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__label__cc	0.559587	0.440413	Lana M. Rifkin, MD, Boston Posterior Scleritis: A Diagnostic Challenge Posterior scleritis is a rare but potentially vision-threatening condition that’s often underdiagnosed due to its perplexing and varied clinical presentation. It’s a painful inflammation of the sclera posterior to the ora serrata which can be seen in all age groups and all ethnicities, although it more commonly occurs in middle-aged women.1 Posterior scleritis represents approximately 10 percent of all cases of scleritis, half of which can be associated with systemic disease—most commonly rheumatoid arthritis—but sometimes with more rare but life-threatening conditions such as systemic lupus erythematous and granulomatous polyangiitis. A thorough review of systems is crucial in the evaluation of these patients, with a particular focus on systemic signs of rheumatoid arthritis such as joint pain, sinus issues or epistaxis that may be associated with GPA, breathing trouble that may lead one towards a diagnosis of sarcoidosis, and skin disorders that may lead towards a diagnosis of psoriasis or lupus. The hallmark presenting symptom of posterior scleritis is moderate to severe pain. Patients will often describe a deep, dull, boring pain that, classically, wakes them from sleep. There may be associated pain with extraocular motility, proptosis or other orbital signs. The degree of effect on vision can be variable, from minimally affected to significant vision loss. Intraocular pressure may be elevated in up to half of patients with scleritis, which may be due to rotation of the ciliary body and iris root into the angle causing angle closure without pupillary block, blockage of the outflow track due to inflammation, elevated episcleral venous pressure, peripheral anterior synechiae or neovascularization. Deep redness and tenderness to palpation due to anterior scleritis also may or may not be present in cases of posterior scleritis. On physical examination, it’s important to lift the eyelids and ask the patient to look in all directions of gaze, as subtle anterior scleritis may not be immediately evident. Patients with strictly posterior scleritis may not have ocular redness but will describe discomfort with motility and may show restriction of eye movement. Slit lamp biomicroscopy may demonstrate corneal edema, shallowing of the anterior chamber with anterior bowing of the iris and mild to moderate anterior chamber cell. Fundus examination may show swelling of the optic nerve, exudative retinal detachment or choroidal effusions. All patients presenting with scleritis should be worked up for associated systemic disease. First and foremost, it’s imperative to rule out infection with tuberculin skin testing or serum interferon gamma release assays such as quantiFERON Gold, as well as RPR and FTA-Abs testing for syphilis. Rheumatoid factor and anti-citrullinated protein antibodies, ANA, ACE (if the patient is not on an ACE inhibitor), lysozyme, ANCA, HLA-B27, as well as a CBC and CMP and chest X-ray should be obtained. Imaging in Posterior Scleritis Various imaging methods can yield important information in suspected cases of posterior scleritis. • B-scan ultrasonography. This can be crucial to the diagnosis of posterior scleritis, with the pathognomonic T-sign due to fluid collecting in the posterior episcleral space and extending around the optic nerve. • Optical coherence tomography. OCT, particularly with enhanced depth imaging, can be quite helpful in the diagnosis of posterior scleritis, demonstrating increased thickness of the choroid. Often, subretinal fluid can be noted, even presenting in multiple foci. • Fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography. While posterior scleritis doesn’t have characteristic signs on FA, this modality can also be helpful in distinguishing posterior scleritis from other, similarly presenting issues, such as central serous retinopathy. Other characteristics often associated with posterior scleritis, such as optic nerve edema or serous retinal detachment, can also be demonstrated on FA. ICG can demonstrate fluorescent pinpoints in active inflammation.2 • Orbital CT scan. CT can help identify posterior inflammation, demonstrating increased choroidal thickness. In general, ultrasonography is considered superior to CT in imaging for posterior scleritis, but the latter can be helpful in ruling out idiopathic orbital inflammation and myositis. The treatment of posterior scleritis can be quite challenging. Topical NSAIDs and topical corticosteroids aren’t typically helpful, so systemic therapy is often initiated. Oral non-steroidals can be effective with various appropriate regimens, such as ibuprofen 600 to 800 mg q.i.d., piroxicam 20 mg daily and naprosyn 375 mg b.i.d., to name a few. In cases unresponsive to oral NSAIDs, high-dose systemic corticosteroids are often used, with typical doses of 1 mg/kg/day or approximately 60 mg of prednisone daily. These are tapered slowly over several weeks, with careful consideration of potential side effects such as weight gain, mood instability, blood-sugar abnormalities, etc. If the patient continues to demonstrate active disease or is unable to tolerate corticosteroids, prompt corticosteroid-sparing immunosuppression is often warranted. Anti-metabolites such as methotrexate and mycophenolate mofetil are employed, often to their maximal doses of 25 mg/week of methotrexate or 1,500 mg b.i.d. of mycophenolate. These medications may take up to six months for full effect and some patients may require a faster-acting solution. In these cases, biologics such as TNF inhibitors (e.g., adalimumab, infliximab) may be necessary. Rituximab has demonstrated good efficacy in the treatment of scleritis, particularly in cases associated with systemic disease. Scleritis associated with GPA may require the use of cyclophosphamide. These patients are typically co-managed with rheumatologists, with guidance from the ophthalmologist regarding treatment dosing and response. Prompt recognition and appropriate, often aggressive, treatment is key to recovery and preservation of vision. Case Example 1 A 27-year-old Caucasian woman presented with bilaterally decreased vision and pain. Her visual acuity was 20/200 bilaterally, with a signficant myopic shift. Intraocular pressure was measured to be 55 mmHg in both eyes and slit lamp examination revealed shallow angles bilaterally with 360 degrees of iridocorneal touch. Fundus examination was notable for bilateral choroidal effusions. Fluorescein angiography (Figure 1) demonstrated hypofluorescent spots outside the arcades with no evidence of leakage. Indocyanine green (Figure 2) showed hypercyanescent spots in the same areas. Both eyes showed diffusely thickened choroid on OCT (Figure 3). The patient was started on IOP-lowering drops and cycloplegics, as well as 60 mg of oral prednisone. One week later, IOP returned to normal, vision improved, and OCT showed clear improvement, in choroidal thickness. The patient’s systemic corticosteroids are currently being tapered. A 43-year-old Caucasian man presented to an outside ophthalmologist with a complaint of a red right eye. He was initially diagnosed with episcleritis and started on topical steroids. He then developed pain waking him from sleep, along with proptosis and restriction in eye movement. An orbital process was suspected and CT was ordered, demonstrating increased choroidal thickening of the right eye (Figure 4). He was referred to the uveitis service, where B-scan was performed (Figure 5) and he was diagnosed with anterior and posterior scleritis and started on oral prednisone. He was tapered over several weeks but flared, and thus required steroid-sparing systemic immunosuppression with methotrexate. The patient’s inflammation has resolved and he’s quiet and pain free. REVIEW Dr. Rifkin is a uveitis specialist who practices at Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston. She’s also director of the Uveitis Service at New England Eye Center, and is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Tufts School of Medicine. She can be reached at lana.rifkin@gmail.com. 1. Lavric A, Gonzalez-Lopez JJ, Majumber PD, et al. Posterior Scleritis: Analysis of Epidemiology, Clinical Factors, and Risk of Recurrence in a Cohort of 114 Patients. Ocul Immunol Inflamm 2016;24:1: 6-15. 2. Auer, Herborn, Indocyanine green angiographic features in posterior scleritis. Am J Ophthlmol. 1998;126:3:471-6 Show more on: RETINA CATT: Some Questions Answered, Some Remain A New Understanding of Vitreous Structure Anti-VEGF Therapy to Limit DR Progression Updates from the PRO Study Group IVT Injections: Health Policy Implications	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1124
__label__cc	0.747291	0.252709	RockyMountain Navy Gamer Wargaming, Boardgaming, & Role Playing Games Preorders/Kickstarter/Latest Game Acquisitions Tag: The Shores of Tripoli #SundaySummary – Jan 03, 2021 January 3, 2021 ~ RockyMountainNavy ~ Leave a comment Shores of Tripoli (Fort Circle Games, 2020) arrived just before the new year. That made it eligible for (and the winner of) my 2020 Wargame of the Year. Really, I can’t extol the virtues of this game enough. Really a great first-outing for new designer Kevin Betram and his Fort Circle Games label. C3i Magazine Nr 34 is inbound. Thanks to USPS it will arrive sometime in this new year. Likewise the Kickstarter fulfillment of Buffalo Wings 2 – The Deluxe Reprint is shipping and my copy is somewhere between the publisher (Against the Odds in Philadelphia, PA) and me. Been playing only very casual, short games with Mrs. RockyMountainNavy and the Boys. Santorini (Roxley Games, 2016) and Crab Stack (Blue Orange Games, 2015) have landed multiple times mostly as we prepare for next semester of Mrs. RMN’s tutoring. I worked on more than a few posts for the coming year. I am starting a series on ground combat in the Traveller RPG universe. Keep an eye out. I also dug deep into The Expanse Roleplaying Game. My plan is for an overview impressions post and then a short narrative replay of sorts. I also see that the Bundle of Holding has an offering; very tempted! #RockyReads I’m going to try to track more of my reading this year. To that end I started a new hashtag/segment of my blog I’m calling RockyReads. The first one covering Alfred Price’s Instruments of Darkness is already posted. Feature image: A gull is perched amid the reflection of the Capitol on Dec. 4. (Miki Jourdan/Flickr) via Washington Post My 2020 #Wargame of the Year (Hint – @MultiManPub vs @fortcircle) December 31, 2020 December 31, 2020 ~ RockyMountainNavy ~ 3 Comments It’s the end of the year so it’s that time for the inevitable “of the Year” lists. Although I play boardgames and wargames, I am a wargamer at heart. Since Christmas 1979 when I got my first wargame, the holidays and wargaming have been forever linked in my heart. To be eligible for this category, the item must be a wargame as I define it. It must also have been released in the 2020 calendar year AND IN MY POSSESSION as of Dec 31, 2020. I know for a fact that at least one wargame I have on pre-order has a 2020 publication date but, since I don’t have it in hand it’s not eligible for this list. For a near-complete listing of all the wargames I acquired in 2020 (including many titles not eligible for this annual list) please see my GeekList 2020 RockyMountainNavy Gaming Acquisitions and look for entries labeled “WARGAME” Candidates (in alphabetical order): Amerika Bomber: Evil Queen of the Skies, Compass Games Battle of Rhode Island (Battles of the American Revolution, Vol IX), GMT Games Brief Border Wars, Compass Games Dawn of Empire: The Spanish American Naval War in the Atlantic, 1898, Compass Games French and Indian War 1757-1759, Worthington Publishing Fury at Midway, Revolution Games Harpoon V, Admiralty Trilogy Games Iron Curtain: Central Europe, 1945-1989, Multi Man Publishing Philadelphia 1777, Worthington Publishing The Shores of Tripoli (Kickstarter Edition), Fort Circle Games Undaunted: North Africa, Osprey Games Waterloo Campaign 1815, RBM Publishing White Eagle Defiant, Hollandspiele Drumroll please… I am happy that I took in a very strong slate of games this year. Each of them have something going for them that makes them a worthy candidate. Amerika Bomber is the only dedicated solo game on the list. I usually shy away from solitaire games as they often are “too procedural” but the theme of Amerika Bomber keeps this title enjoyable. The Battle of Rhode Island is another strong entry in the Battles of the American Revolution series from GMT. I like the war engine in this series and enjoy the heck out of the scenarios. Brief Border Wars brings back the classic “quad” packaging with four games using the same basic war engine but with each having its own identity. Dawn of Empire : The Spanish American Naval War in the Atlantic, 1898 shows the classic War at Sea/Victory in the Pacific war engine can still be leveraged and new challenges created. French & Indian War 1757-1759 is a very pleasurable block wargame that is simple to learn and thematic enough to keep it interesting yet playable in a short evening. Fury at Midway is a bit of a hidden gem testing several competing theories of what actually happened at Midway. Hint: It doesn’t end well for the Americans as often as one would expect given “history.” Harpoon V is the return of the “serious” wargame. Iron Curtain: Central Europe, 1945-1989 is a ‘managable monster’ with lots of replay potential in a relatively small package. Philadelphia 1777 is another block game using Worthington’s proven war engine but this time depicting a kind of “tower defense” campaign. The Shores of Tripoli is the Kickstarter remake of a solid game now given a very professional look. Undaunted: North Africa shows once again that wargames can use non-traditional mechanics; who woulda thunk that Deck Building can make a good wargame? Waterloo Campaign, 1815 shows that you don’t need a monster game to depict one of histories greatest battles. White Eagle Defiant takes the Brave Little Belgium war engine to the next level yet still is easy to learn and fairly quick to play. With such a strong field of contenders I actually picked a Runner-Up and a Winner. My runner-up Wargame of the Year for 2020 is Iron Curtain: Central Europe 1945-1989 from Multi-Man Publishing. This game might be the most ‘old school’ or the closest to a classic hex & counter game of all the candidates this year but that is actually a major reason why it places so high. It’s not that I dislike the ‘new age’ mechanics in some of the new games; rather, Iron Curtain, an entry in the Standard Combat Series, showed me the joy of a ‘manageable monster’ wargame. Iron Curtain is multiple games in one with different eras and options for the Soviets or NATO to be that attacker. Add to that the Run Up to War pre-game and you have package that is easy to learn (uses the Standard Combat System) yet it will never serve up the same game twice no matter how often its played. I also really appreciate that it is fits on a moderate-sized table and yet it still can be both set up and played in just a few hours. Iron Curtain from Multi-Man Publishing However, as somebody once said, “There can be only one.” My Wargame of the Year for 2020 is The Shores of Tripoli from Fort Circle Games. Yes, I know it is the professional publication of a print-‘n-play title that predates 2020 but designer Kevin Bertram’s attention to detail and hard work has taken this little gem of a game to another level. From the moment you look at the box (awesome) to laying out all the components on the table (luxurious) you can see his attention to detail. Gameplay has, dare I say, improved over the original PnP with the benefit of more development and playtesting. The Shores of Tripoli is almost as polar opposite of a wargame design from my runner-up, Iron Curtain: Central Europe 1945-1989 by MMP that you can get. That is a great part of it’s strength in my mind; The Shores of Tripoli is an excellent example of the “new wave” of designers and wargames titles that aren’t afraid to break from “convention” and assemble a set of mechanics into an interesting, challenging, and dare I say very “playable” wargame. The Shores of Tripoli by Fort Circle Games It’s the most wonderful #boardgame #wargame #books #models time of the year thanks to the RMN Family, @Ardwulf, and @fortcircle Christmas 2020. The year the Grinch brought COVID to the world. In the RockyMountainNavy home we actually had a good year in great part because our family bonds are strong (and stayed strong regardless of how much the Governor of Virginia tried to keep us down). Gaming played an important part in keeping the RockyMountainNavy family going this year as you will see in a series of posts coming before the end of the year. Christmas 2020 also brought several “new” games and other hobby items to my collection. From the RMN Boys Iron Curtain: A Cold War Card Game (Jolly Roger Games, 2017). The RMN Boys went to the FLGS just after Thanksgiving and dived into the 70% off sales tables. This is one of the items they found for me. Car Wars: The Card Game (Steve Jackson Games, 2015 edition). Another 70% off sale item. The BGG ratings are kinda low but hey, who doesn’t like a little mayhem and destruction? FLGS 70% Off Sale? Don’t Matter! The RMN Boys also surprised me with a plastic model this year. Their “excuse” is that they know I prefer to build 1/144th scale these days so this one will “fit” with my collection. I love my Boys! Bandai Millenium Falcon 1/144th scale From @Ardwulf Well, not really a gift from him but purchased off of him. Kudos to the USPS for “only” taking 14 days to ship this 3-5 days delivery. Victory at Midway (Command Magazine, 1992). Supposedly similar to Seven Seas to Victory (XTR, 1992) by the same designer which I already own. The copy is showing age with yellowed edges but I’ll store it in a ziplock magazine bag to slow down further aging. That is, when I’m not playing it! Will be interesting to compare this to this year’s Revolution Games release of Fury at Midway. Victory at Midway (Command Magazine, 1992) Harpoon: Captain’s Edition (GDW, 1990). I have played Harpoon since the 1983 Adventure Games edition of Harpoon II. I remember passing up this version in the 1990’s because it “looked too simplistic.” I have long regretted that decision so I jumped at the chance to add this title to my Harpoon collection. The box is a “players copy” on the outside but (near) pristine on the inside. Harpoon: Captain’s Edition (1990) Harpoon III (GDW) / Harpoon 4 (Clash of Arms). Included also was a copy of Harpoon III with more than a few sourcebooks as well as Harpoon 4 with the 1997 Harpoon Naval Review and two other modules. I already own these but having secondary copies on hand is not a bad thing. The counters alone are worth it. Second copies for my Harpoon collection…. From Fort Circle Games The Shores of Tripoli (Fort Circle Games, 2020). Again, not a true gift but still a nice present to get this Kickstarter fulfillment before the end of 2020. I have the original PnP version and like it so much that backing the Kickstarter campaign for a “professional” copy was a real no-brainer. The Shores of Tripoli (Fort Circle Games, 2020) OK, a bit of a cheat here. I took advantage of a US Naval Institute book sale to get two new books to read. I really am looking forward to digging into The Craft of Wargaming for, ah, “professional” reasons. Some “professional” reading September #Wargame #Boardgame Forecast – It’s Raining Games! September 2, 2020 August 31, 2020 ~ RockyMountainNavy ~ 1 Comment In late June I made a bold forecast that as any as nine (9) of 27 games I had on preorder or Kickstarter could deliver by the end of July. Alas, it didn’t quite turn out that way. August looked much better. Let’s see what happened this month and look a bit ahead to September…. Undaunted: North Africa (Osprey Games, 2020) – Preorder Waro. DELIVERED. Good game slightly marred by the printing errors…. Fort (Leder Games, 2020): Publisher-direct Preorder. DELIVERED. Who are your friends? Only the ones you play with! Quartermaster General: The Cold War (PSC Games, 2018): Online Retailer Purchase. Strategy Wargame? – DELIVERED. BGG lists this as a wargame. Not so fast…. Scythe Complete Rulebook (Stonemaier Games, 2020): Publisher-direct Preorder. DELIVERED. Having recently started replaying Scythe and nearing completion of our The Rise of Fenris campaign its good to get all the rules in one organized place. Email Update 28 Aug – “To-date we have not found a single instance of a rules error impacting gameplay in the 136-page document. Except in one section. The Automa rules need some work. I apologize for this and we take full responsibility. We believe these errors are large enough to justify a reprint. The good news is that many of you don’t play using the Automa (solo mode), and may never reference this section of the rulebook. But if you use the Automa or plan to in the future, we will send you a new spiralbound Scythe Complete Rulebook for free.” Here’s what we’ll do. Simply fill out this form and we’ll send you another Scythe Complete Rulebook when it’s reprinted in a few months using the mailing address from your previous order.” Dragomino (Blue Orange Games, 2020): Bonus Purchase – DELIVERED. Billed as “My First Kingdomino” I was a bit dubious as to how they could accomplish this. After all, Kingdomino (Blue Orange Games, 2017) is already a very simple game. Ordered as part of the Gen Con Online specials. SO HAPPY! Mrs. RMN introduced this game to all her students; all love it. Even RMN Jr (Mr. Kingdomino in the RMN House) likes to play! Dig Dog Dig (Flying Meeple, 2019): Bonus Purchase – DELIVERED. Another game bought to support the younger students of Mrs. RMN. This title is criminally under-appreciated. At heart a memory game, the toy factor and play makes this perfect for the early reader or younger gamers in your family. One Small Step (Academy Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Boardgame. UPDATE from August 7– “The container ship Seaspan Raptor is currently off the coast of Mexico and will arrive at the Panama Canal today. It is expect it to arrive in Florida August 10th! Your games will be shipped to you by Quartermaster Logistics, located in Orlando, FL hopefully by the end of next week.” NOTHING SEEN/HEARD SINCE. The Shores of Tripoli (Fort Circle Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Waro. August 10 Update: “I also have some bad news. The shipping date from China has been pushed back further – to September 7. Just as you all have shown patience with me, I know I have to show patience with the folks manufacturing the game. But it is still extremely frustrating. And, unfortunately, airmailing the games here is truly cost-prohibitive – sink the company, never to be seen again level of cost-prohibitive. So this means it won’t be in anyone’s hands until October.” French & Indian War 1757-1759 (Worthington Publishing): Kickstarter Wargame. From a July 29 Update – “The ship carrying both CRUSADER KINGDOMS and FRENCH & INDIAN WAR will hit the port in New York August 13. We should expect for us to receive the games within 2 weeks of that barring a customs snag. Thats means it is possible we may be shipping the last week of August, and if not then the first week of September!!!” Flying Colors 3rd Edition Update Kit (GMT Games): P500. Charged 05 August. To ship shortly thereafter. Enroute! Empire of the Sun, 4th Edition (GMT Games, 202?): New to the P500 this month. Could. Not. Resist. Supercharged (The Dietz Foundation, 2021?): Kickstarter. Looks like a good racing game. As the husband of a mother that uses boardgames to teach I also like what the Dietz Foundation stands for. Here he talks about how to use racing games (like Supercharged) for learning. At the time of this post, it sits just under 80% funded with about 20 days to go. HEY, RACING FANS! LEt’s get behind this! UPDATED July #Wargame #Boardgame Forecast – HOT to NOT! July 31, 2020 ~ RockyMountainNavy ~ 1 Comment In late June I made a bold forecast that as any as nine (9) of 27 games I had on preorder or Kickstarter could deliver by the end of July. It looks like the boardgame/wargame publishing industry is coming back, but at a bit of a slower pace. Let’s look at my forecast and then discuss the reality. One Small Step (Academy Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Boardgame. An update from mid-May stated that shipping in July was expected. I have not seen an update since. Academy Games does not have the best track record for keeping to timelines but that negative is more than compensated by the top-quality game that usually ends up being delivered. UPDATE from July 8 – “August 11, 2020 Arrival Date: Jacksonville, FL, USA. Note, that shipping to Florida takes 10 days longer than to our normal shipping destination in Cleveland. To Cleveland, the product is shipped to Seattle, WA and then transported by rail to Cleveland. Whereas to Florida, the ship needs to steam to Panama, cross through the Panama Canal, and them make its way up to Florida. USA and Canadian pledges will be shipped from Quartermaster Logistics, which is based in Orlando, FL.” Wing Leader: Origins 1936-1942 (GMT Games, 2020) – P500 Preorder Wargame. This one is a lock as I already have my UPS tracking number with delivery scheduled for 1 July. UPDATE: DELIVERED July 3. Philadelphia 1777 (Worthington Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Wargame. A late June update reported the game is arriving at the freight-forwarder and Worthington expects to take possession early in July and start shipping immediately. UPDATE: Delivered July 17. The Shores of Tripoli (Fort Circle Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Waro. Coronavirus delays have pushed this one back from April, but it looks like July is seriously in play. UPDATE from July 21 – “My post-pandemic expectation was that our print run would be ready to ship from China in early July. Because of a bottleneck at one of the factories (our manufacturer, Panda, uses three different factories for our game – one for the dice, one for the wood pieces and one for the printing and final assembly), the games will not be ready to ship from China until mid-August. The slow boat from China takes five to six weeks, so I am looking at alternatives – mainly, having enough copies airmailed to our distribution points (we are using Quartermaster Logistics and their overseas partners) so we can ship to all of our backers before the end of August. If it is not cost-prohibitive, that is the plan. But if it is cost-prohibitive, then we are looking at delivery in late September. Ugh, I do not even want to contemplate that. As I know more, I will keep all of you updated.” Here to Slay (Unstable Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Card Game. Late June update reported game is out of production and on way to publisher for fulfillment. DELIVERED July 25. Undaunted: North Africa (Osprey Games, 2020) – Preorder Waro. All looks to be on track for an early July release. UPDATE: Bought through a 3rd Party seller who expects it to their location “late-July.” Heights of Courage: The Battle for the Golan Heights, October 1973 (MMP, 2013) – Sale Wargame. Bought as part of an amazing MMP sale in June. Having never ordered before from MMP I don’t know how fast they usually fulfill orders and realize coronavirus restrictions may be slowing them down. I had hoped to have these games in hand before July but it looks like they will not arrive until after the new month starts. DELIVERED JUNE 30. Panzer Battles: 11th Panzer on the Chir River (MMP, 2016) – Sale Wargame. Like Heights of Courage above, this is another Standard Combat Series game. I have little experience with MMP so these two games will serve as my introduction to SCS. DELIVERED JUNE 30. Operation Mercury: The Invasion of Crete (MMP, 2017) – Sale Wargame. On sale for an incredible $40 versus the usual $172. Will be my first foray into the MMP Grand Tactical Series (GTS) of games. DELIVERED JUNE 30. It appears to me that shipping, not actual production of games, is a new long pole in the tent. Not surprising given the lack of air transportation worldwide. I know that many games are not airshipped, but the maritime shipping, rail, and truck industries are picking up other cargoes that air shipping used to handle leading in turn to a general slow down of those transportation modes. If you look close even Amazon Prime is sometimes backordered. How about the look ahead to August? Here are what games may be in play (pun fully intended). First, my Preorder & Kickstarter GeekList sits at 23 games. Of the three carry-overs from July (One Small Step, Shores of Tripoli, and Undaunted: North Africa) there is a good chance that all but Shores of Tripoli will deliver in August. Of the remaining 20 games: French & Indian War 1757-1759 (Worthington Publishing): Kickstarter Wargame. From a July 29 Update – “The ship carrying both CRUSADER KINGDOMS and FRENCH & INDIAN WAR will hit the port in New York Auugust 13. We should expect for us to receive the games within 2 weeks of that barring a customs snag. Thats means it is possible we may be shipping the last week of August, and if not then the first week of September!!!” Flying Colors 3rd Edition Update Kit (GMT Games): P500. Per July 23 Newsletter – “Charging August 5. Shipping roughly mid-August.” The Battle of Rhode Island (GMT Games): P500. Scheduled delivery 31 JULY. Fort (Leder Games): Publisher-direct Preorder. Scheduled for August release. Of note, these are the three games I added this month: Buffalo Wings 2nd Edition (Against the Odds): Kickstarter Wargame. As the economy tanked I backed out of Wings of the Motherland from Clash of Arms. Mistake. Need to get that one too. Fort (Leder Games): Publisher-direct Preorder. After reading Dan Thurot’s review on Space-Biff this became a must-buy. Wing Leader Supremacy 2nd Edition Upgrade Kit (GMT Games): P500. I am a sucker for the Wing Leader Series. I have barely gotten Wing Leader: Origins to the table and Wing Leader: Legends is not quite to 500 orders. But. Must. Buy. Looking ahead to the end of the year, it is possible that as many as eight or nine of the games on my current Preorder & Kickstarter GeekList could deliver. Like I said before, that would not only be good for me, but more importantly good for the gaming industry. Feature image “United fleet grounded in Washington Dulles” James Dingell Photography July #Wargame #Boardgame Forecast – HOT! June 28, 2020 ~ RockyMountainNavy ~ 2 Comments IT IS PAINFULLY OBVIOUS THAT CORONAVIRUS ADVERSELY AFFECTED THE HOBBY GAMING INDUSTRY. I have yet to hear of a game company that has gone under but it’s easy to see the stress many are operating under. As the economy starts recovering from coronavirus shutdowns more game production is coming back. Looking at my Preorder & Kickstarter Roll on BoardGameGeek, it looks like July may be a VERY good month for a return to gaming! Of the 27 games I list on 28 June, there is a better-than-even chance that as many as nine (9), or 33%, could deliver or otherwise fulfill in July. These include: One Small Step (Academy Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Boardgame. An update from mid-May stated that shipping in July was expected. I have not seen an update since. Academy Games does not have the best track record for keeping to timelines but that negative is more than compensated by the top-quality game that usually ends up being delivered. Wing Leader: Origins 1936-1942 (GMT Games, 2020) – P500 Preorder Wargame. This one is a lock as I already have my UPS tracking number with delivery scheduled for 1 July. Philadelphia 1777 (Worthington Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Wargame. A late June update reported the game is arriving at the freight-forwarder and Worthington expects to take possession early in July and start shipping immediately. The Shores of Tripoli (Fort Circle Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Waro. Coronavirus delays have pushed this one back from April, but it looks like July is seriously in play. Here to Slay (Unstable Games, 2020) – Kickstarter Card Game. Late June update reported game is out of production and on way to publisher for fulfillment. Undaunted: North Africa (Osprey Games, 2020) – Preorder Waro. All looks to be on track for an early July release. Heights of Courage: The Battle for the Golan Heights, October 1973 (MMP, 2013) – Sale Wargame. Bought as part of an amazing MMP sale in June. Having never ordered before from MMP I don’t know how fast they usually fulfill orders and realize coronavirus restrictions may be slowing them down. I had hoped to have these games in hand before July but it looks like they will not arrive until after the new month starts. Panzer Battles: 11th Panzer on the Chir River (MMP, 2016) – Sale Wargame. Like Heights of Courage above, this is another Standard Combat Series game. I have little experience with MMP so these two games will serve as my introduction to SCS. Operation Mercury: The Invasion of Crete (MMP, 2017) – Sale Wargame. On sale for an incredible $40 versus the usual $172. Will be my first foray into the MMP Grand Tactical Series (GTS) of games. Looking ahead to the end of the year, it is possible that as many as half of the games on my current Preorder & Kickstarter list could deliver. That would not only be good for me, but more importantly good for the gaming industry. #Boardgame Playtest – The Shores of Tripoli from @fortcircle February 19, 2019 February 18, 2019 ~ RockyMountainNavy ~ 1 Comment Thanks to Alexander and Grant over at theplayersaid.com, designer Kevin Bertram (keviny on BoardGameGeek) of Fort Circle Games (@fortcircle or fortcircle.com) came onto my radar with his game The Shores of Tripoli which is in playtest. According to the BGG entry: The Shores of Tripoli is a card-driven war game that plays in forty-five to sixty minutes. One side takes the Americans, who try to stop the Barbary pirates and perhaps even send the Marines in to take Tripoli. The other side takes the Barbary pirates and capture as many merchant ships as possible or even take on the frigates on the American navy. As a naval guy at heart, a game about the Barbary Wars deeply appeals to me. What appealed to me even more is the fact Kevin is offering a print-n-play playtest kit to anyone who asks. I took Kevin up on his offer and have been messing around with the game. I have a love-hate relationship with playtesting. I love to do it, but I hate that I always seem to never have enough time to provide feedback to the designer. I try to do what I can but it never seems enough given the generosity of a designer to share their design with me before it goes primetime. Thus, I was actually a bit hesitant reaching out to Kevin for a playtest kit. But I am glad I did. The Shores of Tripoli is not ready for primetime, yet; but the core of what could be a very good game is there. The Fort Circle motto is, “Creating fun, easy to learn, historical board games.” What I have played so far is fun. With some rule book polish it could be easy to learn. The game looks to be a fun exploration of the lesser-known history of the period. I owe Kevin some feedback. I have a commented version of the rules ready and I am going to send it to him. Not that my feedback is anything special. I am not a technical editor nor a game designer by training or education. But Kevin is putting his heart out there in this game and from what I have seen it’s worth my time to try and help him get this game going. If the topic of The Shores of Tripoli appeals to you and you want to help a fellow gamer then reach out to Kevin and help him get this game out there. The topic and approach is a good fit and soon enough you may have a fun, easy to learn, historical board game on your table. 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__label__cc	0.665887	0.334113	POV Chapter: Meeting with the mamono, Ema The wasteland that is called the edge of the world. That is exactly where we are living. It has a messed up environment and one can’t even live properly in this vast ground. But even with that, we highland orcs, take residence in a relatively blessed area. By producing crops and hunting preys we are somehow able to live. To be honest, I want to live in a more bountiful place. But to move the village the risks are way too high. Even at this moment, a number of great warriors have gone out to look for a good plot of land but, in the scope we are able to move to, will there be a place that is better than this one? I have doubts for the future but, the days keep on passing. That is the everyday life of us. Yet, since several years ago the situation changed. From the far west mountains, a dragon that calls itself Shen has demanded sacrifices. Of course, we couldn’t accept just like that. We tried to oppose it. The warriors took their swords and the magicians held their staffs. Highland orcs exceled in both sword and magic. It’s embarrassing to say it myself but we are a strong race. We have survived the interior of this wastelands, we have a bit of pride ourselves. But the Superior Dragon, that even among the giant dragons is considered the strongest. The strength of Shen was too immense. In the base of Shen that is located at the distance, the units’ expeditions were unable to reach it. What we could only do was to intercept, we thought if we can at least do that, the other party would give up. But the actions of Shen were to envelop the entire village with the mist that it governed. That mist, not only took the vision of our surroundings but sapped our physical strength as well. Even our crops couldn’t grew poorly. Anyhow the mist had coiled around our village. It couldn’t get any worse. The swords and magic couldn’t get rid of it. The balance had crumbled. The important balance that enabled us to live in this barren wastelands. Of course, we didn’t perish immediately. But everyone knew that was not far in the future. After that we tried many experiments, in the end we couldn’t resolve the situation and we had to accepted the demands of Shen. Every half a year a girl would be send to be sacrificed. Even this was merely a slower way to perishing. It was a humiliating choice. Freed from the mist, we had to worship Shen like a deity. The days where we had to use –sama (a honorific) to someone who only brought harm to our village, began. Slowly the girls from the village decreased. I, the daughter of the village headman, was no exception. At last the moment has come. A village that had a feeling of closure and the despair that floated around it. How did things end up like this? Come to think of it. A number of times, a rarely seen race that had blue skin, offered to help us but, for some reason Dad didn’t even heed their words. I think he said they were called Demon race. I have only spoken with them for a bit but, they seemed to give a feeling of gentleness. We are being cornered this much, it should be fine to ask for their help. Or at least that’s what I think. The village’s decisions were done by father and other influential people. It wasn’t something a woman like me could intervene in, so I have never spoke out. Thinking that not long now I would be dying, as my last words I decided to tell him my opinion. It happened on the night before I was to depart. “Father, I have a favor to ask of you” “Ema, huh. What is it?” “When I go, I want you to listen to what the demon race has to say. I don’t know what they want from us but at this rate the village will disappear” Father was silent. “I have already accepted the fact I will be a sacrifice. But…” “… Are you scared?” Father said it in a way that seemed as if he wanted to save me, I don’t know if there was a different meaning to it but, he asked me if I was scared. I silently shake my head horizontally. “If the village disappears, I and every girl who had been sacrificed would have died in vain. I don’t want that. I am dying for the future of the Highland Orcs. At least, that’s what I want it to be” “Ema… I understand. If even when you become a sacrifice, he demands another sacrifice, we will accept the alliance with the Demon race. “Thank you, Father” With this, I might become the last sacrifice. If we obtain the Demon races’ cooperation, the relationship with Shen might change for the better. Even though I confronted my own father, somewhere inside me I felt a bright feeling while I walked through the wasteland. Choosing a path with good view, when an opposing monster or race appears I take the initiative and use magic to implode them. With that I was able to make it all the way here. As long as I take the initiative, most of the monsters, even with only me, I would be able to somehow take care of them. At the time of the first sacrifice a warrior accompanied her to the god mountain where Shen was, but now they had to pass a number of relay points by themselves in order to reach there. There weren’t enough hands so we had no other choice. That’s why the girl that has been chosen as the sacrifice will have to spend half a year learning magic. The girls who are more skillful with the sword were taught how to handle weapons. Not even saying for half a year, I had been practicing since the day I remember so there was no problem with me. In that half a year of concentrating on the practice of magic I felt a tad bit happy. It was a small thing but remembering the fun I had in that half a year, my face unconsciously made a smile. Now I prepared myself. Lifting my face, there were rugged rock walls and a terrain with lots of protuberances in a wide area. This is the last rough spot. Since the vision in this area was bad, a surprise attack is possible. I have to move out of this area fast as it’s a place with lots of dangers. Though if I am to pass this place fine, I will reach a cave that will lead directly to the god mountain. I made my first step in the rocky area. ◇◆◇◆◇◆◇◆ “Please, someone help me!!!!” Even I didn’t understand to whom I was calling for help. My staff had been blown off my hands and had broken. Now it won’t be useful at all. I, who didn’t have a single weapon in hands, was now facing a demonic beast. A giant dog. But he had two heads. A dark deep blue haired demonic beast that I knew. “Why is Liz in this kind of place?” That is the name of the double headed dog in front of me. It’s a fearsome demonic beast that creates groups and can breathe both fire and ice. If I had the distance it wouldn’t be impossible for me to defeat him. But losing my staff and being brought into physical combat distance, it wasn’t an opponent I could handle. What makes them so dreadful was their cunning way of hunting their prey in groups so it was strange to encounter a single one, in that sense it could be said I was lucky. It could be said but… Since I can’t defeat it, it was pointless luck. There isn’t supposed to be a Liz turf in this areas though? “Gurururururu” Grrrrrr This is bad, he is coming. My breath is growing shallow. No, to die by being sacrificed is one thing but, to die prey of this Liz! Don’t joke with me! “Someone help me!!!!” I screamed from the bottom of my heart. I see the Liz heartlessly placed his strength on his hind legs and slightly shrink his body. For this to be the end, for what sake did I…! The Liz ears perked up. Releasing the strength he placed in his body the Liz both heads face at the same direction. What is happening? The Liz was lured by it and I followed him. What is it, it seems that a cloud of dust is being raised? “What? A race I have never seen before?” “Gurururoro!!!!” Liz made an overpowering roar in that direction. It is obvious that he is more preoccupied by the trespasser than in me. In the same way as us Orcs, the shadow was running with a pair of legs in speeds that were impossible. But, eh? Isn’t it way too fast? In a breath it had shortened the distance between us and its appearance was clear. “ASFHDSKJHFS!!” (TN: Yes, that’s what it says I’m not messing around) “Gururuo?” Plunging with a shout I couldn’t understand well, he released a flying kick on Liz. A physical match with the Liz?! Is he a warrior? Will it be repelled or will he be able to deal damage? Anyways his strength will be determined. But he must have great confidence in his strength if he is challenging Liz to a physical match. I muttered lowly. It took me time to notice it was me who said that. It was fast but, it was only a flying kick. He wasn’t using any magic and he was probably not using any kind of special equipment. Not only that, I could also sense clumsiness in his movements. He tore off the body of the Liz when he hit him. Even though I saw it with my own eyes, my mind could still not perceive it as reality. When it landed, it softly got up and turned its back. (TN: all this time she has been talking as if ‘he’ is an ‘it’. There is no definer as she doesn’t understand what he is) Not far from it, a meat lump that was once Liz was there. I am convulsing, I am definitely dead now. With only one hit? The Liz that was a mass of hard body hair and muscle… it killed him? “BJASDLKJSA” It is saying something. Turning its eyes to one side, joining its hands, closing its eyes, it did many gestures I didn’t comprehend. Our languages probably don’t match. At the time it shouted I couldn’t understand it either after all. Though I think it is probably male. Taking into account that voice and physique. With all the knowledge I have I try to think of what he is. A hairless face that seemed smooth. Simple garments made of cloth I have never seen before. But the sewing techniques utilized to make it were clearly skilled. He didn’t have claws nor fangs and there is no tail. Such kind of creature. Could it be a warrior that has come from outside that we have made contact a couple of times. The so called hyuman? Anyways, they are the hyuman race or so I have heard. Dissecting the body of the enemies it has defeated, oppressing the people that run away and have lost their will to fight, it seems they are a brutal race. Now that I think of it, there was a dangerous race that had confronted the demon race. Could it be the hyuman? Our eyes met! Without any cautiousness he was coming closer to me. Even if we are both barehanded, just seeing that spectacle, there is no way I would think we are on the same ground. “Ah… Nice to meet you” “Hiiii! He spoke?!” Without thinking I let out a pathetic voice. But I am not wrong. Just a while ago I wasn’t able to understand a single word yet, all of a sudden he said words I understood. He began to talk in my language. There is no way I wouldn’t be shocked. In a glance he saw through that I was a highland orc and changed the language he spoke? Hyuman(provisional), scary. (TN: She is still not sure, hence the parenthesis) “I am not strange. I am gentle and kind. Do you understand me? Boku? (TN: A Japanese way to refer himself) As expected, he is a man. I certainly understand what he is saying. I move my head up and down. If for him this means the same thing as what I know, I couldn’t think about it at that moment. But, I felt there was something wrong… ??! I- I am gently and kind?! What am I doing?! Hurriedly I shake my head left and right. “There is no way someone who kills a Liz in one hit to be ‘gentle and kind’!” (Ema) I could feel my body shivering again. This guy, what kind of nonsense is he saying? “Oh I see. I am strong! I am stronger than you!” “HIIIIIIIIIII!!!!” (Ema) I knew iiiiiiit! Shrinking my body I tremble. Without denying it, he suddenly came with a threat. He hasn’t done anything after that but, I feel like he is intimidating me. When I sneaked a glance from the opening in my hands. He lifted up his hands and watched my scared appearance with a confused expression. Just what are you?! No matter how much I want to stay calm, the fear inside me always gets me. “Well, calm down…” It sounded as if he was telling himself that though. Saying that, he continued the conversation with me. Talking with him I noticed that he was unexpectedly a comprehensive person. How to say it… a good person. In the middle of it I asked him if he possessed that unique power called Tamer, but it seems he didn’t. By the way, Tamer is a unique power that rarely appears in the demon race and hyuman. They can communicate with demonic beasts and mamono, and sometimes even control them. After hearing that he said “Are you also lost?” When I called him a hyuman he didn’t negate it so I think he is a hyuman. But, what is that about ‘also’? Did he get lost while walking alone in this wasteland? No, that is not possible. What kind of absurdity occurred for that to happen? And he doesn’t even seem to know that this is the border of the world. What is this? This mysterious person. When I told him that I was a village sacrifice and that I was on my way to the gods’ mountain, he made a meek face and concerned about me he asked about the village situation and how we normally lived, those kind of things. As expected, I think he is not a bad person. He is a weird hyuman. He introduced himself as Makoto, a 17 year old like me, and he escorted me to the last place I was to rest, the ‘Body Purifying Field’. As he is my benefactor I decided to call him Makoto-sama. He then called me Ema-san. I felt ticklish. It’s alright to not call me with honorifics, but maybe he doesn’t have that kind of custom? Since the time he began to escort the journey has been proceeding smoothly. There were no surprise attacks, only some races that were looking at us. They seemed to be cautious of Makoto-sama and couldn’t get close. I am truly trankful. I felt relieved in my heart that now I could fulfill my duty as a sacrifice. The entrance of the cave was in sight. “Makoto-sama can you please wait here for a bit? I have to explain the presence of Makoto-sama to the people of the forest” (Ema) “I get it” (Makoto) I told Makoto-sama to wait for me for a bit and entered the cave first. He obediently agreed and stopped, send me off by waving his hands. “Ema-Sama, I am glad you have arrived safely” “Thanks. There is a person who saved my live on the way. There is no problem if he comes to rest right?” (Ema) “Ooh! A life savior?! I get it. Then, that person is?” “Calmly hear me out. I havent seen them before but he is probably a hyuman” (Ema) “Hyuman?!” “Yeah. It seems he is lost but I don’t understand his circumstances well. But what I’m sure about is that he rushed to me when I was in trouble and defeated a Liz in one hit. By all means I want to welcome him before we part” (Ema) “A human though. I haven’t seen one either but I heard they are brutal and extremely greedy, on top of that, an exceedingly cruel race” “I have already spoken with Makoto-sama, in regards to him there is no such thing. Please” (Ema) Persisting in my request, they accepted what I said. They probably heard my selfish request because I was a sacrifice. I have to be grateful for that. From the entry I wave my hand to Makoto-sama as a signal. Even if I’m interested in him there is no point. To the me that is soon to die. The Makoto-sama who suddenly appeared, that complete mystery. I couldn’t stop the curiosity that was slowly growing inside me. At that night at the cave with Makoto-sama, for me it was the fun I have not had in a long time, it was the best night. I liked to tend to another person. Even if it was a guest that came to the village, like for a friend celebration. At these times, if I had to say which one I am, I am the kind that receives hospitality from others. There were lots of times where I was in a special position. I would normally enjoy those times more than normal. If talking about Makoto-sama, he was really interested in the magic I used. It seemed he couldn’t hold it in anymore and asked me about it. “Ema-san. That, is magic right?” (Makoto) “Y-Yeah. This is a magic that we normally use in our daily lives. Hyumans call it sorcery though” (Ema) I had heard that Hyumans called magic, sorcery. I was a bit surprised that he called it magic. At that time, he asked me if he could use magic as well. When I answered that, “Even if I look like this , I am actually one of the most prominent magic users in the village” His eyes began to shine. I am actually the strongest one but I tried to be a bit humble. Then Makoto-sama requested me to teach him magic. Ummm… While being in that wasteland, without a weapon, and moreover without knowing magic. Well with that physical strength it could be possible but… He also said that he hadn’t eaten for 3 days. While being reluctant, he ate the reserves of food in our cave. Well he asked me but since he said he doesn’t even know the existence of magic, with low expectations I will teach him about the aria of the magic I am using as a form of thanks. I explained him a bit of what was magic energy. (TN: aria is the magic chant used to activate a spell) When I did that, he really, even if it was elementary magic, with just one try of the aria, was able to successfully conjure it. Wanting to know just how strong this person was, I took out an item from the storage that was able to identify the levels and the result was… he was a level 1. There is no level 1 that strong. I thought he was a level 100 or 300 at the very least. Most of the demon race that come to the village are around level 300. He is really a mysterious person. Is he a genius? From the persons that exceled in talent, there was normally a hard to approach atmosphere. But from this person I cant feel anything at all. In the end, after promising him that I would give him the arias that I know at a later time, the day came to a closure. At that night I took a leather piece to use as a paper and wrote and wrote and wrote like crazy, every single aria that I knew. I thought that if my knowledge can stay inside my benefactor Makoto-sama then that is something to be happy about. In the night where everyone was already asleep, I went to the room he was and silently left the paper there and went to sleep. Last night he lived a harmonious live as the only different one in this place filled with highland orcs. I could feel the alertness of the warriors and all the other ones. The next day. I who had slept till late at night went to the guest room wishing to see the figure of my benefactor. But, I couldn’t find him. I couldn’t see the figure of Makoto-sama anywhere. Is he still sleeping? It will be breakfast soon though. There is still some time before I had to go but if for only a bit I want to talk about a lot more stuff with Makoto-sama. Even if I checked the inside, in the place where he is supposed to be sleeping he was not there. That’s why I went to the entrance and asked the guards there. “Good morning” (Ema) “If it is about him, he left early in the morning” “EEEhh?!” (Ema) “I have a letter from him” “A letter from Makoto-sama?” (Ema) In the letter that had been taken out there was certainly letters written in it. And no doubt it was in our language. Just what in the world is he? Even in our village there aren’t many who can write. “Thanks for yesterday. Its been a long time since I have slept somewhere around the rooftop. The magic aria that you have left beside my pillow I receive it thankfully. To have politely taught magic to a total stranger like me I was really moved. For the sake of Ema-san who had been so kind to me, I want to do something. Is what I thought. I don’t know to what extend but please wait for at least one day before going to the god mountain. I will do something about that guy Shen. Just that, it’s possible that I will be unable to return there anymore. If tomorrow Shen is not at Gods Mountain then please go back to the village with everyone. For being with me at the time when I thought I wouldn’t be able to meet with anyone anymore, I truly thank you. Such a thing. Makoto-sama is certainly strong. But we are talking about the Superior Dragon Shen, a dragon that stands at the top of the dragons. It’s hard to expect something. No matter what kind of existence, if you are not a Superior Dragon as well or at least a Superior Spirit, there is no way you will be able to fight it one on one. To challenge him with only the poor-quality magic I have taught you. That wouldn’t be a fight, it’s a suicide. I hurriedly make preparations depart. I am not sure if I will be able to catch up with him but still, if I make it I have to convince him to give up. I don’t know if Shen knows about our relationship with him but if he fights Shen and he does know and decides to destroy us all… I began to think those kind things. I have already accepted my death. That’s why I don’t want someone else to die for the sake of me. If by trying to save me, the village gets destroyed then I don’t wish for salvation. I get it to the point of hurting that he is doing this out of goodwill. But still. That goodwill is something I can’t take. I have to hurry. With the minimum preparations I announce that I will be leaving the cave. At that place. Makoto-sama was there. With a girl I didn’t know. “Ah… you read the letter right? Well you see, I’m sorry. I have returned. Tadaima” (Makoto) (TN: I am back in japan when returning home) He must have inferred what I was going to do by looking at my attire and expression. Comforting yet evil, with a face of someone that had received a punishment. Makoto apologized and then said, “I am back”, to me. The hyuman looking woman with a strange outfit that wrapped around her body, to my amazement it was Shen-sama! (TN: Japan… I love you. So? When is little orc Ema going to get some love too?) Talking with Makoto-sama it seems she fell in love with him and is now travelling along with him. What is happening, I didn’t know at all. What I clearly understand is that… We were leaving the ‘Body Purifying Field’, moving through all relay points in the opposite direction and rendezvousing with soldiers. Meaning we are now returning to the village. The Shen that had oppressed us for all this years, actually didn’t do anything at all. Saying she was only sleeping. When I asked what happened to the sacrifices, Shen-sama told me that it was most likely the handiwork of someone that had used her name to impersonate and deceive us. A woman with long blue hair and tall figure. This is Shen-sama. Makoto-sama didn’t back off against a Supreme Dragon and moreover led it to a favorable ground and even made a pact with it and seems to now rule over her. Fighting a supreme dragon, to draw it to a favorable state for him and then form a pact? I thought he was strong but clearly the dimension of strong was completely different. Seeing Shen-sama teasing Makoto-sama, “rule?” I want to tilt my head in doubt, but seeing Shen-sama’s form I can’t doubt it. Blowing his face away and telling him to make her his wife, or, just a bit more and I would have been dragon steak. I felt like I was hearing make believe stories. But hearing Shen-sama explain in detail while laughing, somewhere inside my head I had already agreed with it. Seeing Shen-sama drinking the valuable sake as if it were water, and the Makoto-sama who, unlike the time he was in the cave, was eating the meal without any restraint, I felt like I was inside a dream. It’s a feast a feast. And moreover it was a feast celebrating the problem was resolved. To think I had such a future. The drunk warriors then asked the guest of honor Makoto-sama and Shen-sama to stand in front and act out the fight for them. It was a show of ability so it wouldn’t become a fight to death, but the intensity of it was thoroughly transmitted. It seems that Makoto-sama was having fun. This time it was the girls that gave out requests but instead of a fight they suggested a dance. Makoto-sama was receiving a warm reception by father, he had a face that couldn’t hide his happiness. It was the best night of a lifetime. I thought that, but the next day they did a best night of a lifetime again. I can’t believe it. When Makoto-sama leaves his seat the celebration settles down a bit, but the enthusiasm still remained. At this rate it will last until morning. With a bitter smile I watch the surroundings and in that, at a bit separated place, I saw Shen-sama and father were talking with each other and decided to get closer. What are they talking about? “That’s how it is. Whether you tell it to everyone or not I leave it to you” (Shen) “I see. Then that also means Makoto-sama had taken in the resentment of the sacrificed girls” What did he say?! Avenge? But Shen-sama had said that she didn’t know the one who used her name. “Great master doesn’t take the trouble to say those kind of things” (Shen) “I thank you. Let me once again express my gratitude” “That is not needed. Though, I have a suggestion” (Shen) “What could it be?” “At the ends of the wasteland everywhere is dangerous. In it there are some fertile places, but they have already been fought over and disappeared” (Shen) “That’s right. In the past we also had to fight for those fertile places and wore ourselves out. Judging that it was useless we decided to make a village here. Forced to protect the lands we have obtained, the days of never ending fights against the tribes will only continue” “This may be a wise choice. Well, you see. Don’t you want to live in a more bountiful place?” (Shen) “Is that, are you telling us to fight again?” “No. When I made the pact with my liege I coincidentally found a nice plot of land. There is no one living in that place, and without my and masters’ permission it is impossible to enter it. The green is abundant and in my eyes it was an easy to live in place. How about it?” (Shen) “Is Shen-sama inviting us to her sacred lands?” A fertile land? A secure place? Sacred lands? There was no signs of the topic about resentment but I couldn’t help but have an interest in what those two were talking about. “Calling it a Sacred Land gives me shivers. Asora Akuja. Oh well, the naming doesn’t matter. From now on you will receive the protection of my master and as long as you devote your selves to him, I will provide you a rich land to live in. That’s how it is” (Shen) “But that, we don’t know how much land there is and the place it is located” Father seems to be at a loss. It’s true that it would trouble him, to so suddenly say to abandon the village. But, a land that is protected by Makoto-sama and Shen-sama. That must be an incredible place. “Fumu, you do have a point. Then, being the chief I will let you see it once, come” As expected of Shen-sama she is fast, Father and Shen-sama were enveloped by a thick mist and disappeared. Does that mean they have gone to that land? To enter from the wind. It would certainly be a safe place. I heard a gachigachi (rattling) sound of teeth. It was me. An exciting and uplifting feeling. It slowly began to accelerate inside of me. By following Makoto-sama and serving him we would get a rich land and safe lifestyle. How to say it, it was enticing. It’s true that I still don’t know much about Makoto-sama but he is definitely not in the bad side. A rich land, could it possibly be that kind of land that with just a little plowing, the seeds that we planted will grow? If it were in the wasteland, without doubt everyone would fight for the land with bloodshot eyes. That kind of place we could live in it by serving the Supreme Dragon Shen-sama and Makoto-sama. The proposal of Shen-sama sounded incredibly appealing. When father returns I must join in convincing him. While I silently hardened my resolve, both of them had returned. Father’s appearance looks strange. But I have to convince him. Without minding, I began walking to where both of them were, and then stopped. “Fath-“ (Ema) “Shen-sama. I will make sure to convince everyone by tonight. Please, let us live in that land!” “Eh?” (Ema) “Huh, Ema?” I couldn’t feel the hesitation he had a few moments ago. The words of father requesting migration made me let out a stupefied voice. “Fu, it seems your daughter also agrees. Can you pledge your loyalty to Misumi-sama?” (Shen) “He is the savior of my daughter. From now on he will become the savior of our tribe. Please, let us serve under him!” “My life was saved by him. To repay him is a given” (Ema) “Fumu. Fine. Leaving convincing master for tomorrow, tonight you guys should properly put in order those noisy people” (Shen) It didn’t take long to accept the migration. We decided to live a new live on the land that Makoto-sama and Shen-sama govern. Wondering how bountiful the land is, everyone directed fervent glances to father. I was looking forward to the everyday life that is to come.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1143
__label__wiki	0.511922	0.511922	Rogers Fund backs “Ice Pilots,” “Storage Wars Canada” Storage Wars Canada and Ice Pilots are among 17 TV and documentary projects receiving CAD$5.26 million (US$4.81 million) in equity investment from the Rogers Documentary and Cable Network Fund in Canada. Canada’s Rogers Documentary and Cable Network Fund is injecting CAD$5.26 million (US$4.82 million) in equity investment into 17 television and documentary projects, including Storage Wars Canada (pictured) and Ice Pilots. The media company offers a number of funds for Canadian independent producers, with the Documentary Fund supporting non-fiction films and the Cable Network Fund serving as an equity investor in Canadian programs that receive first play on the country’s cable channels. Unscripted series receiving funding include Restoration Garage 2 (History Channel), season three of Yukon Gold (History Television), season six of Ice Pilots (History Television), season one of Jade City (Discovery), Treasures Decoded II (History Television, Historia), season three of War Story (History Television), season three of Storage Wars Canada (OLN) and Illusions of Grandeur (Rogers Broadcasting). Meanwhile, the documentaries selected for funding are March to the Pole (History Television), A Quiet Revolution (Documentary), Gambling on Extinction (Animal Planet, CTV W5, Radio Canada), Against All Odds: The 1948 RCAF Flyers (TSN) and The Mohawk Ironworkers (APTN). The application deadline for the next round of funding is October 1. A Quiet Revolution, Against All Odds: The 1948 RCAF Flyers, Gambling on Extinction, Ice Pilots, Illusions of Grandeur, Jade City, March to the Pole, Mohawk Ironworkers, Restoration Garage, Rogers Documentary and Cable Network Fund, Storage Wars Canada, Treasures Decoded, War Story, Yukon Gold Rogers Doc and Cable Fund reveals projects for funding “Bachelor Canada,” “Storage Wars Canada” win Rogers funding “Carpe Diem,” “Flying Solo” among Rogers Doc Fund grantees “Fermières,” “Tehran” pick up Canadian Screen nods	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1146
__label__wiki	0.897589	0.897589	Exclusive: Journeyman acquires “Omo Child” doc London-based distributor Journeyman Pictures has picked up the world rights to John Rowe's award-winning documentary (pictured). London-based distributor Journeyman Pictures has picked up the world rights to John Rowe‘s documentary Omo Child (pictured). The 90-minute film is set in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, in the country’s southwestern region, where some tribes are known to kill children believed to be cursed, in fear that they will bring death, disease and drought to the tribe. Omo Child centers on Lale Labuko of the Kara tribe, who is looking to end the ‘Mingi’ practice among his people. The doc premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival in the spring, where it was among the 10 finalists for the Toronto fest’s Audience Award. It also picked up the Golden Strands Award at the Wichita, Kansas-set Tallgrass International Film Festival. Journeyman in August revealed it was in the process of acquiring about 75% of titles from Mercury Media International’s library, following the liquidation of the latter UK indie distributor. The company’s slate includes such docs as Finders Keepers, Bounce: How the Ball taught the World to Play and Evolution of a Criminal. Journeyman Pictures, Omo Child Exclusive: Journeyman Pictures picks up “Return to Homs” Extra: Journeyman takes “Jihad,” Ovation gets “Envelope” Journeyman sells “Steele” doc to Euro nets Exclusive: Journeyman in talks for Mercury Media slate	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1147
__label__cc	0.559412	0.440588	Mark Farina •• Bloom Nightclub April 23, 2016 @ 10:00 pm – April 24, 2016 @ 2:00 am 198 Baker St Nelson, BC V1L 4H2 $25 advance Jake Langmuir Bloom Chicago House House Mark Farina Legendary Chicago House tastemasker is celebrating 25 years of his Mushroom Jazz legacy with an exclusive one-off visit to Nelson, BC for a pair of monumental performances at the two top music venues in town. For the Bloom engagement, expect a night of classic, bumpin’ deep funky disco house with local DJ Just-B opening the night up with his boompty boomp. Tickets are available at Sea Of Wolves Design now! Earlybirds are sold out, but $25 tickets remain in stock. •• Mark Farina •• San Francisco, California / Chicago, IL http://www.djmarkfarina.net/ Modern day record minstrel, Mark Farina, has thrilled crowds globally, entertaining over 1 million fans per year. As one of the most ubiquitous DJs in Dance Music, Farina’s known for both his unique style of mixing Jazz, Downtempo and House Music as well as being the creator of Mushroom Jazz: West Coast jazzy, organic productions combined with East Coast Hip-Hop, Urban beats. •• DJ Just-B •• https://soundcloud.com/globalrevolutions DJ Just-B grew up near Toronto, Canada where he began spinning records in 1997. He was influenced by the emerging hip-hop, electronic dance and pop sounds of the 80’s as well as house, techno, and jungle/drum n bass parties of the 90’s. Upon moving to Nelson, BC, Canada in 1999, he began to hone his particular DJ style of “dirty, sexy, funky, chunky, boompty, bouncy, irresistibly danceable house music.” Most recently, B has reintroduced more hip-hop, breaks, mashups and dnb to the usual mix, focusing on big bass lines and dynamic lyrics, all the while retaining a smooth and positive feel.. • Doors 10pm • Limited earlybird $20 tickets available at Sea Of Wolves Design next week, $25 after. • $4.50 draft sleeves or highballs, $7.50 doubles until 11:30pm • Powered by PK Sound • 19+ •• More on Bloom Nightclub from THUMP / VICE •• http://thump.vice.com/en_ca/article/shambhala-music-festival-opens-its-doors-to-new-sister-club-cafe-and-lounge Shambhala Music Festival Private: Events Naomi Cromwell	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1153
__label__cc	0.621437	0.378563	Asset 1ScholarMatch Our Scholars Program provides scholarships and support services all the way to college graduation. Students in ScholarMatch’s Destination College programs are invited to apply to our Scholars Program – a support program through college graduation that includes advising, career mentoring, and financial support from one of our scholarship partners. To be eligible, students must complete the “Prepare” and “Apply” ScholarMatch College Ready Milestones and have an EFC under $20,000 and be first generation college students. Preference is given to students who are Pell Eligible. Applications for the class of 2021 will open on January 5, 2021. Dynamic Advising Scholars are matched with a College Advisor, a ScholarMatch staff member who will support students with all things college. 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__label__cc	0.532649	0.467351	PhD Position in Bioinformatics and Toxicology, Technical University of Denmark A PhD position that integrates the fields of toxicology and bioinformatics is available at DTU, Technical University of Denmark. The project is a collaboration project between the ‘Alternative & QSAR’ group at the National Food Institute and the Integrative Systems Biology group at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS). The mission of Division of Toxicology and Risk Assessment at the National Food Institute is to promote human health and prevent human illness by conducting research and consultancy on effects of chemicals in foods, environment and consumer products. A unique expertise within the field of endocrine disrupting effects is gathered here. The Center for Biological Sequence Analysis conducts basic research in the field of bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, and integrative systems biology and represents one of the largest bioinformatics centers in academia in Europe. This PhD project will be part of a major initiative to generate knowledge on mixture effects of food contaminants. The current paradigm within risk assessment and regulation of chemicals in for instance foods is to evaluate the risk for one chemical at a time, even if we know that humans are exposed to more chemicals simultaneously. However, tools to handle this challenge by the authorities are lacking. The vision of the initiative is to contribute to a paradigm shift within risk assessment of chemicals and the aim is to develop tools that can be applied by the authorities when assessing the risk of endocrine disrupting effects. The PhD project is focussed partly on performance of toxicological studies to gather mixture data and partly on using bioinformatics to classify chemicals and to elucidate their mechanisms of action. In addition, computational biology approaches will be applied to develop models for identifying potential common effects of chemicals. Concerning the toxicological studies this project will take advantage of and build upon on-going projects on mixture effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals. These in vivo and in vitro studies will be extended with further end-points of varying molecular complexicity that are applicable for modelling purposes. Among the applied technologies will be a metabolomics platform to identify changes in metabolic networks and transcriptomics data. The successful candidate will be based at the Technical University of Denmark partly in Lyngby and partly in Søborg. MSc degree in life science Biological understanding – especially knowledge on mechanisms of action of chemicals Experience with bioinformatics Skills in a programming language is an advantage Experience in working on UNIX platforms is preferred Able to work independently and to plan and carry out complicated tasks, while also being part of a large and dynamic group. Good communication skills in English, both written and spoken. Approval and Enrolment The scholarships for the PhD degree are subject to academic approval, and the candidates will be enrolled in one of the general degree programmes of DTU. Salary and appointment terms The salary and appointment terms are consistent with the current rules for PhD degree students. The period of employment is 3 years. Further information may be obtained from Head of Research Group Anne Marie Vinggaard (+ 45 3588 7549) or Head of Division Christine Nellemann (+45 3588 7538). We must have your online application by 21 August 2011. 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__label__wiki	0.670535	0.670535	Abdulsalami Abubakar urges Buhari to focus on maritime sector Former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar, GCFR has urged the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to use the unharnessed potentials in the maritime industry to reshape and re-jig the nation’s economy. Abdusalami who was represented by Rear Admiral Samuel Afolayan (rtd) gave this advice yesterday while delivering the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 2015 edition of the Nigerian Maritime Expo, NIMAREX 2015 which is tagged “Nigeria: Regenerating Economic Growth Through the Maritime Sector”, held at Eko Hotel, Lagos. Abdusalami who was the Chairman of the 2015 edition of the Expo said the sector is endowed with enormous potentials that remained untapped. He said, “The quest by NIMAREX to showcase the enormous potentials of Nigeria as a maritime nation is a welcome development and the consideration to regenerate the economy at this auspicious point in our nationhood is indeed laudable.” He also asked the President to adopt the communiqué that would be arrived at in the 2015 edition of NIMAREX to help reshape and re-jig the nation’s economy. He opined that Nigeria is a naturally endowed maritime nation whose potentials must be harnessed for the good of the citizenry. “I have taken a cursory look at the topics of the papers scheduled to be delivered at the conference session of this event and I am convinced that a lot of impact and useful suggestions under the roadmap will be made at the end of the expo.” “I will advise the new government to consider the communiqué expected to be arrived at from the conference with a view to adopting the germane issues to assist in efforts to refocus and re-jig the economy for national prosperity.” Also speaking, the Chairman, NIMAREX 2015 Planning Committee, Ayorinde Adedoyin said the exhibition was targeted at throwing up solutions that will enhance the economic fortunes of Nigeria. He said with the dwindling price of crude oil at the International market, the organisers of the 2015 edition of the expo deemed it fit to help redirect the economy. “In the light of the international economic situation which has adversely affected Nigeria’s monolithic economy primed on crude oil, organisers of NIMAREX deemed it timely and topical to address the rebuilding and re-engineering of the economy by throwing up challenges for the policy makers, private sector and all stakeholders in the generation of the Nigerian commonwealth to beam the searchlight on the maritime sector as possible purveyors of economic regeneration.” Adedoyin said the expo would procure a governance roadmap primed on the maritime sector. “It is my pleasure to invite you all to the conference sessions to make expedient contributions to the seriously challenging issues of maritime funding for vessel acquisition and tonnage building, sundry equipment procurement and auxiliaries,” he said. The Chairman of the Planning Committee also enjoined all stakeholders to join hands for the development of the industry. “There is need for all players and stakeholders in the maritime industry to join forces positively and not negatively; constructively and not destructively; patriotically, progressively and in accord; to join in the determined task of building a truly united, nationalistic and mutually beneficial industry. Shipowners move to revive NIMAREX Boss Mustapha: FG repositioning maritime sector to… Apapa Customs command commends role of women in… Lai Mohammed calls for synergy in maritime, tourism… Maritime workers to down tools over unpaid wages ‘Nigeria loses $500m annually to foreign yards’	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1160
__label__wiki	0.950631	0.950631	NISA seeks probe of banned oil tankers Even as the global oil tanker industry association has asked the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to immediately lift the ban placed on its members because no grounds have been given for the measure, the Nigerian Shipowners Association (NISA) has asked the Federal Government to probe the activities of the banned foreign vessels on Nigeria waters over the years. Speaking exclusively to SHIPS & PORTS DAILY, the acting President NISA, Aminu Umar said most of the foreign vessels were operating Illegally. “I have seen the contract for loading crude, it was included that any foreigner coming to load crude in Nigeria must come with Nigeria ship owners. NNPC had already included that in the bid but unfortunately they are not doing so. “This is an opportunity for Nigerian ship owners to be part of the market which we have been fighting for long to play an active part in. “We can also partner with international companies that owe VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers) so that we can partner with them to develop. It is an opportunity to sit with NNPC to see how we the owners of ships that will be coming to load crude will come in conjunction with Nigeria ship owners instead of using only foreign ship owners. Also, immediate past Chairman, Nigeria Maritime Expo, (NIMAREX) Planning Committee, Mrs. Margaret Onyema-Orakwusi asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to stop only at banning the vessels but also to apply sanctions. “I commend the FG for being bold to do that because every criminality must be arrested and we want the government to go a step further by applying sanctions. “It is bold step in the right direction and it also validates what most of us have been saying that out there in the sea is like no man’s land because the criminality that go on is alarming,” she said. Nigerian shipowners association to elect new executives Nigerian shipowners group sacks factional presidents Shipowners slam private security firm over safe anchorage Shipowners fault NIMASA claim of registering 4,255 vessels Stakeholders set agenda for repositioning maritime sector Nigerians import N6.3tr vehicles in five years	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1161
__label__wiki	0.715551	0.715551	Award Winners & Nominees Homes & Design Kid's Non-Fiction Sale Stock Author(s): Yotam Ottolenghi; Helen Goh The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. There's nothing like a perfectly light sponge flavoured with spices and citrus or an icing-sugar-dusted cookie to raise the spirits and create a moment of pure joy. In his stunning new baking and desserts cookbook Yotam Ottolenghi and his long-time collaborator Helen Goh bring the Ottolenghi hallmarks of fresh, evocative ingredients, exotic spices and complex flavourings - including fig, rose petal, saffron, aniseed, orange blossom, pistachio and cardamom - to indulgent cakes, biscuits, tarts, puddings, cheesecakes and ice cream.Sweetincludes over 110 innovative recipes with stunning photos by award-winning Peden + Munk - from Blackberry and Star Anise Friands, Tahini and Halva Brownies, Persian Love Cakes, Middle Eastern Millionaire?s Shortbread, and Saffron, Orange and Honey Madeleines to Flourless Chocolate Layer Cake with Coffee, Walnut and Rosewater and Cinnamon Pavlova with Praline Cream and Fresh Figs. There is something here to delight everyone - from simple mini-cakes and cookies that parents can make with their children to showstopping layer cakes and roulades that will reignite the imaginations of accomplished bakers. "`Its every bit as tantalising as you'd expect'" -- Jamie Oliver * Jamie's Magazine * "an ode to desserts" -- The Huffington Post * The Huffington Post * ""insanely beautiful..(and) accessible"" -- Publisher's Weekly * Publisher's Weekly * "'With every new Ottolenghi book comes a new ingredient that will move from specialist to mainstream.'" -- Irish Times * Irish Times * "`All your books are such things of beauty....It really is a gorgeous book.'" -- Marian Finucane Show * RTE Radio 1 * Yotam Ottolenghi (Author) Yotam Ottolenghi is a cookery writer and chef-patron of the Ottolenghi delis and NOPI restaurant. He writes a weekly column in the Guardian's Weekend magazine and has published five bestselling cookbooks: PLENTY and PLENTY MORE (his collection of vegetarian recipes); co-authored with Sami Tamimi, OTTOLENGHI: THE COOKBOOK and JERUSALEM; and NOPI: THE COOKBOOK with Ramael Scully. Yotam has made two Mediterranean Feasts series for More 4, along with a BBC4 documentary, Jerusalem on a Plate. http://www.ottolenghi.co.uk/Helen Goh (Author) Helen Goh was born in Malaysia and moved to Melbourne as a young girl with her food-obsessed Chinese family. Together with her sisters, Helen 'waited' on the table at her parent's numerous dinner parties, and spent her hours after school picking the 'tails' off beansprouts at her mother's Chinese restaurant. When at university studying psychology, she worked at a French bakery on the weekends, and eventually found herself as head pastry chef at one of Melbourne's landmark restaurants. In 2006 Helen moved to London. Two weeks after arriving, having been recommended to look at Ottolenghi as a place to work, she went to meet Yotam. The two of them have been eating, baking, discussing and dissecting the sweeter things in life ever since. Helen has her fingers in lots of pies: as well as being Ottolenghi's product developer, she is also a chartered psychologist and mother to two young boys. She lives in West London with her husband David and their children. Imprint : Ebury Publishing Author : Yotam Ottolenghi; Helen Goh MOSTLY BOOKS Shop 12 Mitcham Square \| 119 Belair Road \| Torrens Park SA 5062 email : mostlybooks@internode.on.net \| phone : 08 8373 5190	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1163
__label__wiki	0.669392	0.669392	Selling Out The Importance of Small Theater Companies POSTED BY: Jessica Koslow CATEGORY: Bright Ideas In his post The Importance of Ecosystem, Jim pointed out how the success of a theater community depends on more than just the success of the theaters in it. He wrote: “I say this all the time and every year on stage at TEDxBroadway, but every year people think it’s a new idea. It’s not a new idea, but it is a VERY important one. Theaters, restaurants, homes, academic institutions, hotels, tourist destinations, stores, public spaces, social services and everything else that people need and want exist together and affect each other. It sounds obvious, but the health of the ecosystem around a set of organizations, like theaters, has perhaps the biggest influence on success.” Zeitgeist Stage Company’s (a small theater company) production of Dan LeFranc’s “The Big Meal” opens for previews tomorrow at Boston Center for the Arts. Trip Venturella is very interested in ecosystem, specifically, making space for theater in Boston. His HowlRound article lists some ideas for helping small theater companies — which he believes are important avenues for young artists and new audiences — thrive. more space for theatre arts in a small city How can we make more space for theatre arts in a small city? – See more at: http://howlround.com/dispatches-from-the-hub-of-the-universe-making-space-for-theatre-in-boston#sthash.pJEaEnz9.dpuf How can we make more space for theatre arts in a small city? – See more at: http://howlround.com/dispatches-from-the-hub-of-the-universe-making-space-for-theatre-in-boston#sthash.pJEaEnz9.dpudid a lot of research and wrote a very extensive piece on the theater community in Boston for HowlRound. Last week, as the host, curator and co-organizer of TEDxBroadway, I talked about the Broadway Ecosystem. TEDxBroadway 2015 is fast approaching (February 23), and once again, the topic of ecosystem is likely to be on the agenda. If you don’t have tickets to the sold-out event, please follow the discussion at #TEDxBway. Because, as Jim wrote in his post TEDxBroadway Is Not a Theater Conference: “TEDxBroadway is a conference about a neighborhood, where theater happens to be quite important. This neighborhood, in turn, has a really big impact on the city it’s in, and by impacting the millions upon millions of people that visit this neighborhood, and through the intellectual property it generates, it has a big impact on the world. That’s why we talk about Broadway as a place, not “Broadway” as a symbolic term for the theater business in New York. And more than that, Broadway, the neighborhood, is an ecosystem of people and organizations, businesses, governments, residents, entrepreneurs, tourists and others.” Got a comment or question? Join the conversation on Twitter or Facebook. SIGN UP to get industry insights and info Goldstar Suppliers All Others Ready to take charge of 2021? The Sneaky Power of Pay-Per-View (And How You Can Harness It) What’s ahead for 2021? A few takeaways from a stellar evening Get online or fall behind — the experts on producing & marketing livestreamed shows Webinar: How to Stream & Ticket Your Show on Stellar Could a “Bubble” Work for Theater? What the Experts Say Subscribe to the Selling Out mailing list. Get our best articles straight in your inbox! FOLLOW SELLING OUT follow selling out: VIEW PAST ARTICLES audience - Broadway - Live entertainment - marketing - pricing - sales CONNECT YOUR GOLDSTAR SUPPLIER ACCOUNT... To get a custom dashboard with daily sales, reviews on your events, sold out dates and more! Securely log in to Goldstar: I don't have a Goldstar supplier login. Log In To Selling Out COMPLETE SIGN UP FOR SELLING OUT Sign Up For Selling Out Receive Selling Out announcements. (Frequency: couple times a month.) Receive a weekly digest of new articles published on Selling Out. © 2013 www.sellingout.com is a resource provided by Goldstar	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1171
__label__cc	0.531733	0.468267	YPG Committee 10/07/2017 in Malaysia News Minister: Leachate contamination must be addressed PETALING JAYA: The serious and recurring issue of leachate contamination needs to be addressed with an improvement in the design specifications and location of landfills in the country. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (pic) said there is a need to look for a holistic solution to ensure the safety of raw water resources. A meeting between the ministry and state executive councillors in charge of the environment will be called soon. “I will make sure that the Department of Environment (DOE) will table the paper,” he told The Star yesterday. “We will discuss what everyone can do. We are not just looking at landfills. We are also looking into oil palm plantations that are near rivers to ensure that our water sources are protected. “The industry must go on but it must be environmentally friendly.” Dr Wan Junaidi said landfills are under the jurisdiction of local councils but most do not follow the specifications set by his ministry. In China's murky waters, global sewage firms seek rewards Miri celebrates World Oceans Day by cleaning up top attraction Sign up to receive environmental news and updates! Persatuan Pengurusan Sisa Malaysia also known as The Waste Management Association of Malaysia (WMAM) is an association for waste management professionals. Founded in March 2005, WMAM represents people from many disciplines, including engineering, law, science as well as management. WMAM Level 17, Menara LGB, Jalan Wan Kadir 1, 60000 Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur secretariat@wmam.org Let Us Save Malaysia! 28/10/2020 RIVERS \| INTERCEPTOR™ 002 \| Cleaning In Malaysia 06/11/2019 Sweet Success: Molasses Used To Improve Treatment of Mature Leachate Wastewater 07/03/2019 Sweep dreams: 60-year-old street sweeper conferred N. Sembilan state award 17/01/2019 2020 © Copyright, WMAM. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1175
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__label__wiki	0.79198	0.79198	Home / Profiles / Car Profiles / Porsche 550 Spyder: Giant Killer Porsche 550 Spyder: Giant Killer December 24, 2020 by Djordje Sugaris Leave a Comment Before becoming a giant itself, Porsche had a reputation for being the giant killer. A huge portion of that fame was courtesy of the Porsche 550 Spyder, the first racing car built by a small family-owned company and a group of close associates. When it emerged from the workshops, the 550 Spyder marked a new beginning for the Porsche family, carrying the essence of their magnetism to this day as one of the most collectible automobiles on the market. Let’s rewind to the times when Porsche was a boutique manufacturer far from the automotive giant it is today. On the contrary, he was closer to being a persona non grata due to his World War 2 involvement which didn’t only produce the Beetle, but a series of military vehicles. After the end of the war, Ferdinand Porsche’s expertise was needed for developing cars for allied manufacturers. However, his work for Renault and the prospective continuation of Volkswagen’s operations in post-war France never happened due to his arrest on war collaboration charges. Ferdinand Porsche alongside a VW prototype Ferdinand was arrested alongside his son Ferry and Anton Piech, another prominent engineer of the era and Porsche’s associate. The company managed to survive based on its involvement with Piero Duso’s Cisitalia, a revolutionary Italian carmaker gathering around the most revered engineers of its time to create the most advanced road and race cars the world had ever seen. During that period, Porsche’s business operated from Gmünd in Austria where Ferry started developing the 356. 1953 Porsche 356 Pre-A 1500 Coupé by Reutter. Tim Scott © 2015 Courtesy of RM Sothebys In 1949, the Porsche family returned to Stuttgart and Ferry Porsche managed to resurrect the brand by collecting orders from prospective customers and establishing a network of Volkswagen dealers to offer the 356. Meanwhile, the ally-owned Volkswagen needed Ferdinand as a consultant in the Beetle’s development program. By sharing his expertise, Ferdinand Porsche secured royalties for his involvement, thus setting up constant income for developing the family-owned company. Ferdinand Porsche didn’t get a chance to witness the rise of his name to all-time automotive greatness after suffering a stroke in 1950 and passing on 30 January 1951. Development of the Porsche 550 Spyder By growing the business abroad and with the Beetle being a best-selling car in post-War Europe, Ferry Porsche guaranteed the growth of his road car business but was aware of the fact that the brand lacked recognition on the race tracks. In the early 1950s, racing was still an enthusiasts’ sport, still far from being a multi-billion industry. Even top tier racing consisted of a few works teams, followed by individuals wealthy enough to afford a quick car and daring enough to test its limits. 1951 Le Mans, Porsche Type 356 SL For that reason exactly, every sports car manufacturer was on the tracks and since Ferry was no stranger to racing, he naturally wanted to enter these unforgiving proving grounds. What they lacked was not experience, nor it was ingenuity, but a budget. So, to successfully enter racing, he needed a car based on preexisting 356 mechanics, yet lighter, lower and more potent. The in-house development began in 1952 with the help of Walter Glöckler, a Volkswagen dealer who already modified and raced the first variants of the 356. Porsche 356 SL at 1952 Le Mans Glöckler’s inputs guided Ferry to adopt the ladder frame construction and mid-rear engine layout, while the initial spark for the car’s looks was the Glöckler-Porsche Weidenhausen Roadster that Walter raced during 1951 and 1952. Glöckler-Porsche Weidenhausen Roadster Being their 550th project, the car was named 550 Spyder and unveiled at the 1953 Paris Auto Show. Its production spanned until 1956 with exactly ninety examples made. Additionally, 40 thoroughly improved Porsche 550A cars were built from 1956 to 1957. While the Porsche 356 featured a unibody construction, the Type 550 had to be laid out in a different manner. The sports car utilized a ladder chassis, tubular frame, and sheet steel internal structure, a typical sports car layout for decades to come. The bespoke frame enabled a light, strong and rigid foundation, ideal for a car intended to race with a small-displacement engine under the hood. 1956 Porsche 550 RS Spyder by Wendler. Remi Dargegen ©2018 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s During the production span, the tubular skeleton of the Porsche 550 Spyder received several revisions and was constructed by three separate companies. Being the coachbuilder who constructed Glöckler’s race cars, the Frankfurt-based Weidenhausen Karosserie created the first two prototype frames, while the rest was completed by Karosseriebau Weinsberg and Wendler. The majority of cars were completed by Wendler, both prototypes and customer cars. Talking about differentiating 550 RS Spyder race cars from customer cars, they made 15 racing prototypes and 75 customer cars. The former were numbered from 550-01 to 550-15, while the latter got 4-digit numbers starting from 550-0016 and ending with 550-0090. Remi Dargegen ©2018 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s The prototype shown at the 1953 Paris Auto Show was a Karosseriebau Weinsberg-built 550-05 chassis and it showcased the look intended for customer cars. Body and Interior Speaking in general, Porsche 550 Spyder was an aerodynamic compact roadster with a low-slung all-aluminum body granting it a low center of gravity. With a soaplike swooping silhouette and a miniature windshield and as such was an emblematic race car of the era. The looks of the Type 550 were laid out by Erwin Komenda, a highly regarded designer who collaborated with the Porsche family from the earliest days of the company and who penned the 356, thus creating the silhouette we associate with the company to this very day. While we tend to remember the Type 550 as a car with uniformed design, there have been numerous variations of its basic looks during the production process. Some alterations were subtle, like the position and number of the grilles, while some were more radical, especially on the racing prototypes as each of these cars was modified to meet specific requirements of the races it entered. As far as the customer cars go, the design of the Porsche 550 was much more consistent, especially given the fact that the majority of examples were produced by Wendler. The build process was typical for low volume cars of the era: each panel was hand-built by skilled aluminum craftsman using wooden bucks to maintain minimal differences between the bodies. The interior of the Porsche 550 Spyder followed a simplistic layout with barely anything besides the three-spoke steering wheel, a 3-instrument dashboard and a number of flip switches on a slightly curved aluminum panel. The only upholstered part of the interior was the seats and that Spartan featureless cockpit was more than enough for a mid-1950s racing car. As a result of bare-bones philosophy, the Porsche 550 Spyder weighed just around 1300 lb. To put it in perspective, that’s a half of what’s considered lightweight by today’s standards. The first Porsche 550 Spyder prototypes were powered by the Type 528 engine, a flat-four unit taken from the 356 1500 S road car, and a direct derivative of the VW Beetle engine. Even for a car as lightweight as the 550, 70 horsepower just wasn’t enough, so Ferry Porsche commissioned Ernst Fuhrman to construct a new one. The famed engineer thoroughly reworked the basic concept of a flat-four, creating the Type 547 engine. Fuhrmann 4-cam engine The Type 547 engine was an aircooled 1.5-liter horizontally opposed four-cylinder with dual overhead camshafts, dual ignition, roller bearing camshaft, aluminum pistons, aluminum crankcase and aluminum cylinder heads with one intake and one exhaust valve per cylinder. To keep the powerhouse lubricated even during hard cornering, Type 547 utilized dry sump lubrication. Equipped with dual Solex 40 PJJ-4 2-barrel Weber 40 DCM double-downdraft carbs, it produced around 110 horsepower at 6,200 RPM and 89 lb-ft of torque at 5,200 RPM. Tim Scott ©2015 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s The close ratio transaxle gearbox sending the power to the rear wheels was four-speed, fully synchronised, with helical gears and was coupled to the engine via Fichtel & Sachs K 12 Porsche Special clutch. Keeping the car under control during cornering, the 550 was also fitted with a ZF locking differential. Due to the car’s extremely low weight and efficient aerodynamic profile, the Type 547 engine provided a well-balanced output and was able to propel the 550 Spyder to speeds around 140 MPH on long straights. For maximized handling capabilities and mechanical grip in the bends, the suspension of the 550 featured longitudinally-mounted front suspension with outside needle bearings in the front and oscillating half axles at the back. Source: Bonhams Damping was provided via a pair of transverse four-leaf adjustable torsion bars at the front and transverse solid torsion bars with two telescopic shock absorbers at the rear. The steering system was a ZF Gemmer worm gear with divided tie rods, a standard for the day. Brakes, Wheels, and Tires Completely obsolete by today’s standard, the brakes of the 550 Spyder were ATE hydraulic all-around 280 mm drums. Still, we’re talking about the early 1950s and in a featherweight car, this system provided adequate stopping power. The slotted wheels combined a steel center and an aluminum rim, resulting in lightweight. The wheels measured 16×5 inches in the front and 16×5.25 at the back. An evolution of the 1500RS 550, the 550A was a thorough rework of the original car with a different aerodynamic profile and improved internals too. The 550A appeared in 1956 with a newly designed body, again hand-built by Wendler. As its defining visual feature, the 550A had louvered panels behind the doors, but the majority of changes were hidden beneath the aluminum alloy panels. The 550A utilized a lighter and more rigid full tube spaceframe strengthened by rear supportive cross-members, redesigned rear axles and as a result of structural changes, it now weighed a little over 1,200 lb. It also featured the Type 547/1 horizontally opposed four-cylinder with the power upped to 135 hp at 7,200 RPM and 107 lb-ft of torque coupled with a revised transaxle featuring an extra gear for smooth starting of the car. The bump in power and a diet increased the top speed of the 550A to 150 MPH. Porsche 550 Spyder in Racing Being a purpose-built race car, the Porsche 550 RS Spyder appeared in numerous events both in Europe and the Americas. It was driven by professionals and amateurs alike and it appeared at the grids of races both big and small. Ken Miles in 1958 12 Hours Sebring Being restricted with its compact engine displacement, the 550 RS was short of scoring overall wins on major racing events, yet it was a dominant force in its respective classes. In a relatively short racing career, the 550 RS was just unstoppable wherever it appeared, both in the hands of Porsche works drivers and talented privateers. Source: Porsche AG That being said, it’s important to underline the 550’s paramount victories and some influential and otherwise important examples and their pilots. The first Type 550 RS to compete was the first prototype built, the 550-01 which triumphed in its class on the rainy 1953 Nürburgring event. It was driven by Helmut Glöckler, Walter Glöckler’s cousin. What followed were three back-to-back S1.5 class victories at the 1953, 1954, and the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans, among many others. 1953 Le Mans 24 Hours, Porsche 550 Coupe The 1953 24 Hours of the Le Mans was a particularly interesting race for numerous reasons. Apart from the fact that it featured the 550-01 and the 550-02, the first two prototypes built, these cars were converted into coupés to extract a greater top speed. Moreover, two cars covered almost identical distances, so the race officials somehow ruled out the 550-02 as a victorious one. The car was driven by a duo of journalists, Richard von Frankenberg and Paul Frère. 1954 Le Mans, Porsche Team 1955 Le Mans The very same cars tested its luck at the Carrera Panamericana, courtesy of Czech-born Guatemalan automotive importer Jaroslav Juhan. His car didn’t finish the race due to a breakdown, but the 550-02 piloted by José Sala Herrarte Ariano did win in its class. The 1954 rendition of the race saw Hans Hermann take the class victory and third overall. Following the success in South America, Ferry Porsche introduced the Carrera nameplate to distinguish a special breed of race-ready cars. Low stance of the 550 Spyder helped Hans Herrmann and Herbert Linge to finish the 1954 Mille Miglia not only alive and unscratched, but also victorious in its class. 1954 Mille Miglia – Hans Herrmann and Herbert Linge in the Porsche 550. (Porsche AG) Exiting a sharp bend, the competing duo saw a train barrier lowering to let the train from Brescia to Rome pass. Reckoning it was too late to brake, Herman and Linge ducked and prayed for the best. The duo evaded both the oncoming train and the ramps, finishing the race sixth overall and first in the class. Hans Herrmann and his co-pilot Herbert Linge ducking flat under the barriers. (Porsche AG) One privateer’s 550 Spyder was of particular significance to the development of aerodynamic technology. It was a 550-0031 driven by Michael May, a Swiss amateur racer and engineering student who figured out the beneficial effects of downforce to grip and cornering. 1955 Porsche 550 RS Spyder 550-0031 May tested his adjustable wing design at the 1956 Nürburgring 1000 Kilometers and there, he outpaced Porsche’s official drivers and the great Juan Manuel Fangio. Once it became clear that he held an upper hand, Porsche race principals protested, threatening to leave the race, hence banning the car from the race. May later worked for Benz, Porsche, and ultimately Ferrari where his wing found a way onto the 312 F1 car. The 550-0031 miraculously survived and was recently restored under supervision from May himself. Just scratching the surface of the 550’s impact, there’s even more to this car’s impact on the racing world. Colin Chapman and Lotus might have been the pioneers in Formula One advertising with its Gold Leaf livery, but nearly two decades earlier, the 550A was painted with Fletcher Aviation and Telefunken inscriptions. This rudimentary livery was a part of their partnership with two companies during its transatlantic campaigns The 550A continued the success of its predecessor, winning in its class at the 1956 Nürburgring 1000 KM, followed by the in-class triumph at the 1956 24 Hours of Le Mans. Richard von Frankenberg and Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips finish 1st in class at 1956 Le Mans The very same year saw a heroic solo effort by Italian ace Umberto Maglioli who outpaced larger Ferraris and Maseratis in their home turf, winning the 1956 Targa Florio and cementing the 550’s reputation of a giant killer. Porsche 550 Spyder: Little Bastard Sadly, the greatest cultural impact of the 550 was marked by a great tragedy. Hollywood’s brightest young star James Dean was an avid racer and being able to indulge in his passion, he bought a 550 Spyder, chassis number 550-0055. Young, famous, hot-headed, and reckless, Dean was quickly involved in several small incidents, leaving scars on the brand-new car. That didn’t stop him from visiting the original Porsche outlaw Dean Jeffries who painted the number 130 on the hood and the doors, followed by ‘Little Bastard’ inscription on the rear. Source: The Outlierman On September 30 1955, Dean and his mechanic Rolf Wutherich set out to take the Little Bastard to its first race in Salinas, California. During the trip on Route 466, the speeding 550 collided with a Ford Custom driven by Donald Turnspeed. The 550 was hit from the driver’s side and James Dean succumbed to injuries. He was just twenty-four and had his 550 Spyder for a week. The Little Bastard is one of rare unaccounted examples of the 550 and is one of the greatest automotive mysteries still unsolved today. A paramount car for Porsche, the Type 550 was the forefather of all racing Porsches that followed. In the hands of true aces, the nimble roadster was known to outpace many adversaries sporting bigger and more potent engines and as such, it was a true hero of a car. Needless to say, a rare car of such a rich racing provenance and historical significance is a highly coveted collector car. Each car is accounted for and documented and when they change hands, it happens at highly publicized auctions held by the world’s most established houses. Chassis 550-0082. Remi Dargegen ©2018 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s For example, on February 6 2019, the 550-0082 sold at RM Sotheby’s Paris auction for €3,042,500. On the other hand, a survivor which never saw racing sold for $6.1 million at Bonhams’ Goodwood Revival sale in 2016. 1956 Sebring 12 Hours Grand Prix Multi-million dollar prices aside, the greatest importance of the Porsche 550 Spyder is that it created a strong foundation for the company we know today. Thanks to this nimble roadster and valiant aces who pushed its limits, Porsche ensured decades of dominance on the racing circuits and amassed a cult following. Filed Under: Car Profiles, Featured Articles, Profiles Tagged With: porsche	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1178
__label__wiki	0.820276	0.820276	Listen to Full Streams of the Newest Albums Prince Estate unearths deluxe reissue of 1999: Stream Featuring 35 previously unreleased tracks pulled from Prince's famed vault on November 29, 2019, 12:33am The Prince Estate and Warner Bros. Records have released a deluxe reissue of 1999, The Purple One’s legendary 1982 record. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify. Today’s reissue features the first-ever remastering of the original 1999. It’s also highlighted by 35 previously unreleased tracks, like the preview track “Don’t Let Him Fool Ya” from earlier in the month. These were all pulled from Prince’s famed vault, which is rumored to hold nearly a century’s worth of music. (Read: The Top 10 Definitively Prince Songs) In addition to the below digital version, the 1999 reissue comes as a treat-filled Super Deluxe Edition. This version delivers all the audio Prince officially released in and around 1982, 23 previously unissued studio tracks recorded between November 1981 and January 1983, and a complete live performance from the “1999 Tour” recorded in Detroit, Michigan on November 30th, 1982. The Super Deluxe Edition also includes Prince’s previously unseen handwritten lyrics for several songs from the era, including “Little Red Corvette”, alongside rare photography from Prince’s early ’80s photographer, Allen Beaulieu. Rolling Stone critic David Fricke, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, radio host Andrea Swensson, and Prince scholar Duane Tudahl penned new liner notes. You can buy the super deluxe edition of 1999 on CD or vinyl here. (Read: The Top 25 Tours of the 2010s) 1999 (Super Deluxe) Reissue Artwork: 1999 (Super Deluxe) Reissue Tracklist: Disc 1 – 1999 Remastered Album: 02. Little Red Corvette 03. Delirious 04. Let’s Pretend We’re Married 05. D.M.S.R. 06. Automatic 07. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) 08. Free 09. Lady Cab Driver 10. All The Critics Love U In New York 11. International Lover Disc 2 – Promo Mixes & B-Sides: 01. 1999 (7″ stereo edit) 02. 1999 (7″ mono promo-only edit) 03. Free (promo-only edit) 04. How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore (“1999″ b-side) 05. Little Red Corvette (7″ edit) 06. All The Critics Love U In New York (7” edit) 07. Lady Cab Driver (7″ edit) 08. Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix promo-only edit) 09. Little Red Corvette (Special Dance Mix) 10. Delirious (7” edit) 11. Horny Toad (“Delirious” b-side) 12. Automatic (7″ edit) 13. Automatic (video version) 14. Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ edit) 15. Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ mono promo-only edit) 16. Irresistible Bitch (“Let’s Pretend We’re Married” b-side) 17. Let’s Pretend We’re Married (video version) 18. D.M.S.R. (edit) Disc 3 – Vault, Part 1: 01. Feel U Up 02. Irresistible Bitch 03. Money Don’t Grow On Trees 04. Vagina 05. Rearrange 06. Bold Generation 07. Colleen 08. International Lover (Take 1, live in studio) 09. Turn It Up 10. You’re All I Want 11. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) (Original Version) 12. If It’ll Make U Happy 13. How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Take 2, live in studio) 1 Possessed (1982 version) 2 Delirious (full length) 3 Purple Music 4 Yah, You Know 5 Moonbeam Levels 6 No Call U 7 Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got 8 Do Yourself A Favor 9 Don’t Let Him Fool Ya 10 Teacher, Teacher 11 Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Head / Little Red Corvette (tour demo) released on the 2016 compilation, 4Ever Disc 5 – Live In Detroit – November 30, 1982 (Midnight Show) 01. Controversy 02. Let’s Work 04. Do Me, Baby 05. Head 06. Uptown 07. Interlude 08. How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? DVD: Live In Houston – December 29, 1982: 05. Interlude – piano improvisation (contains elements of “With You”) 11. Head (contains elements of “Sexuality”) Classic Rock Music News Deluxe Box Set Previously Unreleased Kacey Musgraves unveils Christmas Show soundtrack, featuring Lana Del Rey, Camila Cabello, and Zooey Deschanel: Stream Faith No More to headline Mad Cool Festival	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1184
__label__wiki	0.818241	0.818241	Strategy News Creative Report Card Marketing Evolution: C-Suite Summit Atomicon Shopper Marketing Forum AdTech Canada AToMiC Awards Shopper Innovation Awards Marketing Awards Strategy Awards Media Innovation Awards Home » Financial & Insurance, Out-of-home » National Bank wraps an eyesore in an inclusive message The financial institution turns construction on a new head office into an opportunity to remind people of its core values. By Kristyn Anthony Construction sites are not exactly pleasant to look at, particularly when they take over a plot of land for a lengthy period of time. So National Bank, in the process of building a new office, decided to spruce things up with a message that maintains some of the bank’s core values. “#CelebratingOurDiversity” is an effort with a dual focus: drawing attention to National Bank’s new head office at the corner of Robert-Bourassa and Saint-Jacques Street in Montreal, along with highlighting its commitment to a message of openness and inclusion during the city’s Pride celebrations, says Lucie Blanchet, executive VP of personal banking and marketing for the financial institution. Around the perimeter of the construction site is a 300-foot palisade, designed by agency Sid Lee, with bright block lettering displaying messages of diversity. National Bank encourages visitors to snap a photo in front of the installation to post with the campaign hashtag or “#nbcdonation.” Each post will mark a $1 donation (which National Bank will match) to longtime partner and LGBTQ non-profit Fondation Émergence. The campaign, Blanchet says, is a way for the company to “take a stand on our values and our purpose and our mission” as a bank that values its human relationship with its varied client base. Diversity and inclusion are messages that businesses have a responsibility to promote, she explains, adding “it doesn’t just belong in politics or education.” With “#CelebratingOurDiversity,” it was also the relationship the company has with its employees – some 200 of whom are involved with LGBTQ organizations – that remained at the core of the campaign. Blanchet stresses how important it was that the message resonated with the staff in an authentic way, so it would reach others similarly. “It was important for us to communicate our involvement and action so we meet client expectations.” The image of the National Bank brand has undergone a strategic change over the past year or so, Blanchet explains, as the company finds a way to communicate its focus on innovation in order to meet the needs of a younger demographic. Slated to open in 2022, the new head office is a stone’s throw from National Bank’s current headquarters. Because of its presence as a landmark building upon entering the city from the south, staying in the downtown neighbourhood was important, Blanchet says, and the move is reflective of the broader changes at National Bank. “We are really in an industry that is being transformed dramatically and we have the pressure of other industries, specifically the retail industry, to offer a banking experience that is more modern, simple, efficient and accessible without necessarily having to go to a branch,” she says. To achieve that, technology will play a bigger role, but Blanchet stresses the bank’s philosophy has not shifted; the human relationship remains the heart of the banking relationship, she says. “Our message is that we have to [pursue] technology within banking, but we are not a technology company.” Fondation Émergence, Lucie Blanchet, National Bank, Sid Lee Which brands held consumer trust during the pandemic? American Express zeroes in on storytelling Banks’ digital pivots have eroded consumer trust Interac finds meaning in taking control of your money Picton Mahoney takes a swing at mass marketing Tim Hortons roasts itself to get people to try the new Dark Roast Edelman hires new strategy lead in Canada Molson celebrates (and commiserates) with hockey fans Labatt names a familiar face as new VP of marketing Jackson-Triggs wants wine culture to be more inclusive Subaru shows the upside of being big 2020 Agency Holiday Cards: Part Three Tweets by StrategyOnline Tweets about StrategyOnline Follow @StrategyOnline About Strategy strategy™ uncovers and shares the "bold vision, brand new ideas" of Canada’s national marketing community. Copyright © 1987-2021 Brunico Communications Ltd. All Rights Reserved. We understand your decision to use an ad blocker, however Strategy journalism takes time and funding... Please, whitelist strategyonline.ca in your ad blocker and refresh your browser.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1186
__label__cc	0.512302	0.487698	10 Days Left To Register Your Sale For Coudersport Town-Wide Yard Sale Nicki reports: We are at 43 sales and counting :o) lots of good stuff for sale along with several food/bake sales. NY State Police Blotter PEMA Recognizes Glenn Dunn Dunn Recognized For Professional/Advanced Certification Potter County Emergency Management Coordinator Glenn Dunn (left) was recently recognized by the Pa. Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) for achieving both professional and advanced certification. The awards were presented by Tim Baughman, PEMA’s deputy director for operations. Dunn brought a breadth of experience to the Potter County Department of Emergency Services when he was hired by the Potter County Board of Commissioners. He was trained in basic and advanced firefighting with the Coudersport Volunteer Fire Department. To achieve professional and advanced certification, he had to successfully complete a detailed training program/curriculum administered by PEMA and demonstrate his knowledge and competence in a broad variety of emergency management responsibilities. Coudersport Dispatched For Search At 5:15 pm on Saturday, Coudersport Dept. 48 has been dispatched to Sweden Valley Manor for a search. AT 5:32--AN AMBULANCE HAS BEEN DISPATCHED TO 384 E. 2ND STREET FOR AN UNKNOWN MEDICAL IN CONNECTION WITH THE SEARCH. STATE POLICE REPORT THEY BELIEVE THE PERSON HAS BEEN FOUND. August 12 AGMC PA2E First Annual Dice Run Real Estate Auction/Complete Estate Saturday, August 18th At Limestone, NY Middlebury Center Teen Killed In Crash Teen killed in Thursday wreck By CHERYL R. CLARKE - cclarke@sungazette.com , Williamsport Sun-Gazette MIDDLEBURY CENTER - Dale Swan Jr., 17, of Middlebury Center, was killed in a two-car crash Thursday afternoon on Route 249 in Middlebury Township that also severely injured his 14-year old brother, who was a front-seat passenger in the car, according to Tioga County coroner Dr. James Wilson. State police are investigating the crash, which also injured the driver of a 1998 Ford F-150 pick-up truck, Patricia Chambers, 54, of Middlebury Center. More... Organization To Preserve Legacy Of CCC Corps Formed CCC Foundation Formed; Annual Reunion Aug. 24 An organization that preserves the legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps has been established in the region, known as the CCC Legacy Foundation/Lumber Heritage Region Chapter. Potter is one of 15 counties covered by the new chapter, recognizing the accomplishments of 86 CCC camps. More information is available by calling 814-486-0213 or sending an email to Mike Wennin at mwennin@lumberheritage.org America was in the middle of the Great Depression when the Civilian Conservation Corps was born. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the recruitment of thousands of unemployed young men. Susquehannock State Forest had 10 camps, eight of which were in Potter County. The forest had a new workforce of young men who built roads and primitive bridges, planted trees, fought fires and inventoried the forest. As work progressed and projects were completed, some camps were closed or relocated. Often, Corps members would move from camp to camp. Remnants are easy to find. The pavilion at Cherry Springs State Park was built by the CCC. In fact, much of the park was created by S-136 (Cherry Springs) and S-88 (Lyman Run), two of the camps in Potter County. By 1940, more than 160,000 young men had participated in CCC activities in Pennsylvania, 80 percent of them from urban areas. The United States’ entry into World War II spelled the end of the CCC. By that time, the Corps members had planted nearly 50 million trees in Pennsylvania and left a legacy for past, present and future generations to enjoy. This year marks the 79th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. A reunion of CCC workers is planned for Aug. 24 at the Warren County Visitor Center, with dedication of the new CCC statue planned for 10 am. Attendees will then gather for a picnic and memorial wreath dedication at Betts Park. The festivities are open to the public. Your Help Needed Please! On Saturday, October 5th during this year’s Falling Leaves Festival the Potter County Animal Response Team (Potter CART) will once again sponsor the Pet Parade. To learn more about Pennsylvania’s CARTS and keep in touch with their activities, go to www.pasart.us and the Potter CART Facebook page at www.facebook/PotterCART Last year was a great success despite the rain with pets ranging from dogs and cats to hermit crabs and a chicken. New this year will be a Dog Wash offered by Potter CART volunteers as a fundraiser. For the Pet Parade, the Potter CART is seeking donations to offer as prizes, for example… Little bags of treats for dogs, cats, bunnies, etc. Small animal related gift baskets Gift cards or gift certificates For the Dog Wash, the team can use: Lots of towels Squirt bottles or empty dish detergent bottles Leashes, leads and muzzles Carabiner clips, spring links, or 2-ended snap hooks Several hair dryers Re-sealable small bags of dog treats Several tables that can get wet Large wash basins Small tubs, totes, etc. Monetary donations are always appreciated. The Potter CART wishes to thank local groomers’: Lori White, Theresa Denhoff, & Deb Weaver for generously donating dog shampoo and a gift certificates. To donate, contact Jess Caskey, Potter CART Fundraising Lead at 814-203-7202. If you’re interested in becoming a Potter CART volunteer, contact Lucinda Greene at 814-274-8900, ext. 506 or pcdestrainer@zitomedia.net McKean County Fair Opens Today CLICK ABOVE TO SEE COMPLETE MCKEAN COUNTY FAIR INFORMATION Fresco Green Farms Inc. RECALLS Cilantro BECAUSE OF POSSIBLE HEALTH RISK Burch Equipment LLC Expands Recall to Include Additional Cantaloupe Shipping Dates and to include Honeydew Melons Kinney Farm Sweet Corn Available In Coudersport & Port Allegany At Car Wash Family FunFair TODAY AT MILLPORT FAIRGROUNDS--IT'S FREE 2012 Bradford Senior Citizens Expo a Success Rep. Martin Causer serves lunch at the annual Senior Citizens Expo at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. 2012 Bradford Senior Citizens Expo a Success! Many thanks to the senior citizens, vendors, exhibitors, sponsors and volunteers who helped to make this year’s Senior Citizens Expo a success. It’s always a pleasure to see the many familiar faces, as well as some new ones, taking advantage of the opportunity to get free health screenings and a wealth of information about available services and benefits. If you missed the Bradford Expo, or you attended and enjoyed the event, please join me at the Roulette Senior Citizens Expo on Friday, Oct. 12, at the Roulette Fire Hall. The expo runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 2 Vehicle Crash In Lawrence Township 8/10/2012 11:50 PM MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT LYMAN STONE RD ROUTE 328 LAWRENCE TWP 8/10/2012 11:04 PM MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT ROUTE 328 LAWRENCE TWP State Police have requested an ambulance & Fire Department to the scene of a vehicle accident on Rt. 328 near the Lyman Stone Road. Report 2 vehicles, roadway blocked. Fire Crews Respond To Ridgway Record Building ALARMS-UNKNOWN Address: W MAIN ST and GRANT RD City: RIDGWAY_T Cross Streets: LAUREL MILL RD * GRAND SLAM RD EMPLOYEE REPORTS ALARM GOING OFF, DOESN'T SEE OR SMELL SMOKE. Agency: ELK COMPANY 4 FD CLEARED SCENE AT 12:25 AM PennDOT Maintenance Work Schedule for Potter County, August 11, 2012 – August 17, 2012 PennDOT Maintenance Work Schedule for Potter/Cameron County, August 11, 2012 – August 17, 2012 Motorists should travel with extra caution in these and all work areas. Motorists should be aware that due to the nature of highway maintenance and emergency work, crews could be working on any highway at any time of the day or night. Potter County: Sign Crew: 04 • State Route 244 Daylight Signs & Intersections Bridge Crew: 06 • State Route 1011 (Hickox) Bridge Repair Pipe Crew: 41 ● State Route 1010 (Genesee to Mills) Pipe Replacement Tail Ditching: 34 ● State Route 1016 (North Fork Area) Ditching East Patching: 42 • State Route 44 (Cherry Springs) Patching West Patching: 44 • State Route 4023 (Eleven Mile) Patching General Maintenance: 31 ● State Route 3001 (East Fork Road) Slide Repair and Pipe Replacement Side Dozing: 33 ● State Route 3002, Monday-Wednesday, Side Dozing ● State Route 607, Thursday-Friday, Side Dozing Mowing Crew: 30 ● State Route 6 (Coudersport to Galeton) Mowing Cameron County 0240: • State Route 3001, Pipe Replacement and Ditching • State Route 555, Bridge Repair The following work is scheduled to be completed by contractor, weather permitting: • Dolomite: State Route 44 (Shinglehouse) Bridge Repair (approx end 7/26) • Dolomite: State Route 1016 (North Fork) Bridge Repair-Detour Will Begin On June 1st (approx end 10/08) • L.C.Whitford: State Route 49 (Harrison TWP) Bridge Deck Replacement, One Lane Restriction, Temporary Signals in Place • L.C.Whitford: State Route 49 (Mills Village) Bridge Replacement (June-Nov) • Dolomite: State Route 6 (Denton Hill Area) Drainage Improvements • Swank: State Route 144 (Galeton) Bridge Repair State Route 1005 (Phoenix Run) Bridge Repair • I A Construction: State Route 2002 (West Branch) Install Guide Rail, Short Delays Possible • Hawbaker: State Route 44, Repair/Paving For more information on PennDOT’s roadway construction and maintenance operations, visit the PennDOT website at www.dot.state.pa.us. PennDOT reminds motorists they can also log on to 511pa.com or call 511 from any phone to check traffic conditions before heading out. WILDLIFE CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP CELEBRATES 75 YEARS Pennsylvania has been a prime beneficiary of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act By Joe Kosack It’s hard to imagine how wild Pennsylvania – in fact, America – would be today without the annual funds provided by 1937’s Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act. “This landmark legislation, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, redirected the use of a federal excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition to help restore America’s wildlife,” explained Carl G. Roe, Pennsylvania Game Commission executive director. “Now known as the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act, it is recognized as one of the most important and lasting commitments America has made to wildlife and its conservation.” Read entire article at: Wildlife Conservation Partnership Celebrates 75 Years I-80 bridge preservation project schedule update Here are the scheduled lane closures for the week of Aug. 13 - 17 for a bridge preservation project under way at various locations along Interstate 80 in Union, Northumberland, Montour and Columbia counties. Union County, I-80 westbound over White Deer Creek, approximately one mile west of the Route 15 Interchange (Exit 210), Monday morning to Friday at noon. Columbia County, I-80 westbound over Fishing Creek, approximately one-half mile east of the Buckhorn Interchange (Exit 232), Monday morning to Friday at noon. Columbia County, I-80 eastbound over Fishing Creek, approximately one-half mile east of the Buckhorn Interchange (Exit 232), Monday morning to Friday at noon. Route 14 bridge rehabilitation starts next week A bridge on Route 14 in Columbia Township, Bradford County will get a much-needed modernization starting Aug. 14. HRI, Inc., a PennDOT contractor, will rehabilitate the abutments and replace the deck and parapets on the bridge over Wolfe Creek, just south of the intersection with Route 4031 (Coryland Road). Temporary traffic signals will be used to control traffic as work is completed on the bridge in two phases, one half at a time. In addition to the new deck, there will be new guiderail and pavement approaches. All work under this $733,000 contract is expected to be complete by Thanksgiving. Potter County 4-H Girls Qualify For States! The 2012 Central Region 4-H Production Horse Show was held Wednesday, August 1st in Williamsport, PA. Qualifying for the 2012 Pennsylvania State 4-H Horse Show held October 26th - 28th in Harrisburg, PA in Miniature Horse Yearling Gelding Class was Sabrina Williams, daughter of Tom and Patsy Williams of Genesee with her production project "Stone Ridge Dust Me With Fire". Noell Nichols, daughter of Greg and Lori Andruchowsky, and the late Ronnie Nichols of Ulysses with her production project "Stone Ridge Dust Me With Diamonds". Noell Nichols In the Halfinger Yearling Filly Class, Heather Supplee, daughter of Eugene and Sue Supplee of Coudersport, qualified with her production project, "Fiddle HCPH". Heather Supplee Multi-Family Garage Sale Saturday 8 AM to 1 PM Northern Potter School District Hosts Technology Camp Hosts Technology Camp By Tim Walck On August 9th, and 10th, the Northern Potter School District hosted a very successful technology event, open to public educators, administration, and tech coordinators representing 5 districts. The event, deemed the North Central Technology Camp, was created to help local educators, in the public schools, network with each other and become aware of new uses of technology in the classroom. Teachers and administrators from multiple districts were in attendance and were able to participate in hands-on activities led by professors, technology experts, and teachers, as well as vendors such as Cleveland Corporate, IntegraOne, and Verizon. As a photographer and educator, I was very lucky to be able to attend the conference. Every speaker was top-notch and demonstrated an in-depth knowledge of the technological tools they were presenting. The event was an overall great success and from the glowing responses from those in attendance, it is apparent that another great Technology Camp is already in the makings for next year. More photos are available here: http://www.timwalckphotography.com/Events/North-Central-Technology-Camp/24657661_jsDbGH Story Time To Start September 5th At Oswayo Valley Library RAILROAD AVENUE CULVERT WORK Revisions to the plans for the Railroad Ave. Culvert replacement have been approved and finalized. Crews from Duffy Construction will begin placing detour signs to mark the detour route the week of 08/13 and will begin construction on 08/20. When construction begins, the bridge will be closed until the project is completed. Estimated completion of the project is the beginning to middle of October depending on weather and arrival of materials. Any questions about the project or the detour may be addressed to the Roulette Township Office located at 80 Railroad Ave. or by calling 814-544-7549 during normal business hours. Jonathan Huff, CFM Secretary / Treasurer Municipal EMC Water / Wastewater Operator Roulette Township Supervisors 80 Railroad Ave. Roulette, PA 16746-0253 Wanted Person--Roger W. Cole Has Been Apprehended In Ulysses Boro ROGER W. COLE HAS BEEN APPREHENDED ON ACADEMY STREET IN ULYSSES BORO--HE HAS BEEN REMANDED TO THE POTTER COUNTY JAIL State Police report that Cole was located on Academy Street in Ulysses Borough. He was taken into custody and charged with one count of FLIGHT TO AVOID APPREHENSION, TRIAL OR PUNISHMENT (F3) AND DEFAULT IN REQUIRED APPEARANCE(F3). Cole was transported to PSP Coudersport, processed and arraigned before District Judge Delores Bristol in Galeton. Bail was set at $100,000. straight. Cole was remanded to the Potter County Jail. Galeton Rotary Club News By Henry Lush The Galeton Rotary Club met Thursday, August 9th at the Ox Yoke Inn with President Beth Hoff presiding. The club recapped the 61st annual Woodsmen's Show held last weekend at Cherry Springs State Park. It was a very successful year in many ways. The club did well although the final figures are not all tabulated and of course the surrounding area benefited economically with over 7,000 people coming to enjoy the show. The club expressed appreciation for all of the work and cooperation Park Superintendent, Chip Harrison provided to make sure everything was set up and ready for the show. President Hoff thanked the club for all the work and cooperation that the 20 member club put forth for many days of work to make the show such a success. Of course many volunteers worked very hard as well. Non Rotarians Byron Mitchell and Frank Russell were particularly mentioned for special recognition. Many suggestions for next year were outlined including the possibility of encouraging women contestants. President Hoff will be visiting other show to get some new ideas. Over the past years the Woodsman Show has allowed the Galeton Rotary Club to contribute over $300,000. to many community projects in Galeton. President Hoff also suggested that the club set up a Rotary Interact Club in the Galeton School which will help students learn about Rotary and participate in various projects throughout the year. Approved Minutes Potter County Commissioners Meeting July 26.2012 Today Is Last Day To Get Pre Sale Tickets For Thunder On The Mountain At Colesburg Agenda For Potter County Commissioners Meeting August 9,2012 The Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Potter County Human Services Area Agency on Aging is still distributing Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks for Potter County senior citizens. These checks are through the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Each senior citizen receives one set of (4) $5 checks per year. The Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program provides eligible senior citizens with checks to use at approved farmers markets to purchase qualifying fresh fruits and vegetables through November 30, 2012. The checks will be issued through September 30, 2012, at Potter County Senior Centers and the Potter County Human Services AAA. " Click for details" Roxine E. "Chickie" Galbraith, 69, of 433 West Washington St., Bradford, PA Roxine E. "Chickie" Galbraith, 69, of 433 West Washington St., passed away, Thursday, August 9th, at UPMC Hamot, with her loving and devoted husband at her side. Born October 12, 1942 in Bradford, she was a daughter of the late Russell and Florence (Cicerello) Lombardo. On August 6, 1966 in Bradford she married Robert A. Galbraith who survives. Mrs. Galbraith was a graduate of Bradford High School. She had been employed at Speers, the Glenndorn Estate, Corning Glass and for 15 years as a Certified Nursing Assistant at Bradford Regional Medical Center. She was a member of St. Bernard Church and a member of the VFW Frances Sherman Auxiliary. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother, her greatest love was spending time with her two grandsons. Surviving in addition to her husband Robert of 46 years, is a son, Shawn (Julie) Galbraith, of Bradford, a brother, Russell (Pam) Lombardo, of Santa Barbara, CA, two grandsons, Mitchel Joseph Galbraith and Matthew Michael Galbraith and four nieces and one nephew. She was preceded in death by her parents, and one sister Jill Knibloe. Family will be receiving friends on Monday, August 13, 2012 from 3-5pm & 7-9pm in Hollenbeck-Cahill Funeral Homes, Inc. East Main St. where a prayer service will be held on Tuesday, August 14th at 9:30am followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00am in St. Bernard Church, with Rev. Raymond Gramata, pastor as Celebrant. Burial will be in St. Bernard Cemetery. Memorials, if desired, may be made to the Jamie A. Pascarella Giordano Bradford Recovery Systems Fund % Bradford Hospital Foundation, 116 Interstate Parkway, Bradford, PA 16701. MVA On School Street With Entrapment MVA With Entrapment At 3:41 pm on Friday, Otto Township Fire & Ambulance and Eldred Township Fire Rescue have been dispatched to the area of 20 School Street in Rixford for an MVA with a patient entrapped in the vehicle. Dispatch reports 2 vehicles involved. ELDRED BORO AMBULANCE DISPATCHED Rollover Crash At Rt. 66 & 948 Intersection TRAFFIC ACCIDENT/HIGH MECHANISM Address: ROUTES 66 & 948 SOUTHERN INTERSECTION City: HIGHLAND Cross Streets: COON RUN RD * ROUTE 948 ONE VEHICLE, ROLLED OVER, MOM & INFANT INJURED, NO ENTRAPMENT Agency: ELK COMPANY 8 FD; RIDGWAY AMBULANCE; KANE AMBULANCE; MT. JEWETT AMBULANCE, STAT HELO ON STANDBY IF NEEDED HELO STAND DOWN, ONE PATIENT REPORTED BLS INJURY, AMBULANCE TRANSPORT Ice Cream Social Sunday At Galeton Church Byrl M. Stout, 93, former resident of Zephyrhills, Fla. Byrl M. Stout, 93, former resident of Zephyrhills, Fla., died at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Michael Laslavic of Collierville, Tenn., on Aug. 6, 2012. Byrl was born on Feb. 24, 1919, to Lyle G. and Edith Francisco Stout in Hallsport, Town of Willing. He married Elizabeth Sawyer of Port Allegany, Pa., with whom he celebrated 64 years of marriage in July. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his sons, James (Kathy) Stout of Shoreline, Wash., and Mark (Margaret) Stout of Woodbridge, Va.; his daughter, Martha (Michael) Laslavic of Collierville, Tenn.; three grandsons, Alex (Kenna) Laslavic of San Francisco, Calif., Nicholas Laslavic of Collierville, Tenn., and David Stout of Woodbridge, Va. Through Kathy, a very special little girl named Hailey Kate became a great-granddaughter who delighted Byrl. Byrl is also survived by brothers Neil, Gary (May) and Galen (Betsey); a sister, Lorna (John) Mowatt; and a sister-in-law, Dorothy Stout. He was predeceased by two brothers, Bruce and Ellis; and a sister, Evelyn Stout Fuess. He had a close and loving relationship with his many nieces and nephews. Byrl was a graduate of Alfred University, School of Ceramics, and spent his 38-year career with Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, retiring to Zephyrhills, Fla., in 1979, where they lived until 2012. Byrl was an avid outdoorsman and an enthusiastic golfer. He enjoyed family gatherings, which were frequent, and valued his many long friendships. Over the years, he was active in Rotary, Port Allegany Masonic Lodge, his church and varying civic organizations. He was vice president of manufacturing of Pittsburgh Corning and his work took the family from Port Allegany to the Pittsburgh area and Sedalia, Mo., prior to retirement. He served in the United States Army in the South Pacific during World War II. Byrl is a member of the United Methodist Church in Port Allegany, Pa., and an Affiliate Member of First United Methodist Church in Zephyrhills, Fla. The family extends its appreciation of the loving care provided by Baptist Home Care and Hospice and the spiritual support of the Rev. Lynda Ernst of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Collierville. A memorial service is planned for Aug. 17 at the First United Methodist Church in Zephyrhills, Fla., with Dr. Kenneth Minton officiating. Emporium Manhunt Updated Cameron County Chamber website reports progress in manhunt: Friday noon update from the chief: There was a report of a possible sighting of Tom Smith wanted for kidnapping, but it turned out to be unfounded. The police department continues to be proactive in the search. Radio communications indicate search dogs are being brought in to a location and a search & rescue team is en route. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2:00 pm update--Mountaineer Search & Rescue is on scene at the staging area Presentation about bath salts and other drugs The presentation is open to the public. Legal Drugs of Abuse Presentation Presented By: Dustye L Sheffer, BA, Pyramid Healthcare, Inc. When: August 22, 2012 Where: Gunzburger Building Auditorium, Coudersport, PA Drugs that are currently legal to buy, sold in Convenience Stores, Gas Stations, and online; Pennsylvania Legislation on current Drugs being sold; Detailed descriptions of the current drugs being abused; Future drug trends coming from the United Kingdom; The presentation is one-one and a half hours, which makes it easier for staff to attend, as it does not require a day out of the office; Please contact Colleen Wilber (1-800-800-2560) with questions Sharon Shares Suggestions For Teenagers Leslie L. “Les” Blauvelt BOLIVAR, NY----Leslie L. “Les” Blauvelt, 61, of Bolivar, passed away with his loving family at his side on Thursday, August 9, 2012 in Jones Memorial Hospital, Wellsville, after a long illness. Born August 10, 1950 in Elmira, NY, he was a son of Maybelle Cummings Blauvelt. On July 1, 1981 in Little Genesee, he married Susan M. Frank, who died on October 24, 2002. Mr. Blauvelt was a graduate of Bolivar High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Army, having served during the Vietnam War. He was employed as a materials and equipment operator at Pittsburgh Corning Corporation in Port Allegany, PA for 29 years until retiring on September 1, 2007. He was a former member and past commander of American Legion Post #772 in Bolivar and a member of the Wellsville American Legion Post #702. In his earlier years, he was an avid hunter and fisherman. He loved his beagle, Penny. Surviving are a son, Michael L. (Ashley) Blauvelt of Erie, PA; three daughters, Melissa S. (Vernon) Washburn of West Almond, Stacy L. Blauvelt-Stropas of Pennsylvania, and Kelly Jo Saulter of California; nine grandchildren; three brothers, William W. (Mildred) Blauvelt of Shinglehouse, Robert N. (Michelle) Blauvelt of Little Genesee, NY, and his twin, Clifton R. (Judy) Blauvelt of Nevada; two sisters, Marion R. (Richard) Ferrari of Amherst and Sue E. Stives of Bolivar; and several nieces and nephews. In addition to his mother and his wife, Mr. Blauvelt was predeceased by a brother, Wayne E. Blauvelt. At Mr. Blauvelt’s request, there will be no public visitation. Friends are invited to attend graveside committal and burial services at 11 a.m. on Monday, August 13, 2012 in the East Sharon Cemetery, Shinglehouse, PA, with Jamie Blauvelt, Mr. Blauvelt’s nephew, of Bolivar, officiating. Members of the Wellsville American Legion Post #702 and members of the Potter County Honor Guard will accord full military honors. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. A fond memory of Leslie may be expressed at www.virgillhowardfuneralhome.com. First Baptist Church Schedules VBS In Roulette Galeton Library Schedules Outdoor Life Event Galeton Library Outdoor Life Event (Friday, August 31st 4-8pm) The Galeton Library will be hosting an Outdoor Life Event with a variety of fun-filled activities for all ages! DCNR will be there and will have a ‘Learn to Kayak’ event. Kayaks and life jackets will be supplied, just bring yourself and have some fun on the lake! There will be a number of displays to look over including a tent & camping gear display (an example of the First Time Camping Promotion offered by Hills Creek), natural history displays, Ole Bull Park and Susquehanna Trails informative displays and displays about upcoming local programs. There will be a fly-tying demonstration so you can learn to tie your own flies for fly fishing! The Library will be selling hotdogs, bottled water, and home-made cookies and brownies so you can eat dinner while you’re having fun! We will also have a story hour for the younger children inside the Library. The silent auction for the outdoor life related items at the Library will also be completed at the end of this event so if you bid on any of the items (or would like to), please check out the auction table! Kittens At The Well Well, someone's done it again. Dropped kittens off at our well on Laninger Ck. Rd. So, they're looking for a good home. Both are a bit skittish but the Calico isn't as bad as the yellow tabby. I've been working with them when possible to acclimate them to humans. They were definitely from someone's home but may have not been attended to much or way too much. Both will hide for a bit until they feel comfortable. I have been able to pet both of them at certain times. Still working on that. So, if anyone's interested in adopting one or both of them, call (814) 203-5152. Kevin Bisher 10 Days Left To Register Your Sale For Coudersport... Real Estate Auction/Complete Estate Saturday, Augu... Kinney Farm Sweet Corn Available In Coudersport & ... Family FunFair TODAY AT MILLPORT FAIRGROUNDS--IT'S... PennDOT Maintenance Work Schedule for Potter Count... Story Time To Start September 5th At Oswayo Valley... Wanted Person--Roger W. Cole Has Been Apprehended ... 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__label__cc	0.610317	0.389683	Solar water heating dissemination workshop in Botswana Submitted by Ditiro Setlhaolo A dissemination workshop on solar water heaters was conducted by the Clean Energy Research Centre at the University of Botswana in conjunction with the Solar Industries Association of Botswana (SIAB) recently. The workshop, which was held in early March, attracted 33 experts and professionals drawn from government departments, tertiary institutions, parastatals and the private sector. Participants of the workshop with their certificates The opening of the event was done by the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of University of Botswana, Dr O. B. Molwane, with a note of encouragement to all participants to ensure they participated actively and pass the course examination. Director of the Clean Energy Research Centre and the project leader, Dr Setlhaolo, welcomed all participants and outlined the objectives of the SOLTRAIN project and the benefits of the training towards meeting the objectives of the project. Highlights of the opening ceremony were published on the University of Botswana website. Speaking during the closing ceremony and awarding of certificates, Botswana's Technical Coordinator of SOLTRAIN, Dr Kevin N. Nwaigwe, commended the participants for the dedication and commitment throughout the 3-day course. A total of 26 participants passed the competency exam, notable among them being Dr Mmule Magama and Ms Gagoangwe Bogopa, who both do not have technical/engineering background but are enthusiastic lovers of solar technology. In her speech, Dr Ditiro Setlhaolo commended the participants for the time invested in improving their knowledge and skills in the area of solar water heaters. She accorded special mention to participants who came all the way from other cities such as Francistown and stayed throughout the duration of the training. Dr Setlhaolo also thanked the following individuals: Dr Kevin N. Nwaigwe, Mr Okatoseng T.Masoso and Mr John Wilson for the impactful transfer of knowledge Ms Karen Gifford for efforts in mobilizing members of SIAB. Ms Tawha Peter who served as the secretariat of the course Mr Mike Lethapa who led the solar trailer demonstrations The best graduating participant, Mr Tumisang Ruda from the Department of Energy, thanked the facilitators and SOLTRAIN for the well-organized training and the depth of teaching on behalf of all participants. He undertook that the acquired knowledge be put to good use for the benefit of Batswana. Successful participants were awarded competency certificates by Prof Jacek Uziak, a senior professor from the faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET). Other activities of the course included a tour of an installed solar water heating system at Maru-a-Pula School and a practical demonstration of solar water heating principles using both a thermosyphon system and a pumped system. Report on the closing ceremony on the University of Botswana website Facebook posts of both Botswana Government as well as the University of Botswana [Global] SOLTRAIN 4 bursaries awarded	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1191
__label__wiki	0.568042	0.568042	FHTF Event Calendar Forest Monitoring Straight Creek NEW Woody Biomass Lower Snake WUI Forest Facts CO Forest Health Forest News FHTF Meetings CLICK HERE TO SEE UPCOMING MEETINGS Contribute to the FHTF Colorado State Forest Service’s entomologist explains what bugs are threatening Summit County’s forests As climate change worsens, trees may be the key to saving our future Mountain Pine Beetle in Colorado: A Story of Changing Forests Receive our Mailings! Email Address: *Required National Forest Foundation: As the nonprofit partner of the U.S. Forest Service, [the NFF works] with the agency and thousands of Americans each year to promote the health and public enjoyment of our 193-million-acre National Forest System. We believe that communities should play a leading role in determining the future of our National Forests and Grasslands, so we focus our efforts on connecting these communities, and the people who comprise them, to the tools, knowledge, and funding to become active and devoted stewards of this incredible public estate. Founded by Congress in 1991, the National Forest Foundation works to conserve, restore and enhance America’s 193-million-acre National Forest System. Through community-based strategies and public-private partnerships, the NFF enhances wildlife habitat, revitalizes wildfire-damaged landscapes, restores watersheds, and improves recreational resources for the benefit of all Americans. The NFF’s Treasured Landscapes, Unforgettable Experiences national conservation campaign is uniting public and private partners to conduct large-scale forest and watershed restoration and revitalize ecosystem resiliency in iconic National Forest System sites around the nation. To learn more, visit us at http://www.nationalforests.org/offices/co Copyright © 2012 Forest Health Task Force The Forest Health Task Force is a program of The Greenlands Reserve, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1198
__label__cc	0.55377	0.44623	Comet and Pleiades (Sheila Wiwchar) Comet and Pleiades by Sheila Wiwchar Timing is everything in this week’s winning photograph of Comet C/2016 R2 slipping by the Seven Sisters. By SkyNews Staff on Feb 16, 2018 Photo of the Week for February 16, 2018 At any given moment, there are hundreds of comets scattered across the night sky. Mostly they’re too faint and obscure to call attention to themselves. But once in a while, one of these visitors from the solar system’s frigid depths becomes a photographic target when it shares the field of view with a familiar celestial landmark. Such was the case when the 11th-magnitude Comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS ) slipped by the famed Pleiades star cluster in early February. Astrophotographer Sheila Wiwchar captured this view of the comet (at lower left) and cluster on February 1, 2018, from Kaleida, Manitoba. Conditions that evening were challenging. “The temperature was –24 (with a windchill of –34) and I had only about 30 minutes after twilight and before moonrise to try to get this conjunction,” she reports. Sheila used a Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera and William Optics Star 71 APO refractor to capture the five, 3-minute exposures at ISO 5000 combined to make this image. The ‘Bat’ came back Jeff Dutton won the RASC Robotic Telescope editing contest for October 2020, with his ghoulish edit of the Bat Nebula. NEOWISE spectroscopy by Damien Lemay Awarded the prize for ingenuity for the week of August 21, 2020, Damien Lemay won for his images of spectra of Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE). The best of the Helix Nebula Ian Barredo’s composition of the Helix Nebula has won the September 2020 edition of the RASC Robotic Telescope editing contest RASC Robotic Telescope Contest: October 2020 In celebration of Halloween, this month’s RASC RTScope editing contest target is NGC 6995 — the Bat Nebula, in the Eastern Veil Nebula.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1200
__label__wiki	0.769187	0.769187	Can the “Twindex” Predict an Election—and Prove Twitter’s Data Deluge Offers Legit Polling Potential? By Ben Johnson Aug 05, 201212:46 PM Will Romney or Obama win the “Twindex”? Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images This week Twitter launched its Twindex, a political tracker that gives a daily score to Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. With the help of more traditional polling groups from both sides of the aisle, the social media company plans on leveraging its giant geyser of data, plus algorithms that try to analyze the “sentiment” of tweets which seem to be about each candidate, to handicap Romney and Obama. Today, Obama’s score is a 51, while Romney’s is a 26 (out of a possible 100) And while a sitting president most definitely has a huge advantage, it’s maybe worth noting that POTUS has more than 18 million followers while Romney has about 759,000. Judging a candidate’s chances among voters by methods other than merely calling likely voters isn’t all that new—most good political reporters looking at national races regularly check the prediction market Intrade. But will a measurement of popularity on Twitter accurately predict the outcome in November? It’s difficult to tell. In the midterm elections of 2010, Facebook looked at a slightly less “real time” metric: likes. Of the 118 races in Congress they tracked , 77 of the winners had more “likes” than their opponents. Not a sure-thing metric by any means, but one that suggests some accuracy. Twitter’s bullish about that accuracy increasing, and the company has good reason to be politically involved. When Twitter was just getting started in 2008, its hands-down busiest day was America’s Election Day, when 1.8 million tweets were sent. Now, that number of tweets is sent every 6 minutes. You could once make a convincing argument that Twitter has thus far been a venue for a narrow audience—young people, liberal media types, etc. But that’s changing. While the announcement that Twitter recently crossed the 500 million user mark has been disputed, the company’s user numbers have still skyrocketed since the last election. Perhaps even more interestingly, recent studies about access to the Web suggest that the race-related digital divide is shrinking, and that people who engage in politics on social media are much more likely to engage the voting booth. Polling is a complex business, and even knowing what Twitter’s relatively narrow base of users are going to do on Nov. 6, it’s not going to put Nate Silver out of business any time soon. Could the Twindex call the election accurately that day? I put their chances at 50/50. A chart of daily polling from Twitter comparing Obama and Mitt Romney. (Via Topsy) A chart Comparing the Twindex to Gallup polling over two years. (Via Topsy)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1201
__label__wiki	0.548665	0.548665	Indiana adviser’s job threatened after student’s gay tolerance article angers high school officials AWoodlan Junior-Senior High School journalism teacher has requested a publichearing after school officials told her earlier this month that she may beterminated for a conflict with administrators who have accused her ofinsubordination and an inability to teach. The conflict arose whenan opinion article calling for tolerance of homosexuality was printed in TheTomahawk on Jan. 19, prompting Principal Edwin Yoder to require future priorreview of all articles. Amy Sorrell, adviser to The Tomahawkstudent newspaper and the school yearbook, is being represented by volunteerattorneys with the Ft. Wayne, Ind., law firm Eilbacher Fletcher, with a hearingbefore the school board currently scheduled for April 28. Read thefull story at: http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=1495&year= SPLCView: Sadly, Sorrell’s plight has become almost a rite of spring in recentyears as both high school and college student media advisers find themselves thescapegoat of administrators upset an adviser won’t do their dirty work ascensors. Fortunately, advisers have had some success in fighting back,particularly when they let students take the leadership role in censorshipbattles, can show an otherwise clean employment history and the evidence clearlyreveals the administration’s content-based motivation in disciplining orremoving the adviser. But the law under the Supreme Court’s 1988Hazelwood decision makes contesting these kind of efforts extremelydifficult. (That is one of the reasons high school advisers have been suchstrong proponents of student free expressionlegislation.) For a list of suggestions that will helpadvisers put themselves in the best possible legal position in such situations,check out our Adviser Checklist at: http://www.splc.org/mediaadvisertips.asp	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1209
__label__cc	0.549354	0.450646	7 January 2008 / misc / Brock Keeling Possible Golden Globe Award Cancellation = Dwindling Will to Live Due to the continuing WGA strike, the Golden Globes look like they might - might - get the ax. (For all of you book-reading intelligentsia who claim to have TV sets only so that your can watch your Netflix DVDs of The Sopranos and The Wire, you can read more about the strike here.) While not necessarily Bay Area-related, this deeply affects all of us who look at awards season at something holy and critical - an all-star Ramadan with awards, if you will. While the cancellation is still in the rumor stages, it appears that in lieu of the normal four-plus hour Golden Globe Awards marathon, we could see a scaled back version of the awards, which would consist of "the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handing out Golden Globes to the winners, who will then pick up the awards and pass through a press room for photos and interviews." That sounds like a phenomenal idea. Why did it take a strike of Hollywood writers to come up with an awards show as brilliant and concise as this? That said, we can't imagine that the Oscar's bastard child of an award show will, in fact, be canceled for something so streamlined and pleasant for the viewer. Hmm. Let's wait and see. This Simple App Keeps Prying Eyes Out Of Your Webcam These Phone Accessories Are Like An Extra Set Of Hands This Special Mug Makes Coffee On-the-Go -- And It's 30% Off SFist Finds: Vintage Muni Transfer I spent the holidays with my mother in Los Angeles, who collects rare first-edition books. While I was visiting, she opened "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" (circa 1930) and an old San Francisco MUNI Crane, Oil Spills Into Bay In a Spearsian like maneuver, looking to trump both the recent storm and the Dhaliwal brothers, oil spill made a comeback this morning. It seems that a crane fell off of a san Brock Keeling	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1211
__label__cc	0.63871	0.36129	Shannon Master Mom, Writer, TV/Event Producer and returning student of science and literature, because it's never too late to punch mid-life in the gut. Television Projects Space and Science! The Unwitting American Racist At What Age do Girls Learn to Hate Themselves? Down and Out in the Chinese Consulate How Gay Paris is with Jim Amsterdam, Netherlands on Queen's Day LinkedIn and IMDB Follow Shannon Master on WordPress.com One Open Eye: Seeing Saturn for the First Time Everywhere we look in the universe, we are seeing reflections of ourselves. With one open eye, we are looking at where we came from and why we’re here. We are looking at our past and our future. Just as humankind across all origins, tones, ideals and cultures share love, hope, despair and fear, all the universe, including humankind, shares chemicals and evolution, existence and dying. The only thing that makes us different at all is that we exist now. It is our turn to be born, to live, to die, contributing to the only planet that has any life at all, so far, in the inconceivable vastness of the expanding universe. This is our chance, before we become just memories, and then just dust. Read More One Open Eye: Seeing Saturn for the First Time	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1212
__label__wiki	0.90306	0.90306	Blessed Justo Takayama Ukon Fate of a Christian Daimyo Takayama’s Manila The Search for the Bones of Takayama Ukon Lord Takayama in World War II Plaza Dilao in History Takayama Ukon and ‘La Japona’ Beatification Journeying with Lord Takayama The Beatification of Blessed Justo Takayama Ukon Canonization Though Lady Justa Kuroda Takayama (1563-?) Outlived Lord Takayama, Little Is Known about Her July 7, 2018 July 8, 2020 ernestodepedro Granite statue of Doña Justa Takayama was installed in Toyomo-cho (Osaka Prefecture) in 2016. It is the first known representation of Doña Justa. ►Her name, for instance: Was her baptismal name “Justa” aligned after Lord “Justo” Ukon Takayama? (No, it was not.) The Kuroda’s eldest daughter was given the Christian name “Justa” when Kuroda Tae (黒田妙）was baptized at age 11 — BEFORE the Takayama couple ever even met. Hikogoro Takayama (Ukon’s boy-name) was baptized “Justo” in 1563 (the year Justa was born) – after St. Justin Martyr (A.D. 100-165). No, there was no effort to align the baptismal names of the Takayama couple. Aside from what has been written about Sra Justa Takayama (高山ジュスタ）in the Jesuit history of Philippine evangelization, Colin/Pastells, “Labor Evangelica, Ministerios Apostolicos De Los Obreros De La Compania De Jesus, Fundacion, Y Progressos De Su Provincia En Las Islas Filipinas” (Barcelona: 1900) – what else is known about the wife of a celebrated “Kirishitan samurai”? The Jesuit missionaries — who had a 50-year lead on other Catholic missionaries from the Philippines — studied Japan thoroughly as they sought methods of new evangelization. Fr. Lois Frois, SJ, was among the scholars who wrote studies on how the Japanese were different from, and similar to Europeans. Fr. Luis Frois, Jesuit Historian Alone among the contemporary Jesuit missionaries who wrote about Ukon Takayama during various stages of his life — from baptism to his death and funeral in Manila — it is only Fr. Luis Frois, SJ, who has mentioned Justa Kuroda — in Luis Frois (1532-1597), “History of Japan” (Historia do Japõo or Historia de Japam) written from 1583-1597. (The whole five volumes were published in Portuguese only in 1976-1984, and in a Japanese translation in 1977-1980). The Japanese translation is: フロイス〔著〕松田毅一, 川崎桃太訳, 日本史, 東京, 中央公論社 1977-1980, 12 vols. (Luis Frois, “History of Japan,” trans. by Matsuda Kiichi and Kawasaki Momota.) As Frois has it: Justa was the eldest daughter of the castle-lord of Yono, named Kuroda (FNU) and his wife Maria, who converted to Christianity – some two months after the Takayama family’s baptism in Sawa Castle. Justa’s mother, Maria Kuroda, was a well-placed noblewoman, being the sister of castle-lord Ikeda Katsumasa. As Ikeda was NOT considered a daimyo, his revenues must have been less than the threshold revenue of 10,000 “koku” of rice. RE-ENACTMENT: Every year, during the “Ukon Festival” presented by the “Ukon-Honoring Association” to mark Ukon’s death anniversary on February 3, the townsfolk attend celebrations in costumes of Ukon’s time.# From the sources — Ukon was 22, and Justa was 11/12 when the wedding was held in 1573-1574. Many Details Unknown Her Japanese maiden-name was Kuroda Tae (黒田妙）, but she was baptized and given the Christian name “Justa” – before she had even met Lord Justo Ukon Takayama. Ukon was then 22, the bachelor-lord of Takatsuki for one year when he got married to Justa, who was 11/12. As a rooted Catholic, there would have been a Catholic wedding at Takatsuki Castle, but there is no mention of this ceremony in which a Jesuit priest would have presided. (Of course, only a Jesuit would have presided at the wedding Mass – there were no other religious missionaries in Japan yet — but there is no account of the wedding at all.) Was it an arranged marriage between two families from adjoining domains? It does not look like it. Takatsuki, which straddled the strategic highway between Osaka and Kyoto was not adjacent to – in fact, was quite some distance away — from Yono. (Today, Yono is a 25-min taxi ride away.) A Loyal Wife Who, Though Never at His Battles, Was Always There for Ukon Doña Justa never joined her husband in his wars, but she governed his household – she was the “Lady of the castle at Takatsuki” (for 11 of the 12 years Ukon was lord there) and later, a second castle at Akashi, in Hyogo Prefecture. (When Ukon was stripped of all his possessions by Hideyoshi in 1587, Ukon had to scramble for life, with his family in tow, as he wandered for months as a masterless samurai. During these uncertain times, Justa took charge of his camp, keeping a savvy eye out on the needs of Ukon, their family and their retinue.) Fighting under the Takayama Banner Under the ‘Banner of the Cross’ With revenues of 20,000 “koku” of rice, theoretically Takatsuki could sustain a standing army of 20,000 men. As Ukon came into his own at 21, he organized an army of his own kinsmen, his retainers, and later, the males from the houses of Ikeda and Kuroda – and their retainers. Though not all of them were Christian, they fought with tunics emblazoned with a large Cross in red — draped over their armor. Takayama’s Troops on the March In June 1582, Akechi Mitsuhide betrayed Japan’s first hegemon, Oda Nobunaga at Honnoji – causing the death of Oda by “seppuku.” Hearing of Oda’s death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi raced back into the capital region and along the way he passed through the province of Settsu where both Nakagawa Kiyohide and Ukon Takayama had brought their armies and they joined the Toyotomi vanguard, eventually leading troops on the frontline during the Battle of Yamazaki. Battle of Yamazaki, 1582 In the Battle of Yamazaki (山崎の戦い), Hideyoshi sent three advance detachments (the first of them, the 700-man army of 30-year-old Lord Takayama) to spearhead the attack against “The 13-Day Shogun,” Akechi Mitsuhide. Hideyoshi himself force-marched an army of 20,000 troops that was eight miles behind the forward forces, advancing by “30 to 40 km a day.” James Murdoch writes in “A History of Japan” (1903) that Takayama led the first detachment of “less than 1,000 troops” but “they were so fired with the ardor of battle, and so confident with the help of God that on seeing the enemy, Justo did not hesitate to lead them to battle. And they so bore themselves that in a twinkling, they [accounted for/killed] more than 200 nobles of Akechi.” This led Tokugawa Ieyasu (r. 1603-1605; d. 1616), a future Takayama adversary — and the first of the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 — to remark: “In Ukon’s hands 1,000 soldiers would be worth more than 10,000 in the hands of whosoever else.” (Johannes Laures.) The debacle at the Battle of Shizugatake (1583) wiped out the male heirs of the Kuroda and Ikeda families — under the generalship of Ukon Takayama Disaster at Shizugatake After Hideyoshi’s triumph at Yamazaki, conflict broke out between the late Nobunaga’s senior retainers over the matter of succession. The tensions culminated in open warfare between factions led by Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuie (championing Oda’s interests). Hideyoshi dispatched Takayama Ukon and Nakagawa Kiyohideto northern Omi and tasked them with holding two critical forts placed to block any movement from the Shibata down from Echizen. Takayama was given Iwasakiyama and, some miles to the south, Nakagawa was installed in Shizugatake. Early the next year (1583), Katsuie dispatched an army under Sakuma Morimasa to capture these frontier forts, and in the course of the campaign Takayama was forced to abandon Iwasakiyama and take up in nearby Tagami. Giddy with his unexpected victory over Ukon, Sakuma went on to besiege Shizugatake and killed Nakagawa. But Sakuma was unable to take the castle itself and in the end, his imprudent advance cost his defeat by Hideyoshi in battle. During the Battle of Shizugatake (賤ヶ岳の戦い), Ukon led the same Takatsuki force that won at Yamazaki – but, this time, experienced bitter defeat. Ukon himself was wounded in the fighting and he lost many valued retainers, many of them his own kin. “Decimated” would be the incorrect word, as Lord Takayama, only 31, lost not only many of his own relatives, but lost the male kin of the Kuroda and Ikeda families, making the two families fade into history. Takayama’s perfornance in this battle is debated by military historians to this day. Did Takayama’s Military Setback at Shizugate Sour Hideyoshi’s Confidence in Ukon’s Generalship? If Takayama lost favor with Hideyoshi because of the horrendous casualties he suffered, there was no sign of that because, two years later, Ukon was rewarded with the larger feudal domain of Akashi (in Hyogo Prefecture) which, with an income of 60,000 “koku,” had three times more revenues than Takatsuki. He was tasked by Hidesyoshi with building a new castle in Akashi. (Only the castle ruins remain today.) As Ukon left the predominantly Christian Takatsuki for his new fief at Akashi, he brought some 800 Christian samurai with him, to form the core of his fighting force. Then he turned to the opportunity for new evangelization at hand – to the great dismay of the Buddhist bonzes – who however had access to Hideyoshi’s sympathetic mother. Ukon, a Ronin on the Run When Takayama was stripped his fief at Akashi (while he was in the middle of a military campaign in Kyushu), his family and his retainers were immediately affected. They had to vacate the premises as soon as they heard word of Ukon’s misfortune. In the Service of Lord Toshiie Maeda In the first year of his domestic exile, Takayama was sheltered by the Christian Daimyo Yukinaga Konishi, but eventually landed a position as a guest general (“Kyakusho”) in the domain of Lord Toshiie Maeda at Kaga. Here, with Justa at his side, he formed a Christian community of 600 Christian ronin in his lands in Noto Peninsula. Here, Justa ran the household of Takayama, while Ukon – outside his peace-keeping duties — devoted himself to spreading the Gospel. Hideyoshi’s spy network kept him informed of Ukon’s whereabouts. After all, though Ukon was a Christian, he never felt personally threatened by Ukon. They had moments together as tea masters – and as builders. With a wink, he allowed Lord Maeda to employ Ukon to rebuild the Kanazawa Castle (still there to this day) and command a flank of Maeda’s army. Kanazawa Castle, stronghold of the Maeda clan, was repaired and expanded by Ukon Takayama, a renowned castle-builder. The castle endures to this day. Ukon’s Last Battle As a guest general of the Maeda clan, Ukon was involved in one more battle – the Siege of Odawara (1590) — where Hideyoshi decisively crushed the forces of Hojo Ujimasa in August 1590. It is said that Lord Maeda took Ukon to the siege of Odawara in the hope that his valor would obtain the favor of Hideyoshi for him. By May 1590, Hideyoshi had started building up attack forces with the help of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Uesugi Kagekatsu (1555–1623), and Maeda Toshiie – the three Great Daimyo who would later comprise the Council of Five Elders, formed in 1595 by Hideyoshi to rule Japan in the place of his infant son, Hideyori, until he came of age. By June 1590, some 200,000 troops were arrayed against Odawara. In this last of Hideyoshi’s campaigns in Japan, Odawara Castle was finally taken because of internal treachery, resulting in the ritual suicide of the two Hojo leaders. After the Odawara campaign, Hideyoshi invited Ukon to his Nagoya headquarters for tea. Ukon Takayama having tea with Hideyoshi After that military campaign, Ukon foreswore the role of a samurai-general, shaved his head, and devoted his remaining years in evangelizing the Hokuriku region. Aside from Ukon’s family and kin, some 600 masterless Kirishitan samurai, including the former daimyo John Naito and his family, joined Takayama Ukon in Kanazawa where he served the Maeda clan for 26 years. There Ukon formed what is known today as a basic ecclesial community (BEC). Not always having the services of a Jesuit priest throughout the year. they formed a Christian movement that was ever on the look-out for a visiting Jesuit. (A Jesuit was assigned to that area when the widow Justa, returned to Kanazawa in mid-1616 to bury a fingerbone of Ukon in Japanese soil.) Takayama’s Christian community, with its own church, was the Church at the grassroots, in the neighborhood and villages. Expulsion from Japan On 1614, the Tokugawa issued a decree, expelling all Christian missionaries and all prominent Japanese Catholics – to remove the virus of Christianity, “that evil religion,” from the land. (Illustration from Luchie Tajima’s FB wall) — Ukon knew, at age 63, there would be no returning to Kanazawa. But the Jesuit Vice Provincial Jeronymo Rodriguez, SJ. reported on July 18, 1616 that Dona Justa brought back to Kanazawa a fingerbone of Ukon, for burial in his beloved Japan — while Manila now claimed the “Kirishitan Samurai” of heroic virtue who died there as a “Son of Manila.” Goodbye to Kanazawa The odyssey of Ukon started on Feb. 14, 1614 in Kanazawa and would take him and his family by foot (through snow-covered roads) to the port of Nagasaki. After waiting some weeks for a Chinese sampan (captained by a Portuguese mariner, with a Chinese and Japanese crew), Lord Takayama and 350 other Catholics, including some 100 “Katekisuta” (カテキスタ) left Nagasaki on Nov. 8, 1614 on their voyage to Manila. The normal voyage took 20 days, but with a turbulent typhoon which cut their main mast in two, it took the junk 43 days to reach Manila. Takayama and his family had a cabin, so the precious cargo of “La Japona” — the statue of “Our Lady of the Rosary” extracted from the demolished Santo Domingo Church in Nagasaki — was entrusted to Ukon’s care. The expelled Jesuit, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries were on their own, taking turns sleeping on crates – on the open deck. Mercifully, only one passenger was lost during the voyage: Fr. Antonio Critana, a Jesuit. His old age could not cope with the extreme rigor of the voyage. The first exile boat brought 350 Japanese Christian exiles to Manila on Dec. 21, 1614. It was the first wave of refugees and migrants fleeing religious persecution in Japan across 250 years. The Japanese migrants were eventually absorbed and integrated into the Filipino community — seamlessly, as Japanese Christians all bore Christian names. (Who could say that “Jacobo de la Cruz” was a Japanese Christian from Nagasaki?)# The exile voyage (and stay in Manila) of Lord Takayama, Lord Joan [John] Tokuan Naito (Hideyoshi’s ambassador to the Ming Court in China during the Korean Truce), and the first women’s congregation of religious women (“Bikuni de Miyako”) are related in six chapters of Colin/Pastells. “Labor Evangelica” (Barcelona: 1900).# Dr. Ernesto A. de Pedro Takayama Trustee Posted in Takayama Ukon, Uncategorized Previous postEvery Second, Eucharistic Masses Are Celebrated Throughout the World Next postMovement for the Canonization of Blessed Justo Takayama Prayer for Blessed Takayama’s Intercession The final condition for Ukon Takayama’s canonization is that miracles be obtained through his intercession. Let us therefore address ourselves to our saintly brother and ask Divine Providence to grant us through his intercessions what is impossible to man, be it a miraculous cure or something else which God Almighty alone is able to do. Let us have great confidence in the powerful intercession of this distinguished Servant of God, who will not fail to reward the heroic deeds in His Service by granting us our request, even if it would call for a great miracle. Favors obtained through Blessed Ukon Takayama’s intercession should be reported to the Bishop of your diocese so as to be presented to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The following prayer may properly serve the purpose and ought to be addressed to the Lord by as many as possible, whenever human means fail to help us in our needs. God, in Your Wonderful Providence, You have chosen Justus Ukon Takayama to be a singular promoter of Your Kingdom, and an undaunted witness to the Catholic Faith -- Reward, we beseech you, his zeal for Your Glory, and graciously grant us what we humbly ask through his intervention. Grant us also that following his example, we may bravely bear all trials for the sake of our holy Catholic Faith. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen. PRAYER WARRIORS OF BLESSED TAKAYAMA® The first Takayama support group was registered as the “Lord Takayama Jubilee Foundation” on Sept. 29, 1988 by Filipino and Japanese history buffs researching on the Life and Times of the celebrated Christian samurai, Dom Justo Ukon Takayama (高山右近, 1552 Osaka-1615 Manila). With the beatification on Feb. 7, 2017 of the first Manila Catholic proposed for sainthood on Oct. 5, 1630, the Blessed Justo Ukon Takayama Canonization Movement is now promoted by the SEC-registered “Prayer Warriors of Blessed Takayama” — which received Pope Francis’ Apostolic Blessing No. 460.258 on July 25, 2019. Managing Trustee P.O. Box 1677, Manila C.P.O. Justus Takayama Ukon: ‘The Christian Samurai, Tireless Promoter of the Evangelization of Japan’ January 5, 2021 Millions of Catholics Include Pope Francis in Their Daily Prayers for Family and Friends January 4, 2021 MISSIONARY DISCIPLES FOR THE NEW EVANGELIZATION January 3, 2021 December 21 is a Red-Letter Day in Philippine-Japanese History December 22, 2020 Basic Reading List on Blessed Takayama October 14, 2020 In 1937, Manila Hosted the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress – the First Held in Asia September 24, 2020 Dom Justo Ukon Takayama, Celebrated ‘Samurai of Christ,’ Died A Martyr in Manila July 19, 2020 The Imperial Regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Jesuits July 4, 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1215
__label__cc	0.681593	0.318407	Eva/Natalia #4: Don't Hate Her Because She's Beautiful Discussion in 'CSI: Miami' started by mjszud, Mar 29, 2011. Poll closed Apr 10, 2011. Don't Hate Her Because She's Beautiful I am Woman, Hear me Roar Boa Vista - A Beautiful View Foreva Boa Vista Always There For Everyone More than what you think she is It's about time, she's waited long enough Let's Go Berserk Berserk for Boa Vista Michya Lab Technician I'm posting this one first as there is a little on Natalia (& really there's no need for a spoiler box but I'll do it to be safe): Spoiler: Natalia Last we saw Natalia in the season nine finale, things were looking pretty grim, how fast do things turn around for her in season ten? E.L.R.: I'm shooting episode five now so episode one turned out [okay] for me, but I can't tell you what happens! You will have to tune in to see! How heavily will the recent events-- the kidnapping, the being trapped in the car-- weigh on Natalia in her daily life? Will she be able to do her job as usual or will we see more of a downward spiral this year? E.L.R.: I'm happy to share there is no downward spiral. Natalia rallies! What are the odds Natalia may find love this year? E.L.R.: Find love? I don't know, they don't tell me anything! Though on our show there is always a flirtation, and a flirtation would be fun! The rest of the interview can be read here: http://www.examiner.com/tv-insider-...ghs-on-all-my-children-csi-miami-crest-oral-b Spoiler: reply Hmm, though I am glad Natalia rallies and picks herself up fast but I just wish they had touched more on some aftermath. After all she has been through hell and back. I don't expect a "downward spiral" which is a little ridiculous but at least some proper closure and not her coming back and as if nothing happened. Oh well, at least this interviewer asked a very good question and its answered. Now I hope for a new storyline for Natalia!! PLEASE & thanks TPTB!!! Michya, Sep 2, 2011 fanilowchick Police Officer Link for a promo vid of the season premiere: spoiler warning!! http://www.cbs.com/shows/fall_preview_2011/video/2115184698/csi-miami-hotter-than-ever Spoiler: 10.01 Spoilers So, it looks as though Natalia being rescued will be a joint effort (H saving her, she returning the favor). Excited yet?? fanilowchick, Sep 3, 2011 fanilowchick said: ↑ Spoiler: Promo Good to see Natalia being the one who saves Horatio in return, though the whole scenario seems like a magic show. At least it was something no one guessed before but I hope people acknowledge Natalia's effort!!!!! And the confrontation between Natalia & Randy was TENSE!!! Oh gosh why do I hate Randy's sorry looks, like please he is guilty on attempt murder!!! Wow, yikes Natalia is sure mad as hell!!! I wonder why is she practicing her gun? Just hope everything plays out right. Michya said: ↑ It is pretty cool to see Natalia returning the favor -- there's definitly a joint effort here, which is good. I don't know if Nat will actually get herself out of the trunk -- maybe it's another joint effort, she working from her side & him on his. My guess is that he'll lose his strength after getting her out of the trunk; maybe she swims to the surface thinking he's right behind her, or immediatly she see's that he's sinking & brings him back up. Who knows. It should be an exciting scene though. I cannot wait for that scene with her & Randy. Holy crap is she peeved! It looks like he says something to set her off right before she slams his head down on the table (I see Horatio right there as she does this -- good boy! let her take charge!) As for her in firearms, shooting. She's obviously pretty bent after what happens, maybe she's venting a little? I got the impression it was one of those "I'm going to keep getting better, don't ever f*** with me again" type of scenes. mjszud, Sep 3, 2011 I'm glad she'll get the chance to tell Randy off, because she did go out of her way to give him second and third chances, only to be betrayed by him. If I had to guess why she's practicing at the firing range, it might be that she is feeling a little less confident after being surprised and overpowered by Randy. New interview (courtesy of aradatyahoo - thanks again, sweetheart. You're awesome) http://www.adamrodriguezconnection.com/#/eva-larue-interview/4555156012 Sheesh, one of the question was like WTF. rissarose Rookie I rolled my eyes at a couple of the questions. And now I'm side-eyeing the person who conducted the interview. rissarose, Sep 8, 2011 kala79 Lab Technician However, I am glad that interviewer asked about Valera. Strangely that noboty knows anything and she has just disappeared. I am quite surprised with Emily question only. I didn't notice any controversy, there will always be people who will like one character more than the other, but that it. kala79, Sep 8, 2011 Adamsgirl Dead on Arrival I'm glad the Emily question was asked because there was "controversy" last season. Eva as an actress got a lot of abuse because she had more screentime and Emily didn't. Quoting someone from this board "she was shoved down our throats". And that's one of the more polite quotes! Eva got abuse for no valid reason in season 9. All in all that was a great interview with questions that are never really asked such as eric/natalia and jesse/natalia Adamsgirl, Sep 8, 2011 I don't know if I should roll my eyes or laugh at the reactions over this interview. I can only shake my head at a certain fanbase..... So about Eva and the interview (a great interview I thought)......I was surprised to hear she isn't a good swimmer -- did anyone else know this? Kinda blows our 'Natalia is a waterbug' theory right out of the water. Fanilowchick, I agree, I think Natalia could easily start to feel less confident after what happens. Hopefully she'll have a good friend come in & give her some reassurance. ETA: Great post, AdamsGirl. I agree completely!! Ditto! The reason Eva was unaware of the "controversy" is because it was an issue for so few fans. She simply answered a question that was put to her about Delko and Natalia and in her answer she relayed what some fans have said to her. I, for one, would hate to see her with Delko. He doesn't come close to be good enough for Natalia! Eva stepped up and delivered last season and I'm sincerely hoping her increased presence remains for season 10. She was awesome last season and that means there is potential again for season 10 to be great! I kept thinking back to the pictures we've seen of her and her husband on the beach and playing in the water ... and where they had their wedding - and I just assumed that she was a water person and a good swimmer. That's what assuming gets ya! :lol: I agree also, AdamsGirl. A lot of undeserved abuse! Delynn, Sep 8, 2011 The reason Eva was unaware of the "controversy" is because it was an issue for so few fans. Eva heading to the Alma Awards (courtesy of evalaruecapoo) mjszud, Sep 11, 2011 More pics of Eva from the ceremony, courtesy of Mayra: http://www.latestfromcsimiami.com/2011/09/eva-la-rue-attend-alma-award-show.html Eva looks stunning in that dress. kala79, Sep 11, 2011	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1217
__label__cc	0.694576	0.305424	Accomplish Your Advertising Goals Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak Brendan McInerney Use these more focused and creative marketing tactics to ensure your brand comes out stronger after the storm. There’s no denying that the Coronavirus outbreak has impacted individuals and organizations across every sector. Since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, there has been an increased effort to prevent the spread of the virus with a slew of immediate precautions, which included cancelling large scale events like basketball games, Coachella, and even the 2020 Summer Olympics. While the promotion of social distancing and event cancellations is intended to impact the trajectory of new Coronavirus cases, its uncertainty also has businesses on edge. Companies are reacting by cutting their marketing spend. While this is a very natural reaction, now is not the time to halt all marketing and acquisition efforts. Now, more than ever, brands need to get smart about their budgets and evaluate the channels that will allow them to endure and grow during this time.It’s challenging for everyone – there’s no doubt about that – but the horizon remains wide open for marketing, it just requires a little extra focus, effort, and creativity. To help guide where you should consider shifting your budget, we’ve created a high-level assessment of the channels that will see changes, what that means for your marketing budget and business, and how you can act now to accomplish your goals and reach your bottom line. Now, more than ever, brands need to get smart about their budgets and evaluate the channels that will allow them to endure and grow during this time. Here’s What We Know for Sure: Since Coronavirus was declared a pandemic: 46% of American businesses have implemented a work-from-home policy. Facebook services are expecting new records in usage almost every single day, but there has also been a decrease in ad spend. Adweek reported significant spikes in traffic for social websites, including Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, and YouTube. Steam, a global PC gaming platform, has reached a new concurrent online user record of 20 million. Music streaming has dropped 7.6% in the week restaurants and bars across the nation closed. What does this mean for you? With more people working from home and social distancing, these numbers indicate that the digital landscape is steadily increasing. What Part of my Budget Should I Consider Reallocating? If you’re currently running any of these advertisements, you may want to consider reallocating them elsewhere: Out-of-Home and Radio Advertisements Currently, the CDC is recommending avoiding large public places and gatherings, prompting some cities to have a “shelter in place” plan. Due to this, many workplaces have moved to a virtual workforce. As both out-of-home and radio ads are well suited for commuters, it may be worthwhile to reallocate your budget for these areas elsewhere for now. Experiential marketing includes event sponsorships, trade show participation, and community events. Given the circumstances, a lot of these events have been cancelled, postponed, or turned into virtual events. We don’t recommend attending or hosting a large gathering at this time, but you can cut your losses and reallocate your budget elsewhere. Linear TV Advertisements Linear TV refers to the traditional way of watching tv where a person tunes into a specific channel to watch a scheduled broadcast. While Linear TV and advertisements took a hit when sporting events were canceled or postponed, television may actually benefit from people staying home. However, it’s likely that consumers will shift to Connected TV (CTV), also known as streaming services, such as Hulu, Roku, and Apple TV. If we were you, we’d recommend shifting your budgets to CTV or Over-the-Top (OTT) channels to cater to the significant spikes we’re seeing in this area. More on this later. What Channels Should I Reallocate my Budget to? If you’re advertising on any of the channels listed above, we recommend making the switch to the following channels. Here’s why: We believe that brands who act quickly and decisively today will come out stronger after the storm by using these tactics. Streaming Channel Advertisements Streaming services (CTV and OTT channels) have been rapidly garnering subscribers in the last few years and are projected to grow even more with people spending more time at home. Streaming services are a great place to advertise as they allow brands and advertisers to get in front of consumers with targeting capabilities that are unavailable through Linear TV buys. If you already have quality resources in this space, you should consider expanding into this channel. 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Display and Social Advertising Traffic across social channels is increasing consistently right now as more and more people stay home and connect with each other through these platforms. Currently, we’re seeing Facebook ad spend take a hit as small businesses, restaurants, travel, and retail companies have pulled their ad spend due to Coronavirus. We’re also seeing a rise in Coronavirus-related advertisements right now. A lot of consumers think it’s unsuitable for a brand to advertise adjacent to Coronavirus content, especially in the food and beverage, travel, and finance verticals. While this is not good for these industries, the lack of ads also allows social advertising to become a less-saturated market. If you’re in the health, government, or education spaces, however, your advertisements are better received among consumers when it’s aligned with COVID-19 content. 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__label__cc	0.586395	0.413605	SUPERRlife Home City 14 Famous Hanuman Temples in Bangalore That You Must Visit 14 Famous Hanuman Temples in Bangalore That You Must Visit Shreyas Considering Saturday as a very auspicious day to visit hanuman temples. The first thing that we all do is to google “Hanuman Temples near me”. Right? So here we are with the 14 famous Hanuman Temples in Bangalore that you must visit at least once. To start off here are the first few lines from Hanuman Chalisa. Jai Hanuman Gyan gun sagar\|\| Jai Kapis tihun Lok ujagar\|\| Ram doot atulit bal dhama\| Anjaani-Putra Pavan sut nama\|\| 1. Hanumanthana Gudda The other popular name for this temple is Ramanjaneya Gudda, which also means the “Hill of Lord Hanuman”. Located in the popular locality Hanumanthanagar, this is one of the oldest Hanuman temples in Bangalore. It is also said that the area got its name through his temple. Further, the temple hosts a huge statue of Hanuman and Rama hugging each other which is 9 meters long. Also, here is an interesting fact, this temple was built by “Kengal Hanumanthaiah”. Location – Hanumantha Nagar, Banashankari Stage I, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560019 2. Sri Karanji Anjaneya Swami Temple The Hanuman statue here is around 18 feet and also one of the tallest in Bengaluru. This temple has a historical significance which is directly related to Ramayana. You can see a “Choodamani” in the hands of Hanuman which depicts a scene from India’s greatest Sanskrit epic. Furthermore, the temple today stands on the Karanji lake that existed back then, and henceforth the name Karanji Anajaneyaswamy temple. Source: Kannada Prabha Location – E Anjaneya Temple St, Gandhi Bazaar, Basavanagudi, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560004 One of the Famous Hanuman Temples in Bangalore 3. Gali Anjaneya Swamy Temple A popular temple located on Mysuru Road. This Hanuman temple was built roughly around 600 years ago by a famous saint, a guru of Kanaka Dasa, Sri Vyasa Raya. The temple here has a tall tower and the god is facing the west. Also, a popular tourist attraction of the city and a must-visit Hanuman temple in Bangalore. Here’s an interesting fact that needs to be mentioned, you can see a bell tied to the tail of the lord indicating the style of Sri Vyasa Raya. Source: Tripadvisor Location – A Cross, V.B. Badavane, Mysore Rd, Byatarayanapura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560026 4. Sri Anjaneya Swamy Temple This temple is located in the north of Bangalore and is 150 years old. Also, the temple is constructed in a typical Dravidian style. The diety is 4 feet tall and was installed by Guru Sri Vyasa Raya. Henceforth, this temple is one of the oldest Hanuman temples in Bangalore. Location – Dodda Banaswadi Road, Banaswadi, Bangalore – 560043, Behind BBMP Office 5. Prasanna Veeranjaneya Temple The spectacular statue of lord hanuman is 22 feet in height and 16 feet in width. The key attraction of this temple is “Benne Alakara” which takes place in August of every year. In fact, the idol is decorated with butter as seen in the image below. Location – 4th Main Road, Mahalakshmipuram Layout, Mahalakshmi Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560086 6. Sri Karya Siddhi Anjaneya Swamy Temple This temple is located in the popular locality of Bangalore. The devotees believe that the lord Hanuma here fulfills the wishes. Henceforth, the name Karya Siddhi Anjaneya which also means Karya – work and Siddhi is to be fulfilled, with this mind, the devotees of this temple have experienced miracles in their life. Location – 3rd C main Rd, 1st phase Girinagar, Kadavanthra, Banashankari, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560085. 7. Ragigudda Anjaneya Temple To begin with, this temple is dedicated to Lord Hanuman and is on the top of a hill rock. It is believed that the idol was formed from a heap of ragi millet. Henceforth, the temple’s name is “Ragigudda”. Along with Anjaneya, the temple hosts a Shivalinga along with Rama, Sita, Lakshmana. Location – KSRTC Layout, 9th Block, Jayanagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560069. 8. Horamavu Agra Hanuman Temple The 102 feet Gigantic statue of Lord Hanuman is standing on a lotus pedestal. The tallest among all the Hanuman temples in Bangalore. Also, you can add this place to your things to do in Bangalore list. Location – Banjara Residency, Lakeview Residency, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560043. Next on the list of 14 Famous Hanuman Temples in Bangalore 9. Sri Sundara Anjaneya Temple A 12 feet idol of Lord Hanuman. As the name of the temple says; Sundara Anjaneya which means Anjaneya in all his Alankaar looks incredible. Source: Pilgrimaide Location – NRI Layout, Kalkere, Horamavu Post, Ramamurthy Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560043. 10. Yelahanka Gate Anjaneya Temple Kempegowda – the founder of Bangalore built this temple back then. Located in the busiest streets of namma city. The idol is facing the northeast in the ardha shila form. The vigraha of Lord Hanuman is about three feet in height. Location – Avenue Road near Mysore Bank Circle. 11. Harake Hanuman Temple A rare Hanuman Temple from the rest of Hanuman Temples in Bangalore. As the name suggests, Harake (A unique prayer to the Almighty God) is the most attractive thing in the Temple here. Source: Whatshot Location – NO.10/27, I.T.I Layout, Temple St, Kathreguppe, Banashankari 3rd Stage, Banashankari, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560085. Furthermore, up next on the list 12. Shree Panchamuki Anjaneya Temple The most attractive spot in the sanctuary premises is the 17-19 feet tall Anjaneya statue. It is an artful gem for sure. Panchamukhi Anjaneya here has five heads; Varaha, Garuda, Narasimha, and Hayagreeva. Source: Metrosaga Location – 6, 8th Main Rd, Nanjamba Agrahara, Chamrajpet, Bengaluru. 13. Arishinkunte Anjaneya Temple The other name for this temple is Shree Maruti Sai Dham. The idol of Lord Hanuman is 36 feet tall and it weighs 100 tons made out of single granite stone. Further, the temple hosts the idols of Shirdi Sai Baba and Santoshi Maa. The temple is constructed in a very unique design architecture that attracts more people throughout the year. Location – Adakamarnhalli corner, Service Road Tumkur Road, NH4, Bengaluru, Karnataka 562123. 14. Sri Anjaneya Temple, Domlur The oldest temple in the area. The temple sanctum has a good vibe. Location – Domlur Village 14th cross, Behind BDA Complex, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560071 To wind it up, this was our compilation of 14 Hanuman temples in Bangalore. If we have missed any of them feel free to comment down below!! 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__label__cc	0.683609	0.316391	About SWAB Committee members 2020 Swab Awards Acquisitions program Swab Friends Apply 2021 Virtual booths Collector / VIP submission Collector / VIP Login Virtual Edition 2020 Swab 2020 Catalogue Swab Thinks 2019 Swab Thinks 2019, aims to act as a space for training and dialogue around the course that art, collecting and exhibition platforms are taking. This year, the program focuses on discussions about women’s positions in the art world and the impact of sustainability and technology on artistic practices and current curating. Thinks is a program that cares about rethinking and debating the issues that challenge us and that lead the new artistic and exhibition approaches. Women, Art, Education A conversation about the current panorama of women in the world of art: in institutions, museums, collections, galleries and art schools. The perception of others towards women and the role of education so that changes in policies and measures are carried out in favor of the different needs of women. Which are the challenges that the transformations in power relations, equality, capacity and work of women in the art world imply? Participants:Linn Born, Caterina Almirall and Maria Conejo (artist from Mexico en Femenino) Moderator: Naghieli Amarista Date: Friday September 27, 6pm. Art Singular, Art and Health. On March 21, the first edition of Art Singular was held in Catalonia. It is an initiative of the Josep Santacreu Foundation that aims to make visible the artistic talent of people with intellectual or mental disabilities and dignify their works by introducing them into the professional circuit. In this talk, members of the Josep Santa Creu Foundation will talk with Alicia Ventura, curator of the DKV collection and the Cuidart program, about the importance of the project, the relationship between art and health and the different challenges that a project like this presents in the scope of payments for the purchase of the works and their interference with financial assistance from institutions to patients. Participants: Alicia Ventura and Carles Guerra. Moderator: Eva Calatayud Date: Saturday September 28, 1pm. BIENALSUR: Gender Issues In the Foreground Is it possible that a platform for transnational contemporary art includes an agenda of strong gender imprint overcoming cultural barriers? BIENALSUR, the Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America believes so and demonstrates this in its second edition. Participants: Marlise Ilhesca. Date: Saturday, 28 September, 4pm. ARTSY, Navigating the Digital Realm: Changes and Challenges Encountered by Online Gallery Owners, Collectors and Curators. The figure of the digital curator and his role today. New approaches and opportunities in the digital world for curators, artists and art consumers. How can a good communication be reached without having a physical presence? A conversation about how the new art market is consolidating and the changes that are still to come. Participants: Ariana Díaz, Víctor Lope and Louis Tiar Moderates: Ángela Roldán of ARTSY An Exhibition as an Artwork Itself, Towards New Ways of Curating What is an exhibition? What criteria form a good exhibition? Are there really spatial limits in curatorial practices? This talk rethinks the figure of the curator taking his work to a new dimension. Rethinking the museum space represents not only a transgressive curatorial action but also a possibility of shaking the proven models in the art world.To also think about the importance of the artistic residences, the different cooperations and awards that Espronceda makes possible as well as future residences in VR and how they collaborate with the curators is to open towards the curatorial gesture, an exhibition, an art center, as a provocative agent. Participants: ESPRONCEDA Center for Art & Culture Date: Sunday, 29 September, 1pm. Sustainable Cultural Production Informative talk about new design materials, emphasizing experimentation with different media and sustainable creation and production. A discussion about the importance of initiatives such as these for the construction of a better future, a sustainable future. Participants: ECOPIXEL and CARTON LAB Dates: Sunday, 29 September, 6pm.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1224
__label__wiki	0.757989	0.757989	Veterans file class-action lawsuit against V.A. A federal appeals court has been asked to allow a class-action lawsuit against the Veterans Affairs Department by veterans who say they became ill from radiation exposure after responding to a 1966 accident involving U.S. hydrogen bombs in Spain. Yale Law School students in Connecticut filed the request Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims on behalf of veterans who sought disability benefits from the VA but were denied. The students represent Air Force veteran Victor Skaar, of Nixa, Missouri, and want to expand the lawsuit to include other veterans. Sponsored: Say these 3 words today and reverse aging VA officials did not immediately return messages Monday. Radioactive plutonium was released near Palomares, Spain, in January 1966, after a U.S. B-52 bomber and refueling plane crashed. Four hydrogen bombs crashed, but there were no nuclear explosions. The Associated Press contributed to this article. <!– WpssoRrssbSharing::get_buttons	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1227
__label__cc	0.744153	0.255847	Study: In-Store Retail Still Dominates, But Retailers Must Evolve With Customer Expectations TimeTrade Retail Survey Reveals Need to Focus on In-Store Service, Cross-Channel Consistency Boston, MA – January 13, 2016 – In-store shopping will continue to drive revenue in 2016, but consumers will increasingly gravitate to retailers that deliver personalized service, according to new research from TimeTrade, the leading provider of online appointment scheduling. The growing disconnect between increasing customer expectations and current service offerings presents an opportunity for retailers who can tailor in-store shopping and provide a “concierge” experience. To better understand customers’ current mindset, TimeTrade surveyed more than 5,000 consumers about shopping habits and perceptions and 100 senior retail executives about their plans with customer experience. Results showed that while the majority of consumers still favor in-store shopping, service expectations are quickly rising. The surveys also revealed a key disconnect for the coming year between customer perceptions and expectations and retailers’ focus. TimeTrade also surveyed consumers about sub-verticals in retail which include apparel, automoative, cosmetics, home furnishings, home improvement, jewelry, outdoor gear and wireless. The full State of Retail Report 2016 can be accessed here. According to the survey, store traffic will be strong in 2016, with 72% of respondents planning to shop in-store as much as last year and 18% expecting to shop in-store even more than last year. However, the emergence of the on-demand economy – in which innovative brands like Uber instantly deliver personalized (and well-priced) goods and services – gives in-store shoppers more leverage and heightens their expectations. Key findings of the report include: 52% of Uber users say they like it for its convenience; 49% choose it for cost Only 27% of consumers feel that big-name brands try to provide VIP-like service When shopping in-store, consumers most highly value “prompt service” (54%), “personalized experience” (30%) and “smart recommendations” (30%) Inability to find an available store associate is a top challenge for 73% of home furnishing shoppers and 75% of outdoor gear shoppers Lack of prompt assistance will drive the majority of consumers (85%) to leave a dressing room – and the store – and abandon their intended purchases Only 27% of consumers feel retailers provide a consistent customer experience across channels. In contrast, 51% of retailers believe they succeed in this area 51% of consumers said call centers provide the poorest customer experience, but only 5% of retailers named it a top priority for improvement in 2016 59% of respondents would like it if store associates knew the items in their online shopping carts, but only 24% of retailers currently have that ability; only 12% are looking to implement it within the next 18 months 59% of consumers would schedule an appointment with an associate if possible; for jewelry shoppers, that number rises to 83% TimeTrade’s survey suggests that retailers are missing out on opportunities to deliver an elevated in-store experience that fits the lifestyle of today’s consumers. Retailers must focus on ensuring seamless connections between digital and traditional channels and on delivering prompt, personalized in-store service to meet rising expectations. “Consumers’ increasing demand for concierge-like services is forcing retailers to improve the connection between digital and physical and put a greater focus on enhancing the in-store experience,” said Gary Ambrosino, CEO of TimeTrade. “Stores will remain the top shopping channel in 2016, but omnichannel retail will play a key role in driving the changing shopping experience. Retailers must evolve their approach to meet the rising expectations of today’s digitally savvy and increasingly informed consumer.” TimeTrade will be at NRF’s Big Show in New York, January 17-20. Stop by booth 2235 to learn more about the State of Retail 2016. For the latest figures and stats, follow TimeTrade on Twitter at @timetrade and like us on Facebook. About TimeTrade TimeTrade provides an appointment scheduling SaaS solution to consumer retail, retail banking, health and wellness and higher education customers. PurchasePath, ™ TimeTrade’s appointment-centric customer experience solution, enables customers to convert digital first touch interactions into a high-value, in-person meeting. PurchasePath™ has driven more than 326 million connections between consumers and businesses, directly translating into more than $3 billion in commerce every year. SOURCE: TimeTrade	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1229
__label__cc	0.711605	0.288395	Home » Blog » How “New Game Plus” Works In Final Fantasy VII Remake How “New Game Plus” Works In Final Fantasy VII Remake Fans have had many questions about Final Fantasy VII Remake during its years of development, and when the game releases later this week, they will finally have all the answers. In the meantime, two of the biggest things people are wondering about involve what happens after the credits roll: Does Final Fantasy VII Remake have a new game plus, and does it have any post-game content to pursue? The game addresses both of those concerns with a single clever stroke – but in short, the answer on both fronts is “yes.” Warning: Even though it doesn’t spoil any plot points, this article does discuss the flow of the game after completing the main story. You won’t see a new game plus option on the title screen, but the concept remains intact. After you finish the game, you unlock a feature that lets you jump to the beginning of any chapter while keeping all of your end-game progress (including levels, inventory, materia, and money). So, if you want new game plus, just select Chapter 1 (that’s how I got the image above, with Cloud using a mid-game weapon in the first area). You’ll start at the beginning with your powerful characters and gear, and since the chapters continue flowing seamlessly into each other, you won’t have to manually select the next one to keep playing. You can also just jump around back and forth between all of the chapters, which is useful if you’re hunting trophies. Some of those tasks – like completing all of the pull-up challenges, or getting the top score in darts – are only available during a small slice of the story. This approach is a little clunky, since it might involve replaying a decent chunk of a chapter that you don’t need just to reach the part you want. But once you complete your target minigame or grab your collectibles, you can jump back out. However, the post-game pursuits don’t end there. Sure, it’s fun to play the game again with stronger characters and steamroll everything. But unlocking chapter select also opens up other options that are even more rewarding. After you finish the main story, you gain a permanent boost to your experience and AP (which is what strengthens your materia). That makes it easier to hit level cap and get the useful higher-tier abilities on your materia. Why would you need that, though? Because with chapter select also comes a new, harder difficulty. You can choose hard mode only when starting a chapter; you can’t swap to/from it on the fly, like you can with the classic, easy, and normal settings. Hard mode provides a fun challenge that adds new layers of strategy to fights you thought you’d mastered, partially because the enemies are more powerful and have different attack patterns, but also because you aren’t allowed to use items. You can use them in battle, you can’t use them to recover between battles, and you can only restore HP (not MP) at rest points. This turns your magic into an extremely valuable resource that you need to manage carefully, and prevents you from just blasting your most powerful spells at everything constantly. Lastly, a combat simulator in one of the later chapters has special battles that are only available in hard mode. These fights put your skills to the test; I tried tackling them as soon as they were available, and was quickly defeated. I’d recommend spending some time getting familiar with the game’s expectations in hard mode before taking these on. Since finishing Final Fantasy VII Remake, I’ve been enjoying my dive into its post-story offerings. When you have a game this good, you don’t want the experience to end, and Final Fantasy VII Remake gives you plenty of reasons to stick around. For more on Final Fantasy VII Remake, read the review and watch us play it on New Gameplay Today. Analytics Pros Called to Duty in COVID-19 Crisis Data Management Heads into Major Transition Children Kids Digital Video Camera Camcorder,Portable Exquisite 2” TFT LCD,1080720,4k HD 16X Digital Zoom Photography… SunFounder Raspberry Pi Display 13.3 Inch IPS Portable 2 HDMI Monitor 1920×1080 Gaming Monitor for Ps4 Raspberry Pi WiiU… Tkexun M2 Men Flip Touch Big Screen 3.0″ Dual Sim Card Metal Body Mobile Cell Phone (Black) Logitech 910002332 M325 Wireless Mouse, Right/Left, Silver DRZERUI Console Vertical Stand Compatible with Xbox One S	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1230
__label__cc	0.662078	0.337922	Home » Blog » We Will Need All the Automation We Can Get We Will Need All the Automation We Can Get Enterprise automation is not a cause for alarm but a societal imperative. Here’s why. It’s a prediction that has been made for decades, even centuries. Technology-driven automation is about to trigger mass unemployment. In today’s rendition this means that there will soon be no need for truck drivers, fast food workers, retail store staff, middle managers, and machine operators — even doctors, lawyers, bankers and accountants are at imminent risk. What will we all do? Fortunately, there is little evidence of this actually occurring. In fact, it’s just the opposite. Even before the coronavirus shut down much of the business landscape, aging and cash-strapped modern nations are struggling to find people to pick their crops, work in their hotels and restaurants, take care of their children and their elderly, staff their health service providers, and maintain the physical and technical expertise that every advanced society needs. As immigration levels shrink in many developed nations, these shortages are likely to worsen. Image: panuwat – stockadobe.com Once the pandemic is behind us, even greater employment demands lie ahead. Modern nations know that they need to fundamentally transform their energy, transportation, agricultural, educational, environmental, and supply chain systems. Coping with climate change alone will likely require massive investments in infrastructure and resiliency. Society must also address seemingly intractable challenges such as raising living standards, reducing inequality, controlling health care costs, improving social services, and rebuilding troubled cities and war-torn nations. And this doesn’t even count the new industries and jobs that future technologies will surely enable. Do we really think that robots and AI can do all this on their own? How? Despite the awful track record, predictions of a jobless future are understandable. The farmers of the last century could not be expected to envision a manufacturing economy full of cars, planes, televisions, and air conditioners, just as the industrial workers of the 1920s had no way to know that someday there would be a vast service economy full of shopping malls, health clubs, and organic juice bars, let alone this thing called the internet and millions of “IT professionals.” It’s clearly much easier to point to specific job losses than it is to trust in long-term employment expansion. But while the transitions of the past were often painful, the societal increases in jobs, productivity, and living standards are undeniable. Indeed, many of today’s automation pessimists acknowledge the previous false alarms but insist that this time it will be different. The essence of their argument is that just as industrial machines replaced many forms of physical labor, artificial intelligence will automate most knowledge tasks, and therefore not enough uniquely human work will remain. It’s not an illogical hypothesis. Cobotics? Technology proponents often counter this argument by pointing out that AI is only effective in relatively narrow realms, and that more generalized machine intelligence will remain elusive for the foreseeable future. They also point out that in virtually every AI field — from playing chess to automating warehouses to performing surgery to flying an airplane — the combination of humans and machines (cobotics) outperforms machines alone. However, while all of these points are correct, trying to minimize the future impact of AI will eventually put this argument on the wrong side of history. I believe that fears of a jobless future should be challenged on more fundamental and longer lasting grounds. The bigger and more complex economies become, the more future needs they automatically generate. New industries, systems and services are built upon older ones, and because of competition and changing customer and cultural preferences everything needs to be improved, maintained and eventually replaced. Consider how the many downsides of today’s industrial food production system will be addressed through some combination of precision agriculture, vertical and saline farming, meatless and lab-grown “meat,” dietary supplements, and other nourishment innovations. Such relentless and ever-changing dynamics are the main reason why fears of massive unemployment have always been wrong in the past and seem destined to be wrong once again. Perhaps someday super-smart robots will be able to do literally everything people can, while also meeting every conceivable human need, but such speculation remains deep in the realms of science fiction. For the foreseeable future, if society is to meet the pressing 21st century challenges above, massive numbers of people will need to be re-skilled, re-deployed and fully engaged. Large-scale increases in technology-enabled automation is the only proven way to enable this transition. This is why technology will not cause us to “run out of work.” Quite the contrary: modern societies will need all the automation they can get. I wish we had more right now. Access the complete report on this topic here. David Moschella is a Research Fellow at Leading Edge Forum (LEF) where he explores the global business impact of digital technologies, with a particular focus on disruptive business models, industry restructuring and machine intelligence. Before LEF, for more than a decade, Moschella oversaw worldwide research for IDC, the largest market analysis firm in the information technology industry, responsible for the companys global technology industry forecasts and insights. 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__label__wiki	0.8962	0.8962	No checkout needed: Amazon opens cashier-less grocery store by Joseph Pisani In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, a worker pushes a cart inside an Amazon Go Grocery store set to open soon in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Following the opening of several smaller convenience-type stores using an app and cashier-less technology to tally shoppers' selections, the store will be the first Amazon Go full-sized cashier-less grocery store. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Amazon wants to kill the supermarket checkout line. The online retailing giant is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, where shoppers can grab milk or eggs and walk out without waiting in line or ever opening their wallets. It's the latest sign that Amazon is serious about shaking up the $800 billion grocery industry. At the new store, which opened Tuesday in Amazon's hometown of Seattle, shoppers scan a smartphone app to enter the store. Cameras and sensors track what's taken off shelves. Items are charged to an Amazon account after leaving. "I love the convenience of literally grabbing and going" said Art Kuniyuki, a payroll and benefits manager from Seattle, who spent $15 on Barilla pasta, Dove chocolate and other groceries shortly after the store opened. Called Amazon Go Grocery, the new store is an expansion of its 2-year-old chain of 25 Amazon Go convenience stores. It's 10,400 square feet—more than five times the size of the convenience stores—and stocks much more beyond the sodas and sandwiches found at Amazon Go. Cameron Janes, who helps oversee Amazon's physical stores, said the technology had to be tweaked to account for how people squeeze tomatoes to test for ripeness or rummage through avocados to find just the right one. Nothing at the store is weighed. One blood orange goes for 53 cents; a banana is 19 cents. In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, a sign tells shoppers how to check in when they enter an Amazon Go Grocery store set to open soon in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Following the opening of several smaller convenience-type stores using an app and cashier-less technology to tally shoppers' selections, the store will be the first Amazon Go full-sized cashier-less grocery store. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Amazon is not new to groceries. It made a splash in 2017 when it bought Whole Foods and its 500 stores. It's also been expanding its online grocery delivery service. But it's still far behind rival Walmart, the nation's largest grocer, which has more than 4,700 stores. Walmart's online grocery service has also been popular with customers, who buy online and then drive to a store to pick up their order. Amazon also plans to open another type of grocery store in Los Angeles sometime this year, but the company said it won't use the cashier-less technology at that location and has kept other details under wraps. The company declined to say if it plans to open more Amazon Go Grocery stores, and said there are no plans to bring the technology to Whole Foods stores. Much of the fruits and vegetables come from the same suppliers at Whole Foods, Janes said. And it has products from the Whole Foods store brand 365, such as organic oatmeal and bagged baby carrots. But it also sells Oreos, Cheez-Its and other stuff banned from the natural grocer. In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, a worker checks items on a shelf in the produce section of an Amazon Go Grocery store set to open soon in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Following the opening of several smaller convenience-type stores using an app and cashier-less technology to tally shoppers' selections, the store will be the first Amazon Go full-sized cashier-less grocery store. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Families can shop together with just one phone scanning everyone in. Anything they grab and leave the store with will be added to the tab of the person who signed them in. But shoppers shouldn't help out a stranger reaching for the top shelf: Amazon warns that grabbing an item for someone else means you'll be charged for it if they walk out with it. Hoping to catch up to Amazon, other retailers and startups are racing to bring similar cashier-less technology to stores. Earlier this month, 7-Eleven said it is testing a cashier-less store for employees inside its offices in Irving, Texas. But cashier-less stores have come under scrutiny from lawmakers and advocates who say they discriminate against low-income people who may not have a credit card or bank account. Amazon has since let customers pay with cash at its convenience stores, and the company said shoppers can do the same at the grocery store by alerting a worker to let them in through the turnstile. The stores also eliminates the job of cashiers. Janes declined to say exactly how many people the store employs, only saying it is "several dozen." Workers greet customers and walk around aisles restocking shelves. One employee stands by the alcohol section to check IDs of shoppers who want wine or beer. While cashier-less stores remove the annoyance of waiting in line to pay, it also kills some joys of the supermarket. There's no one to bag groceries. Instead, Amazon gives out reusable bags so shoppers can fill them as they shop. And there's no deli counter, butcher or fishmonger. Instead, sliced ham, steaks and salmon fillets are already packaged and found in refrigerated shelves. "Just walk out technology is kind of cool, in theory," said David Bishop, a partner at retail consultancy Brick Meets Click, but he said shoppers decide where to shop based on other factors besides how quickly they can get in and out of the store. In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, reusable shopping bags are displayed inside an Amazon Go Grocery store set to open soon in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Following the opening of several smaller convenience-type stores using an app and cashier-less technology to tally shoppers' selections, the store will be the first Amazon Go full-sized cashier-less grocery store. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, an Amazon employee demonstrates how to scan a code from a phone to be allowed to enter an Amazon Go Grocery store set to open soon in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Following the opening of several smaller convenience-type stores using an app and cashier-less technology to tally shoppers' selections, the store will be the first Amazon Go full-sized cashier-less grocery store. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Bishop said those who want thinly sliced ham may skip Amazon Go Grocery and walk two blocks away to the Kroger-owned QFC supermarket, which is about five times the size. Still, Bishop said, it's hard for the grocery industry to ignore Amazon, which has the cash and technology to experiment with groceries. "They're not giving up," he said of Amazon. Amazon to debut cashier-less store in downtown Seattle © 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Citation: No checkout needed: Amazon opens cashier-less grocery store (2020, February 25) retrieved 19 January 2021 from https://techxplore.com/news/2020-02-checkout-amazon-cashier-less-grocery.html Amazon drops monthly fee to boost grocery delivery sales Amazon to open first Go store that accepts cash Amazon is planning to open up to 3,000 cashier-free stores by 2021, report says Amazon considering opening 3,000 cashierless stores: Bloomberg Amazon Go opens second cashier-less convenience store	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1233
__label__cc	0.74767	0.25233	Solar Business Franchise Cost And Opportunities SOLAR BUSINESS Franchising Information & Startup Cost Starting a solar franchise business requires you to learning more about the industry, the available products, installation of the gadget and solutions for home, offices and business owners. It also involves creating and establishing mutual relationships with suppliers and their sales consultants to ensure that supply of solar equipment is always available, providing a source of in-depth information and solutions for the questions the business owner may be required to answer right on his feet. Solar energy, a power created at the very core of the sun where hydrogen atoms are being fused into helium by the nuclear fusion. Now, is the great and right time, ever than before to be an entrepreneur in the business of solar franchise. 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Simply because a good pricing techniques do determine how costly the solar business store to franchise is. The average startup cost is $400,000. Solar Business Franchise Startup Point. There is a bit lot of work involved in starting this solar franchising business. For a new in-take franchise business to be fully ready to commence operation, it could take up to 8 weeks to 3 months, says Jeff Manchester. Though the state varies and the law regulating their business activity differs, he continued, the solar business franchise needs to do the necessary paperwork, obtain all necessary licenses and register with the country rebate program. Interestingly, Setting up a solar business retail store could cost between the quadrant of $200,000 and $350,000 with a GST; plus the initial franchise startup fee, shop/ store fit costs, cars/delivery van, territory set up, and initial training. The Solar Business Franchise Training; Real or Fallacy? Yes! Solar business offers education and orientation sessions to its franchisees. As a franchisee, I’m glad to tell you that you needn’t business experience from inception to run a solar business franchise, as they will provide the training you will be in need of to operate their business model successful and diligently. Solar energy business training is being updated on a regular basis to enable all concerned franchisee to keep abreast with the current market trends in solar power. However, join any of the fast rising, growing and booming industries in one of the most promising country in the world. The unique solar energy franchise awaits you to franchise in its business. It is a golden opportunity! MetroPCS Franchise Cost And Opportunities Ace Hardware Franchise Cost And Opportunities Matco Tools Franchise Cost And Opportunities Snap-on Tools Franchise Cost And Opportunities Data Doctors Franchise Cost And Opportunities	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1235
__label__wiki	0.787376	0.787376	SWI Research SWI Portfolio SWI Cannabis Portfolio Livewire Ergogenics Adaptive Ad Systems Diego Pellicer Biotricity Ocean Thermal Energy Corp Duo World IMMUNE PHARMA MCW ENERGY PRESSURE BIO ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Has A Good Chance Of Winning Some Emmys Posted by RP Admin On August 21, 2014 0 Comment ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Has A Good Chance Of Winning Some Emmys Lots of companies give lip service to words like “innovation,” “freedom” and “responsibility” when they talk about corporate culture. But peek behind the curtain and it’s business as usual. Netflix NFLX-0.02% puts a lot of muscle behind those words. In 2009 CEO Reed Hastings and former Head of Talent Patty McCord put together a 129-slide presentation on the culture they were building at Netflix. Updated in 2011, the slideshow has become a touchstone in Silicon Valley. Sheryl Sandberg called it the “most important document ever to come out of the Valley.” Netflix relies on a mix of freedom and responsibility among its employees. Some words of wisdom from the presentation: “Adequate performance gets a generous severance package.” People aren’t measured by the number of hours they spend in the office but by their accomplishments. “Sustained A level performance, despite minimal effort, is rewarded with more responsibility and great pay.” B level performance earns a ticket out the door. Employees who have ideas for how to improve Netflix are expected to put together groups to “socialize” their ideas and get input from different departments. As long as ideas adhere to a few basic Netflix principles (commercial free,complete seasons, etc.), any idea is welcome. Netflix’s corporate culture helped land the company 30th on our annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies with a 47.15% innovation premium, which measures how much investors have bid up a company’s stock price above the value of its existing business. Complete Coverage of The World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies The World’s Most Innovative Companies is the definitive ranking of the 100 firms investors think are most likely to generate big, new growth ideas. Tawni Cranz, the current Chief Talent Officer at Netflix says that some of the company’s best innovations have come from giving people the freedom to come up with new ideas and the responsibility to make those ideas work. “We leave a lot of space for people to try things,” says Cranz. “We try to state what problems we’re trying to solve and let you solve it.” This attitude helped Netflix come up with a section just for kids, full seasons of new shows released at the same time and engineering improvements. That mindset also crosses into the company’s original content. Just as Netflix strives to hire the smartest people to fill each position and then gives each person the freedom to do what he or she does best, the company tries to work with the best producers, directors and stars and gives them the freedom to do their thing. While all studios and networks strive to work with the best talent, there’s a Hollywood tradition of working an idea to death. Any writer can tell you stories of endless notes from various network executives that turned a promising idea into something corporate and bland. Netflix takes a different approach. “We think about getting out of the way of great storytelling,” says Cranz. “We give [our show creators] a lot of freedom from the beginning and that helps them.” That freedom is producing some of the best shows on TV. This year Netflix is up for 31 Emmys, up from 14 last year. That’s more nominations than Fox , Showtime or even prestigious AMC received. It’s not even close to HBO’s 99 nominations but this is only the second year Netflix has been eligible to compete for an Emmy. When the award show airs on Monday night, there’s a good chance Netflix will walk away with more than the 3 Emmys the company won last year. At last Saturday’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards (which honors behind the scenes people), Netflilx won 7 gold statues. There’s money on Orange Is The New Black winning for best comedy (upsetting Modern Family) and Robin Wright Penn winning best lead actress in a drama for House of Cards. If Netflix does walk away with some major Emmys on Monday night, it will be a very big deal. Not only will it help cement Netflix’s position as the most important company in television right now, it will be a win for creative freedom. The old guard studios are already starting to do away with pilots (the practice of commissioning one episode of a show before committing to a season) but maybe they’ll take a page from Netflix’s culture manual and start offering creative talent more freedom and responsibility as well. TOPICS Netflix Previous:12 Stocks Even Better Than Google Next: Apple And Tesla, Together At Last Featured Stock SWI Daily StockWatchIndex Daily Paper LiveWire Ergogenics, Inc SWI Research Reports StockWatchIndex © 2021 Created by StockWatchIndex	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1241
__label__cc	0.723408	0.276592	UK’s MaxBill eyes India for mobile gaming play Country’s online gaming industry, growing at a 22% CAGR, is expected to generate a revenue of Rs 11,900 crore by 2023, according to a recent finding by the consulting firm KPMG and the Indian Federation of Sports Gaming. Muntazir Abbas NEW DELHI: MaxBill, a UK-headquartered software-based billing solutions company is looking to partner telecom carriers in the Asian market with a focus on India, to tap opportunities in the growing mobile gaming space. “We have been active across various Asian markets, and the company is looking forward to working with potential local partners that can help the company access market opportunities in the online gaming segment in India,” MaxBill chief executive Kirill Rechter told ETT. The company with its modern billing strategy aims to enable service providers to offer attractive packages with automated service delivery, simplified customer support and transparent billing services. The mobile phones are recorded as the major contributor to online gaming revenue with a market pie of nearly 85% in India. The desktops and tablets, according to the study, account for close to 12% market share. Rechter further said that the flagship billing solution— MaxBill allows online gaming operators to effectively manage their relationships with their third party gaming content providers. The mobile-driven trends particularly in India, are attracting many value-added service providers as well as online gaming companies, with as much as nearly 250 million online gamers were recorded in 2018 as compared to 20 million in 2010. Today, there are numerous options for telcos to get involved in the online gaming space, Rechter said and added that telcos can integrate its mobile wallet service with the mobile gaming app or to serve as a payment gateway. Telcos, according to the firm, are constantly looking to offer new cloud-based VAS services to their customers. “There is potential that a telco could conceivably offer online gaming services to customers either directly or in partnership with an established online gaming operator, and it will depend on the regulatory requirements of a country they are planning to operate,” Rechter added. The UK-based company feels that online gaming is gaining traction and growing worldwide, especially in India and other countries across Asia with competition among online gaming operators is rising. Company’s top executive said that the company is experiencing strong demand from not only online gaming operators but also from other players in this space, such as platform and content providers. “For us as a technology vendor and software solution provider, the market opportunities are global as there is a definite need for our SaaS-based partner management offering in the online gaming space,” Rechter said. The gaming operators, according to MaxBill, leverages time-consuming processes that are highly exposed to human error as well as potential fraud, and the business arrangements in this framework are limited and restrict an online gaming companies to basic revenue sharing scenarios with its third party content provider partners. Europe’s gaming content provider – NetEnt – is also using MaxBill to manage its reconciliations with its online gaming operator partners. MaxBill Kirill Rechter Most Read in MVAS/Apps Telegram or Signal? Welcome to the illusion called data security Whatsapp to stop working on iPhone 6S, iPhone 6 and these Android phones from January 1 Traders' body asks government to ban WhatsApp, Facebook following new privacy policy update	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1242
__label__cc	0.677481	0.322519	Home › BORNE: A NOVEL (TB) BORNE: A NOVEL (TB) 368 pages \| Trade Paperback “Am I a person?” Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. “Yes, you are a person,” Rachel tells him. “But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.” In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly, and broke free. Made insane by the company’s torture of him, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers. At first, Borne looks like nothing at all—just a green lump that might be a discard from the Company, which, although severely damaged, is rumored to still make creatures and send them to far-distant places that have not yet suffered collapse. Borne reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment that she resents: attachments are traps, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary, Rachel convinces her lover, Wick—a special kind of dealer—not to render down Borne as raw genetic material for the drugs he sells. But nothing is quite the way it seems: not the past, not the present, not the future. If Wick is hiding secrets, so is Rachel—and Borne most of all. What Rachel finds hidden deep within the Company will change everything and everyone. There, lost and forgotten things have lingered and grown. What they have grown into is mighty indeed.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1254
__label__cc	0.58025	0.41975	A post shared by Clay Walker (@officialclaywalker) Clay Walker Welcomes ‘Perfect’ New Son, His Seventh Child Overall Congratulations are in order for Clay Walker, who welcomed his seventh child (and fourth son) on Jan. 5. According to People, Walker and his wife Jessica introduced Christiaan Michael Walker that day, who was born in Houston. The baby (whose first name is a Germanic spelling, as Walker told the outlet), weighed in at 7 lbs., 4 oz., and measured 20.5 inches long. Walker noted to People that "Our whole family has been anxiously awaiting his arrival! He's perfect in every way. "He is surrounded by siblings who are constantly doting on him. I could not be more proud of Jessica and her devotion to motherhood and me. All of our children are blessed to call her mother. He will grow up a tough little cowboy Texan." Walker already has a healthy brood, which includes sons Ezra Stephen, 3, Elijah Craig, 7, and William Clayton, 12; plus daughter Mary-Elizabeth, 11, who are his kids with Jessica. He also has his older daughters Skylor, 21, and MaClay, 25, from a previous marriage. The happy parents celebrated their 13th anniversary in September, and Walker has plenty of sweet things to say about his babymama. "I can honestly say that she's a saint, and everyone around her knows it too. She absolutely loves being a mom," he noted. "It's the toughest job on Earth, and I wish there was more adoration and homage paid to mothers because there's not a more unselfish way of life than being a mom. It's tough. And it's worth it." See 50 Essential '90s Country Songs, Including Clay Walker: Source: Clay Walker Welcomes ‘Perfect’ New Son, His Seventh Child Overall Filed Under: clay walker	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1256
__label__wiki	0.927372	0.927372	National company acquires division of Grand Junction supplier By The Business Times Staff on May 6, 2020 Comments Off on National company acquires division of Grand Junction supplier Bill Mixon A national company has acquired a division of a medical equipment supplier in Grand Junction. National Seating & Mobility announced it acquired the complex rehabilitation technology division of Hartman Brothers Medical Equipment. Brian Severson, an assistive technology professional who leads the rehab team, will join National Seating & Mobility. Bill Mixon, chief executive officer of National Seating & Mobility, said the acquisition expands the company’s reach in Western Colorado. Owned by Kirk and Jay Hartman, Harman Brothers Medical Equipment supplies durable medical equipment with multiple locations in the region. “NSM remains committed to offering mobility and accessibility services nationwide,” Mixon said. “We look forward to serving individuals in the Grand Junction area.” National Seating & Mobility provides customized equipment and repairs to support the independence of people with mobility challenges. The company has grown from five locations providing rehabilitation therapy to a network of mobility and accessibility experts who work with physicians and therapists to provide services to clients across the United States and Canada. For more information about National Seating & Mobility, visit the website at www.nsm-seating.com. National company acquires division of Grand Junction supplier added by The Business Times Staff on May 6, 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1257
__label__cc	0.528303	0.471697	FANDOM FUN Fandom Feels Podcast You are at:Home» SHADOWHUNTERS Releases First Official Cast Photo By Molly July 22, 2015 No Comments The first official cast photo from the set of SHADOWHUNTERS gets swanky! Everyone is fancied up on the first official cast photo for Shadowhunters released by ABC Family! The series follows Clary (Katherine McNamara), who discovers that she’s a half-human, half-angel Shadowhunter destined to rid the world of demons after her mother’s devastating demons. On the quest to save her mother, Clary discovers the secret world hidden within New York City. There’s been plenty of pictures from the set, thanks to the very camera-friendly cast, but here’s the first official release featuring (from left to right) Isabelle (Emeraude Toubia), Clary, Jace (Dominic Sherwood), Magnus (Harry Shum Jr.), and Alec (Matthew Daddario). This photo definitely appears to be from Magnus Bane’s party, which helps explain the unfortunate absence of Simon (Alberto Rosende). As you may call, Simon is turned into a rat and kidnapped by a horde of angry vampires during the party, leaving Clary and Jace to plan a rescue mission. Hopefully, we’ll have more cast photos including him soon! And we should note that Isabelle is wearing a shimmery headband, not an elaborate headpiece. That’s just the lamp directly behind her confusing us all! Shadowhunters will premiere on ABC Family in early 2016. Molly is a proud Canadian who is currently attending university in Scotland. She loves to read, write, watch films, and talk about Sarah J. Maas books. If not snuggled up with a book, Molly can usually be found tapping at the dance studio, or writing yet another essay. Book Review: LOVE AND OLIVES by Jenna Evans Welsh BOOK REVIEW: THIS IS HOW WE FLY by Anna Meriano Netflix Announces SHADOW AND BONE for Spring Release Book Review: LOVE AND OLIVES by Jenna Evans Welsh 9.0 BOOK REVIEW: THIS IS HOW WE FLY by Anna Meriano 10.0 Book Review: THE COUSINS by Karen M. McManus 8.0 Lilo & Stitch Finds a Director in Jon M. Chu YA Fantasy Panel from Comic-Con@Home Details and Author Appearances on Team Underlined Comic-Con@Home Panel New cast members for Season 2 of HIS DARK MATERIALS San Diego Comic-Con and WonderCon Officially Canceled for 2020 SDCC 2019 Interviews \| The cast of BROOKLYN NINE-NINE Exclusive Interview with SHADES OF MAGIC VOL. 3: THE REBEL ARMY’s Author V.E. Schwab A Look Back at NEW YORK COMIC CON: Photo Edition Exclusive YALLfest Interview With Makiia Lucier Exclusive Interview With THE HEART OF THE MOORS Author Holly Black Exclusive Interview: Kelly Coon Talks Dark Sacrifice-Based YA Novel GRAVEMAIDENS SUPERNATURAL’s Final SDCC Panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waxMm0pldYw Beauty and the Beast book review book reviews Cassandra Clare Comic-Con Disney Disney live-action Fantastic Beasts Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Fear the Walking Dead Game of Thrones Harry Potter Jurassic World Love Simon Marie Lu Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Mockingjay Mockingjay Part 1 Mockingjay Part 2 New York Comic-Con NYCC optioned books Outlander Ready Player One Rogue One San Diego Comic-Con Sarah J. Maas SDCC SDCC 2018 Shadow and Bone Shadowhunters Shadowhunters season 2 Shadowhunters season 3 Star Wars Star Wars: The Force Awakens Stranger Things Supernatural The 100 The Dark Artifices The Fault in Our Stars The Hunger Games The Shadowhunter Chronicles The Walking Dead To All the Boys I've Loved Before Trailer TheFandom.net was launched December 26, 2011 by three fans of The Hunger Games. They had a vision to expand their love of the fandom to other fandoms and this is the result. Our site is constantly flowing with the times and with the growing popularity of YA books and its relations in TV and movies.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1263
__label__cc	0.695878	0.304122	Featured Interviews Issues July 2020 Ashley Crawford Artist Interview July 1, 2020 June 30, 2020 The Flute View 0 Comments Ashley Crawford, Flutebae, flutist When did you start playing the flute, and how did you decide to start playing the flute? I’ve always been fascinated by the timbre of the flute. I was introduced to these sounds at the age of 10 through Disney films and music. So, in 5th grade when my first music teacher, Mrs. Jamie Young, started a band program, I immediately jumped at the opportunity to join and demanded that I play the flute! She held the headjoint to my lips and asked me to blow across the lip plate. I did and “Wooo” came out, lol. We were sold and the rest is history. What has been your greatest inspiration to pursue a career in music? Representation. I grew up being inspired by several incredible flutists, however, I rarely saw any who looked like me. I always felt it was a void that needed to be filled in the flute community. Stepping into many orchestral, wind band, and other classical music settings would leave me feeling “othered” or like an outcast...like I didn’t belong. I vowed to make it my purpose to pursue flute and music whilst loving the skin I’m in, in hopes of inspiring little black boys and girls to do the same as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional and virtuosic flutists. I’m also inspired by many black flutists who’ve created opportunities and made monumental strides in the flute and classical music community, Demarre Mcgill, Valerie Coleman-Page, Hubert Laws, Flutronix, Kim Scott, Althea Rene, Lizzo, just to name a few! It’s so important that we see ourselves in the dreams we want to pursue. I aspire to continue the inspiration our young people need. What is your favorite music to perform, and why? Classical music has and will always be my first love. The intricacies and simplicities of countless melodies and themes have always excited me! I used to think the constraints of classical music would inhibit me from playing anything outside of its realm. I realized; however, it was the complete opposite. With ALL of the rules you learn in how music works and should be played, you also learn how to break said rules! I love fusing classical elements with R&B, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk, you name it! While it is necessary to learn the musical vocabulary of the genres aforementioned, classical music is the cornerstone of my own vocabulary played within them. Tell us about your teaching career. Where do you teach? What is your biggest inspiration as a flute professor? I’ve been teaching privately for 10 years and collegiately for 5. I’ve also been the director of the Nashville Philharmonic Flute Ensemble for 4 years. Before the pandemic, I would travel throughout the Metro Nashville Public School district and teach young flutists who wouldn’t normally have access to private lessons. I currently teach at my alma mater, Tennessee State University. My former flute prof, Belinda Laupp is my biggest inspiration as a professor. She was and will always be an advocate for her students’ growth and success in flute and music. It was an honor taking over TSU’s flute studio after her, and I’m grateful to have the opportunity to continue her legacy of professionalism, musicality, and advocacy for each and every student who studies with me. What is your most memorable moment from being a flute professor? In 2017, I went viral after playing rap song, “Mask Off” in the famous #MaskOffChallenge. It was all over Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter...I mean EVERYWHERE! It garnered millions of views and was completely random and unexpected! My students were so giddy about the whole thing and proud to call me their teacher at the same time. I was “twitter-less” at the time, so no one knew who I was and coined me “Flutebae.” Ever since, I’ve embodied that name in my playing, teaching, and overall social media persona. This moment was life-changing and the birth of my now trademarked brand, “Flutebae.” How have you been spending your time during the COVID-19 Pandemic? I’m an FTM of a beautiful 10-month-old baby girl. So, of course, most of my time has been dedicated to her. My private and collegiate flute lessons are all taught remotely, and I still find pockets of time for self-care, to create, and build my brand with the help of my beloved husband and family. When this whole thing began, I thought I would be my best busy self with all of this newfound free time, but busyness doesn’t always equal productiveness. Some days are hard...some are just fine...and that’s okay. This is something none of us have experienced in our lifetime, so it is important to take it easy on ourselves as we navigate through these uncertain times. Do you think the pandemic will cause significant changes for your flute studio in the fall? I’m sure it will. The pandemic has reshaped the way society operates right before our very eyes. Remote lessons will continue until it is absolutely safe to resume face to face teaching. This is a hard thing to grasp, but if it means the absolute safety of both me and my students, I’m willing to wait it out. What do you enjoy the most about being a musician? Creativity. Being able to hear and see something then bring it to life, GIVES ME LIFE! There is so much power in creating...you get to make something out of nothing! When you receive a sheet of music, you just see notes inked on a page, but you have the power to lift those notes right off that page and bring the music to life! My gift of creativity and music allows me to be of service to myself and others. I love seeing and hearing people fill up with emotion as I play and perform. I love seeing my own students and choirs light up at the end of their performances after working so hard to achieve it. I get to wake up every day doing what I love, and I don’t take it for granted. What musical projects do you have coming up? Sharing and passing on knowledge is important within our community to keep traditions and creativity alive. Therefore, I’m curating online masterclasses and tutorials for flutists of all playing levels. These tutorials will be available via YouTube, IG, and my own website, www.ashleytheflutist.com. You can also stream Flutebae wherever you get your music! I’m excited to be releasing new original music very soon! Born in Memphis, TN, Ashley Crawford began her flute journey at age 10. After studying at renowned HBCU, “Tennessee State University,” and the prestigious School of Music at “Belmont University,” she dedicated her life to sharing her gift and knowledge of flute to people of all ages. She became known as “Flutebae,” from her 2017 viral sensation video of the #MaskOffChallenge. Ever since, she has fused the sounds of classical flute with the latest Hip-Hop, Pop, and R&B music that has helped propel flute into mainstream music and media. She embodies the element of the flute through her sultry and robust playing. Her melodious tone sings effortlessly and is felt on a visceral level. There are no limits to her style and her playing transcends all genres. www.ashleytheflutist.com www.instagram.com/profflutebae www.facebook.com/flutebaeofficial www.twitter.com/profflutebae www.soundcloud.com/flutebae ← Introducing the Winners of the San Francisco Flute Society Competition 2020 Beauty with Intention: Expanding the Wealth of Flute Repertoire →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1265
__label__wiki	0.704737	0.704737	16th Century / Burgundian and French History / French History / Medieval History / Renaissance / Women's History Juana of Castile and Philip of Burgundy Visit the French Court, 1501 September 25, 2015 November 16, 2015 Susan Abernethy10 Comments The Louis XII wing of the Château de Blois (Image by Christophe Finot from Wikimedia Commons) In 1501, Philip of Burgundy and Juana of Castile became the heirs of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. This new status required them to appear in constitutional ceremonies in principal cities of Spain and before the ‘Cortes’ to witness the swearing of oaths to them as heirs. The route they would take was the subject of controversy. Juana’s parents, Ferdinand and Isabella were insisting they take a sea voyage from Flanders to Spain. Philip’s advisors stipulated an overland route through France. The matter was settled in August of 1501 when Philip agreed to marry his son Charles to Claude, the eldest daughter of King Louis XII of France and his queen, Anne of Brittany. This marriage created some family friction for Philip. Juana was adamant about upholding her rights as the heiress to the Spanish kingdoms but Philip refused to side with Spain and the Spanish monarchs. He was defiant in his support for a pro-French agenda. After all, he owed homage to France for his Burgundian possessions. Philip expressed an interest in meeting his prospective daughter-in-law and when King Louis heard this he invited Philip and Juana to visit the French royal court at Blois on their way to Spain. Philip of Burgundy, husband of Juana of Castile Philip may have been planning this all along. Queen Anne of France had sent a deputation to Philip’s court to reside there from April through May most likely to promote the marriage of her daughter and the voyage through France. Due to the enmity that existed between the two countries and their houses, there was considerable hope this meeting would usher in a new era in international relations and perhaps result in a new universal peace. The momentousness of the occasion was demonstrated in the grand appearance during the visit of etiquette and pageantry. Juana insisted on making the journey on horseback in spite of the foul weather and the bad roads. Queen Anne sent Madame de Vendôme along with fourteen women to wait on Juana while she traveled from one town to the next. Juana made an official entry into Valenciennes on November 9 where she was given two silver pots and a bowl covered with flowers of gold by the inhabitants. Philip and Juana made their official entry into France on November 16 where they were met with immense receptions. They arrived in Paris where a grand banquet was given for the couple that included engaging maidens, drink, spices, sweets and dancing. Juana left after one night to make her way to the castle of Blois. Philip stayed in Paris four more days before joining her. Juana of Castile They arrived at Blois together on December 7 where they were housed in a newly built section of the palace which had been richly tapestried and furnished just for their visit. Philip went to meet King Louis with his retinue accompanied by Pierre de Beaujeu, the Duke of Bourbon. He entered the king’s presence and bent down on his knee three times as he neared. Louis rose and doffed his cap at each bow, advancing and embracing Philip. The heir to the French throne, Francois d’Angouleme was seven years old and he came forward to receive a kiss from Philip. It was Francois’ first appearance at a grand court occasion. Juana was particularly intent on maintaining her status as the heir to the Spanish throne without offending her hosts. She was asked if she would kiss the King of France and would only agree after consulting with her minister the Bishop of Córdoba. The Bishop agreed a kiss was acceptable. Louis had insisted that Philip bow three times to him but when Juana arrived, he rushed over to her preventing her from curtseying twice. King Louis XII of France The good natured Louis then released her, courteously asking her to go to his wife so the men could be alone together. Juana began making her way to the door where the Duchess of Bourbon was waiting for her to arrange her dress and take her to the Queen but there was a crush of people preventing her from reaching the door. Then Philip came and pressed his way ahead of his wife making the crowd even bigger and more raucous, causing further delay. She finally made her way to Queen Anne who was sitting on her throne in front of the fireplace with the princess of Orange. Anne and Juana curtseyed and kissed and made some small talk. The small talk soon faded out. Juana then saluted the women on either side of the throne including those of Angoulême, Alençon and Dunois along with the King Louis’ niece Germaine de Foix. Germaine would marry Juana’s widowed father King Ferdinand four years after this visit. The rest of the Queen’s ladies were standing along the wall but the Duchess of Bourbon quickly caught Juana by the arm, telling her it would take forever to greet and kiss all these ladies and took her to her apartments. At the door of her antechamber she was met by Louis and Anne’s daughter, the two year old Claude in the arms of her governess’ daughter. The governess, Madame de Tournon stood a few feet back with another group of noblewomen and behind them was a band of little girls on their best behavior. Claude took one look at Juana and burst into tears. She was taken away screaming at the top of her lungs. Miniature depicting Anne of Brittany receiving from Antoine Dufour the manuscript praising famous women That evening Philip was wined and dined in considerable style. The king was observing the vigil of the Immaculate Conception so he fasted on bread and water and retired early. Juana was waited on by a deputation at seven o’clock with light refreshments. The king’s officer was followed by six pages dressed in the king’s red and yellow livery, each holding a candlestick in their hand. The Duchess of Bourbon followed carrying the preserves and Madame d’Angoulême carried the napkins. Madame de Nevers carried in the knives and forks followed by Charlotte d’Albret and Germaine de Foix, each carrying a dish of sugared almonds. The queen’s apothecary came in last in case Juana had any indigestion from the meal. Only ladies were allowed in the room and they left what they brought on a dresser and the beds. Juana sat on a cushion on the floor with the Duchess of Bourbon who tried to put her at ease. The duchess rose at the end of the evening and diplomatically declared to Madame de Vendôme she was keeping Juana up and she needed her rest. She left Juana with Madame de Vendôme to show her the rest of her apartments and encouraged Juana to let her know if there was anything else she needed. To ensure there was to be nothing else needed, a procession of servants were furnishing Juana’s inner chamber with the best towels, bed-warmers, sponges, mirrors, nightcaps and pins. Even the basin of her close-stool was made of silver with gold plate around the rim. The next day, Queen Anne sent a purse of money for Juana to present in Anne’s name at mass. Juana refused to perform this act of vassalage and insisted she would only give money in her own name. Anne waited for Juana to follow her out of the chapel but Juana lingered long enough to demonstrate she left on her own accord. Queen Anne was fuming and that evening Juana made her excuses saying she was ill to avoid the festivities. Several ladies of the French court carried spices to Juana. Philip offered money in Louis’ name at mass that same day. A few days later Juana appeared at dinner in Spanish style dress covered in jewels and cloth of gold. After supper she danced in the Spanish manner, impressing all with her elegance. The entire visit was filled with banquets, dancing and many private suppers along with worship and thanksgiving. Unfortunately the dreadful weather made hunting impossible. The archducal couple would leave Blois on December 15 with King Louis accompanying them as far as Amboise. Madame d’Angoulême would entertain Juana and Philip for six days at her home in Cognac. Louis was so pleased with the visit he dreamed of a peace treaty with Spain and Queen Anne’s hopes for the Habsburg marriage for her daughter were greatly increased. Unfortunately neither of these things happened. In April of 1505, King Louis was gravely ill and the doctor’s feared for his life. He was forced to make a definitive decision regarding the marriage of his daughter Claude. In May of 1506 he proclaimed in his will that six year old Claude would marry the eleven year old heir to the throne, Francois d’Angouleme. Claude eventually married Francois who became King Francois I upon the death of Louis XII on January 1, 1515. Further reading: “The Valois: Kings of France 1328-1589” by Robert Knecht, “Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France” by Kathleen Wellman, “Juana the Mad: Sovereignty & Dynasty in Renaissance Europe” by Bethany Aram, “Queens Mate: Three women of power in France on the eve of the Renaissance” by Pauline Matarasso Anne de Beaujeu, Anne of Brittany, Charlotte d’Albret, Chateau of Blois, Claude of France, Duchess of Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon, Emperor Charles V, Ferdinand and Isabella, Ferdinand of Aragon, Francois d’Angoulême, Germaine de Foix, Isabella of Castile, Juana of Castile, King Francis I of France, King Francois, King Louis XII of France, Madame d’Angoulême, Madame de Nevers, Madame de Tournon, Madame de Vendôme, Philip of Burgundy, Philip of Castile, Pierre de Beaujeu, Queen Anne of France, Queen Claude of France The Significance of the Siege of Rennes, 1491 Claude de Valois, Queen of France 10 thoughts on “Juana of Castile and Philip of Burgundy Visit the French Court, 1501” brennusgll says: Quite a dramatic telling. I like to remember that, during the whole of November 1501, after a long sea voyage, Juana’s sister, Catalina (Katherine of Aragon) was on her way to wed Arthur Tudor, with the misfortunes Susan has retailed elsewhere. Katherine shared Juana’s skills at dancing and languages, to which Vielka Helen refers. Shall we ever penetrate the spin and propaganda about Juana and her sister? A dramatic view of Juana’ state of mind is to be seen in the play to be found at http://myslide.es/documents/falsa-cronica-de-juana-la-loca.html Correction: Katherine was travelling through England in October, with her journey to London and marriage in November. So, Juana missed her sister’s wedding. Despite her entourage of around 80, Katherine must have felt being without her family. meghanferrara says: Reblogged this on History's Untold Treasures and commented: H/T The Freelance History Writer Germaine de Foix, Queen of Aragon, Naples, Sardinia, Navarre and Sicily and Vicereine of Valencia « The Freelance History Writer says: […] was on hand to greet Juana of Castile when she visited the royal Château of Blois in November of 1501 and also served her light refreshments on the evening of her arrival. Germaine […] Claude de Valois, Queen of France « The Freelance History Writer says: […] revered and loved her mother very much. In November of 1501, when Claude was about two years old, Juana of Castile and Philip of Burgundy visited Blois and Claude was brought in the arms of her governess to greet Juana. Claude took one look at Juana […] Juana of Castile and Philip of Burgundy Visit the French Court, 1501 « The Freelance History Writer - says: […] Origen: Juana of Castile and Philip of Burgundy Visit the French Court, 1501 « The Freelance History Writer […] Jo Woolf says: I enjoyed this, Susan! What a grand and glittering court it must have been. Was Juana related to Catherine of Aragon in some way? And I seem to remember from somewhere that she was thought to be a bit loopy. She does look to be brooding on something, in her portrait! Susan Abernethy says: Yes Jo, Juana was Katherine’s sister. Juana was beautiful and brilliant. Her madness has been a matter of debate for centuries. The rumors were started by her husband and her father who wanted to rule Castile in her place. There’s a good story there! rafterd1972 says: As usual, Susan, a great post. This one was so detailed I really felt as though I was in the same rom witnessing all the proceedings. And of course, more books to be read. That will have to wait until after the “big move!” Vielka Helen Gorriz says: Susan’s enjoy reading this post, like I post on Facebook, I read before that she dance beautifully, she learn French, and I remember the part about when she was at the mass, she want to used her own money, and as well that she preferred to ride the horse, I know that she like to do great entrance when she go from city to city… I love all your post Susan, thank you….	