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__label__wiki	0.554081	0.554081	Aviation Trail, Inc. A non-profit corporation in partnership with the National Park Service to promote Aviation Heritage in the Dayton region Experience the Birthplace of Aviation! Follow Aviation Trail Follow Parachute Museum Trail Sites Aviation Blog WACO Offers Fun with Flight Day Camp New This Year: In addition to other S.T.E.M. day camps, WACO Learning Center is excited to add an aviation themed camp specifically for young aviators entering 1st-2nd grades. With early learners in mind, this camp will meet the week of July 27th- 31st, from 9 am-11 am at WACO Air Museum, 1865 S. County Rd. 25A, Troy, OH. Fun with Flight Day Camp is a collection of STEM learning activities based on aviation themed children’s books. Hands-on activities will engage the child as they make discoveries about Gliders in Nature (Form & Function), Balloons (Sinking & Floating), Parachutes (Fluid Thickness & Drag), Kites (Surface Area & Lift), Helicopters and Airplanes (Force & Thrust), and World Flyers (Geography & Global Trade). This camp will be following the Ohio Department of Health guidelines for day camps which can be found at https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/static/responsible/Day-Camps.pdf. In keeping with safety precautions, this camp is limited to the first nine registered students. Parents can register children under the LEARN tab at www.wacoairmuseum.org. WACO Air Museum is located at 1865 South County Road 25A in Troy, OH. Support has been provided by Ohio Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the federal CARES Act of 2020. Call the museum at 937-335-9226 for questions. January in Aviation History COVID-19 Closure Updates Status of Aviation Trail sites regarding visitors during the COVID-19 precautions: Status on Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park buildings as of December 3. All indoor facilities closed. Parachute Museum Anniversary Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park 16 S. Williams St., Dayton, OH 45402 For details and seasonal date schedules see https://www.nps.gov/daav/planyourvisit/hours.htm or please call (937) 225-7705 for the current park schedule. From W. Third St., turn south on Williams St and then turn left on Fourth St. Go 1/2 block and turn left into the Visitor Center parking area. CLICK HERE for a parking map. See the Visitor Center page for details on hours. Travel Note - Third St. Bridge closure: The Third Street Bridge will be CLOSED beginning Jan. 1, 2020 until approximately Oct. 2021. Visitors can use the Fifth St. Bridge or the Salem Ave. Bridge as detours from downtown Dayton. A file with more detailed instructions for visitors traveling from the north or south via I-75, or from the east and west via US35 can be downloaded by CLICKING HERE. - In Partnership with the National Park Service Name Last Name Email Mobile Number Subscribe to "The Flight Log", the ATI electronic Newsletter, for updates and announcements Aviation Trail does not sell, share, or distribute subscriber information to third parties. CONTACT AVIATION TRAIL, INC.: © Aviation Trail, Inc.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6143
__label__wiki	0.64169	0.64169	Results 1 - 10 of 192 for Nanosensors Using Nanodiamond Sensors to Measure the Thermal Conductivity Inside Living Cells News - 18 Jan 2021 A team of scientists from Osaka University, The University of Queensland, and the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering used tiny nanodiamonds coated with a heat-releasing... Using Fluorescent Nanosensors to Detect Bacteria News - 1 Dec 2020 Researchers from Bochum, Göttingen, Duisburg and Cologne have developed a new method for detecting bacteria and infections. They use fluorescent nanosensors to track down pathogens faster and... Scientists Use Graphene-Metal System to Acquire Molecular "Fingerprints” News - 26 Jun 2020 Scientists from the Center for Photonics and 2D Materials of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the University of Oviedo, Donostia International Physics Center, and CIC nanoGUNE... Nanosensors can Track How Plants Respond to Stresses MIT engineers have developed a way to closely track how plants respond to stresses such as injury, infection, and light damage, using sensors made of carbon nanotubes. These sensors can be embedded in... Graphene-based Nanosensor Can Detect Microscopic Water Contaminants News - 19 Nov 2019 Image Credit: Rost9/Shutterstock.com Graphene as a material possesses amazing potential due to its unique properties, it has the ability to revolutionize entire industries. Ranging from... EPFL Scientists Use Directed Evolution to Build Synthetic Nanoparticles News - 28 Feb 2019 The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists who developed the approach called directed evolution, which permanently transformed protein engineering. Directed evolution imitates... Nanopore Sensor Combined with Artificial Intelligence Could Help Detect Single Influenza Virions Influenza is a respiratory disease of global significance and is known to be highly contagious. Every year, it causes countless numbers of infections and carries the ubiquitous risk of a serious... Titanium Dioxide Shows Promise for Developing Nanosensors of Mechanical Stress News - 1 Aug 2018 Anatase titanium dioxide is a cheap and abundantly available material. Now, a novel property of this material has been revealed by researchers from EPFL, Germany and France that holds potential... Nanosensor that Illuminates Tumors to be Tested in Surgeries Next month, scientists at UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center will start testing a digital nanosensor that illuminates cancer tissue, to see whether it can enhance the accuracy of cancer surgeries,... New Way for Increasing the Sensitivity of Detecting Volatile Compounds News - 20 Oct 2017 A new way to increase the sensitivity of detecting volatile compounds, especially chlorine, using metallic nanoparticles, has been developed by researchers from the Faculties of Chemistry and of...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6147
__label__wiki	0.757983	0.757983	Puerto Rico misses second major debt payment as economy struggles Puerto Rico has defaulted for the second time in five months, as the island struggles with massive debt obligations and a flagging economy. Last week, the island's governor said it would pay most, but not all, of the nearly $1bn (£681.6m) it owed, using extraordinary financial measures. Governor Alejandro Padilla has called for the island to be granted bankruptcy rights like those on the mainland. The US Congress is set to debate the issue in the coming weeks. Overall, the island has a total debt load of about $70bn, which Governor Padilla has said the island cannot pay. The biggest payment on Monday was made towards the general obligation (GO) debt, which came to a total of $328.7m. More than half of that payment was made by raiding funds for other government agencies in a special move being dubbed a "clawback", which had the aim of making sure the constitutionally-guaranteed GO debt would be paid. In the end, the manoeuvre meant that the island defaulted on about $37m worth of bonds tied to infrastructure and development institutions on the island. In an interview with CNBC on Monday, Mr Padilla said that the island was bracing for lawsuits, and warned that "every dollar used to pay lawyers will be a dollar...not available to pay creditors". image captionGovernor Padilla has been calling on the US Congress to grant the island bankruptcy protection In recent months, the governor has repeatedly warned of a humanitarian crisis that could unfold and has called on the US Congress to extend bankruptcy protections to the island. US states and territories cannot declare bankruptcy under federal law, though cities and public utility companies on the mainland can. Puerto Rico's public utilities are heavily debt-burdened, but are not allowed the bankruptcy rights that their mainland counterparts are afforded. image captionStatehood supporters say the crisis demonstrates why the island should become the 51st US state image captionIndependence activists say it demonstrates US indifference towards the island's welfare Republicans oppose extending the right to the island. The White House, while supportive of a bankruptcy option, has ruled out a bailout. "What we are asking is for Congress to give us the tools to address this crisis," Governor Padilla said on Monday. "We do not want a bailout, we just want the tools to solve his crisis". Congress is expected the take up the the issue in the coming months, after Democratic efforts to aid the island were killed during budget debates in December. image captionThe island has been called the "Greece of the Caribbean" image captionThe flagging economy and uncertainty is driving mass emigration, with an average of about 230 people leaving per day As the debt crisis has unfolded, the economy has floundered, with pundits often calling it the "Greece of the Caribbean". Unemployment on the island stands at 12.5% - around twice that of the US - and around 45% of people living in poverty. The island faces a bill of around $400m due in February and a much larger $1.9bn bill in July. "This is not political rhetoric, this is mathematic," Mr Padilla said. "It's very simple, we don't have the money to pay". Photos by the BBC's Paul Blake in San Juan. Puerto Rico narrowly avoids default Puerto Rico economy: Government defaults on bond payment Puerto Rico profile - Timeline	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6150
__label__wiki	0.7827	0.7827	Posted on December 4, 2017 by Scott Halasz Second-half rally not enough for Beavers BEAVERCREEK — If ever there was a time for a coach to be pleased with a loss, it came Nov. 27 at Beavercreek High School. Coming off a 54-28 clunker to Lakota West the night before — a rematch of a district final from last season — the Beavers turned in a much more palatable effort against McAuley, another Cincinnati power, in a 53-45 home loss. “I’ve got to give the kids credit,” Coach Ed Zink said. “After taking a butt-kicking last night, they came back. They lost to a good basketball team and they knew they were in a game.” For a while they weren’t in a game. The Beavers jumped out to a 5-0 lead, but then trailed by as many as 15 twice in the second half before whittling the lead down to five midway through the fourth quarter. Beavercreek stayed within striking distance, but could never get that one defensive stop and McAuley clinched the game with four free throws in the final 36 seconds. Zink lamented the first few minutes of the game when the Beavers could have had a bigger lead after McAuley turned the ball over several times and missed myriad shots. But Beavercreek missed several layups early — an issue lingering for a couple seasons — and finished with 17 close misses. “You take the start of the game, it should have been 12-0,” Zink said. “We get five or six stops, but we can’t score. We just are having trouble scoring. (But) I give the kids credit. They busted their tails getting back in it.” Cori Dilsavor led Beavercreek with 20 points including four 3-pointers, while Bailey Draughn and Carmen Williams each had 11. Draughn scored the five quick points to start the game and Dilsavor led the second-half comeback with 12 after halftime. McAuley’s Hallie Heidemann led all scorers with 22 points including five 3-pointers. She scored nine early to give the Mohawks a 17-9 lead after one quarter, and then a 3-pointer by Isabelle Dorr sparked an 11-0 second-quarter run to give McAuley a 28-12 lead. Dilsavor scored five straight and then Lexi Moore and Draughn each made a free throw at the end of the second quarter to make it a 29-19 game at halftime. Heidemann scored the first five points of the second half to give McAuley a 34-19 lead and after the Beavers chipped away, Alex Smith made a 3-pointer to help the Mohawks lead 42-29 after three quarters. Williams made two free throws to start the fourth and then nailed a 3-pointer two minutes later to make it a 44-36 game. After a timeout and a defensive stop, Dilsavor swished a 3-pointer to make it 44-39 with 5:08 left. Smith made a basket 15 seconds later and then a Draughn layup again made it a five-point game. But the Beavers would get no closer. Starting out 0-2 is not ideal, but Zink knew what he was getting into by scheduling the first two opponents and defending Division-I state champ Mount Notre Dame, Saturday. And he’s hoping the rough patch early will lead to success in the postseason. “I sure hope it does because if not, (I’m) an idiot for playing them,” Zink said. “You’ve got to learn from this. You try to get better, you try to get tougher physically, you try to get tougher mentally. That’s what we’ve got to do.” The Beavers host Xenia, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 29 before visiting the defending champs. Hi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: Second-half rally not enough for Beavers. Here is a link to that story: http://www.beavercreeknewscurrent.com/sports/7815/second-half-rally-not-enough-for-beavers	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6153
__label__cc	0.709334	0.290666	(So) Who Are You Portraits of mixed heritage Poles An ongoing photography project. I take portraits of mixed-heritage Poles and ask the same set of questions to each: 1 / When do you feel Polish? 2 / When do you not feel Polish? 3 / What does it mean to you to be of mixed heritage? Although some answers are specific to Polish culture, most are universal enough to be understood anywhere. Mixed heritage Poles is a subject that, at least as far as I'm aware, wasn't taken up in Poland too much, if at all. I hope that shedding some light on those will help in seeing the rarely seen, less obvious side of the issues surrounding national identity and – more generally – feeling of belonging to a larger group. Reality is often far more nuanced than we'd like to think, and mixed heritage people are, by their very existence, a beautiful exemplification of just that. The title is a reference to a classic patriotic song taught in Polish elementary schools, "Kto ty jesteś? Polak mały" ("Who are you? A little Pole"). See the site here: ktotyjest.es/en See the site here: ktotyjest.es/en Published: July 16th 2017 A photographic project about mixed heritage Poles. Journalism,	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6154
__label__cc	0.667278	0.332722	Shared Equity Agreement (SEA) What is First Start? First Start is a Shared Equity Agreement (SEA), which is a formal agreement to be used in conjunction with a Bank First Home Loan. The agreement supports parents or other family members who contribute money towards a deposit in order to help a home buyer get into the property market. The agreement protects all parties by structuring the financial assistance into a formal agreement. How does First Start work? The home buyer’s parents or other family members (referred to as the Contributors) make a contribution towards the purchase of the home in exchange for a share of the equity in the home. The contribution reduces the amount the Home Buyer has to borrow from Bank First. What are the eligibility requirements for First Start? To be eligible for First Start the Home Buyer’s home loan must be with Bank First. If you already have a home loan with a bank other than Bank First and you wish to use First Start, you must refinance your home loan to Bank First. What are the benefits of First Start to the Home Buyer? First Start provides the Home Buyer assistance to get into the market and own a property sooner. The amount borrowed from Bank First may be reduced to <80% of the property valuation, saving on average over $10,000 in Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) costs. There are no regular principal and interest repayments required with First Start, you simply repay the contribution and a percentage of the equity as a return to the Contributors when you sell the home or at the end of the First Start SEA term. The Home Buyer can still apply for the First Home Owner Grant and any stamp duty concessions (if available and if eligible). The Home Buyer retains full Home Ownership in their name. What are the benefits of First Start to the Contributor? Circumstances can change in family relationships. Having the arrangement documented in a formal agreement allows for the agreement to be subsequently enforced, waived, or forgiven such as in the unfortunate situation of a death or default. The formal agreement can better protect the Contributor’s interest from exposure to marital or family breakdowns. The Contributor’s home, assets and credit rating are not at risk. The Contributor shares in a percentage of any increased value of the property for helping with the initial cost. On repayment the Contributor can use the funds for their own or for other family member needs. What are the risks to the Home Buyer? Repayment of the Contributor’s return may have to be made early in the event of a Home Buyer no longer living in the home or where there is a death of any of the parties to the First Start SEA. The First Start SEA is secured using a second Mortgage over the Home Buyer’s property (The Bank First home loan is secured by a first mortgage). If the Borrower commits an event of default, the Contributor may be entitled to sell the home to repay the First Start SEA amount. An increased risk of an early repayment event occurring might arise where one or more Contributors is aged or unwell. Note: Refer to the First Start Shared Equity Agreement Information Statement for further information. What are the risks to the Contributor? The property may decline in value. The very worst case would be a significant decline in the property value where little or no equity has been built and the property is subsequently sold. This may mean that the Contributor may not receive the full amount of their initial contribution. The Home Buyer is in significant default under their Bank First loan. Does the Contributor obtain a share in the ownership of the property? The Contributor does not share in the ownership, the property is owned by the Home Buyer. However, the Contributor is entitled to a share of the equity built up in the property over the term. With First Start, the Contributor has a financial interest, which is secured by way of a registered mortgage. As the Contributor does not share in the ownership of the property, all rights and responsibilities associated with the property such as rates, taxes and insurance fall on the Home Buyer. What is the Contributor’s return? The return is based on the percentage proportion the original contribution was of the Purchase Costs. For example, if the original First Start contribution amount was 10% of the purchase costs, at the conclusion of the First Start SEA (e.g. when the property is sold) the Contributor is entitled to 10% of the Sale Proceeds. Referred to as the Contributor’s return, it is the: First Start contribution amount plus any appreciation payment (if property value has increased). First Start contribution amount if property value has remained static. Possibility of a reduced contribution amount if property value has declined. To find out more, see our First Start Shared Equity Agreement case studies at bankfirst.com.au. Note: Purchase Costs and Sale Proceeds are defined terms in the First Start Shared Equity Agreement. What is the term of the First Start Shared Equity Agreement? It can run for a maximum term of 20 years, which allows the Home Buyer to build-up increased equity in the property. However, depending on the increase in equity the Home Buyer is encouraged to repay the Contributor as early as possible. When is the First Start Shared Equity Agreement concluded? It is concluded when the Contributor’s Return is paid and this is generally when the home is sold or at the end of the term, but may be repaid early if the Home Buyer has the financial capacity to do so. The Home Buyer is encouraged to consider repaying once savings have been built up or sufficient equity has been built up in the property. Other events may invoke early repayment such as death of a Contributor or Home Buyer. Can the Borrower still obtain a First Home Owner Grant? Yes, if the Home Buyer is eligible and the grants available, they can access both Commonwealth and the relevant State Government first home buyer assistance grants. Are all properties suitable for First Start? Not all properties are acceptable security. Restrictions exist, including but not limited to, commercial/income producing properties (e.g. farms, shops, commercial and industrial properties), remote rural properties, “off the plan” and high-density apartments. Our lending consultants will be happy to provide more detail.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6159
__label__cc	0.680309	0.319691	Champion (Legend Series #3) by Marie LuMarie Lu Buy Online, Pick up in Store , #3 Marie Lu (www.marielu.org) is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Legend and Prodigy. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry, working for Disney Interactive Studios as a Flash artist. Now a full-time writer, she spends her spare time reading, drawing, playing Assassin’s Creed, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in Los Angeles, California (see above: traffic), with one boyfriend, one Chihuahua mix, and two Pembroke Welsh corgis. REPUBLIC OF AMERICA OUT OF ALL THE DISGUISES I’VE WORN, THIS ONE might be my favorite. Dark red hair, different enough from my usual white-blond, cut to just past my shoulders and pulled back into a tail. Green contacts that look natural when layered over my blue eyes. A crumpled, half-tucked collar shirt, its tiny silver buttons shining in the dark, a thin military jacket, black pants and steel-toed boots, a thick gray scarf wrapped around my neck, chin, and mouth. A dark soldier cap is pulled low over my forehead, and a crimson, painted tattoo stretches all over the left half of my face, changing me into someone unfamiliar. Aside from this, I wear an ever-present earpiece and mike. The Republic insists on it. In most other cities, I’d probably get even more stares than I usually do because of that giant goddy tattoo—not exactly a subtle marker, I gotta admit. But here in San Francisco, I blend right in with the others. The first thing I noticed when Eden and I moved to Frisco eight months ago was the local trend: young people painting black or red patterns on their faces, some small and delicate, like Republic seals on their temples or something similar, others huge and sprawling, like giant patterns of the Republic’s land shape. I chose a pretty generic tattoo tonight, because I’m not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June. Instead, I have stylized flames. Good enough. My insomnia’s acting up tonight, so instead of sleeping, I’m walking alone through a sector called Marina, which as far as I can tell is the hillier, Frisco equivalent of LA’s Lake sector. The night’s cool and pretty quiet, and a light drizzle is blowing in from the city’s bay. The streets are narrow, glistening wet, and riddled with potholes, and the buildings that rise up on both sides—most of them tall enough to vanish into tonight’s low-lying clouds—are eclectic, painted with fading red and gold and black, their sides fortified with enormous steel beams to counter the earthquakes that roll through every couple of months. JumboTrons five or six stories high sit on every other block, blaring the usual barrage of Republic news. The air smells salty and bitter, like smoke and industrial waste mixed with seawater, and somewhere in there, a faint whiff of fried fish. Sometimes, when I turn down a corner, I’ll suddenly end up close enough to the water’s edge to get my boots wet. Here the land slopes right into the bay and hundreds of buildings poke out half submerged along the horizon. Whenever I get a view of the bay, I can also see the Golden Gate Ruins, the twisted remnants of some old bridge all piled up along the other side of the shore. A handful of people jostle past me now and then, but for the most part the city is asleep. Scattered bonfires light alleyways, gathering spots for the sector’s street folks. It’s not that different from Lake. Well—I guess there are some differences now. The San Francisco Trial Stadium, for one, which sits empty and unlit off in the distance. Fewer street police in the poor sectors. The city’s graffiti. You can always get an idea of how the people are feeling by looking at the recent graffiti. A lot of the messages I’ve seen lately actually support the Republic’s new Elector. He is our hope, says one message scrawled on the side of a building. Another painted on the street reads: The Elector will guide us out of the darkness. A little too optimistic, if you ask me, but I guess they’re good signs. Anden must be doing something right. And yet. Every now and then, I’ll also see messages that say, The Elector’s a hoax, or Brainwashed, or The Day we knew is dead. I don’t know. Sometimes this new trust between Anden and the people feels like a string . . . and I am that string. Besides, maybe the happy graffiti’s fake, painted by propaganda officers. Why not? You never know with the Republic. Eden and I, of course, have a Frisco apartment in a rich sector called Pacifica, where we stay with our caretaker, Lucy. The Republic’s gotta take care of its seventeen-year-old most-wanted-criminal-turned-national-hero, doesn’t it? I remember how much I distrusted Lucy—a stern, stout, fifty-two-year-old lady dressed in classic Republic colors—when she first showed up at our door in Denver. “The Republic has assigned me to assist you boys,” she told me as she bustled in to our apartment. Her eyes had settled immediately on Eden. “Especially the little one.” Yeah. That didn’t sit well with me. First of all, it’d taken me two months before I could even let Eden out of my sight. We ate side by side; we slept side by side; he was never alone. I’d gone as far as standing outside his bathroom door, as if Republic soldiers would somehow suck him out through a vent, take him back to a lab, and hook him up to a bunch of machines. “Eden doesn’t need you,” I’d snapped at Lucy. “He’s got me. I take care of him.” But my health started fluctuating after those first couple of months. Some days I felt fine; other days, I’d be stuck in bed with a crippling headache. On those bad days, Lucy would take over—and after a few shouting matches, she and I settled into a grudging routine. She does make pretty awesome meat pies. And when we moved here to Frisco, she came with us. She guides Eden. She manages my medications. When I’m finally tired of walking, I notice that I’ve wandered right out of Marina and into a wealthier neighboring district. I stop in front of a club with THE OBSIDIAN LOUNGE scored into a metal slab over its door. I slide against the wall into a sitting position, my arms resting on my knees, and feel the music’s vibrations. My metal leg is ice-cold through the fabric of my trousers. On the wall across from me, graffiti scrawled in red reads, Day = Traitor. I sigh, take a silver tin from my pocket, and pull out a long cigarette. I run a finger across the SAN FRANCISCO CENTRAL HOSPITAL text imprinted down its length. Prescription cigarettes. Doctor’s orders, yeah? I put it to my lips with trembling fingers and light it up. Close eyes. Take a puff. Gradually I lose myself in the clouds of blue smoke, waiting for the sweet, hallucinogenic effects to wash over me. Doesn’t take long tonight. Soon the constant, dull headache disappears, and the world around me takes on a blurry sheen that I know isn’t only from the rain. A girl’s sitting next to me. It’s Tess. She gives me the grin I was so familiar with back on the streets of Lake. “Any news from the JumboTrons?” she asks me, pointing toward a screen across the road. I exhale blue smoke and lazily shake my head. “Nope. I mean, I’ve seen a couple of Patriot-related headlines, but it’s like you guys vanished off the map. Where are you? Where are you going?” “Do you miss me?” Tess asks instead of answering. I stare at the shimmery image of her. She’s how I remember from the streets—her reddish-brown hair tied into a messy braid, her eyes large and luminous, kind and gentle. Little baby Tess. What were my last words to her . . . back when we had botched the Patriots’ assassination attempt on Anden? Please, Tess—I can’t leave you here. But that’s exactly what I did. I turn away, taking another drag on my cigarette. Do I miss her? “Every day,” I reply. “You’ve been trying to find me,” Tess says, scooting closer. I swear I can almost feel her shoulder against mine. “I’ve seen you, scouring the JumboTrons and airwaves for news, eavesdropping on the streets. But the Patriots are in hiding right now.” Of course they’re in hiding. Why would they attack, now that Anden’s in power and a peace treaty between the Republic and the Colonies is a done deal? What could their new cause possibly be? I have no idea. Maybe they don’t have one. Maybe they don’t even exist anymore. “I wish you would come back,” I murmur to Tess. “It’d be nice to see you again.” “What about June?” As she asks this, her image vanishes. She’s replaced by June, with her long ponytail and her dark eyes that shine with hints of gold, serious and analyzing, always analyzing. I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much. I remember how I’d said good-bye to her back in Denver, before Eden and I moved to Frisco. “I’m sure we’ll be back,” I’d told her over my mike, trying to fill the awkward silence between us. “After Eden’s treatment is done.” This was a lie, of course. We were going to Frisco for my treatment, not Eden’s. But June didn’t know this, so she just said, “Come back soon.” That was almost eight months ago. I haven’t heard from her since. I don’t know if it’s because each of us is too hesitant to bother the other, too afraid that the other doesn’t want to talk, or maybe both of us are just too damn proud to be the one desperate enough to reach out. Maybe she’s just not interested enough. But you know how it goes. A week passes without contact, and then a month, and soon too much time has passed and calling her would just feel random and weird. So I don’t. Besides, what would I say? Don’t worry, doctors are fighting to save my life. Don’t worry, they’re trying to shrink the problem area in my brain with a giant pile of medication before attempting an operation. Don’t worry, Antarctica might grant me access to treatment in their superior hospitals. Don’t worry, I’ll be just fine. What’s the point of keeping in touch with the girl you’re crazy about, when you’re dying? The reminder sends a throbbing pain through the back of my head. “It’s better this way,” I tell myself for the hundredth time. And it is. By not seeing her for so long, the memory of how we’d originally met has grown dimmer, and I find myself thinking about her connection to my family’s deaths less often. Unlike Tess’s, for some reason June’s image never says a word. I try to ignore the shimmery mirage, but she refuses to go away. So damn stubborn. Finally, I stand, stub my cigarette into the pavement, and step through the door of the Obsidian Lounge. Maybe the music and lights will shake her from my system. For an instant, I can’t see a thing. The club is pitch-black, and the sound’s deafening. I’m stopped immediately by an enormous pair of soldiers. One of them puts a firm hand on my shoulder. “Name and branch?” he asks. I have no interest in making my real identity known. “Corporal Schuster. Air force,” I reply, blurting out a random name and the first branch that comes to mind. I always think of the air force first, mostly because of Kaede. “I’m stationed at Naval Base Two.” The guard nods. “Air force kids over in the back left, near the bathrooms. And if I hear you picking any fights with the army booths, you’re out and your commander hears about it in the morning. Got it?” I nod, and the soldiers let me pass. I walk down a dark hall and through a second door, then melt into the crowds and flashing lights inside. The dance floor is jammed with people in loose shirts and rolled-up sleeves, dresses paired with rumpled uniforms. I find the air force booths in the back of the room. Good, there are several empty ones. I slide into a booth, prop up my boots against the cushioned seats, and lean my head back. At least June’s image has disappeared. The loud music sends all my thoughts scattering. I’ve only been in the booth for a few minutes when a girl cuts her way through the crowded dance floor and stumbles toward me. She looks flushed, her eyes bright and teasing; and when I glance behind her, I notice a cluster of laughing girls watching us. I force a smile. Usually, I like the attention in clubs, but sometimes, I just want to close my eyes and let the chaos take me away. She leans over and presses her lips against my ear. “Excuse me,” she shouts over the noise. “My girlfriends want to know if you’re Day.” I’ve been recognized already? I shrink instinctively away and shake my head so the others can see. “You got the wrong guy,” I reply with a wry grin. “But thanks for the compliment.” The girl’s face is almost entirely covered in shadows, but even so, I can tell she’s blushing furiously. Her friends burst out laughing. None of them look like they believe my denial. “Want to dance?” the girl asks. She glances over her shoulder toward the flashing blue and gold lights, then back at me. This must be something her friends dared her to do too. As I’m trying to think up some sort of polite refusal, I take in the girl’s appearance. The club’s too dark for me to get a good look at her, and all I see are glimpses of neon highlights on her skin and long ponytail, her glossy lips curved into a smile, her body lean and smooth in a short dress and military boots. My refusal fades on my tongue. Something about her reminds me of June. In the eight months since June first became a Princeps-Elect, I haven’t felt excited about many girls—but now, with this shadowy doppelgänger beckoning me onto the dance floor, I let myself feel hopeful again. “Yeah, why not?” I say. The girl breaks into a wide smile. When I get up from the booth and take her hand, her friends all let out a gasp of surprise, followed by a loud cheer. The girl leads me through them, and before I know it, we’ve pushed our way into the crowds and carved out a tiny space right in the middle of the action. I press myself against her, she runs a hand along the back of my neck, and we let the pounding beat carry us away. She’s cute, I admit to myself, blinded in this sea of lights and limbs. The song changes, then changes again. I have no idea how long we’re lost like this, but when she leans forward and brushes her lips over my own, I close my eyes and let her. I even feel a shiver run down my spine. She kisses me twice, her mouth soft and liquid, her tongue tasting of vodka and fruit. I flatten one hand against the small of the girl’s back and pull her closer, until her body’s solidly against mine. Her kisses grow more urgent. She is June, I tell myself, choosing to indulge in the fantasy. With my eyes closed, my mind still hazy from my cigarette’s hallucinogens, I can believe it for a moment—I can picture her kissing me here, taking every last breath from my lungs. The girl probably senses the change in my movements, my sudden hunger and desire, because she grins against my lips. She is June. It is June’s dark hair that brushes against my face, June’s long lashes that touch my cheeks, June’s arm wrapped around my neck, June’s body sliding against mine. A soft moan escapes me. “Come on,” she whispers. Mischief laces her words. “Let’s go get some air.” How long has it been? I don’t want to leave, because it means I’ll have to open my eyes and June will be gone, replaced with this girl that I don’t know. But she pulls on my hand and I’m forced to look around. June is nowhere to be seen, of course. The club’s lights flash and I’m momentarily blinded. She guides me through the throngs of dancers, down the club’s dark hallway, and out an unmarked back door. We step into a quiet back alley. A few weak spotlights shine down along the path, giving everything an eerie, greenish glow. She pushes me against the wall and drowns me in another kiss. Her skin is moist, and I feel her goose bumps rise beneath my touch. I kiss her back, and a small laugh of surprise escapes her when I flip us around and pin her against the wall. She’s June, I tell myself on repeat. My lips work greedily along her neck, tasting smoke and perfume. Faint static sizzles in my earpiece, the sound of rain and frying eggs. I try to ignore the incoming call, even as a man’s voice fills my ears. Talk about a buzzkill. “Mr. Wing,” he says. I don’t answer it. Go away. I’m busy. A few seconds later, the voice starts up again. “Mr. Wing, this is Captain David Guzman of Denver City Patrol Fourteen. I know you’re there.” Oh, this guy. This poor captain’s always the one tasked with trying to get hold of me. I sigh and break away from the girl. “Sorry,” I say breathlessly. I give her an apologetic frown and gesture at my ear. “Give me a minute?” She smiles and smoothes down her dress. “I’ll be inside,” she replies. “Look for me.” Then she steps through the door and back into the club. I turn my mike on and start slowly pacing up and down the alley. “What do you want?” I say in an annoyed whisper. The captain sighs over the earpiece and launches into his message. “Mr. Wing, your presence is requested in Denver tomorrow night, on Independence Day, at the Capitol Tower’s ballroom. As always, you are free to turn down the request—as you usually do,” he mutters under his breath. “However, this banquet is an exceptional meeting of great importance. Should you choose to attend, we’ll have a private jet waiting for you in the morning.” An exceptional meeting of great importance? Ever heard so many fancy words in one sentence? I roll my eyes. Every month or so, I get an invitation to some goddy capital event, like a ball for all the high-ranking war generals or the celebration they held when Anden finally ended the Trials. But the only reason they want me to go to these things is so they can show me off and remind the people, “Look, just in case you forgot, Day is on our side!” Don’t push your luck, Anden. “Mr. Wing,” the captain says when I stay silent, as if he’s resorting to some final argument, “the glorious Elector personally requests your presence. So does the Princeps-Elect.” The Princeps-Elect. My boots crunch to a halt in the middle of the alley. I forget to breathe. Don’t get too excited—after all, there are three Princeps-Elects, and he might be referring to any one of them. A few seconds pass before I finally ask, “Which Princeps-Elect?” “The one who actually matters to you.” My cheeks warm at the taunt in his voice. “June?” “Yes, Ms. June Iparis,” the captain replies. He sounds relieved to finally have my attention. “She wanted to make it a personal request this time. She would very much like to see you at the Capitol Tower’s banquet.” My head aches, and I fight to steady my breathing. All thoughts of the girl in the club go out the window. June has not personally asked for me in eight months—this is the first time that she’s requested I attend a public function. “What’s this for?” I ask. “Just an Independence Day party? Why so important?” The captain hesitates. “It’s a matter of national security.” “What’s that supposed to mean?” My initial excitement slowly wanes—maybe he’s just bluffing. “Look, Captain, I’ve got some unfinished business to take care of. Try convincing me again in the morning.” The captain curses under his breath. “Fine, Mr. Wing. Have it your way.” He mumbles something I can’t quite make out, then goes offline. I frown in exasperation as my initial excitement fades away into a sinking disappointment. Maybe I should head home now. It’s time for me to go back and check up on Eden, anyway. What a joke. Chances are he’s probably lying about June’s request in the first place, because if she’d really wanted me to go back to the capital that badly, she— A new voice comes over my earpiece. I freeze. Have the hallucinogens from the meds worn off yet? Did I just imagine her voice? Even though I haven’t heard it in almost a year, I would recognize it anywhere, and the sound alone is enough to conjure the image of June standing before me, as if I’d run across her by chance in this alley. Please, don’t let it be her. Please, let it be her. Did her voice always have this effect on me? I have no idea how long I was frozen like this, but it must’ve been a while, because she repeats, “Day, it’s me. June. Are you there?” A shiver runs through me. This is real. It’s really her. Her tone is different from what I remember. Hesitant and formal, like she’s speaking to a stranger. I finally manage to compose myself and click my mike back on. “I’m here,” I reply. My own tone is different too—just as hesitant, just as formal. I hope she doesn’t hear the slight tremor in it. There’s a short pause on the other side before June continues. “Hi.” Then a long silence, followed by, “How are you?” Suddenly I feel a storm of words building up inside me, threatening to pour out. I want to blurt out everything: I’ve thought about you every day since that final farewell between us, I’m sorry for not contacting you, I wish you had contacted me. I miss you. I miss you. I don’t say any of this. Instead, the only thing I manage is, “Fine. What’s up?” She pauses. “Oh. That’s good. I apologize for the late call, as I’m sure you’re trying to sleep. But the Senate and the Elector have asked me to send this request to you personally. I wouldn’t do it unless I felt it was truly important. Denver is throwing a ball for Independence Day, and during the event, we’ll be having an emergency meeting. We need you in attendance.” “Why?” Guess I’ve resorted to one-word replies. For some reason, it’s all I can think of with June’s voice on the line. She exhales, sending a faint burst of static through the earpiece, and then says, “You’ve heard about the peace treaty being drafted between the Republic and the Colonies, right?” “Yeah, of course.” Everyone in the country knows about that: our precious little Anden’s greatest ambition, to end the war that’s been going on for who knows how long. And so far, things seem to be going in the right direction, well enough that the warfront has been at a quiet stalemate for the past four months. Who knew a day like that could come, just like how we’d never expected to see the Trial stadiums sitting unused across the country. “Seems like the Elector’s on track to becoming the Republic’s hero, yeah?” “Don’t speak too soon.” June’s words darken, and I feel like I can see her expression through the earpiece. “Yesterday we received an angry transmission from the Colonies. There’s a plague spreading through their warfront cities, and they believe it was caused by some of the biological weapons we’d sent across their borders. They’ve even traced the serial numbers on the shells of the weapons they believe started this plague.” Her words are turning muffled through the shock in my mind, the fog that’s bringing back memories of Eden and his black, bleeding eyes, of that boy on the train who was being used as a part of the warfare. “Does that mean the peace treaty is off?” I ask. “Yes.” June’s voice falls. “The Colonies say the plague is an official act of war against them.” “And what does this have to do with me?” Another long, ominous pause. It fills me with dread so icy cold that I feel like my fingers are turning numb. The plague. It’s happening. It’s all come full circle. “I’ll tell you when you get here,” June finally says. “Best not to talk about it over earpieces.” I despise my first conversation with Day after eight months of no communication. I hate it. When did I become so manipulative? Why must I always use his weaknesses against him? Last night at 2306 hours, Anden came to my apartment complex and knocked on my door. Alone. I don’t even think guards were stationed in the hallway for his protection. It was my first warning that whatever he needed to tell me had to be important—and secret. “I have to ask a favor of you,” he said as I let him in. Anden has almost perfected the art of being a young Elector (calm, cool, collected, a proud chin under stress, an even voice when angered), but this time I could see the deep worry in his eyes. Even my dog, Ollie, could tell that Anden was troubled, and tried reassuring him by pushing his wet nose against Anden’s hand. I nudged Ollie away before turning back to Anden. “What is it?” I asked. Anden ran a hand through his dark curls. “I don’t mean to disturb you so late at night,” he said, leaning his head down toward mine in quiet concern. “But I’m afraid this is not a conversation that can wait.” He stood close enough so that if I wanted to, I could tilt my face up and accidentally brush my lips against his. My heartbeat quickened at the thought. Anden seemed to sense the tension in my pose, because he took an apologetic step away and gave me more room to breathe. I felt a strange mixture of relief and disappointment. “The peace treaty is over,” he whispered. “The Colonies are preparing to declare war against us once again.” “What?” I whispered back. “Why? What’s happened?” “Word from my generals is that a couple of weeks ago, a deadly virus started sweeping through the Colonies’ warfront like wildfire.” When he saw my eyes widen in understanding, he nodded. He looked so weary, burdened with the weight of an entire nation’s safety. “Apparently I was too late in withdrawing our biological weapons from the warfront.” Eden. The experimental viruses that Anden’s father had used in attempts to cause a plague in the Colonies. For months, I’d tried to push that to the back of my mind—after all, Eden was safe now, under the care of Day and, last I heard, slowly adjusting to semblances of a normal life. For the last few months, the warfront had stood silent while Anden attempted to hash out a peace treaty with the Colonies. I’d thought that we would be lucky, that nothing would come out of that biological warfare. Wishful thinking. “Do the Senators know?” I asked after a while. “Or the other Princeps-Elects? Why are you telling me this? I’m hardly your closest advisor.” Anden sighed and squeezed the bridge of his nose. “Forgive me. I wish I didn’t have to involve you in this. The Colonies believe that we have the cure to this virus in our laboratories and are simply withholding it. They demand we share it, or else they put all of their strength behind a full-scale invasion of the Republic. And this time, it won’t be a return to our old war. The Colonies have secured an ally. They struck a trade deal with Africa—the Colonies get military help, and in return, Africa gets half our land.” A feeling of foreboding crept over me. Even without him saying it, I could tell where this was going. “We don’t have a cure, do we?” “No. But we do know which former patients have the potential to help us find that cure.” I started shaking my head. When Anden reached out to touch my elbow, I jerked away. “Absolutely not,” I said. “You can’t ask this of me. I won’t do it.” Anden looked pained. “I have called for a private banquet tomorrow night to gather all of our Senators. We have no choice if we want to put a stop to this and find a way to secure peace with the Colonies.” His tone grew firmer. “You know this as well as I do. I want him to attend this banquet and hear us out. We need his permission if we’re going to get to Eden.” He’s serious, I realized in shock. “You’ll never get him to do it. You realize that, don’t you? The country’s support for you is still soft, and Day’s alliance with you is hesitant at best. What do you think he’ll say to this? What if you anger him enough for him to call the people to action, to tell them to rebel against you? Or worse—what if he asks them to support the Colonies?” “I know. I’ve thought through all of this.” Anden rubs his temples in exhaustion. “If there was a better option, I’d take it.” “So you want me to make him agree to this,” I added. My irritation was too strong to bother hiding. “I won’t do it. Get the other Senators to convince Day, or try convincing him yourself. Or find a way to apologize to the Colonies’ Chancellor—ask him to negotiate new terms.” “You are Day’s weakness, June. He’ll listen to you.” Anden winced even as he said this, as if he didn’t want to admit it. “I know how this makes me sound. I don’t want to be cruel—I don’t want Day to see us as the enemy. But I will do what it takes to protect the Republic’s people. Otherwise, the Colonies will attack, and if that happens, you know it’s likely the virus will spread here as well.” It was worse than that, even though Anden didn’t say it aloud. If the Colonies attack us with Africa at their side, then our military might not be strong enough to hold them back. This time, they might win. He’ll listen to you. I closed my eyes and bowed my head. I didn’t want to admit it, but I knew that Anden was right. So I did as he requested. I called Day and asked him to return to the capital. Just the thought of seeing him again leaves my heart pounding, aching from his absence in my life over these past months. I haven’t seen or spoken to him for so long . . . and this is going to be how we reunite? What will he think of me now? What will he think of the Republic when he finds out what they want with his little brother? 1201 Hours.Denver County Court of Federal Crime.72°F indoors. Six hours until I see Day at the evening ball.289 days and 12 hours since Metias’s death. Thomas and Commander Jameson are on trial today. I’m so tired of trials. In the past four months, a dozen former Senators have been tried and convicted of participating in the plan to assassinate Anden, the plan that Day and I had barely managed to stop. Those Senators have all been executed. Razor has already been executed. Sometimes I feel like someone new is convicted each week. But today’s trial is different. I know exactly who is being sentenced today, and why. I sit in a balcony overlooking the courtroom’s round stage, my hands restless in their white silk gloves, my body constantly shifting in my vest and black ruffled coat, my boots quietly tapping against the balcony pillars. My chair is made out of synthetic oak and cushioned with soft, scarlet velvet, but somehow I just can’t make myself comfortable. To keep myself calm and occupied, I’m carefully entwining four straightened paper clips in my lap to form a small ring. Two guards stand behind me. Three circular rows of the country’s twenty-six Senators surround the stage, uniform in their matching scarlet-and-black suits, their silver epaulettes reflecting the chamber’s light, their voices echoing along the arched ceilings. They sound largely indifferent, as if they’re meeting about trade routes instead of people’s fates. Many are new faces that have replaced the traitor Senators, who Anden has already cleaned out. I’m the one who sticks out with my black-and-gold outfit (even the seventy-six soldiers standing guard here are clad in scarlet; two for each Senator, two for me, two for each of the other Princeps-Elects, four for Anden, and fourteen at the chamber’s front and back entrances, which means the defendants—Thomas and Commander Jameson—are considered fairly high risk and could possibly make a sudden move). I’m no Senator, clearly. I am a Princeps-Elect and need to be distinguished as such. Two others in the chamber wear the same black-and-gold uniform that I do. My eyes wander over to them now, where they sit on other balconies. After Anden tapped me to train for the Princeps position, Congress urged him to select several others. After all, you cannot have only one person preparing to become the leader of the Senate, especially when that person is a sixteen-year-old girl without a shred of political experience. So Anden agreed. He picked out two more Princeps-Elects, both of them already Senators. One is named Mariana Dupree. My gaze settles on her, her nose turned up and her eyes heavy with sternness. Thirty-seven years old, Senator for ten years. She hated me the instant she laid eyes on me. I look away from her and toward the balcony where the second Princeps-Elect sits. Serge Carmichael, a jumpy thirty-two-year-old Senator and great political mind, who wasted no time showing me that he doesn’t appreciate my youth and inexperience. Serge and Mariana. My two rivals for the Princeps title. I feel exhausted just thinking about it. On a balcony several dozen yards away, sitting flanked by his guards, Anden seems calm, reviewing something with one of the soldiers. He’s wearing a handsome gray military coat with bright silver buttons, silver epaulettes, and silver sleeve insignias. He occasionally glances down toward the prisoners standing in the chamber’s circle. I watch him for a moment, admiring his appearance of calm. Thomas and Commander Jameson are going to receive their sentences for crimes against the nation. Thomas looks tidier than usual—if that’s possible. His hair is slicked back, and I can tell that he must’ve emptied an entire can of shoe polish onto each of his boots. He stands at attention in the center of the chamber and stares straight ahead with an intensity that would make any Republic commander proud. I wonder what’s going through his mind. Is he picturing that night in the hospital alley, when he murdered my brother? Is he thinking of the many conversations he had with Metias, the moments when he had taken down his guard? Or the fateful night when he had chosen to betray Metias instead of help him? Commander Jameson, on the other hand, looks slightly disheveled. Her cold, emotionless eyes are fixed on me. She has been watching me unflinchingly for the past twelve minutes. I stare back for a moment, trying to see some hint of a soul in her eyes, but nothing exists there except for an icy hatred, an absolute lack of conscience. I look away, take deep, slow breaths, and try to focus on something else. My thoughts return to Day. It’s been 241 days since he visited my apartment and bid me good-bye. Sometimes I wish Day could hold me in his arms again and kiss me the way he did on that last night, so close that we could barely breathe, his lips soft against mine. But then I take back that wish. The thought is useless. It reminds me of loss, just like how sitting here and looking down on the people who killed my family reminds me of all the things I used to have; it reminds me too of my guilt, of all the things Day used to have that I took from him. Besides, Day will probably never want to kiss me again. Not after he finds out why I’ve asked him to return to Denver. Anden’s looking in my direction now. When I catch his gaze, he nods once, excuses himself from his balcony, and a minute later he steps into my balcony. I rise and, along with my guards, snap to a salute. Anden waves a hand impatiently. “Sit, please,” he says. When I’ve relaxed back into my chair, he bends down to my eye level and adds, “How are you holding up, June?” I fight the blush as it spreads across my cheeks. After eight months without Day in my life, I find myself smiling at Anden, enjoying the attention, occasionally even hoping for it. “Doing fine, thanks. I’ve been looking forward to this day.” “Of course.” Anden nods. “Don’t worry—it won’t be long before both of them are out of your life forever.” He gives my shoulder a reassuring squeeze. Then he leaves as swiftly as he arrived, vanishing with the faint clink of medals and epaulettes, then reappearing moments later in his own balcony. I lift my head in a vain attempt at bravery, knowing that Commander Jameson’s icy eyes must still be upon me. As each of the Senators rises to cast aloud his vote on her verdict, I hold my breath and carefully push away each memory I have of her eyes staring me down, folding them into a neat compartment at the back of my mind. The voting seems to take forever, even though the Senators are all quick to say what they think will please the Elector. No one has the courage to risk crossing Anden after watching so many others convicted and executed. By the time my turn comes, my throat is parched. I swallow a few times, then speak up. “Guilty,” I say, my voice clear and calm. Serge and Mariana cast their votes after me. We run through another round of voting for Thomas, and then we’re done. Three minutes later, a man (bald, with a round, wrinkled face and scarlet floor-length robes he’s clutching with his left hand) hurries into Anden’s balcony and gives him a rushed bow. Anden leans toward the man and whispers in his ear. I watch their interaction in quiet curiosity, wondering whether I can predict the final verdict by their gestures. After a short deliberation, Anden and the messenger both nod. Then the messenger raises his voice to the entire assembly. “We are now ready to announce the verdicts for Captain Thomas Alexander Bryant and Commander Natasha Jameson of Los Angeles City Patrol Eight. All rise for the glorious Elector!” The Senators and I stand with a uniform clatter, while Commander Jameson simply turns to face Anden with a look of utter disdain. Thomas snaps to a sharp salute in Anden’s direction. He holds the position as Anden stands up, straightens, and puts his hands behind his back. There’s a moment of silence as we wait for his final verdict, the one vote that really matters. I fight back a rising urge to cough. My eyes dart instinctively to the other Princeps-Elects, something I now do all the time; Mariana has a satisfied frown on her face, while Serge just looks bored. One of my fists clenches tightly around the paper clip ring I’m working on. I already know it will leave deep grooves in my palm. “The Senators of the Republic have submitted their individual verdicts,” Anden announces to the courtroom, his words bearing all the formality of a traditions-old speech. I marvel at the way his voice can sound so soft, yet carry so well at the same time. “I have taken their joint decision into account, and now I give my own.” Anden pauses to turn his eyes down toward where both of them are waiting. Thomas is still in full salute, still staring intently at the empty air in front of him. “Captain Thomas Alexander Bryant of Los Angeles City Patrol Eight,” he says, “the Republic of America finds you guilty . . .” The room stays silent. I fight to keep my breathing even. Think about something. Anything. What about all the political books I’ve been reading this week? I try to recite some of the facts I’ve learned, but suddenly I can’t remember any of it. Most uncharacteristic. “. . . of the death of Captain Metias Iparis on the night of November thirtieth—of the death of civilian Grace Wing without the warrants necessary for execution—of the single-handed execution of twelve protesters in Batalla Square on the afternoon of—” His voice comes in and out of the blur of noise in my head. I lean a hand against my chair’s armrest, let out a slow breath, and try to prevent myself from swaying. Guilty. Thomas has been found guilty of killing both my brother and Day’s mother. My hands shake. “—and thereby sentenced to death by firing squad two days from today, at seventeen hundred hours. Commander Natasha Jameson of Los Angeles City Patrol Eight, the Republic of America finds you guilty . . .” Anden’s voice fades away into a dull, unrecognizable hum. Everything around me seems so slow, as if I’m living too quickly for it all and leaving the world behind. A year ago I’d been standing outside Batalla Hall on a different sort of court stage, looking on with a huge crowd as a judge gave Day the exact same sentence. Now Day is alive, and a Republic celebrity. I open my eyes again. Commander Jameson’s lips are set in a tight line as Anden reads out her death penalty. Thomas looks expressionless. Is he expressionless? I’m too far away to tell, but his eyebrows seem furrowed into a strange sort of tragedy. I should feel good about this, I remind myself. Both Day and I should be rejoicing. Thomas killed Metias. He shot Day’s mother in cold blood, without a second’s hesitation. But now the courtroom falls away and all I can see are memories of Thomas as a teenager, back when he and Metias and I used to eat pork edame inside a warm first-floor street stand, with the rain pouring down all around us. I remember Thomas showing off his first assigned gun to me. I even remember the time Metias brought me to his afternoon drills. I was twelve and had just begun my courses at Drake for a week—how innocent everything seemed back then. Metias picked me up after my classes that afternoon, right on time, and we headed over to the Tanagashi sector, where he was running his patrol through drills. I can still feel the warmth of the sun beating down on my hair, still see the swoosh of Metias’s black half cape, the gleam of his silver epaulettes, and still hear the sharp clicks of his shining boots on the cement. While I settled down on a corner bench and turned my comp on to (pretend to) do some advance reading, Metias lined up his soldiers for inspection. He paused before each soldier to point out flaws in their uniforms. “Cadet Rin,” he barked at one of the newer soldiers. The soldier jumped at the steel in my brother’s voice, then hung her head in shame as Metias tapped the lone medal pinned on the cadet’s coat. “If I wore my medal like this, Commander Jameson would strip me of my title. Do you want to be removed from this patrol, soldier?” “N-no, sir,” the cadet stammered. Metias kept his gloved hands tucked behind his back and moved on. He criticized three more soldiers before he reached Thomas, who stood at attention near the end of the line. Metias looked over his uniform with a stern, careful eye. Of course, Thomas’s outfit was absolutely spotless—not a single thread out of place, every medal and epaulette groove polished to a bright shine, boots so flawless that I could probably see my reflection in them. A long pause. I put my comp down and leaned forward to watch more closely. Finally, my brother nodded. “Well done, soldier,” he said to Thomas. “Keep up the good work, and I’ll see that Commander Jameson promotes you before the end of this year.” Thomas’s expression never changed, but I saw him lift his chin with pride. “Thank you, sir,” he replied. Metias’s eyes lingered on him for a second, and then he moved on. When he finally finished inspecting everyone, my brother turned to face his entire patrol. “A disappointing inspection, soldiers,” he called out to them. “You’re under my watch now, and that means you’re under Commander Jameson’s watch. She expects a higher caliber from this lot, so you’d do well to try harder. Understood?” Sharp salutes answered him. “Yes, sir!” Metias’s eyes returned to Thomas. I saw respect on my brother’s face, even admiration. “If each of you paid attention to detail the way Cadet Bryant does, we’d be the greatest patrol in the country. Let him serve as an example to you all.” He joined them in a final salute. “Long live the Republic!” The cadets echoed him in unison. The memory slowly fades from my thoughts, and Metias’s clear voice turns into a ghost’s whisper, leaving me weak and exhausted in my sadness. Metias had always talked about Thomas’s fixation on being the perfect soldier. I remember the blind devotion Thomas gave to Commander Jameson, the same blind devotion he now gives to his new Elector. Then I see Thomas and me sitting across from each other in an interrogation room—I remember the anguish in his eyes. How he’d told me that he wanted to protect me. What happened to that shy, awkward boy from Los Angeles’s poor sectors, the boy who used to train with Metias every afternoon? Something blurs my vision and I quickly wipe a hand across my eyes. I could be compassionate. I could ask Anden to spare his life and let him live out his years in prison, and give him a chance to redeem himself. But instead I just stand there with my closed lips and unwavering posture, my heart hard as stone. Metias would be more merciful in my position. But I was never as good a person as my brother. “This concludes the trial for Captain Thomas Alexander Bryant and Commander Natasha Jameson,” Anden finishes. He holds a hand out in Thomas’s direction and nods once. “Captain, do you have any words for the Senate?” Thomas doesn’t flinch in the slightest, doesn’t show a single hint of fear or remorse or anger on his face. I watch him closely. After a heartbeat, he turns his eyes up to where Anden stands, then bows low. “My glorious Elector,” he replies in a clear, unwavering voice. “I have disgraced the Republic by acting in a way that has both displeased and disappointed you. I humbly accept my verdict.” He rises from his bow, then returns to his salute. “Long live the Republic.” He glances up at me when the Senators all voice their agreement with Anden’s final verdict. For an instant, our eyes meet. Then I look down. After a while, I look back up and he’s staring straight ahead again. Anden turns his attention to Commander Jameson. “Commander,” he says, extending his gloved hand in her direction. His chin lifts in a regal gesture. “Do you have any words for the Senate?” She doesn’t flinch from looking at the young Elector. Her eyes are cold, dark slates. After a pause, she finally nods. “Yes, Elector,” she says, her tone harsh and mocking, a stark contrast to Thomas’s. The Senators and soldiers shift uneasily, but Anden raises a hand for silence. “I do have some words for you. I was not the first to hope for your death, and I won’t be the last. You are the Elector, but you are still just a boy. You don’t know who you are.” She narrows her eyes . . . and smiles. “But I know. I have seen far more than you have—I’ve drained the blood from prisoners twice your age, I’ve killed men with twice your strength, I’ve left prisoners shaking in their broken bodies who probably have twice your courage. You think you’re this country’s savior, don’t you? But I know better. You’re just your father’s boy, and like father, like son. He failed, and so will you.” Her smile widens, but it never touches her eyes. “This country will go down in flames with you at the helm, and my ghost will be laughing at you all the way from hell.” Anden’s expression never changes. His eyes stay clear and unafraid, and in this moment, I am drawn to him like a bird to an open sky. He meets her stare coolly. “This concludes today’s trial,” he replies, his voice echoing throughout the chamber. “Commander, I suggest you save your threats for the firing squad.” Then he folds his hands behind his back and nods at his soldiers. “Remove them from my sight.” I don’t know how Anden can show so little fear in front of Commander Jameson. I envy it. Because as I watch the soldiers lead her away, all I can feel is a deep, ice-cold pit of terror. Like she’s not done with us yet. Like she’s warning us to watch our backs. What People are Saying About This Praise and Accolades for Marie Lu’s New York Times bestselling LEGEND series: 2012 YALSA BFYA ALA Top 10 nominee Chicago Public Library Best Book VOYA YA Perfect Ten List Bank Street Best Book Featured on Entertainment Weekly’s Must-List From ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: “Fine writing and excellent execution. Sequel, please!” “Legend doesn’t merely survive the hype, it deserves it.” From USA TODAY: “Marie Lu’s dystopian novel is a ‘Legend’ in the making.” “an action-packed love story full of inventive details.” STARRED REVIEW from PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: “Lu’s debut is a stunner. . . raises hopes high for the sequels to come. ” STARRED REVIEW from KIRKUS REVIEWS: “A gripping thriller in dystopic future Los Angeles. This is no didactic near-future warning of present evils, but a cinematic adventure featuring endearing, compelling heroes.” STARRED REVIEW from BOOKLIST: “[D]elicious details keep pages turning . . . you’ve got the makings for a potent sequel.” STARRED REVIEW from VOYA: “A fast-paced blend of action and science fiction (with only a hint of potential romance) means that this one will likely appeal to male and female readers alike. Debut author Lu has managed a great feat—emulating a highly successful young adult series while staying true to her own voice. Legend will give Hunger Games fans something worthwhile to read.” STARRED REVIEW from LIBRARY MEDIA CONNECTION: “This book stands out . . .” “Marie Lu has beaten the curse with Prodigy. . . it has all the chivalry of Robin Hood and all the shine and grime of Blade Runner . . . The well-drawn worlds, political undercurrents and the believability of the characters make it all feel fresh . . . Lu proves that a Book 2 needn't play second fiddle, providing intrigue and deep pleasure all its own.” From THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS: “. . . clear your calendar to allow yourself the luxury of reading this book in one or two sittings. You will be shaken . . .” “Lu opts for a high simmer of intrigue in her sequel to Legend…taut and insightful.” STARRED REVIEW from SHELF AWARENESS: “Stunning follow-up to Legend . . . The thrilling action and futuristic settings are sure to please fans of Divergent.” book by abby hanlon penguin young readers group book book by brendan reichs guardian by alex london paperback book by alex london book by chris bradford Dory and the Real True Friend (Dory Series Fans of Junie B. Jones and Ivy and Bean will love this new story about ... Fans of Junie B. Jones and Ivy and Bean will love this new story about the spunky little rascal with big ideas. The star of Dory Fantasmagory is heading to school. Her older siblings, Luke and Violet, warn her to leave her ... Forest of a Thousand Lanterns The Wrath and the Dawn meets Snow White and the Huntsman in this dark and ... The Wrath and the Dawn meets Snow White and the Huntsman in this dark and mystical East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress.A richly developed fantasy world . . . Julie C. ... Genesis (Project Nemesis Series #2) “Reichs knows exactly how to mix action, suspense, and characters into a breathless read.” —Marie ... “Reichs knows exactly how to mix action, suspense, and characters into a breathless read.” —Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author of WarcrossThe blistering sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling Nemesis by Brendan Reichs. Noah Livingston knows he is ... The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy (The Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their styles! The Time Warp Trio series now features a ... Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their styles! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor. The pulse-pounding sequel to Proxy! Inspired by The Whipping Boy and Feed, this adrenaline-fueled thriller will appeal to ... The pulse-pounding sequel to Proxy! Inspired by The Whipping Boy and Feed, this adrenaline-fueled thriller will appeal to fans of The Maze Runner and Divergent.Once a proxy, now the figurehead of the Revolution, Syd is a savior to some and a target for others. His ... Legend Trilogy Boxed Set The complete collection of Marie Lu's bestselling Legend trilogy: Legend, Prodigy, and Champion. Additional bonus material ... The complete collection of Marie Lu's bestselling Legend trilogy: Legend, Prodigy, and Champion. Additional bonus material also included: Marie Lu’s Life Before Legend, original short stories offering a sneak peek at the lives of Day and June before they met. Masks (Vet Volunteers Series #11) After Sunita's beloved pet cat, Mittens, gets injured on her watch, she wonders if vet ... After Sunita's beloved pet cat, Mittens, gets injured on her watch, she wonders if vet work is right for her. She takes an internship at a research lab, but learns that they test on animals and eventually put them to ... My Book of Pickles Oops, I Mean Lists Not only is Hank Zipzer the world's greatest underachiever, he's also a master at making ... Not only is Hank Zipzer the world's greatest underachiever, he's also a master at making lists. Now readers can revisit their favorites with this hilarious collection, which compiles some of the best lists from the books in the Hank Zipzer ...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6161
__label__cc	0.737839	0.262161	Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeye's fast food restaurant on Google Maps. • “If all the toilets in your house are occupied and you are waiting for one to be free…” (1/18) • “How do you get a pound of meat out of a fly?"/"Unzip it.” (1/18) • Entry in progress—BP (1/18) • “I duck my head down while pulling into a parking garage to make sure my car fits” (1/18) • “How many conspiracy theorists does it take to change a lightbulb?"/"Do your own research.” (1/18) More new entries... Follow @barrypopik Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14. Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich. Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald. This site is edited by Barry Popik. Entry from April 24, 2017 “Uncork and unwind” (wine saying) "Uncork and unwind” is a wine saying that has been printed on many images. “Uncork” refers to the wine bottle; “unwind” refers to the wine drinker. “Uncork and unwind” has been cited in print since at least the 1980s, but became popular in the 2000s. Pg. 96: HOW TO TASTE A WINE Of course, the first object of your tasting is to have a fabulous party — to uncork and unwind. 31 July 2002, The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), pg. FD5, col. 5 ad: Uncork and Unwind (World Market.—ed.) 26 February 2004, Roll Call (Washington, DC),, “What’s This Shrimp Doing in My Crab Cake?” by Amanda McClements, pg. 1: Uncork and Unwind. This weekend, wine lovers from across the region will descend on the Washington Convention Center for the International Wine and Food Festival, where more than 1,700 wines will be waiting for tasting. 26 June 2004, Ottawa (ON) Citizen, “Coming Up in The Citizen,” pg. A2: In Travel: Start your love affair with B.C. wines on the hills near Kelowna. Janice Kennedy takes us on a tour to Mission Hill and Summerhill Pyramid wineries, two great places to uncork and unwind. 20 December 2006, The News Press (Fort Myers, FL), “Naples wine fest unveils rich list of bid items” by Charles Runnells, pg. A1: Uncork and Unwind with the Sundance Kid: Dinner with actor Robert Redford, lifetime membership in exclusive wine club Napa Valley Reserve in St. Helena, Calif. AARFAtlanta‏ @AARFAtlanta Atlanta Animal Rescue Friends (AARF) wanted to remind you that Uncork and Unwind With AARF is coming up on Sat. Mar 7. 7:38 AM - 5 Mar 2009 Miami Business‏ @MiamiLocalBiz Uncork and Unwind at the Ritz-Carlton - http://fwix.com/article/32_32257bd11c 11:42 AM - 21 Jan 2010 Kyle Crawford‏ @MacGyvers_Son Picked up a couple bottles of #wine, ready to uncork and unwind. 12:59 PM - 20 Apr 2010 from Oklahoma, USA Thurston (WA) Talk Uncork & Unwind: Tumwater Wine Bar Helps You Slow Down and Savor Washington’s Best Wines It might sound crazy, but it’s absolutely worked: Two people who didn’t know much about wine – didn’t even drink it before embarking on the journey to open a wine bar in Tumwater last year – have created an inviting, charming spot, perfectly dubbed Uncork and Unwind, that’s ideal for enjoying the best wines Washington State has to offer. Inspirational Quotes Gazette TOP 35 FUNNY WINE QUOTES FOR MY WINE-LOVING FRIENDS February 18, 2016 by summer Uncork and unwind. By Suzanne Jezek-Arriaga Bloomington, IN: Balboa Press Pg. ?: T-shirts are everywhere proclaiming our love affair with wine, with sayings like, “Wine a little, laugh a lot,” “Uncork and unwind,” “Friends don’t let friends wine alone.” Posted by Barry Popik New York City • Food/Drink • Monday, April 24, 2017 • Permalink	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6164
__label__wiki	0.533271	0.533271	6 Finger Glove December 19, 2017 By Bold Commerce Collaborator 6 Finger Glove: The 6 Finger Glove is a special, custom made sight to behold. Mizuno led the charge when they broke ground to design a glove for then-Minor League player Pat Venditte. And since Venditte has become an MLB middle reliever with the Oakland Athletics and Toronto Blue Jays, the demand for ambidextrous glovewear has increased. The origins of the 6 Finger Glove date back to MLB pitcher Ed Harris' flirtation with switch pitching in 1995. Having only done so for one measly inning at the tail end of his career, his Mizuno manufactured six finger glove was immediately put on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. But not before Venditte's father, who was grooming his son to switch pitch at the time, took notice. Fastfoward two decades later, Venditte is the public answer to the question: "Why can't I?" So if you're in the market for a six finger glove, you are in luck. Where they were hard to come by years ago, thanks to Venditte they have grown in circulation. And as a result, the amount of younger players who stride to throw with both hands has grown as well. Brand Supplies and Specific Features: Second tier brands like Akadema and Shoeless Joe do offer youngsters their taste of the six finger model. But as mentioned, Mizuno was the first and still is the top brand who offers it. Their edition includes a thumb on each side and a dividing layer of cushion at the middle finger area. That way, the glove is easily able to slip on either hand, with the index and ring finger pockets serving as reflections of each other anyway. It's a can't miss purchase when you consider the youngster who may not feel comfortable with his perceived dominate arm. Moreover, as Venditte can attest from his youth, game by game fatigue could become a thing of the past. for if you grow tired with one arm, you can simply switch to the other for a fresh rejuvenation of arm speed.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6165
__label__wiki	0.996815	0.996815	Tamworth FC Scott Rickards departs from Tamworth FC Rickards has been tipped for a bright future Matt Panter Scott Rickards. Latest news straight to your inbox Scott Rickards has left Tamworth FC but Mike Fowler has tipped him to be a huge success in the game. Rickards helped Fowler out as assistant manager last season but, with the club restructuring at the top, the former striker has moved on. “Scott has been fantastic around the place,” said Fowler. “His work ethic and passion for the club has been second to none. “I am sad to see him go and I know he will be very successful in the future.” Rickards is already carving out a successful career with Mansfield Town and helped guide the Stags under-18s to a third successive EFL Youth Alliance league title win this season.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6176
__label__cc	0.740499	0.259501	Cases and Deals Blank Rome Counsels Seaspan Corporation in Closing of Innovative $1B Portfolio Financing Program A Blank Rome team counseled Seaspan Corporation, an independent charter owner and operator of containerships with industry-leading ship management services, during the development and closing of its innovative one-billion-dollar senior secured financing program guaranteed by Seaspan, which consists of a $200 million revolving credit facility and an $800 million term loan facility, with the ability to increase the facility to two billion dollars. The transaction, which Seaspan notes as a “first-of-its-kind financing in the shipping space,” closed on May 15, 2019. The program will initially consist of a portfolio of 36 vessels and provides Seaspan with the flexibility to add, substitute, and remove vessels during the term, subject to a borrowing base, portfolio concentration limits, absence of defaults, and compliance with financial covenants. Net proceeds will be used to repay 12 secured credit facilities, for general corporate purposes, and may be used in part to finance the acquisition of vessels over time. The program involved leading global financial banks and institutions serving as advisors and lenders. To learn more about this program, please read Seaspan’s issued press release, Seaspan Announces Closing of Innovative $1 Billion Portfolio Financing Program (May 15, 2019). The Blank Rome team was led by Scott Smith and included Tony Salgado, Christopher Manion and Dana Merkel. R. Anthony Salgado Christopher A. Manion Dana S. Merkel Maritime - Transactions & Finance	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6180
__label__wiki	0.959493	0.959493	Bath tech company Living Map completes £850k funding round Living Map's software allows companies to locate and track assets or people in real time Hannah BakerBristol Post Business Editor Living Map is a digital map and data platform (Image: Living Map) Sign up to FREE email alerts from BusinessLive - South West Bath-based digital mapping company Living Map has completed an £850,000 funding round. The round was led by existing investors Committed Capital and Mercia Asset Management. Living Map’s software allows companies to locate and track assets or people in real time in outdoor and indoor spaces. It can also map air quality in different parts of a city. According to the business, the funding will support the continued roll-out of a new service to guide passengers transferring between flights at airports without the need for a staff member to assist them. The digital app is already in use by Singapore Airlines and further roll-outs are planned for 2021, the company said. Dominic Hazlehurst, Living Map’s chief executive said: “We are delighted with the considerable support we have received from our investors. “With the opportunities that are available to us across our key industry verticals and armed with the technology to realise them, we anticipate an incredibly exciting period in the business’s development next year and beyond.” Cornishware pottery to bring all manufacturing back to UK by 2021 Finance software firm Xledger relocates to newly renovated Bristol city centre office The latest funding follows two earlier rounds in 2018 and 2019, and brings the total raised by Living Map so far to more than £4.5million. Else Thomson, Committed Capital’s investor director for Living Map, said: “While the effect of Covid-19 has had significant short-term consequences for Living Map, we believe the underlying technology and strategy longer term is well worth supporting. "Along with our financial investing partner Mercia, we are happy to have supported the company in its recent funding round.” Mercia was investing from its EIS funds under management. Julian Dennard of Mercia added: “Living Map’s technology takes digital mapping to the next level. Sign up for more business news straight to your inbox Stay up to date with our daily newsletter, email breaking news alerts and weekly round-ups. To sign up, find out more and see all of our newsletters, follow the link here "The company has made great progress in expanding its client base, with notable success in the airport sector. "This funding will support its ongoing business development activity in healthcare and ‘smart cities’, allowing it to build momentum in the post-pandemic era.” Living Map was founded a decade ago by urban design consultant Tim Fendley and now employs some 25 staff. The company has produced digital mapping systems for venues such as Canary Wharf, Heathrow Airport and the MET Museum in New York and, more recently, systems to help key workers navigate their way around Bath and the city’s RUH Bath Hospital.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6190
__label__wiki	0.525993	0.525993	iPipeline to Be Acquired by Roper Technologies Larry Berran Appointed as CEO August 08, 2019 07:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iPipeline®, a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the life insurance and financial services industry today announced that it will be acquired by Roper Technologies, Inc, a diversified technology company and a constituent of the S&P 500, Fortune 1000, and the Russell 1000 indices. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. iPipeline also announced the appointment of Larry Berran as CEO. Roper has a successful history of acquiring well-run technology companies in niche markets that have strong, sustainable growth potential. iPipeline’s track record of profitable growth and leading position within its core markets make it an excellent fit for Roper’s long-term strategy. “Roper’s acquisition of iPipeline is a great opportunity for our customers, employees, and partners,” said Larry Berran CEO of iPipeline. “Roper provides iPipeline with a long-term foundation to further develop the life insurance and financial services industry’s leading platform and execute on our core purpose of helping our customers secure the financial futures of families. Insurance products provide people protection when they need it most, and we are committed to providing leading digital technologies to expand the market. Roper’s commitment to sustained investment in our business model, products, services, and employees means we will continue to deliver these solutions and domain expertise that have driven significant value for our customers for 25 years.” As part of the transition, Tim Wallace announced his move into a strategic advisor role. “Roper’s acquisition of iPipeline is a great outcome for our organization and the entire iPipeline ecosystem. I look forward to supporting Larry Berran, my business partner for the last 11 years and a driving force at iPipeline for 17 years, as he assumes this important role.” “We are excited to add another industry-leading, cloud software business to our family,” said Neil Hunn, Roper’s President and CEO. “The iPipeline transaction demonstrates our disciplined capital deployment strategy, which results in the acquisition of high-quality businesses.” iPipeline will continue to manage the business from its Exton, Pennsylvania headquarters. iPipeline’s name and brands are not expected to change as a result of the transaction. iPipeline is currently an investment of Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity firm. Credit Suisse served as exclusive financial advisor to iPipeline, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Lauletta Birnbaum LLP served as legal advisors to iPipeline and Thoma Bravo. About Roper Technologies Roper Technologies is a constituent of the S&P 500, Fortune 1000, and the Russell 1000 indices. Roper operates businesses that design and develop software (both license and software-as-a-service) and engineered products and solutions for a variety of niche end markets. Additional information about Roper is available on the Company’s website at www.ropertech.com. About iPipeline iPipeline is a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the life insurance and financial services industry. Through our SSG Digital, end-to-end platform, we accelerate and simplify sales, compliance, operations and support. We provide process automation and seamless integration between every participant in our ecosystem including carriers, agents, general agencies, advisors, broker-dealers, RIAs, banks, securities/mutual fund firms, and their consumers on a global basis. Our innovative solutions include pre-sales support, new business and underwriting, policy administration, point-of-sale execution of applications, post-sale support, data analysis, reporting, user-driven configuration, consumer delivery and self-service, and agency and firm management. iPipeline’s platform is used by approximately 150 carriers, 1,350 distributors and financial institutions, and their agents and licensed advisors in a cloud-based environment. With headquarters in Exton, Pennsylvania, iPipeline has locations in Bromley (UK), Burlington (Canada), Cheltenham (UK), Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, Huntersville, Ontario (CA), Philadelphia, Pleasanton, and Salt Lake City. Visit www.ipipeline.com. Roper Technologies Investor Relations Contact: investor-relations@ropertech.com iPipeline Customer and Media Contact: Jessica Brown, Marketing Jessica.Brown@iPipeline.com Release Summary iPipeline to Be Acquired by Roper Technologies--Larry Berran Appointed CEO #fortune1000 #ipipeline #ropertechnologies #timwallace #neilhunn #larryberran iPipeline on LinkedIn iPipeline on Facebook	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6195
__label__wiki	0.974817	0.974817	12 Brilliant Political Cartoons From 2013 Britain doesn't just have some of the best journalists in the world, it has excellent cartoonists too. Here are 12 of the best from the last year, taken from The Best of Britain's Political Cartoons 2013. BuzzFeed News Reporter, UK 1. Morten Moreland on Berlusconi - The Times. Morton Moreland / The Times Italy's supreme court upheld a jail sentence against Silvio Berlusconi for both tax fraud and for having had sex with a minor. Due to his age, he was ordered to serve the sentence under house arrest in only one of his many houses. In a sober video message after the verdict, Berlusconi proclaimed his total innocence and launched into a bitter attack on the magistrates that, he said, had hounded him for 20 years and become an undemocratic rival power to the state. 2. Peter Brookes on Ed Miliband - The Times. Peter Brookes / The Times In a bid to outflank David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls claimed Labour would use next month’s Budget to bring back the 10p rate of income tax controversially scrapped by Gordon Brown in 2007. The clear rejection of Brown and Labour’s past was a tactical move by Miliband to restore the public’s trust in Labour on the economy. 3. Brighty on Boris at the Olympics - The Sun. Brighty / The Sun London Mayor, Boris Johnson, made his presence felt at the Olympic Games when he was left dangling 20ft in the air after getting stuck on a zip-wire. Johnson claimed his rocketing popularity would “all come crashing down” after the Olympics while brushing aside polls which put him as favourite to succeed David Cameron as Tory leader. Cameron joked later that only Johnson could get away so well with getting stuck on a wire. “If any other politician anywhere in the world was stuck on a zip-wire it would be a disaster. For Boris, it’s an absolute triumph.” 4. Bob Moran on the Budget - The Daily Telegraph. Bob Moran / The Daily Telegraph In the lead up to George Osborne’s budget, Cameron made a speech on the economy in which he stated (referring to Labour’s attitude to borrowing) that there was no "Magic Money Tree". According to the cartoonist: “I liked the idea that no one had bothered to explain this to George and he was building his whole budget plan on this tree existing.” 5. Ben Jennings on the bedroom tax - The Guardian. Ben Jennings / The Guardian Protests were held over Easter in regard to the Coalition’s bedroom tax. Over 13,000 people came out to protest at 52 locations, demanding an end to the changes. When introduced, the scheme will see people of a working age in social housing who have a spare bedroom have their housing benefit reduced by £40 to £80 a month. 6. Patrick Blower on Obama and surveillance - The Daily Telegraph. Patrick Blower / The Daily Telegraph Barack Obama struck a defiant tone amid revelations over the extent of surveillance operations by the United States federal government, arguing that the programmes had full congressional approval while also criticising “leaks” and “hype” in the media. He did acknowledge, however, that authorities had undertaken a seven-year programme to monitor the telephone calls of potentially millions of people in the United States. 7. Chris Riddell on war in the Middle East - The Observer. Chris Riddell / The Observer President Assad’s bloody defiance risked wider conflict in the Middle East. Lebanon had asked Syria to avoid incursions by its troops into Lebanese territory as several Lebanese civilians, including women and children, had been killed during border skirmishes. 8. Christian Adams on the royal baby - The Daily Telegraph. Christian Adams / The Daily Telegraph The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's new baby made royal history as it became the third living heir to the throne. 9. Dave Brown on migrant workers - The Independent. Dave Brown / The Independent Shadow Immigration Minister Chris Bryant claimed that the supermarket giant Tesco had undercut the wages of its British employees by recruiting cheap labour from Easter Europe 10. Gary Barker on Robert Mugabe - The Times. Gary Barker / The Times President Robert Mugabe vowed to step down if he lost the Zimbabwe election, "If you lose you must surrender," the 89-year-old veteran said at a press conference in Harare on the eve of the vote. Mugabe, through a series of violent and suspicious elections, has ruled Zimbabwe for 33 years. Mugabe denied any attempts to rig the election, declaring: "We have done no cheating." 11. Martin Rowson on NHS cuts - The Guardian. Martin Rowson / The Guardian Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt's plan to reduce casualty and maternity services at Lewisham hospital was declared unlawful by the High Court.Mr Justice Silber said the secretary of state had breached provisions of the National Health Services Act 2006 12. Peter Schrank on Twitter - Independent on Sunday. Peter Schrank / Independent on Sunday Twitter announced plans to introduce a "report abuse" button following the abusive tweets, including rape and death threats, to historian Mary Beard, British feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, and the British MP Stella Creasy. Three men were arrested under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 in connection with the incidents. All these cartoons are taken from The Best of Britain's Political Cartoons 2013, edited by Tim Benson and Published by Scribe.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6202
__label__wiki	0.85582	0.85582	Posted on April 17, 2020 April 16, 2020 by Marty Gunther Casey Hensley – Good as Gone \| Album Review Casey Hensley – Good as Gone VizzTone Label Group VTCH-002 9 songs – 34 minutes www.caseyhensleymusic.com Based out of San Diego, Casey Hensley set the blues world on its ear in 2018 with her self-titled first release, which earned Blues Blast nominations for both best new artist debut and best live recording. And she doesn’t miss a beat with this all-original follow-up, a mix of jump, swing, Chicago blues and rock. A fiery redhead who’s still only 26 years old, her Casey Hensley Live Featuring Laura Chavez climbed to the No. 10 spot on Living Blues’ radio charts in addition to regional honors that found her nominated as artist of the year in the 2019 San Diego Music Awards and recognition as a rising star by critics at the Los Angeles Times. A powerhouse blues belter who might remind you of the late Candye Kane. She rose to prominence in 2015 after handling vocals at several sold-out shows that celebrated Kane’s life after she finally succumbing to pancreatic cancer after a seven-year battle. Both Chavez and Candye’s percussionist son, Evan Caleb Yearsley, regularly tour with Hensley and are present on this one. And when Laura – a phenomenal talent in her own right – is not available, West Coast six-string masters Kid Ramos, Johnny Main, Anthony “The Fallbrook Kid” Cullins and others rotate in her place. Recorded at Grease Punk Studio in Lakeside, Calif., Good as Gone was co-produced by Casey and Laura. With a roster that includes Marcos C. on bass and Jonny Viau (Sha Na Na and Ramos) and Steven Ebner delivering horns. Hensley’s dynamic pipes shine here in a collection of nine originals that primarily deal with different aspects of romance as they demonstrate her skill as a songwriter, too. “Good as Gone” opens acapella with Casey’s alto at gale force before launching into an uptempo complaint about never getting her own way with her man, advising that she’s no fool and that she’s ready to hit the door. Chavez’s mid-tune solo echoes the opening: Beginning with stinging chords before launching into a blazing run that slightly hints of Freddie King’s “Going Down.” The tempo slows dramatically for the slow, driving Chicago blues, “You Should Be So Lucky,” in which Hensley details the reasons why a prospective lover will be fortunate if he’s lucky enough to be chosen to stay at her side. This one’s built out from the ground up from the hook first laid down by Magic Sam in “Easy Baby” and features plenty of high-quality vocal gymnastics. Casey takes you to church next with “If I Pray,” which starts as a guitar-assisted field holler until erupting into a heavily percussive request for relief from the hard times coloring her life. The band swings from the hip and the horns make their first appearance for “Be My Baby (What Do You Say?),” a West Coast-style jump-blues pleaser. The song has definite old-school overtones, and Hensley’s delivery brightens and sweetens dramatically in the process. The mood shifts once more for a pair of ballads — “Love Will Break Your Heart,” a soul-blues with a Memphis feel, an overdubbed vocal chorus and killer guitar solo, and “Searching for a Man,” a stripped-down, bluesy rocker with a ‘50s two-step dancehall feel – before shifting gears for “What’s a Woman to Do?” – a horn-driven rocker suggestive of ‘60s all-girl pop rock. The love ballad, “Don’t Want It to Stop,” gives Hensley plenty of space to shine vocally before “All In,” a rapid-fire West Coast jump, brings the disc to a rousing close. Available from most major retailers, Good as Gone is a keeper on all counts. If you like singers with B-I-G voices, this one’s definitely right for you! CategoriesAlbum Reviews Tagsall-original album, Anthony "The Fallbrook Kid" Cullins, Candye Kane, Casey Hensley, Chicago Blues, Evan Caleb Yearsley, Good as Gone, Grease Punk Studio Lakeside CA, Johnny Main, Jonny Viau, Jump Blues, Kid Ramos, Laura Chavez, Marcos C, Marty Gunther, Rock, San Diego blues, San Diego Music Awards artist of the year nominee, Steven Ebner, swing, two-time Blues Blast Music Awards nominee, VizzTone Label Group Previous PostPrevious Christina Crofts – Just How Love Feels \| Album Review Next PostNext Featured Interview – Kenny Wayne Shepherd	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6208
__label__wiki	0.508214	0.508214	WPP's Blackett: opportunity for creative industries is to make people feel they belong post-Brexit by Nicola Kemp May 24, 2018 Karen Blackett, UK country manager at WPP and chairwoman at MediaCom, has said the opportunity for the creative industries is to make people feel like they belong in a post-Brexit world. Speaking at the Creative Equals Future Leaders in London last week, Blackett (pictured) said: "15% of our creative talent is from EU markets and we want them to feel they belong." Describing modern Britain as a "beautiful fruit salad of people", she said the more that diversity is reflected in organisations the easier it becomes to connect with people. A question of confidence Blackett noted that, regardless of how we voted, Brexit is coming and it has knocked consumer confidence. A state of play which she says means that for brands it is no longer about getting on consumers’ consideration list it is about getting on the "priority list". She said the current market is described internally within WPP as grappling with "VUCA" (volatility; uncertainty/the known unknowns; complexity and ambiguity/the unknown unknowns. However, she noted that "this is the ninth consecutive year we are predicting growth in the advertising industry". Digital, technology and data Despite the industry’s much-discussed focus on data and digital transformation, according to Blackett, less than 10% of clients at Group M have a single view of a customer. She said: "If we can harness this data it will be like catnip for the creative solutions we can come up with." Blackett said that technology allows us to do more for our clients and ‘whatever department we work in we need to lean into this’. In practical terms she said this means knowing who your tech partners are. She said the core question for the industry is "how do we ensure we have a point of difference?" "When clients are bringing things in house the question is how can we be with them on that journey and have a role?" Technology allows us to do more for our clients – whatever department we work in we need to lean into this she added, and asked, "who are your tech partners do you know your tech partners." "How do we ensure we have a point of difference? Bringing things in house for clients - how can we be with them on that journey and have a role. Technology allows us to do that but it can also be a threat," Blackett added. Karen Blackett named trustee of Duke and Duchess of Sussex charity WPP investor pressure to sell Kantar could open door to Sorrell acquisition spree Where do all the women in advertising go? Women's Equality Party on JWT London's gender pay gap, knackered women and media stereotyping Resetting the role model for a new creative generation Business needs truly progressive leaders Cindy Gallop: 'Forget passion - find things you want to punch' Microsoft CMO: 'I predict a resurgence of creativity' Major Players urges candidates not to divulge current salaries How diversity sparked a commercial and creative rebirth at Vogue 'Don't just be creative be courageous'	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6211
__label__cc	0.678441	0.321559	(Limited to 2 months supply per order) 0.1 mg 100 $81.99 Chemical Name : Fludrocortisone Florinef Information : Florinef (Fludrocortisone Acetate) is indicated as partial replacement therapy for primary and secondary adrenocortical insufficiency in Addison's disease and for the treatment of salt-losing adrenogenital syndrome. In Addison's disease, the combination of Florinef tablets with a glucocorticoid such as hydrocortisone or cortisone provides substitution therapy approximating normal adrenal activity with minimal risks of unwanted effects. The usual dose is 0.1 mg of Florinef (Fludrocortisone Acetate) daily, although dosage ranging from 0.1 mg three times a week to 0.2 mg. daily has been employed. In the event transient hypertension develops as a consequence of therapy, the dose of Florinef (Fludrocortisone Acetate) should be reduced to 0.05 mg. daily. Florinef (Fludrocortisone Acetate) is preferably administered in conjunction with cortisone (10 mg. to 37.5 mg. daily in divided doses) or Cortef (hydrocortisone) (10 mg. to 30 mg. daily in divided doses). Florinef Side Effects : The drug's mineralocorticoid activity (retention of sodium and water) causes Florinef side effects like hypertension, edema, cardiac enlargement, congestive heart failure, potassium loss, and hypokalemic alkalosis. When Florinef is used in the small dosages recommended, the glucocorticoid side effects often seen with cortisone and its derivatives are not usually a problem; however the following Florinef side effects should be kept in mind, particularly when Florinef is used over a prolonged period of time or in conjunction with cortisone or a similar glucocorticoid. Musculoskeletal : Florinef side effects like muscle weakness, steroid myopathy, loss of muscle mass, osteoporosis, vertebral compression fractures, aseptic necrosis of femoral and humeral heads, pathologic fracture of long bones, and spontaneous fractures. Gastrointestinal:Florinef side effects like peptic ulcer with possible perforation and hemorrhage, pancreatitis, abdominal distention, and ulcerative esophagitis. Corticosteroids are thought to act, at least in part, by controlling the rate of synthesis of proteins. Although there are a number of instances in which the synthesis of specific proteins is known to be induced by corticosteroids, the links between the initial actions of the hormones and final metabolic effects have not been completely elucidated. The physiologic action of Florinef is similar to that of hydrocortisone. However, the effects of Florinef, particularly on electrolyte balance, but also on carbohydrate metabolism, are considerably heightened and prolonged. Mineralocorticoids act on the distal tubules of the kidney to enhance the reabsorption of sodium ions from the tubular fluid into the plasma; they increase the urinary excretion of both potassium and hydrogen ions. The consequence of these three primary effects together with similar actions on cation transport in other tissues appear to account for the entire spectrum of physiological activities that are characteristic of mineralocorticoids. In small oral doses, fludrocortisone acetate produces marked sodium retention and increased urinary potassium excretion. It also causes a rise in blood pressure, apparently because of these effects on electrolyte levels.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6214
__label__cc	0.614831	0.385169	EXHIBIT AT THE CARE SHOW 2021 REGISTER YOUR INTEREST FOR 2021 CARE SHOW WEBINARS THE CARE SUMMER SERIES CARING FOR THE CARERS SERIES CARE SHOW BULLETIN CARE SHOW POSTPONEMENT CARE WORKER CHARITY - EMERGENCY APPEAL NURSEBUDDY OPUS - MEDICATION TRAINING - CONTINGENCY PLAN THE CARE HOME SHOW VIDEOS TEA WITH TOBI ☕ PODCASTS A disconnect in the direction of travel Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive, Care England The coronavirus pandemic requires all agencies to work together but, with the benefit of hindsight, it could have been so much quicker had there been less of a disconnect between social care and the wider health service. It seems absurd that social care, which is right at the centre of Covid-19, has had to fight its corner at both national and local levels. I think this crisis has really underscored some of the fault lines in the system. Social care providers of all sizes, as well as those that are for-profit and not-for-profit, right across the country are united in their concerns. To date, these have focused primarily on personal protective equipment (PPE), testing and staffing. On PPE we have seen major challenges in distribution, but problems have also arisen due to a lack of clear and consistent advice on how it is to be used in each situation. Mixed messaging has left both care providers and people dependent on their services, unclear on PPE. The scale of PPE required is immense. Millions rather than thousands of masks and aprons are needed urgently. Testing is another area in which UK policy has not adapted to the needs of the care sector. What we have seen so far is a testing approach based on a more centralised NHS bases strategy. The needs of each care home within a given community can vary and there is a requirement for flexible testing offerings. People in care homes are often frail. Sitting in a car for multiple hours and queuing at a testing site might not be an option for them. Using the care home minibus is not permitted, and, of course, some care workers, who also need testing, are unable to drive. The situation needs thinking through in order to bring the Government’s plans for widescale testing to fruition. Supporting the health sector's "backbone" If we are to have a truly integrated care system, we have to make sure people don't forget the crucial role that social care plays at the end of the process. We have had big announcements about extra money for the NHS, with politicians saying they will pay “whatever it takes” to help the sector through the crisis. It was recently announced that £1.3 billion would be put into social care. I do not underestimate how big this figure is, but less than 24 hours later an announcement was made stating that £14 billion was going to be wiped off NHS deficits. This demonstrated the disconnect in Government priorities, which leaves the social care sector playing catch up time and again. The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) is more aware of the problems, but given the complexity that has arisen after many years of refusing to meet the issues head-on, it is not a quick turnaround, rather a realisation that health and social care need to be on the same page for training and access to resources. The adult social care sector is incredibly supportive of the NHS and, in many respects, is its backbone. The Government was wrong, however, to assume that the care home sector would be able to free up 15,000 beds at the blink of an eye. Care homes are desperate to play their part and help, but it would be ridiculous to accept many thousands of hospital patients without either sufficient PPE or testing in place. The risk assessments of each care home must be considered. We need only to look at Spain to see the devastating impact the vicious disease has had amongst care homes, which in turn has had a knock-on effect on staff and their families. “The adult social care sector is incredibly supportive of the NHS and, in many respects, is its backbone. ” Without additional support from adult social care, the NHS will be simply inundated when it is already at breaking point. Looking to the future and how this crisis is indicative of the fundamental worth of social care workers, we hope that government will ease its immigration policies and also put real energy into a dedicated recruitment campaign for what is clearly a vital and very skilled profession. A remarkable sector What I am truly proud of is the way in which social care staff have responded to this pandemic. Staff have completely gone the extra mile and done things that were not necessarily what they were contracted to do. It is absurd to think that we have had to fight for social care workers to be recognised as key workers. Indeed, members have reported that their staff have had their status questioned by supermarkets, schools and police forces. On the flip side, we have reports of a great many people who are out of a job signing up, via platforms such as www.nationalcareforce.co.uk, to work in social care. The Government needs to amend its employee furlough rules in order to open jobs in this remarkable sector that spans so many different areas, all of which involve care for vulnerable people. Out of this difficult situation we have seen some things achieved that were never thought possible. We must ensure this ethos of ambition is applied to social as well as the NHS. This pandemic has underscored the crucial importance of the social care sector. While people are beginning to understand this, we cannot slip back into a position where social care is the underdog of the discussion to the wider sector. https://integratedcarejournal.com/newsdit-article/f5c6989ddd5bee6a72986b2c06dbfb94/ View all Bulletin 1 Care Home Managers put their “Battle Knickers on…” to fight COVID-19 Care Home Management guest editorial: the holes in the system made by COVID-19 Our latest webinar Diabetes education & safety in care homes - took place Wednesday 21st October 2020 at 7 - 8 PM EXPERT PANEL: - Dr David Strain: Clinical Senior Lecturer, Diabetes and Vascular Research Centre - Sarah Gregory: In-Patient DSN - Dr Amar Puttana: Diabetes and Endocrinology consultant - James Ridgeway: Education and Research Associate (eden care) The Care Show are delighted to announce the launch of our new Care Show webinar series, delivering free online education and support to our care community during the COVID-19 outbreak. <="" iv=""> Enquire about sponsoring and exhibiting Programme Strictly no under 18's admitted to the show. 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__label__wiki	0.706331	0.706331	Lt. Col. Charles William Slack, III "Life is not measured by length but by depth" Charles William Slack III lived for aviation. He early on demonstrated his interest by earning a private pilot's license at age 16. He was the youngest (age 20) member of his graduating class at Southeastern State College in Oklahoma where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in professional aviation. In 1975, Mr. Slack entered the U.S. Air Force and in 1976 graduated from officer training school at Lackland Air Force Base. He flew several aircraft including T-37s, T-38s, C-5s, and C-130s. Rising to the rank of captain, Chuck Slack also participated in the Air Force B-2 project. Mr. Slack retired from the Air Force in early 1995 and subsequently worked for Rocketdyne in California. He also flew C-130 aircraft to extinguish California wild fires. Chuck Slack's life spanned only a few brief years, but was filled with joy as a student and an instructor and with service to his country -- all as he pursued his dream of flight. "Son of Air we stood on the ground and watched as you slipped past earthly bounds. Brother of Laughter we shielded our eyes to glimpse you dancing in the skies. Friend to all Creatures we have flown with you as hovering with the stars you showed us galaxies & views. You have left us the flight log of stories to tell - Laughter and adventures from the places you dwell. The tears sting our eyes - as the sky we survey - but you are now the wind beneath our wings each and every day." --Love, Your Family	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6219
__label__wiki	0.513301	0.513301	2021 Somerset membership on sale soon Somerset County Cricket Club membership on sale next week TAKING QUESTIONS: Somerset chief executive Gordon Hollins is to host a virtual members' forum next month (pic: SCCC) SOMERSET County Cricket Club has announced that membership for the 2021 season will go on sale one week from today, with prices frozen at 2020 levels. Membership sales will open at 10am next Tuesday, December 1, with the club hopeful of welcoming spectators back to the Cooper Associates County Ground after a year of behind-closed-doors cricket. The club recognises that the Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on household finances, and therefore prices will remain as they were in 2020. There will also be an 'early bird' discount window, ending at 23:59 on Monday, February 1, 2021. Members who donated their fee in 2020 can claim a further £20 reduction on that 'early bird' price - £50 on the full price - if they purchase membership before that deadline. The club has also confirmed a 'Covid-19 Assurance Policy', which "aims to provide members with peace of mind in the event of local or national restrictions impacting on attendances". The announcement adds: "If capacities are restricted due to such measures, ‘early bird’ members who submit their application before January 31 will be given priority access to the County Ground ahead of other members and ticket buyers". Membership renewal packs are to be posted out to 2020 members in the week commencing November 30, and confirmed prices will be announced in due course. Somerset chief executive Gordon Hollins is to host a virtual members' forum on December 8, from 7pm, to give an update on the club and answer supporters' questions.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6221
__label__wiki	0.592465	0.592465	Sustainability and Environmental Jennifer Zhu Scott Hong Kong A mainland Chinese and a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, data ownership with an insightful understanding of the China context as well as the global landscape Founding Principal, Radian Partners, focusing on AI direct investment for large family owners A published author on AI, China digital monetary policies, blockchain applications, and data ownership. A tech columnist of Cai Xin Global CFC 18 / Jennifer Zhu Scoot How Blockchain Builds a Circular Future Jennifer Zhu Scott is Founding Principal of Radian Partners, a private investment firm for large family owners and UHNWIs focusing on Artificial Intelligence, deep tech, and renewable energy. Prior, she was head of business development and strategy in APAC for Thomson Reuters and led the firm’s speech-to-text, deep search intelligence, video-indexing projects. Born and brought up in a small town of the rual Sichuan in the west China and overcame extreme poverty, Jennifer co-founded one of the first education companies in China and exited before moving to the UK as a senior advisor to the education subsidiary of Daily Mail & General Trust. In 2014, Jennifer was appointed as one of the 18 council members of China Council, cochaired by former NDRC Chair Zhang Xiaoqiang and former Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, convened by the World Economic Forum’s think tank, Global Agenda Council. In 2016, WEF re-appointed her to be one of 20 members of the inaugural Council of The Future of Blockchain. In 2013, Jennifer was honored by WEF as a Young Global Leader. Jennifer studied Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University and holds an MBA in Finance with Manchester Business School, where she earned distinction with her research on PE/VC in China and was awarded as a Distinguished Alumni. She completed the public policy and leadership program at Yale University in 2013, at Harvard Kennedy School in 2016, and at Oxford University in 2017. Jennifer is a frequent public speaker and published opinion writer on Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, data ownership, and China’s digital monetary strategies. In 2017, she debated against the notion of Universal Basic Income at Oxford Union and at the Davos 2018, she debated against Nobel Prize winner Prof. Robert Shiller and Swedish Central Bank Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley on Crypto Assets which was televised by Yi Cai in China. She is the lead author or coauthor of numberous White Papers by the World Economic Forum on business adoptions of the blockchain technology and the Token Economy. Jennifer is China Fellow of Aspen Institute and a permanent member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She is also a consultant to the Season 5 of the HBO show Silicon Valley. She sits on numerous boards and advisory boards of deep tech companies, including RNDR (rendertoken.com) of OTOY along with Ari Emanuel of WME IMG, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, and JJ Abrams, a director of Star Wars. Jennifer will start her monthly column at Caixin Global from January 2019 as the publication’s first tech columnist. Jennifer lives in Hong Kong with her two young daughters and husband. You should be paid for your Facebook data - April, 2018 Bitcoin Takes Davos Stage in Currency Panel Debate - January, 2018 Jeff Benedict Best-Selling Author & Special Features Writer, Sports Illustrated Lucy Hawking Influential Populariser of Science Anna Piperal Inspiration Speaker and Digital Enthusiast Simon Harmer Combat Medical Technician in the British Army Jake Meyer Record Breaking Mountaineer New York Times Best-Selling Author and TV and Radio Contributor Ash Smith Former Coach to International Class Athletes Nick Southgate Leading Behavioural Economist Dr. Kathy Sullivan First American Woman to Walk in Space Michael Acton Smith Co-Founder and Co CEO of Calm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6222
__label__cc	0.627024	0.372976	Bus from Jackson, MS to New Orleans, LA Buses Jackson, MS to New Orleans, LA: Compare all companies Traveling as a group? Rent a bus here! Search accommodation with Booking.com The Best DealsSave up to 70% The Most ChoicesMillions of routes worldwide Easy and TransparentCompare offers with 1 click Due to the current situation, certain trips may only be offered to a limited extent. Often, these are then sold out quickly. We therefore recommend you search for up-to-date journeys directly in our search engine. Facts about the bus from Jackson, MS to New Orleans, LA Cheapest Bus $26.00 Fastest Bus 7h 25m Earliest Bus 3:30 AM Latest Bus 1:25 PM Daily Bus Routes 3 Ø Distance 161.3 miles Bus Companies Greyhound US Do you want to travel by bus from Jackson, MS to New Orleans, LA? CheckMyBus is here to help! 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__label__wiki	0.923379	0.923379	Our mail order service is still open for business and we can still deliver on time in the majority of cases. Please be aware that due to the global pandemic, some delivery services may be experiencing a slight delay! Dismiss We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Click OK to accept and continue shopping, or find out more in our cookie policy...OKRead More The Unmistakeable Sound of Independence since 1978 \| Call to order: +44 (0)20 8996 3120 Chinese (Simplified) Danish Dutch English French German Italian Japanese Norwegian Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Limited Edition Vinyl Record Store Day Exclusives 30 Hertz30 Hertz Records is an independent record label founded by John ‘Jah Wobble’ Wardle in 1997, on which he has self-released a series of critically acclaimed records. As of 2015, Cherry Red are proud to represent 30 Hertz as part of our family of associated labels. 359 Music359 Music is a new independent music label set up by Creation Records’ Alan McGee in 2013 as a joint venture with Cherry Red Records. 3Loop MusicFounded in 2011, 3 Loop Music is a label which focuses on re-engaging artists and fans. Our artists include The Auteurs, Beth Orton, Echobelly, Kitchens Of Distinction and World Of Twist. 7TsFrom the Art Pop of 10cc to the silky Soul sounds of The Drifters, the Glam Stomp of The Glitter Band to the acoustic folky pop of Smokie, the Rock N Roll of Showaddywaddy to the hard rockin’ Sweet, teen heart throbs like Donny Osmond to TV actors turned singers like David Soul….The Seventies had it all and 7T’s Records has it all too! With well over 100 titles already available 7T’s Records has become the label for all things Seventies and beyond. We still have many more titles planned and always take on board suggestions for new releases, so if you think there is something that should be given the 7T’s treatment then drop us a line at infonet@cherryred.co.uk AF Records Anagram RecordsAnagram Records contains the worlds largest collection of classic Punk, Psychobilly and Goth records, all lovingly packaged, with many bonus tracks and rarities included. If you’re serious about your punk & psychobilly, Anagram is the label for you. Analog BaroqueThe record label dedicated to the releases of folk-tronic post-modern artist Nicholas Currie, AKA Momus. ArtpopArtpop is the label curated by celebrated songwriter Mr. Edward Ball. It is the home of the The Times, O Level, Teenage Filmstars & TV Personalities. AtomhengeAtomhenge is the home of pioneering Psychedlic & Classic Rock, primarily Hawkwind and their off shoot projects. The label is managed by Progressive Rock authority Mark Powell & his wife Vicky who also curate Esoteric Recordings. BadfishBadfish – a label devoted to reissuing the very best in Ska. Bella CasaThe home of Bella Casa Records. Big Break RecordsBig Break Records (BBR) is a label that specialises in classic black dance music from the sixties, seventies and eighties. We plan to take listeners on a journey that starts with psychedelic soul and jazz though funk and philly soul,on to disco and then to street soul, pop dance and electro. Hot Shot Records is a brand new imprint from the BBR team that is set to breathe life back into a variety of smart pop, dance gems and hidden treasures from the 1980’s. The label kicks off with Expanded Edition reissue of JoBoxers’ debut album. Captain Oi! Cherry PopThe Cherry Pop label is dedicated to interesting poptastic catalogue releases from records that originally came out in the 1980’s & 90’s. Cherry Pop got off to a flying start with releases from Latoya Jackson, Sheena Easton and Haysi Fantayzee. This really is a label driven by fans requests so please do let us know of any releases you would like to see out on this imprint.Please contact ideas@cherryred.co.uk with your ideas. Cherry Red FootballCherry Red Records prides itself on having the largest (known) selection of Football related CDs and downloads in the world. This has proved to be a very popular and successful series. We are now up to over 50 releases and we keep finding more and more clubs who are happy for us to build a release around them. If we haven’t released a CD by your club yet and you want to help, then let’s hear from you! Cherry Red RecordsCherry Red Records has over 35 years’ of experience and success in releasing independent new music and in a constantly evolving musical landscape. We have worked with artists as diverse as Jack Bruce (Cream), Todd Rundgren and Suzi Quatro to Dead Kennedys, Hawkwind, Inspiral Carpets, Felt and The Fall. We’ve released music across every genre from traditional folk to classic rock via soul, funk, disco and jazz while never forgetting our punk and indie/alternative roots. We’ve produced award winning box sets, driven the vinyl renaissance and always looked to the future by building on our formidable past as one of the world’s longest running, best loved, consistently reliable and critically acclaimed independent record labels. As we continue our journey, our Cherry Red family and global network continues to expand and we now release more new frontline albums than ever before in our four decades of releasing some of the world’s most independently thinking music. Cherry TreeManaged by David Wells, Cherry Tree is Cherry Red’s bespoke folk/singer-songwriter imprint, devoted to issuing definitive versions of rare and/or classic albums (Hunter Muskett, Wizz Jones’s Right Now) from the late Sixties/early Seventies as well as hitherto-unissued material from the same timeframe (Mason’s aborted 1973 album for the Dawn label, a cancelled third album by acid folk mavericks Jan Dukes de Grey). All releases feature sympathetic artwork, rare photos, detailed liner notes and from-the-masters sound quality. Cocteau DiscsCocteau Discs came into being in 2011 as a home for the catalogue of the music of Bill Nelson between 1971 and 2000. This legendary composer and guitarist recorded a series of classic works as both a solo artist and as founder member and visionary of Be Bop Deluxe and Red Noise. Croydon MunicipalCroydon Municipal is a label curated by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley that loves to root through boxes of old 45s and 78s, give them a quick wash, package them together, and make them available again at a nice affordable price. We think of it as a public service. It’s also intended as a way of curating the past, the early years of pop – almost everything is out there and available if you know which dusty rooms to look in, but you have to have the keys. Croydon Municipal is an attempt to make sense of the analogue pop era in a digital world. Doctor Bird elAcross a broad panorama of eclectic taste, the new el combines a sensual, but serious-minded look at history, seasoned with the bravura style of the original label. Diversity is el’s great virtue, and anyone that might imagine the likes of Joao Gilberto, Gabor Szabo, Monica Zetterlund, Ravi Shankar, Edgard Varese, Sophia Loren, Serge Gainsbourg, Nana Mouskouri, Chet Atkins and Baden Powell to be strange bedfellows, will find entertaining evidence to the contrary here. Whether the subject is the Voice of Greece, the pioneers of Musique Concrete or a Brazilian guitar master, el’s primary concern is with what is poetic and distinctive and compellingand to present it with a little style. “Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” – Orson Welles Esoteric AntennaEsoteric Antenna is an imprint dedicated to releasing brand new albums of the best Progressive and Classic Rock by both established artists and also new emerging acts. The label came into being in March 2012 with the expanded release of the album ‘Diving Bell’ by Oxford band Sanguine Hum. Esoteric RecordingsEstablished in 2007 and label managed by Mark Powell, Esoteric Recordings is the home of Progressive, Psychedelic and Classic Rock, with all releases finely packaged and remastered from the best possible sources to ensure the highest possible audio quality. Our releases cover both catalogue reissues and inspiring new works from artists with a fine history and heritage. ExoticaWelcome to Exotica, a label quietly obsessed with the strangest, craziest and greatest cover versions of Beatles records ever made. Designer & Label manager Jim Phelan has made it his goal to uncover such buried treasures before compiling and presenting them to you in this fantastic quirky series of Exotic releases. FiveFourWelcome to FiveFour. Giant StepsGiant Steps is an imprint dedicated to classic Jazz reissues. GrapefruitManaged by David Wells, Grapefruit is Cherry Red’s bespoke psych/garage-era imprint, devoted to issuing single-artist career anthologies (The Herd, The Sorrows, The Knickerbockers) and definitive versions of rare and/or classic albums (Duncan Browne’s debut, Skip Bifferty, Tinkerbell’s Fairydust) dating from the 1966-70 timeframe, with all releases boasting sympathetic artwork, rare photos, detailed liner notes and from-the-masters sound quality. HNE RecordingsHNE Recordings was created as the hard rock and heavy metal arm of label ‘Cherry Red Records’ with the mission to bring you the best classic reissues and new music from the world of rock and metal. Our bands include the mighty Pig Iron and classic metal super group the McAuley Schenker Group. Hot MilkHot Milk, a reggae re-issue label bringing lost classics back to life. Hot ShotHot Shot Records is a brand new imprint from the BBR team that is set to breathe life back into a variety of smart pop, dance gems and hidden treasures from the 1980’s. The label kicks off with Expanded Edition reissue of JoBoxers’ debut album. IronBirdThe IronBird Label offers Rock, Hard Rock and Metal releases that have not been around for a while or are difficult to find, with great re-mastered sound and new packaging. We are always happy to receive suggestions from you of music you would like to hear. LemonLemon Recordings is home to the best in classic rock and new wave albums from the 70s to the present – featuring rare archive classics, quality re-issues and previously unavailable albums and DVDs from established bands and artists! Established in 2003, Lemon Recordings goes from strength to strength, boasting some of the biggest names in Rock history. ManticoreEstablished in 1973 by the legendary rock band Emerson Lake & Palmer, Manticore served not only as a home for ELP’s albums, but for a host of other excellent artists such as Pete Sinfield, PFM, Banco and Keith Christmas. MorelloMorello Records was launched in July 2012 and brings you the best in Country Music re-issues. Many of our releases have never been available on CD before, so are proving to be welcome additions to music collectors. MortarhateWelcome to Mortarhate. Native RecordsKevin Donoghue had been central to Sheffield’s independent music scene since punk – and eventually committed to his own label Native Records in 1985. Signings weren’t restricted to local acts – indeed, Native’s most successful act were The Darling Buds from South Wales, who enjoyed indie hits with ‘Shame On You’ and ‘It’s All Up To You’. The label adopted a broad musical policy across its lifespan, from electronica and indie pop to industrial rock and dance. Other notable Native acts included Sheffield’s own Treebound Story, featuring guitarist Richard Hawley, They Must Be Russians, Junk, The Emotionals, Screaming Trees (the UK version!), shoegazers Smashing Orange and Raintree County from Manchester. Now SoundsNow Sounds was established by Steve Stanley, producer of over 50 Rev-Ola titles. We are dedicated to exploring the untrodden sonic avenues of the creatively fertile West Coast music scene and beyond. The Cherry Red-distributed label celebrates (but is not limited to) the golden era of popular music (1964-1972) via soft psychedelia, Brill Building, breezy harmony pop, Wilsonian-sploitation, girl groups, Spectorian sound and his imitators, folk rock, downer folk psych, Bacharock, Wrecking Crew/anything recorded at Gold Star Studios, and the best in new music. Our releases include exclusive bonus tracks, lengthy liner notes and unpublished photos! Original DopeWelcome to Original Dope. Phoenix CityFrom the UK’s finest longest running & truly independent record label Cherry Red Records comes a brand new subsidiary label – Phoenix City Records. Run by Sean Flowerdew (Pama Intl/The Loafers), the label will be releasing the finest Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, Soul & Dub from around the world, from classic reissues to blistering new sounds. PokerWelcome to Poker. Pressure DropPressure Drop is the Ska and early Reggae imprint of Cherry Red Records. Initially releasing the extensive and essential works of The Godfather of Ska, Laurel Aitken, the label’s aim is to feature a wide variety of artists, from Jamaican originators to British-based acts who were at the forefront of the Ska Revival in the late seventies and early eighties. Pressure drop is curated by Reggae & Ska expert Laurence Cane-Honeysett. Purple RecordsCherry Red are proud to announce the resurrection of Purple Records! ReactiveEsoteric’s Reactive imprint is dedicated to reissues of classic German Progressive, Electronic, Experimental and Ambient music, including classic albums by the legendary Tangerine Dream. RedlineRedline Records is home to tribute releases of some of the biggest names in popular music. RighteousThe Righteous label specializes in aching country, forgotten soul music and other strange exotica. Featuring underlying moralizing, songs of redemption, blues wailing and sounds that can break hearts or turn grown men to tears, that’s the stuff they’re interested in. From George Jones to Hank Snow’s immortal ‘When Tragedy Struck’ through to the roots of Dylan’s twisted songwriting inspiration, that’s the Righteous sound. RobinsongsRobinsongs is the label that specialises in releasing some of the best Jazz, Funk & Soul titles ever recorded, the big bonus with Robinsongs releases is you usually get more than one album. Robinsongs specialise in two on one’s and three on two’s plus Best Of CD’s. Artists to be found on Robinsongs include The Bar-Kays, Cameo, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Con Funk Shun & Johnny Guitar Watson to name but a few, and on the Jazz Funk scene Idris Muhammad, Bob James, Hank Crawford & Lee Ritnour. All titles are remastered and include sleeve notes by some of today’s best Jazz, Funk & Soul journalists. RPMBrought to you “by Collectors for Collectors”, RPM Records was founded by brand owner and label manager Mark Stratford in 1991. RPM specialises in 1960’s -1980’s UK and US reissues and bespoke compilations. Many iconic releases have been created from ‘The Teenage Opera’ to Joe Meek’s ‘ I Hear A New World’ to The Aerovons to mod defining ‘Looking…’ box sets. Offshoot series include RPM International for 60’s/70’s recordings from outside the Uk and US / Frenzy – focusing on New Zealand and Australia / Shout – a heritage of classic soul and r’n’b. Safari RecordsAbout Safari Founded by the folks behind Purple Records, Safari Records was launched in the wake of punk in 1977. By far the label’s biggest star was Toyah, who progressed from post-punk beginnings to score a string of huge hits in the early 80s (including ‘I Want To Be Free’, ‘Thunder In The Mountains’ and ‘Good Morning Universe’), as well as releasing several successful albums. Other than Toyah, Safari was also notable as a home for punk pioneers Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, new wave band The Boys, ex-Deep Purple singer Glenn Hughes, several British reggae acts (such as The Cimarons and Weapon Of Peace), disco duo The Chanter Sisters and various Mod and Ska Revival acts (captured on the LP Uppers On The South Downs). SFEStrike Force Entertainment has now teamed up with Cherry Red Records to bring you the very best in specialist DVD titles. With historical documentaries on everything from The First World War to Swingin’ Sixties Rock N Roll plus a whole lot of cult & classic feature films. To receive more information, get exclusive film clips and hear about special offers please sign up to the Strike Force Entertainment mailing list at: news@strikeforcetv.com Shrunken HeadShrunken Head is the label within the Cherry Red family, dedicated to the music of Sun Dial and related acts. Fronted by guitarist Gary Ramon, psychedelic rock band Sun Dial emerged in 1990 with the classic LP Other Way Out, which attracted rave reviews. Sidewinder SoundsWelcome to Sidewinder Sounds. Sonet (UK)The British arm of Scandinavian company Sonet Records was created by Rod Buckle at the dawn of the 1970s. Their most prolific signing was Brett Marvin &The Thunderbolts, who enjoyed a huge hit with ‘Sea Side Shuffle’, under the guise of Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs (and licensed out to UK Records). Confused?! Well, the band’s blend of gutbucket blues and pub rock led to five albums, including a solo venture from future star Jona Lewie. Other notable acts signed by Buckle included singer-songwriter Mick Audsley, late 60s blues band Blue Blood, American Svengali Kim Fowley (a compilation of rarities), British R&B favourites The Inmates and 80s heavy metal act Glasgow. SoulMusic RecordsSoulMusic Records was initially formed in 2008 as a logical outgrowth of the website bearing its name, considered one of the top sites for classic and contemporary R&B and soul music. The site was originally created in 2000 by David Nathan, renowned R&B historian, author, sleeve notes writer and music journalist. StrawberryStrawberry is a new Cherry Red imprint. Picking up where the mighty RPM Records have left off, Strawberry will shine a light on collectible 60s and 70s recordings, from themed compilations to single artist anthologies and occasional album reissues. Summerfold & Winterfold Records SuperBirdWelcome to SuperBird. T-BirdWelcome to T-Bird T-Bird AmericanaWelcome to T-Bird Americana. Tune InTUNE IN is the Cherry Red label devoted to the U.S. Psychedelic scene of the late 1960s. The Right Honourable Recording Company LtdWelcome to The Right Honourable Recording Company. Turtle Records VisionaryWelcome to Visionary. West MidlandsWelcome to West Midlands Records. This is the branch of Cherry Red dedicated to the releases of Lawrence after his departure from FELT. Here you will find albums by the great man performing as Denim & Go-Kart Mozart. WiseCrack RecordsWise Crack is the Cherry Red imprint dedicated to reissuing the great comedy records of the 20th Century. CR:TV The Cherry Red Story I agree to my personal data being stored and used for distribution of the Cherry Red Records newsletter I agree to receive information and commercial offers about Cherry Red Records Home 9.95 The Genius In HarmonyAnita Kerr Return to previous page The Genius In Harmony Anita Kerr SKU: ACMEM249CD Categories: 9.95, El, El Records Sale, El! Christmas Sale, Physical, Sitewide Sale architects of The Nashville Sound, the voices behind such eternal hits as Roy Orbison’s Only the Lonely, Jim Reeves’ He’ll Have to Go and I’m Sorry by Brenda Lee, The Anita Kerr Singers, through their long career, released several “tribute” albums; Bert Kaempfert Turns Us On, The Anita Kerr Singers reflect on the Hits of Burt Bacharach and the immensely popular, We Dig Mancini – which defined the best of mid-sixties MOR and snatched a Grammy from under the noses of the Beatles. “The Genius” in Harmony, released in 1962, was their first such album, comprising songs written by or associated with Ray Charles. result of the layering of the charm and polish of the Kerr voices on such dark material as Hard Times and Drown In My Own Tears is remarkable and it’s difficult to understand how such a fine set can have been allowed to languish out of print for so long. Here’s what Anita Kerr herself said about the project at the time: ‘It’s like electing someone to public office who feels just the way you feel about things. Ray Charles was the person chosen to express all the pent-up emotions of the human soul: the entertainer born to spread these emotions out on the table for the whole world to see, close up and in broad daylight. call him “The Genius”. I think of him as a restless genius. One moment he’s topping everything you’ve ever heard in blues singing, and the next moment he moves on to old standards like Hoagy Carmichael’s Georgia On My Mind. Before you can get used to him in that vein he’s gospel-flavouring the songs he does, like I Got A Woman. Then he’s knee-deep in the country field or meeting Irving Berlin head on in a song that dates back to 1911, Alexander’s Ragtime Band. And in between all these have come other great songs we’ve tried to interpret for you here, such as Ruby, with its lush, soft-ballad air, the almost haunting Hard Times and the ram-paging Hit the Road Jack. ‘Reflections on Ray Charles’ greatness in the dimen-sions of four voices – this is what we’ve tried our very best to bring you.’ of the best arrangers in the business, Anita was not averse playfully exploring the early sixties pop universe with fictitious ensembles and featured here also are the two singles by Anita & the So & So’s, including their sweet US hit, Joey Baby. 1. DROWN IN MY OWN TEARS 2. YES INDEED! 3. GEORGIA ON MY MIND 4. ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND 5. HARD TIMES 6. WHAT’D I SAY 7. SWANEE RIVER ROCK 8. WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT YOU 9. HIT THE ROAD JACK 10. I BELIEVE TO MY SOUL 11. RUBY 12. I GOT A WOMAN 13. HEY JOE 14. MY LAST DATE (WITH YOU) 15. SINGING THE BLUES 16. THE OLD MASTER PAINTER 17. YOU DON'T KNOW ME 18. NEAR YOU 19. NIGHT TRAIN TO MEMPHIS 20. I'LL HOLD YOU IN MY HEART 21. BYE BYE LOVE 22. FOUR WALLS 23. OH LONESOME ME 24. HALF AS MUCH 25. JOEY BABY 26. RINKY TINKY RHYTHM 27. TO EACH HIS OWN 28. TELL TALE RIT/RIT 2 Classix Nouveaux Blood On The Bricks Kiss This World Good Bye / In Search Of The Rainbow Seekers Mtume We’ve just added our March release schedule to our website. Take a look at what’s on the way from the list below! A… https://t.co/jWMqYHvdaC RT @theglennkelly: Info on the latest @howardjones project I curated for @CherryRedGroup In The Running #expandeddeluxeset available for p… March 2021 – Here’s a look ahead to what’s on the way in March FRATERNITY\| Find out more about ‘Seasons Of Change’ the complete recordings of Bon Scott’s ‘Fraternity’ out on Friday! NEW MUSIC FRIDAY\| Get the first peek at some of the fantastic Cherry Red catalogue that has been made available on digital platforms today! BUZZCOCKS\| Simply pre-order a copy of Buzzcocks’ ’30 – Live In London’ on double red vinyl to enter our competition to win a rare white label test pressing! KEN HENSLEY\| Have you seen the brand-new music video for Ken Hensley’s ‘Lost (My Guardian)’? Watch and stream the track here! © 2020 Cherry Red Records	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6225
__label__cc	0.583954	0.416046	Home » Sports » Meet Jets’ Forward Evander Kane at Future Shop Meet Jets’ Forward Evander Kane at Future Shop September 11, 2011 7:39 AM \| Sports Winnipeg Jets’ forward Evander Kane will meet and greet fans on Monday at Future Shop’s St. James location. Kane will be on hand for the launch of EA Sports’ NHL 12 video game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Fans can meet Kane between 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. for autographs. Then at midnight (Tuesday), Future Shop will release the highly-anticipated NHL 12. The first 250 customers in line will get a signed NHL 12 jacket cover. Gaming merchandise giveaways will also be part of the night’s festivities. ← Previous: Winnipeg Jets' Rookies in the Spotlight Next: Winnipeggers with Talent Hope for Chance at Stardom → Tags: Evander Kane \| Hockey \| NHL \| Winnipeg Jets	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6232
__label__wiki	0.54318	0.54318	Home » News » Tim Hortons Releases Full Version of ‘Let’s Run’ Tim Hortons Releases Full Version of ‘Let’s Run’ January 22, 2014 9:25 AM \| News The song that Canadians have been hearing daily in a new Tim Horton’s commercial featuring Sidny Crosby has been released in its entirety. “Let’s Run” is an original song produced by music house Grayson Matthews on behalf of Tim Hortons for the commercial, which features Pittsburgh Penguins’ captain Sidney Crosby jumping the boards alongside real Canadian hockey fans. The commercial debuted January 4 and has received more than 352,000 views through Tim Hortons’ YouTube channel. “Right from the very first day our Tim Hortons Sidney Crosby spot aired, our guests have been tweeting us and posting messages on Facebook and YouTube asking for the song,” said Rob Forbes, senior director of marketing and national programs. “We’re thrilled that the music has struck a chord with Canadians, and for that reason we wanted to produce a full-length version and provide it as a free download.” The song can be downloaded from SoundCloud, or just click the play button below. ← Previous: Nikki Yanofsky to Headline Negev Gala at Concert Hall Next: Giant Snow Maze to Be Built in Downtown Winnipeg → Tags: Canada \| Hockey \| Music \| Tim Hortons	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6234
__label__wiki	0.593931	0.593931	Brokers & Owners: Promote your listings & more! Member’s Center Viewed Listings This is your member's center Here you will find your folders where you can save listings and communicate with your agent. Available on mobile as well Top 10 Newest Rental Buildings The following is a list of links to City Realty pages. For screen reader users, all links are visible at all time, so you may ignore the control buttons Search Apartments for Sale Search Apartments for Rent No Fee Rental Buildings Add Rental Listing Rental Building Owners New Development Condos Condo & Co-op Profiles and Ratings Market Reports & Research 6sqft (our blog) Carter's View Rental Building News and Offers For screen reader users, all slides are visible at all time so you may ignore the control buttons A blog from CityRealty (Links below will take you to the 6sqft site) CityRealty > CityRealty's Top Ten > There is something developers and residents have in common: They want their condos to be newer and better, swankier and with more technologically-advanced amenities. Here's a list of New York's newest rentals, along with their impressive, cutting-edge features. #1 - VIA 57 WEST, 625 West 57th Street No fee rental in Midtown West VIA 57 West , the architecturally-bold "tetrahedron" designed by Bjarke Ingels and developed by the The Durst Organization, completed in 2016. Its 41-story, green-living structure is located on the Hudson River waterfront in Midtown West and consists of 709 rentals. Building amenities include expansive terraces, a 22,000-square-foot interior courtyard, and a swimming pool with an outdoor sun terrace. 3 Beds Starting At Managed by The Durst Organization #2 - 456 Washington Street No fee rental in Tribeca This TriBeCa rental designed by BKSK Architects was completed in 2016 is situated along the Hudson River Waterfront, at 456 Washington Street. It's 11 stories tall and contains 106 light-filled units, a portion of which are affordable. Its design combines the industrial elements of the neighborhood's past with the most modern amenities coveted by local residents. Managed by Related Rentals #3 - Sky, 605 West 42nd Street The Moinian Group and Goldstein Hill & West-collaborated high-rise rests between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenue in Midtown West. It stands 60 stories tall with 1,116 residences designed by the renowned Rockwell Group. Built in 2015, it offers 70,000 square feet of amenities, including a multi-level athletic club, to its residents; among these are a spa, indoor and outdoor pools, pet services, and many luxuries. Skyline, river and harbor views can be seen through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Studios Starting At 1 Bed Starting At Managed by The Moinian Group #4 - The Ashland, 250 Ashland Place No fee rental in Downtown Brooklyn This 2016 FXFowle-designed rental tower offers Manhattan-level luxury in a diverse Brooklyn setting. The 52-story building is located in Fort Greene, surrounded by tons of entertainment, cultural, and shopping destinations. Featured amenities include a state-of-the-art fitness studio with an outdoor fitness area, terraces, resident lounges, an outdoor movie screening area, a game room and special access and discount at the Gotham Market located right downstairs. Managed by Gotham Organization #5 - The Easton, 205 East 92nd Street No fee rental in Yorkville The Easton is a 36-story luxury rental building that resides on the Upper East Side. Its spacious residences, 183 in total, are a reflection of the neighborhood's lavish lifestyle, offering custom cabinetry, stainless-steel appliances, double-paned windows, oakwood floors throughout, and a smart home technology package. The building also boasts over 20,000 square feet of amenities: private residential access to an Equinox gym, landscaped sun terraces, Dog City grooming and day care, as well as, family-friendly amenities like a custom children's playroom and a teen multimedia room. Explore 100,000 sq ft of amenities, including spa, lounges and gardens. View Property Own the Lifestyle Private full-floor residences • Floor-to-ceiling windows • 360-degree Manhattan views View Property #6 - 21 West End Avenue No fee rental in Lincoln Center 21 West End Avenue is a 43-story mixed-use building designed by SCLE Architects and (interior design by) ICRAVE. Part of the Riverside Center development, the tower offers a new public school, upscale retail and dining and 616 apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom units in size. Built in 2015, it houses over 35,000 square feet of amenities designed to be an extension of its homes for a "vertical village-experience." Managed by Dermot #7 - 70 Pine Street No fee rental in Financial District This iconic skyscraper, built in 1932, was just converted into 644 rental apartments in 2016 by Rose Associates. The renovation, coupled with its landmark status, has continued to hold an integral spot in the Lower Manhattan skyline. In addition to its extended-stay hotel, Q&A, the building features a 24/7 attended lobby, a rooftop bar, LA PALESTRA Fitness and Wellness Center, a Black Fox cafe, a children's playroom, and a bowling, game and screening room. Managed by Rose Associates #8 - QLIC, 41-42 24th Street No fee rental in Long Island City QLIC, built in 2014, was developed by World-Wide Group and designed by Perkins Eastman. This Long Island City development is a U-shaped building that features a large, central courtyard and 421 residences. Most notably, the building has a CoGeneration system which allows it to be as energy efficient as possible. Even in a blackout, the system serves as a back-up energy source. Other green features include green roofs, energy star appliances, LED lighting, bike storage space, and light-saving sensors in corridors and stairs. Additionally, all rental residences offer luxury finishes. Managed by World Wide Group #9 - Fifth & Wythe, 55 North 5th Street No fee rental in Williamsburg This industrial-inspired Williamsburg rental was built in 2016 and offers 164 apartments spread throughout 7 floors. GF55 Partners designed the building, spanning it about half a block between Kent Avenue and Wythe Avenue. Residence features include in-unit washers/dryers, bike storage, onsite parking, a rooftop deck, a fitness center and more. Fifth & Wythe is also conveniently located just a block away from the waterfront and East River State Park. Managed by L+M Development Partners #10 - aalto57, 1065 Second Avenue No fee rental in Midtown East The SOM-designed Aalto57 is a mixed-residential 65-story building located in Sutton Place. Its 169 apartments occupy just the first 21 floors while the upper portion of the tower are condos. Residences are a mix of luxury studio to three bedroom units and all feature walnut floors, in unit washers/dryers, oversized windows, gourmet kitchens and fully integrated appliances. Building amenities are standard for a 2016 development and include a business center, residents' lounge, landscaped terrace with a fire pit, a fitness center, a children's playroom and a Whole Foods located right downstairs. Aalto57 is also LEED-silver certified and impressively boasts filtered water and air. This website uses cookies. 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__label__cc	0.550324	0.449676	Clarkslegal Online Business Recovery & Insolvency Complex Contracts Outsourcing & Supply Chain Entrepreneurs & Start-Ups Rise in number of graduates working for free 02 August 2012 #Employment A report published by the Higher Education Statistics Authority has shown that the number of graduates going into unpaid employment or voluntary work has increased by 23% in the past year, and more than tripled since 2003. Of the graduates who entered employment, 69% were employed in full-time paid work, 22% were employed part-time and 5% were self-employed or freelance. 6,295 graduates (4%) were in voluntary or unpaid work, an increase from 5,120 the previous year. The figures also showed that the number of graduates going into internships or low or unpaid positions in the professional services rose by 21% in the past year. Internships aimed at giving graduates on-the-job training are common in marketing, banking, finance, information services and creative industries such as publishing. In the current job market employers are increasingly finding that more graduates are willing to take unpaid roles in return for such valuable experience. However, the TUC are concerned that employers are taking advantage of graduates who are willing to work for little or no pay, and that this practice disadvantages less affluent graduates who may be less able to work for free. The legal position Volunteers do not benefit from the protection awarded under a contract of employment as employees do, and as such are a virtually free and flexible source of manpower. However, there is a risk that individuals described as “volunteers” or “interns” are actually employees and as such may have various employee rights, including the right to be paid the current national minimum wage of £6.08 per hour. For more information on how to deal with volunteers, and the risks of such individuals being classed as employees, see the best practice volunteers factsheet on Employment Buddy. Clarkslegal, specialist Employment lawyers in London, Reading and throughout the Thames Valley. For further information about this or any other Employment matter please contact Clarkslegal's employment team by email at employmentunit@clarkslegal.com by telephone 020 7539 8000 (London office), 0118 958 5321 (Reading office) or by completing the form on this page. This information is for guidance purposes only and should not be regarded as a substitute for taking legal advice. Please refer to the full General Notices on our website. Employment team Tweets by @Clarkslegal 5th Floor, Thames Tower, Station Road, Reading, RG1 1LX ENGLAND E: contact@clarkslegal.com 41-44 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5AD ENGLAND Clarkslegal is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales. Registered number OC308349. Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA no. 403601) © 2021 Clarkslegal LLP \| General Notices \| Privacy Notice \| Complaints \| Clarkslegal Complaints Procedure	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6239
__label__cc	0.749735	0.250265	The best restaurants, cafes, and sights for a date in Amsterdam. Romantic spots along the swoon-worthy canals The Magere Brug Luca Da Ros/Corbis Make Out Under the Magere Brug Stand on this drawbridge structure connecting the banks of the river Amstel and you’ll notice that the couples aboard the tour boats beneath you are pashing with abandon. The reason? Legend has it that a kiss under the Magere Brug (literally “skinny bridge”) will secure eternal fidelity. This, along with the spectacular views over the city’s eastern reaches mean it’s also a favored place for marriage proposals. Make Time for a Romantic Meal Inhabiting the cobbled intersection of two of the city’s most eye-blisteringly picturesque waterways (the Brouwersgracht and the Herengracht) this low-lit, art nouveau-styled Restaurant de Belhalmel encompasses the warm, syrupy feeling that locals love to describe as gezellig. Swans glide by, wee boats bob along on the canals, and, as the light fades, the place becomes a dazzling radiator of cinematic perfection. Take a Ride in Amsterdam’s Gondola Amsterdammers take exception to the city’s unofficial soubriquet “the Venice of the North,” and with good reason. The canals here are much less congested—not to mention less polluted with sewerage. Now the city has its very own authentic gondola, thanks to the plucky Dutch woman who went to Venice to build one. The most tranquil way of seeing the city by water, this sleek love boat is the site of many a marriage proposal.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6242
__label__wiki	0.720625	0.720625	California man shot dead after argument over who would win Super Bowl Joshua Bote, USA TODAY An argument over who would win the Super Bowl has led to the death of a California man, police say. A man, identified by police as Frank Rojas, 24, was standing on the front yard at a house gathering in Fresno, California, on Saturday afternoon when a homeless man allegedly approached him, reported KFSN-TV and the Fresno Bee. Both men began arguing over who would win Super Bowl LIV, when the suspect reportedly took out a weapon and shot at Rojas, per the Bee. "There was a disturbance in the front yard of that house, at the corner house, regarding the Super Bowl," Fresno Police Lt. Charlie Chamalbide told KFSN. “Preliminary info is that they were rooting for different teams.” Police have identified the suspect as Daniel Epimenio Gonzalez, 34, per KSEE-TV. Gonzalez was later found and taken into custody, Chamalbide told the Bee. According to jail records, he is charged with murder and possession of a firearm by a felon – as well as violating probation. Rojas was taken to the hospital, reported KSEE, where he underwent emergency surgery. He later died at the hospital. Officials have yet to find the weapon, which Chamalbide told KFSN “was like a makeshift gun.”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6247
__label__wiki	0.864191	0.864191	Movie review: Charlize Theron delivers in pregnancy drama ‘Tully’ May 3, 2018 at 11:42 AM May 3, 2018 at 11:43 AM Unless you’re Kate Middleton strolling out of hospital wearing spike heels and sporting a fresh blowout a mere six hours after giving birth, motherhood is messy. And so is the matriarchal madness of “Tully.” It’s a comedy. It’s a drama. It’s a cautionary tale. It’s a mental health allegory. It’s up, it’s down. It’s happy, it’s sad. It’s all over the place — just like motherhood. In it, Charlize Theron plays the ultimate oxymoron: Harried mom. She’s just given birth to her (unplanned) third baby and is gifted a “night nanny,” the Tully of the title, to help. For most of the movie, director Jason Reitman, teaming for a third collaboration with his “Juno” and “Young Adult” scribe, Diablo Cody, are onto something in their depictions and observations of the everyday challenges mothers face — tantrums, clueless spouses, judge-y strangers, sleep deprivation, breastfeeding, cooking, cleaning, shuffling other kids around, baking nut-free cupcakes that look like Minions. The minutia of motherhood is maddening and the pressure to do it all is real, trust me. By now, the material is mostly maternal clichés, but you can overlook all the familiar beats because Reitman, Cody and Theron present their character study with nothing but realism, accentuated with Cody’s trademark catchy, quotable dialogue. It’s as raw as nipples after breastfeeding, right down to moments that you never want people to witness, such as the indignity of wearing a diaper after childbirth, peeing in front of the nurse, or the primal screams of frustration Marlo lets loose after placing the crying baby safely inside a car seat. Like too many women out there, Theron’s Marlo is a good mom, but she’s suffocating. Her 8-year-old daughter (Lia Frankland) is growing up too fast. Her “quirky” 5-year-old son (Asher Miles Fallica) has emotional problems. Her husband (Ron Livingston) is pleasant enough, but too busy at work and busier at home with his video games. Sadly, Marlo has no support system, seemingly no friends and mourns her carefree single days. Now 40 and trapped in her squishy postpartum body, she feels like “an abandoned trash barge.” Watching the soft-porn reality TV show “Gigolos” is the closest she gets to enjoyment. It’s no wonder she’s suffering the baby blues something fierce. Enter her lifeline in the form of a 26-year-old sprite named Tully (Mackenzie Davis), apparently paid for by Marlo’s “bougie” brother, Craig (Mark Duplass). Tully is full of positivity and New Age advice: “You can’t fix the part without treating the whole.” Tully’s a game-changer. She arrives nightly at 10:30 to mind newborn Mia while Marlo sleeps. She wakes only to nurse the baby. After a few days, Marlo is instantly brighter, “it’s like I can see color again.” The middle-portion of the movie shows our girl getting her groove back. She runs, wears makeup, and prepares home-cooked meals. It’s great, but it also causes you to wonder where the film is headed. And, what happens is not what you’d expect. For her part, Theron, who’s in every scene, shed all vanity, reportedly gaining 50 pounds for the role. She pushes her all-in performance to the emotional brink until eventually the script lets her down with a twist that is neither earned nor necessary. You go along, however, because of Theron, who’s able to live in the sweet spot between vulnerability, self-deprecation and toughness. Someone should show this movie to Princess Kate because real-life motherhood is not what she represents. Reitman, Cody and Theron articulate and visualize this existence so genuinely, I was practically high-fiving the screen. That is until the movie falls apart in the too-contrived third-act (no spoilers). Like a baby taking a morning and afternoon nap — “Tully” turns out to be too good to be true. — Dana Barbuto may be reached at dbarbuto@ledger.com or follow her on Twitter @dbarbuto_Ledger.