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__label__wiki	0.840323	0.840323	Home / Latest News / News / Behind the Scenes: Julie Lynch Behind the Scenes: Julie Lynch The costume designer behind ‘Mark Colvin’s Kidney’ discusses the creative license involved in dressing real-life people, and the key to recreating Elle Macpherson’s look. Scan over Julie Lynch’s impressive resume as a costume designer and it boasts such grand works as Carmen and La Bohème for Opera Australia and the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. More recently, her work includes The Tempest for Bell Shakespeare and the elaborate period pieces Arms and the Man and Arcadia for Sydney Theatre Company. With Mark Colvin’s Kidney, Julie tackles something different: a decidedly modern tale. It’s a story that begins with Elle Macpherson and relays the unexpected friendship that develops between ABC journalist Mark Colvin and Australian business woman Mary-Ellen Field in the midst of the phone hacking scandal. “It’s definitely based in a real world,” Julie tells us. “I’m not working in an over designed world. But I believe every piece you work on, you get something out of it, you really do.” Why did you want to help tell this story? “Well, I actually love [playwright] Tommy Murphy’s work. In particular, I love Holding the Man. I’ve known Tommy since he was a NIDA student and I was a staff member so I feel like I have a personal connection and I’ve seen his career flourish. And [director] David Berthold is really well known for developing new Australian work and I’m very pleased to be part of that.” In creating a story based on real people, how precisely do you try and recreate outfits they actually wore and how much creative license do you take? “It’s a really interesting point and I think it differs per individual. I feel I’ve made more effort to try and make Helen Thomson look like Elle Macpherson because she’s a figure we see at the beginning of the show and we have to know it’s her straight away. With Mary-Ellen and Mark Colvin, these are characters that we gradually get to know and they’re played by two different actors who we also get to know. So while there will be aspects of the real Mark Colvin and Mary-Ellen, there’s also got to be aspects of the actors, Sarah Peirse and John Howard, so I don’t feel it’s been as slavish a process. It’s about creating more of a merged image. “I did have a look at [Mark Colvin’s son] William Colvin and [Mark Colvin’s father] John Colvin, and then you look at the actor playing those parts, and you try and work out the essence of the person and also the essence of that scene. For example, William Colvin can look like he plays in a band and can look very urban, but we only see him for one scene. In that one scene, he needs to very much represent the honest image of a son without too much decoration or bells and whistles.” We witness Mary-Ellen’s journey from someone whose life is falling apart to a woman determined to restore her reputation. What role did costume play in illustrating this journey? “I think in some ways she’s always fighting for something until the moment she actually does get to give away her kidney. So I feel there’s a weight on Mary-Ellen throughout that time. It’s only in that final scene that we try and give some sense of lightness and positivity – we’re using lighter colours and lighter fabrics. But before then Mary-Ellen starts off a little more corporate and then becomes simpler.” Sarah Peirse revising costume ideas with stage manager Luke McGettigan. Your original sketch has Mary-Ellen quite boldly dressed in a leopard print dress and red blazer, which is an outfit the real Mary-Ellen wore… “We will end up using leopard skin patterns, but probably more in the scarves now. It’s more of a touch. We have some dresses with patterns, but those patterns make less of a comment. Even though the real Mary-Ellen wears leopard skin dresses, I did want the performers’ input the whole time and Sarah [Peirse] preferred to have less of a pattern that made such a statement and that’s the kind of feedback that I like to get. I go out of my way to try and make sure I spend time with each performer and talk through these things because their input really helps to inform my decisions.” Elle Macpherson obviously has a very iconic look. What was involved in recreating her look and ensuring she was recognisable to audiences? “When you analyse what Elle wears, she wears a lot of trousers. She wears very high shoes even though she’s tall herself but she also has a very simple elegance. She does wear a lot of black and white so she’s very striking in her appearance. That’s very helpful to us but her signature is also her hair so we’ve spending a considerable amount of Belvoir’s budget on the hair!” Mark Colvin’s Kidney is playing at Belvoir from 25 February to 2 April. For more information and to purchase tickets, head here. Design by Julie Lynch.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9681
__label__wiki	0.769875	0.769875	Best Events Near You in Houston, Texas Music Trends Through the Decades with DJ Mohawk Steve Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm Discovery Green Conservancy The Heights Theater Exhibition - Weave Houston: Celebrating 71 Years of the Contemporary Handweavers of Houston Thursday, Jan 21, 2021 from 10:00am to 5:00pm Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Houston Top Searches Rose Tattoo and Night Cobra Thursday, Jan 21, 2021 at 7:00pm Warehouse Live Studio Friday, Jan 22, 2021 from 10:00am to 5:00pm Live Music In The Plaza - School Of Rock Houston City Centre John Moreland Sarofim Hall- Hobby Center Saturday, Jan 23, 2021 from 10:00am to 5:00pm Saturday, Jan 23, 2021 at 2:00pm The Dinner Detective Interactive Mystery Show - Downtown Houston Hilton Houston Plaza/Medical Center Live Music In The Plaza - Anthony Pitt Sunday, Jan 24, 2021 at 2:00pm Live Music In The Plaza - Anthony Rogers Sunday, Jan 24, 2021 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm Macauindo Houston Sundance Film Festival - A Conversation with Richard Linklater and Channing Godfrey Peoples Houston Sundance Film Festival Alley Theatre 615 Texas Avenue Mission The mission of the Alley Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean Gladden, is to deepen t... 1500 McKinney Discovery Green was envisioned by several committed Houston philanthropists, who saw the space as a once in a lifetime opportunity to create an urb... Downtown Houston LOTS of people are intimidated by downtown, but it’s actually pretty easy to get around. And with a little guidance, we promise that you soon... Downtown Aquarium 410 Bagby Street at Memorial Drive Downtown Aquarium is the product of redeveloping two downtown Houston landmarks – Fire Station No. 1 and the Central Waterworks Building. Thi... H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade Lamar St The Houston Thanksgiving Day Parade began in 1949, when Santa arrived at Union Station and rode his sleigh to the downtown Foley's.Â Since then, t... One of Houston's landmark buildings, the Heritage Plaza's broad shoulders and perfect location put it at the center of the best views of the city s... Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark 103 Sabine Street About Us:The Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark, designed by the premiere skatepark firm Grindline, is the first world-class, in-ground skatepark in our ... 1324 West Clay Street The Museum of Printing History was founded in 1979 by Raoul Beasley, Vernon P. Hearn, Don Piercy, and J. V. Burnham, four printers with passions fo... Eastwood Skatepark 5020 Harrisburg About Us:One of Houston’s first master-planned subdivisions took form as Eastwood, an area of neatly laid out streets lined with early-Twenti... 1500 Binz St Mission Statement: Transforming communities through innovative, child-centered learning.Vision Statement: Children’s Museum of Ho... The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles.There ar... Health Museum 1515 Hermann Drive Mission: To foster wonder and curiosity about health, medical science and the human body. About Us: The Health Museum is Houston's most interact... 5555 Hermann Park Drive The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in indiv... Mission Statement: The Houston Zoo provides a fun, unique, and inspirational experience fostering appreciation, knowledge, and care for the natural... InterActive Theater Company 1548 Heights Blvd. We founded InterActive Theater Company in 1998, after seeing the growing need for family theater and arts programming in Houston. Since then, Inter... Orange Show Center for Visionary Art 2402 Munger Street Vision The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art preserves works of extraordinary imagination and celebrates the artist in everyone. Mission Stat... Joe and Theresa Padilla Skatepark 6200 Lyons Avenue The skatepark at Cliff Tuttle Park opened on Friday, January 18, 2008. It was named the Joe and Theresa Padilla Skatepark on September 5, 2008, hon... Qfest Mission:QFest is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts as a powerful tool for communication and cooperation among diverse commu... Budweiser Houston Brewery 775 Gellhorn Drive The Houston Brewery is essential to delivering fresh beer to southern regions of the country including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma a... Ice at the Galleria 5015 Westheimer Road, Suite 1260 Ice At The Galleria Offers A Variety Of Programs Including: Extended Public SessionsLearn-to-Skate and Learn-to-Play HockeyCamps available all sch...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9683
__label__wiki	0.886198	0.886198	Arena Cinema Premiere Movie Showcase Actor: Kevin Bishop and Actress: Frances Barber during the premiere of “May I Kill U?” at the Arena cinema, Jan 31,2014. Copyright 2014 Bourgeois Magazine LA “May I Kill U?” US Premiere and “Let’s Ruin It With Babies” was a sold out show at the Arena Cinema, Jan 31,2014. The night started off with live karaoke on the RVIP bus and open bar. The RVIP was also showcased in the movie “Let’s Ruin It With Babies.” The movie premier was a rocking showcase! “May I Kill U?”, is a horror film, which delivers twisted dark comedy. The movie will leave you laughing at the same time jumping in your seat. Directed by Stuart Urban, the film stars Kevin Bishop, Jack Doolan, Frances Barber, Hayley-Marie Axe and Rosemary Leach. Kevin Bishop’s character is a cop in the UK, battling crime, a freak accident that turns him into a psychopath killer, and dealing with the dysfunctional relationship with his mother, whom is played by Frances Barber. Frances Barber’s character is punchy, quick with the tongue, overbearing, and rude. Frances Barber truly delivers a phenomenal performance as the mother. Kevin Bishop takes psychopath killer to the next level that you would not expect. All rolled into one, a horror flick and dark comedy certainly will keep you engaged and definitely worth seeing. “May I Kill U?” will be playing at the Arena Cinema, until Feb 6th, 2014, with a VOD release to follow on February 4th. Website: http://mayikillu.com Jonathan Grubb and Kestrin Pantera from “Let’s Ruin It With Babies” during the movie premiere at the Arena Cinema, Jan 31, 2014. Copyright 2014 Bourgeois Magazine LA “Let’s Ruin It With Babies” written-directed by Kestrin Pantera. The film is centrally based about real-life journey of career, debating on adding a child to the duo’s life, rock star lifestyle, and a karaoke RV bus. Real-life hubby Jonathan Grubb, takes on the role as husband in the film. The RVIP franchise was founded by Kersin Pantera, which is in the central roles of the film. Jonathan Grubb and Kestrin Pantera recently added the new addition of their daughter, Elektra. With the new film, RVIP franchise, and personal life- transcended to wonderful balance. Maintaining career and family life is not as stressful as Kestrin Pantera thought. “Let’s Ruin It With Babies” has comedy, heart warming story, and romantic real-life drama about career and taking a leap to change. The couples idea of transforming their life into film, is brilliant and a great dynamic conceptual choice. The film is a must see! “Let’s Ruin It With Babies“ will be playing at the Arena Cinema, until Feb 6th, 2014, with a VOD release to follow on February 4th. Website: http://letsruinit.com “May I Kill U?” and “Let’s Ruin It With Babies” was distributed by Indie Rights Movies. Indie Rights Movies owned by CEO-Linda Nelson and Michael Madison. Indie Rights is the distribution arm of Nelson Madison Films. In addition to great indie films, the company is now distributing great learning videos on a broad range of subjects. Linda Nelson and Michael Madison certainly are on the right track with independent films and film distributions. Website: http://www.nelsonmadisonfilms.com/ Screening listing for “May I Kill U” and “Let’s Ruin It With Kids” can be seen below. Keep a look out at listing in other areas. Arena Cinema Hollywood 1625 N Las Palmas Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028 Tickets Available Now! FRIDAY JANUARY 31ST at 8:20PM Talk Back with Kevin Bishop SATURDAY FEBRUARY1ST at 10:00PM SUNDAY FEB. 2ND at 4:30PM MONDAY FEB. 3RD at 7:00PM TUESDAY FEB. 4TH at 10:30PM WEDNESDAY FEB. 5TH at 8:20PM THURSDAY FEB. 6TH at 9:50PM This entry was posted on February 4, 2014 by bourgeoismagazinela in Bourgeois Magazine LA, Entertainment, Events, Film, News. https://wp.me/pYicd-Xd	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9690
__label__cc	0.634766	0.365234	Constitutional accountability falls by wayside in bill that eliminates legislative review Accountability/Transparency, Elections and Voting Rights, News, Press Releases Salt Lake City–The Legislature’s self-appointed constitutional expert, Rep. Ken Ivory, wants to make it more difficult for legislators to know whether or not their laws will pass constitutional muster. Ivory’s HJR7, Joint Rules Resolution on Legislative Review, which would eliminate what are often referred to as constitutional review notes, quietly passed the House late Wednesday night. The notes, attached to legislative bills and authored by the Legislature’s General Counsel, are designed to put legislators on notice if there is a risk that a proposed law conflicts with either the State or U.S. constitutions. Maryann Martindale, executive director of the the Alliance for a Better UTAH, has issued the following statement in response to the House’s decision to pass HJR7: “The House’s decision to remove constitutional notes from bills is just one more step in the recent history of elevating the legislature’s constitutional knowledge above the real constitutional experts. In 2011 it was the silencing of the Constitutional Review Commission. This year it is Ivory’s HJR7. “Though constitutional notes are routinely ignored, they provide important context for writing and passing legislation. They can also save the state millions of dollars in later legal battles. As noted in Better UTAH’s amicus brief in the Amendment 3 case, the most timely example of this is a 1995 note by the Legislature’s General Counsel that suggested same-sex marriage bans were likely unconstitutional. Almost 20 years later, the State is involved in expensive and protracted litigation that defies the very constitutional advice it was originally given. “The Legislature should be strengthening the practice of constitutional review, not weakening it. The Senate should not pass this bill.” Maryann Martindale Executive Director, Alliance for a Better UTAH 801.557.1532 \| maryann@betterutah.org Isaac Holyoak Communications Director, Alliance for a Better UTAH 801.664.9751 \| isaac@betterutah.org	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9694
__label__cc	0.721848	0.278152	BlackBerry Nine Thou-what? Bring on the BlackBerry 9100! By Jibi If the delayed impact of the Canadian tidal wave hasn’t been completely underwhelming of late, it appears another new BlackBerry could be hiding around the corner. Throw down the red carpet and bring out the welcoming party, as it seems the next BlackBerry device – after the BlackBerry 9000 – will be the BlackBerry 9100. Now, at first glance, the “\|9100” reference may seem to pop out at you, right? However, what is really catching my eye is the reference to “External Display”. Do we see the BlackBerry 9100 in Vodafone’s Crystal Ball? The Magic Eight Ball says “Definitely Maybe”. From Dimension to Precision, there’s only one question to be asked – is it DoCoMo or Vodafone? Hmm. Here’s one sign that AT&T will launch the BlackBerry 9000, although we’re curious as to what resides in the ‘Captive Portal’ – sounds kind of kinky to me. Upon further investigation, it appears to be the AT&T Wi-Fi service (SSID=attwifi, Authentication Secret=wifipass, etc). Perhaps most surprising to me is the mention of T-Mobile USA with respect to the BlackBerry 9000. The “error translator” is for the GAN/UMA technology. That’s about all from this side of the tracks. 4 Can you guess the most corrupt state in the United States? The whole world needs to pay attention to Indonesia’s COVID vaccine strategy By Andy Meek 2 days ago	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9696
__label__cc	0.619708	0.380292	24 hBut on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, itaking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found jthe stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, ktwo lmen stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 And as they were mfrightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, nwhile he was still in Galilee, 7 nthat the Son of Man omust be delivered into the hands of sinful men and pbe crucified and on qthe third day rise.” 8 And rthey remembered his words, 9 and returning from the tomb they stold all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now it was tMary Magdalene and uJoanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, 11 but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and vthey did not believe them. 12 But wPeter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw xthe linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened. 13 That very day ytwo of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles1 from Jerusalem, 14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. 16 zBut their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 17 And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. 18 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” 19 And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was aa prophet bmighty in deed and word before God and all the people, 20 and chow our chief priests and drulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 21 But we had hoped that he was ethe one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now fthe third day since these things happened. 22 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. gThey were at the tomb early in the morning, 23 and hwhen they did not find his body, they came back saying that ithey had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 24 jSome of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.” 25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 kWas it not necessary that lthe Christ should suffer these things and enter into mhis glory?” 27 And nbeginning with oMoses and pall the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. 28 So they drew near to the village to which they were going. qHe acted as if he were going farther, 29 but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and rthe day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them. 30 When he was at table with them, he took the bread and sblessed and broke it and gave it to them. 31 tAnd their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And uhe vanished from their sight. 32 They said to each other, v“Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he wopened to us the Scriptures?” 33 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they xfound the eleven and ythose who were with them gathered together, 34 saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and zhas appeared to Simon!” 35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and ahow he was known to them in bthe breaking of the bread. 36 As they were talking about these things, cJesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!” 37 But they were dstartled and efrightened and fthought they saw a spirit. 38 And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. gTouch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” 40 And when he had said this, hhe showed them his hands and his feet. 41 And while they still disbelieved ifor joy and were marveling, jhe said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,2 43 and he took it and ate before them. 44 Then he said to them, k“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, lthat everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then mhe opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 and said to them, “Thus nit is written, othat the Christ should suffer and on the third day prise from the dead, 47 and that qrepentance for3 the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed rin his name sto all nations, tbeginning from Jerusalem. 48 uYou are witnesses of these things. 49 And behold, I am sending vthe promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you ware clothed with xpower yfrom on high.” 50 And zhe led them out as far as aBethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. 51 While he blessed them, bhe parted from them and was carried up into heaven. 52 And they cworshiped him and zreturned to Jerusalem dwith great joy, 53 and ewere continually in the temple fblessing God.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9698
__label__cc	0.714984	0.285016	Home » Industrial Autoclaves » Composite Autoclaves Aerospace • Motorsport • Nuclear • Ballistic • Concrete • Glass With experience partnering with various companies throughout the globe, Bondtech has engineered and developed autoclaves for advanced composites across multiple industries. This experience provides us with unique understanding that every production requirement is unique for composite autoclaves and build according to ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code standards. Bondtech’s design patterns take into account specific composite curing and bonding requirements for any size and scope. Making us a full fledged custom composite autoclave manufacturer on top of our line of standard composite autoclaves. Bondtech’s composite autoclave systems also include key components in efficiency and precision that is expected from industrial autoclaves. 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__label__cc	0.706973	0.293027	bookbrowsing Reviews and musings about books and those who love them, write them and promote them June 27, 2018 by pjnunn Communicating in another language by Helen Dunn Frame When I lived in England and Germany years ago, I learned the languages spoken there. Believe it or not, British English was quite different from American English in the 1960s. Over the years, the two societies have adopted vocabulary from the other. Back then, friends would tell me that they often consulted a dictionary to understand my letters because I assimilated the Queen’s Own. When I moved to Germany, I attended the Volkhochshule (people’s high school) at night to learn German. The class numbered 100 with students from all over the world and they learned a level of German only graduate students studied. After three semesters, I received a certificate. In the 1960s, Americans living in Europe lamented that the natives did not speak English! Even then, I felt that as guests in a country we should make the effort to speak their language. While I will be focusing on Spanish here, I firmly believe that when you are a guest in any country, you should make an effort to speak the native language. It also will facilitate your daily life. According to Internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm, as of December 2017 Spanish is tthe third most spoken language behind English and Chinese. Even though I had studied Spanish in high school and college, and later had taken group and private conversation lessons, I entered Costa Rica without the ability to say much. Fortunately, I could read and write it that made recalling the spoken language from the computer in my mind much easier. Luckily, I lived in Puriscal where few natives spoke any English. Little by little, I could make myself understood even if for a time I suffered from present tense-itis. After a while, I could even communicate over the phone and think in Spanish. Nearly every day I learned or recalled a word heading toward conversational fluency if not perfection. I continue to study daily online on duolingo.com. Initially, I would tell Costa Ricans “Español es en mi computadora de mi mente pero no puedo enviar las palabras a mi boca!” It was especially true when I first settled in Puriscal because the spoken words felt locked in the recesses of my brain. I soon learned that I knew more Spanish than I realized, just like you do even if you have not studied the language. For example, one day I asked a cab driver what the word in Spanish was for the wide street with tall trees in the middle of the parkway that led to my house. He said, “Bulevar” but I imaged it as a boulevard. Obviously, I knew the word from English and French. Costa Ricans have used the phrase “Pura Vida” since the mid-fifties when they adopted it as they often do with words they take a fancy to speak. The phrase denotes a greeting, farewell, or an expression of a philosophy that includes enjoying life and having good spirits. Ticos delight when foreigners use the expression and such responses as “con mucho gusto” that replaces “de nada” used in other Spanish speaking countries like Mexico. Many people who have lived in Costa Rica for years have never learned to speak Spanish; some think they do, which causes people to snicker. I wish I could do a study to determine whether a person’s inability to communicate correlates to their tales of bad experiences. When I need to transact business in English, I begin in Spanish and then asked for assistance in English. I found if I asked immediately, the person would say, “No hablo Ingles, Seňora” When I have to transact business in Spanish when the words are not in my Spanish vocabulary, especially over the phone, it may require extra patience by the other person. People the world over become more helpful, I have found, if you first make the effort in their native language. Some people feel that learning a foreign language presents a learning challenge when a person is a senior citizen but no one is too old to study even if he or she learns more slowly. Compared to German, Spanish is a piece of cake. It has nowhere near the two million words that English purportedly contains. Actually many words are similar in both languages. You already know quite a few which gives you a head start to assemble a vocabulary of about 600 words when you can certainly begin to communicate at least according to the experts. While not every English word appears the same in Spanish, you will delight at how many exist. Incidentally, one man I knew learned essential vocabulary words and infinitives and managed to convey basic information. Words you know include those that end in “tion” in English because they end in “cion” in Spanish. Accents show the emphasis rests on another syllable other than what would be the normal pronunciation. Check p 557 in 501 Spanish Verbs for clues about pronunciation. It’s a book along with a Spanish-English dictionary that you should have in your library. Change nation to nación, action to acción, and repetition, repetición. How many words can you list ending in “tion”? Words ending in “ly” in English end in “mente” in Spanish. Words ending in ssion like passion translate to pasión. To me it is interesting that Spanish will drop one of the double letters from an English word, but will make a double letter in some cases, for example Hellen. The meaning of some words like difícil, gasolina, and garaje seem obvious, even if pronounced differently. Words that end in “al” like special usually end in “al” in Spanish. In this case especial. Espinaca that means spinach essentially contains the English word. Sometimes adding an “a” or an “o” to an English word nets the correct Spanish word but then most often not. A couple of examples: form translates to “la forma” and document, “el documento”. Another hint: each syllable generally ends in a vowel like ga-so-li-na. Just remember the “i” sounds like an “e” so natives pronounce it as ga-so-lean-a. Another hint, the vowels are the same as those in English. . Spanish does not have the letters ‘K’ and ‘W. However, I have seen the word Komplete on a cereal product advertised in a newspaper. Spanish used to have words starting with a CH that separated them from those beginning with C but they are fading from the language. In any case, in order to learn even basic Spanish the secret remains: practicar, practicar, practicar. It does not matter if you do not say it correctly, just that you communicate. Ticos differ from the French who allegedly do not care what you say as long as you pronounce it correctly. My accent sounds American no matter what language I speak although my dialect comes across as more International than from any particular area of the States. Check out this source for vocabulary: http://www.costaricaspanish.net/ With these tools, you can make a list of words you know that end in cion, mente, and words you suspect are correct in Spanish and verify them in the dictionary. While you may speak in the present tense to begin with, you can learn the simple past or preterito in the Verbs book. One way to start speaking in the future tense is to use “yo voy a” before an infinitive. You may even drop “yo.” For example, I am going to go. “Voy a ir.” This blog is based on a chapter in the third edition of my book Retiring in Costa Rica or Doctors, Dogs and Pura Vida available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. This blog will replace the chapter in the fourth edition. Helen Dunn Frame, formerly a commercial real estate broker in the Dallas/Fort-Worth Metroplex specializing in retail and restaurants, developed professional writing skills. In addition, living in England, Germany, and Costa Rica; and her love of travel (in 50 countries where she gained an appreciation of the value of diverse cultures) have provided background for books, blogs, and articles. Helen wove many threads of her experiences into the fabric of GREEK GHOSTS followed by the second in the mystery series, WETUMPKA WIDOW. Living in Dallas during a major scandal resulted in SECRETS BEHIND THE BIG PENCIL. In a third edition, Helen advises Baby Boomers in her book about RETIRING IN COSTA RICA or Doctors, Dogs and Pura Vida. It features a new chapter, Retirement 101, which is also a booklet available on Kindle. 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__label__wiki	0.71279	0.71279	Magical Gifts for Harry Potter Fans November 2, 2016 // Features & Products // whsmith christmas gift guides / christmas It’s been a big year for Harry Potter fans, what with the release of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play, the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film, and constantly updated additions to the Pottermore website that gave us new insights into J.K Rowling’s magical world. This of course means that there are lots of shiny new things for us Muggles to get excited about; not to mention the screenplays for Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts! We also can’t wait for the Illustrated Edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by the supremely talented Kim Kay. As well as books, we’ve picked out Potter-related memorabilia, from stickers to wands and even Quidditch balls. The only question is: do you buy them for a gift or keep them for yourself...? This stunning new fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban brings more breathtaking scenes and unforgettable characters – including Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Professor Trelawney. Click Here to Add to Basket Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. Harry Potter Official 2017 Square Calendar For all muggles who love the Wizarding world of Harry Potter, this official 2017 calendar is the one for you. This is Harry Potter at its best, featuring a diverse range of characters from the film series. 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__label__wiki	0.8151	0.8151	Microevolution within ST11 group Clostridioides difficile isolates through mobile genetic elements based on complete genome sequencing Yuan Wu1,2, Lin Yang3, Wen-Ge Li1, Wen Zhu Zhang1, Zheng Jie Liu1 & Jin-Xing Lu1,2 Clade 5 Clostridioides difficile diverges significantly from the other clades and is therefore, attracting increasing attention due its great heterogeneity. In this study, we used third-generation sequencing techniques to sequence the complete whole genomes of three ST11 C. difficile isolates, RT078 and another two new ribotypes (RTs), obtained from three independent hospitalized elderly patients undergoing antibiotics treatment. Mobile genetic elements (MGEs), antibiotic-resistance, drug resistance genes, and virulent-related genes were analyzed and compared within these three isolates. Isolates 10,010 and 12,038 carried a distinct deletion in tcdA compared with isolate 21,062. Furthermore, all three isolates had identical deletions and point-mutations in tcdC, which was once thought to be a unique characteristic of RT078. Isolate 21,062 (RT078) had a unique plasmid, different numbers of transposons and genetic organization, and harboring special CRISPR spacers. All three isolates retained high-level sensitivity to 11 drugs and isolate 21,062 (RT078) carried distinct drug-resistance genes and loss of numerous flagellum-related genes. We concluded that capillary electrophoresis based PCR-ribotyping is important for confirming RT078. Furthermore, RT078 isolates displayed specific MGEs, indicating an independent evolutionary process. In the further study, we could testify these findings with more RT078 isolates of divergent origins. Clostridioides difficile has emerged as the leading cause of antimicrobial and health care-associated diarrhea in humans [1]. C. difficile is widespread in the environment and the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and animals [2, 3]. The population structure of C. difficile consists mainly of 6 clades, clade1–5 and clade C-I [4]. Hypervirulent PCR-ribotype 027 from clade 2 has caused outbreaks and transmission around the world [5]. RT078, contained in clade 5, is important in animal infections, and its incidence in cases of symptomatic human infection is increasing [6, 7]. There are at least 3 STs in clade 5, and 10 RTs (033, 045, 066, 078, 126, 127, 193, 237, 280, and 281) for ST11 [8, 9]. The high proportion of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) (about 11% in strain 630) contributes to the remarkable dynamic and mosaic genome of C. difficile [10]. Transposable and conjugative elements, plasmids, bacteriophages, and clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) elements are considered as the main MGEs and play important roles in horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of C. difficile [11,12,13]. In our previous study, we characterized three ST11 C. difficile isolates from elderly hospitalized patients with distinct RTs were reported [9]. Here, we continued our in-depth exploration of the genetic features and genomic differences among those three closely related isolates based on complete whole genome sequencing to provide a better understanding of the microevolution within the ST11 group of C. difficile, and help accurately identification of hypervirulent RT078. Genomic features of the three C. difficile isolates The three isolates 10,010 (new RT), 12,038 (new RT), and 21,062 (RT 078) used in this study have same MLST type (ST11) and toxin gene profile (tcdA+tcdB+cdtA/B+), however, in our previous study, we identified differences in PCR-ribotyping by capillary electrophoresis using the QIAXcel and ABT3730 systems [9]. The genome sizes of the three C. difficile isolates ranged from 3.99–4.07 Mb, of which isolate 21,063 had the fewest coding sequences (Table 1) (Additional file 1). The number and types of non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) and tandem repeats (TRs) are also summarized in Table 1. Schematic diagrams of the three complete chromosome genomes and two plasmid genomes are displayed in (Fig. 1). Isolates 12,038 and 21,062 carried one plasmid each (Fig. 1). Plasmid 12,038 had only 3 annotated genes, while plasmid 21,062 contained 69 genes, most of which encoded proteins involved in cell metabolism and transcriptional regulation. Furthermore, only one antibiotic-resistance gene, rpoB (associated with rifampicin resistance), was harbored on plasmid 21,062 (Fig. 1). For many bacteria, plasmids play an important role in drug resistance and are responsible for resistance transmission. However, in C. difficile, drug resistance genes are mainly carried on transposons not plasmid [12]. The first whole genome sequence of C. difficile was obtained for strain 630 and consists of a circular chromosome of 4.4 Mb and a plasmid, pCD630 of 7881 bp [10, 14]. Compared with strain 630, the three C. difficile isolates investigated in this study contained a smaller size of chromosomes with fewer coding sequences (Table 1 and Fig. 1). In addition, two plasmids identified in this study were larger than pCD630 (Fig. 1), which harbors 11 coding sequences (CDSs) with no obvious function. Importantly, CDSs carried by plasmid 21,062 and 12,038 were annotated as functional genes involved in many metabolic processes in C. difficile isolates, including the antibiotic resistance (Fig. 1). Table 1 General feature of three ST 11 C. difficile isolates Schematic diagram of the complete whole chromosome and plasmid genomes of the three ST 11 Clostridium difficile isolates. For the chromosome genomes,, the circles (from the out layer inward) represent the genomes, the annotated COG genes on the positive strand, the annotated COG genes on the negative strand, GC content, GC skew, mobile genetic elements (red: the transposons; purple: the CRISPR; green: the prophages), and the name and genome size of the isolates, respectively. For the plasmid genomes,, the circles (from the outer layer inward) refer to GC skew, GC content, reverse strand genes, forward strand genes, all annotated genes and genome size The genetic features of PaLoc and CdtLoc regions 3 ST11 C. difficile isolates All the three C. difficile isolates, which were tcdA+tcdB+cdtA/B+ positive, contained intact PaLoc and CdtLoc regions (Fig. 2). The PaLoc and CdtLoc regions among these isolates were almost identical (Fig. 2). Specifically, the location and length of deletions and insertions (indels) were the same, except the 661 bp deletion within tcdA, which was present only in isolate 10,010 and 12,038 (Fig. 2a). Compared with the other two isolates, isolate 21,062 contained a slightly greater number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs), both synonymous and non-synonymous, within tcdA (Fig. 2a). However, the potential of this specific 661 bp deletion within tcdA as a unique marker of RT078 C. difficile remains to be confirmed in further studies of with more ST11 isolates. For CdtLoc region, the most significant characteristic was the intact cdtA and cdtB genes (with length of 6.2 kb) harbored by the three isolates (Fig. 2b), compared with truncated cdtA and cdtB gene (with length of 4.2 kb) in CD630 [10]. Moreover, the 165 bp deletion within the CD2601 coding region was found only in isolate 12,038 (Fig. 2b). The SNPs in cdtR, cdtA, cdtB, trpS, and intergenic regions in the three isolates were totally identical (Fig. 2b). The sequence polymorphisms in the PaLoc and CdtLoc regions of the three ST11 Clostridium difficile isolates. CD630 was used as a reference. a Schematic representation of the PaLoc region and the polymorphisms within this area. b Schematic representation of the CdtLoc region and the polymorphisms within this area. The gray areas in the schematic representiations of the PaLoc and CdtLoc regions refers to coding genes, while the black areas refer to intergenic regions. Deletions are shown in orange, and insertions are shown in red. For example, D779 indicates a 779-bp deletion, and I130 indicates a 130-bp insertion. The numbers under each area indicate the number of synonymous mutations followed by the number of non-synonymous mutations. In addition, their proportions are shown in the brackets Importantly, a point mutation at position 184 and △39-bp deletion within tcdC has been reported as a specific feature of RT078 [15]. However, the △39-bp deletion was detected in all three ST 11 C. difficile isolates (Fig. 2a and Fig. 3). To explore the point mutations within tcdC in detail, the full length tcdC sequences from the three isolates were compared, which indicated that the point mutations were totally identical, including that at position 184 site leading to deletion of the amino acid Gln (Fig. 3). There were a total of 12 point mutations within tcdC, in which mutations at point positions 21, 54, 117,183–4, 430, 516, and 558 caused amino acid changes (Fig. 3). This result indicates that ST type together with toxin profile and deletions/mutation in tcdC cannot be used to confirm the hypervirulent RT078 C. difficile isolates. Identification of RT078 requires confirmation by PCR capillary electrophoresis, which is consistent with the findings of our previous study [9]. The tcdC gene encodes a negative regulator protein of toxins A and B in C. difficile [6, 16]. It is known that tcdC deletions lead to higher amounts of toxins A and B in RT027 [17]; however, the effect of the △39-bp deletion on the translation and expression of toxins in ST11 remains to be clarified. Partial sequence of the tcdC gene showing point-mutations and deletions. Base A, T, C, and G bases with mutations were shown in purple, green, red and yellow, respectively. The numbers in dark blue boxes above the base indicate the site of the mutations. The amino acid changes of caused by non-synonymous mutations are noted behind the mutation site. The △39-bp deletion is shown in a dark blue box Analysis of the transposon and conjugative transposon in the three C. difficile isolates A total of 11 types of transposons and conjugative transposons were identified in the three isolates (Table 2). Seven transposons reported in CD630 were all identified in the three isolates, although CTn2 and CTn5 were absent in isolate 21,062, and Tn5397 was absent in isolate 10,010 and 12,038 (Table 1). Table 2 Transposons and conjugative transposons analyzed in this study CTn1 has 32 ORFs in CD630, including a tyrosine integrase. CTn1-like elements in the three isolates were exactly the same as that in CTn1 of CD630 but with fewer ORFs, the deletions of which were mainly existed in conjugative and accessary regions (Table 2 and Fig. 4). In addition, a transposase was found in these CTn1-like elements (Fig. 4). CTn2-like elements were detected only in isolates 10,010 and 12,038, but unlike the CT2 containing a serine recombinase, there was no transposase (Table 2 and Fig. 4). Only one open reading frame (ORF) encoding DNA helicase was retained in isolate 21,062 (Fig. 4). Tn5397, previously known as CTn3, was the first Tn916-like element to be extensively characterized in C. difficile [13]. This 21 kb element encodes tetracycline resistance via tet(M) and is highly related to Tn916 across its length apart from the ends [4, 18], where two genes, xisTn and intTn, in Tn916 are replaced by gene tndX in Tn5397. In this study, a Tn5397-like element found only in isolate 21,062 was devoid of tndX and a group II intron in orf14, while tet(M) was retained (Table 2 and Fig. 5). Due to the difference in gene composition between Tn916 and Tn5397, Tn916 has the ability to insert into multiple sites in the genome although it has a preferred consensus site, while Tn5397 inserts into DNA predicted to encode a domain initially termed Fic (filamentation processes induced by cAMP) [19]. Bi-directional horizontal gene transfer of Tn5397 between C. difficile strains and E. faecalis JH2–2, has been recently demonstrated [20]. However, the ability of the Tn5397-like element identified in this study to transfer between C. difficile, and other isolates, requires further investigation. CTn4-like elements with identical gene structure and order were detected in all three isolates (Fig. 4), and contained xisTn and intTn as detected in CTn4 of CD630 (Table 2). CTn5 is a Tn1549-like element and undergoes excision from the host genome at a transfer frequency of 2.8 × 10− 5 [18, 21]. In this study, CTn5-like elements with almost identical gene composition were only found in isolates 10,020 and 12,038 (Fig. 4). CTn6 harbors a tyrosine integrase gene but without the excision ability. The novel elements identified in the three ST11 isolates in this study carried only two homologous genes (CD3337, encoding a membrane protein, and CD3343, encoding an AraC family transcriptional regulator) with CTn6 (Fig. 5). Although there were no transposase genes, the novel element contained several genes encoding an ABC transporter in. The significance of CTn7 is the presence of a large serine recombinase. CTn7-like elements with completely identical gene composition and order were identified in isolates 10,010 and 12,038 (Fig. 4). Interestingly, the CTn7-like element in isolate 21,062 was devoid of nearly one-third of the ORFs compared with the other two isolates, including the transposase homologous with CTn7, and seven flagella encoding genes (Fig. 4), although the impact of this on the flagella production and movement of isolate 21,062 (RT078) compared with isolates 10,010 and 12,038 remains to be determined. Tn916 is one of the two largest families of conjugative transposons in C. difficile, carrying 24 potential ORFs, including tet(M), xisTn (an excisionase) and intTn (a tyrosine integrase), responsible for tetracycline resistance, excision, circularization and integration of the element [22]. In this study, a Tn916-like element retaining the tet(M) and transposase was identified only in isolate 21,062, while in isolate 10,010 and 12,038, there was only one ORF encoding an integrase (Fig. 5). Tn5398 is a particular element in C. difficile, having no transposase, no circular form, but having an oriT site and two copies of the ermB genes [13]. Tn5398 had been reported to transfer between C. difficile strains and from C. difficile to Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis [23]. All three isolates in this study carried a Tn5398-like element was found to be absent with ermB genes and other potential genes (Fig. 5). The very large Tn6103 (84.9 kb) was first recognized in strain R20291 (RT027) [12]. Although this element shows highly similarity with CTn5, there are three insertions of putative mobilizable transposons, designated Tn6104, Tn6105 (both 15 kb and inserted into CD1743), and Tn6105 (10 kb inserted into CD1776b) [13]. A Tn6103-like element was found in isolate 10,010 and 12,038, losing the whole Tn6104 and almost the entirely Tn6105 (Fig. 4). Tn4453a/b is the smallest element with only 7 ORFs in strain W1, of which the representative feature is carrying the gene catD [24]. A Tn4453a/b-like element was identified only in isolate 21,062 but without the gene catD gene, which was replaced by aac (21062BGL003409) (Fig. 5). Only one ORF encoding a helicase was found in isolate 10,010 and 12,018 (Fig. 5). It is known that aac encodes a bi-functional AME, accounting for more than 90% of high level gentamicin resistance (HLGR) in E. faecalis and E. faecium [25]. In our previous study of clade 4 C. difficile isolates, the same replacement in Tn4453a/b was also identified in some ST81/RT017 isolates (manuscript under review). However, the situation that promotes this replacement and whether this newly reported Tn4453a/b is transferred between intestinal bacteria as a complete element remain to be determined. Schematic diagram of transposons and conjugative transposons (CTn1, CTn2, CTn4, CTn5, CTn7, and Tn6103) of the three ST11 Clostridium difficile isolates and the CD630 reference with relatively similar gene structure. Each open reading frame (ORF) is represented by a unique color. ORFs in red refer to a specific gene in each isolate. ORFs in the same color are recognized as the same coding genes Schematic diagram of transposons and conjugative transposons (CTn6, Tn916, Tn5397, Tn5398, and Tn4453a) of the three ST11 Clostridium difficile isolates and CD630 reference with relatively similar gene structure. Each open reading frame (ORF) is represented by a unique color. ORFs in red refer to a specific gene in each isolate. ORFs in the same color are recognized as the same coding genes Transposons play an important role in the transfer of drug-resistance gene within C. difficile isolates, and between C. difficile and other bacteria, and in the genome re-construction, resulting in distinct phenotype in C. difficile. In this study, the RT078/ST11 isolate contained totally different transposon elements compared with the ST11 non-RT078 isolates. This indicates that these closely related isolates underwent distinct evolutionary processes, with RT078 derived from specific division pathway. CRISPRs reveal potential evolution pathways of the 3 ST11 C. difficile isolates In searches of these 3 isolates, 13, 14, and 12 CRISPR arrays were identified in isolates 10,010, 12,038, and 21,062, respectively. Among the 14 arrays in 12,038, one was located in a plasmid. Based on subsequent comparison and classification of those arrays, a total of 14 types of CRISPR arrays were determined; these were designated CRISPR1–14 (Table 3). CRISPRs 1, 2, 3, 6, and 13 contained only one spacer that is identical within the isolates carrying them (Table 3). However, the distribution of CRISPRs 1, 2, 3, 6, and 13 among the three isolates was distinct, for example, CRISPR1 was absent from isolate 12,038, which was the only strain harboring CRISPR3 (Table 3). The remaining CRISPRs are shown as two groups with various numbers of spacers in Figs. 6 and 7. Identical CRISPRs with more than one spacer were detected in isolates 10,010 and 12,038 (Table 3, Figs. 6 and 7). Importantly, CRISPRs identified in isolate 21,062 (RT078) were distinct from those in the other two isolates (Figs. 6 and 7). Specifically, CRISPRs 3 and 5 were absent, and furthermore, in CRISPRs 7–10 and 14, there was great variation in the number and length of spacers, with numerous deletions and insertions of specific spacers (Figs. 6 and 7). In addition, CRISPRs 2, 4, 6, 11, 12, and 13 contained identical spacers in the three ST11 isolates, but with different RTs (Table 3, Fig. 7). Table 3 The 14 CRISPRs identified in three isolates Schematic diagram of the composition of spacers (> 20) of the three ST11 Clostridium difficile isolates. A total of 14 types of CRISPR arrays were detected. Each box represents a spacer. Letters in the box refers to the length of the spacer, and X in the white box indicates deletion of this spacer. Boxes of the same color refer to totally identical spacers. The ancient spacer is located on the right Schematic diagram of the composition of spacers (< 20) of the three Clostridium difficile isolates. Each box represents a spacer. Letters in the box refers to the length of the spacer, and X in the white box indicates deletion of this spacer. Boxes of the same color refer to totally identical spacers. The ancient spacer is located on the right It is noteworthy that, compared with isolates 10,010 and 12,038, CRISPR 7 in isolate 21,062 retained the 14 identical spacers on the right side, while 8 spacers on the left were absent (Fig. 6). Spacers in CRISPR arrays are derived from foreign genetic elements in a linear, time-resolved manner [26]. These unique DNA sequences are known to maintain memory against exogenous infection, and the newly obtained DNA (spacer) is located on the 5′ end of the CRISPR arrays [27, 28]. This phenomenon observed in CRISPR 7 in this study indicates that isolate 21,062 has undergone similar infection events to those of the other two isolates in the past, but have diverged in recent evolution, they became divided. In a previous study of the CRISPR-Cas system in C. difficile, the CRISPR arrays reached 8.5 arrays/genome [29], however, this number was markedly enriched at 12.5 arrays/genome in our previous study of clade 4 strains (manuscript under reviewed). In the three clade 5 ST11 C. difficile isolates in this study, the average number of arrays/genome was 13. CRISPR-Cas genotyping is associated with outbreak tracking, important phenotypes (antibiotic-resistance cassettes), and prophages. Differences among the CRISPR spacers in the closely related isolates in this study reflect the role of CRISPR-Cas systems in controlling the uptake and dissemination of particular genes and operons involved in bacterial adaption and pathogenesis as well as the specific evolution and genotyping of closely related isolates [30]. In this study, large numbers of spacer deletions and acquisitions were identified in the three ST11 group isolates, demonstrating that dynamic changes have occurred in the CRISPR array content. Furthermore, although the three isolates all belongs to ST11 group, unique genetic changes were identified in the spacers in RT 078, suggesting the possibility of distinct interactions with foreign DNA elements within the three isolates. Similarly, in a previous study, stain M120 (RT 078) was shown to possesses the largest number of unique spacers, and also to have hits to a Clostridium plasmid [31]. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests and related drug-resistance genes carried by the three ST11 C. difficile isolates Three of the isolates demonstrated high sensitivity to 11 antibiotics, except isolate 12,038, which was resistant to CIP, and isolate 21,062 which showed intermediate susceptibility to CLI. The hypervirulent RT027 is always associated with fluoroquinolone resistance. In our previous study of clade 4 C. difficile isolates, over 90% of the isolates exhibited multi-drug resistance (MDR), and all isolates displayed resistance to CIP (manuscript under reviewed). Surprisingly, all these three isolates were from elderly hospitalized patients undergoing antibiotics treatment [9]. Although the reasons for the high level of antibiotic susceptibility observed in the three isolates in this study are unclear, it can be speculated that the prolonged duration of antibiotic usage might suppress the diversity of the gut microbiota, leading to low rates of horizontal gene transfer by mobile genetic elements, and thereby, reducing the acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes. We explored the antibiotic-resistance and virulence related genes throughout the genomes of the three isolates by comparisons with the CARD, ARDB and VFDB databases (Fig. 8). Isolate 21,062 (RT078/ST11) displayed a unique genes composition with several genes absent or present compared with those of the other two isolates (Fig. 8). A series of genes from fliP to fliM, which encode proteins related to flagellum structure, biosynthesis and motility, were absent in isolate 21,062 (Fig. 8). In addition, another series of genes predominantly related to vancomycin resistance (vanZ, vanZA, vanB, vanUG, and vanXYL), were also absent in strain 21,062 (Fig. 8). However, all these three isolates displayed high sensitivity to vancomycin in E-test analysis, which indicates that these genes are not critical elements for VAN resistance, or that they contain non-functional ORFs. A vanB operon in Tn1549 responsible for VAN resistance was originally described in E. faecalis [32]. In a recent report, a vanG-like gene cluster, homologous to the cluster found in E. faecalis, was described in a number of ST11 C. difficile isolates, and although this cluster is expressed, it is still unable to promote resistance to VAN [33]. Furthermore, strain 21,062 also carry specific genes that were absent in the other two isolates, such as tetD and tetO responsible for TET resistance, and aac6ie, and aac6ia responsible for resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics. The gene compositions of isolates 10,010 and 12,038 are almost identical, with the exception of the distribution of three genes (tetD, vanXYL, and vanXYC) (Fig. 8). The effects of the loss of flagellum-related genes on the motility and invasive abilities of isolate 21,062 compared with those of the other two isolates in which the genes are present remains to be investigated. Predicted antibiotic-resistance genes of the three Clostridium difficile isolates and virulence-related genes according to the CARD, ARDB and VFDB databases, respectively. The vertical line indicates the predicted genes, and the horizontal lines indicate the three isolates. Increasing numbers of gene copies are represented by the change from blue to red This study comprehensively studied the MGEs, antibiotic-resistance genes, and virulent-related genes within ST11 group through the third WGS, which gave insights into the independent microevolution and genome reconstruction of ST11 C. difficile isolates. Furthermore, these genetic elements were distinct in RT078 and the other two closely related strains, which might be used as identification and classification markers for RT078. In addition, capillary electrophoresis based PCR-ribotyping is important for confirming RT078, because it carried exactly the same tcdC gene with the other two ST11 isolates. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC. All adult subjects provided informed consent, and no child was involved. The informed consent was given orally because feces collection and further test were standard protocols for patients with diarrhea. And the consent was recorded in daily progress notes by the attending physician at the hospital. Isolates and preparation of genomic DNA Three ST11 C. difficile isolates with distinct RTs were isolated from elderly hospitalized patients. Details of these isolates are summarized in Table 1 and our previous study [9]. PCR-ribotyping was performed by capillary electrophoresis using both QIAXcel and ABI 3730 systems [34, 35]. Strains 630 (AM180355) and M120 (FN665653.1) were used as references throughout the investigation. All three isolates were cultured on brain heart infusion (BHI) agar plates (Oxoid, UK) supplemented with 5% sheep blood (BaoTe, China) in an anaerobic chamber (80% nitrogen, 10% hydrogen and 10% carbon dioxide) (Mart, NL) at 37 °C for 48 h. Typical colonies were picked up and re-cultured on BHI for 24 h before preparation of genomic DNA using the Wizard® Genomic DNA Purification Kit (Promega, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Genome sequencing and assembly The complete genomes of three ST11 C. difficile isolates were sequenced on the PacBio RS II platform and Illumina HiSeq 4000 platform at the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI, Shenzhen, China). Four SMRT cells Zero-Mode Wave guide arrays of sequencing, were used by the PacBio platform to generate the sub-reads set, in which PacBio subreads with length < 1 kb were removed. The program Pbdagcon program (https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbdagcon) was used for self-correction. Draft genomic contigs, which are uncontested groups of fragments, were assembled using the Celera Assembler against a high quality corrected circular consensus sequence sub-reads set. To improve the accuracy of the genome sequences, the GATK (https://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/) and SOAP tool packages (SOAP2, SOAPsnp, SOAPindel) were used to make single-base corrections. To trace the presence of any plasmid, the filtered Illumina reads were mapped using SOAP to the bacterial plasmid database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/genomes/plasmid.html, last accessed July 8, 2016) using SOAP. Genome component prediction Gene prediction was performed on the three genomes assembled by glimmer3 (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/glimmer/) with a Hidden Markov models. tRNA, rRNA and sRNAs were recognized by using the tRNAscan-SE [36], RNAmmer, and the Rfam database, respectively [37]. The TR annotation was performed using the Tandem Repeats Finder (http://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.html). The minisatellite DNA and microsatellite DNAs were selected based on the number and length of the repeat units. Prophage regions were predicted using the PHAge Search Tool (PHAST) web server (http://phast.wishartlab.com/) and CRISPR identification were conducted by using the CRISPRFinder [38]. Gene annotation and protein classification The best hit analyzed using BLAST alignment tool for function annotation. The following databases used for general function annotation: KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) [39], COG (Clusters of Orthologous Groups) [40], NR (Non-Redundant Protein Database databases) [41], Swiss-Prot [42], and GO (Gene Ontology) [43], TrEMBL, and EggNOG [44], are used for general function annotation. Four databases were used for pathogenicity and drug-resistance analysis. Virulence factors and resistance genes were identified based on the core dataset in Virulence Factors of Pathogenic Bacteria (VFDB), Antibiotic Resistance Genes Database (ARDB) https://ardb.cbcb.umd.edu/, and Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD) https://card.mcmaster.ca/. The Pathogen Host Interactions (PHI) and Carbohydrate-Active enzymes (CAZy) databases [45] were also used here. Sequence analysis of the PaLoc and CdtLoc regions The PaLoc and CdtLoc regions were confirmed by comparison to reference CD630 genome. Orthologous gene (> 80% coverage and 90% nucleotide identity) were detected in BLAST (version 2.2.12) searches. The genetic structure as well as insertions and deletions (indel) were also studied. Analysis of MGEs Transposons (Tns) and conjugative transposons (CTns) were identified in BLAST, searches of the C. difficile genome sequences or transposons sequences available at NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). The Tns and CTns were defined as > 80% nucleotide identity and coverage. Prophages were identified using the PHASTER web server (http://phaster.ca/). Intact and incomplete prophages sequences were defined as ≥80% coverage and ≥ 90% highest nucleotide identity with similar regions in bacterial genomes in the databases. To identify plasmids, reads were assembled into contigs using the SOAP denovo. Contigs were screened for plasmids using Microbial Genome BLAST against the NCBI complete plasmid database (ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/refseq/plasmid/). The potential plasmids were defined as ≥70% coverage and ≥ 80% identity. The CRISPRFinder was used for the CRISPR identification. Conserved spacers were used as anchoring points to compare CRISPR arrays across whole genomes. For each array, the repeat sequences were removed, and the list of spacers was oriented with the ancestral spacer on the right-hand side. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests C. difficile isolates were tested for susceptibility to moxifloxacin (MXF), vancomycin (VAN), clindamycin (CLI), tetracycline (TET), erythromycin (ERY), rifampin (RFX), levofloxacin (LFX), chloramphenicol (CHL), metronidazole (MTZ), ciprofloxacin (CIP), and meropenem using E-test strips (Biomerieux, France, and Liofilchem, Italy). The interpretation of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for MTZ, MXF, CLI, CIP, LFX, and TET were interpreted according to recommendations of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) M11-A7 and M100-S24 [46, 47], and the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) (http://www.eucst.org). The breakpoints for VAN, RFX, ERY, CHL, and meropenem were determined according to a previous study [48]. Multidrug resistance (MDR) was defined as resistance to at least three antimicrobial classes. C. difficile ATCC 700057 was included as a control in each experiment. 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State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China Yuan Wu, Wen-Ge Li, Wen Zhu Zhang, Zheng Jie Liu & Jin-Xing Lu Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, China Yuan Wu & Jin-Xing Lu BGI-Shen zhen, main building, Beishan industry zone, Yan tian District, Shenzhen, China Lin Yang Yuan Wu Wen-Ge Li Wen Zhu Zhang Zheng Jie Liu Jin-Xing Lu YW, LY, WGL, WZZ, and ZJL performed the experiments. YW and LY analyzed data and finished figures. YW wrote the manuscript. YW and JXL designed the study and reviewed the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Correspondence to Yuan Wu or Jin-Xing Lu. Ethics approval do not apply to our study, all institutes involved in this research are consent to participate. Every participant know and agree the publication of this manuscript. Additional file 1. Table summarizing transposals identified in the three C. difficile isolates. Wu, Y., Yang, L., Li, WG. et al. Microevolution within ST11 group Clostridioides difficile isolates through mobile genetic elements based on complete genome sequencing. BMC Genomics 20, 796 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6184-1 tcdC deletion Complete whole genome sequencing CRISPR spacers Capillary electrophoresis-based PCR-ribotyping Prokaryote microbial genomics	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9714
__label__wiki	0.752477	0.752477	Dancehall Tours - hosted by Pantason - Episode 15 - Konshens Published May 16, 2020 01:58 p.m. ET Welcome to Dancehall Tours a series where we interview artists about how cannabis plays a part in their music. ⁣ Today our host Pantason interviews Dancehall artiste Konshens. Born Garfield Spence in Kingston in 1985. Early on he looked to Beres Hammond as his primary musical influence, and developed a vocal style that was strong and confident yet smooth and melodic. He first began making music as part of duo Sojah, along with his brother Delmark Spence (Delus). Fans of dancehall music know Konshens as the voice behind many of the biggest bashment anthems of the last decade. His songs like “Gal a Bubble” and “Bruk Off Yuh Back” are absolute essentials of the genre, capable of sending dancers into a frenzy the second they’re played in a party. But there’s more to Konshens than one genre of music, as recent collaborations with The Chainsmokers, Major Lazer and rappers Rick Ross and Nipsey Hussle attest. With the release of his second album, It Feel Good, Konshens is proving he’s a truly global artist whose talents can’t be boxed in. Create review for Dancehall Tours - hosted by Pantason - Episode 15 - Konshens Rate This Videos What did you like or dislike about your visit?	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9724
__label__cc	0.583777	0.416223	S.B. No. 16 relating to decreasing the fee for the issuance of an original or renewed license to carry a handgun. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 411.174(a), Government Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) An applicant for a license to carry a handgun must submit to the director's designee described by Section 411.176: (1) a completed application on a form provided by the department that requires only the information listed in Subsection (b); (2) one or more photographs of the applicant that meet the requirements of the department; (3) a certified copy of the applicant's birth certificate or certified proof of age; (4) proof of residency in this state; (5) two complete sets of legible and classifiable fingerprints of the applicant taken by a person appropriately trained in recording fingerprints who is employed by a law enforcement agency or by a private entity designated by a law enforcement agency as an entity qualified to take fingerprints of an applicant for a license under this subchapter; (6) a nonrefundable application and license fee of $40 [$140] paid to the department; (7) evidence of handgun proficiency, in the form and manner required by the department; (8) an affidavit signed by the applicant stating that the applicant: (A) has read and understands each provision of this subchapter that creates an offense under the laws of this state and each provision of the laws of this state related to use of deadly force; and (B) fulfills all the eligibility requirements listed under Section 411.172; and (9) a form executed by the applicant that authorizes the director to make an inquiry into any noncriminal history records that are necessary to determine the applicant's eligibility for a license under Section 411.172(a). SECTION 2. Sections 411.185(a) and (b), Government Code, are amended to read as follows: (a) To renew a license, a license holder must, on or before the date the license expires, submit to the department by mail or, in accordance with the procedure adopted under Subsection (f), on the Internet: (1) a renewal application on a form provided by the department; (2) payment of a nonrefundable renewal fee of $40 [as set by the department]; and (3) the informational form described by Subsection (c) signed or electronically acknowledged by the applicant. (b) The director by rule shall adopt a renewal application form requiring an update of the information on the original completed application. [The director by rule shall set the renewal fee in an amount that is sufficient to cover the actual cost to the department to: [(1) verify the information contained in the renewal application form; [(2) conduct any necessary investigation concerning the license holder's continued eligibility to hold a license; and [(3) issue the renewed license.] SECTION 3. Section 411.190(c), Government Code, is amended (c) In the manner applicable to a person who applies for a license to carry a handgun, the department shall conduct a background check of a person who applies for certification as a qualified handgun instructor. If the background check indicates that the applicant for certification would not qualify to receive a handgun license, the department may not certify the applicant as a that the applicant for certification would qualify to receive a handgun license, the department shall provide handgun instructor training to the applicant. The applicant shall pay a fee of $100 to the department for the training. The applicant must take and successfully complete the training offered by the department and pay the training fee before the department may certify the applicant as a qualified handgun instructor. The department shall issue a license to carry a handgun under the authority of this subchapter to any person who is certified as a qualified handgun instructor and who pays to the department a fee of $40 [$100] in addition to the training fee. The department by rule may prorate or waive the training fee for an employee of another governmental entity. SECTION 4. The heading to Section 411.194, Government Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 411.194. REDUCTION OF CERTAIN FEES DUE TO INDIGENCY. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, if the department determines that an applicant is indigent, the department shall reduce by: (1) 50 percent any fee required for the issuance of a [an original,] duplicate or[,] modified[, or renewed] license under this subchapter; and (2) $5 any fee required for the issuance of a renewed license under this subchapter [if the department determines that the applicant is indigent]. SECTION 6. Section 411.195, Government Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 411.195. REDUCTION OF CERTAIN FEES FOR SENIOR CITIZENS. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, if an applicant for the license is 60 years of age or older, the license under this subchapter [if the applicant for the license is 60 years of age or older]. SECTION 7. Section 411.1991(c), Government Code, is amended (c) The department shall waive any fee required [An applicant under this section shall pay a fee of $25] for a license issued under this subchapter to an applicant under this section. SECTION 8. Section 411.201(d), Government Code, is amended (d) An applicant for a license who is an active or retired judicial officer must submit to the department: (1) a completed application, including all required affidavits, on a form prescribed by the department; fingerprints of the applicant, including one set taken by a person employed by a law enforcement agency who is appropriately trained in recording fingerprints; manner required by the department for an applicant under this section; [set by the department in an amount reasonably designed to cover the administrative costs associated with issuance of a license to carry a handgun under this subchapter]; and (6) if the applicant is a retired judicial officer, a form executed by the applicant that authorizes the department to make an inquiry into any noncriminal history records that are necessary to determine the applicant's eligibility for a license under this subchapter. SECTION 9. The change in law made by this Act applies only to an applicant for an original or renewed license to carry a handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, as amended by this Act, who submits the application on or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 10. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. ______________________________ ______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 16 passed the Senate on March 27, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5; and that the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 11, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5. I hereby certify that S.B. No. 16 passed the House, with amendment, on May 3, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 17, one present not voting.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9725
__label__cc	0.715758	0.284242	BLITZSCHLAG FOR FLUTE AND ORCHESTRA SCORE 4 interest-free payments of $15.99 For Flute And Orchestra Score A fitting tribute to the troubled genius who revolutionized electric bass playing and bridged the gaps between jazz, R&B, rock and funk. From his early days in R&B club bands through his international stardom with fusion group Weather Report and on to his solo career and tragic death at age 35, this book portrays the life and music of Jaco Pastorius, the self-proclaimed “world's greatest bass player.” This special anniversary edition features new interviews with Jaco's childhood friends,prominent bass players of Jaco's era and afterward, and girlfriend Tere sa Nagell, who was with Jaco in the last few years of his life. Some incidents from the first edition have been further researched and expanded to become full chapters. Exclusive to this edition, the CD features newly revealed music tracks from Jaco's early years along with spoken testimonials from Jaco's friends and colleagues. The book also contains new, never-before-seen photos acquired from the Pastorius estate. Bill Milkowski Conductor's Score James Dillon PAST LIFE MELODIES STRING ORCHESTRA English Folk Songs (Suite) Simple Square Dance Stringin' the Blues VOCALISE OP 34 NO 14 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SCORE SYMPHONY NO 5 ORCHESTRA SET OF PARTS Overture To Rienzi Sdefo4 Sleigh Ride German Dance K 605 No 3 Sdefo1 Overture To Pirates Of Penzance Sdefo4 Mother Ginger From The Nutcracker Sdefo4 Score O	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9730
__label__cc	0.732543	0.267457	Entrance Policies Dining In & Around Casa de Campo New Releases, Now Playing, & Coming Soon Central Romana starts the La Romana Free Zone expansion Once again! Casa de Campo nominated in the Travel+Leisure 2021 “World’s Best” awards! In and around news and updates in Casa by Steve Pakozdy Reserve your spot for the 37th Caribbean International PRO AM I! Junior Golf Academy: Where Casa kids can learn and enjoy one of Casa de Campo’s favorite sports! McDaniel Family Foundation sponsorship drive for the Casa de Campo players and ball boys Fundación MIR Golf for Education event THIS Saturday! Don’t forget to sign up! Mass schedule at the St. Stanislaus Church in Altos de Chavón for this weekend Casa de Campo Golf: Upcoming Tournaments 2021! Sixth Diplomatic and Consular Golf Cup dedicated to Carlos Morales Troncoso New Years Eve Special Menus at La Caña, La Casita, La Piazzetta, Minitas Beach Club, & Causa 8 foods Dominicans enjoy eating for Christmas Eve dinner Introducing CAUSA, a new Peruvian restaurant in La Marina Christmas and New Year’s Eve Specials in Casa de Campo make the holidays all the merrier! This weekend is to enjoy wine, fine food and live music at La Caña Restaurant! Happy New Year! Casa de Campo Living Magazine winter edition 2020 is online now! Dominican English Dictionary: “Barriga llena, corazón contento” This week in Casa de Campo: Sunset events, Live Music, Brunch, Fireworks, and more! This upcoming week in Casa de Campo: Magic show, Christmas carols, Outdoor cinema, Beach olympics, and more! Beyond Casa We will be able to relive all the excitement from the Pitbull and Alejandro Fernandez concerts! By Marlenys Guzmán Castaños This post is also available in: Spanish You know the feeling you get when you leave a concert wanting more? Not because they didn’t give it their all but because you simply just want to sing and dance longer? That’s just how we felt after leaving previous concerts by Pitbull and Alejandro Fernandez in our legendary amphitheater in Altos de Chavón. Guess what?! They’re coming back to the country so we’ll have another opportunity to see them perform. Armando Pérez (Pitbull, Mr. 305) and Alejandro Fernandez! Pitbull was here in 2013 with a concert that benefited the Hogar del Niño. It was an absolute hit that exceeded all expectations. Who can forget the Live Drawing Show with the “Muse Seek Project” and the kids from the Hogar del Niño School for the Deaf, who created numerous pieces of artwork while listening to the DJ’s music? Plus, more Dominican artists performed including MelyMel, El Poeta Callejero and Sensato, who have themselves overcome a series of obstacles throughout their lives. See pictures of the concert below! Armando Pérez (better known as Pitbull or Mr. 305) is part of the Casa de Campo community…He loved being here so much that he bought a house! Plus, he’s a faithful supporter of the Hogar del Niño, and his name is listed in a plaque at the Hogar as one of the benefactors of the organization. The Grammy Award winner for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative album at the 58th Grammy Awards, Pitbull is considered to be one of the most influential artists and a real ambassador of Latin music and culture. Promoting his ninth album, Dale, at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino fans can relive the fun from 2013. In addition, there is Alejandro Fernández, El Potrillo, who was here last year in August 2015 and packed the house! Not even tropical storm Emilia could stop us from falling in love with his incredibly beautiful songs, and not to mention the mariachi that came on stage during the second half! He had all his Dominican fans melting! He brings his very successful tour “Confidencias World Tour” to the country. It is an fantastic mix of old and new songs. With two Grammy awards under his belt, he is considered one of the greatest representatives of Mexican music. And GUESS WHAT?! He was recognized LAST THURSDAY for his musical career at the Billboard Awards!! He also performed alongside his daughter Camila Fernandez in “Billboard Duets” with other celebrities such as Daddy Yankee y Don Omar, Victor Manuelle and the very popular Nicky Jam. See our gallery from the past concert below, or catch the live version in June in Punta Cana. Not far away anymore thanks to the Coral Highway, we bet fans will hop on over to see their favorite stars. Pitbull Concert 2013 Alejandro Fernández concert 2015 Pitbull with his Tour Dale When: Saturday May 28, 8:00 p.m Where: Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Fillmore Hall, Punta Cana Tickets available in Uepatickets.com Alejandro Fernández with his Confidencias World Tour When: Saturday June 11, 8:00 pm Related Items:Alejandro fernandez, Concerts, Confidencias, Dale, hard rock hotel and casino, Pitbull, Punta Cana, tour, Upcoming Marina Casa de Campo Movie times: January 7th – 13th Amidst a warm night, ocean waves joined the rhythm of Azimut’s Sunset Jazz MetroPac in Casa de Campo! Get the latest news about Casa de Campo in your inbox! Got an event to promote? TELL US ALL ABOUT IT! Upcoming Events & Activities: Casa de Campo Living is an independent, community run news site focused on helping our community enjoy their time in and around Casa de Campo. This website neither reflects the views of Casa de Campo Resort & Villas, its administration or any of its subsidiaries and should not be deemed as 'official' in any way, shape or form. We just live here, work here and love it here, and hope you will too! Casa de Campo Living is a SILGON Publication. Costa Verde 5, Casa de Campo, La Romana. Casa de Campo Altos de Chavon Casa de Campo Resort Featured-Topview Marina Casa de Campo La Romana Casa de Campo Living Casa de Campo Community hogar del nino Golf Copyright © 2016 CasadeCampoLiving.com.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9733
__label__wiki	0.889476	0.889476	brainstation.io What Digital Skills You Need to Become a Fintech Leader By BrainStation July 11, 2019 FinTech — or financial technologies — is that increasingly-common marriage between the tech industry and the financial services sector. And year by year these companies, from Avant to Wealthsimple, are giving traditional banking institutions a run for their money. According to Forbes, the sector is expected to keep growing as startups try to “disrupt every area of finance,” with one forecast pegging the compound annual growth rate at close to 75 percent from 2019 through 2025. “FinTech is really where finance and tech intersect, of course, which means people can come from a really traditional background — getting a business degree, or going to commerce for university… or they can come from the whole geeky, coding, fun tech side,” says Ellis Odynn executive director and chief AI officer for the Digital Finance Institute. So how can professionals tap into this booming field (and become a leader)? Industry experts say it comes down to developing a few crucial, in-demand digital skills. Back-end and Front-end Development Odynn says it’s “absolutely” necessary for job hunters to have development skills if they want to land a gig at a FinTech company. In particular, being able to code apps for various devices is an important skill, she notes. “Every young person banks on their mobile phone… they deposit checks, they send money, they pay their bills, all on their phone,” she explains. When Kesem Frank, chief maven at blockchain solution company Mavennet, is hiring developers, he’s looking for people who are well-rounded, capable of thinking like a product’s end user, and can run the gamut of a full stack. “Maybe you’re stronger in front-end, maybe you have a passion for the back-end… but it’s a gigantic advantage if you can fulsomely understand the full stack,” he says. “Don’t market yourself as ‘I do this one thing very well’… show you can understand the whole thing.” He says it’s also helpful to develop familiarity with different virtual machines running different stacks. “If you understand not just a technical level, but a conceptual level, what’s the big deal with this technology, it makes you a better developer,” he explains. Overall, says Odynn, “people who are able to code, or have taken a coding bootcamp — they have a huge step up.” Data Management and AI Increasingly, FinTech companies are turning to AI to conduct the financial work behind-the-scenes, according to Odynn. With that in mind, job hunters should become familiar with AI and data management skills — be it a basic understanding of the systems or, even better, intimate knowledge of how to actually build them. It’s all about “learning how to deal with data and find patterns in data and analyze data sets,” Odynn says. “It’s having people who have the ability and skills to come up with algorithms and programs machines to do that for them,” she adds. Alongside data and development skills, experts say having a sense of design and UX is a helpful skill for a job seeker’s toolkit — particularly given the slick, well-branded nature of many rising stars in the FinTech sphere. “If you look at a bank website, it’s so standard. There’s nothing interesting,” says Odynn. “If you look at a FinTech website, it’s brighter colors, pop-ups, it’s very easy to understand what’s going on.” Most of these growing companies are targeting millennials she notes and catering to this design-savvy generation. “It’s incredibly important for startups to be able to differentiate, and what we differentiate is probably not the functionality… it’s really that distinct layer that we put on top of what we build that makes it stand out in a really competitive market,” echoes Frank. While design isn’t everyone’s forte, he says candidates need to at least be aware of its importance. “I can tell you that conversations when somebody has a design in mind — they’re just more meaningful,” he explains. The bottom line, according to Frank, is that companies are looking for truly “impressive” candidates, which also goes beyond your resume and skill set. “Be keen,” he says. “Your approach, your mannerisms, your aptitude to how you do things is so key.” Want to hear more from FinTech leaders? BrainStation Community members get 20 percent off FinTech Canada Conference tickets using code BRAINSTATION20. Get the latest on upcoming courses, programs, events, and more — straight to your inbox. Sorry there was an error. Please try again later. By clicking "Subscribe", you accept our Terms. You have been added to our mailing list, and will now receive updates from BrainStation. BrainStation Launches Cybersecurity Certificate Course By Emily Peck December 8, 2020 Protect your assets with our Cybersecurity course, designed to provide a detailed understanding of the threat landscape, and how to secure mission-critical data. BrainStation News / Cybersecurity Building Digital Loyalty Programs That Work By Salvatore Ciolfi November 6, 2020 Watch a recap of the Building Digital Loyalty Programs panel discussion – the latest in BrainStation’s Digital Leadership Event Series. BrainStation News / Events BrainStation Project Showcase By Samantha Preddie August 26, 2020 Here are the best projects from BrainStation's Diploma graduates. Demo Day / Student Experience All Content © BrainStation Inc. 2015-2020. "BRAINSTATION", BrainStation logo and "THE DIGITAL LEARNING COMPANY" are trademarks of BrainStation Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Service Accessibility	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9734
__label__wiki	0.971046	0.971046	Twitter's Tarun Jain to head products division of Flipkart's online ad biz Flipkart, India’s largest ecommerce company, has hired former Twitter executive Tarun Jain to head the products division of its online advertising business. Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce company, has hired former Twitter executive Tarun Jain to head the products division of its online advertising business. Jain will be responsible for driving business strategy, product vision, roadmap, execution, partnerships and customer adoption. Jain has relocated to Bengaluru from San Francisco and will be reporting to entrepreneur-in-residence Ravi Garikipati. The ads business is headed by Flipkart’s Group CEO Sachin Bansal. “He (Jain) possesses deep understanding of the digital advertising solutions and we believe that his leadership will bring invaluable insights and contribute to the growth of ads group at Flipkart,” said Garikipati. Jain worked with Twitter as the group product manager in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he led the product strategy for several ads and commerce products. Prior to that, he was at Google, where he built and scaled AdWords Express, Dynamic Ads, Google Offers and Google Shopping. In one year, Flipkart has made several strategic hires to beef up its top management. These include former Google product head Punit Soni to head the product division at the e-commerce platform and former McKinsey director Saikiran Krishnamurthy as the chief operating officer of its commerce division. Peeyush Ranjan also joined the company as senior vice-president and head of engineering from Google. Experts say getting high-profile experienced people on board will help Flipkart create a better profile when it ultimately lists for an IPO. At the same time, the company is outsourcing some of its middle- and lower-level employees to business process outsourcing firm Serco. Tarun Jain The People Report / 43 days ago Kavita Nair quits telecom giant Vi McCann’s Devika Bulchandani appointed as CEO of Ogilvy North America	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9737
__label__cc	0.728482	0.271518	Suarez on Agents and Action Christopher Brinkley Uncategorized July 1, 2020 July 2, 2020 Among the greatest of the Latin scholastics, Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) was a profoundly original and highly sophisticated theologian-philosopher who significantly influenced early modern thought, and also produced monumental summaries of several centuries of Latin scholastic argument. A full third of his gigantic Metaphysical Disputations was devoted to an extremely detailed and systematic discussion of causality. A large volume entirely dedicated to efficient causes has been translated to English, and a web search popped up several secondary discussions. My comments here will be very high-level, mostly based on those. In this scholastic context, traditional Aristotelian terms like cause, being, and substance are all given very different explanations from the nonstandard but hopefully both more historical and more useful ones I have been giving them. Latin scholastics tended to have a somewhat neoplatonizing, substantialized notion of Aristotelian causes. A common view was that any cause must be a substantial entity of some sort, whereas causes in the common modern sense are events, and I read Aristotle himself as identifying causes with “reasons why”. Suárez held to the view of causes as substantial entities, and apparently went on to argue that all causes give Thomistic being (esse) either to a substance or to an accident in a substance. This influx or “influence” is described as a kind of immaterial flowing of being that makes or produces, without diminishing the agent. In the case of an efficient cause, this influence occurs through action, and the substantial efficient cause is called an agent. (By contrast, in the above-linked article, which has brief additional remarks on Suárez, I quoted Aristotle saying in effect that an agent’s action is more properly an efficient cause than the agent, and that something like a technique used in an action is more properly an efficient cause than the action.) Suárez’s metaphysical emphasis on actions producing being in things has been characterized as transitional to a modern, event-based view of causality. While Suárez himself held to the idea that causes were substantial agents, early modern mechanism indeed seems to have kept his emphasis on action but moved to an event-based view. It seems to me to have been a historical accident that mathematical natural science arose on the basis of an event-based view. While mathematics certainly can be used to develop precise descriptions of events, any mathematical analysis relevant to this can also be construed as a “reason why” rather than a mere description. On the frontier of analytic philosophy, Brandom is again suggesting that a consideration of reasons actually circumscribes — and is necessary to underwrite — consideration of events and descriptions. This suggests a new motivation for recovering Aristotle’s original reason-based view. Efficient Cause Mathematical Explanation Scholasticism Published July 1, 2020 July 2, 2020 Previous Post Efficient Cause, Again Next Post Schelling	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9740
__label__wiki	0.893283	0.893283	Jordan Schakel Yanni Wetzell Hunter Maldonado KJ Feagin Malachi Flynn Adam Seiko Aguek Arop Joel Mensah Hunter Thompson Nathan Mensah Sports Men's college basketball College basketball Basketball College sports Men's basketball Men's sports San Diego State Mountain West Wyoming No. 7 San Diego State beats Wyoming 72-52 to stay undefeated - Jan. 08, 2020 11:19 PM EST LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Malachi Flynn scored 19 points, Yanni Wetzell added 17 and No. 7 San Diego State beat Wyoming 72-52 on Wednesday night to remain undefeated. San Diego State (16-0, 5-0 Mountain West) continued its hottest start since 2010-11, when it opened 20-0 behind Kawhi Leonard and reached the Sweet 16 for the first time, finishing a school-record 34-3. Jordan Schakel added 11 points for the Aztecs, whose 16-game winning streak is the longest in the country. San Diego State and Auburn are the nation's only undefeated teams. Auburn beat Vanderbilt on Wednesday night to improve to 14-0. Hunter Maldonado scored 18 points for Wyoming (5-11, 0-5), the conference’s last-place team. Hunter Thompson added 15 for the Cowboys, who lost their third straight. San Diego State lost the last two times it played in Laramie while in the Top 25, 68-62 as the fifth-ranked team on Feb. 11, 2014, and 58-45 as No. 15 on Jan. 19, 2013. To combat the 7,220-foot elevation, coach Brian Dutcher had the Aztecs return home Sunday after winning at Utah State on Saturday night. They then took a charter flight to Wyoming on Tuesday night. The plan worked. San Diego State was a little sloppy early and let Wyoming get within three points on Hunter Maldonado’s 3-pointer with just less than eight minutes left in the first half. San Diego State then closed the half on a 14-6 run to take a 32-21 lead. Wetzell grabbed Flynn’s missed 3 for a dunk and then fed Adam Seiko for a layup. Schakel hit two 3-pointers while Seiko and Flynn each added a bucket. Flynn, Schakel and KJ Feagin each hit a 3-pointer in the first four minutes of the second half to push the lead to 47-30. The short-handed Aztecs continued to be without Nathan Mensah (respiratory ailment) and Aguek Arop (shoulder), and Joel Mensah was sidelined with back spasms. San Diego State: Flynn was among 25 players named to the John R. Wooden Award 2019-20 Midseason Watch List by the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Leonard (2011) and Jamaal Franklin (2013) were the only other Aztecs players named to the list. Wyoming: The Cowboys are 3-5 against San Diego State when the Aztecs are ranked. San Diego State hosts Boise State on Saturday night at sold-out Viejas Arena. Wyoming hosts UNLV on Saturday night. More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9748
__label__wiki	0.831499	0.831499	Rylan Bergersen Aaron Weidenaar Eddy Kayouloud Hayden Koval R.J. Smith Zach Nutall Kai Mitchell Sports College basketball Basketball College sports Men's basketball Men's sports Men's college basketball Central Arkansas Southland Sam Houston State Mitchell leads Sam Houston State past Central Arkansas 82-67 HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Kai Mitchell poured in a career-high 30 points, adding eight rebounds and three assists, and Sam Houston State drilled Central Arkansas 82-67 on Saturday. Mitchell connected on 11 of 15 shots from the floor, including 3 of 4 from 3-point range, for the Bearkats (17-9, 10-5 Southland Conference). Zach Nutall scored 21 with three steals. R.J. Smith added 11 points on 5-of-10 shooting. Sophomore Hayden Koval had 22 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks to pace the Bears (9-17, 8-7). Freshman Eddy Kayouloud added 16 points, while Aaron Weidenaar scored 10. DeAndre Jones tied his career high with 11 assists. Rylan Bergersen, the Bears' leading scorer heading into the matchup at 15 points per game, made just 1 of 6 shots, scoring two points. The Bearkats forced a season-high 24 turnovers. Sam Houston State ranks fifth in the nation in forced turnovers with an average of 19 per game. The Bearkats evened the season series against the Bears with the win. Central Arkansas defeated Sam Houston State 89-82 on Jan. 11. Elements of this story were generated by Automated Insights, http://www.automatedinsights.com/ap, using data from STATS LLC, https://www.stats.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9749
__label__cc	0.633375	0.366625	PARRIS v. SANDS Paula PARRIS, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. James SANDS, et al., Defendants and Respondents. Civ. No. B067936. Borrell & Borrell and Mark Borrell; Lascher & Lascher, Wendy C. Lascher and Gabriele Mezger–Lashly, Ventura, for plaintiff and appellant. Monroy & Weiss, and Jerrie S. Weiss, Westlake Village, for defendants and respondents. Plaintiff Paula Parris appeals a judgment, after jury trial, in favor of defendant Doctor James Sands. We affirm and hold Doctor Sands had no duty to inform patient Parris of “schools of thought” regarding asplenic patients and prophylactic antibiotics. In 1975, physicians diagnosed plaintiff Paula Parris as having Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. To determine whether the disease had spread to other parts of her body, surgeons removed her spleen, a body organ with critical immunological functions. Thereafter, her physicians treated her with radiation therapy. In 1980, the cancer reoccurred and Parris received chemotherapy treatments. Since then, her cancer has been in remission. From time to time following her splenectomy, Parris suffered from upper respiratory infections. Her oncologist, Doctor Robert Ouwendijk, prescribed antibiotics for these respiratory infections on three occasions. On three other occasions, he did not. Based upon his medical tests and Parris's clinical profile, he opined that she probably was not immunocompromised due to her splenectomy. Doctor Ouwendijk believed, however, that “best” clinical judgment required a physician to assume an asplenic patient is immunocompromised. On May 12, 1988, Parris visited Doctor James Sands at the Ventura Urgent Care Center because she suffered an upper respiratory infection. She complained of a low fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and chest pain. Doctor Sands examined Parris and decided she was febrile and her eardrum appeared “a little dull,” a symptom of a viral infection. Doctor Sands heard no cough and found no enlarged lymph nodes in her arms or neck. He performed a white blood cell count and found it to be bordering on normal/high. An independent laboratory re-examined the blood sample and found the white blood cell count to be in the upper range of normal. Doctor Sands knew Parris had suffered Hodgkin's disease and was asplenic. She had been a patient of Urgent Care Center before and he also noticed her splenectomy scar during his examination. Doctor Sands diagnosed Parris as suffering from viral flu syndrome. He made “a judgment call” that Parris's immune system was not compromised by reason of her splenectomy. His judgment rested upon her normal white blood cell count, her infrequent infections and the absence of any unusual or obscure infections according to her medical history. Doctor Sands testified at trial that immunocompromised patients commonly suffered from bacterial, yeast or fungal infections. They are also at risk for pneumonia. Doctor Sands prescribed an anti-inflammatory drug for Parris's pain and fever and an anti-nausea drug. Because of his conclusion that Parris had a normal immune response to infections, he did not prescribe an antibiotic. Doctor Sands testified that antibiotics generally were not used to treat viral infections. Doctor Sands asked Parris to return in 24 to 48 hours if she did not improve. Parris's condition appeared to improve the next day but thereafter deteriorated. She did not return to Urgent Care Center. Three days later, her husband took her to the Ventura County Medical Center emergency room. There, doctors diagnosed her condition as life-threatening bacterial pneumonia. Parris was hospitalized for six weeks and was ventilator-dependent during that time. Although doctors did not expect she would survive, Parris recovered, but she now suffers lung damage from the pneumonia. Parris brought this action for medical malpractice against defendant James Sands and the Ventura Urgent Care Center. Expert medical testimony was as follows: Doctor Henry Holderman testified that Doctor Sands treatment was beneath the medical standard of care by not giving Parris antibiotics to prevent possible bacterial pneumonia. He opined that Parris was immunocompromised because she was asplenic and the risk of pneumonia therefore was greater than any risk of taking antibiotics. Doctor Holderman believed Parris was less likely to have developed pneumonia had she received antibiotics from Doctor Sands. Doctor Daniel Greenberg, a pulmonologist, opined Parris probably suffered from pneumonia when she visited Doctor Sands on May 12, 1988. He also believed Doctor Sands breached medical standards of care by not prescribing antibiotics immediately, considering Parris was asplenic. Doctor Greenberg testified Doctor Sands should have assumed Parris was immunocompromised because many asplenic patients are immunocompromised for years beyond their spleen removal. He believed Parris was mildly immunocompromised. Doctor Sands testified concerning a “debate” within the medical community in 1988 regarding the length of time an asplenic patient remains immunocompromised following a splenectomy. Although some doctors believed an asplenic patient was immunocompromised forever, other doctors believed the likelihood of immunocompromise decreased with time. Doctor Sands stated that some doctors believed asplenic patients should receive prophylactic antibiotics and other doctors believed such treatment unnecessary. Doctor William O'Riordan, an emergency care physician, testified Doctor Sands's diagnosis and treatment of Parris fell within the medical standard of care. He did not believe Parris was immunocompromised because of her previous recoveries from upper respiratory infections. The jury decided Doctor Sands was not negligent in his care and treatment of Parris. On appeal, Parris argues: 1) the trial court improperly rejected her proposed jury instruction concerning a physician's duty to inform a patient regarding differing “schools of thought” concerning diagnoses or treatments and 2) the trial court improperly refused to permit Doctor Ouwendijk to testify as an expert witness. Parris contends the trial court improperly rejected this special jury instruction: “A physician rendering a diagnosis or providing treatment has a duty to inform the patient that other members of the medical profession might render a different diagnosis or provide a different treatment based on a contrary recognized school of thought within the medical community. A failure to fulfill such a duty is negligence.” This instruction, advising the jury that a patient is entitled to be informed of competing medical views, rests upon dictum in Jamison v. Lindsay (1980) 108 Cal.App.3d 223, 166 Cal.Rptr. 443. Parris also relies upon Arato v. Avedon (1993) 5 Cal.4th 1172, 1183, 23 Cal.Rptr.2d 131, 858 P.2d 598 and Cobbs v. Grant (1972) 8 Cal.3d 229, 243, 104 Cal.Rptr. 505, 502 P.2d 1, declaring a physician's duty of disclosure of available choices of proposed therapy and of the dangers potentially involved in each choice. The trial court properly rejected this special instruction. Jamison v. Lindsay, supra, 108 Cal.App.3d 223, 166 Cal.Rptr. 443, concerned surgery on a young woman to remove a tumor on her right ovary. A pathologist examined the tumor and found it contained both immature and mature cells. The pathologist knew of “divergent opinions” concerning whether the immature cells were malignant or potentially so. (Id., p. 228, 166 Cal.Rptr. 443.) He personally believed the cells were not malignant and so informed the surgeon. The pathologist did not advise the surgeon that other pathologists might opine differently. The patient received no further treatment. Within several months, she developed other, life-threatening malignant tumors, possibly related to her original tumor. In dictum, Jamison said that an appropriate jury instruction, if requested, would have been this: “ ‘[I]t is the duty of a physician or surgeon to disclose to the patient all relevant information to enable the patient to make an informed decision whether to seek additional treatment following surgery.’ [Citation.]” (Jamison v. Lindsay, supra, 108 Cal.App.3d 223, 231, 166 Cal.Rptr. 443.) Jamison relied upon the physician's “broad duty of disclosure” enunciated by our Supreme Court in Truman v. Thomas (1980) 27 Cal.3d 285, 290, 165 Cal.Rptr. 308, 611 P.2d 902.) Generally, appellate courts have rejected a general duty of disclosure concerning a treatment or procedure a physician does not recommend. (Mathis v. Morrissey (1992) 11 Cal.App.4th 332, 342, fn. 6, 13 Cal.Rptr.2d 819—explaining general rule and citing recent cases.) These decisions have restricted plaintiffs to actions under ordinary medical negligence. (Ibid.) Thus, in dictum, Mathis, supra, rejected the argument that a physician must inform a patient of “ ‘schools of thought’ ” based upon views of other health care providers because such duty “would impose an excessively onerous burden upon treating physicians.” (Id., p. 344, 13 Cal.Rptr.2d 819.) Only in the unusual case would such duty be appropriate. (Vandi v. Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (1992) 7 Cal.App.4th 1064, 1071, 9 Cal.Rptr.2d 463.) We decline to extend the law to the circumstances here. Expert testimony established that diagnosis of Parris's degree of immunocompromise, if any, and prescribing of prophylactic antibiotics were matters of clinical judgment. Doctor Sands was not recommending prophylactic antibiotics and the duty discussed in Jamison would have required him to discuss a procedure he was not recommending. Parris has not cited authority, other than dicta, that would require a Jamison-type jury instruction here—a case not involving surgery, cancer diagnosis or cancer treatment or other serious, life-threatening procedures. (e.g., Mathis v. Morrissey, supra, 11 Cal.App.4th 332, 343–344, 13 Cal.Rptr.2d 819—a physician should disclose two schools of thought concerning whether a lumpectomy or mastectomy is appropriate to treat breast cancer.) Parris, however, was not without an appropriate legal theory to recover damages. Negligent failure to advise a patient to pursue a necessary course of treatment is an action under ordinary medical negligence, upon which the jury here received proper instructions. (Mathis v. Morrissey, supra, 11 Cal.App.4th 332, 342, fn. 6, 13 Cal.Rptr.2d 819; Jamison v. Lindsay, supra, 108 Cal.App.3d 223, 231, 166 Cal.Rptr. 443.) At trial, Doctors Holderman and Greenberg testified Doctor Sands was negligent for not assuming Parris was immunocompromised and for thereby not prescribing antibiotics. Had the jury credited this testimony and found Doctor Sands negligent, Parris could have recovered damages. Parris also complains that BAJI No. 6.03, without her proposed jury instruction based on Jamison, supra, misled the jury. BAJI No. 6.03 provides: “Where there is more than one recognized method of diagnosis or treatment, and no one of them is used exclusively and uniformly by all practitioners of good standing, a physician is not negligent if, in exercising his or her best judgment, he or she selects one of the approved methods, which later turns out to be a wrong selection, or one not favored by certain other practitioners.” Parris contends this instruction “virtually directed” a verdict for Sands because evidence at trial established more than one recognized treatment for her condition. We disagree. BAJI No. 6.03 discusses “more than one recognized method of diagnosis or treatment.” Doctors Holderman and Greenberg opined Doctor Sands's treatment fell below medical standards, permitting the reasonable inference Doctor Sands's treatment was not one “recognized ․ by all practitioners of good standing.” Of course, Doctor Sands testified to differing, recognized approaches to immunocompromised patients and prophylactic antibiotics. The jury could assess the credibility of these experts and decide whether, indeed, different recognized or approved treatments existed. Thus, BAJI No. 6.03 did not compel a verdict in favor of Doctor Sands. Parris claims the trial court improperly refused to permit Doctor Ouwendijk to opine how he would have treated her had she visited him instead of Doctor Sands. She contends the trial court erroneously believed she should have included Doctor Ouwendijk as an expert witness on her expert witness declaration under Code of Civil Procedure section 2034, subdivisions (a)(2) and (f)(2). She points out Doctor Ouwendijk was her treating physician and hence, not a retained expert within section 2034, subdivision (a)(2). (Hurtado v. Western Medical Center (1990) 222 Cal.App.3d 1198, 1203, 272 Cal.Rptr. 324.) Doctor Sands does not respond to this argument. Any error was harmless because it is not reasonably probable Parris would have obtained a more favorable result otherwise. Doctor Ouwendijk testified it was his “best” clinical judgment to assume an asplenic patient was immunocompromised and to administer prophylactic antibiotics. Doctors Holderman and Greenberg testified it fell below the standard of care not to do so. Testimony concerning Doctor Ouwendijk's hypothetical treatment of Parris on May 12, 1988, would not have added much to this expert testimony concerning Doctor Sands's treatment. Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed. Parris shall bear costs on appeal. GILBERT, Justice. STONE, P.J., and YEGAN, J., concur.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9760
__label__cc	0.658647	0.341353	Tel: 053 942 6318\|Email: cbcarnew@kwetb.ie FacebookTwitterCalendar KWETB Our Education Partners Student Registration & Enrolment French Exchange Guidance & Counselling State Examinations Commission Study Facilities Development Education School VS Ware Login Information for Prospective & Incoming Students Letters, Notices, Forms & Newsletters Guide for Parents Booklet J.C. Programme L.C. Programme L.C.A. Programme T.Y. Programme Post Leaving Certificate Courses (P.L.C.) Home/Students/Development Education School Development Education School cbcarnew 2018-04-30T12:04:15+01:00 Our schools engagement with Development Education is based on the belief that education for human rights and sustainable development are central concerns for our school curriculum. We must afford our staff and students the opportunity to consider the world through the eyes and ears of the victims of global injustice. The perspective fostered through Development Education is one that sees students as active agents in their own learning, favouring a critical questioning approach over one which might tell them what to think. Student’s enquiry into life’s bigger questions through social innovation and development education promotes concern, empathy and a sense of responsibility towards others. This approach to teaching and learning quite clearly connects with Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs and meets our schools Mission Statement. For over a decade, Coláiste Bhride has engaged in a myriad of Development Education initiatives. Development Education has acted as a catalyst in our school community helping us realise our own social and moral purpose and identifying our schools position within a global context. Engagements include volunteering, debating, Young Social Innovators, Science for Development projects, partnership with NUI Maynooth, Work Experience Placements, establishing school networks and travelling on schools visits to countries in Sub Saharan Africa. Our schools publication, ‘Twenty Fifteen’, went on to become an award winning series of books on the Millennium Development Goals which provided a highly visible and interesting way for Coláiste Bhride to give expression to its commitment to social justice. Our engagement with Development Education is now part of our school culture and has had a transformational effect on our school community. Our students and staff continue to learn, discover and develop in a personal and professional capacity. For many, engaging with Development Education is the beginning of a lifelong learning process that will ‘light the fire’ to actively engage: for others it will affect their day to day civic, social and political choices. As an educator, the way I see it is that we have a responsibility to our students and staff to fulfil our commitment to social justice now that Development Education is securely embedded into our school curriculum and part of our school ethos. Eleanor Lee Colaiste Bhride is going places.. Our school has been awarded a special Global Passport. Irish Aid and Global World Wide Schools award three different levels of passport awards. Coláiste Bhríde has been awarded the top passport along with two other schools, and are the only schools to have achieved this level in Ireland. Our school is now recognised as a Dev Ed school. So what is a Dev Ed school? Development Education is an educational process, which aims to increase awareness and understanding of the world we live in. It challenges perceptions and aims to create a just world. Our school is now a partof this process. You may still be wondering why they call it a passport. Well the answer is simple. We have reached one of this years many aims but our journey is not over. We don’t get a passport just to leave it on the shelf, we get it so we can go places. This achievement really highlights Coláiste Bhríde as a school that is going places. The passport is just another step on our Development Education journey. There are so many ways we can add the metaphorical stamps to this passport to show what we have achieved. The possibilities for our school are now endless. There’s a lovely quote from Anne Frank “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” We have already conquered the most difficult task, now we must merely keep going. The Dev Ed team would like you to continue with us on our journey in changing the world one step at a time Ann Marie Doyle TY Coláiste Bhríde Carnew, Carnew, Co. Wicklow. Email: cbcarnew@kwetb.ie Web: www.cbcarnew.ie Copyright 2020 Coláiste Bhríde	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9763
__label__cc	0.690271	0.309729	The Humphreys Basin: August 2013 Mt. Humphreys All photographs by Nick Hendriksma Saturday, July 27: The flight out. After a smooth trip from Grand Rapids and a stop at REI in Las Vegas for last supplies, we survived the drive to Bishop, where we stayed at the Bishop Elms Motel. I first stayed there thirty years ago when it was owned by a Dutch family. It has since gone through several changes of ownership and is now under (Asian) Indian ownership. I like the place. It’s your old-fashioned motel, reasonably priced for Bishop in the summer. Sunday, July 28: North Lake to Upper Golden Trout Lake Since I’m now in my 60s and my hiking group is in the same range, we’ve usually had our gear hauled in by a packer, after which we were on our own. Last year around a campfire at Pingree Lake in the Emigrant Wilderness someone asked what it would cost to have the gear hauled out as well. “Twice as much as one way,” I replied. No one seemed too distressed at that, so this year Bishop Pack Outfitters (the website is not working as I write) took the gear both ways. Although a packer is pricey, I’ve never felt the cost was unreasonable, given the challenges packers face (short season, lots of overhead). We dropped our gear off and headed up the Piute Pass trail at about 7:30 a.m., arriving to find our gear waiting at about 1 p.m. The hike in was one of the most pleasant I’ve had in forty years of hiking in the Sierra — pleasant because there was no dust. Normally August is hot and dry. The standard line is that it doesn’t rain in the summer in the Sierra. It does, of course, but the occasional summer showers are normally brief and refreshing. Not this year. The week before we began our hike, rain had been frequent, often in the middle of the night. The lightning started a number of major fires, of which more later. As we were heading in, we met a half dozen parties headed out, all with stories of rain. Their discomfort was our delight, since the trail was sufficiently moist to keep down the dust. Moreover, a week of above-normal rain did wonderful things to the wildflowers, which were blooming in far greater profusion than I expect in late summer. I was slightly concerned as the clouds thickened as the morning went on. After we set up camp there were a few light sprinkles, followed by splendid weather for the rest of the week. The campsite was excellent, with fine views to the east of Mt. Humphreys and of the canyon to the north. There was also a delightful stream to provide water. The Water Supply We spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying the area. Monday, July 29: The Desolation Lake Area Since we were using a base camp, there needed to be enough interesting hiking opportunities to occupy us for five days. The first hike was up to Desolation Lake. The Humphreys Basin is sufficiently open to make cross-country hiking a delight. There are a variety of use trails, but as long as one knows the general direction one is heading, going too far astray is difficult. We headed north from the campsite, eventually finding the trail heading past Lower Desolation Lake and going on to Desolation Lake itself. Desolation Lake We met one of the Forest Service’s excellent summer rangers at Desolation. I was surprised that he was coming down from Forsaken Lake. He recommended a field of flowers he thought worth a visit. I was content to admire Desolation Lake, but the other three members of the expedition headed up and found he was worth listening to. Flowers at Forsaken Lake The ranger was wandering about eliminating unnecessary signs of human presence, deconstructing large rock walls and removing trash. Although the Sierra is generally tidy, I am always surprised by what people leave. Near our campsite we found three empty tuna pouches. Hiking up by Desolation lake I found a large and ancient flattened tin can. The ranger had remarkable stories of junk left behind. As a normal hiker, one’s load decreases as the hike goes on. Rangers tend to pick up enough trash to equal the weight of whatever they eat. Tuesday, July 30: Packsaddle Lake The packer had recommended a hike to Packsaddle Lake. We took his suggestion. We headed north around Lower Golden Trout Lake, making an “interesting” stream crossing not too far below a waterfall. We then headed in the general direction of Packsaddle, finding it with no difficulty. It’s at the base of “Packsaddle Pass,” a cross-country route to Evolution Meadow that I might have done thirty years ago — but no longer. Packsaddle Lake There was a campsite rather too near the water, used by those either going up or coming down from the pass. We took a different way back, which was a bit challenging. We headed more or less north to the trail in the valley — by which point the stream coming out of Lower Golden Group Lake had split into four branches, each of which was full enough given the recent heavy rains to make crossing a challenge. Patience always found a way, however, and a little later than expected we arrived back in camp. Wednesday, July 31: Muriel and Goethe Lakes Twenty-five years ago I camped at Muriel Lake. With two kids along, we did not explore the area as much as we did this time. It was good to be back. Muriel is a large and lovely lake, and views of it are excellent as one heads up to Goethe Lake. Muriel Lake Getting to Goethe Lake requires hiking over extensive boulder fields. They are not too bad with a day pack, but backpackers heading for The Keyhole or Alpine Col had better like boulder hopping. Boulder Fields near Goethe Lake We headed back past Wahoo Lakes, attractive, but not enough to make us detour from the direct route back to camp. That night, as every night, smoke was blowing over from a major fire on the far side of the Sierra. The haze was thick enough some nights to almost conceal Mt. Humphreys. Thursday, August 1: Various Lakes and an Interesting Encounter The initial destination for the day as Pilot Knob, but as we got close enough to see what we had to cover to get there we decided on less ambitious goals. On the way up, however, we came across a most curious gentleman, the court jester of the Sierra Nevada, perhaps. Professor Duane McDiarmid (Ohio University) is in the midst of artistic project supported by the U.S. Forest Service and Aldo Leopold Foundation. Duane McDiarmid (second from the left) among the Calvinists He was wandering through the Sierra with a stupendous pack (about 80 pounds, he said), including three bear canisters. The one in the picture had chimes in it — to let the bears know one was coming, and since they didn’t want to be circus bears, his amusing theory was that they would go elsewhere. Another had, apparently, an accordion. The third had food. He was only carrying the one with the chimes when we met. He is a fan of using tree leaves as toilet paper (not a bad idea, although at 11,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada pine needles night be less effective). A previous enterprise involved a solar-powered ice cream maker in the midst of the Nevada desert. The idea was to cause some pleasure, but also to suggest that perhaps we take too much with us into the wilderness. We wandered about barren Mesa Lake, then over to Tomahawk Lake, which is definitely worth a visit. After a pleasant day of wandering about this high, open country, we headed back to camp. Friday, August 2: Various Activities I am usually less ambitious than my fellow hikers, so while the rest headed up the ridge to see if they could get to Paine Lake, I stayed in camp and devoted the day to reading and the study of my favorite Sierra bird, Clark’s Nutcracker. There were several families of them in the area, and I, at least, found them of constant interest. They are hardworking birds, spending hours attacking the cones of white pines with steady effort. There are tasty seeds in the interior. They can store quite a number of seeds in their bill for later use. A single bird can bury nearly 100,000 seeds to get it through the winter. They seem to have good memories, but many seeds remain unretrieved, which helps spread white pines. Clark’s Nutcracker with Seed The young were the size of the parents and quite capable of attacking a pine cone themselves, but were not quite eager to provide for themselves. They would follow the parents about pestering them with persistent squawking until seeds were tossed their way. Upon doing some research at home I learn that Clark’s Nutcrackers are under stress in the West, given the spread of a beetle that kills their favorite source of pine cones. Saturday, August 3: From 11,000 feet to Las Vegas Like the hike in, the hike out was blessedly free of dust. The trail was still moist enough to keep it down. The disadvantage of being packed out is that we could get out faster than the packer could make a round trip, so we arrived at the trail head with several hours to wait. The first desire of a hiker after a week in the high country is usually a shower — which proved surprisingly difficult to find. Packers often have them available, but not this packer. The laundromat with showers in Bishop didn’t open until 5 p.m. Several motels and a campground turned us down. For a reasonable fee, the friendly folk at the Bishop Elms Motel did use us shower in an unoccupied room. After retrieving our gear at North Lake he headed to Las Vegas, passing that most remarkable Deep Springs College along the way. We arrived later that evening in Las Vegas, where we spent the night before catching early flights back home. Notes of possible use to those planning a hike in the area. 1. Many people going over Piute Pass are doing the classic North Lake to South Lake route (or sometimes exiting over Lamarck Col to save a day or two). However, there are enough day hikes to make Upper or Lower Golden Trout Lakes good base camps. 2. The area is above campfire levels. That didn’t make much of a difference this time, since as a result of numerous wildfires throughout the Sierra campfires were banned throughout the range. 3. There is a lot of traffic through the area, and Upper and Lower Golden Trout Lakes are obvious camping spots for people coming from or going to Piute Pass. There are plentiful camping sites, but if you start looking late in the afternoon you may end up with a less than ideal location. The original plan 2013 Sierra Expedition: The Mt. Humphreys Area The destination this year is the Humphreys Basin.We’ll have a base camp between Upper and Lower Golden Trout Lakes, from where we’ll be able to take interesting day hikes in all directions. If you do a Google Map search for “Mt. Humphreys, CA” you’ll find the area. This is high country, mostly over 10,000 ft. As resolved last year in the Emigrant Wilderness, we’ll have our gear hauled both ways. This means no backpacks will be necesssary, and we’ll be able to take in more luxuries than usual. Unfortunately, the area is above campfire levels — but it is a beautiful area I’ve been to years back, and have wanted to return to. Although we won’t be able to burn trash, the packer will provide appropriate trash containers. July 27 (Saturday): The best place to fly to is Reno, but fares to there are sometimes high. Las Vegas is cheaper — but a longer drive. We’ll see how fares look as time passes. Drive to Bishop. I’ll find a motel there. July 28 (Sunday): We’ll be packed in from North Lake over Piute Pass by Bishop Pack Outfitters. July 29 (Monday): Day hike July 30 (Tuesday): Day hike. July 31 (Wednesday): Day Hike August 1 (Thursday): Day hike.. August 2 (Friday): Day Hike August 3 (Saturday): Hike out, night near the airport. August 4 (Sunday): Fly back to Grand Rapids. A 2004 trail report (I assume we’ll have better weather). We might climb Pilot Knob. If you use Google Earth, enter “Mt. Humphreys, CA,” and you will be in the middle of the area. Confirmed Participants: Randy Bytwerk Assorted Hendriksmas (2 or 3) Dan Vandersteen Possible hikers: Ed Van Beek (if he can put up with being above campfire elevation) Shirley DeJonge	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9780
__label__wiki	0.549832	0.549832	'Treat a human like a human': Two Calgary cops being recognized for act of kindness Stephen Hunt CTVNewsCalgary.ca Digital Producer @CTVStephenHunt Contact Published Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:37PM MST Last Updated Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:18PM MST CALGARY -- Two Calgary police officers are being recognized for their act of kindness, after being caught buying groceries for a person in need. Constables Kevin Lisowski and Brad Milne responded to complaints of a shoplifter at a downtown grocery store Tuesday night. They escorted the man off the property, but were called back when he came back. Rather than arrest him for causing a disturbance, the police officers escorted him somewhere else - to a nearby Safeway, where they took him grocery shopping. This time, the man walked out of Safeway with three bags of groceries, paid for by the police. A passerby saw the whole thing and shared the story to social media, praising the police for their compassion. "Treat a human like a human," said Milne, in an interview with CTV Calgary. "When we're not working, we're part of this community. We know this population - and we know there are some people that need help. And we're always there to offer some help." "Police officers all over the city do it all the time," he added. "We're not looking for recognition. We did it just because that's what we do." The officer added that they're always looking for ways to resolve a situation first, before making arrests. With files from Camilla di Giuseppe Two Calgary police officers were spotted buying groceries for a person accused of shoplifting Tuesday. Cstl. Brad Milne, when asked why, said, "Treat a human like a human."	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9787
__label__wiki	0.62545	0.62545	Home > Journals > Journal of Medical Entomology > Volume 37 > Issue 4 > Article 1 July 2000 Failure to Incriminate Domestic Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) as Mechanical Vectors ofTaeniaEggs (Cyclophyllidea: Taeniidae) in Rural Mexico M. J. Martinez, A. S. de Aluja, M. Gemmell M. J. Martinez,1 A. S. de Aluja,1 M. Gemmell2 1Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública and Departamento de Patología. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av Universidad 3000, Coyoacán, Mexico CP 04510 2Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Mandingley Road, Cambridge, CB30ES, UK J. of Medical Entomology, 37(4):489-491 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585-37.4.489 Flies caught in homes in a rural village in Guerrero, Mexico, between November 1994 and August 1995 were assessed for their role in the transmission ofTaenia soliumL. Most (99%) of the trapped flies wereMusca domesticaL. None of the 1,187 guts or 1,080 legs of the flies containedT. soliumeggs. Pigs roam freely in this village consuming human fecal material immediately after defecation, thereby limiting fly contact withT. soliumeggs. M. J. Martinez, A. S. de Aluja, and M. Gemmell "Failure to Incriminate Domestic Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) as Mechanical Vectors ofTaeniaEggs (Cyclophyllidea: Taeniidae) in Rural Mexico," Journal of Medical Entomology 37(4), 489-491, (1 July 2000). https://doi.org/10.1603/0022-2585-37.4.489 Received: 18 June 1998; Accepted: 1 August 1999; Published: 1 July 2000 Journal of Medical Entomology Musca domestica Taenia solium Distributional Patterns and Biogeographic Analysis of Ferns in the Sierra... DECAPODA (THALASSINIDEA AND PAGUROIDEA) FROM THE EOCENE BATEQUE AND TEPETATE... Neotropical Monogenoidea. 42. Pavanelliella scaphiocotylus sp. nov. (Dactylogyridae) from the... A MORPHOLOGICALLY DISTINCT NEW SPECIES OF PSEUDOEURYCEA (CAUDATA PLETHODONTIDAE)... Visual targets for capture and management of house flies, Musca... A Critical View of Colony Losses in Managed Mayan Honey... Thoreauea guerrerensis (Apocynaceae, Apocynoideae), una Nueva Especie de Guerrero, México M. J. Martinez, A. S. de Aluja, M. Gemmell "Failure to Incriminate Domestic Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) as Mechanical Vectors ofTaeniaEggs (Cyclophyllidea: Taeniidae) in Rural Mexico," Journal of Medical Entomology, 37(4), 489-491, (1 July 2000)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9789
__label__cc	0.726282	0.273718	on June 5, 2017 June 5, 2017 Mirroring, when used as a psychology term, tends to have a very specific connotation, definition, and meaning. While mirroring another person’s body postures, speech patterns, or mannerisms is likely to happen when and if two people talking actually like or care about one another, when a Cluster B person uses the bonding technique their goal is always to foster comfort and trust in a targeted mark or Narcissistic Abuse victim unlikely to be aware they are being conned or manipulated. Mirroring is a communication strategy that can be consciously used to set other people at ease when two or more people are talking. When an Empath mirrors, they are likely to do so with the intent of making the person they are speaking with more comfortable. A healthy, neurotypical person will also tend to mirror a person they like or feel drawn to, motivated by the subconscious desire to show body language that sets both parties at ease. And here’s where the problem starts. Machiavellian people such as the folks who wrote the “Machiavellian Guide to Womanizing” and the flip side of the coin self-help companion for the women called “The Rules” use mirroring as a conversational habit and technique; it is used as a Narcissistic Abuse tactic. Bottom line, when used to con and manipulate other people’s trust and emotions with the self-promoting intent to manipulate, con, and ultimately to do harm, the HSP skill is nothing more than a social abuse tactic. When someone subconsciously imitates the gestures, obvious speech pattern, or attitude of another because they are kind, loving, and prone to entraining, one might expect to see a pro-social result for both the person being mirrored as well as in the person who is biologically as well as emotionally connecting. Mirroring occurs in many social situations to some degree, particularly between people who are close friends or family. For instance, when siblings get together after being apart for some time, they might revert to behavior patterns they actively engaged in when they were younger with or without realizing they are emulating the other(s). As an abuse tactic used by a disingenuous person, the ‘Love Fraud’ style con artist is fully conscious of their intent to manipulate. In the hopes of gaining a targeted mark’s trust in order to use them as a Narcissistic Supply source, they will gaslight and literally use acting skills taught in any local community theater class to observe the movements and thought patterns of the person that they are malevolently striving to deliberately copycat. Mirroring, when innocent, reflects the subconscious replication of another person’s speech patterns, emotional behaviors, and comprehensive nonverbal signals. When malicious, it’s actually one of the most effective, emotionally and psychologically abusive of all the abuse tactics. Because Cluster B people striving to win the trust and social affection of targeted victims mislead people into not only believing they — the pathological and manipulative liars — are not simply trustworthy, but also that they genuinely like, care for, or in some way resemble the personality type of the people they con. When a Love Fraud predator love bombs, they use mirroring techniques to trick their abuse victim into believing they are liked, loved, and cared about personally. The predator will ask a series of random questions (typically) while seeming to be avidly interested in what their marks are saying. They are interested — just not for the same reason why the victim suspects. You see, the Love Fraud con artists will ask deeply personal or psychological questions that tend to reveal the SUBCONSCIOUS thought patterns of the person to whom they are actively attention-seeking from while they are sizing them up for future use and other nefarious purposes. The Flim-Flam-Man style of con artist is prone to doing the same thing. They will probe to find out what causes a business pro to make a deal, to inspire them to produce or connect, and to see what they can say or offer them in order to motivate them to buy a product, socially endorse them with a vote, or to trick them into being recruited as a Flying Monkey. In the case of romantic deception, the victim believes they met their twin flame or soul mate. If they reveal an insecurity, the predator will use it to first inflate their ego in a way that seems loving — but later they will use that same information to foster in the victim a profound sense of devaluation and insecurity. In the case of a professional or civic deception? You end up doing silly things like hiring a Dark Triad to run your company. But in both cases, the perpetrator of the con dupes people into believing they are an imaginary character — one they make up on the spot as an acting persona in order to trick the person they seek to socially acquire into believing that they are just like them. Here’s a hint — if a Cluster B person’s lips are moving, they are probably lying. If they name call, lie, and behave abusively in order to self-promote or to self-soothe, understand they only things they say that are less true than the ad hominem attacks they tend to make on other people’s personal character (accusing emotionally intelligent and neurotypical people of having Cluster B core values and being as criminal or duplicitous as they are by nature) are the things they say when being manipulative. Ask any woman in the First Wives Club about how they felt the first time they heard their Love Fraud predator use the identical catchphrases and romantic hoovering lines on one of their mistresses or the next future ex-missus. What most will tell you is this… People who mirror to con money, personal favors, and sex out of kind people by pretending to be just like them are deplorable human beings. But more than that, they are some of the world’s most socially and emotionally destructive Abusers. Resist the urge to fall for any person or peer group who uses love bombing tactics while striving to mirror. If you are NOT a socially competitive, egocentric, abusive person prone to violence and impulse-driven patterns of addictions to hyper-adrenalizing behavior, the person who’s play acting a person they HOPE will be seen as your emotionally attractive romantic twin is nothing like you whatsoever.