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__label__cc	0.728763	0.271237	Complimentary Virtual Conference 12:00 Noon - 5:00 PM EDT The Cannabis Labs Virtual Conference is back! For five years now, we have been hosting this complimentary collection of webinar presentations, designed to help attendees better understand some of the more technical aspects of starting and operating a laboratory. We will take a deep dive into cannabis and hemp testing, R&D testing, laboratory accreditation, regulatory compliance, and more. Take a look at the presentations and speakers below for more information. Attendees registering for this complimentary series of webinars will get access to seven veterans of the cannabis lab testing industry, who are all available for Q&A after each presentation. In addition to getting the opportunity to chat with these subject matter experts on January 20th, a recording of the presentations will be made available to all who register. Practical and educational information from experts in the cannabis lab testing industry, all on the same day and all from the comfort of your lab, home or office. Want real inside knowledge on the cannabis testing industry? Sign up today! Cannabis laboratory personnel Lab managers, Chemists, Microbiologists Investors of cannabis labs, those looking to start a lab Clients of laboratories including: growers, processors, dispensary managers and stakeholders in the cannabis lab testing market 12:00 PM - Welcome & Introductions Aaron Biros, Editor, CannabisIndustryJournal.com - Host and Moderator 12:05 PM - Cannabis Laboratory Accreditation Panel Tracy Szerszen, President & Operations Manager, Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation (PJLA) Mohan Sabaratnam, Vice President, IAS Jason Stine, Sr. Director of Accreditation, ANAB Anna Williams, Accreditation Supervisor, A2LA This panel, moderated by Cannabis Industry Journal editor Aaron Biros, will go in-depth into the new ISO/IEC 17025:2017 version, changes from the 2005 version and the new transition timeline mandated by ILAC. Learn some of the common challenges labs face when seeking accreditation. Learn about sampling protocols, security issues, statements of conformance, calibration and much more. 12:55 PM - New Analyzed Cannabinoids Plus Analysis of Pesticides, Residual Solvents & Heavy Metals - SHIMADZU TechTalk Dr. Bob Clifford, General Manager, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments 1:10 PM - Lab Testing in the Supply Chain: Compliance Crossroads for Operators Mark Slaugh, Owner & CEO, iComply Learn why communication in the supply chain matters between operators and labs. Explore common areas of compliance challenges for operators and how they impact relationships with labs and consumers. Discover how to improve service and differentiate labs to benefit operators and their compliance. 2:00 PM - Agilent Tech Talk 2:15 PM - Break 2:25 PM - R&D Lab Testing: Ensuring Success with Results Christian Sweeney, President, Sonoma Lab Works Shelf life, stability & brand identity metrics Trend data Preparing for Compliance Batches Types of analyses for product types, critical sampling practices & developing opportunities for corrective action Microbial Swabbing, equipment and facility contaminations, soil & grow contaminations and scouting new locations for cultivation 3:15 PM - MilliporeSigma Tech Talk 3:30 PM - Pesticide Testing: Methods, Strategies & Sampling Mikhail Gadomski, Corporate Senior Chemist, Deibel Bioscience of California This presentation will provide an overview of pesticide testing and current regulations, with a special focus on California. Learn about standard operating procedures and instrumentation used for pesticide testing. Learn about method development and sample preparation for pesticide testing. 4:20 pm - Tech Talk 4:35 PM - Wrap Up Mohan Sabaratnam Mohan Sabaratnam is currently a Vice President with IAS and is responsible for the management of IAS’s quality system and global recognitions. As VP he is also responsible for ensuring the operational success of a number of accreditation schemes operated by IAS Jason Stine Senior Director of Accreditation Jason Stine works directly for ANAB as a Senior Director of accreditation in charge of accreditation activities relating to testing laboratories and supporting programs accredited by ANAB. Tracy Szerszen President & Operations Manager Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation (PJLA) Tracy Szerszen is the President and Operations Manager of Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation (PJLA), a private third- party accreditation body for the past 11 years and formerly the Audit Logistics Manager for Perry Johnson Registrars a Quality and Environmental ISO Certification Body for 6 years. Her primary responsibilities include the direct oversight of the operation, accreditation and sales activities for PJLA. Anna Williams Accreditation Supervisor A2LA Anna Williams is an Accreditation Supervisor with the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) and has worked with the Association since September 2015. She supports the day-to-day operations of accreditation by assisting clients in obtaining and maintaining accreditation in the chemical and biological fields of testing. Anna serves as the primary staff. Mark Slaugh iComply Mark works in the specialist sector of compliance for the medical, retail, and hemp industries and has over 12 years’ experience in cannabis industry development, consulting, and operational compliance and over 21 years’ experience in regulations and risk management. Due to his extensive background and education, Mark knows what it takes to move markets forward at political, policy, and operational levels. He has developed small and large startups, improved existing operations, and has protected some of the top companies in the field. iComply provides operational compliance services and validation of over 200 cultivation, manufacturing and processing, and dispensing facilities since 2011 and iComply consults for a variety of communities, organizations, and governments. Christian Sweeney Sonoma Lab Works With a background in Chemistry and Food Science from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University, Christian has focused his career on the analysis, extraction, and utilization of natural ingredients for both their bioactive and organoleptic properties. From researching anthocyanins in fruits and vegetables, to developing cutting-edge processes for natural extraction of coffee, tea, and hops, his driving focus has been to maintain the nutritive and sensorial attributes of horticultural products while converting them into usable ingredients. For the last five years, he brought his experience to the cannabis industry first as VP of Science & Technology at Cannabistry, one of the leading cannabis research & development organizations in the nation. In 2020, he joined Sonoma Lab Works as President where his focus is on guiding their phenomenal clients towards sustainable and consistent success while ensuring the safety of products in the California market. His greatest passion is fostering talent and advocating for the many enthusiastic scientists he has been lucky enough to work with. Additionally, Christian has strived to improve the Cannabis industry at large through his involvement in the AOAC Expert Review Panel, ASTM D37 Subcommittee, and the Colorado Dept. of Revenue Science & Policy Working Group on Cannabis. Mikhail Gadomski Corporate Senior Chemist Deibel Bioscience of California He is a graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with focus on Environmental Toxicology. He has an intrinsic passion for plant diversity and herbal efficacy that was entrenched during a 4-month study abroad program in Cusco, Peru. He has worked in the Quality Control setting of Nutraceuticals and Dietary Supplements for over 5 years prior to entering the California Cannabis Compliance Industry in 2018. During the time worked in the Dietary Supplement industry he developed close relations with the American Herbal Pharmacopeia and apprehended a further understanding and dedication for consumer safety. Since then, he has worked to successfully set up a compliant Cannabis testing facility under the regulatory requirements of the Bureau of Cannabis Control California. Deibel Bioscience of California LLC. has recently successfully completed full ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Accreditation. He is a member of the “Emerald Test” advisory panel, a Proficiency Test/ Inter-laboratory Comparison program for cannabis and cannabis related matrices. Current projects are collaborating with other Deibel Bioscience Labs and lead vendors to optimize methods for inter-laboratory robustness and efficiencies. Dr. Bob Clifford Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Dr. Bob Clifford received his Bachelor’s degree from Glassboro State College, now Rowan University in New Jersey, his Master’s degree from Villanova University in Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He has published and presented over 125 papers in the fields of food, pharmaceutical, environmental, energy, geology, material science, photonics, and cannabis. He has written chapters in multiple books related to cannabis and is currently working on a couple more book chapters. Bob has worked for companies such as Campbell Soup Company and the FDA. Two organization with concern for the beneficial and harmful products being consumed. Bob started Shimadzu Scientific Instruments as a product specialist 29 years ago and has been promoted through the ranks to General Manager of Marketing. Aaron Biros Aaron Biros is the Editor-in-Chief of Cannabis Industry Journal.com (CIJ), an online business-to-business trade journal focused on the legal cannabis industry. Biros started CIJ in 2015 when he officially joined Innovative Publishing full time. Through editorial coverage of the cannabis markets, Biros has developed a familiarity with regulatory compliance, quality and safety issues as they relate to the burgeoning cannabis industry. Biros covers science and technology updates, breaking news, regulations and emerging markets from his office based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line448
__label__wiki	0.969242	0.969242	Police department's lip sync challenge video raises awareness about mental health and suicide prevention By by Melanie Woodrow NOVATO, California -- After the Marin County Sheriff's Office challenged the Novato Police Department to create a lip sync video, the chief challenged his department to think outside the box. "If you could somehow create a purpose and a message that supports the mission and what we do, then we'll run with it," Chief Adam McGill recounted to ABC7 News. Officers decided to raise awareness about mental health, suicide prevention, and post-traumatic stress. "It's incredible what they came up with," said Chief McGill. The video features School Resource Officer Antonio Rodriguez "It's a very serious topic that I thought should really be brought to the spotlight," said Rodriguez. The chief says Novato had several youth suicides just last year. "We're in the business of preserving life and we'll use all tools available to us to do that and this video and this lip sync challenge created a platform for us to do that," said Chief McGill. The video also highlights the impact mental health issues have on first responders including Novato's own police officers. "I just hope that one person sees it that's in crisis or a friend sees it and it's that kind of trajectory to have them make that call and get the help that they need," said Rodriguez. The video was shot over two days and produced in about five days. Officers did it all on their own, McGill says no taxpayer dollars were used. To watch the video, visit this page. californiaillegal drugsamazing videoviral videosuicidepsychologyoverdosepolice officermental healthpolicenarcan Get help with mental health issues What to do if you suspect someone is suicidal SFPD joins epic Lip Sync Challenge Illinois police 'Lip Sync Challenge' video goes viral Where Texans can get help with mental health concerns 'Don't use a gun:' Mental health call ends in shooting Pets could be the key to sticking to New Year's resolutions Halsey apologizes after posting about eating disorder	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line449
__label__cc	0.667351	0.332649	Taking the shame out of shapewear Bump Watch (the obsessive and voyeuristic tracking of celebs’—or anyone’s, really—growing pregnant belly) is so last year. Today, it’s all about Spanx Watch, or rather, trying to catch the moment when celebs unwittingly flash their Spanx in public. That’s right. Who’s wearing “shapewear” is now big news. Just recently, new mom Kourtney Kardashian was caught out as she juggled baby gear. As reported by the UK’s Daily Mail (the definitive leader in Spanx-watching), Kourtney was wearing a loose top that rode up as she lifted. There were Spanx peeking out underneath. Jennifer Lopez, age 43, has also recently been called out for relying “on the holding-in underwear” to “keep her famous curves in check.” In fact, during a recent concert in Italy, she revealed her secret to shapeliness when she turned her back to the audience and flashed her “control pants.” And then there’s Brooke Shields and her recent “fashion mishap” while attending a Broadway show. Sure, she was dressed to the nines and killing it by any standards as a 47-year-old mom of two, but what’s remembered? That “as she stood confidently in front of flashing lights, the nude coloured control pants she wore to help define her enviable figure became visible.” This is a thorny issue, but here’s where I stand: While I actually find it refreshing to know that not all celebrities have washboard abs buried beneath their clothes, Spanx Watch is problematic for lots of reasons. First, it encourages an even fiercer (if that’s possible) scrutiny of celeb bodies and lives. (It has us spying on their unmentionables, for chrissakes!) And secondly, Spanx Watch is totally hypocritical. Our ever-stricter beauty standards demand that new moms bounce back to bombshell status days after delivering and that women over 40 years old best sistahs half their age. Yet if they look for a lil’ help on the down low (in the form of shapewear), they’re ridiculed for their efforts and vanity. Wow. Talk about all kinds of messed up. Paunchy belly? Not okay. Quick fixes for paunchy belly that don’t involve obsessive dieting and body torture? Also not OK. Huh? The “bottom” line? Spanx Watch falls into the category of Don’t Hate the Playah, Hate the Game. Of course, I wish we all weren’t so concerned about muffin tops and cellulite, but sadly, that’s where we are culturally right now. And I don’t think publicly mocking women who wear Spanx as they try to meet today’s impossible beauty expectations makes the situation any better. Audrey D. Brashich is the author of All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty View all posts by Audrey About-Face Blog, Body Image, Celebrities, Health and Body, On The Pulse Brooke Shields, Jennifer Lopez, Kourtney Kardashian, Spanx, UK Daily Mail Alpha Nail, for a more masculine nail polish option Study finds that the “aspirational” body is actually a flexible concept 3 thoughts on “Taking the shame out of shapewear” Shapewear has been a lifesaver for me before, during, and after pregnancy. Best product ever! Tori Lexington says: I found this great video for maternity clothes and pregnancy shapewear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRR2Z1nEGQ. Thanks for sharing this article. I got some good ideas from reading this. Sorry this is the video for the pregnancy shapewear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRR2Z1nEGQ	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line451
__label__cc	0.649701	0.350299	Explore the Nexus Species & Spaces Markets & Materials People & Professions Engagement & Involvement Programme Advisory Committee Project communications The vet in the lab: exploring the position of animal professionals in non-therapeutic roles Vanessa Ashall, Pru Hobson-West Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) The role of the veterinary professional is complex but, until recently, has not been the subject of much academic research. Vets play an important role in a wide variety of social contexts, including in ‘nontherapeutic’ roles, for example in facilitating the use of animals in sport or for food production. This paper focuses on a further non-therapeutic example, namely the role of the vet in laboratory animal research. The research arena itself is characterised by ethical tensions and polarised opinion regarding the significance of, and justification for, using animals in harmful research for the primary benefit of humans. The aim of this paper is to explore some of the ethical questions raised by the position of the veterinary surgeon in the lab, focusing on the UK example. First, we outline the legislative responsibilities for the Named Veterinary Surgeon (NVS) under the Animals Scientific Procedures Act (ASPA) 1986, and compare this with the professional guidance for UK vets in all settings (RCVS Code of Conduct), making the argument that the NVS responsibilities to a scientific establishment under ASPA should be viewed as additional to the multiple responsibilities which are faced by all veterinary surgeons. A critical review of published and grey literature is then used to highlight how poorly the nature of this role is understood. In line with recent calls for improved sociological understanding of the veterinary profession, particularly in the case of potentially harmful veterinary interventions, we raise the need for careful empirical work which is focused on this complex professional role, and identify three preliminary research themes: The embodiment of professional expertise; the relocation of veterinary procedures; and reframing the veterinary ‘patient’. Finally, we conclude more broadly that the current articulation of a veterinarian’s role may not fit well with some aspects of the varied non-therapeutic work which is undertaken by the profession. AnNex, c/o Fiona French, University of Exeter Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK Environmental Ethics Statement	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line455
__label__wiki	0.734939	0.734939	European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology A 10-year single-center experience on Stenotrophomonas maltophilia resistotyping in Szeged, Hungary Authors: Márió Gajdácshttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-1270-0365 1 and Edit Urbán 2 1 Department of Pharmacodynamics and Biopharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged, Eötvös utca 6., 6720, Szeged, Hungary 2 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 10., 6720, Szeged, Hungary Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an aerobic, oxidase-negative and catalase-positive bacillus. S. maltophilia is a recognized opportunistic pathogen. Due to the advancements in invasive medical procedures, organ transplantation and chemotherapy of malignant illnesses, the relevance of this pathogen increased significantly. The therapy of S. maltophilia infections is challenging, as these bacteria show intrinsic resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics, the first-choice drug is sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim. Our aim was to assess the epidemiology of S. maltophilia from various clinical samples and the characterization of resistance-levels and resistotyping of these samples over a long surveillance period. The study included S. maltophilia bacterial isolates from blood culture samples, respiratory samples and urine samples and the data for the samples, received between January 2008 until December 2017, a total of 817 S. maltophilia isolates were identified (respiratory samples n = 579, 70.9%, blood culture samples n = 175, 21.4% and urine samples n = 63, 7.7%). Levofloxacin and colistin-susceptibility rates were the highest (92.2%; n = 753), followed by tigecycline (90.5%, n = 739), the first-line agent sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (87.4%, n = 714), while phenotypic resistance rate was highest for amikacin (72.5% of isolates were resistant, n = 592). The clinical problem of sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim-resistance is a complex issue, because there is no guideline available for the therapy of these infections. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Gram-negative bacteria is a major public health concern, severely limiting therapeutic options in clinical settings [1]. While the emergence of plasmid-mediated resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins (due to AmpC- and extended-spectrum-β-lactamases) [2, 3], carbapenems (due to serine- and metallo-β-lactamases) [4], and colistin in the members of the Enterobacterales order (predominantly in Klebsiella pneumoniae) has taken center-stage in the last few years [5], the clinical problem of infections due to drug resistant non-fermenting Gram-negative bacteria (NFGNB) has been recognized since the beginning of the 21st century [6]. NFGNB are a taxonomically-heterogenous group, including (in decreasing frequency of isolation) Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter spp., Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Burkholderia cepacia complex, Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, Sphingomonas paucimobilis, Alcaligenes faecalis, Achromobacter xylosoxidans and Chryseobacterium indologenes among others [7]. All NFGNB are characterized by their ubiquitous nature in aquatic environments and in the soil (frequently associated with plants); due to their adaptability and tenacity, they are also important nosocomial pathogens, found in ventilator machines and other equipments used for invasive procedures, in addition to water taps, humidifiers or mattress covers in hospital wards [7, 8]. S. maltophilia (previously Xanthomonas maltophilia) is an aerobic, oxidase-negative and catalase-positive bacillus, which is the principal human pathogen of the genus, currently consisting of 16 different species [9]. In publications before the 1980's, S. maltophilia was reported as an infrequently isolated microorganism from clinical samples, mostly from hospital-acquired infections. Nevertheless, due to the advancements in invasive medical procedures, organ transplantation and chemotherapy of malignant illnesses, the relevance of this pathogen increased significantly since the 2000's (in correlation with the increased number of patients at risk to develop infections by bacteria with low virulence) [10]. S. maltophilia is a recognized opportunistic pathogen. The incidence of S. maltophilia infections in nosocomial settings is reported to be around 7–38 cases/10,000 discharges, and it is a frequent cause of outbreaks at intensive care units; in addition, increasing amount of reports highlight the role of these bacteria in community-acquired infections as well [11, 12]. The main clinical manifestations of S. maltophilia infections are respiratory infections (i.e., tracheobronchitis) and bacteremia, however, infections from almost all anatomical regions have been described (e.g., meningitis, skin and soft tissue infections, genitourinary infections) [13, 14]. The crude mortality rate for invasive S. maltophilia infections is quite high, especially if the patients receive inappropriate empiric therapy: 20–60% in case of bacteremia/sepsis and 20–70% in case of pneumonia [15, 16]. The colonization of cystic fibrosis patients with S. maltophilia has also been extensively described, often leading to more frequent exacerbations and worse outcomes [17]. The therapy of S. maltophilia infections is challenging, as these bacteria show intrinsic resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics [9]. From a clinical perspective, resistance against β-lactam antibiotics (most notably, the carbapenem group) is a major concern; this is conferred by two zinc-dependent, chromosomally mediated β-lactamases (L1 and L2) [14, 18]. In addition, a resistant phenotype may be expressed through a multitude of other mechanisms, e.g., lipopolysaccharide-changes or modifying enzymes for aminoglycosides, or through the over-expression of energy-dependent efflux pumps (e.g., SmeDEF, SmeVWX, SmeYZ), affecting susceptibility to several drugs [19]. Based on clinical experiences and current recommendations, the first-choice drug for the therapy of S. maltophilia infections is sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (or co-trimoxazole; 15 mg kg−1 day−1) [12, 14]. Additionally, a recent meta-analysis has concluded that the use of levofloxacin in these infections is non-inferior to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim [20]. Nonetheless, in certain clinical situations (hypersensitivity to the drug, vulnerable patient population to fluoroquinolones) and in case of resistance to these agents, alternative drugs must be considered, usually in combination: these antibiotics include the tetracyclines (doxycycline, minocycline, and tigecycline), some remaining β-lactams with retained activity (ticarcillin/clavulanate, ceftazidime), colistin, rifampin and chloramphenicol [9, 12, 14]. Resistance to the first-line agent sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim is around 2–10% in Western Europe and in the US, however, resistance rates as high as 30–48% were reported from the Far East (China, Taiwan) [21]; resistance levels are generally higher in colonizer strains from cystic fibrosis patients (20–80%) [22]. Multidrug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) strains of S. maltophilia are concerning from both therapeutic and infection control perspectives, thus, the World Health Organization listed this pathogen as a “priority pathogen” for pharmaceutical companies to incentivize development of novel antibiotics [23]. Several surveillance studies have been published on the epidemiology of this pathogen, however, these epidemiological trends and resistance levels vary greatly in each hospital and geographical region; while the knowledge of local data is necessary to reflect on the regional/national situation and to allow for the appropriate choice of therapy [24]. In the present study, our aim was to assess the epidemiology of S. maltophilia from various clinical samples and the characterization of resistance-levels in these samples over a long surveillance period in a tertiary-care teaching hospital in Southern Hungary. Clinical center The present retrospective microbiological study was carried out at the Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Center, a tertiary-care teaching hospital in Szeged, Hungary. The study included S. maltophilia bacterial isolates from blood culture samples, respiratory samples and urine samples and the data for the samples from all outpatient Clinics and impatient departments, corresponding to the time period between January 2008 until December 2017. Bacterial isolates were considered separate if they were detected more than 14 days apart, or S. maltophilia isolates with different antibiotic susceptibilities were isolated [12]. Isolates collected for surveillance/infection control purposes from hospital environments were excluded from the analysis. Sample processing and bacterial identification Blood culture samples, respiratory samples and urine samples were processed in the Institute in accordance with international guidelines in routine bacteriology. Between 2008 and 2012, the BD Bactec (Beckton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) automated blood culture system was employed in the Institute, while from 2013 onwards, the BacT/ALERT 3D (bioMérieux, Marcy-l'Étoile, France) detection system was utilized. Blood culture bottles were incubated for 5 days (21 days, if endocarditis was suspected). Samples were cultured on blood agar, chocolate agar, eosine-methylene blue or UriSelect agar (in case of urine samples) plates (agar plates purchased from Bio-Rad, Berkeley, CA, USA). Culture plates were incubated at 37 °C for 24–48 h, aerobically. Between 2008 and 2012, phenotypic methods and VITEK 2 Compact ID/AST (bioMérieux, Marcy-l’Étoile, France) were used, while following 2012, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS; Bruker Daltonics, Bremen, Germany) was introduced to the diagnostic workflow of the laboratory. Sample preparation methods and the technical specifications for MALDI-TOF MS measurements were described elsewhere [25]. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, resistotyping Susceptibility-testing of S. maltophilia isolates were carried out using the following methods and protocols: i) sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim susceptibility testing was carried out using E-tests (Liofilchem, Abruzzo, Italy) on Mueller-Hinton agar plates, based on EUCAST breakpoints (http://www.eucast.org; MIC ≤ 4 mg L−1 reported as susceptible); ii) levofloxacin susceptibility testing was performed using E-tests (Liofilchem, Abruzzo, Italy) on Mueller-Hinton agar plates, based on CLSI breakpoints (MIC ≤ 2 mg L−1 reported as susceptible); iii) amikacin susceptibility testing was based on a P. aeruginosa-specific breakpoint using E-tests (Liofilchem, Abruzzo, Italy) on Mueller-Hinton agar plates (MIC ≤ 16 mg L−1 reported as susceptible) [12]; iv) colistin susceptibility testing was based on a P. aeruginosa-specific breakpoint using broth microdilution in cation-adjusted Mueller-Hinton broth (MERLIN Diagnostika, Bornheim-Hersel, Germany) (MIC ≤ 4 mg L−1 reported as susceptible) [12]; v) tigecycline susceptibility-testing was carried out using E-tests (Liofilchem, Abruzzo, Italy) on Mueller-Hinton agar plates, the interpretation of results was carried out using non-species specific (NSS) breakpoints (MIC ≤ 0.25 mg L−1 reported as susceptible) [12]. Classification of the isolates as a multidrug resistant (MDR) or extensively drug resistant (XDR) was based on the EUCAST Expert Rules [26]. Resistotypes from the respective susceptibility-results were defined based on criteria described previously [27, 28]. Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213, Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212, Escherichia coli ATCC 25922, P. aeruginosa ATCC 27853 and S. maltophilia ATCC 13637 were used as quality control strains. Descriptive statistical analysis was performed using Microsoft Excel 2013 (Redmond, WA, Microsoft Corp.). Additional statistical analyses were performed with SPSS software version 24 (IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows 24.0, IBM Corp. Armonk, NY, USA), using the χ2-test and two-sample-test (isolation frequency and resistance trends). P values <0.05 were considered statistically significant. The study was deemed exempt from ethics review by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Szeged and informed consent was not required, as patient data was not collected and data anonymity was maintained. Isolation frequency of S. maltophilia During the 10-year period, a total of 817 S. maltophilia isolates were identified (81.7 ± 31.0 year−1, highest in 2015, lowest in 2008). The distribution of the samples of origin was the following: respiratory samples n = 579 (70.9%), blood culture samples n = 175 (21.4%) and urine samples n = 63 (7.7%). A pronounced increase was observed in the isolation frequency of S. maltophilia isolates between two 5-year periods of the study (2008–2012: n = 263, 2013–2017: n = 554; P = 0.0011). The majority of isolates originated from samples sent from inpatients (n = 694, 84.9%). Isolates originated from the Intensive Care Units (ICUs; 41.9%; n = 334), Department of Internal Medicine (29.5%; n = 241), Department of Pediatrics (10.1%; n = 74), Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Surgery (6.4%; n = 52), Department of Oncology (4.7%; n = 38), Department of Surgery (4.0%; n = 33), Department of Neurology (1.5%; n = 13) and others (n = 17; 1.8%). Antibiotic resistance and resistotypes of S. maltophilia Out of the tested antibiotics, levofloxacin and colistin-susceptibility rates were the highest (92.2%; n = 753), followed by tigecycline (90.5%, n = 739), the first-line agent sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (87.4%, n = 714), while phenotypic resistance was most frequently observed for amikacin (72.5% of isolates were resistant, n = 592). 24.1% (n = 197) of isolates were fully susceptible to all five tested agents. Resistance to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim occurred more frequently in the second half of the study period (66 vs. 37; P = 0.047), while such trends were not observed for the other antibiotics. Similarly, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim-resistance was also detected more frequently from inpatient samples (P = 0.004). MIC ranges for the respective antibiotics were the following: MICsulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim = 0.064–32 mg L−1, MIClevofloxacin = 0.25–16 mg L−1, MICamikacin = 2–512 mg L−1, MICcolistin = 0.5–512 mg L−1 and MICtigecycline = 0.064–8 mg L−1. The distribution of isolates into various resistotypes is shown in Table 1.; Type 0 represents fully-susceptible isolates (24.1%), Type I includes isolates resistant to amikacin or tigecycline only (65.4%), while Type II (1.8%) and Type III (4.0%) introduces resistance to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim and levofloxacin, respectively. Type IV (7.0%) represents resistance to three, while Type V (1.0%) represents resistance to four individual antibiotics. Type VI (2.2%) encompasses strains showing resistance to all tested agents. Based on EUCAST Expert Rules, isolates in Type IV and V categories also represent MDR S. maltophilia isolates, while isolates in the Type VI category should be considered XDR. Distribution of various resistotypes among S. maltophilia (2008–2017) Resistotype Sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim Levofloxacin Amikacin Tigecycline Colistin Number of isolates 0 S S S S S n = 197 (24.1%) I-A S S R S S n = 489 (59.9%) I-B S S S R S n = 45 (5.5%) II-A R S S S S n = 10 (1.2%) II-B R S R S S n = 6 (0.5%) III-A S R S S S n = 20 (2.4%) III-B S R R S S n = 13 (1.6%) IV-A R R R S S n = 5 (0.6%) IV-B R S R R S n = 11 (1.3%) IV-C R S R S R n = 42 (5.1%) V-A R R R R S n = 4 (0.5%) V-B R R R S R n = 4 (0.5%) VI R R R R R n = 18 (2.2%) S: susceptible; R: resistant. The aim of our present study was to characterize the resistance levels of S. maltophilia in a tertiary-care teaching hospital in the southern region of Hungary over a long surveillance period using phenotypic methods. S. maltophilia is an emerging, opportunistic pathogen with low levels of invasiveness, mainly affecting severely debilitated patients [29]. The following risk groups have been identified based on the literature: ICU patients or patient with a long hospital stay, extensive surgeries, immunosuppressive therapy or acquired immunosuppression (e.g., HIV-infection, severe neutropenia), mechanical ventilation, dialysis, patients with chronic illnesses (e.g., diabetes, respiratory disorders) or cancer, or a developmental abnormality [30]. Prevention of S. maltophilia acquisition and infection is very important from an infection control point-of-view, in addition to controlling antibiotic consumption for reducing the emergence of resistant strains [31]. Extensive use of carbapenems (both on a patient-level and institutional-level) has also been described as a potential risk factor for these infections (due to the selection pressure) [32]. The gastrointestinal tract, infected central venous catheters and the colonized/infected lungs were described as sources of infection, leading to invasive disease [33]. Due to its limited invasiveness, S. maltophilia must somehow bypass natural host defenses to cause illness; nonetheless, virulence factors, such as biofilm-formation (important for survival on abiotic surfaces), a positively charged cell surface and fimbriae are all considered important during the pathogenesis of these infections [34]. Previously it was hypothesized that S. maltophilia infections are characterized by the lack of an inflammatory response, however, this dogma has been recently challenged in a murine model, where it was shown that airway epithelial cells and macrophages react with an increased expression of IL-8 and TNF-α [35]. Empiric therapy of S. maltophilia infections is sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, combined with levofloxacin or ticarcillin/clavulanate (if available); the therapeutic protocol should be revised after the susceptibility results are available [1, 2, 12, 14]. Resistance rates to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (12.6%) was higher than the range of resistance in Western European countries (2–10%), although outlier countries with higher resistance (e.g., Spain: 25–27%, Turkey: 10–15%) have already been noted [36, 37]. In contrast, the low level of levofloxacin resistance is an advantageous development, as it seems that there is no relevant difference in the clinical efficacy of these two drugs [20]. The relevance of the other three tested agents in clinical situations is harder to ascertain, as there are no evidence or clinical trials correlating their efficacy in the therapy of S. maltophilia infections [38]. In addition (as demonstrated in the Methods section), there are also contradictory information regarding susceptibility-testing method for these bacteria: based on EUCAST, disk diffusion is only available for sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, while CLSI offers disk diffusion testing breakpoints for levofloxacin and minocycline as well [12, 14, 39]. Some drugs, not even MIC breakpoints are available (thus, clinical microbiologists should not interpret them as susceptible or resistant for the treating physicians), as the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic attributes, outcomes and antimicrobial efficacy of these antibiotics have not been characterized in relation with S. maltophilia infections [12, 14, 39]. The clinical problem of sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim-resistance (mediated by the sul1-sul3 genes) is a complex issue. Because there is no guideline available for the therapy of these infections, clinicians often act upon national and/or institutional guidelines [40]. The development of guidelines would require reliable data from multiple clinical trials utilizing antibiotics other than sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, with clearly-defined case definitions and clinical endpoints; unfortunately, such data is currently not available [39, 40]. The definition of resistotyping is the grouping of bacterial isolates by resistance patterns to a set of arbitrarily chosen antibiotics that are characteristic to specific strains by phenotypic methods; resistotyping is mainly used for epidemiological purposes [41]. Although data has been generated on the resistance-levels of S. maltophilia in other regions of Hungary (where the reported susceptibility to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim higher than in the present study [99%], in contrast, susceptibility to levofloxacin [75%], tigecycline [12%] and colistin [9%] were reported to be much lower [39]), resistotyping for this pathogen has not been previously described locally or in any other studies published previously. To highlight their importance, resistotypes may be correlated with clinical-therapeutic decisions: e.g., resistotypes 0, IA and IB are pan-susceptible, or resistant only to ancillary antibiotics, thus, the first-line drug (sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim alone or in combination) may be used without difficulty, if the underlying conditions or the patient's medical history allows for it. Resistotypes IIA and IIB are resistant to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, but susceptible to levofloxacin, which is presumably just as clinically-effective as the first-line drug; depending on the age of the patient, this drug may be clinically used alone or in combination (with ticarcillin/clavulanate, ceftazidime or rifampin). Resistotypes IIIA and IIIB are resistant to the tested fluoroquinolone drug, but susceptible to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, corresponding to a similar therapeutic approach like resistotypes 0, IA and IB. Therapy of these infections becomes especially problematic starting from the IVA resistotype all the way onto resistotype VI, where, in addition to resistance against sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim and/or levofloxacin, the utility of possible secondary antibiotics is also narrowing: resistance to amikacin, tigecycline and colistin means that only very few antibiotics are left for therapy and for most of these agents, clinical evidence of efficacy is limited to case reports [42]. The relevance of amikacin is often questioned, as resistance may quickly develop due to membrane impermeability or alterations in the bacterial LPS, while colistin is considered as one of the last-resort agents, due to its nephrotoxic and neurotoxic adverse events and difficult dosing [43, 44]. Several reports highlight the efficacy of tetracycline-derivatives, especially minocycline as a potential therapeutic alternative for resistant S. maltophilia infections, demonstrating high cure rates and advantageous outcomes. However, the adverse effect-profile of these drugs and the low serum concentrations achieved by tigecycline should also be taken into consideration [45]. Besides this, concerns have been raised that the frequent use of minocycline for the therapy of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex may lead to the emergence of resistance in S. maltophilia [46]. The following limitations of the study should be noted: i) as the clinical data of the individual patients affected could not be accessed, the correlation between the symptoms and the isolation of S. maltophilia is unknown; thus, all true pathogens and colonizers were included in this study; ii) resistance of these isolates were characterized only phenotypically, the genetic nature of these resistance-determinants were not detected using molecular biological methods; iii) minocycline susceptibility-testing was not performed as this drug is not licensed or available in Hungary; iv) referral/selection bias as the clinical center is a tertiary-care, specialized hospital. S. maltophilia is an emerging opportunistic pathogen predominantly isolated from blood culture and respiratory tract samples, most often causing bacteremia, tracheobronchitis and soft tissue infections in hospitalized, immunocompromised patients. It is often difficult to distinguish between colonization and true infection, if the bacteria have been isolates from non-sterile body sites, however, the surveillance of colonizers is also relevant as in most cases, these microorganisms will initiate infections in susceptible hosts. The pharmacotherapy of S. maltophilia infections is limited by high-level intrinsic resistance, which is often worsened by acquired non-susceptibility. In our study, 87.4 and 90.5% of isolates were susceptible to sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim and levofloxacin, respectively; in these cases, first-line agents are appropriate for use, bearing in mind the adverse events and contraindications associated with these drugs for specific patient groups. On the other hand, 8.0% were MDR and 2.2% was to be considered XDR strains. Thus, clinical management of infections, where – for whatever reason – none of the first-line agents are available for use, depends on the susceptibility of the pathogen to ancillary agents and the availability of these antibiotics on an institutional/regional/national level. Additionally, more studies are needed to adequately assess the relevance of such antibiotics (i.e., colistin, minocycline, tigecycline, amikacin, rifampin, ticarcillin/clavulanate or ceftazidime) in the management of resistant S. maltophilia. No financial support was received for this study. M.G. and E.U. conceived and designed the study. E.U. was the senior microbiologist, performing bacterial isolation, identification and susceptibility-testing. M.G. performed data collection and analysis. M.G., E.U. wrote and revised the full paper. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The authors have no conflict of interest to disclose, monetary or otherwise. 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__label__cc	0.711884	0.288116	Argentina - English Calculate Costs Unlimited Render Rental Installation & ControlCenter 3ds Max job submission Maya job submission Cinema 4D job submission Maxwell & Indigo job submission Blender job submission SketchUp job submission Rhino job submission 3D ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2019 Congratulations to our winner! Thank you so much to our wonderful jury, who faced the very hard task to find a winner amongst all our 3D Artist of the Month winners from 2019. All works are astonishing, but one of them had to be chosen. Our 3D Artist of the Year 2019 is Angela Rico! Congratulations! We want to thank all participants of our 3D Artist of the Month contest very much and an even bigger thank you goes to our twelve winners of 2019! We enjoyed all twelve interviews so very much and loved to hear about your passion, goals and all your unique ways of starting in the cg industry. We are so happy to have all of you! Keep up the awesome work and we are looking forward to stunning entries for the 3D Artist of the Month competition in 2020. All new submissions will be published in our gallery on January 2nd. The winner receives 500 RenderPoints worth 500 Euro to explore our massive computing power of thousands of CPUs and GPUs through the cloud. The winner will be our exclusive jury member for the 3D Artist of the Year 2020 election! The winning picture will be featured on the back cover of the 3D World magazine! The winner will receive a V-Ray annual license. Sponsored by our partner ChaosGroup! Andrea Bertaccini "There’s always been a strong mutual influence between my professional and personal work. In the end, the accumulated experience and skills benefit me as an individual regardless of the circumstances." > Read the full interview Virginlemon "Our biggest inspiration stems from observing our surroundings – at a concert hall, on the street, in nature, and most importantly, while traveling. We don’t really have a specific philosophy, but we approach every project looking for a challenge and trying to learn something new." Valentin Erbuke "I really care about teaching, because I see it as a way to help people who share my passion become better. It is a really humbling practice as well, and I learn a lot from it as well." Angela Rico "For one of the central pieces of my demo reel, I wanted to do a piece that was highly realistic. I was looking for an opportunity to really push my skills. Eventually, I found inspiration in Jimmy Nelson’s extraordinary book ‘Before They Pass Away’." Stas Vergasov "To me, the artistic component is the most important part of my job, which is why I prefer clients and projects that are on the same wave- length, creatively speaking." Konstantin Gdalevich "Kasey and Mac have a cool relationship! They’re friends and partners and though Kasey takes center stage, she heavily relies on Mac to get her out of trouble. She’s quick to jump into crazy fights, run after the scariest of thugs only because she knows her A.I. friend is monitoring and analyzing her every move, ready to alert her of any danger." Vinicius Favero "For the ‘Kangrinboqe Warrior’, I was looking for a character that would allow me to evolve a wide range of not only skills, but distinct materials and different techniques as well. Organic and hard surface modeling, texturing, grooming, lighting and rendering – it’s all there in the original concept art." Massimo Righi "I draw inspiration from all forms of arts in general, from music to design and photography. I am very fond of the latter and like to take photos myself, which often end up as my main references when it comes to modelling and texturing." Mojtaba Hatami "Architectural visualization is a virtual language designers can draw on to express their ideas. A person lacking the necessary vocabulary is always at risk of failing to effectively communicate their creative vision to others." Sergey Buravtsov "The composition of the image was conceived as a photo made by travelers who came to the shaman. The figures in the background are arranged in such a way as to create the planarity and depth of the image." Jeffry Quiambao “I wanted the character to blend in with the photorealistic environment I was aiming for. The more serious look suits the scene and also resonates well with the accessories. I wanted to create a somewhat supernatural mood, bordering on creepy." Pablo Tabarez “The entire house was to be designed in a “luxurious, Mediterranean style". It was an interesting and unique challenge, because everything we built in CGI, will be provided by local suppliers and used in the actual construction!" We're very happy to introduce to you our high-class RebusFarm 3D Artist of the Year 2019 jury! With their expertise in the 3D industry, they will take a close look at all our winners and elect the winner of the year, who will be announced on December 27th, 2019. Manny Fragelus CGSociety/CGMA Manny Fragelus is founder and program director of CGMA and CGWorkshops. Besides leading the academic direction for both schools Manny is also the host of the popular webinar series "Industry Sessions". This series gives participants the opportunity to interact directly with some of the best artists in the industry, ranging from the entire character art team from Naughty Dog to a panel with some of the best FX artists from Blizzard, MPC and ILM. Manny has over 17 years of experience working in the games, films and animation industry. His recent job was modeling lead at Dreamworks Feature Animation for the last 11 years. Jeff Mottle CGarchitect Jeff Mottle is the founder of CGarchitect Digital Media Corporation, the leading online magazine and user community for architectural visualization professionals. He also co-founded the CGschool, that caters exclusively to architectural visualization professionals. Having worked in the industry since 1996, Jeff has been involved in developing and speaking at conferences around the world. He is immersed in many areas of the industry and actively pursues initiatives that help promote the growth of the field, including CGarchitect's yearly Architectural Visualization competition and 3D Awards. Ralph Huchtemann RebusFarm Ralph, who originally completed a degree in mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen, started in the 3D business in 1995 by founding the 3D animation company RebusMedia and working as a successful 3D artist. During that time he produced hundreds of animations and visualizations for B2B communication and commercials. About ten years later Ralph founded RebusFarm to solve the problem of lacking computer power that 3D artists are experiencing in general. He started with a clear vision of how to approach the issue. Vasilis Koutlis Designer & 3D Photographer The instigator of both xDream3D and VWArtclub was born in Athens, in 1979. He studied furniture design and decoration. He began his occupation with 3D art in 2002 and in 2007 the idea of xDream3D was born. He managed to acquire partners from all over the world and various collaborators trust him with their ideas as he rewards them with his detailed designs. Not a moment goes by without him thinking of a beautiful image, thus he is never concerned with time but only with the design’s quality. Rusko Ruskov VP Production and Delivery, Chaos Group Rusko Ruskov is an industry renowned expert on 3D visualization with over 10 years of professional experience in rendering, movie and broadcast media VFX, automotive, product and character design. He leads Chaos Group’s 3D visualization team and is responsible for the product’s performance excellence of V-Ray since its early days. 3D artist with great passion for innovative technologies that blur the line between reality and art, Rusko has been a guest speaker at industry conferences such as Siggraph, Siggraph Asia, FMX, Animago, CG Event, and has juried at many rigorous and renowned CG competitions. Lyudmil Vanev Sales Engineer Team Lead, Chaos Group Lyudmil Vanev is a CG professional with more than 10 years’ experience in everything CG, working on projects in architectural visualization, animation and visual effects. Lyudmil joined the Chaos Group CG team in 2014, after working as a CG specialist and compositor at some of the biggest VFX studios in Bulgaria. Several years and tens of thousands of air miles later, he's established and leading the Sales Engineer Team - a specialist outfit where he’s focused on helping companies and professionals get the best out of V-Ray rendering engine. AOTY 2019 Subscribe to our monthly RebusFarm Newsletter! Stay informed about software, specials & contests. Contractual Information Render Farm Support	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line463
__label__cc	0.672582	0.327418	We are committed to your health and safety during the COVID-19 outbreak.Learn More Schedule a Virtual Visit. Learn More Patient Loyalty Program Donation Drive Healthy Hearing Tips Hearing Test Overview Lyric™ – Extended Wear Hearing Aids Hearing Aid FAQ Cochlear Implants Overview Implants & Mapping What is an Audiologist Posted on September 17, 2018 by Arizona Hearing Specialists Arizona Hearing Specialists has built a strong reputation by providing outstanding hearing healthcare, lasting solutions and individualized treatment to our patients. Along with this commitment to our patients, we strongly believe in spreading the word about hearing healthcare throughout Tucson and its surrounding communities. Improving Lives: Our Partnership with St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic Arizona Hearing Specialists is a proud supporter of St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic in Nogales, Arizona, the longest running border health project in the country. St. Andrew’s provides free hearing healthcare services on the first Thursday of every month to children from Mexico with serious medical problems who don’t have access to care or treatment. The audiologists and staff volunteer their time and services to the more than 200 children who seek treatment at St. Andrew’s every month. We invite you to join us in supporting St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic by donating your old or unused hearing aids. Our audiologists service all donated devices, then reprogram and fit them for a child in need. Your unwanted hearing aids can make a tremendous difference for a hearing-impaired child, and we are always happy to accept donations or answer any questions you may have. For additional information about St. Andrew’s Clinic, visit www.StAndrewsClinic.org Arizona Hearing Specialists Supports Alzheimer’s Association RivALZ Football Arizona Hearing Specialists is a proud sponsor of the Alzheimer’s Association RivALZ flag football fundraising events. The links between hearing loss and cognitive decline are well documented but the daily struggles for the families are less well known. Through our involvement with the Alzheimer’s Association, we hope to build awareness and help support patients and their families. About the Alzheimer’s Association The Alzheimer’s Association is a global organization working to advance care, support and research across the world. From face-to face support to online education programs and promising worldwide research initiatives, the money we raise makes a difference in the lives of those facing Alzheimer’s. About RivALZ Alzheimer’s Association RivALZ is a volunteer-driven event that engages young professionals in friendly but fierce flag football games around the country. As part of the competition, teams are organized around age-old rivalries — East vs. West, Blondes vs. Brunettes, City vs. Suburbs — that inspire fundraising, awareness and action in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. The funds raised through RivALZ benefit the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. We strive to: Help families across the country by continuing to provide and enhance programs focusing on education and support. Advance critical research studies into methods of treatment, prevention and ultimately, a cure. Speak up for the needs and rights of those facing Alzheimer’s through our public policy initiatives. Supporting Abandoned Children through Corazon de Vida Corazon de Vida Arizona Hearing Specialists is a proud supporter of Corazon de Vida, a non-profit organization that provides support for orphaned and abandoned children in Baja, Mexico. The mission of Corazon de Vida is to break the vicious cycle of poverty by helping support children who have been abandoned. The non-profit organization began more than 20 years ago with the idea that funding local orphanages can provide quality-of-life improvement, and funding higher education would be an investment in the children’s future. Through their life-sustaining program, they provide monthly funding for the orphanages under their care. These orphanages give abandoned children security, nutrition, shelter and access to a reliable education. They also fund scholarships for teens aging out of the orphanage system so that they can continue their education. Corazon de Vida provides consistent monthly support to more than 10 orphanages, housing over 700 children. Their university program currently has more than 45 past orphanage residents in college or technical school. These students are serving as role models to their younger siblings in the orphanages. Marcia Heller, a speech-language pathologist from Arizona, learned about Corazon de Vida in 2015 and contacted them about the possibility of doing hearing screenings at the orphanages. She organized some volunteers, and they went to the orphanages. Hundreds of children had their hearing checked. Our audiologist, Greg Swingle, heard about Marcia’s work with the group and wanted to get involved. He joined a group of volunteers that were heading down to Baja in January, 2016. Over the course of the trip, Greg and his group visited four orphanages and performed hearing screenings, checked ears for earwax, screened for ear infections, and fit donated hearing aids. Since the first trip in 2016, Greg has made a total of three trips down to Baja, Mexico with Corazon de Vida, Kristi Swingle has made two and Nick Ramirez has made one. Our dedicated group of audiologists believe in Corazon de Vida’s mission and are excited to be part of it. To learn more about Corazon de Vida and how you can help, contact us at 520.742.2845. Or you can visit their website at www.corazondevida.org. Back to School Giving Program Arizona Hearing Specialists takes great pride in our community and we look for opportunities to give back whenever we can. Last Fall we donated 10 brand new laptops to local schools as part of our annual Back to School Giving Program. Text Only Email Only Impaired Hearing Overview Links Tucson - Northwest 7574 N La Cholla Blvd Tucson, AZ 85741 (520) 399-7652 We are closed from 12:00-1:00pm every day for lunch. Tucson - Ventana/Foothills 6969 E Sunrise Dr, #200 512 E Whitehouse Canyon Rd, #196 Green Valley, AZ 85614 (520) 399-7652 Copyright © 2021 Arizona Hearing Specialists. All Rights Reserved. Arizona Hearing Specialists	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line468
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"user_profile_image"=>"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1356990961/pic2-square-cropped-350x350_normal.jpg"} {"id"=>"216436023083810816", "text"=>"RT @genetics_blog: MultiPhen: Joint Model of Multiple Phenotypes Can Increase Discovery in GWAS http://t.co/0zzfhLh4 #bioinformatics #ge ...", "created_at"=>"2012-06-23T07:42:23Z", "user"=>"D_science", "user_name"=>"D_science", "user_profile_image"=>"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1370807668/1_converse_normal.jpg"} {"id"=>"217502738429378560", "text"=>"#PLoS: MultiPhen: Joint Model of Multiple Phenotypes Can Increase Discovery in GWAS http://t.co/FS6hsWbW", "created_at"=>"2012-06-26T06:21:08Z", "user"=>"mtapio", "user_name"=>"Miika Tapio", "user_profile_image"=>"http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1985113824/MiikaTapio_normal.jpeg"} {"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/643975"], "description"=>"*<p>indicates that the SNP did not have a univariate genome-wide significant <i>P</i> value. Each row indicates the linear combination of phenotypes (given by the corresponding regression coefficients) which is most associated with the given SNP under the MultiPhen regression, after removing the most associated phenotype. The regression coefficients have been scaled so that the CHOL coefficient is always equal to one. The last row contains the expected coefficients according to the Friedewald Formula (Equation 1).</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["linear", "combinations", "phenotypes", "genome-wide"], "article_id"=>314464, "categories"=>["Information And Computing Sciences", "Biological Sciences", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Paul F. O’Reilly", "Clive J. Hoggart", "Yotsawat Pomyen", "Federico C. F. Calboli", "Paul Elliott", "Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin", "Lachlan J. M. Coin"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861.t003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>6, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Most_associated_linear_combinations_of_phenotypes_at_genome_wide_significant_SNPs_/314464", "title"=>"Most associated linear combinations of phenotypes at genome-wide significant SNPs.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2012-05-02 01:14:24"} {"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/643761"], "description"=>"<p>Each bar shows the number of SNPs reaching genome-wide significance for a given phenotype-combination analysis (specified by the first letters of each trait, such that CHL refers to an analysis on the CHOL, HDL and LDL), with the SNPs discovered by both the univariate approach and MultiPhen shown by the white segment of the bar, the SNPs discovered by the univariate approach only shown by the grey segment, and the SNPs discovered by MultiPhen only illustrated by the black segment. The bars labelled ALL2 and ALL3 combine results across analyses on all combinations of two and three lipid traits, respectively, while ALL combines the results across the analyses of all 2, 3 and 4 combinations of the traits. A complete breakdown of these results is presented in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s018\" target=\"_blank\">Tables S5</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s019\" target=\"_blank\">S6</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s020\" target=\"_blank\">S7</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s021\" target=\"_blank\">S8</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s022\" target=\"_blank\">S9</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s023\" target=\"_blank\">S10</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s024\" target=\"_blank\">S11</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s025\" target=\"_blank\">S12</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s026\" target=\"_blank\">S13</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s027\" target=\"_blank\">S14</a>, <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s028\" target=\"_blank\">S15</a>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["GWAS", "multiphen", "tested", "combinations", "lipids", "nfbc1966"], "article_id"=>314243, "categories"=>["Information And Computing Sciences", "Biological Sciences", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Paul F. O’Reilly", "Clive J. Hoggart", "Yotsawat Pomyen", "Federico C. F. Calboli", "Paul Elliott", "Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin", "Lachlan J. M. Coin"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861.g003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>6, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Genome_wide_significant_results_from_standard_GWAS_approach_and_MultiPhen_tested_on_combinations_of_the_lipids_using_NFBC1966_data_/314243", "title"=>"Genome-wide significant results from standard GWAS approach and MultiPhen tested on combinations of the lipids using NFBC1966 data.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2012-05-02 01:10:43"} {"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/643590"], "description"=>"<p>Power results based on simulations described in the text for MultiPhen (red lines) and the standard single-phenotype approach (black lines). Left panel: causal variant explains 0.5% of phenotypic variance of both phenotypes. Middle panel: causal variant explains 0.5% on the phenotypic variance of the first phenotype and 0.1% of the variance in the second phenotype. Right panel: causal variant explains 0.5% of phenotypic variance of the first phenotype and 0% of the second phenotype.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["multiphen", "scenarios"], "article_id"=>314074, "categories"=>["Information And Computing Sciences", "Biological Sciences", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Paul F. O’Reilly", "Clive J. Hoggart", "Yotsawat Pomyen", "Federico C. F. Calboli", "Paul Elliott", "Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin", "Lachlan J. M. Coin"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861.g001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>8, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_The_power_of_MultiPhen_in_different_scenarios_of_effect_and_correlation_between_phenotypes_/314074", "title"=>"The power of MultiPhen in different scenarios of effect and correlation between phenotypes.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2012-05-02 01:07:54"} {"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/643936"], "description"=>"<p>¶ Nyholt-Šidák corrected for 4 comparisons. § Nyholt-Šidák corrected for 3 comparisons. Results compare univariate and MultiPhen <i>P</i> values, presented on the -log10 scale for ease of comparison, for all SNPs with genome-wide significant <i>P</i> values (>7.301 on the -log10 scale) from either approach. Genome-wide significant results shown in bold. The difference in terms of orders of magnitude of the MultiPhen <i>P</i> value on all phenotypes is relative to the most associated univariate phenotype; and the order of magnitude difference for MultiPhen where the most associated phenotype is excluded is relative to the univariate result also excluding the most associated phenotype.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["GWAS", "multiphen", "approaches", "genome-wide"], "article_id"=>314421, "categories"=>["Information And Computing Sciences", "Biological Sciences", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Paul F. O’Reilly", "Clive J. Hoggart", "Yotsawat Pomyen", "Federico C. F. Calboli", "Paul Elliott", "Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin", "Lachlan J. M. Coin"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861.t002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>4, "page_views"=>6, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Results_under_standard_GWAS_and_MultiPhen_approaches_for_genome_wide_significant_SNPs_/314421", "title"=>"Results under standard GWAS and MultiPhen approaches for genome-wide significant SNPs.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2012-05-02 01:13:41"} {"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/643660"], "description"=>"<p>The left panel shows the correlation structure between total cholesterol (CHOL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in 5655 individuals from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966. Each circle depicts the value of CHOL (X-axis) and LDL (Y-axis) in mmol/L for each individual. The right panel shows the correlation structure between low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL), in mmol/L, in the same individuals. The arrows in each plot show the direction of effect of a variant affecting only CHOL or only HDL, such that the genotypes of individuals underlying each plotted point are more likely to contain risk alleles for the labelled lipid moving through the points in the direction of the arrow. The diagonal arrows are based on the Friedewald Formula (Friedewald.72). The arrows indicate that effects of variants can be in very different directions in the 2-dimensional spaces shown; the aim of modelling and testing linear combinations of phenotypes is to capture effects in any direction.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["pairs"], "article_id"=>314147, "categories"=>["Information And Computing Sciences", "Biological Sciences", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Paul F. O’Reilly", "Clive J. Hoggart", "Yotsawat Pomyen", "Federico C. F. Calboli", "Paul Elliott", "Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin", "Lachlan J. M. Coin"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861.g002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_The_correlation_structure_between_pairs_of_lipids_/314147", "title"=>"The correlation structure between pairs of lipids.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2012-05-02 01:09:07"} {"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/643893"], "description"=>"<p>This table relates to the simulation study to test the type 1 error rates of MultiPhen, CCA, and the univariate approach, described in the text. The elements of the table show the number of results with <i>P</i><1e<sup>–5</sup> in the scenario described by the corresponding row and column (which give the minor allele frequencies) headers. Since 100000 replicates of SNP-phenotype associations were simulated under the null hypothesis of no association, the expectation for all elements of the table is 1; those with >1 indicating inflation of the type 1 error rate. Simulations with MAF = 30%, 0.5% were performed on a sample size of N = 5000. For the full results see <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s001\" target=\"_blank\">Figures S1</a>–<a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s008\" target=\"_blank\">S8</a> and <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s014\" target=\"_blank\">Table S1</a>–<a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861#pone.0034861.s016\" target=\"_blank\">S3</a>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["methods"], "article_id"=>314382, "categories"=>["Information And Computing Sciences", "Biological Sciences", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Paul F. O’Reilly", "Clive J. Hoggart", "Yotsawat Pomyen", "Federico C. F. Calboli", "Paul Elliott", "Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin", "Lachlan J. M. Coin"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034861.t001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>2, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Behaviour_of_the_different_methods_under_the_null_/314382", "title"=>"Behaviour of the different methods under the null.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>3, "published_date"=>"2012-05-02 01:13:02"} {"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332328", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332364", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332399", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332431", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332461", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332490", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332510", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332539", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332578", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332620", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332671", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332723", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332789", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332834", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332881", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332923", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/332965", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333003", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333054", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333088", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333126", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333169", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333222", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333267", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333316", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333379", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333423", "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/333481"], "description"=>"<div><p>The genome-wide association study (GWAS) approach has discovered hundreds of genetic variants associated with diseases and quantitative traits. However, despite clinical overlap and statistical correlation between many phenotypes, GWAS are generally performed one-phenotype-at-a-time. Here we compare the performance of modelling multiple phenotypes jointly with that of the standard univariate approach. We introduce a new method and software, MultiPhen, that models multiple phenotypes simultaneously in a fast and interpretable way. By performing ordinal regression, MultiPhen tests the linear combination of phenotypes most associated with the genotypes at each SNP, and thus potentially captures effects hidden to single phenotype GWAS. We demonstrate via simulation that this approach provides a dramatic increase in power in many scenarios. There is a boost in power for variants that affect multiple phenotypes and for those that affect only one phenotype. While other multivariate methods have similar power gains, we describe several benefits of MultiPhen over these. In particular, we demonstrate that other multivariate methods that assume the genotypes are normally distributed, such as canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and MANOVA, can have highly inflated type-1 error rates when testing case-control or non-normal continuous phenotypes, while MultiPhen produces no such inflation. To test the performance of MultiPhen on real data we applied it to lipid traits in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC1966). In these data MultiPhen discovers 21% more independent SNPs with known associations than the standard univariate GWAS approach, while applying MultiPhen in addition to the standard approach provides 37% increased discovery. The most associated linear combinations of the lipids estimated by MultiPhen at the leading SNPs accurately reflect the Friedewald Formula, suggesting that MultiPhen could be used to refine the definition of existing phenotypes or uncover novel heritable phenotypes.</p> </div>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["phenotypes", "GWAS"], "article_id"=>125622, "categories"=>["Information And Computing Sciences", "Biological Sciences", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Paul F. O’Reilly", "Clive J. Hoggart", "Yotsawat Pomyen", "Federico C. F. Calboli", "Paul Elliott", "Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin", "Lachlan J. M. 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__label__wiki	0.640979	0.640979	Amazing-still Hem All-Freightfree Heppner owns his role in this whale of an opera Calgary Opera Ben Heppner, tenor With the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Joseph Mechavich In Calgary on Saturday Most Januarys, Calgary Opera gives its audience a surprise. Sometimes it is its own new commission; as often, it is a Canadian premiere of an American opera that has gained a foothold in the standard repertoire. This January, the company staged its co-produced Canadian premiere of San Franciscan Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, with librettist Gene Scheer’s excellent distillation of Herman Melville’s sprawling 19th-century novel about a megalomaniac’s obsession with revenge against his deep-sea nemesis. Moby-Dick, an international co-production with five partners, is all about the hunt for the white whale, propelled by a libretto that is driven by the book’s human passions. Inevitably and wisely, Melville’s metaphysical speculations and encyclopedic expositions disappear in the blood and guts of the tale Scheer has rendered. Calgary Opera patrons are faithful to the company’s commitment to new work, but no doubt Ben Heppner’s name on the bill in the lead role of Ahab helped fill the Jubilee Auditorium on Saturday evening. Unbelievably, Moby-Dick is Heppner’s first Canadian engagement in 17 years. Wearing a strapped-on peg leg, forcing him to keep his balance on his one good limb with a cane, Heppner limped about the stage in full command. He sang Heggie’s vaguely contemporary-sounding vocal music assuredly, shaping his Ahab, which he debuted in Dallas in April 2010 and will sing again in San Diego in a few weeks, with as much stubborn fury as unexpected sensitivity to his men’s burdens. Cloaked in black, standing alone with a harpoon supporting him in one of the culminating scenes, Heppner radiated the aura of the flawed tragic hero he has conjured many times in his illustrious career. He owns this role. Up against Ahab’s narcissism is Starbuck, the chief officer and a man of God. Baritone Brett Polegato hid in the shadow of neither Captain Ahab nor Heppner. Polegato’s aria at the end of Act One, the most traditional Puccini-like aria in the score, was uplifting. In Act Two, as Starbuck looks at Ahab asleep and wrestles with the temptation to shoot him dead, Polegato placed Heggie’s work into the long operatic tradition of agony well sung. Tenor Colin Ainsworth played Greenhorn, a.k.a. Ishmael of Melville’s novel. Ainsworth’s touching aria in the final act, a meditation on the madness around him, helped to set up the calm before the final storm with some fine, relatively conventional operatic lyric effect. In the same vein, Ahab and Starbuck’s late duet, in which the first mate tries to persuade Ahab to go home to his family instead of pursuing his unassuageable hatred for the whale, poignantly set up the catastrophic final descent into the maelstrom, and here and in several other quieter moments, Heggie and Scheer evoked emotion as genuine as emotion can ever be in opera. Bass baritone Justin Welsh’s exotic Queequeg had vocal heft, but also a vulnerability that gave his scenes with Ainsworth a sweet flavour of brotherly love. Soprano Lisa DiMaria, in the trouser role of Pip, sang solidly but could have made more of her role as innocent cabin boy and eventual broken child. The stage was hers to capture, and she didn’t fully take advantage. When the visual focus isn’t on the high-tech images on the scrims, the stage is a lattice-work of ladders and ropes, and the men, principals and chorus alike, created many scenes amid the rigging that gave the production a convincingly seafaring energy. In general, Heggie’s music is full of much martial thumping and blaring and is mostly colourful and dramatically helpful. Some have called Heggie’s compositional approach cinematic, and for this opera, which is full of exceptional digital effects and projected scenes of roiling ocean waves – Elaine McCarthy’s wondrous contribution – borrowing from Hollywood would seem appropriate. However his vocal writing tries too hard at times to sound modernly inaccessible, angular, and perversely anti-melodic, and that is not his strength. Under conductor Joseph Mechavich, the Calgary Philharmonic played Heggie’s music supportively, and the 37-voice men’s chorus filled the stage with yeoman service. 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__label__cc	0.686917	0.313083	MOMENTUM: Trump Leaps To Five Point Lead Over Hillary in New Rasmussen Poll The newest poll from Rasmussen shows Donald Trump with a five point lead over Hillary. It’s more proof that Trump’s hard work over the last few weeks is paying off big time. White House Watch: Trump 44%, Clinton 39%, Johnson 8%, Stein 2% With the first presidential debate coming on Monday, Donald Trump has moved to a five-point lead over Hillary Clinton, his biggest advantage since mid-July. The latest Rasmussen Reports weekly White House Watch telephone and online survey finds Trump with 44% support among Likely U.S. Voters to Clinton’s 39%. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson earns eight percent (8%) of the vote, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein holds steady at two percent (2%). Three percent (3%) like some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are still undecided. Last week, the Republican nominee edged ahead of his Democratic rival 42% to 40% after trailing her by four points the week before. Trump’s total this week ties his highest ever level of support from two months ago. Trump (76%) and Clinton (75%) earn comparable support from voters in their own party. Fourteen percent (14%) of Democrats prefer Trump, while 10% of Republicans join former President George H.W. Bush in supporting Clinton. But Trump has a commanding 45% to 27% lead this week among voters not affiliated with either major political party. Remember, just a few weeks ago Democrats thought Hillary was going to walk away with the election. Now Trump has all the momentum on his side.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line481
__label__wiki	0.670762	0.670762	amw in the city Kid Style What’s New at amotherworld Toronto is a Vibrant Sports Hub Toronto is a vibrant sports hub and a major attraction for tourists. From the sound of the beating drums at the Toronto FC games to the legion of regular fans at the Toronto Marlies, sports in Toronto is a religion. This past year has been an exciting one for sports fans who support Toronto teams, including out-of-town visitors who flock to our great city to catch the action. The Raptors, TFC and the Toronto Marlies all made it to the playoffs in 2016, and the Maple Leafs are going to make to the playoffs one day – I can just feel it! The city is in love with the powerful Blue Jays too. It’s no wonder Toronto draws not only local sports fans, but also sports enthusiasts from elsewhere in Canada and around the world! Here are the places to visit in Toronto if you’re a sports fan: Air Canada Centre Depending on when you visit Toronto, you can either catch a Raptors or a Maple Leafs game! It’s a treat to see crazed fans gather outside the Air Canada Centre to cheer on their team. Toronto received an NBA franchise in 1995 with the hope being that the game would grow throughout Canada. And it sure has! The Toronto Raptors have a huge fan base now, having won four division titles, including an exciting semi-final run just this past season, when they lost to eventual champions Cleveland. With TV ratings reaching record highs, the Raptors have become “Canada’s Team”. The Toronto Argonauts are the CFL’s most successful team, having won 16 Grey Cups! The Argos are now playing in the newly expanded BMO field, which is an outstanding CFL stadium with a great atmosphere. BMO Field is also home to Toronto FC. TFC has a growing fan base, with Italian sensation Sebastian Giovinco a top scorer, breaking the MLS record for most combined goals and assists in a season in 2015. The team has a legion of supporters’ groups (like the Red Patch Boys, U-Sector, Inebriatti, and Kings in the North to name a few), all of which make watching the game super exciting. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, the Hockey Hall of Fame is both a museum and a hall of fame. It holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League (NHL) records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including Lord Stanley’s Mug itself – the Stanley Cup. Considered one of the “cathedrals” of ice hockey, the Maple Leaf Gardens was home to the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs from 1931 to 1999. The Leafs won the Stanley Cup 11 times from 1932 to 1967 while playing at the Gardens. Now, the Gardens is a multi-purpose facility, housing a super market on the lower floors and, on the upper floors, an arena for Toronto’s Ryerson University, known as Mattamy Athletic Centre. Ricoh Coliseum The Ricoh Coliseum is home to the Toronto Marlies ice hockey team, the American Hockey League farm team of the Toronto Maple Leafs. For the 2015 Pan American Games, the venue hosted the gymnastics competitions. It was built for the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) and the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in 1921. I love watching the Marlies play and so do my hockey-playing kids. They’ve both been on the ice with the Marlies, either for the singing of the national anthem, or for a quick skate in between periods! Rogers Centre If you visit Toronto during the MLB season, you have to see a Blue Jays game. We’ve had the pleasure of watching Major League Baseball in Toronto since 1977. The Blue Jays are two-time World Series champions and one of the favourites this year after an exciting run in 2015 that earned them their sixth Division Title. Busloads of fans make the trek from other cities to see a Blue Jays game! There are many more sports-related attractions in Toronto, including The Honda Indy, Toronto Rock lacrosse team, The Canadian Open in golf and tennis, and the Rogers Cup tennis tournament. Whether you’re already a fan of a Toronto team or are just looking to see some world-class athletes in some of North America’s best stadiums, Toronto is an ideal destination for sports lovers of all kinds! Canada’s largest city and most-visited destination, Toronto is Canada’s downtown. Toronto blends the best of modern Canadian diversity and inclusiveness with big-ticket events, top attractions, restaurants, music, architecture, culture and festivals in one of the world’s most unique and exciting cities. Disclosure: This post was brought to you by Tourism Toronto via Mode Media Canada. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of Tourism Toronto. TorontoToronto is a sports citytoronto sportstoronto sports citytoronto sports destination Author amw Maria Lianos-Carbone is the author of “Oh Baby! A Mom’s Self-Care Survival Guide for the First Year”, and publisher of amotherworld.com, a leading lifestyle blog for women. More Women are Quitting Jobs They Love to Homeschool Their Children You Need to Visit These Canadian National Parks How to Talk to Your Kids About Race And Racism Adriana Renee 4 years ago Reply How fun! Love seeing all the sports events a city can offer! Lauren Bellows 4 years ago Reply It’s crazy to see all the places Toronto has to offer! My youth group went there on a mission trip and totally caught blue jays against the red sox! Travel Pockets (Crystal) 4 years ago Reply Wow, didn’t realize Toronto was such a big sports hub! I know that hockey is certainly big there 🙂 Amanda 4 years ago Reply Wow, that is a bug sports hub! I have never been to Toronto before. Amanda \|\| http://www.fortheloveofglitter.com Robyn Bellefleur 4 years ago Reply I love going to a Blue Jays game in the summer. Reply To Adriana Renee Cancel Reply Hi I'm Maria! I'm a writer, social media strategist, brand ambassador, hockey mom, rock-concert-goer & gluten-free foodie. Oh Baby! A Mom’s Self-Care Survival Guide for the First Year: Because Moms Need a Little TLC, Too! is now available at Chapters/Indigo, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon! &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;br Facebook Twitter Google Plus Instagram Pinterest YouTube LinkedIn Terms of Use, Privacy, Copyright, Disclaimer © 2020 amotherworld. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line482
__label__cc	0.698379	0.301621	Britannia Hotel Norway's Most Luxurious Hotel and Spa Published 28/02/2020 10/03/2020 by Kaitlin Orr in Hotel, Restaurant Despite the cold weather, February is always an exciting time of year to be in Scandinavia. That’s right, Michelin launched their annual guide to the Nordics last week, and this year was the first time that the awards ceremony was held in Norway. We joined our fellow industry colleagues and chefs and went to Trondheim to cover the events on February 17th, 2020. The newly renovated and spectacularly luxurious Britannia Hotel was the host of the festivities, and our home base during our week in Trondheim. We decided to make the most of our trip and explore this award-winning, five-star hotel to the fullest. Keep reading to learn about all the amenities, from our fabulous room service breakfast, to afternoon tea in the Palm Court, to a relaxing day at the spa, to cocktails in the Britannia Bar, and, of course, a delicious dinner at Speilsalen, which just received its first Michelin star. Looking for more great spots for food and drinks in Trondheim? Check out our city map of Trondheim! The historic Britannia Hotel in Trondheim dates back to 1870. The Spectacular Renovation of a Historic Hotel The Britannia Hotel has been an icon and a gathering hub in Trondheim since 1870. Last year marked the completion of a three-year, $160 million dollar (1.5 billion NOK) renovation, updating and transforming the hotel once again into the pinnacle of modern luxury. All rooms and suites were restored, outfitted with marble bathrooms, Hästens beds, and amenities from Maison Francis Kurkdjian. We’ve rarely had a hotel bed as comfortable as the king size bed in our Junior Suite. A particularly fun feature is that the television is hidden inside the wooden panel at the foot of the bed – with the big screen so close to the bed, it felt like our own private cinema! Our room for a week. Luxurious Hästens beds in every room! The corner Junior suite. Since its refurbishment, the Britannia Hotel has garnered a lot of international praise. The hotel has been selected as a member of The Leading Hotels of the World, a prestigious collection of independent and remarkably unique luxury hotels around the world. Most recently, the Britannia was recognized in the Michelin Guide as a top-class luxury hotel (Château status), and named one of the best new hotels in the world on Travel + Leisure’s 2020 “It List.” It’s easy to see why – this hotel is absolutely spectacular! A buffet and à la carte breakfast is included for all guests in the magnificent Palmehaven (Palm Court), and room service is also available. On one relaxing morning, we decided to enjoy our breakfast in bed, sampling the Eggs Benedict topped with Rossini caviar, blinis with Røros sour cream and löjrom, fresh orange and rhubarb juices, and even a V60-brewed coffee. The pour-over coffee was an extra special highlight for us – we’ve never seen a hotel offer this! Eggs Benedict topped with Rossini caviar Blinis with Røros sour cream and löjrom. Relax and Revive – Britannia Spa & Fitness Center A good hotel gym is essential to us when traveling – it’s important for us to balance out all our eating! We adored Britannia’s sleek, state-of-the-art gym complete with free weights and a variety of workout machines. Hotel guests can also attend free group fitness classes like yoga, pilates, and HIIT (high-intensity interval training) classes. After all the excitement during the Michelin events, we were in desperate need of some R&R. If you’re looking to unwind, the Britannia Spa is truly an oasis of tranquility. Kaitlin had an aromatherapy massage with lavender oil, while Anders opted for a deep tissue massage. We both agreed it was one of the best massages we’ve ever had! Whether or not you’re receiving a treatment, all hotel guests have access to the pool, jacuzzi, and saunas in the spa. The most magnificent room in the hotel is the Palm Court (Palmehaven). The dining room has a skylight illuminated with stars. Afternoon tea in the Palm Court of Britannia Hotel. Afternoon Tea in the Palm Court The most magnificent room in the hotel is the Palm Court – the dining room has soaring ceilings, a skylight illuminated with stars, and a plethora of palm trees. Here you can enjoy the breakfast buffet, as well as high tea in the afternoon. We sipped on a cup of the signature Earl Grey tea and a glass of Britannia’s signature Ayala champagne (which is rosy in color and fruity in taste). We snacked on knekkebrød (crispbread) with löjrom, king crab salad on brioche, as well as scones with Røros cream and housemade raspberry jam, and cakes from pastry chef Cathrine Nilsen, who was formerly on the Norwegian National Pastry team. Live piano music sets a wonderful and relaxing mood – we especially loved some of the Broadway show tunes! Pastries from Chef Cathrine Nilsen. Britannia’s signature Earl Grey tea. Boujee enough? Cocktails in the Britannia Bar You’d be remiss not to partake in a cocktail in the timeless Britannia Bar. The hotel’s head bartender, Øyvind Lindgjerdet, has crafted a menu of signature drinks inspired by fun historical stories. For example, “The Journey” cocktail tells the story of a barrel of aquavit that embarked on a voyage from Trondheim to Indonesia. During the two years on the boat, the aquavit’s character changed considerably, due to the different conditions it experienced while crossing the equator twice. The Linie (Line) aquavit is named for its unique history, and is still made using the same aging method today. “The Journey” is a spin on an old-fashioned, served from a glass bottle with a replica of the ship inside it. Another favorite of ours was the fresh and juicy “Origins” cocktail, made of apple cider, gin, champagne, and chartreuse. “The Journey” is served from a glass bottle with a replica of a ship inside it. The Linie aquavit cocktail tells the story of a spirit that has crossed the equator twice. Speilsalen is the one Michelin star restaurant of the Britannia Hotel. Speilsalen – Michelin-Starred Dining at the Britannia The crown jewel of Britannia’s restaurant concepts is Speilsalen (“The Mirror Hall”), the fine dining restaurant helmed by Bocuse D’Or silver medalist Chef Christopher Davidsen, with Norwegian sommelier champion Henrik Dahl Jahnsen in charge of the wine. Speilsalen received one Michelin star during the Nordic launch in Trondheim in 2020, despite only being open for seven months! Watching Chef Davidsen jump for joy on stage was one of the most exciting moments of the week. We were really impressed by how far the restaurant has come since our first visit in May of ’19. A few meal highlights included a braided brioche bun topped with black truffle and lardo, a “pølse” (hot dog) made of king crab, and sourdough waffles served with house-cured ham, smoked cod remoulade, and caviar. We can’t wait to return to the Britannia Hotel! Wanna stay here too? Make your booking using our booking.com affiliate link. At no extra cost to you, we receive a small commission that helps us to continue writing reviews like this and giving you our best recommendations for free. Thanks! At Speilsalen you can book a table or the Chef’s table. There are even two private dining rooms. The mirrors that give the restaurant its name. Bocuse d’Or silver winner and now Michelin star chef Christopher Davidsen. Tartelette made from mushroom stock, with reindeer tartare, and Rossini caviar. Beetroot meringue tart. We were seated at the Chef’s table. Signature waffle made with Røros milk and topped with house-cured ham. Smoked cod remoulade, sour cream, cucumber & Rossini caviar Braided brioche with black truffle and lardo. Chef Davidsen cooked the scallops in front of us. Scallop from Frøya basted in butter. The scallop was served with pear and yuzu. Krug “Grande Cuvée” 167ème Édition Brut Champagne. Sommelier Henrik Dahl Jahnsen serves us a local gin. Christopher Davidsen hard at work with Paul Bocuse watching from the sideline. The arctic char being plated on sizzling hot rocks. Caramelized koji ice cream with a liquid nitrogen sugar sphere. We cracked the sphere to reveal the ice cream underneath. Petits fours and pour-over coffee. Choux pastry with apple and goat milk filling. A dessert on Norwegian Ingrid Marie apple. Chef Christopher Davidsen on stage to accept the Michelin star of Speilsalen from Gwendal Poullennec and the host Thomas Giertsen. What’s the most beautiful hotel you have visited? Feel free to leave a comment below with your best recommendation for us. Tags: hotel, Norway, review, Trondheim Previous Post These Are the New Stars in the Michelin Guide Nordic Countries 2020 Next Post Where to Eat in Oslobukta Don March 4, 2020 / Reply Could it be any better?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line485
__label__wiki	0.856413	0.856413	The BJP’s Response to Time Magazine’s Modi Cover Story Reveals the Party’s Bigotry The famous American magazine plans to publish a cover story later this month criticizing Indian Prime Minister Modi, but his party just attacked the author for being part Pakistani by saying that “nothing better can be expected” from those people and claiming that he was “pursuing Pakistan’s agenda” despite him actually being part Indian as well, thereby revealing the BJP’s deep-seated bigotry and continuing with its fearmongering campaign that anyone who dares to publicly criticize the country’s leader is “anti-national” or possibly even a “foreign agent”. The BJP’s bigotry was once again on full display after party spokesman Sambit Patra attacked a Time Magazine author during a press conference on Saturday for an article that he wrote that’s very critical of the country’s Prime Minister. India’s “Economic Times” quoted Patra as saying that Aatish Taseer’s forthcoming cover story about “India’s Divider In Chief” shouldn’t be taken seriously because the “article’s author was a Pakistani and that nothing better can be expected from Pakistan”, even implying that Taseer is a foreign agent after “accusing its author of pursuing Pakistan’s agenda”. Interestingly, Taseer is also part Indian through his mother’s side and has spent extensive time in his maternal homeland, though he’s denied this crucial component of his personal identity by the country’s ruling party simply because he exercised his freedom of speech about what purports to be the “world’s largest democracy”. The BJP’s reaction was to be entirely expected, however, because it already previously implied that the opposition’s dissent is treasonous and even went as far as to claim that they’re “acting as an external public relations arm of the Pakistan government” as the country cannibalizes itself over the entirely speculative issue of “Pakistangate“, or “who Pakistan really supports” (modeled off of the Russiagate hysteria that India’s new American ally is afflicted with). India is obsessed with the idea of Pakistan somehow “interfering” in its elections and “hacking” the vote, which is why the ruling party reacted so ridiculously to Taseer’s article, though because of the Indo-American military-strategic partnership, it refrained from attacking the US publication itself for the editorial decision to run that story in the first place and instead went after the author in the most ad-hominem way possible. Casual observers unfamiliar with contemporary Indian society and the BJP might not think much of what Patra said and would probably be inclined to dismiss it as harmless rhetoric from one rival country to the other, but the reality is that Modi’s party is blowing very loud Islamophobic dog whistles by hinting that anyone with a Muslim family member (like Taseer’s father) and/or any connection whatsoever to Pakistan is a fifth columnist dedicated to doing the global pivot state‘s bidding. Furthermore, by conflating well-articulated criticism of Modi to “pursuing Pakistan’s agenda’, the BJP is dangerously pushing the notion that all opposition is treasonous and plays into Pakistan’s hands one way or another, possibly winking to its “Saffron supporters” that the state will turn a blind eye to politically motivated lynchings like they already do to religious ones. The end result is that India is continuing its descent into dystopia and looking less like a real democracy by the day. By Andrew Korybko Source: Eurasia Future What's the Future of Afghanistan After Trump? Why Are People Going Hungry in India Despite a Massive Grain Surplus? How West, Central and South Asia Are Interconnecting These Are Russia's Five Most Important Tasks for Surviving World War C China’s Mission to Nepal Gains Traction Turkey Pivots to the Center of the New Great Game Tensions Between China and India May Soon Rise as Trump Approves Historic Tibet Act On Reforming the Agricultural Industry of India Health and Wealth in India - Farmers’ Lives Matter Western Sahara Is Extremely Important For The Anti-Imperialist Cause BJPIndiaPakistanTime Magazine The Recovery of Idlib Under the Syrian Government: Still Too Early to Achieve... What Beijing’s Retaliation Means for Oil	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line495
__label__wiki	0.55299	0.55299	Routine Use of Microsurgical Techniques To Minimize Hepatic Arterial Complications in 342 Consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplants K. Asonuma, S. Hayashida, M. Honda, T. Takeichi, H. Yamamoto, K. Lee, Y. Ohya, T. Murokawa, Y. Inomata Pediatric Surgery and Transplantation, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan Impact of Anatomic Variation and Reconstructive Technique on Complications Following Living Liver Donor Transplantation – A Report from the A2ALL Consortium The Impact of the Arterial Reconstructions On the Living Donor Kidney Graft Background: Microsurgery was introduced into living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in 1990 and since then it has gained worldwide recognition for effectiveness in small hepatic artery (HA) reconstruction. In this study we present arterial outcomes using this technique in 342 consecutive LDLTs. Patients and Methods: 345 LDLTs were performed in Kumamoto University from September 2000 to October 2012. Among those, 342 LDLTs were enrolled in this study excluding three recipients who died within one day after transplantation. Microsurgical techniques were used for HA reconstruction in all cases. There were 117 pediatric (under 16 years old) and 225 adult cases. Hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) was defined as the failure to detect an arterial signal by Doppler ultrasound study and/or non-visualization of the HA using enhanced CT scan. Results: Five cases of HAT (2.3%) developed between POD 3 and 40 (median: 4.5). Only one pediatric patient experienced HAT, a 2-year-old in whom re-anastomosis was successfully performed on POD 3. In 7 other adult cases, two were observed without treatment and two underwent thrombolysis by HA catheterization via the celiac trunk. Re-anastomosis was performed in the remaining 3 cases. All recipients with HAT survived without serious complications except an adult who developed HAT on POD 40 and died of multiple liver abscesses. Bleeding from the HA developed in 5 patients (1.5%) between POD 4 and 58 (median: 12). These cases included a 14-year-old boy who suffered rupture of the arterial wall proximal to the anastomotic site due to fungal infection. He died after retransplantation. The four other cases were adults. Two experienced rupture of the hepatic artery and two gastrointestinal bleeding due to HA pseudoaneurysm. Only one recipient with bleeding survived, a patient with a pseudoaneurysm who underwent successful HA reconstruction using a jump graft of autologous inferior mesenteric artery. Conclusions: The use of routine microsurgical techniques was associated with a very low incidence of HA complications, especially in pediatric cases. Results of re-anastomosis were satisfactory. In contrast, bleeding from HA was associated with a higher incidence of death. Microsurgical hepatic artery reconstruction should be considered in cases of LDLT. Asonuma K, Hayashida S, Honda M, Takeichi T, Yamamoto H, Lee K, Ohya Y, Murokawa T, Inomata Y. Routine Use of Microsurgical Techniques To Minimize Hepatic Arterial Complications in 342 Consecutive Living Donor Liver Transplants [abstract]. Am J Transplant. 