000 hindu lives were lost due to sheer mediocrity and incompetence ) and yet Narendra Modi is villianised ? Why ? The truth is very simple. They are all scared of Narendra Modi ( and I am now more or less convinced that He will become PM definitively this time.. no ifs or buts; I can sense some divine force at work ( finally intervening ) to set right the destiny of India. The club 160 be damned !! And if I have to eat my words on this , then I would leave this country for good.). They are scared of his honesty and no nonsense approach. Every other leader on fray has compromised at sometime or other. It is only him that is unscathed. And he too now is going about his agenda with clockwork precision ( despite congress creating hurdles in his schedules ). He is ignoring every nonsense that is being thrown out on him by all and sundry. And that is the way to go. I once again pray and appeal to all indians .. Vote for Narendra Modi. Vote for BJP. Vote for NDA allies. Spread the word. There is no other alternative. Narendra Modi deserves a chance in 2014. ( and yes, I know most followers here at this site are Nationalists and Value the importance of Narendra Modi ) But do spread the word. It is no time for debates or arguments. Tell people that if they make a mistake this time by not voting him, then they can very well write off their well being and prosperity till the next elections. continued .... As an incentive and encouragement , There is one assurance that I can also give. If BJP gets 272 on its own. The value of rupee would immediately appreciate to either 55 or even 52 to a USD almost immediately. The stock market indices will appreciate ( even from todays level ) by a minimum of 20%. And these on their own will have an accelerator and multiplier effect on economy. The sentiment would improve considerably and that will create a momentum on its own. and if the gujarat model were to go by , there would certainly be a 10% improvement even in industrial growth and agricultural sectors Plus given Namo's proven commitment to federalism, there would be a possibility of balanced equitable growth across India There are many countries which are weary of India rising to its full potential and they are working round the clock ( thru Media, political parties ) to prevent the possibility of Modi becoming PM. So the onus is on every Indian to destroy their vile schemes by voting enmasse for BJP. Otherwise one will be deemed as Anti National ( one cannot play into the hands of the enemy countries and yet call oneself an Indian Patriot !!! ) Also where possible become BJP volunteers to prevent rigging of elections by anti-national elements. And get good people along also to help BJP in this final leg towards Su-Raj of India. Do it for yourself. Do it for India. If any educated Indian still casts his or her vote to any other party ( Congress, AAP , SP, BSP et al ), then not sure what to call such disgraces. Even if one is a Muslim , Christian or of any caste within Hindus, it is time to cast away all difference of religion, caste , linguistic pride etc , rise over petty issues and vote on the best bet for prosperity . It should be a complete white wash of Congress , Commies and Criminals ( SP, AAP, BSP, DMK, TMC, AIADMK ,Jagan Reddy etc ) . Jai Hind. PS: My apologies for this long post. Could'nt hold my thoughts after seeing the farce being perpetrated by Congress , Imams and Media in the name of Secularism. I wish to add one more incentive. If somehow Modi does not become PM, then Muslim appeasement will be further encouraged. Every party and even some BJP leaders would try to appease muslims. I did not use the term minority appeasement because muslims only does not represent minorities in India. What about Jain, Buddhist, Sikhs and Parsi? If Modi becomes PM then every party will shed appeasement policy and concentrate on development and good governance. vijayraghavrao I will try and answer the questions you posted about our media, and government. They are scared of bringing modi to the center only for one reason. He will raise the standard in india. Standard for politics and standard for life. That is what the congress is horrified about. see the poor in india are like frogs in a well, the water may be dirty, their lives may be crap and full of danger. For them they feel the rest of the world is like this. until of course someone comes along and changes that perspective, they show them that look there is a better life out there and that same person delivers and extra standard of living. A new benchmark gets set. Now if the congress government comes to power again and the standards go down, people will notice and will say no we want the old standard back. This is what politicians are scared off. One good example of this i can give, is the national High way. I dont know if you would notice but after the national highway was built, the average road quality of roads in cities and rurals actually improved, because people were traveling on the highways they started demanding better roads in their neighbourhood. Dear Mr Ravinar, I am posting this here because I could not find your email id. I remember you once posted a video of a child getting his hand amputated under a car, as mandated by Sharia. I tried to search for it to use as an example in a debate with my friends and I discovered that the video is actually of a street stunt pulled off by performers. Even snopes has cleared it up: http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/crushboy.asp Kindly look into it. Anonnymous April 03, 2014 3:27 PM I hope BJP & Modi are keeping a close eye on the electronic voting machines, which are likely to be tampered / hacked like Khangress did it in Year 2009 elections. i dont understand why they dont enhance the voting machines. it should not be fixed buttons with labels on them. Firstly the labels should be digital and the order of the buttons should change for each person. I say this because in my town where i was, the khangress had paid off a booth, where the instructor would tell every one that "you should press the first button to start the machine then press the button for the party you want to choose" The first button was Congress. Politicians basically do whatever they have to, to get in power. "Secularism" is a great formula in India because of unity (and strong religious identity) amongst 20% of Muslims, and rampant disunity and absence of any pan-Indian identity amongst 80% of Hindus in India. Ultimately in a democracy people get the government that (majority of the) people deserve. That is the sad truth. Make no mistake about it, if Scamgress mafia party gets back to power through any dirty tricks/back channel tactics, they will take out their revenge on the educated middle class, which is, by far, the greatest engine behind BJP/Modi's rise. They will make life as hell to the middle class Hindus and I dare say they may organize a genocide (a la Bangladesh 1971) to teach us a very hard lesson. I advice to all friends over here to convince the credulous Hindus who still bask in glory of imaginary "secularism", that a dark fate awaits for all of us if we do not bring Modi to power this time. Secularism cannot be preached by surrendering human dignity and it certainly cannot be practiced once you are dead. Karthik NK April 06, 2014 8:04 PM The Sri Lankan anthem goes "Namo" 16 times and "Obama" just once reflXon April 09, 2014 11:53 AM Communal Hands of Congress Departing from traditional Congress sycophancy, Inder Malhotra (who was earlier the political editor of The Statesman and later a resident editor of The Times of India) has authenticated the widely-held belief that the late Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale had been promoted by former President Zail Singh and Sanjay Gandhi with the consent of Indira Gandhi. At that time, while the Congress headed by Indira Gandhi ruled the Centre, the Akali party governed Punjab. Bhindranwale was promoted by the Congress in order to divide moderate Sikhs led by the Akalis from the fundamentalist fringe encouraged to support Bhindranwale. Thereby, Indira Gandhi sought to weaken and oust from Punjab the Akalis. It may stun people that in the pursuit of a short term political goal, Gandhi could sink to such a low political level. In fact, she did much worse. She actually gave the go ahead to the demand for a Khalistan state in order to further her political design. This scribe was privy to sufficient circumstantial evidence to conclude this. At that time, before the formal demand for Khalistan had been made, the late Jagjit Singh Chauhan accompanied by Balbir Singh Sandhu visited my residence to acquaint me with their proposal. They said that they intended to formally announce the formation of Khalistan from the precincts of the Golden Temple. 1984 Anti-Sikh Pogroms took place in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh guards acting in the aftermath of Operation Bluestar. Over the next four days nearly 3000 Sikhs were massacred in systematic riots planned and led by Congress activists and sympathizers. The then Congress government was widely criticized for doing very little at the time, if not acting as a conspirator, especially since voting lists were used to identify Sikh families. The then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi allegedly made a statement emphasizing the importance of his mother, while discounting the death of thousands, "When a big tree falls, the earth is bound to shake" on the Sikh carnage n 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi gave in to the Muslim zealots in the Shah Bano affair overruling a secular court's decision. Months later, Rajiv restored the balance by giving the Hindus something as well: he ordered the locks on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid in Ayodhya removed. Ultimately Rajiv Gandhi has not acted neutrally as a Prime minister and played communal cards that led to destruction of Babri Masjid See the list of National awardees last 2 years, one of them is Sagarika Ghosh. If these people deserve a National award what does a soldier, Air man or a Marine deserve when he sacrifices his life. Does he deserve any thing less than what Sachin got - who played Cricket all his life in the security of the Nation. In that standard every Jawan sacrificing his life for the Nation deserves Nothing less than BHARAT RATNA. Where as the Government forgets the welfare of the family of the jawan, the moment the cremation is over. Political Marketing: Part - 2 Do It For Your Country Crucifying India News Traders & Interviews Saving Bharatiyata Why 2002 Will Haunt Rajdeep & Barkha Hunting Season Is Over	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line328