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6248
__label__cc	0.550119	0.449881	Home > Businesswire Niine Kicks off at Football Ground in Mumbai by businesswireindia.com NIINE SANITARY napkins, has once again taken the initiative to take menstrual hygiene awareness to an unexplored ground. Indian woman’s team vice-captain and goalkeeper – “Aditi Chauhan” organized a workshop for amateur and upcoming football players in Mumbai and was attended by girls and boys from Mumbai and Pune. Aditi is an Indian women's professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for India Rush and the Indian national team. She has previously played for English club West Ham United Ladies. The venue was “score Marwah” a football turf on a rooftop in Andheri East and She organized it under her flagship football academy – “She kicks.” The event was executed by caanhub.com – a sports social networking website and crew for sports – a sports activations company. The event was supported by brands such as mojoco water – a new coconut water brand – and Niine – sanitary napkins. The presence of Niine – also ensured that young girls – who want to be professional sportswoman that nothing can stop them for being what they want to and can confidently, without any worry – just play and enjoy their game. Niine has been consistently supporting sports and other events – Niine Under the parent company Shudh Plus Hygiene Products has set up manufacturing units with the latest machinery supported by state-of-the-art technology in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Speaking about the business with purpose Amar Tulsiyan, Founder Niine Sanitary Napkins said, “we have already entered the market making formidable reputation as a challenger brand by being the first to create menstrual awareness, breaking the taboos, enrolling brothers and fathers and first one to provide solutions in the form of biodegradable disposal bag to dispose of used sanitary napkins. Niine Sanitary napkins were the first brand to say “Let's talk periods”, coming out openly and addressing the topic of menstruation to both men and women. It was the first to move away from purely mother-daughter campaigns and enroll a brother in a #Surakshabandhan TVC and later came up with a father-daughter TVC. Niine Sanitary Napkins, is also the first Indian sanitary napkin brand to be and breaking borders and going international with its #letstalkperiods message and presence on West Indies cricket grounds. Since then, Niine has been regularly visible on cricket grounds, a sport usually enjoyed by men- clearly aiming to break the taboo, secrecy and shunning away periods as a woman only issue. And now with this football workshop again the message is very clear Access to menstrual hygiene products keeps girls on the same track as their male peers. The workshop had 4 sessions – the first one being an audiovisual presentation – which was on sports science and detailed theory on what it takes to be a professional footballer. The sports science bit was conducted by Durva Vahiya – sports science specialist with reliance football foundation. The other 3 rounds were drills and exercises – plus an opportunity to all players to play a game with Aditi and Durva. Niine also gave away prizes and goodie bags – with a collection of their products – to the best player of the evening – which was won by Tanishka. The event was a major success – she kicks – along with caanhub.com and crew for sports – look forward to organizing many more similar workshops across the country. We at Niine work actively to support women and girls who struggle to access safe menstrual products by offering sanitary napkins and also Educating girls and women about feminine hygiene and biology which helps to bust myths and cultural superstitions. Access to correct information about hygiene and adequate sanitary materials enables women to feel more confident and comfortable with their bodies. Source: Businesswire	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6250
__label__wiki	0.893884	0.893884	Steven Pressley Coventry City ponder 4-4-2 as Sky Blues boss Steven Pressley searches for right formation Boss says he'll be looking to get players a full 90 minutes in this weekend's friendlies Alan Poole Steven Pressley and squad Coventry City wind up their pre-season preparation with two games in the space of 19 hours – at Bristol Rovers tomorrow night and Stevenage on Saturday afternoon – and Steven Pressley admits that he’s still at the experimental stage in terms of what system and what staff he’ll employ for the League One opener at Bradford City next weekend. The Sky Blues boss employed 22 players in a 3-5-2 formation for the friendlies at Newport County and Watford, the first a disappointing defeat against League Two opposition, the second an exhilarating victory against a side tipped to challenge for Championship honours this term. But he confirmed that he could revert to his customary 4-4-2 for the next two matches which will present his squad with the opportunity to get a full 90 minutes under their belts. “We’ll have a discussion with the group and my staff and decide what we’re going to do at Bristol,” said the Scot. “I tried 3-5-2 because it’s a system we can use very effectively – it gives us stability at the back and good width at times and I think we’ve got players who can adapt to it. “I wanted us to prove that we have that adaptability, that we’re not just a 4-4-2 team and we can change from week to week. “It gives me food for thought because we’ve got the players who can cope with both systems, but the key thing is that we always work to the principles of our football philosophy and those don’t change whether it’s 4-4-2, 3-5-2 or anything else. “Our game is based on what we work on in training every day – pushing the lines to get the high press and having the composure to play when you win the ball. Watford 0 Coventry City 1 “That was very lethargic at Newport so we did a lot of analysis the following morning and I perhaps raised my voice once or twice to get my point across. “The change at Watford was significant and very satisfying – we were very quick and aggressive so every time they shifted the ball back the team moved accordingly. "I was particularly pleased that even when we had a completely different team out there for the last 20 minutes of so – including five teenagers – everybody stuck to the plan and the work ethic. “There were a lot of really good individual performances. We got Reda Johnson another 45 minutes and he was excellent as was Andy Webster. "We tweaked the defence and Jordan Clarke was outstanding as a wing-back while Jordan Willis was excellent inside him. “The three in the middle of the park were great and we’ve found ourselves a top striker in Marcus Tudgay – he took his goal brilliantly and he allows us to get the ball in to him and make the runs we want to make off him. “It was a tremendous performance against a hugely talented Watford side. "The lads know that and they feel good about themselves again, but I’ve made it clear that’s the minimum I expect at this football club.” Pressley plans to give 11 players a full game at Bristol and 11 more 90 minutes at Stevenage but stresses that fans shouldn’t jump to any conclusions about either selection being his first-choice line-up. “Places are still up for grabs as they were this time last season,” he said. “It might sound as if I’m cutting it fine, but last year I think it was the second-last training session before I finally decided who would partner Leon Clarke up front – and that worked out quite well in the end!” Andy Webster Jordan Clarke Jordan Willis Leon Clarke	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6251
__label__wiki	0.839654	0.839654	Ecclestone responds to NASCAR criticism Bernie Ecclestone responds to comments from Texas Motor Speedway boss Eddie Gossage over the timing of the United States Grand Prix Bernie Ecclestone has responded to criticism from the boss of the Texas Motor Speedway over the timing of the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas. The F1 event will take place on the same weekend that NASCAR is competing 220 miles away at the venue run by Eddie Gossage. The circuit boss has been outspoken in his views on the calendar clash, stating that the decision to run the F1 race on the same weekend as the AAA Texas 500 Sprint Cup event was 'not smart and that 'Ecclestone does a lot of foolish things'. Gossage also hit out at COTA officials for not having the 'strength and the fortitude to stand up and say no' over the date, but Ecclestone responded by saying that it was important to consider the logistical issues faced by F1 as it travels around the globe. "We've a small problem they [NASCAR] don't have," he told the Press Association. "We have six jumbo jets to move around all our equipment, and we have to find the most sensible way to use them to do that. "We have to be efficient, and bear in mind we may also encounter problems at an airport. There are issues that can occur, but he and other people do not realise these things. Raikkonen nearing new Ferrari deal for F1 2018 'I did what I felt was right' - Hamilton explains sporting Bottas swap "The race prior to the one in the US is in Russia, in Sochi. We've never been before, and we have to get out of there and into Austin. That is probably a lot easier than trying to get into Brazil, and then we have to get out of there [S?o Paulo] to go to Abu Dhabi. "So he is extremely lucky he doesn't have to do what we have to do." Ecclestone added that the two series' were looking at different markets and the clash shouldn't have an impact on either race Suzuka: Exhausted Haslam leads Team Green to second 2017 F1 Points' standings after Hungarian GP "I've also spoken to the people that run the race at COTA and they believe the NASCAR crowd is a different crowd to Formula One, different people, different customers," he said. "At the end of the day they run a domestic series in America - we run a world championship." Massa has 'surprised' Williams - Nelson Who is testing when at the final Bahrain test? "You hit me!" WATCH a furious Buemi confront rivals on live TV Hungarian Grand Prix - Grid Buemi disqualified from Montreal FE race for underweight car Hungarian Grand Prix - F1 Raceday LIVE Di Grassi takes FE points lead with Montreal victory	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6257
__label__cc	0.566073	0.433927	Home » MotoGP » Interviews Interview with Kevin Schwantz - Part 2 Peter McLaren In part two of Crash.net's exclusive interview with 1993 500cc world champion Kevin Schwantz, the '34' casts his eye over the first two races of the 2011 MotoGP season... In part two of Crash.net's exclusive interview with 1993 500cc world champion Kevin Schwantz, the '34' casts his eye over the first two races of the 2011 MotoGP season - a night race in Qatar and wet race at Jerez... Crash.net: What are your thoughts on the first two races of this season? What stood out for you? Kevin Schwantz: The first one in Qatar I thought was kind of as we expected. There were a few passes at the front but not a whole lot happening. Not a real thriller, by any stretch by an imagination. Jerez was absolutely the opposite. The rain opened it up for a lot of different people to be at the front - Simoncelli, Lorenzo, Stoner, Pedrosa. And Rossi was on a charge through until he made a little mistake. It was great to see him get back up and score some points but unfortunate for Casey. You know Bernie [Ecclestone] made some noise about 'we need to wet the track [in F1]. We need to open this up and make it a better opportunity for everyone to win'. That wet race in Jerez showed that a little moisture on the track sure makes a big difference. A little tweak on the set-up and someone who really wants to push the envelope can actually find his way to the front, where maybe in dry conditions that opportunity wouldn't be there. Official: Yamaha penalised Constructors', Teams' points Scott Redding displays title credentials with WorldSBK double Both rounds of Moto2 have been okay, but not great. Not that huge field at the front, a little bit of a breakaway. But that's to be expected after a year of racing. There's going to be some teams that have sorted things out and some riders that are on top of their game at the start of the season. I don't see it being that way all season long. I think everybody else will catch up, figure out what's going on and both Moto2 and 125 will still offer the great competitive racing that they've always been. For me the Jerez 125cc race was a real treat, to see Danny Kent and Taylor Mackenzie finish fourth and fifth. A couple of young kids coming through, who got an opportunity on a wet track to really show what their riding ability is all about. And they made the most of it. Redding powers to dominant win as Rea fades WorldSBK Jerez - Race Results (2) I'm looking for great things from the smaller class and trying to see who will be our next MotoGP stars. And both of those kids were Red Bull Rookies last year, when I was working with them. Looking at the top of MotoGP now, we've got Jorge Lorenzo leading by nine points. What have you made of his performances? Do you think he's taken another step now he's got a title under his belt? If I had to give a ride of the race in Qatar it would be him, because I really didn't think he'd be able to get between the Hondas - especially not Dani and Casey. Finding a way to get those extra points for second position was almost like a win for him. Then at Jerez he was the smart guy in the group. He stayed out of trouble. Realised, as he started having issues with the tyres, 'I gotta slow down a little bit, things are getting a little messy for me'. In those conditions it's so easy to make one small mistake and in the rain you don't really get much chance to save it. That's what happened to Spies. Spies made a great move from third to second, caught and passed Pedrosa and then should have done just enough to stay in front of Dani. But instead one little bobble got him on the ground. And you can't always get up and get the bike restarted, as we saw on Sunday. Casey Stoner is now level with your great rival Wayne Rainey on 24 race wins and just one behind your 25 wins. What do you think about Casey as a rider and what he's been doing on the Honda? Well, I said at the start of the year if Casey gets to grips with that Honda like he got to grips with the Ducati, we're all going to struggle to see which way he went. He proved that in Qatar. He realised he couldn't make a break early, waited for about ten laps, then put his head back down and rode away from everybody. And now he's probably got a little anger pent up in him [after being taken out by Rossi in Jerez] and sometimes a mad Casey is even quicker than a plain-old-ordinary fast Casey! We can only expect to see more of what we saw at the first couple of rounds, and that is Casey right there at the front doing all he can to make up for the points he lost at Jerez. For the others, looking ahead, Dani is maybe getting back over his shoulder injury. He's got a little chance to heal up now. Lorenzo is obviously fighting fit and ready to go. Rossi and the Ducati are both unknowns right now. I think once Valentino is back to 100 percent fit we'll see bigger things from him. I think Rossi and Ducati will be winning races before the end of the year. And of course I've got a little soft spot in my heart there for Spies and I hope he finds his way to the top of the box at least once or twice this year. Suzuki, your former team, are having a really tough time. They are down to one bike this year and then Bautista broke his femur in practice for Qatar. Where do they go from here? I know Bautista is going to be as keen as he can to get back on the bike, but with the injury he suffered he really needs to take his time and be 100 percent when he gets back on the bike. An injury like that, the biggest bone in your body, is not something you want to play around with - bending the rod that's in there, tweaking everything around when it's not fully healed. It's just unfortunate right now that they don't have a great replacement. I think Hopkins got absolutely everything he could, in the conditions, out of the Suzuki [with tenth at Jerez]. But of course John's got a commitment to BSB now. Maybe it's the opportunity for them to put some different people on the bike and try some new riders - whether it's British guys, American guys, Australians. I've no idea who they should try. This situation has really shown what having two riders in a team does for you. When one rider is down you at least have the opportunity for the second rider to still get the result you were looking for and get the exposure that the team and sponsors need. It's a tough position and I don't really have a solution for their problem right now. The guys in that team, in the garage, I got a text from several of them after the Jerez race and they were really excited about getting in the top ten. That was good for them and a little bit of motivation. I think it showed them that the bike is capable, but then John's always been pretty good in the wet and the wet always lets the rider - not so much the machine - get the result and I think that's what we saw there. Kudos to Hopkins because it was not an easy situation to step into and do well. There was a fair bit of attrition and he didn't make any silly mistakes. When it started getting messy at the end of the race he slowed down and he brought the thing home in one piece. Suzuki have got a really tough season ahead of them and I hope Bautista waits a little bit longer than perhaps he wants to before he gets back onto the bike. He needs to be 100 percent fit, not 75 percent. That's for sure. Last question Kevin, aside from your involvement in the new Austin F1 and MotoGP track (see part 1 of the interview), what else have you got going on at the moment? Are you still involved with the Rookies Cup? You know, I'll always be involved with the Rookies. I'm not actually working with them any more. Red Bull decided that with the coaching they have in Spain they really didn't need my help. I was a bit of an added expense for them. But working with them for three years, meeting and knowing those kids, I still get calls and texts - even from the kids that were here back in 2008. I try and help them and give them some advice, I'll continue to do everything I can for them. More so this year I'm just focused on my Riding School. We've implemented a new programme, a single day school we're doing for Honda, called 'Schwantz School Lites'. So most of my time this year will be taken up with my School and the new [ Austin track] facility here. It might be a little less work than I had last year, but I'm really looking forward to the end of 2012 and getting everything moved here. Having everything close to home. End of Part 2. For more on Kevin Schwantz, visit KevinSchwantz.com. Kevin Schwantz - Q&A (Part 1): Austin MotoGP Bartholemy denies BMW, Haslam links WorldSSP Jerez - Race Results (2) WorldSBK Jerez - Superpole Race Results Redding sends a message with classy Jerez WorldSBK win over Rea	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6258
__label__cc	0.699135	0.300865	Credit Cards»News & Advice»Research and Statistics»Poll: Who Americans blame for data breaches Poll: Who Americans blame for data breaches by Laura Mohammad, and Juan Rodriguez As data breaches mount and put personal information at risk, a poll finds most Americans lay the blame on laxness by retailers With breaches at major retailers allowing infiltration of financial data from millions of shoppers, the question arises: Who’s responsible? YouGov plc asked this question following data breaches at Target, White Lodging and Neiman Marcus. As retailers and consumers scramble to protect any financial information the bad guys may have obtained, Krebs on Security asserts that at least at Target, the trouble for more than 110 million consumers “appears to have begun with a malware-laced email phishing attack sent to employees at an HVAC firm that did business with the nationwide retailer.” That explains what happened, but what about who let it happen? YouGov found that of 1,198 U.S. adults polled, retailers were blamed most often, both by those whose cards had been breached in the last year and those who had not. In fact, 51 percent of those who had been breached put retailers at fault; 57 percent of those who were not breached said retailers were to blame. How many pointed the finger at card issuers? That figure came in at only 36 percent of those who had been breached and 41 percent of those who had not. In the poll conducted from Jan. 31-Feb. 3, 2014, 46 percent of Americans weren’t happy with banks’ efforts to protect customers from credit card fraud. Men were more dissatisfied (51 percent) than women (42 percent). Some 30 percent of those polled felt enough was being done by card issuers. Only 2 percent felt that too much was being done. See related:Data breach protection: 10 tips, More infographics To use the graphic on your site, use the following code: <center><a href=”https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/infographic-data-breaches-whos-to-blame-1701/”><img alt=”CreditCards.com infographic: Who Americans blame for the data breaches” border=”0″ src=”https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/images/infographic-data-breaches.jpg” /></a> </center> Laura Mohammad is a CreditCards.com personal finance contributor. Juan Rodriguez is a former CreditCards.com personal finance contributor In Research and Statistics Capital One backs away from invasive debt collection policy Capital One will modify controversial terms saying it can visit cardholders, and denied spoofing its number on caller ID systems	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6259
__label__wiki	0.805091	0.805091	Qantas buys influence but government should say no Qantas are big and very arrogant. They reckon they can get whatever they like but the Federal Government should say no to their push for majority foreign control of our national airline. And they were backed up by the Tourism Task Force which issued a press release on Monday saying they supported the move, as did their members. So who is this Tourism Task Force? We spotted this little announcement from them a while back: “The Tourism Task Force, Australia’s peak national tourism industry group, has announced new appointments to its Board. TTF Chairman The Hon John Brown AO announced a new deputy chairman in Penny Bingham-Hall from Leighton Holdings to join Les Cassar AM KSJ and The Hon Warwick Smith. Other new directors include Stephen Bradford (Serco Transport), Antony Karp (Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels), Wayne Kirkpatrick (Hamilton Island Resort), George Proos (Avis Australia), Michael Sharp (Qantas Airways) and Yvonne von Hartel (Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre).” The TTF claimed at the bottom of the release to be a non-partisan industry group. They should also have disclosed that Qantas is their biggest single source of funds and has a representative on their board in spindoctor Michael Sharp, who last year left that dodgy outfit Westfield and before that was the Gavin Anderson spindoctor who ran the disastrous “don’t sell to AMP” campaign for GIO. And the big end of town TTF is not representative of their industry because the vast majority of tourism operators are small businesses that find Qantas is arrogant and providing a shoddy service to regional areas. But don’t expect the Minister for Qantas, John Anderson, or his lapdog Transport department to fight the move as they are completely captured by the power abusing airline. Just look at the role they played in thwarting the proposed Singapore takeover of Air New Zealand and Ansett. Anderson has a lot to answer for. Despite Anderson’s support, the Qantas foreign ownership move will probably fail for political reasons. If the government has just sold Sydney Airport insisting on majority Australian ownership and plans to do the same with Telstra, why would they open the door for foreign raiders on Qantas, especially when they have an even bigger market share than Telstra. The government has already done Qantas a huge favour by giving them a 10-year depreciation rate for their new aircraft, one of the most attractive regimes in the world. This means taxpayers will be subsidising the new planes big time. With Qantas shares almost back at $5 and the airline set to make a $500 million profit this year, they should cut the dividend to fund the new planes or issue an equal amount of shares to local and foreign institutions, thereby keeping the Aussies above the 50 per cent required in the Qantas Sale Act. Or why not get British Airways to sell their 25 per cent so a few more foreign instos can get on the register. Finally, we note that the Parrot has left this issue alone. Alan Jones has received more than $1 million of Qantas seed over the years and still enjoys free first class flights. What a disgrace. Industrial chaos Wasn’t that amazing to see the unions trying to disrupt John Anderson’s launch of that new book on the Ansett collapse. The unions were a major contributor to Ansett’s problems yet still they try to blame everyone but themselves. And now these same unions are pulling a national strike against Qantas on Friday, August 3. This is one of the problems in having a duopoly with the dominant player at 80 per cent market share. Qantas are now more vulnerable to union attack and the travelling public just don’t have alternatives to choose.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6260
__label__wiki	0.690407	0.690407	Royal Caribbean's Europe 2021 ship deployment John Stansfield November 19, 2019 , Cruise Industry Royal Caribbean announced summer 2021 cruises in Europe with 70% new itineraries that feature a mix of destinations on 7 ships. All of the itineraries are now available to book. Anthem of the Seas sails back to Southampton UK for the second year in a row, and embarks on a summer in Europe where Quantum Class ships have not gone before. A favorite in the area, Anthem offers various itineraries, ranging from 7-night Norwegian Fjords to 14-night Mediterranean Cities, including new ports of call in Norway, Denmark, and France. Harmony of the Seas sails back to Europe for the first time since the inaugural season in 2016, with 7-night Western Mediterranean sailings. New itineraries from Southampton UK: Anthem of the Seas is scheduled to make her way to Southampton UK and sail 7- to 14-night voyages to Norway, including the new port of call Stavanger. Other new ports of call for the Quantum Class vessel include Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Bordeaux. Select sailings also include late-night visits in Paris and overnights in Rotterdam and Lisbon. Explore Europe from Barcelona: Harmony of the Seas is setting sail for the Western Mediterranean on 7-night voyages that include late nights in Rome and Florence/Pisa. Round-trip cruises from Rome are also offered. Vision of the Seas continues to sail on her 12-night Mediterranean itineraries and visits the Greek Isles, Kotor, Nice, Rome, Florence/Pisa, overnights in Venice, and offers late-night calls in Split. Jewel of the Seas closes out the summer homeported in Barcelona with the Iberian Peninsula and Greek Isles, including calls at Cannes, Athens, and Santorini. Italian Adventures: Rhapsody of the Seas is due to spend another summer in Venice with 7-night sailings alternating between Croatia, Greece, and the Greek Isles with select late-night calls in Santorini and Kotor. Odyssey of the Seas, debuting November 2020, is scheduled to become Royal Caribbean’s first Quantum Ultra Class vessel to visit the shores of both Greece and Turkey on numerous itineraries. British and Baltic Exploration: Select Jewel of the Seas itineraries from Amsterdam and visiting the Baltics and the British Isles include overnights in Edinburgh and St Petersburg, as well as late-night calls in Liverpool. This season also marks the first time a Radiance Class cruise ship calls at Bordeaux and Liverpool. Adventure of the Seas, departing from Copenhagen and Stockholm offers 7- to 11-night voyages that feature overnights in St Petersburg and visits to Helsinki, Tallinn, and Visby. Royal CaribbeanAnthem of the SeasHarmony Of The SeasVision Of The SeasJewel Of The SeasRhapsody Of The SeasOdyssey Of The SeasAdventure Of The Seas	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6263
__label__cc	0.678683	0.321317	CSNP Elastic Contributor Program This blog originally appeared on Elastic.co with the title Announcing the Elastic Contributor Program. Open source contributions are foundational to Elastic — from Elasticsearch’s Apache Lucene core to the addition of open source Logstash and Kibana to form the Elastic Stack you’ve come to know and love. Over the years, the Elastic community has created over 90 Beats, shared use case tutorials like those from Volvo, T-Mobile, and Microsoft, and presented at hundreds upon hundreds of meetups. We created the Elastic Contributor Program, which we kicked off with a successful pilot year in Brazil, to recognize and reward the hard work of our awesome contributors, encourage knowledge sharing within the Elastic community, and build friendly competition around contributions. And, now, we’re excited to announce that the program will launch globally on September 1. Participants in the pilot cited the opportunity to share knowledge and give back to the community as the key motivators for taking part in the program. These contributors are active members of their local communities — frequently organizing and presenting at meetups and conferences — and they value sharing their knowledge of the stack and contributing to the global Elastic community by recording video tutorials and engaging with Elastic users worldwide. Participants also shared that they were able to take the knowledge they gained during the program and apply it towards their personal and career growth goals. "Elastic has contributed both directly and indirectly to my personal and professional growth since I started my career back in 2016. When I was just starting out, there wasn’t much content for beginners here in the community in Brazil, so I had to start from zero and teach myself. I wanted to help out the community, so I developed two projects to help new users get started. I feel so grateful to have been able to take part in the Elastic Contributor Program and help out other people on their own journeys, their own learning processes." – Felipe Queiroz, Gold contributor During the pilot program, we received 443 submissions from 41 community members, of whom 18 were recognized as Bronze contributors, 9 as Silver contributors, and 3 as Gold contributors. Recognized contributors received swag, extended Elastic Cloud trials, training passes, and ElasticON São Paulo tickets. In March of this year, we also invited the Gold contributors to join us at ElasticON San Francisco. In addition to enjoying ElasticON, Gold contributors had the opportunity to visit our Mountain View office, meet with one of our solutions architects, and explore Silicon Valley on a day trip. The pilot was a great success — Elastic User Group membership doubled in Brazil over the course of the program, and we saw an uptick in community submissions from the region. These community submissions even helped us to address our number one dev request in the Elastic UI Framework (EUI): to convert 100% of EUI components to TypeScript. Thanks to submissions from our community, many of them from Brazil, we’re going to be able to accomplish this massive task much sooner than expected. All community members can take part in the newly launched global program, and a wide range of contributions are accepted. Here’s how it works: Points are awarded for code contributions, presentations, organizing events, and more. The top 30 contributors from each program region will be recognized. Winners will be announced for each region in March 2021. Please refer to the program guidelines to determine if you’re eligible to participate. Thank you for being a part of the Elastic community — we’ll see you on the leaderboard! This post is sponsored by Elastic.co Inside AppSec Podcast: The Intersection Between Cloud Security and Application Security Inside AppSec Podcast: Evolving Beyond Monolithic Application Security Do Your Part During Cybersecurity Awareness Month Copyright CSNP - CyberSecurity NonProfit info@csnp.org	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6266
__label__wiki	0.513848	0.513848	‘Anna Chrystal Stephens: Anorak’ at Space Studios, London 1 February 2019 By CAS Team Installation view of ‘Anna Chrystal Stephens: Anorak’ at SPACE Studios. Image courtesy the artist and Space Studios Anna Chrystal Stephens, Stern Hood, 2019. Image courtesy the artist and Space Studios Anna Chrystal Stephens, Off Grid Weather Protectors, 2019. Image courtesy the artist and Space Studios Anna Chrystal Stephens, Utility Cloak, 2019 (detail). Image courtesy the artist and Space Studios Anna Chrystal Stephens, Learn to Tie Knots, 2019. Image courtesy the artist and Space Studios Anorak is Anna Chrystal Stephens’ first solo show. For the last ten years she has been part of a collective that goes by the name Vulpes Vulpes – the Latin term for the red fox. As a Londoner, I see foxes in my garden, in my neighbourhood on a regular basis. A million miles from the tally-ho images of rural hunts, to me they signify bold, resourceful survivors. Wild animals with the smarts to negotiate the inner city. Vulpes Vulpes have previously exhibited and hosted workshops at places as various as the V&A in London and Airspace Gallery in Stoke on Trent. Survival could be said to be Stephens’ subject. Not in a post-apocalyptic survivalist sense, nor that of conspiracy-theorist preppers. As a younger person living in the city, her concerns weave together anxieties about environmental degradation, the rise of homelessness, the exclusion of increasing sections of society from the housing market, and our conflicted relationship to nature. Having spent years living communally, sometimes in squats, more recently Stephens has chosen to live with her partner on a canal boat. An affordable and pragmatic solution to staying in London, life on the waterways combines the craft skills of the sailor, with the practical strategies of the woodsman. Stephens says that her current exhibition explores the ‘tension between survival, leisure and necessity and the viability of nomadic living in contemporary times.’ She highlights the gulf that exists, socially, economically, between rough-sleeping and camping, low-cost housing and leisure-cruising. Her project is inflected with ‘anarchist ideas of alternative social and political possibilities’. At the centre of her exhibition at Space is a specially constructed stern-hood, which is destined for her canal boat after the exhibition. It is a structure designed to keep the rain out and to extend very modest living quarters. Professionally built, it contrasts dramatically with the large-scale photograph of an altogether more improvised arrangement of pink tarpaulins. Inside, the stern-hood sculpture has a charming domesticity to it. Cups and tea towels are neatly stacked, there is a stool that looks like it’s made out of a dream-catcher. One is touched by the evidence of the impulse to create home from the most modest of elements, in the most reduced of spaces. Hanging inside the structure is a textile, printed with the images of seasonal, edible plants, a version of one of Stephens’ plant boards. These are designed to share knowledge about the natural world and signpost an important element of Stephens’ and the wider Vulpes Vulpes project. Outside the gallery, on Mare Street, are a series of boards with dangling cords, where passers-by can teach themselves to tie knots (Reef, Bowline, Double Overhand Stopper, Slip), against the day when things need to be physically lashed down. Given that, at the moment, nothing in our lives escapes the doom-laden Brexit narrative, this all takes on sharper meaning. An essay by Annebella Pollen commissioned to accompany the exhibition references various English precedents for the nomadic or outdoor life: from 1990s New Age travellers, through the hippy craft revival of the 1970s, satirised by Mike Leigh’s play Nuts in May, and back to the woodcraft movement of the interwar years. Nowadays a whole industry exists to supply high-tech, ultra low-weight solutions to every necessity of outdoor living, but the implicit romanticism of that mode of life remains the same. The Utility Cloak that hangs against the wall at the entrance to the gallery is an outlandish garment – a theatrically laden concatenation of tent and poacher’s coat. There are plastic cups and bowls, a foil blanket, a torch, maps, bundles of neatly coiled cord and water purification tablets, candles, compass, tent pegs, a fly swat and some chocolate. It questions our assumptions about what constitutes necessity, and how we assign value to housing. The lovely washing stand, made of slender branches strapped together with fluorescent yellow cords is too aesthetic be a response to an emergency situation – but the collection of Mesolithic reference tools (flint, iron, bone needle, the healing stone chalcedony, nettle cord, flax fibre, Horse Hoof fungus etc) laid out on a little cloth on the floor are evidence of Stephens’ long interest in prehistoric archaeology. Anorak brings together a very contemporary set of concerns and explores them through the lens of Stephens’ lived experience with subtlety and self-awareness. The very idea of home is an emotive one, as is the issue of housing – the two are obviously quite separate things. The artist addresses both here with feeling, but without sentimentality, as an urgent, lived reality but without polemic. Caroline Douglas	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6273
__label__wiki	0.511516	0.511516	Inda Consensus research has been profiled in Times of India, Hindustan Times, Navbharat Times, Hindustan Dainik, Andhra Jyothy, The Hindu, Mint, India Today, and Economic Times along with many others. Top priorities included: Improve learning outcomes, nutrition for pregnant women, and immunisation camps in lagging districts. Improve private tuberculosis care, nutrition for mother and child, and, digitise land records are high priority interventions according to the panel of eminent economists. NITI Aayog and India Consensus collaboration India Consensus prioritization methodology was presented at a NITI Aayog in Delhi to Planning Secretaries of 32 States and three Union Territories along with representatives from most ministries under the aegis of both Vice-chair Dr Rajiv Kumar and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shri Amitabh Kant. India Consensus discussions with Honorable Chief Minister of J & K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti received the India Consensus team together with Advisor to Chief Minister, Prof. Amitabh Mattoo; Chief Secretary, B B Vyas; and Principal Secretary to Chief Secretary, Rohit Kansal. Read the CM's statement The India Consensus is a partnership between Tata Trusts and the Copenhagen Consensus Center. The aim is to identify the smartest solutions to some of India's most pressing development challenges. Studies will be conducted across a wide range of policy areas - from education, health and governance to trade, infrastructure development, and energy – through state wide prioritization projects. The India Consensus’ prioritization projects utilise the Copenhagen Consensus approach which has been refined over the past ten years to improve global and regional spending priorities and adapted to reflect the diversity and size of India. At the rate India is growing, as much as an extra ₹4 lakh crore could be added to next year’s public consumption. Where can these resources do the most good?" The output showcases the academic evidence on where a State (or other organizations) can help do the very most social, economic and environmental good for every rupee spent. Statewide Prioritizations Based on Evidence and Extensive Consultations The first statewide prioritizations were undertaken in Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh over 2017 and 2018. Thousands of good development solutions were collected from consultations and sector expert roundtables across the entire development agenda. After further rounds of discussion, and with help of an academic advisory committee around 80 interventions were shortlisted for social cost-benefit research. Expert economists were identified and commissioned for the task, resulting in a library of peer-reviewed cost-benefit research estimating how much an additional rupee spent on each of these interventions will yield in terms of social, economic and environmental benefits. In addition sector experts from government and civil society were invited to comment on the analyses. These two prioritization projects have united the best academic research, employing cost-benefit analysis, with sector expert input, broad and inclusive stakeholder engagement, and extensive policy outreach to evaluate and prioritize the smartest interventions. These results are helping inform decision makers in government, think tanks, civil society, and business as they set priorities for the years ahead. All researchers presented their findings to an Eminent Panel consisting of prominent Indian and international economists. After studying and asserting the research they ranked each intervention creating a prioritized laundry list of where additional resources in each of the states should be focused to make the most possible good. The final outcome of Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh Priorities were presented to Honorable Chief Minister and detailed discussion were held with larger group of Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries, Secretaries and head of departments under chairmanship of Chief Secretary in respective State to chalk out the plan for further implementation of some of the identified high social value for money interventions. India Consensus is strategically working with media to get the research findings on cost-effectiveness for doing good out to a wider audience of decision-makers and opinion makers, and the interested public. These results have been profiled in Times of India, Hindustan Times, Navbharat Times, Hindustan Dainik, Andhra Jyothy, The Hindu, Mint, India Today, and Economic Times along with many others. The media coverage for each research topic can be found at appriorities.com/news and rajasthanpriorities.com/news The Economist has a full article on India Consensus as their top Asia story in the 14th June edition. The online headline hits the nail: Indian states are testing a new way of setting development priorities. Policy proposals are selected based on cost-benefit analyses, not the whims of politicians. " As a new state, Andhra Pradesh faces a bright future, but it is still experiencing many acute social and economic development challenges. It has made great strides in creating a positive environment for business, and was recently ranked 2nd in India for ease of doing business. Yet, progress needs to be much faster if it is to achieve its ambitions of becoming the leading state in India in terms of social development and economic growth. With so many actors and the wide breadth of challenges from access to sanitation and clean water to rural development and agriculture, women’s health and infant nutrition, transport end energy, along with literacy and labor market skills, what should the top priorities be for policy makers, international donors, NGOs and businesses? Learn More About The Prioritization Project Rajasthan is the largest Indian state. It has a diversified economy, with mining, agriculture and tourism. Rajasthan has shown significant progress in improving governance and tackling corruption. However, it continues to face acute social and economic development challenges, and poverty remains widespread. What should local, state and national policymakers, donors, NGOs and businesses focus on first, to improve development and overcome the state’s remaining issues? Ranking Solutions in Terms of Social Value for Money Learn more about the work to assess which policies are the best for generating the most social, economic and environmental value per rupee spent. Our panel of eminent economists included Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland, Bibek Debroy, Rathin Roy, Nisha Agrawal, Vinita Bali, S Mahendra Dev, Amitabh Mattoo, and Alok Ray. On June 14, 2018 the India Consensus prioritization methodology was presented at a NITI Aayog in Delhi. The event was attended by Chief Secretaries, Additional Chief Secretaries/Principal Secretaries/Secretaries dealing with the Planning Department of 32 States and Union Territories, Joint Secretaries from 14 Ministries, senior officers from NITI Aayog, eminent economists and researchers under the aegis of both Vice-chair Dr Rajiv Kumar and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shri Amitabh Kant. Both Dr Kumar and Shri Kant appreciated the process, reaffirmed that they want to see it used for the SDGs, for other states, and for aspirational districts. Several states also indicated they would be interested in taking prioritization forward. India Consensus has been invited by NITI Aayog to assess the social benefit-cost ratios for priority indicators of Sustainable Development Goals for India. The social benefit-cost ratio (BCR), is an indicator of the cost-effectiveness of an intervention, as it demonstrates the amount of social, economic and environmental benefits achieved per Rupee invested. More About The Collaboration Honorable CM of J&K takes interest in bringing India Consensus to her state After being briefed on the pilot projects in Rajasthan and AP, the Chief Minister of J&K, Mehbooba Mufti welcomed the India Consensus methodology to Jammu and Kashmir, and suggested social, economic and environmental monitoring of developmental schemes even as she asked for better prioritization of ideas for overall growth and development of the society. Advisor to Chief Minister, Prof. Amitabh Mattoo; Chief Secretary, B B Vyas; Principal Secretary to CM and Planning, Rohit Kansal and Dr.Bjorn Lomborg and Manorama Bakshi from India Consensus were present in the meeting. Read the CMs statement MANORAMA BAKSHI, Head of Outreach and Partnerships India Consensus manorama [at] copenhagenconsensus [dot] com In partnership with Tata Trusts	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6274
__label__cc	0.728853	0.271147	Search DCSki for: Search DCSki Newsroom Resorts The Forum Lost Areas About DCSki News Resorts Forum Lost Areas About The Toughest Slope in the Mid-Atlantic 14 By Jim Kenney, DCSki Columnist What is the toughest slope in the Mid-Atlantic? This question could stir an enjoyable exchange about the best tests for skiers and snowboarders in our region. Shay’s Revenge. Jim picks Snowshoe’s Shay’s Revenge, above, as the toughest slope in the state of West Virginia. But his pick for the toughest slope in the Mid-Atlantic is Extrovert at Blue Knob. Photo provided by Snowshoe Mountain Resort. Before I get rolling on it I need to explain a few caveats. The scope of my discussion includes only the ski areas of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and a cluster along the southern border of Pennsylvania. These are areas I know fairly well and have visited, except as noted. They are also those most frequented by D.C. and Baltimore skiers and snowboarders. Some resorts I have skied extensively, others, admittedly, only once or twice. In a few cases my last visits were five or more years ago, making my experiences a bit stale. As a recreational skier like many of you, my knowledge base has the limitations of an amateur. I kept my snapshot commentaries on various ski areas very simplistic to minimize the “B.S.” factor. I welcome elaboration from all readers. I’m no super expert, but I like to sample ski resorts and I’ve been capable enough over the last 30+ years to ski everything I’ve seen that passes for a black diamond run in the Mid-Atlantic. My assessments are not meant to be authoritative, but are offered for entertainment value on a subject of interest to all serious skiers and snowboarders. Picking the “toughest” of anything is a subjective exercise. An expert skier from New England, the American West, or Europe might chuckle at the premise of really tough slopes anywhere in the Mid-Atlantic. Certainly the geography of our region precludes seriously extreme terrain; nor do we have the kind of steep, lengthy in-bound runs found elsewhere that can turn your legs to jelly and set your lungs to heaving after one descent. I could argue, however, that everything is relative. Something of a challenge can be found at almost all of our local ski areas for the average Mid-Atlantic recreational skier or boarder. We all have a gut feeling on what’s the toughest slope, but the more I thought about it, the less cut and dry the answer became. An intermediate trail covered with icy bumps can be much tougher to handle than a perfectly groomed black diamond run. “Steeper than hell” is the obvious first qualification (a number of tough slopes around the country bear this moniker), but weather and grooming also factor in to the slope difficulty equation, including snow/ice conditions, presence and size of bumps, narrowness, trees and glades, and the unpredictability of off-the-trail-map terrain. You could even consider the physical condition of the individual skier/boarder and the condition of their equipment as a difficulty factor. Enough boneheaded philosophy, here’s my two cents on the subject by state. In the state of Virginia there just isn’t a real tough slope. I’ve never been to The Homestead. My impression is that they have a terrific lodge/resort complex with a small, benign ski area added for the enjoyment of winter guests. Bryce Mountain is a great little beginner and family mountain about two hours west of D.C. on I-66. Bryce offers a relaxing trail system. The narrow little trail “Hangover” presents an opportunity to link a few quick turns, as might White Lightening, but everything else is pretty much easy cruising. Wintergreen, down near Charlottesville, is not quite as tame and offers a greater range of intermediate and advanced runs. It’s been three or four years since I’ve been there. From my experience, when “Upper Cliffhanger” was bumped up it delivered enough challenge to demand close attention. I don’t remember similar steepness or bumps on “Wild Turkey”, another black diamond slope at Wintergreen. I’ve skied quite a bit at Massanutten near Harrisonburg. While the two enjoyable runs off their quad chair, “Diamond Jim” and “Paradice,” are designated as expert only terrain, neither has any seriously steep sections. I’ve found that the top of “Dixie Dare” off the Rebel Yell double chair is more likely to be the toughest slope at Massanutten, especially by mid-season when management usually allows it to develop pretty good sized bumps. My vote for the toughest slope in Virginia is “Dixie Dare” at Massanutten. Wisp, the only ski area in Maryland, does not contain anything more difficult than can be found in the state of Virginia. Wisp lies in the far western corner of Maryland and gets a relatively generous dose of natural snow. It is located near Deep Creek Lake, which presents some nice views from the top of the slopes and great summertime diversions. Wisp has a number of interesting and well maintained intermediate runs, but there is nothing there to really rattle your teeth. I have never been to Winterplace in southern West Virginia, but I have not heard of any fearsome terrain there. The terrain at Canaan Valley ski area in the northeastern quadrant of West Virginia is comparable to Wisp and Wintergreen. I enjoyed the variety of undulating intermediate runs. I haven’t skied there much, but the run “Gravity” seemed to be one of their steepest offerings. I am not aware of any hair raising runs at Canaan Valley. Timberline ski area is just a couple of miles from Canaan Valley. It also features mostly intermediate-friendly runs. However, many of the runs at Timberline head straight down the fall line adding a bit more challenge, if less duration. (In this regard it is reminiscent of Whitetail in Pennsylvania.) “The Drop” at Timberline is pretty steep. I am not sure about the difficulty level of two additional black diamond runs between “The Drop” and the lazy two mile beginner slope “Salamander,” as they weren’t open during several visits I made to Timberline. I have heard that some challenging, off-the-trail-map (and probably unauthorized) skiing exists at Timberline and in the nearby Dolly Sods wilderness area. This wouldn’t surprise me given all the telemarkers I’ve observed on the slopes of Timberline. Some telemarkers I’ve talked to were former alpine skiers who made the switch to introduce more challenge to their skiing and gain access to wilder terrain. Snowshoe, in the east-central section of West Virginia, contains a good range of what I would call advanced intermediate slopes. “Cupp Run,” in their Northwest Territory, is one of the best and longest examples of this in the Mid-Atlantic region. “Shays Revenge” parallels “Cupp Run” and also descends the same 1500 vertical feet. The upper portion of “Shays Revenge” is a cruiser’s delight, but the truly black diamond lower section features a headwall with the longest, steepest mogul field south of the Mason-Dixon line; i.e., Pennsylvania. Snowshoe blows a lot of snow on this steep section and it is generally open with big bumps for a major portion of the ski season. It’s a good bet for those looking for reliable access to a local slope with some serious challenge. My vote for the toughest slope in West Virginia is “Shays Revenge.” The southern third of the state of Pennsylvania contains seven ski areas; many have been enjoyed by Mid-Atlantic skiers for decades. The toughest runs at Roundtop in south-central Pennsylvania are “Gunbarrel” and “Ramrod.” They contain steep and typically bumpy, but short pitches. Nearby, Whitetail is noted for a 900’ vertical drop, the largest in close proximity to D.C. Several consistently steep runs descend from the Whitetail high-speed quad. At least one of them, “Bold Decision,” is allowed to bump-up and can provide considerable challenge. Liberty, also located in this area of Pennsylvania, has a couple of short but very steep and moguled trails on the backside of their mountain, “Upper Strata” and “Ultra.” With a lighting system that provides nearly 100% coverage, Liberty has some of the toughest night skiing terrain available to Mid-Atlantic skiers and boarders. I have never been to Hidden Valley or Laurel Mountain ski areas in southwestern Pennsylvania. It is my understanding that Hidden Valley caters to families looking for affordability and features moderate terrain. Laurel Mountain, recently reopened after being closed for years, is said to have a very steep run called “Wildcat.” Nearby, the venerable Seven Springs offers a great deal of ski terrain, including a number of short, relatively steep runs on the front face of the mountain. They are usually well groomed and very manageable, but moguls are allowed to grow on a couple, making them considerably tougher. Last, but not least, is Blue Knob, also located in western Pennsylvania. Blue Knob contains several runs that are probably tougher than any found at the other ski areas covered in this discussion. The steep, bumpy, but relatively wide run at Blue Knob called “Extrovert” is perhaps a smidge longer and steeper than the headwall of lower “Shays Revenge” at Snowshoe, West Virginia. The steep section of “Extrovert” has a significant vertical drop that I would estimate is in the neighborhood of 750’. A couple of narrow, advanced trails bisect “Extrovert,” adding a bit of a chaotic factor. The comparison between “Extrovert” and “Shays Revenge” is close, but Blue Knob’s legendary foul weather and less user friendly surface conditions make “Extrovert” tougher. I guess you’d call that a qualified nod to “Extrovert” and Blue Knob in general. The obscure and all natural “Lower Shortway,” also at Blue Knob, contains a short, steep and extremely narrow (15’) segment. The steepest part of “Lower Shortway” demands the ability to make a series of quick linked turns. Other trails like “Edgeset” and “Lower 66” demand similar skill. I am less familiar with the gladed terrain Blue Knob has cleared and officially opened up in the last few years. “East Glades Wall” parallels “Extrovert,” but is not as long a descent. It appears almost as steep and is heavily cluttered with trees and rocks. My vote for the toughest slope in southern Pennsylvania and in my entire survey of Mid-Atlantic ski areas is “Extrovert.” As I write this, the Mid-Atlantic is experiencing a serious January thaw. Let’s hope it ends soon. Early February usually brings the optimal weather and snow conditions for testing the best and toughest skiing and boarding terrain available in our region. My racking and stacking of the toughest slopes in the Mid-Atlantic is all personal opinion and not backed up by any measurements or engineering surveys. If I’ve omitted, mischaracterized, or belittled your favorite run, go ahead and set me straight if you care to; for now I’ll stand by my toughest choices. About Jim Kenney Husband, father and retired civilian employee of the Department of Navy, Jim Kenney is a D.C. area native and has been skiing recreationally since 1967. Jim's ski reporting garnered the 2009 West Virginia Division of Tourism's Stars of the Industry Award for Best Web/Internet/E-Magazine Article. DCSki Sponsor: Seven Springs Mountain Resort Hey Denton has a couple slopes that have a 66% drop the whole way down the mountian. Also, there is a slope with a 66% drop and it is all trees it is rated triple diamond. Now Denton is has the toughest slope around. As always, thanks for the great article! This one should prompt a lot of debate. First a general comment: John Phillips in his Mid-Atlantic ski and snowboard guide points out in his introductory remarks that the constant freezing and thawing in the Mid-Atlantic produces some of the iciest moguls in the country. The region clearly is not renowned for steep or long trails but the conditions factor is worth emphasizing! I think any Mid-Atlantic skier can feel proud of making his or her way down Extrovert on a late season day with bare spots. My big thesis on the Mid-Atlantic is that the crappy, marginal conditions can turn the hard-core faithful into skiers capable of skiing most marked trails in the world. Specific comments about Timberline: I agree with your general comment that Timberline is basically an intermediate mountain. When groomed, black trails such as White Lightning or Upper Thunderstruck are basically intermediate cruisers--nice long cruisers with some interesting terrain features, but cruisers nonetheless. The Drop and Off the Wall (natural snow slopes which rarely open) do offer some challenge to experts, but they are indeed too short to compare with Shay's or Extrovert. The Cherry Bowl Glades were apparently interesting (I've never skied them), but management closed them this year. One trail that can kick you under bumped up, late season conditions is the narrow Silver Street, which basically runs under the Silver Queen Chair. It's narrow width means that there are only a 1-2 lines down the trail late in the season, and all falls will be critiqued by lift riders above. Jude Clapper Laurel Mountain, located in ligonier, PA, has a fantastic run called lower Wildcat that is the steepest continuous slope in PA. The run also has somewhat of a slant from left to right, and moguls on the right hand side for the expert skiier. This run must rank very high in the mid-atlantic. It's a must ski. NAVSKI It also depends on how you ski. For us want to be down hillers. Regionally nothing beats the leg burn on cup run at snowshoe. If you skip top to bottom no stop at speed it is a challenge to behold. The old "take for ever chair" was the only draw back to skiing it this way. Susie Skier I definetly agree that Snowshoe has the best skiing in WV . The trails are longer than all other resorts. I also agree that Shay's Revenge is the toughest slope..but Cupp Run is also very challenging and I wouldNt consider it intermediate by any means due to its length and terrain that can build incredible speed. No one belongs on it that is not an experienced skier. If conditions are right, I'd rather ski Blue Knob than Snowshoe because of runs like "66" and "Extrovert". The "East Glades" are a great run (I love the trees). Blue Knob is closer than the Shoe and makes for a good day trip. Unfortunately, it can't claim the consistency of Snowshoe so The Shoe outshines the Knob most of the time. I skied "Extrovert" about 10 times last year. Even though Blue Knob got lots of snow last year, it was still an icy mess. However, it helped to teach me how to ski anything. I must agree that Lower Shay's is a difficult slope. Its steep mogul field is usually covered with a hard shell of ice (at least the few times I've skied it) that demands confidence, control, and execution. Bold Decision at Whitetail is also a fun trail and becomes a nice challenge when allowed to bump-up. shays revenge is good if you like cross country skiing! the whole slope should be on the other side of the mountain with the rest of the bunny slopes. it start off good then you get to this part where even the best skiier has to push and make his way for the last part of the slope which is the most difficult. i am a west virginia native now being blessed with the west coast but my favorite run of all is Cupp run. its fast ,steep, long, usually bumpy, and the new high speed is hard to beat! for west virginia and pretty much all of the east coast, CUPP CAN NOT BE BEAT!!!!!! Laurel Mountain Ski Resort located near Ligonier Pa. is a ski dream. It has the steepest run in Pa. It also has long trails through trees for easy relaxing skiing. I have been skiing in Colorado, Wyoming, Vermont, and this compares to them. With no onsite lodging, it has some of the best skiing and no lift lines. It may take 5 or 10 minutes to get to the slope, but it saves 20 minute lift lines. They are also going to put in a slope soon that is even steeper than the Lower Wildcat. For cabin rental near the enterance email rsherrin@weir.net or check skilaurelmountain.com Rich: I'd like to put Laurel Mt. on my list of places to visit next season. Do you know anything about accomodations/places to eat in the area. I'm inclined to stay at the Day's Inn in Somerset. For $34.00 a night, it is hard to beat. Also, Somerset has some really good and cheap eats. Denton state park claims to have a 66% slope called Avalanche. Is this true? and if so how long is the trail? I've skied some of the Mid-Atlantic resorts you mentioned in your article as well as many eastern and western resorts. I can tell you that when Shay's bumps are icy they can be as tough to ski as many of the western mogul runs. The run might be shorter and not as steep but the west lighter, softer snow will cushion and slow down you descent while the ice at Shay's will propel you down adding the speed and the difficulty of slowing down. Doug Hoehn I've skied most the named trails mentioned. Extrovert at Blue Knob ia also tough as the pitch is not quite fall line and the "Blue Knob Powder" (Blue Ice) demands sharp edges. But the King Steeps is with out a doubt, Lower Wildcat at Laurel Mountain, last year run by Seven Springs. (2004-2005) You will be entertained and challenged to the hilt. Go Double Diamond ! I awoke in Canaan Valley to 36" of snow on Saturday. Sure, alot of places in the Mid-Atlantic would be great if the "snow was right" but Timberline's true potential shined through to me that day. I am not aware of another set of glades that go from top to bottom, with consistent fall line, and offer such a variety of lines and spacing as Timberline. Blue Knob (motto: Ski Good or Eat Wood) is my home mountain so I was shocked/thrilled to see what people aren't talking about in regards to inbounds skiing at Timberline. As for the locals there, I know why you aren't talking! Speak truth to powder. Join the conversation by logging in. Copyright © 1994-2021 DCSki, LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy \| Terms of Use	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6278
__label__wiki	0.86362	0.86362	To beat the Raiders or not beat the Raiders? January 1, 2021 by Mile High Report Leave a Comment Photo by Chris Unger/Getty Images Seriously. I can’t believe this is a question. Drafting at No. 5 is better than No. 15. Potentially. But advocating losing to the Raiders to move up a few spots in the Draft??? ALWAYS #BeatTheRaiders. ALWAYS. https://t.co/onZT1IiiOB — Doctor of Words (and tights) (@docllv) December 29, 2020 I can appreciate the passion of those of you fans who put aside your competitive desire to win now for a higher draft pick that may or may not result in winning more later. But I just can’t be one of you. For one thing, I hate the Raiders. I hate their uniforms. I hate their fans. I hate their fans’ poor grammar. I hate them – “like good hates evil and evil hates good” (read in your best Samuel L. Jackson voice, please). I grew up in the 70s when the Broncos were just becoming good enough to beat teams – any teams – and the Raiders were a juggernaut they finally defeated in 1977. And that victory set off decades of great rivalry games between two teams that hated each other. And it was marvelous. So it’s just not in my blood to not really care about winning or losing to the Raiders even though the rivalry has been dormant for years. For another thing, I hate losing. But it’s not really losing the game that bothers me. I’ll be fine by Monday (or latest by Thursday) if Broncos lose on Sunday. But I hate advocating losing. Even for something good down the road. Because that breeds a defeatist mindset that may not be seen on the roster or the depth chart but will be felt on the field and in the locker room. Because “something good” isn’t a known entity. Is the rookie we get at No. 13 that much worse than we could have gotten at No. 8? Is the BPA at No. 8 a player at a position we even need? Is the first-round player we get in the draft the only player to turn around a team? But telling your current team that you’d be fine with them losing is the beginning of an apathetic fan base. And an apathetic fan base can lead to – or influence having – apathetic players. Players who just want to follow the paycheck and will give up hope the minute the team hits a rough patch. Can you imagine telling Justin Simmons to go out on the field and not play too hard because you’d really like the Broncos – the team he has spilled blood for and is hoping to stay with because he loves the coaches, his teammates and the fans – to half-ass this game and lose … for a slightly better (maybe) rookie in April? Do you want to tell Bradley Chubb, who has been working his ass off this season to come back from an ACL injury that kept him off the field all of last year, that you don’t really care if he plays Sunday because it would be better for him if the team lost? Would you like to tell Jerry Jeudy to drop a bunch of passes this week too and risk his self-confidence as well as his interest in being a team player for this squad for years to come just for a couple more spots? Be my guest. But I won’t do it. I do like Vic Fangio’s approach – prepare to win every game, but don’t put too much on single wins OR losses. Even in Week 17. “I’m a believer in that [a win] will make Sunday night and Monday feel a whole lot better, but I think each and every season is its own entity,” he said. “Teams change as everybody knows. Teams that have great records—their roster changes. Our roster will change somewhat obviously. So, I think each and every season is its own entity.” Fans are fans in all different ways, and I won’t tell other fans how to feel about this weekend’s game. As I said, I can appreciate the ability to see the big picture for the team and want something better and think that a better draft position is helpful. And I certainly don’t think that winning Sunday means the Broncos will be destined for a much better season next year. My big picture includes this current team putting it all on the field Sunday – with backups and setbacks and all – and going into the offseason knowing they fought hard, hopefully came out with the win, and energized to get ready for an offseason of hard-ass work. Because that’s what really will make them a better team. “You look at the roster, there’s a lot of good, young football players we believe in.” GM @johnelway reflects on ‘disappointing’ 2020 season and reasons for optimism in 2021 » https://t.co/khRSre13Wi pic.twitter.com/3tBQ2YpjZt — Denver Broncos (@Broncos) January 1, 2021 Happy New Year, Broncos Country. Here’s to a much better 2021! Broncos/NFL News John Elway reflects on ‘disappointing’ 2020 season and reasons for optimism in 2021 In his weekly interview, Elway also looked back on his experiences in the rivalry with the Raiders and how the intensity now compares to when he played. How Drew Lock’s work to fix ‘correctable’ mistakes could be aided by the 2021 offseason The good news? The interceptions Lock has thrown don’t appear to be irreparable. Broncos believe Pat Shurmur is “great fit” for Drew Lock, offense For the non-contenders, the end of the NFL schedule is a lot like election season, with coaches and players handing out endorsements for the next year. Mile High Morning: How Brandon Staley learned from Vic Fangio on his path to become the Rams’ defensive coordinator The Vic Fangio defensive coaching tree is for real. With 1,000 yards within sight, Melvin Gordon hopes for more in 2021 “I get better as the season goes on,” said Gordon after Week 4. That’s proven true in the late stages of 2020. How will the Broncos head into the offseason? – Mile High Report Steve Atwater joined Ryan and Ben on BCT to discuss the end of the 2020 season Broncos affirm commitment to social justice with $250,000-plus donation In the months that followed nationwide protests for racial justice, the Broncos have continued to champion the cause by starting two new programs, and on Thursday, the team announced a donation of more than $250,000 to player-designated organizations. Denver Broncos: Melvin Gordon’s DUI could have contract implications “Hopefully they like me enough to kind of put all that stuff to the side. I guess in a couple months or so we’ll see what’s up.” Sprint to Broncos’ locker room, police escort to the airport: Shelby Harris’ race to see the birth of his son – Denver Broncos- ESPN How Broncos defensive end Shelby Harris managed to go from playing a game in Los Angeles to seeing the birth of his child in Denver in a few hours. Jerry Jeudy’s drops ‘unacceptable’ during difficult rookie season for Broncos – Denver Broncos- ESPN Jeudy, Denver’s first-round pick out of Alabama, said of his five drops against the Los Angeles Chargers: "I beat myself." Broncos need more than effort to fix myriad mistakes – ESPN After losing their 10th game of the season — with breakdowns at every level — coach Vic Fangio preached “doing the things winning teams do.” 2021 NFL Mock Draft: Jaguars locked in on Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields slips, Steelers get RB – CBSSports.com Could Justin Fields be headed to the Broncos? QB Sam Darnold hopes to stay with New York Jets, saying ‘my best days are ahead’ Despite his worst statistical season, Sam Darnold said he hopes to remain with the Jets and believes he can develop into a franchise quarterback. “I absolutely believe my best days are ahead,” he said. NFL All-Pro Team: Bill Barnwell picks the best players at every position in 2020, including Stefon Diggs, Aaron Rodgers and T.J. Watt Stefon Diggs or DK Metcalf? Aaron Rodgers or Patrick Mahomes? Forget the Pro Bowl voting — this is the true top roster of players. Packers LT David Bakhtiari suffers season-ending knee injury NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Thursday afternoon that Pro Bowl left tackle David Bakhtiari suffered a season-ending knee injury in practice, according to an informed source. Cam Newton: ‘I don’t want to see no part of 2020, but it made me a better person’ The 2020 season may not have been what Cam Newton, Bill Belichick or the rest of the Patriots organization envisioned, but the former MVP shared Thursday that he was able to pick up some personal and professional lessons along the way. Dolphins QB Ryan Fitzpatrick out vs. Bills after testing positive for COVID-19 The Dolphins will be without their closer this weekend. Miami QB Ryan Fitzpatrick tested positive for COVID-19 and is out for Sunday’s game against the Bills, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport report. Rams place DL Michael Brockers on reserve/COVID-19 list The Rams could be missing another starter in Sunday’s win-and-in matchup against the Cardinals. The team announced it placed Michael Brockers on the reserve/COVID-19 list Thursday. Filed Under: Broncos	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6283
__label__cc	0.734811	0.265189	Support the FDB and help Nevada’s Desert Bighorn and other wildlife. Contact us to learn how you can get involved. We welcome visitors and new members. Also see our Events and Projects page to see our upcoming events and activities. Membership in the FDB provides conservation for Nevada's wildlife. Join the organization or contribute and take part in our efforts to build guzzlers and provide clean water for wildlife throughout southern Nevada. Select from our membership and donation options below. Support Nevada Wildlife. Join The FDB. WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU > Message us to learn how you can get involved or connect with us on social media. We welcome visitors and new members, so please see our Events and Projects pages to learn more about our upcoming activities. A membership unselfishly dedicated to the welfare and conservation of Desert Bighorn and Nevada's wildlife. The Fraternity of the Desert Bighorn (FDB) started in Las Vegas in 1964 and is the world’s oldest wild sheep conservation group. At that time there were fewer than 2,000 bighorn sheep in Nevada (from historic highs of 30,000). Now there are approximately 12,000 bighorn sheep in the state…more than any other in the lower 48. Fraternity of the Desert Bighorn © 2020 The Fraternity of the Desert Bighorn. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6285
__label__cc	0.592594	0.407406	Iñaki Bonillas, Words and Photos Launch date: June 12, 2014, Artist Web Projects In 2003, Iñaki Bonillas (Mexican, b. 1981) introduced a vast photo archive that he inherited from his grandfather, J. R. Plaza, into his conceptual investigation of photography. Since then, this extraordinarily rich material (thousands of portraits, many of them theatrically staged by Plaza; landscapes; souvenirs; and casual snapshots) has been subjected to a number of operations that have explored its formal and material qualities. For his Dia Artist Web Project commission, Bonillas is digitizing the archive, while simultaneously creating an extensive index of associated words that “mirrors” the image database. The relation between these two levels unfolds as the visitor explores the possibilities of matching text and image. Starting with a set of about 400 core images, the work will progressively expand until the entire J. R. Plaza Archive (approximately 3,800 images) is mapped out. Iñaki Bonillas is collaborating with Mexico-based artist and programmer Iván Abreu and the design studio Taller de Comunicación Gráfica on this project. The artist wants to express his heartfelt gratitude to all those who helped him build Words and Photos: Ana Bidart, Hernán Bravo Varela, Claire Dilworth, Ash Duhrkoop, Simon Greenberg, Valerie French, Cristin Hughes, Tanya Huntington, Rafael Lemus, Lorena Marrón, Robin Myers, María Minera, Marine Pariente, Jonathan Patkowski, Kristin Reger, Sara Tucker, and very specially Diego Montesinos. This project is made possible in part by Dia’s Board of Trustees and Commissioning Committee: Kirk August Radke, Chair; Marguerite S. Hoffman; Jill and Peter Kraus; and Leslie and Mac McQuown. Generous support has also been provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Related Blog Content Artist Web Projects Spotlight: Iñaki Bonillas, Words and Photos, 2014 Iñaki Bonillas Iñaki Bonillas was born in Mexico City in 1981, where he currently lives and works. Iñaki Bonillas and Manual Cirauqui Conversation Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi, Poetry as not, with singing Daniel Lefcourt, Modeler	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6288
__label__wiki	0.874757	0.874757	Free launches first 4K TV channel Festival 4K 5th November 2015 @ 12:27 French service provider Free has staked its claim to be the first in the country to launch a 4K TV channel, Festival 4K, which will be included in its Freebox basic TV offering. The launch of the 100% native 4K channel follows the launch of Free’s 4K box in March this year. Festival 4K will be dedicated to music festivals and cultural events. The channel will feature programming from events including Kylie Minogue’s Kiss Me Once 2014 World Tour, classical concerts such as Lang Lang at the Royal Albert Hall and a range of events spanning rock and pop festivals, blues and jazz concerts, Latin music, classical music concerts, opera, dance and contemporary circus. The channel is available at no extra cost on channel 62 of the Freebox service, available to Freebox Mini 4K via fibre and Freebox Révolution subscribers with the 4K Player Freebox. Tags: 4K, 4K TV, Festival, Festival 4K, France, Free, Freebox, Freebox Mini 4K, Freebox Révolution, Iliad Telecom, UHD More than a quarter of Americans plan to cut out cable in 2021 LFP launches new bidding process for Ligue 1 rights TDC names new head of Blockbuster VOD arm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6289
__label__wiki	0.670023	0.670023	CC Capsule: 1942 Buick Series 90 Limited – Icarus’ Twin Carbureted Chariot Aaron65 – April 11, 2016 Last week, I mentioned Harlow Curtice’s Buick-bias during his tenure at General Motors. That bias was a result of his years as the head of Buick, years which arguably culminated with the 1942 Series 90 Limited. The Limited, in most respects, out-Cadillacked Cadillac, which may have led to its postwar demise. I’m not sure if that’s totally true, but one could present an anecdotal argument; after all, not only was the Limited gone by 1946 when automotive production resumed, but Compound Carburetion was also no longer on the books. Compound Carburetion was the trade name for Buick’s twin-carburetor intake manifold, atop which sat two Carter or Stromberg two-barrels. With Compound Carburetion, the big 320 Buick peaked in 1941-’42 at 165 horsepower, easily cresting Cadillac’s 150. Photo Courtesy of Buick Heritage Alliance Compound Carburetion was a precursor to the more modern four-barrel carburetor (which Buick also pioneered, in 1952). The engine cruised on the front carburetor most of the time, but the second carburetor would kick in under full throttle and/or speeds over 75 miles per hour. Like many four-barrels, such as the Rochester Quadrajet and Carter AFB, there was a damper to prevent the second carburetor from operating too suddenly, causing hesitations and flat spots. In this case, the damper was underneath the second carburetor, unlike on the aforementioned four-barrels. The concept, however, was similar. As evidenced by the picture above, Compound Carburetion also included a split exhaust manifold with two outlets. This is a popular upgrade for later Buicks, but involves some modification because later Buick Eights had a motor mount directly where the head pipes would go. With Compound Carburetion on the 320, Buick was the quickest and fastest 1942 model in America, trumping Packard and Cadillac. Much later, General Motors wouldn’t allow any other brand to encroach upon the Chevrolet’s halo model, the Corvette, and similarly, crowding the big Caddy was a no-go in the 1940s. After the war, the 320 was reduced to 144 horsepower (thanks to single carburetion), but would peak with the ultimate 320 in 1952, which cranked out 170 horsepower but also had to power a Dynaflow, which definitely sapped some of the Roadmonster’s accelerative force. By that time, of course, the straight-eight had become passe’, its reputation clouded by so many overhead valve V8s, and it was soon replaced with the “nothing quite like it” Nailhead. And there was never really a direct replacement for the Limited; in fact, it’s one of the few Buicks on the Classic Car Club of America’s list of recognized “Full Classics,” a Cadillac fighter if ever there was one. For two years in the early 1940s, however, rich GM fans could buy a beautiful, hot rod Buick limousine with its glorious grand piano hood and waterfall grille. It’s just another car that makes me, as a Buick owner, all gooey inside, and I’d love to take one for a spin. fintail jim I’ve read more than a couple of accounts about how Curtis was “slapped down” by top brass at GM when he built “a better Cadillac” while heading up the Buick division. IIRC Arch Brown, writing in Special Interest Autos over 25 years ago, had an excellent story about this. tonyola In particular, Curtice envisioned a whole line of special-bodied Limiteds for 1941 which included town cars, landaulets, and convertible sedans. It was these cars that caused Cadillac to cry foul. Here’s a surviving 1941 town car. J.Metzinger John Delorean wrote about Cadillac complaining to Corporate when Chevrolet division came out with the Caprice. Too bad Cadillac did not respond to the other division’s challenges by making their own products a little better, maybe Caddy would be in a better place now. Buick pushed the limits again in ’57 – ’58, with their Roadmaster, and Roadmaster Limited (’58). They were just a couple of hundred dollars less than a DeVille. Old Pete Many Australians of my father’s generation regarded Buick as the ultimate American car. I remember passing a ’46 on the way home from school every day (it was never there in the mornings), and telling Dad about it. The way he said “You saw a Buick!” said it all. Since post-48 Buicks were very thin on the ground (imported to order) it would be cars like these that were responsible for that reputation. jpcavanaugh It’s not hard to see how the Buick 8’s efficient overhead valve design could be outfitted to outperform Cadillac’s much larger (346 cid vs Buick’s 320) flathead V8. It makes me think that there was still untapped potential in the old Buick 8 when they followed the trend to V8 power in 1953. The OHV straight 8 may have been the perfect configuration except for the extreme length. Imagine that engine bored out to 370 cubes or so with a double compound carburetion setup. I have long loved those prewar Limiteds. One of the problems with the straight-8 is the small bore and correspondingly small valves. To get to 370, you’d probably have to add a quarter inch overbore, and that may be outside the realm of possibility. I have an old reprint of “California Bill’s Speed Secrets” or something like that, and it talks about the 320 just a little. Someone had put a 320 in an old Hudson, bored it about 1/8″ and worked some magic, and it ran 98 mph in the quarter. Some guys still use these engines at Bonneville, but the real speed secret is a blower. Good point on the limitations on bore diameter. But it is fun to contemplate what might have been had Buick invested in a newer, larger straight 8 block with the same kinds of modern engineering that went into competitors’ V8s. Free breathing, big bore, high compression and good carburetion would have made for a real fire breather. (And, of course, the longest hoods in the industry. 🙂 ) chas108 Wow. It’s almost like Curtice saw Buick as a Bentley to Cadillac’s Rolls-Royce. Imagine if GM had allowed that friendly competition to play out for a few more years… Robert Swartz Yep. You could also argue they saw a chance to move up with the demise of LaSalle after 1940. Buick had a real cachet as a quality car that wasn’t as ostentatious, even back then. Edward VIII used a 1936 (Canadian) Buick Limited limousine as his personal transport before, during, and after his brief reign and abdication – fun faact, it was delivered at the same time as a similar one for his wife-to-be’s ex-husband! Roderick Lohrey Robert-many Australian Prime Ministers and State Premiers had Buicks as their official cars.The Governor General,The Queen’s appointed representative in Australia, used Daimlers and Humbers as official vehicles to maintain links to Britain.Later they used Rolls Royce Phantom limousines.The Edward and Wallis Simpson Buicks were impressive looking cars. I’ve just been watching the BBC’s tribute to HM Queen’s 90th birthday, and it featured footage of the Queen’s first tour of India in the early 1950s. Big black Cadillacs and Buicks – with HM travelling in one of the latter. Robert Kim There is another ultra-high-end example of Buick being chosen by a prominent European for its prestigious but unostentatious nature during the 1930s: Pope Pius XI had a Buick as his official limousine. Nicola Bulgari has mentioned seeing the Pope in his Buick as a significant influence on his own adoption of Buicks as his favorites. principaldan Yet another reminder of a time when it seemed that GMs biggest competition was internal. It would be interesting to see what some enterprising car company could engineer creating a modern straight 8 throwing all of their technical expertise at it. Those straight 6 and straight 8 engines were so inherently smooth… The silly thing about such mgmt. “halo brand protection” was that refinement, not performance, was until very recently the priority of the American luxury car idiom, so why should Cadillac buyers care if Buicks were quicker? An early example of the American penchant for “dumbing down,” here in the private sector. Mark P Performance wasn’t a priority for luxury cars in those days. It was simply assumed and expected for that sort of money. Think of Ethel Merman’s famous line from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World…. “WE’RE the ones in the Imperial and WE’RE running last?