2013; 13 (suppl 5). https://atcmeetingabstracts.com/abstract/routine-use-of-microsurgical-techniques-to-minimize-hepatic-arterial-complications-in-342-consecutive-living-donor-liver-transplants/. Accessed January 18, 2021.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line496
__label__wiki	0.567407	0.567407	Dispatch, Eden Monaro, Media Release Seditious Text Message A Hoax Editor· July 25, 2020 ·0 comments A “seditious” message calling for the Governor-General to remove the Australian Government by 11 September 2020 and to name Australia One Party leader Riccardo Bosi as head of an interim government, is currently being texted widely throughout Australia. Mr Bosi wishes to make it perfectly clear that this message is a hoax and he has… Eden Monaro, Oped The Major Parties Have Betrayed Us Ric Bosi· June 30, 2020 ·0 comments Riccardo Bosi, founder of the Australia One political party joins the Carnage House to discuss his candidacy in the Eden-Monaro by-election and other issues. We discussed China, the corruption issues in mainstream media and politics, the globalists and more! Eden Monaro, Media Release Big pharma, big tobacco welcome heaven-sent laws Editor· June 23, 2020 ·0 comments New draconian laws and fines that directly attack hundreds of thousands of Australians who have complied with community social mores, are proof that the Australian Government and Health Minister Greg Hunt are among the world’s leading hypocrites, Eden-Monaro Independent candidate Riccardo Bosi said today. “Under the cover of their COVID-19 scare mongering, Hunt and the… Policy Summary In this policy statement Ric Bosi articulates the key points to establishing Australia’s Sovereignty, Self Reliance, Social Cohesion, Economic Power, Military Power, and Political Freedom. You can download a PDF copy of this Policy Statement The Good Migrant To what country and people do I owe most? To that which I have never seen, with which I have no connection but that it is the home of some of my relatives? Or to that in which and among whom I was born, have grown up, where I have learned all that I know,… Global Warming and the freezing poor. RICCARDO BOSI Independent Candidate ForEDEN-MONARO Climate change “believing” has become more a cult than a science. Global warming is based entirely on faulty computer models that have been used to cause massive economic and social destruction, something we have also seen during the recent COVID scare. Scientists readily admit they do not fully understand how the…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line500
__label__wiki	0.622047	0.622047	Keith Rowe With Graham Lambkin and Michael Pisaro at Temp Reviewed January 17, 2013 ~ Mike Axel Dörner and Keith Rowe in Chicago, Illinois, 22 September 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From NYTimes.com: Keith Rowe is 72, and the instrument he’s been associated with for nearly 50 years is an electric guitar, laid flat on a table. Near the guitar are the things he uses for manipulating the sound of the guitar or interacting with it: flat objects of various weights and hardnesses, a couple of effects pedals, a small electric fan, a wad of steel wool, a small radio, an iPod, a sound mixer. Keith Rowe Coming to the ISSUE Project Room (avantmusicnews.com) Michael Pisaro Live at Complice Gallery (laughtersounds.wordpress.com) Review: Michael Pisaro/Toshiya Tsunoda, “Crosshatches” (laughtersounds.wordpress.com) The Squid’s Ear Reviews January 17, 2013 January 17, 2013 ~ Mike From The Squid’s Ear: Chabala / Jones / Martin / Mukarji / Nakamura – Unbalanced Out (Unbalanced In) (Another Timbre) Way Out Northwest – The White Spot (Relative Pitch) Mecha Fixes Clocks – Teoria dellelasticita di Girolamo Papariello (Ambiances Magnetiques) The Whammies – Play the Music of Steve Lacy (Driff Records) Coming the Vortex Jazz Club From London’s Vortex Jazz Club: SUNDAY 20/01/2013 – 20.30 MOPOMOSO Mopomoso starts the New Year with three great sets of free improvisation: Stefan Keune (sax) / Dominic Lash (bass) / Steve Noble (drums) trio Known more in the UK for his work on alto and sopranino German saxophonist Keune brings out the baritone for what promises to be a blistering set with two of the UK’s finest. Sonic pyrotechnics of the highest order! Hannah Marshall (cello) / Paul G Smyth (piano) duo Ireland’s foremost improvising talent Smyth revisits a duo with remarkable cellist Marshall in a Mopomoso debut. Empathetic and inventive interplay across the spectrum. Satkoko Fukuda (violin) / Henry Lowther (trumpet) / John Russell (guitar) trio Well respected and highly musical trio make a welcome return, playing a rare music of poise and elegance. Engaging, open ended and fluid improvisation from three great players. TUESDAY 22/01/2013 – 20.30 ALAN WILKINSON’S FREEFALL Alto and Baritone saxophonist “Iron lungs” Alan Wilkinson is joined by 2 of the UK’s most inventive and uncompromising free improvisers, pianist and electronics player Pat Thomas, and drum maestro Mark Sanders, and one of the most talented new double bass exponents, Neil Charles. Between them they have played with many of the greatest names in contemporary music including Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Jah Wobble, Spiritualized, and The Mingus Big Band. This will be a night for those who like their music hot and dangerous. Hold onto your seats and take the plunge! THURSDAY 24/01/2013 – 20.30 Performing works by George Crumb, Fred Rzewski, Stephen Montague, Louis Andriessen and Trent Reznor as well as original works, tonight Jetsam presents ‘A Dreamlife of Hackney Marshes’ featuring Hackney Marshman Gareth Rees, Dave Smith and Dan Nicholls and images by Dave Maric. SATURDAY 26/01/2013 – 20.30 MATCH&FUSE PRESENTS TUBAX + PSYLUS + HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT After sell-out shows throughout 2011 and 2012, Match&Fuse present a night of cutting-edge and innovative groups to kick-start 2013, featuring Tubax. Tubax experiment with psychedelic bravado and rhythm – they promise to melt your brain with their acid-trip math jazz AND get you dancing anyway. Live they are tour-de-force guaranteed to drop jaws. Giaccomo Schirru Manca (bass) / Davide Stampini (synth, sampler, guitar) / Alberto Fogli (drums). Psylus: Fresh from their packed out 2012 London Jazz Festival performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Psylus is the melding of five progressive minds that together create realms of sound transcendent of genre. A dynamic exploration of textures and styles, Psylus finds its foundations from each members’ respective roots in Jazz, Hip Hop and Electronic Music, which serve as a platform for abstraction and musical evolution. Honey Ride Me A Goat: Ultra tight, gnarly progressive, beastly riff-and-groove-heavy avant-punk from three childhood friends hailing from Kent. “This trio’s approach is similar at times to the musical cubism of the Magic Band but at others they go into overdrive to create a maelstrom of sound without ever completely abandoning melody and rhythm. Their music ends up balanced, unpretentious, and pretty accessible. Honey Ride Me A Goat’s music is potent and life-affirming” BRAINWASHED Nameless Sound Spring Season January 17, 2013 January 16, 2013 ~ Mike ~ 1 Comment saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell at the Pomigliano Jazz Festival (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From Houston’s Nameless Sound: Nameless Sound launches its winter/spring 2013 season with free jazz supergroup TRIO 3 TRIO 3 featuring Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, and Reggie Workman Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 8pm The Historic Eldorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin, Houston [map] $13 general / $10 with student i.d. / free, 18 and under Drawing its membership from the World Saxophone Quartet, the Cecil Taylor Unit, and the John Coltrane Quartet, TRIO 3 is a true supergroup of the jazz avant-garde, a self-described “band where the music is the leader.” In the 1960s, drummer Andrew Cyrille (b. 1939, Brooklyn) developed an pan-metrical approach to the kit which helped pave the way for a new kind of drummer, freed from the constraints of mere timekeeping. Oliver Lake (b. 1942, Marianna, Arkansas) is best known for his piercing, bluesy tone on the alto saxophone, as well as for his compositional prowess with the WSQ, and his work outside of jazz with the likes of Bjork, Lou Reed, and Mos Def. And Reginald Workman (b. 1937, Philadelphia) is an expressive, first-call doublebassist whose playing provides a direct link between the classic sessions of the Blue Note Records heyday and the present day free jazz scene. The combined pedigree of this all-star trio in their Houston debut makes this an unmissable event. Three public events highlight the Roscoe Mitchell Houston Residency Nameless Sound & Contemporary Arts Museum Houston present Roscoe Mitchell and Alvin Fielder Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 6:30pm Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose [map] free concert Nameless Sound’s Resounding Vision Award Gala Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 8pm featuring dinner, art auction, music, and special guests tickets start at $200 Nameless Sound and Project Row Houses present Roscoe Mitchell Quartet Friday, March 29, 2013 at 8pm Saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell (b. 1940, Chicago) is a key figure in the second wave of jazz avant-gardists who see themselves as composers just as much as improvisers. He is a founding member of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and of its flagship group, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, which expanded the music beyond the ecstasies and expressionism of their “post-bop” and “free jazz” predecessors. In the new century, he’s been revered as one of the music’s most articulate elder statesmen, holding prestigious teaching posts at the University of Wisconsin and Mills College, and serving as a beacon for a new generation of creative musicians. Nameless Sound is pleased to welcome Professor Mitchell to Houston for a weeklong residency, during which he will lead a series of workshops and rehearsals, and participate in three public events. JazzWrap Reviews From JazzWrap: Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Slippery Rock! (Hot Cup Records; 2013) PascAli: Suspicious Activity (Creative Sources Recordings; 2012) Igloo Magazine Reviews From igloomag.com: Drifting In Silence :: Place In Time (Labile) Casi Cada Minuto :: In White Rooms (Exitab) Moon Ate the Dark :: Moon Ate the Dark (Sonic Pieces) Osmiroid :: Dromstbles (Self-Released)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line502
__label__wiki	0.702397	0.702397	Escape From the Dreaded Twindemic! Expert Level Adviser Joined: September 03 2017 Location: New York/USA Quote John L. Quote Reply Topic: Escape From the Dreaded Twindemic! Posted: December 13 2020 at 11:16am Some good news. We have probably escaped the feared deadly Covid-19/influenza twindemic. However the reasons may be complex, below.: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/health/flu-coronavirus-twindemic.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Fears of a ‘Twindemic’ Recede as Flu Lies Low Despite early worries, flu patients are not competing with Covid-19 patients for ventilators, and the threat of dueling outbreaks may be waning. A free flu shot administered at Comerica Park in Detroit, Mich., last month.Credit...Seth Herald/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Dec. 13, 2020Updated 5:53 a.m. ET Despite the horrifying surge of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States right now, one bit of good news is emerging this winter: It looks unlikely that the country will endure a “twindemic” of both flu and the coronavirus at the same time. That comes as a profound relief to public health officials who predicted as far back as April that thousands of flu victims with pneumonia could pour into hospitals this winter, competing with equally desperate Covid-19 pneumonia victims for scarce ventilators. “Overall flu activity is low, and lower than we usually see at this time of year,” said Dr. Daniel B. Jernigan, director of the influenza division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “I don’t think we can definitively say there will be no twindemic; I’ve been working with flu for a long time, and I’ve been burned. But flu is atypically low.” Since September, the C.D.C. “FluView” — its weekly report on influenza surveillance — has shown all 50 states in shades of green and chartreuse, indicating “minimal” or “low” flu activity. Normally by December, at least some states are painted in oranges and reds for “moderate” and “high.” For one puzzling week in November, Iowa stood out in dark burgundy, indicating “very high” flu levels. But that turned out to be a reporting error, Dr. Jernigan said.) Of 232,452 swabs from across the country that have been tested for flu, only 496, or 0.2 percent, have come up positive. That has buoyed the spirits of flu experts. Dr. William Schaffner, medical director for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, which promotes flu shots, said he was recently on a telephone discussion with other preventive medicine specialists. “Everybody was in quiet awe about how low flu is,” he said. “Somebody said: ‘Shh, don’t talk about it. The virus will hear us.’” Flu numbers are likely to remain low for many more weeks, predicted Kinsa Health, a company that uses cellphone-connected thermometers and historical databases to forecast flu trends. Said Inder Singh, Kinsa’s founder and chief executive. “It looks like the twindemic isn’t going to happen.” 7% of population sick with flu By The New York Times \| Source: Kinsa A combination of factors is responsible for the remarkably quiet flu season, experts said. In the Southern Hemisphere, where winter stretches from June through August, widespread mask-wearing, rigorous lockdowns and other precautions against Covid-19 transmission drove flu down to record-low levels. Southern Hemisphere countries help “reseed” influenza viruses in the Northern Hemisphere each year, Dr. Jernigan said. Also, to keep Covid-19 out, New Zealand and Australia have closed their borders either to all noncitizens or to Americans, so there has been very little air traffic from those Southern Hemisphere countries. In the United States, the cancellation of large indoor gatherings, closings of schools and use of masks to prevent coronavirus transmission have also driven down levels of all respiratory diseases, including influenza. In addition, Dr. Jernigan said, a “phenomenal number” of flu shots were manufactured and shipped to pharmacies, hospitals and doctors’ office in August, a month earlier than usual. As of late November, 188 million doses had been shipped; the old record was 175 million doses shipped last year. Spot shortages were quickly reported in some cities, so experts assumed that large numbers of Americans took them. However, there is not yet enough data to confirm that assumption. According to a preliminary tally released Dec. 9, about 70 million adults had received the shots through pharmacies or doctors’ offices as of mid-November, compared with 58 million last year.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line503
__label__cc	0.528396	0.471604	Women's & Men's Clothing \| Find Business & Casual Clothes Near You in El Segundo \| Banana Republic Locator / California / El Segundo Locations in El Segundo PLAZA AT EL SEGUNDO 2004 E Park Place Banana Republic Factory stores in El Segundo are stocked with the modern, versatile apparel and accessories you love at an exceptional value. From covetable on-trend pieces to tailored performance styles, Banana Republic Factory provides an elevated wardrobe of wear-everywhere favorites—women’s clothing, men’s clothing, jewelry, shoes, handbags, and accessories—all designed for everyday adventures and offered at incredible prices in El Segundo. Find the latest arrivals in women’s and men’s styles at your local El Segundo Banana Republic Factory location. Shop hundreds of wear-to-work staples, like washable suiting and stain-resistant pants, and go-to classics, like dresses and button-up shirts, where value meets quality. Visit El Segundo Banana Republic Factory store locations and find iconic closet essentials in women’s and men’s clothing to create endless outfit possibilities.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line514
__label__cc	0.556161	0.443839	Dreamchasers Are Now Scott & Sid Alton Williams We told you about Dreamchasers a while ago. A few changes since Wetlands Trailer Eighteen year-old Helen Memel (Carla Juri) likes to skateboard, masturbate with vegetables and thinks that body hygiene is greatly overrated. Struggling with her parents’ divorce, she spends her time experimenting and breaking one social taboo after the other with her best friend, Corinna (Marlen Kruse). When a shaving accident lands True Blood: Redhead Refresher Cocktail Recipe To celebrate the final series of True Blood, HBO have released some cookbooks which tie in with the series. Drinks & Bites has snacks and cocktails for £14.39, and Eats, Drinks & Bites is £19.99 and features full main course recipes as well as drinks and puddings. Both books feature recipes inspired Interview: Kristian Hanson, Writer/Director/Star Of Sledge A spoof of the horror genre, and littered with nods and references to fright flicks of yesteryear, Sledge fixes on a psychopath who not only believes he’s in a movie and video game but that he’s the hero of this story. We spoke to Kristian Hanson, who not only helmed the President Wolfman Takes Office on DVD 26th August Meet John Wolfman: politician, single parent and werewolf, a man whose (hairy) hands are definitely full. Not only is he trying to stop his opponents from selling the US to China, he also has to solve a series of grizzly murders in the capitol. Add a crazed mad scientist, Smokey	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line518
__label__wiki	0.524604	0.524604	Про нас > Персонал > Кафедра генетики та біотехнології Сирватка Василь Ярославович Посада: науковий співробітник кафедри генетики та біотехнології Телефон (робочий): +38(032)2394208 Електронна пошта: vasyl.syrvatka@gmail.com Веб-сторінка: bioweb.lnu.edu.ua Профіль у Academia.edu: lnulviv.academia.edu Профіль у Facebook: www.facebook.com Biotechnology & Nanotechnology Syrvatka V.J., Slyvchuk Y.I., Rozgoni I.I., Gevkan I.I., Shtapenko O.V. (2015) Effect of silver nanoparticles on maturation of rabbit’s oocytes co-cultured with granulosa cells in vitro. Studia Biologica. Vol 9, № 1, P. 57–66 http://doi.org/10.30970/sbi.0901.419 Syrvatka V.J., Slyvchuk Y.I., Rozgoni I.I., Gevkan I.I., Shtapenko O.V. (2015) Sensitive and Rapid Assay for Determination of Protein Concentration Using Silver Nanoparticles with Hyaluronan Optics in the Life Sciences, OSA Technical Digest, paper OM4D.3., 12-15 April, Vancouver, Canada. http://doi.org/10.1364/OMP.2015.OM4D.3 Syrvatka V. J. Change in Hematological and Biochemical Blood Parameters in Rabbits after hormonal stimulation and early pregnancy / V. J. Syrvatka, Y. I. Slyvchuk, G. O. Milovanova, I. I. Hevkan, I. I. Rozgoni // J. of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Science. – 2014. – Vol. 3, № 4. – P. 274-278. Shtapenko O. V., Gevkan I. I., Sluvchyk Yu. I., Syrvatka V. Y., Matvienko N. M. Formation and properties polymer nanolayers to enhance cell growth in vitro // Innow. Biosyst. Bioeng., 2018, vol. 2, no. 2, P. 105-109. 2017 – Research Fellow, Genetics and Biotechnology Department, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Lviv, Ukraine. 2016 – Ph.D. in Biotechnology, Diploma. The National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine. Dissertation: “Biotechnological aspects of use of functionalized silver nanoparticles in reproductive technologies and analytical biochemistry”. 2013-2017 Research Fellow, Laboratory of Reproductive Biotechnology, Institute of Animal Biology NAAS, Lviv, Ukraine 2008-2013 Research Engineer, Laboratory of Reproductive Biotechnology, Institute of Animal Biology NAAS, Lviv, Ukraine 2008-2012 PhD student Research, Biotechnology department, Institute of Animal Biology, Lviv, Ukraine. 2008 M.S. in Genetics, Diploma. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Genetics and Biotechnology Department, Lviv, Ukraine. Thesis: “Effect of insulin on maturated oocyte-cumulus complex cocultured with oviduct and endometrium cells culture”. 2007 B.A. in Biology, Diploma. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine. 2003-2008 Student, Genetics and Biotechnology Department, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine. 2016-2017 “Scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists” from Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. 2015 “Honorary Diploma for high achievement in the performance of scientific research and for First Place in scientists rating” from Institute of Animal Biology NAAS 2014 “Research Excellence Award” from Newport Corporation 2014 “Certificate of Merit for conscientious work and significant contribution to science” from Lviv Regional State Administration 2013 “SPIE Travel Scholarship for potential long-range contribution to the field of optics, photonics or related field” from SPIE 2013 “Award winner of competition of scientific presentation of young scientists” from Presidium of National Academy of Agrarian Science of Ukraine 2012 “Honorary Diploma for significant contribution to the development and improvement of modern biotechnological methods of investigation” from Western Scientific Centre the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line521
__label__wiki	0.878247	0.878247	Country-Specific Outputs How to Improve Research Uptake General Resources and Agencies Tools for Research Uptake Tools for Capacity Building Building Evidence Advisory Systems How to Evaluate Research Uptake Efforts How to Study Evidence Use from a Political Perspective VakaYiko Evidence-Informed Policy Making Toolkit INASP, 2016. SUPPORT tools for evidence-informed health policymaking (STP). Oxman, A.D., and Hanney, S. 2009. Health Research Policy and Systems 7(Suppl. 1). The knowledge translation toolkit – bridging the know-do gap: A resource for researchers. Bennet, G., and Jessani, N. 2011. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre. Evidence briefs and deliberative dialogues: perceptions and intentions to act on what was learnt. Moat, K.A., et al. 2014. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 92(1), pp.20-28. Evidence summaries tailored to health policy-makers in low-and middle-income countries. Rosenbaum, S.E. et al. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 89(1), pp.54-61. Toolkit for progressive policymakers in developing countries. Sutcliffe, S., and Court, J. 2006. London: Overseas Development Institute. Knowledge Translation Network Africa – ‘Resources’ pull-down tab includes tools for knowledge translation. Policy Briefs: A guide to writing policy briefs for research uptake. Wolfe, R. 2013. Resilient & Responsive Health Systems (RESYST). Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit. 2015. Mental Health Innovation Network. Getting Research into Policy in Public Health (GRIP‐Health) is a five year research project that aims to improve the practice of evidence informed health policy through the application of political, institutional, and sociological analysis. Note: This project will end on the 31st December 2016, after which this website will no longer be regularly updated. 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UK Email: Fiona.Marquet@lshtm.ac.uk London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine website Giving to the School © 2021 GRIP-Health.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line532
__label__wiki	0.585687	0.585687	MPR News From our outstate correspondents Arts Around MN: The Critique; A year on the Plains Michael Olson April 20, 2012, 2:41 PM Apr 20, 2012 Local painter Hazel Belvo’s Artist-in-Resident exhibit opened on April 9th, and the this weekend marks the closing of her show on April 22nd at the Grand Marais Art Colony. Her final lecture will take place this evening. April 20: The Critique: Community Response. Based on the language, techniques and the content that she has presented and on the opportunity to have seen the process unfold, Hazel will ask the audience to participate in a discussion of the outcome. How do you talk about art?“ MNArtist provides insight into Belvo’s perspective about the connection between art and education: “Belvo states, ‘I am convinced that an aesthetic education is critical to democracy and…within each individual there is a core connection to art whether in art making or appreciating art intellectually, emotionally and spiritually.'” The open House will take place this weekend from 5-6p.m at the Grand Marais Art Colony,. In Maple Grove, artist Mia Malone-Jennings will be exhibiting original art work that has been inspired by music. Her work is done with acrylics on canvas and the exhibit with many other artists from the community. The reception takes place April 22 2-4 p.m.at the Maple Grove Art Center. This special event will include appetizers, wine, and music by chuck Solberg that will support the atmosphere created by the artists. (By: Mia Malone-Jennings) Another exhibit to attend this weekend is “A Year on the Plains” which will present work by Therese Masters Jacobson. Her art as been about a year process, and will be on display at the Campbell Public Library in East Grand Forks, MN until May 25th. Her acrylic work is inspired by the natural landscape, and she uses her own interpretation of the world around her to project a beautiful landscape in her art. Her work reflects her experiences, and provides the viewing audience to catch a glimpse into the artist mind and visual encounters. A reception is going to be help on the opening date from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Jacobson’s husband Dale Jacobson, a poet and author, will provide further entertainment by reading some of his works. ‹ Older Few substantive differences emerge among 8th District DFL candidates Newer › This week in Minnesota Browse by category Escape Route Minnesota Sounds & Voices Get Out There MN Made State Fair Minnesota Scenes “Fargo” Michael Olson molson@mpr.org • @publicmic Editor, MPR News Are you a State Fair pro? Could Duluth’s Mayor be sued for parody of “Gangnam Style”? Mining Minnesota’s rich vein of Finnish American music “MPR is there when I wake up, throughout the day, and every evening.” —Ray from Rochester, MN	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line533
__label__cc	0.744503	0.255497	Context and Variation Dana’s Super-Awesome Mount St. Helens Field Trip Guide I: Hoffstadt or Bust Something has been sitting in my craw for a while since reading that clickbait “manifesto” on how people who put their kids in private school are bad people. By Kate Clancy on September 4, 2013 Something has been sitting in my craw for a while since reading that clickbait “manifesto” on how people who put their kids in private school are bad people. The author’s gleeful and unapologetic anti-intellectual attitude for one (I didn’t read any books AND I’M TEH AWSUMZ!), troubling coming from someone writing on education. The claim that rich kids (the author’s operating assumption of what kind of student predominates in private school) make public schools better because money equals better (a point disemboweled neatly by the always-brilliant Dr. Emily Willingham). Barftastic both, but I still couldn’t identify the sense of unease the whole thing gave me. Then, I happened to be hanging out with my dear friend Dr. Anne Jefferson (of Highly Allochthonous, also a badass geology professor at Kent State). Anne is the one who made the connection to something Dr. Isis said recently around Open Access. Dr. Isis made the point that the most radical thing minority scientists can do is get tenure, which means not always (if ever) prioritizing the Open Access movement. Pushing minority scientists to do this ignores their experiences around inequity and discrimination, and what they need to do to succeed and help other underrepresented scientists succeed. Anne followed this up by saying no movement is worth sacrificing disenfranchised or oppressed people on some principle of a “greater good.” That is why this value judgment about public versus private education, a thinly veiled iteration of the Mommy Wars, is wrong. Children can’t give consent, they live their lives at the whims of their caretakers. One of the reasons kids often develop picky eating habits, or push back on bedtime, or misbehave at school comes from their trying to find some way, any way, to get out from under the oppression of being a constant second class citizen. Once you see how the author’s whole argument is that we should improve education at the cost of kids, it becomes ridiculous. When it comes to any movement – open access, public education, feminism, or others – do we put the burden on the backs of the most disenfranchised, or those with power and privilege? And how do we lift up all kids and give them better educational experiences? Being a kid ambassador In the case of kids, parents play many roles, just one of them being ambassador. Ambassadors screw up and don’t always quite get the job right of course, but you’re supposed to do the best job you can amplifying the voice of who you represent. Maybe an even better metaphor would be kid union steward. As far as I can tell, my kid wants me to build the best life I can for her, and to put her in situations that help her grow, that challenge her, but most of all respect her as a human being. Her current school, a private school and research lab affiliated with my university, does that. She is treated with respect as an inherently good person and learner not because it’s private but because it subscribes to Reggio Emilia’s project-based approach. I am a complete convert to this approach because I’ve seen the wonderful ways it manifests across preschool, kindergarten and elementary education. And I’ve seen what these teachers and this approach have done for my kiddo. The way that school works directly contradicts the kinds of pedagogy we associate with academically “rigorous” schools. Yet my kiddo is internally motivated and explores her interests while advancing in literacy, science, art and math. She is only five, yet is on the brink of understanding fractions, just because they seem kind of cool to her. She once spent three days with her friends building a “pony house” out of recycled materials, and ended up putting a lot into the basic needs of an animal AND basic architectural structures. She reads everything -- labels, signs, menus, books. And folks, I love my kid, but I don’t think she is a genius. I just think that when learners are treated respectfully and given resource and attention, they tend to figure out a lot on their own. Rather than see my role as my kid’s ambassador as one that puts her in situations for supposed benefit of all kids but not necessarily optimal for her, I would rather make the kid ambassador job easier for all the other parents who want access to the right education for their kids. I’ve done plenty of those things, which I won’t document here because it would be obnoxious to do so, but examples include working with your school to lower tuition, or expand classrooms to increase access. You can also learn about the broader historical context of why schools work the way they do, and evidence-based ways to improve it. Because our school is university-affiliated, the director’s job is only half directing the school: the other half of her job is outreach and training with public schools. Supporting this school actually does support public education in our local school districts. My educational awakening I remember what it was like to not be respected as a learner, and to have quiet obedience prized over understanding the material. When I was younger, I acted out in response to this oppression. In my Montessori preschool and kindergarten I was constantly sent to time out for being disruptive. In first grade I regularly pretended to be sick to get out of class (I have vivid memories of pushing my stomach into my desk until it hurt so that I could go see the nurse). Second grade doesn’t count, because I really was sick all the time and was hospitalized a few times, so I wasn’t even in school that much. Then by third grade I was stuffing my assignments into my desk and reading my own books because the worksheets were so dreadfully boring. This experience in third grade might have been the most humiliating of my elementary school years. After weeks of crumpling up assignments and stuffing them in my desk for one class, a change in desk assignments for another class that met in the same room led to the discovery of my discarded work. A parent-teacher conference quickly followed, and my balled-up assignments smoothed out and stapled together. My punishment was having to do all of the worksheets after school. That same year, I was tested and placed into the gifted program, still a public school institution. I stayed in the gifted program from fourth through sixth grade, until our school district cut the program because they didn’t have the money. My parents were involved, and tried really hard to save it. But in seventh grade it was back to regular junior high. I loved the gifted program I was in, because it was the first real experience I had where I was respected as a person, where it was assumed I was smart and could do stuff. Now the goofing off I did made me precocious rather than disruptive. Teachers found ways to help me change my behavior without forcing or punishing me into submission – but I was also a lot less obnoxious while there. We had endless opportunities to be creative with the ways we learned. We were trusted. Respect and trust are in short supply in some school settings, because these are the hardest things to give kids when there are a whole lot of them and only a few of you… particularly if you’re under additional stressors to make these students perform a particular way in a test so you don’t lose your job. Lifting up all kids Back when one of my research projects involved working in a public school, I was given that school district’s curriculum guide. The “science” section had only four bullet points, which boiled down to: -Learn to use lab equipment safely when testing hypotheses -Describe interactions between people and the environment, including space exploration -Know the basic cell structures and functions -Observe the properties of energy: heat, light and sound Fine arts was the real loser with only three points, where phys ed had six points, eight for math, and fifteen for literacy. Fifth grade is a big testing year and so the teachers have to focus all their attention on literacy and math. I’m sure they’d love to do more with art and science, but their school could lose out if they don’t teach to the test. Science, or the scientific method, is one of the major “ways of knowing” children use to interact with their environment and stimulate their natural curiosity about the world. Yet throughout a child’s educational experience, at least in the US, it receives very little attention. It’s no surprise that over time so many children develop an idea that science is for a specific set of people – a set that rarely includes them. My daughter’s school experience is inherently scientific: she has some guidance, through the semester’s main topic (this semester it’s “trees”), but then it’s up to her to inquire and learn about the world. The kids get put into interest groups after a few weeks of giving them time to feel out what they find interesting about that semester’s topic. Then the main projects of the semester are motivated by what the kids want to learn and do. Their exploration tends to involve the scientific method in some way. While we’re working on respect and trust for all children, it would be nice to prioritize science as a way of knowing that helps defend curiosity against boredom, and provide a perspective to children that all kinds of knowledge is accessible to them. We should be working towards a pro-intellectual, pro-science, pro-child educational system. Pitting parents or kids against each other, or wearing a lack of an education as a badge of honor rather than something one might want to independently overcome, is not the way to get there. Kate Clancy I am Dr. Kate Clancy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. On top of being an academic, I am a mother, a wife, an athlete, a labor activist, a sister, and a daughter. My beautiful blog banner was made by Jacqueline Dillard. Context and variation together help us understand humans (and any other species) as complicated. But they also help to show us that biology is not immutable, that it does not define us from the moment of our birth. Rather, our environment pushes and pulls our genes into different reaction norms that help us predict behavior and physiology. But, as humans make our environments, we have the ability to change the very things that change us. We often have more control over our biology than we may think. 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__label__cc	0.667545	0.332455	At home with the Weird Beards Trophy shelf! Rated as the 5th best new brewery of 2013 globally by Ratebeer users, Weird Beard remains a dark horse to many. Based in West London – Hanwell to be accurate – it's away from crafty hotbeds such as Bermondsey or Tottenham, and some might say it's all the better for that. With the tagline “Never knowingly under-hopped” it's one of those breweries whose fans are hard-core, yet many beer lovers may never have tried their beers. Having first met WB's Gregg and Bryan two or three years ago when they were home-brewers looking to go pro, giving away samples at the Egham beer festival to test the market, the Ratebeer award was little surprise to me. These guys know how to produce striking and interesting, yet very drinkable beers. So we kept in touch, and I was delighted when they finally found a suitable site for their brewery, and even more so when their beers started appearing in my local, the Magpie & Crown. However, until last Friday I hadn't actually seen the new brewery. Being on an industrial estate next to the canal at the end of a no-through-road, they're not in an area that encourages Bermondsey-style drop-in brewery bars, and for much the same reason they prefer to do their off-sales via local shops. Then I learnt they were having a couple of open days, and given that Hanwell is just a hop and a skip away, I jumped on my bike. 3 of the 10bbl FVs It's a 10-barrel plant (originally shared with Ellenbergs, who they subsequently bought out), and it's grown from two to four then six 10-barrel fermenters, and they have now even outgrown those. Two more fermenters are waiting to be plumbed in, and these are 20-barrel ones intended to take double-brews of what have become the regular beers – a list that includes Mariana Trench, Black Perle, Kentish Town BearD and Decadence Stout. Gregg says Faceless Spreadsheet Ninja will join the regular roster from January. And as well as acquiring more equipment, they've been taking on staff – they're currently recruiting for another brewer. Sleeping beer... As well as several beers in bottles to drink there or take away, they had four delicious beers on tap (keg) for the open days: Faceless Spreadsheet Ninja is based on German Pilsner but with the addition of flavoursome hops – Citra in this case (it's largely based on an earlier trial brew called Citra Pilsner). It maddens me that German Pils is so samey – all using the same few boring hop varieties, and all just hopped for bitterness and aroma, not flavour. This just shows what Pils can be when brewed with imagination (and flavour!). Originally brewed in collaboration with Brewdog's Camden bar and described as American Wheat Ale, Kentish Town Beard is what I think of as Hopfenweisse – a Weissbier or Weizen, massively hopped up. It's dank and hopsacky, with bitter orange and herby notes. Decadence stout is rich, dark and chocolatey, with a fresh hoppy bite. Chewy and dry yet creamy, it slips down oh so easily. Holy Hoppin' Hell – batch 5 in this case, with Centennial hops – is one of their show-off beers. It's a hop-bomb of a double IPA, brewed the same each time but with different hops, Yes, it's bitter, but think hoppy aromas and flavours – in this case pineapple, plus some pine and mandarin, and what I identified as faint notes of aniseed and thyme. I'd a good catch-up with Gregg. He tells me that while most is key-kegged or bottled, they are still committed to also offering those beers that suit it in cask. They will only send casks to pubs they know can look after it and serve it on top form though – as well as the M&C, this list includes the Harp in Covent Garden, which he said is now their main cask outlet. A couple of other snippets of news included that keg Decadence is going into the Craft Beer Company pubs from January, that they're going to experiment with canning a few of the beers, and that the session IPA Little Things that Kill is unfortunately going out of production. Apparently they could ferment it out, package it, deliver it – and then it would start going again. Its effective shelf-life was so short that some batches had unsustainable return rates. Shame. Anyway, it was great to see how they've grown, and I'm looking forward to opening the two more bottles I brought home with me. Oh, and the hand-made beer truffles! Om nom nom... Labels: craft beer, IPA, london brewers, london brewing, Stout Review: Brewbarrel all-in-one homebrew kit “Dehydrated beer – just add water!” It's a little more complicated than that, but that is pretty much the aim of Brewbarrel, a simple yet innovative homebrew kit from Germany (where it sells as Braufässchen). The innovation is that almost everything takes place in the one vessel – a five-litre minikeg that you also serve the beer from – so there is no need for any cleaning or moving liquids around, and that you can go from kit to drinkable beer in just one week. Inside the ingredients box The basic kit contains the keg, a pressure-release bung, instructions, a bottle of malt extract and a little pot of hop extract. This is what brewers call an all-extract kit, meaning there's no need to boil crushed malt and real hops. Real brewers tend to sniff at the lack of flexibility and craft in extract brewing, but it does makes it a lot simpler. Of course there is also a sachet of yeast – one of the complexities in Brewbarrel's development was finding yeasts that would both work quickly and drop cleanly to the bottom once their work was done. And as well as a choice of golden or dark lagers, wheat beer (Weizen) and pale ale, you can specify additional flavourings, including extra hops. So while I tested a Dunkel with oak chips and honey, a homebrewer friend helped with another Dunkel and an extra-hoppy Weizen. Fermentation begins The brew process is simplicity itself. The first job is to get the malt extract into the keg, you then use the malt bottle as a measure for adding hot and cold water. Add the assorted flavourings (the muslin bag of oak chips was a pain to get through the hole, but the rest just pour), the yeast and the bung, and you are pretty much done. Now you just leave it at room temperature for five days to ferment – or you do, if you don't spot the extra bit in the instructions about inverting the keg for a few moments after the first 24 hours, in order to mix up and revitalise (rouse, in brewer-speak) the yeast. After five days, you put it in the fridge for two more days, this stops fermentation and helps the yeast settle to the bottom. Sadly, I missed the 24-hour step with my honey-oak Dunkel, so despite a lively initial fermentation, the result after chilling was a fairly weak and sweet malt drink. Fortunately, rousing the yeast and refermenting for another five days or so seemed to do the trick, producing a very lively red-brown beer, malty and a bit sweet, not especially strong and with a dry grassy and faintly herbal bitter finish. I found the honey a bit too much, but some other tasters liked it a lot. Just a tad lively! My friend's brews worked well – fermenting the wheat beer at a lower temperature also seemed to bring out extra banana notes. None of the beers was particularly full-bodied or bitter, even with the extra hops, but his were eminently drinkable in a week. With mine, I found that an extra week in the keg after tapping the first couple of pints improved the Dunkel – to my taste, at least. A slight dustiness moderated the sweetness, and allowed notes of dark dried fruit to play with the honey overtones. In conclusion, Brewbarrel is an easy to use kit that produces decent beer, as long as you can follow instructions of course! 😞 It is a little pricey, with the basic £25 kit equating to around £3 a pint, and the beers are not going to frighten the horses, but it would make a fun gift and a good introduction for a potential homebrewer. It could also be a useful procrastination breaker for anyone suffering from "homebrewer's block" or a dispiriting run of bad brews. Labels: brewery, Dunkel, Germany Cork's Franciscan Well lands in London It's taken a while, but the Irish are coming – and this time they're bringing interesting beer. First we had Guinness reverse the trend of decades and add a significant amount of variety to its range, and now it is the turn of 16 year-old Cork microbrewery Franciscan Well to bring its craft beers across the water. It's been helped in this by its parent Molson Coors, which bought Franciscan Well about two years ago. The Irish micro is now part of MC's Craft and Cask Beer group, alongside Sharp's of Cornwall and Worthington's. (Interestingly, this group also distributes a bunch of non-MC brands, including Greene King's bestsellers, several Marston's, Thwaites and Hook Norton ales, Fuller's London Pride, a bunch of American bottles, and various Belgians including Duvel/Vedett and Timmermans.) Just as it was for Sharp's, one of the attractions for Franciscan Well founder Shane Long was the financial muscle that comes from being part of a multinational. In his case, this means access to the finance he needed to grow FW from its original seven-barrel plant to something an order of magnitude bigger, at 30 barrels. And of course it also means access to Coors' distribution channels, which is how three of his beers were launched on the UK market this month. Initially they will try out in 20 bars around London – “We're in a few select bars to test the market,” Shane said (he also mentioned Edinburgh the last time we spoke). “We are building a bigger brewery now [but] we don't have the capacity yet to supply more.” He added that it also takes time to do the necessary education, training barstaff how to describe and sell the new beers. The three Franciscan Well beers coming to London are Rebel Red, Chieftain IPA and Shandon Stout – I'd tried them (plus a couple of others) when I was in Dublin earlier this year, but I was lucky enough to taste them again, partnered with food at a sampling session hosted by Molson Coors. We met up in the basement bar at Smith's of Spitalfields, close to one of London's craft beer foci (and coincidentally just a stone's throw from where Guinness's new Porters had their UK launch event). Des demo's getting the aroma Our main guide for the evening was beer sommelier Des McCann, FW's chief taster and now Molson Coors' Beer Champion (or more formally, head of training and education) for the UK & Ireland. We started out with the Rebel Red (4.3%), in which I found more depth than I remembered. Des said had they'd had an engineer there all day, trying to get things right, tweaking the Red up to 6.5C and the carbonation down, which opens the flavours out a bit more. It was an intriguing hint that even non-real ales can be improved – or spoiled – by skilled cellarmanship. He partnered it with a pulled-pork croquette, so melt-in-the-mouth gorgeous that I snagged seconds. It matched beautifully with the malty Rebel Red. With its notes of biscuit and toffee and its soft East Kent Goldings hoppiness, the Red was reminiscent of a malty bitter or perhaps some of the maltier German Altbiers. Our second beer, Chieftain IPA (5.5%), is one of a new emerging group of mid-Atlantic hybrids. The way Shane now tells it, he asked the regulars at his brewery tap what they didn't like about American IPAs – “too much of a slap across the face” – and also what they didn't like about British IPAs – “too little hop aroma” – and set out to fix those things. “All the things you don't like about the Americans and the British, removed,” he joked. A fairer way to put it might be to say it combines the attractive elements of both styles – the maltier body of a British Pale Ale plus all those lovely American hop aromas and flavours. The reason I suggest there's a new style of sorts emerging here is that Chieftain reminds me in this respect of several other beers from widely disparate origins, such as Scotland's Deeside Swift and Twickenham's new Tusk keg IPA. Des partnered Chieftain with a juicy burger, topped with blue cheese, intending this time a contrasting pairing. It worked, but while I enjoyed the IPA's lychee and grapefruit aromas I found it too gassy. Des reckoned that being a bit higher in alcohol it needed the higher carbonation to “pull the body through a bit more.” Well, maybe! Either way, it's a sessionable (just about!) IPA that works well with food. The final course was another complementary pairing: Shandon Stout (4.2%) with a bijou chocolate & stout cake. While its strength perhaps puts it more in Porter territory, this beer fits the style Shane's aiming for, which is a Cork dry stout, along the lines perhaps of Beamish. There's hints of coffee and cream in there, plus fainter notes of green apples and smoky bacon, and a dry burnt-bitterness. The overall effect was quite mild and some might say watery, reminding me of soft-bodied hybrids such as Schneider's Porter Weisse. Chatting with the bar's beverage manager on the way out, he said Smith's would have the stout in the Spitalfields branch and both the stout and IPA in the Smithfields branch. His customers, he said, are a mix of same-again types who looks for known brands, and those willing to experiment, so the challenge is to balance the two without alienating either. And I guess in a way that is also the challenge facing the likes of Franciscan Well, trying to establish a footing in the tremendously brand-dominated Irish market. The main styles are familiar enough, yet subtly different, and at the same time Shane and his team are having fun with a bit of experimentation. For instance, he tells the tale of going drinking one evening with the folks from Jameson's and mentioning ageing beer in whiskey barrels. The following day, “the head of Jameson's was sitting in my bar, saying 'So, what are you going to do?'” Now, as well as the excellent 7.8% Jameson-aged Shandon Stout that I tasted in Dublin, there is a 6% barrel-aged version of his Purgatory Pale Ale (normally 4.5%). Shane said this is a special for some of the pubs on the Irish Whiskey Trail around Midleton in West Cork – Midleton being where Jameson's is now produced and the home of the Jameson Experience. Labels: beer tasting, IPA, Ireland, Stout How Wetherspoon's could change the face of Irish ale JDW's Three Tun Tavern, Dublin I hadn't realised just how big JD Wetherspoon's plans are for the Irish Republic, and just how much it could change the profile of real ale over there, until I caught up with Cork brewer Shane Long yesterday. He does produce cask ale at his Franciscan Well brewery, and he also runs a popular annual Irish cask ale festival with 50+ beers on offer, but most of his production is keg, simply because the Republic doesn't have enough bars with handpumps. Indeed, he estimates there's probably only 20 pubs in the country serving cask ale right now (though of course there's more in Northern Ireland). However, that number is set to more than double over the next year or three with the arrival of JD Wetherspoon, which plans to spend up to €100 million developing a chain of pubs in the Republic. The first Wetherspoon's south of the border - it already has numerous pubs in the north - opened in Dublin earlier this year, and a second Dublin (or rather, Dun Laoghaire) Spoons is due to open next month. Shane expects the company to open at least 20 more around the country though, while the Belfast Telegraph suggests the total could be as high as 30. “They've four sites planned in Cork city alone, one in the centre and three in the suburbs, with the first probably opening next January,” Shane added. Given that all are likely to have at least some real ale presence, here's hoping that it will be a big fillip to local brewers wanting to do more than just fizzy keg! Labels: Ireland, Wetherspoon Beer reviews: Deeside Brewery Deeside Brewery's beers haven't been a common sight here in the south-east of England, although in their home region of Scotland I understand they are getting a fair bit of brand recognition now. That's in part thanks to deals with the likes of Aldi, who seem to be becoming a bit of a retail version of Wetherspoons – sniffed at by the snobs, but capable of both providing an excellent deal for consumers and supporting small brewers (alongside certain of the major regionals of course). So when Deeside asked if I would like to try their beers I cheerfully accepted, and a little while later a box arrived containing five different bottled beers, all happily intact. They were quite a variety – as you might expect there's a bitter, a pale ale and a stout, but there's also a lager and a California Common, otherwise known as Steam Beer. I'm going to run through them in alphabetical order, which by chance also happens to be roughly the order in which I preferred them, from least to most! Craft Lager (4.1% Pale Lager) Not just a lager but a Craft Lager, whatever that means these days. It poured light amber with a thin head, a little corn and apricot on the nose, herbal bitterness and a faint lemony tang. I'm not a great lager fan and for me this was the weakest of the five, but it was pleasant in a Helles-ish way. LAF (California Common, 3.9%) Now this was a curious one. It's a style that has been getting more attention recently – the idea behind both this and Germany's remarkably similar Dampfbier is to use lager yeast at ale temperatures, historically in shallow open fermenters. It poured golden with a fast-settling head and lightly honeyed, faintly herbal aromas. The body was fairly full, with golden fruit, drying bitterness, more herbal notes and touches of honey. It finished bitter-sweet. The herbal notes and dryness are typical of the style, and I think this is one that could easily grow on you. Macbeth (4.1% Best Bitter) Now this was one that needed no growing. Brown with a thin head, and aromas of caramel malt and faintly of toasted nuts, it is a tasty example of a classic Best Bitter. Crisp and nicely balanced with a firm dry malty backbone and earthy hops, and hints of spice and bread. Swift (3.8% American Pale Ale) More of a Golden Ale really – it's hoppier than the average British Pale Ale, but maltier than some APAs. Whatever, it's a rather nice hybrid! It's amber coloured with a thin head, and light notes of pepper, citrus and toffee on the nose. There's Seville marmalade bitterness and caramel on the palate, and a touch of biscuit in the body. Talorcan (4.5% Stout) The ABV is Porter territory rather than Stout, but Talorcan holds up well. It's near-black with a big coarse tan head – it really is quite gassy. (Burp.) it is also pretty complex – there's cocoa and a touch of tobacco on the nose, the body has a dry-creamy texture, with roast malts, cocoa, liquorice, touches of tart plum and old leather, a faint metallic mineral note, and a dry-bitterness. Interesting, and the best of the bunch, once I'd swooshed most of the gas out. Overall, a decent range. I'll happily choose Macbeth (“the Scottish beer”?) or Talorcan whenever I see them again, and the others are worth trying too, especially as your palate probably differs from mine... Labels: beer tasting, Scotland, Stout International Stout Day 2014 Pretty much everything now seems to have its "International Day of", with Stout being no exception. And this year's is tomorrow.... I'm not entirely sure where Stout Day has popped up from, but as it's one of my favourite beer styles I'm not complaining. There's even a badge for it (which I've borrowed here) on the beery social network Untappd, if you're a member of that. However... I just Googled for an International Porter Day, and there isn't one! Bah. So, how about it? Anyone? Labels: Porter, Stout The problem with pumpkins Have you found any decent Hallowe'en beers this year? They've become something of a staple in the UK, and are starting to appear now in other European countries too, even though none of it reaches the heights of obsessiveness that American drinkers must endure. Part of the problem is the obsession with pumpkins. These American gourds have relatively little flavour of their own, and to bring out any sort of decent flavour out of them you need spices. Ginger is my preference here, but brewers and bakers tend to go for the likes of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon instead. So what you get is mostly just a spiced beer - a few brewers even admit there's no pumpkin in their Hallowe'en beer, and that where the label says "pumpkin-spiced ale" it is 100% accurate - it is spiced with "pumpkin spices". One pumpkin beer that's fairly widely available is Wychwood's Pumpking, I've had this year's edition though and it was overwhelmed by burnt caramel flavours and generally unimpressive. The same brewer's version of Night Owl Pumpkin Ale, based on a recipe from US brewery Elysian and brewed for the current Wetherspoon real ale festival, was rather better - at 6% it's also almost double the strength of the distinctly non-kingly 3.8% Pumpking. (Incidentally, Pumpking was originally 5%, then 4.5% and 4.2%, before dropping to its current poor status last year. And they still have the cheek to describe it as a "rich ruby ale". Shame on you, Wychwood.) The best so far for not being over-spiced was this year's London Fields Brewery Pumpkin Ale, launched during a Hallowe'en party at the brewery tap in Hackney last night. Another 6%er (last year's edition was 6.6%), it's properly beery as well as being spiced. Sadly, the same wasn't true of the other ale London Fields launched last night. Called Gyle 666 (presumably because it was their 666th brew - they are currently brewing at least 10 times a week!!), this is a chilli brown ale, but even 6.6% ABV isn't able to save it from being over-sweet, over-chillied and a tad one-dimensional. Look out for the LFB Pumpkin Ale though - and also the Night Owl, if your local Spoons hasn't sold out already. Labels: Halloween, london brewing, Wetherspoon Cask ale brewing is back in SE1 New breweries continue to appear in London, but one of the more interesting things about the latest start-up – it was due to begin brewing on its new 10-barrel kit this week – is that it is an unashamedly real ale-only brewery in the heart of Crafty Bermondsey. Yes, the famed Bermondsey Beer Mile, which formerly only produced cask-conditioned beer on rare occasions, now has a regular cask outlet in the shape of Southwark Brewing Co. Based in a railway arch at 57 Druid Street and well within the Borough of Southwark, the brewery is just a few arches up from Anspach & Hobday and Bullfinch Brewing, and is a new westernmost extension to the Beer Mile. However, while the brewery tap will be open on Fridays and Saturdays, and maybe also Thursdays in the run up to Yule, the main aim is to ride the localism trend and sell LocAles to pubs across the London SE and SW region. They plan to brew three times a week to start with, so that's a fair bit to sell – as one commentator on Ratebeer asked, have we reached “peak beer” now, with new entrants finding it incrementally harder to sell their wares to a limited pool of free-houses? After all, they may be the brewery most local to SE1, but outside that they're as local as Sambrooks, Truman and even Fullers. Still, co-founder and brewer Andy Nichol has a finance background – he's formerly a lecturer, but learnt to brew under the tutelage of business partner Peter Jackson, who is an ex-Marstons exec – so he has done his research. Certainly, there's a lot of money gone into the set-up, mostly sourced from friends and family, says Andy, but also with help from government schemes to support investment in small businesses, and the two are being advised by Sean Franklin, the founder of Roosters Brewery who now works as a consultant. The brewery already has several recipes to its credit – the core brews will be its fruity, hoppy and golden London Pale Ale (LPA) at 4%, and a traditional 4.4% best bitter in the shape of Bermondey Best, but there's also other such as Peter's Stout, a bottled 8.9% Russian Imperial Stout brewed in honour of Peter the Great who visited London in 1698. These were all brewed on its small test kit, however – basically a large homebrew set-up – and the next task for its brewers will be to scale those recipes up to a full-length brew. Labels: london brewers, london brewing, marston's Lost London breweries back in action Last night was the preview of a new London brewpub on Torrens Street, just around the corner from Angel tube station in Islington. Formerly a gastropub called the Arc, it is now the first London base of a growing chain called Brewhouse & Kitchen which already has venues in Portsmouth and Dorchester, and will soon open a fourth in the former Junction pub in Highbury, just up the road from the Angel. B&K Islington is a big space on the ground floor of a modern building, decorated in an eclectic and only occasionally clichéd style: bare brick walls, bookcases, old suitcases turned into picture frames, and huge copper light fittings that bring brewing vessels to mind. And then at the back, there is the brewkit, all wood and steel – and looking awfully familiar. As well it should, because it's the same brewkit that used to reside in the Botanist on Kew Green and was ripped out by pubco M&B after it bought the Botanist and the other pubs owned by the small Convivial group. Even better, M&B also ripped the brewkit out of the Lamb in Chiswick, and that's being installed in B&K Highbury, so that's two lost breweries returned to the city. It's a little convoluted, but as I understand it, two of the directors of Convivial – which was London-focused – had also set up B&K as a separate company to develop a similar gastro-brewpub format elsewhere. Since then, B&K has been buying up whatever pub-scale brewing kit it can, ready for new sites as they come along – Islington head brewer Peter Hughes (who is ex-Mighty Oak Brewery) said there's still two or three breweries in storage. Also on-board with B&K is Mark Wainwright, the original head brewer from the Botanist and now in Dorchester, while the former manager of the Botanist is now running B&K Islington. Anyway, the new brewpub opens to the public next Monday (October 6th). There was a reasonable range of ales on at the preview, albeit a fairly 'safe' one, and only the Spandau B session IPA was actually brewed on site. Peter's done several brews there already, but reckons it can take you a dozen to get used to a new brewkit. For instance, when you move liquid between vessels there's a temperature drop which will affect things such as the attenuation, so you could end up with a thinner but more alcoholic brew than you wanted. While your experience as a brewer lets you make a good guess, only knowing the brewkit well will get it right. He added that it took him two days just to get the brewkit clean and replace various pumps and seals – M&B had left it idle for months before selling it, and then it was in store. And he talked of plans to exchange beers with B&K Highbury – the six-barrel brewkit going in there is capable of brewing lagers, whereas his 2.5 barrel kit is for ales, so it would make sense. The beer variety will very likely increase too – Peter is friendly with the brewers at West London's Weird Beard, for example, so he's no stranger to interesting and/or hop-forward craft ales. Fingers crossed... All in all, this is a very promising start, with a lot of investment and an experienced (and very multinational!) team involved, and I look forward to revisiting in a couple of weeks to see how it is going. Labels: brewpubs, london brewing Cask Ale Week brings 18,000 beers and free pints Cask Ale Week 2014 starts today, although as it runs until Sunday 5th October I suppose it's really only a week if, like the mad French revolutionaries, you support a decimal week of 10 days. Anyhoo... There's all sorts of things going on, including free beer, meet-the-brewer sessions, festivals, ale trails and so on. And there 's the launch of this year's Cask Report, which says there's now over 18,000 different beers available in Britain, the majority of which are cask-conditioned or real ale. (It actually says “available each year” but I find that hard to believe as it could imply 70 new beers being added every working day. Although as Britain now has around 1300 breweries, I suppose that is just improbable, not impossible!) One of the interesting snippets from the report is that publicans are for more stuck in the mud on real ale stereotypes than drinkers are. It says that 43% of publicans agreed with the statement ‘Most cask ale drinkers are middle aged men with beards and sandals’ and 41% agreed with the statement ‘Women don’t like cask ale’, while only a fraction of that number of drinkers agreed. “These are outdated stereotypes that need to be consigned to the proverbial slop bucket,” said the report's author Pete Brown, “and as the beer revolution and the real savouring of taste continues, no doubt they will be.” It is a worry however, because if publicans believe that sort of nonsense they could harm both the availability and the reputation of real ale. You can read Pete's initial summary of the research behind the report on his blog here. Oh yes, free beer: one source is the FreeDrinkPubs website. Register on the site and it'll email you a coupon that you can print off. You can only redeem it at participating pubs – mostly pubco pubs selling national brands, but many of them are excellent places to drink. Another is reportedly the Daily Telegraph this coming Saturday (27th September) which will carry a free pint token, and then there's the likes of pubco TCG (formerly the Tattershall Castle Group), which as well as its former namesake on the Thames also has several dozen other venues around the country. It's running a promo called Proud of our Ale until 9th November; this includes a buy-six-get-one-free offer, which is not quite as generous as the more traditional BOGOF, but every little helps – especially when there's also 20% off for CAMRA members, which I guess equates to buy-five-get-one-free. Can you combine the two for buy-six-get-two-free? No idea, but here's hoping! Have you seen any more free beer or discount offers? Let me know below. Cheers m'dears... Spoons gets craftier JD Wetherspoon is rolling out craft keg beers across 200 pubs, with availability due from 1st October. The first two beers on tap will be BrewDog's pretentiously named and pompously launched This.Is.Lager., while the other will be an American-style IPA from well regarded US brewer Devils Backbone, but contract brewed in the UK (so I hear) by Adnams. Here's the tap badges, aren't they dreadful? The DB one doesn't even tell you the beer name, never mind its style or strength. Still, I foresee local managers coming up with creative fixes for this. JDW will also be stocking Lagunitas IPA and Rogue American Amber in bottles, according to its Twitter account - presumably these will be the US-made versions. Apparently the Sixpoint beers are staying around, by the way. Labels: Adnams, craft beer, IPA, Wetherspoon Guinness looks to the past for new Porters After many months of planning, here we have it: two new Porters from Guinness, both of them “inspired by” historical recipes and aimed, if not at the craft beer bars, then certainly at those pubs and bars who like to carry a varied beer menu. They come from Diageo's relatively new The Brewers Project, set up to enable its brewers “to explore new recipes, reinterpret old ones and collaborate freely”. The first, Guinness Dublin Porter, is a 3.8% dark beer based on a recipe from 1796, which will surprise those who believed that historical beers tended to be stronger than this. "3.5% to 3.8% would have been typical of working men's Porters at that time," explained Guinness archivist Evelyn Roche, adding that Porter strengths started rising from this sub-4% region coming into the 1800s. This version was described by its brewer Peter Simpson as “more accessible than Guinness Draught,” and will be available in keg and bottle. It's all-grain, with small amounts of both roasted and raw barley, and hopped with English Goldings. “One of the biggest challenges was interpreting the quantities and units used, and then it was the type of hops used,” Peter explained. “It got to the point where we settled on Goldings which would have been one of the most common types at the time.” I found it a pleasant Porter, if a bit watery. There's a touch of coffee on the nose, then caramel, hints of roast chocolate and a light bitterness. It's not so different from the many other Porters at around this strength, including several supermarket own-brands, but of course they don't have the Guinness name on the label. Available in bottles only and at 6%, Guinness West Indies Porter is based on a recipe from 1801 which Evelyn said was the precursor to Foreign Extra Stout. It's dry-bitter with notes of coffee, liquorice, a touch of old leather, and maybe a hint of nuttiness. By comparison, FES is drier, a little more bitter and has sourish notes – the latter deliberately concocted these days, in a special bacterial souring plant within St James's Gate. Sadly for the Guinness folk, who had planned a surprise launch at a secret venue in hipster Spitalfields, their embargo was broken by Morrisons which had the new beers on its shelves the day before the official launch. I suspect that Words Have Been Had.... Peter Simpson and the new/old Porters The Porters are the first commercial fruit from the pilot brewery at St James's Gate. This has both an automated one hectolitre (100 litre) brewkit and a manual 10hl plant similar to what you'd find in many microbreweries. Peter explained that the pilot brewery is used for several things besides developing new beers – brewing the winners of the Diageo annual staff beer-creation competition, testing ingredients for flavour stability, trying out new processes and so on. However, he stressed that they are not specials or one-offs – they are now permanent members of the Guinness range, and have graduated to being brewed several hundred hectolitres at a time in the vast and brand-new Brewhouse no.4 at St James's Gate. And he says Diageo is not jumping on the craft bandwagon – rather, this is an attempt to widen the Guinness range in a market that increasingly seeks variety. As he explained, “I think craft has enabled us, in that it really is a revolution in taste, and we're bringing Guinness back to what it used to be.” So what of the beers? Sure, the tickers and completists will hunt them down, if they haven't been to Morrisons already. For the rest of us, they add a more modern take on Porter – and yes, Guinness is hoping to win another foot of supermarket shelf space in the three-for-a-fiver 'premium beers' rack, where it has only been represented by FES. They are well made and presented – though not bottle-conditioned – and certainly worth trying for anyone who likes dark beers (as I do). As a beer aficionado though, I can't help sensing a missed opportunity. It's fascinating – Guinness is full of wonderfully skilled brewers who are passionate about what they do. They have first-rate gear to work with and massive resources in terms of sourcing ingredients and so on, yet the finished product almost always has an ever so slight feel of dumbed-downness about it. It's as if it gets filtered through the Diageo bureaucracy, and in the process made just a bit safer, just a bit more average. The one exception I can think of is the 8% ABV Guinness Special Export, which as I understand it is produced not to the specifications of Diageo but to those of its Belgian distributor John Martin. There might be a clue there. Still, as one of the Guinness staff said, these are the first two of what they hope will be a bigger range. Perhaps if they see success in the market the Diageo high-ups will relax a little and trust their brewers, allowing future brews to push the envelope a bit more. It is a challenge though – Peter mentioned that his team's been experimenting with barrel-ageing beers, including a Special Export aged in a rum barrel that came out at 13% and was “absolutely delicious!” The problem of course is translating such things to the sort of volumes that Guinness needs to operate at. Labels: barrel-aged, Diageo, historic beer, Porter London Fields Eastside Saison The latest in London Fields Brewery's occasional Bootlegger series is a 5.5% Saison, and what a nice example of the style it is. It's also cask-conditioned and on handpump, which makes it all the more refreshing and genuine - I mentioned this to LFB head brewer Fabio Israel (I'll post a longer interview with him here as soon as I get the time) and he agreed that it's more "farmhouse" than the fizzy versions you'll find in the craft bars. Just to prove the point, the taproom also had the Saison on keg, but that version was lacklustre and ordinary, all fizz and no knickers you might say (but probably wouldn't!). So anyway, the cask version is a deep gold and the first impression is almost a Dortmunder Export, malty and faintly sweet, before that funky farmhouse Saison note sweeps in, accompanied by a dry and lightly peppery bitterness. There's also ginger and grains of paradise (another gingery spice) in there, contributing a spiciness most evident in the aftertaste. Saison is still fashionable in the UK, although some might argue it has already jumped the shark in the US, to be supplanted by the likes of Farmhouse IPA (essentially an even hoppier Saison). Meanwhile in places such as Germany it is only just taking off. I had my first two German Saisons (and one of those was actually brewed in Belgium) earlier this year. A spiced cask version makes it a bit more interesting and is to be applauded - look out for it! (Disclaimer: I'm sat in the brewery taproom ahead of tonight's public launch for the beer, and have a glass of cask Eastside Saison in front of me...) Labels: historic beer, london brewers, Saison Fuller's open day Hooves bigger than my head! Many thanks to the Fuller's team and all their friends and helpers for an excellent open day at the Griffin Brewery today. The small Vikings enjoyed their horse-drawn dray (well, wagon) ride, plus the barbeque, the cake stall, the face-painting and the tombola. Oh ,and the fire engine! As I had to drive them there, I partook only gently of the outdoor bar, which offered keg Frontier, Cornish cider and cask Pride for the equivalent of £1 a pint, but there was a fuller (ho ho) range on in the Hock Cellar, including Fuller's Summer Ale and Gale's Beachcomber next to each other on the bar. Also in the cellar was an opportunity to taste some of the bottled beers, a tombola, and a "decorate your own mini-cask with stickers" corner for the kids. Sadly, the mini-cask the boy decorated and brought home was empty... I say "the equivalent" as the currency for most of this was bottletops. You could buy a bag of 10 for a fiver (they're new and unused ones so don't go rooting round to see if you have any used ones in the bin!) then 'spend' them on the bars and stalls. If I understood rightly, all the income from selling them goes to one of three local charities, depending on the type of tops you chose to buy, with the goods actually being donated. A nice touch, and a lot better than simply giving things away. Labels: Fullers, london brewers Stout 'n' Sour Normally I'm a big fan of sour beers such as Berliner Weisse, Gose and Gueuze. It does help though if they are brewed to be that way. Tonight's example - a Baltic Night stout from Oxfordshire's Compass Brewery, which I picked up in the local Oddbins - is a bit more challenging, as while it has a tartness on the nose and a pronounced sour character, I can't believe it is meant to be like that. Indeed, the brewer's original description referred to "a well balanced roasted bitterness as well as a hoppy aroma." It added that "The high percentage of roasted barley that we use to create it also gives it a lovely hint of coffee and a long dry moreish cocoa finish." The cocoa and roast coffee are definitely there, but so is an intrusive sourness, and it's not the Brettanomyces sourness one might expect in an aged stout, but more the lactic sourness of Berliner Weisse. Turning to Ratebeer I see I'm not alone - several other recent reviews refer to a sourness or a lactic tang. I'm trying to enjoy it anyway. I like sours as I said, and stout is a favourite of mine too, so I'm trying to tell myself this might be what you'd get if you tried crossing two styles, as Schneider Weisse did with its latest Tap X, Porter Weisse. It's kind of growing on me, but only kind of! Interestingly, I see Compass does make at least one beer as a seasonal that is meant to be sour. Incidentally, there was an earlier omen that not all was well here. When we talk about cracking a bottle open, we don't usually mean it literally. But tonight it's exactly what I did - the bottle rim came away with the cap! I poured the beer anyway, but through a tea-strainer. And I suspect the bottle-opener rather than the bottle - it's one I rarely use, grabbed since my once-trusty Swiss Army Knife has gone AWOL. Have any readers had similar strange hybrid beery experiences? (Or seen my Swiss Army Knife?!?) Labels: beer tasting, sour, Stout Cool times at the London Craft Beer Festival So that's the second London Craft Beer Festival – and what a nice event it is! I was there on the Friday for the second session, but at the time of writing there were still tickets available for the Saturday night and Sunday sessions. Ours was an afternoon session, so there was no music – apparently it really livened up in the evening with bands playing. I'm not upset to have missed that because it would have made it a lot harder to chat with fellow drinkers and the folk from the breweries. Indeed, there was a lot of serendipitious chatting going on, the “What have you got there? What's been good so far? Have you heard the Test Match score?” sort of thing. Needless to say, there were lots of interesting beers, plus a few experiments that didn't really work! It's done on an all-inclusive tasting approach, where your £35 ticket covers as many 90ml (one-sixth of a pint, 3.3oz) tastings as you want, plus you get four tokens for third-pint pours – although there was so much to sample that I only got around to using one of my tokens. If you've been to the Great American Beer Festival, say, or more recently the Copenhagen Beer Celebration, you'll recognise the model. It also wasn't too crowded – I don't think it was a total sell-out, but you wouldn't want it much fuller than this. That made for short waits at the bar and a more relaxed atmosphere to chat. One of the fascinating things about beer is that there is always something more to learn. No matter how much I've already learnt and can explain to others, every time I talk to people in the business I learn something new – and so it was yesterday, with techie discussions on how to condition beer, side-effects of sour mashing, and the like. Oh, and while it was promoted as a beer festival for London, and a lot of the brewers present are from London (eg. Kernel, Partizan, Brew By Numbers, Pressure Drop, Redchurch), several are not, including two from the US and three from Belgium. On the other hand, LCBF was not an unalloyed success. In particular, the cask ale – this bar featured the likes of Redemption, Burning Sky, Kirkstall and Sierra Nevada (the latter sent over in the same consignment that they send to GBBF) – was too warm by a few degrees, making it somewhat lifeless. I wasn't the only one who noticed, and one of the other visitors told me that as we left, staff were trying to sort it out. Lack of experience handling casks? Perhaps, and I'd suggest that the organisers call round the cellar managers who do the local CAMRA beer festivals for help – except that one penalty of running your festival at the same time as GBBF is that they will all be busy there this week! I'm sure it will be fixed for next year, anyway. Scenic Bethnal Green I do wonder too about the ticket price - £35 seems quite a big hurdle to jump, but maybe that's just me, as you could easily pay that much for a night out in town. Plus, maybe it allows the organisers to keep attendance at a comfortable level. It certainly doesn't have the oppressive zoo-like feel of GBBF, and felt more relaxed than many local CAMRA festivals. I guess if you sampled every beer there and used all your extra tokens, you could get maybe ten or a dozen pints down you (and there were several in excess of 10% ABV), which in theory makes it excellent value. I'm not sure I know many people who could manage 60-70 drinks in five hours though. Not aficionados who want to enjoy what they're drinking, anyhow... (I only managed 20-ish, but then I was also trying to interview people and take notes.) All in all then, will I go again next year? Here's hoping! Disclaimer: I got a discounted ticket at the "friends and press" price (Friday afternoon trade session only), hence my musings about the £35 full price. Labels: beer tasting, craft beer, london Drink beer, talk (non)sense There is a bit of nonsense – and to be fair, a bit of sense – being talked this week about craft beer and real ale, as if the two were somehow mutually exclusive. CAMRA, we are told, is out of touch and needs to change the Great British Beer Festival – which is currently focused on cask-and bottle-conditioned beers – to include the new kegged craft beers that are stealing all the headlines. Yet I look around GBBF and I see craft beer everywhere. Some of it is 'traditional craft' – breweries that have been in business for decades or centuries, making finely-crafted ales the way our forefathers did (and all that jazz). Some is old brewers learning new ways – there is a Brains Craft Brewery bar, for instance, offering four or five of its newest craft ales. And others are new-wave craft – Hardknott has beers here, as do Burning Sky, Arbor, Ilkley and lots more. At the same time, the London Craft Beer Festival opened today – I'll be along there tomorrow, I hope. It's promising draught and bottled beer from two-dozen breweries, mostly from the UK and the rest of Europe, plus two from the USA. The only thing that divides the two is the method of dispense. CAMRA favours cask-conditioning, and with good reason – plenty of the modern craft brewers also put (some of) their beer in casks because they know that, properly treated, it can be a superb way to develop the flavours and carbonation over time. Most keg beer on the other hand – though not all, because some can and does condition in the keg – is intended to be drunk the way it leaves the brewery. That is not a bad thing at all, although it can be limiting. Yes, CAMRA has its Puritans, but I'd bet that most members here at GBBF will drink anything that's well made and flavoursome. And they won't care whether it comes out of a handpump or not (just as well really, because most other CAMRA beer festivals serve their beers by gravity, straight from a tap on the cask). The odd thing is that craft keg has its Puritans too. They regard cask conditioning and especially handpumps as signs of 'old men's ale', stuff to be revolted against – just as CAMRA revolted against the fizzy, homogenised and often tasteless keg beers of the 1970s. On Twitter, they complain that this year's Champion Beer of Britain, Timothy Taylor's Boltmaker, is a boring bland brown bitter instead of a hop-forward tastebomb. It's funny really. Plus ça change, and all that. Sometimes you need subtlety rather than obviousness, and sometimes you ought to wonder why some of those US craft brewers you idolise are so intrigued by cask ale – to the extent that they will do collaborations with JD Wetherspoon in order to brew a properly cask-conditioned ale, based on traditional craft methods, and then see it get a national release served in ale-led pubs on handpump. Sometimes you really do have to say, "A pint please" and get on with it. Labels: CAMRA, craft beer, GBBF, Hardknott, london GBBF 2014 The 2014 Great British Beer Festival is well underway. The trade session opened a few hours ago, and the first real public session (although if you buy a season ticket, it also covers the trade session) starts this evening. This year's Champion Beer of Britain will be announced in a few minutes... Labels: CAMRA, GBBF, london London Beer City So, London Beer City starts this week. When I first read about it, I was a bit narked, mainly because there was no mention at all of the real reason why so many beer fans come to London in early August: CAMRA's Great British Beer Festival, which opens tomorrow at Olympia. Instead, it was promoting the new London Craft Beer Festival, which seemed determined to compete head-on with the GBBF. What made it more galling was that it was CAMRA that ran the first London City of Beer promotion in 2012. (I assume this is why the latest version is 'Beer City' not the more usual City of Beer – and as a disclaimer, I did a bit of work helping write and edit the LCoB guidebook.) In the weeks since, I have mellowed a lot, and am now very much looking forward to attending as many LBC events as I can, from GBBF and LCBF onwards. To be honest, while LCoB did cover more than just real ale, and while there were associated events and tastings, and the tourist agencies were on-board, it was not as broadly-based as it should have been. Part of this came from its focus specifically on visitors to London. And while it wasn't the doing of CAMRA's Puritan regiments – LCoB was mostly the work of CAMRA's urban liberals such as myself – there is inevitably a real ale focus to everything CAMRA does. Even the vital pub preservation work it does is driven by the fact that the pub is the main outlet for real ale. It has also helped a lot that London Beer City now recognises and mentions GBBF (“the world's greatest cask ale event”), and has developed a distinctive identity of its own, as a celebration of London beer and of London's brewing renaissance, and pulling in support from the London Brewers Alliance. So I'm looking forward to it – and I'm especially looking forward to the London Craft Beer Festival, as well as to GBBF. There is definitely room for both in a city this big and diverse! LCBF is a lot smaller for a start – just 24 breweries from the UK, the rest of Europe and the US – but the beers should be rather different from the GBBF range. PS. A word to the LBC team – London's a big place. It's great to have links to venue maps in the schedule, but what could be more useful is an overall map showing where all the events are, so we can see what's local, which ones could be done together, etc. There could even be one for each day... Labels: craft beer, GBBF, london, london brewers When is a beer not a beer? Earlier this year, Hamburg's Ratsherrn Brewery commissioned a new 4hl pilot brewery with the aim of expanding its ale range, under the stewardship of brewmaster Ian Pyle, who trained in Bavaria and the US. I recently tasted one of its fruits – Belgisches Wit, a Belgian Witbier flavoured with coriander, orange peel and camomile blossom. It's only when you look closely that you realise there is something strikingly absent from the label: the word Bier. Instead it is a Brauspezialität, a Speciality Brew, with 'Witbier' appearing only in the fine print – Ian says this was actually a mistake, as it could make the label illegal. Yes, this is a non-beer. It feels almost Orwellian. Thanks to the modern-day version of a medieval law enacted to create a cartel for the megabrewers of the day, the presence of herbs means this cannot be called beer in Germany, unless the brewery goes through an appeal process to obtain an exemption. (These exemptions are possible and I believe the modern law is more relaxed than the old one, especially for top-fermented beers, but I guess that it is too expensive and time-consuming for a one-off or low-volume product. For example, it took 10 years and a court case for Neuzeller Kloster to win the right to put Bier on the label of its historic sweetened Schwarzbier.) The Belgisches Wit itself is very nice – lightly floral and spicy, over a refreshing fruity yet dry body. Apparently it has a good chance of graduating from the microbrewery to volume production on Ratsherrn's main 50hl plant. Labels: beer tasting, Belgium, Germany, Hamburg, historic beer A hoppy weekend in Lower Saxony We're in Germany on holiday, and last week I spotted an article in the local free newspaper* mentioning that nearby microbrewery Sommerbecker Dachs was having a family-friendly** summer festival for its fifth birthday. So on Saturday afternoon we headed out of town to the tiny village of Sommerbeck. When the boy and I walked in, 30 minutes after the nominal 3pm opening time, we could only see two other visitors and the staff were still setting up the tills. He jumped onto the (free) bouncy-castle and I went for a beer.... I hadn't tried the Dachs Pils before – it proved to be a Landbier Pils in the northern style, so slightly hazy with a yeasty note, and with lots of bitterness but very little actual hop flavour. Not really my thing, in other words. Once the girls arrived and we got a table, things picked up. The boy got his face painted (also free) and played on the slackline/tightropey thing, the baby was passed around and much admired, we were assumed to be local because, well, everyone else was, and my choices of beer improved. The Märzen was darker than the last time I tried it – more orange-brown than gold, with nutty and toffee notes and a touch of orange marmalade, while the Schwatt – their version of a Schwarzbier – was creamier and more Stouty than I remember. Also interesting was the Hopfenstopfer – basically a hopped-up Helles or Pils that actually tastes and smells of hops, and in particular of hops other than the usual grassy German and Czech types. I think it translates as hop plunger or hop tamper, and to me it signifies that the brewer wants to do something a bit crafty, but doesn't want to "go foreign" with a Pale Ale or IPA. It was a nice example anyhow, with citrus and melon aromas and a spicy, tropical fruit accented body. Also on tap, slightly unusually for the time of year, was the Dachs Bock. (Dachs – as in Dachshund – means badger, and the brewery mascot is indeed a stuffed badger.) Dark mahogany in colour, it had a malty nose with sultanas and cocoa notes, then a spicy-bitter body with touches of toffee, dried fruit and orange marmalade. Rather like a stronger version of the Märzen, and pretty tasty, hiding its 7.5% ABV well. Then on Sunday we had planned a visit to Klindworths, easily the best brewpub I've found in northern Germany. Yet it's one that's not much known outside, in part because they don't sell their beer anywhere else – apart from a few beer festivals and parties where you might find their Beer Bus, an old VW camper converted into a mobile two-tap bar. Things nearly went awry when the rest of the tribe announced that they wanted to go swimming first, but fortunately I remembered there's a Freibad, or open-air swimming pool, almost next door to the pub. So we were lightly sunned and watered by the time we sat down in the beer garden – and started batting away the flies while we waited for our dinner.... On tap were the Landbier Pils – a far better example of a flavoursome bitter lager than the Dachs one – plus the Weizen, the Keiler German brown bitter, the Pale Ale and the IPA. I went first for the Pale Ale, as I already knew it to be excellent and I thought going for the 6.7% IPA on an empty tummy might not be wise. It did not disappoint – refreshingly dry-bitter, with loads of hops and a malty body. Brewer Niko calls it his interpretation of British Pale Ale; I'd say it is as hoppy as an American Pale Ale, but fuller bodied than the average APA. Then it was time for the IPA – the only one of his regular or seasonal beers that I'd not tried yet. It's a chunky and thoroughly moreish IPA in the American vein, full of hops and with a warming alcohol bite, yet malty enough to not be overpowering. Even at 6.7%, it's balanced enough to go back for seconds, which I duly did. Thankfully I wasn't the one driving back – one of the challenges of Klindworths is that it is awkward to get to unless you're already in the area (there's a campsite by the Freibad, and the pub does B&B). There are buses from Buxtehude, but the service is not very frequent and it stops running quite early too. I'd have gone there a lot more often otherwise! These still report stuff and are widely read, unlike the UK equivalents which are almost all run now by bread-heads too stupid to realise that if they cut or de-skill all the running costs, ie. journalists, no one reads the result and they lose all the advertising revenue that they're so greedy for. *One of the things I miss in Britain is that very few beer festivals seem genuinely family-friendly. Labels: Bock, Germany, IPA, Märzen Avenir Ladencafé Good heavens, Luneburg now has a craft beer café! Avenir Laden & Café also sells cold-brewed coffee, organic wine and deli stuff, second-hand books and so on, and is just off the main shopping area on Katzen-Strasse, not far from the market square. It's very much "in the mould" – bare floors, jam-jars as glasses, furniture upcycled from crates and so on. The beer is mostly modern German craft and crafty brews – eg. Crew Republic, Ratsherrn, Kehrweider, the Brewers & Union beers which are nominally South African but are brewed for Europe by Arcobräu in Bavaria (or so I understand), plus one that's new to me – Hamburg-based Von Freude. There are a few English examples – I've noticed than when German beer fans turn to British beer, it is often for the darker ones, and here it's Fuller's London Porter and Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout. You can't go too far wrong with those two! It's also the first place I've found Mumme on sale – a legendary rich, sweet and relatively low-alcohol ale that's possibly the only German beer mentioned by Shakespeare. This particular rare survival is Segelschiff Braunschweiger Mumme: this turned into a non-alcoholic malt drink over the centuries, but a few years ago a 5.2% ABV version was reintroduced as a special edition. There's a bottle now in my bag, and I'm looking forward to trying it.... Labels: craft beer, Germany, historic beer West Coast IPA - English launch tour Green Flash head brewer Chuck Silva is in England right now to launch the European brewed West Coast IPA. The brewery's UK distributor The Bottle Shop has set up a tour for him to visit outlets around the country – and no, I've no idea why they have no dates in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. The remaining dates for this tour are: Thursday 24th July - Leeds 6.30pm: North Bar - 24 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 6NU Friday 25th July - Sheffield 3pm: Beer Central - Outlet MS3, The Moor Market. Sheffield, S1 4PF 5pm: Shakespeare’s Pub - 146-148 Gibraltar St, Sheffield, S Yorks, S3 8UB Saturday 26th July - Liverpool 3pm: The 23 Club/The Clove Hitch, 23 Hope Street Liverpool, L1 9BQ Thursday 31st July – London 5pm: Harrild & Sons - 26 Farringdon St, London, EC4A 4AB 7pm: Earl Of Essex - 25 Danbury St, London, N1 8LE 9pm: Kings Arms - 11A Buckfast St, London, E2 6EY Friday 1st August – London 7pm: BrewDog Shepherds Bush - 15-19 Goldhawk Road, London, W12 8QQ Saturday 2nd August – London (Beer for Brunch Event) Midday: BrewDog Shoreditch - 51-55 Bethnal Green Rd, London, E1 6LA Sunday 3rd August – Cambridge 2pm: The Pint Shop - 10 Peas Hill, Cambridge, CB2 3PN Annoyingly, the entire tour takes place while I'm out of the country. Bah!! Labels: beer tasting, craft beer, IPA San Diego invades Europe American craft brewers are waking up to European opportunities. Oh sure, they've been exporting here for years, but this week has seen not one but two super-hoppy San Diego brewers announce that they will actually brew in Europe. Stone's site in Berlin The biggest news was Stone Brewing, well known for the likes of Arrogant Bastard Ale. There's been rumours about Stone opening a European brewery for a few years now, with at least one redundant old English brewery fingered as a possible location, but the reality has turned out quite different: Stone is building a brewery and pub/beer garden in Berlin! First to the draw however was Green Flash, which is already co-brewing its iconic West Coast IPA in 240-hl batches at St Feuillien in Belgium. It's claimed that this is not just a licence deal, like the one that saw Shepherd Neame brew imitation Sam Adams, but a 'production partnership', whatever that exactly means. “We’ve been pursuing European distribution of West Coast IPA for some time, however the obvious challenges in delivering fresh IPA to the region have been a huge roadblock,” said GF co-founder Mike Hinkley. “After testing various export scenarios on a small scale, it became apparent that the quality of our IPA when transported to Europe was not ideal and cost-prohibitive for consumers. We were not satisfied with the customer experience and felt we had to come up with a better solution.” St Feuillien is already noted for its hoppy beers and has done collaboration beers with Green Flash in the past, so the two teams already know each other well. GF's brewmaster Chuck Silva has spent a fair portion of the last year in Belgium, working on getting the flavour profile just right – the one difference between the US and Belgian versions is that the latter will be bottle-conditioned “to protect beer quality in areas of Europe where unrefrigerated conditions may be unavoidable.” I can see this version becoming a hot item with US beer aficionados.... Meanwhile, Stone's plans are considerably more ambitious, and involve an initial investment of $25 million, plus an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign to raise more. The company is leasing a massive 7000m2 of space in three refurbished buildings that were built in the 1900s as part of a gasworks – they had to be expensively decontaminated as part of the refurbishment process. Due to open in late 2015 or early 2016, the buildings will house a 70-barrel brewery, a shop, an event space and a farm-to-table restaurant – Stone is keen on the slow food movement. There will also be an 'American-style beer garden', though quite how that differs from a German-style beer garden I don't know, especially when so much about US beer is derived from Germany. Many of the earliest American brewers were German immigrants, from Anheuser and Busch onwards, and while Stone is pretty eclectic, some US breweries still focus on German-derived beer styles rather than British or Belgian, say. “Once open, we will bring Germany and the rest of Europe a taste of our craft beer vision, and look forward to sharing the unique beers that we have spent the last 18 years brewing,” declared Stone CEO and co-founder Greg Koch (another German surname, of course). Yet while some of the US media has taken a nationalist 'young upstarts teaching the oldies how to do it' line, ignoring – or more likely, ignorant of – the fact that many German and other European brewers are already aboard the craft beer bandwagon, Koch was more modest. “We have no attitude that we are coming to save anybody or conquer anybody,” he said in an interview. He acknowledged that there is already a craft beer movement challenging the German brewing giants, and added, “We are coming to add our shoulder, to help push that boulder up the hill.” So why Berlin and Belgium? I can think of several reasons, an obvious one is they are in the Eurozone, which simplifies your exporting to the rest of the EU. Another is they both have strong beer heritages, which should make it easier to find both staff and customers, and of course they have good English language skills. The last thing is that, unlike the UK where there is already a strong craft brewing industry (both new-wave and traditional), the beer revolution has only recently kicked off on the mainland. Sure, there's lots of micro and nano brewers, and many of the old brewers are trying to adjust and produce crafty sidelines, but the market is still growing, with plenty of opportunity. Labels: Berlin, craft beer Cocoa, lemon and freshly sharpened pencils Here's my notes on the Pilsner Urquell London Brew-Off beers. An instructive aspect was that the beers were offered for tasting with small plastic cup, in part to discourage people from pouring too much, as there was only a few litres of each one. Unfortunately the smell of these cups overwhelmed those of the beer, and it was only when I switched to tasting similarly small measures but from a PU small glass tankard that I could appreciate the aromas. Soundbite (4.8%) was a well constructed hoppy golden lager, with light caramel and nut notes and a touch of apple. Here's the board listing its recipe and brewing profile – there was one of these printed for each beer. My vote: 3.5/5 Pegasus (4.8%) was reminiscent of a pale ale, with light aromas of lemon and cedar – or as I wrote at the time, freshly sharpened pencils. I noticed this on a couple of the others too, and I think it must be down to the Czech Kazbek hops, which I've not knowingly encountered before. In the glass it was faintly nutty, with a touch of melon and a dry-bitter finish. My vote 2.5/5 Another Fine Mash (5.7%) was intended to be amber but actually came out closer to the average Munich Dunkel. Hazy brown with cocoa on the nose and a spicy malty body with hints of forest fruits, it was dry-bitter yet faintly sweet in the finish. My vote: 4/5 Czech Please (5.2%) had touches of golden malt and honeydew melon on the nose. The body was more like a Vienna/Pils hybrid, with faint spicy notes and hint of toffee leading to a sweet finish. My vote: 2.5/5 Velvet Pilsner (5%) was hazy gold – the Brew-Off beers were all bottled unfiltered – with a faintly woody and nutty nose (those pencil sharpenings again). I detected faint cocoa notes and a light nuttiness. My vote: 3/5 Citron (4.6%) as the name implies was meant as a modern citrusy twist on Pilsner. Cloudy yellow, its light aromas of lemon and grapefruit continued into the body, where they played along with a faint pepperiness and a hint of sherbet. My vote 4/5 Labels: london, Pilsner Urquell, SABMiller	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line540
__label__wiki	0.590216	0.590216	Immunohistochemical study for the expression of leukocyte adhesion molecules, and FGF23 and ACE2 in P. gingivalis LPS-induced diabetic nephropathy Koichiro Kajiwara1 na1, Yoshihiko Sawa ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3587-507X2 na1, Takahiro Fujita1 & Sachio Tamaoki1 BMC Nephrology volume 22, Article number: 3 (2021) Cite this article The present study aims to examine the expression of leukocyte adhesion molecules and renal metabolic factors in diabetic mouse kidneys with periodontal pathogen Pg-LPS-induced nephropathy. We recently reported that the glomerular endothelium expresses toll-like receptor (TLR)2 and TLR4 in diabetic environments and TLR2/4 ligand Porphyromonas (P.) gingivalis lipopolysaccharides (Pg-LPS) induce nephropathy in diabetic mice. It is thought that Pg-LPS promotes the chronic inflammation with the overexpression of leukocyte adhesion molecules and renal-specific metabolic enzymes by the recognition of Pg-LPS via TLR in the diabetic kidneys. There have been no reports of the effects of periodontopathic bacteria on the expression of leukocyte adhesion molecules and the accumulation of physiologically active substances in the kidney. The immunohistochemical investigation was performed on diabetic mouse kidney with Pg-LPS-induced nephropathy with glomerulosclerosis in glomeruli. There were no vessels which expressed vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), E-selectin, or fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 23 in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic ICR mice (STZ-ICR), or in healthy ICR mice administered Pg-LPS (LPS-ICR). However, in diabetic ICR mouse kidneys with Pg-LPS-induced nephropathy (LPS-STZ) the expression of VCAM-1 and the accumulation of FGF23 were observed in renal tubules and glomeruli, and the expression of E-selectin was observed in renal parenchyma and glomeruli. The angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) was detected in the proximal tubules but not in other regions of ICR, STZ-ICR, or LPS-ICR. In LPS-STZ ACE2 was detected both in renal tubules as well as in glomeruli. The Mac-1 and podoplanin-positive cells increased in the renal parenchyma with diabetic condition and there was the distribution of a large number of Mac-1-positive cells in LPS-STZ. The Pg-LPS may induce diabetic renal inflammation such as glomerulosclerosis and tubulitis with infiltration of Mac-1/podoplanin positive macrophages via glomerular overexpression of VCAM-1 and E-selectin, resulting in accumulation of both ACE2 and FGF23 which were unmetabolized with the inflammation-induced kidney damage under the diabetic condition. Periodontitis may be a critical factor in the progress of nephropathy in diabetic patients. Diabetic nephropathy is a serious complication in diabetes mellitus, caused by glomerulosclerosis, with renal failure arising from dysfunction of glomerular capillaries. Critical factors in diabetic nephropathy have been thought to be advanced glycation end products (AGE) and hydroxyl radicals which induce oxidative stress and the production of various cytokines through the recognition of AGE in a hyperglycemic environment [1,2,3]. However, the factors which cause individual differences in the development of nephropathy in diabetic patients are not well elucidated. Hyperglycemia induces the expression of TLR2 and TLR4 through PKC-α and PKC-δ, respectively, with the stimulation of NADPH oxidase in monocytes [4, 5]. The renal metabolic recognition of AGE by not only AGE receptor but also toll-like receptor (TLR) has been suggested as one candidate for the occurrence of diabetic nephropathy [6,7,8]. The TLR is a sensor for bacterial components like lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and high levels of expression of TLR2 and TLR4 has been reported in blood cells of diabetic nephropathy patients [9,10,11,12,13]. It has been established that the TLR ligand engagement induces the production of inflammatory cytokines as well as leukocyte adhesion molecules, which activate renal inflammation causing glomerulosclerosis [14,15,16,17,18]. There are also reports that the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas (P.) gingivalis becomes a risk factor in cerebrovascular diseases and atherosclerosis [19, 20]. Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are produced in the outer membrane of P. gingivalis and act as not only a periodontal pathogen leading to periodontal tissue destruction but also a risk factor in cardiovascular disorders [21, 22]. It is well studied that P. gingivalis LPS (Pg-LPS) is recognized by host defense systems via TLR4 to Pg-LPS lipid A and via TLR2 through co-purifying molecules in the Pg-LPS prep in LPS-accumulated organs and induces the expression of leukocyte adhesion molecules [8, 23,24,25]. The expression of TLR2/TLR4, and adhesion molecules go up in kidneys of diabetic mice [8, 11, 26]. We recently reported that the glomerular endothelium of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic mice expresses TLR2 and TLR4 genes and proteins in glomeruli [27], and that all Pg-LPS-administered diabetic mice reached the humane endpoint during the period in which all of the diabetic mice without the LPS administration and Pg-LPS-administered non-diabetic mice lived without any symptoms [28]. In diabetic mice Pg-LPS promoted the production of urinary protein and glomerulosclerosis with the accumulation of type 1 collagen and inflammatory cytokines in glomeruli. Further, the progress of diabetic nephropathy was suppressed in TLR4 blockage Eritoran-administered diabetic mice [29]. Since the severe periodontitis causes bacteremia, it is thought that microorganisms of the oral cavity enter the renal circulation of patients with severe periodontal disease through the systemic circulation. It appears that Pg-LPS accumulated in glomeruli may induce chronic renal inflammation as a result of the leukocyte migration. The abnormal and overexpression of leukocyte adhesion molecules, renal metabolic enzymes, and physiologically active substance has been reported in the kidneys of diabetic and other renal autoimmune diseases, such as erythematosus and IgA nephropathy. However, there have been no reports of the effects of periodontopathic bacteria on the expression of leukocyte adhesion molecules and the accumulation of physiologically active substances in the kidney. The overexpression of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) is observed in the renal proximal tubules in renal immune diseases with tubulitis by acute renal allograft rejection [30,31,32,33,34]. The overexpression of E-selectin is observed on intertubular capillaries in glomerulonephritis [35, 36]. Osteocyte-derived hormone fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 23 acts as a key regulator of the renal phosphate metabolism which reduces renal phosphate uptake. In chronic kidney disease serum FGF23 levels are massively elevated [37,38,39]. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), a monocarboxypeptidase, that cleaves a typical renal pressor hormone angiotensin (Ang) II into Ang 1–7 and degrades Ang I to Ang 1–9, displays antihypertensive and organ-protective effects. The ACE2 is usually observed in proximal tubular epithelial cells but increases in diabetic kidney and hypertensive renal diseases [40, 41]. Considering these findings, the overexpression of leukocyte adhesion molecules and accumulation of unmetabolized renal-specific hormone, and enzymes may occur in diabetic kidneys by the renal inflammation associated with TLR recognition of P. gingivalis. The present study aims to examine the expression of leukocyte adhesion molecules and FGF23, and ACE2 in the mouse kidney with Pg-LPS-induced diabetic nephropathy. The animal study was conducted to investigate the expression of VCAM-1, E-selection, FGF23, and ACE2 in Pg-LPS-induced diabetic nephropathy. The animal use protocol of the experiments was approved by the Animal Experiment Committee of Fukuoka Dental College (No. 19010). The study in the present report used 4 groups (non-treated control, LPS-administered non-diabetic control, diabetic control, LPS-administered diabetic experimental) with 6 mice in each group. We decided the animal number according to the decision by the Animal Experiment Committee of Fukuoka Dental College based on the appropriate number of animals in biomedical research from the viewpoint of animal welfare [42]. The number of animals that can set the probability of α error to an appropriate low level is 5 in general animal studies. So, in the case of genetically identical animal groups of the same lineage, 5 or more animals per group, and the test using 4 groups including the control group, are considered appropriate. All experimental specimens were harvested from euthanized mice and the experimental protocol followed ARRIVE guidelines. The 4-week-old male mice of the ICR closed line were purchased from a commercial vendor (Kyudo, Fukuoka, Japan). Animal upkeep and experiments were performed in the Fukuoka Dental College Animal Center under the following conditions and procedures described elsewhere [29]: normal feeding in a 100% controlled atmosphere which had passed an examination for bacteria in a room where the temperature and humidity were completely controlled. The health status and humane endpoints of the mice were assessed daily and mice which had lost the ability to ambulate and to access food or water were euthanized. Anesthesia and euthanasia were conducted in compliance with the AVMA guidelines for the euthanasia of animals 2020 Edition and with the methods in the explanation of standards for rearing and storage of experimental animals and relief of pain, which was established by the Study Group on Standards for Animal Breeding and Storage in the Japanese Ministry of the Environment. Namely, euthanasia was performed by induction anesthesia (1 l/min of 2% isoflurane mixed with 30% oxygen and 70% nitrous oxide with an anaesthetic apparatus) followed by intraperitoneal injection with sodium pentobarbital (150 mg/kg, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd., Japan) and cervical dislocation. For drug administration inhalation anesthesia with 5% concentration isoflurane was performed to mice placed in an anesthesia box with careful observation. For blood sampling inhalation anesthesia or abdominal anesthesia was performed. Namely, in inhalation anesthesia isoflurane was initially introduced at a concentration of 4–5% and then maintained at about 2–3%. The abdominal anesthesia was performed by intraperitoneal administration of anesthetic and sedative mixture: medetomidine chloride (0.3 mg/kg, Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan), midazolam (4 mg/kg, Maruishi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan), and butorphanol tartrate (5 mg/kg, Meiji Seika). The STZ-injected ICR mice were used as a diabetic model and STZ and Pg-LPS injected ICR mice were used as a Pg-LPS-induced diabetic nephropathy model. Mice were given a single intraperitoneal injection of STZ (Sigma-Aldrich Japan, Tokyo, Japan) and the blood glucose of mice were checked by a Glutest Sensor (Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusyo CO., LTD., Nagoya, Japan) twice a week after the injection. The STZ-injected ICR mice which showed extremely elevated blood glucose levels of over 600 mg/dl were used as STZ-induced diabetic mice (STZ-ICR). The Pg-LPS of 3 mg/kg (LD50 = 30 mg/kg body weight; Invivogen, San Diego, California, USA) which had been confirmed to have no effect on the health condition in healthy ICR in our previous study was consecutively injected just below the buccal mucosa of ICR once a week for 4 months. Mice were monitored for sugar, protein, and bleeding in urine by urine reagent strips (Uriace, Terumo Corporation, Tokyo, Japan), and the blood which collected from the tail vein under anesthesia was analyzed for blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine (CRE) by Kyudo Co., LTD (Tosu, Japan). When mice showed strongly positive for sugar and protein in urine by the reagent strips, and simultaneously showed the BUN levels of above 40 mg/dl and the CRE levels of above 0.7 mg/dl, they were used as STZ and Pg-LPS-induced diabetic nephropathy mice (LPS-STZ) according to our previous study [29]. In summary, the present study was performed with 24 ICR mice divided into four groups (n = 6 per group) which is the smallest unit to achieve reliable statistical processing: groups of mice without any treatment (healthy control, ICR), ICR with only LPS treatment (experimental infection model, LPS-ICR), ICR with only STZ treatment (experimental diabetes model, STZ-ICR), and ICR with LPS and STZ treatment (experimental diabetic nephropathy model, LPS-STZ). All mice in the experimental groups were maintained by careful observation every day and were euthanized at the end of the designated period of the experiments, and tissue from the mice was collected. The present study performed the investigation by immunohistochemistry following the method described elsewhere [29]. Briefly, frozen mouse kidney tissue sections were fixed in 100% methanol and treated with primary antibodies (1 μg/ml): hamster monoclonal anti-mouse podoplanin clone 8.8.1 (#127402, BioLegend Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) as a well-known podocyte and macrophage marker, rat monoclonal anti-mouse E-selectin/CD62E (#112734, R&D Systems Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA), rat monoclonal anti-mouse VCAM-1/CD106 (#96419, R&D Systems), rabbit polyclonal anti-mouse FGF23 (#bs-5768R, Bioss Inc., Boston, MA, USA), rabbit polyclonal ACE2 (#ab15348, Abcam plc., Cambridge, UK), and rat polyclonal anti-mouse CD11b/macrophage-1/Mac-1 clone M1/70 (#557394, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA). After the treatment the sections were exposed with secondary antibodies (0.5 μg/ml): Alexa Fluor 488 or 568-conjugated goat anti-hamster (#A21110, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Molecular Probes Invitrogen, Eugene, OR), goat anti-rabbit (#A11077, Thermo), or goat anti-rat IgGs (A11011, Thermo). The immunostained sections were examined by microscope digital camera systems with a CFI Plan Apo Lambda lens series and DS-Ri2/Qi2 (Nikon Corp., Tokyo, Japan). All experiments were replicated several times [5,6,7,8,9,10] with different sections. Measurements of immunostained area Immunostained areas were captured under the same conditions and measured in 20 area of 4 sections for each immunostaining in microscopic images at 200x magnification by ImageJ (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD) as described elsewhere [27,28,29]. The values were obtained by sum of the surface areas of pixel regions recognized by ImageJ in the sections unresponsive to the secondary antibody alone. The relative expression area reacted with primary antibodies was expressed by arbitrary units of the ratio: positive area of antibody reactions in the sections of STZ-ICR and LPS-STZ / the area of LPS-ICR. All experiments were repeated five times, and data are expressed as the mean + SD. The statistical significance of differences (P < 0.01) was determined by one-way ANOVA and the two-tailed unpaired Student’s t test with STATVIEW 4.51 software (Abacus concepts, Calabasas, CA, USA). Mean values were calculated with standard deviation (STDEV). The corresponding author is fully aware of the group allocation at the different stages of the experiments. The data analysis and assessments were performed by all co-authors. Immunostaining of adhesion molecules and leukocytes Immunoreaction products with anti-VCAM-1 were not detected in kidneys of ICR (Supplementary 1), LPS-ICR or STZ-ICR while the products were identified in renal tubules and glomeruli of LPS-STZ (Fig. 1). Immunoreaction products with anti-E-selectin were not detected in kidneys of ICR (Supplementary 1), LPS-ICR or STZ-ICR while the products were identified in the whole renal parenchyma including glomeruli of LPS-STZ (Fig. 2). The Mac-1-positive cells were rarely identified in the whole renal parenchyma of ICR (Supplementary 1). The Mac-1-positive cells were identified in the whole renal parenchyma of LPS-ICR and STZ-ICR (Fig. 3). Immunostaining of VCAM-1 in the diabetic mouse kidney with Pg-LPS-induced nephropathy. Hematoxylin-Eosin staining (HE) (left column); immunostaining for VCAM-1 (red) (center column); and merged immunostaining for VCAM-1 and podoplanin (green) (right column), with DAPI staining of nuclei (blue). The glomerular epithelial cells were immunostained by anti-podoplanin to be able to discriminate glomeruli (arrows). Reaction with anti-VCAM-1 were not identified in LPS-ICR (top row) or in STZ-ICR (middle row) while the reaction was identified in renal tubules (arrowheads) and in glomeruli (yellow arrowheads) LPS-STZ (bottom row). Podoplanin-positive macrophages were also identified in STZ-ICR (yellow arrows). Bars: 100 μm Immunostaining of E-selectin in the diabetic mouse kidney with Pg-LPS-induced nephropathy. Hematoxylin-Eosin staining (HE) (left column); immunostaining for E-selectin (red) (center column); and merged immunostaining for E-selectin and podoplanin (green) (right column), with DAPI staining of nuclei (blue). The glomerular epithelial cells were immunostained by anti-podoplanin to discriminate glomeruli (arrows). Reaction with anti-E-selectin were not identified in LPS-ICR (top row) or STZ-ICR (middle row) while the reaction was identified in the whole renal parenchyma (arrowheads) including glomeruli (yellow arrowheads) in LPS-STZ (bottom row). Podoplanin-positive macrophages were also identified in diabetic mouse kidneys (yellow arrow). Bars: 100 μm Immunostaining of Mac-1 in the diabetic mouse kidney with Pg-LPS-induced nephropathy. Hematoxylin-Eosin staining (HE) (left column), immunostaining for Mac-1 (red) (center column), and merged immunostaining for Mac-1 and podoplanin (green) (right column), with DAPI staining of nuclei (blue). The glomerular epithelial cells are immunostained by anti-podoplanin to be able to discriminate glomeruli (arrows). Mac-1-positive cells (arrowheads) were identified in the whole renal parenchyma (arrowheads) of LPS-ICR (top row) and STZ-ICR (middle row) at a similar level while the number of Mac-1-positive cells increased in LPS-STZ (bottom row). Podoplanin-positive macrophages were also identified in diabetic mouse kidneys (yellow arrows). Bars: 100 μm Immunostaining of FGF23 and ACE2 Immunoreaction products with anti-FGF23 were not observed in kidneys of ICR (Supplementary 2), LPS-ICR or in STZ-ICR while the products were identified in the whole of the renal parenchyma including in glomeruli of LPS-STZ (Fig. 4). Immunoreaction products with anti-ACE2 were observed in proximal tubular cells with brush borders but not in any region including distal tubular cells in kidneys of ICR (Supplementary 2), LPS-ICR or STZ-ICR while the products were identified in proximal and distal tubules, and in glomeruli of LPS-STZ (Fig. 5). Immunostaining of FGF23 in the diabetic mouse kidney with Pg-LPS-induced nephropathy. Hematoxylin-Eosin staining (HE) (left column); immunostaining for FGF23 (red) (center column); and merged immunostaining for FGF23 and podoplanin (green) (right column), with DAPI staining of nuclei (blue). The glomerular epithelial cells were immunostained by anti-podoplanin to be able to discriminate glomeruli (arrows). Reaction with anti-FGF23 was not identified in LPS-ICR (top row) or in STZ-ICR (middle row) while the reaction was identified in the whole renal parenchyma (arrowheads) and glomeruli (yellow arrowhead) in LPS-STZ (bottom row). Bars: 100 μm Immunostaining of ACE2 in the diabetic mouse kidney with Pg-LPS-induced nephropathy. Hematoxylin-Eosin staining (HE) (left column); immunostaining for ACE2 (red) (center column); and merged immunostaining for ACE2 and podoplanin (green) (right column), with DAPI staining of nuclei (blue). The glomerular epithelial cells are immunostained by anti-podoplanin to be able to discriminate glomeruli (arrows). Reaction with anti-ACE2 (arrowheads) was only observed in the proximal tubular cells with brush borders but not in any other region including distal tubules in LPS-ICR (top row) or in STZ-ICR (middle row) while the reaction was identified in proximal and distal tubules, and in glomeruli (yellow arrowheads) in LPS-STZ (bottom row). Podoplanin-positive macrophages were also identified in LPS-STZ (yellow arrow). Bars: 100 μm Quantitative analysis for immunostaining The renal VCAM-1 and E-selectin positive area were significantly larger in LPS-STZ than in ICR, LPS-ICR, or STZ-ICR. The Mac-1 and podoplanin positive area were significantly larger in LPS-STZ than in ICR, LPS-ICR, or STZ-ICR, and the Mac-1 and podoplanin positive area were also significantly larger in STZ-ICR than in ICR, or LPS-ICR. The renal FGF23 and ACE2 positive area were significantly larger in LPS-STZ than in ICR, LPS-ICR or in STZ-ICR. Expression of leukocyte adhesion molecules in diabetic mouse kidney with P. gingivalis LPS-induced nephropathy The expression of adhesion molecules increases in diabetic kidneys [30, 33]. An immunoglobulin superfamily member VCAM-1 binds to the integrins very late antigen-4/α4β7 on lymphocytes and monocytes, and provides leukocyte migration from the blood stream into tissue. The VCAM-1 expression is up-regulated in renal proximal tubules in several renal chronic diseases, and the renal proximal tubule is targeted in the renal infiltration of T cells and monocytes which are rarely found in normal kidneys [30,31,32,33,34]. A member of selectin family E-selectin which expresses at the early inflammatory stage binds to sialylated glycoproteins on leukocytes and promotes the leukocyte weak adhesion, rolling on vessel walls. The E-selectin is present on intertubular capillaries in glomerulonephritis but never in renal tubules [31, 35, 36]. In this study there were no vessels expressing VCAM-1 (Fig. 1) or E-selectin (Fig. 2) in kidneys of ICR, STZ-ICR and LPS-ICR while in LPS-STZ the expression of VCAM-1 was identified in the renal tubules and glomeruli (Fig. 1), and the expression of E-selectin was identified in the renal parenchyma including glomeruli (Fig. 2). These results suggest that Pg-LPS causes the renal inflammatory based on the overexpression of leukocyte adhesion molecule VCAM-1 and E-selectin in intertubular and glomerular capillaries of LPS-STZ. The overexpression of VCAM-1 in tubules of renal diseases has been reported [30,31,32,33,34]. The E-selectin is not expressed in tubules but it has been shown that renal intertubular capillaries express E-selectin in renal diseases, and that soluble E-selectin plays a role to promote glomerulonephritis [31, 35, 36]. The renal immunoreaction with anti-E-selectin in LPS-STZ may be ascribed to a soluble E-selectin diffused in renal parenchyma around glomeruli or to the expression of intertubular capillaries. It is thought that periodontitis induces the tubulitis because of the overexpression of VCAM-1 and E-selectin under diabetic conditions and promotes the nephropathy. Macrophages, Th17, and lymphatic endothelial cells express podoplanin [43, 44]. Macrophages are distinguishable because size of Th17 is about the same as the diameter of the nucleus and the renal lymph vessels are much larger as described elsewhere [45]. The Mac-1 is a heterodimer integrin composed of the αM (CD11b) and β2(CD18) subunits and is abundantly expressed on monocyte/macrophages, and is critical for the adhesion and migration into the extracellular matrix [46, 47]. In this study Mac-1 positive cells were detected in kidneys of ICR, STZ-ICR and LPS-ICR at the similar levels while the distribution of Mac-1 and podoplanin-positive cells was remarkable in STZ-ICR compared to LPS-ICR, suggesting that diabetic conditions promote renal inflammatory events. The distribution of Mac-1-positive cells was remarkable in LPS-STZ compared to LPS-ICR or in STZ-ICR (Fig. 3). Since the overexpression of VCAM-1 and E-selectin was observed in glomeruli, tubules, and intertubular capillaries in LPS-STZ, it is thought that periodontitis provokes chronic inflammatory events by the renal monocyte-macrophage lineage infiltration under diabetic conditions. Expression of renal physiologically active substances in diabetic mouse kidneys with P. gingivalis LPS-induced nephropathy The FGF23 directly targets proximal tubules to increase phosphate excretion by downregulating the cell surface expression of the sodium-dependent phosphate transporters in the proximal tubule. The FGF23 lowers serum phosphorus concentrations by the suppression of phosphorus reabsorption in proximal tubules and by active vitamin D reduction through 1α-hydroxylase suppression [37,38,39]. In this study FGF23 was not detected in kidneys of ICR, STZ-ICR and LPS-ICR while FGF23 was detectable in renal tubules and glomeruli of LPS-STZ (Fig. 4), suggesting that Pg-LPS promoted the accumulation of FGF23 in diabetic renal tubules. Generally, diabetic nephropathy reduces the ability to excrete phosphorus in renal tubules. Diabetic nephropathy leads to a compensatory increase in blood FGF23 levels and the renal accumulation of unmetabolized FGF23, resulting in hypertension and cardiovascular diseases [8, 48,49,50,51]. It may be postulated that periodontitis provokes renal tubulitis and accumulates unmetabolized FGF23 in the kidney under diabetic conditions, and that the increase of blood FGF23 in diabetic patients with periodontitis may contribute to provide a prediction of the nephropathy progression. It has also been shown that proximal tubular epithelial cells in the brush border express ACE2 and the expression increase in diabetic kidneys and in hypertensive renal diseases [40, 41]. In this study ACE2 were only detected in the proximal tubular cells but not in any other region in kidneys of ICR, STZ-ICR and LPS-ICR while ACE2 was detected in proximal and distal tubules, and in glomeruli in the kidney of LPS-STZ (Fig. 5). It is thought that periodontitis may induce the overexpression of ACE2 in proximal and distal tubules to protect renovascular hypertension in inflamed glomeruli under diabetic conditions. Periodontitis in patients with diabetic nephropathy may require attention to increased renal ACE2 that is a critical SARS-CoV-2 entry factor [52]. In summary, the renal expression of leukocyte adhesion molecule VCAM-1 and E-selectin, the renal distribution of Mac-1/podoplanin-positive leukocytes, and the renal accumulation of unmetabolized physiologically active molecule FGF-23 and ACE2 were significantly larger in LPS-STZ than in ICR, LPS-ICR or STZ-ICR (Fig. 6). Normal inhabitants and LPS derived from intestinal bacteria like Escherichia coli enter the liver via the enterohepatic (portal) circulation and bacteria/harmful substances are sterilized there, so sepsis does not occur. However, oral bacteria enter the systemic circulation directly without passing through a detoxification organ such as the liver. It is the anatomical reason for the head and neck infections spread through the whole body and it can be easily predicted that oral bacteria enter the kidney via the systemic circulation [19,20,21,22]. The number of Mac-1 and podoplanin-positive cells was also significantly larger in STZ-ICR than LPS-ICR. It is well-established that severe periodontitis causes bacteremia and microorganisms of the oral cavity enter the systemic circulation, and that large amounts of LPS produced in P. gingivalis act as a risk factor in cardiovascular disorders [53,54,55]. It has been thought that AGE induces TLR expression in several somatic cells and that AGE is recognized by TLR as well as AGE receptor [6,7,8]. We recently reported that the glomerular endothelium of diabetic mice expresses TLR2 and TLR4, and that the TLR2/4-ligand P. gingivalis LPS causes glomerulosclerosis in diabetic mice with the accumulation of type 1 collagen and inflammatory cytokines in glomeruli [27,28,29]. Considering the present study, it was thought that Pg-LPS induced diabetic renal inflammation such as glomerulosclerosis and tubulitis with infiltration of Mac-1/podoplanin positive macrophages via glomerular overexpression of VCAM-1 and E-selectin, resulting in accumulation of both ACE2 and FGF23 which were unmetabolized with the inflammation-induced kidney damage under the diabetic condition (Fig. 7). As nephritis progresses, physiologically active substances and enzymes accumulate without being metabolized due to renal dysfunction. The compensatory productions to recover from dysfunction accelerate the accumulation in the kidneys and elevates the blood levels at terminal stages, and hyperphosphatemia simultaneously occurs because phosphorus cannot be excreted due to damage of renal tubules. Periodontal disease may contribute to the progression of stage in diabetic patients. Quantitative analysis of the immunostaining of renal physiologically active molecules, leukocyte adhesion molecules, and leukocytes. Immunostained areas were measured in microscopic images by ImageJ. Relative expression area was expressed by arbitrary unit: Positive area of ICR (no treatment), STZ-ICR (STZ) and LPS-STZ / the area of LPS-ICR (LPS). The VCAM-1, E-selectin, Mac-1, podoplanin, FGF-23, and ACE2 positive area were significantly larger in LPS-STZ () than in ICR, LPS or STZ. The Mac-1 and podoplanin positive area were significantly larger in STZ () than in ICR, or LPS. ,**Significantly different by one-way ANOVA Prediction of complex etiology of P. gingivalis LPS-induced diabetic nephropathy. Severe periodontitis causes bacteremia and microorganisms of the oral cavity enter kidneys through the systemic circulation. AGE induces renal TLR expression, recognized by TLR2/4, and promotes the expression of cytokines and leukocyte adhesion molecule VCAM-1, and E-selectin. 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Sungnak W, Huang N, Bécavin C, Berg M, Queen R, Litvinukova M, et al. Barnes JL; HCA lung biological network. SARS-CoV-2 entry factors are highly expressed in nasal epithelial cells together with innate immune genes. Nat Med. 2020;26(5):681–7. Garcia RI, Henshaw MM, Krall EA. Relationship between periodontal disease and systemic health. Periodontol. 2001;25:21–36. Olsen I. From the Acta prize lecture 2014: the periodontal-systemic connection seen from a microbiological standpoint. Acta Odontol Scand. 2015;73(8):563–8. Otomo-Corgel J, Pucher JJ, Rethman MP, Reynolds MA. State of the science: chronic periodontitis and systemic health. J Evid Based Dent Pract. 2012;12(3 Suppl):20–8. Consent to participate This work was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 18H03015 (principal investigator: Sawa, Y) and Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 18 K17305 (principal investigator: Kajiwara, K) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. None of the funders participated in or influenced the design of the study or collection, analysis and interpretation of data or writing of the manuscript. Koichiro Kajiwara and Yoshihiko Sawa contributed equally to this work. Department of Oral Growth & Development, Fukuoka Dental College, 2-15-1 Tamura, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka, 814-0193, Japan Koichiro Kajiwara, Takahiro Fujita & Sachio Tamaoki Department of Oral Function & Anatomy, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-0914, Japan Yoshihiko Sawa Koichiro Kajiwara Takahiro Fujita Sachio Tamaoki YS conceived this study; YS designed the study and wrote the manuscript; KK, YS, TF, and ST undertook statistical analyses; KK, YS, TF, and ST acquired data, edited and approved the manuscript. Correspondence to Yoshihiko Sawa. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. The animal experimental procedures were prepared following the ARRIVE guidelines. The protocol of the experiments for animal use was approved by the Animal Experiment Committee of Fukuoka Dental College (No. 19010). Additional file 1 Supplementary 1. Immunostaining of VCAM-1, E-selectin and Mac-1 in ICR. Hematoxylin-Eosin staining (HE) (left column); immunostaining (center column) for VCAM-1 (top row), E-selectin (middle row), and Mac-1 (red, bottom row); and merged immunostaining (right column) for VCAM-1/E-selectin/Mac-1 with podoplanin (green) and DAPI staining of nuclei (blue). The glomerular epithelial cells were immunostained by anti-podoplanin to be able to discriminate glomeruli (arrows). Reaction products were not identified for anti-VCAM-1 and anti-E-selectin; rarely identified for anti-Mac-1 (arrowheads). Bars: 100 μm. Immunostaining of FGF23 and ACE2 in ICR. Hematoxylin-Eosin staining (HE) (left column); immunostaining (center column) for FGF23 (top row) and ACE2 (bottom row); and merged immunostaining (right column) for FGF23/ACE2 with podoplanin (green) and DAPI staining of nuclei (blue). The glomerular epithelial cells were immunostained by anti-podoplanin to be able to discriminate glomeruli (arrows). Reaction products were not identified for anti-FGF23; identified for anti-ACE2 in the proximal tubules (red, arrowheads). Bars: 100 μm. Kajiwara, K., Sawa, Y., Fujita, T. et al. Immunohistochemical study for the expression of leukocyte adhesion molecules, and FGF23 and ACE2 in P. gingivalis LPS-induced diabetic nephropathy. BMC Nephrol 22, 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-02203-y DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-02203-y P. gingivalis VCAM-1 E-selectin Immunology and Pathology	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line546
__label__wiki	0.753545	0.753545	Derek Klena & Christy Altomare Set for B’way-Aimed Anastasia March 9th, 2016 \| By Imogen Lloyd Webber Broadway alums Derek Klena and Christy Altomare will lead the previously announced world premiere of Anastasia at Hartford Stage. The organization's artistic director, Tony winner Darko Tresnjak (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder) is set to helm the production, which is scheduled to run from May 12 through June 12. Next stop the Great White Way? It will be an onstage reunion for the pair; they previously appeared together off-Broadway in Carrie. Joining Klena (Bridges of Madison County, Wicked) as Dmitry and Altomare (Mamma Mia!) in the title role will be Mary Beth Peil as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, Manoel Felciano as Gleb, John Bolton as Vlad, Caroline O'Connor as Lily and Nicole Scimeca as Young Anya. Anastasia will feature a book by Terrence McNally and the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty score that was heard in the 1997 animated feature. It follows the story of an orphan who embarks on an adventure with two con men in hopes of finding her grandmother, the Dowager Empress Marie. Lauren Blackman, James Brown III, Max Clayton, Janet Dickinson, Constantine Germanacos, Rayanne Gonzales, Ken Krugman, Kevin Ligon, Alida Michal, Shina Ann Morris, Kevin Munhall, Molly Rushing, Johnny Stellard, Samantha Sturm, Maxwell Carmel, Katherine McLellan and Riley Briggs will round out the company.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line551
__label__wiki	0.635191	0.635191	A Revolutionary Act: Samantha Zighelboim by Zachary Pace The poet on confronting societal limitations about the body, navigating the language of fatness, and celebrating friendships that embrace the joy of food. Photo by Alexis Baldwin. Before reading The Fat Sonnets (Argos Books)—Samantha Zighelboim’s debut poetry collection—I was oblivious of my own body-image biases. These lines shocked me awake: ”Let’s pretend to tell this story. Once, body began. Then body fattened, deformed. Now body is expiring. No space for body on the barstool. No space for body in the plus-size store. No space for body in the poetry.” Now—daily—I see the numerous (public and private) spaces where the thin body is accommodated while the fat body is excluded, where the thin body is glorified while the fat body is stigmatized. Zighelboim courageously confronts our cultural complacency with the punishing standards for bodyweight, as she challenges the mainstream discourse that tokenizes and scapegoats—or else marginalizes—those who do not fit the equally punishing ideal for body-shape. At the same time, these poems honor the pleasure of taste, the joy of flavor—also admitting the simultaneous pain of needing nourishment—because: ”if it’s possible the mouth might still be sexy after grease spurts out of a burrito on the last bite we may be in the business of a survivable universe or at least a tolerable one which before it kills us makes us visible.” Zachary Pace You’d written a few chapbook-length series of poems before The Fat Sonnets. How did you ultimately find this subject for your first book? Samantha Zighelboim The year I turned thirty was a really rough one for me. But I found people online, and out in the real world, who were part of the body positivity movement, openly talking about being fat. And it wasn’t self-deprecating, it was self-celebrating, which was exhilarating to me; also horrifying, because I was scared these activists would get hurt. I actually felt fear and anxiety for their safety. It was already a brave and radical act for a woman to be writing about her body in our political climate. But a fat body? I didn’t know I was allowed to do that! I got the permission I needed to talk about the thing I know best: this body, and what it’s been like to grow up in it, to be beaten down in it, to suffer with it, to be oppressed by it—and, less often but most importantly, to feel joy in it. Writing into that was the most honest thing I’ve ever done; at the same time, the scariest and the most liberating. Because subtlety is not my finest art, the first “fat sonnet” I wrote—“Exit Strategies”— juxtaposed being fat and being dead. I wrote this one giant sentence, alternating scenes of fatness and scenes of death. That’s where it started. Not the most uplifting place to begin, I know. But it opened a space for me to talk about how awful it can be to wake up and feel trapped in a body that society at large wants to eliminate. That was the reality I needed to address first and foremost, before I could even think about the possibility of writing hope into my life’s story. The poems I wrote in my twenties were obsessed with animals and nature—and magic, and mysticism, and monsters. Thinking about that earlier work, the transition in subject makes a lot of sense to me. I was focused on non-human, mythic, magnificently powerful figures. Those poems echo this other voice—sublimating the same ideas of alienation, and identification outside of the self—a sort of faithless hoping that selfhood might be possible beyond the human body. Two of those early poems ended up in the book: “Fat Dream with Giant Squid” and “Temple.” ZP When did you started to identify as someone who inhabits a fat body? SZ You mean when did I realize I was fat? ZP When did you start thinking of yourself in those terms? SZ I don’t think I realized before other people started pointing out to me that it was a grave problem. And that started very, very young. I was a chubby child. I grew up in a culture where fatness is not acceptable—it is the antithesis of beauty and happiness. People try to steer their children away from fatness in a way that feels very specific to Latin America, a way that I can’t explain. It’s almost obsessive. Everyone around me told me to watch how much I ate at meals. And when my parents divorced—I was eight years old, in the second grade—I gained so much weight, I started getting bullied at school. Not just from classmates, from teachers, too—gym teachers, guidance counselors who were “very concerned”—which is a thing we have a name for now: concern trolling, when people pretend to care about your health but they’re really just shaming you for being fat. At the end of third grade—I can’t imagine they’d still do this in school—we had to line up to get weighed. I weighed a hundred pounds, and everyone else weighed around seventy. And I’ll never forget the gym teacher—Coach Welby—said to me, “Now, if you just stay that weight when you grow up, you’ll grow up to be a beautiful woman.” The kids in line behind me heard that, and I’ll always remember how alienated I felt when they started to whisper and stare. ZP The vocabulary around fatness is so alienating. The words that we have to talk about it carry such derogatory connotations. SZ Like “overweight.” Over what weight? Whose weight? I guess “plus-size” is meant to sound inclusive and neutral but again, plus what? Plus who? The term obese is listed as an illness in the CDC index, so technically I’ve got this disease that’s dangerous and could kill me. One of the biggest challenges in working on this book was navigating the language around fatness. For instance, the two definition poems—both called “fat (adj.)”—the first stems from the OED definition of the word. Most of the entries for “fat”—I think there are nine or ten—refer to corpulence, excess, largeness, morbidity. The second poem tries to rewrite the definition without that nasty stigma. The word “fat” is a heavily loaded word, which is why I wanted it to be in the title of the book. Sometimes I refer to myself as a fat woman, and it’s empowering. Sometimes I use it to belittle myself. The term may never feel unencumbered by that dichotomy. Recently, a dear friend was taken aback that I kept referring to myself as a fat woman—he genuinely thought I was berating myself. I’m trying to revise that narrative—I want people to accept the multitude of non-normative identities, on a fundamental level. ZP Is there an existing vocabulary that feels to you like it has the potential to create a more sensitive public discourse around fatness? SZ Society has such deeply-rooted connotations with these words—it depends less on the language itself and more on the person who’s speaking it, or receiving it. I’ve been referred to as “a woman of size”—which felt somewhat accurate but not quite right. It’s definitely reaching in the right direction. Mainstream media certainly hasn’t yet found a way to hear or use the word “fat.” Woman of size? Or a big woman? I don’t know if we have found adequate language yet. And I don’t know if it would catch so quickly, after centuries of negative associations. ZP The etymology of fat is Old English, meaning well-fed. SZ Yes! Fatness used to denote wealth and stature, even good health. The word signaled that the person has the means to feed themselves well. Only in recent eras have people been held to these unrealistic standards. ZP In “Punk Will Never Diet”—an essay in praise of Beth Ditto—Curran Nault reflects on fatness as a subversion of the normative body image; paraphrasing Le’A Kent, who “argued that within dominant representation, the fat body functions as the abject: that which must be expelled in order for the good (i.e. thin) body to be set free. In this way, the fat body is rarely allowed to be embodied and present, as it is continually represented as either false (the body in the process of becoming thin) or past (the body that has been left behind).” SZ That’s so real. The fat body is constantly viewed in a transient state, toward thinness or death. It’s a revolutionary act, to experience and portray the fat body as something you can live in and sit inside without working toward another form. I’m not there yet, in my journey. I’m coming from a long history of dieting; I can’t take a single bite of food today without guilt. It’s possible I’ll always feel like I was meant to be a thin woman—and I hate that—but I’m actively striving to silence the “eating disorder voice” and to dismantle its damaging thought processes. What I have accepted is that the struggle will not go away—it’s a facet of who I am; part relentless disorder, part enduring cultural and societal conditioning—and I’m resolved to confront it, no matter what, every day for the rest of my life. In the book, thinness is not an ideological goal; it’s weighted, and fraught with pain. The poem “Two Photographs” looks at my “skinny photos”—I think every fat girl has them, if not every girl—from that point in their lives when they were thinnest. I taped mine to the treadmill to inspire me to lose weight, so that I could look at her and pretend I would be her again someday. But at my thinnest, I was the unhappiest I’ve ever been in my life—I was very sick, and so distant from my true self. Maintaining thinness is an excruciating profession, a full-time fucking job. Especially when genetically, you have a metabolism from hell—biological factors actually working against you. My metabolism is slower than a woolly mammoth trudging through a snow storm. ZP What drew you to the sonnet? SZ My beloved professor Lucie Brock-Broido gave every new student of hers an expansive handmade course-book, and in it, she wrote: “As a form, the sonnet is the most conscious of numbers. The sonnet is the most neurotic of forms.” I’ve been counting as long as I can remember—calories, pounds, sizes, and years lost doing so. I’ve set goals and reached thresholds within my acute “consciousness of numbers”—and then I’ve exploded out of them, tired of their restrictions. Writing these poems, I wanted to interrogate the connection between form and constraint, not just thematically—as in the form of the body—but in the constraints of style as well. Bernadette Mayer’s sonnets gave me permission to expand, to spill out of prosody, out of shape. The number fourteen permeates the book: some poems are fourteen lines long, some fourteen words, or fourteen stanzas, even. Aside from that, the form is a bit, shall we say, undisciplined. I was delighted to enact in my work what my body—less willfully and with an abundance of, as Lucie said, neuroses—has done its whole life. ZP What are your touchstones in literature on fatness? SZ Honestly, I grew up lacking literature—characters in literature—that bore any resemblance to my body and circumstances. I wrote my first poems in the sixth grade, inspired by the now classic confessional poets. Early on, I was drawn to their freedom to be fully forthcoming about unpalatable feelings which they made into their art. Plath and Sexton primarily helped me understand that suffering could be made into greater forms than pain. More recently—in the last few years—the books being published about fatness have helped and guided me immensely. Obviously Roxane Gay’s work is a steadfast light in the darkness, piercingly honest in way that is so gutting but absolutely crucial. I loved Lindy West’s memoir, Shrill, which opens with a sequence of portraits of the fat characters in Disney movies; her real heroines—Ursula, the Queen of Hearts, the hippos in Fantasia—those were my favorites, too! To some extent I’d been unintentionally “reading” these images all along. A lot of Simone de Beauvoir’s work talks about the body as an instrument of both pleasure and destruction in a way that I related to; though in terms of womanhood, not explicitly in relation to fatness. That’s part of why I chose to focus my gaze on this: a common story that’s rarely allowed to be frankly told. I wasn’t going to sugarcoat the details of being in a body that’s constantly marginalized by everybody else. I needed that to feel as real as possible. ZP Let’s talk about eating as enjoyment—eating as a positive thing—eating as sensual, and artful. SZ One of my greatest contradictions is that food also brings me indescribable joy. It’s the way that I share love with people who I love. We eat together. I’m a foodie and I love how distinctive flavors can evoke specific cultures—their traditions, their history. The people I most enjoy eating with are people who also find great joy in food. It’s not the same for me to eat with someone I know is watching their weight; that’s a different kind of meal. But when I can openly appreciate the food, it’s the most wonderful thing in life. That being said, food is also—usually after an exquisite feast—a source of tension. Often with an eating disorder, you weaponize food against yourself. But I try to retain the memories of food joy as much as possible. When I think about people I love, I picture them during the best meals we’ve shared together. ZP What’s the first favorite meal to come to mind that we’ve shared together? SZ The first love-memory I have of us with food is definitely pierogis. Almost a decade ago? How did that start? At Veselka? ZP I started bringing over boxes of Mrs. T’s frozen pierogis— SZ With a vat of sour cream! Which we ate right on the couch. To this day I can’t have pierogis without thinking of you. So that’s one. Then Junior’s cheesecake—our neon haven—those Reubens, pickles, waffle fries. And then of course Mission Chinese, the delirious tingling Szechuan glory that we’ve reveled in numerous times. Remember the first time we had the steak tartar lettuce cups, with salmon roe and shiso leaves? And the thrice-cooked bacon with clouds of rice cakes?! We were so happy! I could keep going, but those three are pivotal moments. And the memories are beautiful, pristine, without shame. Zachary Pace is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Literary Hub, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Frieze, The Fanzine, the PEN Poetry Series, and elsewhere. Two Poems by Sarah Jean Grimm The house was quiet and the world / Greased my palm / The air outside a weighted blanket / Scarab shells rising with the pitch of their hiss / In the shadow of a bodacious oak / I thought of a famous actor Trust Poetry: Ada Limón Interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc The poet on the power of naming, the freedom of writing, and when to carry and let go of grief. Three Poems by Rachel Alexandra Kass Lying on the couch all day glass of water a highly disgusting smoothie four coloring books, / a myriad of psychiatric and “anti-inflammatory” medication / anti-inflammatory Jewish history books / anti-inflammatory pretzel sticks / anti-inflammatory medicinal cannabis Where on the spectrum of loyalty and betrayal does song begin? And where does it end? I think each writer has to decide this over and over.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line553
__label__cc	0.704317	0.295683	10 countries and 9000 km in a Dacia Duster China Test Drives 2019: Eastern Inner Mongolia with a Peugeot 301 My rental Peugeot 301 in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia. We are back for a new series of China Test Drives as securing my temporary Chinese driver’s licence for a second year in a row enabled me to rent two cars in two different provinces and test drive 9 more at dealerships. You can consult our complete guide of How to rent a car in China here. My first rental is a crumbling Peugeot 301 I rented with my trusted rental company eHi at the Hailar airport in eastern Inner Mongolia. Chinese towns visited with the Peugeot 301 and exact itinerary at the junction of 3 countries. We will then embark on a 1400km-journey through eastern Inner Mongolia, from Hailar westward to Manzhouli at the Russian border, along the Hulun Lake to the south, circling around the Mongolian border to the mountain resort town of Arxan and the impressive Mongolian warriors of Huolin Gol before heading southeast to end the trip in Tongliao where I will drop the Peugeot 301. My valiant Peugeot 301 in Hailar where large 4×4 pickups such as the Maxus T60 are favoured. The arrival at Hailar airport had a definite frontier feel with gusts of smoke-filled wind rushing through the Terminal due to a nearby bushfire. It’s cold (I was there in late April), almost Winter-freezing-cold, and I’m glad to be at the wheels of my new “Chinese” car for the next few days: a first generation Peugeot 301. Originally launched here in late 2013, China did benefit from the 2017 facelift which means our car is at least 2.5 years old, but Peugeot sales (-61% so far in 2019 and -70% in May) remain in dire straits. Although the odo indicates “just” 23.669 km at pickup, this 301 looks like it has lived a long life already, with significant damage to the front bumper and cuts and bruises everywhere. As for Hailar town, it’s an icy-windy city with Mongolian accents (see the roof of the Railway station pictured above) where large pickups rule the roost. My Peugeot 301 on the road to Manzhouli: full steppe and ger camps The next morning we take the highway for the 200km that separate Hailar to Manzhouli, crossing barren landscapes peppered with Mongolian ger camps and under a menacing grey-orange smoke/sand blanket. I stopped in a dismantled camp to observe the metallic structures of the ger tents (see pictured above), a fascinating sight. Here, the road signs are displayed in three different scripts: Mongolian on top, Mandarin in the middle and in larger signs, and Russian at the bottom. None of them I can read, so it’s of little help! At the Frankfurt Auto Show in September 2013, then Peugeot PR Manager Marc Bocqué had insisted to me that, unlike the Dacia Logan, the Peugeot 301 isn’t a low-cost car because it is equipped with the latest engines. And driving it on the highway I have to agree on the engine point: it’s powerful, there is no lag when accelerating and the car isn’t struggling at all in climbs unlike the Logan I drove in 10 Eastern European countries last year. The only downside was surprisingly strong vibrations throughout the car when reaching 120kph for the first time, but these disappeared once the car had warmed up. Where the 301 is performing poorly is with driver creature comforts, totally absent. No cruise control and not even a USB port to charge your phone – don’t even dream of an Apple CarPlay connection. Other than that most commands are practical and straight-forward and the boot is absolutely huge. Arrival in Manzhouli As was to be expected given its location at the Russian border, Manzhouli is a mix of Russian and Mongolian influence, with the most entertaining part of town being without a doubt the Russian Doll market with its namesake hotel in the shape of a giant doll – very kitsch but also actually unpretentiously fun. For much more on the cars of Manzhouli see our Explore China Manzhouli report here. Top: I stopped the closest I could from the Mongolian border, a couple of hundred meters to the right of the night pic. Bottom: in front of the hotel it took hours to find, and refuelling in Arxan. Next, I decide on a nighttime run from Manzhouli to the mountain resort town of Arxan (430km), starting southward alongside Hulun Lake. Although China isn’t particularly known for its environmental stance, I noticed an interesting detail near the lake: multiple road signs indicating it is forbidden to honk because it would disturb the endangered birds living nearby. A nice touch. At one point we get tantalisingly close to the Mongolian border (see night picture above). It’s an eery experience as there are no signs mentioning the border and not a single road leading to that country from where I drove. Arriving at 1am in Arxan and looking for my booked hotel is a very bad idea: the part of town where hotels are is composed of around 50 identical buildings with no English “hotel” signs on any of them. Plus we are outside the touristic season so everything is closed. I did eventually find my hotel and was lucky a “night-time crew” (in actual fact an elderly couple that was probably hired as live-in staff during off-peak season) was sleeping near the reception and was able to open the door and unlock a room for me. Arxan village itself is a very interesting find: as close as you can get from a mountainous holiday town akin to what you would find in the European Alps, complete with wooden chalets and full flower decorations. The air is crisp, the sky bright blue, the trees dark green. Huolin Gol warriors and Mongolian horses. Our next stop is the Huolin Gol warriors, a location I have been wanting to visit since watching the Audi Quattro Sky the world video. Although a very spectacular sight with giant statues of Genghis Khan dominating a field of 800 distinct Mongolian warriors, Huolin Gol doesn’t feature on any touristic guide and it’s a very difficult place to find if you don’t happen to read Mandarin. There are no signs in English on the road so you have to figure out the name of the hill (Khan Mountain) in Chinese and/or Mongolian script and follow those signs to get there. There are only a few Chinese tourists and all smile and nod with pride to see a foreigner interested in this landmark. I am welcomed by horse-riding locals shouting “Welcome to Mongolia!” Hmmm not quite, as we are still in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, even though the border with the actual country of Mongolia is a mere 100km to the north. Toll booths in the middle of nowhere, sustenance and Tongliao car landscape. Southeast of Huolin Gol, the road to Tongliao goes through deserted steppe landscapes very similar to what I saw in my Mongolian adventure back in 2013. Here, the car landscape changes to concentrate on the Leopaard Q6 (a facelifted Mitsubishi Pajero) and its ancestor the Leopaard 6401 (the actual Pajero), Huanghai, Great Wall and JMC Baodian pickups, a couple of new generation Wuling Hongguang and lots of Baojun and Haval SUVs. Tongliao is by far the largest city of this trip at 885.000 inhabitants, and the cars in town change accordingly with lots of Toyota Corolla and Nissan Sylphy sedans, but interestingly not a single new generation VW Lavida. I even spotted a Lamborghini Urus, the first and only one of this trip, a find I was honestly expecting to happen in Shanghai instead, but we should never underestimate Chinese customers in Tier 2 and 3 cities, as these will trigger further sales growth in the country over the next decade. I drop my Peugeot 301 at Tongliao airport and the eHi staff is amused at welcoming a car from all the way up in barren Hailar. Stay tuned for our next China rental test drive: a Hyundai Celesta in Yunnan. Guest post: A car-lover’s dream at the Silverstone Classic The 2013 Silverstone Classic advertises itself as ‘Flat Out Fun for all the Family’ and… Media post: The 2017 Jeep Wrangler – The Origin of SUV Way back when the phrase SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) wasn’t even thought of yet, there… Guest post: Skoda Yeti – what makes it the best of the range The Skoda Yeti is great value for money considering its high build quality and great… Vavon says: Nice write-up! As usual I might ad. However about the facelifted 301 not being available in China yet. When I look on the Peugeot China website, it clearly shows the facelifted version… See: http://www.peugeot.com.cn/showroom/301/home.html RickM says: Interesting to read stories like this about a country we Western’s hardly know about. The absolutely brutal 301 tops it off.;) previous post: Explore China 2019: The cars of Lijiang, Yunnan next post: Explore China 2019: The cars of Lhasa, Tibet	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line556
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__label__cc	0.507307	0.492693	Home > Bookstores > Professional Bookseller Associations > Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America Since 1949, the ABAA has been promoting ethical standards and professionalism in the antiquarian book trade in America. ABAA also promotes these values internationally, through our affiliation with The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Here in America, ABAA has the strictest and most sweeping Ethics Code in the book trade, and all ABAA members are bound by it. The Ethics Code requires that all material offered for sale be authentic, be accurately described, and that a full cash refund, or other mutually agreeable settlement, be available to any purchaser for any item that is not. No other book trade organization can give that kind of guarantee, and ABAA backs it up with an Ethics Committee to hear any complaints against any of its members. 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__label__wiki	0.754381	0.754381	Covering the World of Sports, Health & Fitness in Brooklyn, NYC, New Jersey, Long Island, and beyond! Brooklyn Sports World/The Sports Scope A Pair of Former Cyclones Propel Fireflies to Victory Over Rome Canarsie Resident Kenneth Cooper Finds Passion in ‘On Your Time Awards’ Trophy Business PSAL Top Offensive and Special Teams Performers Red Storm Hoops Upend Georgetown in Overtime Thriller, 97-94 Sergey Kovalev Begins Return to Boxing Prominence in Fight Versus Vyacheslav Shabranskyy Welcome To Brooklyn Sports World. Staten Island Wrestling Association Electrifies Newark with Livewire Card Athens Foods Gets You Football Gameday Ready Two Former Brooklyn Cyclones, Jeff Walters, Darin Gorski Land in Kansas City with the Independent T-Bones May 2, 2017 May 12, 2017 by jdelpriore1, posted in baseball, Brooklyn Cyclones, Brooklyn Sports, Minor League Baseball, SPORTS By Jerry Del Priore Jeff Walters while with the Las Vegas 51s, the New York Mets Triple-A affiliate in the Pacific Coast League. The Kansas City T-Bones of the independent American Association announced Monday that the team has signed pitcher Jeff Walters to a contract for the 2017 campaign. In addition, in mid-April, Kansas City inked hurler Darin Gorski—who will also serve as the T-Bones’ pitching coach—to a deal. Five different organizations (San Francisco Giants, Washington Nationals, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles and New York Mets) drafted Walters, but he decided to go with the New York after they picked him in the seventh round of the 2010 MLB Amateur Draft out of the University of Georgia (Athens, GA). While with the Brooklyn Cyclones in 2011, the 29-year-old righty recorded a 4-6 mark with a 3.32 ERA with 48 strikeouts in 65 innings in 14 games Walters reached as high as Triple-A Las Vegas twice (2014, ’16). In seven seasons with the Mets, he amassed a 22-22 record with 3.93 ERA. New York picked the six-foot-four-inch, 215-pound Gorski in the seventh round of the in the 2009 MLB Amateur Draft out of the University of Pennsylvania. Gorski totaled three wins and four losses with a 4.91 ERA, fanning 50 batters against 26 bases-on-balls while with Brooklyn in 2009. Darin Gorski in Las Vegas. In 2016, Gorski split time between Las Vegas and the Somerset Patriots of the independent Atlantic League. He combined to post a 10-6 record with a 4.95 ERA in 129 innings. Gorski has spent most of his time in Triple-A. The 29-year-old lefty has a career record of 62-45 with a 4.07 ERA with 809 whiffs and 350 walks in 187 games (163 starts). Kansas City opens the 2017 regular season at home on Friday, May 19 at 7:05 p.m. against the Lincoln SaltDogs. Tagged American Assocation, Brooklyn Cyclones, Darin Gorski, Jeff Walters, Kanas City T-Bones, New York Mets Previous postFireflies Starting Pitcher Jordan Humphreys Runs Record to 5-0 Next postBrooklyn Baker’s Twinkie Recipe Included in Hostess’ 85th Anniversary Cookbook One thought on “Two Former Brooklyn Cyclones, Jeff Walters, Darin Gorski Land in Kansas City with the Independent T-Bones” Pingback: New York Mets Ink Kansas City T-Bones’ Dylan Tice – Brooklyn Sports World Sophomore Katie Ledden Looks to Prove Herself on the Court at Rutgers Prep NY’s Jai Smith Stays Hot on College Hoops Recruitment Trail with Spartan Offer IMPACT Wrestling Great Madison Rayne Retires from Pro Wrestling LuHi’s Jaxon Koroll Picks Up Wake Forest Hoops Offer TCA (NJ) HS Guard Brian Bernard Receives West Virginia Wesleyan Hoops Offer NY’s Jai Smith… on Ex-Bishop Ludden Power Forward… NY’s Jai Smith… on Red Storm Men’s Basketba… LuHi’s Jaxon K… on LuHi Power Forward Kacper Klac… Virginia Tech Men… on Slam Dunks, Academics Lead Rut… Autograph appearance (15) Bobbleheads (11) Brooklyn Cyclones (149) Brooklyn News (95) Brooklyn Sports (341) CANARSIE (49) Charity Event (16) College Sports (91) Combat Sports (10) DJ Riz (1) Educational Compeititon (2) exercise and fitness (17) High School Basketball (202) HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL (77) High School Girls basketball (166) KAMARI JONE-HUNTER (1) Minor League Baseball (304) New City High School Boys Basketball (33) New Jersey High School Sports (137) New York Mets (198) NYC Football (87) Professional Wrestling (69) psal (215) Sports Business (1) Sports Tech (8) Wine and Bars (3) Autograph appearance Brooklyn Cyclones Brooklyn Sports DJ Riz Educational Compeititon High School Girls basketball KAMARI JONE-HUNTER New City High School Boys Basketball New Jersey High School Sports NYC Football psal Wine and Bars	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line562
__label__wiki	0.534108	0.534108	History of the Indian Temple Building Kinds of stone structure There are two forms of stone structure: Rock decrease. Rock-decrease structure is made by carving into pure rock. Generally hewn into the perimeters of mountain ridges, rockcut structures are made by excavating rock unless the desired forms are finished. Stone built. The necessary focal level of this guidebook, stone-built structure, on […] komiabk23 · January 30, 2020 · 0 Kinds of stone structure There are two forms of stone structure: Rock decrease. Rock-decrease structure is made by carving into pure rock. Generally hewn into the perimeters of mountain ridges, rockcut structures are made by excavating rock unless the desired forms are finished. Stone built. The necessary focal level of this guidebook, stone-built structure, on the diversified hand, entails assembling decrease stone objects to win a complete. Buddhism will get the ball rolling The necessary stone structure in India changed into as soon as rock decrease and performed by Buddhist monks; prior to these structures, all structure had been made of wooden. Basically the most impressive examples had been rock-decrease spiritual sanctuaries, excavated at as soon as out of the basalt mountains lining the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, the elevated, v-shaped landmass that contains lots of the Indian peninsula. The caves at Ajanta – as well to those at conclude by Bedsa, Bhaja, Karla, Kondane, Nashik, and Pitalkhora – had been allotment of this initial wave of excavations. Inspiration for India's rock structure Early Buddhist structure changed into as soon as likely in a roundabout device impressed by that of the Egyptians. The Egyptians had been potentially the first civilization in the world to form stone structure; they began with stone-built pyramids in the 27th century BCE (Djoser's Step Pyramid in Saqqara) and persevered with rock-decrease tombs in the 16th century BCE (Valley of the Kings in Luxor). On the the same time, same stone-built pyramids, known as ziggurats, had been being built now now not too a ways away in Mesopotamia (neatly-liked day Iran and Iraq); the earliest potentially date from the unhurried allotment of Sumeria's Early Dynastic length (2900-2350 BCE). The ziggurat pyramid fabricate, nonetheless, changed into as soon as never transformed from stepped to soft edged, as changed into as soon as the case in Egypt. Egyptian and Mesopotamian forms and constructing practices had been borrowed by the Persians, who embraced rock-decrease structure. Basically, the royal tombs of Darius (522 BCE to 486 BCE) and the rest of the Faded Persian (Achaemenid) Empire had been rock decrease; they might per chance be found right open air of the old city of Persepolis in neatly-liked-day Iran. Possibly drawing on Persian precedent, India's earliest stone architects commenced constructing rock-decrease structure in the Third-2nd centuries BCE. These architects adapted Persian forms – infusing them with native fabricate preferences derived from their existing wooden-essentially based structure and introducing entirely new ingredients to switch neatly with their queer spiritual practices – to raze rock caves with a totally new exquisite. Why had been the Buddhists the first to manufacture in stone? Evidently the Buddhists right took region to relish the strengthen of rulers and rich merchants throughout the extreme length in which Persian rock-decrease architectural practices began to trickle into the subcontinent. Withhold in thoughts, even supposing the Buddhist faith changed into as soon as founded in India in the sixth century BCE, it did now now not impress fashionable adoption unless it got imperial sponsorship by the critical Mauryan Emperor, Ashoka, who transformed to Buddhism and dominated lots of the Indian subcontinent from 269 -232 BCE. The faith garnered subsequent momentum as a rising merchant class had been attracted to Buddhism.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line566
__label__cc	0.721334	0.278666	Bonita Springs Business Lawyers Bonita Springs Incorporation Attorneys Incorporation in Florida Find the right Business Incorporation attorney in Bonita Springs, FL Florida law allows a business to incorporate and be identified as its own legal entity. When an incorporated business acts, whether it is to buy and sell property, agree to contracts or exercise legal rights, the process is then attributable to the business itself and not its owners. In Florida, the process of incorporation is begun by filing with the Secretary of State in accordance with specific guidelines. Benefits of Incorporation in Florida A corporation enjoys advantages that unincorporated companies do not. Primarily, it cannot be held accountable for an amount of debt greater than the value of the assets that the owners have invested in it. Had the business remained unincorporated, owners risk losing their personal property should the business become unable to pay its liabilities. A corporation also allows creditors in the Bonita Springs area to assess the credit worthiness of the business as a whole rather than that of its owners, allowing the business to get loans more easily. Finally, a corporation's ownership stake is divided into equal slices or "shares" of stock, which make investments in the business much easier to transfer. Costs of Incorporation Along with a possible fee to apply for incorporation in Florida, there are other costs that corporations incur. The most important is that a corporation is taxed as its own entity. The individual incomes of the owners are still taxed also, and this can mean the same income is taxed twice, known as double taxation. With proper planning and assistance from a local Bonita Springs lawyer, you can avoid this disadvantage. Life in Bonita Springs Bonita Springs plays host to 45,000 Lee County residents who are also incorporated into the Cape Coral-Fort Myers Metropolitan Area. Bonita Springs is home to a host of lawyers. Bonita Springs lawyers take all kinds of cases and are licensed to practice in every county throughout the state.. One of the reasons Bonita Springs is so popular is a result of the tropical climate that only dips down to 65 degrees Fahrenheit in January. It is also the northernmost city on the west coast of Florida bordering the Estero Bay and Gulf of Mexico. The Everglades Wonder Garden is another popular destination flush with wildlife like alligators, birds, panthers, flamingos, and bears among many others. There's also a botanical garden. Bonita Springs is home to a number of attractions that are frequented by citizens and seasonal tourists alike. The Art League of Bonita Springs hosts local and traveling exhibitions and offers classes and community events. The Bonita Beach Park is a very popular beach that stretches 2.3 acres of waterfront which includes 8 picnic shelters, a swimming area, sand dunes, and lots of space to barbecue and enjoy the gorgeous Florida weather. Bonita Springs Breach of Contract Attorneys Bonita Springs Business Dispute Lawyers Bonita Springs Business Law Attorneys Bonita Springs Contract Review Lawyers Bonita Springs LLC Attorneys Bonita Springs Business Law Lawyer Bonita Springs Buying a Business Attorney Bonita Springs Contract Drafting Lawyer Bonita Springs Entertainment Law Attorneys Bonita Springs Selling a Business Lawyers Business Incorporation Lawyers in St. Augustine Beach Business Incorporation Lawyers in South Bay Business Incorporation Lawyers in Key Biscayne Business Incorporation Lawyers in Auburndale Business Incorporation Lawyers in Pensacola Business Incorporation Lawyers in De Land Business Incorporation Lawyers in Hialeah Gardens Business Incorporation Lawyers in Edgewater	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line568
__label__cc	0.671436	0.328564	The Origin of Priesthood Af Gunnar Landtman THE ORIGIN OF PRIESTHOOD te L 234 0 Excha with Kungl. Univ. I mentin perbre. 31,11var THE EKENAES PRINTING COMPANY, LIMITED EKENÁES THE studies necessary for writing this book have been pursued at the Library of the British Museum in London. It has been a great help and encouragement to me that my researches on early institutions have been honoured with scholarships from the Chancellor's Court of our University and from the Nyländska Afdelningen, the students' corporation of which I am a member. The debt which I owe to the eminent learning and unwearied advice of my friend and teacher Dr. Edward Westermarck can scarcely be overestimated. In acknowledging his never-failing interest and symphaty, and the valuable suggestions which he has made not only in reading the manuscript but during the whole progress of the work, I convey but an inadequate idea of my obligation to his kindness and insight. I have further to acknowledge some very valuable assistance rendered me by Mrs. Herman Donner and also by Miss Anna Krook in improving the style of the book, it being written in what is to me a foreign tongue. Mrs. Donner has added to her kindness in helping me to correct the proofs. G. L. HELSINGFORS, FINLAND. November, 1905. PRIESTHOOD COMPARED WITH OTHER SOCIAL CLASSES. Definition of lay classes, p. 1; peoples without classes, pp. 2–5; the nobility, the commonalty and the slave-class constituting the typical classes, p. 6; magicians included in the priesthood, p. 7; »peoples without priests», ib.; definitions of religion, p. 8; universality of religion, pp. 9 sq., of magic, p. 10; magicians or priests universal among the ridest peoples, pp. 10–13; priesthood earlier than the lay classes, pp. 13–15; the peculiar character of priesthood as compared with other classes, pp. 15–18; priesthood in opposition to the lay classes also con- stitutes a profession, pp. 18—20; further characteristics of the priesthood as distinguished from other classes, pp. 20 sq. THE HUMAN NEED OF MEDIATORS WITH A SUPPOSFD PRETERNATURAL WORLD. The crigin of priesthood referable to man's craving for supernatural assistance in the struggle of life, pp. 22 sq.; the ideas of sa- vages regarding natural occurrences and phenomena, pp. 23—26, regarding illness and death, pp. 26 sq.; notions of this sort as contributing to tho origin of priesthood, p. 27; the priests necessary mediators with the supernatural powers, pp. 27-29; the assistance of the priests required to direct the worship, pp. 29 sq., to procure favourable weather, pp. 30–32, to heal the sick, pp. 32–35, to explain counsels from the gods, pp. 35–39, to inflict evil upon enemies, pp. 39 sq.; significance of priest- hood in the mental life of savages, pp. 40 sq.; psychological explanation of the origin of priesthood, pp. 41 sq.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line571
__label__wiki	0.530748	0.530748	Cox/ASMF/Keller - Rebel, Fernando, Mozart, and Copland, 24 October 2020 St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 24.10.2020 (MB) Rebel: Les Élémens: ‘Le Chaos’ Samantha Fernando: Lost Things, for solo flute Mozart: Flute Concerto in D major, KV 314/285d Copland: Appalachian Spring Let us not kid ourselves: there is absolutely nothing to recommend our historical moment. That is still more the case when it comes to music, for reasons no reader will need to see repeated. Yes, in some ways we may feel we appreciate it all the more, yet scarcity is no way to show appreciation, nor is throwing musicians’ lives on the scrapheap in order to funnel more cash to Dido Harding, Serco, and the horse racing ‘industry’. People are rightly angry, depressed, in despair—and dying. That is not something to celebrate with naïve, neo-Panglossian hopes for a better future. What music, when we can find it, when we can make it, can do is give us a little more hope for the present, a little relief from the hell that engulfs us. It is chaos right now, of course, a different kind of chaos, man-made, from that which pertained prior to Creation. One could nevertheless make connections—and did—in an outstanding performance of Jean-Féry Rebel’s ‘Le Chaos’ to open the concert. Its extraordinary opening cluster, containing all seven notes of the D minor harmonic scale, hit home, but so, at least as importantly, did the six minutes or so of the piece’s progress, like Rameau on steroids, that unmistakeable ‘French Baroque’—however unsatisfactory the name—combination of texture and timbre ringing through the friendly acoustic. We may be all at sea, all in chaos even, but there was some comfort to be had from the Academy returning ‘home’ all these years later from its 1958 debut. So too was there in Michael Cox’s flute’s pastoral memories and, in the context of the concert as a whole, harbinger of music to come. The ASMF’s fabled polish was naturally present, but this was a performance of great commitment too, scales, one of our most basic musical building blocks, seemingly created anew in the struggle of ‘elements’—earth, water, air, and fire—to assume their place in a ‘natural order’ which, however constructed, we could yet momentarily believe in. Dance, if only imaginary, played its role, courtly yet modern, as much as notes ‘themselves’, for this was a dramatic, even conceptual, narrative that unfolded before our eyes and ears. Cox returned as soloist for the next two pieces. First was Samantha Fernando’s Lost Things, derived from her music-theatre work The Journey Between Us. Perhaps inevitably in this concert context, the solo instrument emerged as if from French tradition, Debussy above all, yet in no sense sounded hidebound by it. Exploratory, idiomatic, leaving one curious to hear more, this was a piece that drew one in to listen, to appreciate the importance of every note: not just its pitch, but the nature of its sounding, and its relationship to others. Again, the sense of narrative was readily apparent: ‘lost things’, doubtless, yet much was found too. In Mozart’s D major Flute Concerto, we heard cultivated, finely articulated orchestral playing from the outset, the soloist responding and developing in kind, his tone to die for, phrasing effortlessly expressive. Narrative here was above all harmonic, likewise in a slightly different sense in the kaleidoscopic cadenza. From that fundamental narrative, finely honed detail emerged to beguile us in the slow movement. A garden of tonal delights that, by Mozart’s later standards, is straightforward to interpret, whether as performer as listener—this is not Così fan tutte—it nonetheless enticed, on the cusp of recollections of a summer that never was (this of all years) and autumnal bite. Youthful high spirits and sheer beauty of sound were almost too much to bear in the finale. It spoke, or rather sang, of another world, a world we fear we shall neither see nor hear again. Still, better to have experienced its loveliness than not; such relief can and does help. Last on the programme came a return to dance music: Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, in its original, chamber version for thirteen instruments. As ever, the ensemble under Tomo Keller’s direction was second to none. Thinned textures—at least from the standpoint of general experience—fascinated, not least in the clarification of counterpoint at dawn. There was a heightened sense, I think, of Stravinskian influence in the following section: to my ears, all to the better, though that is really a matter of taste. Much of what comes thereafter is a bit folksy and soft-centred for me, but that is no comment on the performance itself, which clearly delighted many. Moreover, given the intent to send a message to the Academy’s American friends, scheduled at this time of year to hear the ensemble on tour, there was an undeniable message to be heard and felt. Many of us, after all, feel the loss of being cut off from loved ones, be they in Trump-land, currently more inaccessible to us than North Korea, or elsewhere, and a need to communicate with them in forms both old and new. Now, more than ever, music’s therapeutic benefits should be recognised whenever and wherever we can. 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__label__wiki	0.601642	0.601642	BoPo Call The Front Desk BoPo XIV Tuesday Standings Tuesday Stats Tuesday A Schedule Tuesday B Schedule Thursday Standings Thursday Stats This Is Not ‘Nam, There Are Rules B.E.E.R.’s Impossible Journey Posted byKarl Hungus April 10, 2010 April 5, 2020 Posted inBP Updates (Oh, and thanks Natro…Hooray BEER!) As we sipped victory beer from the chalice last evening, I was reminded that when we were facing elimination in the first round of the playoffs, I had made a promise. “Win the title, and you all get a bottle of Crown”. What a coachable bunch. That rally from a 6-4 hole to a 9-6 win in the first round was the springboard for the most unlikely championship run in BowlPortland history. After that first round scare, B.E.E.R. did something in the second round it hadn’t done all season – dominate. All year long this team played to competition, making every game close win or lose. But with the lesson learned, B.E.E.R. advanced past the Incredibowls in two games and waited for the Urban Achievers in the quarters. That was a rematch of 2009 when the Achievers overcame a hostile crowd and sent B.E.E.R. packing. Not this year. In game one, Filthy put up a 200 and Hungus a 182, but it all came down to Cheddar in the tenth frame of game one. A 15 would make it 3-2, a 21 would make it 4-1. Mr. Clutch put up a 28 and B.E.E.R. was on it’s way. Cheddar put up a 210 in game 2 to keep it going, and then, with B.E.E.R. on the verge of blowing a 7-3 lead, Cheddar put the team on his shoulders and picked up top point to advance us to the Semis. That’s the background. Now the story. Entering Friday’s semis, B.E.E.R. was a loose bunch. “No one expected us to be here” shouted Filthy, and he was correct. After an incredibly tense win over UA, B.E.E.R. was downright giddy playing in the semis, up against a very friendly rival. Unfortunately, Livin’ On A Spare took advantage of that ‘happy to be here’ mentality, and jumped to a 5-0 lead. Shithawk 186 Hungus 159 – Natro 178 Cheddar 142 – Precious 166 Filthy 130 – Coco 139 Bishop 112 – LOS 669 BEER 543 Ouch. Livin’ On A Spare was rightfully thinking about Finals matchups, but B.E.E.R. was not about to go away. Four B.E.E.R. players had recently gone with the BoPo travel team to Vermont, and our iron will was forged in the crucible of that playoff-type test. This time, it would be Filthy’s turn to be the hero on a night of many heroes. Filthy 208 Natro 166 – Hungus 180 Precious 149 – Cheddar 167 Shithawk 141 – Fern 146 Alley-Leujah 97 – BEER 701 LOS 553 Just like that, a tie game. That’s when B.E.E.R. faced a crucial character moment. A true team plays all its parts, and “Hacksaw” Tom Richards was ready on the bench. Hungus waffled. Hacksaw waffled. Filthy threw a scissors to Hacksaw’s rock, and it was settled. Welcome to the semis Hacksaw. He certainly didn’t disappoint. Hacksaw opened with a turkey, and the roars from the crowd were so deafening, Hungus’ turkey went under the radar. By frame six, with Hacksaw and Hungus both sitting on five strikes and Cheddar not far off the pace, LOS knew that the stars were shining on this B.E.E.R. squad and joined the cheering section as B.E.E.R. poured it on. With the game already decided, Cheddar found something to shoot for in the 10th frame anyhow. An 18 would tie the BoPo team score record. He posted a 19. 5-0 B.E.E.R., and a 10-5 win. Hungus 243 Natro 155 – Hacksaw 218 Coco 153 – Cheddar 178 Precious 133 – Fern 129 Shithawk 128 – BEER 768 LOS 569 B.E.E.R. 10 Livin’ On A Spare 5 Onto the finals. While B.E.E.R. basked in the moment, Binga’s was taking care of business against old foe Off Constantly. Jamaican Jerk’s 264 was sealing the deal, and B.E.E.R. began finals preparations (read: bourbon and more beer drinking). While the large crowd definitely had a pro-B.E.E.R. lean, there wasn’t a whole lot of hope for the upset. After all, Binga’s had made it through 2009 with no losses, and was one win away from two years and two titles without a loss. B.E.E.R. looked like a sacrificial lamb. But there was one thing giving us a glimmer of hope. We were the only team to have given Binga’s a run for their money in the regular season, having a 5-5 game before getting run over. Then thee was the Sweet 16, when Binga’s looked vulnerable, falling down 5-0 to the upstart Sweet Rolls before roaring back. So, while the crowd may not have had a lot of faith, B.E.E.R. did, and they would feed off the energy of the fans. Neither team came out firing, perhaps feeling a little pressure. B.E.E.R. unveiled it’s last bench player yet to get in a game, and Slow Roll handled the crazy intensity and scrutiny. After slow starts, everyone settled in a bit, and this game went into the 10th frame with a possible range of 5-0 Binga’s to 4-1 B.E.E.R. A rested Filthy McNasty edged the Jerk, and Hungus and Cheddar both faced big tests. Hungus needed a 17 in the tenth to grab a point. He spared, and got 18. Cheddar needed 16. He spared, and got 18. B.E.E.R. took spots 1-3, but lost 4th and overall, to take a 3-2 lead. Filthy 178 Jerk 174 – Cheddar 161 Hot Mango Mike 155 – Hungus 157 Danny Diesel 155 – Chernobyl 138 Slow Roll 112 – Binga’s 622 B.E.E.R. 609 A 3-2 lead over Binga’s doesn’t mean much, but it did give B.E.E.R. confidence. B.E.E.R. knew Jamaican Jerk would not be in the 170’s again. Cheddar knew it more than most. So far, Hungus, Hacksaw and Filthy had all had 200’s on the night. Cheddar turned to Hungus and said “I’m going to put up a 200. I need one.” Hungus just said yes, do that (that’s coaching!) and accepted a pitcher of Long Trail from a supportive Bustah Nut. Hacksaw reentered the game as well. Binga’s brought in Booth, a hero of the 2009 playoffs. Cheddar delivered, opening with a turkey, and having some beautiful meetings of the minds with Jamaican Jerk as they rolled at the same time, a strong mutual respect between them. One of Cheddar’s rolls even earned a “that’s sharp, Cheddar” remark. In the end, Cheddar won his duel, edging the Jerk 206-203. Hungus ran away with second, and Fern pulled off third, giving B.E.E.R. 7 points and moving them to within one of a title. Then things got weird. Cheddar 206 Jerk 203 – Hungus 191 Valley Girl Jess 157 – Fern 148 Hot Mango Mike 141 – Buffalo Booth 140 Hacksaw Tom Richards 123 – B.E.E.R. 668 Binga’s 641 For the last few frames of game two, we were the only game in town. Literally. All the other lanes had been cleared of bowlers in preparation for “Galactic Bowl” and the only sound was a piercing high pitched whine from a broken sound system. That and the thunderous cheers from the fans in the peanut gallery. Well, with the BoPo title on the line, conditions got even weirder. Yes, we went Galactic. The lights went off, the blacklights came on, the tunes were cranked, the teenagers surrounded us. Tough conditions. Both teams’ scores would be affected. In fact, B.E.E.R. didn’t close a single frame before a spare in the third. Luckily for them, Binga’s was not running away. The underdogs were definitely feeling, and showing, the tension. That’s when some trickle down coaching saved the day. Fern told Karl, Karl told Filthy, Filthy told Number One, and Number One told Cheddar…relax, you’ve got this. He responded with two strikes that changed the tide. The rest of the team bounced back at the sight of their leader getting his groove back. Things looked good after 9, and in the tenth, B.E.E.R had two shots at 4th place, and two shots at 2nd. Fern ended any drama as the second bowler in the 10th, when her 117 was good enough to clinch the last place spot and the title. Cheddar’s 165 for second was icing on the cake. B.E.E.R. had stunned the bowling world. Jerk 195 Hungus 176 – Cheddar 165 Danny Diesel 157 – Valley Girl Jess 124 Filthy 118 – Fern 117 Buffalo Booth 114 – Binga’s 592 B.E.E.R. 576 B.E.E.R. 9 Binga’s Ringas 6 It was a magic moment for B.E.E.R., and a big moment for the league to show that anything is possible. We hope to see you at the Bowling Ball tonight to help us celebarte the title and another great year, and to present all the individual trophies around the league. Well done BowlPortland, well done B.E.E.R. ! Silly Oolie BoPo, Powered by WordPress.com.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line575
__label__cc	0.718692	0.281308	Bringing Up Bobby [2009] (Movie Review) James and Bobby have taken care of each other ever since their parents died, but Bobby is stuck in high school identity crisis while James tries to figure out what he going to do about his sister trying to take him to court over their parents’ will. Meanwhile, their other brother Dennis shows back just in time for the court hearing—especially since he’s on the run from Russian anarchists. But things begin to change when James and his sister’s lawyer begin to fall for each other and Bobby decides he is going to change himself to impress a girl at school. Will any of them figure out who they really are? Will we ever be able to understand what this movie is even about? Production Quality (2 points) Though the production quality of this film is mostly fine, the same cannot be said about the rest of the film. Nonetheless, video quality, camera work, and audio quality are all fine and what they should be. The soundtrack is a bit dumb but not all bad. Sets, locations, and props are fine, even if they are a bit juvenile at times. There are some weird sound effects throughout, as well as some awkward transitions and ‘artistic’ asides that tend to hamper things. But on the whole, this production is respectable enough. However, this trend does not continue throughout the film. Plot and Storyline Quality (0 points) There is literally no way to understand where this plot is coming from or where it’s even going. Full of zany, eccentric characters that spout childishly comedic and stupid dialogue, this story overall lacks focus, direction, and purpose. A majority of the scenes are lazily designed to elicit some sort of amused snicker or even eye-roll just because they’re so stupid. The storyline is aimless and generally lacks arcs. It most definitely lacks depth and meaning. The Christian message is forced and awkward. Any lesson that is trying to be conveyed here is totally lost in the wake of nonsense. Basically, this ‘plot’ needed a lot of vetting before it was released to the public. Much like the characters, the cast members are mostly off the wall and over the top in their performances. Emotions are forced and so-called comedy is painful. Though there are some good moments here that save this section from nothingness, it’s just not good enough. One has to wonder why Provident decided to stamp their name on this madness. What is the true faith-based on even inspirational value to this film? It’s not even marketable or watchable. Most audiences will turn this off after about ten minutes. True comedy takes well-developed characters and witty, well-thought-out dialogue, not just throwing stuff against the wall to see what happens. Another day, another failed Christian film. November 11, 2017 January 3, 2019 by Box Office Revolutionary Categories: Comedy, Movie ReviewsTags: 2009, 3 points, Adam Misenko, Alex Hinsky, Andrew Griffiths, Brian Morvant, Chris Staron, Comedy, Courtney Warner, Elizabeth Bucher, Glowing Nose Productions, Jay Smith, Jhey Castles, Kami Stanley, Linda Schneider, Marc Thompson, Nick Staron, Provident Films, Reagan Kendrick, Robert Tayek Leave a comment Come Unto Me [2016] (Movie Review) Paranormal [2009] (Movie Review) What did you think? Cancel reply Box Office Revolutio… on The Chosen, Season 2 (Spring… Anonymous on The Chosen, Season 2 (Spring…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line577
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__label__cc	0.702371	0.297629	How A Narrative Could Affect the Price of Watches Sold in Auction House Ali Armansyah Rusmiputro The auction house is very attached to the narrative. Without a narrative, auction houses couldn’t sell their items at a very high price. The examiner examines every artwork or watch sold in the auction house. They are the ones that would be giving the price for that specific item. They are not only looking for quality, but they are also looking for a story to tell to the audience so they could potentially put a higher price. People who are not into watches must be wondering how can the price be so high. People would think, the most expensive wristwatch sold at the auction house should be the one with diamonds or gold or platinum, but that’s not the fact. The most expensive wristwatch ever sold is made from stainless steel, but why? Simple, it’s all because of the story. People at auction house would look into the specification, year of the watch been made, and what brand, then they will look for the story behind it. The most expensive wristwatch ever sold at the auction house is not gold, diamond or platinum, it is just a stainless-steel. A few days ago, the record was broken by the Stainless-steel Patek Philippe GrandMaster Chime with a stunning $31 Million. People would think how on earth a watch could sell more than $30 million? It’s because there is a story behind it. The watch itself is already very expensive because it is the most complicated wristwatch ever made by Patek Philippe. But the story behind it is even better. This auction is held for a charity program to help people and do research for Duchenne muscular dystrophy symptoms. The founder of the auction has a son who is the victim of these symptoms, and he wants to hold a charity program by selling watches on the Only Watch Charity Auction. The fact that the sale was for charity helped boost the bidding prices, according to the auctioneers. The second most expensive wristwatch ever sold in the auction is Rolex 6239 Paul Newman. There are a thousand of these watches, but the most expensive one is the one worn by Paul Newman itself. The Rolex Daytona that has been worn by Paul Newman is sold for $17.8 Million. Models, references, and different colors could also differentiate the price. From all the Rolex Daytona, there is one that is coveted by watch collectors, which is the 6239 Paul Newman with “Exotic” dial. The standard watch itself is already sold for a hundred thousand dollars in the auction, and now with the help of the great name itself, the expensive watch becomes one of the most expensive. Another example of how strong a narrative could affect the watch price is Rolex ref 5513/5517 called Milsub. It was based on the Rolex Submariner, research suggests that approximately 1200 units were delivered, from 1971 to 1979 and less than a few hundred survive today in original condition. These watches are a special request from the British Ministry of Defence, it needs some modification from the original watch for military purposes, and civilians could not buy these watches. Because the watch is rarely in great condition and a lot of it have broken and also missing, the watches that survived in excellent condition are the ones that auction house are searching. The price of the new Rolex Submariner is around $10,000. Yes, it is already an expensive watch, to begin with. But, the Rolex Milsub from the 1970s with an excellent condition is sold in the auction house for around $200,000. The watch itself looks similar, but because the British army wore it, every watch has its own stories that make each piece a treasure. If watches sold in auction house have been polished to make them look flawless, they will get a much lower price. The buyer likes to own a watch as it is, battle-proven with a lot of stories behind it. A good cause, a great actor, and original watches for the army. These are the narratives that define the price, and it is the job of the auction house to tell a great story. People like stories. And the auction house knows it. So every time you find an expensive piece of work, look for stories behind it. More from our storytellers: What Happens After The Pandemic? A think piece from an HR professional’s perspective. Cha Manurung • May 19, 2020 I Write This for Me for Moments of “Oh Shit, Why Did I Do That?” When everything seems to be going well, it only takes one moment, one thought, one trip to the rabbit hole that makes you doubt and say... 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__label__wiki	0.745358	0.745358	ORGANIC HEALTH WORLD SECRETS The Making Of Q , Running Through The Pines For the people who are interested. Was the Q phenomenon caused by desperation or did it have some bite to it? This post is from bellingcat’s point of view based on the data they have gathered. The Making of QAnon: A Crowdsourced Conspiracy On January 6, chaos descended on Washington D.C. as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol Building. Amid the melee, a longtime QAnon promoter known as “the Q Shaman” made his way onto the Senate floor and occupied the speaker’s rostrum. He was far from the only QAnon supporter on the scene that day: another led the charge into the Capitol. Once again, this dangerous and eclectic conspiracy is in the spotlight. It has come a long way since its birth on a forum barely three years ago. On October 28, 2017, an anonymous user browsing the /pol/ section of 4chan, a notorious alt-right imageboard, saw a post that read, “Hillary Clinton will be arrested between 7:45 AM — 8:30 AM EST on Monday — the morning on Oct 30, 2017,” and decided to respond. This user would later adopt the name “Q Clearance Patriot” (soon shortened to “Q”). Q hinted that they were a military officer in President Trump’s inner circle; their writings — almost 5,000 posts to date — gave birth to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Q’s first “drop” Most accounts of QAnon present this first “Q drop”, as Q’s posts are known by their acolytes, as the starting point of the Q movement. This is mistaken for two reasons. One is trivial: Q first gained an audience with a different set of drops, because their earliest efforts sank without a trace and weren’t rediscovered by anyone on 4chan until November 11 that same year. The other is deeply significant: Q’s origins can’t be divorced from the culture of /pol/, which was a rich slurry of racism, anti-Semitism, and (especially relevant here) right-wing conspiracy theories. Therefore, QAnon was both an outgrowth and an evolution of /pol/ culture: not only were many of Q’s claims already popular on /pol/, but Q borrowed key themes and ideas from predecessors. The key to understanding the roots of Q is to understand the culture of /pol/. But first, we need to understand the myth. Meet the Mythos Here is the core of the QAnon myth: with the aid of a small group of military intelligence officers called the Q team (one or more of whom is supposedly responsible for writing the drops), President Donald Trump is waging a shadow war against a cabal of Satan-worshipping, child-eating pedophiles who are conspiring to obstruct and overthrow him. The military will arrest them en masse in an event called “the Storm.” The cabal’s membership has grown in the telling (at first, it was “many in our government;” within a month, any “celebs” who had “supported HRC” might very well be in on it; a few months later, there were too many to fit into Guantanamo Bay; later still, three other “detention centers [were] being prepped”), but it would be fair to say that virtually anyone who’s angered or defied President Trump is considered part of the cabal, along with the usual suspects like financier and philanthropist George Soros. After the Storm, military tribunals will ensure that these baby-eating traitors are executed or sentenced to life in prison. Faced with overwhelming proof of the cabal’s existence, a stunned public will mourn; rage; and ultimately unite behind President Trump, ushering in a golden age of patriotism and prosperity. Remarkably, this description covers none of the most bizarre corners of QAnon (for instance, in QAnon lore, North Korea was controlled by the CIA but has now been liberated by Trump and the Q team). It also omits a key aspect of the QAnon worldview: that every public act or utterance of President Trump or a suspected cabal member might contain “comms,” or secret messages, which QAnon believers can decode. And it leaves out one of the most important QAnon slogans: “disinformation is necessary,” which some might call a wonderful excuse for Q’s failed predictions, also allowing believers to pick and choose which parts of the theory they embrace. From these humble and eccentric beginnings, QAnon has grown explosively. At first, that growth was limited to 4chan, where Q became a sensation on /pol/. Soon after, a pair of 4chan moderators and a YouTube conspiracy theorist began working together to spread Q’s messages to a far wider audience. This effort succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Roughly 10 percent of American adults believe in some or all of QAnon’s theories, according to a Pew Research study conducted last year. This finding is consistent with another study conducted in 2020 by the British charity HOPE not hate. Political scientist Joe Uscinski, who has written that “support for QAnon appears to be deeper than it is wide,” nonetheless finds QAnon support running between five to 10 percent of the US adult population. However you slice it, millions of Americans believe in QAnon to some degree. Furthermore support for QAnon’s ideas is much more widespread than belief in Q: a YouGov poll last October found that fully 50 percent of Trump’s supporters agreed that “top Democrats are involved in elite sex-trafficking rings.” Even before what many are calling an attempted coup, QAnon had reached the halls of Congress. Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, praised as a “future Republican star” by President Trump, has written that “child sex, Satanism, and the occult [are] all associated with the Democratic Party.” Greene also recorded videos describing Q as “a patriot” and “completely for the good… very high up and connected,” offering “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satanists and pedophiles out.” So what was it about QAnon that made anyone think this obscure theory on /pol/ might be worth trying to spread? A Deep and Dark Well Simply put, the broad outlines of Q’s beliefs were popular on /pol/ before Q started posting. Reviewing threads on /pol/ that predate Q, as well as the earliest threads in which Q was active, yields a critical insight: many “anons” (as 4chan’s denizens called themselves) believed the key elements of Q’s story before Q came along. As one perceptive anon writing before Q’s first mention of Satanism (and, in fact, before anons began discussing Q at all) pointed out: “Funny how everyone the /pol/acks dislike are all actually secretly part of a huge child abusing, devil worshipping [sic], Jewish conspiracy that is only coming to light as more people are threatening the big D [Trump]. Almost as if it’s all delusional fantasy, and D might actually just be a retard in danger of being impeached.” An anon calls out Q’s conspiratorial appeal If that fantasy was delusional, it was also incredibly common on 4chan. Lurid claims and conspiracies like these found in the anons an eager audience: the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which was far and away the most direct predecessor to QAnon, was mentioned at least 45,027 times on /pol/ alone in the year before Q’s first posts. (The actual number is sure to be higher: there were plenty of posts about Pizzagate before that name came into use, and almost 2500 more using the alternate name “Pedogate,” which more directly reflects Pizzagate’s claims — namely, that prominent Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton, sexually abused and ritually sacrificed children, using restaurants as a front for their crimes.) Therefore, when viewed in its original context, Q’s conspiracy theory — far from blazing new trails — trod a well-worn path. For example, here’s one anon predicting the imminent “arrest of the Cabal” and “liberation of Planet Earth from dark forces” in July 2017 — three months before Q’s first post. Here’s another, two weeks before Q appeared, writing: “Soon their demise will come. The storm approaches. Hollywood is directly connected.” Even if we restrict ourselves to the week before Q’s first drop, we can find countless anons expressing their belief in ideas that Q went on to espouse. For example, three days before Q’s first post, an anon who believed in the Pizzagate conspiracy listed Hillary Clinton’s supposed crimes: “Sex with a minor, rape, cannibalism” — the exact charges against Hillary that would go on to become a core part of QAnon. Another anon in that thread wanted to “talk about what the Clinton Foundation did in Haiti.” The reference was to a less-central part of Pizzagate lore which, despite its relative obscurity, Q folded into some of their early drops. Yet another anon, writing on October 23, 2017 (five days before Q’s first post) created a thread that neatly encapsulates Q’s original story: Special Counsel Robert Mueller was working with Trump to take down the deep state in general and Hillary in particular, after which “tribunals involving hundreds are going to take place.” The denizens of /pol/ were thirsty for military tribunals that would punish their most hated enemies. Indeed, it was Q’s hints about the coming tribunals that won over the earliest converts. One anon, overcome by enthusiasm, all-caps’d it: “THE JUNTA !!!!! TIME FOR MILITARY OVERRIDE! All hail dictator Trump!” Another went straight to the point, with /pol/’s trademark anti-Semitism: Trump, he predicted, would declare martial law on November 4th, 2017, and while he wasn’t certain what would happen next, he offered up a guess: “kikes hang soon after in military tribunals?”) There’s strong evidence that Q had read the October 23, 2017 thread: it references an obscure, months-old statement by Representative Trey Gowdy which Q cited less than a week later in one of the earliest drops. To be clear, there’s no reason to think Q stole the entire Mueller theory from the author of this thread — just that one line. Q had almost certainly already encountered the idea that Mueller and Trump were working together, which was widespread on /pol/: “this shit has been spammed here for months,” complained an anon, with “literally not one iota of proof.” Yet another anon, two days before the advent of Q, posted a thread that practically begged for an overarching conspiracy theory to come along that would make “all these scandals… converge,” leading to “the biggest military tribunal in world history.” An anon calls for order to chaos This was fertile soil. Even before Q came onto the scene, all of the raw materials for their writings were scattered about their environment, waiting to be forged into a semi-coherent mythos. Playing to the Gallery In this respect, a reply to the post asking if “all these scandals” would “converge” is especially notable. This reply listed almost every alleged Democratic scandal that was popular on Fox News (and therefore also widely discussed on 4chan) at the time. Q devoted extensive attention to most of the items on the list. As of the writing of this article, the “Awan scandal” has been mentioned in 26 drops; “Uranium 1” — in its abbreviated form of “U1” — appears in 39 drops, and the word “uranium” appears in 11; Seth Rich is mentioned in 13 drops; and “dossier” appears in 32 drops. Fox News meets QAnon In other words, Q — far from leaking top-secret information to the anons — simply repackaged what right-wing media (and therefore the anons) were already discussing. In the hands of Q, these scandals — seemingly unconnected — became part of a sinister, pedophilic conspiracy the anons could work to unravel, saving innocent children and sweeping their enemies away in a wave of cleansing fire. Probably the two most hated individuals on /pol/ were Hillary Clinton and George Soros. Considering /pol/’s nature — right-wing, anti-Semitic, and conspiracy-minded — its hostility to a liberal Jewish philanthropist like Soros is supremely unsurprising. For similar reasons, /pol/ also loathed President Barack Obama. But the anons’ animus towards Clinton was special. Inspired by Pizzagate, their enmity was all-encompassing and unremitting. Just a day before Q’s first post, one anon put it succinctly: “Victory,“ he wrote, “is when [Hillary] and everyone related to the pedophile ring known as [the] ‘Clinton Foundation’ are thrown in Gitmo.” (Gitmo, or Guantanamo Bay, looms large in the QAnon imagination: the US naval base and detention camp in the Caribbean is’ supposedly where the Cabal’s members will be imprisoned, tried, and executed when the Storm arrives, a belief which has Q encouraged both cryptically and directly.) From the beginning, Q focused fire on all three figures: drops 1 and 2 concerned preparations for Clinton’s arrest (the second drop even claiming that she’d been “detained”), while Q mentioned Soros in drops 2, 4, 5, 6, 14, and 15, ending the latter with: “Soros is targeted.” Obama was mentioned even more often than Soros, earning his own special role in the conspiracy to boot: he served, Q suggested, as a globetrotting point man for the Cabal. Q’s most frequent targets — America’s first black president; a Jewish philanthropist; and Hillary Clinton — pandered to the audience’s prejudices, winning acclaim and attention from an audience that was hungry for a happy ending: the death or imprisonment of all of its enemies. The Greatest LARP One more element of 4chan culture helps explain QAnon’s success: LARPing. Q embodied this practice, or perhaps even perfected it. The acronym refers to “live action role playing,” but on /pol/, it has a more specialized meaning: a LARPer is someone who pretends to be a well-placed source with confidential information about current events, which they then leak to the anons. LARPing was and remains extremely common on /pol/ — so common that Q’s first post was itself a response to, or a riff on, another LARPer. In fact, that LARPer was greeted with a moan of “not another one” and a picture called “dance of the LARPer.gif.” Most LARPs petered out within a few posts (which is what happened to the anon who wrote “drop 0,” the post to which Q first responded). Some lasted for a handful of threads. Several, however, found success and became well-known parts of /pol/ culture. Prominent LARPs before Q included FBI Anon, High Level Insider, Mega Anon, and White House Insider; other well-known LARPers included CIA Anon, Victory of the Light, Highway Patrolman, and Anonymous 5. In turn, many of these had their disciples and imitators. In some cases, Q’s claims are directly descended from those made by other popular LARPers. In particular, some skeptical anons compared Q to Victory of the Light — with good reason, since “the Storm,” as predicted by Q, is almost a beat-for-beat copy of “The Event,” as described by a Victory of the Light superfan. A checklist for “The Event” A side-by-side comparison is revealing. At the beginning of The Event, claimed Victory of the Light, normal economic life will be suddenly, jarringly disrupted for “two weeks max” as banks close down and the financial system is thrown into disarray. The Storm, in QAnon lore, will begin with “ten days of darkness,” a phrase first deployed by Q only a week after beginning to post. The advent of this period is breathlessly awaited by Q’s followers to this very day. In the second stage of The Event, the news will be full of “disclosure” (in which the government reveals some of the shocking truths it’s kept hidden). These messages will be pushed out to citizens on television and via the emergency broadcast system. In the Storm, the ten days of darkness will also be followed by disclosure — not of alien life, but of the full extent of the Cabal’s depravity. This, according to Q, will happen via the emergency broadcast system, as the Cabal’s last-ditch resistance is crushed and the mass arrests roll on. In The Event, “mass arrests of the Cabal” will be televized.” In both the Storm and The Event, these mass arrests herald the “liberation of Planet Earth from dark forces,” as Victory of the Light would have it. By no means does this exhaust the parallels between the claims Victory of the Light made in the summer of 2017 and the story Q began to peddle that fall. However, as the subsequent parallels are not as strong, it would serve little purpose to keep listing them — especially since Victory of the Light wasn’t the only LARPer who served as a clear ancestor to QAnon. For instance, Anonymous5 (also referred to by anons as Frank) was easily the most reviled LARPer on /pol/, but he was also the key figure in the development of /HTG/ (for “Human Trafficking General”) threads. In fact, he was so central to /HTG/ culture that the threads routinely included a post that began, “Look for these kinds of things to map out the trafficking networks (courtesy of Anon5).” Frank wasn’t the first LARPer to realize that lurid tales of child sexual abuse would hold /pol/’s attention. It was a fairly obvious strategy; Highway Patrolman, for example, once burst into a thread (on Valentine’s Day, no less) to claim that he was investigating an international child prostitution ring. In this entirely fictitious ring, dastardly non-white offenders (especially “illegals”) held innocent white girls captive, and even murdered some. Since /pol/ is enthusiastically racist, this storyline was especially well chosen; it’s always wise to know your audience. Frank’s claims, too, were heavily racialized. It was an article of faith for /HTG/ anons that Blue America (or, as the standard opening post for /HTG/ threads claimed, “urban areas, specifically sanctuary cities”) hosted a huge network of pedophiles trafficking unlimited numbers of children, and it was an article of faith (rather than fact) that these children were obtained primarily through child abductions and “breeding grounds.” /HTG/ anons were a small, tight-knit community who, in the most charitable reading of their activities, engaged in collaborative storytelling and followed rules of evidence (however strange and disconnected from reality) that led them to believe they’d uncovered rings of pedophiles. A less charitable, but more accurate, description of /HTG/ threads might be that their participants were engaged in bouts of wild speculation and free association which they termed “investigations,” but which led to no arrests — because they’d uncovered no evidence of actual crimes. Indeed, other anons often mocked /HTG/’s participants as a group of feckless idiots spiralling ever more deeply into confirmation bias. And yet the /HTG/ community endured. In all of these respects, /HTG/ was almost exactly identical to QAnon — and that isn’t a coincidence. Q’s audience was hungry for something like /HTG/, but better — more far-reaching, more connected. Q supplied it. From Pizzagate to QAnon Perhaps the best way to describe QAnon is that it’s an evolution of Pizzagate; and perhaps the best way to describe /HTG/ culture is that it’s the missing link between Pizzagate and QAnon. Pizzagate gained followers because it had the right targets; the right accusations; and, in its earliest days, a strong participatory element, as anons raced to find new “proofs” of child abuse derived from the DNC’s hacked emails. But that kind of creative ferment could never last: there were only so many emails to read, and only so many “code words” to be detected within. Eventually, Pizzagate stopped being an exciting new thing to investigate, and became a set of ideas that anons were free to accept or reject. Puzzlingly, /HTG/ threads were much less popular than Pizzagate. After all, they too had the right targets; the right accusations; and a seemingly infinite amount of source material, since anons were now “investigating” real-world locations from the comfort of their homes. However, /HTG/ was missing two key ingredients: storyline and storyteller. There was no overarching story to keep the anons engaged, and even if there had been, Anonymous5 or “Frank” wasn’t the right person to tell it — /HTG/ threads were constantly derailed by outsiders coming in to make fun of him. Why did Q succeed where so many had failed? One reason is that Q had the right idea at the right time. Q also had the right style at the right time, often relying on long lists of leading questions. Other LARPers acknowledged as much — in 2017, MegaAnon, who was perhaps the most successful active LARPer when Q first appeared, wrote that Q was “doing a fantastic job” of “breaking down a ton of detail in a more /pol/-friendly format” than she’d ever been able to. You wouldn’t be reading this article if Q appealed only to /pol/ and had stayed there. I may not have even written it. Q slipped the surly bonds of 4chan within days of their first post, thanks to a handful of people who mounted a concerted push to promote QAnon in other venues (in particular, a subreddit). “Normies”, as the anons call most other human beings, got a taste of Q for themselves. Some of them liked it. It turned out that normies — at least, the fanatically pro-Trump, conspiracy-minded normies who were Q’s initial audience — were at least as ready for a Pizzagate successor as 4chan was. Soon, across multiple platforms, Q and their fans had created a community strikingly similar to /HTG/: a band of followers convinced they were “uncovering pedophiles” via their own community practices and rules of evidence, despite a lack of real-world results. The difference was that Q had a much larger and more committed following than /HTG/ ever did. Moreover, Q kept cranking out content and the anons kept dissecting it, finding new meaning in even the most baroque, outlandish claims. Even Q’s failed prophecies could not dissuade them, for “disinformation,” as Q explained, “is necessary.” Perhaps this answer to the question of Q is unsatisfying. It is an answer which boils down to: “Q was a skilled LARPer who fed the audience’s beliefs back to them; recycled ideas from earlier LARPs; and had help early on from a small but clever band of fans who spread word about the drops outside of 4chan.” Whether the rise of Q has been simple or not, it has had tremendous and sometimes tragic real-world consequences. The QAnon movement has taken a wrecking ball to families around the world — the QAnonCasualties subreddit offers a small glimpse of the human cost of QAnon. And while most QAnon followers will probably never take any violent actions themselves, the political damage they have wrought is considerable. Last December, President Trump reportedly described QAnon as a group of people who “basically believe in good government”. But Q’s message is that “good government” can arrive only in the form of a purge — because every prominent Democrat, and most Republicans who don’t show enough fealty to Trump, is part of a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. True justice and “good government” can only exist after the Storm, when Trump — and Trump alone — rules the country, with all his opposition dead or imprisoned. Three years ago, Q stitched together the most widely-held beliefs of one of the darkest corners of the internet. Drop by drop and stitch by stitch, the right-wing media scandals, the racist conspiracies and LARPs of bygone days grew into something greater than the sum of their parts. Q has eclipsed them all. The story told above can only be incomplete. It addresses the supply side of the QAnon phenomenon, but the demand side is where the problem lies. To explore that would be to tell a story about the deepest fissures in American society — through the dangerous succor of conspiracy. 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__label__cc	0.586391	0.413609	Home » Publications » CDA Guidance Documents » Dam Safety Publications Dam Safety PublicationsTo purchase, go to SHOP CDA Dam Safety Guidelines Dam Safety Guidelines,published by CDA in 2007 and revised in 2013, has become an important reference document for dam safety in Canada and internationally. Available in both English and French, the Guidelines consist of principles that are applicable to all dams, and an outline of processes and criteria for management of dam safety in accordance with the principles. The responsible dam engineer or decision-maker must assess and interpret the information provided in Dam Safety Guidelines, identify any considerations not addressed by those documents, take into account advances in understanding, and determine the appropriate dam safety requirements for a specific situation. The CDA Dam Safety Committee is responsible for stewardship of the Dam Safety Guidelines. In October 2013, a revision to Sections 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 was released. The revision clarifies CDA's endorsement of the use of a risk-informed approach to dam safety decisions. The Dam Safety Guidelines 2007 (Revised 2013) is available for purchase in print or PDF formats at SHOP CDA The revised Sections 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 are available as a 10-page insert for CDA members to download from the Dam Safety Committee Update page. A PDF of page 60, correcting a printing error, is available for CDA members to download from the Dam Safety Committee Update page; or request it by e-mail by clicking here In 2007, CDA published a set of technical bulletins to supplement Dam Safety Guidelines. The technical bulletins suggest methodologies and procedures for use by qualified professionals as they carry out dam analyses and safety assessments. The 2007 bulletins are currently available as a package from SHOP CDA, but future revisions and new bulletins will be published and sold as individual documents. Inundation, Consequences, and Classification for Dam Safety (2007) Surveillance of Dam Facilities (2007) Flow Control Equipment for Dam Safety (2007) Public Safety and Security Around Dams, DRAFT - Withdrawn. See Public Safety. Dam Safety Analysis and Assessment (2007) Hydrotechnical Considerations for Dam Safety (2007) Seismic Hazard Considerations for Dam Safety (2007) Geotechnical Considerations for Dam Safety (2007) Structural Considerations for Dam Safety (2007) Application of Dam Safety Guidelines to Mining Dams The Canadian Dam Association has released its latest publication of technical information for owners, managers and consultants in the Canadian and international dam community. The new Technical Bulletin: Application of Dam Safety Guidelines to Mining Dams, complements the Dam Safety Guidelines re-published by CDA in 2013 by providing additional explanation of how the concepts described in the guidelines apply to mining dams. The Bulletin identifies some specific issues that should be considered during the design and safety evaluation of both tailings dams and water retention dams used in the mining industry. Application of Dam Safety Guidelines to Mining Dams is available in hard copy only, in both official languages, from SHOP CDA . Bulk purchases are available by contacting the CDA office, executive.director@cda.ca. Technical Bulletin on Dam Safety Reviews The new Technical Bulletin: Dam Safety Reviews brings together knowledge from the 20 years of practice since the term “Dam Safety Review” was introduced in Dam Safety Guidelines published by the Canadian Dam Safety Association in 1995. The concept of periodic and systematic review has become accepted as an important part of dam safety programs in Canada and elsewhere. The Technical Bulletin: Dam Safety Reviews is available in print and PDF formats, in English, French and Spanish, from SHOP CDA. Bulk purchases are available by contacting the CDA office, executive.director@cda.ca. Dam Safety Guidelines, Table of Contents (Adobe PDF File) Technical Bulletin_ Dam Safety Reviews, Table of Contents	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line610
__label__cc	0.628618	0.371382	Variation in Blame Attributions across Different Cancer Types Laura A.V. Marlow, Jo Waller and Jane Wardle Laura A.V. Marlow Jo Waller Jane Wardle DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-1298 Published July 2010 Volume 19, Issue 7, pp. 1799-1805 https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-1298 American Association for Cancer Research Revision received April 7, 2010 Published first June 15, 2010. Previous version (June 15, 2010 - 11:04). Laura A.V. Marlow, Jo Waller and Authors' Affiliation: Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom Corresponding Author: Laura Marlow, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. Phone: 44-20-7679-1798; Fax: 44-20-7813-2848. E-mail: l.marlow{at}ucl.ac.uk You are going to email the following Variation in Blame Attributions across Different Cancer Types Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev July 1 2010 (19) (7) 1799-1805; DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-1298	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line611
__label__wiki	0.960878	0.960878	Celebdhaba Saif Ali Khan to rap alongside Honey Singh in ‘Bazaar’ Muhammad Umer Mirza Upcoming movie ‘Bazaar’might have attracted a lot of attention as it marks the acting debut of the late actor Vinod Mehra’s son, Rohan Mehra. However, it has another very exciting and edgy aspect to it: It will see the handsome Nawab Saif Ali Khan making a rapping debut with none other than the rapping maestro Yo Yo Honey Singh. The duo has collaborated to sing a Punjabi rock number which has been composed by Singh himself and he will be giving the playback for it with Khan, as reported by Mumbai Mirror. “Saif knows a lot about music since he has been playing the guitar for over two decades. He’s also performed at concerts, both internationally and in India, and is a huge fan of jazz, blues and rock ’n roll. He takes an active interest in the score of his films as well and was excited when Nikkhil and Gauravv sounded him out on a rap alongside Honey,” said a source close to the development. The film’s ensemble cast, including Chitrangda Singh and Radhika Apte, will feature in the music video which will be shot in Mumbai in May. For the Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK-directed 2014 romcom Happy Ending, the actor had made his onscreen musical debut, strummimng the guitar and singing a part of “Khamma Ghani” with Papon. As the name suggests, ‘Bazaar’ is based on different stories revolving around stock market with Khan essaying the role of a street-smart businessman Nawab. The film also features Atul Kulkarni and Anupriya Goenka in significant roles. Amaal Mallik and Tanishk Bagchi have composed the film’s soundtrack. Meanwhile, Saif Ali Khan has nearly wrapped up the shoot of his upcoming film with director Navdeep Singh. The film was earlier titled Soorma, however since the title of the film is already taken, the makers are contemplating calling the film Dusshera. honeysingh Saif-Honey-Singh Previous articleRafay Rashdi launches on demand streaming service, Seeti.pk Next articleNeelam Muneer in conversation with Celebdhaba Amna Arshad launched her new collection, Emira Gohar Mumtaz & Kubra Khan are doing feature film ‘Abhee’ Sania Maskatiya has proudly launched ZEENAT – The Winter Festive 2020 First Lady Samina Alvi Inaugurates Lady Dufferin Hospital Pink Tree Begum Governor Sindh Reema Imran Chief Guest at the LADIESFUND Breast... Farhad Humayun Syed has served a legal notice to Coca Cola Parwaz Hai Junoon to Release Across China on November 13, 2020 Shehar Bano Rizvi launches her first book, ‘Virsa A Culinary... Pakistani Artists Take Part in Infinix’s Rap Video Relay, Set GUINNESS... Can Complete Freedom Of Speech Post To Be A Threat For... Mujhe Beta Chahiye A Drama Serial Based On Gold Diggers ‘Ghalat Fehmi’ Asim Azhar And Zenab Fatimah Song For Superstar Is... Contact us: info@celebdhaba.com © 2020 CelebDhaba - All rights reserved. by CelebDhaba .	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line612
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__label__cc	0.662861	0.337139	London Sports Writing Festival: Club Focus – Manchester City Lord's Cricket Ground, St John’s Wood Footballing legends + illustrious sports writers look back at Man City over the years Club Focus returns to London Sports Writing Festival 2015 with a look at Manchester City Football Club. Your host for the evening will be the Evening Standard’s Paddy Barclay (author of Mourinho: Further Anatomy Of A Winner) as he sits down with the legendary James Lawton, three-times winner of the Sports Journalism Award, and author of Forever Boys: The Days of Citizens and Heroes. Alongside Paddy and James the LSWF are delighted to welcome club legends Joe Corrigan and Tommy Booth to the Festival, as they look back to the late sixties and that iconic City team who unforgettably illuminated the late '60s, as well as forward to discuss how the club has changed in recent years. This promises to be a hugely captivating event for fans and admirers alike. Please note that speakers, guests and hosts are subject to change without notice. Bag a Brazilian or Hollywood wax from just £10 Singhar West End Beauty Clinic, Soho	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line617
__label__wiki	0.538846	0.538846	Schrödinger: Easing Research with Computational Chemistry AVIATION ENGINEERING SERVICES REMOTE WORK TECH TECH AFRICAN CHEMICAL & ALLIED NAVAL TECH NON PROFIT TECHNOLOGY B2B PRICE OPTIMIZATION ENTERPRISE WEB APPLICATION IDENTITY GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION LOW CODE PLATFORM OUTSOURCED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PAYMENT AND CARD REVENUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM RISK ANALYTICS SUBSCRIPTION AND BILLING CIOREVIEW >> Chemical & Allied >> CIO Viewpoint CXO Insight CASE Study News Vendors 2016 Vendors 2019 Ramy Farid, Ph.D. In the current era of digitization and technological evolution, every sector is adopting new practices and the chemical industry is no different. With the advent of new technologies, the processes involved in performing a chemical research have changed. The modern chemical industry consists of enhanced chemical research, logical investigation, and the study of materials and sources in order to ascertain facts and reach new frontiers. Chemical researchers are moving toward computational chemistry, where they can use computer simulation to assist in solving chemistry problems. In line with the same, Schrödinger, a provider of software solutions and services for life sciences and materials research, is helping research institutions leverage latest technologies to uncover new opportunities. Headquartered in New York City, the firm develops state-of-the-art chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research. It empowers researchers around the globe to accomplish their goals of enhancing human health and quality of life by leveraging advanced computational techniques that transform the way chemists design compounds and materials. The company offers products ranging from general molecular modeling programs to a full-featured suite of drug design software using ligand- and structure-based techniques. “Schrödinger has made key scientific breakthroughs in recent years in the areas of protein and ligand structure determination and potency prediction that have made a significant impact on drug discovery,” comments Dr. Ramy Farid, President, Schrödinger. Schrödinger’s product suites include Small Molecule Drug Discovery Suite, Biologics Suite, Materials Science Suite, Discovery Informatics Suite, and PyMOL. Small Molecule Drug Discovery Suite helps in accelerating the lead discovery and also lead optimization. It comprises of a number of products such as Canvas, CombiGlide, and ConfGen. Biologics suite that features BioLuminate includes all the tools that are necessary in modeling biologics, antibodies, and proteins. It includes eight products— Desmond, Epik, MacroModel, Maestro, Prime, Protein Preparation Wizard, QSite, and SiteMap. Schrödinger has made key scientific breakthroughs in recent years in the areas of protein and ligand structure determination and potency prediction Schrödinger’s Materials Science Suite is a diverse set of tools for computing the structure, reactivity, and properties of chemical systems. Consisting of seven products, it enables research teams to design individual chemical structures by sketching, using a fragment library, or with tools—like the macromolecule complex builder. Discover Informatics Suite offers fast, secure, and scalable web-based tools accessible by every member of a discovery team. It consists of LiveDesign, Seurat, and Canvas products that help in data sharing and collaborative design across the entire discovery team in real time. The company’s PyMOL product offers high-performance molecular graphics for communicating structural results. It is designed by scientists for scientists to view, share, and analyze their molecular data. PyMOL can develop images of peerless visualization quality and also deliver the flexibility of Java-based development and scalability. Recently, the company collaborated with Pfizer to develop a computational model for important properties relevant to biotherapeutic candidates and Farid believes that the true measure of drug discovery software’s success lies in the contribution it makes to actual drug discovery programs. In future, Schrödinger plans to collaborate with more institutions to progress and enhance their solutions. “We are thrilled to work together on developing technology that could potentially be applied to pharmaceutical research,” concludes Farid. Schrodinger Provider of advanced molecular simulations, & enterprise software solutions & services for life sciences & materials research http://www.usalistingdirectory.com/index.php?list=latest Copyright © 2021 CIOReview. All rights reserved. Contact \| Subscribe \| Advertise with us \| Sitemap Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy \| Disclaimer companies_description https://chemical-allied.cioreview.com/vendor/2016/schrodinger	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line618
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__label__wiki	0.818977	0.818977	Last edited by Kim Saturday, April 18, 2020 \| History 2 edition of A shirt box full of songs found in the catalog. A shirt box full of songs Barbara Dickson the autobiography by Barbara Dickson Published 2009 by Hachette Scotland in [Edinburgh ?] . Dickson, Barbara, Women singers -- Scotland -- Biography, Singers -- Scotland -- Biography, Television actors and actresses -- Scotland -- Biography Statement Barbara Dickson, with John KV Eunson. Genre Biography LC Classifications ML420.D548 A3 2009 Pagination xiii, 302 p. : Get all the lyrics to songs by Original Broadway Cast of The Book of Mormon and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the g: shirt box. Find The Box Tops song information on AllMusic. One of the finest blue-eyed soul groups, a Memphis combo that also launched the career of rock cult hero Alex Chilton. 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__label__cc	0.595422	0.404578	Fearless's Profile Fearless reviewed Groot Vol. 1 Dec 7, 2018 Short, heartwarming, funny, and sweet from start to finish. Groot Vol. 1 By: Jeff Loveness, Brian Kesinger I am Groot. I AM Groot. I am GROOT. I AM GROOT!!! Translation: For the first time ever, the most famous talking-tree-thing in the Marvel Universe stars in his own series! Life is good for Rocket and Groot, your two favorite Guardians of the Galaxy. They're having a heck of a time on a well-deserved celestial road trip -- until Rocket gets raccoon-n... Fearless added Ice Cream Man to their pull list Nov 24, 2018 Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, drug addiction, musical fantasy...there's a flavor for everyone's misery. ICE CREAM MAN is a genre-defying comic book series featuring disparate "one-shot" tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption. Each installment features its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own ... Fearless added The Weatherman to their pull list Nov 20, 2018 The Weatherman Nathan Bright had it all: an awesome girlfriend, a kickass dog, and a job as the number one weatherman on terraformed Mars. But when he's accused of carrying out the worst terrorist attack in human history-an event that wiped out nearly the entire population of Earth-Nathan becomes the most wanted man alive and a target of a manhunt that spans the ... Fearless rated The Weatherman #6 Nov 20, 2018 The Weatherman #6 By: Jody LeHeup, Nathan Fox Released: Nov 14, 2018 END OF STORY ARC Agent Cross finds herself in a battle to the death to save the life of a man who may be responsible for the murder of billions. But if Nathan Bright dies, so does what's left of humanity... Don't miss the shocking conclusion of the first chapter of JODY LEHEUP and NATHAN FOX's riveting sci-fi thriller THE WEATHER... Fearless rated The Belfry (One Shot) #1 Apr 12, 2018 The Belfry (One Shot) #1 By: Gabriel Hardman AN ALL-NEW HORROR ONE-SHOT FROM GABRIEL HARDMAN! When an airliner crashes in a remote jungle, everyone walks away unscathed only to find you can't escape the lush, brutal world of the Belfry. From Hugo Award-nominated writer/artist GABRIEL HARDMAN (INVISIBLE REPUBLIC, KINSKI, Star Wars Legacy), THE BELFRY is a self-contained one-shot that may just ... Fearless added Babyteeth to their pull list Mar 1, 2018 NEW SERIES! Sadie Ritter is sixteen years old, nine months pregnant, and scared out of her sweet nerdy mind. Having a baby that young is tough, but with the support of her loving family behind her, everything should be okay. OH YEAH, and also her baby is the antichrist and it's going to break open the barriers between the earthly and demonic planes... Fearless added Batman (2016) to their pull list Dec 28, 2017 Fearless rated Saga Vol. 7 Aug 25, 2017 Saga Vol. 7 By: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples From the worldwide bestselling team of FIONA STAPLES and BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, "The War for Phang" is an epic, self-contained SAGA event! Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-pack... Fearless rated Clean Room #18 Jun 15, 2017 Clean Room #18 By: Gail Simone, Walter Geovani Season One of CLEAN ROOM finishes with a literal big bang as the walls of reality come crashing down! Everything Astrid Mueller has tried to build is on fire, and she is nowhere to be seen, as the true monsters are revealed at last. A mind-bending climax to this acclaimed series' first epic tale! MATURE READERS • Final issue Fearless added American Gods to their pull list Jun 12, 2017 NEIL GAIMAN! P. CRAIG RUSSELL! SCOTT HAMPTON! Shadow Moon just got out of jail, only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain as to where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard - thrusting Shadow into a deadly world of the supernatural, where ghosts of the past come back... Fearless added A.D.: After Death to their pull list Nov 24, 2016 A.D.: After Death SERIES PREMIERE What if we found a cure for death? Two of comics' most acclaimed creators, SCOTT SNYDER (WYTCHES, Batman, American Vampire) and JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER, Moon Knight, Sweet Tooth) unite to create a three-part epic like no other, set in a future where a genetic cure for death has been found. Years after the discovery, one... Fearless rated I Hate Fairyland #10 Nov 13, 2016 I Hate Fairyland #10 By: Skottie Young "FINAL FANTASY," END OF STORY ARC Decades of Gert's blunders brings Fairyland to its final days. The last of this world's survivors have to find a way to right her many wrongs. So many. Too many. They'll probably die. Just read it. Fearless rated Moon Knight #1 Sep 19, 2016 Moon Knight #1 By: Jeff Lemire, Greg Smallwood THE BOOK YOU'D BE INSANE TO MISS! Marc Spector (a.k.a. Moon Knight/Jake Lockley/Steven Grant) has been fighting criminals and keeping New York City safe for years... or has he? When he wakes up in an insane asylum with no powers and a lifetime's worth of medical records, his whole identity (indentities) are called into question. Something is wr... Fearless added Moon Knight (2016) to their pull list Sep 19, 2016 Fearless rated The Fix Vol. 1 Sep 13, 2016 The Fix Vol. 1 By: Nick Spencer, Steve Lieber ADVANCE SOLICIT THE FIX is a story of the crooked cops, scheming mobsters, and corrupt politicians that run Los Angeles-and the sex toy that can bring them all down. Oh, and the hero is a drug-sniffing beagle named Pretzels. Collects THE FIX #1-4 Fearless rated I Hate Fairyland #7 Sep 13, 2016 I Hate Fairyland #7 "HOW TO DRAIN YOUR DRAGON" Gert finds a new way out of Fairyland, but it will take more than just her ax. Fearless rated Black Widow #6 Aug 20, 2016 Black Widow #6 By: Chris Samnee DRAWING BACK THE IRON CURTAIN! • The WEEPING LION has released the BLACK WIDOW's most dangerous secret into the world. • Now Natasha is on a collision course with the INVINCIBLE IRON MAN! • Even if they survive CIVIL WAR II, the AVENGERS will never be the same! Fearless added All-Star Batman to their pull list Aug 10, 2016 Fearless rated Black Widow #5 Jul 29, 2016 THE WEEPING LION'S HUNTING GROUND • Using her darkest secret as leverage, the Weeping Lion has pushed Natasha further from the straight and narrow. • And Agent Elder of S.H.I.E.L.D. is closing in - is he fellow prey that needs Black Widow's protection, or another predator? Fearless added Weird Detective to their pull list Jul 24, 2016 Weird Detective The streets of New York have been plagued by a pattern of crimes too weird and bizarre for the average detective. Lurking in the evidence are shadows of loathsome horrors from beyond space and time, seeking to usher in the unimaginable evil of the Old Ones. And the only man capable of fighting against the unspeakable terrors isn’t a man at all. D... Fearless rated The Fix #4 Jul 17, 2016 The Fix #4 Released: Jul 6, 2016 Mac's new partner doesn't seem to like him very much. Fearless added The Paybacks (2016) to their pull list Jul 11, 2016 The Paybacks (2016) The secret identities of the world's superhero community have been leaked to the press, and the blame has fallen on our team of super indebted losers! It's The Paybacks versus the whole dang world. So...what else is new? Well, plenty! Check it out in this brand new series (with variant covers by Ryan Lee and Art Baltazar!) Fearless rated Weird Detective #1 Jul 1, 2016 Weird Detective #1 By: Fred Van Lente, Guiu Vilanova Fearless rated I Hate Fairyland #6 Jun 30, 2016 NEW STORY ARC The hit comedy I HATE FAIRYLAND is back for a second round of adventure. What will become of Fairyland as Gert is crowned the new queen and how will that affect her thirty-year quest to return home? Fearless rated Deadpool #13 Jun 23, 2016 By: Gerry Duggan, Various An all-new epic four-issue crossover in one package! This issue of Deadpool (lucky number 13) LITERALLY contains two issues of DEADPOOL, one issue of DAREDEVIL, and one issue of POWER MAN & IRON FIST! When Deadpool take a gig protecting a banker who betrayed his cartel partners, they seek the help of Assistant District Attorney Matt Murdock, who ca... Fearless rated The Fix #3 Jun 12, 2016 Roy moonlights as private security for a superstar actress. Superior Foes of Spider-Man-style hilarity from the team that brought you, um, Superior Foes of Spider-Man. We are nothing if not consistent! Fearless added Vision (2015) to their pull list Jun 12, 2016 Vision (2015) The Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? He goes to the laboratory where he was created, where Ultron molded him into a weapon, where he first rebelled against his given destiny, where he first imagined that he could be more, that he could be good, that he could be a man, a normal, ordinary man. And he builds them. A wife, V... Fearless rated Spider-Man/Deadpool #5 Jun 5, 2016 Spider-Man/Deadpool #5 By: Joe Kelly, Ed McGuinness • What the heck does this cover image mean?! • Gotta grab this mag to find out, True Believers. • PLUS! The truth about that weirdness at Parker Industries begins to be revealed! Fearless rated Morning Glories #11 May 26, 2016 Morning Glories #11 By: Nick Spencer, Joe Eisma He's the Glory everyone loves to hate: This issue, learn all the secrets behind Manhattan's most devious young socialite! Fearless rated Batman #52 May 19, 2016 By: James Tynion IV, Rafael Albuquerque Echoes from Batman's past ripple out into Gotham City's future	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line640
__label__wiki	0.850638	0.850638	WWE's Kofi Kingston Reveals More Details About His Jaw Injury WWE Superstar Spectacle To Be Taped On January 22 Penelope Ford To Replace Nyla Rose On AEW: Dynamite Mark Henry Slams Ryback For Recent Comments, Ryback Responds Report: Backstage News On WWE Raw's Closing Segment Goldberg Calls Out WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns The Battle Of The Spears is coming... By Aidan Gibbons 9 December, 2020 4:01 PM Goldberg and Roman Reigns were set to clash over the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 36, but The Big Dog pulled out of the show because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The WWE Hall Of Famer dropped the title to Braun Strowman at The Showcase Of The Immortals instead and he hasn't appeared on WWE TV since. Roman Reigns vs. Goldberg appears to still be on the cards, though, and The former WCW World Heavyweight Champion called out The Tribal Chief on the latest edition of The Bump. "Oh, I would say that that is one of the most mild understatements that I have ever heard," Goldberg said. "He backed out on me at WrestleMania. He stole my move god knows how long ago and he continues to perform it at a subpar level. Let's be perfectly honest, I'm the dude that delivers the Spear and I don't think that he understands what it's like until I deliver one to him. So Roman, it's coming and I'm coming for you. I may be old, I may be grey, but I'm still Goldberg." The rekindling of Goldberg and Reigns' rivalry comes after reports noted the WWE Hall Of Famer was one of The Big Dog's contingency opponents for WrestleMania 37. If the two men will face off at The Show Of Shows remains to be seen, though. WWE's Riddle Files Motion To Dismiss Candy Cartwright Lawsuit Report: Backstage Friction Between WWE Raw & NXT Over Charlotte Flair Written by Aidan Gibbons Cultaholic's resident newshound. WWE's Sareee Moving To United States After Final Bookings In Japan Report: Current Plans For The 2021 WWE Hall Of Fame Ceremony Revealed	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line646
__label__cc	0.509131	0.490869	Celebrating Fathers Dad Resources Fatherhood 101 Do Men Mother? Fathering, Care and Domestic Responsibility In Recommended Reads by Engagement Unexpected Beginnings To answer the question: “Do Men Mother?” Sociologist Andrea Doucet conducted a qualitative research over four years on 118 men in Canada who identified themselves (self-defined) as primary caregivers of their children. She came to know more about these fathers’ experiences through their narratives, that is their stories about being men in a predominantly women’s arena. As this was a study on whether men mother, Doucet did not expect that a majority of the fathers narratives would begin with remarks about the children’s mothers. Each of my interviews with fathers began with the simple question, ‘How did you come to be in this situation of primary caregiver of your children?’ Many stay-at home fathers provided similar openings to their narratives. Gary, a stay-at-home father of three began with ‘How did I come to be a stay-at-home father? My wife owns her own business. She’s a hairdresser, and because I’m a carpenter I’m also very flexible with the hours. So, it worked out like this.’ (p216) Separated and divorced fathers always began their narratives by describing a stark moment of rapture, most notably when their wives leave…Morgan, a joint-custody father of two commences his fathering story as follows: ‘Not to sound bitter or anything, but she left me for another man.’ Underlying Findings There are two interesting findings that underlie these simple acts of men beginning their fathering narratives with mothers. First, in marriages that have broken down, the fathers felt strong relational losses. I (Doucet) asked them (single fathers in a focus group)…: ‘In an ideal world, what resources or supports would you like to see for single fathers?’…Steve, a sole custody father of four children…spoke first: ‘An ideal world would be one with a father and mother. We’d be lying if we pretended that wasn’t true. How can there be an ideal world without a mother for the children?’ Nods of agreement followed, along with murmurs of approval for Steve’s response. (p215) …what these fathers exhibited in their quiet statements and nods of agreement was a strong sense of the connectedness of mothering and fathering and the relational deficits felt by men in the absence or loss of a significant relationship in their lives. (p216) Second, “fathering takes on a ‘mother-led quality’ ” and “fathers rely profoundly on mothers to define their own fathering.” Fathering cannot be discussed apart from mothering as both are closely intertwined. (p216) When men and mothers share responsibilities in caring for children, they are doing so in relation to each other. Caregiving does not take place in a vacuum. There is a context and circumstances that fathers respond to, resulting in them becoming primary caregivers. For example, a separated or divorced father may need to take on more active fathering in the mother’s absence. And, another father may decide to take on the bulk of caregiving as his work hours are flexible whilst the mother is in full time employment or earns more working outside. Uncovering Dad’s Style Men view themselves as fathers, and their fathering practices and identities evolve in relation to those enacted by mothers. Thus, while it is not always clear what the essence of fathering is, what is certain for men is that it is not mothering. (p217) When fathers take on responsibilities for children that look traditionally or predominantly held by mothers, it is done with a distinct ‘dad’ style. They are not mothering. Rather, they are re-inventing fathering. For example, when taking on Emotional Responsibility (facilitating children’s growth), fathers’ nurturing often emphasise “fun, playfulness, physical activities, sports, the outdoors, practicality in emotional response, and the promotion of independence and risk taking in older children.” (p218) And, fathers who take on Community Responsibility (facilitating children’s social growth) for their children are “devising their own strategies” or “developing their own parenting networks, through their involvement in children’s sports in community activities.” Academic Rigour, Authentic Writing Doucet who holds the Canada Research Chair in Gender Work and Care, is also a Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. She skilfully weaves facts with narratives, allowing readers to understand the research and hear the fathers in their own voice. Doucet’s research on fatherhood began shortly after she gave birth to her first daughter and observed that mums were wary of her husband at an infant-parent playgroup in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s. Herein lies the book’s greatest strength – Doucet’s scholarship and academic rigour are outstanding and she possesses a keen ability to assess theories and ideologies underlying arguments. She writes with such acute awareness –personally and professionally– that the reader is forced to take a closer look how his or her own concepts of fathering and masculinity came about. This work won the 2007 Canadian Sociology Association’s John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Prize. Readers in Singapore will find resonance in Do Men Mother? As in most industrialised countries, families here struggle to “balance working and caregiving and the challenges of redistributing the caring work traditionally assumed by women.” (p13) The concepts and issues covered in this book are particularly relevant for practitioners and policy makers as they push for more in-depth understanding of what influences programmes and resources. The 118 in the sample included fathers with varied caregiving experiences: 40 single fathers (25 sole custody, 12 joint custody, 3 widowers) 53 stay-at-home fathers (at home for at least one year) 13 single fathers who are/were at home Four fathers on parental leave Eight shared-caregiving fathers (who did not fit in category of stay-at-home fathers or single fathers) There was also diversity in the fathers’ ethnicity, social class, income levels, education levels and sexuality. Some of the fathers in the study were immigrants. (p55) She interviewed them in person (face-to-face), through telephone calls, in focus groups, or via an Internet survey from 1999 to 2002. In addition to the fathers, Doucet met with 14 couples in order to include some mothers’ (and couples’) views in the study. Get hold of a copy of Do Men Mother? from Singapore’s Public Libraries. Download Chapter 1: Studying Men, Mothering and Fathering Catch DadLabs’ 2011 interview with Andrea Doucet on Youtube. Doucet, A,, (2007) Do Men Mother? Fathering, Care and Domestic Responsibility, University of Toronto Press, Canada. AndreaDoucet.com, Bio, retrieved 24 Feb 2014 AndreaDoucet.com, Do Men Mother?, retrieved 24 Feb 2014 AndreaDoucet.com, Fathering, retrieved 24 Feb 2014 About the Author: The Dads for Life Resource Team comprises local content writers and experts, including psychologists, counsellors, educators and social service professionals, dedicated to developing useful resources for dads. 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__label__cc	0.556463	0.443537	NOTICE – COVID-19 Home // Alberta // Cultural Heritage // Calgary Heritage Park Calgary Heritage Park Heritage Park’s mission is simple: to preserve the history of the early West and educate and entertain guests of all ages for many generations to come. Founded in 1964 in Calgary, Heritage Park has become one of North America’s must-see living history museums. Visitors can wander through historic sites that tell the story from the 1860s fur trade to the 1950s, the Age of the Automobile. A rewarding experience for families and school groups. While there, you must grab a bite to eat at the café or grill, before or after visiting the historic village, Gasoline Alley Transportation Museum or souvenir shops. Young ones are always welcome at Heritage Park, whether for summer camps or a night of yesteryear activities in the barn! Park managers are so proud of the variety of features and activities offered that they’ve published a list of 150 reasons to visit the site, chief among which are pleasure, learning, multiple art forms and delights available throughout. A trip to Calgary wouldn’t be complete without making this timeless journey. Info: www.heritagepark.ca https://www.heritagepark.ca info@heritagepark.ca Promotional items and/or documentation available in French At the Corridor, we care about the quality of the services we provide for our users. If you would like to share your comments and/or suggestions about the Corridor or a specific product, simply contact us using the form below. About us Contact us Media Terms of use Credits and thanks Site map Français F T I Li	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line651
__label__wiki	0.943103	0.943103	> Australian Aboriginal history Australian Aboriginal history Aboriginal history is not just the Dreaming - current events leave their mark in Indigenous history and are equally important. By Jens Korff Selected statistics Number of settlers, police and soldiers who died in colonial conflict. [1] Number of Aboriginal people who died in colonial conflict. [1] 2021 Aboriginal calendar of significant events When you look at significant events for Aboriginal people you'll notice that these do… A searchable Aboriginal history timeline Search this Australian Aboriginal timeline for any word, by Aboriginal topic or withi… Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra Aboriginal people erected the Tent Embassy in 1972 in Canberra to protest against a c… Aboriginal war memorials Australia has thousands of war memorials, dozens in the big cities. But where are the… Anzac Day Coloured Digger march In Australia the 'Anzacs' have hero status and Anzac Day is a day of commemoration. B… Australia Day - Invasion Day Most Australians celebrate Australia Day as the day Australia was founded. In contras… Australia has a history of Aboriginal slavery Australia's slavery started because other countries abolished it. Aboriginal people w… Australian 1967 referendum The 1967 referendum made history: Australians voted overwhelmingly to amend the const… Crosswords: Test your history knowledge! How old is Aboriginal culture? The age of Aboriginal culture changes with new research. Some researchers claim 400,0… Maralinga: How British nuclear tests changed history forever In the 1950s the Australian government authorised British nuclear tests on Anangu cou… Massacres: The frontier violence that's hard to accept Hundreds of massacres left thousands of Aboriginal people dead, a history many Austra… Myall Creek Massacre (1838) In 1838 white settlers murdered 28 Aboriginal men, women and children near Myall Cree… NAIDOC Week is predominantly held in the first full week of July and is a time to cel… Settlement or invasion? Was Australia colonised or invaded? It's a discussion that polarises many. Can you se… Where is Aboriginal history? "Australian history started with Captain Cook," is what a lot of people, even today, tell me when asked what they learned at school. Secondary history books, published just a few years back, sometimes brush over Indigenous history in twelve pages only. Until we get it right with the teaching of Aboriginal history, then I don't think that we can pretend to be Australians together. — Dr Jackie Huggins, Indigenous educator, author and activist [2] In the 1950s Aboriginal history was virtually absent from school curricula. Historian Henry Reynolds remembers well how he learned about the frontier violence from students—not books. “The extraordinary thing was that as I became every day aware of the whole question of Indigenous Australians... there was nothing in the book. I mean, the Aborigine didn’t even make the index. They weren’t in the history.” [1] It's a view that author Marcia Langton can relate to. "When I studied history at the ANU [Australian National University] in the 1970s there was still a widely held view, and I think it was the conventional view, that there was no Aboriginal history," she remembers. [3] And history is not fixed, but changes according to the government of the day. When historian Anna Clark researched curriculum documents issued in the 1990s by successive Labor and conservative governments, she discovered that Labor's documents described colonisation as a "European invasion" while, less than two years later, the conservative documents labelled it a "British settlement". History, she concluded, is "something we do". [4] There is the truism, ‘Australia’s history is never read, the black man keeps it in his head.’ White Australians ensured it remained there. — John Pilger, journalist and author [5] Definition: Black-armband history “Black armband” is a term coined by the Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey and later used by the former prime minister John Howard. Critics use it to refer to a desire to place undue emphasis on unsavoury and violent aspects of Australian history at the expense of the positives of European settlement. [1] How many Aboriginal nations existed prior to invasion? We probably will never know for sure. Some estimate that between 500 and 600 nations existed prior to invasion. [6] Have we learned nothing from history? In 2020, after four years of investigation, Major General Paul Brereton AM, a judge of the NSW Court of Appeal and a senior officer in the Australian Army Reserve, published a report that detailed the actions of some of Australia’s most elite soldiers in Afghanistan. What members of Australia's Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) had done in Afghanistan is strikingly similar to what settlers and colonisers did to Aboriginal people. The following table offers a comparison. [7] The question is: Have we not learned from our more recent history? Would this not happen if we acknowledged our dark past, told the truth and compensated the victims? Violence then and now Violence and murder Killings for no reason, mutilations expecting death, cover-up of incidents and details "Unlawful killings, blood lust, a broken culture and cover-up." Records were modified to cover violence, or destroyed to prevent Aboriginal people from claiming their rightful wages "Operational reports were allegedly sanitised to make it appear as though special forces were complying with the laws of engagement." Accountability Police and law enforcement often did not respond to reports of killings, or worse, were complicit in committing crimes. "Special forces saw themselves as above reproach, ... had a sense they were elite, entitled and beyond the scrutiny of those outside the fence." Justice Judges and courts, but also police, did not give weight to, or considered, the Aboriginal side and in most cases decided for the settler side. "Early assessors of complaints generally approached their task as being to collect evidence to refute a complaint, rather than examine the incident fairly and dispassionately." The last mission in New South Wales In July 2010 Warangesda Mission and Station received heritage listing. The station, just outside Darlington Point in the Riverina District of New South Wales, is located about 630 kms south-west of Sydney. Warangesda Mission is the only mission left in NSW that still has a suite of original buildings. The heritage area includes the mission block and cemetery. [8] Warangesda is the last known location of an initiation ceremony for the local Aboriginal population and the site of a strike in 1883. At its peak it was home to more than 200 Aboriginal people. The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) highlights almost 60 years of life on missions and reserves in their online exhibition Remembering the Mission Days. Digitised copies of two magazines published by the Aborigines Inland Missions of Australia reveal the hidden histories of the lives of thousands of Aboriginal people. Aboriginal history resources Browse Aboriginal history books or check out my large collection of Aboriginal movies. Or explore the online collection of the State Library of NSW which has a separate section on Aboriginal history. A very good resource is the Aboriginal-owned website The Koori History Project which has articles, cartoons and videos about significant historic events. Native American history mirrors Australia's It is fascinating how similar history is in these two different countries. Australia and the United States share a history of white supremacy. Both were founded as invading settler colonies whose existence depended on driving indigenous peoples from their lands. Both denied political and economic rights to indigenous people, whose labour was exploited. And both countries adopted restrictive immigration laws to keep their national complexions white. And in both countries non-indigenous people continue to offend by using blackface to make themselves look indigenous. Shared history European explorer claiming the land. James Cook (UK) Christopher Columbus (Spain) Public holiday commemorating explorer. Australia Day Columbus Day Main direction of invasion across the continent. East to west East to west Indigenous peoples resist invasion. Black Wars Trail of Tears Children are taken away and abused. Stolen Generations Residential Schools An illness devastates the indigenous peoples. Smallpox Measles (said to have killed more Native Americans than the army) Attempt to assimilate indigenous people. In missions In reservations Indigenous people become citizens of their own land. The first census that counts indigenous people. Slavery and exploitation. In denial Uncomfortably aware of its slavery history Document giving indigenous people more freedom Exemption Certificate, "dog tags", "dog licenses" Identity card, Dompas (literally meaning the "dumb pass") Government prefers to address poverty over self-determination poverty over self-determination If you know another similarity, please let me know! View article sources (1) [1] [1a] 'Historian shines a light on the dark heart of Australia's nationhood', The Guardian 10/3/2014 Harvard citation Korff, J 2021, Australian Aboriginal history, <https://creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/>, retrieved 19 January 2021 Latest posts on Facebook	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line654
__label__cc	0.655666	0.344334	Assessment of human atherosclerotic carotid plaque components with multisequence MR imaging: initial experience V.C. Cappendijk, K.B.J.M. Cleutjens, A.G.H. Kessels, S. Heeneman, G.W.H. Schurink, R.J. Welten, W.H. Mess, M.J. Daemen, J.M.A. van Engelshoven, M.E. Kooi KEMTA Beeldvorming CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases PURPOSE: To prospectively determine, by using a stepwise logistic regression model, the optimal magnetic resonance (MR) weighting (ie, pulse sequence) combinations for plaque assessment and corresponding cutoff values of relative signal intensities (rSIs). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Institutional review board approval and patient consent were obtained. Eleven patients (seven men, four women; mean age +/- standard deviation, 68 years +/- 4) with symptomatic carotid disease and stenosis of more than 70% were investigated at MR imaging before carotid endarterectomy. The MR images were matched with histologic features of the endarterectomy specimens (reference standard). The rSIs (compared with that of muscle tissue) from regions of interest were assessed qualitatively and semiquantitatively. For all major components (calcification, lipid core, intraplaque hemorrhage, and fibrous tissue), optimal cutoff points for the rSIs were determined for five MR weightings by means of receiver operating characteristic curves. The best predicting combinations of these five dichotomized MR weightings were selected by means of stepwise logistic regression analysis. The potential sensitivity and specificity of MR imaging for vulnerable plaque with hemorrhage and/or lipid core were determined. RESULTS: The same optimal MR weighting combinations for identifying the four plaque components were found with qualitative and semiquantitative analysis. Sensitivity and specificity for vulnerable plaque were 93% (95% confidence interval: 77%, 99%) and 96% (95% confidence interval: 86%, 100%), respectively, for the qualitative analysis and 76% (95% confidence interval: 56%, 90%) and 100% (95% confidence interval: 93%, 100%) for the semiquantitative analysis. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates the potential of a systematic approach of atherosclerotic plaque assessment with multisequence MR imaging by using the information provided from five different MR weightings in a stepwise logistic regression model. (c) RSNA, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2342032101 10.1148/radiol.2342032101 Cappendijk, V. C., Cleutjens, K. B. J. M., Kessels, A. G. H., Heeneman, S., Schurink, G. W. H., Welten, R. J., Mess, W. H., Daemen, M. J., van Engelshoven, J. M. A., & Kooi, M. E. (2005). Assessment of human atherosclerotic carotid plaque components with multisequence MR imaging: initial experience. Radiology, 234(2), 487-492. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2342032101 Cappendijk, V.C. ; Cleutjens, K.B.J.M. ; Kessels, A.G.H. ; Heeneman, S. ; Schurink, G.W.H. ; Welten, R.J. ; Mess, W.H. ; Daemen, M.J. ; van Engelshoven, J.M.A. ; Kooi, M.E. / Assessment of human atherosclerotic carotid plaque components with multisequence MR imaging: initial experience. In: Radiology. 2005 ; Vol. 234, No. 2. pp. 487-492. @article{5372e7866ab44956b492916ae65f2bf7, title = "Assessment of human atherosclerotic carotid plaque components with multisequence MR imaging: initial experience", abstract = "PURPOSE: To prospectively determine, by using a stepwise logistic regression model, the optimal magnetic resonance (MR) weighting (ie, pulse sequence) combinations for plaque assessment and corresponding cutoff values of relative signal intensities (rSIs). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Institutional review board approval and patient consent were obtained. Eleven patients (seven men, four women; mean age +/- standard deviation, 68 years +/- 4) with symptomatic carotid disease and stenosis of more than 70% were investigated at MR imaging before carotid endarterectomy. The MR images were matched with histologic features of the endarterectomy specimens (reference standard). The rSIs (compared with that of muscle tissue) from regions of interest were assessed qualitatively and semiquantitatively. For all major components (calcification, lipid core, intraplaque hemorrhage, and fibrous tissue), optimal cutoff points for the rSIs were determined for five MR weightings by means of receiver operating characteristic curves. The best predicting combinations of these five dichotomized MR weightings were selected by means of stepwise logistic regression analysis. The potential sensitivity and specificity of MR imaging for vulnerable plaque with hemorrhage and/or lipid core were determined. RESULTS: The same optimal MR weighting combinations for identifying the four plaque components were found with qualitative and semiquantitative analysis. Sensitivity and specificity for vulnerable plaque were 93% (95% confidence interval: 77%, 99%) and 96% (95% confidence interval: 86%, 100%), respectively, for the qualitative analysis and 76% (95% confidence interval: 56%, 90%) and 100% (95% confidence interval: 93%, 100%) for the semiquantitative analysis. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates the potential of a systematic approach of atherosclerotic plaque assessment with multisequence MR imaging by using the information provided from five different MR weightings in a stepwise logistic regression model. (c) RSNA, 2005.", author = "V.C. Cappendijk and K.B.J.M. Cleutjens and A.G.H. Kessels and S. Heeneman and G.W.H. Schurink and R.J. Welten and W.H. Mess and M.J. Daemen and {van Engelshoven}, J.M.A. and M.E. Kooi", doi = "10.1148/radiol.2342032101", journal = "Radiology", publisher = "Radiological Society of North America, Inc.", Cappendijk, VC, Cleutjens, KBJM, Kessels, AGH, Heeneman, S, Schurink, GWH, Welten, RJ, Mess, WH, Daemen, MJ, van Engelshoven, JMA & Kooi, ME 2005, 'Assessment of human atherosclerotic carotid plaque components with multisequence MR imaging: initial experience', Radiology, vol. 234, no. 2, pp. 487-492. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2342032101 Assessment of human atherosclerotic carotid plaque components with multisequence MR imaging: initial experience. / Cappendijk, V.C.; Cleutjens, K.B.J.M.; Kessels, A.G.H.; Heeneman, S.; Schurink, G.W.H.; Welten, R.J.; Mess, W.H.; Daemen, M.J.; van Engelshoven, J.M.A.; Kooi, M.E. In: Radiology, Vol. 234, No. 2, 01.01.2005, p. 487-492. T1 - Assessment of human atherosclerotic carotid plaque components with multisequence MR imaging: initial experience AU - Cappendijk, V.C. AU - Cleutjens, K.B.J.M. AU - Kessels, A.G.H. AU - Heeneman, S. AU - Schurink, G.W.H. AU - Welten, R.J. AU - Mess, W.H. AU - Daemen, M.J. AU - van Engelshoven, J.M.A. AU - Kooi, M.E. N2 - PURPOSE: To prospectively determine, by using a stepwise logistic regression model, the optimal magnetic resonance (MR) weighting (ie, pulse sequence) combinations for plaque assessment and corresponding cutoff values of relative signal intensities (rSIs). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Institutional review board approval and patient consent were obtained. Eleven patients (seven men, four women; mean age +/- standard deviation, 68 years +/- 4) with symptomatic carotid disease and stenosis of more than 70% were investigated at MR imaging before carotid endarterectomy. The MR images were matched with histologic features of the endarterectomy specimens (reference standard). The rSIs (compared with that of muscle tissue) from regions of interest were assessed qualitatively and semiquantitatively. For all major components (calcification, lipid core, intraplaque hemorrhage, and fibrous tissue), optimal cutoff points for the rSIs were determined for five MR weightings by means of receiver operating characteristic curves. The best predicting combinations of these five dichotomized MR weightings were selected by means of stepwise logistic regression analysis. The potential sensitivity and specificity of MR imaging for vulnerable plaque with hemorrhage and/or lipid core were determined. RESULTS: The same optimal MR weighting combinations for identifying the four plaque components were found with qualitative and semiquantitative analysis. Sensitivity and specificity for vulnerable plaque were 93% (95% confidence interval: 77%, 99%) and 96% (95% confidence interval: 86%, 100%), respectively, for the qualitative analysis and 76% (95% confidence interval: 56%, 90%) and 100% (95% confidence interval: 93%, 100%) for the semiquantitative analysis. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates the potential of a systematic approach of atherosclerotic plaque assessment with multisequence MR imaging by using the information provided from five different MR weightings in a stepwise logistic regression model. (c) RSNA, 2005. AB - PURPOSE: To prospectively determine, by using a stepwise logistic regression model, the optimal magnetic resonance (MR) weighting (ie, pulse sequence) combinations for plaque assessment and corresponding cutoff values of relative signal intensities (rSIs). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Institutional review board approval and patient consent were obtained. Eleven patients (seven men, four women; mean age +/- standard deviation, 68 years +/- 4) with symptomatic carotid disease and stenosis of more than 70% were investigated at MR imaging before carotid endarterectomy. The MR images were matched with histologic features of the endarterectomy specimens (reference standard). The rSIs (compared with that of muscle tissue) from regions of interest were assessed qualitatively and semiquantitatively. For all major components (calcification, lipid core, intraplaque hemorrhage, and fibrous tissue), optimal cutoff points for the rSIs were determined for five MR weightings by means of receiver operating characteristic curves. The best predicting combinations of these five dichotomized MR weightings were selected by means of stepwise logistic regression analysis. The potential sensitivity and specificity of MR imaging for vulnerable plaque with hemorrhage and/or lipid core were determined. RESULTS: The same optimal MR weighting combinations for identifying the four plaque components were found with qualitative and semiquantitative analysis. Sensitivity and specificity for vulnerable plaque were 93% (95% confidence interval: 77%, 99%) and 96% (95% confidence interval: 86%, 100%), respectively, for the qualitative analysis and 76% (95% confidence interval: 56%, 90%) and 100% (95% confidence interval: 93%, 100%) for the semiquantitative analysis. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates the potential of a systematic approach of atherosclerotic plaque assessment with multisequence MR imaging by using the information provided from five different MR weightings in a stepwise logistic regression model. (c) RSNA, 2005. U2 - 10.1148/radiol.2342032101 DO - 10.1148/radiol.2342032101 JO - Radiology JF - Radiology Cappendijk VC, Cleutjens KBJM, Kessels AGH, Heeneman S, Schurink GWH, Welten RJ et al. Assessment of human atherosclerotic carotid plaque components with multisequence MR imaging: initial experience. Radiology. 2005 Jan 1;234(2):487-492. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2342032101	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line655
__label__cc	0.630197	0.369803	February 28, 2016 armchairreviewer A Cornucopia of Conundrums in The Bishop’s Sword (1948) by Norman Berrow Source: Review Copy (Ramble House) Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt Item: Policeman The Bishop’s Sword (1948) is another book choice inspired by JJ at The Invisible Event and definitely gives value for money for the number of locked room/impossible crimes/scenarios it includes. The book takes place in and around a country town called Winchingham and the story’s setup has a range of familiar and unfamiliar characters. There is the new young companion-secretary, Toni Meridew who has come to work for the elderly Mrs Miriam Pendlebury. The latter was definitely a character I enjoyed as she is not the typical tyrannical parent and is actually quite humorous. Within this household there is also Miriam’s son Eric and sister, Emmeline Forbes, the last being interested in mysticism. Eric immediately seems very taken by Toni and this attraction becomes a source of comedy for the reader, as Miriam rebukes him mildly for it: ‘Don’t stare at Miss Meridew like that!’ Nearby there is also a mystery man, a mystic called Matthew Strange and his 6 Chinese followers, who are busy working on preparing a cave for their leader. Although Matthew is described as sometimes wearing flowing robes, it is interesting to note that he is also said to have ‘looked like a cross between a retired banker and an absent minded professor.’ Miriam’s home houses two valuable items, an expensive pearl necklace and a family sword which was: ‘sheathed in a red velvet scabbard decorated with gold filigree and thickly encrusted with either real or imitation jewels. The wide, curving hand guard was also apparently of gold and studded with more jewels, and about the hand-grip was more red velvet worn and stained by the clutch of dead and gone fingers…’ It’s not surprising that Toni finds this ‘an incongruous object… [for a] household of women.’ The sword also has an interesting backstory, having been gained by an ancestor who was a priest turned pirate. The sword is supposed to be impossible to steal due to the difficulty of selling it on and also due to practical reasons surrounding the cabinet it is in. Yet life does not remain tranquil at Mrs Pendlebury’s with there apparently being an intruder in the garden and house at night, the latter of which seems to have disappeared out of a sealed room. But due to the house proud Forbes and the conscientious gardener any potential prints are removed. It is only a few nights later that there is anything to investigate, which is not surprising considering Miriam’s pearls are stolen and the gardener is found murdered with a blunt instrument. An early suspect for the police is Strange, which is to be expected when there is so much circumstantial evidence against, including the fact the pearls were found in his pocket. In itself this seems a fairly open and shut case for DI Smith, but when Strange claims in court that through projecting his psyche he will visit the magistrate events turn towards the bizarre, especially when it seems that he has done just that, while the police swear that he was locked in a police cell. What is more disturbing is that he is able to repeat this action and bring disturbing news each time, including another theft at the Pendlebury’s… Is Strange the genuine thing or a phoney? Have the police got the wrong man after all? Will DI Smith and his cohorts reach the solution in time? The solving of this case takes a lot of brain power from DI Smith, breaking down the multiple layers of illusion and assumptions which have been built up around the case. Moreover, there is another perhaps even more fantastical act which I haven’t mentioned but cranked up mine and DI Smith’s befuddlement immensely. With such confusing events coming up with a credible solution was always going to be no easy task and overall I think Berrow handled this area well, devising an interesting solution which did not make the explanation of the crime dry and overly detailed. However, I do think there is one element of the solution which feels a little bit like a cheat or perhaps a fairer way of putting it would be that the element was convenient. Although on the other hand I do realise that this element needed to be incorporated to explain away the most peculiar aspects of the case. The narrative style for a locked room/ impossible crime novel where the mechanics of the crimes are given higher priority, was good and didn’t become too technical. However I think one area which could have been developed concerns the characters, as the ending of the novel did terminate rather abruptly and could have benefited from a rounding off or up of the characters. Moreover, I think although Berrow sets up a number of characters at the start of the story, he tends to ignore, overlook or possibly even forget some of them as the story progresses, focusing on a much smaller group. Consequently I think the relationships between the characters could have been developed/ included more. DI Smith though is a likeable and engaging detective character and it is enjoyable watching him work his way through the investigation, tackling events which are fairly mind boggling. JJ at The Invisible Event – The Bishop’s Sword Locked room/ Impossible Crime Norman Berrow Ramble House The Bishop's Sword Previous Murder at the Fair in Murder Loves Company (1940) by John Mersereau Next Book of the Month: February 2016 I’m delighted you enjoyed this; I was so excited when it turned out to be as much fun as it is, and it’s great the people are picking it up and a) disocvering how good Norman Berrow is and b) suporting Ramble House in their endeavours. The Footprints of Satan (which, ahem, (I reviewed earlier this year, back when the going was good) is a direct sequel to this in that it also involves Smith and the sisters Pendlebury – though obviously the events hereinhave no direct bearing on that one. But it is absolutely wonderful, one of the most delightfully intriguing and deceptively simple books I’ve read in a long, long time. Did Berrow write more than those two books? Like you I enjoyed how the solution was not overly complicated in this novel but was still quite sneaky in a number of respects. Have you got out of your reading funk yet? (Suppose I may well find out tomorrow when your review on MOAL goes up). Also I’ve been meaning to ask are you going to contribute a post or two for TNBs this month as we are looking at Carr? Sure the people in the GA Detection FB group will be thrilled if you did, as in fact one member wondered why someone with such a great blog wasn’t in our group. Me and Brad explained your aversion to FB but both of us wouldn’t mind pasting in a link to the group of any TNB post you did. end of sales pitch Santosh Iyer says: Berrow wrote 20 novels of which 5 feature Inspector Smith. All 20 novels have been reprinted by Ramble house. The ebook versions of all 20 novels are available at Lulu.com Wow that is a lot. Didn’t expect as many as that. And as always thank you Santosh for the info. I imagine your brain to be just one giant library full of detective and mystery novels. You would be an excellent contestant on Master Mind. Book of the Month: February 2016 \| crossexaminingcrime says: […] ← A Cornucopia of Conundrums in The Bishop’s Sword (1948) by Norman Berrow […] An Initial Look at Crime and Detective Stories Magazine Issue 72 \| crossexaminingcrime says: […] Norman Berrow is an author I have only recently read for the first time, having reviewed his novel The Bishop’s Sword. So I am keen to find out more about the author and a cursory reading of the article suggests that […] Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt 2016: Wrap Up Post \| crossexaminingcrime says: […] The Bishop’s Sword by Norman Berrow (Item: Policeman) […]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line657
__label__cc	0.613362	0.386638	HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY CS HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER AT A GLANCE 2018-19 More Enrollment Details STUDENTS BY ETHNICITY STUDENTS BY GENDER Average Class Size is the average number of students in a particular class. Grade 3 Ela Grade 4 Science U.s. History-comprehensive “Common Branch” refers to self-contained classes in Grades 1-6 that are taught by teachers certified to teach all subjects typically included in elementary school. Additional student and educator data is available in the Student and Educator Report. A positive school climate promotes school safety, student self-esteem, emotional well-being, mental health, and lower incidences of substance abuse, student absenteeism, and suspensions. The New York State Education Department (NYSED) continues to promote initiatives to foster student engagement and thereby increase student achievement, safety, and wellness. Our Social Emotional Learning materials support the state's ESSA plan priorities and promote a positive school climate. The resources outline benchmarks and frameworks for educators to implement Social Emotional Learning practices in their schools and classrooms. Mental health education can assist young people and their families and result in positive decision-making and life-long success. School Safety indicates the safety of the school’s environment based on reported incidents. ADDITIONAL DATA RELATED TO SCHOOL CLIMATE Student Attendance Rate What percentage of students attended school on the days the school was open? Student Suspension Rate What percentage of students were suspended from school at least one full day during the school year? Chronic Absenteeism Rate What percentage of students were absent 10 percent or more of the days they were enrolled in school? ACCOUNTABILITY STATUS Good Standing The Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, the main federal law for K-12 public education, requires that states hold public schools accountable for how students achieve. New York State established a set of indicators to measure school and district performance. The accountability system classifies schools into one of three categories: In Good Standing, a Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) school, or a Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) school. School Designations Good Standing District Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) School Target District A district in Good Standing demonstrates success in all performance goals. Schools that struggled to prepare all of their students with some or all indicators of success. Districts that struggled to prepare some of their student subgroups on some or all indicators are identified as Target Districts. This classification system is all about achieving equity. By identifying schools that need the most attention, NYSED and school districts can focus resources on these schools. Visit our website to learn more about what happens if your child’s school is identified as a CSI or TSI school. Read the Accountability Fact Sheet for Parents for more information. Find more information about ESSA Accountability Designations on our website. How do students at your child’s school perform on New York State tests? Students in New York State take standardized tests in English language arts and mathematics in grades 3-8, science in grades 4 and 8, and high school Regents exams in English, mathematics, science, and social studies. The tests are designed to measure how well students are mastering the learning standards that guide classroom instruction and help to ensure that students are on track to graduate from high school with the critical thinking, problem solving, and reasoning skills needed for success in college and the modern workplace. Students are assigned a performance level based on how well they do on the tests, with 4 being the highest level a student can earn. New York State Assessments (Tests) Performance Levels Level 4 Advanced Proficient Level 3 Proficient Level 2 Partially Proficient Level 1 Not Proficient Students who achieve a performance level of 3 or 4 are considered to be proficient. The data below indicate the percentage of students that achieved a performance level of 3 or 4 on each test. ANNUAL REGENTS EXAMINATION IN ELA ANNUAL REGENTS EXAMINATION ALGEBRA I ANNUAL REGENTS EXAMINATION GEOMETRY ANNUAL REGENTS EXAMINATION ALGEBRA II ANNUAL REGENTS EXAMINATION LIVING ENVIRONMENT ANNUAL REGENTS EXAMINATION PHYSICAL SETTING/EARTH SCIENCE ANNUAL REGENTS EXAMINATION PHYSICAL SETTING/CHEMISTRY ANNUAL REGENTS TRANSITIONAL EXAM IN GLOBAL HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY ANNUAL REGENTS EXAMINATION U.S. HISTORY & GOVERNMENT SCORED AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL Additional information about tests is available on our State Assessment website, including fact sheets about the 3-8 tests for parents and stakeholders. Learn about the equity and effectiveness of our federal, state, and local educational resources. Fiscal transparency reports outline how much each school is spending per student and the source of the funds. These fiscal transparency reports were issued for the first time in 2020 for the 2018-19 school year, and annual releases will be available after April 1st in each subsequent year. At the district level, they will inform conversations within districts about whether equitable resources are being provided at the school level. At the state level, these reports will help inform future Board of Regents State Aid requests and other policymaking decisions. 4-YEAR GRADUATION RATE The graduation rate is the percentage of students who entered grade 9 in the same school year who earned a local or Regents diploma four years later. The New York State Education Department (NYSED) reports the percentage of students who earned a local or Regents diploma by June, four year after they entered grade 9. NYSED also reports the percentage of students who earned a local or Regents diploma by August of the same year (the August percentage includes all students who earned a diploma by June and August combined). The New York State Education Department also reports the percentage of students who earned a local or Regents diploma five and six years later. 4, 5, and 6-Year Graduation Rates (June and August) Cohort 2015 4-year August Cohort 100% 2015 4-year June Cohort 100% 2014 5-year August Cohort 98% 2014 5-year June Cohort 98% For more information about the graduation rate by student subgroup, or to compare graduation rates for your school or district to the state graduation rate, please refer to your school or district’s full report on graduation rate data COLLEGE, CAREER, AND CIVIC READINESS on a scale of 1-4 More Information on a scale of 1-4 College, Career, and Civic Readiness is an indication of how well the school or district has prepared its students for life beyond high school. The College, Career, and Civic Readiness Index measures school quality and student success. The indicators included in the index measure how well students are prepared to be involved in activities important to being a productive citizen, whether they plan to attend college, or whether they plan to enter the workforce after high school. A school is awarded a level of 1-4, with 4 being the highest level a school can earn. For more information about College, Career, and Civic Readiness (CCCR) levels by student subgroup, please refer to your school or district’s full report on CCCR levels. CHARTER SCHOOL CO-LEADER, WEST ELEMENTARY: KEVIN TALLAT-KELPSA LEGAL NAME: HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL BEDS CODE: 310500860848 INSTITUTION ID: 800000056180 WEBSITE: www.harlemvillageacademies.org HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER DATA High School Graduation Pathways Data AP & IB Report	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line664
__label__wiki	0.916331	0.916331	Tag: Len Webber Episode 40: Alberta Politics and Federal Election Q&A No Comments on Episode 40: Alberta Politics and Federal Election Q&A http://media.blubrry.com/daveberta/p/daveberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/podcast/Daveberta-Ep-40.mp3 We are back from our summer break with a special Question and Answer edition of the Daveberta Podcast. Dave dives deep into our mailbag to answer some of the great Alberta politics and federal election questions our listeners have sent in over the past few weeks. Thanks to our producer, Adam Rozenhart, for helping us put the show together, and a huge thanks to the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB, for supporting the show. Send us your feedback, or ask us any questions you have for our next episode. You can get us on Twitter, Instagram, the Daveberta Facebook page, or you can email us at podcast@daveberta.ca. We will be back again in a few weeks! Enjoy! Recommended reading/listening/events: Green Drinks: Climate Politics, October 9, 2019 at the Yellowhead Brewery in Edmonton LitFest Presents: Election Night – Can’t We Get Along?, October 21, 2019 at Metro Cinema The Heard Podcast, a new podcast by Edmonton-City Centre MLA David Shepherd Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance (Ezra Klein Show, August 26, 2019) Scientists sound alarm over Alberta’s new approach to tracking oilsands pollution (CBC, September 18, 2019) I’m Calgary’s Muslim mayor. We can learn from Trudeau’s ‘brownface’ moment, by Naheed Nenshi (Washington Post, September 21, 2019) Why does any Canadian need a handgun? What the gun control debate is missing, by Patrick White and Tom Cardoso (Globe and Mail, September 20, 2019) Note: In this episode we referred to the investigation into sexual harrassment allegations against MP Kent Hehr’s as being inconclusive. This is incorrect. The third-party report found the claims against Hehr were legitimate, but details of the independent investigation were not publicly released. We apologize for this mistake. Tags Adam Rozenhart, Alberta NDP, Alberta Podcast, Alberta Podcast Network, Alberta Politics Podcast, Andrew Scheer, ATB Financial, Brownface, Calgary-Centre, Canada Election 2019, Chris Warkentin, Daveberta Podcast, David Cournoyer, David Shepherd, Doug Schweitzer, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-City Centre, Edmonton-Strathcona, Eleanor Olszewski, Ezra Klein, Garnett Genuis, Green Drinks, Heather MacPherson, Janis Irwin, Jason Nixon, Jian Tolentino, Justin Trudeau, Kent Hehr, Len Webber, Linda Duncan, Litfest, Michelle Rempel, Naheed Nenshi, Nathan Cooper, Rachel Notley, Randy Boissonnault, Ron Liepert, Sam Lilly, Sonya Savage, Stephanie Kusie, The Heard Podcast, United Conservative Party Trudeau campaigns with Sohi in Edmonton-Mill Woods, Conservatives fill a full slate of candidates in Alberta 1 Comment on Trudeau campaigns with Sohi in Edmonton-Mill Woods, Conservatives fill a full slate of candidates in Alberta With less than 100 days until Canada’s federal election, the political parties are continuing to nominate candidates in Alberta ahead of the October 21, 2019 vote. The Conservative Party has now nominated candidates in all of the province’s 34 electoral districts, and other main parties, the Liberal Party, New Democratic Party, and Green Party are slowly beginning to fill their slates. The right-wing People’s Party of Canada has chosen candidates in all of the province’s federal electoral districts. And here are some of the latest updates to this list of candidates nominated and running for nominations ahead of the October 2019 federal election: Battle River-Crowfoot: Damien Kurek defeated former Ontario MP Jeff Watson and teacher Jefferson McClung to win the Conservative Party nomination in the sprawling east central rural Alberta district of Battle River-Crowfoot. Kurek works as a constituency assistant in retiring MP Kevin Sorenson‘s office and previously worked as a researcher for the Saskatchewan Party Caucus in Regina. Previous to this bid, Watson served as the Conservative MP for Essex from 2004 to 2015 before moving to Alberta and running for the United Conservative Party nomination in Calgary-Peigan in 2018. Calgary-Confederation: Jordan Stein defeated Todd Kathol and Larry Ottewell to secure the Liberal Party nomination in Calgary-Confederation. Stein was the provincial NDP candidate in Calgary-Glenmore in the recent provincial election where she earned 32 percent of the vote and placed second behind UCP candidate Whitney Issik. Calgary-Confederation was the home of the Liberal Party’s highest vote total in the 2015 federal election, with then-candidate Matt Grant earning 29,083 votes to Conservative candidate Len Webber’s 30,669 votes. Calgary-Forest Lawn: William Carnegie has been nominated as the Green Party candidate in this east Calgary district. Carnegie is the president of the Forest Lawn Community Association and ran for the provincial Green Party in 2019 in Calgary-East, earning 2.3 percent of the vote. Edmonton-Centre: Katherine Swampy is expected to be nominated as the NDP candidate in Edmonton-Centre on July 22, 2019. Swampy is a councillor with the Samson Cree Nation, member of the board of directors for Peace Hills Trust, and previously ran for the NDP in the 2015 provincial election in Drayton Valley-Devon and the 2015 federal election in Battle River-Crowfoot. She endorsed Niki Ashton in the federal NDP’s 2017 leadership race. Edmonton-Greisbach: Well-known youth worker and social advocate Mark Cherrington and business-owner Victoria Stevens are seeking the NDP nomination in this east Edmonton district. The NDP had their second strongest showing in Alberta in this district in 2015, with Janis Irwin earning 34 percent to Conservative candidate Kerry Diotte‘s 39 percent. Irwin was elected as the MLA for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood in the 2019 provincial election. Brian Gold has announced his plan to seek the yet to be scheduled Liberal Party nomination in this district. Gold earned 21.6 percent of the vote as the Liberal Party candidate in Edmonton-Greisbach in 2015, and he later earned 12 percent of the vote in the 2017 Sturgeon River-Parkland by-election. Edmonton-Mill Woods: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Edmonton last week to speak at the nomination meeting acclaiming MP Amarjeet Sohi as the Liberal Party candidate in the upcoming election. Sohi was first elected in 2015 and currently serves as Minister of Natural Resources. Before his jump into federal politics, Sohi served on Edmonton City Council from 2007 to 2015. NDP organizer Nigel Logan seeking his party’s in Edmonton-Mill Woods at a meeting expected to be held on July 24, 2019. Logan was a candidate for Edmonton City Council in Ward 12 during the 2017 municipal election, where he earned 11.4 percent of the vote. Logan currently works as a constituency assistant to Edmonton-Strathcona NDP MP Linda Duncan. The previous NDP candidate in this district, Jasvir Deol, was elected as the NDP MLA for Edmonton-Meadows in April 2015. Edmonton-Strathcona: Sam Lilly defeated Julia Bareman to secure the Conservative Party nomination. Lilly was endorsed by Diotte and former Edmonton-Gold Bar MLA David Dorward. Activist and owner of the Earth’s General Store Michael Kalmanovitch has been nominated as the Green Party candidate. This south central Edmonton district has been represented by NDP MP Linda Duncan since 2008. Duncan is not seeking re-election. Lethbridge: Shandi Bleiken defeated Sheldon Krul to win the NDP nomination in this southern Alberta district. Bleiken is a community activist and former president of OUTreach Southern Alberta. The NDP candidate in the 2015 federal election placed second with 20.5 percent of the vote. Banff-Airdrie: Jaro Giesbrecht has announced his intention to seek the Liberal Party nomination in Banff-Airdrie, which has not yet been scheduled. Giesbrecht recently ran for the provincial Liberal Party in Calgary-Peigan, earning 1.9 percent of the vote. Peace River-Westlock: Julie Asterisk and Peter Nygaard are seeking the Green Party nomination in this north west Alberta district, scheduled for August 3. Asterisk works in communications and fund development with the Keepers of the Athabasca organization and was the program coordinator with the Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre. She was the Green candidate in Fort McMurray-Athabasca in the 2011 election, where she earned 4.5 percent of the vote. Nygaard is owner and operator of a plumbing and gas fitting business in Joussar. He and his wife, Shahla, wrote the book Decade of Discovery which chronicles their decade-long bike trip through Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. Please contact me at david.cournoyer@gmail.com for additions or updates related to candidate nominations in Alberta and I will add them to the list. Daveberta on the CBC Pollcast I was thrilled to join Eric Grenier on the CBC Pollcast podcast this week to discuss Alberta’s political landscape ahead of the October 2019 federal election, with a specific focus on Calgary-Centre, Calgary-Confederation, Calgary-Skyview, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Greisbach, Edmonton-Mill Woods, and Edmonton-Strathcona. Tags Amarjeet Sohi, Banff-Airdrie, Battle River-Crowfoot, Brian Gold, Calgary Forest Lawn, Calgary-Confederation, Calgary-East, Calgary-Glenmore, Calgary-Peigan, Canada Election 2019, CBC Pollcast Podcast, Damien Kurek, David Dorward, Drayton Valley-Devon, Edmonton-Centre, Edmonton-Greisbach, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Edmonton-Meadows, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Edmonton-Strathcona, Eric Grenier, Essex, Fort McMurray-Athabasca, Janis Irwin, Jaro Giesbrecht, Jasvir Deol, Jeff Watson, Jefferson McClung, Jordan Stein, Julie Asterisk, Justin Trudeau, Katherine Swampy, Kerry Diotte, Kevin Sorenson, Larry Ottewell, Len Webber, Lethbridge, Linda Duncan, Mark Cherrington, Matt Grant, Michael Kalmanovitch, Nigel Logan, Niki Ashton, Peace River-Westlock, Peter Nygaard, Sam Lilly, Shandi Bleiken, Sheldon Krul, Sturgeon River-Parkland, Todd Kathol, Victoria Stevens, Whitney Issik, William Carnegie United Conservatives selecting candidates in Calgary-North and Lethbridge-East on Feb. 9 2 Comments on United Conservatives selecting candidates in Calgary-North and Lethbridge-East on Feb. 9 Calgary-North UCP candidates: Devin Green, Tanis Fiss, Paul Frank, Jun Lin, and Muhammad Yaseen. Photo: Calgary-North UCP candidates Devin Green, Tanis Fiss, Paul Frank, Jun Lin, and Muhammad Yaseen. United Conservative Party members will choose their party’s candidates in Calgary-North and Lethbridge-East on February 9, 2019. In Calgary-North, Devin Green, Tanis Fiss, Paul Frank, Jun Lin, and Muhammad Yaseen are seeking the UCP nomination. Tommy Low and Manpreet Sidhu have withdrawn from the contest. Yaseen is the former president of the Calgary-Northern Hills Progressive Conservatives. Fiss works in the oil and gas industry and moved to Alberta from BC in 2003 to establish a Calgary-based office for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. And Frank previous ran for the federal Conservative Party nominations in Calgary-Rocky Ridge in 2014 and Calgary-Heritage in 2017 and ran as an Independent candidate in Alberta’s 2012 Senator-in-Waiting election. Fiss is endorsed by former federal Conservative Party interim leader Rona Ambrose and Frank is endorsed by city councillor Joe Magliocca, Conservative MPs Len Webber, Michelle Rempel, Pat Kelly, and former Calgary-Fort PC MLA Wayne Cao. Lethbridge East UCP nomination candidates: Nathan Neudorf, Kimberly Lyall, Bryan Litchfield, Robin James and Angela Zuba In Lethbridge-East, Robin James, Bryan Litchfield, Kimberly Lyall, Nathan Neudorf and Angela Zuba are seeking the UCP nomination. James is the Chief Administrative Officer of the Lethbridge Housing Authority. Litchfield is a Facility Services project manager with the City of Lethbridge and director of the Alberta Off-Highway Vehicle Association. Lyall is a motivational speaker and consultant and was founding president of the local UCP association and previously served as president of the local Wildrose Party association. Neudorf re-entered the UCP nomination contest in this district in December 2018 after dropping out to run for the UCP nomination in the Livingstone-Macleod district located west of Lethbridge, but was unsuccessful in that contest. Zuba is a Development Manager for Lethbridge College and prior to that was the CEO for the Canadian Home Builders Association Lyall is endorsed by UCP MLA Nathan Cooper, Leela Aheer, and Pat Stier. Neudorf is endorsed by Roger Reid, UCP Candidate for Livingstone Macleod and former Lethbridge city councillor Tom Wickersham, and Conservative MP Rachael Harder. Following these two nomination contests, the UCP will have six districts remaining where the party has not selected a candidate ahead of the next election. The remaining districts are Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Edmonton-Meadows, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Edmonton-Strathcona, and Red Deer-South. Liberals nominate two candidates in Calgary The Alberta Liberal Party has nominated Jaroslav Giesbrecht in Calgary-Peigan and Vesna Samardzija in Calgary-Shaw, bringing the party to a slate of 17 candidates in 87 districts. If you know any candidates who have announced their intentions to stand for party nominations, please send me an email at david.cournoyer@gmail.com. I will add them to the list. Thank you! Note: The original version of this article did not include Angela Zuba as a nomination candidate in Lethbridge-East. This has been corrected. Tags Alberta Election 2019, Alberta Election Candidate Nominations, Alberta Liberal Party, Alberta PC Party, Angela Zuba, Bryan Litchfied, Calgary-Fort, Calgary-Heritage, Calgary-North, Calgary-Northern Hills, Calgary-Peigan, Calgary-Rocky Ridge, Calgary-Shaw, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Candidate nominations, Devin Green, Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Edmonton-Meadows, Edmonton-Mill Woods, Edmonton-Strathcona, Jaroslav Giesbrecht, Joe Magliocca, Jun Lin, Kimberly Lyall, Leela Aheer, Len Webber, Lethbridge-East, Livingstone-Macleod, Manpreet Sidhu, Michelle Rempel, Muhammad Yaseen, Nathan Cooper, Nathan Neudorf, Pat Kelly, Pat Stier, Paul Frank, Rachael Harder, Red Deer-South, Robin James, Roger Reid, Rona Ambrose, Tanis Fiss, Tom Wickersham, Tommy Low, United Conservative Party, Vesna Samardzija, Wayne Cao, Wildrose Party A Big Nomination Candidate Update: Airdrie-Cochrane to Vermilion-Lloydminster-Wainwright 1 Comment on A Big Nomination Candidate Update: Airdrie-Cochrane to Vermilion-Lloydminster-Wainwright Alberta Election candidates Janis Irwin, Miranda Rosin, Janet Eremenko, and Rebecca Schulz. Photo: Alberta Election candidates Janis Irwin, Miranda Rosin, Janet Eremenko, and Rebecca Schulz. It has been a busy few weeks for provincial candidate nominations in Alberta. I fell a bit behind last week with my updates, so here is some of the latest candidate nomination news ahead of Alberta’s provincial election: Airdrie-Cochrane – Peter Guthrie defeated Morgan Nagel, Mauri Stiff, and Laura Talsma to secure the United Conservative Party nomination on October 20, 2018 in this new district northwest of Calgary. Ian Chitwood‘s candidacy was not accepted by the party before the vote was held. Guthrie is a former owner of a Mr. Lube franchise in north east Calgary and a former co-owner of a ranch near Castor. He was endorsed by former sportscaster and recent Airdrie-East UCP nomination candidate Roger Millions and former Rocky View County councillor and Calgary-Centre Member of Parliament Eric Lowther. Stiff had been endorsed by Airdrie UCP MLA Angela Pitt, who is running for re-election in the neighbouring Airdrie-East district. Banff-Kananaskis: Miranda Rosin defeated Scott Wagner and Michael Zubkow to secure the UCP nomination in this mountain and foothills district west of Calgary on October 27, 2018. Rosin was endorsed by UCP MLAs Leela Aheer, Drew Barnes, Angela Pitt, MP Blake Richards, developer Cal Wenzel, and Canmore town councillor Rob Seeley. Calgary-Acadia: Former city councillor Brian Pincott will be nominated as the New Democratic Party candidate in this district on October 25, 2018. Pincott represented Ward 11 on Calgary City Council from 2007 to 2017. Lawyer and UCP activist Tyler Shandro defeated Amina Beecroft and David Guenter to secure the UCP nomination on October 28, 2018. Shandro had the blessing of Calgary’s conservative political establishment with the endorsements of UPC MLAs Ric McIver, Nathan Cooper, Jason Nixon, Mike Ellis, city councillors Sean Chu, Jeff Davison, Ward Sutherland and Peter Demong, MPs Ron Liepert and Len Webber, and former Progressive Conservative MLAs Harvey Cenaiko, Jim Dinning, Karen Kryczka, Donna Kennedy-Glans, and Rick Orman. Calgary-Bow: Demetrios Nicolaides defeated Calgary Board of Education trustee Lisa Davis, Cheryl Durkee, and 2015 PC Party candidate Byron Nelson the UCP nomination contest on October 23, 2018. Nicolaides was endorsed by UCP MLA Richard Gotfried, Nathan Cooper, Calgary MP Stephanie Kusie, Ontario MP Pierre Pollievre, and Calgary-Buffalo UCP candidate Tom Olsen and Calgary-Glenmore candidate Whitney Issik. Davis was endorsed by UCP MLA Mike Ellis. Calgary-Cross: Farhan Baig’s candidacy in the UCP nomination contest has not been accepted by the UCP. Calgary-Currie: Lindsay Luhnau was nominated as the Alberta Party nomination in this district. Past candidate Tony Norman withdrew from the contest before the vote. Calgary-East: Robert O’Leary’s candidacy in the UCP nomination contest has not been accepted by the UCP. Calgary-Elbow: Janet Eremenko was nominated as the NDP candidate on October 18, 2018. Eremenko was a candidate for Calgary City Council in Ward 11 in the October 2017 election where she finished third with 20 percent of the vote. Calgary-Falconridge: Gurjinder Dhillon and Jesse Minhas are now seeking the UCP nomination in this district. Minhas previously withdrew from the UCP nomination contest in Calgary-Cross. Minhas ran for the PC Party nomination in Calgary-Cross ahead of the 2015 election and was the Wildrose Party candidate in Calgary-East in the 2012 election. Calgary-Glenmore: Scott Appleby is seeking the Alberta Party nomination Calgary-North East: Jerry Gautreau and Manjit Jaswal have withdrawn from the UCP nomination contest in this district. Calgary-Shaw: Rebecca Schulz defeated past Wildrose Party candidate Mark Mantei, party activist and party activist and past federal Conservative nomination candidate Jack Redekop, and Daniel McLean to win the UCP nomination on October 20, 2018. Schulz is the director of marketing and communications at the University of Calgary and until 2016 was the director of communications for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education. She was endorsed by MP Stephanie Kusie, UCP MLAs Nathan Cooper and Jason Nixon, and former Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall. Calgary-Varsity: Jason Copping defeated Lesley Doell, John Huang, Michael Kim, Grace Lane, and John Volponi to win the UCP nomination in Calgary-Varsity. Copping was endorsed by MP Len Webber, former Calgary-Varsity PC MLA Murray Smith, 2015 PC Party candidate Susan Billington. NDP stalwart Anne McGrath was acclaimed as her party’s candidate in this district. Green Party leader Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes has been nominated by her party to run in Calgary-Varsity. Chagnon-Greyeyes was selected as her party’s leader in an October 2018 leadership race. Edmonton-Ellerslie – Yash Sharma was disqualified as the Alberta Party candidate in this district. Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood: Educator and community advocate Janis Irwin was acclaimed at a nomination meeting on October 23, 2018. Irwin currently works as a Director of Stakeholder Relations in the Office of the Premier and previously worked on the curriculum changes being implemented by the Department of Education. She ran as the federal NDP candidate in Edmonton-Greisbach in the 2015 federal election, placing a strong second behind Conservative candidate Kerry Diotte. With exception of a brief period from 1993 to 1997, most of this district has been represented by the NDP since 1986. Irwin is succeeding former NDP leader Brian Mason, who has represented the district since 2000 and is retiring when the next election is called. Tish Prouse defeated Brian Gratrix to become the Alberta Party candidate in this district on October 9, 2018. Edmonton-Manning: Harjinder Grewal is seeking the UCP nomination. Edmonton-Riverview: Katherine O’Neill is seeking the Alberta Party nomination. O’Neill was the PC Party candidate in Edmonton-Meadowlark in the 2015 election. She later served as president of the PC Party and left the party shortly after Jason Kenney won the leadership in 2017. Before entering politics, O’Neill was a reporter for the Globe & Mail. Edmonton-West Henday: Nicole Williams defeated Leila Houle on October 22, 2018 to secure the United Conservative Party nomination in the newly redrawn Edmonton-West Henday district. A third candidate, Lance Coulter, was disqualified after comments made following a week long fiasco involving the three candidates posing for photos with members of the anti-immigration white nationalist Soldiers of Odin vigilant group. Williams is a senior associate with Canadian Strategy Group and previously worked as an assistant to various MLAs and cabinet ministers in the old Progressive Conservative government. Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche: Rookie UCP MLA Laila Goodridge defied rumours of an impending defeat by securing the UCP nomination on October 26, 2018. Goodridge defeated former Lac La Biche County councillor Gail Broadbent-Ludwig and former Wood Buffalo mayoral candidate Allan Grandson. Lesser Slave Lake – John Middelkoop is seeking the UCP nomination. Lethbridge-East/Livingstone-Macleod: Nathan Neudorf has withdrawn from the UCP nomination contest in Lethbridge-East and is now seeking the UCP nominaton in Livingstone-Macleod. Morinville-St. Albert: Shane St. Arnault has withdrawn from the UCP nomination contest. St. Arsenault is the owner of Shane’s Guardian Pharmacy in Redwater. Red Deer-North: Catholic School Board trustee Adriana LaGrange defeated former Wildrose Caucus staffer Cole Kander and Red Deer City Councillor Lawrence Lee to secure UCP nomination on October 27, 2018. LaGrange has been endorsed by Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan Conservative MP Garnett Genuis and former Red Deer-North PC MLA Mary Anne Jablonski. Kander had been endorsed by Conservative MP Dane Lloyd, and UCP MLAs Drew Barnes, Scott Cyr, Grant Hunter. On October 3, 2018, LaGrange hosted an event for the right-wing Parents for Choice in Education group, an advocacy group that has been a vocal opponent of student-initiated Gay-Straight Alliance clubs in Alberta schools. Dr. Paul Hardy has been nominated as the Alberta Party candidate in this district. Hardy is one of the founding members of the Society for Fair and Transparent Health Funding to Central Alberta, Vermilion-Lloydminster-Wainwright: Jenelle Saskiw is seeking the UCP nomination. Saskiw served as the mayor of the Village of Marwayne and currently works as a senior advisor to Alberta Counsel, an Edmonton-based lobbyist and legal firm founded by former Wildrose MLA Shayne Saskiw and lawyer Jon Wescott. Note: The Alberta Party nominated a whole batch of candidates immediately before their recent annual general meeting. I am trying to get the list of those candidates straight, so I will try to include those candidates in my next nomination update. Tags Adriana LaGrange, Airdrie-Cochrane, Airdrie-East, Alberta Counsel, Alberta Election 2019, Alberta Election Candidate Nominations, Alberta NDP, Alberta Party, Allan Grandison, Amina Beecroft, and Laura Talsma, Angela Pitt, Anne McGrath, Banff-Kananaskis, Brad Wall, Brian Gratrix, Brian Mason, Brian Pincott, Byron Nelson, Cal Wenzel, Calgary-Acadia, Calgary-Bow, Calgary-Cross, Calgary-Currie, Calgary-East, Calgary-Elbow, Calgary-Falconridge, Calgary-Glenmore, Calgary-North East, Calgary-Shaw, Calgary-Varsity, Cheryl Durkee, Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes, Cole Kander, Dane Lloyd, Daniel McLean, David Guenter, Demetrios Nicolaides, Donna Kennedy-Glans, Drew Barnes, Edmonton-Ellerslie, Edmonton-Greisbach, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood, Edmonton-Manning, Edmonton-Riverview, Edmonton-West Henday, Eric Lowther, Farhan Baig, Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche, Gail Broadbent-Ludwig, Garnett Genuis, Grace Lane, Grant Hunter, Green Party of Alberta, Gurjinder Dhillon, Harjinder Grewal, Harvey Cenaiko, Ian Chitwood, Jack Redekop, Janet Eremenko, Janis Irwin, Jason Copping, Jason Nixon, Jeff Davison, Jenelle Saskiw, Jerry Gautreau, Jesse Minhas, Jim Dinning, John Huang, John Middelkoop, John Volponi, Jon Wescott, Karen Kryczka, Katherine O'Neill, Kerry Diotte, Laila Goodridge, Lance Coulter, Lawrence Lee, Leela Aheer, Leila Houle, Len Webber, Lesley Doell, Lesser Slave Lake, Lethbridge-East, Lindsay Luhnau, Lisa Davis, Livingstone-Macleod, Manjit Jaswal, Mark Mantei, Mary Anne Jablonski, Mauri Stiff, Michael Kim, Michael Zubkow, Mike Ellis, Miranda Rosin, Morgan Nagel, Morinville-St. Albert, Nathan Cooper, Nathan Neudorf, Nicole Williams, Parents for Choice in Education, Paul Hardy, Peter Demong, Peter Guthrie, Pierre Pollievre, Rebecca Schulz, Red Deer-North, Ric McIver, Richard Gotfried, Rick Orman, Rob Seeley, Robert O’Leary, Roger Millions, Ron Liepert, Scott Appleby, Scott Cyr, Scott Wagner, Sean Chu, Shane St. Arnault, Shayne Saskiw, Soldiers of Odin, Stephanie Kusie, Tish Prouse, Tom Olsen, Tony Norman, Tyler Shandro, United Conservative Party, Vermilion-Lloydminster-Wainwright, Ward Sutherland, Whitney Issik, Yash Sharma Doug Schweitzer wins UCP nomination in Calgary-Elbow, Danielle Larivee selected as NDP candidate in Lesser Slave Lake No Comments on Doug Schweitzer wins UCP nomination in Calgary-Elbow, Danielle Larivee selected as NDP candidate in Lesser Slave Lake Doug Schweitzer, Danielle Larivee, Travis Toews, and Mo Elsalhy. Photo: Doug Schweitzer, Danielle Larivee, Travis Toews, and Mo Elsalhy. Former United Conservative Party leadership candidate Doug Schweitzer defeated past city council candidate Chris Davis to secure his party’s nomination in Calgary-Elbow on September 13, 2018. As noted last week, Schweitzer is a lawyer who briefly considered running for the PC Party leadership in 2017 before dropping out and endorsing Jason Kenney. Only a few months later, he ran against Kenney for the UCP leadership, where he placed third with 7.3 percent of the vote. He served as CEO of the Manitoba PC Party from 2008 to 2009 and was manager of Jim Prentice’s campaign for the leadership of the PC Party in 2014. Calgary-Elbow has a long-history in conservative partisan lore, having been represented by former premiers Ralph Klein and Alison Redford and past deputy premier David Russell, but it has also been a marginal district at times. Klein only narrowly defeated Liberal Gilbert Clark in 1989 and the district would abandon the Tories for Liberal Craig Cheffins in the 2007 by-election to replace Klein. Redford retook the district for the PCs in 2008, but her disastrous tenure in the premier’s office certainly contributed to Alberta Party leader Greg Clark (son of Gilbert) winning in Calgary-Elbow in 2015. Schweitzer will face Clark and likely New Democratic Party nominee Janet Eremenko in the 2019 election. Danielle Larivee was nominated as NDP candidate in Lesser Slave Lake. Larivee was first elected in 2015 and currently serves as Minister of Children’s Services and Minister for the Status of Women. Before her election Larivee worked as a Registered Nurse in public health in northern Alberta. Former president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association Travis Toews defeated Sexsmith town councillor Kate Potter to secure the UCP nomination in Grande Prairie-Wapiti. Toews had the endorsement of former Grande Prairie PC MLAs Walter Paszkowski and Everett MacDonald in this district currently represented by retiring UCP MLA Wayne Drysdale. Registered Nurse Hannah Presakarchuk defeated Rafat Alam, Shaun Collicott, and Laine Larson to secure the UCP nomination in Edmonton-Rutherford. Former Liberal MLA Mo Elsalhy was nominated as the Alberta Party candidate in Edmonton-South West and Marvin Olsen has been nominated as the Alberta Party candidate in Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville. Upcoming Nomination Meetings Karen Principe Former PC MLA Janice Sarich, past city council candidate Karen Principe, and real estate agent Gordon Reekie will compete for the UCP nomination in Edmonton-Decore on September 20, 2018. Sarich represented this district from 2008 until 2015 when she was unseated by NDP candidate Chris Nielsen. Principe placed a strong third in the October 2017 city council race that saw incumbent councillor Dave Loken unseated by Jon Dzadyk. Reekie had previously been a candidate for the UCP nomination in the neighbouring Edmonton-Castle Downs before withdrawing from that contest before the vote was held. NDP MLA Marlin Schmidt is expected to be nominated as his party’s candidate in Edmonton-Gold Bar on September 20, 2018. Schmidt was first elected in 2015, earning 68 percent of the vote in the 2015 election. He now serves as Minister of Advanced Education and will face a rematch against UCP candidate David Dorward, who Schmidt defeated in 2015 and placed a strong second against in 2012. Edmonton-Gold Bar is a former Liberal Party stronghold, having been represented by party heavy-weights Bettie Hewes from 1986 to 1997 and Hugh MacDonald from 1997 to 2012, though support for the party collapsed to an abysmal 3.1 percent in the 2015 election. Lacombe City Councillor Thalia Hibbs will challenge UCP MLA Ron Orr in a nomination contest in Lacombe-Ponoka scheduled for September 21, 2018. It was announced at a forum in Lacombe that nomination candidate Rita Reich has dropped out of the contest, though no reason was given. Thalia Hibbs Orr was first elected as a Wildrose Party candidate in 2015, winning a close three-way contest between himself, New Democrat Doug Hart and PC candidate Peter DeWit. Orr currently serves as Official Opposition critic for Culture & Tourism and in November 2017, the former Baptist pastor suggested that the legalization of marijuana in Canada could lead to a communist revolution. Hibbs has served on Lacombe City Council since October 2017 and previous to that served as a trustee with the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Schools from 2010 to 2017. Four candidates are seeking the UCP nomination in Calgary-Glenmore: Christopher Grail, Whitney Issik, Michael LaBerge and Phillip Schumann. Issik is a long-time party activist, having worked as a campaign manager for Jim Prentice’s brief run for the federal Progressive Conservative nomination in Calgary-Southwest in 2002, as a constituency assistant to former Calgary-Mountain View MLA Mark Hlady (who is now seeking the UCP nomination in that district), and as policy co-chair of the federal PC Party during the 2000 federal election. LaBerge is president of Channel Energy Inc. Schuman is an insurance company account executive and until July 2017 was the Media Coordinator for United Liberty, the political action committee created by now-Freedom Conservative Party MLA Derek Fildebrandt. Maureen Zelmer had been seeking the UCP nomination in Calgary-Glenmore until it was revealed she had posted a series of Islamophobic comments on Facebook. Kathy Macdonald Past Wildrose Party candidates Kathy Macdonald and Jeremy Nixon are seeking the UCP nomination in Calgary-Klein on September 22, 2018. MacDonald is a retired Calgary police officer and was the Wildrose Party candidate in the 2014 by-election in Calgary-Foothills and 2015 Wildrose candidate in Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill. She also ran for the Wildrose Party nomination ahead of the 2015 by-election in Calgary-Foothills. Nixon ran in this district under the Wildrose banner in 2012 and 2015. He is the brother of Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre MLA Jason Nixon. Macdonald is endorsed by former Calgary police chief and 2015 PC candidate Rick Hanson. Nixon is endorsed by Calgary Conservative MPs Michelle Rempel, Len Webber, City Councillor Sean Chu, and UCP MLAs Nathan Cooper, Todd Loewen, Angela Pitt and former UCP MLA Dave Rodney. Deron Bilous is expected to be acclaimed for the NDP nomination in Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview on September 23, 2018. Bilious has represented this district since 2012 and was re-elected in 2015 with 73.8 percent of the vote. He currently serves as Alberta’s Minister of Economic Development and Trade. This district has deep NDP roots, having been represented by former city councillor Ed Ewasiuk from 1986 to 1993 and former party leader Ray Martin from 2004 to 2008. Here are some of the latest updates to the list of candidates running for party nominations ahead of the 2019 Alberta provincial general election: Camrose – Brandon Lunty is seeking the UCP nomination. Lunty was the Wildrose candidate in Calgary-South East in the 2015 election, placing third with 29 percent of the vote behind PC MLA Rick Fraser and New Democrat Mirical Macdonald. Calgary-Falconridge – Christopher Steeves has withdrawn from the UCP nomination contest in this new east Calgary district. He served as a councillor with the City of Chestermere from 2005 to 2017. Sherwood Park – Sean Kenny is the fourth candidate to enter the UCP nomination contest in this suburban Edmonton area district. Tags Alberta Election 2019, Alberta Election Candidate Nominations, Alberta Federal Candidate Nomination Update, Alberta Liberal Party, Alberta NDP, Alberta Party, Alison Redford, Angela Pitt, Bettie Hewes, Brandon Lunty, Calgary-Elbow, Calgary-Falconridge, Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-Glenmore, Calgary-Klein, Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill, Calgary-South East, Camrose, Chris Davis, Chris Nielsen, Christopher Grail, Christopher Steeves, Communist Revolution, Craig Cheffins, Danielle Larivee, Dave Loken, Dave Rodney, David Dorward, David Russell, Derek Fildebrandt, Deron Bilous, Doug Schweitzer, Ed Ewasiuk, Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, Edmonton-Castle Downs, Edmonton-Decore, Edmonton-Gold Bar, Edmonton-Rutherford, Edmonton-South West, Everett Macdonald, Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville, Gilbert Clark, Gordon Reekie, Grande Prairie-Wapiti, Greg Clark, Hannah Presakarchuk, Hugh MacDonald, Janet Eremenko, Janice Sarich, Jason Kenney, Jason Nixon, Jeremy Nixon, Jim Prentice, Jon Dzadyk, Karen Principe, Kate Potter, Kathy Macdonald, Lacombe-Ponoka, Len Webber, Lesser Slave Lake, Mark Hlady, Marlin Schmidt, Marvin Olsen, Maureen Zelmer, Michael LaBerge, Michelle Rempel, Mirical MacDonald, Mo Elsalhy, Nathan Cooper, Phillip Schumann, Ralph Klein, Ray Martin, Rick Fraser, Rick Hanson, Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, Rita Reich, Ron Orr, Sean Chu, Sean Kenny, Sherwood Park, Thalia Hibbs, Todd Loewen, Travis Toews, United Conservative Party, United Liberty, Walter Paszkowski, Wayne Drysdale, Whitney Issik, Wildrose Party When it comes to Sandra Jansen, it’s a grudge match for the UCP 14 Comments on When it comes to Sandra Jansen, it’s a grudge match for the UCP Sandra Jansen (left) and Premier Rachel Notley (right) at the press conference announcing the PC MLA had crossed the floor to join the NDP. (Photo from Premier Rachel Notley's Facebook Page) It was supposed to be an event highlighting an effort to recruit more conservative women into politics in Alberta, but it was overshadowed by the news that former Prime Minister Stephen Harper plans to personally campaign against New Democratic Party MLA Sandra Jansen in the next provincial election. Laureen Harper told a gathering at the launch of the She Leads group that she and her husband plan to campaign in the next election for whoever the United Conservative Party candidate is in their home Calgary-North West district. For UCP activists, and Jason Kenney in particular, the fight in Calgary-North West likely feels personal. Jansen was elected as a Progressive Conservative in 2012 and re-elected in 2015 before crossing the floor to the NDP in 2016. But Conservative anger was directed at Jansen before her floor-crossing. Jansen’s support for her friend Nirmala Naidoo, who ran as a Liberal candidate in the 2015 federal election, drew the ire of the legions of federal Conservatives who were moving to take over the PC Party following its defeat in the 2015 election (Naidoo’s Conservative competitor, now Member of Parliament Pat Kelly, is endorsing UCP nomination candidate and pipeline lobbyist Sonya Savage). Sonya Savage Jansen attempted a mount a campaign for the leadership after her party’s disastrous results in the last election but was all but drummed out of the party by social conservatives allied with Kenney. Her moderate views on social issues like abortion and rights for sexual minorities, as well as her role as a former communications manager and key supporter of former premier Alison Redford contributed to the mounting tension from more hard-line conservatives. Her comment to her former colleague and now Conservative MP Len Webber that he “should go back to being an electrician” smacked of Tory elitism. Jansen accused Kenney of wanting to destroy the PC Party in his plans to merge with the Wildrose Party. And when push came to shove at the PC Party’s annual convention in 2016, Jansen was shoved hard by social conservative activists and soon after decided to leave the party. She joined the NDP and was appointed Minister of Infrastructure in 2017. For Conservative partisans, this was the biggest betrayal. As Minister of Infrastructure, Jansen has a powerful spot at the cabinet table, allowing her to champion the construction of big capital projects like the new Calgary Cancer Centre and the completion of the city’s ring road and the Green Line C-Train route. Jansen plays a big role in Premier Rachel Notley’s charm offensive in Calgary, but her tendency to get involved in petty arguments with Conservative partisans on social media distracts from the NDP government’s narrative. As I have written in the past, she could probably spend less time arguing on Twitter and more time trying to boost her government’s fortunes in Calgary. Uniting the Right meant CPC-UCP unity too Regardless of whether Jansen wins or loses the next election, she should take it as a complement that a Conservative heavy hitter like Harper would personally campaign against her. She should wear it as a badge of honour. Harper likely remains popular among Conservatives in particular and Calgarians in general, and his support for Kenney’s UCP is not surprising. Harper endorsed Kenney’s leadership bid last year and was rumoured to be one of the driving forces behind the scenes in the PC-Wildrose unity referendum last year. Harper is now the chairman of the International Democratic Union, an international club of right-wing political parties from 63 countries. His congratulatory tweet to extreme right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in April 2018 raised eyebrows among political watchers. Orbán was re-elected after campaigning on a platform that included hostile anti-immigrant rhetoric. But the federal Conservative connections to the UCP go deeper than Harper. Organizationally, the UCP has become an extension of the Conservative Party of Canada in Alberta, with most Conservative MPs actively involved or endorsing candidates in UCP nomination races. This is a significant change since the 1990s, when the provincial PC Party and the federal Reform Party were at each other throats. Despite forming the opposition, the UCP are not the underdogs going into the next election. The next election campaign will represent the first time in more than 25-years that the dominant federal and provincial conservative parties in Alberta will be marching in lock-step. While this may give Conservatives a big boost in an election campaign, it is yet to be seen whether a UCP government would stand up for the interests of Albertans over partisan gain if faced by a Conservative government in Ottawa. Not first time a Calgary-North West MLA targeted Frank Bruseker It is reminiscent of another election in Calgary-North West more than two decades ago. Liberal MLA Frank Bruseker had represented the district since 1989 and had become a major thorn in the side of Premier Ralph Klein going into the 1997 election. Bruseker was described at the time as being a relentless and ferocious critic of Klein during the Multi-Corp Inc. share affair, in which the premier was accused of promoting a company his wife had shares in. It was reported during that campaign that PC Party campaign manager Rod Love had a poster hanging in his office of Bruseker framed by the crosshairs of a rifle scope. The PCs poured significant resources into Calgary-North West and, when the dust settled in March 1997, Bruseker was unseated by Tory Greg Melchin by a margin of 1,964 votes. Tags Alberta Election 2019, Alberta NDP, Alberta PC Party, Alison Redford, Calgary Cancer Centre, Calgary Ring Road, Calgary-North West, Calgary-Rocky Ridge, Conservative Party of Canada, Frank Bruseker, Green Line, Greg Melchin, International Democratic Union, Jason Kenney, Laureen Harper, Len Webber, Multi-Corp Inc, Nirmala Naidoo, Pat Kelly, Rachel Notley, Ralph Klein, Rod Love, Stephen Harper, United Conservative Party, Viktor Orbán Get ready for a by-election in Calgary-Lougheed No Comments on Get ready for a by-election in Calgary-Lougheed Photo: A map of the Calgary-Lougheed constituency. With Calgary-Lougheed MLA Dave Rodney expected to resign tomorrow in order to provide new United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney an opportunity to enter the Legislative Assembly, a by-election will need to be called by May 1, 2018. Dave Rodney The exact timing of the by-election will be determined by Premier Rachel Notley but the smart money is on it being called soon. Every day that Kenney is not tied up with Legislative duties in Edmonton, he will be campaigning across the province. Despite being a close race in the 2015 election, with Rodney finishing 502 votes ahead of New Democrat Mihai Ion, the Orange Wave is now at low tide in Calgary. It seems likely that Kenney should have an easy time being elected in this constituency, which has elected conservative MLAs since it was first created in 1993 (but as well all know, by-elections can sometimes produce unexpected results…). There is some irony that Kenney, who is in the midst of an ongoing feud with the Lougheed family, would become the MLA for a constituency named after Peter Lougheed. As a Member of Parliament, Kenney was quoted in 1999 describing the “neo-Stalinist make-work projects of the Lougheed and Getty years.“ Presented with the chance to directly challenge Kenney, will Liberal Party leader David Khan carry his party’s banner in the by-election? His chance of victory are slim to none, but it would give him an opportunity to campaign and potentially face Kenney in any local all-candidates debates (if Kenney participates). David Khan The by-election also provides an opportunity for the Alberta Party to run a candidate. The party did not participate in the last Calgary by-election in Calgary-Greenway, but the recent floor-crossing of former NDP MLA Karen McPherson and potential future floor-crossings by former PC MLAs could provide some momentum for the upstart party. The Calgary-Lougheed constituency was first created in 1993 and was represented by Provincial Treasurer Jim Dinning until 1997. PC MLA Marlene Graham then represented the constituency until 2004, when Rodney was first elected. This would be the second time in recent history that a sitting MLA resigned in order to allow a party leader to run in a by-election. Len Webber resigned as MLA for Calgary-Foothills in 2014 to trigger a by-election for PC Party leader Jim Prentice. And in 1998, former Liberal Party leader Grant Mitchell stepped down as MLA for Edmonton-McClung to allow new party leader Nancy MacBeth to run in a by-election. I have created a dedicated webpage to track party nominations and the candidates running in the Calgary-Lougheed by-election. Here is a look at election results from Calgary-Lougheed for the General Elections from 1993 to 2015: No place for second place in the UCP? Former Wildrose leader and recent UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean was the only UCP MLA not assigned a role in the new Official Opposition critic roster. Jean told reporters that he declined to accept any critic role, and despite the ill will generated towards each other in the leadership race, it seems hard to believe Kenney would completely shut-out the former party leader. But this move, or lack thereof, will undoubtably fuel rumours that Jean is considering leaving politics. His resignation would trigger a by-election in the Fort McMurray-Conklin constituency, which he has represented since May 2015. Tags Alberta By-Election, Alberta Liberal Party, Alberta NDP, Alberta Party, Brian Jean, Calgary-Lougheed, Calgary-Lougheed by-election, Dave Rodney, David Khan, Fort McMurray-Conklin, Grant Mitchell, Jason Kenney, Jim Dinning, Jim Prentice, Karen McPherson, Len Webber, Marlene Graham, Nancy MacBeth, Peter Lougheed, Rachel Notley, United Conservative Party Len Webber: we’ll give you safe injection sites if you give us oil pipelines 12 Comments on Len Webber: we’ll give you safe injection sites if you give us oil pipelines File this under: totally clueless politicians. In the midst of an opioid crisis that is reported to have claimed the lives of more than 400 Albertans in 2016, Calgary-Confederation Member of Parliament Len Webber told the House of Commons Health Committee last week that opposition to the potentially lifesaving facilities was comparable to opposition to oil pipelines. Here is Webber’s shockingly tone deaf response to Vancouver-Kingsway MP Don Davies during a discussion about Bill C-37 on February 9, 2017: I don’t need five minutes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. It was really just a thought here. I think Mr. Davies’ intention here is to try to make the application process for safe injection sites easier. Would you be in a similar position, Mr. Davies, if we were sitting around the table here talking about application processes for pipelines in Alberta? To apply for a pipeline is extremely onerous. It’s extremely burdensome and time-consuming. It can often take years. We fought hard as Conservatives to try to make it easier to get pipelines built throughout this country, but we’re not talking about pipelines here today; we’re talking about safe injection sites. Would you agree, Mr. Davies, that it is very onerous to put in a pipeline in this country? Would you be in favour of making it an easier process to put pipelines in, just as you would like to have safe injection sites put in without consultation from the community? Basically, I see the changes here giving the minister the power to basically overrule any community consultation or community decisions, whereas communities opposing pipelines is something the minister can’t overrule. The thought is there. I was just thinking that in Alberta we are having a very difficult time trying to get pipelines put in place, and you are here talking about how you want to make it easy to put in safe injection sites. I think it’s very important that we have community consultation, that we have approval from all areas with regard to getting these sites put in place. I know there are some communities that would be opposed to safe injection sites, yet the minister can overrule the desire of the community. I don’t support what you’re doing here, Mr. Davies, in your motion or your amendments. However, I am making again the comparison between pipelines and safe injection sites. I may not have explained it quite clearly, but you know what I’m thinking here. It’s very onerous for pipelines, yet you want it to be very simple for safe injection sites. If you’re willing to make it easier for us in Alberta, we can make it easier for you to put in safe injection sites throughout the country. Webber was first elected to parliament as a Conservative in 2015 and previously served as a Progressive Conservative MLA for Calgary-Foothills from 2004 to 2014. Between 2009 and 2011 he served as Alberta’s Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. He does not hold a critic position in the Conservative Official Opposition Caucus in Ottawa. Update: Len Webber issued a statement in response to the backlash created by his comments at the parliamentary health committee. Tags Bill C-37, Calgary-Confederation, Don Davies, Len Webber, Oil Pipelines, Opioid Crisis, Safe Injections Sites, Vancouver-Kingsway 10 Conservative candidates in Alberta endorsed by radical anti-abortion group 22 Comments on 10 Conservative candidates in Alberta endorsed by radical anti-abortion group Four of the Conservative candidates endorsed by Campaign Life Coalition: Michael Cooper, Garnett Genuis, Len Webber and Rachael Harder. Nearly one-third of federal Conservative candidates running in Alberta ridings have been endorsed by the controversial Campaign Life Coalition for their opposition to women’s reproductive rights, according to a report from Press Progress. Known for its vocal anti-abortion position, the Campaign Life Coalition has taken strong positions in recent years against Gay-Straight Alliances in schools (which they describe as “homosexual-activist clubs“) and against Ontario’s new health and physical education curriculum (which they describe as ‘radical sex ed curriculum‘). The ten Alberta Conservatives are part of a group of 86 Conservative candidates from across Canada who have received endorsements from the organization. Nine of the ten Alberta candidates on the list are men and six are incumbent MPs running for re-election (even Stephen Harper is deemed “not supportable” by this organization). The four first-time Conservative candidates on the endorsement list are Calgary-Confederation candidate Len Webber, St. Albert-Edmonton candidate Michael Cooper, Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan candidate Garnett Genuis and Lethbridge candidate Rachael Harder. These four candidates, along with Mr. Hillyer, responded to a questionnaire from the Campaign Life Coalition affirming their opposition to women’s reproductive rights. The other five Conservatives were endorsed based on their voting records and public statements. According to the organization’s website, Mr. Cooper “has been actively involved in the pro-life movement for many years and is known to CLC leaders.” Here are the links to the ten Alberta candidates report cards and questionnaire responses: Blake Richards (Banff-Airdrie) Kevin Sorenson (Battle River-Crowfoot) Len Webber (Calgary Confederation) Jason Kenney (Calgary Midnapore) Mike Lake (Edmonton-Wetaskiwin) Chris Warkentin (Grande Prairie-Mackenzie) Rachael Harder (Lethbridge) Jim Hillyer (Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner) Garnett Genuis (Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan) Michael Cooper (St. Albert-Edmonton) Campaign Life Coalition also endorsed six Christian Heritage Party candidates running in Alberta ridings. Tags Anti-Abortion Conservative Candidates, Banff-Airdrie, Battle River-Crowfoot, Blake Richards, Calgary-Confederation, Calgary-Midnapore, Campaign Life Coalition, Chris Warkentin, Edmonton-Wetaskiwin, Garnett Genuis, Gay-Straight Alliances, Grande Prairie-Mackenzie, Jason Kenney, Jim Hillyer, Kevin Sorenson, Len Webber, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner, Michael Cooper, Mike Lake, Ontario Sex Ed Curriculum, Rachael Harder, Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, St. Albert-Edmonton, Stephen Harper What’s at stake for who in the Calgary-Foothills by-election 4 Comments on What’s at stake for who in the Calgary-Foothills by-election Election results in the Calgary-Foothills constituency from 1986 to 2015. The Calgary-Foothills by-election to replace former Progressive Conservative leader Jim Prentice, who resigned on the evening he was re-elected as MLA on May 5, will take place on September 3, 2015. Like most constituencies in Calgary before this year’s election, Foothills has been a traditionally conservative voting area that elected PC MLAs since the party began its 44-year run as government in 1971. But unlike most constituencies in Calgary in the recent election, enough voters in Calgary-Foothills supported Mr. Prentice to avoid Rachel Notley‘s orange wave. This by-election is the first electoral test for Ms. Notley’s new government since it was voted into office on May 5. The NDP have nominated former alderman Bob Hawkesworth, who also served as the NDP MLA for Calgary-Mountain View from 1986 to 1993. With a comfortable majority of 53 MLAs in the Legislature, the NDP do not need to win this by-election, but a win would demonstrate that the NDP sweep in May can be expanded into new areas of the province. A very poor showing would be seen as a rebuke of Ms. Notley’s policies. Showing how serious the party is taking the by-election opportunity, one of the Premier’s top communications staffers, former CBC reporter John Archer, tweeted last week that he would be taking a leave of absence from his job at the Legislature to work on Mr. Hawkesworth’s campaign. Joe Ceci Expect Calgary NDP MLAs and cabinet ministers Finance Minister Joe Ceci, Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley and Human Services Minister Irfan Sabir to be flooding through this constituency many times over the next month. Although the by-election will take place in the depths of summer, it also falls in the midst of a federal election campaign, which could create some fascinating political scenarios. Federal Conservatives united behind Stephen Harper‘s federal party may be forced to choose sides between the old Progressive Conservatives now led by former Calgary alderman Ric McIver and the opposition Wildrose Party led by former Fort McMurray Conservative MP Brian Jean. It is well known that many federal Conservative MPs, including Rob Anders and Jason Kenney, support the Wildrose but recent polls show the PCs remain popular in Calgary while the Wildrose opposition caucus is almost entirely based in rural Alberta. But in 2015, three former PC MLAs are running as federal Conservative candidates – Ron Liepert in Calgary-Signal Hill, Matt Jeneroux in Edmonton-Riverbend and former Calgary-Foothills PC MLA Len Webber in Calgary-Confederation. Brian Jean The by-election will be an important indicator showing if the PC still have a political pulse.The party remains in shock after their stunning electoral defeat and has yet to nominate a candidate to run in the by-election. Update: AlbertaPolitics.ca author David Climenhaga reports that past city council candidate Blair Houston is expected to be nominated as the PC candidate. Stakes are also high for the Wildrose Party and Mr. Jean. The Wildrose was unable to elect any candidates in Alberta’s two largest urban centres in the recent election, despite having elected two MLAs in Calgary in 2012. A Wildrose win in Foothills could torpedo activities by conservative operatives to merge the two conservative parties. Originally scheduled for August 15, the Wildrose has moved up their nomination vote to August 11, 2015 (John Huang, Kathy Macdonald, and Prasad Panda are contesting the nomination). The by-election could also be an important test for the Alberta Party, whose leader Greg Clark was elected in Calgary-Elbow and has earned a reputation as a vocal critic of the NDP over the past three months. While still new to the Legislature, Mr. Clark has an opportunity to turn his party into the moderate conservative alternative to the PC Party and Liberal Party. The Alberta Party has yet to nominate a candidate. The Liberals have nominated electrical engineer and past candidate Ali Bin Zahid, and Green Party leader Janet Keeping, who ran against Mr. Prentice in May, is running again. Tags Ali Bin Zahid, Blair Houston, Bob Hawkesworth, Calgary-Foothills by-election, Greg Clark, Irfan Sabir, Jason Kenney, Joe Ceci, John Archer, John Huang, Kathleen Ganley, Kathy Macdonald, Len Webber, Matt Jeneroux, Prasad Panda, Rachel Notley, Rob Anders, Ron Liepert Top 10 moments in Alberta Politics in 2014 4 Comments on Top 10 moments in Alberta Politics in 2014 In my nearly ten years writing about politics in Alberta on this blog, 2014 was easily the most exciting. The sheer number of scandals, controversies, fumbles and resignations made for new content on a daily basis. If I had the time and resources, I could have easily written three or four posts a day for most of the year. As this year comes to an end, I took a look through this year’s posts and compiled a list of the top ten political moments in Alberta of 2014. Thank you for reading and enjoy the list. 10. Take a hike, Rob Anders After 17 years as one of the most hyper-conservative politicians in Ottawa, Member of Parliament Rob Anders was finally shown the door by Conservative Party members. In April 2014, Mr. Anders lost a hotly contested Conservative Party nomination race in Calgary-Signal Hill to former Progressive Conservative MLA Ron Liepert. His second attempt at a nomination was in the rural riding of Bow River outside Calgary, where Mr. Anders was defeated by Brooks Mayor Martin Shields. Merwan Saher 9. Auditor General on Climate Change A July 2014 report from Auditor General Merwan Saher found no evidence that the Department of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development properly monitored the performance of the PC Government’s climate change strategy, which was first implemented in 2008. The report uncovered serious problems with the province’s expensive Carbon Capture and Storage strategy. Mr. Saher’s report found that the total emissions reductions from the CCS program was expected to be less than 10% of what was originally anticipated. The Auditor General also reported that Alberta was unlikely to meet its 2020 targets to reduce carbon emissions. Laurie Blakeman 8. Gay-Straight Alliances debate What if politicians could stop school kids from starting clubs? A motion supporting Gay-Straight Alliances introduced by Liberal Party MLA Kent Hehr was defeated in April 2014 and a private members’ bill introduced by Liberal Laurie Blakeman in November 2014 derailed the PC agenda for the fall sitting. The debate showed rifts in the PC and Wildrose caucus and Jim Prentice’s ill conceived Bill 10 in response to Ms. Blakeman’s Bill 202 led to his first big fumble as Premier. Dave Hancock 7. Dave Hancock appointed Premier Long-time PC cabinet minister Dave Hancock was appointed Premier and interim leader of the PC Party following the resignation of Alison Redford in March 2014. A self-described policy-wonk, Mr. Hancock may have flourished under more agreeable circumstances, but most of his short time as premier was focused on undoing the damage inflicted by his predecessor. During his six months in office, Mr. Hancock’s government oversaw major collective agreement settlements with the United Nurses of Alberta and the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees and invited the R.C.M.P. to investigate Ms. Redford’s travel habits. A surprising amount of his time in office was overshadowed by a silly and politically motivated plan to remove the “Wild Rose Country” slogan from Alberta’s license plate. 6. Ready for Rachel After ten years as leader of Alberta’s New Democratic Party, Edmonton MLA Brian Mason announced he would step down from the party’s top job. A leadership race ensued and MLA Rachel Notley won a decisive victory over fellow MLA David Eggen and labour activist Rod Loyola. Expectations are high for the new NDP leader, as polls show her party’s support has surged in Edmonton in recent months. Kyle Harrietha 5. Liberal near win in Fort McMurray-Athabasca What should have been a sleepy federal by-election in the heart of Alberta’s Oil Belt turned into a race when Liberal Kyle Harrietha challenged Conservative David Yurdiga for the June 30, 2014 vote to replace retiring MP Brian Jean. Running an energetic campaign, Mr. Harrietha increased his party’s support from 10% in 2011 to 35.3%, placing less than 1,500 votes behind Mr. Yurdiga. The Liberal also defeated his Tory challenger in Fort McMurray, no small feat in the land of the oil sands. The two candidates will face off once again in the new Fort McMurray-Cold Lake riding when the next federal election is held in 2015. Stephen Mandel 4. The October mini-election Four by-elections on October 27, 2014 provided Albertans with a mini-election less than two months after Mr. Prentice became premier. Triggered by the resignations of former premiers Ms. Redford and Mr. Hancock and PC MLAs Ken Hughes and Len Webber, the votes allowed Mr. Prentice to win a seat in the Assembly along with PC candidates Stephen Mandel, Gordon Dirks and Mike Ellis. The opposition Wildrose had hoped to win at least two of the by-elections, but were upstaged by the NDP in Edmonton-Whitemud and an insurgent Alberta Party in Calgary-Elbow. 3. Jim Prentice becomes Premier After a first-ballot victory in a lack-lustre and uninspiring leadership contest, Jim Prentice started his time in office with a bang. After being sworn-in, Mr. Prentice implemented a swift de-Redfordization agenda, with daily announcements undoing some of his predecessors more unpopular policies and decisions. Purging Redford era cabinet ministers, selling the government’s fleet of aircraft, keeping the Michener Centre open, backing down from controversial changes to public sector pension plans and cancelling the botched license plate redesign were all no-brainers, but they projected an image of the new premier as a competent chief executive in command. Arguably, Mr. Prentice’s only missteps in his first few months in office were his aborted Gay-Straight Alliances bill and the unease caused after he tactfully dismantled the Official Opposition (see #2 below). Despite his success in distancing himself from Ms. Redford, the main thrust of Mr. Prentice’s government – promoting pipelines and the oil sands abroad – remains the same as hers. Danielle Smith 2. Wildrose floor crossings For four years, PCs told Albertans not to trust those kooky and scary Wildrosers. At the same time, the Wildrosers told Albertans not to trust those crooked and corrupt PCs. But in November and December 2014, Mr. Prentice’s PC Caucus accepted 11 Wildrose MLAs into their ranks, including Official Opposition leader Danielle Smith. The caucus merger, which was either in negotiations for months or sparked by the Wildrose by-election loss (depending on which story you believe), was encouraged by Conservative Godfather Preston Manning (Mr. Manning later apologized for his role). The floor crossing gutted the Official Opposition, left with 5 MLAs and enraged Wildrose supporters, who started a “Recall Danielle” campaign in her Highwood constituency. Five-term Calgary MLA Heather Forsyth stepped in as interim leader until a permanent leader can be chosen in 2015. Alison Redford resigned as Premier of Alberta on March 23, 2014. 1. The spectacular fall of Alison Redford “Mistakes were made” were some of the last public words Albertans heard from premier Alison Redford before she resigned as MLA for Calgary-Elbow in August 2014. Albertans have never seen a political career crash and burn this badly. A $45,000 flight to South Africa, use of the government plane to return from Palm Springs, alleged fake passenger bookings to ensure her and her staff had the planes to themselves, a secretly constructed private penthouse known as the Skypalace, and long trips to exotic destinations overseas are just some of the allegations of misuse of power she faced prior to her resignation. Months after her resignation, the Auditor General reported the existence of an “aura of power around Premier Redford and her office.” Alberta’s first woman premier started her time in office with great promise and many Albertans believed she signalled the beginning of a new, more progressive, era in our province. Ms. Redford quickly proved those believers wrong with deep funding cuts to colleges and universities and attacks on public sector workers and their collective bargaining rights. In the end, plummeting fundraising returns, bad polling numbers, MLA defections, and a caucus and party on the verge of revolt forced Ms. Redford to step down as Premier of Alberta and Leader of the PC Party on March 23, 2014. Have I missed any of your top 10 moments in Alberta politics? Please share what made your list in the comment section. Tags Alison Redford, Brian Jean, Brian Mason, Calgary-Signal Hills, Danielle Smith, Dave Hancock, David Eggen, David Yurdiga, De-Redfordization, Fort McMurray-Cold Lake, Gay-Straight Alliances, Gordon Dirks, Heather Forsyth, Jim Prentice, Ken Hughes, Kent Hehr, Kyle Harrietha, Laurie Blakeman, Len Webber, Martin Shields, Merwan Saher, Mike Ellis, Preston Manning, Rachel Notley, Rob Anders, Rod Loyola, Ron Liepert, Stephen Mandel, Wildrose Floor Crossings Four by-elections are a risky mid-term test for Alberta Tories 3 Comments on Four by-elections are a risky mid-term test for Alberta Tories Former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel and Jim Prentice on June 10, 2014. Albertans in four provincial constituencies will go to the polls on October 27, 2014. Half-way through the PC Government’s current four year term in office, the by-elections will be our own version of the mid-term elections. Yesterday morning three anticipated provincial by-elections turned into four when first-term Ken Hughes announced his resignation as the Progressive Conservative MLA for Calgary-West. Earlier in the morning, Independent MLA Len Webber, fresh from securing the federal Conservative nomination in Calgary-Confederation, declared that he would vacate his Calgary-Foothills seat. Combined with vacancies in Calgary-Elbow and Edmonton-Whitemud, Alberta’s political parties will face off in four constituencies in 28 days. Premier Jim Prentice wants these by-elections to be a referendum on the past two weeks, during which time he has made daily announcements trying to undo unpopular decisions made by the Alison Redford-led PC Government. The opposition wants to make sure these by-elections are a referendum on the past two years of broken promises and misdeeds by the PC Government. Alison Redford Despite the unpopularity of the PC Party in recent polls, the four by-elections are not taking place in constituencies that were decided by small margins of victory in the last election. These four are some of the stronger PC-voting constituencies in Alberta. In the 2012 election, the PCs earned 60.4% in Edmonton-Whitemud, 58% in Calgary-Elbow, 53.5% in Calgary-Foothills and 49.9% in Calgary-West. After 43-years in power, will Albertans buy Mr. Prentice’s argument that the PC Party is “under new management” and has entered “a new era?” The PC Party prides itself with the ability to rebrand itself under pressure. Long-time Tories boast of the “Miracle on the Prairies,” the tale of Ralph Klein’s reinvention of the PC Party before its expected defeat in the 1993 election. Peter Lougheed But fresh in the minds of many Albertans is the hope and opportunity that seemed real when Ms. Redford became Premier in 2011. We were promised a new era reminiscent of the days when Peter Lougheed led our province. Instead, we received two years of arrogance, broken promises, budget cuts and endless political spending scandals. And despite attempts to blame it all on Ms. Redford, it is hard to forget the 60 PC MLAs who stood behind her during those two years. The appointment of two cabinet ministers from outside of the Legislature certainly helps the argument that the PC Government is “under new management.” But however credible the two men are, and despite their records as successful politicians, their age and notable careers in politics certainly undermines the argument that we have entered “a new era” in Alberta politics (Gordon Dirks is 67-years old and Stephen Mandel is 69-years old). The four PC candidates in these by-elections could easily all be elected, but some of them could just as easily be defeated. By-elections are risky for incumbent parties because they give voters an opportunity to voice their disapproval without changing a government. Running in Calgary-Foothills, Mr. Prentice will soon face voters for the first time since he was selected as PC Party leader on September 6, 2014. Wildrose leader Danielle Smith is expected to announce her party’s challenger in Foothills today. The lack of interest in the recent PC Party leadership race suggests that many Albertans have put our Natural Governing Party on probation. It will be a test of Mr. Prentice, Mr. Dirks, Mr. Mandel and Calgary-West candidate Mike Ellis, to prove themselves worthy. And it will be a test of the opposition parties to remind Albertans why the PCs do not deserve another chance. By-Election candidates (as of September 29, 2014) Calgary-Elbow AP Greg Clark [Facebook, Twitter] LIB Susan Wright [Facebook, Twitter] NDP Stephanie McLean [Twitter] PC Gordon Dirks [Twitter] WR John Fletcher [Twitter] Calgary-Foothills AP Michelle Glavine [Facebook, Twitter] GRN Polly Knowlton Cockett NDP Jennifer Burgess [Facebook, Twitter] PC Jim Prentice [Facebook, Twitter] Calgary-West AP Troy Millington [Twitter] NDP Brian Malkinson PC Mike Ellis Edmonton-Whitemud AP William Munsey [Twitter] NDP Bob Turner [Twitter] PC Stephen Mandel [Twitter] WR Tim Grover [Twitter] For an updated list of by-election candidates, visit the Alberta Election 2016 page. Tags Alberta by-elections, Alison Redford, Bob Turner, Brian Malkinson, Broken Promises, Calgary-Confederation, Calgary-Elbow by-election, Calgary-Foothills by-election, Calgary-West by-election, Danielle Smith, De-Redfordization, Edmonton-Whitemud by-election, Gordon Dirks, Jennifer Burgess, Jim Prentice, Ken Hughes, Len Webber, Michelle Glavine, Mid-term elections, Mike Ellis, Peter Lougheed, Polly Knowlton Cockett, Ralph Klein, Stephen Mandel, Tim Grover, Troy Millington, William Munsey Where will Jim Prentice run in a by-election? 3 Comments on Where will Jim Prentice run in a by-election? Alberta’s new Premier Jim Prentice, does not have a seat in the Alberta Legislative Assembly. Three weeks after being selected as leader of the governing Progressive Conservative Party, Premier Jim Prentice still does not have a seat in the Alberta Legislative Assembly. Although his party has already nominated candidates to run in the impending Calgary-Elbow and Edmonton-Whitemud by-elections, Mr. Prentice remains coy about where, and when, a third by-election will be held. On August 26, Mr. Prentice told the Edmonton Journal he would call a by-election immediately after he became PC Party leader. He was elected PC Party leader on September 6 and sworn-in as premier on September 15. It appears likely that Mr. Prentice might announce which constituency he will run in on the day the writ of by-election is signed by Lieutenant Governor Donald Ethell. Using all the advantages of an incumbent government, it appears he is trying to give the opposition parties the least time possible to prepare candidates to run against him. Neil Brown The “announcement-a-day keeps the memory of Alison Redford away” strategy has kept Mr. Prentice’s name in the news headlines, and has allowed him to create a two-week long list of talking points with which to campaign. It is widely believed that Mr. Prentice will run in Calgary-Nose Hill-Mackay, where current PC MLA Neil Brown has publicly offered to resign. There is also speculation that he could also choose to run in another north Calgary constituency – like Calgary-Foothills – currently represented by Independent MLA Len Webber. Mr. Webber is seeking the federal Conservative nomination in Calgary-Confederation (he left the PC caucus in May 2014, after describing Ms. Redford as a “bully”). Update: Len Webber has won the Conservative nomination in Calgary-Confedertation. The tight-lipped preparations have led many political watchers to believe that the Tories remain worried that Albertans may choose to punish the new Premier for the misdeeds and broken promises of Ms. Redford and the PC caucus over the past two years. Under normal circumstances, Mr. Prentice would easily be elected, but by-elections are risky for incumbent parties because they give voters an opportunity to voice their disapproval without changing a government. Jennifer Burgess, the NDP candidate in the “Calgary-Prentice” by-election. But whichever constituency he decides to run in, one party is ready with a candidate in the wings. Calgary writer Jennifer Burgess has said she will run for the New Democratic Party in any by-election Mr. Prentice chooses to run in. Her website cleverly describes herself as the NDP candidate in the Calgary-Prentice constituency. Edmonton-Whitemud by-election The NDP and Wildrose Party announced their candidates in the Edmonton-Whitemud by-election. Dr. Bob Turner, a well-spoken doctor from Edmonton’s Cross Cancer Institute, has decided to run against former Edmonton mayor and newly appointed Health Minister Stephen Mandel. Flanked by Wildrose leader Danielle Smith and a handful of supporters and Wildrose MLAs, Tim Grover announced his plans to challenge Mr. Mandel. Mr. Grover was already nominated to run for the Wildrose Party in the Edmonton-South West constituency. He was also the ‘Get Out the Vote’ chairman for Karen Leibovici‘s 2013 mayoral campaign. Alberta Party President William Munsey is running under his party’s banner. NDP leader Brian Mason with Dr. Bob Turner, NDP candidate in the Edmonton-Whitemud by-election. Edmonton-Whitemud Wildrose candidate Tim Grover, with Wildrose leader Danielle Smith. Dr. Bob Turner, NDP candidate in the Edmonton-Whitemud by-election. Wildrose leader Danielle Smith introduces candidate Tim Grover during the September 2014 Edmonton-Whitemud by-election. Dr. Bob Turner, the NDP candidate in the Edmonton-Whitemud by-election. Tags Alberta by-elections, Alison Redford, Bob Turner, Calgary-Confederation, Calgary-Elbow by-election, Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-Nose Hill-Mackay, Calgary-Prentice, Danielle Smith, De-Redfordization, Donald Ethell, Edmonton-South West, Edmonton-Whitemud by-election, Jennifer Burgess, Jim Prentice, Karen Leibovici, Len Webber, Neil Brown, Risky Politics, Stephen Mandel, Tim Grover, William Munsey As lacklustre PC leadership race winds down, by-elections are on the horizon 1 Comment on As lacklustre PC leadership race winds down, by-elections are on the horizon Alberta PC Party leadership candidates Thomas Luksazuk, Ric McIver and Jim Prentice. With one day left before the vote, Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Ric McIver’s campaign took to the radio airwaves, attacking frontrunner Jim Prentice for being “an insider.” It was an strange move for Mr. McIver, as the general public appears largely disinterested in the contest and the deadline to purchase memberships has already passed. While Mr. McIver said he remains committed to the PC Party and this government, whether he wins or loses, it was not the kind of move made by someone who wants to impress the new boss. Although he is not an MLA, Mr. Prentice does have the support of 50 PC MLAs and a vast network of party insiders. He has also been active in the PC Party at the federal and provincial levels since the 1980s, including as a candidate in the 1986 election. Despite his large network of supporters inside the PC Party, membership sales are said to be significantly lower than in previous leadership races – some insiders say turnout could be as low as 25,000 votes (compared to more than 144,000 in 2006). So, as the PC Party leadership race draws to a close, I may not be the only Albertan to ask “What was that all about?” The after-effects of Alison Redford’s resignation and two years of scandal plagued government have overshadowed the summer-time leadership race to chose Albertas next premier. Anti-Gay parades, term-limits, free memberships, misuse of government airplanes, the Skypalace Penthouse and a $20,000 cell phone bill were the most interesting features of this campaign. The leadership candidates spoke in platitudes and took little opportunity to actually debate their ideas for Alberta’s future. Comfortable in Alberta’s oil wealth, we did not witness the PC Party have any real debate the future of Alberta’s natural resources, environment, schools, health care system or cities. Even the short premiership of Edmonton MLA Dave Hancock was overshadowed by the record of his predecessor. Under other circumstances, Mr. Hancock could have excelled as Premier, but he spent most of his short time as premier attempting to provide stability to a damaged government. The once unstoppable PC Party is still powerful but now aged and antiquated. And while the long-governing PCs deserve to be defeated, it would be foolish to underestimate them. The PC Party may have long forgotten how to win an election but they do know not to lose. On Saturday, September 6, if his opponents, Mr. McIver and Thomas Lukaszuk, are able to deny Mr. Prentice a first ballot win, a second vote will be held on September 20. While this scenario is not impossible, it feels unlikely. The PC establishment appears to have done everything in its power to ensure Mr. Prentice’s smooth victory. Soon after Mr. Prentice becomes PC Party leader, he will need to build a new cabinet. It is widely expected that he will promote loyal supporters – like PC MLAs Manmeet Bhullar and former leadership candidate Ken Hughes – into prominent promotions. It is also suspected that current ministers, like Finance minister Doug Horner, Health minister Fred Horne, and anti-bullying minister Sandra Jansen – all closely associated with Ms. Redford – may find themselves sitting out of cabinet. Overall, with 25 MLAs now in cabinet, it will be challenging for Mr. Prentice to create a new cabinet seating plan from the current PC caucus. Rumours have begin to circulate that Mr. Prentice could appoint a group of cabinet ministers from outside the Assembly, and ask them to run in a series of by-elections in the fall. Mr. Prentice will need to become an MLA, and an impressive slate of by-election candidates could help bring some much-needed new talent into the PC caucus. The idea is not unprecedented. Following the near-disasterous 1995 Quebec Referendum vote, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed Stéphane Dion and Pierre Pettigrew to the federal cabinet in advance of two Montreal by-elections. Calgary MLA Neil Brown already said he would vacate his Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill constituency for Mr. Prentice to run in a by-election. PC MLA David Xiao and Independent MLA Len Webber are seeking federal Conservative Party nominations and may be interested in having the support of the new premier. And Calgary-Elbow, the constituency vacated by Ms. Redford, is in need of a by-election. Retired Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel suggested this week that he would consider running as a PC candidate if Mr. Prentice were premier. It may be stretch to believe that the 69 year old Mr. Mandel would jump back into politics (or be a breath of fresh air), but he would bring name recognition to the PC caucus. Holding a series of by-elections would be a high-risk and high-reward strategy, because any loses could wound the new premier just as he leaves the starting gate. But if it paid off, it could help breath some new life into a 43-year old PC government that appears intent on defeating itself, or at least give Mr. Prentice a fighting chance before facing the Wildrose Party in the next election. Calgary-Elbow By-Election With an impending by-election expected to be called before the end of the year, politics in Calgary-Elbow are heating up. Days before the PC Party chooses a new leader, Calgary-Elbow PC constituency association president Marina Mason announced her resignation. Long-time partisan activist Pat Walsh has announced his plans to seek the PC Party nomination in that constituency. On his website, Mr. Walsh declares that he is willing to represent the constituency as a Government MLA “in the interim until the 2016 election is called,” when which he states he “will then step down.” I am not sure what to make of this strategy. Alberta Party leader Greg Clark announced today that he will once again put his name on the ballot in this constituency. He ran there in the 2012 provincial election. Retired Colonel John Fletcher is seeking the Wildrose Party nomination. And, as noted in a previous post, the Liberals are expected to nominate lawyer Susan Wright at a September 18, 2014 nomination meeting. Tags $20000 Cell Phone Bill, 1995 Quebec Referendum, Alberta Party, Alberta Premier's Penthouse Suite, Alison Redford, Calgary-Elbow by-election, Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill, Dave Hancock, David Xiao, Doug Horner, Fred Horne, Greg Clark, Jean Chretien, Jim Prentice, John Fletcher, Ken Hughes, Len Webber, Manmeet Bhullar, Marina Mason, Neil Brown, Pat Walsh, Pierre Pettigrew, Ric McIver, Sandra Jansen, Skypalace, Stephane Dion, Stephen Mandel, Term Limits for MLAs, Term Limits for Premiers, Thomas Lukaszuk Source: MLA Kent Hehr to run for Trudeau Liberals in Calgary-Centre 10 Comments on Source: MLA Kent Hehr to run for Trudeau Liberals in Calgary-Centre Calgary-Buffalo MLA Kent Hehr (right) with nominated Calgary-Confederation Liberal candidate Matt Grant. Political Calgary is abuzz with rumours that popular MLA Kent Hehr will seek the Liberal nomination in the federal riding of Calgary-Centre. Reliable sources say that Mr. Hehr has gone so far as to request nomination forms to become an official nomination candidate for the federal Liberals. Mr. Hehr would be a star candidate for the Justin Trudeau-led Liberals in Alberta, who see an opportunity to unseat Conservative Member of Parliament Joan Crockatt in the next election. Ms. Crockatt placed a narrow 1,158 votes ahead of Liberal challenger Harvey Locke in a November 2012 by-election. That by-election took place one year after former Conservative MP Lee Richardson defeated his closest challenger with a 19,770 vote margin of victory in the 2011 federal election. A well-respected lawyer before he entered politics, the likeable Mr. Hehr has represented the downtown Calgary-Buffalo constituency as a Liberal since the 2008 election. The Liberal Finance and Energy critic briefly ran for mayor in 2010, bowing out and endorsing Naheed Nenshi before nomination day. Mr. Nenshi’s campaign manager in that election and now his chief of staff Chima Nkemdirim also managed Mr. Hehr’s first election campaign in 2008 (Mr. Nkemdirim has also has been rumoured as a potential Liberal candidate in the same riding). In December 2012, Mr. Hehr stirred up some controversy within his party when he wrote a guest post on this blog suggesting that the narrow Conservative win in the Calgary-Centre by-election should send a wake up call to Liberals, NDP and Greens in this province. Darshan Kang As an MLA, Mr. Hehr has been a thorough opposition critic and a champion of LGBTQ issues, introducing Motion 503 supporting Gay-Straight Alliances in Alberta schools (the motion was voted down by a coalition of 22 Progressive Conservative and 9 Wildrose MLAs). Perhaps trying to appeal to a more conservative base of supporters, Mr. Hehr was pictured alongside Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson this week signing a “no-debt” pledge from the Tea Party-lite Canadian Taxpayers Federation. He would not be the only Liberal MLA planning to jump into federal politics in the next election. Calgary-McCall MLA Darshan Kang was recently nominated as the federal Liberal candidate in the north east Calgary’s new Calgary-Skyview riding. If both Liberal MLAs are nominated, they would each be required to resign as MLAs when a federal election is called, leaving the Liberals with only three MLAs in the Assembly (and for the first time since before the 1993 election, with less MLAs than the New Democratic Party, which currently has four MLAs). Other MLAs running for federal nominations are Edmonton-McClung PC MLA David Xiao, who is seeking the federal Conservative nomination in the new Edmonton-West riding, and Independent Calgary-Foothills MLA Len Webber, who is running for the Conservative nomination in the new Calgary-Confederation riding. Attempts were made to contact Mr. Hehr in order to confirm and comment on the rumours of his potential candidacy in Calgary-Centre. No response had been received at the time this post was published. UPDATE (July 17, 2014): As predicted in this post, Calgary-Buffalo MLA Kent Hehr has announced he will run for the federal Liberal nomination in Calgary-Centre. Tags Calgary-Buffalo, Calgary-Centre, Calgary-Centre by-election, Calgary-Confederation, Calgary-Foothills, Calgary-McCall, Calgary-Skyview, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Chima Nkemdirim, Darshan Kang, David Xiao, Edmonton-McClung, Edmonton-West, Gay-Straight Alliances, Harvey Locke, Joan Crockatt, Kent Hehr, Lee Richardson, Len Webber, Matt Grant, Motion 503, Naheed Nenshi, Rob Anderson, Tea Party	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line665
__label__wiki	0.598205	0.598205	Good endangered bald ibis news from Morocco Posted on November 20, 2015 by petrel41 This 2013 video shows Part of a flock of over 90 northern bald ibises in the Sous Massa National Park in Morocco. From BirdLife: Record breeding success for Critically Endangered Northern Bald Ibis By Shaun Hurrell, Fri, 20/11/2015 – 07:00 The Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita has had an eventful and turbulent relationship with humans that has resulted in a graph of its population decline that matches its iconic red down-curved beak. But latest breeding successes resulting from work of BirdLife Partners and the Government of Morocco gives hope for a harmonious relationship again in the future. The large glossy-black bird once had an extensive range that spread across North Africa, the Middle East and Europe and has been idolised by humans as a symbol of fertility and virtue [More: The Hieroglyph]. Yet ironically human pressures have caused it to struggle breeding, and its dramatic range-reduction renders it classified today as Critically Endangered: reaching an all-time low at the end of the 20th Century with only 50 breeding pairs remaining. Today, 99% of the remaining wild birds are found in Morocco. With that in mind, it is a great pleasure to announce that colonies in Morocco have had record reproductive success this year – the symbol of fertility now managing to live up to its tradition! For the third year in a row, the colonies at Souss-Massa National Park and nearby Tamri, both Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas in south-west Morocco, formed a record number of breeding pairs, reaching 116 pairs in 2015. “Despite challenges of funding wardens to protect the colonies, we managed to maintain the momentum of this project through 2015,” said Jorge Fernández Orueta, SEO/BirdLife (BirdLife Partner in Spain), who works on a project to save the Northern Bald Ibis through BirdLife’s Preventing Extinctions Programme. “Breeding success is also especially high, reaching 1.7 fledglings per pair”, said Professor Mohamed Dakki, President of GREPOM (BirdLife in Morocco). “Post-breeding counts are also exceptionally big, with almost 600 birds – all the best recorded since detailed monitoring began and the establishment of Souss-Massa National Park 25 years ago!” Apart from the Moroccan colonies, there is a tiny remnant population in Syria and a semi-wild population left at Birecik in Turkey, as well as experimental release work in Austria and Spain. The BirdLife Partnership has really come together to save this species. We are proud to be contributing to the conservation of this last viable, wild population of this species in the world through five BirdLife Partners; with the support of several institutions, notably the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the BirdLife Species Champion for the Northern Bald Ibis. Souss-Massa National Park authority is responsible for work in the field and a longstanding conservation project since 1994. During the time of this project, GREPOM became a BirdLife Partner. “We are proud to now take on a leading role in the conservation of this globally-important species, and want to ensure the Moroccan people are just as proud,” said Professor Dakki. “We also would like thank all Birdlife Partners and especially the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation for their continuous and notable support. A major part of this breeding success is thanks to considerable efforts made by Mohamed El Bekkay, Director of this Souss-Massa National Park, and Widad Obrou, responsible for ibis monitoring there.” Through the project’s range of communication, awareness-raising and livelihoods-support activities, local people are increasingly taking ownership of the conservation of this iconic species. If you drive the coastal road in this region of Morocco you are likely to see Northern Bald Ibises painted on wall murals or used in local logos of local cooperatives. As well as diligent monitoring, community wardens and staff of Souss-Massa National Park provide daily fresh water for the birds (which increases their breeding success) and patrol to prevent disturbance – including overseeing the increasing number of ecotourists who come to see the birds. There is an urgency for a stronger formal protection status of the colony at Tamri, and to secure wardens for next season. Professor Dakki concluded: “We thank also the High Commission of Waters and Forests for giving high conservation priority to Sous-Massa National Park, which was especially created to protect this legendary bird.” “Together, we hope to find in the near future additional breeding sites for the ibises.” In another important development for the ibis’s conservation, a revised International Single Species Action Plan has just been adopted under the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) of the Convention on Migratory Species, at AEWA’s 6th Meeting of Parties. BirdLife is proud to be contributing to the management and conservation of the last viable, wild population of Northern Bald Ibis in the world through: BirdLife in Spain), RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) and, GREPOM (BirdLife in Morocco), in conjunction with High Commission for Water and Forest and Fight Against Desertification (Government of Morocco); and through support from SVS-BirdLife Switzerland and VBN (BirdLife in the Netherlands), with the support of several institutions, notably the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the BirdLife Species Champion for the Northern Bald Ibis through the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme. Souss-Massa National Park authority is responsible for work in the field and a longstanding conservation project since 1994. This year, GREPOM (BirdLife Morocco) has taken on a leading role to protect the future of the Northern Bald Ibis in Morocco which is, given 99% its wild population is found in Morocco, very important for protecting the future of this Critically Endangered species globally. I was privileged to see these beautiful birds while in Morocco. Bald ibis chicks shipped to Spain Energy Expenditure and Metabolic Changes of Free-Flying Migrating Northern Bald Ibis VIDEO and PICTURES: Critically endangered birds bred at Chester Zoo to be reintroduced to the wild American author Jonathan Franzen about Mediterranean bird conservation Northern bald ibises fit for their journey to Tuscany Reversing local extinction: scientists bring the northern bald ibis back to Europe after 300 years Syrian bald ibis may be down to a single bird Mysteries surrounding the legendary and vanishing oriental bald ibis This entry was posted in Birds, Environment and tagged Morocco by petrel41. 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__label__wiki	0.579972	0.579972	Science versus Truth A blog for Truth Seekers Ether to Relativity: The journey from light to darkness March 31, 2014 – 3:43 am We know that for waves to travel in space they need a medium. As a wave travels in a medium, the particles of the medium oscillate to and fro or up and down depending upon the type of the wave. For example as sound waves travel in air medium, the particles of air move to and fro, and this movement of particles results in alternate compressions and rarefactions in the medium. We know that sound waves also travel in liquid media (e.g. water) and some solid media. The particles of all these media also execute a similar to and fro waving motion when sound waves propagate through them. And we know that as water waves (or ripples) propagate in a pond, the particles of the medium (which is obviously water) oscillate up and down. So we consider water waves as transverse waves in contrast to sound waves which are longitudinal waves. Then what about light? First of all, to the physicists of the pre-modern era, it was not clear whether light is composed of particles or waves. After centuries of debate on the nature of light, Young’s double slit experiment (1803) had confirmed that light behaves like waves. Half a century later, Maxwell, building upon the equations of electromagnetism, had calculated the speed of light waves as 3×108m/sec (referred to as ‘c’ by the physicists). These two developments posed two very difficult questions to the physicists of those days: 1) If light is a wave, then what is the thing which does the ‘waving’ or oscillation? In other words what is the medium for light waves? As far as scientists knew, there wasn’t any medium in the outer space. But if there isn’t really any medium in the outer space, then how could light, which behaves like waves, reach us from the Sun and other stars? 2) The next question that bothered physicists was that, if light travels at speed ‘c’, it is with reference to whom? Whenever we mention the speed of an object, there is always a reference frame to it whether explicit or implicit. For example when we say that a car moves at 100kmph, we mean that the car moves at 100kmph speed with reference to the road (or to a stationary observer on the road). Obviously the said speed is not with reference to someone who is inside the car or to someone who is following the car on a bike. Similarly the propagation speed of a wave is always mentioned with reference to the medium in which the wave travels. When we say that sound waves travel at speed of 330m/sec, the said speed, though not explicit, is always with reference to the medium in which the waves travel. So, when Maxwell calculated the speed of light as ‘c’, it implied that this speed must be with reference to the medium in which light waves should be travelling. But as just been mentioned, there isn’t any medium in the outer space as far as scientists know. But if there is no medium in the outer space, the speed of light that Maxwell calculated is with reference to whom? Before the advent of modern physics with all its weird theories, scientists believed in the existence of an ever pervading medium called Ether. Everything in this universe including planets, stars etc were thought to remain suspended and move about in this stationary universal medium. And this putative Ether medium was thought to act as the medium for light waves (hence the name ‘lumiferous Ether’). Though there was no proof of its existence, the Ether hypothesis had enjoyed good support from the physicists of the pre-modern era as that was able to explain how light waves from outer space could reach us on Earth and also was able to provide the answer for the reference frame problem. But over a relatively short span of time, the above Ether hypothesis gave way to the weird theories of the modern physics. And we must talk about three things here which made physics ‘advance’ in the wrong direction. Michelson- Morley experiment: Michelson presumed that when Earth moved through the stationary Ether medium, it would result in what is called as Ether wind. So he predicted that light beams made to travel to and fro in perpendicular directions i.e. one light beam passed parallel to the Ether wind direction and another beam passed across the wind, would take different times to cover the same distance. But to the astonishment of the scientific community, Michelson’s famous experiment failed to detect any difference in the times taken by the two light beams and thus ruled out any such thing called Ether wind. From this and other observations (aberration of star light), scientists concluded that there isn’t anything like Ether in our universe. (We will discuss later why scientists are wrong to assume so and will expose the misconceptions upon which this famous experiment was devised). Light and Electromagnetic radiation: From the work of great physicists like Faraday and Maxwell, scientific community had learnt more about electro-magnetism and electromagnetic radiation. It became known that electromagnetic waves get generated from relative motion between electric and magnetic fields. And the scientific community had realised that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation and that visible light comprises only a small part of the total spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. And having discarded the Ether medium, the intelligent physicists had ‘understood’ electromagnetic waves as ‘self propagating’ transverse waves with electric and magnetic fields oscillating at right angles to the direction of propagation. While we the ordinary minds may not correctly grasp the physicists’ imagination of these ‘mythical’ waves of transversely oscillating electric and magnetic fields, the point to note here is that, according to the intelligent physicists, electromagnetic waves (i.e. light waves) do not require any medium to propagate in space unlike mechanical waves (e.g. sound waves). Emitter theory: But the above ‘understanding’ of the scientific crowd on EM waves had made the second question even tougher to answer i.e. if EM waves are self propagating and if they don’t require any medium , then Maxwell’s calculated speed of electromagnetic waves is with reference to whom? At this juncture, some scientists believed that the calculated speed of EM waves must be with reference to the source that generated them (Emitter theory). But observations on neutral pion decay didn’t seem to support the ‘emitter theory’. Scientists observed that light photons (EM waves) travelled at the same speed ‘c’ whether they were emitted by fast moving particles (neutral pions) or slow moving particles. In other words, light photons’ velocity didn’t vary with the velocity of the source unlike the case with projectiles in our everyday world! Another argument against the emitter theory was that Electromagnetic waves get generated when there is relative motion between a magnet and a conductor (e.g. copper wire). In other words, a source of EM waves contains two basic components (a magnet and a conductor) both of which move relative to each other. So if we assume that Maxwell’s calculated speed of EM waves is with reference to the source, which one of the two components of the source shall we consider as representing the source? I.e. shall we swear upon the magnet’s frame or the conductor’s frame as representing the reference frame of the source as a whole? Imagine that we kept a magnet at rest and moved a copper wire with speed ‘v’ with respect to the magnet and generated EM waves. Here we may assume that the so generated EM waves travel at speed ‘c’ with reference to the magnet because this was the one at rest. In that case obviously the speed of the same EM waves becomes ‘c+v’ in the reference frame of the copper wire. But because motion is relative we can argue that it was actually the copper wire that was at rest and hence the Maxwell’s calculated speed ‘c’ must refer to the copper wire’s reference frame and not to the magnet. But how can the generated EM waves travel at the same speed with reference to both the magnet and the conductor which are moving relative to each other? In other words, how can a light beam travel with the same speed ‘c’ with reference to two different objects in two different reference frames? Emitter theory thus failed to solve the reference frame issue and the scientific turmoil continued. Amidst this scientific turmoil came Einstein with his weird and ‘wonderful’ theory of special relativity which mesmerised the confused scientific folk and ‘solved’ the reference frame issue. He said that the speed of light waves (i.e. electromagnetic waves) remains the same to every observer irrespective of one’s state of motion or reference frame. Special theory of relativity woven upon this weird law of constant speed of light then lead to the weird propositions of time dilation, space contraction etc and later paved the way for another weird theory called general relativity. Now we will analyse each of the above things that mislead the scientific crowd and allowed the weird theories to sprout and flourish in the realm of science masquerading as modern physics. Go to Main Index By drgsrinivas \| Posted in Science with Sense \| Tagged Einstein, electromagnetic waves, emitter theory, ether, Ether wind, magnet wire paradox, Maxwell, Michelson-Morley experiment, speed of light \| Comments (14) Srinivasa Rao Gonuguntla తెలుగు వెలుగులు తెలుగు తల్లి ఆవేదన రాజకీయ క్రీడలో తెలుగు భాష మేధావులారా ఆలోచించండి! తెలుగు వెలుగు వైపు పయనిద్దాం ఆంగ్లంలో ఉన్నత విద్య తెలుగులో ఉన్నత విద్యాభ్యాసం బానిసత్యం నుండి భారతీయత వైపు విదేశాల్లో ఉద్యోగాల సంగతి In Search of Truth Advaita or Non-Duality Karma Yoga: The path of Action The Longevity Myth Technology versus Science Experiments and Science Education in Mother Tongue Karma Yoga: The Happiness Cascade to Salvation or Moksha Relativity Mania Relativity Religion E=mc2 Mania Demystifying Quantum Physics Understanding the Quantum delusions Double Slit Experiment as Proof of Ether Electrons and Double slit experiment DSE with ‘Cameras’ near the Slits Photon Ether Model Photon Ether: Many Mysteries, One Answer What does Michelson’s Experiment actually prove? 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__label__wiki	0.664293	0.664293	Home > Modern Languages > French Language and Literature > 37 Modern Languages and Literatures, Department of French Language and Literature Papers Foreword to Gayle A. Levy, Refiguring the Muse Marshall C. Olds, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow Published in Gayle A. Levy, REFIGURING THE MUSE (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), pp. ix-x. Copyright (c) 1999 Peter Lang Publishing. In the study that follows, Professor Levy explores the historically grounded topos of the Muse figure as it was developed by poets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a movement of renewal, and one that could occur in large part because of a revolution in thinking-both poetic and social-about issues related to gender and representation. She has asked that I write a brief foreword, which I am happy to do with an observation prompted by reading her book. Modern Languages Commons Modern Languages Website	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line679
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My first trip there had captured my imagination. At the tender age of five, my parents, with a push primarily from my father, had arranged what became the first of many yearly family trips to the small Pennsylvania town. A toy musket, kepi, and my father’s retelling of those historic events at numerous places across the battlefield kept me wanting to come back year-after-year to further explore and re-fight the battle with those accouterments and my imagination in hand. One trip in the early 1990s, however, was different. As we drove around the battlefield, taking the National Park Service’s self-guided auto tour, something we did multiple times from start to finish during each trip, we were confused as to why some of the areas of the park were closed. Plus, Gettysburg itself was more busy than usual. Reenactors were everywhere, which for me was great! I now had more soldiers to join my ranks to re-fight this battle. Through talk with other visitors and shop owners my parents discovered that a movie about the battle was being filmed. As a matter of fact, at one particular shop in town, we were perusing keepsakes with none other than Robert E. Lee! The name Martin Sheen meant nothing to me at the time. Following the release of the movie Gettysburg, and yet another family trip back to those hallowed grounds, my parents picked up the soundtrack to the movie on cassette before leaving town. They had not seen the movie yet, and they didn’t plan on taking such a young kid to see a four hour war movie, but the movie music might be something nice to listen to on the long drive back home. The scene was set. My father driving with my mother in the passenger seat of our Chevrolet station wagon. My sister in the back seat, leaned back, with her cassette walkman on sleeping off yet another boring (to her at least) family vacation to Gettysburg. I was in the large, farther back of the vehicle, drawing and coloring pictures of soldiers, monuments, and Lincoln. My Britain’s soldiers had numerous battles on streams and rocks drawn on these pieces of paper as well. With our course set for home, the cellophane was ripped open, the cassette removed from its case, and pushed into the radio console in the front. The opening song on the album, “Main Title,” cut through the relatively calm and quiet of the car, save my cavalry charge across the back of the cargo area of the station wagon. I was immediately hooked. After side one finished, my mom pushed eject, turned it over to side two, and let the album play out. It was a different time for media to say the least. When the soundtrack had finished, I asked to have it played again, from the beginning. My very patient family played it over and over for me all the way home. It was nearly a six hour drive back then. Although it was meant to be a cassette for the whole family to listen to and enjoy, once we returned home, it practically became mine. It was stored in my room on my cassette spindle tower but was rarely found there. I listened to it all the time. I played it on my walkman while doing everything. When we went anywhere in the station wagon I asked for it to be played, especially when it was on the way to see a reenactment or encampment. By the end of the decade the tape was worn out, and produced a muted, garbled sound. It was okay, however. My love of history had taken a momentary back seat to girls and garage bands. Before entering college, just two weeks before my first class as a freshmen, my family took a last trip together back to Gettysburg. It had been many years since our last time there as those awkward teen years didn’t include family vacations. Feeling nostalgic, I wanted to listen to that old soundtrack but technology had marched forward and cars didn’t include cassette players any longer. Plus, that old, worn out cassette wouldn’t play anyhow. At some point during the trip I purchased a new copy of the soundtrack on CD. Not only was my interest in history rekindled, but so too was my love of this soundtrack. The whole ride back home at the end of this trip was once again filled with the music that had accompanied the movie all those years ago. Over the next couple years as I worked through my undergraduate program in music education I continued to revisit the battlefield at Gettysburg during every break between semesters. Each time, I listened to the soundtrack on the drive there, the drive back and during the countless hours I spent driving around the battlefield. It has remained a staple during visits to other Civil War battlefields and trips with a history focus. 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But it wasn’t like there was a tumultuous response when the movie came out, or when it first aired on cable for that matter. It was something that just seemed to happen from the viewers’ emotional response to the music, that created this groundswell of ongoing affection for my score.” One of the strengths of the score, and perhaps one of the reasons why it has received as much attention as it has over the decades, were the numerous compositional themes that Edelman had created. The composer had created an easily identifiable theme for each prominent character or officer in the film. These themes were ever present anytime these characters were on screen. The themes interweave so much into the rest of the compositional fabric that the overall lack of period music in the over three hour film is hardly noticed or missed. Listeners become so enamored with the themes that Randy Edelman composed that upon successive listens, few would notice their absence. 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Writing in the edition’s insert, Turner noted, “As this compilation is being prepared…U.S. Olympic skating team member Todd Eldridge, [is] choreographing his long program in competition to a selection of Randy Edelman’s music from the soundtrack….Eldridge’s choice indicates not only the enduring mark that Ron Maxwell’s film made on the cultural landscape of the ‘90s, but more than that, how deeply the score from this film resonated within the collective consciousness of those who saw the film.” Five years after the film’s release and the popularity of the soundtrack the composer still could not believe it’s success, writing “The use of the music, apart from the film, is just wonderful and not a little mind-boggling: It closes the Olympics, it opens the Super Bowl, and I recently attended a performance of the score by the Boston Pops. I hope it goes on and on.” As a classically-trained musician and music educator, I could tell you the nuances of Edelman’s soundtrack. 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He has received his BA in Instrumental Music Education from Youngstown State University and a MA in Military History with a Civil War Era concentration at American Military University. Dan has also studied under the tutelage of Dr. Allen C. Guelzo as part of the Gettysburg Semester at Gettysburg College. He has been a contributing member at Emerging Civil War for over six years and is the co-author of The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863. He resides with his wife, Sarah, and three Labrador retrievers in Boardman, Ohio. View all posts by Daniel Welch → This entry was posted in Civil War in Pop Culture and tagged Civil War in Pop Culture, Civil War music, ECW-Entertaining-History, Gettysburg movie, Gettysburg soundtrack, pop culture, Randy Edelman, Robert Katz. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Responses to CW & Pop Culture: The Gettysburg Soundtrack David E Corbett says: An article of …note ! Ed Cunningham says: I hit Play when I hit the Caledonia State Park coming in on Rt 30. Helps me focus…except for that Gentlemen’s Club and Elephant store. Jay Bebin says: Excellent article! Over the last few years, I have been listening to the Gettysburg soundtrack whenever I work on projects in my workshop. I find the music helps awaken my creative side, especially when working on Civil War related projects! This is one of my all time favorite soundtracks! The music is so stirring and beautiful. Do you know why it is no longer available in iTunes and Amazon Music? I rejoined Amazon with the purpose of listening to this album again but it is no longer available. Dan Welch says: Hi Elizabeth. Great question! Sometimes the purchase agreements expire between the owners of the copyright and music and retailers like iTunes and Amazon. Sometimes in physical recordings like CDs or cassettes, etc. they go out of print and are not available again in the new market until they are reprinted. I’m not sure in this particular case but it doesn’t hurt to send in your concern via their contact information and ask for it to be brought back! Douglas Pauly says: I reckon I’ll be viewed as the proverbial “wrench in the works”, but oh well. I agree that the music itself is quite gorgeous. As a ‘stand alone’, it is fine. However, while listening to it as it was mixed into the movie itself, it drove me nuts. To me, it took away from the sheer horror that was manifesting itself on the battlefield(s) there. The ‘choirly orchestras’ present in most scenes detracted from the drudgery that comprises much of soldering. It deflected from the fact that they were MEN thrust into a terrible situation, not ‘gods’ or heavenly transplants to Earth here engaging in ‘God’s works’. It reminds me of some of Sergio Leone’s movies. I remember watching his film “Once Upon A Time In The West”. It uses classical music to try to add a certain ‘surrealistic effect’ to the proceedings, and that allowed certain scenes to be extended so that such effects could be maximized. Evidently the critics of the time loved it. To me it’s a gimmick that took away from scenes that should have been able to define themselves. Anyways, that’s just me. Silly me.. 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__label__wiki	0.735721	0.735721	Netflix’s best horror series according to critics \| Culture October 18, 2020 by Manoj For those who are not afraid of ghosts, witches, jumping in the chair and a lot of tension in the air, we have prepared a list with the 10 best horror series on Netflix. In this selection we take into account only original productions and the notes presented in Metacritic by the specialized media. Check out! Netflix’s best horror series [crítica] 1. The Curse of the Hill Residence – Note 79 Described by Stephen King as a work of genius, The Curse of the Hill Residence accompanies the Craigs, a family who lived in a cursed house. Years later, when they return to the place, they are confronted by the hauntings of their past. Creation: Mike Flanagan Episodes: 10 (1 season) Actors: Victoria Pedretti and Oliver Jackson-Cohen 2. Dracula – Note 75 Inspired by the classic character of Gothic literature, Dracula is the only British production among Netflix’s best horror series. In the plot, we follow the attacks filled with blood and fear that the count leaves in his path, portrayed by the vision of a lawyer who survived his presence. Creation: Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat Episodes: 3 (1 season) Actors: Claes Bang 3. Stranger Things – Note 75 Set in the 1980s, Stranger Things takes place in Hawkins, a quiet little town in the USA. In the story, the disappearance of a child causes his family and friends to engage in an adventure far more complex than anyone could imagine. Creation: Matt and Ross Duffer Episodes: 25 (3 seasons) Actors: Millie Bobby Brown and Winona Ryder 4. Sabrina’s Dark World – Note 74 Based on the comics published by Archie Comics (which became TV series in 1996), Sabrina’s Dark World accompanies the young Sabrina Spellman. Half-witch and half-human, when she turns 16, she needs to choose which of the two paths she wants to follow. Creation: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Actors: Kiernan Shipka and Ross Lynch 5. Castlevania – Note 71 Animation based on a series of games of the same name, Castlevania shows the dispute between the monster hunter Trevor Belmont and the merciless count Dracula. While the first tries to defend the city of Wallachia, the second only wants to destroy it to avenge the death of his wife. Creation: Warren Ellis Actors: Richard Armitage (voice) 6. Santa Clarita Diet – Note 66 Horror and humor mix in Santa Clarita Diet, a series starring Drew Barrymore. In the plot, after undergoing a transformation in which she gains more vitality, but starts to feed on human flesh, a woman needs the help of her family to keep her secret. Creation: Victor Fresco Actors: Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant 7. Love, Death & Robots – Note 65 Adult animation produced by Tim Miller and David Fincher, Love, Death & Robots has 18 independent episodes. In addition to terror, the anthology has plots of fantasy and science fiction, with technology as a central focus. Creation: Tim Miller and David Fincher Actors: Topher Grace and Mary Elizabeth Winstead 8. The Curse of Bly Mansion – Note 62 In this list of Netflix’s best horror series, The Curse of Bly Mansion couldn’t be left out. Part of a horror anthology with The Curse of Hill Residence, the series follows a housekeeper who is hired to work in a haunted mansion. Actors: Victoria Pedretti and Kate Siegel 9. A Drink in Hell – Note 61 Based on a 1996 film of the same name by Quentin Tarantino, Um Drink no Inferno accompanies two dangerous robber brothers. As they flee from Sheriff Earl and the entire FBI, they find themselves in deadly conflict when they run into a group of vampires. Direction: Robert Rodriguez Actors: Eiza González and Zane Holtz 10. The Scream: Origins – Note 58 Located in the same universe as the eponymous film franchise, The Scream: Origins shows a writer of paranormal stories and a TV star investigating the house where the supernatural entity Kayako lived and was murdered. Direction: Sho Miyake Actors: Yuina Kuroshima Now just prepare the bucket of popcorn and throw yourself into the Netflix horror series. Good marathon! The notes presented in this text were collected on 10/13/2020. all about latency One Piece: learn the arcs of the anime that made it to Netflix Huawei Watch Fit Smartwatch review: elegance and many health features [análise/vídeo] TV Shows of the Week: Riverdale Returns, Walker Premiere and More Google and Facebook would agree to compete less in ads \| Business Briton offers $ 70m to recover bitcoin lost in landfill \| Finance what is it and what is it for?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line711