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9791
__label__cc	0.519327	0.480673	Breaking Up With Bobby Jindal Former Louisiana Republican operative and New Media Director to the 2011 Bobby Jindal campaign, Taylor Huckaby recalls the birth, life, and death of his confidence in the Jindal brand. When I was 19, I babysat Governor Bobby Jindal’s three children. Yes, changing diapers and making sure all the broccoli was fully eaten would be the opening salvo of my career in government and campaign communications. Each day after classes back in 2008, a female friend and I would make our way to the Governor’s Mansion gate and do our best to help First Lady Supriya Jindal and a few state troopers wrangle the kids. We’d had the good fortune of attending the same church as then-Chief of Staff Timmy Teepell, who offered us the gig one Sunday after services. Naturally, we leapt at the opportunity. I’d always found myself in a love affair with politics, being particularly drawn to the conservative brand from a young age. Whereas my friends would spend their days playing Xbox or chasing cheerleaders, I would find myself charting out a pilgrimage to President Bush’s Crawford Ranch or making plans to attend Sean Hannity’s newest book signing. So it came as no surprise to anyone that I, then a freshman student in the LSU political communication track, would be thrilled to become a part of Team Jindal— even if it were in less-than-glorious capacity. He had just been elected to his first term, and as a kid who thought of himself as a highly intellectual Christian conservative, I then believed Jindal would be my express ticket to the heights of politics. And the babysitting gig did indeed open doors. A few short months later, I found myself working for the Louisiana GOP, churning out content for their website and writing speeches for Chairman Roger Villere. Down the road, when Jindal ran for reelection, Teepell brought me onboard the campaign as New Media Director. I ran Jindal’s social media accounts, wrote press releases, edited opinion pieces, and crafted reams worth of letters to the editor. In fact, if you received a newsletter from the Jindal campaign in your email inbox during the campaign, there’s a good chance yours truly wrote it. Yet as time wore on, my conservative fervor waned. I was exposed to arguments and ideas I had not previously considered, and faced a growing disconnect between my sexuality and the official stance of the Republican Party– to say nothing of Jindal’s on-the-record remarks about gay people. By 2012, I could no longer square my chosen career in Republican politics with my personal beliefs, and left Louisiana feeling as though I had wasted four years. I still count many members of Team Jindal as close, personal friends — I came out as gay sitting in the Teepells’ kitchen, for crying out loud — but I had become irredeemably disillusioned and cynical about the message we were selling. Today, in 2015, not even the slightest vestige of the Bobby Jindal I had once believed could occupy the White House remains. Jindal now fashions himself more as a producer of Duck Dynasty than the wonkish political wunderkind I had once admired. He seems to be on an endless quest to prove something to America, though at this point, I’m not quite sure what. He constantly wheedles to anyone with an open ear about pulling his state through repeated crises with little more than a star-spangled gleam in his eye and a generous helping of down-home guts and gumption. Any hint of gubernatorial malpractice he papers over with dark exhortations against the Obama presidency, patently false explanations involving falling oil prices, or the more generalized threat of liberals doing… things. The Jindal recipe for public policy and governance is, in short, a magnificently bald-faced façade. To mix a bunch of metaphors, he’s an unraveling tapestry on display within a house of cards built on a swamp below sea level in the path of a hurricane. Since Jindal’s ascent to the Kingfish’s throne in 2007, Louisiana has lurched from one budgetary catastrophe to the next— but these budget woes are as manufactured as the belt buckles he wears on tour in Iowa. It is a simple, time-tested political calculus which allowed Governor Jindal to perennially wreak havoc on Louisiana, escape the blame, and then be the hero all at once—but the limit exists, and now there’s no place for him to escape. To gain political points from these budget disasters in years past, Jindal’s office shrewdly overstated the damage resulting from self-inflicted cuts. Then, the administration welcomed state institutions with open arms when they came crawling before him, begging for mercy as their budgets evaporated. Efficiencies were then always summoned from the ether; favors doled out, programs shuffled here and there, and state property sold off in fire sales. Lo and behold, Jindal again had plugged the budget and saved the day with ever-tightening fiscal belt adjustments—never mind the hundreds of millions in tax payouts to corporations, the wholesale abandonment of the bipartisan Stelly Plan, or his flip-flop refusal to take federal revenue for medical care. Just ignore all that and remember: four legs good, two legs better, taxes bad. Taxes baaaaaaad. When I was part of the Jindal political machine, we unanimously believed this strategy was not only viable for the length of two full terms but also supremely clever. See, the yearly budget crisis would induce loud, apocalyptic prophecies from the liberals, which then provided the Jindal-controlled state Republican Party apparatus with the perfect opportunity to sneer back at them when boy-wonder Bobby came along with ever-more-novel sources of money. Plus, as an added bonus, it snapped any wayward education folks right back in line: curry favor with the administration, or face the end of your job (or, if you get uppity, your institution itself; sincere apologies to UNO). Presidential aspirant Bobby Jindal plays a really, really mean game of hardball, folks. Think Frank Underwood’s understudy. So what makes this year’s budgetary woes different than any other flavor of the now-expected yearly crisis? In short, Jindal appears to have miscalculated the sustainability of his fiscal shenanigans. One may only sell off state assets, cut revenue, and cut programs so many times before the shell game necessarily has to end. We, back in our heyday, thought it would last the full eight years– but it looks like seven could be the maximum (less sincere apologies to David Vitter; you’re on deck, buddy). The tell, in this particular year, is Jindal’s unprecedented capitulation on taxes. For the four years I worked in the Louisiana Republican machine, “NO NEW TAXES!” was the siren song to which the electorate was held in thrall. Deviation from this script was anathema— let me illustrate. Back in June of 2011, I paced in a nondescript office across from the capitol, caught up in a heated discussion with my fellow Jindal colleagues. Timmy Teepell was there, as was his brother-in-law Matt Parker, then campaign manager for Jindal’s reelection effort after a nepotism-tinged stint as the Republican Party of Louisiana’s executive director. Also present was Curt Anderson, whom I believe to be the ghostwriter of Jindal’s first and only memoir, Leadership in Crisis, along with a few other communications folks. The subject? The cigarette tax. Whether the 4-cent tax was an existing tax or a new tax was a topic of much nuance and intrigue, and I had firmly come down on the pro-tax side of the argument considering we had A) renewed the tax before without so much as a peep, and B) the tax provided Louisiana a desperately-needed injection of tens of millions of dollars in direct and federal matching funds for its abysmally underfunded Department of Health and Hospitals. We had been arguing for a while at that point, considering it would be me who had the thankless job of writing one of the governor’s public statements proclaiming the not-new-tax as a new-tax, and I’d had enough of the back and forth. I was the youngest person in the room by almost a decade; the kid with an acid tongue, but I’d at least earned a place at the table. “This just flat out isn’t what’s best for the people of Louisiana!” I remember shouting. “What’s best for the people of Louisiana,” Matt Parker shot back, “is getting Republicans elected. So shut up and do your fucking job, Huckaby.” I stared at their smiles. The rest of the team nodded sagely in agreement. Now I genuinely love Matt Parker and had enjoyed many a beer-and-pizza night with him, but I was stunned into silence at the sheer naked political honesty of his statement. I backed out of the room and shut the door behind me. The cigarette tax was not renewed; revenue fell, and along with it quality of care. This exchange marked the exact moment I knew I could no longer work for Bobby Jindal or Republican campaign politics. That willingness, even eagerness, to gut funding from one of the most vulnerable state departments in an effort to score political points made me ill. Thus, when I read in a recent New York Times article that Jindal was entertaining a motion to raise the cigarette tax, I knew things had gotten really, really bad for him.So in conclusion, let this story serve as a warning to those who would follow Governor Jindal: don’t let his folksy mannerisms and aw-shucks posture lull you into thinking for one second that he is anything but a manipulative, calculating political avatar for the most extreme elements of the conservative movement. This is the type of man who hires a career political consultant to help write his book on leadership, the type of man who forcibly silences criticism from the Louisiana State University system even as he holds a knife to its throat year after year, the type of man who travels around the state handing out comically large checks backed with federal stimulus dollars while taking credit for providing the money. Bobby Jindal sold Louisiana down the river for four cents on a pack of cigarettes back in 2011, and his team would do it again to anyone or anything standing in his way. Politics is the real portrait of the Jindal administration; actual Louisianians were never in the picture to begin with. Posted in Social Activism Prev Bill Cassidy, LSU, and the Louisiana Media’s Abdication of Duty Next An Open Letter to Kevin Boyd of The Hayride Robert Mann says: Reblogged this on Something Like the Truth and commented: An explosive, behind-the-scenes look at Bobby Jindal and his cynical aides by a former Jindal staffer. Tom Aswell says: An extraordinarily revealing look at the emperor with no clothes. “What’s best for Louisiana is getting Republicans elected.” That about says it all for this administration. Thanks for peeling back the layers and giving us a peek. bigwriter says: Nice, honest piece. That cigarette tax was renewed, but as a Constitutional amendment that Jindal couldn’t veto wildwildwest says: Wow, but I didn’t expect anything better from Piyush. Thanks. Guy Mayer says: Bob, thanks once again for shining a spotlight on Jindal’s many failures. Taylor Huckaby’s article is well-written and provides a deep view into Jindal’s operation. It’s an interesting, yet sad story for the people of Louisiana. My best to you and Taylor in your efforts to hold Jindal’s feet to the fire. earthmother says: Piyush unveiled. This piece needs the widest possible national distribution, to finish off the delusional quest for better than nine tenths of one percent of the vote. Mr. Huckaby, thank you for your courageous post, for telling the unvarnished, naked truth. Now if we could just be rid of Jindal’s malignant presence and the evil, third rate operatives surrounding him we could begin the decades-long healing process that will bring our beloved state back to our cherished place in the 19th century. Fredster says: Taylor Huckaby said: I came out as gay sitting in the Teepells’ kitchen, for crying out loud Oy! I cannot imagine that scenario. Did they offer you conversion therapy? All I can in regard to your political conversion is thank goodness you woke up. Excellent article Taylor. I’ve read no better example of what it means to drink the koolaid. gjrushing says: What actually happened to Teepel anyway? Did he see the hand writing on the wall and jump ship? Taylor’s article took guts. Seems he has given up completely on Republican politics because he is toast now. They don’t forgive. CarrolltonRivers says: Excellent! Spread the word indeed. Get this in the national media. GREG FOREMAN says: Pathetically, even Parker’s admonish that “what’s best for Louisiana…is getting Republican’s elected” is a lie. Jindal and his “snake oil salespersons” exist for one reason and one reason alone-the furthering of their political careers and aspirations. If this pathetic group were “truly” concerned with, as Parker stated, getting Republicans elected, Jindal’s administration would have been and would be more concerned and considerate of “John and Jane Doe” Louisiana citizen and not their professional(and I use that word loosely) advancement. What we’ve seen these past few years is the foundation for the second “Louisiana Hayride” which will come through the effort of and at the hands of his on political party. The Republican Party considers Bobby Jindal the equivalent of a hemorrhoid. A hemorrhoid that all the Preparation-H on the face of the earth can’t alleviate. Jeffrey Perry says: The complacency of the Louisiana electorate is one of the wonders of the modern age. “…an unraveling tapestry on display within a house of cards built on a swamp below sea level in the path of a hurricane.” Indeed. ulyankee says: I’ve tracked back on my blog as well. http://www.lahigheredconfessions.wordpress.com I thought I was mad before. This verifies everything that I had already guessed five years ago when the travesty that is GRAD Act was unleashed on us in higher education. I actually thought this was the year it would all blow up, not next, which it did. I am a wonk. With a conscience. And nothing to lose but my job. Everyone else in higher ed leadership may still be crawling toward him. There were a couple pots of data that I have that I was very reticent about holding back because they are not publicly available, even though they prove without a shadow of a doubt that what Mr. Huckaby is saying is true at least with regards higher education. Until this morning. Higher ed is in a crisis that Jindal created. He exploited our weaknesses to their fullest. And created quite a few more weaknesses all by himself. Mr. Huckaby, thank you. You have justified everything that I’ve been seeing and saying within higher ed circles for years. And for years few wanted to believe me. Until now. Thaddeus Stevens says: The comments so far say it all. What is so sad is the disillusionment. You just hope this young man can recover and bet he will. You know in a previous century this was enough to incite radical politics. As in the real radical Republicans. Dave Treen was the first modern Republican governor and would not recognize this guy or the state party. Maybe just maybe the Legislature has had enough?? Come on Lance , we need a Populist Republican. There are no populist Republicans left. That is a foreign concept to today’s Republican party. Anyone who attempts to run as a populist or a centrist for that matter gets chewed up and spit out by the right wing Republican machine that is controlling the party and the money today. Sign the pledges or else! What I see are a lot of folks who still vote for Republicans under the mistaken assumption that the Dave Treens of the world still exist. Kenny Patterson says: this was a great read…it needs to be circulated…and I will do my part to make it gets done…Jindal is the ABSOLUT worst gov. in Louisiana history	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9793
__label__wiki	0.545921	0.545921	As Fitness becomes mainstream in India, Airtel to power youth-first digital platform for fitness content Kolkata,Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s largest integrated telco, has acquired a strategic stake in Spectacom Global Pvt Ltd (“Spectacom”) under the Airtel Start-up Accelerator Program, which focuses on supporting growth of early stage Indian start-ups.Spectacom, which has been conceptualised to produce path breaking digital content that allows people across languages, geographies and fitness levels to connect with each other and explore innovative health & fitness training programmes, is the brainchild of Adnan Adeeb and Zeba Zaidi, the creators of the highly popular Devils Circuit military-style obstacle races. Spectacom will also carry the exclusive digital rights for the promotion of all content for brand Devils Circuit, including the new seasons of its popular shows – The College Frenzy & The Corporate Challenge. A digitally connected world is witnessing increased awareness around Health & Fitness, with a growing tribe of young Indians taking up physically demanding X sports such as obstacle racing. Devils Circuit, which pioneered obstacle racing in India, has already built a community of two million followers. It is India’s largest sports property of its kind with presence in eight cities. And given India’s vast young population of appx. 600 mn under the age of 25 years, there is a massive opportunity to make available Health & Fitness based platforms that connect fitness enthusiasts deeper and wider across the country. Airtel will work closely with Spectacom to help increase awareness and adoption of its cutting age Health & Fitness platform and encourage individuals to overcome mental barriers and achieve their full potential. Spectacom will cater to India’s growing interest in staying fitter and healthier by creating training and nutrition videos along with live extreme sporting events. Airtel will help Spectacom to deliver this exciting exclusive digital content through its platforms Airtel Xstream and Wynk Music directly into the homes and smartphones of hundreds of millions of Indians. This deep digital distribution reach will allow Airtel customers, including youth in small towns and villages, to discover this high octane content and make the fitness movement a part of the mainstream. Says Adarsh Nair, Chief Product Officer, Bharti Airtel: “We believe that X Sports, which are all about fitness, aligns beautifully with our brand. Thanks to the deep penetration of mobile internet in India, the potential to grow the adoption of Devils Circuit style X Sports amongst India’s youth is immense. This also fits into Airtel’s strong focus on connecting with the youth and providing them digital platforms to fulfil their aspirations. We look forward to collaborating with Spectacom on this exciting journey.” Adnan Adeeb, co-founder, Spectacom, echoed this thought and added that “As India is becoming a younger nation, it is also becoming a fitter one. Through our collaboration with Airtel, we aim at not just reaching millions with bespoke offerings around Health & Fitness but also give the fitness enthusiasts from around the country, a platform to shine! We have always believed that the real hero is the ordinary guy who overcomes extraordinary challenges and this will be reflected in all our offerings. We are very excited at partnering with Airtel and look forward to bringing innovative content to life” Spectacom is the second company to join the Airtel Start-up Accelerator Program. It allows start-ups to leverage Airtel’s robust ecosystem, including its core strengths in data, distribution, networks and payments. This includes access to a vast online and offline distribution network that touches 300m+ customers, deep market understanding and platform of global strategic partners. Further, start-ups also get access to advisory services from Airtel’s executive team. Devils Circuit is now India’s biggest X sports platform with two million strong community, including young people from smaller towns who are breaking barriers and taking up X Sports professionally and participating in international competitions. Apart from international participants from over 16 countries, the editions also include army pros, blade runners, and even cancer survivors. Adarsh Nair	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9795
__label__cc	0.666504	0.333496	Environment & Society Curiosity Insight Learning never exhausts the mind How to Use a Thermal Imaging Camera? July 26, 2020 By Miranda Jackson Leave a Comment Become indispensable for professionals who realize the thermal balance of a housing, a thermal camera is a precision tool, expensive to buy, which is now available for rent. Initially applied to military aiming systems, thermo vision (or thermal imaging) has many variations in the civilian world: site surveillance, maritime navigation, night driving … In short, all the circumstances where the lack of lighting, the presence of smoke, or opaque obstructions significantly disrupt vision. Detector without sensors Thermovision is also used in the industry to detect gas leaks and, more generally, to control the temperature of pipes or the heating of electrical components (transformers …) or mechanical (bearings, bearings …). But this technology is also unparalleled in identifying thermal bridges. Especially since contactless measurement adds the possibility of capturing still images, or even making small films, thanks to thermal diagnostic cameras that combine the functions of a thermometer and a camera. The collected images are then analyzed using specific software. And for an individual? Given its price, the purchase of such equipment makes no sense for an individual. However, its rental is not lacking interest, especially when planning to undertake major renovation work, or in case of doubt about the performance of outdoor insulation announced a veranda, woodwork … The choice of measurement mode depends on the context: for a small item or a specific point, choose the “spot” measurement; otherwise, opt for the mini or maxi of the zone. Focus except, Digital Camera mode does not provide any settings. And the picture quality is inferior! Opt instead for Infrared or Image in Picture (PiP). Become indispensable for the professionals who realize the thermal balance of housing, this tool of precision, expensive with the purchase, is now available for rent. A thermal camera is also used to detect the passage of non-metallic pipes (thus undetectable by a metal detector) in an opaque wall or a slab: heating tubes or sanitary distribution in PER (crosslinked polyethylene), evacuations in PVC … It also facilitates the detection of leaks or infiltrations, while their manifestations are not yet visible (around a roof window, behind a doubling or a buried wall …). This device responds even better than temperature differences are essential. This is why, in the case of losses through the walls (or joinery) of a building, it is better to operate during the heating period. The values collected will be all the more significant. A thermal camera is also used to detect the passage of non-metallic pipes (thus undetectable by a metal detector) in an opaque wall or a slab: heating tubes or sanitary distribution in PER (crosslinked polyethylene), evacuations in PVC … It also facilitates the detection of leaks or infiltrations, while their manifestations are not yet visible (around a roof window, behind a doubling or a buried wall …). This device responds even better than temperature differences are essential. This is why, in the case of losses through the walls (or joinery) of a building, it is better to operate during the heating period. The values collected will be all the more significant. A thermal camera is also used to detect the passage of non-metallic pipes (thus undetectable by a metal detector) in an opaque wall or a slab: heating tubes or sanitary distribution in PER (crosslinked polyethylene), evacuations in PVC … It also facilitates the detection of leaks or infiltrations, while their manifestations are not yet visible (around a roof window, behind a doubling or a buried wall …). This device responds even better than temperature differences are essential. This is why, in the case of losses through the walls (or joinery) of a building, it is better to operate during the heating period. The values collected will be all the more significant. The main settings The model used here (Flir i50) captures only still images on a MicroSD card (or USB flash drive). Three display modes are available: Digital camera, Infrared, or PiP (Picture in Picture). In Digital Camera mode, the image is in color, with no indication of temperature. This appears only in Infrared and PiP modes. In Infrared way, the body’s thermal radiation occupies the entire screen, optionally in three color palettes: from black to white (“gray” type), from dark blue to light yellow (“iron” type) and from green to red (type “Rainbow”). In PiP mode, the thermal image appears in the center of the screen. Using a thermal imager allows you to do this. You can use the camera to scan equipment, structures, and operations from a safe distance, reducing the risk of danger, and in some cases, no longer require hot work permits. Here are some areas where you can increase safety with a thermal imager: Inspection of electrical systems If you use a thermal imaging camera, you can stay outside the arc zone and scan powered devices through unique infrared windows without having to open the panel. This will help you minimize risks and reduce personal protective equipment (PPE). Explosive environments If you use a thermal imaging camera with a telephoto lens, you can stay in a potentially dangerous environment away from the equipment while still obtaining all the necessary information. Scanning from a distance allows you to save on climbing, inspecting towers, torches, or air purifiers, and inspecting areas that otherwise would have been close enough to shut down production. With the ability of a thermal imaging camera to scan from a distance with a telephoto lens and a wide-angle lens, you can scan large parts of the ceiling, roof, or wall area and perform work from the ground. This reduces the risk of falling off the rafters and speeding up your checks. Elements of measurement Distinct from the thermal image, the measurement zone is reduced either to the central point of the “spot” measurement or to a square of 1.5 cm side. In both cases, a laser pointer is used to locate the controlled area accurately. The square only shows the minimum or maximum value of the city. If, for example, we search for thermal bridges, we will use the minimum amount from inside a heated volume to find out where cold is coming from; and the maximum value if one proceeds from the outside to know where the calories come out. Although the device itself defines the measuring range, other values can be entered. The contrast of the thermal image is then modified, which can make it more meaningful. As soon as you turn it on and after automatic initialization, everything in front of the lens appears on the screen. Attention: the minimum focusing distance is 40 cm. Focus except, Digital Camera mode does not provide any settings. And the picture quality is inferior! Opt instead for Infrared or Image in Picture (PiP). The choice of measurement mode depends on the context: for a small element or a specific point, choose the “spot” measurement; otherwise, opt for the mini or maxi of the zone. To materialize the radiation, you do not need to use the “Gray” monochrome palette. Choose the “Iron” palette or the “Rainbow” palette, which is much more readable. The infrared mode is all the more readable with a significant temperature difference, as above (24-46 ° C) on a roof window. When it is weak (21-32 ° C), prefer the mode PiP (image in the image) for better readability (bottom). By combining Infrared and “Iron” modes (left) or PiP and “Rainbow” (right), the image displayed on the screen becomes much more meaningful. The manual mode (M) makes it possible to refine the display of the measurements. It is thus possible to vary the minima and maxima of the measured temperatures, together or independently. If the specialists take into account various parameters, an individual can use the default values for the atmospheric temperature and the emissivity of the materials. The profiles of aluminum joinery are to be considered first: they are certainly lacking the polyamide bars breaking the famous thermal bridges that can only be eliminated by replacing the joinery. Double glazing may not be as insulating as one imagines … Here, the surface temperature is 18.7 ° C against 20 ° C and more for the surrounding surfaces (including a radiator at 27.4 ° C). On the back of this garage door in full sun, the “spot” measurement shows a thermal bridge at the location of the (yet plastic) fasteners of the reflective insulation: 27 instead of 20 at 23.7 ° C. Sometimes there are thermal bridges around the wall outlets embedded in an insulation doubling complex … This is not the case here. Much cheaper than diagnostic cameras, infrared thermometers also perform an instantaneous temperature reading. Some can even memorize their measurements (Ryobi Doc). 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__label__wiki	0.630895	0.630895	Cut up All about magazines! is carbon disulfide polar or nonpolar If the electronegativity difference between two elements is greater than 1.7, then the type of bond between the two elements is an … Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. The dipole of both C-S bonds is equal and in opposite directions that cancel by each other making CS2 molecule non-polar. This module introduces some basic facts and principles that are needed for a discussion of organic molecules. Erik Cole Net Worth, The bonds are arranged at a 180-degree angle (linear) around the carbon atom. Required fields are marked . ), The Secret Science of Solving Crossword Puzzles, Racist Phrases to Remove From Your Mental Lexicon. A different attractive interaction between atoms, called covalent bonding, is involved here. Guys, if you have any questions regarding it, feel free to ask through comments. This makes a total of 16 valence electrons of the CS2 molecule. What is the answer for level 23 on prove your logic? Therefore, it is generally observed that symmetrically shaped molecules tend to be nonpolar in nature. Question = Is CF2Cl2 polar or nonpolar ? Challenge A molecule of carbon disulfide contains both lone pairs and multiple-covalent bonds. Is Neroli Meadows Single, How much will a midwifery schooling cost? Summarize how electronegativity difference is related to bond character. Ducktales Fanfiction Donald, Without a permanent pull of electrons one way or the other the molecule lacks a mechanism to create dipole-dipole interactions. Carbon forms slightly polar bonds with sulfur, but due to the symmetrical arrangement of the bonds, the polarities cancel out. Both C-S bonds have dipoles in opposite directions as a result it cancels each other and net dipole turns out to be zero. Will 5G Impact Our Cell Phone Plans (or Our Health?! Carbon disulfide, also spelt as carbon disulphide, is a colorless volatile liquid with the formula CS2. Let us understand the covalent bonds. The overall charge of the ozone molecule is therefore zero. These atoms have only one electron in the valence shell, and on losing this electron arrive at the lower shell valence octet. Polar molecules interact through dipole–dipole intermolecular forces and hydrogen bonds. Without polar bonds, no molecule can be a polar molecule. Non-Polar Molecules: The non-polar molecules are the molecules in which the charges are uniformly spread across the molecule such that no atom share unequal charge. Polar molecules must contain polar bonds due to a difference in electronegativity between the bonded atoms. According to the Aufbau principle, the electrons of an atom occupy quantum levels or orbitals starting from the lowest energy level, and proceeding to the highest, with each orbital holding a maximum of two paired electrons (opposite spins). Answer = CF2Cl2 (Dichlorodifluoromethane) is Polar What is polar and non-polar? Problem 73. Carbon forms slightly polar bonds with sulfur, but due to the symmetrical arrangement of the bonds, the polarities cancel out. Polarity underlies a number of physical properties including surface tension, solubility, and melting and boiling points. Carbon can form nonpolar covalent (pure covalent) bonds when it bonds to itself, as in graphene and diamond. Some of the examples of these molecules are BF3, Cl2, O3. Curved Line Css Generator, Lidocaine Before Tattoo, Boron compounds such as BH3 and BF3 are exceptional in that conventional covalent bonding does not expand the valence shell occupancy of boron to an octet. These molecules may also consist of polar bonds within them, but due to the symmetrical shape, the polarity of such bonds gets canceled by each other making the molecule a nonpolar. The dipole of the entire molecule turns out to be 0 D.eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'techiescientist_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_3',103,'0','0'])); The molecules that are held by the covalent bonds can be polar. Question = Is ClF polar or nonpolar ? Your email address will not be published. carbon and sulfur. As noted earlier, the inert gas elements of group 8 exist as monoatomic gases, and do not in general react with other elements. Examples Of Polar And Nonpolar Molecules. VSEPR theory predicts the arrangement of electron pairs around each central atom and, usually, the … CS2 once was manufactured by combining carbon (or coke) and sulfur at high temperatures. ©2018 Auto Training Academy All Rights Reserved. • (d) The electronegativity difference between C and F is 4.0 2.5 1.5. The carbon atom is the central atom surrounded by 2 sulfur atoms on both sides. Your information is secure and will not be rented or shared, ever. Question: Is H2SO3 an ionic or Molecular bond ? An example of a non-polar molecule is carbon disulfide (CS 2). But commercially, it is added with impurities resulting in a foul smell. The bond formed by a diatomic molecule is said to be polar if they differ in their electronegativity. How Is Life Sailing Meaning, Jon Fortt Family, Although carbon and sulfur differ in their electronegativity and C-S bond is polar, the polarity of both opposite C-S bonds gets canceled by each other resulting in a nonpolar molecule. Carbon disulfide (CS2) is a nonpolar, linear molecule. Some common and reasonable possibilities would be … Carbon disulfide does not hydrolyze readily, although the process is catalyzed by an enzyme carbon disulfide hydrolase. Electronegativity: The electronegativity of the atoms in a molecule must be noted down. It is volatile ie; evaporates at room temperature. What Happened To Fronto App, Non-bonding valence electrons are shown as dots. Your email address will not be published. But commercially, it is added with impurities resulting in a foul smell. Where do you find the young and the restless online from Canada? The I AM Program – Damian’s signature program to get you started off on the right foot. CS2 once was manufactured by combining carbon (or coke) and sulfur at high temperatures. Carbon disulfide is considered as a building block in organic chemistry. Its melting point is −111.61 °C or −168.90 °F and its boiling point is 46.24 °C and 115.23 °F. The highest occupied electron shell is called the valence shell, and the electrons occupying this shell are called valence electrons. Determine whether each molecule or ion is polar or nonpolar. This compound is an organosulfur compound. Answer = carbon disulfide ( CS2 ) is Nonpolar What is polar and non-polar? The dipole of both C-S bonds is equal and in opposite directions that cancel by each other making CS2 molecule non-polar. Its melting point is −111.61 °C or −168.90 °F and its boiling point is 46.24 °C and 115.23 °F. Carbon disulfide is a non-polar molecule. Question = Is CLO3- polar or nonpolar ? How is the Senate Majority Leader chosen? What are the release dates for The Wonder Pets - 2006 Save the Ladybug? The greater the electronegativity difference between atoms in a bond, the more polar the bond. What You Should Know About Carbon Compounds, Polar Bond Definition and Examples (Polar Covalent Bond), Ionic vs Covalent Bonds - Understand the Difference, Compounds With Both Ionic and Covalent Bonds. Kids Twin Comforter Sets, How To Get To Vashj'ir, How To Find Good Friends In College, Pennywise Vs Darkseid, Tex-mex Lasagna With Lasagna Noodles, Don Francisco Coffee Nutrition Facts, Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille Mostra, Fandom Walmart Logopedia, Natalie Sideserf Movies, ← Did you guys still act last Sunday? What is the difference? Did you guys still act last Sunday? What is the difference? 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__label__wiki	0.565356	0.565356	Your first look at Ben Elton’s Three Summers Cinema Australia / July 12, 2017 The first trailer for Three Summer is here. Ben Elton’s anticipated new film was recently announced as a contender for the CinefestOZ $100,000 Film Prize when it screens at the Busselton-based festival towards the end of August. The WA-shot comedy will also have its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival later this month. Three Summers is set over three years at a fictional folk-music festival. Two young musicians fall in love against a wider collection of tales dealing frankly but humorously with a microcosm of contemporary discussion points, including Indigenous, immigration and refugee issues. Three Summers is described as a big-hearted comedy with a sterling ensemble featuring Michael Caton, Magda Szubanski, Deborah Mailman, Jacqueline McKenzie and John Waters. It stars Robert Sheehan and Rebecca Breeds as the romantic leads. July 12, 2017 in Trailers. Tags: Ben Elton, Deborah Mailman, Jacqueline McKenzie, John Waters, Magda Szubanski, Michael Caton, NEW, Rebecca Breeds, Robert Sheehan, Three Summers Ben Elton’s Three Summers gets a release date and a fresh new poster Ben Elton’s Three Summers will have its world premiere at MIFF Three Summers set to kick off national Q&A tour in hometown ← Trailer of the Day: The Unhallowed Competition! Win Jasper Jones on DVD →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9809
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__label__wiki	0.722645	0.722645	DAAC Home > Get Data > NASA Projects > Vegetation-Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP) > User guide VEMAP 2: Monthly Historical and Future Climate Data, Alaska, USA Data Set Version: V1 This data set provides the results of the development of The Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP) Phase 2 transient climate change scenarios for the state of Alaska, USA. The data include gridded monthly historical and future estimates of maximum and minimum temperature, solar radiation, vapor pressure, irradiance, relative humidity and potential evapotranspiration at 0.5-degree spatial resolution. Historical data are for the period 1922-1996; future estimates cover the period 1997-2100. Historical data are from the cooperative network, US Historical Climate Network (HCN), snowpack telemetry (SNOTEL), and other station data. Solar radiation and humidity were derived from the MTCLIM version 3 model (Thornton and Running, 1999; Kimball et al., 1997). Future estimates were derived from the Hadley UK Centre for Climate Prediction and Research model (HadCM2) and the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma) model (CGCM1) with transient greenhouse gas and sulfate aerosol forcing. There are three data files, one historical and two modeled future scenarios, in NetCDF (.nc4) format with this data set. Figure 1. Maximum temperature for Alaska, January 1922. Kittel, T.G.F., N.A. Rosenbloom, C. Kaufman, J.A. Royle, C. Daly, H.H. Fisher, W.P. Gibson, S. Aulenbach, D.N. Yates, R. McKeown, D.S. Schimel, and VEMAP2 PARTICIPANTS. 2016. VEMAP 2: Monthly Historical and Future Climate Data, Alaska, USA. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1344 Data Set Overview Project: VEMAP Related data set: Kittel, T. G. F., N. A. Rosenbloom, C. Kaufman, J. A. Royle, C. Daly, H. H. Fisher, W. P. Gibson, S. Aulenbach, D. N. Yates, R. McKeown, D. S. Schimel, and VEMAP 2 Participants. 2001. VEMAP 2: U.S. Monthly Climate Change Scenarios, Version 2. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/567 Acknowledgment(s): This data set was originally published by EOS-WEBSTER, a digital library of Earth Science Data and an Earth Science Information Partner, for the EOS-Earth Data website at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. The source data were provided to EOS-WEBSTER by the Global Atmospheric Chemistry Group, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire (UNH). Several EOS-WEBSTER data products have been transferred to the ORNL DAAC for permanent archival. Spatial Coverage: Alaska, USA Spatial resolution: 0.5 degree Temporal Coverage: Historical data cover the period 1922-1996. Estimates from the CGCM1 model cover the period 1997-2100. Estimates from the HadCM2 model cover the period 1997-2099. Temporal resolution: Monthly Study Area (All latitudes and longitudes are given in decimal degrees) Alaska, USA -170.5 -128.5 71.5 53.5 There are three data files in NetCDF format (.nc4) with this data set: Table 1. Data files and descriptions. future_climate_CCCmaCGCM1_model_alaska_1997-2100.nc4 Mean monthly data produced from the CGCM1 model for the period 1997-2100 future_climate_HadCM2_model_alaska_1997-2099.nc4 Mean monthly data produced from the HadCM2 model for the period 1997-2099 historical_climate_alaska_1922-1996.nc4 Historical mean monthly climate data based on the MTCLIM model, HCN, Snotel, and other station data for the period 1922-1996 Table 2. Variables in the data files. irrx mean monthly irradiance W m-2 petx mean monthly potential evapotranspiration kg m-2 d-1 pptx mean monthly precipitation mm/month tmin mean monthly minimum temperature degrees C tmax mean monthly maximum temperature degrees C rhum mean monthly relative humidity percent srad mean monthly solar radiation kJ m-2 d-1 vpxx mean monthly vapor pressure Pa Table 3. Spatial properties of the data files. Spatial Representation Type Raster Pixel Depth 32 bit Pixel Type float No data value -9999 Number of Bands CCCma-CGCM1 file=1248; HadCM2 file=1236; historical file=900 Band Information time These data could be used in climate models. The Historical Climate Network (HCN) (Easterling et al., 1996) precipitation and temperature data consisted of stations selected to have long-term, relatively complete records. The high level of quality checking and attention to station histories in the monthly HCN data, along with extensive coverage across the domain in the earlier part of the record, provided a strong basis for reliance on this set for spatial interpolation of monthly regional temperature and precipitation anomalies (Kittel et al., 2004). VEMAP Grid The 0.5 degree Alaska grid was aggregated from a 2.5-min Alaska DEM, derived from ETOPO30, the USGS 30-sec worldwide digital terrain grid. Monthly mean minimum and maximum temperature (Tmo) and monthly precipitation (PPTmo) Mean Tmo and PPTmo historical time series were derived and combined from HCN (Easterling et al., 1996) and cooperative network monthly station data from 1922 - 1996 (~250 stations). The HCN precipitation and temperature data set consisted of stations selected to have long-term, relatively complete records which were adjusted for time of observation differences, instrument changes and moves, station relocations, and urbanization effects. HCN processing also included infilling of missing data based on neighboring stations. The high level of quality checking and attention to station histories in monthly HCN data, along with extensive coverage across the domain in the earlier part of the record, provided a strong basis for reliance on this set for spatial interpolation of monthly regional temperature and precipitation anomalies (Kittel et al., 2004). Creation of monthly anomaly time-series A 75-year time series of monthly precipitation and temperature anomalies was created by comparing the historical records against a 2.5 minute gridded 1961-1990 baseline climatology for Alaska (SCAS, 2000), interpolated to the station locations. Spatial interpolation The monthly anomalies were kriged to the 0.5 degree VEMAP grid and were then applied (deltas for temperature, ratios for precipitation) (added or multiplied) to a 0.5 degree aggregation of the gridded 4-km baseline climatology to create the 75-year historical record. Solar Radiation and Humidity These data were estimated with the MTCLIM3 model (Thornton and Running, 1999; Kimball et al., 1997) to create monthly vapor pressure (vpxx), daytime relative humidity (rhum), total incident solar radiation (srad), and irradiance (irrx) from daily T and PPT (Kittel et al., 2004). Future Estimates Gridded monthly future estimates were derived from the HadCM2 and the CGCM1 models. The model scenarios included the following: Greenhouses gases (GHG+A 1); 1% per year compounded increase in equivalent CO2 plus IS92A sulfate aerosols; Ensemble 1. The CCCma-CGCM1 data are for the years 1997 – 2100, release r5. Figure 2. Estimated maximum temperature for Alaska, December 2099, derived from the CGCM1 model. The HadCM2 data are for the years 1997 – 2099, release r5. Figure 3. Estimated maximum temperature for Alaska, December 2099, derived from the HadCM2 model. For additional information on the CGCM1 model, refer to the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis http://www.cccma.ec.gc.ca/. For additional information on the HadCM2 model, refer to the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/publicsector/climate-programme. The providers of the VEMAP Alaska data were The VEMAP Data Group, National Center for Atmospheric Reasearch NCAR, Boulder, CO. Easterling, D.R., T.R. Karl, E.H. Mason, P.Y. Hughes, D.P. Bowman, R.C. Daniels, and T.A. Boden, (1996). United States Historical Climatology Network (US HCN) monthly temperature and precipitation data. ORNL/CDIAC-87, NDP-019/R3. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; available at National Center for Atmospheric Research (dataset ds565): http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds565.0/ Kittel, T.G.F., N.A. Rosenbloom, J.A. Royle, C. Daly, W.P. Gibson, H.H. Fisher, P. Thornton, D.N. Yates, S. Aulenbach, C. Kaufman, R. McKeown, D. Bachelet, D.S. Schimel, and VEMAP2 Participants. 2004. VEMAP Phase 2 bioclimatic database. I. Gridded historical (20th century) climate for modeling ecosystem dynamics across the conterminous USA. Clim Res, Vol. 27: 151–170, 2004. Kimball, J.S., S.W. Running, and R. Nemani, 1997. An improved algorithm for estimating surface humidity from daily minimum temperature. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 85:87-98. Spatial Climate Analysis Service (SCAS), Oregon State University. 2000. http://prism.oregonstate.edu/ Thornton, P.E., and S.W. Running, 1999. 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__label__cc	0.551644	0.448356	Even Trump cannot change Imo judgement”.- Festus Kayemo. Festus Keyamo Laughs At PDP Protesters, Says Even Donald Trump Cannot Change Imo Judgement. The Honourable Minister of State, Labor and Employment, Festus Keyamo has expressed his opinion regarding the protest made by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja, on Friday, concerning the recent Supreme Court judgement. Recall that the Supreme Court earlier in January, 2020 had sent the Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, packing and installed Hope Uzodinma through a judgement which has been considered one of the most controversial judgements of the Supreme Court. Following the swearing in of the new governor, many Nigerians have protested, stating that the Supreme Court should upturn the said judgement as it is partial considering that Hope Uzodinma was the 3rd runner up in the concluded election. Just yesterday, the PDP protesters upped their game by going to the United States and United Kingdom Embassies in Nigeria at Abuja to protest about what they considered an unfair judgment. Reacting to this, the former Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Festus Keyamo had earlier this morning through his verified Twitter account @fkeyamo stated that their protest was nothing short of a comedy. In his words: Ok. So, what is expected is that Donald Trump picks his phone & calls the Justices of the Nigerian S/Court: ‘Hey, my friends, what kind of judgement is that? I am giving you 24 hours to reverse it!’ This protest to the embassies over our local jurisprudence is comedy at its best!	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9822
__label__cc	0.655206	0.344794	In Theme Parks Disney’s Road to Coronavirus Recovery: Disney Q2 2020 Earnings LIVE! By Raphael De Varonaon May 4, 2020 It’s no secret that the Walt Disney Company has been one of the hardest hit companies during the Covid-19 pandemic. There are very few financial bright spots for Disney when most of its businesses have been shut down entirely or severely limited. Still the quarterly earnings report is a time for understanding the direction the company is heading. We’ll surely hear some interesting details from Executive Chairman of the Walt Disney Company Bob Iger, on how he plans to steer the company during this crisis. As theme parks fans we’ll be especially interested to hear any insight into when Disney Parks might begin to reopen and what that may look like. We’ll have live commentary tomorrow as it all goes down right here on Da Mouse. Disney Q2 Earnings Results Jump to highlight Shanghai Disneyland will open at far below the mandated 30% capacity Masks will be required for guests to visit Shanghai Disneyland COVID-19 Causes a $1.4 Billion Impact on The Walt Disney Company Disney+ Rolling out to more countries across the globe. Shanghai Disneyland sets opening date. Link to the Live Audio Webcast of the Disney Q2 Earnings. Raphael De Varona That's it folks. Overall a lot of what we expected. I wasn't sure if Disney would be ready to open Shanghai Disneyland but I knew they'd want to announce a reopening if they could by today's earnings call in order to give investors hope that Disney isn't just going to continue burning cash. Interesting to note was just how much of the call was helmed by CEO Bob Chapek. For what it's worth I thought Iger struck the right balance today on the call. Of course he started the meeting but he didn't even take a single question during the Q and A which I guess is what struck me the most from today's call. We'll have plenty more coverage in the coming days and months here on Da Mouse, but I want to take a moment to thank you for spending your time here. We know these are incredibly difficult times and we pray for your families and loved ones and hope to provide honest coverage and a bit of normalcy during the epidemic. We will get through this, stay safe, better days are coming. Shanghai Disneyland attendance capacity is approx. 80,000 visitors a day. Disney was asked by the Chinese government to open at 30 percent capacity and Disney will open far below that at the start for safety. Gated Ticketing is how Disney is planning to deal with potential over-demand for their parks compared to the levels they set for park capacity. This as everything is subject to change. Q: How do you staff the parks? What signals may show a potential reopening of Disney Parks across the globe? A: Because of pent up demand, the capacity level percentage will be full at whatever level Disney will set. Da Mouse Take: Bob Chapek is very confident about Disney's attendance prospects once they reopen. Q: In Shanghai will guests be required to wear masks? A: In Shanghai guests will have to wear masks as well as employees. Da Mouse Take: This will be strongly recommended in America but I don't think legally it will be required for guests. With the caveat that this is just educated speculation from what we are seeing so far. Obviously the pandemic data will dictate these decisions along with the laws of the governing nations. China as a communist nation will be the most restrictive. Q: What is the Cash Burn on Parks and Resorts in the future. A: Current results show about half of the losses were from two weeks of domestic theme park closures, the rest being the foreign theme parks and other business closures. Da Mouse Take: Expect next quarter to be a struggle as WDW and Disneyland will have been closed for far longer than a couple of weeks. We are going through the nitty gritty of the financial details, for our purposes here at Da Mouse we are standing by for the opening of questions. A segment that usually illuminates a few news worthy items. Disney is saying there is limited visibility into when other Disney Parks outside of Shanghai Disneyland can reopen. This also includes Disney Cruise lines. $1.4 Billion Dollar Impact from COVID-19 on The Walt Disney Company. Disney+ will rollout in Japan in June, Latin America towards the end of the year. Bob Chapek is talking about the Disney films being pushed back due to movie theaters being closed. The NFL Draft on ESPN had record viewership. Shanghai Disneyland will open on May 11th. Both are talking about their appreciation of the efforts of healthcare workers and The Walt Disney Company's own cast members. CEO Bob Chapek now taking the helm of the call. Iger is talking about the resilience of The Walt Disney Company and its brand even in the face of the pandemic. Executive Chairman Bob Iger starts off the earnings call, not CEO Bob Chapek. We got a quote from Bob Chapek in the press release. While the COVID-19 pandemic has had an appreciable financial impact on a number of our businesses, we are confident in our ability to withstand this disruption and emerge from it in a strong position,” said Bob Chapek, Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company. “Disney has repeatedly shown that it is exceptionally resilient, bolstered by the quality of our storytelling and the strong affinity consumers have for our brands, which is evident in the extraordinary response to Disney+ since its launch last November. Disney - "Diluted earnings per share (EPS) from continuing operations for the quarter decreased 93% to $0.26 from $3.53 in the prior-year quarter..." Me - That is a pretty crazy drop-off as expected and the next quarter will most likely be just as bad if not worse due to the closures. (Disclaimer) Though we will discuss financial aspects of the Walt Disney Company you should not use our information for investment purposes. Please speak to your financial advisors before making any decisions that will affect your investment portfolio. If you'd like to listen to Disney's Q2 Earnings live alongside us, here's the link. Hello everyone! Thank you for joining us during this very turbulent time for our nation and the world. I hope we can help bring you the truth and honest coverage of the days events and how they affect our passion The Walt Disney Company. Today we stand to hear many interesting details about the future of The Walt Disney Company but it is not lost onto me how this news affects so many people across the entire globe. Again thank you for being here. Now onto Da Mouse Live! Da Mouse Live!Disney Quarterly EarningsDisney’s Road to Coronavirus Recovery Disney’s Road to Coronavirus Recovery: Disney Presents Walt Disney World Reopening Plans LIVE! Disney’s Road to Coronavirus Recovery: Shanghai Disneyland Gives Chinese Press Tour of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures Disney’s Road to Coronavirus Recovery: The Timeline of the Pandemic Response Previous Disney’s Road to Coronavirus Recovery: Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force LIVE! Next Disney’s Road to Coronavirus Recovery: Disney Springs Gets a Phased Reopening Date Watch This: Jingle Cruise Sets Sail at the Magic Kingdom	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9826
__label__cc	0.599434	0.400566	CES 2021: HP EliteBook 805 G8, With Ryzen Pro 5000 Not to be left out of the party for new laptops, HP has unveiled its latest series of AMD Ryzen 5000 powered notebooks. The HP EliteBook 805 G8 features AMD’s Ryzen Pro 5000 mobile processors, with multiple screen size options available. The HP EliteBook 805 G8 will be available in three different screen sizes, with 15.6, 14, and 13.3-inch variants. Designed for productivity on the go, HP includes Wi-Fi 6, with a model that includes an optional 4G LTE modem and SIM card slot. According to HP, the EliteBook 805 G8 also includes HP Sure View Reflect, which lets users work discreetly, with a copper sheen viewable when looking at the laptop from a side angle. HP informs us that the outer box packaging is 100% sustainably sourced, for those that care about recyclable packaging. There’s a clear focus on SME’s, with access to HP QuickDrop for quick and easy file sharing, as well as HP’s Tamper Lock system, which locks the system down if it has been physically opened or compromised. HP hasn’t provided any more on the technical specifications to us at this moment, nor has it said when the EliteBook 805 G8 with Ryzen Pro 5000 will be available. Battlescar Review – An EXPLOSIVE must-see! Phison at CES 2021: New USB SSD Controllers, Adds E21T For Low-End NVMe	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9829
__label__wiki	0.699793	0.699793	In New York, Denmark Confirms Role as Global Leader in SDGs PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen, companies to spotlight Denmark’s achievements in sustainability New York, NY — Prime Minister of Denmark Lars Løkke Rasmussen will kick-off his attendance at the United Nations high-level General Debate week with a celebration of Denmark’s trailblazing role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a reaffirmation of the importance of sustainable values in Danish life at home and abroad, according to the Consulate General of Denmark in New York, SAP NextGen, and the Confederation of Danish Industry. The event — to be hosted at SAP NextGen at Hudson Yards in New York City on September 24th and headlined Denmark: It’s more than a small country — It’s a BIG idea! — will bring together Her Royal Highness Mary, the Crown Princess of Denmark, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, as well as Denmark’s leading companies and non-profits in sustainable development, for an evening exhibition of Danish successes in the SDG arena spanning Carlsberg’s elimination of the use of plastic in its six-packs to Novo Nordisk’s sustained action against non-communicable diseases. “The longstanding Danish values of sustainability, gender equity, and tolerance are, in many ways, the forerunners of the Sustainable Development Goals and we are thrilled that we can honor both the Danish public and private sectors for maintaining this strong Danish tradition,” declared Consul General of Denmark in New York, Ambassador Anne Dorte Riggelsen. Among the companies exhibiting their ground breaking innovations will be Carlsberg, whose recently launched “Snap Pack” eliminates the need for environmentally damaging plastic packaging; Novozymes, whose innovative use of biological solutions in industrial products reveals new ways towards saving energy, water and raw materials, while reducing waste and emissions; and Rambøll, whose holistic approach to urban planning is paving the way to more liveable, cost-efficient and healthier cities, as well as pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, manufacturer Danfoss and Rockwool. In addition, the Brownsville Community Culinary Center — a non-profit launched by Danish chef and entrepreneur Claus Meyer in Brownsville, Brooklyn to train neighbourhood residents for careers in the food-service industry — will be on hand with a cooking station to display the healthy, accessible cuisine they offer to Brownsvillians. Other non-profit partners of Denmark present at the event will include the youth services provider Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement and the Copenhagen-based Art2030. Pointing to the Brownsville Community Culinary Center’s fusion of Danish and New York-based ideals, Ambassador Riggelsen added that the long-vaunted Danish value system was not exclusive to Denmark but amounted more to “an idea that is shared by all international actors devoted to finding sustainable and equitable solutions to today’s complex problems.” “We recognize that these values transcend national boundaries,” she continued. “That is why we are celebrating the global impact that Denmark is making towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, both at home and abroad.” On that note, SAP NextGen will also honor Denmark’s SDG excellence with a special plaque that will inaugurate the company’s new partnership wall dedicated to countries committed to realising the Goals by 2030. The plaque will also help mark the launch of the Global SDG Business Hub — the Danish Trade Council’s new initiative aimed at helping Danish companies achieve the Sustainable Development Goals while growing their businesses abroad. “SAP Next-Gen is joining government, corporate and entrepreneurial leaders in Denmark to scale the impact of Denmark’s SDG Business Hub through connections to the global SAP Next-Gen ‘Innovation with Purpose’ network as well as startups, accelerators, tech community partners, venture firms, futurists, purpose driven institutions and SAP experts around the world,” said Ann Rosenberg, Senior Vice President and Global Head of SAP Next-Gen. “We look at Denmark’s launch of an SDG Business Hub as a model for all countries to rally SDG champions to connect in the SAP Next-Gen innovation with purpose space in New York and link to a global community of next generation purpose focused innovators accelerating solutions to the SDGs,” continued Rosenberg. Karsten Dybvad, the CEO of the Confederation of Danish Industry, meanwhile, highlighted the need for a “strong commitment to global partnership and cooperation” in realizing the SDGs, adding that Danish companies were uniquely positioned for success in this area. “No sector alone can develop the solutions or the technology that can help us truly address the global challenges. Danish companies have a strong tradition for cooperation, and they have trust-based dialogue in their DNA,” Mr. Dybvad confirmed. “That is a good starting point for engaging in those international partnerships that will contribute to the innovation necessary for realizing the SDGs.” In addition to celebrating Denmark’s SDG successes, the event will also feature the presentation of the 2018 Danish Export Prize to Lines of Denmark for its exceptional work in securing the success of the Danish Brand Ilse Jacobsen in the US. The prize will be presented by Her Royal Highness Mary, the Crown Princess of Denmark. 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Posted on January 14, 2014 August 11, 2019 by Derrick Ferguson Directed by Martin Scorsese Produced by Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, Emma Tillinger Koskoff Screenplay by Terence Winter Based on “The Wolf of Wall Street” by Jordan Belfort Cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto Edited by Thelma Schoonmaker THE WOLF OF WALL STREET marked the fifth movie Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio collaborated on and I’ve enjoyed all of them (yes, even “Shutter Island.” Shut UP) And at this point in both their careers neither Scorsese or DiCaprio are capable of making a bad movie, far as I’m concerned. But for me this was an entertaining but not particularly notable movie for either one of them. It’s the story of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) who in 1987 becomes a stockbroker at a well-established Wall Street firm. He’s green as a Christmas tree until mentored by his boss, Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey in a totally hilarious extended cameo) who introduces Belfort to cocaine and encourages him to adopt a lifestyle totally dedicated to making money and then spending it in as lavish a lifestyle as that money will buy. To achieve this, Belfort decides to open his own firm, going into partnership with Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill) and hiring his friends, most of them petty drug dealers who Belfort trains to become as ruthless as he is in selling penny stocks. What are penny stocks you ask? Don’t worry if you don’t know. In one of the many breaking the fourth wall scenes in the movie, Belfort looks right at us in the audience and explains what they are and how he is able to manipulate them to grow his firm from working out of a dilapidated garage into a billion dollar company. And as the company grows, so does the excess. Belfort throws lavish parties in his home and in the office. Parties with plenty of drugs, hookers and booze. Belfort quickly becomes hooked on coke, Quaaludes and prostitutes but his real addiction remains making and spending money. Money that comes in so quickly and in such quantity that he soon is being investigated by FBI agent Patrick Denham (Kyle Chandler) With the help of Brad Bodnick (Jon Bernthal) another one of his drug dealing friends, Belfort begins transferring money out of the country and into a Swiss bank. Belfort is soon starting to hear words from friends and family he doesn’t like. Words like “securities fraud” and “stock manipulation” which can earn you a twenty-five year government sponsored vacation, if you know what I mean. With the threat of the FBI breathing down his neck and his home life in shambles, what’s a multi-millionaire drug addict to do? THE WOLF OF WALL STREET isn’t a story with a lot of surprises or twists and turns in the plot. We’ve seen it all before in other movies. In fact, if you’ve seen 2000’s “Boiler Room” starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel and Ben Affleck then you have seen it as that earlier movie was also based on Jordan Belfort’s story. But for me it really isn’t a movie with much of a story at all. And even though I enjoy scenes of debauchery as much as the next guy, after the ninth or tenth scene of DiCaprio and his cohorts banging hookers while snorting blow offa their boobs I was tired of it already. You don’t have to keep hitting me over over the head with it. I get it, these guys like getting high and screwing prostitutes. Okay, fine. Let’s move on and tell the story. I will say that when the movie goes into comedy mode it is very funny. There’s a scene where Belfort overdoses on Quaaludes that is absolutely hysterical and had not only myself but the entire audience Patricia and I saw the movie with crying with laughter. Yes, it’s that funny. As I mentioned earlier, Matthew McConaughey is also very funny in his brief but pivotal scenes. Jonah Hill continues to amaze me as I don’t find him funny at all in his comedies but he always makes me laugh when he’s being funny in a drama. Rob Reiner and Kyle Chandler also provide more than able backup in supporting roles as does Margot Robbie as Naomi Belfort. She’s a triple threat in that she’s unbelievably gorgeous, wonderfully talented as an actress and gloriously uninhibited. I was pleasantly and delightfully surprised to see Jon Favreau and Joanna Lumley also show up doing their usual excellent work. But this is a movie that has a story that we’ve all seen way too many times already. It’s the rags-to-riches story of a guy with no conscience who rises to the mountaintop of power and wealth and brought down low by his flaws and weaknesses. There are plenty of individual scenes I liked a lot and made me laugh but taken as a whole, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET disappointed me. Still, it is a Scorsese/DiCaprio collaboration so that makes it worth one viewing at least. One word of advice: the movie is rated R but I honestly think that it earned and should have gotten the NC-17. There are many scenes with graphic language, drug use and explicit sex. This is a movie that pushes the R rating as far as it can go and I ain’t lying. In fact, I can’t remember the last movie I saw before this one that used the ‘F’ word and it’s variations so many times. So don’t go see it and then complain about the language, nudity, sex scenes and drug usage ‘cause I’m telling you. It’s there, there’s a lot of it and Martin Scorsese ain’t the least bit shy about showing it to you. Tags: Jon Bernthal, Jon Favreau, Jonah Hill, Kyle Chandler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Martin Scorsese, Matthew McConaugheyCategories: Comedy, Drama, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Satire 6 thoughts on “The Wolf Of Wall Street” Pingback: Blogdom Jan. 15-Feb. 26, ’14 \| The ToiBox of Words Toi Thomas says: Thanks for the content warning. I’ll have to be in just the right mood to give this a try, if I even will, though I was looking forward to it before. Great review. Usually I just give the rating and leave it at that but I felt a need to stress just how graphic THE WOLF OF WALL STREET gets with the sex and language for those with gentle sensibilities and who might get blindsided as Martin Scorsese has never been a director with a lot of graphic sex and drug use in his movies. The insight is much appreciated. CMrok93 says: Good review Derrick. It’s basically a party that never stops and for that, I had to give it a bunch of credit. Because not only did I have fun, but I realized what it was that Scorsese was trying to say about these countless acts of debauchery. He just wasn’t so obvious about it, is all. Yeah, but how many scenes of debauchery do we need? I appreciate what Scorsese was trying to do but watching people get high is like watching people play video games: watching them is nowhere near as much fun as doing it yourself. PreviousInto The Night NextJack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9836
__label__cc	0.678033	0.321967	Research Vocabularies Good practice in vocabulary creation Created by Rowan Brownlee, last modified on 01 Apr, 2020 Here you'll find links to guidance on getting started with vocabulary creation using good practice. Contact services@ardc.edu.au to suggest additions. (Urls checked 01/04/2020) Introducing vocabularies. What are they and how are they used? How to design a vocabulary How to encode or implement a vocabulary Introduction to SKOS How to discover if the vocabulary you want to create already exists How to publish a vocabulary Consultation and support Content developed for this page was originally an output of an AVSIG working group comprising Rowan Brownlee and Les Kneebone. Introduction to vocabularies URL Presentation to the September 2016 AVSIG meeting Controlled Vocabularies and SKOS URL From DARIAH Campus, an overview of vocabularies, use within the Digital Humanities, SKOS encoding, and exercises. The Accidental Taxonomist URL A guide to building information taxonomies "Drawing on numerous real-world examples, Hedden explains how to create terms and relationships, select taxonomy management software, design taxonomies for human versus automated indexing, manage enterprise taxonomy projects, and adapt taxonomies to various user interfaces" Construction of Controlled Vocabularies. A Primer URL Based on ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005. Topics include principles of controlled vocabularies, their structure, semantic relations, and display. Essential Thesaurus Construction URL "This practical text examines the criteria relevant to the selection of a subject management system, describes the characteristics of some common types of subject tool, and takes the novice step-by-step through the process of creating a system for a specialist environment. The methodology employed is a standard technique for the building of a thesaurus that incidentally creates a compatible classification or taxonomy, both of which may be used in a variety of ways for document or information management." Organising knowledge : taxonomies, knowledge and organisational effectiveness URL "Taxonomies are often thought to play a niche role within content-oriented knowledge management projects. They are thought to be ‘nice to have’ but not essential. In this ground-breaking book, Patrick Lambe shows how they play an integral role in helping organizations coordinate and communicate effectively. Through a series of case studies, he demonstrates the range of ways in which taxonomies can help organizations to leverage and articulate their knowledge. A step-by-step guide in the book to running a taxonomy project is full of practical advice for knowledge managers and business owners alike." The Taxobook. Part 2. Principles and practices of building taxonomies URL "This book outlines the basic principles of creation and maintenance of taxonomies and thesauri. It also provides step by step instructions for building a taxonomy or thesaurus and discusses the various ways to get started on a taxonomy construction project." Thesaurus construction and use : a practical manual URL "A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT Compound Term Rules. The US ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Thesaurus construction standard is also covered." Thesaurus construction guidelines: An introduction to thesauri and guidelines on their construction URL "This guide was constructed as part of MoTIF (Mo Thesaurus of Irish Folklore), a collaborative project led by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and the National Library of Ireland (NLI). One of the project aims was to produce guidelines on the construction of thesauri for librarians, archivists, museum professionals and other information professionals. The guidelines are contained in this document and are accompanied by a pilot thesaurus of Irish folklore." Thesaurus construction. Introductory tutorial URL "The purpose of this module is to teach you the basics of constructing an information retrieval thesaurus." Topics include an introduction to to thesauri, selection of terms, and semantic relations. Last updated 2008 Free taxonomy management software URL 2016 blog posting from the author of "The Accidental Taxonomist" describes TemaTres, ThManager, VocBench and Protoge Software for building and editing thesauri URL Listings provided by Taxobank (hosted by Access Innovations). Latest update appears from 2013. Taxonomy management software URL Listings provided by Taxonomy Warehouse (hosted by Synaptica) Introduction to SKOS. Using SKOS to formalise vocabularies URL Presentation to the March 2017 AVSIG meeting SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) URL "Introduces the various features of SKOS, illustrating how they can be used to represent existing KOS data. Presents how the vision of leveraging existing KOS on the web of data is being adopted in a number of projects, in the Cultural Heritage sector and beyond. Discusses available tooling and methods for creating and publishing SKOS as well as porting legacy KOS data to SKOS" Slides from DC-2011 conference tutorial SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Primer URL "This document is an implementors guide for those who would like to represent their concept scheme using SKOS." Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) URL Vocabularies are categorised by subject and searchable by properties including language, type (e.g. classification, name authority) and format. Compendium of Vocabularies URL Maintained by CSIRO, the list is organised by categories including "general research", "earth and environment", "detailed science", and "general purpose". Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) URL "LOV focuses on a subset of vocabularies for the description of RDF data. It does not include any Value Vocabularies such as SKOS thesaurus." Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) URL Provided by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), the RVA discovery portal includes faceted search on subject, publisher, format, access method and license. Taxonomy Warehouse URL Alphabetic listing. Vocabulary descriptions include link to publisher. Hosted by Synaptica Please note: this link seems to fail in some web browsers Publishing controlled vocabularies for access and reuse URL Presentation to the COAR Controlled Vocabularies Interest Group. Vocabulary service provided by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) "Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) makes it easy to find and use controlled vocabularies used in research. It also makes it possible for Australian research organisations to publish, re purpose, create, and manage their own controlled vocabularies." SISSVoc URL "SISSVoc is a Linked Data API for accessing published vocabularies. SISSVoc provides a RESTful interface via a set of URI patterns that are aligned with SKOS. " Users include AuScope and ARDC SKOSMOS URL Open source SKOS browsing and publishing tool. Users include finto and FAO VocPrez URL Open source "read-only web delivery system for Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)-formulated RDF vocabularies." Users include Geoscience Australia (GA) and Geological Survey Queensland (GSQ) VocView URL Open source "Python web application to serve SKOS-encoded vocabularies as Linked Data." Users include TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network) Practical taxonomy creation URL 3 part recorded webinar series sponsored by the American Society for Indexing and presented by the author of "The Accidental Taxonomist" "Practical Taxonomy Creation is aimed at beginners or others seeking practical training. Whether you are new to taxonomies or are familiar with taxonomies in theory but have minimal experience, this course is for you." Topics include taxonomy types, gathering terms, and taxonomy management software. Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies. Self-Paced Online Course URL 5 self-paced online modules, from the author of "The Accidental Taxonomist" "This course provides both a basic introduction to taxonomies, discusses best practices for creating terms and relationships, and provides some practice to start working on taxonomies and thesauri." Topics include an introduction to taxonomies, hierarchical relationships, and deciding how to name taxonomy terms. Taxonomy and Metadata URL Provided by the Association for Information and Image Management (aiim) "Students can go at their own pace and have six months to complete the course and take the final exam to earn their Taxonomy and Metadata Specialist certificate." Topics include scoping a taxonomy project, understanding design principles, deciding whether to create or adopt, facet analysis. ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 (R2010) Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies URL "Presents guidelines and conventions for the contents, display, construction, testing, maintenance, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies. It focuses on controlled vocabularies that are used for the representation of content objects in knowledge organization systems including lists, synonym rings, taxonomies, and thesauri." ISO 25964 – the international standard for thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies URL "Part 1 of the standard, published in 2011, covers all aspects of developing a thesaurus, monolingual or multilingual. It has replaced the previous standards ISO 2788 and ISO 5964." "Part 2 of the standard ... main aim is to encourage high quality information retrieval across networked resources that have been indexed with different vocabularies. It explains how to set up mappings between the concepts in such vocabularies, and other forms of complementary use." Taxonomists and controlled vocabulary editors URL Listings provided by the Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies Special Interest Group of the American Society for Indexing Taxonomy design and construction consulting URL Taxonomy and metadata consultants URL A list of consultants from The DAM Directory, "a vendor-neutral collection of curated resources on topics related to the multidisciplinary practice of digital asset management (DAM)." Taxonomy and metadata listings URL Consultancy listings from the Association of Information and Image Management (aiim). Listings are part of the aiim Buyers' Guide. {"serverDuration": 183, "requestCorrelationId": "48d83a79a18be6d9"}	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9838
__label__wiki	0.857601	0.857601	Italian blackened sludge/drone trio Nibiru unleash a first teaser for their sixth studio album, »Panspermia« Italian blackened sludge/drone trio Nibiru unleash a first teaser for their sixth studio album, titled »Panspermia«, that will be released on November 13th, 2020 via Argonauta Records. 01. Alkaest 02. Aqua Solis 03. Efflatus 04. Kteis Vocalist and guitarist Ardat comments: “»Panspermia«, the limit of the alchemical path, the ancestral environment finds its balance in the mutability. The physical, ferocious rage of »Qaal Babalon«, the painfully cerebral violence of »Salbrox« and finally the primordial soup »Panspermia«, the last desolate journey divided into four steps, without interruption, alkaest, aqua solis, efflatus, kteis, ebb to the earth, to chaos to »Caosgon«.” From Argonauta Records: Following their latest album, »Salbrox« (2019, Ritual Productions), blackened sludge and drone trio, Nibiru, have re-signed with Argonauta Records for the release of their sixth studio album, titled »Panspermia«, that will be seeing the light of day on Friday the 13th of November 2020. Become part of their sound ritual, and get on this disturbing yet haunting trip of their new album, as the band just unleashed a first teaser! Nibiru deliver a very special, truly unique and inspiring sound, as they develop their musical aesthetics through the recitation of the Enochian keys, whose evocation aims at precise ritual effects, and the insertion of intimate and disturbing verses in Italian. The band’s sources of extramusical influences are inspired by occultists and esotericists such as Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant, Austin Osman Spare and Julius Evola, but also psychiatric essays, a deep inner illness and a peculiar cult for the actor Klaus Kinski. The trio invites the listener to be part of a ritual: Nibiru’s sound is a mental, noisy and apocalyptic journey of visionary magic, elemental prophecies and esoteric superomism. Tribal percussions, evocative mantras and hypnotic drones merge into a completely new interpretation of black and doom metal, while psychedelic tapestries draw a fascinating and idiosyncratic art. The shrill and inhuman voice of Ardat will drag you into a kingdom of mystical abandonment and possession. Nibiru is indeed a ritual; a heavily deep, disturbing, wild but atmospheric ride on every level – of your soul, spirit and body. Nibiru was born in 2012, following a relentless process of spiritual and emotional knowledge that involves every member of the band and is reflected in an impetuous creative approach. Since the release of their first album, »Caosgon«, the music of Nibiru draw attention as a unique identity, instinctive and difficult to label. A sound that could be described as ritual psychedelic sludge but that finds no term of stylistic comparison with other active bands, although the influences of Neurosis, Black Sabbath or MZ.412 have always been pretty clear since their inception until today. But in terms of an atmosphere, Nibiru relate themselves to the post-punk/darkwave scenes of the early ’80s (Fields Of The Nephilim, Virgin Prunes, early Christian Death, Joy Division) and to the pioneers of depressive black metal, as well as bands such as Xasthur or Shining. Over the recent years, Nibiru played prestigious stages such as Roadburn Festival as well as shows with acts alike Enisum, Oranssi Pazuzu, Uada, Suma, Nightstalker or Phantom Winter to name just a few. Nibiru is a deep experience, an evil and visceral representation that sets new rules for genres such as black metal, sludge and drone as we know them. Nibiru is: Ardat – Guitars, Percussions and Vocals RI – Bass, Drone and Synthesizers L.C.s Chertan – Drums	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9841
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__label__wiki	0.525597	0.525597	Volvo: Scandinavian Without the Drama Volvo are re-emerging from the Northern wilderness and look set to upset the automotive establishment by offering something increasingly novel: a genuine alternative. The new face of Volvo. Image: speedcarz Recently I was asked to cite which manufacturer impressed most over the past twelve months and I didn’t hesitate. It had to be Volvo. Having been a brand that previously earned my respect but little else, the sole remaining Swedish marque appears to be in the process of reinventing itself as perhaps the most viable alternative to the hegemony of the luxury car establishment, with a style and appeal that stands coolly apart from the self-aggrandizement of the mainstream prestige marques and their acolytes. Once shackled to Ford’s under-performing Premier Automotive Group, Volvo seemed to lose touch with its heritage and in the aftermath of Ford’s messy fire-sale of the PAG portfolio, was forced to withstand the usual barrage of ill-informed xenophobia from those who refused to believe a non-European company – China’s Geeley in this case – could sensitively and successfully refocus an established mid-market car brand. The naysayers certainly appear to have it wrong. 