……” Or perhaps The Playmates’ 1958 novelty hit “Beep Beep”. It wasn’t a Ferrari that the little Nash Rambler was up against! Maybe, yet Cadillac reverted to side valves for their late ’30s V-16 because it was more refined than the earlier OHV version. Must be an interesting story there. On the surface it would seem a retrograde move. MadHungarian I wouldn’t say that going for more refinement was a retrograde move. The 1940’s Cadillac flathead V8 might not have been innovative, but it sure was refined. Find one of those cars today and listen to the engine running. At idle it is more like a fine watch than an internal combustion powerplant. Yet it wasn’t lacking for grunt when needed — after all, the Caddy flathead was used (in pairs, one for each track) to power tanks in WW2. Posted April 12, 2016 at 11:09 AM I think part of the reason was to lower the engine height, although with the carburetors on top of the engine I am not sure that it was much lower. The first V16, with a 45 degree angle between the banks, had OHV to make it easier to service the valves. Neither design really makes much sense to me, why not a 90 degree V16? Why Buick didn’t go for a V8 with a 45 degree angle is also curious. Kita Ikki [… why not a 90 degree V16?] Takes 2 revolutions to complete a 4-stroke cycle, so 720 degrees between ignition firings for each cylinder. Divide 720 by 8 you get 90, by 12 you get 60, by 16 you get 45. Hence these are the natural, even-firing vee-angles for V8, V12 and V16. Kita Ikki: Yes for a 16 cylinder engine a multiple of 45 degrees works, hence the flathead V16 was 135 degrees (3×45). kiwibryce None came here some fool started a war in 39 that interrupted shipping. Frank Bray Beautiful car. Instead of bitching about it, Cadillac needed to up their game. Aaron 65- When I returned to live in Tasmania in 2002 my father was then 87 years old.After a lifetime of he and his father owning Buick cars,my father bought his last Buick in 1965,a 1965 Buick Skylark sedan with a V6 engine.The Skylark had only completed approx 60,000 miles,always garaged in the country and city,when in the late 1990s he shipped the Buick to Western Australia and gave it to my elder brother.One day we were discussing Buicks and he told me his favourite was the new 1930 Buick tourer my grandfather purchased.During World War 2,they owned and worked in a timber mill in the bush and a fierce fire destroyed the mill and huts,leaving them with the clothes they were standing in.Miraculously,the Buick was untouched by the fire.He told me that because of the fire he no longer had a photo of that car.No computer in 2002 so I wrote a letter to Buick in the USA and asked if they could possibly send me a photo of a 1930 tourer and I also listed the Buicks the two men had owned since 1924.About a month after sending the letter we met the postman in the street in that small country town and he said he had a parcel for us.A cardboard box embossed with Buick all over it.Inside the box was the 2002 Buick catalogue,a very friendly letter from the head of public relations and a large book with hundreds of colour and black and white photos of Buicks and the complete history of Buick cars and other vehicles Buick engines were used in.It was the most detailed book on Buick I have read and must have been costly to produce.When my father died at 92 years,my brother grabbed the book.I only tell you this in case you haven’t seen one of these books and I wonder if GM/Buick still reward lifelong customers with such an extravagant present. johnh875 Great story Roderick, thanks for sharing it! The first series 90’s are found in 1932, but it is 1936 when the Roadmaster and Limited (as well as Special) names are attached to the series numbers. One should not forget that Cadillac had the V16, which was rated at 180 HP. The Buick series 90 was basically the same car as the Cadillac series 75. My understanding is that the 320 cubic inch straight eight’s design was not robust enough (crankshaft) to handle much more than the 170 HP it put out at the end. Here’s a really great looking, beater ’41 Limited in the possession of Sloan Museum in Flint. I’d love to fix just what had to be fixed, slap a flat black paint job on it, and drive it around for the rest of my life. Brian C With the compound carby setup, wouldn’t there be an issue with uneven mixture when running on a single carb? Yes, there were problems with uneven mixture distribution especially to the cylinders farthest from the carburetor, common to all straight eights to a degree. With Compound Carburetion there were problems with keeping the linkage in proper adjustment, turned out to be headaches for garages trying to keep things in sync. Buicks were powerful with a regular two-barrel, impressively more so with a Compound Carburation 320 in their lighter Century models, a real factory hot rod. Good thing gas was cheap then, mpg wasn’t their strong suit. Wonder what a four-barrel would do to one of these? No doubt it’s been tried. Yep. The factory used one in ’52 on the 320. Adapting one to a regular two-barrel manifold would require some creative engineering. Even a later model two-barrel would require an adapter, because the base is smaller than more modern two-barrels. For a four-barrel, you’d be better off fabricating a new manifold. BuzzDog True, gas was cheap, but of course it would soon be rationed. I wonder how many of these had the second carburetor disabled, once the U.S. entered World War II? Sally Sublette October 1941 ad: mentions critical “defense” production, but still a time when most Americans hadn’t yet heard of Pearl Harbor: PBR Longneck President Roosevelt signed the Lend Lease Act in early 1941, so although we were not yet in the fight, we were very involved in supplying our allies with what they needed to fight the war that they were involved in. Also, the Selective Service & Training Act was signed even before, in 1940, and the British Purchasing Commission had made its rounds & jump-started American warplane manufacturing. Contrary to many historical accounts, the US wasn’t really neutral, at least with respect to Asia. It had effectively declared economic war against Japan with increasingly restrictive trade embargoes, which backed Japan into a corner. If anyone thought Japan would take this lying down, they were very foolish. FWIW, here’s the top half of that (almost-) full page ad: NZ and Oz were already getting lendlease equipment by 41 WW2 began in Sept 1939 for most of the world. It began for China in 1937, & demographically that’s a big chunk of the World. Britons like to say America was “late for the war,” but that’s unfair since the US didn’t have the same diplomatic commitments (Belgium in 1914, Poland in ’39). There is a school of thought that the internal competition between Cadillac and Buick pushed each division to strive to create better cars. Having two aspirational makes targeted at somewhat different demographics contributed to GM’s top position then. In the immediate postwar market, faced with unprecedented demand and limited material supplies, Buick management dismissed what had been a peripheral segment for their pre-war business. Whereas Specials had accounted for the majority of sales then, management adroitly limited Special availability, placing primary production and sales emphasis on the C-body Supers and Roadmasters. In a smart marketing move, not only did it take advantage of the higher unit profits from the two upmarket series, it also tapped into the pent-up prosperity widely held by war-time workers. Legions of pre-war Buick Special owners moved up, aspirational buyers finally got their first taste of the Buick good life. This set the stage for Buick success in the 1950’s. Of the long wheelbase segment, it shook out to two very separate markets: one the coach-lines, livery, taxi utilitarian usage; the other the remains of the ‘carriage’ trade i.e. limousines. On our recent survey found on the PackardInfo Forum, a decade after the war’s end, only Cadillac was left to serve the luxury segment, Packard had faded away, Imperials were simply vanity efforts. The aftermarket stretch limousine business was a decade or so in the future. This is from the first announcement of the CC (compound carburetion) “effect”–September 1940. Any idea how the compression ratio can vary between single-carb mode and CC-mode? (see last part of the column) You’re misinterpreting it. It’s just saying that the single carb engines have a lower compression ratio than the ones that have the dual carbs. ^^^^^Thanks kindly, Paul—now it makes sense. The announcement says that the higher compression ratios take advantage of high octane fuels (premium grade). The lower compression ratio base engines without CC use regular grade fuels. CPJ Buicks of the 1940’s-’60’s were always popular with conservative professionals, who felt uncomfortable with the ostentatiousness of a Cadillac. Recall a few ’50’s Specials and Supers in the neighborhood when I was a boy. Was always fascinated with their quirky features, like the side opening hood, starter under the accelerator and radio antenna in the middle of the windshield connected to a knob inside that you could turn. This compound carburetor fits in nicely with Buick culture. These are great cars–somehow, I had never paid attention to them until this article, which is great that you guys write about various things, because sometimes there are the non-converted out there. As mentioned by others here, GM’s competition was often themselves, and you wonder how many great ideas were squelched because of it. I miss the days where their individual brands had more autonomy to do things, including their own specific engines. Remember that Buick (the founding brand for GM), Oldsmobile, Cadillac and Oakland were independent automobile makers before GM. Chevrolet was also independent before Durant took over and brought it into the GM lineup. Designing the cars to use the same parts as much as possible was going to reduce costs, and this eventually makes most of the divisions redundant. This Buick is basically a Cadillac body, an upper end Cadillac body, not the basic 60 series Cadillac body. No, the 90 Series Buick is not “basically a Cadillac body.” In fact, when Harlow Curtice and Buick rolled out the all-new 1941 90 Series, Cadillac management had a collective heart-attack and quickly grabbed the car for their own, renaming it the Cadillac Series 67. It was bigger than the Series 75, had a longer wheelbase, better suspension, and an opulent interior equal to the 75, and even in Cadillac form, it was a far better car than the Series 75. Cadillac continued to use leaf springs in back, while the Buick used coils all around, which, combined with a torque tube, offered a superior ride. And there’s no arguing that the Buick 320 with dual carbs was the most powerful engine you could buy in America in 1941. A lot of people think the two cars were developed jointly or that Buick got a hand-me-down from Cadillac, but if that were true, why was it killed after just 15 months of production? If the Buick 90 was truly a Cadillac design that Buick borrowed, why did the Cadillac Series 67 die with the Buick 90? No, the Buick 90 is most certainly NOT a Cadillac, and that’s what made Cadillac management so furious. It was a bigger, faster, more powerful car for less cash than anything but the Cadillac Series 61. It should be no surprise they wanted it dead. I should note that I’m a little biased–I own a ’41 Buick Limited limousine, but having driven the Cadillac Series 67, they’re really quite different cars in terms of personality. The Cadillac is probably smoother but the Buick is notably faster. Daniel Stern on QOTD: What Old Car (Before 1980) Is Easiest To Work On? Scoutdude on QOTD: What Old Car (Before 1980) Is Easiest To Work On? ThresherK on Curbside Classic: 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo – A Modest Beginning To A Huge Hit (and Hips) Richard on CC Capsule: 1965 Volkswagen 1500 S (Type 3) Notchback – The Five Percenter Dave Tamasy on Curbside Recycling: 1980 Volkswagen Rabbit C Diesel – Not Hopped Up, But All Hopped Out ThresherK on Curbside Classic: 1979 Pontiac Bonneville – Lime Sherbet JimDandy on QOTD: What Old Car (Before 1980) Is Easiest To Work On? Jim Klein on Curbside Classic: 1979 Pontiac Bonneville – Lime Sherbet MarcKyle64 on CC Capsule: 1965 Volkswagen 1500 S (Type 3) Notchback – The Five Percenter 3294cc on CC Capsule: 1976 Nissan Gloria 330 SGL-E Hardtop Sedan – I Will Survive	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6292
__label__cc	0.749343	0.250657	2016 IC3 Report: Global Internet Enabled Crime Losses Hit $1.3 Billion in 2016 Reported losses due to internet enabled crime last year totaled $1.3 billion, according to the FBI’s Internet Complaint Center. The 2016 Internet Crime Report,” according to Scott Smith, assistant director, cyber division of the FBI stated that the reports, “highlights the IC3’s efforts in monitoring trending scams such as Business Email Compromise (BEC), ransomware, tech support fraud, and extortion.” The report was based on 298,728 complaints registered with the bureau by U.S. residents in 2016. Top three crime types reported by victims were non-payment and non-delivery, personal data breach and payment scams. The FBI estimates that only 15 percent of nation’s fraud victims report their crimes to law enforcement, however publishing the report will enable law enforcement recognize and response to developing trend in internet enabled crime. Below is a selection of some of the top attacks logged by IC3, including 2016 losses Business email compromise ($360.5 million): Attackers trick an employee into making a wire-transfer payment. “These sophisticated scams are carried out by fraudsters compromising email accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques to conduct unauthorized transfer of funds,” the FBI says. Confidence fraud/romance ($219.8 million): Tricking an individual into thinking they’re in a relationship – family, friendly or romantic – to extract funds, personal information or other assistance from them. Corporate data breach ($95.9 million): When confidential, sensitive or private business data leaks or is spilled. Advanced fee ($60.5 million): Scammers trick an individual into paying money, for the promise of receiving an even greater amount of money in return. Victims typically receive “significantly less than expected or nothing,” the FBI says. 419/overpayment ($56 million): The “419” term refers to a section of Nigerian law associated with fraud. The scammers request help, as well as money transfers. “The sender offers a commission or share in the profits, but will first ask that money be sent to pay for some of the costs associated with the transfer,” according to the FBI. The “overpayment” variation involves attackers sending some money to victims, instructing them to retain some and forward on the rest to a designated individual or business. Payment card fraud ($48.2 million): Theft and fraud involving payment cards as well as payment mechanisms such as ACH, EFT and recurring charges. Employment ($40.5 million): Scams that trick individuals into believing they are legitimately employed, but which lead to them losing money or laundering money or items while “employed.” Phishing/vishing/smishing/pharming ($31.7 million): Using unsolicited email, text messages or telephone calls – from purportedly legitimate firms – to steal individuals’ personal details or financial or online access credentials. Extortion ($15.8 million): Extracting money or property from an individual via “intimidation or undue exercise of authority,” according to the FBI. “It may include threats of physical harm, criminal prosecution or public exposure.” Tech-Support fraud ($7.8 million): Schemes that trick users into paying for unnecessary and often bogus technical support. Malware/scareware ($3.9 million): Malicious codes designed to steal personal information, threaten users or trick them into paying subscription fees, for example, for fake anti-virus software. Ransomware ($2.4 million): Malware designed to crypto-lock a computer and instruct victims to pay a ransom to receive a decryption key. Hacktivist ($55,500): An individual who hacks in the pursuit of promoting a social or political cause. U.S. Charges North Korean Over Lazarus Group Hacks Google Patches 81 Android Vulnerabilities With September 2017 Updates Ashley Madison Offers $11.2 Million in Data Breach Settlement Next story 2016 IC3 Report: Business Email Compromise (BEC) Hit $360 Million in Losses Previous story Hovering Your Computer Mouse Over a Hyperlink Can Get Your Computer Infected	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6295
__label__wiki	0.648765	0.648765	Striking at the root of fake news Wednesday, 04 July 2018 \| Navneet Anand The ability of social media to fuel rumours has made it a clear and present danger. The spate of lynching incidents call for immediate action In March 2014, students and teachers of Ukraine’s Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism along with KMA Digital Future of Journalism project came together with a unique initiative: They launched a website called StopFake.Org and called it a fact-checking site. “Journalists, editors, IT specialists, translators, all those who cared about the future of Ukraine during this dangerous time of the annexation of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine joined the project,” reads a note on the said website. Soon, this portal grew into an influential information hub that went on to examine the impacts of propaganda not only in Ukraine but other countries and regions as well, including those from the European Union and the erstwhile Soviet Union. A non-Government initiative with its primary goal “to verify information, raise media literacy in Ukraine and establish a clear red line between journalism and propaganda,” StopFake could well serve as a model for India and other countries that are confronted with an eerie enemy called fake news. For a world enamored with the many advantages of social media, fake news is one monster that countries need to learn to deal with; and looks like for quite a while. It may be pertinent to explore the reasons that could have steered this offshoot of modern technology, prompting Collins dictionary to pronounce fake news as the word of the year in 2017. Reasons could range from social, cultural and psychological. By nature, human beings are curious — their need to know, learn and explore is what makes them distinct from animals, or even robots. For ages, this need has been met through media and popular sources like newspapers, radio, television and even films and other personalised forms of communication. The outlet of information, its packaging, and dissemination were all controlled. The consumption of information too was controlled. Journalism was a respected and trusted profession. The advent of the Internet and the subsequent loosening of this grip on information by social media led to an unprecedented democratisation of information — mass communication was no longer the sole preserve of traditional news organisations. Anyone and everyone could communicate with many, share perspectives, information or even news. Individuals were no longer passive consumers of news but gained the power to participate and frame the contours of public discourse. For Government, corporate, political and social actors, social media platforms became powerful tools for effective, expeditious and ceaseless communication. Erstwhile human-led communication gave way to a technology-mediated environment with little or no barriers. Access to technology became the sole enabler for mass communication. The erstwhile process-led and organised compilation of content and its use in the construction of narratives gave way to sporadic, instantaneous and individualised manufacturing of facts. It was this miniaturisation of the mass communication framework that became its nemesis. Deviants, skeptics, and criminals embraced this technology and abused its unhindered access to indulge in all kinds of bizarre acts, including propagating fake news. Soon, fake news on social media became a tool for settling personal, corporate and political scores. Vested interests began using it to foment communal and social hatred and disharmony. For some, it also became a tool for spearheading vicious campaigns. For those with limited or no abilities to filter information, and use it judiciously, fake news turned poisonous. Not too long ago, there surfaced a spate of reports of lynchings and killings from across the country, courtesy fake news. Just when we had hoped that these incidents were aberrations, incidents from Tripura and Maharashtra this past week jolted us again. An announcer, Sukanta Chakraborty, hired in south Tripura to dispel rumors on child-lifters himself became a victim of this WhatsApp menace and was lynched by a mob. last Sunday, in Dhule, Maharashtra, five persons were lynched by a furious mob who suspected the victims to be child lifters — again their fear was triggered by fake news on WhatsApp. What’s startling is that such cases are increasingly being reported from rural and remote areas where people enjoy a strong intra-community bonding and any perceived threat to the community is dealt with stiff resistance, including the use of violence. Unfortunately, what’s read or heard on WhatsApp becomes a gospel truth while facts, human discretion and reason suffer a severe blow. It’s an alarming sign of how unhindered access to technology can cause severe disruptions in society. While sustained push by Government and technology companies to spread digital equity will further enhance access to technology through handheld devices, we shall require many initiatives like StopFake to ensure the monster doesn’t grow into a dinosaur of disruption and chaos. Recently, Rajasthan Police Twitter handle ran a campaign on fake news, earning applause. However, a few solo efforts may not go too far. It will require a sustained, multi-party, multi-pronged collaboration to wage a war against fake news. As a hashtag used frequently by IPS Association Twitter handle @IPS_Association aptly sums it up: We shall need to #KillFakeNews. (The writer is a strategic communications professional)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6297
__label__wiki	0.979623	0.979623	Xherdan Shaqiri targets trophies in his first season at Liverpool FC Swiss winger joins Reds for £13million Xherdan Shaqiri signs for Liverpool at Melwood Training Ground (Image: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images) Sign up to our free newsletter for the top North Wales stories sent straight to your e-mail New signing Xherdan Shaqiri has set his sights on winning silverware with Liverpool after completing his £13million move from Stoke City. The Swiss winger admits he jumped at the chance to join the Reds – some four years after seeing a potential switch to Anfield fall through. Back then Bayern Munich refused to do business with Liverpool but this time he's got his wish and he can't wait to get started. Shaqiri, who will wear the No 23 shirt vacated by Emre Can's exit, has penned a five-year contract. “I’m very happy to be here,” he told Liverpoolfc.com. “It’s a huge club with big history, big players and a fantastic coach. So I’m really glad and happy to be here. “As a player you always want to be on the biggest stage in football. A few years ago I wanted to come too but it didn’t happen. I’m really happy that now I’m finally here. Liverpool FC's Wales international Harry Wilson set to go out on season-long loan again “I want to improve myself too, I want to be with the best and I want to win titles. That’s what I’m here for.” Shaqiri is relishing the prospect of linking up with Mohamed Salah again. The pair were briefly team-mates at Basel back in 2012. Salah was signed from Arab Contractors in Egypt as Shaqiri's replacement prior to his departure to Bayern Munich. Xherdan Shaqiri's move to Liverpool FC could have happened four years ago “He came for training and a trial when I was at Basel. He came to train two or three times, I trained with him,” Shaqiri added. “Then I went to Bayern Munich and he stayed in Basel. I’m happy that I see him here. He had an amazing season last year and I hope he can do it this year too. “I’m very happy for him that he had this beautiful season because he is a very nice guy, a good guy.” northwaleslive Follow @DailyPostSport Wrexham AFCWrexham AFC release update on club takeover by Hollywood starsRob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds are set to take over at the helm I should never have left Wrexham AFC Wrexham AFCKieran Kennedy concedes he made a mistake in turning down Dragons' deal Chesterfield 2, Wrexham 4 Football NewsSOME you win, some you lose, but on balance Wrexham manager Denis Smith has probably made more good decisions than bad during his time at the Racecourse. Bangor City deny any move for former England forward Adam Johnson Bangor City FCA report suggested the Citizens were about to sign the disgraced player but the club has dismissed it as 'fake news' Ian Rush is engaged to his stunning model girlfriend who's 22 years his junior Liverpool FCThe 57-year-old is set to wed the former pop star after being together for more than five years Former Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall opens up about isolation and loneliness LlandudnoThe former goalkeeper urged people to ‘not stand still, and stagnate’ Hollywood owners of Wrexham AFC make 'mind-blowing' gesture to North Wales charity Wrexham AFCAmong the projects run by North Wales Superkids are an annual Christmas toy appeal and access to a caravan for holidays How Liverpool FC stars gave Gwynedd teen the surprise of his life as he recovered from major operation GwyneddJac Fisher, 13, had an operation to correct a birth defect called Pectus Excavatum which left him with a sunken breastbone Players shed tears for 'super fan' who followed Bangor's football teams for six decades BangorTributes have been pouring in for Vera Owen, a lifelong stalwart of Bangor City and Bangor 1876	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6298
__label__wiki	0.856587	0.856587	Original Content podcast: Despite some odd choices, ‘The Undoing’ lays out a satisfying mystery The HBO miniseries “The Undoing” wrapped up back in November, but the hosts of the Original Content podcast took advantage of the holidays to get caught up. Based on a novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, “The Undoing” tells the story of Grace Fraser (played by Nicole Kidman), a Manhattan psychologist whose husband Jonathan (Hugh Grant) is accused of a brutal murder. As the trial turns into a media spectacle, Grace tries to navigate how she feels about her husband and to discover who else might be guilty of the crime. While Jordan had already watched the show as it aired, Anthony and Darrell were inspired to binge it thanks to an email from listener Michael Benedosso, who shared some amusing thoughts on Kidman’s wavering attempts at a New York accent — resulting in what he called “a world tour expressed via spoken word.” We agreed that Kidman’s accent left a lot to be desired, and that her performance often felt a bit oblique (the latter, at least, was probably intentional). We had other quibbles. For one thing, although the cast is relatively diverse, the story spends most of its time on the wealthy white family at its center, as their wealthy white friends. And there were perhaps a few too many red herrings that didn’t lead anywhere interesting. Still, we were pretty satisfied in the end. With only six episodes and plenty of plot twists, there was really no time to get bored, and we were particularly impressed by Grant’s performance as Jonathan, as well as Noah Jupe as the Frasers’ adolescent son Henry and Noma Dumezweni as Jonathan’s steely lawyer Haley. Before reviewing he show, we also discussed the recent launch of the Discovery+ streaming service. You can listen to our review in the player below, subscribe using Apple Podcasts or find us in your podcast player of choice. If you like the show, please let us know by leaving a review on Apple. You can also follow us on Twitter or send us feedback directly. (Or suggest shows and movies for us to review!) f you’d like to skip ahead, here’s how the episode breaks down: 0:30 Discovery+ discussion 6:41 “The Undoing” review 20:40 “The Undoing” spoiler discussion Amazon Web Services gives Parler 24-hour notice that it will suspend services to the company Lenovo launches AR glasses for enterprise A first look at Qualtrics’ IPO pricing Bolt Mobility launching into 48 new markets after snapping up Last Mile’s assets How and when to build marketing teams at deep tech companies	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6299
__label__wiki	0.82813	0.82813	Funeral details announced for Paul McGrath's mum Betty Brynmor Pattison Paul McGrath's mother Elizabeth (Betty) The funeral of Paul McGrath's mother Betty will take place tomorrow. Elizabeth Lowth, nee McGrath, passed away peacefully at St James' Hospital on September 3, 2020. The Republic of Ireland legend posted a photo of himself and his beloved mother the following morning, describing her as his "best friend" and adding a link to Van Morrison singing Days Like This. He added: "Last night I lost my best friend. "My beautiful mum Betty passed away peacefully and today my heart is breaking. "I owe everything to her. Sleep well Mum, love you. Paul x" A notice was later put up on rip.ie, which notes that the private funeral will take place on Monday, September 7 at 10am but will be streamed online. The notice reads: "Beloved wife of the late Noel and loving mother of the late Okune. "She will be very sadly missed by her loving son Paul, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sisters Mary and Claire, nieces, nephews, neighbours, relatives and friends especially her close friends Ed, David and Bernie. "Due to government guidelines a private funeral will take place. "The Funeral Mass can be viewed live at www.dolphinsbarnparish.org on Monday, September 7 at 10am. "Those who cannot attend the Funeral Mass may leave a message in the 'Condolences' section below. "May she rest in peace." Paul McGrath announces death of beloved mum and 'best friend' Betty Football legend Paul McGrath issues emotional plea to find missing son Heartfelt messages fill the condolences page as fans and well-wishers paid tribute to Betty. Jacinta Corcoran said she was "one of a kind" with a "witty nature". Carlos and Katie Oliveira added that she was "an exceptionally kind lady who always acknowledged milestones throughout the time Mam and I were lucky enough to know her", saying she was a "lovely human being". Lorcan O'Brien said: "Heaven has gained a wonderful baker and gentle soul." RTE's Miriam O'Callaghan was among those to pay tribute to the football legend's mum during the week. She said: "So so sorry to hear this Paul - I know how much you adored your mum. I hope you are okay and remember she will keep minding you forever from heaven." Former Ireland players Robbie Keane and Stephen Elliott also commented. Dublin Live's breaking news newsletter sign-up Keane said "Thinking of you pal." Elliott added: "Sorry to hear. RIP." Miriam O'Callaghan	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6304
__label__wiki	0.976963	0.976963	Work at the EO Submit News & Photo Photos, Videos & Podcasts Your EO News Student Honors Out of the Vault Pulse of Oregon Public Safety Logs Newsstand Returns EO Parent e-Edition App Pendleton, OR (97801) Partly cloudy. Low around 30F. Winds light and variable.. Partly cloudy. Low around 30F. Winds light and variable. Wally Rudd of Cove shows memorials on Nov. 17, 2020, from his service in World War II. Rudd was a Navy frogman, the precursor to the Navy SEALS. Dick Mason/The Observer Wally Rudd of Cove holds a 50-caliber bullet on Nov. 17, 2020, at his home in Cove while recounting his experiences while serving as a Navy frogman in World War II. Navy frogman reflects on WWII experiences By DICK MASON The Observer COVE — Almost eight decades ago the hopes of Wally Rudd, a U.S. Navy frogman, were sinking like an anchor. Rudd, who had just survived a dangerous World War II island mission in the South Pacific, was beginning to wonder if he would ever catch a plane in Guam back to his military base at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor. Rudd, who now lives in Cove, had gone weeks without getting a seat on a plane bound for Pearl Harbor because the U.S. military was giving top priority to officers, letters and packages. A frustrated Rudd then took matters into his own hands — he airmailed himself, postage-free, to Pearl Harbor. The Navy frogman and a friend snuck onto a plane bound for Pearl Harbor and hid under bags of mail. Rudd said military bosses thought the pair were in with the mail and yelled for them to come out. “But we didn’t,” Rudd said, “and they never came in and checked on us.” When the stowaways arrived at Pearl Harbor they were not disciplined as mischievous rule breakers. Instead, their fellow sailors embraced them as though they were long-lost brothers. “They were afraid that we had died because we had been gone so long,” Rudd said. This was understandable, considering they were part of an underwater demolition team, one of a number that helped give rise to today’s legendary Navy SEALS. Rudd’s team was responsible for checking the harbors of islands occupied by the Japanese — islands the United States was preparing to invade. The teams checked for coral reefs and obstacles, such as steel triangles the Japanese placed in harbors to sink incoming ships. Rudd often evaded enemy gunfire while swimming in harbors. He said he likely escaped because the Japanese often were firing from 200 yards away and because he made for a small target. “Often only my head was sticking out (of the water),” said Rudd, who grew up in La Grande. Still bullets came dangerously close to hitting him, something he could easily see because of how they ricocheted off the waters he was in. Rudd was a member of Underwater Demolition Team Three. Today, the names of all members of the Navy’s underwater demolition teams, including that of Rudd, are displayed at the National Navy SEALS Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, said Jack Johnson of Cove. Johnson is a retired Oregon National Guardsman and a good friend of Rudd’s. Navy SEALS today are equipped with high-tech diving gear including air tanks, which do not emit telltale bubbles. Such equipment is light-years away from what Rudd and the other Navy frogmen had at their disposal during WWII. All they had were face masks, fins and sand shoes — no air tanks or even snorkels. “Those would have been nice to have,” Rudd said. In lieu of oxygen sources, frogmen had to work underwater on a single breath. Rudd was able to work three minutes at a time on one breath. “You can do this if you are in good shape,” he said. 1 month free with $8.25 monthly digital only subscription. Promo Code: DIGI The perils frogmen faced were great, but perhaps not as frightening as the Japanese kamikaze planes that passed over the convoys of ships Rudd was with during South Pacific journeys. The planes often appeared to be diving into the ship Rudd was on, but always hit other crafts in his convoys instead. Still, Rudd did not emerge from WWII unscathed. He was on one ship a bomb hit. Three pieces of its shrapnel struck Rudd on his right side. The shrapnel burned at first, but Rudd never experienced great pain. “I had three chunks of steel under my skin,” Rudd said. Doctors did not remove the shrapnel, which broke down over time. “I had that shrapnel until 1963,” Rudd said. The Navy frogman escaped serious injury in WWII, but saw many people around him on ships die or suffer grave wounds. “I would see guys who had really taken a beating, who had no arms or legs or had their belly shot up, but I never heard them moaning. They never said a word. I really admired them,” said Rudd, who has lived in Cove with his wife of 57 years, Marilyn, for 45 years. Wally Rudd, 94, was born in Nebraska and later moved to the Ontario area where he attended Ontario High School. His family later moved to La Grande, where he enrolled at La Grande High School. Rudd left LHS in 1943 at age 17 to join the Navy. He returned home four years later, but was told by a school staff member he would not be allowed to graduate until he paid for two unreturned library books and a desk he had carved his name in. La Grande High principal Ron Walk then told the staff member that this was no way to treat a returning serviceman and told Rudd to come back the next day. The following day, Walk awarded Rudd and three other veterans their diplomas. “If it was not for Ron Walk, I would not have gotten a diploma,” Rudd said. The sheepskin helped Rudd land a railroad job. His later work included a 12-year stint with the La Grande Fire Department. Although Rudd today is credited with being part of a program that evolved into the Navy SEALS, he humbly said he would not have wanted to serve as one. “Their training is twice as tough as the training we received,” Rudd said. Johnson, who has known Rudd for decades, describes him as a delightful, one-of-a-kind person. “He’s loves people and is always upbeat. He’s a wonderful guy. You will never meet anther Wally,’’ Johnson said. Wally Rudd Ron Walk Read Today's Newspaper View Special Publications Would you like to receive our headline news? Stock Market Prices View detailed reports of major stock indexes and look up specific symbols. eastoregonian.com 211 S. E. 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__label__wiki	0.989818	0.989818	Wed, 11 Nov 2020, 14:25 PM NHRA Announces Complete 2021 Class Schedule Courtesy of NHRA Communications GLENDORA, Calif. - NHRA officials announced the details of the 2021 Camping World Drag Racing Series 23-event season, revealing national event pro category qualifying days and specialty series schedules. Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series categories will be contested at all national events. At 17 Camping World Drag Racing Series national events, professional teams will run three qualifying sessions over two days, Friday and Saturday, with final eliminations on Sunday. At five events, pro teams will run two qualifying sessions on Saturday with final eliminations on Sunday. This quick-draw format, which was utilized as NHRA first returned to racing in July 2020, provides racing excitement, and allows economic balance for all stakeholders in current times. NHRA expects to return to the customary four qualifying runs in the future. The event schedule and venue for an additional event on June 18-20 will be released at a future date. Races in Atlanta (March 26-28), the first stop in Pomona (April 9-11), Phoenix (April 23- 25), Richmond (June 4-6) and Seattle (July 30-Aug. 1) are all scheduled three-day events with two qualifying sessions for the Camping World Drag Racing Series classes. "We can't say enough to thank the loyal NHRA fans who have stuck with us during the trying times of the 2020 season," said NHRA President Glen Cromwell. "We are grateful to you. All of us at the NHRA look forward to a full season of drag racing in 2021. Thank you to our fans, racers, and partners for your continued support and cooperation." The 2021 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series begins March 11-14 with the 52nd annual AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway and concludes Nov. 11-14 with the Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona. NHRA will celebrate its 70th anniversary with special treats and features throughout the season. Teams in Top Fuel and Funny Car will compete at every 2021 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series event. Pro Stock, which celebrated its 50th year in 2020, will race at 18 events in 2021, returning to several venues, including Houston, Topeka, and Epping. The Pro Stock Motorcycle class will compete at 16 races next season, starting with its traditional opener in Gainesville and including races at Pomona and Las Vegas in April. The E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service will return to a 12-race schedule, which includes first-time stops at Denver and Brainerd. The NHRA Top Fuel Harley Series will race at 10 events in 2021, while the SAMTech.edu Factory Stock Showdown Series is slotted for eight races. All three series will open 2021 in Gainesville. The Mountain Motor Pro Stock class will have a six-race exhibition schedule during the 2021 season, starting June 4-6 in Richmond. The full Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series schedule was released last week by NHRA. Stay tuned to NHRA.com as we announce more details on the specialty series schedules for the 2021 season including the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, the SAMTech.edu Factory Stock Showdown Series and the NHRA Top Fuel Harley Series. Fans are encouraged to check NHRA.com/tickets for updates on future ticket purchases. For a full list of the 2021 NHRA class schedule, click here.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6311
__label__cc	0.729877	0.270123	Exercising with Your Baby Category: Newsletter Library, Pregnancy & Parenting From biking and hiking to walking and jogging, today's parents are keeping fit and bonding with their babies in the process. With an array of products unheard of a generation ago— like baby carriers, joggers and trailers— even the tiniest among us are enjoying the great outdoors. But while these Enhance Fertility with Chiropractic Care Thirty-five year-old Tracy had tried everything: monitoring her cycles through body temperature, over-the-counter fertility predictors and finally, fertility-enhancing drugs and in vitro fertilization. But after three years of trying, she still wasn't pregnant. She began to think she was "too old" to Pregnancy, Parenting, and Lower Back Pain You're pregnant! Congratulations! Your body's changing-wondrously, marvelously. One unexpected and unwelcome change may be lower back pain. Recent studies suggest that two-thirds of pregnant women experience lower back pain.1 These statistics seem reasonable. The weight of the growing baby, plus the Yellow Light Go Very Fast In a classic scene in the classic 1984 movie Starman, the extraterrestrial Jeff Bridges tells the human Karen Allen that, yes, he does know how to drive. Starman has just blasted through a traffic light changing to red, other vehicles crashing in his wake. Jenny Hayden, his protector, is screaming at Chiropractic Advice for Moms-to-Be The weight gain, the bloating, the nausea... Most new mothers will tell you that the aches and pains of pregnancy are a small price to pay for the beautiful bundle of joy they're rewarded with nine months later. But as many new mothers can attest, the muscle strains of pregnancy are very real and can	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6315
__label__cc	0.74916	0.25084	Canada Travel Planning Guide EH Travel Talk Show Road Trip Feature, Travel Tips, Travel Stories, New Brunswick Adventures, P.E.I. Adventures, Nova Scotia Adventures, Newfoundland Best Beaches in Atlantic Canada that you may not have heard of Best Beaches in Atlantic Canada Beaches of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick Canada "What are the best beaches in Atlantic Canada that you may have not heard of and are worth checking out?" What are… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/best-beaches-atlantoc-canada-header.jpg 343 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2019-01-23 01:51:542019-07-18 15:14:12Best Beaches in Atlantic Canada that you may not have heard of Help/Training Tips, Travel Tips, Tourism News 2019 Tourism Trends for Canada – ehCanadaTravel.com 2019 Tourism Trends for Canada 15 trends and traveler habits we should keep an eye on in 2019 "Emerging 2019 tourism trends are interesting considering all that is happening on so many different fronts domestically, internationally and technologically." Below… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/15traveltrends-banner.jpg 598 1200 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2019-01-16 06:44:202019-07-18 15:14:222019 Tourism Trends for Canada – ehCanadaTravel.com Product Updates, Help/Training Tips, Tourism News, Press Releases Community Blogging Grows Communities In A Positive Way Community Bloggers Growing Communities 3 Days of Community Blogging Training Unleashes 4 More Merritt BC Bloggers "... we just completed a second round of blog training with 4 new bloggers (plus 1) who are about to unleash their stories, experiences… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/merritt-bc-community-bloggers-blogging2.jpg 519 900 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2018-12-07 23:56:332019-07-18 15:14:40Community Blogging Grows Communities In A Positive Way Product Updates, Travel Tips, Travel Stories, Gear Reviews, B.C. Adventures Merritt BC Canada Campground – Hammock Adventure Hammock Adventure in Merritt BC Canada Campground Golf cart 4x4ing around backcountry campground looking for ideal hammock location "Merritt BC Canada Campground adventure with the host of the Moon Shadows Campground. We take part in some… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-banner.jpg 634 1271 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2018-10-25 00:36:322018-11-09 23:26:29Merritt BC Canada Campground – Hammock Adventure Stars of Tourism Feature, Road Trip Feature, Travel Stories, Community Profiles, B.C. Adventures eh Rockin’ River Music Festival Weekend – 2019 Merritt BC Canada hosts one of Western Canada's biggest country music festivals "Time for eh Canada Travel to cowboy-up and country-out this coming August long weekend." Off we go again to "cowboy-up" at the Rockin' River Music Festival… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/pre-blog-banner.jpg 320 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2019-07-26 12:07:162019-07-26 12:07:17eh Rockin’ River Music Festival Weekend – 2019 Travel Tips, Travel Stories, Tourism News, Press Releases, B.C. Adventures, Alberta Adventures, Saskatchewan Adventures, Newsletters Traveler Choice Awards 2017 Traveler Choice Awards 2017 TOP 10 Tourism Businesses in Western Canada Parksville, BC - Canada Travel is happy to announce the TOP 10 Tourism Businesses in Western Canada. Traveler Choice Awards are the highest honor ehCanadaTravel.com can… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/awardsbanner-1.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2017-02-13 14:45:522017-02-18 11:19:15Traveler Choice Awards 2017 Road Trip Feature, B.C. Adventures Sicamous, B.C. Paradise Motel Sicamous, B.C. Paradise Motel "its the hottest place... to be cool" I pulled into the parking area of the Paradise Motel in the community of Sicamous located in the Shuswap Lake region of British Columbia, Canada. This was to be my home… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/blogBANNER2.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2016-05-07 21:26:352016-05-07 21:26:35Sicamous, B.C. Paradise Motel Road Trip Feature, Travel Stories, B.C. Adventures, Alberta Adventures, Yukon Adventures Tis the season to be dog sledding in Canada Tis the season to be dog sledding. I would like to say a few words in honour of dog sledding, "Hike, Mush and All Right" (terms for get moving); "Gee" (turn right); "Haw" (turn left); "Easy" (slow down); "Whoa" (stop) and "On By"… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/dogsled-banner.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-12-11 16:13:502014-12-12 10:38:23Tis the season to be dog sledding in Canada Stars of Tourism Feature, Road Trip Feature, Travel Stories, B.C. Adventures Spillimacheen, BC with Steamboat Mountain Chalets Spillimacheen, BC with Steamboat Mountain Chalets "The Steamboat Mountain Chalets are for travelers who enjoy a rustic, backcountry feel. There is no valet parking or hostess greeting you at a front desk. Here at the chalets, you check in and… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/banner-steamboat.png 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-08-23 14:40:362014-08-24 10:26:26Spillimacheen, BC with Steamboat Mountain Chalets B.C. Adventures Family Rafting w/ Kootenay River Runners, Radium BC River Rafting w/ Kootenay River Runners, Radium BC "Thank you Kootenay River Runners for a great day. Was it raining? I never did notice. I really did not care. No one on the raft that day cared. No... everyone on that raft that day smiled,… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Kootenay-river-runners-banner.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-08-21 10:55:502016-12-29 04:31:30Family Rafting w/ Kootenay River Runners, Radium BC Wolf 101- eh Education in Wolves w/ Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre Wolf 101- eh Education in Wolves Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre "I have been lucky enough to watch and photograph wolves in the wild. I have seen, first hand, how beautiful these creatures really are. I have watched them as they watch… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/wolf-banner.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-08-13 10:31:082016-04-25 14:40:43Wolf 101- eh Education in Wolves w/ Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Centre Golden BC with Kicking Horse River Lodge Golden Experience with Kicking Horse River Lodge "The beautiful craftsmanship, the architecture, is part of the whole attraction of staying with Kicking Horse River Lodge. And then add in the wilderness photography on the walls, the comfortable… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/kicking-banner2.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-08-10 11:32:572015-03-14 10:11:14Golden BC with Kicking Horse River Lodge Illecillewaet River Rafting w/ Apex Rafting Illecillewaet River Rafting w/ Apex Rafting "Apex Rafting in Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada provided us with a charismatic guide, top notch safety instruction and has been one of our most enjoyable white water river rafting adventures… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/banner-apex-rafting.png 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-08-05 15:52:042016-04-25 14:40:53Illecillewaet River Rafting w/ Apex Rafting True Blue Lodge in Kaslo, BC, Canada True Blue Lodge in Kaslo, B.C., Canada "You just know you are in a good place when people wave you down and say, "Hi!" out of the blue and they actually mean it." I arrived in Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada with big plans and an,… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/banner-true-blue-lodge.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-07-30 12:29:062016-10-29 13:42:47True Blue Lodge in Kaslo, BC, Canada Create Fairy Tales with The Enchanted Forest Create Fairy Tales with The Enchanted Forest "The Enchanted Forest is no ordinary forest. No, this forest attraction is writing real life fairy tale stories thus creating a library of childhood memories. During the adventure the "eh Team" brothers… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/banner-ehchamted.png 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-06-19 22:04:142018-01-25 16:44:50Create Fairy Tales with The Enchanted Forest Stars of Tourism Feature, Travel Stories, B.C. Adventures Tree to Tree with Skytrek Adventure Park Tree to Tree with Skytrek Adventure Park "Our biggest challenge during the day with Skytrek Adventure Park was keeping our emotions under control. We did not do that very well. You know how big kids can get. We hooted and hollered through the… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/banner-skytrek2.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-06-11 21:48:592015-11-30 14:18:00Tree to Tree with Skytrek Adventure Park Road Trip Feature, Travel Stories, B.C. Adventures 2014 Travel Schedule for West Kootenays 2014 Travel Schedule for West Kootenay Road Trip "... to maintain a high level of tourism knowledge, experience and content we feel it is important to hit the road hard during the summer and during the winter so to experience Canada first hand… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/banner-main1.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-05-30 11:07:352014-09-19 10:24:012014 Travel Schedule for West Kootenays Travelodge Duncan BC Hosts High School Reunion Travelodge Duncan BC Hosts High School Reunion "Good people always make accommodations a better place to stay. I was impressed with the hospitality I received from Travelodge Duncan. I was greeted with smiles from the reception desk to the… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/banner-travelodget.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2014-05-11 16:17:332016-02-19 13:45:28Travelodge Duncan BC Hosts High School Reunion Tourism News, B.C. Adventures eh 2012 TOP 5 List of B.C. Cottage & Cabin Destinations Online Travelers tell us the Top 5 Community Destinations for Cottages in BC (2012) We have compiled a list of the TOP 5 cottage & cabin destinations for BC, Canada according to our millions of online travelers who visited us in… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cottage_banner.jpg 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2013-02-10 11:40:252014-09-15 16:54:34eh 2012 TOP 5 List of B.C. Cottage & Cabin Destinations Golden, BC What, Where and How Travel and Adventure Tips What to do? Where to go? When to do it when exploring in Golden, British Columbia, Canada is the question to ask yourself before arriving. There is so much eye candy - it would make any community jealous. Kootenay village is engulfed… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/rotary-loop.jpg 303 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2012-07-09 13:28:522012-07-09 13:28:52Golden, BC What, Where and How Travel and Adventure Tips Hiking for Scenery in Castlegar, BC Often the best scenery in a community is from a hiking trail which involves some elevation hiking. When visiting the community of Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada the Brilliant Overlook Trail (BOT) is exactly one of those trails providing… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/main1.png 300 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2012-06-23 08:49:232016-12-29 02:56:08Hiking for Scenery in Castlegar, BC B.C. Adventures, Alberta Adventures, Yukon Adventures, NWT Adventures, Saskatchewan Adventures BEST of the WEST SERIES – TOP 6 HISTORIC SITES BEST of the WEST SERIES : TOP 6 LISTS for the BEST HISTORIC SITES in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon and NWT Canada based on "Secret Traveler" onsite visits by CANADA eh TOURISM. 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Mothers deserve something special, something meaningful and something memorable on Mother's… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mothers-day-ma.jpg 318 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2012-05-12 11:10:362014-09-15 17:01:39Mother Nature on Mother’s Day Backpack a British Columbia, Canada Trail There are over 11,400,000 hectares of designated parkland in Canada. Parks visit the banks of raging rivers, the shores of lakes, the tips of glaciers, the lowlands and grasslands, mountain peaks and caves.... and the towering hoodoos,… https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/wct-west-coast-trail.jpg 306 640 Greg "Gug" Girard https://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ehcanada-logo-340x156-1.png Greg "Gug" Girard2012-05-01 00:19:482012-05-01 00:19:48Backpack a British Columbia, Canada Trail Canadian Tourism Year End Review The reports are starting to roll in on Canadian Tourism. The awards are being handed to the industry elite. It is that time of year. A time to celebrate another year of tourism. I am still trying to figure out what they are celebrating about? 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__label__wiki	0.920046	0.920046	Offshore Wind Power Is Ready to Boom. Here’s What That Means for Wildlife Cities Can Help Migrating Birds on Their Way By Planting More Trees and Turning Lights Off at Night Apple Issues Largest Ever Green Bond by U.S. Company Lorraine Chow Feb. 19, 2016 12:07PM EST Business As part of its ongoing efforts to minimize its environmental footprint, Apple has issued $1.5 billion in bonds that will finance sustainable business projects. This is the largest ever "green bond" issued by a U.S. corporation. On Earth Day 2014, a green leaf adorned the Apple logo at the company's Fifth Avenue store in Midtown Manhattan. The store is one of at least 120 Apple stores powered by renewable energy. The bond—rated Aa1 (or high quality and very low credit risk) by bond rating agency Moodys—pays 2.85 percent over seven years, Sustainable Business noted. The bond is part of an overall package of $10-$12 billion worth of new bonds Apple is selling. For the uninitiated, this green bond means Apple is specifically raising money from investors to spend on environmentally friendly projects. As any debt instrument goes, Apple will pay investors back with interest. Here is where the funds will go, according to the bond's prospectus: New and ongoing renewable energy projects, such as solar and wind projects, or associated energy storage solutions Green building expenditures such as certification of LEED Gold or Platinum or BREEAM Very Good, Excellent, or Outstanding standards The implementation of environmental design elements for new or ongoing building developments, such as high performance mechanical systems, natural ventilation, on-site renewable energy and high performance lighting systems Energy efficiency projects and technologies at Apple's corporate facilities, such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems upgrades, lighting retrofits and energy monitors and controls Water efficiency projects and technologies at our corporate facilities, such as upgrades to water efficient fixtures and water efficient irrigation and increased use of recycled water Projects that enhance recycling, material recovery and reuse, and landfill waste diversion for our products and facilities Projects and technologies that facilitate the use of greener materials in our products "This will allow investors to show they will put their money where their hearts and concerns are," Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, told Reuters. Setting a record, Apple's $1.5BN green bond is the largest ever issued by a US corp via @DanielShurey https://t.co/eFMjPN3WFj — BloombergNEF (@BloombergNEF)1455886209.0 Although the global green bond market is still taking baby steps in the financial world, the market is "growing rapidly," as Big Four accounting firm KPMG pointed out. Market Watch reported that November "was the strongest month on record for global green-bond issuance, with $7.39 billion in new bonds." But what exactly makes a green bond, "green"? Well, it's unclear. As KPMG said, there is "little consensus on define criteria for green bonds" and issuers can face criticism and accusations of "greenwashing." Apple is said to be following the Green Bond Principles established by a group of financial institutions including BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase. Such guidelines include second party consultation (for example a climate expert), publicly available reviews and audits, and third party, independent verification/certification. World’s First Vegan Supermarket Chain to Open in Portland Leonardo DiCaprio Joins Carbon Capture Technology Company to ‘Bring About a More Sustainable Future for Our Planet’ 5 Sustainable Market Trends That Unleash a World of Opportunities Solutions Wanted: Do You Have a Solution That Will Create a Cleaner, Greener World? featured featured-home business sustainable business A seagull flies in front of the Rampion offshore wind farm in the United Kingdom. Neil / CC BY 2.0 By Tara Lohan A key part of the United States' clean energy transition has started to take shape, but you may need to squint to see it. About 2,000 wind turbines could be built far offshore, in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast, in the next 10 years. And more are expected. <p>East Coast states from Maine to North Carolina are working to procure nearly <a href="https://www.oedigital.com/news/483741-2020-has-been-a-big-year-for-us-offshore-wind" target="_blank">30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2035</a> — a huge leap from the five turbines currently generating 30 megawatts in Rhode Island waters. If a regulatory backlog of projects awaiting approval from the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is finally unstuck — <a href="https://therevelator.org/offshore-wind-growth/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">as experts hope will happen this year</a> — the buildout of offshore wind will arrive during a crucial decade for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p>Spinning turbine blades on the watery horizon may be a welcome sight in the fight against climate change, but they still come with potential threats to marine wildlife. Many environmental groups believe the challenges aren't insurmountable if scientific study can help inform regulatory action and if we can learn — and adapt our practices — as we go.</p><p>"We believe that offshore wind can absolutely be developed in an environmentally responsible manner," says Francine Kershaw, a staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "But that has to be incorporated throughout the whole process — from site assessment through development, construction and operations."</p> Threats to Birds <p>One of the gravest threats facing birds is climate change, according to Audubon, which found that rising temperatures threaten <a href="https://www.audubon.org/2019climateissue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nearly two-thirds of North America's bird species</a>. That's why the impending development of offshore wind is a good thing, says Shilo Felton, a field manager in the organization's Clean Energy Initiative, but it also comes with dangers to birds that need to be better studied and mitigated.</p><p>The most obvious risk comes from birds colliding with spinning turbine blades. But offshore wind developments can also displace birds from foraging or roost sites, as well as migratory pathways.</p><p>Along the Atlantic Coast four imperiled species are of top concern to conservationists: the endangered piping plover, red knot, roseate tern and black-capped petrel, which is being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act.</p><p>"Those four species are of utmost importance to make sure that we understand the impacts," says Felton. "But beyond that there are many species that are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act that could potentially see more impacts from offshore wind."</p><p>Northern gannets, for example, are at risk not just for collision but <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308703197_Possible_impacts_of_offshore_wind_farms_on_seabirds_a_pilot_study_in_Northern_Gannets_in_the_southern_North_Sea" target="_blank">habitat displacement</a>.</p> <img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ3NDc0My9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MzA3NTkwM30.L3sUMX9PbRxFqSnNPKWfQSB33NNak0zZ6x9gdLCZPJM/img.jpg?width=980" id="31fc5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e1429caf713cfa9e6b78cc218d884453" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="799" data-height="533" /> A northern gannet flying along Cape May, N.J. Ann Marie Morrison / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 <p>"There's <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320716303196" target="_blank">some evidence</a> that they just won't use areas where turbines are, but that also excludes them from key foraging areas," says Felton. Researchers are still studying what this may mean for the birds. But a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141113620305304" target="_blank">study</a> published in December 2020 conducted at Bass Rock, Scotland — home to the world's largest northern gannet colony — found that wind developments could reduce their growth rate, though not enough to cause a population decline.</p><p>Other birds, such as great cormorants and European shags, are <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320716303196" target="_blank">attracted to wind developments</a> and use the infrastructure to rest while opening up new foraging areas farther from shore.</p><p>"There's plenty of potential for a bird to use a wind farm and still to avoid the turbines themselves," says Felton.</p><p>Birds like pelicans, however, are less versatile in their movements and are at particular risk of collision because of their flight pattern, she says.</p><p>But how disruptive or dangerous offshore turbines will be along the East Coast isn't yet known.</p><p>Federal and state agencies, along with nongovernmental organizations, says Felton, have done good research to try to better understand those potential impacts. "But these are all theoretical, because we don't have a lot of offshore wind yet in the United States."</p> Threats to Ocean Life <p>Birds aren't the only wildlife of concern. More development in ocean waters could affect a litany of marine species, some of which are already facing other pressures from overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction and climate change.</p><p>Scientists have found that marine mammals like whales and dolphins could be disturbed by the jarring sounds of construction, especially if pile driving is used to hammer the steel turbine platform into the seafloor.</p><p>The noises, though short-lived, could impede communication between animals, divert them from migration routes or cause them to seek less suitable areas for feeding or breeding. Research from Europe found that harbor porpoises, seals and dolphins may avoid development areas during construction. In most, but <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045101" target="_blank">not all cases</a>, the animals were believed to have returned to the area following construction.</p><p>The biggest concern for conservation groups in the United States is the critically endangered North American right whale. There are fewer than 400 remaining, and the species' habitat overlaps with a number of planned wind development areas along the East Coast.</p><p>"Offshore wind is in no way the cause of the challenges the whales face, but it's going to be another pressure point," says John Rogers, senior energy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists.</p><p>Researchers aren't sure how right whales will respond to the noise from pile driving.</p><p>"But we are concerned, based on what we know about how whales react to other noise sources, that they may avoid [wind development] areas," says Kershaw.</p><p>And if that displacement causes them to miss out on important food resources, it could be dangerous for a species already on the brink.</p><p>There are a few other potential threats, too.</p><p>Ships associated with the development — more plentiful during construction — also pose a danger. In the past few years cargo ships, fishing boats and other vessels have caused half of all deaths of North Atlantic right whales.</p> <img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ3NDg5MC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1ODIyNzI3MX0.PzGzo5LJmV9E00augQhHgO5eMTxkVqRBYGZrzkrxP78/img.jpg?width=980" id="f44b2" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5fcb375b72d14dd0cf745ecc7fb4494a" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="799" data-height="533" /> A juvenile right whale breaches against the backdrop of a ship near the St. Johns River entrance. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission / NOAA Research Permit #775-1600-10 <p>And after construction, the noise from the spinning turbines will be present in the water at low decibels. "We don't quite know how the great whales will react to those sounds," says Jeremy Firestone, the director of the Center for Research in Wind at the University of Delaware.</p><p>Other marine mammals may also perceive the noise, but at low decibels it's unlikely to be an impediment, <a href="http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v309/p279-295/" target="_blank">research has found</a>.</p><p>And it's possible that wind development could help some ocean life. Turbine foundations can attract fish and invertebrates for whom hard substrates create habitat complexity — known as the "reef effect," according to researchers from the University of Rhode Island's <a href="https://dosits.org/animals/effects-of-sound/anthropogenic-sources/wind-turbine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Discovery of Sound in the Sea</a> program. Exclusion of commercial fishing nearby may also help shelter fish and protect marine mammals from entanglements in fishing gear.</p> Ensuring Safe Development <p>Despite the potential dangers, researchers have gathered a few best practices to help diminish and possibly eliminate some risks.</p><p>When it comes to ship strikes, the easiest thing is to slow boats down, mandating a speed of <a href="https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/vessel-speed-limits-sought-protect-endangered-north-atlantic-right-whales-2020-08-06/" target="_blank">10 knots</a> in wind development areas, and using visual and acoustic monitoring for whales.</p><p>Adjusting operations to reduce boat trips between the shore and the wind development will also help. A new series of service operating vessels can allow maintenance staff to spent multiple days onsite, says Kershaw, cutting down on boat traffic.</p><p>For construction noise concerns, developers can avoid pile driving during times of the year when whales are present. And, depending on the marine environment, developers could use "quiet foundations" that don't require pile driving. These include gravity-based or suction caisson platforms.</p><p>Floating turbines are also used in deep water, where they're effectively anchored in place — although that poses its own potential danger. "We have concerns that marine debris could potentially become entangled around the mooring cables of the floating arrays and pose a secondarily entanglement risk to some species," says Felton, who thinks more research should be conducted before those become operational in U.S. waters — a process that's already underway in Maine, where a <a href="https://composites.umaine.edu/2020/08/05/diamond-offshore-wind-rwe-renewables-join-the-university-of-maine-to-lead-development-of-maine-floating-offshore-wind-demonstration-project/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">demonstration project is being built</a>.</p><p>If loud noises are unavoidable during construction, noise-reducing technologies such as bubble curtains can help dampen the sound. And scheduling adjacent projects to conduct similar work at the same time could limit the duration of disturbances.</p> <img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ3NDkwMC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxMTEyOTMwNX0.330fhUXaalGUddjtO6PGMeiuadmzTPPuyvrnsN2rrsE/img.jpg?width=980" id="d7393" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5f32770cc89291d00aed7de6d0204760" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="755" data-height="552" /> The foundation installation of the off shore wind farm Sandbank using a bubble curtain. Vattenfall / Ulrich Wirrwa / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 <p>Once turbines become operational, reducing the amount of light on wind platforms or using flashing lights could help deter some seabirds, NRDC <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/harnessing-wind-advance-wind-power-offshore-ib.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">researchers reported</a>. And scientists are exploring using ultrasonic noises and ultraviolet lighting to keep bats away. "Feathering," or shutting down the turbine blades during key migration times, could also help prevent fatalities.</p><p>"We need to make sure that offshore wind is the best steward it can be of the marine ecosystem, because we want and expect it to be a significant part of the clean energy picture in some parts of the country," says Rogers. "We also have to recognize that we're going to learn by doing, and that some of these things we're going to figure out best once we have more turbines in the water."</p><p>That's why environmental groups say it's important to establish baseline information on species before projects begin, and then require developers to conduct monitoring during construction and for years after projects are operational.</p><p>Employing an "adaptive management framework" will ensure that developers can adjust their management practices as they go when new information becomes available, and that those best practices are incorporated into the requirements for future projects.</p> Putting Research Into Action <p>Advancing these conversations at the federal level during the Trump administration, though, has been slow going.</p><p>"We didn't really have any productive discussions with the administration in the last four years," says Kershaw.</p><p>And when it comes to birds, Felton says the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's recently completed "draft cumulative environmental impact statement" covering offshore wind developments had a lot of good environmental research, but little focus on birds.</p><p>"Part of that comes from the current administration's interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act," she says.</p><p>President Trump has been hostile to both wind energy <em>and</em> birds, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/climate/trump-migratory-bird-protections.html" target="_blank">and finished gutting the Migratory Bird Treaty Act</a> in his administration's the final days, removing penalties for companies whose operations kill migratory birds.</p><p>There's hope that the Biden administration will take a different approach. But where the federal government has been lacking lately, Kershaw says, they've seen states step up.</p><p>New York, for example, has established an <a href="https://www.nyetwg.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Environmental Technical Working Group</a> composed of stakeholders to advise on environmentally responsible development of offshore wind.</p><p>The group is led by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, but it isn't limited to the Empire State. It's regional in focus and includes representatives from wind developers with leases between Massachusetts and North Carolina; state agencies from Massachusetts to Virginia; federal agencies; and science-based environmental NGOs.</p><p>New York's latest solicitation for clean energy projects includes up to 2,500 megawatts of offshore wind and <a href="https://www.nyetwg.com/announcements" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">requires developers</a> to contribute at least $10,000 per megawatt for regional monitoring of fisheries and other wildlife.</p><p>Environmental groups have also worked directly with developers, including an agreement with Vineyard Wind — an 800-megawatt project off the Massachusetts coast that could be the first utility-scale wind development in federal waters — to help protect North Atlantic right whales.</p><p>The agreement includes no pile driving from Jan. 1 to April 30, ceasing activities at other times when whales are visually or acoustically identified in the area, speed restrictions on vessels, and the use of noise reduction technology, such as a bubble curtain during pile driving.</p><p>"The developers signed the agreement with us, and then they incorporated, most, if not all of those measures into the federal permitting documents," says Kershaw. "The developers really did a lot of bottom up work to make sure that they were being very protective of right whales."</p><p>Environmental groups are in talks with other developers on agreements too, but Felton wants to see best practices being mandated at the federal level.</p><p>"It's the sort of a role that should be being played by the federal government, and without that it makes the permitting and regulation process less stable and less transparent," she says." And that in turn slows down the build out of projects, which is also bad for birds because it doesn't help us address and mitigate for climate change."</p><p>Kershaw agrees there's a lot more work to be done, especially at the federal level, but thinks we're moving in the right direction.</p><p>"I think the work that's been done so far in the United States has really laid the groundwork for advancing this in the right way and in a way that's protective of species and the environment," she says. "At the same time, it's important that offshore wind does advance quickly. We really need it to help us combat the worst effects of climate change."</p><p><em><a href="https://therevelator.org/author/taralohan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tara Lohan</a> is deputy editor of The Revelator and has worked for more than a decade as a digital editor and environmental journalist focused on the intersections of energy, water and climate. Her work has been published by The Nation, American Prospect, High Country News, Grist, Pacific Standard and others. She is the editor of two books on the global water crisis.</em></p><p><em style="">Reposted with permission from <a href="https://therevelator.org/offshore-wind-wildlife" target="_blank" style="">The Revelator</a>. </em></p> U.S. Offshore Wind Power Blown on Course - EcoWatch › How Renewable Energy Could Power Your State - EcoWatch › Is it possible to build wildlife-friendly windfarms? - BBC Future › How do offshore wind farms affect ocean ecosystems ... › wind renewable energy energy wildlife climate crisis endangered species birds marine life whales clean energy By Frank La Sorte and Kyle Horton Millions of birds travel between their breeding and wintering grounds during spring and autumn migration, creating one of the greatest spectacles of the natural world. These journeys often span incredible distances. For example, the Blackpoll warbler, which weighs less than half an ounce, may travel up to 1,500 miles between its nesting grounds in Canada and its wintering grounds in the Caribbean and South America. <img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ1OTYwNy9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMzM0MTg3OH0.nNQfbJ7kSW-dhYN2fzUsXifK_9BZ0m-DgJ_O48NaMzk/img.png?width=980" id="17556" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="62e2bb2642ac5ed6921afa9f11210d6c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="1000" data-height="697" /> Blackpoll warbler abundance in breeding, non-breeding and migration seasons. Cornell Lab of Ornithology / CC BY-ND <p>For many species, these journeys take place at night, when skies typically are calmer and predators are less active. Scientists do not have a good understanding yet of how birds navigate effectively at night over long distances.</p><p><span></span>We study bird migration and how it is being affected by factors ranging from <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S04C3UMAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">climate change</a> to <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pPk38-8AAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">artificial light at night</a>. In a recent study, we used millions of bird observations by citizen scientists to document the <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116085" target="_blank">occurrence of migratory bird species in 333 U.S. cities</a> during the winter, spring, summer and autumn.</p> <img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ1OTYxMy9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyMzk5NjQ2OX0.wgZKuxg3PNrZY0fvQEfZwX6kKXWapi0OEegDeQOL0ZI/img.jpg?width=980" id="d5433" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0c08ac2b38d68da1788b356a5841f0f9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="1000" data-height="604" /> Blackpoll warbler. PJTurgeon / Wikipedia <p>We used this information to determine how the number of migratory bird species varies based on each city's level of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/light-pollution" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">light pollution</a> – brightening of the night sky caused by artificial light sources, such as buildings and streetlights. We also explored how species numbers vary based on the quantity of tree canopy cover and impervious surface, such as concrete and asphalt, within each city. Our findings show that cities can help migrating birds by planting more trees and reducing light pollution, especially during spring and autumn migration.</p> Declining Bird Populations <p>Urban areas contain numerous dangers for migratory birds. The biggest threat is the risk of <a href="https://doi.org/10.1650/CONDOR-13-090.1" target="_blank">colliding with buildings or communication towers</a>. Many migratory bird populations have <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw1313" target="_blank">declined over the past 50 years</a>, and it is possible that light pollution from cities is contributing to these losses.</p><p>Scientists widely agree that light pollution can <a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708574114" target="_blank">severely disorient migratory birds</a> and make it hard for them to navigate. Studies have shown that birds will cluster around brightly lit structures, much like insects flying around a porch light at night. Cities are the <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2029" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">primary source of light pollution for migratory birds</a>, and these species tend to be more abundant within cities <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.13792" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">during migration</a>, especially in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103892" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">city parks</a>.</p> <img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ1OTYyNC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0Nzk5NTUwOH0.h8aA9ZJUJvLbHP82CVZAOkYcY54eljqMy4rrMaunO9M/img.jpg?width=980" id="608a8" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3da85b14a1c03abfd4f95c00439fb36e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="1000" data-height="640" /> Composite image of the continental U.S. at night from satellite photos. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The Power of Citizen Science <p>It's not easy to observe and document bird migration, especially for species that migrate at night. The main challenge is that many of these species are very small, which limits scientists' ability to use electronic tracking devices.</p><p>With the growth of the internet and other information technologies, new data resources are becoming available that are making it possible to overcome some of these challenges. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07106-5" target="_blank">Citizen science initiatives</a> in which volunteers use online portals to enter their observations of the natural world have become an important resource for researchers.</p><p>One such initiative, <a href="https://ebird.org/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">eBird</a>, allows bird-watchers around the globe to share their observations from any location and time. This has produced one of the <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04632" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">largest ecological citizen-science databases in the world</a>. To date, eBird contains over 922 million bird observations compiled by over 617,000 participants.</p> <span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="59e33da8efe0bf60f7bda00b06e1f4e2"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/StF19Qdgqn0?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p><em>Large clusters of birds (blue and green splotches) captured by weather radar during spring migration, April-May 2019.</em></p> Light Pollution Both Attracts and Repels Migratory Birds <p>Migratory bird species have evolved to use certain migration routes and types of habitat, such as forests, grasslands or marshes. While humans may enjoy seeing migratory birds appear in urban areas, it's generally not good for bird populations. In addition to the many hazards that exist in urban areas, cities typically lack the food resources and cover that birds need during migration or when raising their young. As scientists, we're concerned when we see evidence that migratory birds are being drawn away from their traditional migration routes and natural habitats.</p><p>Through our analysis of eBird data, we found that cities contained the greatest numbers of migratory bird species during spring and autumn migration. Higher levels of light pollution were associated with more species during migration – evidence that light pollution attracts migratory birds to cities across the U.S. This is cause for concern, as it shows that the influence of light pollution on migratory behavior is strong enough to increase the number of species that would normally be found in urban areas.</p><p>In contrast, we found that higher levels of light pollution were associated with fewer migratory bird species during the summer and winter. This is likely due to the scarcity of suitable habitat in cities, such as large forest patches, in combination with the adverse affects of light pollution on bird behavior and health. In addition, during these seasons, migratory birds are active only during the day and their populations are largely stationary, creating few opportunities for light pollution to attract them to urban areas.</p> <span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="19d2d2bc77cd31e4374fd12cdadbe4bf"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/08ET47-b13o?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p><em><strong></strong>Darkening skies at night during migration season makes it easier for birds to navigate.</em></p> Trees and Pavement <p>We found that tree canopy cover was associated with more migratory bird species during spring migration and the summer. Trees provide important habitat for migratory birds during migration and the breeding season, so the presence of trees can have a strong effect on the number of migratory bird species that occur in cities.</p><p>Finally, we found that higher levels of impervious surface were associated with more migratory bird species during the winter. This result is somewhat surprising. It could be a product of the <a href="https://www.epa.gov/heatislands" target="_blank">urban heat island effect</a> – the fact that structures and paved surfaces in cities absorb and reemit more of the sun's heat than natural surfaces. Replacing vegetation with buildings, roads and parking lots can therefore make cities significantly warmer than surrounding lands. This effect could reduce cold stress on birds and increase food resources, such as insect populations, during the winter.</p><p>Our research adds to our understanding of how conditions in cities can both help and hurt migratory bird populations. We hope that our findings will inform urban planning initiatives and strategies to reduce the harmful effects of cities on migratory birds through such measures as <a href="https://www.arborday.org/programs/treecityusa/index.cfm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">planting more trees</a> and initiating <a href="https://aeroecolab.com/uslights" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lights-out programs</a>. Efforts to make it easier for migratory birds to complete their incredible journeys will help maintain their populations into the future.</p><p><em><span style="background-color: initial;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/frank-la-sorte-1191494" target="_blank">Frank La Sorte</a> is a r</span>esearch associate at the </em><em>Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University. <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/kyle-horton-1191498" target="_blank">Kyle Horton</a> is an assistant professor of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at the Colorado State University.</em></p><p><em></em><em>Disclosure statement: Frank La Sorte receives funding from The Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation and the National Science Foundation (DBI-1939187). K</em><em>yle Horton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</em></p><p><em>Reposted with permission from <a href="https://theconversation.com/cities-can-help-migrating-birds-on-their-way-by-planting-more-trees-and-turning-lights-off-at-night-152573" target="_blank">The Conversation</a>. </em></p> <p> <br/> </p><script async="async" data-counter="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/152573/count?distributor=republish-lightbox-advanced" id="theconversation_tracker_hook" src="https://theconversation.com/javascripts/lib/content_tracker_hook.js" type="text/javascript"></script> Trump Finalizes Rollback of Migratory Bird Treaty Act - EcoWatch › Thousands of Migrating Birds Found Dead or Injured in Greece ... › Hundreds of Thousands of Migratory Birds 'Falling Out of the Sky' in ... › birds migratory birds trees light pollution wildlife green building parks sustainability sustainable cities Kevin Maillefer / Unsplash By Lynne Peeples Editor's note: This story is part of a nine-month investigation of drinking water contamination across the U.S. The series is supported by funding from the Park Foundation and Water Foundation. Read the launch story, "Thirsting for Solutions," here. In late September 2020, officials in Wrangell, Alaska, warned residents who were elderly, pregnant or had health problems to avoid drinking the city's tap water — unless they could filter it on their own. <p style="">More than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) away, the people of <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7208933-Scituate-Water-Notification-9-10-2020.