__label__wiki	0.883505	0.883505	I can't believe its not beef! By Jacklyn Nowotnik For the Ghost Hunters club at Northeastern Illinois University, Oct. 31 wasn't about candy and kiddy costumes—it was for... Top 10 Horror Movies The Exorcist: This movie left a generation without sleep. It had people leave the theater screaming. It has, without a doubt, the most... Out on a School Night: 3/5 Martinis By Dulce Arroyo Although it resembles an outdoor café in France, La Pane Bakery's menu offers more than just French pastries. Located on 2954 W.... Medal of Honor Review Once standing as the definitive shooter experience, the "Medal of Honor" franchise has been overshadowed by the "Call of Duty"... Roasted, salty pumpkin seeds a crunchy treat Ingredients: A pumpkin, preferably a medium or large one Olive oil or non-stick cooking spray Salt Directions: Cut open your... Out on a School Night: Enjoy pasta and homemade cookies at Panes Bread CafÃ© If you're in the mood for comfort food, look no further than Panes Bread Café on 3002 N. Sheffield Ave. (between Nelson and... Northeastern showcases student talent By Sean Lynch NEIU held its annual talent show this past Thursday to a crowded audience in the auditorium. While this year's show improved in several... The Social Network Review Known by many as the Facebook movie, "The Social Network" has made waves as the supposed retelling of the creation of Facebook and the... Exclusive interview with 'Life as We Know It' director Greg Berlanti Director, writer and producer Greg Berlanti was recently in Chicago to promote his upcoming romantic comedy, "Life as We Know It",... Over the past decade, Bungie has treated us to one of the most loved and respected franchises in video game history. The Halo series has... ¡Viva flamenco! Providing skills that can help pay the bills Parents waited anxiously in the hallway as their young dancers could be heard rhythmically stomping their feet, clapping their hands and... Out on a School Night: Beat the chilly weather with traditional gourmet empanadas at... Empanadas are a cultural staple of any Latino country. In essence, they are dough wrapped around a recipe of toppings, and either fried...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line335
__label__cc	0.738507	0.261493	I grew up in a house with a long hallway with one wall shelved with books all the way to the ceiling. They were my mother's books, novels, history and all of her medical textbooks. She was an Osteopath who gave up her practice after marrying my dad and having children. I always loved to read and some of those books became my best friends through long lazy summer days. Since my mother was a doctor and my dad's father was a doctor, and we had all those medical books in the hallway. I took to picking them up and reading. Bones and tissue, organs and systems, all good. But it was the textbooks full of diseases that got to me. They were interesting, lots of then black and white photos of disease organs, distorted faces and limbs. But it was the text, the symptoms, always the symptoms that got to me. I would read them, and it would be almost as the words were processed, my body began to have and feel the symptoms. It would have been amazing, if it had not ruined my possibilities of pursuing a career in the medical field. But once symptoms were mentioned, I began to feel them, pain, swelling, but it was finally the hydrophobia that got me when I began to drool not able to swallow anymore. I closed the book and the drooling stopped. I walked away never to open another medical text again. I have purposely kept my distance all these years. Until this week. There were some berries out in our community garden that were interesting. Beautiful, round dark blue berries, like blueberries out of season. With the change of weather and the threat of frost, I called Martin Lively out to witness these plants and the berries. We had been talking about native chefs using native plants, so it felt all natural to reach over while showing him the berries to pluck one off and sample it. It tasted bland, but sweet, a berry that might make wine but not a good juicer. I spit it out and kept spitting to get all the bits of it out of my mouth. Martin retrieved a water bottle with several warnings on the label. One was not the eat the RED BERRIES. But the berry was not red. But something about the leaves reminded me of tomato leaves and made me think of the nightshade family and all the warnings about "deadly nightshade" poisoning in old plays and early novels. I hadn't ever seen it in the wild or even pictures of it, but googled it and there it was, the plant in our garden fully outfitted with the berries and blooms. Just like in the picture, deadly nightshade. The description matched, but then the reading of symptoms and how many berries were needed for the deadly to set in. About that time I began to tell Martin about the books in the hallway in the house I grew up in and then I began not to feel good. My heart began to race and I grabbed my key and took out with the decision to take myself on over to the hospital emergency room. I checked myself in saying "Deadly Nightshade" and yes there is an antidote, I need it. As it turned out they never gave me the antidote, they called Poison Control and monitored my heart rate for an hour and it steadily calmed and they released me. The nurse practitioner told me not to put things in my mouth I wasn't sure of. But the message I knew even better was, DON'T READ THE SYMPTOMS unless close to an ER who has someone there to counsel me to well and let me walk out alive. Deadly doesn't mean dead. Don't swallow the berries. It takes only 4 to kill an adult. Glad I stopped with one and didn't like it and didn't gather the rest to make that wine. With the threat of frost, perhaps these nightshade relatives will all have a quick lights out soon and not be found in another community garden anytime next season! Charles Gourd's team of native plant specialists are needed up this way in the Cherokee Nation. None too soon! The diagnosis on the discharge paper simply listed Ingestion of toxic substance. Basing back to our culture, living off the land, grazing on the wild things, we had learned by watching the animals and learning from our elders how to use the plants growing in our territory, what to eat, what to avoid. This was a wake-up call for me and a new campaign. Parents go outside, take a walk and see if you find these berries, shiny plump inviting berries and get them pulled out of the ground, leave not a leaf or berry behind, do not add them to your compost pile, but solid waste them. My campaign has been to have every yard sampled for lead and I have been on it for the last 20 years and I won't let up on it, since we still have LOTS more properties left to have DEQ sample, but my second campaign will be something you can do yourself. Look for those plants with the dark shiny berries, long after the blueberry season has ended and get them dug up and removed just like DEQ will do if they end up finding lead in your yard. Finally something a regular person can do to protect our children and ourselves! I Didn't Cry but I did plead This week I had the honor, perhaps the responsibility to speak from an environmental viewpoint with a distinguished group of energy and economists from Brazil. Each of the members of the group had high ranking positions with industry or with the agencies involved with the economy of growth in their country and they came to learn more about the energy sector in our country. I had peaked at what's happening with the mining industry and they are hunting for some of the metals associated with the Tar Creek Superfund site like manganese but others like bauxite and uranium. We have learned that manganese can harm children much like lead does. Brazilian mining companies are finding lots of iron, so of course they have lots of water that has that familiar "look" of bad water we are used to finding. I didn't cry about how our children have been lead poisoned and how the other heavy metals are creating their own health impacts, but it causes me a deep sadness and pushes me to speak out. I didn't take them to the damage uranium mining had caused to the Navajos and men who left our mines to work there, too which has caused much sorrow there and with our returning miners and their families. Last week their Congress voted to protect large portions of the Amazon which left the mining ministry complaining that “Brazil needs to grow and create jobs, attract mining investment and even tap the economic potential of the region." The Jobs vs. the environment seems to be a universal dilemma. So far the Amazon has so much diversity no single insect has done to the lungs of the southern hemisphere, what the pine bark beetle has done for ours. The loss of our pine trees has been caused by climate change and its driving force is the continued use of fossil fuels' and the warming that results, allowing the beetles to reproduce many more times a season in great hungry numbers. The Brazilian group was committed to investigating best practices in overall energy sector management, particularly with respect to transitioning from traditional to renewable sources; and issues related to generation and distribution of electricity. They lit up when Ariel Ross began to talk about her efforts as a regular woman in an Oklahoma town to stand up and get the city she lived in to attempt to regulate fracking inside their city limits to protect their property and their citizens' health. They wanted to hear about earthquakes and Ariel had worked with Stop Fracking Payne County, an organization Earl Hatley, LEAD Agency's Grand Riverkeeper helped form, because as a land owner in Payne County, still owning a homestead where frack central was just around the country corner. A great question from one of the group was why did they concentrate on the fracking and injection wells, didn't they care about what was IN THE WATER that was being injected? She explained the reasoning. Environment in Oklahoma is a dirty word, goes against progress and who would want to stop the industry where their daddy worked? So they strategically chose to focus early on the fracking that caused EARTHQUAKES because that was really a dirty word everybody could get behind and want to STOP. We all learned as the effort continued that the real earthquakes were linked to the high pressure waste water injection. As it went on, she calmly talked about the organizing and the success, in the short run. Her winning a seat on the planning commission for Stillwater, how she was perceived in her neighborhood and the BIG ONE, the 5.8 earthquake and then she cried. My mind wandered. The next earthquake worries me and what might happen to the fragile caverns that make up the Tar Creek Superfund site. Earthquakes are unpredictable and if that whole thing collapses what could be the repercussions? My driveway is covered with layers of pine needles. The forest I planted 37 years ago is dying. I didn't cry but I did plead with the Brazilian delegation to take care of the Amazon since the North American boreal forest covering 15% of the earth and has been called "a poor person's Amazon," because it produces lots of oxygen and is a carbon storage "sink." Billions of trees have died from Alaska to New Mexico, Minnesota to Mississippi the beetle is taking our trees, our forests. We should be crying, but before we left that room at the University of Tulsa, I did plead for them to take better care of their Amazon, that we will all be dependent on that oxygen.