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1266
__label__wiki	0.783364	0.783364	http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheXFilesS01E10FallenAngel Recap / The X-Files S01 E10 "Fallen Angel" Index \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 \| 13 \| 14 \| 15 \| 16 \| 17 \| 18 \| 19 \| 20 \| 21 \| 22 \| 23 \| 24 Season 1, Episode 10: "Thats a lot of firepower just to protect Mother Nature." Written by Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa Directed by Larry Shaw "Code Indigo Delta Echo Niner. I have a confirmed Fallen Angel in Sector 87. Mobilise Operation Falcon immediately." — Colonel Calvin Henderson Mulder and Scully investigate a mysterious crash site in Wisconsin, where an alien creature attacks people with lethal doses of radiation. Their investigation is complicated by a military retrieval team assigned to destroy the creature at all costs, and a UFO abductee, Max Fenig, who has a connection with the alien. Back in Washington, Mulder's superiors consider shutting down the X-Files. Black Dude Dies First: The sheriff's deputy at the beginning of the episode. Blatant Lies: The cover story that the radiation is caused by a Libyan fighter jet carrying an atomic weapon. Mulder mocks it as "a highly classified lie." Conspiracy Theorist: Max Fenig. Downer Ending: Max is abducted and his body is found miles away. Flashback: Very brief — Deep Throat gives Mulder a tip. Hero Insurance: How come Mulder is not prosecuted? Mulder is arrested by the Air Force, repeatedly, and faced an inquiry back at headquarters for his interfering with "the recovery of a downed Libyan fighter jet". As for why he didn't get punished, it's heavily implied that his informant Deep Throat is very high-ranking and countermanded the recommendations of the committee, otherwise he would have been. Infrared Xray Camera: One alien is seen through a heat-source sensing device. Invisible Monster: The alien is depicted as something like an energy creature. Mysterious Informant: Deep Throat. Myth Arc: This episode doesn't directly tie into the overarcing storyline, but it does introduce Max Fenig, who will reappear in Season Four, demonstrates the lengths to which the Government Conspiracy will go to cover up extraterrestrial life, and shows that Deep Throat might not be as benevolent towards Mulder and Scully as he appears. Neurodiversity Is Supernatural: Mulder thinks that Max's epilepsy is caused by aliens. Red Shirts: A lot of military personnel get barbecued this episode. Sarcasm Mode: The Air Force radar technician can't resist doing this when her superiors make her call the various UFOs "meteors." "Well, sir, the meteor seems to be hovering over a small town in eastern Wisconsin." Stock Episode Titles: 13 uses Table Space: The professional responsibility hearing with Section Chief McGrath. Title Drop: See the page quote. Underside Ride: Mulder does this to get inside the Air Force's quarantine zone. Visible Invisibility: Aliens, shown as distortion of the background or rushing camera. "Always keep your friends close, Mr. McGrath... but keep your enemies closer." The X-Files S01 E09 "Space" Recap/The X-Files The X-Files S01 E11 "Eve"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1268
__label__cc	0.639057	0.360943	Read the First Chapter of The Echo Room by Parker Peevyhouse! July 10, 2018 June 21, 2018 torteenLeave a comment 2471 views The only thing worse than being locked in is facing what you locked out. Rett Ward knows how to hide. He’s had six years of practice at Walling Home, the state-run boarding school where he learned how to keep his head down to survive. But when Rett wakes up locked in a small depot with no memory of how he got there, he can’t hide. Not from the stranger in the next room. Or from the fact that there’s someone else’s blood on his jumpsuit. Worse, every time he tries to escape, he wakes up right back where he started. Same day, same stranger, same bloodstained jumpsuit. As memories start to surface, Rett realizes that the logo on the walls is familiar, the stranger isn’t a stranger, and the blood on his jumpsuit belongs to someone—or something—banging on the door to get in. The Echo Room will be available on September 11th – please enjoy this excerpt! Someone is calling to me . . . Rett woke to the cold press of metal beneath him and the knock of pain against the inside of his skull. He opened his eyes. Metal room, blue with early morning light. The only window a skylight in the high ceiling. He pushed himself upright. Diagonal yellow stripes banded the walls, constricting the room. The smell of dust and copper made the air heavy. The place had an industrial feel to it: steel and dust and gloom. Cast in blue, like the prison panel he’d drawn in ballpoint pen for Epidemic X. Cheerful. His head throbbed. His skull was shrinking, or his brain was outgrowing it. He put a shaking hand to where the pain cut worst, and his fingers found the long, raised line of a scar. His stomach turned. He got to his feet, pressed by the familiar weight of urgency that drove him from bed every morning: Look out for yourself, watch out. He shouldn’t be here. He should be lining up for morning roll call with the other wards of Walling Home, wary of sharp looks cutting his way, sharper blades bristling under mattresses. Only scrap paper and a pen under his own mattress, along with the last remaining issue of his favorite comic. Whatever this place is, I don’t think I want to be here. The room was empty. Stark, barren. But a pricking sense of caution kept him on his guard. He’d known other empty places, knew how quickly they could fill with dread. Like the entryway at Walling Home, where the tick of the clock had beat like a hammer against his heart as he’d watched his mother walk out the door and leave him behind. His attention snapped back to the present as a sound broke through his thoughts. Someone calling to him? No—somewhere, someone was singing. He tensed, unnerved. What is this place? A wave of dizziness hit him. He leaned against the wall, which slanted oddly, tilted back as if the room knew he needed to lie down. He struggled to clear his mind, to look around for some clue as to where he was. Skylight, stripes, metal floor. A broad luminescent strip running along the wall. He followed the glowing strip down a short corridor to a door with a huge sliding lock. Bolted shut. Panic shot through him. He hefted his weight against the lock but it didn’t so much as budge. He took a shaky step back to examine it. The lock was jammed, the metal bolt bent at one end. And there—on the floor: a fire extinguisher large enough to have done the damage. Rett tried to ignore the panic that flared again. There’s no way that bolt’s ever coming out of its housing. An image glowed on the door, reflecting the dim light: overlapping, jagged lines. Spikes of pain, Rett thought absently while his head went on throbbing. Set above the spidery graph was a single word: SCATTER. And next to it, the number three inside a circle. Scatter 3, Rett thought, testing the phrase for familiarity. A metallic taste filled his mouth and sent a fresh twinge of pain through his head. Scatter 3. Yes, there was something about those words. It would come back to him in a minute. Or . . . He could ask whoever belonged to the eerie voice still echoing through the place. The meditative tune pulled at Rett with an almost hypnotic power. He hesitated. Tried not to imagine himself as a doomed figure in one of the comics he had drawn while he huddled in closets or underneath stairwells at the boarding facility he called home. Boy, sixteen, ladder of bones, seen from behind as he slinks through an abandoned storage room, a warehouse for dust. Caption: He should’ve known he’d meet disaster . . . He shook away the thought. Whoever’s singing might be able to help me. He stalked over the gritty floor, crossed the main room to an open doorway. Angled himself to peer through into a dim, cramped space. More luminescent strips picked up the low light and revealed a figure in a white jumpsuit like a glowing ghost. Rett’s foot scraped over the dirty floor, and the singing stopped. The figure turned sharply, peeling away from the shadows. A girl a few years older than he was, with short brown hair tucked behind her ears, gave him a startled stare. She was thin inside her overlarge jumpsuit, her face hollowed by shadows. “I didn’t mean to scare you,” Rett said, his voice hoarse and strange to his own ears. He swallowed against the bolt of pain that shot through his head. His throat was paper-dry, his stomach unsteady. “I just—Can you tell me where I am?” The girl stood frozen, unblinking, and Rett wondered if she, too, found the rustle of his voice misplaced in their cold-metal surroundings. “My best guess is abandoned storage room,” Rett went on, “but I’m willing to believe something as strange as experimental detention facility if you say it with enough conviction.” The girl winced. A hand went to her head. She’s hurt, same as me. “Let me look,” he said. He could usually tell when a gash needed stitches and when it could be left alone—when it would leave a nice scar and when it would just go on bleeding forever. A handy skill born of experience. He’d seen scars on knuckles, good for proving readiness to fight, and gashes on arms and faces, worse for displaying the shame of failure. But head wounds bled forever if you didn’t put pressure on them. The girl hesitated and then pushed her hair aside to reveal a long raised scar above her ear. No blood—an old wound. “It . . . looks okay,” Rett said, trying to keep his voice light. A mark like that was the badge of a terrible run-in. Don’t say that to her, he thought, but he knew the expression on his face must be saying it for him. My own head can’t look much better. “Do you know what this place is?” he asked, desperate to redirect his thoughts. The girl shook her head, then swayed as if hit with the same dizziness that plagued Rett. He put out a hand to steady her, but she flinched away. Rett’s skin went hot with embarrassment. I wasn’t going to hurt you. He dropped his hand to his side. “What’s your name?” he asked quietly, trying not to make her nervous. “Bryn.” “I’m Rett.” Her gaze traveled to his abdomen. Rett looked down. A wide smear of red-brown stained his jumpsuit. What—? “Is that—blood?” Bryn asked in a halting voice. Rett touched his stomach. He didn’t feel any pain. “Not mine,” he said. He met her gaze. Alarm flashed in her eyes. He took her fear like a punch to the gut. I swear I’m not a bad guy, he wanted to say. Instead he wilted back, gave her some space while confusion and humiliation roiled in his already churning gut. “I’ll go look around,” he finally managed to say. “There must be someone else here.” He backed out of the room, muscles tight with alarm. Because he couldn’t say—he had no idea—how someone else’s blood had gotten onto his clothes. Rett stumbled through the main room, past the slanted walls striped with peeling yellow paint and dust-bathed metal. Down the short corridor that led to the bolted door. He staggered through a doorway to his right, into a narrow room so dark he could only just make out shelves stacked with white jumpsuits. He seized a jumpsuit, shuddering with relief at the sight of it. Peeled off the one he was wearing, yanked on the clean one. Stashed the bloodstained jumpsuit in a bin. Some of the red-brown had come off on his hands. The sight filled him with horror. He swiped his palms over the edge of shelf, trying to scrape off the stain. Blood on my clothes, on my hands. His stomach curled. What happened? Why can’t I remember? He tried to feel in his muscles whether he had been forced into a fight with someone. He’d once broken another boy’s hand at the government-run facility he’d lived in since age ten. Garrick was taller than him by a head, meaner than him by a full set of knuckles, and the sickening crack of his bones breaking still echoed in Rett’s memory. Rett didn’t like to think about that day. Fighting never ended well. Using your head works better. So why is there blood on my hands? He turned to take inventory of the changing room, as if to prove to himself that he really did know how to use his head. Beneath the shelves, a bin held thick-soled boots. At the back of the closet, a shower head angled above a stall door. Rett felt like jumping into the stall and washing away the last of the blood that stained his skin. Or better yet, the dread that seemed to coat him like the dust that sheathed every surface of this strange place. But the boots in the bin reminded him of something: there were boot prints on the floor where he’d woken up. Even though he himself was barefoot, and the slight girl in the other room wouldn’t have left prints so large. Someone else is here. He touched a hand involuntarily to the spot where blood had stained his jumpsuit. Someone . . . He wiped his sweaty palms against the suit. Someone I must have hurt. He crept out of the changing room, eyes on the floor. There they were: boot prints in the dust, smeared where Rett had walked through them barefoot. The trail led him back to the main room, where he stopped short. One of the striped walls had been lifted into an overhead slot to reveal a room beyond like a space-age lounge. A low angled couch that had once been white but was now streaked gray with dust ran along three walls, taking up the whole space. I’m trapped in a creepy metal dollhouse, Rett thought as he surveyed the cross-sectioned room. A dollhouse with a lock. “Bryn?” he called, his voice creaking with uncertainty. Did she lift the wall—or did someone else do that? A ladder set over the couch led to an opening in the ceiling, a square of darkness that pulled at him even while it made his scalp prickle. “Bryn? Are you up there?” No answer but the ring of his own voice against the metal walls. Rett’s heart beat faster as he stepped onto a ledge at the back of the couch and grabbed the rungs. He eased his head up into the darkness. For a long, unnerving moment he could only blink against black nothingness. A latch clicked some distance in front of him. And then his eyes adjusted, and he could just make out a set of beds to either side of the room, and the back of Bryn’s white jumpsuit against a bank of metal drawers. What is she doing? Rett ducked. She’ll think I’m spying on her. I am spying on her. He heard her coming toward the ladder, so he scrambled back toward the far end of the couch and tried to look as little as possible like the bloodstained villain she might be imagining him as. Relaxed into an easy slouch, kept his hands where she could see them. Bryn jumped from the ladder and snapped her attention toward him. Her hands were shoved deep into the pockets of her jumpsuit. She took something from the drawer. The intensity of her gaze was more than he could bear. “There’s someone else here,” he said. Bryn’s gaze went to the phantom bloodstain on his abdomen. “Or there was,” she said. Rett wanted to tell her he didn’t think he could have hurt anyone. But how could he explain what he couldn’t remember? If she’s hiding something from me, maybe I’m better off letting her be scared of me. “You changed your clothes,” Bryn said. Rett looked down at his jumpsuit. The logo of overlapping lines was the same as the one on the main door, the same as the one on Bryn’s jumpsuit. “Changing room’s full of these.” He hadn’t stopped thinking of what Bryn might have in her pockets. He pointed at the ladder. “Did you find anything up there?” “No.” A flat, heavy no that echoed off the metal walls. She’s lying. But she moved her hands to cross her arms, and the pockets of her jumpsuit didn’t bulge at all. So maybe she really hadn’t found anything. Then again, maybe she had found something and put it in the drawer. The thought kicked Rett’s defenses into gear. Stealing, hiding—he knew how to watch out for those things. He’d had six years of practice at Walling Home. He looked her over, head to toe, the way she kept examining him. Narrow frame, squared shoulders, hazel eyes that shone bright enough to startle as she stared back at him in unbearable scrutiny. “You don’t remember . . .” He wanted to say what happened here? But she tensed defensively, so he said, “how you got here?” She hesitated. “My best guess is I was drugged. But I’m willing to believe something as strange as I sleepwalked. If you say it with enough conviction.” Rett stared at her. Is she joking? Or does she think I’m bullshitting her? “The lock on the door is jammed.” He didn’t know what else to say. Bryn’s gaze went toward the hallway that led to the heavy door. Had she already seen the lock? He imagined her creeping toward the door to examine it while he’d been in the closet sweating out his possible guilt and certain dread. “Your name’s Rett?” Bryn gave him a look that made him feel like a dog in a kennel. She inched back like she thought he might bite. “Last name?” Rett started to say, then corrected himself. “None, really. Ward.” “As in, ward of the state?” He gave a small nod. It wasn’t a fun thing to admit. “Walling Home?” Bryn asked. Rett nodded again, slowly, wondering how she had guessed which facility he belonged to. “Me too,” Bryn said, so quiet he might have imagined it. He straightened in surprise. Everything about her took on new meaning: her thin frame, her hard stare, the way she edged along the walls. She was like him—cautious, ready to bolt. He tried to decide if he recognized her. Yes, he’d seen her before, but the too-big jumpsuit made her look different. He remembered something about her, a rumor . . . But it slipped out of his mind just as soon as he got hold of it. “What’s the last thing you remember?” he asked her. Bryn’s eyes fluttered closed for the briefest of moments before she locked her wary gaze back on Rett. A fine layer of dust coated her skin. Rett rubbed a hand across his own cheek and felt grit. He looked down at his feet; they were black with dirt. I was outside,he thought, but he couldn’t remember more than the chill on his skin. “I remember waking up in that office there, looking around,” Bryn said, back pressed against the side of the couch. “Before that?” “Nothing.” Bryn gripped her elbow, and her gaze slid away from him for the first time. “I can remember Walling Home.” Her expression darkened. “I wish I couldn’t.” Images flashed through Rett’s mind: the dull gray of cafeteria tables, the crisscross of wire inside window glass. The other boys—lean, knobby with muscles—surging toward him in a blur of motion. Punishing him for being small, for being around when they were bored or bitter. He felt the weight of too-tight walls around him, stale air in his lungs—his worst moment at Walling, when he’d been trapped in an old firewood box. He could feel the rough lid against his fists even now, the scrape of it over his skin as he pounded . . . He dragged in a rattling breath, trying to get his bearings. His throat was painfully dry. “I’d kill for some water right now.” Bryn’s gaze flickered to his abdomen again. Rett bit his lip. Could have found a better way to say that. He turned his attention again to the chaotic pattern of heavy boot tread laid out over the floor of the main room— And a trail of prints that disappeared under the far wall. Someone else is here, he thought again. “What do you think’s under that wall?” he asked Bryn as he walked slowly toward it. “There’s no latch to lift it.” Rett bent to look closer. Bryn was right—there was only a rusty plate where a latch used to be. “I can manage it.” Rett kicked at the wall with his heel until the wall bounced back enough that he could stick his foot underneath and pry it up. It lifted with a groan, and more easily than he had thought it would. Something—adrenaline, determination—was making him stronger and sturdier, if racked with pain and thirst. Despite his newfound strength, the wall stuck halfway up. Rett turned to Bryn, checking to see if she felt any less hesitant than he did to duck blindly into the dim room beyond and find out what awaited them. He caught a flicker in her eyes that said he’d impressed her with his kick-and-lift trick. Should I tell her how I learned to get out of tight spots? he thought grimly. He couldn’t very well hang back now and ruin the impression he’d given her, so he steeled himself and ducked under the wall. Three banks of cabinets greeted him and then all Rett’s attention went to the floor. “There’s a bunch of supplies in here,” he called. Nylon ropes and tinted goggles and compasses spilled out of overturned bins. Rett crouched to examine a tangle of nylon backpacks. All empty. He wondered what he should be looking for. Anything, anything. He grabbed at the nearest bin, suddenly seized with a familiar fear. Just grab anything! But this wasn’t Walling Home, and he and Bryn weren’t going to have to fight over the last pair of donated shoes, the last spare blanket. No, it’s worse, he thought. Or it might be. Trapped, and this was all they had. The bin held ponchos folded into their hoods. Useless, unless it was going to suddenly start raining inside. Which he actually wouldn’t mind, given how all he could think about was water. Rett pulled down a larger bin already sticking out from a cabinet. It held mysterious green tubes that he couldn’t puzzle out. And empty water bottles—a cruel joke. He opened another bin and cried out in surprise. The words DRINKING WATER were printed across a Mylar bag that he now realized was flat—empty. His spirits fell. He picked up the bag and was surprised to find it was wet. Someone just emptied this bag. Rett whirled around, half expecting to find another person crouching somewhere in the room with him. He was alone. Bryn hadn’t even followed him in. In fact, her muffled voice came from behind the half-lifted wall. Is she . . . . . . talking to someone? “Bryn?” he called. She went silent. Rett ducked back into the main room. Bryn wasn’t there. The light coming through the glass dome far overhead was brightening. He looked into the room where he’d first found Bryn. Only a desk with a pull-out stool, and an open door that gave a view of a toilet. No Bryn. She’d hiding from me, he decided, and something hard dropped into his stomach. Then he remembered the boot prints on the floor. Should I be hiding, too? He ducked back into the supply room and looked over the jumbled bins, the cabinet tops marked with boot prints . . . A ladder set over a bank of cabinets caught his eye. It led to a dark recess. Rett’s nerves tingled. Someone climbed up there, he thought, eyeing the boot prints at the ladder’s base. The darkness grew sentient, watchful. Rett grabbed the rungs with stiff fingers and forced himself to climb. He held his breath and eased his head through the opening in the ceiling, his heart pounding . . . Total darkness. The smell of old dust. A distant sound of . . . something sliding nearer? He froze, strained to hear better. His skin prickled. “Hello?” he said into the darkness, barely more than a whisper. He pulled himself up with shaking muscles and edged along the frame of a bed. “Is anyone here?” He wondered if the sound he’d heard before had been only the rasp of his own breathing. Would I be able to sense it? If someone were crouched in an inky corner, or unconscious on the floor—would he know? He jabbed a foot into the darkness, testing for any hidden forms. It touched something. The something gave. Rett yanked his foot back. His heartbeat thundered in his head. “Hello?” he croaked. He crept forward, reaching into the darkness. It was just another bed, a plastic mattress on a low frame. There’s no one here. No sooner had he thought it than the squeal of metal on metal rent the air. Someone was sliding a panel shut from below. The square of light that was the opening over the ladder disappeared. Rett’s heart flew into his throat. “Hey!” he called, his voice choked. He dropped to his knees and tugged on a metal handle attached to the sliding panel. The panel didn’t budge. “Hey!” He heaved at the handle. He was trapped inside a disused firewood box crawling with spiders. Pleading with the boy who’d shut him inside. “Hey, let me out!” He shrank back, caught in the cramped darkness, fearful of wasting the air he had left . . . Stop, he told himself, his breath coming in shuddering gasps. He made his muscles go loose, slowed his breathing. Then he tried the handle again, jerking it side-to-side, wriggling the panel free from whatever held it. He marveled again at the strength he seemed to have awakened within this strange place. At Walling, he was the skinny kid with more desperation than muscle, but here—one more wrenching tug, and he forced the panel open. Something clattered to the floor. Rett dropped onto the cabinet top and sucked in cool, dusty air. The thing that had been wedged against the panel lay on the floor: a long metal pole with a leather loop—a walking stick. Someone tried to trap me. Rett’s heart fluttered. He jumped down from the cabinet. Bent to pick up the metal pole—then froze with his hand locked around it. A smudge of green paint glowed on the metal. Glowing green paint. Rett’s gaze traveled to the bin of plastic tubes full of green liquid. Glow tubes? He picked one up and bent it until it cracked and its contents glowed. He imagined the tube breaking open, the liquid spilling, staining a pair of hands glowing green, like the branding of a comic book villain. A thought sparked in Rett’s mind. It burned so hot he forgot to worry about who might lurk on the other side of the wall he now ducked under. At the end of the short hallway, the fire extinguisher still lay on the floor. Rett crouched to inspect what he had seen before but hadn’t registered: the extinguisher’s crown was covered in smudged green handprints. With Rett huddled over it, blocking most of the light, the handprints glowed. Rett stood and inspected the heavy bolt on the door. Red paint from the extinguisher marked its wrenched end. His pulse throbbed in his parched throat. Whoever had tried to trap him in the upper room had also jammed the only exit. Locked him in, as good as shutting a lid and clamping it down. But with no one to let him out when the air got stale. Or when the water ran out. He turned slowly, his mind buzzing. Then—a flash of white jumpsuit. Bryn darted across the main room and slipped through the open doorway at the far end of the place. Rett’s heart drummed. What is she doing? He looked back at the jammed lock on the heavy door behind him. What has she done? A new sound drifted out from the open doorway Bryn had gone through: the clatter of wood on metal, mixed with Bryn’s grunts of effort. Rett crept slowly toward it, drawn this time not by the hypnotic fascination he’d felt at the sound of her singing, but by dark curiosity. “Bryn,” he whispered, as if he were only saying it to himself, testing the idea that she might be the one who had trapped them in this strange prison. And then louder, “Bryn?” She appeared in the doorway, spectral in the white jumpsuit lit by the morning light. Rett’s heart stopped. At her sides, Bryn’s hands glowed green. Rett tried to swallow the lump rising in his throat, but his mouth was too dry. His mind raced. Why would she jam the door—why trap herself in here? “Did you—” Rett faltered. What had that clattering been? The sound of a door being forced open? “Did you find another way out?” Bryn slowly shook her head. “Another room.” Framed in the doorway, she seemed so slight, hardly large enough to fill out her jumpsuit. Rett remembered how startled she’d been when he’d first seen her, how ghostly and timid. She’s just scared, he told himself. That’s why she trapped me in that room. She’s not going to hurt me. But a long string of evidence from life in a boarding facility told him otherwise. Everyone in that place was the same—look out for yourself, even if it means hurting someone else. It was what Rett had done, breaking that boy’s hand. “You found another room?” Rett could hardly grasp what she’d said. His heart was a jackhammer working on his rib cage. “Is there . . . anyone in there?” Bryn didn’t answer. “I think there’s someone else here,” Rett tried again. “And . . . I heard you talking to someone a minute ago.” Bryn tensed. “Someone else was here. That much is obvious.” Her hands curled at her sides. “What did you do to them?” Rett flinched. “I didn’t—” He’d been stupid to let her be scared of him, stupid not to try to explain that he hadn’t hurt anyone. But something didn’t make sense. “Who were you talking to?” he pressed. He took a step toward her. Her eyes widened with alarm. And then her gaze shot to the ladder in the open lounge to Rett’s right. In Rett’s mind, he saw her standing in the dark room at the top of the ladder, the room that mirrored the one he’d been trapped in, and he remembered hearing the drawer snick shut. “What’s up there?” he asked Bryn. And then he thought of the muffled conversation he’d heard a few minutes ago, and he knew. “A phone?” Bryn’s wooden expression told him he was right. Rett went for the ladder. Flew up the rungs before she could make a move to stop him. Why would she hide this from me? Why did she trap us in here? The room above was so dark. A bed made a vague shape against one wall, a bunk bed against the other. Rett crept toward the bank of drawers, goaded on by a faintly glowing reflective strip on the floor. Already his eyes were adjusting to the low light. He slid open a drawer. Nothing. He felt inside to be sure. Opened another drawer. Empty. Maybe she didn’t hide anything. Maybe she’s just as harmless as I am. He yanked open a last drawer, expecting to find nothing. Instead: a gun. Gray against black darkness. His mind tried to reject the sight. The tube of the barrel, the angled lines of the grip and the guard. Strange proof that Bryn wasn’t harmless. He reached in to touch it, to know for sure that it was real, to calm the wild flutter in his chest— A voice ruptured the silence: “Rett.” Bryn’s voice—so sharp, so close behind him it pierced his skull and sent his mind spinning into blackness. 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__label__wiki	0.874146	0.874146	The Rock Rumored To Be Appearing on UFC 244 Celebrity News October 15, 2019 0 BitWalker Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is one of the biggest WWE stars ever, and is one of the most popular actors in the world. Dwayne Johnson Net Worth is around $280 million making him one of the richest wrestlers ever. According to the latest news, The Rock will be present at UFC 244. He will be the one to present the BMF belt for the fight between Diaz and Masvidal. A little earlier The Rock was quoted saying he wants to be involved in the upcoming UFC 244 fight. And after UFC president Dana White said “The Rock gets what The Rock wants”. There is no doubt as to whether the Brahma Bull would appear on UFC 244 or not. The Rock is set to be present at the event on November 2, 2019, and will present the winner of the Diaz-Masvidal fight with the BMF belt which is worth $50,000. The UFC president also revealed details about the latest BMF title, he says it is currently being designed and will be unveiled in the next few weeks. Diaz and Masvidal are not competing for any championship, but the winner will get the BMF (Baddest M*********r) title. The BMF title has already come under scrutiny from various critics, who feel that the title would undermine the value of UFC’s real championship titles. The idea of the fight came from Diaz after he won his fight at UFC 241, he said that his next fight would see him defending the “baddest mother*** in the game belt”. Diaz then called out Masvidal. A thing that started off as a joke is now worth $50,000 and is the main event at the UFC 244 fight night. Masvidal was the one who took the initiative to call out WWE superstar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Masvidal tweeted to the former WWE superstar asking him if he would be available for UFC 244. In response, The Rock tweeted “Doing all I can to make this fight. If I can and you win, I’ll put the belt around your waist at MSG- consider it done. Already shaping up to be one of the biggest and most electrifying fights in @ufc history. Can’t wait.” Even though no championship titles are being defended at UFC 244, the show is turning out to be a popular affair, and with the involvement of someone as popular as “The Rock”, it is all set to become a must see event. The Rock’s appearance on the SmackDown debut show at FOX is still a mystery. There has been no confirmation about whether “The People’s Champ” will be present at the SmackDown debut, but it has now been confirmed that we will at least get to see The Rock inside the Octagon at UFC 244 on November 9th, 2019. Information about Ukrainian Surrogacy Clinic Global Energy Storage Deployment Predicted to Drop Due to Coronavirus How to Pick the Perfect Party Outfit Guido Rodriguez Says Things are always easier with Messi in the Argentina Squad BitWalker Email Author Gotten your brand new PS5? Use these 5 Tips and Tricks for it. Small Businesses In Boston Strike By Pandemic CDC Tells Americans to Stay Off Mexico How to prevent illness while traveling Tips to improve battery life on android Increase your kid’s active levels by exercising Everything you need to know about Fitness trends and myths Donate blood to improve your health! Toyotas recent commitment to help keep the vegan promise Prince Harry And Meghan Signs Deal With Netflix 5 Signs You Need a New Furnace 5 Tips to Build an Indoor Navigation … 28 – Trading Websites for Beginners Most Important Rules To Have a Clean … How Many Services are in Cloud Computing? 3 Online Services That Can Compress and … Try iBoysoft NTFS for Mac to Write … Finding The Best CCTV Camera Kits And … How to choose the right ink cartridge? TotLol.com Copyright © 2021. About \| Privacy Policy \| Contact	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1270
__label__cc	0.712356	0.287644	Metals and oxide-silicate stuffs hydrostatic forming E. B. Glukhov, A. A. Kondratyuk, V. P. Nesterenko Much attention is given to manufacturing materials with heightened physical and mechanical properties. When forming powder compositions the method of hydrostatic pressing (HP) is used. This method allows receiving isotropic articles with a practically unlimited ratio of length and sizes of cross section. On the installation of UVD-7 the model researches of pressing characteristics of copper powders produced according to standard 4960-75 were conducted. The results of influence of bulk weight, dispersion, configuration and methods of powders obtained on porosity of articles were obtained. Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Scientists: Modern Techniques and Technology, MTT 2000 https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCMTT.2000.896091 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Scientists: Modern Techniques and Technology, MTT 2000 - Tomsk, Russian Federation Duration: 28 Feb 2000 → 3 Mar 2000 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Scientists: Modern Techniques and Technology, MTT 2000 28.2.00 → 3.3.00 10.1109/SPCMTT.2000.896091 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Metals and oxide-silicate stuffs hydrostatic forming'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Silicates Engineering & Materials Science Hydrostatic pressing Engineering & Materials Science Oxides Engineering & Materials Science Powders Engineering & Materials Science Copper powder Engineering & Materials Science Metals Engineering & Materials Science Physical properties Engineering & Materials Science Porosity Engineering & Materials Science Glukhov, E. B., Kondratyuk, A. A., & Nesterenko, V. P. (2000). Metals and oxide-silicate stuffs hydrostatic forming. In Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Scientists: Modern Techniques and Technology, MTT 2000 (pp. 145-148). [896091] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCMTT.2000.896091 Metals and oxide-silicate stuffs hydrostatic forming. / Glukhov, E. B.; Kondratyuk, A. A.; Nesterenko, V. P. Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Scientists: Modern Techniques and Technology, MTT 2000. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2000. p. 145-148 896091. Glukhov, EB, Kondratyuk, AA & Nesterenko, VP 2000, Metals and oxide-silicate stuffs hydrostatic forming. in Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Scientists: Modern Techniques and Technology, MTT 2000., 896091, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 145-148, 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Scientists: Modern Techniques and Technology, MTT 2000, Tomsk, Russian Federation, 28.2.00. https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCMTT.2000.896091 Glukhov EB, Kondratyuk AA, Nesterenko VP. Metals and oxide-silicate stuffs hydrostatic forming. In Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Scientists: Modern Techniques and Technology, MTT 2000. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2000. p. 145-148. 896091 https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCMTT.2000.896091 Glukhov, E. B. ; Kondratyuk, A. A. ; Nesterenko, V. P. / Metals and oxide-silicate stuffs hydrostatic forming. Proceedings of the 6th International Scientific and Practical Conference of Students, Post-Graduates and Young Scientists: Modern Techniques and Technology, MTT 2000. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2000. pp. 145-148 @inproceedings{aa7eea2e04a743b897c4ae40783d6137, title = "Metals and oxide-silicate stuffs hydrostatic forming", abstract = "Much attention is given to manufacturing materials with heightened physical and mechanical properties. When forming powder compositions the method of hydrostatic pressing (HP) is used. 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__label__cc	0.530919	0.469081	Albin Kurti: Mini-Schengen Meeting ‘Unexpected’, Albania Should Consult with Kosovo Leader of the Lëvizja Vetëvendosje Albin Kurti, also Kosovo’s prime minister-in-waiting, stated that the second ‘Balkan mini-Schengen’ meeting was unexpected for him after he had talked with Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama few weeks ago. He added that the meeting “shouldn’t have been held” and “the haste” to hold it between the same three countries was “wrong and unexplainable”. Albin Kurti said that after their meeting with Rama in Tirana few weeks ago, the last weekend’s meeting in Ohrid, North Macedonia was an unpleasant surprise for him: “I would have never thought that the Ohrid meeting would be held with the same actors [Vučić, Rama, Zaev] and without Kosovo after what happened in Novi Sad [only Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia participated]. It was unexpected for me that this meeting took place without consulting with others. Albania and Kosovo should not participate in regional initiatives without first consulting with each-other. […] Albania and Kosovo should have a common foreign policy.” In fact, both governments have signed an agreement to align their foreign policy, but the so-called mini-Schengen initiative spearheaded by Serbia’s President Alexandar Vučić seems to have caused another rift between the two countries. Outgoing Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj also had claimed earlier that Rama pressured him before other European leaders to revoke a tariff imposed on Serbian imports to Kosovo as a result of Serbia’s undermining of Kosovo’s statehood. Rama denied it. Last week Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaçi refused the invitation to the second meeting hosted in North Macedonia to establish the ‘mini-Schengen’ area. In yesterday’s interview, Kurti said he hoped Prime Minister Edi Rama had consulted with businesses in Albania and had done an analysis of potential costs and benefits for his country’s participation in the initiative. He added that once his government is established, they will go through an analysis and consultations in order to understand whether Kosovo would have any benefits from it. The Albanian government has not suggested they have done any analysis, neither have any consultations with business chambers been made public. When asked about results of past meetings of leaders of both Albanian states, signing agreements and posing with symbols and patriotic gestures, Kurti replied that both governments should asses the implementation of more than 50 agreements signed so far, of which little results are palpable. Kurti said he had no doubt that President Alexandar Vučić was seeking “a fourth Yugoslavia, with the same objective of expanding Serbia.” He argued that both governments in Kosovo and Albania should work for closer integration among themselves first, and not only through regional platforms. Kurti urged the Albanian prime minister to prioritize working closely with the Montenegrin and Macedonian counterparts instead of Serbian President Vučić. Whilst he underlined that his party is for regional cooperation, Kurti added that it is unclear why Kosovo and Albania should first get rid of barriers with Serbia before thinking to do the same among themselves. He said that the Albanian government should not rush in this or similar initiatives, because “good intentions do not exclude mistakes.” Only days after Serbia had signed a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and after the EU leaders’ failure to reach an agreement on opening accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia last month, Russia invited both countries to join the EEU. It’s not clear what a mini-Schengen area might mean for the influence of Russian economy, through Serbia, in the Balkans. Kosovo’s prime minister-in-waiting expressed his disagreement with what he called “a tendency to prioritize compensating Serbia for losing Kosovo”. “The loss of the occupied Kosovo by Serbia is considered much more of a priority than the suffering Albanians went through. Just during the last war there were 10 thousand unprotected and unarmed civilians dead, 20 thousand [sexually] violated women, 120 thousand destroyed, burnt-down or damaged houses, 860 thousand people were forced out of Kosovo and over 1 million were forced from their homes, 1200 cultural artifacts robbed, and our bank deposits also robbed, as well as our pension fund. They [Serbia] did not pay us back a single cent. […] Serbia’s lamenting for Kosovo is being considered more of a priority than the suffering of Albanians which was inflicted by Serbia.” Kurti argued that any regional initiative of this kind should take into account the fact that the Kosovo people have voted for a government of the former opposition parties LVV and LDK, and for policies of reciprocity toward Serbia. Leader of Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) Isa Mustafa, whose party is expected to form a governing coalition with LVV, also opposed the mini-Schengen initiative. He argued that the move would mostly benefit Serbia and that it aimed at creating a new sort of Yugoslavia. Upon returning home from the last weekend’s meeting, Montenegrin minister of economy Dragica Sekulić also dismissed the idea of joining the initiative. She said that other countries in the region who had imposed tariffs and barriers on each other probably needed the initiative, but for Montenegro the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) was enough to guarantee the free flow of people, goods, services and capital. Despite criticism from Kosovo and at home, Prime Minister Edi Rama firmly proclaimed he is going to finalize the creation of the Balkan mini-Schengen area. He announced the third meeting will be held in Durres, Albania, on December 21. Source: Explaining Albania Tags: AlbaniaAlbin KurtiAleksandar VučićEdi RamaIsa MustafaKosovomini SchengenZoran Zaev Albania Can Only Move On from Communism Once It Has Dealt with the Past	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1275
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__label__cc	0.717385	0.282615	200-page book on the power of legal argument The Tools of Argument: How The Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win by Joel P. Trachtman Because it's more fun to win arguments than lose them Have you ever been in the midst of a discussion or argument regarding business, politics, legal matters, family responsibilities, or any other contentious topic and felt that your opponent did not have the “right” position, but had the better argument? Why is it that some people—often lawyers—can use reasoned arguments to debate with frustrating effectiveness? Perhaps you wished that you had a greater repertoire of skills to make your points, and win! If you are a law student or pre-law student, this book will accelerate your learning with a comprehensive set of principles to guide your legal education. If you are a trained lawyer or paralegal, this book will give you a framework for analysis and argument that will enhance your effectiveness. 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People respond to these arguments not because a speaker is overbearing, manipulative, or charismatic, but because they see the logic of the argument. When you bring this compelling logic to bear in legal encounters, as well as in business or interpersonal settings, you will be more persuasive. 1. Introduction to the Law 2. Legal Thinking 3. Arguing in a Legal System: Procedure 4. Arguing About the Meaning of Texts: Interpretation 5. Argument From Precedent 6. Arguing About Facts 7. Rhetorical Tricks 8. Arguing About Substantive Responsibility 9. Who Knows What Lurks in the Minds of Lawyers? 10. Winning Arguments with Reasoned Persuasion Read a Sample & reviews on amazon Joel P. Trachtman Joel P. Trachtman is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. At Fletcher, I teach and do research in the areas of trade law, international business transactions, immigration, and law and economics. 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One of the major factors driving the market studied is the increasing adoption of low-cost, flexible packaging aids.Shifting focus towards bio-based PSAs, the recovering construction industry in Europe is likely to act as an opportunity. Asia-Pacific dominated the market across the globe with the largest consumption in a country such as India, China, etc.Key Market TrendsPackaging Segment to Dominate the MarketEmulsion-based PSAs are widely used for packaging labels, opaque labels, adhesive films, graphic films, and tapes, owing to their holding power and shear resistivity. PSAs adhere to a surface when gentle pressure is applied. As precoated systems, they have permanent tack and adequate cohesion. Typical applications are self-adhesive paper and film labels or tapes. These paper labels can be directly applied to food, such as fruits and vegetables, as well as sausages.PSAs do not lose their holding ability and perform well at room temperature. 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KGaA, amongst others.Reasons to Purchase this report: The market estimate (ME) sheet in Excel format3 months of analyst support Key Topics Covered: 1 INTRODUCTION2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 MARKET DYNAMICS4.1 Drivers4.1.1 Increasing Adoption of Low-cost, Flexible Packaging Aids4.1.2 Other Drivers4.2 Restraints4.2.1 Stringent Environmental Regulations regarding VOC Emission4.2.2 Other Restraints4.3 Industry Value-Chain Analysis4.4 Porter's Five Forces Analysis5 MARKET SEGMENTATION5.1 Type5.1.1 Acrylic5.1.2 PVA (polyvinyl acetate)5.1.3 EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate)5.1.4 Other Types5.2 Application5.2.1 Labels5.2.2 Films5.2.3 Tapes5.2.4 Other Applications5.3 End-user Industry5.3.1 Construction5.3.2 Automotive5.3.3 Packaging5.3.4 Medical5.3.5 Other End-user Industries5.4 Geography5.4.1 Asia-Pacific5.4.1.1 China5.4.1.2 India5.4.1.3 Japan5.4.1.4 South Korea5.4.1.5 Rest of Asia-Pacific5.4.2 North America5.4.2.1 United States5.4.2.2 Canada5.4.2.3 Mexico5.4.3 Europe5.4.3.1 Germany5.4.3.2 United Kingdom5.4.3.3 Italy5.4.3.4 France5.4.3.5 Rest of Europe5.4.4 South America5.4.4.1 Brazil5.4.4.2 Argentina5.4.4.3 Rest of South America5.4.5 Middle-East and Africa5.4.5.1 Saudi Arabia5.4.5.2 South Africa5.4.5.3 Rest of Middle-East and Africa 6 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE6.1 Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Collaborations, and Agreements6.2 Market Share Analysis**6.3 Strategies Adopted by Leading Players6.4 Company Profiles6.4.1 3M6.4.2 American Biltrite Inc.6.4.3 APEC, Ltd (Advanced Polymer Emulsion Company)6.4.4 Arkema Group (Bostik SA)6.4.5 Ashland Inc.6.4.6 Avery Dennison Corporation6.4.7 Dow6.4.8 Drytac Corporation6.4.9 Dyna-tech Adhesives6.4.10 Franklin International Inc.6.4.11 H.B. Fuller Company6.4.12 Henkel AG & Co. KGaA6.4.13 Master Bond6.4.14 Momentive 7 MARKET OPPORTUNITIES AND FUTURE TRENDS7.1 Shifting Focus towards Bio-based PSAs7.2 Recovering Construction Industry in Europe For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/6jfrll Research and Markets also offers Custom Research services providing focused, comprehensive and tailored research. CONTACT: CONTACT: ResearchAndMarkets.com Laura Wood, Senior Press Manager press@researchandmarkets.com For E.S.T Office Hours Call 1-917-300-0470 For U.S./CAN Toll Free Call 1-800-526-8630 For GMT Office Hours Call +353-1-416-8900 YouTube viewers divided over grocery store stunt: ‘You’re really stealing’ Laugh 4 Life is a popular YouTube channel with 1.17 million subscribers who tune in to check out some of the group’s pranks. “Sometimes, when we’re just about to pay for our groceries, we realize we forgot to buy something,” the YouTube caption read. 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__label__cc	0.733609	0.266391	Signal Flare of Revolution OUR RATING 8.4 / 10 Hit Count: 1 Hit Count: 10 6x Attack in Heart damage to 1 enemy and restores 1500 HP. Secret Ninjutsu Catastrophic Planetary Devastation 12x Attack in Heart damage to all enemies in range and knocks them back. Pain is a Short range unit with great health and attack. 2168 (+ 300) 2092 (+ 100) 10 Short Great damage on jutsu and ultimate Lacks utility Great for PvP High character cost Ultimate jutsu has vast range Pain is a good Short range unit with seal and immobilization reduction rate. His jutsu can hit around 13k normal and 20k bonus element. His ultimate can hit 27k normal and 41k bonus element. Review from d1MnZz #1 – Role and Overview Pain is an AoE character, who can also be utilized as a Single Target DPS with a small amount of healing instead. There’s pretty much one reason to care about this character’s addition to the game – damage, his only saving grace. Pain is almost unmatched in this regard for his Element – literally Madara alone stands above him in terms of AoE – and just on raw damage alone no one can deliver more single target damage than he can with two jutsus in a row. Even in the worst case scenario – facing Body – it can be argued with 13k/26k nukes he almost doesn’t care about getting some of that reduced by typing disadvantage. So far so good, right? Now let’s get into Pain’s issues, starting with the video for his attack and both jutsus provided thanks to antonlab. Pain’s model is reused, the regular jutsu looks like it’s sucking Chakra (which it isn’t) and the secret animation of a farmable character is also being recycled. Great stuff overall, exactly what you expect for a Blazing Fest character. If only there was a technique they could have given him instead, with a cool movie to go along with it. Sarcasm doesn’t translate over the internet very well, so lets be perfectly clear now to avoid confusion – we started with his damage and jutsus because that’s pretty much it for this version of Pain. His sync skills are cute at best – short range units can’t take advantage of attack boosts as much (lower multipliers) and aren’t good for being front line units (low range gets you killed against mobs) so the active heal is also a bit wasted on him. The field/buddy skills he’s been given are abysmal – for PvE they’re utterly irrelevant and in PvP they’re best case scenario useful for niche team compositions (if you need to protect your front line’s jutsu with a buddy skill). His duplicate abilities made me want to throw up and while that’s an over-exaggeration, I can’t help but think what a wasted opportunity this was to make Pain a minimum top tier unit, at the very least in Heart. He could have had a significant increase in his healing, an active heal, reduced Chakra or – just like for the recent Sannin Orochimaru – an AoE for his regular jutsu as the “final” or “crowning” ability, which would have in a sense “completed” the unit’s kit. I want to expand on that last point because I already know what some of you are thinking – “but M what about power creep, too OP, pay to win, unfair” – so lets put in the context necessary for you to understand why a Blazing Fest unit shouldn’t be treated like regular banner fodder when it comes to those 3 things (especially duplicates). There are only 16 exclusive units inside the Blazing Fest banner – that means you’re more likely to get them at some point (assuming you mainly pull on them) and also because unlike regular banners they come back. Continuing from that, having poor design choices on a BF unit’s kit won’t just be a problem right now – it’s going to affect us for possibly every Blazing Fest moving forward. Unlike Lee, Itachi, Zabuza and Shukaku, there’s next to no chance that this unit is going anywhere anytime soon (assuming those 4 eventually get removed as they most likely “should” be). Pain is a great example of a unit you would be fully satisfied with having one of – which is not the case for the previous 15 units in the banner, even Zabuza (the only unranked Blazing Fest unit on my lists) becomes significantly more useful with his duplicates. For the die-hard F2P person – you’ll eventually farm up your Ninja Road Stones or get lucky & pull copies for most of these units (whether you want to or not), generally it’s supposed to be something to look forward to & keeps you excited when pulling a top tier unit you already have, because it usually pushes them even more over the top. Instead, we have nothing but disappointment waiting for us if we ever get any number of copies for Pain. Moving away from the Banner he was chosen for, lets look at the Element next – while I appreciate the War Sakura-esque attempt to add some healing to Heart – something they desperately need more of – it’s nowhere near enough to be considered relevant in PvE (and taking into account in PvP he’s going to be sitting in the back, it will be worthless there, but more on that later). That’s partially why I went so hard on his duplicates/skills – which could have enhanced it or switched his role‘s focus entirely, but instead it just ends up being a “token” gesture at best. Furthermore, if they were going to make a Path of Pain focused around healing, I can’t help but notice this isn’t the one you should be using – I don’t personally recall watching Yahiko‘s dead pipe-pierced-body running around healing people, but let me know in those comments below if I missed a filler episode or something where he did that. What we’ve ended up with can be referred to as a “classic move” by Bandai at this point (when it comes to the character’s addition to his respective Element). Just like Bijū Naruto, Deidara and Orochimaru before him, Pain finds himself in an existential nightmare – would anyone really notice or care if he wasn’t there? I don’t think so and for me that’s a problem. I want new units to bring something fresh or at the very least creative to the table and that’s why I find this Blazing Fest unit – can’t stress or repeat this enough – lacking. #2 – Is Pain a top 20 character for Heart? I put him at what I assume will be the contentious rank #6 for the Element. Some fun trivia – this makes him the fifth lowest ranked Blazing Fest unit across all my lists, only above Minato, Lee, Shukaku and the unranked Zabuza (who technically doesn’t count since he’s not even in Wisdom’s top 20). The problem at the core of Pain’s kit – which sounds kind of ridiculous, when referring to a character that’s almost top 5 in their Element – is that he doesn’t solve any problems or – to make a “fairer” statement – certainly doesn’t present any new or attractive solutions. “But he kills stuff” – true and so does everyone else, either better than him (contextually) or while providing significantly more support and/or control to your team. To earn one of the very top spots on my lists a unit’s kit has to make it a no-brainer for me – like So6P Naruto does in his Element – or at the very least present a very compelling case – like Utakata does, by literally laundering Chakra for breakfast and doing damage with the profits. As for Pain’s own Element, I think it’s safe to say Madara is currently the second best unit in the entire game, comparing the two of them is borderline hilarious and maybe it “shouldn’t be” – there’s an argument to be made that in theory there would be nothing wrong with giving the undisputed leader of the Uchiha some competition at this point by adding stronger units to Heart – the reality of the current situation remains. There’s only one unit I want to bring up in terms of relevant comparisons, someone many people will be shocked is ranked directly above Pain. #5 Itachi Uchiha ~ Beyond the Sharingan “Come on, Itachi has to be a worse unit, he’s so old!?” – you would think/expect so, considering how long we’ve waited for the 3rd ever Blazing Fest unit in this Element, but I’m sad to report this isn’t case. Although winning the raw jutsu damage comparison by a landslide, Pain’s got nothing on Itachi’s range in combination with relatively equal attack/health stats. In the toughest PvE missions I’d personally rather have Itachi’s presence on the field, “just in case” Dodgeand all-around phenomenal Slip than a meager heal & only raw numbers (halved) on a short range unit not hitting much on the field or sitting in the back (while providing a useless buddy skill). When we take this confrontation to PvP instead, Itachi once again comes out on top in my eyes – he can be your front line unit (thanks to his combination of health and speed) as a “discount Haku” & set your team up to win (as a Chakra generator), while Pain is the definition of what I call a “one-and-done” unit, after which he’s going to be sitting pretty & praying the enemy team isn’t running a bunch of Bees or a Hashirama gathering up Chakra to unleash hell with his secret. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a brand new Blazing Fest unit to be better than someone who’s been in the banner from the start, however Itachi holds his own impressively & retains his spot in my eyes. #3 – What’s his performance like in different game modes? While I can’t put him among the elite even for his Element, the fact you need just one copy of Pain to be “all set” will probably make him more popular than he “should” be. Still, he can put up a solid performance throughout the game and there isn’t much necessarily wrong with having him on your team for most situations. PvE – Emergency Missions, Impacts, Ninja Road, Phantom Castle I placed him in the A Tier for Missions, it’s not like he was built to deal with Body units, but he’s quite good when facing Heart and will face roll Skill units as expected. His realistic role on a team – DPS – is highly contested in the Element but as long as you don’t have the units in my top 5 for their respective list, he will definitely be a welcome addition to your mono team. Disclaimer: Ninja Road and Phantom Castle won’t be affecting my rankings or PvE Tier, but I’ll talk about them here regardless. Ninja Road – Pretty much your cookie-cutter AoE character, nothing too interesting to write home about. Painwill be a great upgrade for one of your units on the mob clearing team (especially if the next Season benefits from AoE damage as much as the previous one did). Phantom Castle – For 5 Chakra Pain does an almost stupid amount of damage on his regular jutsu, albeit only to a single target. He’s certainly not a top tier pick here, but he can heal some of the damage from WarSakura’s poison and save you from losing your wining streak so that’s… something. PvP – Ninja World Clash Adopting the one-and-done / assassin role, Pain is not an exceptional pick-up here. The things going for him in this arena are his 40k+ health and 20k jutsu damage against a neutral target. What went wrong, however, is his speed – 168 is well below the average and after he comes in & hopefully kills at least one enemy on the second rotation, thanks to needing 5 Chakra per jutsu, he will be more or less done for the rest of the game. Similar characters to Pain from other Elements – Hints Leading to the Truth Sasuke, Sannin Orochimaru and Taka Sasuke. Certainly decent, not mind-blowing by any means. Depending on the meta i.e. if the place is overrun with Utakata and/or lower health Skill units, I think it’s fine to label Pain as an A Tier unit (as long as he can delete his target), but in the “general scenario” i.e. against everyone else, I think he’s more well-suited for the B Tier. #4 – Conclusion Pain is the weakest addition to the Blazing Fest exclusive character list in recent memory, his kit is an abomination and he is almost instantly forgettable. On raw damage alone, he’s going to be on the Heart list for a very long time – as if to remind us you can’t kill a bad idea – but I still hope Bandai choose to tackle the issues within the Element eventually instead of just putting out generic, uninspired and, frankly, boring units like this one. The steps to the Blazing Fest banner are pretty much the same as they usually are, with Pain guaranteed at the end – both literally and figuratively – at the 9th step for a total of 380 Pearls. The other featured characters on the banner are Tsunade, Minato, Obito and Hashirama. My advice to anyone who’s not interested in burning money Pearls is to skip this one. I’m not very fond of that featured lineup, considering it doesn’t contain even one character ranked #1 for their respective Element. Feel free to also share your thoughts on this character and his addition to the game. Are you saving up for the leaked Madara/Obito or are you spending some Pearls on Pain? What do you think about the Blazing Fest banners in general, now that it looks like the nerf will be permanent? When do you think we’ll start seeing some of Nagato‘s other Paths of Pain, you know, the ones who actually use the rest of the Rinnegan‘s powers? Stats / Character Cost 6★ Heart Short 2168 2092 10 Character Cost 5★ 32 Field skills provide bonuses when Pain is near the range of the character in combat. Pain's Field Skill 5★ Reduces chance of being sealed by 25% - 30% Buddy skill is applied when Pain is paired with the main attacker. Pain's Buddy Skill 5★ Reduces chance of being sealed by 30% Sync Skills Akatsuki Sync with Heart - Lowers rate of receiving slip damage by 15% Sync with all except Short Range - Boosts attack by 100 (200). Sync with Akatsuki - Restores 75 (375) health every turn. Immobilization Resistance 20 Lowers rate of immobilization by 20% Jutsu Sealing Resistance 20 Lowers rate of jutsu sealing by 20% Awaken to 6★, costs 28000 ryo Naruto Shippuden: UNB Wikia Fan Site Ultimate Ninja Blazing X © 2021. We are not affiliated with Bandai or the developers of Ultimate Ninja Blazing.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1290
__label__wiki	0.623368	0.623368	Trang chủ 2020 Tháng Mười 5 VD-NEWS Arresting Dr. Pham Dinh Quy is an impassioned, a petty revenge Arresting Dr. Pham Dinh Quy is an impassioned, a petty revenge Exactly a week has passed since the day that martial arts master – Dr. Pham Dinh Quy, a lecturer at Ton Duc Thang University, was kidnapped by Dak Lak police, this afternoon, Dr. Quy’s father, Master Pham Dinh Trang, said Mr. Quy was kidnapped from the evening of September 23, but until September 30, his family received a notification from the police … sent by post! Mr. Trang’s family received two envelopes, the sender is Dak Lak province police, the recipient is Mr. Pham Dinh Trang, with the stamp of the Dak Lak post office on September 27. The text sent is the notice of the arrest of the person detained in an “emergency“. Dr. Pham Dinh Quy and on the left is a photo of the arrest notice for emergency detainees signed on September 27, ie 4 days after arresting Dr. Quy While the public opinion surrounding the kidnapping of Dr. Quy is increasingly fierce, today there is a new development, showing the possibility that the Dak Lak faction will not descend – that is, the Journal of Environment and Society is suspended for 2 months and got an administrative fine of VND50 million ($2,240) for “false information, causing a very serious impact” in the article “Secretary of the Party Committee of Dak Lak is accused of ‘plagiarizing’ and academic fraud?” posted in its special issue 16/2020. This magazine also had to revoke the publication with articles providing information about the Secretary of the Dak Lak Provincial Party Committee Bui Van Cuong plagiarizing. Information about the suspense of the magazine Environment and Society made public opinion “marginalized” confused and pessimistic. There was an opinion that Mr. Bui Van Cuong would be transferred to the Ministry of Information and Communication as a leader, so the Press Department rolled up his sleeve to help him. The people have more chance to understand more about communists, witnessing the whistleblower being kidnapped. Now they continue to witness the newspaper reporting the violation being suspended and fined. Journalist Vo Van Tao stated that “Daklak is completely wrong.” On his personal Facebook he wrote the following: “A week has passed, the Daklak CA scandal kidnapped the couple of Dr. Pham Dinh Quy, lecturer Ton Duc Thang University still in a mess, like a bone stuck in the throat of Mr. Bui Van Cuong, member of the Party Central Committee and the secretary of the Daklak Party Committee, and the police of this province. They cannot settle it easily. The power of a member of the Party Central Committee in the name of the police of Daklak province can obscure the jungle behavior, they blatantly trampled on the current law. Many people have spoken out, calling this the behavior of forest gangsters, not the police, even less in a member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. They said that the Dak Lak criminalized a civil issue. True, Mr. Cuong can choose to sue civil, but the reasoning to only sue civil is not close enough. The Penal Code contains Article 156 on “Slandering” with a maximum penalty of 2 years in prison and compensation for material and spiritual damage. The results of the anti-copy test using TURNITIN software of Vietnam Maritime University recorded the copy rate of 12% but revealed a contradiction that copying from Internet source is 6% and source of other documents are 9%, which should be 6% plus 9% and equal to 15% Infact, in 2017, the authority of the Maritime University issued a written conclusion that Mr. Cuong has copied (15%) to make his thesis. Thus, the plagiarism is real and Dr. Quy did not slander. Seemingly unsure of the law enforcement of Dr. Quy’s arrest, at first, the Daklak police announced that they “invited him to work,” not detained. The public, the press, and the online community reacted strongly, after a few days of illegal arrest, they turned to prosecute the case (it is unclear whether the policy decisions of arrest and probing approved by the local Procuracy. Be careful of illegal detention and prosecution because the consequences would be serious. According to the current criminal procedure regulations, if the police has in hand a decision to prosecute the defendant and a decision to detain which have been approved by the Procuracy, prior to the arrest, the police must notify the family, Ton Duc Thang University, and have witness by the people’s representative where Dr. Quy and his wife reside. And detention only applies if the suspect is released on bail, can continue to endanger society, or erase the criminal trail, or the suspect may flee, if the penalty is severe (death sentence, life imprisonment, 20 years in prison). Over here, Dr. Quy openly sent a petition to denounce Mr. Cuong plagiarism to relevant agencies in the Central agencies and the press, for a long time, the heaviest penalty of slander was only 2 years. Obviously, the detention of Dr. Quy is not a necessary deterrent, but a kind of violence, revenge against young people, arbitrary face-off, defying the law. But the Daklak police, in order to please the province leader, defied all the provisions of the criminal procedure law, unexpectedly arrested and illegally arrested Dr. Quy and his wife while they went to dinner at a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, to the surprise of all the guests who happened to be present and the owner. So, the next morning, they released Dr. Quy’s wife and requested her not to let anyone know about the kidnapping. It is important to know that, according to the current provisions of the law, state civil servants are only allowed to do what the law allows. Mr. Bui Minh Cuong’s doctoral dissertation naturally disappeared from the website of The Graduate Institute of Vietnam Marine University and after the public opinion has raised too many opinions, now suddenly re-appeared but it is not clear whether the content has been changed or not In criminal proceedings of the police, there is no concept of “inviting for working.” This is a hoax, fraud, and abuse of the police investigative agency’s power, which has become a common national disaster, tolerated by the Ministry of Public Security and the legal protection agencies. The responsibility for handling this illegal arrest first belongs to the Department of Investigation of the Supreme People’s Court. Nationwide, only this agency has the authority and responsibility to investigate and prosecute acts belonging to the group of “infringing judicial activities” (the object of violating the law is cadres and civil servants in the police, procuracy, court, and sentence enforcement). If taking seriously its functions, the Department must immediately issue a decision to prosecute the case of “illegally arresting people” and prosecute the involved state officials. That is the best way to keep the regime’s faceless obscure and avoid getting “Crime of not prosecuting criminal responsibility for criminals (Article 369 of the Criminal Code). Strangely, over the past week, when the online community and the foreign media were strongly condemned, the domestic press also spoke out, the responsible legal protection agencies of the Central Mass Mobilization Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam still covered their ears. What does the party’s prestige, the state, and national honor seem to them ?!” journalist Vo Van Tao concluded. From Hanoi, Mr. Nguyen Khac Mai, former director of Research Department, Central Mass Mobilization Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam expressed his dissatisfaction with this incident: “When you see people making false accusations you should take them to court, suing him for wrongly defaming you so the court will punish him. Vietnam has laws to punish those who make false accusations that affect the personality and interests of people, why not use the law but play the ‘jungle law.’ The native people in the Central Highlands are very cultured and civilized so the local state officials have to learn their culture to live, not turn themselves into a barbarian but behave.” RFA contacted lawyer Dang Dinh Manh in Saigon to ask for more details about arrest laws in the current law and received replies: “Particularly in the case of Mr. Quy, the investigation agency of Dak Lak province police arrested Mr. Quy, legally there is absolutely no basis to arrest because Mr. Quy is pursuing a complaint and denunciation case. Mr. Quy’s complaints and denunciations have not yet concluded whether he denounced right or wrong but the investigation police rushed in to arrest him for slander. An article published in the Journal of Environment and Society with the title: “Secretary of the Party Committee of Dak Lak Province accused of ‘plagiarism’ and scholarly fraud?” saying Mr. Bui Van Cuong’s doctoral thesis has 3 theoretical research chapters that have copied about 70% of the previously published works. In addition, the thesis also has the status of citing fake documents such as citations No. 48, 49, 57 (foreign documents), but in fact, the figures and interpretations are taken from Nguyen Huu Quyen’s Vietnamese documents with the same content as each sentence, word, and drawing made by Nguyen Huu Quyen … And many other contents describe in great detail In the crime of slandering, detention would be made in case the person is proved to make false accusations. However, in this case, there has no final conclusion. Particularly in the case of Mr. Quy, it is reasonable to raise the problem with revenge against the complainant and denunciator. “ In addition, lawyer Manh also pointed out the violations of the procedure as well as the unreasonable points in the case of arresting Dr. Pham Dinh Quy of the police of Dak Lak province. He said: “Emergency arrests are used when the crime is of a very serious or particularly serious nature and is based on a penalty of 7 years or more. Meanwhile, the crime under Article 156 is the heaviest penalty, the highest is 7 years, so if applying this is still incorrect. The second is the violation of the arrest rules. According to him, he was arrested on September 23 but the police issued a written notice on September 27. They should have notified their families when they were arrested but did not notify them until 4 days later. The Dak Lak police violated not only the arrest procedure but also the deadline to notify the family.” Hanoi arrests two 70-year-old journalists ahead party’s 13th National Congress Netizens talking about the arrest of Hanoi Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung Pham Doan Trang: Independent Publisher is suppressed due to its efforts to raise people’s knowledge and tell the truth Former prisoner of conscience Trinh Ba Khiem talks about arrests of his wife and sons Danh mục: VD-NEWS Từ khóa: accusations, Arrest, citizen, Dak Lak, Dr. Pham Dinh QUy, false, impassioned, kidnap, petty revenge, The Communist Party of Vietnam Can communist regime guarantee foothold for talent people? 15th Plenum: Nguyen Phu Trong – General Secretary, Nguyen Xuan Phuc – President (Internal news) Commenting around plan Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong continues its party general secretary post People want party members and officials to set an example to declare their assets 13th National Congress of CPV: Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong and “last communist’s image” Prisoner of conscience Tran Huynh Duy Thuc on 47th day of hunger strike Vietnam’s police and army conduct live drill in Hanoi prior to the 13th Party National Congress Why people have to share difficulties with BOT businesses ?! Sentences of Hiến Pháp group upheld although it affirms to work against China only CPV’s 13th National Congress: Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong and Nguyen Xuan Phuc “might be special cases” The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights raises concerns over the conviction of three independent journalists Are lifelong judges fit into one-party political regime? Dong Tam: Land petition clan one year after year of the bloody raid and wishes to be vindicated Harsh prison sentences and press freedom in Vietnam Vietnam: Vietnamese Dynasty group labeled as “terrorist organization” by the Ministry of Public Security. New poverty standards and Vietnam’s call for not leting “upstairs feel happy, downstairs feel difficulties”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1297
__label__cc	0.692611	0.307389	By Rich Madowitz\|2020-12-10T12:05:09-05:00December 10th, 2020\| We know that our otherwise hearty Valley residents might be too frightened this year to venture out for holiday shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic. We completely understand. We have worked tirelessly, and at great expense, [...] By Rich Madowitz\|2020-09-09T09:36:02-04:00September 9th, 2020\| Yoga Sanctuary has been a staple in Thornes Marketplace for about 12 years. Recently, the studio changed hands, and we are very excited that the new owner—a longtime studio member—has plans to revitalize programming, restructure [...] By Rich Madowitz\|2020-08-18T09:51:16-04:00August 18th, 2020\| Sharon Cohen, the owner of Footbeats for Women on the main level of Thornes Marketplace, entered her fourth year in business on July 1. It’s a difficult time, but like all merchants in our eclectic [...] By Rich Madowitz\|2020-01-10T10:01:15-05:00January 10th, 2020\| A Glimpse at the Artist Behind the Window Displays at Thornes Marketplace By Rich Madowitz Artist Carrie Lenard The window displays in front of Thornes Marketplace always catch the eye, but never so [...] New Restaurant to Open in Spring 2020 on the Basement Level of Thornes Marketplace Patria will offer fine dining with a relaxed and casual approach Chef Aaron Thayer with his business partner and wife, [...] Note: This article was published by the Daily Hampshire Gazette on June 10, 2019. Written by Staff Writer Scott Merzbach. NORTHAMPTON — The Blue Marble gift shop will add a new store to its [...] Marquee Western Massachusetts Attraction: Thornes Marketplace in Northampton By New England Travel\|2019-07-16T12:41:38-04:00April 15th, 2019\| Meet the Merchants of Thornes Article and photos, unless otherwise noted, by Eric Hurwitz. Story created 4/15/2019 Share this New England travel article with your friends. Walk down Main Street in Northampton, Massachusetts, toward [...] Captain Candy in Thornes Marketplace Changes Hands By Rich Madowitz\|2019-07-11T10:36:35-04:00April 1st, 2019\| By Richard M. Madowitz, Owner and Property Manager Levi Smith of Chesterfield is the new owner of Captain Candy. Nolan Anaya, the owner of Captain Candy on the lower level of Thornes [...] New family buys Northampton natural foods store Cornucopia By Daily Hampshire Gazette\|2019-07-16T12:41:55-04:00March 18th, 2019\| Note: This story was published by the Daily Hampshire Gazette on March 18, 2019. Written by Staff Writer Dusty Christensen. NORTHAMPTON — Nearly four decades ago, Bud Stockwell and Sydney Flum opened up their [...] Cornucopia Changes Hands After 39 Years By Rich Madowitz\|2019-07-11T10:38:07-04:00March 17th, 2019\| By Richard M. Madowitz, Owner and Property Manager Cornucopia, a natural foods store in Thornes Marketplace since June 1980, changed hands for the first time on March 18, when co-owners Bud Stockwell and Sydney [...]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1299
__label__wiki	0.648864	0.648864	Hospital consolidation and health care costs Today in the Washington Post, Alec MacGillis has an article about the Carilion Clinic’s provider network in Roanoke, Virginia (h/t Ezra Klein’s Wonkbook). Carilion owns the two hospitals in town and six others in the region, employs 550 doctors and has set off a bitter local debate: Is its dominance a new model for health care or a blatant attempt to corner the market? Carilion says it represents an ideal envisioned by the nation’s new health-care law: a network that increases efficiency by bringing more doctors and hospitals onto one team, integrating care from the doctor’s office to the operating room. The name for such networks, which the new law strongly promotes with pilot programs, is accountable care organizations, or ACOs — providers joining together to be “accountable” for the total care of patients, with incentives from insurers to keep people healthy and costs down. … But skeptics apply a more old-fashioned term to networks like Carilion: monopolies, which they say will make health care even more expensive. The article goes on to speculate about implications of provider integration for costs, quality, and prices. Turns out Cory Capps, economist and published expert on the implications of hospital consolidation, recently shared a working paper with me that pertains to these issues, at least with respect to hospital consolidation. He has authorized me to use its content in blog post. Let’s begin with some history. Capps takes us back to 1997. By the standards outlined by the DOJ and FTC in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines, most MSAs were already highly concentrated [HHI > 1,800] by 1997, when the simple average [hospital] HHI within a MSA was over 4,000. By 2006, the average HHI rose an additional 299 points. Weighting MSAs by admissions, the average 1997 HHI was still over 2,000 and rose by 253 points by 2006. (For the uninitiated: link to the definition of “MSA“; link to the definition of “HHI“; for anything else, Google it.) The figure below (click to enlarge) illustrates hospital consolidations over time (number of mergers and acquisitions or M&A, red line, right-hand-side scale) and yearly change in hospital inpatient spending (blue line, left-hand-side scale). The figure shows that the hospital industry experienced a wave of mergers in the 1990s and the rate of inpatient expenditures increased thereafter. A common explanation for these phenomena is managed care. As managed care peaked in the 1990s, hospital price competition intensified, pushing hospital costs and prices downward. Hospitals responded by merging to achieve economies of scale and scope while increasing bargaining power. After the managed care backlash, price competition was lower because of looser networks and increased hospital market concentration following the period of mergers. Vogt and Town conducted a survey of literature on the relationship between hospital consolidation and concentration and costs,quality, and pricing. Capps summarizes the findings in each of these dimensions. Costs. “Overall, Town and Vogt’s conclusion from their survey of the cost literature as follows: ‘[t]he balance of the evidence indicates that hospital consolidation produces some cost savings and that these cost savings can be significant when hospitals consolidate their services more fully.'” Quality. “The majority of studies to date, however, conclude that hospital mergers and acquisitions have either no effect or a modest negative effect on quality, with the former finding being the more common.” Pricing. “There is substantial evidence that hospitals compete within a fairly narrow geographic area, often smaller than a city or an MSA. Mergers within such a narrow area can lead to substantial price increases. Increases are most likely if the consolidation combines hospitals that, from the perspectives of insurers assembling provider networks, are close substitutes.” If hospital mergers have such a significant effect on prices, why didn’t antitrust regulators do something? Well, they tried and failed, until they gave up. Capps: From 1993 through 1998, the FTC and DOJ lost six consecutive hospital merger challenges; in 2001, the State of California lost a seventh. In the decade after the last of these losses, 1998 to 2008, neither the FTC nor DOJ challenged a prospective hospital merger in court. Over the 15 years spanning 1993–2008, antitrust policy likely had little restraining effect on hospital mergers over this period. Capps estimates the consequence of hospital concentration in areas where the population is large enough to support multiple hospitals (i.e. a less concentrated market) is to increase national health expenditures by $10-$12 billion annually, which is only 0.4-0.5% of national health expenditures. In an e-mail Capps explained to me that he was deliberately conservative in his estimate, both in its calculation and in its presentation. There are reasons to think the increase in health care costs due to hospital concentration is higher and more significant: Medicare and Medicaid prices are set administratively so are not directly influenced by market power. Only the 43% of total spending that is private spending could be affected by market power. Relative to that smaller base of health spending the increase in hospital market power raises prices by 1.2%, not 0.5%. If you focus further on private hospital spending, the price effect of market power goes up to 5%. In order to be conservative, he drew a pretty tight line for defining MSAs that could support a less concentrated hospital industry. He thinks that it is reasonable to expand the definition and, based on that, he argues his figures may be as much as 70% too low. That could push the price effect to 7% of private hospital spending. Consolidation for physician services arguably had an equivalent effect, doubling the impact of provider market power. Also, it’s worth noting that the distribution these costs is likely not uniform but focussed on a subset of Americans in highly concentrated markets. Bottom line, hospital consolidation matters, increasing health care costs by tens of billions per year and, in general, not delivering higher quality. It’s not the only factor in health care prices, and it may not be the most important one. But it is arguably pushing hospital prices for private payers up by at least 5% nationally. Will wider integration of hospitals and non-hospital based physician groups, such as that achieved by Carilion, improve quality without increasing prices? It remains to be seen. Economics, Health Policy health care costs, hospitals, market power by steve on August 16th, 2010 at 21:33 Interesting. An effort was made recently to try to lure my group into a multi county group of anesthesiologists, so that we would control almost everything for three counties. The lawyers, there were 4-5 at the meeting, assured us it was all legal. We did not join. Query- Many high risk procedures have been shown to benefit from being done at places that do higher numbers. I presume then that these mergers involve no real rearrangement of procedures or physical facilities? That would be consistent with what I have seen in our area.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1305
__label__wiki	0.797156	0.797156	Home India Citizenship Law, NRC: Where Can India Go From Here? Citizenship Law, NRC: Where Can India Go From Here? The government of India is going ahead with its legislation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and it has been passed in the Lok Sabha already. This was a part of the manifesto of BJP in the last 2019 general elections. Prof. Ujjwal K Chowdhury Ujjwal K Chowdhury By Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury For more than a quarter-century after the Kargil War, India steadfastly progressed in all fields to become a major economic and defence power, a leading educational destination and an international political force to reckon with. It has evolved into a leader in South Asia and the second-most important nation politically and the third-largest economy in Asia. But a spate of recent developments has equated and hyphenated India and Pakistan in the global mind-space. From the controversial Balakot strike, on which world opinion was unanimous that India had gained nothing, to the abrogation of Article 370 and the detention of prominent leaders in Kashmir and denying its ordinary people of normalcy, to the Citizenship Amendment Act, which comes with the added twist of an all-India National Register of Citizens, India has positioned itself as a petty regional power at war with itself and its neighbours. India’s closest neighbour, Bangladesh, is also on the back foot now. View More: 3 IITs, 20 Universities Protest against CAA China did not ban Internet services in Hong Kong despite crippling unrest and all-out civil disobedience that lasted over weeks, while India has deprived Kashmiris of internet connections for more than four months. For many weeks, Kashmiris were deprived even of basic telecommunication services. And now, the same has been done for the entire North-east, and elsewhere, after just a day or two of protest. Uncertainty and brazenness are the new normal in India. There is no justification for detaining 82-year-old Farooq Abdullah, Kashmir’s three-time chief minister and currently a Member of Parliament, who has carried the Indian flag through thick and thin, even during the heyday of militancy in his state. Yet, for more than four months now, with a three-month extension recently granted under the Public Safety Act, he remains under literal arrest. It is another matter that Abdullah himself was once a votary of this much-abused law. Besides, the parents of scores of Kashmiri teenagers are not even sure where they are and if they are alive. They say the global economy is moving towards VUCA: a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. Nothing else explains the Indian polity better today. Overnight, on 8 November 2016, India declared 86% of its currency was no longer valid. In the name of One Nation-One Tax, a five-layered Goods and Services Tax was brought in, which has gone through eleven rounds of revisions in less than two years, each taking India farther from a unified tax rate. View More: United Nation takes the First step of Justice for Rohingya Muslims The nation has officially slipped into one of its lowest ever economic growth rates, of 4.5% GDP. Critics of the government, outside and within the ruling party (politician Subramanian Swamy), say that the real growth rate is even lower than 2%, while in June this year, former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian had calculated a lower growth rate for the entire 2011 to 2016 period. All core sectors are at their worst phase of decline since 2000. Joblessness has never been worse in the last 45 years and public consumption is the lowest it has ever been in the last decade, so says the government statistical body, NSSO. Merely mouthing “global recession” cannot justify any more the Indian economic slowdown since India is faring far worse than Bangladesh, which has grown at over 8%, Sri Lanka higher than 7%, China, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives above 6%, and even Pakistan and Afghanistan at more than 5%. Outside the world of WhatsApp campaigns, which make for a heady concoction of white lies, lies and mixed truths, India is standing on a weak wicket, perhaps at its weakest ever in the last three decades. View More: Citizenship bill is part of the controversial disturbing agenda But then, politics is a game of perception. And the masters of the art of narratives have always played on public fears to create the perception that they are the saviours. The Indian government is walking down those very steps. Today, 79.8% of the population is being told to be scared of 14.2% of the citizenry and all mechanisms to spread hatred towards this “Other” are being formally and informally propagated. The hard-earned amity and harmony of earlier years are being squandered away with the use of the amended Citizenship Act (CAA), the NRC, Article 370 and by vitiating the public discourse through an online army of trolls. A nation with flailing economy, abject poverty and blood-stained fault-lines, which is of the size and population lesser than some Indian states, namely Pakistan, is being put forth by the government and the compromised mainstream media as the biggest challenge for world’s most populous democracy, one of the top five world economies—India. What an irony! View More: Decoding CAB & its biases The promised national NRC and the freshly-minted CAA are together a potent weapon to isolate and demonise Indian Muslims. The NRC, as seen in Assam, calls for detailed paperwork to prove citizenship of every Indian for two to three earlier generations, which, coupled with immense procedural lapses and corruption in the process, will lead to many Indians failing to prove their descent in India and thereby will stand to lose their citizenship. In a nation where for half the population the main concern is two square meals, and where one-fourth of the population lives in constant fear of flood, famine, storms and migration, maintaining papers that date back 50 or 70 years is to hold high expectations. Then, from among those who fail to prove their citizenship, Muslims will be singled out, because the new citizenship law allows only non-Muslims to appeal for citizenship, ostensibly on the ground of persecution in the three neighbouring nations (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh). This is in total contravention of articles 14, 16 and 25 of the Indian Constitution. Such an appeal will depend on just a hundred rupees affidavit—it is a complete recipe for brutalisation, communication and degeneration of society. One cannot live in peace by isolating and demonising 16% of your population, which happens to be the second-highest Muslim population in any nation. View More: ‘NRC’ crisis in Assam And The dubious attitude of the dock… Further, even as the impact of these changes is yet to unfold, already we know of the kind of the panic such laws and rules create: the painful five-year case study of Assam is before all of us. The fear and unrest itself are good enough to wreck India’s fragile social harmony like never before. But it will lead to the ruling party’s much wonted social polarisation, which always ends up going in its favour. This is the elephant in the room which no one talks about, but which all are aware of. The possible conclusions are as follows: anger in the North-east towards refugees and immigrants would worsen and could even turn into a basically anti-Bengali and anti-Muslim frenzy. Second, more fundamentalist elements within the Muslim community would emerge across India and become ‘leading lights’ of the community. And there would be a gradual decline in liberal Muslim voices. The dis-empowered communities would suffer from loss of avenues of employment and create a long term negative economic impact. View More: Over one lakh people excluded from the draft National Register of Citizens… From a wise leader of the non-aligned world and a seat of peace and learning, India would become an international pariah, the opposite of itself. Already, the United Nations’ spokesperson, the UN High Commission on Refugees and the Commonwealth Commission on Human Rights have deplored the new citizenship law of India and more than 32 leading media and other global voices have denounced the curtailment of freedom of the Kashmiri people for months together. The only right political outcomes that should evolve now are: Muslim elders should avoid community-centric aggression and combine forces with the Dalits and secular voices in other communities and lead a joint movement against CAA-NRC, and the Opposition forces (Congress, regional and the Left) should end the era of usual political competition and recognise that this extraordinary situation needs all political forces to unite against one-party dominance. The Left front and Congress-led front joint protest in Kerala against CAA, the Trinamool-Congress party joint protests in Kolkata, the Sena-NCP-Congress joint rule in Maharashtra are some initial signs of the coming together of the Opposition. View More: Assam NRC: SC extends the deadline with 5 additional documents There is a need for civil society activism to preserve the syncretic polity of India and its Constitution. Signs of this are also on the rise, especially with a civil society protest slotted for 19 December all across India. That day, which is marked as Shahadat Diwas, when Ashfaqullah, Ramprasad Bismil, and Sardar Roshan Singh, born Muslim, Hindu and Sikh, were all hanged to death by the British colonial government. Every story, artwork, poem, literary work, piece of music or dance or play and film marking our shared religious histories, our syncretic idea of India, needs to be told and retold, enacted and exhibited across India in these times. This is not about Muslims, but India as we know it against an unknown India which plans to be a majoritarian, dictatorial state within and an international pariah shunned from the world stage. There can be a new VUCA too and India needs one: the vision for a shared future, understanding of the other and diversity, collaboration with diverse groups, and agility to progress economically, technologically, ecologically, educationally and in healthcare. Previous articleUnited Nation takes First step of Justice for Rohingya Muslims Next articleCAA attracted more opposition than a support among the masses The author is a noted media academic and columnist and is currently the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Kolkata based Adamas University. 