2015 saw Volvo achieve a benchmark 503,127* deliveries worldwide; their best result in 89-years. While Europe remains their core market by volume, (where 53.5% of new Volvo’s were registered), gains in the US were stronger, sales there rising 24.3%, largely on the success of the new XC90. China remained flat at around 90,000 cars, but showed an 11.4% increase towards the end of the year. Additionally, the mid-sized XC60 crossover posted its strongest European sales since its launch in 2008; a virtually unheard of performance for a vehicle most likely a year from replacement. Volvo’s forthcoming S90 saloon. Image: turbo.fr The parallel between ex-stablemate Jaguar Land Rover is interesting. Both were sold around the same time to large, successful, if previously little known motor businesses with no experience of the European luxury car market. Both Geeley and Tata Motors, following a certain amount of disturbance put competent managers in place, invested prudently and allowed management get on with it as they saw fit. 2015 was also a good year for JLR by the way, with 487,465 cars delivered by the year’s end. But of the two, it does appear that the Swedes have the stronger hand. Despite the amount of PR guff you read in the mainstream UK press, Tata’s European arm must be casting worried glances at Volvo’s success, especially in the US, a market where the West Midlands powerhouse continues to have a decidedly one-sided relationship. While Volvo appears comfortable in its positioning as a defiantly Swedish product, Jaguar’s former BMW management seem equally hell-bent reproducing a virtual frame by frame remake of their former employer’s work. For all the Coventry cat’s recent ‘British Villain’ advertising bluster, it now speaks with a faintly unconvincing Bavarian accent. And a leaked photo of its Estate sibling. Image: leftlanenews Volvo’s new S90 saloon and V90 Estate are (to these eyes) contemporary, elegant re-imaginings of traditional marque virtues and mercifully, eschew the visual aggression of their German, British and potential Italian rivals. Thomas Ingenlath’s design leadership is producing calm, elegantly surfaced cars that stand apart in an increasingly noisy segment. If the forthcoming S60 is anything like as assured as its larger brother, the premium club should be worried. Volvo have also taken a deft sidestep out of the power wars by making a confirmed pitch towards electrification and semi-autonomous control – both of which are in keeping with marque values and are increasingly what affluent buyers want. Volvo remains modest about volume projections, and certainly, there remains a sizable mountain to climb before Volvo’s European saloon ambitions equal that of its estate siblings. Last year the sales ratio between the S60 saloon and Estate in Europe was 5:1 in favour of the latter*. In the United States however, the situation is reversed; the lion’s share of the 24,128 S60/V60’s registered being sedans. Contrast this with a sales ratio of 9:1 in Europe’s favour for the V70 estate. The S80 remains an equally poor seller on both sides of the Atlantic with sales of 2329 (Europe) and 1887 (US), but is shortly to be replaced. All of which demonstrates Volvo’s business is currently heavily SUV and sedan based in the US and China, but is very much estate/SUV weighted in Europe. Volvo S90 interior. Image: motortrend If Volvo can harmonise the appeal of their offerings by creating a closer sales ratio between saloons and estates while continuing to win sales from rivals they could make a sizable breakthrough in the prestige market. The forthcoming S90/V90 proves they can produce a large saloon at least as appealing as anything emerging from Germany, Britain or Italy. Couple that with a strong presence in China, a clearly defined offer and a Scandinavian aesthetic that seems to chime with buyers, who’d bet against them exceeding their stated aim of 800,000 cars by 2020? Food for thought at Gaydon and wherever FCA headquarter themselves this week. On current form they deserve every additional sale they get. Source Volvo press office **Source Left-lane.com Author: Eóin Doyle Co-Founder. Editor. Content Provider. View all posts by Eóin Doyle Author Eóin DoylePosted on 18 Feb 2016 13 Apr 2017 Categories Current Affairs, Marques, The Industry, VolvoTags European Luxury Car Sales, Geeley Motors, Jaguar 28 thoughts on “Volvo: Scandinavian Without the Drama” chrisward1978 says: The difference between Volvo and Jaguar is that even during the long dark winter of PAG, the Swedes kept their identity. Not only that, with the Horbury designs their conception of self solidified and flourished. Geely picked up a huge bargain. By contrast, perpetual handwringing at Jaguar over conservatism versus modernity held them back, and when they did lunge forward it was with a number of missteps. Robertas Parazitas says: Am I alone in thinking that from the 850 on, Volvo subsumed a hefty chunk of Saab’s identity? I’ve occasionally mischievously suggested that the original S60 was the best Saab ever made, and nobody has taken exception. I wonder how many Saab people followed Rolf Mellde to Gothenburg? It does seem that as Saab’s character was diluted by the dead hand of GM ownership, Volvo’s became more multi-faceted, and its appeal far broader. That said, Jaguar do at least now appear to have found a way forward. Granted, the XE is very obviously spun from the 3-Series template, but that is where the saloon market is these days. I would argue that Jaguar have been quite canny in this regard, however, the XE harking back to the values set out by the E46, perhaps the last 3-Series that could unequivocally be called an Ultimate Driving Machine, rather than the diluted later generations. All this will be rendered moot by the F-Pace however, which I predict will soon be contributing nearly 50% of Jaguar’s sales. Laurent aka Sam the Eagle says: Sounds almost like what Lexus have done in the last 15 years or so. Hopefully JLR won’t be as late to the party when it comes to offering alternative powertains. Apparently Jaguar will be offering a range of hybrids in the near future, starting with the F-Pace. What with hybrid and electric drives and the emergence of the CUV, the way we understand Jaguar and Volvo. The vision of low, sleek XJ saloons and indestructable 240 GLE saloons is as relevant to those firms as toilet roll is to Nokia. You say that, and yet I was thinking the other day that the XF is actually the sleek (relatively) compact the XJ once was, just as the XC90 is the modern-day Volvo wagon for a lot of families. In fact the latest version looks more like an estate on stilts and tries less to pretend to be a rugged all-terrain vehicle like its predecessors. “the sleek AND (relatively) compact SALOON the XJ once was” Kris Kubrick says: Just from an aesthetic perspective, I’ve got to hand it to Volvo: Ingenlath et al obviously know what their brand’s appeal is all about. Despite its gargantuan size, even the XC90 fails to evoke (no pun intended) the same kind of contempt I feel towards other SUVs, thanks to its calm styling. Despite things being so much better then they’ve been for a long time, my impression is that the sense of conservatism that’s driving Jaguar these days isn’t a bull’s eye hit to the same extent as Volvo’s re-alignment. Jaguar used to be all about flamboyance within the boundaries of classical elegance, not about modesty. I agree on all counts, and the way you describe the brief for Jaguar (flamboyance and classical elegance) it’s easy to see why they have a much more difficult balance to strike than Volvo. Eóin Doyle says: And that is the nub of the matter Kris. Volvo know who they are. Jaguar do not. Are they BMW or or they Porsche? Management can’t seem to decide. (Can’t we be both?) If as you suggest, the Swedes have hit a bulls-eye and Jaguar have not – (a claim I’d go along with incidentally) – my contention is that Jaguar don’t have many lives left and on current form appear (in stylistic terms anyway) to have done a Maserati by producing two visually similar and similarly lukewarm saloons – neither of which improve upon what went before. I’ve seen quite a few of both on the roads now. Not only are they impossible to tell apart, but neither do anything for me. Corporate, staid, safe; Jaguar’s current styling has become in its own way as ossified as anything produced under Ford. Make mine an S90. Eduardo Palandi says: I fully agree with Richard’s comment on the importante of the low, sleek XJs and the bank-vault solid 240s to Jaguar and Volvo today. the Swedish have managed to reinvent Volvo by embracing the CUV without fully leaving the traditional estates. I’m a fan of traditional Volvos and have no sympathy for their current lineup, but I must admit that it works. as for the sales ratio between Volvo’s saloons and estates, I think the company’s old target (families) has changed in the U.S. it looks like most of the American Volvo buyers, especially the saloons, are businessmen. in Europe, their demographics are still families looking for a good estate – especially in Scandinavia, Italy, Portugal (where my personal experience indicates that BMW estates outsell the saloons by about 7:1) and UK/Eire (based on your comments). of course there are European businessmen buying Volvos for repmobiles, but families seem to still have the lion’s share. (sorry for the broken English, folks) No apologies required, it’s very good! As others have pointed out, Volvo’s saviour has been the CUV. They quickly weighed into the segment, having correctly identified that the niche was going to diminish sales in their estate heartland. Their style language and safety USP were both good fits too, making it a natural move. Indeed, it could be argued that the first big box Volvo, the Duett, was more of a high-riding proto-CUV than an estate. Isn’t that a handsome car? Sean Patrick says: I went to Norway in 1970 and there were still a fair number of these around. Back then, of course, I thought they looked a bit old-fashioned and dowdy, but now they look like a proper car. Good looking, but purely as a complement to their primary function. What does anyone ever put in the back of a Mercedes CLS Shooting Brake? Mark Hamilton says: Good on Volvo, I like that they’ve sharpened up again nicely after the melty Mattin-influenced styling era. Although if the critical consensus around here it that Jaguar is doing it wrong I feel like I need to burden myself with the payments on whatever XE I can afford because I like the whole current range and think the company deserves to do well. While I agree that with regards to styling Volvo has the upper hand, technically Jaguar might be doing even better. The XC90 does look great inside and out, but technically it is not a revelation – too heavy and the engines are run-of-the-mill as well, except, maybe, for the hybrid. Jaguar has the aluminium body and a new engine generation, the latter aleady producing okayish diesels and probably only really paying off when the respective petrol versions hit market. Hmm. Equivalent of around £35k and up for the basic XE in NZ. Bit steep. Is there a twitter hashtag campaign I can support instead? Surely the XC90 with its brand new petrol 2 litre turbo plus supercharged engine at 316 bhp, at least as sold here in North America, cannot be accused of being run-of-the mill, Daniel? They were introduced only a year ago, and I’ve been looking forward to eventually seeing which is the better petrol engine, this new Volvo or Jaguar’s Ingenium. Jaguar are still fettling theirs for release, but the new diesel is reportedly a pretty coarse and lumpy object. In the UK the XE is being offered on a business lease for £289pcm. Suddenly I wish I had a business and £289pcm. 99johann says: One hundred percent agree here Eoin. If I was to say hand on heart what my next car will be to replace the Yeti, I’d say ten to one it will be a Volvo. I love the new Superb Estate for the same reasons as I love the Volvo: understated elegance without the current Germanic propensity of over-design. But I don’t want a car so low on the ground. I’m waiting for the new XC60 or XC40. Did I even mention the natural successor to my Yeti, the Kodiaq? Or will it be Kodiak? Nope. Why? Because it doesn’t excite me in the way these new Volvos do with Škodas all now having standard join-the-dots VAG (Audi) styling inside and out. Sigh. (As to the comment on the new XC90 being “gargantuan”: have you seen one and been in one or parked next to one?! My neighbour has one and parking my Yeti next to it shows you how small the XC90 is visually and in the metal. Especially compared to things like the current Disco or Q7.) Daniel – your comment about the Ingenium engine being ‘okayish’ accords with my thinking, after looking at a sectioned engine and speaking to some JLR people. Very much standard FEV fodder, with a basic architecture as close as could be to a BMW unit without incurring their major client’s ire. The distinguishing characteristics are low friction – roller bearings for the camshafts and balancer shafts – and light overall weight. The latter gives me K series-induced anxieties. It’s also strongly optimised towards compression-ignition, with very undersquare dimensions (83.0×92.4), and small parallel valves. Perhaps these things matter less in the brave new world of universal forced induction, but I’ll be interested to see whether the petrol Ingenium gets a completely different head design. The Volvo engine is very similar to the JLR unit in its fundamentals, although in this case their technology partner is AVL. Volvo have shown their hand far more than JLR more in the wide variety of induction and hybrid power systems, which are where all the action is these days. The Volvo engine is even more undersquare (82.0 x 93.2) than the Ingenium, but with 91mm bore centres, looks to have some room for expansion, should the industry ever tire of the long-stroke 500cc cylinder module. The Ingenium looks to have less ‘meat’ between the bores, but I can’t find a figure for the cylinder centres. It’s a notoriously elusive dimension, and regrettably my most dependable informant on such matters departed this life at the end of last month. Thanks for that. Very, very interesting! I’d love to read more of these kinds of analyses. Care to write an article on engine design characteristics? I agree with Daniel. That was an informative analysis. Thomas Ingenlath has plucked Volvo’s lowest hanging fruit, i.e. the large cars. I would like to see how he plans to square the circle that is the Ford Focus based V40. Applying his straight edged philosophy to a car that size will indeed be a challenge. You think so? I thought it worked ok on the previous V40 (or V50 as it was called) The second last small Volvo, the S40 and V40 (or is it 50) are really good bits of work inside and out. Surprisingly, they managed to make a great looking small saloon. It was contemporary and true to Volvo values. Horbury was on top form with those. And the estate combined practicality with great looks. 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__label__wiki	0.542907	0.542907	NASA delays Dragonfly drone meant to fly on Saturn’s Titan moon Josh Spires - Sep. 28th 2020 7:44 am ET @JoshSpires_ NASA has delayed the launch of its Dragonfly drone meant to fly on Saturn’s Titan moon by one year to 2027 due to external factors, including COVID-19. The Dragonfly mission aims to explore Saturn’s Titan moon to look for the building blocks of life. In an article released by NASA, the decision to move back the launch date for the Dragonfly mission was made public with the reason for the delay being external factors. The mission was originally supposed to take-off in 2025 but was delayed to 2026 with everything looking ready to go. Now, due to the external factors including COIVD-19 the mission has been delayed once again to 2027. Lori Glaze, Director for the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington said: “NASA has the utmost confidence in the Dragonfly team to deliver a successful mission that conducts compelling science. Dragonfly will significantly increase our understanding of this richly organic world and help answer key astrobiology questions in our search to understand the processes that supported the development of life on Earth.” Dragonfly mission The Dragonfly mission is a part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program that will be used to sample materials of Titan’s surface. The samples will be brought back to Earth once the mission is over where they will undergo testing to see if humans could one day live on the moon. While on Saturn’s Titan moon, the drone will complete the following measurements: Sample surface material and measure with a mass spectrometer to identify the chemical components and processes producing biologically relevant compounds Measure bulk elemental surface composition with a neutron-activated gamma-ray spectrometer Monitor atmospheric and surface conditions, including diurnal and spatial variations, with meteorology sensors Use imaging to characterize geologic features Perform seismic studies to detect subsurface activity and structure Contribute to atmospheric profiles Provide aerial images of surface geology Give context for surface measurements and scouting of sites of interest Titan was chosen based on its similarities with Earth. Titan is considered an ocean world and is the only moon in the solar system to have a dense atmosphere that supports the Earth’s “hydrological cycle of methane clouds, rain, and liquid flowing across the surface to fill lakes and seas.” The surface of the moon is made up of complex organic materials, which are great for research purposes and studying it to see if we could live on it one day. NASA Dragonfly Josh started in the drone community in 2012 with a drone news Twitter account. Over the years Josh has gained mass exposure from his aerial photography work and spends his days writing drone content for DroneDJ as well as pursuing his business. Josh Spires's favorite gear The perfect beginner drone. 4k video & RAW photos. The perfect drone get into aerial photography.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9849
__label__wiki	0.679114	0.679114	Tagged: tui A cat, a flat, and the legend of “Mr Tui” 85 Clyde Street, Tui’s Tavern, was named by Gene Graham for the flat cat who in turn was named for Tui Takeaways, a long standing provider of a greasy package of ‘chips and stuff’ for many generations of students at Otago. Gene remembers the sign was “made with spray paint and a stencil and a box of double brown”. Tui’s takeaway at 20 Malcolm Street (the current site of a cafe, Food Department), for many Scarfie’s past, was a scene of sustenance, refuge, ‘spacies’ and trivia on the way home from a night out on the town – or a few jugs at The Cook. After serving generations of students at all hours, Tui closed it doors in December 2005. Kum Yuen “Kim” Chin, a.k.a. Mr Tui (Snr), ran the Tui Cafe from the 1950s-1970s at it’s location at 54 Albany Street. His son, Mr Tui (Jnr) took up the apron later on. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDunedinCityCouncil%2Fphotos%2Fa.1232860700092939.1073741959.127922087253478%2F1232861000092909%2F%3Ftype%3D3&width=500 Mr Tui (Jnr?) is remembered for delivering large quantities of ‘chips and stuff ’ to parties in the student ghetto. The stuff being an assortment of deep fried goods – the more memorable being potato patties (‘just big chips’) and ‘random fritters with peas and stuff’. He’s also fondly remembered for his trivia questions. Jim Mora reminisces about the original Tui on Albany St in the 1970s in a Critic retrospective of 80 years writing editorial. (Note Jim also lived in a couple of named flats “Nightmare Abbey” and “Free Latvia.) Roi Colbert, writer, commentator on music and anything he feels like, and ex-proprietor of Records Records, reflects on Orientation Week and recalls unflattering memories of Tui Takeaways. The OUSA Fish N Chip Review which was initiated in 2000, reported on nine different establishments in 2005. Gruesome descriptions of the age of the oil used wouldn’t entice me back, even if the place was still open – even for a game of Devastators or Mortal Kombat. Needless to say,Tui didn’t win the cup. Joe Tui features first in Fighting Talk’s 50 Most Powerful People of 2005, “A surprise selection, perhaps, not least because of the regionally-specific nature of Tui’s operations. Owner-operator of Tui’s takeaways in Dunedin, ‘Mr. Tui’ as he is affectionately known to his patrons, is the dominant force in the underground fish ‘n chips market in the Otago region. Tui has been feeding drunken Dunedin students for many years now as they make the fabled trek across the road from the Captain Cook Tavern to stuff their faces on chunky greasy goodness. One could say Tui is feeding the future face of the nation. And with rumours circulating of an impending Tui’s franchise with tentacles reaching into the North Island, this man may be set to grasp culinary power on an unprecedented scale.” The Joe Tui club was created in 2006 in New Plymouth. “FOR SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF OTAGO ALUMNI, JOE TUI’S name is legendary, synonymous with late nights and fast food. The latest incarnation of Tui’s café has recently closed, but the name lives on in New Plymouth, where the Spotswood College Joe Tui Club continues to induct Otago graduates into its inner circle as they join the college staff.” University of Otago Magazine, Issue 14, June 2006, 47 After Kim Chin’s death in 2002 an obituary was published in the University of Otago Magazine, ‘Remembering Jo Tui” University of Otago Magazine, Issue 3, October 2002, 40-41. Some Tui related links Fond farewell to ‘chips and stuff’ Critic 2006, by Jon Ong Dunedin icon closes its doors Critic 2006, by Dave Taine Tui’s Takeaways Memorial group on Facebook I’ve taken the Tui Challange group on Facebook Written by flatnames 2 Comments Posted in 2000s, Ephemera, University environment Tagged with clyde street, Joe Tui, Kum Yuen “Kim” Chin, Mr Tui, takeaways, tui, Tui Takeaways	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9850
__label__cc	0.688686	0.311314	Rescheduled: Yotam Ottolenghi / Calendar / Rescheduled: Yotam Ottolenghi Monday, October 4, 7:30 p.m. Location: Eisemann Center, Hill Performance Hall In conversation with Chad Houser, Cafe Momentum Founder/CEO/Executive Chef For renowned chef and New York Times bestselling cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi, food is about more than what we eat. It is about joy, pleasure, and surprise. It is about a sense of place, home, and community. At this event, Ottolenghi will share insights about food, cooking, and more in a conversation with Cafe Momentum Founder/CEO/Executive Chef Chad Houser. Ottolenghi is widely beloved for his beautiful and inspirational cookbooks, which have sold over five million copies worldwide and have been named among the best books of the year by the New York Times and NPR. These include Jerusalem (2012), his collaboration with Palestinian chef Sami Tamimi, which was awarded Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals and Best International Cookbook by the James Beard Foundation. Bon Appétit wrote that he had “made the world love vegetables.” Flavor, his latest cookbook, showcases a revolutionary approach to vegetable cooking with 100+ low-effort, high-impact recipes designed for the relaxed cook. Discover how to unlock new depths of flavor by pairing vegetables with sweetness, fat, acidity, or chile heat, and learn to identify the produce that has the innate ability to make dishes shine. Yotam Ottolenghi grew up in Israel and spent childhood summers in Italy. Based in London, where he co-owns an eponymous group of deli shops and the fine dining restaurants NOPI and ROVI, Ottolenghi spends much of his time creating and testing recipes for his weekly column in the Guardian and his monthly column in the New York Times. “My biggest strength is not how I cook, but how I get people to work in a team.” SECURE YOUR SEATS EARLY! Capacity is currently limited to approximately 400 people in order to ensure proper 6-foot social distancing. VIP Tickets (include best seating + signed book + priority pass for book signing): $125 for 1 ticket + 1 signed book $200 for 2 tickets + 1 signed book Price Code 2 $80 for 1 ticket + 1 signed book $50 for 1 ticket (without book) Most tickets include a signed copy of Flavor. Books will begin shipping within a week of your ticket purchase. Holiday gift idea—give your loved one a signed book now and the opportunity to hear Ottolenghi speak live in October! There will be a book signing following this event. The DMA Store will sell additional books on-site. We recognize these are uncertain times. If we are unable to hold the event as scheduled, we will make every effort to reschedule the event in person when it is safe to do so. For tickets, visit eisemanncenter.com/events-tickets or call 972-744-4650.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9853
__label__cc	0.709682	0.290318	KNIME Extensions 4.2 / KNIME Report Designer User Guide The BIRT environment Basic reporting workflow Creating a report layout Highlighting and mapping Report preview and final results Advanced report workflow BIRT breadcrumbs Grouping method 1 - Loop nodes Grouping method 2 - Nested BIRT tables, plus dynamic text Wrapup and a final caveat The Basic Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT) is open source software used for reporting. The KNIME Report Designer extension integrates BIRT into KNIME Analytics Platform and allows you to create reports based on the results of your workflows. This guide describes the KNIME Report Designer extension, and shows how to create simple as well as more advanced reports. The KNIME Report Designer extensions provides a report template for each workflow and nodes to identify those data tables, that should be available within the report. The creation of reports consists of two clearly separated tasks: Prepare the data you want to use in the report. This step is carried out in a KNIME workflow. Design, style and edit the presentation of this data with the report template editor. Thus, the KNIME workflow editor shows all the preprocessing that is performed on the data in a comprehensive way, while the report template editor reveals how the data will be presented in the report. The concept behind BIRT is fairly simple - in order to create a report, you need to define several elements. These are primarily arranged in two areas: The Master Page, which contains information for headers, footers, and titles common to every page in the report. The Layout, which details how tables, charts, images, text, and other items are arranged. When you open BIRT for the first time, you should see an environment similar to the figure below. Note that only a single report is associated with a given workflow. Above, you’ll notice a few different panels: KNIME Explorer, which lists available workflows and groups. Data Set View, which lists all data sets that have been explicitly exported to BIRT from your KNIME workflow. Report Items, which lists available features that we can drag and drop into the report, such as text, tables, images, and so on. Report Editor, which is where we place, edit, and manipulate features we want to include in our report. Property Editor, which has a number of options for formatting and additional editing of our features. For example, you can change fonts, colors, page breaks, data references, and many other options here. The tabs available in this panel change dynamically, based on what we are currently working with in the Report Editor. The easiest way to learn what the various panels do - and hence, what BIRT itself does - is to create a report! We will do this momentarily. But first, we need a dataset to work with. For our basic report, we will use a dataset of restaurant inspection scores. The freely available restaurant scores dataset was obtained from Austin’s Open Data Portal on April 16, 2018. It contains three years of data. It includes restaurant names, numeric IDs, addresses, and ZIP codes, along with associated inspection dates, scores, and descriptions. Using this dataset, we created a workflow that reads in the data from a Microsoft ® Excel spreadsheet. The data is used to perform two tasks: Identify the twenty lowest observed locations and produce a table containing their information. Create a scatter plot, by date, of all observed scores. The workflow is presented below. In it, you can see that the data is first read in. For the first task, the data is sorted and filtered to produce a table containing our desired data, and the table is passed to BIRT using the Data to Report node. For the second task, colors are added for inspection type, a scatter plot is produced, and the plot is passed to BIRT using the Image to Report node. By default, the Image to Report node sets the exported image size to 100x100 pixels. This is usually too small for reporting purposes. In this example, we reconfigured the node to output images of size 800x600. The workflow and associated dataset is available in the Node Guide, or on the EXAMPLES server at /05_Reporting/01_BIRT/07_BIRT_Example_Basic. You should download the workflow and execute it in full before continuing with the report creation steps below. To create a report in BIRT, we should first switch to the BIRT environment. This is done by clicking on the Report icon, shown here: This brings up the interface shown above. First, click on the Master Page tab and set up our page orientation headers and footers in the Property Editor. You will notice that by default, the footer already contains a grid with some text and images about KNIME. We will leave that be, but go ahead and click the Orientation drop-down and change it to Landscape, like so: Next, let us add something to spice up the header. It would be nice to have a title for each page, and maybe an image as well. If we want to have two separate items in the header, we should add a grid first. Grids help us to keep things organized in the editor. To do this, drag the Grid icon from the Report Items pane on the left side of the page into the header area at the top of the Report Editor. The header area is denoted by a dashed box colored in light blue. Once you drag over the Grid icon, you’ll see an input box: Set the grid size to 2 columns and 1 row, as shown, and click OK. The grid will appear inside the header box. Next, let’s drag a Label icon from the Report Items panel into the rightmost grid cell. You can double click the Label to edit the text inside. Also, when the label has focus, you can edit the text properties in the Property Editor panel at the bottom of the screen. Enter the text "Austin Restaurants Report", change the font size to 24 points, and change the alignment to Center. Then, add an image to the header. In the leftmost grid cell, drag the Image icon from the Report Items panel. Select Embedded Image from the radio buttons shown, and add an image. I used a map of Texas highlighting the location of Austin. If you need to resize your image, you can click-drag the corners to do so. Similarly, you can click drag the borders of the grid cells to move them as needed. At this point, you might want to check and see how your Master Page looks outside of the editor. To see a preview, you can click on the View Report icon, which will generate the report in your web browser.The dropdown arrow next to the icon presents options for exporting to other common report formats. Once you are happy with the arrangement of the Master Page, you can move on to editing the layout of the report. Click on the Layout tab to switch to editing your layout. First, drag in a Grid, and set the dimensions to two rows and two columns. Add a label in the top left cell, using the text "Bottom 30 Austin Restaurant Scores ". Center the label, change the background color to blue, and the text to bold white. Next, take a look at the items in the Data Set View panel. You should see icons for the Bottom 20 Locations table and Score plot generated from your workflow. Drag the Bottom 20 Locations icon into the bottom left grid cell. When you do, you will be prompted to choose which fields in the dataset to include in the table. Select everything except for Row ID, and click OK. Always give the brown Report nodes in your workflow meaningful names! Otherwise, when you look in the Data Set View panel, you may have a hard time making out exactly what data you passed to BIRT. Note that the inserted table consists of a header row, a data cell row, and an empty footer row. Center align the headers and data cells in the table by highlighting them, and clicking the associated button in the Properties panel at the bottom of the page. Next, place our score plot inside the grid. Right click inside the bottom right grid cell, select Insert, then Image. A new dialogue will appear. Inside this dialog, select Dynamic image, and click the Select Image Data button. This brings up another dialog. To choose the data that should be bound to this image, select the ScorePlot dataset, and check the box, next to Image. Click OK. This produces a red X icon inside the cell, which can be disorienting. That is OK — the generated report is going to process the image you selected properly. At this point, the grid in the Layout editor should look something like this: Having completed the layout of our basic report, there are a few more things we can do. For example, what if we wanted to accentuate values in our table, to make them stand out more? This is called highlighting, and is done via the Highlights tab in the Property Editor. Click on the [Score] cell of your data table, and then on the Highlights tab. Click the Add… button to bring up the New Highlight dialog. In the Condition drop down, let’s set Score less than or equal to 50, set the text color to bold white, and the background color to orange, as shown below. This will highlight low restaurant inspection scores in a different color scheme in our report. What if we wanted to change the representation of values in the table to something else entirely? For example, perhaps we wanted to collapse several numeric values into bins to make them easier to interpret for the reader of our report. This is called mapping, and is done via the Map tab in the Property Editor. For our report, let’s click on the [Zip Code] cell of the data table, and then on the Map tab. Click the Add… button to bring up the Edit Map Rule dialog. In the condition drop down, set the Zip Code equal to 78704 and enter a display value of Downtown, as shown below. In the report, values of 78704 will now be changed to the text string "Downtown". Now, take a look at your report in your web browser using the View Report button. You may also want to generate a PDF to see how that varies from the web preview. My report looks like this: That’s it! You’ve created your first report! Next up, we will create another report that combines some advanced features of BIRT and KNIME Analytics Platform to dynamically generate tables and charts. In Getting started, we introduced the KNIME Report Designer. We also introduced the Austin Restaurants dataset, from which we can produce tables and charts of interest. On this page, we will present some advanced BIRT concepts, which you can use to generate more sophisticated visualizations of your data. These include: BIRT breadcrumbs, for easily selecting elements in a report A method for looping and grouping using KNIME workflow functionality A method for grouping using BIRT’s built in capabilities Creating a native BIRT chart, and including dynamic text in BIRT using KNIME flow variables The workflow for this exercise is presented below. In it, we read in data and filter it by ZIP code, using global flow variables. We also perform a quick aggregation using a GroupBy node to obtain the most recent inspection date for each facility, and join that information back with the score data. The processed data is used to perform three tasks: In the green box, we present grouping method 1. This method uses a Group Loop node to produce, for each ZIP code, a list of the top 10 scoring locations, along with a histogram of scores for all locations. It then passes two separate tables to BIRT - one containing the top restaurants, and the other containing the histograms. In the blue box, we present grouping method 2. Here we produce a table of locations with the highest and lowest restaurant scores in each ZIP code, and pass that table directly to BIRT. In the pink box, we present a method to create a box-and-whisker plot using BIRT’s built in chart capabilities. For each ZIP code, the workflow calculates the minimum, maximum, and selected quartiles of the restaurant scores and passes that information to BIRT via a table. Each of these methods is described in further detail in the sections that follow. The workflow and associated dataset is available in the Node Guide, or on the EXAMPLES server at /05_Reporting/01_BIRT/08_BIRT_Example_Advanced. You should download the workflow from the EXAMPLES server and execute it in full before continuing with the report creation steps below. Sometimes, particularly when editing complex BIRT report layouts, it can be difficult to select the exact feature you need just by clicking. For instance, you might need to select an entire table, but instead you find yourself activating a grid cell or table row when you click. An easy way to avoid this problem is by using the breadcrumbs feature in BIRT. You can turn breadcrumbs on or off by clicking the breadcrumbs button next to the zoom percentage dialog, as shown below. When you do, the breadcrumbs bar will appear at the top of the editor. Now, you can click directly on the breadcrumbs bar itself to drill down to the level of detail you need to select in the editor. The more complicated your reports are, the more often you will find yourself using breadcrumbs! Since it is the most straightforward approach, let us start with Method 1. After executing the workflow as described above, go ahead and switch over to the BIRT environment by clicking on the BIRT icon. To begin, create a grid of 2 columns by 2 rows at the top of the layout page. Set the left cells to be about one-third of the page width, and the right cells about two-thirds. Next, from the Data Set View pane on the left-hand side dialog that appears, keep the ZIP Code, Restaurant Name, and Score fields. Go of the screen, drag the Top 10 table into the top left grid cell. From the ahead and set the header fields to be left-aligned and bold, and widen the Restaurant Name field within the table so that it can be read more easily. Now that you’ve done some simple layout work, let’s involve grouping. Select the table you’ve created - you can do this either by mousing over the table and clicking on the tooltip that appears, or by using the breadcrumbs as described above. This will allow selection of the Groups tab in the Property Editor at the bottom of the screen. Click Add… to bring up the New Group dialog. In the New Group dialog, under Group On, select Zip Code. In addition, under the Page Break section, change the After dropdown to Always. This will ensure that the Top 10 table you imported into BIRT will be displayed with a different Zip Code on each page. After clicking OK, our table will be displayed with a subgrouped header for ZIP code in the layout view - this header can be deleted. After adding the grouped Top 10 table, bring in the histogram images generated in KNIME. Similar to what was done above, drag the Hists by Zip table to the top right grid cell, keeping only the Zip Code field. Select the table and add a group on Zip Code, setting the Page Break After to be Always. Go ahead and remove the subgroup header for Zip Code. In fact, this time remove the Zip Code itself and all headers, leaving a blank table structure. Into this blank grouped table, drag in the Image icon from the Report Items panel. The Edit Image Item dialog will appear. In this dialog, choose Dynamic Image, and click the Select Image Data button. This will open a separate Select Data Binding dialog. Here, choose First(Image), then click OK. Click Insert on the previous dialog to return to the layout editor. This produces a red X in the grouped table of the layout editor, but that’s all right - the image should display properly in our final report. At this point, the layout editor should look something like this: This is all the setup that is needed for the Grouping Method 1 report. Before we continue, let’s preview the report in the web browser to make sure everything is configured appropriately. Do this by clicking the View Report button in the KNIME toolbar. Note that when you do, you see a dialog in the web browser that looks like this: This dialog is asking to confirm the lower and upper bounds for the ZIP codes that were defined, using global workflow variables, in the original KNIME workflow. If you wanted to produce a report based on a different range of ZIP codes, you could change that here. As it is, continue with the default values by clicking OK. The first page of the report should look something like this: This page presents the top 10 scores for ZIP code 78750, along with a histogram of all scores for that ZIP. If you want to see information for the other ZIP codes, you can navigate the report using the arrows in the top right of the browser window. Making a box plot using the chart editor Now, let us make a simple box plot (also known as a box-and-whisker plot) based on our data. Box plots are used to identify, at a glance, how data is distributed. The box displays the Interquartile Range (IQR), which is the range between the 25th and 75th percentiles of the data, while the whiskers represent the range of the minimum and maximum values. There are other ways that whiskers can be used to represent outlying data points; see Wikipedia for more information on this topic. To build such a plot, we first calculate for each ZIP code the 25th and 75th percentiles of restaurant scores, along with maximum and minimum scores, using a GroupBy node. We then pass this data to BIRT to build the plot using BIRT’s built-in Chart Editor. To begin, drag in a Chart icon from the Report Items panel into the blank area below the 2x2 grid. This will open the Chart Editor. On the initial Select Chart Type page, you need only select the Stock chart type from the bottom left panel - you’ll use defaults for all of the other options. Click Next. On the subsequent Select Data page, you’ll define the data you wish to use, and how the variables should be represented in the box plot. First, under the Select Data section, click the Use Data from radio button and select SimpleBoxPlot from the dropdown. For the Category (X) Series, choose Zip Code. For the Value (Y) Series, you’ll notice that four inputs are available: Open, High, Low, and Close. For each of the inputs, select the 75th quantile, Maximum, Minimum, and 25th quantiles, respectively. The Data Preview panel will now show color highlights to reflect your choices; if you click the Show data preview check box, you can review the actual calculated values from the SimpleBoxPlot dataset. Click Next. On the final Format Chart page of the Chart Editor, you will see several options for changing the way the chart will be displayed in the BIRT report. First provide a name for the horizontal axis by clicking on X-axis in the left-side pane, clicking the Visible checkbox to toggle display of the axis, and set the name to Zip Code. You change the name of the chart by making a similar edit on the Title options - set it to Score Distributions by ZIP Code. Since you only have a single series to plot here, get rid of the legend by unchecking the Visible checkbox on the Legend pane as well. Let’s also change the background color to a light green by using the Background dropdown on the Chart Area panel. Click Finish. You should now see a dummy version of your chart displayed in the layout editor - the data displayed won’t be correct, but the formatting options roughly should be. Drag the bottom corner of the chart to the bottom right to make it larger, and add a page break (After: Always) via the Property Editor as you have done before. At this point, the layout editor should look something like this: Now take a look at our report in the web viewer. Click on the double arrows to advance to the final page in the report, and you should see something similar to this: Here we see the final box plot as generated by BIRT. At a glance, you can see that although the extreme minimum values vary somewhat by ZIP code, overall the middle portion of the score distribution does not vary much. As a final exercise, create a table featuring the highest and lowest scoring locations in a given ZIP code, along with a simple bar chart that displays the relative scores. This time, though, we will approach grouping with a bit of a trick - by nesting a table inside another table, and using some creative filtering. To begin, drag the Extremes by Zip dataset from the Data Set View panel. When the Data Set Binding dialog appears, select only the ZIP Code column. Clear both the header and the cell content, leaving an empty table. Now for the tricky part: drag the same dataset into the empty table you just created. This time, in the Data Set Binding dialog, include all fields except rowID, Facility ID, Address, and Process Description (both First and Last). For the inner table you just created, add a filter by selecting the appropriate tab in the Property Editor and clicking Add…. Use breadcrumbs to make sure you’ve selected the inner table, and not the outer table. This brings up the New Filter Condition dialog. Here you should select ZIP Code from the dropdown on the left-hand side, and Equal to as a condition. Next you’ll create an expression for the right-hand side of the dialog - you can do this either by clicking the fX button, or by selecting Build Expression… from the dropdown menu. When you do, a separate Expression Builder dialog appears. Here you want to build a string that represents the grouping of the outer table. From the Category heading, choose Available Column Bindings, and from the Sub-Category, choose the bottom Table. Then, double-click on Zip Code to create the string in the Expression field. If you like, you can also just type this string manually into the Expression Builder, but you must be careful to get the syntax precisely correct. Click OK in both dialogs to navigate back out. You have now created a filter for the data to be displayed in the inner table, that is actually based on the outer table.This has the practical effect of displaying the data for each individual ZIP code. Now, do a bit of clean up on the layout to make things more legible by renaming the column headers. Also, go ahead and add a page break (After: Always) on the inner table by using the appropriate options in the Property Editor, as you have done before. Next, prepare to make space for our bar chart. Select the inner table, and right-click on the yellow data row icon, choosing Insert → Row → Below. Shift-click to select all of the cells in the newly created row, and choose Merge Cells. You should now have a single blank cell, spanning the width of the table, into which you can drag a Chart icon from the Report Items panel. This will be a simple bar chart that displays the minimum and maximum scores for each ZIP Code, so navigate to to the Select Data tab in the New Chart dialog. The Select Data radio button will already be set to Inherit Columns and Groups, which is what you need. For the X series, choose ZIP Code. For Y Series 1, choose the Max score. Then, add a new series using the dropdown, and for Y Series 2, choose the Min Score. Under the Format Chart tab, turn off the legend and title using methods shown above - you will provide our own title dynamically in a moment. Fix the Y-axis scale to values between 0 and 100. Otherwise, the scale of the plot may change from page to page, which would be confusing to readers. Do this by clicking on the Scale button associated with the Y-axis, and defining the scale in the dialog that appears. Click Finish to close the New Chart dialog and place the chart in the Layout Editor. Click-drag the corner of the chart to enlarge it, filling about two-thirds of the empty cell. Finally, add a title for our report based on BIRT’s dynamic text feature. This will allow you to change the text in the title based on the ZIP Codes defined in the global workflow variables used to build the report. To do this, drag a Dynamic Text icon from the Report Items panel below the chart you just made. This opens an Expression Builder dialog. Here you will use BIRT’s concatenate function to combine some static text with the values of the workflow variables. Notice that the static text is contained within quotes, while the workflow variables are referenced as parameters within square brackets. Enter the text shown in the figure below into the Expression builder, and click OK. Now that the layout editing is finished, you should have a layout editor that looks something like this: If you preview the results of the report in your web browser and skip to the last page, this is the result: At this point, you have prepared some grouped reports a few different ways, using charts generated in both KNIME and BIRT’s built-in Chart Editor. But there is an additional thing to be aware of before you go - please note that some exports formats from BIRT work better than others. We’ve primarily used the Web Viewer to preview the results of reports in the exercises above, but PDF and PPTX formats work well too. BIRT provides several other options to generate reports, but some of these may produce unexpected results. On top of that, a report that looks fine in one format may look very different in another, so always double check your exported reports to make sure you’re getting the results you want.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9856
__label__wiki	0.691628	0.691628	Identity \| Reflections Old certainties, old prejudices, old fears are losing their grip Posted by Kennedy Warne \| Mar 4, 2018 \| 2 \| 5 min read Professor Anne Salmond For more than 50 years, Anne Salmond has been studying and explaining Māori and Pacific philosophies — and, as well, examining the encounters that came about as European explorers and then migrants headed this way. There’s a wealth of that knowledge in her books, starting with Hui. That was a study of Māori ceremonial gatherings which had been the focus of her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania after she’d done her MA in anthropology in Auckland. Her body of work has been so remarkable that she has received abundant honours and awards — including a damehood, and then, in 2013, selection as New Zealander of the Year. The latest of her books, Tears of Rangi, adds more lustre to her achievements. It’s a book that, as Kennedy Warne notes, is an analysis of what happened when two very different cultures confronted each other here in Aotearoa. It’s also, he says, about what that melding of the ways of life might mean for our country’s future. Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au — I am the river, the river is me — is a statement of identity by those who whakapapa to Te Awa Tupua. It’s also a truth capsule containing the essence of Māori belief. In those few, simple words lies the understanding that life is a reciprocal exchange between persons — in this case, between a human and a river. The hau, or wind of life, flows from one to the other and back again in an endless cycle, nurturing, sustaining and transforming all who it touches. This, according to Anne Salmond’s book, Tears of Rangi, is the core principle of te ao Māori. The book’s title comes from the origin story of Te Awa Tupua, the great river that has laid a claim on her through her own family history. In that kōrero, the river springs from the tears of Ranginui. Salmond is also thinking of the metaphor of Rangi and Papa weeping for each other: sky bathing earth in rain, earth responding to sky in mist. That picture of reciprocity and exchange is the book’s central image. Titiro atu, titiro mai — one glance directed at another, the other glancing back. I see you, and I am seen. That principle permeates the Māori world. We see it in action at every pōwhiri, every marae encounter. One calls, another responds, and a connection is forged. The exchange shapes identity and generates life. Such circularity, Anne Salmond believes, is fundamentally opposite to the European worldview, which has its origin in the Great Chain of Being, a hierarchy of entities with God at the top and creation sorted into descending categories and ranks. The European “Enlightenment” was epitomised in “I think therefore I am.” The Māori understanding is “I relate therefore I am.” In Aotearoa, these two worldviews met — and are still negotiating their engagement. Hence the book’s subtitle, Experiments Across Worlds. Anne Salmond sees the history of encounter between Māori and Pākehā as a grand experiment, one that continues to this day as the Treaty partners forge new ways of doing things, “in law, in governance and … in everyday life, from the arts to sport to public ritual.” If the word “experiment” suggests a book that is heavy on the academic side, it’s not. One of the achievements of Tears of Rangi is how vividly Salmond renders the two cosmologies: one based on hierarchy, the other on reciprocity. One linear, the other circular. One focused on separation, the other on relational exchange. She incarnates this cosmological kōrero in figures from Aotearoa history who were at the forefront of cross-cultural encounter — among them Cook, Tupaia, Ruatara, Hongi Hika, Marsden, and the tragic Thomas Kendall. Almost alone among the missionary band who came to sway Māori to their faith and philosophy, Thomas Kendall went the other way, becoming increasingly entranced by te ao Māori. And not just by te ao, but by an actual Māori woman, Tungaroa, one of his school pupils, with whom he had an affair. It all ended sadly for him. Anne Salmond writes that the paradox of representing Christendom while embracing Māori thought “tore him apart.” His personal “experiment across worlds” became an unbearable torment. While Kendall wavered in his assurance of European superiority, his fellow missionaries were resolute. One consequence of their certainty that their view of reality was right is that Māori concepts have been weakened — eviscerated, even — by their rendering into English by missionary translators. Forced to fit a European worldview, they were cut adrift from their true meaning. This is particularly apparent for words that relate to cosmological ideas. The missionary translators were keenly attuned to anything that smacked of idolatry, so the act of translation naturally involved a negation of what they saw as heathenish views. Thus, an atua, a powerful ancestor, lost all sense of personal connection and was presented as a disembodied god. Wairua, the totality of a person’s immaterial being, became compartmentalised as spirit. Tapu, stripped of ancestral presence, became merely a category called sacred. Likewise, noa, rather than fulfilling the role of yin to tapu’s yang, was demoted to profane. A tohunga, an expert steeped in ancestral knowledge, became a religious priest (or, worse, a witch doctor). Karakia, chants which in their very utterance invoke the breath of life, turned into supplicatory prayers. Utu, the principle of reciprocity, was narrowed and sensationalised as revenge. Whakapapa, the matrix of connections among all human and non-human life, dwindled into mere genealogy. “There are no words in English to translate words like tapu, mana, utu and hau, which were (and are) ontological terms, premised on the taken-for-granted presence and power of ancestors in everyday life, and different states of being in te ao mārama, te kore and te pō,” writes Salmond. “Such words presuppose a reality that is, in many respects, fundamentally at odds with Western ideas about the world.” The good news is that the country seems to be in a process of recovery — and for Pākehā, discovery — of the Māori conceptual world. For Anne Salmond, this movement isn’t a cultural nicety but a social necessity. “The old Cartesian dualisms and their fragmented dreams are no longer working — in science, in material matters, or in human affairs,” she writes in her preface. Relational networks, interlinked and co-emergent, are the future, she believes. “In New Zealand, and elsewhere in the Pacific where ancestral insights remain vital, this can happen.” Much of the second half of Tears of Rangi — material which was presented and broadcast as the 2014 Royal Society of New Zealand Rutherford lectures — looks at how Māori perspectives might apply to how we perceive and relate to rivers, land, sea, and people. They already do, of course. Who could have imagined, even 10 years ago, that Te Urewera forest and Whanganui River would become legal persons, with more such ancestral landscapes awaiting similar recognition? Ko au te awa, submerged and sidelined for so long, is staging a comeback, and the “exchanges across realities” seem the obvious path for a country seeking to resolve the injustices and inequalities of the past. Old certainties, old prejudices, old fears are losing their grip. New modes of thinking and relating are taking their place. The back cover of Tears of Rangi shows an archival photograph of a Whanganui woman weaving. Two skeins of flax lie in her hands, and she is plaiting them into a rope. Anne Salmond has proved to be a tohunga raranga, too, showing how two strands of thinking and being from opposite sides of the world might be woven into an unbreakable cord. © E-Tangata, 2018 Thank you for reading E-Tangata. If you like our focus on Māori and Pasifika stories, interviews, and commentary, we need your help. Our content takes skill, long hours and hard work. But we're a small team and not-for-profit, so we need the support of our readers to keep going. If you support our kaupapa and want to see us continue, please consider making a one-off donation or contributing $5 or $10 a month. PreviousThe second migration: stories of urban Māori NextOur church leaders need to see Jesus as a radical activist The Anniversaries of our Amnesia Why we’ve become reo refugees The grind of racism Rangatiratanga in the age of conspiracy Be respectful in your comments, and your opinion of other readers' viewpoints. Di Lucas on April 5, 2020 at 10:00 am I bought this book a few months ago & Anne signed it. Now is the time to snuggle down and read it. Excited! Brenda Sullivan on March 5, 2018 at 9:15 pm Just finished this book. A Just finished this book. A wonderful book. Has changed my ” sense of country”, of where I belong. Thank you for a brilliant review of the book.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9857
__label__wiki	0.921769	0.921769	WCCC Edgbaston Cricket Centre Events Club statement on latest Government national lockdown Warwickshire County Cricket Club and Edgbaston Stadium has confirmed the following guidelines for all elements of the business during this latest national lockdown. Edgbaston Stadium is currently closed during the latest Government national lockdown until further notice, but the Club can still be contacted via the below details. Membership & Ticket Office The Membership & Ticket Office and Store ’94 at Edgbaston Stadium is currently closed. However, staff support is on-hand for Members and supporters who wish to renew or purchase Membership for the 2021 season before the 1 February Early Bird deadline. This can be done online at tickets.edgbaston.com or by calling 0121 369 1994 (option 1). Edgbaston’s two confirmed 2021 Major Matches, of England versus Pakistan in the Royal London International and Vitality Blast Finals Day, are both sold out. However, in the coming weeks we expect to receive further information on the scheduled Vitality T20 International between England and Sri Lanka and/or a potential early-summer Test match. Further details will be released in due course at edgbaston.com. If you have any queries regarding Membership or Major Match tickets, you can contact the Club over the phone by calling 0121 369 1994 (9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday) or email tickets@edgbaston.com. Please do allow extra time for emails to be answered at this time. Members and supporters can continue to order retail items from Store ’94 online during this period. Staff will be present to dispatch orders and please allow between five to seven days for delivery. If you have any queries regarding Store ’94 or any shop orders, please email store94@edgbaston.com. Please do allow extra time for emails to be answered at this time. Edgbaston Events Edgbaston Events is currently closed, but our team are still available and able to support on new, potential and existing bookings via our live chat facility on the Edgbaston Events website, by calling 0121 369 1994 (option 3, 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday) or by email events@edgbaston.com. We hope to release a calendar events in the coming weeks for when the venue can re-open and welcome guests safely. Hospitality is still available for the Royal London International between England and Pakistan and Vitality Blast Finals Day. To book or talk to a member of our Keith Prowse hospitality team about a 2021 booking, please do email hospitality@edgbaston.com. Edgbaston Cricket Centre We have been in contact with all clients who have bookings at the Edgbaston Cricket Centre and are again providing an option to postpone the booking to a date later in the year. Please email cricketcentre@edgbaston.com if you have any immediate queries or concerns regarding a booking at the Edgbaston Cricket Centre. Stadium Operations Our security and maintenance teams will continue to be on-site at Edgbaston throughout the public closure to ensure that the venue can make a prompt return to daily operations as and when it is safe to do so. Edgbaston Events and The Sporting Club announce new partnership and Birmingham Membership Works begin on £93 million Phase 2 of the Edgbaston Stadium Masterplan Edgbaston secures pre-Christmas ODI sell out of England v Pakistan Record ballot entries for Edgbaston ODI with winners about to be notified Kohli remains on top of the ICC MRF Tyres men's ODI rankings for batsmen Bears join leading sporting clubs in backing Cure Leukaemia Chief on running challenge	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9863
__label__wiki	0.573318	0.573318	Israel Invites Lebanese President for Direct Talks Over Border Demarcation Tel Aviv- Asharq Al-Awsat "Arab World" Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:57:37 +0000 https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2644006/israel-invites-lebanese-president-direct-talks-over-border-demarcation Tuesday, 24 November, 2020 - 07:45 Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz displays the signed agreement during the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF), in Cairo, on January 16, 2020. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP) With the support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz invited Lebanese President Michel Aoun to meet directly in a European country to negotiate the demarcation of the maritime borders between the two countries. Tweeting in Arabic, the Minister wrote, “I am of the belief that if we were able to meet face to face in one of the European countries in order to conduct open or secret negotiations, we would have a good opportunity to resolve our differences over the maritime borders once and for all. In doing so, we will contribute to strengthening the economic future and well-being of the two peoples.” Netanyahu published the news in a letter circulated to the press, stating that he supports Steinitz’s statements. In his Monday tweet, the Israeli minister also wrote, “I am pleased to inform you that I have enjoyed the dialogue that has been taking place between us in recent days on Twitter about the maritime border negotiations. But unfortunately, it seems that you do not know all the facts about this matter, because the Lebanese side has changed its positions on the maritime borders many times during the last 15 years.” It is worth noting that to date, representatives of Lebanon and Israel have held three negotiating sessions at the Lebanese Naqoura village under the auspices of the United Nations and the administration of US President Donald Trump. And while the Lebanese are talking about positive negotiations, Israelis accuse Beirut of making unrealistic demands during the negotiation sessions. Last Thursday, Aoun said that Lebanon’s position on the maritime border should be “based on the line that departs on land from the point of Ras Naqoura.” Syria Says Fires Hit Oil Tankers near Homs Refinery, No Casualties Moroccan PM Blames Global Market for Vaccine Delay Sudan Gives Final Approval to 2021 Budget US Exempts UN, Aid Groups from Blacklisting of Houthis in Yemen German Police Bust Gang Suspected of Smuggling Syrians Factional Risks Hover as Libya's UN Peace Process Advances Iraq Delays General Election to Oct. 10 Iraq Tightens Security Along Flashpoint Syria Frontier Lebanon Doctors Urge Lockdown Extension Morocco: Silence Over Purported New 'Condition' Set By King Mohammed VI to Visit Israel Click here to subscribe to our free newsletter Asharq AL-awsat will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing. Israel Says Normalizing Ties with Turkey Hinges on Closure of Hamas’ Istanbul Office Lavrov Says Russia Will Not 'Chase’ US out of Syria Turkey Redeploys Forces after Withdrawing from Military Points in Northwestern Syria Iraq Scrambles to Contain Bird Flu Outbreak Among Livestock Egypt, Jordan to Bolster Cooperation, Revive Mid-East Peace Talks Saleh Al-Shaer: The Man Running the Houthi ‘Financial Empire’ in Yemen After Medicine Shortage, Lebanese Now Scramble to Find Baby Milk A Million Syrians Face Disaster from Turkey’s ‘Water War’ Lebanon: French Initiative Under Political Lockdown ISIS Wives at Syria’s Al-Hol-Camp Complain about Struggles of Living in ‘Isolated State’ ITU: Saudi Arabia, A Leading Global Model in Regulating Telecom Sector Saudi Arabia Presents ‘The Line,’ an Icon for Nature Conservation Africa Fears Turkish Arms Smuggled through Libya May Fall in Wrong Hands Fears Arise Biden May Lift Iran Sanctions before it Commits to Nuclear Deal Moroccan Women Stuck in Syria’s Al-Hol Camp Wait on Visas to Return Home Lack of Int’l Goods Forces Lebanese People to Buy Lower Quality Alternatives Libyans Await Biden Term, Blame Trump for Tripoli War A woman blows soap bubbles outside the Forbidden City after snow fell in Beijing on January 19, 2021. (AFP) Men bathe in the icy waters of the Lena River during a traditional Epiphany celebration as the temperature dropped to about -56 degrees Celsius (-68 Fahrenheit) outside Yakutsk, Russia, Jan. 19, 2021. (AP) A picture taken on January 19, 2021 shows skyscrapers amidst fog in the area of Dubai Marina. (AFP) Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang celebrates scoring the opening goal during the Premier League against Newcastle United at the Emirates Stadium in London on January 18, 2021. (AFP)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9867
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__label__wiki	0.950951	0.950951	January 16, 2020 Updated 09:53 GMT Homepage : News : Egypt, Ethiopia reach preliminary deal over Nile dam dispute Egypt, Ethiopia reach preliminary deal over Nile dam dispute Egypt worries the project could deprive the country of water [Getty] Date of publication: 16 January, 2020 Negotiations over the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will continue later this month. Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Nile, dam, Great Renaissance Dam Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have reached a preliminary agreement aimed at clearing the way for the filling of a $5 billion dam project on the Nile River, officials said on Wednesday. The foreign ministers and water resources officials of the three countries concluded three days of meetings in Washington on Wednesday with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and World Bank President David Malpass. The project, called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, is around 70 percent complete and promises to provide much-needed electricity for Ethiopia's more than 100 million people. However, Egyptian officials are concerned that filing the reservoir behind the dam too quickly could significantly reduce the amount of Nile water available to Egypt. The joint statement late Wednesday did not give details on how long it would take to fill the dam, saying only that it should occur in stages during the rainy season, which generally runs from July to August. Earlier this month Ethiopia's minister for water and energy, Sileshi Bekele, said Addis Ababa wanted a filling time of 12 years while Egypt wanted 21. The discussions were aimed at developing guidelines that would mitigate drought conditions based on the natural flow of the Nile and water release rates from the dam's reservoir. The guidelines said that filing the reservoir could continue into September under certain conditions, with the goal of achieving the early generation of electricity while providing mitigation measures for Egypt and Sudan in case of severe droughts. Read more: Ethiopia's Great Renaissance Dam – A Catastrophe for Egypt? "The ministers agree that there is a shared responsibility of the three countries in managing drought and prolonged drought," the officials said in their joint statement. The statement said these preliminary decisions on the dam's operation will not become final until the countries agree on all points in a final operating agreement. The United States stepped in last year to initiate the tripartite dialogue, setting a 15 January deadline to resolve the dispute. Discussions are set to continue in Washington on 28 and 29 January with the goal of reaching a final agreement on the dam's filing and operation. "The ministers recognize the significant regional benefits that can result from concluding an agreement... with respect to trans-boundary cooperation, regional development and economic integration," the joint statement said. In an address to the United Nations General Assembly last year, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he would never allow Ethiopia to impose a "de facto situation" by filing the dam without an agreement on its operation. Pro-government media in Egypt have cast the issue as a national security threat that could warrant military action, leading Ethiopia's Nobel Peace prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to warn last year that if there's a need to go to war over the dam project his country could muster millions of people. Abiy added, however, that only negotiation can resolve the current deadlock. 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__label__wiki	0.900642	0.900642	Homepage : News : Afghan ceasefire holds as hundreds of Taliban prisoners freed Afghan ceasefire holds as hundreds of Taliban prisoners freed Many Afghans are hoping the Eid truce will lead to peace talks [Getty] "You almost forget that there has been a war in this country for 40 years," one Jalalabad resident said. Taliban, Afghanistan, Peace, ceasefire A ceasefire between the Taliban and Afghan government appeared to hold for the third and final day on Sunday, with hundreds of militant prisoners released in a bid to bring peace talks closer. Calm prevailed across much of Afghanistan, with officials not reporting any major clashes between the two foes since the truce began on Friday to mark the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. President Ashraf Ghani and the Taliban have both indicated that long-delayed negotiations could begin straight after Eid. The rare respite from violence gave some Afghans the opportunity to safely visit relatives for Eid celebrations after long periods apart. "I managed to visit my village for the first time in two years," said Khalil Ahmad from volatile Uruzgan province, a hotbed for insurgents. "There were many Taliban checkposts on the way, but they did not bother anyone." Shahpoor Shadab, a resident from the eastern city of Jalalabad, told AFP that "Eid feels different, parks are full with people". "You almost forget that there has been a war in this country for 40 years." Kabul resident Fawad Babak, a shopkeeper, was sad that it was the last day of the ceasefire. "I'm a little disheartened... the killing and bloodshed may resume again tomorrow," he said. In restive Zabul province, several residents recited poems calling for the ceasefire - only the third official halt in fighting in nearly two decades of conflict - to be made permanent. "Peace is everybody's need and aspiration," said Sardar Wali, who took part in the poetry session. "This is a great opportunity to extend the ceasefire today and start intra-Afghan talks tomorrow." Under a deal signed by the Taliban and the US in February, the "intra-Afghan" talks were slated to start in March, but were delayed amid political infighting in Kabul and as a contentious prisoner swap dragged on. The deal stipulated that Kabul would free around 5,000 Taliban prisoners in return for 1,000 Afghan security personnel held captive by the Taliban. The National Security Council said Sunday that a further 300 Taliban prisoners had been released since Friday, taking the total number of insurgents freed so far to just over 4,900. Authorities however have refused to free hundreds of inmates accused of serious crimes that the insurgents had requested for release. The Taliban said they have already fulfilled their side of the exchange. Deadly violence has rocked Afghanistan since the US-Taliban deal was agreed, with more than 3,500 Afghan troops killed in attacks by the insurgents, according to Ghani.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9870