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line340
__label__cc	0.526907	0.473093	I moved from advertising to PR for one reason: social media By Siona Food for thought, Opinion Piece, Poem news Siona Singletary never thought she’d work in PR, but then something massive happened: Facebook became the biggest news site in the world. For the past 16 months, I’ve been working in PR. There’s a sentence I honestly never thought I would type. I cut my teeth in advertising and never looked for anything outside of it. Back then, PR was something I simply did not understand, or admittedly care that much about. My main experience of PR came from working on integrated campaigns and “integration” was a buzzword used for show. But then, something big happened. The king of social platforms, Facebook, made the shift from a photo-sharing platform to a news source. In fact, it became the largest referrer to news sites in the world (overtaking Google in 2015). Suddenly the platform became a source of information, a place to tell and share stories. This shift made conventional social advertorial content stick out like a sore thumb. People no longer wanted to a see a photo of a product, they wanted to read a story about it. Fast-forward to today, and people are more ad savvy than ever. 96% of the people that discuss brands online do not follow those brands’ owned profiles. Dark social – the sharing of content in places marketers can’t track, like WhatsApp and email – accounts for 75% of all online content sharing, with no sign of change. So even if people are reading your product story, it’s now difficult to fully track who is sharing it. What’s the challenge we are facing? This brings about a question: What’s the ultimate goal with social content for brands? In an ideal world, I’d love to say sales, but unless e-commerce is fully integrated into social platforms there will always be barriers to conversion. Furthermore, can a social platform be an e-commerce platform at the same time, or must one eventually give way to the other? Let’s rephrase the question: What are the ultimate and achievable goals? I believe they are engagement and conversation. Social media is our post-postmodern-day word of mouth and we all know that’s the best recommendation you can get, it’s genuine and it shows intent. A RadiumOne study recently told us that those who share brand content are nearly 10 times more likely to convert. If that share was a dark share, it’s also believed to be more impactful with the recipients, as it’s more personal. So, if we kick those goals of engagement and conversation, consumers will be driven in-store and online to purchase by their friends and family. Which is much more meaningful. If we take this onboard when planning a campaign, the first problem we have is how we track all this dark activity? The second is how do we make content that people want to talk about and share? Those billboard-style brand and product ads that used to clog up chronological newsfeeds have long been redundant as a stand-alone approach to retaining humans’ attention on social. Humans won’t share ads, for many, many reasons: 1. It’s an ad. 2. It’s most likely not very interesting. 3. It’s not adding any value to the user – it doesn’t give them any social currency (make them seem funnier/more interesting/smarter). 4. It doesn’t connect with them, they cannot see themselves in it. PR ideas on social media So, what does engage humans? The ever-elusive viral social campaign (that we can’t really track properly) relies on one thing now more than ever. A good story. A good story, with the right human insight can connect a consumer with a brand and instigate action. And here’s the kicker, good stories like these have been created by PR professionals to generate scores of editorial articles for decades. Editorial articles are objective and hold authority, they can affect the way consumers think about a brand, even more so than a brand campaign perhaps. PR, by nature, is designed to make a lot of noise and traditionally this noise was enough of a KPI. However, social has opened the possibility for this noise to be measured, analysed, optimised and retargeted. Now we can control who we share the story with and understand how engaging a story was. We already know that a newsworthy story makes for good social content and now we have access to the means to prove it and fine-tune it. A newsworthy story based on a solid human insight is what makes a piece of content sharable. Fundamentally, PR and social are highly compatible and highly effective when it comes to moving people. What am I suggesting? Let’s put an end to the traditional process of advertising as the default lead. This isn’t the answer in 2017, especially if we always fail to integrate. How about leading a campaign with a PR idea? A shift in the perspective of many marketers is still long overdue. Siona Singletary is Digital Strategy Director at Poem Group. Facebook Says Conversations Are Now More Important Than Reactions The Brand Launch Should PR degrees go the way of dinosaurs? Social Media Strategy & The Decline of Organic Reach Poem news © 2021 Poem Group. Get in touch with a human to hear more about work we’ve done and how we can help. rob@poemgroup.com.au matt@poemgroup.com.au 270 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills // Sydney, NSW 2010. ©Poem Group Limited	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line347
__label__wiki	0.988728	0.988728	World And International News By Jill T Frey in World News January 10, 2017 President Donald Trump’s Twitter account briefly disappeared on Thursday after it was deactivated by a Twitter buyer support worker on their last day. Each World and the BBC News Channel have additionally sometimes had to simulcast the identical news programme resulting from strike action or technical issues; this occurred in 2003 when Television Centre in London was affected by electrical issues. Steven Slater has some recommendation for the “rogue” Twitter worker who had apparently deactivated President Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account on the particular person’s final day of work. There’s a simulcast of the 05:00 UK edition of BBC World Information on BBC One and the BBC News channel , followed by an edition of World Enterprise Report This programme was beforehand branded as ‘The World Immediately’. The first half-hour of this programme will be seen within the UK on BBC 4 or BBC Information Channel on weekends. The US President was back on Twitter in power after his account was taken down for eleven minutes yesterday. BBC World’s on-air design was changed significantly on three April 2000, bringing it nearer to the look of its sister channel in the UK which was then often called BBC Information 24, the on-air look of which had been redesigned in 1999. BBC World News can also be viewed within the public areas of Broadcasting Home (the lobby and cafe). In a nod to the influence of President Donald Trump, Collins Dictionary has designated the term “fake information” because the Collins Word of the Year 2017. Anda akan menghabiskan sebagian besar waktu Anda di timeline ini, di mana pembaruan aktual tentang hal-hal yang berarti untuk Anda akan ditampilkan. Please go to your account settings and add your email tackle. BBC World News additionally produces a model of Outside Source at 21:00 Monday-Thursday World Information Right now at 19:00 Monday-Friday and 21:00 Friday-Sunday UK time. President Donald Trump’s tweets calling for the loss of life penalty for the man accused within the New York truck rampage may very well be seized on by defence attorneys as proof of bias. Tags: international, world Journal Of Supplies Processing Technology Official Funds	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line348
__label__cc	0.510098	0.489902	Republic Restored: Roe, 'Rebels' claim victory Rebel Alliance TE Darren Waller SHAWNEE –– Four years after Championship Week heartbreak, the Rebel Alliance have claimed their first AFC title. Roe began his season with arguably the AFC's best draft class (ranked third by RateMyLeague.com) and then added breakout star TE Darren Waller in free agency. That was enough to win nine regular-season games and achieve the second-highest OPR OIL-wide. But the Rebels finished one game behind Steel Reign, dropping them to the AFC's second seed. However, given the opportunity to prove who the better team was on the field, the Rebels beat Steel Reign in the Thunder Bowl to claim their first championship. Roe survived below-par games from QB Russell Wilson, WRs Tyreek Hill and Anthony Miller, and TE Darren Waller in large part due to Fitzgerald's team underperforming even worse. Despite the loss, it was a great year for Fitzgerald. His Steel Reign squad won 10 regular-season games while he spent the season in Prague, Czech Republic. So, who's the real winner here? AFC Schedule Released The 2019 AFC schedule was released Wednesday, featuring a 2016 Thunder Bowl rematch of War Pony vs. Rebel Alliance. AFC's Vultures, Brosh, Win Liberty Bowl Stephen Brosh drafted QB Patrick Mahomes in the 10th round and complemented him with a strong ground game, led by Adrian Peterson and Dalvin Cook, and deep WR corps. His Vultures upset the defending champions and second-seeded Cocks before defeating the now three-time runner-up Doughboys in the Thunder Bowl. In the Liberty Bowl, he faced two teams with higher OPRs, but he slayed them as well. The Vultures manager will now receive a bevy of prizes: the Killman Memorial Trophy; a custom team jersey; the Tenequer Memorial Trophy; and a custom team mini-helmet. Congratulations, Brosh. The Vultures finished with a record of 12-4. They scored 143.28 points per game and an OPR of 1.034 (16th). Over the season, they made 19 transactions, ended the season with 10 drafted players remaining on their roster, and finished on a 10-game winning streak (including the Liberty Bowl). Week One Standings The defending champion Redlegs start 2017 atop the AFC standings once again, while the NFC champion Dirty Hippies failed to break triple-digits in their 2017 debut. The PFC champion Dirty Dogs, however, managed to start their title defense with a victory. The injuries of David Johnson and Allen Robinson have reverberated across the league. Their owners already face adversity in the young season. 