28 से 30 नवंबर तक दिल्ली में किसान मार्च: हनान मोल्लाह TPT Bureau - November 6, 2018 0 महंगाई, न्यूनतम भत्ता, कर्जमाफी समेत कई बड़े मुद्दों को लेकर देश के किसान राजधानी दिल्ली की सड़कों पर मोदी सरकार के खिलाफ उतरेंगें। किसानों के मुद्दे वामपंथी दलों की राजनीतिक गतिविधियों के केंद्र बनते जा रहे है। एआईकेएस के महासचिव हनान मोल्ला ने दावा किया है कि "भूमि सुधार" लाने के लिए लगातार सरकारों की "विफलता" ने "कृषि संकट" को जन्म दिया है। अखिल भारतीय किसान सभा (एआईकेएस) के महासचिव हनान मोल्ला ने कहा कि 28 मार्च से 30 नवंबर तक राष्ट्रीय राजधानी में एक मार्च का आयोजन किया जाएगा। कृषि संकट विभिन्न तरीकों से प्रकट होता है और इसके पीछे ऐतिहासिक कारण हैं। उन्होंने केंद्र में बीजेपी सरकार पर भी आरोप लगाया कि किसानों को 2014 के चुनावी वादे को पूरा नहीं किया है। Know Why Ram Nath Kovind is the Trump Card for BJP RiiDL is Hosting a One-Month Startup Bootcamp Program-2018: A Bunch of... করোনা সংক্রমণে রাশ টানতে কড়া লকডাউনের সিদ্ধান্ত ঘোষণা নবান্নের, ৯ জুলাই... US cyber attacks on Tehran targets – A failure. Aung San Suu Kyi can be under Criminal Investigation for Genocide! Education Emergency: Over 9.5 million children may never go back to... Highlight of Union Budget 2018 बुलंदशहर हिंसा में नया मोड़, जीतू नाम का फौजी ने मरी... Few years are enough to destroy a flourishing economy Right to Vote: Election Commission asked to grant postal ballot rights... Online Food Delivery Service Swiggy to Cut 1,100 Employees	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1311
__label__wiki	0.860164	0.860164	Why NYC may remove 5 stories from a nearly-finished UES condo Real Estate Iverlad Development and architect Manuel Glas accused of deceiving city at 1059 Third Avenue Jun.June 06, 2019 09:30 AM TRD Staff 1059 Third Avenue as of July 2018 and Manhattan borough president Gale Brewer (Credit: CityRealty and Getty Images) Well-organized NIMBY’s and local politicians have stopped a development in its tracks, arguing the developer didn’t conform to local zoning rules. If you’ve been paying attention over the last few years, that isn’t novel. What’s unusual in this case is the building, at 1059 Third Avenue, is nearly complete, and local officials may take the drastic step of removing floors. The 30-story, 467-foot-tall condominium, developed by Orlando, Florida-based Real Estate Iverlad Development and Third Palm Capital, may have five more floors and 10,000 square feet more than zoning codes allow, according to Manhattan borough president Gale Brewer’s office, who has called for an investigation into the development. Work has stopped as investigators and local agencies scramble to review plans, the New York Times reported. “We are confident that our team will address any outstanding concerns and meet all requirements to the department’s satisfaction,” a spokesperson for Real Estate Iverlad Development said. In a statement to the Times, architect Manuel Glas said the building and zoning plans were accurate, he complied with all local rules and the project was approved four times by the city’s Department of Buildings. Glas’ attorney also said Brewer’s allegations were based on a misreading of zoning rules and building plans. But Brewer’s office says a consultant hired by local neighborhood group Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts examined zoning documents and architecture plans and concluded that floor-to-area calculations didn’t match architectural drawings. He claims the extra space allowed the developer to build higher and charges loftier prices for the building’s 38 condos. The attorney general’s office accepted plans in 2018, but no sellout price has been submitted. The property was bought in 2012 for $31.5 million. Last year, neighborhood groups famously halted Gamma Real Estate’s Sutton Place tower. And in March, a judge forced the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals to re-evaluate SJP Properties and Mitsui Fudosan’s tower at 200 Amsterdam. Crain’s reported that the new determination would disallow the method developers used to create a 51-story tower on a small lot. Critics said the way in which the developers assembled development rights from neighboring properties was similar to gerrymandering, and seek to reduce the height to 17 stories. [NYT] — James Kleimann Editor’s note: This story was updated to clarify the judge’s action on SJP and Mitsui Fudosan’s tower at 200 Amsterdam Avenue. Developmentupper east side Howard Hughes’ Seaport project dealt major blow The Closing: Ray McGuire Noho offices move forward where city wants housing New High Line section will connect to Moynihan Train Hall	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1315
__label__cc	0.685909	0.314091	Review: A Soldier’s Honor by Regan Black Title: A Soldier’s Honor Mills & Boon imprint: Romantic Suspense Year of publication: Out today! The author kindly gave me a copy to read and review The heroine: Government contracts officer Bethany Trent The hero: Army major Matt Riley The blurb: When a security snafu turns his world upside down, Major Matt Riley reunites with his long-lost son. And fourteen years later, the military man is still captivated by his ex, Bethany Trent. Matt must convince her that their new family bond is for keeps—but first, he must keep them alive… Standalone or series: This is book one in The Riley Code series, but can be read as a standalone. The review: This is book one in the Riley Code series, and it’s off to a good start. Matt Riley, the oldest of the Riley children, met Bethany Trent when they were both at West Point as cadets. They were young when Bethany fell pregnant, and instead of having them both thrown out of the academy she chose to move to another school and raise the baby as a solo parent. Matt has known all along about Caleb and has been drip fed information about him as he’s grown, but Bethany has always made it clear that she was putting Matt’s career in the military first and that she would raise Caleb alone. When a hacker starts sending them both threatening messages about exposing Caleb’s existence, Matt and Bethany know it’s time to tell him about Matt. But Caleb already knows; the hacker clued him in with anonymous photographs. Caleb flees to find Matt, and then Matt realises that all three of them are being targeted by someone. As Matt and his military colleagues work behind the scenes to find out who this mysterious man is who seems to want to hurt Matt and his family, he tries hard to make a relationship work with not only his son, but Bethany. He still loves her, and she him, but every time he tries to bring it up she pushes him away. Bethany comes to realise she’s done both Caleb and Matt a huge disservice by not allowing Matt to be a bigger part of Caleb’s life from the beginning. She did what she thought was best for her child, and she was young at the time, but I found myself frustrated with Bethany and her actions. I could understand her not wanting to be a military wife, wanting to protect Matt and his career… but once he graduated, why couldn’t he have been merged into Caleb’s life then? And even when she knows how Matt feels about her, that he’s loved her all these years, she still won’t let him in. But that all changes when Bethany and Caleb are abducted and they have to pray Matt will find them in time. Will Bethany finally realise she needs to stop hiding her feelings and admit Matt has always been the only man for her? Will Matt finally get the family he’s always wanted? You’ll find out by the end of this book… and there’s clearly more books planned in the series, if the ending is anything to go by! An enjoyable read if you like romantic suspense. Filed Under: author: regan black, book reviews, mills & boon: romantic suspense, series: the riley code Tagged With: author: regan black, book reviews, mills & boon: romantic suspense, series: the riley code Review: What She Knew by Regan Black Title: What She Knew The blurb: Dr. Luciana Perez thought she hit the jackpot when she landed the position at the Shutter Lake Medical Clinic. Until her friend Sylvia Cole is murdered and the authorities come calling, certain that Luciana has more information about the crime. But Luciana only knows Sylvia had secrets she wasn’t inclined to share. Secrets that had Sylvia seriously worried. Secrets someone was willing to kill to keep buried. Every day that the killer isn’t found, Luciana’s fear tightens like a noose around her neck: fear of her own secrets being exposed, fear of becoming the next victim, and fear that the murderer will irrevocably shatter the idyllic peace and security of their beautiful town. Standalone or series: This is the fourth and final book in this mini-series, each one written by a different author. You will need to read all four in order, as together they form one big book. The review: What She Knew is the fourth and final instalment in the Breakdown suspense mini-series, and we finally get answers to all the questions built up over the other three books – who killed Sylvia Cole and why? What happened to the missing girl and FBI Agent investigating her disappearance? It turns out that I had correctly guessed the identity of Sylvia’s killer, although I hadn’t worked out the motive. For a picturesque town like Shutter Lake, a great number of its residents were hiding some pretty dark secrets. Our heroine for this book is Dr Luciana Perez, known as Ana. She hides the darkest secret of them all, and in the course of helping uncover the identity of Sylvia’s killer – she and Sylvia were close friends and Sylvia had confided in her about what she’d been investigating in the lead up to her death – Ana’s own painful secret about her past comes out. She’s ready to flee, but Deputy Laney Holt convinces her not to. It’s with Ana’s determination and smarts that the killer is uncovered, but not before she is harmed in the process. However, the truth is uncovered in the end, and while everyone’s secrets have come out, it’s not to the whole town but to a chosen few. While there were a few small things that didn’t gel for me in this book – there was a hint of a romantic attachment for Ana to a man featured heavily in the previous books that I didn’t see coming and didn’t care for at all, and once again some of the interactions between the female leads felt more like strangers than close friends – all up, I really enjoyed this series. If you like mysteries, you should enjoy this series. Filed Under: author: regan black, book reviews, series: breakdown Tagged With: author: regan black, book reviews, series: breakdown Review: Braving the Heat by Regan Black Title: Braving the Heat Year of publication: Out today! The author kindly provided me a copy to read and review The heroine: Firefighter (Mac)Kenzie Hughes The hero: Mechanic Stephen Galway The blurb: One man wants her dead. Another will do anything to protect her. Firefighter Kenzie Hughes never thought saving lives would make her a target. When someone rigs her car and sexy Stephen Galway offers to be her bodyguard, the flames of danger burn red-hot. Stephen lost his fianc’e to violence years ago, but he can’t resist Kenzie. Can he keep Kenzie safe and out of his arms when they’re forced to confront what they fear most? Standalone or series: Book four of the Escape Club Heroes series, but can be read as a standalone The review: Kenzie Hughes’s life has been turned upside down ever since she rescued a man name Murtagh from a fire. A former firefighter himself, he seems to have a bee in his bonnet about female firefighters and sues Kenzie for the minor injuries he received during the rescue. As a result, she’s been placed on administrative leave. Forced to leave her apartment because of other issues, she has to rely on friends for help, something an independent spirit like herself is reluctant to do. Stephen Galway is mired in grief. Three years ago, his fiancee was murdered because of her job at the local community centre. Stephen is wracked with guilt that he couldn’t save her. He’s angry that the man who pulled the trigger was found not guilty of the murder. He’s determined, despite the best efforts of his family, not to give his heart to another woman. Ever. When Kenzie’s old car seemingly falls apart, she’s had enough. She works with Stephen’s brother, Mitch, who offers Stephen’s services to look at the car. When Stephen finds out about Kenzie’s predicament with no current roof over her head, he offers her the camper he lives in on the garage premises. Kenzie’s good with cars, thanks to her father, and she helps Stephen in the garage where she can. Meanwhile, someone is targeting Kenzie – her car has been sabotaged and someone is slandering her on the internet, determined to get her fired. Despite it all, Kenzie refuses to bow and her fierce determination not to give in means that she can still find things to laugh about. It’s that determination and that laugh that draws Stephen in, as much as he doesn’t want it to. He can’t help his attraction to Kenzie, and it’s obvious she feels the same way. Will they find out who’s behind the attacks on Kenzie? Will Murtagh get his way and have her fired, and why does he want that so badly? Will Kenzie and Stephen act on their desire for each other? Will Stephen finally open his heart again? If you want the answers, you’re just going to have to read the book and find out 🙂 Filed Under: author: regan black, mills & boon: romantic suspense, series: escape club heroes Tagged With: author: regan black, mills & boon: romantic suspense, series: escape club heroes Upcoming release – Braving the Heat by Regan Black Mark your calendars, folks! On July 1st, there are books by at least three amazing authors being released and you know I’m going to read them 😀 Braving the Heat by Regan Black will be out and you won’t want to miss it. What’s it about? One man wants her dead. Another will do anything to protect her. Firefighter Kenzie Hughes never thought saving lives would make her a target. When someone rigs her car and sexy Stephen Galway offers to be her bodyguard, the flames of danger burn red-hot. Stephen lost his fiancée to violence years ago, but he can’t resist Kenzie. Can he keep Kenzie safe and out of his arms when they’re forced to confront what they fear most? Read an excerpt here. Filed Under: author: regan black, mills & boon: romantic suspense, series: escape club heroes, upcoming releases Tagged With: author: regan black, mills & boon: romantic suspense, series: escape club heroes, upcoming releases Protecting Her Secret Son by Regan Black Title: Protecting Her Secret Son The heroine: Jennings Construction employee Shannon Nolan The hero: Firefighter/Jennings Construction manager Daniel Jennings The blurb: After escaping a world of ruthless crime, Shannon Nolan finally thought she’d left her nightmares in the past. Then the worst thing she could imagine happens: her son is kidnapped! With nowhere else to run and no one else to trust but her boss, she puts her life in Daniel Jennings’ hands. Firefighter Daniel knows Shannon is safe under his protection, but the one threat he doesn’t want to face is his growing passion for her. But as they put everything on the line to rescue her son, that very connection might just be what saves them all… Standalone or series: Part of the Escape Club Heroes series, but can be read as a standalone. The review: Shannon Nolan has been attracted to her boss for a long time, but having come out of a violent marriage and fleeing NYC to get away from her domineering ex-husband with mob connections, she’s afraid to trust another man. She also didn’t tell the ex she was pregnant, and when he finds out there’s a child involved, he’s determined to get revenge. Daniel was planning on asking Shannon on a date, but the day he finally works up the courage to do so Shannon’s four-year-old son, Aiden, is kidnapped from his babysitter’s house. Thanks to Daniel’s connections, Shannon has help in trying to find her son and she has to trust Daniel and his friends to bring Aiden home safely. The ex turns out to be a nutcase who was led to believe Shannon cheated on him, resulting in her pregnancy, and he kidnaps the boy to exact revenge. Aiden is safely brought home and he quickly becomes attached to Daniel, as does Shannon. Daniel realises he’s ready to settle down and wants to be a husband and father, and his wish is granted. I liked the romance between Daniel and Shannon. I’m glad the kidnapping wasn’t drawn out for the entire book. Shannon was tempted many times to take Aiden and run, but I’m glad she didn’t. Daniel is a good guy who made them happy 🙂	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1318
__label__wiki	0.874572	0.874572	Central County Emergencies & Disasters Safety, Security & Justice Water, Power & Waste Norberto Santana, Jr. Anne Marie Panoringan Paul Hodgins Julie Leopo Community Opinion Impact & Honors Staff & Contact Us Support & Partnerships We have been your lifeline during the pandemic, economic fallout, wildfires, protests and the election. Support us today with a tax-deductible donation. Santa Ana City Council Votes to End Red-Light Camera Contract By ADAM ELMAHREK \| March 20, 2014 The Santa Ana City Council Tuesday voted unanimously to terminate the city’s contract with a red-light camera vendor that is the subject of a federal bribery investigation, with council members saying the nearly $500 fines associated with red light tickets are an excessive burden on residents. However, the contract with Phoenix-based RedFlex Traffic Systems doesn’t expire until June, 2015 and city officials said the cameras must stay up until then because they can’t terminate the contract early. “If it was up to me, I’d get rid of the contract today,” said Councilman Sal Tinajero. The cameras are placed at 15 intersections in the city, according to a staff report, and the fines bring in millions. But the city has only netted $58,316 on the contract since the 2008-2009 fiscal year, because much of the revenue goes back to RedFlex and the city spends hundreds of thousands of dollars in personnel costs to run the program. Nonetheless, cameras will remain in place and citations will continue to be dolled out until the contract’s expiration, according to Police Department spokesman Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. “There is a current and valid contract in place that is still enforceable per California State law,” Bertagna wrote in an email. “Enforcement efforts will be stopped when the contract agreement terminates.” While controversial everywhere, the camera systems have been hailed by supporters as effective deterrents to motorists running red lights and causing fatal collisions. An internal study showed collisions at intersections with the cameras were down significantly compared to those without, according to a report by police Cmdr. Ruben Ibarra. Between 2005 and 2009, collisions with injuries at photo-enforced intersections dropped by 77 percent, and total collisions were down by 54 percent, according to Ibarra’s report. A statement from RedFlex Director of Communications Jody Ryan pointed to the police department’s studies as evidence that the council’s decision to end the contract was ill advised. “Additionally, the Chief pointed out that eliminating the cameras ‘could potentially put the commuting public at greater risk.’ The decision by the Council to take action without a thorough discussion and understanding of the program’s safety benefits is unfortunate,” Ryan wrote. Council members said that the increased safety of the camera systems can be disputed, and the citations are often contested in court. Meanwhile, RedFlex is at the center of a possible $2-million bribery scandal in Chicago, in which RedFlex officials are alleged to have showered public officials with gifts in exchange for contracts. However, that point did not come up in the council discussion. 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ABOUT US: Mission \| Editorial Policies \| Contact Us \| Funding \| Privacy Policy CORONAVIRUS: The latest Orange County news and information. SUBTOPICS: Anthony Bertagna federal investigation Redflex Traffic Systems Sal Tinajero Santa Ana City Council Last of 12 Defendants Found Guilty in OC Court Bribery Scheme Javed “Joey” Asefi was found guilty by a federal jury last week of participating in five-year racketeering scheme that paid $250,000 to an Orange County Superior Court clerk in exchange for resolving more than a thousand criminal cases and traffic violations without the knowledge of prosecutors and judges. Local Red Light Camera Contractor Part of Chicago Scandal RedFlex Traffic Systems, which has contracts with Santa Ana and Garden Grove, has acknowledged a $2-million bribery scheme executed over several years at Chicago City Hall. Orange County's Nonprofit & Nonpartisan Newsroom © Copyright 2021, Voice of OC	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1321
__label__cc	0.518569	0.481431	Hungary, also referred to as the Republic of Hungary or Hungary, is a rustic in Central Europe bordering Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Budapest is the most important metropolis and the capital of Hungary. One of many fundamental causes for Hungary’s reputation is its hospitality to vacationers. A superb mixture of historical past and present affairs may also be present in Hungary. Hungarians proudly adhere to their historic Margar custom, they usually chorus from present fashions world wide. Many guests come to go to Budapest, a very world-class metropolis situated on the Danube. It supplies love and music for everybody. The town is a fusion of tradition and distinctive magnificence, making it a really perfect vacation spot for vacationers. The town is a haven for writers, musicians and artists who’ve vastly influenced this stunning metropolis. For those who journey west to Hungary, Lake Balaton is standard with vacationers. Native dishes embrace halasley (fish soup) and goulash soup (goulash) with pasta. Hungary is situated in Central Europe and borders Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. The Danube and Tissa rivers divide the nation into three fundamental zones. The nation is strategically situated alongside the mainland between Western Europe and the Balkans, in addition to Ukraine and the Mediterranean Basin. Hungary has a light local weather with heat summers and winters. The common annual temperature in Hungary is about 9.6 about C. Summer time highs could be as little as 43 C and -30 as C. The common summer time temperature is 26 to 36 C and the common winter temperature is zero to -16 C. As in every other nation, Hungary has its personal customs. It’s customary to shake arms. It’s customary to make toast and return. It’s customary for friends to current items to the host of a meal. Smoking is prohibited in most public areas. However passengers can smoke on long-distance trains. Informal put on is suitable in lots of locations and is formal for particular events. It’s customary to extend it to 10-15 p.c for all providers akin to eating places, bars, golf equipment, taxis, and so forth. Royal Palace Fort Fisherman’s Fortress Matias Church Gelert Hill Chain bridge The Nice Synagogue and the Jewish Museum Idol Backyard By Air: Hungary’s nationwide airline operates flights to greater than forty cities world wide. Different worldwide airways working from Hungary embrace Aeroflot, Air France, British Airways, EasyJet, KLM, Lufthansa, Sky Europe, Swiss, United Airways and Wis Air. Budapest Worldwide Airport (BUD) is the most important airport situated southeast of Budapest. Hungary is without doubt one of the 15 hottest vacationer locations on the earth and the capital is taken into account some of the stunning on the earth. Regardless of its comparatively small measurement, Hungary has World Heritage Websites, UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, the world’s second largest tropical lake (Lake Hewes), the most important lake in Central Europe (Lake Bolton) and the most important pure grassland in Europe (Hortobi). When it comes to buildings, Hungary has the most important synagogue in Europe (Nice Synagogue), the most important bathtub in Europe (Széchenyi Medic), the third largest church in Europe (Esztergom Basilica), the second largest terrestrial abbey (Pannonhalma Archabbey), and the second largest on the earth. Göd andllő) and the most important early Christian Nicopolis (Pécs) outdoors Italy, the second largest underground in Europe and the third largest underground on the earth after New York and London (Millennium). Local weather of Hungary Absolutely the temperature in Hungary varies from -20 (C (-4F) to 39 ° C (102F) through the yr, the rainfall and frequency are unpredictable as a result of continental local weather of the nation, with heavy storms after scorching summer time days and heavy showers in autumn. The western a part of the nation receives extra rainfall than the jap half and there’s a extreme drought in the summertime, the weather conditions within the Nice Plains are significantly harsh, with scorching summers, chilly winters and light-weight rainfall.The capital’s local weather is humid continental and within the spring and autumn. The climate is nice, the summers are scorching, the showers are plentiful, the winters are chilly and the temperature is normally beneath zero levels. Enter Hungary There aren’t any border controls between the signatories to the settlement: the European Union (besides Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Eire, Romania and the UK), Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Equally, a visa issued to any Schengen member is legitimate in all different international locations the place the settlement is signed and activated. However beware: not all EU members have signed the Schengen settlement and never all Schengen members are a part of the EU. Which means there could also be random customs checks however no immigration checks (touring to Schengen however to a non-EU nation) or it’s important to undergo immigration however not customs (touring inside the EU) however / to a non-Schengen nation). Nation). See the article Visiting the Schengen space for extra data on how this system works and what enrollment necessities are. Acknowledged refugees and holders of a sound journey doc issued by the federal government of any nation / area are exempt from acquiring a visa for Hungary (however for any Schengen nation aside from Germany and Slovakia for refugees) for a most of 90 days To remain. Residents of Antigua and Barbuda can work in Hungary for 90 days with out a visa with out a visa. Nevertheless, this capability to work with out a visa doesn’t prolong to different Schengen international locations. Around the World Travel	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1324
__label__cc	0.515624	0.484376	More Art And Architecture (1732) Books > Art and Architecture > Aesthetics > Rabindranath Tagore (Selected Essays on Aesthetics) Rabindranath Tagore (Selected Essays on Aesthetics) by Amitabha Chaudhury This anthology, edited and translated from togere’s original writing in bengali by Amitabha chaudhury ,comperises a selecation of some of Tagore’s essays on art ,literature religion and human nature . going beyond the usual contours of aestheies – meaning and context of art – book imbued with Tagore’s unique philosopher and categorically abhorred acidemicices- and he was not interested in building a coherent thorery of literature a art . this anthology is in a way essences of views on aesthetics and is a must –read for all those who wish to understand the life and mind of Rabindranath Tagore and his and his artistic ligancy , better. Amitabha chaudhury is a Bengali writer and has been writing since the 1970s. He also writes in English. He has published fourteen volumes of collections of poetry; three fictions; four collections of literary criticism and three full length plays. he has published several translations in bengali including orates trilogy by Aeschylus ,lsla negra by pablo neruda , collected poems of rainer maria rilke and anthology of 20 th century world poetry. He has also been regularly writing for various literary magazines. Ever since Plato denounced the ‘mimetic ‘poets and evicted them from his republic, literary concern has been raised against the philosopher’s tyranny. As Keats asked,”do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy?” And yet, poets particularly the romantics have tended to believes that as creator, the poet is a philosopher, for he discovers new truth. There is no philosophical, for he discovers new truth. There is no philosophical discourse without references to literature and there cannot be any criticism of literature without refer canes to literature and there connote be any criticism philosophy that has given rise to much confusion. But philosophy, more than literature, has tended to assume the possibility of an unmediated immanence in which, all that it ends up being the being the “big story” of human origin. That story says that something like ultimate reatily exists and that human beings are capable of knowing it directly and completely, On the other hand, literature has always been approaching this reality tentatively and with a certain amount of doubt and apprehension. This is the reason why literature has always been subjected to trial by philosopher has said about philosophers. What Coleridge said about poets, “NO man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher?” The interests of literature and philosophy, however, tend to merge. Merge. A philosophy like Plato is a poetic philosopher and a poet like Shakespeare or Tagore is a philosopher and a poet. the merger of philosophy with poetry results in a bridge that connects literary particularity with poetry results in a bridge that connects literary particularity with poetry results in a bridge that connects literary particularity with philosophy reduces reality to order and intelligibility , but poetry teries to comprehend it in the fullness of fellness of feeling. Holder in, on the other hand saw the artist and not the philosopher as the interpreter of divine nature mediating between god and men. What Coleridge said in the poet’s heart, which in essence is the “soul “residing in the thinking mind is what the Upanishads have referred to as the poet’s heart which in essence is the In fact, there has always been a conceptual premise that philosophy and literature, and in the broader sense, all creative arts, cannot be treated differently because they are inter-linked. In his “Transcendental Idealism “Friedrich Schelling explains the common internet of literature and philosophy : “art is the only trace and eternal organ and document of philosophy : “Art is the only trace and eternal organ and philosopher a new what philosophy cannot ordinarily repressed , namely , the unconscious in productive activity and original union burns in one flame what in nature and its original identity with the unconscious in productive activity and its original identity with the conscious. Just for this reason art is for the philosopher the apex, because it reveals to him the holy of holies, wherein the eternal and original union burn in one flame what in nature and history is surrendered, and what in life and action, just as in thought, must eternally flee itself.” George Berkeley in his “Treatise concerning the principles of Human Knowledge” says that, philosophy is nothing but the study of wisdom and truth. Human knowledge is either ideas imprinted in the senses or as perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; ideas so perceived are formed by compounding, dividing or barely representing memory and imaginations.” This definitions of philosophy ,in fact ,is fit to be declared as the definition of philosophy, in fact is fit to be declared as the definition of literature and all creative arts as well . The romantics have made literature and art the cornerstone of philosophy. Shelley said that ethics in aesthetical terms is created by poetry and arranged by ethical science. “Poetry “, he says in ?A Defence of poetry”, ?acts in a divine manner. It awakens and enlarges the mind itself by rendering the receptacle of a thousand UN – apprehended combinations of thoughts. Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of beauty of the world in thoughts, actions or identifying ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thoughts , actions or person , not our own. A man to be greatly good must imagination.” It will be wrong to assume that only the romantic era mingled poetry and philosophy in theory and the romantic era mingled poetry and philosophy in theory and practice. Indeed, the border line has and is always being crossed due to the contiguity of the two realisms that prompted novelist to say, ?...The transcendental poesy is compounded of philosophy and poetry.” Boccaccio writes “One can never escape the conviction that great men, nursed with the milk of the muses, brought up in the very deepest meaning in their poems.” Even when philosophy and literature are considered as distinctly autonomous activities, there is a permanent relationship between them despite the differences in subject matter, methods, and effects. What is interesting is the fact that the two activities many different in all aspects of their manifestation. They deal with the same objects but follow different methods – one communicating truth about the object in the syllogistic from, the other inspiring feeling about it through figurative language. The deal with the same objective for both is a search to understand the mystery of life. There are, therefore, certain realms of interpretation of their contiguous cultural areas. The language of interpretation of their contiguous cultural areas. The language of literature renders a body of thoughts that engangs with questions of “Meaning” and “Being “ that creates the philosophical- literary relation . There is this distinction that Greek philosophers made between ‘things perceived ‘and ‘things where as things thought’ by them as the object of logic,’things perceived was considered as the science of perception. Philosophy of art is concerned with the interpretation, appreciations and the understanding Of the artworks . such study is with reference to the attitude and experience of art for its distinctive value comparable with moral , epistemic and religious values vis a vis the nature of beauty and taste The question arises as to whether it should be understood as the knowledge, skill and intentions of the writer , or whether it should be interpreted and judged by social conventions , or whether it should be interpreted and judged by the meaning established by the practice of the user even if it is at variances with the meanings intended by the writer . What is of the concern is the nature of taste, structure, the ontological status of the artworks, and the character of our emotional responses. When such philosophical enquiry is applied to literature and creative art, it is called “Aesthetics” a term first used by Alexander Baumgartner, in his “Reflections on poetry” (1735), He says, “I wish to make it plain that philosophy and the knowledge of how to construct a poem which is often held to be entirely antithetical, are linked together in the most amiable union.”Baumgartner defines “aesthetics “as the relation of art to perceived reality .He writes,”The branch of philosophy that examines the natural environment.” In this sense, Plato’s metaphysical, epistemological and ethic- policitical views about portey or literature is aesthetics. 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__label__wiki	0.936298	0.936298	Serena Williams opens Australian Open run with win over Belinda Bencic Serena Williams starts good after advancing to the second round in the Australian Open 2017 / Photo from 'Sporting News' - sportingnews.com Six-time Aussie Open Champion and 2017 second seed pulls straight-set victory by Morgan (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video) January 17, 2017 at 10:46 PM January 17, 2017 at 10:46 PM The Australian Open 2017 is underway, and the best Tennis players in the world who could be there are out in force to better their ranking or take the first cup in this year’s Grand Slam run. This is the stage wherein American tennis goddess and one-time WTA Number 1 Serena Williams finds herself, seeded second at the women’s singles first round. She faces off against younger Swiss player Belinda Bencic, who had successfully beaten Williams in the 2015 Rogers Cup semifinals in Toronto, which she went on to win. Williams herself was coming off a loss two weeks earlier at the New Zealand ASB Classic against fellow American Madison Brengle. With these defeats in mind, the younger of the remarkable Williams tennis sisters went on to win over Bencic and advance to round 2. Serena on a mission At 35-years-old, Williams was in the greying area wherein pro tennis players begin to question whether they can keep on the game or retire. (It's not always an easy question; Jimmy Connors still played well beyond Serena's current age.) The circumstances of her opening match for this Australian Open were also additional sources of pressure. As stated earlier, the last time Williams took on Bencic two years ago, she was beaten. And her very last match in the last tournament she was in also wasn't in her favor. Now she's facing the young Swiss, 19 years old. In her own words, Serena feels that this time she has "nothing to lose". But there's also one other thing going for her, a tangible objective driving her to her utmost potential: she's planning to win this Grand Slam event to set a new record of 23 Grand Slam title wins. In the ensuing battle at Melbourne under the blistering heat, Williams paid Bencic back for their previous encounter with a strong 6-4 and 6-3 sweep of the first two sets. And she enjoyed every minute of that initial victory as she later said, "Every match I'm playing for fun. I get to travel the world and do what I do best - play tennis." Indeed, things are off to a good start for Williams after losing in last year's Australian Open. Should she capture the championship this time, she'll break her 22-Grand Slam singles tie with the legendary Steffi Graf. While Williams is setting up for her record title run, on the men's side of this Australian Open, one of the top two seeds has also opened strong. On Day 2 second men's singles seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia beat Spain's Fernando Verdasco, while on the following day top seed Andy Murray will take on Russia's Andrey Rublev. Editor in Chief of Morgan-Magazine.com. Morgan Magazine is one of the leading Digital Magazines in Asia. Morgan also has a degree in Commerce major in Business Administration, Diploma in Digital Marketing and Business Technology. Follow mark zeanreh on Facebook Follow mark zeanreh on Linkedin Read more on the same topic from Morgan: Elizabeth Debicki cast as Princess Diana for 'The Crown' season 5 EA to combine and rebrand EA Access and Origin Access subscription services Darkwing Duck getting focus episode when 'Ducktales' season 3 resumes Blasting News recommends Bruce Arians: ‘I allow Brady to coach, I just sit back sometimes and watch’ Tom Brady praised for his touching gesture to Saints QB Drew Brees and his family Kirk Herbstreit praised for his classy act towards Ohio State Buckeyes players 'He can work on things' : Kiper and McShay speak on Justin Fields departure from Ohio State Buckeyes Future claims he wasn't at the Atlanta Falcons game to shade Russell Wilson New York Islanders fire Jack Capuano '90 Day Fiance: The Other Way': Kenneth says his relationship is not acted Video '90 Day Fiance: The Other Way:' Sumit is facing backlash for choosing Jenny Video	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1337
__label__wiki	0.806532	0.806532	Dallas Cowboys rumors: Vontae Davis a possible trade target before the deadline? Will the Dallas Cowboys go after Vontae Davis before the trade deadline? / Photo via Steve, Flickr CC The Dallas Cowboys might express interest in Indianapolis Colts cornerback Vontae Davis before the trade deadline. by John Paul (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video) October 30, 2017 at 6:43 AM October 30, 2017 at 6:43 AM The Dallas Cowboys are not considered a heavy contender to win the Super Bowl this season at this point. However, they are expected to make moves before the NFL trade deadline in order to bolster their chances of winning it all. The Cowboys are being linked to several players heading into the Tuesday deadline. Indianapolis Colts cornerback Vontae Davis is continuously being tagged as a possible trade target for the Cowboys. Indianapolis Colts to consider trading Vontae Davis? According to sources, fans and experts are convinced the Colts will decide to trade Davis before the deadline. The 29-year-old is playing in the final season of his contract, and Indianapolis might look to get an asset in return instead of letting Davis walk away in free agency. If the Colts decide to trade Davis before the deadline, several teams are expected to express interest. The Cowboys are among the teams that are expected to inquire about a possible deal, knowing that they need to shore up their roster if they want to become a serious contender this season. According to NFL analyst Evan Massey, Davis will be a good fit for the Cowboys because Dallas needs to shore up their defensive secondary. The 29-year-old is not turning a lot of heads with his performance this season, but he is considered as an upgrade to what the Cowboys currently have. In five games for the Colts this season, Davis has 16 tackles but has yet to record an interception. In his first eight seasons in the league, the former Illinois standout tallied 22 interceptions along with 328 tackles. Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie on the Dallas Cowboys’ radar? Meanwhile, aside from Davis, New York Giants cornerback, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie was also tagged as a possible target for Dallas. According to Inside The Star, the 31-year-old will add length and experience to the Cowboys, which could work wonders for the team later in the season. The Giants are not shopping Rodgers-Cromartie, but they could pull the trigger for the right offer. His relationship with the Giants is in a low, following several runs-in with head coach Ben McAdoo. However, it remains to be seen whether or not New York will trade the veteran to a division rival. Cromartie-Rodgers is playing in his fourth season with the Giants after stints with the Arizona Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles, and the Denver Broncos. In six games this season, the former Tennessee State standout has tallied ten tackles with no interceptions. He had 41 tackles and six interceptions for New York last season. Read more on the same topic from John Paul: Lakers Rumors: LA could be forced to give Brandon Ingram up in Anthony Davis trade Lakers Rumors: Anthony Davis a step closer to joining LeBron James in Los Angeles Lakers Rumors: Nikola Vucevic could bring more help for LeBron James in Los Angeles Blasting News recommends Bruce Arians: ‘I allow Brady to coach, I just sit back sometimes and watch’ Tom Brady praised for his touching gesture to Saints QB Drew Brees and his family Kirk Herbstreit praised for his classy act towards Ohio State Buckeyes players 'He can work on things' : Kiper and McShay speak on Justin Fields departure from Ohio State Buckeyes Cavs continue losing streak, Knicks win 114-95 Miami Heat hold team meeting as players are frustrated with losing '90 Day Fiance: The Other Way': Kenneth says his relationship is not acted Video '90 Day Fiance: The Other Way:' Sumit is facing backlash for choosing Jenny Video	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1338
__label__cc	0.549931	0.450069	Gender differences in outcomes of patients with cystic fibrosis Cayce L. Harness-Brumley, Alan C. Elliott, Daniel B. Rosenbluth, Deepa Raghavan, Raksha Jain Pulmonary & Critical Care Med Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a common life-shortening genetic disease in which women have been described to have worse outcomes than males, particularly in response to respiratory infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, as advancements in therapies have improved life expectancy, this gender disparity has been challenged. The objective of this study is to examine whether a gender-based survival difference still exists in this population and determine the impact of common CF respiratory infections on outcomes in males versus females with CF. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of 32,766 patients from the United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry over a 13-year period. Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare overall mortality and pathogen based survival rates in males and females. Results: Females demonstrated a decreased median life expectancy (36.0 years; 95% confidence interval [CI] 35.0-37.3) compared with men (38.7 years; 95% CI 37.8-39.6; p<0.001). Female gender proved to be a significant risk factor for death (hazard ratio 2.22, 95% CI 1.79-2.77), despite accounting for variables known to influence CF mortality. Women were also found to become colonized earlier with several bacteria and to have worse outcomes with common CF pathogens. Conclusions: CF women continue to have a shortened life expectancy relative to men despite accounting for key CF-related comorbidities. Women also become colonized with certain common CF pathogens earlier than men and show a decreased life expectancy in the setting of respiratory infections. Explanations for this gender disparity are only beginning to be unraveled and further investigation into mechanisms is needed to help develop therapies that may narrow this gender gap. Journal of Women's Health https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2014.4985 10.1089/jwh.2014.4985 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Gender differences in outcomes of patients with cystic fibrosis'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Cystic Fibrosis Medicine & Life Sciences Life Expectancy Medicine & Life Sciences Respiratory Tract Infections Medicine & Life Sciences Confidence Intervals Medicine & Life Sciences Pseudomonas aeruginosa Medicine & Life Sciences Inborn Genetic Diseases Medicine & Life Sciences Harness-Brumley, C. L., Elliott, A. C., Rosenbluth, D. B., Raghavan, D., & Jain, R. (2014). Gender differences in outcomes of patients with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Women's Health, 23(12), 1012-1020. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2014.4985 Gender differences in outcomes of patients with cystic fibrosis. / Harness-Brumley, Cayce L.; Elliott, Alan C.; Rosenbluth, Daniel B.; Raghavan, Deepa; Jain, Raksha. In: Journal of Women's Health, Vol. 23, No. 12, 01.12.2014, p. 1012-1020. Harness-Brumley, CL, Elliott, AC, Rosenbluth, DB, Raghavan, D & Jain, R 2014, 'Gender differences in outcomes of patients with cystic fibrosis', Journal of Women's Health, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1012-1020. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2014.4985 Harness-Brumley CL, Elliott AC, Rosenbluth DB, Raghavan D, Jain R. Gender differences in outcomes of patients with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Women's Health. 2014 Dec 1;23(12):1012-1020. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2014.4985 Harness-Brumley, Cayce L. ; Elliott, Alan C. ; Rosenbluth, Daniel B. ; Raghavan, Deepa ; Jain, Raksha. / Gender differences in outcomes of patients with cystic fibrosis. In: Journal of Women's Health. 2014 ; Vol. 23, No. 12. pp. 1012-1020. @article{1dcf66d0200b4701af07e000758145f1, title = "Gender differences in outcomes of patients with cystic fibrosis", abstract = "Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a common life-shortening genetic disease in which women have been described to have worse outcomes than males, particularly in response to respiratory infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, as advancements in therapies have improved life expectancy, this gender disparity has been challenged. The objective of this study is to examine whether a gender-based survival difference still exists in this population and determine the impact of common CF respiratory infections on outcomes in males versus females with CF.Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of 32,766 patients from the United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry over a 13-year period. Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare overall mortality and pathogen based survival rates in males and females.Results: Females demonstrated a decreased median life expectancy (36.0 years; 95% confidence interval [CI] 35.0-37.3) compared with men (38.7 years; 95% CI 37.8-39.6; p<0.001). Female gender proved to be a significant risk factor for death (hazard ratio 2.22, 95% CI 1.79-2.77), despite accounting for variables known to influence CF mortality. Women were also found to become colonized earlier with several bacteria and to have worse outcomes with common CF pathogens.Conclusions: CF women continue to have a shortened life expectancy relative to men despite accounting for key CF-related comorbidities. Women also become colonized with certain common CF pathogens earlier than men and show a decreased life expectancy in the setting of respiratory infections. 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N2 - Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a common life-shortening genetic disease in which women have been described to have worse outcomes than males, particularly in response to respiratory infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, as advancements in therapies have improved life expectancy, this gender disparity has been challenged. The objective of this study is to examine whether a gender-based survival difference still exists in this population and determine the impact of common CF respiratory infections on outcomes in males versus females with CF.Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of 32,766 patients from the United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry over a 13-year period. Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare overall mortality and pathogen based survival rates in males and females.Results: Females demonstrated a decreased median life expectancy (36.0 years; 95% confidence interval [CI] 35.0-37.3) compared with men (38.7 years; 95% CI 37.8-39.6; p<0.001). Female gender proved to be a significant risk factor for death (hazard ratio 2.22, 95% CI 1.79-2.77), despite accounting for variables known to influence CF mortality. Women were also found to become colonized earlier with several bacteria and to have worse outcomes with common CF pathogens.Conclusions: CF women continue to have a shortened life expectancy relative to men despite accounting for key CF-related comorbidities. Women also become colonized with certain common CF pathogens earlier than men and show a decreased life expectancy in the setting of respiratory infections. Explanations for this gender disparity are only beginning to be unraveled and further investigation into mechanisms is needed to help develop therapies that may narrow this gender gap. AB - Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a common life-shortening genetic disease in which women have been described to have worse outcomes than males, particularly in response to respiratory infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, as advancements in therapies have improved life expectancy, this gender disparity has been challenged. The objective of this study is to examine whether a gender-based survival difference still exists in this population and determine the impact of common CF respiratory infections on outcomes in males versus females with CF.Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of 32,766 patients from the United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry over a 13-year period. Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare overall mortality and pathogen based survival rates in males and females.Results: Females demonstrated a decreased median life expectancy (36.0 years; 95% confidence interval [CI] 35.0-37.3) compared with men (38.7 years; 95% CI 37.8-39.6; p<0.001). Female gender proved to be a significant risk factor for death (hazard ratio 2.22, 95% CI 1.79-2.77), despite accounting for variables known to influence CF mortality. Women were also found to become colonized earlier with several bacteria and to have worse outcomes with common CF pathogens.Conclusions: CF women continue to have a shortened life expectancy relative to men despite accounting for key CF-related comorbidities. Women also become colonized with certain common CF pathogens earlier than men and show a decreased life expectancy in the setting of respiratory infections. 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__label__wiki	0.76475	0.76475	Variety Read Next: AMC Networks Appoints Christina Spade as Executive VP, Chief Financial Officer Oct 16, 2019 2:24pm PT Johnny Depp Trial Over Location Manager’s Assault Suit Delayed to May By Gene Maddaus Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer @GeneMaddaus Axios Launches Jonathan Swan Podcast on Trump’s Final Days 20 hours ago Attorney on ‘Bones’ and ‘Walking Dead’ Profits Cases Sues Her Former Law Firm 5 days ago House Impeaches President Trump for Inciting Capitol Hill Attack 6 days ago David Dettmann/REX/Shutterstock Update: On Wednesday afternoon, Judge Holly Fujie ordered the trial postponed. A new trial date was set for May 11, 2020. Johnny Depp is expected to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom next week for a trial on a lawsuit alleging that he punched a location manager during the 2017 shoot for “City of Lies.” Gregg “Rocky” Brooks alleges that Depp hit him twice in the side after Brooks advised him that the production would have to stop filming for the day. Brooks also alleges that Depp screamed at him, used obscenities, and offered to pay Brooks $100,000 to punch him back. Brooks says he was fired after he refused to sign an agreement not to sue the production. His attorney, Pat Harris, said Brooks tried to downplay the incident subsequently, fearing that exacerbating the situation would harm him professionally. Nevertheless, Harris said word got around in the location manager community, and Brooks found himself struggling to get work. “We obviously recognize that in the hierarchy of Hollywood, Johnny Depp is on top and the location managers are somewhere mid-level or toward the bottom,” Harris told Variety. “In any confrontation between the two of them, no matter who started it, no matter who’s responsible, Johnny Depp is going to come out on top and our guy is going to come out damaged.” Depp is expected to testify that he did not hit Brooks, but rather confronted him verbally after he saw Brooks acting belligerently toward a woman on set. Depp’s attorneys have also argued in pre-trial briefs that there is no evidence suggesting that Depp had any hand in preventing Brooks from getting work. Harris alleges that Depp is lying, and that Brooks never berated anyone on set. Following the incident, the two men “hugged it out” and took a photo together, according to Brooks’ deposition testimony. Harris argues that Depp has long cultivated the image of a “Hollywood bad boy,” and should have foreseen that the altercation might harm Brooks’ career. Depp is also involved in litigation with two of his former law firms, as well as his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, whom he accuses of defaming him in a Washington Post editorial about domestic violence. Harris said that Depp’s attorneys have taken a “scorched earth” approach in the assault case, and that it does not seem likely that the case will settle on the eve of trial. Adam Waldman, Depp’s attorney, threatens to bring a malicious prosecution claim against Brooks’ lawyers. “After all the evidence from multiple sworn eyewitness testimony and dozens of contemporaneous photographs taken by the script supervisor, Mr. Brooks has finally found a single witness to support his absurd, delusional claim — his own lawyer,” Waldman said. “As soon as the evidence defeats Mr. Brooks in trial we will immediately launch malicious prosecution claims against his attorneys. What Mr. Brooks lawyer terms ‘scorched earth’ is actually known as ‘Justice.'”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1345
__label__wiki	0.501741	0.501741	Witch Hunt Season 1 Episode 5 Series: Witch Hunt When police officer Johanna Strand returns to her hometown Hammarvik to attend her mother’s funeral, she expects to stay only for a few nights but the body of a young… In this contemporary take on the beloved book series, five best friends launch a baby-sitting business that’s big on fun and adventure. Cursed Films Cursed Films is a five part documentary series which explores the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously cursed horror film productions. Genre: Documentary, Horror Deadwax A mind-bending neo-noir set in the obsessive world of vinyl collecting. Etta Pryce, a vinyl tracker, is hired by a rich collector to hunt a legendary rare record that has… Ash has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes… Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror Kissing Game In a cattle-ranching town in Brazil’s countryside, adolescents panic when they are threatened by the outbreak of an epidemic, a contagious infection transmitted by kissing. Alice’s partner of 20 years, Harry, falls down the stairs and dies soon after the couple move into the dream home he designed. Alice discovers that some men, including her… Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems. Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi When Bumblebee begins to suffer amnesia, his partner, Windblade, comes to the rescue, and repairs his memory chips, enabling him to rediscover his past adventures on Cybertron. Once his memories… After causing the near extinction of mankind seven years ago, genius scientist Leon Lau must now fight the ecological disaster he unwittingly created. A somewhat awkward teen is attacked by a werewolf and inherits the curse himself, as well as the enemies that come with it. Scott McCall, a high school student living… Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi Set in a single room of an average American hotel, telling a different story of the assorted guests who pass through.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1348
__label__cc	0.66893	0.33107	Massive Arctic cold wave descends into southern USA Cold wave Weather Polar vortex outbreak creates 90 degree difference from one end of Texas to the other Look at the cold plunging from the latest polar vortex incursion: Notice the difference between Houston and Dallas, or New Orleans and Wichita now take a look at this map. WeatherBell’s Ryan Maue reports that the coldest state in Lower 48 was Iowa, with an average of -1.0°F Look at the gradient across the front in Texas, note how sharp it is; a 90 degree difference from the southern tip of Texas to the Texas panhandle. Former AMS president Marshal Shepard remarks: Marshall Shepherd ‏@DrShepherd2013 2h Even better depiction of temperature difference with this front..90 deg difference.. Wow via Jared rackley pic.twitter.com/FDRZZvEtGb See the WUWT Polar Vortex page for more UPDATE: Greg Carbin of NOAA produced the 24 hour animation of surface temps: Mind blowing: Apple CEO tells 'deniers' to get out of Apple stock Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup MattN Today is my area of Virginia:65 F. Tomorrow: Winter storm warning and 6″ of snow. Tomorrow night: 10F. Go home winter, you’re drunk…. Maybe we can turn some of those blue states into red states. Go vortex go! Sam Hall Here in Dallas, I had my AC on this morning and now we have sleet falling. bushbunny Excuse me being ignorant are you C or F on the map? [When many people are reading and writing comments, as well as the original author, you need to designate who the “you” who may (or may not) be C or F on the map. Mod] R. Shearer @Sam Hall: correlation is not causation. 🙂 Cold is not the only thing that is heading further south this year. I don’t have a link but apparently the “northern lights” have been seen as far south as central England this year. May have been an effect of the recent solar flare. Jean Parisot The rough correlation to topography is striking. It looks like the high ground of the Rockes and Appalachians are containing a flood. I’m from Texas that lived all over Texas and must admit that is impressive. I don’t recall it being that cold this late. I’m hearing that it could be as low as 14f at the old house in Dallas area. Wow. I think it is supposed to get down to 22f at the new house in Austin area and I don’t think I ever saw that in Dallas area while living there for 10 years in March. goldminor Northern lights in UK, they do see them in North Scotland and off sea islands. In the olde days sudden appearance of the Northern lights was considered a bad omen? Is it worse than we thought? The polar bears in Canada, where I live, are knocking on our doors wanting to get in from the cold. JimS, don’t let them in they are AGW alarmists? LOL Richdo In like a lion, out like a lamb. aka March AWCN13 CWWG Weather summary for Southern Saskatchewan issued by Environment Canada at 12:54 P.M. CST Sunday 2 March 2014. Bitterly cold Arctic air associated with a ridge of high pressure centred over Southwest Saskatchewan resulted in a few Record low temperatures early this morning. Location (record low) Rosetown -38.0, old record is -33.3 set in 1960. Swift Current -35.9, old record is -34.4 set in 1972. Assiniboia -35.3, old record is -32.2 set in 1916. In addition, a couple of locations were close. Leader -38.3, record is -38.9 set in 1972. Maple Creek -31.9, record is -33.3 set in 1962. A gradual warming trend will now begin, with temperatures expected To be at or above seasonal normals by the weekend. Please note that this summary may contain preliminary or unofficial information and does not constitute a complete or final report. These records probably only go back a very short time. Toronto’s started 1937. albertalad Yes – the polar vortex. So y’all getting our message we’re not real happy with the XL lack of progress now? u.k.(us) Well, here in the Chicago suburbs the snowfall is such that it has become almost comical. You run out of places to throw it…. at least it been light powdery snow due to the cold temperatures. There might still be snow piles left in April ?? Box of Rocks In Manhattan, KS, the high here today was about 10* F. ‘Normal is 51F for a high and 25 F for a low. It will be interesting to see the new low high Temperatures records. (I think I got that right….) And we are supposed to plant potatoes in 2 weeks. @bushbunny: 100 Celcius is when water boils, so it’s F. Celcius maps never go much above 40C. dmacleo monday supposed to be high of around 11 F and low of -12 F Andy May In The Woodlands, Texas, north of Houston, we went from 72 degrees F at 3 PM to 36 degrees F at 7 PM, an amazing 36 degrees in 4 hours! Looks like a typical summers day from 20,000 years ago O. Olson Didn’t realize there were so many of us Canadian prairie folk here on wuwt! We farm 40 miles from one of those Saskatchewan record lows. Does anyone know if Environment Canada “adjusts” the older records? Robert Bissett This is no longer entertaining and mildly amusing. Now we are on the edge of this with single digit temps and a foot of snow! Stay tuned though…it will soon be announced that it was the warmest February on record. “Notice the difference between Houston and Dallas” Well at the moment it is cold, raining and miserable in Houston, so it will probably be listed as the hottest and driest February in a century. We were bicycling late this afternoon when the first blast of air hit our part of Houston. It went from pleasant cycling weather to chilly and uncomfortable in about 5 minutes. We live in the thumb of Michigan near Lake Huron. It is now -2 and forecast for -14, originally -4. Friday morning it was -17. We had a short warming break in January, and a day or two over 35 in February. Long range for March it looks like 10+ deg below normal through the middle of the month. Ok, we’ve had enough already. Overall this is the coldest winter I can remember in my short lifetime of 52 years. Fortunately (for us) the heavy snow falls have been south, but I suspect we’ll get a big storm before winter’s end. Pippen Kool I like the minus zero in Minot, Canada. For a good part of the north we have had only 1 day above freezing since jan 3. When the thaw comes it’s going to be flood land in the Midwest. Tom in Florida Meanwhile, just another day in paradise. Warm with a clear blue sky, slight southerly breeze. Went to the Venice jetty this morning, relaxing with a cup of coffee, watching the boats move out into the turquoise waters of the Gulf. Later off to Snook Haven along the Myakka River for some outside drink and live music. Watched a fat guy slip off the small dock and splat into the water. Went home, lit up the grill and put down a couple of fresh chuck burgers. Did I mention there is no state income tax in Florida? Yes, look at the New Scientist, Feb. 10th…”As a result of climate change 2014 is likely to be one of the hottest years on record. If El Niño does develop this year, it will make 2014 even hotter – maybe the hottest ever…” I told you so! (I wasn’t going to say that.) Pamela Gray “Maybe we can turn some of those blue states into red states. ” I don’t know about that. But looks like the Montana and Dakota s are turning purple “This is no longer entertaining and mildly amusing” Well, I’m having a chuckle here in Brisbane. Any sense on where the pressure readings are for the high pressure system dumping the cold air into the south? I think it was in 1988. Hurricane Gilbert set the record for the lowest pressure for a hurricane. Then the next winter in early 1989 a high formed in Alaska and dropped south. It produced a polar outbreak similar to this one and set the record for the highest pressure measured from a high pressure system. Dave L It was 77F at 3pm where I live WSW of Houston. By 8pm it was 34F with a howling wind. That’s impressive in my book. Did anyone notice that jet stream is following the Rockies southward [and] the Appalachian Mountains north? Can someone tell me why there are no severe storm cells along this front? Stark Dickflüssig bushbunny says: Rankine. Will Nelson Remember, when it’s “C” it’s climate… “F” is just weather. Tom in Florida says: I’ve heard, and want to believe, that the insects will walk off with anything not tied down in Florida. Any truth to these rumors ? albertalad says: Canada’s WMD? Barbara Skolaut Aw, jeez – here we go again…. >:-( You just had to do that to everybody didn’t you? You cruel, cruel man! when puerto vallarta hits 81 centigrade, I think we are all in trouble…. Aussiebear @Box of Rocks, That is cold for this time of year. I remember Manhattan, KS (The Little Apple) well. Got my BS and MS in Computer Science at K-State in early 80’s (Go Wildcats!). Grew up in Atchison. My Mum still lives there. Cold, but not “un-precedented”. Now living in Australia. Moved from The land of Oz to Oz (down under), but there ain’t no Dorothy or Toto here… Take Care and Be Well and Warm! AussieBear. Leon Brozyna All this weather is getting old … can’t we go back to climate? philjourdan It was 72 today. It is going down to below 10 tomorrow. This is Virginia and it is coming. The vortex this year has been really interesting .. The new Earth Wind Map has become a great tool for watching the vortex progression. The pacific counter-rotating vortex is strengthening and slowly over weeks time is pushing the polar vortex across the cap. The vorticity that forms in the lower levels of the atmosphere, off from the higher levels is quite cool, Follow the vortex centers from10 hPa (16.466 miles) down thru the in the wind map tool layers. A daily rotation rolls some of the vertical vortices over through the layers. As we get closer to Equinox, with more daylight reaching northern lats. and some occasional solar energetic particles, (some last week) that vortex should freaking go go go away somewhere. The wind map might even show the daily variation pecking away at the polar front..flat sides and eddys..hey http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/overlay=temp/orthographic=-90.73,90.80,483 In the view window I pull the cross hairs of the N. Pole to the center of my PC screen and zoom to fill. Set the control panel (click on the word Earth, on bottom left side of open window) for Temp. Automatically keeps wind, so you can see wind and temp throughout the layers as well.. California’s pineapple or not, had a counter rotation to it.. Most of the vortices through out the N. Pole are clockwise, after a twist a counter flow starts along the path ..you can see them as they appear as horizontal logs rolling, with a vortex peaking out the side..on an angle.. Don’t forget to check the S. Pole .. as we approach Equinox.. Bill Marsh Sam Hall says: When that happened in Dallas when I lived there in the late 70’s we called them ‘Blue Norther’s’ or ‘Canadian Express’. 75 F at noon with light winds from the south, then the wind direction changed to come from the North and the temp would drop into the 40s in an hour or less. u.k.(us) says: Only those things that have not been eaten by pythons, alligators or cougars. You eventually get desensitized to the fire ant bites and love bugs, well, they are just a messy nuisance. Now palmetto bugs on the other hand can get quite large and even fly but they rarely get in your hair if you keep it short. Found what I was looking for – From Weatherunderground.com “…U.S. High Barometric Pressure Records Alaska holds this honor with a reading of 1078.6 mb (31.85”) on January 31, 1989 at Northway during one of the state’s greatest cold waves. Temperatures fell below -70°F at several locations (-76°F at Tanana and -75°F at McGrath). Northway reached -62°F on January 31. Many ‘bush’ aircraft (a principal form of transportation in this region) were grounded in central Alaska since their altimeters were not capable of calibrating to such an extreme pressure reading. That January was the coldest single month on record at Juneau with a 6.8°F average and Nome recorded its coldest temperature on record with -54° on January 27th and 28th. This high-pressure figure is often erroneously referred to as the highest ever measured in North America. In fact, this is not true since at Dawson City, Yukon, next door to Alaska, but in Canada a higher reading of 1079.6 mb (31.88”) was measured a few days later on February 2, 1989. …” http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/world-and-us-anticyclonic-high-barometric-pressure-records So where do all this air come from to support such a movement of cold dense air across thousands of miles? SIGINT EX [Snip. More such profanity will get your entire comment deleted. ~ mod.] A storm … to become a N’oreaster is set to shut down Washington DC on Monday. Brilliant move! Putin Wins. Obama receives blame for the ‘U.S. major foreign policy failure’ and the ‘stupendous failure of the G8 Summit!’ November 2014: Republican Party and Tea Party gain control of U.S. House. Senator Harry Reid resigns. Dies within hours. Obama Cabinet Secretaries Rout! All Resign En-mass except John Kerry, who still hopes to be the Democratic Presidential Nominee, except for the fact that Kerry was in Keiv when the Russian/Crimeran Forces entered the city and was arrested and charged as a War Provocateur. Then sent to Siberia to … Cool a bit .. by personal order of Putin. Monday, “This will be Good!” We set a record where I live in S Minnesota today. For the first time in recorded history (130 years) we had a below zero high in March (-2F). Supposed to set a record low tonight as well (-20F). Jim Brock Hunkered down here in Houston, waiting for the cold front. JimB Remember severe cooling is the surest sign of warming. LOL. On his WeatherBell blog Joe Bastardi noted that some Texan town, up in the northern panhandle, which ordinarily has a March 2 high temperature of 67, today only had a high temperature of 7. Hmm. Only sixty degrees below normal. Obviously it is only weather, and does not refute the idea of Global Warming. /sarc Joe also noted that particular north Texas reading of seven degrees represented an 80 degree difference between north Texas and south Texas, at 2:00 in the afternoon. He could not recall, (without checking records,) ever seeing such a clash in Texas temperatures, before. Hmm. That would make it 87 degrees in south Texas. Now THAT would be proof-positive of Global Warming. /sarc. I myself can’t recall, in my 61 years, seeing an airmass this cold plunge south this late in the winter, and be this widespread. I myself don’t mind it, as it shunted a storm south from New Hampshire to Washington DC, and I figure it is high time those dreamers shovel some honest snow, rather than the brown stuff they usually shovel to us “ignorant peons.” I think we will be lucky if we get out of this clash, between air like January’s with Gulf-of-Mexico warmth, without a storm that could get ugly resulting from the clash. Ed MacAulay Pippen Kool said: “I like the minus zero in Minot, Canada.” Beat me on the minus zero. So it is colder than we thought. But not cold enough yet to move the border south, so I expect that North Dakota still claims Minot. RE: MattN says: I fully intend to say, “Go home winter, you’re drunk,” at suitable occasions during the next week, and to pretend the statement is my own. The benefits of this plagiarism will be twofold. I will gain respect, (which I need more than Rodney Dangerfield,) and you will learn to copyright your cleverness. john robertson @ Ed MacAulay 7:38, -0 is perfect. As for moving the border south to match the temperature, well thats one way to get the pipeline built. I’m with alberta lad, keep stalling that pipeline and sniping at our fine environmental record and we canadians will sent you more cold air. Canada is cleaning up the largest oil spill know to man, why are those eco-nasties trying to impede our fine work. Especially the ones from California, who need to get out to sea and plug up that oil seeping out of the ocean floor.All the chosen one needs is goodwill and lead boots. perhaps we need to up the sarcasm, cold records,even with the adjusted past, are just weather. Any hot day,0.001C over the past high temp is catastrophic climate. Anyone have information on the sensing lag time of a mercury thermometer? How long must a temperature persist to be recorded? As for how a mercury thermometer would have recorded todays record of xx.002 C, a new record over xxC of 1936. Digital recordings; more an more useless data at evermore detailed delusions of accuracy. It’s the consensus average of C and F? cartoonmick Yep, “move right along folks, nothing to see here, the climate is fine, just a small glitch, the climate is in good shape, all will be well, never mind the pollution, it’s all part of progress, so move along please, nothing to see here, nothing to worry about . . . . . . ” It all boils down to the same old problem, and that is “Those with expertise have no authority, and those with authority have no expertise”. I know I’ve posted the link to this cartoon before, but it still remains pertinent . . . . . http://cartoonmick.wordpress.com/editorial-political/#jp-carousel-775 “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here” OK S. We only have a 20° spread here at the moment, but most of the state is in single digits: http://www.mesonet.org/index.php/weather/map/air_temperature/air_temperature Chad Wozniak And the mollusks still believe . . . . maybe the cold will freeze some of their tentacles off. Oh, and watch all that water freezing into ice as you heat it to boiling point! Mike McMillan Back in the good old days we used to call that an Arctic cold front. Who knew? Mac the Knife Just talked to my brother in central Wisconsin. They have dropped below 0F….. again and are expecting a low of -16F. That will make it 50 days with temps below 0F. The deep, persistent cold is taking its toll. Frost depths in the soils are now deep enough (4 feet) that buried utilities are being affected. The water and sewer utilities of many small communities are experiencing problems with water supply and waste pipes freezing. Not good. In response, they have asked their customers to leave water taps trickling continuous flows to try to keep some heat in the underground pipes. Rural residents with individual drilled wells are experiencing similar pipe freeze ups in their buried water supply lines and septic systems. Portable generators/welders are attached to the metal pipes (at well head and at the house) to resistance heat the pipes and get them thawed out again. Unless the septic lines are metal, that trick doesn’t work for them. It’s getting real serious out there now. The unflagging spirit of the Wisconsin fishermen is being challenged similarly, if less seriously. Most areas are reporting lake ice thicknesses of 30 inches or more, requiring extensions to be added to the powered ice augers to assure penetration into the water below. gymnosperm Now, compare that temperature distribution with the ice at the LGM. Not saying were headed for an ice age. Saying it is the pattern. Signal for various patterns seems to exist all the time. What seems to change is meta conditions that favor one pattern over another. There are, actually, down in Louisiana to Tennessee and thereabouts. colder than a well digger’s witch I am guessing most folks on this blog are fans of “big weather” & this certainly qualifies ! Fun & exciting stuff to follow ! It would be interesting to see how deep some of the cold weather over TX is (or isn’t ). For perspective, yesterday here in the Denver area , it was quite shallow. At our full time house (elev 6100 ft), it was 13 deg mid-afternoon. At our mtn house (also east of the continental divide, elev 9400 ft) , the temp was 38 deg at the same time – fronts can very very 3 dimensional , although not always evident unless you have some topography around. Actually this was very interesting in that we had the Pacific cold front blow through but only effect the higher elevations as it actually swept over the arctic front at lower elevations without perturbing that airmass significantly. Very interesting stuff! Carla mówi: Wir w tym roku został bardzo ciekawe .. Carla thank you that you have a cool mind. I’m counting on you, because I do not know the language. Lil Fella from OZ In Australia where I live it was 33 C today. We were told it was going to a long hot drawn out summer, because of AGW. Reality! Summer has been halted. The temperature is now in Autumn mode! Gee, they are accurate in their predictions. Following up the mention that AGW being taught in schools as fact! Propaganda of L. ferdberple Don’t like our oil? How about Canad-Air? Eh! The quickest way for the US to solve global warming is to switch to Celsius. Instead of 100F summers, you get a nice cool 38C. But when its cold, no difference. -40F is -40C. Reply to ferdberple @ferdberple – Are you a politician? If not, you missed your calling! LOL Bob Grise John Robertson wrote: I’m with alberta lad, keep stalling that pipeline and sniping at our fine environmental record and we canadians will sent you more cold air. Canada is cleaning up the largest oil spill know to man, why are those eco-nasties trying to impede our fine work”. I live in Minnesota and I have said the same thing for years! The way I put it was, you would think the loony libs would love that man is cleaning up all that oil fouled Alberta sand!!! LOL. Been a brutal winter in central MN and wind power isn’t going to keep us from freezing. Thank God for the Canadian energy we are importing with infrastructure built decades ago, before we discovered that Canadian energy is killing us!!!! LOL Waterlines are freezing in MN but not widespread – yet! About ten years ago the ski hills were complaining that it was too warm to stay in business. Now they are complaining that it is so cold, ticket sales are down! It isn’t cold everywhere though. A relative of mind who lives in Australia told me it was a warm summer there. Warm is good! Better than cold!! Someone tell the libs!!! Crispin in Waterloo Our new record cold two days ago was -29.9 C. Tonight it is -24 with a wind chill value of -32. We have been running 20 degrees C below normal for weeks. Sure glad it is only the weather. I don’t think I could deal with a climate this cold. A classic, night/day front as I like to call them. We get this a lot in April in MN where if will be 80s or 90 in srn MN and 30s northern MN. But this winter is top 5 for below zero days at MSP…49 and counting Robert Wille Reminds me of when I drove from Utah down to Arizona to buy a boat. My daughter was sun-bathing in the 80 degree weather in Arizona in the afternoon. It was 10 degrees when we got home that night. “I am guessing most folks on this blog are fans of “big weather” & this certainly qualifies ! Fun & exciting stuff to follow ” You’re right. I’ve always been a fan of big weather. Dad had to drag me into the house every time a thunder storm blew up as I wanted to see every lightning strike and hear the kind of thunder it would generate. Funnel clouds! Thunder snow in January! Always loved the way big weather could humble us all. But now it sadly seems all these wonderful displays of the immense power and complexity in the atmosphere can’t simply be watched in wonder like they were when I was young, but must always be seen through the disgusting supposedly explanatory prism of “climate change” or “disruption” or whatever. Goodnight everyone. By the way, it’s 16 below F here in Saskatchewan and heading for -20. Jim Bo If you’ll pardon a sneaky topic drift, it appears that this massive cold wave may have been dwarfed in scope as compared to the cold shoulder afforded to CAGW at the Oscars. Unless I missed it (I did have a few lapses in viewing), not a word from the notoriously green and in-your-face glitterati to be heard about CAGW ! Not a good sign at all for the warm-mongers. The anomaly in the the zone of the ozone began in September. Just running solar activity. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/sbuv2to/archive/nh/2013/sbuv19_30_nh_130930.gif Box of Rocks says: There were several years of a strong El Nino at that time. Could that have caused large scale air movements to push north? @ Lil Fella…compared to last year the sst anomalies patterns in different places around Australia are significantly different from last year, to the cool side. The hot cycle could well be over for Australia. Wayne Delbeke JimS says: Useless fact of the day: Local bylaw in Churchill Manitoba requires that vehicle doors remain unlocked so that they can be used as a means of protection by pedestrians in the event of a polar bear encounter. Trouble is, those big adapted Grizzly Bears can smash the windows if they are really hungry. Ebeni Reprise of?? ….1816…”Year Without a Summer”. “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer Dear Winter, It’s been fun, but our relationship has been growing cold lately. I hope you don’t take this too hard, but I want to break up with you and see other seasons. Too Blue Lou Obama do not have time or patient to listen to denier reality or denier temperature facts. The debate is over! Again, thank you WUWT, very happy not to be in Canada this winter. Does anyone think this is the start of the next glaciation or is this our 30 year cool down? I guess it will take a few more winters to tell. If it is the start of the next glaciation, I am not far enough south. IC/DC. Pronunciation makes sense. Robertv Could be interesting this year. Maybe new record. http://www.yukonriverbreakup.com/statistics.html NRG22 Well this winter makes me glad I told my daughter she couldn’t go to University of Michigan. Very fine snow started at 3 a.m. here on the south shore of Long Island. jauntycyclist “sudden appearance of the Northern lights was considered a bad omen?” yes it was a sign storms were coming. which correlates with the sun as the driver of weather. as the magnetic shield is weakening at a fast rate some say this will be great because u can see the lightrs very far south but what they seem to miss is there will be consequences too. if the magnetic shield is weakening due to magnetic reversal it can fall by 90% . one good x flare pointing at the earth then would blow out the power on earth for months maybe years never mind having wild storms too. Cancers would rise. Latest evidence i seen suggested that when the pole does start to move it can move 6 deg a day and not the slow movement over 100s of years that some say now. if the co2ers really want to munch scream magnetic shield weakening is a better one lol John in Oz All that money wasted looking for the ‘God particle’ (Higg’s boson) when CO2 can have so many effects on the weather in so many different ways, and all at the same time. All hail CO2. Actually here in the middle of South America its pretty cold as well LOL http://wxmaps.org/pix/sa.00hr.html Its called weather …it comes… it goes Allan M.R. MacRae Coldest winter ever (evah, evah evah, in living memory, etc. etc.) !!! Global warming is not working out quite as planned, SO :.. Blame Canada! I was actually worried about an invasion after we won four golds in hockey and curling… Sorry…. 🙂 Bill Illis Around the globe: – 7 stations have broken their daily high record – 95 stations have broken their daily low record at least one has broken its all-time lowest recorded temperature. Manistee Michigan which is on Lake Michigan and at -22F, is not much of an all-time low but proximity to the Lake probably impacts that. http://coolwx.com/record/ sherlock1 Being an avid Weather Channel viewer when on vacation in Florida (during the UK winter) – enjoying 75-80 degrees – I’ve always thought: ‘Why would ANYONE live in Great Falls…?’ Jason Calley @ Tom in Florida “Meanwhile, just another day in paradise.” Just a quick tip from an old man. Once you find a place that you really like, never talk well of it. Once word gets around about how nice it is, you will be deluged by people moving there and it will change very quickly — and not for the better. Only praise where you live when you are talking with your neighbors or with your nearest and dearest friends. Try this when speaking with any out-of-towners: “Yeah, I guess where I live is OK… at least if you like mosquitoes and cockroaches. Of course they are worse after a hurricane, and believe me, I’ve seen some doozies! We still have water marks on the sheet rock in the living room. But usually, they get the water and sewage systems back up and running pretty quickly after a big storm. It hardly ever takes more than a couple of weeks.” At first it will be difficult saying bad things about where you live. Practice until you are good at it. Yeah, work is cancelled today in little Rock because there is a sheet of ice on the ground and its 18 degrees. This has never happened in march. (Apparently of it doesnt get over 30 it will be an all time cold record for today and its predicted to get to 25 or so). Insanity! We’ll be flirting with -9 F tonight in western New Hampshire. Not quite a record low, but nearly… Doug Scott says: You are correct. However, the delusional CAGW scientists/advocates of today would interpret ANY weather-related warm spell as a sure sign of global warming. This is why WUWT does these posts on cold weather events – to counter the CAGW scare-spin bilge we see in the modern media. davideisenstadt says: When Puerto Vallarta hits 81 C I’ll believe in Global Warming. Old time Texans call this a “Blue Norther”. 2 days ago it was 77 degrees, spring flowers were starting to come out. Yesterday, in East Texas, we got hit with 3 inches of ICE in 3 hours. Looks white like snow, but it is hard as a rock – took me 15 minutes with a pitcher of hot water this morning just to get my truck door thawed out enough so it would open!. And now this morning it is 19 degrees, with a high of 29 projected for the day. This ice is gonna be here a while. mkelly Pippen Kool says: Minot is in North Dakota. The red dot below and left of the M is the give away. I say we all crash at “Tom in Florida’s” place until spring. 