__label__wiki	0.504591	0.504591	You are here: Home1 / Uncategorized2 / is fleabane edible is fleabane edible It grows in tall stands of delightful white sprigs of flowers with yellow centers. Yes! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6562390/, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3595701/, https://naturalpath.net/williamson/herb-of-the-day-eastern-daisy-fleabane/, https://naturalpath.net/williamson/herb-of-the-day-eastern-daisy-fleab, King’s American Dispensary by Felter & Lloyd, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319510.php, http://theherbhound.blogspot.com/2016/09/fleabane.html, https://www.ediblewildfood.com/daisy-fleabane.aspx, Uses and Benefits of Rosemary Essential Oil Are Well Documented, Garden Poetry for the Heart of the Gardener, Hemp vs Marijuana + CBD Oil Benefits and Uses, How to Treat and Get Rid of Powdery Mildew on Plants Naturally, Leaf extract has antioxidant properties and may also benefit Alzheimers, tea for children, to aid with sore mouths, used the plant to make lotions for headaches and body pains, made powder from the dried flowers for a snuff for head colds or to dry up mucous conditions. Below Iâve started a list of some of the edible flowers and plants Iâm familiar with. They grow all across North America and have naturalized in central Europe. Erigeron sumatrensis (syn. Sometimes referred to as âgarden cress,â âpepper cress,â or âpopweed,â this unassuming bitter herb is a member of the Brassicaceae plant family, placing it in the esteemed company of mustards, cabbages, broccoli and the like. Look closely at a fleabane flower, and you will see that it is actually a cluster of tiny flowers grouped together, creating the illusion of one large flower. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Lepidoptera (Moths & Butterflies), bees, Apomictic (reproduce by seeds formed without sexual fusion). nutrition, recipes, history, uses & more! grows in fields, disturbed areas, open woods, thickets and roadsides . Prairie Fleabane is one of the more common Erigeron species in Minnesota, distinguished by the (usually) numerous small (¾ inch or less diameter) white daisy-like flowers with up to 100 very narrow rays, hairless to sparsely hairy leaves and stems, spoon or spatula-shaped basal leaves, narrowly lance-elliptic and toothless stem leaves that are stalkless but not clasping. Fleabane contains caffeic acid, which has these benefits: WARNING: Do not take during pregnancy or if allergic to ragweed, daisies, and related plants. Edible Uses: Young leaves and seedlings â cooked. Mature plants of flaxleaf fleabane produce an average of 110 000 seeds eaâ¦ But just a few leaves added to mixed salad, or greens steamed or sautéed, can camouflage the fuzzies to be more palatable. As always these videos are meant to be educational. Daisy fleabane, like other fleabane wildflowers, derives its common name from the superstition that dried clusters of these plants could be used to rid a dwelling of fleas. In the British Isles it is known as Guernsey fleabane. The fresh leaves contain 0.2 â 0.66% essential oil. He states that, âThe herb being spread under foot and smoked in any place, will drive away venomous creatures and will kill and destroy fleas and gnats. However, Iâve always kept plants, been interested in medicinal herbs and nutrition and healing from food over pharmacy. Using both pre-emergent and post-emergent herbicides attacks the plant at different stages of growth. You can bake herbs to dry for two hours in an oven at 175 F degrees, or use a dehydrator. Getting the best gardening news, tips, tricks and products out to you. It is up to the reader to verify nutritional information and health benefits with qualified professionals for all edible plants listed in this web site. Fleabane is a wild edible, but not a âwild preferable.â Its leaves can be eaten raw as a salad green or cooked as a potherb, but are very hairy. However, in spite of the delicate appearing white flower, fleabaneâlike most weedsâis a sturdy and determined plant and can also tolerate dryer fields. Store dried flowers and leaves in a container with tight lid. Daisy fleabane is recognizable due to its composite flowers, hairy stems and hairy leaves. The source of an essential oil that is used commercially for flavouring sweets, condiments and soft drinks. Daisy fleabane tends to flourish in fields, along roadsides, and around waste areas. The parts that grow above the ground are used for medicine. Remember to do your own research. Only the leaves are edible. The story is that my sisterâs husbandâs grandfather benefited greatly from this versatile weed when he was a child. in length and they are covered in hairs. Click, All listed plants are found in central-east Canada and It is unbranched along the lower half, while forming lateral stems above that are ascending. Daisy fleabane leaf extracts contain caffeic acid which is an active compound that has antioxidative and neuroprotective effects on neuronal cells. How To ID fleabane. But just a few leaves added to mixed salad, or greens steamed or sautÃ©ed, can camouflage the fuzzies to be more palatable. Common Fleabane, Erigeron philadelphicus, is a common medicinal wildflower.It has been used medicinally for diarrhea, childbirth, coughs, hemorrhages, eye sight and even as a poison ivy remedy. The light fluffy seeds are readily dispersed by wind. “An alcohol and water tincture extracts the medicinal phytochemical compounds better than a tea, which loses the oil soluble compounds that are the most active.” ~NaturalPath.net[6]https://naturalpath.net/williamson/herb-of-the-day-eastern-daisy-fleabane/jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_25295_6').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_25295_6', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], }); Fleabane, (Erigeron Annus) water extract may be useful as an effective natural product to prevent free radicals, obesity and obesity-related metabolic syndrome.~2019 Fleabane (Erigeron Annus) Study[7]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6562390/jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_25295_7').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_25295_7', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], }); Several native American tribes used this plant. In-depth wild edible PDFs. He said the English call it âmulletâ and that it is a hot and dry plant. Philadelphia fleabane Erigeron philadelphicus This aster-like flower is a composite: the flower you observe is really a "composite" of many smaller flowers. First of all the plant in the fleabane genus -Erigeron- are contested, as many countries still use a different scientific name for them: Conyza.The general consensus here in Australia is that the Erigeron genus also incorporates the more specific fleabane genus Conyza.. Its leaves are edible and can be eaten in salads or cooked as a vegetable like spinach. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Erigeron comes from Greek meaning "early" and "old man," which allude to the plant's tendency to blossom in late spring and to form fuzzy white seed heads while still producing new flowers. young plants are edible when boiled. Interestingly enough the leaves contain caffeic acid, this is a compound that has neuroprotective and antioxidative effects on the neuronal cells. Collect while plant is in bloom, then dry. Only the leaves of this plant are edible, although, you might frown while eating them as its hairy nature might result in an unpleasant taste. â¦ However, this plant does adapt to soil containing fertile loam if taller, more aggressive plants do not grow nearby. Overview Information Canadian fleabane is a plant. Flaxleaf fleabane is a grey hairy plant, growing to 1 metre (m) tall and the inflorescence (cluster of seed heads) resembles a candelabra. It prefers full sun, dry conditions, and a somewhat alkaline soil containing clay or gravel. Japanese Knotweed An early spring wildflower in North America, you’ll see daisy fleabane, Erigeron annuus, in fields, roadside and drainage ditches. warning: may cause miscarriages and should not be consumed by pregnant women. This information cannot be construed as medical advice. boiled the plant in water and inhaled the steam for head colds and respiratory complaints. Description; Medicinal Action and Uses---Synonyms---Pulicaria dysenterica (Gaertn. The leaves along the stem are smaller, toothed, clasping, and they too are somewhat hairy. [1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6562390/jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_25295_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_25295_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3595701/jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_25295_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_25295_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], }); All parts of the fleabane plant are used, but the leaves and flowers are most active. Fleabane is a tricky one to identify and research. The plant should be collected when the flowers are in bloom. That means itâs not only edible, but a delight to the senses as well. Only the leaves are edible on the Daisy Fleabane. I also own and manage theiCreateDaily.com. This wild edible produces two different types of leaves; lanceolate-to-ovate, basal leaves are long, some measure up to 15 cm. An ointment of the root and leaves is used with success for the itch.â. fleabane, tall fleabane, broad-leaved fleabane, white horseweed, Sumatran fleabane, Guernsey fleabane, Mareâs Tail . 56. Click. Mexican fleabane, Erigeron karvinskianus, is a charming slender plant native to Mexico, but has established itself in many Mediterranean areas and dry gardens in Britain.It looks lovely creeping down the sides of stone or brick steps or tucked in wall crevices, where it both seeds itself and also spreads slowly with its rhizomatous roots. While we strive to be 100% accurate, it is solely up to the reader to ensure proper plant identification. EdibleWildFood.com is informational in nature. Always seek appropriate and direct guidance from trained practitioners. Wild food can help treat various medical conditions. young plants are suitable as a potherb. philadelphicus) is a common and widespread plant of open, frequently human-disturbed sites, and the other (E. philadelphicus var. Similar plants: Erigeron philadelphicus[10]https://www.ediblewildfood.com/daisy-fleabane.aspxjQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_25295_10').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_25295_10', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], }); Iâm LeAura Alderson, entrepreneur, ideator, media publisher, writer and editor of GardensAll.com. Fleabane, a common tiny, daisy-like flower. That perky white wildflower with a yellow center that looks like daisies or chamomile, might be daisy fleabane. After two or three years, your daisy fleabane will need to be divided. Aside for being used to attract pollinators, fleabane is a known wild edible. I assist in our family gardening projects primarily (at present) through the sharing of information through our websites and newsletters. They have been selected to provide a mix of different plant sizes and growing conditions. You can buy bigger specimens in 4-litre nursery bags, or smaller ones in seedling packs, and plant them as ground covers, in crevices, in the cracks in âdry wallsâ, and in the shallowest soil between pavers. Fleabane Poisoning Average Cost. It is a pretty, but ubiquitous plant that seems to appear on its own. Erigeron Karvinskianus is an inexpensive, evergreen diehard that will remain in your garden forever. Only the leaves are edible. Family: N.O. They are hairy so they have a somewhat âfurryâ texture making eating them raw not exactly too pleasing. Edible Parts. Family: Composite or Aster Family (Compositae) Average Cost. Some wild plants are poisonous or can have serious adverse health effects. They can be used wherever you cook with greens. The Daisy Fleabane is an annual weed that can be found across North America. Fleabane especially enjoys growing in the lower, more moist sections of the drainage areas. used fleabane for toothaches and to make tooth powder, stuffed their mattresses with fleabane and hung clusters in the homes to drive away fleas, hence the name, however other sources claim it doesn’t work for fleas, Antioxidant – quercetin, thymol and kaempferol, Antioxidant used in skin and body care products. This video is about Daisy Fleabane ( Erigeron annuus ). Medicinally, all parts of the plant are used, but the leaves and flowers are most active. He had contracted Dystentary, or the bloody trots as they called it then, in the early 1900âs as a child. north-east United States (zones 4-7), but do grow elsewhere. Young leaves and seedlings can be cooked or dried for later use. Please click here for more information. ).Middle Fleabane. This plant can grow anywhere between 30 and 150 centimetres in height. Compositae. Daisy fleabane leaf extracts contain caffeic acid which is a stimulant and active compound that has protective and antioxidative benefits to cells. We are all about gardening! It appears to be derived from a belief that the dried plants repelled fleas or that the plants were poisonous to fleas. Fleabane grows best in full sun and alkaline clay soil. It has hairy leaves and stems and is best grown in areas exposed to full sun. Thank you for watching it. It can be wildcrafted in abundance during flowering season which is usually July, August and September. Both of the common fleabane species are upright tap-rooted annuals in the daisy family. Phildelphia fleabane is native to North America and introduced in Europe and Asia. Managing fleabane may require a two-pronged approach that involves removing weeds by hand in addition to application of herbicides. Read the product label to be sure the herbicide is effective against fleabane. Yes, fleabane leaves are edible, though hairy, which is a texture most people aren’t fond of in their foods. Erigeron annuus, whose scientific name accurately indicates it is an annual plant. It blooms earlier in the season than either Annual Fleabane (Erigeron annuus) or Prairie Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus). The genus, Erigeron, includes scores of species, but I'll take a chance and say that the one pictured here is Philadelphia fleabane, because of the way the leaves are wrapped around the hairyâ¦ Boiled, cooked in rice or dried for later use. friction fires (the stalk) referred by some tribes as âfire-makerâ. varieties in Ontario are Eastern daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus) and Philadelphia fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus). All information, photographs and web content contained in this website is Copyright © EdibleWildFood.com 2020. Other common names include fleabane, tall fleabane, broad-leaved fleabane, white horseweed, and Sumatran fleabane. They can be used wherever you cook with greens. Although they are known as effective flea repellents, these flowers may cause gastrointestinal distress when ingested. Pm2 S45vn Release Date, Tokhme Sharbati In English, Suzanne Simard Books, Used Dingo For Sale Near Me, Eagle Vs Wolf, Thermador Pro Harmony 30 Dual Fuel, What Is Sage Leaf Called In Nigeria, Ueme Portable Dvd Player Manual, Save Me From Myself Rock Song, Spiral Evergreen Topiary, https://eastbrook.k12.in.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/header_main.jpg 0 0 https://eastbrook.k12.in.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/header_main.jpg 2020-12-02 10:42:032020-12-02 10:42:03is fleabane edible	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line713
__label__wiki	0.566788	0.566788	New Choctaw Language Courses Registering DURANT – Mike and Bernie Davis grew up speaking the Choctaw language in McCurtain County. “That’s probably the highest concentration of fluent speakers, especially up around Bethel,” Mike said. Teaching the Choctaw language is now a passion for them. “That is who we are looking for,” said Mike. “Those people who have a passion for learning the language.” The Davises are both retired teachers with Broken Bow Public Schools. They moved to Durant in 2006 to join the School of Choctaw Language team. The school now is staffed with 14 fluent instructors. Their newest class begins Sept. 12, 2016, at the School of Choctaw Language Building, 3588 Tom Smith Rd., located just off of Enterprise Boulevard, in Durant. The course is Conversational Level Choctaw. It meets Mondays 6-8 p.m. for 16 weeks. It is free, learning materials are free, it is open to anyone interested in speaking Choctaw – and it is not for beginners. “You need to have a working knowledge of the basics,” Mike said. But there is an offering for those starting from scratch. Beginning Choctaw starts Sept. 13 and will run Tuesdays from 6-8 p.m., also in the Language Building. “Ann Kaniatobe teaches that,” Bernie said. “It runs for 16 weeks also. That is the first semester.” Both courses will pick up after the New Year with the second half, 16 weeks in length. “Beginning Choctaw is taught in phases,” Bernie said. After learning those first four stages, she added, you should be ready for Conversational Choctaw. They have fun, and everyone contributes in the immersion course, as evidenced by the laughter, exchanges, and encouragement across the table. “We start with about 20 in the class,” said Mike, adding that students can join the course late and maybe miss a meeting, but adequate attendance and participation are required to receive a certificate of course completion. To register or for more information, phone 580-924-8280 Ext. 2487, or 800-522-6170. Ground Breaking Ceremony for the New Head Start in Wright City We would like to invite you to a Ground Breaking Ceremony for the new Head Start facility in Wright City. The event is 10:00 a.m. Thursday, September 15 at 5704 Rodeo Grounds Road in Wright City. We hope you can join us as we celebrate the progress in McCurtain County. What: Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Head Start When: 10 a.m. Thursday, September 15, 2016 Where: 5704 Rodeo Grounds Road, adjacent to the Choctaw Community Center, Wright City, Oklahoma 74745. About the Facility: The Wright City Head Start will be a 7,352 sq. ft. Two-Classroom facility. The classrooms will accommodate a total 34 students, and include technology-forward features such as high-definition SmartBoards, full-height windows for daylighting and nature views, automatic LED lighting, and energy efficient HVAC. The facility will house an FEMA-compliant Safe Room for students and staff, a full commercial kitchen, parent resource room, and have all new playground equipment. Also, the existing walking track will be improved and reconfigured to accommodate the Head Start program. Clint Cooper Previous New Bridge Slated At FM 3390 Next Paris High School Homecoming	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line714
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__label__cc	0.664457	0.335543	Sealing the Bore (questions and theroies) By Phil_Megrim, October 1, 2007 in Wheel of Time Books Phil_Megrim - Member Phil_Megrim Yanno reading through all these therioes and speculations about what may happen in AMOL there's one question that I'm not sure has been asked. How do you seal the Bore completely? And how can that be done when channeling at the Bore would cause serious consequences for said Aes Sedai/Asha`man. I don't have a theory since I've scratched my brow countless times trying to come up with one though I'm not sure for the rest of you nutters out there. Vambram - Member Vambram Dreadlord in Shayol Ghul, I suspect it will take a sacrifice of a similar amount of aes sedai and asha'man in comparison to the 100 channlers whom were with Lews Therin when he sealed the bore of the DO's prison. I also suspect that the Chodan Kal used by one of the most powerful male channelers will also be used, and I am extremely confidant that those whom seal the bore will use all of the angreals and ter'angrals and ser'angreals that they can possibly use. Also, I would not be suprised if some Wise Ones as well as Windfinders participate in those scenes, too. Lews Therin used 100 channelers, but in MoL, we might see as many as 200 or even 400 channelers working together in various large circles of linked channelers. Guest silver89 - Guests Guest silver89 And don't forget the fact that this time around it will be both men and women trying to seal it not just men. Like it says in the books (repeatedly) the greatest feats were accomplished by men and women together. Throw in the Choedan Kal and I believe we will see some miracles and the birth of legend. :) Angel of Death - Member Will Rand destroy the remaining seals first - by this I mean right before hand? If so, will he create new seals (physical focal points I mean). And will they look similar to the old ones, as a symbol of unifying male and female channelers. The Fang and Flame united once more. Perrin makes them, and Egwene turns them into heartstone (have no idea on the real name spelling sorry). OK thats not a serious comment, but what are your thoughts on the seals. Trib4l - Member Trib4l So far the concept has been that Rand will break the seals and then in some way manage to push the DO back through the Bore. According to some, having several of the ta'veren there may cause the Pattern to heal itself closed and essentially seal the Bore by simply being woven around the big 3 being there, or by Rand being there, etc... According to RJ, the DO can be fought using the OP, so it's possible that the OP will be involved in his being pushed back through the Bore. I don't think it will be involved in the fixing of the Pattern, however, because we've seen no evidence to support that any of the 3rd age channelers even know how to find the Pattern with the OP let alone have any operating knowledge of it. cloglord - Member cloglord Here's a loony theory that is not terribly popular, but is my bet none the less. I think that the bore will be sung shut. We know that the Aiel will need to be destroyed, more or less. Further there is an Aiel prophecy to the effect that when the trollocs come out that the Aiel will take back their places of old, of course their places of old are as followers of the leaf and singers of the Song. We also know that the dragon's blood will wash away the shadow. I think that it is very possible that the reference to the dragon's blood isn't really in reference to Rand, but rather to the mass slaughter of the Aiel. We certainly have a precedent for the Aiel from the AoL standing firm, singing, in the face of sure destruction, and if they are returning to their places of old..... Beyond that, there might be some ways where Rand would be the beggining of this Song singing, as he, and possibly the wise ones and clan chiefs are the only ones to have witnesses a singing ceremony. The male chodan kal might be of use here as well, as we know that the Nym provided a OP focus for the seed singing ceremony. I am not sure yet if the odd ter angreal that Avhienda found that had to do with holes will come into play, but I think that it might. Feel free to tear it apart, but I'm really not trying to hijack this thread with my loony theory, I've posted it elsewhere before. I don't think it will be involved in the fixing of the Pattern, however, because we've seen no evidence to support that any of the 3rd age channelers even know how to find the Pattern with the OP let alone have any operating knowledge of it. I'm not sure this is true. Both women and men describe manipulating the pattern in order to travel, and the use of balefire certainly shows an ability by 3rd agers to effect the pattern in a very negative way. I think that the talisman of growing could be said to effect the pattern as well, as it appears to create a permanent shortcut between places in the pattern, and the use of the OP to travel by portal stones seems indicative as well. What might be more correct is to say that 3rd agers do not have the knowledge of pattern manipulation that AoL channelers had, but that at least some of that knowledge has been regained in the current age. ShadowsFell - Member ShadowsFell Interesting theories. I DO know for sure that Rand will smash the seals. Why? Fel said so. Rand specifically asked him if there would ever be a reason to smash the seals, and Fel was like "Why?!?!". But then, later, we get a note from Fel saying something like "have to sweep away the rubble before beginning anew", and also Fel saying the Bore was a hole in a WHOLE Dark One's prison. The Wheel being, well, a wheel ... there has to be a time when the prison is whole, not just patched, and time needs to pass so people can forget the DO -- so the time can come again when someone bores a hole again. So, Rand will need to completely break open the DO's prison, to "wipe away the rubble", so it can be fixed the right way. The use of Singing and the Song to fix the hole makes sense -- there's really no purpose for the Song, otherwise, really. It certainly won't be for battle, and there's nothing else big that needs fixed or grew (the Ways, maybe, but I think the Bore makes more sense). You also might have something about "his blood on the rocks of SG will wash away the shadow" meaning the Aiel. RJ has been big on prophecies not always being literal, and that would be a good reason for the Aiel to be so stoic -- they'd have to be, to Sing at the Bore while everything is trying to kill them :). Steel Axe - Member Steel Axe i dont know if the bore will be healed or not this age... it will have to be at some point though (unless you believe that this is the real last battle with the dark one being defeated forever... some do), but i think rand is planning to heal it rather than seal it, and i heard a theory a while ago, it deals with the pattern healing itself... the bore is unnatural and so the patern naturally wants to close, the only thing keeping it open is the seals, which explains why the seals are failing and breaking despite being made out of cuellendar (sp?) if the pattern is trying to close itself then it could be weakening the seals... if this is the case then the last battle could be rand breaking the seals and the light holding off the shadow while the pattern closes itself... as the shadow would most likely try to enlarge the bore as soon as the seals break... again this this theory assumes that rand is trying to heal rather than seal the bore, and this theory seems likely based on some quotes by fel that i cant remember now... but they dealt with the circular nature of time and how the bore has to be healed rather than just patched... healing seems to come from within rather than an outside source this this theory assumes that rand is trying to heal rather than seal the bore, and this theory seems likely based on some quotes by fel that i cant remember now... but they dealt with the circular nature of time and how the bore has to be healed rather than just patched... healing seems to come from within rather than an outside source The one big problem I have with the pattern healing itself is that by all accounts the pattern is not alive. It is a function of the weaving of the wheel of time, and while the turning of the wheel is cyclical it is also monodirectional. It does not go back and fix problems with itself, it weaves. It would seem to me that the wheel/pattern would have to start operating under a different set of rules in order for it to fix itself, and if it is not going to fix itself then it must come from an outside source. Since the OP is a part of the mechanism of the wheel/pattern system, I don't think that it is capable of "healing" the bore. This is part of why I believe so strongly that the Song will be the mechaism of the Bore's re'weaving. The seed song witnessed in TSR used a Nym, (A OP construct,) to focus the singing for a specific purpose, plant growth. It might also be why the chora trees were given to the Aiel to grow. Perhaps the Song was used to focus the OP characteristics of the Chora cuttings. In either case, there seems to be some linkage between the Song and the OP. They seem to compliment each other. If the entirety of the Aiel were to sing "The Song" as a focus for the power of the remainnig Chodan Kal, I think that it would provide a neat ending for all of the hints that we have had about the Song and the end use of the Chodan Kal. I don't think that the OP would be enough on its own. Well sure the pattern isnt alive... but it is... well a pattern, and as such it has a certain plan for what it is supposed to be. Thats what the ta'veren are all about, the pattern fixing itself. I guess the pattern could spin out something to fix itself, like the Song, but it could also have been trying to weave the hole closed for the last few thousand years or whatever. nashdude - Member nashdude I tend to agree, the Song is definitely part of permanently sealing the Bore. RJ planted too many hints concerning the Song and its importance. Also, he placed great significance on the Chora tree. It seems---and has seemed, from the "singing" scene during Age of Legends to the Da'shain Aiel's commission to keep the Chora alive, and on down to today---to be very important, but RJ never expressed WHY it's important. I think, in some way, the Chora will play a vital role in sealing the Bore. On a hunch, I did a little digging on the Chora tree, and this is what I found... 1) The Chora leaf is a trefoil, which also happens to be the symbol of the Godhead in Christianity---Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Other notable trefoils include the three-leaf clover and the trefoil knot (the simplest nontrivial knot in the branch of mathematics called Knot Theory) 2) Avendesora, the last Chora tree, seems to exude a calming and healing atmosphere, which would seem to lend to "healing" the Bore. At the time of the Bore's opening, the world apparently had many Choras. Some saplings survived with the Da'shain Aiel. Now, as the DO touches the world in greater and greater ways, Avendesora is the only Chora left. Is there a connection? Yes, I believe that the OP will be critical in TG. But for some reason, I just can't shake the feeling that the Chora and the Song will as well. I'm not sure about the Chora tree, maybe its because I have an alternate answer. From the seed singing ceremony in TSR we know that there are three elements in the aiel seed singing ceremony. Aiel, Ogier, and a Nym. Now it could be as easy as bringing these three things together and singing the bore shut, but there are some problems with this idea. First, if it were that simple, it seems likely that the philosophers of the AoL would have come up with a plan to re-weave the bore using the song. Secondly, to all appearances the last of the Nym died at the end of the first book. Simply, if it were that easy the Aol'ers probably would have tried it, and it is currently impossible to exactly re-create the seed singing ceremony. HOwever, I think that the ceremony can give us some important clues as to how the bore will be re-woven. Lets start with the Aiel. It seems likely from the different times that Rand has been in the presence of Lioal's treesinging, that at least Rand has the Singing ability. He is drawn into Lioal's songs and almost hypnotized by him. Besides this, he has witnessed the seed singing ceremony in his trip throught the Rhuidean Ter Angreal. Rand, it seems will be a part of any Song Singing that takes place. There are other clues that indicate that the Aiel will be involved as well. The most telling is that Male Aiel don't sing at all except for dirges for the dead. This seems like a random cultural phenomenon, unless you consider that the wise ones and the clan chiefs all know about the history of the Aiel and their peaceful, singing, heritage. By trying to deny their heritage, they have hidden the ability of the Aiel to Sing, and that abilities power to heal/grow/whatever. The tinkes may have a part to play here as well. But given their tradition of actively searching for the song, and their propensity for singing at the drop of the hat, I have to assume that the Singing ability has been bred out of the Tinkers over the millennia. The healing of the schizm between the tinkers and the Aiel might be a metaphorical healing that returns the Aiel to their places of old, or it might just be that the Tinkers have to reteach the Aiel the way of the leaf, it could be that all of this would happen after TG with the remnant of the remnant. I'm not really sure how the tinkers could/would fit into the equation, but they seem linked somehow. Now on to the Ogier. There are three things that point to Loial as being pivotal to this theory. One, he has been with Rand since nearly the beggining, and with the exception of running around for a book trying to close waygates, he hasn't done much. Two, he is one of the most talented treesingers of his generation. Three, he promised Rand that whatever happened he would be with him at TG, and we all know how oxymoronic an Ogier Oathbreaker is. What remains to be seen is if Loial is charismatic enough, or Taveren enough, to bring the Ogier with him into the fray. It seems likely that for the duration of TG Loial will be a sort of defacto leader for the Randland Ogier and would be able to bring the ogier with him possibly to be with Rand specifically. The third aspect of this equation if we are taking clues from the seed singing ceremony would be the Nym. There are several thing sthat we could discuss here. It might be wise however to categorizes this section differently. Instead of calling the Nym the third portion, lets instead call the Nym a OP focus. The Nym, like the Chora trees, were OP constructs created for a specific purpose. This in essence would make them living Ter angreal. But instead of being terangreal that required the use of the OP, or even to be activated, they were linving terangreal that activated themselves or were always active. If we define the nym's role in the seed singing ceremony in these terms, then there are a number of possibilities for how this portion of the ceremony could be replicated at TG. My favorite theory centers on the garden in which the greenman resided. We know that the garden that the greenman resided also housed TEotW. It was located in the blight, an area that isn't really in phase with reality as evidenced by the fact that it can't be entered in TAR, and that need would be the key to locateing the greenman, his garden,. and TEotW. We know that TEotW is gone, used up by Rand at the end of the book of the same name. HOwever, there is some strong evidence that the greenman's garden, and some of the essence of the greenman remain. Loial commented that he would not have been able to sing to the oak tree so well if something of the greenman wasn't left in it. It was thought in the AoL's that Nym couldn't die as long as greenthings grew, and when Rand & Co. left the area of the tree, it shimmered and disapeared, indicating that something of the power of the garden remained intact. Now if Rand, Loial, the Aiel, and the Ogier all end up at SG to do some Singing, it would seem to me that the need for a OP focus would be dire, and since the garden of the greenman is keyed to need, that the Greenmantree could make an appearance and serve the function that the nym did in the ancient seedsinging ceremony. That's just my favorite theory however. If we are looking at the role of the Nym in the Seedsinging ceremony as a OP focus and a living Ter Angreal, then presumably there are similar ways, using the OP or a terangreal to replicate the role of the Nym. Obvious possibilities include the terangreal that Elayne/Avhienda found that involved holes and singing. Or simply a massive usage of the OP by Rand using the chodan Kal. I think that the use of the last chora tree might be possible here, but I don't know how a tree would be uprooted and brought to SG, but if TG were to take place in any great degree in or around rhuidean, it certainly could play a role. To string this loony theory out even further, I believe that Rand will have to channel the song in a manner similar to channeling Saidin, and that he might even use the Chodan Kal to channel the Song. This is all based on the first interaction that Rand has with the Male Chodan Kal, outside Carhien. If you re-read that passage carefully, it uses the sybolism of song to describe the hypnotic draw that Rand feels. I know that not many people agree with me on this one, but I would encourage anyone to re-read that passage, and see for themselves if that section seems as strange to them as it does to me. Don't forget to note that Rand draws on his Aiel heritage to fight off the urges even before he figures out that he is Aiel...... Wayhey - Member Wayhey I really like your theory. I have had this feeling that the Way of The Leaf has to figure into it. RJ kept dropping possible hints in the books that it was important, and it is definitely the way of life that is opposite to everything the Shadow is. Also it keeps coming up that Loial is a treesinger. I also like your blood on the rocks idea. Very nice. The Bore has to be unmade or healed rather than just sealed--Harid Fel pretty much said that. Mik - Member iFade Just throwing this out here because it seems the best place for some of the stuff I found while researching WOT links to christianity & other beliefs. Can the name Chora be derived from Chi-rho? As a pre-Christian symbol, the Chi-ro signified good fortune. The Chi ro became an important Christian symbol when adopted by the Roman Emperor Constantine, representing the first two letters in the name of Christ In Hebrew, Chi-Rho equates to Tav-Resh. The chi rho was used in hermetic alchemical texts to denote time. Looks like a Wheel too.. Then again, I always think the Wheel of Time picture is actually derived from the Borromean Rings (the ancient Trinity sign) Just throwing it out there as food for thought. akaliel - Member akaliel I think that the Bore will be sealed in a similar way that Rand's wound was sealed. The only way to keep it from spreading it's evil was to seal it with Fain's knife wound and have the two evils fight eachother and not Rand. So I figure that if they tossed Padan Fain into the Bore and sealed him away in it. Then his evil can fight whatever evil from the DO seeps out, and keep anything from corrupting the seals this time. Until the 3rd Age comes again and Lanfear 2.0 detects a massive amount of undivided OP and drills a hole in the pattern to get it. To know how the Bore is sealed, one has to understand the nature of the forces involved. We don't yet know how RJ envisioned how everything is connected, but I have my theory. Throughout the books, channeling appears to carry no price. It can be dangerous, but it's still a hell of a lot of power for the lucky few (as well as very long life). The Age of Legends appears to have been Utopia powered on limitless, clean energy. Huh? That isn't balanced! Where is the bi-product? What about the Wheel? I think that the bi-product of using the True Source is the True Power, and that after an Age of heavy use, the Wheel became so unbalanced the Dark One became aware and strong enough to touch the pattern by communicating with Lanfear. The Dark One represents Death, not just of people and animals, but also of creation itself. The one good thing about the resulting collapse of reality is that the Creator directly comes into play again (through Rand, presumably), and the opportunity arises to remake the prison. Loial and the Aiel singing could figure into this, too. Maybe even Fain. Due to its unbalancing role (if I'm right, anyway), I don't think that Power alone could win this. I also think that at the end of TG the Power will have to become "buried" again, too. In a previous Age they didn't have it either, so the Wheel turns... Nice theory, but there doesn't need to be a bi-product. We've have no evidence that there is one. It would be a mistake to try and ground any of it in reality, since well, it is "magic" afterall. Also all we know is that the True Source (sensed as undivided OP) was detected, nothing about the Wheel "wobbling". :) I don't know, you could be right, but there's quite a few assumtions there :) I think that this line of discussion raises some interesting questions about the nature of the wheeel and the nature of balance, I think that you are un to something, but I see it in a slightly different way. It is pretty easy to think of the Creator and the DO in terms of good and evil, but I don't think that it is the right way to view these things. I think that it is better to think of the creator as the force of order, and the DO as the force of chaos. In terms of this, then the job of the pattern is to bring order to everything, to seperate out the good and the evil, and fit it together. In this paridigm the Creator is simply cleaning up the mess of the void, and the DO is constantly trying to mess things up. Which would explain why the creator excluded the DO from his creation, because to include the chaos of the DO, would undermine his attempts to organize and order things. However, it is a philosophical argument within Randland that Good and Evil are the warp and woof of the pattern. Perrin in particular seems disturbed by this idea of mixing the good with the bad, saying that it is like mixing pot metal with good steel. The answer to this concern is that they are not really mixing, they are being put into their proper order. A place for everything and everthing in its place as it were. Now for how this is pertinent to your argument. I don't think that the world became unbalanced because of too much OP and not enought TP, I think that it became too unbalanced, because the goodtimes of the AoL lessened the amount of Evil loose in the world, and there was enough evil to balance the good, therefore the pattern moved to correct this imbalance, and used Lanfear and Biedemon to turn on the Evil spicket. I think that the breaking, the taint on Saidin, the weakening of the seals over the last age, and ultimately TG were intended by the pattern to let in a little evil to rebalance the pattern, once enough evil is let back in, once enough people remember the DO, then the pattern can act through Rand to shut off the Evil spicket permanently, or at least until the pattern needs to rebalance. That's just my take on it though. RJ attempted to make his world very logical, even with the inclusion of "magic". Unlike some other fantasy authors I could mention, he went to great lengths to ensure that everything makes sense, and that everything had its logical connection to the whole. Furthermore, he had stated that he already knew the end when he wrote the beginning. This implies that it was already a story with inherent logical symmetry. He also frequently leaves us to figure out things based on dialogue and events without explicitly spelling everything out for us (especially after TDR), and he likes to connect the loose ends that have had lots of word-time. Yet we really don't have any idea how the Bore will be fixed at this point except for wild guesses, unless we start looking at loose ends and things that don't quite fit anywhere. I don't think RJ would ever wrap up this epic without dropping some hints well in advance of the last book. Harid Fel (who merely happens to be a philosopher like Ishamael) is inexplicably murdered—by the gholam no less! Judging from his dialogues with Rand we know that he was attempting to see the "big picture" surrounding the Wheel and the Dark One. Furthermore, if Fel wasn't important, why would RJ have Min take up where Fel left off? This is clearly something we are supposed to notice that leaves us scratching our heads. Along with Fel’s and Min’s musings on the Wheel are also those other loose ideas that include Loial’s Tree-singing, the Way of the Leaf, Fain’s “different” evil, and the as-yet-unfulfilled prophesies concerning Rand and the Aiel. (The Chora tree and even the Greenman’s Gove could still figure in there too, but they may have already played out their part.) Look to these and how they could fit together for an idea of what happens at TG. It is pretty easy to think of the Creator and the DO in terms of good and evil, but I don't think that it is the right way to view these things. I think that it is better to think of the creator as the force of order, and the DO as the force of chaos. Actually Order and Chaos are precisely how I see them, too. These are the same forces that underly the real world, after all. "Good versus Evil" is a narrative device. Kaznen - Member Kaznen I'm going to have to go with my Divine Power theory. The DP is the Creator's version of the TP. All the forsaken have mentioned that they are unable to channel the OP at SG without the DO's permission. That is a pretty big hurdle to overcome if it effects Rand. However the DO has no power over the Creator. And also, it has been shown that the OP can't do it. The DO's prison needs to be rebuilt. Remember the discussion with Master Fel in LoC. The creator is going to have to step in during some age to complety imprison the DO, sealing him off from the world long enough so he could be forgotten. Oh, and another reason why the Power has to go: it is a highly addictive drug. The drug metaphor isn't a metaphor--it is literal. The only difference is that some drugs make you feel powerful, where the Power actually does make you powerful. I seem to remember something about power corrupting... :) Well, you can't just leave that stuff around. It's far too dangerous. When people are on the Power, they do really sick and destructive things and don't seem to care so much--even the good guys. Toss a firestorm into a courtyard and hope to hit your enemy? Sure! Destroy half of Rhuidean? Why not?! Try to raise the dead? Go for it! No wonder Aes Sedai can be turned to the Dark One. They are already addicts. They will find an even better high with something stronger. The True Power is the crack cocaine of Power. You probably could raise the dead with it, considering the source. And then go completely loopy and believe you are the Dark One. Andrew the Great - Member Andrew the Great Ummmmmmm....... as far as we can tell, the TP is the DO's version of the OP,and the Creator's version IS the one power. The Forsaken are able to channel at SG, they just don't because the DO is a paranoid control freak who will tear them to shreds if they do. Ummmmmm... When has it been shown that the OP "can't do it?" And what does this have to do with Fel? When LTT sealed the bore, it was only men that did it. I'm fairly sure that the generally accepted theory is that the bore could be completely (perfectly) sealed if both male and female channelers were to take part. As for the creator taking part, there is that whole thread about the creator speaking to Rand in EotW. Most agreed that this was the case when you hear that big voice in all caps, almost certainly not the DO, saying I WILL TAKE NO PART. ONLY THE CHOSEN ONE CAN DO WHAT MUST BE DONE, IF HE WILL. or something like that. I don't have the book with me. But assuming that this is the creator, then it's pretty clear that he's not gonna do anything, and it's pretty much up to Rand. The winds of Time - Member The winds of Time Ok first thing; big caps could mean the creator talking but untill there is proof many are going to be skeptical, it could be a saying by LTT for all we know kinda like the sayings of shinear (sp?) "duty is heavyer than a mountain, death is lighter than a feather" we dont know if it is the creator, the DO or LTT so that route is a treatorus one. 2. the theory of balance between chaos and order i feel is right on the money, in the sense of the bore where it is the "spicket" of evil to balance the good of the AoL, but think of this the Aes Sedi symbol is practiclly a yin-yang symbol, yin-yang represent balance between order and chaos. Turn your eyes to the differences of channeling Sadiar and Sadin, sadiar the female half is directing and submitting to the power and guiding it to do what you want, Sadin the male half, a bloody firestorm of ice, fire, and torrents of pure natural force that has to be manhandled by men to make them do what you want. see a simalarity, if you dont let me make it easy, Saidar=yin or order Sadin= yang or chaos. the balance between these powers made great wonders such as the white tower. so naturally it is assumed that the OP is going to be a deciding factor, the TP could be an outside source of the pattern drawn off of the DO because he is the CLOSEST one to it because he is stuck in that bore. so the TP could be tainted directly from him instead of the "oil on the water" second hand taint on Saidin, also the DO is the embodyment of chaos so thats why it was easy for him to taint Saidin at a touch. 3. the song must be the key because it is such a reoccuring theme in the book, the aiel sing into battle and when accepting pain if possible, Ogrier tree singers sing to trees and harmonize with the essence of the tree to form other things, and the Tinkers seek the song which it could mean that they connect it, they are peaceful like the ogrier, and the Aiel seperated off of the tinkers out of nessesity to protect themselves and were banished to the Three fold land because the final wish of a Aes Sedi was follow the way of the leaf. now throw in channeling by both men and women (two halves of the same coin as stated by 2) to amplify the song to be strong enough to take effect. Now the big quiz time is could the song be a calling to the pattern to weave itself backtogether, or a calling to the creator himself? the song could be like a becon to awake the creator to take hand in fixing the DO's prison. Overveiw of my theory: Saidin and Saidar are two sides of the power that balance each other out in terms of chaos and order, as such the two together can really pull in a play to AMoL. and the song that has been shattered and could peiced together by the Tinkers to link Ogrier tree singing to Aiel battle singing and the dragons blood prophecy is submitted by death of Aiel in the joining of the song, this maginified by the OP used by both Men and women (Yin and Yang) could possibly summon the creator from a slumber or whatever he was doing to fix the DO's prison. RobertAlexWillis - Member RobertAlexWillis On a purely philosophical note, I don't personally think that the Dark One is a balancing force in the Pattern. The Creator made it with an inherent balance ... the two opposing halves of the Power that also work together to turn the Wheel. The world is balanced just fine without Shai'tan ... whose influence leads not to balance, apparently, but seeks total chaos. For that reason, I disagree with the idea that there is a "Divine Power" for the Light. There is just the One Power, which the Creator has given many people access to, for use according to their own free will, just like everything else he made. The "Song" is not a specific song which has been lost, but a Talent ... an ability. And nothing in the descriptions we have of it indicates that it can be used to restore the Bore to its original condition. I have stated the opinion elsewhere that the Pattern is perfectly capable of Healing itself, probably in a matter of instants, if the Dark One's influence is removed. Small tears in the Pattern caused by Travelling gateways are fixed all the time, instantly. The Bore can be compared to a wound in the fabric of the Pattern ... but as soon as it was opened, the Dark One stuck his "fingertip" into it, so that it could not close. The seal could be compared to a band-aid that covered it, but didn't fix the problem ... and the didn't push the Dark One's "fingertip" out. In order to push the Dark One's "fingertip" out, Rand will have to first destroy the seals (take off the band-aid), and then, probably using the One Power, push the Dark One back out of the Pattern. I imagine this is what will kill him. He will probably need some element of saidar in his battle ... Mierin needed both saidar and saidin to open the Bore ... which is how Alivia will "help him die": she'll link with him and give him access to saidar. Once Rand has pushed the Dark One out of the way, the Pattern can probably fix itself. If it does need some help, the presence of two other ta'veren (who pull the "threads" of the Pattern together around them) will probably do the trick. Where the rediscovery of the "Song" will be pertinent and extremely useful, will be in helping the world recover after Tarmon Gai'don is over. It is possible that Perrin will be involved in this somehow. Not only is he personally linked to one aspect of nature (being a Wolfbrother), but he has been involved with the Tinkers (who are actively seeking the "Song" and seem to have the best temperament to be able to use it) since TEoTW, and Min has a viewing of him in which "trees are flowering all around him". (TEoTW ch 15) This matches the descriptions of the "song" which we do have: helping things, specifically plants, to grow and flourish. There is also the symbolism of Perrin choosing the Hammer over the Axe. An axe is a symbol of destruction, and of death. 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__label__cc	0.748926	0.251074	SNSD (Girl’s Generation) “You Think” MV/Song Review! hayleighMV/Song Reviews!girls generation, korean music, kpop, mv/song review, snsd, you thinkLeave a comment Okay, this may be one of my favourite songs from SNSD, as well as one of my favourite MV’s. This was so good! Loving this style for them~ From the MV, I didn’t really get any kind of story, just that these women weren’t here to play and had the elegant/sexy/tough concept that I love when girl groups do! ^^)b However, the use of the apple and the nails inside, I gathered that this was about either not wanting someone’s love or how someone had hurt them. But because of the tougher style, I’m leaning more to the former. Also, apples have been used to represent hearts a lot in kpop, the one that comes to mind first is ‘Heartbreaker’ by GD. The English lyrics in the song were good for a better understanding: “You think ya real cool Ya Think ya real coo-o-ol That’s just what you think Boy, You ain’t cooler than me, Nah” (You can see the rest here). Looking at the rest of the lyrics, I feel that the man in the past relationship made it a hard breakup/after breakup time. But now they are coming after them again, disregarding what they have previously said and these women are having none of it! Rightly so~ The Vocals: Of course, the main singers: TaeYeon, Tiffany and SeoHyun were wonderful. I will say I’m becoming more and more in love with TaeYeon’s voice recently. However, I just want to give a standing ovation to whoever made this song. SooYoung’s and HyoYeon’s rap part where SooYoung was great and then it went straight to HyoYeon, whose rap was a little faster and more rough. Loved it ♥ And Sunny! She was fantastic! This more mature and pop/hip-hop vibe really works well with her voice. The harmonisation at the end was also really good and having so many different lines and styles wasn’t overpowering, but made a great ending to the song. I actually really like this MV. The darker colours aren’t really something to expect when you go to watch a SNSD MV. These colours are more likely to be seen in male group MV’s concerning SM (not that they have many artists at the moment went there). Mixing the darker, tougher landscape with the feminine colourful boudoir-type set was great. Also the orange screens made for a nice interlude of colour. The Dance: Also, well done to the choreographer! This reminded me kind of like a sexier ‘I Got A Boy’ feel. The leg spread in here matched the music and the tone of the MV, which is why I have no problem with it, like I did in ‘Lion Heart’. The stand out dancers for me in this MV were YuRi, SooYoung and of course HyoYeon, which makes sense!~ I did feel that Sunny did really well. This type of style really suits a lot of the members. I did think that in some parts, while watching SeoHyun, that this was perhaps not so up her alley. The split/crawl thing was something I felt uncomfortable watching and was concerned because it didn’t look comfortable at all! However, saying that, this is a style that I hope SM keeps giving them! They are grown women and I think that this style could be good at maturing their concept, allowing for their growth and ensuring they stay relevant (not that this will be a problem any time soon though~). Star Ratings: Understandable Story-line: 3/5☆ Dance: 4/5☆ Video Production: 4/5☆ Vocals: 5/5☆ Overall Package: 7/10☆ CNBLUE – “Cinderella” MV/Song review! “28.09.15 – 04.10.15″ – I May Not Be Here Very Regularly… I’m A Student now!”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line723
__label__cc	0.623107	0.376893	What is Equine Guelph Education MAINPAGE Why Equine Guelph Diploma in Equine Studies Equine Science Certificate Certificate in Equine Business Management Equine Welfare Certificate EquiMania! Healthy Lands for Healthy Horses Equine Welfare Program Equine Resource Store eCommunications eCommunications Sign-up HEALTHflash Archives Worms and Germs Blog JOBTRACK JobTrack MAINPAGE View JobTrack Postings Add a JobTrack Posting Why Support Equine Guelph? Hoofprints Tribute Program Donate Your Product Vet Donation Info and Form January 2021January 2021 December 2020December 2020 November 2020November 2020 Fuelling Wellness Symposium was a HitDecember 2020 Equine Financial Futures Webinar Series E-Communications Sign-up Sign-up Share Following the Hoof Prints of Horse HistoryNovember 2012 By Barbara Sheridan Guelph, Ontario – November 12, 2012 – As long as humans and horses have worked together, people have realized the need to refine and adapt their animal husbandry techniques. But preparing for the future often means reviewing and appreciating the past. Equine Guelph, University of Guelph, encourages students to examine the evolutional history of horses, their domestication, and the impact on the human-horse relationship of today with its online course, The Equine Industry. With a glance to the past, students will learn about various aspects of the horse industry - both racing and non-racing - and consider the type of industry we want to build for the future explains course instructor Gayle Ecker, Director of Equine Guelph. “Students will gain an appreciation of the whole horse industry from ‘40,000 feet,’ along with its accomplishments and its challenges,” says Ecker. “Many of us in the horse industry stay in our discipline ‘silos’ and do not get the chance to understand the issues faced by other sectors of the industry, many of which are shared challenges. The way forward would benefit from us working together as a whole industry.” Through this 12-week online course, The Equine Industry will also provide students with a look at the various roles played by the horse throughout history such as work and warfare, and allow students to seek out information about the different sectors of the industry today and the principle challenges that are currently facing the industry. Students will also benefit from key guest speakers who will share their passion for equines of the past, including Dr. Jeff Thomason, a researcher at the University of Guelph, who will discuss the evolutionary changes to the horse’s hoof and its implications; Derek Nelson, a Historical Military Strategist to discuss the role of the horse in the military; and Dr. Sandra L. Olsen, Director of the Center for World Cultures at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where students will learn of the first evidence of domestication in horses. “Scientists and the public at large gain a more thorough understanding of the critical roles that horses have played in human culture through the discoveries made in recent years by various researchers in molecular biology, archaeology, anthropology, history and other related fields,” says Dr. Olsen, an archaeologist whose research has focused on the horse and human relationship through time. Olsen is currently investigating images of horses in rock art in Saudi Arabia, which is featured at http://Saudi-Archaeology.com. “Horses have made a tremendous impact on humanity, particularly in the areas of transportation, trade, work, the transmittal of language and technology, religion, accumulation of wealth, sports, and most notably, warfare and conquest,” she says. The Equine Industry is just one of many courses offered online starting January 2013 through the continuing education program at the University of Guelph. Other courses offered in Equine Guelph’s Winter 2013 lineup include: • Equine Functional Anatomy, • Equine Behaviour, • Management of the Equine Environment, • Equine Nutrition, and • Marketing and Communications in the Equine Industry. Registration is now open, with early bird registration ending December 7, 2012. Courses run from January 7 to March 31, 2013. For more information, please contact the: Centre for Open Learning and Educational Support, call 519-767-5000 or visit www.equinestudiesdiploma.com. Equine Guelph is the horse owners’ and care givers’ Centre at the University of Guelph. It is a unique partnership dedicated to the health and well-being of horses, supported and overseen by equine industry groups. Equine Guelph is the epicenter for academia, industry and government – for the good of the equine industry as a whole. For further information, visit www.equineguelph.ca. About The Centre of Open Learning and Education Support The Centre for Open Learning and Educational Support provides expertise and leadership to the University of Guelph community and our partners in the following: the scholarship and practice of teaching, technology-enhanced education, open learning and professional development. We provide support for teaching and learning that is evidence-based, responsive, developmental, and based on best practices. © Equine Guelph \| University of Guelph \| Ontario \| Canada \| N1G 2W1 \| Tel: 519.824.4120 ext. 54205	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line730
__label__wiki	0.683427	0.683427	Home Apple News Tonight’s ‘Black-ish’ to Deal with Pain & Confusion Over Trump Election By EURPublisher01 BLACK-ISH – “LEMONS” – YARA SHAHIDI, TRACEE ELLIS ROSS Tonight, the characters on ABC’s “Black-ish” will deal with the fact that Donald Trump has been elected president. Dre (Anthony Anderson) and his colleagues and family react with stunned pain and confusion in an episode written and directed by the show’s creator, Kenya Barris. Tensions are particularly high at Dre’s work. Much to his frustration, they haven’t been able to get anything done since election night – eight weeks ago. Meanwhile, Junior is dealing with a disenfranchised student body as class president, and when he is asked to deliver Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at school, Pops (Laurence Fishburne) teaches him there is more to the speech than Junior thought. LAURENCE FISHBURNE, MARCUS SCRIBNER in Black-ish “I thought it spoke to a majority of the people that I knew, in terms of their shock and utter disbelief that Donald Trump is our president-elect, based on everything leading up to the election — the things that he said, the things that he tweeted,” Anderson said of the script in an interview with Variety. The episode, titled “Lemons,” “spoke to those concerns, spoke to those questions, spoke to that disbelief, spoke to that trepidation that people have going forward,” Anderson added. “It captured not only the voice of Andre, but also the voice of concerned Americans, and the voice of those who are also pro-Trump. This isn’t an anti-Trump script at all. It’s just a script about our reality in terms of what this election meant to us and what it means moving forward for the next four years.” Below, more details of tonight’s episode via Variety: Barris locked himself away over the Thanksgiving weekend to pen the script. For the first time, he’s both writing and directing an installment of the comedy — that’s how important this episode is to him. As is typical on “Black-ish,” the half-hour explores all points of view: Members of the Johnson family and employees at Dre’s workplace air strong and distinct perspectives — and they also hear from a Trump voter. Johnson family members share their opinions about the election — and Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) tries to make a difference by giving money to environmentally and socially aware charities, so much so that her wardrobe consists of giveaway swag. But much of the episode takes place at Dre’s workplace, the advertising agency Lido and Stevens, as employees try to process the results of the vote. “That office is a microcosm of the world in which we live,” Anderson says. WANDA SYKES, ALLEN MALDONADO, ANTHONY ANDERSON, DEON COLE The cascading and colliding reactions at the ad firm reflect what happened in the “Black-ish” writers’ room after Nov. 8, recalls Barris. “We all were downloading our feelings and our anger and our emotions, and there was a day I kind of snapped,” Barris says. “I was as upset as anyone. And I felt like I was talking to people who, for the most part, had never taken a gut punch, in terms of what this country had presented to them. I snapped in a way to say, ‘Snap out of it. This is the time to stop pouting and complaining, and let’s go do something about it.’” “Everybody wants to get into a fight until they get hit,” Barris adds. “And I was like, ‘We got hit. Now you’ve got 12 more rounds. 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__label__wiki	0.636699	0.636699	When a COVID-19 patient dies, this is what the doctor's phone call to family looks like Published Sunday, November 22, 2020 1:16PM MST Last Updated Monday, November 23, 2020 12:36PM MST EDMONTON -- It happens roughly once a week. The conversation goes something like this: Dr. Simon Demers-Marcil ensures the person on the other end of the line is somewhere safe, perhaps, not behind the wheel of a vehicle. Then, he breaks the news as respectfully as possible. “There's no nice way to say it. The news is bad,” he told CTV News Edmonton. “You usually just say that you have bad news and then you go on to say that the patient and their loved one has died.” Typically, the conversation is private. But on Friday, thousands of others heard the Alberta doctor’s message. That day, the province’s COVID-19 death tally rose to 462. In the days since, the count has risen to 471. One of Demers-Marcil’s ICU patients was among those who succumbed to the disease. While he was on the phone informing the patient’s family, his photograph was taken, unbeknownst to him and posted to social media on Friday. In the picture, Demers-Marcil is on his knees. One hand cradles his head while the other holds the phone to his ear. “I’m not an artist,” he told CTV News Edmonton. “But I guess I was impressed by the emotion that the picture conveyed. Looking at it from a third-person perspective and forgetting it was me in the picture.” As of Friday, 462 people had died of COVID-19 in Alberta. In this picture, ICU physician Dr. Simon Demers-Marcil calls a family to tell them a loved one died of COVID-19. Help prevent the spread of #COVID19ab by following all public health measures: https://t.co/C0V22rhMrD pic.twitter.com/EuVvcfV1Jh — Alberta Health Services (@AHS_media) November 21, 2020 These kinds of conversations aren’t unfamiliar to the respirologist at Calgary’s Peter Lougheed Centre, who has been trained in how to tell someone their loved one has died. But the pandemic has changed the duty. More often now, the conversation happens over the phone. In the exceptional case family has been allowed in the hospital, their grief and that of the staff is masked – literally. Frequently, the patient died alone. To care for someone and share in their last moments is an equally stressful and rewarding responsibility, Demers-Marcil said. “I'm just so grateful some people are able to relate to the some of the emotions that we feel as health care workers on a daily basis,” he told CTV News Edmonton. “Everyone feels the weight of this pandemic after the many months that we've been in this… “And I hope that they understand that they have an impact, too.” As of Saturday, the province had 11,274 active cases. Since the start of the pandemic, Alberta has counted in total 45,300 of Canada’s 322,100 COVID-19 cases. With files from CTV News Edmonton's Nicole Weisberg Respirologist Dr. Simon Demers-Marcil was photographed telling a patient's family they died from COVID-19. The photo was taken by Leah Hennel, a senior advisor within the Community Engagement and Communications team at AHS. (Courtesy: Twitter / Alberta Health Services)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line737
__label__wiki	0.803069	0.803069	Home Latest Education News National News WAEC elects Gambian as Chairman WAEC elects Gambian as Chairman The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has elected a Gambian, Baboucarr Bouy as its new Governing Council Chairman. He emerged elected at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Council in Banjul, The Gambia. With his election, Mr Bouy is the 19th Chairman of the sub-regional organisation. His election is for a three-year tenure in line with the Council’s Convention. He succeeds Dr. D. Evelyn S. Kandakai of Liberia, who was elected in March 2015. EduCeleb.com reports that the Council, which is the governing board of WAEC, holds its yearly meeting in rotation among the five member countries, which are The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The meeting was held in 2017 in Nigeria and it will be the turn of Serra Leone to host in 2019 and Liberia in 2020. A statement signed the Head of Public Affairs at the WAEC Headquarters in Ghana, Abiodun Aduloju indicated that the 66th Meeting, which was held from Monday, 19th to Friday, 23rd March 2018, was declared open by the President of the Republic of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, who was represented by his deputy, Hajia Fatoumata Tambajang. ALSO READ: WAEC GCE 2018 Jan/Feb Registration Form: Details & Guidelines In his keynote address, President Barrow welcomed the delegates to his country dubbed “the Smiling Coast of Africa”. Mr Aduloju quoted the Gambian leader as describing WAEC as a unique institution within the West African sub-region and the comity of assessment boards which had consistently played prominent roles in educational reforms and development in the member countries. He added that Barrow expressed delight that the Council was set to conduct the maiden edition of the Gambia Basic Education Certificate Examination (GABECE) for Private Candidates in December 2018. That examination would offer a number of students the opportunity to further their education beyond Grade 9. Government to pay examination fees The President also reportedly disclosed that his government had taken over the payment of examination fees at both Basic and Secondary Education levels in The Gambia so as to expand access for all. He gave the assurance that the fees would be remitted promptly to WAEC to guarantee quality service delivery. He also assured the stakeholders that his government would fulfil its financial commitments to the Council despite the prevailing economic situation. He decried the spate of malpractice in public examinations, adding that his government was collaborating with the Council to implement a number of measures against the evil. ALSO READ: Buhari signs bill establishing two tertiary institutions He then urged other member governments to maintain zero tolerance for examination fraud by relentlessly waging a war against the menace. Previous articleSSCE sufficient for university admission, UTME needless – Don Next articleList of Nigerian universities that accept IJMB for 200 level admission Kano approves N32.4m for NECO, WASSCE, NBAIS Ghanaian student emerges best in Nigeria WASSCE 2020 WASSCE: Resolutions reached at WAEC NEC meeting WAEC NEC meets on withheld results in 2020 WASSCE WAEC postpones private candidates WASSCE	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line738
__label__cc	0.536019	0.463981	Datamining Pokémon A kind anonymous patron offers this prompt, which I totally fucked up getting done in July: Something to do with programming languages? Alternatively, interesting game mechanics! It’s been a while since I’ve written a thing about programming languages, eh? But I feel like I’ve run low on interesting things to say about them. And I just did that level design article, which already touched on some interesting game mechanics… oh dear. Okay, how about this. It’s something I’ve been neck-deep in for quite some time, and most of the knowledge is squirrelled away in obscure wikis and ancient forum threads: getting data out of Pokémon games. I think that preserves the spirit of your two options, since it’s sort of nestled in a dark corner between how programming languages work and how game mechanics are implemented. A few disclaimers In the grand scheme of things, I don’t know all that much about this. I know more than people who’ve never looked into it at all, which I suppose is most people — but there are also people who basically do this stuff full-time, and that experience is crucial since so much of this work comes down to noticing patterns. While it sure helped to have a technical background, I wouldn’t have gotten anywhere at all if I weren’t acquainted with a few people who actually know what they’re doing. Most of what I’ve done is take their work and run with it. Also, I am not a lawyer and cannot comment on any legal questions here. Is it okay to download ROMs of games you own? Is it okay to dump ROMs yourself if you have the hardware? Does this count as reverse engineering, and do the DMCA protections apply? I have no idea. But that said, it’s not exactly hard to find ROM hacking communities, and there’s no way Nintendo isn’t aware of them (or of the fact that every single Pokémon fansite gets their info from ROMs), so I suspect Nintendo simply doesn’t care unless something risks going mainstream — and thus putting a tangible dent in the market for their own franchise. Still, I don’t want to direct an angry legal laser at anyone, so I’m going to be a bit selective about what resources I link to and what I merely allude to the existence of. Some basics This is, necessarily, a pretty technical topic. It starts out in binary data and spirals down into microscopic details that even most programmers don’t need to care about. Sometimes people approach me to ask how they can help with this work, and all I can do is imagine the entire contents of this post and shrug helplessly. Still, as usual, I’ll do my best to make this accessible without also making it a 500-page introduction to all of computing. Here is some helpful background stuff that would be clumsy to cram into the rest of the post. Computers deal in bytes. Pop culture likes to depict computers as working in binary (individual bits or “binary digits”), which is technically true down on the level of the circuitry, but virtually none of the actual logic in a computer cares about individual bits. In fact, computers can’t access individual bits directly; they can only fetch bytes, then extract bits from those bytes as a separate step. A byte is made of eight bits, which gives it 2⁸ or 256 possible values. It’s helpful to see what a byte is, but writing them in decimal is a bit clumsy, and writing them in binary is impossible to read. A clever compromise is to write them in hexadecimal, base sixteen, where the digits run from 0 to 9 and then A to F. Because sixteen is 2⁴, one hex digit is exactly four binary digits, and so a byte can conveniently be written as exactly two hex digits. (A running theme across all of this is that many of the choices are arbitrary; in different times or places, other choices may have been made. Most likely, other choices were made, and they’re still in use somewhere. Virtually the only reliable constant is that any computer you will ever encounter will have bytes made out of eight bits. But even that wasn’t always the case.) The Unix program xxd will print out bytes in a somewhat readable way. Here’s its output for a short chunk of English text. 00000000: 5468 6520 7175 6963 6b20 6272 6f77 6e20 The quick brown 00000010: 666f 7820 6a75 6d70 7320 6f76 6572 2074 fox jumps over t 00000020: 6865 206c 617a 7920 646f 6727 7320 6261 he lazy dog's ba 00000030: 636b 2e0a ck.. Each line shows sixteen bytes. The left column shows the position (or “offset”) in the data, in hex. (It starts at zero, because programmers like to start counting at zero; it makes various things easier.) The middle column shows the bytes themselves, written as two hex digits each, with just enough space that you can tell where the boundaries between bytes are. The right column shows the bytes interpreted as ASCII text, with any non-characters replaced with a .. (ASCII is a character encoding, a way to represent text as bytes — which are only numbers — by listing a set of characters in some order and then assigning numbers to them. Text crops up in a lot of formats, and this makes it easy to spot at a glance. Alas, ASCII is only one of many schemes, and it only really works for English text, but it’s the most common character encoding by far and has some overlap with the runners-up as well.) Since everything is made out of bytes, there are an awful lot of schemes for how to express various kinds of information as bytes. As a result, a byte is meaningless on its own; it only has meaning when something else interprets it. It might be a plain number ranging from 0 to 255; it might be a plain number ranging from −128 to 127; it might be part of a bigger number that spans multiple bytes; it might be several small numbers crammed into one byte; it might be part of a color value; it might be a letter. A meaningful arrangement for a whole sequence of bytes is loosely referred to as a format. If it’s intended for an entire file, it’s a file format. A file containing only bytes that are intended as text is called a plain text file (or format); this is in contrast to a binary file, which is basically anything else. Some file formats are very common and well-understood, like PNG or MP3. Some are very common but were invented behind closed doors, like Photoshop’s PSD, so they’ve had to be reverse engineered for other software to be able to read and write them. And a great many file formats are obscure and ad hoc, invented only for use by one piece of software. Programmers invent file formats all the time. Reverse engineering a format is largely a matter of identifying common patterns and finding data that’s expected to be present somewhere. Of course, in cases like Photoshop’s PSD, the most productive approach is to make small changes to a file in Photoshop and then see what changed in the resulting PSD. That’s not always an option — say, if you’re working with a game for a handheld that won’t let you easily run modified games. Okay, hopefully that’s enough of that and you can pick up the rest along the way! Before Diamond and Pearl, all of veekun’s data was just copied from other sources. Like, when I was in high school, I would spend lunch in the computer lab meticulously copy/pasting the Gold and Silver Pokédex text from another website into mine. Hey, I started the thing when I was 12. But then… something happened. I can’t remember what it was, which makes this a much less compelling story. I assume veekun got popular enough that a couple other Pokénerds found out about it and started hanging around. Then when Diamond and Pearl came out, they started digging into the games, and I thought that was super interesting, so I did it too. This is what led veekun into being much more about ripped data, though its track record has been… bumpy. The Nintendo DS header and filesystem Everything in a computer is, on some level, a sequence of bytes. Game consoles and handhelds, being computers, also deal in bytes. A game cartridge is just a custom disk, and a ROM is a file containing all the bytes on that disk. (It’s a specific case of a disk image, like an ISO is for CDs and DVDs. You can take a disk image of a hard drive or a floppy disk or anything else, too; they’re all just bytes.) But what are those bytes? That’s the fundamental and pervasive question. In the case of a Nintendo DS cartridge, the first thing I learned was that they’re arranged in a filesystem. Most disks have a filesystem — it’s like a table of contents for the disk, explaining how the one single block of bytes is divided into named files. That is fantastically useful, and I didn’t even have to figure out how it works, because other people already had. Let’s have a look at it, because seeing binary formats is the best way to get an idea of how they might be designed. Here’s the beginning of the English version of Pokémon Diamond. 00000000: 504f 4b45 4d4f 4e20 4400 0000 4144 4145 POKEMON D...ADAE 00000010: 3031 0000 0900 0000 0000 0000 0000 0500 01.............. 00000020: 0040 0000 0008 0002 0000 0002 2477 1000 .@..........$w.. 00000030: 00d0 3000 0000 3802 0000 3802 1c93 0200 ..0...8...8..... 00000040: 0064 3300 7f15 0000 007a 3300 200b 0000 .d3......z3. ... 00000050: 00b8 1000 e00a 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 00000060: 5766 4100 f808 1808 0086 3300 3159 7e0d WfA.......3.1Y~. 00000070: 740a 0002 5801 3802 0000 0000 0000 0000 t...X.8......... 00000080: c05e a503 0040 0000 684b 0000 0000 0000 .^...@..hK...... 00000090: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 000000a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 000000b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 000000c0: 24ff ae51 699a a221 3d84 820a 84e4 09ad $..Qi..!=....... 000000d0: 1124 8b98 c081 7f21 a352 be19 9309 ce20 .$.....!.R..... 000000e0: 1046 4a4a f827 31ec 58c7 e833 82e3 cebf .FJJ.'1.X..3.... 000000f0: 85f4 df94 ce4b 09c1 9456 8ac0 1372 a7fc .....K...V...r.. How do we make sense of this? Let us consult the little tool I started writing for this, porigon-z. It’s abandoned and unfinished and not terribly well-written; I would just link to the documentation I consulted when writing this, but it’s conspicuously 404ing now, so this’ll have to do. I described the format using an old version of the Construct binary format parsing library, and it looks like this: nds_image_struct = Struct('nds_image', String('title', 12), String('id', 4), ULInt16('publisher_code'), ULInt8('unit_code'), ULInt8('device_code'), ULInt8('card_size'), String('card_info', 10), ULInt8('flags'), A String is text of a fixed length, either truncated or padded with NULs (character zero) to fit. The clumsy ULInt16 means an Unsigned, Little-endian, 16-bit (two byte) integer. (What does little-endian mean? I’m glad you asked! When a number spans multiple bytes, there’s a choice to be made: what order do those bytes go in? The way we write numbers is big-endian, where the biggest part appears first; but most computers are little-endian, putting the smallest part first. That means a number like 0x1234 is actually stored in two bytes as 34 12.) Alas, this is a terrible example, since most of this is goofy internal stuff we don’t actually care about. The interesting bit is the “file table”. A little ways down my description of the format is this block of ULInt32s, which start at position 0x40 in the file. file_table_offset 00 64 33 00 = 0x00336400 file_table_length 7f 15 00 00 = 0x0000157f (5503) fat_offset 00 7a 33 00 = 0x00337a00 fat_length 20 0b 00 00 = 0x00000b20 (2848) Excellent. Now we know that if we start at 0x00336400 and read 5503 bytes, we’ll have the entire filename table. 003363f0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ................ 00336400: 2802 0000 5700 4500 cd02 0000 5700 00f0 (...W.E.....W... 00336410: f502 0000 5700 01f0 fd02 0000 5700 02f0 ....W.......W... 00336420: 0b03 0000 5800 01f0 3203 0000 5a00 01f0 ....X...2...Z... 00336430: 3e03 0000 5a00 05f0 7b03 0000 5d00 00f0 >...Z...{...]... 00336440: cf03 0000 6300 00f0 f403 0000 6300 08f0 ....c.......c... 00336450: 0b04 0000 6500 08f0 5804 0000 6a00 08f0 ....e...X...j... 00336610: 0f15 0000 5d01 41f0 4315 0000 6101 41f0 ....].A.C...a.A. 00336620: 6a15 0000 6301 41f0 8b61 7070 6c69 6361 j...c.A..applica 00336630: 7469 6f6e 01f0 8361 7263 07f0 8662 6174 tion...arc...bat 00336640: 746c 6508 f087 636f 6e74 6573 740d f084 tle...contest... 00336650: 6461 7461 10f0 8464 656d 6f13 f083 6477 data...demo...dw 00336660: 631d f089 6669 656c 6464 6174 611e f087 c...fielddata... 00336670: 6772 6170 6869 632c f088 6974 656d 746f graphic,..itemto I included one previous line for context; starting right after a whole bunch of ffs or 00s is a pretty good sign, since those are likely to be junk used to fill space. So we’re probably in the right place, or at least a right place. Also we’re definitely in the right place since I already know porigon-z works, but, you know. The beginning part of this is a bunch of numbers that start out relatively low and gradually get bigger. That’s a pretty good indication of an offset table — a list of “where this thing starts” and “how long it is”, just like the offset/length pairs that pointed us here in the first place. The only difference here is that we have a whole bunch of them. And porigon-z confirms that this is a list of: ULInt32('offset'), ULInt16('top_file_id'), ULInt16('parent_directory_id'), My code does a bit more than this, but I don’t want this post to be about the intricacies of an old version of Construct. The short version is that each entry is eight bytes long and corresponds to a directory; this list actually describes the directory tree. Decoding the first few produces: offset 00000228, top file id 0057, parent id 0045 offset 000002cd, top file id 0057, parent id f000 offset 000002f5, top file id 0057, parent id f001 offset 000002fd, top file id 0057, parent id f002 Again, we encounter some mild weirdness. The parent ids seem to count upwards, except for the first one, and where did that f come from? It turns out that for the first record only — which is the root directory and therefore has no parent — the parent id is actually the total number of records to read. So there are 0x0045 or 69 records here. As for the f, well, I have no idea! I just discard it entirely when linking directories together. So let’s fully decode entry 3 (the fourth one, since we started at zero). It has offset 0x000002fd, which is relative to where the table starts, so we need to add that to 0x00336400 to get 0x003366fd. We don’t have a length, but starting from there we see: 003366f0: 0c 6362 .cb 00336700: 5f64 6174 612e 6e61 7263 000f 7769 6669 _data.narc..wifi 00336710: 5f65 6172 7468 2e6e 6172 6315 7769 6669 _earth.narc.wifi 00336720: 5f65 6172 7468 5f70 6c61 6365 2e6e 6172 _earth_place.nar I called the structure here a filename_list_struct. Also, as I read this code, I really wish I’d made it more sensible; sorry, I guess I’ll clean it up when I get around to re-ripping gen 4. The Construct code is a bit goofy, but the idea is: Read a byte. If it’s zero, stop here. Otherwise, the top bit is a flag indicating whether this entry is a directory; the rest is a length. The next length bytes are the filename. Iff this is a directory, the next two bytes are the directory id. (Ah yes, bits and flags. A flag is something that can only be true or false, so it really only needs one bit to store. So programmers like to cram flags into the same byte as other stuff to save space. Computers can’t examine individual bits directly, but it’s easy to manipulate them from code with a little math. Of course, using 1 bit for a flag means only 7 are left for the length, so it’s limited to 127 instead of 255.) Let’s try this. The first byte is 0c. I can tell you right away that the top bit is zero; if the top bit is one, then the first hex digit will be 8 or greater. So this is just a file, and it’s 0c or 12 bytes long. The next twelve bytes are cb_data.narc, so that’s the filename. Repeat from the beginning: the next byte is 00, which is zero, so we’re done. This directory only contains a single file, cb_data.narc. But wait, what is this directory? We know its id is 3; its name would appear somewhere in the filename list for its parent directory, 2, along with an extra two bytes indicating it matches to directory 3. To get the name for directory 2, we’d consult directory 1; and directory 1’s parent is directory 0. Directory 0 is the root, which is just / and has no name, so at that point we’re done. Of course, if we read all these filename lists in order rather than skipping straight to the third one, then we’d have already seen all these names and wouldn’t have to look them up. One final question: where’s the data? All we have are filenames. It turns out the data is in a totally separate table at fat_offset — “FAT” is short for “file allocation table”. That’s a vastly simpler list of pairs of start offset and end offset, giving the positions of the individual files, and nothing else. All we have to do is match up the filenames to those offset pairs. This is where the “top file id” comes in: it’s the id of the first file in the directory, and the others count up from there. This directory’s top file id is 0x57, so cb_data.narc has file id 0x57. (If there were a next file, it would have id 0x58, and so on.) Its data is given by the 0x57th (87th) pair of offsets. Phew! We haven’t even gotten anywhere yet. But this is important for figuring out where anything even is. And you don’t have to do it by hand, since I wrote a program to do it. Run: python2 -m porigonz pokemon-diamond.nds list To get output like this: /application/custom_ball/data 87 0x03810200 0x0381ef8c 60812 [ 295] /application/custom_ball/data/cb_data.narc /application/wifi_earth 88 0x037b2400 0x037d7674 152180 [ 8] /application/wifi_earth/wifi_earth.narc 89 0x037d7800 0x037d84c8 3272 [ 19] /application/wifi_earth/wifi_earth_place.narc Hey, it’s our friend cb_data.narc, with its full path! On the left is its file id, 87. Next are its start and end offsets, followed by its filesize. You may notice that before the filenames start, you’ll get a list of unnamed files. These are entries in the FAT that have no corresponding filename. I learned only recently that they’re code — overlays, in fact, though I don’t know what that means yet. Now we can start looking at data and figuring it out. Finally. NARCs and basic Pokémon data This was fantastic. All the game data, nearly arranged into files, and even named sensibly for us. A goldmine. It didn’t used to be so easy, as we will see later. Other people had already noticed the file /poketool/personal/personal.narc contains much of the base data about Pokémon. You’ll notice it has a “501” in brackets next to it, indicating that it’s actually a NARC file — a “Nitro archive”, Nitro being the original codename for the DS. This is a generic uncompressed container that just holds some number of sub-files — in this case, 501. The subfiles can have names, but the ones in this game generally don’t, so the only way to refer to them is by number. You may also notice that evo.narc and wotbl.narc, in the same directory, are also NARCs with 501 records. It’s a pretty safe bet that they all have one record per Pokémon. That’s a little odd, since Pokémon Diamond only has 493 Pokémon, but we’ll figure that out later. NARC is, as far as I can tell, an invention of Nintendo. I think it’s in other DS games, though I haven’t investigated any others very much, so I can’t say how common it is. It’s a very simple format, and it uses basically the same structure as the entire DS filesystem: a list of start/end offsets and a list of filenames. It doesn’t have the same directory nesting, so it’s much simpler, and also the filenames are usually missing, so it’s simpler still. But you don’t have to care, because you can examine the contents of a file with: python2 -m porigonz pokemon-diamond.nds cat -f hex /poketool/personal/personal.narc This will print every record as an unbroken string of hex, one record per line. (I admit this is not the smartest format; it’s hard to see where byte boundaries are. Again, hopefully I’ll fix this up a bit when I rerip gen 4.) Here are the first six Pokémon records. 2d31312d41410c032d400001000000001f144603010741000003000020073584081e10022024669202000000 3c3e3f3c50500c032d8d0005000000001f144603010741000003000020073584081e10022024669202000000 5052535064640c032dd00006000000001f144603010741000003000030473586081e1002282466920a000000 27342b413c320a0a2d414000000000001f144603010e420000000000230651cce41e821201a4469202000000 3a403a5050410a0a2d8e4001000000001f144603010e420000000000230651cce41e821201a4469202000000 That first one is pretty conspicuous, what with its being all zeroes. It’s probably some a dummy entry, for whatever reason. That does make things a little simpler, though! Numbering from zero has caused some confusion in the past: Bulbasaur (National Dex number 1) would be record 0, and I’ve had all kinds of goofy bugs from forgetting to subtract or add 1 all over the place. With a dummy record at 0, that means Bulbasaur is 1, and everything is numbered as expected. So, what is any of this? The heart of figuring out data formats is looking for stuff you know. That might mean looking for data you know should be there, or it might mean identifying common schemes for storing data. A good start, then, would be to look at what I already know about Bulbasaur. Base stats are a pretty fundamental property, and Bulbasaur’s are 45, 49, 49, 65, 65, and 45. In hex, that’s 2d 31 31 41 41 2d. Hey, that’s the beginning of the first line! It’s just slightly out of order; Speed comes before the special stats. You can also pick out some differences by comparing rows. About 60% of the way along the line, I see 03 for Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur, but then 00 for Charmander and Charmeleon. That’s different between families, which seems like a huge hint; does that continue to hold true? (As it turns out, no! It fails for Butterfree — because it indicates the Pokémon’s color, used in the Pokédex search. Most families are similar colors.) Sometimes a byte will seem to only take one of a few small values, which usually means it’s an enum (one of a list of numbered options), like the colors are. A byte that only ranges from 1 to 17 (or perhaps 0 to 16) is almost certainly type, for example, since there are 17 types. Noticing common patterns — very tiny formats, I suppose — is also very helpful (and saves you from wild goose chases). For example, Pokémon can appear in the wild holding held items, and there are more than 256 items, so referring to an item requires two bytes. But there are only slightly more than 256 items in this game, so the second byte is always 00 or 01. If you remember that some fields must span multiple bytes, that’s an incredible hint that you’re looking at small 16-bit numbers; if you forget, you might think the 01 is a separate field that only stores a single flag… and drive yourself mad trying to find a pattern to it. The games have a number of TMs which can teach particular moves, and each Pokémon can learn a unique set of TMs. These are stored as a longer block of bytes, where each individual bit is either 1 or 0 to indicate compatibility. Those are a bit harder to identify with certainty, since (a) the set of TMs changes in every game so you can’t just check what the expected value is, and (b) bitflags can produce virtually any number with no discernible pattern. Thankfully, there’s a pretty big giveaway for TMs in particular. Here are Caterpie, Metapod, and Butterfree: 2d1e232d14140606ff350100000000007f0f4600030313000003000000000000000000000000000000000000 3214371e1919060678482000000000007f0f460003033d000003000000000000000000000000000000000000 3c2d3246505006022da000060000de007f0f460003030e000008000020463fb480be14222830560301000000 Butterfree can learn TMs. Caterpie and Metapod are almost unique in that they can’t learn any. Guess where the TMs are! Even better, Caterpie is only #9, so this shows up very early on. And, well, that’s the basic process. It’s mostly about cheating, about leveraging every possible trick you can come up with to find patterns and landmarks. I even wrote a script for this (and several other files) that dumped out a huge HTML table with the names of the (known) Pokémon on the left and byte positions as columns. When I figured something out, or at least had a suspicion, I labelled the column and changed that byte to print as something more readable (e.g., printing the names of types instead of just their numbers). Of course, if you have a flash cartridge or emulator (both of which were hard to come by at the time), you can always invoke the nuclear option: change the data and see what changes in the game. Still, easy, right? How hard could this be. Sprites: In which it gets hard What we really really wanted were the sprites. This was a new generation with new Pokémon, after all, and sprites were the primary way we got to see them. Unlike nearly everything else, this hadn’t already been figured out by other people by the time I showed up. Finding them was easy enough — there’s a file named /poketool/pokegra/pokegra.narc, which is conspicuously large. It’s a NARC containing 2964 records. A little factoring reveals that 2964 is 494 × 6 — aha! There are 493 Pokémon, plus one dummy. python2 -m porigonz pokemon-diamond.nds extract /poketool/pokegra/pokegra.narc This will extract the contents of pokegra.narc to a directory called pokemon-diamond.nds:data, which I guess might be invalid on Windows or something, so use -d to give another directory name if you need to. Anyway, in there you’ll find a directory called pokegra.narc, inside of which are 2964 numbered binary files. Some brief inspection reveals that they definitely come in groups of six: the filesizes consistently repeat 6.5K, 6.5K, 6.5K, 6.5K, 72, 72. Sometimes a couple of the files are empty, but the pattern is otherwise very distinct. Four sprites per Pokémon, then? Let’s have a look at the first file! Since it’s a dummy sprite, it should be blank or perhaps a question mark, right? Oh boy I’m so excited. 00000000: 5247 434e fffe 0001 3019 0000 1000 0100 RGCN....0....... 00000010: 5241 4843 2019 0000 0a00 1400 0300 0000 RAHC ........... 00000030: de54 59cf e00a 2374 927c 5db5 7476 87c1 .TY...#t.\|].tv.. 00000040: 06d1 2183 c890 ab40 3a06 a53c dced 8f55 ..!....@:..<...U 00000050: 2e90 e9a5 b0e1 3324 e2a2 ed42 4480 9790 ......3$...BD... 00000060: 5632 b157 989d bb3e 8af2 35e8 accd 9f92 V2.W...>..5..... 00000070: 7e57 79b8 8064 43b0 3295 7d4c 1476 a77b ~Wy..dC.2.}L.v.