'Dirty Hippies', NFC Win Liberty Bowl; 2016 Wrap-up By OIL Commissioner Justin C. Cliburn Congratulations to Christopher Trovillo, whose Dirty Hippies won the 2016 Liberty Bowl. He will hold the Tenequer Memorial Trophy in trust until a new champion is crowned. He also earned a custom mini-helmet with the win, and the Commissioner awaits his instructions regarding said helmet. As far as Lance Zerger goes, his Redlegs fell short in their quest to win their first week 17 championship. But the season was a monstrous success regardless. The Redlegs set a record for most points in single season, won 12 games, and won the AFC's Thunder Bowl. He will have his name engraved on the Killman Memorial Trophy and his custom jersey has been ordered. Well, that's it for the 2016 OIL season. Congratulations to the three conference champions: Buehre, Trovillo, and Zerger. The 2017 draft order will be posted soon, and I'll get started on the 2016 edition of the Book of OIL. Be prepared for lots of emails soliciting your feedback on the 2016 draft party, trades, rivalry week, season, and playoffs. Zerger has plans to coordinate an OIL March Madness pool, and we'll be finding ways to raise money for the 2017 draft weekend, which will again occur at the Roberts Retreat Lodge north of Ada. Our deposit has been paid, and we need to pay $3,100 by August to keep the rental (and not lose the $780 deposit). Anyone who was at the 2016 draft can vouch for how amazing the venue is: 5,000 square-foot cabin; private lake; ATV trails; shooting range; ping pong table; big screen TVs; huge wrap-around porch; and the company of your SECFOR brothers. If you'd like to make your donation now, the link is here. You can view photos, videos, and audio clips of the 2016 draft weekend here. If you encounter a password prompt, the password is oklahoma* with the * being the number of our military unit. Happy New Year, brothers. Something tells me we'll keep in touch all offseason using the GroupMe chat (thanks to Zerger for suggesting that). For all of those who didn't win a championship in 2016 (including me), the new year provides new hope. In the meantime, check out the championship banners hung at the top of each champion's manager page: 2016 Semifinals Preview Only 12 teams remain in contention in the OIL playoffs after Nye, Roe, Cliburn, Jessen, Baldwin, and Cordes were knocked out in round one. Half of the semifinals field had a bye last week, so this is their first test since Rivalry Week. Good luck, guys. As always, game-by-game analysis after the jump. AFC: Zerger's Rivalry Week Preview By Redlegs Manager Lance Zerger Welcome to Love/Hate Week, also known as Rivalry Week. Unfortunately for some teams, they have to beat their rivals to secure a place in the playoffs, Some teams have an outside shot at getting the second place bye in the playoffs. The rest is playing for pride. This week is really going to have a good story line for a lot of teams. #1 Redlegs vs. #3 Rebel Alliance The Rebel Alliance beat the Redlegs last year, ensuring their spot in the playoffs while keeping the Redlegs out of the tournament. This matchup seems to be a close one as it is an even push. I like the Rebel Alliance in this game, as they have more to play for than the Redlegs, however, the Redlegs have been on a hot streak as of late, winning six straight games. AFC: Zerger's Week 12 Preview By Redlegs Manager and Title Favorite Lance Zerger First off welcome to Week 12 of the AFC. I would like to first off and most importantly like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and I hope that everyone has a great Holiday with their families. If you are looking for a Black Friday Deal, Adam Schuster is offering 2-1 on his back alley special. No paying customer walks away unsatisfied or herpes-free. This week, there are a lot of huge match ups. A lot of play off spots on the line and it will be interesting to see how the last few weeks play out this year. There is a four way tie at 7-4, with one slip up, a team could end up in a must win situation next week in Rivalry Week which will make that game that much bigger. #3 Doughboys vs. #1 Redlegs The Doughboys lost last week, they had the longest win streak in the league until their defeat. This game is going to be really close, this game could be a preview of a second round playoff match up. I like the Doughboys to get back on track this week and keep their playoff hopes alive. Game of the Week 2.0: #4 Cocks vs. #2 Vultures The Cocks and Vultures both have playoff hopes hinging on this game. The Cocks have the slight edge in this one, but that could shift in the Vultures favor if Gronk is able to get back on the field. A lot of speculation seems to point that Gronk might not play until the playoffs. I like the Cocks in this one, sending the Vultures to the cusp of elimination. The Holidays are coming up, Thanskgiving is next week. Reach out to your friends, let them know you are thinking of them during the Holiday Season. I hope everyone has a great week. Now, on to the games. #11 Brewmasters vs. #1 Redlegs Both Teams are coming in with key players on Bye weeks. Chris Thompson is getting the nod for the Redlegs as Forte is on bye week. The Brewmasters are needing to fill in the TE in role this week. This game is going to be close but I think the Redlegs will pull out a win this week. AFC: Roe's Week Nine Preview By Rebel Alliance Manager Don Roe My first weekly preview turned out to be a bit of a bust, having only three teams win out of seven predictions. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, so I will give it a try again. First let’s give it up to Peacock for winning handily without a defense. Those damn Redlegs are still sitting up there thinking their shit don’t stink. Maybe Schuster can discharge a little on this one. Oh, and before I forget Hillier picked up his second win, told ya about that little engine that could. Enough of this B.S.; let’s get to it. #9 Negligent Discharges vs. #1 Redlegs We are all hoping this will be the week the Redlegs stumble. They have been winning with ease riding the back of Ezekiel Elliot who doesn’t seem to be slowing down. The Discharges have a good line up, but I think it will fall short. Redlegs fly that W.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line357
__label__cc	0.662129	0.337871	The Dreamers Series > The Nightmarers Between Places On Half Miracles The weather is slowly warming... When it's not pouring rain. I mentioned our p-day in last week's email, but now I'll share more cause it was fun and the sunburns on my arms have faded a little. But anyway! We decided to bike over the Mississippi River into Memphis, TN last week and that was pretty fun. They have a really nice pedestrian bridge, and a place to park and everything for people who do that, but... the gate on the West Memphis side was locked. What. So another biker, coming from the Memphis side, reached the gate and said if we wanted to cross, we'd have to ride on the narrow sidewalk of the freeway bridge. So... That's what we did! There was probably a 2 or 3 foot cement divider between the road (heavily frequented by enormous 18 wheelers) and the sidewalk haha. Going over the bridge was fun, though, trying to not get dizzy watching the Mississippi River slowly pass under you. We stopped to take a picture in the middle, and only then realized how much the bridge shook every time a truck thundered by. Yikes. We checked out the civil rights museum, walked through Beale St., and ate at Gus's Chicken. Cause... you gotta. It was fun to be back in Memphis. After biking back, taking a nap, and getting ready again, we had some good success finding that evening. Which introduces the title of my email, "Half-Miracles." We found 4 new people to teach that night, which is awesome, and 3 of them actually found us! One guy called after us and we set an appointment, and another couple called to us from their parked car and asked for a bible. She'd been shot 9 times while living in Atlanta. (I got the impression it wasn't 9 different occasions, but who knows?) They all wanted to turn their life around, get back into church, and thought it was so cool that they'd seen us. But I use the phrase "half-miracle" because... the first guy gave us a fake/old address and a nonfunctioning phone number, and the other couple didn't keep their return appointment, and we haven't been able to get back in touch with them. What's up with that? Tuesday was good. We had our last district council of the transfer, and had a great lesson afterwards. We asked the person we were teaching what they thought God was like, because they hadn't grown up with a strong paternal figure in their life and worried that it was warping their perspective of Heavenly Father. Through some tears, they just managed to say "just... sweet." And the spirit was so strong, I almost started crying with em. After that, we exchanged with the Blytheville elders, and