🙂 In Northern Indiana we’ve only had a few days since New Years when the temperature has gone above 32 deg F. With the current surge of polar air, our high went from 22 to 14; the lows from 10 to -5 deg F. It’s been so cold so long, most people around here really didn’t notice. Bill Illis says: Where I live in the UP of Michigan we set a new low with minus 20 F on Friday. The old low was minus 17 F. The tire low pressure warning light came on in my truck last month and would not go out until the temp got above 20+ for two days. bobbyv if you like your polar vortex, you can keep it Lou says March 2, 2014 at 5:21 pm I’m from Texas that lived all over Texas and must admit that is impressive. I don’t recall it being that cold this late. I’m hearing that it could be as low as 14f at the old house in Dallas area. In a ‘burb to the north of Dallas saw 14 Deg. F this morning (Monday) … this has been a horrendous winter that began around Thanksgiving 2013! Between the ice and snow and cold, we’ve had events (ice storms, temps in the teens, etc.) that might have been normally spread out over 3 to 5 years in one year! And we have had ‘repeats’ of these events to the tune of a three-peat! That would depend on a number of various factors, including depth of the snowpack, rapidity of the warmup, and any rainfall. One sure thing though is that any flooding will be attributed to “climate change” by the CAGW proponents and their faithful followers. Coldlynx Thunder bay is the only named place without any temperature in the first picture. To cold to measure? Or just unbelievable cold? Mac the Knife says March 2, 2014 at 8:23 pm Rural residents with individual drilled wells are experiencing similar pipe freeze ups in their buried water supply lines and septic systems. We ‘solved’ that problem (in a rural Calhoun County, MI township) by putting out ‘straw’ over the ground where the lines ran as winter approached (this preserves ‘ground heat’ in the earth rather than allowing ‘extraction’ from colder air) .. and it works! Of course, one has to actually ‘plan’ this, then execute the plan (acquire the straw, get it out before the first snow fall) … jauntycyclist says March 3, 2014 at 1:48 am one good x flare pointing at the earth then would blow out the power on earth for months This point is mostly myth; the system operators are a LOT more informed on this issue than they were even thirty years ago … For instance, in this training material check out the section on “geomagnetic disturbances” beginning on slide 6: http://www.pjm.com/training/~/media/training/core-curriculum/ip-ops-101/ops101-weatheremer.ashx Note slide 17 which indictes: “Areas of North America of concern due to possible increased GIC (geomagnetic induced current) flow” Note beginning slide 20 indicates the ‘safety’ procedures they implement upon receiving notice of potential geomagnetic events. BTW, “PJM” is the ‘power system operator’ (historically) in charge of power system ‘dispatch’ (generation and transmission) in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland area. In the southern hemisphere is already blockade creates a vortex over the South America. http://oi60.tinypic.com/hrla9j.jpg http://oi59.tinypic.com/8xivsw.jpg I remind the geomagnetic field. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/WMM/data/WMM2010/WMM2010_F_MERC.pdf Richard Barraclough Perhaps as this is a science blog, we should all know how to spell Celsius, named after a Swedish astronomer, Anders Celsius. more soylent green! Overnight lows around -10F last night (Monday, March 3) in the Kansas City area. This is about 40 degree below the seasonal average. Jeff L says March 2, 2014 at 9:04 pm Take a peek at the Skew-T diagram here (obtained via a balloon or Radiosonde): http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/upper/fwd.gif I’ll admit I’m a little rusty at interpreting these diagrams, but, it looks like the temp climbs to about 16C at the 750 mb level … bobbyv says: Will the polar vortex save us on average $2500.00 too? Jason Calley says: Not to worry, industrial/manufacturing jobs are scarce and wages are low (but then so are prices which is why it is a great place to retire.). In addition, with the majority of people being older, the population needs to be replenished constantly in order to keep the economics of the area viable. Eliza says March 3, 2014 at 2:27 am Eliza, those look like model outputs (i.e. “predictions”) from the “GFS” model, as the webpage states: “The latest GFS forecast issued by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction is presented in seven panels. See Image Titles for Initial and Valid Times” and no surface temperatures are shown, only temps for the 859 mb (height) level … Theo Goodwin Yes, this is a hard winter. But I have seen far worse. In St. Louis, the winters (beginning in) 1976-1982 were unbelievable. It starts with blocking. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/blocking/real_time_sh/500gz_anomalies_sh.gif I have a weather data question: Is there an official weather metric tracking snowcover? Specifically, does the NWS track the number of days the ground is covered in snow for the winter season? Does it track the number of consecutive days with snowcover? If you are going to post links that are not safe for work at least have the decency to post NSFW. I met my wife in December of 1983. Its a date that I must remember if I’m to keep the peace in the house. What is interesting about that time frame is the local weather here in Dallas, Texas that winter. I have lived in the area for most of my 57 years. To attest, I have lived north of Dallas about 25 miles for the last 45 years. What’s special about this time? In the winter of 1983/84, a lake north of Dallas froze over for the first time in its history. We had brutally cold weather for about 2 weeks. The lake was built and completed in 1956. The lake is named Lake Lewisville. So I thought I would go have some fun and get on the ice. A big mistake. At the shore line the ice was at least 2″ thick and I wanted to see if I could break the ice. Low and behold, I took a large rock, walked on the ice and slipped. I had the rock in my hand and when I landed on the ice, the rock crushed my hand. So, here is a weather phenomenon that I will never forget as the memory was indelibly pounded into me. Pun intended! Not to worry, I grew up to be an airline pilot and what I observe now is incredible. The last ten years I have seen more snow coverage of the 48 contiguous states than the previous years of flying. But here we are 30 years later and the cold is back with a vengeance. Please send us some sunshine! Say…. Tom in Florida, didn’t Hooters come from your neck of the woods by chance? John F. Hultquist Santa Claus! Earth has a really big fat waist where air warms and goes up. It has a small top – like the white ball of fluff on Santa’s hat — where a portion of that air comes down. The up part is often called the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), and when functioning well will show on satellite view as a band of bright white clouds. Currently this is south of the Equator. http://www.atmos.washington.edu/cgi-bin/latest.cgi?wv-moll Much of that air comes down in areas pole-ward of the Tropics, and will be labeled as Sub-Tropical High Pressure (STHP). Some air continues pole-ward. Simple diagrams will also show a “Ferrel Cell.” The ‘web’ has simple cartoon-like drawings of all these parts, and more. Everyone ought to have a real globe. Find one. Put you fist over the Polar Region: 1 fist = 90 to 60 degrees of Latitude. Now put your fist along the Equator repeatedly (about 30 degrees of Longitude each). That requires about 12 fists to go around. That’s a lot of air going up, and what goes up has to come down. It comes down in a smaller space. Fat waist. Tiny top. A little farther north in Tampa. Also famous for cigars and Mons Venus. When will the USA do as the whole other world : warm up and give their temperature in Celcius degrees ? Meanwhile, just another day in paradise. Warm with a clear blue sky, slight southerly breeze. My weather calendar says in 1980 it was 32 in Miami on March 3. A weather map from http://www.lib.noaa.gov/collections/imgdocmaps/daily_weather_maps.html shows 0700 temps of 23F in Mobile AL, 36F in Brownsville, TX, and 18F in Washington DC. Myron Mesecke Helped out with the Army Marathon Sunday morning. 6AM 67 degrees, 6:30 50 degrees, 7AM (RACE START) 40 degrees, 8AM 33 degrees. Hats off to all that ran in that temp with the strong wind. The real question is when the rest of the world going to catch to the US and get rid of the metric system? jayhd I, for one, am grateful for the wave of cold air that descended on my little part of South Central Pennsylvania. It kept most of the snow South and East of me. It had the beneficial side effect of increasing the snowfall in the D.C. region, therefore causing the shutdown of the Federal Government. “New Orleans and Wichita” Yeah, thanks for pointing that out Anthony…. But our Shocker basketball team is HOT!! Ah ha! Further proof of (choose one) a. global warming b. climate change c. climate chaos d. weather e. a, b & c f. all of the above except a, b, c and e. wbrozek Robert Bissett says: I would not count on it. RSS for February just came in. It dropped to 0.162 from 0.262 in January. As a result, the average for these two months is 0.212. If it were to stay this way, 2014 would rank 11th. That is no way to set a record being in 11th place after two months. Furthermore, the ENSO meter now dropped to -0.6. daddylonglegs wbrozek on March 3, 2014 at 4:52 pm Thanks for the update. Judging by the east Pacific subsurface temperatures we are shaping up for a big La Nina right now. rishrac I’m replying to wws “Looks white like snow, but it is hard as a rock –” . I’ve seen freezing rain that becomes ice, sleet, fairy dust, grapple, and something that looks like well doggy waste. lived in NJ almost all my life. A few years ago we had something like that fall. I have no idea what that is, but it won’t go away either. It took a long time for it to melt. Even with temps in the 50’s and 60’s. Wouldn’t it be interesting to discover that this whole AGW scare was nothing but the natural effects of the Polar Vortex. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/JFM_season_ao_index.shtml It’s been colder, good people. I’ve worked outdoors at about -45C (-49F). The snow makes a very high-pitched squeak when you walk on it, and the boogers freeze inside your nose. Believe me, warmer is better. But I think Earth is entering a cooling period. Regrets, Allan Canada’s coldest day ever: Snag, Yukon, hit -63 °C in 1947 — without wind chill National Post Staff \| February 3, 2014 5:53 PM ET As Snag, Yukon, locals stepped outside, their breath hissed as it froze mid-air before falling to the ground as white dust. It was -62.8 C (-81.0 F) in the tiny village exactly 67 years ago today — the coldest day in Canadian history. Frigid air from northeastern Siberia had blown, creating a deep freeze on Feb. 3, 1947. “The boys are glad that we’ve got Snag on the map,” weather officer Gordon Toole told The Gazette in Montreal when a reporter called for comment. Decades later, the village is still on the map, so to speak. Monday, Google paid tribute to the town — and it’s very chilly day — in a doodle. At that temperature, exposed skin would freeze in less than three minutes, drastically increasing the risk for frostbite, hypothermia and death. The 16 men at weather station had other problems on their minds though. The nearest women were 465 kilometres away — in Whitehorse, Toole said. Lighthearted as the response was, it was a difficult day for Snag. “Residents seemed to move like zombies, afraid to work hard enough to breathe the frigid air too deeply into their lungs,” according to an excerpt from The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar. Adding to the strange day, locals discovered that sound can travel much farther in the cold, dense air. The 10 coldest places in Canada — ever Or at least since they’ve been keeping weather records • -62.8 C — Snag, Yukon — February 3, 1947 • -60.6 C — Fort Vermilion, Alberta — January 11, 1911 • -59.4 C — Old Crow, Yukon — January 5, 1975 • -58.9 C — Smith River, British Columbia — January 31, 1947 • -58.3 C — Iroquois Falls, Ontario — January 23, 1935 • -57.8 C — Shephard Bay, Nunavut — February 13, 1973 • -57.2 C — Fort Smith, Northwest Territories — December 26, 1917 • -56.7 C — Prince Albert, Saskatchewan — February 1, 1893 • -55.8 C — Dawson City, Yukon — February 11, 1979 • -55.6 C — Iroquois Falls, Ontario — February 9, 1934 Gail Combs Raleigh 64 °F???? That is a load of CRAP. It is currently 31.3 °F and I am south of Raleigh about 50 miles and currently 27 °F Imaz-Aizpurua Polar Vortex = Mobile Polar High? (cf. Marcel Leroux, 1993, etc) JAIA Gail Combs says March 4, 2014 at 7:44 am Please note the map bears a date which appears to be 3-3-2014 00:00 UTC as seen in the upper right-hand top, making it sometime yesterday … I don’t think so minus 40 F when freezing point is 32 F. I don’t know really anyone see my point. C is 0 freezing point. I don’t think many places would get that minus 40 C other than the arctic or antarctic. Never good at sums. @ bushbunny, Alberta can.So to Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the norther sections of Ontario and Quebec. Hence the Rodeo songs universal appeal across Canada, with slight misunderstandings on the two southerly coastlines. Michael Whittemore This cooling reminds me of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. You never know, maybe the Earth will correct itself! Christmas in Florida: Chilly forecast, falling iguanas The role of weather on December 7th, 1941 and a little known important indirect benefit*	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1352
__label__cc	0.715895	0.284105	-- Menu --Brokers Binary Option Robot Signals Guide Strategies Complaints Forex Trading Cryptocurrencies Oil & Ruble Not Seen To Be Russia’s Main Concerns The struggling economy in Russia is already facing more challenges, including currency volatility, deteriorating oil prices and sanctions by the West. However, Arkady Dvorkovich, the prime minister, feels that this is not likely to affect the economy. Despite the 0.6 percent economic growth in the country in 2014, the dropping oil prices are likely to cause a slump in Russia economy. According to the International Monetary Fund, the economy is likely to drop by 3.8 percent in 2015 and about 1.1 percent in 2016. However, Dvorkovich insists that the country has enough reserves to withstand this turbulence. He further said that the current situation gives the agricultural exports and manufacturing sector a competitive edge in the global markets. Recommended Brokers: The Turbulence in Oil Prices Does not Seem to Affect Russia’s Economy The current fluctuation in oil prices, coupled with the currency volatility as well as the Western sanctions does not seem to affect the already struggling economy in Russia. According to the Prime Minister, Arkady Dvorkovich, the main problem facing the economy in the country is the lack of funding for new projects. Despite the 0.6 percent growth in the economy in 2014, the economy is expected to decline considerably this year. This is mainly because of the decline in oil prices, the sanctions on the country by the West and the underlying structural weaknesses in the country. This is expected to impact greatly on the business as well as consumer confidence. Despite its earlier predicted decline, of 3 percent, this year, the International Monetary Fund changed its growth outlook for Russia to 3.8 percent this year. However, the prime minister still insists that the country is not likely to suffer this much. According to him, the country has sufficient reserves to withstand this turbulence, especially in the commodities market. Additionally, Dvorkovich mentioned that all these happenings give the countries agricultural and manufacturing a competitive edge, with regards to their pricing in the global market. Appreciation of the Dollar Having ranged in the low level for a while now, the EUR/USD currency pair hit a new level (1.0600) on Friday, closer to its support level (1.0550). This change may be attributed to the shift by FOMC members in accordance with the hawkish comments from, which cause the dollar to strengthen. This downward trend is estimated to continue because the European Union situation is not improving. As of Friday, the US dollar had appreciated against the GBP to hit 1.4585. This caused an FOMC member, Jeffrey Lacker, to echo his opinion that the interest rates should be increased in June, should there be no relevant data to support the opposite trend for this currency pair. Other FOMC members have also supported his opinion. At the same time, the U.K outlook has declined owing to the unclear circumstances surrounding the upcoming elections. Since no important economic events are expected to be released today, this currency pair is expected to range between its resistance of 1.4725 and support 1.4565. The Bank Of Japan is Speculated to Ease Monetary Policy on the Depreciating Yen The expectation that the weakening of the yen will lead to inflation of prices across Japan is probably wrong. This is because of the declining oil prices; since last June, crude oil prices have dropped by more than 50 percent. The economic policy of the Prime Minister Abe and the mandate of the Bank of Japan are to bring to an end the two decades deflation of the Yen. However, their efforts are yet to bear fruits. As of February this year, the inflation rate of the Yen was close to zero. The increase of the consumption tax from 5 to 8 percent in April 2014 lend to the contraction of household spending by 2.9 percent. The depreciation of the Yen against the US dollar by about 30 percent, coupled with the increase in oil prices by 8 percent lend to inflation of prices by about 0.5 percent, in the second half of 2013. Since October 2014, when the BOJ increased the quantitative easing program, the Yen has depreciated by about 10 percent. Having failed in its two-year target, meant to reduce inflation to 2 percent by this April, many analysts are expecting the BOJ to further ease the monetary policy and extend its goals. Could Passwords Become Extinct? For years people used checks for paying for things without ever giving it a second thought that they may one day become obsolete, then along came the debit card and all that changed. Could the same thing be happening with passwords? If recent trends are any indication, then the answer to this would be a resounding yes. The online payment division of Alibaba, Alipay, has just announced that very soon they will be using facial recognition software to verify identity. The Alibaba Chairman, Jack Ma, demonstrated how the technology would work at a recent trade fair. He used a smart phone camera to scan his face to verify his identity. This widely popular payment service in China has long made their wishes to expand globally no secret and has just taken a huge step toward that by giving payment service users a lot of confidence in them. And it’s not only Alibaba that is trending toward eliminating passwords to use their services. Apple has already announced plans to use a fingerprint scanner on their iPhone’s in order to process Apple pay transactions and Google and Yahoo have also expressed a keen interest in using facial and fingerprint biometrics to verify identity. It certainly does not look good for big fans of passwords and internet hackers as the end of the password is on the horizon. A Small Step Back for the US Dollar The US dollar has been on an extremely strong run of late which has seen many investors real in some very big profits on their investments. Recently the US Dollar has experienced highs that it has not seen in over 11 years. But that rising trend came to a halt for a few days due to an unexpected drop in US retail sales. Experts expected that trend to slightly continue based on the fact that no new economic news was forthcoming. The dollar retreated against both the Japanese Yen and Euro after experiencing 12 year highs of 121.34 and $1.0613 against them respectively. Part of this was due to the Eurozone’s 1 trillion euro bond sale going into effect. Investors are eagerly awaiting the results of several US Federal Reserve meetings which will take place in March to see how they will invest next. Most investors expect a mid-year interest rate hike to come into effect. In the meantime, other countries are about to release their own economic data. Canada was one country expected to announce a good economic report, but not as good as their 35 thousand job gain in January. Although the Canadian Dollar strengthened against the US Dollar ever so slightly, this trend was not expected to continue much longer. Gold investors smiling again The end of 2014 saw the first resurgence in the price of gold in a long time and that trend continued into the new year. It had gold investors smiling again for the first time in a long time. But what happened next was totally unexpected. The USA made huge strides in 2014 in getting closer to energy independence and the world’s oil market collapsed. The turnaround of the dollar haltedthe gold surge in its tracks. The dollar found itself at an 11 year high against many major currencies as a result of many new jobs being created in the USA and the non-farm payroll report being very positive. Spot Gold was around $1,170.95 an ounce which represented about a 3% loss on the year. So what may happen next? It looks like the Federal Reserve of the USA may be forced to raise interest rates for the first time in a while.Higher interests rates combined with a strong dollar have typically decreased demand for precious metals such as gold in the past, which should drive their price of gold even lower. One of the things gold investors have in their favor is the debt crisis in Greece. The uncertainty surrounding Greece’s financial crisis is providing a much needed push back for gold against the dollar. Is a New Drachma on the Horizon for Greece? It is no secret that Greece has struggled mightily financially in recent years. It is one of the key reasons for some of the problems with the Euro too. Greece’s newly elected government is searching for solutions to relieve the financial crisis in the country and one of the things that has been discussed is bringing back the old currency. This thinking by Greece has raised a lot of financial fears in Europe and Greece because of what happened when the opposite currency exchange took place several years ago. Some of this comes about undoubtedly as a tactic by Greece’s new government to put pressure on the European Union to help them more with their debt crisis. Despite all the talk of Greece leaving the Eurozone, many analysts see this as having a very low probability of it happening. They have their hands somewhat tied by the two bailouts they have received since 2010 that total almost 250 billion Euro. There has been a lot of tension going back and forth between the government of Greece and the Eurozone for a while now. Experts also think that this would deal a death blow to Greece financially because converting to the Drachma will not eliminate their debt to the Eurozone and Greece’s credibility would be all but lost in the World’s financial markets. Not to mention, Greece would have problems designing and paying for the new currency under its current financial crisis, so don’t be looking for Greece to convert to the Drachma anytime soon. The ECB Faces some Tough Decisions now that Syriza has Won the Greek Election Recently the European Central Bank (ECB) took an aggressive step to curtail the deflationary trend of the Euro. The ECB decided to initiate what they termed a ‘quantitative easing’ plan; the plan involved funding in excess over 1 trillion Euros. With hope of that working, the ECB can know turn their attention back to Greece and the worry about the country’s just finished elections. As expected, the Syriza party wona majority of the vote and Alexis Tsipra was elected Greece’s new Prime minister. What worries the ECB is that the Syriza party ran based on an anti-austerity platform. One of Syriza’s campaign promises was to aggressively lobby Eurozone and the ECB to reevaluate the amount of their debt holdings to Greece. The new government then will look to increase spending in an attempt to promote job growth. Why is the ECB worried about this? There is a big fear that if Tsipra and the Syriza party get their way, then it could be enough to offset any gains made through the quantitative easing plan and send the European economies spiraling downward again. The results of the Greek election have definitely generated a feeling of uncertainty in global markets and have given rise to a lot more volatility in the markets at the same time. The positive part of the election results are that Syriza has stated it no longer wants to leave the European Union; there was a big fear about this three years ago when Greece’s struggling economy severely faltered. Since that time and their subsequent bailout, under the terms of the agreement, Greece has been subject by periodic inspections by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union commission and has also been subjected to ECB reforms brought on by the urging of Germany. Despite their new ambitions, it will be hard for Greece’s newly elected government to satisfy its campaign promises and at the same time ease tensions with the IMF and Europe. The Surprising Economic Impact of Facebook Sometimes there is some economic news that is more than just a little bit surprising. Such is the case with social media giant Facebook. It is a lot like the snowball that gets bigger as it is rolling down the hill; Facebook, its appeal to the masses and its spin off businesses and advertising have shown to have a large domino effect on the economy. A recent study on Facebook released some overwhelming numbers on the economic impact of the website. Its over 1.3 billion users and the desire for businesses to reach them had an economic effect of over 200 billion dollars and helped create over 4 million jobs last year. Those are some staggering numbers. The study focused mainly on businesses that had both a page on Facebook, the sites mobile apps and the games that were featured on the website. It looked at the resulting economic activity that was connected to them. This report also focused on Facebook users demands for gadgets and other online connectivity type services. There were several businesses whose sales and profits were directly associated with their advertising that was done by targeting Facebook’s customers. A great example of Facebook’s influence in the social media market is the silly but purposeful Ice Bucket Challenge, a challenge that was aimed at raising money to help fund research that would help those affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Through the attention the disease received on Facebook and the subsequent auto play ads with videos, over 100 million dollars was donated by the websites users to help fight it. Ironically, the report came out at a time when many people were becoming overly critical of tech startups and were suggesting that these new businesses were having a negative effect on the economy and hurting job growth. The numbers from the report would certainly suggest that startups that were created to target Facebook users had quite the opposite effect. 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__label__cc	0.734944	0.265056	Riverguard WHAT’S UP IN WILMYWOOD 04/17/2013 – Sid Haig, Sam Shepard and more. Under the Dome is all over Southport today. Locations include the riverfront as well as a clinic on Fondale Rd. Local, brilliant filmmaker Craig Thieman’s independent film, Love Letter has added Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses/The Devil’s Rejects to the cast. He arrived yesterday in Wilmington. Other cast members of the Comedy / Horror include Wil Daniels, Sara Tomko, Nate Panning, Julia Lehman and Simon Crist. Love Letter is based on the short film of the same name that Thieman shot many years ago for a local film festival. What’s it about? Well, this about sums it up: “Garrett’s got a case of writer’s block. It turns out writing the perfect suicide note is not as easy as you might think. And it’s even harder when you’re writing it for an ex-girlfriend you’ve got tied up in your garage who, even though she totally deserves what she’s getting, unfairly refuses to sign the letter. Things get more awkward when people start showing up and stubbornly refuse to die. It sucks, but Garrett may just have to kill everyone.” The short film was hilarious, plus Craig Thieman is an amazing filmmaker, so I expect nothing less than awesome when all is said and done. Inspire Productions was able to fund the film through Kickstarter. Another movie coming to Wilmington? I do believe! Folks from the low budget movie, Riverguard, have been doing some preliminary location scouting. The flick is a courtroom drama, based on a true story. The production team is reaching out to Sam Shepard for the lead. That just about does it for me; I will have more Wilmywood updates for you tomorrow morning and every morning (Monday-Friday) at 8:30am. Got scoop? Email me: sheila@1045sunnyfm.com. Until then, that’s a wrap! Arts, Comedy, Dome, Independent film, Love Letter, Monday-Friday, NC, NCFilm, Riverguard, Sam Shepard, Short film, Sid Haig, Under the Dome, WILMINGTON	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1360
__label__cc	0.646468	0.353532	Revelation Outline The woman, the male child, and the dragon (1-6) Michael battles the dragon (7-12) Dragon hurled to the earth (9) Devil knows he has a short time (12) Dragon persecutes the woman (13-17) Or “clothed.” +Ge 3:15 Revelation Climax, pp. 177-178 Proclaimers, p. 78 Live Forever, p. 117 it-2 675-676; re 177-178; jv 78; pe 117 w82 7/1 16; w80 1/15 10-11; ad 1334; kj 353; fm 297-300; w66 594; li 67-68; w64 77, 655; w63 172, 174; w60 311; w58 550; pa 175; nh 207; rm 300; w48 295; w47 168; tf 99, 297; w42 59, 116, 296; g42 4/15 16; w40 301; w36 10; ch 173; w35 189; w34 317; w32 45; nw 3; g31 1/21 281; lt-1-30 232 it-2 187, 675-676; re 177-178; jv 78 ad 1018, 1334; kj 353; fm 297, 299-300; li 67-68; w63 172; bf 502; w53 274; nh 207; w48 295; w47 168; w40 302; w36 10; w35 189; w34 317, 356; w32 47; lt-1-30 233 Or “royal headbands.” +Re 12:9; 20:2 Insight, Volume 1, pp. 554, 649, 1051 Revelation Climax, p. 178 it-1 554, 649, 1051; re 178; w01 9/1 6; jv 78; w89 4/1 20 w81 5/1 12; w72 352, 427; kj 353; fm 300-304; w66 230; w64 223; w63 172; w62 727; w60 311; pa 175; nh 108, 209; ge 22; tf 142; g42 4/15 16; w40 302; w37 227; w35 189; w34 309, 317, 356; w33 221, 315; g31 1/21 283; lt-1-30 233 +Job 38:7 +Ge 6:2; Jude 6 w18.05 23; re 178-179 ts 83; w72 352, 427; kj 353; fm 301-304; w64 223; bf 502; w61 671; nh 108, 209; w52 274; g49 4/8 21; w48 308; tf 142; w42 13; w40 302; ch 173; w35 189; w34 317, 356; w33 315; lt-1-30 234 Or “caught.” +Ps 2:9; 110:2; Re 19:15 Insight, Volume 2, pp. 187-188, 675-676, 817-818, 1198 Revelation Climax, pp. 177, 179-180 it-2 187-188, 675-676, 817-818, 1198; re 177, 179-180; jv 78; pe 117; w88 12/15 14 w82 7/1 16-17; w81 5/1 21-22; w80 1/15 10-11; w78 3/1 24, 26; go 106-107, 162; w74 331; po 177; w73 616-617; ka 236; dy 13-15; w72 352; pm 71; ad 1018, 1334; kj 306, 353; fm 151, 303-304; w66 239; w65 626; im 166; gv 26; w64 77, 655, 679; w63 172, 174; bf 502-503, 624, 626, 664; w62 49, 728; w61 671; w60 462; jp 107; pa 175; w55 624; sr55 99; w53 274; nh 209; rm 300; w50 514; w49 149-150; w48 295; w46 131, 138; pn 21; g45 4/11 17; w42 215, 296; w41 79; w40 302, 314; ch 173; w35 189; w32 47, 86; lt-1-30 235 Revelation Climax, pp. 179-180, 184 it-2 1186; re 179-180, 184 pm 379-380; fm 303-304, 313-319; w64 759; bf 179; w55 267; w52 270; w51 383, 409; w40 315, 318, 348; lt-1-30 247 Meaning “Who Is Like God?” +Da 10:13; 12:1; Jude 9 “All Scripture,” p. 142 God’s Word, p. 160 re 180-181; w90 7/1 26; si 142; gm 160 w84 12/15 28-29; w79 6/15 24-25; w74 331-332; po 155; w73 294; w73 616-617; dy 14-15; g73 5/22 14; w71 269-270; kj 353; fm 305-308; qm 376; gn 21; w64 77, 415; g64 10/8 17; bf 605, 625, 632-633; w62 622; tc 26; w61 57, 59; w58 559; pa 176; w56 751; sr55 113; w54 484; w53 275, 582; nh 30, 212; lg 61; rm 305; w50 237, 335; w46 138; pn 22; w41 79; w40 303, 316; w36 296 Or possibly, “but it [that is, the dragon] was defeated.” re 180-181 w74 331-332; kj 353; fm 305, 308; bf 625; pa 176; sr55 113; w53 275, 582; nh 30, 212; lg 61; rm 305; pn 22; w40 303 +Ge 3:1; 2Co 11:3; Re 12:14 +Mt 4:1; Joh 8:44; Heb 2:14; Jas 4:7; 1Pe 5:8 +1Ch 21:1; Job 1:6; Zec 3:2; Mt 4:10; Joh 13:27; Ro 16:20; 2Th 2:9 +2Co 4:4; 11:14; Eph 2:2; 1Jo 5:19 +Lu 10:18; Re 12:13 Insight, Volume 2, pp. 240-241, 898 8/2010, pp. 20-21 Creator, pp. 176-177 it-2 241, 898; w15 5/15 9-10; g 8/10 20-21; w09 5/15 18; re 180-181; w04 2/15 16; ct 177; gm 160 w81 5/1 12, 21; w80 4/1 18; w79 11/15 3; g79 10/22 27-28; lp 56; hs 49-50; w75 655-656; ml 18-19; w74 5-6; w74 331-332; g74 10/22 8-9; w73 294; w73 616-617; dy 15-17; g73 4/22 19; g73 5/22 14; g73 12/8 28; ad 1472; kj 353; w69 760; fm 305, 308; w67 103; w66 236, 238, 553; im 161-162; w64 223, 522; w63 166, 172, 691; bf 632; mg63 18; g63 3/8 20; w62 677, 727; w61 525; pa 176; sr55 113; w53 119, 275, 582; nh 30, 108, 212; lg 59, 61; rm 305; w50 514; w48 296; na46 26; pn 22; w43 3; w40 303; w35 190 +Ro 13:11; Heb 9:28; 1Pe 1:5 +Re 11:15, 17 +Job 1:9; Zec 3:1 Teach Us, p. 86 Bible Teach, pp. 79-80 12/15/1990, pp. 19-20 Worldwide Security, pp. 91-92 bhs 86; bh 80; w06 1/15 22; re 182-183; w99 4/15 17; w90 12/15 19-20; ws 91-92 w80 4/1 13; w78 3/1 24; go 161-162; w74 5-6; w74 192; kj 354; fm 305, 308-311; w67 103; w66 70, 239, 553; w63 587; bf 624, 664; w57 597; w56 751; w55 599; dh 79; w53 275; nh 30, 213, 268; rm 300; w50 449; na46 26; w43 23; w40 317; w39 350; lt-1-30 242 Or “lives.” See Glossary. +1Jo 2:14 +1Pe 1:18, 19 +Ac 1:8; 2Ti 1:8; Re 1:9 +Mt 16:25; Lu 14:26; Ac 20:24 w07 7/1 31; re 182-183; w90 12/15 19-20 w80 10/1 28; w76 281; kj 354; fm 309-312; w63 587; nh 213; w43 27; w40 317; lt-1-30 243 +Isa 57:20; 60:2; Re 17:15 +Mt 24:34; Ro 16:20; 2Ti 3:1; 2Pe 3:3 Teach Us, pp. 86-87 Bible Teach, p. 80 God’s Kingdom Rules!, p. 22 God’s Word, pp. 160-161 bhs 86-87; bh 80; kr 22; re 182-183; w01 10/15 6; w99 10/1 4; ct 177; w96 4/1 17-18; w95 11/1 19; gm 160-161; om 162-163; pe 137; w88 12/15 14 w84 5/1 6; w83 5/15 22-23; kc 119; w80 10/1 27-28; w79 2/15 13; w79 5/15 24; g79 10/22 28; w78 3/1 29; w78 8/1 18; us 40; go 185; w76 753-754; w75 362; w75 655; ml 18-19; w74 5-6; ts 163; w73 294; w73 344; w73 616-617; dy 15-17; g73 4/22 13-14; g73 6/22 12; g73 7/22 5; g73 12/8 28; w72 628; dn 24; kj 354; fm 312; w67 103, 518; w66 238; g66 10/8 31; w64 426; g64 4/8 12; g64 10/8 17; w63 184, 345, 587; bf 554, 568; w62 560; wr 15; w60 583; pa 180; w56 751; w53 119; nh 213, 268; lg 62; rm 305, 314; w48 296; na46 26; pn 22; g45 4/25 16; ni 21; rw 59; fd 20; w40 59, 317; ch 175; w35 190; w34 317; w33 70; v-2 12; w31 13, 357; w30 344; lt-1-30 245 +Ge 3:15; Re 12:1 it-2 1198; re 183-184 w82 4/15 19-20; w73 618-619; ka 29; kj 354; w70 757; fm 312-313; w66 552, 554; bf 544; w57 597; w53 276; nh 285; ni 21; fd 20; wl 173; w41 346; w40 318, 348; lt-1-30 246 That is, three and a half times. +Ex 19:4; Isa 40:31 +Re 12:6 +Ge 3:1; 2Co 11:3 w78 4/1 31; pm 379-380; kj 354; fm 312-317; w64 759; bf 179; pa 173; w55 267; nh 285; w52 270; w51 383, 409; w40 318, 348; w35 297; v-2 286; lt-1-30 247 w20.05 6; kr 150-151; re 184-185; w88 12/15 14 w85 1/1 24; w79 11/1 19; kj 354; fm 317-320; w68 175; w66 552; bf 544; w55 367; nh 285; na46 37; w44 266; w40 349; lt-1-30 252 12/2019, p. 8 Bearing Witness, p. 164 1987 Yearbook, p. 166 mwb19.12 8; kr 151; w09 1/15 32; bt 164; re 185-186; w90 11/1 15; w88 12/15 14; yb87 166 w85 1/1 24; w79 11/1 19; kj 354; fm 318-320; w68 175; w60 91; yw 286; w55 367; nh 285; na46 37; w44 266; w40 350; lt-1-30 254 Lit., “seed.” +Mt 24:9; Ac 1:8; Re 1:9; 6:9 Insight, Volume 2, pp. 770, 1168, 1198 Revelation Climax, pp. 11-12, 183, 185-186, 279 it-2 770, 1168, 1198; re 11-12, 183, 185-186, 279 w85 3/15 18; w84 6/15 18; su 176-177; w82 12/15 14; w81 5/1 22; yb77 260-261; w76 753-756; sl 256; w74 723; po 178; w73 144-145; w73 618-620, 623; ka 29; dy 20; kj 354; fm 320-322; w66 554; w64 77, 655; w63 172, 174; bf 632; mg63 18; w61 745; w58 486; sr55 113; w53 276; w51 368; rm 305; w48 295; w46 347; na46 37; w44 267; ni 21; w43 26, 368; fd 20; w41 346; w40 69, 350; rg 86; w39 141; w36 28; w35 261; w34 137; g33 6/7 572; nw 11; w31 279, 315; v-1 138; g31 1/21 285; lt-1-30 255 Rev. 12:1Ge 3:15 Rev. 12:3Re 12:9; 20:2 Rev. 12:4Job 38:7 Rev. 12:4Ge 6:2; Jude 6 Rev. 12:5Re 11:15 Rev. 12:5Ps 2:9; 110:2; Re 19:15 Rev. 12:7Da 10:13; 12:1; Jude 9 Rev. 12:9Ge 3:1; 2Co 11:3; Re 12:14 Rev. 12:9Mt 4:1; Joh 8:44; Heb 2:14; Jas 4:7; 1Pe 5:8 Rev. 12:91Ch 21:1; Job 1:6; Zec 3:2; Mt 4:10; Joh 13:27; Ro 16:20; 2Th 2:9 Rev. 12:92Co 4:4; 11:14; Eph 2:2; 1Jo 5:19 Rev. 12:9Lu 10:18; Re 12:13 Rev. 12:10Ro 13:11; Heb 9:28; 1Pe 1:5 Rev. 12:10Re 11:15, 17 Rev. 12:10Job 1:9; Zec 3:1 Rev. 12:111Jo 2:14 Rev. 12:111Pe 1:18, 19 Rev. 12:11Ac 1:8; 2Ti 1:8; Re 1:9 Rev. 12:11Mt 16:25; Lu 14:26; Ac 20:24 Rev. 12:12Isa 57:20; 60:2; Re 17:15 Rev. 12:12Mt 24:34; Ro 16:20; 2Ti 3:1; 2Pe 3:3 Rev. 12:13Lu 10:18 Rev. 12:13Ge 3:15; Re 12:1 Rev. 12:14Ex 19:4; Isa 40:31 Rev. 12:14Re 12:6 Rev. 12:14Ge 3:1; 2Co 11:3 Rev. 12:17Ge 3:15 Rev. 12:17Mt 24:9; Ac 1:8; Re 1:9; 6:9 A Revelation to John 12 Then a great sign was seen in heaven: A woman+ was arrayed* with the sun, and the moon was beneath her feet, and on her head was a crown of 12 stars, 2 and she was pregnant. And she was crying out in her pains and in her agony to give birth. 3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Look! A great fiery-colored dragon,+ with seven heads and ten horns and on its heads seven diadems;* 4 and its tail drags a third of the stars+ of heaven, and it hurled them down to the earth.+ And the dragon kept standing before the woman+ who was about to give birth, so that when she did give birth, it might devour her child. 5 And she gave birth to a son,+ a male, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod.+ And her child was snatched* away to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God and where they would feed her for 1,260 days.+ 7 And war broke out in heaven: Miʹcha·el+ and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled 8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven. 9 So down the great dragon+ was hurled, the original serpent,+ the one called Devil+ and Satan,+ who is misleading the entire inhabited earth;+ he was hurled down to the earth,+ and his angels were hurled down with him. 10 I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come to pass the salvation+ and the power and the Kingdom of our God+ and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God!+ 11 And they conquered him+ because of the blood of the Lamb+ and because of the word of their witnessing,+ and they did not love their souls+ even in the face of death. 12 On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea,+ because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.”+ 13 Now when the dragon saw that it had been hurled down to the earth,+ it persecuted the woman+ who gave birth to the male child. 14 But the two wings of the great eagle+ were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is to be fed for a time and times and half a time+ away from the face of the serpent.+ 15 And the serpent spewed out water like a river from its mouth after the woman, to cause her to be drowned by the river. 16 But the earth came to the woman’s help, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river that the dragon spewed out from its mouth. 17 So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went off to wage war with the remaining ones of her offspring,*+ who observe the commandments of God and have the work of bearing witness concerning Jesus.+	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1364
__label__wiki	0.586664	0.586664	Ricky Gervais Urges Irish Government To Stop The Sale Of Greyhounds To China By WAN Actor/comedian/animal advocate Ricky Gervais spoke out against the government of Ireland’s sale of greyhounds to China, as he says the country is “internationally renowned for its barbaric treatment of animals.” Gervais has been an extremely powerful voice against the Yulin Dog and Cat Meat Festival, and brought it to the forefront once again in relation to the greyhounds: “The annual June meat festival, Yulin, near Macau, where dogs are skinned alive before being cooked, should tell the Irish Department of Agriculture everything they need to know about the horrific fate of dogs in China. If they are unconcerned about the agony that awaits these innocent animals then the Irish Government will pay the price in terms of damage to its international reputation.” Gervais stated that if Ireland continues with the sales, it will be viewed worldwide as a “country which cares little about animal welfare or animal suffering”. Asia’s only dog racing track may be closing soon after 400 animal advocates staged a protest in Dublin against the export of greyhounds to Macau. The group handed in a petition with over 300,000 signatures. President of Macau-based animal welfare organization, Albano Martins, said he was optimistic: “Officials are sensitive to this matter … The Canidrome’s days are numbered. If Ireland stops sending animals, the Canidrome in Macau will be forced to shut down in a few months’ time.” The Irish Department of Agriculture has announced that they are considering a legal reform this year that would allow the Irish Greyhound Board to restrict the export of dogs to countries that do not fit proper animal welfare standards. Approximately 20 demonstrations have taken place in various cities such as London, Rome, and Sydney in protest of Asia’s only greyhound track. Rumors have circled that a new batch of 24 dogs will be brought in from Ireland, creating additional controversy. Source: http://www.independent.ie Photo: YouTube Join Us and be a “Voice For The Voiceless”. Please Share our articles, follow us on social media, and sign up for our newsletter! “One Person CAN Make A Difference” Previous articleVictory! Spanish Region Bans Bull-Spearing “Festival” Next article500 Elephants To Be Transported From Malawi To Wildlife Reserve WAN Update: The Carr Fire, The Ferguson Fire & The Complex Fire Continue To Burn Across Northern California; Important Animal Rescue Information Lauren Lewis - July 31, 2018 0 ABC7 News There are reportedly 16 wildfires currently scorching across California with the monstrous Carr Fire near Redding becoming the 7th most destructive fire in... WAN Highlights Akashinga, An All-Female Vegan Anti-Poaching Unit That’s Helping To Protect Africa’s Wildlife From Poachers Karen Lapizco - February 1, 2019 0 Photo From Akashinga - Nature Protected by Women / Facebook The buzz continues to build around Akashinga, meaning "The Brave Ones," Zimbabwe's first all-female anti-poaching team that... Eight Wildlife Rangers In Four Countries Die In Just One Week Lauren Lewis - March 5, 2017 0 According to the Thin Green Line Foundation, an estimated 100 wildlife rangers are murdered on the job each year. This month, news of eight deaths...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1369
__label__wiki	0.547037	0.547037	Habib Koite: A West African Fête at the City Winery Artist or Group: Habib Koite Genre: AfroPopsinger songwriter Featured Instrument/s: acoustic guitarbanjovocal Feel: danceenergetic Habib Koite, one of Mali’s most beloved singer/guitarists was in town last month to promote his new CD “Soô” on Contre Jour Records. He packed NYC’s City Winery with a polyglot audience, which included a hefty West African compliment. Koité is a seasoned performer, and everyone on stage was relaxed and having fun. The most striking aspect of the show was the use of an unusual hybrid instrument, having a 6-string guitar neck with a banjo head and resonator. While played in the Malian guitar style, it projected the singular tone of a banjo. (Not all that odd, considering the banjo is African in origin.) This is also one of the strong sonic additions to “Soô ” which was recorded in Koite’s home studio, and which I highly recommend. I had brought along my intern Molly Marcotte for second camera, and I think I had almost as much fun seeing her reactions to this show as I had to the show itself. As the show progressed more and more people were throwing money at the musicians and coming up on stage to dance with the maestro. While this is typical, down home behavior for an African audience I think it entranced Molly, particularly the style and skill of the dancing. By the time the show ended, Koité was standing in a puddle of greenbacks and the stage was a party in which everyone had a chance to show off their moves. And some of those moves were very impressive! The song I am presenting is called “Diarabi Niani” a song about the hazards of love, and it occurred fairly early on in the set. But you can definitely see the party is beginning! For an informed review of the CD, background on the artist, sound samples and more, visit the ever excellent site Rootsworld, at http://www.rootsworld.com/0603123/reviews/koite-14.shtml Georgian Polyphony with the Iberi Choir The Grace of Uzbek Dance	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1370
__label__wiki	0.869285	0.869285	Holst - Jupiter from the Planets (theme) sheet music Classical Holst Jupiter from the Planets (theme) Wind Quintet version Wind Quintet Classical Wind Quintet Classical Wind Quintet Free Sheet Music Holst - Jupiter from the Planets (theme) World Europe England Holst - Jupiter from the Planets (theme) Holst - Jupiter from the Planets (theme) sheet music for Wind Quintet This piece is part of our collection of English pieces. Tempo: Andante BPM About 'Jupiter from the Planets (theme)' Artist: Holst, Gustav ( biography) ( sheet music) Born: September 21, 1874, , Cheltenham, United Kingdom Died: May 25, 1934, , London, United Kingdom The Artist: Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed a large number of other works across a range of genres. Composed: 1916 The Planets is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst. The concept of the work is astrological rather than astronomical (which is why Earth is not included): each movement is intended to convey ideas and emotions associated with the influence of the planets on the psyche, not the Roman deities. This is an arrangment of the main theme of the 'Jupiter' movement, "The Bringer of Jolity". But it is also well know as an British hymn, "I vow to thee, my county" Score Key: Eb major (Sounding Pitch) ( View more Eb major Music for Wind Quintet ) Tempo Marking: Andante Instrument: Wind Quintet ( View more Easy Wind Quintet Music) Style: Classical ( View more Classical Wind Quintet Music) (all shown in Concert Pitch) Bass Clarinet (⇒from Bassoon) Alto Sax (⇒from Horn) Clarinet (⇒from Oboe) 2-Trumpets-Trombone 2-violins-viola Cello Trio Clarinet-Cello Duet Double Bass Duet Flexible Mixed (4) Flute-Cello Duet French Horn Quartet French Horn Trio Keyboard (Melody & Chords) Piano Duet (Two Pianos) (subscription) Viola-Cello Duet Violin Trio Violin-Cello Duet Violin-Viola Duet Dance of the Flowers from the Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Carol of the Bells by Trad. Hungarian Dance No.5 by Johannes Brahms The Entertainer by Scott Joplin Air on a G String by J.S.Bach Por Una Cabeza (from the film Scent of a Woman) by Carlos Gardel Items to buy by Holst The Planets - Full Score By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). For full orchestra and double SSA chorus. Full Orchestra (Full Score). Dover Edition. 20th Century. Full score. Full score notation. 192 pages. Published by Dover Publications ...more info Jupiter Theme: I Vow To Thee My Country - From 'The Planets' (Organ Solo). By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Eric H. Thiman. For organ. Organ Solo. Classical Period. Difficulty: easy-medium. Organ solo single. 4 pages. G. Schirmer #ST45536. Published by G. Schirmer "First Suite In Eb For Military Band, Op. 28, No. 1" "(for Military Band). By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Edited by Colin Matthews. For military band (Full Score). Boosey & Hawkes Concert Band. Classical Period. Full score. Opus 28, No. 1; H. 105. 48 pages. Duration 10m. Boosey & Hawkes #M060052521. Published Second Suite in F (Revised) (Full Score). By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Colin Matthews. Score. Boosey & Hawkes Concert Band. Softcover. 56 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060052569. Published by Boosey & Hawkes First Suite in E Flat (Revised) By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Colin Matthews. Score. Boosey & Hawkes Concert Band. Softcover with CD. 48 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M051661473. Published by Boosey & Hawkes "O God, Beyond All Praising" "By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Richard Proulx. For SATB choir and organ accompaniment. Concertato Series. 20th Century and Sacred. Easy. Vocal score. Vocal score notation, lyrics and organ accompaniment. 8 pages. Published by GIA Publications" St. Paul's Suite By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Score & Parts. Orchestra. Grade 3-4. G. Schirmer #OR42901. Published by G. Schirmer "4 Songs for Voice and Violin, Op. 35" By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). For Violin and Voice (High Voice). Music Sales America. Romantic. 8 pages. Chester Music #CH03853. Published by Chester Music The Evening Watch "By Gustav Holst, poem by Henry Vaughan. Edited by Imogen Holst. Choir Secular. SATB choir. Choral Octavo; Masterworks. Faber Edition. 20th Century; Masterwork; Romantic. Published by Faber Music" In The Bleak Midwinter "(For Chorus of Mixed Voices with Piano or Organ). By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Albin C Whitworth. SATB chorus. For SATB, Piano, Organ, Alto Solo. Choral. Piano reduction/vocal score. Standard notation. 7 pages. Published by Carl Fischer" First Suite in E Flat (Revised) (for Military Band). By Gustav Holst/ed. Colin Matthews. Score & Parts. Boosey & Hawkes Concert Band. Grade 4. Softcover. 512 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060052538. Published by Boosey & Hawkes "St. Paul's Suite, Op. 29, No. 2" (Full Score). By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Score. Orchestra. 24 pages. G. Schirmer #OR42901. Published by G. Schirmer Nunc Dimittis "By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Desmond Ratcliffe. For SATB Choir (SATB). Music Sales America. Sacred, 20th Century, Choral. 16 pages. Novello & Co Ltd. #NOV290459R. Published by Novello & Co Ltd." Second Suite in F "By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Dave Sabourin. Brass Quintet. For 2 trumpets, horn in F, trombone, tuba. British Military Band. Advanced. Full score & set of parts. Published by Cherry Classics" Christmas Day "By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). For SATB Choir, Organ (SATB). Music Sales America. Christmas, 20th Century, Choral. 16 pages. Novello & Co Ltd. #NOV290129R. Published by Novello & Co Ltd." Brook Green Suite By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Orchestra. Grade 3-4. G. Schirmer #OR45354. Published by G. Schirmer The Planets By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Douglas E. Wagner. Concert Band. Concert Band; Masterworks; SmartMusic. Belwin Young Band. Form: Transcription. 20th Century; Masterwork Arrangement; Romantic. Grade 2. Conductor Score & Parts. 240 pages. Published "Fugal Concerto Op. 40, No. 2" "(Flute, Oboe and Piano). By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). For Flute, Oboe, Piano Accompaniment. Music Sales America. Classical. 18 pages. Music Sales #NOV120060. Published by Music Sales" In the Bleak Midwinter "By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Brad Printz. For Handbells, Percussion, Windchimes (2-part). Choral music. Christmas, Classics, Hymntune, Sacred. Print Music Single (2-part Mixed). 12 pages. Published by Hope Publishing Company" A Holst Christmas "(Featuring: In the Bleak Midwinter / Lullay My Liking / excerpts from ""Christmas Day""). By Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Arranged by Douglas E. Wagner. Orchestra. Full Orchestra; Part(s); Score. Belwin Intermediate Full Orchestra. Form: Medley. 20th Centur	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1371
__label__cc	0.708975	0.291025	Add Machine Learning to Legacy Applications with Python20190418100534 Add Machine Learning to Legacy Applications with Python Dana CraneApril 18, 2019ai, machine learning, oem, python These days, it seems like Machine Learning (ML) is everywhere. Well, everywhere except in legacy applications. But you can hardly blame the applicatio... Machine Learning: the Future is Here, and Python is Driving20190411100233 Machine Learning: the Future is Here, and Python is Driving Dana CraneApril 11, 2019ai, machine learning, python programming, software industry trends It seems like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are everywhere these days. In fact, it’s surprising how much of it we already tak... Machine Learning in Healthcare – From Theory to Practice20180510154510 Machine Learning in Healthcare – From Theory to Practice Dana CraneMay 10, 2018ai, artificial intelligence, healthcare, machine learning, ml Machine Learning (ML) research in the healthcare field has been ongoing for decades, but almost exclusively in the lab rather than in the doctor’s off... Machine Learning – The New Cornerstone of Digital Transformation20180502172132 Machine Learning – The New Cornerstone of Digital Transformation Dana CraneMay 2, 2018activepython, ai, artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, ml Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more pragmatically, Machine Learning (ML) have been called the new electricity that’s powering the Fourth Indu... Operationalizing Machine Learning20171129140000 Operationalizing Machine Learning Pete GarcinNovember 29, 2017ai, cloud, machine learning, ml, model training, python Machine Learning (ML) powers an increasing number of the applications and services that we use daily. For organizations who are beginning to leverage ... NeuroBlast: ActiveState’s TensorFlow Powered Game Now Available on GitHub20170829130229 NeuroBlast: ActiveState’s TensorFlow Powered Game Now Available on GitHub Pete GarcinAugust 29, 2017ai, github, go, golang, gophercon, machine learning, neuroblast, pycon, pydata, python, qcon If you visited the ActiveState booth at PyCon, QCon, GopherCon or PyData Seattle, you may have had a chance to play NeuroBlast – a simple arcade... Building Game AI Using Machine Learning: Working with TensorFlow, Keras, and the Intel MKL in Python20170525170332 Building Game AI Using Machine Learning: Working with TensorFlow, Keras, and the Intel MKL in Python Pete GarcinMay 25, 2017activepython, ai, artificial intelligence, intel math kernel library, keras, machine learning, python Update August 29, 2017: Full source code now available on GitHub – https://github.com/ActiveState/neuroblast. Heading into PyCon, we wanted to put tog... Pete Garcin Senior Product Manager. Pete has over 15 years in software development in both web and games having shipped over 40 titles in roles ranging from Programmer to Audio Director to Executive Producer. He earned his undergraduate degree at University of Waterloo, and an MA in Communication from Carleton University in Ottawa. He’s passionate about engaging with communities and dedicated to enhancing developers’ experiences with ActiveState products.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1377
__label__wiki	0.634678	0.634678	MWC 2015: The Real Battle In The Internet Of Things Is For The Back End, Not The Gadgets by Allison Schiff // Monday, March 2nd, 2015 – 12:30 am On Monday, more than 90,000 tech vendors, manufacturers, marketers, agency reps, carriers, analysts, reporters and sundry members of the C-suite from more than 200 countries descend on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress with a single acronym on their lips: IoT -- The Internet of Things. But connected cars, smart washers, chatty fridges, intelligent garage doors and the latest generation of phone, fitness bands, watches or other various wearable devices aren’t the real battleground, said former Mediacom mobile chief Jon Hook, who moved over to app dev startup Phunware as VP of mobile in January. “It doesn’t matter what the big trend is – it’s the simple question of what connects all of these wearables, mobiles, beacons, NFC and advertising solutions,” Hook said. “Without that, all you have are great innovation, advertising and mobile partnerships sitting in isolation. What’s the tech or the software quietly working in the background to connect all of this?” Samsung, HTC, LG and Sony are all reportedly unveiling flashy new devices at MWC this year. While certainly cool, announcements like that are more of a distraction than anything, said Neil Sweeney, president and CEO of JUICE Mobile and its beacon network spinoff company, Freckle IoT. “Handsets are completely irrelevant. People will fixate on phones, but they should be focused on the operating system powering them,” Sweeney said. “Use the auto sector as an analogy: What sells a car today? It’s not horsepower, it’s technology. Horsepower is a commodity. It’s about interconnection and understanding how mobile influences the development of the cars you’ll be seeing in the lots going forward.” An app experience that begins on a phone, doesn’t end on a phone, at least not anymore, said Michael Katz, founder and CEO of mobile data startup mParticle. “What happens on your phone expands to your wrist, into your car, onto your wall through your connected TV – and there’s a massive opportunity to capture data from all of these various app-based environments, but marketers need tools to leverage and harness the value of that data,” Katz said. “As the importance of browsers becomes diminished, the tools they’ve been accustomed to using in the web environment, things like pixels and cookies, are no longer relevant. They need to be reimagined.” Reimagined for a world in which contextual awareness and location targeting – even predictive location targeting – is becoming the norm. “It really is the ultimate nirvana for marketers and requires coordination across service providers, application providers and brands to increase the impact of mobile,” said Dan Hays, a principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers focused on mobile strategy and ops. That’s part of what’s informing the industry’s shift toward identity-based ad serving and ID-based ad solutions, as evidenced by the relaunch of Facebook’s Atlas in September. Google is undoubtedly cooking up an identity-based solution of its own. “Our job as marketers is to see the person – not just the profile – in the data,” said Matt Mulderink, SVP of mobile, social, product and partnerships at Starcom MediaVest Group. “Data sharpens our portrait of the consumers and the experiences we deliver to them. Together with technology, data is powering addressable and precise connected experiences – and mobile is the center of it all.” As Elizabeth Harz, president of media at travel data company ADARA, pointed out, mobile measurement is also key. According to eMarketer, almost 40% of advertisers have no way to measure monetization for ad campaigns in the mobile channel. Cross-device attribution might not be as outwardly sexy as the newest Samsung device, but it sits, or should sit, at the very top of the marketer’s to-do list. While Mobile World Congress used to be a B2B-centric show, more about cell tower technology than consumer-facing product, it’s evolved into a European version of CES. For the first time, there was an entire conference hall dedicated to mobile ad tech last year. “Marketers know how important mobile is becoming for people and, therefore, their businesses,” said Matt Kershaw, VP of client strategy at mobile ad platform RUN, which was acquired by Publicis Groupe in October. “Getting close to the epicenter of the mobile conversation can only help marketers’ comfort level, which in turn increases their understanding of consumer behavior and, thus, their willingness to spend more of their ad dollars in mobile.” Phunware’s Hook can attest to that. “Every brand I’ve taken out to MWC in my agency days has come back and the penny has dropped,” he said. “It’s never about ‘selling’ mobile, it’s about them going to MWC, seeing where the market is and where it’s going. They see the technology coming to life on the stand and they can see the product demos.” Speaking of, it’s more than okay to revel in the next-gen tech on display at MWC as a member of the mobile cognoscenti – because there’s only so much time before it hits the mainstream. “We’ll see innovations around connected homes, connected cars, wearables – and a lot of these things seem abstract, like we should talk about them in the future tense,” said JUICE Mobile’s Sweeney. “But you’d be surprised how often the things that get introduced in beta at a show like Mobile World Congress end up materializing at the back end of the year or, more specifically, at CES next year.” White Ops Uncovers Advanced Mobile App Ad Fraud Scheme 3 Ways Apple Is Throwing Its Weight Around The Ad Industry Facebook’s IDFA Plan: Possible Audience Network Shutdown For IOS 14 Google’s Quiet Preparations For Apple’s IDFA Change Offers Hints On The Future Of Its Own Mobile Ad ID Why Apple’s SKAdNetwork Could Spur Ad Fraud In IOS 14	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1379
__label__wiki	0.962225	0.962225	Know-how Sharing Leadership / Mentorship A day: Specialized Communication Consumption Habits Cresta Awards D&AD Awards Eurobest European Excellence Awards IAB Mixx Awards Internetics ICEEFest IPRA Awards London International Awards New York Festivals Romanian PR Award Sabre Awards White Square OOH / DOOH About AdHugger GfK and Twitter partnered to introduce GfK Twitter TV Ratings in Germany, Austria and Netherlands January 29, 2014 April 7, 2014 Cristina Blanaru Consumption Habits, Digital & Media, Marketing, Social Media GfK and Twitter partnered to introduce GfK Twitter TV Ratings in Germany, Austria and Netherlands, with the new service to provide insights into the frequency and reach of messages from Twitter users associated with television programs and campaigns. This tool will provide essential information to media groups and agencies in order to gain insight into the growing popularity of live social media commentary. Via GfK Twitter TV Ratings, GfK will be able to provide data on the frequency and reach of messages concerning specific TV programs. The new service will start rolling out later this year in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands and will enable TV stations to show the additional audience they reach via social media. In addition, media agencies and advertisers will have richer analytics to plan and evaluate cross-media campaigns. We are delighted with this partnership with Twitter. We are only at the beginning of the digital transformation of media and Twitter has proven itself to be the ‘Social Soundtrack’ of live events and television. We find the interaction between different media particularly interesting and are working on providing insights into cross-media effects, alongside our innovative new partner Twitter. Matthias Hartmann, CEO GfK Twitter has become a live companion to the TV viewing experience for millions in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. People love using Twitter while tuned into television and to participate in the live conversation about TV. We are thrilled that GfK will be bringing its audience measurement experience to social media, to enable TV stations to measure the total audience they reach Ali Rowghani, COO Twitter GfK is one of the world’s largest research companies, with almost 13,000 experts working to discover new insights into the way people live, think and shop, in over 100 markets, every day. GfK is constantly innovating and using the latest technologies and the smartest methodologies to give its clients the clearest understanding of the most important people in the world: their customers. In 2012, GfK’s sales amounted to €1.51 billion. Tagged comments GfK GfK Twitter TV Ratings involvement measurement partnership social media tool TV Twitter Analysis: Volksbank, Romanian Commercial Bank and Bancpost – the banks with highest advertising volumes in 2013 Mila Kunis to make history with Jim Beam AdHugger.net by Cristina Blanaru is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.adhugger.net. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.adhugger.net/about/	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1380
__label__wiki	0.572824	0.572824	State cannabis regulations remain complex, but… State cannabis regulations remain complex, but growers steadily becoming compliant By Shomik Mukherjee \| smukherjee@times-standard.com \| PUBLISHED: February 12, 2020 at 3:16 p.m. \| UPDATED: February 19, 2020 at 1:33 p.m. Save for a few adjustments in state laws, a cannabis permitting workshop in Fortuna on Wednesday carried out in exactly the same way as another workshop 18 months prior — each serving as an effective how-to on becoming legally compliant with California’s pot regulations. But for state officials walking attendees through the ins and outs of state policies, there’s one evident distinction between past and present workshops: whereas an August 2018 event packed the River Lodge with 100 growers and consultants, only about 15 people showed up to Wednesday’s occasion. Janice Mackey, a public information manager for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the decline in attendance signals good news that more and more cannabis growers are coming into compliance with California’s legal system. “When legalization first came out, the workshops were much bigger,” Mackey said, “but it’s well worth our time to get people in seats. People want to be here face-to-face to understand the regulations.” With state provisional licenses and localized interim permits, growers have found themselves able to at least temporarily operate commercially as they seek permanent compliance. Much of the adaptation required of prospective cultivators comes down to where they choose to grow. Some pot grows remain near watersheds and less-than-ideal surfaces, which continues to interfere with habitats for native aquatic species, like the southern torrent salamander, one fish and wildlife official said. “These flat ag-lands … Humboldt County’s not a flat place, but places like Carlotta and Hydesville with traditional agriculture production — it seems like there’s that land still,” said environmental scientist Greg O’Connell. “We’d rather not see new cultivation on steep slopes.” But even with the state’s presentation down to clockwork, one interested attendee found himself befuddled by the complex web of regulations set forth in the state’s presentation. The retired fisherman had been lightly interested in entering the cannabis business, but he changed his mind before the end of Wednesday’s workshop. “I wouldn’t have a clue how to get started with all this stuff,” said Bayside resident George Boling after sitting through the hourslong workshop. “Most of the people dealing with (these regulations) have been in this business illegally and they already know what they’re doing.” Besides cannabis regulations, growers also have to navigate California’s regulation of private business ownership. A new state law approved by the governor late last year will allow them to make business expenses tax-deductible. Previously, federal law made it illegal to do so. But as a whole, the regulations remain complex, and the cost of entering the legal industry — well into the tens of thousands — is prohibitively high. For retirees like Boling, the information presented at Wednesday’s seminar seemed like too much of a hassle involved in a serious professional opportunity. “Seeing all this,” he said, “it’d be a lot easier just to grow tomatoes or something.” Shomik Mukherjee can be reached at 707-441-0504. Shomik Mukherjee	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1382
__label__cc	0.594892	0.405108	Factors Affecting Predictability of Buccal Bone Augmentation in Surgically Facilitated Orthodontic Treatment: Surgical Considerations Compendium, September 2020 Segmental Osteotomy in the Correction of an Anterior Open Bite: A Case Report Compendium, April 2020 Corticotomy-Accelerated Orthodontics: A Comprehensive Review and Update Compendium, January 2017 Tridimensional Reconstruction of a Complex Iatrogenic Defect Using Orthodontic Forced Eruption and Minimally Invasive Bone Grafting Compendium, Jul/Aug 2017 Factors Affecting Predictability of Buccal Bone Augmentation in Surgically Facilitated Orthodontic Treatment: Etiological Considerations The Importance of Interdisciplinary Treatment in an Esthetically Challenging Case Sergio Rubinstein, DDS; Barry P. Levin, DMD; Elizabeth R. Michalczyk, DMD, PhD; Yan Razdolsky, DDS; and Toshiyuki Fujiki, RDT A single missing tooth is a common occurrence among young patients and impacts esthetics and long-term oral health in terms of compromised bone, gum tissue, and, if warranted, an implant and final prosthesis. In this case report, after years of poorly executed orthodontic therapy, the patient's dental growth complicated the development of an esthetically pleasing smile. An interdisciplinary approach was utilized comprising periodontal surgery, a second course of orthodontics, and prosthodontics to provide comprehensive patient care that included evaluation of occlusion and esthetics. Orthodontic treatment was performed to position the teeth in the most esthetic, functionally optimal position. An implant crown in the maxillary left central incisor position and direct bonding on the maxillary right central incisor were indicated to treat a large edentulous area. Final orthodontic treatment achieved a substantial reduction of incisor protrusion and proper mesial-distal distance between the future implant and adjacent teeth. An ideal emergence profile, appealing esthetics, and a provisional restoration were created before the final crown. Optimal alignment of teeth relative to the arch was achieved, and adequate tissue dimensions were created by combining surgical augmentations with provisional restorative therapy. Often providing a first impression about someone, a person's smile can be a personal trademark that both serves as a means of communication and is indicative of the individual's self-confidence. A smile plays an integral role in psychological-social well-being and emotional health.1-5 Therefore, many people wish to modify their smiles, and this presents dentists with a number of considerations when planning patient care. Should the treatment be conservative or invasive? Are there physical and/or emotional limitations to achieving the desired goals? What treatment options are available? What will the length of time and cost be to complete the treatment? Oftentimes a treatment can become quite complex, and to accommodate such cases an interdisciplinary approach from the outset may be needed to provide patients the best, most efficient care. In the clinical case presented, poor planning and execution had led to inferior orthodontic treatment, which needed to be salvaged. A new esthetic-prosthetic management plan was put into effect to achieve a successful result from the standpoint of both oral health and an esthetically pleasing smile. This case is representative of many others like it that require careful consideration for the cosmetic challenges of treating anterior teeth, and for how treatment modalities and outcomes can vary depending on the all-important surrounding frame: the gingivae. A 7-year-old patient presented to the orthodontist in 2002 with a congenitally missing maxillary left central incisor (Figure 1). The patient underwent orthodontic treatment for 6 years that resulted in an unacceptable smile and compromised state for future restorative/prosthetic outcome, as the right central incisor had been moved into the patient's midline (Figure 2 and Figure 3). Additionally, the patient's improper course of treatment and unsatisfactory progress also resulted in lost time during growth as well as the expenditure of considerable finances. Because of the complexity of the case, other dental disciplines should have been included in the treatment planning and care from the outset but were not. Referral to Prosthodontist The orthodontist then referred the patient to the prosthodontist (the author, SR) for a consultation to determine how an esthetic outcome could be achieved. The prosthodontist thus saw the patient for the first time when the patient was 13 years old. The prosthodontist attempted to rectify the improper course of treatment while working with the orthodontist; however, it eventually became apparent to the prosthodontist that a new interdisciplinary team would be needed. Despite the prosthodontist's guidance, poor orthodontic mechanics and improper anchorage execution had led to excessive buccal flaring (Figure 4). Although temporary, overarch expansion during the orthodontic treatment had created an unacceptable cosmetic situation for the now 14-year-old boy, with an extreme edentulous space having been created in the area of the left central incisor. This mistake on behalf of the orthodontist consequently led to psychological-social concerns for the patient such as shyness, introversion, and being uncomfortable smiling. To address the situation, with the congenitally missing tooth being the maxillary left central incisor and the orthodontically moved adjacent teeth now being in improper positions, the prosthodontist deemed it necessary to extract the maxillary left first premolar to create the necessary space for the upper left central incisor future implant and crown. A short-term esthetic solution was implemented by bonding a denture tooth using an orthodontic wire on the palatal surface of the right central incisor. This procedure slightly improved the cosmetic concern (excessive diastema) and served as a helpful guide for the original orthodontist by providing the correct width needed to close the large existing space (Figure 5). In this instance, an extreme concave buccal contour on the maxillary right central incisor was diagnosed (Figure 5), and it was determined that the final restoration of this tooth would be conservatively addressed with either direct bonding or a porcelain veneer. Space closure for the missing central incisor and improved esthetics were achieved, but the anterior teeth had an undesirable and unacceptable buccal flaring (Figure 6). New Orthodontist Brought in At this point the prosthodontist made referrals to a new orthodontist and a periodontist in anticipation of achieving a satisfactory outcome. The prosthodontist presented the patient and parent with a new treatment plan. The plan, developed by the newly formed interdisciplinary team, was predicated on repositioning the patient's teeth into their proper locations and allowing for the replacement of the missing left central incisor with an implant and implant-supported crown. This, the team determined, would lead to an esthetic, healthy, and long-lasting result. Anatomical evaluation of adjacent teeth and hard and soft tissue should be considered at early stages of therapy, in the authors' opinion, because this can alter the sequence of treatment for the replacement of missing teeth. In this case, as can be seen in Figure 4, it was clinically evident that the missing tooth was associated with a deficient alveolar ridge, and bone grafting would be required for the placement of an implant and to improve esthetics. As treatment progressed, it was important to look beyond the orthodontic progress and the space closure (Figure 7 and Figure 8) and consider the implant position for the replacement of the missing tooth. Flaring of the anterior teeth became a concern in that after a total of now 8 years of orthodontic treatment the buccal bone was extremely thin. Although bone grafting was considered for the involved teeth, there was concern regarding correction of the narrow ridge on the edentulous area. With the aid of a cephalometric radiograph, the new interdisciplinary team had to consider whether the buccal inclination of the anterior teeth was an acceptable or correct position for both the short and long term, especially because an implant was to be placed. While the temporary esthetic result achieved with the bonded tooth in the position of the left central incisor was an improvement, excessive buccal flaring of the maxillary anterior teeth was a concern with regard to longevity, as was a compromised implant placement with regard to proper position/angulation. The second orthodontist from the new team was consulted for a second opinion to determine if an even better esthetic outcome could be achieved. With the newly created interdisciplinary team, the prosthodontist and new orthodontist were in agreement with the new treatment plan, which included retraction of the upper and lower incisors, occlusal considerations for long-term function of an implant and crown, and a second round of orthodontic treatment. Thus, the plan was implemented. Implants are known to absorb vertical loading forces significantly better than lateral forces.6 Consequently, when considering the placement of an implant to replace an anterior tooth, anterior guidance, excursive movements, and their loading forces must be taken into account. Without a second phase of orthodontic treatment, the implant would have been placed in relation to teeth that were improperly positioned, resulting in off-axial loading and esthetic compromise. Although the second phase of orthodontics was limited due to the fact that the patient had already concluded much of his growth and treatment time was, therefore, not fully sufficient, the treatment result nonetheless was highly effective, as a proper space was created for the future implant and tooth restoration, anterior teeth protrusion was reduced, and a proper, healthy occlusion was established. This second course of orthodontic treatment was completed in 16 months. Final orthodontic and debond images revealed a noticeable reduction of incisor protrusion and proper mesial-distal distance from the teeth adjacent to the future implant (Figure 9 through Figure 12).7 In patients with severe dental bimaxillary protrusion, several treatment options may be possible depending on facial profile, space requirements, and cephalometric findings. Extracting teeth (such as four bicuspids) may lead to the creation of excessive space and flattening of the facial profile during retraction. In addition, consideration must be given such that airway space is not encroached upon during significant retraction.8 An acceptable alternative to extractions may be the placement of mini-implants or mini-plates in the posterior of the mandible and maxilla to distalize the upper and lower dentitions.9 The ultimate result is judged not only by the esthetic outcome and proper function but also by a long-lasting healthy outcome and a proper tissue biotype to protect the implant and restoration. Upon completion of the orthodontic treatment, occlusion and esthetic tooth alignment were evaluated. To assess the space allocation on the missing tooth, a radiograph was taken to ensure that the future implant would have adequate mesial-distal space and not be in close proximity to adjacent roots (Figure 12). Furthermore, a final cephalometric radiograph was taken to evaluate the patient's profile and proclination of the anterior teeth (Figure 13). Several parameters must be established before fixed orthodontic appliances are removed. It has been suggested that at least 1.5 mm to 2 mm of interproximal bone be maintained between teeth and implants.10,11 The diameter of the future implant used for the tooth being replaced has an impact on not only the biomechanical and esthetic functions but also the proximity to adjacent teeth and the preservation of healthy buccal and lingual bone. The restorative contact point and its relationship to the underlying proximal bone helps to determine the presence or absence of a papilla.12 In implant therapy, formation of biologic width is consistent with varying degrees of bone remodeling.13 This relates to the presence or absence of the proximal periodontium of the adjacent tooth.14 Implant-Supported Restoration Facial osseous integrity is required for not only osseointegration but also the stability and health of soft tissues. A deficiency in this area will lead to recession.15,16 When teeth are congenitally missing, typically there is a ridge of inadequate thickness to receive an implant unless a staged or simultaneous bone grafting procedure is performed. Numerous techniques have been proposed to reconstruct the localized alveolar ridge to facilitate implant placement.17-19 Regardless of the mode of regeneration, adequate bone thickness must be achieved for a sustainable, healthy, and esthetic outcome. Additionally, a CBCT scan is paramount for proper 3-dimensional implant planning to determine the optimal bone grafting protocol and location for the implant and its proximity to adjacent teeth, and to evaluate the quantity and quality of the surrounding osseous foundation (Figure 14). Also, the surgeon should know at this point if the final restoration will be cemented or screw-retained, and any concerns should be addressed to avoid potential miscommunications regarding the final implant position and design for the final restoration. In this case the knife-edge ridge (Figure 4) was also corrected to provide a proper foundation for the implant (Figure 15). Due to an extreme deficient buccal concave contour on the maxillary right central incisor, the final contour of this tooth also had to be considered, as the adjacent edentulous area would need a bone graft to correct the edentulous knife-edge ridge, and the implant size and position and final crown contour would have to be evaluated (Figure 15 and Figure 16). When replacing an anterior tooth with an implant-supported restoration, as in this case, it is important to develop hard and soft tissue using a provisional restoration to facilitate an ideal emergence profile and optimal esthetics (Figure 17). The tissue should be allowed to mature so the laboratory technician can fabricate the final crown to accurately represent the clinical situation (Figure 18 and Figure 19). The ultimate goal is to provide patients a healthy, stable, functional, and highly esthetic result with which they can be well pleased (Figure 20 through Figure 22). Framing an implant-supported restoration with healthy hard and soft tissue for long-term stability is critical. With a thick, resilient periodontal biotype, a restorative/prosthetic solution is often achievable. When the tissue has experienced recession and/or the surrounding biotype of the tooth/teeth is friable, a more collaborative, and in many instances a surgical, approach may be indicated. When the case involves congenitally missing teeth, as seen in this case, the edentulous ridge may present with various challenges for which osseous and soft-tissue reconstructions are required to create a proper foundation, and, if possible and desired, dental implants may be warranted. Often, adequate tissue dimensions can be created by combining surgical augmentation(s) with provisional restorative therapy. As this case demonstrated, complex diagnoses require the assembly and cooperation of an interdisciplinary team. Although treatment may be administered over a long period of time and may not necessitate that every dental specialist be involved in every step of the process, it is essential that the treatment team follow the patient's progress together. In this case, the recognition of failure to achieve an ideal outcome with the first phase of orthodontic treatment demanded a mid-treatment revision. By following this framework clinicians can help ensure that a successful outcome is achieved and the patient is happy with the results. Aboput the Authors Sergio Rubinstein, DDS Private Practice limited to Prosthodontics, Cosmetic Dentistry, and Implant Dentistry, Skokie, Illinois Barry P. Levin, DMD Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Graduate Periodontology, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Private Practice limited to Periodontics and Implant Dentistry, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; Diplomate, American Board of Periodontology Elizabeth R. Michalczyk, DMD, PhD Resident, Georgia School of Orthodontics, Atlanta, Georgia Yan Razdolsky, DDS Private Practice limited to Orthodontics, Buffalo Grove, Illinois; Diplomate, American Board of Orthodontics Toshiyuki Fujiki, RDT Laboratory Technician, Skokie, Illinois 1. Morley J, Eubank J. Macroesthetic elements of smile design. J Am Dent Assoc. 2001;132(1):39-45. 2. 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__label__wiki	0.62868	0.62868	Gail Potgeiter’s Open Letter To Defra On The Dangers Of A Trophy Hunting Ban Thread starter NamStay Source: https://africasustainableconservati...defra-on-the-dangers-of-a-trophy-hunting-ban/ I am writing with regards to the “Call for evidence on the scale and impacts of the import and export of hunting trophies” into the United Kingdom, launched by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). I refer particularly to the report given to parliament on this topic by Dr Ross Harvey as it has been reported in the media[1]. As a South African conservation biologist who has worked in Botswana and Namibia, I argue that the picture painted by Harvey for parliament is highly skewed and detached from reality. That reality concerns both the wildlife and the people living in southern African countries, which will be among the worst affected by trophy import bans enacted by the UK and other countries that may follow your lead. I have never personally hunted an animal and have not received any monetary compensation from a hunting organisation. I am nonetheless deeply concerned about the consequences of the trophy hunting industry’s demise as favoured by Harvey and his anti-hunting supporters. Harvey theorises about what could happen if trophy hunting game ranches in South Africa were to switch to some other form of land use, yet these theories have no basis in reality. His suggestion that 11 times more jobs will be created on the land currently under game ranching in South Africa assumes that photographic tourism will replace hunting tourism, yet he also admits that not all of this land is suitable for such a change. In reality, most landowners who can develop photographic tourism have already done so because it is a lucrative industry; those that currently use hunting as their primary income have been unable to enter the photographic tourism industry[2]. Harvey’s figures on job creation and income generation are therefore unrealistic, by his own admission. A far more realistic scenario is that South Africa’s hunting game ranches will switch back to what most of them were before game ranching became lucrative – livestock farms[3]. While Harvey points out that many game ranch workers are poorly paid, the same can be said for livestock farm workers[4] so there will be no improvement at all in their financial situation. If anything their situation may worsen, as many profitable hunting game ranches are in areas that are marginal for commercial livestock farming[5]. Farm workers will be retrenched and unemployment and poverty will increase. The chronic problems of inequality and unemployment exist across South Africa; banning the import of hunting trophies to the UK will not address these complex challenges. Having admitted that not all land is suitable for photographic tourism, Harvey falls back on other alternatives that are based on wealthy countries paying people in poor countries to conserve their land or wildlife[6]. There are three glaring issues with this suggestion. First, it entirely ignores the reality of South African game ranching – these ranches are independent commercial enterprises, not stereotypically ‘needy’ Africans that require hand-outs from the Western world. Second, alternatives based on such arrangements reinforce the colonial myth that Africans cannot manage their own land for commercial gain while simultaneously conserving it for future generations[7]. Third, the idea that these alternatives would develop within a short period of time (he suggests five years) to replace established industries is simply unrealistic. This latter point was amply proven during the four year hunting moratorium in Botswana. I lived and worked in Botswana during the 2014-2018 national moratorium on trophy hunting. During this time, I spoke to many colleagues in conservation who had lived in the country prior to the moratorium and made my own observations about the villages affected by this decision[8]. Some of my colleagues were former hunting guides and trackers – those who had the “low-paying jobs” scorned by Harvey. The majority of these people had no jobs after the moratorium, as photographic tourism did not replace hunting in most of the concessions[9]. Indeed, a study at the time showed clear limits of photographic tourism based on wildlife density and diversity[10] – factors that are more important to photographic tourists than to hunting clients. The four-year hunting moratorium in Botswana was surely the ideal time for the alternatives suggested by Harvey to develop and flourish, thus replacing both hunting and photographic tourism with other forms of income. Yet in reality this did not happen. Instead, unemployment and poverty increased in the rural areas, human-elephant conflict reached crisis proportions, and poaching reared its ugly head in a country previously considered to be a ‘safe haven’ for wildlife[11]. Harvey ignores this clear lesson and encourages the UK to follow this failed formula based on idealistic scenarios that have never been proven in the real world. In my career as a carnivore conservationist, I have been privileged to work with and learn from the communal conservancies in Namibia[12]. The people I encountered never discussed trophy hunting in the same way that urbanised people do, which was an enlightening experience. Many of them live in conservancies that have agreements with both hunting and photographic tour operators, so they see no conflict between these two industries. Rather than focus on the morality or motives of their visitors (hunters or other holidaymakers), they focus on how agreements with these operators can best serve their communities’ needs[13]. Hunting[14] or photographic[15] operators who do not comply with government regulations or do not keep their promises regarding job creation or profit sharing with the conservancies can be removed and replaced by those who will keep their side of the agreement. This is made possible by the legislation in Namibia that grants communal conservancies rights over their wildlife similar to those enjoyed by private game ranchers[16]. Power has effectively been granted to the people, who can decide how to manage their land and their wildlife to maximise benefits and minimise the costs of living with wild animals. As with the private game ranchers in South Africa, not all communal conservancies are well suited to photographic tourism; they therefore rely on hunting tourism. This is especially true for new conservancies that are still finding their feet and learning how to negotiate with foreign tour operators[17]. Once established, conservancies in suitable locations will attract photographic operators who can use their land alongside hunting operators. If photographic tourism continues to grow and expand then the communities may, at their own discretion, switch entirely away from hunting towards this lucrative industry. In the meantime, those who have jobs with hunting operators can opt to learn new skills and prepare themselves for more skilled work in wildlife-related industries over a realistic period of time. As a wildlife conservationist with a passion for African sustainable development, I would love to see more Africans obtaining better-paid, skilled jobs as part of a thriving wildlife economy. Unlike Harvey, however, I feel that Africans should be allowed to make the decisions about how they develop their wildlife economy on their own terms and in their own time[18]. Those of us who do not walk in their shoes must support them in these endeavours, rather than dictate which markets they may use based on our feelings about the animals they live with every day. I applaud DEFRA’s call for evidence on this complex subject and therefore include two pertinent facts and statistics on the hunting industries for each of the three countries I have focused on above. Namibian communal conservancies earned £1.8 million from trophy hunting in 2018 alone, representing 23.4% of their total returns in that year and including meat from hunted animals that is an important source of protein for conservancy members[19]. Black rhino trophy hunts generate between £268,000 and £306,000 per individual rhino hunted that is paid in full to the Game Products Trust Fund (GPTF) in Namibia. In turn, the GPTF spent about £3.5 million on rhino-related conservation work (particularly anti-poaching measures) during 2012-2018[20]. Besides rhino trophy hunts, the GPTF relies on trophy hunting permits for other species and the sale of live game animals to game ranchers for its income. It would not be able to function without healthy trophy hunting and associated game ranching industries. The Community Trusts in northern Botswana lost about £700,000 of income between 2013 and 2015 due to the hunting moratorium enacted in 2014. They also reported the loss of 200 jobs[21]. Aerial surveys conducted by Elephants Without Borders in northern Botswana reveal that the hunting moratorium coincided with increased elephant poaching, particularly near villages that previously relied heavily on the hunting industry and in hunting concessions that were abandoned after the moratorium was enforced[22]. South Africa has the largest game ranching industry of the three nations; trophy hunting alone contributed an estimated £104 million in 2014[23]. Private game ranches in South Africa provided habitat for nearly 6 million wild herbivores in an area covering 170 419 km2 in 2014[24]; this is 1.7 times larger than the area covered by terrestrial state protected areas[25]. Based on this and other evidence DEFRA will no doubt receive, I hereby request that any decision regarding trophy import bans carefully consider the consequences before it is made. Noting that the UK is one of the leaders of the Western world, decisions like this one could have widespread impacts on the policies of other countries in Europe and elsewhere. While facts and statistics have their place, the views of African communities who live with wildlife are sorely needed to inform such a decision[26]. These are the people who are most affected by policies on trophy hunting and should therefore be consulted on these matters before decisions that affect their livelihoods are made. Yours in Conservation, Gail C. Potgieter (M.Sc.) Felines Communication and Conservation [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...phants-lions-black-white-report-a9293251.html [2] https://pastoralismjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2041-7136-2-18 [3] https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art43/main.html [4] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ea4f/11c6e9286e58531750aa6cb7ab92ea0b6538.pdf [5] http://nodaiweb.university.jp/desert/pdf11/249-252 Cooper_r.pdf [6] https://www.un-redd.org/donors [7] https://www.chronicle.co.zw/racist-western-ngos-versus-africans-wildlife-use-values/ [8] https://conserve-botswana.blogspot.com/2019/07/to-hunt-or-to-poach-that-is-question.html [9] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03736245.2017.1299639 [10]https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=printable&id=10.1371/journal.pone.0135595 [11] https://africageographic.com/blog/opinion-untold-story-behind-hunting-botswana/ [12] https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/c...equires-balance-and-understanding-commentary/ [13] https://communityconservationnamibia.com/the-big-issues/benefits [14] https://communityconservationnamibi...ble-wildlife-utilisation#conservation-hunting [15] https://communityconservationnamibia.com/support-to-conservation/livelihoods/tourism [16] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-9529-6_2 [17] https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cobi.12643 [18] https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/28513/AUWLSummit.