{ Hm. Okay, so, this is a problem. No matter what the actual contents are, this is a sprite, and virtually all Pokémon sprites have a big ol’ blob of completely empty space in the upper-left corner. Every corner, in fact. Except for a handful of truly massive species, the corners should be empty. So no matter what scheme this is using or what order the pixels are in, I should be seeing a whole lot of zeroes somewhere. And I’m not. Compression? Seems very unlikely, since every file is either 0, 72, or 6448 bytes, without exception. Well, let’s see what we’ve got here. RGCN and RAHC are almost certainly magic numbers, so this is one file format nested inside another. (A lot of file formats start with a short fixed string identifying them, a so-called “magic number”. Every GIF starts with the text GIF89a, for example. A NARC file starts with CRAN — presumably it’s “backwards” because it’s being read as an actual little-endian number.) I assume the real data begins at 0x30. Without that leading 0x30 (48) bytes, the file is 6400 bytes large, which is a mighty conspicuous square number! Pokémon sprites have always been square, so this could mean they’re 80×80, one byte per pixel. (Hm, but Pokémon sprites don’t need anywhere near 256 colors?) I see a 30 in the first line, which is probably the address of the data. I also see a 10, which is probably the (16-bit?) length of that initial header, or the address of the second header. What about in the second header? Well, uh, hm. I see a lot of what seem to be small 16-bit or 32-bit numbers: 0x000a is 10, 0x0014 is 20, 0x0003 is 3; 0x0018 is 24. A quick check reveals that 0x1900 is 6400 (the size of the data), and so 0x1920 is the size of the data plus this second header. This hasn’t really told me anything I don’t already know. It seems very conspicuous that there’s no 0x50, which is 80, my assumed size of the sprite. Well, hm, let’s look at the second file. It’s in the block for the same “Pokémon”, so maybe it’ll provide some clues. Ah. No. It starts out completely identical. In fact, md5sum reveals that all four of these first sprites are identical. Might make sense for a dummy Pokémon. Does that pattern hold for the next Pokémon, which I assume is Bulbasaur? Not quite! Files 6 and 7 are identical, and 8 and 9 are identical, but they’re distinct from each other. What’s the point of them then? Further inspection reveals that most Pokémon have paired sprites like this, but Pikachu does not — suggesting (correctly) that the sprites are male versus female, so Pokémon that don’t have gender differences naturally have identical pairs of sprites. Okay, then, let’s look at Pikachu’s first sprite, 150. The key is often in the differences, remember. If the dummy sprite is either blank or a question mark, then it should still have a lot of corner pixels in common with the relatively small Pikachu. 00000030: b6bd 6f4c 6c6e 3d16 b226 db0b 0818 c934 ..oLln=..&.....4 00000040: eeb7 876c e41f 9542 6a6d 73da 0022 a1cb ...l...Bjms..".. 00000050: 2683 9f01 5cfa ed9b 2275 0bce f8c4 79bf &...\..."u....y. 00000060: 5eff b76b d4dd 4582 da1d a346 f0e0 5170 ^..k..E....F..Qp 00000070: 960c cf0a 4caa 9d55 9247 3ba4 e855 293e ....L..U.G;..U)> 00000080: ce8a e73e c43f f575 4ad2 d346 e003 0189 ...>.?.uJ..F.... 00000090: 065a ff67 3c7e 4d43 029e 6b8e d8ca d9b0 .Z.g<~MC..k..... 000000a0: 3e5a 17e6 b445 a51d ba8a 03db d08a b115 >Z...E.......... Well. Nope. How does that compare to Pikachu’s second sprite, 151 — which ought to be extremely similar, seeing as the only gender difference is a notch in the tail? 00000030: 2957 ce67 e76f c494 f5fe 4adf d367 e008 )W.g.o....J..g.. 00000040: 0182 0697 ff78 3c33 4dac 020b 6b8f d82f .....x<3M...k../ 00000050: d989 3ef7 17d7 b45a a566 ba57 03bc d04f ..>....Z.f.W...O 00000060: b1ce 7668 2fea 2ceb fd8d 72a5 9b4d c848 ..vh/.,...r..M.H 00000070: 89b0 aeca 4712 a4c4 5582 2ad4 33a4 c0fa ....G...U..3... 00000080: 618f e6fd 5faf 1cc7 ada3 e2c3 cb1f b845 a..._..........E 00000090: 39cb 1ee2 7721 94d2 0552 9a54 6320 b009 9...w!...R.Tc .. 000000a0: 11c4 5657 8fc8 0cc7 5ded 5266 fb05 a826 ..VW....].Rf...& Oh, my god. Nothing is similar at all. Make a histogram? Every possible value appears with roughly the same frequency. Now that is interesting, and suggests some form of encryption — most likely one big “mask” xor’d with the whole sprite. But how to find the mask? (It doesn’t matter exactly what xor is, here. It only has two relevant properties. One is that it’s self-reversing, making it handy for encryption like this — (data xor mask) xor mask produces the original data. The other is that anything xor’d with zero is left unchanged, so if I think the original data was zero — as it ought to be for the blank pixels in the corners of a sprite — then the encrypted data is just the mask! So I know at least the beginning parts of the mask for most sprites; I just have to figure out how to use a little bit of that to reconstitute the whole thing.) I stared at this for days. I printed out copies of sprite hex and stared at them more on breaks at work. I threw everything I knew, which admittedly wasn’t a lot, at this ridiculous problem. And slowly, some patterns started to emerge. Consider the first digit of the last column in the above hex dump: it goes e, d, d, c, c, b, b, a. In fact, if you look at the entire byte, they go e0, d8, d0, c8, etc. That’s just subtracting 08 on each row. Are there other cases like this? Kinda! In the third column, the second digit alternates between 7 and f; closer inspection reveals that byte’s increasing by 18 every row. Oh, the sixth column too. Hang on — in every column, the second digit alternates between two values. That seems true for every other file we’ve seen so far, too. This is extremely promising! Let’s try this. Take the first two rows, which are bytes 0–15 and bytes 16–31. Subtract the second row from the first row bytewise, making a sort of “delta row”. For the second Pikachu, that produces: d82b 3830 1809 789f 58ae b82c 9828 f827 As expected, the second digit in each column is an 8. Now just start with the first row and keep adding the delta to it to produce enough rows to cover the whole file, and xor that with the file itself. Results: 00000020: 0024 0030 0056 0088 003c 0060 000b 0019 .$.0.V...<.`.... 00000030: 0016 009f 0060 009a 0085 00c6 0092 0035 .....`.........5 00000040: 00b3 00ed 0081 00d4 0034 005b 00a3 005e .........4.[...^ 00000050: 00a1 00aa 0033 0068 00c7 0078 0030 008e .....3.h...x.0.. 00000060: 0092 0065 0084 009c 0040 00b3 0077 00fb ...e.....@...w.. 00000070: 0040 00e0 0066 002a 002d 0075 007a 003f .@...f..-.u.z.? 00000080: 0076 00da 00b3 0008 00bb 00e6 0097 003c .v.............< Promising! We got a bunch of zeroes, as expected, though everything else is still fairly garbled. It might help if we, say, printed this out to a file. By now it had become clear that the small files were palettes of sixteen colors stored as RGB555 — that is, each color is packed into two bytes, with five bits each for the red, green, and blue channels. Sixteen colors means two pixels can be crammed into a single byte, so the sprites are actually 160×80, not 80×80. Combining this knowledge with the above partially-decrypted output, we get: Kinda! Meanwhile another fansite found our code and put up a full set of these ugly-ass corrupt sprites, so that was nice. It took me a while to notice another pattern, which emerges if you break the sprite into blocks that are 512 bytes wide (rather than only 16). You get this: 2957 ce67 e76f c494 f5fe 4adf d367 e008 ... 29e2 ce3e e742 c4d3 f5d9 4a46 d30a e057 ... 296d ce15 e715 c412 f5b4 4aad d3ad e0a6 ... 29f8 ceec e7e8 c451 e561 a450 9763 e7f5 ... This time, the byte in the first column is always identical all the way down. Well, kind of. This is encrypted data, remember, and I only know what the mask is because the beginning of the data is usually blank. The exceptions are when the mask is hitting actual colored pixels, at which point it becomes garbage. But even better, look at the second byte in each column. Now they’re all separated by a constant, all the way down! That means I can repeat the same logic as before, except with two “rows” that are 512 bytes long, and as long as the first 1024 bytes of the original data are all zeroes, I’ll get a perfect sprite out! And indeed, I did! Mostly. Legendary Pokémon and a handful of others tend to be quite large, so they didn’t start with as many zeroes as I needed for this scheme to work. But it mostly worked, and that was pretty goddamn cool. magical, a long-time co-conspirator, managed to scrounge up my final “working” code from that era (which then helped me find my own local copy of all my D/P research stuff, which I oughta put up somewhere). It’s total nonsense, but it came pretty close to working. Hm? What? You want to know the real answer? Yeah, I bet you do. Okay, here you go. So the games have a random number generator, for… generating random numbers. This being fairly simple hardware with fairly simple (non-crypto) requirements, the random number generator is also fairly simple. It’s an LCG, a linear congruential generator, which is a really bizarre name for a very simple idea: ax + b The generator is defined by the numbers a and b. (You have to pick them carefully, or you’ll get numbers that don’t look particularly random.) You pick a starting number (a seed) and call that x. When you want a random number, you compute ax + b. You then take a modulus, which really means “chop off the higher digits because you only have so much space to store the answer”. That’s your new x, which you’ll plug in to get the next random number, and so on. In the case of the gen 4 Pokémon games, a = 0x4e6d and b = 0x6073. What does any of this have to do with the encryption? Well! The entire sprite is interpreted as a bunch of 16-bit integers. The last one is used as the seed and plugged into the RNG, and then it keeps spitting out a sequence of numbers. Reverse them, since you’re starting at the end, and that’s the mask. The seed technically overlaps with the last four pixels, but it happens to work since no Pokémon sprites touched the bottom-right corner in Diamond and Pearl. In Platinum a couple very large sprites broke that rule, so they ended up switching this around and starting from the beginning. Same idea, though. Of course, porigon-z knows how to handle this… though it’s currently hardcoded to use the Platinum approach. Funny story: the algorithm was originally thought to go from the beginning, not the end, and it used an LCG with different constants. Turns out someone had just discovered the reverse of the Pokémon LCG, which would produce exactly the same sequence, backwards. Super cool. I am a little curious: why were the sprites encrypted in the first place? What possible point is there? They must have known we cracked the encryption, but then they used it again for Platinum, and again Heart Gold and Soul Silver. Maybe it was only intended to be enough to delay us, during the gap between the Japanese and worldwide releases…? Hm. Incidentially, the entire game text is also encrypted in much the same way. Without the encryption, it’s just UTF-16 — a common character encoding that uses two bytes for every character. I have no idea what the encryption is for, or why it’s still used in Sun and Moon. Oh hey, so. Why did that thing with subtracting the two rows kinda-sorta work? Well! That’s a very good question that I only just recently bothered looking into. SOME MATH I think it’s because of one of the rules for choosing good factors for an LCG — in particular, a - 1 should be divisible by 4, or the LCG won’t run through all possible values. That means a can be written as 4m + 1, for some integer m. I’ll come back to this in a moment. First, consider what happens when you start with a value x and run it through the LCG a few times. At this point I apologize for not having MathJax or something on this blog, but oh well. step 0: x step 1: ax + b step 2: a(ax + b) + b = a²x + ab + b step 3: a(a²x + ab + b) + b = a³x + a²b + ab + b step n: aⁿ x + (aⁿ⁻¹ + aⁿ⁻² + ... + a² + a + 1) b = aⁿ x + (aⁿ - 1) / (a - 1) b (That last step is a pretty common trick; you can do the multiplication yourself if you don’t believe me.) I’m going to restrict the cases we care about to when n is a power of two, because powers of two are interesting. Let’s say it’s, I dunno, 8. So we have some a⁸ terms in there. That’s equivalent to squaring a three times. We know a is 4m + 1, so let’s try squaring that repeatedly. a² = (4m + 1)² = 16m² + 8m + 1 a⁴ = (16m² + 8m + 1)² = 256m⁴ + 256m³ + 96m² + 16m + 1 a⁸ = ?! An interesting pattern emerges! a² - 1 is divisible by 8, and a⁴ - 1 is divisible by 16. It wouldn’t be outrageous to assume that a⁸ - 1 is divisible by 32. But we can do one better: a² - 1 is actually divisible by 8m, and a⁴ - 1 is divisible by 16m, and of course a⁸ - 1 is divisible by 32m. In other words, we can write a⁸ as 32mj + 1, where j is a bunch of junk we don’t care about. Now let’s look at the formula for step 8 and replace some of those as. a⁸ x + (a⁸ - 1) / (a - 1) b = (32mj + 1) x + (32mj) / (4m) b = 32mjx + x + 8jb = 8(4mjx + jb) + x Aha! All of these variables are integers, so this is 8, times a bunch of garbage, plus the original number x. Or in other words, by feeding x through the LCG eight times, we know it increases by a multiple of eight. And that explains almost everything. This particular LCG operates two bytes at a time, so when you look down columns in xxd‘s sixteen byte wide output, you’re seeing values that are eight steps apart. Repeatedly adding eight (or an odd multiple of eight) to a number in hex will cause the last digit to alternate between two values, just like repeatedly adding five to a number in decimal. (But why did the digits alternate down the second column? Because these are little-endian two-byte numbers, so the “last” or smallest digit appears at the end of the first byte.) Similarly, comparing bytes that are 512 apart is the same as comparing two-byte numbers that are 256 steps apart. You can repeat the same logic to find that after 256 steps, you get 256 times a bunch of garbage, plus x. So the last byte will always be unchanged. 256 is 0x100 in hex, so in hex it has the same “shifting to the left” powers as 100 has in decimal. I did gloss over two minor things. One, why does the value specifically increase by an odd multiple of eight every eight steps? That’s because 4mjx + jb happens to be odd: 4mjx is obviously even, j is always odd (if you look at what it must be for a² and a⁴, you’ll see it’s a lot of even terms plus one at the end), and for this particular LCG, b is also odd. If b were even, you’d have sixteen times some garbage plus x, and so the smallest hex digit would remain the same after eight steps. And two, why can I take the same garbage and keep adding it repeatedly to skip ahead 256 steps at a time, when the garbage depends on the previous value x? Well, let’s see what happens when you take step 256 and plug it back into itself: step 256: 256(4mjx + jb) + x step 512: 256(4mj(256(4mjx + jb) + x) + jb) + (256(4mjx + jb) + x) = 256(256(4mj)(4mjx + jb) + 4mjx + jb) + 256(4mjx + jb) + x = 65536(4mj)(4mjx + jb) + 256(4mjx + jb) + 256(4mjx + jb) + x = 65536(4mj)(4mjx + jb) + 512(4mjx + jb) + x That huge term on the left is divisible by 65536, which is 0x10000 in hex — in other words, no matter what it is, adding it on can’t change the last four hex digits. The LCG only spits out four hex digits, so no matter what all of that stuff is, it won’t make any difference. And once you throw that away, what’s left is… the same expression for step 256, except that the garbage term has been doubled! We can find the garbage term by subtracting step 0 from step 256 to cancel out the lone x, and then we can add it to step 256 to get step 512. By the same reasoning, we can add it again to get step 768, then step 1024, and so on. I hope that clears that up. The dark days So Nintendo DS cartridge have a little filesystem on them, making them act kinda like any other disk. Nice. Game Boy cartridges… don’t. A Game Boy cartridge is essentially just a single file, a program. You pop the cartridge in, and the Game Boy runs that program. Where is the data, then? Baked into the program — referred to as hard-coded. Just, somewhere, mixed in alongside all the program code. There’s no nice index of where it is; rather, somewhere there’s some code that happens to say “look at the byte at 0x006f9d10 in this program and treat it as data”. I wasn’t involved in data dumping in these days; I was copying stuff straight out of the wildly inaccurate Prima strategy guide. (Again, you know, I was 12.) It’s hard to say exactly how people fished out the data, though I can take a few guesses. A few guesses To our advantage is the fact that Game Boy cartridges are much smaller than DS cartridges, so there’s much less to sift through. Pokémon Red and Blue are on 1 MB cartridges, and even those are half empty (unused NULs); the original Japanese Red and Green barely fit into 512 KB, and Red and Blue ended up just slightly bigger. To our disadvantage is that these are the very first games, so we don’t have any pre-existing knowledge to look for. We don’t know any Pokémon’s base stats; we may not even know that “base stats” are a thing yet. Also, it’s not immediately obvious, but the Pokémon aren’t even stored in order. Oh, and Mew is completely separate; it really was a last-minute addition. What do we know? Well, by playing the game, we can see what moves a Pokémon learns and when. There don’t seem to be all that many moves, so it’s reasonable to assume that a move would be represented with a single byte. Levels are capped at 100, so that’s probably also a single byte. Most likely, the level-up moves are stored as either level move level move... or move level move level.... Great! All we need to do is put together a string of known moves both ways and find them. Except, ah, hm. We don’t actually know how the moves are numbered. But we still know the levels, so maybe we can get somewhere. Let’s take Bulbasaur, which we know learns Leech Seed at level 7, Vine Whip at level 13, and Poison Powder at level 20. (Or, I guess, that should be LEECH SEED, VINE WHIP, and POISONPOWDER.) No matter whether the levels or moves come first, this will result in a string like: 07 ?? 0D ?? 14 So we can do my favorite thing and slap together a regex for that. (A regex is a very compact way to search text — or bytes — for a particular pattern. A lone . means any single character, so the regex below is a straightforward translation of the pattern above.) >>> for match in re.finditer(rb'\x07.\x0d.\x14', rom): ... print(f"{match.start():08x} {match.group().hex()}") 0003b848 07490d1614 Exactly one match! Let’s have a look at that position in the file. 0003b840: 7700 0000 0110 0900 0749 0d16 144d 1b4b w........I...M.K 0003b850: 224a 294f 304c 0000 0749 0d16 164d 1e4b "J)O0L...I...M.K 0003b860: 2b4a 374f 414c 0000 0730 0d23 1228 1637 +J7OAL...0.#.(.7 0003b870: 1b84 2370 2b67 3238 0000 0001 219e 0013 ..#p+g28....!... This seems pretty promising! It looks like the same set of moves is repeated 16 bytes later, but with different (slightly higher) levels after a certain point, which matches how evolved Pokémon behave. So this looks to be at least Bulbasaur and Ivysaur, though I’m not quite sure what happened to Venusaur. By repeating this process with some other Pokémon, we can start to fill in a mapping of moves to their ids. Eventually we’ll realize that a Pokémon’s starting moves don’t seem to appear within this structure, and so we’ll go searching for those for a Pokémon that starts with moves we know the ids for. That will lead us to the basic Pokémon data along with base stats, because starting moves happen to be stored there in these early games. The text isn’t encrypted, but also isn’t ASCII, but it’s possible to find it in much the same way by treating it as a cryptogram (or a substitution cipher). I assume that there’s some consistent scheme, such that the letter “A” is always represented with the same byte. So I pick some text that I know has a few repeated letters, like BULBASAUR, and I recognize that it could be substituted in some way to read as 123145426. I can turn that into a regex! >>> for match in re.finditer(rb'(.)(.)(.)\1(.)(.)\4\2(.)', rom, flags=re.DOTALL): Unfortunately, this produces a zillion matches, most of them solid strings of NUL bytes. The problem is that nothing in the regex requires that the different groups are, well, different. You could write extra code to filter those cases out, or if you’re masochistic enough, you could express it directly within the regex using (?!...) negative lookahead assertions: >>> for match in re.finditer(rb'(.)(?!\1)(.)(?!\1)(?!\2)(.)\1(?!\1)(?!\2)(?!\3)(.)(?!\1)(?!\2)(?!\3)(?!\4)(.)\4\2(?!\1)(?!\2)(?!\3)(?!\4)(?!\5)(.)', rom, flags=re.DOTALL): 0000820c 4305ff43441b440522 0001c80e 81948b818092809491 00054a94 0a4d350a556d554d43 0007a55a 33466f33fff0ff4670 0007c20c 4305e843440444050b 0008e7b2 7fa8b37fa0a6a0a8ad 00094e75 81948b818092809491 000a0bcd a77fb3a7a4b1a47fb6 That’s much more reasonable. (The set of matches, I mean, not the regex.) It wouldn’t be hard to write a script with a bunch of known strings in it, generate appropriate regexes for each, eliminate inconsistent matches, and eventually generate a full alphabet. (Or you could assume that “B” immediately follows “A” and in general the letters are clustered together, which would lead you to correctly suspect that the strings at 0x0001c80e and 0x00094e75 are the ones you want.) Even better, once you have an alphabet, you can use it to translate entire ROM — plenty of it will be garbage, but you’ll find quite a lot of blocks of human-readable text! And now you have all the names of everything and also the entire game script. Modern day and a brief tour of gbz80 assembly But like I said, I wasn’t involved in any of that. Until recently! I’ve been working on an experiment for veekun where I re-dump all the games to a new YAML-based format. Long story short: the current database is a pain to work with, and some old data has been lost entirely. Also, most of the data was extracted bits at a time with short hacky scripts that we then threw away, and I’d like to have more permanent code that can dump everything at once. It’ll be nice to have an audit trail, too — multiple times in the past, we’ve discovered that some old thing was dumped imperfectly or copied from an unreliable source. So I started re-dumping Red and Blue, from scratch. I’ve made modest progress, though it’s taken a backseat to Sun and Moon lately. It’s helped immensely that there’s an open source disassembly of Red and Blue floating around. What on earth is a disassembly? I’m so glad you asked! Game Boy games were written in assembly code, which is just about as simple and painful as you can get. It’s human-readable, kinda, but it’s built from the basic set of instructions that a particular CPU family understands. It can’t directly express concepts like “if this, do that, otherwise do something else” or “repeat this code five times”. Instead, it’s a single long sequence of basic operations like “compare two numbers” and “jump ahead four instructions”. (Very few programmers work with assembly nowadays, but for various reasons, no other programming languages would work on the Game Boy at the time.) To give you a more concrete idea of what this is like to work with: the Game Boy’s CPU doesn’t have an instruction for multiplying, so you have to do it yourself by adding repeatedly. I thought that would make a good example, but it turns out that Pokémon’s multiply code is sixty lines long. Division is even longer! Here’s something a bit simpler, which fills a span of memory: FillMemory:: ; Fill bc bytes at hl with a. push de ld d, a .loop ld a, d ld [hli], a dec bc ld a, b or c jr nz, .loop pop de CPUs tend to have a small number of registers, which can hold values while the CPU works on them — even as fast as RAM is, it’s considered much slower than registers. The downside is, well, you only have a few registers. The Game Boy CPU (a modified Z80) has eight registers that can each hold one byte: a through f, plus h and l.. They can be used together in pairs to store 16-bit values, giving the four combinations af, bc, de, and hl. (If you need more than 16 bits, well, that’s your problem! 16 bits is the most the CPU understands; it can’t even access memory addresses beyond that range, so you’re limited to 64K. “But wait”, you ask, “how can a Game Boy cartridge be 512K or 1M?” Very painfully, that’s how.) Now we can understand the comment in the above code. Starting at the memory address given by the 16-bit number in hl, it will copy the value in a into each byte, for a total of bc bytes. Translated into English, the above means something like this: Save copies of d and e, so I can mess with them without losing any important data that was in them. (This code doesn’t use e, but there’s no push d instruction.) Copy a, the fill value, into d. Copy d, the fill value, into a. Copy a, the fill value, into the memory at address hl. Then increase hl (the actual registers, not the memory) by 1. Decrease bc, the number of bytes to fill, by 1. Copy b, part of the number of bytes to fill, into a. OR a with c, the other part of the number of bytes to fill, and leave the result in a. The result will be zero only if bc itself is zero, in which case the “zero” flag will be set. If the zero flag is not set (i.e., if bc isn’t zero, meaning we’re not done yet), jump back to the instruction marked by .loop, which is step 3. Restore d and e to their previous values. Return to whatever code jumped here in the first place. Even this relatively simple example has to resort to a weird trick — ORing b and c together — just to check if bc, a value the CPU understands, is zero or not. CPUs don’t execute assembly code directly. It has to be assembled into machine code, which is (surprise!) a sequence of bytes corresponding to CPU instructions. When the above code is compiled, it produces these bytes, which you can verify for yourself appear in Pokémon Red and Blue in exactly one place: d5 57 7a 22 0b 78 b1 20 f9 d1 c9 I stress that this is way beyond anything virtually any programmer actually needs to know. Even the few programmers working with assembly, as far as I know, don’t usually care about the actual bytes that are spat out. I’ve actually had trouble tracking down lists of opcodes before — almost no one is trying to read machine code. We are out in the weeds a bit here. To finally answer your hypothetical question: disassembly is the process of converting this machine code back into assembly. Most of it can be done automatically, but it takes extra human effort to make the result sensible. Let’s consult the Game Boy CPU’s (rather terse) opcode reference and see if we can make sense of this, pretending we don’t know what the original code was. Find d5 in the table — it’s in row Dx, column x5. That’s push de. The first number in the box is 1, meaning the instruction is only one byte long, so the next instruction is the very next byte. That’s 57, which is ld d, a. Keep on going. Eventually we hit 20, which is jr nz, r8 and two bytes long — the notes at the bottom explain that r8 is 8-bit signed data. That means the next byte is part of this instruction; it’s f9, but it’s signed, so really that’s -7. We end up with: ld (hl+), a jr nz, $-07 This looks an awful lot like what we started with, but there are a couple notable exceptions. First, the FillMemory:: line is completely missing. That’s just another kind of label, and the only way to know that the first line should be labelled at all is to find some other place in the code that tries to jump here. Given just these bytes, we can’t even tell if this is a complete snippet. Once we find that out, there’s still no way to recover the name FillMemory; even that is just a fan name and not the name from the original code. Someone came up with that name by reading this assembly code, understanding what it’s intended to do, and giving it a name. Second, the .loop label is missing. The jr line forgot about the label and ended up with a number, which is how many bytes to jump backwards or forwards. (You can imagine how a label is much easier to work with than a number of bytes, especially when some instructions are one byte long and some are two!) An automated disassembler would be smart enough to notice this and would put a label in the right place. A really good disassembler might even recognize that this code is a simple loop that executes some number of times, and name that label .loop; otherwise, or for more complicated kinds of jumps, it would have a meaningless name that a human would have to improve. And there’s a whole project where people have done the work of restoring names like this and splitting code up sensibly! The whole thing even assembles into a byte-for-byte identical copy of the original games. It’s really quite impressive, and it’s made tinkering with the original games vastly more accessible. You still have to write assembly, of course, but it’s better than editing machine code. Imagine trying to add a new instruction in the middle of the loop above; you’d screw up the jr‘s byte count, and every single later address in the ROM. But more relevant to this post, a disassembly makes it easy to figure out where data is, since I don’t have to go hunting for it! When the code is assembled, it can generate a .sym file, which lists every single “global” label and the position it ended up in the final ROM. Many of those labels are for functions, like FillMemory is, but some of them are for blocks of data. Snagging data I set out to write some code to dump data from Game Boy games. Red/Green, Red/Blue, and Yellow were all fairly similar, so I wanted to use as much of the same code as possible for all of those games (and their various translations). A very early pain point was, well, the existence of all those translations. Because there’s no filesystem, the only obvious way to locate data is to either search for it (which requires knowing it ahead of time, a catch-22 for a script that’s meant to extract it) or to bake in the addresses. The games contain quite a lot of data I want, and they exist in quite a few distinct versions, so that would make for a lot of addresses. Also, with a disassembly readily available, it was now (relatively) easy for people to modify the games as they saw fit, in much the same way as it’s easy to modify most aspects of modern games by changing the data files. But if I simply had a list of addresses for each known release, then my code wouldn’t know what to do with modified games. It’s not a huge deal — obviously I don’t intend to put fan modifications into veekun — but it seemed silly to write all this extraction code and then only have it work on a small handful of specific files. I decided to at least try to find data automatically. How can I do that, when the positions of the data only existed buried within machine code somewhere? Obviously, I just need to find that machine code. See, that whole previous section was actually relevant! I set out to do that. Remember the goofy regex from earlier, which searched for particular patterns of bytes? I did something like that, except with machine code. And by machine code, I mean assembly. And by assembly, I mean— okay just look at this. ld a, [#wd11e] dec a ld hl, #TechnicalMachines ld b, $0 ld c, a add hl, bc ld a, [hl] ld [#wd11e], a I wrote my own little assembler that can convert Game Boy assembly into Game Boy machine code. The difference is that when it sees something like #foo, it assumes that’s a value I don’t know yet and sticks in a regex capturing group instead. It’s smart enough to know whether the value has to be one or two bytes, based on the instruction. It also knows that if the same placeholder appears twice, it must have the same value both times. I can also pass in a placeholder value, if I only know it at runtime. I have half a dozen or so chunks like this. Every time I wanted to find something new, I went looking for code that referenced it and copied the smallest unique chunk I could (to reduce the risk that the code itself is different between games, or in a fan hack). I did run into a few goofy difficulties, such as code that changed completely in Yellow, but I ended up with something that seems to be pretty robust and knows as little as possible about the games. I even auto-detect the language… by examining the name of the TOWN MAP, the first item that has a unique name in every official language. This is probably ridiculous overkill, but it was a blast to get working. It also leaves the door open for some… shenanigans I’ve wanted to do for a while. But enough about the Game Boy. Let’s get back to the future. The 3DS, and what I'm doing now Recent games have been slightly more complicated, though the complexity is largely in someone else’s court. The 3DS uses encryption — real, serious encryption, not baby stuff you can work around by comparing rows of bytes. When X and Y came out, the encryption still hadn’t been broken, so all of veekun’s initial data was acquired by… making a Google Docs spreadsheet and asking for volunteers to fill it in. It wasn’t great, but it was better than nothing. This was late 2013, and I suppose it’s around when veekun’s gentle decline into stagnation began. When X and Y were finally ripped, I was… what was I doing? I guess I was busy at work? For whatever reason, I had barely any involvement in it. Then Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire came out, and now everyone was busy, and it took forever just to get stuff like movesets dumped. Now I’m working on Sun and Moon again. It’s not especially hard — much of the basic structure has been preserved since Diamond and Pearl, and a lot of the Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire code I wrote works exactly the same with Sun and Moon — but there are a lot of edge cases. Some changes in X/Y and beyond The most obvious wrinkle is that the filenames are gone. This has actually been the case since Heart Gold and Soul Silver — all the files now simply have names like /a/0/0/0 and count upwards from there. I don’t know the reason for the change, but I assume the original filenames weren’t intended to be left in the game in the first place. The files move around in every new pair of games, too, requiring bunches of people to go through the files by hand and note down what each of them appears to be. Newer games use GARC instead of NARC. The G is apparently for Game Freak, so they must have decided Nintendo’s own format wasn’t good enough. It’s basically the same idea, except that now a single GARC archive has two levels of nesting — that is, a GARC contains some number of sub-archives, and each of those in turn contains some number of subfiles. Usually there’s only one subfile per subarchive, but I’ve seen zanier schemes once or twice. Also, just in case that’s not enough levels of containers for you, there are also a number of other single-level containers embedded inside GARCs. They’re all very basic and nearly identical: just a list of start and end offsets. Oh, and some of the data is compressed now. (Maybe that was the case before X/Y? I don’t remember.) Compression is fun. Any given data might be compressed with one of two flavors of LZSS, and it seems completely arbitrary what’s compressed and what’s not. There’s no indication of what’s compressed or what’s not, either; the only “header” that compressed data has is that the first byte is either 0x10 or 0x11, which isn’t particularly helpful since plenty of valid data also begins with one of those bytes. But there was one much bigger practical problem with X and Y, one I’d been dreading for a while. X and Y, you see, use models — which means they don’t have any sprites for us to rip at all. And that kind of sucks. The community’s solution has been for a few people (who have screen-capture hardware) to take screenshots and cut them out. It works, but it’s not great. The thing I’ve wanted for a very long time is rips of the actual models. (Later games went back to including “sprites” that are just static screenshots of the models. Maybe out of kindness to us? Okay, yeah, doubtful. Oh, and those sprites are in the incredibly obtuse ETC1 format, which I had never heard of and needed help to identify, and which I will let you just read about yourself.) Extracting models The Pokémon models are an absolute massive chunk of the game data. All the data combined is 3GB; the Pokémon models are a hair under half of that, despite being compressed. At least this makes them easy to find, since they’re all packed into a single GARC file. That file contains, I don’t know, a zillion other files. And many of those files are generic containers, containing more files. And none of these files are named. Of course. It’s easy enough to notice that there are nine files per Pokémon, since the sizes follow a rough pattern like the sprites did in Diamond and Pearl. (You’d think that they’d use GARC’s two levels of nesting to group the per-Pokémon files together, but apparently not.) At this point, I had zero experience with 3D — in fact, working on this was my introduction to 3D and Blender — so I didn’t get very far on my own. I basically had to wait a few years for other people to figure it out, look at their source code, replicate it myself, and then figure out some of the bits they missed. The one thing I did get myself was texture animations, which are generally used to make Pokémon change expressions — last I saw, no one had gotten those ripped, but I managed it. Hooray. I’m sure someone else has done the same by now. Anyway, I bring up models because of two very weird things that I never would’ve guessed in a million years. One was the mesh data itself. A mesh is just the description of a 3D model’s shape — its vertices (points), the edges between vertices, and the faces that fill in the space between the edges. And, well, those are the three parts to a basic mesh. A few very simple model formats are even just those things written out: a list of vertices (defined by three numbers each, x y z), a list of edges (defined by the two vertices they connect), and a list of faces (defined by their edges). It should be easy to find models by looking for long lists of triplets of numbers — vertex coordinates. Well, not quite. Pokémon models are stored as compiled shaders. A shader is a simple kind of program that runs directly on a video card, since video cards tend to be a more appropriate place for doing a bunch of graphics-related math. On a desktop or phone or whatever, you’d usually write a shader as text, then compile it when your program/game runs. In fact, you have to do this, since the compilation is different for each kind of video card. But Pokémon games only have to worry about one video card: the graphics chip in the 3DS. And there’s absolutely no reason to waste time compiling shaders while the game is running, when they could just do it ahead of time and put the compiled shader in the game directly. (Incidentally, the Dolphin emulator recently wrote about how GameCube games do much the same thing.) So they did that. Thankfully, the compiled shader is much simpler than machine code, and the parts I care about are just the parts that load in the mesh data — which mostly looks like opcodes for “here’s some data”, followed by some data. It would probably be possible to figure out without knowing anything about the particular graphics chip, but if you didn’t know it was supposed to be a shader, you’d be mighty confused by all the mesh data surrounded by weird extra junk that doesn’t look at all like mesh data. The other was skeletal animation. The basic idea is that you want to make a high-resolution model move around, but it would be a huge pain in the ass to describe the movement of every single vertex. Instead, you make an invisible “skeleton” — a branching tree of bones. The bones tend to follow major parts of the body, so they do look like very simple skeletons, with spines and arms and whatnot (though of course skeletons aren’t limited only to living creatures). Every vertex attaches to one or more of those bones — a rough first pass of this can be done automatically — and then by animating the much simpler skeleton, vertices will all move to match the bones they’re attached to. The skeleton itself isn’t too surprising. It’s a tree, whatever; we’ve seen one of those already, with the DS directory structure. The skeletons and models are in a neutral pose by default: T for bipeds, simply standing on all fours for quadrupeds, etc. All of this is pretty straightforward. But then there are the animations themselves. An animation has some number of keyframes which specify a position, rotation, and size for each bone. Animating the skeleton involves smoothly moving each bone from one keyframe’s position to the next. Position, rotation, and size each exist in three dimensions, so there are nine possible values for each keyframe. You might expect a set of nine values, then, times the number of keyframes, times the number of bones. But no! These animations are stored the other way: each of those nine values is animated separately per bone. Also, each of those nine values can have a different number of keyframes, even for the same bone. Also, each of those nine values is optional, and if it’s not animated then its keyframes are simply missing, and there’s a set of bitflags indicating which values are present. Okay, well, you might at least expect that a single value’s keyframes are given by a list of numbers, right? Not quite! Such a set of keyframes has an initial “scale” and “offset”, given as single-precision floating point numbers (which are fairly accurate). Each keyframe then gives a “value” as an integer, which is actually the numerator of a fraction whose denominator is 65,535. So the actual value of each keyframe is: offset + scale * value / 65535 Maybe this is a more common scheme than I suspect. Animation does take up an awful lot of space, and this isn’t an entirely unreasonable way to squish it down. The fraction thing is just incredibly goofy at first blush. I have no idea how anyone figured out what was going on there. (It’s used for texture animation, too.) Anyway, thanks mostly to other people’s hard work, I managed to write a script that can dump models and then play them with a pretty decent in-browser model viewer. I never got around to finishing it, which is a shame, because it took so much effort and it’s so close to being really good. (My local copy has texture animation mostly working; the online version doesn’t yet.) Hopefully I will someday, because I think this is pretty dang cool, and there’s a lot of interesting stuff that could be done with it. (For example, one request: applying one Pokémon’s animations to another Pokémon’s model. Hm.) The one thing that really haunts me about it is the outline effect. It’s not actually the effect from the games; I had to approximate it, and there are a few obvious ways it falls flat. I would love to exactly emulate what the games do, but I just don’t know what that is. But maybe… maybe there’s a chance I can find the compiled shader and figure it out. Maybe. Somehow. Some annoying edge cases Let’s finish up with some small bumps in the road that are still fresh in my mind. TMs are still in the Pokémon data, as is compatibility with move tutors. Alas, the lists of what the TMs and tutor moves are are embedded in the code, just like in the Game Boy days. You don’t really need to know the TM order, since they have a numbering exposed to the player in-game, and TM compatibility is in that same order… but move tutors have no natural ordering, so you have to either match them up by hand or somehow find the list in the binary. I had a similar problem with incense items, which each affect the breeding outcome for a specific Pokémon. In Ruby and Sapphire, the incense effects were hardcoded. I don’t mean they were a data structure baked into the code; I mean they were actually “if the baby is this species and one parent is holding this incense, do this; otherwise,” etc. I spent a good few hours hunting for something similar in later games, to no avail — I’d searched for every permutation of machine code I could think of and come up with nothing. I was about to give up when someone pointed out to me that incense is now a data structure; it’s just in the one format I’d forgotten to try searching for. Alas. Moves have a bunch of metadata, like “status effect inflicted” or “min/max number of turns to last”. Trouble is, I’m pretty sure that same information is duplicated within the code for each individual move — most moves get their own code, and there’s no single “generic move” function. Which raises the question… what is this metadata actually used for? Is it useful to expose on veekun? Is it guaranteed to be correct? I already know that some of it is a little misleading; for example, Tri Attack is listed as inflicting some mystery one-off status effect, because the format doesn’t allow expressing what it actually does (inflict one of burn, freezing, or paralysis at random). Items have a similar problem: they get a bunch of their own data, but it’s not entirely clear what most of it is used for. It’s not even straightforward to identify how the game decides which items go in which pocket. Moves also have flags, and it took some effort to figure out what each of them meant. Sun and Moon added a new flag, and I agonized over it for a while before I was fed the answer: it’s an obscure detail relating to move animations. No idea how anyone figured that out. In Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, there are two lists of item names. They’re exactly identical, with one exception: in Korean, the items “PP Up” and “PP Max” have their names written with English letters “PP” in one list but with Hangul in the other list. Why? No idea. Evolution types are numbered. Method 4 is a regular level up; method 5 is a trade; method 21 is levelling up while knowing a specific move, which is given as a parameter. Cool. But there are two oddities. Karrablast and Shelmet only evolve when traded with each other, but the data doesn’t indicate this in any way; they both get the same unique evolution method, but there’s no parameter to indicate what they need to be traded with, as you might expect. Also, Shedinja isn’t listed as an evolution at all, since it’s produced as a side effect of Nincada’s evolution (which is listed as a normal level-up). To my considerable chagrin, that means neither of these cases can be ripped 100% automatically. Pokémon are listed in a different order, depending on context. Sometimes they’re identified by species, e.g. Deoxys. Sometimes they’re identified by form, e.g. Attack Forme Deoxys. Sometimes they’re identified by species and also a separate per-species form number. Sometimes the numbering includes aesthetic-only forms, like Unown, that only affect visuals. But sprites and models both seem to have their own completely separate numberings, which are (of course) baked into the binary. Incidentally, it turns out that all of the Totem Pokémon in Sun and Moon count as distinct forms! They’re just not obtainable. Do I expose them on veekun, then? I guess so? Encounters are particularly thorny. The data is simple enough: for each map, there’s a list of Pokémon that can be encountered by various methods (e.g. walking in grass, fishing, surfing). But each of those Pokémon appears at a different rate, and those rates are somewhere in the code, not in the data. And there are some weird cases like swarms, which have special rules. And there are unique encounters that aren’t listed in this data at all, and which veekun has thus never had. And how do you even figure out where a map is anyway, when a named place can span multiple maps, and the encounters are only very slightly different in each map? (I’m told this has gotten a lot more data-oriented in Sun and Moon, but I haven’t dug into it yet myself.) Anyway, that’s why veekun is taking so long. Also because I’ve spent several days not working on veekun so I could write this post, which could be much longer but has gone on more than long enough already. I hope some of this was interesting! Oh, and all my recent code is on the pokedex GitHub. The model extraction stuff isn’t up yet, but it will be… eventually? Next time I work on it, maybe? #patreon	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line739
__label__cc	0.702488	0.297512	Research Connections Vern L. Schramm, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry Ruth Merns Chair in Biochemistry Area of Research: Enzymatic transition states are solved by isotope effects and quantum chemistry. This knowledge permits drug design for cancers, antibiotics and other disorders. Protein dynamics in catalysis is a second focus. Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus 1300 Morris Park Avenue Golding Building, Room 301 Research ProfilesEinstein Media ExpertPubMed Portal Is this your profile? Edit profile Enzymes catalyze virtually all of the chemical transformations necessary for biological life. Knowledge of the transition-state structure of enzymatic reactions permits the design of powerful inhibitors. Methods have been developed in this laboratory for the experimental determination of the geometric and charge features which characterize enzymatic transition states. This information is then used for the logical design of transition-state inhibitors which have the potential to be new biologically active agents. Specific projects include: Human genetic deficiency of purine nucleoside phosphorylase causes a specific T-cell insufficiency. Our inhibitors of this enzyme are powerful anti T-cell agents. Two inhibitors are now in human clinical trials against human T-cell cancers and gout. Three T-cell cancer indications for these drugs have received orphan drug status from the FDA and several phase II trials are in progress. Phase II clinical trials have been completed for gout using our second-generation inhibitor. Third-generation and fourth-generation inhibitors are now being characterized. Purine salvage is essential for growth of parasitic protozoa. A family of powerful inhibitors has been prepared against these enzymes from the malaria parasite. Promising results have been obtained in cell culture studies. One of these inhibitors stops the growth of malaria parasites in primate malaria. Preclinical research is underway, intended to lead to human trials in the next few years. Experimental cancer chemotherapy uses plant toxins coupled to a recognition element for cancer cells. The transition state structure of saporin is being determined to guide the design of inhibitors. These will limit the side-effects of the toxin molecules remaining in the circulation or released from lysed cancer cells. Inhibitors are being synthesized and tested for efficiency, and constructs with saporin are being investigated as anticancer agents. Research projects also involve S-adenosylmethionine recycling and methyl transfer reactions. Methyltransfer reactions are central to the epigenetic control pathways regulating growth, development, gene expression and cancer. New targets for transition state analysis and drug design are DNA methyltransferases, protein methyltransferases and metabolic enzymes forming and using S-adenosylmethionine. Related to these pathways are MTAP, a cancer target and MTAN, a target for bacterial antibiotics. Students in this laboratory can receive training in enzymology, catalysis, protein expression, inhibitor design, computer modeling, inhibitor synthesis, and in drug metabolism studies in cells and animals. Active collaborations occur with laboratories specializing in NMR, X-ray crystallography, mass spectroscopy, synthetic organic chemistry, cancer and medicine. Projects can be designed to include several of these research approaches through active collaborative research programs. Harijan, R.K., Zoi, I., Antoniou, D., Schwartz, S.D., Schramm, V.L. “Inverse enzyme isotope effects in human purine nucleoside phosphorylase with heavy asparagine labels”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 115, E6209-E6216 (2018). PMC29915028 Schramm, V.L., Schwartz, S.D. “Promoting Vibrations and the Function of Enzymes. Emerging Theoretical and Experimental Convergence.” Biochemistry 57, 3299-3308 (2018). PMC6008225 Ducati, R.G., Namanja-Magliano, H.A., Harijan, R.K., Fajardo, J.E., Fiser, A., Daily, J.P., Schramm, V.L. “Genetic resistance to purine nucleoside phosphorylase inhibition in Plasmodium falciparum”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 115, 2114-2119 (2018). PMC5834662 Harris, L.D., Harijan, R.K., Ducati, R.G., Evans, G.B., Hirsch, B.M., Schramm, V.L. “Synthesis of bis-Phosphate Iminoaltritol Enantiomers and Structural Characterization with Adenine Phosphoribosyltransferase.” ACS Chem Biol. 13, 152-160 (2018). PMID29178779 Evans, G.B., Tyler, P.C., Schramm, V.L. “Immucillins in Infectious Diseases.” ACS Infect Dis. 4, 107-117 (2018). PMC6034505 Ducati RG, Firestone RS, Schramm VL. “Kinetic Isotope Effects and Transition State Structure for Hypoxanthine-Guanine-Xanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase from Plasmodium falciparum.” Biochemistry 56, 6368-6376 (2017). PMC5926801 Stratton, C.F., Poulin, M.B., Schramm, V.L. “Binding Isotope Effects for Interrogating Enzyme-Substrate Interactions.” Methods Enzymol 596, 1-21 (2017). PMID28911767 Firestone, R.S., Schramm, V.L. “The Transition-State Structure for Human MAT2A from Isotope Effects.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 13754-13760 (2017). PMC5674783 Moggré, G.J., Poulin, M.B., Tyler, P.C., Schramm, V.L., Parker, E.J. “Transition State Analysis of Adenosine Triphosphate Phosphoribosyltransferase.” ACS Chem Biol. 12, 2662-2670 (2017). PMID28872824 Namanja-Magliano HA, Evans GB, Harijan RK, Tyler PC, Schramm VL. “Transition State Analogue Inhibitors of 5'-Deoxyadenosine/5'-Methylthioadenosine Nucleosidase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.” Biochemistry 56, 5090-5098 (2017). PMC6019266 Gebre, S.T., Cameron, S.A., Li, L., Babu, Y.S., Schramm, V.L. “Intracellular rebinding of transition-state analogues provides extended in vivo inhibition lifetimes on human purine nucleoside phosphorylase. J. Biol. Chem. 292, 15907-15915 (2017). PMC5612120 Harijan, R.K., Zoi, I., Antoniou, D., Schwartz, S.D. and Schramm, V.L. “Catalytic-site design for inverse heavy-enzyme isotope effects in human purine nucleoside phosphorylase.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 114, 6456-6461 (2017). PMC5488955 Firestone, R.S., Cameron, S.A., Karp, J.M., Arcus, V.L. and Schramm, V.L. “Heat Capacity Changes for Transition-State Analogue Binding and Catalysis with Human 5’-Methylthioadenosine.” ACS Chem Biol 12, 464-473 (2017). PMC5462123 Stratton, C.F., Poulin, M.B., Du, Q. and Schramm, V.L. “Kinetic Isotope Effects and Transition state Strucutre for Human Phenylethanolamine N-Methyltransferase.” ACS Chem Biol 12, 342-346 (2017) PMC5553282 Einstein-Invented Compound Now Being Tested in COVID-19 Clinical Trial When a Drug Becomes a Child’s Last Hope Vern Schramm, Ph.D.: Enzymologist Extraordinaire Drug Coup for Einstein More Media Coverage TheScientist features a cover article by Vern Schramm, Ph.D., on transition-state analogs, compounds he synthesizes that bind to enzymes and short-circuit specific chemical reactions, and their potential for a powerful new line of drugs. Dr. Schramm is a leader in the field and the article highlights some of his discoveries, including potential treatments for cancer, malaria, gout and an antibiotic that defies resistance. Dr. Schramm is professor and chair of biochemistry and the Ruth Merns Chair in Biochemistry at Einstein. New Scientist interviews Vern Schramm, Ph.D., about his research on transition state analogs, a class of drugs he has been developing that target and neutralize specific enzymes in order to combat disease. Dr. Schramm is professor and Ruth Merns Chair in Biochemistry at Einstein.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line740
__label__cc	0.713943	0.286057	The Own3d Thread.(Keep it clean) By unsonny, January 15, 2005 in The Tailgate unsonny Internets Picture Finder Beloved Tailgate News Anchor Someone posted a link to this on youtube, pretty funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZGNk8pUj4Y @SkinsGoldPants De gustibus non est disputandum bwahahahahahhaha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FtJvWSvTS0&feature=player_embedded#t=0 AsburySkinsFan Beast Mode Acheivement: Unlocked Holy crap! 2 for the price of one. The Evil Genius A pair of teenagers who allegedly tried to pull off a robbery at gunpoint in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week picked the wrong two victims for their mugging. When police arrived at the scene of the attempted robbery last Tuesday night, they found Johnny Calderon Jr. and Gerald Allen bloodied and in the custody of the two unidentified men who they had immediately before been trying to rob. Judging from the condition of Calderon and Allen, their intended victims made it very clear that they were not the kind of people to willingly part with their valuables when faced with the threat of violence. ..this one is better though. Edited September 3, 2013 by The Evil Genius Omphaloskeptic Nice resume: lulz GoSkins0721 Not bad... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUO5Qv6PRkU This is why I love Simon Pegg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlMbFkKczOM i hope they didnt swallow any of that water omg, why didn't I just rely on my memory & NOT watch that Billy Squ...how can I turn it off???????????? When younger generations complain about standard def videos: Bwaaaaaaaahahahaha! That is brilliant. Forget Blurred Lines..THIS is the song of the summer this year. Allegedly, this is because the guy yelled at Weiner because he (Weiner) is married to an Arab woman. If so, Weiner is probably justified in his response. Anthony Weiner might be the most classless POS in American politics, and that is saying a LOT. What a slimey hunk of phlegm he is ~Bang Edited September 5, 2013 by Bang Thinking of him as a husband/father, I agree with Evil. But Bang gets the winner...dude just needs to gtfo. I've defended him, but have come to learn that he's passed nothing, as passionate as he may be. Let NYers get on with their lives. You know, the real ones that depend on real representatives. Dan T. Side Piece That was one thing the man said and, for that, he lost some moral high ground. But most of his argument was deriding Weiner's character and trustworthiness because of that whole virtual-sex-with-other-women thing. When Weiner asked "Who are you to judge?" the man should have answered "A voter. That's who. You're running for public office. Voters judge candidates." [/politics in own3d thread] Edited September 5, 2013 by Dan T.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line741
__label__cc	0.533971	0.466029	New from Down & Out Books: TWO IN THE HEAD by Eric Beetner Author's new book receives a warm literary welcome West Coast Recording Artist, Composer and Actor, Blue Ragg$ Releases New Music & Theatrical Video Author invents quirky future dialect of English for a literary tale of revenge Former Hudson Review Film Critic's Memoir Proves You Never Truly Leave Home "Vatican Shadows" is the New Riveting Read from Award-Winning Novelist Ray Keating Facing Threats and Murder, a Pope Calls on a Lutheran Pastor and Former CIA Operative for Help MANORVILLE, N.Y. - eTradeWire -- Long Island, NY – Ray Keating returns with his latest page-turning thriller titled Vatican Shadows: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel. More than 500 years ago, two men – Jan Hus and Martin Luther – tried to bring about change in the Catholic Church. They suffered, with one burned at the stake. Could a modern-day pope transform these reformers from heretics to heroes in the eyes of the Catholic Church? Shadowy figures inside and outside the Vatican oppose Pope Paul VII's efforts, and stand willing to do anything to stop him. For help, the pope turns to Stephen Grant, a Lutheran pastor, former Navy SEAL and onetime CIA operative. The action is intense and unrelenting. The characters and relationships are captivating and filled with complexity, commitment and betrayal. The twists and turns are fun. The dialogue is lively. And the story serves up reflections about faith, love, conflict, history, and friendship that are thought-provoking. A Pitch Above for Black Businesses Ray Keating said, "First and foremost, I hope readers – whether they be longtime or new Pastor Grant readers – enjoy Vatican Shadows as a page-turning thriller. In addition, I think Vatican Shadows could serve as an ideal book for all kinds of book clubs and discussion groups." Paperbacks and the Kindle edition of Vatican Shadows: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel are at Amazon via https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P1S5R26 and signed books are at https://raykeatingonline.com/products/vaticanshadows. About Keating and his Pastor Stephen Grant thrillers and mysteries, Kirkus Reviews simply says "exhilarating." Lutheran Book Review says, "I miss Tom Clancy. Keating fills that void for me." The retired host of KFUO radio's BookTalk declares, "Ray Keating is a great novelist." David Keene of The Washington Times calls these novels "great reads." And another reviewer observes, "How I'd love to see Pastor Grant on Netflix!" Keating's previous Pastor Stephen Grant thrillers/mysteries – The Traitor (2019), Deep Rough (2019), Shifting Sands (2018), Heroes and Villains (2018), Reagan Country (2018), Lionhearts (2017), Wine Into Water (2016), Murderer's Row (2015), The River (2014), An Advent For Religious Liberty (2012), Root of All Evil? (Second Edition 2020), and Warrior Monk (Second Edition 2019) – have received widespread praise from all kinds of readers. Review copies, and author interviews and appearances are available upon request. Ray Keating ***@keatingreports.com Source: Keating Reports, LLC Filed Under: Books, Religion, Film 5 Signs Your Commercial Building Needs A Remodel	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line745
__label__wiki	0.705665	0.705665	Turgut Ozal School Files Criminal Complaint After Police Raid Campuses Without Warrant From: Alice Taylor 10-11-2020 at 17:07 Turgut Ozal has filed a criminal complaint against the State Police for raiding their premises, without a warrant, court order, and for using excessive force. The company’s lawyer told the media: “There have been some checks that we deem illegal and we have addressed them with a criminal report. The police entered by force raided the premise, they forcibly took tax invoices, the sales ledger, student registers, and contracts with parents and students….checks cannot be done without respecting the criminal procedural code.” He added that the school had been subjected to a tax audit and that the results of that showed no irregularities. The lawyer said they have reported about 12 people as they searched without a warrant, official decision, prosecution order, or court order. Staff at the school that spoke to Exit in confidence described how following the “extended and intensive” tax audit, one day, large numbers of police turned up at all the schools’ campuses simultaneously. They detailed how police demanded to search the premises but refused to say why or to provide any official documentation. This action took place in front of students who were in attendance at the time. It’s reported that the police were also filming the ‘raid’ including the faces of students without permission. Staff described the ordeal as “terrifying”. Some days ago, the media reported that the company which owns several schools in the country is under investigation for money laundering. The company disputes this, stating that everything is above board. Those employed by the school state that all is legal and in order and no irregularities have been found either during internal audits or the recent audit carried out by the state. It’s speculated that the police action is due to pressure from the Turkish government to take “steps” against the Gulen movement and to hand over its members to Turkey. In February of this year, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu met with Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Gent Cakaj. They agreed with “the war against organized crime and terrorism.” The Turkish minister claimed that Gulenists are “not only a threat to Turkey but to countries where they are located,” adding that they were “controlled by some countries’ secret services.” Cavusoglu said they must be returned to Turkey, reminding the government that they “expect the support and contribution of Albania” in education and other matters. He added that there are many Gulenists in Albania and that the government “has taken some steps” but Turkey expects it to do more. The Turkish government claims that the failed 2016 coup d’etat was masterminded by Fethullah Gulen. In the subsequent years, the government has cracked down on academics, journalists, teachers, activists, and workers in the civil service that it claims are linked to the uprising. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been accused of using the failed coup as an excuse to tighten his grip on the country. There is no known link between the Turgut Ozal school, its teachers, or students and the Fetullah Gulen Movement. They believe they are being targeted due to political pressure from Turkey. The Albanian government have been criticised for their treatment of Turkish citizens who have been extradited, or who are planned to be deported back to Turkey. In January this year, the EU reminded the government of its human rights obligations after they deported Harun Celik back to Turkey, despite him asking for political asylum. Another Turkish citizen, Selami Simsek is currently fighting to overturn the decision to deport him as he says he faces unjust imprisonment if he is returned to Turkey. The Albanian Ombudsman said the government had violated all possible laws. The United Nations said that Albania is complicit in Extraterritorial Abductions and forced disappearances of Turkish nationals. Fjalë kyçe: Erdogan, gulen, Tirana, Turkey Hyni ose Rregjistroni për të komentuar Duhet të keni hyrë në llogari që të komentoni. Albanian Prime Minister Criticizes the EU over Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines Monday 01, 2021 N. 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__label__wiki	0.561739	0.561739	Fallons Angler Fallon's Angler Main Menu_GF FALLON FISHES GUEST ANGLERS PARR’S DIARY ALLAN’S FANGLER BITS’N’PIECES Bits ‘n Pieces Issue 43 Bits ‘n Pieces Issue 9 FISH WE LIKE PEOPLE WHO LIKE US BACK OF THE SHED BLOG EMAGS Podcast: Ramble on, episode 7: a Dorset Tench with Kevin Parr Podcast: Ramble on, episode 6: Ashmead with Mark Walsingham, part 2 Podcast: Ramble on, episode 4: the lost River Peck of London, part 2 Casting Shadows: Fish and Fishing in Britain by Tom Fort NEW PODCAST: Ramble on: episode 2. the lake at the end of the lane Part 2, by Kevin Parr NEW PODCAST: Ramble on: episode 1. the lake at the end of the lane, by Kevin Parr Fallon’s Angler Short Bites…..’Grayling’ NEW FILM – From the Gloaming Film: Mr Green’s Rod, starring Chris Yates Film: Forgotten Lake Film: Sturgeon Hunter Film: Solent Hounds, the dogs of war Film: Green and gold – Seeking winter perch on the river Kennet Film: the girl who never came home Audio: A pike is not just for Christmas, but for life Audio: Taking the plunge ABOUT FALLON’S ANGLER What is Fallon’s Angler? Issues by Articles Issue 1 articles Issues by author Issue 1 authors Fishing the ups and Downs By Garrett Fallon on October 25, 2014 in FALLON FISHES A Downs’ tench The Royal Canal in Ireland was a white elephant. It had been built by an over-zealous entrepreneur who intended it to compete against the nearby Grand Canal, but it went disastrously over-budget and he was nearly broke by the time it was completed. Then the railway came to Ireland and didn’t so much eat into his prospective profits as devour them. He was finished. He would have been better off wasting his money on building a tunnel to America, rather than ‘borrowing’ his neighbour’s idea, and so he fell flat on his arse. The canal just sat there for decades, forgotten about, gradually declining, falling into disrepair, and mostly unused except for some localised traffic. Old barges sat in the shallows, rotting, often their skeletal remains being the only reminder to a lost industrial past. A section near my childhood home was clear as crystal, with no boat traffic to churn up the mud. There the canal was easily thirty feet wide, five feet deep and ran 21 miles between locks. In my younger days we’d cycle along looking for shoals of fish, then dismount and harass them. We saw massive shoals of bream, huge rudd everywhere, the occasional tench, and lots of long, mean pike. In 1994 this ignored and dilapidated canal breached its banks and a JCB had come to the rescue and blocked the water from emptying fully out into the fields, but it had taken at least a day to stem the flow. So the injured canal simmered through a hot summer about a foot lower than it would normally be. Whether it was the higher-than-normal water temperature, or some other, as yet unseen factor, I’ll never know, but for some reason the fish were enthusiastic in their appreciation of a well-presented bait, and we caught well. By then, my own fishing journey had taken me far, in terms of improvement of skill, but only just down the road in terms of location. My fishing buddy Peter and I explored every inch of this section of canal, before reaching an out-of-the-way stretch near Mullingar, called the Downs. I say out-of-the-way in that hardly anybody went there. It was between two towns, and people didn’t stop to look around. But it was good farming land, bountiful and green, flanked by bogs, and easy enough to access, as you simply drove the car to your swim and parked in a hedge and fished. Peter and I came to the Downs in his little Suzuki Alto, stuffed to the gills with fishing gear. He was an enthusiastic purchaser of new tackle, and any fishing trip started with a visit to a tackle shop in Dublin (coincidently also on the banks of the Royal Canal) where they’d roll out the red carpet whenever they saw Peter walking in the door. Peter was a professional poker player, so a fishing trip invariably followed a win at the poker table. Under those circumstances, understandably, being financially prudent wasn’t really on the agenda for my flush friend. The guy behind the counter would tot up the bill in his head before knocking off a suitably rewarding percentage as a loyalty discount, and throw in a pint or two of maggots for good measure. We were always sure they closed the shop straight away and headed for the pub after our visits. On the bank we met a Swedish gent who fished a long pole across the water, catching fish after fish near the far bank, which was flanked by a rising field of corn. Against the reflection you could see the fish passing through the swim, and often staying to be fooled by his bait. The Swedish chap told us “Ze tench are everyvar. Ze tak ze red maggotz, zometimes ze sveetcorn. Early morningzar bezt. I fish unteeel midday, zen I go bakzu Dublin. I do ziz every Zaturday, like ze clockwork.” With spinning rods in hand, we walked and fished a fair bit of the canal either side of our Swedish friend. When we returned he was gone. 12.05 was the time. Just like clockwork, as promised. I was within shouting distance of Peter when I heard a mighty crash and looked around to see the surface of the canal in turmoil, with Peter effing and blinding to the four winds. When I reached him he was just staring at the water, the dissipating ripples from a massive fish bobbing at his feet. He had hooked the biggest pike he’d ever seen. We patrolled the area looking for her, and a few casts further down I found her, skulking in a hole behind a fallen branch. She was enormous, the biggest pike I’d ever seen too—still to this day—but she knew we were there and ultimately we tired of harassing her, and left her alone. We continued to explore, and that evening we settled into a swim further up the canal, where it widened to allow barges—that didn’t exist—to turn around. We figured we would fish the Swede’s swim at first light, as with limited time on the water we should explore our options. In the darkening evening sky we caught a lot of rudd, then Peter caught one that was easily two pounds, in almost total darkness. We had forgotten our float lights, so we’d moved around the swim to a spot where we could see the float in the reflected light from a nearby farm. That beautiful fish led him on a merry dance before revealing its golden flank in the light of our torches. The great thing about sleeping in cars, ignoring the distinct lack of comfort, is that the morning chorus of birdsong always wakes you up, and there’s never any need for an alarm. This time, however, it was the sound of heavy breathing that did it. I was in a semi-dream state and was aware of the sound before my eyes would work, and I thought that either some monster was still in my head, or Peter was having an interesting dream. “Thank heavens the gear stick was in the way,” I thought. Instead it was a cow from a neighboring field that had stuck its own head through a gap in the hedge and was licking the windscreen. Mooooooorning? Excuse the pun. Tossing a coin for the Swede’s swim, I lost and fished about 10 yards to the left. There were no features, so I got the swim rake from the car and carved a thin line of weedless ground about 15 feet out, and resolved to fish at the tip of it. Lightly groundbaited, and fed with a steady stream of maggots from a catapult, within 30 minutes the swim was fizzing with bubbles. I adore tench bubbles. Their eating habits are so refined, careful, delicate. They are so polite as to make their presence known to you before they fully enter our world, like knocking before they come into the room. and as I followed the trail of surfacing gas I could see them getting closer and closer to the tip of the float. A few nudges, some gentle bobbing, given some time, and down the float went. What followed was a ferocious battle on light line, with the tench burrowing deep in the weeds. I’d gain control only for her to set off again, this way and that, several times down into the muddy bottom of the canal. But eventually up she came, for it was a female, the gentle, smooth lines of her fins having that feminity that is missing from those of the more robust and angular male. And what a lovely shade of olive green she was, all four pounds of her. We caught a few tench that morning, perhaps eight or ten, and over that summer we fished the very same spot again and again, and we watched it develop into one of the best tench swims I have ever fished. On one particular evening, fishing again with Peter, but while also tutoring a friend of his from Germany, we caught 26 tench in the last four hours of the evening, with 14 falling to my own rod. We had stopped using keepnets by then, so it’s possible we caught the same fish more than once, but as an indication of the head of fish in that stretch it was nothing short of remarkable. There were other remarkable things about that stretch. Carp were not common on the canal, but a very few were there. Soon enough they found their way under my float tip. There were a pair of them, each slightly under ten pounds. We never caught them, but I certainly hooked them. You could see them swimming into view, and their larger bubbling marked their path, and you knew you were in trouble. No matter what we tried I just couldn’t manage to get the hooks to stick, and they’d either break the line or the hook hold would fail. But it added to the excitement. Other species had their kings too. Royal Canal perch are never very big, in my experience, but there was an enormous perch in that stretch that was surely all of four pounds. That’s a bit like looking into a goldfish bowl and finding a fat carp, or peeking into the pool of a high burn, and seeing not a small trout, but a salmon. That perch remained a ghostly presence. When you went looking for it, you could never find it, but when you were least expecting it, there it would be, smack bang in front of you. We have all had those moments when your eyes are trained on the distant float, but something moves in the margins, under you feet, and catches your eye. That was the domain of that giant perch. And no matter what we tried, we couldn’t catch it. The big pike showed herself too, snatching at the odd rudd on its way to our net. We’d always know when she was in our swim as the bites would stop like the flicking of an underwater switch. On other occasions the small fish would suddenly scatter in front of a giant bow wave as she drove through a shoal. But she ignored our lures, and we were too inexperienced to think our way around the problem of catching her, and too focused on catching tench, or at least I was. Peter had developed nothing short of an obsession with that fish for three weeks, thinking of little else, even when he was at the poker table, and it was beginning to effect his work, but strangely not in a negative way. His focus on work had moved from playing 6 days a week, to only playing 3 days a week, to allow him to fish more with me. For whatever reason this galvanised him, and he became much more successful at the table, and he’s carried this principal forward to this day, allowing him enough time to fish, enough time away from the poker table, to clear his thoughts, and to enjoy himself. I’ve often thought I can learn from him in this regard. So roughly every Thursday or Friday we’d jump into his little car and hit the road, heading for the Downs. Not the thirty pounder, but where is it? Peter would have his foot to the floor, pushing the Suzuki Alto to its maximum to get down to that stretch, and when he’d arrive he’d frantically trail his lures up and down in search of her. When I discovered the art of dead baiting we were filled with excitement, and Peter has goosebumps at the very thought of what was to come. When we got to the swim the first thing we did was put an oily sprat under a pike float, and we cast it next to a big bed of weed. There was so much adrenaline that it was difficult to get our fingers to work, and we stank of fish. But in the sprat went and we got on with the task of baiting up the tench rods. Before we even had the lines through the rings of the rod, the pike float went under, and Peter nearly tripped over himself to strike into what we were sure was the matriarch. He shouted what has since become his trademark “Woohoo!!” as he bent the rod into the fish. Surely all his dreams of mammoth pike were about to come true? Whatever it was got lodged in the reed bed, and we couldn’t feel its true weight for a few minutes until it broke free. But the subsequent pike was a mere four or five pounds, not thirty. We were disappointed, confused. It didn’t make any sense, as we’d never seen or hooked so much as a jack when the matriarch pike was around. Then the next morning, right on cue, Anders, the Swede arrived: “Ze big pike was caught last week. It weighed 31 poundz. Ze boy who caught it cut off ze head with a shovel and threw ze body on za bank. I found it zat day and buried it. “ He, and we, were gutted. Peter was inconsolable: “When we discovered her death at the hands of that 12 year old boy, a deep, deep anger rose within me at the actions of this uneducated brute. That anger is still there, for he took away my obsession, just like that”. The death of that pike signalled the death of that stretch, and within a year we went in search of pastures new. But it sowed the seeds for the quest to catch big pike, and tench, further afield in Ireland. There were smaller pike all over that stretch by then, with no enormous matriarch to prevent them from cutting into her territory. Shoals of little roach now proliferated, and the tench stopped biting, or had simply moved on. Walks along the bank never revealed wandering tench anymore, whereas before you could always spot them, like little zeppelins, floating along aimlessly. Other anglers too had found the spot, but we knew we’d had the best of it. And as for the perch? It was never seen again. I often think how this place may have only existed because people had forgotten about it, and as a result, it had found its own way, its ecosystem perfectly in balance, leading to some truly amazing fishing, until a foolish young lad, who knew no better, killed a trophy fish. But the foolish industrialist who sank his last pennies into that canal can rest easy, as his legacy is still intact. The water is healthy, the canal renovated and taken care off, and fish are present. If left alone and to its own devices, who knows? Maybe there’s another 30 pounder waiting for Peter right now? A life on the Lea NEW FILM – ‘Ashmead’ The bait, by Niall Fallon A lesson learned Canal, featured, Perch, Pike, Tench “Enjoyed this edition to the core and let’s hope it takes off” Caught by the River review Fallon's angler is with Will Millard. 'By the luck of the Gods' - In Issue 20 of Fallon's Angler, Will Millard explores the fickleness of fortune. Just how dependent are we on luck? And how big a role does it play in our lives? fallonsangler.net/shop/ ... See MoreSee Less Fallon's angler A trip to the Hampshire Avon may not have stirred his inner angler, but Dan Kieran certainly appreciated the craft involved in building a split cane rod. It's all down to 'spielzeug'.... 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__label__cc	0.613634	0.386366	Form 2FRB (1212): Forfeiture of Retirement Benets Attestation (River Parishes Community College) Fillable Form 2FRB (12/12): Forfeiture of Retirement Benets Attestation (River Parishes Community College) Fill Online, Printable, Fillable, Blank Form 2FRB (12/12): Forfeiture of Retirement Benets Attestation (River Parishes Community College) Form Use Fill to complete blank online RIVER PARISHES COMMUNITY COLLEGE pdf forms for free. Once completed you can sign your fillable form or send for signing. All forms are printable and downloadable. 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Box 94123 • Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9123 Telephone: (225) 925-6446 • Fax: (225) 925-4779 www.trsl.org Forfeiture of Retirement Beneﬁts – Attestation of Understanding Form 2FRB (12/12) 00-2FRB A. As used in this Section, the following words or phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) “Conviction” or “convicted” means a criminal conviction, guilty plea, or plea of nolo contendere that is ﬁnal, and all appellate review of the original trial court proceedings is exhausted. (2) “Public corruption crime” means a state or federal felony committed on or after January 1, 2013, in which the sentencing judge ﬁnds the public servant acted willfully and in the course and scope of his ofﬁcial capacity and the evidence establishes either of the following: (a) The public servant realized or attempted to realize a ﬁnancial proﬁt or a ﬁnancial gain for himself or for a third party. (b) The public servant committed any criminal sexual act with or upon the person of a minor, and there was a direct association between the public servant and the minor related to the public servant’s employment. (3) “Public retirement system” means any state, statewide, or any local public retirement system, plan, or fund. (4) “Public servant” means a public employee or an elected ofﬁcial as deﬁned in R.S. 42:1102 who is a member, former member, deferred retirement option plan participant, or retiree under the provisions of any public retirement system and who meets any of the following criteria: (a) His ﬁrst employment making him eligible for membership in a public retirement system began on or after January 1, 2013. (b) He was employed in a position making him eligible for membership in a public retirement system prior to January 1, 2013, but he terminated his service prior to that date and is reemployed in such a position on or after that date. (c) He assumes an elective ofﬁce on or after January 1, 2013, and by virtue of that service or previous public service he is eligible for membership in a public retirement system. B.(1) Following the conviction of a public corruption crime, the sentencing court shall determine if the conviction warrants forfeiture as provided in this Subsection or garnishment as provided in R.S. 11:292. In order to determine the appropriate remedy the sentencing court shall review the following factors: (a) The nature of the offense. (b) The prior service of the public servant and the appropriateness of any mitigating factors. (2)(a) If the court determines that forfeiture is appropriate, the court may order the forfeiture of the public servant’s right to receive any beneﬁt or payment of any kind under this Title except a return of the amount contributed by the public servant to the retirement system without interest, subject to Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph. All individuals employed on or after January 1, 2013 are required to read and sign this attestation form. La. R.S. 11:293 provides for the forfeiture of retirement benets by a public employee or elected ofcial (hired or beginning service on or after January 1, 2013) convicted of a “public corruption crime.” This law denes “public corruption crime” as a state or federal felony committed on or after January 1, 2013, in which the sentencing judge nds that the public servant acted willfully and in the course and scope of his ofcial capacity and that any of the following apply: 1. The public servant realized or attempted to realize a nancial gain for himself or for a third party. 2. The public servant committed any criminal sexual act with or upon the person of a minor, and there was a direct as- sociation between the public servant and the minor related to the public servant’s employment. The statutory text of La. R.S. 11:293, setting forth the provisions of law governing forfeiture of benets, is below. Section 1 — Member Information Name: Last, rst, MI, sufx (Jr., III, etc.) Social Security number Section 2 — La. R.S. 11:293. Forfeiture of retirement beneﬁts; public corruption crimes Section 3 — Attestation I, __________________________________________________________________, have read this form, Forfeiture of Retirement Beneﬁts – Attestation of Understanding, and understand its contents. Signature Date (mm/dd/yyyy)  (b) If the court orders the public servant to make restitution to the state or any political subdivision of the state for monetary loss in- curred as a result of the public corruption crime for which he is convicted, the court may order restitution to be paid from the amount contributed by the public servant to the retirement system. (c) Subject to the requirements of Paragraph (3) of this Subsection, the court may award to the member’s spouse, dependent, or for- mer spouse, as an alternate payee, some or all of the amount that, but for the order of forfeiture under Subparagraph (a) of this Para- graph, may otherwise be payable. Upon order of the court, the retirement system shall provide information concerning the member’s membership that the court considers relevant to the determination of the amount of an award under this Subparagraph. The system shall also calculate the spousal share of the public servant’s beneﬁt for the sentencing court in accordance with existing community property law. Any dependent’s share shall be calculated in the same manner as a spousal share. In determining the award, the court shall consider the totality of the circumstances, including but not limited to: (i) The role, if any, of the member’s spouse, dependent, or former spouse in connection with the crime. (ii) The degree of knowledge, if any, possessed by the member’s spouse, dependent, or former spouse in connection with the crime. (3) An award ordered under Subparagraph (2)(c) of this Subsection may not require the retirement system to: (a) Provide a type or form of beneﬁt or an option not otherwise provided by the retirement system. (b) Provide increased beneﬁts determined on the basis of actuarial value. (c) Take an action contrary to the system’s governing laws or plan provisions other than the direct payment of the beneﬁt awarded to the spouse, dependent, or former spouse. (4) All of the convicted public servant’s service credit attributable to employer contributions and interest on those contributions that are not otherwise assigned pursuant to Subparagraph (2)(c) of this Subsection shall be forfeited, and any dollar amount of such employer contributions and interest, together with any funds in the individual’s deferred retirement option plan account, shall be applied to reduc- ing the balance of the unfunded accrued liability of the system in a manner determined by the system’s board of trustees. If the system has no unfunded accrued liability, the employer contributions and interest shall revert to the system’s trust. C. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection B of this Section, survivor beneﬁts being received by the surviving unmarried spouse, the surviving minor child, or the surviving physically or mentally handicapped child who is entitled to a survivor beneﬁt of a deceased public servant convicted of a public corruption crime shall be based solely on the amount of the public servant’s beneﬁt forfeited to the retirement system and shall not be based on any amount remitted to the public servant. D. No provision of this Section shall impinge on any judicially recognized community property interest of a current or former spouse. E. Each public retirement system shall create an attestation form explaining the provisions of this Section and shall provide such attesta- tion form to each employing agency. Each employing agency shall provide every public servant with such attestation form and such public servant shall be required to sign the form indicating that he has read it and understands the contents thereof. F.(1) A parish prosecutor shall inform the secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections in writing when a conviction for a state public corruption crime is entered against a person who the prosecutor knows, or has reason to believe, is a member of a public retirement system and who is subject to the provisions of this Section. The secretary shall compile such information and transmit it to the appropriate public retirement system. (2) The secretary of state, upon being notiﬁed by a United States attorney of a felony conviction for a federal public corruption crime, whether or not such conviction qualiﬁes as a conviction as deﬁned by this Section, shall promptly transmit to each public retirement system information pertaining to such conviction. G. 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For individuals, this is generally your social security number (SSN). However, for a resident alien, sole proprietor, or disregarded entity, see the instructions for Part I, later. For other entities, it is your employer identification number (EIN). If you do not have a number, see How to get a TIN, later. Note: If the account is in more than one name, see the instructions for line 1. Also see What Name and Number To Give the Requester for guidelines on whose number to enter. Employer identification number Part II Certification Under penalties of perjury, I certify that: 1. The number shown on this form is my correct taxpayer identification number (or I am waiting for a number to be issued to me); and 2. I am not subject to backup withholding because: (a) I am exempt from backup withholding, or (b) I have not been notified by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that I am subject to backup withholding as a result of a failure to report all interest or dividends, or (c) the IRS has notified me that I am no longer subject to backup withholding; and 3. I am a U.S. citizen or other U.S. person (defined below); and 4. The FATCA code(s) entered on this form (if any) indicating that I am exempt from FATCA reporting is correct. Certification instructions. You must cross out item 2 above if you have been notified by the IRS that you are currently subject to backup withholding because you have failed to report all interest and dividends on your tax return. For real estate transactions, item 2 does not apply. For mortgage interest paid, acquisition or abandonment of secured property, cancellation of debt, contributions to an individual retirement arrangement (IRA), and generally, payments other than interest and dividends, you are not required to sign the certification, but you must provide your correct TIN. See the instructions for Part II, later. Signature of U.S. person Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code unless otherwise Future developments. For the latest information about developments related to Form W-9 and its instructions, such as legislation enacted after they were published, go to www.irs.gov/FormW9. Purpose of Form An individual or entity (Form W-9 requester) who is required to file an information return with the IRS must obtain your correct taxpayer identification number (TIN) which may be your social security number (SSN), individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), adoption taxpayer identification number (ATIN), or employer identification number (EIN), to report on an information return the amount paid to you, or other amount reportable on an information return. Examples of information returns include, but are not limited to, the following. • Form 1099-INT (interest earned or paid) • Form 1099-DIV (dividends, including those from stocks or mutual funds) • Form 1099-MISC (various types of income, prizes, awards, or gross proceeds) • Form 1099-B (stock or mutual fund sales and certain other transactions by brokers) • Form 1099-S (proceeds from real estate transactions) • Form 1099-K (merchant card and third party network transactions) • Form 1098 (home mortgage interest), 1098-E (student loan interest), 1098-T (tuition) • Form 1099-C (canceled debt) • Form 1099-A (acquisition or abandonment of secured property) Use Form W-9 only if you are a U.S. person (including a resident alien), to provide your correct TIN. If you do not return Form W-9 to the requester with a TIN, you might be subject to backup withholding. See What is backup withholding, Cat. No. 10231X Form W-9 (Rev. 10-2018) By signing the filled-out form, you: 1. Certify that the TIN you are giving is correct (or you are waiting for a number to be issued), 2. Certify that you are not subject to backup withholding, or 3. Claim exemption from backup withholding if you are a U.S. exempt payee. If applicable, you are also certifying that as a U.S. person, your allocable share of any partnership income from a U.S. trade or business is not subject to the withholding tax on foreign partners' share of effectively connected income, and 4. Certify that FATCA code(s) entered on this form (if any) indicating that you are exempt from the FATCA reporting, is correct. See What is FATCA reporting, later, for further information. Note: If you are a U.S. person and a requester gives you a form other than Form W-9 to request your TIN, you must use the requester’s form if it is substantially similar to this Form W-9. Definition of a U.S. person. For federal tax purposes, you are considered a U.S. person if you are: • An individual who is a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident alien; • A partnership, corporation, company, or association created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States; • An estate (other than a foreign estate); or • A domestic trust (as defined in Regulations section 301.7701-7). Special rules for partnerships. Partnerships that conduct a trade or business in the United States are generally required to pay a withholding tax under section 1446 on any foreign partners’ share of effectively connected taxable income from such business. Further, in certain cases where a Form W-9 has not been received, the rules under section 1446 require a partnership to presume that a partner is a foreign person, and pay the section 1446 withholding tax. Therefore, if you are a U.S. person that is a partner in a partnership conducting a trade or business in the United States, provide Form W-9 to the partnership to establish your U.S. status and avoid section 1446 withholding on your share of partnership income. In the cases below, the following person must give Form W-9 to the partnership for purposes of establishing its U.S. status and avoiding withholding on its allocable share of net income from the partnership conducting a trade or business in the United States. • In the case of a disregarded entity with a U.S. owner, the U.S. owner of the disregarded entity and not the entity; • In the case of a grantor trust with a U.S. grantor or other U.S. owner, generally, the U.S. grantor or other U.S. owner of the grantor trust and not the trust; and • In the case of a U.S. trust (other than a grantor trust), the U.S. trust (other than a grantor trust) and not the beneficiaries of the trust. Foreign person. If you are a foreign person or the U.S. branch of a foreign bank that has elected to be treated as a U.S. person, do not use Form W-9. Instead, use the appropriate Form W-8 or Form 8233 (see Pub. 515, Withholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Entities). Nonresident alien who becomes a resident alien. Generally, only a nonresident alien individual may use the terms of a tax treaty to reduce or eliminate U.S. tax on certain types of income. However, most tax treaties contain a provision known as a “saving clause.” Exceptions specified in the saving clause may permit an exemption from tax to continue for certain types of income even after the payee has otherwise become a U.S. resident alien for tax purposes. If you are a U.S. resident alien who is relying on an exception contained in the saving clause of a tax treaty to claim an exemption from U.S. tax on certain types of income, you must attach a statement to Form W-9 that specifies the following five items. 1. The treaty country. Generally, this must be the same treaty under which you claimed exemption from tax as a nonresident alien. 2. The treaty article addressing the income. 3. The article number (or location) in the tax treaty that contains the saving clause and its exceptions. 4. The type and amount of income that qualifies for the exemption from tax. 5. Sufficient facts to justify the exemption from tax under the terms of the treaty article. Example. Article 20 of the U.S.-China income tax treaty allows an exemption from tax for scholarship income received by a Chinese student temporarily present in the United States. Under U.S. law, this student will become a resident alien for tax purposes if his or her stay in the United States exceeds 5 calendar years. However, paragraph 2 of the first Protocol to the U.S.-China treaty (dated April 30, 1984) allows the provisions of Article 20 to continue to apply even after the Chinese student becomes a resident alien of the United States. A Chinese student who qualifies for this exception (under paragraph 2 of the first protocol) and is relying on this exception to claim an exemption from tax on his or her scholarship or fellowship income would attach to Form W-9 a statement that includes the information described above to support that exemption. If you are a nonresident alien or a foreign entity, give the requester the appropriate completed Form W-8 or Form 8233. Backup Withholding What is backup withholding? Persons making certain payments to you must under certain conditions withhold and pay to the IRS 24% of such payments. This is called “backup withholding.” Payments that may be subject to backup withholding include interest, tax-exempt interest, dividends, broker and barter exchange transactions, rents, royalties, nonemployee pay, payments made in settlement of payment card and third party network transactions, and certain payments from fishing boat operators. Real estate transactions are not subject to backup withholding. You will not be subject to backup withholding on payments you receive if you give the requester your correct TIN, make the proper certifications, and report all your taxable interest and dividends on your tax return. Payments you receive will be subject to backup withholding if: 1. You do not furnish your TIN to the requester, 2. You do not certify your TIN when required (see the instructions for Part II for details), 3. The IRS tells the requester that you furnished an incorrect TIN, 4. The IRS tells you that you are subject to backup withholding because you did not report all your interest and dividends on your tax return (for reportable interest and dividends only), or 5. You do not certify to the requester that you are not subject to backup withholding under 4 above (for reportable interest and dividend accounts opened after 1983 only). Certain payees and payments are exempt from backup withholding. See Exempt payee code, later, and the separate Instructions for the Requester of Form W-9 for more information. Also see Special rules for partnerships, earlier. What is FATCA Reporting? The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requires a participating foreign financial institution to report all United States account holders that are specified United States persons. Certain payees are exempt from FATCA reporting. See Exemption from FATCA reporting code, later, and the Instructions for the Requester of Form W-9 for more information. You must provide updated information to any person to whom you claimed to be an exempt payee if you are no longer an exempt payee and anticipate receiving reportable payments in the future from this person. For example, you may need to provide updated information if you are a C corporation that elects to be an S corporation, or if you no longer are tax exempt. In addition, you must furnish a new Form W-9 if the name or TIN changes for the account; for example, if the grantor of a grantor trust dies. Failure to furnish TIN. If you fail to furnish your correct TIN to a requester, you are subject to a penalty of $50 for each such failure unless your failure is due to reasonable cause and not to willful neglect. Civil penalty for false information with respect to withholding. If you make a false statement with no reasonable basis that results in no backup withholding, you are subject to a $500 penalty. Criminal penalty for falsifying information. Willfully falsifying certifications or affirmations may subject you to criminal penalties including fines and/or imprisonment. Misuse of TINs. If the requester discloses or uses TINs in violation of federal law, the requester may be subject to civil and criminal penalties. You must enter one of the following on this line; do not leave this line blank. The name should match the name on your tax return. If this Form W-9 is for a joint account (other than an account maintained by a foreign financial institution (FFI)), list first, and then circle, the name of the person or entity whose number you entered in Part I of Form W-9. If you are providing Form W-9 to an FFI to document a joint account, each holder of the account that is a U.S. person must provide a Form W-9. a. Individual. Generally, enter the name shown on your tax return. If you have changed your last name without informing the Social Security Administration (SSA) of the name change, enter your first name, the last name as shown on your social security card, and your new last name. Note: ITIN applicant: Enter your individual name as it was entered on your Form W-7 application, line 1a. This should also be the same as the name you entered on the Form 1040/1040A/1040EZ you filed with your b. Sole proprietor or single-member LLC. Enter your individual name as shown on your 1040/1040A/1040EZ on line 1. You may enter your business, trade, or “doing business as” (DBA) name on line 2. c. Partnership, LLC that is not a single-member LLC, C corporation, or S corporation. Enter the entity's name as shown on the entity's tax return on line 1 and any business, trade, or DBA name on line 2. d. Other entities. Enter your name as shown on required U.S. federal tax documents on line 1. This name should match the name shown on the charter or other legal document creating the entity. You may enter any business, trade, or DBA name on line 2. e. Disregarded entity. For U.S. federal tax purposes, an entity that is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner is treated as a “disregarded entity.” See Regulations section 301.7701-2(c)(2)(iii). Enter the owner's name on line 1. The name of the entity entered on line 1 should never be a disregarded entity. The name on line 1 should be the name shown on the income tax return on which the income should be reported. For example, if a foreign LLC that is treated as a disregarded entity for U.S. federal tax purposes has a single owner that is a U.S. person, the U.S. owner's name is required to be provided on line 1. If the direct owner of the entity is also a disregarded entity, enter the first owner that is not disregarded for federal tax purposes. Enter the disregarded entity's name on line 2, “Business name/disregarded entity name.” If the owner of the disregarded entity is a foreign person, the owner must complete an appropriate Form W-8 instead of a Form W-9. This is the case even if the foreign person has a U.S. TIN. If you have a business name, trade name, DBA name, or disregarded entity name, you may enter it on line 2. Check the appropriate box on line 3 for the U.S. federal tax classification of the person whose name is entered on line 1. Check only one box on line 3. IF the entity/person on line 1 is a(n) . . . THEN check the box for . . . • Corporation Corporation • Individual • Sole proprietorship, or • Single-member limited liability company (LLC) owned by an individual and disregarded for U.S. federal tax purposes. Individual/sole proprietor or single- member LLC • LLC treated as a partnership for U.S. federal tax purposes, • LLC that has filed Form 8832 or 2553 to be taxed as a corporation, • LLC that is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner but the owner is another LLC that is not disregarded for U.S. federal tax Limited liability company and enter the appropriate tax classification. (P= Partnership; C= C corporation; or S= S corporation) • Partnership Partnership • Trust/estate Trust/estate Line 4, Exemptions If you are exempt from backup withholding and/or FATCA reporting, enter in the appropriate space on line 4 any code(s) that may apply to Exempt payee code. • Generally, individuals (including sole proprietors) are not exempt from backup withholding. • Except as provided below, corporations are exempt from backup withholding for certain payments, including interest and dividends. • Corporations are not exempt from backup withholding for payments made in settlement of payment card or third party network transactions. • Corporations are not exempt from backup withholding with respect to attorneys’ fees or gross proceeds paid to attorneys, and corporations that provide medical or health care services are not exempt with respect to payments reportable on Form 1099-MISC. The following codes identify payees that are exempt from backup withholding. Enter the appropriate code in the space in line 4. 