had a good rest of the day, too. We saw our person on date and had one of the weirdest lessons ever. We'd say something, or ask a question, and he'd just go off on not just a tangent, but into like a whole other dimension. Like if we were teaching a class on sculpting like Michelangelo, he was off painting like Picasso, or maybe Jackson Pollock. (It's a weird analogy, I know, but it's as close as I can get to describing it.) We went from there to our next appointment, and they weren't ready yet, so we went to pizza hut for dinner and then tried again. We reviewed a chapter of the Book of Mormon with them, and then they asked if we'd share the Joseph Smith story again, and so we did, and also shared a short video on it. He tried to hide the tears but we caught him wiping them away. We told them about the Memphis temple open house, and they happened to be off of work on the day we were planning the trip, and they were SO excited to go! (...Half miracle.) The next morning, Brother Jones took us to Shoneys for breakfast, so that was a good start to the day haha. We exchanged back shortly afterward, and then went to visit that guy from Monday, and there discovered his address wasn't right. A big guy answered the door and said there was nobody by that name that lived there. What. The guy who answered ended up having converted to Islam while in prison haha. But we told him about the Book of Mormon and he said we could come back! Then we tried a guy we met last week who seemed kinda interested. When we stopped by, much to our surprise, he welcomed us in, we sat down, he asked us questions about the Book of Mormon, and said he'd try to have the whole first book of Nephi finished by this weekend! So... We are pretty excited about him! Afterward, our Branch President took us out to sharks, and then we had Book of Mormon class, reading Alma 62. (There's a lot of war and political drama that happens in that chapter.) Best comment of the night was made by one of the sisters' investigators that came: "Are you sure this isn't talking about West Memphis?" Thursday came along, and we had another good lesson, a lot of rain, and we led the Come Follow Me, Bible study that night. I learned a lot, and the spirit helped remind me of a lot as I taught, so it became a good highlight of my week. Then it was Friday! We'd checked with 6 different people about coming to the Memphis Temple open house! We followed up a few hours before with person number one, and they'd had something come up and couldn't make it anymore. Then person number two said they were still good! But then couple number one, and ciuple number two both fell through, and they were going to be our rides. Finally, person number two also texted and said they wouldn't be able to make it anymore, even though less than an hour ago they said they were ready. Gah. So that's why this was another half miracle. We even rescheduled with couple number two to Saturday, but things came up again and that didn't work, either. Sad days. We did meet a cool lady who was really open, and had even ordered a bible and Book of Mormon awhile ago, but had never received them because she was busy and lived out in the boonies. But she changed jobs, moved to the city, and we happened to knock on her door. We got transfer news that night, too. My last one! Elder Bang and I are staying. Easter Sunday was good! We had a lesson with that one family again. 3 of the boys and their grandma were home, anyway. They're fun to teach. Next, we went to one of the counselors in the branch presidency's house for an Easter dinner and watched their grandkids do an Easter egg hunt, which was pretty fun. We spent the rest of the night trying to follow up with people and get back in touch with them. We are really working with a lot of really promising, solid people who recognize the truthfulness and power in what we share with them! Just getting them to do things based on that knowledge is tough. #FaithWithoutWorksIs... But anyway! Here we are! 99 weeks down. Lots of miracles seen, and... Lots of half-miracles, too. I don't remember how or when that phrase came to mind this week, and I felt bad for even thinking of it. I didn't want to short-change God, or sound like I'm complaining for only getting half of a miracle. But what I then realized was that it's okay. They are only "half miracles" because I only know half of the story. Or only half of the story has even happened, yet! I'm sure whoever the missionaries were that tried to deliver the Bible and Book of Mormon to the lady we met this week thought it was kind of pointless, getting a referral they never got to meet. That was a half-miracle. And the other half is just happening now. Easter commemorates the most glorious second half of a seeming "half-miracle" that ever happened. Jesus Christ performed miracles in His life... one after the other. People were healed, people were changed, and yet His was a life prophecied to heal and change the whole world! I wonder if His disciples, even if just for a moment, wondered, "was all that for nothing? He did those great things, performed miracles, walked on the sea, and... for what? Here He is on the cross, defeated." But of course, those miracles didn't end when the stone was rolled over the tomb. They were just half of the bigger miracle. Sunday was coming with the other half. For myself, and for all of us, I hope that we can always take comfort in the fact that Sunday is coming! The other half of our miracles will come soon enough. Maybe we won't see it, maybe it's not what we expect. But I guess all of this to say [mostly to myself] that there's no such thing as a half-miracle. Love y'all! Elder Dahl oliver.dahl@missionary.org 107 McCain Blvd Apt. D, West Memphis, AR, 72301 https://youtu.be/GPVHpo3LYRQ https://youtu.be/8Py5vSIle9E Serving A Mission! What's all this about? As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, it is expected of me that I will serve a two-year mission. (And yeah, the "riding bikes and wearing nametags and knocking on doors" kind of mission.) But this isn't something I'm doing because it's expected of me... I'm doing this because the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ has blessed my life SO much, in SO many ways. I can't think of a greater honor or responsibility than being able to play a part in someone's story of finding and enjoying these blessings, too. Why Am I Serving A Mission? What Am I Teaching? Email: oliver.dahl@myldsmail.net Sign up to get my weekly emails! Packages/Letters: (After June 20, 2017) Elder Oliver Wrigley Dahl Arkansas Little Rock Mission 905 Kierre Dr North Little Rock AR 72116 Contact Me Prints All content © Oliver Dahl 2014-2021 unless otherwise stated. Social icons by Sajid Anam and Rebin Infotech	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line358
__label__wiki	0.746915	0.746915	Bike Reports Industry Press Releases MotorcycleDaily.com – Motorcycle News, Editorials, Product Reviews and Bike Reviews Motorcycle News, Editorials, Product Reviews and Bike Reviews Sunday Racing at VIR Josh Hayes Leads Motul Superbike Race 2 \| Photo: Brian J. Nelson ALTON, VA (May 14, 2017) – Josh Hayes won his 61st career Superbike race today in the Championship of Virginia at VIRginia International Raceway, the 41-year-old taking his first Motul Superbike win of the season and his first since last July at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca with a dominating performance. Every time Hayes climbs to the top of the podium he either breaks or gets close to breaking a record. With his victory today, the Monster Energy/Yamalube/Yamaha Factory R1-mounted Hayes moved out of a tie with Mat Mladin for second on the all-time list of AMA victories across all classes with his 83rd career win – just three shy of Miguel Duhamel’s 86 career victories. It was also Hayes’ 61st Superbike victory. Hayes led the race early and he led it again when his teammate Cameron Beaubier ran off track in turn one on the seventh lap, a mistake that dropped the defending MotoAmerica Superbike Champion back to seventh. From there Hayes took control of the 23-lap race, monitoring his lead and finishing with 4.4 seconds in hand over Yoshimura Suzuki’s Toni Elias, the Spaniard spending the majority of his race battling teammate Roger Hayden. “About a half hour before the race I didn’t feel comfortable, however, I just kept telling myself positive things and that I needed to be relentless by making everyone ride the pace that I’m capable of,” Hayes said. “It took me a little while to get going the first five or six laps, despite having really good grip. Once Cameron (Beaubier) got around me I went into a little bit of a panic until he made the mistake and went off of the track. I was able to regroup a few laps later, pick the pace back up with a few really good laps, and manage the rest of the race.” Hayden made things easier for Elias when he ran off the track at the start of the last lap. But it wasn’t totally comfortable as Beaubier had, for the second straight day, charged through the pack after his mistake to finish just .084 of a second behind the Suzuki. “It was really hot and a physical day, not necessarily more than others, but when you’re not 100% comfortable with the bike it’s easy to experience strange problems like arm pump,” Elias said. “Roger (Hayden) was riding well, but I could see that he was struggling also and I decided to go for the pass. I tried to follow Josh (Hayes) for five or six laps and make up some ground, but wasn’t able to do anything. I’m happy with second today and to get good points after yesterday was a sad day for me with the accident between Josh (Herrin) and I.” Beaubier was upset with himself after the race for making the crucial error in turn one for a second successive day. “I’m pretty disappointed in myself, I felt like I was riding well all weekend and had the pace to win at least one of these races,” Beaubier said. “To make the mistake once yesterday is one thing, but to do it twice is dumb and pretty frustrating. Josh was on rails out front, also Toni (Elias) and Roger (Hayden) were running a good pace. I tried to tuck in behind Toni on the last lap and draft him in hopes of making something happen, but I just wasn’t close enough to make a move.” Hayden, meanwhile, recovered to finish sixth. “I was having some trouble today pushing the front end,” Hayden explained. “On the last lap, I