__label__wiki	0.739854	0.739854	Homechevron_rightIndiachevron_rightSC questions... date_range 8 April 2019 3:03 PM GMT SC questions government's role in religious places New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought to know why the government in a secular state be involved in running and managing religious places, after noting that pilgrims going to Puri's Jagannath temple were being harassed and mistreated. "It is a matter of perspective. I don't know why government officials should run and manage religious places," asked Justice S.A. Bobde sitting with Justice S. Abdul Nazeer. He noted that "most people who go there (Jagannath temple) come back harassed, mistreated and (they) have no voice". As Justice Bobde flagged the issue, senior counsel Gopal Shankarnarayanan urged the court to address the question on "how far the government in a secular state can run and manage the temple". The court said that the lawyers could touch this aspect in the next hearing on May 13. Attorney General K.K. Venugopal told the court that the Sabarimala temple in Kerala was being run by the Devaswom Board and in Tamil Nadu, since 1930, the Hindu religious Endowment Board was running and managing many temples. Web Title - SC questions government's role in religious places	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9871
__label__wiki	0.585118	0.585118	Our Partners › We've worked with small farmer organizations since our founding in 1986, beginning with a co-op in Nicaragua, and now sourcing from over 40 small farmer organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States. Our longstanding relationships allow us to secure the best crops, while continuing to develop innovative programs in collaboration with the co-ops, from crop diversification to quality trainings to women's leadership development. Meet some of our farmer partners by selecting a map below. CEPCO, Mexico CEPCO was founded in 1989 in the midst of a severe crisis in Mexico's coffee industry. Originally formed through the efforts of more than 7,000 small coffee producers, today CEPCO is the largest association of small coffee producers in Oaxaca. CESMACH, Mexico Formed in 1994, Cafe Ecológico de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas S.C. (CESMACH) is a coffee co-operative in the southern highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. CIRSA, Mexico The members of CIRSA come primarily from two main ethnic groups, Tzotzil and Tzeltal; if Spanish is spoken at all, it is spoken as a second language. Comon Yaj Noptic, Mexico Members of Comon Yaj Noptic have been monitoring bird species in their communities for the past four years in an effort to provide on-the-ground data for a conservation non-profit in Mexico. Finca Triunfo Verde, Mexico Finca Triunfo Verde (FTV) has worked extensively with Grounds for Health to implement a community-focused effort to test women for cervical cancer. Grounds for Health has trained co-op staff to run and maintain the clinic and continue the effort. PRAGOR, Mexico Equal Exchange is excited to announce a new partnership with PRAGOR, a progressive group of small-scale avocado farmers in Michoacán, Mexico. ACOPAGRO, Peru ACOPAGRO was one of the first grant partners that Equal Exchange started working with on the USAID Co-operative Development Program (CDP) back in 2010, in collaboration with implementing partner, TCHO. ACOZC, Paraguay La Asociación de Cañicultores Organicos de la Zona Central (ACOZC) was formed in 2002 to improve the livelihoods of small-scale sugar producers. ANTOFAGASTA, Bolivia High in the Andean mountains east of Lake Titicaca, a few dozen families cultivate coffee and food crops on small farms ranging from 4 to 6 acres in size. APANS, Peru The Producer Association of Naylamp de Sonomoro (APANS) is located in the beautiful and scenic Sonomoro Valley. Due to the geography and higher altitudes, many members of the co-op also grow coffee. APROSAROCH, Peru The Producer Association of Santa Rosa de Chiriari (APROSAROCH) was founded in 2002 to commercialize bananas. After a Peruvian national development project to exchange coca farming wtih cacao farming, many farmers in the region began to focus on cacao. AsoGuabo, Ecuador The story of AsoGuabo, one of Equal Exchange’s farmer partners, is a success story in grassroots organizing. ASPROCAFE Ingruma, Colombia Equal Exchange bought our first container of coffee from The Alto Occidente Coffee Cooperative of Caldas (CCAOC) in 1995. CAC Jose Olaya, Peru The José Olaya Cooperative is named for Afro-Peruvian independence hero José Olaya. CACVRA, Peru The Agrarian Coffee Cooperative of the Apurimac River Valley (CACVRA) was formed in 1969 to market coffee for small-scale farmers in Peru. CCAOC, Colombia CECOVASA, Peru CECOVASA (The Organization of Agrarian Coffee Cooperatives of the Sandia Valleys), was founded in 1970, when a group of Peruvian coffee farmers in the Lake Titicaca region came together to avoid selling their beans to exploitative middlemen, and instead process and export their beans collectively. CEPIBO, Peru CEPIBO was formed by small scale banana farmers located across northern Peru as a non-profit cooperative to provide access to the international market by representing, coordinating and marketing banana exportation for 12 grower associations. El Quinacho, Peru El Quinacho is a shining example for community collaboration. Even after a decade long of regional violence and terrorism, the co-operative spirit continues to thrive. Fortaleza del Valle, Ecuador Fortaleza del Valle was founded to improve living conditions for small-scale cacao producers in the Manabí Province of Ecuador. Manduvira, Paraguay Cooperativa de Producción Agro-Industrial Manduvira Ltda (Manduvira Co-op) is located in the village of Arroyos y Esteros (Streams and Swamps), in the southwestern region of Paraguay. Norandino, Peru Cooperativa Norandino brings together three important coffee farmer groups with a long history in Peru. Nuevo Futuro, Colombia Nuevo Futuro Association was founded as a part of the prevention and eradication of illicit crops efforts in Cauca in 1995 with the support of GTZ (the German development agency) and the National Coffee Growers Association in the South of Cauca. Oro Verde, Peru In the 1980s, the co-op and surrounding communities in the remote Apurimac Valley were severely impacted by the social and political conflict occurring in Peru’s Ayacucho Province caused by drug trafficking and violence. San Fernando, Peru The farmer members of San Fernando are quechua and practice one of the core quechua values of ayni in their community. Ayni is the practice of work exchange and reciprocity between neighbors. It is often translated as “today for me, tomorrow for you” and is a system of work exchange practiced widely throughout quechua communities in the Andes. Sol y Café, Peru Sol y Café is a small farmer organization of coffee, cacao, and rice in Jaen, Cajamarca, Peru. The group was initially founded with support from Caritas Jaen and USAID in 2003. In 2005, Sol y Café began to work directly with Norandino Cooperative (another EE partner, formerly known as CEPICAFE) to sell their coffee into the specialty coffee market. Apoya, Costa Rica Although Apoya’s sugarcane is used in many of our chocolate bar recipes, they are primarily a coffee co-op. Asociación Chajulense, Guatemala The Chajulense was founded in 1990 with the support of local priests. At its outset, the immediate goal of the association was “to support survival in the midst of war, in a climate of violence and profound mistrust, poverty, and injustice”. COCABO, Panama Founded in 1952, the Multi-service Cacao Co-operative of Bocatoreña (COCABO) was the first agricultural co-operative established in Panama. COCABO is an organization of 1,500 small-scale cacao farmers. COMSA, Honduras COMSA is a coffee producer society based in Marcala, La Paz, Honduras that proposes economic, social, and environmental objectives as a strategy to reduce poverty and to promote sustainable development. CONACADO, Dominican Republic CONACADO began as a development project in 1985 during a low in the global cocoa market, to study how cacao fermentation techniques could improve the quality of cacao production in the Dominican Republic. FUNDOPO, Dominican Republic The co-op was founded as the Dominican Federation of Organic Producers (FEDOPO) in 2002, but due to Dominican laws around co-operatives and organizations, they changed their status from a federation to a foundation in 2008 and their name was changed to the Dominican Foundation of Organic Producers (FUNDOPO). Manos Campesinas, Guatemala The Association of Small Coffee Producers, "Farmers' Hands" is an organization of small-scale coffee producers in the highlands of southwestern Guatemala. PRODECOOP, Nicaragua The relationship between Equal Exchange and the farmers in northern Nicaragua has survived war, embargo, revolution, counter-revolution, and epic hurricanes. Gebana Afrique, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in Africa, and in the world, and sales of this product provide badly needed income to the co-operatives’ members. SCOOPS IKPA, Togo SCOOPS IKPA, located just north of SCOOPS PROCAB, was born out of SCOOPS PROCAB. After SCOOPS PROCAB grew too large for its region, members decided to split into two cooperatives to better serve their regions geographically. SCOOPS PROCAB, Togo With just 89 producers, SCOOPS PROCAB was founded in 2008. Now, the cooperative is strong and organized in over 20 villages, with each village having its own representative who brings the cacao to the central warehouse. Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, Ethiopia The Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (SCFCU) was formed in 2001 as a processing, marketing, and exporting union for 47 primary cooperatives located in Ethiopia’s Sidama Zone, in Southern Ethiopia. SOPACDI, Democratic Republic of Congo Equal Exchange began sourcing coffee from SOPACDI in 2011, through the Congo Coffee Project, a product that directly benefits the Panzi Hospital. Wupperthal Original Rooibos Co-operative, Cederberg Region, South Africa In 1998 against all odds, Wupperthal Original Rooibos Cooperative was established. Wupperthal is a democratically organized group of small-scale farmers who have grown Rooibos in South Africa for generations. Fair Trade Alliance Kerala, India In the mid-2000s, in southwestern India, the Fair Trade Alliance Kerala (FTAK) was formed to address the devastating impact that fluctuating market prices has had on the ability of small-scale producers to earn a stable and dignified livelihood. Mineral Springs Cooperative, Darjeeling, India The Mineral Springs Cooperative, also referred to as Sanjukta Vikas Cooperative, was one of the first small farming initiatives in the plantation controlled region of Darjeeling. PARC, West Bank PARC was founded in 1983 by agronomists and veterinarians in order to serve farmers in the agricultural sector. Israel, like governments in many countries we import coffee from, had prioritized other industries and not invested heavily in agriculture—particularly in the Palestinian Territories. Potong Tea Garden, Darjeeling, India One example of TPI’s pioneering work is the development of Potong. Once a colonial plantation, the Potong Garden is now collectively run by its workers and paving a stronger, more democratic path forward for the community. SOFA and Bio Foods, Sri Lanka The Small Organic Farmers' Association (SOFA) project began in 1993 with the vision to establish a prosperous community living in harmony with the environment, and today there are over 1,600 small-scale landowner members. Tea Promoters India, Kolkatta, India Equal Exchange has worked with Tea Promoters of India (TPI) since 1998. TPI has been a pioneer in bringing environmental and social reform to the tea industry. TPI is a Darjeeling-based family operation that manages six organic, Fair Trade tea gardens. The Small Farmer Tea Project, Kerala, India The members of the Small Farmer’s Tea Project (SFTP) in Kerala, India are predominantly marginalized small producers and members of tribal groups who have suffered from social and economic injustice for generations. The goal of the SFTP is to bring its members economic growth and control.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9873
__label__cc	0.723077	0.276923	What is Constant Current? Amos KingatuaPosted on August 15, 2017 May 30, 2020 The constant current source or driver is a circuit whose output current remains constant regardless of changes in its voltage, or load resistance. Usually, these circuits are used in applications such as current limiters, supplying LEDs for illumination applications such as display backlighting and other current sensitive circuits. Typically, the value of the load current is determined by the source voltage and the source’s internal resistance. As such, an ideal constant current source should have infinite internal impedance, which in practice should be very large compared to the load resistance. When the internal resistance is very high, a change in voltage or load resistance will have very little effect on the current. In practice, the load resistance R Load < Rg/10, Where, R Load is the load resistance in series with the internal resistance Rg. Figure 1: The relationship between constant current with voltage and load resistance Image : learningaboutelectronics By having a source with very high internal resistance, the current takes the least resistance path, in this case, the load. This ensures that the current flows from the supply into the load and the infinite resistance maintains the current at a constant value, regardless of changes that occur in the load. The infinite resistance is dominant and changes in the load resistance have little effect on the current flowing out of the supply since it will try to follow the least resistant path which in this case is negligible compared to the infinite resistance. Constant current source circuits There are different types of circuits that provide constant current. There are passive and active current sources that are either fixed or adjustable. A simple active current source uses a transistor while a passive one uses a resistor. More sophisticated circuits use integrated circuits to provide more stability and control. Using a linear voltage regulator Since the linear voltage regulators have a tightly regulated voltage between the output and the ground, connecting a fixed resistor between the two nodes is a simple means of producing a constant current. This applies to both low-side and high-side current sources. A typical example, using the positive linear regulator MAX181 is as shown below Figure 2: Constant current source using a positive linear regulator MAX181 image: maxim The output voltage is fixed at 1.5v while the supply voltage to the IC may be as high as 5.5 Volts. The high-side current source supplies the load with a constant current, I = 1.5/ROUT, where ROUT is the output resistance connected across the output and ground terminals of the IC. Reasons for maintaining the current constant in applications There are two main reasons for driving certain loads with a current that does not change. To achieve a predictable performance from loads such as matched luminous intensity and chromaticity from light-emitting diodes. To remain within the device’s current rating limits and ensure reliability, using a constant current avoids exceeding the Absolute Maximum Current Rating. Applications that require constant current The constant current ensures the stability and accuracy of the circuit. For this reason, the sources are used in applications where changes in current can lead to malfunctions, inaccuracies, instability, or not performing as desired. Some typical applications; LED drivers: A constant current LED driver gives designers more control and ability to maintain displays with negligible or no variation in brightness across the entire display Current sinks for testing power supplies Biasing transistors in amplifier circuits. Feeding stepper motors In measuring instruments such as multimeter/ohmmeter when measuring the resistance. A constant current passes through an unknown resistance and the voltage drop is then used to calculate the resistance. Battery charging: there are types of batteries with chemistry that requires constant current to charge properly. CategoriesElectronics Tagschanges in its voltage, chromaticity from light emitting diodes, Constant Current, constant current source, fixed resistor between the two nodes, high internal resistance, in this case the load, infinite resistance, linear voltage regulators, matched luminous intensity, or load resistance, positive linear regulator MAX181, the current takes the least resistance path < Prev PostWhat you need to know about website hosting< Prev Post Next Post >What is an EFT Switch – Electronic Funds Transfer switch?Next Post >	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9877
__label__cc	0.695804	0.304196	In Other Shoes – Mexican Sandals Braid, Huaranches, Mexico, Mexico City, Sandals, shoe collection, shoe fetish, Shoes, traditional shoes, Tuxen “Mexican sandals. Given to me on February 22nd 1958 by professor F. Bonet, Mexico D.F. The Spanish-Mexican name for sandals is “huaranches”. The soles are made of leather and the rest are straps, braided in a particular way. On the left sandal there is an error in the braiding. These are the common type of sandals “used by the majority of indigenous people in Mexico” according to a letter from Anita Hoffmann from April 10th 1958. They were bought in Mexico City.” – Søren L. Tuxen Can you spot the error in the braiding? // Emma Louise Pedersen Photo: © 2007 Photo/Media Department of Moesgaard Museum. Byline portrait: © 2015 Line Beck, lbmfotografi.wix.com Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico One thought on “In Other Shoes – Mexican Sandals” huaracheblog says: Hello, great photo. Please note that the correct name is “Huaraches”. For more information about this traditional Mexican footwear please visit Huarache Blog website and on Instagram and tumblr.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9885
__label__wiki	0.647232	0.647232	Esotouric Tours Into The Secret Heart of Los Angeles California Culture Literary Los Angeles FAQ – Sightseeing Tours FAQ – Esotouric’s Webinars Esotouric’s Shop George Mann’s Bunker Hill The National Emergency Library is here for Los Angeles by Kim Cooper \| Mar 27, 2020 \| The Esotouric Blog \| 0 comments \| 19th century 20th century archive books covid-19 digitization internet archive library Libraries, how we love them—especially when they’ve got plenty of room and don’t cull the weird stuff that nobody has checked out since 1923! Back in the good old days, earlier this month, we were still spending our Tuesdays at the Huntington Library, where we’d split the day between peering through a magnifying lens at unpublished negatives of Grand Central Market, reading snarky editorials on the foibles of the Golden Age Hollywood set in Rob Wagner’s Script magazine, and wandering the holy gardens. These visits have kept us sane while battling to preserve Los Angeles landmarks from the relentless forces of what we’ve long suspected, and what is finally being proven, to be rampant public corruption. But the Huntington, like so many wonderful places in Los Angeles, is now closed for the duration, and it’s right that it’s closed. We’ve all got to hunker down like bears in our dens and wait out the viral peril⁠—but there’s no rule that says we have to be bored or zoned out while we wait. The good folks at the Internet Archive have taken the nation’s temperature and written a marvelous and healing prescription: their enormous collection of scanned books, which in normal times is available for free check out, but with use limits, is now 100% free and always available. You can browse a selection of 1,428,426 volumes, and we bet at least 3,745 of them would be exactly what you’re looking for right now! To get you started, we’ve curated a short list of L.A.-centric titles that will enhance your understanding of this improbable and baffling city, and get you familiar with this terrific digital resource. But we must remind you that these books, however fascinating, are all written about a place very different from the Los Angeles of 2020. When we get through this public health crisis—and we will get though it—our shared history will be one of a metropolis that faced the greatest threat imaginable at the same time that the DOJ was taking down a big chunk of its corrupt city government. If you put a twist this screwy into a script, they’d throw you out of the writer’s room. Yet it’s happening, right now, to us. And when the risk of disease has passed and the cancerous rot of corruption has been cut out of the halls of power, we’re going to need a new story to tell about what it means to be an Angeleno in 2020 and beyond. Luckily, we’ve got nothing but time on our hands to study the past and imagine L.A.’s bright future and what each one of us can bring to the table. So be well, have faith, be careful out there, and enjoy! And do share your recommendations for great reads that you find in the National Emergency Library in the comments below. ESOTOURIC’S SELECTED TREASURES FROM THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY LIBRARY Update 3/28/20: as this information has circulated, writers have complained that the Internet Archive’s loan policy change violates their copyright. Please use the links below responsibly, enjoy older, weirder, out of print offerings, and buy books by working writers. • Piccolo’s Prank (1965) by Leo Politi: a rambunctious monkey runs amok on old Bunker Hill, and if you love this one, there are many Politi treats in the library • Exploring California Byways in and Around Los Angeles; trips for a day or a weekend (1967) by Russ Leadabrand: a slow-paced guidebook to out-of-the-way places still worth seeking out, once the quarantine is lifted • Historic California in Bookplates (1936, reprint edition) by Clare Ryan Talbot: reproducing the miniature works of art that identified treasured volumes as the property of notable Californian individuals and institutions • La Reina : Los Angeles in three centuries (1929) published by Security Trust & Savings Bank: a collection of historic photographs used by the pioneer bank as part of its branding efforts • The Los Angeles Guide Book (1972) by Annette Welles: because sometimes it’s fun to imagine we’re time traveling tourists, it’s a great reference if you happen to be writing a period mystery in quarantine, and who doesn’t want to know that Norms diners used to suck? • L.A. Bizarro! The Insider’s Guide to the Obscure, the Absurd and the Perverse in Los Angeles by Anthony R. Lovett and Matt Maranian (1997): an over-designed pre-internet marvel celebrating the weirdos, visionaries and benign hustlers who have been largely displaced under our pro-development City Council, but who we sincerely hope can bloom again in the new L.A. to come • Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County by Leonard and Dale Pitt (1997): an essential companion for any dedicated Angeleno, packed with fun facts you never knew about familiar places • Los Angeles, City of Dreams by Harry Carr (1935): the first great insider’s take on modern L.A., by a crack reporter who spent four decades chronicling her transformation from sleepy backwater to modern metropolis • Bread & Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles by Paul Greenstein, Nigey Lennon and Lionel Rolfe (1992): the astonishing story of how the bombing of the L.A. Times building inspired the creation of a new kind of city in the desert, a site we will be visiting with Paul Greenstein on our likely rescheduled Desert Visionaries tour • The Dream Come True: Great Houses of Los Angeles by Brendan Gill and Derry Moore (1980): a loving survey of domestic architecture historic, contemporary and celebrity, richly illustrated with original photographs, and including some rare lost gems • A Slight Epidemic: The Government Cover-up of Black Plague in Los Angeles: What Happened and Why it Matters by Frank Feldinger (2008): recommended for obvious reasons, in the hope that we not repeat the mistakes of 1924 Is Jose Huizar’s Crony Art Gastelum Trying to Kill El Pino? December 30, 2020 A remake of It’s A Wonderful Life starring Eric Garcetti as George Bailey December 17, 2020 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Tile Murals — Destroyed? November 23, 2020 Peeling Back The Decades at the Baltimore Hotel November 6, 2020 How We Turned Our COVID-Shuttered Los Angeles Tour Company Into A Webinar Production House October 29, 2020 The Strange Similarities Between Elisa Lam and Beth Short, aka The Black Dahlia The Getty's Gift to Locked Down Los Angeles: 71,139 Ed Ruscha Vintage Streetscape Photos Digitized Is Jose Huizar's Crony Art Gastelum Trying to Kill El Pino? Sister Aimee's Castle A Rare Tour of Dr. George Hodel's Whimsically Weird Childhood House 3-D Tour of the Original Bob Baker Marionette Theater Public Benefit Corporation SAFER challenges validity of Onni Group's Times Mirror Square EIR Our Beloved Whittier Boulevard Tamale in Peril (Updated) The Baltimore Hotel, Empty No More Secrets of Los Angeles, 1932-33: The Anton Wagner files Tag Cloug 3d (11) 19th century (21) 20th century (85) 1920s (12) adaptive reuse (25) art deco (10) boyle heights (8) craig sauer (11) crime scene (10) decorative art (14) demolition by neglect (25) downtown los angeles (44) featured content (9) graffiti (6) historic-cultural monument (29) historic preservation (80) hollywood (14) house museum (6) jose huizar (6) lacma (6) los angeles times (11) national register (12) neon (8) public policy (20) redevelopment (36) road trip (10) signage (13) spanish colonial revival (7) william l. pereira (16) wilshire boulevard (6) Esotouric’s COVID-19 Response Esotouric ™ is a registered trademark Copyright © 2020 Esotouric	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9887
__label__wiki	0.755175	0.755175	A2 shares dive on disappointing guidance Shares in The A2 Milk Company have dropped 13 per cent after the New Zealand-based dairy firm said full-year sales revenue would be lower than analysts had forecast. A2 said on Wednesday it expects revenue for the 12 months to June 30 to rise as much as 67 per cent to between $NZ900 million and $NZ920 million ($A826.8 million and $A845.2 million), but that was lower than analysts had expected. Deutsche Bank had forecast $NZ923 million in sales after A2 unveiled a strong first-half result in February, and reiterated its expectation in March. A2's ASX-listed shares fell as much as 20 per cent at the open before recovering slightly. They ended the session down $A1.59, or 13.1 per cent, at $A10.54, a three month low. The dual-listed firm's shares fared just as poorly on the NZ exchange, dragging the overall market lower with a fall of 13.7 per cent. In a third quarter trading update, A2 said revenue for the nine months to March 31 was $NZ660 million, up about 70 per cent from the same time a year ago, and more than its $NZ549.5 million in revenue for the 2016/17 year. Driving the performance was growth in both nutritional products and liquid milk, as well as seasonal sales from key selling events in China. The strong analyst forecasts had come after the company doubled its first-half profit to $NZ98.5 million on the back of strong growth in infant formula and liquid milk sales in core markets. It lifted revenue 70 per cent to $NZ434.7 million and secured an alliance with global dairy giant Fonterra to produce new products and expand into new markets. A2 Milk on Wednesday said it expects to spend about $NZ82 million to $NZ87 million on marketing investments for the full year, given higher expenditure primarily in its US and China businesses. Oil price gains fuel share market rise	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9892
__label__wiki	0.596627	0.596627	Share this Story: As economic risks remain, Canada has room for more interest rate cuts: IMF As economic risks remain, Canada has room for more interest rate cuts: IMF While Canada’s economy should pick up later this year, there are external and domestic threats that — if unchecked — could make a case for more interest rate cuts, according to the International Monetary Fund Gordon Isfeld Aaron McKenzie Fraser/Bloomberg OTTAWA — While Canada’s economy should pick up later this year, there are external and domestic threats that, if unchecked, could make a case for more interest rate cuts, according to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF said in its annual report Thursday that Canada’s economy will grow by 1.8% in 2013, hobbled by a weak second-half handover from the previous year. As economic risks remain, Canada has room for more interest rate cuts: IMF Back to video [np_storybar title=”Canada’s triple whammy of data is reality check for economy” link=”http://business.financialpost.com/2013/02/08/canadas-economy-sheds-21900-in-first-drop-in-6-months/”]For a while, it looked like Canada’s jobs and housing data were oblivious to signs of a slumping economy. Now, combined with weakened trade, reality is sinking in. But gross domestic product is expected to speed up “thanks to the strengthening of the U.S. economy from mid-2013,” with the IMF pegging Canadian growth at 2.3% for 2014. By comparison, the Bank of Canada has forecast GDP growth of 2% this year. In its quarterly Monetary Policy Report, released in January, the bank said growth should be around 2.7% in 2014. “Our outlook for the Canadian economy is relatively a rosy one,” said Roberto Cardarelli, who heads IMF’s Canadian operations. “The main reason for our optimism is that we expect export growth to strengthen as the recovery in the U.S. economy gradually steps up pace,” he told reporters in Ottawa, following the report’s release. “And we expect a more sustainable and less uncertain global recovery to unleash capital spending that Canadian firms have been postponing for a while now, despite extremely favourable financing conditions.” The weak outlook for economic growth, along with inflation now at a tame 0.8% — well below the central bank’s 2% target — pushed back calls for the resumption of interest rate hikes until at least 2014. GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images The Bank of Canada’s trend-setting rate has been at a near-record low 1% since September 2010 — the longest stagnant period since the 1950s — as the central bank continued its cheap-money policy coming out of the recession, aimed at encouraging growth through consumer and business spending. That had the intended effect of propping up a strong initial recovery in Canada. But it also came at a price, with consumer credit levels rising to historic highs as households plowed borrowed money into low-rate mortgages. Growth began to slow last year, however, as the European debt crisis grew and the shaky U.S. fiscal position worsened, threatening that country’s recovery as well as Canada’s. Canada’s trade picture has also darkened, with exports and import slowing, reflecting a drop in domestic and global demand. “Near-term adverse risks remain elevated, in particular from continued uncertainty on U.S. fiscal policy, further turbulence from Europe, and a decline in commodity prices driven by an economic slowdown in emerging markets,” the IMF said in its report. “While supporting the highly accommodative monetary policy stance,” it said, “there is some space for further easing if the economy were to weaken further.” The report said “in the event of a significant negative economic shock, there would be room for conventional monetary easing and that, if needed, other tools could be used, including forward guidance and liquidity support.” On fiscal policy, the IMF said the federal government’s efforts to balance Ottawa’s budget by 2015 has “also held growth in check.” “At the same time, weak external demand and the strong currency depressed exports. Together with lower commodity prices, this caused a sharp widening of the current account deficit.” Now, even the red-hot housing market is showing initial signs of cooling — due in large part to tightening mortgage and lending rules pushed through by the Finance Department. The IMF said the housing sector is “an important source of vulnerability,” citing the high household debt-to-income ratio. Should the ratio continue to rise, “additional measures may be needed.” “Private consumption and residential investment are expected to contribute less to growth than in the recent past, as households deleverage and the housing sector continues to cool off,” the IMF said. “But business investment and net exports will benefit from the expected strengthening of the U.S. economy.” Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, responding to the report, said its conclusions “lend particular credence to our ongoing efforts to ensure a strong, competitive and efficient financial sector for Canadians, backstopped by sound federal finances and the return to balanced budgets before the end of this Parliament.” The report also recognizes “Canadian authorities’ strong determination to move ahead with the international financial reform agenda, often taking a leadership role among other jurisdictions,” he said.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9894
__label__cc	0.699374	0.300626	Home / Property & Leasing Law Fletcher Law are experienced property lawyers in Perth that can assist in buying or selling a property, building a new home, planning a subdivision or developing or leasing commercial premises. We understand the many legal issues and risks that can arise. Our clients include property developers, real estate agents, shopping centre owners and surveyors. Our property lawyers have experience in a wide range of property transactions and can assist in the following areas: developments; subdivisions; sales and acquisitions; commercial and retail leasing; construction contracts; easements, covenants and other encumbrances; tenant / landlord disputes; default notices; legal proceedings in any Court or Tribunal (including the SAT); advice on loan and mortgage documents; and advice on contaminated land issues. Our property lawyers do not provide conveyancing services, however we have a strong working relationship with One Stop Settlements who can assist you with your conveyancing matters. Examples of recent work by our property lawyers: advising on complex subdivisions and developments, including the redevelopment of Belmont Park; an application for sale of property pursuant to Section 126 of the Property Law Act 1969; assisting an owner of a large retail shopping centre with various leasing matters including compliance with the Commercial Tenancy (Retail Shops) Agreements Act 1985, negotiating and preparing leases and enforcing lease provisions; advising on an adverse possession claim; advising on the application of the margin scheme to a large residential subdivision; and successfully representing a client seeking to avoid contracts to purchase apartments “off the plan” pursuant to the Strata Titles Act 1985. Commercial leasing and residential leasing: Our leasing lawyers have expertise in all aspects of leasing and act for both landlords and tenants in preparing and negotiating leases, enforcing lease terms and conditions and representing clients in lease disputes. We have considerable experience in retail shop leasing. On 1 January 2013 the amendments to the Commercial Tenancy (Retail Shops) Agreements Act 1985 (WA) (the Act) and the Commercial Tenancy (Retail Shops) Agreements Regulations 1985 (the Regulations) came into effect. The amendments to the Act follow an extensive review of commercial tenancy law in Western Australia and seek to increase disclosure requirements for landlords and to enhance security of tenure for, and the negotiating power of, tenants. Key amendments to the Act and Regulations include: the introduction of a more comprehensive Disclosure Statement and an amended Tenant Guide; an obligation on landlords to give tenants notice of the date on which an option to renew a retail shop lease is no longer exercisable; the introduction of a “prescribed relocation clause” which a landlord may include in its retail shop lease to avoid the need to seek approval of the redevelopment provision from the State Administrative Tribunal; landlords are no longer able to pass on costs (including legal costs) relating to the preparation, negotiation or execution of a retail shop lease including any renewal or extension of a lease (there is also a bar on recovering costs associated with obtaining any mortgagee consent and a landlord’s compliance with the Act); provisions which require the tenant to refurbish or refit premises will be void unless the clause provides sufficient detail as to the nature, extent and timing for completion of the refurbishment; the introduction of new provisions covering misleading and deceptive conduct; and market rent reviews can no longer take into account goodwill, structural improvements or alterations carried out, or paid for, by the tenant, and stock, fixtures or fittings that are not owned by the landlord. It is important that landlords are aware of, and comply with, the Act including the amendments. If a retail shop lease does not comply with the Act there is a risk that the provisions of the lease will be considered void. Examples of recent work by our leasing lawyers: assisting an owner of a large retail shopping centre with various leasing matters including compliance with the Act, negotiating and preparing leases and enforcing lease provisions; acting for a large engineering company embroiled in an industrial leasing dispute (issues included alleged environmental contamination, breach of covenants and repudiation); advising a large public listed company on negotiation of a premises construction and long term lease transaction; and advising the owner of a petrol station site in negotiation with the petroleum company tenant to renew the lease, with particular emphasis on site contamination issues. Hospitality and Events Management Law	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9897
__label__wiki	0.951488	0.951488	List of Andy Serkis Movies and TV Shows on Netflix If it's on Netflix you'll find it with our search engine. Search below to get started. Find All Movies and TV shows on Netflix Want to find something new to watch on Netflix? Our Netflix search engine helps you get the job done with a comprehensive list of all of the movies and TV shows currently streaming on Netflix. You can search and filter by movie, TV show, actor, director and genre to find Netflix movies and TV shows to watch now. What is Netflix? Netflix specializes in producing and distributing streaming media and video-on- demand. It's the largest streaming video provider in the world and home to popular original series like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Stranger Things and more. Netflix has a large catalogue of many thousands of TV shows and movies available in well over 100 countries around the world. What is FlixList? FlixList mission is to be the best Netflix search available. We provide comprehensive Netflix movie lists and TV shows lists as well as offering a large database that can be searched and filtered. Our Netflix search engine can be accessed via desktop and mobile so whether you're home or out and about, you always have a way to search Netflix movies and TV shows. Netflix Pricing You can get the basic version of Netflix for just $7.99 per month. This package is quite limited with only SD quality content available to one device at a time. For just $1 more per month you can access the standard package which includes streaming on two devices and HD quality content. The plans are month-to- month, meaning you can come and go as you please. Netflix Search One of the limitations with the Netflix interface is it is hard to search for content. It is not immediately obvious which titles are new and which are old and you cannot easily filter and search by genre or actor etc. Luckily, our Netflix search engine makes things much easier! Tomatometer: % - % MPAA Rating: - Year: - Academy award winners Art House Films Viewing: 32 Titles Find every Andy Serkis title available on Netflix. Our searchable database includes every movie or TV show featuring Andy Serkis available on any version of Netflix from around the world! 2h4m -	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9900
__label__wiki	0.644937	0.644937	1 Heritage Bank Nigeria 2 Heritage Bank transfer code 3 Heritage Bank USSD code 4 Heritage Bank sort code 5 Heritage Bank internet banking 6 Heritage Bank customer care 7 Heritage Bank careers 8 Heritage Bank recruitment 9 Heritage Bank advert 10 Heritage Bank head office address 11 Heritage Bank branches 12 Heritage Bank branches in Lagos 13 Heritage Bank logo PNG Since it was established seven years ago, Heritage Bank Plc. has grown to be one of the leading financial service providers. In this article, I will be sharing with you the history, transfer code, career, customer care service, and other Heritage Bank. Heritage Bank Nigeria Heritage Bank Nigeria is a financial service delivery organisation. Recently, the Bank was licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria with a commercial bank’s national operating license that offers the following types of services: retail banking, online/internet banking, corporate banking, investment banking, and asset management services. Heritage Bank Nigeria is one of the oldest banks in Nigeria, formerly known as Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria, which was created in the 1970s. Still, it was shut down by the Central Bank of Nigeria for not meeting the stipulated minimum capital requirement of N25 billion for a National (commercial) Bank. However, the CBN re-issued SGBN their banking license, but as a regional bank. Having acquired the banking license, the new ownership changed the name of the Bank to Heritage Banking Company Limited and started operations under the new name on the 4th March 2013. The managing director/C.E.O. of Heritage Bank Nigeria is Ifie Sekibo. The Bank’s head office is located at 292B, Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos State, Nigeria. Also, the Bank has over 130 branches and 220 automated banking centres with over 350 ATM’s in all the 36 states in the country. Heritage Bank transfer code The Heritage Bank transfer code was created to ease the stress customers undergo when trying to transfer money using the bank or A.T.M. machines. Since its inception, customers can transfer money by simply dialling a code on their phone number linked to their account. However, a customer can only use the Heritage Bank mobile transfer code; he/she has registered for the HB USSD banking. Customers can register for the heritage bank USSD banking by dialling this code 322030# afterward follow the onscreen instructions. Also, you would have Customers can transfer money using the Heritage mobile transfer code using the following steps: Dial 322030Account NumberAmount#. This is applicable for transferring money to Heritage and other Nigerian bank accounts. Choose the Bank of the recipient. Click on confirm and check if the name that appears corresponds with that of the recipient Enter your USSD pin or the last four digits of your debit card to confirm the transfer. With the following steps, you can transfer money using the Heritage bank transfer code. Heritage Bank USSD code The Heritage bank USSD code is the code that can be used by customers to perform various types of transactions on their accounts. They can check their account balance, transfer money, buy airtime, and obtain mini bank statements. The Heritage bank USSD code is *322#; this code can only be used on the phone number linked to their account with the Bank. Heritage Bank sort code The Heritage Bank sort code is a unique number that is used to identify both the Bank and the particular branch in which the account is held. The Heritage bank sort code for every branch in the country is different and unique. The code (sort code) can be used to transfer money from an account in a heritage bank to another account in a separate bank branch. The Heritage bank sort code for the Heritage bank head office is 30159992. Heritage Bank internet banking Heritage bank internet banking platform was created to enable customers of the Bank to perform different types of transactions on their accounts without going to their bank branch. The Heritage bank internet banking platform has two portals. The portals include the personal internet banking portal (H.B. Online) and the corporate internet banking portal (HeritagePay). The personal internet banking portal was designed to allow customers to perform user-friendly transactions with an internet-connected device from the comfort of their homes. Several transactions such as the following can be done on the portal Opening and managing bank accounts Transferring money to any bank in Nigeria. Balance inquiry Viewing of account information. Airtime purchase And many others. The corporate internet banking platform was created for businesses, firms, organizations, and government agencies to carry out their transactions. Users of the corporate internet banking platform can make prompt payments to the business partners and handle salary payments for their employees. Heritage Bank customer care Heritage bank customer care is an arm of the Heritage bank that has pledged to offer straight-through and seamless banking experience, listen to customers at every point in time, provide accurate and relevant information to the bank customers and also respond promptly to customers’ request. The Heritage bank customer care can be contacted using any of the following: Contact number: 0700heritage, 012369000 Twitter:@HBCustomerCare Or by visiting any of the Bank’s branch nationwide Heritage Bank careers Heritage bank offers career opportunity in the following field: Anyone interested in seeking a career opportunity at the heritage bank can send an email with their CV to [email protected] or by visiting their career page for more information. Heritage Bank recruitment The Heritage Bank recruitment is usually done periodically when there is a need for more staff in their branches nationwide. The Bank has an official portal where information regarding the recruitment is uploaded on. You can access the portal by clicking on the link provided here. Heritage Bank advert Heritage Bank usually shares adverts on new offers, job vacancies, and related information using their website, social media accounts, national dallies, and T.V. stations. Heritage Bank head office address The Heritage Bank head office address details are as follows: Address: 292B, Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos State, Nigeria Contact Number: +23412369000, 0700-HERITAGE Heritage Bank branches Heritage Bank has a branch locator online portal where customers can quickly search for the Heritage Bank that is closest to their location. The link to the Heritage Bank online branch locator portal is https://www.hbng.com/findus/. Heritage Bank branches in Lagos The number of Heritage Bank branches in Lagos increased dramatically in 2020. The increase in the number of branches is due to the rise in the number of bank customers in the state due to its prompt services. You can check for the various Heritage bank branches in Lagos by clicking here Heritage Bank logo PNG You can download the Heritage Bank official logo below. 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__label__wiki	0.951856	0.951856	WR #19 Deebo College: South Carolina '19 189.10 31 vs. SEA: #29 vs opposing WR - 43.24 FPA Bye Week11 Rank90 % Rostered41.6 % Change-0.5 WK 16 Pts0.00 WK 17 Pts0.00 1 ARI - - - 10 - 3 35 - - - - - 7.50 5 MIA - - - 3 - 2 19 - - - - - 4.20 - - - -6 - 6 66 1 - - - - 18.00 7 @NE - - - 7 - 5 65 - - - - - 12.20 8 @SEA 10 @NO 12 @LA - - - - - 11 133 - - - - - 24.30 13 BUF - - - 9 - - - - - - - - 0.90 1 ARI, 10 - 35 - - 7.50 5 MIA, 3 - 19 - - 4.20 -6 - 66 1 - 18.00 7 @NE, 7 - 65 - - 12.20 8 @SEA, 9 GB, 10 @NO, 12 @LA, - - 133 - - 24.30 13 BUF, Won't play final two weeks Head coach Kyle Shanahan reaffirmed Tuesday that Samuel (hamstring) won't play in either of the 49ers' final two games of the season, Jennifer Lee Chan of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: Just over a week ago, Shanahan said Samuel would be shut down for the regular season, but the coach left the door open for the wideout to return to action during a potential postseason run. However, after the 49ers were officially eliminated from playoff contention following Sunday's loss to the Cowboys, Samuel will now have to wait until 2021 to see his next competitive action. The second-year player only suited up in seven games for the 49ers this season, but he was productive during his time…read more Published: Wed, Dec 23 at 8:58am by Rotowire.com Done for regular season Coach Kyle Shanahan indicated Monday that a hamstring strain will keep Samuel out for the rest of the regular season, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. Analysis: In Samuel's looming absence, added opportunities in the 49ers offense will be available down the stretch for Brandon Aiyuk, Kendrick Bourne and Richie James. Published: Mon, Dec 14 at 2:46pm by Rotowire.com Needs MRI, could be done for season Samuel (hamstring) will get an MRI on Monday on the injury he suffered Sunday against Washington, and there are fears that the injury could be season-ending, Jennifer Lee Chan of NBC Sports reports. Analysis: Coach Kyle Shanahan called the injury significant in the post-game press conference, and Samuel has already missed time due to a hamstring injury this season. The 49ers have been decimated by injuries all season, as Samuel could soon join Jimmy Garoppolo (ankle) and George Kittle (foot), among others, on IR. Ruled out of Sunday's contest Samuel (hamstring) won't return to Sunday's game versus Washington, Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: Samuel injured his hamstring on the first play from scrimmage, a nine-yard run by the second-year wide receiver. With the decision made to keep Samuel out for the rest of the contest, the 49ers are down to Brandon Aiyuk, Kendrick Bourne, Richie James and River Cracraft as healthy options at wide receiver. Hurts hamstring Sunday Samuel injured his hamstring during Sunday's game against Washington, Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: On the first play from scrimmage, Samuel pulled up at the end of a nine-yard carry. He was deemed questionable to return, and if he's unable to do so, the 49ers will have just Brandon Aiyuk, Kendrick Bourne, Richie James and River Cracraft available at wide receiver. Ready to face Washington Samuel (foot) doesn't have an injury designation for Sunday's game against Washington, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Samuel sat out Wednesday's practice after suffering a foot contusion in a Monday night loss to the Bills. He played 95 percent of San Francisco's offensive snaps in that contest, and he could see a similarly large workload this week as his team fights to stay in the wild-card race. Published: Fri, Dec 11 at 1:01pm by Rotowire.com Increases activity Thursday Samuel (foot) was listed as limited on Thursday's injury report, Chris Biderman of The Sacramento Bee reports. Analysis: Samuel has improved upon his absence from Wednesday, with one more session left this week to elevate to full participation. There's no telling if it'll happen, but fortunately for Samuel his current foot contusion isn't related to the Jones fracture he sustained back in June, as coach Kyle Shanahan told Biderman on Wednesday. Samuel's status may receive some clarity upon the release of Friday's practice report. Published: Thu, Dec 10 at 3:56pm by Rotowire.com No activity Wednesday Samuel (foot) didn't practice Wednesday, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Samuel's absence is the result of a foot contusion, with coach Kyle Shanahan telling Chris Biderman of The Sacramento Bee that the wide receiver's injury isn't related to the Jones fracture he suffered in his left foot back in June. The 49ers are coming off a loss to the Bills on Monday Night Football, so Shanahan is treating Wednesday as if it's a typical Tuesday. As a result, with maintenance the likely root cause of Samuel sitting out to start Week 14 prep, he'll have chances Thursday and…read more Won't practice Wednesday Samuel will miss Wednesday's practice due to a foot contusion, Chris Biderman of The Sacramento Bee reports. Analysis: Samuel played 95 percent of the 49ers' offensive snaps in Monday's loss to the Bills, with most of his production coming in the fourth quarter after Buffalo extended the lead to 17 points. His foot injury doesn't sound serious, as coach Kyle Shanahan suggested Samuel might have been able to practice Wednesday if the 49ers had played their game Sunday rather than Monday, per Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com. The wide receiver will have two more chances to practice before Sunday's matchup with Washington. Published: Wed, Dec 9 at 11:15am by Rotowire.com Comes on late in loss Samuel secured six of nine targets for 73 yards and rushed once for three yards in the 49ers' 34-24 loss to the Bills on Monday night. Analysis: Samuel led the 49ers in receptions while tying Brandon Aiyuk in targets on the night, but he made the majority of his noise in the second half. The second-year wideout was largely neutralized early yet was able to capitalize on what became a pass-heavy approach by San Francisco after it incurred a multi-possession deficit. Samuel has encouragingly put together a combined 17-206-0 line on 22 targets in the two games he's played since returning from a hamstring injury, and he'll look to continue…read more Puts forth full practice Samuel (hamstring) returned to practice as a full participant Friday, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Samuel's ability to take every rep at Friday's session confirms his absence from practice Thursday was precautionary, just as head coach Kyle Shanahan suggested was the case. The second-year wideout shouldn't face any limitations versus the Bills on Monday, when he'll be looking to build on the season-best performance he submitted in the 49ers' Week 12 win over the Rams (11 catches for 133 yards on 13 targets). Published: Fri, Dec 4 at 3:19pm by Rotowire.com No practice Thursday Samuel (hamstring) didn't practice Thursday, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports. Analysis: In his return to action this past Sunday against the Rams, Samuel torched L.A. for 11 catches (on 13 targets) for a season-high 133 yards. Along the way, he played 62 of the 49ers' 72 snaps on offense. Coach Kyle Shanahan told Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area that Samuel didn't suffer a setback during the game, so his DNP to kick off Week 13 prep can be considered maintenance-related. Samuel will have two more chances to get on the practice field ahead of Monday's game against the Bills. Published: Thu, Dec 3 at 3:18pm by Rotowire.com Explodes for 133 yards vs. Rams Samuel caught 11 of 13 targets for 133 yards during Sunday's 23-20 win over the Rams. Analysis: Making his first appearance since Week 7, Samuel more than doubled his previous season high in yardage as he repeatedly gashed the typically stout Rams secondary while leading the team in targets and catches as well. He dominated throughout the game but was particularly effective on the game-winning drive as he contributed three catches and 35 yards to help set up a last-second field goal. Samuel appears to be fully over the hamstring injury that sidelined him and will look to build on this…read more Cleared for Week 12 Samuel (hamstring) doesn't have an injury designation for Sunday's game against the Rams, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. Analysis: The 49ers initially reported Samuel being listed as questionable, but it turns out he's been cleared to play. The team will need a lot from him this week, with fellow wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk on the reserve/COVID-19 list and TE George Kittle (foot) still on injured reserve. Samuel last played in a game Week 7, which was only his fourth appearance of the year. Between summer foot surgery, hamstring issues and the pandemic, his second pro season has been a lesson in bad luck. Samuel will catch…read more Maintains limited standing Samuel (hamstring) was a limited practice participant Thursday, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: With back-to-back capped sessions under his belt, Samuel is progressing toward his first appearance since Week 7, when he sustained a hamstring injury. However, the 49ers likely want the second-year wide receiver to bump up to full, if possible, before clearing him for game action. Friday's practice report may give an indication of his potential to return Sunday against the Rams. Limited in practice Wednesday Samuel (hamstring) will practice in a limited capacity Wednesday, Chris Biderman of The Sacramento Bee reports. Analysis: Samuel appears to have made meaningful progress in his recovery from the hamstring injury during San Francisco's bye, and it looks like he has a shot to return from his three-game absence Sunday against the Rams. With Brandon Aiyuk still on the reserve/COVID-19 list, getting Samuel back in the lineup would provide a notable boost for the 49ers' receiving corps. Published: Wed, Nov 25 at 1:37pm by Rotowire.com In line to practice Wednesday Samuel (hamstring) is expected to practice Wednesday, David Lombardi of The Athletic reports. Analysis: Samuel has been beset by injuries this season. First, a Jones fracture suffered in the offseason sidelined him for the 49ers' first three games, and most recently, a hamstring issue sidelined him for the last three contests. When he was on the field between Weeks 4 and 7, he compiled 16 catches, 199 yards from scrimmage and one touchdown. Fortunately, Samuel appears to be giving practice a shot to start Week 12 prep, but his activity level won't be known until later Wednesday. Could be back Week 12 Coach Kyle Shanahan is hopeful Samuel (hamstring) will be available for the 49ers' next game Sunday, Nov. 29 against the Rams, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: As the 49ers enter their Week 11 bye, Samuel has missed six of the team's first 10 games of the season en route to 16 catches (on 22 targets) for 185 yards and one touchdown. If he is able to prove the health of his hamstring and return Week 12, San Francisco's group of wide receivers will be at its healthiest at any point on the campaign. Published: Tue, Nov 17 at 2:34pm by Rotowire.com Won't play this week Samuel (hamstring) has been ruled out for Sunday's game against the Saints, Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: This will be Samuel's sixth absence of the season and third in a row, but he at least has a bye coming up Week 11 to help his chances of avoiding any additional missed games. With TE George Kittle (foot) also sidelined, QB Nick Mullens figures to lean on Brandon Aiyuk, Kendrick Bourne, Jordan Reed and Jerick McKinnon, though Week 9 standout Richie James also could get involved. Unlikely to face Saints Coach Kyle Shanahan said Thursday that Samuel (hamstring) is a "long shot" to suit up against the Saints on Sunday, Chris Biderman of The Sacramento Bee reports. Analysis: Samuel hasn't yet practiced this week while nursing a lingering hamstring issue. Shanahan said he expects the versatile wideout to return after San Francisco's bye in Week 11, which would make his next possible return date Nov. 29 against the Rams. With Kendrick Bourne also uncertain for Sunday's game due to his placement on the reserve/COVID-19 list, it looks like Brandon Aiyuk, Richie James and Trent Taylor could comprise the 49ers' wide receiver corps in New Orleans. Misses Thursday's practice Samuel (hamstring) is not practicing Thursday, Chris Biderman of The Sacramento Bee reports. Analysis: The 49ers activated Samuel from the reserve/COVID-19 list last Friday, but he still has yet to resume participating in practice due to a lingering hamstring injury. At this point, it looks like the second-year pro is trending in the wrong direction for Sunday's game at New Orleans. San Francisco is scheduled for a bye Week 11, so the team may simply intend to hold Samuel out until then in order to guarantee a smooth recovery. Not practicing Wednesday Samuel (hamstring) isn't participating in Wednesday's practice, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. Analysis: Samuel was ruled out ahead of the 49ers' Week 9 loss to the Packers beforehand due to a hamstring injury, but he also was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list due to being a "high-risk" close contact of Kendrick Bourne (illness). Removed from the list last Friday, Samuel still is unable to get on the field, a result of the aforementioned injury suffered Week 7. The 49ers have a Week 11 bye upcoming, so they may opt to hold him out Sunday at New Orleans with the hope he's healthy for a Nov. 29…read more Back from reserve/COVID-19 list The 49ers activated Samuel (hamstring) from the reserve/COVID-19 list Friday. Analysis: After teammate Kendrick Bourne was placed on the list Wednesday following a positive COVID-19 test, Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk and Trent Williams were added to the list later in the day when the three were identified to be in close contact with Bourne. All four players were then held out of Thursday's 34-17 loss to the Packers, even though Bourne proceeded to test negative Thursday and Friday, seemingly confirming that the initial test result was a false positive. Samuel would have missed the Week 9…read more Published: Fri, Nov 6 at 4:24pm by Rotowire.com Going to COVID-19 list The 49ers placed Samuel (hamstring) on the reserve/ COVID-19 list Wednesday, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports. Analysis: Samuel already was ruled out for Thursday's game against the Packers with the hamstring injury, but after fellow wide receiver Kendrick Bourne landed on the COVID-19 list Wednesday, contact tracing went into effect, and the former was deemed to be in the "high-risk" category. Brandon Aiyuk is in the same boat, meaning the 49ers may be down to two wide receivers (Trent Taylor and Richie James) in Week 9. Published: Wed, Nov 4 at 4:45pm by Rotowire.com Sidelined again Thursday Coach Kyle Shanahan said Samuel (hamstring) won't play Thursday versus the Packers, Chris Biderman of The Sacramento Bee Analysis: After injuring his hamstring Week 7, Samuel was expected to miss multiple games, and indeed Shanahan's proclamation means the wide receiver will sit out for a second consecutive contest. With George Kittle (foot) likely out for the rest of the season, viable receivers are far and few between in San Francisco at the moment. In Samuel's stead, Brandon Aiyuk, Kendrick Bourne and Trent Taylor can expect an uptick in usage. Published: Tue, Nov 3 at 1:07pm by Rotowire.com Not practicing Monday Samuel (hamstring) is listed as a non-participant in Monday's practice estimate. Analysis: A multi-week absence was expected after Samuel hurt his hamstring Week 7, so it's not surprising that he's still not practicing ahead of Thursday's Week 9 clash with the Packers. Unless Samuel heals up faster than expected, he's likely to sit for a second consecutive game, paving the way for Brandon Aiyuk to headline a group of pass catchers that will also be missing tight end George Kittle (foot). The 49ers have ruled Samuel (hamstring) out for Sunday's game at Seattle, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. Analysis: As expected, Samuel will miss at least one contest due to the strained hamstring that he suffered this past Sunday in New England. His next chance to suit up will be Thursday against the Packers, but a more realistic expectation is the 49ers' Week 10 outing at New Orleans on Sunday, Nov. 15. With Samuel sidelined again, San Francisco will turn to Brandon Aiyuk, Kendrick Bourne, Trent Taylor and Dante Pettis at wide receiver. Expected to miss multiple games Samuel (hamstring) is not expected to play Week 8 and likely will miss the following contest against the Packers as well, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Samuel strained his hamstring during Sunday's victory over the Patriots. Coach Kyle Shanahan indicated following the game that the receiver was expected to miss "some time," which makes this news relatively unsurprising. His expected absence means there will be more opportunities for Brandon Aiyuk, Kendrick Bourne and even Trent Taylor in the passing game. Published: Mon, Oct 26 at 3:48pm by Rotowire.com Expected to miss time Coach Kyle Shanahan expects Samuel (hamstring) to miss "some time," Chris Biderman of The Sacramento Bee reports. "You never know. Know it pulled on him on that run, which usually is some time (missed)," Shanahan said. Analysis: While "some time" isn't a specific diagnosis, Shanahan's words make it sound like Samuel's more likely than not to sit out against the NFC West rival Seahawks in Week 8. Samuel's participation, or lack thereof, in practice this week should provide a more concrete assessment of his status for Week 8 and beyond. Published: Sun, Oct 25 at 8:19pm by Rotowire.com Suffers hamstring injury Samuel (hamstring) has been ruled out of Sunday's game in New England, Dan Graziano of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Prior to his departure in the second half, Samuel had five catches (on five targets) for 65 yards and three carries for seven yards. After undergoing June surgery on a Jones fracture in his left foot and undergoing a recovery that extended into the regular season, he may be poised for another absence from the 49ers offense. Scores first 2020 touchdown Samuel hauled in all six of his targets for 66 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 24-16 win over the Rams. Analysis: After starting the year on injured reserve and getting eased back into action, Samuel finally posted a line his fantasy managers were hoping for when they drafted him this season. The 24-year-old put his athleticism on display, starting three of his receptions well behind the line of scrimmage and turning them into big gains (one of which resulted in a score). Jimmy Garoppolo (ankle) -- who also dealt with an injury early in the season -- looked like his former healthy self as well, which bodes…read more Struggles in loss to Dolphins Samuel caught two of eight targets for 19 yards and gained three yards on one carry during Sunday's 43-17 loss to the Dolphins. Analysis: Samuel tied for the team lead in targets but managed just 9.5 yards on a pair of grabs. He struggled against a talented Miami secondary and wasn't aided by lackluster quarterback play from both Jimmy Garoppolo and C.J. Beathard. The lone positive was the fact that Samuel received so many looks in just his second game back after recovering from a summer foot injury. After totaling just 67 scrimmage yards in his first two contests, he will look to get going next Sunday against the Rams. Suiting up Week 5 Samuel (illness) is listed as active Sunday versus the Dolphins. Analysis: Absent from practice Thursday and Friday with an illness, Samuel entered the weekend with a cloud hanging over his availability. That said, there was an expectation that he'd suit up Sunday, per Adam Schefter of ESPN, and he'll do just that. In his season debut last Sunday against the Eagles, Samuel logged 34 percent of the 49ers' offensive snaps en route to four touches for 45 yards. He'll look to get closer to the 67-percent snap share from his rookie 2019 campaign as he gets more into…read more Published: Sun, Oct 11 at 11:47am by Rotowire.com Should play Week 5 Samuel (illness), who is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Dolphins, "should be good [to play]," a source tells Adam Schefter of ESPN. Analysis: Samuel was sidelined for the 49ers' final two practices of the week due to a non-COVID-19-related illness, but the wideout has since passed through all protocols and is on track to suit up Sunday, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network. Making his season debut in last week's loss to the Eagles after missing the 49ers' first three games while recovering from June surgery to address a Jones fracture in his foot, Samuel played 25 of the 49ers' 73 offensive snaps (34 percent) and finished with…read more Published: Sun, Oct 11 at 5:16am by Rotowire.com Expected to play Sunday Samuel (illness) passed COVID-19 protocols and can return to the 49ers' facilities, indicating that he'll suit up Sunday versus the Dolphins, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Samuel had an illness, but it has been determined that he doesn't have COVID-19. As long as he's healthy at game time, Samuel should be back in the lineup for Week 5. He'll handle the No. 1 wideout duties in his second game back from a Jones fracture, and he'll look to build on the 45 yards he recorded on four touches against the Eagles last week. Published: Sat, Oct 10 at 3:49pm by Rotowire.com Listed as questionable with illness Samuel (illness) is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against Miami, as he still needs to pass another test to ensure he doesn't have COVID-19, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. Analysis: Samuel was held out of practice Thursday and Friday while recovering from an illness and contending with a fever. Tests apparently came back negative for COVID-19, but he'll need to make it through another round of testing before he's cleared to play in Sunday's game. While it sounds like the wide receiver should be able to suit up, the situation will require some monitoring over the weekend. Samuel is still working his way back into top shape following summer foot surgery, playing only 34…read more Published: Fri, Oct 9 at 1:47pm by Rotowire.com Misses another practice Samuel (illness) is absent from practice again Friday, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Samuel returned from foot surgery to handle a limited role in last week's 25-20 loss to the Eagles, gaining 45 yards on four touches while playing 34 percent of offensive snaps in his season debut. He should see his workload expand this weekend -- at least to some extent -- unless the illness prevents him from playing against the Dolphins. Another update will be available when the 49ers release their final injury report later Friday. Published: Fri, Oct 9 at 12:36pm by Rotowire.com Samuel didn't practice Thursday due to an illness, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: After spending more than three months in recovery mode following June surgery to address a Jones fracture in his left foot, Samuel made his season debut this past Sunday in Miami. He played 34 percent of the snaps on offense en route to three catches (on three targets) for 35 yards and one carry for 10 yards. On a positive note, Samuel didn't appear on Wednesday's injury report, indicating the foot issue is behind him. That said, he's come down with an illness of unknown severity, placing a…read more Not seen at practice Thursday Samuel (undisclosed) wasn't spotted at the part of Thursday's practice open to the media, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Samuel