1—An organization exempt from tax under section 501(a), any IRA, or a custodial account under section 403(b)(7) if the account satisfies the requirements of section 401(f)(2) 2—The United States or any of its agencies or instrumentalities 3—A state, the District of Columbia, a U.S. commonwealth or possession, or any of their political subdivisions or instrumentalities 4—A foreign government or any of its political subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities 5—A corporation 6—A dealer in securities or commodities required to register in the United States, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. commonwealth or 7—A futures commission merchant registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission 8—A real estate investment trust 9—An entity registered at all times during the tax year under the Investment Company Act of 1940 10—A common trust fund operated by a bank under section 584(a) 11—A financial institution 12—A middleman known in the investment community as a nominee or 13—A trust exempt from tax under section 664 or described in section The following chart shows types of payments that may be exempt from backup withholding. The chart applies to the exempt payees listed above, 1 through 13. IF the payment is for . . . THEN the payment is exempt for . . . Interest and dividend payments All exempt payees except Broker transactions Exempt payees 1 through 4 and 6 through 11 and all C corporations. S corporations must not enter an exempt payee code because they are exempt only for sales of noncovered securities acquired prior to 2012. Barter exchange transactions and patronage dividends Exempt payees 1 through 4 Payments over $600 required to be reported and direct sales over Generally, exempt payees 1 through 5 Payments made in settlement of payment card or third party network See Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Income, and its instructions. However, the following payments made to a corporation and reportable on Form 1099-MISC are not exempt from backup withholding: medical and health care payments, attorneys’ fees, gross proceeds paid to an attorney reportable under section 6045(f), and payments for services paid by a federal executive agency. Exemption from FATCA reporting code. The following codes identify payees that are exempt from reporting under FATCA. These codes apply to persons submitting this form for accounts maintained outside of the United States by certain foreign financial institutions. Therefore, if you are only submitting this form for an account you hold in the United States, you may leave this field blank. Consult with the person requesting this form if you are uncertain if the financial institution is subject to these requirements. A requester may indicate that a code is not required by providing you with a Form W-9 with “Not Applicable” (or any similar indication) written or printed on the line for a FATCA exemption code. A—An organization exempt from tax under section 501(a) or any individual retirement plan as defined in section 7701(a)(37) B—The United States or any of its agencies or instrumentalities C—A state, the District of Columbia, a U.S. commonwealth or D—A corporation the stock of which is regularly traded on one or more established securities markets, as described in Regulations section 1.1472-1(c)(1)(i) E—A corporation that is a member of the same expanded affiliated group as a corporation described in Regulations section 1.1472-1(c)(1)(i) F—A dealer in securities, commodities, or derivative financial instruments (including notional principal contracts, futures, forwards, and options) that is registered as such under the laws of the United States or any state G—A real estate investment trust H—A regulated investment company as defined in section 851 or an entity registered at all times during the tax year under the Investment Company Act of 1940 I—A common trust fund as defined in section 584(a) J—A bank as defined in section 581 K—A broker L—A trust exempt from tax under section 664 or described in section 4947(a)(1) M—A tax exempt trust under a section 403(b) plan or section 457(g) Note: You may wish to consult with the financial institution requesting this form to determine whether the FATCA code and/or exempt payee code should be completed. Enter your address (number, street, and apartment or suite number). This is where the requester of this Form W-9 will mail your information returns. If this address differs from the one the requester already has on file, write NEW at the top. If a new address is provided, there is still a chance the old address will be used until the payor changes your address in their records. Enter your city, state, and ZIP code. Part I. Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) Enter your TIN in the appropriate box. If you are a resident alien and you do not have and are not eligible to get an SSN, your TIN is your IRS individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN). Enter it in the social security number box. If you do not have an ITIN, see How to get a TIN If you are a sole proprietor and you have an EIN, you may enter either your SSN or EIN. If you are a single-member LLC that is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner, enter the owner’s SSN (or EIN, if the owner has one). Do not enter the disregarded entity’s EIN. If the LLC is classified as a corporation or partnership, enter the entity’s EIN. Note: See What Name and Number To Give the Requester, later, for further clarification of name and TIN combinations. How to get a TIN. If you do not have a TIN, apply for one immediately. To apply for an SSN, get Form SS-5, Application for a Social Security Card, from your local SSA office or get this form online at www.SSA.gov. You may also get this form by calling 1-800-772-1213. Use Form W-7, Application for IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, to apply for an ITIN, or Form SS-4, Application for Employer Identification Number, to apply for an EIN. You can apply for an EIN online by accessing the IRS website at www.irs.gov/Businesses and clicking on Employer Identification Number (EIN) under Starting a Business. Go to www.irs.gov/Forms to view, download, or print Form W-7 and/or Form SS-4. Or, you can go to www.irs.gov/OrderForms to place an order and have Form W-7 and/or SS-4 mailed to you within 10 business days. If you are asked to complete Form W-9 but do not have a TIN, apply for a TIN and write “Applied For” in the space for the TIN, sign and date the form, and give it to the requester. For interest and dividend payments, and certain payments made with respect to readily tradable instruments, generally you will have 60 days to get a TIN and give it to the requester before you are subject to backup withholding on payments. The 60-day rule does not apply to other types of payments. You will be subject to backup withholding on all such payments until you provide your TIN to the requester. Note: Entering “Applied For” means that you have already applied for a TIN or that you intend to apply for one soon. Caution: A disregarded U.S. entity that has a foreign owner must use the appropriate Form W-8. Part II. Certification To establish to the withholding agent that you are a U.S. person, or resident alien, sign Form W-9. You may be requested to sign by the withholding agent even if item 1, 4, or 5 below indicates otherwise. For a joint account, only the person whose TIN is shown in Part I should sign (when required). In the case of a disregarded entity, the person identified on line 1 must sign. Exempt payees, see Exempt payee Signature requirements. Complete the certification as indicated in items 1 through 5 below. 1. Interest, dividend, and barter exchange accounts opened before 1984 and broker accounts considered active during 1983. You must give your correct TIN, but you do not have to sign the certification. 2. Interest, dividend, broker, and barter exchange accounts opened after 1983 and broker accounts considered inactive during 1983. You must sign the certification or backup withholding will apply. If you are subject to backup withholding and you are merely providing your correct TIN to the requester, you must cross out item 2 in the certification before signing the form. 3. Real estate transactions. You must sign the certification. You may cross out item 2 of the certification. 4. Other payments. You must give your correct TIN, but you do not have to sign the certification unless you have been notified that you have previously given an incorrect TIN. “Other payments” include payments made in the course of the requester’s trade or business for rents, royalties, goods (other than bills for merchandise), medical and health care services (including payments to corporations), payments to a nonemployee for services, payments made in settlement of payment card and third party network transactions, payments to certain fishing boat crew members and fishermen, and gross proceeds paid to attorneys (including payments to corporations). 5. Mortgage interest paid by you, acquisition or abandonment of secured property, cancellation of debt, qualified tuition program payments (under section 529), ABLE accounts (under section 529A), IRA, Coverdell ESA, Archer MSA or HSA contributions or distributions, and pension distributions. You must give your correct TIN, but you do not have to sign the certification. What Name and Number To Give the Requester For this type of account: Give name and SSN of: 1. Individual The individual 2. Two or more individuals (joint account) other than an account maintained by an FFI The actual owner of the account or, if combined funds, the first individual on 3. Two or more U.S. persons (joint account maintained by an FFI) Each holder of the account 4. Custodial account of a minor (Uniform Gift to Minors Act) 5. a. The usual revocable savings trust (grantor is also trustee) b. So-called trust account that is not a legal or valid trust under state law The grantor-trustee The actual owner 6. Sole proprietorship or disregarded entity owned by an individual 7. Grantor trust filing under Optional Form 1099 Filing Method 1 (see Regulations section 1.671-4(b)(2)(i) (A)) The grantor* For this type of account: Give name and EIN of: 8. Disregarded entity not owned by an 9. A valid trust, estate, or pension trust 10. Corporation or LLC electing corporate status on Form 8832 or 11. Association, club, religious, charitable, educational, or other tax- exempt organization 12. Partnership or multi-member LLC The partnership 13. A broker or registered nominee The broker or nominee 14. Account with the Department of Agriculture in the name of a public entity (such as a state or local government, school district, or prison) that receives agricultural program payments The public entity Grantor trust filing under the Form 1041 Filing Method or the Optional Regulations section 1.671-4(b)(2)(i)(B)) List first and circle the name of the person whose number you furnish. If only one person on a joint account has an SSN, that person’s number must be furnished. Circle the minor’s name and furnish the minor’s SSN. You must show your individual name and you may also enter your business or DBA name on the “Business name/disregarded entity” name line. You may use either your SSN or EIN (if you have one), but the IRS encourages you to use your SSN. List first and circle the name of the trust, estate, or pension trust. (Do not furnish the TIN of the personal representative or trustee unless the legal entity itself is not designated in the account title.) Also see Special rules for partnerships, earlier. *Note: The grantor also must provide a Form W-9 to trustee of trust. Note: If no name is circled when more than one name is listed, the number will be considered to be that of the first name listed. Secure Your Tax Records From Identity Theft Identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal information such as your name, SSN, or other identifying information, without your permission, to commit fraud or other crimes. An identity thief may use your SSN to get a job or may file a tax return using your SSN to receive a refund. To reduce your risk: • Protect your SSN, • Ensure your employer is protecting your SSN, and • Be careful when choosing a tax preparer. If your tax records are affected by identity theft and you receive a notice from the IRS, respond right away to the name and phone number printed on the IRS notice or letter. If your tax records are not currently affected by identity theft but you think you are at risk due to a lost or stolen purse or wallet, questionable credit card activity or credit report, contact the IRS Identity Theft Hotline at 1-800-908-4490 or submit Form 14039. For more information, see Pub. 5027, Identity Theft Information for Taxpayers. Victims of identity theft who are experiencing economic harm or a systemic problem, or are seeking help in resolving tax problems that have not been resolved through normal channels, may be eligible for Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) assistance. You can reach TAS by calling the TAS toll-free case intake line at 1-877-777-4778 or TTY/TDD Protect yourself from suspicious emails or phishing schemes. Phishing is the creation and use of email and websites designed to mimic legitimate business emails and websites. The most common act is sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The IRS does not initiate contacts with taxpayers via emails. Also, the IRS does not request personal detailed information through email or ask taxpayers for the PIN numbers, passwords, or similar secret access information for their credit card, bank, or other financial accounts. If you receive an unsolicited email claiming to be from the IRS, forward this message to phishing@irs.gov. You may also report misuse of the IRS name, logo, or other IRS property to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) at 1-800-366-4484. You can forward suspicious emails to the Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov or report them at www.ftc.gov/complaint. You can contact the FTC at www.ftc.gov/idtheft or 877-IDTHEFT (877-438-4338). If you have been the victim of identity theft, see www.IdentityTheft.gov and Pub. 5027. Visit www.irs.gov/IdentityTheft to learn more about identity theft and how to reduce your risk. Privacy Act Notice Section 6109 of the Internal Revenue Code requires you to provide your correct TIN to persons (including federal agencies) who are required to file information returns with the IRS to report interest, dividends, or certain other income paid to you; mortgage interest you paid; the acquisition or abandonment of secured property; the cancellation of debt; or contributions you made to an IRA, Archer MSA, or HSA. The person collecting this form uses the information on the form to file information returns with the IRS, reporting the above information. Routine uses of this information include giving it to the Department of Justice for civil and criminal litigation and to cities, states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. commonwealths and possessions for use in administering their laws. 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__label__cc	0.507069	0.492931	To start searching Search News Policy Economy Techno Society Video News Policy Economy Techno Society Video Advertising on the website Contact us About edition Privacy Policy RSS The richest people in the world lost $ 139 billion per day due to coronavirus American Bloomberg reports that coronavirus infection 2019-nCov (COVID-19) was the most powerful blow to the world economics since October 2016, i.e. from the moment the agency began to conduct its own statistics. It is clarified that because of this epidemic, serious complications arose in the stock markets of the planet, which led to the reduction of the wealthiest people in the world by $ 139 billion in just a day. It is noted that the virus can cause even greater harm to the global economy. According to Bloomberg, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy CEO Bernard Arnault and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos lost nearly $ 5 billion each. The fortune of the owner of the Spanish retail chain Zara, Amancio Ortega, decreased by $ 4 billion, and the head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg - by almost $ 3,5 billion. As for the Russian billionaires, the president of Lukoil Vagit Alekperov lost the most - $ 1,21 billion. At the same time, the head of Novatek Leonid Mikhelson lost 692 million, and the vice-president of Lukoil Leonid Fedun - $ 508 million. As of February 25, 2020, the number of victims of 2019-nCov (COVID-19) in China amounted to 2663 people. 27,2 thousand people recovered. The total number of infected is 77,6 thousand people. At the same time, 763 people fell ill in South Korea, of which 7 died. In Italy, 229 people fell ill, of whom 6 died. At the same time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has already warned the international community about the possibility of a pandemic. By the way, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte believes that the impact of the spread of 2019-nCov (COVID-19) on the country's economy can be very strong, Reuters reported. Economic impact can be very strong. At the moment, we believe that negative consequences for the economy are likely, but we still cannot predict what will happen. - quotes the words of Conte Reuters. It should be added that it is not yet possible to accurately predict how severe the consequences of the 2019-nCov outbreak (COVID-19) will turn out to be for the global economy. Photos used: https://pixabay.com/ Noticed oshЫbku Highlight text and press. Ctrl + Enter Ministry of Health announces preparations for coronavirus epidemic Russian government equates new coronavirus with plague and anthrax Reporterin Yandex News Read Reporterin Google News The publication is looking for authors in the news and analytical departments. Requirements for applicants: literacy, responsibility, efficiency, inexhaustible creative energy, experience in copywriting or journalism, the ability to quickly analyze text and check facts, write concisely and interestingly on political and economic topics. The work is paid. Contact: [email protected] Dear reader, to leave comments on the publication, you must to register. I have an account? Sign in Offline Sergey Latyshev Sergey Latyshev (Serge) 25 February 2020 22: 46 Wah, the media wonders how many billionaires the idols of capitalism have lost ... And how many all sorts of grandmothers .... something, not a single article, it’s obvious, do not care ... Advertising on the website Contact us About edition Privacy Policy RSS © 2018-2021 "Reporter" The use of materials is allowed only if there is an active hyperlink to topcor.ru. The hyperlink must not be closed for search indexing. At the same time, their distribution through exchange networks and news aggregators is prohibited. This resource may contain materials. 18+ Editorial opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the author of the publication Design - CENTROARTs Reporter Username Password	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line780
__label__wiki	0.998248	0.998248	This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2021. This article is about the English language audiovisual international news and current affairs operations of BBC. For the BBC's corporate division administering it as well as the audio only branding of the same, see BBC World Service. BBC's international audiovisual news division in English Broadcast area Worldwide (except UK) Live the story Broadcasting House Picture format (downscaled to 16:9 for the SDTV feeds. The Latin American subfeed is downscaled to letterboxed 4:3 480i) BBC Global News Ltd. Sister channels 16 January 1995; 26 years ago (1995-01-16) BBC World Service Television (1991–1995) Former names BBC World (1995–2008) Boxer TV Access (Sweden) Digital terrestrial television (Andorra) ERT Digital (Greece) Channel 56 (HD) Digital terrestrial television (Mauritius) Nexmedia (Indonesia) Oqaab (Afghanistan) Dstv (Sub-Saharan Africa) BBC World News is an international English language pay television network that is operated by the BBC Global News division of the larger BBC. The BBC is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.[1] According to its corporate PR, the combined 7 channels of the Global News operations have the largest audience market share among all of its rivals, with an estimated 99 million viewers weekly in 2016/2017, part of the estimated 121 million weekly audience of all its operations.[2] Launched on 11 March 1991 as the BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and to BBC World News on 21 April 2008. It broadcasts news bulletins, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interview shows. Unlike the BBC's domestic channels, it is owned and operated by BBC Global News Ltd., part of the BBC's commercial group of companies, and is funded by subscription and advertising revenues, and not by the United Kingdom television licence,[3] and as a result, it's not available as a stand-alone channel in the UK[according to whom?], though UK viewers can watch BBC World News content on the BBC News channel. It is distinct from the BBC Studios operations. The linear service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to Al Jazeera, CNN International, France 24 (English channel), and NHK World. 1.1 Move to Broadcasting House 2 Broadcasting 2.1 High-definition 2.2 Worldwide 2.4 United Kingdom 3 Programming 3.1 World News bulletins 3.2 Previous bulletins 4 News presenters 4.1 Former presenters 5 Presentation See also: BBC World Service Television The channel originally started as BBC World Service Television and was a commercial operation. The British government refused to fund the new television service using grant-in-aid. (BBC World Service radio was funded by a grant-in-aid from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until 2014.) The channel started broadcasting on 11 March 1991, after two weeks of real-time pilots, initially as a half-hour bulletin once a day at 19:00 GMT. On Thursday, 26 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT, BBC World Service Television was split into two services: BBC World started broadcasting on Monday, 16 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT and became a 24-hour English free-to-air international news channel. BBC Prime started broadcasting on Monday, 30 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT and became the BBC's light entertainment channel, later renamed BBC Entertainment. BBC World's on-air design was changed significantly on 3 April 2000, bringing it closer to the look of its sister channel in the UK which was then known as BBC News 24, the on-air look of which had been redesigned in 1999.[4] The look of both channels was made up of red and cream and designed by Lambie-Nairn, with music based on a style described as 'drums and beeps' composed by David Lowe, a departure from the general orchestral nature of music used by other news programmes. On 8 December 2003 a second makeover, using the same 'drums and beeps' style music but new graphics took place, although on a much smaller scale to that of 2000. The music was changed slightly while the main colour scheme became black and red, with studios using frosted glass and white and red colours. Later in 2004, the channel's slogan became Putting News First, replacing Demand a Broader View. The channel's present name "BBC World News" was introduced on 21 April 2008 as part of a £550,000 rebranding of the BBC's overall news output and visual identity. BBC World News later moved to the renovated studio vacated by BBC News 24 (now the BBC News Channel). New graphics were produced by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and music reworked by David Lowe. Move to Broadcasting House[edit] BBC World News relocated to Broadcasting House from its previous home at Television Centre on 14 January 2013. This was part of the move of BBC News and other audio and vision departments of the BBC into one building in Central London. Broadcasting House was refurbished at a cost of £1 billion. A new newsroom and several state-of-the-art studios were built.[5] Broadcasting[edit] Live news output originates from studios B and C in Broadcasting House with some recorded programming from Broadcasting House studio A and the BBC Millbank studio. The BBC World News newsroom is now part of the new consolidated BBC Newsroom in Broadcasting House along with BBC World Service and UK domestic news services. Previously, the channel was broadcast in 4:3, with the news output fitted into a 14:9 frame for both digital and analogue broadcasting, resulting in black bands at the top and bottom of the screen. On 13 January 2009 at 09:57 GMT, BBC World News switched its broadcast to 16:9 format, initially in Europe on Astra 1L satellite,[6] and Eutelsat Hot Bird 6 satellite to other broadcast feeds in the Asian region from 20 January 2009. The channel ceased broadcasting on analogue satellite on 18 April 2006.[7] High-definition[edit] As a result of the move to Broadcasting House, BBC World News gained high-definition studios and equipment to be able to broadcast in high-definition. On 5 August 2013, BBC World News was offered as a High Definition (HD) feed across the Middle East when it launched its international HD channel on Arabsat. Arabsat was the BBC's first distribution partner in the Middle East to offer the channel in HD. On 1 April 2015 BBC World News in English started broadcasting in high definition from the 11.229 GHz/V transponder on Astra 1KR at the 19.2°E orbital position, available free-to-air to viewers with 60 cm dishes across Europe and coastal North Africa.[8] Worldwide[edit] BBC World News claims to be watched by a weekly audience of 74 million in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.[9] BBC World News is most commonly watched as a free-to-air (FTA) channel. The channel is available in Europe and many parts of the world via satellite (FTA) or cable platforms. In the United States, the channel is available through providers[10] such as Cablevision, Comcast, Spectrum, Verizon FiOS, and AT&T U-verse.[11] As of 2014, US distribution and advertising sales for the channel are handled by AMC Networks, who are the minority partner for the BBC's entertainment channel BBC America.[12][13] In addition, BBC World News syndicates its daytime and evening news programmes to public television stations throughout the US, originally maintaining a distribution partnership with Garden City, New York-based WLIW that lasted from 1998 until October 2008, when the BBC and WLIW mutually decided not to renew the contract.[14][15][16] BBC World News subsequently entered into an agreement with Community Television of Southern California, Inc., in which Los Angeles PBS member station KCET (which was a public independent station from 2011 to 2018) would take over distribution rights to BBC World News America (the KCET agreement has since been extended to encompass a half-hour simulcast of the 90-minute-long midday news bulletin GMT, which airs in the US as a morning show, and a weekly edition of the BBC newsmagazine Newsnight).[17][18][19] Since June 2019, broadcasting of BBC news programming is handled by WETA-TV.[20] PBS separately began distributing another program aired by the channel, Beyond 100 Days, as a tape-delayed late night broadcast on 2 January 2018, as an interim replacement for Charlie Rose. Unlike GMT and BBC World News America, Beyond 100 Days is distributed exclusively to PBS member stations as part of the service's base schedule.[21][22] Online[edit] The channel is available in the US as part of Sling's World News add-on package.[23] From 2012 until it closed in 2016, BBC World News was available on LiveStation. TV platforms in the UK (i.e. Freeview, Sky, BT TV, Freesat, Virgin) do not officially offer BBC World News as a standalone full-time channel because it carries and is funded by advertising (BBC's domestic channels are funded by a television licence fee which households and establishments that want to watch television programmes as they are being broadcast must pay), although it can be easily received due to its 'free-to-air' status on many European satellite systems, including Astra and Hot Bird and is available in selected London hotels. BBC World News can also be viewed in the public areas of Broadcasting House (the lobby and café). However, some BBC World News programmes are officially available to UK audiences. Such programmes air on the BBC's domestic channels and some are available on-demand on the BBC's iPlayer. From 00.00 to 05.00 UK time, the top-of-the-hour news bulletins on BBC World News are simulcast on the BBC News Channel. At 01.30 weekdays, Asia Business Report and Sport Today also air on both channels. There is a simulcast of the 05:00 UK edition of The Briefing and Business Briefing on BBC One and the BBC News channel. This programme was previously branded as 'The World Today' (later a generic BBC World News bulletin) and World Business Report respectively. At 08.30 UK time, Worklife airs on the BBC News Channel. BBC World News also produces a version of Outside Source at 21:00 UK time Monday-Thursday (seen on the BBC News Channel), World News Today at 19:00 Monday-Friday (seen on BBC Four), and 21:00 Friday-Sunday (seen on the BBC News Channel). World News Today replaced The World, which had been broadcast as a simulcast on BBC Four between 2002 and 2007. The Coronavirus pandemic saw an increase of simulcasts between BBC News and BBC World News with simulcasting now running through the morning (10am to 1pm) and the evening (7pm to 10pm). The additional simulcasting was made permanent in August 2020. Consequently, the two channels now simulcast between each day 10:00 to 12:00 and on weekdays 19:00 to 06:00, apart from the BBC News at Ten and for half an hour at 20:30, and between 21:00 to 06:00, apart from the evening BBC One bulletin, over the weekend.[24] Both World and the BBC News Channel have also occasionally had to simulcast the same news programme due to strike action or technical issues; this occurred in 2003 when Television Centre in London was affected by electrical problems. Programming[edit] Live news programmes:[25] BBC World News – International news. GMT – International news, including business and sport. Impact – Global news as it affects audiences in Asia. Global – International news and analysis. Outside Source – Discussion and analysis of news topics. Newsday – Live from Singapore and London, news and analysis from both an Asian and global perspective (cancelled 26 March 2020). BBC World News America – News from America and around the world, live from the BBC's Washington DC bureau. Focus on Africa – BBC World News' flagship African news programme, with news, business and sport from the continent. BBC News with Katty and Christian – Katty Kay in Washington and Christian Fraser in London report on international news, with a focus on the UK, Europe and the US (previously branded as 100 Days, 100 Days + and Beyond 100 Days). World News Today – A daily news programme with in-depth analysis. Focus on the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Presenters include Nancy Kacungira, Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera, Alpa Patel and Philippa Thomas The Briefing – Sally Bundock with news, business, and sports from BBC News.[26] Live business and sport programmes: Worklife – Broadcast live from London. World Business Report – Business news analysis. Asia Business Report – Business and market news in Asia, live from Singapore. Sport Today – International sports news and results. Pre-recorded programmes: Africa Business Report – Weekly African business news programme. Click – Technology programme aimed at non-technical audiences. Dateline London – Foreign correspondents based in London discuss the week's international news. The Travel Show – A unique insight into the world of travel. HARDtalk – In-depth interviews with famous personalities from all walks of life. Newsnight – A weekly round up of news and current affairs hosted by Evan Davis. Our World – Documentary series. Panorama – Current affairs programme, featuring interviews and investigative reports on a wide variety of subjects. Politics Europe – Monthly programme usually broadcast on a Friday which covers political news across Europe, analysing both the situation in Brussels as well as within individual European nations. Filmed in exactly the same format as the BBC Two programme, the Daily Politics, presented by Andrew Neil or Jo Coburn. Also broadcast on BBC Parliament. Reporters – A weekly showcase of the best reports from the BBC's global network of correspondents. Talking Movies – A guide to film, from Hollywood blockbusters to documentaries and world cinema. World News bulletins[edit] The BBC newsroom at Broadcasting House in London Half-hour BBC World News bulletins are made available to Public Broadcasting Service stations in the US through Los Angeles' KCET, a non-commercial independent public television station which has been separate from PBS since the beginning of 2011 due to a rights fee dispute (it returned to being a minor PBS member station in 2019 after a merger with the major PBS member station in the market). 80 to 90% of Americans are able to receive the bulletins, with PBS member stations having scheduling discretion. The programme is broadcast on several PBS stations in markets such as New York City and Washington DC. On PBS stations, BBC World News is not broadcast with traditional commercials (the breaks are filled with news stories) but omits the Met Office international weather forecast at the end of the programme, replacing it with underwriting announcements. The PBS broadcasts are tape-delayed on some stations. BBC America formerly aired a three-hour block of BBC World News programmes from 05:00 to 08:00 on weekdays until the stabilisation of the network's carriage in the United States. Met Office forecasts were removed, and it was broadcast with advertisements. Many airlines from across the world also play pre-recorded extracts of the BBC World News, have text headlines from it or have a full bulletin available on the in-flight entertainment systems. Previous bulletins[edit] Another BBC World News programme, the hour-long BBC World News America, aired on BBC America at 19:00 Eastern Time. A second broadcast at 22:00 Eastern Time ended in 2010 when BBC America introduced a second feed for the western time zones of the US on 18 February 2011, it was announced that BBC World News America would no longer be broadcast on BBC America and would instead be broadcast only on BBC World and local PBS stations in the US as a 30-minute program.[27] The channel also produced short bulletins for public transport services in Singapore and Hong Kong: Singapore Mass Rapid Transit service from Marina Bay to Changi International Airport Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway service from Chek Lap Kok International Airport-Disneyland Resort station to Disneyland Resort line These broadcasts began with the statement: "Welcome to BBC World News on board the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit and Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway". The short bulletin was updated twice a day, and has since been replaced by a similar programme from MediaCorp's Channel NewsAsia. Travellers on the Heathrow Express rail service between London Paddington and London Heathrow Airport could watch a summary of the headlines from BBC World News on the LCD screens provided. News presenters[edit] For full list of current presenters, see List of BBC newsreaders and reporters § BBC World News. Former presenters[edit] Samira Ahmed Karen Bowerman Tony Campion Stephen Cole James Dagwell Dharshini David Martine Dennis Juliet Dunlop Maya Even Adrian Finighan Donald MacCormick Anita McNaught Daniela Ritorto Presentation[edit] Part of the countdown sequence in 2013, showing Broadcasting House BBC World News is, for the most part, the same channel all over the world; the commercials are intended to be the only differences. However, there are some regional programming variations. For example, a number of programmes are made exclusively for regional viewings, such as Indian feeds, and The Record Europe, which is only broadcast in Europe. Also, the weather forecasts focus more on the area the viewer is watching from. On most feeds of BBC World News, when there are no commercials being inserted by the cable or satellite provider similar to other channels, the break filler shows promotions for upcoming programmes on the channel. During BBC News, a news story that has not been promoted airs during what would be the commercial break. This is the case on the broadband versions of BBC World News, and on versions of BBC World News aired in the US on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations. However, there are some global commercials and sponsorships which air throughout the network. On 11 September 2007, the break filler was redesigned and now more closely resembles previous versions.[clarification needed] The promotional videos now fill the entire screen and are interspersed with news and market updates, schedules, and other information. There is also no longer a unifying music composition. Instead, each 20-second promotional video uses music selected from a handful of themes, which have some unifying musical characteristics. The information screens, such as the 10-second plug for the website or YouTube channel, and the 15-second weather/time/coming up screens each feature their own theme. The colour theme was updated following the relaunch of the channel in April 2008. Since its inception, and more so since its extensive association with the BBC News channel, the countdown to the hourly news bulletin has been a feature of the channel's presentation, accompanied by music composed by David Lowe. The current style of countdown features reporters and technical staff in many different locations working to bring news stories to air. The countdown can range from 45 seconds to as little as 3 seconds. 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__label__cc	0.63647	0.36353	Brownian motion: translation :"This article is about the physical phenomenon; for the stochastic process, see Wiener process. For the sports team, see Brownian Motion (Ultimate). For the mobility model, see Random walk." Brownian motion (named after the botanist Robert Brown) is the random movement of particles suspended in a liquid or gas or the mathematical model used to describe such random movements, often called a particle theory. The mathematical model of Brownian motion has several real-world applications. An often quoted example is stock market fluctuations. Brownian motion is among the simplest continuous-time stochastic processes, and it is a limit of both simpler and more complicated stochastic processes (see random walk and Donsker's theorem). This universality is closely related to the universality of the normal distribution. In both cases, it is often mathematical convenience rather than the accuracy of the models that motivates their use. The Roman Lucretius's scientific poem On the Nature of Things (c. 60 BC) has a remarkable description of Brownian motion of dust particles. He uses this as a proof of the existence of atoms: "Observe what happens when sunbeams are admitted into a building and shed light on its shadowy places. You will see a multitude of tiny particles mingling in a multitude of ways... their dancing is an actual indication of underlying movements of matter that are hidden from our sight... It originates with the atoms which move of themselves [i.e. spontaneously] . Then those small compound bodies that are least removed from the impetus of the atoms are set in motion by the impact of their invisible blows and in turn cannon against slightly larger bodies. So the movement mounts up from the atoms and gradually emerges to the level of our senses, so that those bodies are in motion that we see in sunbeams, moved by blows that remain invisible." Although the mingling motion of dust particles is caused largely by air currents, the glittering, tumbling motion of small dust particles is indeed caused chiefly by true Brownian dynamics. Jan Ingenhousz had described the irregular motion of coal dust particles on the surface of alcohol in 1785. Nevertheless Brownian motion is traditionally regarded as discovered by the botanist Robert Brown in 1827. It is believed that Brown was studying pollen particles floating in water under the microscope. He then observed minute particles within the vacuoles of the pollen grains executing a jittery motion. By repeating the experiment with particles of dust, he was able to rule out that the motion was due to pollen particles being 'alive', although the origin of the motion was yet to be explained. The first person to describe the mathematics behind Brownian motion was Thorvald N. Thiele in 1880 in a paper on the method of least squares. This was followed independently by Louis Bachelier in 1900 in his PhD thesis "The theory of speculation", in which he presented a stochastic analysis of the stock and option markets. However, it was Albert Einstein's (in his 1905 paper) and Marian Smoluchowski's (1906) independent research of the problem that brought the solution to the attention of physicists, and presented it as a way to indirectly confirm the existence of atoms and molecules. Intuitive metaphor Consider a large balloon of 10 meters in diameter. Imagine this large balloon in a football stadium. The balloon is so large that it lies on top of many members of the crowd. Because they are excited, these fans hit the balloon at different times and in different directions with the motions being completely random. In the end, the balloon is pushed in random directions, so it should not move on average. Consider now the force exerted at a certain time. We might have 20 supporters pushing right, and 21 other supporters pushing left, where each supporter is exerting equivalent amounts of force. In this case, the forces exerted from the left side and the right side are imbalanced in favor of the left side; the balloon will move slightly to the left. This type of imbalance exists at all times, and it causes random motion of the balloon. If we look at this situation from far above, so that we cannot see the supporters, we see the large balloon as a small object animated by erratic movement. Considering Brown’s pollen particle moving randomly in water: we know that a water molecule is about 0.1 by 0.2 nm in size, whereas a pollen particle is roughly 25 µm in diameter, some 250,000 times larger. So the pollen particle may be likened to the balloon, and the water molecules to the fans except that in this case the balloon is surrounded by fans. The Brownian motion of a particle in a liquid is thus due to the instantaneous imbalance in the combined forces exerted by collisions of the particle with the much smaller liquid molecules (which are in random thermal motion) surrounding it. An [http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/brownian/brownian.html animation of the Brownian motion concept] is available as a Java applet. Modelling using differential equations The equations governing Brownian motion relate slightly differently to each of the two definitions of "Brownian motion" given at the start of this article. for main article, see Wiener process. In mathematics, the Wiener process is a continuous-time stochastic process named in honor of Norbert Wiener. It is one of the best known Lévy processes (càdlàg stochastic processes with stationary independent increments) and occurs frequently in pure and applied mathematics, economics and physics. The Wiener process "W"t is characterized by three facts: #"W"0 = 0 #"W""t" is almost surely continuous #"W""t" has independent increments with distribution W_t-W_ssim mathcal{N}(0,t-s) (for 0 ≤ "s" < "t")."N"("μ", "σ"2) denotes the normal distribution with expected value "μ" and variance "σ"2. The condition that it has independent increments means that if 0 ≤ "s"1 ≤ "t"1 ≤ "s" 2 ≤ "t"2 then "W""t"1 − "W""s"1 and "W""t"2 − "W""s"2 are independent random variables. An alternative characterization of the Wiener process is the so-called "Lévy characterization" that says that the Wiener process is an almost surely continuous martingale with "W"0 = 0 and quadratic variation ["W""t", "W""t"] = "t". A third characterization is that the Wiener process has a spectral representation as a sine series whose coefficients are independent "N"(0,1) random variables. This representation can be obtained using the Karhunen-Loève theorem. The Wiener process can be constructed as the scaling limit of a random walk, or other discrete-time stochastic processes with stationary independent increments. This is known as Donsker's theorem. Like the random walk, the Wiener process is recurrent in one or two dimensions (meaning that it returns almost surely to any fixed neighborhood of the origin infinitely often) whereas it is not recurrent in dimensions three and higher. Unlike the random walk, it is scale invariant. The time evolution of the position of the Brownian particle itself can be described approximately by a Langevin equation, an equation which involves a random force field representing the effect of the thermal fluctuations of the solvent on the Brownian particle. On long timescales, the mathematical Brownian motion is well described by a Langevin equation. On small timescales, inertial effects are prevalent in the Langevin equation. However the mathematical "brownian motion" is exempt of such inertial effects. Note that inertial effects have to be considered in the Langevin equation, otherwise the equation becomes singular, so that simply removing the inertia term from this equation would not yield an exact description, but rather a singular behavior in which the particle doesn't move at all. Physical Brownian theory The diffusion equation yields an approximation of the time evolution of the probability density function associated to the position of the particle undergoing a Brownian movement under the physical definition. The approximation is valid on short timescales (see Langevin equation for details). The time evolution of the position of the Brownian particle itself is best described using Langevin equation, an equation which involves a random force field representing the effect of the thermal fluctuations of the solvent on the particle. The displacement of a particle undergoing Brownian motion is obtained by solving the diffusion equation under appropriate boundary conditions and finding the rms of the solution. This shows that the displacement varies as the square root of the time (not linearly), which explains why previous experimental results concerning the velocity of Brownian particles gave nonsensical results. A linear time dependence was incorrectly assumed. The Lévy characterization The French mathematician Paul Lévy proved the following theorem, which gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a continuous R"n"-valued stochastic process "X" to actually be "n"-dimensional Brownian motion. Hence, Lévy's condition can actually be used an alternative definition of Brownian motion. Let "X" = ("X"1, ..., "X""n") be a continuous stochastic process on a probability space (Ω, Σ, P) taking values in R"n". Then the following are equivalent: # "X" is a Brownian motion with respect to P, i.e. the law of "X" with respect to P is the same as the law of an "n"-dimensional Brownian motion, i.e. the push-forward measure "X"∗(P) is classical Wiener measure on "C"0( [0, +∞); R"n"). # both ## "X" is a martingale with respect to P (and its own natural filtration); and ## for all 1 ≤ "i", "j" ≤ "n", "X""i"("t")"X""j"("t") −"δ""ij""t" is a martingale with respect to P (and its own natural filtration), where "δ""ij" denotes the Kronecker delta. Brownian motion on a Riemannian manifold The infinitesimal generator (and hence characteristic operator) of a Brownian motion on R"n" is easily calculated to be ½Δ, where Δ denotes the Laplace operator. This observation is useful in defining Brownian motion on an "m"-dimensional Riemannian manifold ("M", "g"): a Brownian motion on "M" is defined to be a diffusion on "M" whose characteristic operator mathcal{A} in local coordinates "x""i", 1 ≤ "i" ≤ "m", is given by ½ΔLB, where ΔLB is the Laplace-Beltrami operator given in local coordinates by :Delta_{mathrm{LB = frac1{sqrt{det(g) sum_{i = 1}^{m} frac{partial}{partial x_{i left( sqrt{det(g)} sum_{j = 1}^{m} g^{ij} frac{partial}{partial x_{j ight), where ["g""ij"] = ["g""ij"] −1 in the sense of the inverse of a square matrix. Cultural uses The awareness of Brownian motion as a stochastic process is referred to in science fiction. In Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Brownian motion is used to create (or rather calculate) the Infinite Improbability Drive that powers the spaceship "Heart of Gold". The Brownian motion generator is a really hot cup of tea. In Murray Leinster's short story, A Logic Named Joe, the logic (computer) suggests building a perpetual motion machine using Brownian motion. It also appears in other novels. In Julio Cortazar's novel "Rayuela", Brownian motion is used to describe travelers in Paris at night. It also appears in a famous/notorious essay by Constance Penley, "Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics, and Technology". It also appears in John Crowley's short science fiction story 'Snow'. Brownian Motion is used to explain why a device that stores memories at a molecular level can only recall stored memories in a random fashion. Brownian motion is referred to often in Isaac Asimov's novelization of the film Fantastic Voyage, where it causes a miniaturized submarine to be subjected to a low, harmless tremor from the constant molecular impacts. * Brownian bridge: a Brownian motion that is required to "bridge" specified values at specified times * Brownian dynamics * Brownian frontier * Brownian motor * Brownian ratchet * Brownian tree * Rotational Brownian motion * Complex system * Diffusion equation * Itō diffusion: a generalization of Brownian motion * Langevin equation * Local time (mathematics) * Osmosis * Red noise, also known as "brown noise" (Martin Gardner proposed this name for sound generated with random intervals. It is a pun on Brownian motion and white noise.) * Surface diffusion - a type of constrained Brownian motion. * Tyndall effect: physical chemistry phenomenon where particles are involved; used to differentiate between the different types of mixtures. * Ultramicroscope * Brown, Robert, "A brief account of microscopical observations made in the months of June, July and August, 1827, on the particles contained in the pollen of plants; and on the general existence of active molecules in organic and inorganic bodies." Phil. Mag. 4, 161-173, 1828. [http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/pdfs/dws/Brownian.pdf (PDF version of original paper including a subsequent defense by Brown of his original observations, "Additional remarks on active molecules".)] * Einstein, A. "Investigations on the Theory of Brownian Movement". New York: Dover, 1956. ISBN 0-486-60304-0 [http://lorentz.phl.jhu.edu/AnnusMirabilis/AeReserveArticles/eins_brownian.pdf] * Theile, T. N. Danish version: "Om Anvendelse af mindste Kvadraters Methode i nogle Tilfælde, hvor en Komplikation af visse Slags uensartede tilfældige Fejlkilder giver Fejlene en ‘systematisk’ Karakter". French version: "Sur la compensation de quelques erreurs quasi-systématiques par la méthodes de moindre carrés" published simultaneously in "Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. 5. Rk., naturvid. og mat. Afd.", 12:381–408, 1880. * Nelson, Edward, "Dynamical Theories of Brownian Motion" (1967) [http://www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/books.html (PDF version of this out-of-print book, from the author's webpage.)] * Ruben D. Cohen (1986) “Self Similarity in Brownian Motion and Other Ergodic Phenomena,” "Journal of Chemical Education 63", pp. 933-934 [http://rdcohen.50megs.com/BrownianMotion.pdf] * J. Perrin, Ann. Chem. Phys. 18, 1 (1909). See also book "Les Atomes" (1914). Lucretius, 'On The Nature of Things.', translated by William Ellery Leonard. (" [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=785 on-line version] ", from Project Gutenberg. see the heading 'Atomic Motions'; this translation differs slightly from the one quoted). [http://www.ap.stmarys.ca/demos/content/thermodynamics/brownian_motion/brownian_motion.html A page describing Brownian motion.] * [http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/brownian/applet.html Brownian motion java simulation] * [http://xxx.imsc.res.in/abs/physics/0412132 Article for the school-going child] * [http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/einsteinBM.html Einstein on Brownian Motion] * [http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1951 Brownian Motion, "Diverse and Undulating"] Brownian motion — Brownian Brown i*an, a. Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. [1913 Webster] {Brownian motion}, {Brownian movement}, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English Brownian Motion — Brownian Motion Броуновское движение Беспорядочное движение микроскопических, взвешенных в жидкости (или газе) частиц (броуновские частицы) твёрдого вещества (пылинки, крупинки взвеси, частички пыльцы растения и так далее), происходящее под… … Толковый англо-русский словарь по нанотехнологии. - М. Brownian motion — ► NOUN Physics ▪ the erratic movement of microscopic particles in a fluid, as a result of collisions with the surrounding molecules. ORIGIN named after the Scottish botanist Robert Brown (1773 1858) … English terms dictionary Brownian motion — Any of various physical phenomena in which some quantity is constantly undergoing small, random fluctuations. It was named for Robert Brown, who was investigating the fertilization process of flowers in 1827 when he noticed a rapid oscillatory… … Universalium Brownian motion — Zwei unabhängige Standard Wiener Prozesse Ein Wiener Prozess ist ein zeitstetiger stochastischer Prozess, der normalverteilte, unabhängige Zuwächse hat. Benannt wurde der Prozess, der auch als Brownsche Bewegung bekannt ist, nach dem… … Deutsch Wikipedia Brownian motion — Brown·ian motion .brau̇ nē ən n a random movement of microscopic particles suspended in liquids or gases resulting from the impact of molecules of the fluid surrounding the particles called also Brownian movement Brown brau̇n Robert (1773 1858)… … Medical dictionary Brownian motion — Brauno judesys statusas T sritis Standartizacija ir metrologija apibrėžtis Netvarkingas skystyje arba dujose pakibusios mikroskopinės dalelės judesys. atitikmenys: angl. Brownian motion; Brownian movement vok. Brownsche Bewegung, f rus.… … Penkiakalbis aiškinamasis metrologijos terminų žodynas Brownian motion — Brauno judesiai statusas T sritis chemija apibrėžtis Skystyje arba dujose pakibusių mikroskopinių dalelių judesiai. atitikmenys: angl. Brownian motion; Brownian movement rus. броуновские движения … Chemijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas Brownian motion — Brauno judėjimas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. Brownian agitation; Brownian motion vok. Brownsche Bewegung, f rus. броуновское движение, n pranc. agitation brownienne, f; mouvement brownien, m; mouvement de Brown, m … Fizikos terminų žodynas Brownian motion — noun the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid • Syn: ↑Brownian movement, ↑pedesis • Hypernyms: ↑movement, ↑motion … Useful english dictionary	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line784
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__label__cc	0.602899	0.397101	← Thursday evenings were never the same Facing our unwitting bigotry → Sermon for Palm Sunday, 1st April 2012 “See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” Zechariah 9:9 Jerusalem would have been packed. It was not a big city, but as many as two-and-a-half million people may have been there for the Passover. All the accommodation in the city would have been taken; innkeepers would have made a handsome profit. Many of the people would have stayed in towns and villages around about and would have come into Jerusalem during the daytime. It doesn’t take much imagination to conjure up the scene: people coming from distant places; old friends meting again; people who have not seen each other for a year catching up with the news. “How are you?” “What about the family?” “My, hasn’t he grown!” the conversations would be the conversations you would have heard from people anywhere. Overwhelmingly, the crowds are ordinary people, but amongst them there would have been a sprinkling of others. As with any large gathering, there would have a criminal element: pickpockets, petty thieves, people selling goods on which no tax had been paid, and probably a few more serious offenders, avoiding arrest by blending with the crowds who thronged the streets. There would have been other fringe elements. Political extremists would have canvassed for support, moving through the crowd, sharing ideas with likely listeners. Were they around today they would be on the Internet and sending emails and text messages. Along with political extremism, there would have been religious fanatics who would have regarded Passover as a great opportunity to berate the gathering crowds of the faithful. Into the middle of this confusion and chaos and noise comes a man with a small group of supporters: Jesus of Nazareth. Many of the people would have heard his name and stories would have spread quickly through the crowds, “A great teacher”, “The Messiah”. The Messiah coming into the Holy City at Passover! This indeed was something special, it was a moment not to be missed. The news would have flown around the city, “He is coming! He is coming!” Daily life and business would have been going on as normal, Sunday being a working day, but, at the news the Messiah was coming, trade would have stopped, shops would have closed up, workmen would have put down their tools. Whatever they were doing, people would have stopped . The streets were already crowded. Sometimes people will only join a crowd because people are already there. People will stand and wait because everyone else is standing and waiting. They would be afraid to miss something momentous. The stories would have spread and the anticipation grown. Then the rather odd parade passes through. It sounds odd, but Jesus knew what he was saying and the people themselves knew. There was a great tradition of learning amongst the people, a great love for the Scriptures. Jesus, raised as the son of a carpenter, grew up in a community where the scroll could have been handed to someone in the synagogue and they would have stood up to read. Jesus knew that when he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, he was fulfilling the words from Zechariah, “See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” The devout people lining the streets also would have known the prophecies of Zechariah. Jesus knew and the people knew that the carpenter’s son from Nazareth was declaring himself to be their king. Reading about it today, the picture of someone riding into a city does not mean much, but for the people there, it said that the one for whom they had waited so long had at last arrived. Naturally, this was not pleasing to everyone. The clergy would have been concerned at the audacity of this upstart from Galilee. The Roman authorities would have been worried at the prospect of disturbances. There had been riots before bringing Pontius Pilate unfavourable attention from his superiors. Disorder at Passover would be the last thing Pilate would wish to see. Neither the religious leaders nor the civil authorities would have been pleased to see the scene that unfolded on that Sunday. It would be a coalition of those two groups that would bring about the death of Jesus. Looking back on those events on that spring Sunday in Jerusalem, we see them though the prism of the following Sunday. Through the resurrection of Jesus, they take on an entirely different meaning. But, had we been there, what would our thoughts have been? What would we have expected from a Messiah? What, in our own time, do we expect from a Messiah? Seeing the scene through the eyes of Jesus, what might he have thought? As he passed the cheering throngs, knowing what lay ahead, what might he have thought of the people who could cheer on a Sunday, and jeer on a Friday? What does he think of us now in our often wavering faith? The words of Henry Milman’s 19th Century hymn capture the peaks and troughs of that holy week. Ride on! ride on in majesty! In lowly pomp ride on to die; bow thy meek head to mortal pain, then take, O God, thy power, and reign. Being a Christian will always have its troughs, its bad times, its dips and depressions, but through the resurrection of Jesus, no trough can ever be the last word. Sermon for Palm Sunday, 1st April 2012 — 2 Comments Fr PaulDenis on March 31, 2012 at 11:45 pm said: Rich, challenging and encouraging. Barbara on April 3, 2012 at 11:27 pm said: Oh Ian – just perfect. Worded so wonderfully simply yet so wonderfully deep. It has moved me deeply. 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__label__wiki	0.76156	0.76156	Behavioural Economics Globalisation & Inequality World Economies The Best Cookbooks Food & History of Food Ancient History (up to 500) History by Country Medieval History (500-1400) Grammar & Punctuation Dinosaurs & the Prehistoric World Ethics & Moral Philosophy Great Philosophers Social & Political Philosophy Foreign Policy & International Relations Psychology Research Best Atheist Books Sports, Games & Hobbies Sport & Sporting Culture Classic English Literature Politics and Philosophy Economics Books for Kids (Fiction) Happiness & Mental Health Best New Children's Books High School Teachers Recommend Books by Subject Novels & Novelists By Kids for Kids Memoirs and Autobiography Kids Science All new books New Editions (of old books) Our in-house reviews (nonfiction) Our in-house reviews (fiction) Actors Read Great Books Best Audiobooks for Kids Books Narrated by Their Authors Best Audiobook Thrillers Best History Audiobooks Wolfson Prize Walter Scott Prize Arthur C Clarke Prize Make Your Own List Politics & Society » British Politics The best books on Electoral Reform recommended by Vernon Bogdanor Britain votes on Thursday in a referendum on changing the electoral system. The political consequences could be great, says one of the country's top constitutional experts. Interview by Emma Mustich Buy all books Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution by A V Dicey The Governance of England by Sidney Low The Electoral System in Britain since 1918 by David Butler How Democracies Vote by Enid Lakeman The Sovereignty of Parliament by Jeffrey Goldsworthy 1 Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution by A V Dicey 2 The Governance of England by Sidney Low 3 The Electoral System in Britain since 1918 by David Butler 4 How Democracies Vote by Enid Lakeman 5 The Sovereignty of Parliament by Jeffrey Goldsworthy First of all, do you think the AV referendum in Britain on May 5 is as big a deal in the popular mind as it should be? Has the media been giving it the attention it deserves? The media are probably giving it more attention than the public wish. I fear that the campaign is a turn-off for the public, largely because the choices in the referendum have been pre-cooked by the coalition. Most of those who favour electoral change want to see some sort of proportional representation. But that is not on the ballot paper. People cannot understand why this particular proposal is being presented, or what real difference the alternative vote would make. People see it as a politicians' referendum, rather than a popular one. So will it be more interesting in terms of the effect it has on the coalition than in terms of its actual result? Yes, the political consequences could be very great, whatever the outcome. The only other national referendum we have ever had, in 1975 – on whether we should stay in the European Community, as the European Union was then called – had major political consequences. The failure of the devolution referendums in 1979 led to the end of the Labour government, and the beginning of 18 years of Conservative rule. The consequences could be almost as great this time. Let's talk about the first book you've chosen: A V Dicey's Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. This is a great classic work, more talked about than read I suspect. Unlike many classics, it is beautifully written and very clear. Although written so long ago (1885), it analyses what one might call the conceptual underpinnings of our unwritten constitution, and therefore remains relevant today. It has often been attacked but never fully superseded, and the arguments in it, particularly the argument about the sovereignty of Parliament, remain very much alive. Dicey himself was opposed to proportional representation – is that right? Yes, and he was also opposed to women's suffrage. But he was in favour of referendums. In the eighth edition of his book, the last to appear in his lifetime (in 1915), he argued strongly for the referendum as a check on the arrogance of party politicians. That is also of some relevance today. Your next choice is The Governance of England, by Sir Sidney Low. Yes. In contrast to Dicey, Low’s book has been completely forgotten. But it too is beautifully written. It is a kind of sequel to Bagehot's The English Constitution, which is much better known. But I think that it is in some ways even better written than Bagehot’s book. It is particularly fascinating because many of the things we talk about now, such as the excessive power of the Prime Minister and the weakness of the House of Commons, also seemed true in 1904, when The Governance of England was written. These are not new problems, and there probably never was a golden age of parliamentary government. Low asks – if you were to abolish the House of Commons tomorrow, who would notice? He also says that the Prime Minister has much greater power than people imagine, powers sometimes near to those of a dictator. He said that not in 2004 but in 1904! This book provides a historical perspective, which is always valuable. People sometimes talk as if the problems of government are today's problems or yesterday's problems – often they are very old problems. It is a beautifully written book. Next is David Butler's The Electoral System in Britain Since 1918. David Butler was my mentor at Oxford. He has long since retired, but I have learnt a lot from him. One simple but important lesson was never to argue about ascertainable facts. If I say that there is a book in the next room, and you say that there is not, there's no point arguing – let us look! Butler is a great empiricist: he actually looked at how the electoral system worked. This is a factual book, but it ruins many wild generalisations about the electoral system. You started by asking me about the AV referendum. In the referendum debate, there have been wild generalisations on both sides. People do not really know how the alternative vote actually works, for example, in Australia. This book pours a glass of cold water on generalisations about elections and electoral systems. It is a painstaking work, which I greatly admire. A dose of empiricism would, I believe, cure many of the ills of the world. You mentioned “wild generalisations”. What do you think is the biggest general misconception about AV? I think there are big misconceptions on both sides. The 'Nos' are absurd to say that AV gives some people two or even three votes. If I ask you to buy me a Mars, unless the shop has run out of Mars, in which case I would like a Twix, I get one bar of chocolate not two. A transferred vote is not a multiple vote. The 'Yeses' are absurd to say that AV would end the scandal of the safe seat. By definition, in a safe seat, the winner must gain 50% of the vote, so AV would not make the slightest difference. Do you think the campaign to educate the public before the referendum has failed? Of course, a referendum is not an academic seminar. Party political interests are involved. The actual change in representation with the alternative vote would probably be quite small, but no one wants to say that – they have to exaggerate and say the other side is mimicking Goebbels or telling lies. I wrote an article in the Guardian last week saying that the public are not interested in this issue, and that it is a politicians’ issue. There are members of the public who favour electoral change, but they tend to favour proportional representation. Do you worry about turnout? Yes – turnout will be very low, particularly in London where there are no local elections. Turnout for the 1998 referendum on whether London should have a mayor was only 34%, even though it had been said that Londoners were furious at their lack of proper representation. With no local elections and little popular interest, turnout in London is likely to be very low indeed on May 5. Your fourth choice is Enid Lakeman's How Democracies Vote. This is a campaigning work in favour of proportional representation. It is highly detailed and knowledgeable. I knew Enid Lakeman – she is no longer alive – and although she was an indefatigable campaigner, she was scrupulous in her attention to fact and knew a tremendous amount about electoral systems in different countries. She was very deeply informed. So if you want to know, for example, how the electoral system works in Sweden, this is the book you must read. I notice this was the only female author you chose. Is it rare to have a woman writing in this field? I hadn't thought of that! Enid Lakeman in fact came from a suffragette family. She was not an academic. It is indeed the case that there are many fewer women academics than there are men. But that may be subject to generational change, for these days girls do better than boys in school. And academic life is being made more woman-friendly: the hours can be fairly flexible, and in some subjects you can do your work at home if you have to look after babies or young children. But as in other fields of life, women perhaps get a raw deal. Back to AV: what, if anything, do you think is its greatest weakness? The great strength of AV is that it gives you a wider choice. In the current first-past-the-post system, you often have to vote tactically. For example, you may be a Green but fear that if you vote Green, you're letting a party you don't like win – say the Conservatives – so you vote Labour instead. But with the alternative vote, you don't have to do that: you can vote Green, because if the Greens have no chance of winning then your vote is transferred. The main argument against AV is that it can lead to more disproportional – and therefore unfair – results than first-past-the-post. For example, in 1997 it would have given Tony Blair an even larger majority than the majority of 167 that he actually got. AV can, under certain circumstances, amplify the swing. That is the main argument against it. But it's not likely to change anything in a safe seat. No – if a candidate has won over 50% of the vote in a constituency, nothing will change. Admittedly two-thirds of the seats at the last election were won on a minority vote, but even so, the only simulation we have of the last election, by David Sanders of Essex, shows that only 32 seats would have changed hands, and they would all have gone to the Liberal Democrats (because they are most people's second choice). The second candidate has to be very close to the first for AV to make a difference. In Australia, fewer than 10% of candidates who were not top on first preferences ever win a seat – usually the figure is around 4% or 5%. And in Australia, one has to list all one’s preferences for one’s vote to be valid. In Britain, listing preferences will be voluntary. Experience in some of the Australian states where listing preferences is voluntary shows that a large number of people don't list preferences – therefore AV could make very little difference. Your final choice is Jeffrey Goldsworthy's Sovereignty of Parliament. This is a book defending A V Dicey’s central argument concerning the sovereignty of Parliament – an argument that comes up in all sorts of constitutional contexts, for example in the government’s European Union Bill. This bill has a declaratory clause in it saying that Parliament is sovereign. The question of whether Parliament is sovereign is crucial in debates about the European Union. 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__label__wiki	0.711129	0.711129	Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights Reviewing every superhero and comic book movie ever made… eventually. Every Superhero and Comic Book Movie in Chronological Order Browse Marvel Movies Browse DC Movies Pre-80’s movies Graphic Horror Almost Super Filmwhys Podcast Filmwhys Archive Filmwhys Spotlight Browse Filmwhys and other podcasts Superhero Shorts Browse Superhero Shorts Superhero Podcast Reviews Browse my top X lists Channel: Superhero 100 Essential Superhero Movies ← Superhero Shorts: Arkham Rising As You Watch: Krull → Almost Super: Wreck-it Ralph Posted by Bubbawheat Wreck-It Ralph 2012 So once again this year I made the trek to my local movie theater. More than superheroes, I’ve always been a big fan of animation, and on top of that, I’ve grown up with video games. Starting with a trusty Commodore 64 playing Jumpman, Circus, Snoopy, and other games before moving up to a Coleco Vision. I eventually moved up through the Sega Master System, NES, SNES, Playstation, PS2, and DS before moving onto the PC MMO City of Heroes, heck I even work in an arcade. I recognized many of the video games referenced, especially some of the classic arcade cabinets, as well as the games that inspired the original games featured in this movie. While Fix it Felix Jr. is an original game, it has its roots in Donkey Kong, Crazy Climber, and a touch of Rampage. Sugar Rush which is a candy version of Mario Kart/Nicktoons Racing, and Hero’s Duty is essentially every modern rail shooter ever. This movie was pretty much made for me to like it and I was in from the very opening. The first part of the movie is where most of the arcade/video game mashups happen, and the mix of visual styles is fun and impressive. When moving out of the villain support group hosted in Pac-Man’s cabinet, you get to see the extremely pixellated versions of the characters heading out through the electrical cord. There are a ton of video game references, and I know that in the theater I was in there were a few jokes where I was the only one who was laughing at a more obscure pull, like when Ralph smashes a cake within his game and the cake even splatters in a subtle pixellated pattern, or the end credits where they reference the Street Fighter car smashing bonus stage. The main cameos come from Street Fighter, Q-Bert, and Pac-Man, as well as plenty of other characters strewn out in background pictures and on the floor of Game Central Station. It’s clear that the creators of the movie have a real love of video games in general and it comes through the screen in a big bad way. Although one running gag in the movie I did misinterpret as a different video game reference. They often talked about “going Turbo”, which I made the connection to Street Fighter II Turbo early on before realizing I was way off once the movie revealed what they really meant. Once Ralph makes it into the candy coated racing game Sugar Rush, the video game references slow down and it really starts to get into the heart of the movie. And honestly I think it’s one that a lot of hardcore video gamers can relate to. I was lucky enough to never really be an outcast in school, and I never had a problem with bullies, but I was never a social person, and I spent more nights than not staying at home by myself playing Dragon Warrior 4 or Secret of Mana or Final Fantasy 7 or Suikoden 2. And the heart of this movie is centered around two outcasts of society. Ralph, the de-facto villain of the game who spends his nights at the dump while everyone else lives in the penthouse, and Vanellope, the glitching racer who is bullied by all the other racers for being different. Their entire motivation is just to belong, and that’s something that connects to a whole lot of people out there. There are several moments in this movie where that connection hits hard and true. Both John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman do impressive jobs voicing these characters. Sarah Silverman especially makes you forget that it’s a raunchy comedian doing a little kid voice, and really makes you believe in Vanellope. You know I’m right. The other characters are a lot more fun, Calhoun is the over the top battle hardened soldier with an ultra-tragic backstory and a nonsensical quip for every situation. She’s Lara Croft, Samus, Master Chief, and plenty of other characters all rolled into one and Jane Lynch sounds like she’s having a hell of a fun time with the character. Fix it Felix Jr. is the complete opposite as the goody goody naive character in way out of his element. And King Candy, as the leader of Sugar Rush is a lot of fun as an Ed Wynn-ish character, who was best known as the Mad Hatter in the animated Alice in Wonderland. I also enjoyed the humor in this movie, even some of the more childish gags. It’s such a likable world, it’s hard not to go along with it. Aside from all the different characters, the plot of the movie followed along some typical paths, but there were enough twists and turns to keep it fresh. And may be because I wasn’t looking out for them, I didn’t see any of them coming, at least none of the major ones. Most of the reviews I read said that they expected one type of movie, and got a different one, but a different one that they enjoyed. And honestly, it’s refreshing to see that kind of surprise still make it into theaters. But at the same time, it doesn’t feel disjointed because the very premise of the world within the movie allows for the variation. And once it falls into its main story, it stays on course until the end. This has quickly become one of my favorite movies of all time. Until next time, this has been Bubbawheat for Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights. About Bubbawheat I'm a comic book movie enthusiast who has watched and reviewed over 400 superhero and comic book movies in the past seven years, my goal is to continue to find and watch and review every superhero movie ever made. View all posts by Bubbawheat » Posted on November 13, 2012, in 10's movies and tagged Almost Super, disney, movies, review. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments. Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne \| November 13, 2012 at 11:49 pm It’s interesting that a full 2/3rds of the movie is focused on Sugar Rush and Venellope’s arc… but it doesn’t feel like it drags, or that the spotlight’s been stolen away. Her story is essentially Ralph’s story, a parallel theme. So, despite the vast majority of the movie devoting itself to her tale, everything syncs up nicely. It does have a drawback in that the variety of scenery and gaming callouts sharply decline in act 2 onward. The early fun of experiencing this world is replaced by a single focused story. But, I suppose it would’ve been a distraction if they kept ducking back out of Sugar Rush only to make more references and see more sights. Bubbawheat \| November 13, 2012 at 11:54 pm A lot of video game fans have that same complaint that there aren’t enough video game nods in the 2nd & 3rd act (though Roadblasters was an awesome pull), I thought that it actually works better at that point in the story to help ground it to the main characters rather than distracting from them, as you say. And I imagine that the inevitable sequel (which this is one franchise that screams for a sequel) will have a stronger focus on cameos, I just hope they don’t get bogged down by it too much. The Focused Filmographer \| November 14, 2012 at 12:36 am yes! A great review here. Glad you liked it so much. and way to bring out the theme of wanting to belong, cuz you’re right. Nice! Thanks! I knew I would like it but never knew I would like it so much. Morgan R. Lewis \| November 16, 2012 at 2:27 am Great review Bubbawheat. I feel a lot the same way as you about this film… hell of a lot of fun, lot of memories and lots of jokes where I felt like I was the only one who really got the reference, right down to recognizing Buckner & Garcia in the credits. One that someone else pointed out to me, which is sufficiently subtle that it may have been an unintentional coincidence: Ralph was a Bad enough Dude to save the president. 😀 I wasn’t familiar enough with Buckner & Garcia though I did read about their connection to the movie. Listening to their new song now, it’s pretty fun. I think the Bad Dudes reference is reaching a little bit too much. Morgan R. Lewis \| November 17, 2012 at 3:45 pm Yes, probably. But it was still amusing to note. 😀 CMrok93 \| November 17, 2012 at 12:19 pm It’s a conventional story, but has plenty of heart and fun for it’s characters that it’s almost too hard to not have a good time with it all. Great review Bubbawheat. I at least felt that they also threw in enough variations on the conventional overall story to make it fresh. Thanks. 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__label__wiki	0.635649	0.635649	Where does the gold in your ring come from? Interview with Dr. Rodrigo Fernandez, Professor at the University of Alberta Astro 101: Black Holes Université de l'Alberta What is a black hole? Do they really exist? How do they form? How are they related to stars? What would happen if you fell into one? How do you see a black hole if they emit no light? What’s the difference between a black hole and a really dark star? Could a particle accelerator create a black hole? Can a black hole also be a worm hole or a time machine? In Astro 101: Black Holes, you will explore the concepts behind black holes. Using the theme of black holes, you will learn the basic ideas of astronomy, relativity, and quantum physics. After completing this course, you will be able to: • Describe the essential properties of black holes. • Explain recent black hole research using plain language and appropriate analogies. • Compare black holes in popular culture to modern physics to distinguish science fact from science fiction. • Describe the application of fundamental physical concepts including gravity, special and general relativity, and quantum mechanics to reported scientific observations. • Recognize different types of stars and distinguish which stars can potentially become black holes. • Differentiate types of black holes and classify each type as observed or theoretical. • Characterize formation theories associated with each type of black hole. • Identify different ways of detecting black holes, and appropriate technologies associated with each detection method. • Summarize the puzzles facing black hole researchers in modern science. Gravitation, Theory Of Relativity, Physics, Astronomy, Black Hole Takes time to finish, yet totally interesting, and surely worth it. If you're a space enthusiast, this will surely leave you craving for more knowledge. Not boring at all. Kudos to the instructors. Amazing course for astronomy enthusiasts! Lectures are well-presented with visual effects and demonstrations. After completing this course I became so much more interested in physics and astronomy. Riding the Gravity Wave How do you study a black hole that has no visible companion? In this module the student will be introduced to gravitational radiation. With the 2016 LIGO discovery of gravitational waves, a whole new branch of astronomy has been opened. 10.01 – Introduction: Seeing with Gravity2:12 10.02 – Gravitational Lensing11:12 10.02 B. Gravitational Lensing: The Black Hole in M876:47 10.03 – Gravitational Radiation10:07 How do binary pairs of black holes form? Interview with Dr. Tyrone Woods, Researchers at Monash University1:20 10.04 – Binaries and Gravitational Waves19:28 Where does the gold in your ring come from? Interview with Dr. Rodrigo Fernandez, Professor at the University of Alberta1:04 10.05 – Gravitational Telescopes7:39 10.06 – Pulsar Timing Arrays6:02 What is a pulsar timing array? Interview with Dr. Ingrid Stairs, Professor at the University of British Columbia1:54 10.07 – Summary: The Final Countdown11:47 How does a neutron star's vibrations affect binary inspiral? Interview with Dr. Jocelyn Read, Professor at California State Fullerton2:17 Sharon Morsink This ring is made of gold. Why gold? We think that the gold among those other heavy elements comes from collisions of the neutron stars that astronomers called neutron star mergers. Very recently a few months ago it was announced that the first neutron star merge was observed in gravitational waves, and in photons by the like of collaboration and a number of other observers in the world, and the signature of the formation of gold and other heavy elements called the r-process was detected in the signal. Okay. So, we have evidence that a significant fraction of that the gold in the Universe came from these types of events. Now, whether this golden in my ring comes from one close by merger, or for many of them, and then they go and mix up somehow we don't know. But it could be just one that happen not so far in the past.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line809
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__label__wiki	0.696419	0.696419	Last edited by Tojale 6 edition of Hana"s Suitcase found in the catalog. Hana"s Suitcase by Karen Levine Published March 31, 2007 by Albert Whitman & Company . Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage, Biography & Autobiography - Historical, History - Holocaust, Biography & Autobiography - General, Religion - Judaism, Juvenile Nonfiction, Children"s Books/Ages 9-12 Biography, Biography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jewish children in the Holocaust, Juvenile literature, Novâe Méesto nad Metujâi, Study and teaching, Children: Grades 4-6 Hana's Suitcase: The Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery (Kindle Edition) Published January 5th by Crown Books for Young Readers Kindle Edition, pages. Try this amazing Hana's Suitcase Book Quiz! Trivia quiz which has been attempted 6 times by avid quiz takers. Also explore over similar quizzes in this category. Praise for Hana’s Suitcase • “Hana wanted to become a teacher, and surely through this little book her dream is being realized.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from his new foreword to Hana’s Suitcase • “The account is part history, part suspenseful mystery with an incredible climactic revelation.” —BooklistBrand: Random House Children's Books. Hana’s Suitcase is a true story that interweaves the tragedy of Hana Brady, a Czech Jewish girl who died at 13 in Auschwitz, the determination of Fumiko Ishioka, the director of the Tokyo Holocaust Center, and her young helpers, and the generous spirit of George Brady, Hana’s older brother, who survived the Holocaust and now lives in Toronto.. The Tokyo Holocaust Center, endowed by an. The great Canadian reading list: books to read for Canada ; Based on a CBC Radio documentary produced by Levine, Hana's Suitcase tells two gripping stories: that of . Feb 2, - Explore Kirsten Petersen's board "Hana's suitcase" on Pinterest. 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Fumiko Ishioka's relentless pursuit for the truth and Hana Brady's tragic journey collide in this remarkable true story. Written for a younger audience, Hana's Suitcase is an excellent book to begin teaching children about the Holocaust/5. A suitcase belonging to a Hanas Suitcase book Brady gets to the children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo in the year It immediately propels students and teachers alike to find out more about this mysterious girl. Thanks to their invaluable work, they are able to retrace Hana's story. This book is the result of their search for the by: 3. Hana's Suitcase A True Story. By Karen Levine. Grades. Genre. Non-Fiction Ina suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked "Hana Brady, " The center's curator, searches for clues to young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside. Books similar to Hana's Suitcase: A True Story Hana's Suitcase: A True Story. by Karen Levine. avg. rating Ratings. Ina suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked "Hana Brady, " The center's curator searches for clues to young Hana and her family, whose h. Based on the author's radio documentary of the same name, a biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust is told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her. An ALA Notable Children's Book /5(). Praise for Hana’s Suitcase • “Hana wanted to become a teacher, and Hanas Suitcase book through this little book her dream is being realized.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from his new foreword to Hana’s Suitcase • “The account is part history, part suspenseful mystery with. Hana's Suitcase - Plot & Excerpts Hana was about to begin grade three, when the Nazis announced that Jewish children would no longer be allowed to go to school. “Now, I will never see my friends!” Hana wailed, when her parents told her the bad news. “Now, I’ll never become a teacher when I grow up!”. Hana’s Suitcase (Book). Ina suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked "Hana Brady, " The center's curator, Fumiko Ishioka, searched for clues to young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis. Hana's Suitcase is an informational book about the Holocaust and the sad story of what happened to over 6 million Jewish 's Suitcase is about a young Jewish girl named Hana who lives in Czechoslovakia with her family in the 's and 's. It is also about Fumiko Ishioka in Japan and a group of kids called Small Wings who. Hana™s Suitcase Introduction for the teacher Hana™s Suitcase is an elegant book combining the biography of the short life of Hana Brady, a Holocaust victim, and the efforts of Fumiko Ishioka to piece together the story of her life, seventy years later. Fumiko is the curator of the children™s Holocaust education centre in Tokyo. A suitcase belonging to a Hana Brady gets to the children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo in the year It immediately propels students and teachers alike to find out more about this mysterious girl. Thanks to their invaluable work, they are able to retrace Hana's story. This book is the result of their search for the truth/5(). Written in deceptively simple language, capable of pleasing children and adults, Hana’s Suitcase is an extraordinarily powerful book. (The Age ) Levine writes at a walking pace and with a limited vocabulary, but the ups and down, the narrow timing of Ishioka’s search, give the story momentum and suspense/5(). Karen Levine writes Hana’s Suitcase which is published by Margie Wolfe at Second Story Press and eventually translated into 40 languages. Joe Schlesinger and Jet Belgraver of the CBC film the documentary “Odyssey of Hope: Hana’s Suitcase” which appears on The Passionate Eye and goes on to win a Gemini Award. A suitcase belonging to a Hana Brady gets to the children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo in the year It immediately propels students and teachers alike to find out more about this mysterious girl. Thanks to their invaluable work, they are able to retrace Hana's story. This book is the result of their search for the truth/5(). ‎In Marcha suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan from the Auschwitz museum in Germany. Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, was captivated by the writing on the outside that identified its owner: "Hana Brady,Waisenkind (the German word for. Hana's Suitcase has become an international phenomenon, with rights having been sold in 40 countries around the world. The book has been adapted as a play by Emil Sher and made into a documentary film, Inside Hana’s Suitcase, which premiered in Ina 10th Anniversary Edition of Hana's Suitcase was released, featuring 60 pages in Price Range: $ - $ Hana’s Suitcase: The Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery is by Karen Levine. It is a true story which Karen heard about and told. The forward by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is heartwarming and yet heartbreaking. Ina Children’s Forum was held in Japan. Holocaust survivor Yaffa Eliach met with two hundred students in the Tokyo area /5(). Hana's Suitcase is the story (bestselling, I might add) of a suitcase that arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo in March of Written in white paint on the outside of the suitcase was the name Hana Brady, the date ofand the word Waisenkind, which is German for by: 3. Hana’s Suitcase on Stage is a unique volume that combines the story and images of the original book with the complete script of award-winning writer Emil Sher’s theatrical adaptation. It’s a must-read-and a must-see-for teachers and schoolchildren from coast to coast. Hana's Suitcase — First published in Subjects Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Study and teaching, Horokōsuto Kyōiku Shiryō Sentā, Holocaust, Jewish (), Juvenile literature, Biography, History, Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)5/5(2). Praise for Hana’s Suitcase • “Hana wanted to become a teacher, and surely through this little book her dream is being realized.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from his new foreword to Hana’s Suitcase • “The account is part history, part suspenseful mystery with an incredible climactic revelation.” —Booklist/5(7).Hana's suitcase is a touching story of sadness or joy.I hope every reader will love this heart warming and breaking book. 2 people found this helpful Overall.Karen Levine has 21 books on Goodreads with ratings. Karen Levine’s most popular book is Hana's Suitcase: A True Story. botanicusart.com - Hanas Suitcase book © 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line816
__label__cc	0.714921	0.285079	achievementscontact Architect : Philippon Kalt Town : Paris Element(s) : Cladding panel in fibre-reinforced concrepet UHPC As part of a project to renovate and convert a building into a new nursing home specifically for Alzheimer’s patients, a Ductal® (UHPC) mesh was designed to cover the garden side façade. Attached to seven storeys of the restored building, it can withstand the loads directly applied to it (own weight and wind). The mesh consists of “profiles” made of reinforced DUCTAL® (UHPC), with five types of section. Each profile has a constant cross section and extends over two levels. Each profile is modelled as a beam with three supports, each of them an articulation. Horizontal displacements (X and Y axes) are blocked at each level. Vertical displacements (Z axis) are only blocked at the foot of each plane of the façade. This design means the strips are free to expand vertically under the effect of the ambient temperature and allows a flexion in the bridges of 1 cm at the end of the projection without subjecting the mesh to excess loads. The strips act as sun shades and offer visual comfort. The ideal solution The double skin of the façade adds to the comfort of residents: the first one, located in front of the passage ways, keeps out direct sunlight while keeping the rooms bright. That is an essential requirement for users suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. the second skin encloses the building, whilst offering residents generous views of the garden. Integration into the environment In a locality that is sensitive and steeped in history, the architects have ensured that the design would be consistent with project requirements and the overall harmony of the site. On the garden side, the new western façade extends with large bends that stay within the limits of surrounding prospects. The architectural grammar is inspired by the plant life in the garden, its shaded and lit areas playing with those of the trees. Because of its architectural style, which avoids pastiche, the new façade is rooted in its age, and still addresses the regulatory requirements of the site and safety requirements. The need for fire-fighting access to each room from the outside has led to the creation of passage ways on the western façade overlooking the garden. This is Concrete. FEHR Group has been a leader on the concrete market since 1960, specialising in both ready-mix concrete (RMC) and precast walls. With a long-held interest in innovation, the group has constantly re-invented itself, bringing you new solutions for your construction projects every day. © 1960-2020 FEHR GROUP SAS precast wallUHPC cladding pannelsprecast slabspecial elements plant hire with driverassembly teamstore history, family and valuesr&djobs Created with Sketch.Created with Sketch.Created with Sketch.Created with Sketch. Legal notices and general terms and conditions of use	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line817
__label__cc	0.734	0.266	Home Uncategorized How Facebook Started the Egpytian Revolution of 2011. How Facebook Started the Egpytian Revolution of 2011. No, the Egyptian protests didn’t start like this… However, it did start in a eerily similar fashion. Here’s the story on how Facebook started the Egyptian protests… On July 9th, 2010 a Facebook group that was started called “We are all Khaled Said” . The group was started to honor a young Egyptian named, Khaled Said whom died in a controversial death. According to Wikipedia: Khaled Said is, a young businessman from Alexandria, was reportedly beaten to death by local police this summer – well before rumblings of the country’s current unrest. But a Facebook page that bears his name has been one of the driving forces behind the upheaval that has been shocking Egypt…. This Facebook page still exists although many of the original members cannot access it (due to a countrywide internet blockade) to see what is going on. We encourage you to join the page so you can get a different opinion on what is going on in that country. It is really quite remarkable to go back to January 25th, 2011 and see the Egyptian National and International Protests being organized. Then read how much has happened since then, it is absolutely remarkable what that country has gone through and what it is going through now. The page is run by an anonymous self-proclaimed Egyptian known as El Saheed which translates to Martyr. Now here is where things get interesting… “The power of Facebook is that our updates reach to everyone’s wall,” El Shaheed said. “Some of the videos we publish get shared on people’s walls more than 30,000 times. That’s how powerful a virus can be…Once it’s out, it goes everywhere. It’s unstoppable.” Here is the original post that started the call for January 25th, 2011 to be a day of PEACEFUL national protest in Egypt…. Dated January 15 at 6:06am The rest, as they say is history. On January 25th, 2011 a Facebook group of approximately 25,000 (at the time) Egyptians started a revolution. [ Disclaimer: We aren’t journalists. We just find it very interesting how Facebook sparked a national revolution. Read more from real journalists at Newsweek. ] Egyptian Protest Facebook Protest Protest Egypt Viral Statuses We are all Khaled Said Previous articleMake Monday Count by posting these funny statuses… Next articleTurn your Tuesday on with these Funny Status Updates! 5 Best Kermit Meme Real Marriage Goals! No longer accept boob money!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line825

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