was battling with Toni (Elias) and made a mistake and ran off the track, but luckily I came back on and ended up sixth and salvaged some points. I was disappointed about today’s race, but all in all it was a pretty good weekend.” With Beaubier charging through to third, fourth place went to Quicksilver Latus Motors Kawasaki’s Bobby Fong, the Californian taking the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 class win for the second straight day and fourth time on the season. “The pace was definitely a little bit faster at the beginning of the race today,” Fong said. “I feel like I could have stayed with the Suzuki boys (Elias and Hayden) a little bit longer in the middle of the race, but my tire ending up spinning on the rim 180 degrees and I started getting this huge vibration. I accomplished my goal in the Superstock class but, like I said yesterday, I really want to be closer to these guys like I’ve done at a few of the other rounds.” Kyle Wyman rode his Excelsius Solutions/Lucas Oils/KWR Yamaha R1 to fifth, some three seconds ahead of Hayden. Genuine Broaster Chicken Honda’s Jake Gagne ended up seventh, well clear of eighth placed Mathew Scholtz, the Yamalube Westby Racing rider earning second in the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 class in the process. M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Jake Lewis was ninth overall and third in the Superstock class – just .395 of a second behind the South African. Cycle World Suzuki’s Hayden Gillim rounded out the top 10 on his Superstock-spec Suzuki GSX-R1000. Elias, who failed to score points on Saturday after crashing, still leads the championship points chase with 115 points, 10 more than Beaubier and 11 more than Hayden. Hayes jumps to fourth with 69 points, four more than Fong, who leads the Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Championship standings by 15 points over Scholtz. For the second straight day, the Supersport final ended up being a two-rider battle between Monster Energy/Yamalube/Y.E.S./Graves Yamaha’s JD Beach and yesterday’s winner Garrett Gerloff with Beach turning the tables on his teammate with his second victory of the season. “I respect all of the riders out there and am going to race everyone clean, but hard at the same time,” Beach said when asked if it’s difficult to race with his teammate. “It was a good race with Garrett (Gerloff), but he kept leaving the door open and I’m a dirt tracker, so I was able to take advantage of that. As long as he wasn’t going to be in the grass on the left side, then I was going to go for it and keep sticking it in on him. I think Garrett had the speed on me today and I kept trying to get back in front of him in order to hold him back a little bit. His pace was good all weekend, he was fast again this morning, and I knew if I let him get a little bit of a gap on me that it would be difficult to make it up.” Team H35 Honda’s Benny Solis ended up third for the second straight day with M4 ECSTAR Suzuki’s Valentin Debise crashing out of the race for a second day in a row. Three rounds and five races in the Supersport class, Gerloff leads Beach by just four points, 106-102. Solis takes over third from Debise with 69 points to the Frenchman’s 65. Team MG55’s Michael Gilbert won the Superstock 600 class for the second straight day, the 20-year-old Californian in dominant form this weekend. Gilbert beat Aguilar Racing’s Jason Aguilar by 3.1 seconds with Nick McFadden third on the M4 medAge Suzuki. “It feels better to win today than it did yesterday because it is nice to leave the weekend sitting on top. I didn’t have the best start and was able to get around some of the guys in front of me, allowing me to run some clean laps,” Gilbert said. “The pit board showed the guys were right on my tail for a while, but I kept digging and digging, which helped me open a cushion and manage it until the end. The tires were getting pretty greasy at the end and you had to be careful not to push to hard or you risked the chance of a mistake.” With his two wins this weekend, Gilbert takes over the championship points lead from Road Atlanta winner McFadden, 86-77. Aguilar is third in the title chase with 69 points. A day after finishing on the podium for the first time in his KTM RC Cup career, 15-year-old Jackson Blackmon went one better and won his first race as those behind him fell to the wayside. Blackmon, and his Quarterley Racing/On Track Development KTM, led from the start and was even aware the misfortune of those behind him. The first to go was championship leader Benjamin Smith, the Quarterley Racing/On Track Development rider running into the back of his teammate Draik Beauchamp. Not long after, Beauchamp also crashed. Ditto for his teammate Jake Leahey, who was running third at the time. All that allowed Blackmon to run away to a 11.4-second win over Canadian Alex Dumas, the JP43 Junior Team rider finishing some three seconds clear of third-placed Toby Khamsouk. Khamsouk, a 14-year-old Californian, was having his best outing in just his second MotoAmerica race and ended up on the podium for the first time. Although the order in the championship wasn’t shaken up, the points chase got a lot tighter with the demise of Smith and Beauchamp. Smith leads Beauchamp by a single point, 66-65, with Dumas closing to within six points of the leader. Blackmon, meanwhile, who missed the opening round at Road Atlanta with his wrist injury, jumps to fourth with 45 points – 21 behind Smith. “The race was awesome and I got off to a really good start, pushing into turn one pretty hot,” Blackmon said. “I put my head down once I got into the lead and saw I had a comfortable gap just a few laps in. I saw Draik (Beauchamp) behind me for a while, but then I saw my pit board had me six seconds ahead and figured something had happened to him. My wrist was getting pretty sore, but I found a good rhythm and just tried to bring it home from there.” Motul Superbike Josh Hayes, Gulfport, Ms., Yamaha Toni Elias, Barcelona, Spain, Suzuki Cameron Beaubier, Roseville, Calif., Yamaha Bobby Fong, Stockton, Calif., Kawasaki Kyle Wyman, Macedon, N.Y., Yamaha Roger Hayden, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki Jake Gagne, San Diego, Calif., Honda Mathew Scholtz, Durban, South Africa, Yamaha Jake Lewis, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki Hayden Gillim, Philpot, Ky., Suzuki Motul Superbike Championship Standings Toni Elias, Barcelona, Spain, Suzuki – 115 Cameron Beaubier, Roseville, Calif., Yamaha – 105 Roger Hayden, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki – 104 Josh Hayes, Gulfport, Ms., Yamaha – 69 Bobby Fong, Stockton, Calif., Kawasaki – 65 Mathew Scholtz, Durban, South Africa, Yamaha – 51 Jake Lewis, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki – 51 Josh Herrin, Dublin, Ga., Yamaha – 49 Kyle Wyman, Macedon, N.Y., 45 Danny Eslick, Tulsa, Okla., Yamaha – 40 Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Hayden Gillim, Philipot, Ky., Suzuki Danny Eslick, Tulsa, Okla., Yamaha Bryce Prince, Bakersfield, Calif., Yamaha Frankie Babuska, Pelham, N.Y., Yamaha Anthony Kosinski, Crumstown, In., Yamaha Max Flinders, Preston, England, Yamaha Bazzaz Superstock 1000 Championship Standings Bobby Fong, Stockton, Calif., Kawasaki – 120 Mathew Scholtz, Durban, South Africa, Yamaha – 105 Jake Lewis, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki – 102 Hayden Gillim, Philipot, Ky., Suzuki – 68 Bryce Prince, Bakersfield, Calif., Yamaha – 56 Max Flinders, Preston, England, Yamaha – 50 Anthony Kosinski, Crumstown, In., Yamaha – 37 Frankie Babuska, Pelham, N.Y., Yamaha – 17 Tyler O’Hara, Petaluma, Calif., Yamaha – 17 JD Beach, Owensboro, Ky., Yamaha Garrett Gerloff, New Waverly, Tx., Yamaha Benny Solis Jr., North Hollywood, Calif., Honda Michael Gilbert, Santa Ana, Calif., Yamaha Jason Aguilar, Placentia, Calif., Yamaha Nick McFadden, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki Connor Blevins, Oklahoma City, Ok., Kawasaki Anthony Mazziotto III, Hammonton, N.J., Yamaha Braeden Ortt, Calgary, Alberta, Yamaha JC Camacho, Deer Park, Tx., Suzuki Supersport Championship Standings Garrett Gerloff, New Waverly, Tx., Yamaha – 106 JD Beach, Owensboro, Ky., Yamaha – 102 Benny Solis Jr., North Hollywood, Calif., Honda – 69 Valentin Debise, Albi, France, Suzuki – 65 Michael Gilbert, Santa Ana, Calif., Yamaha – 43 Brandon Paasch, Freehold, N.J., Suzuki – 43 Nick McFadden, Owensboro, Ky., Suzuki – 38 Jason Aguilar, Placentia, Calif., Yamaha – 37 Daytona Anderson, Riverside, Calif., Yamaha – 28 Conner Blevins, Oklahoma City, Ok., Kawasaki – 26 Superstock 600 Conner Blevins, Oklahoma City, Okla., Kawasaki JC Camacho, Deer Park, Texas, Suzuki Brandon Cleland, Fort Worth, Texas, Suzuki Andrew Lee, Clovis, Calif., Yamaha Ashton Yates, Milledgeville, Ga., Yamaha Superstock 600 Championship Standings JC Camacho, Deer Park, Texas, Suzuki – 46 Conner Blevins, Oklahoma City, Okla., Kawasaki – 46 Anthony Mazziotto III, Hammonton, NJ, Yamaha – 39 Braeden Ortt, Calgary, Alberta, Yamaha – 37 Shane Richardson, Wellington, New Zealand, Kawasaki – 31 Ryan Christian, Clearwater, Fla., Yamaha – 22 Brandon Cleland, Fort Worth, Texas, Suzuki – 21 KTM RC Cup Jackson Blackmon, Rock Hill, S.C., KTM Alex Dumas, Quebec, Canada, KTM Toby Khamsouk, Banning, Calif., KTM Sergio Rodriguez II, Oxnard, Calif., KTM Trevor Standish, Roswell, Ga., KTM Dylan Deutschlander, Lake Jackson, Texas, KTM Setin West, Decatur, Il., KTM Jamie Astudillo, Gilbertsville, Pa., KTM KTM RC Cup Championship Standings Benjamin Smith, Glenmoore, Pa., KTM – 66 Draik Beauchamp, Knoxville, Tenn., KTM – 65 Alex Dumas, Quebec, Canada, KTM – 60 Jackson Blackmon, Rock Hill, S.C., KTM – 45 Toby Khamsouk, Banning, Calif., KTM – 43 Trevor Standish, Roswell, Ga., KTM – 35 Tyler Wissel, Medina, Ohio, KTM – 27 Cory Ventura, Union City, Calif., KTM – 27 Sergio Rodriguez II, Oxnard, Calif., KTM – 27 Jake Leahey, Hammonton, N.J., KTM – 26 Camier Crashed When He Was 2nd in Race 2 at Imola Lowes Secures Sixth, 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__label__cc	0.745767	0.254233	Addictions Video game addiction can be treated with psychotherapy Addictions Latest Health News Video game addiction can be treated with psychotherapy Whether addiction to videogames represents a real disorder is still under debate, but it is recognised in the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Disease