was activated from IR and made his season debut Week 4 against the Eagles, hauling in all three targets for 35 yards and recording a 10-yard carry. He proceeded to avoid the injury report entirely Wednesday, so his listing on Thursday's version will be of keen interest. Limited role in loss Samuel (foot) caught all three of his targets for 35 yards and added 10 yards on one carry in Sunday's 25-20 loss to the Eagles. Analysis: Samuel was activated off injured reserve prior to Sunday's contest after undergoing offseason surgery on his injured foot. The 24-year-old was eased back into action in a limited role, but still produced numbers similar to his pre-injury performance, at least on a per-snap basis. Expect Samuel's workload to increase next week against the Dolphins as the wideout inches toward being back to full strength. Published: Mon, Oct 5 at 1:37am by Rotowire.com Taken off injured reserve Samuel (foot) was activated off injured reserve Saturday, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports. Analysis: The explosive wideout is now set to play Sunday night, meaning both Samuel and George Kittle (knee) will be together on the field for the first time all season. It's reasonable to assume the 49ers might ease Samuel back into game shape, particularly with the team heavily favored against a dysfunctional Eagles roster, but with Raheem Mostert (knee) and Tevin Coleman (knee) both absent from the equation, it's possible the offense might be forced to utilize the second-year player more than it…read more Published: Sat, Oct 3 at 1:50pm by Rotowire.com In line to play Sunday Samuel (foot) is slated to play Sunday night against the Eagles, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. Analysis: That said, it looks like Samuel will be eased back into the mix in his 2020 season debut. With that in mind, coach Kyle Shanahan noted of the wideout Friday, "We've got to be smart with him. I know he'll be out there (Sunday), but it won't be his normal role, that's for sure." Samuel must still be activated off IR by the team by Saturday at 4 p.m. ET in order to suit up Week 4, but that transaction is looming, with either defensive end Dee Ford or tight end Jordan Reed likely to move to IR in a…read more Working to get in 'game shape' San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan said Wednesday he considers Samuel (foot) to be healthy, but the wide receiver's focus now is "getting in game shape," David Lombardi of The Athletic reports. Analysis: The 49ers opened a 21-day window Wednesday in which to activate Samuel from injured reserve. They'll use the next three days to get a sense of the "shape he's in, and if he can protect himself, he'll be out there," Shanahan told Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News. As a result, Samuel may be able to rejoin a receiving corps that's been banged up throughout the season in Sunday's game against the Eagles. At the moment, Kendrick Bourne, Brandon Aiyuk, Trent Taylor, Mohamed Sanu and Dante…read more Published: Wed, Sep 30 at 1:02pm by Rotowire.com Practice window officially opens The 49ers designated Samuel (foot) to return from injured reserve Wednesday. Analysis: The transaction opens up a 21-day practice window through which the 49ers will be able to evaluate Samuel for a return to the active roster. San Francisco could technically activate Samuel in time for him to suit up Sunday versus the Eagles, but the team is believed to be targeting its Week 5 game against the Dolphins for the wideout's 2020 debut. Kendrick Bourne and Brandon Aiyuk will continue to serve as the team's top wideouts until Samuel is able to return, with Trent Taylor, Mohamed Sanu…read more Samuel (foot) is expected to return to practice Wednesday, David Lombardi of The Athletic reports. Analysis: As Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported Sunday, Samuel should make an appearance at practice this week, but the 49ers intend to ease him into the fold as he works to be activated from injured reserve. Due to the 2020-based IR rules, the team can technically bring Samuel off the list before Sunday's game versus the Eagles. That said, San Francisco likely will wait until its Week 5 contest against the Dolphins on Oct. 11 to do so. In the meantime, the 49ers' receiving corps will continue to be…read more Published: Mon, Sep 28 at 4:31pm by Rotowire.com Likely eyeing Week 5 return Samuel (foot) should resume practicing during the upcoming week, but the 49ers aren't expecting to bring him back from injured reserve until their Week 5 game against the Dolphins on Oct. 11, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. Analysis: Since he opened the season on IR, Samuel is eligible to return beginning in Week 4, but given the 49ers' desire to ease him back from his June surgery to repair a Jones fracture in his left foot, the wideout likely won't gain clearance to play next Sunday against the Eagles. The 49ers will likely wait and see how Samuel looks in practice this week before formally deciding on his status for the Philadelphia game. Samuel is one of several key San Francisco skill-position players that has missed…read more On track to practice next week Coach Kyle Shanahan said Samuel (foot) has looked good running routes and should return to practice next week, Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: A Week 4 return has been the goal ever since Samuel was placed on injured reserve. His availability for next Sunday's game against the Eagles remains uncertain, but it sounds like he'll at least make it back to the practice field, where the 49ers can then evaluate his health and explosiveness. The Niners certainly could use the help, as they're currently preparing to face the Giants in Week 3 without QB Jimmy Garoppolo (ankle), TE George Kittle (knee) and RBs Raheem Mostert (knee) and Tevin…read more Published: Fri, Sep 25 at 10:38am by Rotowire.com Looking at Week 4 return Coach Kyle Shanahan said the 49ers are aiming for Samuel (foot) to make his season debut Week 4 against the Eagles, Keiana Martin of the 49ers' official site reports. Analysis: Shanahan explained the decision to place Samuel on injured reserve Saturday, telling Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com that the wide receiver had some lingering soreness in his left foot that developed into a "little bit of a setback." Consequently, Samuel has a few weeks to complete his rehab from June surgery on a Jones fracture in his left foot, with the hope he'll be available Oct. 4 versus Philly. In the meantime, the 49ers will rely on Kendrick Bourne, Trent Taylor and Dante Pettis in a receiving…read more Lands on IR Samuel (foot) was placed on injured reserve Saturday, Field Yates of ESPN reports. Analysis: The decision means Samuel will not play for at least the first three weeks of the season. It's a bit surprising considering coach Kyle Shanahan was hopeful the second-year wideout would be able to practice this week. Whether Samuel suffered some sort of setback or the 49ers are just being cautious remains to be seen, but the move likely benefits the short-term fantasy values of Kendrick Bourne, Trent Taylor and Brandon Aiyuk (hamstring) in the meantime. Published: Sat, Sep 12 at 1:42pm by Rotowire.com Ruled out Samuel (foot) has been ruled out for Sunday's game against the Cardinals, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. Analysis: Coach Kyle Shanahan was optimistic about Samuel returning from mid-June foot surgery for Week 1, but the wideout never even made it to the practice field this week, instead remaining focused on his rehab. With no report of a setback, it's possible Samuel could return as soon as Week 2 or 3. In the meantime, the 49ers will rely on some combination of Kendrick Bourne, Trent Taylor, Dante Pettis and Richie James, plus rookie first-round pick Brandon Aiyuk (hamstring, questionable) if he's…read more Published: Fri, Sep 11 at 2:01pm by Rotowire.com Doesn't practice Thursday Samuel (foot) was held out of practice Thursday, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: This marks the second day in a row in which Samuel didn't get on the field, hurting his chances of being available Sunday against the Cardinals. Friday's injury report could reveal the 49ers' decision regarding the wide receiver for Week 1, but ultimately they don't need to make the final call until 90 minutes before Sunday's 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff. An absence from Samuel would elevate Kendrick Bourne and Trent Taylor to bigger roles to start the season. No practice reps Wednesday Samuel (foot) didn't practice Wednesday, David Lombardi of The Athletic reports. Analysis: Prior to drills, coach Kyle Shanahan gave Samuel a "small chance" to practice, but ultimately, the second-year wide receiver didn't fit in any reps. Samuel is in the final stages of his recovery from a Jones fracture in his left foot. That said, he likely has to prove he can operate somewhat close to normal to get the all-clear from the 49ers' medical staff. Samuel has two more chances to take the practice field before San Francisco opens its season Sunday against the Cardinals. Published: Wed, Sep 9 at 3:30pm by Rotowire.com Not expected to practice Wednesday San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan said that Samuel (foot) has "a small chance" to practice Wednesday, David Lombardi of The Athletic reports. Analysis: Wednesday's first official injury report of the season will ultimately reveal the extent of Samuel's activity, but Shanahan's comments suggest the wideout is trending toward either limited participation or none at all. Ideally, Samuel would put in a full practice by week's end for fantasy managers to feel good about his chances of suiting up in Sunday's season opener versus the Cardinals. Published: Wed, Sep 9 at 12:35pm by Rotowire.com Week 1 still in play Samuel (foot) did not participate in Monday's practice, but a decision regarding his status for Week 1 could be made in the coming days, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports. Analysis: We got some positive news regarding Samuel when the team lifted him from the NFI list this past weekend, and it sounds like Week 1 remains in play. Team officials have flip-flopped on the sophomore's status following offseason foot surgery in June, but they will bring in foot specialist Dr. Robert Anderson to be a part of the decision-making process Tuesday, which should help provide a clearer picture of the wideout's availability. Published: Tue, Sep 8 at 1:30am by Rotowire.com Lifted from NFI list The 49ers activated Samuel (foot) from the active/non-football injury list Saturday. Analysis: With the move official, Samuel can continue his quest to play Week 1 following more than two months spent in recovery mode due to a Jones fracture in his left foot. Along the way, he was spotted running sprints on the side during an Aug. 26 session and may return to the practice field in the lead-up to the season opener Sept. 13 versus the Cardinals. Published: Sat, Sep 5 at 7:03pm by Rotowire.com May be available Week 1 Samuel (foot) may be activated from the active/non-football injury list prior to a Week 1 matchup with the Cardinals, Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: While taking part in joint workouts with his teammates in Nashville back in June, Samuel suffered what eventually was deemed to be a Jones fracture in his left foot. He underwent surgery and was expected to require 10-to-12 weeks to recover fully, putting his availability for the season opener in jeopardy. Having said that, Samuel was seen sprinting on a side field in late August, and there's potential for the second-year wide receiver to practice during Week 1 prep. As a result, his status…read more Published: Sat, Sep 5 at 11:44am by Rotowire.com Could practice next week Coach Kyle Shanahan said Wednesday that he's hopeful Samuel (foot) will be back at practice next week, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports. Analysis: Samuel is pushing to get on the field for the 49ers' Sept. 13 season opener against Arizona, and a return to practice next week would represent an important step in the right direction. The versatile wideout suffered a Jones fracture in his left foot back in June and was projected to miss 10-to-12 weeks. Even if Samuel receives medical clearance in time to suit up Week 1, the possibility that he could be on a restricted snap count can't be ignored. Seen sprinting at practice Samuel (foot) was spotted sprinting hard on a side field at Wednesday's practice, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports. Analysis: Per Barrows, the wideout had "his most intense workout thus far with change-of-direction exercises." The report also notes that Samuel is pushing to be ready for the 49ers' Sept. 13 season opener against the Cardinals, and the wideout's activity Wednesday offers some concrete evidence that he could meet his goal. Published: Wed, Aug 26 at 12:45pm by Rotowire.com Hope for Week 1 appearance Coach Kyle Shanahan hopes Samuel (foot) will be available for a Week 1 matchup with the Cardinals, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Due to the Jones fracture suffered in his left foot during offseason training back in June, Samuel's status for the season opener was precarious following a prognosis of 10-to-12 weeks to recover. Shanahan has wavered in his belief that Samuel will suit up in the aforementioned contest, telling Matt Barrows of The Athletic this past Saturday that he's "not counting on it." Even if Samuel gets the all-clear to play Week 1, there's no guarantee he'll fill his usual role or take on a full…read more Published: Thu, Aug 20 at 12:17pm by Rotowire.com Not expected Week 1 Samuel (foot) is not expected to be available Week 1 according to coach Kyle Shanahan, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports. Analysis: This should surprise only the most optimistic of 49ers fans, as Samuel's surgery and ensuing 10-to-12 week recovery timeline already put him precariously close to the start of the regular season, without factoring in practice time to regain some conditioning and get reps within the offense. Both Shanahan and general manager John Lynch left open just a sliver of hope in their comments with the media about an opening-season debut, but based on other NFL players who have suffered the injury…read more Published: Sat, Aug 15 at 1:02pm by Rotowire.com Moved to NFI list The 49ers placed Samuel (foot) on the active/non-football injury list Tuesday, David Lombardi of The Athletic reports. Analysis: The move comes as no surprise due to the Jones fracture suffered by Samuel, which necessitated surgery June 18. At that time, he was believed to be facing a recovery of 10-to-12 weeks, but GM John Lynch mentioned Tuesday that Samuel may miss regular-season action. "Not going to put an exact timeline on it," Lynch told Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News. "But it's fair to say [Samuel] may miss some games at the start of the year." As a result, Samuel's standing as Week 1 approaches will be…read more Published: Tue, Jul 28 at 1:54pm by Rotowire.com Could miss multiple games 49ers general manager John Lynch acknowledged Tuesday that Samuel (foot) could miss multiple games, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. "Not going to put an exact timeline on it," Lynch said. "But it's fair to say [Samuel] may miss some games at the start of the year." Analysis: Samuel had surgery June 18 to address a Jones fracture, with early reports putting his recovery/rehab timeline at anywhere from eight to 16 weeks. Matt Barrows of the Athletic has mentioned a narrower window of 10-to-12 weeks, which still would put Samuel's Week 1 availability in serious question. With the second-year pro in danger of missing games, the Niners may need significant September contributions from Brandon Aiyuk and Kendrick Bourne, among others. Looking at 10-12 week timeline Samuel (foot) suffered a "classic Jones fracture," which should put his recovery/rehab timeline around 10-to-12 weeks, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports. Analysis: Initial reports suggested anything between eight and 16 weeks would be a reasonable expectation. This post-surgery update hints at a narrower window, though it's not something we can project with a high degree of confidence. Given the risk of future complications, the Niners could decide to hold Samuel out of games even if he technically gets medical clearance for Week 1. The 24-year-old wideout had surgery June 18, so he's already two weeks into the timeline estimate. Published: Thu, Jul 2 at 7:26am by Rotowire.com Foot surgery successful Samuel underwent a procedure Thursday to address the Jones fracture in his left foot, David Lombardi of The Athletic reports. Analysis: Samuel sustained the injury earlier this week while training with teammates. The 24-year-old has now already undergone the required surgery, which reportedly "went perfect." Reports on the sophomore's recovery timetable have been scattered, with Ian Rapoport of NFL Network suggesting a "return within 12-16 weeks," Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reporting that Samuel could be ready to kick off the regular season, and Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area indicating that the dynamic wideout should retake…read more Published: Thu, Jun 18 at 6:17pm by Rotowire.com Suffers Jones fracture The 49ers revealed Thursday that Samuel suffered a Jones fracture in his left foot while training with teammates earlier this week, ESPN's Nick Wagoner reports. Analysis: Per the report, Samuel's injury -- which will require surgical repair -- entails "a break between the base and the middle part of the fifth metatarsal of the foot." While Ian Rapoport of NFL Network previously suggested that Samuel "should return within 12-16 weeks," a timetable that would presumably result in missed regular-season action for the wideout, ESPN's Adam Schefter offers the more optimistic take that Samuel is expected to be available for Week 1 action. Supporting that notion is…read more Suffers broken foot Samuel suffered a broken foot Tuesday, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. Analysis: Samuel picked up the injury during a throwing session in Nashville. According to Rapoport, Samuel underwent surgery with noted Dr. Robert Anderson and is expected to be healthy in 12-16 weeks. With such a timetable, he won't be available Week 1, but a midseason appearance seems likely. Published: Thu, Jun 18 at 12:10pm by Rotowire.com Breaks records in Super Bowl LIV Samuel hauled in five of nine targets for 39 yards and carried the ball three times for 53 yards during Sunday's 31-20 Super Bowl loss to the Chiefs. Analysis: Not only did Samuel set a new record for rushing yards by a wide receiver in Super Bowl history, but his 32-yard scamper during the 49ers' opening drive was also the single longest run by a wideout on the big stage. The versatile rookie's strong Super Bowl performance is a small consolation for the 49ers following the loss, but combined with his impressive regular season (961 combined yards and six touchdowns over a full 16-game stretch), there's plenty of reason to be optimistic about the…read more Published: Sun, Feb 2 at 8:05pm by Rotowire.com Totals 89 yards in win Samuel caught two passes (three targets) for 46 yards and rushed twice for 43 yards in Sunday's NFC Championship Game victory over Green Bay. Analysis: Samuel's two-catch performance led all San Francisco receivers in a game where the team threw the ball just eight times. The dynamic rookie was able to bolster his final stat line with a couple of big end around rushes as he has done at times this season. The 49ers may be forced to actually pass the ball with regularity if the Chiefs' aerial attack is able to put up some early points in the Super Bowl, which could make Samuel a nice value play after modest receiving outputs in the team's first…read more Published: Sun, Jan 19 at 9:05pm by Rotowire.com Huge game to finish regular season Samuel corralled all five targets for 102 yards while rushing twice for 33 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 26-21 win over Seattle. Analysis: Samuel made some big plays through the air, but he was able to find the end zone when he deployed a nifty spin move on a 30-yard end around in the first quarter. This was a signature game for the second-round rookie, as he flashed his ability as a wideout with his third 100-yard receiving game while also putting his versatility as a rushing threat on display. Samuel finishes his first pro season with 961 combined yards and six touchdowns over a full 16 games, surpassing receivers with more…read more Published: Sun, Dec 29 at 10:37pm by Rotowire.com Cleared for SNF in Seattle Samuel (shoulder) won't carry an injury designation into Sunday's game at Seattle, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: It's not entirely clear if Samuel is battling the same shoulder injury that bothered him throughout November, but he looks like he'll be good to go for the battle for the NFC West crown, despite being limited to non-contact work in practice throughout the week, per Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News. The rookie caught eight of 11 targets for 112 yards in his previous matchup with the Seahawks in Week 10, benefiting from extra volume after Emmanuel Sanders suffered a rib injury. Limited again Thursday Samuel (shoulder) practiced in a limited fashion Thursday, Jennifer Lee Chan of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: Samuel maintained his listing from Wednesday's estimated injury report as he deals with an undisclosed shoulder issue, which has forced him to wear a blue no-contact jersey on the practice field, per Matt Barrows of The Athletic. Friday's report may give the final word on Samuel's availability for Sunday's contest at Seattle. Limited in practice Samuel was listed as a limited participant on Wednesday's estimated practice report with a shoulder injury, Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Analysis: Samuel was spotted wearing a non-contact jersey during Tuesday's unofficial practice, which effectively represented the team's first session of the week with players having Christmas Day off. The wideout will have two more practices this week to upgrade his activity level, with a final word on his outlook for Sunday's game in Seattle coming at the conclusion of Friday's session. Published: Wed, Dec 25 at 1:49pm by Rotowire.com Dons non-contact jersey Samuel (undisclosed) wore a blue no-contact jersey during Tuesday's unofficial practice, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Samuel has dealt with the occasional injury this season, missing one game (Week 7) along the way, so the 49ers may merely be exercising caution with the rookie wide receiver on the doorstep of the playoffs. Wednesday's practice report will provide the first glimpse into his on-field activity for the regular-season finale. Garners 59 total yards in win Samuel secured four of six targets for 31 yards and rushed three times for 28 yards and a touchdown in the 49ers' 34-31 win over the Rams on Saturday. Analysis: Samuel's work in the passing game was modest overall, although he checked in second in both receptions and targets for the 49ers on the night. However, the rookie made his biggest impact on the ground, scoring his second rushing touchdown of the season on a 19-yard run early in the second quarter. Samuel's production through the air has been somewhat volatile following a pair of 100-yard efforts in Weeks 10 and 11, but he'll have an opportunity to face off with one of the teams he eclipsed the…read more Just two touches Sunday Samuel had one catch (three targets) for 29 yards and one carry for eight yards in Sunday's 29-22 loss to the Falcons. Analysis: George Kittle (13 receptions for 134 yards) ate up nearly all of Jimmy Garoppolo's targets, leaving scraps for the wideout corps. While Samuel recorded just two touches, he was able to break off the biggest gain of any wideout on his 29-yard catch and run. The rookie reached 100 total yards in three of his five previous contests, so look for him to get more involved against a Rams team that can be beat through the air Saturday. Uses legs to eclipse century mark Samuel had five catches (eight targets) for 76 yards and rushed for 33 yards on two carries in Sunday's 48-46 win over New Orleans. Analysis: Samuel's line will understandably be dwarfed by Emmanuel Sanders' monstrous fantasy line -- seven catches, 157 yards, a receiving touchdown and a passing touchdown -- but the former's output is certainly worth paying attention to. The rookie has quietly put up five consecutive double-digit fantasy point performances as he continues to gain Jimmy Garoppolo's trust in a starting role. The Falcons rank in the bottom-third of the league in pass defense, and they have enough firepower on offense to…read more Published: Mon, Dec 9 at 11:20am by Rotowire.com Building TD streak Samuel caught two of four targets for 41 yards and a touchdown while adding a 20-yard rush in Sunday's 20-17 loss to Baltimore. Analysis: Samuel showed off his ball skills on his touchdown catch, snagging it in between two defenders for a 33-yard score on San Francisco's opening drive. The Ravens were able to contain him after that, but the rookie wide receiver now has touchdowns in consecutive games after finding the end zone only once in his first nine appearances. Maintaining that momentum won't be easy, with a Week 14 trip to New Orleans on tap for the 49ers. Published: Sun, Dec 1 at 2:26pm by Rotowire.com Samuel (shoulder) doesn't have an injury designation for Sunday's game against the Ravens, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. Analysis: Samuel had no problem playing through the same injury last week, catching both of his targets for 50 yards and a touchdown in a 37-8 win over the Packers. A matchup with Baltimore's first-rate secondary appears tricky, but the bright side is that it should encourage more passing volume for Jimmy Garoppolo, who attempted just 20 passes in last week's blowout. Still limited at practice Samuel (shoulder) remained limited at practice Thursday, Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: As did Emmanuel Sanders (ribs), but Maiocco suggests that both receivers "appear to be on pace" to play Sunday against the Ravens. We'll circle back on their statuses Friday to see if either (or both) head into the weekend listed as questionable, or minus a Week 13 injury designation. Samuel (shoulder) was a limited participant in Wednesday's practice, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports. Analysis: Samuel practiced in a limited capacity twice leading up to the Week 12 win over the Packers, playing through his shoulder injury en route to finishing with two catches for 50 yards and a touchdown. The rookie second-round pick has turned in an impressive three-game stretch, notching 18 catches for 296 yards and a touchdown over that span. He has a tough matchup on deck this week, taking on a Ravens squad that boasts a formidable secondary. Scores with limited touches Samuel (shoulder) caught both of his targets for 50 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 37-8 win over Green Bay. Analysis: Samuel was able to suit up and start alongside Emmanuel Sanders (ribs), but it was the former banged-up wideout who was able to make the bigger fantasy impact. The true receiving star of the night was tight end George Kittle (ankle), who put up a monstrous stat line while returning from an injury of his own. So long as Kittle is on the field, the rest of the receiving corps will play second fiddle to the tight end in terms of attention from Jimmy Garoppolo. Samuel has certainly put himself into…read more Published: Sun, Nov 24 at 11:04pm by Rotowire.com Suiting up Sunday Samuel (shoulder) is listed as active Sunday versus the Packers. Analysis: Samuel didn't take contact during his two limited practices this week, but his shoulder injury isn't severe enough to keep him sidelined from actual games. With Emmanuel Sanders (ribs) available as well, the 49ers have the usual suspects operating at wide receiver, which could be a fruitful endeavor with George Kittle (knee/ankle) back in action but potentially limited. In the two contests that Kittle missed, Samuel erupted for 100 yards both times en route to a combined line of 16-246-0 on 21…read more Expected to suit up Samuel (shoulder) is expected to play Sunday night against the Packers, Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Analysis: Samuel returned to last week's 36-26 win over the Cardinals after he suffered the shoulder injury, finishing with eight catches for 134 yards on 78 percent of the offensive snaps. He was held out of practice Wednesday before returning as a limited participant Thursday and Friday, ultimately listed as questionable on the final injury report. Coach Kyle Shanahan said he views Samuel, Emmanuel Sanders (ribs) and George Kittle (knee/ankle) as game-time decisions, but there seems to be a consensus…read more Questionable to face Packers Samuel (shoulder) is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Packers, Matt Barrows of The Athletic reports. Analysis: All eyes will be on the 49ers' inactive list Sunday evening, with Samuel, Emmanuel Sanders (ribs) and George Kittle (knee/ankle) considered game-time decisions ahead of the 8:20 p.m. ET kickoff. It's a good sign for the Niners that all three players were able to practice in a limited capacity Thursday and Friday, potentially setting up a situation where Jimmy Garoppolo has all his key pass catchers available. However, coach Kyle Shanahan hasn't been willing to provide much insight, so it's best…read more LP on Thursday's injury report Samuel (shoulder) was a limited practice participant Thursday, Jennifer Lee Chan of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: After picking up a shoulder injury this past Sunday versus the Cardinals, Samuel was a DNP on Wednesday before sporting a blue non-contact jersey Thursday, according to Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News. Samuel has kept the door open for an appearance Sunday against the Packers but will help his cause by increasing his activity level by week's end. Sidelined Wednesday Samuel (shoulder) won't practice Wednesday, Cam Inman of The San Jose Mercury News reports. Analysis: On the heels of back-to-back 100-yard receiving performances, Samuel has become a go-to option for quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. It hasn't hurt that George Kittle (knee/ankle) has been sidelined during that stretch, while Emmanuel Sanders played through a rib cartilage injury this past Sunday against the Cardinals. Samuel joined that duo as a non-participant Wednesday, and ensuing practice sessions should help to parse out the pass-catching pecking order. Tending to shoulder injury Samuel emerged from Sunday's 36-26 win versus the Cardinals with a shoulder injury, Jennifer Lee Chan of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: Samuel missed some time in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game but still finished as the 49ers' leading wide receiver in terms of offensive snap share (79 percent), catches (eight), targets (10) and receiving yards (134). With an injury in tow, his status will be one to watch as the week rolls along, but there doesn't seem to be much worry about his availability for a Week 12 showdown with the Packers. Published: Mon, Nov 18 at 4:21pm by Rotowire.com Tops century mark again in win Samuel caught eight of 10 targets for 134 yards in Sunday's 36-26 win over the Cardinals. Analysis: The Niners fell into a 16-0 hole in the second quarter, forcing Kyle Shanahan to abandon his running game, and with George Kittle (knee) inactive and Emmanuel Sanders ineffective due to his rib injury, it was Samuel who emerged as Jimmy Garoppolo's favorite downfield option. The rookie receiver has now hauled in 16 of 21 targets for 246 yards over the last two games, and while he hasn't caught a TD pass since Week 2, Samuel is putting together an impressive second-half breakout. He may be…read more Back in Sunday's game Samuel (shoulder) returned to Sunday's game against the Cardinals, Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports Bay Area reports. Analysis: Samuel didn't miss much time, and the rookie second-rounder immediately made his return known by hauling in a 23-yard pass. Picks up shoulder injury Samuel sustained a shoulder injury during Sunday's game versus the Cardinals. Analysis: Prior to his fourth-quarter departure, Samuel hauled in four of six targets for a team-high (at the time) 82 yards. Deemed questionable to return, his status will be one to watch throughout the week if he's unable to get back on the field. Tops century mark in loss Samuel caught eight of 11 targets for 112 yards in Monday night's 27-24 overtime loss to the Seahawks. Analysis: Samuel's career-best outing saw him pick up the slack after fellow wideout Emmanuel Sanders was forced to exit due to a rib injury. With Pro Bowl tight end George Kittle (knee/ankle) sidelined as well, Samuel led San Francisco in all major receiving categories, adding a game-long gain of 30 yards for good measure. The rookie second-rounder would figure to remain a focal point should Sanders and Kittle remain out in Week 11 versus the Cardinals, but their availability will need to be tracked in…read more Posts 40 yards on TNF Samuel had four catches (seven targets) for 40 yards in Thursday's 28-25 win over Arizona. Analysis: Marquise Goodwin (coach's decision) was a surprising healthy scratch following the acquisition of Emmanuel Sanders at the NFL trade deadline. It was Samuel who entered the starting lineup in Goodwin's place, leapfrogging Dante Pettis on the depth chart as well. Samuel still finished third in terms of targets and receiving yards, a trend that could repeat itself on a weekly basis with established options like Sanders and George Kittle getting the first looks from Jimmy Garoppolo. 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__label__cc	0.585294	0.414706	Giant in the Playground Forums > Gaming > Roleplaying Games > I Think I Need to Quit... View Full Version : I Think I Need to Quit... I really do. I DM a group of great people, but I'm just not that good at it. I don't have the knack and the more I prepare, the lamer the session. I really do try, but it's become pretty apparent that I don't have the ability to keep my group's attention. The only reason I'm DM is because our "good" DM wanted to game every other week, so he could prepare. That didn't sit well and I volunteered to take over the gap until somebody who actually wanted to DM would take over (there were originally interests, but they didn't feel familiar with the rules or something... I dunno...). But, after last week's session, where I had them exploring some caverns (by request, mind you) one of the PCs died, and activated the re-incarnation clause that they were unaware of. We ended the session shortly after. Two things happened when the PC died: 1) Two of the players stopped playing games on their phones 2) The player who died finally became interested in the campaign. I know this because he voiced it as everybody was leaving. So, I'mma quit. I want to do it nicely, and I want to not get blamed for another failed campaign. This'd be the 3rd that has failed, though, none of them failed because of me, really... Calinero If your players have been playing games on their cell phones and aren't interested, that sounds like more of a problem with you than with your DMing. evisiron That sucks. :smallfrown: Well, at least you put in the effort. Now you can relax a little and enjoy the game from the other side of the screen. Athaniar If they get interested in the game when you kill them, then kill more of them! :xykon: No, but seriously, people playing games on their mobile phones? Seems like they just are bored. They need excitement! xPANCAKEx sounds like they're looking for challenges, and danger... so give them more opertunities to kill themselves - don't make it "well, you'll need to roll 3 straight 20s to get out of this" - but make it difficult valadil Have you tried getting feedback from your players beyond watching them yawn? I periodically check in with mine to see what they like and what they don't. It might be worthwhile to find out what you do well and stick with that. Another option is to run a published campaign from a book, at least until you get a better grasp of GMing. Fax Celestis Read the first chapter of the DMG-II. It helps. Seriously. Well, after every session, before everybody leaves, I ask how they felt about the session. Story, combat, rulings. Anything they felt I played incorrectly or illogically, and we discuss it. I send out an email every few sessions asking for individual feedback on how each player feels about their character's concept and mechanics, based on the current situation. I usually get no actual responses. Just "It's fine" or "I think I'll get the hang of X soon". As for pre-mades, yeah. I use published modules every once in a while, when thematically appropriate (which helps when I'm busy with work and school). The previous campaign was three or fours sessions of just module stacked on module, because nobody gave me backstories, so, I couldn't build a world or a legit campaign. The pre-mades are a double-edged sword because some players like the fact that they don't have to remember what happened last session, because that module is over. Others don't like that what they're doing has nothing/little to do with their 'quest'. I dunno. I like them all, and we're all friends and I hang out with most of them in non-gaming environments and we enjoy the company and all that good stuff. But, I feel like once I take the seat of DM-authority, they don't see me as that and it's just a chaotic cluster. Maybe you should try a change of style? Rather than having the whole party at each session, make short session with a team of two or three, or with only a player. Rather than a combat / action oriented game, make a more RP oriented session. Take the "classic" modules you ar playing and change them to something unexpected and new. When players act like yours do, it's either that the DM hasn't found his own "style", or that his style does not work with his team. If your player liked his death and reincarnation, then maybe your team wants change and unexpected developments. Another_Poet nobody gave me backstories... some players like the fact that they don't have to remember what happened last session... I feel like once I take the seat of DM-authority, they don't see me as that and it's just a chaotic cluster. These statements make me wonder: do your players like D&D? By that I mean, if you said from now on no more D&D, Fri night is movie night instead, would they even care? Or do they just want to hang out as friends and don't really care whether it's D&D, monopoly, mario kart or just talking? There's nothing wrong with that, if that's what it is. But it does mean they will take the game a lot less seriously than you do. They probably don't realise how much work you put into planning each session. In fact, if you told them they'd probably say, well, don't put any work into it - let's just do something else. I don't know your friends, but if you think that might be the root cause, then it might be time for you to join a group of gamers who actually love gaming, and do something else with your non-gamer friends. Or switch to a less serious game like Kobolds Ate my Baby. I think that if you put this same amount of effort into a group that was willing to view you as the DM and take it seriously, you'd probably have a lot of fun. And you'd probably realise your DMing skill isn't the problem. I hate to say it but it sounds like maybe your players are dismissing your game because it's secondary to the game they already care about. Totally Guy Quit? Have you considered running two more sessions just to conclude all the loose ends? An ending usually doesn't have to be in the far far future. Allow the player a chance to create a trap for the BBEG to really get the thinking going as the players improve this trap with each thought iteration. My players killed off the BBEG a good 3 sessions before we got to the actual end. The final conclusion was brought about by a choice, not a combat. Vortling Don't get too down on yourself even if you do decide to stop DMing. It's possible you've got a style incompatibility with your group. DMing in a style that isn't quite yours can be difficult and unintuitive. It's possible that That can cause player interest issues. I second the "get feedback" motion. It's possible you've just not ferreted out what gets your players interested in the game. bosssmiley + "Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads" - the Cyberpunk 2020 GM's guide + any of John Wick's DMing advice in "Legend of the Five Rings" If you ignore the system-specific advice these two books are the Gunnery Sgt Hartmann of Evil GMing Boot Camp. :smallcool: You might want to look up the GMing sections of "Wushu", "Feng Shui", "Hong Kong Action Theatre" or "There is No Spoon" if you fancy pointers on pacing things a little more cinematically than normal. The single best thing I can suggest is throwing several factors/plot hooks/events at the players at once, seeing which ones they bite at, running with those, and then throwing more complications on top. But then I'm an advocate of the "keep them too busy to be bored and, if in doubt, set fire to the scenery" school. :smallbiggrin: TempusCCK You say your stuff is more lame the more you prepare, so don't prepare. Perhaps your'e the type of person who can jsut make it work spontaneously and play off of your characters little nuances and the like. BardicDuelist I'm going to agree that it seems like your group just doesn't really want to play D&D. A less serious game (I would recommend Zombies!!! or Munchkin) is probably a better alternative. Devils_Advocate That's what I was gonna say! Try just improvising on the fly instead of working from any sort of plan. The worst thing that can happen is that the session will wind up being an utter travesty. If you're planning on ending the campaign anyway, that's hardly a loss! At least you won't have wasted any prep work to produce something dissatisfying. On the other hand, maybe you'll find that freeing yourself from preconceived notions about how the session ought to go is exactly what you need to allow you to create an exciting gaming experience. Rockphed I think I will throw my weight in on the "Prepare less!" side of things. Except you should also prepare more. By which I mean you should just run with whatever is happening, but you should also prepare several interesting encounters ahead of time. By interesting I mean fights on bridges that get drenched in lava every couple turns or a battle in free fall. I think I will need to set up that Lava Drenching idea before too long.:smallamused:	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9931
__label__wiki	0.572747	0.572747	Page 11 of 11 < Prev 1 ← 6 7 8 9 10 → 11 Matt.S99 said: ↑ I absolutely loved the White Knight books. I really didn’t care for Metal, but Death Metal has been very enjoyable. I think you could probably just pick up with Death Metal #1. It might be a good idea to read heroes in crisis and Flash Forward beforehand just to get up to speed with what’s going on with Wally West. I didn’t read any of Snyder’s Justice League run, but I’m not feeling lost at all. Have you read Strange Apparitions? I bet you’d like it. I’ll try reading that. Reading Bendis' dissembled and Death of Superman next time. Death of Superman is important and I like Jurgens, but it’s not a great comic imo. (The animated movie is great, however. But it’s screenplay was written by Peter Tomasi.) I’d recommend Strange Apparitions, Tower of Babel, Judas Contract, Birth of the Demon and Son of the Demon for great Batman stories with the tone of Death in the Family. I’d also recommend Birthright, All Star Superman, Up Up and Away, and Up In the Sky as great Superman stories. Bruce Wayne Let's get nuts! Been reading a lot of the old Jack Cole Plastic Man stories from the forties. I love it. Every side character is either a busty dame or a fast-talking gangster, and every location is either a smoky nightclub or an abandoned warehouse. The stories themselves are light, breezy and invariably uncomplicated. It's a very comedic spin on the typical sort of pulp crime fiction that was probably in vogue at the time. And Plastic Man is kind of worlds away from the wacky eccentric he would later become famous for being, instead serving the put upon straight-man to Woozy Winks' bumbling idiocy. I also find that Plastic Man's creative and unpredictable use of his powers, which has perhaps gotten just a little bit lost somewhere down the line of the character's history, somehow manages to tap into that highly coveted dopamine rush. #255 Bruce Wayne, Oct 31, 2020 I just read Mark Waid’s All Flash #1. I’d never read it before. I have to say, it was impeccably written, but Wally’s action at the end where he Slowed Inertia down to where he moves at an infinitely slow speed (it takes him a hundred years just to blink his eyes) but letting his consciousness remain at regular speed Is really diabolical. Actually to the point of being sick. Essentially Inertia is doomed to live for an eternity in a state of paralysis as a living statue on display at the Flash museum. That’s a horror show right there. . It’s especially wicked when you consider that Inertia is really just a kid. #256 Babillygunn, Nov 2, 2020 #257 Milk Tray Guy, Nov 2, 2020 I just finished Red Hood and the Outlaws #50. What a beautiful read. Scott Lobdell may have all kinds of skeletons and may be a horrible jerk, but that title was my favorite in the Rebirth era and I’m going to miss that team. And if it was going out, that was a tremendous story to go out on. Today, in preparation for a seemingly more righteous Riddler in The Batman, I read Matt Wagner's one-shot comic Batman: Riddler and the Riddle Factory. I was enjoying it well enough until those last few pages where it inexplicably made the Riddler into a low rent parody of Hans Gruber. They actually had Batman and the Riddler delivering dialogue that was lifted directly from Die Hard. Like, quoted almost verbatim. It sounds pretty sweet until you actually read it. I enjoyed it for the most part, but those last few pages really cheapened the whole experience for me. It actually had the effect of retroactively making the plot itself feel like a wholesale rip-off of Die Hard, what with the Riddler's pseudo-political terrorism actually being a front for his true goal of stealing a large fortune from under the police's noses. Overall I'm not sure how to feel about it. #259 Bruce Wayne, Nov 20, 2020 Finished Doomsday Clock Part 2, which collects issues 7 - 12 of the 12 issue miniseries. Dr Manhattan has taken an interest in the DC Universe. For years he's been rewriting histories, changing heroes' fates... but why? He abandoned his own world to meddle in this one, without a hint of an explanation. Now Ozymandias, the Comedian, and a new Rorschach have all followed his trail to Gotham City, With the pieces all on the board, it's Dr Manhattan's move. Only one force in the DC Universe could possibly stand against the man who was once Jon Osterman, But when the two titans face off, will superman destroy Dr Manhattan, or will Dr Manhattan destroy everything? In my review of pt 1 I mentioned that I'd heard the original publication struggled with delays, and that I could see the story would benefit from being read straight through. So, I reread pt 1 before starting pt 2 (fortunately - I found I'd forgotten quite a bit!). There's still an undeniable kick in seeing characters from Watchmen interacting with those of the DCU. The connections with/callbacks to the original Watchmen are pretty cool, again helped by supplementary materials (probably my favourite parts of the whole thing). The story itself is entertaining enough. However... I wish Geoff Johns had written as Geoff Johns, not as Geoff Johns trying to be Alan Moore. It doesn't work. It sounds false. I'm not Johns' biggest fan, but he can normally string an impressive phrase or two together. Here, he's reaching for something he'll never grasp. It jarred enough in pt 1, but for some reason I found it a big distraction here. I've seen Doomsday Clock described as reading like fan-fiction. I get that. I've mentioned previously that the pacing in pt 1 is slow; here it's all over the place. It's like watching a movie that every now and then someone 'fast-forwards' for ten seconds. Were last-minute changes made to this? I get the feeling they intended going in one direction, then suddenly had to change course. Most annoyingly (possibly connected to my last point), the 'drop-off' in relation to certain characters. After pt 1 I was expecting the Comedian to play a major part... but he didn't. Joker, after the big build-up in pt 1? Disappeared pretty quickly. Mime and Marionette, featured so heavily in part 1? Didn't really do a lot. Okay, without spoiling, it's hinted that something involving them may play a part in things further down the line. But that's not the point; pt 1 built them up as major characters in this story; then pt 2 did next to nothing with them. Happily, Gary Frank's artwork is as great as in pt 1. Layouts, characters, backdrops, everything, just beautiful. Whilst pt 1 felt like a build-up to a main event, pt 2 didn't deliver the epic I was hoping for. I don't know how much impact Doomsday Clock had on the wider DCU. I'm a trade waiter, and with what we've had going on this year, I'm sure I'm further behind than usual. When I reviewed pt1 back in February I wrote, 'I've long thought that if there was a further story to be told - one that did the original [Watchmen] justice - I'd like to see it. So, is this that story?' The answer's no. Combining Watchmen with the DCU was a big step; being 'entertaining enough' doesn't cut it. @Babillygunn As promised, my thoughts on second part of Doomsday Clock (sorry it took me so long). #260 Milk Tray Guy, Dec 21, 2020 Great review, as always. I didn’t really like Doomsday Clock at all. And I couldn’t quite put my finger on why, but the above statement really resonates. I usually do like Johns. I like his stuff a lot. Infinite Crisis is my favorite crisis book. I love Forever Evil, Throne of Atlantis and Sinestro Corps War. I’ve indoctrinated my son to the point that he refers to Geoff Johns as “Midas” because it seems like everything he touches is gold. But Doomsday Clock was different. I wouldn’t even say that it felt like Johns doing an Alan Moore imitation. It felt like Geoff Johns imitating Zack Snyder imitating Alan Moore (with a dash of Tom King prose writing thrown in.) To me, the concept worked. I liked the Superman vs Dr Manhattan relationship. I also liked Marionette and Mime. In many ways Marionette is what Punchline should be. It really is the writing that lets everything down. #261 Babillygunn, Dec 21, 2020 Yes, although I'm not generally a fan of Johns, I do agree that Infinite Crisis and Throne of Atlantis are excellent. It's interesting you mentioning Zack Snyder; although I like him, as I was writing that review a parallel did strike me between Johns trying to sound like Moore but lacking substance, and Snyder taking 'cool bits' from comics - but missing substance. And yes, Marionette and Mime are two characters that I think have lots of potential Just finished the trade Supergirl: Infectious, which collects Supergirl #34 - 42 and Supergirl Annual #2. After spending months on the outer edges of the universe, Supergirl is finally back on Earth - and everything has changed. One of her closet friends is dead.Another she believed to be dead has returned. And she herself is in the crosshairs of three of the most powerful villains the world has ever seen. The seemingly all-powerful force called Leviathan, which has enlisted Supergirl as an unwitting pawn in its conspiracy to form a new world order; Krypton's old nemesis, Brainiac, who needs Supergirl to complete his latest nefarious plot; and deadliest of all, the Batman Who Laughs, who has unleashed his Infected upon the world - and Kara is among them! Can Supergirl resist the onslaught of these unstoppable villains? or will she succumb to the sickness spreading from the Dark Multiverse and reshape the DC Universe as we know it? Supergirl is a title I don't read a great deal of. I like Kara as a character, but a lot of her solo stuff doesn't really grab me, so most of my experience of her is from crossovers and team-ups. But, with getting hold of new stuff to read a bit of a challenge at the moment, I saw this and took a chance. Supergirl: Infectious ties in directly with the aftermath of Dark Nights: Metal, with several of Earth's heroes (Hawkman, Shazam, Blue Beetle, Donna Troy, even Jim Gordon!) having been infected through a virus by the Batman Who Laughs, and transformed into Dark versions of themselves. When Supergirl stumbles across Superman and Batman fighting the fallen heroes, her brave attempt to prevent Superman from becoming infected ends with her being infected herself. What follows from then on is pretty much a repeat cycle: Supergirl revels in her 'liberation' Supergirl does (or tries to do) pretty bad things, whilst convincing herself that they're actually pretty good things Supergirl gets accused of being a monster, but doesn't see it Supergirl has memories of happier/more innocent times In amongst this, she has a short battle with Superman, a longer battle with Wonder Woman, and a few tête-à-têtes with the Batman Who Laughs (who may or may not be really there) - none of which seem to actually accomplish anything or move the plot forward in any way. We go from scene to scene, but the overall story feels like it's 'marking time', marching on the spot. The general premise of 'Supergirl gone bad' isn't exactly new, and this doesn't do anything new with it. On top of that, more than once as one chapter finishes with an obvious build-up to something big, the next chapter starts having completely bypassed whatever that 'something big' was! I get that these events are tied into other comics (Event Leviathan and Year of the Villain, apparently) which I haven't had a chance to read yet, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating (it wouldn't be quite so bad if there was at something on the cover at least to indicate that, but there's nothing). The writing is by Jody Houser, Marc Andreyko, and Robert Vendetti, none of whom really stand out above the others (which really surprises me with Vendetti; the last thing of his I read was Hawkman: Awakening, which he did a fantastic job on). Art is by Eduardo Pansica (pretty good), Rachel Stott (okay), Inaki Miranda (meh), and Laura Braga (poor). The affection I have for Kara as a character doesn't rescue this. #263 Milk Tray Guy, Jan 4, 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9932
__label__wiki	0.920898	0.920898	Footy Blog tickets@footylegend.com Due to CoronVirus COVID-19, all games have been suspended, all bookings are on hold. Footy Kit Footy Kit (0) Stones can become the next Bobby Moore says Buzzer Bobby Moore remains, in the eyes of those who saw him play, perhaps England’s most celebrated defender of all time. The West Ham centre-half stood out among his peers and served club and country with distinction, playing 647 games for the Hammers over a 16-year period and winning 108 England caps, captaining both. Moore was respected throughout football around the world and Brazilian superstar Pele believed him to be the best in the world. He remains the only England captain to have lifted the World Cup. Book your tickets here and enjoy Manchester City magical football from Etihad Stadium best seats as Pep Guardiola's side face Hoffenheim for Champions League sixth fixture on Wednesday December 12th. (20:00h. GMT)! Former City and England winger Mike Summerbee was one of Moore’s closest friends for more than 30 years before the West Ham legend’s untimely death at the age of 51. No meeting between the Blues and the Irons can pass without Buzzer recalling the many happy occasions he spent with Moore both on and off the pitch. And now Summerbee sees much of Bobby Moore in John Stones, who he believes has all the attributes needed to achieve a similar standing in the game. “John Stones is playing exceptionally well,” said City’s Club Ambassador. “He is playing in a different era to Bobby and in different conditions, but I can see a lot of similarities. “Stones likes to bring the ball forward, as Bobby did, and he was one of the great readers of the game – as Stones is. “He’s a good passer of the ball, too, as Bobby was and without a shadow of a doubt, he has everything he needs to become the second Bobby Moore. “You would be hard pushed to find somebody better than Bobby in that position so if Stones can get anywhere near that level would be fantastic, but I don’t feel he is far away. “He’s playing fantastically well, and he is also a leader – you can see that from his games for City and England – but Bobby Moore was almost a one-off, a special footballer and a World Cup-winning captain. “He was also a very close friend and a special person.” Summerbee and Moore may have played their football some 200 miles apart, but they struck a friendship from the first moment they played against each other, with their families becoming close and the pair even becoming business partners. “I was at Swindon when I first came up against Bobby,” recalled Buzzer. “I was 16 and he was 17 and we always played West Ham in a pre-season friendly, so after the game at Upton Park behind closed doors, I was passing the dressing room when Bobby saw me and invited me to come in for a quick chat. We became close friends from that moment on. “When City play West Ham, I always think about him and his family and the esteem he was and still is held in by Hammers fans – which is fully deserved and would make him very proud if he was still with us. “I recall one game when I accidentally left stud marks down Frank Lampard’s leg and Bobby came over and asked me ‘Miguel, what’s the problem?’ He always called me Miguel, by the way. I said there wasn’t a problem, just that I’d accidentally caught him, but that it had become a problem now! “I wouldn’t have been the movie Escape to Victory if wasn’t for Bobby – when we were in each other’s company, we never spoke about football, we just got on really well and he and Tina would stay with me and my wife whenever they were up north. “So, I see a lot of Bobby in John Stones and since Pep Guardiola has been at the club, his game has come on leaps and bounds. “More importantly, they are similar off the field in their temperament and the fact that Bobby was a genuinely nice man, and so is John. “If John can become our Bobby Moore, then he will achieve great things for City and England.” Source: Manchester City FC / David Clayton Footy-Legend Team Get ticketing updates on upcoming matches for the season 2018/19. UEFA Champions League 2017/18 Carrer Arago 390 Official VIP Hospitality Tickets Footy Legend S.L. works officially with top football clubs in Europe. We verify and guarantee all the tickets with our 100% consumer protection guarantee. © 2021, Footy Legend S.L. Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy. You do not have any bookings at the moment. Browse Football Matches − Reduce quantity by one + Increase quantity by one Delivery & VAT calculated at checkout Browse other Matches Reduce quantity by one	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9935
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__label__cc	0.639793	0.360207	Star Trek Discovery (potential spoilers) 2017-Sep-16, 03:03 PM I'm a little surprised there's no thread on the newest generation - or maybe regeneration - of the Trek universe. The trailer looks quite interesting with revamped Klingons and a character POV that isn't white male. But I'm a bit dismayed that the show will premier on CBS over its general broadcast and cable outlets but then will be available only through the CBS streaming service - which costs $6 a month. Ehhhh...... Well, I wish them luck. ETA: Whoops, missed it. Look here for older thread. Spacedude Yeah that was a cruel way to tease the audience with one freebee episode, humbug. Maybe the subscription rate will be low enough to make CBS put the entire series or at least the reruns on the TV network. Blame CEO Jim Lanzone, who said: "the sci-fi series wouldn’t cut it on cable." http://comicbook.com/2016/11/15/star...t-tv-says-cbs/ I really hate businessmen... If it were a really well done sci-fi series it would have a better chance of making it on cable.....heck, if sharknado can have endless sequels.... Originally Posted by publiusr What a strange thing to say in a time when there seem to be more and more sci-fi and fantasy shows on TV every day. SkepticJ Originally Posted by schlaugh . . . and a character POV that isn't white male. Uhura, Sulu, La Forge, Yar, Crusher, Worf, Pulaski, Troi, Laren, Sisko, Dax, Nerys, Janeway, Torres, Kim, Tuvok, Kes, Chakotay, Seven of Nine . . . Star Trek, celebrating 50 years of ignoring women and the non-white. 2017-Sep-17, 12:45 AM Well I meant in the lead role and not limited to Trek. Although yes, Trek certainly pushed the envelope - the kiss between Kirk and Uhura was a big deal at the time. watched it, thought it was ok, didn't really like it...first let me say I'm a casual Trek fan, I would know the orginal series, watched a lot of Voyager when it was on tv, know TNG, DS9 and the new and old movies...but I wouldn't really call myself a 'Trekkie' alough I am very familiar with Trek read some interviews from writers, producers, directos and now like it even less the good...Star Tek needs to be on tv, it is one of those enduring things and media items of pop importance and cultural value, say like Gone withe the Wind, Spider-Man, the Beatles, Sherlock Holmes and many other products from Western Civilisation, I beleieve Trek and its message to be of special importance and Star Trek has its unqiue value of inspring many people in science, commenting on social ideas, giving ideas to other science fiction and franchises, it is good to have it back on tv the bad...the writing, its poor and I don't know if the actos or actress are adding much that wasn't done better in other shows, something feels kinda forced in the opening episode(s) the Ugly...this is not Trek, the mood is too dark, it has no humor, no jokes, I have now gone online and seen interviews from the makers who compared the Klingons to perhaps muslims or perhaps Trump supporters...I guess this is the age of 24/7 tv, youtube and twitter, where directors troll to get attention, people act like the Drunken The Tourettes Guy for free media advertisement or they Isolate and 'Alienate' half their audience....excuse the pun! I know some great scifi movies and action and drama did great political commentary over the decades past but here these messages feel misplaced, do we really, really need more TV that drags election politics somewhere he doesn’t belong and would this just feel like lazy writing from writers who already have run dry on ideas and have no new scifi contribution? What I liked about the original Trek it was great and in its own universe and when it did poltiics it did it right and respectful, is Gene was kinda agnostic, secular or atheist and didn't bash people with politics or religious messagues, this Trek also has too much War, straight into Star Wars and the Klingons look weird fish face, crocdile frog heads...unnecessary cost to make up, CGI and Fx to change an alien face that did not need changing. It may get a second season but if no changes are made it will be canceled soon after Reading across the blogs, twitters, forums...it seems there are better Treks out there, some respect the whole canon continuity and some of them fan made by the Trekkie community themselves. Prelude to Axanar but the lawyers and CBS and Paramount want it shutdown, it stared Richard Hatch, Tony Todd, Kate Vernon, J. G. Hertzler , Gary Graham and had some notable people in film and editing...a worth watch if you want to see something different. ...or you also have a huge choice of others shows like Dark Matter, the Expanse, 12 Monkeys, Marvels the Punisher, Fargo, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Xfiles, Mr Robot, Orville, Twin Peaks etc etc Wasn't Star Trek VI a great movie? I've just rewatched it. I like the Klingons in it. Cultured warriors rather than their better known portrayal as feral beasts. In Star Trek Discovery, they're nosferatu demons. I think the makeup was getting in the way of the actors being able to actually deliver lines. It was kind of painful to watch. Gorgeous design though. This is the best looking Trek. Shame Michelle Yeoh was a guest star. She was my favourite part. I'd much prefer to have her be the star. I did appreciate a new take on a character with a human being raised by Vulcans. We'll have to see how this plays out. It was good enough to get me to watch the next episode. DaveC426913 "the sci-fi series wouldn’t cut it on cable." Apropos of nothing, what is 'cable' that is distinct from not cable? And how does it make a difference in the content? I ask naively, because I see no distinction on my TV guide. They're all just channels to me. Originally Posted by DaveC426913 Apropos of nothing, what is 'cable' that is distinct from not cable? And how does it make a difference in the content? I ask naively, because I see no distinction on my TV guide. They're all just channels to me. That's a good question, especially when you look at the comment above from Lanzone who is in charge of CBS streaming services. A lot of content from CBS, ABC and NBC, among others, is still available over digital broadcast channels. This enables viewers to avoid cable or satellite transmission methods and associated costs as was done in the golden days of analog TV. But in this case I believe Lanzone was using the terms "cable" and "broadcast" interchangeably, and comparing those legacy mass-market delivery methods with streaming services such as the ones offered by CBS, Amazon, Netflix or Hulu. He also apparently holds the opinion that the new Star Trek would get lost in the broadcast/cable content swamp. That's certainly debatable. Content producers, such as the ones mentioned above, have their own streaming services as a way to control content revenue through subscriber fees and expanded advertising options. So including a new show which may be very popular with a specific fan base is a way to attract or capture subscribers to the new CBS streaming service and its incremental costs. Whether that plan works....we'll see. So far, more than one million users have subscribed to the paid site and shell out $6 a month to watch exclusive content from the network. Star Trek: Discovery will be one of the site’s flagship series when it debuts next year alongside a spin-off of The Good Wife. The article quoted above also points out that the on-demand streaming service enables CBS to avoid a lot of the traditional censorship that its broadcast/cable content must follow. Imagine, a nude Captain Kirk or Scotty cussing like the proverbial sailor. So there's one big difference between the streaming capability vs. waiting for an episode to appear on Tuesday night at 8 pm on cable channel 805. geonuc See also schlaugh's response, but in the US, a major distinction arises because by law the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has no power to regulate the content of non-broadcast media, such as cable. Doesn't mean the FCC hasn't attempted to do so but some of their rules have been struck down by the US Supreme Court on that basis. So Starfleet has become Weyland-Yutani? Imagine, a nude Captain Kirk or Scotty cussing like the proverbial sailor. You made me imagine contemporary William Shatner naked and now you owe me brain bleach. Originally Posted by Launch window the Ugly...this is not Trek, the mood is too dark, it has no humor, no jokes, I've only watched bits and pieces online (not a full episode), but that is exactly my impression. It is very dark, visually and by mood and characters. It reminds me in no way of Star Trek (even the JJ Abrams reboots seem more Star Trek, though only relatively). And it certainly feels in no way that it comes between ST:Enterprise and ST:TOS. If they wanted to tell this particular story, they could have taken it outside of the Star Trek universe and just told it as an independent story line, and then there would be no problems in style or continuity. But then they wouldn't have the marketing advantage of the Star Trek name. Plugging ST in front of it makes it a safe bet, in the eyes of studio and TV executives. Frankly, I think The Orville feels more like ST:TOS than ST: Discovery. Saw episode 4 i think but missed 2 and 3. I don't get the spore drive at all. Why did they have to re-imagine the klingons they would of just fought to fight, they did not need the religious stuff. I wish they did a series based off of the fan promo Axanar. Originally Posted by astrotimer Why did they have to re-imagine the klingons... 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__label__cc	0.633314	0.366686	Derek Jeter’s Diary: The Orioles, Angels, and Twins by Mark Lisanti on April 18, 2012 The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain’s private journal. Tuesday, April 10: at Baltimore The first week of the season is always exciting. Except when you drop three in Tampa and then find yourself in Baltimore. Baltimore, right? Nice stadium, but there’s a reason they set The Wire here. The Wire guy didn’t just throw a dart at a map and say, “That’s where I’ll set my story about the systemic failure of an American city.” If he did that, Omar (how cool is he, you know? Indeed!) could’ve been robbing dealers in San Antonio. Bigger dart target, a lot closer to the middle, only a crazy person would try to hit a tiny dot in the Mid-Atlantic region. Anyway. It’s probably just a come-down from spring training, but we’ve racked up three minus-wins in the first five games. I never say the word “lose,” it conditions you to accept failure. There is winning and there is probably some other state of non-win-being I have yet to experience. Like what’s happened in Baltimore ever since the Curse of the Jeff-bino in ’96. But I fully expect us to rip off a 10-game winning streak at any moment. Just watch. Oh yeah, tonight’s game. I homered to lead off, right center, where the fat guy sells his barbecue. Can’t remember where I heard this, but someone told me Peter Angelos is so cheap he demands Boog’s BBQ is half that pink slime stuff, half shelter kittens. All I’m saying is I’m not eating there. At Yankee Stadium you can eat illegal whale meat if you know which stand to go to on the field level. (Steinbrenner Whale Meat and Endangered Delicacies, right off the concourse. First-rate all the way.) Wednesday, April 11: at Baltimore Another W in extras. Grandy and Swish went yard. But rough start, CC wasn’t sharp, kind of came apart in the fifth. As Captain, I make an executive decision that we need to re-fatten-up Sabathia immediately. Usually he’ll regain the weight he sweats off in spring training as the season wears on. But after the game, we have Swish dress as Cap’n Crunch and escort CC straight to the trainer’s room, where the clubbies fill the whirlpool with half-and-half and sugary cereal. It took him two hours, and a couple of the guys had to stay late to make sure he didn’t cheat-vomit, but he finally ate the spa dry. Yeah, it’s a long season, but we can’t risk him staying under 300 pounds until the All-Star break. April games count, too. So even though CC didn’t get it done today, I choose to look on the bright side: We’re getting great looks at the bullpen guys, whoever they are this year. I refuse to learn the new ones until June. They’re like half-players. D-Rob loves it when I call him that and make him share a locker with Boonie. He likes it a little less when he catches Boonie “accidentally” smelling his dirty sanitary socks. Lefties, man. Thursday, April 12: Off-Day There’s nothing worse than when you have a day off after an early W in an inevitable 14-game streak. Real momentum killer. But at least we’re home now after a quick flight back to NY. I spend the day hanging out at my apartment, watching some highlights, going through e-mails. There’s a week-old “Minka Kelly dating” Google Alert in there with some story about Wilmer Valderrama. I text her right away. “Fez??????” She hits me right back. “U mad?” Me: “Use protection LOL.” I mean, she can date who she wants, but it’s like if Brad Pitt cut Angelina Jolie loose and a week later she’s hot-tubbing with The Situation. Day ruined. I tell myself I don’t care, but then I spend most of the night updating the balls in my gift baskets. “Please don’t bang Fez next. —DJ2” Friday, April 13: vs. Angels The Angels are in town. It’s our first look at Pujols as a player in the AL. I see him before the game and razz him a little, I know he’s off to a slow start. Congratulate him on finally getting called up to the majors, ask him to sign the real birth certificate I have showing he’s 48, force him to make small talk with A-Rod, all that fun stuff. Speaking of Alex, he finally went deep. It was KILLING him that I’d out-homered him so far. I guess now I have to take down the giant “0” I hung in his locker, but I’m going to wait till tomorrow. Yeah, he’s fragile and as Captain I shouldn’t be messing with him like that, but whatever. If that weird German horse-surgery Kobe talked him into getting was actually working, he’d have 10 dingers by now. You don’t see me using illegal Nazi science to get an edge. Streak’s at four. I know eventually we’ll not-win again, but this feels like it’s going to end next June on a blown call in Cleveland. Saturday, April 14: vs. Angels 7-1, a big, shitty minus-win. Streak reset. Why does Howie Kendrick always murder us? That guy’s nothing special. He’s like your friend who’s nothing special, but yet he’s weirdly always murdering you. I’m not great at metaphors — they don’t help you win. I’m starting to worry a little bit about Phil Hughes. Is he ever going to figure it out? How many chances are we going to give him? You try and be supportive, but support’s kind of a trial-and-error thing. After his first start, it was all, “Hey, man, you’ll get them next time,” then a pat on the ass with the glove. After this one, it was, “Hey, man, you’ll get them next time,” but then I had Swish take a dump in a paper bag and leave it on his recliner in the clubhouse with a note. “Next time, no bag. —DJ2.” You have to play mix-and-match with these motivational techniques until something clicks. Sunday, April 15: vs. Angels A big W, 11-5, on Jackie Robinson Day. Will there be a Derek Jeter Day in the future? I won’t speculate about that. That’s for the people who give days to certain historically significant players to decide. How many shortstops have five rings and really should have seven rings? Not many. The guys on the Committee for Special Player Days probably know the answer to that one, that’s their job. My job is to help the team win. Raul Ibanez went yard. When he got to the dugout I was all, “When did we trade for you?” And he goes, “I signed as a free agent before spring training, dude. We had dinner together in Tampa like five times.” Cut me some slack, bro, I’ve got other things on my mind besides which platoon DH ordered the filet mignon and three bottles of wine when I was picking up the tab. And isn’t he 65? He’s the one with the memory issues, probably. Monday, April 16: vs. Twins Look. If there’s one guy in this world we need to beat EVERY SINGLE TIME it’s Carl Pavano. There are players who “can’t handle New York” and then there are players who “sign huge contracts they didn’t earn, make 10 starts in three years, and fail to maintain a relationship with Alyssa Milano.” Yeah, that last part was kind of a personal low blow, but that’s what happens when the Big Apple chews you up and poops you out in the Midwest. Did she leave him for Fez? I wouldn’t count out the possibility. Freddy Garcia was just awful. We can’t not-win to Pavano. Freddy and Phil are in some kind of weird “Who wants it least?” competition with Pineda and Andy coming back soon. I literally asked them, “Who wants it least?,” in the locker room after the game, half-joking but also not. As the captain, you can sort of play it both ways. Both of them dived under the buffet table. But then Phil kind of waved when I peeked under there, so maybe he’s got the edge at the moment. Freddy just kind of sweated profusely. His fastball topped out around 47 today. I don’t want to say he’s getting by on junk, but he tried to bring a sack full of rusty car parts to the mound. Justin Morneau hit an old distributor cap into the bleachers. You get what I’m saying. Carl Pavano beat us, I’m a little fired up right now. If I weren’t cracking up every half hour thinking about how Bobby Valentine called Youk lazy and fat, I’d be even more bent out of shape about it. Tuesday, April 17: vs. Twins CC started slow, but he gutted it out and we got the W. I don’t want to take all the credit, it was a team effort, but we already got him to put on 18 pounds in under a week. Boonie even offered to live at the big man’s house and feed him a Double Whopper by hand whenever CC rang a dinner bell, but only if he could wear one of those creepy Burger King heads and Sabathia’s uniform pants. Not sure about that guy. During the game, a guy ran out on the field, but security tackled him before he could cause any real trouble. Turned out it was Frankie Cervelli. He’s really had a hard time since they sent him back to the minors. Sad.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9957