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scituate, Massachusetts</a>, received a letter that same month cautioning about the same group of contaminants in their <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/drinking-water">drinking water</a>.</p> <p>At issue wasn't any of the well-known and widely feared water infiltrators such as <em>E. coli </em>or <a href="https://ensia.com/features/drinking-water-contamination-pfas-health/" target="_blank">per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)</a>. The culprit chemicals tainting taps from <a href="https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/environment/2016/05/31/elevated-disinfection-byproducts-taint-cocoa-water/85184636/" target="_blank">Cocoa, Florida</a>, to the <a href="https://auburnpub.com/news/local/several-cayuga-county-water-systems-violate-standard-for-chlorination-byproduct/article_d5568ecc-edd0-55b1-a858-37aaf2b1c82f.html" target="_blank">Finger Lakes of New York</a> to a correctional facility in <a href="https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/drinking-water-enforcement-tennessee-98500/" target="_blank">Only, Tennessee</a>, are, in fact, less recognized yet more ubiquitous: disinfection by-products.</p><p>"Take a glass of water. You may or may not have pesticides, pharmaceuticals, PFAS and lead in it. Usually not," says Susan Richardson, a professor of biochemistry at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. "But there's always something that is in your drinking water, and that's disinfection by-products."</p><p>Aptly named, the chemicals form in water when disinfectants that are widely used to kill pathogens in municipal drinking water facilities react with organic compounds. These compounds may be present in the water as a result of natural processes such as the decay of leaves and animal matter, as well as human activities that may release solvents, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and industrial chemicals. Exposure to disinfection by-products through drinking, bathing or <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.6b00808" target="_blank">swimming</a> has been linked to potential <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213343720302876" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">increased risks</a> of <a href="https://www.ewg.org/childrenshealth/23264/study-disinfection-byproducts-drinking-water-may-increase-risk-low-birth" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">low birthweight babies</a>, birth defects, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29676755/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">miscarriages</a> and <a href="https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/EHP4495" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cancer</a>.</p><p>"Disinfection is hugely important. We've got to kill those pathogens," says Richardson. "We had millions of people dying from waterborne illnesses before we started disinfecting water in the 1800s."</p> <img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ1OTg0Ni9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MjIyNTA3OH0.DKXIFu4fZ0XqVAZV7df25Oy2M3D8In7XWlMAwuQZJbA/img.jpg?width=980" id="a78a8" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="83c6c4c4dcac6fa45d912d7316b69bdb" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="1440" data-height="426" /><p>Cholera and typhoid fever were once deadly and pervasive threats. Still today, when concentrations of disinfectants fall too low, drinking water can become a breeding ground for dangerous pathogens such as <a href="https://ensia.com/features/legionella-pathogens-drinking-water/" target="_blank">Legionella</a>, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12638998/" target="_blank"><em>E. coli</em></a><em>, </em>even <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/19/world/cholera-kills-1100-in-peru-and-marches-on-reaching-the-brazilian-border.html" target="_blank">cholera</a>.</p><p>"It's a trade-off between inactivating pathogens that are going to make people sick today versus the long-term, low-level risk of chemicals in the water," says Christy Remucal, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213343720302876" target="_blank">Striking a balance</a> may be even more challenging today as waters become increasingly compromised due to population growth, wastewater intrusion, energy exploration, climate change — and now the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Richardson.</p><p>During the pandemic, many places have increased use of chlorine for disinfection in indoor and outdoor settings and during wastewater treatment, resulting in the potential for higher levels of disinfection by-products. Authors of a <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c04394" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">study</a> published in October warn that this "upsurge and overuse of chlorine-based disinfectants" may pose a threat to human health "by impacting water quality."</p><p>Concentrations of harmful chemicals have also likely increased in buildings left vacant during Covid-19 shutdowns. The longer that water sits in pipes, explains Richardson, the longer it has to react with disinfectants and form more by-products.</p><p>Still, Gregory Korshin, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, encourages perspective on the issue of disinfection by-products. The answer, he and others say, is not to stop disinfecting water, nor is it for everyone to buy bottled water.</p><p>"There is a dark side of disinfection," adds Korshin. "But this doesn't compromise the notion that drinking water in the U.S. is safe."</p> <p>Chemists first discovered disinfection by-products in treated drinking water in the 1970s. The trihalomethanes they found, they determined, had resulted from the reaction of chlorine with natural organic matter. Since then, scientists have identified more than 700 additional disinfection by-products. "And those only represent a portion. We still don't know half of them," says Richardson, whose lab has identified hundreds of disinfection by-products. </p> <p>Identification of disinfection by-products is incredibly difficult, she explains, because these chemicals are not simply flowing down a river from an industrial site or running off a farm. "They didn't exist before," she adds. "It's a complete unknown — there's no preconceived idea of what these chemicals look like."</p><p>Another research team recently discovered more previously unidentified disinfection by-products. As they described in a January 2020 <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.9b04926" target="_blank">study</a>, potentially carcinogenic chemicals are formed through the interaction of chlorine and not only organic matter in the environment but also manmade materials that include phenols such as <a href="https://ensia.com/features/what-will-it-take-to-rid-our-store-shelves-of-bpa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bisphenol A (BPA)</a> and other plasticizers, as well as sunscreen agents and antimicrobials.</p><p>"These phenol compounds are incredibly widespread because of their properties," says Carsten Prasse, a coauthor on the study and an assistant professor of environmental health and environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He highlights their use in both plastic pipes and plastic bottles, which frequently carry drinking water.</p> What’s Regulated and What’s Not? <p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently regulates 11 disinfection by-products — including a handful of trihalomethanes (THM) and haloacetic acids (HAA). While these represent only a small fraction of all disinfection by-products, EPA aims to use their presence to indicate the presence of other disinfection by-products. "The general idea is if you control THMs and HAAs, you implicitly or by default control everything else as well," says Korshin.</p><p>EPA also requires drinking water facilities to use techniques to reduce the concentration of organic materials before applying disinfectants, and regulates the quantity of disinfectants that systems use. These rules ultimately can help control levels of disinfection by-products in drinking water.</p> <a href="https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/reviewed-disinfection-byproducts.php" target="_blank"><img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ1OTg1OC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0MzYyNTAwNX0.1IaCMF-b4X9jtCSFsZuQfRvQCO54EqgfRcGulUoMP10/img.jpg?width=980" id="36d2f" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e8502b4c0de9cbd99651d4978548af81" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="1144" data-height="1036" /></a> Click the image for an interactive version of this chart on the Environmental Working Group website. <p>Still, some scientists and advocates argue that current regulations do not go far enough to protect the public. Many question whether the government is regulating the right disinfection by-products, and if water systems are doing enough to reduce disinfection by-products. EPA is now seeking public input as it considers potential revisions to regulations, including the possibility of regulating additional by-products. The agency held a <a href="https://www.epa.gov/dwsixyearreview/potential-revisions-microbial-and-disinfection-byproducts-rules" target="_blank">two-day public meeting</a> in October 2020 and plans to hold additional public meetings throughout 2021.</p><p>When EPA set regulations on disinfection by-products between the 1970s and early 2000s, the agency, as well as the scientific community, was primarily focused on by-products of reactions between organics and chlorine — historically the most common drinking water disinfectant. But the science has become increasingly clear that these chlorinated chemicals represent a fraction of the by-product problem.</p><p>For example, bromide or iodide can get caught up in the reaction, too. This is common where seawater penetrates a drinking water source. By itself, bromide is innocuous, says Korshin. "But it is extremely [reactive] with organics," he says. "As bromide levels increase with normal treatment, then concentrations of brominated disinfection by-products will increase quite rapidly."</p><p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15487777/" target="_blank">Emerging</a> <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b05440" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">data</a> indicate that brominated and iodinated by-products are potentially more harmful than the regulated by-products.</p><p>Almost half of the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of either the Atlantic or Pacific coasts, where saltwater intrusion can be a problem for drinking water supplies. "In the U.S., the rule of thumb is the closer to the sea, the more bromide you have," says Korshin, noting there are also places where bromide naturally leaches out from the soil. Still, some coastal areas tend to be spared. For example, the city of Seattle's water comes from the mountains, never making contact with seawater and tending to pick up minimal organic matter.</p><p>Hazardous disinfection by-products can also be an issue with desalination for drinking water. "As <a href="https://ensia.com/features/can-saltwater-quench-our-growing-thirst/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">desalination</a> practices become more economical, then the issue of controlling bromide becomes quite important," adds Korshin.</p> Other Hot Spots <p>Coastal areas represent just one type of hot spot for disinfection by-products. Agricultural regions tend to send organic matter — such as fertilizer and animal waste — into waterways. Areas with warmer climates generally have higher levels of natural organic matter. And nearly any urban area can be prone to stormwater runoff or combined sewer overflows, which can contain rainwater as well as untreated human waste, industrial wastewater, hazardous materials and organic debris. These events are especially common along the East Coast, notes Sydney Evans, a science analyst with the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG, a collaborator on <a href="https://ensia.com/ensia-collections/troubled-waters/" target="_blank">this reporting project</a>).</p><p>The only drinking water sources that might be altogether free of disinfection by-products, suggests Richardson, are private wells that are not treated with disinfectants. She used to drink water from her own well. "It was always cold, coming from great depth through clay and granite," she says. "It was fabulous."</p><p>Today, Richardson gets her water from a city system that uses chloramine.</p> Toxic Treadmill <p>Most community water systems in the U.S. use chlorine for disinfection in their treatment plant. Because disinfectants are needed to prevent bacteria growth as the water travels to the homes at the ends of the distribution lines, sometimes a second round of disinfection is also added in the pipes.</p><p>Here, systems usually opt for either chlorine or chloramine. "Chloramination is more long-lasting and does not form as many disinfection by-products through the system," says Steve Via, director of federal relations at the American Water Works Association. "Some studies show that chloramination may be more protective against organisms that inhabit biofilms such as Legionella."</p> <p>If a drinking water facility fails to meet EPA regulations for disinfection by-products, one relatively easy and cheap modification is to add ammonia to the existing treatment, turning chlorine to chloramine. Many large community water systems in the U.S. now use chloramine. By doing so, according to Richardson, they have dropped levels of regulated disinfection by-products by up to as much as 90%.</p><p>However, there is one major drawback to this shift: the creation of potentially more harmful by-products. "It might push down on regulated disinfection by-products, but then other things pop up that are even more toxic," says Richardson, whose research team discovered previously unknown disinfection by-products in chloraminated drinking water. One of those finds, <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es304786b" target="_blank">iodoacetic acid</a>, is the <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30919613/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">most DNA-damaging disinfection by-product</a> known to date.</p><p>Prasse underscored the concern: "From a regulatory perspective, we could say we're fine. But it's a false sense of security."</p><p>Rather than continuing on the toxic treadmill of replacing one potentially toxic chemical for another, a more effective solution may be to focus upstream in the treatment process — such as keeping organics out of the system in the first place. "That requires engineers, chemists, toxicologists and regulators to come together and figure something out," says Prasse.</p> <p>When he moved to the U.S. from Germany, Prasse says he immediately noticed the bad taste of the water. "You can taste the chlorine here. That's not the case in Germany," he says.</p><p>In his home country, water systems use chlorine — if at all — at lower concentrations and at the very end of treatment. In the Netherlands, <a href="https://dwes.copernicus.org/articles/2/1/2009/dwes-2-1-2009.pdf" target="_blank">chlorine isn't used at all</a> as the risks are considered to outweigh the benefits, says Prasse. He notes the challenge in making a convincing connection between exposure to low concentrations of disinfection by-products and health effects, such as cancer, that can occur decades later. In contrast, exposure to a pathogen can make someone sick very quickly.</p><p>But many countries in Europe have not waited for proof and have taken a precautionary approach to reduce potential risk. The emphasis there is on alternative approaches for primary disinfection such as ozone or <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/eco-friendly-way-disinfect-water-using-light/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ultraviolet light</a>. Reverse osmosis is among the "high-end" options, used to remove organic and inorganics from the water. While expensive, says Prasse, the method of forcing water through a semipermeable membrane is growing in popularity for systems that want to reuse wastewater for drinking water purposes.</p><p>Remucal notes that some treatment technologies may be good at removing a particular type of contaminant while being ineffective at removing another. "We need to think about the whole soup when we think about treatment," she says. What's more, Remucal explains, the mixture of contaminants may impact the body differently than any one chemical on its own. </p><p>Richardson's preferred treatment method is filtering the water with granulated activated carbon, followed by a low dose of chlorine.</p><p>Granulated activated carbon is essentially the same stuff that's in a household filter. (EWG recommends that consumers use a <a href="https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/reviewed-disinfection-byproducts.php#:~:text=EWG%20recommends%20using%20a%20home,as%20trihalomethanes%20and%20haloacetic%20acids." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">countertop carbon filter</a> to reduce levels of disinfection by-products.) While such a filter "would remove disinfection by-products after they're formed, in the plant they remove precursors before they form by-products," explains Richardson. She coauthored a <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b00023" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2019 paper</a> that concluded the treatment method is effective in reducing a wide range of regulated and unregulated disinfection by-products.</p><br> <img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQ1OTg2MC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0MjI3OTk2NX0.XuxufjUTyOygRCpgnG2jXqOIy4isl7Vz1QlnMmKSyHM/img.jpg?width=980" id="003a3" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0da178217c0a9dd4c3c880e1c05a86f9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="1144" data-height="312" /> Greater Cincinnati Water Works installed a granulated activated carbon system in 1992, and is still one of relatively few full-scale plants that uses the technology. Courtesy of Greater Cincinnati Water Works. <p>Despite the technology and its benefits being known for decades, relatively few full-scale plants use granulated active carbon. They often cite its high cost, Richardson says. "They say that, but the city of Cincinnati [Ohio] has not gone bankrupt using it," she says. "So, I'm not buying that argument anymore."</p><p>Greater Cincinnati Water Works installed a granulated activated carbon system in 1992. On a video call in December, Jeff Swertfeger, the superintendent of Greater Cincinnati Water Works, poured grains of what looks like black sand out of a glass tube and into his hand. It was actually crushed coal that has been baked in a furnace. Under a microscope, each grain looks like a sponge, said Swertfeger. When water passes over the carbon grains, he explained, open tunnels and pores provide extensive surface area to absorb contaminants.</p><p>While the granulated activated carbon initially was installed to address chemical spills and other industrial contamination concerns in the Ohio River, Cincinnati's main drinking water source, Swertfeger notes that the substance has turned out to "remove a lot of other stuff, too," including <a href="https://ensia.com/features/drinking-water-contamination-pfas-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PFAS</a> and disinfection by-product precursors.</p><p>"We use about one-third the amount of chlorine as we did before. It smells and tastes a lot better," he says. "The use of granulated activated carbon has resulted in lower disinfection by-products across the board."</p><p>Richardson is optimistic about being able to reduce risks from disinfection by-products in the future. "If we're smart, we can still kill those pathogens and lower our chemical disinfection by-product exposure at the same time," she says.</p><p><em>Reposted with permission from </em><em><a href="https://ensia.com/features/drinking-water-disinfection-byproducts-pathogens/" target="_blank">Ensia</a>. </em><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/r/entryeditor/2649953730#/" target="_self"></a></p> Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' Were Dropped Over Millions of Acres via ... › Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Among Officials to Be Charged ... › drinking water public health health tap water meat consumption Can We Enjoy Meat and Seafood and Save the Planet? Tiffany Duong Eat Just's cell-based chicken nugget is now served at Singapore restaurant 1880. Eat Just, Inc. At a time of impending global food scarcity, cell-based meats and seafood have been heralded as the future of food. <p>This cell-based industry is where scientists, environmentalists and food technology companies intersect to offer more sustainable ways to feed the world's growing population. The high-tech food innovations take "the animal out of the meat" and create "seafood without the sea," respectively coined by <a href="https://newatlas.com/lab-grown-meat-public-attitudes/48921/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body" target="_blank">New Atlas</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/05/05/720041152/seafood-without-the-sea-will-lab-grown-fish-hook-consumers" target="_blank">NPR</a>. These products — real meat and seafood — are originally cultured from animal cells but made without the actual animal. Because of this, many of the personal and global concerns about safety, ethics and the environment can be avoided without sacrificing food preferences.</p><p>Two leading industry examples are Eat Just and BlueNalu. Last month, Singapore issued San Francisco-based Eat Just the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/lab-grown-chicken-approved-singapore-2649108790.html" target="_self">world's first regulatory approval for cell-based meat</a>. The "chicken nuggets" are now available at downtown Singapore restaurant 1880. Meanwhile, San Diego's BlueNalu has pioneered "cellular aquaculture" to create cell-based seafood fillets from fish, including yellowtail, mahi-mahi, red snapper and tuna. In mid-2020, the company increased its research and development facilities six-fold after completing a $20 million funding round, <a href="https://thefishsite.com/articles/blue-nalu-set-for-6-fold-expansion" target="_blank">The Fish Site</a> reported. These two companies are pushing the industry to the next level with key regulatory developments and new innovations.</p><h3>The Science Behind Cell-Based</h3><p>In a nutshell, this is how cell-based food works: muscle stem cells are obtained from an actual animal, like chicken or fish, and cultivated in steel tanks with the same nutrients that living animals consume. The goal is not to grow a full animal, so the end result doesn't include the head, tail or heart, for example, while the original cell donor isn't sacrificed. The harvested cells multiply and are shaped to form meat or fish that cooks, looks and tastes just like its real counterpart.</p><p>"The process is somewhat like culturing a beer. At the end of the process, you have chicken meat," Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick told <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-01-11/would-you-eat-lab-grown-meat-video" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>.</p><p>BlueNalu's President and CEO Lou Cooperhouse agreed, telling EcoWatch, "We aren't making a living being, it's just a fish fillet. It's live tissue until we freeze it. Then it's no longer live; it's the product you might have and consume every day."</p> <h3>The Taste</h3><p>But how does it really taste? Identical to what consumers are used to, both companies told EcoWatch.</p><p>Cooperhouse described how his company mimics the "mouth feel" of conventional fish by recreating the same proportions of muscle, fat and connective tissue in their cell-based fillets. The company uses starter cells to grow all three types of tissue and then combines them to create the same exact product that consumers are used to eating.</p><p>"We're creating identical mahi-mahi to conventional mahi-mahi, from a sensory perspective and a functional perspective," Cooperhouse told EcoWatch. "When you cook it, it smells like fish. You can fry it, bake it, saute it. It caramelizes. It has all the same characteristics as fish, because it is fish. We just made it out of the body. We made it in steel tanks."</p><p>Andrew Noyes, head of global communications for Eat Just, similarly said that their chicken product "cooks, looks and tastes like chicken," including the flavor profile and texture, "because it is chicken."</p> <h3>The Many Advantages of Cultured Foods</h3><p>Both companies emphasized how cell-based foods don't require killing animals or adding growth hormones or antibiotics. Cell-based food also removes the environmental impact of industrial farming and commercial fishing. This "critical overlay of benefits at every level" creates a new solution for global supply chains that supports biodiversity and the planet's health, Cooperhouse said.</p><p>"We want consumers to know our fillets are different in these ways," Cooperhouse added. "They're not wild, not farmed." On a <a href="https://medium.com/eat-blue/not-wild-not-farmed-but-what-should-we-call-our-seafood-made-from-fish-cells-136fa0343b4d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">company blog</a>, Cooperhouse said that BlueNalu's products are a third alternative way to enjoy fish that is "as delicious and nutritious as their wild-caught or farm-raised counterparts... but without the mercury, microplastics or other pollutants that might be associated with conventional seafood."</p><p>Tetrick also emphasized the safety advantage of cultured meat over conventional. "This way of making meat radically decreases the probability of zoonotic diseases through our food system," he told Bloomberg, because it avoided pathogens like E. coli and salmonella, as well as sanitization concerns.</p><p>The environmental benefits of cell-cultured meat also mean less environmental destruction. Conventional <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/meat-consumption" target="_self">meat production</a> requires massive amounts of land for grazing and food production. Just growing feed for livestock <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/meat-consumption-2021-2649770271.html">uses 71 percent of global arable land</a> and <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/amazon-rainforest-collapse-2649776959.html#:~:text=The%20future%20of%20the%20world's,dry%2C%20shrubby%20plain%20by%202064." target="_self">drives Amazonian deforestation</a>.</p> <p>"Chicken is the world's most consumed (and fastest growing) meat," Noyes told EcoWatch. "Chickens also consume more feed collectively than other farmed animals. Today, more than one-third of the ice-free land on Earth and tens of millions of acres of rainforest teeming with our planet's most diverse life forms have been replaced with fields of chicken feed."</p><p>According to the <a href="http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/I9540EN" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations</a>, 60 percent of the world's fisheries are fully fished, or at maximum output capacity, and 33 percent are overfished. Additionally, in the last half-century, oceanic <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/dead-zones" target="_self">dead zones</a> have quadrupled due to fishing and the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" target="_self">climate crisis</a>, reported <a href="https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/lab-grown-fish?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Big Think</a>. <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/fish-farms" target="_self">Fish farming</a>, once thought to be a solution to declining wild fish populations, <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/industrial-agriculture-problems-boycott-2554509022.html" target="_self">brings its own issues</a>, including the loss of critical mangrove habitat and the proliferation of sea lice and other diseases from farms, which escape and kill wild fish, <a href="https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-basics/sustainable-solutions/preserve-habitats#:~:text=The%20exponential%20growth%20of%20aquaculture,the%20local%20people%20and%20ecosystems." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seafood Watch</a> reported.</p><p>Cell-based seafood won't put pressure on these depleted stocks and fragile habitats and will also avoid bycatch, a serious threat to biodiversity when unintentionally fished creatures are injured or killed.</p><p><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/beef-and-climate-change-2634244134.html" target="_blank">Meat production</a> is also energy-intensive and generates vast amounts of methane and other greenhouse gases. Cell-based foods are more carbon efficient and climate-friendly than conventional meat and seafood because of production efficiency and a localized distribution plan.</p><p>"If you look at climate change, this way of making meat is 90 percent more carbon-efficient than the typical approach," Tetrick told Bloomberg.</p><p>BlueNalu is preparing to scale for global cities to house 150,000-square-foot facilities, each capable of producing enough cell-based seafood to feed more than 10 million local residents, NPR reported. This way, cell-based seafood will avoid greenhouse gas emissions caused by shipping.</p> <p>Finally, waste is reduced because these companies are only growing the animal parts to be consumed. Traditionally, cattle are inefficient, requiring five to 20 pounds of plant-based feed to create one pound of conventional beef, <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/beyond-the-impossible-meat-grown-from-cells-better-for-planet-if-you-will-eat-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CNet</a> reported. <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lab-grown-meat/" target="_blank">Scientific American</a> estimated that one tissue sample from a cow could yield enough muscle tissue to make 80,000 quarter-pounders.<br></p><p>Cooperhouse estimated that a typical fish would produce a 60 percent yield after cutting off the head and tail and removing the skin and bones, whereas his fillets yield 100 percent.</p><p>"It's a total paradigm shift from an environmental and sustainability perspective," he told EcoWatch. "All that freight, oil, labor, dry ice, foam coolers — all goes away."</p><p>The consistency of quality, readily available products has also garnered interest from foodservice operators, Cooperhouse said. Having a stable supply available year-round will help restaurants combat the variability they currently experience.</p> <h3>Challenges</h3><p>The big question is whether or not the general public will eat the products, once available.</p><p>"If there's an ick factor to cell-based fish, remember that most processed foods are already created in laboratories," argued Big Think. "There are no Oreo trees or ketchup plants to harvest."</p><p>A University of Queensland survey found that a majority of respondents would try the products, but less would eat them regularly or see them as conventional meat replacements, <a href="https://newatlas.com/lab-grown-meat-public-attitudes/48921/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Atlas</a> reported. Respondents reported that taste would be a driving factor in favor of cell-based foods.</p><p>Cost is the other issue. For Eat Just, their products are competitively priced with premium chicken, although they foresee a pathway for a cheaper price within the next five years, Tetrick told Bloomberg. BlueNalu doesn't yet have a price point for their inaugural mahi-mahi fillet, but are aggressively partnering with known brands and distributors to lower costs.</p><h3>What's Next</h3><p>Singapore's approval of Eat Just's nugget is paving the way for other companies and nations to follow suit, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time" target="_blank">The Guardian reported</a>. Both Eat Just and BlueNalu are actively engaging regulators in the U.S. and other countries to bring their products online as quickly and safely as possible. Since the products are not genetically modified, "the approval will be about whether this is safe, clean, and are the manufacturing processes reliable and accountable," Cooperhouse told NPR.</p><p>While not a substitute for all conventional food, if cell-based meats and seafood are scaled up and accepted, <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/meat-consumption-predictions-vegan-lab-2638801931.html" target="_self">many hope to feed the world's anticipated 9.5 billion people</a> without stripping the planet bare and ruining the climate.</p><p>"The simplest way to think about it is it allows all of us to consume meat, the good part, the nutritional composition, the taste, and do away with the bad part, which is the killing, the environmental deforestation, the acceleration of zoonotic disease, and we can still have a fried chicken," Tetrick told Bloomberg.</p> Most Meat Will Be Plant-Based or Lab-Grown in 20 Years, Analysts ... › Lab-Grown Meat Debate Overlooks Cows' Range of Use Worldwide ... › Will Plant-Based Meat Become the New Fast Food? - EcoWatch › The future of cell-based protein: 'Food manufacturers should look at ... › Is cell-based meat the next big thing? Here are 5 companies leading ... › Plant and Cell Based Meat, Explained \| Track and Food - Medium › food meat consumption climate crisis climate action sustainability meat seafood New Zealand City Closes Popular Road to Protect Mother and Baby Sea Lion New Zealand sea lions are an endangered species and one of the rarest species of sea lions in the world. Art Wolfe / Photodisc / Getty Images One city in New Zealand knows what its priorities are. Dunedin, the second largest city on New Zealand's South Island, has closed a popular road to protect a mother sea lion and her pup, The Guardian reported. <p>"We've closed John Wilson Ocean Drive to vehicles for the next month to allow some special residents to use the road safely - a New Zealand sea lion and her pup have taken up residence at the golf course next door and are regularly crossing the road to get to the beach," the Dunedin City Council wrote in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DunedinCityCouncil/posts/3687384977973820" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook Post Monday</a>.</p> <div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="30b8c8ee5783728b66f03a8cd2d1ab14"><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/DunedinCityCouncil/photos/a.226655984046754/3687384087973909/"></div></div> <p>The council said that residents could still walk or ride bikes in the area, but should stay at least 20 meters (approximately 66 feet) away from the sea lions at all times and keep any dogs on a leash.</p><p>The mother sea lion, named Hiriwa, was first spotted on the Chisholm Links golf course about a week ago and is now nesting with her pup in a bush near the 13th hole, <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/434504/sea-lion-makes-itself-at-home-on-dunedin-golf-course" target="_blank">Radio New Zealand reported</a>.</p> <div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e202b1bbdd1c522d83b85cc7b36dba2c"><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/ChisholmLinks/photos/pcb.3417932631666520/3417899185003198"></div></div> <p>This is her fifth pup, Department of Conservation (DOC) coastal Otago <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/biodiversity" target="_self">biodiversity</a> ranger Jim Fyfe said.<br></p><p>"She has come up John Wilson Drive and into the golf course to have her pup in some bushes there," he told Radio New Zealand.</p><p>Fyfe also told the <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dunedin-road-temporarily-closed-for-sea-lion-and-pup/XMOZAJTUISN7OCIRS6H7OSGPHY/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Zealand Herald</a> that the pup was born Thursday, Jan. 7 and immediately made its presence known by making lots of noise.</p><p>The mother and pup will now spend about a month nesting before heading out to sea, Fyfe explained. During that time, the mother will need to walk 500 meters (approximately 1,640 feet) to the beach each day to feed. On these journeys, she will think to avoid male sea lions, but she won't be thinking about cars, people or dogs. That is why the road closure is so important, Fyfe explained.</p> <p>Local residents have responded favorably to the council's decision, The Guardian reported.</p><p>"Awesome! Love our little country in this way," one commenter wrote on Facebook.</p><p>The golf course has also welcomed its new residents.</p><p>"We're lucky to have marine mammals on our coastline and we need to share the space with them, as this is what makes our coastal Links and Dunedin's coastline so unique!" it wrote in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChisholmLinks/posts/3417932631666520" target="_blank">Jan. 5 Facebook post</a>.</p> <div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9524a27c929e225c2fe012fe759f48b4"><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/ChisholmLinks/photos/pcb.3417932631666520/3417892388337211/"></div></div> <p>New Zealand sea lions are an <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/endangered-species" target="_self">endangered species</a> and one of the rarest species of sea lions in the world, the city council noted. There are around 12,000 left in the world, according to DOC figures reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/new-zealand-sea-lions-road-closure-scli-intl/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>. Killing one can bring a penalty of up to two years in prison or a fine of up to $178,000.</p><p>Dunedin's 120,000 residents are used to road closures to protect <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wildlife" target="_self">wildlife</a>, but usually these closures last for a day rather than a month, The Guardian explained. The city is also used to welcoming breeding sea lions since 1993, and their numbers in the city have increased since <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/conservation" target="_self">conservation</a> efforts intensified.</p><p>Despite this, the overall breeding population of New Zealand sea lions is still falling. The main threats to the species are fishing, disease, human activity and lack of food.</p><p>Still, this is shaping up to be a good year for sea lions in Dunedin.</p><p>"This year we expect 20 sea lions around Dunedin to give birth. This is going to be a record number for us," Fyfe told Radio New Zealand. "New Zealand sea lions are a threatened species that is just recovering on the mainland coastline, so it's really good news."</p> Major Threats to New Zealand's Environment Highlighted in ... › Swimming With the Sea Lions of Los Islotes - The New York Times › Struggling Sea Lions May Benefit from UCSF Neuroscience Research › Legislation about New Zealand sea lion › sea lions \| WWF New Zealand › endangered species marine life conservation biodiversity solutions oceans	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6321
__label__wiki	0.592042	0.592042	News and PoliticsOpinion Making a Case for Decriminalization Weighing the costs and benefits by Matt Swanseger View ProfileFacebookRSS Feed Yeko Photo Studio THURSDAY, OCT. 26 It doesn't take much to be classified as a criminal — possessing less than 30 grams of marijuana (under an ounce) can weigh heavily on an individual's future prospects, hampering one's ability to land a decent job, housing, or education. It can also lead to up to a month in jail. Marijuana possession arrests — which accounted for nearly half of all drug possession arrests last year — also weigh heavily on taxpayers and communities (especially those of color, where minorities are written up eight times more frequently than their white counterparts). According to a study by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania, $225.3 million was spent statewide on marijuana arrests between 2010-2016, with 8 out of 10 of those arrests being for possession only. The numbers have skyrocketed within the past seven years — State Police made 2,221 arrests in 2010 versus 4,612 in 2016, a staggering 108 percent increase. "In order to help reduce mass incarceration, which is fueled by low-level drug arrests, we need to reduce the criminality of possessing small amounts of cannabis and cannabis-related paraphernalia to a summary offense," says Art Leopold, a representative of Keystone Progress. This means treating marijuana possession like a parking ticket rather than a ticket into an overburdened prison system. Philadelphia (both the city and its encompassing county) decriminalized marijuana in October 2014, and since then, arrests have dropped by 88 percent. Four other cities have followed suit — Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, State College, and Lancaster. The Adult Education Committee of Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie (UUCE), Keystone Progress (Erie Chapter), the Erie Branch NAACP, Erie County United, and Temple Anshe Hesed's Social Action Committee will discuss why Erie should be the next in a public forum entitled "Casual Marijuana Use: A Crime or Civil Infraction?" at the Jefferson Educational Society. The discussion panel will consist of State Representative Ed Gainey (Allegheny County), Pastor Dale Snyder of St. James AME Church, Dr. Nicole Schoenberger (Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn State Erie), and Dr. Michael Balsan of UPMC Hamot Women's Hospital (neonatal-perinatal medicine). Moderating will be Marcus Atkinson, Executive Director of ServErie and host of the monthly interview show "NEXT" on WQLN radio. Gainey will open the discussion with updates on House Bill 195, his proposed amendment to the state's Controlled Substances Act to decriminalize marijuana statewide, and share insights and observations from Pittsburgh's experiences with decriminalization. The other panelists will then issue brief statements before the forum begins in earnest, with questions from the public encouraged in the time remaining. Leopold has encouraged Erie Chief of Police Don Dacus, all city councilperson, local and state legislators to attend. Leopold explains: "It's not legalization. We can't [authorize] that on a state level. When we mention decriminalization, some take that to mean, 'Oh you're all just gonna smoke pot now.' That's not our purview; we're about reducing the burden on the community." — Matt Swanseger Don't let your chance to be heard go up in smoke; get involved Thursday, Oct. 26 at the Jefferson Educational Society, 3207 State Street. The forum is free to the public and will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. medical marijuanadecriminilizationhouse bill 195 Dr. Rachel Levine Appointed Assistant HHS Director by Matt Swanseger6 hours ago Pa. health secretary will be first openly transgender federal official confirmed by U.S. Senate Pennsylvania Taking Precautions for Inauguration Day State takes preventive action with potential threat of violence at play Blind Tiger Pounces on BIG IDEAS Top Prize by Matt Swanseger1/15/2021, 5:00 PM Line of spirit-free to-go cocktails wins regional pitch competition From Surviving to Thriving by Matt Swanseger1/13/2021, 12:00 PM Glenn Stearns returns in Undercover Billionaire: Comeback City The Fire Next Time: James Baldwin's Prescient Words Face Modern Truth by Abdullah Washington1/13/2021, 11:30 AM Juxtaposing the author's 1963 work with Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro by Sarah Bennett1/13/2021, 11:00 AM IRG sorting facility brings unaddressed public health, environmental concerns	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6326
__label__wiki	0.989399	0.989399	Australia / Players / Shaun Tait All matches in Australia Domestic results Domestic Season Complete list by ground JLT One-Day Cup Women's National Cricket League Women's Big Bash League Domestic One-Day Records Domestic T20 Records Domestic History Batting & fielding averages Most viewed players Marnus Labuschagne Will Pucovski Cameron Green Pat Cummins Nathan Lyon Tim Paine Mitchell Starc Player index by type One-Day International caps Twenty20 International caps Player index by letter Shaun Tait Full name Shaun William Tait Born February 22, 1983, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia Current age 37 years 332 days Major teams Australia, Adelaide Strikers, Australia A, Chittagong Kings, Durham, Essex, Essex 2nd XI, Glamorgan, Hobart Hurricanes, Melbourne Renegades, Mid West Rhinos, Peshawar Zalmi, Rajasthan Royals, South Australia, Wellington Nickname Sloon Playing role Bowler Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling style Right-arm fast Tests 3 5 2 20 8 6.66 46 43.47 0 0 4 0 1 0 ODIs 35 7 5 25 11 12.50 29 86.20 0 0 3 1 8 0 T20Is 21 6 2 11 6 2.75 15 73.33 0 0 0 1 3 0 First-class 50 70 29 509 68 12.41 991 51.36 0 2 15 0 List A 101 38 20 110 22* 6.11 179 61.45 0 0 23 0 T20s 171 53 25 163 26 5.82 201 81.09 0 0 8 7 24 0 Tests 3 6 414 302 5 3/97 3/121 60.40 4.37 82.8 0 0 0 ODIs 35 34 1688 1461 62 4/39 4/39 23.56 5.19 27.2 2 0 0 T20Is 21 21 478 589 28 3/13 3/13 21.03 7.39 17.0 0 0 0 First-class 50 9263 5661 198 7/29 28.59 3.66 46.7 17 7 1 List A 101 5063 4340 182 8/43 8/43 23.84 5.14 27.8 6 3 0 T20s 171 167 3674 4891 218 5/32 5/32 22.43 7.98 16.8 3 1 0 Test debut England v Australia at Nottingham, Aug 25-28, 2005 scorecard Last Test Australia v India at Perth, Jan 16-19, 2008 scorecard Test statistics - Statsguru Test analysis - Player analysis menu/filter Test match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Bowling match list Best innings bowling Best match bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics ODI debut Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 2, 2007 scorecard Last ODI India v Australia at Ahmedabad, Mar 24, 2011 scorecard ODI statistics - Statsguru ODI analysis - Player analysis menu/filter ODI match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Best innings bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics T20I debut Australia v New Zealand at Perth, Dec 11, 2007 scorecard Last T20I Australia v India at Sydney, Jan 31, 2016 scorecard T20I statistics - Statsguru T20I analysis - Player analysis menu/filter T20I match list --------------------------------- Batting career summary Batting innings list High scores Batting series averages --------------------------------- Bowling career summary Bowling innings list Best innings bowling Bowling series averages --------------------------------- Fielding career summary Fielding innings list Most catches in an innings Fielding series statistics First-class debut 2002/03 Last First-class Queensland v South Australia at Brisbane, Nov 28-Dec 1, 2008 scorecard List A debut 2002/03 Last List A South Australia v Queensland at Brisbane, Oct 12, 2014 scorecard T20s debut Australia A v Pakistanis at Adelaide, Jan 13, 2005 scorecard Last T20s Hobart Hurricanes v Sydney Thunder at Hobart, Jan 8, 2017 scorecard Bat & Bowl 0/32 Hurricanes v Thunder Hobart 8 Jan 2017 T20 1/34 Hurricanes v Heat Brisbane 30 Dec 2016 T20 0/56 Hurricanes v Stars Hobart 26 Dec 2016 T20 3/32 Hurricanes v Sixers Sydney 23 Dec 2016 T20 1/34, 0* Glamorgan v Yorkshire Cardiff 11 Aug 2016 T20 - Glamorgan v Essex Chelmsford 29 Jul 2016 T20 12*, 1/13 Glamorgan v Sussex Hove 28 Jul 2016 T20 2/25 Glamorgan v Somerset Cardiff 22 Jul 2016 T20 0/12 Glamorgan v Hampshire Southampton 14 Jul 2016 T20 0/27 Glamorgan v Gloucs Cardiff 10 Jul 2016 T20 At his best Shaun Tait was one of the quickest bowlers in the world, but his best was seen only in the short formats for Australia, and even then only for a short while. A brutal bowler with a shoulder-strong action, Tait's body found the workload too tough in the long form and played only three Tests, and was done with first-class cricket by the age of 25. In January 2008 he took an indefinite break from the game due to physical and emotional exhaustion and focused on one-dayers and T20s when he returned later that year. As a late addition to Australia's one-day squad in 2010, he unleashed a ball against England at Lord's that registered at 161.1kph, the second-fastest of all-time, but it was the consistent push for speed that crippled him regularly. With a muscular and unrefined method that seemed to invite pain, Tait played a significant role in Australia's World Cup triumph in the Caribbean in 2007, where he claimed 23 wickets; only Glenn McGrath took more throughout the tournament. He was back in the West Indies three years later when Australia reached the World T20 final, and was a key component in their pace-heavy but unsuccessful World Cup campaign in the subcontinent in 2011. That looked set to be his international swansong as he retired from ODIs straight afterwards and quit state cricket later that year, but he remained active in the Big Bash League. Five years later, he was back in Australia's T20 team after a surprising recall in the lead-up to the 2016 World T20. But that was the last we saw of Tait on the international circuit: he retired - from all forms of the game - the following March, saying it all came down to his injury issues again. "The elbow has gone off a cliff now," he said. The Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year back in the day in 2003-04, Tait also picked up the ING Cup's Best New Talent prize, chiefly for his 8 for 43 against Tasmania, the most impressive figures in domestic limited-overs history. He was included in the 2005 Ashes tour, where he played two Tests ahead of his more celebrated South Australia team-mate Jason Gillespie, but his action was unsustainable in the long form. An abbreviated 2005-06 included 6 for 41 in the ING Cup final - an amazing combination of spot-on speed and 14 wides. Still, when on song, his old-fashioned approach of yorkers and bumpers mixed with a modern dose of sharp reverse-swing caused huge excitement for everyone but the batsmen. A child of the Adelaide Hills, he received his best advice at the age of seven when his father suggested he play cricket. ESPNcricinfo staff Too young for the fast life? 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__label__cc	0.577079	0.422921	You are at:Home»Currency-Hedged»Value to be Had With Asia ETFs Currency-Hedged Value to be Had With Asia ETFs Tom Lydon August 17, 2018 Developed Asia and some related single-country ETFs, including the iShares MSCI Japan ETF (NYSEArca: EWJ), the largest Japan-related ETF on the market, are currently offering compelling discounts relative to other major developed markets. “As of the end of July, Japanese equities remain the cheapest equity market in the developed world. The Topix Index (TPX) is trading at 1.8 times price-to-book (P/B), roughly half the level of the S&P 500. The current discount is close to the lowest since 2012, a period that preceded a three-year, 150% rally,” said BlackRock in a recent note. Last month, there was rising speculation that the BOJ was debating moves to scale back its massive monetary stimulus policy, Reuters reports. Officials were holding preliminary discussions on possible changes, which include adjustments to interest rate targets and stock-buying techniques, along with ways to make its stimulus program more sustainable. EWJ’s currency hedged equivalent is the iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETF (NYSEArca: HEWJ). Meanwhile, hedge funders and institutional investors are beginning to look at Japan as a cheap play after the recent selling. Bullish traders argue that valuations in Japan are more attractive than in the U.S. as corporate profits improve, Bloomberg reports. Postive Vibes In Japan “Japan has witnessed a significant improvement in both corporate governance and profitability. The return-on-equity (ROE) for the TPX now stands at 11.1%, close to a multi-decade high and more than twice the level of six years ago. Japan’s low valuation seems even harder to justify given this improvement in corporate profitability and still ultra-accommodative monetary conditions,” according to BlackRock. The U.S. dollar is expected to strengthen against its foreign counterparts as the Fed normalizes interest rates ahead of its developed market peers and the U.S. economic growth exhibits upside potential, bolstering the case for ETFs such as HEWJ that hedge international currency risk. “Rather than fundamentals, today’s Asia discount can likely be attributed to three trends: stellar U.S. earnings growth, a stronger dollar as a headwind for EM stocks and rising trade frictions,” said BlackRock. For more information on the Japanese markets, visit our Japan category. currency-hedgedequity etfsEWJfeaturedHEWJ	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6329
__label__wiki	0.87278	0.87278	CMMC requirements show up in GSA’s STARS III contract (DOD / Lisa Ferdinando) Written by Jackson Barnett New Department of Defense contractor cybersecurity standards have tip-toed into a governmentwide federal contract, even before language around the new program has officially landed in defense contracts. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) — the new cybersecurity certification standards to be implemented into all DOD contracts over the next five years — was included in the General Services Administration’s $50 billion STARS III contract, posted earlier this week. GSA says it “reserves the right” to require CMMC certifications for small businesses awarded spots on the governmentwide IT contracting vehicle. CMMC will require contractors to get third-party assessments proving their networks meet a certain maturity level, ranging from one to five with a corresponding increase in security controls. “STARS III contractors should begin preparing for CMMC,” the contract states, adding that GSA could require STARS III small businesses to meet CMMC level 1 when it comes times for the contract’s five-year option. GSA also says in the contract it “reserves the right to survey 8(a) STARS III awardees from time-to-time in order to identify and to publicly list each industry partner’s CMMC level and ISO certifications.” STARS III is designed to get federal IT work to small businesses participating in the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Businesses Development program, meaning they are majority-owned by “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.” The DOD is one of the biggest buyers on STARS III’s predecessor, STARS II, according to Bloomberg Government analysis. Since 2011, DOD has spent more than $3 billion on the contract, which had a $15 billion ceiling until it was recently increased to $22 billion. “While CMMC is currently a DoD requirement, it may also have utility as a baseline for civilian acquisitions; so it is vital that contractors wishing to do business on 8(a) STARS III monitor, prepare for and participate in acquiring CMMC certification,” the GSA contract says. Small businesses that bid to be on STARS III must also submit a brief cybersecurity assessment in which GSA asks them to address their “intention in regards to obtaining CMMC, the target certification level, and a tentative timetable for attaining it.” The DOD has said CMMC will start to show up in defense requests for information this summer and is currently in the process of a regulatory rule change to include CMMC in contracts before the end of the year. The program is still in its tumultuous early phase, with applications for the credentialed assessors that will certify contractors just recently opening. Katie Arrington, DOD’s acquisition and sustainment chief information security officer and CMMC leader, said her team did not work with GSA on adding the language. For now, she is focused on getting the program up-and-running and in DOD contracts — but “we would certainly embrace any who desire to participate,” she said in an email. How small businesses will be able to meet the cost and time associated with getting a CMMC certification has been a concern for many that do work with the DOD. Now, that concern could spread to small businesses that do work across the federal government. “While we are not working directly with GSA on this specific procurement, it is no secret that other Federal agencies are actively watching, exploring and/or considering adoption of CMMC,” Ty Schieber, chairman of CMMC’s accreditation body, said in an email. “We applaud GSA in its forward-thinking by positioning the CMMC as an anticipatory element in this procurement.” Others applauded GSA for including the CMMC language in its contract. “I am pretty impressed that GSA took the initiative,” said Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel to the Professional Services Council, a government contractor trade association. Chvotkin said he is advising all contractors to practice good cybersecurity, whether CMMC will become a requirement or not. The initial rollout of the program is largely done by the all-volunteer, nonprofit accreditation body and has had several initial stumbles. The assessors that will issue certifications to contractors to be able to do work with the DOD, their training, the assessment methodology and most other parts of the CMMC ecosystem have yet to be fully rolled out. This is not the first time the potential of CMMC’s growth out of the defense world has been raised. Arrington said previously she believes CMMC will become a federal requirement “very rapidly.” She has even said CMMC could become an international standard and a part of cybersecurity insurance. In past remarks, she has cited the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as another interested agency. “CMMC has become widely recognized as the path to ensure our industry partners have adequate safeguards in place to protect our data,” Arrington told FedScoop. Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), General Services Administration (GSA), Katie Arrington, STARS III GSA removing all non-DOD...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6331
__label__wiki	0.568569	0.568569	James - Laid / Wah Wah Super Deluxe Edition Disc 4 (B-Sides, Radio Sessions And Live) It's always been a mystery why James' back catalogue hasn't been afforded the same reverential treatment as so many of their peers, but Universal are putting this right with a series of expanded issues of their best-known albums, starting with a four-disc version of their critically acclaimed 1993 Laid album, accompanied by the improvised album Wah Wah, recorded in the same sessions but released a year later, a disc of mostly unreleased demos and jams and a fourth disc of b-sides, radio sessions and remixes. We're working through the Super Deluxe edition, one disc per day. Today, we're on the final disc 4 - B-Sides, Radio Sessions and Live One of James' strengths has been the quality of their b-sides, often showcasing a different side to the lead tracks, satisfying their urge to experiment and their creative abilities which generate so much material in their jamming sessions, but also including tracks that didn't quite fit the mood of the album. Opening disc 4 are the two b-sides of the Sometimes single, starting with a live version of America, a track that was introduced into the set in the summer of 1992 and was a standard feature of their acoustic shows in the autumn and winter of that year and this version of the track, never released in studio form, comes from that tour. Next up is Building A Charge, a dreamy moody piece that could have fitted on the main album itself, but which is overtly sexual in its lyrics - "soft and then hard, building a charge". Next up are the three Laid single b-sides. The Lake was a personal favourite of Tim's and he championed its inclusion on the album, but was voted down by the rest of the band who were unsure about the content of the lyrics. It was resurrected with huge success on the band's 2011 orchestra tour. The other two tracks are more of the jam-based material and provided a first insight into the style of the at-that-time unreleased improvised album. Wah Wah Kits employs looped electronica and treated vocals that reprise the style of Wah Wah and Seconds Away is an even less structured two and a half minutes that feel as if Tim is in a world of his own, oblivious to the music, yet in the same thought zone as his band colleagues creating it. Assassin is based around the story of an ancient Middle-Eastern assassin with references to the Egyptian Baksheesh bribery culture. Unlike the rest of the Laid sessions, this track was produced by the band themselves and features keyboard player Mark's debut on guitar. The disc then moves onto a series of session tracks recorded at the time. First up is an acoustic version of Laid performed for Atlanta station 99x with an extended intro - it's a stunning reworking of the song showing their ability to transform their songs into something a little different. The next four tracks came from Radio 1 James Day when they performed six session tracks over the course of five shows from Maida Vale studios (all six appear on the 2cd version of the album) and show how much of a formidable live band James were at the time. Low Low Low even brings in the kitchen staff from the BBC studios to provide backing vocals. Sometimes has that beautiful wistful feeling to it that makes it such a special song for so many fans and, stripped of a baying audience, it doesn't get stretched out and sung back, making this version unique. Five-O undergoes a similar transformation and, in true James tradition, they revealed the as-then unreleased Tomorrow to the prime-time BBC audience in a more frantic, less polished form than the 1997 single release. The album finishes with the 33 minute version of Jam J remixed by Andrew Weatherall's Sabres Of Paradise. It's actually a combination of Jam J and Honest Joe, but it's a very different James to anything you've ever heard before. Tim doesn't appear at all and the track is a mix of their jams and Weatherall's studio trickery. It's definitely an acquired taste and not something that will necessarily appeal to all James fans. The fourth disc covers most of the extra tracks around the Laid and Wah Wah album. The completist might point to absence of the rather excellent Folk Testosterone Abort Mix of Honest Joe (although the disc three version should satisfy this) and the 1-3-4 mix of Skindiving (from the Volume 9 cd) and the live version of Sometimes from the Woodstock live cd, but as a set this package does the Laid and Wah Wah albums full justice. The album is also released as a deluxe 2cd edition featuring the original album and a second disc selected from discs 3 and 4. Both albums are also reissued on heavy double vinyl with a 500-only special edition of both available from Universal's webstore. More about Laid can be found here on the One Of The Three fansite and about Wah Wah here. James' official website can be found here. They are on Facebook and Twitter. Some of the band - Tim, Larry, Andy and Dave - are also on Twitter. Even The Stars also runs the James fan site One Of The Three which is also on Facebook. 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__label__wiki	0.854807	0.854807	Exmouth Journal > Lifestyle Rosemary Goodridge Published: 12:45 PM March 3, 2010 Updated: 10:45 PM November 6, 2020 A TALENTED sportswoman who played for Exmouth Hockey Club has died. Rosemary Goodridge died suddenly on Monday, February 22. A TALENTED sportswoman who played for Exmouth Hockey Club has died. Rosemary Goodridge died suddenly on Monday, February 22. She was found at her home in Bovey Tracey by a colleague after she failed to turn up for work at Ivybridge Community College. The 52-year-old was capped 16 times by the England ladies squad, making her debut on September 12, 1982, in a 4-1 win over Belgium. Joan Treece, who was at Exmouth Hockey Club when Rosemary first joined as a 13-year-old, said everyone at the club was shell shocked by the news. "I was totally devastated. I had to ring a number of people to confirm she had died because I couldn't believe it. I still find it difficult to believe. "She achieved so much with her hockey, both locally and at an international level which is why so many people around the world have been saddened by the news. 1 CLOSING - Exmouth's HSBC branch to shut later this year 2 An art of glass has always proved popular at auction - Piers Motley 3 The 'frightening' contrast in dealing with defeat - Eileen Wragg 4 The positive vibe from volunteering is truly uplifting 5 Smiles of hope as care home residents and staff receive their first vaccine 6 Exmouth goes underground – designer creates town tube map 7 A new arrival for Christmas at the Sampson household 8 Government scraps proposals to increase house building quota in East Devon 9 New year, new partnerships and opportunity - Laura Woodward-Drake 10 Reduced timetables for trains on Avocet Line, GWR announces "She was a fantastic player and had a glittering hockey career. She was just so enthusiastic and a fantastic person - an example to everybody." Rosemary worked as the head of the PE department at Ivybridge Community College. She played for Devon at junior and senior levels, the West of England, England and Great Britain. Rosemary was in the 1983 World Cup squad in Kuala Lumpar where England finished 5th. She was a loyal and supportive member of the Rambling Roses, for ex-England players. Known to many as Roey, she recently turned down the invitation to play for the Wembley Legends at the Women's Champions Trophy in July, feeling that there were too many others who should play. Her funeral will take place next Thursday, March 11, at Woodbury Parish Church at 2.15pm. READER TRIBUTES: I was stunned to read Roey has died. I remember her joining Exmouth Ladies Hockey Club all those years ago. It was always so comforting to know that if I, or others, failed to stop the opposition on the half back line, Roey would be there at the back to do the job for us! I haven't seen her for many a long year but her fresh young face, full of enthusiasm for her sport is so vivid in my mind. Rest In Peace, Rosemary. Jane Northam (nee Tucker)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6336
__label__cc	0.737344	0.262656	Immediate versus deferred zidovudine (AZT) in asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic HIV infected adults. Darbyshire J., Foulkes M., Peto R., Duncan W., Babiker A., Collins R., Hughes M., Peto T., Walker A. BACKGROUND: Zidovudine (AZT) monotherapy was the first antiretroviral drug to be tested widely. Subsequent trials in asymptomatic or early symptomatic HIV infection indicated short-term delays in disease progression with AZT, but not improved survival. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of immediate versus deferred zidovudine (AZT) on HIV disease progression and survival. SEARCH STRATEGY: Investigators and pharmaceutical companies were contacted, and MEDLINE searches were supplemented by searching conference abstracts. SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised controlled trials comparing immediate versus deferred AZT in participants without AIDS which prospectively collected deaths and new AIDS events. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Individual patient data with, wherever possible, follow-up obtained beyond that previously published was obtained and checked for internal consistency and consistency with any published reports; any apparent discrepancies were resolved with the trialists. Time to death and to disease progression (defined as a new AIDS-defining event or prior death) were analysed on an intention to treat basis, stratified to avoid direct comparisons between participants in different trials. MAIN RESULTS: Nine trials were included in the meta-analysis. During a median follow-up of 50 months, 1908 individuals developed disease progression, of whom 1351 died. In the deferred group, 61% started antiretroviral therapy (median time to therapy 28 months, which was AZT monotherapy in 94%). During the first year of follow-up immediate AZT halved the rate of disease progression (P<0.0001), increasing the probability of AIDS-free survival at one year from 96% to 98%, but this early benefit did not persist: after 6 years AIDS-free survival was 54% in both groups, and at no time was there any difference in overall survival, which at 6 years was 64% with immediate and 65% with deferred AZT (rate ratio [RR] 1.04, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0. 94 to 1.15). REVIEWER'S CONCLUSIONS: Although immediate use of AZT halved disease progression during the first year, this effect was not sustained, and there was no improvement in survival in the short or long term. 10.1002/14651858.CD002039 Cochrane Database Syst Rev Adult, Anti-HIV Agents, Drug Administration Schedule, HIV Infections, Humans, Zidovudine	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6338
__label__wiki	0.548537	0.548537	A Manifesto for the Arts and Humanities: The Example of Candide, par David McCallam (University of Sheffield - Royaume-Uni). Ce texte entièrement en anglais est un manifeste pour les arts et humanités dans les universités anglaises. Il fait à maints égards écho à l'ouvrage d'Yves Citton Lire interpréter actualiser. Dossier Pourquoi les etudes litteraires. A Manifesto for the Arts and Humanities: The Example of Candide In Autumn 2010 both the Browne Report and the coalition government's Comprehensive Spending Review concluded that state funding for universities in England had to be slashed by 80%. For university arts and humanities subjects, this effectively means that 100% of their public funding is to be wiped out in a single stroke. In a crude attempt to backfill the gaping deficit produced in their finances by this decision, universities are thus forced to ramp up student fees, tripling them from their present level to as much as £9,000 per year per student. These will be payable from Septembr 2012 onwards. In other words, public investment in universities (taxes) is to be replaced by private debt (fees). It's easy to see here just further evidence of a concerted ideological assault on public services (councils, health, police, etc.), each in turn to be broken up and tendered out to private contractors. More proof of a deep-rooted political drive towards privatization; a sharp shift from the engaged citizen towards the entitled consumer… While the effects of this ‘neo-liberal revolution' in higher education, as it has been called, have so far been localized, and occasionally personalized (Sussex, Middlesex, KCL, Bristol, Glasgow, etc.), it will not be long before they are savagely felt across the entire sector, with no institution likely to escape unscathed. Nor is this egregious development peculiar to the English university system. In fact, if this can happen in England – engine of the world's fifth largest economy, home to some of the world's best universities, yet soon to have the world's most expensive higher education – then other countries should seriously sit up and take notice. Writing in the wake of the Browne Report, James Vernon made a very telling, prescient point. In the face of this unprecedented and unconscionable attack on the university as a civic institution, and particularly in response to the casual depreciation of its arts and humanities education, now more than at any other time before, we need ‘to rearticulate the purpose and role of the humanities in ways which justify renewed public investment in them'. Or again: ‘The defence of public universities is intricately tied to arguments that can establish the public value of the humanities'. This Manifesto is one such attempt to rise to Vernon's urgent challenge. So what is this Manifesto? In essence, it is a vindication of the arts and humanities as the most valuable of social and cultural practices. And it is overtly partisan, as all good manifestos should be (as Stendhal allegedly said, I have too much taste to be impartial). Its principal points are distilled into five Articles. But each Article is also the conclusion of one of five subsections – entitled ‘Possible Worlds'; ‘Ethos'; ‘Work'; ‘Equality'; ‘Autonomy' – each of which combines reflections on the public value of the arts and humanities with specific reference to an exemplary literary text. That text is Voltaire's inexhaustibly intelligent Candide, or Optimism. The choice of text is twofold. Firstly, it is a return to the Enlightenment sources of our current dilemma: to the eighteenth-century establishment of universal values (equality, justice, toleration), a contemporary cultivation of critical autonomy and a nascent democracy of feelings – all of which went hand in hand with the emergence of global markets, the rise of state bureaucracy, and a new rationalist faith in technology. Secondly, and more facetiously, the choice of text is a wilful provocation to those who like to dismiss classical ‘literature', (scornfully pronounced li-rit-cha) as the acme of preening pointlessness, as the epitome of effete self-indulgence. And as if to drive the point home, this literature is on ne peut plus français. So here are, in brief and upfront, the five Articles of this Manifesto for the Arts and Humanities: Article 1°: At the heart of societies keen to foster tolerant multiculturalism, the arts and humanities provide an essential and unique site for negotiating and experimenting with linguistic, philosophical and cultural plurality. Article 2°: By increasing our capacity for empathy, the arts and humanities make us ethically more aware and aesthetically more alive; and they do so through forms of language (dissenting, citing, chatting) which often defy institutional control. Article 3°: Publicly funding the arts and humanities recognizes that all our collective activities are grounded in just that: col-lectio, a shared reading or interpretation. The reader is then a viable alternative model of the worker, and the arts seminar a vital alternative mode of production. Article 4°: University arts and humanities classes constitute a genuinely democratic space, founded on the equality of intelligences of their members; at once levelling and empowering, they are the workshops of citizenship. Article 5°: By educating us to be self-aware and critically autonomous, the arts and humanities ensure that we are less likely to collude in our own oppression; equally, they best equip us to manage society's increasingly frequent crises of representation (political, economic, cultural, rhetorical, visual). Each section, and each article, is followed by brief suggestions for further readings, unashamedly in both French and English. (There are no footnoted references - this is a Manifesto, after all, not an academic article). For this Introduction, proposed further readings might be: James Vernon, ‘The end of the public university in England', Inside Higher Ed, 27 Oct 2010, at: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/globalhighered/the_end_of_the_public_university_in_england Stefan Collini, ‘Browne's Gamble', London Review of Books, 4 Nov 2010, at: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/stefan-collini/brownes-gamble Martin O'Shaughnessy, ‘The neo-liberal revolution in British Higher Education', La France et la crise, 5 Nov 2010, at: http://lafranceetlacrise.com/2010/11/05/the-neo-liberal-revolution-in-british-higher-education/ Possible worlds The Browne Report into funding higher education in England was depressingly reductive, judging the worth of university education almost exclusively in economic terms. Only those subjects deemed capable of growing the economy were hailed as fit for funding. The general good, in other words, is nothing more than GDP. No mention of university's moral transformative capability, its democratizing potential or its civic duty. No defence of its role in providing personal enrichment, cultural apprenticeship or aesthetic pleasure. Society, in Browne's vision, is competition, not conversation; it is entrepreneurial, not inclusive. This is the world, as Matthew Taylor presents it, of the hedge fund, the NHS internal market, X Factor and the Turner Prize where ‘the imperative of competition has become all-pervasive'. This is today's world, Browne says, and there is no alternative. And in such a world those academic disciplines caricatured as having no clear economic utility should have their public funding withdrawn in its entirety. This, of course, means chiefly the arts and humanities – accessory, self-indulgent, esoteric pursuits of knowledge for its own sake. The otium or idleness of personal interest, not the negotium or market savvy of business interests. Yet, is it not intriguing to note that the arts and humanities are also the principal academic sphere from which an innovative critique of this blinkered econometric world view comes? Is it not significant that Browne wants to asset-strip precisely that intellectual domain in which powerful and imaginative alternative worlds are constantly being proposed, explored and debated? In this sense, the arts and humanities are the prime site of resistance to Browne and the coalition government's economic instrumentalization of university education. What they ‘produce' instead is critically empowered citizens with the capacity to envisage a different future from the one presented to them. The reason for this is simple: their students and teachers live and breathe in other possible worlds. So in stark contrast to Browne's university, it might be better to speak of our multiversity. This is not a reference to Clark Kerr's multiversity of the 1960s, an institution which geared itself increasingly to the utilitarist needs of the corporate economy. Rather, our twenty-first-century multiversity is characterized by a publicly funded diversity of provision (adult, part-time, vocational, career-break modalities) and a plurality of informed opinion. It is the institutional equivalent of quantum mechanics's many-worlds theory, of Ernst Bloch's ‘multiverse' as a horizon of possibilities, of an infinite number of simultaneously realizable ‘tendencies and latencies', of Borges's garden of forking paths. And far from being a secondary string of subjects, a form of cultural ornamentation to the applied sciences, the arts and humanities should be the very model for the academic disciplines of the twenty-first-century multiversity. The new institution could take as its motto the slogan of the anti-globalization movement: ‘Another world is possible'. It could even say: ‘Other worlds are possible'. It could go so far as to cry: ‘Other worlds are possible and real'. For this is what great works of art, of writing, of thinking constitute. The artist, wrote Henri Bergson, ‘creates the possible at the same time as the real when he carries out his work'. The possible and the real enter into a new relationship in the arts and humanities; and it is not just the artist but also the arts student who creates at once new possibilities and new realities each time that he or she interprets a text or image. (This is, incidentally, a more radical and empowering way of interrogating the world around us – the ‘real' so to speak – than the commodification of the real by modern mass media, as in ‘reality TV', ‘real-life magazines', ‘24-hour news' or ‘real-time messaging'.) Let us take the literary text as an exemplary form of alternative world-making in the arts and humanities. Let us then consider one of the finest examples of this imaginative play between the real and the possible, that is, Voltaire's Candide, or Optimism. Its organizing principle is a sustained satirical attack on the Christian and Providentialist readings of Gottfried Leibniz's Theodicy which promoted the notion of Optimism: that God, in his infinite wisdom, omnipotence and benevolence, created the best possible world from all the ‘compossible' cosmic permutations available to him. According to this theory, the world is conceived and organized in such a way as to optimize the general good and minimize evil as a regrettable but necessary part of the natural order. As the providentialist poet Alexander Pope put it, ‘All partial Evil' contributes to ‘universal Good'. In Candide this Optimist philosophy is mischievously and repeatedly reduced to its slogan of ‘All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds', a view voiced in the tale by the blindly, stubbornly Optimist Dr Pangloss. The irony of Pangloss's position is that his Optimism precisely excludes all hope – all optimism as we understand the term today – since for him the world cannot possibly be otherwise than it is, being the best of all possible worlds. Yet the adventures of Candide, the eponymous hero of the tale, give the lie to the crushing fatalism of Pangloss's philosophy, shaping and suggesting alternative worlds with each twist of the plot. They also contradict the opposite but equally abstract and systematic thinking of the pessimist Martin whose Manichean belief in the ultimate triumph of evil over good in the world could be summed up as ‘All is for the worst in the worst of all possible worlds'. Candide's tale also undermines more subtly another perfect world system, that of the utopian community of Eldorado. Whereas other literary texts might connote a better world, utopian texts denote it, explicitly delineating its various perfections. This leads to the paradox of the utopian text, Eldorado in this case, denying the reader the very possibility of imagining a better world otherwise. In this sense, utopia is just as fatalist, fixed and hopeless (there being nothing left to hope for) as Pangloss and Martin's visions of the world. It is perhaps no coincidence that Candide exits Eldorado only to confront the realities of slavery in Surinam, a juxtaposition of two forms of entrapment in social systems demanding above all conformity to their rules – the one beyond-the-human, the other beneath-the-human. It is rather Candide's practical, resourceful servant Cacambo who advises him ‘when you don't get what you expect in one place (dans un monde), you get it in another. It's a great pleasure to see and do new things'. To be realistic, as Cacambo undoubtedly is, is to create the possible. And the way to do this, Cacambo suggests, is by exercising one's curiosity, a trait both he and Candide share in spades. Thus unlike Pangloss who rarely asks questions and always elicits the univocal answer of ‘all is for the best' from his readings of the world, the curious Candide incessantly interrogates those around him and those he meets, not to confirm his pre-established opinion or to get a definitive response, but precisely to question better. Hence he sees new pertinences arising from his variously impertinent questions. And this is the role of the reader, of the student, of the arts and humanities too. The university has to create a space for the exercise of this Candide-like attention, this curiosity, this credulity which teaches not facts and certainties, but how to question better. As Candide amply proves, there is no single text, but the site of many possible readings. Pangloss's problem is that he has only one interpretation of the world. The same goes for Martin and, in a different way, the same is true of the utopian vision of Eldorado. Yet instead of such utopias, Candide opens up for its readers what Dominique Maingueneau calls ‘paratopias'. These are spaces of critical negotiation and experimentation between places in the real world (e.g., Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Venice) and their fictional forms. Paratopias make imaginative room between the actual and the fictional for other possible worlds to exist and be explored, worlds in which we are invited to reconfigure our beliefs and desires. The ultimate paratopian situation is that of Candide's garden at the end of the narrative. It is situated just outside Constantinople (today's Istanbul) and is thus poised on multiple thresholds over and above the discursive space between a fictional and a real Turkish capital. For instance, the garden sits on the cusp between East and West, between the city and the sea; the garden is also where art and nature meet; and it is an excellent place for cultivating not just natural produce but also dialogue