and in the DSM-5. The WHO characterises gaming disorder as video-game use which involves priority given to gaming over other interests and daily activities (someone might choose to game instead of seeing their friends) and the continuation of gaming despite negative consequences (like declining performance at work or school). The gaming has to have a serious and ongoing impact to be considered a disorder. But how do you treat something like that? German researchers were interested in whether a short, psychology-based intervention would help gamers to reduce their videogame use. They took around 150 men who were split into two groups. One was given a short-term course based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy, which seeks to recognise and change thoughts or behaviours. The course was delivered over 15 weeks by qualified psychologists and the theory they were working with was that gaming addiction arose from a mixture of individual characteristics (like whether someone had an addictive personality) and dysfunctional coping strategies (like using videogames as an escape for problems in someone’s personal life). The researchers were looking to see whether the gaming disorder ‘scores’ of the men undergoing treatment went down, compared to another group of men who didn’t receive any treatment. The average age of those involved in the study was 26. More than 70 per cent of the men who received treatment from psychologists achieved ‘remission’ from their gaming disorder – a score of less than 7 on a gaming disorder checklist (where 13 or more is considered severe addiction, and 7-13 considered moderate addiction). That was a significantly better result than the men who were given no treatment at all – about 20 per cent of them kicked their gaming addiction over the 14 week period. The authors say this is the first randomised trial of treatment for gaming addiction and claim the intervention is highly effective – but can come with some unexpected results. They found a number of the men involved developed depression over the course of the study and had to be given additional treatment, a common result when an addictive soothing activity is taken away and destabilises a person’s emotional regulation. © Norman Swan Medical Communications. An early helping hand for bereaved adolescents In this study, early support for bereaved adolescent girls was associated with reduced grief and depression and improved behavioural outcomes. Early treatment can help anxiety Researchers investigated the effectiveness of psychological and educational interventions for preventing anxiety and found a modest benefit from both. Should we be concerned around kids and screen time? Few children meet the suggested guidelines for screen-time and physical activity, and it seems to be hurting their cognitive ability. Food for the mood Improving diet may be one step in reducing symptoms for people with depression. For reference: Wolfling, et al (2019). Efficacy of Short-term Treatment of Internet and Computer Game Addiction A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.1676.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0073.json.gz/line365
__label__cc	0.726536	0.273464	Chicago’s Bus Tracker: Taking the Guesswork Out of Waiting for the Bus by on January 13, 2011 \| 4,100 Plays One of the encouraging trends for American transit riders, in an otherwise bleak landscape of service cuts and fare hikes, is the growing number of agencies experimenting with ways to bring better information to their customers. Last summer Streetfilms explored how open transit data is helping to make riding the bus or the train more convenient in several cities. Today's follow-up looks at how better transit data is benefiting riders in Chicago. The Chicago Transit Authority's "Bus Tracker" system is taking the mystery out of waiting for the bus, providing close-to-real-time information about when the next bus is coming. Riders can access this information online, on their mobile devices, and, in the Wicker Park-Bucktown district, in several cafes and shops. <br> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">[music]</font> <br> <br> </p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Joe Iacobucci:</i> [00:04] Bus tracker is a real time arrival information for all of our buses at all of our stops in the system. It allows customers to know exactly when the bus is going to arrive.</font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Tony Coppoletta:</i> [00:13] Each bus has special hardware on it that gets the bus’s location using a GPS and other data that’s available and transmits it back to our server so we can show where our buses are.</font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Joe Iacobucci:</i> [00:24] The Wicker Park Bucktown SSA came to us with the interest of putting screens within stores in the district.</font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Adam Burck:</i> [00:31] When the CTA a few years ago launched the bus tracker programme, we wanted to be able to get it out into the community so that people could make use of the data that didn’t have smartphones. </font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Tony Coppoletta:</i> [00:42] What I’m standing in front of right now is called the Do It Yourself Bus Tracker Display. And so this here is a screen that we’ve set up in the lobby of CTA Headquarters that displays arrival times for buses at nearby stops. It also gives weather information, time and temperature. And so we also have for free on the website, any business can set this up with just as much as a simple netbook computer and a monitor, a slideshow that’s custom designed for their business.</font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Adam Burck:</i> [01:09] There in different businesses, examples are Red Hen Bakery on Milwaukee just north of North Avenue, Café De Luca. There are ten different sites, including this. And now we’re looking at actually adding them to the CTA stations. </font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Joe Iacobucci:</i> [01:25] Which is a benefit for the Chamber because they were able to reduce congestion while displaying community events and the things that help the district out. For the business it gives a more of a connection with their customers who are stopping in for a cup of coffee or bagel on their way to work, and arming them with the information for Bus Tracker. </font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Speaker:</i> [01:46] I’m at W Grocer at Wicker Park, Chicago, Illinois and we’ve got a bus tracker system up here at the front counter so that customers can come in and take a look, see when the buses are coming in. It’s very helpful, it lets people know when the buses will be here. Very helpful, especially in winter time when it’s so cold, people can stop in and know how much longer they have to wait for the bus. </font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>Jamie Simon:</i> [02:06] The idea is that if you’re passing by a café and you know they have the sign, you might go in and look and see you have five or ten minutes to wait and maybe you would make a purchase or, you know, if you have fifteen minutes, maybe you would browse at some books, make it a more seamless experience, and also it encourage people to take transit. There is high transit ridership in the neighbourhood, but I think anything you can do to facilitate that experience and take the mystery out of riding the bus is really helpful for people. </font></p> <p> <br></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">[music]</font></p> Transcription Sponsored by: <a href="http://transcriptdivas.com.au">Transcript Divas Transcription Services</a> <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/18756600?app_id=122963" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen title="Chicago&#039;s Bus Tracker: Taking the Guesswork Out of Waiting for the Bus"></iframe> Posted in Transit. Tagged as bus tracker, Chicago, CTA, Open data. http://www.transloc.com Josh Cohen We've integrated in CTA bus data with GPS data from the University of Chicago bus system. Now, UC riders can see all the UC buses and CTA buses in one convenient place. Check it out at uchicago.transloc.com Great video, really makes the case nicely. Almost every bagel place in NYC has one of those terrible ad-serving displays...I would probably like instead of dislike them if every few slides I could see when the next bus/train would arrive. Peter Skosey A great story of how the CTA is collaborating with local business to make transit more accessible. Great job to all! http://holierthanyou.blogspot.com John Murphy WANT. THIS. IN. SF. Compared to SF Muni's Nextbus system, Chicago's system is far superior when comparing arrival accuracy. I also like how the system will tell you the number of the coach. I could use the bus number to report complaints to 311 if bus decides not to show up. http://pingseo.byethost7.com/ images great job. very cool Jym Dyer @Murph - Totally achievable in SF, since NextBus is open data. In a city where everyone has two iPhones and a Droid, though, I think the populace would be more enamored of watching this on a hand-held app than a big screen festooned with ads. ;^) Jim: To be fair, CTA is much more predictable than SFMUNI. I travel to a lot of cities, so I can compare. During the blizzards, NextBus was the only thing you could rely on in Boston and DC. SFMUNI is putting stop numbers on some stations, but not all. What can you expect from a system that's less reliable than cities in a blizzard? Jim: I think that was a reference to wanting something more reliable (and less heavily weighted to the supposed schedules) than NextBus. NextBus already has kiosk type displays for the metro, CTA style displays for the new Transbay Terminal, and shops like Rainbow have repurposed the NB web site to have almost useful in-store displays without all the advertising that the CTA is pushing. Unless of course that was a reference to the video ad panels on the sides of the buses. Bleh. Generalissimo: What about routes like the SFMTA's 66? There are, at most, two buses on that route at any given time. The route operates on generally uncongested roads, in an area fairly well covered by AT&T, and is relatively short. Yet NextBus predictions are STILL inaccurate and the on-board AVL still