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y [19] https://communityconservationnamibia.com/support-to-conservation/livelihoods/sources-of-returns [20] https://africageographic.com/blog/opinion-how-hunting-black-rhino-contributes-conservation-namibia/ [21] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03736245.2017.1299639 [23] https://www.sagreenfund.org.za/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/EWT-RESEARCH-REPORT.pdf [25] https://www.protectedplanet.net/country/ZAF [26] https://science.sciencemag.org/cont...f3NB0L2jQFhTpG_Bvr1AtGuUZPopabblVrARQH8vwBpIc Reactions: Hank2211, Timbo, ack and 7 others Pheroze OFAH, DSC South Africa, Canada, USA Our UK friends need to spread this widely, and publicly. I am still mystified that officials from Namibia, Botswana, South Africa etc. Are not publicly posting their positions. If they have indeed not made representations then it is a lost opportunity, and a failure of the government to protect their conservation plans. "When my friends tell me that I have led a remarkable life, I have to admit having done my best to make it so" - John Kingsley-Heath "Education is key" - ZPGHA Reactions: johnnyblues, ack and Vanguard2279 Opposite Pole Warsaw & Sydney SSAA; PZŁ, KŁ Sęp Australia, Poland I fear letters like these will not achieve much, owing to the fact most politicians are not evolved enough to have learnt to read. 470 N.E.; 416 Rem Mag; 375 H&H; 9.3x74R; 308 Win; 223 Rem and some change Reactions: ack MarkCZ South Africa, Finland, Estonia, C.Z. Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Scotland , England, Namibia Would it be possible for someone to post this letter on "The Stalking Directory" this is a UK hunting forum. Reactions: Timbo and ack AH enthusiast Well written and well said....Hopefully a conservative news source will pick this up.. USA, ALASKA Canada, New Zealand, Mexico Africa. No one will care about this in the UK. Only hunters Tommorow is promised to no one. Go live your dreams. BGRC PFRC & SSAA Australia (WA & NT), Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa As Frederick Douglass once said to a young afro-American on what he should do with his life, Freddy boy simply said: "Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!" We as a fraternity of hunters should NOW coalesce into a unified powerful front and meet the bullshit animal huggers/SJWs/ anti-hunters head on - as backed by facts contained in this letter!! - to fight for our rights. If we don't then we ALL may as well put our heads between our legs and kiss our sport goodbye!! 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__label__wiki	0.756111	0.756111	United States: DOJ's New Guidance On The Use Of Arbitration And Its Application In Merger Disputes by Wrede Smith and Jay Ewart Background on DOJ's Use of Arbitration In March 2020, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice completed its first-ever arbitration in United States v. Novelis.1 Rather than proceed to trial in federal court, as is customary in merger litigation, the parties decided to bring the sole issue in dispute before an arbitrator: whether the relevant product market consisted only of aluminum auto body sheet (aluminum ABS), as DOJ alleged, or also included traditional or high strength steel, as the merging parties argued. The arbitrator issued a ruling in favor of DOJ, finding that aluminum ABS constituted a relevant product market. According to the parties' arbitration agreement, DOJ's victory triggered a requirement that Novelis divest Aleris's North American aluminum ABS operations, most notably, Aleris's mill in Lewisport, Kentucky. 2 Following on the heels of that victory, DOJ appears poised to use arbitration in future matters where appropriate. On November 12, 2020, DOJ issued new guidance on when it may consider the use of arbitration. 3 While the Arbitration Guidance applies to any civil litigation brought by the Antitrust Division, this advisory will focus on the use of arbitration to resolve merger disputes. When and Why DOJ May Consider Arbitration Moving Forward The DOJ's Arbitration Guidance describes arbitration as "an important litigation tool that the Antitrust Division has at its disposal." It recognizes that arbitration has certain advantages and disadvantages for DOJ compared to proceeding to trial in federal court, and lays out the factors DOJ should consider when assessing whether to pursue arbitration. The most significant advantage the Arbitration Guidance describes is arbitration's efficiency, both in terms of resolving the dispute more quickly and reducing the amount of government resources used to resolve the dispute. Other advantages include allowing the parties more direct control over the requested remedy and adjudicating the dispute before an arbitrator with deep antitrust expertise. The Arbitration Guidance recognizes two disadvantages as well: the lack of precedential value of an arbitration award and the loss of the public interest in adjudicating the dispute in an open federal court. Accordingly, the Arbitration Guidance identifies certain factors that may lead DOJ to pursue arbitration instead of litigation, while acknowledging that not every factor must be present for DOJ to seek arbitration and that additional factors may be considered beyond those listed: The issues in the case are clear, easily agreed upon, and dispositive, such that they can be presented to and decided by an arbitrator. The parties wish to control the range of possible remedies. Arbitration would lead to a more efficient use of the government's resources without affecting the government's ability to protect consumers, or proceeding in federal court would result in unacceptable delay. The issues in the case are complex and would benefit from adjudication by an expert in antitrust law. The first three factors all appear to be have been present in the Novelis merger litigation. There, the parties had narrowed the dispute to market definition, which was negotiated through the arbitration agreement and was dispositive to the dispute. The range of possible remedies was also limited because the competitive overlap could be resolved by the divestiture of a single Aleris mill. On the other hand, it is not clear that the issues in the Novelis case were so complex that presenting them before an arbitrator (an experienced antitrust practitioner) presented significant advantages over a federal judge. In addition, the six-month timeframe it took to arbitrate the case was not necessarily any faster than the time it takes to litigate a preliminary injunction in federal court. Considerations for Merging Parties The DOJ's Arbitration Guidance does not address considerations for merging parties (or other defendants) that are assessing whether to pursue arbitration, which may be consistent with the government's interests in some areas but diverge in others. Key advantages of arbitration to merging parties include: Coming to a faster resolution at a lower cost. This likely is a strong consideration if the merits lend themselves to arbitration, although in practice arbitration may not save substantially more time than litigation. The confidential nature of arbitration, which eliminates the potential for internal company documents to be introduced in open court at trial. Presenting evidence, particularly from economic experts, to an antitrust specialist, which may be advantageous to the merging parties as well as to DOJ. Obtaining concessions from DOJ, such as limiting DOJ's potential arbitration remedies to divestitures of specific assets or allowing the broader transaction to close while the parties arbitrate the fate of overlapping portions of the transaction. Arbitration may, however, have disadvantages to merging parties that are not considerations for DOJ: In agreeing to narrow the scope of the dispute at issue for arbitration, merging parties relieve DOJ of its burden to prove every element of a violation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act and may forgo the opportunity to present evidence of merger efficiencies. The merging parties also may relinquish any right to appeal an adverse decision. The arbitration agreement in the Novelis case did not allow for appeal of the arbitration award. 4 Will the Arbitration Guidance Lead to More Arbitration? Despite the DOJ's Arbitration Guidance, whether arbitration becomes more commonly used in merger disputes is highly uncertain for three main reasons. First, the Biden Administration will bring in new leadership at the Antitrust Division, who may not have the same passion for arbitration as the outgoing Division leadership. The discretionary nature of whether to use arbitration means that the new leadership could ignore the Arbitration Guidance and render the Novelis arbitration a one-off occurrence. Second, all parties must consent to arbitration. Even if the factors in the Arbitration Guidance strongly weigh in favor of arbitration, the merging parties' considerations may be different and favor a full trial in federal court. In the Novelis case, the merging parties' incentive to arbitrate may have been a result of concessions DOJ was willing to make in the arbitration agreement. In that agreement, DOJ agreed to limit its remedy to a divestiture of one of multiple mills involved in the acquisition rather than seeking to enjoin the entire transaction. DOJ also allowed the parties to close the foreign portion of the transaction in the event the arbitration had not concluded by a certain date. 5 Neither concession might have been available to Novelis had DOJ pursued its case in federal court. Third, the use of arbitration is a significant procedural departure from traditional practice in merger disputes. Both DOJ and counsel for merging parties are accustomed to trying merger cases in federal court, and the parties must agree on procedural issues for arbitration, not least of which is selecting an arbitrator. Although these procedural hurdles could prove insurmountable in future cases, arbitration in the Novelis case allowed the parties to choose an arbitrator with extensive antitrust experience and dictate the timing by which he had to issue a decision— two important variables outside the control of litigants who try merger cases in front of federal district court judges. 1 Arbitration Decision, U.S. v. Novelis Inc. and Aleris Corp., No: 1:19-cv-02033-CAB (N.D. Ohio, Mar. 9, 2020) (U.S. v. Novelis) (redacted public version). 2 Competitive Impact Statement, No. 1:19-cv-02033-CAB (N.D. Ohio, May 12, 2020) (ECF No. 48). 3 U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Updated Guidance Regarding the Use of Arbitration and Case Selection Criteria, (Nov. 12, 2020). 4 Arbitration Term Sheet, U.S. v. Novelis, (Sept. 9, 2019). 5 See Arbitration Term Sheet, U.S. v. Novelis, at paras. 4-5 (Sept. 9, 2019). Novelis was allowed to close the transaction with a hold separate order prior to the arbitration hearing, although it did not close until after it cleared all European regulatory hurdles a month after the arbitration decision was issued. 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__label__wiki	0.687487	0.687487	Hollywood Vampires, John Mellencamp and more at Starkey Hearing Foundation Gala, St Paul (17 July 2016) John Mellencamp Setlist Pink Houses Stones in My Passway (Robert Johnson cover) Save Some Time to Dream Hollywood Vampires Setlist Intro/ Raise the Dead Pinball Wizard (The Who cover) My Generation (The Who cover) Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith cover) School's Out / Another Brick in the Wall (Pink Floyd cover) The Tenors Setlist Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Funiculì, Funiculà Elvis Medley: Suspicious Minds / Always on my Mind/ O Sole Mio / It's Now or Never/ Can't Help Falling in Love with You Trent Harmon Setlist Stand By Me (Ben E. King cover) Maddie and Tae Setlist John Mellencamp Tour Dates 09/17/16 Bristow, VA "Farm Aid" 10/11/16 Worcester, MA Hanover Theatre 10/12/16 Utica, NY Stanley Center 10/14/16 Wilkes-Barre, PA F.M. Kirby Center 10/15/16 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Hotel, Casino 10/18/16 Hershey, PA Hershey Theatre 10/19/16 Akron, OH Akron Civic Theatre 10/21/16 Toledo, OH Stranahan Theater 10/22/16 Niagara Falls, NY Seneca Niagara Resort 10/25/16 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre 10/26/16 Richmond, KY EKU Center For The Arts 10/28/16 Columbia, MO Jesse Auditorium 10/30/16 Ames, IA Stephens Auditorium 11/01/16 Lincoln, NE Lied Center 11/02/16 Sioux Falls, SD Washington Pavilion 11/04/16 Grand Forks, ND Chester Fritz Auditorium Hollywood Vampires Tour Dates 07/22/16 Rohnert Park, CA Weill Hall 07/23/16 Jacksonville, OR "Britt Festivals" 07/24/16 Saratoga, CA The Mountain Winery 07/25/16 Paso Robles, CA California Mid-State Fair The Tenors Tour Dates 07/29/16 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre 07/30/16 Saratoga, CA Mountain Winery 12/11/16 Newark, NJ Prudential Hall Starkey Hearing Foundation Not in the sky, but actually were on hand for The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala, which generated a record $9.5 million dollars to accelerate the pace .... In terms of the senses, hearing is likely the most critical for any musician, And so, it makes sense that so many musicians, as well as celebrities, sports figures, and dignitaries all descended on St Paul over the weekend to attend The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala, which generated a record $9.5 million dollars to accelerate the pace and scope of Starkey Hearing Foundation missions and locally help to support grants for area nonprofits. Previously, we covered the red carpet and arrivals; now, we want to focus on the gala itself and its many memorable music performances. With a full orchestra on hand, the program began promptly at 5:30 in a large upstairs ballroom with the attendees enjoying their dinner and drinks at ten-person tables. An introductory video was shown (with numerous celebrity cameos) to get the festivities started and then Canadian group The Tenors sang their version of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’, complete with an eagle flying over the onlooking crowd. Usually a quartet, the operatic group has for now slimmed down to a trio, the result of fallout from an unexpected verse (by a now former member) during the Canadian national anthem earlier in the week at the MLB All-Star Game, which resulted in his expulsion. Comedian Jay Leno got things going with a few jokes, and several videos of Starkey mission trips were shown, where people young and old, were seen receiving the benefits of this ever-constant humanitarian program. Executive director and co-founder of PACER, Paula F. Goldberg was then honored and included an impassionate plea against bullying, in her acceptance speech. Hollywood Vampires members Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp took to the podium to describe their mission experience with the Foundation, while the band was on tour playing Rock in Rio in Brazil as well as Lisbon. Depp joked about the road life, saying “I went to sleep in Detroit and woke up next to a Charlie Brown statue in St. Paul” and Cooper mentioned that seeing children, parents and grandparents hear for the first time, was truly the highpoint of their touring. Jay Leno then returned for a full comedy routine, covering politics, everyday life, his older technology, and getting older during his twenty-five minute routine, which closed with a “Minnesota hunting joke”. The most recent American Idol winner Trent Harmon was next, playing a soulful version of ‘Stand By Me’, followed by his own original, ‘Tennessee Whiskey”. Country duo Maddie and Tae prefaced their lone (but appropriate) song, ‘Fly’, from last year’s Start Here (on Republic Records) with a story of sponsoring a recent video contest to promote hearing awareness among the nation’s high schools. Starkey founder Bill Austin centered his Founder’s speech on a Civil War officer saving his descendent, making the point of the difference that a single person can make, followed by a forty-minute auction segment (which raised the majority of funds for the evening), including even a mission to Jamaica, taking place at Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Studios. All-star band Hollywood Vampires roared out of the gate next, for a loud and energetic half-hour that no doubt vibrated the wine glasses of every table near the front, making many reach for the complimentary ear plugs on each table. In addition to Cooper and Depp, the band was ably rounded out by STP bassist Robert DeLeo, G’nR/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum, Bruce Witkin, and from Cooper’s band, Tommy Henriksen, with Aerosmith’s Joe Perry still missing since an on-stage collapse the previous weekend at Coney Island. After playing a pair of Who covers, Depp had to fill in on the talkbox for Perry on ‘Sweet Emotion’ and the group ended with Cooper’s own, ‘School’s Out’. “If you don’t know this song, you were never a teenager”, Depp quipped to the tuxedo and ball gown crowd. Immediately following, Depp’s guitar was auctioned for $60,000 to a lucky bidder, with a competing bidder also winning a signed guitar for the same donation amount. Right Honourable Tony Blair (UK Prime Minister 1997-07) was honored following, breaking the ice by admitting he always wanted to be Alice Cooper and expanded on his work with the Africa Governance Initiative, in furthering development on the continent. The Tenors returned with more gusto, weaving through the crowd for ‘Funiculì, Funiculà’ before returning to the stage for a swinging Elvis medley that included ‘Suspicious Minds’ and ‘It’s Now or Never’ and ended with a larynx-stretching version of the operatic classic, ‘Nessun Dorma’. Jennifer Garner seemed genuinely humbled and awestruck for being honored as an advocate for early childhood education and trustee for Save the Children, and singer John Mellencamp (who arrived late enough to miss any red carpet) closed out the evening with a four-song, twenty minute set starting with classic, ‘Pink Houses’. Playing with longtime guitarist Mike Wanchic, Violinist Miriam Sturm, and two background singers, the intimate set continued with bluesman Robert Johnson’s ‘Stones in My Passway’, rich with Wanchic’s slide guitar work. Mellencamp then stepped back to let his singers take the vocals for ‘Save Some Time to Dream’ because “their voices deliver a lot better than my old raspy voice”, he said. The all-American ‘Jack and Diane’ ended the set (and evening) with many up out of their chairs waving hands above heads and singing along to the stripped down, slower version. “If you want a better world, it starts with you”, Mellencamp said, leaving the stage, managing to casually encompass the message of the night in one short sentence. Using hearing as a vehicle to change lives around the world, the Starkey Foundation embodies Mellencamp’s statement, providing a gift to so many, “So the World May Hear”. The Tenors Paula F Goldberg Bill Austin The Tenors at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) Hollywood Vampires at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) John Mellencamp at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) Posted by W♥M on 07/21/2016 at 05:04 AM in Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Hollywood Vampires, Jay Leno, Jennifer Garner, John, John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, Maddie and Tae, Pink Floyd, Rivercentre, Robert Johnson, St Paul, Starkey Hearing Foundation, The Tenors, The Who, Tony Blair, Trent Harmon \| Permalink \| Comments (0) Starkey Hearing Foundation Gala (Red Carpet) at Rivercentre, St. Paul (17 July 2016) Saint Paul’s Rivercentre rolls out the red carpet this coming Sunday for one of the most anticipated events of the year, The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala. .... With a nearly full moon in the sky (94% full, to be exact and called waxing gibbous for all you science-types), the stars were out at the Rivercentre in St. Paul – Not in the sky, but actually were on hand for The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala, which generated a record $9.5 million dollars to accelerate the pace and scope of Starkey Hearing Foundation missions and locally help to support grants for area nonprofits. This year’s Award honorees included actress Jennifer Garner, advocate for early childhood education and trustee for Save the Children, Paula F. Goldberg, executive director and co-founder of PACER for making a lifeline for parents of children and young adults with all disabilities, and Right Honourable Tony Blair for his relentless belief in the future of Africa. We’ll have full coverage for the gala itself shortly, which included brief musical performances from Hollywood Vampires (Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp); singer-songwriter John Mellencamp; country duo Maddie & Tae; The Tenors; and American Idol winner Trent Harmon, but wanted to first showcase the red carpet arrivals and the numerous celebrity attendees that showed their support. Among the additional guests were: Former astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Charles Duke; the first deaf winner of America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with The Stars winner Nyle DiMarco; Miss World America 2016 Audra Mari; actors Cedric The Entertainer, Michael Madsen, Verne Troyer, Barry Bostwick, Frankie Muniz and Kyle and Christopher Massey; The Blind Side actor Quinton Aaron, Austin & Ally actress Laura Marano, Gilmore Girls actress Vanessa Marano; Ray Donovan actor Steven Bauer; entrepreneur Rohan Marley; Minnesota Vikings player Kyle Rudolph, and legend Carl Eller; Boxing legend Evander Holyfield; boxer Andre Berto; Paralympian Mallory Weggeman; Arizona Cardinals players Larry Fitzgerald and Michael Floyd; MLB Hall of Famers Dave Winfield, Rollie Fingers; pitcher Barry Zito; Minnesota Timberwolves’ Cole Aldrich; NBA champion Ron Harper and Hall of Famer Ralph Sampson. Carl Eller Barry Bostwick Tony Blair at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) Steven Bauer Paula F Goldberg with Bill and Tani Austin Jay Leno at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) Massey Brothers with the Austins Mallory Weggemann Murano Sisters Michael Madsen with Bill Austin Cedric the Entertainer at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) Rohan Marley w sports stars Maddie and Tae Jennifer Garner at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) Quinton Aaron Nyle DiMarco Audra Mari Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp at The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala (17 July 2016) Posted by W♥M on 07/20/2016 at 12:00 AM in Alice Cooper, Audra Mari, Cedric The Entertainer, Jay Leno, Jennifer Garner, John, Johnny Depp, Rivercentre, St Paul, Starkey Hearing Foundation, The Tenors, Tony Blair \| Permalink \| Comments (0) Minneapolis: July 17, 2016 Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area on July 17, 2016. I know he's dropped the 'Cougar' part of his name, but John Mellencamp will forever be known to me as John Cougar Mellencamp. I guess I read that he never liked the 'cougar' .... A classic Vincent Price introduction led to the curtain fall and a canvas backdrop of a close-up of Alice Cooper’s eyes as the shock rocker and band launched into the opening ‘Black Widow’ of its too-short 50 minute set. … THE STARKEY HEARING FOUNDATION at Rivercentre Sunday, 07/17/16, 3pm ($$) rivercentre.org So The World May Hear— Saint Paul’s Rivercentre rolls out the red carpet this coming Sunday for one of the most anticipated events of the year, The Starkey Hearing Foundation 16th Annual Awards Gala. This year’s Award honorees include Jennifer Garner (Alias, Elektra), award-winning actress and advocate for early childhood education. As trustee for Save the Children, Garner has traveled the country to learn firsthand how these programs impact children and families in need and has advocated to officials at every level. Local humanitarian, Paula F. Goldberg, executive director and co-founder of PACER, will also be celebrated for making PACER a lifeline for parents of children and young adults with all disabilities. Music and entertainment is always a key feature of the event, bringing the world’s best entertainers to the Starkey stage and this year is no exception- comedian and former Tonight Show host Jay Leno will feature his comedy while Hollywood Vampires (Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp); singer-songwriter John Mellencamp; country duo Maddie & Tae; The Tenors; and American Idol winner Trent Harmon will provide the music. Due to Vampires’ guitarist Joe Perry’s health scare over the weekend at a show on Coney Island, it’s yet unknown if he can attend, though his speedy recovery has been predicted, and the band is carrying on. The gala itself is anticipated to generate more than $9 million, which will accelerate the pace and scope of Starkey Hearing Foundation missions and locally, the proceeds support grants for area nonprofits. Numerous other local and international celebrities are expected to appear, with ticket and participation opportunities available here: starkeyhearingfoundation.org Minneapolis' Bastille Day is happening today, Sunday, July 14th, 2013, from 3pm to 10pm. The annual block party sponsored by Barbette Café is open and free to the public. ....… BASTILLE DAY BLOCK PARTY at Barbette Sunday, 07/17/16, 3pm (FREE) bastilledayblockparty.com We’ve been covering the annual Bastille Day Block Party for a while now, and this year’s lineup is absolutely unbelievable! To start, this day party is free and open to the public. Local favorites Babes in Toyland and Bad Bad Hats are both on the bill. The last time we saw the Babes, it was a rare headlining gig at First Avenue in January 2016. Prior to that, their very first appearance since reunited at Rock the Garden 2015. Since the event starts at 3pm and has to end before curfew at 10pm, I typically bicycle into the city for a relaxing lazy Sunday bike ride. Details below (more artists may be announced later): MC Foxy Tann Brass Messengers Infiammati Fire Circus North Star Rollergirls Kate Lynch & Her Most Excellent Fellows Bad Bad Hats Nadine Dubois & Les Folies Risque SHEL is the acronym of four classically trained sisters: Sarah on violin, Hannah on keyboards, Eva on mandolin, and Liza on drums, djembe and beatboxing. .… Sunday, 07/17/16, 7pm ($8/$10) We wrote about sister act SHEL in 2014 when we told you that it’s an acronym for their names: Sarah, Hannah, Eva, and Liza. The sisters will be in town promoting their new Dave Stewart-produced album Just Crazy Enough, released earlier in May 2016, with their motto “four sisters, traveling the world, tellin' tales, and sharing a dream”. To coincide with their current national tour, the band has also released a video announcing the “Just Crazy Enough Challenge,” which invites fans to consider the ethical implications of their fashion choices while highlighting their favorite ethically-sourced apparel. Lead vocalist Eva Holbrook explains, “The idea is you make a ‘capsule’ wardrobe, using only eight items and ten accessories. But you can only use items that you already own or your purchase from a thrift store or ethically-sourced company.” Watch the video here: youtube.com Two local guests Dan Rodriguez and Savannah Smith will open the show. 7/13/16 - St. Louis, MO - Old Rock House 7/14/16 - Davenport, IA - Red Stone Room 7/15/16 - Marshfield, WI - Vox Concert Series 7/16/16 - Grand Rapids, MN - KAXE Radio Amph 7/17/16 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry 7/28/16 - West Whately, MA - Watermelon 7/29/16 - Portland, ME – One Longfellow Square 7/30/16 - Hiram, ME - Ossipee Music Fest 8/05/16 - Loveland, CO - Arise Music Festival Posted by W♥M on 07/12/2016 at 06:28 PM in Alice Cooper, Babes in Toyland, Bad Bad Hats, Brass Messengers, Foxy Tann, Hollywood Vampires, Jay Leno, Jennifer Garner, John, John Mellencamp, Kate Lynch, Maddie and Tae, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Music Guide, Nadine Dubois, Rollergirls, SHEL, Starkey Hearing Foundation, The Tenors, Trent Harmon, Vu \| Permalink \| Comments (0)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1396
__label__cc	0.7241	0.2759	WOLF PACK - Endurance Meal for Athletes Pre-Race Meal For Endurance Athletes by Kelly Wolf and Spring Sports Nutrition. Made with wholesome, mostly organic ingredients and 300 of healthy and easy to digest Kcal. In partnership with Kelly Wolf, a world-class professional runner, we designed a new category of a real food prerace/pre-workout meal for athletes. Made with whole food ingredients Vegetarian (contains honey) Low sugar content Revolutionary formula preventing GI problems Diverse energy sources We created a new category of prerace/pre-workout performance nutrition Spring products. First in line is Wolf Pack 300, a meal made with high-quality ingredients that you can have right before a race or a workout. It will help your performance without the risk of having GI problems. The headache of choosing pre-run meal... How many times did you wonder what to eat before a workout or race? Wolf Pack takes away the headache of finding or choosing the right nutrition at the time it counts the most. We have spent several months testing this product and gathering feedback from professional and recreational athletes. They helped to shape this product and tested in the "war zone". We already know it works very well and helped our Spring Tribe athletes perform at their optimal abilities. Wolfpack is a great fuel solution for long outdoor adventures no matter if you run, hike or bike! We use source certified honey HILL AID with Caffeine - Any Distance Fuel The refreshing taste and light consistency of Hill Aid will give you and extra energy boost and make you feel like you are flying through the hills. The chlorogenic acid in green coffee beans and caffeine are know to support carbohydrate and fat metabolism. Polyphenols and antioxidants found in mango were shown to reduce inflammation. Mango also contains tartaric acid and malic acid which may help to maintain the alkali reserve of the body. CANABERRY (Vegan)- Any Distance Fuel Canaberry is a specifically designed for a high-intensity running such as 50K, marathon, half marathon or 10K. A balanced composition of carbohydrates helps to succeed your effort without the negative effects of sugar and/or maltodextrin overload. In addition medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) diversifies energy sources and prevents oversaturation of one metabolic pathway. The low level of osmotically active ingredients combined with the presence of fatty acids helps to prevent GI distress. All of that is achieved with a special selection of high-quality natural food ingredients and the taste you won't forget. Your running is going to change. Experience the difference! #NatureUp! POWER RUSH - Perfect Pre-Race & Race Fuel Power Rush is a product for a high-intensity activity or the moments when you need an energy spike. 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SPEEDNUT - Your Extreme Effort SUPERPOWER We decided to undertake a major challenge… to create a product for those times when you have nothing left to give and making another step forward is beyond possible. For this challenge, we teamed up with Cody Reed himself. He is known for being able to dig really deep! He is able to submerge in pain for hours. His hard work, commitment, and determination are the key to his success. However, all proves not enough to succeed without on point super nutrition. ELECTRORIDE HYDRATION & ENERGY Our Electroride Hydration Mix is a new generation of 100% natural electrolyte and energy sports drink mix. It comes in convenient 35g portions of liquid mix to dissolve in approximately 16-18oz of water. No more powder. Just pure ingredients. Amazingly refreshing, magically addictive, and full of natural nutrients to replenish your electrolytes during physical distress. – Provides energy (80 kcal) and electrolytes – Absolutely no preservatives or coloring – No added sugar – Portable and easy to dissolve (it’s liquid, not powder) – Himalayan Salt is rich in macrominerals and trace minerals – Malate from apples promotes aerobic metabolism – Gingerol from ginger has a medicine like properties being helpful in preventing inflammation and gastric distress – The menthol in mint helps digestion system -Refreshing thirst-quenching ginger ale flavor with a hint of mint -The mild energy boost that lasts for a long time -Well balanced electrolytes Maurten GEL 100 allow 5-7 business days for delivery This is the GEL. It’s a bold statement. But nonetheless true. From a technical perspective, traditional gels are water and carbohydrates simply mixed into syrups, often containing added flavours and preservatives. The GEL 100 is completely different. It’s a biopolymer matrix, filled with a unique blend of fructose and glucose (ratio of 0.8:1) which enables uptakes of up to 100 grams of carbohydrates per hour. The GEL 100 is built by harnessing natural hydrogel technology and built with six natural ingredients. It doesn’t contain any colorants or preservatives and comes in 40g servings that contains 60% carbohydrates – a high weight to energy ratio. Consume the gel minutes before, during and/or directly after activity. AMOUNT OF ENERGY Studies have shown that our bodies can make use of up to 90 grams of carbohydrates per hour. Recent science has shown that the 0.8:1 fructose to glucose ratio enables even greater uptake – up to 100 grams per hour. The GEL 100 is developed by using this ratio and packs a lot of energy. One serving contains 25 grams of carbohydrates. GEL 100 is built on hydrogel technology. The hydrogel enables a smooth transportation of the carbohydrates through the stomach to the intestine where the water, salt and carbohydrates are absorbed. Neutral Flavor Serv. size 1 packet (40g) Total Carb 25g 9% Calcium 21.6mg 2% DV not established Ingredients: Water, Glucose, Fructose, Calcium Carbonate, Gluconic Acid, Sodium Alginate. KOFFEE - Energy Gel with Coffee Kick (Vegan) In collaboration with the one and only Kara Goucher, we created Koffee, PR Grind Energy Gel designed to give you plenty of calories with a little extra caffeine kick from the highest quality cold brew coffee. Perfect for a half marathon, marathon, triathlon, long bike rides, and ultramarathon. -Silky texture -Delicate sensation of smooth and creamy cashew butter -Balanced flavor -Elegant Diaz coffee finish No caffeine added, approximately 10-15mg of caffeine from cold brew coffee Our coffee is roasted and brewed by the family business rooted in coffee. Their legacy begins in the early 1900’s when the Diaz family began growing coffee in the lush hills of Oaxaca, Mexico. As the years went on, the estate was divided up and passed to great grandfather’s children. One of those children is the grandfather, Juan Leovigildo Diaz, and for the past 70 years, he has been cultivating coffee on his farm, EL CARMEN. In 2014 they set out to make coffee farming a viable livelihood for our grandfather and others like him. They started by putting 10% of our profit back into the farm in the hopes of rebuilding both grandfather’s farm and the Diaz legacy and creating a direct bridge between coffee producer and coffee drinker. Maurten GEL 100 CAF 100 The GEL 100 CAF 100 contains 100 mg of caffeine – that’s the equivalent of 1,5 espressos – or one cup of brewed coffee. That’s a lot compared to many of the traditional gels out there. It delivers 25 grams of carbohydrates through a unique blend of fructose and glucose (ratio of 0.8:1). It packs a high weight to energy ratio and doesn’t contain any added flavours, preservatives or colourants. Just like all of our products, it’s vegan-friendly. Use the GEL 100 CAF 100 on its own during shorter durations, or combine it with other Maurten products to ensure you have enough carbohydrates throughout your session. Caffeine has been shown to promote alertness and reduce perceived effort and pain. These are properties that can be beneficial in sports performance. The GEL 100 CAF 100 can be used for building up caffeine levels – on its own, together with other caffeine sources, such as regular coffee – or to achieve sufficient caffeine levels during activity. AMOUNT OF CARBOHYDRATES It is well known that our bodies can make use of about 60 grams of ingested carbohydrates per hour, in the form of glucose or maltodextrin (glucose polymer). Using a 0.5:1 combination of fructose and glucose/maltodextrin, allows uptake of up to 90 grams per hour. More recent studies have shown that increased fructose content, above 0.5:1 enables an even higher uptake. The GEL 100 CAF 100 is based on a 0.8:1 fructose-to-glucose ratio. One serving contains 25 grams of carbohydrates. Maurten Drink Mix 320 Mix the content of each sachet with 500 ml of water and shake well until dissolved. Be accurate, the functionality depends on this ratio. The mix is designed to be mixed with water with <40mg/L calcium content. Higher levels can affect how it's dissolved. Consume the sports drink minutes before, during and or directly after activity. Studies have shown that our bodies can make use of up to 90 grams of carbohydrates per hour. One Drink Mix 320 sachet, mixed with 500 ml of water – contains 80 grams of carbohydrates. Drink Mix 320 is built on hydrogel technology. When mixed with water you have a liquid carbohydrate sports drink containing a high concentration of maltodextrin and fructose. The sports drink instantly converts to hydrogel in the acidity of the stomach. The hydrogel enables a smooth transportation of the drink through the stomach to the intestine where the water, salt and carbohydrates are absorbed. Total Carb 79g 27% Ingredients: Maltodextrin, Fructose, Pectin, Sodium Alginate, Sodium Chloride. Maurten Drink Mix 320 CAF 100 Caffeine, carbohydrates, and hydration. Everything at the same time – and at levels that actually make a difference. The DRINK MIX 320 CAF 100 has it all. And it delivers this without any added acid, colorants, or flavors. By utilizing the hydrogel technology we’ve even managed to mask the bitterness that caffeine usually results in. Caffeine has been shown to promote alertness and reduce perceived effort and pain. These are properties that can be beneficial in sports performance. The DRINK MIX 320 CAF 100 can be used for building up caffeine levels – on its own, together with other caffeine sources, such as regular coffee – or to achieve sufficient caffeine levels during activity. Studies have shown that our bodies can make use of up to 90 grams of carbohydrates per hour. One DRINK MIX 320 CAF 100 sachet, mixed with 500 ml of water* – contains 80 grams of carbohydrates. contains less than 100 mg/L calcium Total Sugars 37g Contains 100mg of Caffeine Ingredients: Maltodextrin, Fructose, Caffeine, Pectin, Sodium Alginate, Sodium Chloride. Maurten Drink Mix 160 allow 5-7 business days for delivery Mix the content of each sachet with 500 ml of water and shake well until dissolved. Be careful, you need to get the ratio right for the hydrogel technology to work. The mix is designed to be mixed with water with <40mg/L calcium content. Higher levels can affect how it's dissolved. Consume the sports drink minutes before, during and or directly after activity. Drink Mix 160 is built on hydrogel technology. When you mix it with water, you'll get a liquid sports drink containing a high concentration of maltodextrin and fructose. The sports drink instantly converts to hydrogel in the acidity of the stomach. The hydrogel enables a smooth transportation of the drink through the stomach to the intestine where the water, salt and carbohydrates are absorbed. *Note: the Maurten 160 version features half of the calories and carbs as well as slightly less sodium than the Maurten 320 Maurten Mix Box Training Pack Together with coaches, athletes, and nutritionists, we have been able to develop Maurten fuel guidelines for training – intended to be used as a reference by athletes of all levels. The Mix Box contains the right combination of Maurten products to get the best out of each training session: 6 x Gel 100 6 x Gel 100 Caf 100 6 x Drink Mix 160 Consume before, during, and or after activity. Amount of Energy: One serving of Drink Mix 160 contains 40 grams of carbohydrates and one serving of Drink Mix 320 contains 80 grams (per 500 ml of water). One serving of GEL 100 contains 25 grams of carbohydrates and one serving of GEL 100 CAF 100 contains an additional 100 mg of caffeine. MCRAECOVERY (Vegan) - Long Distance Fuel & Recovery Designed in collaboration with a professional runner, Sally McRae. Specifically crafted to speed up recovery after hard workouts but also used by ultra runners as the main fuel. It contains both carbohydrates and fatty acids. It is loaded with MCT, medium chain triglycerides from coconut oil. You will also enjoy its rich flavor and fulfilling qualities in the late stages of long races. It provides active ingredient helping with inflammation. On top of it, the taste is great!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1397
__label__wiki	0.729124	0.729124	APS News HEALTH - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COPYRIGHT © 2017 ALGERIA PRESS SERVICE - Mobile version - ⇅ Currency Exchange Rates ▼ 159,01 DZD ▲ 168,72DZD Latest update: December 27th, 2020 - Source: Bank of Algeria Algiers Weather Algerian swimmers achieve positive participation in Geneva Challenge - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 13:37 Road accidents: 25 killed, 1013 wounded in one week - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 13:21 UN Secretary-General appoints new Special Envoy for Libya - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 13:12 Western Sahara: Morocco puts pressure on Spain to follow in Trump's footsteps - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 12:38 Renewable energy: Chitour presents Algeria's objectives at IRENA Assembly - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 12:37 Benbouzid welcomes Algerian medical mission returning from Mauritania - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:38 SPLA pursues attacks on positions of Moroccan army for 67th day - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:18 Algeria, Mauritania to elaborate roadmap on healthcare cooperation - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:05 World Handball Championship: Algeria bows to Portugal 26-19 - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:00 Several thousands waterbirds identified in Batna from first day of survey - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 08:51 Vehicle Imports: Minister of Industry signs temporary authorizations for 4 dealerships - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 07:40 Detachment of Russian warships docks at Algiers Port - Tuesday, 19 January 2021 07:16 Decision to diversify Covid-19 vaccines “relevant, appropriate” - Monday, 18 January 2021 19:41 National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2020-2030 presented - Monday, 18 January 2021 18:14 Coronavirus: 259 new cases, 193 recoveries and four deaths - Monday, 18 January 2021 17:08 Djerad orders governors to respect deadlines for issuing town planning certificates - Monday, 18 January 2021 16:01 Trade : deep reforms to adapt to national economy changes - Monday, 18 January 2021 15:31 Western Sahara: Trump's decision still under review - Monday, 18 January 2021 14:59 Algiers Stock Exchange: Facilitation project on access to startups concluded - Monday, 18 January 2021 13:13 Libya: dialogue process strengthens with vote on mechanism for selecting unified executive - Monday, 18 January 2021 13:00 Algerian swimmers achieve positive participation in Geneva Challenge ALGIERS - The Algerian participation has been overall "positive" in the 54th International Swimming Challenge (large pool), organized from January 15 to 17 in Geneva (Switzerland), Lamine Benabderrahmane in charge of team at the Algerian Swimming Federation (FAN) said. World Handball Championship: Algeria bows to Portugal 26-19 CAIRO-The Algerian handball team on Monday finished the preliminary round of the 2021 World Handball Championship in Egypt (13-31 January) with a defeat against Portugal 19-26 (halftime 9-14) in a game played in Cairo under the third and last round (group F). Handball World Championship: Algeria lose to Iceland (24-39) CAIRO- The Algerian handball team lost to Iceland on the score of 24 to 39 (half-time: 10-22), in a match part of the second day of the Handball World Championship preliminary round (group F), played on Saturday evening in Cairo (Egypt). Geneva International Challenge: Amel Melih wins gold in 50m freestyle GENEVA-Algerian swimmer Amel Melih on Saturday won the final of the 50 meters freestyle of the 54th Geneva International Challenge scheduled on 15-17 January qualifying to the Tokoyo-2020 Olympic Games and the World Swimming Championship. Geneva International Challenge: Swimmers Ardjoun, Djaballah win bronze GENEVA (Switzerland)- Algerian swimmers Ardjoun Abdellah and Djabellah Anis won the bronze medal of the 50-meter backstroke and 1500-meter front crawl at the 54th Geneva International Challenge (January 15-17). Handball world championship : Algeria defeat Morocco in an epic 24-23 ALGIERS - The Algerian handball team managed a successful Handball world championship 2021 debut, defeating Thursday Morocco 24-23 (half-time: 8-15), in a match played in Cairo, Egypt. world Handball championship: President Tebboune encourages national team ALGIERS- President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Wednesday expressed support and encouragement to the national handball team, who are competing in the 27th Men's Handball World Championship in Egypt (13-31 January 2021). Handball world championship: Algeria's opponents under magnifying glass ALGIERS- Algeria's national handball team, back to the world stage after a six-year absence, will compete within a high-level group in the 27th Men's Handball World Championship in Egypt (13-31 January 2021), eager to put up a stellar performance against two European countries, namely Iceland and Portugal, in addition to Morocco. 2021 World Men's Handball Championship: multiple favorites in Pharaohs' land ALGIERS - The 27th IHF World Men's Handball Championship will kick off on Wednesday in Egypt, with the opening match pitting, as tradition dictates, the host country against Chile. Algeria will be participating in the World Men's Handball Championship for the 15th time in its history. Covid-19: 2020-2021 football season to continue behind closed doors ALGIERS-Chairman of the Algerian Football Federation (FAF) Kheireddine Zetchi on Friday ruled out any return of fans to stadiums due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. 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__label__cc	0.584372	0.415628	ALISE/The Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition The award recognizes dissertations that deal with substantive issues related to library and information science. Applicants may be from within or outside LIS programs. One outstanding dissertation will be selected. The winner will receive $500, plus conference registration at the ALISE annual meeting, and personal membership in ALISE. The winner of the Dissertation Competition will present a summary of their work at the ALISE annual meeting. 2020 Sponsor ALISE is thankful for the generous support of the Eugene Garfield Foundation for sponsoring the award. Dissertations will be judged on the following criteria: Significance of the research problem to the overall LIS field. Presentation of the relevant literature. Design of the study (i.e., appropriateness of methodology, selection of specific techniques and/or tests). Conduct of study (i.e., application of methods of data collection). 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__label__wiki	0.885976	0.885976	Defending Philly Am winner McDermott is Among Final Eight by Golf Association of Philadelphia see also: View results for Philadelphia Amateur , Lancaster Country Club, Michael McDermott Rankings Past champion Conrad Von Borsig remains alive (GAP Photo) FLOURTOWN, PA (June 14, 2017) - Reigning BMW Philadelphia Amateur Champion Michael McDermott and his title defense remain alive. The 42-year-old long-hitter survived a pair of grueling matches in the 117th BMW Philadelphia Amateur Championship on Wednesday at Philadelphia Cricket Club (Wissahickon) to advance to the Elite Eight. McDermott edged fellow Merion clubmate Peter Bradbeer in 19 holes in a morning Round of 32 match before gutting out a 2&1 victory hours later over Jack Melville of Lu Lu Country Club in the Round of 16. McDermott is a three-time Amateur Champion (2008, 2013, 2016). With a victory, he would join legends J. Wood Platt of Whitemarsh Valley Country Club (seven times) and Harold McFarland of Huntingdon Valley Country Club (four times) as the only players with four or more Amateur titles. “I feel pretty fortunate right now. I survived two really tough matches against two really good young players (both players are 19 years old),” said McDermott of Bryn Mawr, Pa., the No. 17 seed. “I think both guys played better than me today but I gutted it out. These are long days. I was getting tired at the end. Your brain sort of melts down a little bit. I had to fight mentally and physically. I think it’s definitely experience. I can’t explain winning those two matches but somehow I’m here.” The McDermott-Melville encounter was tense throughout. Neither player had more than a 1-up lead in the first 15 holes played. McDermott outdistanced Melville, of Maple Glen, Pa., by upwards of 75 yards at times, but the University of Delaware sophomore stayed in the moment and consistently hit hybrids and long-irons into the center of greens and made par. McDermott finally put some space between himself and the subdued Melville on No. 8 (par 4, 365 yards). He drained an unexpected 60-foot birdie, putting from the bottom right to a middle left hole location. “I was not expecting that. When he made that I knew I had to make mine,” said Melville, who had a 40-footer for birdie to halve the hole. “It’s tough to make long putts out there. I know he’s a great player and three-time champ in this. I just tried to stick to my game plan and hang with him and see how it turns out. I knew pars would most likely halve the hole. I was just trying to get on the green and have a look for birdie.” Melville implemented that strategy to a tee in his Round of 32 match, shocking top seed John Brennan of Philadelphia Cricket Club, 3&2. Brennan finished at 4-under in qualifying yesterday. McDermott’s morning contest was even more stressful; he stood 1-down in the middle of the 18th fairway. Beginning on No. 13 (par 4, 447 yards), Bradbeer made a furious charge, turning a 3-down deficit into a 1-up advantage. On No. 18, both players found the fairway. Bradbeer’s approach came up just short left, though, but still in prime position to make par. McDermott needed to force the issue and did. He launched a 5-iron from 205 yards that caught the left ridge of green and stopped 15 feet from the cup. Bradbeer chipped up to five feet, but no matter, McDermott drained his birdie. On No. 19 (No. 1, par 4, 422 yards), a focused McDermott hammered a drive, hit a lob wedge from 68 yards to eight feet and two putted for the win. Bradbeer’s game wasn’t as sharp. McDermott faces Delaware buzzsaw Jay Whitby of Wild Quail Golf & Country Club Thursday at 7:30 a.m. Whitby, 30, of Wyoming, Del., distanced both his opponents Wednesday winning, 4&3 and 6&5, respectively. Whitby, who advanced to BMW Philadelphia Amateur Quarterfinals a year ago, is a three-time Delaware State Golf Association Amateur Champion. Others victors were: Lu Lu Country Club mates P.J. Acierno and Michael R. Brown, Jr.; Grant Skyllas of LedgeRock Golf Club; Sam Soeth of White Manor Country Club; and host club hopefuls Gregor Orlando and Conrad Von Borsig. Von Borsig, the 2009 Amateur champion, is the only other former winner still alive. Von Borsig won the final three holes to turn a 1-down deficit into a 1-up victory over David Hicks of Wildwood Golf & Country Club. On No. 18 (par 4, 483 yards), the powerful swinging right-hander knocked a 7-iron from 187 yards to 10 feet, and drained the putt to cap his comeback. “I like this tournament. Match play suits me. I’m really wild and can make big numbers. And that doesn’t really come into play in match play,” said the affable Von Borsig, 30, of Philadelphia, Pa. “Being on your home course helps a lot. You’re comfortable on every shot. Even more so, you know exactly how good or bad your opponent’s next shot is going to be and that can dictate your strategy quite a bit.” Von Borsig faces Skyllas, 30, of Reading, Pa., in the quarterfinals. Their match begins at 7:52 a.m. View results for Philadelphia Amateur ABOUT THE Philadelphia Amateur Format: 36-hole individual gross stroke play qualifying on the first day. 32 players continue to match play competition with two rounds scheduled on the second and third days, and the final at 36 holes on the last day. Eligibility: Open to all GAP Member Club golfers with handicaps of 7.0 or less. Non-exempt players must prequalify.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1411
__label__cc	0.731127	0.268873	Opinion : Let’s fix the roads in 2019 In the interests of year-ending blogs and things on my mind, I think it’s time to come up with a plan to get the roads of Britain moving more effectively than they have been in recent years. Okay, so it’s actually going to come across as a bit of a rant, but the ideas I’m presenting are based on the experience of a 40,000-mile year, and utter frustration with needless time lost in traffic. Perhaps once Brexit has played out, we’ll have more time and energy to look at implementing some transport policies that will improve driving for everyone – after all, according to the BBC, commuters are losing up to 74 hours per year sitting in traffic. Most of these ideas shouldn’t cost huge sums to put into action but, hopefully, they’ll make a significant impact on traffic flow. As always, please comment your own thoughts at the end of the article, especially if you have ideas that would make things more bearable for the rest of us. Introduce keep-left-unless overtaking signs UK drivers’ lane discipline on motorways and dual carriageways is notoriously bad. Ask anyone who’s returned from an overseas drive, or who’s driving on an empty piece of motorway overnight why they see so many people driving in the middle- or outside-lane, and they’ll not be able to answer. Our inability to keep left unless overtaking as absolutely stunning – and it has terrible consequences on traffic flow. All of a sudden, a few middle-lane hogs can render a three-lane stretch into a congested dual carriageway. Or worse… I propose the introduction of these signs on all UK motorways and dual carriageways, preferably at mile-long intervals. They are timely reminders that anything to the right of Lane 1 is purely for overtaking, and not for sitting in for miles on end. There are such signs on the M1 near London Gateway (nee Scratchwood) services, and they do seem to work for the couple of miles that they cover. More please. Introduce regular training for drivers Back in 2015, I was caught speeding on the A66. My fault, it was a fair cop, as I was clocked at 82mph on a dual carriageway on New Year’s Eve. But as my licence was clean, I was offered the opportunity to take a Speed Awareness Course in lieu of my three points. Although I like to think I know a bit about driving and cars, I still came away from the experience recharged and armed with a little knowledge that had slipped from my front of mind. What was also quite telling was the amount of people on the course who lacked knowledge in the most basic of areas – and that you could see that they were coming away with useful and potentially life-saving information. Would it be really cost too much to make this mandatory for all drivers every, say, 10 years? Actually, it would probably generate much-needed revenue, and potentially make the roads a much safer place. Consider re-testing at 40 and 60-years of age Back in 2017, I re-sat the driving test for a feature on Parkers. The occasion was the introduction of the new-style driving test, which introduced following directions from a sat-nav. I didn’t go into the experience taking anything for granted and, as it happens, I found it a stressful experience. Yes, I passed, but not without a couple of demerits – and the tester informing me that there are a few areas where I needed to brush up on my skills. Given that most people have picked up numerous bad habits by the time they hit 40, it seems like a logical step to introduce a refresh and review. My bad habits were something I wasn’t aware of, and could cause a problem in a certain situation, and I was grateful for the reminder. I genuinely believe we could all do with the refresher, at least at 40 and 60 – preferably every 10 years. Introduce no-overtaking zones for HGVs I think we’ve all been stuck behind a pair of trucks elephant racing on a dual carriageway, and wondered what the driver’s thinking about. I couldn’t even begin to total up the amount of time I’ve sat behind one HGV doing 53mph overtaking another doing 52mph. In the driver’s mind, it’s making progress, and certainly, it’s not an issue – because they’re allowed to do it. But in Europe, there are plenty of two-lane motorways that have restrictions on HGV overtaking in the interests of traffic flow – usually on inclines. Why we don’t have them (aside from the pointless ‘Journey-time zones on the A14 and M11, which seem to be widely ignored) baffles me. If they aren’t permitted to overtake in places where they can cause the most delays, where’s the problem? Introduce merge-in-turn signs at two-into-ones… This is a constant source of bafflement to me. Why is it at roadworks or at two-into-ones that UK drivers will quite happily queue for miles in the left-hand lane, and not drive sensibly in both lanes up to the narrowing of the roads? I think it goes back to the ‘don’t push in’ mentality of so many Brits, and how many would perceive anyone going up to the blockage is actually trying to gain an unfair advantage. In reality, it’s maximising space, and so as long as both drivers are cooperative there really shouldn’t be an issue. And done properly, two-into-ones that are merged-in-turn at the end will half the length of the queue. This issue generates the most extreme form of passive-aggressive driving – HGV drivers, especially, will sit in the middle to block both lanes to stop people merging in turn. To the point, where I’ve seen this happen more than a mile from the two-into-one. Madness… And yet, when I see merge-in-turn signs, everyone can manage perfectly well. Let’s get these signs widely deployed and stop the stupid passive aggression. Let’s re-consider the speed limits Cars are safer now than ever before. Thanks to improved crash-mitigation technology and ever-stronger cars, the likelihood of being injured in a crash are lower than ever. Fewer cars crash in the first place, too – and when did you last read in the news about a motorway pile-up? So, why is it that we’re saddled with a 70mph national speed limit conceived in 1965, when our cars are so capable? Stopping distances have reduced significantly, while high-speed handling is so much better than ever – even the most inattentive drivers can avoid mayhem. Isn’t it time to raise the limit to a more Euro-standard 80 or 85mph? Most cars built in the last 40 years are more than capable of, nay optimised to, drive at 80mph – sometimes not feeling settled and in their stride at the UK’s antediluvian 70mph limit. Given that in an ideal world, drivers would be better informed, trained and less frustrated, this higher speed limit would be the carrot that most people would happily receive for the stick of the additional training and examination I’m proposing… Stop with the stupid pay-to-park service station rest areas Motorway service station parking areas are a vital safety feature that many of us have needed to use over the years. A long, late drive – an overnight red-eye up north, and that all-important emergency nap can prove to be a lifesaver. And yet, if you stop at a UK service station, and choose to park there for more than two hours, you’re subjected to a parking charge. And woe betide you if you don’t pay. Would it be too much to ask to remove these paid-for parking areas, and let people take a nap without worrying about incurring a costly and unnecessary fine? In addition, why are motorway and A-road parking at such a premium in the UK. All across Europe, there are rest areas in motorways where people can stop, take a comfort break and do what they need to do without the full-blown stress of a service station stop. Those little aires you get in France are so useful and encourage drivers to take regular stops… why don’t we do this here? Finally… enough, with the road closures! Although it’s good to lessen the impact of road works, why is it that Highways England chooses to close roads and motorways in their entirety instead of narrowing them down and keeping the traffic flowing? Other countries seem to manage to avoid this situation. Night after night, week-in, week-out, our main arteries are being closed, causing untold (and illness-inducing) stress for drivers. As you’ll see if you’ve clicked the link above, the Traffic England website is designed to keep drivers in the know about closures and major road works, allowing them to plan their journeys and avoid those nasty delays and diversions. It’s all part of the communication piece, isn’t it? Well, actually no. I could go on about this, as it’s my own personal bête noire, but I’ve ranted about this before, and would hate to be accused of repeating myself. Read: Blog – I can handle the despair, it’s the hope I can’t stand Merry Christmas, Happy New Year from AROnline Our Cars : Mike’s Saab 9-3 Vector Convertible Mr J Nowill says: Really good ideas. Perhaps one more namely liberalising bus regulation. So if you want to set up a route, you do. This has created a rural bus network in Turkey second to none and Turkish intercities have hot meals and seat selection online. Ulusoy and Varan are perhaps the most advanced operators anywhere. Eric Hayman says: If they can make rural routes pay there, why not here? Presumably because so few people in Turkey own cars, so the bus is the only option. My own experiences in 2016 in Sri Lanka showed up both the popularity and danger of private bus travel. This year friends had three family members killed and another needing a privately paid for kidney transplant plus still ongoing care – just because a speed-merchant private company bus driver pulled out blind in front of the family’s car. Not all roses. “Those little aires you get in France are so useful and encourage drivers to take regular stops… why don’t we do this here?” Because of the Anglo-Saxon punish everyone culture? Agree the French Aires and German Autobahn Raststatten are great. Trouble is in outsource UK who would run them? The likes of Moto, Welcome Break and Roadchef wont be interested because they wont make money from them. Leave them to Local Authorities or the Highways Agency and they will be rubbish dumps and dogging destinations in no time. As noted above the lowest common denominator Anglo-Saxon approach usually results in everything being shit here, You forgot possibly the biggest one.. when there is an accident, clear it away as fast as possible, while there is a need to investigate, there’s little that can’t be done with photographic evident which does not take hours to collect. Dithering about for hours increases the risk of a subsequent accident. Better to get it cleared which is what happens on the continent Sadly, a motorcyclist was killed on the M4 just before 0430 hrs on 18 Dec 2018, when his bike hit debris on the road surface. No other vehicles or people involved – but the police closed the motorway for SEVEN hours. Yes, they need to see if they can identify where the debris came from; yes they need to clear the debris – but SEVEN hours? That’s almost a whole shift. And when will the police stop calling all RTAs “Collisions”? When they obviously are not. This was not a “collision”; the bike hit some very stationary debris. The Wolseley Man says: Absolutely agree with all that’s been said – except I would go further and make the current RoSPA (at Silver not Bronze level) the minimum standard – so almost though not quite Police Class One. The ‘advanced’ standard should be the current Gold – and without dropping the police standard one tiny bit – Gold Drivers should get a significant reduction on their insurance premiums as statistically they are a much lower risk. None of this or any of your ideas will happen though as the guy in charge of roads is struggling on a mere £875,000 a year – 4 times more than the prime minister. As taxpayers we are clearly not going to get a lot for our money if we pay peanuts for these key positions. Scrap HS2 and spend the money (after reintroducing the Great Central line) on making roads safer, eg straightening out dangerous bends, making them wider with better visibility, improved cambers. Can’t imagine that happening round here where my local council put up the wrong road signs at random, have inconsistent lane markings at junctions and say that reducing visibility at roundabouts actually makes them safer. Flipping amateurs…. Oh, and find a way to get drivers turned round rather than spend hours stuck behind motorway accidents. So presumably reintroducing the Grand Central line wont cost anything then? 18 January 2019 at 10.22 pm Regrettably, much of the Great (not Grand) Central was destroyed very soon after its closure – almost an act of vindictiveness: massive viaducts blown up, cuttings filled in, steel bridges cut up for scrap metal. In Australia there are lines closed decades ago that could be put back into use in months. While the GCR was the only main line built to the Continental loading gauge – it was intended to reach the south coast – and very much an express route for its day, a century or more later and top speeds have close to doubled. Paul Gold says: Some good ideas there but seems quite anti-HGV If there were more parking areas for HGVs they wouldnt need to be flat out all day to get to somewhere safe to park, also companies like Tescos who lowered their maximum speed to 52 cause congestion. Cars driving lower speeds than the lorries cause HGVs to pull out and overtake – then they miraculously speed up when you get level. If you let an HGV out to overtake by watching the road ahead they can keep momentum going and pass quicker, but most car drivers dont and by the time it pulls out it has dropped speed a little and now takes longer to pass. Also the amount of slow vehicles (wide loads/cranes etc) moving during daylight hours is worse now than when they were restricted, if all HGVs sit behind oneof these going up hill at 25-30mph the queues will be nose to tail for miles and the other vehicles wont be able to get on and off at junctions. I suggest by the same token all cars are limited to 70mph physically and if one car is doing 65-69mph no cars can overtake it. A lot of HGV drivers used to slow for 2 seconds to let another pass but that doesnt happen so much now. As for the merging , if the zip method was actually followed it would be great , but as a lot of drivers have the ‘must get in front of the HGV’ mentality I usually find three or four cars trying to drive alongside right up to the cones then try and push my HGV to let them in. Hopefully the new eyesight checks and middle lane hogging rules will be applied and take alot of these idiots either off the road or back to thinking about how they drive – but I’m doubtful Keith Adams says: I’m definitely not anti-HGV. Sorry if it appeared that way. The parking situation for HGV drivers in the UK is shameful, and surely cannot be safe for anyone. The supermarket and major manufacturer delivery “just in time” regimes have a lot to answer for regarding road and motorway problems. When an HGV or other lorry driver has a one hour slot he is told to abide by, what chance is there of “compassionate” driving? When I drove commercially, I saw tailgating HGVs time and again. I do not understand the various company-imposed vehicle speed limits, when there is a supposedly government-established safe lorry/HGV limit. Are the company-imposed limits based on the speedometer readings – or on GPS readings? If the latter, then they will be a lot more accurate than the speedo ones. Company imposed limits are physical limits installed on the vehicle so they can’t go faster , originally made to reduce fuel consumption , theoretically all vehicles should be limited the same then and not at (up to) 56 mph , and due to the tacho calibration being regularly enforced you’ll find most trucks are accurate and match gps speeds , one of the reasons why lorries tailgate and seem to be speeding in roadworks , we usually aren’t we are 50mph and cars are not , but as in the point above they won’t move over and let the lorry go , Yes the parking is atrocious and even if you pay to park in service areas there is no security and thefts still occur , with motorway companies accepting no responsibility even though the cost is between £26 and £41 a night , and as for lay-bys I won’t work for a company that doesn’t pay for secure parking , ok I’ll velirbr you aren’t anti HGV, just spend so much time having to justify even being on the road to people who love to moan , and we are only professional drivers in their eyes when things go wrong , seasons greetings I am not ant-HGVs at all. Along with the shipping container, they have transformed goods transport. The alternative would twice as many smaller lorries. Regrettably lorry driving is looked down on in the UK, hence the lack of facilities provided for the vehicles and the drivers. Curiously, when driving through 50 mph roadworks, I trust my sat nav and not the vehicle’s (under reading) speedometer – and get dirty looks when overtaking 45 mph cars. I don’t think the speed limit needs to be increased. My Up! is quite an unpleasant place to be above 70mph. IMO the answer is equalised limits. Modern HGVs can travel safely at the same speeds as cars and coaches. If they did so, elephant racing and dangerous overtakes on A roads would be all but eliminated. If there is any benefit from brexit, the ability to vary our speed limits etc is one to use. Perhaps you are forgetting the difference in mass or weight, and the momentum to be dissipated when braking. Also, the different characteristics when cornering. Just think of the stopping distance of a one tonne car compared to a 44 tonne lorry. We don’t all drive UP!s though Glenn Aylett says: Stop treating parking as a money making exercise and a way of bullying motorists with large fines for petty, stupid things like putting a ticket in the wrong side of a windscreen or being a minute late. Companies like Parking Eye and UKPC aren’t bothered about making parking a safe, decent experience, they only exist to rip people off through their scameras and fines. The result of private companies and targets both private and council? christopher storey says: I am interested in the parking limits and charges. I have a strong suspicion that in many cases they breach certain conditions of both the original planning consents for service areas, and the terms of the licenses under which the service areas’ operators were granted permission to operate them . They are certainly wholly inappropriate and create danger where none should exist NeilB says: The UK government should take ownership of the M6 Toll compensating the present owners IFM Investors accordingly. Just imagine how much easier it would be to travel through/past the West Midlands. Daniel R says: Sorry but this article treats people’s time and money as if they have zero value, look up opportunity costs. Testing, training and other similar stuff cost money, a great deal of money when applied to the whole population of drivers. Given there are 40 million drivers a retest or training every 20 years would cost ~£500-10000 million depending on how long it is and how much you bill for the lost working/leisure time. Experienced/older drivers are not the ones generating the accidents. If you wanted to sort out roads: 1: Focus on improving and bypassing two lane A/B roads with bad congestion/accident records. 2: Look at incentives for road building and maintenance schemes, the cost of closing roads needs to come out of the budget/bonuses of those in a position to affect the result/planning, it is not acceptable to run narrow lanes for 15 miles for 3 years. 3: Roads need a DARPA (see wiki, they invented the internet, GPS amongst their many triumphs) a small well funded research and development arm is needed to produce radical high payoff technology for transport and it needs to be able to get these solutions to a credible demonstration before the main department gets ahold of them. bartelbe says: 30 December 2018 at 8.42 am That isn’t entirely true. You’re right that older drivers are generally safer, all you have to do is look at insurance costs. Insurance companies give lower quotes to older drivers for a reason. This isn’t true of drivers in their 70’s and 80’s. Insurance costs for those drivers start rising again and for good reason. Many older drivers simply shouldn’t be on the road. We have all seen stories in the news about old drivers who have killed people because they could barely see or couldn’t react in time. I have seen this myself. A little old lady from our street who damaged multiple cars trying to get out of a supermarket carpark near us. In the end it was annoying for the owners of the cars involved but it could have been allot more serious. So retesting for drivers at 70 is not a bad idea. I always have one question for people who complain about middle land hogs. Do they pull in left themselves? The reality is most people who complain about lane hogs spend their entire lives in the right hand lanes and basically want them completely clear as their own private lanes. On the joke Northern motorway network staying in the left lane is a pain, it is full of lorries and you spend your entire life bobbing in and out going round them. Yes the little old lady blocking the middle lane in a Nissan Micra is a pain but so are the Audi/BMW/put sterotype car here drivers who complain about middle lane hogs; who spend all their time in the middle and right hand lanes Since the 1960’s traffic levels have massively increased. I can’t remember the last time I saw a clear motorway. The big problem is British drivers have poor discipline, you raise the limit to 80-85 and they will do 100-110mph. I agree that drivers should be trusted as grownups to drive safely for the conditions and their ability. Alas we are a nation of children who simply can’t be trusted. Besides the way to get traffic to flow better is to actually reduce the limit and enforce it with cameras. I hated managed motorways when they were introduced but they do improve traffic flow. Now if you want to get rid of some of the absurd limits our incompetent councils are introducing, I am with you 100%. Our idiot council are imposed 30 limits on roads that use to be NSL that run passed nothing but fields. Not to mention 20 limits imposed on roads that have never had an accident. “I always have one question for people who complain about middle land hogs. Do they pull in left themselves?” Those complainants are often faced with a member of CLOG – Centre Lane Owners’ Group – travelling at under 70 mph in the second/middle lane. The choice is to overtake or ‘undertake’, both of which are legal if carried out carefully. Often, I will slowly undertake a vehicle, all the time prepared for it to move to Lane One without signalling. Or I will move from Lane One to Lane Three, pass the CLOGer, and move back into Lane One. Occasionally the CLOGer will get the message and move into Lane One. When I was driving 7.5 tonners – with a motorway speed limit of 70 mph – I would do either of the above, often to the annoyance of the CLOGer. Similarly, I would legally use Lane Three at 70 mph when the other two lanes were congested – much to the umbrage of car drivers wanting to do more than 70 mph. That was when there were paper disc tachographs, and the speed limit for 7.5 tonners on motorways was 70 mph. Somehow – despite the obvious lack of discipline of ‘British’ drivers – the UK has some of the lowest accident rate roads in the world. Why I do not know. This lack of discipline is the main factor behind NOT raising speed limits. UK drivers will not slow down in fog and heavy rain, nor obey motorway Lane Closed and advisory speed limit signs. Of course there are still multi-vehicle motorway accidents, many from blind tailgating – another British habit. To talk of cars “sometimes not feeling settled and in their stride at the UK’s antediluvian 70mph limit” has me wondering which ones they are – and how they manage in towns. As for “Besides the way to get traffic to flow better is to actually reduce the limit and enforce it with cameras. I hated managed motorways when they were introduced but they do improve traffic flow”, I first saw variable speed limits when in West Germany in the army in the early 1960s, around Dusseldorf. They worked then, and they do today, reducing vehicle braking distances. This demand for higher speed limits for cars ignores how the world got by before the internal combustion engine. Despite no more Concordes, people still fly across the Atlantic. ALAN FIXTER says: 1 January 2019 at 10.48 pm Lower private cars speed to 56 mph same as trucks with limiters , cars are now much safer but the drivers are much more dangerous ! texting , drugs , phoning , race track attitude , slow them down and space out the traffic ,to keep it moving , why do they get their cheap fuel from ? my 1967 Volvo is supposed to do 18 mpg , I get 32- 33 ! , cut pollution and drive like an adult . 