__label__cc	0.68344	0.31656	From Iceland — "Owl Mirror" Officially Approved As A Name In Iceland “Owl Mirror” Officially Approved As A Name In Iceland Andie Sophia Fontaine The Naming Committee made a historic ruling with their approval of a new name to the lexicon. Vísir reports that the name in question, Ugluspegill (lit. “owl mirror”), has been approved by the Naming Committee, but not without reservations. The name has an apparently rich history. The Naming Committee refered to a science column Jón Gunnar Þorsteinsson in their ruling, wherein it is pointed out that one of the earliest occurrences of this name can be traced back to a German poem, Till Eulenspiegel (“To Owlmirror”). The Owlmirror of medieval legend was a prankster and a trickster from the 14th century. The name spread across many countries, Iceland amongst them, although in Iceland it was used more as a nickname. While nicknames have received official approval before, and Ugluspegill can be declined in accordance with Icelandic grammar, they pointed out that nicknames can be used abusively towards others. In this instance, however, the Committee decided to grant Ugluspegill the benefit of the doubt. In other names the Committee approved, the man’s name Kinan and the women’s names Silfra, List and Susie were all given the green light. So What’s This Naming Law I Keep Hearing About? naming committee owl mirror Next: Five In Custody For Tax And Accounting Offenses Previous: Decidedly Low Support For New Prime Minister	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9958
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__label__wiki	0.769388	0.769388	Foley Joke October 11, 2006 by Stephen VanDyke From a reader: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Libertarian are having a drink. Word comes into the bar that a nearby house is on fire with people trapped inside, so they run out to help. When they get there it’s an inferno with people still trapped inside and screaming. They see some children who escaped the flames are coughing and passed out from smoke inhalation. The Democrat says “Oh my god we have to help the children.” The Libertarian says “Fuck the children.” The Republican says “Is there time?” Stephen VanDyke I've published HoT along with about 300+ friends since 2002. We're all Americans who are snarky and love our country. I'm a libertarian that registered Republican because I like to win elections. That's pretty much it. Nigel Watt says: My favorite RDL joke: A Republican, a Democrat, and a Libertarian all finish their business at the urinal. After washing his hands, the Republican says “I’m using paper towels to save energy”. After washing his hands, the Democrat says “I’m using the air dryer to save trees.” The Libertarian says “I don’t piss on my hands.” undercover_anarchist says: Funny joke. But… (I hate to be negative on this particular thread)… It also illustrates a sad truth. And I don’t mean that Republicans are molestors. Many people who are aware of what the Libertarian Party is think that we are the “Fuck the children” party. Fuck the poor. Fuck the elderly. Fuck and torture the animals. Fuck the environment. Worship corporations. The party needs to do a better job dispelling these myths and correcting these misunderstandings and misinterpretations instead of nominating candidates who perpetuate them. Funny joke, nonetheless. Good post. I like Nigel’s joke better. Jack Glantzberg says: I think the point of “Fuck the Children” is that the children are reletivly safe at that point and there are still more people to be saved in the burning building. I like this pseudo-joke that I coined on another thread, in relation to the parties’ stances on oral pleasures. Only the LP supports blow jobs. Here are the other parties’ stances: DEMOCRAT: Ban them – except in the case of interns. REPUBLICAN: Ban them – except in the case of hot male pages. GREEN: Ban them – except in the case of GLBT – after all, all penile penetration is rape and degrading to women. CONSTITUTION: Ban them – except in the case of colored women, goats, and other forms of private property. IanC says: Jack — personally I think it was meant to be representative of both interpretations. Timothy West says: thats not a joke. that’s exactly the way the LP is perceived to many voters, and an image the LP has carefully cultivated for years in it’s never ending search for the perfect principle. u-a is quite correct, especially the corporation worship part. paulie cannoli says: Well, yeah, but it was still funny. Kris Overstreet says: Yep- “Fuck you, I got mine,” the left’s view of Libertarians in general. For a better joke, passed on to me by one of my supporters: George & Laura Bush saw a couple of kids on the side of a Crawford road one day trying to sell a box full of puppies. “What kind of puppies are those?” the President asked. “They’re Republican puppies,” the kids replied, and this amused the President and First Lady. A few days later George, by himself this time, drove down the road and saw the same kids, still with the same puppies. He said hello, asked how they were doing, and then asked, “What kind of puppies did you say those were?” “They’re Libertarian puppies,” the kids replied. “Didn’t you say they were Republican puppies?” “Well, sir, since you were by here last, their eyes opened.” GreginOz says: A Dem, a Repub are pissing off a bridge, the Dem says “water’s cold”, the Repub mumbles “river’s deep” and a Libo walks up to them and says “get the fuck off my bridge, you go’damned honkies”. Heh heh, Kris, you made me choke on my coffee! Nigel – that was hillarious. Did you hear that Foley didn’t resign because of the page scandal? He is claiming that he resigned because he felt he would “come in a little behind” at the polls. Mike, yours was the best! hahah. Reminds me of the old, homophobic Michael Jackson jokes. “35 year old meat between 11 year old buns” ua: don’t forget the timeless (pun intended) classic: Q: “How do you know when it’s bedtime at MJ’s mansion?” A: “When the big hand touches the little hand.” http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sexandpolitics/a/markfoleyjokes.htm Getreal says: It is meant to convey a “truth” even if the truth is false. Why do people keep saying there was sex with children when there was no sex and all the pages were above the age of consent in DC (they have to be)? There were raunchy emails to individuals above the age of consent, all of whom had, in the past, been pages, but were no longer doing that job when the emails were recieved. All were over 17 years old at the time of the emails (16 at the time they were pages) and the really sexual email went to one who was turning 19 in a few months. Ah, but it was improper for Clinton to mess around with Lewinsky? How old was she? Joseph Knight says: Kris Overstreet has the best one so far! But Kris, too bad you’re another damned “fair” taxer – nothing funny about that. Alex Peak says: Mr. West writes, “that’s exactly the way the LP is perceived to many voters, and an image the LP has carefully cultivated for years in it’s never ending search for the perfect principle.” I agree that that’s the image the LP receives, but let’s not jump to the faulty decision of blaming this on following principle. The reason this and the other misconceptions undercover_anarchist illustrates is our inability to communicate how our ideas (including our principles) are bust suited for helping the poor, the elderly, the environment, the drug-addicts, et. al. Alexander S. Peak Membership Chair, College Libertarians of Towson wwwnew.towson.edu/clt New Republican education program – it’s called “no child’s behind left alone.” When Foley gets out of rehab he promises to turn over a new page.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9969
__label__cc	0.637321	0.362679	For best experience please turn on javascript and use a modern browser! You are using a browser that is no longer supported by Microsoft. Please upgrade your browser. The site may not present itself correctly if you continue browsing. View your favourite programmes uva.nl Graduate Schools of Science null Minor: Tesla Minor: Science for Sustainability Majors-Minors Amsterdam Talent Scholarship Amsterdam Merit Scholarship Amsterdam Physics and Astonomy Scholarship (APAS) Msc+Talent programme Non-UvA-scholarships Current MSc's Current PhDs Graduate Schools of Science Major Science in Society (60 EC, in English) Major Teaching (60 EC, in Dutch) Major Science Communication (60 EC, partly in Dutch) Major Big Biomedical Data Analysis (60 EC) Minor TESLA (30 EC) Minor Science for Sustainability (30 EC) Within which Master’s programmes? At the UvA you can choose to do your Master’s programme with a society-/ business-oriented major or minor that focuses on other skills than doing research. In this case you will follow the programme of your chosen scientific discipline during the first year of your Master’s (although slightly adjusted), and a society-/ business-oriented major or minor during the second year. You will graduate as a Master of Science. If you have the ambition to do a professional specialisation make sure to inform about conditions early in your Master's programme. The Master's major Science in Society: is meant for students with a broad interest in current affairs, social issues, policy, management and entrepreneurship relating to scientific matters concerns reading and writing policy advisory reports, management aspects such as leadership styles and motivation techniques, and organisational structures offers career prospects such as policy preparation advisor with a government department, or a management career in a pharmaceutical company is part of a two-year Master’s programme: during the first year, you will follow the regular Master’s programme of your chosen scientific discipline (60 EC), and subsequently you will follow the first year of the Master’s programme Management, Policy-Analysis and Entrepreneurship in Health & Life Sciences, at Vrije Univerisiteit Amsterdam. Do biomedical innovations not only raise scientific questions for you, but also ethical, legal and social questions? Then the major Science in Society might be for you. This programme is designed for students thinking of a job in secondary or professional education. Following this programme gives you the opportunity to achieve the first-level teaching qualification within two years. The first year you will follow the courses (60 EC) of the programme of your choice and in the second year you will take courses at the ILO (Interfacultaire Lerarenopleidingen), part of the Graduate School of Child Development and Education. You will graduate as a Master of Science in your own discipline. More about the Major Teaching Is designed for students who have a broad interest in current events, societal issues and the public debate on the position of the natural sciences in society Prepares you for careers on the intersection of science, technology and society; professions for which you need a critical, academic attitude and the skills to support a fruitful dialogue between science and society Is part of a two-year master education programme: you first follow the regular master programme of your choice (60 EC) to deepen your expert knowledge, after which you follow the Science Communication specialization year (60 EC) at the Athena Institute at VU Amsterdam. Do you see yourself working in the future as a science journalist at a newspaper or at a popular science magazine? Or do you aspire to be a communication advisor at a biomedical company, a content manager at a science museum or a PR-manager at an environmental organization? With the Science Communication master specialization you can combine your interest in the natural sciences with gaining knowledge and skills within the field of science communication. Read more on the VU website Biomedical research is developing fast, especially due to the use of 'omics' technologies that generate large data sets, such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Mass Spectrometry (MS). Omics data analysis and interpretation becomes ever more important, as biomedical research becomes more and more data-driven. This major is designed for students that want to learn how to handle, analyse and interpret big omics data sets, in order to address and investigate biomedical research questions. The programme is intended for those who aspire a research career in a university or research institute, as well as for those who want to do R&D, in for instance a pharmaceutical or life-science company. Read more about this major The major consists of three 6-EC courses and a 42-EC internship. The content of the three courses will be subsequently: Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics/Metabolomics. During the internship you will work and participate in a biomedical research group, such as in the AMC or the NKI, to work on a research project. In addition, you will have weekly bioinformatics sessions at Science Park to discuss data analysis approaches, methods, and the (more technical) interpretation of results. This major is intended for those students that want to be able to analyze omics big data themselves. This is useful in research and for life sciences companies. For instance, when you are interested in genes that are involved in complex diseases, you may want to analyze all 4 to 5 million sites in the genome where differences between humans exist. This will lead to a big data set. The major is designed to teach students the skills required to interpret such data. The Big Biomedical Data Analysis programme starts with three compulsory 6 EC courses that teach you enough skills in scripting (such as Linux bash, R, Python), tools, analyses approaches and statistics to be prepared for your internships. In addition, various applications of the sequencing and mass spectrometry technologies will be discussed, such as single cell sequencing, ChIP-sequencing, and targeted and non-targeted (LC)-MS approaches. The content of the courses will be: September: Genomics, October: Transcriptomics, November: Proteomics/Metabolomics. The internships are organized according to a new concept. You will work in a biomedical research group or company to participate in their research. In addition, you will have regular bioinformatics discussions at Science Park. At the start of your internship, in December, you will also learn about various bioinformatics topics (computer clusters, workflows etc.), and write a data analysis plan, as a part of your preparation for the 42 EC internship. The Major Big Biomedical Data Analysis starts once a year in September. To start with the Major Big Biomedical Data Analysis, it is obligatory to have completed at least 48 EC of the master’s programme of your choice at the start of the major. To register, please write an email to dr. Martijs Jonker: M.J.Jonker@uva.nl. Please note that there is a restriction on the number of students that can participate. For questions about this major, please contact the major coordinator Erik Joling: E.Joling@uva.nl, or Martijs Jonker: M.J.Jonker@uva.nl Do you want to work on a real business case in a multidisciplinary team? The Tesla project is characterised by an interdisciplinary and unconventional focus on utilizing science knowledge in real life environments. During the intensive programme students will attend lectures by speakers from within and outside of the Academia, participate in a range of skills trainings, be responsible for the organisation of part of the track and work in small groups on a project for an external partner (company). Read more about the Minor TESLA Science for Sustainability is a minor for science master students who want to make a connection between their scientific background and the societal challenge to enhance a sustainable future. You learn to combine scientific and transformational knowledge with insights in economics and politics. The final aim is to come to science based solutions for pressing issues such as climate change, the need to safeguard our environment, and the global demand for energy, water and food. Note: This minor is only possibly in selected Master's programmes. Read more about the minor Science for Sustainability The professional master majors and minor are available within most two-year Master’s programmes of the UvA Faculty of Science. The major teaching can only be integrated in the following programmes: Professional majors If you are admitted to a Master’s programme in which the master majors are available, you are automatically admissible to a master major within that programme. Please note that some majors have other application deadlines than regular Master's programmes. Tesla minor The Tesla minor is a selective programme with an intake procedure consisting of a written application, a presentation, an interview and an assessment. For more specific questions about the professional master majors, please contact the Majors Manager, dr. Erik Joling: Dr. E. 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__label__cc	0.528007	0.471993	Sub-Sahara Africa’s mobile data to grow by 6.5 times in 2026 By Adeyemi Adepetun Ancient Symbolisms And Languages Of Nigeria 3 days ago Guardian Life Realtor gets League of African development students’ recognition 2 days ago Property How TECNO made customers smile amidst Covid-19 2 days ago Technology •Average traffic per smartphone in SSA to reach 8.9GB •Region’s mobile broadband subscriptions to account for 76% of mobile subscriptions by 2025 Mobile data traffic in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is estimated to grow by almost 6.5 times the current figures, with total traffic increasing from 0.87EB per month in 2020 to 5.6EB by 2026. This is even as the average traffic per smartphone is expected to reach 8.9GB over the forecast period. According to the November 2020 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, unveiled yesterday, it disclosed that as the demand for capacity and coverage of cellular networks continues to grow, service providers are expected to continue investing in their networks to cater to this uptake and meet evolving consumer requirements. The report said in SSA, mobile subscriptions will continue to grow over the forecast period as mobile penetration today, at 84 per cent, is less than the global average. LTE is estimated to account for around 15 per cent of subscriptions by the end of 2020. The Mobility Report reiterated the importance of releasing more spectrum in Africa to expand coverage, improve network quality, and encourage mobile adoption. President of Ericsson Middle East and Africa, Fadi Pharaon, said: “This latest edition of our Mobility Report highlights the fundamental need for good connectivity as a cornerstone to cater for this uptake as the demand for capacity and coverage of cellular networks continues to grow across Africa. Investing in network infrastructure and optimizing spectrum assignments to deliver expansive 4G connectivity, paving the way for 5G, are critical requirements to consider in this journey and to accelerate digital transformation across the continent. We will continue to invest in our technology leadership and offer our state-of-the-art infrastructure solutions to help our customers seize the opportunities that connectivity will bring to Africa.” Over the forecast period, mobile broadband subscriptions in SSA are predicted to increase, reaching 76 percent of mobile subscriptions. Driving factors behind the growth of mobile broadband subscriptions include a young, growing population with increasing digital skills and more affordable smartphones. Over the forecast period, distinct volumes of 5G subscriptions are expected from 2022, reaching 5 per cent in 2026. While 5G and LTE subscriptions will continue to grow over the next six years, High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) will remain the dominant technology in SSA with a share of over 40 percent in 2026. According to it, within Africa, offering-led is the most common strategy, frequently offering a wide range of services linked to mobile subscriptions such as gaming, mobile banking and insurance. It stressed that a look at service offerings reveals that offering-led service providers tend to couple network performance with specific use cases and end-user expectations, like promoting the best network for video streaming. Part of the findings is that the offering-led strategy is mostly deployed by challengers. The ambition, according to it, is to be first to market with new offerings. Prominent in this strategy is maintaining a high level of market innovation to capture market share, often with one-for-all offerings, coupled with the targeted distribution. These challengers use extensive campaigns and promotional programs to gain traction and capitalize on their “first-mover advantage”. Offering-led service providers also work with multiple partners in the area of products and services. They typically use modern technology – such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) – in their operations, as well as wide use of omnichannel strategies for customer experience management. In addition to the need driven by the pandemic, the Ericsson report observed that there are three main factors that drive Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) growth. First, demand from consumers and businesses for digital services continues, driving the need for broadband connectivity. Second, FWA delivered over 4G or 5G is an increasingly cost-efficient broadband alternative in areas with limited availability of fixed services, such as DSL, cable, and fiber. Increasing capacity, allowed by greater spectrum allocations and technology advancements for 4G and 5G networks, is driving higher network efficiency in terms of the cost per delivered gigabyte. Third, nations are fueling broadband connectivity through programs and subsidies, as it is considered vital for digitization efforts and economic growth. Africamobile data FG begins payment of N22.6bn to defunct Nigeria Airways workers Senate reconvenes, decries Buhari’s serial bill rejections Nigerian woman commits suicide over closure of shops in Ghana NLC pickets Chinese firms over alleged maltreatment of workers Mourinho’s 825 days hotel bill hits £500,000 More Editor's Pick Zoom to compete with Google, Microsoft for email service NCC endows N40m professorial chairs in two varsities NCC boss, Danbatta for ZIK award Nomination for 2021 GAGE awards begins today NCC’s Twitter account restored	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9981
__label__wiki	0.681233	0.681233	IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Wednesday and picked headlines from 11 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Comments by the oil minister about a wide range of issues, including hikes in natural gas and gasoline production, and about Babak Zanjani, a billionaire who stands accused of siphoning off the country’s oil money, dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday. Also in the news were projections by the government spokesman about the country’s economic growth in the year ahead. Abrar: “We won’t allow partisan bias to overshadow cultural activities,” said the minister of culture and Islamic guidance. Ebtekar: The Outcast! After failing to win over fellow principlists, [former President] Ahmadinejad seems interested in aligning himself with reformists. Ebtekar: The Iranian oil minister has reported a 170 million cubic meter increase in natural gas production in the country. Emtiaz: “Iran will be connected on rail to the Eastern Mediterranean within 20 months,” said the minister of roads. Ettela’at: “Government favors a cut in interest rates,” said Government Spokesman Mohammad Bagher Nobakht. Ettela’at: Iran has presented a four-stage plan to end military aggression against Yemen. The plan made public by the foreign minister entails: a cease-fire, shipment of humanitarian aid, talks between Yemeni groups and formation of a broad-based government. Iran: Iran has not accepted a verbal Saudi apology. The spokesman of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has said that as long as the apology does not come through official channels, Minor Hajj pilgrimage would remain suspended. Jomhouri Islami: “Inflation will slip further this year,” promised the government spokesman. Kayhan: Sixty-three martyrs of the Scared Defense have returned home. Qods: New government restrictions for the illiterate Getting driver’s and business licenses hinges on literacy. Resalat: “Iran will no longer need to import gasoline later this year,” the oil minister said. Sayeh: “Iran’s economy will post 4-5 percent growth this year,” said the government spokesman. Sayeh: Iran’s Persepolis has won the hospitality prize in a poll conducted by tripadvisor.com. Shahrvand: In case citizens do not cut back on water consumption by at least 10 percent, electricity shortage will be in the offing. The warning by the Energy Ministry came after a dramatic surge in water levels behind Latian Dam prompted people to forget that they had just gone through a very dry winter.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9988
__label__wiki	0.587506	0.587506	Assessing outcomes of resuscitation training in hospitals p. 327 Mukul Chandra Kapoor DOI:10.4103/ija.IJA_313_18 PMID:29910488 [HTML Full text] [PDF] [Mobile Full text] [EPub] [PubMed] [Sword Plugin for Repository]Beta Does the phase of the menstrual cycle really matter to anaesthesia? p. 330 Madhuri S Kurdi, Ashwini H Ramaswamy The menstrual cycle is a physiological phenomenon that is accompanied by several hormonal fluctuations involving oestrogen and progesterone. Oestrogen and progesterone exert several physiological effects. There are many questions pertaining to the influence of the physiology of menstruation on anaesthesia. We attempted to find out whether the phase of the menstrual cycle can alter the physiological functions during anaesthesia, the perioperative management and outcomes. We performed a literature search in Google Scholar, PubMed and Cochrane databases for original and reviewed articles on the phases of the menstrual cycle and their relation to anaesthesia-related physiological parameters to find an answer to these questions. Many studies have shown that women, perimenstrually, may have increased pain perception, exacerbation of systemic diseases, vocal cord/peripheral oedema and post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV). Some of the other notable findings in most studies were sleep disturbances in the luteal phase (LP), increased occurrence of PONV in the ovulatory phase and a lower requirement of intravenous sedative and anaesthetic drug requirements in the LP. We found contradictory results concerning pain perception and PONV in relation to the follicular and LPs. However, we found that literature regarding the phase of the menstrual cycle and the haemodynamic response to intubation, anaesthesia-induced hypnosis and perioperative blood loss is relatively scarce. Thus, there is a need to conduct good quality research on these topics. Attenuation of the pressor responses to laryngoscopy and endotracheal intubation with intravenous dexmedetomidine versus magnesium sulphate under bispectral index-controlled anaesthesia: A placebo-controlled prospective randomised trial p. 337 Lakshmi Mahajan, Manjot Kaur, Ruchi Gupta, Kuljeet Singh Aujla, Avtar Singh, Ashreen Kaur DOI:10.4103/ija.IJA_1_18 PMID:29910490 Background and Aims: Laryngoscopy and intubation cause sympathetic stimulation and arousal reactions. We evaluated the role of dexmedetomidine and magnesium sulphate on pressor responses to laryngoscopy and intubation as compared to placebo, when depth of anaesthesia was maintained at a constant bispectral index (BIS) range 40-50 (±5). Methods: One hundred and twenty patients were randomised to receive either dexmedetomidine 1 μg/kg (Group DS), magnesium sulphate 30 mg/kg diluted in 100 ml saline (Group MS) or 100 ml normal saline (Group NS) 15 min before induction of anaesthesia in a double blind manner. After achieving BIS 40–50 (±5), laryngoscopy and intubation were performed. Heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were recorded pre-drug, after drug, at intubation, at intervals of 1 min till 5 min, then every 2 min till 10 min and every 10 min for 30 min. Statistical analysis was done using Chi-square test and one way analysis of variance Results: SBP, DBP and HR fell in the DS and MS groups. No significant changes in BP were seen in the NS group at induction and after intubation. HR rose in the NS group (P < 0.001) at induction from 86.35 ± 9.05 to 95.35 ± 11.60 at 2 min. Patients in DS and MS groups had significantly lower HR, SBP and DBP at laryngoscopy and intubation. Conclusion: At BIS levels 40-50 (±5) there was no pressor response to intubation in the NS Group. Dexmedetomidine and magnesium sulphate significantly reduced the heart rate and blood pressure from baseline. A randomised comparative study on customised versus fixed sized pillow for tracheal intubation in the sniffing position by Macintosh laryngoscopy p. 344 Mridul Dhar, Habib Md Reazaul Karim, Narayanan Rajaram, Avinash Prakash, Sarasa K Sahoo, Anilkumar Narayan Background and Aims: The sniffing position has been most commonly used for positioning of the head and neck to facilitate tracheal intubation. However, the optimum degree of head elevation for the optimal laryngeal view is not well studied, especially in non-Western countries. The present study was aimed to compare the use of a fixed height pillow versus a customised pillow (CP) height for head elevation, in terms of glottis visualisation and time required for tracheal intubation. Methods: With research and ethics committee approval from the institute, this randomised study was conducted among patients of both sexes aged 16 years or more and American Society of Anesthesiologists physical Status I to IV. A total of 134 patients were randomly allocated into routinely used fixed-sized pillow (FP) and CP group (to achieve horizontal alignment of external auditory meatus [EAM] and sternal notch). Primary and secondary outcomes were Cormack–Lehane (C–L) grade of glottic visualisation and time required for tracheal intubation, respectively. They were compared using unpaired t-test and Fisher's exact test as applicable; P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: One hundred and nineteen patients completed the study. Both groups were similar in terms of demographic and external airway measurements. The mean ± standard deviation height of pillow required in Group CP was 6.26 ± 0.97 cm. Group FP had C–L Grade 3 view more often than Group CP (28.33% vs. 13.56%). In patients with modified Mallampati (MMP) Grade ≥3, the C–L grades and time required for intubation were both significantly lower in group CP. The time required for tracheal intubation was significantly lower in group CP (P = 0.04), even though the C–L grades were similar. Conclusion: Customising pillow for head elevation to horizontally align the EAM and the sternal notch gives better glottic visualisation and intubating conditions in patients with higher MMP grades. Direct and indirect low skill fibre-optic intubation: A randomised crossover manikin study of six supraglottic airway devices p. 350 Sau Yee Chow, Yan Ru Tan, Theodore Gar Ling Wong, Vui Kian Ho, Abey Matthew Matthews, Hui Hua Li, Patrick Wong Background and Aims: Fibre-optic intubation (FOI) through supraglottic airway devices (SADs) is useful in the management of the difficult airway. We compared two methods of FOI through seven SADs in a randomised crossover manikin study to assess each device's performance and discuss implications on SAD selection. Methods: Thirty anaesthetsiologists, 15 seniors and 15 juniors, each performed low skill FOI (LSFOI) with seven SADs using both 'direct' and 'indirect' methods. The order of method and device used were randomised. The primary end point was success rate of intubation; secondary end points were time taken for intubation, incidence of difficulties with direct and indirect LSFOI and operator device preference. Statistical analysis was with univariable analysis and comparison of proportions. Results: Data from six devices were analysed due to a protocol breach with one SAD. There was no difference in intubation success rate across all SADs and intubation methods. Intubation time was significantly shorter in AmbuAuragain than other SADs and shorter with the direct method of LSFOI than the indirect method (mean difference of 6.9 s, P = 0.027). Ambu Auragain had the least SAD and bronchoscope-related difficulties. Seniors had significantly shorter mean intubation times than juniors by 11.6 s (P = 0.0392). The most preferred SAD for both methods was AmbuAuragain. Conclusion: Low skill FOI consistently achieves a high intubation success rate regardless of experience, choice of method, or SAD used. SAD design features may significantly affect the performance of low skill FOI. A study to compare caudal levobupivacaine, tramadol and a combination of both in paediatric inguinal hernia surgeries p. 359 Neelam Dogra, Rajat Dadheech, Mahipal Dhaka, Anupama Gupta Background and Aims: Caudal block is a safe and simple method of pain relief in young children with the drawback of a short duration of analgesia which can be overcome by adding various adjuvants to the injected local anaesthetic. We compared the effects of caudal levobupivacaine, tramadol and a combination of both in paediatric patients undergoing inguinal herniotomy. Methods: A total of 78 children aged 1–7 years, planned for inguinal herniotomy were randomly allocated into three groups. Group L received levobupivacaine 0.125% 1 ml/kg, Group T received tramadol 1.5 mg/kg in 0.9% NS and Group LT 1 ml/kg of 0.125% levobupivacaine with 1.5 mg/kg tramadol caudally. The primary outcome was the duration of analgesia. Rescue analgesic doses required, the duration of motor blockade and adverse effects were recorded for 12 h post-operatively. Data was analysed by analysis of variance test, Kruskal-Wallis and Chi-square tests. Results: All groups were comparable with regard to age, sex and duration of surgery. No motor block was observed in any of the patients. The mean duration of analgesia in Group L was 321.46 ± 84.76 min, in Group T was 565.19 ± 107.08 min, and in Group LT was 720 min (P < 0.001). The requirement for rescue analgesia in tramadol group was significantly less as compared to levobupivacaine group. Sedation scores and adverse effects were comparable among all groups. Conclusion: Addition of tramadol to caudal levobupivacaine significantly increased the duration of postoperative analgesia. Evaluation of the effect of pre-operative over-fasting on post-operative vomiting in children undergoing bone marrow aspiration at a tertiary care setting in Sri Lanka: A prospective cohort study p. 366 Vidura Jayasinghe, P K Buddhika Mahesh, C M D Sooriaarachchi, Jimutha Jayalath, Weranga Karunarathne, SN Liyanage Background and Aims: Non-adherence to standard fasting guidelines may result in perioperative complications. We aimed to determine the association between pre-operative over-fasting and post-operative vomiting amongst children undergoing bone marrow aspiration under general anaesthesia. Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted from May 2015 to April 2016 in children undergoing bone marrow aspiration under general anaesthesia and their caregivers. Children fasted for ≥3 hours from last clear fluid intake constituted the exposed group (n = 202) while children fasting for <3 h constituted the non-exposed group (n = 202). The primary outcome was the development of post-operative vomiting during the 6 h following induction of anaesthesia. The awareness of the caregiver regarding the importance of keeping the child fasting before anaesthesia was evaluated. Results: The mean (standard deviation) duration time of fasting of the exposed and non-exposed groups were 7.2 (2.4) and 2.2 (0.3) h, respectively. Thirty-two (15.8%) children in the exposed group and 17 (8.4%) children in the non-exposed group developed post-operative vomiting. The relative risk of developing post-operative vomiting amongst over-fasting children was 1.9 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.1–3.3, P = 0.02), while adjusting to the age, it was 2.1 (95% CI = 1.1–4). Significantly more caregivers were clear about the fasting advice in the non-exposed group than in the exposed group (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Over-fasting is a significant risk factor to develop post-operative vomiting in paediatric anaesthetic practice. Effect of addition of dexamethasone to ropivacaine on post-operative analgesia in ultrasonography-guided transversus abdominis plane block for inguinal hernia repair: A prospective, double-blind, randomised controlled trial p. 371 Uma Datt Sharma, Prateek , Himani Tak Background and Aims: Ultrasonography (USG)-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is an abdominal field block with high efficacy. This study was undertaken with the aim of determining the effect of the addition of dexamethasone to 0.5% ropivacaine on post-operative analgesia in USG-guided TAP block for inguinal hernia repair. Methods: A double-blind randomised control study was conducted on sixty patients posted for inguinal hernia repair with the American Society of Anesthesiologists physical Status I or II, who were allocated two groups of 30 each. Patients in Group RS received 0.5% ropivacaine (20 ml) and normal saline (2 ml) whereas patients in Group RD received 0.5% ropivacaine (20 ml) and dexamethasone (2 ml, i.e., 8 mg), in USG-guided TAP Block on the same side, after repair of inguinal hernia under spinal anaesthesia. Visual analogue scale (VAS) scores, time for request of first analgesia and total tramadol consumption in first 24 h were compared. Unpaired Student's t-test and Mann–Whitney U-test were performed using SPSS 23 Software. Results: Patients in Group RD had significantly lower VAS scores as compared to Group RS from 4th to 12th h, postoperatively. Duration of analgesia was significantly more in Group RD (547.50 [530,530] min) when compared with Group RS (387.50 [370,400] min) (P < 0.001). The demand for intravenous tramadol was significantly low in Group RD (223.33 ± 56.83 mg) as compared to Group RS (293.33 ± 25.71 mg) (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Addition of dexamethasone to ropivacaine in USG-guided TAP block significantly reduces post-operative pain and prolongs the duration of post-operative analgesia, thereby reducing analgesic consumption. Feeding obturator as an airway adjunct during complete unilateral cleft palate repair p. 376 Moustafa Abdelaziz Moustafa, Alaa Abdelrahman Kandeel, Ahmed M A Habib, Shady A Hassan Background and Aims: The palatal defect and abnormal dentition in cleft palate make mask ventilation and laryngoscopy difficult. This study aimed to assess the effect of feeding obturator on laryngeal view in unilateral complete cleft palate. Methods: Ninety non-syndromic infants scheduled for the first stage correction of complete unilateral cleft palate were randomised to Group A (no feeding obturator) or Group B (obturator used for induction and intubation). The primary objective was to assess effect of the feeding obturator on the Cormack–Lehane grade on laryngoscopy. Effects on face mask ventilation, easiness of laryngoscopy and intubation and the side effects were also measured. Results: Ninety patients completed the study. There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups regarding the CL grade (P < 0.1). However duration for intubation was significantly longer in Group A than Group B (31.4 ± 12.8 vs. 23.4 ± 40.7 sec, P < 0.001). The degree of difficulty of face mask ventilation was significantly greater in Group A than Group B (P < 0.008). Attempts for successful intubation and manoeuvres for successful intubation were significantly more in Group A than B (P < 0.05). Trauma occurred in ten patients in Group A relative to no patients in Group B. Conclusion: Use of a pre-sized obturator in infants with complete unilateral cleft palate does not improve the laryngoscopic view. However, it results in better face mask ventilation and easier and faster laryngoscopy and intubation. Study of the impact of training of registered nurses in cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a tertiary care centre on patient mortality p. 381 Mayureshkumar Pareek, Vandana Parmar, Jigisha Badheka, Nirmalyo Lodh DOI:10.4103/ija.IJA_17_18 PMID:29910497 Background and Aims: Nurses should have cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) knowledge and skills to be able to implement effective interventions during in-hospital cardiac arrest. The aim of this descriptive study was to assess mortality impact after nurses' CPR training with pre-CPR training data at our institute. Methods: Training regarding CPR was given to nurses, and CPR mortality 1-year before basic life support (BLS) and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) training were collected and compared with post-training 1-year CPR mortality. Results: A total of 632 adult patients suffering in-hospital cardiac arrest over the study period. CPR was attempted in 294 patients during the pre-BLS/ACLS training period and in 338 patients in the post-BLS/ACLS training period. In the pre-BLS/ACLS training period, 58 patients (19.7%) had return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), while during the post-BLS/ACLS training period, 102 patients (30.1%) had ROSC (P = 0.003). Sixteen of the 58 patients (27.5%) who achieved ROSC during the pre-BLS/ACLS training period survived to hospital discharge, compared 54 out of 102 patients (52.9%) in the post-BLS/ACLS training period (P < 0.0001). There was no significant association between either the age or sex with the outcomes in the study. Conclusion: Training nurses in cardiopulmonary resuscitation resulted in a significant improvement in survival to hospital discharge after in-hospital cardiac arrest. Robotic hysterectomy in Trendelenburg position in a severely anaemic JKa alloimmunised patient with impending high-output cardiac failure: An anaesthetic challenge p. 385 Shagun Bhatia Shah, Ajay Kumar Bhargava, Rajiv Chawla, Amardeep Pathak Kidd blood group alloimmunisation, though extremely rare, may produce considerable morbidity, and even mortality. Severe anaemia and impending high-output cardiac failure requiring blood transfusion should be weighed against the risk of severe transfusion reactions even with fully cross-matched blood. Kidd antibodies are a common cause of delayed haemolytic transfusion reaction (DHTR) since they have a tendency remain undetectable in plasma. A low -grade DHTR (second hit) was grossly amplified by a second DHTR (third hit) superimposed on it in our patient leading to severe haemolysis with serum bilirubin reaching 68 mg%. Indirect antiglobulin test (indirect Coombs reaction) should ideally be performed in all patients (scheduled for major surgery requiring blood transfusion) who have experienced a previous pregnancy or blood transfusion. Non-invasive continuous haemoglobin monitoring and non-invasive cardiac output monitoring can prove invaluable tools in management. BRIEF COMMUNICATION Anaesthetising an infant with acrocallosal syndrome: An unusual case p. 389 Bharathi Hosdurg, Anita Pramod Nair, Jayashree Simha, Suma Sriramanan Pulsed radiofrequency lesioning of saphenous nerve and adductor canal in lower limb pain due to metastatic nodule p. 392 Severe angioedema of laryngeal inlet in a woman receiving telmisartan therapy undergoing breast conservation surgery p. 393 Bikram Kishore Behera, Satyajeet Misra, Madhabananda Kar Anaesthetic management of a child with Caroli's disease presenting for incidental surgery: A case report p. 395 Murugesh Sukumar, Rajagopal R Nair, Nikhil Kumar Gosalia Modification of intravenous cannula for arterial line insertion: Simple yet effective technique p. 397 Ashutosh Kaushal, Ashish Bindra, Shalendra Singh, Zakia Saeed Saviour of stylet injuries: 'Ryle's tube' p. 399 Rafat Shamim, Gaurav Sindwani, Vansh Priya, Aditi Suri Anaesthetic management and the role of sugammadex in a patient with Churg-Strauss syndrome p. 400 Ping Han Chia COMMENTS ON PUBLISHED ARTICLE Local anaesthetic injection point of erector spinae plane block p. 403 Serkan Tulgar, Onur Balaban RESPONSE TO COMMENTS The right plane for drug injection in ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block p. 405 Neeeraj Kumar Chaudhary, Swati Singh	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line9992
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__label__wiki	0.557117	0.557117	Last edited by Fauramar 4 edition of Fallen angels found in the catalog. Jules Remedios Faye a gallery of wood & linoleum cuts by Jules Remedios Faye Published 1999 by Street of Crocodiles in Sedro-Woolley, Wash . Artists" books -- Specimens, Private presses -- Washington (State) -- Specimens, Printing -- Washington (State) -- Specimens, Wood-engraving -- Washington (State) -- Specimens, Artists" illustrated books Statement by twenty artists accompanied by a tale as told to Jules Remedios Faye. Genre Specimens. Contributions Faye, Jules Remedios, signer., Faye, Jules Remedios, printer., Street of Crocodiles (Press),, Stern & Faye Printers, Pagination 51, [2] p. : Book Fallen Angels. With news of Horus’s treachery spreading across the galaxy, the Great Crusade grinds to a halt as the primarchs and their Legions decide where their loyalty lies – with the Emperor, or with the rebel Warmaster. ABOUT THE BOOK. 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Fallen Angels () is a science fiction novel by American science fiction authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn published by Jim gulfpbc.com winner of Prometheus Award, the novel was written as a tribute to science fiction fandom, and includes many of its well-known figures, legends, and gulfpbc.com also champions modern technology and heaps scorn upon its critics Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn. The Books of Enoch: The Angels, The Watchers and The Nephilim: (With Extensive Commentary on the Three Books of Enoch, the Fallen Angels, the Calendar of Enoch, and Daniel's Prophecy). A short summary of Walter Dean Myers's Fallen Angels. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Fallen Angels. Oct 07, · And to recognized this time many movies and books were made to educate people with. I am here to tell you my book fallen angels by Walter dean myers. Fallen angels is a novel that depicts the tragedy change and life during the war. 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The Vietnam War lasted from tobut the United States had the most boots on the ground inthe year in which Fallen Angels is set. Much of the international. Jul 22, · Fallen angels started out like all the other angels, good and devoted and loving God and all that. But in several different religious traditions, some of the angels rebelled or did other bad things and became fallen angels. Here's the story behind fallen angels. Oct 27, · Ellen Lloyd - gulfpbc.com - Little is known about the Watchers, the Fallen Angels who were the “sons of God”. The subject of the Watchers is controversial, and scholars think the Watchers deliberately ‘created’ the hybrid giants to destroy God’s creation as punishment for being cast out of heaven. The Watchers And The Nephilim In The [ ]. The Fallen Angel Series. Another paranormal romance novel series created by Jessica Bird under the name J.R. Ward, The Fallen Angel Series. 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__label__wiki	0.876322	0.876322	Devotee Artist’s Book on Emotions Connects Powerfully By: Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on Jan. 27, 2017 An ingenious and introspective spread from '100 Obscure Emotions' Rukmini Priya Poddar’s book 100 Obscure Emotions, about the complicated variety of feelings in the human experience, and her new illustrated advice column series – currently blowing up social media – are deeply resonating with readers. A second-generation devotee who grew up in the ISKCON community in Alachua, Florida, Rukmini received a B.A. in graphic design from the University of Florida, where she learned to work in digital mediums on logo design and marketing. But in 2015, inspired by Instagram’s 100-day project, in which artists post a piece of their work every day for one hundred days, she began working with traditional mediums like watercolor and pastels. “I was excited by this idea that you can just share imperfect things daily,” she says. “It was really inspiring, because I think as artists and creative people, we’re really blocked by the idea that we can only share our work when it’s perfect.” In April 2016, Rukmini came up with an intriguing theme for a 100-day project: obscure emotions. “At the time, a lot of new things were coming in and out of my life,” she says. “I had finished school, but wasn’t yet employed. I was traveling, had met new friends, and was entering a new relationship. All this led me to question where I was going in life.” She decided to express the complicated and very personal emotions she was feeling through art, and to vulnerably share them with the world. “There’s a well-known phrase that really fits: ‘What’s most personal is most universal,’” she says. Every day, Rukmini began portraying a different “obscure emotion” in striking, stylized ink drawings and red and pink watercolors, along with a pithy caption that summarized the essence of the feeling, and sharing it on Facebook and Instagram. Categories included communication and miscommunication, relationships, and introspection and self-growth. Most came from Rukmini’s real-life experiences. “I found that the more honest I was with my art, the more impactful it was,” she says. “If it really happened to me, the image was more powerful.” One, captioned “When you get to the heart of a difficult conversation,” shows two people arguing – portrayed through interconnecting speech bubbles full of agitated squiggles. But at the center of the Venn diagram connected by the bubbles is a heart. “That’s based off of a real conversation I had had the night before,” Rukmini says. “It was a very difficult conversation, but at the end we found the heart of it and got to a peaceful place.” Another powerful image shows a person carrying an umbrella and walking, depressed, through a downpour of flowers and hearts. The caption reads: “When you feel guilty for the good things that come into your life.” “It’s something I had always felt, and couldn’t explain it – it seemed strange, and I thought I was the only one that felt that,” says Rukmini. But when she shared the piece, waves of people messaged her on social media amazed and validated, saying it perfectly expressed what they were feeling. And they had the same experience with all her other illustrations. “My goal was to communicate words and images in a way that people would feel that they are reading their story and not mine,” she says. While the project is not obviously Krishna conscious in a traditional sense, it inspires deep introspection about the self, which Rukmini sees as a Krishna conscious topic. “It’s about asking ‘Who am I? Who is the person that is feeling these emotions?’” she says. “We are spirit souls experiencing emotions, but we are not the emotion itself, and we are not our minds. When we realize that, we can practice seeing ourselves witnessing the emotions, becoming aware, and letting them go. That very high spiritual consciousness is the goal.” The series became so popular that last summer, Rukmini used a self-publishing service to create a physical book of all one hundred of them, which has been selling well to customers from all over the world. Now, she is sharing daily images on Facebook and Instagram from another even more popular series. Entitled “Dear Ruksi” (Rukmini’s nickname), it’s an illustrated advice column – a spin on the common trope of newspaper advice columns. Rather than illustrating her own emotions, this time readers are sending Rukmini their emotions. In response, instead of offering typical advice, she translates them into a visual. “I’m not pretending to know the answers,” she says. “I’m just taking their obscure emotion, that’s hard for them to understand, and creating a visual for it, which is very powerful. So many people have messaged me and said things like, ‘This really helped me. To see this emotion I’ve been dealing with validated and shared online anonymously helps me own it.” This form of ‘art therapy’ has been extremely popular, with people resharing illustrations and feeling invested in the series. Next, Rukmini plans to pitch ‘Dear Ruksi’ to various major newspapers and websites as a unique new kind of illustrated advice column. She is also pursuing mainstream publication for her book ‘100 Obscure Emotions.’ In the meantime, she will continue her daily practice of creating art. “For me, it’s like sadhana, a daily practice that you show up to whether it’s perfect or not,” she says. In doing this, Rukmini tries to utilize the Bhagavad-gita’s teaching to surrender the results of one’s work to Krishna, and not be attached – which she says is incredibly liberating as an artist. She also meditates on how she is not “the doer,” another Gita concept. “If I think, “I’m doing this, I’m this talented person,’ then I get blocked and stuck,” she says. “But when I think, ‘I’m not the source, but I want to channel a higher source, in a way that inspires both me and my audience.. then suddenly you have a much more powerful and spiritualized perspective on art making.” Purchase Rukmini’s “100 Obscure Emotions” book here: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/6509291/8b6f4a96c5d5e6f772a7f61df18322d13cf472ac Follow her “Dear Ruksi” series here: https://www.instagram.com/rockinruksi/ To submit an emotion to “Dear Ruksi,” write to her at rukminipoddar@gmail.com [ book ] [ emotions ] Let Emotion Inform, But Not Form Our Decision Avatar Art: A Book Review Street Spirituality Books by Radhanath Swami and Vrinda Sheth Win Independent Publishing Awards Printing Matters Upcoming Ramayana Book Gives Sita a Voice Self-Publishing Services for Gaudiya Authors BBT Brazil's Crowdfunding Success for Large Scale Bhagavad-gita Print New BBT Book Inner Yoga Takes Practitioners Deep Into the Spiritual Core of the Yoga Tradition Pave the way for the Lord of the Universe New Book “Wise-Love” Boils Down Essence of Bhakti for a Modern Audience Philadelphia’s Mantra Lounge: A Center Built on Books BBT Staff Bond and Secure the Future at Annual Meeting BBT Project Manager Helps Create Automated Systems for More Responsible Publishing of Prabhupada’s Books The End of An Era: How The Warped Tour Changed Book Distribution in North America “Vedic Stories for Children” CD a Hit With Parents and Kids Sankirtan Fields Bloom Brightly in Ahmedabad This Vasanta Panchami Pranada Dasi’s “Wise-Love” Nominated for Prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Award Why We Hide ISKCON Brooklyn to Distribute 10,000 Books By End of the Year BBT’s New Podcast “Sankirtan On” Offers Book Distribution Inspiration ISKCON Book Shop Opens at New Delhi Railway Station New Book “Hanuman’s Quest” A Guide to Peace, Prosperity in Troubled Times Coalition of the Aces: Touchstone Media & Torchlight Publishing Merge New Book “The Emergence of Women’s Voices in ISKCON” to Launch with Online Event	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10003
__label__wiki	0.891382	0.891382	Home FOOD & DRINK Isthmus Dining Magical mushrooms Magical mushrooms From bar snacks to beverages, fungi are sprouting up everywhere by Allison Geyer Laura Zastrow Brandon Reid remembers a time when it seemed like there were only two kinds of edible mushrooms: canned and button. And the latter was usually undercooked. “Growing up, people maybe had a negative idea about them,” he says. “But there’s a huge variety, there’s this massive world of the fungus family.” Reid, executive chef at the Robinia Courtyard trio of restaurants, likes to feature several varieties of Wisconsin-grown mushrooms on his menus. At the farm-to-table Jardin, sauteed oyster, shiitake and crimini mushrooms play a starring role in a hearty dish with braised lentils and roasted vegetables. At Madison Tap, the same mushroom medley appears as a gourmet version of the deep-fried bar snack. “The goal going in was to make something really, really rich and meaty for vegans — those are flavors they don’t get all the time,” he says of the dishes. As Reid puts it, mushrooms have been “on a mainstream blast” lately, popping up on menus in Madison and elsewhere and topping recent culinary trend lists. Hailed as the latest superfood, fungi are rich in vitamins and antioxidants and offer a natural, umami-packed meat alternative. Functional mushrooms, a category of fungi believed to have medicinal value, are becoming popular additives to beverages, broths and even soaps. While many food fads tend to emerge on the coasts or in big cities, this particular trend is perfectly suited for Wisconsin. There are numerous mushroom growers in the state, and there’s also a long tradition of mushroom foraging. Hen-of-the-woods, lobster, lion’s mane — all can be found in Wisconsin’s forests, but the state is best known for morels. “That’s the Wisconsin specialty,” Reid says. “We grow them in abundance.” Tami Lax, owner of Harvest, was a mushroom forager in the 1970s and 80s, and the restaurant is still known for its emphasis on serving wild mushrooms. “A lot of foragers in the area know Tami really well, and we like to reward their hard work,” says Josh Franz, sous chef at Harvest. Mushroom foraging starts in spring and continues through late fall, with different varieties available at different points throughout the season. Springtime is best for morels, while autumn brings out puffballs and honey mushrooms. Farmers cultivate fungi year round, growing them in basements and cellars. Although there’s a certain romance to foraged food, cultivated mushrooms are just as tasty. Franz’s “favorite mushrooms” are the golden oysters grown at Indian Farm in Merrimac. “I like the earthiness, the mouthfeel, the umami that [mushrooms] can bring to any dish,” he says. “They’re just really versatile.” Giovanni Novella, executive chef at Fresco, has come to appreciate the wealth of Wisconsin mushrooms since moving here from California seven years ago, and he agrees that the ingredient is having a moment. “This past seven years, on every menu, I see mushrooms popping up more and more,” he says. “And not just the standard mushrooms, [but also] more hard-to-find varieties.” Recently Novella has been cooking with five different varieties of mushroom, including the distinctive Japanese enoki and yellow chanterelle. He likes combining different kinds of mushrooms for texture and experimenting with cooking techniques to bring out different flavors. “They can taste almost like a flower, very aromatic,” he says. Novella is a fan of pairing mushrooms with another protein — seafood in particular. On Fresco’s menu now is a seared scallop dish with fried enoki mushrooms in a lemon cream sauce. Diners can find dishes enhanced by mushrooms all over Madison — and not just at locavore spots. There are few things more satisfying than the deep-fried mushrooms at the Paradise Lounge. On the east side, both Alchemy and the Harmony Bar and Grill serve tasty marinated portabella sandwiches, and the Green Owl blends mushrooms with tofu to create ingeniously meatless crab cakes. Mushrooms add richness to healthy grain bowls at Forage Kitchen and Field Table. Gail ambrosius Chocolatier is famous for its shiitake truffle. Roasted mushrooms sourced from Vitruvian Farms in McFarland star in the appropriately named “Umami Pie” at Lucille. Expect to see more such dishes popping up in the future. “Just based on how food trends are working, everyone is kind of looking for more healthy options,” Franz says. “As a substitute protein, mushrooms work really well.” Isthmus Dining 2018 Mushrooms growing I see the mushroom industry growing into more and more spaces like permaculture farms and expanding into more restaurants. Fascinated me still! claire gervais more than 1 year ago Mushrooms are neither a new thing nor a trend Mushrooms have been on menus in Wisconsin for decades. And Wisconsin residents have been eating them forever. This is not another new food trend. Quit acting like it's the latest "new" food. Scott Jones more than 2 years ago	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10005
__label__wiki	0.732781	0.732781	News Group submit to Sienna – Dominic Crossley May 13, 2011 / INFORRM / 2 Comments Those in Mr Justice Vos’ ever lively Court 57 witnessed another bombshell today. The News of the World has capitulated entirely in the face of Sienna Miller’s claim. It was this claim that heralded the brave new world of phone-hacking litigation and sparked the arrest of Ian Edmondson by the army of policeman deployed in operation Weeting. It is not surprising that the News of the World should choose to settle this paradigm case, but the extent of their open admissions is truly astonishing. It is worth reminding ourselves of what Ms Miller sought by her claim. Naturally she asked the Court for an injunction preventing further hacking. The News of the World were unlikely to resist such an injunction, what with Glenn Mulcaire off the payroll and the eagle eye of Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers on its current operations. The second head of claim was damages for breach of confidence, misuse of private information and harassment. A figure of £100,000 for damages is unsurprising given the current precedents for privacy awards. It will be interesting to see whether future tussles over damages in phone hacking cases can move this figure on, with exemplary damages yet to be fully explored. Future claimants will not see this figure as a ceiling. Then there was a claim for “delivery-up”. Part of today’s judgment will see her receive full disclosure by the News of the World of the thousands of documents they hold associated with the hacking of her voicemail. One can only assume that she can return to Court if those documents are either inadequate or if they disclose information that would render her entitled to additional remedies. The final substantive remedy she has obtained is perhaps the most compelling: a declaration from the News of the World as to the unlawfulness of their scheme and its use in the production of a barrage of articles on Miller’s private life. It really is a mark of how far this issue has moved on that the News of the World are no longer prepared to dispute the “scheme” described in detail in this claim. The newspaper and Mr Mulcaire set out to target “political, royal and showbiz/entertainment” personalities by way of hacking. Daily transcripts would be delivered to the newspaper derived from Mulcaire’s nefarious techniques; obtaining direct dial numbers and re-setting pin numbers of its targets’ mobile phones. The particulars of claim also rely on the famous “for Neville” email that arose in the Gordon Taylor case and was subsequently examined at length in the Department of Culture Media and Sport Select Committee hearings. This was referred to as “no evidence” when News Group’s in-house lawyer and editor were asked about it in Parliament and it didn’t even arouse the suspicions of the police in 2006. It is now effectively admitted. With the £100,000 in damages and costs of at least double this figure Miller and her team have achieved everything they could possibly have hoped for at the outset of this action and it will be interesting to see how her example is utilised by the claimants that follow in her wake. One such claimant is Miller’s own step-mother Kelly Hoppen who claims that her phone was hacked first by Mulcaire then again in 2009 by News of the World journalist Dan Evans. This claim also took a leap forward yesterday with the explosive evidence that Dan Evans’ computer contained the same private mobile numbers as those found in Mulcaire’s papers. The full impact of this revelation has yet to be fully played-out but the suggestion is that this journalist made ongoing use of Mulcaire’s information when Mulcaire was removed from the picture by way of his conviction and prison sentence in 2007. Sienna Miller may have been removed as the glowing poster-girl of the gang of lead hacking claimants following today’s developments but others are ready to step into her shoes. With claims like Hoppen’s in the wings, this may not be good news for News Group. Dominic Crossley is a partner at Collyer Bristow LLP. Max Mosley: comment and opinion – Rosalind English Case Comment: MJN v News Group – privacy injunction, telling the story and public hearing – Sara Mansoori HACKGATE DAY 118: Koo Stark to sue unnamed tabloid as hacking trail leads back to Royals. \| The Slog Case Law: R (Bryant) v Commissioner of Police: Police may have duty to inform victims of phone hacking – Adam Wagner « Inforrm's Blog Does 'deplatforming' work to curb hate speech and calls for violence? 3 experts in online communications weigh in - Jeremy Blackburn, Ugochukwu Etudo, Robert W. Gehl Top 10 Defamation Cases of 2019: a selection - Suneet Sharma	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10010
__label__wiki	0.775543	0.775543	Home > Information hub > Euroa Working Group helps refine Inland Rail design Euroa Working Group helps refine Inland Rail design Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is continuing community engagement for the Inland Rail project in Euroa following an extended break while essential approvals were progressed. Tottenham to Albury Consultation Consultative Committee/Working Group News As part of this community engagement, the Euroa Working Group tasked with refining the designs for the Inland Rail project site on Anderson Street is set to meet again late August, whilst ensuring they adhere to social distancing requirements. In the lead-up to the Group’s next meeting, ARTC’s General Manager Victoria Projects Ed Walker updated the Euroa community by mail to outline the project’s timing and approvals processes. “Our delivery strategy will see the 12 Victorian enhancement sites placed across two tranches. Euroa is placed in the later tranche to allow sufficient time to work through planning and design for the Anderson St site, as well as requirements developed by the Euroa Working Group and Strathbogie Shire Council,” Mr Walker said. “The detailed design process in Euroa is expected to start mid-way through next year. We will meet with the Euroa Working Group in the coming weeks to update members on ARTC’s progress, outline the next steps for and the important role they will play in the detailed design.” Mr Walker also said ongoing COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria have limited the ability for the working group to meet in person. “The safety of the community and our team are paramount, so unfortunately meeting face-to-face has not been an option for the working group this year. Given the issue across Victoria is persisting, we are looking to explore online options where possible to maintain the positive dialogue to date.” “A major milestone for the project was recently reached with Expressions of Interest being sought to engage two companies to complete the early phase of design work across T2A enhancement sites. “These contractors will be selected in August and invited to work closely with ARTC to address the complex engineering and constructability challenges we face at our key sites.” ARTC also recently submitted a referral for the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act for Biodiversity Matters of National Environmental Significance (EPBC). The community can read submissions here. Euroa residents can keep up to date with progress of the Working Group via Inland Rail’s website, where all meeting minutes and presentation materials are uploaded. “This webpage lists all material relating to each meeting. Users can also navigate to the Euroa project on the interactive Social Pinpoint map, and find quick links to ask questions and access the latest news relevant to the area,” Mr Walker said. “In the coming months, ARTC will also continue to progress ecology surveys, historic heritage consultation and indigenous heritage investigations in order to prepare for future works. We will also be holding discussions with landowners in the project area where possible to keep them well informed of the project.” Mr Walker said Inland Rail will help get trucks off the Hume Highway by catering for double-stacked trains through Strathbogie Shire, and cut more than 10 hours off the transit from Victoria to Queensland for freight, bypassing the heavily constrained route through Sydney and the circuitous route via the NSW North Coast. “Not only does Inland Rail deliver a freight solution to support the country’s future, but it’s critical to keep the national economy moving, particularly in regional areas along the alignment by keeping locals in jobs,” said Mr Walker. “A recent EY report into Inland Rail Regional Opportunities estimated it will boost the Victorian Gross Regional Product by up to $4.6 billion over a 50-year operating period, on top of the positive impacts of the construction period.” For the latest Inland Rail developments in Euroa, or to ask questions and provide feedback on the visualisations, please get in touch. Lockyer Valley CCC meeting minutes 20 October 2020 Meeting minutes from the Lockyer Valley Community Consultative Committee meeting, held on the 20 October 2020. Inner Darling Downs CCC meeting minutes 1 Dec 2020 Minutes from the Inner Darling Downs Community Consultative Committee held on 1 December 2020. Calvert to Kagaru EIS summary of findings A draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been prepared for the Calvert to Kagaru Project. The EIS describes the Project, considers potential environmental, social and economic impacts of the Project, and identifies measures to avoid, minimise and mitigate these impacts.