displays numbers instead of stop names. Or how about the 9th and Judah stops? They've got the fancy new non-shelter bus shelters with NextBus signs… except the signs are all powered off. http://www.sustainablestandard.blogspot.com Paulo Couto This is a great use of technology and increasing the frequency of bus ridership and supporting the local economy. Increasing the use of data sharing will get more people to take transit. @Jym - I have an iPhone and I'd kill for this. The Embarcadero Station already has a monitor just like it. MUNI just needs to get it done. @Murph Like what, exactly? The nextbus web site (which should work with the iPhone, no?) displays predictions for other routes serving the selected stop. In terms of quality of information, it looks like the CTA has NB beat hands down. Take, for instance this gem from the CTA: "If a bus is unable to move for several minutes due to an unusual event (such as stopped by a freight train at a crossing), arrival estimates will switch from counting down minutes to a "DELAYED" notification. Once the bus begins to move again, arrival estimates will appear again." Alex - If I am at Martha's in Noe Valley, I might be interested in the J, the 48, or the 24. None of them share the same stops. Same for say Squat and Gobble in West Portal. K/L/M sure, but the 48 is there as well, but not the "same" stop. And my wife does not like me fiddling with the phone while we eat. Interesting. Does Routesy not do this sort of thing already? Alex: I'm trying to follow you, but it's confusing. CTA's DELAYED feature makes no sense for Muni, with only 72% of buses on schedule. It makes sense in Chicago where schedules are posted at bus stops and the buses show up. But you talk like you have inside info about NextBus relying on schedules, except that makes no sense with the DELAYED feature you want. Also, you blame NextBus for not being hooked up in the new shelters, but that is ClearChannel's doing. What I mean is, 1 out of 4 signs saying DELAYED would make the system less useful. I would not be able to use Muni if that went into effect. http://gettingaroundmpls.wordpress.com Alex B. Interestingly - Madison WI has this service as well - not sure which agency got there first. Hopefully this is just the first phase of displays in bus stops too. Needs a lot more access other than walking into stores and stations...not to sound lazy. There are a few smart phone APPs for Chicagoland transit services but I'm not sure how accurate they are. this information system is designed to serve the needs of the wealthier citizens and only for those with access to technology. how much do smartphones cost a month to be able to access this online? if you're a minimium-wage worker who has no other option but to take the bus, you do not own a smartphone and you're certainly not going to be popping into a cafe every morning for a scone. this is a very exclusive technology, so it is rightly coupled with advertisements. there are options to text a code to CTABUS for arrival times, but again, not everyone has a cellphone or a text plan. There still is no public signage for everyone at shelters indicating arrival times. And let's be honest: has being able to know the arrival time of a bus improved your life or made the bus come any faster? http://www.siamcitytrans.com/ รถทัวร์ So I do. 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__label__cc	0.660099	0.339901	Other people part 3: Londonist Urban Oddities Here at Peculiar we have always been a massive fan of The Londonist they have helped us countless time when researching our tours - I mean If you can think of a question about London not matter how obscure, you can bet that some bright spark at the Londonist will have written a witty and informative article on the subject. However as the Londonist is currently slowing its output due to the current situation we were delighted to stumble on this great little Facebook group it has started where ordinary members of the public can post pictures of any weird and wonderful London related thing they might find on their travels! check it out Here https://www.facebook.com/groups/londonisturbanoddities/ London underground trivia quiz london trivia quiz Are you stuck at home with time your hands? Are you interested in history? do you like writing? or maybe just have a good London related anecdote to tell? if the answer is yes to any of the above then we would love to hear from you, for more info drop us a line at peculiarlondon73@gmail.com Practical Flats? By Jo Danzig Practical- “something that is likely to succeed or be effective in real circumstances” I live in a block of practical flats – as described in the 1935 brochure advertising Northwood Hall. With their own private toilets, gas supply and close to London , this block was noteworthy for the time. Designed by Architect George Edward Bright, Northwood Hall stands at 300 feet above sea level, one of the highest points in London, on a clear day you can see across the city as far as Crystal Palace. Surprisingly untouched by bombs of the Second World War, the unique cruciform shape is believed to have been used as an aerial navigational aid. For such a significant building, there is oddly little known about George Edward Bright . The block featured a restaurant for residents, guest rooms and outdoor amenities including a tennis court. Indoors, there were uniformed porters available 24/7 and an optional maids' service charged at hourly rates. Additional services included rubbish collection, shoe cleaning and delivery of papers, food and even cooked meals – all provided through a hatch which went from each flat to the corridor. We find ourselves presently living in unreal circumstances and I ask myself how practical are these flats now ? Attempting to keep to social distancing controls in a block of 194 flats, 7 floors, 2 small lifts and some 400-500 people is not easy – or so you would think. The early hours peace and quiet allows for exploration of this wonderful art deco building. Balustrade staircases, reminiscent of M C Escher graphics, lift shafts and corridors not unlike a Hitchcock film and surprising silence. The kind of silence which speaks volumes about the lives lived and of this incredible faded grandeur of a building. Northwood Hall is one of many architecturally significant buildings in the Highgate and Hampstead area. other people part two: shady old lady shady old lady takes care to preserve her anonymity, I have no idea who she is but I like to imagine this is what she'd look like Another amazing London blog that has helped us out several times when doing research for new tours. No idea who the old lady in question is, she preserves her anonymity very well! But the blog has been going since 2004 so as you can imagine she has managed to compile information on just about every imaginable facet of London history and culture - a good one to browse when you have a bit of time on your Hands, (like during a Global Pandemic for instance!) Click below to check it out http://www.shadyoldlady.com/ the great london pub quiz... Do you miss pubs? yep so do we, so in order pay homage to London's many drinking establishments we have complied a quiz about weird wonderful history associated with some of our local boozers... the admirals house One thing I love about living in Hampstead you will never run out of bits to explore, I was out for a socially distanced walk this morning when I happened to stumble on this incredible house.. (3 years in the neighbourhood and I didn't even know the damn thing existed!) As you can imagine it has a rather interesting history... first and foremost it was the inspiration for the character of 'Admiral boom' in Mary Poppins (The author P.L Travers was living in the neighbourhood at the time.) It also features in a painting by the artist Constable entitled 'A romantic house at Hampstead'. The house was originally built as a masonic lodge and named 'The Golden Spikes' (The conspiracy theorists amongst you will no doubt be able to tell me the significance!) In 1755 it was brought by a retired naval Captain named Fountain North who added the ship like elements as he was missing his life at sea. Around this time it became known locally as the Admirals house as it was mistakenly believed to have been the home of Admiral Barton: An 18th century admiral who became something of celebrity after his ship was captured and he and his crew were held hostage by the king of Morocco for several months. (He did in fact retire to Hampstead after he was released where his eccentric behaviour became the stuff of local legend - apparently he kept a cannon on the roof of his house and would fire it in the air to mark important occasions -as you do!) Other notable owners have included: Victorian architect George Gilbert Scott, known for his work on Westminster Abbey and the Gothic style Renaissance Hotel at St Pancras station. writer John Galsworthy author of the 'Forsythe Saga' and winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1932 writers John and Winifred Fortesque: Winifred was a novelist (best known for her 1930's bestseller 'Perfume from Provence') and John was a military historian. It is also worth noting that the there is rumoured to be a tunnel in the gardens that connects the house to nearby Hampstead heath (possibly built during the house's early days as Masonic lodge presumably for some weird and wonderful Masonic carry on!) other people... As you I'm sure you are aware we at Peculiar are not the only ones to take an interest in London's long and colourful history, and so we feel it would be down right rude not to give a shout out to some of the other writers, bloggers and tour guides out there who are making humorous and thought provoking content about our pet subject.... We are kicking off this feature with a great blog I stumbled on yesterday when trying to come up some quiz questions... Cabbieblog.com As the name suggest its written by a cabbie under the pseudonym Gibson Square and is full of all kinds of London trivia - After all who knows London better than taxi drivers right? As well as all lots of weird and wonderful stories about the life of Black driver. Apparently the author has a book coming out later in the year, called 'Everyone is entitled to my opinion' - love it! Definatly one to check out! London Locations Quiz... 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