2 January 2019 at 11.02 am No one seems to know the reason for the 56 mph lorry speed limiters. If for safety, why are coaches not also limited to 56 mph, bearing in mind their weight and the number of passengers in each? If for fuel consumption or exhaust emissions, likewise why not coaches as well? And 56 mph is only a conversion from 90 km/h, a standard speed limit on the Continent. Getting ready for an EU enforced conversion to road signs, etc? The motorway verge location signs are already in kilometres. Lorries restricted to 56mph was an EU Directive as the UK limit is 60mph for the same vehicles Thanks, Paul. A perfect example of the UK having to obey EU rules, even though our own ‘safe’ speed limit is 4 mph faster? And Remainers say we do not have to do what Brussels tells us to do. Did we have any choice here? EU website: “A ‘directive’ is a legislative act that sets out a goal that all EU countries must achieve. However, it is up to the individual countries to devise their own laws on how to reach these goals.” So, Remainers would argue we did not have to impose this 4 mph reduction – we just did what we were “directed” to do. But being good Communitaires, the govt did just that. What is the difference between a definite outcome and a “goal”? Not much, it seems…… 3 January 2019 at 1.30 am Oh dear it has nothing to do with nasty Europeans trying to take us over by fiddling with our speed limits. If you have a single market then you need common regulations, otherwise countries use regulations to create barriers to trade. Having common rules for lorries makes it easier for them to travel across the EU. The single market with common rules was a British idea in the first place. I hate to break the bad news to brexiters but under May’s brexit deal we still have to obey all the rules, without having a say over any of them. Is that your idea idea of taking back control? So….no control over EU regulations eh? Oh, hang on……do you mean, just like every other market we sell into worldwide? What all drivers? And if they drive more slowly they’ll stop texting and taking drugs? Who knew! WoofWoof says: Just like the insurance apps you can get, there should be an app that tracks your route and uses sensors to log when you hit a pothole or damage in the road surface. Collating this from many drivers should show up where the worst potholes are and then target and get hem fixed. The tech is all in place. I do not recall an EU “directive” saying we should drive on the right. Driving on the left for all the Continental lorry drivers must be an infringement of “common rules”. Briefly, May is a remainer and no more wants the UK to leave the EU than did Cameron – hence the shambolic two years since the referendum. I have no truck with the mess she has created. We should abide by WTO rules, not EU rules, and treat each EU country individually. And recreate our own trading group: the Empire/Commonwealth. Biggles says: Creating a new trading bloc with other members of the commonwealth is an interesting idea, but I’m not sure that it could replace the trade deal that we are about to walk away from. I’ve had a quick look at IMF GDP figures for 2017 quoted on Wikipedia and I offer this as a rough idea. I might have messed up the sums, but hopefully I am not too far off. But I am not an economist and know nothing about trade, so if I am missing something I hope someone will explain where I am going wrong. The whole of the rest of the Commonwealth (so excluding the UK and Commonwealth countries that are in the EU) GDP probably equals less than 55% of that of the other 27 EU countries combined. Only three other Commonwealth countries are in the world top 25 by GDP – India, Canada and Australia. If you leave out the Commonwealth top 10 by GDP, then all the rest added together have a GDP about the same as Poland, which is 24th in the table. The point I am trying to make is that we are leaving a very wealthy market to which we currently have uninhibited access and it will be difficult to replace anything we lose when we go, even with a deal. I don’t think our old Commonwealth friends can fill the gap. We make and provide at the top end of the manufacturing and services industries and most of the countries in the Commonwealth are not in a position to buy very much of what we sell. And bear in mind that we already have a good trading deal with some of them through the EU. Then there is a another problem. This huge and wealthy EU market is more or less on our doorstep. Many of the Commonwealth countries are much further away and the standard analysis is that doubling the distance halves the trade, and it is even worse for services. See https://www.ft.com/content/964afa06-8f0b-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a923 I am not sure that the Commonwealth is the opportunity that you hope it could be. Do they let you out by yourself? This has become a somewhat toxic thread now, but honestly – “miles are better than kilometres” – “you’ll never take my feet and inches away” – “we’ll build a new global empire because we’re British”. In the same way we supposedly can’t do separate deals with countries because we are in the EU means others who are in the EU can’t do a separate deal with us! So we have to reach an agreement with the bloc – and we have a good one of those with a say in it at the moment. Does logic simply not exist in a Brexit world? I am wary of anyone who says “but honestly”. Or who mentions “logic”. The USA has not gone metric, I never said “miles are better than kilometres”, I’ve used both metric and imperial units for over six decades. Nor did I talk of “a global empire because we’re British” – but a trading bloc where we speak (largely) the same language, where we have a common history centuries old, as opposed to a few decades of the EEC/EC/EU. Think of what our joining the EEC did for Australia’s and New Zealand’s exports to the UK – when Edward Heath turned his back on the Commonwealth to join an organisation that did not want us, whose figurehead de Gaulle repeatedly rebuffed our joining. When we did join we were told it was a trading group, nothing about “ever closer union”. The result of the 1975 referendum was respected. Why is that of the 2016 one not? There is no “supposed” about what deals we can currently do with non-EU countries, or even with EU ones. Why should supposedly sovereign countries have to ask unelected Eurocrats permission to do anything? If logic is to be mentioned, where is the logic in one country having to do what 27 other countries decide it should do? The only toxicity I see is the poisoning of minds by those who prefer rule from Brussels to rule from Westminster. Hilton D says: Hear Hear Eric Hayman The result of the 2016 referendum is being respected. Legislation has been passed, A50 has been triggered and unless something happens to change events we will leave on 29 March. It also seems likely that the deal negotiated by Mrs May will be rejected so, again unless event change, we will leave without a deal which means WTO terms. Which is what you said you wanted. Your final paragraph confuses me. If we have joined a democratic union with rules that require majority decisions, then haven’t we agreed to participate in and abide by those majority decisions? You seem to want the majority decision reached in the referendum to be adhered to, so how can you disagree with EU majority voting? The result of the 2016 referendum was a shock to David Cameron – hence his standing down as PM; he never expected the majority of voters to vote Leave, thus the total lack of a Leave programme – and he engineered a Remainer to take over, creating two years of bickering and acquiescing to Brussels all the way along the line. If May’s “negotiated deal” is rejected, she has only herself to blame. She has failed to stand up for the UK because she is a Remainer, a vegan in a butcher’s shop. Hence the current shambles. I am sure with the right – pro-Leave – PM a pro-UK deal could have been obtained. And, as I have said, a deal involving the Commonwealth, which Heath did the dirty on all those years ago. A WTO deal is about the best we can now hope for. To call the EU “democratic” is to say the Communist “German Democratic Republic” was democratic. As for “If we have joined a democratic union”, we were told by Heath we were joining an “Economic Union”, and that was repeated in the 1975 referendum – nothing about open borders, loss of sovereignty, having to do what unelected Eurocrats told us to do, or majority voting. And at the time there was just a handful of Western European countries in the EEC. Now most of the continent of Europe to the borders of Asia wants to tell us how we should live in the UK. I doubt if W E Johns’s RAF pilot would have voted Remain. Eric, I think you are mistaken. I have no respect for Theresa May, but given the strain and the ordure and humiliation heaped upon her over the last two and a half years, are you really suggesting she has not worked, even if incompetently, for Brexit? Is there any evidence other than conspiracy theory to support that idea? How were we ever going to get a pro-UK deal? Why should we? There is no UK exceptionalism that requires the EU to give us a pro-UK deal: the EU looks after its members. As for a Commonwealth deal, I have previously pointed out some problems. Could you please explain why so many remote and economically tiny countries are an exciting prospect? Until March 29th we already have the best deal we can get. WTO terms aren’t the best we can hope for; they are the dismal default terms for a nation choosing to make its condition worse. “To call the EU “democratic” is to say the Communist “German Democratic Republic” was democratic.” That is clearly not the case. Are you really suggesting that a citizen of East Germany had as much meaningful democratic participation as a citizen of any other EU country at the time? If so, could you please point me towards the evidence? The first free elections in East Germany were not until 1990. The often reviled EU commission proposes new legislation but can only do so in areas where EU governments have unanimously agreed it can do so. That seems democratic to me and effectively gives any member country an initial veto. The 27 other countries aren’t telling us what to do any more than we are telling them. It is a consensus. And even then, a proposal – probably after much amendment – does not become law until it receives a qualified majority in the EU council and a simple majority in the elected EU parliament. If you care to read this article:- http://www.democraticaudit.com/2016/06/23/is-the-eu-really-run-by-unelected-bureaucrats/ The above and other EU democratic issues are explained more clearly than I can. It also suggests that the EU Commission has a much weaker position in the EU than the government has in the UK, so it is not overbearing. To be honest, I don’t have the depth of knowledge to properly critique the article, but if you do, please explain any errors. I’m not suggesting that the EU is a perfect democratic organisation and doubtless it could be improved. But whilst we proudly claim that we have the mother of parliaments, is the EU less democratic than our own sovereign parliament? Mrs May became PM as the unopposed candidate after the others had been knocked out by a vote of Conservative MPs, or had decided to withdraw. So she was unelected. Even when she went to a General Election in 2017 she was not able to obtain a majority. Although she is correctly the PM under our system, she does not have wide democratic support and to be honest, if there was a competent opposition leader, she would have gone long ago. Ministers in the UK are appointed by the PM and might not even be elected MPs. The House of Lords consists of 790 members, most of whom, were appointed. But whilst many are there on merit and usefully contribute, many others are political friends and donors who have no useful experience in government or as law makers, yet can still vote on legislation that tells us what to do. Then, of course, there are 92 hereditary peers and 26 Bishops, none of whom, in my opinion, should have any role in parliament. If the EU is less democratic than the former GDR, how does the UK compare? As for the fictional Biggles, well, who knows? But In Biggles Sweeps the Desert he offers the hand of friendship and trust twice to enemy combatants. Once he is cruelly rebuffed, but on another occasion his opposite number returns the favour. I think those are good signs. daveh says: Problem with roads in this country is the poor management of them by local councils and central government. It is also not just the roads, Bus deregulation is now coming apart at the seams with First having problems and DB looking at possibly selling Arriva. Trains are just as bad with lack of investment for many years now causing so many headaches in both the cost of upgrading and capacity. As with much of the UK we tear ourselves apart with short termism and bad management. The road behind my house was top dressed when there was not much wrong with the surface, while just around the corner the road service is appalling! There is too much tick boxing and bureaucrats sticking there nose in – I know I work for local government (not highways) and coming from the private industry it frustrates you hugely. Perhaps Deutsches Bahn could sell Arriva to the UK Government……. I read that Gatwick Airport is to be majority owned by a Spanish firm. Que? Ditch so-called ‘smart’ motorways which are downright dangerous. There have now been several cases of life-saving emergency services being delayed in attending accidents because the motorway is completely blocked. Cars cannot simply spring out of the way like Zebedees once traffic has stopped. Boiing! Oh, and abolish the M6 Toll… …and hurry up and build the Lower Thames Crossing. And… and… and… ChrisKK says: Give way text on motorway or trunk road entry slip roads like elsewhere. I think some drivers are unsure and panic while others don’t try to adjust speed and believe it’s their right to barge-in regardless. Yes, I know, it’s common sense to let someone in when it’s safe to do so. Diesel on roundabouts. Nothing against vans or HGVs in general, but it’s completely unnecessary and if it’s not wet, it’s hard to spot. This makes no odds to car drivers, but it still gets washed into drains. Speed limits. Disagree about raising them. 80 would become 90. Driving at 70 (in the right conditions) in the correct lane is not anti-social. I don’t care how powerful someone else’s car is. I don’t know why cars and bikes aren’t limited, or maybe I do. The same reason we did stuff-all against VW when it chose to intentionally cheat emissions tests. Road closures. I agree. Gather evidence by all means, but also make it someone’s pay-related target to open roads as quickly as possible. No HGV overtaking while climbing hills. Anyone who has has this misfortune on a two-lane motorway like the M50 will know; especially with another car two inches from the bumper or back wheel. Accept that our roads are over-crowded and learn some patience. It’s crap for all of us, but life’s easier if we share the space without ranting. Training. Maybe. I do a fair amount of bike training, but I’m not interested in getting ripped-off by another stealth tax. Finally, fines for anything that belches exhaust smoke or fumes over adjacent footpaths or other road users. Oh, that would require people rather than cameras. I haven’t logged-in for a while because I like reading about cars rather than politics when I get a spare minute. I can watch BBC/ITV if the day comes when that’s preferable to a dose of the squits. Back to MCN then. 14 January 2019 at 1.12 am Thank you, Biggles, for you reply. As Sir Christopher Chope, a local MP, said at the meeting some two hundred or more people attended on Saturday, we can walk away without the deal Theresa May is trying to force on the country. And we can have a WTO terms deal instead. In 2007, WTO member states represented 96.4% of global trade and 96.7% of global GDP. When Cameron ducked out of the consequences of the Leave vote – one he never expected, and so had nothing in place to deal with – May, for whatever reason, became PM. I suspect it was a prize she could not turn down, and that it was agreed she would go through the Leave motions while keeping the UK tied to the EU in as many ways as possible. Re “How were we ever going to get a pro-UK deal?”, the answer was with a pro-Brexit PM. As to “Why should we?” because we have been a major contributor to the EEC/EC/EU throughout our membership, and that deserves recognition. Regarding re-establishing our links with the Commonwealth, what does any country need to survive? Supplies of food and raw materials, proper defence forces, trading partners on fair terms, markets for its goods. As for “why so many remote and economically tiny countries are an exciting prospect?”, the last thing I want with trading partners is “an exciting prospect”. Is Canada economically tiny? Or Australia? Or India? Or even Singapore? As for being “remote”, with containerisation, the distance goods need to be transported is one of the smallest parts of their cost. If the WTO terms are “dismal”, why are countries from Australia to the USA members? In “To call the EU ‘democratic’ is to say the Communist ‘German Democratic Republic’ was democratic”, I was saying that the EU is not democratic. Yes, there are certain majority vote procedures, but the unknown Eurocrats of Brussels are the people who dream up the steps to “ever-closer union”. And those steps result in more Communitaire law. Between 1994 and 2015 the EU’s own Court of Auditors found “material errors” in the accounts for every one of those years. That is when over 2% of payments contained errors. In 2016 “it did find that 3.1% of EU spending was subject to error. This is slightly lower than in previous years”. And those are the sort of people to whom we should be handing over UK taxpayers’ money? Imagine not being able to account accurately for £3 in every hundred of a business you are running. HMRC would love you. The way the 1975 referendum held back important information for that ‘people’s vote’ on staying or leaving was certainly not democratic. Wilson was told about – and brushed aside – the destruction of UK trade with the Commonwealth. To say we have “our own sovereign parliament”, when it can be and has been over-ruled by EU legislators – to which our Europhilic MPs have handed that power – is to turn the word sovereign on its head. As for how May became PM, it was still her choice. She could have said No – but she chose to say Yes. I do not see how anyone with any honour or morals can vote Remain and then choose to take on the job of the UK leaving the EU. As I said above, she has just been going through the motions. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”. I’d like to see May’s Equity card! The current House of Lords is a joke, with close on 800 members, and rising. It has become the automatic well paid cushy billet for anyone in favour, political or otherwise. Speaker Bercow will be there some day soon. What is needed is an alternative view on parliamentary matters, something that did exist back in the hereditary days. Not now though. As for how democratic is the UK, I have long said the word democracy has been misused for ages. Perhaps the Greeks had true democracy, when those entitled to vote did so directly. All we have is elective oligarchies, where we cannot even choose “None of the above”. I smiled at the example you gave of Biggles being rebuffed and being thanked. Think of de Gaulle’s rebuffs time and again. But still he was crawled to. As for us being done a favour by letting us eventually join the then EEC, what a poisoned chalice that has proved to be. The roads in West Cumbria are a disgrace. The A595 has to go through the suburbs of Whitehaven and is frequently nose to tail at peak times, and if a pair of temporary traffic lights appear for roadworks, then huge tailbacks appear. Also the A597 through south Workington has become very congested due to new housing estates. Both places desperately need to be by passed, but a plan to by pass south Workington was put on hold during the recession and a Whitehaven relief road is several years away. Blog : With the changing of the season… by Keith Adams in Opinion 53 Keith Adams It’s been just over a week since the clocks changed over, and it looks like the population of the fragrant East Midlands of England has still to adjust to the fact. Okay, so [...]	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1416
__label__cc	0.569517	0.430483	Current Rankings - The top 10 Asian Super Featherweight After doing a few really interesting divisions in this series we then come to a jumbled mess at Super Featherweight. The division is almost entirely dominated by the mess of Japanese fighters, who have sort of proven themselves capable, and probably would make for a brilliant round robin. The top few guys stand out, but the rest sort of match each other out, a bit too well 1-Masayuki Ito (26-2-1, 14) Former WBO Super Featherweight world champion Masayuki Ito had a 2019 to forget, losing the WBO title in May, to Jamel Herring, and then taking a TKO over Ruben Manakane but suffering a nasty looking injury in the bout. His lack of fortune seemed o continue this year, when he had to pull out of a bout in China, before other issues saw the card he was supposed to be on being cancelled all together. Ito is a talented boxer who proved his ability in 2018, with wins over Christopher Diaz and Evgeny Chuprakov, but did look very limited against Herring. It's going to be interesting to see how he bounces back, and we suspect he'll be looking to face some southpaws in the near future, as he didn't appear to ever understand Herring's stance and movement when they fought. 2-Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov (15-0, 12) Russian based Tajik Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov is currently in the running for an IBF title fight, after beating Azinga Fuzile back in September 2019. That win was marred with some controversy, in regards to some drug issues, but stands. Although it'd be hard to see him beating Jo Jo Diaz that bout is an interesting one and would be a very, very exciting one if it took place. Aggressive, heavy handed, tough and with an impressive will to win Rakhimov is a nightmare to fight, despite some technical flaws. He's not the quickest or the smoothest, but he's probably the deadliest in this top 10, as wins over Fuzile, Robinson Castellanos and Malcolm Klassen have shown. Very much the under-rated dangerman of the division. 3-Kenichi Ogawa (24-1-1-1, 18) Former Japanese national champion Kenichi Ogawa is best known his controversial bout against Tevin Farmer in 2017. That bout ended with Ogawa being crowned the IBF Super Featherweight champion then being stripped for a failed drug test. Whilst there are still unanswered question about the test he served a year ban and was actually out of the ring for almost 14 months before finally returning last year. After two low key wins he had a technical draw with Joe Noynay, in a messy bout for the WBO Asia Pacific title. We expect to see Ogawa back in big bouts in the near future and the 32 year old from the Teiken gym certainly still has time left in his career, but will need to move fast when boxing returns later in the year. 4-Joe Noynay (18-2-2, 7) Filipino fighter Joe Noynay Had a fantastic few months in 2019, stopping both Kosuke Saka and Satoshi Shimizu, before ending the year with the aforementioned technical draw against Kenichi Ogawa, in what really was a messy, dirty accidental foul filled war. Although not a puncher, as such, he looked really destructive against Saka and Shimizu and has been impressive since losing to Reiya Abe more than 3 years ago. At 24 years old the talented southpaw is one to keep an eye on, and is only behind Ogawa on the basis the depth of the two men's records. We would favour Ogawa, marginally, in a rematch but given the mess of their first bout we're not in a rush to see them face off again. 5-Hironori Mishiro (9-0-1, 3) Rushing through the rankings has been 25 year old boxer Hiironori Mishiro, who has proven he can box and brawl, when he needs to. Mishiro won the OPBF title in his 6th professional bout and has since made 4 defenses of the title, including a draw against Masaru Sueyoshi and victories over Takuya Watanabe and Yoshimitsu Kimura. Although not the most powerful Mishiro is well schooled, a very smooth boxer with excellent movement and skills. He's proven he can turn things around and brawl, as he did against Sueyoshi. Sadly Mishiro does look like he lacks some real killer instinct, and that could be a major problem when he moves from regional level to world class. As well as his lack of killer instincts there is also question marks about his punching power, but so far his achievements have been impressive. 6-Kosuke Saka (20-5, 17) Few fighters had the rollercoaster year that Kosuke Saka had in 2019. He was stopped in 2 rounds in April, by Joe Noynay, in what was considered a real set back, scored a low key nothing win against Indonesian journeyman Isack Junior in September and then ended the year by smashing Masaru Sueyoshi to claim the Japanese Super Featherweight title with his best win to date. Saka, at his best, is a nightmare to face and he looked at his absolute best when he beat Sueyoshi. That was the sort of performance that put the division on notice and was his most impressive win since he stopped Shota Hayashi, back in April 2017. Saka is dangerous, but a flawed glass cannon. He'll be in some great fights, win or lose. 7-Takuya Watanabe (37-9-1, 21) With 9 losses in 47 bouts Takuya Watanabe doesn't look like a fantastic fighter, but boy is his record misleading. He's certainly not a world beater, but on the regional scene not many fighters will beat him without needing to answer serious questions. He's technically a very solid fighter, despite not being the quickest, most powerful or sharpest punching. What he is, is very physically strong and powerful, incredibly tough and has a solid gas tank. Despite his 9 losses he has never been stopped, and that was despite his blood bath in South Korea with Jaesung Lee which saw Watanabe give the Gwanakgu Hall in Seoul a serious donation of claret. Watanabe has lost to some men on this list, notably Masayuki Ito and Hironori Mishiro, but he made both men work for their wins. Most recently he was seen beating Taiki Minamoto to set up a mouth watering showdown with Kosuke Saka, though we may need to wait until 2021 for that bout given the current climate. 8-Yoshimitsu Kimura (12-2, 7) Having previously lost to Hironori Mishiro and Richard Pumicpic, who is in our Featherweight rankings, the case may be that Yoshimitsu Kimura is too highly ranked here, but in reality he pushed Mishiro all the way in December and is very much a fighter developing rapidly. Aged just 23 he had matured fantastically into a Super Featherweight, after winning the 2016 All Japan Rookie of the Year at Featherweight. In the coming year we expect to see Kimura really climb up these rankings, and he may well be among the best kept secrets in the division. Don't be fooled by his two losses, they were very competitive, and great learning experiences for the youngster who is going to be a key player in the next few years. 9-Masaru Sueyoshi (19-2-1, 11) Former Japanese national champion Maasaru Sueyoshi rounds out the Japanese fighters in these rankings, though the reality is that he could probably beat some of the ones above him, and did draw with Mishiro. Despite being, head to head, better than some of the guys above we really can't put him higher than Saka, due to Saka's victory over him, and Watanabe and Kimura both looked better than he did last time out. Sueyoshi is a very good technical fighter, he controls distance, tempo and timing well, but lacks real power and struggles with the physical side of the sport. Saka really bullied him, showing no respect to Sueyoshi's power, and we suspect many of those ranked higher up this list would now do the same with that tactic being shown to work against the 29 year old Teiken fighter. 10-Stanislav Kalitskiy (10-0, 3) As well as all the Japanese talent "clogging" up the division there are some interesting fighters emerging from Central Europe. Among those is the unbeaten 22 year old Stanislav Kalitskiy, who is based in Russia. The talented Kalitskiy lacks power, with only 3 stoppages in his 10 bouts, but has stepped up his competition well and a January win over Alan Isaias Luques Castillo is worthy of note. It'll be interesting to see what RCC have planned for him, but we suspect it's going to be a long, hard slog for him going forward. He is simply too early in his career, and lacks the power, to let him off the leash any time soon. On the bubble: Taiki Minamoto, Akzhol Sulaimanbek Uulu, Sultan Zaurbek, Nurtas Azhbenov and Xiang Li	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1422
__label__cc	0.607507	0.392493	Nine Reasons To Choose Us Dram Shop Act Insurance Bad Faith Claims RSD Cases AZ Law Updates U.S. Supreme Court Cases Injury Illustrations Insurance—Damron & Morris Agreements—Issue Preclusion in Coverage Case Quihuis v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 697 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 23 (October 1, 2014) (J. Pelander) INSURER HAS RIGHT TO LITIGATE COVERAGE DESPITE DAMRON OR MORRIS AGREEMENT BUT MAY NOT RELITIGATE LIABILITY FACTS IN GUISE OF COVERAGE QUESTION In this case the 9th Circuit certified to the Arizona Supreme Court the question of whether or not facts stipulated to in a default judgment on liability and damages are binding upon an insured in a subsequent coverage action. Carol Cox, insured by defendant State Farm, sold her Jeep to a coworker who bought it for her daughter. However the purchase involved eight monthly installment payments of $3,000 so Cox gave possession of the car to the coworker but held onto the title as security. The coworker's daughter was sued for negligent driving and the Coxes for negligent entrustment. State Farm refused to defend Cox claiming the car in question was no longer owned by her. She, the coworker's daughter and the injured plaintiff then entered into a Damron agreement whereby it was stipulated the daughter was not competent to drive, that Cox knew this and that it was negligent of Cox to entrust the vehicle to her and further that Cox was the owner of the car at the time of the accident. The parties further stipulated to damages of $275,000.The parties agreed to allow a default judgment be entered, Cox assigned her rights against State Farm to the plaintiff and plaintiff agreed not to execute the judgment against Cox. The trial court rendered a $350,000 default judgment. Plaintiffs then brought a declaratory relief action against State Farm alleging it had failed to defend and was liable to pay the judgment. State Farm removed the case to federal court. The federal district court granted the insurer State Farm summary judgment finding that State Farm was not precluded from litigating the coverage question despite the stipulation and default judgment and that Cox was not the owner of the Jeep as a matter of law and therefore State Farm was not obligated to satisfy the judgment. Plaintiff appealed and the 9th Circuit certified the question. The Arizona Supreme Court relied upon Restatement §58 in finding that facts necessarily determined in establishing the existence and extent of liability in the underlying action could not be relitigated in the coverage action because: “(1) the Coxes' insurance policy imposed on State Farm both an indemnity and a defense obligation; (2) the [plaintiffs'] complaint involved a claim that "might be within the scope of [State Farm's] indemnity obligation"; (3) the Coxes gave State Farm reasonable notice of the [plaintiffs'] lawsuit, thereby providing State Farm with "an opportunity to assume [the Coxes'] defense"; and (4) "a judgment" was entered in favor of the [plaintiffs] and against the Coxes.” However, when there is a “conflict of interest” between the insured and insurer regarding a factual determination bearing upon coverage and liability, an insurer may later litigate that issue in disputing coverage as long as it was not "determined in the action" through actual litigation. “Just as a settlement agreement ‘should not be used to obtain coverage that the insured did not purchase,' nor should the choice of allegations in a complaint.” This is true even where the insurer has refused to defend the action. In Arizona there is no “absolute” duty to defend and even where the facts alleged in the complaint would create coverage, facts known to exist may support the insurer's denial of coverage and refusal to defend as well as its right to litigate coverage. Because the ownership question was part of a stipulation and not actually litigated and determined by a fact finder, the insurer was entitled to litigate ownership in the coverage action. Finally, the court found that a failure to defend does nonetheless have potential serious consequences to an insurer including issue preclusion on the extent of liability and amount of damages at least up to policy limits if not beyond where bad faith is proven. Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian is one of the most experienced, successful personal injury law firms in the Tucson area. Established in 1995, our firm has a long history of success, as seen in our many victories. 1790 East River Road Copyright © 2021 Schmidt, Sethi & Akmajian	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1423
__label__cc	0.633492	0.366508	Zoodles for Android brings kid-friendly mobile Flash gaming Ali Fazel All you Android-toting parents out there will be pleased to know that Zoodles Kid Mode is now available for Android. Zoodles is a program that puts your phone into a "kid mode" for peace of mind while your child uses your phone or PC. Once you load up the app, the phone is soft-locked into the app so that it takes a little more than a random keypress to get out of the app. It won't stop your child from exiting the app if they really want to, but with plenty of Flash games and videos that can be customized as favorites for each of your children, there's no reason for your little one to want to. The app gives spoken as well as visual directions, and is easy to navigate, so this is a perfect companion for your child while waiting at the doctor's office or while on a long car trip. It's available in the Market now, so be sure to check this one out. Presser after the break. Free Zoodles App Puts Android Phones Into “Kid Mode” Young Kids Enter a World of Fun, Educational Games and Videos while their Parent’s Device is Protected MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – Zoodles, the company that puts devices into “Kid Mode” so kids eight and under can play and learn independently, today launched its free app for Android smartphones. Within the Zoodles Kid Mode app for Android, kids get hundreds of educational games, videos and puzzles to choose from, all for free. At the same time, Zoodles protects a parent’s phone by safely locking the child into the app, so they cannot accidentally make calls, erase emails, or get into other apps. Because kids have hundreds of activities to choose from, they never get bored. Zoodles has been conducting private beta testing of the app and has received positive reviews from early users. Samantha, a real mom and early tester of Zoodles Kid Mode wrote in her review, “My three and a half year old LOVES this app! He's always asking for my phone since I downloaded this! It’s awesome! It’s so easy for a child to navigate!” Like its award-winning computer app, Zoodles’ mobile app intelligently adapts content to each child based on age, skills, the device they are using, and custom parental controls so they can play without needing help from an adult. For example, if a child is not yet able to read, Zoodles will only present content where no reading is required. All games for each age – 1 to 8 – have been played start-to-finish and approved by Zoodles’ team of education experts. “With the massive adoption of Android smartphones, parents everywhere want to safely hand over their phones during those moments when a child needs to be entertained,” said Mark Williamson, CEO and co-founder of Zoodles. “Kids have played more than one million hours on the computer with Zoodles, and we’re thrilled to extend that momentum to the mobile environment, where parents often need help most. Because the latest Android phones run Flash – the leading format for the vast majority of kids games on the web – we’re able to pull hundreds of the best educational games into one free app. It’s something nobody else is doing.” How Zoodles for Android Works Zoodles for Android allows users to create an account, or log in using an existing account. No additional set-up is required on the parent’s part. Once the app is launched, a child logs in by tapping their picture (no reading required), and selects from a scrolling menu of activities. Zoodles automatically recognizes the Android device and presents the right content for that phone. For example, Android users with Flash installed will have access to games built in Flash, plus videos and more. For those without Flash, Zoodles will offer fun, educational videos and other non-Flash content. For families who have an existing Zoodles account, any Parent Dashboard (a premium service) settings will transfer automatically to the mobile browser upon the initial log in. For example, if a parent has blocked certain branded characters or promoted an educational subject like math or reading, those settings will follow the family’s mobile account. A child’s activity in Zoodles for Android will be reflected in the weekly progress report. Zoodles apps are always free to download, and for families who would like to try Zoodles Premium services, a free 14 day trial is available at www.zoodles.com. Kids old enough to start playing games? Why not check out these titles. If you're looking for some games to either play with the family or trust your kids to play on their own, you've come to the right place! Check out these awesome titles!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1430
__label__wiki	0.9522	0.9522	Jan 18 Sony Removes Previously Revealed Release Windows for Project Athia , Pragmata , Ghostwire: Tokyo Games Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy Game's Prologue Video Streamed posted on 2020-11-27 15:00 EST by Jennifer Sherman Game launches for PS4, PS5, Switch in winter Koei Tecmo America began streaming a prologue movie for Gust's Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy game on Thursday. The video highlights the previous game and also includes new footage. The game will launch in Japan on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch on December 3. The game will then launch on PC via Steam on January 26. The game's PS5 version will be a digital release as its physical edition has been canceled. The game will launch in North America on January 26 for PS4, Switch, PC via Steam, and digitally for PS5. The game will launch in Europe on January 29. The sequel is set three years after Koei Tecmo Games' Gust brand's Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout ( Ryza no Atelier ~Tokoyami no Joō to Himitsu no Kakurega~ ) game. In the story, Ryza travels to the Royal Capital of Ashra-am Baird and explores ancient ruins to uncover the mystery of lost legends. She can learn new skills such as the ability to swim. Clammbon perform the game's theme song "Somewhen, Somewhere…" Koei Tecmo America describes the game: Throughout her journey, Ryza will once again be joined by her fun-loving group of mischievous friends. The first of these old companions confirmed for Ryza 2 is Klaudia. The only daughter of a merchant family, Klaudia has been working in the Royal Capital, but all the while, thinking back to the adventure she had with Ryza three years prior. Klaudia still has the desire to live a more exciting life, and now finds her fate once again intertwined with Ryza as they regroup inside the Royal Capital. Also joining Ryza this time around is a mysterious creature known as Fi. The creature doesn't speak, but is very expressive and full of emotion, bonding quickly with Ryza while helping her seek answers to the true meaning of the lost legends. Those who purchase the game during the first two weeks of release will receive a code for the Summer Fashion Costume Set. Players who have save data from the previous game will be able to unlock the Classic Costume Set. Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout launched for PS4, Switch, and PC via Steam in North America in October 2019. The game launched in Europe in November 2019, and in Japan in September 2019. Source: Koei Tecmo America's YouTube channel via Siliconera	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1431
__label__wiki	0.874597	0.874597	Fusion Energy This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications. Nuclear News Weekly Power & Operations Research & Applications Radwaste Solutions ANS News ANS Nuclear Cafe Nuclear Policy Wire Notes and Deadlines ANS Executive Committee ardp Fuel innovation: Powering nuclear modernization Nuclear NewsResearch & Applications January 18, 2021, 9:35AM\|Ben Holtzman Today’s U.S. commercial nuclear power plants are fueled with uranium dioxide pressed into cylindrical ceramic pellets—and have been for decades. These pellets are stacked inside long fuel rods made of a zirconium alloy cladding. Innovation in nuclear fuel, however, can improve safety, reduce operating costs, and further enable the development of a new generation of non-light-water reactors. To continue reading, log in or create a free account! Holtec SMR could be built at Oyster Creek site ANS NewsPower & Operations January 11, 2021, 3:00PM\|ANS News Staff The site of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township, N.J., could be the location for Holtec International’s SMR-160 small modular reactor, according to an AP News story published last week. ARDP investment: Holtec received $147.5 million in Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program funding to demonstrate its SMR design. Company spokesperson Joe Delmar said, “As part of our application to the Department of Energy for its advanced reactor demonstration program, we expressed interest in possibly locating an SMR-160 small modular reactor at the Oyster Creek decommissioning site in the future. This concept is only preliminary and something we would likely discuss with Lacey Township and the community if plans to locate (the reactor) at Oyster Creek evolve.” ardpholtecoyster creeksierra clubsmr The year in review 2020: Research and Applications January 8, 2021, 11:59AM\|Nuclear News Staff Here is a look back at the top stories of 2020 from our Research and Applications section in Newswire and Nuclear News magazine. Remember to check back to Newswire soon for more top stories from 2020. Research and Applications section ARDP picks divergent technologies in Natrium, Xe-100: Is nuclear’s future taking shape? The Department of Energy has put two reactor designs—TerraPower’s Natrium and X-energy’s Xe-100—on a fast track to commercialization, each with an initial $80 million in 50-50 cost-shared funds awarded through the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. Read more. arc-20ardpcore powercovid-19doefesacfusioniaeamarsmicroreactornasanatrium xe-100plasmaversatile test reactor ARC-20 cost-share funds go to ARC Nuclear, General Atomics, and MIT December 23, 2020, 7:00AM\|Nuclear News Staff Designs chosen for ARC-20 support could be commercialized in the mid-2030s. Graphic: DOE The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) has named the recipients of $20 million in Fiscal Year 2020 awards for Advanced Reactor Concepts–20 (ARC-20), the third of three programs under its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). The three selected teams—from Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, General Atomics, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—will share the allocated FY20 funding for ARC-20 and bring the total number of projects funded through ARDP to 10. DOE-NE announced the news on December 22. The DOE expects to invest a total of about $56 million in ARC-20 over four years, with industry partners providing at least 20 percent in matching funds. The ARDP funding opportunity announcement, issued in May 2020, included ARC-20 awards, Advanced Reactor Demonstration awards, and Risk Reduction for Future Demonstration awards. advanced reactor conceptsadvanced reactorsarc-20ardpgeneral atomicsmit Congress set to pass year-end funding bill December 22, 2020, 12:08PM\|Nuclear News Staff The final text of the approximately 5,600-page Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 was released on December 22. While the timing of final passage is still fluid, the Senate was expected to approve it and send it on to President Trump to sign into law, according to John Starkey, American Nuclear Society government relations director. Below are some key funding highlights from the legislation pertaining to nuclear energy. ardpdefensedivision zdoddoeenrichmentfundinghaleulwrsmobile micro reactor strategynnsanrcsmrtrisouranium Advanced reactors take center stage in Popular Mechanics ANS Nuclear CafeResearch & Applications December 17, 2020, 6:59AM\|ANS Nuclear Cafe The January/February 2021 issue of Popular Mechanics hit subscriber mailboxes this week with a stark cover image of a single small reactor under the headline, “Tiny nuclear reactors are about to revolutionize American energy.” The story looks at advanced reactors as a pivotal step to “redeem nuclear’s stature in American energy.” A good primer: The article does a good job introducing the casual reader to the idea that “bigger is no longer better” and that the future of nuclear power in the United States will most likely be “a combination of traditional large plants and smaller, safer megawatt reactors.” Advanced reactors, including small modular reactors, show that nuclear is no longer a one-size-fits-all operation, the article notes. The industry now “is all about personalization,” says Ken Canavan, Westinghouse’s chief technical officer, who is quoted in the article. The capacity and scalability of SMRs “is just irreplaceable,” he adds. The article explains that SMRs, microreactors, and other advanced reactor designs will be able to bring reliable, carbon-free power to small or remote locations, replacing fossil fuel power plants and supplementing the “resource-sucking downtimes left by renewables.” advanced reactorsardpnuscaleoklopopular mechanicssmrsusncwestinghouse Five advanced reactor designs get DOE risk reduction funding December 16, 2020, 3:00PM\|Nuclear News Staff The Department of Energy today announced $30 million in initial fiscal year 2020 funding—with the expectation of more over the next seven years—for five companies selected for risk reduction for future demonstration projects. The chosen reactor designs from Kairos Power, Westinghouse, BWX Technologies, Holtec, and Southern Company collectively represent a range of coolants, fuel forms, and sizes—from tiny microreactors to a molten salt reactor topping 1,000 MWe. They were selected for cost-shared partnerships under the Office of Nuclear Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) through a funding opportunity announcement issued in May 2020. “All of these projects will put the U.S. on an accelerated timeline to domestically and globally deploy advanced nuclear reactors that will enhance safety and be affordable to construct and operate,” said Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette. “Taking leadership in advanced technology is so important to the country’s future, because nuclear energy plays such a key role in our clean energy strategy.” advanced reactorsardpbwxtdoedoe-neholteckairos powerrisk reductionsouthern companywestinghouse Core Power thinks nuclear will make waves in commercial shipping Nuclear NewsTransportation November 5, 2020, 9:40AM\|Nuclear News Staff Illustration of Core Power’s modular MSR concept. Image: Core Power Core Power is a tiny startup that is bullish on the prospects for nuclear-powered ocean transportation. The company announced on November 2 that it is part of a team that has applied for a cost-shared award from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) to build a prototype molten salt reactor (MSR). Core Power believes that MSRs could be used for propulsion or electricity generation to decarbonize the world’s commercial shipping fleet. Based in London, England, Core Power is the only non-U.S. member of the team, which includes TerraPower, Southern Company, and Orano USA. As a marine engineering firm, Core Power says that it offers its ARDP partners “access to pent-up demand from a market with real customers.” An announcement of ARDP “risk reduction for future demonstrations” award winners is expected in December. ardpcore powerdoefloating reactorsmolten salt reactororanoshippingsouthern companyterrapowertransportation It’s time for the United States to demonstrate advanced reactors ANS Nuclear CafePower & Operations October 16, 2020, 9:04AM\|Rita Baranwal After talking about it for decades, the United States is finally ready to take the next step in demonstrating advanced reactor technologies. We have the bipartisan support from Congress. We have the best innovators in the world. Now it’s time to see what U.S. nuclear companies can really do with the support and resources of the federal government. The U.S. Department of Energy is all in on new nuclear technologies and we just made our boldest move yet—selecting and supporting two U.S. reactor designs that will be fully operational within the next 7 years. After evaluating the competitive U.S. reactor design applications that were submitted to our new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program funding opportunity announcement, TerraPower LLC and X-energy were awarded $160 million in initial funding to test, license, and build their advanced reactors under this aggressive timeframe. Pending future appropriations by Congress, the DOE will invest $3.2 billion over 7 years in these projects that will be matched by the industry teams. advanced reactorsardpgen-ivterrapoweru.s. doex-energy ARDP picks divergent technologies in Natrium, Xe-100: Is nuclear’s future taking shape? October 14, 2020, 7:21AM\|Nuclear News Staff The Department of Energy has put two reactor designs—TerraPower’s Natrium and X-energy’s Xe-100—on a fast track to commercialization, each with an initial $80 million in 50-50 cost-shared funds awarded through the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). In all, the DOE plans to invest $3.2 billion—with matching funds from industry—over the seven-year demonstration program, subject to future appropriations. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette announced the awards late in the day on October 13 in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and said, “These awards are a critical first step of a program that will strengthen our nation’s nuclear energy and technological competitiveness abroad, and position our domestic industry for growth, for increased job creation, and for even more investment opportunity. It’s absolutely vital that we make progress on this technology now.” ANS congratulates DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstration awardees October 13, 2020, 5:59PM\|ANS Staff The American Nuclear Society congratulates TerraPower and X-energy for being chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to participate in the cost-sharing Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). DOE is ready to announce ARDP demo awards The Department of Energy has selected the recipients of cost-shared funding for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) and has notified Congress of the selection, the DOE press staff indicated by tweet on October 8. A public announcement of the recipients is expected this week. Reactor designers and others looking to invest in advanced nuclear technology had until August 19 to apply through a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) announced in May, which included $160 million in initial funds to build two reactors within the next five to seven years. Applicants were encouraged to connect with other advanced reactor stakeholders—including technology developers, reactor vendors, fuel manufacturers, utilities, supply chain vendors, contractors, and universities—through the ARDP FOA Collaboration Hub and apply as a team. This means that the DOE’s selection of a particular reactor design stands to benefit more than just the team behind the reactor’s initial design. ardpdoeinl House committee marks up Energy and Water Development bill July 14, 2020, 2:52PM\|Nuclear News Staff The House Appropriations Committee held its full committee markup of the Energy and Water Development bill on July 13. (The Bill Report provides a more detailed funding breakdown.) The final bill passed the committee by a party line vote of 30-21. No schedule for Floor consideration of the bill has been set, but it is likely to happen next week or the week after. ardpatfdoeenergy and water development billfy 2021house appropriations committeenrcsmrtrisoused fuelvtr DOE issues FOA for advanced reactor demos Nuclear NewsPower & Operations May 18, 2020, 2:17PM\|Nuclear News Staff Reactor designers and others ready to invest in advanced nuclear technology now have a defined route to apply for cost-share funding, including $160 million in initial funding to build two reactors within the next five to seven years. On May 14, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for the new Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). advanced reactorsardpdoefoainlnric Department of Energy launches $230 million Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program Nuclear Policy WireResearch & Applications Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the launch of the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) within the Office of Nuclear Energy. ARDP is designed to help domestic private industry demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors in the U.S. advanced reactorsardpdoenational reactor innovation centerrita baranwal	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1432
__label__wiki	0.763697	0.763697	Knife Creek By: Paul Doiron Narrated by: Henry Leyva Series: Mike Bowditch Mysteries, Book 8 Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery 4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (381 ratings) When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is beautiful, damaged, and hiding a secret with a link to his past. She claims her son, Adam, is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort. She also claims that Adam Langstrom is the illegitimate son of Jack Bowditch, Mike's dead and diabolical father. He is the half brother Mike never knew he had. Never attempt a Maine accent!! By Jill Lectka on 07-13-16 Stay Hidden A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly promoted Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, the case seems open and shut. But as soon as he arrives on remote Maquoit Island he discovers mysteries piling up one on top of the other. The hunter now claims he didn’t fire the fatal shot and the ballistic evidence proves he’s telling the truth. Bowditch begins to suspect the secretive community might be covering up the identity of whoever killed Ariel Evans. Another riveting story from Maine's mystery master By Nancy Marshall on 07-03-18 Narrated by: Henry Levya When two young female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness - the most remote stretch along the entire 2,000 mile Appalachian Trail - Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the search to find them. The police interview everyone they can find who came in contact with the college students and learn that the women were lovers who had been keeping their relationship secret from their Evangelical parents in Georgia. By TKW on 01-04-19 The Bone Orchard Mike Bowditch, Book 5 In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a troubled war veteran in an apparent case of “suicide by cop,” he begins having second thoughts about his decision. Now Kathy finds herself the target of a government inquiry and outrage from the dead soldier’s platoon mates. Soon she finds herself in the sights of a sniper, as well. Misinformed about wild turkeys Mike Bowditch Series, Book 10 Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch already has a troubling mystery on his hands: finding the archer who mortally wounded Maine’s only wild wolf. Then he learns his best friend, Billy Cronk, has been released from prison after heroically defending a female guard from a stabbing. Mike comes to believe the assault was orchestrated by a wider criminal conspiracy. When the conspirators pursue Billy's wife and children to a “safe" cabin in the woods, Mike rushes to their defense only to find himself outnumbered, outgunned - and maybe out of options. By shelley on 07-04-19 Massacre Pond Edgar finalist Paul Doiron's new novel featuring Game Warden Mike Bowditch. On an unseasonably hot October morning, Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the corpses of seven moose have been found senselessly butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Morse, a wealthy animal rights activist who is buying up huge parcels of timberland to create a new national park. What at first seems like mindless slaughter - retribution by locals for the job losses Morse's plan is causing in the region - becomes far more sinister when a shocking murder is discovered. By Michelle on 04-10-20 A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch accompanies his old friend and mentor, retired bush pilot Charley Stevens, as he pays a visit to a mysterious woman, the widow of a Vietnam vet, living in isolation in the Maine wilderness. Many years earlier, she had called Charley, then a young game warden himself, for help. She claimed that her badly bleeding husband had been attacked by a rabid bat. But in the succeeding days, despite her husband's increasingly erratic and aggressive behavior, his wife resisted Charley's attempts to help, arousing his suspicions that more was going on than met the eye. By AmazonCustomer Robert/Connie on 07-27-20 Bad Little Falls A Mike Bowditch Mystery, Book 3 Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile, transferred by his superiors to a remote outpost on the Canadian border. When a blizzard descends on the coast, Bowditch is called to the cabin of a terrified couple. A raving, half-frozen man has appeared at their door, claiming his friend is lost in the storm. But what starts as a rescue mission in soon becomes a baffling murder investigation. The dead man is a notorious drug dealer, and state police detectives suspect it was his friend who killed him. Bowditch isn’t so sure, but his vow not to interfere in the case is tested when he finds himself powerfully attracted to a beautiful woman.... Mystery in the wilds of Downeast Maine By R. Faucher on 08-12-12 One Last Lie The disappearance of Mike Bowditch’s beloved mentor reveals an ominous connection to a 15-year-old cold case in One Last Lie, the new thriller from best-selling Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron. Fast paced and suspenseful... The Bear Trap Legendary Maine woodsman and bush pilot Charley Stevens tries to convince young Mike Bowditch of the dangers awaiting rookie game wardens. The bear trap, "the lost of one credit trap" By Lorette C on 07-27-19 In Paul Doiron’s riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award-nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch’s quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before. If you can't do an accent well, just DON'T Poacher's Son Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive - his own father. Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father, Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: They are searching for the man who killed a beloved local cop the night before - and his father is their prime suspect. Very good writer - By S. on 10-02-15 When the body of a young man is pulled from a submerged car in Roque Harbor, rookie Game Warden Mike Bowditch is shocked when the man’s driver’s license identifies him as none other than...Mike Bowditch. For weeks, Mike and his colleagues have been fielding reports of a man terrorizing the locals while posing as a game warden, wielding a plastic pin-on badge and claiming to be “Warden Bowditch”. Who is the imposter, and how did he end up dead in the bottom of a harbor? Mike must uncover the truth in order to clear his own name. Another great short story By Jeremy Leclair on 12-05-20 The Bangtail Ghost By: Keith McCafferty Narrated by: Rick Holmes In Montana's Gravelly Range, paw prints and a single whisker discovered at a scene of horrific violence suggest a woman has been attacked and carried away by a mountain lion. Sheriff Martha Ettinger employs her fiancé, sometimes-detective Sean Stranahan, to put a name to the gnawed bones comprising all that is left of the body. The woman's is the first of several deaths that Sean suspects are not as easily explained as they appear. Awesome, as usual. By Mb4pax on 09-01-20 Big Sky Series, Book 3 By: Kwen D. Griffeth Narrated by: Paul J. McSorley Bobby Trent, the tough-as-nails sheriff of Lodge Pole County, is surprised when his blood brother Lucas Blackwater, chief of police of the neighboring Cheyenne reservation, asks him to help escort a prisoner from Seattle back to the reservation. On the flight home, their chartered plane crashes in the mountains, killing the pilot and breaking Lucas' ankle. A modern day cowboy By Rayc on 10-31-20 The Weight of Night A Novel of Suspense By: Christine Carbo Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen, R.C. Bray In a land sculpted by glaciers, the forest is on fire. Thick smoke chokes the mountain air and casts a twilight glow over the imposing mountains and vistas of Montana's Glacier National Park. When firefighters are called in to dig fuel line breaks near the small town bordering the park, a crew member is shocked to unearth a shallow grave containing human remains. Another Good Installment To The Series By Lia on 08-21-17 The Wild Inside Narrated by: R.C. Bray Length: 13 hrs and 1 min For fans of Louise Penny, C. J. Box, and Nevada Barr comes a haunting crime novel set in Glacier National Park, where one man finds himself on a collision course with the dark heart of the wild and the even darker heart of human nature. Brutal animal torture By L on 11-21-16 Mortal Fall Glacier National Park police officer Monty Harris knows that each summer at least one person - be it a reckless, arrogant climber or a distracted hiker - will meet tragedy in the park. But Paul "Wolfie" Sedgewick's fatal fall from the sheer cliffs near Going-to-the-Sun Road is incomprehensible. Wolfie was an experienced and highly regarded wildlife biologist who knew all too well the perils that Glacier's treacherous terrain presents - and how to avoid them. Great Addition To The Series When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery - a dead baby buried in a shallow grave. Even more disturbing: Evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed to have died four years earlier - after she disappeared from a group rafting trip. As Bowditch assists the reopened investigation, he begins to suspect that some of his neighbors aren't who they seem to be. When violence strikes close to home, he realizes that his unknown enemies will stop at nothing to keep their terrible secrets. Mike Bowditch has bucked the odds his whole career, but this time the intrepid warden may have finally followed his hunches one step too far. ©2017 Paul Doiron (P)2017 Macmillan Audio The Violinist's Thumb What listeners say about Knife Creek Mystery Maven Few authors can leave you deeply satisfied, and yet longing for more. Paul Doiron is one of those rarities. Another great installment Paul Doiron has written another great installment for the Mike Bowditch series. He brings to life all the beautiful scenery as well as the evil that surrounds it. Henry Leyva, as usual brings it all to life, he IS the voice of Mike Bowditch. I highly recommend this book and series, and suggest you start with the first in the series. KarenO Struggled to finish it.. Narration was the best part of this book. I found it juvenile and message ridden. The author seems more bent on portraying a feminist point of view than telling a story. The whole book seemed to be a fumbling attempt at "this is what women want to hear". S Mericook Addictive Series This is the best of the Mike Bowditch stories so far. I love the world Paul Doiron has created. I am not from Maine and reading these stories makes me want to visit and see where the novels are set. Mike is loveable, like a puppy. Most of the female characters are strong and tough -- like cacti. They are prickly and contentious. Interesting, but I would not like to get close to them. The narrator is almost perfect. I can't imagine Mike having any other voice. If only he would look ahead a bit and not put pauses in the wrong places. I think he often pauses at the end of a written line, so it results in readings like,"He got out [pause] of the car. It's a bit disconcerting. I do highly recommend this series. Start at the beginning. Another Bowditch Thriller Where does Knife Creek rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? Knife Creek ranks at the top of all audiobooks because of the perfect match between the reader and Mike Bowditch. Knife Creek, like the others Bowditch books are so descriptive of the Maine environment. I have never been to Maine but Doiron delivers a perfect description that makes me feel like I'm there. Not to give away the story but the scene in the house at the end kept me on edge. Again, credit to the reader for the excellent portrayal. If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be? Not sure on that one. I've listened to the whole Mike Bowditch series so far and I think Henry Leyva is the perfect reader. Matching the perfect reader with a character must be difficult but this one is spot on. I can't wait for a new book. I think Doiron's descriptive style is some of the bet I've read. I felt like I was in the scenes as a bystander. Perfect. Kept me interested for the whole book. No big surprise but still very intertaining to the very end. Not the best but... Not the best Mike Bowdiitch story, with the most obvious “wait for the next one” ending but overall I love the series and look forward to continuing. Best one for me my favorite,,,,so far~ ~I'll read this one again~ ~ ~ thanks Paul and Henry,,glad you are reving Mike's love life up !! S. Harms gratuitous gore/ annoying NE accent I should not choose settings in the NE, especially Maine/Mass/NY -- the NE accents are annoying. River becomes "riva" - an "r" missing in barn. It is filled with factual errors: a pig/hog dresses out at about 57%, not 80%. Feral hogs > 100lbs are typically not edible, fatty, internal parasites, disease. 8 feral hog piglets will not sit there and be shot, trapping and shooting in the trap is the only option. In fact shooting the two females as a double is unlikely. The narrator sounds like the whole story is "happy" -- sentences ending on an up note. Gratuitous gore describing the butchering of the feral hogs. Gratuitous political "jokes". The plot was thin, not too believable. I have read other "game warden mystery thrillers" that are much more mature, this guy sounds and thinks like a juvenile. I was completely bored. I was completely bored and thought I could write a better novel, and I have no talent	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1438
__label__cc	0.612962	0.387038	Gerry Goffin and Carole King Song Collection by Gerry GoffinGerry Goffin Buy Online, Pick up in Store 's rousing soul-popper "I Can't Hear You," and the Tokens' "He's in Town" (which the Rockin' Berries made a much bigger hit in Britain). Also of note are oddities like the Crickets' "Don't Ever Change," a hit only in the U.K. (where the Beatles covered it in 1963 on the BBC), Bobby Vee's rare "The Idol" (a theme song for a 1962 TV documentary), and Dusty Springfield's version of "Wasn't Born to Follow" (a song much more renowned as done by the Byrds). Skeeter Davis' wonderful "Let Me Get Close to You" sounds like it should have been a big hit, but to be honest, most of the relatively unfamiliar tracks here simply aren't in the same league, though many have excellent period '60s pop ock production. That's even the case when stars like the Drifters, the Chiffons, Lenny Welch, Bobby Rydell, the Righteous Brothers, and the Everly Brothers take a crack at something, though Jackie DeShannon's girl group-flavored "Heaven Is Being with You" and P.J. Proby's Righteous Brothers-like "I Can't Make It Alone" are well worth hearing. Still, the CD's a smartly chosen sampling of material for those who want to hear more Goffin-King compositions than what's most commonly available, with excellent liner notes covering both the composers' early careers and these specific recordings. Ace Records Uk He's in Town Let Me Get Close to You Halfway to Paradise The First and Last Vrand New Man Another Night with the Boys Heaven Is Being with You I Didn't Have Any Summer Romance Love Eyes Don; T Ever Change I'll Love You for a While I Just Can't Say Goodbye I Can't Hear You Just a Little Girl You; Re Just What I Was Looking for Today I Can't Make It Alone Some of Your Lovin' A Man Without a Dream Don; T Bring Me Down Wasn't Born to Follow So Much Love Yours Until Tomorrow (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman Gerry Goffin Primary Artist Chuck Sagle Conductor Bill Justis Conductor Alan Lorber Conductor Ernie Freeman Conductor Sammy Lowe Conductor Bill Baker [5] Conductor Chet Atkins Producer Carole King Composer Dusty Springfield Producer Ralph Burns String Conductor Bill Medley Producer Jerry Riopelle Producer David Axelrod Producer Gerry Goffin Composer,Producer,Author Jimmy Horowitz Music Direction Bill Justis Arranger Jerry Leiber Producer Alan Lorber Arranger Jack Nitzsche Arranger,Producer Teddy Randazzo Arranger Jimmy Wisner Arranger Jimmy Bowen Producer Capps Arranger Calvin Carter Producer Tom Catalano Producer Don Costa Producer Frank Day Producer Tom Dowd Producer Jim Economides Producer Ernie Freeman Arranger Tommy "Snuff" Garrett Producer Dick Glasser Producer Kasha Producer Jack Keller Producer Arif Mardin Producer Joe Saraceno Producer Garry Sherman Arranger Mike Stoller Producer Jerry Wexler Producer Tom Wilson Producer John Franz Producer Sammy Lowe Arranger Mick Patrick Liner Notes Bill Baker [5] Arranger Jerry Ross Producer womens barnes noble exclusives barnes noble exclusives womens miscellaneous music all the hits ultimate collection pet projects the brian wilson productions music by fabian Do-Wah-Diddy: Words and Music by Ellie Greenwich and As part of its excellent ongoing series on major American popock songwriters of the 1950s ... As part of its excellent ongoing series on major American popock songwriters of the 1950s and '60s, Ace presents a couple dozen '60s recordings of tunes penned by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry -- usually working together, though on occasion ... Early Girls, Vol. 1: Popsicles and Icicles While the second volume of the Early Girls series is heavier on chart hits, the ... While the second volume of the Early Girls series is heavier on chart hits, the first collection offers more choice rarities (which, truth be told, is the real value in retrospectives of this kind). A handful of these 28 cuts ... Early Girls, Vol. 2 This is a delightful 28-track compilation encompassing solo artists, girl groups and male backing groups ... This is a delightful 28-track compilation encompassing solo artists, girl groups and male backing groups fronted by a female lead singer. This second volume plows turf similar to the first, with an emphasis on Hot 100 hits like Tell Him ... Foolish Little Girl/Sing Their Hits from It's a The Shirelles' fifth and sixth albums are combined onto one CD with this 2009 reissue, ... The Shirelles' fifth and sixth albums are combined onto one CD with this 2009 reissue, with the addition of historical liner notes. In keeping with the rest of Ace's extensive series of Shirelles two-fers, it's the kind of thing where ... Golden Age of American Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. For many years, Original Sound's Oldies but Goodies series was acknowledged as the best source ... For many years, Original Sound's Oldies but Goodies series was acknowledged as the best source for catching up on the many great early rock & roll hits by artists who had only one (or two, or three, or even a ... As this series progresses, there's a higher proportion of obscure material involved. This is both ... As this series progresses, there's a higher proportion of obscure material involved. This is both good and bad: it's good to find worthy minor hits that have largely missed the CD revolution, but some of them didn't make it above ... Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!/Miss Dynamite In late 1959, Brenda Lee was dangerously close to becoming a 14-year-old has-been. A dynamic ... In late 1959, Brenda Lee was dangerously close to becoming a 14-year-old has-been. A dynamic performer, she wowed everyone who saw her in concert, but she'd failed to dent the charts for two straight years after debuting with a pair ... Hard Workin Man: The Jack Nitzsche Story, Vol. Ace Records' follow-up to their superb 2005 collection The Jack Nitzsche Story: Hearing Is Believing ... Ace Records' follow-up to their superb 2005 collection The Jack Nitzsche Story: Hearing Is Believing 1962-1979 doesn't quite live up to that disc's high standards, but this sampling of 26 tracks in which Nitzsche had a hand -- as producer, ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1448
__label__wiki	0.704264	0.704264	Kansas City Royals 2020 Midseason Top 30 Prospects Update By J.J. Cooper To see every team's Top 30 prospects list, click here. STATE OF THE SYSTEM Summer camp has largely reinforced what we already knew about the Royals—the team’s depth is in its wide array of pitching prospects and Bobby Witt Jr. is clearly the team’s No. 1 prospect. Witt has been excellent at summer camp, even when hitting against pitchers who are much more experienced. That doesn’t mean he’s anywhere close to making the big league roster, but it is a strong sign of what’s yet to come. Witt’s hit tool has taken a step forward. That was seen as the only thing keeping him from being a five-tool prospect. When it comes to pitching prospects, Kansas City has an impressive second tier of arms as well, who will provide needed depth to handle the injuries and ineffectiveness that are pretty much a certainty when trying to graduate pitching prospects to the majors. 1. Bobby Witt Jr. SS Witt has put together quality at-bat after quality at-bat during summer camp (he went 4-for-4 against Royals’ ace Danny Duffy). He’s already shown he’s more advanced than could rightfully be expected. Summer camp has given him a chance to show he’s ready for an aggressive assignment in 2021. 2. Asa Lacy, LHP There are a lot of potential draft permutations where Lacy would not have made it to the fourth pick. Kansas City is thrilled to get him. 3. Daniel Lynch, LHP Brady Singer earned a spot in Kansas City first, but Lynch might not be far behind. The lefthander has excellent stuff and could see innings with the Royals in 2020. 4. Jackson Kowar, RHP Kowar’s summer camp hasn’t been as impressive as Brady Singer’s was. He has battled overthrowing and control issues, but his pitch mix is still a little more tantalizing long term. 5. Brady Singer, RHP Singer appears to have taken a step forward during the three months since spring training ended, which paid off for him with a spot in Kansas City’s rotation. His changeup has taken a step forward, which is vital since his lack of an offspeed pitch to pair with his hard fastball and slider had been the biggest hurdle for him against lefties. 6. Kyle Isbel, OF Isbel is a significantly better hitter than his .216/.282/.361 line in 2019 at high Class A Wilmington indicates. He’s gotten a chance to play in the summer camp intrasquad games and will be a fixture at the alternate site. 7. Erick Peña ,OF Peña’s pro debut will have to wait a year longer thanks to the cancellation of the 2020 MiLB season. He’s still the club’s position prospect with the highest ceiling other than Witt. 8. Nick Loftin, SS With Whit Merrifield, Adalberto Mondesi and Nicky Lopez in Kansas City and Witt on the way, middle infield was already one of the Royals’ deepest position player groupings. Loftin adds to that, and he has a shot to play short with a polished college bat. 9. Khalil Lee, OF Don’t forget about Lee. The acquisition of Franchy Cordero pushes Lee’s ETA further into the future, but he still has a very interesting combination of speed and on-base skills. 10. Kris Bubic, LHP Bubic hit the ground running at summer camp. He’s a little further away than the Singer-Lynch-Kowar trio, but getting innings this this summer will be very beneficial for him next year. 11. Austin Cox, LHP 12. Nick Pratto, 1B 13. Jonathan Bowlan, RHP 14. M.J. Melendez, C 15. Jeison Guzman, SS 16. Ben Hernandez, RHP 17. Carlos Hernandez, RHP 18. Zach Haake, RHP 19. Seuly Matias, OF 20. Brady McConnell, SS 21. Brewer Hicklen, OF 22. Tyler Gentry, OF 23. Kelvin Gutierrez, 3B 24. Yefri Del Rosario, RHP 25. Josh Staumont, RHP 26. Jon Heasley, RHP 27. Alec Marsh, RHP 28. Darryl Collins, OF 29. Richard Lovelady, LHP 30. Erick Mejia, SS/2B SYSTEM STRENGTHS The Royals’ binge on college pitching in the 2018 draft has paid off in a group of pitchers who are on the cusp of the majors. Righthander Brady Singer and lefthander Daniel Lynch appear to be first in line to ascend to Kansas City with Singer earning a spot in the Opening Day rotation. SYSTEM WEAKNESSES Other than Witt, Kansas City’s minor league bats are well behind the arms. OF Seuly Matias has worked hard on hitting against velocity and has shortened the noise in his setup to get his hands into a better hitting position, but the MiLB season cancellation means he will only be able to work on it at the alternate site. Similarly, 1B Nick Pratto and C M.J. Melendez will not get a chance to show that last year’s awful stat lines are in the past. Both have looked better in summer camp, but they will have to wait until 2021 to get a full season of at-bats. PLAYER POOL TIDBITS IF Erick Mejia, acquired in a 2018 trade, has pretty much played his way onto the roster as a utilityman who can play almost anywhere—he’s even tried catching during summer camp. He is a switch-hitter with plus-plus speed whose athleticism gives him a potential role, although his light bat limits him to a likely backup spot. RHP Josh Staumont has shown a better curveball and has added a little more velocity to his already 100 mph fastball. If he can demonstrate even fringe-average control he could be a useful part of the Royals’ bullpen this year. RHP Tyler Zuber, a senior-sign sixth-round pick out of Arkansas State in 2017, made the Opening Day roster. The short (5-foot-11) righthander has shown he can elevate a mid-90s fastball and pair it with a useful slider. RHP Kyle Zimmer’s long road back from injuries continued to gain momentum as he also made the 30-man roster. LHP Daniel Tillo had a rough week of summer camp. An examination found elbow ligament damage which could require Tommy John surgery, and in the same week he also tested positive for the coronavirus. 3B Kelvin Gutierrez was placed on the 45-day injured list as he works back from a right elbow ligament sprain. Fantasy: Trust The Tools For These Nine Dynasty Prospects The minor league season was lost, but dynasty players are advised to keep the faith—to trust the tools—for these nine prospects. Bobby Witt Jr. Stands Out The No. 2 pick in the 2019 draft has hit well during summer camp and at the team's alternate site. Prospect Summer Camp Roundup: July 14 Tuesday's prospect roundup includes another home run by a Mariners' prospect and Austin Martin arriving in Toronto. Predicting The 2020 Futures Game American League Rosters Sure the Futures Game is four months away, but it's never too early to take a guess at what the rosters might look like.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1450
__label__wiki	0.894319	0.894319	Celebrating Birmingham's Popular Music History Bands/Musicians DJs/Club Nights/Promoters Fashion/Shops Press/Fanzines Recording Studios/Rehearsal Spaces In the Que Small Faces gig November 17th 1968 Handsworth Music Is There Anyone Out There? Van Morrison’s Return to Symphony Hall Inevitable in Archive, Features At 68 years old, you can’t really blame Van Morrison for slowing down his work schedule a touch. He hasn’t released a new album since 2012’s Born to Sing: No Plan B and it’s not as if he’s touring the globe like he once did. However, the Northern Ireland native is gearing up to celebrate the latest year of his career, and we at BMA are hoping that includes another stop at the historic Symphony Hall. Fans of Morrison in the area know full well that he’s put on some spectacular shows at the renowned venue in the past. That includes the previous decade or so, during which he has performed at the Symphony Hall several times. Most notably, there was his gig in September 2003, when Morrison performed an incredible set of songs that include a five-song (!) medley, a riveting take on tried-and-true classic “Brown Eyed Girl,” and so much more. Later shows—in 2005 and 2006—showed that Morrison, though aging, hadn’t lost a single step. That was particularly true in terms of his setlist, which he never let slack or become repetitive. Sure, the classics were all there along with his killer cover of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Help Me,” but he kept it fresh and engaging enough that repeat attendees wouldn’t see the same show year in and year out. This year, Morrison’s tour schedule may be slim, but the hope is that he’ll expand his jaunt with an announcement in the coming weeks or months. It only seems inevitable given his strong fanbase in Birmingham and past shows at the Symphony Hall. Also, he’s releasing a remastered double-LP of his infamous The Complete Bang Sessions project through the PledgeMusic platform, so he’s got something new to promote. Fans are able to grab a limited-edition red-and-black splattered vinyl version of the album; digital options are available, too. Perhaps he’ll want to get the word out there more with a few added performances, right? Morrison’s upcoming tour dates are as follows. Also, while he’s not coming to Birmingham (yet!), the dates in Cambridge, London, and East Molesey are only about a 90-minute to two-hour drive for all the Morrison diehards out there willing to take a brief trip. May 25 Blues on The Bay Festival 2014: Warrenpoint, UK Jun 16 Hampton Court Palace: East Molesey, UK Jul 15 Montreux Jazz Festival: Montreux, Switzerland Jul 17 Schloßplatz Stuttgart: Stuttgart, Germany Jul 22 Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2014: Edinburgh, UK Jul 27 Slieve Donard Hotel Newcastle Co.: Down, UK Aug 03 Cambridge Folk Festival: Cambridge, UK Oct 28 Royal Albert Hall: London, UK Watch Van Morrison perform his “Help Me” cover below. in Archive, Venues Built as a home for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Hall is widely recognised as one of the best acoustically engineered halls in the world. Popular music has become more of a feature at Symphony Hall over the years with groups delighting in the rich sound available. Ron Brinsdon has sent in these tickets stubs of gigs he has been to at Symphony Hall, we’d love to get a full list of all the gigs that have taken place in SH. Steve T has sent in this ticket stub Van Morrison gig at Symphony Hall, we’d love to get a full list of all the gigs that have taken place in SH. Send your content to us We are now actively looking for content for the archive and will always add content that you send to us. The archive is a labour of love and we update it in our spare time. Musical Instrument and Fashion Shops Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International This work by Birmingham Music Archive is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1453
__label__wiki	0.761849	0.761849	The Exceptional Women Awardees Foundation (EWA) announces that Elizabeth Stephenson, Managing Director, AlixPartners has been se • Renovia names new president and CEO; completes enrollment for randomized control trial • Expensify Commits $3 Million a Year to Fight Injustice, Calls for Volunteers to Receive up to $100,000 in Funding • Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Echoes Reverend Al Sharpton’s Calls for the Appointment of Diverse Judges in His Lett • Royal Caribbean Group Enters Definitive Agreement to Sell its Azamara Brand to Sycamore Partners • Martin Luther King III Joins Impact Podcast for Special MLK Day Episode • Aon CEO Greg Case Recognized as Top Ally on INvolve OUTstanding LGBT+ Ally Executives List • Call for entries: Landsberg Award celebrates journalist championing women's equality issues • BET Announces Its Multiplatform Programming Strategy for Inauguration 2021 • Austin Virtual School Fair to Bring Families Their School Choices, Make Applying Easier • Buckle Up for a Drive-Thru Scavenger Hunt Celebrating National School Choice Week • Connecticut Water Files Application With Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) to Amend Rates • Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. to Report Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2021 Results on January 25, 2021 • Michele Ghee named CEO of EBONY & JET MAGAZINE • Internet Society Announces $1M in Grant Funding to Expand Internet Access to Underserved Communities in the Southeastern United • Three of Canada's Leading Women's Health Foundations Launch the Women's Health Collective Canada with National Survey • “Guardians of the Gulf” to Screen Online Beginning January 20 at the 16th Annual Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival • Rivers Casino Philadelphia Resumes Indoor Dining on Saturday, Jan. 16, at Noon • Leading Dallas Marketing Firm Forward Vision Joins Asian Chamber of Texas • Amazon Teams Up with Pharrell Williams’ YELLOW and Georgia Tech to Launch New Music Remix Competition to Inspire Students Fear Prevents Haitian Americans From Voting Amsterdam News, News Analysis, Cyril Josh Barker PORT AU PRINCE - As Wyclef Jean continues to criticize the Haitian government for not allowing him to run for president, questions are being raised about the Haitian government’s attitude toward Haitians not living in the country. Unlike in the United States, Haitians who aren’t living in their country at the time of an election are not able to vote. There’s no system set up to submit a votes from another country. This is due to the stigma that spending time away from the country leads the Haitian government to give the label of those not in the country as uninvited. “Haiti has gone through a lot of changes since the overthrow of the old government,” said Haitian-American and political candidate Rodneyse Bichotte. “The constitution was revamped, and it takes time for a country such as Haiti, which has been under in dictatorship so many years, to grab the meaning of democracy.” Involving herself in American politics, Bichotte is running for state committee leader of the 42nd Assembly District in Brooklyn, which has the largest number of Haitian immigrants in the state. None of those living in the district can vote in Haiti’s presidential election. “If you look or sound American with Haitian roots, then you are not invited,” she said. “Sometimes, people get backlash for being away so long. I’m not sure why they make it so difficult.” But along with the stigma that Haiti has against those not living in the country, many also fear being involved in Haitian politics at all because of the history of corruption. Bichotte said, “Some people are afraid and they feel that anything having to do with Haitian politics is bad karma. Having that sense of independence seems unreachable, but everyone wants the best for the country.” Haiti was supposed to hold an election this February, but it was postponed due the January earthquake. Elections in Haiti will be held in November with 38 candidates running for president of the country.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1455
__label__wiki	0.749763	0.749763	Bedford Borough Conservative Group Cookies are a technology we use to provide you with a tailored experience on this website, as well as on other online platforms on which we operate. A cookie is a piece of code that is sent to your web browser and is stored on your system. 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__label__cc	0.526766	0.473234	Protecting art on board superyachts 21 January 2015By Shaw McCutcheon There are legal considerations to bringing investment-grade art on board a yacht. Adding the special touch that only a work of art can provide is one way to make a superyacht truly distinctive. However, carrying a multi-million dollar piece on board presents unique challenges, concerning the environment, security and insuring the pieces. Beyond a yacht designers aesthetic and functional questions regarding placement, styling and securing the art, theres also the environment to consider. What happens, for example, if the air conditioning goes kaput? Perhaps most important of all to a yacht owner who has spent millions cultivating their art collection is the matter of security. How safe from theft is a yacht, compared to a home or business? If the yacht is available for charter, is the security problem magnified? Finally, do any special insurance issues arise when major artworks are displayed on the water? Insuring art on water As Robert Salmon of The Willis Group explains, when a few pieces from a large, substantial collection are put on board a boat, the insurer looks at the collections total value and where it is displayed, which is usually in various residences. Typically, the value of the art on the boat is not that great, relative to the sum of the whole collection, so coverage of it is essentially thrown in at a similar rate under a policy that covers the art collection separately from the yacht. Art on the yacht of a non-collector is a completely different risk, says Salmon. Then you have works of art that are pretty much 100 per cent on a yacht. In this case, the art may be covered as part of a policy purchased for the yacht herself. One consequence is that the art may not remain covered when it is moved off the yacht, which is a time when the possibility of damage to a piece increases. For owners with a large collection, an art policy would cover such damage, but owners who have only one or two major pieces displayed aboard might not be covered, according to Nancy Poppe of The Willis Group. Insurance limitations Certain limitations may also apply when artwork is covered under a yachts policy. Art varies greatly in value, ranging from a Picasso painting or a Giacometti sculpture that might be even more expensive than the yacht itself, down to a $50,000 Donald Demers oil-based nautical scene. Owners can cover the latter under the yachts insurance policy, but often only up to a point, says Scott Lockman, head of the yacht division at Marsh. For example, coverage may be limited to $5,000 per item and top out at $50,000 in total. Of course, yacht owners always have the option of purchasing increased coverage for higher-valued pieces, or they can instead opt for a policy that covers their artwork separately. The insurance company is not usually concerned with the yachts interior environment, feeling that its often superior to what many clients have in their homes. Physically speaking, the environment inside a superyacht would usually be considered a safe works of art. Temperature and humidity are kept constant and are maintained by a full-time crew. Even so, accidents can happen. Its rare, but it does happen that you lose all power, notes Glade Johnson, a recently retired American yacht designer. The AC goes down, and youre sitting in the Med in the middle of summer. Youve got high humidity, and youre trying to get to a shipyard. Paper art works, such as watercolours, are especially susceptible to environmental damage in adverse conditions, not only from humidity, but also from direct sunlight. Oil-based art and sculptures fare better in such an environment. Insurance-wise, exposure to sunlight is an important consideration. If a work of art deteriorates because of too much sunlight, its considered gradual deterioration and subject to exclusion. One or two major pieces on display aboard a superyacht may not be covered by an owners insurance policies. Security factors Insurance exclusions also apply to geographic areas. Yachts passing Somalia, for instance, must provide a navigation plan to the underwriters, have a security plan in place, stay 800 to 1,000 miles from the coast, and be escorted by warships. Insurers provide coverage only as long as the boat stays within approved areas, says Lockman. This exclusion applies not only to the art, but also to the yacht itself. Other than the normal concerns of fire, water damage or sinking, yachts are considered as safe as or even safer than many homes or businesses. The compound-like security measures of yachts can give a great deal of peace of mind to both owners and insurers. Most large yachts have multiple security systems, including cameras or contact sensors on the deck. Artwork also can be fitted with virtually unnoticeable GPS tracking devices that allow it to be traced after a theft. A boat can actually be made a safer place than anywhere else, says Patrick Estebe, president of AffAirAction, a firm specializing in yacht security. You just have to know how to do it. The boat is the cocoon for the artwork. If the cocoon is made secure, then the art will be secure, too. The issue, he adds, is not the systems, but training the crew to properly use those systems and to be constantly thinking about security. Although art theft from a yacht is exceedingly rare, it does occur. The most famous incident happened in 2010 in Antibes when a Picasso was stolen off a 75m superyacht. The vessel was undergoing repairs in a yard when the painting, which was normally attached to an alarm, was removed and disarmed so painters could work on the wall behind it. The piece was locked in a separate room that had no alarm; and it was gone by the next morning. An alarm-protected Matisse in the salon wasnt touched, confirming the general effectiveness of yacht security systems. Still, if incidents like this make art collectors nervous about displaying a highly valued piece aboard their boat, they do have another option: make a copy. Its a good way to go, says UK yacht designer Andrew Winch. A copy can be painted using exactly the same medium, so if the original was done with a palette knife and thick oils, you would get that signature surface as well as the composition. To most viewers, its like looking at the real thing. And the owner has the reassurance that nothing bad can happen: its only an imitation, while the real piece is safe at home or in a vault. For many yacht owners who are avid art collectors, the motivation to put art aboard their boat is simply the desire to have a Warhol, a Lichtenstein or a Wyeth on view. But investing in high-end art makes economic sense as well. Currently, the investment-grade art market is definitely very strong. The investment-grade art market is definitely very strong, says Lisa Burgess, whose New River Fine Art gallery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, frequently sells works to yachts. Many people are looking at fine art as a safe haven in this economy. There is no question that the blue-chip artists have appreciated very well. Last year, record-setting prices of more than $100 million (£65 million) each were set for a Picasso and a Giacometti. Driving the prices upward are buyers in the Middle East, China and Russia. Not surprisingly, many of these buyers are also purchasers of the largest yachts. Collectors often come to buy a named artist with the intention of making a statement, says Bobbie Lemmons, a New York gallery owner. Collectors dont buy art to decorate, they buy art to build collections. At its heart, the yachting experience is the ultimate leisure activity, and most things aboard a yacht are centred on making the day fun. Jet Skis, scuba gear, fast tenders, fine food, hot tubs, private theatres and sunset mojitos on the aft deck all focus on giving more pleasure to owners and their guests. Works of art can be viewed in much the same way. They help make the on-board experience even richer and more satisfying. And if these collections are nurtured and protected properly, artwork aboard a yacht can make its owner richer as well. Originally published: Showboats International, September 2012 Bugsy Gedlek Superyacht A/V: the case for standards and warranties at the contract stage Maritime Labour Convention 2006: A sea change in regulation Maritime Labour Convention 2006: Implications Maritime Labour Convention 2006: Ratified! Large Yacht Code 3 reassures owners & builders Maritime Labour Convention 2006: The industry's opposition GC-FORCE 66 Admiral - The Italian Sea Group \| 65.9 m \| 12 guests \| POA Ateliers et Forges de l'Ouest \| 36.9 m \| 10 guests \| POA Princess 88MY Princess \| 26.82 m \| 8 guests \| £4,590,000 RAHIL Mariotti Yachts \| 53.8 m \| 12 guests \| €22,000,000 Custom \| 38.2 m \| 12 guests \| €3,500,000	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0083.json.gz/line1472

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