between civilizations, faiths and peoples. Its situation makes of it a literary version of the famous ‘Sublime Porte' or ‘High Gate' that gave entrance to the chambers of power in the city under Ottoman rule. So Candide's final situation forms a sublime doorway from the actual to the fictional, from the real to the possible, and back again. The garden as supreme paratopia also contrasts with the Old World of Europe (identified with Pangloss) and the New World of the Americas (where we meet Martin and visit Eldorado), with their respective forms of Optimism, fatalism and utopia. The literary text also frees its reader from the prevailing narratives of the ‘real' world, be they eighteenth-century Optimism or the economic determinism of Browne's report. Candide is particularly successful in challenging in this manner the metaphysical causality typical of Pangloss and Martin's way of thinking. To this end it deploys a hubristic narrative causality, involving far-fetched coincidences, improbable accidents and even resurrections from death (the ultimate other world), which makes a mockery of all other causal theories, destroying them by a sort of narrative reductio ad absurdum. In this way Candide's story reasserts the necessity of chance in life and employs an explicit lack of realism to reclaim the ‘real' for its readers. One of the more significant social impacts of reading literary texts is the way their paratopias and invitations into alternative worlds oblige the reader to cleave to two beliefs simultaneously. To invest a belief in the fictional world of the text (to suspend one's disbelief willingly) and to retain a belief in the actual world and its everyday reference points (to remain suspicious of the fiction). Readers who engage in this game of double beliefs, of credulity and scepticism combined, will arguably be more proof against single-minded extremism, will be less tempted by the simplistic vision of the fanatic or the strident appeals of the fundamentalist. That the arts and humanities immerse their students into simultaneously varied, often starkly divergent, belief systems allows these same students to rehearse the moral and mental gestures necessary for participation in a pluralist and tolerant society. As Yves Citton explains, this works a bit like inoculation. As with inoculation, the reader takes a shot of the noxious beliefs exposed in a given fiction the better to build up a resistance, an immunity to the full-blown ravages of the integral belief system. In this way Candide naïvely applies Pangloss's Optimist theory to his lived experience, which ultimately cures him of it; he is henceforth inoculated against the Doctor's Optimist fundamentalism. (As if to reinforce the classic Voltairean assimilation of fanatical thinking with infectious disease, Pangloss catches the pox, which costs him an eye and an ear, although his eventual treatment does not cure him of his Optimist zeal. Nor does his falling foul of the rival superstitious intolerance of the Inquisition. Indeed, he clings to his Optimist beliefs even in Constantinople… from where the practice of inoculation was first exported to the West.) So, the manifesto principle established from this study would be: Article 1° At the heart of societies keen to foster tolerant multiculturalism, the arts and humanities provide an essential and unique site for negotiating and experimenting with linguistic, philosophical and cultural plurality. Yves Citton, Lire, interpréter, actualiser. Pourquoi les études littéraires? (Paris, 2007) – I am deeply indebted to this book for many of the ideas not just in this section but in all the sections of this Manifesto Lubomír Doležel, Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds (Baltimore, 1998) Dominique Maingueneau, Le Discours littéraire. Paratopie et scène d'énonciation (Paris, 2004) Candide is about human suffering. It is about the ineluctable nature of human suffering in the world. It asks why a supposedly benevolent and all-powerful deity would let us suffer in so many seemingly unjust ways each day, and it exhausts the reason and tortures the bodies of its characters who ceaselessly ask themselves and each other this question. Granted, it does so in an ineffably witty, efficient prose, but it none the less litters its tale with the carnage of war, multiples rapes, deaths, beatings, mutilations, disembowellings and dismemberments. In the aftermath of a meaningless battle, ‘brains were strewn on the ground next to severed arms and legs'. Pangloss is hanged and subsequently dissected (and still lives); Cunégonde witnesses her family having their throats slit, while she is raped and stabbed and left for dead; the Old Woman sees her mother ‘torn limb from limb, cut up, butchered' by lusting, warring Moroccans, then she herself has a buttock hacked off by starving janissaries; and Candide and Cacambo come across a black slave chained up and missing his left leg and his right hand. The finest metaphysical explanations offered by Pangloss or Martin cannot account for this excess of physical pain. Their fullest philosophical figures are no match for this much bodily disfigurement. Pangloss may maintain his thesis (Optimism) in the face of mounting antitheses (suffering, injustice, misery), but there can be no synthesis in this world. There is only the prosthesis of fiction, the false tale that tells the truth of pain, the imaginary extension of real suffering. This is part and parcel of the ethical role of literature, indeed of the arts. To let language do the work – prosthetically as it were – of actual missing limbs, broken bones and ravaged features. And crucially, in so doing, to rearticulate what had become excruciatingly dis-articulated; to remember what had been horribly dis-membered; to reconfigure what had been cruelly dis-figured. In this way the literary text bears witness, both literally and figuratively, to the cruel injustices and violent abuses implicit in its designations of physical pain (of the raped woman, of the mutilated slave). It is also a means of sharing suffering so that the reader ‘feels' in the very language of the text the torments (or indeed the ecstasies) of its protagonists. Thus the literary text generates that precious quality – empathy or fellow feeling. And, of course, this redoubled awareness of others' suffering is not just an ethical characteristic of the text, it is also key to understanding its aesthetic impact on the reader. A heightened sensitivity to another's pain, albeit that of a fictional character, necessarily renews one's own susceptibility to suffering, it makes one feel more alive, it accentuates one's own appreciation of all forms of feeling. Depriving someone of this experience is to deny them the possibility of greater empathy, in effect numbing them to the suffering of others. The opposite of the text's aesthetic is the anaesthetic of a life without literature, without the arts. Empathy is crucial: it grounds both the universal ethical appeal of the work (increasing our susceptibility to the feelings of others) and the particular aesthetic charm of the work (sharpening and shaping our own sensibilities). Yet empathy in Candide derives from sentiment without sentimentality. For instance, the Old Woman can talk of the callous poisoning of her fiancé on their wedding night as a ‘trifle', then go on to relate a succession of terrible misfortunes with similar stoical understatement because she knows from experience that everyone has his or her story to tell, and has cursed life at some point or other while persevering to live. She embodies a peculiarly dispassionate form of sensibility in the tale, one which feels yet keeps its wits about itself and can reason even as it suffers or hopes. Empathy or fellow feeling, yes; but one which disagrees promptly and punctually with its fellows because disagreement is a mark of respect, not of disdain. Put another way, any consensus of feeling or thought is only legitimate if at the same time it admits of dissent, if it is formed in a community founded on a mutual freedom of critique. Informed consensus is only made possible by what we might call a founding dissensus. Candide and Martin illustrate this point perfectly as they travel across the seas, arguing incessantly for fifteen days straight without coming any closer to agreement than when they first set sail. But all the while, as the text has it, ‘they were speaking, they were communicating ideas to one another, they were consoling one another'. Unlikely as it sounds, disagreement consoles, argument engenders empathy. Hence when both end up in the fabled garden near Constantinople, it is not to reconstitute the ‘pre-established harmony' of an Eden, or of a feudal Westphalian castle, but a consensus of dissenters and, as such, one requiring constant upkeep – ‘il faut cultiver notre jardin', after all… And my point is that this same salutary dissensus exists and flourishes in the better arts and humanities classrooms of our universities. Ethics and empathy also come together in the creation of ‘characters' in literature. Each character (from the Greek ethos) speaks in a different voice, and as we read empathically, he or she allows us to try out that voice, that viewpoint, for ourselves. Each gives us access to tastes, sensibilities and values which are not our own, not those we have inherited, often unconsciously, from our national or cultural traditions. We re-evaluate our own ethical positions for having provisionally espoused those of imaginary characters just as surely as children learn their values in the first place through trial-and-error imitation of the adults around them. Characters speak for us as other to ourselves, as though we were Other. And sometimes, in the greatest texts, they do so with such force and clarity that we prefer their words to ours; or rather, their words speak through us, as Other, to our friends, colleagues, strangers in the ‘real' world. In a process that has been beautifully described by Antoine Compagnon, a particular turn of phrase or a spell-binding line of poetry speaks to us and only to us, or so we feel (this is soli-citation); so we identify ourselves with it and appropriate it as our own (citation); in order to do this, we underscore it, repeat it, memorize it, excerpt it from its context (ex-citation) and use it in the world beyond the text. And by this process of soliciting-citing-exciting, the voice of the text speaks through us and makes us other to who we are and to who we were; and for as long as we speak those words, and only those words, we experience the thrilling (exciting?) illusion of being simultaneously ourselves and someone completely different, without for a moment having the alienating sensation of ceding our emotional and moral independence to another living-breathing person. A literary citation is thus empathy à l'état pur. This also goes some way to explain why literary texts, when studied with attention and care, inspire in us such love and loathing and shake up so thoroughly our received wisdoms and unquestioned ‘truths'. It also underlines a fundamental ethical mismatch between what happens to receptive, intelligent readers in an arts seminar and what modern university bureaucracy asks of them afterwards. Which student is it who is being asked to assess his or her ‘satisfaction' with my literature course? Today's entitled consumer or the reader whose worldview has been transformed by stepping into Candide's narrative universe with his or her classmates? How can the punctual ticking of boxes ever be a legitimate measure of the lifelong relevance of being challenged by Kant or Shakespeare, of having no easy answers to Candide's eternal questions? (Ethics, after all, isn't just about comforting the afflicted; it's also about afflicting the comfortable). Admittedly, this is something of a misrepresentation of the aims of the National Student Survey (NSS). But not because the NSS cares about individual student satisfaction. It couldn't care less. These rhetorical questions misrepresent it because the NSS is only another means of consolidating universities in their new role as businesses and brands, competing with each other for the student vote, i.e., for the student dollar. The dubious rationale goes, as Stefan Collini has shown, if students are ‘satisfied', they will pay; if not, they won't. And those universities who don't give student satisfaction will not get the income to keep trading and will therefore either close or be forced to ‘drive up the quality' of their educational product. The NSS is the insidious measure that ensures Browne's fetish of competition enters the public space of the university – the better to break it up and sell it off. So while arts and humanities students study, analyse and interpret the meaning of loss, suffering, humiliation, mediocrity, ugliness, disillusionment and unhappiness in great works such as Candide, their institutions talk exclusively of satisfaction, impact, excellence and success. No room in the boardroom for failure or feeling. Ironically enough, the two visions are not as far apart as they might initially seem, since the market-led, competition-driven obsession with ‘excellence' goes hand in hand with the deteriorating working conditions, the misery of casualization, and the slashing of pensions for the very staff who are constantly exhorted to deliver it. Likewise, student ‘satisfaction' is increasingly accompanied by chronic stress, depression, counselling and result-fixated intellectual impoverishment. What, we might wonder, would a market-minded vice-chancellor make of Samuel Beckett's famous definition of the artist as one whose very condition is ‘to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world'? Very little, I suspect. For university management culture is like Pangloss: it only asks questions to which it already presumes to know the answer. When, in turn, teachers, researchers and students are asked to confirm the same answer, it is euphemistically called ‘consultation'. It is a far cry from Candide and his quest ever to question better. Of the three principal forms of social control bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment, Candide sees technology at work in Eldorado, traffics in markets around the globe, but is mercifully spared any protracted experience of bureaucracy. Arts and humanities departments, on the other hand, are more than familiar with a regime of incessant tests, interviews, appraisals, evaluations, questionnaires, focus groups, meetings, forms, memos, reports and audits. The result, as Michel Foucault would say, is the fascism of everyday life. Not the ‘enormous fascisms that surround and crush us' but ‘the petty ones that constitute the tyrannical bitterness of our everyday lives'. The result is the production of subjects without agency. Products of an inhuman conditioning by the powers of bureaucracy inhabiting a public space ostensibly dedicated to the study of the ‘human condition'. But our text offers us again the strategies with which to fight back and reclaim our shared humanity. To the pre-determined structure of the questionnaire or the agenda, it opposes the improvisation of chat, the garrulousness of characters who always say more than is necessary, or other than what is expected. (Thus Candide's picaresque stories, those he tells and those he elicits of others, contrast with Pangloss's economy of explanation; his colourful interpretation of the French verb causer meaning ‘to chat' exceeds and overwhelms the Doctor's more literal sense of causer as ‘to produce an effect'). Chat, like the literature that enshrines it, puts language to work in new, unruly and inventive ways; ways that are almost completely alien to administration. Hence the arts and humanities in which (literary, philosophical or historical) chat is not only the object of discussion but also its medium of communication are disciplines formed by intellectual indiscipline. Despite the best efforts of the management to encourage interdisciplinarity (just another internal market?), these academic subjects have the innovative tendency to generate instead what Yves Citton calls indisciplinarity. What I would call new rules for living together drawn from the unruliness of reading together. By increasing our capacity for empathy, the arts and humanities make us ethically more aware and aesthetically more alive; and they do so through forms of language (dissenting, citing, chatting) which often defy institutional control. Antoine Compagnon, La Seconde main ou le travail de la citation (Paris, 1979) Matthew Taylor, ‘Twenty-first century enlightenment', at: http://www.thersa.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/315002/RSA_21centuryenlightenment_essay1_matthewtaylor.pdf (London, 2010), especially regarding empathy Michel Foucault, ‘Preface', in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Œdipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (London, 1984), pp. xi-xiv. John Sutherland notes that if you are paying up to £50,000 for an undergraduate course, ‘you don't want a good education, you want a good degree. The two are not identical'. In this way fees will not ‘drive up quality', as market logic maintains, but they will certainly drive up grades. Again, the two are not identical. The endgame is a sort of educational stagflation where real intellectual growth flat-lines while the grade point average soars. Yet this makes sense for the fee-paying customer who demands product, but doesn't give a damn for the processes of production. Degrees become commodities, goods divested of all origin or end, to be indefinitely exchanged against other commodities and services. And the students will not be to blame, for why should they read till midnight, write till dawn, cogitate, debate, disagree, query, chat, cite, and learn when their money's down (albeit in exorbitant third-party loans) to do the work for them? Work. This is the nub of the question. For the common perception is that students don't do ‘work' at university, they ‘study'. (And study at university is itself often a stark departure from a school system that betrays its roots in the nineteenth-century mills and manufactures). So work at university, especially in the arts and humanities, is not at all recognizable as work. It clearly isn't manual labour, it doesn't produce material goods like a factory, it doesn't generate profits like a company, and it doesn't offer a service to customers. And yet nothing could be more productive. The arts seminar affords a very different order of productivity to those familiarly deployed by the market or indeed the state; for its primary mode of production is not economic but dialogic. It produces above all meanings, interpretations, theories, propositions, anecdotes, stories, chat, dissent, wit and questions. It is not utilitarian but value-based, that is, it is less concerned with quantities than with qualities. It can't be calculated in terms of labour, since it is the fruit of unforeseeable elaborations. When text and class meet, what they produce is inimical to econometric measurement. And as such it is both an enigma and a threat to the prevailing socio-economic orders of work and production. This last point was strikingly brought home in France in 2006 when the neo-liberal presidential candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy, sneeringly dismissed the humanities education required of civil servants as the insistence of ‘a sadist or an imbecile'. Why would, he asked, you ever want to know what the ticket clerk thought of La Princesse de Clèves (a brilliant, subtle seventeenth-century novel by Mme de Lafayette)? Or course, Sarkozy never stopped to consider what La Princesse de Clèves might ask of the ticket clerk… And the current British government's concerted attack on the humanities is founded either on a similarly philistine arrogance or, more chillingly, an astute ideological demolition of a radically alternative model to their competition theory and market mantra. For the productivist and literal worldview championed by Sarkozy, and to a lesser extent his British counterparts, is challenged by all that is playful and literate in the arts classroom. The reason for this lies in its very means of production: language not labour. In generating discourse, that is, language at work, each of us contributes to discursive production to a unpredictably fluctuating degree, but none of us ever owns, appropriates or expropriates it completely or indefinitely. Discourse makes sense only insofar as it is shared, constituted by a given language community, as a given language community, for a given language community. It is the original ‘common wealth', and as such, it manifestly fails to fit the capitalist mould. It is similarly anti-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian. It often just needs its users to wake up to their share in its collective exercise. And, oddly enough, it is precisely by taking part in this common enrichment via language that each of us simultaneously acquires the means to define ourselves more clearly, to deepen or enrich our own sense of self and gain in discursive autonomy. Giving ourselves over to this collective turns out to be the best way to affirm our individuality. If nothing else, this is the work of the university seminar, of the arts and humanities classroom. This discursive model of production is not without similarities to Candide's garden. His journey over, Candide settles to share-cropping, effectively setting up a market-garden cooperative in which, as the text states, ‘each began to exercise his or her talents' and ‘no-one refused to work'. Beyond the rather sexist division of labour in the commune (the women cook, sew and clean), what is perhaps most striking is the persisting presence of Dr Pangloss in this working community. Stubbornly purveying his obsolete Optimism, what possible use could he be there? And yet this is precisely his purpose, it seems. His lack of value or use in the collective serves to valorize further the others' labours. Philosophically, his very existence in the group also ensures that Candide's garden is not run on purely utilitarian grounds. As in the arts seminar, the apparently useless has significant use – and may even by its negative qualities come paradoxically to represent the greatest value of all. In the case of Pangloss, this means learning for learning's sake, talking for talking's sake, which yet intimates how valuable learning or talking is when set to work, as useless gold constitutes the value-index of other more practical, worked metals. But Pangloss's very pigheaded cleaving to his philosophical system is also a reminder of how far the others have travelled philosophically, Candide especially. And to do so, they have undertaken, experienced or witnessed a huge range of works or labours. René Pomeau estimates that there are around 137 instances of artisanal or professional activity in the tale; at least 15 different forms of general employment figure there, including teachers, doctors, prostitutes, clerics, soldiers, merchants, servants and financiers. Having said that, Candide is never among the more brilliant of them. He is trained as a soldier, yet hides in battle (then kills random civilians); as a merchant, he is consistently defrauded of his goods or wealth. And as the naïve apprentice metaphysician to Pangloss, he fails to hold true to any abstract philosophical system in the face of real-world experiences. Yet in the course of his travels he does excels at one thing: conversation. This is the most successful and explicit form of production in the text. And tellingly, it is what Candide, the Old Woman, Martin and others ship across oceans as their produce of choice. And as produce that is constantly in the process of being publicly produced, revised and refined, this discourse contrasts starkly with those other products freighted across the ocean which seem to want to deny the labour that brought them into being: the gold washed of its miners' blood and sweat, and especially the sugar cleaned and bleached of the slaves' torment, torture and pain. Yet the mutilated black slave in Surinam spells this deception out to Candide and Cacambo; his amputated hand, his severed leg, his chains are, as he puts it, the ‘price of eating sugar in Europe'. Yet unlike sugar and gold (today we might say – trainers and microchips), Candide's conversation successfully resists inhuman commodification. Another example of pitiless exploitation in the text is potentially even more interesting for twenty-first-century readers. At least as I interpret it. When the boat carrying Candide, Pangloss and their employer, the good Dutch Anabaptist, Jacques, cruises into Lisbon harbour, it is suddenly ripped apart by flash-storms generated by the devastating earthquake that famously razed the city to the ground on 1 November 1755, claiming over 10,000 lives by tremors, tsunami and fires. In the shipwreck, Jacques saves a sailor but drowns in the process. Now this sailor turns out to be a nasty piece of work. Thus Pangloss's providentialism is flagrantly disproved: the virtuous Jacques is drowned, the vicious sailor rescued. Washed ashore along with Candide and Pangloss, the sailor looks around, whistles and says: ‘There's something to be had here'. Then he sets about robbing the mangled victims of the quake, before carousing and whoring in the rubble with his spoils. Though Pangloss protests that the sailor isn't showing much respect for the forces of Providence that saved him, the good doctor's Optimism is ultimately an apology for the sailor's behaviour. For, as Voltaire had remarked bitingly in his earlier ‘Poem on the Lisbon Disaster', the Optimist justifies the violent but short-lived ‘evil' of the quake via its subsequent longer-terms effects for ‘good': heirs suddenly come into unexpected fortunes; masons, carpenters, etc. grow rich rebuilding the city; as in Candide the sailor takes money from the maimed and dying who no longer have any use for it, and reinvests it in the local entertainment industries. From partial evil emerges universal good. This is, of course, Optimism savagely mocked and rubbished. But I would like to offer another interpretation of the sailor's action and the Optimist's apology for it. It strikes me that what Voltaire is describing in the ruins of Lisbon is basically eighteenth-century disaster capitalism. As Naomi Klein describes it, this is when disasters are treated as ‘exciting market opportunities', and natural catastrophes facilitate ‘orchestrated raids' on the public sphere. In this much the avaricious sailor in Lisbon is an Enlightenment avatar of the free-marketeers buying up the public housing, hospital and schools in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina, or the giant tourist companies snapping up the fishing beaches in Sri Lanka once the Boxing Day tsunami had conveniently wiped them clean of their fishing communities. (Increasing evidence suggests that the same processes are at work in earthquake-devastated Haiti). Pangloss is then an eighteenth-century Milton Friedman, each with his ‘shock doctrine' (quite literally in the case of Candide's quake) legitimating the swift and irreversible appropriation of goods and services before the crisis-racked society can react. The only real difference is that Pangloss is not working with the same distinction between public and private as Friedman is, instead Pangloss's distinction is between the universal and the particular. But the best of all possible worlds and the freest of all possible markets share the same providentialism – that theirs is the natural order, and it couldn't possibly be otherwise. The result is forms of philosophical speculation and financial speculation which also share a blithe indifference to their human costs. Of course, you may object that this is a wildly anachronistic reading of Chapter Five of Candide. And you'd be right. But I would refer your objection to the community of fellow readers, to the jury, so to speak, of my peers in the arts and humanities class. Since, as Stanley Fish has convincingly shown, it is the reader who constructs the text, the reader who shapes its meanings. Yet these subjective, imaginative projections onto the text and refracted, suggestive echoes received from it are not solely the reader's invention. The reader himself or herself is at the same time a conductor of the prevailing interpretations of the class; he or she is an active member of an interpretive community. And that interpretive community underwrites the acceptability or unacceptability of the reader's interpretations. They are not true or false, right or wrong, in any definitive, ahistorical sense. They are precisely the product, the work of a given interpretation at a given moment in a given community of readers. And the strength of the arts and humanities seminar is that it is the most pioneering, unconstrained of interpretive communities, given over entirely to the practice of interpreting. So we must not retrench behind the received wisdoms of a conservative literary, cultural or social history; and if a student ventures an anachronism or an anecdote we should actively embrace it and pursue it. For as Candide shows (manifest in the very name of its hero), the most ingenuous interpretations can often be the most ingenious. Literature, as Ezra Pound famously declared, ‘is news that stays news'; but it only does so by offering up to successive generations of readers an infinitely renewable number of interpretations. It only stays news by being anachronistic, by affording vitally suggestive, powerfully imaginative discrepancies of meaning across time and space. And it is precisely in this cultural-historical interval that meaning is created, that sense is made. (And what goes for literature is equally true of, say, history or philosophy). A text only exists insofar as it continues to ‘speak' to us, and it ‘speaks' to us only via the actual act of reading, and overwhelmingly in relation to our shifting, everyday concerns. Anachronisms, such as my earlier reading of Chapter Five of Candide are, then, productive, not prohibitive, of meaning. Again, this is a little recognized, highly valuable form of work. Historically, conventionally, we might still refer to Candide as the work of François-Marie Arouet, dit Voltaire. But it's actually our work, the fruit of our interpretations. It actually makes more sense not to think it as part of the Collected Works of Voltaire, but as part of the collective work called ‘Voltaire' – the author being nothing other than convenient shorthand for the site of our multiple, unpredictable, anachronistic readings. From all of which we draw the following manifesto principle: Publicly funding the arts and humanities recognizes that all our collective activities are grounded in just that: col-lectio, a shared reading or interpretation. The reader is then a viable alternative model of the worker, and the arts seminar a vital alternative mode of production. John Sutherland, ‘English degrees for £27K –who's buying?', The Guardian, 30 Nov 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/nov/30/university-tuition-fees-arts-courses-fail Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto, 2007) Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge MA., 1980) Politically, Candide moves in a world of feudal overlords, absolutist monarchs, autocrats and despots. Even utopian Eldorado is a consensual, if not constitutional, monarchy (in effect a sort of tyranny of conformity). The closest he comes to a republic is among the Oreillons, a South American tribe of cannibals who nearly roast him and Cacambo alive under the impression that they are Jesuits. It is true that Venice, where Candide stays for months awaiting Cunégonde, is styled a republic, although it is in fact ruled by a repressive patrician oligarchy. And Candide meets there only more deposed kings and a cynical, blasé aristocrat who dismisses England's liberal parliamentary monarchy as corrupted by rabid factionalism. So the notion of democracy seems totally alien to Candide's narrative universe. We might then be tempted to think that we have improved on this situation; that our western democracies offer forms of civic freedoms, civil rights and equality before the law unimaginable to Candide and his fellows. Yet, before we get too smug, Jacques Rancière points out that what we call ‘democracy' is really no such thing. First of all, our democracy is conceived of not as a fundamentally political entity but as a social one; it is characterized by such things as individual or minority rights, social mobility, and equal access to services and credit, etc. That is, it is reduced to a sort of egalitarian individualism whose defining feature is an inviolable freedom of ‘choice'. And by subtly effacing the collective civic nature of democracy, our systems of governance have substituted political equality with consumer equality. Thus our democracy's showcase elections increasingly resemble a consumer challenge between three or four brands of washing powder (each promising to come cleaner than the others); a vote for either Pepsi or Coke. This is democracy as consumption, democracy as greed à la Thatcher, a share-owning, home-owning, self-serving democracy; and as we have recently discovered, in such a democracy the only thing we end up holding in common is debt. This is also, or course, the democratic model currently being rolled out in higher education. (Yet free-market democracy and consumer equality have proven to be precisely the least equal and most unjust of modern liberal systems. As Danny Dorling has compellingly shown, over the last few years wage inequality in Britain has returned to levels not seen since the 1850s. Admittedly, we have greater general access to welfare, healthcare and education than our Victorian forebears – but for how long? When the government is hell-bent on selling off or tendering out public services, civic spaces and communal activities to competing private interests – and these include the voluntary sector – the Dickensian workhouse, not the arts and humanities workshop, best prefigures our collective future…) Consumer equality in higher education clearly means the fees market with its attendant exacerbation of existing inequalities of access (a 40% drop in students from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds said they are definitely going to university in the wake of the Browne report). As the US has decisively proven in this regard, educational inequality entrenches social immobility. Those few students from disadvantaged backgrounds who go to university in the US (3% from the lowest socio-economic quartile) are more likely to drop out, consolidating a lack of aspiration in their peers – ‘university's not for the likes of us' – thereby betraying higher education's fundamental civic mission. On top of that, tuition fees consistently rise faster than inflation, so poorer households, already hit by wage inequalities, see the dream of university education receding ever faster away from them. And yet let's look at what is happening not to higher education but within higher education, specifically in its arts and humanities classrooms. Here a very different conception of democracy is at work. It is, as Rancière suggests, a truer democracy, one conceived of as ‘government by those who have no desire to govern'. It is the collective exercise of power in the absence of any title to exercise it. Let's illustrate this with some stereotypes: it is the mousy young woman at the back finding her voice, the immigrants' daughter relating a text to family experiences, the grammar-school lad confronting troublingly new worldviews. Those who haven't spoken before, who didn't know how to speak, who always spoke from a certain point of view, now speak together – as equals. It sounds idealistic, and yet we see it everyday in the arts faculties of our universities. This is democracy not as the ‘power of the people' (already a self-interested ideological construct), but as the empowerment of anyone at all. Consumer equality is replaced (if only here, if only for a moment) with the equality of intelligences. At its best, students become the source of the questions, not their target audience; they ask questions to which they don't have an answer and to which their teachers have no definitive response. Democracy, in this context, no longer resides in expressing the ‘popular will' but in exercising collective reason(s) and collective imagination(s) – an exercise which both guarantees the democratic nature of the classroom and grants critical autonomy to individual students. A similar equality of intelligences reigns between Candide and Cacambo. Their relationship is ostensibly that of master and servant. But as they travel picaresquely across South America, it is the servant who takes the initiative, speaks up, works out the situation and takes action. (This might be read as part of a more widespread eighteenth-century inversion of power between master and servant – think Almaviva and Figaro – yet its philosophical and pedagogical significance runs deeper than that of a daring plot device. It also goes beyond the ‘truth' of the master-slave dialectic which subjugates the master just as much as the slave to its dynamic. Instead, it realizes a master-servant dialogue; and despite the restoration of a certain social hierarchy in the denouement, for as long as the pair exchange words, they do so as equals. Hence the scandal of Figaro is the scandal of equality and the promise of democracy inscribed in the very discursive fabric of a society of orders). As Rancière again has pointed out, the apparent inequality of their positions as master and servant is only made possible by a inherent equality of intelligences: that even as Candide commands Cacambo, in the very act of commanding him, the master has to assume a speaking position of equality in order to be understood. And as for the fictitious master and servant, so for the arts lecturer and his or her students. The assumed knowledge disparity existing between lecturer and student is only allowed to obtain because of the fundamental equality of intelligences on which it is founded, and which permits any exchange of views at all. Hence the arts student, like Cacambo, takes the initiative, speaks up and ‘acts as interpreter' – ostensibly for the lecturer, but in reality for the class, for his or her interpretive community. This is how Candide's enterprising servant interprets again and again not just for his master but also for the reader. Cacambo's interpretations and Candide's interrogations, along with other dialogues and personal stories, drive the narrative of their philosophical tale. In fact, to borrow Roger Pearson's description of Voltaire himself, we might say that Candide ‘thinks narratively'; that it is a masterclass in thinking narratively. As much as anything else, then, the text's mockery and denunciation of Pangloss is as a teller of a sole tale, as the narrator of a single metanarrative (Optimism) to which all else is unerringly subordinated. In contrast, Candide – and the Old Woman, Cunégonde, etc. – recount and relate micro-narratives, short stories, anecdotes in which they incessantly rehearse the acts of affirmation and resistance that structure their world. Even the Surinam slave has his tale to tell, forging a subjectivity out of the very terms of his subjection. Micro-narratives thus provide a further means of making speakers equal, of instituting a sort of discursive egalitarianism in the face of Pangloss's Single Truth. For storytelling collapses hierarchies, its equality of tale-teller and listener being among the purest, oldest and most common of equalities; and one that is rediscovered daily in our arts and humanities seminars. Hence students are often tempted to interpret narratively, to relate anecdotes as a means of explaining how they read the text: how Pangloss reminds them of an Irish uncle, or how Candide's adventures recall in places such and such an episode of The Simpsons… And as with their anachronisms, students should be actively encouraged to develop these anecdotes. Originally, anecdotes – such as those of Procopius – were secret and subversives histories told as witty, revealing correctives to the metanarrative of History structured around the acts of the great dead white male. And they retain this revealing, corrective function in the arts and humanities classroom, as in society at large. The anecdote is, in a sense, narrative in its most elemental form, micro-narratives that debunk ‘History' or ‘Philosophy' or ‘Art' and empower their speakers, at once levelling and enfranchising; a democratic discourse among others practised and learnt in the arts classroom. From all of which we can advance the following manifesto principle: University arts and humanities classes constitute a genuinely democratic space, founded on the equality of intelligences of their members; at once levelling and empowering, they are the workshops of citizenship. Jacques Rancière, Hatred of Democracy (London, 2006) Daniel Dorling, Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists (Bristol, 2010) Roger Brown, ‘The Impact of Markets', in Higher Education and the Market, ed. Roger Brown (New York, 2011), pp. 20-52 Today's students are being recast as consumers, as customers. Via consumer choice and customer satisfaction, they are to discipline universities into becoming models of competivity, efficiency and market-responsiveness, thereby ‘driving up the quality' of their educational ‘product'. Yet the very notion of ‘quality' would require both institutions and students to have comparable aims, aspirations, starting points and outcomes; it would also require accurate, objective and stable means of measuring all of these elements. In the glaring absence of one-size-fits-all institutions, a population of student clones, and reliable and valid data by which to measure their comparability and compatibility, any notion of consumer choice is false, any idea of customer satisfaction is misleading. In reality, in the new higher education marketplace, a lot of students will be culturally constrained and financially obliged to shop at the Lidl of universities, not at the Waitrose, let alone the Harrods, of higher education institutions. Some might object that money is being redirected to ‘widening participation' schemes and bursaries for poorer students in order to offset this eventuality (even though the sums involved are paltry, and go nowhere near to compensating for the overall exorbitant hike in fees). The truth is that when universities are effectively recast as vending machines for degrees, some vending machines may well offer fair-trade products or discounted items, but they will remain first and foremost vending machines. Within universities too, the new fees market means the increased adoption of private business practices. Already in research, we have moved from the industrial model of the Research Assessment Exercise (2008), and its talk of productivity and outputs, to the managerial model of the Research Excellence Framework (2014), with its key terms of impact, excellence and performance. In teaching terms, private business practice means workload quotas, performance-related evaluations and ‘outreach' as the drive to tap new markets. This is the soft power of the free market, centred on competition, which relentlessly implicates university researchers and teachers in their own subjugation, in a process of constant self-disciplining to outperform their colleagues. The same goes for students. The same soft power constrains them, as consumers, to make educational choices which are presented as ‘free', but which are heavily predetermined by the laws of the marketplace (credit, cost, interest, etc.). As Jean-Jacques Rousseau pointed out in a text published only three years after Candide, ‘there is no form of enslavement so perfect as that which retains the appearance of freedom'. And for both students and university teachers, subjection lies at the core of the construction of their subjectivity as education consumers and entrepreneurial academics. Yet the very activities engaged in by both students and lecturers in the classroom offer a powerful means of resisting and rejecting this free-market model. Antithetical to the bipolar economy of greed-fuelled boom and panic-stricken bust, or the schizoid nature of debt/credit (called ‘debt' when punitive, ‘credit' when seductive), the individual and collective reasons exercised in the arts and humanities seminar measure gain only in terms of critical autonomy, in gestures of imaginative invention, ethical critique or empathic insight. At once wary and witty, they provide the means to ensure that we do not collude in our own oppression. If only by increasing our power to question, they challenge the language and the logic used to justify the increasingly subtle forms this oppression takes. This critical autonomy succeeds because, unlike market minds, it is first and foremost self-aware: it the exercise of critical reasoning and a critique of reason too, invoking emotions, imagination and ethics to make its case. In a world where power operates and is modulated in exclusive, encoded forms – your PIN, computer password, work log-in, supermarket swipecard, student registration no., etc. – the arts class affords a space for an individual and collective code-breaking. Codes are broken in both senses of the term: social and moral norms are willingly transgressed, systems and structures of meaning are cleverly unpicked. Critical autonomy is thus generated by outwitting our everyday forms of collective constraint and self-regulation. Published in 1759, what can Candide possibly tell us of these very modern forms of subjugation and emancipation? On the surface, its disciplines are military and physical, involving the apparatuses of armies, inquisitions and prisons. It seems to fall back more on the classical methods of brute force and internment, rather than applying today's subtle and varied techniques of internalization as means of control (chief of which is debt as a devolved form of self-policing, for states as much as for individuals). After all, Candide is press-ganged and violently drilled in Bulgar (i.e., Prussian) military discipline, and is thrown into prison when he attempts to desert; the erstwhile maid Paquette is imprisoned and only released on condition of becoming her judge's sex slave; Cunégonde's splenetic brother, the Baron, is incarcerated by the Spanish, and made a galley-slave along with Pangloss; and the English admiral Byng is famously court-martialled and executed ‘to encourage the others'. Yet in Venice, Candide meets a deposed king who had lain on the straw of a debtor's prison in London, whose last servant now leaves his master because no-one in Venice will advance him any ‘credit'. Dethroned and drifting from place to place, in perpetual fear of being thrown back in gaol, debt has become his new prison, and is all the more effective in that it accompanies him everywhere he goes. What is more, a close reading of the Eldorado episode shows us that it is effectively governed by a form of soft power. Its people will their own internment between its high mountain walls and rushing rivers. Their ‘oath' never to leave recalls Rousseau's ‘perfect enslavement' which ‘keeps the appearance of freedom' and (he goes on) ‘thus subjugates the will itself'. It is a system conceived to make one's behaviour behave (to paraphrase Foucault). And Candide recognizes the subtle and pervasive forces of conformity into which he and Cacambo would be co-opted if they stayed: ‘if we stay here', he tells his companion, ‘we'll only ever be like all the others'. This – and not the deceptive show of freedom and equality – explains the absence of courts and prisons in the kingdom. There's no need of legal or physical constraints where the inhabitants willingly connive in their own subjection. In effect, Candide's critical autonomy dates from his decision to leave Eldorado in pursuit of Cunégonde. He turns his back on this ‘utopia', and its self-regulating, self-perpetuating conformity precisely because Eldorado has chosen to shut itself off from the realities of inquisitorial rule and cannibalism to the south, and the inhumanity of the slave trade to the north. This newfound critical autonomy is confirmed by Candide's subsequent decision in Surinam to renounce Optimism and to contrive a plan to have Cunégonde brought to meet him in Venice. It's an independence of mind that allows him to counter Martin's pessimism, negotiate the worldly traps of Venice and Paris, and settle outside Constantinople where he and his fellows are not in and out of power as are the effendis, cadis, and pashas paraded past their windows, but in a state of empowerment, discoursing, dissenting, cultivating garden and minds. The ending of Candide lends itself to innumerable readings. In part, this is because the text plays with disparate and divergent narrative codes in wending its way to its conclusion. Candide's tale thus evokes a medieval romance, an epic quest, a picaresque novel, moral satire, conte philosophique, Bildungsroman, modern parable or classic fable as well as the contemporary travel narratives of the grand tour and sentimental journey. Its universe may well be one ruled by brutish, explicit violence – war, torture, natural disaster, execution, enslavement and incarceration – yet even these forms of physical coercion and subjugation are encoded in the narrative. They offer Candide, and his fellow protagonists, opportunities to test the grand theories, worldviews or meta-narratives by which oppression is variously explained, justified or excused. Experiencing forms of extreme physical disciplining allows Candide to challenge and ultimately break the code of Pangloss's Optimism or Martin's pessimism, and sundry other ‘totalitarian' philosophies (e.g., the ‘–isms' of Catholicism, imperialism, even possibly nascent capitalism). And like Candide, the reader too gains in critical autonomy in ‘cracking the codes' in the text, in ‘getting' the parodies of Optimist language in the euphemistic descriptions of sex and violence, in reading at once a tale denoting various adventures in a universe of appalling, inhuman viciousness and a tale connoting sophisticated philosophical satire and light-touch political irony. Hence even Candide and Pangloss's inquisitorial dungeons (the depth of physical oppression) can be rendered as ‘separate apartments of exceptional coolness in which one was never incommoded by the sun' (the height of poetic liberty). Candide is thus very much a story for our times: one of confronting a succession of crises of representation. The world is presented, or rather represented, to Candide in a number of systematic, philosophical ways, of which the most insistently reductive is Pangloss's Optimism. Yet the inchoate, arbitrary nature of events in the world, as experienced by Candide, gives the lie to these systems of representation and pitches them into crisis. And, as the etymology suggests, crises are the moments par excellence for critical autonomy to assert itself, for more intelligent questions to be asked, for codes to be broken (and definitively rejected where necessary), for self-awareness to challenge our own collusion in the processes of deceptive and oppressive system-building, and for alternative, tentative interpretations to emerge. And once again, as in Candide, so in the arts seminar in which it is read. When our own collective endeavours are threatened and shaken by events seemingly beyond our control or comprehension – a natural disaster, a financial crash, a political upheaval – it is then that the critical practices of the arts class empower us to make sense where little or none seems to be left. More than any other area of study, the arts and humanities teach us to negotiate and shape the shifting historical, political, philosophical, discursive and visual fields of meaning constituting our understanding of the world around us. A fortiori then, when these fields of meaning appear to disintegrate, it is the arts and humanities students who can best recognize and manage such crises of representation. To give a few examples: in the face of a humanitarian crisis, they provide a voice for the voiceless; in an economic crisis, they are least surprised by the fluid, illusory nature of credit; in a political crisis, they propose alternative modes of action, and can draw on their own democratic practices to do so. In the twenty-first century, the critical autonomy gained in the arts classroom may prove to be at the very least a fundamental survival skill, and at best, an individual and collective guide into a more enlightened, humane future. But first, it leads us to the following manifesto principle: By educating us to be self-aware and critically autonomous, the arts and humanities ensure that we are less likely to collude in our own oppression; equally, they best equip us to manage society's increasingly frequent crises of representation (political, economic, cultural, rhetorical, visual). Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, ou de l'éducation (Paris, 1999) Tzvetan Todorov, In Defence of the Enlightenment (London, 2010) Michel Foucault, Sécurité, territoire, population. Cours au Collège de France, 1977-1978 (Paris, 2004) Further further reading (on Candide): David Williams, Voltaire: Candide (London, 1997) Roger Pearson, The Fables of Reason. A Study of Voltaire's Contes philosophiques (Oxford, 1993), ch. 8 on Candide, pp. 110-136 René Pomeau, ‘Candide entre Marx et Freud', SVEC 89 (1972), pp. 1305-1323 Pages associées: Pourquoi les etudes litteraires, Interprétation, Monde possible. 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__label__cc	0.714953	0.285047	T-Bone the Drone by Shanda McCloskey A new tech toy brings epic trials and triumphs in this playtime adventure for fans of The Most Magnificent Thing and Iggy Peck, Architect. Lucas has a new best friend when he bring T-Bone the Drone home from the store. They enjoy playing, flying, and even recharging together--but Lucas has been spending so much time with his new toy that he's on the sidelines when he tries to join the neighborhood Wiffle ball game. When the ball sails over the fence where a scary dog lives, it's the perfect opportunity for Lucas and T-Bone to do what friends do best: work together! It turns out that they'll need help from the whole team, though, to save the day... Finding the solution takes a little ingenuity and a lot of teamwork in this companion story to Doll-E 1.0 celebrating the inventive spirit of modern play.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6346
__label__cc	0.58683	0.41317	FS Siena is the luxurious type FS Siena Family ExtraLight Italic SemiBold Italic FS Siena is a typeface with history, and not just in the sense of having its origins in classical Roman lettering. Fontsmith founder Jason Smith first committed it to tracing paper while still at college, instinctively redrawing letterforms based on Hermann Zapf’s Optima according to ‘what felt right’. When Krista Radoeva took up the challenge to edit and extend the typeface, she and Jason were determined to preserve its subtly nonconformist and eclectic spirit. Like a great dish, there are individual components throughout the character set that all add flavour, and need to be balanced in order to work together. The smooth connection of the ‘h’ ‘m’ ‘n’ and ‘r’ contrasts with the corners of the ‘b’ and ‘p’. The instantly recognisable double-storey ‘a’ – the starting point of the design – contrasts with the single-storey ‘g’ and the more cursive ‘y’. And only certain characters – ‘k’, ‘w’, ‘v’ and ‘x’ in the lowercase and ‘K’, ‘V’, ‘W’, ‘X’ and ‘Y’ in the caps – have curved strokes. FS Siena is a contrasted sans-serif typeface, blending classical elegance and modern simplicity. Its construction and proportions are descended from classical broad-nib calligraphy and humanist typefaces, with a high contrast between the thick and thin strokes. The angle of the contrast, though, is vertical, more in the character of pointed-nib calligraphy and modernist typefaces. This vertical stress helps to give FS Siena a strong, cultured presence on the page. Idiosyncratic italics The italics for FS Siena were developed by Krista to complement the roman upper and lower-case alphabets first drawn by Jason. Many of the letterforms are built differently to their roman counterparts: there’s a single-tier ‘a’, a looped ‘k’ and connections more towards the middle of stems, such as in the ‘m’, ‘n’ and ‘u’. These distinctions, along with generally much narrower forms than the roman, give the italics extra emphasis within body copy, where the two are side-by-side. In editorial, especially, the combination can be powerful. To cap it all… In his original draft of the typeface, Jason found inspiration in Roman square capitals of the kind most famously found on Trajan’s Column in Rome. In keeping with those ancient inscriptions, he intended the capitals of FS Siena to also work in all-upper-case text, in logotypes for luxury consumer brands and property developments, for example. A little added space between the upper-case letters lets the capitals maintain their poise in a caps-only setting, while still allowing them to work alongside the lower-case letterforms. The caps-only setting also triggers a feature called case punctuation, which adapts hyphens, brackets and other punctuation to complement the all-caps text. Figures & Currency (Proportional Lining) Figures & Currency (Tabular Oldstyle) Figures & Currency (Proportional Oldstyle) FS Siena is only available in Standard. If you work exclusively with Latin-based languages, our Standard character set is designed to meet your requirements. However, if you work with Cyrillic and Greek typography, please use our Pro fonts. Latin Yes Ligature Set Proportional Lining Tabular Oldstyle Proportional Oldstyle Superiors Ligature Set Yes Discretionary Ligatures Yes Arrows Yes Proportional Lining Yes Tabular Oldstyle Yes Proportional Oldstyle Yes Superiors Yes Fractions Yes	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6347
__label__wiki	0.808274	0.808274	New immigration, gun charges filed against man acquitted in Kate Steinle trial SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- U.S. authorities on Tuesday charged a Mexican man with new immigration and gun violations less than a week after a San Francisco jury acquitted him of murder for the shooting death of Kate Steinle, a case that helped fuel a fierce national debate on immigration. A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Tuesday on one count each of felon in possession of a firearm and of "being an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States" in possession of a gun and ammunition, according to the indictment. A San Francisco jury last week convicted him of a state charge of felon in possession of a firearm after acquitting him of murder and assault for the July 1, 2015 shooting. The state conviction carries a maximum sentence of three years in jail. He has been in jail since the day of the shooting. His public defender Matt Gonzalez said Garcia Zarate will ask a judge to toss out the state conviction. Garcia Zarate is to be sentenced in state court Dec. 14. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon on Tuesday defended his office's handling of the case. He said he still believed Garcia Zarate should have been convicted of Steinle's murder. Legal experts have said prosecutors overreached by asking for a first-degree murder conviction because the fatal shot ricocheted off the ground, supporting Garcia Zarate's defense that the shooting was an accident. Jurors could also have convicted Garcia Zarate of second-degree murder or involuntary manslaughter but chose not to. Jurors left court last week without speaking publicly about their verdict and Gascon said they have not spoken with prosecutors either. Garcia Zarate said he found a gun under a chair on a San Francisco pier. He said it fired accidentally when he picked it up. President Donald Trump frequently brought up the case last year during his presidential campaign to criticize efforts in the U.S. to combat illegal immigration. Garcia Zarate had been deported five time before the shooting. The San Francisco sheriff's department also released him from jail several weeks before the shooting despite a request from federal immigration officials to detain him for deporation. San Francisco is a so-called sanctuary city and local officials are limited in the cooperation they can give with federal deportation efforts. President Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding from cities with similar policies. Gascon on Tuesday called Trump a "madman" for a series of tweets deriding the jury's verdict.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6351
__label__wiki	0.903183	0.903183	KLRT - FOX16.com Arkansas Crime Watch Monday Night Mystery Wolves Den Report The CW Arkansas Yoga Warriors 2020 postponed Terrell Talk FOX16 Showcase Arkansas Farm Talk Memphis police officer charged with murder, kidnapping in man’s death by: WREG Web and Jerrita Patterson and Nexstar Media Wire Patric Ferguson (Photo: Memphis Police Dept). MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis, Tenn. police officer is charged with forcing a man into his squad car and killing him while on duty. Victim Robert Howard (Photo: Memphis Police Department) Patric Ferguson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder, including aggravated kidnapping, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse in the death of 30-year-old Robert Howard. Police released a statement at 2 a.m. Sunday that outlined the allegations: On Jan. 6, Howard’s girlfriend called police to report him missing. He had last been seen around 5 p.m. the day before in the 3500 block of Mark Twain Street in Frayser, Tenn. Video: Armed man takes Corona police officer’s vehicle on 91 Freeway The woman used an app to track Howard’s cell phone to the area of Lamar and Shelby Drive, police said. They issued a Missing Persons report and a City Watch for Howard. Police said an investigation revealed that Ferguson, armed with a handgun, encountered Howard outside his residence and forced him into his squad car. The two knew each other, police said. Joshua Rogers (Photo: Memphis Police Department) Ferguson then drove to Frayser Boulevard and Denver Street, where he shot and killed Howard, according to Memphis Police. Ferguson was relieved of duty, police said. He has been assigned to the Memphis Police Department’s Tillman Station since 2018. Another man, 28-year-old Joshua Rogers, also is charged with tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse in this case. Police say he was an acquaintance of Ferguson and helped him relocate the body. “No one is above the law,” Police Director Michael Rallings said in a statement. “Knowing that a Memphis Police Officer, someone who took an oath to protect and serve, made the decision to commit this horrific crime is devastating. His actions were not that of a law enforcement officer and should not reflect on fellow officers.” More Crime Stories PERRY COUNTY, Ark. – Arkansas State Police officials say a Perry County man is dead after exchanging gunfire with law enforcement Tuesday morning. In a release, the ASP says Perry County deputies arrived at the home of 55-year-old Robert Laudell Bull around 9 a.m. after receiving reports of a man who had barricaded a portion of Poe Farm Road and blocked two drivers from passing. Police: Woman shot in foot during a barrage of gunfire on Fairfield Drive by Chris Counts / Jan 18, 2021 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A woman was struck in her foot by a bullet as gunfire was unleashed in the 7400 block of Fairfield Drive on Friday night. According to Investigators, a black man was seen pulling up to a nearby residence, speaking to a group of men standing outside of the residence, and as he returned to his vehicle he began shooting at the group of men. Police investigating shooting in SW Little Rock Sunday night, two believed to be injured LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Police are investigating a shooting incident in southwest Little Rock Sunday evening that investigators say may have injured two people. Officers responded to the area of the intersection of John Barrow Road and Colonel Glen Road around 6:45 p.m. This Day in Arkansas Weather History: January 19-20 Mega Millions and Powerball Jackpots get into record-breaking numbers Don't Miss / 1 week ago Inauguration prop bets: How long will Biden’s address last? Monday Night Mystery: Woman in TikTok video says she’s not Cassie Compton KLRT Public File KASN Public File	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6352
__label__cc	0.669817	0.330183	About Institutional Research Higher Education Glossary Gift Of Love Fundraiser (GOLF) 2020 Apply for Foundation Scholarships Welcome to Front Range Community College Our No. 1 priority is student success. We believe that learning is a partnership between students, faculty, and staff. In everything we do, FRCC focuses on helping our students reach their goals. One Focus: Your Success We help each student find a clear purpose early in their FRCC journey. We connect students to mentors, peers with similar interests, faculty, advisors, and other resources that will help them along the way. We outline a clear, specific plan for each student to reach their individual goals. Then we support them along the way, and help them stay on their chosen path. We engage students in their education—in and out of the classroom. We prepare you for the real world. Our career/technical programs train students for immediate employment and careers in more than three dozen high-demand fields. FRCC regularly adds innovative new programs in emerging fields where students can get good jobs. More than 20 of our certificate or Associate of Applied Science programs have state, regional, and/or national accreditation. You learn on cutting-edge equipment. Our classrooms and labs use some of the most advanced technology in the state. Students work with the latest software and computer equipment, and our state-of-the-art facilities ensure teaching is always at the leading edge. Your credits are guaranteed to transfer. Our transfer students do as well as—or better than—students who start at universities. In fact, Front Range was recently profiled as one of the top six community colleges in the country for transfer student success. Our Associate of Arts (A.A.) and Associate of Science (A.S.) degrees are guaranteed to transfer to public four-year colleges and universities in Colorado. FRCC is the number one transfer institution for: University of Colorado-Boulder Colorado State University-Fort Collins CSU-Global We embrace diversity and inclusion. FRCC students come from all walks of life—every student matters here. We know that including and respecting our diverse experiences and values is the best way to promote student success. FRCC is committed to inclusive excellence, educational equity, and advancing opportunity for all. You can save thousands of dollars. Starting at FRCC helps you reach your goals affordably. By completing two years of a four-year education at FRCC, students save an average of $11,000. We help you succeed. On behalf of all our staff and faculty, I welcome you to Front Range Community College. When it comes to focusing on your success, FRCC is unmatched. I’m excited that you’ve chosen to partner with us as you begin—or continue—your educational journey. Andy Dorsey Request Info > Visit Us > 50 YEARS AT FRCC	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6367
__label__cc	0.509733	0.490267	By: The Dreaded Blah A boy boldly leads his people after being opened up by an Earth girl. Meanwhile the universe in on the verge of the biggest war in history and a being known as Mastermind must defy the "gods of space"...or die trying Rated: Fiction T - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,576 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 5/24/2006 - Published: 5/23/2006 - id: 2179866 1. The Usachi2. Lodoss The second they entered Denise's house 101 looked a little surprised. It was for a number of reasons. One of which was that she was his age (or appeared to be) and was living in a house. Although some of the pictures had a grown man in a military outfit. The other was that despite there being a desert outside, the inside was cool. She had climate control? That was something 101 had never seen. The Usachi wouldn't spend any money on climate control for their children. Another thing that surprised him was the luxury (in his mind) of the place. Once again 101 had never seen such things. Denise held her hand out to a chair as she walked over to a phone. 101 cautiously sat down. Wow...the chair was soft. Nothing like the chairs he had ever sat in. Denise calmly picked up the phone and dialed. "Hmmm...huh? Oh come on! Answer the phone! Grrrr..." Denise grumbled. The answering machine beeped on the other side of the line. Denise's tone instantly changed sweetly. "Hi Daddy! I know you're busy. I really need to talk to you though. Call me back as soon as you can! Bye." Denis hung it up. "He's probably just polishing his nuclear weapon." Denise turned around irritably. She looked at 101 questioningly. "Do you have a name? A name? NAME! Like me, Denise." 101 shook his head. He decided that he shouldn't tell her he called himself 101. Denise crossed her arms. 'Everyone should have a name.' She thought. A name popped up in her mind. It's what the word meant why she chose it. "Can I give you a name?" Denise asked. 101 just looked confused. "Give you name!!! A NAME!! Oh, he doesn't understand me. Frayne." She pointed at him. He looked confused. "Frayne." She emphasized. "Frayne." Then she pointed to herself and back to him. "Denise...Frayne. Get it?" 101, now Frayne nodded. At least now his name was a word and not a number. "Frayne." Frayne said. He kind of liked it. Denise smiled. Until her dad called back she had nothing to do. Well, him not speaking English was annoying. Denise held up her hand for him to wait a second and left the room. After a few minutes of rummaging she found some old letter cards her dad had used on her when she was about one. She rushed back into the room where Frayne was sitting confused. Denise sat next to Frayne and showed the 'A'. "Ah." Denise said. She was sounding out the letters. She flashed the card. "Ah." Frayne looked at it for a moment. "Ah." He repeated. Denise smiled. "Good, it's also now pronounced 'aye'. Aye...Aye." After about an hour Frayne figured out all the letters and how vowels worked. Denise handed him the first in the series of about 12 dictionaries. She quickly realized something quite amazing. Denise's father finally called back about four hours after. He was a former marine still working for the government so he always sounded like he had a plank up his butt. Denise picked up the phone. "'Ello?" She said groggily. "Denise? It's dad, why did you call me?" Denise grunted and it sounded like she was sitting up. "Yeah..." Denise said sleepily. "If all you do is sleep all day maybe you need a job." "Hey, I took a walk in the desert today! Forgive me if I'm a little tired." "We'll talk about when I get home." 'If you get home.' Denise thought. "Why did you call me?" Her dad asked. "Well, you know the whole crash at Roswell?" Denise's dad suddenly got mad. "I've told you time and time again. It was really a weather balloon! I work at this "alien infested" area 51 and there is nothing not from earth here." "If you say so, but one of your "weather balloons" landed in the desert today." There was a long drawn out pause. Denise's dad felt his spine tingle. "What's he doing?" He asked a little panicked. "Why? Are weather balloons hard to come by?" Denise said with a chuckle. "What?" Her dad asked a little more seriously. "Chill out dad, he's only reading dictionaries. He's a machine!! He read them for three straight hours!" Denise's dad relaxed. "So he's calm?" "Calm? Of course he's calm." Her dad sighed with relief. He wasn't one of them. "You're acting strange." "Just stay there. I have to look at this weather balloon." Denise smiled. "Sure thing. He's not going anywhere without me anyway." Denise hung up before her father could get curious about what she said. Denise sat up on the couch. She smiled as she looked at Frayne. She had fallen asleep before him, but sometime after that he fell asleep (he probably had had a long day). When Denise woke up Frayne was curled up beside her. She couldn't help giving him a hug before she picked up the phone. Denise yawned. "Well, at least he's cute." Twenty minutes later Denise's dad pulled into the driveway. As soon as he did Frayne sat up groggily. He had never slept this much before. They were given eight hours to sleep and the past month he hadn't gotten much sleep at all. As soon her dad pulled up Denise rolled her eyes. "Now that's the fastest he's ever gotten home; when I have a boy over." She said as she slapped her head. "You'd think someone told him mom came back." Her dad opened the door. Denise's mood changed back to pleasant. "Hello daddy!" Denise's dad wasn't going for it. "Where is he?" Her dad demanded. Denise pointed. Frayne stood up. Denise's dad violently grabbed him and stuck his face right in his. Denise flinched. For a moment Frayne stood and stared into the man's face in shock, and then he looked away. Denise's dad finally completely calmed down. "He's not one of them." "One of who!?" Denise shouted. She was mad because he scared Frayne. As soon as her dad let him go Frayne cringed in a corner. As far as Denise could tell Frayne was as peaceful as anything she had seen. Denise's dad ignored her. He walked over to the phone and dialed a number. Denise walked over and came down to Frayne's level. "It's okay." Denise cooed. Frayne didn't move. Denise thought for a moment. She went forward and hugged him. "It'll be okay..." Frayne was shaking. He was most of all confused. He didn't get what was going on. "Uh-huh, send a squadron of forces at my home." Denise's father said on the phone. "You don't know where my home is!? Grrr, alright, it's at..." Denise stormed over and slammed her hand on the receiver. "Dad stop it!" She shouted. Her sweet tone had completely dropped. Denise's dad's eyes grew angry. "Denise! This is nothing to mess around with! Stay out of this!!" Denise looked equally angry. She pointed at Frayne. "Look at him!! Does it look like he needs a gun to his head!?" Denise's dad looked at the cringing Frayne. He sighed and put the phone down. "Just take him yourself." Denise's dad stared angrily for a moment. "Fine." He walked over and roughly grabbed Frayne. "He's not going without me." Denise said. Her dad grew angry again. "And why not?" Denise shrugged. "It's not me." Frayne grabbed onto a couch. Frayne and Denise's dad abruptly stopped as Frayne's hand locked with a vice-like grip. "It's him." Denise's dad ground his teeth together. "...Fine." He finally said. "If he tries anything funny...I'll call the squadron." Denise smiled a little mischievously her sweet-like attitude around her father had melted away. "With me or with the base?" She asked a little suggestively. Denise's father looked at her severely. Denise threw her hands up. "Just kidding! I'm only joking! Let's go before you kill me...or him." Denise's dad walked out the door, but Frayne didn't move. He was still confused. Denise walked over to him. "Come on." She said and motioned towards the door. Frayne flinched. "Oh don't worry about him. He's just uptight." Frayne still didn't move. Denise rubbed her head and walked over to him. She pulled his hand off the couch and held it. "It'll be okay." Frayne looked at her with trust. "You'll be fine. I'll...protect you." Frayne thought for a second. "Protect." Frayne repeated. "To protect or guard from attack, insult, injury or ?" Denise looked shocked. "Did you...understand all that?" Denise asked. Frayne's face turned slightly red. "...Parts of it." He replied. Denise looked surprised. Did he understand what she said? Now Denise blushed a little. "How far have you read?" She asked. "I read to...'scope'." There was an awkward silence. "Um, well, come on. My dad's waiting." As she dragged Frayne he defined "dad". "Dad, informal; father." "That's going to get annoying..." "Annoying," "Don't." The car ride was silent. Denise didn't want to talk because her dad would find out Frayne could speak English. She knew if he knew Frayne spoke English he would toss her out of the car. Frayne became more and more nervous. Where were they going? He only got to 's' and some of the definitions he read still didn't make sense to him. He only knew some of what they meant. Denise turned and saw that he was nervous. He still looked cute in her mind. They were both sitting in the back seat so she grabbed his hand. "It's okay." She whispered quietly enough that her dad couldn't hear. Her whispering reminded him of Lorelei. His mind suddenly filled with her once again, and when it did, much to Denise's surprise, Frayne squeezed her hand. Frayne was shoved into a room. Denise was forced to wait outside grumpily. Three scientists began looking him up and down. Denise's father glared at Frayne. He had this overwhelming feeling that Frayne had already begun to hit on Denise. In truth Frayne knew nothing of the human social hierarchy. The scientists and Denise's dad began talking with one another. Frayne only understood snippets of the conversation. "Is he one of them?" Denise's dad asked. "We can't officially tell without a blood test...but he doesn't have the right behavior or bone structure." The scientist replied "There's no way." "I thought so." Denise's dad replied. "I just wanted to be sure." He walked over to Frayne and gave him a cold stare. "Could we at least see if he recognizes them?" The scientist shrugged. "Why not?" The scientist said. Denise's dad grabbed Frayne roughly and dragged him into the next room. He practically slammed Frayne down in front of three large glass tanks. Frayne looked up and looked a little stunned. Inside the tanks were bodies with only skeletons left. Bodies recovered from a well-known crash. Frayne thought it was strange, he still vaguely recognized the bodies. He somehow thought they looked familiar. "Look at this." Denise's dad ordered. He pushed a button and a panel came out of the wall. On it was a piece of the legendary ship that was the "weather balloon". Frayne's stomach exploded. He felt very dizzy and his brain felt like someone put it on the tilt-a-whirl. The symbol that everyone feared was right in front of his face. Frayne screamed and fell against the wall. It was them! The ones no one was to ever come in contact with. Them! "What is with him!?" Shouted one of the scientists. "Apparently he recognizes them." Denise's father said a little jokingly. Frayne was shaking. He had never felt this kind of fear before. "Hey! Hey!! Snap out of it!!!" Denise's father reached over. As soon he touched Frayne he screamed again, this time louder. "What's going on!?" Shouted Denise from two rooms away. "He's lost his mind!" Denise's dad shouted back. "Get the guards! We'll deal with him!" "Let me in!" Denise shouted. "Stay out of this!!" Her dad shouted back. Denise began pounding on the door. "Let me in!! Let me in!!!" Now Denise was getting louder. Her screams were making Frayne panic more. Denise's dad growled, but had no choice. "Let her in." He growled. The door opened. Denise bounded through two rooms and over to Frayne. Without really thinking she quickly wrapped her arms around him. She held his head against her chest and cooed things in his ear. It somehow made the scientists feel all warm and fuzzy. Even Denise's dad's expression softened a little. For what seemed like an eternity the two just stayed there. There was utter silence in the room. Frayne slowly stopped shaking and his hands slowly dropped away from his face. His trust of Denise was basically growing before their very eyes. Finally Denise's dad cleared his throat. "Ask him who they are." He said softly at Denise. Denise nodded and whispered in Frayne's ear. "Who?" She said softly. Frayne looked up at her with confused eyes. 'That's right,' Denise thought. 'He only made it to 's'.' Denise tried to say something else. "Name?" She asked instead. Frayne lowered his head. He seemed to be contemplating telling her. Denise leaned over so she could hear what he said. Frayne whispered the word he didn't want to speak. Denise heard it and lifted her head up. "Who are they?" Her dad asked. Denise took a deep breathe. When she said the word Frayne flinched. "Lodoss."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6370
__label__wiki	0.56159	0.56159	Random Thoughts Thread Discussion in 'The Club House' started by Dillinger, Mar 6, 2009. Page 2690 of 2717 < Prev 1 ← 2688 2689 2690 2691 2692 → 2717 Next > Nov 27, 2020 #53781 F4U Well-Known Member Supporter BullMoose429 said: ↑ Now I’m offended- bourbon is the king of whiskeys OK now I am offended, IRISH is the king of whiskeys. Bourbon is for cooking. F4U, Nov 27, 2020 boatme98 and winds-of-change like this. BullMoose429 Well-Known Member Supporter F4U said: ↑ Bourbon is both the king of drinking and cooking BullMoose429, Nov 27, 2020 SRK97 Well-Known Member Supporter I spent the morning hunting with an old friend. Did so much laughing sitting in the blind together talking about old times no wonder we didn't see a deer. I had a great time. Finally caved and ordered some first lite stuff, worth the price from what ive heard. SRK97, Nov 27, 2020 primer1, BullMoose429, ellis36 and 1 other person like this. Cinderocka1989 Well-Known Member Supporter Y'all keep arguing about whiskey, just excuse me while I go drink some. I like bourbon, Irish, and scotch as long as it's decent I'll drink it. Cinderocka1989, Nov 27, 2020 winds-of-change and Caveman Jim like this. c3shooter Administrator Staff Member Admin Moderator Lifetime Supporter An Abbreviated History of Booze- by C3 Scotch was made of malted barley, dried over a peat fire. The Irish could not get enough barley, so they used barley and wheat. They were also using peat to heat and cook with, so they did not smoke their malted grain. When the colonists wound up in Virginia, there was a profound shortage of peat and or barley. But there was a good supply of corn in Charles Cittie VA- the area around Berkeley Plantation. So in 1621, they malted their corn, fermented their mash, and distilled their whiskey in a pot still. Trying to improve the taste of some really potent popskull, they stored it in oak casks that had been charred on the inside. and THAT is the definition of Bourbon. Thus was distilled the first Bourbon whiskey. In Virginia, NOT in Kentucky. At that time, there WAS no Kentucky- it would later be split off from Virginia. c3shooter, Nov 27, 2020 Maineiak, primer1, BullMoose429 and 2 others like this. Caveman Jim Well-Known Member dango said: ↑ I've been very lucky . Had a few close calls but haven't hit any yet . What’s strange is these are the only animals she has encountered in civilization, I generally hit them with bullets in the woods. Caveman Jim, Nov 27, 2020 SRK97 likes this. Caveman Jim said: ↑ Two in two years, my wife’s Subaru Impreza must have had deer attractant smeared on it (or something)... The first one was a spike at 35 MPH, $5000+ damage, we ate him... Second buck (a nice 3 point blacktail) totaled the car at 60 MPH, he was too messed up to eat. The tow truck driver declined to haul it out cuz he didn’t want to have to wash his truck... I've been lucky, so far. 40+ years of driving, and a good dozen near-miss encounters with deer. But not a single strike. Closest was a good-sized buck leaping down from the hillside onto the roadway not 20ft in front of me, as I approached in the car. He simply followed the headlights along the twisty, turning road. It was steep and narrow, with speed at ~30mph or so. He kept a foot or two off the bumper. Leapt off the drop-off to my left, soon after. Had a pair of those "anti-deer whistles," once, that mount to the bumper or grille area. Had more encounters over the next couple of years, though that was probably coincidence. Come to think of it, it's probably been 10yrs or more since I last saw one get close. Always drive much more cautiously at "feeding" times, though. You never know. Caveman Jim likes this. G66enigma said: ↑ Those things are deer attractors, proven Ineffective. My god, man! You put them on BACKWARDS!!!! JerrBear48, Caveman Jim, BK3220 and 4 others like this. Does your mama know you're out here alone? Caveman Jim, winds-of-change, Rifling82 and 2 others like this. Rifling82 Well-Known Member Supporter SRK97 said: ↑ Does your mama know you're out here alone? View attachment 231552 You probably shot mama Rifling82, Nov 28, 2020 SRK97 and Caveman Jim like this. I used to have a T-shirt. Said "I shot Bambi's Daddy" primer1, Caveman Jim, BullMoose429 and 2 others like this. boatme98 Well-Known Member Ah laddie, we Jocks know a bit about the grain and the drink, too now! boatme98, Nov 28, 2020 Saw a municipal bus today down in Portland Maine run a red light. Rifling82 said: ↑ I try to avoid shooting does with fawns, even though they're old enough to be on their own just fine. I like the mythical and rare "old dry lone doe" Somebody let their dog out today and it was running deer just short of biting legs. I thought about pulling the trigger on it but I just yelled at it and sent it home. The owner is the one that deserves the bullet, not the dog just feeding on old instincts. JTJ, winds-of-change, ellis36 and 3 others like this. Dec 1, 2020 #53796 Looks like the Arecibo radio telescope is now toast. Several of the remaining supports snapped. Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses @ Associated Press, 12/1/20. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday. The telescope’s 900-ton receiver platform fell onto the reflector dish more than 400 feet below. The U.S. National Science Foundation had earlier announced that the Arecibo Observatory would be closed. An auxiliary cable snapped in August, causing a 100-foot gash on the 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) reflector dish and damaged the receiver platform that hung above it. Then a main cable broke in early November. The collapse stunned many scientists who had relied on what was until recently the largest radio telescope in the world. “It’s a huge loss,” said Carmen Pantoja, an astronomer and professor at the University of Puerto Rico who used the telescope for her doctorate. “It was a chapter of my life.” Scientists worldwide had been petitioning U.S. officials and others to reverse the NSF’s decision to close the observatory. The NSF said at the time that it intended to eventually reopen the visitor center and restore operations at the observatory’s remaining assets, including its two LIDAR facilities used for upper atmospheric and ionospheric research, including analyzing cloud cover and precipitation data. The telescope was built in the 1960s with money from the Defense Department amid a push to develop anti-ballistic missile defenses. It had endured hurricanes, tropical humidity and a recent string of earthquakes in its 57 years of operation. The telescope has been used to track asteroids on a path to Earth, conduct research that led to a Nobel Prize and determine if a planet is potentially habitable. It also served as a training ground for graduate students and drew about 90,000 visitors a year. G66enigma, Dec 1, 2020 ellis36 likes this. My phone is in the grave... Literally. The only possible explanation is that it fell out of my hoody pocket and into the dirt pile which then got pushed into the hole. Just my luck, at least it was an old phone. I ordered a slightly newer one. SRK97, Dec 1, 2020 Caveman Jim, primer1, Rifling82 and 1 other person like this. Oh,oh. You'd better watch out for the boatme98, Dec 1, 2020 Caveman Jim, SRK97 and ellis36 like this. Mister Dave Well-Known Member Tried ringing it? Mister Dave, Dec 1, 2020 Caveman Jim, SRK97 and boatme98 like this. I always get the older models, save some money Rifling82, Dec 1, 2020 Caveman Jim, SRK97 and BullMoose429 like this. 10 mm=.40 caliber sheepdawg replied Jan 19, 2021 at 6:37 PM A Crisis The Perfect Automobile Never... The Smoking Room SRK97 replied Jan 19, 2021 at 6:16 PM	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6371
__label__wiki	0.766838	0.766838	David Beckham: “Victoria & I wanted children fast” By Charlotte Duck David Beckham has revealed that he and Victoria started trying for children almost as soon as they met. Speaking at a digital book signing on Facebook yesterday, he revealed: "From 21 years old, I wanted children from a young age so when I met Victoria we knew we wanted children - and we wanted them pretty fast." "I wanted my children to live through my career with me and that's why the images are so special to me. They were there when I won almost every one of my trophies." The Beckham brood also seem to be following in their dad's footsteps: not only has Brooklyn been seen playing for Queens Park Rangers, but David's second son, Romeo, who's modelled for Burberry, shares his penchant for fine dressing. "My middle son Romeo loves to wear a suit. He gets that from me." David said that he learnt his hard work ethic from his parents. "My motivation comes from my working class parents who gave their life for their kids. My parents worked hard for us and we're fortunate to have parents who worked as hard as they did," he said. "My mum would take us to school, pick us up from school, cook us dinner, put us to bed then clients would come over and she'd cut their hair. That's where my work ethic comes from." The Beckhams: A Look Back Romeo Beckham Can crying all the time make your skin break out? It's my 2020 and I'll cry if I want to. 'Divorce is imminent' between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: Sources claim Kim has 'grown up a lot' and has now 'had enough of it' The couple have four children together. Yes, the rumours are true: Victoria Beckham has just launched a new mascara and here's what we thought 5 People Test The newest mascara/hair conditioning hybrid! We’re intrigued.. Are you guilty of 'sharenting'? Why there's now a shocking rise of children suing their parents for documenting their lives on social media Will it soon become taboo to post photos of your children online?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6379
__label__wiki	0.704647	0.704647	Robert Borski Rep. Robert Borski Former Representative for Pennsylvania’s 3rd District Bioguide Borski was the representative for Pennsylvania’s 3rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1983 to 2002. Contact Rep. Robert Borski I am a constituent. I live in Pennsylvania’s 3rd congressional district. I have an opinion I want to share. I want to urge Borski to take an action on a bill. Visit Rep. Robert Borski’s website » Look for a contact form on Rep. Robert Borski’s website to express your opinion. I need help, have a question, or want to schedule a tour. I’m having a problem with a government agency, need legal help, want to schedule a meeting or White House tour, or have another question. Visit Borski’s Website » Head over to Rep. Robert Borski’s website. If you are having a problem with a government agency, look for a contact link for casework to submit a request for help. Otherwise, look for a phone number on that website to call his office if you have a question. I am not a constituent. I live elsewhere. Not all Members of Congress will accept messages from non-constituents. You can try your luck by visiting Borski’s website. Otherwise, try contacting your own representative: Find Your Representative » I’m not sure if I live in his district. You are currently on the website GovTrack.us, which has no affiliation with Borski and is not a government website. Choose from the options above to find the right way to contact Borski. Ideology–Leadership Chart Borski is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2002 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top). The chart is based on the bills Borski sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 7, 1997 to Nov 19, 2002. See full analysis methodology. Enacted Legislation Borski was the primary sponsor of 13 bills that were enacted. The most recent include: H.R. 2362 (107th): Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission Act H.R. 4554 (106th): To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1602 Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the “Joseph F. Smith Post Office Building”. H.R. 449 (106th): Gateway Visitor Center Authorization Act of 1999 H.J.Res. 390 (103rd): Designating September 17, 1994, as “Constitution Day”. H.R. 5749 (102nd): For the relief of Krishanthi Sava Kopp. H.J.Res. 532 (102nd): Designating October 1992 as “Polish-American Heritage Month”. H.J.Res. 475 (100th): A joint resolution to designate October 1988 as “Polish American Heritage Month”. Does 13 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services. We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress). Bills Sponsored Borski sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas: Government Operations and Politics (24%) Transportation and Public Works (13%) Commerce (13%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Law (11%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (11%) Taxation (8%) Water Resources Development (8%) Recent Bills Some of Borski’s most recently sponsored bills include... H.R. 5712 (107th): To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve roadway safety for ... H.R. 4885 (107th): To suspend temporarily the duty on Thiophanate-Methyl. H.R. 4223 (107th): To provide for the elimination of duty on Thiophanate-Methyl. H.R. 4222 (107th): To provide for the elimination of duty on TOPSIN. H.R. 3166 (107th): Rebuild America: Financing Infrastructure Renewal and Security for Transportation Act of 2001 H.R. 2737 (107th): Support for Harbor Investment Program Act View All » \| View Cosponsors » From Jan 1983 to Nov 2002, Borski missed 340 of 10,430 roll call votes, which is 3.3%. This is on par with the median of 2.8% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Nov 2002. The chart below reports missed votes over time. We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events. Show the numbers... Votes Eligible 1983 Jan-Mar 43 0 0.0% 0th 1983 Apr-Jun 182 8 4.4% 39th 1983 Jul-Sep 130 2 1.5% 21st 1983 Oct-Nov 143 1 0.7% 5th 1984 Jul-Sep 96 1 1.0% 15th 1984 Oct-Oct 36 3 8.3% 58th 1985 Jul-Sep 101 0 0.0% 0th 1985 Oct-Dec 148 9 6.1% 68th 1986 Jan-Mar 61 1 1.6% 19th 1986 Jul-Sep 202 5 2.5% 46th 1988 Feb-Mar 49 3 6.1% 62nd 1988 Apr-Jun 161 3 1.9% 31st 1988 Oct-Oct 89 0 0.0% 0th 1989 Oct-Nov 121 3 2.5% 35th 1990 Oct-Oct 143 5 3.5% 55th 1991 Apr-Jun 139 4 2.9% 52nd 1991 Jul-Sep 81 4 4.9% 62nd 1991 Oct-Nov 162 3 1.9% 41st 1993 Jan-Mar 127 0 0.0% 0th 1993 Apr-Jun 190 10 5.3% 72nd 1994 Apr-Jun 219 0 0.0% 0th 1994 Jul-Sep 142 4 2.8% 53rd 1994 Oct-Nov 51 6 11.8% 90th 1995 Jan-Mar 279 7 2.5% 73rd 1996 Jan-Mar 110 4 3.6% 67th 1998 Oct-Dec 74 4 5.4% 74th 1999 Apr-Jun 184 12 6.5% 87th 2002 Apr-Jun 203 30 14.8% 93rd 2002 Jul-Sep 141 20 14.2% 91st 2002 Oct-Nov 61 17 27.9% 95th The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including: unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole. Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000 Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills Robert Borski is pronounced: The letters stand for sounds according to the following table: Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6385
__label__cc	0.61834	0.38166	The fourth generation Baron Lothar von Faber (1817-1896) with his son Wilhelm. He will take over as successor later down the line. The forth generation As the eldest son, Lothar von Faber takes over the pencil factory from his father Georg Leonhard. Under his management, the factory develops into company with international standing. Due to his economic success and progressive social contributions, Lothar joins the ranks of the nobility in 1862. Three brothers - three successful pencil manufacturers Eberhard von Faber Johann von Faber Lothar von Faber with his wife Ottilie and son Wilhelm In 1847, Lothar von Faber marries Ottilie Richter. The couple's only child, Wilhelm, is born in 1851. Eberhard Faber (1822-1879), wife Jenny and daughter Bertha The youngest of the three brothers runs the branch in New York from 1849. He moves to America with his German wife Jenny and their children. Johann Faber (1819-1901) with his sons Carl and Ernst Johann Faber works in the company at the side of his brother Lothar. In 1879, he sets up by himself with his own pencil manufacturing company in Nuremberg. Ottilie von Faber with her son Wilhelm Lothar von Faber marries Ottilie Richter in 1847 - she supports him while he manages the company. Their son Wilhelm is born in 1851 and remains their only child. The hopes of the family patriarch rest on him. Further generations The fifth Generation Wilhelm von Faber (1851-1893) The seventh generation	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6387
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__label__wiki	0.963576	0.963576	Fire interrupts former assistant chief's funeral Samantha Hernandez BAILEYS HARBOR - The funeral of a former Baileys Harbor assistant fire chief was interrupted Saturday when firefighters were called to a fire at the home of a fellow firefighter. The call for a house fire at 7741 County A in Baileys Harbor came in at about 11:18 a.m., when a number of northern Door County firefighters were attending the funeral of former Baileys Harbor Assistant Fire Chief Willard Zak. Zak, a lifelong Door County resident, died March 22. He spent 37 years with the fire department. RELATED: 'Harber Barber' Willard Zak was a true 'local' Zak's funeral at St. Mary of the Lake in Baileys Harbor was about to get underway when pagers began buzzing, Baileys Harbor Assistant Fire Chief Eric Peil said. Military and emergency personnel were standing in preparation of giving Willard a final salute. The funeral service had started late because people were telling stories about Zak, he said. Peil's own pager was turned off, so there was some confusion in the beginning about the nature of the emergency. Ephraim Fire Chief Justin MacDonald told Peil that his firefighters would handle the call. Upon exiting the church, Peil learned it was a house fire. Peil said it was plain on people's faces that they were struggling with what was the right thing to do, but “everyone went into task management mode” when they learned the call was for a house fire. Peil and others went back inside and performed the final salute. Peil then gave a “We've got to go” signal and 35 firefighters quietly filed out and went to the fire wearing their dress uniforms. Some firefighters, including the pallbearer, had to stay behind. Firefighters from Southern Door and Sturgeon Bay stayed and helped with the funeral. “The rest of us had to take care of our community,” he said. The fire was at a home owned by Thomas C. Pluff of Baileys Harbor. Peil said Pluff has been a member of the fire department for a little over a year. Pluff did not attend the funeral and no one was at home when the fire started, he said. Pluff's mother, who also lives in the home, was at the funeral. “I’m sure she understood why people were leaving, but little did she know it was her family's house on fire at that moment,” Peil said. The firefighters pulled gear on over their uniforms and went to work. “When we arrived at the scene we found heavy smoke coming out of the west side of the house,” Peil said. The fire was contained to two rooms of Pluff's house, but the home was heavily damaged by smoke, he said. The fire was likely caused by an electrical problem. The Pluffs are staying with family. Firefighters spent about three hours at the scene. The department was assisted by Jacksonport, Egg Harbor, Ephraim, Gibraltar, Sister Bay-Liberty Grove and Sturgeon Bay fire departments. Willard was escorted to the cemetery by the remaining military and fire personnel. “From what my wife said when she was there 'everything was just perfect,”' Peil said. Both Peil and Baileys Harbor Fire Chief Brian Zak, Willard Zak's son, felt that Willard Zak might have been having a bit of fun with them. “(Willard) definitely did not want to be the center of attention," Peil said. "He was kind of a prankster and it's April Fools' Day.” Brian Zak called Peil to ask the men to come back and eat the food prepared for the luncheon. "We didn’t speak any words and we just laughed back and fourth a couple of times because of the situation,” Peil said of the phone call. “He just said to me ‘I guess this is Dad’s last prank.’” The firefighters, who started the day "in better than our Sunday best" returned to the reception in fire gear, he said. “Obviously, we had a job to do, but we got together with our (fire department) family and the Zak family and had nice closure to the day," he said. “I’m pretty sure that’s what Mr. Willard Zak would have wanted.” svhernande@doorcountyadvocate.com, Samantha Hernandez on Facebook or 920-743-3321, ext. 4112.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6405
__label__cc	0.588159	0.411841	Home / News / Diesels 2020 Chevrolet Silverado diesel tops pickup truck mpg race Eric C. Evarts July 26, 2019 Comment Now! Fuel economy matters in pickups. General Motors announced new EPA fuel economy ratings Thursday for its 2020 Chevrolet Silverado light-duty pickup powered by its new 3.0-liter inline-6 turbodiesel. The 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 diesel will rate 23 mpg city, 33 highway for two-wheel drive models with a 10-speed automatic transmission, Chevy said. Four-wheel-drive models will rate 23 mpg city, 29 highway. That's a big improvement over the brand's new 2.7-liter turbo-4 gasoline truck, which was rated for 2019 at 20/23/21 mpg. The diesel engine will also have more torque for towing trailers or hauling heavy loads up hills. It's rated at 277 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque, versus 310 hp and 348 lb-ft for the turbo-4. 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 diesel As on most trucks, the diesel doesn't come cheap. The turbodiesel option adds $3,890 to the cost of mid-trim LT and RST models that come standard with the turbo-4 and $2,495 to the base price of high-end LTZ and High Country models, which come standard with a 5.3-liter V-8. The turbodiesel is not available on lower trims. General Motors is the last of the major Detroit automakers to offer a diesel in its half-ton pickups. Ram began offering a V-6 turbodiesel in 2014, and is expected to offer a revamped version of the engine for 2020, though its ratings haven't been released. Last year, Ford introduced a 3.0-liter turbodiesel V-6 in the F-150 rated at up to 30 mpg highway. American automakers sold nearly 3 million pickups in the U.S. last year. And since they account for a huge portion of gasoline and diesel consumption in the U.S., the fuel savings add up. The EPA estimates that between 40 and 45 percent of American driving occurs at highway speeds, and that may be higher for trucks, which sell in even higher numbers in the Midwest, South, and rural areas. A full-size pickup that can get up to 33 mpg on the highway is worth writing home about. High-Res Gallery: 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 diesel 2020 Chevrolet News Chevrolet Silverado 1500 News Diesels EPA Ratings News Pickup Trucks Tesla CTO, 2020 Chevy Silverado diesel mpg, tire energy, cleaning up trucks: Today's Car News California could soon close one of the dirtiest diesel-emissions loopholes Tesla losses, cleaner trucks, Nissan Leaf charging, California deals: The Week in Reverse 2019 full-size pickup truck mpg champs: Ford vs. Chevy vs. Ram Eric C. Evarts - Contributor VW ID.4 in winter, electric Microbus timing, Ford Mach-E charging report... Ford Mach-E range, base Model Y, Nio solid-state battery, Ioniq 5 photos... Bolt and Volt deals; battery health and used EVs; Renault 5 redux... Tesla touchscreen failures, MPG fines, EV fires and first responders...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6407
__label__cc	0.683274	0.316726	organic comforters organic mattress pad organic sheets solid wood dressers solid wood chests solid wood armoires solid wood bookcase matching nightstand solid wood cribs organic bodycare 20% SALE ON ADULT MATTRESSES AND BEDDING 20% OFF PLUS FREE SHIPPING On all adult organic mattresses, bedding, pillows, comforters and sheets No Promo Code Needed. (excludes baby and furniture). Join our newsletter to receive emails with future promotions. Home / Solid Wood Armoires / moss green armoire moss green armoire Furniture Guide The moss green 6 drawer dresser is certain to give a comfortable, relaxed feel to any room. Clean edges, balanced arrangement of the generous wood beams, and full slats translate into a clarity of expression. The look is a return to the fundamental basics of functional, finely-crafted, subdued, natural beauty. Handcrafted of all solid-wood and is made in USA. Overall Dimensions: 38"W x 18"D x 65"H Made from local sustainably-grown trees. 100% Solid Wood Construction (Including the back). Full Extension, Under-mount, Soft Close Slides. Dovetailed Drawer Joints are made from solid brown maple wood (including the bottom) Available In Solid Brown Maple, Red Oak, Hard Maple, Cherry and Walnut Woods. No Plywoods, No MDF, No Veneers, and No Composite Wood anywhere. Comes with Anti-Tip Safety Restraints Hardware that is designed to help prevent furniture from tipping over. (Must Be Installed By Customer) 100% VOC Free finish made of cold pressed linseed oil, otherwise known as flax seed oil. Our Oil Finish Contains No Chemicals, No Varnishes, No Polyurethanes, No stains, No Synthetic Preservatives, No Heavy Metals and No Carcinogens. What you see is the true color of the wood you select. We oil the front, sides and drawer fronts (interior drawer boxes and backing is left unfinished) Buying Made In America products helps reduce pollution from overseas shipping, including millions of barrels of oil and the resulting release of CO2. The total shipping cost will be displayed at time of checkout before you submit the order. Orders shipping to Hawaii, Alaska, and Canada need to be calculated on a case by case basis so please contact customer service to request a shipping quote which would include Customs/Duties/Taxes. Curbside Shipping (In USD): $99 flat fee curbside shipping per furniture piece. All mattresses and mattress sets will receive free curbside delivery. When Will My Order Ship Out? All mattresses and bedding usually ships out within 2-3 weeks. All furniture ships out within 11-12 weeks and rush orders ship out within 7-8 weeks. Crib mattresses, bedding, and accessories usually deliver within 2-5 business days. Furniture and mattresses usually deliver within 6-10 business days. Shipments to Hawaii, Alaska and Canada usually deliver within 14-18 business days. White Glove Delivery Upgrade: The customer has an option to upgrade to white glove service for an additional charge where the delivery agent will take the furniture and/or mattresses off the truck, bring it inside into room of choice, unpack, setup and dispose of all packing materials. Please contact customer service at 877-476-2735 to request a quote to upgrade to white glove service. Due to shipping insurance liability delivery companies are not qualified to assemble cribs so it is the customer's responsibility to assemble the cribs. What Should I Know About The Shipping and Delivery Of My Order? Furniture and adult mattresses usually ship via freight/LTL and will be delivered via curb side service where the delivery agent will take the furniture and/or mattresses off the truck and place it in front of the customer's home. The customer is responsible bringing in the furniture and/or mattresses inside their home and setting it up. The local delivery agent will contact you to schedule a delivery date that is convenient for you. All smaller items like pillows, bedding, crib mattresses and top of bed accessories will usually ship via UPS/FedEx ground. UPS/FedEx will deliver to your front door without an appointment. UPS/FedEx Ground Shipping & Receiving Instructions: Customer service will email the customer when the order ships out. At time of delivery if the box looks dirty or torn please ask the driver to note it in his system when signing for the box and take photos of the box from all sides prior to opening. In the very rare case the contents inside got damaged then please call customer service to file a shipping damage claim and customer service will work on getting you the damaged items replaced ASAP. Freight/LTL Shipping & Receiving Instructions: Customer service will email the customer when the order ships out. When the product(s) arrive at your local terminal then the local delivery agent will contact you within 1-2 business days to setup a delivery date that is convenient for you. At time of delivery, please open the box(es) and inspect all the items inside prior to signing the BOL (Bill of Lading) form they will give you, otherwise you will waive your right to file a damage claim later in the event that something is damaged inside the box. If the driver is not willing to wait for you to do an inspection, then write on the BOL form that the driver is not willing to wait while you inspect the furniture and/or mattresses and that further inspection is needed — this way you can preserve your right to make a claim if the furniture turns out to have indeed been damaged during shipping. Also, if the exterior of the packaging on the palette looks dirty or damaged, please make sure to also note that on the BOL form and take photos, as this is important evidence in showing that the furniture wasn’t handled properly. If you check off that the products arrived in good condition without doing an inspection then the shipping agent may consider you to have waived your rights to make a damages claim against them later. If you need any additional help with your shipment please do not hesitate to contact customer service at 877-476-2735 Monday-Saturday 11:30am-4:30pm and after hours at 818-209-2957. What To Look For and What To Avoid When Selecting Furniture? Improve your indoor air environment with clean furniture. Indoor air pollution from conventional furnishings is a serious public health problem according to the State of CA, the EPA, and the American Lung Association. Ask the right questions. Look for furniture that is sourced American and Made in the USA. What Should Furniture Be Manufactured From? 100% Solid Wood Everywhere. No plywood, particle board, MDF, veneers, engineered woods or other composite wood products allowed anywhere in our furniture, because they can pollute indoor air quality, including with high levels of formaldehyde (a human carcinogen). What Should My Furniture Be Finished With? 100% VOC-Free oil finish that is food safe and chemical free for peace of mind. The natural finish should be hand rubbed onto the wood to protect the wood from moisture. The finish should be Prop 65 laboratory tested to make sure its lead-free, Cadmium-free and Phthalate-free. No chemical finishes, varnishes, polyurethanes, or stains allowed. The color you see on the finished product is the natural color of the wood and not a toxic, chemical stain used to disguise low-grade wood shavings to make them look like walnut or cherry. Furniture Should Have High Environmental Standards Sustainably-grown wood from ethically managed US forests. Buying American helps reduce pollution from overseas shipping, including millions of barrels of oil and the resulting release of CO2. Built by hand by American craftsman using time-honored techniques like mortise and tenon joinery. Use 100% solid wood constructions from solid Red Oak, Brown Maple, Hard Maple, Cherry and Walnut Woods. How to make healthy environment in my home? Studies have repeatedly shown that fewer chemicals inside of the home mean better health for the families that reside there. For example, exposure to household chemicals in the womb and early childhood have been tied to increasing rates of autism. (Hertz-Piciotti et al., Epidemiology 2009). Studies have found that exposure to common solvents in the home from varnishes, paints and glues is associated with childhood leukemia. (Freedman, Stewart et al., Household Solvent Exposures and Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 91 No.4). As the EPA will attest, sick building syndrome account for 40% of illnesses, so chemicals are now a daily burden on human health and a recognized cause of disease. Worse still, the EPA makes clear that most of our exposure to harmful chemicals actually occurs in our very own homes, and not from outside pollutants, such that the dangers from home furniture are now MORE serious than that from TOBACCO SMOKE. Solid Wood Means NO Engineered or Composite Woods Anywhere. Solid wood furniture sealed with linseed oil constitutes a fundamental step to decreasing chemical content in the home, and thus, diminishing the known health harms associated with exposures to carcinogens, allergens, developmental and reproductive toxins from everyday home furnishings we unknowingly bring into our houses. With this in mind, we do not permit any toxic chemicals in any of our products. No particle board, flakeboard, plywood, MDF, or any other composite or engineered wood products are used in any of our furnishings, including our cribs. Only 100% solid Oak, Brown Maple, Hard Maple, Walnut or Cherry hardwoods. We do not permit the use of any such engineered or composite woods ANYWHERE, including NOT in the bottoms, drawers and backs of furniture, where MDF and particle boards are typically hidden. Just because a piece of furniture says its is made from wood or wooden, doesn't mean its 100% solid wood, or even contains any solid wood whatsoever. Composite and engineered woods often called wooden or wood, and these man-made materials are toxic, and pollute indoor environments with chemicals, including known carcinogens, allergens, developmental and reproductive toxins. Likewise, we do not permit plywood veneers, as we think its unethical and unhealthy to glue wood peelings together with toxic chemicals, stick them onto a core of already extremely toxic MDF or particle board, and call this "wood" or "wooden" furniture. Plywood veneers are thin slices of wood peeled from a log, which are then used to disguise the low-grade, formaldehyde-based, wood scrap/dust boards used underneath. The wood you see on the surface of our furniture is the same solid wood that appears throughout, ensuring durability and stability from end-to-end. Engineered or Composite Woods Are Toxic. Engineered or composite woods are made from sawmill waste leftover from making solid wood lumber and fine furnishings such as our own. This is a low-end, low-value product. This wood waste was once discarded or used as mulch; however, big corporations found a way to profit from this wood waste, combining the dust/scraps with formaldehyde-based adhesives and other chemicals, plus heat, to cook up an artificial "wood" product. Wood dust and chemicals are obviously cheaper than solid premium lumber, and allow makers to simulate a wood look at a fraction of the cost. What is the harm then? These half-dust/half-chemical man-made substitutes, however, are laden with harmful substances that pose a serious threat to human health and development, so much so that even the Environmental Protection Agency cautions that off-gassing of chemicals, including volatile organic substances ("VOCs"), from common, everyday home furniture constitute a major human health risk, polluting the air in homes, and increasing the rates of asthma, allergies and other serious health problems. According to the EPA, one of the greatest sources for indoor pollution comes from “furniture made of certain pressed wood products.” Indeed, the EPA states that furnishings are one of the few sources of indoor air pollution that “release pollutants more or less continuously" from the time they are put in our homes. Because people spend “approximately 90 percent of their time indoors” the EPA has concluded that “the risks to health may be greater due to exposure to air pollution indoors than outdoors.” The EPA has even warned that tobacco smoke poses a more intermittent health risk than everyday furnishings. Unfortunately, as the EPA correctly points out, the people most susceptible to the affects of indoor air pollution are those who tend to “be exposed to indoor pollutants for the longest periods of time,” namely “the young, the elderly and chronically ill." Non-Toxic Means Nothing. The chemicals used in engineered wood products are NOT NON-TOXIC. Virtually every product manufactured today, especially for babies and children, will proudly identify itself as “non-toxic.” Ask any retail store person about their furniture, cribs, mattresses etc., and you will likely get the same answer, its all non-toxic of course, even while, in fact, being made from known cancer-causing agents under the law. The chemicals used in engineered woods, for example, are, in fact, extremely TOXIC, containing VOCs that are known carcinogens, allergens and developmental/reproductive toxins according to both state and federal law, including per the CERCLA ACT, the National Toxicology Program and California Proposition 65 Law. These chemicals turn into invisible vapors that we unknowingly breath in as we sit, sleep or play in our homes. One of the most common and toxic chemicals used in engineered woods is Formaldehyde, a known Carcinogen according to the IARC, a known human respiratory toxin and Hazardous Air Pollutant per the EPA, and a carcinogen under California Proposition 65, not to mention an Asthmagen. Studies have shown that formaldehyde in dwellings is associated with the development of childhood asthma, reproductive problems in women, and respiratory and skin problems, among other serious reported ailments, such as recurrent nosebleeds and fainting. According to federal scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Formaldehyde found in trailers used during Hurricane Katrina, which were blamed for seriously sickening countless evacuees, came from processed wood products, namely particleboard and plywood. Studies conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service found several dozen other VOCs off gassing from engineered woods, including Benzene (a carcinogen and developmental toxin by law, linked to leukemia in children), and Toluene (a carcinogen, developmental, and female reproductive toxin by law). The presence of such dangerous chemicals in engineered woods disproves the "Non-Toxic" claims made by furniture manufacturers, which includes 99% of crib manufacturers, all of whom rely on engineered woods and chemical finishes made with formaldehyde, benzene, toluene and other VOCs and carcinogens. What Sorts of Toxic Engineered or Composite Woods Are Used in Conventional Furniture? Particle Board, also known as flake board, is used as the structure in furniture, shelving and cabinetry -- this unattractive looking product is made from wood savings and saw dust mixed with synthetic formaldehyde resins, fire retardant chemicals, insect pesticide treatments, water-resistance treatments, waxes, and wetting/release agents. High heat cures the formaldehyde cocktail into a hard surface, but it will never be as hard or desirable as solid wood. This inexpensive artificial-wood is not only unattractive, it is also prone to warping and discoloration, not to mention a favored medium for mold. Moreover, when particle board is damaged, it loses its structural integrity and appearance; unlike solid wood which can be sanded down, and resealed, so its beauty and function remains intact, allowing it to be passed on through the generations. Plywood Paneling/Veneer is used to simulate a wood surface on the exterior of furniture and cabinets. Plywood is comprised of thin slices of wood that have been literally peeled from a log and then glued to other "peelings" through the application of carcinogenic formaldehyde-based glues and chemical patches -- all of which are then cooked up with a hot press. These cooked formaldehyde peelings are then bent into various shapes through the application of other chemicals and water, not to mention treated with toxic varnishes, finishes, stains and paints. Their purpose is to be glued to the surface of furniture to disguise other engineered woods, thus, confusing consumers by giving off the appearance of real solid wood. The problem is, of course, that these wood substitutes cannot exist without poisonous man-made chemicals, which then off-gas toxins into our environment -- this is markedly different from real, untreated, solid wood. MDF or Medium Density Fiberboard is used for drawer fronts, furniture tops and backs, cabinets, laminate flooring, molding and doors. The waste fibers used to make MDF are basically pulp, meaning fibers that have been chemically separated from wood splinters, and digested in a soup of other chemicals, including petroleum chemicals, disinfectants, bleachers etc., creating the consistency of a "dung cake," before being bound with a considerable amount of formaldehyde. The dung-cake hardens into a flat surface through the application of chemicals, high heat and extreme pressure. According to the EPA, MDF “is generally recognized as being the highest formaldehyde-emitting pressed wood product." Engineered/Composite Woods Are Not Eco-Friendly. Furniture made from engineered and composite woods, such as particle board, mdf and plywood often come with claims that they are environmentally-friendly, because they use the waste to make something new. The problem is not that they are cleaning up waste, its that they are mixing waste with toxic chemicals and polluting the environment and harming human health. Energy Intensive: Production of engineered woods is energy-intensive, consuming large amounts of electricity, water and requiring heavy machinery, including flake processors, boiling vats, gluing machines, dryers, hot pressers, shapers and surface processors, so the manufacturing process is hardly environmentally friendly or carbon-neutral Industrial Pollution: Manufacturing of engineered woods use toxic chemicals that create waste water, toxic air emissions and have a history of polluting adjoining air and water supplies, not to mention the homes they end up in, acording to the EPA. The chemicals used, including formaldehyde, are also toxic to workers, and there are ample studies documenting serious occupational health problems, including nasal and other cancers, serious breathing problems, and deaths, such as from sudden onset of fatal occupational asthma, from simply working in engineered wood plants. And this is from what we know. Engineered woods made in China are subjected to further chemical treatments and waste agents that we don't know about yet, and are likely to be considered unacceptable by U.S. health and safety standards. In fact, engineered woods manufactured in China have been found to have even more carcinogenic fumes than the ones made in the U.S.. Paints on furniture were found to contain lead, and now toxic carcinogenic cadmium. Using ONLY solid woods in all our furnishings means no Formaldehyde, Benzene, Toluene or other harmful man-made chemicals to worry about, and thus a healthier indoor environment to sleep and live in. Look For Furniture Made In USA Most furniture pieces today, including cribs, are manufactured in China and elsewhere in Asia, such as Vietnam, even when we are talking about brand-name US or European Companies. Ask about where the product is built, and as the salesman thumbs through the manual, he will inevitably find the Asian connection. Products made in China and elsewhere in Asia are almost always not subject to regular third-party oversight, or government regulation, so they may not be up to our health and safety standards, for example using waste water to clean products. As we’ve also seen with the lead paint recalls, and now see with the rising use of carcinogenic cadmium and other toxic heavy metals, the chemicals and paints used in Asia may be far below U.S. health and safety standards. It often takes years for regulators or watch dog organizations to catch on to what horrible ingredients Asian manufacturers have begun actually hiding in their furnishings, and years more to get the materials out after testing and legislation (only for Asian manufacturers to replace them with other similarly, toxic agents like Cadmium). Asian labor is also not in any sense fair wage or unexploited, working preposterously long hours, and receiving dollars a day as wages, while often times being forced to sleep at factory barracks with such costs deducted from their already meager paychecks. Such unacceptable working conditions hardly lead to quality craftsmanship. Recent recalls of cribs for safety reasons have involved Chinese manufacturing defects that lead to numerous injuries and even deaths of children. Even cribs made in Canada & Europe still use the same toxic compressed woods and harmful chemical/paint finishes to save material and labor costs, skimping on more expensive, premium full hardwoods and the trained labor force skilled in true woodworking techniques. Chinese workers in furniture factories for prominent and popular American companies are exposed to unhealthy levels of carcinogenic chemicals like benzene, toluene, xylene and other carcinogens used in common varnishes and paints applied to furniture. Among the serious health effects, exposure to such carcinogens damage Chinese workers bone marrow, leaving them with too few white blood cells, known as myelodysplastic anemia, a disease that progresses to fatal leukemia. The toxins are inhaled, for example, by Chinese workers as they paint and varnish furniture with a brush, or even from the fumes of spray-painted furniture elsewhere in the factory, since Chinese workers may not have access to spray booths and other protections like U.S. workers. When faced with these facts, American manufacturers claim surprise, even though they supposedly have oversight over the furniture production process over 6000 miles away in far-away China. The question is how can a corporation have oversight over furniture production and yet not know that workers aren't given protective equipment for 26 years, and don't even have paint spray booths to limit transfer of fumes? Instead the corporations insist that Chinese workers are safe because they work with "water-based paints and varnishes on its furniture" so there is no smell. As industrial scientists point out to them, however, water-based paints and varnishes still have carcinogenic solvents in them, including benzene. (See one such story in Salt Lake Tribune, http://extras.sltrib.com/china/printstory4.htm). In addition, no matter how much you hear the terms eco-friendly or green used in relations to advertising campaigns for furnishings, there is nothing environmentally-friendly about goods manufactured in China and shipped over to the U.S. Chinese factories, for one, produce more pollution, leading to more global warming, than factories in the U.S., due to their overwhelming reliance on toxic coal for energy generation. It only takes 5 -10 days for pollution from China to reach the West Coast of the United States. (G. Tyler Miller, et al., Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections and Solutions (2008)). Moreover, shipping furniture from China to the U.S. consumes several hundreds of thousands of gallons of bunker fuel, a non-renewable petroleum resource that is the dirtiest grade of fuel possible, releasing not only CO2, but also mercury, sulphur oxide and a host of other dangerous air pollutants that contribute to climate change and global warming. One container ship filled with furniture emits as much pollution as at least 50 MILLION CARS. Make Sure The Wood In Your Furnishings Are Sustainably Grown. The woods we use are sustainably grown and gathered from protected forests in the U.S. – so the materials are genuinely environmentally friendly. A tree is cut down, and another one planted in its place. It is popular these days for companies to advertise that a piece of furniture is eco-friendly, but that doesn’t make it healthy or even eco-friendly for that matter! Wood that is made from or coated with toxic chemicals is not friendly to your or your child’s environment – and formaldehyde, benzene, toluene and other similar chemicals are hardly eco-friendly when they are disposed of and pollute our air and water, not to mention off-gas and pollute the air in our homes. What is eco-friendly exactly about incentivizing the production and disposal of toxic chemicals harmful to the environment and reliant on non-renewable petroleum? It is also in vogue to call man-made woods sustainable. Some manufacturers, for example, tout that their MDF or Particle Board is sustainable because they use post-industrial recycled wood waste -- however, what they neglect to mention is that these fibers (1) are still produced through an energy-intensive process reliant on petroleum, which create waste and pollution and contributes to global warming, and (2) are chemically treated, including with formaldehyde adhesives, fire retardants and binders etc., which are petroleum based, toxic, and pollute the air and water. Formaldehyde-Free Isn't Enough: Note that products that claim to be "green" due to their removal of urea-formaldehyde adhesives, actually may replace the formaldehyde with other toxic chemical binders such as isocyanates, for example Methylene-Diphenyl-Diisocynate. Such chemicals according to the EPA, are "tumorigenic" and have been insufficiently assessed for their safety. The Centers for Disease Control, say such isocynates are responsible for "death from severe asthma...persistant or recurring eye irritation, nasal congestion, dry or sore throat, cold-like symptoms, cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, or chest tightness" and are "powerful irritants to the mucous membranes of the eyes and gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts." The California Office of Environmental Health Assessment reports that the chemical increases the prevalence of asthma in females, and chronic bronchitis in both males and females following exposure to LOW LEVELS, and can cause death from Asthma. Other replacements for urea-formaldehyde include phenolic compounds that still use formaldehyde in them, and soy based adhesives that still contain VOCs such as acetone Avoid Toxic Finishes, Waxes, Stains, Varnishes or Paints. The only finish we recommend on any of furniture is Linseed Oil – otherwise known as flaxseed oil -- which is extracted without the use of any chemical solvents or heavy metal driers, and is petroleum-free, chemical-free, and has Zero VOC. The finish, like the furniture, should be American-made. It should be food safe in the honest sense of the term. The natural oil finish creates a protective sheen that is natural, beautiful and durable, becoming only more so with age, and hand rubbed onto each piece with at least three coats, which are allowed to air dry before being reapplied over several days. The added labor is well worth it when you see the finished product, and know that it is free of the toxic varnishes, polyurethanes, metal paints, and chemical stains that are used on nearly every piece of furniture sold today. Do Not permit conventional finishes on any of our furniture, including so-called water-based finishes, because the contain toxic chemicals unfit for human health, including carcinogens. Water-based means nothing. Water-based finishes still contain known carcinogens such as benzene, which studies have linked to Leukemia in children and adults. According to the EPA chemicals applied to indoor furnishings flood homes with known carcinogens, allergens, reproductive & developmental toxins, and avoiding such chemicals can only help, not harm, human health. Avoid Varnishes, polyurethane finishes, paints (which still often contain carcinogens and VOCs even when labeled VOC FREE, and contain both carcinogens and other toxins when labled LOW VOC), sealants (even so-called water-based ones), and stains (also including water based stains) are ALL comprised of chemicals that are indeed classified as toxic under the Superfund Act, California Proposition 65, and numerous other state and federal laws. So-called water-based finishes, for example, contain chemicals such as N-Methylpyrrolidone, a carcinogen and mutagen, Benzene, a notorious carcinogen; and water based stains meant to simulate the look Walnut, for another example, contain Carbon Black, a pigment found to cause lung tumors when inhaled Strictly avoid Formaldehyde, Benzene, Toluene, Methyl Ethyl Ketoxime, and countless other carcinogens and mutagens are routinely present in finishes applied to wood and engineered wood. The MSDS sheets don't lie. Calling chemicals that under federal and state law are classified as carcinogens, air pollutants, reproductive and developmental toxins, NON-TOXIC is simply unconscionable The color you see on furniture should the natural color of the wood species shining through. Walnut being darker, and oak more honey-hued, for example -- it should not be a chemical stain applied to dye a cheaper grade of wood or engineered wood like Birch or Baltic Birch plywood to look like real solid wood. Stains are profoundly toxic, and they indeed off-gas, whether water-based or oil based. Your Bedroom May Be More Toxic Than The Street Outside Your Window. New furniture carries with it the highest chemical pollution levels. This is even more concerning for a baby's room as its often newly decorated - new crib, new nursery furniture, new mattress, new bedding, new paints, new carpet, new draperies, new toys -- a baby’s room will often be the MOST toxic room in the home. YOU HAVE NOW COMPLETED OUR COURSE ON FURNITURE BUYING GUIDE. Our goal at Green Cradle is to offer our beautiful, craftsman, heirloom certified organic latex mattress, solid wood furniture and solid wood cribs that are all natural, non-toxic, eco-friendly, and Made in USA. What a nice way to green the world. VISIT OUR LOS ANGELES MATTRESS & FURNITURE SHOWROOM 13344 VENTURA BLVD, SHERMAN OAKS, CA 91423 STORE HOURS: TUE-SAT 11:30AM-4:30PM (PST) and SUN & MON By Appointment Only. Email us at info@greencradle.com to schedule an appointment. YOU HAVE QUESTIONS CALL US (877) 476-2735 Subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to receive exclusive offers, hear about our new products and view upcoming promotions. We at Green Cradle do our research to make your home safe and we tell you what we’ve learned regularly in our newsletter. We promise not to share your personal information with anyone. Green Cradle	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6408
__label__cc	0.679771	0.320229	1151 W. US Hwy 30, H-D® Promotions MotorClothes® MotorClothes® Request The Paint Shop H-D® Kokomo H-D® Michigan City Hunter's Moon H-D® IndyWest H-D® Earn Points With Rider Rewards Maps & Hours Indiana Patriot Guard 2015 Harley-Davidson Ultra Limited Used Motorcycles • Touring 2015 Harley-Davidson Ultra Limited • $19,995 FLHTK 1HD1KEL11FB680020 Mysterious Red Sunglo / Blackened Cayenne Sunglo King Of The Touring Motorcycles! With its 6-gallon fuel tank, 6-speed Cruise Drive transmission with integrated Isolated Drive System and low-maintenance belt final drive, the Ultra Limited is ready to go the distance. And the ride is enhanced with Reflex Linked Brakes with ABS, the Boom! Box 6.5 GT Audio System with navigation, Daymaker LED headlight and fog lights, cruise control, heated grips, Smart Security System with hands-free fob, two power outlets, a luggage rack and luggage liners. Between the saddlebags and Tour-Pak trunk, total luggage capacity is 133 liters. For better heat management and higher performance, the Twin-Cooled High Output Twin Cam 103 V-twin circulates coolant around the exhaust valves and through two radiators hidden within the fairing lowers, with all of the plumbing well hidden to maintain a traditional look. Everything from higher-output engines, hydraulic clutches and linked ABS to high-tech audio/navigation systems, ergonomic switches and One-Touch latches on saddlebags, trunks and vents were aimed at improving the riding experience. Control Features Project RUSHMORE – Control: Here are some of the innovations Project RUSHMORE led to: the Reflex™ Linked Brakes with ABS, the Daymaker™ LED headlamps and fog lamps, brighter Tour-Pak® luggage carrier lighting, brighter turn signals, brighter brake lights, and a steering head with stiffer front forks. Locked-up tires are now history even when there’s wet pavement. We've made it feel even better to lean your way through a turn. Now you can see better. And we’ve made you more conspicuous to the cage-driving public. Because one thing we all agree on is this: bikes that work better make riders who ride better. Take a ride. See how good you can be. H-D® Smart Security System: The factory-installed next-generation security system features a hands-free fob that automatically arms and disarms the vehicle's electronic security functions as you approach and walk away from the bike. Stick the fob on your ignition key ring and let it do all the work. It's this attention to detail and security that make Harley-Davidson® motorcycle unique. Air-Adjustable Suspension: With air-adjustable suspension that comes standard, you can dial in your ride to accommodate heavier or lighter payloads, battle unexpected road conditions or simply set it to how you like to roll. The lighter the load, the softer you can go by decreasing the air pressure a bit, or increase the air pressure for a more firm ride. A convenient air valve is located between the saddlebag and rear fender for quick adjusting. It's all about rider and passenger comfort and setting your bike to fit your tastes the easy way. Brembo® Brakes: Confidence. Control. High-performance dual disc Brembo brakes offer consistent stopping power at all speeds. The 4-piston front and rear caliper with dual front rotor brake system is state of the art and top of the line. It's just another way The Motor Company puts a high level of detail into their bikes to give you peace of mind throughout your journey. Daymaker LED Headlights and LED Fog Lamps: For those who regard darkness as an invitation to go farther, the Daymaker LED headlight with LED fog lamps will light the way. With 2,136 powerful, daylight-simulating lumens that bathe the dark road in natural light, a shoulder-to-shoulder spread of 160 feet and a 450-foot punch, the night is yours to take with full confidence. Because not all of us look for an exit when day turns to night. Reflex Linked Brakes with Anti-Lock Braking System: No doubt about it, there are times when you need to haul things down in a hurry. And you don’t get to pick those times. Or decide whether or not they occur when you’re on a flat, smooth, dry, perfect stretch of pavement. That’s why our touring models feature the Reflex Linked Brakes with ABS. ABS turns a locked-up front wheel or a rear wheel skid into a relic from riding’s history. And the front and rear brakes are electronically linked to provide exactly the right amount of brake to each tire no matter what the road condition is. No matter how good you are, this will make you a better rider. Ergonomically Designed Hand Controls: It’s hard to enjoy the ride or keep your eyes focused on what’s coming down the road when you’re fussing and bothering with the switches on your handlebar. So when we built the Project RUSHMORE motorcycles, we worked over the hand controls on our touring bikes with as much passion as we worked over our engine. We made the shape more ergonomic and located and angled them to fall right under your thumbs. We added left-hand cruise for easy activation, toggle switches to control infotainment functions, and an easily locatable trigger switch to control and scan through functional readouts. And we improved the feel to give you a confidence-inspiring click at every push of a button. Even the dash panel switch got better. And it’s all prewired for parts and accessories, which even lets you customize with less fuss and bother. Steering Head and Front Forks: Whether it’s a big sweeping curve or a set of tight turns, a Project RUSHMORE motorcycle feels rock-solid in the corners. We stiffened up the front end, increased the fork diameter to 49 mm (an increase of 18%) and retuned the damping for a smoother ride. The responsiveness is dialed in. Dunlop® Multi-Tread™ Tires: The 180 mm back tire does more than fill out the rear fender and put a bigger patch of rubber on the road. Dunlop Multi-Tread technology uses harder compounds at the center and softer on the sides for a tire that still knows how to knuckle down on corners. Perfect for making this bike agile on every curvy stretch of road. And the way it feels going through an abrupt off-camber turn will put a grin on your face that'll last to the next state line. Six-Speed Cruise Drive® Transmission: You want a ride that rumbles—not begs for mercy—when you lean on it a little. The Six-Speed Cruise Drive transmission provides smooth, quiet shifting and reduces engine speed on the highway, so you get a better match between engine turnover and road speed. And the Isolated Drive System makes acceleration flow in a smooth, steady stream from your wrist right down to the pavement. It's a rare ride when a bike responds like this, and a low growl goes a long way when you're opening up the road ahead. Twin Cam 103™ Engine Heritage: The knowledge of what makes an engine truly move a rider runs deep at The Motor Company, and it was put to good use when we created the Twin Cam 103 engine. We sweated bullets perfecting every cubic inch, pushing design and technology forward. And we did it all without compromising one bit of Harley-Davidson's unique styling. Evolved, yet carrying on the legacy of the Flathead, Knucklehead, Panhead, Shovelhead, Evolution® and Twin Cam 88® and Twin Cam 96™ engines that came before. The performance and durability are a direct result of the untold miles logged on the V-twin since 1909 and the proud heritage that comes from a century's worth of commitment to life on two wheels. Twin Cam 103 Engine Innovation: Fire up the Twin Cam 103 engine and feel the low-end torque unleashed. Thanks to the lightweight piston design, delivery of the added power is more refined than ever. Then put your foot on the shifter and feel how the engine and Six-Speed Cruise Drive transmission were designed to work together. Six speeds. A strong driveline and strong internal parts. Low routine maintenance. And a low cruising rpm couldn't feel better. Project RUSHMORE – Engine: As every rider knows, the engine is at the heart of the experience of riding a motorcycle. The amount of torque and horsepower it delivers over the RPM range is in direct proportion to the feeling it gives you when you roll on the throttle. We know what riders want from a motorcycle engine because we've been building them for 110 years. Project RUSHMORE gave us the opportunity to dial it in just right. We conducted thousands of road tests with real riders giving us feedback to build the next iteration of the legendary Harley-Davidson engine. The consensus was: We want more. More low-end torque, more passing power, more perfection in the tone of the exhaust note, more of the feeling we ride a motorcycle for. And last year, we unveiled the engines that deliver it. This is the next level of Harley-Davidson V-twin engine. And it proves, once and for all, the customer is always right. Twin-Cooled™ High Output Twin Cam 103 Engine: If you started in 1909 with the very first Harley-Davidson V-twin engine and worked your way up through every engine, every innovation, every improvement, every ride, every durability test in all those years and countless miles since, you arrive at the Twin-Cooled High Output Twin Cam 103 engine. This is the top of the line. 103 cubic inches of air and precision cooled Harley-Davidson V-twin engine power. Twin cooling cools the heads around the exhaust ports to deliver at or near peak performance under all operating conditions and temperatures. A higher compression ratio increases efficiency and horsepower. The airbox delivers increased airflow and the cam optimizes low-end torque. It’s got the fastest 60 to 80 mph 5th gear roll on in the history of Harley-Davidson. Which means it’s got the most passing power in the history of Harley-Davidson. On top of all that, it puts less heat on the rider and passenger on scorching days and in stop-and-go traffic. Feel Features Project RUSHMORE – Comfort: We dialed in the comfort of our machines the hard way: over thousands of miles in all kinds of riding conditions on every kind of street, road and highway ever laid down in pavement. Experienced riders and passengers putting in long hours in the saddle and giving us feedback on every aspect that contributes to comfort on the road. Airflow, heat management, passenger space, back rests, seat textures, legroom and hand controls all went under the hard microscope of the road and got tested and re-tested by real riders and worked and re-worked by us until we were satisfied we had built the most comfortable machines on the road. We all want to go farther, and when you and your passenger are more comfortable in the saddle, you can. Full-Length Footboards and Toe/Heel Gear Shifts: Your boots were made for riding, any way you see fit. Our full-length footboards boast a time-tested, tried-and-true design and rubber isolation for a comfortable ride, while the height-adjustable passenger boards add another level of customizable comfort for your riding partner. And for shifting gears, you can use either the traditional toe-shift or the even easier, more convenient heel-shift. It might take a few rides, but once you've gotten used to the smooth shifting rhythm, you'll never give it up. Heated Hand Grips: When the chill gets at you, just having a little heat would be nice enough. But this is a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and we're all about the details. Our heated handgrips have six settings, so you can easily adjust on the fly for the heat you need with the versatility and control you've come to depend on. Wide Set Handlebar: Classic style and maximum comfort. That's the perfect balance of the wide set handlebars that come standard on the Ultra Limited model. They're designed to keep you comfortably propped in a commanding position while making sure your neck muscles stay calm and relaxed mile after mile, state after state. Durable stainless steel ensures the structural rigidity you expect from a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with the deep, lustrous finish you desire. Standard Cruise Control: Installing cruise control is standard operating procedure on the touring models because riding long stretches of unbroken highway is standard operating procedure among touring riders. Electronic throttle control means no cable cluttering up your handlebar. And the switches are placed where you can easily dial in your speed with your left thumb, give the wrist a break, and keep hauling on down the road. Fairing Lowers: There’s no such thing as a minor irritation when you’re going to be experiencing it for tens of thousands of miles. The little things make a difference. Like the way the wind comes around your fairing lowers. We’ve got these fairing lowers dialed in just right, thanks to more wind tunnel and real world riding tests than we’ve ever done before. And the vents open with one touch when the going gets hot. You’ll appreciate them more with each passing mile. Increased Passenger Seat Space and Legroom: Here's a message for all passengers: your time in the saddle has never been better. That goes quadruple when you’re 1,000 miles into the ride of a lifetime making the final leg of the day to get to the hot tub so you can relax for the evening. Because the longer the ride, the more you'll appreciate the improvements we made when we introduced the Project RUSHMORE motorcycles last year. The passenger pillion is one inch wider and one inch longer. And we put two more inches of room between the speakers. We moved the saddlebag guards down for more legroom and to make sure they don’t rub your calves. It all adds up to a ride that provides best-in-class comfort. Back and Arm Rests: If you really want to know what makes a passenger comfortable, you start by asking people who’ve seen a good part of the world from the back of a bike. You run thousands of miles of road tests in heat, cold, sun, and rain. You use their input to perfect the height, the width, the shape, the contour, the texture of the leather, the lumbar support. You install controls that can be easily reached and operated with one hand. What you end up with is the back and arm rests you’re looking at right here. Passengers love them like they’re their own babies, because in a manner of speaking, they are. Project RUSHMORE – Convenience: If you want the ride to be truly epic, you have to sweat bullets to make the little things work exactly right. This is what Project RUSHMORE was all about. Now you have saddlebags and Tour-Pak luggage carriers that can be easily opened with one hand. Compartments that open with one touch. And we've increased the storage space on these machines without ruining the sleek, road-eating look of the bike. It all adds up to hundreds of little moments where things just click conveniently into place. Because there can be no imperfections in the quest for the perfect ride. One-Touch Design Philosophy: Here’s the rule we laid down for every compartment cover and saddlebag lid on our touring line: if it doesn’t open with the single touch of a button or one hand, while wearing gloves, it doesn’t go on the motorcycle. Because in all our conversations with riders, we've never encountered a single individual who wanted to have to put something on the ground before he could store it in a saddlebag. Saddlebag Design: Don’t let the sleek look of these saddlebags deceive you. The look is tight on the outside, but things are roomy on the inside. You want stuffability and these deliver bigger than ever. The hinges are simple and clean and the lids open with one touch of one hand. The lock is tight and integrated into the latch where you can put the key in without the danger of scratching your premium paint. And removable travel bags are standard. Welcome to the next level of the bagger. One-Touch Fuel Door: One button, one touch, fuel door open. Any questions? Tour-Pak Luggage Carrier Design: Like the saddlebags, the Tour-Pak luggage carrier design sports a sleek look, but it didn’t come at the expense of storage space. They can easily accommodate two full-face helmets. There’s a document and tool kit pouch. The lock is integrated into the latch to keep your key away from your premium paint. And premium hinges work better and look sharper. You can operate the single latch with one hand. Storage. Check. We have it covered. Standard Battery Charging Harness: No question a battery charging harness is a must-have on a motorcycle. Now it’s standard. So you don’t have to waste even the ten minutes it takes to install one on some sunny Saturday when you could be riding. Fairing Reduces Head Buffeting: This is what the science of cheating the wind involves at Harley-Davidson now: fluid mechanics, algorithms, high-speed super computers and thousands upon thousands of wind-tunnel tests with riders in the saddle telling us how it feels. And that’s before we take it out on the road for thousands of miles of real world wind gusts and every form of rain a cloud can spit out. The result: a Batwing fairing that delivers smoother air flow and reduced head buffeting. Most of it thanks to the pressure-equalizing duct on the front. It opens and closes with one touch of a button. The feeling of being in the wind just got even better. Infotainment Features Project RUSHMORE – Infotainment: More sound. Purer sound. Big, full-color touch screens. Switches that are located where you intuitively want them to be and can reach without removing your hands from the grips. Voice activation for your music, phone and GPS. Or as more than one rider asked: "Why can’t the infotainment system on my motorcycle blow away the ones the car companies put in their cars?"?We couldn’t agree more. Check out the infotainment system Project RUSHMORE brought to the sport of motorcycling. You won’t believe your eyes. Or ears. Boom!™ Box 6.5GT Radio: Let’s start with this. The Boom! Box 6.5GT Radio puts out 75 watts per channel at 1% distortion and features a factory-tuned, optimized equalizer that pumps out more power and can be played louder while maintaining the clarity of your sound. And the speed tuning system delivers more than just volume changes at different speeds. It changes the level of bass and treble to dial in the best sound, whether you’re running at a stately pace down the strip or going hell for leather down an open stretch of road. How do you like the sound of a Harley® motorcycle? 6.5-Inch Full-Color Touch Screen Display: This 6.5-inch full-color touch screen puts all your information in front of you bigger than ever. Modern graphics, colors you can dial in, and auto and manual dim. Designed to sit stylishly inside your fairing, it takes screen technology to an eye-popping level of Harley-Davidson functionality. This is more than you expect, but when you’re going all the way, it’s everything you deserve. Jukebox with USB Port for iPod / iPhone: The Jukebox opens with one touch of a button and includes a USB connection which accepts your iPhone, iTouch, non-iPod imitators, and SD card and other USB compatible devices. Pop it open, plug in and your device becomes a part of your motorcycle. Ready to be operated by voice command or hand controls. Voice Recognition, Bluetooth: The Boom! Box 6.5GT gives you voice recognition for hands-free operation of your mobile phone, navigation system and music. It’s also Bluetooth capable. Whatever you want, just say the word. Whether it’s directions to the next gas station, a call back to the office you’re not at today or a song that fits the stretch of road you’re on, it’ll be served up without missing a beat. 5.25-Inch Front and Rear Speakers: The sound delivered front and rear comes from 5.25-inch speakers mounted securely in sealed and tuned enclosed speaker housings. Ready for Your Upgrades: The Boom! Box 6.5GT was built with your personal touches in mind. You can integrate P & A satellite radio right into the vehicle radio with no external mounting and control it through the hand controls. Additional satellite services such as weather and traffic can be added and overplayed on the GPS maps. You can even download map upgrades and additional functions. The only question is how far do you want to go? Project RUSHMORE – Style: Project RUSHMORE is the journey we set out on to take our touring motorcycles to places never imagined before – to turn all the possibilities for what a motorcycle can be now into true Milwaukee steel. We did it our way, as we’ve always done. As riders. Riding with other riders. Thousands of hours, countless road tests, millions of miles. Looking for the technology and innovations that truly make the ride better. We went over the bike fender tip to fender tip. Making it work better. Making it look sleeker. Modern. Clean. Tight. Let your eye take the journey over the machine. This is classic Harley-Davidson style and a sleek, modern look at the exact same time. At Harley-Davidson, form has always followed function. And both have always reported to emotion. Now we’re just doing it on a completely different level. Classic Fuel Tank: Part of the unmistakable style of the Harley-Davidson Ultra Limited motorcycle is plenty of room for showing off your paint. This classically styled, bold 6-gallon fuel tank doesn't just give you a bigger canvas for premium or custom paint; it holds 6 gallons of go so you can eat up a lot more road between pit stops. We know fuel economy is important—but so is style. A dual-color paint scheme, crisp pinstripes that run the length of the bike and special Harley-Davidson tank medallions give this ride a one-of-a-kind look. Bullet Turn Signals: We went end to end and top to bottom to give the Harley-Davidson Touring lineup the clean, tight, sharp, iconic look and feel that only befits the next generation of our motorcycles. The finishing touch—bullet turn signals. Sleek and modern, yet a timeless classic. Inner Fairing Design: Put your eye to the inner fairing of the Ultra Limited. There’s a bigger display screen (see the whole story in the infotainment section). Check out the gauges. You’ll notice a 10% larger viewing area, with wider, taller numbers sitting on top of that classic black background. The information gets bigger and better too. There’s a gear indicator for all six gears and the display area, which can now be operated by an extremely convenient trigger switch, puts more information at your fingertips. The temperature and fuel gauge are larger too. When you’re on the road, one quick glance tells you everything you need to know. Tank and Fender Badges: This isn’t just a motorcycle. It’s a work of art, born out of passion, creativity and long days, late nights and refusing to be satisfied until every detail was perfect. When we added the signature, we did it with metal. Nothing else would be right on this masterpiece. High Flow Airbox: Our design philosophy can be summed up pretty simply: form follows function, but both report to emotion. This airbox is a prime example of that. It’s the most functional airbox we’ve ever put on a Harley-Davidson touring bike. It lets the engine breathe better for more power, but it’s also designed to give you more legroom and provide better airflow around the rider. Emotion? That’s the part you feel when you look at it sitting right at the center of your V-twin engine. Restyled Fairing and Front Fender: Let’s start with this: when you see the iconic shape of a Harley-Davidson Batwing fairing coming at you down the road, it leaves no question that you’re looking at a machine born in Milwaukee and built for gigantic miles of road. Last year, we introduced the Project RUSHMORE Batwing fairing. We made the iconic shape sleeker and gave it a more progressive look. But this isn't just about looks. It's about the ride. The Project RUSHMORE Batwing fairing gives you less head buffeting (see comfort section for the full story on that) but also the look that instantly announces "Hey, this is a HARLEY-DAVIDSON motorcycle." Of course, we didn’t stop at the fairing. The fairing lowers and Tour-Pak luggage case got a sleeker look to match. And we worked over the front fender too, with a clean look that’s cut back to expose more of the wheel and tire. It all comes together for a look that’s never been seen before, yet instantly familiar. Welcome to the next generation of Harley-Davidson t Gloss Black Inner Fairing: A premium gloss black finish comes standard on the Ultra Limited motorcycle. It's there because on a bike like this one, you can't help but go the extra mile. 17-Inch Impeller Front Wheel: Sitting out front on the Ultra Limited you’ll notice a 17-inch cast aluminum, 10-spoke Impeller wheel. In the back you’ve got a 16-inch Impeller to match. The brake rotors are designed to show off more of the premium custom look of the wheels. Because if you’re going to go this far, you might as well take it all the way. Pure Harley-Davidson Styling: Feast your eyes on the Twin Cam 103 engine and there's no mistaking its roots. This is authentic Harley-Davidson style through and through with an attention to detail you won't find from any other motorcycle company. Black powder-coated heads and cylinders are highlighted by machined cooling fin tips and chrome rocker covers. It's a jewel machined out of metal. Pure. Dripping with power. From the classic edge of the cooling fins to the clean lines of cases and covers—the Twin Cam 103 engine makes an ironclad statement about holding on to what's right and staying true to what satisfies the rider. Front & Rear: 32 mm, 4-piston fixed Front & Rear: Contrast chrome impeller cast aluminum Front: BW 130/80B17 65H Rear: BW 180/65B16 81H 102.4 in. (2,600 mm) 861 lbs. (391 kg) dry 896 lbs. (406 kg) running order 27.3 in. (695 mm) laden 29.1 in. (740 mm) unladen Chain, 34/46 ratio High beam, running lights, front fender running lights, directional lights, neutral, low oil pressure, engine diagnostics, accessory, speakers, turn signals, security system, gear indication, battery, low fuel warning, cruise control, ABS, fog / aux lamp indicator Twin-Cooled™ High Output Twin Cam 103™ 103.1 ci (1,690 cc) 3.87 x 4.38 in. (98.4 x 111.1 mm) 105.5 ft. lbs. (143 Nm) @ 3,750 rpm Chrome, 2-1-2 dual with tapered mufflers 42 mpg combined (5.6 l/100 km) Vivid Black, Amber Whiskey / Vivid Black, Superior Blue, Brilliant Silver Pearl / Vivid Black, Deep Jade Pearl / Vivid Black, Radioactive Green, Shrine, Firefighter and Peace Officer Special Edition Colors of Valparaiso 1151 W. US Hwy 30 H-D® Financing	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6413
__label__wiki	0.523043	0.523043	Newcastle Urology: changing attitudes with information for patients Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust MAGIC: Shared decision making This case study was provided by Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust. The project was run by the Newcastle urology team, and the patient pathway was amended for North Tyneside and the Freeman Hospital. The project set out to help patients with enlarged prostate understand their condition and types of treatment available. The team implemented decision aids developed by the NHS, adding them to the clinical pathway. The NHS has developed an information booklet and DVD to help patients with enlarged prostate understand their condition and the types of treatment available. These patient decision aids, derived from US tools, have been developed with UK clinicians and patients. The Newcastle urology team identified the potential benefit of these tools and chose to implement them as part of MAGIC. They held initial team discussions to identify when best to offer the tools. The patient pathway was amended for two sites to include a telephone follow-up appointment. Patients were given decision aid materials at a clinic consultation with a specialist nurse. They took these home where they could consider each treatment’s benefits and risks. A final supported decision was then made during a follow-up phone call. If the patient was undecided at this point, they were offered another face-to-face appointment. Patient responses have been very positive and attitudes are changing in response to this supported shared decision making. They are asking more questions about their condition and the treatment options. North Tyneside patients have shown increased interaction with their consultation and more Freeman Hospital patients have been taking the lead in deciding their treatments. Face-to-face appointments are in less demand thanks to the pathway changes. A follow-up appointment is now only needed when the patient is struggling to make a decision. This positive impact has helped change clinicians’ attitudes to patient decision aids. Clinicians are proud of their overall success and are facilitating shared decision making in other urology clinics. The MAGIC programme: Evaluation An independent evaluation of the first phase of the MAGIC programme, aimed at encouraging clinical... This programme ran in two phases, from 2010 to 2013, at sites across Newcastle and Cardiff. It...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6414
__label__cc	0.534476	0.465524	Your local partner Why HYMER? Travel & Enjoy Well planned Travel to Iceland Driving safety training Your local dealer e. g.: HYMER Exsis-t My HYMER Semi-integrated motorhome on a Mercedes chassis with a new layout: the Hymer T-Class S 680 Bad Waldsee, 10 January 2020 – Hymer GmbH & Co. KG is continuing its collaboration with Mercedes-Benz in the semi-integrated motorhome sector. The Hymer T-Class S provides the perfect introduction to the world of motorhoming on a whole new level: the bodywork of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter with front-wheel drive and original frame has a marked impact on payload reserves and the headroom within the vehicle, while numerous driver assistance systems are also included on board. The most impressive features of the new 680 layout of the Hymer T-Class S include its two generous twin beds, the spacious en-suite bathroom that can be partitioned off from the living area, and the optional fold-down bed above the L-shaped seating area, which is also an optional extra. With the T-Class S, Hymer is redefining the quality standards for those starting out in the world of motorhoming. Measuring 7.39 metres in length and 2.29 metres in width, the motorhome on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis boasts a sporty look. Numerous assistance systems, such as Crosswind Assist, Active Brake Assist or DISTRONIC Active Distance Assist, ensure a high level of safety and a smooth drive. New designer touches and an especially cosy interior When it comes to the interior, the T-Class S boasts a clear-cut design: a cosy atmosphere is created by the modern synergy of mirror-finish surfaces combined with matt surfaces that are pleasing to the touch, as well as the accentuated wooden design of the furniture. Thanks to the lowered chassis frame, the upper floor is level throughout the vehicle, which results in a generous overall headroom of 2.04 metres. The spacious en-suite bathroom with separate shower integrated in the 680 layout offers plenty of room and can also be partitioned off from the living area. The highlights of the layout are the inviting seating area and two generous single beds measuring 83 centimetres in width and over 1.90 metres in length. As an option, a lowerable double bed above the seating area can be added to the T-Class S 680. Furnishings and fittings create a cosy atmosphere on board The optional L-shaped seating section at the front of the living area creates an open feeling of space thanks to the additional side couch and clever floor plan. On request, handy double USB ports and extra sockets can be installed in the seating area, which has a particularly spacious design, and by the rear beds. An integrated, floor-to-ceiling wardrobe also provides storage space for light jackets and evening gowns. The vehicle features a hot air diesel heater with a boiler as standard, which not only has a positive impact on the weight and storage space as gas bottles are no longer required, but also ensures greater self-sufficiency on trips as it is powered by diesel. The space for the two compact 3-litre gas bottles for the hob is still present. The new layout of the T-Class S also has a floor-to-ceiling, silent 152-litre compressor refrigerator as standard with an optional oven above. The kitchen design features a light colour scheme and a tapered front panel, which gives the vehicle a more spacious appearance and enables the kitchen to be used in a more ergonomic way. The large panoramic roof vent in the living area lets in plenty of daylight to create a pleasant, natural ambience inside the vehicle. The striking lighting concept is based on LED technology and features several lighting levels. Press release Hymer T-Class S 680 \| PDF (415.1 KB) Factsheet Hymer T-Class S 680 \| PDF (351.8 KB) Press pictures HYMER T-Class S 680 \| ZIP (29 MB) Sarah Lemke Hymer GmbH & Co KG Holzstraße 19 Tel: +49 (0) 7524 999-0 E-Mail: presse@hymer.com About Hymer GmbH & Co. KG Since its foundation in 1957, Hymer has been a household name in motorhomes and caravans “made in Germany”. The company is not only notable for its long tradition and passion for motorhoming, but is also one of the leading manufacturers in the premium sector thanks to its high standards of quality and consistent record of innovation. Hymer GmbH & Co. KG markets its products under the four brands Hymer Motor Caravans, Hymer Camper Vans, Eriba Caravans and Hymer Original Parts. Hymer GmbH & Co. KG is part of the Erwin Hymer Group SE. About the Erwin Hymer Group The Erwin Hymer Group is a 100 percent subsidiary of Thor Industries, the world's leading manufacturer of recreational vehicles with more than 22,000 employees worldwide. The Erwin Hymer Group unites motorhome and caravan manufacturers as well as motorhome and caravan accessory specialists, hire and financing services under one roof. 