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10013
__label__cc	0.625276	0.374724	Free Facebook Ads Cheatsheet Golden Advice » The Biggest Opportunity in Facebook Ads Right Now Follow @hernanv07 Download The Cheatsheet (FREE) How To Grow Your Facebook Group In 2019 My Favorite 5 Free Traffic Sources You Can Use Today MY TOP 5 BEST PRODUCTIVITY HABITS AND HACKS Auto Bidding Vs Manual Bidding On Facebook Advertising – Which One Should You Use WHY YOUR FACEBOOK ADS ARE NOT DELIVERING (AND HOW TO FIX IT) By Hernan Vazquez Nowadays, as we all know there's an increasing cost of running Facebook ads because there are more and more advertisers on the platform every day. So, the question that we get a lot is “How do you cope with the increasing Cost of Facebook Ads?” Unfortunately, Facebook is a limited inventory platform. And unless they crack the code on the Audience Network, which is not that viable because of the quality of traffic, we're bound to advertise in the same places as everyone else. Now, how do you kind of reverse your advertising strategy, so that you can actually lower your costs and increase the quality of leads? The biggest opportunity that we have right now doesn't have to do with running conversion campaigns but with the following two campaign objects: Objective # 1 – Engagement + Objective # 2 – Video Views We’re building audiences through these campaign objectives and we’re showing relevant videos to relevant audiences. Once you’re targeting engagement and video views your cost goes dramatically down. The reason why is that Facebook allows us to build relevant audiences in the platform without those audiences even touching our funnel. Facebook loves Facebook, so every time you share something within Facebook, that leads people within Facebook, they will reward you. So through these campaign objectives we build audiences so as to selling to these audiences later. Because what's the point of building audiences if you cannot sell to these audiences? And the big opportunity on Facebook is that building audiences is really cheap right now and we need to use this in our favor. So, I hope you give a try and focus your campaigns on these two objectives and scale your business because this is the right time to do it… FULL TRANSCRIPT. All right, what's up everybody. So today's topic is going to be the best opportunity in advertising right now.Specifically, when it comes to Facebook, and Instagram ads, the best opportunity out there when it comes to advertising, right now, I'm going to share it with you. Now with that being said, I recorded a brand new class yesterday, showing you the three pillars of a great advertising campaign, and you can access that the class is completely free. All you need to do is to go to AD strike effect.com. So go there, it's completely free. And I hope that you enjoy it and you get some value out of it. Now with that being said, let's talk about the opportunity. Right. So what we usually do what we used to do when it comes to Facebook ads and I had a conversation with a really good media buyer yesterday for her podcast and one of the things that she was saying is that how do you cope with the increasing Cost of Facebook ads, right? We all know that there's an increasing cost of running Facebook ads. And the reason why is because there are more and more advertisers on the platform. And what happens is that people will start to advertise and they start putting more and more budgets in the platform. And you know, the cost to the rest of the advertisers goes up. Now, I told this lady, her name is Lisa, and she saw somebody way, and I'm going to be sharing the podcast once you release it. And I told her Listen, unless Facebook cracked the code on the audience network, which is the massive amount of websites out there that you can advertise, like Google did with the Google Display Network, then we're bound to be limited by Facebook and venturi. Okay. So Google, for instance, they don't have that issue. They don't have they never have any inventory problems. Why? for two main reasons, number one, because they own YouTube. And if you're running advertising on YouTube, what happens? That there are like hundreds of thousands and even millions of videos being uploaded every single day. And you can, you can advertise on those videos, right? So Google doesn't have an inventory problem, they always have an ever growing inventory for us to buy ads on. The same happens with the Google Display Network. Hundreds of thousands and even millions of new websites are being put together every single day. And some of those will end up with a Google AdSense code, which is basically where we can advertise. But that doesn't happen on Facebook. Unfortunately, Facebook is a limited inventory platform. They bought WhatsApp, they bought Instagram and that open and a bunch of new inventory. I don't know I think that they're going to start doing some ads on WhatsApp right now you can send messages on WhatsApp, but I think they're going to start doing some ads pretty soon and they will start charging you know charging for a premium WhatsApp or whatever. But at the end of the day, what we have unless they cracked the code on the audience network, which is not that viable, unfortunately at the moment, because of the quality of traffic. Unless that happens, then we're bound to advertise in the same places as everyone else that is the Facebook feeds, Facebook mobile feeds, you know, the Facebook, right hand column messenger, Instagram, and it's completely sold out. So that means that the cpms that we are looking at are right at the amount the cost per click and everything, you know, goes up. All right. So how do you cope with that? Okay, how do you kind of reverse your advertising strategy, so that you can actually lower your costs and increase the quality of leads? And I was talking to one of my friends yesterday, and he was telling me, dude, I cannot believe that you're paying 35 to $40 per qualified lead for your offer. And I was like, yeah, we're paying around 40 to $75 per qualified leads to a high ticket offer. And he has a he has a Facebook ad agency, and he was he was like, Well, I'm paying around $100 but The difference is that with with this opportunity that I'm about to tell you guys about is that the quality of the leads that you're getting, if you use this mechanism is much, much higher. Okay? So even if we're paying the same amount of money per lead, if we're paying $100 each per lead, if I have better quality leads through the mechanism that I'm about to tell you, then I win. Because my average lifetime value, my life, my cart value, they will all go up. All right. So what is the mechanism? You might say, okay, it's really simple. It's really simple. And the biggest opportunity that we have right now doesn't have to do with running conversion campaigns. Everyone is out there running conversion campaigns, everyone is out there looking for leads hunting for leads for their webinar for the PDF for the application, and that's fine. But what happens is that when we are running this strategy that I'm about to tell you, your costs go down dramatically. And there are two campaign objects. tips that you want to pay attention to. So the first one is engagement. And the second one is video views. So what we're doing right now is we're building audiences through this to campaign objectives. And we're showing really relevant videos to a really relevant audience. Facebook allows us to target really relevant audiences for us to show our videos to. And what happens when you're targeting engagement and video views is your cost to engage with somebody dramatically goes down. The reason why is very simple. Facebook allows us to build audiences within the platform. Without those audiences even go into our funnel. Let me say that again. Facebook allows us to build audiences in the platform without those audiences even touching our funnel, which is great. So everything Facebook loves Facebook, right? Facebook loves Instagram and every time you share something within Facebook, that lead people within Facebook, they will reward you. So if you have a video view campaign or if you have an engagement campaign, guess what, people do not leave Facebook. And that is something that Facebook likes. I like it a lot. So if you share something, for instance, try sharing a Facebook video, like this video if you want to to your timeline and see what the reach is for that video, and then try pasting or try sharing a YouTube video. on your timeline, you will see what the reach is. Usually what happens is that when you're sharing Facebook assets on Facebook, they will get much more organic reach, right not to mention while we're paying on advertising, which is way lower. So what we're doing here, through engagement and video views campaigns, we're building audiences, we're building audiences and we're building audiences, the average cost per 100% consumption on some of the campaigns that I'm running right now. It's anywhere between 10 to 15 cents, and these are like six to seven minutes to 10 minutes long videos right? What happens there is that you have somebody consuming a video of 10 minutes for 12 seconds for 15 seconds for 20 seconds, and you can put them into your quote unquote list, which is not your list is your custom audience on Facebook. But imagine if you could generate leads to your list for 10 cents qualified leads in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, you know, the big countries. So think about that for a minute, think about the power. So and then what we do is basically two steps. So we have we're building audiences. And then we're selling to these audiences as well. Because what's the point of building audiences if you cannot sell to these audiences? Now, here's the deal. This step right here, the building audiences step is really, really, really, really cheap right now. So there's a big opportunity on Facebook while everyone else is battling. They're increasing cars. They're all battling they're increasing cpms in cost per lead and cost per acquisition in everything. What we're doing is we're taking the other Our approach so this step becomes really, really cheap. But that's not the only benefit that we have here. This is one of the big opportunities that we have. But the other big opportunities that once we have this audience right here, they can start selling them, and keep on selling them and keep on selling them again. So your audiences that you have built on Facebook, they become your assets. On Facebook, you have built them for really, really cheap. I'm running ads for one of my companies semantic mastery, and we're running ads for a product which is called double your agency which helps entrepreneurs increase the amount of clients that they have for their digital marketing agencies. And you can check them out at double your agency calm or to ex your agency COMM And what we do is we spent around I think that we spent around $2,000, and we build a custom audience of 25% video viewers, and 50% video viewers have around 15,000 people 15,000 people for 20 $500. I mean you don't need to spend 20 $500 But you can spend $500 and get like 7000 people in that audience, you know. So this is still really, really, really cheap. And not only that, but let's say that after this process, we're paying the same per lead, or per conversion, or per book buyer or per webinar, registering whatever that is, the quality of the sale, the average lifetime value, the average cart value, the transaction value that we have here is much, much higher than if you would get somebody out called from Facebook and put them into a list or put them into a webinar. Again, I'm not saying that you should stop doing that. This is like a compliment that this is like an addition to those call campaigns that are really working for you. I'm not saying stop doing that. But I'm just saying that if you add this to your arsenal, you can increase the quality of your leads while still keeping your cost of advertising on Facebook and Instagram and check. Now this is the biggest opportunity ever. Because right now, the big companies Like Coca Cola, you know, Volvo Bentley, they haven't realized that this is really cheap, the moment they realize, then the cost of building harnesses is also going to go up. So right now it's the big opportunity for us to build audiences and sell to those audiences, right? But without really, really helpful content, build those audiences and then sell to those audiences. Now, the good news is that this will also impact your call conversion campaigns, they can face the the traditional type of campaigns Why? Because you develop something called a halo effect, okay, people will engage with a call ad, they will comment they will play and they will start seeing you everywhere, which is something that we really want to achieve, not to be you know, like creepy or, or obnoxious or anything like that. But we really want to be helpful and cool with people, which is something that I really like and it's something that this is getting me really excited because we can be super helpful, create a lot of goodwill, a lot of authority in the marketplace, and they Get that money baby, which is what we're doing business for. Now once you have this, again, you need three components to make any campaign work, which is something that I explained in my brand new class. It's free by the way, and I hope that you enjoyed there's a lot of value in there to scold the Facebook ads trifecta. So if you go to add trifecta comm, you will be able to get access to my class. It's 100% free. And I hope that you enjoyed.Thank you guys. I hope that you enjoyed. If you have any questions, feel free to post them on the comments below. If you have any questions about advertising or marketing, go to marketing Atlas show.com and leave me a question there. I go live every Wednesday at 2pm. Eastern, so you can go ahead and leave me a question there is marketing Atlas show.com I hope that you got some value out of this. Have an amazing Friday, everybody. I'll see you guys really really soon. Bye bye About the Author Hernan Vazquez Hernan Vazquez is a digital marketing trainer and consultant that built several 7 figure businesses from scratch. He specializes in helping business and students grow their online businesses through the use of Sales Funnels, Paid Advertising and Email Marketing. Copyright 2017+ Hernan Vazquez Media LLC. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10016
__label__wiki	0.949645	0.949645	Breaking News from around the UK News Reviews and Debate from around the World Is the Ant Group shake-up a sign of things to come? December 30, 2020 December 30, 2020 5 min read InsightNewsReport China’s central bank hauled in executives from Ant Group over the weekend, and ordered a major shake-up of the company’s operations. The move comes about a month after regulators scuppered the company’s listing on the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges. Some see the move as a vengeful communist party lashing out at the company’s outspoken founder Jack Ma. But analysts note that reforming the financial sector is a long-standing policy goal, and other companies could also end up in the crosshairs of regulators. “Ant Financial is the first cab off the rank when it comes to these new requirements and an increased level of scrutiny,” said Michael Norris, research and strategy lead at AgencyChina. “While the talk about palace intrigue between Jack Ma and his various detractors is titillating, it does ignore that policy environment where slowing up the build-up of risk is clear and resolute as a priority.” Ant Group is China’s biggest payments provider, with more than 730 million monthly users on its digital payments service Alipay. But it’s the company’s lending practices that appears to worry the regulators more. Ant acts as a marketplace for loans. It takes a fee to match borrowers with banks, who then take on the risk. Over the weekend central bank officials met with executives from Ant Group, and ordered the company to “rectify” its lending, insurance and wealth management services. According to People’s Bank of China (PBOC) Vice Governor Pan Gongsheng, regulators drew attention to Ant’s poor corporate governance, defiance of regulatory demands and its use of its market size to squeeze out competitors. Ant was urged to return to its origins as a payments business, and to enhance transaction transparency and avoid unfair competition. Mr Pan also said Ant should be properly licensed to operate a credit business, should establish a holding company, and must ensure capital adequacy. Under draft rules published by the People’s Bank of China in November, online lenders must provide at least 30% of any loan they fund jointly with banks. In other words, under the new rules Ant Group will be expected to behave a little more like a traditional lender. Hangzhou-based Ant Group said in a statement it would establish a “rectification” working group and fully implement regulatory requirements. Mr Norris said it appears the regulators are worried that easy credit could mean investors will borrow on margin to make risky investments in shares. This isn’t a new concern in China. Easy access to credit helped fuel share market turbulence in 2015, when some investors were unable to repay their margin loans after a share market rout. Also, if Ant Group bears none of the risk, then its main incentive is to process as many loans as possible, with little regard to the effect they might have on the lending institutions that actually underwrite them. “The regulators would much prefer the risk is shared between the platform and the financial institution, and that the financial institution has a greater oversight of the lending practices and the matching criteria that are going on,” Mr Norris said. The Chinese regulators first moved to rein in Ant Group shortly before its planned Initial Public Offering (IPO) in early November. The move came after Ant Group’s billionaire founder and controlling shareholder Jack Ma had criticised China’s state-dominated banking sector at a fintech conference in Shanghai. Mr Ma likened China’s banks to “pawn shops” and lamented their lack of innovation. The timing of the crackdown fuelled speculation that his speech had offended the top echelons of the communist party, who had responded by cracking down on Ant Group. Nearly two months later, the regulators still appear to be interested in Mr Ma. In addition to its moves against Ant Financial, last week China’s antitrust authorities said they had launched a probe into Mr Ma’s e-commerce platform Alibaba. He has been advised by the Chinese government to stay in the country, Bloomberg reported. But even if high ranking party officials bear a grudge against Mr Ma (something they’re unlikely to confirm publicly) that doesn’t mean the authorities don’t have legitimate concerns about the emerging financial technology sector. Ant might have been the first fintech company to be hauled before the regulators, but it’s unlikely to be the last. Many other large players have waded into the industry, including Tencent and Alibaba’s e-commerce competitor JD.com. Already, some of Ant Group’s competitors are changing the way they operate ahead of major changes in the rules. For example, online providers JD Digits, Tencent, Baidu and Lufax all stopped selling interest-bearing deposits on their platforms after Ant was forced by regulators to do the same. “I don’t think anyone’s immune at this stage, and certainly the principles by which Ant Group matches consumers and financial products is broadly similar to the way that Tencent does the same,” said Mr Norris. 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__label__cc	0.539481	0.460519	Institute on gender equality and women's history Guided tours Atria Course Catalogue Gender Johanna Naber Award FRAmes on GENder Labor and care (Inter)national About Atria History Atria collection Agenda () News and publications () Catalog (library and archive) Digital available () Catalog (library and archive) () Library business hours Tuesday to Friday 10:00 - 17:00 +31 20 30 31 500 info@atria.nl The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) is a Cyprus-based feminist NGO that conducts policy and action research in the areas relevant to women’s rights. Longlist Cyprus (pdf) Shortlist Cyprus MIGS contact: Anna Zobnina, Josie Christodoulou Experts and selection Four experts participated in the project. The selection of texts itself was not a difficult task, mostly due to limited number of feminist literature in Cyprus. Envisioning a Feminist Global Society Cypriot Women, Civil Society and Global Change The article presents a collection of interviews with a number of NGO’s in Cyprus with an attempt to visualize the emergence of alternative agenda’s and structures at the background of ethnically divided Cyprus. Women’s Constructions of Women: on Entering the Front Door Article \| Cyprus English title: Women’s Constructions of Women: on Entering the Front Door Source: Journal of International Women’s Studies Keyword(s): constructions of women \| otherhood \| Cyprus Languages(s): English URL: https://www.bridgew.edu/ Manifest: view document Copyright: © Copyright Creative Commons LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Summary: Despite the […] Mapping the Realities of Trafficking in Women An report on the mapped existing data on trafficking of women for sexual exploitation in Cyprus. Women in the Cypriot Communities : Interpreting Women’s Lives The book presents the first systematic effort in examining women’s experiences in divided Cyprus. The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in Cyprus Through interviews, action research and political analysis it exposes gender dynamics within the ethnic conflict on the island and its partition. War in Cyprus: Patriarchy and the Penelope Myth It portraits the struggle in times of crisis and focuses on the situation of women who lost their husbands, fathers, brothers, or other male kin protectors during the 1974 war. The Global Political Economy of Sex The book presents a multi-sectoral analysis of the sex industry in Mediterranean states. I accept the privacy- and cookie policy of Atria © 2021 Atria Email selection Send selection to Remark (Optional)	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10021
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__label__wiki	0.537763	0.537763	Is firebrand Mhairi starting to enjoy Westminster too much? by Colin Campbell MHAIRI Black admitted at the weekend that any move to hold an illegal referendum on independence would be just that – illegal. Mhairi Black…perks, privileges and a mountain of money at Westminster. An obvious statement to make, but quite a U-turn from an SNP MP who said back in January that a “wildcat referendum” was a perfectly viable proposition. In an article she has now conceded that any referendum held without a Section 30 order being granted by Westminster would not be legally valid. This has not endeared her to the sizeable element within the nationalist movement who are writhing with frustration over Nicola Sturgeon’s “failure to deliver” on her numerous referendum pledges. They viewed Black as being one of them, the kind of representative they could rely on to offer hope that, by fair means or foul, they could smash through any barriers blocking the route to “indyref2”. Now Mhairi Black has burdened them with the last thing they want, a healthy dose of disenchantment. On social media she is the darling of the militant nationalists no more, as she was excoriated over her attitude to the rather awkward issue of illegality. Maybe Mhairi Black still ardently wants independence, or maybe she is beginning to feel more and more comfortable at Westminster – the place she professes to hate. There’s the salary, the expenses, the perks, the privileges, and the sense of being at the centre of power in the Mother of Parliaments. Over time, it must begin to grow on you. My own view is that many if not most of the SNP MPs at Westminster are playing out some kind of charade. They have to make continual noises about wanting to break free from England – but one part of England, that distinguished cluster of ancient buildings in SWI, is not somewhere they are in any hurry to be parted from. Inverness MP Drew Hendry used to be a local councillor circling Glenurquhart Road looking for a space in the car park before trudging into council HQ to discuss local issues like the West Link or which school to try and patch up next. It was worthy work but it scarcely had much glamour attached to it. But Mr Hendry has moved on. Routinely berating Boris Johnson and the Tories is his principal topic now. Occasionally, he will offer opinions on specific local issues which gain him a picture in the papers, like “rip-off parking charges” or the cost of parcel delivery to the Highlands. But he certainly doesn’t make a habit of it. His focus is on bigger things. And I’ve no doubt that’s where he wants them to stay. He was so fervently in favour of independence that in the election last December he didn’t mention it in his campaign literature – not a sentence, not a word, not once. But his reticence vanished a few days later when, safely back at Westminster, he popped up in a Sky TV studio arguing vehemently for – independence. And does anyone seriously believe Ian Blackford is desperate to forfeit his prime position on the national stage as the much-televised leader of the SNP at Westminster – not to mention the £256,000 in expenses he last claimed to go with it – and to see it all go up in smoke amid the flames and the fury of another referendum? After which he would emerge as – what? Depending on the outcome, who knows. But he will never become leader of the SNP, even if he wanted that poisoned chalice presiding over so many warring factions. In his heart of hearts he probably knows that he either keeps what he’s got down south – which is plenty – or it really will be a return to the obscurity of life on his Skye croft. And no matter how amusing he currently finds it to describe himself as a “simple 10-acres crofter” – that prospect will give him no amusement at all. Mhairi Black will still rant against Eton toffs and the hated Tories in her grating, gravelly voice, and soak up the applause when she does so. But does she really want another referendum and the prospect of independence, with the potential loss of the elite status she enjoys at Westminster? Or, like Hendry, Blackford, and the rest of them, has she started enjoying life down there too much? colcam56 July 13, 2020 July 20, 2020 Previous Previous post: Running on empty: bus firms must do more to bring passengers back Next Next post: Five summers of sound and fury, and plans to ‘enhance’ the riverside have got nowhere	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10027
__label__cc	0.505604	0.494396	KarenTBTEN Hi. I'm a teacher and a writer. One of my passions is stringing words together -- and another is reading them out loud! I enjoy recording audio (public domain works as well as my own pieces).I teach small group writing classes in the Seattle, and have recently begun teaching online. Teaching Classic and Traditional Poems About the Sea An exploration of classic sea poems that can be paired together for classroom study, with audio and other tips for supporting comprehension. owlcation.com Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes Eating Vegetarian With Reduced Histamine and Glutamate I am being facetious when I say I am allergic to flavor! Sensitive to flavor enhancers would be closer to the truth. It's not the most typical form of intolerance, but there are times I need to be very careful about what's in my food. Histamine and... The Cross of Gold Speech: Beginning Rhetorical Analysis William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech was a masterpiece in its day. It still is -- and it can be used to develop students' rhetorical analysis skills. Lesson Plans for The Stories Julian Tells The Stories Julian Tells is a popular beginning chapter book for students at third grade level. It's an engaging family story with some 'big ideas' or themes that children have to dig to get to. It's a Common Core reading selection. My favorite way... Mary Poppins Lesson Plans For nearly half a century, children have been watching Mary Poppins. Fewer have read the original book by P.L. Travers. I believe it's a worthy read. While it lacks the singing that I so enjoyed in childhood, it does give a young reader a lot to... Lois Lowry's Gossamer: Lesson Plans Newberry-winning children's novelist Lois Lowry is adept at presenting universes with rules not quite like our own. In Gossamer,she presents us with a unique world, even though ostensibly it takes place in our own nighttime landscape. There are... Wizard of Oz Lesson Plans for High School: Critical Analysis The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is almost an all-ages book. It was written at about 6th grade level, though younger students have embraced it as their own. The book even provides opportunities for high school students to sharpen their skills. It can... wehavekids.com The Wizard of Oz Lesson Plans The Wizard of Oz is high interest reading for students in the middle grades. Explore lesson plans for the classic book as well as for the new prequel and sequel. Stuffed Animals & Teddy Bears Baby Baa Baa: Still Talking after 30 Years Baby Baa Baa was a born conversationalist, and he is oh-so-charismatic -- though admittedly, he has always been limited to a handful of key phrases. They are expressions like "I'm Baby Baa Baa," "I love you," and "I'm baa-ashful". Believe it or not,... Dolls for Native American Children Traditionally, "Native American inspired dolls" have been objects that sat on shelves, teaching a mixture of truths and untruths, primarily to adults. Many have been a mishmash of cultural traits, drawn largely from the Plain states. Ah, but what... South Asian Dolls To girls, dolls can be confidants. They can also be a reflection of a girl's current and future self. These days, thankfully, dolls come in all the shades that people do. Depending on their faith and traditions, they may wear saris or abayas. You... Asian Dolls: Representing our World In decades past, there was the Japanese Jan doll, providing at least a token acknowledgement that little girls of different ethnicities sat in classrooms together (with their hands up). But mostly little girls, whatever their race, got white baby... Poems & Poetry Henry David Thoreau Poems Henry David Thoreau is a well-remembered and well-loved literary figure, even now, 150 years after his death. It's primarily his prose that is studied, but he is also credited with about 300 poems. In poetry, he extolled nature, noted the... A Little Princess: Lesson Plans Explore lesson plans and resources for Francess Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess. Teaching Critical Literacy with The Secret Garden In this article, you will find a bit of literary criticism, written with the teacher in mind. You will also find critical literacy lesson plans for this Frances Hodgson Burnett classic. Habitat Study: Polar Lesson Plans If you went to the Arctic, what do you think you'd see? During our habit unit, my second and third graders would begin the morning by enthusiastically chanting that poem. They knew there was much to see in polar lands! If Ms. Frizzle had shown up... Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems Listen to Ralph Waldo Emerson poetry, and explore the meanings behind works such as "The Amulet" and "The Fable". Robert Frost Summer Poems Summer is on its way, but there's still time for literature! Robert Frost was a master at capturing the nuances of different seasons, and summer is no exception. In his poems, we find summer captured in a variety of ways. It is portrayed as a time... Emily Bronte Poems Emily Bronte's poetry includes evocative cadences and enigmatic meanings. Listen to some poems and explore poetry analysis here. Robert Frost Autumn Poems Robert Frost's poems capture the nuances of seasonal change. Explore the many faces of fall while listening to audio recordings of a few Frost autumn poems. The Little Prince: Truth in Metaphor Antoine de Saint Exupery's author's note on The Little Prince-- "not for grownups" -- is a bit facetious. On the one hand, The Little Prince does portray 'grownups' as folks who go around foolishly pursuing wrong values; still the story themes (and... Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall': Multimedia Lesson Plans Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" can be read as an early 20th century nature poem, the tale of two neighbors who meet in April to repair the damage that the winter freeze has inflicted upon their shared wall. The poem can also be read as an allegory... Promoting Critical Literacy with The Ugly Duckling Should we close the book on a happy ending or explore the story's hidden messages? "The Ugly Duckling" is an excellent text for developing critical literacy skills.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10033
__label__wiki	0.56366	0.56366	A predicted rise this year in the growth of the men’s fashion and luxury grooming products has ground to a halt because of the coronavirus. Despite a huge increase in the popularity of fashion retail for men, consumer demand in clothing and grooming accessories has taken a significant hit since the start of the global pandemic. Marketing company Euromonitor International had predicted that 2020 would be the year that men’s fashion would outperform women’s clothing. According to its research, men’s consumer rates were predicted to develop by 2.3 per cent globally compared to the 2.2 per cent growth rate for female clothing. But in reality, the menswear market, which accounts for around 26 per cent of the total clothing market across the world, is experiencing a slower rate of growth – rising by only 1.2 per cent to £15.4 billion in 2019 compared to last year due to the pandemic. The challenging retail climate has promoted many high street brands to increase promotional activity in a bid to combat the lack of growth within the men’s fashion and sector. Proof that khaki tones still work for summer @alessandro960 👌 #ThisIsNewLook A post shared by New Look Men (@newlook_men) on Jul 27, 2020 at 10:07am PDT High Street retail giant, New Look is set to close their menswear stores and is expecting to see a big fall in sales this year. On March 27, the National Chamber of Italian Fashion announced that Spring 2021 Milan Men’s fashion week was going to be shown alongside the Women’s collection in September. The plan, according to an announcement made by the Chamber earlier this year, was to launch an innovative marketing campaign aimed at the growing demand for menswear. “We are working on new digital formats and new ways of encounter, in order to create a new storytelling on the days originally scheduled for the Milan Men’s Fashion Week,” said a spokesman. “We are aware that great efforts will be made in order to have the new collections ready by June to start an innovative selling campaign.” Vogue Editor Anna Wintour has already famously urged the fashion industry to “rethink our values” in light of the pandemic. She said that the affluent expenditure of two-year fashion weeks in New York, London, Paris and Milan alongside separate showcases for menswear needs to change. In June, London fashion week became gender-neutral for 12 months and available on a digital-only platform due to the UK’s current lockdown restrictions. Weheartit.com Earlier this year, the British Fashion Council suggested fashion had been moving towards gender neutrality for a while so male and female fashion may have combined without a global pandemic. High-end fashion house Tom Ford has been promoting themselves as non-binary to resonate with the younger generations. Men and Make-up John Lewis became the first department store to launch a male cosmetic brand in January called warpaint. Statistics from YouGov show that there is a demand for this as one in 20 men have worn make-up. One in 50 men admitted to wearing it daily and one in a 100 wear it every single day. One in a 100 have relied on make-up to look more professional for a job that did not specifically require make-up and one in 50 have used it whilst getting ready for a date. This means five per cent of British men now wear a certain level of make-up. Freelance journalist Nathan Rowe, 25, said: “it is quite obvious that younger generations have moved on from archaic gender norms. “It’s a process though and there will always be some form of gender norm in my opinion.” A hand embroidered cocktail jacket from the TOM FORD AW20 Runway. #TOMFORD #TOMFORDAW20 A post shared by TOM FORD (@tomford) on Feb 8, 2020 at 12:20am PST The research shows that the products being consumed go beyond Sainsbury’s own moisturiser and shaving cream as millennial men are exploring with real cosmetics. Web designer Matthew Watson, 24 said: “I have a skincare routine, but it’s not extensive. “But in terms of expressing myself through fashion – sometimes I go to Sainsbury’s in pj’s, I don’t really use fashion to express myself”. However, this may indicate a lack of choice for men in mainstream retailers and that male fashion and cosmetics is still considered to be a niche market. The industry could benefit from temporarily merging male and female fashion for the next 12 months. Secondary School teacher Rahul Chawla, 26, said: “You can express yourself with who you are with what you wear. “But the most important thing when it comes to fashion is to make sure it suits you.” This shows that whilst men are still making the conscious decision to consume fashion with their allocated gender norms in mind, they do like to take pride in their appearance. Fashion has provided men with a platform that allows them to develop a fashion sense that is contemporary and fashionable rather than dressing within their comfort zones. By Shivani Black Lives Matter #BLM playlist that donates to the movement when you don’t skip the ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLD9VjkBhsQQcoYbYxsJq9sPJ7n94yLq4t&v=bCgLa25fDHM&feature=emb_title Posted in covid19, fashion, Make-upTagged FashionWeek, Mens Fashion, Vogue Previous Article INDIAN MATCHMAKING: What do Men really want? 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__label__wiki	0.708707	0.708707	McDonald's, Scioto Street, Urbana, OH, USA 708 Scioto Street, Urbana, 43078 Ohio, United States egg mcmuffin, sausage mcmuffin Cafe Restaurant Store McDonald's Chatham, High Street, Chatham ME4 4BQ, UK Symptoms: Nausea Diarrhea Vomiting Cramps Sweating “I literally had a cheeseburger, fries and some cheese melts, within half an hour I had horrendous stomach cramps, was vomiting, had diarrhea and was shivering and sweating at the same time See Less” McDonald's, Touhy Avenue, Skokie, IL, USA “I ate a quarter pounder meal, medium fry, and a medium iced coffee at around two pm. By the time I got home from work, about five thirty, I have been feeling ill. See Less” McDonald's, Edwin Miller Boulevard, Martinsburg, WV, USA “My daughter just has a Diet Coke at 9:00 Pm and within 15-20 minutes had severe cramps, throwing up acid, then diarrhea. Has been in bathroom now for 30 minutes. See Less” Speedway, Urbana, Ohio, USA Urbana, Ohio, USA “I don’t know They started yesterday and today See Less” Papa John's Pizza, Urbana Pike, Urbana, MD, USA “I got sick with stomach pains and intense diarrhoea after eating a vegetarian pizza on 4 Dec 2020 evening. See Less” Burger King, Urbana, OH, USA Symptoms: Diarrhea Nausea Vomiting Cramps Chills Urbana, OH, USA “I've had the impossible whopper 4 times now over the last couple months. Had stomach cramps the first 2 times but didnt make the connection. The 3rd time I was throwing up with bad chills. Tonight that was all I had, 1/2 of one, within a couple hours stomach cramps, then vomiting, now vomiting and d... See Moreiarrhea. I hate this because I really like them and I hate that it seems that meat eaters are trying them and it sounds like some of them are also getting sick so that will be the excuse to not try anything else. I dont know what it is about them because food NEVER bothers me. I'm almost 50 and can eat anything and have no problems except this. Wish I knew what was bothering me??? See Less” Taco Bell, Scioto Street, Urbana, OH, USA “ATE AT ABOUT 10PM 8/8/19 AND WOKE UP AT 430AM ON 8/9/19 FEELING VERY NAUSEAS AND DIZZY. BEGAN VOMITING WITHIN 20 MINUTES AND HAD TO PULL OVER ON MY WAY TO WORK 3 TIMES DUE TO VOMITING. See Less” Masijta Grill, North Race Street, Urbana, Illinois, USA “A group of seven for a Korean BBQ on 6/11/2019 11:30 am. We ordered all you can eat (include pork, beef, and chicken) and seafood pancake. Since last night (6/12/2019), three of us have gotten vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and nausea. Currently, we have five people in the same symptoms. Three of us... See Morecannot sleep in the midnight and went to see the doctors. Symptoms happen 24 hours ago. See Less” Symptoms: Vomiting Nausea Diarrhea “A group of four for a Korean bbq. We ordered all you can eat and the meat were pork and beef. And today, three of us got vomiting, diarrhea and nausea. Very severe symptoms. Could not sleep midnight., Three got sick. Symptoms happen 12 hours ago. See Less” Kroger, Polaris Parkway, Columbus, OH, USA Symptoms: Nausea Vomiting Dizziness Lightheaded “I took valerian root (2) capsules and felt lightheaded, dizzy and subsequently had nausea, vomiting for about 5 hours and counting. See Less”	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10039
__label__cc	0.558527	0.441473	Toronto Events Ackee Fest: A Festival So Delicious, You Have to Try It Ackee Fest Returns for a Third Year with a New Spin on a Traditional Dish Toronto, Ontario – Celebrating Jamaica’s national fruit, 2015 marks the third anniversary of the Caribbean culinary festival, Ackee Fest. On Sunday, August 16 from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm at the Jamaican Canadian Centre, 995 Arrow Road this family friendly event will leave attendees with their stomach and hearts full. From hot and mild, to savoury and sweet, Ackee Fest 2015 showcases the versatility of Ackee serving both traditional and contemporary fusion dishes. From Ackee and Saltfish to Ackee Lemon Cheesecake attendees can expect a mouthwatering experience. This year’s festival highlights include an Ackeelicious booth serving unique Ackee dishes including; coconut soup, chocolate mousse, ice cream and lemon cheesecake highlighting a sweeter side to the fruit traditionally used in savoury dishes. “Nothing brings people together quite like sharing a meal does,” says founder and organizer Lona Hughes. “What makes this festival unique is that attendees are sharing more than just a meal. Many are sharing their heritage with their children, and stories of their childhood in Jamaica with their friends and community. Meanwhile we also have so many people experiencing Ackee for the first time and building their own memories.” Ackee was first brought over to the Caribbean from Africa during the 18th century, and is traditionally served with salt fish. Ackee Fest inspires attendees to celebrate the fruit by using it in new ways. Each year the festival hosts a competition challenging local chefs to present an innovative Ackee dish to a panel of judges. This year chef Gene Campbell will return to defend his title as the reigning champion. The competition will be judged by 2015 Miss Caribbean Canada, Valarie Steele, President of Jamaican Diaspora-Canada Foundation, Francesco Serpe from sponsor TD Canada Trust and Christopher Jones from TTC’s ATU Local 113. This year’s festival features live entertainment including; drummer Muhtadi Thomas, Little Mr. Philippines Canada, singer Edward Jones, folklore storyteller Letna Allen, singer Nana McLean, dance group Arch Angels Dance Academy as well as a Kid Zone with face painting, art classes, games, and story telling. Attendees can also browse the marketplace where they can purchase vegan delights, books, Ras Stone’s Art, one of a kind pieces from local artisans, and more. An authentic Jamaican style brunch will be served from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, and dinner from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Both meals are included in the ticket price. Dishes served will include favourites like Ackee and Saltfish, jerk chicken, fried plantain, and less traditional dishes like Ackee fritters, Ackee pasta salad and Ackee lasagna. Ackee Fest raises funds for The Sage In Me Education Services; a Toronto based non-profit organization, which aims to provide programs, services and events that focus on academic development, mental wellness, and self-empowerment to build healthy communities. Advance tickets for adults can be purchased for $30 from select ticket outlets or for $35 at the door. Children’s tickets are on sale $15. For more ticket information please visit Ackeefest.com. About Ackee Fest Founded in 2013 to support The Sage in Me Education Services, Ackee Fest celebrates Caribbean culture and the heritage of Jamaica’s national fruit; Ackee. The festival is only possible with the support of sponsors. Ackee Fest thanks all of this year’s sponsors, including; Toronto Arts Council, OAKS, TD Canada Trust, ATU Local 113, JCA, 404 Media Group, PM Multi-Link Services, Don’s Meat, Kisko, Grace, Gay Lea. For more information about Ackee Fest visit ackeefest.com. Salone di Cultura: Citta’ Aperta (Open City), June... Panelists Announced! – Salone Di Cultura –... Rana Mansour CD release party and concert, September... Julian Taylor Band Performs at Turf September 19th... Mother’s Day Concert & Luncheon Marks... Zeynep Ozbilen Release Concert for ZEST, May 10, 2017... Tips on Cooking with Scotch Bonnet Pepper 9 Recipes that Will Make A Jamaican Husband/Man...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10041
__label__cc	0.676054	0.323946	Bishop's Encyclopedia of Religion, Society and Philosophy Thinking Religion and Philosophy James Bishop Who is James Bishop? Religions in South Africa Current Research Work Other Reflections Critique of Christian Apologetics Articles Atheism Criticism Atheism Articles Feminism Feminist Movements Arguments Against Young Earth Creationism Articles Religious Studies Critical Theory Religion Definition of Religion Description of Religion Development of Religion Essence of Religion Feminist Religious Studies Function of Religion Historical Theorists Origin of Religion Animistic Religion Classical Religion Christianity Articles Christian Scholars From Atheism From Islam From Judaism From New Age Doctrine & Beliefs Islam Articles Events (Early Islam) Neo-Pagan Religion Articles Philosophy Arguments For Jesus Mythicism Textual Sources Pauline Subjects Northern Prophets Post-Exilic Pre-Exilic Ancient Thinkers Ancient Israel Ancient Spain Historical Method Historical Movements Evolutionary Theory December 28, 2020 December 28, 2020 James Bishop A Skeptical Review of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe Published in 2018, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake is a title that seeks to promote scientific skepticism and expose misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. The book contains essays authored by several skeptics, one of whom is neurologist Steven Novella. Other authors include Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein, all of whom seek to debunk the biggest scientific myths, fallacies, and conspiracy theories. It is a book that I will argue here contains both positives and negatives. Let’s first look at the positives. We can agree with the author’s general perspective, which is for “scientific skeptics” (this is the name they give themselves) to celebrate and respect truth, promote scientific knowledge and critical reasoning, free inquiry, and neuropsychological humility (p. 5-9). These we can consider as intellectual obligations if we wish to reason accurately. Also important to me is that the book is written in a friendly tone and often evidences humility. The authors are playful and admit that they could be wrong about things, that they are too susceptible to logical error, and that positions should be accepted tentatively. Humble authors are far better to read than self-assured ones. The authors show ample knowledge of medical practices and clearly understand the complex and nuanced field of medicine. This is because at least one author is a neuroscientist and others have investigated these areas at some length. There is a fascinating chapter on pseudoscience and many pseudoscientific practices (p. 144-308) ranging from astrology to alternative healing, homeopathy, UFO sightings and conspiracies, intelligent design, anti-evolutionism, free energy creation, ghost hunting, and more. Since I have not studied several of these in detail, these were fascinating engagements from which I learned much. Further, several topics in The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe were particularly valuable and I made use of them. I was convinced of the book’s skeptical position on hypnagogia (p. 36-40) and its position on cold reading (p. 248-257). The former is a sleep-like experience during which one awakes feeling the presence of a ghost-like or demonic force in the room and the sensation of being pinned down on the chest (I know several people who have had this frightening experience). The latter is about persons who dupe their clients into believing that they have superhuman abilities to know things about them that they should not. The tactics of this deception are well presented and give insight into how practitioners of alternative therapies can get inside the head of clients. I in fact shared these two chapters with a relative and a friend and encouraged them to read them. There is a helpful and lengthy chapter dedicated to logical fallacies and errors in reasoning (p. 45-134). These are well fleshed out. Helpful examples are provided and it is fascinating how we can become victims to these fallacies in our thinking lives that tend to go unnoticed. There are other fascinating sections such as one dedicated to how superstitions can lead to horrendous results including death (p. 219-225, 409-425). This seems to bring into the discussion a strong moral dimension in which superstition should be actively opposed. Superstition and pseudoscience should generally be opposed (which this book is dedicated to), especially when it negatively impacts and harms human life. The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe stops just short of full-blown scientism, which is a good thing. There is at least some respect for the place of philosophy and logic in human reasoning, “which are simply ways of thinking about things really carefully…” (p. xiv). Scientistically minded people dismiss philosophy (and all other areas of knowledge beyond science), which is not the impression I receive from this book. Indeed the authors view science as clearly superior because it provides us with the greatest possible certainty about the world, but is not the only means of knowledge. Science is the standard through which all things must be judged. What are some of the negatives that can be pulled from this book? First, the book is built upon the foundation of philosophical naturalism. Since I am not a philosophical naturalist and do not view this as a tenable worldview, I will view this as a negative. The first author does outline the differences between methodological naturalism (as the ideal scientific investigation of the world) and philosophical naturalism (the view that nature is all that there is). The authors clearly embrace both. And because they are philosophical naturalists, there is no possibility of anything supernatural (there are statements to this effect, such as when your brain dies, you die because consciousness is entirely dependent on the brain). Thus, out of the window goes the likes of substance dualism, miracles of healing, near-death experiences, and more, even when the best examples of these aren’t even engaged in the book (see more about this below). Moreover, one wonders if their philosophical naturalism predetermines their investigations under the guise of being scientific skeptics. Thus, although they claim to be skeptical on the grounds of science, they might too be susceptible to the confirmation bias they expose, which is “the tendency of individuals to seek out or interpret new information as support for previously held notions of beliefs…” (p. 94). The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe appears to be problematic at its foundation. The author of the first chapter goes to great lengths to undermine our cognitive faculties and sense perception (p. 9-40), which I think brings many other claims in the book into question. Consider the following quotes that seem to undermine memory: “Memories are flawed from the moment we construct them, but then are also not stable over time.” (p. 12) “Whenever you find yourself saying, “I clearly remember…” Stop! No, you don’t. You have a constructed memory that is likely fused, contaminated, confabulated, personalized, and distorted.” (p. 18) “Of course, the moment you perceive something, it becomes memory, and we already discussed how unreliable those are.” (p. 27) According to the authors, we fuse memories, change them, personalize them, add to them, and sometimes dupe ourselves into believing fabricated memories. But this is not all. The authors also bring into question our perception of the world. We are often susceptible to illusion and misperception: “The fallibility of memory and perception are a one-two punch to any hubris we may harbor about the reality of what we think we know.” (p. 27) “You have a constructed memory of of a constructed perception based on filtered partial sensation and altered by your knowledge and expectations.” (p. 23) “There is no such thing as a reliable witness.” (p. 384) True to their beliefs, the authors make an unusual appeal to readers at the conclusion of the book: “Don’t trust us” and think for yourself (p. 445). But I interpret this part of the book as somewhat problematic. No doubt our memories and perception are fallible and deceive us occasionally, but this can only go so far until we adopt self-refuting positions. Although the author urges readers to be skeptical and humble in light of this fallibility (p. 16, 18), he seems to go much further into full-blown skepticism. The authors go as far as to say eyewitness testimony is unreliable, even in courts of law. But exactly how skeptical should I be? Regarding how fallible the authors argue perception is, should I be skeptical of the fact that I am holding their book in my hands and reading it? If I am to be skeptical of this basic truth, then I would have no reason to believe what the authors are trying to communicate to me. What about my memory? Perhaps my memory of reading this book is itself “fused, contaminated, confabulated, personalized, and distorted,” and therefore too unreliable. Again, I would then have no reason to accept what the authors are trying to communicate to me. If there is no such thing as a reliable witness and since I “witnessed” this book by reading it, should readers of this review reject my testimony on such grounds alone? Moreover, should I be skeptical when the authors themselves invoke their memories to make a point? For example, the authors claim to have at some point in the past gone ghost hunting in New England (p. 357) and brought the work of a certain pair of ghost hunters into disrepute (p. 360-366). But this is based on a memory of the author. Further, in the opening of the book, the author speaks from memory about how watching certain television shows inspired his skepticism as he grew up. He even states that “When I was younger I had an intense fascination with all things scientific” (p. xi). Should we also not trust his testimony because memory is fused, contaminated, confabulated, personalized, and distorted? Evidently, the authors are seemingly less than skeptical when it comes to their own memories and perceptions. But since there is no such thing as a reliable witness, should we believe them? The problem here is that they are just too skeptical. Nothing is ever said about how memories and perceptions can also be accurate and reliable at times, but just how they fool us. The authors also assume the accuracy of perception in places. For example, they believe science is the best means to explore and make sense of a reality “out there” beyond our subjective minds. Without at least this possibility, the entire premise of The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe would fall through the floor. Further, although I noted that the authors do urge fellow skeptics to debate charitably and respectfully with those they disagree with, I don’t receive this impression in several areas. There is, for example, a blanket dismissal of any reality to demon position in a chapter about how belief in demon possession has led to violent ends, such as in the death of people. But then the author dismisses demon possession on the claim that they have never being verified. The same can be said for near-death experiences and the subject of miracle healing. The author cities no evidence against these things, but merely provides cases where certain people have been charlatans or used these for nefarious ends. For example, in the case of miracle healing, a pastor of a church was being fed information via a headpiece from his wife offstage. The wife would communicate a person’s name and illness to the pastor and it would seem like he had supernatural knowledge when accurately calling out a certain person in the congregation and the specific illness he or she was suffering with. Of course, this was all fabrication, but this is not enough to bring the subject of miracle healing itself into question. In other words, it is not warranted to jump from a charlatan to a dismissal of supernatural miracles. This is particularly glaring when there is seemingly strong candidate evidence in favor of these subjects that have not been engaged by the authors. There is no engagement with leading academic scholarship on these subjects. For example, I saw no engagement with philosopher Gary Habermas’s startling cases of near-death experiences (the authors merely assume it has something to do with the brain: “They are simply experiences the brain may produce during trauma or when recovering from trauma or extreme stress”). There is no engagement with Craig Keener’s massive academic tome on miracles or the established study of proximal prayer of Heidi Baker, or psychiatrist Richard Gallagher’s striking cases of encountering alleged demon possession in his clinical practice. What about the former atheist and anthropologist Bruce Grindal who witnessed a four-day-old rotten corpse come back to life during a funeral ceremony in Ghana? Without engaging these authorities, the case the authors make against these phenomena seems weaker. Published by James Bishop James Bishop is from South Africa. He is a graduate in Creative Brand Communication and Marketing (CBC), and in Theology (majoring in psychology). James obtained his BTh with cum laude, and is currently pursuing his postgraduate in Religious Studies. He has aspirations to teach Religious Studies and World Religion. James is currently researching alternative and emergent religions in South Africa. View all posts by James Bishop Previous The Argument From Moral Corruption – Responding to Defenses of the Canaanite Genocide Next Who were the Ebionites? (Early Christian Heresies) Follow Bishop's Encyclopedia of Religion, Society and Philosophy on WordPress.com Blogsite Followers James Bishop, South Africa, graduate Multimedia, Brand Marketing (CBC), Theology, Psychology, TESOL. Obtained BTh with cum laude, currently doing Masters (Religion Studies). Aspirations to teach Religion Studies, World Religion, Philosophy of Religion. 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__label__cc	0.590534	0.409466	Quick Answer: Is Blue Fire Real? Does Salt Make fire blue? Is there black fire? What is the coldest fire color? What is the hottest thing in the universe? What burns a blue flame? What do you call a blue flame? What is blue fire? Is Blue Fire hotter? What’s the hottest fire color? What color is the hottest star? Is green fire hotter than blue? Is Blue fire hotter than red fire? Who is the strongest Avatar? Why is Azula’s fire blue? Is Blue Fire natural? Is lava hotter than fire? How did Aang die? How did Sokka die? Why is blue the hottest color? What causes a blue flame? The salts could be dissolved in a small amount of water, which would be mixable in alcohol. Some salts dissolve directly in alcohol. Soaking the wick will produce a colored flame, much as if you burned paper or wood that has been soaked with metal salts, but the wick of a candle burns very slowly.. Flames emits light and heat, so it seems impossible to make black fire. However, you actually can make black fire by controlling the wavelengths of absorbed and emitted light. blackThe coldest flame color will be black since the flame is so weak that it barely produces light. Color also tells us about the temperature of a candle flame. The inner core of the candle flame is light blue, with a temperature of around 1800 K (1500 °C). That is the hottest part of the flame. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider produced a temperature of over 5 trillion Kelvin in 2012 when they smashed together heavy ions traveling a fractionally below the speed of light. This is the hottest measured temperature that we know of. Flame colorantsColorChemicalOrange-yellowSodium chloride (table salt) or (street lights) (Nutella)Apple greenBorax (sodium borate)GreenCopper(II) sulfate, boric acidBlueCopper(I) chloride, butane6 more rows The medium flame, also called the blue flame or the invisible flame is difficult to see in a well-lit room. It is the most commonly used flame. It is approximately 500°C. The hottest flame is called the roaring blue flame. A blue flame means complete combustion of the gas. With complete combustion, LPG (Propane) burns with a blue flame. Pure hydrocarbons like methane (refined natural gas), propane, butane and ethane gases also burn with a blue flame. These gases are all alkanes and are gas that burns with a blue flame. The color blue indicates a temperature even hotter than white. … Blue flames have more oxygen and get hotter because gases burn hotter than organic materials, such as wood. When natural gas is ignited in a stove burner, the gases quickly burn at a very high temperature, yielding mainly blue flames. The inner core of the candle flame is light blue, with a temperature of around 1800 K (1500 °C). That is the hottest part of the flame. The color inside the flame becomes yellow, orange, and finally red. The further you get from the center of the flame, the lower the temperature will be. blueThe color of a star is linked to its surface temperature. The hotter the star, the shorter the wavelength of light it will emit. The hottest ones are blue or blue-white, which are shorter wavelengths of light. Cooler ones are red or red-brown, which are longer wavelengths. A green flame is just as hot as any other kind of flame, except it has color added to it, due to the presence of a “contaminant”. The contaminant may be copper, barium, thallium, barium or Niobium, in order for the flame to show a green color. Ice reflects blue light, so cold temperatures are associated with blue. Fire emits red light. However, note that the fire is emitting the light rather than just reflecting it: a flame that is hot enough will emit blue light, and is hotter than the red-emitting fire. AVATAR AANG1 AVATAR AANG The protagonist of Avatar: The Last Airbender ended up becoming the strongest character in the entire series. Despite being 12 years old, he was strong enough to defeat Fire Lord Ozai on his own, without any help (Korra often had assistance when fighting her enemies). Azula is the only firebender who can produce blue flames, which are hotter and contain more energy (according to Planck’s law) than those of other firebenders who bend normal orange flames. Her flames are blue due to her fire being fueled with pure hatred. It’s only in Ijen and Iceland Craters, probably not many know that Blue Fire or true blue fire is the result of a reaction of natural gas that meets with oxygen at a certain temperature. The Blue Fire phenomenon in Ijen Crater may have existed since hundreds or even thousands of years ago. In fact, as it spills out onto Earth’s surface as lava, the runny rock’s temperature is only a little lower than the hottest part of a candle flame: about 1200 °C. On the other hand, a big blob of lava contains many more bouncing particles than a small candle flame, so it has a lot more heat energy. Being frozen in an iceberg for 100 years while in the Avatar State drained much of Aang’s life energy. … Ultimately, it resulted in Aang dying at the relatively young biological age of 66, in 153 AG. “It’s not known how Sokka dies, as his death is glossed over a bit. He most likely died of old age, as neither Zuko or Katara seemed particularly angry at the Red Lotus in LoK. Katara talks about how he’s passed away, and how many of her other friends have passed away too. Outer zoneMiddle zoneInner zoneThe outermost zone is the hottest among all zones and is blue in color, and this is due to complete combustion. It is the non-luminous part of the flame. The middle zone of the candle flame is moderately hot and is yellow in color, and partial combustion of fuel takes place. When enough air is supplied, no soot is produced and the flame becomes blue. … A blue-colored flame only emerges when the amount of soot decreases and the blue emissions from excited molecular radicals become dominant, though the blue can often be seen near the base of candles where airborne soot is less concentrated. Question: Is A UPS Store A Good Investment? What is the cheapest franchise to start? Low-Cost/Cheap What Happens If You Breathe In Smoke? How can you protect yourself from smoke inhalation? Quick Answer: What’S Better 1080p 30fps Or 1080p 60fps? Which frame rate is best for video? best frame rates Quick Answer: Do Selfies Boost Self Esteem? What kind of person takes a lot of selfies? How Do You Pronounce Don Quijote? What is the moral of Don Quixote? Lesson at a Glance	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10049
__label__cc	0.592404	0.407596	Book Review: Storm of Swords George R. R. Martin I thought since I managed to read a number of books in the lead up to Christmas and beyond and having reviewed most of them on Goodreads (a great site that you should join if you haven’t already!), that I would reproduce these for my website as well. So, here goes! Love to hear what you think of the books I review as well. I started this book with high expectations, picking it up after having just finished book two and being unable to bear even a pause in the saga that is the Song of Fire and Ice. Well, those expectations have not only been met, but exceeded, as Martin takes the reader further into the machinations of the major houses of the Seven Kingdoms and the lives of the characters that dominate this violent, passionate and dark tapestry. In this book, we follow mainly the story of Caetlyn, Rob, Sansa and Arya Stark, Stannis Baratheon, Tyrion and Jamie Lannister as well as Dany Stormborn and her quest to build and army and return to the West and reclaim her throne. Other characters are introduced, all of whom add depth and complexity to this amazing tale. The struggle for power continues as Kings clash, alliances are forged and broken, marriages arranged and people betrayed. The Wall is under threat and the Nightwatch greatly diminished… Can the Kingdom be saved or will internecine strife tear it apart before the enemies from beyond the Wall become a reality? All these questions and so many more are posed and, as is the way of this series, partially and marvelously answered. The pace is relentless, the twists and turns are mostly unpredictable (though when they are predictable, the story does not suffer). If I had to offer a criticism, it would be that the huge cast of characters is sometimes unwieldy and there are times when descriptions of minor characters (eg. The names and details of all the gentry who offer alliances to the various men claiming kingship) don’t serve the story and instead weigh it down. However, you could also argue that the very same thing adds layers and verisimilitude to this wild and wonderful world. What I particularly love is Martin’s fearlessness when it comes to plot and sacrificing beloved characters to stay true to the narrative. Stunning and unexpected, these moments add a delicious frisson and, as a reader, put you on the edge of your seat for, just as you thought you could second-guess Martin’s intentions, and even relax, he proves you wrong. Fabulous volume… I went straight to the next one and was even more impressed with what I found….stay tune for that review – only I have read about a dozen books in the interim…:) Tags: fantasy, george R R Martin, Goodreads, Storm of swords, Xmas reading The Day My Bum Went Psycho Tony the Abbott and ‘his’ women Votive: The Curse of the Bond Riders 2 Acceptance Speech Norma K. Hemming Award Being interviewed by Peter Thompson General Social Commentary Reviews – Books Reviews – Films Reviews – TV Karen Brooks's books on Goodreads The Locksmith's Daughter The Chocolate Maker's Wife The Lady Brewer of London The Darkest Shore © Copyright Karen Brooks 2015 site by Media Box	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10050
__label__cc	0.601206	0.398794	Manifest IAS Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Society Share on TelegramShare on Facebook What is the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV)? Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is used to protect infants, young children, and adults against disease caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae It contains purified capsular polysaccharide of pneumococcal serotypes conjugated to a carrier protein to improve antibody response The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of the conjugate vaccine in routine immunizations given to children PCV has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing incidence and severity of pneumonia and other lower respiratory infections in children PCV is already being used in the national immunization program of more than 141 countries (as of September 2017). PCV was introduced in India’s UIP in a phased manner from June 2017 onwards. PCV is made up of sugars (polysaccharides) from the capsule of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. In PCV, each polysaccharide is attached, or conjugated to, a carrier protein. The carrier protein is selected to improve the immune response in those vaccinated. PCV has been shown to protect very young children starting at 6 weeks of age when infants are most at risk of infection. It protects against severe forms of pneumococcal diseases, such as pneumonia, meningitis and bacteremia What is the Pneumococcal disease? It is the name given to a group of diseases caused by a bacterium called Streptococcus Pneumoniae(also known as pneumococcus) different types of diseases caused by pneumococcus Diseases caused by pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) are: Pneumonia: Inflammation of the lungs, It is a form of acute respiratory infection that causes inflammation or fluid in the lungs. It makes breathing difficult and limits oxygen intake. Bacteremia/sepsis: bloodstream infection, with or without infection of secondary sites, e.g., meningitis Bacterial meningitis: infection of the membranes that cover and protect the spinal cord and brain Otitis media: Middle ear infection Tags: Prelims Gandhian Paradigm of Indian Villages Twin Track Approach Disability Makar sankranti and harvest festivals across India Tapas BH 201 and SWIFT UAV Mahila Shakti Kendra Scheme Gandagi Mukt Bharat Campaign RMNCAH +N Safe city project Longitudinal Ageing Study of India (LASI) People in News Places in News AIR Big Picture GS-1 GS-2 GS-3 GS-4 Kurukshetra Mains news News Paper PIB Prelims RSTV Yojana Our vision is to orient the readers to grasp the facts objectively and analyse critically. In the rush of reaching first to the readers, the websites miss the balanced opinion, which is the need of the hour. We aim to reach the readers with more crispness, preciseness and relevance. We bring the articles in UPSC way for the civil services aspirants and the Wisest Way for general readers. The most important UPSC news and events of the day. Get Journals daily newsletter on your inbox. © 2020 JournalsOfIndia - A free initiative by Manifest Team. Prelims Snippets Mains Articles Prelims Test Portal	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10059

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