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__label__wiki	0.629823	0.629823	EA Announces All-New Football Experience with Madden NFL Arcade Electronic Arts Inc. has announced an all-new way to experience the Madden NFL franchise with Madden NFL Arcade – a fun, pick-up-and-play, 5-on-5 football game from EA Tiburon. Madden NFL Arcade is pure adrenaline football for both casual and diehard NFL fans, featuring a unique art style that brings your favorite players to life like never before! Madden NFL Arcade will be available as a download on Xbox LIVE Arcade and the PlayStation Store for 1200 MS Points and $14.99 respectively, just in time for the holidays in December. “When you look around the office and see your whole team playing and having tons of fun with it, you know the game hit the right mark,” said marketing director Nathan Stewart. “We have diehard Madden fans who have worked on the franchise for a decade, and more casual gamers who are all playing together and enjoying it. If our productivity the past few weeks is any indication, we`ve created a game that everyone will love.” Choose one of your favorite 32 NFL teams and distinctive home stadium for a battle with the best five players on each side of the ball, and let the excitement begin! Each team is given four downs to march 60 yards to pay dirt – no penalties or field goals allowed here, pal! Get your Madden NFL fix in a completely new way, with fast-paced games where the first team to 30 wins. Want to mix it up? Madden NFL Arcade can be tailored to fit your liking by changing options, such as skill level, points to win, and more; making each game unlike the one before. Take advantage of 13 unique “Game Changers” to break the game wide open on a single play. Add an entourage of lineman to get the sack, freeze an opposing player, turn off your opponent`s passing icons, and much more. No lead is safe in Madden NFL Arcade. Madden NFL Arcade is the perfect video game for gameday, allowing up to four players to play co-op on a single console. You can also take on the world online in head-to-head matches and track your performance via interactive leaderboards. If you like to commemorate your gridiron success, Madden NFL Arcade will also provide a host of achievements and trophies to boost your gamer score. Madden NFL Arcade is rated E for everyone by the ESRB andis developed in Orlando, Florida by the EA Tiburon studio, which also produces NCAA Football, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR and EA SPORTS MMA. For assets regarding Madden NFL Arcade, please visit: http://info.ea.com For more information about Madden NFL Arcade visit: maddennfl.easports.com.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6426
__label__wiki	0.987588	0.987588	Australia Pacific 12th Jan. 2021 Atlas Air orders four Boeing 747-8F News 11th Jan. 2021 Volotea retires Boeing 717 News 9th Jan. 2021 Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 crashes after departure from Jakarta Top Story 8th Jan. 2021 Boeing to pay $2.5 billion over 737 Max failings Top Story 8th Jan. 2021 Vistara to launch Frankfurt flights News 20th Jan. 2021 Air Canada proposes takeover of Air Transat 16th May. 2019 Jan-Hendrik Fiedler The tail of an Air Transat Airbus A330 at Toronto Pearson Airport. Photo: © Jan-Hendrik Fiedler / IFN Montreal-based Air Canada and Air Transat’s parent Transat A.T. Inc have announced that the Canadian flag-carrier has proposed a plan to acquire the latter company. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, is valued at CA$520 million with each share valued at CA$13. Transat A.T. Inc has previously mentioned that it intends to sell Air Transit to a Quebec-based company. This comes only days after Westjet announced that it is being acquired by Onex Corporation and thereby going private. Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu said in a statement that “a combination with Transat represents a great opportunity for stakeholders of both companies.” Definite merger talks between the two companies are to be held over a 30-day period. Air Canada is the country’s largest airline with over 200 aircraft in its fleet. It operates most out of its hubs in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver to destinations in North and South America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Transat A.T. Inc is a travel company operating several vacation-related objects mainly in the Caribbean and is the owner of Air Transat, which operates a fleet of 40, mostly Airbus aircraft to leisure destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe. It is currently replacing its aging Airbus A310 fleet with new aircraft. The airline recently received its first Airbus A321LR. Jan-Hendrik Fiedler Jan-Hendrik is an aviation enthusiast from southern Germany, loves to travel the world and fly on as many aircraft as possible. His first flight was with a Condor 757 to Spain and has been into aviation ever since. He is most interested in aircraft deliveries and passenger experience (PaxEx). Atlas Air orders four Boeing 747-8F 12th Jan. 2021 Jan-Hendrik Fiedler Boeing has sold a further four 747-8 freighter aircraft to US-based Atlas Air. These aircraft will be the last ones to leave the factory in Everett before the 747 production line closes … [read more] Boeing to pay $2.5 billion over 737 Max failings 8th Jan. 2021 Matt Griffin The United States Department of Justice has ruled that Boeing must pay up to $2.5 billion dollars over its failings with its 737 Max aircraft. Boeing’s 737 Max was grounded from March … [read more] JetBlue takes delivery of first Airbus A220 1st Jan. 2021 Nick Wenzel Shortly before the end of 2020, JetBlue Airways has taken delivery of its first Airbus A220-300 jet. The carrier’s first Airbus A220 was handed over on Thursday at Airbus’ production site in … [read more] Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 crashes after departure from Jakarta Qatar Airways resumes flying through Saudi Arabian airspace Countries around the world ban travel from the UK due to Coronavirus mutation GOL becomes first airline to restart Boeing 737 MAX operations Lufthansa is serious about the leisure market 17th Sep. 2020 How AirBaltic is transforming its fleet and accelerating deliveries 9th May. 2020 Airbus A380 turns 15 with most on the ground 27th Apr. 2020 Tweets by FlightIntl Copyright © 2018-2021 International Flight Network (IFN) \| Using content from IFN.news without permission is forbidden. Everything posted on this website is for information purposes only. IFN.news requires cookies in order to work with an optimal user experience. By using this website, you confirm that you accept our Privacy Policy.I understandMore information	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6428
__label__wiki	0.626952	0.626952	An Actor Prepares (2018) Misfire on the road TheLittleSongbird5 March 2019 Have always had high appreciation for comedy, in fact some of my favourites are comedies, so that 'An Actor Prepares' didn't do it for me is not down to bias against the genre. Always have tried to like all types of it too, tending to love the witty and sophisticated types but less so ones with the crude style of humour (though that is not to say that crude humour is never funny). My main reason though for seeing this film was Jeremy Irons. Have always loved him as an actor, if more his 80s and 90s work than his variable post-'Lolita' career choices (though he is most of the time a bright spot in the misses), and it interested me to see him in a different role. Seeing it on Amazon, 'An Actor Prepares' was nowhere near as bad as feared, having had initially fairly high expectations lowered by hearing and seeing bad things about it but a large part of me was disappointed and yes this is me judging with an open mind with the intention of liking it and not agreeing with the negativity. Looking at 'An Actor Prepares', one would never think that it starred an actor responsible for two of the most courageous film performances in the past forty or so years, in 'Dead Ringers', with the subject and playing identical twins and giving them individual personalities to each other, and 'Lolita', with the subject and his more tortured portrayal of a character one would naturally think on paper detestable. Also thought his performance in 'Reversal of Fortune' brave, playing a real life person, still alive at the time, in a film depicting a case that was recent back when it was made when feelings were still raw. Lets talk about this film though. Irons clearly has a blast here, as a very larger than life but rather obnoxious character, and is great fun to watch. He is the best thing about the film and the only reason really to check it out in the first place, relishing every single line with glee while effortlessly commanding the screen. It may not be a subtle performance but really did appreciate that he made such a valiant effort in breaking away from his serious roles and show his comedic streak, which to me was obvious here but needed better material to make it shine more. Jack Huston also does well, showing some natural charisma and portraying Adam's uptightness with conviction, and interacts with and reacts to Irons easy-goingly, the dynamic natural despite such a character mismatch. A few mildly amusing moments along the way here and there, did have a (guilty) chuckle at a few lines and those film titles, though it was more to do with how Irons delivered the lines rather than the lines themselves. The film doesn't look too cheap and there are catchy moments on the soundtrack. One of 'An Actor Prepares' biggest problems however is that most of it is not very funny, spent most of the time actually being shocked at how a father could speak to his own son the way Atticus does. Crude humour can be funny if done with wit and sharpness, but 'An Actor Prepares' executes this crude humour with very little wit and goes well overboard on the mean-spiritedness that it becomes as exhausting as Atticus' obnoxious character traits, including gratuitous overuse of profanity. It never becomes 'Freddy Got Fingered' and Friedberg-Seltzer offensive thank goodness, but parts do leave a bitter aftertaste. The characters all lack depth and subtlety, including Atticus (well especially him in the subtlety department), and found it very hard to endear to any of them with such off-putting behaviour. Didn't find all of them necessary either. Am not blaming the actors, it's the writing that's the problem. None of the rest of the cast make much of an impression (though Ben Schwartz does what he can with a thankless reactive role), with so little to do and with characters so underwritten. While the soundtrack is nice enough on its own, some of its use felt intrusive and obvious. Direction is not incompetent as such but is rather uninspired and bland. The story is a big problem in 'An Actor Prepares' too. In terms of pacing, it never comes to life and is often rather leaden and slow with a real lack of energy, this would have been helped if the film got going much quicker, shortened some scenes and left others out, for instance it could have done without the sequence with Will Patton which added nothing and came over as awkward. The story is one that's very thin with the outcome being very much foreseeable from the get go. It all feels rather formulaic and sometimes somewhat repetitive, with a lot of mean-spiritedness (did find myself cringing during the prison cell scene), scenes that are very awkward and predictable due to a lack of anything surprising and too many moments where things happen too conveniently. In the last twenty minutes or so, 'An Actor Prepares' tries to tug at the heart strings by trying to bring a dramatic emotional edge, but it felt forced rather than poignant or heart-warming and jarred too much with what had come before. Likewise with Adam's subplot, which felt shoe-horned in and on the somewhat manipulative side, it is a serious and quite sensitive subject yet one starts expecting with worry the film to treat it in a jokey way. Luckily it never quite does but there is that worry, considering how much of the humour in the early parts were related to that particular body part. On the whole, has its moments but it didn't do it for me even when really trying to take it for what it is. Irons doesn't fare badly at all here, he is the best thing about it and the main interest point, but he is well above this and comparing this to his early work (so 'Lolita' and before) it is rather sad that a great actor's film/television choices have become so hit and miss in recent years. Am well aware that this review is not going to be very popular most likely, seeing as anybody here who as much as one criticism when offering a negative review for a critically panned comedy is made to feel like they've committed a sin by too many of those defending which has gotten over-the-top and annoying. 4/10 Funny And Original mattsandifer3 October 2018 Instead of the usual tale of a father and his estranged son reconnecting with one another on a road trip, An Actor Prepares shows an entirely believable father unwilling to relinquish his debauchery (and its repurcussions) and a son's journey to come to terms with it. This movie is funny, original, and compelling. ronancraven9 January 2019 I don't review much as i'm too lazy. I mostly rate surprises. This film surprised me because of its low score. Jeremy Irons and the cast did a great job. Had me laughing and enjoying the film from start to finish. This film deserves a much higher score. I'm an imdb member over 10 years with less than 10 reviews so this is a 100% genuine review. Watch this feel good comedy if you wants laughs and more... Only Irons is having a good time here Prismark1018 June 2019 In the #MeToo era of Hollywood's misogyny. An Actor Prepares would count as a prime exhibit. Jeremy Irons plays Atticus Smith a hard living and hard drinking Oscar winning actor who has a heart attack while receiving a lifetime achievement award. Unable to fly he has to drive cross country to attend his daughter's wedding. He is accompanied reluctantly by his estranged son Adam, an uptight feminist lecturer and documentary maker who seems to have a few problems of his own. Smith is preparing to play god for his next role. Despite his health scare he is not prepared to give up his boozy lecherous lifestyle as he hits the road. He also regards Adam as a snitch who told his mom that dad was cheating on her. Irons is having a ball playing the philandering Smith and he is certainly waves his balls about in front of his son as the viewer gets to see plenty of his rear. Unfortunately Irons is the only person having fun in this movie. It is an unfunny road comedy with tired cliched characters. yuliavasilek7 September 2018 Great movie, great cast, great script! Hilarious and full of depth film! Predictable but it works drjgardner13 March 2019 This is a road show between father and son and you can pretty much guess what happens. That being said, it's the journey that works, and the acting is great throughout. Good grief, what was Jeremy Irons thinking? sinimannerstuff3 February 2019 What on earth was Jeremy Irons thinking!? Very lowest-common-denominator stuff here for those with scant understanding of humour. Grumpy gleefully obnoxious father and uptight son are forced on a road trip...you can see the formulaic story arc from the start. Sky Movies gives it 4.5 out of 5 stars - not a very discerning customer base I'm learning. A half hour down and an hour to go. Give it a miss folks. lp-222-1394318 August 2020 Don't waste your time a very silly and corny movie. The worst 15 minutes of my life. Very disappointing. les-sherman26 March 2019 Could not get past the set-up. The language was worse than "crude" and profane. I know Michael Caine said every day at work can't be Gone with the Wind, but this film should never have even been made. Not sure what movie the other reviewers were watching. A cross country drive Gordon-115 May 2020 This film tells the cross country drive of an estranged father and son. It is entertaining because it is witty and unexpected. The main character is not particularly likable, but viewers get to like him in the end. Dreadful fbrander14 September 2019 One of the worst movies I have ever viewed. I cannot believe I endured this thrash. Why all the bad review!? lazarowww18 April 2020 I've just saw it on TV with my girlfriend and her sister. We all have a good laugh. OK it's not a masterpiece but is a pretty decent film and both main actors are doing a great job. 7.5 out of 10 in my opinion and much, much better than most of the nowadays comedies. An Actor Prepares created 02 Mar 2017 My Movies 3 the best movies for me.....	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6432
__label__cc	0.565663	0.434337	Pop Goes the Bubble Trouble (Daisy Dreamer #8) Holly Anna, Genevieve Santos (Illustrator) List Price: 5.99* When bubble creatures start disappearing from the World of Make-Believe, Daisy and Posey are on the case in this eighth Daisy Dreamer chapter book! When Posey spots the quarter vending machines with plastic bubbles filled with tiny toys at Daisy’s local store, he tries to talk to them. But when they don’t answer, Daisy explains that the bubbles are just toys in the real world. So Posey invites Daisy to the World of Make-Believe, where, of course, there’s an entire world inside of those machines! Bubble creatures happily live in their plastic capsules, but it turns out there’s a tiny problem. A giant has been “borrowing” those bubble friends! Can Daisy and Posey save those bubbles before they go pop? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Daisy Dreamer chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. Little Simon, 9781534426528, 128pp. Holly Anna has always had a wild imagination. When she was little, she used to doodle drawings that would transport herself and her friends to a wonderful world of make believe. Now she visits other worlds through writing. Holly lives in San Jose, California, with her family. They have four cats: Rocket J. Squirrel, Le Mew, The Honest John Wookenchops a.k.a. “Wookie”, and Noel. Genevieve Santos is an illustrator born, raised, and living in San Jose, California, and sole proprietor of a small stationery company, Le Petit Elefant. Wanderlust got the best of her so she’s traveled to thirty-one countries before turning thirty, sometimes backpacking, sometimes by camper van, sometimes on her own, but always with a sketchbook. Her love for animation started at a young age, and is what drives her to draw the slightest observations. She also has an insatiable weakness for ice cream.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6434
__label__wiki	0.884964	0.884964	German far-right airs divisions over leader’s criticism Joerg Meuthen, federal spokesman, speaks at the Federal Party Conference of the AfD in Kalkar, Germany, Sunday, Nov.29, 2020. (Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa via AP) BERLIN (AP) — A leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party on Sunday defended a speech in which he denounced “provocateurs,” called for discipline and questioned talk of a “corona dictatorship.” A bitter debate at a party convention over a motion to “condemn (co-leader Joerg) Meuthen’s divisive conduct” saw Alternative for Germany, or AfD, publicly air deep divisions before a national election expected next September. In the end, delegates decided by about 53% to 47% not to put it to a vote. AfD won 12.6% of the vote and entered parliament in Germany’s 2017 election, helped by strident criticism of a large influx of migrants. Recent polls show its support sagging to between 7% and 11%. In recent months, the party has opposed coronavirus restrictions that are supported by a majority of Germans, but opposed by a small though vocal minority. It also has seen persistent tension between its strong hard-right wing and more moderate figures such as Meuthen. The party is under pressure to distance itself from extremists in its midst after facing growing scrutiny from Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. It also has faced scrutiny over an incident this month in which anti-lockdown protesters were able to enter the parliament building and harangue lawmakers. At a convention at Kalkar in western Germany — held in person, unlike other parties’ recent gatherings, but at authorities’ insistence with masks and distancing — Meuthen gave a speech Saturday in which he called for “internal discipline” and “impeccable behavior” from all members. He questioned the wisdom of uncritical closeness to demonstrations against anti-virus restrictions that have drawn a wide variety of attendees, including conspiracy theorists. And he asked: “Is it really wise to speak of a ‘corona dictatorship?’” That phrase has been used by the influential leader of AfD’s parliamentary group, Alexander Gauland. The speech angered many members. In Sunday’s debate, lawmaker Stephan Brandner described it as “a torpedo” that “did serious damage to our party and this convention.” “You are dividing the party,” he told Meuthen. “You are only helping the old parties.” Meuthen insisted that he hadn’t spoken out against anti-restriction demonstrations as a whole or called for division. “I wholeheartedly want our party’s success … but we will only achieve this success with serious appearances,” he said. More Health News Stories by Linda Wagar, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 19, 2021 KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WDAF) - As millions anxiously wait for the COVID-19 vaccine, a Kansas City psychiatrist is accused of helping people cut in line. It's a move that could have put some healthy people months ahead of those at risk. Two healthcare whistleblowers contacted WDAF saying dozens of ineligible people were gaming the system by posing as employees of psychiatrist Micaela Wexler.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6437
__label__wiki	0.57256	0.57256	Beta vs. VHS all over again? The nice thing about revolu . . .uh . . .new storage technologies is that they enable end-users to solve problems while busting open new markets for vendors and their channel partners. If you`ve been integrating optical solutions, and are starting to feel the limitations of the laser, start thinking DVD. With its capacious capacity and decent performance, DVD-ROM is poised to replace CD-ROM. But rewritable DVD is another matter. Just when we thought DVD was going to sail unscathed into a state of standards satori, along comes Sony. The consumer giant, with the backing of Hewlett-Packard, Philips, and others, is developing the DVD+RW format, which will compete with the DVD-RAM format supported by Hitachi, Matsushita, Toshiba, and the formidable DVD Forum. Will DVD-RAM vs. DVD+RW be a replay of the Beta vs. VHS wars? Maybe not, because the burgeoning market for rewritable DVD products could accommodate two successful "standards," although that`s not likely. But unlike Beta and VHS, DVD-RAM and DVD+RW are not necessarily mutually exclusive. And anyway, what would the storage industry be without our equivalents to the Navigator vs. Explorer wars? How do you think the DVD rewritable war will turn out? Do we need a single standard, and if so, which one? Or is there room for two? Send your opinions to daves@ pennwell.com. Fibre, fibre, fibre Our Cover Report`s about DVD, but as usual you`ll find plenty of fibre in this issue. That`s not because we`re Fibre Channel zealots (we`re not, really, we`re not), but this emerging interface is more than just a mo` faster, mo` better successor to SCSI. Fibre Channel promises to change the paradi... er... general approach to storage interfaces. In fact, it`s an unprecedented merger of the storage and networking camps. That`s why we tapped Vance McCarthy, a network-centric journalist for more than 12 years, to write the story. Networking people and storage people are coming together in the emerging network storage market, but still, they`re coming from different sides of the playing field. InfoStor will be on top of the network-storage convergence, including storage-area networks (Special Report coming in February) and network-attached storage (our April issue focus). And if you`re really into the convergence, get involved with the Storage Networking Industry Association. See the news blurb in the next section of this magazine, or go directly to www.sresearch.com/snia. This article was originally published on December 01, 1997	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6438
__label__wiki	0.970852	0.970852	Demi Lovato Chooses Kristen Stewart Over Nick Jonas In ‘Who’d You Rather?’ By: Shervin Kayvon Demi Lovato appeared on Ellen yesterdaysporting a phenomenal hot pink suitand talked being single and dealing with online haters. Ellen DeGeneres, being the innocent yet devilish host she is, played a game of “Who’d You Rather?” with the pop star. Lovato joked to DeGeneres, “Who’d You Rather what?” DeGeneres assured her that it was up for her interpretation. Upon being faced with the arduous decision between Kristen Stewart and Nick Jonas, Lovato chose Stewart, and instantaneously, a new queer female power ship was born. Lovato has had a long-running public relationship with Nick Jonas, but has always insisted they’re just friends. Her relationship with the youngest Jonas came under question following the release of her new album, Tell Me You Love Me. The album features a song called “Ruin The Friendship,” and many fans have speculated that the sexy track is about Nick Jonas. While Lovato has yet to confirm or deny that theory, she dodged it eloquently and hilariously in “Who’d You Rather?” During the game, Lovato went on a run in choosing Rihanna over the likes of Drake, Harry Styles and Zac Efron, then another with Kristen Stewart. “Call me, Kristen!” she joked(?). We’ve seen celebrities play mindless talk show games like this countless times before. In the grand scheme of things, fighting for equality in vacuous celebrity media segments is negligible. But nonetheless, it was refreshing to see Ellen cater to Lovato’s bisexuality in “Who’d You Rather?” rather than erase her LGBTQ identity. Plus, Ellen played into the overt silliness of it all. When Lovato struggled to choose between an old friend and a new friend, Ellen quipped, “None of that matters to us. We want to know who you’d rather.” Last year, Lovato came out as bisexual in her YouTube documentary Simply Complicated, in which she confirmed being open to dating men and women. Before that, her sexuality was often a topic of debate, as she has advocated for LGBTQ rights and has even written songs about dating women (“Cool For The Summer”), but some felt indignant about her refusal to label herself. But like all of us, Lovato never owed anyone an explanation on her sexuality or how she chooses to identify. The media attention she received was at best uncomfortable, at worst, skirting the line of people trying to drag her out of the closet. Lovato even responded to one of such claims, calling a writer who demanded a statement about her sexuality “expectant” and “rude.” We’re just happy to see Lovato thriving in her bisexuality. Kristen Stewartcall her!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6443
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__label__wiki	0.703181	0.703181	RRB NTPC 2020-2021 Exam Memory Based General Awareness (GA) Questions with Answers: Check GK & Current Affairs Questions asked in RRB NTPC CBT 2021 Phase-1 RRB NTPC 2020-2021 Exam Memory Based General Awareness (GA) Questions with Answers: Get the memory based questions from General Awareness, GK & Current Affairs section that came in RRB NTPC 2020 Exam held in online mode from 28th Dec 2020 to 13th Jan 2021. RRB NTPC 2020-2021 Exam Memory Based General Awareness (GA) Questions with Answers: RRB NTPC 2020 Exam has been commenced from 28th December 2020. The exam is being conducted for the RRB Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) 35208 Graduate & Under-Graduate Posts in two shifts. RRB NTPC 2020 Exam will be conducted for around 23 lakh Candidates in Phase-1, i.e., from 28th December 2020 to 13th January 2021. Check RRB NTPC 2020 Exam Analysis - Difficulty Level & Good Attempts In this article, we are going to share the important memory based General Awareness, General Knowledge and Current Affairs Questions as per the feedback received by the candidates who have appeared for RRB NTPC 2020 Online Exam. Candidates are advised to definitely cover these questions for scoring high marks in the Exam. Let’s have a look at the Important Questions that are being covered in the RRB NTPC 2020 Exam: Check RRB NTPC 2020 Exam Schedule RRB NTPC 2020 GA/ GK/ Current Affairs Questions – 1st to 11th January 2021 1. UNICEF Headquarters: Answer: New York, United States 2. Who was the president of the Indian National Congress in 1924? Answer: Mahatma Gandhi 3. On which date 1857 revolt started? Answer: 10th May 1857 4. National Technology Day is celebrated on: Answer: May 11 5. Gandhisagar Dam is on which river? Answer: Chambal River 6. Which of the following is India’s longest Road Tunnel? Answer: Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Tunnel, also known as Syama Tunnel, and formerly as Chenani-Nashri Tunnel, is a road tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir, India. 7. Which of the following is India’s longest Highway tunnel? Answer: Atal tunnel is the world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 ft. This 9.02 km long tunnel connects Manali to Lahaul & Spiti Valley throughout the year. 8. Sambhar Lake is located in which State? Answer: The Sambhar Salt Lake, India's largest inland salt lake, is located 80 km southwest of the city of Jaipur and 64 km northeast of Ajmer, Rajasthan. 9. MGNREGA established on which date? Answer: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was notified through the Gazette of India (Extraordinary) Notification dated September 7, 2005; it came into force on February 2, 2006 in 200 backward districts. 10. Question related to Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana: Answer: Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) is a savings scheme launched back in 2015 as part of the Government initiative Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign. This scheme enables guardians to open a savings account for their girl child with an authorised commercial bank or India Post branch. Check RRB NTPC 2020 Memory Based Reasoning Questions with Answers 11. Capital of Indonesia: Answer: Jakarta 12. Who is the ICC Cricketer of the year 2020? Answer: Virat Kohli 13. RBI Act: Answer: Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 is the legislative act under the Reserve Bank of India was formed. This act along with the Companies Act, which was amended in 1936, were meant to provide a framework for the supervision of banking firms in India. 14. Where is the Headquarters of DRDO located? Answer: New Delhi 15. What is the full form of URL? Answer: Uniform Resource Locator 16. Pokhran Test was held in which year? 17. Question related to Simon Commission: Answer: Conservative government under Stanley Baldwin to report on the working of the Indian constitution established by the Government of India Act of 1919. The commission consisted of seven members—four Conservatives, two Labourites, and one Liberal—under the joint chairmanship of the distinguished Liberal lawyer, Sir John Simon, and Clement Attlee, the future prime minister. Its composition met with a storm of criticism in India because Indians were excluded. 18. Sardar Sarovar Dam is on which river? Answer: Narmada 19. Godavari River originates from: Answer: Trimbakeshwar - The Godavari River rises from Trimbakeshwar in the Nashik district of Maharashtra about 80 km from the Arabian Sea at an elevation of 1,067 m. The total length of Godavari from its origin to outfall into the Bay of Bengal is 1,465 km. 20. Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana Launched in? Answer: May 2015 Check RRB NTPC 2020 Memory Based General Science Questions - Biology/ Chemistry/ Physics 21. Sanchi Stupa made by: Answer: Ashoka - The Great Stupa at Sanchi is one of the earliest Buddhist monuments in India built by Emperor Ashoka. 22. When did Indian Hockey Team last won Gold medal in which Olympic? Answer: 29th July 1980 23. Article 21 of the Indian Constitution is related to: Answer: Right to Life - No person can be discriminated against related to sex, gender, caste or religion. Every citizen of India has the right to life under Article 21. 24. Question related to the White Revolution: Answer: White Revolution or Operation Flood started in the year 1970 and was aimed to create a nationwide milk grid. It was a rural development programme initiated by NDDB – National Dairy Development Board of India. 25. How many nuclear reactors in India till November 2020? 26. MSP is decided by whom? Answer: Based on the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, the Department of Agriculture and Co-operation, Government of India, declares Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for 22 crops before their sowing seasons. 27. Which of the following First Bank of India? Answer: Bank of Hindustan 28. How many nuclear weapons have been tested in India? Answer: 3 Tests and 6 Devices fired 29. When the Indian Constitution did come into an amendment? Answer: 18 June 1951 - The formal title of the amendment is the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951. It was moved by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, on 10 May 1951 and enacted by Parliament on 18 June 1951. 30. What was the name of the horse of Maharana Pratap Singh? Answer: Chetak Check RRB NTPC 2020 Admit Card & Exam Updates 31. First international cricket match was played between: Answer: The first ever international cricket game was played between the USA and Canada in 1844 at the St George's Cricket Club in New York and in 1859 a team of leading English professionals visited North America on the first-ever overseas tour. 32. Which river is known as Bengal’s sorrow? Answer: Damodar River was earlier known as the "River of Sorrows" as it used to flood many areas of Bardhaman, Hooghly, Howrah and Medinipur districts. 33. Who gave the slogan “do or die”? 34. Karnam Malleswari is associated with which sport? Answer: Weightlifting 35. World Tuberculosis (TB) Day: Answer: March 24 36. Capital of Cyprus: Answer: Nicosia 37. Yoga Day celebrated on: Answer: 21st June 38. Golden Temple of Dambulla is situated in? Answer: Sri Lanka 39. Establishment of the Panchayati Raj System was recommended by: 40. When did Swami Vivekananda deliver his speech at the ‘World Religion Conference’ in Chicago? Answer: Between September 11 and 27, 1893, Swami Vivekananda delivered six speeches at Chicago. 1. Practice Mathematics Mock Test with Answers (30 Marks) 2. Practice General Intelligence & Reasoning Mock Test (30 Marks) with Answers 3. Practice General Awareness & Current Affairs Mock Test with Answers (40 Marks) 4. Practice RRB NTPC GA History Questions 5. Practice RRB NTPC GA Geography questions 6. Practice RRB NTPC GA Indian Polity Questions 7. Practice RRB NTPC GA Economy Questions 8. Practice RRB NTPC GS Biology Questions 9. Practice RRB NTPC GS Chemistry Questions 10. Practice RRB NTPC GS Physics Questions 41. DMK party is founded by: Answer: C. N. Annadurai 42. First Lok Sabha Speaker: Answer: Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar 43. How many players are there in a game of Kho Kho? Answer: 12 Players 44. 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Answer: Haryana will host the fourth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games. 7. Where is India’s biggest Rail Engine factory? Answer: Chittaranjan, Asansol, West Bengal 8. In which year Battle of Ghaghra was fought between Afghanistan and Babar? 9. How many Bytes are there in 1KB? 10. Chairman of 15th Finance commission: Answer: NK Singh Check RRB NTPC 2020 Exam 7 Last Minute Preparation Tips 11. Which of the following is India’s 29th state? Answer: Telangana 12. The trackball is what type of device? Answer: Pointing Device 13. Who discovered Big Bang Theory? Answer: Georges Lemaître 14. Bridge connecting Assam & Arunachal Pradesh: Answer: Dhola–Sadiya Bridge, also referred to as the Bhupen Hazarika Setu, is a beam bridge in India, connecting the northeast states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. 15. Current CM of Goa: Answer: Pramod Pandurang Sawant 16. The Republic has been written by: 17. Common Wealth Games 2022 will be hosted by which country? 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Environment Protection Law was established in: Answer: The Environment Protection Act, 1986 - It is an umbrella legislation designed to provide a framework for the coordination of central and state authorities established under the Water Act, 1974 and the Air Act. 5. Who is the Head of DRDO Head? Answer: Satheesh Reddy, Head of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) 6. Which country developed first COVID-19 Vaccine? Answer: Russia - 'Sputnik V' 7.Article Related to Election Commission in Indian Constitution: Answer: Article 324 of the Constitution provides that the power of superintendence, direction and control of elections to parliament, state legislatures, the office of president of India and the office of vice-president of India shall be vested in the election commission. Check RRB NTPC 2020 Eligibility Criteria 8. Gobi Desert is part of which continent? Answer: Asia 9. Saddle Peak is situated in: Answer: Andaman Islands 10. Earth Day is celebrated on: Answer: 22nd April 11. International Women’s Day is celebrated on: Answer: March 8 12. Commonwealth Youth Games 2021 was going to be hosted by: Answer: The seventh Commonwealth Youth Games were scheduled to take place from August 1 to 7 2021 in Trinidad and Tobago and is now postponed to 2023. 13. Total Ramsar Sites in India: Answer: As of December 2020 there are 42 recognized Ramsar sites in India. Any wetland site which is listed under the Ramsar Convention is called as a Ramsar site. 14. Who is the writer of ‘Rajatarangini’? Answer: Kalhana, a Kashmiri, was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir. 15. 55th jnanpith award was given to: Answer: Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri Check RRB NTPC 2020 Exam & Admit Card Rules 16. Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is situated in: Answer: Tamil Nadu - DescriptionKudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power station in India, situated in Kudankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. 17. Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana is related to: 18. Seven Sisters States of India: Answer: The Seven Sister States is a popular term for the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura prior to inclusion of the state of Sikkim into the North Eastern Region of India. 19. Mountain pass connecting Jammu and Srinagar: Answer: Banihal Pass, a mountain pass across the Pir Panjal Range at a maximum elevation of 2,832 m (9,291 ft). It connects the Kashmir Valley in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir to the outer Himalaya and the plains to the south. 20. In which year did Bengal Division was happened: Answer: 1905, the partition separated the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas on 16 October 1905 after being announced on 19 July 1905 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India. Check RRB NTPC Salary after 7th Pay Commission, Job Profile and Promotion Policy 21 2nd Battle of Panipat was fought in: Answer: The Second Battle of Panipat was fought between the forces of Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, popularly called Hemu, the Hindu king who was ruling North India from Delhi, and the army of Akbar, on November 5, 1556. 22. Who is the current Bihar Governor? Answer: Phagu Chauhan 23. Which is the Longest Highway of India? Answer: National Highway 44 (NH 44) is the longest national highway in India with a length of 3,745 kilometres running from Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the South. 24. Chikankari Embroidery associated with which Place of India: Answer: Lucknow 25. Prarthana Samaj was established in: Answer: 1867, Mumbai 26. Maximum number of Lok Sabha Seats: Answer: 552, Maximum strength of the House is 552 members - 530 members to represent the States, 20 members to represent the Union Territories, and 2 members to be nominated by the President from the Anglo-Indian Community. 27. Who was First Tirthankar? Answer: Rishabhanatha, the first of the 24 Tirthankaras (“Ford-Makers,” i.e., saviours) of Jainism, a religion of India. 28. IPL 2020 was hosted by which country? Answer: UAE 29. Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh: Answer: Jai Ram Thakur 30. Vande Bharat Express runs between: Answer: New Delhi and Varanasi 31. Sabrimala Temple is located in? Answer: Kerala 32. Who has been the Youngest President of India? Answer: The youngest President to assume office was Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, who was inaugurated at the age of 64 years, 67 days. 33. Khelo India 2020 was held in: Answer: Guwahati, Assam, India 34. 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__label__wiki	0.967491	0.967491	Western Command of Army launched D&SA Think Tank named Gyan Chakra The Western Command Army has recently launched a think tank on Defence and Strategic Affairs and named it Gyan Chakra, meaning the circle of Knowledge. The think tank will be responsible for the veterans to carry out research work on various strategic and national security issues. Created On: Apr 4, 2016 17:50 IST PRO Defence Lt. Col Manish Mehta said that there are many veterans who are wonderful writers and are subject matter experts in their own domain, and they must document the facts immediately. He further said, “Western Command in a new path breaking initiative has launched a Defence and Strategic Affairs Think Tank aptly named Gyan Chakra. There are a large number of defence veterans who have settled n the Tri City.” The veterans didn’t have have any outlet to pursue their research and make use of their intellectual capacity in an organized manner, till date. This think tank, according to Manish Mehta, will provide the required platform to these veterans. He further said, “There are a number of Strategic Affairs Think Tanks like United Service Institution, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, Centre for Land Welfare Studies, Vivekananda International Foundation, Observer Research Foundation etc. active in the National Capital Region but the remaining portion of Northern India is devoid of any such institution.” The think tank will attract various strategic thinkers, defence analysts, scholars and academicians which will further give them the platform to deliberate on various strategic and national security issues. It will provide basic facilities like library, internet, research, round table discussions and lectures and seminars from subject specific scholars. On a nominal subscription fee, the veterans of the Tri-City will be allowed to be a member of the think tank. मेटियोरोलॉजी: आपके लिए भारत में उपलब्ध कोर्सेज और करियर ऑप्शन्स8 hrs ago DSSSB Stenographer Grade 3 Skill Test Date 2021 Announced @delhi.gov.in, Admit Cards to release on 4 February, Details Here8 hrs ago ई-कॉमर्स का नया दौर: भारत में उपलब्ध हैं ये खास करियर्स8 hrs ago NHM MP CHO भर्ती 2021: 337 पदों की वेकेंसी के लिए ऑनलाइन आवेदन करें @ayush.mp.gov.in9 hrs ago BPSC APO Prelims 2021 Admit Card to release soon @bpsc.bih.nic.in, Check Exam Date, Expected Admit Card Date and Other Posts9 hrs ago CTET January 2021: Check COVID-19 Guidelines & Things to be carried to Exam Centres9 hrs ago	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6449
__label__wiki	0.611238	0.611238	Book Review: THE SUSSEX DOWNS MURDER (1936) by John Bude John Bude is yet another Golden Age-era mystery writer enjoying a 21st century renaissance courtesy of Martin Edwards and the British Library Crime Classics series. Some of Bude's Superintendent Meredith books are back in print (and eBook) for a new generation of readers, and if 1936's The Sussex Downs Murder is representative of the output, the author delivers straightforward, enjoyable fare that offers equal parts humdrum, procedural, and travelogue elements. The mix is nostalgic and agreeable, even as its puzzle is not especially bewildering. Bude – the pseudonym of Ernest Elmore, a co-founder of the Crime Writers' Association – uses the countryside of West Sussex to great effect as he sets his plot amongst the dirt roads and chalk cliffs of the area. Two brothers, gregarious John and saturnine William Rother, manage a lime kiln and make a living from the land. Then John leaves for a trip, and soon his car is found with blood on the seat but no driver in sight. Inspector Meredith becomes interested professionally and personally, and approaches the puzzle systematically and scientifically, running tests on driving distances and petrol levels and constructing a timetable from the testimony of some well-placed witnesses. The plot thickens when fragments of human bones are found among the lime that passed through the Rothers' kiln. Tragedy strikes again when a body is found at the base of a cliff; but was it suicide or murder? Fortunately, among Meredith's local confidantes are an imaginative mystery writer and a curious anatomist, both excited to assist and learn new facts of the case. I enjoyed a number of aspects of this story, from the detailed landscape descriptions and clear understanding of the chosen geography (Bude resided in this part of England) to the attempts at lighter humour. (One example: the author provides his grounded detective protagonist with an excitable son steeped in the latest gangster pulp fiction.) Just as with the output from fellow procedural plotters R. Austin Freeman and John Rhode/Miles Burton, The Sussex Downs Murder is admirable in its A-to-B-leading-to-C, quiet yet important clue discoveries and experiments that let its investigator doggedly follow the path to a solution. The principal problem, for me, was that it takes the determined Superintendent Meredith far too long to arrive at that solution; I would presume that even casual readers of detective fiction would intuit the perception shift that takes Meredith nearly the whole book to see. I hardly ever traffic in SPOILERS in my reviews, but the circumstances that let the reader spot the "twist" well in advance are worth a brief discussion here, especially as steps could have been taken to obscure the revelation and give the reader a less linear puzzle to piece together. SPOILER PARAGRAPHS BEYOND: I feel like the problem begins with the scenario of a missing body and, later, skeletal remains, which new and veteran mystery readers rightly view with immediate suspicion. Nicholas Blake knew not to underestimate the intelligence of the mystery reader, which is something I dearly love about his Nigel Strangeways stories. His amateur sleuth will often express suspicions and hypotheses running parallel in the moment with the thoughts of the observant reader. In There's Trouble Brewing (1937), we have the spectacle of a corpse reduced to a skeleton after an intense night trapped in a brewery pressure boiler. But does the body truly belong to the missing tyrant who owns the company? Here Blake takes the smart approach. Strangeways is immediately skeptical about the skeleton's identity, and by stating this concern, the narrative accomplishes two things: 1) it allows the reader to trust that the detective is up to the task and that he's not overlooking the obvious, and 2) once stated, the possibility sinks again to a 50/50 prospect: either the body belongs to Eustace Bunnett or it does not. With The Sussex Downs Murder, John Bude presents a missing body mystery, but never lets his earnest but unimaginative policeman wonder whether the skeleton fragments might belong to anyone other than the assumed victim. As a result, suspicion soon blooms for the reader, who wonders with each chapter why the stolid detective doesn't explore this possibility. Another real handicap to Bude's story is his decision to offer up only three principal characters as suspects; because of this, the various combinations of criminality among the trio are quite limited. It would be simple to add some more people to the mix who could pleasantly complicate the picture, from an ex-employee with a grudge against the brothers to a cousin with scheming designs to inherit. Anyone who could increase the variables of plot possibilities would be welcome, especially since an anonymous figure known as The Cloaked Man seems to be a key to the solution. Instead, John Bude surrounds Meredith with colorful characters who really can't be considered suspects: they are witnesses and interested parties, but there is no earthly motive for murder between them. END SPOILERS All this may sound like The Sussex Downs Murder is a misfire, but it's not; more accurately, it feels like an opportunity missed. The book remains an enjoyable procedural tale from the height of detective fiction's Golden Age, and an entry from a prolific but often overlooked author within the genre. For seasoned mystery readers, it's simply that the garden path (pictured right) may appear frustratingly linear here.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6451
__label__wiki	0.848657	0.848657	Arkansas Today Working4You KARK 4 Today Susanne Brunner’s Book-A-Thon NE Arkansas Forecast NW Arkansas Forecast SE Arkansas Forecast SW Arkansas Forecast Sock it 4Ward Weather Fix Pig Trail Nation Hogville Good News Matters AR Careers Challenges for public following impeachment, Weinstein cases by: DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press FILE – In this Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, file image from video, presiding officer Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts swears in members of the Senate for the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Reporters at the Capitol want more cameras in the Senate to cover the impeachment trial and fewer restrictions to talk to senators when they are not sitting in judgment of the president. (Senate Television via AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) —Americans who want to follow President Donald Trump’s impeachment saga and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial through the media will sit in obstructed seats. Both events begin in earnest this week — with Senate arguments over Trump’s impeachment beginning Tuesday and opening statements in the Weinstein case Wednesday. Both have been the subject of behind-the-scenes wrangling over media access. Far from an esoteric exercise, the limited media access affects what the public is able to see and, just as importantly, who controls the narrative. C-SPAN, joined by the other major television networks, objects to the Senate’s plan to essentially allow only two camera views of the impeachment trial from the Senate floor. One would focus on whoever is speaking at the time and the other would be a wider shot of the Senate itself, said Terry Murphy, C-SPAN’s vice president of programming, on Monday. More camera shots are generally permitted during special events, but not in this case, he said. It means, for example, that pictures of how individual senators are reacting to testimony, what groups gather together for informal confabs, or any demonstrations that may take place will generally go missing. The Senate will be the arbiter of what pictures go out, Murphy said. “The citizen who gets to sit in the gallery gets a lot better view than the person sitting inside the living room at home,” Murphy said. “All we ask is that the person watching from home get the same view.” Restrictions on reporters who sit in the press gallery, including having to go through metal detectors to enter and not being allowed to transmit messages electronically while there, may minimize the immediate value of having those eyes on sight. “Can anyone name a time when free flow of information is more important than when impeachment is the issue and the nation is bitterly divided?” said Tom Bettag, a veteran news producer who now teaches journalism at the University of Maryland. “For any one side to try to control the news can only inflame the situation.” Typically, reporters have generous access to politicians in the hallways outside. Most senators are keen to talk, although the reaction of Arizona Sen. Martha McSally last week, who called CNN’s Manu Raju a “liberal hack” when he tried to ask her a question, illustrate these are fraught times. For the public and politicians, information gleaned from these conversations can fill in the blanks about what is happening behind the scenes and how testimony was being taken. So journalists were alarmed when initial rules were put in place that would pen in reporters directly outside the Senate chamber and chill attempts at conversations. There’s been some progress loosening those rules; reporters were assured Monday that Capitol police would no longer try to break up any interviews they saw in Capitol hallways, as happened late last week, said Sarah Wire, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and chair of the Standing Committee on Correspondents, which is responsible for credentialing reporters. “It is one of the most important moments in American history,” Wire said. “Having reporters speak to senators is important, and not just the senators who choose to speak to reporters.” Christopher Isham, Washington bureau chief for CBS News, said discussions are “still fairly fluid” in terms of making it easier for senators who want to talk. He’s optimistic that the public will ultimately have roughly the same access to the impeachment trial through the media as it did for President Bill Clinton’s trial. A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Not everyone is sympathetic to the journalists’ arguments, however. “It’s like people complaining at the airport that they have to go through security,” said Tim Graham of the conservative watchdog Media Research Center. “Welcome to living in America. And they wonder why they’re so unpopular.” The American Civil Liberties Union, which together with several other groups sent a letter to the Senate last week, urged the leaders not to slide back to 20th Century technology at a time more can be done to let the public know what the politicians are up to. Bettag, once executive producer at ABC’s “Nightline,” said any differences in news coverage of the impeachment trial caused by media restrictions is likely to be so subtle that most viewers won’t notice. But it’s important for news organizations to fight them, since without that things are likely to tighten even further in the future. Cable news networks CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC are expected to cover every minute of the impeachment trial, mirroring coverage of the House hearings. ABC, CBS and NBC will also have extensive coverage but haven’t committed to showing each minute of the hearings. By comparison, the much-anticipated Weinstein trial will be much harder for the public to follow. The once-powerful Hollywood producer, whose behavior gave rise to the #MeToo movement, is on trial in a New York courtroom on charges that he raped a woman in a hotel room in 2013 and forced oral sex on another in 2006. New York state courts infrequently allow or are equipped to provide television coverage, and despite efforts by Court TV, state Supreme Court Justice James Burke is not permitting cameras in this case. Any depiction of Weinstein listening to testimony in the trial will come from sketch artists. Reporters permitted in the courtroom will not be allowed to have phones or any recording devices; they won’t be allowed to text, tweet or email anything to the outside world, according to rules issued by Burke. News organizations have also been unsuccessfully pushing for an “overflow” room at the state Supreme Court, which would allow more reporters room on site. Reports: Seattle police violated policies at summer protests by MARTHA BELLISLE, Associated Press / Jan 19, 2021 SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle police officer who threw a tear gas canister that hit a reporter, and other officers who threw blast balls that hit individuals during last summer's Black Lives Matter protests violated policies, according to new reports from an independent agency tasked with investigating police misconduct. Protests erupted in Seattle and across the country after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. The Office of Police Accountability received more than 19,000 complaints about police misconduct during protests. Texas man who stormed the Capitol threatened to shoot his children for being ‘traitors’ and turning him in On This Day in Arkansas Weather History: January 19-20 Weather Fix with Hayden Nix EPA Releases list of disinfectants to fight Coronavirus News / 11 months ago Arkansas Storm Team What is on NBC KARK Public File KARZ Public File KARZ2 Public File	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6455
__label__cc	0.718507	0.281493	Home > Glossary > S Renters Insurance Home Request Declaration and Coverages Page for Existing Renters Insurance Coverage Renters Property Loss Claim Form Commercial Auto Accident Claim Recreational Vehicle Insurance Home Recreational Vehicle Insurance Quote Flood Insurance Home Flood Quote Form Request Declaration and Coverages Page for Existing Flood Insurance Coverage Flood Property Loss Claim Form Trucking Insurance Home Insurance terms and definitions from Joya Insurance Agency. Coverages and benefits listed below may not be available in your state. If available, some optional coverages and benefits might be offered at an additional charge. Contact Joya Insurance Agency today to learn more. Damaged property an insurer takes over to reduce its loss after paying a claim. Insurers receive salvage rights over property on which they have paid claims, such as badly-damaged cars. 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STOCK INSURANCE COMPANY An insurance company owned by its stockholders who share in profits through earnings distributions and increases in stock value. STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT Legal agreement to pay a designated person, usually someone who has been injured, a specified sum of money in periodic payments, usually for his or her lifetime, instead of in a single lump sum payment The legal process by which an insurance company, after paying a loss, seeks to recover the amount of the loss from another party who is legally liable for it. A federal law enacted in 1980 to initiate cleanup of the nation’s abandoned hazardous waste dump sites and to respond to accidents that release hazardous substances into the environment. The law is officially called the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. A contract guaranteeing the performance of a specific obligation. 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Examples include risks of an unusual nature that require greater flexibility in policy terms and conditions than exist in standard forms or where the highest rates allowed by state regulators are considered inadequate by admitted companies. Laws governing surplus lines vary by state. SURRENDER CHARGE A charge for withdrawals from an insurance based contract before a designated surrender charge period. The simultaneous buying, selling or exchange of one security for another among investors to change maturities in a bond portfolio, for example, or because investment goals have changed. 13655 Bissonnet St. \| Suite 203 \| Houston, TX 77083 \| Office: (281) 983-5692 \| Fax: (281) 983-5695	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6457
__label__cc	0.688601	0.311399	Bail Bonds Example Bondsman Civil Bail Bonds Criminal Bail Bonds Law Solutions Family Laws Business Law Career Law Injury Law Study Finds Law Law Consultant juniorsvt.com Law For All Home Law & Legal Finds Law Find Legal Help By JoanHunter 28/03/2019 07/08/2020 legal What Happens If You Ignore Hoa Rules? In distinctive circumstances defences can apply to specific acts, such as killing in self defence, or pleading madness. Another instance is within the 19th-century English case of R v Dudley and Stephens, which tested a defence of “necessity”. Three crew members and Richard Parker, a 17-year-old cabin boy, had been stranded on a raft. They argued it was necessary to kill the cabin boy to preserve their own lives. In the end, the Crown commuted their sentences to 6 months in jail. Once accredited, a lawyer will typically work in a regulation firm, in a chambers as a sole practitioner, in a government submit or in a personal company as an inside counsel. In addition a lawyer could become a legal researcher who provides on-demand authorized analysis via a library, a industrial service or freelance work. Many folks trained in regulation put their skills to make use of exterior the legal field entirely. While army organisations have existed so long as authorities itself, the thought of a standing police pressure is a comparatively trendy concept. For example, Medieval England’s system of traveling legal courts, or assizes, used show trials and public executions to instill communities with worry to keep up management. The first trendy police have been in all probability these in seventeenth-century Paris, in the courtroom of Louis XIV, although the Paris Prefecture of Police claim they were the world’s first uniformed policemen. Land regulation types the premise for many kinds of property regulation, and is essentially the most complex. It issues mortgages, rental agreements, licences, covenants, easements and the statutory methods for land registration. Regulations on the use of personal property fall beneath intellectual property, company regulation, trusts and business law. An instance of a fundamental case of most property law is Armory v Delamirie . A chimney sweep’s boy found a jewel encrusted with treasured stones. A judiciary is theoretically bound by the constitution, just as all different government our bodies are. In most nations judges might solely interpret the constitution and all other legal guidelines. But in common legislation nations, the place matters aren’t constitutional, the judiciary may create regulation under the doctrine of precedent. The UK, Finland and New Zealand assert the perfect of parliamentary sovereignty, whereby the unelected judiciary could not overturn legislation passed by a democratic legislature. Jurimetrics is the formal application of quantitative methods, especially probability and statistics, to authorized questions. The use of statistical strategies in court instances and law evaluate articles has grown massively in significance in the previous couple of a long time. The goldsmith’s apprentice checked out it, sneakily eliminated the stones, advised the boy it was worth three halfpence and that he would buy it. The boy stated he would prefer the jewel back, so the apprentice gave it to him, however without the stones. The boy sued the goldsmith for his apprentice’s try and cheat him. Lord Chief Justice Pratt ruled that even though the boy couldn’t be said to own the jewel, he must be considered the rightful keeper (“finders keepers”) till the unique owner is discovered. In truth the apprentice and the boy both had a proper of possession in the jewel (a technical idea, meaning evidence that one thing may belong to somebody), however the boy’s possessory interest was thought of better, because it could possibly be shown to be first in time. Augusta Maine Divorce Attorneys Bail Bonds Elgin Law Business Program Starting A Law Firm ©2020 juniorsvt.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6459
__label__wiki	0.845731	0.845731	Political leaders on Comey firing: ‘The optics are not good’ Updated: 5:19 PM CDT May 10, 2017 Marcus McIntosh KCCI Anchor, Reporter WEBVTT Y.OTHERS SAY IT BRINGS BACKMEMORIES OF 40 YEARS AGO.>> NIXON IS BACK.>> WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?>> HE FIRED THE SPECIALPROSECUTOR FOR THE WATERGATEINVESTIGATIONS.>> JAMES COMEY WAS INVESTIGATINGPART OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATIONAND ASKED FOR MORE RESOURCES.THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SAYSSOMETHING ISN'T RIGHT AND CALLSTHE ACTIONS TROUBLESOME ANDRECKLESS.>> PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOT LIKECOMEY WAS LOOKING INTO HIS TIESWITH RUSSIA.THIS IS A POLITICAL MOVE.>> HE SAID THE STORM STARTEDSWIRLING MONTHS AGO.>> THE FIRING HAD SOMETHING TODO WITH THE WAY COMEY HANDLE THEEMAILS.OF CLINTON IN JULY AND OCTOBER.>> AT THAT TIME HE WROTE LETTERSEXPRESSING CONCERNS ABOUT WHATHE WAS DOING AND SEEKINGTRANSPARENCY.AT THE LEAST, WITHOUT A THOROUGHESTIMATE EXPLANATION THIS DOESNOT LOOK GOOD.>> THE OPTICS ARE NOT GOOD.WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH SUBSTANCETHERE IS TO THE ADMINISTRATION'S Shockwaves over President Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey are also being felt in central Iowa.KCCI's spoke with local political leaders about the sudden change in FBI leadership. The Democratic Party of Iowa said something just isn't right and called Trump's actions “troublesome and reckless.” “This is clear that President Trump just did not like that Comey was looking into his ties with Russia and this was a political move,” said Iowa Democratic Party Chair Derek Eadon. Iowa Senator Charles Grassley strongly refutes any claim to Russian involvement or this being a political move, saying the storm that led to Comey's dismissal started swirling months ago. “The firing had something to do with the way Comey handled the emails of Clinton both in July and October,” Grassley said. Grassley said he wrote letters to Comey expressing concerns about what Comey was doing and seeking more transparency on what he was doing. KCCI political analyst Denis Goldford said that without a thorough explanation, the decision to fire Comey does not look good. “At this point, the optics are not good,” Goldford said. “We don't know how much substance there is to the administration’s claims he isn’t able to run the FBI in the manner it should be run.” This is the first time an FBI director has been fired since 1993, when President Bill Clinton dismissed William S. Sessions, saying he could no longer "effectively" lead the bureau. DES MOINES, Iowa — Shockwaves over President Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey are also being felt in central Iowa. KCCI's spoke with local political leaders about the sudden change in FBI leadership. The Democratic Party of Iowa said something just isn't right and called Trump's actions “troublesome and reckless.” “This is clear that President Trump just did not like that Comey was looking into his ties with Russia and this was a political move,” said Iowa Democratic Party Chair Derek Eadon. Iowa Senator Charles Grassley strongly refutes any claim to Russian involvement or this being a political move, saying the storm that led to Comey's dismissal started swirling months ago. “The firing had something to do with the way Comey handled the emails of Clinton both in July and October,” Grassley said. Grassley said he wrote letters to Comey expressing concerns about what Comey was doing and seeking more transparency on what he was doing. KCCI political analyst Denis Goldford said that without a thorough explanation, the decision to fire Comey does not look good. “At this point, the optics are not good,” Goldford said. “We don't know how much substance there is to the administration’s claims he isn’t able to run the FBI in the manner it should be run.” This is the first time an FBI director has been fired since 1993, when President Bill Clinton dismissed William S. Sessions, saying he could no longer "effectively" lead the bureau.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6464
__label__wiki	0.627869	0.627869	Longview rescue mission providing people without a home to come in from the cold Hiway 80 Rescue mission taking steps to protect against Coronavirus. (Source: KLTV staff) By Bob Hallmark \| January 10, 2021 at 7:19 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 1:43 AM LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The freezing temperatures and snowfall has an East Texas rescue mission imploring those who are homeless to come in out of the cold. The Hiway 80 Rescue Mission in Longview is prepared for overflow numbers at their shelter to accommodate all who need a warm place to stay. Midday in Longview on Sunday, a few flakes begin to fall. An hour later, it became heavy flurries. And time is a factor for workers at the mission. “We’re going to give them shelter, we’re going to give them food. We’re going to take care of their needs. There’s a few that we expect, when it gets wet and when it gets cold, they’re going to come in,” said mission director Brian Livingston. But each winter the shelter deals with the homeless who steadfastly refuse to come in. “There’s some people that just refuse the services,” Brian says. “We don’t want anyone to die because they’re too proud or too ashamed or whatever to come back and stay at the mission. We’d rather have you here so we know you’re safe,” said men’s shelter worker Dustin Lee. But staying out in the elements is a dangerous practice that cost one East Texas man his life from exposure in 2017. With temperatures hovering just above freezing all day and the snow beginning to fall, mission workers are pleading with the homeless to come in for their own safety. With COVID-19 being an issue, they’re making allowances by sleeping people on the floor if they have to. “We’ve got mats that we put out here in our day room. We’ll use other parts of the building if we need to for overflow kind of areas just maintaining that social distancing,” Livingston says. The mission needs donations of blankets and warm clothing, and well as food donations to provide meals for those staying at their facilities. They can be reached at (903) 759-8101. Copyright 2021 KLTV. All rights reserved. KLTV 7 Reporter Bob Hallmark is a longtime reporter for KLTV. He grew up in Aldine, a south Texas town. Before moving to the Tyler-Longview area, Bob worked for Major League Baseball as network director of the Houston Astros Baseball Team. Tuesday’s Weather: Cloudy and rainy A slow-moving cold front will bring showers to East Texas today. Katie Vossler East Texas price at the pumps trending upward	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6470
__label__wiki	0.646741	0.646741	Kpop Behind \| All the Stories Behind Kpop Stars Boy Group Kpop Secret (Full Edition) is released! <Kpop Secret> (Full Edition) Amazon(Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1719874344 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GZMYL83 iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/kpop-secret/id1434793260?l=ko&ls=1&mt=11 Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/kpop-secret -Unknown stories about kpop stars such as BTS, EXO, BIGBANG, TWICE, BLACKPINK and more -Korean stars' real personality -With whom and how they date -How much they earn Aren’t you curious about k-pop stars’ real personality? Aren’t you curious about unknown stories about them? Here’s what you’ve been waiting for! Kpop Secret is released! Welcome to the real world of k-pop. We tried to include all the secret stories about Korean entertainment industry in Kpop Secret. We want to share all the stories behind k-pop stars with fans all over the world. Apink's Jung Eunji volunteered at a senior care center (+She was appointed as the chief of a volunteers’ group) Do you like Jung Eunji of Apink? Yeah, she's pretty, and she has outstanding singing ability. But that's not all. She also has a heart of gold. The female idol star, who always is kind and nice to people around her has participated in some volunteer works since her debut. On September 12, Jung Eunji visited a senior care center located in Suwon, Korea to help seniors who live in the center. She fed them meals and had a talk with them. She looked so happy, and a smile overspread her face. On the day, she was appointed as the chief of Korean Lottery Commission's volunteers’ group too. Here are photos of the warm-hearted idol star. <Kpop Audition Bible: How to become a k-pop idol> Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073V4FZ25 (**You can read the book by downloading free Kindle app that is available on iOS, Android, and MAC & PC. Download link: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/fd/kcp/ref=dbs_p_ebk_r00_pbcb_rnsa00) -How to pass k-pop audition -Tips & Advices for k-pop audition participants -How to become a k-pop idol -Stories behind k-pop stars' trainee life and debut -Written by an experienced k-pop journalist apink Behind The News girl group jung eunji Offstage photo K-pop Trainee’s Daily Schedule I’m sure you’re very curious about k-pop trainee’s daily schedule. Well, it differs from case to case, but let me explain about the general case. If you become a k-pop trainee, you should follow the daily schedule below. 8 a.m. : School attendance As most of k-pop trainees are students, they should go to school in the morning. They try not to skip breakfast if possible because it’s important for them to manage their health. At their school, they take classes just like the other ordinary students, but they usually listen to music during break time to make preparations for their weekly test. They sometimes write song lyrics, while there are also some passionate trainees who practice singing and dancing at their school. 5 p.m. : Go to practicing room After school is over, trainees go to their practicing rooms. The first thing they do when they arrive at their practicing rooms is give their cellphones and diaries to people who manage them. They get their cellphones back after the The Truth About WGM: Were Taemin and Naeun Really Dating? Have you watched “We Got Married”? As you know, the program is about male and female stars who entered their imaginary married life. Well, some of you may wonder if the couple's love for each other is real. Let's talk about the truth about “We Got Married.” Is WGM Scripted? Before filming the program, the production crew delivers scripts to the cast. However, the scripts of “We Got Married” are totally different from those of dramas or movies. The scripts of “We Got Married” do not have any detailed words. They just include general explanation of situation. For example, “It’s the day you move into your new apartment,” “It’s the day you introduce your wife to your friends,” etc. On the basis of the scripts, the cast prepares for clothes, accessories and more. And during filming the program, the production crew occasionally intervenes in the couple’s dating because the young cast who is unused to a real variety show such as SHINee's Taemin and APink's Naeun needs Kpop Stars' Luxurious Home: Where Do They Live? Do you want to know where do Kpop stars live? Well, as you expect, top Kpop stars are financially able to purchase high-priced houses. Let's take a look at Kpop stars' luxurious houses. JYJ's Kim Junsu has his villa “Brown Stone Legend” in Samseong-dong, Seoul. It costs about 2.6 million dollars, while his team mate Kim Jae Joong also lives in there as Junsu's good neighbor. Actually, before being independent of his parents, he has lived in a detached house placed in Paju city with parents. The house has all the luxurious items like fountain and saloon bar. It costs about 1.6 million dollars, and Junsu gave the house to his mother as a present. BoA lives in “Sangji Ritzville” placed in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul. Girls' Generation's Jessica is her neighbor. The 230 square meter villa has three rooms and three bathrooms, while it costs about 1.8 million dollars. The picture below is the exterior. Big Bang's TOP is also well known as an owner of a lux The real reason why EXO’s Kris, Luhan and Tao left SM In 2014, EXO's Chinese member Kris filed a lawsuit against SM entertainment, insisting that his exclusive contract with the agency should be nullified. And he finally left the agency, while another Chinese EXO member Luhan also filed a lawsuit against SM in the year. And in 2015, Tao decided to leave the agency too. After filing lawsuits, they said “SM didn't respect us at all. SM has treated us like subjects of control and determined our schedules unilaterally. And we had economic difficulties despite much work.” Well, I think many of k-pop fans may consider unfair contract between SM and the Chinese members as the main reason why the idol singers filed lawsuits. You know, it was not the first time that SM’s idol singer filed a lawsuit against the agency. The former TVXQ members Kim Junsu, Park Yoochun and Kim Jaejoong had been in a legal battle with SM for about 3 years, while Hangeng of Super Junior has also filed a lawsuit against SM, insisting that his contract wit Secret about kpop idol stars' microphones Have you ever been curious about k-pop idols' microphones? Unless you are a professional, it’s difficult to know the details about the microphones. However, there’s a very simple way to make a guess at what kind of microphone your favorite idol star uses. Well, the way is to classify the microphones by their colors. Colors of microphones do not always mean everything, but like I said, you can at least make a guess at what kind of microphones those are. Flesh-Colored Microphone You might see the flesh-colored microphones frequently in various k-pop chart shows. Those are the basic microphones offered by the broadcasting company. People in the k-pop world usually call it "Band-Aid." The microphone is cheap, and it doesn't perform well. However, it doesn't matter because not a few incompetent idols depend on their AR and just pretend to sing live. Black Microphone The black microphone is not offered by the broadcasting company. If an idol group's UK Jung Kpop Journalist / Columnist / Author of series / Author of KpopBehind.com offers all the stories behind kpop stars - Insider's View, Rumors, Idol's Real Personality, Interview, Q&A , click here → BTS: The K-pop Pioneer "Love yourself!" How to become a k-pop idol K-pop Secret (Full Edition) is released! G-Dragon: The King of K-pop IU: The Queen of K-pop Kpop Romance Based on a True Story	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6475
__label__wiki	0.787839	0.787839	Trooper has near-death experience on roadway by: Michael Scheidt Oklahoma Highway Patrol Facebook page TURNER TURNPIKE, Okla. – One trooper in Oklahoma had the scare of his life recently while helping someone. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol posted this message along with the video of this near-death experience. Woah! That was close! Watch until the end. This lightning strike came awfully close to our trooper yesterday when he stopped to assist with some equipment that had fallen off a trailer on the Turner Turnpike between Bristow and Stroud. More Don't Miss This Stories by Nicole Fierro, KDVR, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 19, 2021 DENVER, Colo. (KDVR) — A teacher in Denver recently confronted a porch pirate who paid a visit to her home, and it was caught on video. “I can hear the gate unlock at my house, and my dog and I always look when the gate gets unlocked. We were like, ‘Who’s there?’” said Stephanie Hall, who works from home. Till basketball do us part: Meet the first couple to be married on the floor in Allen Fieldhouse by KSNT News / Jan 18, 2021 LAWRENCE, Kan. (KSNT) — Chris and Emily Seasholtz were the first couple to be wed on James Naismith Court in Allen Fieldhouse, an untraditional outcome to their wedding planning after their traditional wedding was canceled due to the pandemic. “My mom had said ‘I don’t understand why you’re getting married at church, get married somewhere else that means something to you’,” Chris said. Woman ruled dead in 2017 fights to be declared alive by ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press / Jan 18, 2021 PARIS (AP) — Frenchwoman Jeanne Pouchain has an unusual problem. She's officially dead. She has been trying for three years to prove that she is alive. The 58-year-old woman says she lives in constant fear, not daring to leave her house in the village of Saint Joseph, in the Loire region. Authorities seized her car over an unpaid debt she contests and which is at the center of her troubles. She fears the family furniture will be next.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6476
__label__wiki	0.793078	0.793078	White House Christmas decorations give nod to Covid first responders Ornaments hang from a tree during the 2020 Christmas preview at the White House, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Mon, 30 Nov, 2020 - 19:09 Darlene Superville, Associated Press First responders and frontline workers being challenged by the deadly coronavirus pandemic have been highlighted in White House Christmas decorations, which also give a special nod to Melania Trump’s redesigned Rose Garden. It is the final Christmas in the White House for the Trump family, although the president continues to insist — despite evidence to the contrary — that he won the November 3 election. President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn into office on January 20. During this special time of the year, I am delighted to share “America the Beautiful” and pay tribute to the majesty of our great Nation. Together, we celebrate this land we are all proud to call home. #WHChristmas pic.twitter.com/fdZmB3rdXL — Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) November 30, 2020 The first lady said “America the Beautiful” is her theme for the decor, inspired by Americans’ shared appreciation “for our traditions, values and history”. Workers on the front lines of a pandemic that has killed more than 266,000 people in the US and infected over 13 million others are recognised in the Red Room with a Christmas tree dotted with handmade ornaments, as well as other decorations around the parlour. A gingerbread White House made of more than 400lb of dough, gum paste, chocolate and royal icing is on display in the State Dining Room, and for the first time includes the Rose Garden, which the first lady recently renovated, and the First Ladies’ Garden. A gingerbread White House (Patrick Semansky/AP) Ornaments on the official White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room — a Fraser fir that stands more than 18ft tall — were designed by students who were asked by the National Park Service to depict what makes their states beautiful. A buck and a crane are featured in three-dimensional art hanging in windows of the Green Room, where American wildlife is the highlight. Classical urns lining an East Wing walkway hold groupings of foliage from different regions of the country. Cross Hall and the Blue Room (Patrick Semansky/AP) Trees and other decorations in the East Room feature planes, trains and automobiles — including models of Air Force One — in a nod to triumphs in innovations and technology. Wrapped gifts beneath decorated trees lining the Cross Hall bear tags that say “peace,” “love,” “faith” and “joy”. Monday’s unveiling of the Christmas decorations came weeks after Mrs Trump was heard on an audio recording using profanity as she complained about the pressure of having to decorate for the holiday in the past. The Green Room (Patrick Semansky/AP) The recording of the July 2018 conversation was made and released to CNN by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who was fired from the White House earlier that year. She published a tell-all book about her friendship and break-up with Mrs Trump, whom Ms Wolkoff blames for not defending her after questions arose about spending for Mr Trump’s 2017 inauguration, which Ms Wolkoff helped produce. This year 125 volunteers from around the country used 62 trees, 106 wreaths, more than 1,200ft of garland, more than 3,200 strands of lights and 17,000 bows to decorate the 132-room White House over the course of Thanksgiving weekend. The State Dining Room (Patrick Semansky/AP) The library is decorated to recognise the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Stockings for the president, first lady and their 14-year-old son Barron hang from a fireplace in the room where presidential china patterns are displayed. After previewing the decorations for the media, the White House planned the first of many holiday receptions which are expected to be smaller given coronavirus concerns. A few miles north of the White House, the wrapping also came off the Christmas decorations at vice president Mike Pence’s official residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory. Man who drove 30 miles for takeaway and eight found in shed among UK Covid fines Countries should try to eliminate Covid-19, says expert in UK French woman ruled dead in 2017 fights to be declared alive whitehousedigitalpa-sourceplace: international Simple, cheap test could help save lives from colorectal cancer – study Your Irish Examiner delivered to your door	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line6479

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